What Gives Us the Ick & How the Hell Is It June Already?!

How the hell is it June already?!

This week we're answering some questions and sharing our completely unsolicited opinions on life's little dilemmas. From arriving late and splitting the bill, to social etiquette, expectations and the things that seem to spark a little debate, we're giving our take on it all.

We also chat about the first half of 2026, what's surprised us, what's challenged us and the lessons we're hoping to take into the second half of the year.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Mood Swings with Moen Morgues.

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Where we chat all things womanhood, motherhood, and everything in between. We're a naturopath and a nurse who love an overshare, swapping insights and the occasional tangent.

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From hormones to healing and moments of chaos, nothing's off limits here. So let's get into it. I had I didn't tell you, but the other day Harley and Lani were so naughty. What what were they doing? They were working in cahoots together. They were ganging up on you. Literally, no, ganging up on Cameron. So Cameron bought himself. I'm out of him here right now. He bought himself a big um Maccas family box. Uh-huh. What for himself? Yeah.

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We're gonna add that to the list.

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There was a quarter pounder in there. Lani got it off the table, opened it up, and gave it to Harley. Harley ate the quarter pounder. And Cameron, I because I was out, and then I came home and Cameron goes, Oh, so the dog's eating a quarter pounder, and um we might have to take him to the bed. To the vet. Yeah. Oh my god, he would have been shitting himself the next day. Oh honey. He was. Honey. And when he was trying to do little poo-poos, it looked like he was really hurting in pain. Oh Harley. He's all good now. He's pacing around at the moment because Morgan's taking his spot.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Yeah, he's not happy. He doesn't know where to put himself now. He's like, what's this bitch always coming in and taking my seat? Fuck off.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Um oh my god, I'm actually so excited about this episode because it's a fun one today. We're just gonna do some little fun, like this is just more gonna be like chit-chatty, catching up. Yeah, like life stuff and it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

It's funny. If you if you feel like any of these questions resonate with you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Let's love to hear what your rating out of ten is. Yes. We're gonna be doing a rating out of ten for some of the questions we've formulated and just talk about the la that's the last half, the first half of the year for both of us and how that's been.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Um I can't believe we're in June already. I hate to be that person and be like, oh my god, the year's coming so quickly, but I actually feel like at the beginning of the year. Brother. Brother. We're only just talking about the year of the horse. No, we're fucking halfway through. Well not really, but kind of.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

We haven't been we haven't been trotting, we've been galloping.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Yeah. Uh yeah. What is your mood swing? My mood swing for the week. Yeah. Um well Harley! I just have to join it so bad. Um, this week. Well, I where I'm working at the moment at my new clinic next door, there's this hairdresser, and she is an absolute babe. Like, she's so good. If I could recommend anyone to go to a hairdresser, it's this hairdresser in Paddington. Anyway, anyone that knows me knows that I have like really like curly hair. She's got crazy curls. Crazy curls, like you probably don't believe me, but like they're they're mental. Anyway, any hairdresser that sees me can see it because like the little bits around my hair always start to go like a bit afro-y. What are you doing, Bub? And she kept coming up to me and she was like, You need to come next door and get nano, you need to come next door and get nano. Harley Brother. She wants to be amongst it. Honey bun.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Oh my god.

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That doesn't look very comfortable. Um, anyway, she got me next door, and usually when I leave a hairdresser, like I actually have to restraighten my hair after. Like, they never.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Can I just butt in there and practice with every time you've gone to the hairdresser the last few times? It's been catastrophic for you.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

It has. Like, I looked like my hair was green, and then before Bali.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Like she was beside herself.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Yeah, I was having a mental breakdown. I was like, well, great, like, look at me, I'm fucking ugly.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Every time it's worked out though.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Oh yeah, every time it's worked out, like this time it washed into like this kind of red brown colour, which I'm obsessed with. So yeah, it looks so cute. And I'm loving the what are they called pig details? Because I haven't washed my hair in a week. So fair. Um anywho, it was time for me to try a new hairdresser. I was like, okay, this is scary, but I'm just gonna do it. Oh my god, 10 out of fucking 10. The she did my hair so quickly, like I was out of there in two hours, which might sound a lot to some people, but my hair is so quick. My hair was so smooth, it was so straight. Um, she just did the most perfect cut, but it was so funny because there was someone else in the salon when I was getting my hair done. And I don't know what it is about my hair, but my nose is running. Does it smell? One, it smells when it's straightening, like it smells like it's burning. Two, it creates a lot of smoke. So I don't know if it's the texture of my hair, I don't know if it's what I use in my hair, I don't know. I warned her about it, it always happens, it's always happened. She's a smoky girl. I'm a smoky girl. Anyway, so as she's straightening my hair, the hair selling like is slowly getting more smoky, more smoky, and I'm thinking in my head, this poor other girl is at the fucking basin just inhaling my hair fumes. Yeah, but maybe she didn't mind it. Well, this is the thing. I walked out and then I came back in because I left my water bottle. Hold my nose from and I walked back in and it was like someone had been smoking six cigarettes in there. Like I didn't realise until I walked out and I came back in.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Wait, it smelled like cigarettes?

