Back to Just Us: Confessions, Laughter & A Fishing “Rodeo"

Episode 280: It’s just us this time—back to a catch up with Vonda and Lori.  We’re catching up on everything from awkward customer service stories to deep confessions (like sitting at the kids’ table… on purpose). Plus, Lori shares the latest with Lenny and his big fishing tournament that wasn’t quite what it seemed. It’s funny, heartfelt, and exactly the breather we all need post-Mother’s Day.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

The one I do know. The older I get, the more I am like this. Welcome to the Business and Pleasure of Flowers. We're your hosts, Vonda LaFever and Lori Wilson.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

And we believe the business and fun are a perfect combination. Kind of like us, Vonda.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Lori, it has been a long time since it's just been the two of us on our pod. I'm just like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_01 0:34

No, it's really crazy. I feel like you know how when back in the day, when the kids were home, you and your husband would be there, and like it was, let's pretend it was a holiday, and like family came in, extended family. It was just all crazy, and then finally everybody left. And finally, we're just like, that's how I feel.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Exactly. It's like I'm gonna revisit that sign I move at my door. All my visitors bring joy, some by coming, some by going.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

I can mention by doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

And I kind of feel like, whoo, okay. Yeah, time for us.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

We've been very fortunate, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

We've never really had a visitor that we're like, no, no, we had great visitors and we had some wonderful guests. I mean, whoa, we've had some really great, great guests. It's been so exciting to be able to share that knowledge with everybody and the excitement. So that was good, but I just kind of missed us.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

I know, I did too. But I have to say, I was walking my dog, Bo, and I listened to the pod with you and Julie and Tim.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

And I loved listening to it from that perspective, right? Of not being on it. Yeah. And I giggled when, first of all, your favorite things, how you guys all had the same thing at the beginning.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

That was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

But what made me laugh and made me go, yep, that was always mine too, no matter what when you all went and said the bus ride. The bus ride. Because I was like, isn't that the truth? Oh, like every trip as a kid, like every mission trip I ever went on, like church camp or cheerleading camp or any kind of camp, even as an adult when I would go chatron the trips and stuff, the bus ride. Yeah. It was. It was just funniest. Yeah. It's just where all the good stuff happens. And so I got tickled because I was like, oh man, I would have loved to have been on the bus with all of you guys.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

It was. We said the people on the front of the bus weren't as fun as us on the back of the bus.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Yeah. Oh, the back of the bus is where all the magic is.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

That's where the people got in trouble. That was where the trouble was happening. You're right. Okay. I was always in the back of the bus.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I was in the back of the bus.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Of course you were. Of course you were, Lori.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Anyway, it made me giggle, and it sounded like a phenomenal trip.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

It wasn't. I went searching my town for some hyacinth plants because I just quick was craving that smell. Yeah. Fragrance. And so I found one and it's in my bathroom, which is enclosed. So you open the door and you're like, it brings you back to that moment. You're just like, oh wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

That was great. I cannot believe when you guys were talking about how they just chop them. They're just used for the bulbs.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Mm-hmm. Yeah. What's fascinating? We learned so much. Just so much. But yeah, that's that's I'm glad you enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Yeah. I did. You know me and my inability to focus. I focused the whole time. Like walking. I actually walked longer than I normally would because I kind of got distracted in listening to your voices and hearing different the different perspectives.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

