Old AF

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

This is Brendan Stacy with Let's Wind with Brendan Stacy. We're back for another episode. And today, I don't know, we were talking earlier about things we don't like to do anymore that we used to like to do. Used to love, love, love to do. I think it's the age or we've just gotten lazy or well, I know we don't like to go out late anymore. That's been a thing.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Yeah, we can't go out late anymore. I mean, I've sent you thing about the club, you know, that's local. Oh, this looks like it'll be fun. And then no reality kicks in. Yeah, I was like, I we couldn't do this. I don't want to go be there.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

Well, we're talking about going to see Grogu next week, you know, the new Mandalorian movie, and my butt's looking at ones that are around noon, one o'clock. Yeah. Because I'm thinking then we can go eat afterwards, but um it's over two hours long, and the thought of like going to a nighttime movie is just like out of the question.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

We probably fall asleep. I know. And we want to see him more than anything. I know. We've been waiting months for him. I know. So maybe that would be crazy. It is thundering in the background. I don't know if you can hear it, but I'd rather go during the day.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

But when I was younger, I hated going to movies during the day because after sitting in the dark for so long and come out in the bright light of the sun.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

It's a shocker. Yeah, like I can't go to movies during the day. And now I can't go to movies at night. I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

What happened? I know. We used to be wild. We used to go out. We'd party it up, shut down the bar, go to breakfast at IHOP, get up the next night, do it again.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Two, three, four o'clock in the morning. Yeah. Go to bed. Wake up because the kids were up and we had to do breakfast and we had to do the activities of the day. And then by nighttime we were back at the bar. And now I can't fathom.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

How do you feel about driving at night these days?

SPEAKER_00 1:46

I struggle. I struggle so bad. I've talked to the eye doctor about it, and there's not a lot they can do about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

I just have to have my glasses on. I can't be them out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

I mean, I don't leave the driveway without my glasses on. I wake up and the first thing I do is put my glasses on. See, I don't. I know you're lucky that way. I guess you can still maneuver around the world.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Until until somebody on TV, you know, w is texting and they put up something on the screen I have to read, then I have to grab my glasses and put them on. But in the morning when I'm drinking coffee, I don't like to have my glasses on for some reason unless I feel like I there's something that I just absolutely can't see.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Like if my phone buzzes and I don't have my glasses on for whatever reason, I'm not even gonna pick up my phone until my glasses are on my face. It was so funny because I woke up on my 45th birthday. It was just the wildest thing. And I couldn't see. But also, I moved from Seabring to Atlanta. I think I was driving by Braille. I just knew where I was supposed to go. I didn't have to read the signs. Right. And when I moved up here, I needed to read to drive, you know, to see what this next sign said or open Seabring. We didn't need that. Right. And if we were somewhere we were gonna go during the day, back then when we were in our 40s, usually we'd spend the night. You know, it wasn't like we were gonna be out galley van, you know.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

How do you like spending the night in beds at our ears like at a hotel?

SPEAKER_00 3:09

I prefer to be home.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

I do too.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

I know I want to be home, I want my pillow, I want my blanket, which I've always traveled with my pillow and blanket. But um Yeah, I don't want to not be in my bed.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

And when I was young, I loved to go stay in hotels. It was so exciting. I didn't care about the bed.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

You didn't care about the bed, you weren't gonna be in it long.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

And I wasn't gonna be hurting much.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

So what's happened? Well, a couple years on our birth date, I guess, has happened. Why didn't our older ancestors tell us this was coming?

SPEAKER_01 3:38

We're supposed to be sleeping on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Why didn't they tell us? Why didn't nobody prepare us?

