Summer of Goodbyes: Kristi

I’ve done a lot of ugly crying this summer. 
My dear friend moved to Utah, end of June. 

Kristi can make me laugh faster than almost anyone. She’s an excellent storyteller, a gifted listener, and she is just so likeable. Everyone loves her, because she’s....well because she’s just so dang likeable. 

We spent many evenings crying or laughing together while boxing up her beautiful life for a new chapter. 

Kristi retaught me about thoughtwork. I’m so thankful for her. I love the way she loves my Quincy. They text each other often. I miss movie dates and just being her date in general. I like being her plus one and I like the company she attracts because she is so loved by so many great people. She’s been a voice of sanity and reason and laughter and good cold reality when I need it, too. She’s still all of these things, we just don’t get to eat or go to movies in the process. I can live with this. But I do crazy miss her all the same. 

Here’s her van all packed up the night before she left town. I promised her I didn’t cry and she knows I was lying right to her face. I cried that night with Kate in my kitchen over cheese and crackers and cried again the next day when she hit the road. 
And even though I talk to her via Marco Polo every couple days, I really really miss her. So much so that when I ran into the Love Welcome Serve lady (Amy Hammon of Euna Mae’s) in Target, I totally fan girl’d her and had her send a polo to Kristi with me. You know you’ve got good friendship when you’re willing to flag down a stranger and look like an idiot just because you know it will make someone’s day.  

Oh Utah. You just keep taking all the good ones (I’M ALSO LOOKING AT YOU, CARLY! 😂😂)