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Unhinged Holiday Diaries: Dating Era, Hair By Chrissy Chaos, Y2K Christmas Bday Plans & Spiritual Signs
This week on The Dry Diaries, your two most unhinged girls in LA are officially back. Rachel and I just signed a year-long lease together, and since it’s been a minute since she’s been on the pod, we had to sit down and catch you up on everything.
We get into our dating eras- how we’re actually going on dates (growth), why movie dates are a cop-out, and Rachel’s new rule about not watching TV with men. Then it’s straight into our spiritual girl era: aura readings, the medium session with Faren, the message from Rachel’s grandma, and how I’ve slowly been pulling her into her spiritual awakening.
We also talk all things DryMas- my Y2K Christmas birthday weekend, “Skate & Sleigh,” The Dry Express, and how we always loved a themed party. We also get into our Christmas traditions growing up and our take on the best gifts for girls and guys. And of course… the beauty disasters. My tragic Hair by Chrissy saga and the Sonya Dakar facial that nearly took me out.
If you love girl talk, chaos, dating delulu, spiritual signs, and best-friend energy- this one feels like getting ready with your two fav besties.
**Don't listen to this in the car with your kids we talk about Santa**
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SPEAKER_01:Hey guys, what's up? It's your author, Alex Dry, and I am back with another entry of the Dry Diaries. Today, Rachel is back on the pod. We're back. Everyone's probably sitting on the edge of their chairs right now, being like, oh god. The two most unhinged girls in LA are back on the pod. In case you're wondering, she's still alive. She's still here. We know that you love the episodes with Rachel and I together. So I'm bringing a bag. We're bringing a bag hotter than ever. So I hope you guys are ready. Yeah. So a little life update. Every time we say this, Rachel and I got a new place. But this time it's a really long or year lease. Yes. I locked Alex in. I slowly worked my way in there. And now we are about to move in what two weeks? Yeah, two weeks. So yeah, it's like official. It was a hassle at the beginning to try and find something. I think we've been blessed with the places that we've lived at. Yeah. Alex moved here. We were really close to Abbott Kinney. We were just like so happy to be over there. And also we've had so many good memories and so many good times there. So now we are finally ready to be big girls and get our own spot and make it Alex and Rachel coded. Yeah. So we're gonna decorate it, have our own furniture finally, and be real life 30-year-olds. Yeah, literally. As we should. But it's good. I'm so excited. I'm excited to like just finally have our own spot. Yeah, same. And just decorate it the way that we want it and not have these little tiny couches that we literally can't even move on. Do you think we'll get a TV? Yeah, of course. No, only because our lab places never had TVs.
SPEAKER_00:And now that we've been upgraded, I'm like, no, we've been judged for not having one. So I think it's time.
SPEAKER_01:We just don't really watch TV. I feel like now that it's like in our new place, yeah. The place we're in now, like we'll turn it on as background noise. But Rachel and I both have, I definitely have narcolepsy. I'm pretty sure Rachel has either you're just really tired or you have narcolepsy, but she falls asleep five seconds into a movie. I think it's more ADHD than narcolepsy. I'm finally calm at that point. Like last night, I always do this thing where I pretend I'm awake. I'll watch the show because I don't want Alex to go to her bed. So I'll pretend I'm watching it and then all of a sudden I'm like past out. I wake up, I'll say something random, and then I go but fall asleep again. And it's just like a common thing that I always do. Yeah, or okay. I'm going to my room. I should just admit I'm not watching it. Wait, do we do that with guys? I don't watch TV with men. If a guy asks me to go to the movies, like that would just be straight torture for me. Yeah, you're too ADD. I'm like an adventure type of person for some type of interaction, but movies are like I don't know. I feel like a guy asking you on a movie date like the first couple dates is such a cop out because you're literally not even speaking. If he's really good looking, you can just stare at him instead of the television. It usually doesn't work that way. And I also think that's just pure laziness. Or if a guy asks you to come over and watch movies, like the first couple dates, I'm like, absolutely not. No, I also think there's so many things that you could do, and that's like absolute last resort. Yeah. Take me to the for a walk on the beach, take me to anywhere other than that. Yeah, I would definitely rather do what do they call it? A walk and talk. Yeah, walk or talk. You know what's crazy? I went on a date with this guy, and he had asked me to go for coffee, and I don't drink coffee. Whatever. It was like, yeah, sure. But we went for a walk around a harbor front in Toronto, and we were walking, and we were just like starting to get to know each other, and we look up, and some guy literally was proposing to his girlfriend in front of us. Me and him were both just looking at each other, and I was like, This is so weird. That's so uncomfortable. I wanted to be like, Are you next? Good on Wendy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I feel like get creative. Like you're trying to win me over on your date.
SPEAKER_01:You don't have to go like a hundred percent, but just like something cool and different than we haven't really been dating lately. We nearly don't. Yeah. I've been on two dates in the past two months. Yeah. Which is like a huge step for me. But it is. I'm proud of you. Yeah, that's great. It really took Rachel convincing me to just go. Yeah. One one of the times Alex was like, I'm just gonna stay home and have dinner with you. And I was like, No, you're going on the date. But she stayed and we had dinner, and then the next time I was like, okay, you have to go.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Dating is just so hard.
