This episode of Two Norris and a Mic is brought to you by Annie Malone Wellness.
Speaker 2:Hi ladies, thank you for having me back again. I have really enjoyed contributing to your podcast and it's just kind of. It's been really fun, so thank you. So I thought today I would touch on the subject of New Year's resolutions. My thought around New Year's resolutions has changed so much over the years. I think, honestly, as I've gotten older, I've really had to rethink how I approach a new year that is not only healthy but something that's sustainable. So before I get I guess before I get into that too much I'll back up a little bit.
Speaker 2:I'm curious what you guys think about New Year's resolutions, if you are into them, if you're not, if you always set one or if you never do. It'd be interesting to hear from all of your listeners. But in any case, I'm someone that used to set New Year's resolutions all the time and the problem with them typically and I'm just going to say typically and kind of generalize how most people approach them is that they're very all or nothing. So, as an example, you could say oh, I'm going to start eating more vegetables and I'm going to drink 60 ounces of water a day, and I'm going to work out four days a week for at least 30 minutes, and so those seem very finite type resolutions. And so you get to the third week of January or the second week of February, whatever it may be, and if you haven't done all of those things, or even maybe you're just setting one of them, it feels like you've already failed. So for a lot of people they'd be like heck, I'm not doing it anymore, I've already failed and I'm just going to give up, and that New Year's resolution isn't there, it's done. You've hit February and it's already felt like something that didn't work.
Speaker 2:The way I like to approach New Year's is to think about ways to create new habits, because habits are something that evolve over time and it doesn't have to be black or white you did it or you didn't. It's simply I'm going to make an effort to do more of this or less of this, and it's progressive in nature versus, like I said, I guess, black or white. So an example of creating new habits would be I want to incorporate exercise in my life, or I want to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in my life. Again, I guess come February you can look back at the prior six weeks and say, yes, I've done that or no, I haven't. But there's still plenty of opportunity in front of you to continue to build better habits.
Speaker 1:Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, and to all of our new listeners, thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 3:Yes, and welcome back to our regulars. Yeah, how are you? I'm doing fine. I thought of you yesterday because I went inside the grocery store. I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 1:What if I saw you in the grocery?
Speaker 3:store. That would be. Well, I see what a lot of other police says. It would make sense. I think you would just be surprised to see me in the actual physical building, because there are certain things you cannot order ahead of time and pick up, like alcohol. No, funny enough, you can order all the alcohol you want. The butter that I like you cannot buy and pick up. What kind of butter do you use? Kerry Gold butter? Irish butter.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I've seen that the little bags of Cheetos that I wanted, the individually packaged, yeah, like the little tiny ones that you get by the deli and well that I wanted that Aiden eats, but, and then I also wanted to get salt, because it was lucky weather yesterday and so I had to go in.
Speaker 1:So then, what do you do? You go in. Do they have it behind the counter?
Speaker 3:It's there with all the regular butter. I don't know why it's not available.
Speaker 1:Oh, they don't set it aside for you. You walk in. You have to actually do your own chopping Like I can't even order it to be picked up.
Speaker 3:It's like only available in store. Huh, it's bizarre. But when I was there I was looking, I knew exactly the kind of salt I wanted and I was like, oh, they must be sold out. But then I looked over and there was a box of it. Did you buy?
Speaker 1:a whole box that wasn't opened yet.
Speaker 3:And so I was like looking for somebody and I was like hi is this available to buy?
Speaker 1:Oh, Nora, you can't. You're such a nine.
Speaker 3:I'm such a nine and the very nice gentleman opened the box and I took two of the things and I should have bought all four, but I only bought two, because I don't want to be greedy Do you salt your driveway and your walkway?
Speaker 1:Is it bad for the?
Speaker 3:concrete. I bought animal safe salt. I think it's concrete. If it's safe for animals, it should be safe for concrete. Speaking of animals, wait, is it bad for your concrete?
Speaker 1:I think so.
Speaker 3:Oh shoot, well, nobody slipped.
Speaker 1:So Okay, it's good for safety and bad for your concrete, so you make the choice. No, I don't know, but the animal in my wall is gone.
Speaker 3:It is. Did you get it out?
Speaker 1:Or the smell is just gone.
