55: A Chaotic Christmas Episode with Kalissa, Hannah and Sarah!

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Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Yes. Ho, ho, ho. It is the holiday season. I love it. And weird timing that it's like snowing. Yes. I don't know how much snow we're supposed to get, but I don't know. I think they said an inch. That's it? But I feel like there's already more than an inch. I feel like there's way more than an inch. I don't even know. I only say that because Calissa drives how long? An hour and a half. An hour and a half. So. I hope you have safe travels on your way home. Yeah. I think it'll be okay. Um, Highway 218 was actually good. I went 65 the whole way here, so. Oh, okay. It's just in town that it settles. Uh huh. Yeah. So. Yeah. Well, I'm looking right now and it says that it's only supposed to be, like, another inch in the next six hours. And it's been 1 inch over the last hour, which was when it got really bad, I hmm. So. it, I think maybe it's just, this is so Iowa, but cause it's blowing, blowing around that is blowing around. Maybe that's why it's trashy. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, back to Christmas. Yes. This is going to be like our Christmas episode. I think we did one last year. Yeah. And we talked about like our. Family Christmas. Our traditions. Yes. And like our family. So I thought maybe we could also talk about today, like the TR and Patricia Patricia's, Patricia's Patricia's that we wanna have for our kids. Yes. If that makes sense. Mm-hmm So we've got a little list of things, but I thought we could add that on there. Okay. I forgot that before. What do we wanna talk about first? Well, the first thing that Hannah said. Christmas sweaters. I have something very funny. I am currently, I will post, we'll post a picture in the Instagram stories. Um, I got a new Santa sweater and Gannon walked up to me this morning and he goes, mom, I love your ugly sweater. Oh, did he say ugly or ugly? Ugly. Okay. Did you want it to be? No. He has a big round mouth and I kind of just want to put my finger in it. Yeah. Why is he, why is he making that with his mouth? Oh. Oh, yeah, maybe if I move the sweater. Kinda nasty. Oh, yeah, that looks like he's smiling. I like how in the front right here, where you guys see the picture, it's just Santa's head cut in half. So you have two halves of his head on either side of the buttons. Yeah. What website did you get this from? I don't know. Um, I got it from Nomad Camper Boutique, that's a local traveling boutique in our area. Oh, okay. It was expensive. Boutiques usually are. Mm hmm. But, um. Yeah, I wonder what the markup is for that. If anyone owns a boutique, like, you know, hit us up in the comments. Right. Or Instagram. Mm hmm. But it's super cozy. Yeah. And like I said, I'm trying to wear it as much as I can in the next week so that I can get your money's worth. Get my money's worth out of it. Yeah. Ever since you said last week when you're like, do you guys ever like, Oh, this cost me whatever and every day I wore it, this is like a penny or something, I just think about that now. Yeah. And I'm like, huh. Did you do that for your, uh, Skims outfit that you bought too? Yeah, my Spanx. Yeah, Spanx. Yep. I would never buy Skims. Okay, sorry. We were talking about the Skims, uh, snow gear last time before we filmed. I was interested in like a fleece, like a zipper of fleece and everything. That'd be cute. And a beanie. But the beanies were like 60 bucks. That's Kim Kardashian for you. Just for her. No, like it just had the North Face and they just added her logo, Skims. I'm like, I mean, North Face in general, I feel like it's always pretty expensive to begin with. So then if you add skims on top of that. Like, um, growing up, I think everyone either had a Columbia fleece jacket or the North Face. Except for me. Yep. Wait, you didn't have either? I wanted a Columbia jacket so bad. Oh my gosh. I got one as a gift from my boyfriend's parents. Oh, nice. I know. They were so nice. And I, even after we broke up, I wore that for years until I got too fat for it. Yeah. I think I was, I was gifted a Columbia and I like wore it every single day. Yes. Yes. Yes. But then like everyone they switched from Columbia to North Face and I was like, well, how much is a North Face? And I don't know what they are, but I was like, oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just stick with my Columbia. Yes It's crazy how like those fashions. Oh, yeah, they come and go and now I have a Columbia as an adult and I wear it Every single night to work because it gets so cold. Yeah. And i'm just so proud of myself that I can buy myself a columbia now. No, I wanted one so bad in fifth grade I feel like those are the things that last though Like we talked about did we talk about like consumerism last time, you know And those are the things that you buy that are kind of expensive, but they last forever Yes, that's kind of my mindset now like i'm trying to get uh declutter a lot of like my cheap clothing because like they just Equality and they just I don't know Yep. 100%. So I'm like, yep. Get that Columbia coat because they really do keep you warm. I have the, it's like that foil looks like in the, in the inside, but it keeps you so warm. Like I sweat in it. I know. I hate that. I'm like not a coat person because I get too sweaty. I wear my fall spring jacket all year because I get too hot. No. So then you would not like the Columbia. No, I'd be sweaty. Yeah. If I get cold, I just like put a sweater on underneath. Yeah. And then sunglasses too. I remember buying cheap glasses and sometimes the warning would be like Don't wear for long periods of time in the Sun because it could ruin your eyes and I'm like, huh? Okay. Wait, why? Just they're cheap plastic. Mmm. They're not actually protective. No, no UV or anything in them So I'm like, okay. So like you only have One set of eyes. Yeah. Like, take care of them. These eyeballs raw dog it. Yeah. Ugh. Ooh. Yeah. Sarah. I know, but I got glasses. I'm not gonna, like, buy prescriptions. I should. You should. Buy prescriptions on glasses, but Protect your eyes. Protect your retinas. I'm cheap. I know, I have, like, little baby sensitive eyeballs, too. Sometimes I cry in some. It's tough to drive sometimes. Oh my gosh, you definitely need prescription sunglasses. I started feeling that when I was wearing contacts almost all the time. I never took my contacts out. This was when I was like in middle school. I slept in them. Oh, that's so bad. I never took them out for like four months. That's crazy. And then so when I'd go to the eye doctor, I lied like, oh, how much are you in front of a screen? Oh, like two hours. A fucking lie. Eight hours or more. And they're like, do you take your contacts out every night? And I'm like, oh, yeah. No, I never took, I haven't taken them out since my last appointment. Oh man, I'd at least take them out like once a week. No, my eyes are so dry. I wear dailies. That's probably why. Yeah. Yeah. My eye doctor tried to talk me into doing dailies. Do you like them? Yes. Um, I have been doing really good at taking them out. I can't sleep in them at all. Like my eyes will be like irritated, but yeah, I think it's really expensive and I think I'm an adult now. I should probably just do like, what's the normal, you just take them out every night and then put them back in. I like dailies personally. I think they're thinner. They're more comfortable. They stay wet longer. And like just being realistic with myself, I would not wear them every day. So they could, I'd wear them for maybe a week. Like if they were just regular, then they'd sit in their little solution for like a month before I'd wear them again. And at that point, like, are they gross? Would you need to like, you know, get new ones anyways? Cause like, I never think about it. Oh, see how I'd be thinking about that stuff. Hmm. I, I'm not trying to get disease. Well, you put it in saline, right? You put it in saline. Doesn't saline is pretty clean. Like we clean wounds with saline. We were in's eyes with saline. Okay? We put it in people's veins. Yeah, I don't know about that, I don't know. It's just, you know. If you are a contact wearer and do this, message Sarah and be like, no girl, you're good. If you're an optometrist, tell me stuff. I'm sure we have tons of optometrists that listen to our podcast. I actually do know an optometrist, but. We're not like really friends, so I won't ask her. you know, it's kind of weird, you know, everyone's doing lasik and then people in the comments are like, you know how surgeons and doctors, they almost never have lasik. They always wear glasses. Yes. Hmm. It's kind of weird because there's a huge number of side effects with lasik, especially if you, I talk about this if you have dry eyes, yeah. Mm-hmm If you have dry eyes already, they're not gonna get any better with lasik, you, you can only have like a certain eye shape or something like that to get lasik because of like the way that you're. Eyeball shaped or something like that. And yeah, I don't know. I don't want to put my I don't want to put it on the line I'm not I like wearing glasses like I'm not wearing today, but mm hmm. They're kind of fun to play around with The other day. Oh my gosh. I Was lifting a big box above my head and I was holdings another box with my other hand And I dropped it out right in my face and I crushed my glasses right into my eyeball So it was lucky that I had them on But now my glasses are so wonky. I need to buy a different pair Let's go glacia shopping. I kind of want a new pair. I'm buying. Yeah I'm buying online. How am I going shopping for classes? Well, just come with me and just try on some Okay, you can