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Do We Love That For You?
Our podcast is going to be explaining in “jersey words” the things we experience, products we use, people we encounter, and anything else we think of. Every episode will be different the only guarantee is that both Zia and Heather will be here.
Do We Love That For You?
Do We Love... Protection
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Ever notice how protection can look like a hundred different tiny choices? We swap stories that start with a kicked bar stool at Starbucks and land on a deeper truth: real friendship is knowing when to slide the third chair away, when to step between someone you love and a brewing problem, and when to check a friend’s face and ask the question they’re avoiding. If love is a verb, protection is one of its clearest forms.
That care shows up in the fun places too. A simple hunt for coffee aromas spirals into a joyful rabbit hole of goth coffee shops, celestial interiors, a New Jersey spot called Nightshade, and the way curiosity can both nourish and hijack your day. We talk about setting soft boundaries around the scroll, following odd threads that teach you something new, and turning curiosity into a shared adventure instead of a lonely spiral.
We also tackle honesty at home: Do you pretend to like what your partner likes? We pressure-test it with a lighthearted Popeyes versus Chick-fil-A debate and land on a practical approach—compromise generously, pretend rarely, and say what you prefer without putting down what they love. From there we compare daily rituals that reveal who we are: blasting music in the car, strict gas-tank policies, the case for making the bed when you live with pets, and small monthly resets that actually stick. Our five-minute loves segment champions sunscreen as self-respect and a no-chips February as a doable reset, not a personality change.
Along the way we share listener prompts, Seaside Heights nostalgia, and news: the show’s now on YouTube, with shorts and TikTok on the way so more folks—Apple and Android alike—can tune in easily. If you’re into friendship dynamics, relationship honesty, protective instincts, coffee culture, and everyday habits that boost your mood, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who always has your back, and tell us: what’s one thing you’ll protect without apology?
Hey everybody, welcome back. We are on episode 10. Can you believe it?
Zia:Double digits, man.
Heather:Double digits. This is Do We Love That For You. And our title today is Do We Love? Do we love protection? I don't know. I feel like sometimes I have to protect some people.
Zia:Yeah, I I think I I always protect people, but sometimes people don't like the protection I'm going to give.
Heather:Yeah, that's true. I feel like sometimes I give protection and the person doesn't know they need protection until they have their hindsight.
Zia:That is true. That is true.
Heather:And then they were like, oh my gosh, thank you so much. And you know, get all valley on me. Oh my god. Oh my god. I didn't even see that happening. Wow. You're like, saved my life.
Zia:I do not love that for you. No.
Heather:I don't love that when they talk to me like that. No, no.
Zia:Oh my God. So yeah, so we had um set this up to say, like, you know, um, mother protects the world sometimes from me. Oh yeah. I think a lot of people around me do that, but that's how come they know me so well. Yeah. Is it more of my face that that alerts you or just my body? I'm gonna say yes.
Heather:Because sometimes it's what you're saying and the way you say it, and sometimes your eyes will dart to the right or to the left, and you're still doing what we're doing, but your eyes are looking somewhere else, so then I'm like turning to see what you're looking at, so that I can either protect you or jump in and help you. I'm not necessarily sure, but it reminds me of a funny story. Should I remind you of the story?
Zia:I think I know which one you're bringing up, but go ahead.
Heather:So we, as everybody knows, we like to meet at Starbucks and have our coffee and our cake pop. So we were in Starbucks one day, and the local Starbucks in New York, this was before they had a renovation, and they had a bunch of tall tables, and then they had a bunch of shorts. So we would always sit at the tall tables. And the tables were against the window, and there were three seats around each table. And we would sit, obviously, and take up two seats, and the third seat would just sit there. Well, one day we were talking, and Zia was getting very animated in her conversation. Um, and out of nowhere, this poor innocent uh bar stool got kicked halfway across to the next table. And she never skipped a beat in her sentence. It was talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, kick, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Nothing changed. And I got up and I picked up the chair and I brought it back to the table, and then I slid it out into the aisle, and she continued talking, and I sat down. And from then on, until they did their renovation, yeah. Every time we would go there, I would move the third chair and just move it to another table. Yeah. And so I was, I don't know if I was protecting you or the chair.