Speaker 3:It's completed. Did we talk about this?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't think we did.
Speaker 3:It was a little too soon, too fresh. That's gross. It's update people on your situation.
Speaker 1:Okay, so listeners, there was a terrible smell in our bedroom and we couldn't decide where it was coming from.
Speaker 3:In your Ryan's bedroom, oh, yes, I'm in my bedroom. Thank you for clarifying that. Sorry to interrupt. I felt like it was necessary.
Speaker 1:The bedroom, my husband and I share the primary bedroom, thanks. I had a terrible smell coming from it and we took apart our bed, we emptied our closets, we moved dressers, you name. It Turns out it was coming from the wall. So I had the guy who takes care of all of our heat come out. He said there is something dead. I had the exterminator come out he said there is something dead. I had my contractor come out. He said there is something dead. So I said let's just open up the walls.
Speaker 3:That's what I would have wanted to do as well. And get the.
Speaker 1:Thing out and they said no, and they said you really don't have to do that. And I said I don't want to know that there is a dead animal in my wall somewhere.
Speaker 3:Did you paint like a little like a grit headstone? Yes, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:But my contractor did come out and patched a hole in our garage and redid the drywall, let the smell finally went away. But it took like two weeks. Two weeks, yeah, two weeks.
Speaker 3:When you go into your room now, though, are you like a basset hound. Of course I am.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:I am.
Speaker 1:Because, I didn't want to cover up or mask the smell. I wanted to make sure it was dry, really gone, exactly, and now it is. But that was the grossest thing, I think, that's ever happened to us as homeowners, and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3:What it was. Yeah, yikes, something we did not talk about last week, that we did over break. Oh, yes, excuse me.
Speaker 1:I just spit, it's okay, nobody can see us.
Speaker 3:I brought you to second city. Well, a group of us, yes.
Speaker 1:We were in second city and we had a blast. We did. It was weird.
Speaker 3:I guess I never really prepared you for what it was.
Speaker 1:Or Ryan.
Speaker 2:Or.
Speaker 1:Ryan, that's right, because we're never ready.
Speaker 3:Were you the only first timers in the group? There should have been 12 of us, but there was only 11 because somebody wasn't feeling well, were you two the only rookies. The only rookies, first timers. I think so Okay, and I don't think we appreciate that kind of comedy, because we didn't know it. Yeah, you've never seen live sketch comedy.
Speaker 1:It was weird.
Speaker 3:That's all I can say. Weird in like I was able to enjoy it by the end, or weird.
Speaker 1:I liked the end when they were doing that improv stuff. I thought that was funny. Improv is amazing, yeah.
Speaker 3:I was bummed because I forgot they don't do the extra improv on Friday nights.
Speaker 1:Oh, two hours was plenty.
Speaker 3:I love the weirdness of it.
Speaker 1:I think because you appreciated it on a different level, I would go back.
Speaker 3:I don't know how hard it is to put that together and try to make that work.
Speaker 1:I would go back and hope that it was a little more like mainstream, not weird.
Speaker 3:I think it's always just like the subject matter or the topic of the sketch and just how out there they are.
Speaker 1:It's like quirky.
Speaker 3:Well, I think that's kind of how they take something that's normal and put it into like an absurd situation and I did think it was funny and I thought they were wildly talented.
Speaker 1:How about really enjoying it? How about that couple, the whole guy, that?
Speaker 3:former couple. There is no way, they are still a couple. A lot of times at Second City they will ask for audience participation and randomly they shine a light on this guy for the skit and they said who are you here with? And he said my girlfriend. He said my partner, my partner. And they said what's her name and how long have you guys been together?
Speaker 1:And her name was Tiffany and it was something insane like seven years, I thought it was 12. Okay, that's also.
Speaker 3:And we were like, oh no, she didn't look happy about it either.
Speaker 1:No, she was like where's my ring.
Speaker 3:Maybe she thought that was staged and he was going to propose.
Speaker 2:Oh, tiffany, we're so sorry, but don't propose at Second City. That would be a terrible place.
Speaker 3:No, I actually just talked to my boys about this, about proposals, about because Wow, because we were in they're getting real serious. I talked to my kids about what they want for lunch.
