Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, It Was Bigger in My Head.

Oh, how expectations rise, and hearts accelerate. The moment of truth, the materialization of desire and all those dreams, sweaty brows, butterfly stomach and jackhammer heart attack. It feels like it is all too much. Four sleepless nights, strung together by incredulity and anticipation. What joy awaits! What adventures are in store? This is no question, but an affi ...