Zia:I know. So my husband, well, I love my Larry David show, Herb Your Enthusiasm, and I'm so sad that it ended. But um, a lot of things that he had done on that show, I had already done in our marriage or to something around my surroundings. So the wobbly tables and the wobbly chairs, I just I don't know what it is about it. It just will not sit well with me. Um, but yeah, that's just that uh chair just kept I I went to like change my legs to cross them. I was talking to you, it kept hitting me and wobbling, and the sound was just getting to me like it was interrupting my conversation to you. And well, you know, I always say if I if you don't fix something that annoys me and I've asked you to fix it, then I have to fix it. Obviously, you can't talk to a chair, but I fixed it. I fixed my problem. And then you don't talk to in you don't talk to inanimate objects. Oh no, please no. Nope. Um, so yeah, it's it's funny that, you know, and people note like I just had um, you know, when it's funny how they pick up on that protective overcast of me because I mean I'll just meet somebody and they'll be like, oh, you know, I don't know if I want to get on her bad side. That's a friend you want to keep, not one you want to get rid of.
Heather:Kind of like when you walk out to a bus and you ask somebody what's on your shirt. What's on your shirt? What's on your shirt? What's on your shirt? What's on your shirt? It takes a jersey to know a jersey. But I've also protected you at work. Like you were having a health issue one day, yeah, and and I asked you about it, and you weren't completely forthcoming with information. And and I looked at you and I was like, well, this has to change. And I was actually late going to my next portion of my job because I was trying to get you settled. And I mean, not that it wasn't that big of a deal that I was late that moment, but yeah, I I I do remember a couple of times even at work, I would I would help you or protect you or know something was going on with you prior. Yep. Because I can see it, I know you enough.
Zia:Yep, yep. Same with you too. Like I can see your face sometimes, and I'm like, Are you okay? And then we kind of adjust that and talk about that too. Exactly. Or if even somebody's like, um, you know, oh, I think Heather did this, and then my ears go up, and I'm like, let me tell you something. She freaking didn't do it, okay?
Heather:Or she did do it, and I got her back.
Zia:Yeah. Actually, I was just talking to Alex how I said, Do you remember um we were in Florida and he kept saying these kids were like picking on him on the bus and he was teeny tiny. And he goes, Yeah, I remember. And I was like, Yeah, I said, Do you remember what mommy did? And he goes, What? I said, I I used to drop you off at the bus port there or the bus stop there. And I said, one time the kid, I just looked at the kid and I was like, do not ever touch him. Don't ever touch him, never. And I popped my trunk and I was looking to think you intimidated a six-year-old. He was like maybe seven, because it was in first grade, I think. First or second grade. I don't know. Oh my goodness. Don't ever touch him. And then I like just popped the trunk and like started looking around. How was I gonna do?
Heather:What was I gonna do? I'm not sure if that's a story you want on this podcast.
Zia:I'm just like, what was I going to do? What goes through a mom's head to protect their child, right? Oh my god, too funny.
Heather:That's awesome. Yeah, he's like, no, I don't remember that part, mom. So you know, I always do my podcast prep and I look for not necessarily topics, typically, I'm looking for things to do in our five-minute love.
Zia:Absolutely.
Heather:Absolutely. And and I was not this past week, it was actually supposed to be. We were gonna talk about this last week when Leon was on. Right. Um, we just ran out of time, so we moved it to today, but I was looking for um, we were talking about the smells and things like that.
Zia:Put the coffee, yeah.
Heather:Yeah, and I was trying to relate something to coffee. Yeah. Like other things that have strong odors and things like that. And I was trying to figure out something like that. So as I'm looking, um, just on social media in general, I wasn't specifically looking for anything, I was looking for smell conversations, and I found this reel for this place that's opening up, ironically, in New Jersey, called Goth Coffee. Love it. I mean it's no, seriously, and it was the the reel was showing them had a black cup of coffee, and they were pouring this like purple stuff into it, and it was it turned into this, whatever. And I was like, that's really cool. So I'm like, the name of it, I have the name, I've probably forgot it. Yeah, but I'll tag them. Yeah. And um, I was like, is there such a thing as like goth goth coffee shops? Yeah. So I started looking for goth type coffee shops. So that's what I put into the search bar. Goth style coffee shops. Love it. There's ones that are celestial, there's ones that are um Harry Potter themed, witch themed, wizard themed. There are no bombs.
Zia:Leon had said um they went in California to like a uh horror-themed.
