I love Bobby Kyle Jack.

It happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them.
That's how I feel about this boy :) He makes me the happiest girl in the world.
<3

Just a Dream

9:21 a.m.
Just woke up from one of the most outrageous dreams I've ever had. So I'm listening to Just a Dream -Nelly (standard) and reciting what I can remember...don't judge. My family (mom dad Austin and Lexi) came to see me in Oklahoma. My dad drove a straight 16 hours here he said...not even sure if thats possible. My sister then was like I have to work at 3 p.m. tomorrow and it was 3 p.m. then.,..I was like well you'll have to leave at 11 pm. tonight to make it on time..that gives us 8 hours what do you wanna do? LOL (this is hilarious because it's always my sister who we call Last Minute Lexi to notify us of details such as oh I have to work in an hour, or wait I forgot my phone 3 miles down the road, or Dad I ran out of gas for the 3rd time etc) anyway We had plans to go to the OKC zoo.  So I drove ahead in my Impala and they followed behind in the Vibe. On I 40 somehwere all of a sudden in the oncoming lanes there was a white car with guy on top just driving like 25 mph, shoooting all the cars in our lanes. We all pulled over and I climbed out into the ditch...seemed liek a good idea since everyone else was doing the same. As I tried to climb to the ditch and slither my way across the hot pavement I had to dodge oncoming cars from running me over! I remember covering my head with my hand and hoping that at least my brain would be protected. I got into the ditch somehow but the guys in the white car saw me. They aimed and shot me up the back, it didnt hurt that much kind of like a dull numbing feeling. They say you don't feel pain in dreams and I think thats definitely true, but I wouldnt know what being shot with a gun feels like so can't verify that.  They came over to my side and grabbed me and dragged me into their car. When we got to wherever we were going one of the guys started to talk to me and he was actually really nice. For some reason I was strapped into a wheelchair and he gave me some bright yellow crap -Riddalin he said it was. (Yeah my ass) and then told me he was going to shoot a syringe full of some Epinephrine into my leg. I asked him if it was gonna kill me and he said no but if might kill your heart. He turned his head to grab the syringe and I wiped half the Riddalin on the ground and then quick licked my hand of what was left. Clearly you could see the bright yellow blob on the ground where I had just wiped it! LOL this is hilarious as I"m thinking about it now because its my dream and those were the 2 worst drugs I could think of?? Riddalin and Epinephrine? REALLY? bahahah k so after he shot me with the syringe I don't remember too much. My heart started racing really fast and I got really shaky but thats about it...After it started to wear off I asked if we could go to the zoo and he agreed. He dropped me off at the front and went to park. As soon as he dropped me off I ran at the speed of lightning and found my mom. I yelled SOMEONES AFTER ME!  and we immediately got the zoo security to help us out. The end. I don't know if we caught him but seriously, wtf...

June 10, 2011 Happiness

Today is the happiest I have felt in a long time. I feel invincible, like I could climb Mt. Everest or swim to Europe or walk on fire. Okay just kidding, not that invincible. But I really am just happy happy happyyyy! Could be due to this cute boy I met and all the adventures  I've been having :), could be due to the fact I've lost 9 lbs since I've been here, 3% body fat and can run 4.5 miles without getting tired!, could be due to my grandma feeling better, could be due to me getting a roommate in a couple weeks!!! could be just a combination of everything and all of the above! I am just excited & thankful for each day. If there's anything I've learned this year it's been that life is just way too short. There's no use trying to rush the year and a half I have left in Oklahoma I mise well take each day as it comes, live in the moment, and not think too much about the future. I know everything's going to work out and I will end up exactly where I'm supposed to be. Anywho, I wanted to document how truly happy I was feeling at this moment right now and remember it. So there it is. Happiness. Everyone can see it but only you can feel it's warmth.

"Bag vs. Baaag"

I went to Wal-mart last night here in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Bought some pots and seeds because I'm going to try my hand at gardening, and because I got a bunch of free veggie plants at work. This could be interesting...but isn't the point of this post. Anywho, I ask the checkout girl if I could please have a bag? She responds "A WHAT?"
"A bag." -me
"I'm sorry I don't know what you're saying." -girl
"A baaagg. One of these" I physically point to plastic bag and say "Something you carry stuff in!"
She laughs. In my face. And says "You mean a bag?"
"Yeah, whatever. I'm from Wisconsin. I get made fun of on a daily basis for how I talk down here. Just need something to carry my stuff in."
"How do you say beg?" -girl
Does it matter?? I say "beg" like it's spelt. Duh.
She laughs again.
At this point I am getting pretty annoyed. "Can I please just have a bag and leave so I can stop getting made fun of."
She hands me a bag...FINALLY and I'm on my way. As I left I not only have a greater hatred towards Wal-mart and towards that girl but with the word bag in general. How many of us northerners say bag pronounced "bayg" and how many say "bag" with the A sound as in "apple"? And is it really that big of a deal? I think once you're over the age of 8 you should know some people say bag, and some say bag. Get over it. I don't make fun of you for "gripin" about your job, or pickin up laundry on a "Wiiiinsday", and my favorite "fixin" to go to the store. Or how bout all those towels that were on "sell"? You mean sale? I'm pretty sure sell is what they did so you could buy it. Anyway, I digress. It made me miss home even more and thought it quite rude of this Walmart girl. Oh she also had to add in "I have a friend from Montana! She says bag like you too. It's freezing up there!" I thought, where the hell are your geography skills girl? Montana is farther from Wisconsin than Oklahoma is. And if your friend said bag the same way then why'd you act so clueless? Dumb girl.