So it was really good. Good. Well, the one thing we haven't caught up on lately is Lenny. Oh, my life with Lenny.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Life with Lenny. Life with Lady. He he's doing okay. So I signed him up. You know, he in his little senior living place, they were having a fishing tournament. First thing was they called it a fishing rodeo. And that was a bit of a problem because he didn't understand if he was going fishing or going to a rodeo. Oh, I just oh god. I was like, yeah, so I just called it a fishing tournament. My son Reese met us there because I'm like Reese has a fishing police and he brought worms, and I am not going to go buy worms. So Reese did all that, and we met him there. And we took my dad, and that was just an event in itself, and it was quite funny. Now keep in mind, you know, I grew up going to the lake every weekend. My parents had to place in the lake. My dad fished. He had trout lines. He was Mr. Fisherman. So he knows all things. Fished our whole wall in a garage was lined with fishing poles all of a sudden. So it was kind of hard to see that he didn't quite know how to cast those types of things. But my son was so good. He just would, a man of very few words, Reese's, would just cast it out, roll it up a little bit and give it to him, and then reel it in a little bit, cast it back out. You know, that happened for a while, but had a chair for him. He never caught a thing. And then every once in a while he'd mumble, there ain't no fish in this pond. There ain't no fish in this pond. And I was like, Daddy, I think you're right. I don't think there are. I don't, I mean, we saw a bunch of turtles, but we never saw fish. So I don't know. So well, after about an hour, I could tell he had kind of had it. And I said, Are you ready to leave? And he said, Yep. So that was enough. That was enough. And uh one of the ladies said, Mr. Brock, we're getting ready to give out some prizes, and you got here first, you're gonna get a prize. And he looked at me and he goes, I don't need no prize. I go, Daddy, I think it's a gift card. He goes, I don't need a gift card. I'm like, kind of you're not fun. Didn't even ask what it was for. We're uh it's like, well, I don't want a gift card, maybe it's McDonald's. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

So we left. We didn't get no prize. You didn't get your prize, man. You didn't get a t-shirt that says fish and rodeo. Reese took it. Okay, well, that's good. Somebody'll wear it. That's good.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Wore it. So, you know, it is what it is. He wanted to go back home and take a nap in his defense. This was during his normal nap time.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Yeah. And you have to keep him on a routine. So when he was thrown out of a routine and he wasn't catching fish, and it wasn't exciting because nothing was coming in.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

He did say he has Alzheimer's, but things come up to his mind, and he looked, he pointed down and he said, There's no minnows here. I don't see no minnows. Yeah, there's no fish. There's no minnows, there's no fish. Which I haven't Googled it, but it sounds true. It doesn't sound true.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

If not, I don't know. If Leonard says it, it's gotta be true. Yeah, isn't that funny that he could not remember to cast the pole, but he could remember that if you see minnows, that means there are probably fish around. Yeah, because he is he is right. I I don't need to Google it because when I look off my dock and I see those minnows, you know there's fish around. Yeah, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

But right across the way from us was another elderly man, and he was in a wheelchair with a woman, and he was asleep the whole time. So I feel like we were at least awake. You won. You won. You let him out there. I feel like we at least should have gotten an award for being awake. So I don't know. Or I was like, well, look, he's choosing to nap out here. You could have napped out here. So anyway, it's always something. Oh, we're he's doing all right, doing all right, just day by day. Day by day. Yeah. Anyway, so I have something because we didn't know what we're gonna talk about.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Well, and we said that this is Mother's Day week. We don't want anything heavy, everybody's busy. It's gonna be pleasure. It's just the Laurie side.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

So I was thinking about revelations that I have had about myself or confessions, we can call these confessions, that I have realized about myself over the past, I don't know, could be year, could be years, uh just things that keep popping in my head that I'm like, well, I'm gonna share these with Wanda. Maybe he doesn't know about me. Okay. I think it's important, you know, if we are gonna continue our relationship, these are important things.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Okay. I would like this confession. Make sure you have a pen. Okay, I'm I'm because I should write this down. Right. Well, I have them.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

I could I could Oh, okay. You can always send me a picture. I can take a picture or fax it to you if I add a fax machine. Number one. I want a farm full of farm animals. However, however, I don't want to do any of the work. That doesn't surprise me. Okay, that is my confession part. Okay. You love the animals, but you don't want to care for them. Here's the part, but the truth. So it's almost like uh I will I'm obsessed with all farm animals. That's why I spend so much time on TikTok, as we know, because I just love a baby goat, I love a baby she, I even love all the chickens. I just want to be surrounded by all of these animals. I truly, truly think it's my calling. But then when I see the people working on the farms, that's where the hesitation comes in. Because I'm like, wow, that looks hard. And it might get cold, and you still have to do the work, and you know I don't like cold weather, or it might get really hot, or it will get really cute, and a lot of times there is mud involved. I just am not a fan of mud, and you do not like stinky situations. I don't like stinky. Oh, you know my problem with smells. So there's just a lot of obstacles that go along with this passion of farm animals. So I don't know what to do with it. I'm just confessing it. Okay. All right, thank you. Thank you. Number two, this one's gonna hurt. Okay, but I feel like deep down you already knew this one. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

