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Do We Love... Powering Through (pt 2)
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Someone can hand you a drink “to be nice” and somehow you end up the villain for not loving the exact temperature, bubbles, or flavor. That tiny moment is where we start, because it perfectly captures what powering through really looks like when your nerves are already fried: guilt, passive aggression, the conversation replaying in your head, and the split-second choice between people-pleasing and setting a boundary.
We also bring some joy into it, including a mini vacation that turns into an unplanned mindfulness exercise: a massive re-gifted Lego ship with over 1,100 pieces dumped into three unsorted bags. It’s frustrating, funny, weirdly soothing, and honestly a great metaphor for stress management. We talk about the little rituals that keep us steady, like taking breaks, celebrating wins, and finding comfort in hands-on focus when life feels loud.
Then we get more personal about mental health and burnout. Hitting your max coping threshold can be unpredictable: one day a stubbed toe is the last straw, another day you can handle travel chaos until your brain suddenly taps out. We compare the tools we actually use, from grounding and deep breathing to music, cleaning, shutting down, or making the quick call that gets it off your chest. We also reflect on why celebrity deaths can hit so hard, especially when they’re tied to childhood nostalgia and the soundtracks of who we used to be.
We wrap with back-to-school and back-to-work energy: missing coworkers (even the dramatic ones), trusting your gut when something feels off, planning outfits to reduce morning stress, and the surprisingly heated world of water bottle rules and cup recommendations. If you’ve ever wondered whether “powering through” is strength or avoidance, come hang with us. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s at their max, and leave a review with the coping habit that helps you most.
Eyore is Appalled
Welcome Back To Part Two
HeatherWell, hello everybody. Hi, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Do We Love That For You. Yes. Today's episode is continuing from last week. So it's Do We Love Powering Through. Powering Through. Part two. Part two. Um, we were talking last week about how um you power through when something's bothering you, how we power through when things aren't going your way, or when you need to adjust, and and how you handle it. And then we talked about um a lot about Nicole, um, our whole five-minute love for Nicole trying to go to uh drop her son off at college. Absolutely, and how crazy that is, but that's okay because you know we all did it. Yeah, and my asthma attack when I didn't know I was having one. Your infamously long asthma attack, my crazy airport story. Um so let's start with some of the good, happy, fun stuff. Sounds
Mini Vacation And The Giant Lego Ship
Heathergood. Tell us about your mini vacay. You weren't there. That's right. Um like I told you guys, it was at my dad's lens, and um had a little mini vacation with him. Um, and we actually ventured on a very positive I'll have to post pictures of the before and after of what this looked like. Oh my gosh. But we received a uh Lego set. My dad loves Legos, so like he does the flowers, he does, he built a cat that looks like his cat. Um, just loves them. Wow. So yeah, so my dad and he does them by himself usually, you know. Um sometimes a friend will come over and they'll do things together. Um, but this was a giant ship that I got. Yes, and um we were like, okay, you know, we can knock this out, sure. Yeah, so it it happened to be a set that was re-gifted, so somebody I guess had um tried to do it and then didn't want to do it, and then we we got it because I mean, you know, those sets are so expensive. This was a giant set. Yeah, giant set. So I bring it and he was very excited, had it open up right away, had a look inside, and the top box just showed one white box, so you can't see what's below it.
ZiaOkay.