I'm Over It

Things I'm SO Over
*Neighbors that say they're "single" and have a kid and a live in girlfriend that tells them they forgot to take out the trash? Are you sure you're single?
*Lactose allergies. This one's on the way out and I couldn't be happier.
*Osama Bin Laden dead Disbelievers--they got him okay? You want a souvenir or something?
*People bringing treats to work...you know I can't say no, please stop. You're killing my diet.
*People that turn out right in front of you only to turn right in front of you without a blinker. REALLY??
*Nailpolish that doesn't stay on. Why do I bother....
*The Love/Hate relationship I have with running right now
Speaking of which...see ya.

Bricks

There's times when I pick up my phone to text you, to see if you maybe texted me or wrote on my wall and it hits me like a ton of bricks. Knocks the wind out of me, shoots a sharp pain thru my heart and it hurts to breathe...oh bud I'm so so so sorryy :( How are you gone? It still is so crazy that at one point you were my boyfriend (yep I said it--deal with it) and now you're not even alive. I still consider you my best guy friend and it hurts soo deeply that I can't text you a funny little thing that happened to me or call you up and tell you a ridiculous joke I know you will laugh at. Hopefully you "check facebook" or your email up there, or at least have some internet access to read my blog! I know its on the top of your to-do list ;) Beev, I need someone to make fun of me. Who in a million years would think that that is the thing I miss the most. You teasing me! hahaha Don't worry I get enough crap from my boss and people at work :) They are teasers for sure...
I listened to the voicemail you left me from November...yes I saved it. The entire time listening to it I was just like awwwwww Beev I'm sorrryyyyyy....you were so beyond pissed at me. OMG you told me you didn't think you could ever be so mad at someone, but I proved you right? yes you said right! Instead of wrong, i laughed because i think alcohol may have been playing a factor in this 4 minute hate voicemail. I'm so happy we made up the next day and everything was back to normal, because oh my goodness theres no way I could have lived with myself leaving you on bad terms. But that's how we were-- fighting one minute, friends the next. You knew me too well. I hope you're lookin down on my smiling...I found a song I know for a fact you would love See Me Smiling by Yellowcard
The sun comes up and you are all over my mind
You're in my brain before I can open my eyes
As I go on without you, my heartbeat won't slow down
I need you back like I need air to breathe this out
All I can do is keep you closer now
Cuz I know you're somewhere out there looking down
Wherever you are, I hope you can see me smilin
<3 Krista

Angels on the Moon

April 30, 2011

I miss you bud. I have your blue shirt, I stole it from your closet….I’m sorry. You know it was my favorite J It still smells like you and I can still see you wearing it, making your eyes shine so blue when you wore it. Oh Beev, why’d you have to go so soon? There was so much left to do, say, experience, so much more to live. It’s amazing, you think you have all the time in the world to spend with someone, to get to know them, to have those “moments” that you will cherish, but you don’t! Life is precious, here one day and gone the next. We just aren’t guaranteed tomorrow and it scares the hell outta me. How we are such intricate complicated human beings with minds, bodies and souls…living and breathing one minute and in a heartbeat it can all be taken away just like that.

“I want a sunburn just to know that I’m alive. Don’t tell me if I’m dying cause I don’t wanna know. If I can’t see the sun maybe I should go. Don’t wake because im dreaming of angels on the moon, where everyone you know never leaves too soon. Do you believe in the day that you were born? Tell me do you believe? Do you know, that every day’s the first of your life.” Angles on the Moon –Thriving Ivory

I love you Beev. Good night and sleep tight.

See You When I See You

April 27, 2011

It’s Wednesday night and I’m sitting in the Dallas Airport. My flight got delayed from 10:50p to 11:47p…I’m a litttttle peeved seeing as I have to be to work at 8 a.m. tomorrow and once I land I have a 45 min drive from Oklahoma City airport to home. Not to mention a 45 min drive to work tomorrow morning…sooo let’s see that leaves me with a catnap of about 1:45 a – 6:30a if I DON’T shower.  4 hours and 45 min. Awesome.

