Hey everybody, Emily Evotti here with Five Minute Friday.

I am feeling like I'm doing a thousand things this morning, including

recording this. So it is in your feet at the right time for Friday morning. I am

gearing up to host an event midday for Athleta in Soho. They have a new flagship location,

flagship location opening just south of Houston Street. And then I will be hopping on a plane

and making my way to DC to spend some time with my loved ones, one of which is newly pregnant.

And another is newly engaged. So lots of things to celebrate. I digress. I have been having one

of those weeks where I am reminded the beauty of surrounding yourself with good people. So last

Sunday night, I had a few girlfriends over knowing that I was going to be away this weekend.

And Thanksgiving is coming really fast. I am hosting at Thanksgiving and I wanted to have the

tree up in time. So I decided to combine the process again in the apartment ready for the holidays

with having some girlfriends over and had a little marrymaking evening if we will. The only rule

for the marrymaking evening on Sunday was that you needed to bring an ornament. And I was just so

blown away by the thoughtfulness of all of my friends to bring something that they genuinely thought

of me when they looked at like and let's laugh at a lot of these have to do with food. A croissant,

a bagel with locks. Oh, a friend of mine and I dressed up as astronauts for Halloween. She brought

me an astronaut. I have donuts. I have a pizza box like truly the cutest things. Oh, we can't

forget the converse sneaker. I digress. I just had such a lovely evening with these women in my

apartment who made me feel loved and valued and exchanging like really beautiful conversation.

And I woke up on Monday feeling really charged up for the week. I noticed that I was all my coffee

walk and I was smiling and I accidentally tipped $3. If you go to the coffee shop and you use one of

those like iPads that you pay on typically when you pay, there's one, two, $3 is three separate

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