Christina Starr:  

Life I'll keep it short, it's almost 0300 and have to be at work tomorrow. (smile), kind of hard for me to go back and remember everything, in fact I kind of don't want to, there's just too much. I'll start with stuff off the top of my head, I miss my family bad! Lol, if there is one thing about leaving home, don't make it hard to go back! lol with that said, I'll just start talking and maybe some of it will come together in a reasonable structure. There are some things I did before leaving home, did an extremely short stint as a Forest Firefighter in 97'-had to be one of the funnest jobs I've ever had in my life! John Cole and John Erhart could tell you about it some time, everyone stuck together it was like a band of brothers, didn't sleep much for 28 days in California, at Yellowstone Natl Park, worked with hundreds of crews from all over to put that fire out, hung out, told stories, laughed at jokes, good honest hard back breaking work-I slept for 3 days straight when I got home, lol. Oh, back to the story, I left home soon after High School, spent the summer in Denali National Park working at a private lodge-Denali Wilderness Lodge, was a beautiful place, there was a small mountain next to the Lodge, spent one of my days off from sunup to sunset getting to the top. Had nothing but granola bars and a mixtape. That is something I will always remember. When I left it was in the Fall, spent some time in Fairbanks staying at friend's places. It was fun, I was pretty much emotionally put together, happy. Even with the craziness of my birth father's death, Then there was the accident. I knew Summer from 5th grade, she was my first friend in a strange place, I don't really want to get into it. The accident was quick, I woke up a week later, some of my memories were gone and needing surgery to fix my face, and she never did wake up. Can't say I was strong about it, I didn't confront my feelings, and didn't accept what happened. Instead I ran. I moved to the lower 48. Went to Kansas City, MO with Ali and partially completed college. It's a little bit longer story from there, (I'll generalize it as much as I can, and leave a bunch of stuff out)lol, lived in the South for a little while near New Orleans, lived in Ohio for a little bit, went back to KC,MO was a over the road truck driver in the lower 48 worked for CRST, met up with new friends and childhood friends- saw many things, visited new york city, chicago, boston, atlanta, (ok ALL over),loved driving my truck through the NV desert. Went to Job Corps in Excelsior Springs, MO and found myself here in Omaha, NE working for Union Pacific now. This place is so conservative too, strange that lots of famous people come from here. Malcom X is from here, you'd know if you came to visit (smile). I've worked alot, been a waitress, a security guard, a cook, a dishwasher, never snubbed my nose at any work. Not the life of a princess, but it's been good. Hard not to go into details I guess lol, hard for me to go back a bit, but it seems like I feel 100 years old already. Right now I've got time to think about things a little, don't feel like I have to keep dropping bombs behind me all the time and blowing up the path behind me, don't know if you feel me on that one lol. But I've had the same boyfriend of 5 years, we are good together, it's a solid relationship, have our ups and downs-not always pretty but we stick it out. His name is Lee. We have 4 cats. Four is alot but they were strays and neither one of us want to split them up. Chewy, Aragorn, Aguilera, and Mystique(aka. Grace Jones). I'm getting back int...Expand for more