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“I will be there, I will be the smallest piece in everything…”
I have found an amazing chosen family.
We had a Friendsgiving a couple weekends ago. My best friends are people I met through our “podcast group”. One of my friends from many years ago started a podcast (a couple of years back), and it’s turned into a big community of friends. There’s a lot of different things that we do in this community (game nights, podcast, book club, etc). A month or so back, I asked about building a website for the community. I launched it last Wednesday, by the way.
But I digress…
At our Friendsgiving, we were told there’s a video going live on the YouTube at 8pm so we all had to be present to watch. At 8pm sharp, we were all in the living room at my friend’s house… watching.
The video that started playing was a Thank You video. For ME. Many of the community members had recorded a thank you video and the podcast / community leader compiled them all into a 6 minute video.
They also handed me a thank you card.
I cried, y’all. I cried and cried. I still get teary when I think about it and watch the video.
I have watched that video about once a day (sometimes more) and looked at the card more times than I can count.
My chosen family means the world to me. (My blood family does too, but that’s not the point of this post.) I am truly blessed to know them. These people have good in their hearts, they have love in their spirit, they have raggedy in their veins. (hahaha). I love them so very much. I’d do just about anything for them.
They’re my people. <3
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“Living life and soaking up the memories…”
I had one of the best days of my life yesterday.
Met up with a friend; they drove an hour and a half to hang out with me. I was planning to attend an event sort of related to my workplace (one of our customers was having an event), and invited them along. After a bit, we went to grab lunch. We hung out and talked for a while more (fully enjoying the air conditioning), then went back to the customer’s place for the final scheduled parts of the event.
After that we went for ice cream. 🙂 That’s definitely one of my favorite parts of the day. We sat in the car and talked some more, then we went axe throwing. Then we went to one of the only local places to have a drink, and talked some more. I totally lost track of time.
My legs hurt today from all the standing and walking. While it “wasn’t a date”, but just “two friends hanging out”… I’m looking forward to seeing them again. Perhaps soon enough they will want an actual date? Stay tuned, friendos.
