Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora. Nora, thank you for being here with us today. To our new listeners and to listeners who have been with us. To the old-timer stuff yeah, from the get-go Sticking around, yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I think I'm still laughing from last week. I thought of you last night because I had great nuts for dinner after auditions and I was like, oh, and I sent you a picture I know you did and I offered to bring you dinner home.
Speaker 1:I know you passed on that I did. You know, the more I think about great nuts, I kind of think they're a scam because I would imagine that people buy them because of their health benefits.
Speaker 2:Think like oh these are really healthy.
Speaker 1:And I would imagine that they would not think that the serving size is a half cup, which is like a drop in the bucket. So they probably fill up their bowl dowsum and milk and go to town.
Speaker 2:Yes, because it's not that they're bad for you, but they are quite high in carbs, yeah, high in calories. So many, but that was my dinner, so it was delicious Good.
Speaker 1:I am super Christmassy right now. Yeah, your house looks beautiful, thank you, I have ditched the news. I always have NBC on from like 5.30 in the morning until one, but now it's Hallmark.
Speaker 2:I just have the Hallmark channel running, have you never seen?
Speaker 3:a.
Speaker 1:Hallmark movie oh, they're great, they're super predictable.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so that's where you can have it on in the background, because you can kind of just check it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, did they meet yet? And then Nora goes off script. Oh, nora is a writer, isn't she? Yes, and she's a writer for the Hallmark channel.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think it's like there's just one template, template.
Speaker 2:And. I think they just kind of change up where it's like the variables you like, like, oh, when they talk about this in another book we read where, like she went to a small, she was an editor. What was that book we read? The main character was an editor and she went to a small town with her sister who was pregnant.
Speaker 1:Oh, what was that book? It was good, I liked that one. It was cute, it'll come to me, but actually I'm reading a good Christmas book right now. It's super festive the birth of Jesus, the Bible, I'm just kidding. It's called Bright Lights, big Christmas.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's really charming.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like a Hallmark movie in the book form. It's an easy read. She's the author's written many books.
Speaker 2:Is that her thing?
Speaker 1:Christmas books. No, she wrote the Homewreckers. That was really good.
Speaker 2:Bright Lights, big Tree, bright Lights, big Christmas, big Christmas. Okay, she wrote the Homewreckers, the Homewreckers.
Speaker 1:I love that one. She's written many others.
Speaker 3:It's cute.
Speaker 1:It's an easy Christmasy read if you guys are looking for something.
Speaker 2:Oh, interesting. Yeah, so our listeners might remember that a few weeks ago we talked about the word of the year from Miriam Webster, which was authentic, Authentic. But now, how authentic is it? Because now the Oxford University Press has come out with their word of the year. What so? How can there be two words of the year? Do you want to guess what theirs is? Fraud? Oh my God, that was one of the choices. I've only one no, Riz.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love Riz. We talked about Riz. I was talking with my oldest son and daughter about it and they said something about Charisma Elle had. I don't know how it came up. Anyways, I said you guys, that's where Riz comes from. Did they know? That's the shortened version of it? And they're like no, it's not.
Speaker 3:It was like they doubted you.
Speaker 1:Charisma Riz.
Speaker 2:he's got Riz they were like oh, it was kind of. I hope they're different. Did it take away from the word now that they know where it came from?
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so. I think they were like mom, you're a nerd, but I got that part.
Speaker 2:But it was just strange to me. I was like wait, how can there be two words of the year?
Speaker 3:I like Riz, the other ones too.
Speaker 2:I like Riz. Yeah, they were considering was a situation ship have you heard that I don't know. You might even say I'm in a situation ship with this person. They can't won't stop emailing me. I don't know. I didn't look up what it meant. I don't know how you do that, but I almost kind of did it on purpose because I kind of wanted a brainstorm, but we think it is no, we can get back to people.
Speaker 1:I think if you're in a situation ship, you're in a scrambled relationship. It's a messy relationship.
Speaker 2:Do you think it's a romantic relationship or just it could be in any kind of situation where you're like, oh, this is awkward.
Speaker 1:The thing romantic is being defined as a situation. I think it's a red flag. No, it's not, but I do use it. I use situation a lot. When John comes home from school hey, how are you, how was your day? Any situations? Oh, that's a nice word, you will tell me if there's any situation ships?
