The things that are saving our lives right now

In this episode, we're sharing our favorite beauty, wellness and everyday favorites we can't live without.

We're talking:

The products we keep reordering

What's actually worth the hype

Our current beauty routines

And we throw in some fun thoughts on Mother's Day and aging well.

Links to all our products on our Amazon Affiliate link in the bio. 

Transcript

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Hi everyone, welcome. We have been thinking about this episode for a long time, maybe forever. We're so excited to be able to actually be doing it together in person.

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In person.

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And today we are going to talk about our favorite things: all things beauty, health, wells, what things we're using a daily basis, what things are saving our lives and helping us out. And so we're so excited. But first, I have a gripe. Tell me more. Okay. Mother's Day is coming up in the real world. And I have a problem with the way Mother's Day is going. I sort of feel the same way. So fill me in on what's happening with you. Okay. So first on the Friday before Mother's Day, all the moms at my daughter, my youngest school, we have to like go out and get our kids whatever they want, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle in the middle of the day. Right. That's what moms do. Everything's right. Right. Like the school can't give us muffins after drop-off. Like no. So we get to get up, we have to get them their order, and then we have to take it to their school at lunchtime and eat lunch with them in the middle of the day. I don't understand outside of having lunch with them what the advantage was for you. I mean, she's very excited to see me. That's it. But like I do that on a normal weekend. I had to do all the work. As I'm also curious, so with that said, what does the rest of that weekend, what does it look like? Then Saturday, I'm glad you brought that up. Saturday is the father-daughter dance for Girl Scouts, in which the moms have to work. Because again, this sounds really amazing for moms. Yeah, it's everything I've ever wanted. That plus an early baseball game for my oldest guy, moms for moms, you know, where moms have to be up at 6 a.m. and get their kids to sit in the hot stands. Yes. So they can strike out. So what do we think Mother's Day really should be? Like, what is your ideal? What is if you everything went your way? What does it look like? Hot take, it's when my kids are not there. Yes.

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Fair enough.

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Exactly. So why is it everything they're trying to plan everything around the kid? I don't know. I'm like, no, I want quiet time by myself. Yes. I'm gonna give you a list of all the things to do, and I just want them to be done. Yeah, I don't want to be in my house without you. Yes. And I love you. And by the way, I actually I'm not a one that needs gifts. That's not that's not my love language. My love language is acts of service. So like the laundry being done, that would mean more to me than a present. I do, I will say this. I also love cards because I think when someone goes and picks a card, yeah, I or when I go pick a card for something, I really take it into consideration. And so I will say my my husband and my children recognize this, and so they put a lot of time into the card part, and I that means a lot to me too. I don't think my husband does not think about cards, he could live without ever receiving a card, so I don't think he cares about cards, but I also don't know what my love language is. I think is my is silence one of the love languages? No, but but it should be it, should be. I don't like any of those. I don't need access service, I don't need gifts, I don't need work. Just one piece, just keep it quiet. Yeah, how take note, family. Yes. Okay, the other question I wanted to ask you how far are you willing to drive to pick something up from Facebook Marketplace? Oh, I'm not never? I've never I gotta be honest. I no, I've been over it for a while. I I just don't do it. I don't do it anymore. And most recently, I sold something on Marketplace, and the person came to pick it up, and she was very wack-doo. And why are you engaging? You just leave it outside. No, no, no, no. This is one of those things that they had to undo the legs, it's massive. She had to take it out of the house, like it was a desk and chair and such. Okay, and she comes in, and I don't know what it is about my face, but it must scream, let me be your therapist because she says, Oh my gosh, I've been through this, I've been through that, I moved in this house, that give me your whole story. 