Time to stop overanalyzing everything and live spontaneously.

So Monday I started the job. It's a 9-5'er for sure. No lunch break. More proposal creating, CRM developing, shared inboxes, invoices. What? Have I gone back to 2008? What did I get myself into??

With Jo having left Mendoza on Tuesday, seeing a few shit apartments (which are pretty much what my new paltry salary allows) and having radio silence on the winery consulting gigs, the turn of events last night made me believe it is time to say the hell with it, go with the gut, and not do what Lindsey would normally do.

In my head I have made the decision, but have not made it official in the real world, so I will hold off on saying anything concrete just yet because I'm not exactly sure who is reading this. But I may be seeing Chile and Bolivia earlier than planned.

Last night Dan and Yvonne, friends from NYC, arrived with their newly made friend Ian, a Brit. D and Y have been traveling the world for about a year and been in BsAs for a few weeks. We had an amazing dinner at Francis Mallmon (they say the best restaurant in Mendoza), thanks to Dan's expense account at Astor. (Thanks, Andy!) Having written 6+ blogs for them on my own good will, I thought a nice dinner and a few bottles of wine were nice payment. The steak for 2 was ridiculously large, could have easily fed a family of four, will post the pictures to prove it. Sirloin was quite nice as well. Dessert for 4 put us over the top. Which is why I woke up early to run run run this morning (and help clear the head to make life decisions).

Today went to Chandon for a champagne tasting and multi course lunch with work. Not recommendable at all, for a variety of reasons, but left with a bottle of Latitud 33, the go-to Malbec when you want something easy and cheap. So I guess that's worth something!

Tonight it's another big dinner with Dan and Yvonne and Ian, at one of my favorites, Ocho Cepas and tomorrow we hit a few wineries (only going to the places where I know people, I'm such a big deal now, you know). Of course Altocedro is on the list. And El Cielo!

Tomorrow night we've got last minute rezzies at one of the closed door restaurants here, ranked #1 on TripAdvisor, thanks to my coworker being friends with the chef's boyfriend. And I'm in for free!

I'll post more later, when I have officially made my next big life decision. So dramatic. It's South America! Why do I overthink everything so much?! I'm just going to do it. Yes.