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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... Electronics
A handmade K–12 Valentine box, retro cards, and wobbly kid handwriting spark a bigger question: what everyday rituals make us feel known? We kick off with laughter and a throwback love note, then follow the thread into kitchens where family history lives—Irish pasty pie with scratch crusts, Italian comfort, German staples, and Indonesian classics like nasi goreng taught by a grandmother who measured rice with a finger and a grin. Food becomes a passport, a memory, and sometimes a private stash under the party table.
Real life barges in with a snowplow at 3 a.m. and a driveway that feels like a sled run—nine neighbor saves, two emergency plows, and a summer plan to buy a quad before the next flurry. We compare grocery carts across states, from LaCroix to gas prices, and admit that bulk clubs, commissary aisles, and brand quirks can rewrite a budget. Quickfire debates keep it lively: Friday the 13th is mindset, not omen; the “proper” wedding ring order (band closest to the heart) meets the everyday logic of keeping a diamond secure; and yes, we’re still drawing the north–south line through New Jersey while arguing pork roll vs Taylor ham with a side of saltpepperketchup.
At the core is work that matters. One of us chose the kids who test limits because someone should always believe in them. The other moved from medic to bus driver to school aide, finding purpose in structure, patience, and tiny wins that change a day. Between rescue dogs, allergic cat compromises, and travel plans, we circle back to the same truth: love is effort, practice, and the willingness to show up—at the stove, on the driveway, and in the classroom.
Hit play for warm storytelling, heritage recipes, snow-day logistics, and honest talk about why we keep choosing people. If you smiled, learned, or argued out loud, share this with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a quick review—what tradition are you keeping alive this year?
Hey, Zia. Welcome to Do We Love That For You. Yes. And happy Valentine's Heather. Valentine's Day. This is episode 12. Do we love that? Actually, we didn't give it a name yet. Well, you know what? Do we love electronics? Yeah, let's just say that. Do we love electronics? I'm having a lot of electronic things happening right now. We really are. You're in like you're in like electronic heck right now. I'm gonna say heck. I'm gonna be the clean one today.
Zia:All right, you be clean. I won't. Yep.
Heather:But anyway, everybody, welcome. We're so glad everybody's here. We're actually recording almost an hour later than usual. Yeah, yep. But it's actually 24 hours almost more than we were gonna record.
Zia:Absolutely. Absolutely.
Heather:Life got crazy this week. I don't know what happened.
Zia:And that's what we're here to share with you. Just uh those everyday things that you can't control. Exactly.
Heather:So it's Valentine's Day today. It ends. You had mentioned that you were doing, in my opinion, the sweetest ever Valentine for your husband. Oh well, yeah. I just um we were just talking about the kids coming into school with Valentine's and Valentine boxes and all those things. And you know, I was like, oh, some kids are worried, you know, that they won't get any, and you know, but everybody's supposed to make one for everybody, you know. And when I was little, I just wanted certain ones from certain friends. Like, I gave you one, you should probably give me one back, you know. But you know, Michael was like, Well, I don't really remember it being a big thing in the city. Like, I you know, I don't really remember going because I told him I had to make a special box and Yeah, I we did too much and he was just kind of like I don't really know if that resonates. Like, I don't really remember that. So I made him a Valentine's box since he didn't remember. And um I got like went to the dollar store, got like a little box, you know. And then I I went from K through 12 um because I did not know him. Um of course. I only knew him in high school, so I was like, you know what? I'm gonna go K through 12, and I am going to pretend that I knew him. K through 12. So I did have examples of how I used to write when I was little. Um my dad had saved a coloring page that I did for him. Um and he had, you know, two dab little love zia. So um I actually took it from there and copied my name. So, like, of course, K through probably second grade. I didn't care who it was going to, so I was just like Zea. I just signed it. Zia. Yeah. Just spelling his name wrong. Like Because in third grade you might not necessarily get it right. How do you spell Michael? I don't know. Um, there's probably a K in there. I Right Right. So I was like, you know, spelt some wrong. And yeah, so we went all and then he he said to me, He goes, Well, I know you from tenth grade on. And I put three in there that were and I go, Yeah, but the message on those pertained to, you know, those years. And so it was like, but I and it was funny because I went for retro Valentine's Um and I looked online, and then when I print them out, printed them out, because some pictures I actually remembered having as a retro card. Yeah. And they were all like God will love you. Um yeah. So I was like, you know what? It's okay, because I was in Catholic school. I always I was gonna say that you went to Catholic school, so it's all good. So I was like, I'm keeping them. That's it. That was it. But yeah, yeah, did the box and everything. Yeah.