SPEAKER_01:I also feel like I'm the type of person where I just like feel so comfortable with my friends, and I would rather hang out with my friends. It's like getting out of your comfort zone. Yeah, and it's like a guaranteed good time, me knowing that I'm hanging out with you or hanging out with someone else, where it's like hanging out with a random person is sometimes not scary, but it's like it's a job. No, it's literally a job. You're having to get to know someone new. And the thing is, like, you don't know how they are. So you're also on a date. Either you're gonna be babysitting, loving your life, or wanting to kill yourself. Literally, K Way, that's actually hilarious. Speaking of dating and crazy stories, my very first date in LA, this was like two years ago. I went on a date with this guy. He was cool. He worked for Sony. He was a vibe matched on Raya, I think. He picks a really cool spot. I'm excited. The first probably 10 minutes of us talking, he tells me his dad's in jail. And that he literally buys his dad clothes from the gap and brings them to jail so he can change up his shirts and stuff. And I'm sitting there, I haven't even had four sips of my drink, and you're telling me your dad's in jail. Did you ask why? Yes. He was literally his dad was stealing money from rich people. So his dad was like Oh, he went to jail for the Ponzi scheme or like embezzlement. He was working in finance.
SPEAKER_00:What's it called when you like trust? He was working with trust funds.
SPEAKER_01:He was working with like really high classes. So it was embezzlement. So he was taking money out. And so this guy I went on a date with grew up rich because he was growing up after all the money that the other people had. And then when the dad ended up having to go to jail, he lost it all. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. But you never know what you're gonna get. It's really like heads or tails. You're either getting someone kind of normal or just someone completely off the deep end. I know our cards lately say love. Your cards say it. Yeah. Mine is saying say no.
SPEAKER_00:Get away rid of the negativity.
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, damn, I got done dirty then. I mean it could be so many different things, too.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, for sure.
SPEAKER_01:I honestly really enjoyed the card reading. Alex is really bringing me out of my shell with all these different new things. And I don't know if you guys remember, but we had an aura reading and we also had a medium reading. I don't know if you guys were paying attention to what was being said, but basically when we were having the medium, when the medium was talking to us, I was not familiar with any of this at all. And Alex keeps filling me in on all of her experiences with everything. And we had the medium reading, and during the medium reading, Farrin, Farron was saying something about she got through to my honey, which was really crazy to me. And she was saying stuff about jewelry, and while we were talking, it was a crazy thing to me because I do wear my grandma's jewelry, and she kept saying something about a necklace. Yeah. Fast forward to four days later, I told my mom all about this, and my mom calls me, and she goes, Ray, oh my god, you need to call me. And I'm like, just another one of her stories or whatever it is. And she called me and told me that there was a necklace left for me, which was so crazy because I was so thrown offside from it. Yeah, but also she was like very adamant of no, it's not like the jewelry you already have. Like, and so then, yeah. And the way that she described the necklace, too, was a little bit uncanny because it was like the same thing in the with the pendant. Yeah, that was cool. Alex is bringing me out of my shell. Yeah, we love little spiritual stuff. Speaking of it's sad season, bitches. Let's we got a birthday coming up. We got a birthday that's happened, and we have a delayed birthday party that's about to come up. Yep. And we're doing skate and sleigh. Alex loves a theme. If you guys haven't noticed yet, this girl gets down and dirty for any type of theme. So it's gonna be a Christmas themed weekend. Saturday's TV D. We're still figuring out some things. Friday is skate and sleigh. It's the dry express instead of the polar express. And we're gonna do like a little dinner and then a pregame and then get a party bus that takes us to the roller rink, and everyone is gonna skate, but it's Y2K Christmas, so everyone has to dress Y2K Christmas bags. Yes, fuzzy vibes, yeah, valore. So right now our house is filled with all these Christmas decorations everywhere, just piled up in corners, but it's gonna look really cute once it comes together. No, Alex knows how to throw down a theme. Love a theme. So we let her do it. I sit back, I enjoy the ride. I sit back on the Polar Express and enjoy the ride. Literally. And she just turns our place into literally magic. Yeah. This is not about Christmas, it's about the hair by Christie. Oh, yes, we do need to get into that. Yeah. So I have a story for you guys because I feel like a lot of people are talking about this right now. There is like a whole dilemma around like the hair by Christie thing, and it happened to me. Yes, it did. Not once, twice. And I don't even told you the first time. No, you never did. Okay, so the first time, this was like pre-COVID or right after COVID, I'm not sure. But I really wanted to get my hair done. I wanted to go to Hair by Christie. So I was like, I'll just drive to Arizona. It's not that far. That's where she was based? And get my hair done. That's where her main salon is. Okay, yeah, yeah. So I drive all the way to Arizona and I drive like throughout the night because like my appointment was in the morning. Yeah. And I just was like, I want to get there and get back. Yeah. I think Halloween was like two days later or something. And so yeah, I go there and I get my hair done, and I knew how much it was gonna be beforehand because I had to put a deposit. Yeah, yeah. So I put down like two grand and then I go, I get my hair done, and I'm expecting to get my hair done by Chrissy because that's who I like made my appointment for. And Chrissy's prices are higher than the other people. So I go there, I'm getting my hair done, and literally, I think she touched my hair for like five seconds. She told the girls what color to do. She literally came in and out, they