Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, we're glad you're here, sure are. Hey, before we get started, can I do a little fact check? Sure, okay. So last week, if you've listened, we talked about siblings and. I stated that the average person spends 11 to 17 hours a week.
Speaker 2:As an adult, as an adult which?
Speaker 1:seemed tie. And then we were at breakfast with a friend both of us who also commented on that statistic. So I scoured the internet for another statistic, or the correct statistic, and I couldn't find one.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I know that's not Because you were too busy with your siblings.
Speaker 1:Because I know that's not right, but one source did say the majority of adults who live near their siblings spend on average one time per week with them.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that seemed a little more recent. That seems more for 17 hours A marathon. Oh my gosh. I have a little follow up from last week too, because a lot of people were giggling about us talking about the 1950s and I started watching. I know that this was a book that you tried to read Lessons in Chemistry but you said you couldn't get into it. I'm really into the show. Oh, you are. Yes, sometimes that happens. I was really into the show and also I said, oh, this is why I don't want to time travel to the 1950s, because of how women were treated. It breaks my heart. I was like what is it about the 50s? I was like, oh, they were so limited I couldn't go back.
Speaker 1:They didn't have to do as much I would be so frustrated.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm wearing Pants and people being like oh, she has pants on.
Speaker 1:I would not wear pants in the 50s. I would wear cute dresses.
Speaker 2:Oh God, and it breaks my heart because this poor woman wants to be a chemist and no one will take her seriously. And oh yo yo. Well, I would just be a housewife, I know, but even raising your kids, it would be hard.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't. Yeah, it's not for me. I couldn't go back. I would be so frustrated and then I think I would be like oh weird, mrs Taylor wants women's rights. What's wrong with her? She's one of those modern women wearing pants.
Speaker 1:I'd miss you, would we?
Speaker 2:be friends. Maybe that would be our thing, like we're coming at it from different sides. Well, we wouldn't have a podcast, we would have fireside chats, we'd have a radio show maybe, but we would have to pretend we're men because I don't know if they would let women have a radio show and sharing ideas. Do you not want me to like my favorite?
Speaker 1:decade no.
Speaker 2:I do, but I think there are elements of it that are wonderful. But I think if I were to be invited to time travel back to it to live permanently, I couldn't do it. I would go to time travel to change and live forever.
Speaker 1:But was that?
Speaker 2:what time traveling is. I thought that's what you were saying.
Speaker 3:Well, I would like to do that you wanted to stay permanently yeah.
Speaker 1:I would stay there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't. No thanks, I don't know. I think it would be hard. Maybe the 80s A kid in the 80s, though, yeah.
Speaker 1:Are you?
Speaker 2:here in the 80s. Yeah, I take that back. I think it would be okay, Although, yeah, I like Tab. My grandma used to drink Tab. I don't know I would also. This is not from our podcast, but it's something I need to address because it hits on a lot of things. Number one why you're a really good friend Because we had parent teacher conferences. Last week I had 11 because I felt the need to see every teacher.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know where this was going and I feel bad that I was so cruelly no.
Speaker 2:I was so grateful. So I had just spent 10 to 15 minutes with my child. So a great teacher who was delightful. And I see Nora, she goes. Oh my God, what did you just eat? And I was like, what do you? She's like your mouth is black and I was horrified. Thank God she was cleaning her son's locker out. That has a mirror. Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 1:And it looked like I had old black lipstick on.
Speaker 2:It looks like it almost looked like Go ahead Bruising. Oh gosh, it's like bad lipstick and I had just eaten a cookie from my nephew's christening.
Speaker 1:However, the icing was baby blue and that explanation did not add up. But I was in no position to tell you that your explanation didn't make any sense, because I was like what else could I have?
Speaker 2:What else would my mouth be dirty? I was horrified and I really had to scrub it off. I used a wet one, which probably poisoned me, I know you were very aggressive. I was saying four more conferences. I was like get this off my face.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised you didn't puncture anything.
Speaker 2:So then the next day I was having lunch with my children and Aiden goes what's on your face? What's on your mouth? Your mouth is dirty Like what is happening. Are you scared? Looking at my hands, I figured it out.