I'm waiting. I'm waiting very careful.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

I don't like wine. Deep down, I knew that. You know, you knew that. I did.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

I knew that I don't want to like it for you and Ellie's sake. But you know I don't.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

And you'll always say, just give me a beer.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

I just give me a beer. I try to be a sophisticated big girl when I'm with you guys.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

But uh I will admit, deep down I did know that, and that's why just like, are you sure? Don't we usually say I do? Ellie really wants you to have a good glass of wine with her.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

I will say there have been a handful of times that she has ordered me a glass, and it's usually a white wine that I'm like, eh, this is pretty good. Nowadays, though, she just gets me a beer. She doesn't even ask, so she just won't give me the beer. But anyway, that's my revelation/slash confession. Okay, okay, good to know. Here's a revelation/slash confession. This one hit me at Easter, and I don't know, I just don't think this is normal because of my age. When we have family get-togethers, like with my cousins and aunts and uncles and family, I still sit at the kids' table. And my husband doesn't. My husband's at the adult table. Somehow I am always at the kids' table with the high school grandkids.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

I think that's the perfect place for you.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

I'm like, I'm Marian Better, and I'm requested at the kids' table. That is the problem. That's a good thing. I'm at the kids' table. And it hit me uh at Easter. And I'm like, wait a minute, why am I always at this table? And all of the adults are in the other room, and here I am of all these high school students, a couple college kids, but anyway. Because they're like, Aunt Laura, where are you gonna sit? Where are you gonna sit? You're gonna sit. And I said, I'll sit in here, I'll sit in here, but I'm like this is so weird.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

That is so funny. That is so funny. I love that.

unknown 14:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

This happened to me this morning on the way to my doctor's appointment. I don't know if this is normal. Truly, the revelation I even put it in my phone because I'm like, I and it's a confession all of a sudden. I have the ability to have a conversation in my head about something and literally crack myself up. Do you ever do that? Like, I can have a scenario going on, like a what if situation. Like, let's say if I think about oh, I could play this joke on Vonda, and I can play it out and bust out laughing all by myself, and it would never actually happen.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

I don't think I've ever done that, Lori. Weekly, Bonda. Weekly.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

What is wrong with me?

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Well, I won't think there's anything wrong with you. I think that's actually hilarious. You have that going on in your head.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

I have it in my head, and I'm like snickering. I'm laughing so hard, and I'm then I start laughing harder going like is the car next to me looking at like I'm cracking up. I don't know on that note, but complete opposite end. I cry at least twice a week. At least. I do too. That I don't think that's a bad thing. And it could be a commercial, it could be the littlest, like it could be just gosh, at least once a week I'm zooming with you, and something makes us tear up.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

Hey, exactly. It just well, and I'm sure if you see a baby animal that's hurt on TikTok, I'm crying like crazy. You're saying it's a baby. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

What's funny about those things is at least once a week, something, and I mean, my husband's used to it all the time. And last night, I'm watching The Pit. You don't know what that is because you don't have no idea what that is. It's a series, it's on HBO. It's remember the show ER back. I do, I do remember that. You do remember that. I loved it. So it's kind of that same concept that it's on HBO. So watching then was an episode, and I can't remember what it was in it, but of course, triggered me. I got tears going, and Mark's over there scrolling on his phone, scrolling, and I'm over here, you know, and this is our weekly thing because it could be anything we watch, it could be a sitcom and something, and it made me cry. And he's scrolling, scrolling. I see he kind of looks his eyes over and he has to do the whole, because legally we're married, so this is what he has. So you could look at him and goes, you alright. I'm in a chair, he's overlaid on the couch, and I'm like, yeah. He's like, You sure? You good? I'm like, I'm good. All right, all right, and that's it. That's all I get. That's all I get anymore.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Well, just checking onya. Just checking.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