HeatherSo he took that out and it was just the sail um of the ship. Okay. Then he looks b below that, and it's three ginormous bags, just bags. Nothing was separated. I thought they separated it by area or by color or by whatever. Well, the person that tried to build it didn't want to build it anymore. So we had three bags of junk in bags. So that meant we had to sort, play hide and seek of the pieces. Um I was the seeker, he was the builder. Um, and yeah, it was like I think 1100 pieces. Are you serious? I am I am dead serious. I think it was like 1133 or something like that. No, 306. Oh yeah. And we uh we built it in five days. Wow. Finished. Yeah, you were sending me update pictures as you were building it. Yep, name plates and all. Yep. So um I will have to post pictures um of what the mess we had on the table. Yeah, and the before mess and then the final. Yep, and then I got a little OCD. I started sorting parts by color. Uh yeah. So it was great. It was a black ship. It was a black ship. It was a black ship. Okay. Yep. So hard to match black pieces of Legos. I'm sure things started looking alike. Pieces just started looking alike. Yes, but you guys took some breaks. We did. We went, you know, we went for ice cream. Actually, we went for celebratory ice cream. What? After we were done. Yes, we had to celebrate. It was awesome. You did. You sent me your celebration picture, minus the cherries. Yes, yes, minus the cherries. I ate the cherry right away as soon as they gave it to me. I laughed at that. I was like, oh, minus the cherries. Yep, yep. Well, the last time I had a Sunday, I didn't send Heather a member. Empty bowl picture. Yep. Yep. So yeah, it was um pretty good. We nice little trip with Daddy. Oh, yep, yep. And Charlie was with you. Charlie was with me. Yeah, she traveled with me. Yep.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherYeah. Came home pooped, but she traveled with me. She did. She's a good traveler. How does she do in the car? Really good. She's a little nosy. I feel like I have a backseat driver. Okay. Uh, yep. She wants to put her head not on the right side of me. She wants to be on the left side of me, and she wants to look where I'm looking. So, you know, God forbid I speed or I go over the line, she'll know. She has his judgment eyes looking at you or looking with you. Umgie backseat driver. I have a doggy backseat driver. Yes. So cute. Marcia does that. Marcia likes to help you drive. Yep. But yeah. Maybe she drove in a past life. Huh? Maybe she drove in a past life. I mean, I would not put it past her. She seems all over it with the hair in her eyes and all. Absolutely. A perfect 90s driver. Absolutely. It reminds me, I went to school with this girl, and she was like three or four grades ahead of me. And she lived in my town. Okay. And she shaved her head and left the super, like just the top of her head was all she had, really long. And every day she wore it straight up and spray painted it like different colors. How cool. I remember that. Very cool. That was like that. When you when I said over her eyes, I was like, that flashed into my head, that girl. That's funny. I don't even remember her name. I feel so bad. Oh my gosh, what was her name? Kelly. Okay. First name was Kelly. That's awesome. But she was older than me, so that was like so cool. Yep. Like, I was like, that's cool. Yeah. So go ahead.
Guilt Trips And Drawing Boundaries
HeatherLet me ask you a question. Sure. Let's say I'm getting up and getting a drink. Yep. And I just pick a drink for you. Sure. And I give it to you. Yeah. I don't know if you like it or not. I don't care. I'm just being nice and giving you a gift. However, you're in a mood today and you try to guilt trip me for giving you a drink. Okay. What happened? Like you got the wrong one? Like I got the wrong one. Or I didn't get it. It wasn't cold enough. Or it wasn't carbonated or whatever. Got it. Got it. Wow. Um, well, I would say, first of all, like, you know, I would appreciate you getting me a drink, but I I understand. I understand that those moods can happen. Um, yeah. Um, how do you deal with that? Yeah, I usually just say, well, then go get one yourself. Um, and I put in the refrigerator. Um, or, you know, I just got you a drink, so that's the one you're gonna drink. Uh that's what I would say. I'd be like, well, this is a drink. You don't want a drink? I'll never bring you a drink again. Yeah, absolutely. Cut off. So saying that, I remember funny story about that, because you're like, that's it. I'm not gonna do it again. Yeah, I remember my mom's statement, besides saying Jesus Christ, really loud. Um, we weren't Jesus Christ, we were Jesus Mary and Joseph. Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph, yeah. Um, she would say, Um, as God is my witness. And it would always repeat twice. God is my witness. I mean, God as my witness. Like it was, it was really gonna happen. Right. The first time was to get his attention. Right. The second time was so we could listen. Right. She'd say, I will never in my lifetime mention that again. Done. Done. Yep. That was that usually was the if I was like, well, mom, you just said uh don't hold it on me now. That's it. Never. Never. God has my You will be parched in a desert. Yep. I will have my own drink. Never you will dehydrate. Dehydrate. Yep. Never will I suggest that again to you. Never so remember that clearly. I told that to Rich. We were talking about that story. And Rich was like, Oh, that sounds Italian. I'm like, no. That sounds Jersey to me. Yep. That's very Jersey. There's no Italian in me. Oof. Yeah. Yep. No, that's a Jersey thing. I mean, mine definitely Jersey and Italian, but well, yeah. You got the best. And you know what's funny? I never heard my grandmother say that to my mom. No, I never heard my grandma say it. My grandma was the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Okay. I think the most stare at her and go, the clearing of the throat. That would be her. Um, and then to my grandfather, because if my grandfather she would read the paper first thing off, my grandmother, right? Early in the morning, she'd be the first one up, go downstairs, read the paper. She was a reader, she loved politics, my grandmother. Um, yeah, she loved uh country, state, anything that was going on like that. So my grandfather would come down, paper was refolded the way that it came. He'd sit down, he'd start reading the paper, and he would go he would say, Hey March, did you know? Blah blah blah. And she'd go, Huh. She goes, It mm didn't want to say what she knew. So she would say, That doesn't seem sound. Maybe you should reread that. I feel like you're missing a few details. Would you like me to read it? You know, I read a little bit quicker than you. So he would hand it off and she's like, Oh yeah, and she already knew what details he missed. Which is why she read faster. Absolutely. So she would say, Oh, yeah, see, no, not not exactly what you were saying. You did miss one thing right here, right here. Yep. So it was like, oh Charles, mm-mm. Oh Charles, oh Charles, don't say that. No, no, that's wrong. Yep. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I feel like there's a level of guilt. Like messing around guilt is fun. Absolutely. Passive aggressive is okay. Yes. It's okay. I mean, it's not fun, but but it's acceptable. But I think down and out, straight up, laying it on like butter on a piece of toast. Yes, yes. Guilt is it for me. I I don't want to be the first one to curse today. It's fucked up.
ZiaThank you.
HeatherI didn't want to be the first one for it. I knew you'd take that hit for me. I would. I would. I'll take that anytime you'd like. I'm here for you.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherUh yeah, it's just, you know, you have to, you know, it's either gonna bother you or it's not when people do that. Right. And, you know, it all depends to me. It all depends who it comes from. Right. Um, or what like, you know, if it was um my mom or my dad, you know, uh, definitely my grandmother. My grandmother would I would do whatever my I it didn't matter if she hurt my feelings or not, I would do it. Um, yeah. Um sometimes not my grandfather though. Capricorn versus Capricorn. Sometimes we would have a battle. Um I loved him to pieces, but sometimes he he he'd push me to see which way I would go. Yeah, I I believe it. Yeah, but yeah, sometimes it's cute, sometimes it's not, and when it's not, it's not funny at all. I think more often than not, down and out guilt is wrong. And and that's kind of like the thing, like when you send a text and you're like, oh, I'll add the lol after and that'll make it better. Yeah, it's even funnier. No, no, you're still being a snarky ass. Yeah, absolutely. I don't know, it's just weird. I I just I don't know. Yeah. And then I find that I will dwell on it and rerun the conversation. Always, yeah. Because I'm like, wait. Part of it is because like I'm shocked that it happened. Yeah. Like am I eight? I know sometimes yeah, sometimes you might feel like you're expecting that you're older. Sometimes it won't come out from the maybe the senior person of you. Yeah. But it there, you know, sometimes I guess you're still eight. Damn, I wish I could grow up. Grow up. No. Hey, I have a doctor that says, okay, kid, let's get you out of here, kiddo. 40? Uh no, he's he's he's my senior. But I'm like up 52 and I'm getting called a kiddo. Let's go, kiddo. I love it. I love it. All right, kiddo. Yep. Not at many opportunities I'm getting kiddo anymore, so it's alright. I'll take it. As God is my witness, I'll be a kiddo. As God is my witness, I'm gonna take it out. Yep.