did my hair, she curled the end of it, and that was it. And at the time I thought it was weird because I was like, why am I paying extra to get my hair done by her whenever they basically did my whole head? Yeah, but she's getting it, the other people don't get it. So I'm sure she like disperses it. Yeah. I get my hair done, I'm like, okay, fine. I was there a couple hours. So I get in the car and I'm driving back. And this is just the kicker. As I'm driving back, there's like a span of two cities in between, it's like somewhere in California on the way from I think it's like Vegas to LA or Palm Springs to LA, where there's no gas stations. So I'm driving and it's middle of the night because by the time I got my hair done, it was four or five. Then we get in the car and we're driving back, and I had my friend with me. It was me and her. And as we were driving back, like there was barely any gas left, but there was no gas stations around. Not even an en route? No, nothing. So I ran out of gas. Only time I've ever run out of gas. Usually I don't because I had like half like a quarter of a tank. Yeah. But then because it's such a long distance, it's like it just ran out. So I was already mad because I did like my hair color, it didn't turn out bad, but why am I paying$4,000 for these other girls to do it? I would have just signed up with them because I could have saved myself a thousand dollars. And this was a couple years ago. So I set aside like four grand to get my hair done by hair. It's crazy. Driving back, run out of gas, and all these truckers are pulling up behind us and all this. I called the on-site or whatever that's in the car, the SOS button. They're like, oh, we can get to you in three hours, four hours, but we really don't know your location. It's off map. I'm like, four hours. Like it's already at this point like 10 or 11. And also, I was trying to go out that night because I think it was Halloween or something. So yeah, I end up calling 911 and the police pulled out. I would have. And the guy was like, I'm not allowed to do this, but I'm going to. So he drove me to the gas station, got me like two things of gas, put it in my car for me, and then I drove back.
SPEAKER_00:He also probably didn't want a really hot girl waiting on the side of the highway.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he saw like the truckers like pulling up and stuff. So he was like, This isn't safe for you.
SPEAKER_00:No, absolutely not.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so I was in the back of the cop car after seeing the hair by Chrissy's being in the backseat of the cop car. A little bit. Hair by Chrissie's led to a cop car and losing four grand. Just kidding. Literally. Second time. I went to the OC location. The second time I was a part of this one. Yeah. The second time I didn't go back to Arizona. I went to the OC location and I went to one of Hair by Christie's ladies. I was there for like maybe 10 hours. I spent over$3,000 on my hair. I get home. I wanted to go back to my natural color like I am now. I will have to put the photos of what I asked for compared to what I got to. I almost had a mental fucking breakdown. Rachel's like, it doesn't look that bad. I'm like, no, look at it. And so she shines the light and she takes a photo and she's oh, okay. It was also dark, but I get it. Like when I get my hair, my hair isn't the way I want my hair to be. It's like, even with my extensions, like one time I got extensions, and the guy thought that he could put like dark brown with the black. Oh, like he was trying to mix it up. Like he was like, because he probably didn't have enough hair. So he sandwiched the other colors. And I got home and I was just like, you can fully see it. And it's just, you're just so excited to get your hair done. And then when something like that happens, you're also spending a lot of money. Yeah. So my hair was literally Aberlevine 1990s, half black, half like caramel blonde. Wasn't even caramel, it was definitely ashy. And I was in fumes. But Cam fixed my shout out to Cam. I learned my lesson. Literally. And so now No cheating on Cam. Yeah. No cheating on Cam anymore. No, that's I feel like she's there's some things that are gonna go down with her now because a lot of people are coming out and talking about it. Her nickname's Hair by Crispy. Oh yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Because she fries people's hair off. Well, at least you still have hair babe. Could be worse. I went one time I went and got my hair done, and the hairdresser unevenly cut my extensions and it was like this. So you had to cut the other stuff. And I was like, Jess, what what do I do? So he came to my house and was trying to tell me he did hair for Kanye West. Who? My hairdresser at the time. Oh. He was telling me how he was like doing hair for Kanye and thinking about it now that I actually work with celebrities. This guy was not touching Kanye's hair. And I'm sorry, what was he giving him? A fucking like buzz cut? Buzz cut? Like a little different than extensions. You're using like a fade, and I was not asking for a fade. I was eye as uneven. Because the fade goes out literally. I'm dead. That's too good. But yeah. Your hair looks amazing now. Thanks. I also had a crazy story with Sonia Descartes, too. Did you see the girl that went to Sonia Descartes and her face was burned? With the yes. With the red the white Z. Like literally, she literally had it was worse than three-degree burn. Yeah. Her face was insane. No, it was crazy. I went to Sonia a couple times and it made my face so much worse. We tried to use her products. It made your face bad. Yeah. Also, her products, like it, it was too strong for my skin. Oh yeah. And she was very rough. Like she lays you down. She's like, okay, and then she extracts, like, you think so. She was like extracting my whole entire face when I left. I was like, oh my god. But it's literally, yeah. Even Alyssa, who has like perfect skin, like she left there and her face was like. See, and that's what's so sad and annoying because you're paying the money. You think you're gonna walk out looking like you're 13 years old and you're yeah, just dealing with everyone's consequences. It makes you wonder like, how do they have the name if they're I don't know. I think now people are coming out and saying she doesn't really have the certifications that she claims she does, or the treatment she's doing, she doesn't have