Thanksgiving reflections of a lucha fan

After picking up my fiancée from the airport for her first Thanksgiving with my family, I reflected on the last couple years of my life, and how different they've been from the previous 30.

Most of you reading this probably know that I'm engaged to @conjuarez, and that we met because of mutual interest in lucha. The crazy thing about this is that several years ago, neither of us had that interest. It's a rather convoluted way to meet. On top of that, both of us are generally happy people (even as snarky as I can be at times), and both of us were happily single. That changed in October 2013, when we moved beyond being just friends.

As much as I might deride certain promotions or people involved in lucha, my fandom has been -- and continues to be -- an unbelievable experience that has completely rewritten large parts of my life. And as perhaps melodramatic as the previous sentence might sound, I'm completely confident that I'm not overstating this.

I'm thankful for the way that lucha has been able to make me emotionally vested, to bring out the little kid in me that temporarily puts aside some unfortunate aspects of the business I've learned.

I'm thankful for our ever-expanding circle of great friends whom we've met by virtue of lucha and who have helped to make every trip to Mexico City special -- especially the first in September 2014, which was for me the trip of a lifetime.

But most of all, I'm thankful for the incredible way in which lucha managed to make fans out of @conjuarez and me and to bring us together based on an interest that neither of us had previously. To this day, we can't figure out how this happened; we're sure only that it was meant to happen, and that lucha libre was the vehicle.

November 7 CaraLucha

BTJr. likes it when I do these write-ups of my weekend trips. Hopefully some others of you do too.

I made an overnight trip to see CaraLucha's November 7 show in Arena San Juan Pantitlán. The show started and ended strong and was overall pretty solid throughout. You can't ask for much more.

Nominal start time was 6pm. Doors opened a little bit after that, and I have the first match entrances starting at about 6:33pm.