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Why October Feels Like A Fresh Start · Aging ain't for Sissies

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to Aging In for Sissies.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am Marcy and I am your host.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we are scrapping serious topics.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm over it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm over myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about any of you, but whenever you've had something go wrong with yourself, do you get sick yourself?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sick of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I promised you this week we're going to talk about fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall is the new spring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why October feels like a fresh start.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought this would be a great place to go because this is something that I truly believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, I am not a spring cleaner.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a fall cleaner.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought it would be fun to talk about, talk about that and talk about fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I um I had decorated early for fall, probably mid-September, because I was supposed to be in France today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually, we should have left yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nonetheless, boo-hoo, so sad for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um anyhow, I had decorated early so that I'd have a chance to enjoy it and not come home from my trip and be at the tail end of fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, I'm really glad I did because when I came home from the hospital, I was in my fall, it is my happy time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my happy place.
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  SPEAKER_00: My first child was born October 20th.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have memories of walking in those cool fall mornings down at the beach in Venice where we lived when Kyle was born.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: My love of fall started when Kyle was born because I think of that nesting piece for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I do feel like nesting every single solitary fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I thought it would be fun to kind of talk about why fall is the new spring, because I don't think I'm the only one that feels like October feels like a fresh start.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're gonna talk about today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something fun, something enjoyable, nothing sad, no hospitals, no none of that.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: I will let you know I am recuperating great.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm slowly but surely moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's all you need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to thank you for everybody that prayed for me and everybody that sent flowers and did things for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It meant the world to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It kept me going in some very dark times.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we're past those.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're moving on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why is fall the new spring?
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget January.
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  SPEAKER_00: January is the worst.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, actually, January is dark, January's cold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you in Chicago, February's the worst.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what did I do for next February?
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  SPEAKER_00: I booked a cruise for me and my bestie again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another Mexico cruise.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're cheap, they're fun, and we never get off the ship.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do spas, we do all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've already fixed my February.
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  SPEAKER_00: But January is when you want to lose 10 pounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Organize your closet, save money, stop eating sugar, drink eight gallons of water.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We make so many promises in January.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's exhausting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by February, we've forgotten them all.
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  SPEAKER_00: So forget all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spring gets all the attention for being the season of renewal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flowers, baby birds, fresh starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think we've been overlooking fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall is my spring, and I want to share that with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, because spring here in Chicago can still be cold, but it also means we get to get out more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the last thing I think about is being home cleaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there is something about September and October that makes me think, okay, let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: New season, new clothes, new shows, new routines, new things happening around town.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most importantly, it's finally cool enough to go outside and immediately regretting it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say, I know my friends in California, and I know there's a lot of you, including one of my kids, have been roasting your ass off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people out in the world, I'm not talking about just 80 degrees in October.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've been in the hundreds for days.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm sorry for that, but we're gonna put that behind us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today we're celebrating fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: No serious life lessons, no lectures about aging, no seven things you should do before your for your health after 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're talking about why fall might actually be the best season to start something new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why does fall feel like a new beginning?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think some of this goes way back to school, and I know it does for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, September meant everything was new: new teacher, new classroom, new shoes, new notebooks, and my favorite, new school supplies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, there's nothing like new school supplies.
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  SPEAKER_00: A brand new notebook where you de you were definitely going to have to have perfect handwriting for the entire year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that for me it lasted like four days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, new pens, new folders, maybe even a new lunchbox depending on your age.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you had that feeling that this year was going to be different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, some of my brain still thinks September means new year, new Marcy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Except for now, I don't have to go to algebra.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I hate it now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which makes adulthood considerably better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall clothes, can we discuss this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer clothes are fine, but fall clothes, now we're talking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeans, boots, it's sweat of weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sweat of weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's sweat of weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sweat of weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jackets, layers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly you can put together an actual outfit again instead of just trying to put on whatever's coolest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's another wonderful thing about fall clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are forgiving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer says, here's a thin little shirt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good luck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall says, Would you like a sweater, a jacket, perhaps a scarf?
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  SPEAKER_00: How about a coat?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall, I would.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every year I look into my closet and somehow convince myself I need another sweater.
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  SPEAKER_00: But do I?