Speaker 2:I hope not. What do you think it means? I think the same. I don't think it's a good thing. I don't think you would ever be like, oh my gosh, I met up with this person and we have a great situation ship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think it's positive. Positive, yeah. When do we get to look it up?
Speaker 2:Well, I could look it up right now. Oh, I thought we were waiting. Well, I mean, who wants to wait?
Speaker 1:You can edit out on the stats.
Speaker 2:I could, yes, oh, situation ship. Wait, hold on.
Speaker 1:You're typing much faster than I am.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, we might have been wrong. Is it appropriate Not an urban dictionary? Urban dictionary is a little oh wow.
Speaker 1:Are you on urban dictionary? I'm just in dictionary.
Speaker 2:It's a little irreverent.
Speaker 1:It sounds like maybe it could be a fling a romantic relationship that's not Friends or benefits. A romantic relationship that's not considered to be formal, or established yeah, so this says one or two.
Speaker 2:I'm going to sub in people instead of the word they use.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:One or two people take part in a relationship, but out of fear of making things serious or messy, they do not label it leading to, Except they do because it has a name Making more serious and messier Correct. So I take it back hope no situationships for John. So no label on a relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't that just be like a hookup?
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm trying to turn it into a situation ship. I feel like calling it a situation.
Speaker 2:Ship makes it seem more serious than it is.
Speaker 1:And why is it a situation? If you're hooking up, I don't know You're casually dating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can't you just be dating, yeah, yeah? A form of relationship where neither party is completely sure of what they are.
Speaker 1:Is a situation ship toxic? While situations ships may seem convenient at first oh so it might be a friend with benefits they can quickly turn toxic and leave you feeling unfulfilled. That's why it's essential to learn how to identify and avoid situations ships before they take a toll on your emotional well-being, Wow that was a lot more than I thought it was going to be. I just thought it was like something messy.
Speaker 2:Wait, there are some shoulds and should nots.
Speaker 1:Okay, there is no expiration date on the situation ship until one of you puts an expiration date on it, and can last as little hours long as you like.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing. Do you think situations ships? That's ethically non-monogamous? I'm so, oh my god that's overwhelming yeah no situations.
Speaker 1:ships at my house no samezies. Hope Ryan isn't in a situation ship. You should talk to him about it. I'm going to ask him if he knows of a situation ship and if his eyes get real big and he looks kind of panicky.
Speaker 1:Oh well, since we've already gone, rogue, can I just keep the party going? Yes, so Paris Helden was interviewed earlier this week and I think she has a new book coming out. Oh, but she has two children. She does, yeah, but she did not birth them, correct? She used a surrogate, yeah, but you know why? No, because she said she was terrified of childbirth, so was I.
Speaker 2:I was scared too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I mean. That's yeah, I mean I wasn't looking forward to it, I mean I've never met any woman who's like you know.
Speaker 2:I'm really excited for this human to come out of me.
Speaker 1:So she went ahead and used a surrogate, but she didn't tell people.
Speaker 2:So she was expecting the surrogate, oh.
Speaker 1:So then she just showed up to Thanksgiving with her second baby and they were like Paris, what she was like. Yep, wow. And with her first daughter she didn't change a diaper for over a month. That's not good. No, yeah, over a month.
Speaker 2:That's no how, Then you're not a new mom Like that's getting the trenches man.
Speaker 1:I just don't know how that's physically possible, I get it. I mean, you have a lot of help you go through so many diapers. You do it like without even thinking yes, yeah. So I thought that was surprising.
Speaker 2:I mean different strokes, different folks, but how far apart are her children? I?
Speaker 1:don't know, they're pretty close in age, but there was just a lot for me to think. I was on the Peloton thinking about it.
Speaker 2:I appreciate her being honest, though where she was like I was too scared to give birth, so hats off to us for being so brave.
Speaker 2:But I also I forget who I was talking. I think it might have been my mom, where I was, like you know, talking when I was pregnant with Aina, and she's like women have been doing it for centuries. It's supposed to go like this is how it works, like it's not something new, where I was like, oh, I was so afraid to skydive because I mean, granted, there are risks and things can go wrong and you want to have good medical care and things like that, but there is a pretty tried and true way of doing it.
Speaker 1:Human exiting your body. Yeah, getting them out.
Speaker 2:I remember being also like I'd be more scared if it didn't come out Like it needs to go.
