Meet the Cast Monday #36: BFF

Happy Monday, everyone! Today I'm introducing you to BFF. As you might gather from his name, this kid is my best friend in the world. We've been friends since we were 10 years old, then somehow ended up at college together. I can't say enough good about BFF---he's smart and funny and has literally been there for me through anything and everything over the past 18 (yea...18) years. He's game for anything, whether it be flying across the country to be my date for a weekend or getting us tickets to a football game or listening to my problems on the phone. And he just makes things in my life better. I think that's what being a best friend is all about. And he's got it down.

And with that.....Meet BFF.

What is your favorite memory with me?

Ok, favorite memory.... Tough question, I'm thinking it will probably be something along the lines of me turning 21... OR, that Easter gathering we had was cool too... {I love the fact that neither of these were anything crazy or expensive or exciting---both were just little gatherings at our college apartment. I think this is a prime example of the little things being the big things.}
Tell us what you're going to be a doctor of when you finally get out of college.

I'll have a Phd in Animal Science, my emphasis and research is geared towards production systems, immunology, and some genetics jargon to go with it. {He likes to say that he will be a doctor, but you will still need to call an ambulance in an emergency.}

You've spent time at both OSU and Texas A&M. Tell us why Stillwater is better.

Stillwater is Stillwater: SO.... I don't know what else needs to be said really. {FACT.}
What was your favorite part of the wine tasting weekend in San Francisco?

Two parts to this answer:

1: Explaining how buying a bull and selling his semen is a sound business decision to a crowd of wine drinking lawyers and "soon-to-be lawyers" from California... Yes, those people looked at me like I was the leader of some twisted beast loving cult.... Tiffany can explain more to you about how this conversation even got started in the first place... {Here we are in front of the fanciest hotel in Napa waiting for the bus. BFF is off to himself on the cell phone...shocking to no one that knows him in real life....and one of the attorneys asked what he was up to. I told them he was trying to buy a bull. It all snowballed from there and led to lots of marginally inappropriate conversations the rest of the weekend. But he ended up being the star of that trip....I think they wanted to hire HIM more than they wanted me!}

2: Negotiating a river in California via canoe... (not as easy as it looks on TV, Louis and Clark deserved more than their names in history books for their accomplishments... those freakin canoes are NOT designed for successful transportation.) {For that full story, click here.}

What is your favorite college memory?

College memory, I can honestly tell you that its an impossible task to rank memories of college... I'm actually still in college so probably going to continue adding to those details. I'll say that 3 snowdays + the weekend in Stillwater was a damn good time though...
You're really good at life advice....give us one general piece of important life advice.

Ah, another tough one... Ok, general important advice-- Life is a garden, just dig..... No No Not really---- those cliche's are dumb, and I still don't understand how digging and gardening reflects life at all....

I feel that alot of complication that is experienced could be a residual of un-stellar decision making, So-- for simplicity sake, just make good choices. {He says this all the time. Like this weekend when I got in the car to leave his house, he said "make good decisions" rather than "drive safe" or "be careful."}
OR

Know your limitations and play accordingly... (example I suck with my 3 iron and 4 iron SO... I either hit a 5 iron and take another stroke or give the 5wood a wack and see what happens.) {He's classic at these sports analogies. You might remember this prior blog about field position.}
What is one thing you have learned from past relationships?

Read the answer above. {I'm not sure if he's referring to the one about good decisions or about knowing his limitations.....Kidding, kidding!}

We've been friends for a long, long time. Why do you think that is?

Read the answer above, you're a good decision maker, (not as much on golfer :-) ) {Well isn't it cute that he brought that up. In college, BFF decided to teach me to golf. So we go to the driving range. Let me explain---I'm pretty athletic. I'm no Michael Jordan, but you give me a ball or a club and I can usually figure things out. Golf does not care about athletic ability. Also, please let me explain, that BFF is 6'3 and left handed and a boy. We had lots of harsh words including the following statements being screamed across the driving range: "BFF, there are these things called boobs that you don't have to deal with!" "Tiffany, you're swinging like a dang girl!" "BFF, I am a dang girl!" "I did not bring enough beer to teach you!"} Tell us one thing that you think girls do wrong in relationships.

Ahhh, well girls girls girls... Its been my observation that the female gender is like a bush of roses, they can be beautiful, delicate, and really enhance the state and well being of everything and everyone around them... but under the surface they are very dense, covered in thorns and other spiney-spiteful features, and are overwhelmingly complex. How does this translate into what girls do wrong in relationships??? It's like this, don't expect guys to always understand or like the "under the surface" part of you. When guys don't get it, don't fuss at him because YOU'RE COMPLEX... {He tells it like he sees it.....}

What is one (or more) item(s) on your bucket list?

I want to observe the Great Migration in Kenya and Tanzania before urban sprawl ends it.