the certifications for. She's a I will give it to her. Sonia Dakar is a great saleswoman. For me, I was like, okay, this is too pushy and too much, which I'm sure a lot of people get that, but she's so pushy that if you don't buy it, it's like you feel like oh no, I hate that. Yeah. Imagine me being in there trying to decide what to buy. No, and oh, she'll give it to you and she'll lay it all out, and your bill will be three grand. So, guys, I surprised Alice with balloons. But it's so hard to surprise someone because I live with her and I didn't want her to have the surprise while I was sleeping. I was gonna do it last night. I went to Michael's, and this just goes to show how indecisive I am with everything. And I'm trying so hard to be better about it because I'm so bad at making a decision. Like I would just rather someone just choose for me. And it's not because like I don't have my own opinion, I just don't care. Yeah. But like sometimes I do, depending on what it is. But sometimes I'm just like, do you want this or this? I'm like, I don't care, you pick. I'm just so easy in that way. But I go to Michael's to get these balloons done, and I wanted to do all black balloons. Then I like started looking online and I was saw these like super cute, like gray balloons. So I'm like, maybe I just don't do all black. They didn't even have gray balloons, but I convinced myself that I should get gray balloons. So then I see these two other like white balloons and these other balloons that literally look like condoms, and I was like, okay, no one's looking. So I started blowing the balloons up and put the three of them together to see what it would look like. And the lady comes up to me and she's gonna ask, like, you can't be putting your lips on it. And I'm like looking at her, like, I'm trying to make sure that this looks amazing. I will literally put my lips on it. So next thing she's okay, like you have to pay for the ones you put your lips on. And I was like, how do you know which ones? Because at this point they were back in the thing. So, anyways, I was able to make a decision after returning the first badge, going back into the moon and rebuying the exact same colors I got because I've been convincing myself, like, just do it, it's fine. So we got the multicolor and it was all good. The black and white, it was really cute, and then there's one clear. Is that a couple clear? Oh, there was a couple clear. Oh, okay. Uh yeah, so it was really cute. And then she attached photos to the bottom of it, and so like it spun around. Of us, yeah. Of us, obviously. What of photos of you? Yeah, literally imagine happy birthday. Or imagine I just put all your exes on the balloons and happy birthday. You've graduated from every one of these phases in your life. There'd literally be two photos, but I don't have none.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_01:There'd be like, yeah, two or three photos, actually. But yeah. My fucking my high school boyfriend playing the guitar for me. God. What if we did everyone he's dated or talked to? We'd have to get a lot of balloons. I'm just kidding. Okay, also, Christmas is coming up, and Rachel is going to Carmel with her family, which is gonna be so cute. It's literally out of a Hallmark movie. And I haven't booked the hotel, so mom, if you're listening, it's not booked yet, but I will get on that soon. Yeah, no, y'all have so much fun. I wish you could come. I know. I'm like trying to finally escape Canadian winter, and I finally got my way this year, and I don't get to see winter this year, and that's so crazy for me. Until we go to Mammoth. Yeah, but that's like easy. That's like fun winter, yeah, enjoyable winter. Oh, we need to plan a mammoth weekend. Yeah, we could honestly like make Oh, we could do that for your birthday, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, maybe that would be so fun. We would have to like, yeah, we fully could. And fur would be the theme for every single night.
SPEAKER_01:Like it would be like Eskimo Hooker fur, and then it would be like, ooh, like snow bunny fur. And then the last night would just be like all of it combined. That'll be so fun. We definitely could do that. Yeah, that would be really fun. I'm honestly down. We just have to plan something and figure it out. Make sure everyone. Oh, that's it. I'm gonna have to plan it. I'm like, Rachel, let's do this. She's like, we have to plan it. I'm like, okay, let's plan for I booked my flight to London for June. And she's you can tell in her face, she's oh my god, hell no. How are you planning that far ahead? But yeah, no, we definitely have to do that. That'll be fun. And we can get like a good group and yeah, we definitely can make that happen. While you're in Carmel, I'll be at home going to my 70 person family Christmas party, which I'm so excited for. I can't wait. See, like that's one thing. Like, I do love Christmas because I love like just like being with my family and like drinking with them and stuff. But that's fun for three days. Then I just don't care about my cousin's girlfriend's fiance's friend. They're asking me questions like, where's your boyfriend? How does this work? Asking me questions that I'm just like sick of answering. Yeah, yeah. At this point, I said this before, but I feel like they've given up asking questions. Now it's like, where are you moving? What's your next plans? That's a question I got last year because I obviously went to Europe and then moved in Texas. I was like, I don't know what I'm figuring out. They're like, not back to LA. I'm like, yeah, okay. Whatever you say.
SPEAKER_00:Wait, that's actually hilarious because my you're right, my family has fully given up on it too.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like my cut, like, no one even really makes comments. I just think about it when I'm seeing them because I'm like, oh, here I am alone.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, literally. And I had Dalton for the last two years, me and him, because we were both single, and now I don't have Dalton because he has a girlfriend. So it's back to me again. Yeah. Being the only one. I'm like, great. Amazing. I guess my mom. Me and my mom are the only single ones. Lordy. God bless our souls. I'm crying. So she's like, why don't you hang out with me?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's fine. You don't know, you can't even like that's you just have no excuse at that point.