What Hitting Your Max Feels Like
HeatherOh man. So we were talking about the coping methods and what we do and stuff like that. So when when you actually hit the threshold of max coping with everything, okay. Which, you know, um I'm gonna actually bring Nikki into this too, because you know, um that is a lot. You know, you're you're taking your kid to college, they're packing up, their stuff's getting out of your house. You know, you see it going out of the house, right? Like even when my kids moved out of the house, I'm like, it's not returning to the house. Maybe a box would return to the house for storage, but the stuff is going out, you know. There's so many levels of coping with like, but I'm your mom, or I'm your, you know, I I'm the one that's been here to have everything you needed in my household for you food, bath, water, whatever, anything, right? Yeah. Now you're gonna find it somewhere else. You know, that's it. And eventually make your own. And make your own, absolutely. Yeah, my children have too. Um, so it's like, you know, definitely you're always proud, like we said, that's being a good parent, that's what you want them to do, better themselves and go out and know those things. But that is that max where now the house is quiet or a little less noisy, right? Even if you have like one or two left behind, you know. Um, but you know, you hit that max of well, what what am I doing? Or just happened. Right. Yeah, what just happened? So what it what is your is are there different coping mechanisms that you go through when you're at the max compared to just I gotta cope and go through and power through? Like work, you know how we said you gotta power through a guy, you gotta get to work compared to that's a personal little emotional yeah, roller coaster maximum, yeah. So back to Nikki real quick, yeah. And I and I and she posted it on um, I think it was on Instagram. Okay, yeah, the the day after it was her story, and you brought it up, and I I didn't really had seen it because I was gonna send it to you and you brought it up to me. Yeah, and she took her youngest to college, yeah, and the next day took her older son to see his all-time favorite, the Wiggles. Yes, it's who we've had on the show. We've had Johnny has been on the show, yes. Johnny is world famous with us, but like that to me is the epitome of coping. Yeah, because she she had to go through taking the younger one to school, which I have been there. I I I drove my kid to college and dropped him off and drove back. I mean, it was horrible, it was wonderful, it was all of it, right? And then to come home and then take your other son to see his favorite band. Absolutely. That's and and then the video she had on it. We'll ask her if we can share it. Yeah, yeah, beautiful. But um, but it he was just so happy, and so was she. So it's it's hard, but I think I think me having some some mental health issues, as we've talked about many a time. I think for me, um, my max hits different for different things. Okay. I could stub my toe, and that's my max today. Yeah. Because that's just where my brain, my head space, my brain space, whatever you want to call it is. But then, you know, we drive to the airport because the flight was canceled and the traffic and the rain, and I'm perfectly fine. Yeah, but then I'm not. Um so I think my methods of coping are different. Um, I do have an inhaler that the VA has given me. It's called a commie go. And I find that when I use it, it does work well. It's it forces you to do some deep breathing. I do my five senses. I mean, I have a lot of little systematic things that I do to try and gain my control. I also have medications I can take to gain my control. Um, I don't use those probably as often as I could or should, but um so unfortunately, I think hitting my max hits different than others. Okay. Um and I I can't I truly can't answer how I cope. Okay. Um mine, like I said, is is situation dependent.
ZiaOkay.
