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Marketing & Mayhem
Travel Ticks, Gecko Road Trips & Drink Your Friggin' Water
Happy Happy Happiest New Year Mayhem Crew! We’re sliding out of the most frenetic month of the year (yes this episode was prerecorded right in the thick of it - the weekend before Christmas) … and you can tell we’re feeling it. Have gecko - will travel. Who knew we’d be debating the aspects of proper moisture for DSP. And speaking of resident animals - have you had a chance to see the most recent porch puppy nonsense with the plants? How many of you travel with pets?
This episode is full on “we listen and we don’t judge”. We spill all of our pre travel and post travel weirdness. Your crew is the mayhem crew but we’ve got major OCD/ obsession around travel and cleanliness. From the produce, to the laundry - tell us, how do you leave for vacation?
Which one of us has a counter cleaning obsession? And which one of us will make the bed with someone still in it? Somewhere between pythons and house floods - it’s the blind leading the blind over here on house prep. Tell us - what is the rule with shutting water off when you leave your home. Because we share a real story - and unlock a new fear.
And since we’re talking about packing - and homes - can we please vent about the storage of kitchen tools. Somewhere between the fact that every vegetable and fruit has its own “slicer”… or masher, I mean c’mon. Who can store all of this? Do we just start picking which fruits and veggies are important to us and toss the rest - how are all of yall handling this? And then how - after contemplating “stuff” did we end up picking up a new hobby and talking about flea markets, to round out this conversation? Mayhem.
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Good morning.
Speaker 1:Good morning.
Speaker 2:It's still December.
Speaker 1:I'm feeling it. God knows I am. I just didn't even know what to say.
Speaker 2:I was like it's still December.
Speaker 1:Gosh, I mean it's like it's the quickest month, but like no, no, no.
Speaker 2:It's not, it is frenetic. I'm going to use the word frenetic Quick. No, quick to me is like a flu shot. Like quick to me is like this, is like taxes.
Speaker 1:That's what I mean, like it snuck up on me. That's what I mean.
Speaker 2:We had the shortest gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas that we've had in a long time because of the way that the weekends fell and where Christmas fell. So we actually lost a weekend. I believe is what we did. Yes, Word on the street. What I've heard from the other moms is that we were cheated by a weekend.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:What in the world?
Speaker 1:And it's like that next year.
Speaker 2:You already looked ahead.
Speaker 1:Yes, because I hated it that much this year.
Speaker 2:No, I'm dead serious. For now. We don't even get to like, pretend, like it's not going to be like that next year. You've already.
Speaker 1:I'm like I turned to the last page of the book. I needed to know. I needed to know, Yep.
Speaker 2:Of all people.
Speaker 1:I'm so surprised that's how bad I hated it. I mean, that's how awful this has been, yes, but you know what it's done after today?
Speaker 2:Check, check.
Speaker 1:I am packed up, so the gecko is taking his first road trip.
Speaker 2:I know, so you're really like taking him with you.
Speaker 1:Becca.
Speaker 2:You're not worried about this.
Speaker 1:Oh, I am genuinely concerned and then, I'm here by myself with the gecko. Why are you bringing him? Well, because we don't want to have to bring somebody to come feed him and spray him and stuff. Does he eat every day? He eats every other day, but his humidity is the issue, because he has to be. I hate the word moist, but kind of moist.
Speaker 2:Is there not something we can get for him? Well, he has one.
Speaker 1:But just listen, it's a thing. So anyway, clark has packed him a suitcase.
Speaker 2:True story A little sponge, isn't he a little sponge?
Speaker 1:No, because if it's too wet, he gets a respiratory infection, oh God. So anyway, I'm packing up with the lizard, because you're bringing him to your mom's right.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we're taking a gecko road trip so that I'll be Does he have like a little travel carry case that he goes in, or are you bringing his whole terrarium?
Speaker 1:No, it's like a medium-sized one. But I'm the one who has to take him out and put him in this thing to get him to the Clark school, to pick her up, to go get. Anyway, it's a thing. So I'm a little concerned, but it'll be fine. It's fine.
Speaker 2:I know Like if something happens, you know like I don't even bring my dog anywhere.
Speaker 1:Listen, and I've got to run by your place here in a few and I can't stay and catch up and chat and get puppy snuggles because I got a lizard in the car.
Speaker 2:Gosh, she's already over 30 pounds. She was just in my lap, you saw her. She's going to be so big.
Speaker 1:I love it, though she's so cute.
Speaker 2:She's actually so long story short, not fun story. Last time we recorded I left the two dogs on the porch. The video what in the brutal like I cannot like. I could have cried, and this is like a classic mom December. Unfortunately, I actually did not have time to cry, which is really messed up to say, but I think it just needs to be acknowledged. I wanted to cry. I did not have the time. I actually could not. I started to well up in my eyes and I was like we actually do not have time for your emotions. So cause I? We had to get to Myrtle. We had competitions all weekend, I threw the plant out, I threw the plant out, I threw all the dirt out.
Speaker 2:There are two more. She's now, there's a new chosen one, so I'm pretty sure we're going to be a plant free household pretty soon. Here I don't have it in me, like, and then I have a piece of Lily inside which I've had forever and she started wrecking on that the other day. I was like get the piece Lily. Like I don't even know why, and right now.
Speaker 1:So the old dog. It was so funny.
