It feels like forever since I was ‘home’. This weekend, even though I wasn’t really here, I was very much ‘at home’. Friday night we had a backyard camping trip with a fire pit and smores.  Someone was having a raging party and had several bands playing and it sounded like we were on the…

Kara’s boyfriend Patrick has been talking about wanting to go skydiving since he heard that Kara first went last year.  Ash has been telling me she wanted to go since she heard that I started last year.  Lester has been saying “FUCK NO.” about going since he first watched my video, saw me covered in…

I figured out something REALLY important tonight.  True love is like finding the setting on the toaster that makes the perfect bagel. Much like that toaster and bagel, my latest relationship has been playing out.  At first we just left the bagel in to burn. After we realized that we can’t keep eating burnt bagel…

I got a text yesterday, “Someone died at Lodi today.”  My heart stopped and I tried to remember who I had talked to on Facebook from the dropzone that morning.  It felt like someone just shook my brain and I couldn’t get it to slow down quick enough to roll through everyone I love there….

After work I like to curl up into a little ball on my bed and cry like a little bitch while rocking back and forth repeating, ‘i want my mommy’.  Last night the girls wouldn’t allow me to do that because each one had something really important to tell me and kept bursting into the…

My FB/Blog friend, Cecily, posted the letter that she wrote to her 20 year self after reading one her friend had written. I too, took on the challenge. It’s funny what we learn in the process. Dear 20 something year old Kristine, I’ve struggled with what I should tell you. The things you did in…