HeatherHow about you? Um, I think with me, my big coping thing when I've hit my max is uh my brain goes into like a silent mode. So I try to keep either keep myself busy with cleaning or um I don't know, sorting things like that. Um, and I'm just I tr I do shut down. Um there's a big part that shut down and then like I won't uh I just end up like not talking about the things that are bothering me. I just like shut it out. Like it's not even a a thing, like doesn't exist, um, you know. Yeah uh I do that or if it's not that bad, but it's still at a max, I have to put my music on. I can't cope with anything really if I don't have my music, which I I did say to you, I was like when I was at my dad lens, I actually had no TV. Well, he has TV, we just were preoccupied. Right. So we didn't we didn't watch TV for five days, which is a lot for me. Um I didn't listen to any music for five days. Shocking. Um I I know, and it was like I went to a uh a spa. I went to a spa. Um like convent or something. No, no, I went to like a like a a getaway, you know? Um, and maybe that's why Charlie was thrown off. She's like, mommy has no TV or music playing. What's happening? Yeah, um, and I didn't drive a lot, I only drove one day. So a lot of my things that I do use, I did not do. You didn't have, yeah.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherWell, yeah, because At one point, you did get slightly frustrated while you were there. You called me and you were like, Oh my gosh, and you just you you you started talking, you started talking, and then when you were doing you were like, Okay, I'll talk to you later. I'm like, Oh yep, bye. Yeah, but you needed it, and I knew you needed it, so you know what? If you needed to to to go on, because it started off as a text, and then you ended up calling me quick, and it was a quick call, and you quick call and got it all off your chest, and you were better. And uh, we chatted for another moment and then we were done. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, just those little things. You have to find the things that you can use. Yeah, everybody's is different, so you can't, and that's the other thing, like, or it falls back under that category of you're having a panic attack or you're at your max. Just calm down. Just oh god, oh, you've calmed down before I beat the life out of you. Right. Yep. Michael always sends me those memes that say that, you know, like uh don't tell someone to just calm down, you know? And he's like, Yeah, that's that's just a bad thing to do to somebody, is just say calm down. I can't find my glasses wiper wipey.
Why Celebrity Deaths Hit So Hard
HeatherUh so um as we were talking about that, I mean we went from happy to a little bit sad here, but we did want to touch on we you they usually say, you know, when people die, celebrities, people that you may know, it always comes in threes. Well, yeah, it doesn't have to be celebrities, they just post it. It's just right, but it's usually threes. Yep. Yep. Um, well, we've got a lot of seven. For when you're looking at it, I wrote it back. It's it's backwards. I think it's I think we're up to seven. Oh one, two, three, four, two, six. Six. Well, because we took that one off because it was right. You were a year off. Someone posted it and then it was it seemed to be December or something. But I do feel like there was another one I saw, so I think when I posted it to just my family chat, I I couldn't find the guy, but he's been in a lot of my uh movies too. Um, but I think our family was saying we're at seven right now. That's crazy. And today my son Alex texted the group chat and he said Peter Cullen died. And I took our picture for recording today with my Optimus Prime jacket on. I got a personal post. Uh, that one that I'm still getting a little teary-eyed as I'm thinking about it. That one I know that one hit me. Yep, that one hit me. Certain ones really take you. It's part of your childhood. Yeah. So the so we had um, I'm gonna butcher this name. No, go ahead. Oh, I apologize to this person's family. Yeah, Yayo Yayi Kusama. Yayo, I think you're right, yaya. Yayo, I thought I think it's Yayo Kusama. Yeah, Kusama. And uh, she died back on the 14th. Yeah, and she was an artist. Um, and what I believe from now artist people in my family, yeah. I believe she was like the polka dot lady. Yeah, and I I think I know something like with the mirror, the mirrors or something. Yeah, like she did something with polka dots and mirrors. I'm just butchering this with artists in our family. R. I'm sorry. We do have artists, and we're gonna get scolded for it too. But and please, my our our family artists, please post and scholar the people in our feed, please. So then you want to take the next one out? Uh yeah, was it the one below or one up? No, one up. We're at the bottom going up. Okay, gotcha. Um I put them backwards for some reason. So Hayden Paneteer had passed away. Big heroes. She was in Heroes uh from young to old there. She was on the 16th. Not old. She was a little while ago. Yeah. Oh, actually, you know what? They're not all the way backwards order. No, I got you. I was looking at the dates. I got you. Yeah. You gotta go back down. Yeah. Then we have um JP Morgan.