Dec. 5, 2024

Grits, December Chaos & Overstimulation

Grits, December Chaos & Overstimulation

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November shot us out of a cannon - and we're left with the shortest Thanksgiving to Christmas season in a long time … how are you late decorators feeling? We talk holiday stress, the art of the “rephrase”, baked goods and the stress of self care. Yes. Stress. While some of y’all love the downtime - we stress over sitting still.

Pie whiplash - we have pie whiplash. Every holiday season there’s a moment where both of us realize there’s nothing left to do but get our hands really dirty and get in the weeds - this time - it’s get in the flour. 281 times. Speaking of weeds, when did our kids start wearing adult clothes? How did this happen so fast?

Don’t even get us started on how we’re surviving on espresso martinis -  but we’ve abandoned our coffee pots … when we said mayhem, we meant it. What we’re not split on: grits. Give us the bougie ones - give us the ones with a square of American cheese - any kind of cheesy grits and we’re your girls. Now that we think about it - we really do put the “gritty” in Gritty Gal Marketing. Food wise and work ethic.

We end this episode with three wise men of brunch - fontina, prosciutto, and pizza (or something like that). And the three wise women of New Year’s resolutions - Kirsten from Raising Marriage, Jennifer Sisk (our resident life coach), and Kelsey Lincoln from Enneagram with Kelsey - announcing they will all be back in the next coming months to help us prepare for and tackle the rest of December and January while we all start to think about keywords and resolutions that will help us grow (not ones that will help us shrink).

Skylight Picture Frame we discussed: https://www.skylightframe.com/products/the-skylight-frame/

Kohl's Sports Bra Becca Loves : https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-5256799/tek-gear-ultrastretch-medium-impact-v-neck-sports-bra.jsp?color=Mineral%20Black&prdPV=1&isClearance=false

And the UA one - also at Kohls :
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Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843

00:09 - December Overstimulation and Pies

12:50 - Parenting, Shopping, and Dietary Changes

22:47 - Brunch, Shopping, and Prioritizing Friendships

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okay it's officially december december.

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We are, we are here, we made it.

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We made it through november we barely did.

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We got shot out of a cannon.

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You, I got shot out of a cannon, for sure.

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This is why I don't understand not to debate this every five seconds.

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I will never understand.

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Like super late decorating for Christmas because November felt so intense.

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Like when that man comes across on the parade morning and then people immediately start eating and then the next day they shop and do the decorating Right Gosh, that looks so hard yeah, no, no thanks.

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Because every weekend has something going on too right?

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Do you have this?

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Yes, Somebody asked me, I guess it was yesterday.

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They were like oh, maybe for a weekend in December we could do that.

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I'm like, there are no weekends in.

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December.

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I have a new friend who's asking me about that.

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She's like let me know what weekends you're free.

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And I'm like, yeah, no, you want like time blocks Right.

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Exactly, I could take you on December 3rd, from 11 to 12.

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11 and 2.

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I could potentially yeah, no.

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No, december is bananas.

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So, yeah, we do stuff every weekend because we have to.

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Like I wanted to go up to the Biltmore house and take Clark and Nate to go at Christmas.

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Have you ever been?

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No, it is amazing.

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And it was scary.

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It didn't get when it had to be closed down for all the storming and everything.

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When there was some damage there I was pretty freaked out that I hadn't made time to go before.

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It's so beautiful at Christmas.

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It's so gorgeous they do these.

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Yeah, I want to go.

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Instagram.

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And then they were like we just got our first dusting of snow and they showed it.

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It's so pretty and then.

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But then tickets are sold out and then there's no time.

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There's no time for us to go.

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And, by the way, why are the kids in school so late this year?

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Oh, I am not happy about it.

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It's basically up until like they only get like the 23rd, 24th and 25th off, or something.

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Yeah, I mean they have to go until like four days before Christmas.

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It's insane, unreal.

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I know it just doesn't give a whole lot of time to do the thing.

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So yeah, back to your comment, the decorating.

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From a divorce perspective.

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Also, it jacks up the divorce schedule.

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Oh yeah, it's split by like Christmas day and it's like somebody gets the first half of break to Christmas day and then somebody gets like the second half, and I'm like you guys, just normally that's not a big deal, but you just made it look all crazy.

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Yeah so yeah, I don't like.

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I don't like Christmas being as late as it is this year.

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I don't love that.

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Well, and I'm like we haven't.

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We also have this whole week of.

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We had that whole week of Thanksgiving because there were no weather days, but I'm like there's never going to be a weather day because you guys keep making it.

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E-learning.

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But I would prefer that.

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Actually, the e-learning Well, I mean, we don't have to do that.

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Our school usually is just like hey.

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But when we did have to do the e-learning, I mean I would rather do that than go to school the week of Thanksgiving, because I feel like that's also another week that just shut it down.

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I've never had a full week off in my pre like as a kid, so I like Same.

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I thought it was fun to be there on like Monday and Tuesday.

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It was kind of wacky because Thanksgiving to me isn't like the biggest holiday yeah.

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It was like those were all the party days and then I would do like fun coloring sheets, yeah, and like movies and like nonsense, and then like for, from the working perspective, I'm like, well, okay, we'll do the coloring sheets here.

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Right.

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And we're also.

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I feel like we're in that time of movies here.

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This is the season of overstimulation and I know you and I chatted last week about this what there were the two days we did a fundraiser at our school and we sold pies.

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I think I brought this up and so I didn't know if we were going to talk about the whiplash from the pies.

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Dude.

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If I never hear that word ever again, it will be too soon.

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Are we not doing the pies?

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next year.

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Hell to the no.

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Even Clark is like I don't ever want to hear the word pie ever again, Like it's been that bad.

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But so we get there and the guy has like 30 done and we had sold 281.

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I will never.

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I was shitting my pants, Rebecca.