Speaker 3:No, it came up because of we are at Universal Studios. There was a couple getting married in the Harry Potter land. Oh no, and they were like what is it? And Aiden brought it up and I was like, as a rule, don't propose. I was like, don't get married in a theme park, like because it was two people. I know you can have a beautiful wedding in Disney World and that's something totally different. This was the woman was in a dress, the man was in a tuxedo t-shirt and like joggers and they had a minister and a photographer. Were they young? Uh, I don't. To be honest, I was so surprised at the situation I didn't really clock their faces. My kids were like, wait, can you do that? I was like, yeah, but you got it, but I took it for everybody to get to the park.
Speaker 3:So was there was no, so they stood on this bridge in the Harry Potter land and said their vows, and then that was it.
Speaker 1:I was going to call it. There was no set, but there was no.
Speaker 3:There was no there was no set, no they were like older. Yeah, you know, people are eating like funnel cakes and churros and drinking butter beer, and they are exchanging vows. And they are exchanging vows.
Speaker 1:Yes, hmm To each their own, and so Aiden brought that.
Speaker 3:I forget why Aiden brought it up, but um, and we were saying, I was like, don't get married at Universal Studios or like that, and don't propose at a theme park either, because you might drop the ring on a roller coaster.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's not a safe place to propose.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think it would be. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, yeah anyways, switching gears a little bit Sure. Do you want to feel old? Sure, do you know what's turning 25 years old? Well, two things.
Speaker 3:Not me. No, is that just the thing you're like, not you? No?
Speaker 1:Or me. That's the two things. Um no, the TLC song no scrubs.
Speaker 3:Whoa.
Speaker 1:Right Stop, I know, 25 years old, no way. No, it still holds, still, still, still works. You're still hanging out with your passenger side to your best friends, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but don't holler at me while I'm doing it.
Speaker 1:Um, the other thing, that's turning 25 and I miss this the first time around.
Speaker 3:You missed it 25 years ago, yeah, and it kind of launches into our topic of the day Is with Sopranos.
Speaker 1:Did you watch that?
Speaker 3:No, and you know why? Because I was in New York City and I could not afford cable.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was a cable, it was an HBO.
Speaker 3:So I've seen some of the episodes but I and I like know it a little bit, but I didn't follow it.
Speaker 1:My dad and my brother loved it. Yeah, I love that theme song, I was in college so I wasn't there, but I'm gonna rewatch it with Ryan.
Speaker 3:Oh, I must have still been in college and it just wasn't on my radar. Well, either way, I'm excited to watch it because I think it's gonna be really good. Alan and I were just talking about like TV series that we either we missed or we didn't watch or we like jumped off the boat from. And I really want to watch succession. I watched the first season during COVID like lockdown, but I think I would really like to watch that.
Speaker 1:Oh, what's the one? The medieval one.
Speaker 3:Oh, game of Thrones, yes, did you ever watch that Either did I.
Speaker 1:It just looked kind of dirty. It's not really my jam, I don't know it doesn't look like rom-com-ish.
Speaker 3:It's definitely not rom-com-ish. There's a whole episode I think called Bloody Wedding, where everyone was murdered.
Speaker 1:I would rather have theme park wedding.
Speaker 3:I guess if, given the choice between the two, I would pick Universal Studios, and that's what we're talking about today, not Bloody Weddings. In fact what we're?
Speaker 1:up to what we're watching, what we're reading, what we're doing.
Speaker 3:I treated myself on Monday because I had a gift card from my brother and sister-in-law for a massage and it was delightful. It was lovely, but how do you feel about chatty masseuses? I feel terrible.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I hate to be a mean girl. I'm gonna talk to you about that in a second. But no, I don't mind talking if I'm getting my nails done or if I'm getting my toes done. I don't like to talk when I'm getting my nails done.
Speaker 3:It's a little uncomfortable when someone's rubbing my calf, telling me what they have a taste for for dinner. And you know me, I will chat, I will small talk, but it just. I was like, oh, we have an underpants, can you talk to me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know, it was all too much talking, and then I you know, and I was, responding, but I was not, I was just kind of like oh, you were not engaging.