All right. Like, boy, that's comforting. And but Bo comes over and comforts you. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Okay. Mama, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm gonna love you forever. I'm gonna love you forever. Anyway. Okay, heard my last one, I will leave. Well I love when my flower clickers FaceTime me.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Really? I do. You that's gonna be really uh that's probably a bad idea. Bad idea to tell that.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

I will say we have a handful, not all of them, because they're busy. They don't always do that. And I don't have a that kind of relationship with all of them. Right. There are some and I get so tickled when I look down and they're FaceTiming me. And it's usually for a story that they're super frustrated, but it ends up we start laughing.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

So diffuse their situation.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yeah, maybe possibly, hopefully, hopefully. But I think more than that, the thought that they feel so safe that they weren't FaceTime, like that's a pretty intimate thing. It is an intimate thing, yeah. Yeah, you know, that you feel that you can FaceTime anyone, you know what I mean? But like, hey, I not only want to call, I want to see your face. Yeah. You know, interesting. It makes me feel privileged many times that they feel close enough. Now, I don't need 500. I was gonna say, you've just opened that up. All of them even text me, you know what I mean? I'm not saying that they should all be doing this to Kami and Vaughn, but I have different relationships. Absolutely, absolutely, right? And the fact that some of them, that's their love language. Sometimes I anyway, I've thought through that. Like, what is it? Why do I always answer?

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Right. Why do you always answer when you can?

SPEAKER_01 20:23

When I can, when I can. A lot of times I'm in meetings and like two days ago I couldn't. I was like, hey, I'm in a doctor's appointment with my dad, and then come back.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

And have a lot of that.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

So but I know they feel safe enough to do that. That's that makes me feel good. Makes you feel special, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Yeah, yeah. So anyway. So what I just realized in all of this that you're saying is how much more of a self-aware person you are than I am. Really? Oh, yeah. I mean, uh you are so self-aware of all those little things. And I suppose if I really would key in for a week, I would come up with maybe a few of them. The one I do know, the older I get, the more I am like this. And that when people start to tell me a story, and I can tell it's gonna be long, I just have no patience. You I'm like, stop. You know, it's like, oh, well, let me go back to when we first met. Oh, let me go back to the no, don't, please, stop, stop, no, I don't have time for this. And and no, you know what, Lori, I don't care. And then I get like, yeah. Then I feel like I'm bad because I don't care, but I'm like, no, no, stop, don't stop, stop, just stop, just stop, just let me just walk away right now. You can finish telling the story to somebody else. It's a that telling you.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

No, but do you know what? There's got to be some sort of transition. You can say to help them understand because they're the ones that need to be more aware of hate. Because you know me, I'm a storyteller, but part of that I'm aware that I'm a storyteller. I need to know the other person. Hey, are they engaging with me or are they like Mark, my husband? Going back to him, who is very similar to you, he will quickly shut that down, go bottom line it, bottom line, bottom line.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Yeah, but some people you can't do that to.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

I wish you could. But so that's taught me, yeah. Hey, there's a lot of marks in the world. I need to be able to figure out am I talking to one of those?

