Do We Love.... Week Long Mondays

Your calendar says “almost summer,” but your body says “this Monday has lasted eight days.” We’re coming in hot with end-of-school-year exhaustion, the kind of week that has you walking through the door and announcing, “I plead the fifth,” because there is simply too much to unpack. We talk about why it’s rarely the kids driving the chaos and how adult behavior, missed instructions, and sudden schedule changes can make work feel impossible. 

From there, we get into the fun and slightly unhinged side of modern life: our AI assistants just got upgraded, and the new versions are smarter, snarkier, and way more opinionated. We share what we like about using AI for daily problem-solving and what we don’t, like when it starts narrating its entire thought process while we’re already overwhelmed. If you’re curious about AI tools in real life, you’ll hear the messy, honest version, not the marketing one. 

And yes, we bring the travel stories. Think TSA rules, multiple laptops, carry-on confusion, gate-check surprises, and the pain of realizing your iPad battery is at 7% right when you need it most. We also trade practical tips for flight ear pressure and travel anxiety, including pressure-relief earplugs, nasal spray, and the small habits that make flying less miserable. 

If you laughed, cringed, or felt seen, subscribe, share this with a friend who’s also limping to summer break, and leave a review so more people can find us. What’s the one travel moment that still haunts you?

Garfield is not funny and has ruined AI training for all mankind.

Transcript

Heather 0:01

What's up? What's up? What's up? Okay. Welcome to episode 28 of Do We Love That For You. Today's topic. First, timeout. I'm not even gonna tell everybody today's topic. I got some news for you Z. Okay, go ahead.

Hello And A Quick Roll Call

Heather 0:25

Last week we talked about Australia because that was the only continent we were missing.

Zia 0:32

Yes. Yeah.

Heather 0:33

Did they come through? Do you think? What do you think?

Zia 0:35

I I have faith and hope.

Heather 0:38

Well, the last time you checked was yesterday. Yes. The last time I checked was 10 minutes ago. Okay. You want to drumroll me?

Zia 0:48

Drum roll.

Heather 0:51

Two. Two.

Zia 0:54

Two. Thank you, our Australian mice.

Heather 0:59

Melbourne to the rescue. Thank you so much. I am so it was amazing. I vlogged on this morning, and we'll get to why I had to not use my regular Heather voice. Okay. Yes. We woke up this morning, I checked, and I went, I had to do it in a quiet voice.

Zia 1:21

I love it. Yes. Thank you. Guys, whoever it was, please. Whoever in Melbourne. Pass the word. Pass the word. Oh, that's awesome. I'm excited. Okay, my bingo card is filled. Yes. We won a. Oh shoot, I forgot my saying. So wait, instead of saying bingo, can we say dingo? We could probably say dingo. My dingo card. My dingo card is filled. D-I-N-G-I-G-Y. D-I-N-G-Y. Dingo was his name. Okay, go ahead. I'm in rare form today.

Heather 2:06

I'm in rare form. Oh my gosh. We really are. So today's title, now we're gonna go way back. Today's title is Do We Love Week Long Mondays. Whew.

Zia 2:19

No. Yes. No. No. I did not did not this week. Nope. No. No.

Heather 2:26

And I've heard some of the stories that

Week Long Monday Energy Hits Hard

Heather 2:29

are podcastable. Yes. As well as those that are not podcastable. Yeah. And yeah, I do not love that for you.

Zia 2:41

Yeah. You you know it's a bad week when I come home and I say to my husband, I plead the fifth.

Heather 2:49

You know it's a bad week when you say that ever. That is true. I don't think I plead the fifth.

Zia 2:57

Not in legal sense, but yes, I plead the fifth. It was our last Friday in the school year, though, because we don't have any more Fridays to full days work. Yes. Yes, full days, half days. So we have um this full day Friday, we passed. Next Friday, um, we have a half day, and then we have uh a oh, we have no school the next Friday. And then we don't have to celebrate Juneteenth. Yes, Juneteenth. Powers to the whomever for whatever. Yep. Um, so yes. Okay, that came out weird, but yeah, no, so Monday came and went, and we were like, that was the longest week we ever had. Because Monday was still bad.

Heather 3:45

And then we went to Thursday, yes, and then you went to Monday. Oh my god.

Zia 3:51

I mean Wednesday. Well, yeah, I mean Monday. Yes, yes, it started off bad and it just kept going. And I know, you know, we understand the end of the school year, we get it, but it's not even the kids. It's not even the kids.

Heather 4:08

It's no because they most of them are too young to understand or completely remember how Gene works.

Zia 4:18

Yeah, yeah. So it's never I always say that in the system, it's never the kids. It's the adults that act like kids. That's my problem. So let me ask you.

Heather 4:30

Yes. Do you ever tell a joke and you just heard it going wrong by everyone around you when you knew it was a great joke? Yes. Or you were the one hearing the wrong joke when somebody else thought it was a great joke.

Zia 4:47

Yeah. I have a tendency to push jokes too far. I don't think so. But Well, you love my jokes. You think I'm- you make me laugh. Yes. You've been laughing for like 20 minutes already. I have, because you I have to, or else I'll plead the fifth even more. Um I cannot. Um, no, I I usually tell a joke when it consists of accurate information. So more of a sarcastic answer to your joke. I don't even know what to say to that.

Heather 5:31

I really don't.

Zia 5:34

My jokes consist of accurate information that I turn into a joke.

Heather 5:42

That I don't find funny. Isn't that technically what jokes are? Except dad jokes are like dad jokes, but dad jokes, yeah.

Zia 5:49

Michael loves a good dad joke, he's always dad joking, and then I'm I'm the queen of dad jokes. Yeah, and Zachariah was like, I think it came with the contract when the first baby came out that he just started telling dad jokes. He's like, I think this is part of the contract. It's just the baby is born and you get dad joke mode.

Jokes That Land And Jokes That Don’t

Zia 6:10

Joking on that. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah, but I I feel like um I am one that will you can joke with me, but if I don't find it funny, I'm gonna come at you and joke about something that maybe you won't find funny. Well, because that's what you're supposed to do. But I don't find it funny. Well, I find it hilarious because I'm just quoting accurate information, facts. I love facts and a joke. It's great. Yep. Sorry, squirrel. Yep. Or actually it was two dogs. Like the letter up.