SPEAKER_01:You and Karen are taking down Fort Worth. I know. Is it weird being an only child? Okay, so like on Christmas or just in yeah, at Christmas, but overall. I feel like growing up as an only child, me and my mom did everything together. She was like my sister, but I'm also extremely tight with my guy cousins. We were all very similar in age, and my mom's really close with her sisters. Oh. And having my honey, having Sunday dinner every Sunday, like we saw each other all the time. Growing up, obviously, it was weird sometimes where I'd have to play Barbies alone. I'm in a room by myself playing brats or poly pockets. I used to make my cousins play polypockets with me, and my little cousin, he wasn't convinced that it was weird yet to play, so he'd play with me. And you know how they had the chewy like dresses you'd put on them?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Like the pushy ones.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, my cousins used to eat them and spit them at me.
SPEAKER_01:So we honestly, like growing up at some points, it was weird, but for holidays and stuff, my cousins were always there for me. We were always there together. But going to my dad's side of things, I don't have any cousins on that side. Both his sisters never had kids, so that was weird. But like me and my cousins would just always be like, Oh, we have the other family tonight, it's not the same. Because it just never compared. I know when I was little, I really wanted to be an only child. I would cry about it. Yeah, but now I'm picturing it, I'm like, I can't imagine being an only child. Yeah, like you're so close with your brother, yeah, and you're close with your sister, and it's just so nice. Now your sister's having babies, and it's so you're the hot aunt. Yeah, of course. I'm the cool aunt. The hot and cool ant. Yeah. But what was there any traditions you guys would do? So we, I don't know, this is gonna, you're gonna laugh. It's very Canadian. So every oh, this is so Canadian. You guys are gonna freak out because a lot of you guys aren't probably familiar with either of these. The day after Christmas, we call it Boxing Day. Oh, I've heard of this. Yeah, so Boxing Day is the exactly the same as Black Friday. Black Friday. Yeah. But we have it after Christmas, which is dumb, to be honest, because Yeah, because Christmas is already happening, you can't get the deals for the channel. Yeah, and what if I wanted this like a thousand dollar sweater that's on sale in November? Then I could finesse Jody to get it for me. Yeah. After Christmas, her bank is broke, she's not getting anything. But I guess like people like get it for like presents or like they plan a hat for the next year. Yeah, but who wants a sweater from last season? True. Maybe it's a little thing. Are you hiding a 70-inch TV in your closet for your son? I don't know. I wouldn't know. Yeah, no, literally, you guys don't have to worry about that. So on Boxing Day, we have boot hockey. Because my grandpa had played it. Hockey is the biggest thing in my family because my grandpa played. And the funny thing is, my grandpa before we did the boot hockey, my grandpa has a hockey room at his house. So all my cousins are on the hockey wall. Okay. But I didn't play hockey. My mom was so against it, which also thank you, because I don't think hockey is like a feminine sport. No. But like, shout out to my girls that play it, whatever. I just never got into it. And they are all on the wall. I had nothing in the room. I kept always saying, like, why don't you put my swimming photos in here? But it was like strictly the hockey room. So shout out to my boy Devo. He wins the Stanley Cup. Like when I was like 25, 24, and I'm chugging out of the Stanley Cup. And I literally print it out, put the photo in a frame, and I mail it to my honey and my papa, and they put it in the hockey. So it's like full wholesome hockey moments, and it's just full degenerate me. And my family died when I sent it because we really had no choice. But, anyways, my whole family comes over. We either do it at my house or my aunt's house. Everyone dresses up in hockey jerseys. We go outside in the snow and we play hockey. Everyone's on different teams, and then we drink when there's just a bunch of food. And that was so fun going growing up and doing that. We also used to do like sleigh rides. Oh, cute. Yeah. Where my cousins would throw me off the thing and make me run, and the sleigh, the sleigh ride would just keep going. What would you pull it by? Horses. Oh. It would be literally on the snow, a massive sleigh, and the horses would go through a paved area, but it was still snow. Cool. Massive snowbanks, and then you would just jump in the snowbanks and stuff. Oh my gosh, that's so fun. It's so funny how like different countries and even states and areas have different traditions. Yeah. But they're all still similar. Because like, same with us. Because you guys get snow, right? Yeah, like ice in Texas. And growing up in Texas, it would like it was barely. It wasn't like it would get really cold, but it would be like icy snow. But my family being into football would do the same thing, just not hockey. And every single it was either Thanksgiving or Christmas. We would do a football game. It would be like one team versus another. And it'd be like a drag football. But our family's so competitive, they would throw each other down. And at that time, I'm like 10 years old trying to play. And then I was like, F it. So then I'd be the cheerleader. Yes. And then so Alex go to Yeah. And so yeah, it was really fun. And then also another thing my dad would have us do is take us to the park. And he would love, How many times can you guys run up and down the hills and make me Dolds and Melissa compete? So we'd be running up and down the hills. And every time we ran up and down the hill, we'd get one dollar. How many times did you do it? I think a hundred at least. You did it a hundred times. Yeah, yeah. And of course, you know how competitive I am. I'm like, I have to be the most broke the bank. Yeah. A hundred. I'm not stopping. But that's how we would get our money for our Christmas present. I love that. Yeah, that was another thing. And then my mom is the creative, sweet, nurturing, southern whatever. So for Christmas, she would always go like above and. Beyond, especially she's amazing at decorating. She would do like either make little notes or do little like things like Santa left behind, like whether it was like fur from his jacket, or she'll eat the cookies and drink the milk, and that was really cute. Leave little notes, and she did that too, which is a really cute idea for the Easter bunny. She would make little prints of the Easter bunny out of flour. No, she didn't. Yeah, it was so cute. Wow. What was like your favorite childhood memory growing up in relation to that kind of stuff? Do you remember one specific moment where you were like, Wow? Yeah, it was actually Christmas. I was maybe five years old. We were at my dad's house, and I remember my brother was sick. He was like three, and then Alyssa was just like a baby. So we went out, we made a snowman, and like my dad made it bigger, whatever. And he was like, Alex, you have to come outside. The snowman came to life. And of course, like me being five or six, there's like no way.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And so we went outside and it was me and my dad. And then I think my mom was videoing it, and I was fully having a full conversation. I thought it was frosty.
