Do We Love... Visits?

Join us while we discuss a snowy mystery for medical truth, tracing a line from a hunting shack and mountain lion tracks to childhood illness, a prednisone allergy, PTSD, and the grit it takes to heal. We laugh about car names and cake pops, explain our E rating, and share everyday choices about lip care, keepsakes, shoes, and maps.

• surprise reunion, birthday visit, coffee tradition
• mystery shack on the tree line, fresh build, hunting blind
• mountain lion tracks, winter safety, respect for wildlife
• childhood pneumonia, induced coma, lifelong asthma
• prednisone allergy, medical ID, self-advocacy in ER
• PTSD after military service, weight gain, structured weight loss
• autoimmune diagnoses, VA care, meds and weight fluctuation
• why we carry an E rating, adult topics without shock value
• Jersey Devils fandom origin story, season tickets, family lore
• naming cars, music-fueled road trips, coping rituals
• lip care picks, tallow balm shout-out, gloss vs balm
• keepsakes vs knickknacks, memory over clutter, gifting early
• shoes on or off at home, comfort and courtesy
• Google Maps over Waze, dirt roads and practical navigation
• plans to post weight-loss photo and matching shirts

We’re going to try a reel or YouTube short this week. Wish me luck on that. I will post a picture of my weight loss journey so everybody can see it.

Chapters

• 0:46 Reunion And Birthday Visit
• 2:32 The Mystery Hunting Shack
• 5:20 Mountain Lion Tracks And Winter Life
• 6:04 Childhood Illness And Allergies
• 9:07 Prednisone Allergy And ER Story
• 11:02 PTSD, Weight Gain, And Recovery
• 14:27 Treating PTSD And Weight Maintenance
• 16:32 Why The Show Has An E Rating
• 19:42 Jersey Devils Fandom Origins
• 24:02 Long Drive, VA Appointments, And Road Music
• 27:27 Naming Cars And Family Lore
• 31:42 Five Minute Loves: Lip Care
• 34:37 Keepsakes vs Knickknacks

Transcript

Heather: 0:24

Welcome back. This is episode seven. Yes. And we are sitting next to each other, not in two different states. It's awesome. And it's actually we're having technical difficulties because we worked this out to be across states. Absolutely. And being together is yeah, but glitch in the matrix. What happens when you come out for my birthday? It does. I know. That's what you get for having a birthday. Okay. So this is episode seven. Yeah. And the title is Do We Love Visits. I do. I do. Happy you're here. I pulled in the driveway and my music was blasting. My car was barely stopped, and Zia was halfway down her front couch and running across the driveway. And I don't even know. You didn't even shut your lights off. You didn't turn the car. It turned the car off. The lights were on. So I'm getting out of the car and it's screaming at me. And oh that's okay. It's okay. We didn't work. Yep. And we got coffee before our Starbucks coffee. Yeah. Tradition. Yep. And our cake pop. And our cake pops. Yep. And then we had dinner. We had dinner. Yeah. I had dinner with you and Michael, which was awesome. And now we're sitting here recording. And then I'm going to go to Eliza's house. Yep. She's not home. Yep. She's still on her world travels. Right. Always world travel. Always world travel. Our daughters and their world travel travels. I think it's their, I think it's them. Yeah. Like their age world is totally. Um, but yeah, so she's world traveling. She'll be home, I guess, tomorrow. She'll be that she's landing Saturday, but yeah. She'll be in. I won't see her till Sunday, but she's coming. So awesome. I love that. So what is your I heard you had an adventure? Oh, did we have an adventure? So Angela and I were um standing on the porch watching the dogs playing outside. And you know, we have a lot of acres. Yes. And behind us is the side of the mountain. Okay. So we're on the mountain, and then it kind of goes up from us. So we're like on a little like level part of the mountain. And then it goes up a little higher. And we're standing there, and there's a shack. So outside of our window, we have a big meadow. And um at the other side of the meadow is a um shack. Okay. Right on the tree line. Do you know what was what the shack was until well never saw it. Okay. And it it just it appeared with snow. So we were like, well, that's kind of weird. So she and I threw snowboots on, threw on our snow hats, off we went. It's about a 15-minute walk up to it because it's all uphill up the meadow. We get up to the shack and I big tough me. Yes. I pull out my phone and I start recording because if I'm gonna die, at least I want it recording. We have evidence. Yeah. Right. So I pull out my phone and I start recording. And as we're walking up to the shack, I'm like, hello! Is anyone in there? We're coming up. That's funny. We get to the shack, and it's clearly a hunting shack. Yeah. Um, so I kick the side of it because if there is some in there, I'm still an animal. Exactly. So we open the door, and there's a chair, and that's it. All right. But the it was clearly recently built. Um the wood was fresh, they had some camo tarp over it. Yeah. That was brand new. I mean, crinkly still, and it's kind of creepy looking. Um we were saying that you had seen like maybe a reflection from like a window or something on the water. There was a window. So when we got there, we were looking at it through, we looked through binoculars, and you could see it looked like there was a window facing our house. Okay. So that's why we decided to walk up.