30 minutes were going on, and I was like trying to hurry up. And then she's like, I don't know if it's gonna fit in my car. I don't have anybody to help me carry it. So here I am carrying it and talking to her and all the things. Luckily, she flagged down, she flagged down three men that were doing the yard at my neighbor's house and got them to come to my house to help carry and put it in the car. And I was a genius. Like, I don't even know how then hold on, it gets better. Oh my god, I love it. It's better. So she leaves, she starts like rapid fire texting me on messenger, and she's like, I left my keys to my house in your house, and I know I did, and then I was like, ma'am, like let me promise you, I have gone through my house, my yard, your keys are not here. She comes back to the house, okay, and I catch her at the front door, and she tries to push her way in the front door. What? And I was like, Absolutely not, your keys are not here, and I just shut the door and locked. Oh my god, yeah. Oh, I feel it's like you have to call the police. I know it was very close. It happened. Oh my god. That's sort of where I'm at with Mark Handle Blake. Yeah. I I usually don't engage with people, but I I mean I do buy, so like it's a good deal, it's a good deal. Agreed, but there's a you know, there's a limit. Like if they're like, I live here, and it's like I think probably 12 minutes is the distance. Yeah, you go. So if over the past few episodes, you've posed some questions to me. Okay. So now I'm gonna give you one. Oh, because a lot of our listeners have sent me a few things and they have like so many questions after the sports bra wearing and all that, right? So that is like definitely gone to a next level. So, first one I got was do you wear underwear with your leggings? Yes, I do. I do wear underwear with my leggings because like then it's just weird. There's like you're gonna be sweating, there's like there's a gap area. You can't have a gap, you're gonna keep things contained. I don't wear underwear with your leggings? Never, never have weird. I think it's because I've been a dancer, I was a dancer, and you just don't wear underwear at all ever. Oh my god. Ever. I didn't know that. Yeah, you don't wear underwear. Okay, can I tell you something? I was at an exercise class. I'm not gonna say what exercise. I was at an exercise class in which I did need to wash my sports bra afterwards. Oh, thank God. But the instructor, who's like a very thin, like one of those very long, thin people, and she was like demonstrating the move we were about to make. And okay, have you seen the under or the underwear or the insert where it like is supposed to prevent camel toe? And it's like this, yeah, it's this giant like silicone thing. But I've always been like, why do people need that? Why is that a thing? I am I'm mortified. Okay, this person doing this move needed that thing. Never have seen this. Oh, you've got to look them up. I don't even think I can Google that on my computer. Campbell thoughts you'll probably get black at work. Oh my gosh. Okay, so leggings aside, this is more of like a house thing. Sheets and towels. Okay. How many times are you like when do you wash your sheets? Like once a week, once a month, what do you do? And then towels, is it every time you use a towel? Do people wash their towels every time? I do not, but I just was curious, like, what's your what's your limit? It's probably towels, maybe three or four days. Okay, give or take. Sheets, not every week, but every week-ish. Okay. I was like every other week on the sheets. Yeah. And then every I'm every other one on the towel. My husband's probably every three times. Every three days. Do you wash your towels with vinegar? No. You gotta do it. You gotta add like the smell of vinegar. You don't smell it. So you know how where you put the fabric softener in your machine, do half fabric softener, half white vinegar, and it does it makes the towels where they absorb like you're at the roots carleton. Like it re-invigorates that wow absorption. Gotta try. And it doesn't smell like vinegar. I use vinegar in a lot of gouache, like especially the boys with their hormone socks. This for like a special smell. You gotta throw, or like if a child wets the bed, can we still some types of a bed butter? Throw vinegar in vinegar. Yeah, why has no one told me this? Now you know. Okay, noted. Yeah, for sure. Okay, but I don't wear underwear with like running back to that. Okay. With running, like running shorts. If they have like the built-in milk hair, yeah, I'm not wearing it. My sister doesn't wear underwear at all. Like ever. I'm sorry, Court. I didn't know. Some people are like that. I some so in my group chat, they're like, oh, well, I wear it with jeans or I wear it with a skirt. Like, I definitely wear it with a skirt. Yeah. Please people. What about bloomers? Like, do you wear it? Like, I make my daughter wear bloomers because she might spontaneously start cartwheeling, but like, no, never wear bloomers. I never have. Do I I have, you know, where I wore bloomers? You know, the snake print dress? Yes, the dress. Yeah, actually, Michael Ann has his dress. I call it we because we've both worn it. Sisterhood of the craft. And it is the best dress to wear in Vegas because it's still classy, but has a little sass to it. Yes, snake print. Yeah, we I we've all worn it multiple times. The sisterhood of the traveling snake dress. And as a special shout out, I got it at Sweet Southern Chic on El Prado. I think it's on El Prado. No, Bay to Bay. Just give it a Bay to Bay. Well, in South Tampa. Might have to get hit him up for another dress that we can share. Absolutely. Check him out. All right. So favorite things. Yes. Like you want to start with like face. Do you want to start? What do you where do you want to go? You can start wherever you want. I do want to say that we will have the links to the Amazon affiliate links for all of our favorite things that are viable on Amazon in the notes. Wherever you