"Can I take a picture of the 1-2-3-4-5 of you?"

This is about FAMILY. Because it's been that kind of weekend. Like the old days. Good old days. Like damn, damn, damn. WHOA!

So this weekend, today in fact, my grandparents went home to the Philippines. Yeah, so this weekend, I just spent with the family, because who knows the next time they're coming...man...

Yesterday we just sat up in my Manong's room and did nothing. How do we find that fun, you might ask. How? Damn, I don't know, but the shit we talk about is just slap-your-own-ass FUNNY. Ya feel? Wow, even my manong stayed with us that weekend. Crazy shit, we were just all together. All of us. It hasn't been like that in a long time, so I guess it was just nice. And my cousin gave me his phone. And the next day he asked if it was still working. Punk...but that's my one and only manong, gotta love him. Thank you. And I just found out that my cousin can formulate sentences and stuff. It's nuts! Well, he's three, but I never heard him talk and respond before. Like, I was chillin with the little kids with my Jamba Juice- Strawberry Dreamin' (my favorite) and my cousin Jig snatched it from me, and I said, "Share, Jig, who wants Strawberry?" And all the kids are like "I want some." And so my little cousin Mac, the three-year-old, was all "OOOh, I like strawberry, I want some." I straight up stopped and was like "Who are you? You can talk now?"

It's like WHERE HAVE I BEEN?!

I been missing out on LIFE. I been missin out on FAMILY. DAMN....

I been a punk. I only saw my grandparents two weekends of five I could have seen them....what a punk. Sometimes I just hate myself. And I'll never forget what my grandpa said to me when he came, and we went to pick them up at the airport.

"You're in college now, Vanessa?" He asked, with that damn proud smile.

What do you have to be proud of grandpa? "Yes, Grandpa."

"When do you graduate? In four years?"

"Somewhere around there, grandpa"

And this is where my heart breaks into five million pieces, while time steps on it with heavy shoes, that bastard.

"I don't know if I have that much time"

And Family, of course, I didn't tell you he said that because when I think of it, I just want to cry. I want to stop time. Tell time to time out while we move still...so maybe we catch up...But damn. Life ain't a movie. That would be a cool movie, though.

So yeah, today, we just said Goodbye and stuff...Until next time...that sort of thing. My grandma was crying pretty hard...it was so...heartwrenching, ya know? And to see my uncles cry, but thank God for my cousin Bryan and his damn comic relief.

Then me and the cuzzos were just sitting around...Remember whens...gotta love those. I perpetrated them. I started it. "Remember when blah blah blah?" Yeah, I live for those. Because it just shows you where you been and who you are...

Wow.

Totally unrelated, but I have gained 10 lbs in the past school year. Can you shoot me?! OR ROLL MY ASS DOWN A HILL. Damn...

Also unrelated, Jimmy Eat World was cool, <3 my big sis...But I lost my wallet at the merchandise table...more like left it, but I got it back. BEST BE GRATEFUL CHRIS, YOUR DAMN SHIRT. But yeah, I think this summer, my little sister and I will be hitting some shows. Right, Chris? You punk, crapwhiz.

I have like three dollars in quarters. WHACK.

K, that was my long update. Hope you had fun.