BV, I don’t know how but somehow I said “see ya later” today. I hate goodbyes, they are too final for me and so I couldn’t bring myself to say it. I know I’m gonna see you again I just don’t know when…that part scares me a little bit but you’ve taught me I can’t take this short life for granted. Nobody knows when they may have days, years, hours, seconds left to live. BV I don’t know how you knew but somehow I think you knew you were only going to be given a short time here with us on Earth.  You lived with such passion, such kindness, you were the Good Samaritan and like they said at your funeral “everyone’s Best Friend”. I know you were mine. (best guy friend that is) Kelc stole the BFFTDDUP…sorry.  It saddens me that you can’t be there to hug me when I’m sad, wipe my tears when I cry, and when I need a cheer up call be that voice that makes me smile and laugh.  But I will hold onto the memory of your face, those TURQUOISE blue eyes, megawatt smile, one curvy eyebrow, perfect straight teeth, round little chin, I close my eyes when I miss you and there you’ll be.  When the memory of your face starts to fade I will look back on pictures and try to remember again. I know as the years go on I will forget bits and pieces but that is why I started writing down ALL of our memories. So I will never ever ever forget. I pinky promise Beev. I don’t think I’m ever going to understand the why, I can make up a thousand different reasons that could Maaaybbeee make a little sense and then I talk myself out of it. There’s no reason in this entire world why God wanted you, other than you were simply too good. You were too good for Earth he needs you up there for some odd reason. Someday, when we meet again I will ask you and my questions will be answered.

I hugged your mom and dad, told your mom Thank you for blessing me with you in my life and that I was so happy to meet them. I blew you a kiss and pressed it on your silver titanium casket today, I told you I loved you and asked God to send you on a safe journey to his Kingdom.  Dobbe, Alex, Kelci and I were your only college friends that went to your burial today… we thought about getting Qdoba in honor of you but somehow the crew decided on Fazzoli’s instead and I must admit since I was a first-timer it was AH-Mazing. The entire ride back I missed you. I couldn’t help but think that me you and Kelc shoulda been riding in the back seat while we giggled and annoyed you to your last nerve. I miss you teasing me and fighting with me…I miss how you would make me so angry inside but I couldn’t stay mad at your for more than a couple minutes because you’re so dang cute. That’s another thing…damn you BV… we all have to stay down here and get old and wrinkly and fat while you will remain the ripe glory-age of 23 for the rest of your Heaven life, lookin all fresh and cute. Hate you for that! ;) you know I never hate, only appreciate. Ughhh Gosh Beev, sometimes I really miss you.  I loved to laugh and I feel like it was contagious hearing me laugh made you laugh, and vice versa. And throw in a Kelci giggle and we were alwaysss always laughing when it was the 3 of us.

It wasn’t right being in your hometown of Appleton without you to show us around. We passed your high school: Appleton West, Went to the Fox Valley mall where you probably shopped countless times in high school,  attempted to drive around and look for a liquor store after your funeral so we could at least have a beer to celebrate your life! BV we failed on that last one…if only you had been there to first tell us “guys it’s after 9. You’re not buyin anything tonight” and secondly, all liquor stores in a 10 mile radius are going to be closed at 9:06 pm, don’t even try Walmart. They have all their beer out but it’s not for sale. We tried. I wish with all my heart I would have visited Appleton with you, met your family before all of this, and you could have showed me around. There’s no use wishing tho because that chance has passed. I am thankful I could make it home for your funeral and meet your family, see all of our college friends again…much needed and gave me the strength I needed to make it thru this. I know I’m not alone. I have you, I have my family, I have my friends together we’ll make it thru this. I love you Beev. Time to go check and see if I can check into my flight yet.

My Letter to him

April 25, 2011

If Love could have saved you, you would be here next to me.  The amount of love you held inside of you, BV, oh you shined.  Your smile, your eyes, your warm hugs, your laughter. What I wouldn’t give to call you up, whisper CRAIG DAVID and hear that laugh. I have never had someone care so deeply, so fully, & so honestly for me. You made me feel safe. My mom was worried about me flying home from Oklahoma for your funeral but I texted her and said “Don’t worry Mom, I have a guardian angel”. Though it breaks my heart today and will for years to come that I can’t call you up and see what you’re doing, I can feel a little sense of peace knowing you are watching over me.  I’m still not sure how I will get through the coming days knowing I have lost one of my dearest and bestest friends, but through the tears and through the pain I will pray to you when I need you. Without a doubt I know you will be there to listen just as you always have. You were there for me through the death of my puppydog Carmel (I hope she’s showering you with kisses right now), my dilemmas, the beautiful clear sky star-gazing nights, my big move to Oklahoma, all the long walks home, the long summer workdays when we texted all day and counted the hours til I would pick you up to head to Lake Calhoun, and all the Friday nights when no one else wanted to go out—you were there with me thru it all J

I would like to now tell a little funny story about you (BV) and the sweetheart you are. One summer night on our way to the bars with friends BV and I became deep in conversation and completely lost our friends! I told BV to call them but he then informed me he had dropped his phone in the toilet right before we left and it was soaking in a bag of rice on his kitchen counter. Also, I should add the ENTIRE bag of rice was spilt on the kitchen floor!!  I then tried to call our friends on my phone but of course they were all already AT the bar and no one would answer.  We then realized we had no idea where we were! Go figure.  Completely lost we started to walk in circles trying to figure out how to get back to BV’s house. At this point I was crabby, cold without a jacket, and whining because my feet were blistering in my heels!  BV told me to take off my heels, and gave me his giaaanttt moccasin slippers to wear while he carried my shoes for me.  I still laugh picturing my size 7 feet in his slippers and BV walking in his white socks down the sidewalk allllll the wayyyy home. It was at this point I decided I would never meet another guy like this one.  He always made sure I had a ride home or would walk me to my doorstep/car/make sure I called him as soon as I got home.   BV always put everyone else before himself and it is a trait I strive to achieve in my own life.   If I can touch even a quarter of the lives BV did in his short life, I will be happy.