get your podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube. So a lot of times we talk about in our group chat is like moisturizer. Moisturizer is a hot topic amongst multiple of my group chats. And the one that has stuck the longest. I'm still exploring other ones. Okay. But the one that has stuck the longest is La Roche Pazette. Same. I don't know what it is. I think it's whatever. Yeah. I feel so refreshed when I put it. But it's not heavy. It's not heavy. Yes. So that's my go-to. In the full circle moment. On Facebook Marketplace, there was a recent, like a stack owner of I don't know what she had that was selling a bunch of those for like eight dollars. Really? I drove and I got it. That I can see driving for. That I might drive for. But I like another friend of ours had recommended it on a women's trip that we were on. And I was like, all right, I'll try it. And then that's been the one to stick. I think there's a few others that I'm trying right now. Okay. One is Medic 8. It's okay. Yeah, you were trying that. Yeah, I tried that. I like it. Okay. It's almost too light. And then I just got told of one the other day that I have in my in my inbox in my cart. It's called SK2. I don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really pricey though. Is it? Yeah, yeah. We're from the numeral two. Yes. Yeah, yeah. They said it was in the allure box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty pricey. I don't know. I haven't used it, but it's it's I need somebody that I know and trust to tell me that it's good before I use it. Yeah. What is your like give me the routine that you're trying to solve for? I don't know, other than I have extremely dry skin. Okay. And I want to look younger, of course. Obviously. So you don't have a routine that you do every day. Morning and every day. Oh, yeah. But I'm trying, like, I try different ones in the morning at night, which I probably shouldn't do. I probably should stick to one. But yeah, no, like wash the face. I put on a serum. Okay. So, like a vitamin C or like the Medicaid. Okay. Oh, there's another one. I think Chrissy Tean was a big proponent of this. It's a plum oil. Okay. Love the smell of it. Okay. It is fantastic. And it is extremely moisturizing. I'll share that because I do think you can get it on Amazon. It is a little pricier. It was a gift to me. Um, so that's why I've been trying it out. But it's usually something like that, and then moisturizer, and then I put my foundation and stuff, and then kind of like the reverse of that. Foundation. Oh, I'm back to Dior. Are you? Should we talk about Dior? Yes, I'm sort of obsessed. It I do like, I mean, I like back up. Okay, so we were in New York City, girls' night out, New York City. We went, where did we start the plaza? We started champagne the plaza. It's December, it's like Christmas time. We're living our best lives. The best. And then we went somewhere else and had another drink, and then we decided we were gonna go to Bergdorf's. So we're in Berg Dorf's. I do, no intentions of buying anything. No, we're not going to shop around. We are just having a group. Somebody said somebody said they wanted a Dior lipstick. Yes. A Dior lipstick. So we go to the Dior counter in Bergdorf's in New York City, where we do not live. Like we were there on a trip and for lipstick. And you all of a sudden, I'm wondering, you're sitting at a chair with this good-looking young gentleman. Yes. And he's, I don't know what he's doing to your face, but in like 45 seconds, you were 10 years, you were glowing. All of us, right? I was getting hooked, and that's where I got hooked. I'm sure the champagne had nothing to do with our decision making. So we're like, what are you doing? He does this whole routine on all of us. He you got to do this, and you got to do this. I don't know what I bought. It's all in French. I to this day. So I still don't know what it is that I bought, but we all bought so much Dior skincare. Like, not even makeup, skincare, that we were gifted a free bag. Like the amount you have to purchase to get a free bag, it's high. It's it's a high. I was so ridiculous. Everybody had buyer's remorse. However, some of the stuff stuck with me. And then, so then fast forward, we come home. I buy some of it for my mom for her birthday. She gets hooked, and then I find a lady at our Dior counter here who now becomes my best friend. And all of a sudden now I have everything. The back work, whatever he did, it worked. Yes. Yeah. And so the lady here, back at home, she she found this foundation that matches my skin tone perfectly. Okay. It's not heavy, it gives you a little bit of glow. I will tell you, I'm this time what I am on right now, I went with matte over glossy to try it out and see. Does it have SPF in it though? Oh, that's a good question. I don't know. But the moisturizer does. Oh, I don't have the moisturizer in my life, I say. Yes, it has the SPF in it. So I feel as if I'm okay with that part of it. But here I am. Do you or it is? Do you or it is? Okay. I have a much more elaborate skin. Oh my gosh. How? Tell me. Like 17 steps or what? It's a few steps in the morning. It's a few steps. I don't know. The wash doesn't matter. Like I'll I'll wash with a bar of soap if that's all I have. Okay. That's not that's not really the thing. Hold on. I don't wash with a bar of soap. I wash with Neutrogena face wipes. So I'll put those