Zia: 4:16

Yeah.

Heather: 4:16

But when we got there, the whole front was open. It was like a Dutch Dorse high site um size. And the front looked down not on our side, but it looked down onto the community, like the neighborhood, and it looked down onto a riverbed. Okay. Um, so I'm assuming what they were doing was hunting for whatever coming up out of the river. Um, and we did hear a lot of shots over the winter. Yeah. Or fall, I should say. Yeah. So that would exist. So I'm assuming that's where they were. Yeah. So we reached out to our landlord and she's like, well, you can burn it down. And I'm like, I'm not gonna burn it down. Um for one, it's in the woods. Yeah. And for two, I don't own the property. Absolutely. So I don't want to go to jail. Yeah. Um, so we left it. Um, yeah, but I did uh we did check around it, we walked all around it, so there's a ton of footprints around it now. Okay. Um, we've gotten like six more inches of snow, right? Whatever. Yep. Um, but on our walk back, we found mountain lion footprints. So it was clearly a cat print, but they were in single file. Yeah. And that's how supposedly Angela told us that that's how, or told me that that's how mountain lions walk. So apparently we have one up there somewhere. Or you have a mountain lion that has a hunting hut. Or the mountain lion could be hunting, probably hunting its prey. Which is why we never see it. I love it. Um, we've been talking a lot about our health, and we've been hinting to everybody that we both admit we have a lot of health issues. Um, yours actually go back a lot farther than mine. They do. I started pretty much with my health issues when I was eight. Um, I got silent pneumonia and high fever.

Zia: 6:04

Oh my god.