SPEAKER_00 22:46

But again, it's you are very self-aware.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

So you want that because I get my feelings hurt.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Well, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Our best interest as humans, right? Become more self-aware so we can communicate better with me.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah. And but then I have a hard time shutting it down, but sometimes I'm just like, you know, I'm sorry, I gotta get back to work. Or yeah, something, but that would be mine.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

I just well, I couldn't see you do that, and we just need to come up with a better transition for you. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Help me work on that. Help me work on the transition.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Well, because you you don't want to sometime you're gonna do that and not intentionally, but it's gonna be to somebody that you do truly care about, and you're gonna crush them, and you're not gonna know you did. You're right, you know, and then you're gonna wonder why they don't want to talk to you anymore. That's a good point, but you know that about yourself now.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Oh, I know that about myself, and I try to be very careful, and and sometimes I just avoid conversations because of that with certain people because I know there are certain people who that's gonna happen with, and I'm better off just not starting the conversation than to go into it and feel like I'm stuck. Do you have to be in a certain mood or is this all the time? I suppose if you give me a lot of wine, I can stand there for a long time and listen.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

True.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

No, I think you're right. And as we age, we uh and this this could sound selfish, but I don't mean to. But as we grow older, I think we become more protective of our time. Yeah, I think that's who we spend time with. Yeah. I think that's why the older I get, the more I'm not constantly socializing, wanting to make more and more and more and more friends all the time, like when I was younger, right? Or a new mom constantly wanting to seek out new other new moms. You know, I'm like, yeah, don't weigh my time again? I'd rather just lay on the couch tonight. I don't want to go to just do networking or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

So whenever that's going on, just bring you back to this. Whenever that's going on my mind, all I can think of is my husband Bud used to say, they gave me more answer than I had a question for. And I'm like, God, that's what's going on. I'm like, oh man, that was way more answer, way more answer than I had any question for.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

So I have this on my list, and I wasn't gonna talk about it, but that leads perfectly into it. They gave me more answer than I had a question for. Last week, so the girl that cuts my hair has been out on maternity leave, and I noticed that she was back. So I was like, yay, I'm gonna schedule. So I scheduled online to do it. And so when I did, they have my credit card on file, no big deal. But it was weird because as soon as I scheduled, I got a notification that they had charged my credit card and I wasn't to go for two weeks. They charged me like half within an hour. I was charged again. So I'm like, something's weird. So I called, and the guy that owns the place, it's a smaller place, the guy that owns it, who is weird. I'm just gonna say I've met him and he did my hair once. He's very strange, but whatever. He cuts hair well, but he's weird. He answered and I was explaining to him. I had a question. Going back to what you just said, I had a question. I was charged, and could he help me figure this out? And instead of saying, Yeah, that is weird, actually, what it probably was was a glitch in their system. He goes into how the girl, and I'm gonna mention her name, is uh just now coming back, you know, just had a baby. He goes into this long drawn-out conversation, how she just had a baby, which I already know. Like I have her on my text. We text, I know this girl. Anyway, goes into this long story, kind of blaming her, which she has nothing to do with the system. And I said, What does this have to do with the fact that I've been charged twice on my credit card for an appointment that's in two weeks? But yet, if I would have called to make the appointment, I wouldn't have been charged the fee. Like, and he goes, Well, she is just trying to make her way, like what horrible customers are like in no sense, no sense. She he was just giving me more answer than I had questioned. Right. Just credit my dang credit card, right? Right. So I said, tell you what, can you just credit my credit card? And he said, Well, I'll try to get to it today, but I'm really busy running a business right now, and he just went into another store. My gosh. It was insane. So I said, Well, when do you think he can get to it? What and he goes, Well, I don't know. I can't make any promise. Like such a total jerk. And I'm thinking, he owns this business. Wow. This is his business. You know me and customer service. I'm just floored by how this man is acting. He goes, in fact, I have a customer right now that I'm in the middle of. And I go, why did you answer the phone if you're in the middle of fixing someone's hair? He goes, because I thought it was important and I'm like, oh my gosh. I mean, I never raised my anyway. I went online and figured out how I could cancel my appointment. Yep. And it gave me one of them back. And then, like an hour later, someone called, a girl called who was probably the desk girl. So nice. She said, I wanted you to know. I refunded it. She said, it is the weirdest glitch in this system, the way it's set up. And she explained it to me. Yeah. She said, I don't know why it's set up this way. I didn't set up, you know, basically, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Anyway. But in my mind, I thought, can you imagine if a flower shop was set up this way online for delivery in three days, yet we're charging double charging you now. And then someone calls and you're like, I'm sorry, we're busy. We can't get to like, what?