Speaker 1:Don't tell me you know what I know You're brushing your teeth with charcoal.
Speaker 2:Yes, so when I was at Nazareth, I had a diet while cherry Pepsi and I was like hello, old friend, this is delicious. So I bought a 12 pack of diet while cherry Pepsi and I was drinking that at lunch out of the can. Yes, it was from the can, because I took my napkin. You mean like the blue dye on the can, and or it was just a really dirty can, because I took my napkin and wiped it and it was like a dark blue lamp, oh my gosh, on the napkin. Yes, I was like, oh my god, disgusting.
Speaker 1:How did?
Speaker 2:you think. Now I even just did wet ones and dye slash dirt from a can. How did you put that together? Because I was like looking, what could this possibly be from? I had an English muffin for breakfast. It wasn't that, and I just saw it CSI'd. So now I've been putting them in a glass.
Speaker 1:And wiping the can. So that's oh, I'm glad, problem solved. Geez OP, that's funny. Thank you for sitting down with me this morning, because it is so nice to just take a moment. I've been so scrambled. What's going on with your house? Well, my house, but today was crazy hair day, oh.
Speaker 2:And crazy sock day it was, and or oh wow you overachievers.
Speaker 1:So that always throws me off. So who was the crazy hair? Catherine Grace and John. She won it okay, and then they were both crazy sock in Elzan Student Council. Oh, so she had to bring it. And then Mike obviously didn't have to do it, but I drove him to school and then I stopped for donuts to bring to my guys. Oh, and I was a little bit behind, so I don't know I just feel like every single thing I tried to do this morning Did you ever have those mornings?
Speaker 2:Yes, we were like this shouldn't be so hard.
Speaker 1:Your house is two minutes away and I got stuck behind a school bus.
Speaker 2:What Wait? There's never school buses here, I know. Where was the school bus coming from?
Speaker 1:I took it's so crazy. Oh my God, I know that like that's just. That's just what happened. So, yeah, it was nice to just sit down and visit with you.
Speaker 2:I got lucky because Rose wanted to do something crazy here today but I had speech club in it, so I brought a bag of rubber bands and a brush to speech club and one of the seventh grade girls put braids in her hair. Great, I was like thank you.
Speaker 1:That was in a night. That was a win.
Speaker 2:But some of these girls. It was like hair sculpture.
Speaker 1:And I asked the girl or I asked Kevin Grace if she wanted to do something special. Yeah, no, what did she do? She put a million JoJo bows in her hair. Oh, that's funny. So that's perfect. That would be kind of heavy, oh yeah. But what about John Minifigs? I did braids his hair's long. Yeah, so I did braids with minifigs at the top of them. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Did you have a?
Speaker 1:picture? Well, no, because then he changed his mind and decided he wanted a big ponytail on top of his head With too many figs on each side. So I quickly had to undo all the braids.
Speaker 2:Did you like? Put the pants and the shirts like through his hair, like a barrette? No, I just rub her back, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:But he L said to him see, john, aren't you glad you don't have to have your hair done every day? He's just like ow, ow.
Speaker 2:Boys or giant babies without getting their hair brushed. I just wanted to get a haircut, oh.
Speaker 1:But he won't.
Speaker 2:He'll be used.
Speaker 1:Anyways, hey, I forgot to wish you a national happy pasta day, or a happy national pasta day.
Speaker 2:Happy national pasta day to you too. I was these holidays cracked me up because there's something. There's always super random, crazy ones. And who gets these in the books?
Speaker 1:I know. I wonder if there's a national podcast day.
Speaker 2:I think there is. I think there is, we'll have to check that out.
Speaker 1:Wish it's a celebrity.
Speaker 2:I watched they'll be like. It was October 23rd and it's also national.
Speaker 1:Let me see if I can get this right. Chucky, the notorious doll killer day.
Speaker 2:Stop it. Yeah, no, there should not be any holiday that's has killer in it.
Speaker 1:No, and when is that movie from? Is it an 80s movie? It's.
Speaker 2:I think it's just called Chucky yeah.
Speaker 1:But from the 80s.