unknown:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01:And I still don't know who was behind the snowman because my dad was with me. Was someone talking? And my mom, yeah, I was talking to the snowman. He was acting like he was alive, moving and doing all this stuff. That's a huge I feel like that's one of the coolest, cutest memories. So cute. Yeah. Oh, I'm trying to think what else.
SPEAKER_00:Did you ever, like when you were young, you would lay there and you would think you were hearing the reindeers?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. But it was actually just the wind like throwing down on your room. Or I just was making it up in my head and I'd be like, no, I fully heard it. Like that's probably where anxiety started. When you're laying in bed, like, can't breathe. You're so excited.
SPEAKER_00:You're just laying there, waiting for the moment to happen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. No, I saw this quote. It was actually so true. Which is crazy. It was like holidays or Christmas. Is memorable and the memories that it creates is solely who is behind them. And so for me, my mom was the one who always went above and beyond. Every Christmas Eve, we watch It's a Wonderful Life. We've done it since I was like, I can't even remember how old. And every single Christmas Eve, we have to watch it. That's so weird. I've actually never seen that Christmas movie. Oh my gosh, it's so good. We have to watch it. Yeah. Our family watches The Griswold's Christmas Vacation. Oh my God. And my honey used to love it. Because when she got dementia, she used to be like, oh my God. We're like, yeah, you've seen this tw every single Christmas. Yeah. And also it's crazy because you know, when you're little and your parents are making you sit down watching a like black and white movie because it's really old. It's a really old movie. It's a classic. It's a classic. Watching it, and you're like, this is so boring. And my dad would explain to us a message, and we're like, but then as you get older, you'll start seeing new things in the movie. And you're like, wow, this actually is a really good meeting. I love that. So we have to watch that. And then another tradition we have is my mom was very adamant about us making a birthday cake for Jesus. We would make a birthday cake and we would all sing happy birthday, Jesus, and then pull out the candy. Can you sing it for us right now? Happy birthday to that was our cute traditions. But now we still watch It's Wonderful Life. Love. But now you have honey in the middle. Now we have, yeah, honey, Halo. That's gonna be so exciting for them this Christmas, especially you like you get to see your fam and see everybody. What are some like cool gift ideas we can suggest though? Guys and girls for like boyfriends or for girlfriends. Let's just do a spot list. I feel like for gifts, like I'm like more of the type of person I want it to be the experience. I'm not like into materialistic things necessarily. I would rather it be a full experience or something that you can like memories, memories. Yeah. I feel like honestly, what could be really cute is if you were really serious with someone, one of those photo books.
SPEAKER_00:Done that for every yeah, I think it's so perfect and it shows so many amazing memories, and it's on your table. Anyone could look at it, anyone could enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's really cute. That's like the kind of gifts that I like giving, like those kind of things. I love photo books. Photo books are really cute. Also, any type of jewelry that you can even get engraved, I think is really cute. I love a nice bracelet, yeah. A cool bracelet or a cool ring from a really cool designer. Yeah, something that's timeless. Yeah, I agree. I think jewelry is a really good gift. I also think an experience going to the spa, going to a concert. I love being able to use the gift and like be able to do it. Yeah, a concert's a really good gift.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I guess it also depends on what they're into, too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:What they're looking for. I think it just depends on who they are. It could cater to anybody.
SPEAKER_01:Christmas ideas for boyfriends to get their girlfriends would be, like you said, an experience, concert tickets. I would be so down for a concert. Yeah. That would be so fun. Or even just maybe a weekend getaway. Yeah. That would be cute. Or even staycation somewhere. Are you a flower person? Yeah, I like flowers. Yeah. I feel like if you're gonna get flowers, you have to get something else. Just because again, I'm like memories person, so I feel like flowers die. At least there's something to like hold on to that. I'm not a flowered person. I like them. I obviously would be so happy if someone actually got me flowers. If you were gonna spend$60 on a bouquet or something, like let's go for lunch or let's go do something else. But it's always the thought that counts. So it's like obviously like I'm happy with anything, but I think I'm like, if I had to choose, I probably wouldn't pick flowers. Yeah, I always just send people flowers if as a safety or like a happy birthday, and then usually they're not close to me. So that's why no, like they're not close proximity to me, but then I'll get something like to go along with it or take them to lunch or dinner or something. That was good. Yeah, that was good.