Heather: 6:04

And they rushed me to the hospital, and I was actually under like a induced coma for quite a few months. Oh wow. Um, they had me packed in ice. Um, you know, I tried to get my records from the but it's you know 52 years, so they don't even keep that stuff anymore. But I really wanted to see if like what they used to put me under was maybe part of my other health problems of what I have now. Um but nope, they don't keep them. And um, yeah, so my grandfather stayed every day next to my bed, never left. Um, and then after I had gotten out of the hospital, I ended up with asthma, larger allergies, bigger things like that, going to the allergist, going to this, um, found out I was allergic to prenazone, which is not good for asthma. It is I do have an ID bracelet that says I'm allergic to prenazone. So that's ID bracelet, still. We did, we did get them together, and we're like, we should actually have ID bracelets for our conditions. Yeah. So um, not a good thing, but my grandfather actually discovered that I was allergic to prenazone. So every time they gave it to me, I started breaking out in hives. Oh, and I was like vomiting like foam. Oh. So he was like, he took the little bottle because it was liquid prentosone, and he was like, There's more alcohol in here than like a bottle of whatever he was saying. Like, yeah, he's like, it's making her sicker, and you know, and then he's like, These hives, something has to be going on. So went to the doctor again, and he's like, Yeah, she's probably allergic to that, so we should not do it. So actually, um, a couple of years ago, I went to the hospital for an asthma attack. Guys, like, I'm like, I'm allergic to Prenazone, it's on my medical ID present bracelet, and he's like, Are you though? Are you though? Are you really? Yeah, really? A strange and the medical person questioned you. Like, weird. So he gives me I something and he I said, Is this Prenzone? He goes, No, it's in the family, but it's not prenazone. And I said, Okay. So I told my husband, I said, Please stand at the door because you know what's gonna happen. He's seen it happen. And the guy goes walks away, you know, gives me a stuff, walks away, and I start, I can feel it up my arm. It's going. Oh my goodness. And I'm blotching, right? And the guy goes, Oh, you are allergic to Prenizone. Yeah, I should make this since I'm eight, right? Oh, wow. So it's just like I think that, you know, start of just the asthma and I don't know, maybe making my body weaker. I don't know, but um, then just you know, over accumulation of time, just one thing led to another. And it was like I, you know, I always said, Thank God I look good on the outside for my mom because the insides just deteriorate. You look good on the inside too. Your inside. Thank you, thank you. But but yeah, so we always connected on our um medical things too. Yeah. Um when I first met you, I was like, Do you need my inhaler? Oh the first. Yeah, I had I had asthma. I have exercise induced asthma. Yeah. Um, but that was when and and you giggle almost every time I say this, but that was in fat Heather. I know, I know. I don't like when you say that. That's but it's amazing. I do identify that way. Yeah. Um, so um I put on a lot of weight um after I had a mental breakdown back in 2009. And so I was an adult, but I had a really serious uh I have PTSD from the military, and that was the first time I realized it. Um, and I had a major meltdown or breakdown. And um after the breakdown, I put on close to 100 pounds in the space of probably three years. Yeah. And um, I was taking Eliza to college and I gave her a hug goodbye to leave campus. And when I was looking at the picture my mom had taken, I sent the picture to Eliza and I said, Who was hugging you? Yeah. And Eliza said, That's you, mom. Yeah. And I realized then how much weight I had gained. Yeah. So a hundred pounds later, um, I lost all my weight. Yep. And in hindsight, I think that was the greatest thing I could have done. Yeah. Um, because after I lost all my weight, I got diagnosed with a couple, yeah, I say a couple, uh autoimmune disorders. Yep. Um, so I have the PTSD, yeah, and um I have a couple of autoimmune. And I honestly and truly believe, and I've said this to you multiple times, that if I had not lost all the weight, I probably wouldn't be able to be sitting here with you right now. Absolutely. And I agree. And I've just been so proud of you because I've seen a lot of people do like, you know, losing weight and all that stuff. But you did everything that the doctor said to do chronologically as as they did it. And we celebrated like every time we were like, we did I can have a carb today. And I was like, Yes, what do we want? You know, and we went and got that. And I was just, I'm just proud of how you did it. Yeah. Yeah. I've I've since put on some weight, um, partially because of the move and everything going on. And I um I have actively started treating my PTSD. Yeah. And um I I've been going to the VA and uh the VA, for those who don't know, it's the veterans uh Veterans Hospital, it's a hospital for vets. That's when my husband goes. Yeah, yeah. And actually he and I had a conversation at dinner about our our ailments of the military. Yes. Um, but yeah, so I've been going there and and and going through and trying to actually deal and process the PTSD has caused me to put on some weight. Um, I've mentioned I'm working on medication adjustments and all, and and that has led me to put on I've put on 30 pounds. Okay. Um, but it's not the hundred. No, it's and I and I know I've put this weight on. Yeah. Um, and right now I physically can't lose it because of everything going on. Right. Um, and sometimes you just need the little comforts. And if it is a little bit of food here and there, that's a comfort. It's okay. Exactly. You gotta have it. Um, I will post uh my one year out picture um for you so anybody can see what I look like before my surgery and post surgery. Um, but yeah, so enough don't still don't like that she says fat heather heather, but I will say fat heather because that's how I have to think about it. Yep. But enough talk about that. Yes, yes. Let's talk about something fun. Okay. So somebody asked on our social media why we have an e. What do we do that is an e rating on a lot of the podcast sites? And it's um iHeart uh iHeart Podcast um requires it, and I believe Spotify requires it. Yeah, um it's about our content because we don't the the e-rating, uh the way I understand it, and and you look into it as well a little bit, but the way I understand it is our rating is based on what we talk about. Absolutely. We aren't necessarily talking to eight-year-olds or 12-year-olds, yeah, but we're not talking to adults. Yeah, but um our famous producer, as everybody knows him, my husband Rich, um, says in case we ever drop a bomb, right? Which we I've been very good. You have not dropped a single bomb. I I jaw is dropped. You guys can't see it. And those that know me, I can drop like I can drop a few in a couple of seconds. Oh yeah. Yep. So just send her an email at work. You'll hear all the bombs. Um, but anyway, that's why. Um we're we're not we're not dirty, we're not bad. We right don't talk about anything we shouldn't. Right. Um, we we're not sexual, we're not violent, we're not political. We don't want to talk about that crap. No, I want to talk about the good shit. Yes, the good shit that means oh, not my favorite bomb to drop, but oh, but we gotta start them off as well. Yes, yes, yeah we gotta get the. And it was funny because I had said there I go, ooh, we have an E. Does that mean I can say all my favorite words? And I said, And what did I say? I was like, drop the words, yep. Yep, so yeah, and then um another question we got was about my um obsession with the Jersey Devils. Wait, you have an obsession with the Jersey Devils? No, never, never. Are you sure? So my real dad actually used to always watch, it was like he would iron, we'd watch TV, and he, you know, he was always watching, we'd watch the brought up Andrew Dice Clay last episode that I didn't know anything about, and now you're talking about ironing and these people don't know what ironing's ironing, ironing, yeah. So um we would watch like the kung fu movies, and then um, and then we'd have a hockey game. So um my real dad had a friend that actually had season tickets to the rangers, and we would just cheer on the rangers for him and his friend all the time, you know. Oh yeah, go, go, go. So apparently in '82, something showed up, and I was like, what is that team? And my dad was like, uh, yeah, that is the Jersey Devils, and I was like, Well, we live in Jersey, why are we not New Jersey Devil fans? And he was like, Well, you can be a Jersey Devil fan, but I'm a Rangers fan because my friend and I go to the Ranger games forever and blah blah blah. And I was like, no, so I think that was the um beginning of the separation of church and state there. So I was like, nope, that's it. So since 82, I have been a fan of the New Jersey Devils, and um yeah, he had not been, and he was like, that's just crazy. He he would always get me stuff like biggest fan, you know, just to I think to be more sarcastic about it than anything. But I and it's funny because the first hockey stadium that I ever stepped foot in was an Islanders because so wait, we went from the Rangers to the Devils to the Iron to the Islanders, you know why I've stepped out there playing the devils. Oh, my daughter Star loves my chemical romance, another Jersey place, right? Of course she does. They're all from Jersey, and that was the concert we took her to was at the Islanders Stadium. Uh-uh. And I stepped foot in there and I was like, I think my feet are going to melt. I like that stadium for me. I was like, I think I should not be here. This should not be the first hockey stadium I ever go to.