Speaker 2:With my buddy. Yeah, it's from the 80s. But thank you for-.
Speaker 1:I never saw it.
Speaker 2:Oh, me neither.
Speaker 1:No, I could you no, but that's our topic today actually. Fear and scary movies, yeah, all the stuff.
Speaker 2:Spooky.
Speaker 1:Do you like scary movies?
Speaker 2:No, no, not at all, never have. Well, I was, I would think I was in first grade. We came back from San Francisco and stayed at my grandma's and my aunt took me to the video store and we were at the video store and the video store was playing the movie Nightmare on Elm Street. Have you ever seen that? No, I've never seen it either.
Speaker 2:The clip of this movie that was in this video store, because he haunts you and he kills you in your sleep. No, he comes in your dreams. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, okay, sorry. So this girl was in bed and Freddie Krueger took his long nails oh my God, I don't want to hear this Sliced her through the bed and so I'm watching this, and I was terrified. But then I also thought if I said something I would be in trouble because I knew it was an R rated movie and I wasn't allowed to watch R rated movies. So we get back to my grandma's house, and I refused to sleep in a bed Because I was like well, if I sleep on the floor, he can't get you.
Speaker 2:I'll be fine, because he only comes up through the bed. That was in my first grade brain and my grandma was so frustrated she's like get in the bed. And I was like I just want to sleep on the floor. Why, I don't know, I just do. And I was for like a good three days. I was like did you finally come clean.
Speaker 1:No, there's this year admission right here, mom and dad.
Speaker 2:I saw a piece of Nightmare on Elm Street, but no, I don't like to be scared.
Speaker 1:I don't like to be scared either. I'm scared enough on my own I hate scary movies.
Speaker 2:I saw Scream in the movie theater in high school. Did you go see that with friends?
Speaker 1:I kind of remember that with the mask. But Ryan and I went on a first date that's always To a scary movie. What movie was that? To? One of the scariest movies listed. It was number six on the list. What was that? The ring Huh.
Speaker 2:No way I fell asleep. That was foreshadowing, because then he gave you a ring. But I don't know what that movie's about, but I just know it's not for me. I fell asleep. Stop, Do you think that was your survival instinct?
Speaker 1:Like I'm just gonna fall asleep so I don't watch this movie. I think it's twofold. I always fall asleep in movies and I always have, and I didn't wanna tell him that. So I was like, oh, I could probably stay up. I don't remember disliking scary movies as much then as I do now. Yeah, maybe I just figured I'll fall asleep by the time it gets scary. I'm surprised he called me back. Yeah, but I really don't like scary movies. The number one scary movie or the scariest movie was the Exorcist.
Speaker 2:Oh, have you seen all these? I've seen parts of the Exorcist. My dad and my Aunt Jane went to go see that together because my mom didn't wanna go. My dad has a really funny story about it but they totally freaked out. I think my Aunt Jane, who listens to the podcast, maybe she'll text me the real story, but it was terrifying.
Speaker 1:How happy was your mom.
Speaker 2:She was like don't just tell, yeah, my mom was like I'm out because at a sleepover we watched Candy man. Did you ever see that? I think my friend Erin knew I was terrified and she just wanted to torture me because we watched Misery at her house too, which scared me to death. We used to watch Candy man. Takes Police in Chicago.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no.
Speaker 2:And if you repeat that like certain times in the mirror, he'll come. Did you guys try it? In a movie, so I was terrified of mirrors and like dark mirrors and beds just to compensate a fear.
Speaker 1:You're probably easy to get ready for school in the morning and just stand up and head out Just standing up. I'm okay, I'm like blow my teeth with your eyes.
Speaker 2:At the kitchen scene. Hi, I'm fine, don't lie to me, totally normal. Oh, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember in high school we would watch Flowers in the Attic. Oh, that movie In the hand, that rocks the cradle, but I don't remember what either of them were about.
Speaker 2:Flowers in the Attic. It wasn't the mom horrible and she kept her kids up in the attic? I can't remember. I think that's what it was. Oh, yay, but that scared me too. But outside of movies there's all kinds of like urban legends and like you know things like that. But have you ever heard of Resurrection Mary from in Chicago? No, so the story is, this girl was I don't know why she was waiting outside to get picked up for prom, but that she was on her way to the Willowbrook Ballroom for prom and that she was killed right by Resurrection Cemetery, whatever, and that the legend was Did you work?