Heather:There's there was horror-themed. I found that one actually after our conversation with Leon. And I find myself for a lot of things getting stuck in the social media, and not necessarily social media, but just yeah, the Google or the Pinterest or whatever, but like these rabbit holes. Oh, and I go down and you realize it's like two hours later, and you're really no closer to the answer you were looking for. Right. Now we have more questions.
Zia:Now, yes, yes, like I um I had received a beautiful amaryllis plant from my boss and his wife. Like she did this gorgeous like design and everything on it, and she made everything from like her backyard with the you know, forged, like, you know, the design. And I went down a huge rabbit hole with this amaryllis plant, and I don't know that I think I want to get like 18 more now because it's just totally amazing me the process of how to get this thing to bloom next year. Um, so if I do it correctly this year, I think I'm going to collect a few more and see if I can do it again. Um, but yeah, I went down a huge rabbit hole. Um, I found out they're actually attached to one of my favorite plants, which is nightshade. Um, nightshade. And um it actually um the belladonna is like the nightshade. Um, but the belladonna plant actually was in one of the medications that first took care of one of my medical problems. Wow. Yeah, and you can't take it all the time. So I had to get off of that one, and they only put it in the medication when you're having a huge episode, then you can have it. But okay, you shouldn't be taking that all the time. But it just like rabbit hole roll, you know, one thing led to another. And I'm like, how did I get to Belladonna again? What happened?
Heather:Right, you know. So you want to hear the irony? I just found my note from the goth coffee search that all the all the call, all the coffee shops that I found. Yeah, the name of the one that's opening in New Jersey is called Nightshade. Oh my god, see rabbit hole, rabbit hole. So it's in Westwood, New Jersey. So, yes, we'll tag them in it. Um, they're opening, I believe they're opening in February. Um so the next time we head to Jersey, we haven't been to Jersey together, but we're gonna have to.
Zia:Oh, can Jersey handle that?
Heather:I don't know, because I would bring line, I would want to bring Eliza, and that would make it really scary because we and then you bring star and yeah, it would go crazy.
Zia:Oh, geez. I don't know.
Heather:I think we were planning a girls' trip to Jersey. We were at one point. I think and then COVID happened, wasn't that right about COVID?
Zia:Absolutely freaking COVID. I know, but so stupid, yeah.
Heather:But yeah, so so Leon was talking to us after he was on, and he was proposing a question. Do you remember what he asked us?
Zia:Um, he was wasn't he saying that do you pretend to love something for your significant other? And then like how do you explain that if you don't, how do you get that explanation out there? Yeah. So do you feel like you do pretend for rich on any level? Or even like a child, you know?
Heather:Um I feel I feel like I don't really um I mean I'm pretty straightforward with what I say. Um, but probably, like for example, we'll just use superficial one for right now. Sure. There you have Popeyes and you have Chick-fil-A. Oh, got it. Yep. So I like Popeyes, but I like Chick-fil-A. So I would prefer the Chick-fil-A of the world over the Popeyes. But Rich really likes Popeyes over Chick-fil-A.
Zia:So sure, you want a great example for Leon's thing because he loves Popeyes.
Heather:Oh my goodness, that's awesome. So I'll always say, sure, we can have Popeyes, but I I mean, I don't care. I it's it's chicken, so I'm happy with that selection, but I prefer the seasonings and stuff on Chick-fil-A over Popeyes. But I mean, just to use that as a superficial example, I think that would be one of my few ones. Um, I mean, in the school it's a little bit different because you're with the kids, so you kind of have to have a conversation.
Zia:Yeah. Right. So um, I think I don't know. I've been with Michael so long from high school that I don't feel like I could even pretend I like something. Right. Um, I I try to, I really tried to think of something for today to say, oh yeah, I remember liking this and then turning around and saying to Michael no. Um but I don't. I mean, most of the stuff I have to say, he's pretty good. Most of the stuff in my house is my stuff. Yeah. Um I don't know if he faltered to like maybe he, you know, maybe he doesn't right. He might be like, I really love Pepsi and I can't freaking have it, you know. Um, but that might that might be a cause of divorce. But I mean, you know, um, but it's like I I don't know that I could even fake liking.
Heather:I mean, Rich and I, we've been together over 10 years. I mean, I think we're close to 12 or 13 at this point. So I I mean, what do you fake? I I mean, the only one I can think of is situations like the Popeyes Chick-fil-A.