Zia: 17:17

No, whatever.

Heather: 17:18

Yep, but it was for her, and it was for my chemical romance. So, you know, it was a Jersey band, so it's a Jersey band. So everything Jersey is fine. Still follows around. He's still following, she's yep, always following him around. So uh yeah, so I do have a little bit of obsession. We had season tickets. Um still have season tickets. Still have season tickets, yep. So um, and by the way, she's never taken me to a game. I know. Just saying. I know it's so hard to travel from here to there and like in the winter. It is. Um we had mentioned that in one of our earlier shows. Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, on that note, coming out today, I left my house at nine o'clock. Okay. I had a um, I transferred my medical for the VA from New York to New Hampshire. And um, so I had two appointments there today. And so I did my two appointments, finished there a little afternoon, and then I could finally drive here. But of course, being, you know, winter, I hit the rain and slushy something in Vermont, and I didn't get here until five o'clock. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so it it is a driving, you just gotta be like really on target. Well, I started with a book, yeah, an audio book. Yep, and then I switched to music and I had Spotify just book music for me. Oh god, and apparently I wanted Madonna. Wow, right? Old or new Madonna, like it was whack. I was material girly. Okay, yeah, that's great. Yeah, it was Madonna, and then we had some Janet Jackson, and then well, you know, I always say my car is an angsty teenager. Yeah, right. My car is an angsty teenager, so usually I'll say, Okay, I name a car Predator. I'm like, okay, Predator, pick a song for me. And it's usually like, you know, F you and all that stuff. And I'm like, well, F you too, you know? Yeah, thank you. Uh-huh. Yeah. I I name cars too. Actually, I don't name cars. Eliza started the car naming in our family. She actually named one. I'm gonna tell a story about her. Love it. She's given permission, all our kids wanted permission for them to be put on here, begrudgingly for some of them. But Eliza used to name appliances. So we had a water cooler named Daryl. Okay, love it. And if you want water, go get it from Daryl. Right. Daryl has it.