Your parents should be so proud of the man you had become. You were so smart, so compassionate, with a need and desire to care for others I have not seen in anyone else. BV you may have saved many lives donating your organs, but I want you to know you also saved mine. You taught me to never settle for less than I deserve, to always put a smile on your face even when it’s a rainy day, and that it is okay for girls to shotgun beers ;) I know I will never ever beat you in that race tho.  There’s so much I want to say but I know you know. I will miss your teasing and arguing with you like my brother.  I know you’re gonna miss Kelc and I and our giggle-fests …even tho you will never admit it! You love us! We were the three amigos and the three amigos we will stay.

I say a quote with my prayers every night and I know I’ve told you it before but I say a little something extra at the end now…it goes a little like this. “Life’s too short to wake up with regrets.  So love the ones who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t.  Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance grab it with both hands. If it changes your life let it.  Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. BV…you’ve made it worth it.” I thank you for all the memories to hold unto, they are what get me thru everyday.  I love you, I miss you & I’ll be seeing you again hun.

Looking for you in the stars,

Krista Leigh Mika

The Good Ones.

Broke down last night. Couldn't make it home without tears streaming down my face on the drive, walked in the door and couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, nothing. I think I needed to do it and get it all out...I had stayed so strong since hearing of BV's accident and his current condition. My mind was racing all day at work and with BV's ICP skyrocketing it threw countless things thru my mind at a million miles a minute. I talked to my mom, my dad, Kelci, Abby and my dad again. And the one thing my dad told me that night on the phone that has helped me since last night is that "Sometimes God needs The Good Ones." My dad has been thru a lot with death in our family. He lost a brother at the young age of 21, a best friend 2 years later, another good friend from high school years later, and my cousin (his nephew) 3 years ago. I am by no means saying BV is gone because he is as much alive as I am here today, but I just kept saying and thinking  "why him? why BV? It's not fair!! Someone so kind, so honest, with such a big heart should not have to endure this" My dad told me flat out....Krista sometimes he needs the Good Ones too. I never met my uncle David but when I hear of him I know he had such a kind heart... he was brought up in such a strong family and all the pictures I see of him he is always so happy it only makes you want to smile. He looks exactly like my dad except with red hair and freckles :) Same with my cousin Travis, always had a smile on his face, a joke to tell, always asked how things were going... again I think how it just isn't fair that bad things have to happen to such good people. It's not, it's not fair at all. After talking to my dad and hearing all he's been thru, how he's found the strength to make it thru lifes curveballs I decided my dad was so right...God can't take all bad people because Heaven would be empty... he needs good ones up there too, just as he needs good ones down here. I hope that BV can stay down here rather than up. I know God might need him up there, but I need him sooo soo much down here. We all do. At 23, he's far too young and has far too much ahead of him to go like this. It's not his time I know it's not. You hold on tight bud, I'm rootin for ya every step of the way. Your mom, dad, sister and friends we all need you. I love you Beev.

BVH

Ben Van Handel is one of my bestest guy friends in the whole wide world. I can't imagine my life without him in it. He's the one I could always count on to lend an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, or a friend to grab a drink with on a Friday night. He is always always always there for me...and I wish with all my heart that I could be there with him right now. BV was in a terrible hit-and-run accident walking home from the bars in Dinkytown on April 15, 2011. He is in critical condition at HCMC in Minneapolis, MN.... all we can do is pray and wait. Pray and wait and hope. Hope for the best, Hope for the future, Hope our BV comes back to us,  Hope my BV comes back to me. I need this kid to pull thru, I don't know what I'll do without him. We discussed summer plans just last weekend via text and we still have to have to do them!! I won't let him back down from this. He's too strong, too kind, too honest to go like this. I know he's gonna make it, he has a long road ahead of him but with the love and support of all his family and friends he can do it.
I can't stop thinking about all the memories, all the things that we've told each other, all the things we discussed for the future. I never want BV or I to forget these things so by golly I'm gonna blog em all ...as I think of em I'll be bloggin em. BV, bud, this is for you. So when you're awake and all better one day we can sit and laugh and reminsce all our shenanigans, "epic" adventures, everything. 
I miss you bud and can't wait to give you a big ole hug the next time I see you. Get better reallll soon k, I'll be seein you as soon as I can.