just try some on I am getting some funky glasses What else is new? I'll probably get two pairs because they're really cheap. So i'll get like one normal pair and one funky one funky Zenny, um, I was thinking about it, but then I found this new place called fightu You Something? F Y T O O? Do you get the blue light in your glasses? Yes, I do. I like, um, Lensmart. What's that? It's kind of the same thing. Yeah. Glasses. Are they cute, though? Are they crazy? They're cute. Are they, like, silly? I kind of like the silly ones. No, I wouldn't say silly. They're trendy. Oh, I like them to be a little silly. You should get, like, the thick black ones. I want thick ones, but like, green. Yeah, you could pull off a green green would be cool or an orange or a purple and iridescent, like purpley looking thing, like little, like lumpy bumpies, like scallops. Oh, so cute. Okay. It was when I think, yeah. Yeah. I like silly glasses. But you think they're funny? No, but you do remind me of Ms. Frizzle sometimes. Oh, yes. When I had my red dress on the other day, Calvin was like, Ms. Frizzle. Come on kids. We're going to explore the human body. Oh boy. I would 100 percent be you. Okay. It would be fun. Yes. Moving on. I wish I had a magic school bus. That would be cool. That would be really cool. No. Dang, that'd be cool. Okay, so what were we talking about before? Christmas stuff. Christmas sweaters. Christmas sweaters. What else did you want to say about that? Oh, um, I'm wearing, uh, Nick's got some cute, uh, fat electrician Christmas sweaters. But I think this one's an older one. Merry Quackmas. Oh, I, quack bang. I totally didn't realize what that was. I was like, what is that? Yeah, he's wearing like a little, uh, Rifle? 8K, I think. Yeah, something. Something. Something. I don't know. I don't know a gun. It's a duck to me. Yeah Cute. Yes, I like it. But um, what started ugly christmas sweaters? I don't know. Was it like a thing in the 80s like A grandma would crochet some from Yes, but i'm like, I don't remember as a child wearing an ugly but we were children that's different They had ugly adult thing. Maybe they did ugly sweater day at school for like my kindergartner. Oh, and it's like You Who has an ugly sweater that's when you're a child size, but why is it ugly Christmas sweater? Like what I don't know what constitutes an ugly sweater. Apparently this I disagree. I think that's great According to gannon, but I know kids kids are rude Brutal. Yeah, they really aren't he doesn't know anything yet. But uh, yeah, I was just thinking about that and i'm like Was it because grandma's like made you a sweater and you're like, oh, ew, thanks, but you know Oh I never, my grandma never made me a sweater or anything. Me either. I never understood the ugly christmas sweater. Are you googling it? Yep. Okay, great. Because I was like this is something we should legitimately google. Um, because I have seen a vest like um, fabric vest And they would wear like this funky little What's this like a little pin? Like a brooch. Yes a brooch. Okay. It's ugly christmas sweater season. Here's how it became a tradition It goes way back to the seventh Earl of Cardigan in the 1850s. Well, shoot. That's where the name Cardigan came from. So british military captain James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, a town in Wales, wore a wool waistcoat that became popular with noblemen. Hmm. And they said it was ugly? How dare they? Pullovers called Jingle Bell Sweaters that featured snowflakes, angels, and other Christmas symbols started trending in the 1950s. They were meant to be stylish. Yeah. Hmm. Yes, uh, With jingle bells on them imagine walking around and you had actual bells and you're just like jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle Okay in the 1920s. No. Oh In the 1980s showy sweaters and vests fit in right in with the neon accessories shoulder pads and other excessive styles of the decade Shoulder pads the term ugly sweater took off. Wow Okay, interesting. Yeah We had a contest way back in the day at a place that I worked and this girl made her own and she was like A fireplace mantle was her sweater So she had like a made a fireplace like on her sweater in the front and then off her arms She had like stockings. She she was like Well, yeah, but I think also, yeah, she had sackings on her arms and then what's that called? Garland? She like put garland on her arms so she was like a fireplace mantle. Did she win? I think so, yeah. Cause nobody else put that much effort in. Everybody else bought a sweater. She made a sweater. So, you know. Good for them. I love that. I'm just not creative enough. Yeah, I just don't care enough, generally, about stuff. Yeah. Uh, like spirit days at no school. Never. I was like, Ugh. It was never me. Fun, hater, loved, I think I was just embarrassed. Fun. What was fun about it? Dressing up and being goofy and silly. And were you like a kid that played dress up so it was like already fun for you? Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Okay. I don't was, I did trust. Yeah. I don't think I was like that. Yeah, I don't remember. I don't, I don't think that happened. And knowing that, you know, I had the best costume at school, you know. Oh, dope. Nice. So did you get in the yearbook with that? I don't know. You should have been. Probably. I didn't buy yearbooks. Oh, so, so you have no, you don't have no yearbooks. That's crazy. I don't have any yearbooks. What, yeah. What do you like do when you wanna look back on your high school years? Facebook. Facebook. Is that what it's called? Okay. Yeah. I have a Facebook. It comes in my memories. And then you just go like, Oh, why did I post that? Yes. I do that all the time. Yeah. No. Um, this, this girl, she created a winter spirit week or something. It was kind of random, but I think she was like president or something. United States. No, no, no. This was in my school. And the popular girls, they usually, like, go all out with her, you know, spirit, and they hated her. So, like, this one girl, like, I think Monday, it was, like, wear all white. And this one girl, she was, like, literally the only girl in school that wore all white. Cause I was like, why the fuck is she wearing white jeans and a white shirt and a white scarf and a white hat and white shoes? But she felt like super embarrassed because she's like, um, there's no one gonna do like this winter spirit thing and then That day because I was on the dance team. We talked about it and they're like, yeah She made a winter spirit week. And since all the girls hate her, they're not participating in her spirit week Was she mean? Or was it just like No, she's super nice. Um, she was dating a boy and one of the popular girls wanted to date this boy. Oh my gosh. And so it just started a riff. That's so stupid. But, uh, that girl and that boy, they're married and have children. Good for them. So, I mean, she got her happy ending. Yeah. I mean, realistically, who cares if, like, people didn't participate for Spirit Week? But at the time, I'm sure it was Um, yeah. I was like, I had no idea it was Spirit Week. Imagine getting your period when it's all white day. Ugh. My biggest fear. That would be tragedy. That would be awful. Yeah. So, that was, um, Spirit Week. I'll never forget. It was just so awkward, just seeing the one girl dressed in white. And she's looking around like, is anyone else going to do this? Was the rest of the week just like, I don't remember, I don't remember. I think everyone was like, Oh, okay. You should message her and ask, bring up the past. Oh God. Yeah. Hey, I know we haven't talked in 10 years, but do you remember that one time, the most embarrassing moment of your life? I still think about that. I shared it with the whole world. It's like my worst nightmare of someone messaging me and be like, do you remember that one time you did that really embarrassing thing? I still think about it all the time. Oh my gosh. I still have things that I think about from high school that were embarrassing. I know, but I just hope other people don't think of those things. There's probably someone like me there. Oh my gosh. I remember Calissa did this one. Oh my gosh. I bet. How embarrassing. Sad. Like, um, uh, science class we had to read, you know, everyone take a turn reading a paragraph and there was the word orgasm. And someone said orgasm? No, but the whole time I'm like, don't say orgasm, don't say orgasm, because I would literally die if I was like the orgasm. Organism! That's funny. I feel like I'd like to leave. You wouldn't let that down. Um, no. That would be funny. That would keep me up at night. Oh, God. Yeah, but if somebody else did it, it wouldn't be embarrassing, it would just be funny. I would remember it and be like, ha, that's the girl that's Oh, gosh. Okay. Okay. Alright, so note that Hannah is remembering all of my embarrassing moments. Everything. Everything. Yeah. Yeah, we can never get away from it. She's got the memory of a steel trap. Mm hmm. I don't I don't know what I hope not. I mean, you would be lost if you ever had dementia. You would just be like, literally, where have I been? What have I done? I don't know anything. Or if I'm just like, I remember one year in 2016, my friend. Yeah, and that's it. And I would just talk to like the wall or anyone who'd be around and listen. Dementia's not a joke. Sorry. But that, I thought that would, I thought that was funny. Sorry. All right. Um, moving on. So. Christmas music. What's your favorite one? Your all time favorite Christmas song? Mariah Carey, Oh Holy Night. Yes! Oh Holy Night by who? Martina McBride. Okay, I haven't heard hers. Yes. But mine has always been Mariah Carey. And now I'm switching to Josh Groban. Oh, Josh Groban. You lift