Why hello there! I had to take a "sick day" last week, so I apologize for the lack of notice on missing an episode last week. Do not fret! I'm catching you up on where I've been and what's been going on on this week's In-Between. I've been bopping here and bopping there, ya know.
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Why hello there! I had to take a "sick day" last week, so I apologize for the lack of notice on missing an episode last week. Do not fret! I'm catching you up on where I've been and what's been going on on this week's In-Between. I've been bopping here and bopping there, ya know.
In this week's episode:
I'm giving you life updates galore! Catch up with me and have a great rest of the week.
Connect with me:
https://in-between.co
@in.betweenpod on Instagram
@elizabethcheney_ on Instagram
@theinbetweenpodcast on TikTok
The In-Between Podcast on YouTube
Hello, hello. Welcome back to the Inbetween Podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth Cheney. Oh, yes, yes, I am back. I am so, so sorry about last week, y'all. Um, I'll get into my reasoning. I have a reason. I have a reason, and I'm taking care of my needs. But yeah, I just kind of, I kind of dipped out last week, left you hanging. But that's okay. Uh, we are here, and I won't abandon you again, I promise. At least I'll give you a heads up. I mean, I did post it on my stories. But anywho, first off, it's apparently very cold right now. I have not stepped outside my apartment at all today. I have not. Uh, I think I'm bragging, I'm not quite sure there. Uh, but apparently it was today it got colder as the day went on. So hopefully you've all brought on your, brought in your pets, your dogs, your outdoor cats, lizards, like, I don't think lizards are outdoor, but you know what I mean? Um, but yeah, so really cold, apparently school's closed, and again, I somewhat live under a rock, even though I live in the middle of the city of Atlanta. Uh, so I don't know if it snowed in North Georgia or whatever, but I did see a lot of people on the inter, the Instagrams, the intergrams, the interwebs, uh, Instagrams. So, yeah. Complaining about school being closed or making fun of how Georgians react to the cold weather. And I just want to say, in defense of all the Georgians that get all the crap for, you know, becoming completely unglued at the mention of ice, snow, whatever, all of the above. Uh, It was not that long ago. I mean, I think it was like 10 years ago, so it actually was that long ago, but it was not that long ago. Wink wink. We had that massive snowstorm. My uncle actually got stuck on 285 for like 25 hours. At least that's what I was told. So, for my family hearing this, if that's not correct, then somebody lied to me. But let's just go with the story and assume that it was 25 hours. Uh, yeah, the city was not okay. Uh, shut down, people were stranded, abandoned for like, hours, days, it was not alright. So, I think that just kind of gave everybody a little bit of a PTSD. You know what I mean? And, uh, yeah, that's why we all freak out at the mention of. So, for all y'all who especially are not local to Atlanta and Georgia, the reason we come unglued is because, well, we don't have the, we don't have the, um, what's the word I'm looking for? We don't have the tools, and I'm not gonna lie, the means and knowledge necessary to survive how to drive in the snow. Chains on the wheels, honestly, I still don't even get that concept. So, it's just what it is. It's just what it is. So, give us some slack. We're out here freezing and dare we not get stuck in some ice. Okay. Okay. So where have I been? All right. Where was I last week? So as you may know, as you should know, if you've been listening, I hosted a vision board party, uh, not this past weekend, but the weekend before. It was so exciting. It was a great turnout. I want to stop and say shout out to my girlfriend, Esha. She helped me plan this. She helped me reserve the space. It was like her clubhouse. She helped me set everything up. She let me roll ideas off of her. I harassed her leading up to all this. Not harassed, but just like blew her phone up like, I have this idea. What do you think about this? And she was always down, always into it, always offering her advice. Um, I just want to say I could not have done this without her. And honestly, next time I do this, I think I want 15 more people to help me. I mean, maybe I'm exaggerating. Maybe I'm not. But I, uh You know, I'm not going to say I'm not an event planner because girl did it. Your girl did this event. All right? Planned it, pulled it off. Hell yeah, but I am not an event planner as in this is my forte. This is my cup of tea. No, events, I'd love to host them, but I do not want to be the Entire machine of execution, right? I'd rather outsource hire or just like beg my friends to help me, like barter. Be like, alright, hey, um, I'm trying to think, like what skills could I barter? I, I will record for you. Yeah, not sure how far I'll get with that, I'll get you in free of my vision board, Brody. Uh, but, um, Anyways, yeah, very proud of myself, so I'm