You're the Frosting to My Cake

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ~ C. S. Lewis

I have no clue when that moment was for Gruber and I, but second semester freshman year was the start to this best friendship.  A little background for those of you who don't know the whole story.  Gruber and I met on the soccer team our freshman year at St. Kate's, but we didn't really hangout till second semester freshman year cause she lived in the reject dorms and so I never saw her besides at soccer.  Then we ended up being lab partners in "Mystery Chem Lab." For this class we had to do full lab write ups, so every Wednesday night we would meet up and eat dinner in the caf, go write up our lab at the "professional desk" in the basement of the library, and then go watch the weekly Wednesday movie in JDA.  

So we aren't like all the other girls that are like, "OH YOU ARE TOTALLY MY BFF!!" and then fight a week later and never talk again.  We also are not like other girls that are BFFs with every girl they meet.  Gruber and I are BFFs to the utmost meaning of the words. Just to show you how well we know each other and how well we get along here are a few examples.

1) The name of this post is just like Gruber and I.  I love cake and hate frosting and Gruber loves frosting and hates cake.  So whenever we get cupcakes I will take off the frosting and leave it for Gruber to eat later.

2) WE LOVE SOCCER, FOOTBALL (the European one of course) or FUTBOL (whichever you think is the correct term)!!!  We also LOVE AMERICA!! So we are really into the US national soccer teams.  But Gruber is really into the men's side (aka Clint Dempsey) and I am really into the women's side (Megan Rapineo and pretty much the whole team minus Hope Solo). So we are constantly informed of how each side is doing.

3) Whenever we eat a meal together and I don't like something, Gruber eats it for me.

4) Number 3 also applies to candy.

5) Okay now for a non-food one.  Gruber is going to go to graduate school for Physical Therapy and I just graduated with a nursing degree.  So it works out really nicely when I need to be taped before one of your coed games.  And she comes to me whenever she or her mom thinks she might have some sickness or disease. 

6) We also know exactly what to get each other for gifts.  Gruber knows my undying love for Harry Potter so she got me a nicely framed artwork of HP for my birthday.  For Christmas this year I know Gruber wanted a new pair of sweatpants and I was able to pick the correct size and color!

7) Most important reason why we are best friends forever is that we know each other like the back of our own hands.  I know that pretty much everyday after work (aka 6ish to about 7:30) Gruber is working out.  Gruber knows that I LOVE steak! And that as a hilarious marriage proposal I would think it would be cool if my future husband put a ring in a steak for me to find.  Those are just a couple weird things, there are many many more. 

Here are some friendships that we think we are comparable too. 
          1) Kristen Wigg and Maya Rudolph in Bridesmaid
          2) Megan Rapineo and Lori Lindsey on the US National Soccer Team
          3) Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
          4) Oprah and Gayle
          5) Jess and Jules from Bend it Like Beckham
          6) Mike and Sully from Monsters Inc.
          7) Hassel and Derek from Zoolander at the end of the movie
          8) Lloyd and Harry from Dumb and Dumber
          9) Woody and Buzz from Toy Story
          10) Ferris and Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

If you laugh really loud, talk spontaneously, and you don't care what your face looks like... you are probably with your best friends. - Unknown  

KP after 9

Lets dive into brains of Gruber (aka Abby) and I.  I find it funny that I of all people am writing this post since it is basically about my stupidity over the last 3 years. So lets get started!

                             (This was the wall as of Oct 2012.  By the end of the year it was the whole wall)

So "KP after 9" started our sophomore year of college.  It all began when Gruber, our friend Bridget, and I were talking about what age you would be if you were in a certain grade.  Instead of asking, "What grade would you be in when you are 8?," I asked "How old are you when you are 8?"  This kind of event had happened a couple time before and specifically after 9pm (2100 for you military time people). And thus began "KP after 9."  Now three years later we have compiled 52 "KP after 9" worthy quotes.  The majority of them are mine but other contributors are Gruber, our roommates Elizabeth, Taylaur, and Ashley (I think you got one in there), Mo (a soccer girl and honorary 5th roomie), and a special friend T-Swift.  So without further adieu here are some highlights from "KP after 9!"

1) This comes straight out of the mouth of our bff E (aka Elizabeth).  I am not sure how she came to this point but she must have had a legitimate reasoning.
          "I picture basketball in North Korea to be like the Hunger Games."

2) Now, if you truly were friends with us, you knew that second semester senior year Sunday nights were devoted to TLC.  We watched Gypsy Sisters and Myrtle Manor.  If you haven't watched an episode of either one they are just the trashiest/weirdest/very red neck-ish tv shows.  I would say Gypsy Sisters is like the Real Housewives shows but low income and on crack.  E started off watch these shows with us but mid season she could take no more.  In response to why she stopped watching...
          "This is causing major stress in my life."