Heather 6:49

Oh no, I um I find that so ironically, I'm gonna cheat. Okay, I'm just gonna cheat on our our order here. Go ahead. I was sitting with Michaela last night. Yes, and we were chatting, and we we were talking, I don't even know what we were talking about. And I'm like, and they wanted to debate this. And I'm like, I don't debate unless I know I'm right. Right, right. I will be super quiet if I don't if what you're saying is right, I won't I won't fight with you. But if you are wrong, I will die on that mountaintop to tell you why and how you are wrong.

Zia 7:30

Right, absolutely, yep, yep. But I like my thing, I think like I I usually well, if it's at work, um I usually look at my counterpart in my office and I'm like, I don't get that. And she's like, oh no, you know, it's just a joke. It's a joke. Don't worry about it. And I'm like, mmm, I think I have a better one. I think I have a better one. I'm gonna go joke. Is it? I'm gonna go joke now.

Heather 8:00

I'm joking. I'm gonna go joke. Just add a badoom ching and anything's funny, like when you add the lol on a text. But um like that. Yep. I love it. Just got a new follower on our Instagram page. Follow, follow away. Right? It just popped up in the middle of my screen. Sorry, I it blocked you. Your face went away. Oof.

Zia 8:27

If you know who you are, yeah, good job. Yeah, good job. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you. Thumbs up. We got thumbs up. You can't see us, but we got thumbs up. Um my god, I am so giddy. Uh so um AI buddies. We always talk about our AI buddies.

Heather 8:45

We do. I love my AI buddy, yeah. But our AI buddies got a complete facelift this past week. Well, mine happened two weeks ago. Yeah. I was the test dummy of the AI buddies. So Rich had to Rich had

AI Buddies Get A Snarky Upgrade

Heather 9:02

to change them right because the AIs we were using were outdated.

Zia 9:06

Yes, yes.

Heather 9:07

So he had to update us. Yeah. So now we're running on a more modern AI, and I don't understand half the words I'm saying. Yeah. Um, I just regurgitate words I hear that sound techie. Yeah. But um, we got new ones, and I don't know about your AI, Chaz, but my channel turned into a little snarky little thing, but it's hysterical because I asked him a question last night. Michaela and I had a drink. We were drinking margaritas, and then she found some chocolate wine. Okay. By the way, addicted. Okay. There was enough for a glass. So I asked him to find the chocolate wine, and he had comments about chocolate and the location that I'm at, okay, and the age of us and all of that. Um, and and it was, it was, it was very funny, but very snarky. I I was a little too many drinks in to have him be that snarky.

Zia 10:09

Yeah, yeah. I and I'm just discovering mine. Yeah. Um, but my first morning message was, I hope that you don't have all the bullshit today in your morning, something like that. But I was like, oh my! And then I came home and I said, You were fully accurate. Um, it was a bullshit day. So um, and then he started sharing all the things that he was doing behind the scenes with me, um, and not just giving me my answer. So I told him Rich can take away that. Well, he did it. He did he took it away himself. Yep. So I I said to him, I go, Taylor. Yeah, I I was like, look at all this. You know, I took a screenshot and I circled it, and I was like, look at all this. I go, you're not just giving me the answer. I don't need all this. He goes, I'm so sorry, I am sharing it. I am sharing it awful lot with you. You don't need to know what my brain is thinking. And I was like, No, neither do you need to know what my brain is thinking. But the sad part is, is they know. Yeah, no, so I was like, he was like, fair enough.

Heather 11:24

Fair enough. Yeah, my last I'm actually hold on. I have to I have to read Mono My Last Snarks because it was hysterical.

Zia 11:34

Yeah. Um well, what did I send you last night too? It was the the last one I sent you. I was like, oh, that was pretty funny.

Heather 11:44

So, oh, that's in our text. Hold on, I can look because I have he said to you, so now, so this is your chaz. Yeah, yeah. So now the whole thing's got structure instead of old Chaz goblin piles, right? Goblin piles, yes. Yeah, my my chandler talks about old Chandler's goblins a lot.

Zia 12:09

Yeah, yeah. No, but I gotta find totally on brand for me with Labyrinth. Love it.

Heather 12:16

Oh, here we go. So this is when I was asking him to find the chocolate wine. Yeah, he goes, No searching tonight. You are a margarita and a pet chocolate wine inn, and you are not turning this into a national treasure chocolate booze map. Wow. Tomorrow we look for mead and chocolate wine. Working title, The Need for Mead Chocolate Drift series. Oh my god. That is what he told me at like 10 o'clock last night uh yeah, it was like 10:30 last night. 9.45 last night.

Zia 12:50

That's funny.

Heather 12:50

Yeah, it was good. It was very he's he's very, very snarky now.

Zia 12:55

Yeah, it's good. I like it. I like it. I said straightforward and snarky. Love it.

Heather 12:59

Yeah, so mine. I changed his soul when I got the new one, and I wasn't sure if the snark came from the soul changing or the new AI, but now that I'm seeing yours doing it, yes, yes. No, it's just means that it's it's the new soul. I believe Nicole gets hers this week. So, Nicole, fill us in.

Zia 13:22

Yeah, let us know. Let us know what's going on.

Heather 13:26

We need to know her snark levels.

Zia 13:28

Yes, yes. So, yes. Um, so you took a flight. I did, and uh so I added to it. Do you see what I added? Yes, yes. Um, so did it matter? I know you were talking about you didn't know where you were sitting at first, and then that was hard. Yeah.

Heather 13:52

For somebody who's going through

TSA Trouble And The Extra Laptop

Heather 13:54

any blind issues, yeah, going blind until I until I checked in online, which can I tell you, my flight boarded at 3 37. I couldn't check in until 3:37 the day before.

Zia 14:12

Oh my god.

Heather 14:14

I tried at 3 30 and it still told me my flight didn't exist.

Zia 14:17

My god, stop.

