*It was so hard to find a picture of a gallon jug that didn't look like the ones you have at the water cooler...but this picture is PERFECT and you'll understand why in a moment.
It is 10 years this year since I was in college, hard to believe that it's been that long and that means 15 years since I was in high school. If that doesn't tell you how fast time goes then I don't know what does. But the other night I was laying in bed almost asleep and I started to laugh...it started out as just a small little laugh but turned into a laugh that had me in tears! I love those laughs. But what struck me funny was the memory of falling into a closet, breaking a shoe rack and busting a gallon of water in one fall my freshman year of college. Those that where their will remember that night! But what I love so much about my life....the fact that I love to laugh at myself! (Of course there are hundreds of things I love about my life, but for the sake of this blog...I'm going to just state two) And the other is that I have such great memories with unbelievable people who have graced my life. If I was to get all my friends and people that I've had the privilege to know in my life together in one room...BOY the stories that they would tell on me!
I'm so thankful that GOD has given us memory...yes sometimes the memories are painful but we're not talking about those memories...I'm talking about the memories that we have that make us smile, that bring joy to our hearts at just the right time! Not a day goes by that I don't find myself taking a moment to reflect on a great memory and laugh, smile or just be thankful that it came to my mind when it did. Even better when you receive an email or a text from someone that says "hey I wanted to just let you know that I was thinking about that one time when we walked home from your house on a very cold winter night and you got laughing so hard...." Yeah I won't finish that story but those are the times that I'm most thankful for because they make all the other things in life seem so trivial.
Over the last couple months I haven't laughed at myself enough, not sure if it's because I'm still trying to figure out this "new" me and how she might act...but what I've failed to realize is that it's still me, it's still the Amanda that laughs from my toes, that smiles from my heart and falls into the closet...or off the sidewalk...or just walking down the hallway....or makes others smile by saying something totally off the wall...but whatever it is...it's still me and that's awesome!!!!!!
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Total Weight loss: -126 pounds
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