in the car because they are like my go-to. It's probably not there's probably many other things I could be using, but it works for me. If it's working, it's working. So I wash my face with whatever. And then I use always use a toning pad, an exfoliating toning pad. And right now I use like the synthetic one. Oh, I've heard about this. Yeah, blue lid. It's enormous. I use that. I use it double-sided, like the exfoliating side, and then I use the other side. So kind of let it dry for a second. Then I use, I'm obsessed with, and I've given it to you and Dana, the quicksilver yes, yeah. Okay. The copper peptides. I didn't see a difference. Okay. However, you look great. Thanks. Maybe it's just my skin type. Maybe everybody needs your own thing. But yeah, I do, and you can get it on Amazon. I double-checked. It's amazing. It is a true copper peptide. Quicksilver is a company I will talk about forever. They have so many great anti-aging products in general. I love that. And then I do the Tatcha, Tasha Harper serum stick underneath my eyes. I don't know about this. It's it I've been influenced. Okay. It's all over Instagram. Every like Instagram person that's like, here's how I stay young at 45, like it's the same purple stick. It is. Oh, I need both tax and a stick, is what they call it. And it it's legit. Do that. Love that. And then the little rope should say on top of that. No SPF. But then there's more. How do you have time in your day for more? Allo, like the yoga clothes company. Yeah, they have this face spritz. It's called like Instaglow, I think is what it's called. And amazing. Are you instantly glowing? Instantly glowing. Okay, then I forfeit. And then I use a ton of SPF. I use chemical and mineral, two different SPF sunscreens. Now, at one point you were using the solo wave. I did. I used to. Are you still using it? I'm not. I it was you had to use it like a lot. Like the science wasn't there when I started researching like the red light. So then do you do the mask? The red light mask? No, I have a real red light. Like I have a big, like a like a very expensive, fancy, big red light thing that I usually do. I put it nearby face when I'm on my vibration plate, which is also one of my favorite. Oh my gosh, you got one of those. I love them. Have you tried it? No. You have got to try it. I'll put it. You have got to. I don't know what it is. I don't know what the magic is. I'm telling you, it gets rid of inflammation. It gets rid of soreness after a workout. It gets rid of uh whatever. I don't know. Don't do it in front of the mirror. You don't want to know what's jibbling. I do love watching people do that. I know it's hilarious. I know. I know, but it's not pretty when it's yourself, but I love it every day. Okay. So you do every day. That is, I mean, you look damn good. So it works. Yeah, thanks. It works. Okay, so foundation for you. What are you using? Color science. It's the one that's white out of the box. It has the it's the mineral SPF 50. Okay. And it looks white, and then it does some special chemical magic that converts to your skin tone. Yeah. Love it. Damn. Yep. Okay. So face covered. Face is covered. I need help with hair products. Okay. And I, you know, I have naturally very thick, frizzy hair. Okay. And I get a Brazilian blow-out done. I didn't know that. Yeah. So I've had to do it because the humidity here is just absurd. So what is a Brazilian terrible chemicals for you? Okay. And it basically kills the frizz for a 12 to 14 week period. Okay. So you do every 12 to 14 week, how long does it take to get? Yes, it's about a two-hour process. Okay. It's it's probably terrible for you. I'm not gonna lie, every time I like breathe in, my eyes tear up because that's so strong. Yeah, so but it's the one thing that worked on my hair. Okay. So outside of that, like that's it. I use I have psoriasis, so I have this special shampoo I use. Yeah. And then I also just straighten like with a regular chi straightener. So okay. I don't I don't use anything else on my hair, but I feel like I need like a serum or a poofer or whatever else. I feel like I have the opposite problem. So nothing I suggest for you. That's gonna be a good idea. Fantastic. My hair is very it's thick, that's very fine, and it's very straight. And I use Virtue, Jennifer Gardner's brand. I use their flourish, I think it's called, and they have a shampoo conditioner. They have this three-in-one style, six in one, six-in-one styling cream that's amazing. It's like a mousse volumizer, texturizer, heat protector, leave-in conditioner, all in one product. It's amazing. And then I run a brush. Okay. Yep. Simple, simple. So, do you buy clothes on Amazon? Yes. Well, I buy trendy clothes on Amazon because I don't want to commit high dollars. Um it's like to try it out before you or like it's just for a fading is gonna be yeah. It's a fad, it's gonna fade out soon, or I'm not sure if it's too trendy for my age group. Correct. That is, yeah, that's a big thing. Like I see all this stuff online, I'm like, oh, I love this. Yeah, but can I really pull it off? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is one trend that you're seeing every birthday? You're like, oh my gosh. Well, the trend that I wish would go away is crop tops. It's the worst. Okay, but what about? No, they don't feel good. I mean, I don't care how cute you are, how good of a stomach you have. I'm just sort of over the crop top. Really? I see all these like young girls going for a run down Bay Shore and their little crop, and I they're cute. They're those cute, but like it's too it's too much. Like you don't need to wear it, then to the mall, then to the groceries. Then the air, then the there. Like, why are we doing this? I want to get rid of anything in the mildly skin-toned shade of bicycle shorts. There is not an ass in the world that should be wearing skin-colored bicycle shorts. What if you're all the bicycle shorts that have like the booty? No, no, like the Brazilian buttons. I'm like, what where did this become a style? I don't know. To me, when you wear that, you're dressing for a man. You're not dressing for yourself. You're not dressing for your girlfriends. You're trying to pick up a dude. Okay. And I I'm too old to dress for my dress for me. I dress for you. I dress for you. Yeah. I I also have found like there's certain leggings that I'm obsessed with on Amazon. Okay. They, you know, it's the ones that you just wear to work out, like with the pocket on the side. Like, I'm okay. It's not the Lulu. It's not. I can only spend so much on that kind of stuff, right? So if I I need to continue to like mix in colors and things like that, I'm gonna spend a little bit less. So if there's a pair on Amazon and there's a pair at Target that I love. What's the one color in your closet that's like your whole closet is really skews to this color, would you say? Oh pink? Is it pink? It's probably pink or green. Like I love a good Kelly Green and navy blue. Like I like a good navy blue. I have like 1,000 white shirts. Do you really? Yeah. I could use a white shirt right now. All about white shirts. Slouses, tank tops. The I if I could be simplistic and reduce down my wardrobe, it would be button-down shirt, like button-down white-colored shirts. I like them obsessed with I do too. Yes. I don't feel like you could have a few of them in different like different brands. Yes. And they're gonna fit differently. So it's okay to have multiples. Yeah, for sure. That's what I think too. Okay. I have been asking myself a lot lately when it comes to fashion and like just scrolling through, you know, you get the app and Instagram. I have to ask myself all the time, do you like the outfit or do you like her body? Like, is it just that this model looks good on it and it doesn't translate to me? Yeah. And you shouldn't buy it. Yes, I definitely ask that, especially because now we're getting into swimsuits, Czed. Oh, where's your favorite place to buy? I don't. That's what I was gonna ask you. Like, I need a swimsuit. So, you know, I have swimsuits that I'll wear at my house. And what do you wear like when you're gonna be around people? Adults. Like, what do like I've got plenty of suits I can wear if I'm bringing my kids to the pool. Right. But what about when the kids aren't there? Like, I don't want to give up. I know. What do we do? I want to get around the two-piece, like a high-waisted two-piece. I do too. However, I'm still very self-conscious. So I'm looking at some one pieces right now. I will say I've seen some cuter ones lately. Like with the matching sarongs. So whether it's on Amazon or Sheen or what have you, I just haven't. Have you bought things from Sheen? Of course. You have? Oh gosh, did it show up? Yeah, what you ordered? You wouldn't even believe it. Some of my outfits I've worn at WorkConference. Oh my god. You've got to tell me. I've I've always been too scared. I'm like, it's never gonna show up if it actually doesn't fall apart. I'm still dressed by the end of the day. Oh my god. You've got to tell me which outfits. I know. I want to see. Do you see the ads now for that commence? Comments? I don't know how to say it. Commence. It's like the new sheen of our age group fashion. And I want people to order it from there and tell me if it's a well, listen, I'm always up for a good try. If I if now that it's gonna show up on my phone, I will uh I'll be able to order off of it. Okay, I do have a few great favorite places that I buy bathing suits from. Okay. And I buy, I know there's other people that I probably buy like 10 or 15 bathing suits delivered to the house. Right. I love anthropology. Really? They have really good bathing suits, they really flex that's not the first place that I look. They don't because they don't sell them at the store. Oh, that's probably why yeah, and they're pricey, but you know what? If at this point, if I look good in a $300 bathing suit, I'm buying a $300 bathing suit. So I'm doing it. Okay. So do you like anthropology? I do like Bowden. Bonin, yeah, they've had I love the color schemes there. So I think I would, I would probably like their swimsuit. Yeah. What about J. Crew? Have you done any other suits? No. Because J. Crew, I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna get crucified. Their quality has diminished over the years. So their bathing suits aren't properly lined anymore. Oh, yeah. So now they're not they're not lifting, they're not sucking. And depending on the color of the pattern, you get in the water and their see-through. Well, that's a shame. Yeah, that's a problem. That is that is a problem. Can we pull off as middle-aged moms? Can we pull off like the like mesh dresses over the bathing suits? Like just like a mesh dress. I mean, I have a lot of friends that do. Okay. I'm probably not