not gonna say, I did not, I'm not an event planner because your girl pulled it off. However, I know my limitations. And the VIN planning is definitely one of them. My wedding was not fun to plan. I did not enjoy any I'm not gonna say all. I'll say most of all the planning of that. Although I did love the people that I worked with. My vendors were great. Uh, but yes, shout out to Esha for being my, my, my, my partner and right hand for the whole experience. She recorded me, my speech, toasting. It was just, it was great. But it was a great turnout and everyone got so into it. I felt like, um, I was walking around. I was like, I feel like a kindergarten teacher because I like literally had my hands behind my back. I'm like standing up like I barely, I barely sat. Honestly, y'all, I, I didn't even finish my vision board. So, I still have to do that, actually. It's like three fourths of the way done. Three quarters of the way done. So, whoops. Uh, but anyways, being the host, had to be on. I'm walking around, hands by my back, like a, like a teacher. Like, Ms. Fritzl from the Magic School Bus, and I'm just like, Oh, what's your vision board? I mean, literally, verbatim, I went to everybody and I was like, Okay, so explain to me what's going on here. What's your vision board? What do you want? And, I'm being funny, and like, making fun of myself, but like, I was so into it, because I was, I wanted to know. I think it's cool. And hearing everyone explain, like, their choices, why they did this, it just, I don't know, it was so cool. So, cheers to 2024, we are going to make these things happen for ourselves. Boo yah! Oh, but anyways, back to, what was the question? Oh, yeah, where were you last week? Vision Board was a great success. So, remember how I said, event planning is not my forte. Well, this whole thing wiped me out. Like, Talk about hitting a wall. Like I hit like 15 walls, maybe even some more walls, but I was so depleted I don't even like had I couldn't even take count anymore. Like yeah, lots of walls. From running around Friday, like Friday the day before was just crazy, going to the store, trying to get food, this, that, print this, do that, go this, go get this table, do that. Then Saturday, getting up early, getting dressed, looking cute, cause you know I look cute. But, okay, I'll slow down. Uh, woke up early Saturday, had to get cute, you know, had to look cute, got dressed up, whatever. I had to get to the clubhouse early, pick up ice on the way there, which I totally overestimated what carrying four bags of ice was going to look like. And I, here I was looking all so cute, my boots and outfit looking at like literally 8am, 830am. And I'm like, Oh, I'll just grab some ice. I don't need a buggy. Oh my God. Yeah. And I'm just too stubborn. And the woman was like, do you need a buggy? And I was like, mm. Yes, but I can't afford to wait. I've got to go. I have two hours to get this shit together. So yeah, I hobbled along outside carrying four bags of ice, looking so dressed up, but looking like a psycho hobbling. Like, trying to get to my car and not like, I don't know, fall over and drop all this ice. get there, setting up, Esha's there, boom. Now I can finally kind of start to calm down, but honestly there's so much to do, I'm not that calm. Boom, boom, boom, put this out, do that, do that. Okay, it's raining, that's okay, I made these signs for arrows. Well, psh, raining, the signs and the tape, they're not sticking to anything. No material, no substance will let the tape stick, so all that was a bust. That's okay though, I put really good instructions in the email. So, you get my point, I had to make all this stuff, do all these things, it was, it was like me, me, me, me, me, for most of it. Then I'm the host, I'm on, the speech, I'm walking around, poof! Man, whew! Pfft. I underestimated how I was going to feel after that. Talk about being wiped. Like At one point at the end, I felt like I was, like, watching myself in third person. Like, everything was in slow motion, and then everything was also in fast forward. And I asked my therapist, I said, What was that about? Because I kinda like, it's something I blacked out. Like, where you have no memory of anything. I remember everything, but, It's like, in the moment, I was not Remembering, uh, yeah, I know that sounds very bizarre, but I just, and she told me that I was disassociating, it can come from PTSD, I guess anxiety, I don't know, but essentially, the too long didn't read version was I was overstimulated to a T, and I, yeah, whoa, woke up Sunday with crippling anxiety. Um, that was great. Love that. Good times. Love when that happens. And I couldn't shake it Monday. And I was still kind of feeling it Tuesday and I was also exhausted. And then come Wednesday I was like, you know what? I think I'm gonna have to sit this week off. Like, I literally, you know what? I took a sick day. I took a sick day. That's where I was last week. I took a sick week. But, I say all that. The vision board party was amazing and I cannot wait to do it again because we will. So many people reached out and were