Not sure if everyone can see it or not, but here is the slideshow I made for the memorial.



http://www.facebook.com/closetnutcase?v=app_2392950137#!/video/video.php?v=500666852533

11/8/2010 9:16:57 AM

the one that has "thewolfweb.com" at the bottom made me giggle

awesome video hun... you did a great job

11/8/2010 9:29:16 AM

thanks <3


ooh, i can embed from facebook, did not know that




Also, I woke up yesterday morning and this morning with my hair looking pretty fantastic. I think Xtine must have left me with her gift of awesome hair. She probably thinks it looks good, but not as good as hers, lol.

11/8/2010 9:36:59 AM

Probably the most lasting thing she gave me, and this is pretty trivial, was the music of Nelly Furtado

I got some of her stuff off limewire...you know the folklore album, i was talkin to her about how great these sogns were

she gave me he "whoa nelly" album which was the first one she had made and that album made me a lifelong fan of her music we'd talk about the songs alot and stuff

...so i still have it, i technically wasnt supposed to keep it but i guess i have the disc for life now. i brign this up because like maybe last saturday or somethin i was driving down the road flipping through the stations and Im like a bird was on and i was only half paying attention, but for some reason my heart felt like it weighed 100 pounds took me a few seconds to realize why, because it christine that introduced that album to me

that and i could never beat her or come anywhere close in a belching contest, it was embarassing defeat and really not much of a contest, whether the venua be court of the carolinas, ten ten, avent ferry lounge, wolf village hallways, cafe carolina, the car, anywhere it was no fuckin contest

I am a horseplaing kinda guy, she took some pretty rough horseplay from me pressure points, slamming her around, wall checks, kicks in the rear, she was tough and she checked me to, you gotta fight fire with fire with me or lil girl might get hurt, could never hurt christine enough to make her cower lol

I also remember how many fucin jobs she had, and to this day i still want to kick her Crazy fire manager's fuckin ass for being such a dick to her and leaveing her with no choice but to quit. Im not even joking i pretty much stopped giving that place my business and i want to bash his head in, probably the only time ive ever heard such long and consistent complaints from christine.

long walks from AFC to ten ten because we had no money and no car and where hungry, sneakin food out of the buffet ad back to the dorm, horseplay along the way, walkin by that creepy military place with the overgrown fence.

yep she was my little buddy, i just smile when i think about her shes done laughed at me enough being a lil bitch about her passsing.

probably the hardest thins ive had to do in my life was step out of that car and walk myself into her memorial service, no question tok me like ten minutes to stop sobbing. because at that point i couldnt perpetrate like she was still here with us in colorado anymore, it became real and I couldnt take it. Im glad i did it was a beatiful ceremony for a beautiful woman.

o, and she didnt like any of my female friends haha, it was kinda funny because in return they wouldnt like her but i mean just goes to show that she didnt hodl her tongue whether you were there or not.

She constantly gave me shit about being baptist and aupporting George W. (o you voted for Bush? im sorry!)

her name for me was "gay black ethopian jew" and i have no idea where that came from but i always accepted it because it made me feel warm in some strange way

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM. Reason : f]

11/8/2010 10:24:24 AM

Walking to work today (in New York), and hail started again. While it is COLD today, I sorta feel like the insanity of hail is following me now. And it oddly feels comforting. Thanks, Xtine.

Matt, your speech was great. And I'm so glad you stayed around into the night. Pokey sticks at the end of the night just felt perfect. In that surreal "Wow, I'm back in Raleigh" way.

Also, Nerdchick, your quote in the slideshow might be my favorite ever. I didn't see it on Saturday, but it feels so so true.

11/8/2010 10:34:39 AM

wish i coulda been at mitches, but i gotta pay the bills ya know hope everyone had madd fun

11/8/2010 10:37:30 AM

Chris, that post made me tear up a little bit. that's very heartfelt, and I know that Christine always appreciated your friendship.

At Mitch's, Christine's mom told me that some of the family told her that after listening to people talk at the service, they felt they didn't really know Christine at all. Christine felt they didn't approve of her and had to put on a different face for certain relatives. Her mom told the relatives this, and I hope that it will motivate them to become less judgmental and love people the way they are.

