THROWBACK to 2024: New Year, New Goals, New Resolutions

Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving? More like Thirty, Crying, and Trying.

Join us as three moms who are just trying to figure life out. We have a few cries along the way, but we're always trying.

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Hello, this is Hannah and Kalissa and Sarah, and it's been a while since we've done a podcast together. So I just wanted to recap what we did and what's in the future and coming up. And this is our first episode of 2024. Happy January. Snaps. Happy New Year. Do you guys like the New Year? Do you not like the New Year? No, not any different. Just another day. It's just I'm getting old. I love the New Year. I love the idea of like a clean slate, a fresh page. I don't do anything different. I don't have any resolution. Did you make any resolution? Um, I need to eat. At least a hundred grams of protein a day. Wow. That's good. Formula for how much protein you're supposed to have a gram per ideal body weight, but I'm a big lady. So you should want more because your ideal body weights. Yes, but it's really hard. You got to focus on getting that much protein. Like you have to try. Yeah. I watch a lot of like meal prep and like people cooking and stuff and they're like, Oh, this meal has 40 grams protein. I'm like, Holy fuck. Yeah. You got to eat like. Four of those to get another protein. I only eat two meals a day, so I don't even know. It's two meals and a lot of snacking. I have, I'm really trying to focus on my weight this year because my friend, she just got engaged, so I don't know when her wedding is. I saw that. Congrats to her. Yes, congrats to her. Shout out. Shout out. Yes, we all know Danielle. I think separately. No, I only know her through you. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Okay. And only like very vaguely. Oh, okay. I've only been with her like maybe twice. Danielle and I went to school together. So I've known Danielle since she was very young. So shout out Danielle. I know she listens. I hope you didn't bully her. Huh? I hope you didn't bully her. I didn't. I did not bully Danielle. Sorry. Good. Thank goodness. Or vice versa. Danielle. I'm just kidding. But yeah, she got married. She got married. She got engaged. And so, you know, she hasn't asked me, but I think it's on the fence if I'm going to be in the party. And I'm like, definitely I want to attend either way. Yes, but I also want to. look good. I'm to look good. Yeah. For photos and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I gotta get my body hot again. Calvin also Yaddy, yes. Calvin also had some friends get engaged recently and I'm definitely feeling like I need to do some something. Some something. So what are your guys plans? Not that we're encouraging diet culture, but also just curious if there's something specific like a resolution. I know. I can stop eating chocolates. Like, chocolates is literally my Yeah, I just, if I see chocolate, I have to have it. And I was given a lot of chocolate for my birthday. Mmm. I appreciate it. Put it in the freezer. It stays good. I forget about shit in the freezer. That's the point. That's the point. Okay. Well, out of sight, out of mind, I guess, but I just throw it away. So, what a waste. But I did have a lot of it, but I'm like, I don't, I'm not into a dark chocolate, so I just threw all the dark chocolate away. Just so anyone knows in the future, don't buy Hannah dark chocolate. Linda, anyone else, don't buy Hannah dark chocolate. I love dark chocolate. I don't either, it's nasty. Oh, I love it. No. Oh man, that's good stuff. So, yeah, I'm going to try to cut that. Eating chocolate at night and I get heartburn anyway, so I really shouldn't even be eating it. So less chocolate more water Um, and maybe get some fiber in me, I suppose. Mm hmm. Talk about the poop thing earlier. Yeah, we did talk about the poop thing. Well, I bought that, I think it's Bloom. Oh my gosh! Yeah. You fell for that ad. Oh, I bet it tastes like dog shit. It did! I put it in my new Tumblr that I was given from my sister in law, which I love. And, oh my gosh, it was disgusting. That is why. And I powered through. I just plugged my nose and just drank it. But I was like, hey, it's greens, it's, you know. There goes our sponsorship there, you guys. I'm sorry, but I couldn't, I have a real thing about like, taking things that I can taste that are yucky. I just can't. Maybe if it was more fruity. You could probably, well this maybe defeats the purpose, but you could maybe put some of those like squeezies. A flavor packet. Yeah, those squeezy things or something in there so it tastes better. Really making a concoction then. You know, you gotta do what you gotta do. I suppose. But yeah, I was really disappointed in it. I was like, man, this one sucked. There really goes a sponsor. Shit, man. Speaking of sponsorship, our podcast is growing in popularity. I just told the, the gals, I checked our stats before I came today and we are. Getting up there in downloads. And I'm just so happy we grow our, we're definitely going in an upward trajectory. Um, so thank you, thank you to our listeners. And, uh, if you would love to, um, podcasts are best spread by word of mouth. So tell a friend if you like to listen to us. For sure. For sure. Anyways, um, my main goal is to just not eat out so much. Because really that is just, it's wrong. It is hard. I be eating out way too much. Same. Cause then it's like. You know, it's the calories in calories out whatever bullshit stuff, but financially that that too. Yeah, true It's so just kind of got burnt out. I'm like Then it's just like it doesn't even taste good after a while cuz I'm eating it so much and like I Really got I'm a lazy cook sometimes and I'm like, but don't you do a hello fresher blue apron? We do we do a green chef sometimes. Um, but even that's fucking expensive. It's like 90 bucks for three meals and like it's hit or miss whether my kids actually like it, even though I have loved almost every meal that we've gotten. But I feel like the portion sizes are healthy, which is unfortunate. There's just not enough food, like I've done HelloFresh and it's like I need to add stuff to this. I really like to be a volume HelloFresh. I like to be a volume eater. So like instead of eating like what normal people eat, like two eggs, I eat like five eggs with green onion and I'm like, that's enough. Yeah. That's good protein. Yeah. You might be hitting your protein goals. Dang girl. Maybe. Probably not. I don't know how much you have to have. Well, and it's always hard to because like you're trying to eat healthy in the winter and then trying to work out in winter. It's very hard. Ignore my kid if you hear him. But, uh, actually a gym company is sending Nick and I a home gym. So, we'll see if It'll now, I'll never see you at the gym again. I know. And I'm like, Nick, I kind of like going out of the house'cause it actually like four. Oh, you still can? Yeah. But he's like, I wanna cancel the gym membership. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Let's wait a little bit before we, well, you better hurry up'cause this doesn't renew in February or something. Oh, alright. Whatever. That's cool. Same gym. So I live 20 minutes away from the closest gym. Oh. And by 20 minutes, I mean the difference between WA and New Hampton. So I mean, it's like. It's like a long ways and at least 25 actually once you get in town and get to the gym. And then you work out for like an hour? Oh god, no. An hour? Oh my gosh. I'm not saying I go to the gym, I'm just saying if I wanted to, have like stuff that you do at home? Yeah, I've got a couple weights and stuff like that. Um, just like body weights and lifting, lifting heavy things. Pilates, did you do Pilates? I love a Pilates table. Oh yeah, the machine. Yeah, I saw Miley Cyrus doing it and I'm like, I want that. She's so fit. Oh, I know. Gosh, she's amazing. All of them are. They have a great voice. It pisses me off. Yes. Yeah. But that's literally their career. I know. And then the whole Kim Kardashian thing, you need to get up off your ass and work and do the job. Go get plastic surgery. That's pretty much. Oh, I thought they were taking the diabetes drugs. Oh yes. But this was like, don't you remember? She said that controversial thing? Yes, I do. Yes. Yes. And I'm like, oh, it would be so much easy. My life would be so much easier if I had a personal trainer, personal trainer, personal chef. Yeah. The personal trainer comes to your house. Yeah. Someone would kick my ass into doing shit. And then I wouldn't be embarrassed, like, when I worked out with Hannah. Stop! Yeah, but my body was hurting after working out with Sarah. Yeah, but that's because she'd already been there for like an hour. And I'm like, why didn't you tell me to come earlier? I would've come earlier. I don't know. Sorry, but then I probably would have been a distraction. What's going to do? What's going to do? And I had to take a break anyway. Cause I'm like, Oh man, my thighs and my butt, dude, my legs hurt so bad. The next day I couldn't walk for a week. And then it's like that kind of defeats the purpose. So if I do, I kind of talk to myself because I used to work with personal trainer, shout out Misty. She was phenomenal. I had such a great time. I got, felt really strong. I got really strong. Did you prefer a woman? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, I didn't even, she's the only one I ever reached out to. Oh, okay. And she's like, heck yeah. Um, so, but I'd get, work out so hard and I'd get so sore that I couldn't walk for a week. Yes. And then it's like, now I can't go back. Yeah. Well, I did, but it took a full week to recover. So I'm like. I'm going to do exercise that doesn't kill me. So like, I don't like feeling short of breath. I don't like feeling like I can't do a movement. So I'm going to do things I can do. And I'm going to stop before I get to the point where I'm not enjoying myself. That might be part of my problem. Yeah. That's smart. You're very smart. Because I don't want to torture myself. I don't want to do things I don't like to do. So if I can, shit, lift some weights. And then it's not manageable to like continue to do. You can't form a routine out of it. That's smart. You're thinking. That's a good brain up there. I'm just, I'm really making an effort to not hate myself. Oh, lovely. Yeah. I like to hurt. I get the pain. Oh, okay. I do. You're crazy. I know. But then, if you keep doing it, like, it eventually gets better and easier, and then it doesn't even hurt anymore, so then you just move up a level. You do kind of feel like a muscle mommy afterwards, which I could never be described as a muscle mommy if you, like, look at me, but. If you feel that way after your legs really hurt, then you're like, I love it. I just walk like I have a cob up my ass and like, I've got to go to work and like work with people and like, I've got to like sit in one of the stools and I'm like, yeah, my kid is bending down to pick up your kid hurt me so bad. I'm like, Oh, my kid's school's on a hill. So like going up and down to the front door is like, Oh, it's so difficult. So difficult. People are just like, what's wrong with you? I'm always afraid. So difficult. It's gonna like look weird. awkward. We don't wanna commit too much to our resolutions. I really wanna commit. I do too. I really do.'cause I want be healthy and not hate myself. I just wanna look another year fine in a dress and not have to like do that. Push out your shirt. Yeah. I don't wanna have to wear, um, Spanx for the rest of my life. Preferably. I mean, I love Spanx. I do too, but it's also just like, they're so hot and they are so much like extra thought, like we need to go pee or like, you know, I don't know. It's just like, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. How do you guys feel about plastic surgery? Are you guys mommy makeover? All for it. All for it. Have we talked about this before? We did. A little bit. I don't, I'm, I think if you want to do it, cool. I could never. I want my boobs done. I could never. Tummy tuck. That's about it. I'm getting Tummy Tuck for my 30th birthday. Yeah, we talked about that for sure. Speaking of 30th birthdays. I'm in the club. Hannah is officially 30, flirty, and thriving. Old lady town. Yes, literally. My husband and I, we went Oh, we, he took me out. To a restaurant that we normally go to. And then we saw the movie Iron Claw. It's got Zac Efron in it. And Jeremy Allen White. And it was the saddest movie ever. Shut up, really? Oh no. It was an A24 film. So they're usually known for dark. Usually some dark movies. And this was based on a true story. It had five brothers. And their dad was like, You learn a lot from it. From like the parenting and like generational trauma. The dad, all he cared about was being the number one pro, like, wrestler. But like, it was like the WWE wrestler. So that's where the name iron claw came from because he would defeat his enemies by putting his hand on their skull and just like squishing. That is terrible. Iron thing says happy birthday. Like squished brains. I love it. Well, she was also drunk. Well, I was going to get a margarita and I was wasted by halfway. That's the most 30 year old thing you've ever said. I've got like, I've got some pictures out of it though. Screenshots. Loved it. But yeah, so we're watching it and there. to death. Um, the mom has buried four of her children. Uh, she buried, they had a little boy who was maybe five years old. I don't know what he passed off. He passed away. And then the next golden child and her, his dad's eyes, cause the dad would tell his kids now he is my favorite kid. So once you guys line up and match him, then you know, I could change my favorite kid to a different favorite kid. That's terrible. Yes. You learn a lot from like, how Don't parent like that. Yeah, don't get, yeah. So, the golden boy died. Um, and then the next son, he's like, I can take his spot. And at the funeral, you know, they all wanted to cry for their brother. And the