SPEAKER_01 3:43

I don't know. I think comfort did something to us. What we thought was comfort has hurt us. If that makes any sense. Oh no, it makes perfect sense. Camille and I were just talking about how, you know, on the other side of the world they usually sleep very low to the ground and it has something to do with being grounded and being closer to the earth. And I told Camille, I said, Well, you know what? Then we'd be forced to get up and down, up and down off the floor. We'd have to to get up for the day. We should really be sleeping on the floor. We need bamboo mats and those little mattresses.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Oh, well, you go right ahead. I I might. Because I don't think I can convert. Oh hard enough time getting out of the bed.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

We have to do that. My feet don't touch the floor in that bed up there when I'm sitting on the side of the bed.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

I have enough, hard enough time getting up. Snap, crackle, pop. Everything hurts, like oh, you know, and it's like, what'd I do? Oh, I just slept. That's all I did, and it just rolled over and it hurt. I know what happened. I mean, gosh, back in the day we loved to go shopping. Now it's like take me to a store and I'm miserable.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

I know. I just want to order it.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

I mean, thank God for Amazon nowadays, because you can order it and if you don't try it on, if you don't like it, return it. Love Amazon Prime. To have to go shopping for something. I don't like it. I don't want to do it. I just want to go in and come out. Mm-hmm. I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to go shopping. It's not the money, because back then we probably had less money than we do now because we were raising them heathens. I know. And then we have to put it away when we get it home. Yeah. So it's a whole thing. It's a thing. And so shopping is not enjoyable anymore. What else is life ruined?

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Oh, we don't get to wear high heels anymore.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Yeah, that's a thing.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

I mean, I would have to be dropped off right at the restaurant door.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Yeah. Even platforms. I've talked about. I'm not comfortable. If I'm going out partying or, you know, gonna have a few drinks, I don't want to be wearing platforms. I might fall. I'm a forest.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

I couldn't dance all night. And I might be hurting so bad the next day.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Dance all night, that's like we're gonna We might. We might not. I'm ready. Yeah, no, we think we're ready till we get there.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

I know we think we're hot stuff. We'll make these plans. There was a whole episode of Will and Grace way back when it stands out where they talked about doing something in front of a new person that they met, and that person showed up to do it. And I think it was like bike riding or something. And they're like, we don't do stuff, we just talk about doing stuff. And I'm like, exactly. That's where we are. If somebody showed up at that door talking about, well, you talked about going hiking, I'd be like, Well, didn't mean that was a conversation. I know. Not doing it. I remember you doing a rock climbing thing at the fair. Oh yeah. Animated to the top. Yeah, you ding. I think I bailed halfway up.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

I dinged it at the uh rock climbing wall. That's a memory I wouldn't have never thought about unless you said that. I do remember it. Well, it was only like eight feet tall. No, it was taller than. Yeah, I dinged the bell. Now it's my if I saw a rock climb wall, I'd be like, no.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

If somebody offered you money, go ding that bell. I know how much I'd be like, it has to be enough to pay for my broken ankle when I drop off of this thing and have a little left over. Yeah, little spending money. Oh, our friend George just had a birthday and he did have a whole week planned and he had a lot of fun things planned that if my work schedule would have allowed it, I'd have been there. So the one thing that stood out was a pool party. And I feel so bad, and we did apologize because we couldn't handle it. It was so hot. It was just hot. He was hot too. George, you know you were hot too. I saw you sweating. And you were the one saying in a minute you'd have been so excited about a pool party. And now we're like, ugh.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

I know on the way there, I said, oh my gosh, remember how much I used to love laying out in the sun. I used to love the sun beaming on me. I used to be an outdoorsy.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

And then you had a tanny bed on top of it.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

I owned a tanning bed. And then we'd go out in the sun and hang out because I had my base tan. I could always be out in the sun and it never hurt. I mean, who knew I was baking myself to Wrinkleville like I am now? I mean, back in the day, I was a cute little tart hottie.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

See, gentlemen, I never liked the sun. That's why I look 20 years younger than Stacy. This is why.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Because you're so pale and you never did the sun thing. I admit, I look like um cheesecloth or whatever my skin does. What? In some places. Pretty grape paper. Great paper. Yeah. But I lived in the sun, I admit it. I loved the sun. Remember, we spent the week on a river boat and there was a top deck you could climb up on. Well, I'm up there laying out all my body parts that have to be covered or covered. But other than that, I'm just like lubed up with you.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

You remember me coming up there to be with you?