me up. I don't know if that's a Christmas song. No, it's not. It's a banger. I'll do that. I think that's like a funeral song. Oh, shoot. Well, sorry. Like that's not made in Eagle's Wings. Wait, that Mariah Carey song. Why am I thinking that too? Because I'm like on Eagle's Wings. You are the wind beneath my wings. No. Is what you're thinking of. I'm pretty sure. No, no. On Eagle's Wings, I'm pretty sure is that song. On Eagle's Wings is a funeral song though. Yes. Oh, but what's the song that you're singing? You raise me up so I can stand on mountains. You raise me up so I walk on stormy seas. Yes. It technically is strong when I am on your shoulder was you are the wind beneath my wings, not the Eagle beneath my wings or whatever. Eagle's wings. Yeah. Okay. And I didn't even have to Google that. Oh yeah. Yes. So it's the same song? No, different songs. I think that's a church song. Yes. I think they both are. No, no, no, no, not the first one. Josh Groban is not, he's just actually, it was originally from the beaches soundtrack. What's that? Uh, it's the best movie in the whole entire world. I'm going to disagree. Just because it's called beaches. Okay, there you go. Because that's not how I've ever seen. It's just like such a sad movie. Oh, shoot. Oh, it's in the eighties. Okay. So was that all around like white castles? Yep. Okay. Yep. Shoot. We're maybe talking about two totally different things. Yeah. I'm still going to disagree that it's the best on principle, but I need to watch it. Yeah, you do. It has Fett Midler in it. I had the record I played. Yeah. So it's a musical. Yeah. Oh, it's not, it's not a musical. There's, she's a singer, so she has her music that she sings. It's kind of like, um, Joaquin Phoenix and A Star is Born, what's her name? Lady Gaga's second movie. Yes. Where it's like not really a musical, they just sing in it. Yes. Oh, gotcha. Very much, very similar. What's that movie called? The Joker. Yes. The Joker 2. The story of two very good friends. It's the Beaches. Oh, gotcha. And one of them dies, apparently. Spoilers! I tried watching Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga's. I thought it was good. I couldn't stand it. I had to turn it off. Then why? I don't know. It was just like, weird. After he sang in the prison, I'm like, Okay, but did you get it? That that was like, his delusion? Yeah, oh yeah. But I just didn't like the way they introduced her character. Like, she comes out in the hallway and just stares at him and goes like, Because she is also crazy. I know, but why? She knew who he was. But if she were to run out, wouldn't the guards be like, Hey, get back in here! No, because she wasn't, she was just like in the facility for like mental health, not like in the prison. I know. But why? So like, they had free, I don't know. It's just like, okay. It was just too cheesy for me. And I'm like, gotcha. Like that would happen. Yeah. Yeah. So I just, I turned it off. All right. And I watched, uh, okay. I'll be home for Christmas. Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I don't know what that is. You didn't watch that holiday movie? I know who that guy is. Hmm, him, Jessica Biel. He's trying to get home for Christmas and is that a Hallmark movie? James I think Disney. Oh interesting. It's like from the 90s. Have you seen the new Lindsay Lohan movie yet? I think that's a holiday movie too. With oh my gosh the guy from Pretty Little Liars. I think it actually looks pretty good. Um, I just saw a preview of her crying. And her face doesn't move. She's like, yeah, it's like the Botox is Botoxing. I don't know. I think there's something weird about Lindsay Lohan. She looks great. I saw an Instagram live of her trying to take a child. What? What does that mean? What does that mean? She went to a country and she thought she was going to stop this child trafficking, but the family was like, no, that's our child. And she's like, I'll post it in my store in the stories, but like she's trying to take this child away from this family and the mom literally had to slap her. Oh shoot. And be like, quit touching our child. And they were like, we're running away. And Lindsay Lohan's like, I'm just trying to save him from sex trafficking. Come with me. And it was weird. No one talks about it. Maybe she had a crisis. I think she did. But I'm like, that's a little weird. Maybe she was like, I don't want to say damaged, but damaged by the child. Maybe. Scary. Yeah. But, uh, yeah. Um, so I was watching that the other day. I didn't finish it, but he didn't want to come home for Christmas and the dad. So I was watching Office Space. It has Gary Cole in it. He's like the boss. And then I watched this movie and he's like, yep, I just got done with the office. Uh, I let everyone go by noon. And I'm like, that's funny. I just watched office space. Yes. That's funny. I love when they do that. And then he's like, you haven't been home since mom died and he moved on and has a new wife, the dad. And I'm like, well, maybe he doesn't want to go home because he's so heartbroken about his mother. Yeah. So it's just something I think about now as an adult and why he doesn't want to come home. I'm like, it's probably too painful for him. You know, I'm just trying to relate to why this, his character, Jonathan Taylor Thomas's character does not want to go home for Christmas. What other movie is he in? I don't know. That Tim Allen, uh, home improvement. Oh, okay. Are we talking about the same person? Is he the one that has the wife that's like 70? Jonathan. Uh, okay. Back to Google. He, okay, so when he was like 18, okay, this is a little bit, but he was like groomed by like a 42 year old director. You're talking about Aaron Taylor Thomas. You're talking about Aaron Taylor Thomas. Isn't that who you're talking about? No, Jonathan Taylor Thomas was like the boy Yes. Does anybody have their own original name in this whole entire world? Yeah. Calissa. Hi. Those are the exact same two names. I'm sorry. How are they not the same person? Right? No. Two different. Yeah. He's cute. He's JTT. Gotcha. Gotcha. But he was on that Tim Allen comedy show. Tim, the tool man. Yeah. Home Improvement. I thought it was called home. It was, but he was Tim the tool man on his show. Like his show inside his show. Yup. Yeah. And then he did a guest star when Tim Allen went on Fox. It's called something else. Mm-hmm And Tim Allen and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. They were like two different characters. But it was funny'cause Tim Allen kept looking at him and was like, you look familiar. Have I seen you anywhere before? And it was just kind of like a cute, like, like nod to mm-hmm I love when they do that. Mm-hmm Again. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, Reb Bush, you know, she didn't reboot Reba. I wish she would've, she just went and made a new comedy show called Happy. She's, uh, what's been your one word? Titles. I don't know. Catchy. But she's with Barbara Jean. Who's that? Uh, old lady who was also in Reba. Okay. And then they have Steve Howie, guest star. Is it the bald guy? No, he was on Shameless. Okay. But he was also on Reba too. Okay. And so I think he made a, an appearance on Happy. Huh? I'm thinking Howie Mandel. Ew! I just, I just heard Howie and I was like, okay, that Howie, bald guy. See, everybody has the same name and I don't know who is who. They're all the same. Celebrity. Uh, trivia would not be your 14. No, no. I could recognize them by their face and say what? Yeah, I know that guy. That guy was in that one show. I don't know. Yeah, that's all I know. I'm good with faces. The name was so and so. Yeah. I'm not good. You lost 250, 000 million. Whatever. I would. Okay, Calissa, what's your favorite holiday movie? Um, or what's, what's like your, what's our, what are some of your favorites? I was going to say The Grinch. Which one? Jim Carrey. Yep. 100%. Banger. Um, Elf. Yeah. Banger. Um, Home Alone. Not so much. Uh, what's the one where Shitter's full? I've seen that one. Yes, there you go. Yeah. You're not gonna say, um, Die Hard? Everybody says Die Hard. I've never seen that. I haven't either, but everyone says it. Is that a Christmas movie? I don't know. It's a, it's a controversial. That's what the men claim. It's controversial. I think it happens during the holiday season is what I've heard. It's a Christmas movie. It probably came out because there was some chick flick that was out at Christmas in the theaters. And then so they came out. For sure. I like to re watch the Scrub Christmas episodes. Yeah. In the holiday season. So, but yeah, those are the ones. What about a favorite child cartoon Christmas? Uh, so we didn't do Christmas so much growing up. Okay. Us either. Um. Yeah, so we didn't I didn't like not a TV special that came on that to know I remember watching it's a wonderful life Yeah, when I was really little is that the one with the black and gray leg? No, no, okay Yeah But yeah, no, I watched all Christmas movies as an adult. I didn't see the Grinch until I was like At kids that's crazy cuz that came out when we were kids. Mm hmm. Yeah, what 2004? Yeah the Jim Carrey one When was that? When we were kids, 2004, 2005. Okay. Yeah. Because they played it in school for like, yeah, every, yeah. That seems inappropriate. Why? I mean, he's naked for one, but also like, I don't know. I don't think there was a whole lot of holiday. Say some like not very nice things, but as a kid, it goes over your head. Yeah. They played Shrek for us too. Yeah. And a lot of those jokes went over my head. Yeah. They played the Santa Claus. with Tim Allen. Yes. The Tim Allen, not the Tim Allen. Yes. Um, we were just talking about Tim Allen home improvement. Okay. Yes. Okay. Um, but yeah, that was, um, one that I saw, but only because they played it in school all the time. It was like, Oh, it's art class and it's by the holidays. We're going to play Tim Allen or Santa Claus. Yeah. You were really relying on those movies back then. Did you touch Mooshu? No, I just had a sneeze. Oh, okay. Inside there. What about you, Sarah? Nothing. I don't have anything. I mean, like, The Grinch was good with Jim Carrey. So you were an adult, mostly, seeing all these? Uh, no, I definitely saw them when they came out, but I'm just not a holiday person. I don't really care about, like, Christmas specifically. Calvin tries to get us to watch, um, those Clay movies from, like, way back. Like, an early 90s movie. The Chicken Run? No. Like the one, I'm Mr. Y, Christmas, you know, um, okay. Nightmare Before Christmas? No. Um, has Rudolph in it, and the snowman is the narrator, and yeah. Oh, that's not I forget what those are called. Just a Like old clay movies from like the 90s. Okay. When you said clay, I was thinking claymation. No, no, not claymation. That's why I didn't say claymation. Cause I, in my head I was like, it's not claymation. It's just, they're just like stop motion clay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I grew up watching those. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. Yes. Frosty the snowman. Arthur's Christmas. I still watch it around this time of year. My kids were like, I don't want this. I'm like, we're gonna watch this. We're gonna love it. That's what our kids say when Calvin tries to make us watch those clay movies. Yeah, like, babe, they're so boring. No, they're so good. Boring. I don't know. But like, I think like, if you watch it when you were a child, like, it still brings that magic. It's nostalgic. Absolutely. Very. Yeah. So I watch those and then like Garfield's Christmas. Watch that. Wow. You watched a lot of stuff. It was a tv special. So like, you know, at seven or like seven p. m Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is gonna premiere and then frosty and then so Jeesh I'll put these little clips on cause I love going on YouTube and like, yes, you do an awesome job with stories. I love watching our stories. If you're not watching the stories every Friday or maybe Saturday, when I please watch them because I put a lot of effort and I ignore my kids half the day cause I'm like, shush, I'm trying to find this scene cause I know what I've yeah. I know what I'm thinking about. She's pop culturally sound. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Like everything. I just lived on TV. TV raised me. I thought that I lived on TV, but I don't remember nothing compared to Hannah. Hannah is out here like good gracious. Yeah. Watching Desperate Housewives. I remember the commercials before the episode. Oh, we used to like sing to all the commercials. So, you know, we used to know all the songs, the jingles from commercials. Yeah. There's some commercials that still like hit. Kmart commercials were awesome. Blue light special. I just shipped my pants. I just shipped my bed. Oh, come on. You're talking about like real commercial. I'm talking about just like saying the commercials. That was a commercial. Kmart. I would be singing. That was a Kmart commercial? They would say shit on the No, ship, because they were offering shipping. And so like all I shipped my pants. I just shipped my pants. Yes, I remember that. But like it made it sound like Yes. No one quoted that in school? No. No. I quote that sometimes daily, sometimes daily. Calvin would probably get it. What a great way to introduce shipping to the world though. Yeah, right? Like genius. Props to them. Genius. Kmart like really had it going on. I, I think they knew that they were like declining cause uh, Walmarts and Targets were just like on the rise. Yes. And Kmart was like, uh, we got to like step up our commercial game. Yeah. They started to really go downhill once we got on Walmart. Yeah. I don't know if there's any Kmart's left. Overseas. Okay. Australia. Kmart. Yeah. Um, we went over Christmas songs. I know you said, all holy night. Oh, yeah, we kind of I have one Mariah Carey song. I don't want a love book. Seriously? Yeah, it's my favorite song. Because she just gets so into it, and I just love it. Oh, eye roll. Also, oh my gosh, I don't know what song this is. I don't know that I've ever heard it before. Um, but Ariana Grande and Kelly Clarkson. Mm hmm. Something, I don't know the words. Nope. But they're like just beautiful voices together. Yeah. And I just like it because they sound good. But Ariana Grande actually has some really good Christmas songs. And I'm like, Yeah, like that one. It's what tell me are you really there? Oh, okay. Sure. Sure. Sure Yeah, this was like, I love that era of her. I know I'm her dark brunette might never go back to tan skin. Yeah, and she just black skin Yeah, she did a lot of tanning. She did but you know, but that was like my favorite era of her I liked her. I liked the way she talked to like it was just she was just like cool chill You And now she's all like, ah, like she took over like a totally she's like Glinda. Yeah all the time. Yeah I think that's kind of what happened about that I know but I think that's what happened to Austin Butler when he took over for Elvis like he couldn't turn off his Elvis Yeah Under the tree underneath the tree Kelly Clarkson That one of Ariana Grande and Kelly Clarkson just like came up on my tech talk one day and I was like, Oh, that's really nice. I like that. But I didn't like search it out to go find it. Yeah. Carver plays Christmas music all the time on the Alexa. Nice. Yep. Uh, Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban, Andre, how do you say his last name? Bocelli. Bocelli. Yeah. He's got some good Christmas ones. Um, Glee had a great Christmas album. Wow. Yeah. Carrie Underwood. She's also really good too. Oh, I love Taylor Swift's Christmas album. It's way country. Yeah. It's back before she was a pop. I love her rendition of Silent Night. That would be my second favorite Christmas song is her rendition of Silent Night. Can't get on board. Surprise! Taylor Swift hater! I can't help it. I'm sorry. No, you just, that's really good. Um, Billy Gilman. Have you ever heard of him? I've heard of that name. Billy Gilman? Mm hmm. He, I've heard that name for sure. I just had a album of his when I was a kid growing up and he had all these Christmas songs and I was like, Oh, he's really like, this was before he hit puberty. So it kind of sounds like a young JB. Justin Bieber. Gotcha. And then, you know, I grew up, totally forgot about him and it's like, Oh, I wonder what happened to him. He went on The Voice. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And he was like, yeah, it was a young rising star back in my day. And I think he said his record label dropped him or I don't know, something. And then, yeah, so he was trying to make a comeback. I have a thought on that. Okay. Which, and I, I was very passionate about this, um, when Christina Grey was on The Voice. Do you? Oh, sure. Sure. Mm-hmm We talked about that. Um, I was very passionate that people who already were famous in their own Yes. Right. Should not be allowed on the voice. This one type A group. Okay. This one, she started on YouTube, right? Yes. But she already had a good following Megan, a record. I dunno if anyone else records out the time Megan d is. But they are sisters actually who are in a band and Meg, I think it was Meg, went on The Voice and she is so beautifully, I don't know if that came out wrong, she has such a beautiful voice and she was like famous in her own right, okay? This was a band and then she went on The Voice and I'm just The voice is for people who haven't undiscovered. Yes. Like you have stuff out there, you have albums, you have a fan base. Yeah. Don't do this. Don't take an opportunity from someone else. I've seen that. Yeah. But with like old celebrities, I'm like, um, you're a celebrity. Like, yeah, I like finding out that they, that a celebrity can sing when they're like 50 and they just like suddenly appear on YouTube. Like singing with their family. That's what I like. Like who would be that? I don't know. What's her name? Kate Hudson. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Kate Hudson. Yep, just randomly found out that she can sing. Good for her. Yeah. She didn't like get crazy about it. I thought she was in Mamma Mia. She did an Anna Kendrick her career and only take part in singing movies. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, Anna Kendrick. Why? What'd she do? She did the Trolls thing. She did the Pitch Perfect thing. Everything she's in she sings. She's singing a simple favor. I forgot the cups dance, you guys. Right, that one. Yeah. But I used to be able to do that in my sleep. You would? I bet you watched it. And like we're bumping over heres, she's gonna have to practice that. I'm gonna practice it, um, practice it and then send a video to Hannah so you can put it in the stories I will do it. And I'll just do eye roll. Cause I just, I don't know. Pitch perfect was kind of cringy for me. Okay. The first one. Pitch perfect. So good. Phenomenal. 