Speaker 3:Correct. And then I was like felt bad about, like am I being rude?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, okay. So, speaking of while I'm slightly nude, rude and the nude I wanted to talk to you about mean girls. Okay, speaking of something that we missed the boat on or didn't see and is coming background, that's something I never saw.
Speaker 3:You never saw that movie. Oh, I saw it in theaters. I saw it with my two best friends from grammar school in New York in the movie theater.
Speaker 1:Yes, you win. You never saw it.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:I know the new one is coming out. Yes, well, it's the movie of the musical Correct and I I would love to see that, but I've never seen the musical, so but I would like to see the first movie before I see yeah let's just stop the podcast.
Speaker 3:We can just watch it now. Okay, turn that right now. It's so good. Tina Fey is the is amazing in it, but then Amy Poehler plays.
Speaker 1:Oh, Amy Poehler is in it as well.
Speaker 3:Amy Poehler, amanda Seyfried Lacey. She was in Mamma Mia. She plays the daughter of Mamma Mia, amanda Seyfried and the girl from the notebook, hoosie. What's it With Ryan?
Speaker 1:Gosling. Oh, I like her. Why can't I remember her name? She plays the main girl, rachel McAdams.
Speaker 3:Yes, Rachel McAdams she's in it and Lacey Cheve from Party of. Five yeah this will be cute. Amy Poehler plays Rachel McAdams mom, and it's the funniest.
Speaker 1:Is it appropriate for my girls ages 10 and 13?
Speaker 3:I think so I would think. So what's it rated? I think it's PG, I don't know, but they um like that's, it's like famous. Because Amy Poehler says she's like I'm not a real mom, I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool, she's just a hot mess.
Speaker 1:Great, well, I'm going to add that to my list.
Speaker 3:It's really funny, but I do want to see the movie. All right, I'm excited, I know, because I'm a nerd, I know most of the songs, but uh, it makes. Oh wait, lindsay.
Speaker 1:Lohan yes, yes, yes, yes. Of course, you know what I just finished watching. Finally, the Marvelous Mrs Maisel. I didn't watch the last season. Stop Ryan and I loved it. Yes, and we just never got to the last season.
Speaker 3:Things got in the way and you watched like together and we watched everything together. We watched everything together. That's really nice. I watched a lot of.
Speaker 1:TV by myself. You do. Does Al have shows and you have shows he he can't really stay up that late to watch.
Speaker 3:He always falls asleep, oh I always fall asleep, oh, okay. Then do you go back and watch it, and then I tell Ryan.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to close my eyes and listen. And he noticed that, yeah, I'm going to clunk out. No, this happened in lessons in chemistry.
Speaker 3:Oh, I loved lessons. And I missed a really I can't recommend that highly.
Speaker 1:More than highly enough. Yeah, I missed a really important part. Which part? Well, I don't want to spoil it, I've seen it.
Speaker 3:Oh, you mean for our listeners? Yeah Well, when he gets hit by the butt, oh that's important.
Speaker 1:I was asleep, were you like, where'd he go? Yep.
Speaker 3:Oh no, oh no, that isn't important, that happened to me. Have you seen the movie Up the Pixar movie?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Well, in the beginning you learn the story of the couple and it's really, it's like heart-wrenching, it's beautiful. And then, after like that's the first 15 minutes, and then you see the guy as like a grumpy old man. I was watching it on an airplane and I missed the first 15 minutes and I was like this movie, like what's with this guy? He's like so, and my brother was like do you have no soul? How could you not like be touched by this movie?
Speaker 1:And then I realized oh that you missed the first.
Speaker 3:How did?
Speaker 1:you miss the first part, I think because I was like flipping through and I was like I'll watch this.
Speaker 3:Oh, but when did you finally realize? Oh, the second episode.
Speaker 1:he was like he told me, he was like you missed a big part.
Speaker 3:Oh, what was it?
Speaker 1:That's terrible.
Speaker 3:I really liked that guy. I gasped out loud when that happened.
Speaker 1:That was a good show. I tried to get through the book and I couldn't. Dad, I remember you saying that. And then, and it was the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year, I could see why.
Speaker 3:But I could also see why reading some of that chemistry stuff would be a lot to get through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm reading a book right now the Little Village of Book Lovers and then back synopsis or the summary of it is so different than the actual book.