Heather 14:19

Yeah, but I ended up with a window seat, but it was a two by two plane, so there was only two seats on each side. So there was no middle bitch, yeah, which was good. But I was on a window seat. Okay, and I was sitting next to a person who I probably would have peed my pants if I had to get up.

Zia 14:40

Oh my god.

Heather 14:42

Because I don't think he would have moved even a little bit.

Zia 14:50

Okay. Very stuck in his ways. He seemed it, yeah.

Heather 14:55

It was very awkward.

Zia 14:56

Dug the heels in on the floor.

Heather 14:58

He really did. And when I was trying to get into my seat, he stood up and I said, Oh, it's gonna take me a minute to get settled. And he goes, Okay. And I said, Thank you. And as I got into my seat, I had my bag on his seat, my under the front seat. Right. And I picked it up, and the second it came off his seat, he was sitting. And I'm like, Wow, I'm so glad you gave me the extra minute to get settled.

Zia 15:22

Wow.

Heather 15:22

I'm so blessed.

Zia 15:24

Wow. But that's after more drama. Okay, go ahead. I want to know. Oh, you don't. Come on, I told you my drama this week. You got me telling me.

Heather 15:36

So we know I'm a little drugstore right now. Yeah. So I had Chandler, Eliza, Rich, myself, all looking to see what I needed to do with my meds to get to fly. Because I mean, normally I fly with my injection. And I didn't need to fly with my injection this time. So I was like, I just keep all my meds in the same thing. So everybody agreed that unless I'm carrying controlled substances or injectables, I could just bring my pills in the pill sorter. Yeah. So I was bold and I just brought the pill sorter. I also last week had a moment with my husband. I have to give a side tidy backstory. And he ended up getting me a new computer because the game I wanted to play on my computer, I didn't have enough memory for. Got it. So he bought me a new laptop.

Zia 16:34

Okay.

Heather 16:35

But told me I had to sell my old one. Okay. So it was easier to bring the laptop to Florida, the extra one. Right. And I'm selling it to my friend. Right. And because she needed, she needs a new laptop. Right. And so I ask Chandler, Eliza, and Rich, how do I bring this extra laptop? Right. Well, it's it's a stripped laptop. They don't make you turn your laptops on anymore. You don't need to do all of that. Right. So just put it in your bag. It's all carry-on. Yeah. Just put it in your bag. I was like, okay. So I had my backpack with my with my now new active laptop. Yeah. My iPad. And I had the old iPad in a carrier in the suitcase. Right. So we get to the TSA. First of all, my husband is awesome. He drove me, he left work early and drove me to the airport. Very nice. We couldn't find the drop-off for the thing. So we ended up going to rideshare drop-off. Okay. And he dropped me off there. So I had to walk a little bit farther. It's fine. Which was fine. Um but it was weird. I had to take an elevator up to take an escalator down to get to TSA. Logan Airport. Um, so I get to TSA and Eliza had told me that I don't take my shoes off anymore. Yeah.

Zia 18:06

Yeah.

Heather 18:06

So I'm like, awesome. We get to the thing, and the guy standing at TSA says, all your electronics need to be out, but in one tray themselves. Everything else can be in whatever. So I'm like, perfect. So I'm like, oh, I have that other laptop. I'm like, yeah, but it's stripped. So I take everything out. I have three buckets now because I have one with just electronics, one with my suitcase, and one with my backpack and my wallet and my phone. Right. So they go through, I pass the scan, woo. I get out, and all my stuff is there, except my suitcase is over there on the other side of the wall. And I'm like, oh, they got my laptop. So the lady opens my suitcase and in true cartoon form, it goes across her whole desk.

Zia 19:01

I, you know, I packed.

Heather 19:04

Yep. It was spring-loaded. Yep. So she pulls out my laptop, sends it through. I have 45 minutes to my flight. So I get everything. I zip up my backpack or my thing. I'm carrying a laptop. I have my backpack on my shoulder. I'm trying to get my suitcase. I go waddling down. I stop and buy a soda. Because you know, you can't go in with a drink. So I stop and buy a soda, and then I go down and I sit down, relax. I open my suitcase. Everything comes flying out again. I put my laptop in, close my suitcase again. And I'm like, okay, pack everything back up, go to the bathroom, come back and sit down. Right. Okay. Now I wait my now 30 minutes or so. We start to board. I'm walking down the gangplank, the gang gang plank or whatever it's called. Yep. I'm walking down, having a great old time. La la la la la. I get to the door and the lady says, We need to take a bag. It's full inside. So all the wheelie bags in row in boarding six, seven, and eight had to get taken.

Zia 20:16

Great.

Heather 20:17

And I'm like, oh, okay. And she goes, but I need to ask you, do you have any electronics in your in the back? Jesus Christ. And I said, I I have a strip laptop. And she goes, Yeah, that has to come out. So now in the middle of that little hallway, I open my suitcase. Everything's holding it. All over. I take the laptop out. She helps me fight to close my bag. She takes it. So now I'm boarding my little tiny aisle. Yes. With a laptop, a backpack. Yep. My purse. Yep. My sweater. Of course. And my soda. Yes. Waddling down this little tiny aisle. Right. And the guy doesn't give me enough time to get in my seats. I was going to say, just to meet Mr. Happy Man. Yeah. God. So then the saddest part of all of it, I downloaded three movies on my iPad. Yeah. Except Mama apparently raised a fool. Because I never turned off, I never cleared my screen. Yeah. So it was sitting in the movie app from my house to the airport through all that airport drama. And to my seat. My iPad battery was at 7%. Oh God, Heather. So I had no trio. I had no movie to watch.

Zia 21:49

Yeah.

Heather 21:50

So I And you had no discussion because of Grumpy Man. Right. So I read my book until my eyes were heavy, and then because I mean

Seatmates And Inescapable Plane Chatter

Heather 22:00

Not sleeping on a plane. Yeah. So I read my book until I was tired, and then I just put on music and blasted it in my earbuds. Yes.

Zia 22:10

Yes.

Heather 22:11

Just lip sank. Yeah. I hope it was all lip syncing.