Zia:Yeah.
Heather:Oh, I love that. That is awesome. So if he doesn't remember that, then we'll have a problem. Then you need to go get him evaluated. That's okay. I mean, he might need to do that anyway. Well, I did see your flowers. Yeah. Rich got me some flowers. Love it. Beautiful roses in a beautiful vase. It's I don't know if you can see it. Oh, there you go. It looks like X is an O's. I love it. And then as tradition goes, I always get a box of chocolates. And he got me this. It is so cute. It's a little tic-tac-toe game. That is adorable. It is. Yep. So we're traveling today. So we're we're getting our Valentine's meal on a plane. Um we're going first place first class, so we're gonna go fancy. Um make sure you get a picture of your, you know, champagne. Yeah, I don't know that I want champagne today, no. Um, but yeah, so um, but I I think like one of my favorite Valentine's presents that Michael has ever gotten me, and you probably hate that because he's done a lot. Uh um, one was we had Valentine's in Egypt, and I don't know how he would have ever topped that one. You know, so that was Well, you travel this time of year every year, so a lot of your Valentine is a travel, right, because it's school breaks. So that was like, how are you gonna beat that? But to me, sometimes the simplest things make make a big deal. So I had told him I didn't I really don't like flowers, I don't really like the chocolate stuff, like just you know. So one year he gave me a heart bag and he gave me like candy first, and I was like, oh great. Did the husband didn't listen. Um and he gives me this other bag as a heart bag, and it had my saw movie in it. Oh, that's awesome. And I was like, this is up, this is a Zia Valentine present. That is very much a Zia Valentine present with my little, you see, my little saw guy over my shoulder, so you know I'm a big fan. Yep. So go ahead. Yeah. Yep. So uh I'm not sure what we're doing today. We went out last night. Um, Angela's birthday is tomorrow. So um we have our square dance on Sunday. I love it, and she does uh Dungeons and Dragons uh game with some of her friends on Sundays as well. So those are still both happening. So we asked her if she wanted to go out last night, and so we went out to dinner last night, and actually that's gonna be an episode 13 story because that's a whole story in itself. Yes. Um but um Rich sent me an invite on the calendar for tonight. He blocked off from 6 to 9. So I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, well, you'll have to tell us next time. So I will let you know next week what we're doing. Absolutely. But yeah, so you and I were talking about um like our family food history, kind of like what are you cooking from your family? Like, what are you cooking from our from our national from our heritage? Yeah, grandparents, mom. What are you cooking? Yeah, yep. What's your favorites? So I'm so okay. Let me start it with this. I'm Irish, Scottish, and a little bit of Swedish. Okay, yep. Um, my grandma's on my mother's side parents came over. So my grandmother was first generation America. Okay. So a lot of her cooking was traditional Irish. Yeah. Um, so in in in England, they make, or in in Britain, they make a thing called a shepherd's pie. And I'm sure everybody knows a shepherd's pie. It's mashed potatoes and meat and and and stuff. But my grandmother made something different. It was called a pasty. Oh, okay. And it is in a pie, or it it's in a like a turnover, is the official way to make it. We Americanized it by making it as an actual pie in a pie tin. Um, but the way you make it is it's like a turnover kind of a thing because the the men would carry it and it would be a a a hand hand hand meal. Oh, I love it. Yeah. So what it is is it's um sliced potatoes um with carrots, ground beef, and onions. Ooh. And then you just put the top of the pie on and you bake it. Okay. And my grandmother, because she was my grandmother and they didn't have pre-made pie crust back in the day, taught me how to make it um from scratch. And that's typically how I make it. And according to the majority of my family, I am the superior pasty maker. I love it. So that is one of the things that I frequently make. Um and it's it's delicious. And actually, I'll make it for you. Yeah, I'll make it for you next time we get together. Absolutely. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, what's yours? Well, I have the Italian, I have the German, and I have Indonesian and Dutch. Wow. So I kind of I don't know, I'm a big foodie. So I think I must have like studied grandparents' cooking at hand. Um I mean, if I cook something from my grandfather, I walk in the house, because we lived with my grandma and grandpa, uh, Christiano. I walk in the house and I'm like, sometimes I'm like, oh, Poppy's cooking. And I'm like, have to remind myself, oh, yuck, I cooked it, Poppy's not here, you know. So Italian cooking I do. Um, I do do like um hala bread and potato latkas sometimes because of my grandma. Um, but my Indonesian side, not many of us know how to make my nase, like the nase goring she used to make, or the bak, or the um it's like I pronounce like bakmi, so bak me. Um, and then like chicken some more. So these are all recipes that like I know my one uncle really cooked it all the time because I had his. Um, and my real dad, he he used to cook it like that. Um, but I think I used to watch my grandma and do a lot of that. And my little teeny tiny Asian grandma, you know, she taught me, you know, put your finger in the rice. You don't need all this fancy stuff, you know, the water should be here. And yeah. So I I just resonate with Joe Coy, because I mean, he he says things to a T and I'm just sitting there going, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, um But she definitely like Um, you know, I always take a picture and send it to my aunts, and I'm like, I'm making nuts agorine. And they're like, Your aunts that live up by me, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, uh they're they're always like, ah man, that's my favorite. And I'm like, well, yeah, come see me, or vice versa, I can cook it for you, you know. But yeah, um, yeah, it's so so delicious. And um, my grandmother used to say, whenever there was a party, the nasaygoring sometimes went missing. And they were like, Where did you put the nasaygoring? And she's like, on the table. And all of a sudden, I was underneath the table with the ball, just kind of eating it all up. And she would come visit us and she'd be like, This is for everyone to share, and this is for Zia. All right, well, you have to make that for me now. I will, I will, definitely. You've had Italian food of mine most of the time. I have had your Italian food. Yep, yeah. So with that, I mean going to shop, okay, is getting outrageous, but there are a lot of things we were talking about that are cost differences between you being here, going there, and you who would thought? Who would have thought? Who would have thought? I mean, like we were and and actually the the example we have written down is sparkling water, like the booblay or the uh or I call it booblay, sorry. We call it that tattoo. Exactly. Like the bubbly or the LaCroix or even the Polar, which I'm not a fan of the Polar, but the cost difference that we pay for that is weird. And like I think I pay more than you pay. I think my price was higher than your price in general, but my gas is much cheaper than your gas. Right. Yep. Um, and I know usually when we head to Jersey, that's cheaper than our gas. Exactly. Yep. Um it's it's very strange. Or like I'll go to the store with my cousin when I go visit her in the summer, and we go to like her grocery store. And um that I look there, I'm like, uh, she's like, oh, this is so expensive. And I'm like, uh, no, it's not. I want like 12. I want 12. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you and I go to the commissary, so that's no comparison either. Right. That's totally different world. But like, and we have big enough families that we could do the BJ's, Costco, absolutely Sam's Club. We can buy some stuff in bulk, which makes it a lot cheaper. But yeah, yeah, you can't. I mean, Alex actually, since you said the polar, I have to ask him which one it is, but he's he actually he did not like polar either. But he's been buying these thinner cans. Oh my gosh, I know what he's talking about. He just had me try one. It was like a blood orange delicious. Yes, I know exactly what it is. I don't remember the name, but Eliza told me that that's a. I'm gonna please Eliza help me. Jump in my brain super quick, but I feel like she said that was a Mexican liquor. But excuse me, like a sparkling, like a sparkling um cider like the vodka ones, that they take the vodka out and sell it in America. Oh yeah I'm 99% positive that's okay. Um I mean that's what it is. It it is, but but I'm 99% because I sent her a picture of it. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so good, you should try it. And she's like, Mom, that's liquor. And I'm like, no, and I looked at the can and I'm like, no, it's not. And she's like, Mom, it's and I'm I want to say she said it was Mexican. Oh, okay. Because it's got Chico in the title, right? Or Tiro. No, it does not, it's polar seltzer, it's just polar seltzer. Oh, it's the pole. Oh, so we're talking about different things. Yeah, no, I know, I know what you're talking about. Okay. That that is definitely. Um, but yeah, it's he I was very surprised. He goes, I know we never usually buy polar, but this is like it I it I don't know, the can looks thinner, um, it's more colorful. Um, and he well, I mean, he got the blood orange, so it's like red and orange and very festive looking. Right. So good. Yep. So that yeah, and he said that one was cheaper. Weird, right? So weird. So so talking about the differences between the states, I have to tell you something. I am this much regretting my life choice for moving to New Hampshire. I love that I live here, I love that I'm with my husband, I love that I'm with our youngest. I love all of that. Yeah, however, apparently, and I know the weather systems all fluctuate and and and I'm not I'm I'm saying this mostly as a joke. However, since I have been here, we have, I've mentioned this before, our driveway is almost a quarter mile long. Yeah, yeah. And without the trees having leaves, it's all downhill from the road to us. And yet we're on the side of a mountain. So I'm not sure I understand that concept, but whatever. So anyway, I've been paying, our neighbor has offered, we had asked him if he would help us with plowing. And because we don't have a plow, we don't have anything yet. All we have is just a seriously massive pushing snowblower, and like a quarter mile to snowblow is insane. Yeah, yeah. So we had asked the neighbor if he would help us, and he was like, of course. So he literally charges us what seemed like, in hindsight, now pennies. Oh, yeah, yeah. Which I love for him, or I love that for us, and I love that for him, that he's that willing to to help us. Right. And we made a deal that under three inches, he doesn't need to follow because I'm the only car without four-wheel drive. And because I'm the only car without four-wheel drive, I have access to other vehicles if I need to do something. So we were fine. We had a surprising, we were supposed to get a dusting to two inches um Sunday night to Monday overnight. We woke up to almost six inches. Oh my god. Of thick, heavy, wet snow. Surprise. It wasn't the light fluffy that we've been getting. No, this was heavy annoyy snow. Yeah. So, and we know this because we woke up at 3 a.m. when he came through to plow. Right. On his way to work. So when I went to pay him, and actually it's funny because I don't pay him, I pay his wife. Okay. So I pay his wife for him to do the work. So exactly. Exactly. But I looked, and just out of curiosity, I wanted to see how many times I had paid her this year. Yeah. And with the snow we had on Sunday to Monday, I have paid her nine times. Oh, nine snows. Oh. But wait, there's more. One snowstorm, that big blizzard that we all had that was horrid. Yes. His snow plow broke. The hydraulic line on his plow broke. So he reached out to me crack a dawn and was like, I am so sorry. My plow isn't working. I I will let you know when it's fixed, but I don't think I can get to us anytime soon. And I'm like, you do you, I'll work it out. So I called a commercial guy. Okay. That we had seen driving around. Yeah. I reached out to him. Thank goodness he was a vet. He's a vet. And I called him, I told him our tale of woe. And he charged us double what our normal guy charges. But you know what? I'm not complaining because I called him when there was what two feet of snow and he came through. So I paid our regular guy nine times and I paid him twice. Oh my God. So that is 11 payments. 11 snow payments. See ya, it's the middle of November of February. February. I know. We still have a month of this. I need a job. Well, well, just for the snow guys. Right. Yeah. You'll be working for the snow guys. Um, so pretty much we that we keep hearing back and forth for up here from Monday, supposed to have a snowstorm. I don't know, some kind of snow. Oh my gosh. We would not be here. Only, you know, my son would be taking care of us. Right. Right. Right. So I didn't want him to like have to move all the cars out of the driveway and all that stuff. So I had my husband park the car close to the garage because I'm not leaving. Right? I'm not leaving anywhere. And I was like, park it the diet um horizontally.
Zia:Right.