Speaker 2:I will. I'm going to share it. So the old dog, sweet Bindi, is on the porch. I cannot imagine what was going through her mind when the puppy. I am sure she was just like whoa dude. I don't think we should do this.
Speaker 1:Like you got to chill, Like you're going to get in trouble.
Speaker 2:She probably was like oh, um, like she has such first child energy. I'm quite certain she was just shitting her pants with her eyes wide. She was like no words, okay. And so now the puppy I have, I've had to rearrange the whole house for these two dogs. So the big crate is now in the dining room area because this old dog is basically incontinent when she sleeps, so that has to be out here. Can't be next to my bed because it's stressing me out, because I can. I can tell when it happens. It's all cleaned up every morning. She gets a bath every morning. Now the puppy is living her best life on all this padded bedding because she never gets to go in this crate right now. So she's like all demure, like laying around and I don't have it locked, she's just in it because it's amazing and she can see me really well.
Speaker 1:Well, that's better than her being on the porch and wreaking havoc.
Speaker 2:The old dog's getting some sweet chill time. She had a nice bowl of water Food. Oh my gosh One's causing chaos.
Speaker 1:Isn't that the way it is, though? So yeah, I've never been able to take a pet to my mom's house, so this should be interesting.
Speaker 2:I know I was wondering about that.
Speaker 1:So wait, where do the dogs?
Speaker 2:go.
Speaker 1:They go to daycare. I was wondering about that. So where do the dogs go? They go to daycare, they stay, like my three dogs.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was going to ask you where, because I think eventually Brett's going to go to daycare.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they love it there. We take them donuts because Boozy's an asshole, so we have to take them donuts every so often so he doesn't get kicked out. Oops, because he is a humper sometimes and he is very territorial, but they manage that fine. They manage it because they just know it's part of his sparkling personality. Yeah, well, you know. But so I was getting ready this morning because I woke up at four o'clock to get everything done to make time for recording, because I know we needed to do it, and I had this thought and I had to ask you this Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm waiting again. Do you have like weird things that you do before you leave to go on a road trip?
Speaker 2:I'm probably one of the weirdest people that we know.
Speaker 1:Okay, I need to hear all of your weird things and then I'll tell you my weird things.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking you need to give me an example for something trying to think about like, because you know I am like the most, most like. Just coming back from going to Myrtle I had to basically start over in the apartment, like everything had to be like. I am so neurotic.
Speaker 1:I'm neurotic too. So what's that trend on Instagram right now?
Speaker 2:we listen and we don't judge oh yes, we listen and we don't judge okay so when go first?
Speaker 1:Okay so when I travel and I leave the house, I have to have all the toilet seats down.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have to have the toilet seats down anyways, yes, oh, okay, yeah, I don't know, yeah, how many toilet seats down, and now that I have this dog I don't like them open anyways, I just feel like it's a little gross. If you think about it, it is, and like I, just I'm a person where, like I do think about like the toilet drain thing, you know, like you hear in, like Florida, like a python will come out or something. Oh my god, shut up.
Speaker 1:I will never open the toilet ever again. If you tell me that you know how I feel about snakes, I'm I just have like a.
Speaker 2:So I would like to know I would like to hear the lid go up and down a few times if something is going to try to get out. I don't want it to just be like a free-for-all. So I like the lid down, but I have the boxer Like growing up we had big dogs and they would try to drink out of the toilet. She would absolutely try so because the girls will leave it up. And I'm like y'all, if you want potty kisses, leave the toilets up. Don't want potty kisses, put the toilet down. So now everyone's on the same page. Because it happened one time and they're like oh my god, she's drinking the water. And I was like and now every kiss you get tonight is going to be a potty kiss I love. So, okay, what else do you do? I am like a big. I like toilet.
Speaker 2:Well, I have to have everything perfectly cleaned, same, and I can't have produce in the fridge I can't have. I clean my fridge, I clean my pantry. Um, sometimes I will pre-grocery shop if it's going to be like pantry stuff and whatever. I do not want drama when I get back. That's exactly. That's me too Clean, I cannot walk. I have to walk back into it as if it were like a hotel.
Speaker 1:Same yeah, so maybe I'm not as weird as I thought thought, or maybe I just surround myself with people who are weird like me no, no, and I'm a big like.
Speaker 2:It used to be a joke in my first marriage that we were going to get new countertops for christmas. Surprise, we never got new countertops. But, um, he would say that because, like I'm a big countertop cleaner every night, I just did it before we got on the podcast to get ready for the podcast.
Speaker 1:Cause. We see your counter.
Speaker 2:No, but it's like part of my like. I make my bed every morning. Sometimes I like to tell myself that I'm going to really have like a wild day and I'm not going to make it. But I really only get like eight minutes into the day I'm like okay that's enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I sometimes will make it up with people in it, your story. I'm like you're taking too long. I'm gonna make my side when you get out. You need to make your side yeah, no, I definitely.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not up against that now. Um, but yes, I, I really have to have like a clean bed. Hold on, I'm going to, I'm walking this dog out. You're good, sissy's got some sparkle.
Speaker 1:We listen and we don't judge. What else do I do? That was neurotic yesterday.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think what else weird I do.
Speaker 1:I put all the stoppers in the tub. Oh, you do. Uh-huh, yep, why, pythons? I'm telling you, I'm concerned that a snake's going to get up in that.