SPEAKER_02 6:09

No, it was just like really smoky.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

I feel like those places do though, they get so smoky because they're just like using hot irons and products on.

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I felt so bad. I wanted to go through with a bloody fan, fan her out. I was like, this poor other girl didn't know what she was signing up for. Fanning her out. Um, but yeah, that's my mood spring of the week. So now I'm so excited. I haven't I haven't washed it yet, so I don't know what the curl pattern will be like. But I'm really hoping it's relaxed it into like more of a wave, not like a a curl.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Yeah, yeah. Watch this face. I actually need to go and get my hair done again. I just haven't. I've been holding it. You've got curly hair too, don't you? I do have curly curl hair, and my curly hair is like a bit wild in the sense that it's actually like wavy curls, but they don't wave nicely. They wave like here, there, and everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

That's when people say I want curly hair, and I'm like, Yeah, I understand that. I also want curly hair that can be like.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

But I want curly hair that looks like beautiful, freshly done. Or like Kay Hudson, like her like nice stunning, yeah. My mum and my sister have curly hair. Yes, your mum's curls are like gorgeous. Yeah. Mine are just they don't really know if they want to be curly. They're sort of like, oh, I want to be curly, but I also want to be kinked.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

Yeah. Yeah, like you have different curl patterns in all different parts of your hair. That's what I've got. Like certain parts are like really that frizzy, like wiry, and then other parts are really wavy and nice. And I'm like, okay, so if you were all that one part, we could probably rock and roll with this, but you're not.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

And I don't want to wet my hair every single morning to get like a nice curl, which I feel like you kind of need to commit to.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Oh, it's a full, it's a full commitment. Yeah. I see this stuff that they put in their hair, and I'm like, oh no, not for me. It's a full-time job. I just want to put my hair back and just call it a day on my day.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Yeah. I know. I'm like, so I always say, I'm like, I'm such a low maintenance person. Why was I born with such high maintenance hair?

unknown 8:14

Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Well, my mood swaying today. Oh my god, I always get to this point and I'm like, wait, I did have one and it's just like it slipped your mind. It's literally just ran out of my brain because it's so scared. Um well, mine's a bit of a Debbie Dana, but my my son has bloody hand, foot, and mouth. I'll get in. It's just cooking it because it was like all in his mouth, and um we ended up having to go to hospital because his he wasn't like eating and drinking, and just ended up having to have like this xylocaine viscous, which they put in his mouth to help like numb his mouth, which was so good. He needed that because otherwise he wouldn't have tolerated food or drink. But um, he's on the men now. But oh my god, this is probably the roughest he's had it. He looks he literally looks like riddled with it. Even this morning, Morgan was like, Hi sweetie, don't touch me.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

I've like got a toy in between me and like look at your toy, look at the toy.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Because I would hope for him to think that I'm saying don't touch me, but I'm saying don't touch me. A hundred percent. But you know, if you've had it as a kid, you should be good.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

Yeah, I don't know if I did have that kid.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

I don't know if it's like you know, hand hygiene, all that stuff, yeah, you'll be good. But yeah, that's mine, and I I don't really need a harp on that because poor honey bun.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

He no, the thing that is good though is he's looking as cheery as ever.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Oh my god, no, you wouldn't even know, yeah, other than the obvious like spots all over his body. Yeah. But he he's just like his happy little Larry self. So that's good. He wasn't a few days ago, but he's definitely on the mend, which is nice. But I think it's like actually going around. I think all of um like my friends have one of my girlfriends, her son's got it. But like they went to her first birthday party, and like I think a few of them have it now. Yeah, okay. Just spreads up wild parts. I know it does. Well, you know, they share each other's saliva and shit, and that's how it goes. That's how it gets passed on through like contamination. Yeah. Of like saliva, you know, like putting toys in their mouths and stuff. Like you can see how quickly things can be. But you know what? It's so good for their I know it sounds crazy, and it's like right now we're in the thick of it, but it's so good for their immune system because all that we're doing is helping build their immune system to get to a state that can fight you know, disease and infection and illness uh much faster. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think about it that way. A little nerve sprain coming out there, but I want to get right into this because I'm actually so excited for this. So um we're doing it a rate it out of ten, and I've got my laptop just beside me, but I just um because I needed to have the things that I was gonna forget. Yeah. But so essentially we're gonna rate it out of ten. Each of us are going to give our number, and then we're gonna give our reasoning as to why we rated it out of ten. Um, so that you guys can know. And then if you want to get involved, let us know. Yeah, tell us what your fucking numbers are, yeah, and tell us your reasons. Um so okay. First one is pretty hot off the press.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Yeah. I can't read a problem without my glasses, so I'm like, yep.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Okay, do you want to reread it? Yeah, go. Okay. So rate it out of ten. People who don't reply for five business days when you know they're active. And that they've definitely seen like they've definitely seen the message.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Yeah. Yeah, they just haven't replied. Five business days, that's a lot. Okay, so then ten, ten would be like ten's like we're talking best. One's like so ten's fine.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Ten's good.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Alright, I'm gonna rate it. I'm gonna rate it five business days. I'm gonna rate it a three.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