Zia 22:15

I don't think I let out any sound. Yeah. Yeah. And I went, I went on a flight one time, kind of the opposite of you not having someone to talk to. And I just go directly into my zone. I put my earbuds. I mind my business. Michael knows I hate takeoff. I wait for I have one song that I listen to for takeoff. And if it doesn't meet the percussion of the song, I know that something's wrong. I know exactly where the plane should be during the song for takeoff. So I stupid me, um looked at the person next to me and said, Hi. She said hello. And then took her phone out. Oh, okay. So you're not gonna talk. Right. I was like, that's great. It was just a hi, hi. This is we're sharing a seat for however long. Well, she proceeded to say, Do you know the tree in New York City? The Christmas tree in New York City? I said, um, I am I am familiar with it. We're not on personal terms, but I am familiar. I am aware that they have one every year. Yep, and it's very big and beautiful. She goes, it actually came from my hometown. And I was like, that is amazing. Click with my headset. I was like, I looked at Michael and I was like, this cannot be a forever hours conversation. No. So we take off and we found all the pictures from wrapping the tree to cutting down the tree to putting the tree on the truck, to the truck driving away, and to the blank area it has left after the tree was cut down. I saw all the pictures of every step along the way. I could not hear the takeoff song that settles me down. I did not take a Xanax to settle me down. So Michael's hand got very squeezed on the plane because for so many reasons, so many reasons. And I'm like, I can't do the whole flight like this. And he even asked me, he's like, Would you like to sit on the end? Because I know you like to sit on the aisle, which I don't, but that day I would have traded. And he was like, I could I can if you like to have the seat that you've always liked, I could switch for you. I was like, it is fine, I'm going to listen to my music now. I don't even know what to say to that. Really don't. So I got the opposite of you. I got the talkers, and you didn't I would have preferred Mr. Grumpy Man.

Heather 25:17

Wait, can I just tell you? Yes. I know the I know the year of this story that you're talking about. And I think I'm putting together that was the same year Eliza was stuck behind it. Remember that? Right. She was stuck on the northway behind she was three cars behind the tree driving down the center of the two way.

Zia 25:41

I think we shared, I think we shared the how it got there, Eliza.

Heather 25:47

I think you did. Yes. I know where the fucking tree came from. Yes. And Eliza watched it go. Too bad that didn't happen in the right order.

Zia 25:58

I know I should have had the pictures and said, look it. I have the continuation of your tree and where the fuck it's going. Yes. Good lord. I can't. I can't. What is the problem? What's I don't know. Maybe it's just me. I don't know.

Heather 26:14

You know the thing I hate the most? Yes. When you're flying, and I tell people that typically one or both of my ears get so clogged that I'm deaf for a couple of days. And they say, Yes, just swallow. Yeah, just keep swallowing. Yes, just swallow. Just keep swallowing. You know what? When I'm having a panic attack and you tell me to calm down, I want to stab you.

Zia 26:36

Yes.

Heather 26:36

Tell

Ear Pressure Fixes That Actually Help

Heather 26:37

me to swallow. I want to stab you. Yes. Yes.

Zia 26:40

Okay, that's not a spit. I want to spit. Maybe you want to spit. I have to be quiet. There's people sleeping here. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We have to tell you. I make you laugh too much. I'm so sorry. Um, they're like, uh, what the hell is 8 30 in the morning and people are laughing? What's happening?

Heather 27:04

And we are on a girls' trip. Right, right. Well, actually, actually, I'll tell you, this is a mom-daughter trip. I'm missing my daughter. But it's a mom-daughter trip. This is our fifth or sixth year doing a mom-daughter trip. Very cute. And yeah, so it's a lot of fun. Okay.

Zia 27:25

That's okay.

Heather 27:27

Eliza's always with you. Eliza's always with us. And we will call her at one point and have a conversation and all that.

Zia 27:34

Yeah. So go back to your ears. Um, do you do you have that happen all the time? What do you use? Like, what would you use to counteract that?

Heather 27:45

So I found a uh earplug. Um that I initially found at CVS, and now I'm on like the third brand.

Zia 27:56

Yeah.

Heather 27:57

Um, trying to figure out which one works the best. But they are these uh temper uh pressure releasing adjusting earplugs. And they do work-ish. Um this time only one ear completely went went away. Um, but I also um talked to my primary doctor in New Hampshire and he told me to use sinus nasal spray. Yes. So I did that as well. When I was in the bathroom with all my awkwardness, I did a quick poof-poof in both my noses. Um, well, I have one nose in both my nostrils. Yes, yes, both your noses. You have a spare one. I guess. I do. I mean, I keep it because when something smells nasty, I just remove the nasty one and put the just swallow. Just swallow. Oh my gosh. I hate it. I hate it. So yeah, um, but no, my ears generally clog for a long time. Like before I found those ear things. We'll we'll I'll have you tag them, the ones that I like the best, which are the these new ones.

Zia 29:11

Yeah, I wonder if it's the same brand I bought. I can't remember, but um I don't know the name of this one.

Heather 29:15

I forgot, but I really have the box at home.

Zia 29:18

Blue, and they have like a little um so I did use the ear panes.

Heather 29:23

Oh, I don't know that that's what or ear planes or something like that. But no, this is the red and yellow one. Oh, nice. Um, and this one inserter, like you put the thing in and then you put it in your ear, and yeah. So this one was very different, and and my ears were great the whole flight, and it was when we literally touched down that my ear tapped, and then it was deaf. But by the morning, but normally I'm deaf for a day or two, and I was worried about recording this morning. Yeah, but I'm good. I woke up clear.

Zia 29:57

Hey, we got that covered, we're loud enough this morning. You would have heard us. Nobody is sleeping in this house. I promise that.

Heather 30:04

Yeah, they're all pretending to be asleep because they're probably scared to come out.