Speaker 2:You're not worried, like something's going to drip down. I had a friend Wait, what do you mean? Drip down? Get ready for this, you're okay. So this is like two, three years ago. Gymnastics. I have this good gymnastics friend. I haven't seen her in a while because the girls go to. They were a jenny moore family, so you know how the different schools think, but for a little bit, pilot and her daughter were on the same team and then, since she's left gymnastics they left for on christmas day they went to another family member's house for like four days.
Speaker 2:Apparently, you're supposed to shut off your water when you leave your house. Yeah, okay, well, they didn't. And somebody used the upstairs guest bathroom when they were all going pee before they left and the toilet never stopped running. I'm not kidding. They opened up the garage. Water poured out. The entire second floor was on the first floor. They had put 52 swimming pools of water through their house.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, but new fear.
Speaker 2:It was literally the most. I mean she is like she has one of those personalities where she was like she's a teacher and she was like I mean they had to like do this whole insurance fight and like she got to basically take her frame and rebuild it, but they actually had to take the entire house down to studs, dry it, bring in things, and it was completely open to the outside Dry it In four days this happened.
Speaker 1:Yes, 52 swimming pools of water came from the second, my husband is going to be listening to this podcast and he's going to make me turn the water off every time we leave the house now it was the most they had just left, all their Christmas stuff, like they just opened it and left. How awful.
Speaker 2:It was like one of those.
Speaker 1:What the hell? New fear unlocked Good grief.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to get my dream kitchen about 10 years earlier than I was planning. Does anyone have any ideas on what they would put in their dream kitchen? Because I hadn't been thinking about that and we were like what do you mean? She was like well, I mean it was. They were like they had to find, like a little rental.
Speaker 1:What a huge pain in the ass. It was crazy, okay. Well, now I'm concerned. I feel like I need to text Nate and ask him how to turn the water off, and I feel like that's probably going to be something that I'm going to have to crawl into the house for, and I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2:I hope it's not something under the house. I hope not either, because I definitely don't go under there.
Speaker 1:Why would you have to go under?
Speaker 2:I don right, I wanted new countertops all right, what else?
Speaker 1:okay, I'm trying to think what else I have to have. Yeah, I'm here with the clean thing. I also feel like I have to have all of my clothes cleaned oh I.
Speaker 2:So that's a big thing for me. Like no laundry. Clean beds, yeah. Like clean sheets, like I have to have everything done it literally I don't, so I do. I also have another weird thing we listen and we don't judge. I keep a laundry basket on top of. We listen and we don't judge. I keep a laundry basket on top of my dryer at all times. That basket is like the overflow basket, so that basket never really gets folded. Oh interesting, he kind of just hangs.
Speaker 2:So there are things that like don't really have a great home, or like things that go like in constant rotation, like the Christmas pajamas right now for the girls, yeah. So they're like they'll pull it down and be like I just wore this skirt two days ago. Where is it? And they'll, they know, cause I, you know, I do at least one load a day. Now I have to do two loads a day at least because I got the P sisters, p princesses, so every morning I've got to do a load. So but like that thing, I fold it when it starts to get high, or if it's fast stuff like towels, sweatshirts, whatever, or if I'm trying to get stuff where it needs to go. But if it's like the quick loads that just goes to the top of that that basket, everyone's. My mom will come and like try to fold the whole basket. I'm like, why are we doing that? Cause it has, like the socks, like they can find their fast stuff very quick.
Speaker 1:I like this idea. What do you like call this basket? Just like overflow.
Speaker 2:I mean, I have had it my entire adult life and it did not. It's not something at my mom's house and I don't know why I do it, but it does make my life really easy.
Speaker 1:That's a genius idea. Cause the same thing here, like we wear the same, you know it's like high traffic.
Speaker 2:You know how I told you, my closet is like completely organized, except there's the 10 high traffic pieces in the front.
Speaker 1:Yeah. That's like the high traffic basket. So I went down that rabbit hole at four o'clock this morning. So I was like and lucky for me, clark woke up too, so I could like be loud and so I went to move something in the closet and then I started having that like meltdown where you're like I've got to clean the closet and I need to clean it right now.
Speaker 2:Do you do this? Yeah, so the closet. So I will say this the closets have been very stressful because of the season that we're in, because, right, we all use our closets for like packages and stuff, yes, so then the closet like I just finished wrapping everything that's here currently, so the closet's back down to like carpet Because it's very much stressing me out. So, like I get it, I think we're in the season of like wow, because there's not that many places in these houses to put stuff.
Speaker 1:No, there's not. So yeah. So I did that this morning. I was like I need to get rid of so many things. And I also get like that as we go into the new year.
Speaker 2:When I stress I make garbage.
Speaker 1:Same, even when I get angry or emotional or I throw things out, or I tend to clean and I tend to throw things out 20%. I make garbage Every hurricane. I think Nate picks fights with me because he knows I angry, clean.
Speaker 2:I am absolutely just going to start. I saw this thing on Instagram the other day. That was like I'm trying to help my husband look for something he left on the counter for six weeks and I finally threw away yesterday.
Speaker 1:She's like I don't know if he's going to find it there was some random zipper sitting on the side of my dining room table. I'm like and I threw it away yesterday and I guarantee he's going to ask me where it is I'm like it's a it doesn't help you If you, what you can't put it in, is in the line of fire.
Speaker 2:If it's important to you. I'm like this even with my car, so you know I'm a freak about my car too. Like I, it's not like I have. Why do you accept your?