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Yeah, and you came up there covered.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Had my book, I had my long sleeve white sunshir on.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Long sleeve pants on, your hat. And I'm just laying up there toasting, like, oh my god. I know, couldn't get enough sun. And now I now I'm just like, don't sun me. Right. I don't even want to sit in the sun. It's like when we're sitting on the back porch in the house, the sun, when it moves around, I have to move my chair. Like, I don't don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me, sun.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Now is that because we're older? Or do you think it's uh the heat? I didn't deal with it. Now, when I was younger, I didn't like it either, but I have light colored eyes and I'd get headaches being out in the sun too long. And you're very fair skinned.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Where I was, you know, naturally kind of olive y. And now I don't have olive anything. I mean, my mom took me to the pool when I was like, I was born in April that summer. There are pictures of me, like three months old in a bikini in the pool. So I was raised, this is what you do in the summer. So since I was three months old, I've been exposed to the sun. I know that's another reason. I'm a little flaky. Now I don't even like to walk to my car. You know, I get hot, I get sweaty, and then I know what you're saying about that.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

It's one of those things where maybe you go through the same thing. Especially if we're getting ready to go somewhere, like when we go to the movie next week, you know, we're gonna put our makeup on and everything. But then the minute you step outside, if you start to sweat, there's like you're goopy the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

I hate that. And I wore a moo moo to George's birthday party um pool thing, which I thought moo moo is very appropriate.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

You look very cute.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Thank you. And I thought, oh, you know, I brought towels, I'm gonna sit by the pool and put my legs in, and it'll be fine. Well, that whole pool was in the sun when we were there. So I was like, oh, well, I can't do that. And I thought, oh, I should have brought an umbrella. But then my umbrella's dark color. So, you know, then I would be hot. Wow. You know, to so I just cannot believe we're this age. I know. And it hurts to do the fun things we used to do. It hurts to open the front door. I know. So what are we we gotta we gotta find new hobbies? What are we gonna do now? That we're this old. Well, I've been diamond painting. And that's been your thing, yes. And we've been podcasting.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Podcasting, yes. That's pretty much all we do. Hey, I knitted some stuff.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

So I hear you knitted. We're going to the movies.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

We're gonna go see that baby. Old Tommy knitting. We did some knitting. We both have our babies that are going to the movie with us. We have our little groggoo dolls. You know what Curry said? Curry thought we were stupid, and she said that she is surprised that we don't have a side-by-side stroller for those babies. Why do we not? I'm thinking we need to get on Amazon because you know we're not gonna go to the store and look for one. No, we're not going shopping. No.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

No, but that would be. We park our babies right in the aisle. Well, you know, when we take them in the car, we seat belt them together. Oh yeah. You know, so they're seat belted side by side and they're dressed cute. We wouldn't. I mean, you don't want your baby to fly out the window if you're in an accident. For people who don't know us and may not know what we're talking about. We're talking about our baby Otas, Rogu. You're not too old for that. So we can handle them. Oh yeah, we can handle sitting on our asses watching a movie. Oh yeah. We're good at it. All the episodes, all the seasons, all the not even seasons, all the epi what do you call it? What the seasons, episodes, movies? Where are you? Yeah. All the movies. I'd have to go. I I need to go back.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

I'm willing. There's also another one that should still be on Disney Plus the uh Boba Fett series. And the last like three episodes are it's like watching a Mandalorian and Grogu's in it.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

That Mandalorian is sexy. Isn't he? I'm here to tell you what's the truth. Come here, Pedro. He is sexy. I know. They did that right. They sucked in the women with the cute little Grogu and that sexy Mandalorian.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

And you're happy with it. So see, even if you haven't seen all the Star Wars movies, you'd be just fine. Oh yeah. I'm perfectly happy.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