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First of all, I'm surprised we're talking about this, so I wasn't going to bring it up, because I didn't know if we were going to talk about this.

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Like, here's the thing.

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The part that's really offensive is like you and I are like the biggest small business people.

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Like you and I are like the biggest small business people and we also know that on a few occasions, even if it's a school something, when we've gotten ours, when we've maybe bit off a little bit more than we could chew, we, we stayed until the bitter end.

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We didn't go home and like do the things and we like we're like the people that you'll see at Costco buying five pound bags of flour.

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It's like get it done, like we're gonna make it happen we're gonna make it happen, but we'll like what do you do?

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so I mean you know that you had to go and make it happen, even though you had already made it happen for the entire other side.

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You had to make pies.

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No, I had to make the boxes, put the pies in the boxes, decipher which pies were what I mean.

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And so we were supposed to deliver all of these pies on Thursdays to all the family.

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So you think about how many families there were, for 281 pies To the families.

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Yes, yes, rebecca, yes, so it was just so.

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So anyway, so that was Thursday.

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He still did not finish the pies.

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I had to go back on Friday morning.

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But I get home Thursday and I had been asked leaving with deliveries.

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Hmm, what'd you say, leaving in the middle with deliveries?

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No, I will.

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So I called in other parents cause I was like I'm going to need some help and by the grace of God they were available to come help.

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So they would come, I would send them back with pies, I would load up more, they would go back with pies.

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So it was just like a constant rotation all day of doing this.

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I was just leading charge of direction of where to go, so I was sorting Correct yes, and so I get home Thursday night and you know how, after you have been asked 8,000 questions during the day, and this can be anything.

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It can be like PTA, it can be work.

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My work last week was crazy.

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And that's what I'm saying.

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I knew this is a hot topic for you too after Friday, and so it's like don't talk to me.

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I don't want anybody to talk to me and God bless my husband and I know you listen.

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Thank you so much for your support.

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You're amazing, nate.

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I walked in the door and he started talking to me and I was like no.

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Well, he was probably panicking, because he knows that you've just been dragged.

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I'm like, read the room, read the room.

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I don't want you to talk to me, I don't want you to ask me any questions, because I mean, seriously, I had not been in the door for five minutes.

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Well, how did the day go?

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Not well, mate.

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Not well Bad.

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It went bad.

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And so I'm just like are you like this, like you just cannot handle one more thing?

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I just can't, like, I can't even have a conversation.

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Oh, I picked up the phone for a customer on Friday.

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I was like what, granted, I do know this customer, but I'm like it's 716.

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What?

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Because I know what you're doing.

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You are calling in a flavor Like you are.

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And here's my favorite thing in sales, this happens the week before holidays.

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I don't know if it's possible, but like, could we get that by like Wednesday next week?

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And I'm like so I want my one of my best things, that I'm like I learned a management technique that I learned that I love.

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I learned it from my friend, osi Nelly.

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I like to rephrase I did this in my marriage too, and I continue to do it in my divorce.

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I like to rephrase I like to say what you're saying to me the real way.

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So I'm like so your deadline is the day before Thanksgiving.

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And they're like yes, and I know I just made them uncomfortable because they were trying to say Wednesday, it's not just any Wednesday, right?

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So let's like, be just more honest.

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We'll call it what it is.

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Let's be a little more honest, that's eight in you.

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So I like to rephrase, and I'm not saying anything rude, I'm just like let me re-prepare this statement for you.

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Like, let me re-prepare this statement for you.

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And then I had a client who took all week to make a decision about something, which is fine, but she also has a decently tight deadline.

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So my team is doing like an awful lot of glassware and etching on stainless steel right now and I'm like so it was a photo friend also.

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She went to Phil first because she knows him.

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And I'm like so he it was a photo friend also.

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She went to Phil first cause she knows him.

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And I was like well, you said yes.

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But why is everybody else's urgency become your urgency?

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I know, oh well, so I will say this in my 95, I am the sales director for a print shop in my traditional nine to five that prints always urgent Right.

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So I try to give them some grace because, like I understand that you're thinking about it the minute and sometimes they call me and they don't even have print ready artwork.

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You know what I mean.

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They're just like oh so how late could we get that to you?

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And I'm like well, how late would you like me to get your project?

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oh, you're back to the red.

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Sorry, you just clapped.

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Oh, it looks so good, good.

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I had to get a new nail person, though I told you I like it's working out, but you know I broke them on Friday.

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The Saturday, the girls got tangled up at the bottom of the stairs.

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I took a major chunk out of my thumb and I, when I felt I like, fell forward on the stair a the stairs.

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I took a major chunk out of my thumb and I, when I felt I like, fell forward on the stair a little bit and I was like if I just, if I just did these nails on Thursday night when I didn't want to cause I have to sit still for it and it's like really annoying.

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I made myself go at like six o'clock.

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I was like I'm just going to make myself go because this thanksgiving week is gonna be so psychotic I'm never gonna be able to get in there.

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I was like if I just broke one of those nails I am going to lose my mind I'm the same way like I, everybody's like, oh don't you love, like your pamper time, like no, when I'm laying down waiting to get my lashes done, I'm like I could be doing out, freaking out.

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Imagine laying for and not sleeping for like an hour and 15 minutes and I'm like I could be doing so many more things right now.

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I it's.

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It literally flips me out so bad.

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But I'm like if I don't do the nails, actual nail care is too hard, like I don't have the time for that either.

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No, I don't do the nails.

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Actual nail care is too hard, I don't have the time for that either.

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No, I don't have time for any of it.

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Plus, I feel like if I look like certain things are fairly done, the fact that I always look like I slept outside works in my favor.

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I'm like no, but my nails are done.

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That's how I feel about my lashes.

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I've slept outside.

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I look like I'm a hobo, but her lashes look good.