like, I want to come. And I'm like, oh yeah, we're going to do a bigger, better, greater. Yes, of course. Loved it. but I had to rest and, you know, also, I'm these close to getting my website finished. And I had a bunch of things I needed to get together to give to the person who, my friend Kira, who is designing the website. And I was like, alright, I have this much energy right now. I am still pretty empty. All batteries are, are empty, they, we are not charged, it's gonna be a minute, she needs to, she's, she's rest. However, I know I need to get this other stuff done for the website. And I was like, alright, weigh my pros and cons, I'm exhausted, sick, I'm only going like, 70 percent right now. I need to do this thing, but if I try to do an episode and fit all of it in, I'm just probably going to stress myself out more and the episode probably won't be as good as I want it to. So, uh, this is a very long winded way of me saying I'm sorry. This is what I was doing. The vision board party was awesome and, uh, your girls needed to rest. So it was a sick week. Right? Right. All right. So website though, uh, on that note, because I took the time for myself. rested and pressure myself to do 2000 million things when I could really only do apparently three. I kid, I kid. I did get all the website stuff done. I wrote blogs. Now that I've never written anything like that. I mean, kind of writing sometimes my podcast show notes or things like that. Like that's blog esque writing, but I've never actually written a blog and I was trying to think of things that related to recent episodes So it's also like I could kind of keep them together But I needed to provide some content before I launched my website Which hopefully by the end of the month, I will look on social media for announcements. We'll get there. We will get there So I'm writing and I'm like, okay, you know, I think, I think this works. So I got two blogs done. She loved them. She said they were great. Cool. Not that they're like anything robust or super detailed and layered, but it's your simple, you know, Oh, almost, I was about to give it away, but I should wait so you guys can go check out the website and read it there. Side note, ADHD, uh, insert. I wonder if I should do like a website launch bingo. And offer a prize. That could be enticing. Ooh, would you guys like that? I don't know what the prize would be. Uh, maybe it's a vision board kit. Hey, that's not a bad idea. I mean, that's, I don't know. Well, I still want that. Anyways, back to what I was saying. I'm getting all these things done. Blog posts, getting your code for this, getting the player, like the podcast RSS feed player, this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, getting it all connected. and The weekend after, so this past weekend, I was not gonna do anything. I was making zero plans because I was go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go too much. Should have asked for some help. Should have, that's okay, lessons learned. Um, it was still a great event, but I died afterward for sure. Um, and then, Sunday paid the consequences of my actions of, you know, just laying in the fetal position like thinking, okay, this is how I die. This is the, I have extreme anxiety and I'm just gonna just sit here with it all day. That's just how it's looking. That's just, that was, that was my journey Sunday. That was my journey. And you know what? That is okay. Huh. So this past weekend I was like, all right, I'm going to get. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get so much done. I'm, I'm, I'm blocking out the whole weekend. I'm not doing anything. I'm not committing to anything. I am going to do that thing where you like, pack all your stuff, your laptop, your notebook, you bring your water bottle and you go to a coffee shop and you sit down and you work. Because, you know, I've said this before, I live in this little bay apartment. We have a lot of stuff. It's not that it's like, you know, a hoarder thing. No, it's just like sometimes it feels a little cluttered because you got to get inventive with cabinets and space and storage. So I also thought, all right, with my ADHD and focus and all the things that I need to do because I had to still do the financial podcast outline. I was like, all right, it's time to get my ducks in a row. You know what I mean? Well. I'll give myself grace. I've been grieving the loss of my soul dog. So side note, there's that. But I'm motivated. I'm finding that footing. I'm finding, I mean, I'm still very sad. Um, I have more on that in a sec, but I am like, all right, I want to make things happen cause I do, it makes me feel good and it feels good to accomplish things. But I also know I can't do everything all at once. So I gotta work with this bandwidth that I have. So I'm like, pumped, ready to go, got my shit packed, walk in, be bop into the coffee shop, it's closed, randomly. It should be open, so I, I, I'm not dumb, like, I'm not an idiot, I knew it would be open, but it was not open. And I just sat there, and I'm like, wow, the one time I actually did the thing that I