I'm taking that baby up in the movie theater with us, and I know We'll have to take a picture of him sitting in the movie theater. Oh yeah, we'll take a picture of him sitting in the movie theater. We'll buy him a ticket if we have to. I don't care. But we'll take a picture of our babies sitting in the movie theater together. We can take a picture of them seat belted together. Wouldn't be the first picture we ever had of them out and about. I know with a Santa hat on. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

I used to take that baby to downtown Disney all the time.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

I embarrassed the shit out of Scotty one one summer and he was an adult. And, you know, I was at the phase where my baby Oda goes where I go. He went on vacations with us. He has been to Chicago and in snow in Virginia. He's been around everywhere I've been. He was been. Scotty was like, We're we're going to the grocery store. And I, you know, of course, put Baby Oda in the car and strapped him in. And Scotty was like, on the way there, he's like, Mom, you can't take him. And we're, you know, in Longboat Key, nobody knows us. Nobody cares. He's Mom, you can't take him in the store while we're grocery shopping. And I was like, I might just take my shirt down and nurse this baby while we're walking through this store. This guy's like, if you do, I swear to God. Oh, he was just like, Mother. Because you know I've done crazy things all throughout their lives. Yeah. So I think he was scared that I was literally gonna whip out my booby and nurse this baby as we walked through the grocery store. I didn't. I just buckled him in the little child seat in the front of the buggy. And we just went grocery shopping and he, Mom. Well, I didn't nurse them. I've never nursed them. My baby audio, this is your brother. I know. You're related. It's family.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Look at the baby. I took that baby to pick curry up from the airport one time. I was sitting there with it, and she's like, ugh. She'll say, That baby. I don't know. They get mad. I tell the girls all the time that baby's cuter than they ever were.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Listen. If they ever come, if um if the aliens come and that's and that's what they bring us, we're we're getting them. Mm-hmm. At least one for you and one for me. We're doing it. Just so you know. What if it cries all night? Then we'll take turns. You do one night and I'll do the next night.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Again, okay. That rolls us back to we're too old for this. I couldn't handle a baby. I could not handle a b infant now. Even a grogu? I don't know. I know. I said we would take turns. So you're getting me involved in shit again. Okay. I don't want involved in nothing. Well, if a baby grogu is alive and well and I can adopt one. And it likes me better than you. If it curls up in the bed, I might let it stay.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

No. If it's crying and you can't ha help me or handle it, then you can't enjoy it when it's being behaved either. You better yell, Jeff. He won't help me. I know he'd be like, fuck that. I didn't ask you to get this. Get up. I know. Uh yeah. Oh, Jeff can sleep through anything. He can sleep through it. Does that aggravate you? That he can sleep through anything? No, I'm kind of happy about it because then if I want to get up and do something, or you know, we can run the wash machine and we can, you know, pound out a beef potty to make it extra marinated or tender.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

The girls were little and I think Camille went through this too. She needs to verify. But you know, when you're when you're up, it makes usually makes you mad that your man is sleeping. Like how dare he sleep when I gotta be up.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

I don't think it makes me mad because he works nights. Yeah, and you guys didn't have kids together. No, we don't have kids. Oh, if we had kids together, he knows. If we had had kids together, he would not be allowed to sleep ever. He would not be allowed to work the way he works. Right. Cause that's not parenting. It can't be no. I mean, might as well be a single mom. Yeah. Been there, done that. I mean, the possibilities that happen are noneness. So we are not worried about that.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

How do you feel about theme parks at this age? I don't want to do that. I know. When I asked you to go to Dollywood for the fall festival after Curry put it on my radar.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