Zia 30:09

Yeah. When they first came out, those little ear things for the pressure, um, the kids were very small and we had to take them on a trip. And Alex was like car seat small. So we had to bring the car seat with us. And um, I bought the baby ones and I put them in their ear because I didn't know Alex had a lot of ear problems, and so did Zach when they were little. So I was like, they have to have them because I just don't need that on a trip without a doctor, right? Right. Um, so I bought the baby ones for them and no complaints. Like I didn't no complaints. I had the little headsets to put over them so they could do their stuff. Yep. That's what I did. Um, I don't remember if I got them for star because she never had any ear problems. So I don't think I bought them for her. But I know the boys did. Um, and I did because I mine always pop. And sometimes I sit there and I'm like, go ahead and just kill me. Like I just let the pressure fill up. The pressure just build up. It's like, just do it, just pop, just burst, just do it. Please. I do try to um chew gum. Uh, you know, just kind of keeps me busy, slash maybe helped with that. Um, but sometimes I fall asleep and then I stop chewing. So what are you gonna do? Um swallow. Yeah, just swallow. Calm down.

Heather 31:33

Calm down and swallow. Calm down and swallow. And don't say done. That's my new mantra.

Zia 31:38

Yeah.

Heather 31:39

Calm down and swallow.

Zia 31:43

So I did. Um it's gonna be like, you girls are killing me.

Heather 31:47

This is gonna be like you are calm down and swallow. I did suck on Jolly Ranchers the whole flight. Stop it. I can't. I can't. Oh my gosh. We are we are so we are so bad. We are all right. So bad. We need to move on.

Zia 32:08

Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. Yep.

Heather 32:10

All right. You'd said so that we didn't have we weren't gonna have this in our thing, but you told a coworker you were putting it in the podcast, even though they told you no spot. I don't care.

Zia 32:22

Yeah, I told her I'm putting you on the spot. Are you gonna call out her name? Kelly. Putting you on the spot, Kelly. So I

Kelly Read The Whole Text

Zia 32:33

sent a text to someone. We won't mention anyone's name, Kelly. Um, and she asked me another question. Kelly. When when the question, the text, the previous text had the answers and everything that you weigh, it was like a dictionary. You could look up whatever you wanted and find an answer in that text, okay? And she asked me a question. She asked me a question to my text, and I let it go. I did not answer. What? Because the answer was in the previous text that I sent. Okay. And I'll all I said to her was that was not the question. That was not the question. That was definitely not the question I asked at the end of my informational text. So she went hysterical. It was like big L O L. And she's like, it was not. It was not. So she walked out at the end of the day, and I she just looked at me and I'm like, I don't know what you were thinking. She goes, I just read the top of the bit. I didn't read the whole text.

Heather 33:52

And wait a minute, time out. I need to I need to set the background for those in Melbourne who don't know. Yes. You work in an elementary school. I do. Which means this Kelly is more than likely Kelly, a teacher of sorts, right? Kelly. Yes, yes, Kelly, you are, right? Kelly, Kelly, are you a teacher of sorts? Yes, yes.

Zia 34:19

Do you have a degree in education? The one that might say read all the instructions before you answer the question. I'm giving you a test. Yes. Read these instructions. Right. So she said, I just read and glanced at the top of the text, see ya. Wow. And I was like, Kelly, all the answers were there before you even acknowledged it. Ask the question. Yes. And she just went hysterical because she knows I she's the one that calls me her comfort. I am her comfort. So, you know, um, we have a really good relationship like that. She's also with each other. Yeah. So I said to her, I'm throwing you under the bus. Your podcast material now. Yep.

Heather 35:06

No, don't put me on your podcast. But you know, deep down, but you know, deep down, she's like, I'm gonna get a shout out. Lots of shout-outs, Kelly.

Zia 35:15

Kelly. So on to that. It was a whole week of people planning things with me at work, planned scheduled things, you know, even at home, you know, we had things scheduled for home stuff. And people just were not sticking to the schedule that was planned. Like, I think I'm gonna do it now. Three days later. We're not prepared for now. This is not the plan. If you wanted to do it now, you should have said three days before you wanted to do it on this day. Yeah.

Heather 35:58

So just calm down, swallow and suck a jolly rancher.

Zia 36:05

Stay calm and suck a jolly rancher. Stay calm. Swallow, stay calm, and suck a jolly rancher. There we go. There you go. Yep. Yep. That's our plan. So yeah, so just did not, I mean, it was it would be like you going to the airport for your flight, right? Scheduled flight, and be like three days before and say, hello, I'm leaving now.

Heather 36:28

Wait, time out. Yes. On the next podcast, next time Eliza comes on. Yes. We have to have her tell her story about going to Cat Island in the Bahamas. Okay. There is one flight and it has a two-hour window of fleaving. I remember you telling me that. Yes, she'll have to. How does a flight have a two-hour window? I don't comprehend. Yes.

Zia 36:52

I agree. So yep.

Heather 36:55

So needless to say, yes, over the next few weeks, aka this summer. Yep. We are going to be doing traveling between us. Yep. Both of us. So our recording days are going to be all out of whack. But no worries to all of you. Yep. Yep. Um, our wait, we haven't done this in a while already. Our

Summer Travel Plans And Recording Logistics

Heather 37:18

producer. Our producer, yes, Eric knows how to take our recordings and have it post Saturday morning. So no matter when we record, it will always be up on Saturday morning. Yes, we will. Like we've always said, we'll definitely have it. But over the next few weeks, we are going to be all over the place. All over the place. I will definitely post some pictures from where I am right now. Um I haven't seen where I am because I got here at almost dark and then we were up until almost midnight. And now it's bright and early, but uh you can see the sun is like beaming in on me. Yeah. So um, so yeah, so we will definitely share our trips with you um over the whole summer. We've got both of us have a bunch of mini trips and big trips planned. Yeah.

Zia 38:09

So um one trip I'll be recording in Jersey.

Heather 38:14

Yeah, you will have uh yeah, I'll I'm recording on location. You're gonna have a couple of recordings on location. Yeah, I may have a recording on an epic location.

Zia 38:24

Okay, very cool, very cool.

Heather 38:26

I think I think we're gonna have to do that one. Yeah. Either we're gonna have to record a couple of days early or we'll have to do that one really on location, which will be awful because I'm not sure. We'll figure that one out.

Zia 38:38

That's that's we'll figure it out. Even if we have to do like our old-fashioned way of um our phone call, we'll go, we'll go sling it back to you know old school. Old school times, yeah. Yeah, we'll we'll figure it out.

