About Me

Human, Generation-Xer.

Nostalgia Oracle.

Story Architect.

Experimenting (with trepidation) in my Soft Girl Era.

Former Quantitative Analyzer, Newly Type-B (Adjacent).

Lower Middle Child; Recovering People Pleaser.

But enough about me – tell ME more about YOU…

… so you’ve arrived at the right place if anything above or below resonates with you:

  • Are you a part of the prestigious, gritty, Rocky Balboa-esque Gen X?
  • Did you ride in a Ford Station wagon with wood panels and questionnable “seat belts”?
  • Did you make mixed tapes?
  • Was ET the first movie you saw in the movie theater and did that scene with the men in white space suits haunt you for a long, long time?
  • Did you ever listen to the radio’s Top 10 to press record for your song of the moment (see: mixed tapes)?
  • When you went to LAX for the first time, did you think of the movie, “AIRPLANE!”? (e.g., “… the loading zone is for loading and unloading only…”)
  • Have you ever taken a picture of your friends and you doing the Breakfast Club Dance (IYKYK)?
  • Was Jake Ryan your end game?
  • Did you, as Baby, ever get put in a Corner?
  • Did you feel like Artax didn’t have to die in the Swamp of Sadness?
  • Do you remember what a “black top” is?
    • Did you ever skin said knees, elbows or other appendages on aforementioned “black top”?
  • Holler if you owned (still own) a Teddy Ruxpin!
  • Holler back if you remember “Singled Out” or “TRL” on MTV? (IMO: “Singled Out” was far superior and our version of those stupid, putrid, homeoginized dating apps). Let’s just do this shit live!
  • Did you wear hoops, low rise jeans and a tube top with black wedges to go out for Thirsty Thursday? (I promise an entire post/essay/story on this with pics as inspiration)
  • Did you ever order at buy one get one free (AKA “BOGO”) Long Island Iced Teas for your girls and you becuase it was the cheapest route to getting drunk when you were broke AF in college?
  • Raise your hand if you smoked Parliaments on your walk to lecture. Double GenX points if you fcked around with Newports!

Welcome… you/we have arrived.

© Kat Abueg Sanchez 2025