I was like, yeah, I've been there been to Dollywood and so many times. I lived in Tennessee. That was our go-to vacation place. It was close by, or when we lived in Seabring to Orlando to go. And so Dollywood was the place to go. I mean, I think you should go there at least once in your life. I might sneak off and go.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Go. Um, well, you know, just talking about that, unless it's holiday themed or something like I'm all Disney'd out, I'm all universaled out. You know, we did it. Epcot, all of them, we did it so much, had the annual passes. And when the girls were in Scoutch, we went somewhere like SeaWorld. And usually your ticket became an annual pass. So we could just keep going and going. And because the ticket was already paid for, why not? We did. Yeah. We did a lot of it. And oh my gosh, you're right. That I mean, been there, done that, really. And again, that's more heat put up on our 50-something year old selves.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

I know. I just promised myself I wouldn't do concrete vacations anymore. Right. Or concrete get away. So if I can't be in the mountains or if I can't be on the beach, I still want to go. Now, like I have fun going to Savannah.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

With like the cute little bars and stuff. Is that okay? Different. Go bar pop bar crawl. Pup crawl.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah, I'd go do that. That's so different. Yeah. Because that's normally not during the brightness, the light of daylight. No, it's dinner, you have to go drink. Dinner and go out. So yeah, I would do that. That's not a concrete. See, I love museums. Of course that's in the air conditioning. I don't mind museums if I'm with somebody use smart and it'll talk to me and invest time like because you know I don't want to read all the dumb shit. Oh my god. I know. So you need your own tour guide. I knew. That's why I love going to um art exhibits and anything like that with Joe. Because he knows so much about art. When we went to the uh what's the guy with the ear thing? Van Gogh. Van Gogh. Vincent. Vincent Van Gogh. We went to that exhibit, which is amazing. And it would have been worth it even if Joe weren't there to explain a lot of stuff to me. It was amazing. I enjoyed that. So that's a beer. Trying to get a little culture.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

And it was all indoors. So was a hot. There's a little beer caddy outside, so I'd just start out, get me hit beer, and then start back in.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

That works. No. Perfect. I'll be right back. You know, something else that we mentioned too with getting older. We don't go just for annual physicals. I feel like we get called back for different things or blood work. I feel like I've never gone to the doctor more in my life than I have in the last two years. Oh, for sure. With mammograms, breast ultrasounds, colonoscopies, blood work. Yeah. It's time for my phone again.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

I just did that. No, it's time for a physical, and here we go. I just did all this. Everything was fine. It set my blood pressure and weight and you know, all the numbers that are important. So then they keep you coming back.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

And you know, when I was young, I probably went 20 years without.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Yeah. Unless I got sick. Well, I mean, I would do the gynecologist. Oh, yeah. I was loyal to the gynecologist. But other than that, I didn't care about other health issues. And if they didn't make me go over 12 months to re-up my birth control pills, probably wouldn't have done that. Yeah. I'd have been like everything's fine down there. No. But they make you go and do that, thankfully, because I'm sure that's how they find a lot of issues. And we shouldn't be like that. Men shouldn't be like that to where they ignore their health at our age.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Well, we did what we were supposed to. You know, once 50 came around, I feel like we're taking our health into our own hands now and making sure everything's as good as it can be. Trying to do all the right things. I know, as you have that big old glass of wine in your hand right now.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

That's right. Oh, well, it's got fruit in it.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

It's full of fruit. Healthy. I don't know if you notice what I do, but I've been posting little shorts on our YouTube page. I can't believe all the mugs and glasses. You know, I'll drink wine out of anything. I even posted my own prom glasses from 1987 to 1988. Were you all allowed to drink? No. But they just give you commemorative wine glasses.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

Or I think they're champagne glasses. But yeah, and I'm determined to post and use every glass that I have. Do it. I know eventually the shot glasses are going to start appearing. I love it. But I can't believe I have so many. I can't believe they made it. That car will carry a lot. It will. It did. It did.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Well, here we are with all the things that we don't like.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Old people. We're not old though. I don't feel like we're women of a certain age. I don't even want to think we're older a certain age. I mean I get that I in my head I'm 18. But then again, it's like get off my lawn.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