11/8/2010 7:10:26 PM

One of the first times I drank at her house, just Xtine and Z, we were all chilling in the office and i was sitting at a desk in the corner doing something on the computer and Xtine says, "hey elise!" and i look over and BAM! titty to the face.

11/8/2010 7:55:16 PM

I still can't believe she is really gone. Feels like a sick joke still.

11/8/2010 7:56:53 PM

The slide show was great. Good job, PP.

11/8/2010 8:26:14 PM

Quote :

"One of the first times I drank at her house, just Xtine and Z, we were all chilling in the office and i was sitting at a desk in the corner doing something on the computer and Xtine says, "hey elise!" and i look over and BAM! titty to the face."

ahahahahaha
awesome.

11/8/2010 8:38:51 PM

I live a few minutes from Matt and Christine's house.

When Silas was on isolation after transplant before we really became friends, I never knew when my cell phone was going to ring. She would always offer to pick something up for me from the grocery store or food from a nearby restaurant. She knew how lonely I was and would always stop by for a few minutes to eat the food that she'd picked up or kill some time. Though she would have never admitted to it, she was just so nice. Not that she couldn't be a real difficult pain in the ass, but at the heart of it all...warm gooey marshmallow nice.

11/8/2010 8:40:59 PM

3^thanks

11/8/2010 9:11:41 PM

I was in such a state of shock all last week, it didn't really hit me as reality until just now. Everyone's comments on the past couple of pages have gotten the water works going. I'm sitting here crying as I type not because she's gone, but because I know (as we all do) how rare it is to find someone in this world who does for people what she has for everyone here.

11/8/2010 9:12:39 PM

yes, she is the only one who has ever "titty punched" me, and probably will always be the only one

11/8/2010 9:14:19 PM

Beautiful slideshow!!!

Definitely brought the tears yet again.

11/8/2010 9:18:01 PM

11/8/2010 9:32:39 PM

what's the story on that pic?

11/8/2010 9:37:57 PM

It was TWW first beach trip.

I actually met christine my freshman year we were both in college of textiles..I joined this site to actually sell a textbook and she realized it was me. We had several classes together/studied together and went to a few parties.

haha I completely forgot about this but I even went with her to get her tattoo on her wrist....I think she almost broke my hand that day...

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 10:02 PM. Reason : s]

11/8/2010 9:51:48 PM

Posting in both threads for anyone that may care.

I don't think I accepted all this to be real until after the memorial and after writing this. Sharing my ramblings with tww for anyone that is interested in reading.

11/9/2010 11:28:51 AM

Gonna read that, Emily, after class.

11/9/2010 11:48:54 AM

Be ready for the waterworks...



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11/9/2010 11:51:05 AM

How zorthage, mcfluffle, LunaK and I were all watching the Big Lebowski at my cabin one night and Xtine a) refused to even consider liking the movie (I suspect because she disliked not being the center of attention) and b) made it a point to noisily run outside any time an aircraft flew over my house (I lived right under the Runway 23 approach path).

Classic Christine.

11/9/2010 11:54:04 AM

I was selling dildoes at another TWWer's bachelorette party and Xtine launched into an oration on anal sex. <3

11/9/2010 11:54:25 AM

^^ lol

cept mcfluffle wasn't there

11/9/2010 11:54:46 AM

zorthage. nothing like being back at work to have the brain want to procrastinate and write. but i think christine would be proud of the procrastination.
also, i maybe have a rosemary apple jam recipe inspired by her written up soon. punchmonk's mention of it a while ago spurred that idea.

11/9/2010 11:58:16 AM

at Mitch's, her mom was talking about how she used to work at an AIDS hotline when Christine was a kid. Christine found some of her literature and asked, "Mom, what's anal sex?" I said, "she would soon find out!" I was immediately embarrassed to have said that in front of her mom but she busted out laughing so I guess it was OK

11/9/2010 6:18:49 PM

^this is why I love you. I missed that moment but I just cracked up now.