no, definitely not. Like, listen, it's whatever you're confident in. I just is such a political. I know, but I'm so I'm confident in so many things in my life. And wearing a swimsuit is not one of them. Okay. So I gotta figure out. I don't and I don't look good in high-waisted bathing suits. I they look worse. I feel like they highlight the oh very good. I think I gotta go low rise. Okay. I can't. I still got the I still have a C-section shelf. Oh, so I like that. It's high-waisted or a one piece completely. Yeah. What about like I can't get on board with like the tankinies? So the only reason I like them is for the bathroom. Who knows? No one likes to take off the full swimsuit when they're going to the bathroom. I don't. You just pulled to the side. I know. I've tried. We're getting too deep. Okay. People are gonna think I'm very unhygedict. All right, let's move past dating. I I just pee unicorn glitter, so it doesn't matter. I'm so grossed out right now. I'm not even wearing a sports rod spine. So grossed out. All right. Any other swim spots? No, I think those are my two favorite anthropology and bowden. Okay. Dresses. Let's talk about the midi. Are you still a fan of the MIDI? Not with tennis shoes. You will not let me wear tennis shoes with my MIDI. Midis are tough, and here's why. Because it hits at the exact worst part of your body, right? Like nobody, not nobody. Very few women, especially normal women, are like, I love my calves, right? Like, especially the center of your calves. I do love my calves. Not my knees, but my calves. All right. Well, then you should wear the damn it. It's nothing but middies. It's tough. You have to find the exact perfect tailored fit of the dress to wear the midi. That's my theory. Okay. You can't do like midi moo moo. I do feel like a lot of my midis are moo moos and I'm okay with it. I love it. I know, I know. I need to get over that. Or don't be confident in what you appreciate. These are your favorite things. These are my favorite things. They don't have to be my favorite thing. I know. I'm sure I have other favorite things. Are you a do you wear the either Spanx or replica of Spanx jumpsuit? You don't do it? I don't wear Spanx at all. No, no, like the pants and the top. I don't wear spanx at all either. As an undergarment. Oh, yeah, yeah. I do have the Spanx like little tennis skirt. Yes. That I do love. I wear that all the time, even when I'm not playing tennis. So under your regular, like if you were wearing a cocktail dress, like do you ever wear spanx under that? I don't either. People just ask me. I'm like, one time I was at a wedding and I had just had a baby, and it the it was a nude chiffon full-length dress, which is like if you just had a baby, it's like terrifying. And if you're somewhat pale in color, it was terrifying. So I did, I bought the spanks thing to make it happen, and I I took it off in the bathroom in the middle of the wedding. So I'll tell you a real you probably might remember this story. So I this was 15 years ago, I think. Easily 15 years ago. I was going to Vegas. Okay. I was going to dinner with my boss at the time and some other men. And I knew I was going out afterwards. So I was wearing like a cute, tighter fitting dress. This again, it was 15 years ago. Yeah. And I was like, you know what? I should wear spanks. So I get the spanks, I put them on, and I'm fine. I'm like sucked in like a sausage. And off we go. So I go to the dinner and I'm sitting there. And all of a sudden, I feel oh, the spanks. And I was like, this is weird. So they roll down from the top, they roll up from the bottom, and now the spanx is at my midsection. And I'm like, you just got like a tire around your. I was like, what do I do? So I was like, I have to go to the ladies' room. And I like covered my stomach with my clutch. And I like shimmied my way off to the bathroom and fixed it. Literally took them off and threw them in my clutch. But yeah, so I'm just not the right person for them either. I feel like it just shapeware. Let's just call it shapeware. Yeah, we just redistribute the family. It's just poking out the bottom or poking out the top. Yes. Right? Fair enough. Okay. What are some more of your favorite? Okay. Dresses, where are you buying shoes and what shoes are you buying? Yeah, that's I was gonna ask you the same. I I really have not bought shoes and I have to. Like, I need to buy good work shoes. My favorite tennis shoes are Air Max. Like, I love a good Air Max tennis shoe. Okay. Like a workout tennis shoe? What about a lifestyle? Yes. Um, I just bought a pair. You are gonna kill me for this. I bought a pair of like the trendy like tennis shoe, like flat type. I have them, I do wear them like a plate. Um, with the three velcro straps. No, I do. And I'll be honest with you, they're the best. They're so comfy, they go with everything. No way. You're gonna see them and you're gonna be like, okay, I get it. No, I know. Yeah, you are you are. It's they're really do you want me to help you with your walker? Yes, actually, that's what I should get with it. I have all the new balances. I have them in every color, I wear them all the things. Oh, I know what I was gonna ask. What shorts are we allowed to wear? Can we wear a butterfly short? No, no, okay. What then what do we wear? I don't know, but not those. Okay. I like very I don't even like those on my child right now. I'm just not having a