Speaker 1:cup holders. Are they organized? That's stuff I need. You need chopsticks dropping down the road. You need chopsticks driving down the road. What do you do with chopsticks when you drive, please, I, I need you listen, you can't.
Speaker 2:I am. One thing that I think is so funny that people don't understand but you innately understand is that I am actually an extremely logical person. I don't present as logical, so if you don't know me, if you're not on the inside, you don't understand. I look more like a tornado. But if, when you're on the inside, you're like, nah, there's actually like almost everything really does have a reason, however. So what I mean by clean is like I always have it vacuumed, like I don't have junk around it, everything's organized. Yes, I also am a is maybe accidentally my car junk drawer, just so you know, because I was trying to understand it the other day, because I tried to take some things out, I found two eyeliners in there that didn't work, so I threw them out and I was like, oh, I'm going to clean it out, but then I only got as far as those two things.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm gonna know this yeah, so but I think that's my whole thing. You know, the thing that goes up, it's like it's got my flossers girl. We talked about floss in last night's console.
Speaker 2:The amount of things in that console are mine, oh yeah, I have like books, tampons, aspirin, makeup, hand sanitizers so much makeup, random makeups I haven't used in years, definitely tampons I have weight lifting, like grips I have um I literally have like a ziploc bag full of napkin straws, forks, knives, spoons like salt packets, yep like I'm your girl for a road trip like let's go.
Speaker 2:I got all the things. There's definitely some crazy. Do you have one of those like breakout things, like life? Yes, guys, why are we all so worried? About this my grandfather gave it to me, but like why is this like a thing?
Speaker 1:so for you those of you who don't know what we're talking about it's the thing that you can break out of your window if you ever get submerged in water on the back so you can rip off your seatbelt. But like why is this a thing? Like I feel like growing up like we were taught that like quicksand was like an issue and stop drop and roll. And stop drop and roll. And it's like where do we pick these things up? Because I feel like the water submerge is like one of the things too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just I'm like, I feel like I'm up against a lot right now and I think my childhood maybe made me think that.
Speaker 1:No wonder we're all freaking anxious. Stop dropping rolls, you don't burn alive I mean good question.
Speaker 2:I was thinking yesterday that somehow, accidentally, this like drawer of art supplies has very much become a weird, weird junk drawer, except for it's like nine drawers oh, honey, I can.
Speaker 1:I can top you there our pantry of dishes. We call it the pantry of death because you know I love to cook, and so I have 8 000 cooking vessels.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know, I actually was bitching about this the other day, so bad. Somebody sent me something like a link to actually, a boy sent a link to some kind of cooking thing and I was like I can't do it. No, and here's why. Because that game of like a mango needs its own thing, garlic needs its own guy, an avocado, a masher that drawer has now become two drawers of psychotic and I don't. Okay.
Speaker 2:Then you go to get the pan set and I was like this is why I bought an egg pan, because I couldn't get through the whole pan set and with half my brain intact, one of the pots is big enough to boil crabs in. What the fuck am I going to do with that? And then, like it goes all the way down to the sauce pan. I mean, there's eight, what is it like? 18 inch, 12 inch, eight inch, and I'm like what in the fuck? I, at least half of it's just at the top of my closet. 12 inch, eight inch. And the? I'm like, wait, in the book, I, I, at least half of it's just at the top of my closet. I'm like I don't want to deal with this.
Speaker 1:Well, and I have them all in my pantry of death. And then, like every time I like, cause they asked me where, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like what do you want for Christmas? Need a new hand mixer? Because I've had mine for like a really really long time. And he just kind of looked at me next week to use the KitchenAid no, that thing's too damn big, I don't have the space for it. I don't have the space, okay. But I'm like he's just like looking at me, like do we really need one more thing in the pantry of death? I'm like well, I'm gonna throw away the old one. So it's like it's like girl math, they can't sleep.
Speaker 2:So it's fine, you need a new one. I love my KitchenAid, but I've had it forever.
Speaker 1:I just don't have a. If I had my pantry of my dreams, I would have all the appliances I got mine for college graduation.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good present. Yeah, my mom gave it to me. It's pink, of course it is, I know. So when I pulled it out this year to do some cookies, I was like y'all think that some of this just happened because I got divorced, but I have been out to lunch on the pink train for quite some time.
Speaker 1:I've always been on the red trend. I love red. Always I had like red couches, red art.
Speaker 2:I had a red couch in college. I had a red couch that I found on the side of the road. It was velvet and really pretty and had, like this, really ornate sides, and I brought it to college. I mean it was really beautiful like Victorian, looking like over the top. Someone's tooth fell out what I swear on my life? Let me ask my mom right now for a picture of the couch.
Speaker 2:Wait a tooth fell out of it. You send me a picture of that couch that I had in college that I got off the side of the road Y'all you're going to. No, a human tooth fell out of it one day.
Speaker 1:Well, as weird as you are about germs, I cannot believe you picked up a couch.
Speaker 2:This couch was so beautiful though. So this is what's really interesting, and my mom said this the other day, and we'll give Cindy some creds here. I'm not going to tell the whole story, but my mom was very choked up and she was like, cause I'm up to my mischief, right, and she, of course, as a mom, we might've shared this before, but she was like I thought that you lost some of your sparkle because you were a parent and you were married and you had all these responsibilities. And now I'm realizing this is like in the fall that what happened was something else happened, and I didn't realize that you had gotten dimmed. I just thought you were becoming more serious. So mom was very choked up about the fact that I'm not dimmed to that degree at all. Oh, that's sweet, it was really sweet. Oh, she already found it, you're going to die.
