posted by Ashalah on My Great Adventure of 2009, travel, VEDA

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It’s Friday the 13th! Which means absolutely nothing to me since I’m not superstitious (Nope. Not at all!) and nothing bad has ever happened on Friday the 13ths. At least not for me!

There is something special about August 13th for me. Or at least August 14th. Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of my last day at my horrible, no good, really bad job. It was on this day that my coworkers popped open a couple bottles of champagne to wish me a farewell and gave me an adorable keychain with pictures of everyone in the office as well as pictures of the surrounding NYC neighborhood that we would often frequent over the year and a half I worked there.

A few days after that, I left for Europe. This has been an amazing year, an incredible journey. One that I’ll never forget and would never trade in a million years. The credit card debt that I find myself in is pennies compared to the experiences I had. I would do it all over again, exactly the way I did it if given the chance. (And what I wouldn’t give to go on that trip again!)

So how fitting is it that Eat Pray Love comes out in theaters on the one year anniversary of me leaving my job, leaving New York and going on my own self discovery trip to Europe?

It’s PERFECT I tell you. Perfect.

I’m going to have to come up with something super special for August 17th, the day I officially left for Europe. Suggestions are welcome!

Today I vlogged about my only sibling, my younger brother Conor, who currently lives in Fiji. I kind of ramble on a tiny bit in the video but it’s to him that I owe this anniversary to. He was the one who gave me the idea for this solo trip. He was the one who initially got my brain moving in that direction.

So thank you, Conor.