star above muted worlds

 Our friend was house hunting for her first home & since I have experience in buying and selling she asked my husband and myself to help her. We had spent the last two weeks going to open houses together and giving her as much advice as we could. We even set her up with my friend/realtor so they could help her as well.

We just found her a condo that was a city over from my old condo but built by the same company so it looks eerily like my old condo. 

We started 2 weeks ago and on that Sunday we had a little bit of bad news medically so I was very bummed out all day. But I tried to put on a brave face and help her house hunt. I was doing pretty good all day until we were standing in the living room at our last open house and she started saying unprompted that she was so happy I was her friend and that I make her feel so warm and comfortable and that she appreciates me for “going out of my way” to help her with house hunting. That she’d never had a friendship that was so supportive. 

I turned my head away and started crying despite really trying not to. And I told her that it’s not “out of my way” to be a good friend. I just try to be good to people I care about because - that’s what you do. 

Anyway I gathered myself up and eventually later in the day my partner revealed to her why I was quick to cry and what was going on. The hormones go crazy, I guess. 

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Shawn and I were recognized from YouTube a couple days ago. Someone came up and was like, “let’s play arcade?” We said hi and shook hands. It was really surreal to be recognized and meet someone in real life who was a fan of our tiny little channel.

I cried after.

I promise I don’t cry that much. But it was really flattering, honestly. 

Oh! And we made merch for our YouTube!