11/9/2010 6:25:09 PM

OMG! I would have spit my beer all over the place!!! And probably hit a family member

11/10/2010 3:56:49 PM

^5, no you weren't there

[Edited on November 26, 2010 at 8:52 PM. Reason : iirc, you had been there earlier that day before we got there]

11/26/2010 8:50:49 PM

haha wonder if we're recalling two different occasions of xtine bitching about the big lebowski

i know i was there cause rob and i were eating chinese on the floor, matt was sitting by the computer being silent and xtine was bitching the entire time about the movie and then burped so loud the walls were shaking

11/26/2010 8:56:16 PM

sometimes when she would burp i would just pretend like it never happened. i thought if i gave her any attention for it she might do it again. she still would anyway though

11/26/2010 8:58:00 PM

>_>

i definitely recall chinese food the time that i'm thinking about

11/26/2010 9:31:24 PM

lol

who knows

11/26/2010 9:32:19 PM

i'm going to have to call it different times because i've heard enough about you that i don't think i'd forget actually meeting you

11/26/2010 9:33:56 PM

DITTO!!!

i swear i'd remember meeting you.... oh and i hope you haven't heard too much of the bad stuff

11/26/2010 9:36:37 PM

of course not

11/26/2010 9:44:40 PM

I'm pretty sure most of my encounters with xstine also involved chinese food, so i don't think that's a fair base of judgement

11/27/2010 2:13:32 AM

I'm totally behind the times, I just now found out about this Going through the site stats for my blog a few minutes ago, notice someone did a search for her name. I hop on FB to tell her b/c I think she'd get a kick out of it, and I get metaphorically smacked in the face with a whole bunch of "well damn"

The first time I met ambrosia1231 was April 2007 when I was running for Senate President. My signs kept getting torn down earlier in the week, I was prepping to put the 3'x4' "Meet Jon Chichwak" posters that evan had created out in the Brickyard on election day, and asked TWW for folks to help me stand guard. Xtine not only offered to help but showed up with her camera -- which led to the hilarity that ensued at message_topic.aspx?topic=469936

My favorite memory of her is the DC trip bdmazur mentioned, not because of the poker game but because she looked like she was ready to jump over the table and beat some sense into the legislative aide we met at Congress the next day. She was incredibly passionate about the issues she cared about, and her ability to persuasively argue her point was a surprise to folks (like me) who up to that point had only known the TWW-esque side of her personality

zorthage, I'm incredibly sorry for your loss. You and her family are in my prayers man. 

12/1/2010 5:07:43 PM

Facebook Event: Do something nice in Memory of Christine on what would have been her 26th birthday


http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=175028809195900

12/18/2010 1:16:18 PM

Her sliding down the stairs of Mitch's on her 21st birthday. And the craziness that was unleashed later that night when we got home




That was 5 years ago. Happy Birthday xtine

12/21/2010 12:02:33 AM

Dinner at Mitch's??

^was that the same night she gave me the corset and panties in the middle of Mitch's?

Embarrassing but hilarious

12/21/2010 12:21:49 AM

12/21/2010 6:58:42 AM

It's your birthday, cray cray.

12/21/2010 7:55:02 AM

I think a lot of people in this thread don't know me personally, but I knew Christine from just about the time I set foot on NC State campus until when I moved away, first in 2005 and then for good in 2007. The last time I saw her was when I came back to visit Raleigh in Nov. of 2009. She gave me a big jar of apple pie filling for the road, and it was amazing.

We met in the library because we were both posting on this site while "studying", I guess. Wow, that was forever ago. I used to give her rides home a lot in 2004. Lots of lunches, lots of rides, lots of fun at the Atrium.

I feel bad that I found out about this so late, but time goes so quickly these days.

I'll probably most remember that same moment at her 21st when she was absolutely sloppy drunk and flailing about all over the place.

I'm sure I'll think of something I wish I'd related later, but I'm at work and wasting time. Love you, Xtine.

12/21/2010 9:24:11 AM

We were able to just lay in bed, cuddle, and watch the fireworks through the window of our room in The Blackstone in Chicago off of Michigan Ave overlooking the lake.


Drove right by there today, and the memories rushed back.

12/29/2010 2:49:19 AM

I sure do miss her.

1/12/2011 12:27:43 AM

2/19/2011 11:12:29 PM

Quote :

"I sure do miss her. "

I cut my front yard for the first time since last year earlier. I remember bragging to her that I wouldn't have to cut the damn yard again because we should be out there by the time the grass needed to be cut again. That didn't work out

5/1/2011 7:49:32 PM

5/1/2011 8:05:29 PM