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