Speaker 3:I don't know?
Speaker 1:Is that the?
Speaker 3:book you have on the table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's right here. It's written from the point of view of love.
Speaker 3:Oh wow, I don't know, like as like a emotion, or as just like a motion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the emotion. Oh, I'd like to read this.
Speaker 3:Let me get through it and I can give you a better idea.
Speaker 1:But yeah, no you can read it when I'm done, or I'll put it in the little library At all.
Speaker 3:That's really nice, I am reading anything. I am not. I've been reading the high school musical script so I've been trying to read that Like well, I do our listeners know that you're directing the musical musical. I direct a junior high musical at our kids grammar school and we had our first rehearsal yesterday.
Speaker 1:There's that. Grace came home so happy. My fifth grader is part of it and she is so, so happy.
Speaker 3:It's a fun show and I'm excited for these kiddos and it'll be good. So I've been reading, doing a lot of reading, of high school musical. So I would like to find a grown up.
Speaker 1:There is a great Instagram and they don't endorse us or anything. We're not promoting them to girls in a bookshelf. Oh, they have a great Instagram Holding it up.
Speaker 3:That's why there's two of them.
Speaker 1:Yes, it started out as one, but they're collection. She was like oh, someone else, what's this bookshelf? So it's really strong. Sorry to toss strong women just holding up really strong shoulders. It's hard for them to read because they're holding up these books. But anyways, somehow get it done. She teased her yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, what is happening?
Speaker 1:The wheels are falling off.
Speaker 3:We're getting silly, we're getting silly. Sorry, mom, all right, two girls in a book.
Speaker 1:These girls read the book, they're off to a great start.
Speaker 3:Do they read the?
Speaker 1:whole book. What one would do if you had an Instagram based solely?
Speaker 3:on reading. You would read the book, unless they were carpenters and they made bookshelves.
Speaker 1:You don't know, we don't know. They want to read the whole book. They can't because they have to hold up the bookshelf. They're looking for someone to help them build the rest of the bookshelf. Actually, as they're very gross, I think they're looking for a third person.
Speaker 3:They're like, they're just growing, or maybe they need a library little library to give away their books. Yeah, they should give away their books, they should read the book If they really want to give away too many books like. Give them away, spread the love.
Speaker 1:So yes, they do read the entire book. I think somebody else is holding the bookshelf.
Speaker 2:Oh right, maybe they're interns, I don't know.
Speaker 1:And then their synopsis is cute because they post it and it's all like little details about the book. So it's the cover of the book and then cute little highlights about, like, the main characters, the setting, the plot line. Oh, I like that, yeah, and so if you're looking for good recommendations from carpenters, and carpenters.
Speaker 3:I was going to say I actually am looking for a bookshelf. Oh you are, so I can't wait to check out Two girls in the bookshelf.
Speaker 1:I hope I'm not disappointed?
Speaker 3:No, did you watch the Golden Globes? They were on Sunday. Do you know the answer to that? Yes, it's no, I watched them.
Speaker 1:And they're movies.
Speaker 3:It's movies and TV.
Speaker 1:Oh, I should have watched it.
Speaker 3:Well, I've recorded it.
Speaker 1:There's always one next year.
Speaker 3:You have to watch Mean Girls. A lot of people say it's a good prediction for what the Oscar winners are the topics or the categories later.
Speaker 1:Like are the movie? Is there? No, like, well, they do way.
Speaker 3:They split it up drama or musical comedy. But do you watch the bear? No, no, okay, it's awesome. It's filmed in Chicago and it's about a Italian family in their restaurant. It's great, but they call it a third. There's there's two seasons of it. What's it on FX? But you can get it, I think, on Hulu. It's awesome Bear Okay.
Speaker 1:That sounds like something Ryan and I would like to watch. It's really, really good.
Speaker 3:It's. Why is it called that? Because his third last name is something like an Italian name and he goes by bear. It's like bear love bond, don't I forget.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's close enough, something like that.
Speaker 3:Everyone who watches this show is going to be like what is wrong with?
Speaker 2:her.