Speaker 1:Get out of here. It's time to get out, oh I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2:I love something interesting and I'm afraid it's going to make you sad. Oh shoot, I'm sorry, but I really. I was like, oh God, I'm going to have to tell Nora. You have some time now. Mcdonald's is making some changes.
Speaker 1:Please don't tell me they're getting that pot machine. They are.
Speaker 2:They're phasing out their self-service drink stations. But you have till 2032.
Speaker 1:Oh, gosh, it's a Yahoo boo-hoo yeah. We're talking about planning, as I know why is it taking them so long to phase these? Out, I guess because they have so many, yeah, but don't you think they could just do it like regionally?
Speaker 2:Like everybody yeah they're like region gets it like a guy to do the job, but I guess they have so many regions so they're phasing it every time because I guess there's certain McDonald's that need more updates. So when they're Well.
Speaker 1:I hope they start far away from Chicago, I know so yeah, it did not.
Speaker 2:The only thing is because they're based. Their headquarters is here. I hope we're not first on the list.
Speaker 1:Overlast. I hope we get overlooked Maybe. I'm sure. Wait, they're not putting that machine in, are they?
Speaker 2:No, they're going to. It's going to be a crew managed operation because they want to create a more consistent experience across all ordering points.
Speaker 1:Okay, but wouldn't it be easier for them to just have the self-service? It's one less thing they have to do.
Speaker 2:I would think so. I was talking to Aiden, my oldest, my 14-year-old, about this and he thinks it's because they're probably losing a lot of money because people are asking for water cups and then filling them up with pop. I was like, who does that?
Speaker 1:He's like kids, but I can't, yeah, but then they don't have to. How much money could they possibly be losing?
Speaker 2:But then that's like less manpower, right, exactly. So I mean they must have crunched these numbers somehow. So I wonder if that whole drink station is going away and it will all just be behind the counter. I know, oh, that's a bummer.
Speaker 1:Well, like Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, I just have a very specific way of making my drink. Oh no, so I need to take a drink. Yeah, it was delicious. But they're doing more new things. They're making a new restaurant called Cosmic. It's going to be in Bowlingbrook. It's drive-thru only.
Speaker 1:Like a McDonald's Cosmic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's in Bowlingbrook, near us, not too far from us, maybe like 20 minutes away, and they don't know. The menu hasn't been released yet, but it's drive-thru only. But then they're also changing some of their burger prep what? And they're also they're just tweaking the heat and how much time the burgers are on the grill. They're having a more meltable cheese and they're going to have the onions on the burger when it's cooking. But I always say no onions. But I don't eat McDonald's hamburgers, but I will eat chicken nuggets. I get a happy meal.
Speaker 1:I craved them when I was pregnant.
Speaker 2:Oh, interesting. Yeah, I craved Taco Bell chips and cheese. Oh.
Speaker 1:I know, but I'm only from Taco Bell exclusively.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wanted that fake cheese. Okay, but they're also doing adult happy meals For Big Macs and for chicken nuggets. Do you get a toy? You do remember the little McBuddies, the little chicken nugget people? No, okay, so they have. They had an artist, this guy, kerwin Frost, come and like, redesign the chicken nugget buddies. So you got a chicken nugget toy. You got a big Mac and these are chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1:People are gonna rage over these. Yeah, this is gonna work for them.
Speaker 2:People are gonna be not, and they said in the article that we're 100% playing up to nostalgia, because I usually get a four-piece chicken nugget happy meal for on a road trip. You do, because they messed up the chicken sandwich. It tastes like pickles. Even if I ask for no pickles, it still tastes like pickles to me.
Speaker 1:Do you like pickles? No, they're not a condiment.
Speaker 2:Okay, no pickles, cucumbers, you know cucumber. I don't like it. It's kind of like raisins. I'm like why did you take a grape and take all the fun out?
Speaker 3:You know, like a cucumber.
Speaker 1:What are you? First I prefer grapes first. Your first year, great, no, wait first year. Cucumber no, first year first year. Oh, yeah, first year cucumber, and actually I should say don't like.
Speaker 2:I don't mind cucumbers in a salad. I would never be like, oh, I'm gonna eat a cucumber.
Speaker 1:I eat cucumbers all the time. We are like the same listeners. We are dressed exactly the same. We look like we're taking like really cheesy engagement photo. It's gonna say it's friend day and buddy pictures. We have the same earrings on in different colors black tops.
