Thank You.

Dear Erin,

First of all, I love writing blog posts like this - it's so fun for me to read when other people write them, and I always feel so "smart" when I do it!

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for turning my grumpy not-so-wonderful day into a day that made me smile many times over the thought of you.

Sarah told me what you said after I left her house on Sunday. She said, "I have something to tell you, and I don't think you'll hear about it any other way." I thought she was going to tell me that you said I stunk, or that I had a giant hole in the seat of my pants and that someone should really let me know about, or maybe even that I was the stupidest person you've ever talked to in your entire life.

Instead, Sarah told me you paid me one of the nicest & most sincere compliments I've ever gotten in my entire life.

Thank you for thinking I am pretty.

Pretty with my favorite pair of jeans and Doc Martens. Pretty with my funky naturally curly hair, and my favorite flannel shirt of all time that is turning 11 years old this year. Pretty with just being me. That's the best part of all.

I heard that you're going to be leaving Vilseck soon, and though I know that you will have lots of adventures and so much happiness in the States, I'm sad I won't run into you in the PX parking lot, or in the commissary by the eggs any more.

But anyway, thank you again. You really brightened my day :)

Love,
The Girl