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherHe died. He was she no, she was she was I said he, but she. That's okay. Um, she used to be, well, for you and me, she used to be on the gong show. You know, that's a big place where I know her from. Yep. Um we're dating ourselves, your lady. I know, it's okay. It's okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, you're the next one. Well, we already talked about your next one, which was today, but um um go ahead. Tim Curry. Yeah, he just passed. He was in um So many it. He was so many, I was gonna say that. He was in so much it horror show. Yeah, Rocky Horror Show was the main one. Yeah, he was also in uh Home Alone. He did Happy Parts, Sad Parts, Funny Parts, yeah. Um, you know, uh and actually Dolly Pardon and him had passed on the same day, and Tim Curry's uh family or pub you know public uh speakers. They waited they did they waited, the family waited. That was very, very sweet. That was very respectful because Dolly's Dolly. And and very yeah, yeah. And I know that we already mentioned it, but you know, sorry, my last one I've have to just repeat is my Peter Cullen today, and I'm just not happy about that. So sorry you're gonna hear about it for a while. Actually, there's one more. If we're going back for August, I talked to you about this one. He wasn't on um, he was a political commentator, but he was also one of the first podcasters. He podcasts with um Adam Curry on the No Agenda podcast, and that was John Devorak. Oh, yes, you were telling me about that. He he passed away right while we were getting ready to go to Iceland, so we kind of covered from Iceland on. Yeah. So um I don't I don't remember the exact day, but I know um Adam Curry is known the VJ from MTV. Yeah, he's also known as being the um official father of podcasting. Yeah, he's the one who put it into, and it's actually our style of podcasting, is what he invented was the conversation. Um he he and and he had John Devorak um was his was his you and me. Um they would get together every week, twice a week, and they would and they would talk about theirs was political, yeah, and and newsworthy. I mean, it wasn't all political, but it was newsworthy and political and whatever. I mean where we have made the vow not to be, but I mean, and that's not a bad thing either. But nope. I just it's just amazing at how many icons passed in these last what two weeks. It's yeah, I know. I've I'm done. I'm done after my my Peter College. Well, did you I saw um I think it was on Dolly's day, I saw um that Bruce Willis's family is going to donate his brain to science when he goes I know. Okay, I did not know that. No, I I didn't I couldn't re-find the article, so please don't quote me on this. But I saw um, you know how it pops up on your feed on the on your screen, it popped up and then I touched it, but I it didn't open, but it cleared it. Okay. Okay. So all I read was Bruce Willis's family has decided to donate his brain. Okay. So I'm assuming they're talking about you know, when he goes, and I don't have any details. I'll have to look that up. I'll see if I can find the story. Yeah, okay. But yeah. All right.
Back To Work Feelings And Friend Advice
HeatherWell let's get the five-minute loves and cheer us up here. Okay. All right. So our question this week is for Zia because you are going back to work soon. Your summer is about to be over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they were asking how it feels to see co-workers after the summer away or after vacation. Miss them or not. Oh, I'm going first. Go ahead, you go first. I'm laughing. My answer will be Yes, I'll miss them. Even the ones I don't like, I'll miss because a lot of times they just provide comedy throughout the day because, you know, stomping down the hallway, stomping on the way to the bus, dramatic picking up the key, whatever they're doing. Right, right. Um, so I'm sure a lot of that is um missed. Um but no, I feel um I love my vacations and I love my time away, but I feel like, yeah, I miss people when I'm gone.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherYep. Yeah, it was very good to see people like, you know, I've been in the office two days now, and it's it was very good to see everybody. We're back on the swing of things, you know, and and uh I was gonna say, like you said, you know, even the ones that aren't so sweet and I'm not looking forward to seeing or dealing with, they'd still provide some kind of uh motion to my day. Yeah, I I I just I just can I just can I come on the first day and just be there? You think Todd will let me just sit there the first day? I'll just take you with my phone. I just I just want to be a fly on the wall the first day for something. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. I'll tell you. So Michaela said Okay We're just gonna jump off. Sure, thank you. Michaela says, if you're returning to school, remember if your friends ask you to do something and it gives you the feeling, hey, this doesn't feel right, then you're probably correct and should avoid said instance instead of trying to be cool. Oh, I like that. That's great advice. I agree. Yeah, yeah. You know, yeah, it doesn't matter if you feel comfortable with it or not, we're doing it. No, I'm just joking. Anyway, too bad, too bad. That's great. Yeah, no, um, yeah, really good advice. I love that so much. Um, you know, did anybody notice your haircut? No. What? I cut it too much. People don't. People don't. Yeah, but it looks different this time. But even if they did, who's gonna say anything? Who's gonna say anything? Nobody says anything to me. Yeah, nobody says anything. Yeah, so very good advice. I agree with that. Gut instinct, go with it. Yeah, I agree. 100% I'm gonna take this next one. Do it. Eliza said, plan your outfits in advance. Amen. Amen. All the things. If I don't have if I don't have my outfit hanging out at nighttime for the morning, my my closet will look like a rummage sale. Yep. Um so I know where she gets that from because she had a uniform. So she never had to worry about it.