Speaker 2:Well, I have a turtleneck on any of a cute like puffsleeve. I don't like anything Restricting my neck or my 17 chin. I'm not sleep but we have jeans on flare like yeah, they're cheese and white sneakers. Yeah, we are gooders on to, we're driving, yeah that's funny, but yeah, so that's the news on McDonald's.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry to be the bear, but you have time, thank you, you're welcome. You know what I want to talk about? Our topic? Oh yeah, today we're talking about Christmas trees and ornaments.
Speaker 2:Yes, where do you? Are you real or fake tree?
Speaker 1:Well, I Did an impulse buy at Home Depot two years ago and I was with two of my four children, mm-hmm, and we just threw a big old Christmas tree on the push cart and came home with what we needed From Home Depot.
Speaker 2:And then need is like batteries.
Speaker 1:Yeah right. We need like a garage door opener, and I came home with a tree and this is the second year We've used it and it comes in three pieces. Great, and I installed it myself, mm-hmm, and you just plop the base down and the Middle and the top oh tree and I plugged it in and voila, it was really pretty and like how you're.
Speaker 2:You're very dainty. Lights on it, they're bright. Oh, they came with it. That's what I'm saying. Like the lights, well, that's it. I mean to get a tree. Ours is also fake and has the lights already on it.
Speaker 1:It's a dream. It works harder, not harder, right? I do like the smell of it of a real tree. So then a can't, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, and those kids, I like those, the pine scented candles.
Speaker 1:So do I love those. I feel like that kind of kicks off the season.
Speaker 2:It really is my so wet, because I've never had a real tree growing up. We always had a fake tree. You did mm-hmm, we. I've never had a real Christmas tree, which is fine, but then it's also when, alan, I got married and he was. I believe they typically had real trees. I was like, well, what do you do? He's like wait for water and do all this. I was like that seems like a lot of work.
Speaker 1:So then, what did you get in your first?
Speaker 2:So we got a fake one because I and then also when we had babies, I was like I don't, I'm nervous about the water and the spilling and the I don't you know like let's just get a fake one. And now, alice, can, I've converted you and you have a new giant. We have a new giant one, and it's beautiful. It's gorgeous, I love it and then our old one is upstairs.
Speaker 1:Oh, great we have. We do two trees too, although my kids are in charge of our second tree, mm-hmm and that's where all their ornaments go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the ornaments like it belongs in a store. It's really pretty, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Um, but the kids did not put theirs up. Oh, so I just have their box of kid ornaments and maybe they didn't put it up because I left it in the garage. Oh, I don't usually have them like, but now that we're talking about this, I'm realizing oh my gosh, the kids didn't put up the tree because they didn't bring the tree in, they're like where do we put all these ornaments?
Speaker 2:Oh well, that made sense.
Speaker 1:Did you guys decorate your tree all together? We did I.
Speaker 2:Wrap, I unwrap all the ornaments and then the kids put them on, which is a little chaotic, and there are times where I'm like be careful with this one. Oh, this one's nice. So it is a total hodge pod. How do you decide?
Speaker 1:when to do that, is it?
Speaker 2:like I looked, I was like this is the only night we have to do it because we're all home, because I don't like to rush through it, and we were able to do a couple Saturdays ago.
Speaker 1:We didn't have anything to do. I didn't even finish mine. I still have another box of Nora ornaments. I mean not ornaments that say Nora.
Speaker 2:I have ornaments that say Nora, my aunt Nancy, every year for all of our good. Like 12 cousins, she would make individualized ornaments and have our names on all of them. It was so I should have made a Nora tree. I would be do wonderful on our so I, on the second tree upstairs, I used all of our ornaments from out of town or from trips and things because we like to buy a souvenir ornament and but maybe next. So so, like self-involved, when I imagine this is my Nora tree.
Speaker 1:I'm just turning it around.
Speaker 2:If Ryan put up like a Ryan tree, If I was like I got all these ornaments from my family and they all say Alexander, I mean they're really cute too. Like they're adorable, like summer gingerbread men, some are angels, some are bells.
Speaker 1:They're so cute, but yeah it does seem kind of self-involved. I love our ornament, our two Norris and a Mike ornament that you gave me last year. I got that first Christmas and then, when we were on the cover of a magazine, they gave us an ornament, but I didn't hang. Right now, oh no we.
