She's A Wanderer! {Guest Post}

I've been invaded... in a good way.  Remember Kim?  I guest posted at her crib last week, and in awesome form, she's returning the gesture with fabulous enthusiasm.  As you will soon see, her writing is oooozing with the same enthusiasm, and I can tell you from my real life experiences with her, she's as enthusiastic and thirsty for life in person.  :-)  Love that about her.  

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¡Hola fabulous peeps! Kim here from wanderlustee.com! Jen, my fabulous IRL friend, asked me if I wanted to do a guest post for her blog. After getting over my fear of not being as hilarious as Jen – I realized it was futile to try --  I obsessed over what to write about … a true-life story? dreams of future travel? A rundown on what my blog is about? So many options …TOO many options. I decided to start by trying to find a pic of Jen and me from back in the day. Waaay back in the day. So far back in the day I needed to look through my myspace albums. Unfortunately I couldn’t remember my “my[___]” password so I had to go back to my very first facebook albums ever posted. I couldn’t find a pic of us together (she has one!! Check out her post on MY blog) but I did find one of her alone from five years ago, with this caption:

 

Yes, five years ago (ohmygaaawwwd! Has it been that long?). I still maintain she is the best boss evahhh!

So, what’s the next natural step after looking at facebook albums from five years ago?

Keep looking through old pics, remembering how skinny you once were, duh!

So I started looking through pics of me at this bar I used to hang out in waaay back when I FIRST moved to NYC. It was called Yogi's. I was in love. Reasons to love Yogi's:

#1. It was on the UWS. (upper west side for all you non-nyc'ers out there!)

#2. It was a DIVE bar.

#3. It had an ALL COUNTRY juke box (otherwise known as mission impossible in NYC. They don’t even have ONE country radio station here!)

#4. It had chalkboard walls you could write on.

Of course, my life is a joke and it closed down less than half a year after I discovered it. 

But I digress (I also <3 the golden girls), today, while reminiscing about how much I loved that bar, I ran across a pic of me, with my boyfriend in the background. 

(I promise I don’t look as ridiculous in pictures these days!...well, mostly)

Oh, totally normally right, EXCEPT. I met my boyfriend in Jan 2010. When was that picture taken? NOVEMBER 2007!

Does anyone else find this totally insane/weird/freaky? Obviously when I told the bf he thinks it’s totally normal that we were photographed together 3 years before we met. I might concede that there's nothing that extraordinary about it, except …we live in NYC. Where there are over ONE THOUSAND bars (and for once I’m not exaggerating!) Out of 1,000 bars we were at the same one. We never spoke. Three years later we met at a different bar (read about that romantic story here).

I’m thinking my blog name should change to mylifeisthetrumanshow [dot] com!! 

So, when I’m not creepin’ on old facebook pics, or sleeping, I write about trying to motivate myself to exercise, where I want to travel to next (Europe this summer! Hollaa!!), how my students (oh yeah, did I mention I teach HS Spanish in the S. Bronx? Fml.) are driving me nuts and how I hate living in NYC (it’s not all glamorous!) If any or all of the above seem groovy to you (yea! I said it!) stop on by! I’d love to have you!

& mil gracias a Jen for letting me take over her hiiilarious blog for a day!

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You love her, right?  You are feeling more pumped about life already, I can tell.  She has that effect.  And Kim... because I love you and your Spanish flava, check this out, yo:

Fue un placer tener que visita. Usted es la bomba, niña! Volver en cualquier momento. En serio.  (Does that make sense???)  ;-)