Heather:And this way, when the guy comes or is gonna come, Alex only has to worry about his car to get to work. That's perfect. Yeah. So I took a picture and I sent it to his wife. And um, and I was like, just let him know in case this is what we did. This is the way where the snow goes, just not in the driveway. Exactly. Isn't that funny? We're both talking to the wives. That's funny. That is funny. That's funny, but yeah, so I don't pay her though. Oh, you don't, you pay him. Okay. Well, and here's the funnier part. I I've never met his wife. Oh, that's funny. I just see her picture on her Venmo, and that's it. And I know her name and I know his name, and I didn't even know his last name. I only knew his first name. It was when they gave me his wife's Venmo that I knew their last name. So, yeah. So we're gonna, we're gonna do something nice for them at the end of the season because and and honestly, this week, and honestly, this week I started researching like quads or side by sides. Um, and I think we're just gonna obviously not right now. Right. I think what we're gonna do is in the summer, buy it, learn how to use it and plow, you know, fake plow with it, and then and then we can do our own. And honestly, uh, I mean, it'll take us longer to do it in a quad, but at this point, I I think the amount we've spent would have paid for a quad. Absolutely. So what I need to do is I need to break down and and um start looking. So I have done a little bit of research for them. But we'll have to keep tabs on it. Whew, that's crazy. I know. So in celebratory of uh, you know, episode 12, let's do our five minute lives.
Zia:Woo! Five minute lives.
Heather:TikTok, tick tock. TikTok. So yesterday was Friday the 13th. I love my Friday the 13th. You do love your Is it lucky or bad for you, Heather? Um, it's neither. It's it's a day. I mean, I I join in the fun of, oh my gosh, it's so bad luck. But at the same time, I my luck is good and bad as it goes. I know. I know I don't need any luck. I don't need any help in that direction. No, I I get the goods and the bads combined. Absolutely. But it is one of your lucky numbers. 13. 13 is for some reason one of my lucky numbers. I don't know why, but it is. My daughter star loves 13. Um, but I feel like everybody yes, just because of yesterday, I uh something good had happened to me in the morning, so I was like, oh, thank you, lucky Friday the 13th. Yay! But I feel like because of that little oh, it's Friday the 13th. The stigma attached to it. Yeah, they're just like everybody was so grumpy yesterday. And I was like, But, you know, it's Friday. Come on, like always. It's Friday of a vacation! Right, right. So I think that kind of doesn't help the situation out. And I love my horror films, so you do. Of course I love Friday the 13th. Okay, come on. So I think I think that's a lot of it. I think the stigma that people put on it makes it a bad day. Because you even told me that's one of the reasons we were gonna record so that you didn't have to do it before you left. Yeah. But that's I think that's I think that's one of the things. I mean, we went out to dinner and had a great night. Right, right. I mean attitude. Yeah, it's how you look at it. I mean, the drive. We had to drive in we we're in New Hampshire, so everything is a you know 30 minutes to an hour away. So we drove an hour to Nashville for dinner. And yeah, no problems, dinner was phenomenal. Yeah, we came home, yeah. It was great. I'm telling you, mental. It's all mental. Yeah. So our second one, yeah. I saw a meme. Yeah. Good old memes, you know, the the the vein of our existence for everybody. Yes, but it said, what is the proper way to wear a wedding band and engagement ring? And so I saw the meme and I was I read through the comments because you know, we've talked about the rabbit holes before. So I was reading some of the comments because I wanted to see. And legit, I want to ask you, what order do you wear yours? Do you wear your engagement ring in and your wedding band on the outside? Or do you wear your wedding band on the inside and your engagement ring on the out? So I would think, okay, because I mine was a little weird. So I would think that how you get them would be how you would put them on. So you get your engagement ring first. Yeah, absolutely. Like if you're religious, you seal it with the band for God to say, we're closed. Anyway, um, that's how I would think that's how I wear mine. Um but I didn't get I Michael and I had our wedding bands first. Um and then like a couple of years later, Michael had gotten me my engagement ring. Right. So um I but I put them on that way. You put them on in that order, the way they're the way we believe they're supposed to be. Because that's how I wear mine. I have my engagement ring and then I sealed it with my wedding band. Yeah, I mean, I don't see the point of you taking off the engagement ring. To put on. Yeah, and and and I feel more secure because it locks my engagement ring on to don't lose it.