10 out of 10. It was so good. 2, 3, 4. No. Terrible. It got, it got, it got progressively worse. Sarah's stroking out everything. I'm sorry. Oh gosh. I think Rebel, Rebel Wilson. I think they just really annoyed her character like too much for me. And I'm like, your song choices, top tier. But it was current. Some of it was current. I'm sorry, but Ben Platt, he couldn't do it no wrong. Yeah, he's a nebo. Oh Really? Yes. No way. Oh, that's a shame. I forgot who his dad is. Dang, he's talented though. That boy can sign. Cuz he was just on something. or he did a musical or something and people are like, Oh, he only got that because he's a NaPo baby. Um, he's no, he got it because he's talented. Okay. But I think he, you know, sure. But he's way more talented than that dark haired guy from, you know, with the lip. He is like a duck lip, like a pointy lip. Is Ben Platt on Dear Evan Hansen? Yes. Okay. I thought so. Yeah. Beautiful voice. Waving through a window. Favorite. Love it. Yeah. You haven't heard that album, I'm assuming. No. Have you seen Dear Evan Hansen? It's so good, you should watch it. Oh, you should watch it. It's really good. But you don't like musicals. I'll watch it. It's so good. It's so good. You can't watch high school musical over and over again. But that was dumb. I watched that when it was in its prime. Like I was there. Well, you should have watched this two years ago or whatever. When, when through a window. Yeah. It was in his prime. Six years ago, 2018. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to listen. No, because Gus was in school. This was in my top albums like two years ago. I must be thinking of a different movie. Yes, clearly. Cause we would, we'd be singing this song on the way to school to and from school every single day, every single day. Watch it. It's good. No regrets. Regret. I'm just kidding. No. All right. Traditions. Okay. What traditions are you going to have for your fam? Mine will be none. Just starting off that way. Oh, that's a tradition. Like what do you do? Just wake up and just. Be chilling. On Christmas morning. Oh man. No, we don't be waking up. We sleep in. We stay in bed as long as possible. Lucky. Yeah. Well, you just buy him a game system and they'll go play games and let you lay in bed for a while. This is true. This is true. I can attest. Thank you. Xbox 360. Yup. Yup. Blessed be. Okay. That's here. Yup. We have an elf on the shelf and it doesn't do funny things. It doesn't do naughty things. It doesn't leave notes. We just move it. Creepy. Well, it moves. Just kidding. It moves every night. Creepy. Yeah. Trigger warning. There may be some talk of the real Santa Claus coming up. Oh yeah. So if you are around kids. Yep. Yes. But yeah, the elf on the shelf, um, hides in the bathroom. Hides on the shelves. What started Elf on the Shelf? I'm not sure, but it's so fun. The kids wake up every morning. They're like, look at what he did. So I hit it last night up on a shelf and it's somehow in the night fell off the shelf, like halfway hanging off the counter. And the boys woke up this morning. It was just like face down on the counter and they're like, look at the elf mom. I'm like, oh shit. I was like, he must've tried to climb up the shelf and fell off. No, I think like a doll moving for me as a kid would just creep me out. It creeped him out last year. So we stopped in the middle of it, but this year they're like all for it. Okay. So yeah. Yeah, I think it would just yeah. And then of course Santa comes we put out cookies. We put out carrots. We've got a little board. You give him carrots? For the reindeer? Oh, I was like, you guys should eat the carrots. Or his diabetes. Do you eat them? I'll take a bite out of it and pfft. You don't leave them some ranch? For dippin Maybe. Oh, Sarah. Oh my god. Then I'd actually eat them. Or, oh my gosh, if you put out like some of those Kraft singles cheese slices? Wrapped carrot in a I don't know. Um, some of my favorite memories growing up was always deer hunting weekend, which is the first weekend in December. And my mom and I would just hang out all day long and play Nintendo 64. That's awesome. And we would bake Christmas cookies. That's awesome. Cute. Shout out to my mom. That was, we did that for years and years and I, we still kind of, we did some baking. I hate baking. So like the magic is lost. I'm just not good at it. I'm not either. Well, I eat too much and then I feel like crap. Yeah. I have no self control. Do you eat raw cookie? If there is a platter of, yes, absolutely. I eat raw cookie dough. Oh boy. Yeah. Ugh, I cannot. Are those like sugar cookies? All of it. No chocolate chips in there. All, any cookie dough. I don't discriminate. I will Oh boy. Eat the bowl before it even goes in the oven. Oh boy. I get to see you. Like raw knocking some cookie dough like in the And the tube. And the tube. Oh my gosh. Just squeezing it up into the like a, what are those called? Those Go-Gurts. yes. Oh, gross. Yeah. Funny. Christmas, uh, growing up, I think we just went to church on Christmas Eve and I was always so happy when church was ending because I'm like, Oh, it's closer to bedtime, which is going to be closer to, so did you have candles at church? Candlelight service. I don't think so. I don't think that's a Catholic thing. We always did a candle. That's a Lutheran thing. Is it? I think so. Really? Or like, yeah, we're Protestant. I don't know. I don't think that's Catholic. Yeah, I'm super pumped for Christmas Eve service. I hope they do candles, but we'll see. If you don't do candles, you freak! Just bring your own candle and light it yourself. That's funny. That would be really funny. Yeah, that'd be great. So what are you doing with the kids then? Um, I don't know yet. I don't know yet. Okay. Just, uh, yeah, maybe. They're kind of young still, so. Yeah. But um, we've been having this little baby deer come to our window And he's just kind of eating some grass. So nick and I we were at fleet farm and we saw like a apple flavored brick I'm like, oh, that'd be good But we just self check out. We only had three things and Well, what happened? We accidentally left the brick in the car, put the cart away because we were putting the kids at the car seats and Nick and I were trying to find this brick and I'm like, um, we probably left it in the cart. He's like, yeah, we probably did but I've got some cranberries and I googled Can I feed a deer cranberries? And they're like, oh, yeah, they'll eat the fruit. So I think I'll have the kids lay out cranberries for the reindeer. Oh, sure. But it's probably for the little, you know, it's for the little rabbits. I haven't seen any bunnies. Oh, that's a shame. Nope, I've just seen this little baby deer. It'll come up from the river and just come to our front window and just eat the grass around it and then just leave. Cute. Um, I was gonna say something. What was it? I don't know. Do you need a knock on the head so you remember? No. Aw. You were talking about the reindeer. Cut this part closer. Your curls look really good on this side. Thank you. On this side. I'm going to sip my juice while you think. Yeah. No. And then, um, my mom, she would, cause her handwriting is very obvious. Yes. Um, so she would do her best. And like write on a plate that we put the cookies on and she used to write like these long notes. Thank you so much for these cookies. You know, it's a long night and everything and there'd be like no cookies or there'd be like one cookie that was maybe eaten. But like as kids we're like, we got a frame that Santa wrote on our plate. We should ask her where she put the cookies. Did she eat them? Did she throw them away? I think my dad maybe ate them or something. But yeah. Did you give them to some animals? Thanks. That'd be interesting. I don't know. What were cookies? I think. Oh, no. They would never give their food to the animals. Just kidding. Cookies? What else do you eat? It wasn't like 12 cookies. It was not like a whole lot of cookies. No, just a couple. Oh, just a couple cookies. Okay. If you, if you, if you made enough cookies for you guys also, maybe she just like sloped them in the container. Maybe. But then I was like, Mom, we need to get Santa a gift. And she's like, Oh, like what? I'm like, I want to get him the snow globe. Should ask her where that snow globe's at. You actually got one? Yeah. She probably just put it in storage. I can't even have this out. We bought this and we can't even display it. I could get it out now, but it was like a big heavy duty snow globe. So it probably wasn't cheap Oh, man. Yeah, and she she did it because me and the kids or me and my brothers were like, yeah We need to get santa something because her Yeah, that'll probably happen to me too like the kids I don't know if they want to do something for santa but i'll be like Oh, I know what I was gonna ask. Do your kids like have a countdown or anything to christmas? I'm too afraid because i'm really nervous if cutter wakes up The time Santa's supposed to be up and he'll wake up at, up at 3 a. m. Cause he sees all the presents. Oh, okay. And then he won't go to sleep because he sees all, you know. So it's just gonna be a surprise one day? Yeah. So presents are just gonna show up? Cause like, keep telling him, you have to stay in your room in case Santa comes. So he'll, he'll stay in his room all night and then come home. The house is on fire and Cutter's just like, Santa! Yeah, so we've been practicing, cause he's been coming out, um, like five times at night and just telling me something random. And I'm like, go to bed. You should keep a list. And then when he's like a teenager go in his room and start like reading him off Yeah, I'm like I remember when you told me that something happened to you at daycare and something that's like when people have cats And like, you know how cats are like kind of nocturnal and they like play all night and stuff This is kind of sad. When their cats during the day, sorry, when their cats during the day take a nap, they'll just like go up and wake them up because they're like, yeah, that's what it feels like to be woken up in the middle of night by someone crazy. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that's cats. That's nothing like cats. Because they sleep, I mean, they're a lazy animal. Yeah. They're a low key, nice animal. They can just sleep all day. But yeah, they'll have like zoomies. Parties at night. Zoomies at night. People have always mentioned like, my cat's just running up and down the hallway and just going crazy. Yep. I'm like, yeah, they have a burst of energy. Yep. And you've got two kitties. I do. We just got a new cat last night. What? Where'd you get this kitty at? Where'd you get it at? The Humane Society. We went there and adopted it. They didn't give you any heck or anything? No. What was the thought process behind two cats? Um, I just really loved having one cat. Really? And I thought that she needed a friend. But, uh, she hates it. Well, it might get better. You know what Nick would say to you? What? I don't know. You've got the worms in your head. Oh, that's the cat lady. Oh, no You you probably do do you clean the litter box? No, it doesn't even matter because like sorry when they get their feet. Sorry I'm so sorry their feet. It's called. What's it called? I don't remember but it's a thing they get worms from so it's called You know, there's crazy cat lady syndrome. Yeah, it's because like they have one cat. They need more. Yeah, it's because like the cat Um Just in your head it attacks like you get worms in your brain and you need more cats and more cats Yes, you should google this because I also don't know what it's called. But it's like something to do with Hold on. I thought it was a poop thing. I do. Yeah, so did I but I deworm my cat. It doesn't matter. Oh My crazy cat lady disease. Yeah, it's called I Got it. I know as soon as I got one cat. I was like so plasmosis. Yes. Oh, that is from You Cat poop. That's what I just said. But like, even with like the litter box, you know, they pee in there too. So then that pee, that's what tracks all over the house. Yeah. Cats touch all you. And that's why pregnant women aren't supposed to clean the litter boxes. And people let them like walk on their countertops and like on their stove. They jump. I snuggle my kitty in my bed. But like, you're already getting that like, Oh, I need more cats. I almost took two. And I got this one. It happened to my coworker. She's got like eight kitties in her house. Oh no. I see. I, I won't get another one. Next week, I found this little kid on the side of the road. We'll talk to you in like two months. If the cat distribution system becomes in your favor again, you will take it. I know you have distribution system. Yeah. So Nick is very afraid of cats cause he's like, I don't want the worms in my brain. And I'm like, we've got worms everywhere. So easy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a very clean cat. Hmmmmm You just have to like really wipe their paws after they're done in the litter box. Ew. That's hard. Don't let them on your counters. No, I don't. It's hard not to. Like they jump. They do jump. Mittens was a jumper, but we got our D Claude and I realized I'm not, probably shouldn't admit that to public, but because it's coming after you. Yeah, it's very controversial. It's very controversial. I didn't know. Just front. And I didn't know that how controversial it was until it was already done. And then now I'm like, Oh no, what have I done? Cut off part of their toes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's illegal in five states. We did too. Oh my gosh. But Iowa is the worst for just animal abuse. I guess like I was number one. Well, I think because we're so like heavily farm community that like Our mindset around animals is just different. I just couldn't believe it. I was like really? Well, we probably have that many more animals because we have that many more farms. Yeah, so maybe that skews the statistics. I mean around here. There was a lot of puppy mills. I mean some of them got shut down But I was like really I just didn't realize how bad All that was so when I say like did you have a rough time with your adoption process? Because they got super strict this humane society. Yeah, they are very strict on who adopts an animal Yep. Oh, like I think back in the day they used to go and do a house tour and make sure that you were like Fit and like pretty crazy. Yeah, but it's because a doctor in town would adopt so many dogs And he just used to operate them. I like what yeah. Oh, that's really sad. So that's why I've heard of that Yeah, actually, yeah, so that's why they're like, okay We got to stop like just letting anyone just adopt. Well, and you'd think like a doctor you would trust. Yeah But then I think they were like, this is your fourth dog you adopted from us. What's going on? Does he say on the paperwork like I have no other dogs I don't know, because they ask that question. They do like, do you have other animals? This was like a rumor that I've been told from like, people who've lived in this town. Oh boy. That that's what happened. I've never heard of that. I lived here for 30 years. Well get around Sarah. I'm kidding. I guess so. Yeah. No. So yeah, that's why, um, yeah. I asked about your adoption process, if it was easy or if they're like, um, they, you have to put down references. And they call the people and are like, like for who you work with? Or something, like references members. As far as like, who can attest to that? You're a good, I wonder what the questions are like she's telling you right now. Yeah, I know. Like, I don't know, like, oh, for the, for the people what they ask for Russia? Yeah. Like how do you know Calissa? Yeah. Pretty much. And then she does mom, she feed her cat at least twice a day. Yes. Mom used to screen adoption applications for one of the humane societies. So it's pretty much, are, do they have animals? Do they take good care of their animals? Um, do you think that their house is fit for an animal? Like that kind of question. Yeah. And then they asked when they, they had, I mean, probably dozens of cats that we could have adopted from the humane society. So we went into the building, they had room full of cats, room full of cats, room full of cats. And we went to, she's like, I have, Look to your application. I know you have kids. I know you have another cat. So there's like four cats that I think would do good with kids and cats and she's like they are in this Room and you can go in there and just play with them and see how it goes See what you like all those things. So we went in the room and there were two cats one was aida Which I really, really liked. And I thought maybe we should take three, two cats home. See, she was an orange cat, but she didn't do good with Anders. Yeah. Cause Anders is crazy and we'll carry her across the house and all that stuff. But, um, this other cat was super gentle and, um, just let. us do what we wanted to. That sounds bad, but for a cat it's very important. It is, yes, with kids because Anders like literally chucked mittens across the room the other day. It's so bad. And mittens are just like, okay, we'll play with that one. Yeah, kids will learn, but yes, the beginning part is tough sometimes. Yeah, yeah. So, but yeah. So we have one more addition to our family. Instead of having a fourth baby, we decided the cat. Two cats. Two cats. Two cats. Maybe now you'll have a dog. No. Or a fish. I'm not a dog person. I'd love a fish. Why? They're pretty to look at. But I would always Craig wants an aquarium. Yeah, I want a massive aquarium. Oh my gosh. So they have like a lot of room to play. Are you gonna get like a saltwater fish? Something cool? I don't know. Just, I just, I think it's really peaceful to look at. We should go to Petco after this. They don't have any cool fish. I was just there. I get really sad when I see the Betta fish and like the cool whip. The tiny tubs, yeah. Not even a cool whip container smaller than that. They're like, um, have you ever been like watched a chef show and um, They have like those mise en place containers. They're like that. They're like little mise en place containers. Sad. It is sad. Yeah. And just, uh, kind of going into our over consumption a little bit when they would, like, throw out everything. They threw out the fishies, too. Aww. Yeah. Sad. So But what do you do with them? Where do you put them? Exactly. Put them in a But no, but they just throw them in the trash. Aww. No, they trashed them. And I'm like, that's super sad. That is sad. Inhumane. Yeah, it is. You them alive because it goes through, like, a water treatment. I remember seeing a TikTok and it was this girl. She's like, yeah, I'm, I'm terrified of spiders, like absolutely terrified. But I walked out to my apartment to throw my trash away in the dumpster. And someone threw their pet tarantula in like snowy conditions. And she's like, I like, seriously, guys, like I hate spiders more than anything. But like she googled it tarantulas are supposed to be a nice warm. Yeah Yeah, and this tarantula was like frozen. It was like barely like moving And I think she like took care of it and then I called somebody But i'm like, uh good for you because I would not have done that I would have screamed and ran and then felt bad about it And then i'm like, maybe I should help it and then i'd probably be too late. Yeah, but what I mean, yeah, okay You But yeah, she there, the cage and everything. Like, oh, all the stuff that a tarantula should need. Someone just like, I don't know. That's sad. Yeah, I, I should probably try to find that video and put it in the stories. Yeah. Yeah, you probably should. Yeah. Moving on, what's next? Um, oh, secret Santa etiquette gift etiquette. So I brought this up because I saw TikTok and the guy. He just, you know, just filmed himself just kind of looking around. But the caption was when you bring in a secret Santa gift and someone keeps saying, Oh, just take mine. But it's your gift that you gifted. Like, Oh yeah, it's take mine. Take my gift. Take my