Zia:Yeah, I can't Michael and Alex do like Popeyes just to go with that theme. And I I immediately, because Alex was like, oh yeah, you gotta try this there, you gotta try that there. And I was like, okay, so I gave it a I picked it up one night, I came home, and I was sitting there sadly eating it, and I was just kind of like, what is the big thing about this? I don't get it, you know. Or Margaret took me to um, there's a chicken place that she likes to. I can't think of the name of it. Um, and we went out to eat there and she loves it, she loves the sauce. I get the sauce that they had, but I didn't get the whole chicken thing, it's very bland for me. Um yeah, so I I don't know, I don't know, maybe if they have like a wrap right now, so I think if I could have had that, maybe that would have been better for me. But um yeah, I just certain things and I tell her, you know, I'm like, I don't know. I just I don't know if I like it. Like I couldn't even do it to Margaret or to Star and just be like, I I don't like this, you know. I couldn't be like, oh, it's so delicious, you know. And yeah, uh, you know, I had to give my true opinion on it. Yeah.
Heather:But right, so I don't, I don't, I'm not sure that and I and I'm quite sure even for Leon and Starr. They've been together for so long. I doubt they even do it. But I I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, not really, and I'm gonna ask our listeners because a lot of our listeners, um, our regular listeners are all in relationships, married, dating long term. What do you guys do? Give us your examples, post it on social media. Let us know what you if there's one you do, and maybe maybe we can get a conversation going that way.
Zia:Absolutely. And actually, since you said that just now about social media and everything, um, we have to bring up that we did post to YouTube. We are YouTubers, we are YouTubers, we are that's right. Can I just say that you were a YouTuber and I was a YouTuber? And then now we have a YouTube.
Heather:You are correct. Yeah, that's right. Um, Rich um was doing, you know, he's been this rabbit hole. He's in a rabbit hole. Oh, I'm I'm sorry, did I call him by his name? Sorry. Oh no. Um wait a minute, I'm I'm getting my air quotes up. Our producer um went down a rabbit hole, and he was finding all these different places to post on and and things like that, and he found out that YouTube actually has a massive podcast following. And actually, I found one this morning, um, and I just listened to one this morning. Um, it was a 12-minute podcast, it was super quick. That's awesome. Um, and it it was actually interesting. It was a history one, and I just I just picked one randomly to listen because I wanted to see what it was. And it was just this cover art screen, and it was just him talking to me for 12 minutes, telling us telling me about history of ironically, Ellis Island. Yeah, and it was just it was a brief history about that one. It was really interesting. I'll I'll I'll send it to you. Yeah, um, but yeah, so we are on YouTube, yeah, and we are going to be going on TikTok, and um, we have figured out. I know I said two episodes ago that I was gonna start trying to post reels. I am struggling with that, but we have found a way to do it. Um, so that is going to be my project this week is to post a reel. Um, and then it'll be a short on YouTube as well. And hopefully we can get it on TikTok. Um, and if there's any other social media outlets that you guys know of, let us know.
Zia:Or you can get us and get there or let us know. We'll happily find stuff. And it's funny that you mentioned that because um star reached out to me, I believe, the beginning of the week, and she said that one of her friends had an Android, and she said, What else are you on beside the Apple? You know, and I said, Oh my god, let me show you. So um, yeah. So she said, No, she said, because my friend really wanted to listen. I was telling her, and you know, I wanted to make sure she could get it too. And so now she could even go to YouTube, and that's everybody can get to that.
Heather:Everybody can get to YouTube, yeah. And and actually that's what I do a lot of times when I'm um when I'm houseworking and stuff, I'll put music on and it's just music. I don't want the videos, so now I can switch. I didn't even know they had podcasts, so I plan on doing that now.
Zia:I'm gonna switch and Leon are big YouTube watchers. Um, they like to watch, you know, if they're going somewhere to see like what it's like, um those kinds of things. So um, but when I go over to their home, sometimes um we'll just do like star and I do like journaling and coffee, and she'll have that relaxed scene on TV with the music playing. Yeah, that's what I do.
Heather:That's what I that's that's us on YouTube right now, and eventually we can get it to where we can actually have ourselves on and do cameras. We're just not quite there yet. We're still trying to figure all this out.
Zia:Yep. I mean, 10 episodes. We like we always keep saying, we started this at a whim, and 10 episodes. I'm just proud of us again. Proud of us. I'm I'm so proud of us.