SPEAKER_00:I have a really funny question to ask you.
SPEAKER_01:What when you were young, you'd go to the mall and you'd sit on Santa's lap. Yeah. Imagine that you're a mall Santa. What would the weirdest request a kid could ask you? What was the weirdest thing that you've ever asked for as a kid? Like, what was like the like I didn't really ask for weird stuff. I'm not weird, but what was like something that you asked? I would always ask for like the most over the talk shit. I want a dog. And I want a dog to be in the box and need to open it. They're like, you are not getting a dog. Eight years old asking for a laptop or a cell phone. Literally. But also thinking about it, every year we had to get a we all had matching outfits and we had to take a photo with Santa. I just remember going to this Halloween shop, middle of nowhere in Fort Worth, reeked of cigarettes. This old lady, wrinkly aspie boys, is like making our costumes and they were so good. In the basement. The killer costumes were always in the basement. So we'd have to go there every single year, and it was a whole production. But like now, thinking back, all these Santa's that were there, it's so crazy because what are they not saying all of them, but did they do background checks? Did they do background checks? And what do these Santa's do when Christmas is over? Because you're not seeing Chris Kringle walking around the mall. He's gone. He's on TikTok. But it's so crazy. Do they have this line lineup of Santa Claus? Do they have a rehearsal? Do they have in small towns, they use the same guy until he dies? Yeah, that's what they did for when we did it. It was literally the same exact guy. And I think whenever he either passed or stopped doing it, my mom had to stop taking photos because she didn't want us to think it didn't match because it didn't match. And like we were old enough to be like, what's going on? I just remember me being like, Santa's not real. And my brother's like, Yes, he is. So you ruined it for Dalton. I think so. I think I ruined it for Dalton, Alyssa. And my mom, I remember my brother was like, You lied to us. You said you would never lie to us. And my mom would always her answer was, Santa's real. He lives in your heart. That's what she would tell us. So she technically never lied to us. I honestly feel like my mom said something similar because this girl at school ruined it.
SPEAKER_00:And my mom said the day that I came home and asked her about it, she cried.
SPEAKER_01:Because my mom's a big Christmas person as well. And she was like, Christmas is all it's always the spirit. Follow the Christmas spirit or whatever. And I'm like, thinking about it now. That was a good lie. It's a good snapback. And then Christmas just changes. Once Susanna's not real, Christmas hit different. I know. It's crazy. I saw a TikTok showing things that was your very last of your last. So, like, it was, yeah, it was hella depressing. But I was like, wow, I'm feeling something right now. Basically, it was the last time you went to the dentist and got a sticker for being a good person. It also showed walking into your gymnasium and it showed the scooters, the hula hoops, the bows. Oh my god. And it was like the last time you walked in and saw that. And the last one was the last time that Christmas felt special. Somebody told me that whenever you find out Santa's not real, it changes the spirit of Christmas a little bit for you. You don't get that back until you have your own kids and you can do that for them.
SPEAKER_00:Stop. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, that's beautiful. Yeah. We better start popping kids out if we want to feel Chris. If we want to feel something. Oh, we'll definitely feel something if we do that. Okay, we're gonna play a little game. This is the Dry Dyes Christmas edition. Let's do it. Slay or stay. Oh, we're slaying. Okay. Slay or stay. Cozy night in versus holiday party hopping. I'm holiday hopping. I'm putting my hottest fur jacket on. I'm putting the sequins on, even though I don't really play with sequins. And I'm gonna go have a fun time with my squad. Okay. You? I would say it depends on the situation. I mix the both. Yeah, of course a mix of both. But I'm picking that over baking cookie. Okay. Slayer's day. Christmas in Aspen. Slay. Slay. Because that's like a whole different experience. Yeah. So cute. I also have grown up with snow. Yeah, I obviously to go to Aspen, beautiful. I wouldn't be that over going to some really hot place. Beach, yeah. Mexico, I'm picking Mexico. Yeah. Full glam, red lip, or no makeup cozy girl. Full glam minus the red lip. I don't know. I have this thing about red lipstick. I thank God it's out. Remember when red lipstick was actually a trend and people would wear red lipstick out? I hate red lipstick. And it would just be like permanently tattooed on their lips. No, I hate red lipstick. You're kissing one person, it's game over. Yeah. Yeah. A mistletoe kiss with someone new. Slay or stay. Slay. Slay. Slay. We gotta hang all the mistletoes up at your birthday. Holiday situation chip. Slay or stay. Stay. Stay or slay. Like slay, yes, stay. Stay put. No. Oh, stay. I'm not like I think holiday. Oh, like to actually have them with you on the holidays? Yeah. Yeah, that could be a slay, but also I'm not bringing you to see my family. So it's also a stay. Yeah. I feel like the best time if you are in a relationship, I hope there is the in-between, but it is either in the holidays, you said or in the summer. Yes, I agree. Yeah. A hundred percent. But what would you pick? Summer romance or a holiday romance? Ugh, that's really hard. I want to say summer because it's just summer. Summer, tan, laying out, pool, beach, all of the above. But then I want to say holiday because I want someone to come home with me and experience have my person, my safe person whenever my family's like chaotic. Yeah. But at the same