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Well, I was like, when you're like I'm not going to look pretty, I literally just brushed through my hair from yesterday.

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I was like well, I'm still wet Well.

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I just got out of the shower, literally before we hopped on here.

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I didn't shower yet.

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All right, so it's December, so have you started christmas shopping or no?

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I will, yes, yes, I have okay, um, some of it's just in a cart, some of it is here okay, I am really struggling, like even talking about you and I'm talking about doing a gift guide for this.

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I know, and I am struggling to come up with gifts this year and I'm usually like it's my superpower, but this year I'm at a loss for some reason.

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I have some good ones, like on the back deck, like mentally, but the girls are in such different ages.

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For them it's like tricky because Pilot wants like really intense stuff.

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You know like real uggs.

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And then it's like, okay, she wants one pair of like lululemon shorts.

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Now she wears little shorts every eight seconds.

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She probably only needs one pair.

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But she's with like the swim team girls and the big gymnastics girls and so it's like she just really I mean I can't fault her for it.

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She just really wants that logo when she's like hanging with the big girls.

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But I'm like they don't really do like I'm gonna have to get like adult miniature, yeah I feel like clark is she's also asking for uggs is it the Tazzies with the red around the side?

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No, she wants like the low ones.

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Yeah Well, the sizing is like a nightmare on those, at least the Tazzies.

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They're just not cheap, I mean.

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I just and I've spent plenty of that on like toys and stuff, but I'm just like, and I love that they will wear them Right.

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Part of me like doesn't mind that it's like a little bit less toys, but then I'm like, well, so like there is a pair here and I had to ask her sister to swear to secrecy so I could try them on her, so I could see if they could fit, cause I don't know what size she is fit, because I don't know what size she is.

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Sure enough they're going to be tight.

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So I'm like now I have to hold on to them in case they can get my hands on another pair or something for another tree, because they're really hard to get right now.

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And every time I look at her sister I'm like, I feel like Clark's feet are growing at like a rapid speed.

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That's happening for one of my friends.

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My girls are Pilot's, my like tater tot.

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Sumi's my.

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My girls are pilots, my like tater tot.

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Some use my fast grower.

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I mean like she is now in a seven, a women's seven.

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That's like how summer's kids are.

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Payton could wear my shoes.

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Yeah, and I and ever since she was a baby I have had her in like the wrong size shoes and I'm not exaggerating, Like it's the one like major parenting fail that I always have Like I will have her walking around guaranteed in a shoe that's a size too small, because, like I just don't, like I don't when I feel the toe, like I'm going to feel your toe, Like I can't ever tell if it's.

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I know that's like a mom trick, but I can't figure it out.

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I can't she just tell you now Well, one would think, but she has never like said anything, she's so used to it her entire life.

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She's like this is how shoes feel.

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Why don't you take her and get her like fit?

00:15:18.899 --> 00:15:19.642
Well, we did that machine at rec room.

00:15:19.642 --> 00:15:20.985
You know that you like this.

00:15:20.985 --> 00:15:24.014
Yeah, you like stand on the machine and it like measures the foot.

00:15:24.014 --> 00:15:26.561
Yeah, so I have done that before.

00:15:26.561 --> 00:15:29.561
But I don't think we bought a pair of shoes that day because she didn't find anything she liked.

00:15:29.561 --> 00:15:32.546
But yeah, she's just notorious.

00:15:32.546 --> 00:15:35.471
I mean, I think her tennis shoe in there is a size six.

00:15:35.471 --> 00:15:41.426
Oh shit, I just can't keep up with the feet.

00:15:41.505 --> 00:15:45.731
Well, the Uggs to me at least, the ones that I have to get are feeling like they run a little bit small.

00:15:46.232 --> 00:15:52.854
Okay, yeah, I don't know.

00:15:52.854 --> 00:16:00.802
Yeah, my kids wear Crocs a lot also, so that's why I like half don't even know what really they are actually wearing.

00:16:00.802 --> 00:16:01.803
Yeah, we went through the Croc phase.

00:16:01.803 --> 00:16:04.888
The Croc and the natives, I mean, like they were the knockoff.

00:16:04.908 --> 00:16:05.548
They were natives.

00:16:05.548 --> 00:16:08.451
They never had skinny enough feet when it was time for the natives.

00:16:08.812 --> 00:16:10.014
Well, she was like four.

00:16:10.014 --> 00:16:17.961
I mean, it was like when she was little, little and they were the target and like knockoff ones but it's never like they need a lot of like slide room.

00:16:19.365 --> 00:16:25.364
Yeah, but the crocs stay because they all wear them for gymnastics and they all wear them for swim team.

00:16:25.364 --> 00:16:31.023
I'm like you guys have got to wear like always gonna get real sneakers for school like these feel a little weird.

00:16:31.023 --> 00:16:32.405
I'm like they're real shoes.

00:16:32.405 --> 00:16:36.894
I don't know what to tell you here.

00:16:36.894 --> 00:16:41.510
Everything can't just be like Ronald McDonald slippers.

00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:44.668
Oh, I had McDonald's the other day.

00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:46.745
How good was it.

00:16:46.745 --> 00:16:48.265
I haven't had it in a minute.

00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:50.265
Well, it was funny when we were there.

00:16:50.265 --> 00:16:58.828
Nate was like I haven't heard you talk about Rebecca eating McDonald's lately on the podcast and I'm like you know we need to unpack that because I don't know if she has.

00:16:59.571 --> 00:17:00.293
Well, I don't know.

00:17:00.293 --> 00:17:01.684
Something's going on with me.

00:17:01.684 --> 00:17:10.432
I think I started to tell you this, but like I have not used, I mean, truth be told, I actually just did Uber Eats like a Starbucks here.

00:17:10.432 --> 00:17:13.324
No judgment, I live for Uber Eats.