Speaker 2:hold on sorry did you work at that ballroom? I worked, ooh, the Willowbrook Ballroom and it was on TV as like one of the most haunted places ever. So the story was that everyone's like, if you were driving down the road by the cemetery and no one was in your passenger seat, that people were like she appeared in my car. I don't like that story. I don't like that story either. So every time I've driven by that cemetery I'm always like, oh God, it gives me goosebumps now and then working in that ballroom, me and my friend Erin would be so freaked out I think she did it on purpose. She'd be like did you hear that?
Speaker 1:Xt Doug, do you have any other real fears? Maybe are you scared of anything.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm scared of turbulence on airplanes.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:It makes me mad because I flew for the first 30 years of my life no problems, cross oceans all over the world, no problems, and then suddenly, in my like mid 30s now, I have to take a Xanax before I get on the plane?
Speaker 1:Was it because?
Speaker 2:you had kids. I think that's what I think it is. I think I was like so wound up and stressed about getting my kids on the plane that I was so tense that, like the police.
Speaker 1:No, I meant like if something happened and you weren't with your kids.
Speaker 2:Oh, I just think the pilot isn't paying attention and the plane is going to fall out of the sky. Natural, completely irrational. Put the medication house. Oh, there you go. So that's better. What about you? I'm scared of being alone at night.
Speaker 1:I'm scared to sleep at home alone. I don't mind that, and it dates all the way back to gosh as long as I can remember. Yeah, and when Ryan was working in Chicago and we were still in Scottsdale, I had a seven year old, a six year old, a three year old and a one year old in my house. I would put Mike in our bed, call him man of the house, just terrible, because I was sacrificing my seven year old shouldn't intruder come in. Or if he wasn't in my bed, I would put a knife under the pillow, like a butcher knife, ssh, nora, in case someone came in. And I told this story to a friend who said, nora, if someone came into the house and had to get that close to you that you had to use the knife you're in way bigger trouble.
Speaker 2:And I never. What do you think I could truly stab someone? But I will say, though, those are. I think that's what's about the fears is that whatever it takes for you to feel better, I mean, a knife under your pillow is kind of dangerous.
Speaker 1:Well, ryan had come home that night, or one night, and, you know, cozyed in your bed and put his arm under his pillow. What, what's this? I also put my keys under the pillow so that if somebody broke in I can hit the panic button.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so smart, thank you.
Speaker 1:And safe. Thank you. And the garage door opener so that I could put the garage up and my car would go off, and hopefully it would alert someone yes, someone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't mind being home alone, I don't mind sleeping alone, but every once in a while if I think I hear something, then I'm like what's going on? But I consider myself lucky because the house we moved into has an app for a garage door, so I can be like did I leave the garage door open? But then I would be afraid to go downstairs and check. But now I can check on the app. The doors are closed and now we have the ring cameras.
Speaker 1:I know, and that's why this would be irrational and then you can go back and look.
Speaker 2:And it was when Al started traveling, like Monday through Thursday I was like I want to get that, just so then I can look and not have to get out of my bed and be scared.
Speaker 1:The other thing is, we live in a really, really safe community. We really do so we're very lucky.
Speaker 2:But you never know, there's goofy stuff that can happen. But I think only other thing I get I'm not afraid of heights or falling, but if we're somewhere high up with my kids I get nervous about them falling. That's just being a mom, I think. I'm like even at a mall, like at a mall, if it is like a clear thing, I'm like don't lean against that. It like hurts, like inside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know that feeling. Yeah, that like in the belly, yeah it's like your stomach's thing.
Speaker 2:You almost get like a cramp. Yeah no, I know that feeling.
Speaker 1:It's like labor pains.
Speaker 2:You're like oh, I never had labor pains oh that's true.