Zia:Right.
Heather:So my wedding band is a little tighter than my engagement ring. So we're asking everybody, how do you wear it? But I have the actual answer because after you and I talked about it, I dove deep and found the actual way it's supposed to be. Do you want to know now or do you want me to tell you next week? I want to know now. So the way it is officially supposed to be worn. Oh, and I can't get mine off. Okay, is you are supposed to go wedding band because that is closest to your heart, followed by your engagement ring. And that is how they solder it when you get them soldered, is in that order. I guess I'm never getting them soldered. But I also saw where it says, I switched mine to the way I wear them, but I also saw that is the biblical or official way you wear that. But I also saw that in reality, most people seem to go engagement followed by wedding band. Yep. And it's probably because they want to secure their diamond or whatever they have, right? So we're asking everybody, tell us, how do you wear yours? What order is yours in? Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Um, and then last week, Vince asked us to talk about the Philly New Jersey thing. Yes, which got you and me talking. Oh, oh God, yes. You did you forget about that? Sorry, sorry, Camden, New Jersey. I just I keep I keep you in my brain. Yeah. But it got us talking about how New Jersey divides itself. New York divides itself the city and upstate. Yeah. And and New Hampshire's just whatever. I don't even know how New Hampshire does it. But but New Jersey is North Jersey and South Jersey. Yeah. Unless you are from Central Jersey. Right. They believe there is such a thing as Central Jersey, the people who live in that vicinity. Yep. Do you believe there is a Central Jersey or is it North Jersey, South Jersey? I usually cut Jersey right in half. The big bumper. Right on the Trenton line, right? Yep. That's like there's clear, there's a clear little waistline. There really is. She has a waistline. Um yeah. The motherland. The motherland has a waistline. No. Um, but yeah, I I don't know. I mean, and what would their stance be on the park roll and the you know, Taylor Ham? The important stuff. The important stuff we're talking about in Jersey, right? So I think you would have to just have the north and south because you only have two arguments all the time. There's no like exactly. And and honestly, that's the division for the sporting events, right? Because Trenton Down seems to always go for the Philly world, and Trenton North goes New York. So I'm gonna say I agree. Central Jersey for the uh north-south line. I'm going north-south line. Yep, yep, absolutely. Sorry, Central. We're not, we're not not acknowledging you. We just, I feel like for the argument's sake, we have to have just two answers. Right. There's there's can't be a third. There can't be a third. Uh I believe you believe you have a central jersey, but I believe that it doesn't, where do you fit? Where's your stance? Do you call it Taylor pork roll ham? Right, right. That that's just do you do you read the box and you're just like, it's Taylor Ham with pork roll in the box? I mean, I I don't I don't know. Can I have a wait, no, what's the order is a can I have a pork roll on a can I have the pork roll on a hard roll, but the brand of Taylor Ham. Right. Right. I don't know how you would order that. Taylor ham mac and cheese on a hard roll. I mean, salt pepper ketchup is one word, so I don't know how you're ordering anything else. And if you want to get spicy, you add the oregano. That's right. I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know that answer. Salt pepper ketchup. Yep. Yep. Yep. All right. So yeah. Sorry, Central Jersey. We believe in you, but you gotta pick a stance. Yep, pick a stance. Yep, absolutely. So I get asked this all the time. All the time. This question. Uh do you love Zia? Do you love your job? Do you love your job? I I do love my job. Um, I do have a hard job. Um I do have hard little people. Um, I'm usually dealing with the more difficult little people. Um but I do love my job. I went in for juvenile delinquency. Um and I just didn't want kids to not have somebody that believed in them all the time. Um, I had that. Uh people didn't believe in me in a lot. So uh I wanted to be there, make sure that I was there for them at every stage of the game, and have them know that I would be there. Um, I do I stay in touch with a lot of my students from the past. So we have some listeners. We do. A lot of my kids are listening, yeah. Um, so I definitely love my job. I I don't know it's it's really network. It comes very natural to me. It does. So I yeah. But you loved your job when you were doing it. You were always I did. I did. Um so