00:17:14.007 --> 00:17:23.593
Okay, well, I've never done just a coffee, but it just feels right, right now.

00:17:23.613 --> 00:17:25.519
So I just did that.

00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:33.655
It's December, I know, but I haven't used my coffee pot since the beginning of October, what?

00:17:33.655 --> 00:17:35.489
I've just been sitting there.

00:17:35.489 --> 00:17:41.593
I actually ran it through the dishwasher because I was like, well, I might as well, I know, I don't know what's happening, and then I actually I might get one today.

00:17:41.593 --> 00:17:43.665
Oh, there's a bug in here.

00:17:43.665 --> 00:17:51.211
Wow, it's so big, it's like a moth, it's like on the wallpaper that looks like the jungle.

00:17:51.211 --> 00:17:55.932
It's really making me feel like this is a bad choice.

00:17:55.932 --> 00:18:00.784
We're going to get a picture of that bad boy when I get to post it.

00:18:00.784 --> 00:18:03.509
But um, it's huge, it's like this big.

00:18:03.509 --> 00:18:06.619
Maybe I'll just fly back out the door.

00:18:06.619 --> 00:18:16.272
Not a big fan, but I haven't had a crispy diet coke since I took, since I was in in Florida with my mom, why, I don't know.

00:18:16.272 --> 00:18:18.615
My stomach was hurting, remember.

00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:21.942
Oh yeah, you had a bellyache.

00:18:23.164 --> 00:18:41.827
And then I was like I don't know, I couldn't figure out what it was, so I cut way back on wine, cut way back on caffeine, I mean, except for the three or, you know, cafe latte, that's coming right now.

00:18:41.867 --> 00:18:52.000
But so I had an espresso, martini, uh, or 30 in New York when I was there and one night, one night, we had them, and we had them kind of late later, cause we had dinner later.

00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.813
It was probably like I don't know seven, 30, 30, 8 o'clock or so when I had it.

00:18:56.813 --> 00:19:03.128
For me it was, oh my gosh, I was up all night.

00:19:03.128 --> 00:19:09.423
Truly, I did not sleep because I'm just so not used to it, you know, because I don't drink coffee.

00:19:09.423 --> 00:19:13.773
Yeah, I felt like I had taken like 30 Adderall.

00:19:13.773 --> 00:19:16.880
I was like it was insane.

00:19:16.980 --> 00:19:18.547
How much espresso does it have?

00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:26.586
I don't know, but I think we had like two with dessert or like kind of the latter part of our meal and I don't know.

00:19:26.586 --> 00:19:31.721
I don't know how much espresso, but I'm telling you, the last one that we had, the bartender made two.

00:19:31.721 --> 00:19:35.948
The first one was fine and the second one tasted like it had like jet fuel in it.

00:19:35.948 --> 00:19:44.847
I told like hillary, I said this thing is really strong, and it wasn't alcohol, it was espresso, like you could tell eventually we are planning.

00:19:44.907 --> 00:19:55.272
He probably thought you were gonna like do the old school new york and like stay up all night no, uh-uh, nope, nope, nope, nope, not me know, I'm in bed, I'm a solid.

00:19:55.354 --> 00:19:58.337
Get in bed by whatever time.

00:19:58.337 --> 00:19:59.299
9, 930.

00:19:59.619 --> 00:20:01.989
It's like lighting the turbo engine on fire.

00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:08.211
I'm telling you I could have gotten up and cleaned our entire hotel like top floor.

00:20:08.211 --> 00:20:09.233
I'm serious.

00:20:09.233 --> 00:20:15.724
I was that jacked up, it was insane and like I could not sleep it was so crazy.

00:20:15.724 --> 00:20:19.884
I don't know how people drink coffee?

00:20:19.903 --> 00:20:20.204
I really don't.

00:20:20.204 --> 00:20:24.303
I had a thing the other day speaking of drinking, where I had you know how I like love a martini.

00:20:24.682 --> 00:20:25.164
You do.

00:20:26.386 --> 00:20:28.992
I know I had it and then my stomach was hurting again.

00:20:31.143 --> 00:20:35.961
Oh no, I know, maybe you need to do the dry January thing, just like see.

00:20:36.505 --> 00:20:37.608
I've actually been so good.

00:20:37.608 --> 00:20:40.448
I literally have cut so far back.

00:20:40.448 --> 00:20:43.711
I don't even know that, like, I think it's just like I have.

00:20:43.711 --> 00:20:45.557
Like I think there's so much going on.

00:20:45.557 --> 00:21:00.173
Yeah, like myself is being sensitive and so like other things are like disrupting it, so like if the coffee doesn't feel amazing, can't do it Because the soda is going to make me have some kind of like I wouldn't even say anxiety, but like anxiousness.

00:21:00.173 --> 00:21:07.809
Yeah, so the martini made me feel weird and I was like no, that stinks.

00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.367
Nate's kind of gotten like that, but I think he has like a gluten intolerance.

00:21:11.367 --> 00:21:13.207
I mean we used to both.

00:21:13.207 --> 00:21:20.984
I mean you know we would do marathon, football session, beer drinking kind of days, and now it's like we eat.

00:21:20.984 --> 00:21:25.227
You know he drinks too and we're both like blah, like we just can't.

00:21:25.227 --> 00:21:26.550
It does that to me too.

00:21:26.550 --> 00:21:28.342
It just makes me feel so full.

00:21:29.363 --> 00:21:31.384
Yeah, yeah.

00:21:31.384 --> 00:21:39.134
For me it has to be like outside when it's really hot, like on the boat or like I don't know, when I'm like sweating it out at an equally rapid pace.

00:21:39.695 --> 00:21:39.996
Yeah.

00:21:39.996 --> 00:21:43.750
So I don't know, I don't think it's just getting older, which is super.