Zia: 19:44

Right.

Heather: 19:45

Yeah. So water cooler was named Daryl. Um she named our houses. So my life we lived in the dog house, the spider house, the light house, the spider house. Um the shush house. Wow. We had a shush house. We couldn't talk in the hallway. Okay. Because there's too many neighbors. Love it. Um, yeah, so we we had we she named houses and then she named cars. Okay. So my car. Yeah. You ready? Go go ahead. Is a boy. Right. Because not all cars have to be house. No. So my car is a boy. Okay. I have a Nissan rogue. My car's name is Liam. Okay. Liam Nissong. Oh my god, I love it. Her car is an HRV. Is that on the HRV? Go ahead. RV. RV, I love it. She even has tags. RB. RV. Yep. So yeah. But I mean, boyfriend has Kermit. Oh right. Right. I've seen it. He's got a Kermit colored green. Okay. What is it? Uh um Civic. Civic. Yep. So yeah, her first car was the Mitsubishi Eclipse. Bargie's is civitious for Civic. Oh, hers, her Mitsubishi Eclipse was named Alice. Okay. From Astro because it's an electric car. Astro. So we do Astro. I got in that, it was dead silent, and Michael's like, what are we gonna name this car? I'm like, Okay. Yes, Astro. Astro. That works. Yep. Yep. Minus Predator. We went through a few names. You had ghosts. I had ghost, and this car apparently hated the name Ghost too. Um as I'm wearing my ghost shirt today. Um big fan here. Um your car did not want to be ghost. Yeah, I didn't want to be a junior. I did. I told you to not do it too. Do junior. I didn't even know that I had that many songs on my phone that said not ghost. And apparently this car had picked out every song that said I am not ghost. I'm not gonna ghost. Yep. So now we're late on predator. I love my predator because of Peter Cullen, and you know, it's predatory. Yeah, yeah, love it. But so five minutes, five minutes loves, no? Yeah, we can start. I'm doing it today. I'm doing that E rating. All right, so do you want to start with our Insta? We have one Instagram follower, yeah. Uh Do You Love? Yeah, um Five Minute Loves. Um, Nikki. Um secret. Nikki's my sister-in-law. That's okay. She loves the Nicky. She's awesome. Love her. Um Nikki Six was one of my favorites, so I've got to love the Nikki name. Oh, she I think um that's not her. No. Not why?

Zia: 22:44

No.