I think it's a lot. I think five business days are.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

So we're we're talking, we're talking low end of the spectrum. We're talking like it doesn't actually don't really like. It doesn't impress me. It doesn't impress me. Okay, okay. Why doesn't it impress you?

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Well no, give me your number first.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

Oh, you want me to go? Okay. My number is uh look I think like we were talking earlier, it depends on the situation, but it does irk me a bit. I think now knowing like how what busy life is really like. So I'm gonna say I'm pretty low down there too. Yeah, 3.5.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

3.5. And I guess yeah, you're coming at it from the perspective of mums as well. Whereas I don't have that many mum friends, so like if it's a mum and I know that they've got like a newborn or something, oh sweetie, you've got a whole pass. Like if you don't reply to me for five months, you're fine. Like, I actually don't mind. I'm talking about like the general.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Yeah, like when I I don't know, I mean, we're all so guilty of it. Like, I definitely don't reply to people straight away, or I do go to reply, but then like, say for example, Lani will be like standing on a table and about to fall off, and I'm gonna, you know, go in an emergency save him and then uh leave the message and then forget to reply.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

That's but you would take like then a day max to reply, like you would never take five days.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

Nah, not five days, maybe three at max.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Yeah, you know what sometimes happens to me though, and I'm guilty of forgetting to reply, and then someone will send me a reel. I'll reply to the reel, and then it dings in my brain that I forgot to reply to the message.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I feel like that you're acknowledging.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

And then I quickly reply to the message straight away. Because I'm like, oh fuck, that actually literally slipped my brain.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Yeah. Yeah. Look, five days. I think if we're just gonna talk general, I think five days, if it's a good friend, I think is too long. There you go. That's what I'm just gonna call it.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Let's let's see what the people say. Um, alright, being the first person to arri arrive at an event.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Are we can we look at this from like the person say holding the event and then the person like you're attending the event? Yes. Those two perspectives.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Alright, so being the first person to arrive at an event as an attendee.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Oh, it's shit. Like, I don't like it because I'm so awkward. So I'm just gonna say like the bottom. Like so one. Well, no, like a three again. A three. I'm sitting on the three. Yeah, three. Like that's not great. Like, especially if you go by yourself.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Yeah, true. No, okay, so for me, I think I'm I'm in the middle. I'm five.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Yeah, because you're a big little chatter.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Well, yeah, and I'd rather be first to an event than last.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

I agree. I want to sit in the middle. If I'm going to.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

So yeah, so perfect, perfect would be like I'm not the first, but I'm not the last. Yeah. And I do think and now that we're anywhere in between that, I could be the second last. I'm happy.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

But the last is like fuck.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

But the last is like, what are you doing, bro?

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Yeah, what are you doing? Like, it's almost a bit dis disrespectful a little bit. Yeah, I think so. But actually now, like now that we've spoken about it, I kind of want to up my answer a bit because why are we still trying to play a little bit too cool for school? Like, you should be eager to be there. 100%. Yeah, so I want to change my answer actually. Okay, flipping.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

What do you what number are we putting?

SPEAKER_02 16:23

Five. Still not up, up. Just because I'm so awkward. That's why. If I'm drunk, I'm fine. But like if I rock up so much the event, especially if I'm not super close with the person, I'm probably just gonna feel a little bit awkward cookie.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

Yeah, but I mean, like, who doesn't feel awkward?