Heather:I I can't I so look forward to our midweek check-in to talk about the podcast. Well, we're gonna meet.
Zia:We called it our office meeting.
Heather:No, it was our staff meeting.
Zia:Oh, our staff meeting, yes. We have a staff meeting. That's we have a staff meeting.
Heather:We had the we had the staff meeting.
Zia:Yep, and it's very important for us to say that because both of our husbands always had to have staff meetings and uh, you know, I'm going at a meeting. That's all because they work and and then you hear the door close. Right, right. So it's like, you know, it's like now we're like, excuse us, we have to go play. We have we have a meeting. Yes, we have a meeting.
Heather:Pardon us, right? So my youngest, Angela. Yes, our youngest, I shouldn't say my our youngest, Angela. You could claim her. I she's mine. I don't care. I've known her, she's 22. I've known her since she was like eight. Yeah, she's there. Yep. Um, she had to borrow my car. Um, so she gets in my car, and it's my car. I Generally, I am the only one who drives my car. Yeah. Um, and she gets in my car, and when she got back, she said, Do you always leave your radio that loud? Oh, that's funny. And I was like, Yeah. And she's like, Why? And I said, Well, because music isn't good unless it's like blasting, right? And you're singing along at full volume to it. That's right. So the next like a week or two later, she had to borrow Rich's car. Yeah. And I was using Rich's car because I don't have four-wheel drive and it was an icky day. And so she got in the car ironically after I did, and Rich's volume on his radio was full blast. So that brings us to a question. Yeah. Do you turn off your accessories, your radio, your heat, your air, your whatever when you're getting in and out of your car?
Zia:So my heat is on, or my AC, it stays. Um, my seat warmer on my side is always on, ready for me to sit on that. Um my music does go on. Um, it may not be exactly what I want at that moment, but it is, you know, connecting right away. Um so I don't have to wait for that to hear that. Um, that's very important with my brain. Um, but the one thing that I do feel, and I know you were saying she brought this up was my gaslight. I can't take, I can't take that. So, and it's funny that we are talking, it just seems like things that I don't really think of. Um, I had two little bars on my car, not empty yet. It said 60 miles. And I first thing I texted Alex yesterday before we went to the commissary was, I'm picking you up and I have to go get gas. And he was like, Oh, do you like not have any? And I'm like, No, why would you not have any? Like, I panic so much if that light is showing me, like, no, that is the I panic. And it could say 30 miles or whatever it says, and I'm still like, I'm gonna go so far today that I'm not gonna make it. And I could just be going to price shop around the corner. So can't deal with that light on. How about you? She's running it down to the ground. That light is on the nine years.
Heather:No, so my gas light would come on, and you know, I was three miles from work when I worked at when I worked with you at the school.
Zia:Yep.
Heather:If my gas light came on at home, I could go to work, go home, go to work, and then stop and get gas on my way home. Oh my god. So, no, I know exactly how many gallons fit in my car. I know exactly how many gallons until I'm empty, I know how many gallons, and I will say in a proud voice, I have never run out of gas. Okay. So I know exactly how far I can go.
Zia:The only person that's usually on an adventure with me when I'm like, and it's very weird that this happens. It has happened more than once. When Star and I are like, we're going on an adventure today, right? And we're just like out and about, and then I look down and I'm like, oh my god, the light is on. Why is my light on? Like, I had plenty of gas. But we don't realize like where we want to go sometimes. Yes. And there we have been in the car several times where we're like, where's a gas station? Where is there a gas station? And I remember one time we were very interested in getting Michael a puppy at some point. It was like years, years, years ago. I think Margaret was still in school. And we're in Saratoga, we're driving around, we go to the pet place. It's down, I think it was the shelter. We get out of there, and I look down and I'm like, what does that say?
Heather:Oh my gosh, and this and the shelter up by where you are, that's out in the middle of nothing. Out in the middle of nothing. You have like eight miles until you're in a in a world again.
Zia:You're so true. So we're both panicking. And I'm like, Margaret, you gotta find a place, gotta find a place. Just go on GPS, find a place. Oh my god. It just seems like Margaret and myself, yeah. We we go out and we go on an adventure, and all of a sudden, we're lost and we're stranded with a red light on my tank. So every time I go out now, I look at my tank before I'm I'm going with star. I'm going with star, fill the tank up, even if it's half, I'm filling it up because we never know where our adventures lead. Yeah.
