trash can adventures

Do you have that friend who is the definition of consistency? The one that is there quietly at every event and in every photo, supporting what is going on without needing credit?

I do. She's creative and thoughtful and brilliant.
This is Christie.

She's the first to celebrate with you. The first to ask how you are. The first to laugh at your terrible pun (a laugh still counts even if it's a pity laugh). She's sweet and optimistic in the most genuine way possible. The kind of way that makes you start to believe all of the encouraging things she's saying about you.

she's dressed as me in this photo: cat, scarf, hair in a bun, bandana, glasses. we look so similar you probably thought that WAS me, huh?

Today is my airplane day - the day I came to the United States from Korea (if you're confused, read more in blogs here and here). It's a day long celebrated by my family and really no one else because even Facebook doesn't recognize it as a life event.

In celebration of my airplane day this year, Christie brought me a trash can.

#thatsbiblicalright

Yes. You read that right. A trash can.

Whenever people are at my house, the trash can is overflowing and someone inevitably comments that I need a bigger trash can. I always reply, "It's only like this when people are here. It's just me here so I don't need a bigger one."  So in celebration of my engagement to Tucker and the inevitability of it not just being me at my house anymore, Christie bought me a trash can.

That's the kind of creativity that people like me only dream about.
That's the kind of thoughtfulness that can't be faked.
That's the kind of friend Christie is.

She makes me want to be a better friend. I want to care for people the way she does - through going to high school choir concerts, sending Disney quotes, sitting in the rain through rec league softball games, finding the perfect verse or phrase for a tough day, and delivering a trash can at the perfect moment.

Christie, thanks for the thousands of thoughtful things you have ever done for me and everyone in your life that have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. You are brilliantly inspiring and encouraging and the kind of person worth "melting for." #disney


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