gift. Like, no, like this person didn't want their gift. They want something else. Oh, so in the secret Santa, I don't get it. You're not, that's like impossible. You're not supposed to ever have your own gifts or not secret Santa. It's a white elephant. Oh, white elephant. Yeah. Yeah. So you put all your gifts in the circle and then you go around and if you like your gift, you keep it, but someone can steal it. Right. And he's saying that the person that had his gift was like, Oh, take my gift. Like, I don't want it. I want something else. And then he's just kind of like, he's filming himself. It's this little skit, but he's like filming himself like uneasy and like, okay, this is fine. It's not kind of hurts my feelings. Yeah. Should I show you? Yeah. Cause I don't get it. Okay. You don't have to take any gift if you don't want to. Hold on, pause, pause, pause, pause. Well, maybe it was a, I like quite a few stuff. Yeah, you do. I never like anything for that reason. That's crazy. You don't hurt anything. I try not to because then my for you page just becomes all everything of just like exactly that kind of video over and over and over and over and over again. But I like that. I don't cause then what if I want to see some other stuff? Cause I'm on Desperate House TikTok right now. I'm thinking about watching, rewatching Desperate House. We're watching Dexter again. Okay, I can't find it. That sucks. Okay, so let's make a skit right now of it because I don't understand. So the guy who know White Elephant? Yeah. The guy who brought the gift, it was some other guy who was saying he didn't want the guy who brought the gift's gift. Yeah, cause he opened it not knowing that it was that guy's gift. Oh, and he's like, here you take this, I don't want it. Yeah, so if someone, it was, let's say it's Calissa's turn to either choose a gift or like steal a gift. Okay, gotcha. And he's saying, oh yeah, just here, you want this one? You want to take this one? Yeah, but that's like part of it. But it's kind of rude. Why? Okay. Because, uh, you just take someone's gift with grace. Right. But if he didn't know what was in there and he's just saying like, I, no, he opened it something. Oh, he opened it and he didn't like what he got. Oh, I see. Yeah. So you open, you have to open the gift. I thought you didn't when you were just like going, how are you supposed to know? You open the gift, you open it how you supposed, I thought I've only played it where it's all secret, but usually white elephant is like. Like something in your house like random, that's how some people play it like that or they're like, oh 25 limit Yeah, you get something 25 limit you put in the pile and then someone opens it. They're like, oh I got gloves cool And then the next person Sarah you'd be like, do you want the gloves or do you want to know? Got it. Okay. I feel like we've only done where it's blind all the way through. Oh, that's weird. I think I don't remember the last time I played White Elephant, to be honest. But, um, yeah. So, the etiquette, I remember going to a party and I was like, last minute invite, like, hey, do you want to come? And I was like, oh, sure. And they're like, well, if you want to do a Secret Santa, or a White Elephant gift, you can. If you don't want to, that's totally fine, because you were like, last minute invited. I was like, oh, yeah, I can just, yeah, I'll bring something. So I went to TJ Maxx, Grabbed a lotion, grabbed a candle, I think grabbed some socks or like a, a towel. And um, yeah, the person who opened my gift, they were like, uh, I don't like that smell, allergic to that, and I'll just take this. Does anyone want these things? Oh. And I'm like, just fucking take the gift, take it home and give it to somebody. Like, don't like fucking be rude about it. I agree with that. That was super rude. Yeah, I was so pissed. And I'm like, I'm never going to this shit again. Yeah. What was this for? Like work or something? Okay Interesting. Mm hmm. So I it just pissed me off and that happened last year and I'm like, fuck you Then like I'm not coming to this thing again. Yeah, cuz I'm like, yeah, if you don't like a gift just like oh, thank you And I think I'm sorry take it home and then genuinely thank someone and then you move on with your life Yeah, and dispose of it not just like don't like that. Don't like this anyone want this and I don't want that I'll take this though. This is fine Yeah, that's so rude. Yeah, sorry that and you know, I was gonna pay for everyone's meal too and I was gonna be like except for her But I'm like no that would have been yeah petty but funny yeah, she wouldn't have cared anyway Yeah, so that's why I was like if you have a secret Santa or if you have like a office party And you have to bring gifts, and you don't like your gift, just take it with grace. Suck it up. Yes, yeah. I don't know when it stopped, like, being taught to people to, like, have graciousness around, or whatever, like, around gifts and stuff, like, when did that stop? I don't know. Like, when, when did parents stop teaching their kids how to, like, accept gifts appropriately? I don't think that was ever really taught. Really? When I watch movies, like there's always like a little girl or a little boy just, I didn't want this one, I wanted that one! Yeah. And the parents just kind of, they're silent. I know when Carver was, when Carver was like two. Um, I, he, I was, he was opening his presents and it's like, okay, we can't have the next one until you say thank you. And then, you know what I mean? Like trying to do that, but it's impossible to teach kids cause they're just like onto the next one, onto the next one. Um, Gannon last year, I got, I might've told this story before, um, You know how, like, when you get close to Christmas and, like, they need a new pair of shoes, you just wrap it up as part of their Christmas present? Oh, yeah, he just said that. And he opened up his pair of hay dudes and he just goes, This is not enough. Yeah, I think I do remember you saying that, yeah. So, this year I made sure that I didn't do that. Yeah, but, um, Carver needs a new pair of shoes, though. Yeah. We have to get some in town today, because his are just falling apart. We just bought them. They're under armor. Carver. Oh, I thought that would be no. Yeah. Quality, especially for the price. No, totally falling apart. I'm on eBay. Kids grow out of shoes so fast. We just buy the kids shoes on eBay. Now I don't shop on eBay. No, I don't either. I don't like, I didn't either until we were talking to somebody else and you're like, Oh yeah, we got these on eBay. And I was like, cause like I don't want to spend like 30 or 40 on a pair of shoes for my kids that are going to, they're going to grow out of in like, a handful of months. Why don't you just go down to the local Goodwill? Cause they never have anything from our Goodwill. Well, and they won't, they won't last. And they're usually like pretty trashed. Yeah. Like if you buy them on eBay, most of them are like gently used if not new. Yeah. And they're like half price. I haven't been to Goodwill lately. Yeah, Goodwill here sucks. Really? Yeah. No offense, but we're poor in this town. Like there are some rich people. Sure. But like we're poor. So like poor people give other poor people stuff. So like just say, I don't want your Porsche. Right. Like, you know, I don't know. Yeah. I had this friend, she goes to like the Goodwills in Minneapolis because she's like, literally there are so many like rich people. In Clear Lake or better. Yeah. She's like, they wear clothes once and then they're just. Decora has a really good secondhand place. There's like Depot. Yep. Yeah. I never thought about that. I'm like, huh? Like everything. There will be people lined up at least 15 people deep every morning at 9 a. m. before the depot opens. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's called the depot. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. They have really good. I don't know if it's that place, but they have a really good kids place, too My sister gets it. Oh, I go to the getup. Yes the getup and shout out. Love it. I sell there. I buy there Yes, Catherine sells all of her old stuff there. So yeah, I'm gonna go there Yeah, she gets gift cards and she like buys other stuff. It's like, um, I would say it's an upscale once upon a child. Yeah. Yes Yes, I wish there was more like that. I don't know if it would do well here because again, we are a poor community You I thought they like community. I thought they like look at the clothes they do, but I'm saying I don't think that our community would donate enough good stuff to warrant having that kind of store here. I would, yeah. Like people who have good stuff in this area sell it on Facebook marketplace. That's true. They don't donate it. Mm. I just need pants for him. Yeah. Yep, holes in the knees constantly. Yep on the school pants. Oh my gosh on the snow pants school I just well on snow pants No, they just bought brand new snow pants for the boys and literally the very first day they came home holes in the knees Did you get the reinforced knee? Yes, it ripped above the reinforced knee. I know Everything's That's what I'm saying. Like, it sucks. Like, it's just like that fast producing. Quality is just so trash these days. I think I saw something they were trashing Carhartt cause Carhartt used to be like durability and now it's like fashion for influencers. Blake Lively ruined the name. I'm just kidding. Along those lines, back to the gift thing. I really am a hater of gifts just for the sake of gifting. If that makes sense. No. Like, I want to say this without sounding ungrateful. Um, like, when you're in a job, and people are very kind, and they give, like, little gifts around