You know you're a car girl when you slow down on the freeway to Ooooohhhhhhhh and AHHHHHHHHHH over cars and when driving with a companion point out all the cool cars or not on the freeway like signs or landmarks along the way. I am constantly shopping cars on the parking lot freeways of Los Angeles, a slow moving car show, with every make and model imaginable on display.

When I left South Florida for film school in Tallahassee, my life changed dramatically in millions of ways.  A true turning point from which I didn't turn back, but only moved forward.  Many things were gained in my journey to Los Angeles, but my friendship base back home was left behind in Florida, and I've only been back for two weekends in five years. My friends have always been my family.  I suspect, at least, that what I have historically gotten from friendship is what most people experience with family.  The catch for me being, of course, that my friends are not family, and my friends have families of their own.