dad's like, nope. No crying. Like, this isn't what he wanted. We need to work for it and push through. So who else is going to step up and be the next one? And I'm like, are you kidding me? You're burying your son and all you care about is who's going to be the next superstar and The one son, he's like, yep. I'll step up dad. I'll do it And he did it. He won an award and the belt and everything had the glory He was drunk and behind the wheel of a motorcycle and his leg got No, gosh. Mm hmm. So he lost his limb and so The next brother who wasn't even a wrestler or anything, the dad pushed him. He's like, nope, you're going to be the next one. You're going to be the next winner. And he got really, he got hurt really bad and he ended up in a coma for I don't know how long. But he wasn't quite right after he woke up and everything. Like brain injury or something. Yeah, like it kind of looked like he had a stroke kind of like he just wasn't there. unaliving himself. Is this based on a true story? Based on a true story. Oh my gosh. And so like, the last brother, like, he tried to wrestle, but he just No, but He just saw how toxic his dad was after all of his brother's death, and he's like, No, we gotta push forward, we gotta push forward, and Who's gonna be the next one to take the title, and blah blah blah, and We're gonna have to put a spoilers warning on this one. Yeah, sorry. If you wanna see this movie. I'm sorry, I'm kidding. I love spoilers, but Yeah, but like just kind of watching that and it's like, oh man, like I hope I never like put my dreams Ahead of my kids dreams like that, but the one brother he knew he started to see how toxic his dad was and he got rid of the last name and It was so sweet at the end of the movie, he had, he ended up with his wife, with this woman, and they had two kids. And he's watching his sons play, and he's crying, watching them, and the boys come up and like, Dad, why are you crying? And he's like, I'm not a brother anymore, like, all my brothers are gone. I'm sorry boys, uh, men don't cry. Oh my god. And the boys were like, no dad, everybody cries, it's okay. And I'm like, yes, you go little boys, you tell your daddy it's okay to cry. It was just really sweet and, but yeah, super sad. Okay, and for those wondering, that movie is called? The Iron Claw. The Iron Claw. Zac Efron and Jermia Lynn White. Wow. I've never even heard of that. I don't even know what movies are coming out or when they're coming out. Well, we, we were like the, there's been a whole lot of people. But everyone I think was seeing, what's that? Jason Momoa movie. I have no idea. I don't know either. Land shark? Or shark man? Aquaman. I saw Barbie. He has a movie out? Aquaman. Is it the third one? The second one. So Aquaman is out. Isn't he from Iowa? Yeah, he lived in Iowa for a minute. Dude, I think his mom has a taco shop in Des Moines, I think. I would be down for that road trip. But yeah, I think people were seeing Aquaman, I think Willy Wonka, and then that Sidney Sweeney movie. Oh, I want to see that. Oh, I love Sidney Sweeney. All Aboard? Or what? Um, It's All About Us, or something like that. All About Us. Or All About You, or whatever. Yeah, all something. A predictable rom com. Yeah, but I feel like there haven't been any good rom coms, like at all. Jason Momoa. Went, moved with his mother to Norwalk, Iowa, where he completed his elementary and high school education. No freakin way. My sister in law's, uh, ex husband was, like, lived in Norwalk, grew up in Norwalk. Now he lives in Des Moines now, but I have no fuckin idea. It's, he, they live in, uh, Des Moines now, so I don't know, but. I mean, it could be closer there. It is. It's like half an hour away from Des Moines. Okay, yeah. So. Yep. Very cool. Wow. Yeah, maybe I wish they would've grown up together. Maybe they did. I don't know. Maybe he's 44. Oh no, he's like 30. Hmm. Two play some Momoa. Yeah. Him and Drew Barrymore had a a, I just saw a clip I on TikTok. Did you see that clip? They're both single. I hope they do. I, and I was like, and you know, she was with Justin Long for a long time. Yeah, I did not. Is that. He, oh my, is he the one with the dark hair? Who was, um, he did a, he was in, um, uh, he was in the waiting, he was in Tusk. Uh, new girl. He was in New Girl as the teacher, maybe husband, I'm sorry, not husband, boyfriend. Don't really care for that. Show violin and like sang and was weird and. Yeah or no? Zoe Deschanel. Okay, but that's a great show. Winston, he's the best. I had someone else try to convert me to New Girl the other day. Oh, so good. You should do it. I feel like it's one of those things, like, okay, the office, friends, New Girl, even Schitt's Creek, like, unless you were in it during the time, like, I feel like, unless you were indoctrined into it, I have a Schitt's Creek Tumblr. That's what you hear shaking in the background. Mm-Hmm. Um, unless you're indoctrinate into it. Like if you're a friends person, you are a friends person. Yeah. And it's like your personality. Yeah. And I don't know, I'm a scrubs person. I like scrubs, but I like to kinda cute. Mm-Hmm. I didn't really care for the last season with Dave Frank going when they were like, um. Like, it was like a musical or something. They were singing all the time or something. Oh, there was a musical. Uh, it was just one episode though. Oh, what? I feel like it was like It was just one episode that haunted you. Yeah, maybe. That Grey's Anatomy musical. It was so good. I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy after like the third season maybe. What? It got fucking weird. They were doing weird shit all the time. Okay, it got super weird after Derek died. Then I was like Yeah. Is that McDreamy? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, who didn't die? I mean, wouldn't you leave that hospital at some point? Wasn't there only like one person in the original cast at the end? Yeah. There's two still. Oh, okay. Yeah, uh, well. Ellen Pompeo, right? Or whatever it is. Yeah, she left. Oh, she did? She did. Yeah. Oh. Like, she was gonna leave for the last season, but she was gonna do, like, the voiceover in the beginning. That's it. Cause she wants to do everything. Bailey's still there. Like, what? Bailey and, uh, Richard. Richard. Yeah. I don't know who that is. Richard, Richard, Richard. Oh my God. You guys are probably like, yes, yes, there we go. I'm sorry. I'm not very good with names. Usually those are both the original cast. Literally. Yeah. I only know that her name is Ellen Pompeo because I literally just watched a tick talk about her like a couple of weeks ago. That was her and your dreamy. Although I've been reading a really good series, so I haven't ticked off. Tell us about it. Um, so it's a, it's a, it's a series about, um, Siblings kind of group of friends kind of and it's like kind of a spinoff of another series that this author wrote and basically it's like this group of friends. It's four women, two sisters, and then two friends and then like a group of siblings and friends. Is this a