00:21:43.750 --> 00:21:48.112
I was just going to say, like here we are getting old, here we are Falling apart.

00:21:48.112 --> 00:21:49.643
I'm getting to where.

00:21:49.643 --> 00:21:50.666
I'm like that with pork.

00:21:50.666 --> 00:21:53.982
Like pork does not make me feel very well it.

00:21:54.002 --> 00:21:55.144
Like pork, does not make me feel very well.

00:21:55.144 --> 00:21:55.704
It never made me feel good.

00:21:55.704 --> 00:21:57.267
You know, I'm weird about that.

00:21:57.267 --> 00:21:58.887
Anyways, you are, you are.

00:21:58.928 --> 00:22:05.615
But I mean, I don't feel like that's really a weird thing, I think it's just more of like why each stuff that makes you feel terrible.

00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:12.647
I know Well, but that's when, like sometimes you know, like when you cook bacon and after you're done cooking it, it smells kind of like rancid.

00:22:12.647 --> 00:22:19.067
No, I feel it smells kind of like rancid.

00:22:19.067 --> 00:22:22.039
No, I feel like bacon smells good all the time, even when it's like been sitting out for like a hot say you know like, doesn't the house smell kind of like gross after?

00:22:22.361 --> 00:22:24.407
no, my dad, my dad's like that.

00:22:24.407 --> 00:22:26.095
He thinks that I'm not like that.

00:22:26.095 --> 00:22:29.644
I think it smells delicious I don't know my I.

00:22:29.664 --> 00:22:31.428
You know I talk about this wolf nose thing.

00:22:31.428 --> 00:22:39.321
You do have a wolf nose kids and then like if I can smell it I have wolf nose too, but bacon doesn't bother me.

00:22:39.321 --> 00:22:44.462
I'm like that with pretty much every other smell, though oh, I do want to talk about something, speaking of bacon and brunch.

00:22:44.462 --> 00:22:55.548
All right, my one of my favorite restaurants that we hated, now we love lola rose, is doing brunch now.

00:22:55.548 --> 00:22:58.231
It started one weekend ago.

00:22:58.231 --> 00:23:00.015
What'd you get?

00:23:00.015 --> 00:23:03.445
A freaking calzone.

00:23:03.707 --> 00:23:13.007
Oh yeah, I saw that it looked delicious Prosciutto Fontina cheese which I actually made massive Fontina cheese fan and a lightly scrambled egg, so it's not like super overdone.

00:23:13.007 --> 00:23:15.636
And then I was like you know what, I'll just get a side of cheesy grits, because I love super overdone.

00:23:15.636 --> 00:23:21.628
And then I was like you know what, I'll just get a side of cheesy grits because I love cheesy grits and I can usually tell a lot about a restaurant based on their grits.

00:23:21.628 --> 00:23:28.452
The grits are literally like probably the best grits I've ever eaten.

00:23:29.059 --> 00:23:30.441
Ooh, that's a bold statement.

00:23:31.402 --> 00:23:32.182
No, I don't.

00:23:32.182 --> 00:23:38.328
So I think it might be parm and something else in the grits, because they still have a little bit of yellow, but they are so creamy.

00:23:38.328 --> 00:23:44.275
I mean there was like somebody had just perfectly tiny shaved parm all the way across the top.

00:23:44.275 --> 00:23:46.156
They were dreamy.

00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:48.111
Oh my God, You're making me very hungry.

00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:53.463
And I was like I don't know how we're doing this breakfast, how did you start liking grits?

00:23:53.463 --> 00:23:57.912
I don't know the answer because I wasn't born and raised here.

00:23:58.172 --> 00:23:59.134
I know, that's what I'm saying.

00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:02.040
So that's very uncommon.

00:24:02.040 --> 00:24:03.123
It's like my favorite.

00:24:03.123 --> 00:24:05.144
I'm going to think about that.

00:24:05.144 --> 00:24:05.785
I don't know.

00:24:06.346 --> 00:24:08.647
See, I grew up on grits.

00:24:08.647 --> 00:24:12.071
Obviously I would eat them every day for breakfast when I was little.

00:24:12.672 --> 00:24:15.454
I have the instant ones in my pantry.

00:24:15.454 --> 00:24:16.096
Oh my God, I love little.

00:24:16.096 --> 00:24:17.798
I have the instant ones in my pantry oh my God I love them.

00:24:17.798 --> 00:24:18.097
I love grits.

00:24:18.097 --> 00:24:25.989
But like I love grits you tell so much, I don't even mind when you go to like the side of the road breakfast places and they just like slap the square of American on top.

00:24:25.989 --> 00:24:27.663
Has that ever happened to you?

00:24:27.663 --> 00:24:29.913
I mean, that's like Whatever.

00:24:29.913 --> 00:24:31.939
Sure, I'm eating it.

00:24:32.569 --> 00:24:35.917
You know where we should do our Christmas extravaganza?

00:24:35.917 --> 00:24:38.403
Since you don't want to drink, we can go to Waffle House.

00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:41.797
No, I didn't say we can't drink, we should definitely.

00:24:41.797 --> 00:24:41.896
What?

00:24:43.598 --> 00:24:44.148
All right.

00:24:44.148 --> 00:24:47.039
Well, let's go to Waffle House anyway, because I'm dying to take you to Waffle House.

00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.134
When you said the American cheese, I was like I've got to take you to Waffle.

00:24:51.153 --> 00:24:51.594
House, is that?

00:24:51.614 --> 00:24:52.234
Waffle House.

00:24:52.234 --> 00:24:57.440
Well, I don't order cheesy grits at Waffle House, but they put the perfect pat of butter right on top of it.

00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:58.801
You know, just like the perfect?

00:24:58.801 --> 00:25:01.423
Yeah, but they do put the American.