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

You know, you're in that period where people are still maybe getting shit sorted at the event or that's good. So yeah, I think like again, silver linings. Yeah. Silver linings are everywhere. I'm really loving silver linings.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

And do you know what to flip it? Like the event that we just um had the Her Seasons trial event. The first person that comes, you're so excited because you're like, Yes, oh my god, people are starting to arrive. So if you flip it on its head, and now that I've had an experience on the other side.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

First person to arrive.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

It's a 10 out of 10 feeling.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

It's like fuck yeah, like yeah, it's like, okay, I'm actually not flopping here.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Yeah, like people are actually going to come. Like I think Caitlin was the first to come to she was, and I was like, yeah, and I was so excited, and I ran over to her. It's like, yeah, 10 out of 10. Like, if I'm holding the event, this is so hypercritical. If I'm holding the event, I want you there first. Run there.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

If you're there last, you chip in my books.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

You might as well not come.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

I mean, someone always has to rock up last. So not actually chin my books, but just remember drink or don't come. Um sharing your location with friends. This is a big yes for me. Fucking 10 out of 10. I'm a 10 out of 10.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

10 out of 10. I love seeing where they are, I love seeing what they're doing. Quite often on the weekend, I'll zoom into everyone's friends and be like, they're at home, they're at home, they're at home. I can just chill out nicely at home. Like, no one's hanging out without me.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Like, why are they all together? Why am I at home and they're all at this location? What the fuck is that? That would make me sad. No, I like it, um, and it's actually helped me in so many situations having people have me on Find My Friends because you know, I'm a really bad person for forgetting my phone. Yeah, and the amount of times I've been able to retrieve it because someone has me on Find My Friends, and they've been able to find my exact location has been life-saving. Yeah. Also, when I see Cameron is like on the highway, I'm like, okay, cool, he's gonna be home at this time. It helps me plan a little bit. I don't think I like dinner, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Like start cooking dinner, start, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yeah. And um, even like the other day, Cameron had a box and he was like looking at uh one of our friends' locations, and he was like, Oh, he's still gonna be ages, so he just hung around home, and then I dropped him to our friend's place to like go with them. But we could time it all so much nicer rather than like being like should we go now? Should we wait? Like, we could really line it up to the T.

SPEAKER_02 19:40

No, I love it. But do you know what? But some people don't like it. I was gonna say, like, another flip is like I haven't really been in that many long-term relationships, but say one guy I was dating for six months, and then I was like to him, Oh, do you think we should like have each other on by my friends now? And you know what he said to me? He goes to me, Why the fuck would I do that? Like he like full blew up about it. Really? And I thought to myself, I was like, Am I being weird? I didn't say anything because like, oh okay then. And then after I thought, that's such a red flag. Because like, why would there be such an issue?

SPEAKER_01 20:19

I feel like sometimes though, people do want they feel like it's an invasion of privacy, which I mean, I hate to brag to you, but you probably got Snapchat location on, you've probably got fucking like there's so many things that violate your privacy, and also that you probably don't even realise at least this is consensual, like people are consenting for you to follow them, whereas like people can look literally look at your geotags on Instagram and stuff. Like, how do you think people discover people having infidelity in relationships because they can they're fucking sleuth, like there's so many ways.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

And I also think like look, this might might be controversial, but I think if you're not willing to share your location, then you're up to something sneaky, straight up. Because like if you're in a relationship and you can't share your location, you're definitely up to something sneaky. Because my next relationship, we're in the car, it was so funny, I remember. And the Uber driver was like, Oh, make sure you stays stay safe out there, blah blah blah. And then my other partner was like, Oh yeah, that's a good point. Like, should we share location? I was like, Yeah, that is a really good point. We should. It was like such a green light. I was like, I like you. Um, and then yeah, same deal. Like you can see if they're at work, like you can see if they're like, you know, you're ready to come over, yeah, all of those things. So yeah, I think in this day and age, it's such a fucking green light.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Also, it's been actually so fun looking at locations and like seeing who's in different countries, yeah. And then being like, oh my god, what the helly? Yeah, my friend is in Bali a little. Do you want to go get a frozen mark?

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Yes, wait.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

No, I'm like, I'm in good job.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Because I've seen that they're in the same location as me. I'm like, hell yeah. So I have so many people. I think I've got like 30 people on my Find My Friends.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Do you know what's so funny? I remember when you added me on Find My Friends. I was at the um playground with these little kids I was nannying, and all of a sudden I just got this request for you to have me on Find My Friends, and I was like, oh that's cute. She wants to know where I am. I don't have that many people. I think I have like five.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Well, that's still fine. Yeah. All the all the important things. Right, right, right. Alright, let's move forward. Okay. Repeating outfits for events.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Oh my god, I'm gonna have to out myself here. You go first. Okay, I'm a six for this. I'm I'm sad with my answer, but I have to answer truthfully. And I'm only answering for myself, not other people. But I don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

You don't repeat outfits. I don't know. I don't often, but I'd I I I'm all for it because I'm for it in theory, but I would never do it.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

So like that make that sounds horrible. I'd for me personally, I'd rate it a two.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

A two. So you'd never you'd never repeat outfits.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

For a big and for a big event, probably not.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Probably not. And I don't even like to admit that, but I would just feel I don't know, that's so bad.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