Heather: 22:44

No, don't call her Nikki. Sorry, I call her Nick. I I call her Nicole. Yes. But so her five minute do you love is what do you love best? Lipstick? Lip gloss. Chapstick. So I love chapstick. I'm wearing it all every day. Oh gosh. Or else it'll bite my lips. Yeah, because I know I got a big pocket, right? Yeah. Um, but if I'm going out, I usually prefer a lip gloss, not a lipstick. Yeah, I I'm not I actually I have a fourth option. Okay. I don't like chapstick. Okay. I use like Blistex or Carmax. Right. Uh or even the aquafour. Yep. The I I like those. I'm not more medicated a little bit. More medicated. The chapstick, um, if I put it on more than once, it feels waxy. So feel waxy. I'm gonna have to tell you this. We gotta get the so I was looking for some. So this is that tallow a lot the other time we were together. Papa Bear Naturals. Okay. Um we doing like a little mini ad? Sure. That's from this is what started it. Yep, yep, Papa Bear Naturals. I'm telling you, this stuff, like I gave one to my boss, and he was like, my whole family tried it, and we just are in agreement that it's just great. Eliza got for her girlfriend's um last Christmas, yeah, she got this stuff, and I fell in love with it. Oh, and I'm on my last, she gave me she gave me two. I think there's a so there's like grass-fed tallow, okay, uh, beeswax, cancer oil, raw honey, and then the vanilla essentials. I could make you that you could, but like smell that. That's not even like oh no, is it vanilla? No, yeah, and it actually healed. I had like I picked out my lip, right? Oh, yeah. And it actually like look, it's not even there. No, totally healed. Oh, so lips look great. We continue with the Papa Bear Naturals. Okay. Yep. Um, but going out, I do prefer um, I do prefer lip gloss. Um, but if we're going like when we went to Matt Rife, I put on lipstick because I think we were gonna eat and I didn't want to be lipstick off, gloss on. So I just did lipstick before we went out. Yep. And then if it lived through dinner and made it to the show, gloss up, whatever. Um so I I you and I are both not big makeup people. I'm really not. I it's like I got the same routine, it's like four products, and that's it. When I put makeup on, yeah, that's about what I do. Um, but I would say if I were just going out, I'd throw lip gloss on. Yeah. Um, but I'm a Blistex girl or Carmex, yeah, that kind of world. So yeah, so I think I think we're pretty good. Yeah. I think um, I I don't know what Nikki wears. Nikki, yeah, tell us what you wear. Post it in your comments. Post it in the comments. That's what you like. Yeah. So the next five minute, yeah, you and I picked a couple. Yeah. So the next one is peepsakes and knick-knacks. How long do you keep them? Do you keep them? What do you consider them to be? Yeah. Um, I am not a big knick-knack person. Collectibles, yes. Okay. Knickknacks, no. Just because my mom Joyce was a big knick-knack person. Okay. And too many cabinets, can't walk around things, don't touch things. I just couldn't do it. Like, you know, and that it was like my house was lived in, not a museum. So yeah, I just it was like in the back of my head of just like a erotic moment when you would see it. So, like, I have like you can see in here, I have like little mementos and stuff, but not a lot of the knickknacks and stuff. Collectibles. I can say collectibles. What about me? Um I and my kids. I collect my kids. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. I collect mine. Um, yeah, I I try to keep mine and tabs on mine. Yeah. Some of them like I have um I have like my my bench. It's a deacon's bench. Oh, yeah, I do like um, and then I have my Winifred and my um Annabelle on there. It's like a puppet from the 80s. Yep. Uh, and my Charlie McCarthy doll. And then some of the stuff on there is like Alex's. That's a doll of teddy bear that was made from someone at work. Uh, it's my all made out of my mom Karen's clothes. Oh my gosh. Ask with the dates. That's yeah, so it's her birthday and her passing. And when she passed, oh my gosh. I love it. So um, but my that Deke invention I have been through a lot. We'll have to talk about that one another day. Type that in on the next one. Um I I am a thrower-awayer. Yes. I I I throw things away. Yeah. So if it's collectible, yeah, if it's something that's I don't know, I don't know how to say this. I I don't necessarily need to keep it. Yeah. If I have the memory or if there's a picture of it, I'm good with keeping the picture. Yeah. And I'll throw the item or get rid of the item or whatever. Um it has to be like given to me by like those more of that. Yeah. Like the like like I like collecting when we go on vacations, I like to get t-shirts or hats or something that I'll wear every day. Yeah. My fat Heather t-shirts. Yes. Or my night shirts now. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm um but when they get worn out, yeah, don't shock them. Yeah, me too. I don't care that much. Yeah. Um, so I guess I'm I'm I'm a not a keeper. I'm happier to throw away if there's the memory or a picture. You know, if I'm wearing it and you get a picture with me, score. Yeah, I'm good. I like to give like to my kids, like if I have like jewelry or something, then I and it's like not that I'm dying tomorrow, but you know, it's like I would rather you have it now and I gave it to you. Yes, than you find it and go, Oh, who wants it? Right. You know, yeah, right. Yeah. So yeah. So okay, another one we came up with shoes. When you're home, shoes on, shoes off. When you go to somebody's house, shoes on, shoes off. Um, my house, I don't have that many rugs, so I don't really care about that anymore too much because there's not that many rugs, you know. Um, but uh I usually come home, I just walk through the house.

Zia: 29:08

Okay.