00:25:01.423 --> 00:25:03.486
They just put that right on top of those hash browns.

00:25:05.211 --> 00:25:07.718
Oh God, Do you think you like hash browns more, though?

00:25:07.718 --> 00:25:16.288
Because you were raised on grits, you know I don't love a hash brown I don't know, I, I don't know.

00:25:16.489 --> 00:25:17.853
I love going out for breakfast.

00:25:17.853 --> 00:25:19.376
I will say that I love breakfast.

00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:23.648
I don't eat it often, but I do love it.

00:25:23.648 --> 00:25:26.069
This was, by the way, this was at two o'clock in the afternoon.

00:25:26.069 --> 00:25:30.713
Oh no, yeah, it opens at 11.

00:25:30.713 --> 00:25:33.556
I finally this is what really happened.

00:25:33.556 --> 00:25:39.319
I've been driving around with a giant box I needed to ship to New York in the truck forever.

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:41.020
That's like my claim to fame.

00:25:41.020 --> 00:25:42.201
I do that all the time.

00:25:43.022 --> 00:25:44.003
Well, I had all of my.

00:25:44.003 --> 00:25:51.372
So my brothers have a business that they needed apparel for and cups for, so we did that at the shop.

00:25:51.372 --> 00:25:54.769
I needed to ship it to them and business cards and a bunch of other things.

00:25:54.769 --> 00:26:00.481
So on top of it I had a giant pile of amazon returns.

00:26:00.481 --> 00:26:01.804
Then I finally went to do it.

00:26:01.804 --> 00:26:06.460
You know how you lately it's like you have to take some to the ups store.

00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:07.521
It irritates me.

00:26:07.521 --> 00:26:10.574
Yes, I think it's some more expensive things.

00:26:10.574 --> 00:26:16.903
I think that's how they're taking care of the really expensive things, cause in my case, it was all items were over $150.

00:26:17.262 --> 00:26:24.780
Okay, and I was like it's a pair of shoes pair of sunglasses, and I remember the third thing was.

00:26:24.800 --> 00:26:28.992
But I was like, come on, so I had to go there.

00:26:28.992 --> 00:26:32.377
So then when it was like, oh, you have to go to the UPS or I was like, well, this box.

00:26:32.377 --> 00:26:37.765
So then I went to cole's, got the coupon, their cole's candles were on a really good deal.

00:26:37.765 --> 00:26:48.883
So I left with more cole's candles and a few more sports bras, because I love their sports bras oh, good to know, for it's a specific one for, um, yoga that I like love.

00:26:48.883 --> 00:26:56.201
So I have a picture of it too and it's like always 20 or less, because it's always on some promo, because it's the Kohl's brand.

00:26:58.513 --> 00:27:00.355
I love a good like sports bra.

00:27:00.355 --> 00:27:02.696
That's like not a jumping sports bra.

00:27:03.219 --> 00:27:03.439
Okay.

00:27:03.439 --> 00:27:04.362
So then you would like these.

00:27:04.362 --> 00:27:09.016
Okay, this is not a jumping sports bra, but you know I also like live in them, yes.

00:27:09.016 --> 00:27:16.372
So I was like I'll take three more of these sold one's a random color, even though I don't usually buy it in colors.

00:27:16.372 --> 00:27:20.819
With my coupon and I saved like 70 bucks.

00:27:20.819 --> 00:27:26.787
I only spent like 80 between all the candles and everything else oh, that's good like what is happening at Kohl's?

00:27:26.846 --> 00:27:29.657
but apparently it's just the tis the season, tis the season.

00:27:29.657 --> 00:27:31.705
And then I was like, you know what?

00:27:31.705 --> 00:27:33.757
I could either go Christmas shopping or I could go home.

00:27:33.757 --> 00:27:35.090
And I was like, oh, so know what, I could either go Christmas shopping or I could go home.

00:27:35.090 --> 00:27:36.515
And then I was like, oh, so hungry.

00:27:36.515 --> 00:27:41.695
So I just pulled into Costco and went to Lola Rose and they were like, oh my gosh, it's our first day of brunch.

00:27:41.695 --> 00:27:43.720
And I was like, how fun.

00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:48.923
So the brunch menu is from 11 to three on the weekends.

00:27:48.923 --> 00:27:53.301
And then it switches right over to the dinner menu.

00:27:53.301 --> 00:27:58.415
Okay, there was was a, it was a waffle with, like bananas, syrup, nuts.

00:27:58.415 --> 00:27:59.617
It looked really beautiful.

00:27:59.617 --> 00:28:05.361
Um, there was some sausage thing that I'm gonna butcher how you talk about it, but it looked.

00:28:05.361 --> 00:28:06.406
I'm gonna get that next time.

00:28:06.426 --> 00:28:15.144
But the calzone was so good I love a calzone, I know, and the fontina cheese, I was like it's so good.

00:28:15.144 --> 00:28:16.615
I love Fontina cheese Prosciutto.

00:28:16.695 --> 00:28:18.723
Oh my god, it was so good.

00:28:19.770 --> 00:28:20.358
It was so good.

00:28:20.561 --> 00:28:22.075
Okay, I need to add that down for brunch.

00:28:23.410 --> 00:28:26.615
A random and it wasn't busy, probably because nobody knows.

00:28:31.136 --> 00:28:33.041
And you had a big bad breakfast the other day too.

00:28:33.170 --> 00:28:34.853
I saw I did.

00:28:34.853 --> 00:28:35.634
I went with Whitney.

00:28:35.634 --> 00:28:38.919
We had to do something for Color Run's Never Over.

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:40.000
Never.

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.982
I mean, it is the gift that keeps on taking.

00:28:41.982 --> 00:28:43.726
It's never over.

00:28:45.190 --> 00:28:52.558
It's never over, and so, because the run got moved because of rain, the dance party had to be moved, and so I saw a little video of it.