drama? No, I mean it's romance. They're all kind of interconnected and they all fall in love with each other and not each other but like You know, what I'm saying, like one of the men fall in love with one of the women and then, but they're all like interconnected before they fall in love and stuff. It's really good. Okay. Really good so far. That's awesome. They just, like, the storylines have been really good. I just, I just remember when I could read. Like falling into a book series, like cannot put it down kind of a thing. And then you like get done with a series and you wake up and you're like, Oh my God, I will never read a book. And that's what I had to take a tick tock break and be like, okay, I can't read another book for like a week. Yeah. It's called the Boston Bells. That's the series. Hmm. Justify. There you go. Link in the show notes. I haven't linked anything in the show. I mean, you can just Google it. No, it's fine. I think it's on Kindle. You want to read it? For free. Kind of. For free. Kind of for free. You could pay for a canola limited, but. You know. You get like one of those books for 10 and that's, you're already even at the price. Oh, good to go. I have 11 Audible credits. Oh! I need to cancel my Audible. Why? Because I can't listen to books. Use those, use those credits. Oh, I can't listen to books. What's a credit mean? I just, I'll start them and I can't finish it. Well, you know, I'm going to have to because if you cancel before you use them, you lose them. Oh, shut up. Oh, fuck. You know what you should do? You should get Kindle Unlimited, and if you have the Audible, then you can Like, if you have a book that you're reading, then you can switch it over and listen to the like part of it on Kindle, or on uh, Audible, if you're like in the middle, you can switch back and forth. You should do that. Cause then you can just switch back and forth and be like, man, I really can't listen to this right now. I can't read it like a sentence. Oh. Yeah. No, I don't not have the focus. I wish I could. I used to be able to, I think I lost that ability about 11th grade, like free reading time in school. I could not stay focused long enough. Tell me you have ADHD without telling me. I get hyper focused and Calvin will yell at me because he's like, dude, the kids are talking to you and they've been trying to talk to you for like five minutes and you're not listening. And I'm like, what do you mean? I didn't hear a single word that you said. I didn't hear anything until you just yelled at me just now. So, sometimes I have that problem. My husband has that problem. I feel like Nick has that problem. My husband too, yeah. I think that's just like a spouse problem. Maybe. I'm sure I do it too. I don't know. Um, Plans for the year? Are you guys traveling anywhere? Oh, actually, Nick, he He was nominated in, uh, the Gundy's for, uh, breakout creator of the year. Ooh. So he, you know, there was so many votes that you could vote towards someone and then, yep, he got in like the top five. So I'm going to go to Las Vegas with him and my father in law. Ooh. And so we're going to see if he wins or not. It's going to be at a place called Shot Show. It's in Vegas. They hold a I hope he has to dress up for that. I'd laugh. I've never seen him really like dressed up. It just is my wedding to picture. Probably as long as it has like cutoff, like a tuxedo. Yeah, that's what I was literally going to say. It's like I only see him in tank tops ever. So like seeing him in a suit or something would just make me laugh. Yeah. And I kind of like when I look at him with like Yeah, I mean our wedding he looked fine. That's true. I forgot about that, but he didn't wear a suit Didn't he just have a shirt on? After the ceremony. He put on a tuxedo tank top. Yeah. That's my phone. But uh, yeah, so we're gonna go to Vegas. When's that? It will be January. Gosh, that's like soon soon. Yeah, it'll be like the 20th And me and my father in law, we're only gonna go till Tuesday and Nick is gonna stay till Friday. What a glamorous life. Oh my gosh, I have to change all my plans because my husband is an awards show. Do you have a dress? Like you're gonna dress up? Like red carpet? No, no. No one wants to see that. I mean Nick does, but yeah. Do you have to walk the carpet? I don't know. You should really find that out. I've been trying to, but they tell me nothing. So, and of course guys are like, Oh, I just show up. It's a shot show. Like we're just going to show up in our blah, blah, blah work boots. And you can wear sweatpants. Yeah. That's why I'm my nice sweatpants that have no holes in it. So, yeah, I don't know. Just kind of, I think it's casual, nice, casual, but, uh, we will see if he wins or not. Yeah. Are you going anywhere this year? Big travel plans? Not big travel plans. Well, maybe, I don't know. It depends. We're gonna check out a new gym. Jiu Jitsu gym. Oh, yeah. In a couple weeks. Are you going to Omaha? Mm hmm. You are? Yeah, to meet the owner of that gym. Nice. Um, and we haven't seen Calvin's parents, like, visited Calvin's parents in Arizona for quite some time, like, since Bronnie was not quite two, probably, so. And he's finishing. So Calvin's, I don't know how you say this graduating. He's getting his, um, electrical license. This it's a big deal. Spring takes about five years. Yeah, it's a big deal. So hopefully like we'll have time and money after that from not having to like take off weeks of work every year. So we'll see. Maybe we'll do that. I don't know. They'll be easier to fly with because we'll only have to travel with like. smaller car seats and stuff. So we'll see. I don't know. We'll see. We're not really huge travelers. So yeah, we're not either. We're going to the Dells in February. Another water park. Yes. You're the water park fanboy. We like water parks. Our kids are just that age, you know what I mean? And the Dells, we love the wilderness. They have the swim up bar, and I think we've talked about that I'm taking my babysitter with. No, what? Yes. Did you get it from me? Yes. Yes. Lydia, you were the best. Shut up! Yeah. No, seriously, do it. Bring a babysitter. Nice. That way you can be like, okay, we're gonna leave and you get to stay behind and then. And it just occurred to me that Craig and I haven't had an overnight getaway since last July, or last June. Do you guys do a lot of overnight getaways from the kids? No. Mm-Hmm. And so I think, um, we're gonna try to squeeze one of those in. Nice. I would take one less day at the bell's. Where'd you go? I don't know, even just like an overnight in lacrosse or something, or like, um, Des Moines or somewhere within driving distance. Just an overnight and go do a little shopping. We have a very bare. Newly remodeled home, so it'd be nice to get something, some character, something on the walls. If you go to Des Moines, we went to a really nice bed and breakfast there when Gus was little. It was pretty awesome. I could try to find the Oh, they definitely don't. They were like old. It was like an old, um Um, not mansion, but like it was a really old home that they'd like converted into a bed and breakfast. It was really fucking cool. Nice. Haunted. Like 1920s style. I'm just kidding. No. But very 20s. Yeah. Like 1920s. Like penny tile. That kind of thing. I love it. Me too. It's great. I'm open to suggestion, but yes, we are going to hopefully get rid of it. Just somewhere with a bed where you can get it on. Oh my gosh. A hot tub preferably. Not in the hot tub. Don't do it in the hot tub. Yeah, don't do it in the hot tub. That's nasty. Don't be gross. I know, but, uh, they have, um, high point cabins up by Decorah. Have you seen those before? Yeah, that's where I wanted to take my family, but they didn't have enough rooms for 20 people. Yes. So I went to a different one. They're very romantic cabins and they have hot tubs out side overlooking the cabin, but those are a minimum two night stay and I just, I just want a one night getaway, but it's really hard. A lot of places won't let you do one night. Yeah, because if you're driving, you're driving like the whole day. