Who makes you laugh? I mean REALLY laugh? Think about it? Is it a comic, or a family member? For me it’s one of my oldest friends, Athena. She always knows what videos or songs are going to make me burst at the seams! I still can remember being a freshman in college & crowding into her tiny dorm room to watch the movie “Waiting For Guffman” and laughing so hard I thought I’d wet myself.

     I’ve known Athena (or “Tina Bean”) since I was 2 years old and the whole time she has just “gotten” my sense of humor. Just today, she posted a video on my Facebook page that had me laughing so hard I literally spit ginger ale out my nose!! Sorry, but that’s pretty funny stuff. She knows me so well that whether it’s a voice, a a look, a text, a picture or a song, I’m going to laugh because that’s just how we are. We’ve always been that way & I know we always will be too.  

     Now don’t get me wrong, it isn’t always jokes with us, we can be serious when we need to as well. We’ve gotten each other through some of the toughest things in life. From consoling each other after heartbreak to the tragic loss of a dear friend at a much too young age, to Athena’s most meaningful call to my hospital room following my car accident in 2007, she’s always known the right thing to say & how to say it. They say laughter is the best medicine & boy are they right. 

    To have someone who you can just freely be yourself with and who makes you truly smile is such a gift. It is truly a blessing and REALLY, really “GOOD STUFF.”