00:28:52.558 --> 00:28:55.596
I didn't even see a video.

00:28:55.978 --> 00:28:56.398
It was cute.

00:28:56.398 --> 00:28:57.692
It was on the school's page.

00:28:58.232 --> 00:28:58.775
Oh my gosh.

00:28:58.775 --> 00:29:02.262
So and everyone had family coming into town the next week.

00:29:02.262 --> 00:29:06.270
And so she's like why don't we just take an hour and go get breakfast and then we'll go to the dance party?

00:29:06.270 --> 00:29:07.972
And I was like this is brilliant.

00:29:08.032 --> 00:29:09.275
I love big bad breakfast.

00:29:09.275 --> 00:29:10.678
I think their food is delicious.

00:29:11.157 --> 00:29:12.119
It's so, but it's.

00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:17.798
It was also the Friday before the kids were done with school, so I was like ripping my hair up.

00:29:17.798 --> 00:29:22.001
But then when the phone call started at seven o'clock, I was like, actually I will be coming to breakfast.

00:29:22.001 --> 00:29:24.916
We've already put five hours in.

00:29:26.829 --> 00:29:30.056
Like what, and so I like this for the next like month.

00:29:30.056 --> 00:29:31.861
We know this right it is.

00:29:33.951 --> 00:29:34.372
It's okay.

00:29:34.854 --> 00:29:35.757
I know it's going to be hard.

00:29:35.757 --> 00:29:38.234
Listen, I, I really do love it.

00:29:38.435 --> 00:29:50.153
I mean, december is it's like I will say I'm absolutely prioritizing things like that, like her being like we should just leave an hour earlier and go and get breakfast, and like catch up before it gets.

00:29:50.153 --> 00:29:56.248
I'm like, yep, even though it pains me to walk away from my work, I'm like that's actually the thing, pains me to walk away from my work.

00:29:56.248 --> 00:30:04.711
I'm like that's actually the thing that I need to do and I need to make sure that I say yes to those things and not just like work too, cause people will ask you whether it's volunteering or work or any of the other things we do.

00:30:04.711 --> 00:30:08.361
They will literally ask you to go until there's nothing left.

00:30:08.361 --> 00:30:12.054
Well, they will ask you to go until their thing is done.

00:30:12.054 --> 00:30:14.698
Yes, so you have got to.

00:30:14.698 --> 00:30:18.563
You like literally have to just figure out where your boundary is.

00:30:19.124 --> 00:30:20.365
Yeah, I need to work.

00:30:20.365 --> 00:30:24.300
Speaking of that, I'm working, already thinking about my word for next year.

00:30:24.300 --> 00:30:26.477
I wondered because I had started thinking about mine.

00:30:26.477 --> 00:30:27.971
Okay, well, so we'll have.

00:30:27.971 --> 00:30:31.000
I'm not ready to commit to it yet, but no, I don't have that.

00:30:31.191 --> 00:30:34.480
We have some good guests coming on, we're bringing um, we do.

00:30:35.705 --> 00:30:37.772
Kirsten's coming back yeah.

00:30:37.813 --> 00:30:38.756
Raising marriage.

00:30:38.756 --> 00:30:41.563
We have Jennifer coming back too, right, so we could talk about.

00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:47.632
Jennifer Yep, and we talked about having Kelsey back, um, so we can talk about Enneagrams going into the new year.

00:30:48.252 --> 00:30:55.085
We're going to do some really fun things to talk about, like how we set goals, not how we become smaller.

00:30:55.390 --> 00:30:57.959
We've got some funny guests coming up as well.

00:30:57.959 --> 00:31:03.193
We've connected with some really funny folks on Instagram that are hilarious.

00:31:03.193 --> 00:31:06.319
Yeah, we live for it.

00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:11.036
I can't believe that we're here again like another year.

00:31:11.036 --> 00:31:12.578
I don't think I'm ready to give my word up.

00:31:12.578 --> 00:31:14.824
What was your word?

00:31:14.824 --> 00:31:16.476
No More.

00:31:17.391 --> 00:31:21.338
My word the year before was no, because I had to start like drawing.

00:31:21.338 --> 00:31:24.856
I had to really start deciding what was for me and what wasn't for me.

00:31:25.289 --> 00:31:27.920
I feel like you have really embodied more this year.

00:31:29.811 --> 00:31:30.555
I had fun.

00:31:30.555 --> 00:31:33.192
I know I like it.

00:31:33.192 --> 00:31:35.257
It was a lot of a more year it was.

00:31:35.257 --> 00:31:37.903
I let some new people in.

00:31:37.903 --> 00:31:40.933
I did let some new people out.

00:31:40.933 --> 00:31:42.857
That's good.

00:31:42.857 --> 00:31:50.396
I was trying to think of a good way to say it and then it hit me to say it like that, you know, like out to pasture.

00:31:50.737 --> 00:31:51.318
Out to pasture?

00:31:51.318 --> 00:31:54.083
Yeah, I think you've.

00:31:54.083 --> 00:31:57.009
I think it's been a good more year for you.

00:31:57.028 --> 00:31:59.477
Yeah, I feel like I wasn't chaotic either.

00:31:59.477 --> 00:32:00.618
I feel like I was like all.

00:32:00.618 --> 00:32:11.053
I went to a ton of concerts, like I did things, that I did a lot of things by myself, but that's good, yeah, no, I feel like that was the more that I needed to have.

00:32:11.053 --> 00:32:14.017
Yeah, so, yeah, so I feel like that was the more that I needed to have.

00:32:14.037 --> 00:32:14.438
Yeah, so, yeah.

00:32:14.438 --> 00:32:17.883
So here we are in December and lots of fun things coming up.

00:32:17.883 --> 00:32:19.464
We are working on a gift guide.