Speaker 1:Actually, I did with Mike, because I went into labor the day before he was. He was born on his due date. Fun fact. Oh, that doesn't surprise me, right? He's very organized, but before my epidural kicked in.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so you just had a little taste, A little bit, yeah, but that scares me that they're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1:I am not really afraid of heights, but, ryan is, which I feel bad about because I didn't know that when we were engaged and we had our wedding reception, and I think it's the 88th floor yes, it's the Aeon building, oh, no, which, for those of you who are not from the Chicagoland area or who are not at my wedding.
Speaker 2:So that's a couple people A couple.
Speaker 1:The three sides of that room is floor to ceiling windows. That's supposed to be a stunning view. Overlook the safe. It's incredible. It's a view like unlike I've ever seen. See, those are the things they should cover in Precena, but you should have seen Ryan on the dance floor. See one getting close to the window and, hindsight, that worked out for me. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, my sister kind of developed a fear of heights as she's gotten older Did something happen or did she just? She also has a fear of medieval things. She's afraid of like knights and shining arms. She thinks in a past life she was a prisoner in a tower and was tortured or something which is not like medieval stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Does she like the 50s?
Speaker 2:Love the poodle skirt though, Okay, great great, I have no interest. I'm not afraid of it because it's not something that I find, a situation I find myself in. But I would never want to be submerged under water like in a submarine. I don't even want to scuba dive.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, but thankfully that's not something that would just like accidentally happen.
Speaker 2:It's not like well you gotta take the submarine to school today.
Speaker 1:You don't like stumble into a sub Right.
Speaker 2:True. So that's why I'm like I'm afraid of it, but it's not, it doesn't keep me up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, worried about it. I think you look this up too. But people's top fears yes, I think I wonder if we have the same list.
Speaker 2:So it was interesting because some of the fears like current event fears, things like corrupt government officials and economic collapse, russia using nuclear weapons, like going to war, things like that that's bad. The other, the one, was like spiders, snakes, heights flying dogs, and I always think it's funny that people are like are seriously afraid of public speaking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 25%. It said yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a lot which is a lot. Yeah, yeah, that is a lot. So sign up for speech club. We'll work that out.
Speaker 1:I don't have a problem public speaking, obviously, but I do like to know what I'm going to say. Like I like an outline Correct.
Speaker 2:If you're ready to the kids, if you're organized and you're prepared, you shouldn't have to be nervous because you know what you're going to say.
Speaker 1:I don't like to be put on the spot, though, like I don't like if a bunch of questions come firing at me if I'm not ready for them. But, I'm not afraid of it, I just don't like that, right. But you gave me a good tip. I did. Oh yes.
Speaker 3:Let me take a minute.
Speaker 2:Let me take a minute. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a minute. No, I said that to the kids too In my speech club. I said you know, if you get lost, just pause. It's okay, take a pause, collect yourself and move on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think there's a strength in that. I don't like fall apart. I don't need to. I just collect my thoughts, maybe yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I think there is that expectation of oh, I have to fill the space, so I have to keep talking. It's weird if I pause, but I don't think it is weird.
Speaker 1:I was surprised. People are sincerely scared of clowns.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess it. Yeah, there was a scary movie of clowns.
Speaker 2:It it's the movie is called it. Oh it. We're like is this one of your pauses?
Speaker 1:you were talking about we're going to edit that pause out.
Speaker 2:It was, I found, in Time Magazine. They wrote an article about fears and being scared and they said that having a voluntary scare experience so like a movie or a haunted house, not a unplanned scared experience, so were you sign up and say I want to go to a haunted house and be scared, ew Is? They say people were in better moods overall afterwards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they weren't scared anymore.
Speaker 2:Because they were relieved. They said, though, that the feeling and the endorphins you get that these people would get was similar to the endorphins and the feeling after you go for a run, and if I had to choose between a, haunted house or a run. I would start running.
Speaker 1:I don't like haunted houses. I don't like haunted houses. I don't like haunted houses.
Speaker 2:I don't want someone to jump out at me. I don't like suspense. I also don't like, really like I don't trust the stranger. I do. Yeah, I worked at a haunted house once, not in one Like at 7th grade.