ZiaYeah.
HeatherUm, and the first I'm she's gonna be mad. I'm sorry. She knows I love her. But when she first went to college, she goes, and I think she said it like being funny, but it's still it still fit perfectly. Yeah. She's like, picking out close to her every day is hard. It is. So you know what, Eliza? Um I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce back for Eliza here. When um we went, I was going from I think it was uh fourth grade to fifth grade or fifth grade to sixth grade, and I was still in New Jersey, and I was like, I'm sick of wearing this uniform. I hate I want to go to public school with my other friend. Um, because I have friends from dancing school and I was like, I want to go to her school. So I went to public school, my mom enrolled me. Uh I went to public school. Uh I had to get clothes because I only had, you know, what you got. And um I lasted three days, went in my closet, I cried, I held on to my uniform, and I was sitting in the bottom of my closet crying that I needed to go back to Catholic school because I was not the fashionista I thought I was. Did you go back to Catholic school? I did. I did. Three days out of uh into public school, my Eliza made it a month and a half, and then she went back to Paris. I understand, Eliza. I understand it. She wanted to go to public school in third grade, so alright. And how bad made it to November. November. How bad? How bad would I l I'd love a uniform now? Yep. Well, it wasn't even just the uniform, she didn't like a lot of what was going on. Yeah, yeah. So they had said, they said to me uh at the school, they were like, um, have a I don't know, like free read, I don't know what it was called, and they're like, have a seat. And I was like, where? They're like, anywhere. Floor, the thing, the table, wherever you want to sit. And I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna be beaten in five seconds if I sit on the table. Uh no, thank you. I feel so uncomfortable on the floor. Yeah, Eliza had a lot of ethical things wrong with school too. Little programmed. Yep. You know what? You turned out great, she turned out great. Yeah, it works. All right, I'm gonna go. Thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying of course I think Eliza turned out. I mean you. I love it.