And do you know what I don't understand? Is like why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we not want to outfit repeat? I feel like it's because we see all these other people around us that have like these really stunning new outfits for every event. Yes. And you don't want to look like that girl that's like, oh, she's outfit repeating again.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

And I who the fuck is realizing? Like, I would never actually maybe I probably would realize if it was a nice outfit because I'd think, oh, I've seen that before because I really like it. Yeah. You know what I think we should bring back actually? Sharing outfits. Like I feel like we don't do that enough anymore. Like borrowing friends' clothes, which are you see that all the time.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

It's because like everyone just wants to have their own style, but like again, the world's just so full of copycats. Oh yeah. You might as well just embrace copying each other and whatever.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

Oh yeah. If I like something, I'll ask I well, I'd probably say I probably wouldn't ask to borrow it anymore, which is so bad. I'd probably just go and buy it. Like, what's with that? Whereas back in the day we used to borrow.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

But I remember when borrowing was a thing and then someone would fuck up your outfit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Really?

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Really, Lisa? That's true. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

You got fucking red wine all over my scar. And I would be the person that gets red wine all over scared.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

But yeah, outfit repeating for me personally, low.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

No, I love an outfit repeat. I love an outfit repeat. I don't give a fuck. Good. That's yeah, I love that energy. Because sometimes I actually cannot be asked to go to the shops and find an outfit. And I'm especially right now, I just don't have the energy or time to buy things online because I'm like, oh, that's not gonna look good on me if I buy it. It's not gonna so I'm just like, let's just let's just smack this one out again. Yeah, bring it out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

Well, you always look so stunning. You do thank you.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

You do. Thanks, sis.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

The dress that you wore to Tani's that you borrowed from your mum. That was stunning.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

Oh my god, yeah. See? Oh, bring the borrow back. Yeah, but borrow it from your mum. Bring the burrow back. Let's bring back. I'm obsessed. Well, vintage is back. I love vintage back. Bring it from your parents' wardrobe.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

I'm not sorry, mum loving you, but I'm fucking not bringing anything from your tie-dye wardrobe. No.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Alright, splitting the bill evenly when you only ordered chippies and a coke.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Um again, circumstantial.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Circumstantial for sure. Like if you're splitting the bill evenly and you've only bought like one thing that maybe costs $20 on the menu, but like the rest of the crew has had like four cocktails, yeah, you know, oysters, all of that jazz. And then you're splitting it evenly. Like for me, I'd be uh I I'd like I'm a four. That's that's a bit shitty, but I wouldn't be like, oh my god, sorry. I can't pay that.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

I would I think if I got Coke and fries, I would expect my friends fries. Love love me at Coke and fries. I would expect Coke and fries payment. Yeah, I'd expect who I'm with to be like, you only got that, you pay for that and then we'll split. But in general, like if you're going out and everyone's drinking and everyone's eating, if you're itemizing the bill after that, that's an ick for me.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Okay, well that was the next one, which is itemizing the bill in a big group. Ick. Unless okay, so unless someone's like, I'll just cover it all and we'll divvy it up later. Love that energy. Then I'm like, it's a bit, you know, sitting around at a table, usually when you're all bruised up, everyone's like, it's it keeps vibing high. No one wants to sit there writing on the thing, going, oh, this is this is blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

This is this, like and then the last person always gets stitched up because no one adds on whatever it is, GST or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

So I would just be like, I'll get the bill, yeah, and then get the receipt, and then in your group chat, because surely you've got a group chat if you're having a big boozy lunch, then you can do it the day after when everyone's not so high on life. Yeah. Be like, okay, who got this and that and what and who and who and where and why?

SPEAKER_02 28:21

And then that would kill me. Like if I was at a lovely, lovely lunch and I just wanted to relax and have had three cocktails and I'm enjoying this gorgeous food, and then someone brings out the bill and starts fucking divvying it up, I'd be like, way to ruin the moon. Way to ruin the moon. You know what? And also, but on the flip side, like being with people, like if you're in an environment where you're wanting to split the bill, not having to then chase people up for payment.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Do you know what I mean? Like, okay, someone put it fucking probably $2,000 down on their card, have the respects the next day to pay it quite quickly. Obviously, don't pay it drunk that day. But like But like the next day, like kind of make it a priority. It's not a Monday job, it is a it is a Sunday job because they've they're probably waiting for that money to come back into their account. So that's like kind of the flip side of that, I think.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Being late to everything. This is a huge like controversial. Oh, it's contra. It's very contra.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

I think in general for me it's a two.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

It is a two for me too.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Yeah. I'm naturally very early past.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

I actually get the ick if you people are like late, but not late, just like here and there, late all the time.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Yeah, it's not. But you know what?

