Who Am I?

Who am I?  In just that little question there are so many ways to answer it.  I don't even know where to start to tell you the truth.  The beginning looks like a good spot I guess.  I am Amanda Johnson.   I was born December 31, 1994, Grand Island Nebraska in the middle of a blizzard.  I am a daughter to Marna Johnson and Russell Johnson.  I am a sister to my older brother Ray.  To my friends I am...well a spastic, energetic, easy going, fun loving, kind and caring person.  I am a determined individual who has been through and witnessed firsthand what a divorce can do to a child and a family.  My life is centered on God and knowing that I can depend on Him anytime and anywhere makes me feel secure in my surroundings.  However I have many things that are important to me.

 

Here is my lovely Deep Map poster and as you can tell my main picture on it is one of a basketball and hoop.  Basketball is a very important sport in my life.  Not only is it my favorite sport it has allowed me to meet so many new friends.  Basketball has also taught me that if things are not going you way not to over react over it and get on with life.  Not everything you want in life is what you are going to get.

If you take a gander at my map you will notice words written across the top and bottom.  They read “A day without laughter is a day wasted”.  I love these words because not a day goes by that I don’t laugh.  Laughing is good for the mind and soul.  It makes you feel so much better to laugh something off than stewing about it.  Anyone that you ask that knows me knows that I laugh…a lot.   

 I have some words on the lines of my basketball they are track, basketball, softball, gymnastics, mother, and brother.  I have four sports on the lines are because being involved in sports is a must for me.  I have to be active at all times it seems otherwise I’m bored out of my mind.  Also staying in shape and feeling good makes me feel good about myself.
          I am a family girl, a girl who on a typical day enjoys spending time with her family.  Joking around and laughing represents a special time to remember.  Without my family encouraging me in everything I do I would not be the kind of person I am today.  So having Mother and Brother on my basketball symbolize there importance to me.

 

We have a lot of tradition in my family; one of them is making sweets around X-mas time.  This is my favorite all times traditions.  The reason…. I eat myself sick of all the sweets just lying around on the countertops, tables and the oven.  I have a major sweet tooth, there’s no denying it either.  Every year a day or two before our family Christmas dinner, the one where everyone in the whole family gets together, I get together with my grandparents and make all sorts of wonderful things.  My favorite would be making the pffefernuesse cookies.  These cookies are no bigger than my thumb but they taste so good.  When I’m cooking I don’t really follow the directions of the recipe.  I tend to just dump a little of this and a little of that in a bowl and call it good.  Well one time I looked at the recipe to see what it called for.  I miss read the amount of how much salt to put in and I kind of double the recipe in that one mistake.  So instead of having only 100 small little cookies I had to cut and bake 200 small little cookies.  Needless to say I stated reading the recipes from then on.

 

"I Run To You" by Lady Antebellum is a song that best describes my life.  Not only does it talk about all the trials of life and all of the hurtful things that go on too.  I also talks about running to someone you feel safe with.  For me that person is Jesus Christ.  As I said before my life is centered around the Lord.

Well there it is… a little bit about who I am as a person.  You may like me or you may not.  I am what I am and no one is going to change that.