 from the Midwest. We're both from Wisconsin. Okay, that half. Wow. I got this at the American store here in New Zealand and I had to get it. Like, how do you not get this? Well, of course. I mean, because you can barely see what's going on. This is you wear this to get bombed. That's what you do. You walk around the world with this on. Are my attention seeking? Well, between that and the darn stick you have to take with you everywhere with your phone on it. Get this shirt. I didn't know you had the same shirt as me. I didn't know that either. Where did I get this shirt? It's some cute little boutique here in town. How about you? Somebody mail it to me. When I moved here the first time, Jen Schilt, one of my, I made a banner in my wedding, gave it to me. She's like, don't forget that this is your home. This is where you're from. That's right. This is at Midwest, baby. Oh, I can't wear this. So gaudy. Oh my God. It's so great. I just, yeah, feel very under, underdressed now. Okay. We're in our shirts here. Let me turn this down a little bit. Okay. Okay. Oh yeah, the Kristen Tereshaw, Christa. Christie is my name. What's your name? Christie. All right, welcome. Welcome back to my YouTube channel and the premier of the channel. There's going to be a lot of dancing, warning, and it's really just to music in our heads. So, right, we don't know how to help you with that unless you're from 1990 something. So this is the premiered episode. We are going to be launching these a couple per month, midweek time, and you're not going to want to mess it. It's going to have a little bit different format than our other one. So you are going to love it. We're just going to be two girlfriends on other parts of the world getting together on Zoom. Because this is the only way we can do this anyway. We're just bringing you along for the ride. That's it. Okay. So basically this is what we would be doing anyway. We're just, you know, broadcasting it to the world. You're welcome. You're welcome. My mom always said we should be on CVS or Elemental. Okay, stop. I can't remember what it's called. It's a home shopping network, whatever that is. It's called. Yeah, I don't know. Okay. I don't know. It's shopping network. We don't need a network to hire us here. QVC. QVC. QVC. QVC. Does that even exist? I don't have TV. I have no idea. I don't really watch it because there's nothing on that I want to see. Okay. So today our episode is going to basically talk about our story. Let's tell our story, our background, how we met. I got some pictures of us. So you're going to want to stay tuned because you're going to want to see us. Yeah, you are. A lot of hair. The hair. Right. The hair. I can't believe like how young, young. They're pretty pretty. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay. Oh, I can't wait. Okay. So we, okay. So it's interesting our story. Like I'm a little bit older than Christie. We won't talk about that. Generally, my closest friends are lighter than me. I think that says a lot about me and something. Okay. So, yeah. So we, so we met when I was at like the end of my university time. You, she showed up at my fiance's at the time apartment because you were visiting somebody. I was visiting someone else, not her fiance. And then I was like, I think I need to hang out with her. Hmm. Who are you? I don't remember anything. All I remember is the now living with you at your parents' house. Yeah. Yes. Okay. And I remember living with you at your apartment once you got a big girl job and I got a big girl job. Yes. So, okay. Well, we first met, we were like, we were inseparable and you were living at home because she dropped out of college. So that's a different episode. That's a different story, but you'll like that one too. Stay tuned if you like Jerry Springer. How long were you in college? A year and a half or something? Yeah. Yeah. And $38,000 worth of nothing. You're joking me. Well, it's so bad. My poor parents. Oh my gosh. Anyways, $38,000 of nothing. Nothing. Oh my gosh. This is why you don't tell on yourself. Anyways, moving on. Another episode. Okay. Okay. So yeah. So we would and then like, so she was living at her parents' house, which was about 30 minutes from the university I was at. And so I would just drive there on the weekends and we would just crash and hang. I just remember being there constantly. Constantly. Yes. And we just... And Kristen is like an only child. So like, her parents were really glad to have another child in the family. Well, and my mom used to say, she would be like, when Tara and I would get together, we had no idea. I know this will be shocking to the world. We had no idea that there was other people in the room. No, I know. So we would be like, and my mom would be like, okay, you guys are talking so fast. I can't even understand what you're saying. And you're talking over the top of each other. Yeah, we're like, keep up, keep up, keep up, keep up. I was gone for like a couple of days. It's so true. It's so true. And then you graduated and you moved to Milwaukee. Right. Right. And I was working in O'Connor, Milwaukee. That was Wisconsin. Yes. Was that like your sales job at like the hotel? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I was hoteling it and I would come and stay with you and we would eat. Are you ready for this? Brownie cake batter. Remember that? No, you heard me. We didn't even cook it. We just ate it. We mixed it and we ate it raw eggs and all ladies and gentlemen. We survived to tell a story. Yeah. I'm pretty sure this is why the COVID can't touch me. Can't get me. I had brownie cake batter uncooked. Like the whole batter we would eat it. We would eat the whole thing. Or if we did cook the brownies, we would be like, no, listen, we're just going to do a little bit. We're not going to eat the whole pan. So what happens is you just eat a little bit at a time. The whole pan's gone within about 30 minutes. It's gone, but it's like a little bit. So you feel better about yourself. So what do you remember about this time? What do you remember about this time with like, I'm trying to, I mean, I remember, go ahead. No, no, go. I got to think. I remember the way that you would wash your face at night. She would, no joke, put the tightest thing. Okay, you keep, you keep talking. I got to go get it because you bought me one. You don't have it. Okay. Guys, I'm going to tell you what it was. She wore this like child. It's supposed to be for like a child's head. So it was so tight and she would go like this. And then she would do all these sounds in the mirror. That's the one that I got you, isn't it? Yes. I thought you had that original like Winnie the Pooh one that was like this head. No, but it's the same concept. I wanted them to see the concept. Yeah, concept. And then, and then I was just telling them that you go like this. Oh yeah. Oh, okay. So you're welcome. Okay. You ready? So when my allergies bother me, I forget to give people a heads up. And so everybody quiet now, listen. Apparently, that sounds like two hogs fighting. I have no idea. I can't really tell. I'm trying to itch my throat. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And this is what I would first, Tara was like, what is that? Does anybody hear what I hear? And I'm like, I don't hear nothing. I don't know what you're saying. She's like, what are you doing? Oh itching. Yeah, but what does that have to do with washing your face? I feel like you wash your face, you'd scrub it forever. And then you're blowing your nose and it was like 20 minutes. Like we're like 20. Like we don't need to take care of it now. Now do it. Do it now. Now I gotta really take care of it. It's sad. But do you? Do you? No. No, I don't either. It's just like good enough. So you get this with nothing. You are welcome. You are welcome New Zealand. Okay, so that's what I remember. I remember that um well I could think of some other things but I don't know. Okay. Yeah, oh I did all sorts of fun stuff. I remember, okay this is what I remember. Dinner time as frequently as humanly possible. Yes. Red lobster. Red lobster. What did we order? What did we order? Okay, well first of all we got the same thing. We were very happy about the cheese garlic bread. The cheese garlic biscuits. I recently went to the American store here and they had it. But it was like $42. So I couldn't really justify it but it was like they had the actual red lobster ones. Now that I'm in lockdown I should have got it. You should have got it. I should have got it. So it was a huge, like you know what I mean? Just give me something. The biscuits, we always got the Caesar salad. Yes, always. Crab leg. I always got the crab legs. Did you get crab legs? I think I get crab legs too. Big tomato. Yeah, dip in the butter. Yeah, oh. And if you haven't been to Red Lobster, if you don't know anything about it, it's like a, I would say it's a mid-range restaurant. Oh, did we always get like Bahama Mama drinks? Yes, yes. So we, this was us adulting because you know we're 21 or older at this point. So yes, we would get the Bahama Mama's because they taste like Kool-Aid with a little. Right, right. It's just alcohol with all sugar so you don't taste it, right. And then yeah, and so we would get all of that and we would sit and we would talk and laugh and be so loud in this restaurant but we would always go. And so if you go to Red Lobster, they have like live lobsters like right in the lobby. Yes. And I would always feel like someone's just going to go in and grab that and boil it and feel okay about that. Yeah, and that one of them was us. We felt okay with it. Yeah, well the crabs can go. Yeah. Those crab legs were so good. Oh my god. So good. Okay, do you have anything like that there? Ooh. And in New Zealand you guys have bread? There's not like, there's not really chain restaurants. Oh, that's right. Like every town you go to is, there are a couple, everybody needs to calm down, okay. And don't go and comment in the section about the fact that McDonald's, you know, Subway, whatever, those are American, okay. So what New Zealand chain restaurant is there? There's like three, you know. Oh. In the whole country. Wow. Okay. Yeah. There's Red Lobster in like every city in Wisconsin, everywhere. So good. Oh my gosh, that's all I want. No. I know now I'm starving. So there's that. Okay. The other thing I remember. Yeah. Constant sleepovers and we constantly slept in the same bed and I'll just give you a factual statement of how I felt when Tara got married. Oh no. I could not understand for the life of me why Dan, her husband, thought when I was having a sleepover with Tara that he should sleep in bed with Tara. What? This shows you logic at 21. You're so mad. You're like, excuse me, why are you in here? He's like, this is our bed. And you're like, no, no, no. When I'm here, I'm sleeping. I don't know what to do here. Dan's like, no, seriously. You're not sleeping in here. And I was like, I know you were so. You're so mad. I know that. I live here too. I was here before you. And he was like, okay, Dan and I get along really well. So it was kind of like having a sister brother like, no, I'm not, no, no. So I was on the couch. It's fine. I'm over it. So there's that. I know you're not over it. I think we talk about this like every time. What about New Year's Eve? We used to, now both of us are married at this point. It was the year 2000 New Year's Eve. Yes. Y2K, baby. Y2K, we were together. Yes, we were. Because what year did you get married? 