My first ATX (weekday) bestie moved & got engaged! Sara Elizabeth Mason | Ep.42
Fun on Weekdays
Jenna Palek
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In episode 42 of Fun on Weekdays, I introduce my first ~best~ friend I made after moving to Austin - Sara Elizabeth! We reflect on some of our best ATX memories, how we became so close so fast, and how our friendship has evolved as we grow into different seasons of life. Sara shares her secret to being a good long distance friend, how she met her fiancé (hey Russ) and how she knew he was the one.
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| 0:00.0 | All right now we're going okay you want to get closer to me like we've got friends or something |
| 0:03.9 | ah okay you guys welcome back to fun on weekdays podcast it has been a morning quite |
| 0:11.9 | the weekend first of all hope you'll enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend hopefully you got to spend |
| 0:16.3 | some time with your family and your friends I had my bestie Sarah come visit me for the weekend |
| 0:22.2 | from Winter Park Florida and Sarah is literally my first friend that I made in Austin so she's |
| 0:29.5 | back to leave today later this afternoon and we're like well she has to be on the podcast before |
| 0:33.8 | she does that so in the meantime it was kind of a journey to get here yes literally quite a |
| 0:40.1 | journey um so the running water has been out in just this apartment for two days yep and so |
| 0:46.8 | Connor booked a hotel across the street so we showered there in order to make it here |
| 0:53.1 | to make an episode before I get out of town and we dropped fruit on the way out we're |
| 0:57.5 | drunk fruit and the recycling fence so it's been a morning but we're here yeah exactly couldn't |
| 1:03.2 | get into my computer just literally the list goes on and on I feel like this is not my weekend |
| 1:08.8 | also I'm PMSing so my irritability is skyrocketing right now but we're here okay so you guys |
| 1:15.6 | I wanted to introduce Sarah Elizabeth so we both moved to Austin I moved to Austin in July of 2020 |
| 1:24.0 | and I moved yeah it would be July 2 I was set to start my job I'm like July 28th and they gave me 20 |
| 1:32.4 | days to move so I'm like I'm literally leaving everything I know like my family my friends |
| 1:39.2 | it was definitely really scary and I think one of my first thoughts was like how on earth I might |
| 1:44.7 | even gonna make one friend because it was also COVID yeah I'm not gonna go eat dinner by myself |
| 1:50.3 | right and wait for someone to come say hi even the places that you could go and eat dinner were |
| 1:54.4 | limited to if you had to have reservations everywhere because you couldn't just like walk in either |
| 1:59.7 | so Sarah messaged me on Instagram she was my first like Instagram DM friend really um and |
| 2:09.8 | wait what what did your message say so it's actually really funny so my cousin |
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