Speaker 2:Every single ornament is on our tree, so it's there. I even have a couple ornaments that Al made when he was in kindergarten. One is cute. One really does look like garbage because it it's like the top of a box and it has like two pieces of ribbon glue, a box. It's like a the top of, like a gift box a gift box. Oh, like a small yeah, and they flattened it and then he like glued on two ribbons.
Speaker 2:You see funny he went into finance and not fine arts. No, but the other one is very cute. It's him in a picture of himself with a teddy bear. It's cute.
Speaker 1:I do have a picture of myself. Oh yeah, I'm your teacher. Ah, like I decided to get still in the garage, but it's in that box Of things that go on the tree, and I'm the only person on our tree, so I don't know what it says about me, nor a tree. A lot of self-reflecting going right now. It's been a lot.
Speaker 2:I also love, I loved and I kind of miss not that it's not available in Chicago, but I loved the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York. Yeah, like just seeing a humongous Christmas tree like that with all the lights on it and it's just so. It's a beautiful, it's beautiful. I got to go to the tree landing what you did. Yeah, when I worked for its Carlton, I got to go and like see the whole Cash. That was like it was cool. Yeah, it was the. I know that there is the one in Chicago, yes, in Millennium Park, but I haven't venture down.
Speaker 1:We've seen it. Yeah, if we go downtown it's so pretty because Ryan likes to park right over there. That's a good parking lot. Yeah, your underground, yeah, that is nice and you come up and voila the tree.
Speaker 2:What type of ornaments? Do you ever buy new ornaments now, or do you usually rely on gifts or I like the McKenzie Child ornaments.
Speaker 1:As you can see, my mom growing up had all the same ornaments on our tree. Oh, wow, she had a Christopher Radco tree. Yes, and it looks like it should be in a magazine. Yeah, and she hung them all up. She did it. Yeah, we didn't decorate Maybe when we were younger we did. Yeah, but yeah, she did the tree and she does the tree and it looks insane.
Speaker 3:It looks beautiful.
Speaker 1:So a few of those, but yeah, I don't really buy ornaments you don't like pick up ornaments. I bought a couple of those, but yeah, mostly there are gifts we have like ornaments from vacations, like we were in Hillman. That's fun so we got like those.
Speaker 2:But I used to work at Bloomingdale's in the Christmas shop. That's where, in Bloomingdale's, you work, mm-hmm. That's where I first started was in the Christmas shop, and so I had never heard of Christopher Radco. And then I was very well-burst in Christopher. Radco, and nothing scared me more than somebody being like I have to catch a plane and I need to bring this ornament home, and I was like oh my god, I got to wrap this thing, so well, well, trying to wrap those up, but he they kind of went out.
Speaker 1:They went out of production, didn't they? I don't think so. There's something they stopped selling them at Neiman Marcus. That's what it is.
Speaker 2:Oh, I knew it was something, yeah, but they. And do they have their own process. I looked it up. Just like God, it takes seven days to create a Christopher Radco Like. Took God seven days to create the world. Takes Christopher Radco seven days to make an ornament. Do they rest on one of those days? They do.
Speaker 1:On the seventh day.
Speaker 2:They rest. Why do they do that? I'm not even kidding you.
Speaker 1:I was like oh my god, this is like the creation story. That's weird because I think he's Jewish.
Speaker 2:Well, this was Old Testament. Oh, naturally, so it works. So on the first day the glass blower blows like it's hand-blown glass that they put into the mold, okay, okay. And then it has to cool down, okay, so clear tempered glass, because they say that's the strong. And I'm like, have you ever seen one of these ornaments? They're like most butterfly wings. And then on day two it gets silvered.
Speaker 1:It has like a base coat on it, dink it in a bath.
Speaker 2:No, it looked more like they pour it in and then like twist it around Because it looks like it was silver on the inside, and then on day three they do a base coat of matte lecker with the, so getting little things like Santa's cheeks or little smiles and eyeballs and things.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I would hate this job you would.
Speaker 2:you would smash ornaments.
Speaker 1:Like seven days. They can do this in a day. Folks, let's go. What do we wait for?
Speaker 2:Come on, people, Get that glass off, get the lacquer going, and then day four is a second coat of male lacquer.
Speaker 1:You knew it all, Me too Co.
