You want to live where??

Last week one of my best friends told me she wants to live in my garden… literally live in my garden. She wants to move from Connecticut to Maryland and pitch a tent in my front yarden.

I’d like to say she is crazy… but she isn’t. She has a real good reason for wanting to live in my garden.

My bff just moved across the country after her and her boyfriend of four years (who is actually Mr. Bear’s cousin) broke up. One minute Kara and I were talking about weddings, the next…well, it was awful… It still is. That’s all I’ll say. My heart broke for her… and it still breaking.
(For the record, I think break-up is for the best…because Kara needs to think about herself for once. And the guy she was with is a dummy, who I can’t speak bad about publicly b/c Mr. Bear is still his friend and will read my blog and get mad at me for trash talkin’.)

Kara and I coincidentally grew up only 30 minutes from one another in Connecticut. We also worked at Abercrombie Kids together, saw each other, but never officially met. Another coincidence – my friend at UConn’s mom was best friends with Kara’s mom. That connection is what brought us together.

 Kara and I met in September 2005 during our junior year at the University of Tennessee. I am so thankful that Kara messaged me on Facebook one night… telling me her mom told her she should introduce herself to me because we were both new/transfer students to UT. I messaged her back and found out that she lived one floor below me in our dumpy on campus apartment/dorm building. My roommate (KT, the one in the middle above, who was and still is awesome) and I ran downstairs to her a few minutes later. We found Kara hiding from her weird roommate and drinking box wine in her room. 

I could tell I was going to like her.

I used to love box wine.

We became friends fast.

I don’t remember when we solidified our friendship – one day we were introducing ourselves, the next day we were BFF. We ended up living with one another our senior year in a much nicer apartment off campus.

2006… like our costumes?? Skanks…

Lookie who baked me a confetti cake for my 21st bday?!

We spent many hours watching seasons of SATC and Grey’s Anatomy on our comfy futon together in that apartment. We shared many things during college – clothes, shoes, food….laughs, tears, nasty words. We both LOVED to go to cycling together and cardio booty bootcamp.

Eating gator meat on a UT v Florida gameday

Check out our sweet gameday cups

Kara loved cleaning our apartment, and I enjoyed drawing pictures on our whiteboard.

Enjoying adult beverages legally at the Knoxville Beer Festival in 2007

We had our ups and downs… both of us being ladies who likes to speak their minds. There was even a time when Mr. Bear and Kara hated each other – because Kara always took my side in a fight and would tell Mr. Bear when he was WRONG. She is awesomeness.

Right before we crashed a wedding

Kara is pretty effin spectacular. I kind of want her to come live in my yarden. I offered up our bed-less guest room, but I think she prefers the flowerbed.

The last time I saw Kara… January 2011… I miss her!

I hope my readers enjoyed my post… sometimes you just gotta show some love for your friends in blogland!

And Kara…Hope this makes you smile =0)