Angelo and I sat on the couch majority of the time trying to have a little catch-up chat while music was bumping from the system beside us. We talked about our ambitions + career plans, significant others, lead singers and what we missed out on in the last couple years. It was basically a day long talk crammed into a couple hours. Knowing that you have family there to support your every ambition is something so special. Knowing that they will be there when things fail AND will be willing to pick you back up and offer you some advice is something even more special.

The weirdest thing was not seeing each other for two years, then suddenly being altogether in a little condo in Santa Monica, of all places. Obviously, a couple hours wasn't enough time to tell a couple years worth of stories, but I'm hoping we won't have to wait another two years to catch up. With the physical distance between all of us, it's cool to see that nothing has changed; and if it did, it was definitely for the better. Angelo's brother, Ralph said I became "so much cooler" since we last saw each other. I laughed a bit at that. I still see myself as the same human being I've always been. He brought up my blog and told me about how he once had one of his own (i don't remember what it was called, but i remember laughing at it.) A word of advice that stuck to me from him was to "keep it up". Simple, but words that keep me going.