Speaker 2:Day five is more fine details and things. Day six is when it really comes to life and they paint like the bigger things and that's when they add the glitter. Oh, I would like that part. And then on day seven, it needs to rest and it's inspected and it gets its little crown and the crystal red coat Star thing, there was a video. I watched a video, yes, of course I did and it was really interesting.
Speaker 2:but these ornaments when I worked at Bloomingdale's and not just those ornaments, all the ornaments like it was just breaking glass all day long. It was like crash, crash, crash. They would break at the home All the ornaments, because people would drop them or they would you know, kick up, or whatever. Kick up. Oh my gosh, what kind of Bloomingdale's.
Speaker 1:Did you work at? What the f**k, what the f**k? You're kicking one of me. What the f**k was.
Speaker 2:Kick up. Oh my gosh, I should have asked. I should have asked Better stuff, but the eye would come home and I was just covered in glitter from all the Christmas stuff. I could just picture it like oh my god and people like having baskets full of these ornaments. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta wrap all these things up. It was interesting and I went from there to men's clothing, but it was a. Really I mean it was a fun place because I loved all the Christmas music and most of the people were happy.
Speaker 1:People are happy when they're picking up Christmas cards.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nobody was like ugh, I gotta get Christmas cards.
Speaker 1:Speaking of.
Speaker 1:I had to just buckle up, wait, still You're listening, wondering where your Christmas card from the Westfall family is. It is still in production, so they're, but they're Well, actually they're on their way. You've approved, I approved them, and my designer ordered them and she has them, oh great, and she's sending them here. It was just. I waited till the last minute and one of my children, who shall remain the enlist, chose not to smile. And you know what I did Instead of face swapping her, I left her. Yeah, I think that was great. I feel annoyed that I did that and didn't swap her face out, because I would like a picture of everybody smiling, but she chose not to smile.
Speaker 2:I did so on a different level, aiden in sixth grade. He's now in eighth grade. I sent him to school in a very nice outfit for school photos and he brought a sweatshirt that was a Mr Beast a like YouTuber, mr Beast and it's. It was a yellow hoodie sweatshirt that said Beast. Across the front of the sweatshirt it was written in donut letters, so it said Beast it's donut like a bubble letter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a bubble letter that looks like they used like donuts to write it. So I get these pictures home and I'm like, and you could see like the little peek of like his cute like button down shirt that I put him in I was like what is this? He's like oh, I forgot to take my sweatshirt off. I was like no, you didn't. And I was like, well, he's got to do retakes. I was like no, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So same idea you want to be beast mode in your sixth grade picture. This will live on forever. It is a Beast, yeah. So I was like boop, there it is. And so in seventh grade he was like I cannot wait for picture today. And now he's like embarrassed. But I'm like good, you should be embarrassed. Beast Beast, you ding-dong in donuts. Donut Beast, Does that look?
Speaker 1:like the donut game, so in your book, like donut game, donut Beast.
Speaker 2:So I think there is, I think something, and I've been trying to do that with him more lately. He wore his gym uniform with school shoes the other day, what? And texted me could you please bring my gym shoes?
Speaker 1:Wait, he left the house in his gym uniform and gym shoes. Yeah, school shoes, why?
Speaker 2:Because he said ding-dong. I don't know what, what. Who says that?
Speaker 1:Who do you know? Who didn't find them?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think he just didn't pay attention.
Speaker 1:And then, two days later, so wait, he went all the way to school in his gym uniform. So he went to school in his gym uniform, school shoes, and then he recognized this miss, and then he recognized me.
Speaker 2:I think someone probably said to him when he got into the home room like hey, ding dong, you have the wrong shoes on. And he texted me like could you please bring my gym shoes? And I was like no, I cannot, I'm busy today. Well, I did ask do you have shoes on? Because at this point I was like, who knows, it's so easy to walk around without shoes. I'm also like here's a type one diabetic. It like doughnuts. It's so wrong in so many ways.
Speaker 1:All right, so they say like teachable moments she's smiling on the other two pictures on the card, like our family picture.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that's there you go. She's like why didn't?
Speaker 1:you just put that on the front. I'm like, why didn't you just smile for all the pictures, Right? She's like well, it wasn't really that fun, Like I know.
Speaker 2:No one's ever like. I'm so excited I'm gonna get dressed up. Yeah, Pictures with my family. That's tricky business. Should we check in with our sponsors? Let's do it.
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Speaker 2:Have you done that Christmas around?
