I am going on a BLATE cross country!

First, I am crediting the word blate with Megan! ;-)

Ok so, after almost 2 months of planning/figuring out, I finally hit SUBMIT on Expedia.com to book my plane ticket to see these two little cherubs!

EEEE!!! I cannot even begin to explain the excitement I have to see these lil ladies in just 9 days! AGH!!!

Okay but onto something a little bit more important. I haven't told my mom and dad yet. #woops. I've kind of narrowed it down to 3 options:

1) My flight is at 7:30 AM. I could text my mom at 7 AM and say "hey mom, 

I'm on a flight to Texas to see two girls I met on the internet. I gotta shut my

phone off or the flight attendants will have a bone to pick with me."

2) I could just lie and tell her that I'm going away for the weekend to east bum

New Hampshire and won't have any cell service for the whole weekend. 

3) I have thought about just texting her a pic of me in a cowboy hat one 

day this week and saying"I'm going to Texas in two weeks to see 

some friends," and then just hope for the best!

My parents will probably be weirded out and worried, but what else can I say?! I need some advice! Have you ever met a blogger and had to explain to your parents/friends that you feel perfectly safe traveling to see them? EEE! I'm 23 years old and still scared of my parents. #baby

Anywho, I just had to tell you that it's finally happening! Ya Ya Ya BayyyBayyyy!!! I can't be 110% excited yet because I'm so scared to tell my parents. HA! I am a pathetic mess.

Give me advice, yo!

Non bloggers don't get blogging

On occasion I've heard this from real life people:

"You're texting someone you know through your blog? Do you even know them? I don't get it"

"You want to fly halfway across the country to meet people you met through 

the internet? Are you insane? What if they're an old guy trying to kidnap you?"

"If you meet someone you know through the internet 

you're gonna turn out like Natalie Holloway"

JEE! THANKS EVERYONE! Get a blog and maybe you'll understand this phenomoman!

I started my blog about a year ago on a whim. I was reading medical blogs for my job and was like hey, some of these comments are pretty cool...these people seem genuinely interested in this blog post. So, Young and Fabulous was born! For about a month, I blogged about pretty much nothing and had about 10 people that were interested in what I was saying. Then, I made a blog email and allowed comments to be sent there and BAM!

The first person that I could seriously say "wow I wish this chick lived closer so we could hang out" was RISSY believe it or not! (believe it..haha I remember sitting in my little cube when I found her blog and I was like hmm..I think this girl is hilarious) Through Carissa's blog followers, I found more and more loves!

I never imagined blogging would turn out the way it did. I have met amazing people. I know so much about their lives via blogging and I just think that's fabulous. Blogging started out as a way to continue my love for writing, and turned into something more. Friendships. Daily texts/video chats. Daily emails. Facebook friends. I mean really, who wouldn't want to receive amazing pics like this on the daily ;-)

There is such negativity out there focusing on the internet and meeting people online. People take the horror stories and automatically assume every situation is like that. I'm sorry but, if I'm chatting daily with a blog friend and receiving pics/videos, I'd like to give them a medal if they're making it all up. That takes some SKILL!

So no, I do not think non-bloggers understand blogging. If they did, they'd understand the amazing friendships one can meet through this little website :-)

Seriously...can I meet all these girls RIGHT NOW?? We can go shoe 

shopping because I forgot to add shoes to the fashionable triangle solid pattern dresses.

So what do you think? How do you explain to non-bloggers the kind of friendships you make through blogger, and it's not a creepy site?!

Happy Weekending!

Thoughts on high school!

Last night I got a Facebook invite to my 5 year high school reunion. First of all, has it been THAT LONG?

Awww, there's one of my highschool senior pics! I'm not naked. Though I might as well should have been. My photographer and his wife were swingers (and talked openly about it!), and I remember when I was getting my makeup done, looking at a wall of photos and seeing his wife in a wet white t-shirt on the beaches of Hawaii. Yup, I saw the nips.

So after looking through the list of invitees and those who accepted, I pretty much knew what kind of reunion it'd be... One big, "ohh YA DUDE want some BEEERS? Remember when we got completely sloshed in the woods? Remember when we let all those eels and frogs loose in the halls? Remember that ugly nerdy girl?"(Trust me...most of the people I went to high school with were all like this ha!)

Basically, those who have accepted are all the people who were considered "cool" back in the day. Cool because they drank, had sex, wore belly shirts, white Polo hats, fresh white kicks, and enjoyed taunting some of the nerdy kids I went to high school with. SO cool, man!

Though I was friends with a lot of different groups of people in high school, I still haven't decided if I want to go or not! Sure it'd be nice to see everyone, but I feel like high school reunions are different than they used to be. Back then, it was a nice surprise to see people you haven't seen in a while.

But now, I know everything because of Facebook! I know that Susie has 2 kids, and that Billy's one night stand is expecting a child, or that Joe and Kelly are engaged after dating for 1 month. It doesn't seem as surprising as it probably once was! Plus, it's only been 5 years...I'm pretty sure no one has changed one bit.

 some prom? me and sissy!

So I'm asking you all this! Have you been to your high school reunion or would you go? Do you think people have changed a lot since high school days?