Memoriessss (not in any particular order)
~Texting each other all day in the summer just to get each other thru work/interning. Couldn't have made it some of those days without ya.
~Hurrying to get done with work so we could beach it up at Calhoun!
~Going on a walk to the St Anthony Bridge and the beautiful waterfall
~star gazing at Apple River and Waterama and the cute little book you bought me for my bday :)
~listening to me cry about my puppydog Carmel passing away for about 2 hours
~Zombifying you with my master eyeshadow skills!!
~Shotgunning ....okay you got whupped me every time
~Apple River- playin Cribbbage, swimming in the pool, roastin hot dogs on the fire, setting up our tent only to get it blown away by the huge thunderstorm, running to my car and having to sleep in it for the night!, 1st apple river run sleeping on the ground outside cuz it was so dang hot, star gazing, listening to Cravis rap Eminem, listening to Cravis continually set off Jordan's car alarm, listenin to Cravis barking.
~Waterama- you were my sidekick Ipod controller, loved listening to you sing to almost every song even the Katy Perry ones ;), our detour to St Cloud, me having a laughing spaz on the way there, getting completely soaked that first night, walking home with me allllll the way back to Kollmans under the full moon, jammin to tunes in Kollmans car, air mattressin it up, dancing and drinkin in the water by the boats, watching fireworks, CRAIG DAVID, you losing your phone under my car seat on the way home and me driving it allll the way back to your house for you!
~Charlie St Cloud, Despicable Me, & Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
~Watching the fireworks on 4th of July in Mpls
~Legend's wings and tall boys
~The countless nights we went out in Dinkytown, pregaming at your place, "borrowing" beers from you, Kelc and I always gettin ready in your room, you asking advice for which glasses or shirt you should wear
~Motion City Soundtrack concert
~Halloween: I was Rainbow Brite and a Minion with Kelci, you were Kurt Cobain and a 70s weatherman? Correct me on the last one. Moustache party!
~your blue shirt!!
~Fishbowls on my bday at Preston's...yeah we know how that one ended
~Watching Jersey Shore & The Real World every week
~You me and Kelc were basicallly the 3 amigos this summer....if nothing else it was always us 3 ready to go out in Uptown on the wknds!! All the time we went to Lake Calhoun to get our tan on.
~Oktoberfest: road trippin to La Crosse in Kelci's car, chili at Kelc's moms, shot gunning (of course) outside my car, dancin at that one bar with all the crazy shots, peanuts, gettin pizza with me, walking back, Hot tubbing ooh lala, More pizza, me and you fighting (per uszh like brother and sister)
~our fights about me moving to Oklahoma :(
~IKEA run
~goin to Kelc's gma's, grillin out, sittin poolside
~the 98234750928643 times you've spilt on a white tee. Standard.
~Last party at the 616
~Twins games
~Taco night at the 616 and watchin the Real World
~Brushing our teeth and taking out our contacts
~Taking care of me on my 23rd birthday. Letting me puke on your living room floor and crash on your Mini-couch in your room, then giving me a ride to my car in the morning!
~Getting lost on the way to Uptown bars because we were so deep in convo...completely lost the rest of our friends. I stopped and was like "uhhh BV where's our friends?" Told you to call them ...response "Soooo I dropped my phone in the toilet right before we left, its soaking in rice currently" Awesome! Nobody answers their phones when I call em. Figures. Anyway after we argued about where we were, how we got lost etc. I started to complain about my high heels and blisters forming...BV being the sweetheart he is demanded I take off my heels and wear his moccasin slippers home. So there I was with these monster moccasins and BV in his white socks carrying my heels :( What a friend.
~Going out in Bloomington with JT and his friend. Me spilling the drink as I tried to give you a hug for buying it for me...fail. Dancing with that old guy on teh dance floor and you just laughing at me ... U driving my car home DD and crashing on my "short" couch which is not made for a 6'1" guy you informed me the next morning. Going thru countless fb photo albums while I was drunk...you just sat and listened, nodding along pretending to be interested :)
~Walking me home and letting me bawl on your white shirt...mascara stains and all. U didn't ask any questions just let me cry. The next day you told me you sincerely hope I figured out everything because it broke your heart to see me so sad :(
~Sonic the hedgehog on Your sega!
~Since I was allergic to everything and you had zero food anyway, the only thing you could come up with to make me was a strawberry jelly sandwich with WHITE bread. I remember telling you it was like a sin for me to be eating white bread but i was so hungry I didn't care!
~You saving all the expired Hummus from the Gopher Spot for me :)
~Me leaving bobby pins at your house from all the sleepovers. You always had a little pile on your desk just in case I needed one when I was over.
~Watching the fireworks at the St Anthony Bridge over the Mississippi River. Everytime one of the squiggly ones went off you would look at me to see my reaction because you knew they were my favorite
~Dancing at Sneaky Pete's on Zombie Pub Crawl night
~Taking Kelci's car to the movies, rolling down the window and it almost falling out on 494 LOL...you were so nervous driving it was so cute
~Legend's!! aww all the memories there... wings, tall boys, playing darts, just being silly and telling dumb stories.
~somehow we always ended up walkiing next to each other on the way to and from the 616 to Legend's
~Sweating buckets in your house at 12th and 5th
~Watching the storm from your porch at 12th and 5th
~Playing bags, bpong, flip cup all summer
~Grillin out at the 616
~sitting next to you during Inception
~Icee's at the movies
~Acme Comedy Club...you and I were the only ones who got drinks (of course) and just laughing our butts off all night! Nick Swardson and all.
~All the nights you made sure I texted you/called you when I got home. Just always thinking of everyone else and making sure they were safe and sound.
more to come...