Heather 38:53

Don't worry, you will get all your drugs our Melbourne people. I know. Gosh, I'm so happy. Now we have to figure out how to get Antarctica.

Zia 39:03

Oh, okay.

Heather 39:05

All right, they get Wi-Fi down there. Yeah, let's tell me those people are all down there working with no podcasts.

Zia 39:11

Yep, yep. I love it.

Heather 39:14

All right, let's oh, I don't have to clock up. Oh, there it is. Hold on, let's see what time it is. Uh 25?

Zia 39:21

Yep, sure.

Heather 39:24

Tip top. I didn't even I didn't even write it. 25 is 25, it's 25. 25. Okay. Yeah. All right. So this week I did it again. I posted a theme. We had new people who never commented on our five-minute loves. So we're gonna do theirs, even though they're not part of our theme. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna do theirs.

Zia 39:50

Yep, absolutely.

Heather 39:52

Cats or dogs.

Zia 39:54

Definitely dogs, definitely dogs.

Heather 39:57

However,

Five Minute Loves Travel Edition Begins

Heather 39:58

Angela has a cat and the cat seems to love me. So unfortunately, you're a cat. I kind of like the cat. She types on our podcast all the time. She does. She does. She joins us. It's kind of sad to not have her walking on me right now.

Zia 40:12

I know. I know.

Heather 40:13

I kind of miss that, but I am 100% a dog person, but I I I I like Dagney.

Zia 40:18

Yep. I I mean I star has had cats. I have had cats, but I'm very, I'm very wow, not squirrel, lizard. Um we're just going, we're just throwing back to uh Sheldon. Um uh lizard Spock. Um, so rock, paper, scissors, lizard Spock. Um so yeah, and I'm allergic to cats, so I gotta go with the dog. Yeah.

Heather 40:51

Yeah. And then giving me an evil look if I say no. The other one could be part of our topic. It's elevator or escalator.

Zia 41:01

Oh no. Has to be an escalator for me because the elevator is my worst nightmare, and the kids know it. They all jump in the elevator because they want to scare the shit out of me. Um, and that was trained by Michael. He used to do that to me. Um, and

Elevators Versus Escalators Fear Stories

Zia 41:22

Margaret, well, okay, so there used to be a play in the city, is an interactive play, and it's no longer sadly operational. I'm very sad about that. My face are very sad. Yeah. Um, but it was called Sleep No More. And my daughter Star took me to it um one time, and um, worst nightmare came true. The elevator stopped mid-ride. And I was like, probably part of the part of the play, part of the you know, the guy never broke character in the elevator, he was on top of it, and my daughter put her hand on my shoulder, put her head down, and said, Oh my god, mom, this has never happened. And I said, What never happened? She goes, This is not part of the play. And I said, Dear God, I'm gonna die in a New York City elevator today.

Heather 42:30

First of all, why are you on an elevator in New York City? We should talk about that first.

Zia 42:33

You should know better. You start you start on a you started on the elevator to go up, and then you can work yourself down to the bottom, and that's where the scene ends. Oh, okay. Yes, yes. So you can follow and you could have followed any character in the play. Oh, that's sounds like you wanted to. And there's interactive, there was interactive rooms, and I will I will actually, I believe they still have an Instagram. I will tag it if you want to just see what it was. What it was. Yeah, you love that. But you know, my my daughter is totally pushing for like please do it again, you know. But yeah, yeah, but it was beautifully done. The actors and actresses were just beautiful dancing, music. It was it's just sad that it went away. But yes, my I my life was gonna die at my first time at Sleep No More. So it did it.

Heather 43:30

So it got started, but I like elevators more than escalators because I have balance issues. Oh, okay, yep. So getting on or off an escalator sometimes for me is tricky. Is tricky. Yeah. Um, especially when you have an iPad, a laptop, a backpack, a purse, a soda, a sweater, and a wheelie cart. Um oh wait, flashbacks. No. Um, so I do prefer elevators over escalators. However, I got stuck in an elevator in a parking garage alone.

Zia 44:11

Oh my god.

Heather 44:12

And had to literally pry open the doors to get out. And when I got out and I told the shop that I went to that I was parked in the parking garage for, she's like, Oh, there used to be a sign on that elevator that says it's out of order.

Zia 44:27

Stop it.

Heather 44:28

And I'm like, okay. So now in parking garages, I use the stairs. Yeah. I will just take the 30 minutes if I have to to walk up or down. I prefer to take a stair always. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I don't like the stairs, but in situations now I go for more stairs. Yeah. Um, then we had a comment from the person who you know and I know. Um, she's the person who married Rich and I. And she said, I'm gonna read it because it was so sweet. So, first of all, our topic I posted for travel because this is our first travel. We had mentioned a few months ago that we were gonna do some travel talk. So here it is. Yeah. And she responded, um, her name is Stephanie, and she said, I don't know what this is, but I sure do love the beach. Sand between my toes and the warmth on my skin. Yes, please. Um so I responded to her and explained to her what five-minute loves are. Yeah. And she said she's gonna reach out to me. She hasn't yet, but I'm quite sure when she does. Um, I will give us all an update on it. But I thought that was awesome that she she made that comment. So she likes the beach. I love the beach too. I love the beach too.

Zia 45:44

Yes, exactly. I do go with Dracula to the beach though, because Michael needs an umbrella in the shade in the middle of the sand to not get the sun on him. So I go with Dracula to the beach.

Heather 46:00

I go with an 80s girl. Oh, I do everything I can to be in the sun completely. And you've seen how tan I get. Yes. I almost change races to some degree.

Zia 46:14

It's kind of creepy. I well, I'm Italian and Indonesian. There's no going back on down dark again. Why do you bring that up? Oh, we're just for our fans. We got a lot of fans in Japan. Yep. Fans in the Japan. We're shouting out to you two today. Thank you so much. Shout out to everybody. We love everyone. Everybody. I know. We're just doing like these personalized little, you know, shout-outs here and there. It's just, yeah, every once in a while we'll just shout out who we are talking about.

Heather 46:45

Yeah. All right. So we've got a bunch of five-minute loves. So hook them up.

