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Hi y'all. This is houseguess, and I am your host, Kenzie Elizabeth. Think a Gen Z,

wannabe Martha Stewart meets Dolly Parton, trying to live in a Nancy Myers movie in her 20s.

We talk all about life, relationships, navigating your 20s, closing at the bars, or waking up at 5 a.m.

Depending on our vibe that week.

Ultimately, living our best lives and figuring it out along the way.

So, coming out, sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things, some of my best friends,

or it's just me in my house that I spend way too much time in.

So let's get into the show. Merry Christmas, We are live from New York City with Macy Thompson earlier this year. She did say I'm either going to fall in love or I'm going to move to New York City. And I just wanted to say, Merry Christmas, we are reporting live from New York City. We did the ladder. Well, I guess we did both, but we ended up in the ladder. Ultimately, we are here in the city. We are in New York, and we are wearing our locals-only merch. It is the local-only merch. I'm so excited. Everyone's like, Macy, like, are you a true New Yorker yet? Yes. Obviously. Obviously, we are wearing what all true New Yorkers wear. This is like literally what I wear every single day. I actually brought an undershirt that's this exact same I heart New York. Yeah. And that's what people love here. It's all about layering, being subtle, and I really fit in. Yeah. And you should call yourself a New Yorker if you've been here for more than three days. They love that. They love that. They are really accepting. Super accepting. They're super friendly, especially this week. It's in 20 degrees. And, like, they're nicer than ever. We are in the Christmas spirit. Like, literally last night, we went to Sacks for dinner, which, guys, Kenzie picked the restaurant, which, like, was something new. Usually I pick it. It was actually a really big step in our friendship, because we've been, how long have we been friends now? Like three or four years?

Going on four.

Four years.

Bestest friends.

And in all of those four years, I've never once made our reservation because I'm not allowed.

It's really like a Macy job.

Like there's, you know, there's like blue jobs.

Yeah.

There's pink jobs.

And there's like Kenzie job.

There's Macy jobs. There's so many Kenzie jobs. And this is one of the only Macy jobs. Yeah, but she kills it. No. And Leslie and I were like raving about it on the way back because here's the thing. So we went to dinner at La Avenue. It's like on the ninth floor at Sacks. And I walked in and I was like, this feels like a cruise ship dining room. And which I love. Which he said not to be rude. Yeah, I was like, because I obviously love cruise ships, but we don't have to get into that right now.

But we were talking and like everyone always goes to be rude. Yeah, I was like, because I obviously love cruise ships, but we don't have to get into that right now.

But we were talking and like, everyone always goes to dinner in the West Village, which, like, obsessed. But all the restaurants are obviously like small, like cozy. It felt so nice to be like in a cruise ship dining room. And I have a department store. It was so fun. And free bread and butter. That doesn't happen here?

No, not often.

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