Stanley Ban And Our Cup Rabbit Hole
HeatherAll right, I'm taking Nicole's because it pisses me off with reading it. And I just got chills again because it pisses me off. Returning to school for work over here. She's a monitor. Yep. We were told or we were told that students cannot have metal water bottles like Stanley's because of a situation last year as it was used to hurt someone. First of all, props for thinking that. Sorry. So my advice is take your plastic water bottle, keep your head down, lip gloss on, and stay out of trouble. Bullshit. If I have a Stanley, my ass is if Rich didn't let me buy all the water bottles I won, I would only have a believe that. So I do understand this because I have had students getting hurt with Andes, I believe she's in middle school. Okay. I believe she's in the middle school. So a little bit harder hit sometimes, you know. Um, I do understand what they're saying for that. I admit it too. But but but that's where discipline comes in. That's where the unaccepting of the hitting and using it as a weapon comes in. You know, go the old fashioned route. You've got hands, you've got legs. You got a backpack, swing that. Yep. We didn't have Stanley's, things happen. So, you know, I mean I might have hit somebody with a Stanley in my classroom or something, but you know. Well back then we didn't get thirsty throughout the day. Then two people would get hurt. Stanley and whoever I. Come here, Stanley. I need you. Come here, Stanley, I need you. Anyway. Oh Walla, come over here. Oh, I come here, Walla. Hey, Yeti, I need your help too. Okay, we've gone down a bad road now. Well, I think that is a shit roll, Nicole. I'm so sorry. Yes. Um I am gonna now take my Stanley to therapy for the next month just in honor of you. I actually take a brew mate, so yeah, that's my friend. I have the I have different ones because you know, I have a yeti. I've never knock on wood because I just don't, you know me. I don't like to fit in. I don't, I've never bought a Stanley, nor do I want one. Nobody send me one. Um I don't want one. No, I don't want a Stanley. Nope, don't want one. I will hand it off. I will re-gift. I will be re-gifting. Did I give you a make yourself Christmas present? A make myself Christmas present? You'll get there, never mind. Oh my god. Not a Stanley, though. Not a put together Stanley? No, no. Pull the straw together. No, not a put no, no, it's okay. Um, I don't want to carry Stanley around if he's my weapon. No, I'm just joking. Um anyway, yeah. Yeah, I do like actually a new cup that I really like. Um, and I actually have one in each size. Um, I brought it, I brought, I brought my bigger one, it's a 20 ounce. I brought it in the car and it was very convenient to drink out of. Um it's called a topple. Yeah, and I'll I'll link them this time. Um you can drink when you when you open it, you can drink from any anywhere on the lip of the cup. Um and you if you're just filling it with water, you don't have to take the lid off. You can pour it into the cup from the top. Oh my gosh, they have their own website. Oh yes, they do. Yep. It's a very cool cup. I have one in each size. Um, I use it for troopy and my what do you call it? And it doesn't spill? Nope. You close it and it doesn't it won't spill out. Um, you open it just a little twist and you drink and it you can drink from any that's why it was great for the car because no matter which way I grabbed it, I didn't have to pay attention. I think I need one of these. Oh, it's it's beautiful. Yep. Oh my gosh. I know I know I you know me. Once I get stuck on a brand, that's who I stick with, and I really love Yeti. I have a lot of Yeti stuff. You do have a lot of Yetis, yeah, but I do love the broommates. The broommates are like my all-time favorite. I carry it around all around the house with my broommate um to drink my water during that day. Yeah. Well, oh my gosh. And they did tall, grande, and venti, really. That's why you like them. Aren't they cute? I really do like them. I like the coat, I like the char not char what color is that? Almond. Oh, see? I like that almond color. I did buy a they had a summer sale. Um, I bought the lavender, of course, for my water. And then I have two of the dark, a small one and a uh grande uh for my coffee. Oh, they also have an olive, a navy. They have your color that I like you in. That that piece. Coral, they do. I see it right here. Yeah. Yep. Alright, we talked enough about cups. I mean, we could still talk about cups. We could still talk about it. Oh, wait, what are they made out of? Can Nicole use this? Hold on. No, they're metal. Are they metal? Yep. Sorry, Nicole. Yeah, but you know what? It's it does not look like a Stanley. It really doesn't. So you definitely could get away with that. Well, it just says she just says students. Yeah, she can take that. It looks like a coffee cup. It does look like a coffee cup. I'll link them. I will link them. And you get 15% off your first order. Yeah, take take a look. I love them. I'll link them and I'm gonna loot link my roommates, and uh we'll throw Yeti in there, and just for you, Heather, I'll I'll throw the Stanley in there too. Nicole gave me my Stanley. She gave it to me for my birthday a couple years back, that big purple one. Yeah, very cool. Nicole gave me that for my birthday. I love that for you. I love that for me too. Not me. I love that for you. Oh boy.
Links We Love And Closing Out
HeatherAll right, guys. We will see you soon. Episode 41 is next. Woo! Yes, yes. All right, love you. Bye.