time, I'm not gonna bring someone within the first few months of dating. So it would have to have been the long term. It would have to start in the summer. Yeah. Even my boyfriend, after a year of dating, he didn't come to my legit Christmas. Yeah. He can't we met up after. Yeah. I also feel it's hard too because you're balancing both families. True. Yeah. And like sometimes, I don't know, it depends on their relationship. Sometimes I ought to see my family, you ought to see yours. We'll do something together. Yeah. Handwritten note. Sli. Sli. I feel like no one does that anymore. Yeah. Actually, that's a good gift. Is someone writing like a really cute note? I have the best idea for presents for your significant other. Could be girl and guy. You write a bunch of different date ideas in the little thing, and you put it in the little trunket. So every time they pull the date idea out. So I think my ex did that for me. You guys do it. Yeah. I do have to say, every relationship I've been in, they've always been so considerate. Like I love that. Every birthday or Christmas, I've always gotten long notes from them or given six-month, one-year anniversary. But that's like the time that obviously you want to feel loved all the time. But I feel that your birthday and special moments that is when you want to feel special. It actually counts and matters. Yeah. Or something cute he did is I think it was Valentine's Day. I like walked in there as like roses on the ground. Like Campbell's, he got like poster board and markers. And he was, we're gonna both take 30 minutes to draw our own thing for each other. So I like drew a map of like our relationship. It was really cute, but fun things like that. I'm not materialistic, but I love to give people like really nice things. Yeah. And then also do something memorable.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:A photo book, something like that. I love that. Also, I'm getting better, so I've definitely improved in the last two years, but I'm not great at like expressing emotion verbally. So writing things is a lot easier for me. I'll feel the exact same way. I can say it, I just don't know how to say it. It's just like the afters where I feel like it's Rachel. Was that the first time we hugged? No. I feel actually I'm more emotional than you are, which is like shock. No, we're emotional in different ways.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. It's really weird how your Thanksgiving is so close to your Christmas. Where's the birthday? Oh, yeah. You guys have a ours Thanksgiving is in October. Then you can deal with your family, get over it, miss them a little bit. Yours, it's like deal with the family, breathe for a week, go back and deal with the family. But was crazy because my birthday is November 24th, which sometimes falls on Thanksgiving. Like played growing up. My birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or just Thanksgiving, Christ or Thanksgiving, my birthday, Christmas. So it's always wrapped in. I always wondered what would be like if you were born on Christmas. Kingston was born on Christmas. But like you spoil Kingston all the time. Yeah. But imagine being a kid, like, oh here's your gifts. You're like, wait, but what about my birthday? And you just get played on Christmas. Yeah, but also you're born on Christmas. That's pretty good. Yeah, you're pretty much Jesus at that point. That's crazy. You must be a saint. Yeah, what like what would you live up to? Jesus or Santa Claus? Or an elf, honestly. I think I would live up to elf like Will Farrell himself. Oh, yeah. What's your favorite Christmas movie? It's Wonderful Life because I've seen it so many times. I love the holiday. We talked about this. Yeah, I love the holiday. We gotta start. Oh, I love this Christmas with Chris Brown. You haven't seen this? No. Oh my god. This Christmas. He sings in it? Chinese. No. I'm playing it in the car. Yeah. Definitely sings. But, anyways, I loved that movie. Elf. Elf, but Grinch is such a classic. Like, I like will watch that in like October. Yeah, but what's the one he goes to different Christmases? It's really funny. Oh, with Vince Vaughn and stuff? Yes. Oh, wait. Five Four Christmases? Four Christmases. That one is funny. And Christmas with the Cranks is pretty funny. Yeah, that's good. You know what? Something I've always wanted to do. What? Be in a Hallmark Christmas movie.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I'm rolling my eyes because I styled a Hallmark Christmas movie. I think that would be so fun. Yeah, I'm just triggering. Because the acting's bad, so I could definitely just step into it. Yeah, and you literally would just be doing Christmas in June. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. You'd be living I'm adding it to the bucket list. Dude, imagine any producers out there. Let me know. I'll play the mean girl, the love and drink. I'll play all of it. Whatever you need. I would be Regina George. You would be. Don't say Lindsay Lohan.
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_01:The brunette. Gretchen. Hot. Yeah. I'll take it. That concludes today's entry of the Dry Diaries. We hope you guys have the best holiday and Merry Christmas. And we hope you're feeling festive. Grab some eggnog. Put some alcohol in that. Make some espresso candy cane martini. Oh, yeah. If you guys haven't seen this, you need to do it. You have to get a little cup, a martini cup, and you put some Bailey's, and then you get an ice tray with a little ginger and man. Yeah. And you put the espresso and you freeze it. Set it on top, and then you let it melt, and it's an espresso martini. Did somebody just say espresso martini? Espresso martini. That sounds amazing. I can't wait to make those. I'm gonna be bouncing off the walls on caffeine, and then it's just gonna be one hell of a night. Yeah, literally. All right. All right, we love you guys. Bye.