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't know. I want to drive, have a full day of relaxation, and then drive. So two nights. Yeah, I just get nervous about leaving the kids alone. It's two nights. I know, I know. Yeah, it's just, yeah. And that's, I'm trying to wean off. Cash. So I'm trying not to do a whole lot of night feedings. I'm like, nope, you are fine. Just go to bed. Because my mother in law is gonna watch the boys as we go to Vegas. And as much as I'd love to like get them out of my head and just try to enjoy Vegas, I'm gonna be thinking about them. And then I'm like, well, do I need to bring a pump? Unless you're gonna be able to hand express. Yeah, I'm thinking hand express. Maybe that'll be, you know, maybe that'll be like your final, like, this is the last hurrah. A lot of people actually do do that to like, kind of wean. They're like, oh, I'm gonna go away and then, sorry. Okay. Bye. Well, I just, um, I had this friend and she cut off. Like, she didn't wean herself off and she actually kind of grew like a Mastitis? Like a cyst. Oh, shit. In her boob. What? So, like, she's got a very hard lump in her boob. What? Is she gonna take it out? Yeah, she needs to go in and do that, but they're like, it's It's fine. It's a benign. Oh, a benign, like, tumor kind of thing? Yeah. They're like, it's not going to do anything. So I think that just, that's why it freaks me out. They know specifically that it came from? Mhmm. So you think it was like calcified milk or something? I don't know. But, uh, yeah. So I think, since hearing her story, I'm like, I don't want that happening to me. Yeah. So that's why I'm like, very like, no, I want to wean off when my body and him are just, yep. Get some cabbage leaves and put cabbage leaves in there. What's the point of that? I don't understand that. I don't, cabbage honestly, are help dry your milk. No. Yeah, I don't think so. Because when pe, when women are eng goed cabbage leaves on to help get rid of the excess milk. How's, I don't get it. I don't know. It's something, I have no idea how a 2012 review of study supports the idea that cabbage leaves are a reliable way to find the relief you need. You're welcome. Using cabbage leaves reduced the pain and hardness of engorged breasts and made it easier for people to continue breastfeeding for longer. Oh, I guess I was wrong about like, uh, getting rid of stuff. But I've heard, that's what other people have said. I think it'll induce the pain and hardness of engorged breasts. So anti inflammatory. Yes. It's a damn leaf. So that's like if you're weaning and you still have excess milk. They can decrease your milk supply. Okay, there you go. Interesting. Whatever. And if I switch over to my birth control, cause my doctor was like, well, if we, you want to switch over to your birth control, it will stop the breast milk. Like a hormonal instead of a like copper IUD or something. I only take pills. But she said, yeah, if you switch over, because I'm on like the ones that you're supposed to take if you're breastfeeding. Low dosage, yeah. So she's like, if you want to switch, it will end your supply, like overnight, or in a day, whatever. So I'm like, oh man. So you're gonna do it? Now do I really want to do it? Right. I don't know. I'm still kind of like, oh. But then I'm like, no, I think he's done too, because he doesn't really do. A lot during the day and it's probably like more of a comfort than it is comfort for actual. Yeah, that's why I'm trying to ignore Not ignore him at nights, but like nope, you don't need that. Yeah, cuz then it's a comfort thing But it's like you're still getting but like like I said when I'm in Vegas, I don't want to worry about my boobs like Or your mother in law up in the middle of the night. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But it's coming up. January is January. I'm not bringing the camera up. Just do it at night. Oh, so TSA can look at me weird? Well, ma'am, it seems you have some foliage in your breast. Can you step aside? Maybe you just buy some while you're there. Maybe. I don't know. There you go. That's funny. Yes, uh, and then also, PSA, this is coming out on Friday, the first week of Friday of January. Um, I accidentally didn't publish last week's episode, so you guys get two episodes this week. Just FYI. Ooh. So if you missed last week's you really did miss last week's and you can listen to two this week So go back and check it out on the YouTube Yes, kudos to you kudos to me snaps for you. Yes for me Melissa was cold the goat try those YouTube videos. Oh, man, it's rough I learned a lot. We got to switch up the angles. Yeah, and like I mean, we're just starting this and I would love to ask for Nick's help But he's also busy with his projects and everything and I'm like, okay, this is my you know, our project we can figure it out together So it's a it's a slow. It's a slow. Yeah, and it's less pressure right now to have because I love Kalissa And she's got a lot of things going on, so I don't want to overwhelm you with, like, things. Yeah. I, I really truly wish that I could be more help to you. I really wish I wasn't an absolute idiot when it comes to, like, technology and things. You're a great support though, so. Always cheering me on. There we go. Go girl, So yes, we are on YouTube. We will be intermittently on YouTube. Eventually. I would like to get all of our episodes with audio uploaded to YouTube, even if there's not like a live filming of it. So, well, what's some goals maybe that we could set for this year for the pod? Oh, the po. Do we have thoughts about that? This is something we kind of discussed in our group chat, but I want to reach a thousand downloads just in January. That would be just a thousand. I think we're around 650. That's a big jump, but I would be on board. Yeah, I think I'd be really excited. I would love more guests. Yeah, that's true. Because I feel like everyone's really got an interesting story and their paths are different and I like to listen