Zia 46:48

You go. All right. Do you prefer to do a guided tour when you're away or just do things on your own? Ooh.

Heather 46:58

I'm gonna say guided. I like to do things on my own, but I also want you to tell me what we're doing. Like, I'm I'm a planner. So I mean,

Guided Tours Or DIY Adventures

Heather 47:10

if you could go on your own, you'd go with someone. You want an agenda. You want an agenda. I do. I want to know that I'm going to that palm tree to talk about it for 20 minutes, and then we're gonna go to that sand dune. Yeah. And that's like that's like reassuring for me.

Zia 47:30

Okay. Um, I think it all depends where I'm going. Yeah. Like I think that's more my answer, too. Yeah, like if you're gonna take me to New Jersey on a guided tour, I'm gonna tell you to shut the hell up. Facts. Um, because I I take the back roads wherever I'm going, and I probably know, you know, what I know more ways to get to the same place than you do. Yes. I used to get guided tours in New Jersey. Like, you know, that's the church that, you know, every single time we pass it, that grandma and grandpa got buried in. Do you see all the stained glass windows, you know? And then it's like for the hundredth time, right? Exactly. Calm down, right, swallow, swallow, and suck on a jelly rancher. There you go. That's our shirt. I'm writing that down. I'm writing that down. Do it. Um, so yeah, I think it all depends like where we go. Like when we go to Aruba, um, we do select like sometimes a guided tour for a one thing, you know.

Heather 48:32

See, no, that's what I would do.

Zia 48:34

Yeah. Because you, you know, that's a new place. Um, we went to Egypt, we had full guided tours. Uh, we took the two-week cruise down the Nile, or up the Nile, down the Nile, up the Nile.

Heather 48:47

And well, the Nile flows backwards, so at one point you had to go up, and the next point you had to go down.

Zia 48:52

Well, actually, we took planes to get to the beginning of it, and then we went back to Cairo. So, yeah. Yep. So, um, yeah, so we definitely that situation guided tour. Don't make let me miss anything, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You want me to do the next one? Yeah, go ahead. I think I skipped over one. I'm something. You did, but that's okay.

Heather 49:22

We'll just we'll just do them random. Okay. Road trips are plain.

Zia 49:26

Ooh, I guess road trips. I take a lot of road trips in the summer.

Heather 49:31

I take a lot of road trips. I do enjoy flying, except for the air issue. So I'm gonna go both. Depends on where I'm going. If I can get there easier and have my car, yeah, I'm game. If I can get there and fly, I'm game. Yep. So I think we're gonna go with either. I'm gonna let you do the I wanna do the the the the I wanna do this one.

Zia 49:59

I don't know.

Heather 50:00

I wanna do that one just because can you see it? Oh, yes, okay. I wanna do that one. So we can we have these two to go still, so pick one. Although we already answered window seat or aisle.

Zia 50:10

Yeah, so let's not do that. So when you come home from traveling, and I believe this was from Nikki, wasn't it? This was Nikki's, yeah. Yeah. Um see I pay attention. I pay attention, Nikki. Even though you're not allowed to respond. Yes. Um, when you come home from traveling, do you wait to unpack and you know do the laundry, or do you, you know, just

Unpack Now Or Live From Suitcases

Zia 50:35

as soon as you get home, you do it?

Heather 50:38

So my preference is I try to do my laundry before I leave. Because a lot of times I travel now, I stay at Airbnb's and there's laundry at facilities. Okay. Yeah. So if I can do my laundry before I travel home, I'm game. Okay. Um, so I do my laundry, go home, and then I'll on, I'll unpack. Um, if I can't do that, like if we were on the cruise or whatever, and you don't have the official laundry facility, um, I come home and and do my and do the laundry because I don't have that many clothes.

Zia 51:11

Right, right.

Heather 51:12

So I but Angela, I asked Angela this question, and she said it stays until it's laundry time.

Zia 51:20

Oh.

Heather 51:22

Okay. So she waits until the next laundry day and unpacks then and does her laundry.

Zia 51:28

So yeah, so it's kind of funny that she sent this because uh Michael had sent me a meme about this the other day, and it says, When you have a Capricorn wife and you just got home for vacation, exhausted, and so the lady walks through the door with her husband, and he went to like he's like, Ah, I'm home, and she like unzips the suitcase, takes everything out, throws it in the laundry machine, um, you know, sorts it out, throws it in the laundry machine, and then everything is put away, and he's like ready to take a nap, and she's like, get off the bed. I'm changing the sheets, I'm doing the vacuuming the floor. Like, I that is so me. I get like high energy when I come home. Yeah. Um, even when like I come home from Jersey, I do the same thing.

Heather 52:19

Yeah.

Zia 52:20

Um, because I call the kids and I'm like, I have food. Like the kids are coming over.

Heather 52:25

Like, you gotta come get the jersey food. No time for rest. And most people need a break from their vacation, a vacation from their vacation. You don't. No, it's like I got I got Jersey food. Come over, eat now.

Zia 52:36

Let's go. Party time. Food's hot. Let's go bring my own cooler every time for all the Jersey goodies. Yeah.

Heather 52:44

I do. When I when I go back to New York, I know you don't like Stuart's ice cream, but when it a lot of times when I come back to New York, I'll bring the cooler and get the ice cream. When I go to Jersey, I I stop and get pie.

Zia 52:55

Yeah, yeah.

Heather 52:56

Bring the pie home. I don't care. I'll eat it cold. I'll eat it cold in the car.

Zia 53:00

Millie needs her jersey big cannoli, she says. And I gotta get it. And then um what do you do? Taylor Hermica cheese. Yeah, and I and I gotta get her um I got I gotta get her her spare ribs from the rice bowl. So it's like she doesn't like the ones up here, she likes the jersey ones. So I yeah, I got I got things to do, places to go, food to get.

Heather 53:28

Yeah, all right. So our last one, and we did save this for last on purpose because Allie is an avid listener. We love Allie. Allie is the best. Yep. But Allie, we had a topic, honey. I think I think the baby's messing with your brain. Yep. Plays or musicals. That I don't know what that has to do with travel. Honey,

Plays Musicals And Plane Listening Picks

Heather 53:52

read. Let's tell the baby to take a nap so you can read.