said I was gonna do, Because, I mean, how many times have we said, Oh, I should go do this, I'm going to do that, and then we never do it. I actually did it. Like, I did it! Thank God it was walking distance or else I would have felt really silly. And I was just like, well, pfft. What do I do here? Do I walk to another one? Cause now everything just seems extremely daunting. Like, oh, now I gotta go walk to another near walking distance coffee shop. Like, I was exhausted getting the will, the willpower to go in the first place. And then to, boom, feel like the bridge has been cut between you and your end destination. I was just like, well, just bury me here. I'll just lay here. I'll just lay here in this rain. So I call Stan, and he's like, I guess you can come back, and I'm like, Ugh! Back to the cluttered office! So I put everything down, and I'm like, alright, I have two options here. I can sit here and try to do all this shit, and get distracted, like I always do, or, or, I could, Organize this office, organize it the way that I, I want it, like, where I don't feel cluttered, where I don't need to go to the coffee shop, I can stay here and do stuff. I'll have all day Sunday, so why not? That's what she did. I didn't know I could organize this place any more than I did, but, ooh, let me tell you, I proved myself wrong. It feels great. I even, shifted, how I do my laptop and, like, where my monitors are and all that kind of stuff, and it feels so good. Oh, man. I don't know anything about Feng Shui, but there is got to be some truth to it because my environment Definitely plays into my mood and anxiety. That's for sure So did all that and I can say I woke up Sunday and I got so much done I got the outline done literally already have that episode recording scheduled I got a bunch of stuff done for the website. I did a Bunch of other crap that I've been putting off, budget stuff, called T Mobile, which, oh God, who wants to call, like, a service provider over anything, especially over something complicated, and you're just like, oh my God, it's like the fourth time I've called, so, the odds of you getting this right are, are not looking good in my favor, so you're already stressed out, thinking, ugh, is this, uh, is this gonna get me anywhere, I'm gonna be chasing my tail and be calling it back again tomorrow, Thankfully, I didn't have to. The chick who helped me, shout out to Jasmine at T Mobile. She was solid and she got all my shit squared away. She got all my crossed wires uncrossed and just, mm. Everything that was supposed to be linear is now linear and nothing is intersecting. It's great. It's smooth sailing. So, I've been doing so much. And again, we are 18 minutes into this recording and I'm not gonna lie. You may not have realized it, but I'm still answering the question. Where have I been? So if you're still here with me, well, welcome. I love you. You can keep up. But uh, Jokes aside, truth of the matter, I had to rest. And then I just got a bunch of shit done and I feel great getting back in my habits, getting back in my routines and that sounds so cool and like damn she's got her shit together. I, let's be real like we all know I didn't really have a habit or routine to begin with so when we say getting back on it. She's still going to bed at 1230 because her ass cannot seem to get in bed before then. So, we're baby stepping, but we're baby stepping versus just completely being immobilized. So that's good. That to me is progress. Progress, progress, progress. Alright, so on another note, what else have I been up to? I've been reading more. I'm trying to finish this Crescent City book for any of my Sarah J Maas fans out there. ACOTAR. Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Um, yes. Nerd alert. That's my thing. Uh, I also watched Saltburn. So, I said earlier I kind of live under a rock. I do, in a way. Like, I am, I am trendy. I'm with the trends, but like I'm also not. Like, I, I should probably spend more time on social media, which is like the complete opposite of what you hear anybody and everybody say. So, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing that I'm saying this, but I should probably be more on social media, see more content for, especially like what I'm trying to do here, like really in between and all this kind of this stuff. But I, I miss out on trends, very quickly on TikTok. Like, gosh, sometimes those trends are like a day, I feel like. But. Rambling aside, I am not always the first person to watch the hot topic, the hot thing, the hot whatever, so If you haven't seen Saltburn, chances are you've heard about it Or you've seen it marketed on your Amazon Firestick because it's an Amazon original But that little cutie pie, I say little with like a wink, that little cutie pie from Euphoria What's his name, Jacob Elordi or something like that? He stars in it and then this guy Oh God, what's his name? Barry something? I don't know, but he was in Dunkirk and another movie? I don't know. I'm doing a really bad job of telling you this, but also has the woman from Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike. Love