Speaker 2:They were like needed volunteers, what did you do? We were witches and I was like this is kind of dumb, because I was like what are we supposed to do? And I think that was like the nerdy actors item. I was like what are our lines? What should we do? They're like be scary. I was like who's running this?
Speaker 1:I do like pranks though. Oh right, you, you do. I'm a sucker for a good prank, but not a scare, yes, I don't know.
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Speaker 1:And now back to the show. And as we gear up for the holiday season, we have a special guest along with us.
Speaker 2:We do. I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 1:Annie Malone will be joining us for the next six or eight weeks to guide us through the holiday season.
Speaker 2:Yes, to kind of hold our hand, to kind of say they're there making sure we're taking care of ourselves as a whole, yeah, and not just physically.
Speaker 1:Correct Mentally.
Speaker 2:And she comes to us with so much expertise.
Speaker 1:Yes, she is a certified physical therapist. She has been in the wellness industry for over 20 years. She's an exercise science major. She's got a fantastic Instagram page, but we don't have to tell everybody.
Speaker 2:Why don't we let Annie speak for herself? Let's take a listen.
Speaker 1:Here today with Annie Malone, who is going to share some information with us about fitness and wellness and balance and all that good stuff we're going to need as we dive into the holidays.
Speaker 2:Hi Annie, Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited about this. So can you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell us a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 3:Sure, so I am a local Western Springs mom. That's how they found me, I think.
Speaker 1:I found you through Springdale Civic Association. We were at a meeting at Front House and the rest is history for you.
Speaker 3:I am a physical therapist and I've actually only lived in this area for about two years, so just kind of meeting people and getting out there in terms of my passion in physical therapy but also health and wellness. I also have a degree in exercise science, so that's a little bit where my passion and my excitement around wellness and fitness comes from.
Speaker 1:And you're also able to share all of your wellness and fitness through your website and your Instagram right?
Speaker 3:Yes, so my Instagram handle is Annie Malone Wellness and I'll talk about that in a minute, why it's not fitness. But yes, you can find me at Annie Malone Wellness on Instagram and I also have a fitness app called Daily Dose.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's cool. And then for the next few weeks, you can find Annie right here. Yes, because she is going to join us and check in with us and give us all the scoop on all the things we need to stay well this holiday season.
Speaker 2:Right, we're calling it our wellness minute, with an asterisk because it'll be longer than a minute.
Speaker 3:But I'm really excited because when we first started talking and you were saying you wanted it to be wellness, because there's a big difference yes, so, going back just a little bit, I originally had my platform as Annie Malone Fitness and I think when people look at the word fitness, there's a certain connotation that it's all about how you look or having this perfect physique or having big muscles and all this stuff, and that's really not what I wanted to talk about, but instead wellness, from mental to physical to spiritual, to anything that encompasses you as a person and makes you feel well, versus just being fit.
Speaker 1:That's a great way to look at it.
Speaker 2:It is especially staring down the holidays that we have coming up. I think, especially for moms who have to make the magic Happen yes, that it will be important in the next two months to take the time to check in with yourself and make sure you're feeling well. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:We're so lucky to have you as a resource and listeners. We hope you tap into our resources as well. Can we give them a little tease of some of the topics? Oh, let's do it.
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely so. One thing I want to talk about for sure is workouts, but looking at them a little bit differently than maybe you would traditionally find on the internet. There's a lot of information out there. There's a lot of misinformation, and some of it just doesn't feel palpable for a lot of us as moms, as working people, and it's really can be so much more simple than you have to do this every day or you're not going to look a certain way or you're not going to feel a certain way.
Speaker 3:There's just some really easy tips that you can use, especially when you're busy during holidays. That will make you feel better and make you feel well. So I love to talk about that, but also things like eating well, and it doesn't have to be complicated or eliminating entire food groups. It can be so simple and effective. I definitely need that and not take over your life, because we all love chocolate.
Speaker 2:Indeed.
Speaker 3:A beverage for us and those things are good to have. So we are not going to be talking about eliminating chocolate or cocktails or anything that you love.
Speaker 2:We almost have to cancel the wellness community.