97. Okay. So we met in 97 or 96? Oh, we would have known it was before that. 96 maybe. Must have been 96. Because I was spending in your wedding. Yes. Okay. So yeah, we, and again, once we both got married, then we were still inseparable. We would do, remember your husband wouldn't let me come over. So I may have kicked you out of the bedroom. It was like, I can't handle all the noise. He couldn't handle us together. He couldn't handle us. It was one of those moments, you know, you should have listened to Spice Girls. You know, you got to get with my friends or forget it. Yes. Yes. That's exactly it. Oh my gosh. I love it. I love it. Yes. I just remember us. Oh, do you remember twinning? Okay. Okay. This is a great transition. Let me share a screen here. Okay. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, okay. I don't know why. Okay. You guys got to give me a break because I'm, you know, in a different country. Can you see the picture? Oh, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. We're at a wedding. Are we at Lorraine and Heath's wedding? No, I don't think we're at a wedding here. Like, look how small this picture is. So I think this was just us dressing up to go to Red Lobster. That's what I think. I know. I think this is after work because you would get this fancy and so would I. This was after work. We're going to Red Lobster. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. Talk about this photo. Let's talk about this photo. So this is Sydney pregnant with her first Sydney. That's no Christy pregnant with her first. I'm throwing her a baby shower. Look at me. I've had a couple kids. Look at me. You're so I'm so tired. Look at how like my kids look at this like what's wrong with you? You were the problem. Oh, isn't that the truth? Okay, so what I plan some funny game where I put like a hottie mask on you and what did we do? Okay, so here's what happened. Tara loves to do games where I have no idea what's going on. And then she just lets me write it out. So if we could back up before children, let's talk about my bridal shower where she sets me up. I have no idea what's happening. Okay, but once again, there's a blind photo. We have to have a picture of this. There's a picture of this somewhere. It's so funny. It's videos. Okay. I have a video of Tara. I will try really hard to see if we can't get it like clipped into here because she is laughing so hard in the background. She falls out of her chair while I am doing all these things at the bridal shower. Long story short, she puts a suitcase in front of me. I'm blindfolded. She says, okay, Scott wants you ready to go in two minutes or in five minutes. Ready, set, go. Just put on whatever's in there. Just put it on. So I don't know what I'm doing. I am turned around backwards sideways upside down. I got stuff all over me. I ended up putting on a pair of men's underwear backwards. Wow. I can't see what I'm doing. Oh, my dear God. It was... What did it say on the underwear? I forget. I forget, too. Something about... It said something funny. Oh, yes. The world's biggest source of natural gas. I'm crawling around. Okay. And I have no idea this is on my rear end. It's so funny. So fast forward. I know. I do have to find the video. Fast forward to the baby shower. See, Tara and I do not get... We do not really get embarrassed when we're together, which is probably the problem for most people that hang with us. We probably should. We're not going to. So Tara says, put this on your face. I don't know what it says, and I have no idea what's going to happen. So I get up and start dancing like spontaneously, and it says, hottie, people were dying because my belly's huge. My rear end is bigger, and I am making it happen. Let me just tell you. What was I having you do? I don't even remember. I have no idea, but I remember people dying. So this is us when we met up. Last time I was in the States, 2019. So first time we reconnected. We reconnected after a lot of years. Like a lot of years. Like I didn't even want to leave the campground because it was like, I don't even know how to explain it. It was like, oh my gosh, I found my person is back. I didn't want to leave. I know. And just keep in mind, everyone, that I was camping. Okay. Oh, look at this photo I found. I don't know what we're doing, but look at these baby faces. Look at those baby faces. Look at all my hair. I know. Wow. Oh, okay. This is Tara's bridal shower that I threw. Did I throw it? I helped. I don't know. I can't remember. We did laser tag, and we ate at, what's it called? Damon's. Because you loved it. Look at you. Oh, my gosh. So I would have been, what, 22, 21? You would have been younger. 20. I'd have been 20. I'm only, and our birthdays are only like a week apart. Hold on. Hold on. I'll go back. So if you don't know is a singer, and she sang at my wedding, this was the rehearsal dinner. Oh, look at, you have always been so good with your hair. Oh, look at what am I doing? What are my bangs doing? Look at that. Oh, I know, right? I have those other pictures flip the right way, but apparently I didn't upload it. Okay. It's fine. Well, that's how we met. That's how we met. That's the story, everyone. That's one, two, three, Cambridge, one, two, three. Cambridge is where we met. Okay. So thank you for joining us today. We won't make it too long for you. But definitely comment below what you would like to see on the Tara Christie show, what you like us to talk about, and we will put it up there. If you make some cool comments, maybe we'll shout out to you, right? And be like, this idea came from so and so. So definitely yeah, yeah, they can like tell us what we can shout out and, you know, maybe we can even have somebody on our show. We'll see. Love it. We could fit more. We could fit more on here. So yeah, you so definitely comment below, subscribe, because you're not going to miss it every week. So it'll look pop up on your screen, let you know, and we'll see you next week.