Finally in NYC!!!!

Okay, okay. So, I haven't even made a second posting in my blog until today, but at least I can finally say that I am back in NYC. I arrived on May 13th, Mother's Day, because when I purchased my plane ticket I wasn't thinking. It obviously would have been a smarter move to have waited a day or two, but I really couldn't wait a day longer.

After having spent four long months in Denver, Colorado (and before that 6 months in Guadalajara, Mexico), I decided that the time to move back to the Big Apple couldn't wait. I moved out of New York last June 29th and didn't last even a year outside of NYC. I tell anyone who asks about my time away from New York and always respond that I learned more about what I don't want to do with my life than what I do want to do. The only thing that I did come to realize with absolute certainty is that I definitely want to be here in NY.

The experience of being back in New York City is incredible. To know where everything is, to have old friends to reach out to and mostly to be in a place where you feel you belong makes me extremely happy. In the month and a half that I have been back, I have taken a walking tour of the garment district, attended a book signing and reading by Dave Zirin (where I was also able to meet Chuck D, been back to Astoria to visit an old teacher friend and gotten to know lower Manhattan due to my most fortutious situation of living in my brother's corporate apartment.

The best time to be in New York is the summer time, which will be in my next post...

The big 3-0

What day could be a better or more auspicious day to start a blog than today? The reason? Well, today is my 30th birthday and as such I feel as though it is the beginning of a new chapter in my life. I have decided to call my blog "30 something in NYC". Although I'm not currently in the Big Apple, where I spent nearly four and a half years of my life in Queens from 2002 to 2006, I will be arriving to the Big City of Dreams for a second stint.

I would like for this blog to serve a two-fold purpose. One, I have always enjoyed writing and have never been able to find a comfortable arena in which to express my views and opinions. So, I hope this blog will be the place in which I'll be able to express the things that are on my mind. Two, I have to admit that I am horrible with correspondence. And I am hoping that this blog will allow my friends and family to know what is going on in my life, at least in terms of what I decide to post.

Now on to business...

I find myself at the gateway to a new life. After having experienced 30 years on planet Earth, I believe that I have finally arrived to adulthood. Perhaps I was unable to cope with growing up before, but now I find that I am more mature and really desiring to live a healthy existence. I have quit smoking, started to eat healthier food (organic is the way to go baby - more on that in another posting) and started to plan for a real future. I don't intend for this blog to be a personal memoir, but rather a place where I can share what is on my mind.

The topics that I most would like to comment on are things that are important to me. A sampling of those topics include social activism, with a focus on issues concerning immigration and immigrants rights, fashion (I readily admit I can be a bit of a hypocrite - more on that later), and all things NYC - the greatest city on Earth in my humble opinion.

I will try to make weekly additions to this blog and let's hope that I am able to keep to that goal. So I welcome you, dear reader, to a window into my life and my take on this thing called life.