her. I'm saying all this just to let you know that your girl, who is typically related to the party on trends, watched Saltburn. Yes, I watched something that was trending and I watched it in the time frame to which it is still trending. So that's great. All right, which of y'all have seen this movie? I'll tell you the good. Visually, the movie is very, very beautiful. Every shot is almost like a painting. Like the colors are very they're bold, they have depth, the scenes are stunning, the cinematic scenes are just, like, the, uh, the transitions, the shots of the people, the angles, the colors, uh, yeah, it's great, it's beautiful. The plot, now, I will say this, before I get into, my feelings about this, but, I get really into movies, okay? And, I like to know why a character is driven to do a certain thing, okay? Whatever. Does that make me a weird nerd? I don't know. Or, maybe everybody does that and I should just stop judging myself. But, not even like really meaning to, I just really get into it. And, certain things that played out in the end of the movie, Sure, you get why a certain character does these certain things, but I want to know, like, but was he always like that? Because I don't think that was necessarily the case. Like, I had to Google after the movie, I was like, what was the themes of Saul Byrne? Okay, greed, obsession, guilt, revenge, and I'm just like, okay, but most of these all happened after a certain part. So like, how do we get to the first part? They don't talk about that. They don't talk about why one character lied and did all this and did this and did that. So, I don't know. Hopefully I, I don't think I spoiled it, but it was, the plot was like just a little weird and I think that was the point, but I don't mind weird, but just like give me like a little bit more connection between the tethers. I think the reason though that that movie is just absolutely blowing up everywhere on social media besides the fact that Jacob Elordi is honestly like he's not human. He is a very beautiful looking human being. Allegedly human being. I don't know what else he could be other than a god, but, uh, Yeah, he was beautiful. He was so dreamy. He was like a Hollister, Abercrombie, and Fitch model in that movie. you gotta watch it to see it, but also don't watch it because it's weird. But, um, rambling Jacob Elordi daydreaming aside. I mean there were several scenes, but there was like three or four scenes that were just so disturbing. And I don't mean disturbing like this movie is like a thriller or like scary, but disturbing just like, you know, fucked up and just Uh, and then there's like this one scene in particular and if you've heard anything about Saltburn with the grave Scene, you know, if you know, you know Okay, I wore my whole team. They're like, why did you do this weekend? I was like, oh, it's not burn They're like, oh, I'm gonna watch it. I was like, no do not watch it If you watch it's your own risk. Some of them watched it Bless your heart. I hope you're not scarred for life. But this graveyard scene is just You know, it's a little soft porn, a little bit soft porn, um, which is fine. Fine. Silly. I just called that scene silly. And if you've seen that, you're now judging me. I'm judging myself. It's a little ridiculous. Let's just believe it like that. I should probably just stop here. It's like, I don't think I can talk about it on the pod, without giving it away. And I don't want to give a spoiler away, but very weird sexual act. Grave scene. I'll leave it there. The whole time I'm watching it, I'm just like, WTF. And then all I can think about is, Imagine filming that scene. Like, you're doing this, and there's like a whole crew watching you. That's damn good acting. When you think about it in context. So, You know, Should you watch Saltburn? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. Is my life better from watching it? No. However, I can appreciate that I did watch something as such a pop culture phenomenon, so if I would have to describe Saul Byrne, I would say it was a hodgepodge of White Lotus and Cruel Intentions. I think that is a very fair assessment and I've only watched half of White Lotus. Not because I didn't like it, but because, well. I'm ADD and it's really hard for me to pay attention to anything these days. Oh, um, I also finished Yellowstone. You know, I loved it. I did love it. I did a lot of insane things, a lot of ridiculous things, a lot of how many things can happen in one family there were some outlandish plot lines, but overall I still love it. I John Dutton. I will hit that, I'll hit that nail on the head again. But I am very excited that I now get one more season or like part B of season 5, whatever the heck. I don't know how they're doing it, but I'm excited for more of it. Um, haven't watched the prequel shows, but Yellowstone was great. So if you have any suggestions on shows that you think I might like that might hold my attention, Um, I'm all ears. I am all ears. So talking about that sad stuff, that sad thing, that, oh, you know, she's still sad, a comment earlier, uh, since