Speaker 2:It had sage green sides, wooden arms. It's so beautiful. But some of this stuff so, like the wallpaper, the pink tree, like I literally have a baby pink kitchen aid mixer that I got for college graduation Cause I loved it so much.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love your mama. I cannot wait to meet her.
Speaker 2:But she definitely like. I mean, this was like a whole family affair.
Speaker 1:Hang on one second. My dad's here, hang on one second. Oh my God, that's beautiful fair. Hang on one second. My dad's here, hang on one second oh my God, that's beautiful.
Speaker 2:I know I'm going to send it to you right now. This, like the woodwork alone on this couch. Y'all are going to die when you see this. There's like carvings carvings around the arm carving around the bottom I'm describing it one more time. My dad loves a pop. I just left it to you so you can see it too. So I was just saying, like there's carvings all through the arms and the bottom, it is like the whole side is like tufted sage green. It's like lines going down it.
Speaker 1:I couldn't what is your mom? Does your mom still have this?
Speaker 2:No, oh, I know I got rid of it after I had it for like a year, but I needed it for that amount of time. It was so beautiful.
Speaker 1:It is pretty.
Speaker 2:That's like an old, like it's so ornate. But, yes, a human tooth fell out of it. A human tooth. I've never picked up a tooth, no more Like a big fat square boy.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to put this right here. Tuck it in the side of the lounge.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be honest with you. I love a junk pile. What's it?
Speaker 1:called. I'm thinking scavenger, but that's not what the word is. I love a junk pile.
Speaker 2:It used to be my thing to take the golf cart out, but you're a minimalist. That's what I think is so funny. No, I am, I know, cause you would think I like would put it all in the front yard like a hoarder. No, I would never think that. But no, like you know, like people who like really like, get into like junking. Yeah, yeah, no, I know, but it's like I can't help myself.
Speaker 2:And so where we live is like really crazy too. Not back home. This was like a really incredible find. I stand behind this find. But like where we live, where I used to live, it's bougie. So like one time I found an entire like really heavy wood kitchen table and or whatever it is picnic table, and like the benches set so and they were beautiful. I don't know what they were doing. I took the benches and we put them around our fire pit and I was like this is incredible. They were so heavy I had to like I could barely get them onto the golf cart. I am a Christmas tree rehomer, so I used to go around like, and if I found a tree, they would just set them on the drains, because you know how these girls are, they just don't care and I would literally go on mom swap because you know how there's the buy nothing or whatever. I would just re-home all the trees, I would take them home, put them in the garage, because other people need these beautiful artificial trees. I've re-homed at least seven Christmas trees.
Speaker 2:I love this about you. Two people texted me this year. One was my good friend, summer, and she said hey, if you're rehoming any trees this year, I really need about a seven foot artificial. I need a second tree for the dining room. And I was like you know what, if I find one, unfortunately it's going to be harder for me to get the trees a second tree for the dining room. And I was like you know what, if I find one, unfortunately, like I, it's gonna be harder for me to get the trees.
Speaker 1:But so you just you just slap it on top of the car and go.
Speaker 2:I don't want them to go to the landfill. To be, it's an artificial tree.
Speaker 1:I, you. You are just a little puzzle. I had no idea that this was like even a thing.
Speaker 2:I am the person who re-homes the trees on MomSwap. I re-homed the one that I said I threw out. I really didn't throw out, I gifted it by nothing. I said she's a shedder. Here's the deal Love her, had her for a decade. She's a real shedder. So you got to have some patience. Oh my gosh, I know, I'm telling you I'm the weirdest noodle you know.
Speaker 1:I mean you're definitely unique. I love that about you.
Speaker 2:I love a junk pile. I've gotten some really good things off junk piles.
Speaker 1:Have you flea marketed? Have we talked about this? Have you flea marketed?
Speaker 2:here. No, I really want to go. You said you were going to take me. We need to go and wait the chicken. Yeah, I want to go so bad. I feel like I would be so good at it. I will get carried away for a minute, but I will figure it out once I get home.
Speaker 1:We've had some really good finds this really cute, like wooden pig plate, like it's really really really cool. I was like we should get this and like serve barbecue on it. I love it.
Speaker 2:I love little like trinkety things, like I love a good gold and whatever. Like I think I'm pretty sure I have a new hobby coming. I can feel it.
Speaker 1:All that time you have.
Speaker 2:Yes, but I bought a few Christmas presents for myself. One is a health-related Christmas present. One is a piece of gold jewelry. I actually don't know what it is. It's gold colored, I don't know. It hasn't come yet. It's coming from the UK. I started looking on Etsy at vintage jewelry charms and I feel like that would be really up my alley Like I go sideways so fast looking at vintage jewelry charms, and I was like I would be so into going to flea markets and like looking for vintage jewelry and like whether it's reselling it, not obviously for a huge profit, but because I like to like get things and then get rid of them, because this is my personality deeply, like, truly deeply Watch me wear it for two weeks and be like, okay, it's time I can sell it. So really this is a very self-serving hobby that's coming, but I feel like the flea market would be a really good place to look for stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I feel like ours is not, and I mean, granted, I get kind of overwhelmed by some of it because I feel like it goes through phases where they have really good finds like that, and then I feel like it's just a lot of stuff. Huh, that's just one of the things. Huh, that's just one of the. But I will say, in florida, where nate's from his dad, they used we used to go to the one there and it was amazing, it was huge, and so it kind of bummed me out that ours is not that, not that big and not that great oh, you're not selling it to me right now.