Speaker 3:I can't remember what their name is. But, anyways Did it win some awards. It won some awards but in a lot in like the comedy category I was like there are some funny parts, but there have been times where I'm like I need to pause this because it gets intense. Oh, you know, it makes me. The most nervous in the show is when they show people chopping really fast. Oh, I'm always afraid someone's going to lose a finger.
Speaker 3:Yes, I can tell you. No, this is a spoiler in all the two seasons. I know it's cut off a finger, okay.
Speaker 1:That usually doesn't give me anxiety when I'm watching television losing fingers, but yeah, good to know Speaking of anxiety.
Speaker 3:I had a new anxiety dream, Don't you typically?
Speaker 1:have anxiety dream when you are the passenger in a car.
Speaker 3:Yes. So either my teeth are falling out or I'm called to be in a show that I haven't rehearsed for, or I'm in the shotgun and the driver of the car just decides they don't want to drive.
Speaker 1:Do they disappear? Do they decide they don't want to drive?
Speaker 3:No, most of the times they sit there with their arms folded and then they're like doot, doot, doot, and then sometimes they disappear. Do you get mad at them? No, I don't. I just kind of get like, oh God, someone's got to stop this car Nervous.
Speaker 1:So you had another one last night.
Speaker 3:Yes, but it was a new one where I was in a car and no other passengers in the car. And the other weird thing is I was on the driving from the right side, like I was in England, oh, and I couldn't find the brake. Oh, that's terrible. Like I kept trying to like my foot kept going.
Speaker 1:Do you think the correlation of that is that you are just barreling through life full steam ahead and you need to pump the brakes? I'm no dream expert.
Speaker 3:but I think the other one was pretty clear cut. We were like slow down with the champ, but then in the dream I was trying to like with my hands reach, but then I was like wait, I got to keep my eyes on the road.
Speaker 1:I used to do that in high school.
Speaker 3:Find the pedals. Wait, drive with your hands, that's terrible.
Speaker 1:What Hold on. So a friend of mine from high school, she was my very first friend when we moved to Scottsdale or Sonia in 1991. And she is still a dear friend to this day. So she got her license in October, not this past. No, no, no, so she would steer and we would take her mom's suburban out.
Speaker 3:Oh, God Back in the day, those things were like those were like a tank.
Speaker 1:Yes, we called it Bruno. Absolutely named so she would steer and I would lean over from shotgun and I would control the gas and the brick. Could she?
Speaker 3:not reach the pedals.
Speaker 1:It was just a fun game.
Speaker 3:I was just like this, let's do it.
Speaker 1:So she would say like gas, gas, gas break. And we would yeah, oh.
Speaker 3:Isn't that too cool Getting my dream flash. So this would be a great dream for you. It would be a happy memory.
Speaker 1:Yeah so yeah.
Speaker 3:I was trying to find the pedals and like I was like trying to get down, then my seatbelt was in, I had a coat on and I was like but it was bizarre, cause it was one of those dreams where I've learned that, cause I did a little research this morning that it actually has a name it's called a lucid, lucid dreaming, where you kind of can see what's happening.
Speaker 1:Is that when you know you're dreaming and you have a choice to kind of control the dream.
Speaker 3:Yes, I briefly looked it up and that's, but I don't know, but I couldn't. I knew I was in this moment in dreaming, but I couldn't control it. But then there's like this whole thing of dreaming where it's like oh, lucid dreaming reduces insomnia and anxiety and can help you process grief, which sounds great. But I have to say, I woke up and I was, I felt, very unsettled, exhausted, cause. Then I was like am I cause I, it's same as you. I was like am I doing too much? Am I like out of control? Right, now.
Speaker 1:So they say a quarter of people have these lucid dreams regularly.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's a lot of people. But then there's this group and scientists, like Tibetan Buddhists believe you can train yourself to be lucid while dreaming. If they do dream yoga, where it's like okay in your lucid dream and you have to intentionally perform contemplative techniques while you're dreaming and like you can conjure unusual objects to appear and like, make the choices. But how? First of all, how do you make yourself have a lucid?
Speaker 1:dream. So when I was doing some research on it, I read you wake yourself up an hour before you normally wake up, or several hours before you normally wake up, okay, and then that's like the height of REM sleep or something, and then you go back to that. Yes, putting these practices into effect. They also say to train your brain wear a bracelet during the day to train yourself. Is this real, is this a dream? And if it's real, you snap the bracelet to train yourself, to do that when you're asleep. Whoa, how do you do that? So I don't know. When I sleep, I don't like to do anything but close my eyes and go off to dream land.
