Important People in my Life

Even though there are currently no people, well maybe 1 person, reading this, I feel the need to protect the identities of the people I am about to discuss. Okay who am I kidding its fun to just type one letter names, like the do in Gossip Girl so I am just going to call these people by their first initials for the reasons stated above. Now, these people are in no particular order of favorites or whatever, but I am going to start with J.

J is my boyfriend. He is spanish, as I previously stated, as spanish as it gets. I was first attracted to his scruffy good looks and easy going personality, and of course spanish is a romance language. He is positive and happy all the time almost too much, which helps to combat my obsessive compulsive organized control freak personality. He, being a typical spanish guy, is late for absolutely everything and does not understand the concept that I live 7000 miles away from everyone and everything I know and love. But he is a total sweetheart and is a geniune, honest and good person, which I think is tough to find. Now for the clincher...at 32, J lives not with his parents, thank god, as many spanish young men do, but next door to them. At first this bothered me, but now, i kind of like it. Weird. Anyway J makes me happy in so many ways, and even though I am always yelling him for something or other, I adore him and he is a wonderful person and boyfriend.

N is my roommate. Fabulous in every way, N feels like my mommy who takes care of me, she cooks for me, buys me medicine when I am sick, etc. Its nice to have such a good friend while abroad. It really helps to feel at home when I am, in reality so far from home. N is a great roommate too, clean, generous, respectful, and has a great wardrobe for me to borrow, which is always a plus. N is one of those people who can´t actually understand how fantastic and beautiful she really is, because she´s not conceited in the least, which I love. N is creative and detalled and I love the fact that she makes her own stationary, its amazing and she needs to start her own business.

MG is my other roommate. Spanish and one of the funnest people ever, I adore living with her as well. She makes me laugh and is just so damn cute! The 3 of us really click together and its great to have MG bc she creates a cool dynamic, matched with us two americans. I feel really lucky to have found a native spainard that I really click with. She speaks 3 languages! Spanish, English and German. Cool.

H is one of the coolest chicks I know. I don´t really know how to explain her except shes just so freaking cool. It´s like you look at her gorgeous blond hair and you think she would be a huge biatch and then she opens her mouth and says something totally rad and you immed fall in love. She has this bossy sense of ghettoness that makes me feel as we were both minorities in a previous life. H just gets me.
C is my friend who recently got married. Its been an adjustment with C and I in spain, bc C and I always had a great time together and I don´t get to see C as much as I would like, bc she is busy with her husband, but its okay, bc I will always love C and we´ll be friends. Even though we´ve changed alot, C and I are americans living in Spain and that will always give us common ground. C is the best bc she understands the college side of me, since we both attend the same university. I am happy for C in that she found a man she loves and I hope that right now, shes off on her honeymoon having the best time ever!

PEOPLE I MISS

Aside from my family, MJ is one of the people I miss this most. MJ knows me better than anyone in the world, parents included. Whenever I have a problem, I email MJ immediately. I know not only will she answer asap with the most thought out and clear answer, she will also write me an extremely long email. No one writes long emails anymore! Only MJ. MJ and I haven´t lived within a plane ride away from each other for about...8 years or so, now. I feel closer to her than ever. She is just one of those people I know I will ALWAYS stay friends with. Her sense of humor is completely absurd and fabulous. I pretty much feel like shes the sister I have never had. I know that absolutely nothing in this world could stop us from being friends forever. This knowledge takes all the fear I have in the world and puts me at ease, bc I know that no matter what happens to me, I will always have MJ. I would do anything for her and I know she would do anything for me.

MP

I have only known MP for a couple years I always think of her as my guardian angel. I was one year to my nyc lifestyle, feeling lost, had had a falling out with several friends, and in search of the perfect apt. I saw only ONE APARTMENT, (worlds easiest apartment search and basically unheard of in nyc to have an apt search this easy) and immediately fell in love. MP was looking for a roommate and I moved in. It was seriously fate. MP helped me to find in myself whatever it was I had lost, and gave me so much perspective on things, on life, on what a true friend is, and so much more. I really consider her my angel, I think it was fate that we lived together for one year in new york. We still speak constantly, and MP gets this weird, sarcastic, bitchy sense of humor I´ve seem to have developed over the years. I am not religious in any sense, but I swear if there is a God, he sent me MP.

BK
How does one even describe the fabulousness that emits from my darling gay bff, BK. He is literally the reason I live in Spain, and the reason I live in NYC. We met on a plane and fate brought us together again, actually in Spain, and he found me a job in NYC. BK has definately helped shape the person I have become. He always reminds me that I need to be the fabulous lori that I am, because never for one second does he escape from being amazing and bossy(note: bossy in a kelis way, not a biatch way) BK. BK makes crazy efforts to travel and visit me too, which is awesome. I am looking forward to an amazing NY eve 2010 with my love, BK.

NOTE ON FATE:
after re-reading this, I realize fate has played an important part of finding a lot of these people that I have in my life and I am extremely lucky and blessed to have found all these awesome peeps. Like I said I am not religious but I do think all things happen for a reason.


NOW I am sure all these people will be mentioned in future blogs so I figured I would give back grounds.

Next blog entry...Portugal!!!