Sunrise in Oklahoma February 7, 2011

This is why I love my 40 minute drive to work

I can be a "couch" potato again!

Furniture de la Krista Leigh Mika has arrived in the state of Oklahoma!!!

8:30 a.m., -20 degrees F, an ice covered parking lot and a semi in a tiny lil parking lot...my movers were finally here. Went pretty smoothly, I do have to say the 53 year-old truck drivers stories about his 26 year-old ex girlfriend, 25 years in the marine corps, and rotational flat screen tv in his truck cab were all a littttttle awkward. He told me I was just as cute as my facebook profile picture. Umm? excuse me? Whennn did you search for me on facebook? And how old are you!? Wow some creepers out there.

Today I discovered one of my least favorite things: Hanging pictures. I hate finding a stud, hate finding a stud finder, hate the little blue plastic things you have to screw in when there is no stud, and the mess it leaves behind after you screw it in...white dust everywhere. Gahhh. Where's my dad when you need him? It definitely sucks not having a man in the house or someone you can call for that kind of stuff. But thats the joy of life... all the living and learning you get to do along the way :). Hows that for optimism?

Had 2 days off of work this week cuz we had a mini-snowstorm on Tues night. Last week we got 12 inches on Monday night and we were closed not 1, not 2, not 3 yup 4 freakin days!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't worry I was paid in full for all of them. One bonus of being on salary :) Theres literally ONE plow in the state of OK. Not joking. Everything closes down, people don't leave their houses. They just wait for it to melt! haha I think its hilarious. 

I officially have one girl-friend down here. Her name is Kandice, she's 26 and is a public health nurse at the clinic. She is a sweetheart! I stayed with her last week for a few days during the snowstorm we had a lot of fun. She's married to her high school sweetheart they've been together for 10 years, and have a little 7 mo old girl Karsyn who is the spitting image of her. (Well I think so! hehe) They live in Shawnee, so its definitely relieving to know I have someone I can call should anything happen. Flat tire, car breaks down, power goes out, or I need a freakin picture frame hung up! LOL  Well back to unpacking...toodles!

The Working Life.

Ohhh so THIS is what it feels like to be a full-time working girl.  It's Thursday night, I finally ate supper at 8:00 p.m. and I'm in bed ready to turn out the lights at 8:35 p.m.  Thank god for Fridays.  Tomorrow marks my first week @ my first big girl job :) So far- love it. Upsides:  Makin dolla dolla errday, days go so fast, meet new ppl everyday, I feel like I am making a difference by helping the doctors make decisions in the patients primary care and feel the patients really appreciate all I do, and yeah I guess that about sums it up. Downfalls: Supper time is now 7 p.m., after five 8 hour workdays and five 1 hour workouts I feel like exhausted jello, I have to stick people (sometimes twice) and cause them pain which kills me :(, and I still don't know where the fire alarm is or if we even have one in the clinic. Anyway, so far I love my job and everyone at the clinic.  People smile, say hello, and ask how are ya everywhere I go :). It is completely laid back in the lab, it does get busy in the mornings and when there's only 2 of us we have to do a lot of multi-tasking. I do a LOT of phlebotomy and am getting better everyday..I like this part of my job because I get to have that patient contact instead of just running labs all day and not being able to see the patient whose blood you are testing.  I can't even think right now I'm so tired! I have to go in at 7:30 tomorrow which means 5:40 a.m. wake up time!! O joy. Dewayne is teaching me all about the QC and what he does before we all get there at 8. My supervisor is out for awhile because his wife just had a baby, and Dewayne is going to be out for 4 weeks coming up for shoulder surgery so it's all in my hands baby!! Well myself and another girl, Courtney. I think I started at sort of a bad time but sort of a good time too because they really need the extra help right now! Week 1. Check. Good night!!

howdy ya'll!