we last talked, I did go to a pet loss, wait, I wrote this down because it was like a mouthful, where is it? A pet loss grief support group, sorry, that's just like a lot of words and it makes sense but it also like does not roll up the tongue well, uh, pet loss grief support group. it was good, it was really small, it was like me and my other girl with, uh, in addition to the therapist. And, one of the things that I really took out of it was she, the therapist, like, said, or, Said, suggested we journal. She said, especially me, since this is also recent, because the emotions are fresh, and it's one thing that she regrets not doing, because once she started to do that, it was like a year and a half after she'd lost her pup. So, I have been journaling more, which was also something that I wanted to kind of build into a routine and get better at it with anyways. So, it's been extremely emotional as you can imagine, heartbreaking, so if you randomly see me start posting really sweet videos or pictures of me and Luna, just know that she's going through it. Uh, but the journaling is actually very helpful and, it's just crazy, like, it's just, grief is just, everyone just keeps saying it's non linear, and there, it's, it's true. One moment you feel fine, the next moment you are so sad, you are wailing, crying. Um, one moment you're happy and you aren't even thinking about the fact that you just lost your dog and then your next moment you're like, wow, as more time passes, I'm like getting sadder. It's just, it's, it's a very weird feeling and for everyone, for anyone who's been through it, you know, and I don't even just mean losing a pet, like losing a parent, losing a sibling, losing a friend, losing anyone that you, that's close to you, that means something to you. And there's all different types of grief. There's literally no one size fits all. Like grief is all, I think grief is all, very personal and completely different. But, in my journaling, it helped me kind of process a few things and I was like pouring so much of myself into that vision board party. Part of it's because, well, I wanted to pull it off and I wanted to be successful and then, you know, part of it was, yeah, I wanted to distract myself and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But because of everything I mentioned earlier, with like pushing myself too far, uh, mentally, you know, emotionally, my bandwidth, I didn't really leave any room in my cup for my grief either. So I was just completely, like, depleted, and then, I feel those negative emotions, they seep in when you're at your worst or like when you're at your weakest and it just festered and made me really sad. And after some processing, you know, journaling, whatever, thinking it through, I was like, I'm still sad. and yeah, duh. But like, I am still sad. I think I needed to acknowledge that within myself. It's okay, I'm gonna get through it, I'm getting through it, but I needed to acknowledge that I'm still sad. I'm talking to you right now, I'm not crying, I'm good, but I'm sad. Just because I'm not crying or externally showing some level of sadness, it's still there. And for some reason I was like denying that within myself. And I did it, did it, did it, did it for so long, you know, long being days, whatever, and then. I'd get hit with this guilt that how are you not sad like are you processing this like you're you're so fine You're doing all this stuff, and I'm sure there's like some intrusive thoughts anxiety paying apart and all this but the reason I'm saying all of this is Had to acknowledge that I am still sad and give myself that peace that it's okay. I, I'm not a hundred percent, maybe I'm like 70%, maybe 65 on a bad day, maybe 55 on a really bad day, but I'm, I'm still not quite there. That's okay. Take the time that I need, move at the speed in which I need to do. And this also kind of plays into, like, why I didn't do an episode last week. And look at what I told you, like, I end up doing a lot and getting so much done. Like, I scratched off so much of my to do list. And talk about a dopamine release. Dear God. That is a drug. Scratching off your to do list, I swear to God, that is a crack I will subscribe to. But, anyways. Um, I'm trying to take literal inventory of my needs and um, I think acknowledging my grief and where I'm at with that is, is part of that and that's okay. So I don't know who needed to hear this, I don't know how you can interpret that into your own, your own means, but it's okay, whatever you're going through, it's okay if you're not a hundred percent, it's okay if you do not feel a certain way about certain things, it's okay where you are in your journey. No one's keeping up with you, truly, seriously, no one. No one is keeping up but you. why don't I take a break? So, yeah. She's getting it. She's gotten it. Mm, mm, mm, mm. She's be bopping. She's bopping, beeping. She's getting all of her shit together, her habits, her routines. We're still working on the sleep, um, yeah. that is my own fault. I'm just not gonna, I'm just, I'm just gonna be honest with that, but that's