Yesterday, I was finally able to spend some time with my bestie, my beastie. We haven’t seen each other in weeks which is way too long for us. She drove down to my place and we went for a stroll along the seawall which led us to happy hour at Provence. Provence has an amazing champagne cocktail, so we order the bottle and start the first glass as the cocktail with the sugar cube and the bitters. We had the frites, and baguette and some cheese to go along with the champagne. We spent much too long there, about 3 hours. We talked about our new jobs, she starts hers October 1st and will continue to be a mortgage specialist. She’s fantastic and she’s going to be a great additional for that organization and help so many people with buying a home. I’m super proud of her. And she filled me in about her new, super nice boyfriend that she’s been with over the summer. He met her family and she met his parents. Everything seems to be great and he’s supportive. Plus her dog loves him, and that’s always a good sign, a big sign.

The night before I was able to spend some time with my good friends and we all got a huge surprise when another friend popped-in, all the way from Australia! She moved to Australia five years ago, she’s so stunning in every capacity and she’s back visiting for a few weeks so our hostess arranged for her to stop in and surprise us all. It was fabulous. She has the best stories, she’s a great story teller and was updating us on her life back in Australia. One of her friends is going to be on MAFS and we were telling her how she’s the perfect person for reality tv. She must get on reality tv at some point. Truly, she’s a gem. Prior to her arrival, I was updating my friends on my new job, I hadn’t told them yet and they are happy for me. They still work at my previous organization and we were gossiping about things there, about all the layoffs and what it’s become since. Talking about their futures there, their goals and what they hope to accomplish. My one friend has been promised a new position in the new year, and I really hope they keep that promise to her. She’s exquisite, she’s hard working, she’s bubbly and smart and people just love her. She deserves everything. My other friend is waiting to find out if her position is getting extinguished and if so, she’s planning on accepting the package and moving on. She’s frustrated and not happy there, especially with who has become her manager (he’s not a nice guy). My third friend seems happy to be where he is and coasting a little bit. He seems (my impression) ready for a change but not sure of what that change would be. We were talking about this couple where we used to be friends with the female and I feel bad for her because her fiance (they recently got engaged) is abusive and takes advantage of her. He stalks other women in the organization but because of who his family is (they basically run the organization) nothing would ever happen to him so he has no fear in his treatment of people, specifically women. I hope they don’t get married and I hope she finds independence and confidence because she’s a good person and she’s smart and she’s young. I’ll support her, I want to make sure she doesn’t feel alone. I heard she recently left the organization which is a good thing to not work with him and his family anymore.

Hanky started his own youtube channel – it’s called Hank the City Pug. Chris is so happy and posting videos every day and obsessed with looking at who has watched the videos from which countries. It’s super cute. I better start some work, I should be licensed by the end of the day I hope so that I can start meeting with people!

https://www.youtube.com/@HankTheCityPug