Roxane Gardner

Wow...what a question!
My memory is not very accurate anymore.
Highlights: Not long after graduating I moved to Portland Oregon which was crazy but a good learning experience looking back on it my mom was in sane to let me do that at age 18 with no cell phone no Computer or Internet and only $245 in my pocket no credit cards drive 4 days with a itty bitty Uhaul attached to my bumper never had pulled anything in my life slept in the U-Haul at truck stops just the whole thing can’t believe I was so brave. I don’t think pizza delivery had been invented yet. Anyway I moved back to Tulsa shortly after turning 21 years old my mother had an apartment waiting for me, got a job before I would unpack my things in case I had to move out I would be ready Freddy. I started my career in real estate and residential and commercial property management at 21 and has served me well to the present date. I married classmate Tommy Long in 1988 we had three children together one deceased, divorced in 2009, moved from T-Town to Monkey Island on Grand Lake in 2011, now living in to big of a house by myself but love the acreage peace privacy and my 7 mile island community of friends. I’m mulling over that in a couple of years I will be making a big change in my life so till then I press On…

I worked a lot especially in the summers, I didn’t get to go and do as much as I would have liked to. I remember something like green frog koolies that we would pour vodka into? That can’t be right is that right? The memorial song played on the car horn outside peoples houses as we drove by usually some stupid boys house? Lafortune Park? I still remember to this day throwing up in Lafortune Park is that gross or what? Football games basketball games? My friends picking me up from work at Wendy’s and they being mean to me because I smelled like Wendy’s hamburgers and french fries? Working forever on this elaborate door decoration for Ken Huffman’s bedroom door for I guess it would’ve been football homecoming or something? I remember the memorial charger emblem on the floor of the entrance doors that you were not allowed to step on? Being on the basketball team suffering but having fun at the same time? I named my very first car Mitch it was the first and last time I ever named a car? Mitch was the first boy I ever kissed and I’ve never kissed a boy since Mitch, he was my first and last? Anyway I could go on and on and as you can see my memory is a little fuzzy.