fan of their cute on little girls, but I know, but I have seen some adults that should be there. Should not wear them. I would say for shorts purposes, I'm probably wearing, I do have a pair of like made well jean shorts that I really like. Okay. Uh so they're not shorty, like I think they're a five-inch. Okay. I and it's like a stitch temp. Yes. Oh no, and I also do like the fray at the bottom. I don't think we're allowed to do the fray anymore. I think the fray's out. The fray's out. I think the fray's out. Fuck. But like, you know, what's in is the longer ones. Like the Bermuda style. Bermuda short is back. I can't do it. I saw it as a suit uh the other day, and I was like, I don't think I can pull that off. I think I want to get a suit for Vegas, like, but I want to get a vest suit. Yes, I do too. One where if I took off the jacket, you can still wear it because it's so hot. That's okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna go to Aritzia and see if they have those. A lot of them are linen, and this is the problem. I don't want a linen linen because you get wrinkled the minute you step out of the room. I know. So, where are you getting like what shoe are you gonna buy for that? What are you wearing? If you get a tailor and you could do like a loafer, or like those cute, the cute crocheted Mary Jane's like what you had at the Mary Jane, those are adorable. I want to try to maybe get a little ballet flat. I think those are coming back or a Mary Jane flat. I hope they're coming back because I'm obsessed with flats. I just can't get around heels. So I did get a pair of the snakes, the tennis shoe with the heel. No, it's I super comfy. Stop it, however, I can pull them off. Nobody can pull those off. I know. No, I know I can't do it. All right, what are we doing for body lotion? Favorite thing. I I'm like Jergens. Oh, I got a secret. Tell me. Goldbond crepe eraser. What is that? What does that even mean? It means you put it on and you get that glowy, dewy, amazing head to toe. You can use your face. Gold bond. Goldbond. Yes. Purple label. Okay, I'm gonna try it. I've tried all the fancy, yeah. I've all expensive the so none is it, it's not scented. Nope. Even better. Not scented. Dewy, glowy, do it. Okay, what about do you spray tan or uh fake tan whatever for events? I've done nothing ever. I've done spray tans in the past. I think right now I'm in the like that just doesn't do it for me, babe. I feel like it could do it for me, especially like if I have existing tan lines that I don't know. Maybe if I made time. I guess that's my other problem. I didn't make I haven't made time to do it. Then you won't be able to talk to me about how awkward it is when you're standing there and some you know 21-year-old spraying your neck and lift you had to lift up your body parts. I I remember going. I haven't obviously been lately, but like I got. I really want to ask him to spray like abs on. Or like arm muscles. Arm up the arm would be great. I am too. Like I feel like I have a good arm muscle here, and then I just gotta get rid of the bowing. So this is gonna blow your mind. Okay. I had no idea this happened up until recently. Young dancers are getting spray tanned before competitions. That seems like a no-brainer to me. That seems like they absolutely are. For sure. Oh my gosh, I was shocked. I would not, I just wouldn't get my I I haven't. I shouldn't say I wouldn't. Let me let me be clear. I'm positive I can be convinced of doing it. I just didn't know that was a thing for the stage. Nice. I really am shocked. You're shocked by that. I know. How's the new eyeliner working out? Are we adding that to the favorite thing? Yes, okay. So that was on my list to share with you. Okay, so Maybelline. Okay, and it was it's been fantastic. Still on my eyes. And it's not on the buffer. It's not up, it's not dripping all the way down my face. It has been fantastic. Okay, so chat served me right, okay, picked out the right eyeliner for me, and here we are. Chat GPT, also one of my favorite things. One of your favorite things. Okay, so we've covered shorts, we've covered shoes, bathing suits, jewelry. Let's talk jewelry. Okay. So I am very simplistic in the jewelry. I keep my earrings on, keep my wedding ring on, and then maybe we'll add a bangle or a necklace here and there. You accessorize very well. Like, where are you getting all your accessories? Oh, good. I have a weird thing where I feel like all of my accessories should have meaning, which is weird. Meaning. Yeah, like little boutique, like you bought it on a trip that you got on, or like everybody knows I'm a huge tequila fan. So I have lots of earrings that are like little tequila bottles are these ones that are sparkly, jemmy, and it's like a line, a salt shaker. You wouldn't know, like if you saw it, you'd be like, oh, she's got cute like chandelier earrings, but it is like tequila. Tequila, yeah. So there's meaning behind it. Meaning around almost all my children. Although I did just get a tennis bracelet. For what? Life. Did you buy it for yourself? I did. Congratulations. And I like it, and I wear it, and I wear it to the pickup with the moms with all the other bones and all our tennis roller and our diamond stunt. We're standing there picking our kids up. I would love that. That's a great gift for yourself. I'll send you the link. You can buy one too. They're lab grown. Perfect. Yeah. Okay. So