Speaker 1:I know, because I feel like I don't want you to be disappointed. But I will say, me and Roxanne went one time and we had like fur jackets and they had like really nice, like furs yes, they were real or not but we took like pictures with them. They were super. I mean it was.
Speaker 2:We looked very really hard to get one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they were very fancy.
Speaker 2:There's some old school fur in my family for sure. I'm like give me this thing. I want a little fox. I'm a big animal, you know what it is. It's like that. Have you heard? There's like this. What are they calling this? Like Italian mafia wife trend also? Yeah, you fit that bill to a tee. That is really, I think, my like. That's your energy. Yeah, a lot of black, a lot of sweatsuits, a lot of lip. Yeah, a lot of gold, jewelry, nails, the hair.
Speaker 2:I like it. I can see this. I just think it's fabulous.
Speaker 1:I could not pull off that vibe.
Speaker 2:And I don't think it's because I'm a New Yorker. I just think it's like did I send you the um? I just sent you the necklace.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Um, the dad talking about the chickens and all the things, and then he ends up in the ER. No, it's like it's a real and it's an italian family. It's classic new york. The dad is like old school chinese, like listen, I went out so pretty isn't it so pretty?
Speaker 1:yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2:Um love the red right, I mean it's the boss wife era.
Speaker 2:I'm into it, I like it a lot it's really pretty so the dad is like I went out to the thing to check on the chickens. Two chickens are dead. Do you know anything about this? And the son's like no, dad, I don't know anything about this. And he's like my dad will call 20 times a day. And he's like listen. He's like I just got the car washed and now it's going to fucking rain. Can you call and get my money back? And he's like no, dad, I'm not doing this. He goes. Then we don't hear from my dad for five days. He's like I'm the oldest, I'm panicking. I get in my car An hour into the three-hour drive my dad calls out of the booth and he's like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Where you been? He's like I had to go to the ER. I spent a few days at the hospital. He goes. I fell in the backyard, twisted my ankle, went to the ER. Make sure it's not broken. They said I have a blood disorder or infection. He goes. If I had gone to bed, died in my sleep, but I didn't. He goes. Dad, why didn't you call anyone? He goes. I don't like to bother you with bullshit After he's already called about all this stuff. I sent it to my mom. He goes. You know, I don't like to bother you with bullshit except car washes and chickens he was.
Speaker 2:So my father. Is that not like the most? Like you gotta?
Speaker 1:send me that one. You know anything about this. He was you follow that italian family on um instagram I don't know where it's like the son does all these pranks and he'll be like. He'll say he'll tell he's like I'm going to tell my mom to shut up and he says, shut up. I bring the shut up on. They're pretty funny. I need to find them.
Speaker 2:Have you seen the guy that like wrapped his whole his, his, into his parents' house Like everything inside? I don't? Christina and I were pissing our pants. We were like oh the death, like literally he was like opening cabinets and some things were wrapped inside the cabinets. He goes what the fuck Like? It's everything Like the couch is wrapped.
Speaker 1:But do you think that, like everybody loves Italians like we do? Is this like a thing? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's just because I'm a New Yorker. I had somebody the other day who thought I was Italian. I was, like I'm the least Italian person. I just spend a lot of time around Italians.
Speaker 1:One of the moms I PTO with. We did a teacher lunch yesterday and she's from Jersey and she's a strong Italian and like she cooked and I ate some of her food, I'm like God, darn, I should have married Italian. She started laughing. I'm like God.
Speaker 2:I know, oh my gosh, I saw a trend for Thanksgiving where they all did the mafia boss, like that's how you had to dress up for friends. I love a theme, I love it. I'm going to find it and send it to you. So they all like some of the boys showed up in like puma pants with like wife beaters. So when I'm showed up in like full outfits, the girls all showed up like dressed up with the fur and the over and like the weird bouffant hair and like the whole. Oh my God, it was so amazing party thing.
Speaker 1:I feel like we need to do this.
Speaker 2:We need to. I think I sent it to summer. I'm going to find it. I was like this is absolutely the theme. Yeah, that absolutely the theme. Yeah, that's a good one, really good. I was like how do people come up with these things? Have you seen the one where they like um, the dad he's definitely super dying is sleeping on the couch and the daughter and the mom they like running, like we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go. He's like, ah, he's like trying to get his life And're like dad, grab your things, anything you can carry. We don't. We've got to believe in 30 seconds. And he's like trying to like get his life together. They start laughing. He's like you fucking idiots.
Speaker 1:He's like clutching his heart and we'll post all of these real so y'all can laugh with us at our stupid it is so funny to me I wonder if everybody does the real thing back and forth with their friends like the constant back and forth I would like to know what you do if you don't do it I'm gonna be honest with you like I am.
Speaker 1:You only do this with me. Well, back the as many, back and forth. Yes, yes, I only do. Well, I don't know, I do some with Nate, but I'll it's his difference like dog stuff, um, but I feel like really funny stuff that has me like pee in my pants. It's, it's going to you for sure.