Speaker 1:the world. I love that, and you don't often hear me.
Speaker 2:I have shocked to hear, because I remember maybe I had asked you to go on a date with me to Science and Industry and you said no. No, thank you, you did say no.
Speaker 1:Because I well, we saw the exhibit and then I was like okay, let's go. Okay. And then Ryan's like do you think we should show them anything else there's so much in there.
Speaker 2:We did a few things Okay.
Speaker 1:They had a baby chicks. Did you see the baby chicks? No, we saw a bicycle exhibit Like bikes.
Speaker 2:Science and Industry is known for their bikes. The baby chicks are so cute. See them hatch. That doesn't even fit the science and industry Well it's in like life science, about like DNA and life and stuff like that. Oh no, we saw like some spaceships and like oh, we went to the yeah, the space section, and then we went to the air plane section. Maybe that airplane is cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but anyways, but those Christmas trees are amazing.
Speaker 2:Each country they decorate one in the style, the traditional style of that country, and then they kind of put in a little bit of extra commercial kind of cuteness, but it's nice to see the Christmas trees truly from around the world, and I think it's nice for the kids to see it too.
Speaker 1:So if you're local and you're looking for something to do over Christmas break, I highly recommend Science and Industry.
Speaker 2:Give yourself time to see all the stuff, especially the chicks.
Speaker 1:Yes, you also should check in with who. Annie.
Speaker 2:Malone oh my gosh, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Thank you, ladies, for having me again. I've really enjoyed coming and sharing with everyone my wellness knowledge. I thought, with this time of year, it would be really good to talk about just some tips that I would recommend if you find yourself sick during the holidays or I mean, I guess these tips could be applied at any time of the year, but it's obviously a really inconvenient time to get sick during the holidays. So if you do find that you're getting sick, one of the best things that you can do is obviously get some sleep. You know, take a little bit of extra time to sleep. Your body is working really hard at recovering. Your immune system is doing the best it can to get you better, so sleep is of utmost importance. I would say.
Speaker 3:The second thing that you can do that's really really easy is make sure that you stay hydrated, which I know when you have a stuffy nose and you're trying to drink water, it probably feels a lot like you're getting waterboarded. But try to drink as much water as you can. The reason is because if you don't, and you become dehydrated a lot of times, your mucus membranes will become dry, which then produces more mucus, which makes you feel more sick. So staying hydrated. A third thing you can do is make sure that you are still eating.
Speaker 3:The human immune system does like to be fed, and it really functions off carbohydrates, which I would not recommend mainlining candy by any means but high quality carbohydrates, a lot of fiber, so like fruits, lean proteins, you know, lower fat meals and things like that.
Speaker 3:So just make sure that you eat frequently, spaced meals, things like that, the not not so fun one for some people. Really, abstaining from alcohol is probably one of the best things you can do, because your body actually looks at alcohol as a poison and treats it as such, and so it makes it really hard for your immune system to get you better if you are putting a poison in your body. So, and then the last thing I would say is, if you're somebody that enjoys exercising, it's not that you shouldn't exercise, it's just that you may want to lower the intensity. So don't do things that are getting your heart rate really elevated, like running. So you could do things like go for a walk or do stretching, or even some really light weightlifting, but just staying away from activities that really kind of make you breathe heavy, because that makes you not feel as good. So those are my best tips for what to do when you or your loved ones get sick during the holidays. I appreciate you having me again and I look forward to our next wellness minute.
Speaker 2:It's so nice to hear from Annie again. I missed her last week so I appreciate what she has to say, because we have a cough making its way through our family and I have been trying to tell my kids some of this advice and every once in a while they'll be like well, why? And I'm like I don't know. But now I feel like I can say Annie said and it's sound advice that you can implement immediately.
Speaker 3:Get more sleep.
Speaker 1:Well, easier said than done.
Speaker 2:Right, but in the alcohol too, I think that's an easy one to be like, hey no one, yeah, which is tricky, though with Christmas parties and things like that, you kind of have to remember to take care of yourself and take a break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so thank you to Annie. Thanks to Annie, for sure. Yeah, who? Who we launching behind the most Sure?
Speaker 2:All right, when are you at my low? Well, it was, it was, it's partly my high. I got to go see a show at Steppenwolf. I went to see POTUS, which is a play, with my friend Mary Ann at Steppenwolf, but it took me over an hour to get down there. I'm an orgy, so it was a high antelope.