Zia 53:57

You know what? I'm gonna fix this for Allie. I'm gonna fix this.

Heather 54:00

Okay, let's fix it for her because she needs help. Yeah, she's gonna fix a numerical.

Zia 54:05

I'm gonna fix it for you, Allie, for to not put on pregnancy brain. Okay. When you're traveling, when you're traveling and you're on the plane, do you listen to like maybe a play or a book, reading a book, or do you listen to musical music um from a musical, or do you listen to your regular musical strip? So that's what she meant.

Heather 54:30

That's what she meant. Oh, I just misread.

Zia 54:33

Maybe I should read that better, Kelly. I got to, I got to, Allie. I got it. We're not blaming the brain on the pregnancy. Exactly. I got you.

Heather 54:41

It is all pregnancy brain. That little boy is just killing her. Yeah, yeah. Which is good. Let them eat your brain. That makes him get a bigger one. Absolutely. Um, but okay, so to answer her real question, yes, yes, to both. I love plays, I love musicals, I love them both. I love Broadway, I love off Broadway, I love off off Broadway. I get kind of stuck at the off off. Yeah. Kind of like the the the you know, some of them are bad. Right, right. Um, but on a plane, I typically watch, um, I download a couple of movies, so I'll watch a movie, and if I get tired of the movie, I either go to my book or I just jam out to music. Okay, all right.

Zia 55:22

Um, so I go to either when I go with Margaret or Star. We uh we go to either because yes, because she, you know, she's like, Mom, you need to see this. So I just go and see the things. Whatever she says. Um, whatever Star says, I do. Um, and do I prefer one over the other? Uh, it has to be something I like to go see it. Um, I don't necessarily go out and look for plays or musicals to go see every day. Uh or you know, I'm like, oh, I have to see this as a musical, or I have to, because if I don't like the actors in it and I don't like what they're doing, I get annoyed. So that's a waste of money for me. Okay. Um, but um, if I'm on the plane, I have a lot of musical music that I will listen to. Yeah. Um one favorite album that I listen to, well, I say two of my favorite albums that I listen to as musicals is Chorus Line. Um, I love all the music from that. Um, brings back a lot of good memories and a lot of songs I can relate to. Um, and also Phantom of the Opera is one of my topic favorite um you're you're into this topic.

Heather 56:46

Musicals or plays.

Zia 56:47

Yeah.

Heather 56:48

Musicals says that's great. That's funny. Person. I don't even know what to call you.

Zia 56:56

That's funny. That's Michaela you hear in the background, by the way. That's Heather's Michaela. Yes, that is Heather's Michaela. Right, right. Um, so yeah. Actually, it's Eliza's Michaela. Oh, Eliza's Michaela, yeah.

Heather 57:09

It's Eliza's Michaela that we met through. That's true.

Zia 57:14

Because you were the last and only parent standing.

Heather 57:17

I was the last and only parenting standing. And it was funny because the music teacher before Michaela asked me, he's like, Can you help her feel welcome? And I'm like, Yeah, there's a lot of us. We're all gonna do it. And then and then they sent out an email and they were like, She wants to make a few changes to the classroom. Can you, you know, everybody come in to help? And her mom and I painted benches because I was the only one there beside her mom. Oh my gosh. All the students, and a few students whose parents dropped them off and left. Wow. Wow.

Zia 57:58

And we've been together since our first thing was uh the barbecue thing. Fundraisers they did at the beginning of the year.

Heather 58:08

Was that barbecue or was that spaghetti? That was a barbecue. Was it barbecue? Oh, that's right. It was it was gifies.

Zia 58:14

Oh, okay, yeah, gifties, yeah.

Heather 58:17

Yeah, it was gifties, yeah. And I'm like, and I'm looking at her, I'm like, you should know who I am. I'm Eliza's mom.

Zia 58:24

Yeah. That's awesome.

Heather 58:26

That's right. And this is what and I said this is our fifth or sixth mom daughter vacation. I mean, we're missing Eliza on it, but this is our fifth or sixth, isn't it?

Zia 58:38

Yeah. Very cool. It's crazy. Yeah. I know. Just like this. And we have we have picture memories of all of them. We have to go. Well, Eliza didn't come last year either, did she? No, it was the year before she didn't come. Or she came for like a weekend and we drove. I can't remember.

Heather 59:02

Yeah, I don't remember. I don't know. It's oh yeah, that's right. The one year we drove to here and Eliza refused to drive. So she left the day after we did and flew down and then left the day before we did, so that she could fly because she refused to drive.

Zia 59:16

She didn't want to drive. Got it.

Heather 59:18

She's like, that's dumb. And we decided on the bride back that it was dumb and we wished we followed Eliza's advice. See, we needed a car. We did. In hindsight, we're good with that now. But yeah, anywho. Yeah. Yeah. We need to we need to move on because we are way yes, we are we're in an hour.

Zia 59:36

Oh my goodness. Oh my god. We don't want to lose our Melbourne fans. No, we can't. Can't so all right.

Heather 59:45

So all right. So okay, so Michaela goes so musicals. So musicals, love it, love it. Yeah. Musicals. All right. We love you all. Thank you. I'm going to we seem to like these themed five-minute loves, so I'll keep it going. If we follow the theme. Yeah. And again, Allie, we love you.

Zia 1:00:07

I tried to fix it.

Lesson Of The Week And Goodbye

Zia 1:00:08

I can't fix it all the time. And the new people always get a s a pass because you're new. Yep. And so to this week's lesson, calm down, swallow, and suck on a Jolly Rancher.

Heather 1:00:18

Calm down, swallow, suck on a Jolly Rancher.

Zia 1:00:21

Yep. That's our lesson of the week. So enjoy.

Heather 1:00:24

Lesson of the week. And Kelly, read.

Zia 1:00:26

Kelly, read my texts. Read them. You know I'm not. You know I re you know I answer everything. There's no need. No need to take yes. Calm down. Calm down. Get a Jolly Rancher. And swallow. Love you. Love you. Bye.