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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2044840" data-attributes="member: 1535">I love Oklahoma. Even though Im not an actual natural born native, I do have deep deep Oklahoma roots. I currently live maybe half of the year in Oklahoma but due to my type of businesses I also live a good part of the year back at my other home in northern California and a bit of the year in Iowa.I was born in the San Diego area while my dad was in the Marines but both of my parents were born and raised in OKlahoma even though they didnt know each other then. My dad weirdly met my mother some how in Los Angeles where she lived with her parents while her father was there working as a movie soundtrack musician/violinist&pianist and a small parts actor. They had lived on a family ranch back in Osage county where my mom was born near Hominy and where my grandparents would retire to later. My mothers family were cowboys and indians. She is half blood Osage-Kaw indian. My maternal grandfather was raised near Ponca City and Pawhuska where I still have alot of relatives- my grandfathers mother was full blood Osage and his father was half Kaw half Osage. My grandfather went to Chilloco school for indians and then to Haskell Indian college. My mothers ancestors both Osage and Kaw were moved to Oklahoma from their home lands in Missouri and Kansas but Oklahoma at the time was their land where they did their hunting. Our tribe bought our land they live on now, all of Osage county, with relocation money that they had recieved from the Cherokees in a sale forced upon them by the government. My mother has alot of old family documents and books that show the course of their forced migration. My father was born in Blackwell but they lived all over Oklahoma from Blackwell and NewKirk to later OKC as my paternal grandfather was in the oil business and they moved alot. He went from a rough neck to a producer to owner of other oilfield related companies during his life. He was there when they drilled the well in town in Barnsdall. He later moved to OKC to run his tool and oilfield equipment companies. He owned an interest in the old Sheppards Mall in OKC when it was new where he had an office that I use to visit when I was a little kid, and even co-owned the 101 Ranch for a bit with some other guys. My mother left my father when I was 10 and went back to live on the ranch in Osage county and ended up remarried to an old highschool sweetheart. I had already been going back and forth from California to Oklahoma all my life visiting relatives there and then after the divorce I split my time between living with my mom and stepfather and their kids in Oklahoma a month in the summer and then back to southern California to live with my father and his new family during the school year. My road back to living in Oklahoma was a weird one. After graduating highschool I moved to San Francisco to go to school(s). I wanted to be an artist and a musician as I had been doing both art and music since I was young but I promised my mother I would get some school, so I did. I first went to an art institute during the day and took music courses at a college at night. I also started an apprenticeship in a tattoo shop and played punk and metal music in clubs on the weekends. After art school I went to a mortuary school and then took a few courses in culinary school at CIA. After schooling was done I moved up to north California in the Sierra mountains and built me a small place on family owned property where me and my 2nd wife who was also a tattoo artist/piercer went to work in a tattoo shop down in the foothills that we eventually bought. Then my music career took off and I left her to run the shop while I toured playing guitar.I met a friend in Des Moines Iowa while there playing music who was looking for investors to help open a new tattoo shop. Went home and talked to the wife and we decided to do it so we jumped on the deal and moved part time to Des Moines to help with the setup. 2 shops, 2 homes in 2 different states, and one kid later, we split up. We decided to stay in business together and raise our kid together but just couldnt be married. Bought her a place in Des Moines and I went back and forth to California and Iowa to help run both shops plus I was playing in bands in both states. Then I met my soulmate, my future and now current wife in San Francisco. She was there vacationing with friends. A divorcee with 2 kids- from Tulsa Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Oklahoma and had worked her entire career in a small but busy family owned oilfield equipment business in Tulsa. She had just become an officer of the company. She couldnt move. So we started the phone and internet courting and me doing alot of driving and flying. I'm still doing the phone and internet/Skype courting, driving and flying, etc, but it is so totally worth it. We have a house in town and a piece of land outside town in Wagoner county where me and the kids can ride our moto bikes and 4wheelers and shoot. The wife wants to build her dream retirement house there some day. She and a buddy of hers also co-own a place at Flint creek where we've been going to get away at for a few years and where her family vacationed at when she was a kid. And I still have my little A-frame cabin up on the mountain in northern California when I need to get away from it all.I love Oklahoma, but sorry I also love California. Oklahoma is in my blood as much as California is. Slag California all you want, I dont mind because I do too at times, but I still love the place because its home. And so is Oklahoma.Sorry for the novel.</blockquote>

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