I was a medic in that in the army, and then oh, excuse me, I saw my soda. Sorry. Um I was a medic in the army, and when I got out, I tried to work in the medical field, and I learned after more years than I should have that albeit I was good at the medical stuff, I didn't enjoy it. Yeah. Um, but I still wanted to interact with people. I liked the people part of it. So I started the bus driving. Yeah. And I realized immediately that I loved being around the kids. I loved all the different ages. I used to do, um, if you remember, we used to do um what you have for what was your last meal in the elementary school. And while we were waiting to get off the bus in the morning, what was your last meal? And everybody would have to come up with their last meal and what you ate, what you didn't, what you liked. And we so we did that. My middle schoolers, we did um trivia every week. And my high schoolers, um, they're high schoolers, so they were weird, but my high schoolers, we would talk about life and and and things like that. And I loved it. Um and as my health started to deteriorate and I realized where I was, I knew I needed to change. So I couldn't give up the kids. Yeah. And so I I decided I wanted to go into the school. And I realized when I got in the school how much I liked the school. Yep. Um, and and and I and I I want to still work. Um, I I need to still take some more time. I'm I'm working on other things. But um yeah, I I really enjoyed, I like watching the kids, and and I worked with the special needs kids. So uh I worked not necessarily with the delinquents, which I had a few of them as well, but I worked with the special needs kids who need that extra hug every day or that extra confirmation, or the patience, or that firm hand. No, this is how we're doing it. You need to do this today, yeah, like this, and we will wait 30 minutes if we need to until you do this. Um, so uh yes. Yep. Yeah, I don't know that you and I, well, that's just how we are though, too. We wouldn't go into something that we didn't like unless it was an emergency and we needed a job like pronto. Right. Yeah. I have had jobs I didn't like because I just needed the money. But I definitely, yeah. I yes, definitely for me, I like my job. Yep. Yeah, I when it's time for me to go back to work, I'm I'm leaning toward probably a a daycare world. Yeah. Because I I want I don't want to necessarily be trapped into the school schedule. Yep, absolutely. Um but I know I need to be around kids. Yeah, yep. I I I need to work with kids and I need to have the interaction and that innocence. Because even when they're not innocent, they're so innocent. The things they say. Yeah. Even even when yesterday. I had one yesterday. You know how much I walk around the building. I barely see my desk, right? And my one of my favorites uh grabbed a hold of my waist, like, come on, Miss Z, or come with me. And I was like, Where are we going? And she goes, Well, you know, I feel like you need some exercise. So I heard I had two adults standing there listening, and they were like, Of all the people in this building, Miss Z is not the one that needs to exercise. I barely see my desk. I'm like, hello, desk, you know. It's like I'll be back at the end of the day. See you tomorrow. Did you see that email? I didn't even see my computer. No, I saw no emails. No emails. No, text me. Text me. Yeah. So, real quick, real quick. Yeah. Um, we're doing good in time. Cat or dog person. Are you cat or dog person there? It's like, what do you think? I'm a dog person. All out. Dog person. Yeah. I've had, I've had, I love, I love the stray, not the strays, the uh shelter dogs. I love to rescue.
Zia:Yeah.
Heather:Um, I would love a purebred, but you know what? I'd rather get the rescues that have the issues because, you know, glutton. Yeah. Um, but I'm a dog person. However, yeah, Angela has a cat. Okay. And, you know, it's funny. She's normally sure it's Angela's cat. I see, I see the cat around you a lot. She has decided that I am her substitute human. When Angela's not here, she is within an arm's reach. And I was just looking because she generally sits on my recliner while I'm recording, while we're record down here recording. And she wasn't there. I fully expected her to be sitting there and she wasn't. Yeah, very she's thinking about me somewhere, but um, but if I call her name right now, she would come running. She acts like a dog. Yeah, okay. But um, but yeah, so I have I am being forced to be a cat person. Yeah, yeah. But I am a dog person. Um you I like cats. I just deathly allergic to cats. So, you know, I always like I go to my dad's and he has a cat. My my daughter has two cats. I I babysit them sometimes and I, you know, I go check on them, but I just load up on Benadryl.