okay. That's okay. Uh, I am also getting back into like my fitness routine, which is great. I just moving my body cause you know, losing Loon, we don't really walk anywhere as much as we did with her. And I mean, like we walk maybe twice a week now we're trying to get, walk more. But basically I'm saying is like, I don't move my body like I used to. And I can tell I miss that like your body needs that right plus You know, it's a good way to burn off stress and whatever whatever so I'm getting back in my fitness routine My body easing into it trying to give myself grace and be kinder to myself Like not beat myself up because dear me. It is amazing how quick you lose your muscles and your Exertion levels, like I just feel like I've never done a push up in my entire life, even on my knees. So, that's fun. A squat? God, you'd think I've never sat down in my life. But, she's making it. She's making it. Is it a mountain? Absolutely. But, uh, she's making it. She's not giving up. My snacking's not as bad, so that's good. I think maybe we're kind of getting out of the depressive, like, eat my feelings. Um, I'm still a sucker for gummies. Sigh. I literally had a handful of gummy bears before I started this episode, so. We're not quite out of the woods yet, but that's okay. We're getting there. progress. Baby steps. We're baby stepping, remember? The last thing I'll say is I, or the last update I have, because I feel like I've been kind of like all over the place. In between, hi, how are you? This is where I've been the past two weeks. Um, I had my birth chart read last night, I don't know if you're into astrology, anybody, anybody, it's fascinating. I don't want to get into all of it with you right now because one, I've had you for plenty of time now. Um, but two, I think I'm going to do an episode, in the near future with this person who read my chart. I don't know her. I was connected to her through the, company that I, the service that provided her, her readings, but I just want to say this. It is insane to me. That, all of the things that I dream about, I want, the goals I have for myself, but also on the flip side of that, the things that I'm insecure about, the inner narratives, the intrusive thoughts that aren't as healthy as, you know, that negative self talk, so to speak, this stranger is telling me just based on my birth chart. And I'm just sitting there thinking like, wow, this is wild. I know that could easily sway into a conversation of fate and will and do you have a choice? And that, that will save that for an astrology talk. So I'm hopefully going to play my cards right and get her on. but if you're into birth charts, let me know. Like astrology or anything like that, because I would love to talk your ear off about it. Very fascinating. Very fascinating. Taught me a lot about myself, so that's, that's cool. But any ways. Man, I just feel like I was going a mile a minute. I'm, I'm pretty certain I was going a mile a minute earlier at the very beginning of the episode. But that's okay. We made it. The hamster wheel is slowing down. But I am glad to be back. I missed you all. I hope you missed me. 2024. Whew! This is gonna be a good year. I can feel it. Well, I know everyone at the vision board can. I know you're all feeling it because your vision boards were magnificent. But, uh, Everyone else, this is, this is going to be a good year. Alright? Let's channel that energy and let's make magic happen because that's, uh, that's how we do it. Remember? Remember the vision boards? It's not that they're magic. The magic starts with you. Yes. I'm mocking myself, but I still mean it. I still mean what I said. I said what I mean. I mean what I say. Right? Right. Oh yeah. But on that note, I will see you next week. And yes, I will see you next week. I'm not gonna just Irish goodbye you like I did last. I promise. Because your girl's getting her shit together again cause she is rocking and rolling and rolling. Bye. Um, on that note, I'm just going to dip and go get some dinner. I appreciate you. Thank you so much for being here. I love you. I love you mean it. And, uh, Hey, if you're not doing so already, follow me on Instagram at Elizabeth Cheney underscore the podcast, Instagram at in dot between pod. You can follow me there for life updates and all of those things, but also because I'm going to be announcing the website soon and maybe I'll play a little game. A little giveaway to go with it. So don't you want to be a part of that? I thought so. And then you can follow me on YouTube because this episode will be on YouTube at the in between podcast and on TikTok at the in between podcast. So there we go. She did it. That is all I have for you for today. So, until next week, I hope you have a great rest of your week, weekend. Stay warm. Stay, I almost said stay cold, but that's not what I meant. Stay warm. Stay bundled up. Keep your, your pups and your kids, pups and your kids, inside and, uh, make good choices and don't make fun of us Georgians when it ices because, well, we just can't deal. On that note, I'm your host, Elizabeth, and I will see you next week. Bye.