SPEAKER_01 29:40

And and when I mean like late, not like five minutes.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

No, no. I mean like half an hour, 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

That's when when it gets into the half an hour stage, that's when it's like what we're doing. Yeah, yeah, definitely. What were you doing? But there's also this series, supposedly. Now you could prove me wrong here because I don't know your birth story, but if you were born earlier on time, this is like a wives' tale. Okay. You're early, but if you were born late, you're more naturally late. When were you born? Were you born earlier?

SPEAKER_01 30:16

That must be a wivesy. No, I was born at like 6 p.m. at night.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

No, no, no, but I mean for your due date.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

Oh do you know like early, like early in the morning. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, your due date. Oh, I don't know. I snuggled in. I don't know. Well ask your mum. Yeah, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to ask her. Yeah, ask her.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Because I was born really early and I'm always like naturally a very early person. Okay.

unknown 30:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

So maybe there's something to be said there.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

I don't know that that theory is like, yeah, well, we can we can roll with it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

I'm just throwing it out there, you know. I'm not telling you it's factual. But yeah, in general, like I think life's busy, respect people's time, respect people's energy, like be on time.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

That's my general consensus there.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

Um being late to every oh, I've done that one.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Sweetie, we've been there.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Taking your own snacks to the movies. 10 out of fucking ten. Oh do you know what? I'm a ten out of ten, and I've taken a full-blown meal with my mother-in-law. Her and I took in these like chicken stir-frying noodles.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Yes! Easily! I bring snacks, meal, everything. And it was just delicious. And then you like through the eating, and you know when they walk past and do like we had bowls, we had forks, we fully like we had the whole set. And you can know the smells just wafting through the whole place, and I've got no problem.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Where's the Asian fishing coming from?

SPEAKER_02 31:54

Me and Charlie, because we love going to the movies, and we always bring a really big bag, and we think that we're like actually breaking the law. Like, we're like, can they smell our food when we go in?

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yeah, well, you know what? It's just so expensive sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 32:08

We paid $20 for two frozen cokes.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

What? Yeah, they're fine. That's crazy. Yeah, it's just a bit of syrup with icy water.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

Could have gone to Mackey D's and got uh for two dollars.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

100%. That's ludicrous. Okay. Turning up empty handy uh empty-handy. Turning up empty-handy. Turning up empty-handed after being told don't bring anything.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

To like a cheese and wine night or like a dinner party or something.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Well, you know what? I'm I'm a five to six here, and because if someone has told you don't bring anything, like it's up for interpretation.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Very much so. Yeah. I think I have turned up empty-handed when someone says don't bring anything, but I would like to think I shouldn't do that. Like, I would like to think 80% of the time I do but just bring something out of politeness.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:06

I would say oh, I'd probably say it's like a a four.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

I for me, I'm just like someone who says, Oh, don't bring anything. I'm gonna take them for that. Because me, if that was me and I said don't bring anything, that's exactly what I'm saying. Don't bring anything.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

I don't I'm just like not someone who's into the cryptic conversation. Like, oh don't bring anything, but like really actually do bring something. I'm not sure. Oh, I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

I know. And I say don't bring something out of politeness, and I probably don't want you to bring anything because it's gonna ruin the vibe I've got going.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

If I like if I'm if I if someone asks me, I'm like, oh completely up to you, but you don't have to bring anything. Like I I've got stuff, but if you want to, up to you. Then you're leaving that open.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Then I would definitely, without a doubt, bring something. But no doubt in my mind.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Okay, okay. Yeah. So the way you would see that is like she's saying. She's saying bring something. Right. Yeah. So you're a cryptic thinker. Yes, I am. Do you think people are speaking to you in hidden images?

SPEAKER_02 34:17

No, but I just think I don't ever want to upset someone, so I would always do the thing that I think that they would want out of me. No. So it's usually to bring something. Do you know what I mean? Even though I wouldn't expect that. Yeah. And I also read a book once that said you should never turn up to someone's house empty-handed. Well, the four agreements.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Keep saying empty-handy. How empty-handy are we?

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Are we talking? Well, like you can just bring a bottle of wine and just share it, you know what I mean? Oh yeah. Perfect. Yeah, or do you just bring a a bag of chips? Like it doesn't have to be extravagant. I'm not talking like fucking botanica salad here. You can bring that too if you'd like. But if that is definitely not you would be bringing it. That is the biggest green flag for me. Anyone that I always say botanica salad because I don't want to cook, but like anyone that brings me a botanica salad, I'm like green flag. Green flag out of ten. And if it involves the potato salad with the peas. Even bigger green flag.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

She's in love with this.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Yeah. I'm you're yeah, exactly. No comment there.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

Oh, this is my favourite one. This is my favourite one. And yes, it's it's it's huge. Okay. Whinging about a bar tab when you didn't put any money on it.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Yes. Oh my god, I'm not gonna name names.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Oh, that's ick. Ick.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

