A Life Full of Laughter

"All that I'm after is a life full of laughter, as long as I'm laughing with you...." ~ Daughtry, Life After You

I read once about the different types of friends everyone needs to have in their lives.....you know, the opposite sex friend, the realistic friend, the sympathetic friend.....and the list goes on.

Two weekends ago, in addition to the surprise baby shower, I got to hang out and go out with two more of my best friends, my Oklahoma Girls. You've read about them before.

Our night out got me thinking....these two are the friends who ALWAYS make me laugh. I can check that required friend off the list. Twice.
There's something to be said for having those friends who you can get together with and have so much fun you laugh until some falls out of their chair, or until someone else can't feel her stomach. When we're together, we're totally "those people" who usually the entire restaurant ends up staring at. I think it's because they are sad they don't get to join all the fun.

However, this leads me to my second point---we usually do include random people in our mix of fun. For example, last weekend, we were having dinner at restaurant and a nice guy named David sat down next to us. He wasn't there for 10 minutes before we all knew each other's first names, the ages of his kids, what he did for a living, about his cheating wife who he divorced after 26 years of marriage, and he told us he was there meeting someone. Turns out, he had just joined Match.com two days earlier and this was his first date. We had a blast witing for his date to show up. He probably had no idea he'd be in the middle of a laughter crazed night....but he was and seemed to enjoy every minute of it!

Same story with the bartender, Alfredo. He taught my OSU girls how to speak Spanish (which was no easy task---I had to repeat the three phrases they learned about 900 times that night so they'd remember!) and ended up right in the middle of all our fun. I doubt that he laughed so much or took so many pictures with anyone else that night. Or any other night, for that matter.

Everyone needs those people in their life who are just fun.....you can go out anywhere, do anything, talk to anyone, and know that you're going to have a blast. My OSU girls do this for me.....and I am so grateful to have them both in my life!