Heather: 29:08

Um, you know, and then I take my slippers, I put my slippers on. So I'm because as soon as I come home, I'm like, I'm out of work clothes. Yeah. Yeah. You're like in jammies as soon as possible. Um I have I have a friend. Um, I don't know if she listens, but I have a friend that I used to go to church with. Yeah. Um, and she used to say, whenever we would call each other if we were gonna go out somewhere, the opening sentence would be, is your bra on? Oh, right. Because your bra's off. You're not you're not going anywhere. You're going anywhere. Nope. And and so that's that's what she would call me and say, Is your bra still on? And I was like, No. And she'd be like, Okay. Forget it. Can't ask you to go. Exactly. So I I agree. Yep, yep, yep. Um, well, we have lava floors, if you ask my dog. One of my dogs, oof. Yes. So we have lava floors, so we have literally runners in paths. Okay. Um, it's yeah, and you saw I do too. Pretty much. Um, although I don't think your dog is lava floors. No, no. No, we we have actual lava. Yeah. Like, no, we we were the the we have two dogs, and one of the dogs was playing on the rug, and he moved it because he was just rough pipe, yeah, and it was just an area and he slid it. And the dog who has lava floors or who believes the floors are lava, he was trapped on a rug and he couldn't move. Um, he was stuck on an island until somebody was able to fix the the the island. Oh uh, yeah. So we have runners everywhere. Um, and I picked them up and shake them out and I wash them. Um Ocean State. Yep, yeah. Best runners of the world. Yeah, $20. You can get a runner, they last about seven walks. I came from. So yep. And um, so I'm more comfortable barefoot. Yeah. Oh, I love to be barefoot. I love to be barefoot, but um, I don't care if you're happy coming in and keeping your shoes on, yeah. If you want to take them off, take them off. Yep. Um, when I go to somebody's house, I generally, unless like I've been here, I know you don't care. Right. But if I go to somebody's house I haven't passed in a while, I'll just be like, shoes off. Yeah. Shoes off? Yeah. See what they're right. What they're doing. I'll be like, slippers. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah. Yep. I always try to make sure, like, if you go someplace you have like comfy socks on, just yep. If it's winter, I always make sure I have little fuzziness socks or something. Yeah, I try to do that. And I'll keep slippers like because I'm out here for a couple of days. I have my slippers in the car. So hey, it would have said shoes off. I'd be like, Let me buy my slips. Yeah, yeah. But right, yeah. So our last one, we actually have another one today. Yeah, and then we gotta end it. Yeah, we gotta end it. We're going over. Yeah. So GPS. Yes. Do you use Waze? Do you use Google Maps? Do you use Apple Maps? So something different. Do you still go to MacQuest printed apples? Never. Um garment up on your dashboard. Oh my god, flashbacks. Um, no, I I do use my Apple phone, but I don't necessarily always use the Apple Maps. I use the Google. I use Google Maps. Yeah. I used Waze until I moved to New Hampshire. Okay. And it occurred to me that Google, although they're they're parent, their company is the same. Okay. Both owned by the same, right? They're both meta. Um, Waze and Google. Google. Yeah. But I learned that Google can find businesses. So when I was new in New Hampshire and I'm trying to find Target, Walmart, Poles. Okay, well, that made me sound like I do a lot of shopping. Um, the Texas Roadhouse. I don't know. I gotta add some other stuff in it. Car washes. It's easier to put it into Google than it is to Waze. Okay. Um, Waze was better with traffic, right? Especially when you have roads that aren't roads. Driving to SquareDance this past week. Found a took a different route. Oh no. Good or bad. The road turned into a dirt road again. There you go. Scary as anything. Can't do it. Kind of like you're on Big Fish. You know that movie Big Fish? Yeah, you're kind of like you're standing at the fork in the road and you're like, go to the paved one or the not paved one. Except you don't know. Oh my god, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, Google for me. Yeah, I'm I'm a Google girl now. I wasn't, I was a ways, but I've I've turned to Google now. Yep. Um, and it plays music still. You can hit the button, it pulls up your music app. So you don't need I don't need to worry about it anymore. Yep, absolutely. Yeah, so this was great. This was awesome. So unfortunately, though, our time with you guys is up. Absolutely. We will be back next week. We have some more news things coming. Yeah. Um, we're gonna try and do a reel or a YouTube short or something. Something. I'm gonna work on that this week. Yeah, so wish me luck on that. Okay. Hopefully, I'll be able to get that up and we can find that. Um, and I will post a picture of um my weight loss journey so everybody can see it. And we did uh you did get us a gift, so we're we have our shirt. I did, yeah. We'll post that that was a Christmas gift. I got us matching different state shirts. Yeah, yeah. So we'll post pictures of that. Zia took those pictures, so you can post them. Absolutely. Um, and then we will see you all next week. Next week. Absolutely. All right, bye, have a good one.