So it's like people when people are like they're like, oh, I don't drink beer or wine.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Don't you beer and wine. Well, you know what? Buy your fucking spirits then.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

That's yeah, that is loader? That's a one. That's a one when someone can.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

Actually, a one for me.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

Because I don't even expect a bar tab ever.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

You know what? You should be grateful that someone's put in money for you to consume alcohol. How much even is a bar tab? Like you put on one. That would be expensive. For our wedding party, we had a bar tab of like to begin with, two and a half grand. We ended up putting another two and a half grand on it. I didn't have. We had.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

And you weren't drinking because you were pregnant.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yeah, I was a I was pregnant. So I was I was making all my friends and family enjoy themselves, and I was just having non-alcoholic cordial in the corner. Like I can't even remember it. Make it make sense to me. Make make that actually make sense. Yeah, honey bun. Why do we do that? Why do we always put a bar tab on for people? I think it it I don't know, it's one of those controversial ones.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

I don't think I personally like just to sprinkle my fingers in here. Sprinkle sprinkle my fingers. I don't think that anyone really expects it. Like I think it's a lovely gesture and it's amazing. And I think if I had something, I definitely would do it. But no one expects it.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

I know for a fact. And because I've I've been there before. When there's been a bar tab, I'm like, oh, I'm taking this to full advantage. So I will I will I would double park in a previous time, honestly. Not right now. Not right now. Um but I would l like I would I would go back to back to back to back and I'd end up getting fucking trolleyed.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Trollied. No, see what I do is I accidentally get two trolley too quickly on the wine, so I'll have like three or four in the first hour, but then I flick to the cocktails because I'm so drunk, so the bar tab I'm no longer using. And then all of a sudden I just get extra trolley because I almost like pre-drunk for free. And then I start spending like seven million dollars on all these fucking cocktails, and I'm like, well, that was fun. Um but yeah, don't love a don't love a whinge about a bar tab, like move the fuck on.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Like when someone's like, Oh, they don't have spirits on there. Well, I mean, like, imagine if they did have spirits. The time it would take for a bar tab to like be out would double.

SPEAKER_02 38:12

Yeah, nah.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

You would instead of it being like a bar tab available for like three hours, it would be literally 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

Yeah, no, not a fam. Then the party would be over and we'd all be going home. And I had a fucking hoot your wedding party.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

I'm so glad you did. I had a fucking hoot. I remember.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

I had an absolute ball. That was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

I love that night. I remember hearing stories because I went home. I like tried so hard. I was also 30 weeks pregnant at this point. I can't believe you did your whole like engagement, wedding, fucking pens. All of it was meant to be like being party woo. And I just I missed it all. But that's okay. I don't actually, I'm not sad about that.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

No, because you remember it all because we all know what you're like when you can drink. Oh man. You wouldn't have remembered anything.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

That's what we need. You'll find my friends. Yes. I need to find my friends on me. Yes. Someone, like, if I don't have my phone on me, I need like a chip so someone can see where I am.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

And a chip on all your cards.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

A chip on everything. For the people who know me on a personal level, they'll know that I am a boomerang. Like, I just go somewhere and then like make my way back.

SPEAKER_02 39:26

Yes. Eventually.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Eventually. People are like, oh, where's Mo? Oh, she's somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

She'll be back. And then you'll just grab and walk in a really, really fast place.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Like, where are we going? Just come. Like, okay. We found some friends. Alright, what it'll be.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

So good. What are we doing? So good. Do we want to? Well, I kind of really, now that we've done our questions, which was fun. Yeah. I just want to quickly touch on this past year and like kind of if you could take Oh my god, it's raining.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

I know. It was sunny. It's been so miserable this week.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

I've actually been loving it. Which is so weird because usually I hate rain.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

Yeah, I'm not a fan either.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Um, so I was just thinking, because I was driving in my car the other day and I was thinking, oh my god, we're already halfway through the year. So I just wanted to touch on like maybe if you could in one simple kind of sentence or so tell me your biggest learning in the last six months. Oh my god. That you're gonna take into the next six months to make sure it's like as amazing as possible. That I don't know, right?