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Will that stop me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say, I see a lot of chocolate this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Browns.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yesterday I walked home from the dentist and I fell into Marshall's.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But and I found a beautiful pair of brown slacks, long enough for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They fit great.
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  SPEAKER_00: They look great.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't buy them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have anything else to go with.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would require me to be buying a new sweater, a new that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually was mature, people, like clap for me, clap, clap, clap, clap.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was mature and I did not do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I did stop myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's a sometimes I have this segment in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing this anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not pretending I'm going to wear uncomfortable clothes because they're fashionable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and I can't right now, honestly, because they implanted that pack in my side.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's I'm very picky about what I wear.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wear a bra, people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I found this great cami that's a bra and a cami.
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  SPEAKER_00: Found it on the TikTok shop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not wearing anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shoes, you name it, I'm not wearing if it's uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I you do what you do you, but I found a pair of boots last year that were comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to be able to walk well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I, you know, nothing that's my, I'm not doing this anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, there's the fall cleaning, the fall decorating, the fall clothes, there's all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about fall food?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, here's what I've been dying to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year I bought a donut mold out of silicone, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to make baked donuts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm dying for a baked pumpkin donut with maple frosting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Frosting.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it about fall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Soup comes back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since I've got home from the hospital, all I want is soup.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've eaten a lot of soup.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not very hungry, but I do enjoy soup.
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  SPEAKER_00: How about roasted vegetables?
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  SPEAKER_00: Cutting up those veggies and throwing them on a tray in the oven.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not doing that with olive oil, salt, and pepper, you're not even living.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're cooking carrots the old-fashioned way, throw them in, roast them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple everything, warm bread, cinnamon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not a pumpkin spice person.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't like pumpkin coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do like a pumpkin bread, but I'm not pumpkin everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you are, you got your pick of the litter.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do love false scents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't necessarily cinnamon tends to be my go-to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, at some point, I fully expect to walk into CVS and see pumpkin spice dental floss.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we've gone a little too far, but you know, there's something for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pick and choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: My sister-in-law was so cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: She brought me a balloon in the hospital and it was tied to a bag of candy corn.
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  SPEAKER_00: She knows I love candy corn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Makes me think of my mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mom loved candy corn.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I a couple days ago I opened it and poured it into a bowl, and I grab a couple when I go by.
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  SPEAKER_00: Makes me so happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there, you know, fall, fall is the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you cook again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer, it gets hot and you stop cooking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we feel we're cooking differently when the weather changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You start wanting things that simmer, things that make your house smell good.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want something warm, and suddenly dinner feels cozy instead of what the hell am I going to eat tonight?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I, you know, most of my life I've been in LA.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've lived in Oregon, we've lived in Denmark, we've lived in Texas, where there's definitely more fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um oh, I just lost my train.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought, oh, I want to talk about Chicago in the fall.
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  unknown: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in Chicago, fall is spectacular.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is when I remember why I love living in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: The weather cools off.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not cold, it's cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lakefront changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is about walking in the summer or the fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it seems you could go the same distance in the winter, and it seems exhausting in the winter and not in the summer and fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know what that's about.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've only lived here five years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't figured out that phenomenon, but it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: The theater season gets going.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to the theater this Saturday with my friend Joan.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to go into a restaurant and feel cozy.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's concerts and events and football and things that happen everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's different in Chicago in the fall, but we still have a ton going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trees start to turn, the colors are going to be spectacular, I've been told this year, because we had such a wet summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why I live here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now ask me that again in February, and I'll tell you it'll be a different podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'll also be going to Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the fall, we get our routines back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer is wonderful, but summer gets a little chaotic.
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  SPEAKER_00: People travel, schedules change, everything feels a bit loosey-goosey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then fall arrives, and suddenly we're back to book club and the 60s, 70s group, and we want some consistency in their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something comforting about getting back to a routine.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're taking classes, you may sign up for your class.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you start cooking again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you sign up for something new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you start a project.
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  SPEAKER_00: And unlike January, there's not all there's a pressure attached to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a new leaf.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not turning something over.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not starting again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's yelling, new year, new you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall says, hey, want to try something?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's much nicer the fall than that January.
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  SPEAKER_00: January's rude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall is like, hey, there's this great little knitting group.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to join us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall is a great time to say yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's my pitch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead of waiting until January to decide what you want to do next, why not October?