what else has been happening in life? This week has kind of sucked, to be honest. Like with my regular job, it's just been a rough week. So we're just kind of coming down from that. Ebbs and flows, ebbs and flows. I'm excited. We got Vegas next weekend. We leave, and then I roll right from Vegas to a family vacation. That was fun. I think I think it's a well-deserved vacation and break, even though I know I feel like it's just like the lead up, but once you get there, you'll be having fun, enjoying a different environment. I think you will. I hope. I'm excited. And last weekend we had my daughter's first comedian. So we had people staying at our house. We had a big party. We had a great time. That's awesome. Yeah. I'm excited. My mom comes back this weekend. Okay. She's been gone for two weeks and she you know helps when we're in need of at times. So she comes back. We have our last dance competition this weekend. Okay, so the season's over. After this, the season is over. Oh gosh. And uh, yeah, like things actually have been going well. This weekend, which is huge news. And I, you know, things have been progressively been better. Okay. I really don't, I don't think I have any qualms this week per se. No, that's because I got them. Yeah, it's listen, we both can't be yeah, it's awkward doubt. I know what I'm gonna tell you the funniest story. Oh no. Okay, so my daughter got a Polaroid camera for Christmas, yeah. And like the new Polaroid camera, maybe this is how they all work and I just remember them differently, but like they don't take great pictures. The pictures that result, they're like weird, they're very, very yeah. They're like, I don't know if they're overexposed, underexposed, and they kind of look like creepy, like they look like that's fair, child pornography, like they're just weird, right? Yes, so but she loves this thing. So she had a friend over, she had a play date with the son of a friend of ours. Like, we're all we're all friends, and the little boy came over to hang out and swim. And she loves whenever she has a play date, she likes to take a picture of all her friends. She's got a bunch of them, and they're you know, so she took this picture of her buddy who was over, and he is fully clothed for the record, he's fully clothed, but it like is white and weird outlining. He's standing up against a white wall, like ghostly, yeah, yeah, ghostly, and he's standing up against a white wall, and he's like not smiling because she doesn't know how to like pose people because she's like so. It's this weird, creepy picture. So we're having all these people in our house for the first time they're coming in, so I'm like psycho cleaning the houses, you know, everything is getting shoved in a closet or shelf, like we don't live here, people don't live here, you know. And I find this picture like just sitting out on the floor, and I was like, Oh, I just shove it. And I shoved it like in my makeup drawer in my bathroom, like to get rid of it. And so, and I have it, like I don't know where to put it. So every day I like over and over, and this is creepy little kid, not my kid. I'm like, I think it's time to get rid of it. I think it's time to get rid of it. Yes, it's so weird. Oh, one of the best things we did were get the those corkboards over their rooms and let them put their friends' pictures up there. So it kind of feels like a um not that one, an outtake. Yeah, not that one this creepy picture. Oh my gosh. Yeah, the authorities were here. Oh, terrible. So we uh we were actually at a dance competition last weekend as well, and I did the best thing. I never do this because the competition was a town. I got a hotel room. Oh, so that I didn't have to stress about schlepping all the stuff. And so I go to pack whatever it's 5 a.m. I gotta get down the first 7 a.m. thing. So I go to pack the car. I'm telling you, for a trip to go five miles down the road, it looked like I was gonna go be gone for two weeks. It was a hotel. It's the Hilton. Okay, so are you a Hilton or a Marriott? Okay, so I was Marriott. Okay, so I'll be honest, lately Hilton has just absolutely gotten my money. I was gonna say the exact same thing. I used to be work travel, courtyard, marriott, yes, period. But now the courtyard, they're old, they're dirty, yeah, their bistrove sucks, they're never open. I'm a handsome in girl. Yes. Work travel Hilton is better. I was just at this week, I've been at in Nashville, and we have corporate rate at the canopy by Hilton. Have you seen that one of those? Oh, yeah. I've stated um the one in Phoenix. Yeah, yeah, it was really, really nice. It's newer in in the Nashville market. It was really, I felt felt great about that. Nashville really takes the best of me. Also, one of our favorite things. Yeah, Nashville is a great spot if you want to go somewhere with friends or girlfriend, you know. I would say it's better with girlfriends than it wasn't. Although I have fun with mixed sex. Yeah, that's true too. I I mean, I have fun out for work there, which is crazy. Yeah. So no, Nash Vegas is what they call it. That is what they call it. It's too much. All right, well, we've covered a lot of ground today, lots of favorite things. And remember to subscribe, follow, listen, check out all our socials at double booked official podcasts on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. We're all over. Awesome. And thanks for coming.