Heather:Oh, that's funny. So, definitely guess what time it is? Oh, my favorite time. Your favorite, it's the five-minute loves.
Zia:I don't know. I gotta come up with a song for that. Okay, sounds good. I'll try. I'll try for us. I'll try for us. All right, I'm getting into my garage band. I can do that. You do it. Let's get something. Five minute love. We got the TikToks, we got the TikToks, but yeah. Yeah, he'll put those in. He did last week, he got them in. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. You go first. Okay, so this one I've been trying to get on here for a while. And I just do it. The only thing I can say is do we save it or do we just do it? And so it's it's we're doing it this week because I'm tired of copying and pasting. Right. Sunscreen or not.
Heather:Go today, today being at 50, right? Sunscreen. Um, however, I tan, I mean, you've seen me. Yes. That's with sunscreen. You're pale, you're pretty pale. Like I'm I tan like crazy. I don't, I don't do the typical Scottish Irish burn and nothing. I tan like I'm shouldn't. Um so yes, I do sunscreen. Um, I put it primarily because of the bus, I put it primarily on my face and arms. Yeah. And that's what I would do every, I do that every day still. Um, but back in the 80s, it was baby oil and a boom box and laying out for hours on end. What about you?
Zia:I um well, when I was little, I was exposed to a lot of the big girl things or being at the dance studio. So I had one babysitter that used to use that um was a Hawaiian tropic oil. Yes. And she would put that on, you know, and oh smelt delicious. And I still try to buy a bottle. There is more sunscreen in it now. But I still I still buy it because it just smells so good. It's a good memory. Um I put sunscreen on only because I just feel like family-wise, gene-wise, I need to protect myself that way. Um, I I don't know, you know, even in the winter, you know, it's it's still a thing because you know, that sun is still out there. What are you gonna do? Yeah, yeah. Um, cloudy days also. I mean, you can't, it's right, it's still the rays are coming down. So I say yes, sunscreen, definitely.
Heather:Yeah, more so now than back in the day. But yeah. But we have to protect our beautiful older skin now. That's right. Our our our quarter century. Oh no, not quarter century, half century. Oh my gosh. Mature skin, I will say. That's right. Yeah. So Leon asked, he said we should bring up a throwback question. Yeah. And he said, are we still sticking with the new you or have we gone back to old ways?
Zia:Right, like at our old habits. So since I did not do a new me new year, um, I just don't, I just I just don't change very often. Um, I would have to say no for me. Yeah. I think that's what got me off of jury duty. I was like, nothing changes my mind. And he was like, no, bye. Right.
Heather:Yeah. Um, so for me, I didn't do a new me in January. However, Eliza called and gave me a challenge for this month. Right. And Eliza and I have done this a couple of times throughout the years. Um, typically we do it once a year. We'll come up with something one month. Um and and it's we decide we're going to kind of do a reset on ourselves, you know, what one thing can you change? So this February, I am not, we're gonna have to have a moment of silence after I say this.
Zia:Today is the last day.
Heather:Today is the last day, and I actually have something for it, but I am not going to eat potato chips for the month of February.
Zia:Oh yeah. And I will not eat them in front of you. This is a thing. She will eat something on the screen, and I'm like, hold on, I'm going to get mine.
Heather:Yeah. But yeah, so we so I am giving up potato chips for the month of February. And I've done this before, and and I've given them up for years on end, and then I'll have a chip, and then all of a sudden you're down that crazy path. But so a new me, you know, rabbit holes everywhere. But yeah, so that's so we're not doing a new me, we're doing a new uh a month reset.
Zia:Yeah, and I think I would I think I would feel better doing that, like if you know, Star said, Mom, can we do that? Like, you know, we have our little things we do, but I I would probably be better doing it with her than you know, doing it like the whole year on something I wouldn't really care about, but right I think I do.
Heather:Right. Well, and I mean it's chips. I mean, I can give up chips. I mean, and I shouldn't be eating chips every day anyway. I know. So, yeah. I mean, it's not like it's that big of a deal.
Zia:I did send her this little meme the other day, and it says, like, oh, in the a.m., my body's a temple, and she's drinking like lemon water, and she's got like a sh a fruit bowl or whatever, and then it says by 5 a.m. or 5 p.m., she's got like a burger and chips and fries and everything, and uh like body is not a temple now, you know. Yeah, exactly. Stress took over.