SPEAKER_01 40:38

That's a that's a that's a I'm put on the spot on the street. I have one. I'm getting stage right. If you want me to. Well, you tell me what you think for me, and then I'll tell you what I think for you.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Oh god, that's fucking hard. Actually, no, you know what? I reckon this one actually does work for you in this sense. No, okay, this is what I was gonna say, and it works. Okay. Stop treating everything like it's an emergency. Me. Well, I was also saying to me as well, but like, t there's no need. You feel like this. This is my advice to myself, actually, first. No, but like it's like things only treat emergencies that are emergencies, everything else. Take time with it. Like it nothing, it it isn't urgent. Nothing's urgent.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

Right. So you're talking like life doesn't have to be so rush.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

Yeah, yeah. Like I like keep the nice momentum, keep everything, but it doesn't. This is also really advanced for myself, but I was just pushing on you. So if this doesn't hit, that's fine. I was like, wait, what? Like, say my like a good example was getting all my tax stuff done. I've been so it organized with it this year, but like I've been doing myself little end of months, and I didn't do it on you know, June 1st this time. I was treating it like it was an emergency, and it's like honey bun, it's fine. You've got time, it's fine. If you do it on June 5th, it's still gonna get done. Yeah, like stop stop creating these little mini emergencies throughout the day that you they're not emergencies, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

I see, I see there's no there's no need to make it a bigger deal than what it is, it will always get done, like you will always do things.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

Yeah, for sure, you will.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

Yeah. That was my advice for the first half of the year going into the second half of the year.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

My advice for the first half of the year going into the second half is I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 42:43

Well that's you can bring it if you look. You can sit on it, you can bring it next week if you really want to. Do you know what?

SPEAKER_01 42:48

Yeah, I think because I've got lots of little things going on, like uh projects, and you know, I'm doing her seasons and La Blani and mood swings and working. I think having not structure, but having a bit more of a of a plan that helps me with my flow and not feel so like disoriented, like scattered a bit. Yeah, so like on Fridays, we know that in the mornings on Fridays, this is what we do, we do mood swings. Yeah, that's my chunk of of this priority for for the week. Yeah, and then like, say for example, with my love Lani stuff, like carving out some time so that I don't feel like I have to do it all at once or have to do like just focusing my energy on things in sh small short bursts rather than like making it consume all of my time. So I've got a little bit more on balance. Yeah, balance, yeah, yeah, love that, love that. And and it's actually been yeah, it's been nice. And it is a bit crazy, like we are very different people though. Menu in that respect. Like I I ha I'm I've I've taken on board a lot of how you work and cause I'm like I I need a plan in the rounds. But I don't need to plan that far in advance. But do you know what's funny?

SPEAKER_02 44:23

I used to be like I know you won't believe it, but I used to be like a freak with planning in advance. And I think I was just getting sick to death with the fact that I was putting all of this energy into planning and things never actually went to plan. And I was like, Do you know what? I'm not doing this anymore. And I obviously always try and keep a structure, and if I put my name down to something, I'll always commit to it.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

But no, I'm not a big planner anymore. No way.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

I'm still a very big planner.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

Like you should see my her seasons. Like I've made a fully made, like a big event production dossier. So fun seems to be. Oh whoa, you look creamy. Something that I can use for all of the events because obviously that's something that I know that's going to be structured. It's going to be every three months thereabouts. So I felt I even though I've got this one in July, I plan for the one in October as well. Now, start that production now. So then it just feels like so much less stress. Yeah. I don't have to worry about finding location. I don't have to worry about finding vendors because I've already got those organized. It just means more like how can we finesse that to make it come together and to be just like spectacular.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

And I love that because I feel like you also remove the like remove the risk of human error. Whereas I think my life every day has multiple admin errors, because let's be honest, I'm fucking bing bingbong. And if I had more systems and plans in place, it would remove that.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

But that's all a part of life, right? We always can make improvements, we always can do adjustments, make changes, we always love feedback. Yeah. And that's the same with like m doing Love Lani. Like, even though Love Lani is an online e-commerce store, I still need to do things to improve its functionality, its flow. Like, you can't just, it's not just like a set and forget.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

No.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Or you figure out that, like, okay, for me to be able to help with invoicing and all of that stuff, I need to like connect zero, blah blah blah. Do all of these things that help with a bit of like semi-automation to help your life.

SPEAKER_02 46:40

And then when Tax Man comes around, you know that you're doing everything right because even though I've got my systems no Billy Bills this year. Yeah, I don't know if I'm getting a tax bill. We're just so known for poor Charlotte's fit off track, but we really want to go to Sri Lanka at the end of the year. And I said to her, Honey bun, can we just get through tax time before I put my name into a big holiday?

SPEAKER_01 47:01

The tax man might be chasing you.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

Yeah, doubt it. Don't know if we've been making my millions just yet.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

But we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 47:08

You're like. I almost hope the taxman does chase me because it means I've been earning enough money to be taxed.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Well, this one has just sort of been more of a so fun. I think I loved it. I loved it.

SPEAKER_02 47:23

I love it. I love how we turned into a bit more of an ick.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Oh, it was fully we were just all icked out. None of them. Well, there was only like maybe three or three that were major wins there. But mostly the ones that we had in there were all ickes. Yeah, ick. I'm icked out. Alright. We'll see you again for another episode. Thanks for listening, guys. Have a good weekend.