00:32:19.464 --> 00:32:23.771
I've got to figure that out.

00:32:23.771 --> 00:32:27.538
I'm such a good gift giver, but I don't know why I'm like I got nothing this year.

00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:29.922
Right now have you started shopping.

00:32:29.922 --> 00:32:30.942
Did I not ask you this?

00:32:31.284 --> 00:32:32.285
I have started shopping.

00:32:32.285 --> 00:32:35.050
Yeah, you started shopping.

00:32:35.050 --> 00:32:35.913
Did I not ask you this?

00:32:35.913 --> 00:32:55.817
I have started shopping, yeah, but I mean usually like I have gifts for like nate or my parents that are just amazing, really thoughtful, good gifts, and I got nothing this year, but I also haven't like sat to really think about it, so that might be some of it I mean, I can't use my brain for that kind of stuff when I'm using it for, like I don't have stuff for my parents or stuff yet that I'm, like, really impressed with.

00:32:56.338 --> 00:32:57.843
Okay, well, I can help you there.

00:32:57.843 --> 00:33:06.819
The thing that we gave our families last year was a huge hit, so I highly recommend a skylight.

00:33:06.819 --> 00:33:19.240
Oh, I'm telling you, everybody loved it, Like everybody loved it, and it's amazing because you know, especially grandparents, everybody can send, like you and your brothers can send pictures to it.

00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:27.038
Yeah, and it's just rotating pictures, Like we have the calendar and we love it and we keep our pictures scrolling on there.

00:33:27.038 --> 00:33:31.558
But, yeah, that's a good one, a good one to give.

00:33:32.451 --> 00:33:41.393
I like got something like that years ago with the intention of sending pictures to it when I got the Echo Show for everyone, but then everyone like did not love it and like it's still.

00:33:41.393 --> 00:33:48.900
I'm sure it's still sitting in a box in my mother-in-law's house, my dad's mother-in-law and then my mom, I think, just got hers out.

00:33:48.900 --> 00:33:51.094
This was like three years ago that I did it.

00:33:51.094 --> 00:33:53.618
I was like three years ago that I did it.

00:33:53.618 --> 00:33:55.321
I have echo shows everywhere here.

00:33:55.321 --> 00:33:56.503
I'm obsessed with them.

00:34:01.750 --> 00:34:02.412
You do, my mother-in-law has.

00:34:02.412 --> 00:34:03.314
I think that's what my mother-in-law has.

00:34:03.334 --> 00:34:04.156
I think Clark's got one upstairs.

00:34:04.156 --> 00:34:04.376
I love it.

00:34:04.376 --> 00:34:06.743
But I think my mom, after coming here, just opened hers.

00:34:06.743 --> 00:34:10.793
I was like I mean, I talk to that thing all the time.

00:34:10.793 --> 00:34:15.143
Yeah, what's the bill schedule?

00:34:15.143 --> 00:34:16.496
Play this song for me.

00:34:16.496 --> 00:34:17.663
Play that song for me.

00:34:17.724 --> 00:34:18.210
Show me the work.

00:34:18.210 --> 00:34:20.556
We have all of our Christmas lights on them, so that's fun.

00:34:21.418 --> 00:34:23.615
Ooh fun, I have all my old school timers.

00:34:23.996 --> 00:34:27.619
But yes, I don't have to like walk around and plug them in, so that's nice.

00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:28.400
I do not do that.

00:34:37.070 --> 00:34:40.798
I like get annoyed when I wake up in the middle of the night because I only let them have a break from like midnight to four.

00:34:40.798 --> 00:34:41.681
I have to get up with the dogs.

00:34:41.681 --> 00:34:43.385
I'm like well, it's so freaking dark in here.

00:34:43.385 --> 00:34:50.378
This morning I was up at 4am I know that's a shocker to you, I'm sure and I just came and I sat in my living room and it was just like I turned the tree on, I was like, oh God, that is the thing.

00:34:50.398 --> 00:34:54.088
Like sitting under the lights, and that's why I'm like, why are y'all waiting for?

00:34:54.088 --> 00:34:54.250
Like?

00:34:54.250 --> 00:35:00.172
This really keeps my trauma level low with Hallmark on, I couldn't even tell you what the what's the plot.

00:35:00.172 --> 00:35:01.315
They all fall in love in the end.

00:35:01.315 --> 00:35:07.536
I love just sitting and being like still under the Christmas lights.

00:35:07.536 --> 00:35:15.820
It's just so cozy, it's so so cozy it really is, and then I pull it all down by like the 27th, 28th, bleach everything.

00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:18.684
Put up some fresh greenery in the bathrooms.

00:35:19.791 --> 00:35:21.434
Oh, we usually go to like.

00:35:21.434 --> 00:35:25.603
Depending on how my overstimulation is, we usually go to like mid-January.

00:35:25.603 --> 00:35:28.518
Unless you're talking about my dining room table, I go all year.

00:35:29.340 --> 00:35:38.237
I go all year, you know I started like the day after Halloween and then I'm like I need that bleach, super clean space.

00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:41.221
Well, it's just like a reset right.

00:35:41.221 --> 00:35:46.146
It's like I need new energy, out with the old and with the new kind of vibe.

00:35:48.313 --> 00:35:49.396
Yeah, january is going to be fun.

00:35:49.396 --> 00:35:55.911
We should, yeah, love to calendar all that I know when we start bringing our new year schools to you guys.

00:35:55.911 --> 00:35:58.297
I know that's growing with you.

00:35:58.297 --> 00:36:04.489
You're growing with us, oh, oh well happy december.

00:36:05.411 --> 00:36:08.702
I know we're doing it, we're doing it, we're really doing it, harry.

00:36:08.702 --> 00:36:10.851
All right guys.

00:36:10.851 --> 00:36:13.672
Thanks so much for tuning in and we will see you next week.