Speaker 2:Anytime I see anyone eat shit, like if they fall, I'm like goes to Jenny and I'm like there's a fall video If people bitch about something they shouldn't have bitched about. So like the Marie calendar pie where the lady burnt it. And then she's like thanks Marie calendar for ruining Thanksgiving. And people are like she used the. She used like the temperature of a hell preheater, like she's anything. That's like a customer service thing too. I'm like y service thing to him.
Speaker 2:Like y'all are bananas, uh huh. We do a neogram, we do boundaries back and forth all the time. We do Um gosh, what else? Anything that's like funny about marriage? I just think being married is really funny. Yeah, I'm not married right now, but I still think it's very funny. It is funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we um, but I feel like I need to allocate at least, and I don't. We don't have the time right now, it's just running, but I have to have 20 minutes of real time.
Speaker 2:I have a couple of days where I haven't gone on to Instagram until like eight o'clock at night lately and I'm like, oh, this feels so good.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just, I get so tickled. And now. So when Clark wakes up in the morning early and we have time, she's like hey, can we watch some?
Speaker 2:reels. It's so funny. I'm like all about the content.
Speaker 1:She and I. When I watch them with her, my algorithm gets kind of jacked. I go past the adult stuff. All of my stuff is dog videos.
Speaker 2:Did I send you the whipped cream? No, stop, right now. Yes, I did. I think I've got some that are unopened. Hold on, I'm going to send it to you right now. Yes, I did. I had to have Wait. This is like such a like.
Speaker 1:I think I've got some that are unopened from the screen Hold on.
Speaker 2:I'm going to send it to you right now. It's a cooking show and I don't really know why he did this.
Speaker 1:What? Okay, it's right here.
Speaker 2:I'm going to just play it for you right here. Hold on, I end up. Oh, would you like some of this on your that? This co-worker is like oh, he said he was like. It says shake it five times. I'm going to shake it ten. He was like and this is what happens when you don't listen to directions. This is the stuff I live for, and this is what happens when you don't listen to directions.
Speaker 1:This is the stuff I live for, so we need to know, if everybody has a friend or several, that you do this to back and forth with the reels, because I think it's. I think it's therapeutic and I feel like, if you go back and look at all of them, it says a lot about your French.
Speaker 2:I'm obsessed with them. I, when I just logged into Instagram, I have 37 different message lines. When I just logged into Instagram, I have 37 different message lines. I was like we're going to have to regroup.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, this is what happens. I log in and, by the way, everyone I love you, thank you for your engagement. I appreciate you. I love every one of you. Sometimes I log in and I'm like fuck, and that's a leaf I'm going to leave, because I know that if I'm supposed to be doing something, if I start with the messages, I'm never going to get where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 1:It makes my eye twitch if I have a notification that's unread.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't. Do you let them let's talk about this, because I've become so weirdly privatized Do you let them come across your screen? The notifications is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:No, but when I go to click into Instagram because I've got so many damn accounts, it shows all the different. No, no, no, I know, I just meant like oh no, remember, I did have them on and you were like Jenny, you've got to turn that shit off. I think you actually turned mine off for me.
Speaker 2:You got to release the beast you can't be.
Speaker 1:Yeah for me. You got to release the beast.
Speaker 2:You can't be. You did it for me. Yeah, I? Um, somebody called me out on it the other day and they were like you. The person was like I'm in a meeting right now. You know I'm in a meeting Like you can't just be like blowing up my Instagram. I was like why the fuck would you know I'm blowing up your Instagram Meanwhile I was taking a soak in my tub, because we know I do this, so sometimes I just have a little timeout. I was like why would you know that? Well, my notifications kept going off. I know it used to be. That was me. Who in the world? So I would actually also like to know that who would ever just leave their notifications up?
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, we need to have this, we need to pull this I mean, that seems really wild I mean, I had it I use my account to influence and I don't do that.
Speaker 1:What I use my account to influence and I don't do that I think for me it was more about the like oh well, if they're messaging me, then I need to be available. It was the availability thing for me, and now I'm like no, I'm busy, know when you're available. Yeah, yeah, you can find me elsewhere. Yeah, catch me outside. Catch me outside. How?
Speaker 2:that, but I know when I'm available and I do it for clients too. I'm like I'm going to check yours but everything does not like. I just am like you see those jokes about how like people in the United States are like in the hospital for a heart attack and they're still answering their email, meanwhile in Europe they're on holiday for four weeks and I'm just like everyone's emergency is not my emergency, like I just I had a lot of jump and now I like will for certain things, but like not things that aren't like jumpy things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think for me I've gotten better, I think.
Speaker 2:I like my fight or flight to be real far away from me these days. Yeah, I don't like anything that makes me feel that way. Yeah, so I got a fitness band under my tree. Um the whoop. I told you about this because I can't put my watch back on. I literally can't even. I'm actually to the point where now I'm calling other people out. I saw three people check it in yoga. A person checked theirs the other day within five minutes of sitting down to spend time with me and I was like I just stopped talking and they were like I know, now I'm gonna make it like my whole personality and they're like oh sorry, I was like mm-hmm, Like we just got here.
Speaker 1:I've been that way about a phone.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be honest with you, yeah Well, and I have like friendships where, like Whitney and I will do this where I'm like hold on, I'm literally I'm listening. I'm just finishing up this email because we both it's like you and I like we work from our phones, right, so I'm like we. I don't want to be late to the thing. She was like no, I totally get it. We're like that a lot. It's easy breezy, but like yes, at some point you have to have the time, spend the time, use the time that you're with someone instead of being chained to technology.