Christmas time, right? And generally it's like coffee, or Christmas, or not Christmas, I'm sorry. Coffee, or like, chocolate, things like that. You're, like, giving gifts that aren't Like tailored to the person it's giving a gift just for the sake of giving a gift. Yeah. And like, I could see that. I appreciate it, but I'm never going to eat that chocolate. Like I'm not really a chocolate person anymore. I don't drink coffee. So like, I don't know. I don't, I don't know how to say that without sounding. No, it makes sense. You know what I mean? It's just, it's an obligation. Yeah. And I don't want to ever feel like someone is like obligated to give me a gift because that's shitty. I don't know. I don't know. This is along the lines of like what you were saying kind of. And I am very thankful. Like I did think, you know, people who've given the gifts, but, but you take it with grace and you don't look at that person and be like, you know, I don't really like this. Yeah. So just No. And I said, Hey boys, you can have all this candy. And they're like, yay. And then I said, Hey mom, can you drink this coffee? And she's like, sure. So I was like, okay, great. Uh, yeah, I did keep the chapstick though. That was a great chap That was a great Chapstick Cool. Speaking of your ungratefulness for gifts. No, I do. Just kidding. I do appreciate it. Oh, thank you. Uh, re reduce, reuse, recycle Let the girl, she gave me a cute bag, so I gave it to Issa. Oh, cool. Okay. But thank you. Yeah, I don't know. That's why I'm, thank you. You know what I mean? You know, I don't know, maybe if you put chocolate in here now I'm gonna feel bad. Yep. I bad total chocolate. I'll just for the little Instagram there. Okay. Is that not a good enough phase for that? I don't know. I didn't pay you. There you go. Are we opening them? Sure. I also got the dinkiest paper. And that was from Calissa's paper. And I'm like, you know what? No, look at what I used from Calissa. It's literally a tissue. That's hilarious. It's tissue paper. That is so funny. That is so funny. Okay, love this. Love this. Okay, so they came in a pack and I thought it was the same size as Calissa's. But I was like, Oh, Oh, is this the, I can't wait. Yeah, it's the beef tallow. Great. Yes. Can you open it? I want to see if it's whipped. Thank you. You're welcome. I think I would imagine it is. But mine was more like a buttercream. Oh my gosh. It smells so good. So yours looks more whipped. It does smell good. What is that vanilla? Grass fed beef tallow. Yeah, I was gonna buy some. Thank you. Yeah, this is just a little uh, a little jar, but this is a nice jar too Yeah, but I think once you're done with that you can go to the same person be like just reuse this jar Yeah, cool and you get it for cheap. This is nice and I drive through charles city all the time. So nice Oh, this is that like special. Yeah, I figured with your hair. It's softer Or like, you know won't frizz you out Yeah, cool. Thank you, Hannah. Oh my gosh. Like I said, I thought it was the same size as Kalissa's, but. Oh, it's okay. Yeah. I'm like, that's Cheryl's hair. She has more hair than I do. That's what I said. Awesome. She's got like real people here and basically bald. Yeah, I literally, Oh, see, yeah. Yeah. I love this. This is like, so here you can have my favorite based on our last episode. Oh, are you going to reuse that bag again? I was. Okay, great. Yeah. Do it. I'll put these in my pocket. I'll take that back. But I was like, well with like the overconsumption, like overconsumption has just taken over my mind, you know? Yeah, absolutely. I just go into a store and I'm like, trash, trash, trash, trash, trash. But then you can't throw it away because it just stays on the wall. I walk from my house and I say that. I'm like, why did I keep this? Why do we have this? I'm going to teach my kids not to just keep all the junk. I'm doing that right now with my clothes. Like I'm trying to like really declutter my clothes and like just give them to someone. Yeah. But I feel they're going to get rid of them. I know. So it's like, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. So, yep. I don't know. It's a tough world. You know what? I just got all purple luggage brand new for her Florida trip. Yes. For my Florida trip. And I don't have a brush for my, And it's purple! My bet for my travel set. And it's purple! That's awesome! A purple brush! It's gonna go on my travel set. I'm so excited. Why don't you leave it on the floor? That would be sad. That would be sad. That's awesome. Yeah. Yay! Cool, well thank you. I appreciate it. This was a thoughtful gift. Yes. See, but this is what I'm saying. Like, we talked about the tallow. You know us well enough to like get a gift card to a place that we like, or like, you know, whatever. Cause you're both were like, Oh, I'd be interested. Yeah, exactly. See, like that's the kind of stuff that I like, but, and that's not to, that's not like shade. I just, I just want like, you don't like generic generalized obligation gifts. Yes. Okay. I never want someone to feel like they have to get me something. Cause I don't feel that way. Cause I'm a terrible gift giver. So, Ooh. Just like if anyone's listening. Okay. So everyone knows. And on that note, it has been an hour and 19 minutes with about 10 minutes that I need to cut from this. You can cut out both my stories and all of my brain farts and all our pausing. Yes. Pause to Google. There was definitely like five minutes of Google time in there. Yes. That's all right. That's all right. Okay. But Hannah's going to kill it in the story. Oh yeah. A gift opening. Yes. That's what I can do tomorrow because my kids will be gone. So yeah, I'll start doing stories. Yeah. Awesome. If I remember to post it. Yeah. Well, tomorrow's Friday, right? Yes. Okay. Yep. This'll be going. What was that look? Okay. I had to set an alarm because I kept forgetting. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Set an alarm, but I did remember to text you this time. Yes. Thank you. I did it right away. This time. Yes. Because usually I'm like, Oh, I'm in the middle of, I'm in the middle of doing something and I'm busy, but not today. You were on it. Appreciate it. The iPhone update, it's made it easier to do a scheduled text. Oh, I need to do those because do you know, I do most of my business on night shift. So I'll be like, Oh, with the boys need a haircut. I need to message my hairdresser. The boys need this. I need to do that. So you schedule a text, a date of when you want to do that. Okay. You just go to the person that you want to text and you just hit the plus and hit schedule text. What? Yeah, so you can choose the date. So if you're like, oh, I always forget this person's birthday, but you can just go to their birthday, do the time, what time you want to do it, write your text, send it, and it won't send till that date and that time hit. What? Yeah, but they made it easier to do it that way because before it was so stupid. Now it's just way easier. What? Gosh. I did not know this was a thing. I don't know anything about technology. You don't know anything. And like, I'm afraid to, we're getting long again, I'm afraid to like mess around and try to figure that stuff out because I Always practice on someone. I always practice on Nick. On Nick's like text message thing. Yeah. Every time. I will break something every time. Or send the text message six months in advance. Yeah. So. Happy birthday. To Shane. It's July. I practice with Calvin because his birthday is coming up. When's his birthday? Uh, the 13th. Of January? Of January. I was gonna say, girly. Like, girly. Hit the plus button. Send later? Yes. I think that would be it. Today at 5pm. No. Oh my gosh. January 13th. At 12am. It won't let me. It only goes to January 2nd. That's kind of lame. Not right now. Not right now. I'll have to remember to do this and I'll probably feel free. Yeah. I'll probably literally be like laying next to him and he'll be like, I just got a text message from you. Yeah, I know. I scheduled that like two weeks ago. Yeah. Pretty funny. So yeah, if you want to schedule a birthday message, happy holidays message, but it only goes out like two weeks. Okay. Well two, two weeks people. Yeah. Uh, Sarah, your emoji then can be a timer. Okay. Cool. There we go. Uh, Santa. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't think there's not a cardigan emoji. I don't think so. There's a sweater but not a cardigan. I don't think. Okay. It's like a pink sweater. We'll do Santa for Calissa. Little Santa. Um, uh, cow. Because the tallow. The beef tallow. How did we both think that? I don't know, but you should do the cow. Okay. Cow, Santa, timer. We're like on the same page. You guys are both having brain farts and everything. Oh my gosh. Consecutive aneurysms or something. You were sinking up. Our blood flow is all getting like. Oh, are we sinking up down there too? Do you have your period right now? No. Are you getting your period? I'm getting, I'm just getting off mine. Oh, I only get one every three months. Oh, you dummy. Hashtag birth control. Oh, what a shame. Mine was like. Two days early this time. Stupid. All right. And on that, nobody want to hear that. Sorry. Delete that. Call us, uh, just kidding. Specifically. Sorry to Cody because Calvin and I were talking the other day and he was saying how Cody listens and I guess Cody was like, you know, I don't think that I'm their target target audience, but I just love to listen. Who's Cody? Um, he's from the gym. Okay, he's a wonderful waiter. He's so nice. He's the nicest person ever and he's just like so sweet and kind and And I was just laughing and now that I said that I'm like Cody don't listen to that part. Shout out Cody! Shout out to Cody! Bye!