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  SPEAKER_00: Take the class, buy the theater tickets, plan the weekend away.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to plan a weekend away, except for I'm not allowed to drive for six months.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: And Craig's the worst driver ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So driving is off the table for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: Try a new restaurant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Invite people over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Monday night football.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have everybody bring an appetizer.
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  SPEAKER_00: How fun is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: And somewhere, go somewhere you've never been in your own city.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know for a fact all of my California friends have not been to Alvera Street or they have not been to downtown LA in a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Time to change your hair.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been wrestling with, I have always done Auburn back in the day in the fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have been wrestling with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that might be too much for me right now, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I could handle it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe don't buy the ridiculous sweater.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I kidding?
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  SPEAKER_00: Buy the sweater.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need a resolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need something we're looking forward to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's especially important as we get older.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because we're running out of time.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: For God's sakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all have till we don't.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going there today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm never going there again.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm here until I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to live the best life I can.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to remember, you are hill here until you're not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's for everybody, no matter your age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we're looking forward to things, because looking forward to things is fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's enough reason for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Looking forward to something is fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was so looking forward to this trip to Paris.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we may go, we may not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: I do know that I got all my money back because I insured every piece of that trip.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: It probably cost me about$400 to insure everything, and I got almost$9,000 back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yay me.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yay me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't don't sleep on that insurance at a certain age.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, nobody warned me about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody warned me of the pleasures of getting older.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them would be realizing I can make my own traditions.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to do fall exactly the way we always did fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you don't want to decorate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't maybe you want pumpkins everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe your idea of fall is football every Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's the theater.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's driving somewhere to see leaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's sitting on your own deck with coffee wearing a sweatshirt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is, but do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no correct way.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is the Great Fall reset?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm declaring this: the Great Fall Reset.
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  SPEAKER_00: And unlike January, there are no rules to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to lose weight, you don't have to organize, you don't have to become better.
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  SPEAKER_00: You simply have to ask yourself, what would make this fall fun?
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  SPEAKER_00: Fall fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I want to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do I want to go?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I want to see?
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I looking forward to?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a reset I can get behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you, your fall fun could be planning a trip for February when life is hell here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've already done that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got something to look forward to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But doing anything you want is a reset I can get behind.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I want to hear from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What makes fall feel like a fresh start for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it weather, clothes, football, travel, getting back to a routine?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's one thing you're going to do this fall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Please feel free to email me at marcybacchusmedia.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marcybacchusmedia at gmail.com.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: And remember, Bacchus is spelled B-A-C-K-H-U-S.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And if you want to get all of my podcasts, all things Marcy, go to Marcybacchusmedia.com.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can also email me from there.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Marcybacchusmedia.com is my website.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Marcybacchusmedia at gmail.com is my email.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Send me what you want to hear on this podcast.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Send me anything.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: I love hearing from you guys.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: I love your encouragement.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Here's your challenge for the week.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Put one fun thing on your calendar.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Dinner with somebody, a play, a museum, a day trip.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we do have tickets in November to the Obama Museum here in Chicago, the new one.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so excited.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: I was able to scare scare up some tickets for November.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Also in November, we're going to California.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I got us tickets, Alec, Sharon, Kyle, Craig, and I, on Monday the 17th, we're all going to be at the new George Lucas Museum downtown Chicago.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I've got things on my calendar.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: If I, after all this surgery and bullshit and hospital and all that crap, can have things on my calendar, you have no excuse to not have things on your calendar.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm even going to the theater on Saturday with my buddy Joe.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so I've made my decision.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Spring can keep its flowers, January can keep its resolutions, fall is my new spring.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's our fresh start without all the pressure.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: We get better clothes, better weather, better food, and absolutely no requirement to reinvent ourselves.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we don't need a new us.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we just need a new season.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: I am Marcy and this is aging A for Sissies.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: If you're also on Team Fall, send this episode to somebody who starts talking about sweaters the minute the temperature drops below 70.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: And tell me, what's your one fun thing, fun thing this fall?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's hard to say.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: What's your one fun thing this fall?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be back next week and tell then go outside, wear the sweater, order the soup, and for heaven's sakes, put some fun on that damn calendar.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: I love you all.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Talk to you next week.