Speaker 1:Yes, I agree we should take that into 2025. Although it's already here, so let's just be more mindful about it.
Speaker 2:Yep, nope, we're definitely doing it. I did also look up whether or not we can be ambassadors for this band. So it's not a watch, it's just a band. I'm really excited for it to tell me how fucked up my sleep is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to know about that because I would love to know some information about that. My sleeping patterns Cause I would love to know some information about that.
Speaker 2:My sleeping- patterns, cause I don't think they're no. So we have to own the band to be an ambassador. Okay, so I have now applied, cause I had to have the account that your band is linked to to apply. So we'll see if we can't get people a discount.
Speaker 2:Okay, that'd be awesome If it works out. We'll see. I bother your subscription, so, cause, you have to have a subscription for it. We're going to see, though. It's supposed to tell you your stress levels. Oh gosh, actually knows all of your stress levels Allegedly. We'll see. It knows your sleep pattern. It knows all of the different heart rate zones. It can tell you if you're fully recovered or not, like if you're feeling really depleted. It's supposed to tell you if you actually need a recovery day, like cause. You know how we talked to with Eden about like oh, if your heart's not in it, which somebody reached out about the other day, and they were like this was a real. I'm really behind, but this was a really good conversation.
Speaker 2:I was like I loved the eating, that's great Um, but this like idea of just being like Um, but this like idea of just being like. So we were raised to be so diligent about all these patterns, to the point of ignoring how we actually felt. Well, I want to know how. How can it track your stress? Well, I think it does everything, like through your. Well, your body has energy? Yeah, for sure. So whether it's like I mean, I think I feel like we're behind on that energy, for sure yeah.
Speaker 2:So whether that's electromagnetic or whatever, I think you can take it because I think it's no different than your Apple Watch knowing if your heart rate's up. Yeah, that's true. Or, like I have a friend who wears a watch we have AFib in our family. Friend who wears a watch, we have AFib in our family. It's actually my brother and my uncle. Both wear device watches like the whatever the nicest app watches, so they can tell if they're back in AFib. So I don't know, like I, I somehow how do you like look at it?
Speaker 1:on the computer, I guess.
Speaker 2:On your phone, oh, interesting. But you can also add things so like, if you want to like, make goals or like, let's say, you have a water goal which like, oh God, like, can we just if I just saw on my Alexa this morning like something on the Today Show and some link to like our top, you know fitness goals to set going into the new year, and I was like we get it guys, Guess what. We need water. We know you need water to die. If you have to put a tracker on your phone to get it, if you need a job like, just grow up, drink water, stop stop messing.
Speaker 2:Why is this such a thing? I like, literally I swear there are conversations that the media has just to make us more stupid. And if we have got to set a water goal, if that's where you're going with your goals, I want you to know that you are capable of so much more. Drink your fucking water and shut up about it. Goddamn, I get so mad. Another one sleep. You need more than you think you're getting Congratulations. And actually I read this study the other day where women actually need more than men. It's like 100% they do.
Speaker 1:Yes, I tell me this all the time because he's like, you know, he's up at the ice crack of dawn. He's like, well, you know, I just get so much done. I'm like, dude, I need to sleep, like I just.
Speaker 2:Women actually physiologically need more sleep than men, but we are also more taxed. The bandwidth that we, what we hold on to, is pretty high as far as like just women in general. So we need more sleep than men to truly I feel that in myself. Okay, well, there's a study that proves that, so he's wrong.
Speaker 2:So jot that down, write that down. I also love one of my favorite things to call out, and like this is I call it like the dad thing. No one is more prouder of getting up early than a dad. First one up cup of coffee at the table. I was up at 540. Also the first person to nap by noon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Nate does nap. Well, he doesn't go to the gym in the morning.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying, even in an older dad generation, Older dads for sure do that Very much. Oh yeah, I was up first. Y'all got to stop and then the very first person down for a nap same person.
Speaker 1:I legit could get up at two o'clock in the morning, and I do sometimes and I'm like people are like oh well, do you nap, Nap? No, I don't nap, what nap no, I don't nap.
Speaker 2:What in the world are y'all?
Speaker 1:talking about. No, there is no napping over here. I would have to be tranquilized like foot to the gas. I will sleep when I go to bed at eight or nine o'clock that night. I am not. No, no, no, I have a hard time getting up.
Speaker 2:But once I'm up, I'm like the kardashian mom. The minute my feet hit the, that's it. Now we're on like Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1:On like Donkey Kong and, with that being said, I have to load up the lizard.
Speaker 2:Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1:Y'all wish me luck with a road trip and, lizard, I'm about to go see Becca. Are you here right now? Yes, I am, I love it. It. I'll leave the door unlocked. Well, happy January folks, don't drink your water. No, I'm just kidding. Drink your water, but don't tell actual goals or don't said anything.
Speaker 2:Just pick a word that you want to live by, but please stop telling yourself that your goal is water. You are not not a goldfish. You are capable of so much more. Get the fuck over the water. Stop. I cannot. I have one more water conversation Like I don't like the taste of it. It's water. Stop.
Speaker 1:Throw some salt in it and call it a day.
Speaker 2:I'm like, I'm sorry if it's making you angry. You are being ridiculous and you are making yourself too small. Get big, get bigger.
Speaker 1:All right folks.
Speaker 2:Thanks so much for tuning in and we will see you next week.