to that and try to relate to it. I just like hearing everybody's story. And we've had a lot of people reach out that want to be guests and it's like, Oh, that'd be a good topic. Oh, that'd be a good topic. So it's kind of, um, getting them all to work with everyone's schedule and stuff because it's not like this is our full time job or anything. So we're not like, well, we have certain based around Wednesdays. Yeah. Yeah. We film on Wednesdays. So that's when on Wednesdays we were all available. And film podcasts. Actually, none of us are wearing pink right now. I actually have my bras pink. Ooh, look at that. Can you through that? No, I see your nipple. My nipple? Wow, that is pink. That is pink. It wasn't my nipple before that. It was my seam. It's a good thing we're not filming today. Sorry. No, that's okay. Zipping back up. Closing it in. Lucky I don't have HR. I'm just kidding. Sorry, sexual harassment. Apologies. Um, what else? I think it'd be a great to have our visual figured out by the end of the year. I know that's like super, that's like a huge amount of time. That's a huge span of time to like have that kind of goal for something that's like relatively simple. Yeah. I mean it should be simple, but no. Especially with like, you know, we're, this isn't a paid thing. And so I think none of us want to spend like buku bucks on equipment. But we are, we are investing in a new table. It sounds like to try and like get better angles. Okay. For cameras. For cameras. Um. And for guests. Do you guys watch Too Hot Takes ever? I know we've talked about Too Hot Takes. I don't watch it. Yes. And I just listen to it as well. But they have like couches. Yes. And I love that. I love that. Kind of like just a comfy vibe. Yep. That's what the couch is there for. Yes. So we might have like the stand. Yes. The microphone stand. Yes. The stands. Yeah. The booms. Yeah. Maybe that'll be our next investment. Sorry, now we're just talking logistics, but like, if we can just put the camera on the thing, on the stand, on the TV stand over there. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. I mean, or like in that general area. Yeah. And I've seen some of these podcast cameras in their studio and I'm like, damn. Mm hmm. It is a lot of equipment. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out Unsubscribe Podcast. And then like, yeah, true. But then I just, yeah. I don't, I think another, We're just a baby. Yeah, we're just a mommy. Another goal would be, um, this is maybe down the road, but. To have some sort of editing help. Because you have so much on your plate already. Yeah. I, I honestly truly feel terrible asking you and waiting for it's once I got the learning curve of it, like switching the camera angles and cutting the back and forth, it's really not too hard. Um, but it was just like so much that first night that I really dove into it. I literally sat down and gave it like six hours entirely. Which is a lot. Yeah. That's another full time job. But that, that's okay. Cause I'm super excited. I love learning stuff like that. I love learning technology. I take it into like other areas of my life and different jobs that I do. So um. Yeah. It's just super fun. And you said, when I reached out to you, that you wanted to try a podcast. I did. And so did you learn about a lot of that stuff before? I did. Okay. Yes. And so I had it event, so that my fancy mic would go directly into my fancy camera. Which, so it would record all in one. Oh, that's such a good idea. And it would record directly into the computer. So, that was nice. Um, and then when you edited the audio, it would edit the video at the same time. Right. But that is a lot to set up again for multiple. Yeah. But, you know, we might get there. We might. Maybe someday. Yeah. Although you said an editor is how much per episode? Oh, I don't know. Who knows if Nick was, yeah. But you know, if we, my, another, okay, this is just me making goals. Um, another goal for me would be that this would be something where eventually there would be some income with it because otherwise my husband won't let me go back to work and I am dreading it. Yeah. I'm dreading it. Finding people, talking to people all the time, being around people, adhering to someone else's schedule. So, this would be good. You should, uh And it's like enjoyable, you know, to just like have conversations with you guys. People I already know. Well, kind of. But like, I feel like we, we know each other, or like we're similar enough where I feel like I know you pretty well. Our baby names lists are compatible. I know, I know. The Toyota thing, like we're the same wavelength here. We're the same wavelength. Did you ever take a test? Like if, um You take, you answer all these questions and at the end it says, like, what kind of career you should take? No, but I should. I'll look one up. I'll Google it later. I did and there was like 300 questions. I'm like, I ain't got You have to, you have all the time in the world to do that. It's deciding your destiny. Your future. What'd you get? Did you, no, I didn't finish it cause it was forever long. Was it free? I'm not sure. It was probably like one of those. Once you finally get done, they're like, pay to pay for the results. Yeah. I'll just be a trophy wife. I'd love to be a housewife for the rest of my life. Although if you ask Calvin, I am terrible at it. He doesn't get an opinion. Maybe someday you'll have your own podcast reviewing books. Um, Oh my gosh, that'd be so fun. I love, I love it. I set my goal for this year. Um, Oh, another goal. I set my goal for this year on Goodreads for as 200 books and I think that I will be able to surpass it because I started my Goodreads like officially in like October maybe or November and I read 35 books over that. It was 38 by the end of the year. So, you know, that's only a few months. It's like 10 books. I've seen a lot of like year in review of people who have read a lot of books. And I'm like, Dang! Yeah, so I'm going to shoot for 200 this year. At the minimum. That's great. I really think that you would do great with a book podcast. Maybe someday. I would totally be your podcast editor. Love that. Cause I don't have enough on my plate. That'd be so fun though. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's not hard to whip up some audio and send it on over. You know what I would do? I would just be talking into my phone like this and it'd be like, well, I read this book this week and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I would give it X. Isn't that what the book club does? I don't know. Or what's a book club do? I don't know. A book club is usually like a group of people who all read the same book. And then they come together and they talk about it. Which that would be really fun, but I wish you guys would read. Your podcast wouldn't have to be that long. It could just be like even a five minute thing. Hey, this is what I'm reading this week. This is really great. This is what I liked about it. This is what I didn't like about it. And I'm on to this book. People do that all the time with, um, quilting and sewing. I know because I've edited my mom's videos. Um, and she just does, um, she talks about what she's sewing. She talks about what she's cross stitching. What she likes about this project. What she ran into, the problems she ran into with this pattern. And it's called, um, FlossTube. Flosstube. Flosstube. My mom is a YouTuber. So, yeah. Whoa. I thought that was really cool. And you could be booktube. I bet there's people who already do it. Oh yeah. Oh I'm sure because I'm all over bookdoc and stuff. Just like there was a candle. I don't, I think it was a joke. A candle reviewer. Oh, actually that's a good idea. Perfume reviewers, great idea. Yes. Cause I, I don't wear perfume, but like. People would send you free books, Sarah. Oh my god, I would, I would die. And you know what, my sister would die too because I'm so excited for you. She loves free stuff. She's so frugal, she loves free stuff and we talk about books all the time. I love frugal. I pay for my books, but she's like very much of what's it called when you, you probably wouldn't know because you're not. I'm not a book person, but it's like you sign up for their like reading list or whatever and they send you a book to like, you have to leave a review to read it. Oh, yeah. And so she does that a lot to like get free books. Would you do that? Would that be something fun? Um, I would, but I don't love to review. I'm talking about reviewing books on a podcast and I'm like, I don't love to review books. I just, um, don't, uh, I don't know. I don't know. I would. Yeah, I don't know. I always have trouble, like, seeking out those things, you know, knowing what's cool and what's not cool to get because I don't want to just get a ton of junk emails and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So, but that'd be super fun. I'll think about that. Thank you. Yeah, do it. I'm just, I'm just trying to prevent you from going into the workforce. I love how we have given you I love it. So much like you should be a sex ed teacher. You should be a Miss Frizzle impersonator. Yeah. Yeah. What else? What other job did we give you? I forget what the other one was. A CPST, I think it's called is the car seat instructor. Usually it's like a fireplace or a police station. One more thought. Um, Lauren, the mortician. Do you follow her? Yes, I do. Okay. You kind of give me Lauren the mortician vibes, like, cause she talks a lot about child safety too. Yeah. A ton about child safety. Oh, she had some pink in her hair. Oh, yeah. Look at all these careers that we were giving you. Wow. I'm just like too nervous to ever try anything. Oh my gosh. I talked myself out of it cause I'm too scared. We're going to be here to cheer you on. I'm going to make that your goal for 2024. Is you have to put at least one book review on Tik Tok and you have to put out one on Tik Tok. But then I have to film myself. That makes me so uncomfortable. You could just film like yourself, like flipping through the book. That's a good idea. Yeah. And then it would be anonymous. Mm hmm. No one will know it's me. I'll know. The faceless reviewer. I know your fingernails. That's true, because they're garb. Except for these two. I always try to leave a couple just in case I get really anxious and have to pick. So, it's a stress thing, I don't know. And with that. Well, yeah, sorry. No, that's okay. I just love how you're like, I have two long fingernails. Well, because you never know if you're gonna have to like have a really good scratch on something. That is true. Or like if I get stressed. I don't know how many times I've gone to open something. The boogers. Ew, that's your booger finger? You never know. Get away from me. It's also my kid's booger finger, or their earwax finger. I don't know how many times I've gone to open something, especially pill packs, like at the hospital. And I'm like, dang it, I just clipped my fingernails. But if I would leave two good ones. Little pinchers. Also, if Calvin and I get in a fight, and I have to pinch him. Oh my. Pinchers. Cause he does Jiu Jitsu and he uses Jiu Jitsu moves against me. Oh that's true. And I don't know what the fuck he's doing. I've seen him beat you up. Yeah. Not actually. Yeah, and so like, this is my only defense. Is to like pinch him or scratch him. Like that's all I can do. We're children here. We're not grown adults. No, that's great. Never. Yeah. I love that. Young at heart. Yeah. Do you guys have any like, thoughts about where the podcast wants to go this year? You kinda said, but Hannah, just growth. Yeah. I growth would be awesome. And I also wanna like more guests. Mm-Hmm. Yeah. And then, uh, making this studio corner our vibe somehow. Mm-Hmm. you know. Oh, we had talked about, um. I dunno if you'd call it rebranding, but rebranding kind of. We'd looked at like some logo options and some new color stories. Mm-Hmm. and I'm interested to see if that conversation continues. Ohr this week. Merch, yes. Merch. If things continue on with that discussion, I'll, I'll do merch right now. Well, we have, have, have to have money to put into that, but not that, not really. Oh, because you couldn't do like a third party where it's only like fulfilled by order? In a former life, I had a shirt shop. Yes. She's done it all. I swear to God. She's a jack of all trades. I designed t shirts. I printed t shirts. I sold t shirts. I had an Etsy shop. I saw the Etsy. Yeah. That's when you were like, Hey, is that your? Mom? And your sister? Oh yeah! Yes, yes, you're right, you're totally right. So, merch! Merch is an initial investment, yes. Um, but once you get it going I don't know. That's something I would love to talk about. I feel, I do want to continue the conversation of like rebranding just because I'm curious where all of our heads are at. Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm all for rebranding. I think we're going to look back on that first video that we posted on YouTube. We're going to laugh. We're going to look back at our first like color scheme, color way, that first photo shoot I even look back and laugh at. You know what I mean? I know my hair looks terrible. Yes. Stop it. Oh my gosh, your hair looks great. Right now it looks great. Well, now, in this, it looks great, but like, in that, no, it looked terrible in that picture. It looks nice. No, no, no, no. No. Sorry. Don't talk about my friend Sarah like that. But yeah, I think it's, I just think it's going to be fun to look back at these episodes even like as we were recording today, like how much we've learned, like don't use your hands and don't touch the things and don't, you have to be very quiet and you have to come back from the mic. If I slam my water bottle down. If you have to burp or take a drink from your water bottle. So like that first episode, we're just, I just can't wait to look back on this and laugh. That's my goal. Yeah. Because we're going to have come so far. Hopefully. Growth in all areas for the year. Yeah. And it's all thanks to you listeners. Yay! Yes. So what we're going to do is the last episode of 2024, we should take this, chop it up, and then like comment on what our goals are and see if we made it. Yes. Great idea. This is the idea lady over here. She really is. Loving it. Jack of all trades. Yes, I love it. You need to be Jack. The brain. That's your, uh. The brain. Oh, Jack, that's a cute nickname. I love it for a female. Okay. I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense with your name, but. Jack Attack. Jack Attack. Jack. It's very Jaclyn Hill. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was referencing too. Okay. Love it. Yeah. We were makeup people in a past life. In a past life. We have so many past lives. We're only being 30. Well, you know, it's a lot of growth that happens over the years. Once you have kids, it's like, you know, Oh, my kids are two. I'm this this year. Oh, my kids are four. I'm this this year. Yeah. And every baby rebirths a new human. Yeah. True. Two new humans. I feel like you're a new person after, after every baby. Yep. Literally. Yep. So with that, do you have any questions? Did you wanna pull a question from the question cards? Oh, um, I mean, Lord. Oh Lord, what are we getting? Lord, do, what are we got? I had a question. Shout out to my mother-in-Law. Who says that now? I say it. What'd she say? Lord, do That is a very Midwest thing, I think. Is it? I don't know. Oh, she's from Minnesota, so, um, yeah. You're supposed to pick one at random. We're going to cut this part, don't worry. I'm going to have to cut this part. Who's we? Sorry, Kalissa can cut this part. Uh, What job, new job do you think will be created in 20 years? Think of all the jobs that exist right now. Nick, for example. Right. Like his job didn't exist 20 years ago. Oh, a YouTuber. Yeah. Getting close to 20 years, but yeah. Yeah, because YouTube's been a thing for like 15, right? Yeah, think of all, and then think of all the people who support YouTubers. Right. Like editors, audio engineers. True. All of these things. Think about how much cameras have blown up just in the last. Mm hmm. Cameras, um. So what about 20 years from now? Man, I don't know. Wow, that's a good question. Me too. I think something that's going to revolutionize the future is these weight loss medications. Oh, for sure. But I'm really interested to see the like long term effects because they're so new. I'm really interested to see. Yeah. But I think those are going to, if, if they work as they say they do and they, um, have less long term side effects, less side effects in general. I think that it's really gonna change the world. That makes me super nervous for like our food quality because then we're gonna be less reliant on like the quality of our food and everything like that and like just in general we're putting in our body and we're just gonna rely on these like third, third party Like systems to like keep us healthy. I put that in quotes. Like how many people are using powders to Right! Like the greens powder. Yes. Like you can easily just eat a snap pea as your, you know, whatever. But you're like blending all these things up, dehydrating them, making them into a powder instead. I thought it was going to be delicious. No. It's greens. It's going to taste like butthole. Well, I wish someone would have told me. I mean, I feel like that's just like, well, yeah, didn't know just trying it But yeah, but yeah, like learning about all those little substitutes of food that are supposed to do it even though we have food right there Yeah, Calvin's bought some like caffeine powder Mmm, because he has a thing about energy drinks. So like, you know, that's gonna keep All that stuff is just on the rise, like taking protein powder, it's like a food replacement, those premier protein shakes are all over the, everywhere, it's like replacing food with premier protein shakes, I don't know, it's just crazy. Yeah, they're gonna be replaced with all powders. That'll be crazy. Powdered cheeseburgers. I've also seen, um, stuff about people growing babies in labs. So maybe that will be a job, like, you know, you're a professional baby grower. Like, instead of surrogacy, you now grow your baby in a lab and you have to tend to this baby in the lab. Yeah, even like, um, infertility, like, infertility practices. My mom knows somebody whose professional job title is an ovary aspirator. And she aspirates ovaries on animals. Aspirates. Breathes into them? Aspirates. Oh my god. What? Aspirates like takes a needle and extracts eggs from the ovary. Jurassic Park. Oh. In animals. In animals. Wow. And in, now she's working towards doing that in humans. So being like a egg donor retrieval person. Ew. Why? Wow. Yeah. But that's like a whole job. Yeah, cause that's how cows get fertilized and stuff. Yeah, IVF, stuff like that. Although that's putting sperm in I guess. Yeah. Dang. Wow. Medicine is kinda freaky. I know, it's like kinda scary how technologically advanced we are. What was that quote? It makes me, like you said, very nervous for the future. Yeah. Yeah. Or like, what jobs will my children, our children be looking at? True. It's not just like, oh, I'm gonna be a fireman, I'm gonna be a policeman. Yeah. All replaced by, whatever. Yeah, I'm gonna have an IQ of like 200, 000 million and I'm gonna invent the next world. Yeah. But, uh, I think Nick looked into this. I think, um, more Blue collar jobs will not be replaced by I hope so robots and machines. Yeah, because I think electric electrician No, like that that can't be replaced by a human or a robot or whatever I think certain aspects of it probably could but maybe like in general it would remain a very human based very man field This is a man's world, yeah, there's very few women who I shouldn't say maybe that want to join but who Actually pass and follow through because it's very labor intensive. Yeah. Like, Calvin comes home from pulling wire and he's like I'm fucked up today from pulling wire, so I would die. Yeah, working in a factory, working in someone's ceiling all day. Yeah, he's like, it's like 200 degrees up there. Literally. And they always make him do it because he's like small. He's a small person, so. Yeah. Yeah, Nick would never, never go in the attic because he's large. Well, he used to. When he was an apprentice, but now that he's a journeyman, he can tell the apprentice and get fucked again. We'll see what happens. And they'll do it too. They have to. You can't say no. Which I think is so ironic because he's the fat electrician and like people make jokes about it. He's not that big. I just mean like, he's big as in like, he's always been like, he was an exerciser so he was always burly, you know. And he's, I don't know if he's really tall but he's not short. Calvin is not that tall and he's very thin so he fits in those small areas and he's young so like the older men. He's a weenie beanie. Stop it. That's no penis stuff for you. Oh my god. If that's what you're winking about. I think we should be done. Okay all right and with that this has been Kalissa, this is Hannah, and Sarah. Bye!