Speaker 2:It was a high antelope. But I actually have another high that I want to share because I'm super excited about that. That traffic was crazy and you called me when I was like. I was like I can see where.
Speaker 1:I'm going but I can't get there. I don't know how you can stand in the phone and navigate, and it was raining and there were bike riders and Mary Ann and I were talking about.
Speaker 2:These bike riders were amazing, like they had no fear, but it was pouring rain and the only a lot of them had cameras on their helmets, I think, because maybe in case they get hit, oh no, but the only light that I could see was like the screen of their camera. It was like they were like little aliens, like with lights on top of their heads. It was crazy.
Speaker 2:It was stressful and I was like ugh, and I also didn't want to be. I was running late too, so but I left. I gave myself an hour.
Speaker 1:That sounds like plenty of time and.
Speaker 2:I got there five minutes late.
Speaker 1:And then you got home in like 12 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:That's a nice thing about downtown New York. My low is that, as most of you know, we are in the middle of a giant home renovation from top to bottom, and one of our bathrooms was completed earlier this week and the man working on it was said he wouldn't see me because he'd be gone by the time I got back and I said, well, what about the door, the shower door, the glass door? And he said no glass. And I said, diego, there's not a glass. I didn't know if it was a language barrier, yeah, and he was like no. So then I called my contractor. I was like where's the glass? And he's like the glass, you didn't order glass. Oh, I was like I don't want a shower curtain. I mean no disrespect to shower curtains, but no, I don't want a shower curtain, I wanted a glass door. And he said, well, you've never ordered one, you never said anything, which is bad on me, but my bathroom shower doesn't have a cover a door on it Because I didn't order one.
Speaker 1:Can you, is it too late to pull on it? Well, now somebody has to come, somebody from the company has to come out, and I have to choose I just I thought we were done.
Speaker 2:And we're not. That's one more thing. How about your lows from last week, Like were they have some of these?
Speaker 1:Oh, I think they were mostly pleasant problems.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, water under the bridge.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, it was like I felt really low.
Speaker 2:Well, when I was listening to our editing our podcast, I was like oh man, I told so many people your Costco story Because everyone was like oh no.
Speaker 1:Because everybody's been there. Yes, we were like what?
Speaker 2:And then the fact that you have to renew your membership. But my hi, yeah, what's?
Speaker 1:your hi Was. We had a podcast meeting earlier this week and we are bringing somebody new on to our team, which I'm so happy for. She was such a breath of fresh air and had such a she had risen.
Speaker 2:She had lots, of lots and lots.
Speaker 1:But I'm just so excited for the direction that meeting went and what everything is in store for us in 2024.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Same.
Speaker 2:And we had mimosas. We did, she brought mimosas. It was like oh so I. Ever since Hamilton has come back the touring company Drew Chicago, I've been trying to get tickets. They do a lottery for $10 tickets and the most you can get is two. And I won the lottery. And it's even better because, kevin, you know he's a great guy. Kevin has been wanting to see us.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know it is, and I have seen it three times already. So I was like, oh, to buy like $100 tickets for me and to take an eight, nine year old boy to see Hamilton, just even like when you're like, I can't justify that. So I've been pretty diligently joining the the lottery and I found out yesterday not only did I win, but I won tickets for Tuesday, which is the day after his birthday.
Speaker 1:Yes, that is a win, congratulations, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, I like screamed. I was at lunch with my mom and my aunt and Aiden and I was like I won the lottery. They were like what To what I think the Hamilton lottery?
Speaker 1:Do they notify you only if you win.
Speaker 2:Correct. No, I think I would get like a pop up. Like you did not win. So I was like oh, another email from Hamilton and then I was like, oh my God.
Speaker 3:Well, congratulations. And then I read it at like 130 and they were like.
Speaker 2:You have till two o'clock to claim your tickets.
Speaker 3:So I was like oh my.
Speaker 2:God, so I have two.
Speaker 1:A hooray for you. I don't know where my seats are.
Speaker 2:I don't really care, I think it'll be great. I think so too, so I'm super excited to give that to him as part of his present too.
Speaker 1:And, on that note, thanks for joining us. We'll see you next week. We'll see you next week and in the meantime, help us out. If you like what you hear, go ahead and leave us a review on Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts, or make sure to tell a friend to listen in too. Thanks, bye, bye.