dave melillo is blessed to death

Three years ago, I met a bunch of people online quasi-through The Academy Is... Hear me out: I was a fan and online networking sites such as LiveJournal were popular. Teenagers who were desperate for friends found each other and I'm still friends with many of these people I was once very close with. In the midst of all that, I began talking to Dave Melillo and his (then) band. Dave is a really cool guy who was signed to Drive-Thru Records and recently toured with Cute Is What We Aim For. He's a great singer-songwriter at the young age of 20.

While in class (right now), I read a few of his blog entries on MySpace and one of them really appealed to me.

I'm a hopeless romantic. And I blame it all on my parents.

They grew up together in the same small town in New Jersey, started dating in 8th grade and somehow made it through 20 something years and 3 kids with a lot of love left in between them. For me, that's a standard I was never able to meet. Ever since I was little I've been trying to recreate something of the sort...I've always been a one woman man, and for most of my (short) life I've been involved in monogamous relationships. I feel like committing yourself fully to one person and one person only is one of the most amazing things you can do for someone else. We were all lucky enough to be given the ability to love, but I feel like exercising that ability with caution and deliberation is completely necessary. You can only give yourself away so many times before you have nothing left give...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween.
Mine was better than I imagined.
It felt like Thanksgiving.
There's no one day to be grateful.
Be grateful everyday.