Thanks for the Memories

You listen to an old song
You pass an old favorite store
Favorite place to eat
Favorite bar that you used to sit in for hours,
waiting for someone to call a cab...

Seeing that old car you used to own.
Carlos, the dirty Mexican...
(Yep. That was my car's name, HA.)

You hear birds chirping in the morning
Sun beaming through your windows
Just like old times

You hear a lyric that was your Facebook status
that one night you were all alone and sad
You hear a song that was a video you watched
and danced to like fools in the kitchen of your old apartment

You watch an old T.V show,
that you watched together so many times before
With popcorn, beer and a big comfy blanket on the couch

It's time like this that I say thank you -
from the bottom of my soul

Thank you to my best friends, my family,
and yes, even those that I hate.

Thank you.
for everything,
for the memories.
for all those crazy times.
Dancing, singing, acting like fools on road trips.
the crazy detour that we had to take
and ended up with Renken. R-E-N-K-E-N.
For the sushi and wine nights that lasted forever,
our five hour talks, staying up all night
just because we knew the other needed it.
For comforting me when I was sad,
for driving me to my ex's house
because I couldn't go alone.
For keeping my deepest darkest secrets,
and not judging me but yelling at me
to tell me I was doing wrong.
For teaching me,
guiding me and inspiring me
every.step.of.the.way.
For all the trips up north,
sitting in hotel rooms,
looking out onto the sunset at the beach.
Camping and exploring,
Sight seeing,
museum hunting, even though you hate them!
For making me a better person,
and letting me learn from my mistakes.
For loving me at my worst.
Thank you for showing me the world,
new friends,
new places,
new love.

I wake up every morning and I realize...
I am who I am because of everything I have done; right or wrong.
Every thing I have achieved, every step I have taken.
From the love, support and even hate of those around me and walking with me.
For the lost loves along the way, the ones who lost my trust, broke my backbone, the lust, joy and angst, the best friends that never let me down, the family that always had my back and the amazing man who I will be calling my husband along with my daughter who kept my heart warm and tender, my faith alive, and who made me believe in true love, the ones who I built my world around and will continue to grow with every day that I live - I am who I am today because of you all.

Everyone says, "no regrets"...

:) Love, K.