I know, I knew you in your twenties. You are not acting like you're fucking 18. Trust me. You don't even act like you're 30. What? No. But more immature. No. Like this is not fun anymore. What at 30? No, at 30, we were having a great time. Well, yeah. I mean, we were blasting it.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Maybe I just think about having a good time in my head. I don't want to act up on it.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah, because it when it comes down to reality, we're not fun. We're not having fun. We're not. No. You sound hor this sounds horrible. It couldn't be more true. I'm just sitting here waiting to die.

unknown 21:15

What?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Now you sound like me. That's Brenda talk. It's like we drove past that cemetery and I said, let's just pull in there and we'll just wait. We'll just pull in there and lie down.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

I know. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

Well they have pretty flowers. I mean, I didn't disagree. Okay. Three flowers over there. Probably have more fun at the cemetery than we went to pool party. Because we're old and hot already. I know.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

Poor George. Look how so mad. I know. Well, I hope he had a wonderful birthday. And I think he's off again this weekend. I think I'm gonna be George Less. I hate being scoutless.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Oh, yeah, I mean I know I miss him so much at work. Every time somebody does something stupid, I'm like scouting it, doesn't that?

SPEAKER_01 21:55

I feel like George has a good rapport with the residents and they like him.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

I get that. Uh totally from him and his personality, he's just fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

I know. So we do hope you're having a wonderful birthday week. Sorry we bailed on you, but we'll make it up to you. We'll have to all go out. Yeah. Get a couple drinks. We'll do something. I still want to try this Felix's, he's been talking about. Then we could do a reading.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Downtown. It's that the one that's downtown.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Well, if I drive, I follow them on Facebook now. They even do crafty things sometimes. I know.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Like painting? I don't know. I mean, it depends on what kind of craft. Like I'll do painting.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

I can't remember what it was. I think I even sent it to you, but you don't look at anything I sent to you. Oh no, I don't. See, that's bullshit. I know. Then you'd know and you wouldn't have to ask.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

For some reason I want to say knitting.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

And eventually I'll go through them. I mean, I had like 15 messages that are day. Not just from me, from other people.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

This is one of those places we need to pause and ask you to write in. What has made you feel older? Or things that you're doing that you might not even feel older until you think about it. And you realize that there's something is changing.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Yeah. It's like, what the hell is happening? Yeah, I know. What happened? And why didn't nobody prepare us for this?

SPEAKER_01 23:05

I think they did and we didn't want to listen because you never think it's going to happen. You know, when you're young, especially a teenager, you know, somebody 30 seems ancient, and you never think it's going to happen to you. Ever. No.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

But I thought we were so cool in our 30s. We were. We were having so much fun living the life. I think our 30s probably stands out to both of us the most because we were such young moms. Right. And so that 18-year-old life, that people who aren't parents at a young age, they're outdoing it. Well, we were mothering. Yeah. So we weren't outdoing it. So when we got in our 30s, that's when we started like, weep. I know. You know, crazy enough. I know, because we were kids were old enough to watch my kids, and we were both single and every other weekend. Party on. Yeah. We don't need a babysitter, but we don't want to go anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

I know. Remember thinking, oh, I can't wait until the time is there where you know you have the time to do whatever you want. And I know my nerdy self was like, I can't wait to not be bothered and be able to read a whole book from start to finish. And now if I start reading at night, that book is hit me in the face because I'm falling asleep. You know, what the hell happened?

SPEAKER_00 24:18

I I don't know. I can't even finish a chapter some nights. I know. I used to think, oh my gosh, if we wasn't raising these kids, I'd have so much more money. I'd be able to, you know, spend my money the way I wanted to. But I mean, I wasn't begrudging it, but I had to feed kids and I had to electricity was important and their school clothes and shoes and supplies and all of those things. I used to say, if I have to buy this, I can just go buy whatever I want.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

And now we don't even want to shop.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

And now I don't even want to go shopping. I know. Now I'm just like, I don't care. I don't need nothing. I know.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