3)  This past MN winter was never ending.  In the midst of the winter, Winter Storm Brutus came upon us.  This is when Ashley made her first appearance on the wall. 
          "I hate Winter Storm Bulbasaur!"

(I have no clue how Weather channel chooses names, but after Winter Storm Nemo, Bulbasaur should be a contender now.)

4)  Gruber and mine's one year roomie/ bff Taylaur had a couple really great quotes over the years but her shining moment came from sophomore year.  Tay was on the go all year.  Because of this she would stuff a lot of snacks (granola bars, fruit, and a ziplock bag of nuts) in her purse so she wouldn't starve.  One day while getting ready to leave she was digging through her purse for her keys when she exclaimed...
          "I punctured my nut sack!"

5) First semester Gruber was in a history of East Asia class.  While studying for her final she became so overwhelmed with the amount of things she needed to know about China and how it functioned she said...
          "I don't know how China is a thing!"

6)  Our good teammate Mo has Celiac Disease [she can't eat gluten (aka she doesn't eat anything good)].  The downside is that her favorite treat is Oreos (they have gluten in them)!  So in order to get her fix she does some weird stuff.  One night we were eating Oreos and she asked us this gem...
          "Can I just smell them?"

7)  Now for some of my great quotes.  Most of mine come from miss reading, miss saying, or mixing words together.  Here goes! In our caf they have little event calendars on the tables.  While reading one at dinner I said this,
          "Invisible poetry? What is that?"
    What the sign said was inDIVISible poetry.

8) In St. Paul there is a wonderful bakery called P.J Murphy's.  In hopes of going one day I was so excited that I mixed P. J. Murphy's with P. F. Changs and came up with...
        "Yum P.F. Murphy's" (Chinese bakery!)

9) Lastly, this quote was my shining glory of last semester and proof that watching Jersey Shore makes you loose brain cells.  While watching J-Shore one day they were trying to figure out how to spell hor d'oeuvres (I didn't even know how to spell it).  I created a great word as a replacement.
         "Why don't they just say Appaturs?"

In the words of Liz Lemon "BLURG."  And I hope that while you read them our stupidity gave you a good chuckle. 

Summer Check List

Today's find goes to my main lady Pino (KP). As per usual Buzzfeed did not disappoint and has provided us with a summer to do list that will challenge our very beings. We say CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. 

There are items that will be quite easy to complete just by existing in summer, like eating snacks on the beach #11 ( I don't know who can go to the beach and not eat, it just isn't right) or eating tomatoes #18,19 (who doesn't eat tomatoes on the regular?!), falling asleep in a hammock  #46 ( I was under the impression that they were made for sleeping, with such a weird name the inventor must have been sleepy or sleeping at the time, obviously they were thinking of names while in the hammock), Or stuffing your face on the 4th of July #47, I'm pretty sure the founding fathers intended that to be a part of the celebration and just forgot to write it down because they were all late for their bean bag tourney at Herbie Hancock's BBQ.

But the list also contains some tasks that would challenge anyone (How do you grill a cocktail? Is that even a thing? #9) , eating melon and prosciutto #45 while seemingly easy look at the picture, no one's will look like that! Pino and I are going to have one heck of a time getting ours to look like that, I am no Bobby Flay. #53 will be a challenge purely because there is no "Mr. Softie" in MN that I know of. Pino I think we'll just have to Maverick it and name someone Mr. Softie (preferably and older gentlemen who is grandfatherly) and pay him to deliver us ice cream cones frequently. 

There will be items that challenge a specific member of our little duo, yeah that's you Pino. #2 and 4 because they involve dairy (interesting fact peanut gallery Pino is lactose and tolerant, a fact that I forget most days). # 10, 26, 27 because they involve fruit that is warm and she weirdly doesn't like it (apparently it tastes "fuzzy"  aka YOU ARE WEIRD). # 9,12,13, 21, 28, 31, 32, 36, 38, 40, 43, 49 and 58 will also be challenging for because they involve drinking, good luck with that one. Accepting this challenge just gave KP's summer a whole new outlook.

Overall this list is an epic culmination of drinking, eating and relaxing, exactly what summer should be.  Go ahead, check it out, it may possibly guarantee you the most summer fun you've ever had.... unless you are Dany Zuko or Sandy, if you are, no promises. Otherwise  we challenge you to complete all 60. May the odds be ever in your favor.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/emofly/summer-bucket-list

Greetings Earthlings

Welcome to our blog!  We are using this as a place to showcase our AWESOMENESS.  After living with each other for three years, being on SCU soccer for 4 years, and having multiple classes together, we have always wondered why we didn't have our own tv show.  So we have decided a blog would be the next best thing.  This will be our claim to fame!  So get ready for our real world stories, PT adventures, random texts, awesome facebook posts, thoughts, memes, online finds, and everything in between!!!