Speaker 3:Preferably not in an anxiety dream.
Speaker 1:Yeah or preferably in a non-lucid dream, a stiff dream.
Speaker 3:So it's interesting, I'm gonna, I mean, I'll keep it in mind next time I have a lucid dream. But I would like a lucid dream that's not me in an uncontrollable car. Like I'm in a vacation, I would like a lucid dream, like yeah, in walking around New York City or in London doing something fun, or in spring break? Yeah, all right, I don't know, so I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can we talk real quick about some trends in January? Yeah, let's do it. How about the no spend January? Have you heard of that?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Where you don't spend money on anything more than basics.
Speaker 3:Okay, like groceries and bills.
Speaker 1:And they say the number. One way to start is to shop. Proof your phone.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:So I don't know if it would. I don't know if your way of shopping would be better, because you would just click what you wanted at the grocery store and went to go get it.
Speaker 3:I will say, when I went in person at the grocery I knew I wanted like five things and I left with like 50. I was like, well, I'm here, look at this.
Speaker 1:Do you make a list when you go to the grocery store? I do.
Speaker 3:And I went off the list.
Speaker 2:Cause there were things that caught my eye.
Speaker 3:You know my mom. They also say to make up.
Speaker 1:That was another tip. It said shop proof your phone, make a list and shop your closet first.
Speaker 3:I need to do that. I need to go through my closet and see what's there. My mom always gives up or typically gives up things, buying herself, things for lent oh, like treats. Yeah, like she won't splurge us and things you know, like new clothes or that's a great thing to give up. I think my sister did it last year as well. She gave up buying things for herself for lent oh wow, I really like TJ Maxx.
Speaker 1:I buy a lot of things for the house. Are those for me? I don't think so.
Speaker 3:I think it's like clothes or shoes or like little impulse buys, but I would think, if you bought like new, placemats or like a decoration that's not really buying yourself.
Speaker 2:I could ask. I guess it's whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 3:You can make it. This is, I'm puzzled by this. We had a bucket of salt like that. You would put on your driveway and ruin your concrete but keep everyone's in a Home Depot bucket. And then there was a trowel like a gardening shovel in the salt and I went to go use it yesterday and it is both solid and a liquid. Now it is no longer salt.
Speaker 1:Like it's separated.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's totally solid, congealed on the bottom because the shovel is stuck in it, but then there's like four inches of water on top of the salt.
Speaker 1:Did the water? Did the kids empty their water bottle in there, or something?
Speaker 3:I don't know, Salt melted itself and then I don't know Like it's, like I don't know what happened?
Speaker 1:Do you think the water is coming from the salt?
Speaker 3:Maybe, I don't know, was it like condensation, and I don't know how this happened.
Speaker 1:Because there's no leak in the garage.
Speaker 3:The salt was in the garage.
Speaker 1:Huh, that's interesting, but it's completely unusable because it's frozen and liquid.
Speaker 3:It's a solid and a liquid at the same time. It's a science experiment.
Speaker 1:And then I can't get the thing out.
Speaker 3:So if there's any scientists out there who are listening, let me know. Alright, because I don't know if I can Google that Liquid salt.
Speaker 1:Liquid salt Shovel Shuffle Problem. The other January trend that has me bonkers is January. What Did you hear that one? I'm worried, but I also feel like you probably think it is Juice, not shaving, yeah, or?
Speaker 3:anything. Okay, I'm definitely not as diligent in the winter about that.
Speaker 1:Neither am I, but I know.
Speaker 3:But I wouldn't stop completely. Yeah, because a lot of my leggings are cropped. Yeah.
Speaker 1:You should just always shave. You should be well just grooming.
Speaker 3:Grooming yes, I don't support that one either. Yeah, that would just.
Speaker 1:I think I don't think I could last that long there's like a whole movement on Instagram page. No, thank you.