Zia:Yep.
Heather:Um, and take my inhaler and then hourly take my Benadryl. Um, uh, but yeah, and then um I have had dogs pretty much my whole life. Yeah. Um when my mom found when my mom Joyce found out I was allergic to cats, the doctor said you may want to get rid of your cat. And I don't know that she was joking because she was like, I'd rather get rid of Zia than the cat. And I don't know that that was really a joke. I was a troublemaker. She may have really believed that when she's like, Leah, take this one. I'm okay with the cat. Yeah. But yeah, I I had Maltises forever, teeny tiny little things. And um my Lancelot was my first dog, and um Sir Lancelot, yes. And um yes, and now as you know, I have my Charlie, and she is the biggest dog I've ever had. She's 60 pounds and she's a labberdoodle, and I just could not see myself with a little dog at this moment. So if if that's the case, my first dog was a Toy Fox Terrier. She weighed like eight pounds. She was this micro tiny all legs thing. And her name was Comet because she had a little stripe going up her forehead. Awesome. And I had her, and then from there, I've only had big dogs. So right now you did a me. My littlest dog right now is my funny name, which is Porthos. Yeah, he's after a three musketeer. For those of you who don't know, Porthos was the funny snarky musketeer. Yeah. Um, and he is a he thinks he's funny, but he's only 60 pounds. And then, and I say only because um in our family, the biggest dog we have is a new. Yeah, one of my granddogs is a newfie. So yeah, we have shepherds, we have uh, well, we have uh Briscoe, and he's just uh he's just a down-out mud. He looks like almost like an English Mastiff. Yeah, my son has the um Cavishon. Uh, but it's a an um it's the mix. Uh I think no, it is a that's the that's the mix, Cavishon. And um he's the cavalier king with the bichon. And he I call him jelly bean because I used to mix mix my jelly beans, black and white, I put the two jelly beans together for licorice and co uh coconut. Just an awesome combo! Yeah, so he just he smells so good all the time, and I'm always like, all right, little jelly bean, you know, like each up. But if I go watch the babies, he's like, when the babies go to sleep, he looks at me like finally you're doing your job, you're here to babysit me. Like, I don't know why you think you have to interact with kids. Yeah, but what's your problem, lady? Yep. Yep. But so yeah, this is great. And I think for a quick hodgepodge, because we really didn't talk this week because you were having a crazy week. I was overloaded with doctor appointments. You're fighting whatever cold you're fighting. I don't know. I think I I I feel like I just got like um I feel like it's a more of an allergy right now than a cold. And you know, if when the snow melts, they get that mold starting. Oh, that's my time. Not good with that mold. Uh-uh. No, ma'am. No. But that'll do it for us. Next week, should I give our teaser now that next week we're gonna try and record, not record, excuse me, we're gonna try and do a live podcast. Yep, absolutely. So I know we're gonna be able to get a couple of our regular listeners to listen in while we're doing it. Um I I'm we're gonna do a little sample beforehand. And super secret, I'm gonna be in New York. I'm coming out this week. Eliza's got a business trip. Um so her boyfriend and I are splitting taking care of Marsha, the dog, uh, which is a big baby. Um, but he's taking it, and I'll be out there on Wednesday at some point, and you'll be home shortly after. So I get my Zia time. Yep, get my Heather time to have a coffee with you in person as opposed to over the afternoon. I know, I know. All righty, all right. Thank you guys for celebrating my little lucky number 12 today. Yeah, today is Zia's number. Yeah, and Valentine's Day. And Valentine's Day, yes, yes, have a great Valentine's Day, people. I hope you get every kind of type of chocolate you want. And whatever other stuff you want to do. Yep, yep, get it done. Today's the day. We'll see you in nine months with the baby. Oh, if uh if you don't if you don't have someone to, you know, get you a Valentine's, go get your own. Go get your own. Go get what you want and treat yourself today. It's uh about love, so self-love or people love. Exactly. Whatever you get, just love. Yep. Speaking of which, we love you. We love you. Yep. Have a great one. Yes, bye.
Zia:Bye.