Heather:Yep. So we gotta go through these kind of quick because we're really running out of time. But we had our we had some Instagram suggestions this week. You want to hit them?
Zia:Yeah, yep. So Nikki uh gave us one or one of our followers, and she said, Do you make your bed every day? I can answer that easily. No, by the time I leave, my husband's still in the bed. I get up early. Um, I have to leave early for work, so I do not. No.
Heather:Um, I do only because with the dogs, I don't want the dog hair on my pillow and in in between my sheets. Um, however, my one dog unmakes the bed frequently. Um porthos will get on the bed and he'll have like a temper tantrum and he'll like dig up the bed uh or the blankets. So um I try to make it every day. Um if I'm out of bed before Rich, Rich will make it. I mean, I don't tuck the corners and military make it anymore. Right. But I do I do put it together. What about you guys? Everybody in the audience, what do they do? Let us know. Let us know.
Zia:Let us know.
Heather:And then Kate had one. She's a relatively new Instagram follower.
Zia:She is, and she wanted to know our earliest andor best memory of seaside heights. You go. Oof, I have so many. Uh it's like that's the place I was. Uh I think I was born and we went. Um I think I would have to say my best memory there was when my grandmother had a good day and she was able to come with us and put her on a nice bench to look at the beach, and we'd go get her treats, and you know, I'd come back with my my findings or whatever I won that day. She would say pick one game that you would like me to watch you play. And I would because you know, she can walk around a lot and uh they didn't they didn't have like, oh, we have you know wheelchairs for everybody, you can rent one. That wasn't a thing back then. That wasn't a thing back then. Yeah, you either had one or not. And so on the way out, because we would always go um if you were facing away from the beach, we would always leave to the left. Um and there was a pinball machine that that it was like probably six or seven of them. And that was like my thing. I love my pinball. So I would say, When we leave, grandma, I would love you to be with me by pinball and see how long I can keep it going, you know. Yeah. And so she would get she would get there and she'd lean on the little, you know, pinch, yeah. Yep, and she'd go, How long can you keep this up for? Because she was like, I'm ready to go. And then you just wait, Grandma. I'm gonna show you this. Yeah. So that that would be one of my best memories is her being there and my grandfather being there because it didn't happen often, and that was special. Yeah.
Heather:Yeah. Yeah. So for me, Seaside Heights was our special trip of the summer. Um, we went most of the time, we went to it was called Bradley Beach or Avon by the Sea. They were like right next door to each other, and um, they were nice, quiet beaches, no boardwalk, no anything, you know. It was it was very quiet. Um, so when we went to Seaside Heights, it was for the boardwalk. Um and I can remember, um, actually, it's not, it's, it's, it's a memory I have, but it was affected my oldest brother Ian. Um, we were sitting there eating, and a seagull came and snatched his um lunch, but we had brought our own lunch. We didn't buy lunch on the boardwalk, we had our own, and a seagull came and snatched up his lunch while we were sitting on the beach. And he was very sad and upset. And and now that I think about it, he had a lot of issues with seagulls because we were sitting in a McDonald's one time outside eating, and a seagull pooped on his hand while he was eating a burger. Yeah, I feel like my brother and seagulls don't get a lot of. Seagulls, not yeah, not a good combination. But oh my god, but most of my Seaside Heights memories are going there just for the for the boardwalk of it. Um so if we were beaching, it would be it would be Bradley Beach or Avon, but Seaside Heights was our was our boardwalk. Um, and then I would always play skeet ball. Okay, yeah.
Zia:Oh, love the skeet ball. Gotta love the skate ball.
Heather:Oh, yeah. Yep.
Zia:Love skeet ball.
Heather:But well, I think that covered all our topics. I think we're actually caught up on all our topics.
Zia:I think we are, and that's amazing. That is amazing.
Heather:That means I have a lot of work to do this week.
Zia:Yeah, I will be joining you on that one now. Yeah. All right, people. Send us stuff. We got absolutely we need ideas. Yes, absolutely. And thank you for listening to our double digits. We're going into this double digits.
Heather:Do we love protection? I'm gonna say yes. I love it. Yeah, I'm gonna say yes too. Yep. It shows that I have people who love me. If they're protecting me, they love me.
Zia:Absolutely, absolutely, and I only protect people I love, so fact.
Heather:All right, on that note, we're out of here, people. Yes, have a good weekend. Bye.
Zia:Bye.