ahhh Oklahoma....
FINALLY made it. Tomorrow marks one week I've been in Indian Country. So far the only downfalls are the fact that I have no furniture (yet), my family & friends live 1000 miles away, aaand I've had 2 nightmares waking up to black widows in my bed. Although, things are progressing slowly I started my FIRST real job as a Medical Technologist on Friday :), so far haven't done too much.  It's great because I have the chance to meet everyone in the other departments at the clinic- physicians, pharmacists, dentist, psychologist, business admins etc etc. I love hearing how everyone came to work in the little town of Wewoka and I continually hear that once I'm here I ain't never wanna leave! Lots n lots of paperwork, online training tutorials, oh and did I mention paperwork? I got electronically fingerprinted my first day (pretty sweet), and then I had to scan my index finger and see if I was a match. Whattyaknow I was!  Oklahoman's sure are sweet people, so far my first impression of the state is that everyone is too dang nice! Probly shouldn't get too ahead of myself cuz before ya know it I'll be biting my tongue. I've met a few local people here and there... a wonderful southern boy who's accent is just somethin else! I'm starting to "think" in a southern accent too. Is that even possible? Apparently there are select words I/we say up north in "Wiscaansin" that are prettttty strange. I'll try to keep a list of em when I remember so far I have:
-houses
-ya know
-roof/room said as ruff and rum
-pop
-cops
-mountain/curtain/button
-coffee
-pecan
-bags
-yo

Southern words/sayings:
-ya'll
-awful purtty
-darlin
-honey said as hunnay
-fixin to
-git with ya
-bless your heart
-good lord!!

I honestly haven't met anyone here that doesn't have an accent down here. People pick up on mine pretty much right away :) And as soon as I tell them where I'm from they immediately shiver and ask how I survive the cold. We had an ice storm here on Tuesday, everything was closed down...schools, businesses, 2 cars near my apt were in the ditch. I waited til it warmed up a bit before I ventured out, kinda felt like I was back home again. I sure showed them Okie's how you drive in a "winter storm"!! One thing I did learn today...do NOT go to Walmart on a Saturday afternoon in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Everyone and their cousin, dog, and great grandma were there. I honestly don't know how they didn't run outta food! Yep, never doing that again. Good thing I wasn't in a hurry. People sure take their sweet ole time at the checkout line, no problem with that but had I needed to be somewhere it might have pushed my buttons a little bit! Anyway, there's my first update on Okieland. LOTS more to come :)

choco choco chip!

Cookies

Chocolate chip. Oatmeal raisin. White chocolate macadamian nut. Chocolate chip. Vanilla wafer. Peanut butter. Macaroon. Chocolate chip.

Seems to be the consensus when you ask someone "Name a Cookie" Chocolate chip is the first and only one you can think of.  Took me a good 60 seconds to think of a 2nd and nothing after that. How many times have you tried and failed to make a new cookie recipe? For me, I can't even count. I've had the cookies that didn't rise and mashed together, the cookies where you added powdered sugar instead of flour, the cookies that had to wait 4 hours til someone could run to town and get eggs, the cookies that got half a bag of chocolate chips or a quarter bag for that matter. Then of course theres the cookies that didn't get baked because family members ate all the dough and got belly aches, the cookies that forgot to set a timer and burnt, the cookies that tasted like butt and only you're dad would eat, and thennnn the cookies you made today which you thought would be amazing because you substituted splenda brown sugar and splenda white granulated sugar for regular. Surely to be a tasty Neiman-Marcus cookie you could eat tons of because they were low-calorie. NOPE. Not that tasty, in fact taste like cardboard. Texture of sand that fall apart immediately after picking it up, but of course my dad tells me "they're not that bad with a little milk" :)

Why oh why do I continue to try new chocolate chip cookie recipes? Why don't I just stick with the traditional Jane's Chocolate Chip cookie recipe scribbled in Sharpie on the cover of my mom's cookbook? Instead I decide to try and out-do myself and think I'm going to come up with some AMAZINGLY spectacular new never before tried recipe of chocolate chip cookies, when let's get real just impossible.
Now, go eat a cookie. Make sure it's choco choco chip.

BFFTDDUP December 30, 2010-January 2, 2011

Kelci Renee Fraser.

First of all, Where have you been my entire life? I mean it when I ask that question. Normally, just a proverbial filler but this time I kind of/sort of want to know.  Apparently this past NYE I made a “seated” toast of champagne to this girl and it was a pretty heartfelt toast at that.  I’ve known you since Spring semester of 2007 and lived with you for a year after that; sure we went out, partied every weekend together, but I never actually knew you until this past summer.  When we basically became BFFTDDUP: Best Friends Forever Til Death Do Us Part :) Anyway, I came to this profound realization this weekend that you and I share the same brain wavelength…I’m pretty sure the red headband and lotus flower pictures prove that statement. 

I don’t know if I will post this or ever really make this a blog, but if anything it will be my BFFTDDUP blog. So that someday when reunited we can giggle, laugh, and cry about all our ritarded shenanigans. Before I go any further, your middle name is Renee. CRAZY. My mom and sister’s middle name is Renee. I haven’t met anyone else ever with that name so basically you’re stuck with me for life!