Speaker 3:So those are some things I would love to talk to you guys about, because it can be fun and it can be effective, and not the blood, blood.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for joining us these next few weeks. And we look forward to checking in with you soon.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I'm so excited about this I think I selfishly because I think this is something that I will really benefit from and I love following her on Instagram, so it's fun to talk to her in person. So tune in for those for our wellness minutes with Annie coming the next couple months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. What about highs and lows?
Speaker 2:My low is that I punctured my car. I was driving in the city and which will be my high was being in the city, staying where I was staying, but I was backing my car into this garage in an alley in Chicago and I'm very good at backing up my car because I do it but I forgot that there were guardrails in the alley.
Speaker 1:So you hit the guardrail. Did your car beep or anything. Punctured no it just went Like your backup came right in and catch it.
Speaker 2:No, because it was on the side, that's right. So it's right above the wheel, well, which is a real bummer, and I mean, my minivan is not in mint condition, but it just.
Speaker 1:It feels like it is Every time I get in there.
Speaker 2:I don't like that. Blue ivy has a little puncture wound.
Speaker 1:Can she be repaired? Can she get some work done?
Speaker 2:Yeah, she probably needs a little work done, poor thing Milo is that you're saying with a smile?
Speaker 1:It's an embarrassment? Oh is when we were moving all of the furniture out because we refinished all of our floors and you can't have anything on there. I cleaned out a furniture piece and in the back was a sealed envelope oh, from my sister, ma, with Christmas gift cards for my kids.
Speaker 2:From Christmas, 22. Yep.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know what happened, I don't know, I don't know. So I opened it up, yeah, and they were generous gift cards for all four of my kids. Oh, so I had a texture because, yeah, she, I probably looked super ungrateful and dumb. Then I gave the kids the cards. I bet they were thrilled. They were thrilled and I was like, please make sure you write thank you notes. And he said isn't it kind of late for that? Like no, no, you're just getting the card right, they didn't use them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. So I came clean. I sent a text to me well you, but stop dummy.
Speaker 2:That was an honest mistake. It's not like you spent them all. It's not like you're like oh, oh right. Imagine I found him and I was like oh, whatever, whatever the storm was, yeah, no, oh, I'm sorry I that you're just like shoot.
Speaker 1:That's how I felt shoot, what about?
Speaker 2:your hi? My hi is that I got to spend a night in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Tell me more. It's my sister for Christmas, but my mom a birthday gift that you benefited, that we all benefited from, so it's a Frank Lloyd Wright house. It's called the email box house, which because that's the guy who owned it and he lived there with his family up in Ravens, no Rogers Park and near Loyola University, and it was so cool and you had your kiddo's it was me and Aiden, rory and Rose, because Alan Kevin went to go see the Giants game.
Speaker 2:My parents and Erin and her daughter spent the night and there was a. Japanese tea house in there and we played games and we had lots of laughs and, yeah, I was like Decompressed.
Speaker 1:yeah, it was nice. It's a really good and something super unique. Yeah right, happy birthday, mrs Ryan.
Speaker 2:Yeah how about you?
Speaker 1:My blog is back up. It was on hiatus for gosh almost two months and it's a project I've done since Mike was born. Yeah and it's kind of just my outlet. It's very Wrong and authentic and honest and silly and sad and all of the things. It's just kind of a real life. It's kind of like a journal. I was gonna say journal but I don't know. Yeah, with pictures that I bind at the end of the year through a company.
Speaker 1:And it comes like a yearbook and then my kids have a written account with pictures of our life.
Speaker 2:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:So I took a hiatus and I just sat down yesterday and I cranked almost everything out. I have to put some finishing Recap.
Speaker 2:Or did you just start?
Speaker 1:yep, I did a recap on the first day of school, because that's where I left off just about and powered through and I just need to write my finishing paragraph and Welcome back. Yeah, welcome back. I feel better about it. It was kind of weighing heavy on me.
Speaker 2:I feel that way about closets right now. I got to take my summer stuff out and put my winter stuff go through the boys stuff. For I'm like, oh, I need to do that, but it feels so good when it's done.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I was like yeah well, you get to your closets and I'll get back to my kitchen project and stay away from scary movies. Yeah, we'll see you next week. Bye, I.