I think the same way. Like I don't want anything. I know. I don't want anything else I have to dust off or take care of. So if we can eat it, burn it, spend it, wear it. Use it up. Like candles or lotion, use it up. Consumables. Oh. I just don't want anything else I have to take care of unless unless a cat shows up one day. Animal. I'm not ready yet. No. If the good lord s send me a dog, I'm gonna take it. Yeah. Do you have the rescues coming through your algorithm yet? Because I looked at a few, so now they're on mine every day. I see them.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

I know. I used to just log on and look at them. I wanted them all. Of course, back then I felt like I wasn't ready. And now I'm starting to feel I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

But we're older too, so we have more time. Because we're not out partying, you know, I could guarantee, except for my trip coming up at the end of the year, I'd be like, that cat could be in my bed every night. Well, you know, I always slept with my animals, so that's not a big I know that was newer for me because I'm such a light sleeper, and now it's like I can't imagine I miss her. You know, she was up on my side over here.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

Yes, warm. And then uh when they get hot, I love it. I know Boo and Jake would do the same thing, push you away, take their paws, and they got warm from you touching them.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Jake go to the foot of the bed.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

You scoot over.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

Yeah. Wake up in the night and she'd be at the foot of the bed just looking at me, watching over me.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

Yeah, that's how I felt. I missed that. I know. So we're fucking old and we need fucking animals in our lives again.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Maybe the day will come when I see it.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Here's what we're doing. Well, we survived the storm that was going on when we first started this episode. We have bitched enough about being old this time. Because you know we have more bitching today. Oh, we do. We have more whining, we have more bitching, we have more complaints about what is happening around us. What's happening to us personally? I know. What the hell is happening to my body? Gravity is real. It's real. Ladies, avoid the sun, lotion up, don't smoke. Yep, don't do that. Do all the things that are gonna make you look and act old as fuck. Except for just age. Why are we not warning young people?

SPEAKER_01 26:54

We're aging gracefully. Is that what this is called? That's what I'm doing. I don't know about you over there. I've been lucky in that. You know, I know people who are younger than me who have aches and pains. And aside from an ankle that I broke years ago, most of the time I feel pretty good unless I've done something crazy at work or aside from my foot here and there, the rest of me is okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Retail is running my body and my soul. Where I work, resell furniture, we sell heavy stuff. People buy online and they pick up in store. Well, somebody's gotta carry that shit out and load it in their car.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Then you tell them you're too old to do it.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

I know. But I still do. I still push myself to do it. And I always feel like I can do it better and faster than the young people. Because getting them to participate is like pulling teeth sometimes. I don't know. Show prep. I can talk about this and I can talk about my past experiences and all the other things.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

So like I was saying earlier about all the glasses that I'm using. It's one of those things like as we get older, we should use everything we have, wear everything we have, enjoy the fine china. Or of course I don't have fine china here, but you know, use what you have, enjoy it. Don't save it for later.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Because later burn the candles, burn the nice candles. Yeah. I've thought of that too. What am I saving candles in a drawer for? Yeah. Burn the nice candles, eat off the fine china. Use expensive silverware my mom gave me that maybe can't put in a dishwasher, but who cares if I do?

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Nobody else is gonna care about it. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

You know, it's like kids don't want our stuff.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

No.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

You know, as we get older, though.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Oh my gosh. No, my boys don't want anything. Right. If we can't eat it, burn it, drink it, consume it, consumable, or spend it. We don't want it.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

And I think on that note, we'll wrap up this old pitiful us episode. Okay. It is old pitiful us. But we know it. That's what I do love. We're not in the dark. We know us.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

We know we're you know, we watch those shows. We're not out there trying to alter our look.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

No.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

We're not trying to be I mean, of course I'm gonna keep coloring my hair or anything, but I'm not going under the knife anytime soon, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Oh no. The damage is done, and so I made my bed. I'm gonna lie in it. There you go. That's a thing.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

It is.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

All right, well, let's wrap it up. Okay. It's let's wine whipping and stacy.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Bye.