Thursday December 30, 2010: I guess I’ll start out with Thursday night. I waited at your house for you for 2 hours til you got home from work. You booked it getting ready and within 5 min’s me, you and Alex were in your illegally parked Stratus on the way to NE Mpls Legend’s!!! Never a dull moment with you and our friends, took you about 10 min to parallel park your car because Alex’s door was open (BAhaha) excuses. excuses. Anyway, tradition: Tall Honeyweiss for me, and 10 Teriyaki and a Tall Premium for you.  Sang to some tunes “I JUST HAD SEX AND IT FELT SOOO GOOD” ‘daammn it feels good to be me, got the windows rolled down in my cutlass supreme’ ‘run fast for your mother, fast for your father, run for your children and your sisters and brothers’ NEXT STOP:davidnelson’s where Sisterhood of the Traveling Bracelets was reunited! (which now includes sisterhood of the traveling boots) Gurrrrrrl let me tell you them things are gonna travel. We’re going on a serious roadtrip this Spring and I’m going to come to see you as much as I possibly can! Reaped some shots off Cravis and navidelson and walked well you RAN to the Lib. What a fun night! Not sure what all happened but we each had only like 1-2 drinks and basically were just chatty little cathie’s all night. Shwisted, not shwasted, shwittified, or shmushed.

Friday December 31, 2010: Woke up with you and Kessler’s ass in plain bleary eyed sight and wondering why I was sleeping with EK’s sheepfur jacket. Got back to your casa after dropping Bacterial Vaginosis off, made some breakfast, and got ready to do some shopping! Fell in LOVE with LoveCulture and then barely made it to my storage unit without you vomming on my passenger seat floor. You perked up just in time to yell "DUDE who has my car??" HAHAHA I barely paralleled while tears were running down my cheeks. Opened our Xmas presents to each other! I got you a crockpot-perf! and a little pic frame of us as minions with BFFTDDUP in pink glittery stickers. Kelc got me a gorg pic fram with BFFTDDUP cut out in diff pictures from our 1st pic together to memories of halloween, dancing on couches, tailgating gopher games, & waterama and a subway gift card! Attempted to watch Dumb n Dumber but both of us took a little snooze and then woke up ready to get SEXIIED UP for our what was sure to be a fantastical NYE. Boy did that get shot down real fast. First of all, can I just say that we were freakin’ adorable? We made some delish spag, alfredo, garlic bread, and salad for our friends! Such good cooks we are :) One person tried to shit on our parade but we didn’t let that happen! We started cheers-in’, poppin’ the bubbly, and then headed over to Abby’s friends where we would have made out with ANY male there and had a successful NYE. Kansas City, gahhh really?? Didn’t get tix to Masquerade ball, “There is a reason we didn’t go Krista”. Could that reason be that 1 hour later I would need you to carry me home from the bar? Skinned knees, not making it to midnight, tears, tryin and failing to vom, losing Willy, getting shwasted before 11 summed up …well MY  night. So so so sorry Kelc, I’m a bad friend for this night. Don’t know what I’d do without you..oh yeah I’d probably still be laying in a snowbank in Uptown with bleeding knees. I love you.

Saturday January 1, 2011!: 6:30 a.m. texts, laptops sailing off beds, flashlight apps, giggles oh wait all singular. Not even hungover this glorious first day of the year! Not sure how. Watched Remember Me, laid around all day talking about life and aimless girl stuff, ate leftovers. Called Abby 7430958273409 times wondering how we were going to pull off this SURPRISE if the dang girl wouldn’t even answer her phone!! Burnt out lightbulb… “WOW WE MIGHT BE RETARDED, LIGHT SWITCH WAS OFF”-Kelc “Nobody said you were brilliant”-Krista. Plugging my phone charger into an extension cord plugged into ITSELF! “WHY ISN’T IT WORKINGGGG???” P.O.S’s all day. Aarti came over and the 3 of us went to Meredith’s to wait for Abby and the big surprise! Hotties all over :) More shots and champagne…pretty much never left the Kitchen. O minus are flippin amazing photo shoot in el bano. I think we came out of that bathroom different people, yet the same person.  Make sense? If you’re Kelci Fraser it def makes sense. I made some new spanish speaking friends + a hottie who also speaks spanish and somehow BFFTDDUP got separated :( Chips n Salsa FAIL.

Sunday January 2, 2011: 8:30 a.m. “Where are you?” –Kelc

“I’m not sure. I don’t have service to check GPS on my phone” –Krista

“WHAT??? WHERE ARE YOUUUU??!! DID YOU GO HOME WITH A RANDOM??”-Kelci

I immediately hang-up. Seeing as certain people were within earshot, haha ohhhh man. Finally Aarti and I made our way out of that maze of a building and we were only in St Louis Park. Roughly a 30 min walk to your place. Literally collapsed on your futon…and then reminsced our night’s. Flippin thru pics from night before. Realizing we MIGHT BE RITARDS. Bizarre texts from you: “I’m Abby cept I’m in a box so not as cool”, “Omg your gma’s socks. LOVE.”, and from me “Come to williams slash leave your keys in the mailbox” “DUDE how am I gonna get home???”

“If I’m preggers I wouldn’t even know who da daddy is!” SLUT-city

NY Resolutions: Kelci- To not be a slut. To not cry.

Krista- To be a better caller backer. To eat chocolate sparingly.’

BFFTDDUP said our goodbye’s…til next week when I will see Kelc for one night before my big move to OK. :’( Gonna be emotionalllll.

                                                   Red headbands & Lotus Flowers