Speaker 3:I also don't like pictures of body hair, like that. Like even commercials about razors for face, for whatever. I'm like I don't want to see close up of anyone's hair. No, I never thought about that Blech. No, thank you. No, thank you. I was like I'll buy your razors, but I know what it's for, I don't need a demonstration.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but what else would they do with the razor? Would they just have them on a bookshelf? Two grosses.
Speaker 3:If they need a shelf, I know two grosses.
Speaker 1:That would make reading way easier if they're just holding up razors, that could be a 10 second commercial Our razors are great.
Speaker 3:Show the science behind it. Show the little cartoon of how they work. Boom bang done. I don't want to see someone shaving their armpits on TV.
Speaker 1:What could it be like? A cartoon, a cartoon.
Speaker 3:No, we're just milking a cow. That's how you milk a cow.
Speaker 1:Your hands are going up and down. It's like driving. No, I was thinking of like razors, razor people. Yeah, I like that dude.
Speaker 2:That would be cute. Hello, I'm.
Speaker 3:Sharp.
Speaker 1:Hello, I do a kitchen.
Speaker 3:I have five blades. I have three.
Speaker 1:I'm going to take you to an area in Universal Studios that end, oh my God.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, shelby, yes, hi, amo, we shall but you're low. I'm low. I was so brain dead last Friday. I was like I'm gonna. I got it was like our lives. I was like I'm gonna. I got it was like our lives. I was like I'm gonna. I got it was like our last real day of break, because it was before the weekend. I was in the shower and realized I forgot about Rory's doctor's appointment.
Speaker 3:Just like completely. I was in the shower. I like I exercised, I did like a longer workout. I was feeling really good.
Speaker 1:I was in the shower and I was like I wonder what triggered your brain to remember that I don't know Washing your hair.
Speaker 3:Loosage Razors and I jumped, I like got, I like hit shampoo in my hair, like, turned the shower up and called the doctor's office. I was like I'm so sorry and I of course told them I was in the shower and remembered about this appointment. They're like we don't care.
Speaker 1:No, but you know what? You are probably a wonderful patient and are always on time, so they probably appreciate it.
Speaker 3:And then they were like okay, how about this day? I was like no, it's not gonna work and then it finally. I pretty scheduled it, but they had to offer like four different dates and then I missed his piano lesson too.
Speaker 1:Did you know about?
Speaker 3:either one. He I got home that night because I was helping at the Nazareth with the Nazareth show and I got home and he was like we forgot about piano.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, shoot, so he had to tell you about piano.
Speaker 3:I didn't even remember.
Speaker 1:And the holidays are hard, the breaks are hard because everything is off schedule.
Speaker 3:So twice in one day, you think after the doctor's appointment I would have looked at my calendar and been like I really didn't get myself in gear.
Speaker 1:Milo was kind of in the same wheelhouse. I had the craziest morning this morning with kids and getting out the door and they were crabby and packing lunches Like I don't know. It was just we couldn't all get on the same page.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Catherine Grace was using El's makeup in her bathroom. She said she wasn't and she came out like a bronze. Yeah, Catherine Grace was giving me the silent treatment, which was actually a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3:She was like that's the best part of the morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. We just couldn't get back on track and everybody left the house, so it was grateful when you said can we meet later? Yeah, thank you, you're welcome. What's your high? My high is that my dimmer switches are in and my contractor is coming to put them in at the end of the week, because, if you have been to my home recently, I have really really bright lights, or night lights.
Speaker 3:Nothing in between.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I've kind of just been powering through.
Speaker 3:It's funny this time of year I wish I had more dimmer switches. That's nice, because it's either.
Speaker 1:And these things the one that controls my dining room light fixture is great because I can control it from my phone. I love that, so he'll put the same in the kitchen.
Speaker 3:I have that. I love that In Aiden and Rory's room, my two oldest boys who share.
Speaker 1:So you can turn out the lights.
Speaker 3:Yeah, last night they were like loud and I saw at 11.30, I just turned their lights off. That's a nice passive, aggressive way to go to bed. It's late to be loud.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's your high the musical.
Speaker 3:I'm really excited to get started. They were really cute yesterday they were. They were all really excited and there were a couple of times when they were singing that I was like, oh my God, like I got goosebumps, it's gonna be, great and they sounded really good. So, yeah, I'm excited to get started with that.
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