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Yeah. Well, they'll never call again, that's for sure. What in the world?

SPEAKER_01 29:52

But it just made me think of that when you said more answer than I had. I just had one simple question. What is happening? And he goes into the whole story about the drone. Throwing the poor hairdresser under the bus about why don't she had a baby? I'm like, what does that have to do with the credit card processing company? It has nothing to do with it. Yeah. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

Well, Lori, we're almost done. And there's only one thing that I wanted to cover. I wanted to ask you, how are you doing on your bingo card?

SPEAKER_01 30:27

No, not what I don't have the bingo.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Well, I confession, I don't either. I just looked up the other day and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm not doing well on bingo. How's Lori doing on her bingo card? How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Okay, dressed for success three times a week. Could I be out in corporate America? No. Am I flower click dressed? You are.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

You have done, I hope that you are doing well.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Yes, I'm I'm up and showered and ready to go. Mother-daughter trip. Well, that got canceled. Yeah. Not my fault. My daughter's. Vacation abroad. I've got two of those scheduled.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Woohoo. Okay. You're doing well.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

So what about you?

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Well, I have down two trips to Tyler Martin and I have one scheduled, so that's gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

I have my Netherlands trip crossed off Notre Dame crossed off. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Did those. Clean my office weekly. I've been doing that. Good. No, that's good. But I've been posting our posts on LinkedIn, our podcast.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

What about did you hire a cleaning lady?

SPEAKER_00 31:42

I didn't. And then I keep going back and saying, Do I really want one?

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Ah, yes. It's tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

And when I talked to Ellie about it, what she said is if you had a cleaning lady, Saturday wouldn't have to be domestic day. That's what I call it. Domestic day, Saturday. You could go play golf. And so I'm like, okay, well, that's kind of tempting. Then I could go out and play golf on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

I'm telling you, mine comes every other Friday. You know, switched her days, and it makes Saturdays and Sunday, because Martin does golf on the weekends. So it makes weekends even that much better.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Because then that's what I would need it to be on is Friday, maybe a Thursday at the latest, because otherwise I'd feel like I'd have to go do it anyway.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yeah. Yeah. No, have it as late during the week as you can. So what else? Well, I'm not doing well in my strength training classes because I'm not going. Explore retirement states. Haven't done that yet. No, no. Go out on more dates. I think we've been doing that more, and because I put even double dates. We've been trying to go out to dinner more with friends. And like we went to a fabulous baseball game.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

I wasn't gonna bring that up, but I was gonna say that was probably a date night, the Astros game. Mark's world, that was a date night to the Astros game.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Read more books. I am reading books. I I put down Read 30 books this year, but I'm I think I'm only through my second book this year. That's not much.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Well, you'll be on a plane for hours, so you might be able to get a couple things in there for sure.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Yeah. So create more content for Flower Click. Yeah, and go on create. We've been working on that. We're working on our presentation for Texas State, so that will continue to be content. So we're doing all right. You know, the thing is, I mean, besides like vacation to fill in the blank, these aren't things you can just like check off dumb. They're like ongoing things.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

And I think that's the key is that we always have to pick it up and and remind ourselves. And that's what I would say to the clickers who who did this with us. When you have your bingo card, just take time to to look at it and glance and say, Hmm, how am I doing? Yeah, true. True. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

And that'll be something to look at after Mother's Day. Right.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Don't do it now.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Now don't worry about it now, but maybe after Mother's Day, take some time to decompress and then look and go, hey, how am I doing on my bingo card?

SPEAKER_00 34:26

What do I need to do to regroup before the next big thing? Yeah, next big thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

So all right. Next time we have a pleasure one, you're gonna tell me your confessions.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

That's that's gave me one. That's I really have to be more self-aware. Have to decide if I'm sitting in the car and cracking up thinking of you and you cracking up work.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

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SPEAKER_00 35:16

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