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The Abbey Yung Method, Loud Husbands & Our Crafting Era · Off Topic

• Samantha Potter: hey guys. We are back with another episode of Off Topic. I'm Samantha. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm Jenny. Meagan Smith: And I'm Megan. Samantha Potter: And this week, since we are just talking about the hell, that is the first week back at school, we figured what a great time to chat through some little self-care rituals. So Jenny O'Mahony: Amen. Samantha Potter: it actually started. I I was prompted like thinking about this because you two are heavily obsessed with the AB Young hair method. And I've gotta say I'm not. So yeah. Meagan Smith: You do. Jenny O'Mahony: But you have different hair. I don't think there's ever a one size fits all. So like that it's okay. You don't have to like her stuff. Samantha Potter: Yeah, it's so interesting. in case anyone doesn't know what the heck we're talking about. Like maybe Jenny, really, really yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Jenny, I feel like you're the you started this all. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, it's also like not it's tomorrow's hair wash day. So the irony of me explaining a Abby Young's hit system while my hair like glued to my head in a slick back button is awesome. But okay, so Abby Young is I think very like insta famous right now. I don't know, maybe she has been for a while, but so she is a American woman who has a no less than t twelve point step system for hair care, except for everything is optional. Nothing is mandatory. It's like there's like a whole bunch of different steps for how you can do your hair care system. and you're supposed to play around with it. I also feel like I need to put a small disclaimer here that there is construction happening at my house. My microphone wasn't working and I'm using my AirPods. So if you think there's a saw in the background, yes there is. I'm really sorry. And we'll try and filter it out. But Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: We we just live in the times that we do. Anyways. yeah, so Abby Young, she her Instagram handle is Abby Young, Samantha Potter: I think it's A B B Y Y Meagan Smith: show notes. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: And Samantha Potter: U N G. But yeah, we'll tag her. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Y U N G. Yeah, we'll tag her, but basically it's all about rebuilding the protein structure in your hair so that you have stronger, healthier hair. And she has a whole bunch of different steps. It is very daunting and overwhelming at first, but I think it's one of those things where once you start, you realize it's actually not as bad. It's a choose your own adventure. It can be as little or as much as you want, Meagan Smith: looked at it for ye for no maybe not years, for months. I'd heard of it, I'd been watching it, and I said, you know, this is way too daunting. And then Jenny, you were you said that you started doing it and you Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: you calmed me and held my hand through the first few steps. And a lot of it's drugstore products, which I don't think you said, which is really Jenny O'Mahony: Very affordable. Meagan Smith: cool 'cause it's very, very affordable. You don't have to use hundred dollar shampoo. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, and it's like no and I used to be a very much like a wellness warrior with all the healthy ingredients and things. And so in my previous life, the thought of using drugstore products is unheard of. And I have Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: to say my hair got so much better as soon as I stopped using more natural products because they just don't work for your hair. Or for my hair. You do you. They do not work for my hair. I need all the all of the like unnatural synthetic chemicals. To come together for my hair. Meagan Smith: Those pear bins to like sud my hair up, or whatever it is. Yeah, I need the suds. Yeah, yeah, Jenny O'Mahony: yeah. Yeah. SLS my hair, man. That's great. Yeah, totally. yeah, like I think it's it her system is very popular right now. I think his popularity is like twofold. One is it genuinely works because it's based on like the science behind why hair care products exist in the way that they do. And two, because it is so many steps that It's like you kinda love to hate it. Do you know what I mean? Like Meagan Smith: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: i because there's so many steps. I personally love how many steps there are. It makes bathing feel like my hair wash day feel like a nice, like ritual. But I can appreciate how that would be hell on earth for somebody else. So Samantha Potter: Okay, so I have a couple of questions or like maybe one comment or one observation. I think when she shows like her hair washing techniques and whatnot, like I would say for me, I didn't wash my hair as well as I should be washing your hair. So do you think that that's one of Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: the things about it is that like you're really like sudsing it, getting in there and like taking your time washing your hair now. At least that's me. That and that was like an observation that I made through watching her. Do you think that that plays into it at all for you guys or makes a difference at all? Jenny O'Mahony: Really? Well, I think it's like anything. Like, if you're not doing no product is gonna work if you're actually not using it properly. So, like, yeah, I'm sure a lot of people have crappy hair because they have buildup of products in it because they're not washing it properly. So for some people, yeah, for sure. Because like, think about it. When were you actually taught to wash your hair? Or were you even taught? Right? It's like one of those skills as Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a kid that like at some point you take over from your parents and you do a bad job. of it until you get better like you know what I mean? It's like any new skill. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: My kids suck my kids have to double shampoo, not because I think they need to double shampoo, but because they don't do a good job shampooing. So I make them do it twice. Meagan Smith: Yeah, same with mine. Yeah. So I do too. You also use more you use Jenny O'Mahony: So Meagan Smith: more conditioner than I thought. That was another thing I learned. I wasn't using enough conditioner. I was using like tiny little amounts. Yes. Me too. Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: I also as a fine hair person, yeah, as a fine hair, I was always told it's gonna weigh your hair down, it's gonna make your scalp oily. And like that was probably true when I was a teenager with like the hormones of a teenager. But I absolutely I agree with you. I used way less conditioner than necessary. But I feel like you have had the opposite though experience though, Samantha. Like her whole system made your hair Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: heavier, right? Samantha Potter: Yeah, it's made my hair heavier so I started doing it because I was noticing a lot of breakage in my hair and I was like, okay, let's try and strengthen it back up and get it back going well. but which I guess it has, like it's strengthened it, but it's also weighed it down. Whereas I I would always use the heatless curls and they would work so well with my hair. They would hold, they would stay. And now they like I really only get like half a day of a blowout from it. It doesn't stay. Jenny O'Mahony: So are you still doing it? Are you still doing her stuff though? Samantha Potter: I still am only because now I'm like I have so much shit in my Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: I just I can't like waste Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. Samantha Potter: it. I don't know. I should just I don't I'm sure somebody would take it off my hands, but Meagan Smith: Or wean some of the steps out, I don't know. Samantha Potter: Yeah, I don't like now I have eight thousand bottles in my shower and I feel Jenny O'Mahony: Mm mm. Samantha Potter: guilty just being like, okay, I'm done with this now. Moving back to my previous routine. But I will be interested when I move back to what my routine was to see if my breakage starts again and if my hair holds or not, or if like it's it could be very well be hormonal changes. who knows? So Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, 'cause your youngest is two. Right? So like you still have the postpartum hair like I feel like it takes years. It's yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I still have weird hair. Samantha Potter: To get it back. Meagan Smith: Like my young my youngest is almost seven and I have like weird growth back here still where it all fell out. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I feel like five is when my hair stopped being weird. And Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I also Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I need to caveat that so I believe the Abbey Young hair care system has completely changed my hair. And also I've been using topical minoxidil for over a year. So I had started using that probably a few months before I discovered Abbey Young's system. And so a lot of the density, et cetera, is from that. Categorically because it is a Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: For sure. Jenny O'Mahony: medication for hair growth. Meagan Smith: I also got an iron infusion. Jenny O'Mahony: No, I was like, mm, Meagan Smith: so I had like my I started it too Samantha Potter: When you started. Meagan Smith: 'cause yeah, so I was losing my hair in the fall and tons of it. Or maybe it was in January and you know, looking Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. 'Cause you had no iron. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah, and looking back, they're like it can happen with no iron or a traumatic event and I had a bunch of health issues in the fall. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: So then yeah, I got an iron infusion around the same time as well. Because I have like all this I don't know, you can't really see it, but like a ton of rehair growth. So Samantha Potter: yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Like a year's worth Meagan Smith: I'll Jenny O'Mahony: of hair growth, like from your Yeah. Meagan Smith: It's crazy. Like so much. Like baby hairs. And is that Abby Young? Is that the iron? You know, the fact that I finally have more than seven whatever it's measured. There you go. In my in my body. I don't know. It's hard to know. Yeah. Yeah. Which Sam I think you're dealing Jenny O'Mahony: Seven ferritins? More than seven units of ferritin? Yeah, yeah. my gosh. But I think that Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Meagan Smith: with too, right? You're dealing with some iron stuff too, so Yeah, fair. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I have a little more than seven, but you know Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I think though, but that's like actually a really important thing that doesn't get discussed enough is that there's everything is always multifactorial, like Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: and you have to factor in all of that stuff, right? So yeah, your hair could absolutely have been falling out because of your iron. Because I think they say it's a like what three months after a traumatic event. It's like a yeah. Meagan Smith: Three months after and it was around the I got the infusion three or four months after I found out about all this health stuff and took a break from work. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: So yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: But I also feel like the this falls under the category of things that the biggest harm is potentially wasted money, right? Like this isn't micro dosing pharmaceuticals that you bought you know, in Mexico without a prescription, right? This is like Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: How did you get to that like that comparison? That's where that's where you went, hey? Meagan Smith: I love that that's your comparison though. Jenny O'Mahony: just think that well, because there are things that can cause harm, right? Like doing things Meagan Smith: Buying pet random peptides. Samantha Potter: huh. Jenny O'Mahony: but unregulated products are an issue, right? But like Samantha Potter: I am very intrigued by the peptides, I'm just gonna say. Meagan Smith: Me too. Jenny O'Mahony: So that's such a good yeah, and I I I kind of think that probably will fall under like potentially just wasted money. Right? Like if vers as the biggest harm. I don't know. I just Samantha Potter: Maybe Jenny O'Mahony: think that you're not no one's getting hurt by using too many hair products. Maybe their hair Meagan Smith: No. Jenny O'Mahony: will look bad and they will have spent money that they didn't need to spend, but like the degree of harm is so low. Samantha Potter: And then they'll be stuck using this shampoo forever and ever. Jenny O'Mahony: That they don't like. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Well you bought two liters of it and now you have to keep using it. Use it on the kids. Samantha Potter: And yeah, it was ten dollars, but I'm stuck Jenny O'Mahony: Right. Samantha Potter: with it. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Your kid's hair is gonna be like, Woo Meagan Smith: Make the kids y or your husband use it, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: That's awesome. Meagan Smith: That's what I do. If I don't like a certain shampoo, I just make my husband use it. Or the kids. Jenny O'Mahony: for sure. Or when they Samantha Potter: My husband Jenny O'Mahony: get my shampoo by accent. I keep the K18, like the expensive one, it's separate because I don't want anybody Meagan Smith: Yes. I hide it. Jenny O'Mahony: self playing around with a sixty dollar minute and I've been getting the mini bottles because Sephora hasn't had the full size ones. So like I'm paying more per mil. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: That's gold. That's liquid gold right there. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: That that product I will say I did get introduced to by the Abbey Young method and I love that one. That one I'm like I can tell a difference Meagan Smith: Yeah, me too. Jenny O'Mahony: It's pretty cool. Samantha Potter: with that one. Jenny O'Mahony: And it's expensive, but like it lasts a long time. Like that mini bottle. And Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I use it every time I dye my hair, I do it for four shampoos in a row, which is their recommendation. and then I do it in my kids' hair once a month. And it lasted six months with that regime. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, 'cause you don't you use like a use like four Meagan Smith: Y you don't use a lot. Samantha Potter: pumps per two per side, right? That's what I read. Poo two per side of your hair. Short. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I use one per side because my hair is shorter. So like, yeah. Yeah. No, it's the upfront cost, but it lasts a really long time. for me these elaborate multi-step processes force a self-care routine where I would Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: maybe do a fast shower. And Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: so like I like that. It makes Meagan Smith: Totally agree. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: me take more time in a space where I'm by myself and not being bothered by people. Could I do that without a 28-step hair care routine? Yes. But I won't. I won't. I could. I'm not going to. So Samantha Potter: No, no, definitely not. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: But you won't. But you won't. Jenny O'Mahony: that to me is kind of where it becomes a little sacred. Like, it's hair wash day. I need to go put my Meagan Smith: I like that, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a pre-spray and I need to f you know, it's gotta sit for 20 minutes at least. Yeah. Meagan Smith: And then you might put a face mask on or something. That's what I tend to I'm like, well I'm hanging out anyway, I'll put something else on which I wouldn't normally do. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: And then I'll do like a little like guided meditation and sit on my floor because once I've gone upstairs, I'm out of sight and out of mind, right? So I'm hiding. Samantha Potter: I d that doesn't work in my house. They find me. They've got like Jenny O'Mahony: They're younger. Samantha Potter: their little trackers. Meagan Smith: They're younger. Jenny O'Mahony: They're younger. Megan and I don't have toddlers. Once they're over a certain age, they stop that. Samantha Potter: But let's be clear, both of them find me. It's not just one. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, Meagan Smith: Yeah, I would say my Jenny O'Mahony: it's true. Meagan Smith: oldest is the one that hunts me down more. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm finally free of that. Although if I say, Hey, I'm having quiet time, please don't interrupt me. if somebody wanted to, they would absolutely not respect that Meagan Smith: There's no boundaries. Samantha Potter: I told you guys the story, but I feel like people will love it because I made a rule that when I am getting ready in the morning that nobody may talk to me. I am not a morning person. So I will Meagan Smith: With you. Samantha Potter: get everyone up, get them going, get them moving. But while I'm getting ready, while I'm brushing my teeth, washing my face, whatever, d don't speak to me, don't ask questions. Like your dad is available here. If if you have something to say, ask him. And The girls listened to it for about two minutes and then came in and started nattering at me, asking questions and stuff. And my Jenny O'Mahony: Nice. Samantha Potter: husband goes, Guys, mom said no questions, like leave her alone. It's quiet time in here. If you're coming in here, you can't say anything. Then he proceeds to blow his nose. And I don't Meagan Smith: Ha ha ha. Samantha Potter: know. It's like an earth shattering, like nose blow, like a clown noseblow that you think is a joke. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, you're like do Meagan Smith: They're so Jenny O'Mahony: you have you're like is do you have a sinus infection? Like what is happening over there? god. Meagan Smith: loud. Samantha Potter: But like right. I'm like and I mean luckily we both found gr a great deal of humor in that, but I was just like, I don't even know how you can physically even if I tried, I could not blow my nose that loud. Jenny O'Mahony: It's like every Meagan Smith: So funny. Jenny O'Mahony: time because I if I go to bed before Dave, he'll I don't why do men make that like throat clearing sound? Do you know what I mean? But like I don't clear my throat. Like I genuinely if I only do it when I'm sick. Well like or when you're post strep throat and you're Samantha Potter: I know exactly the one. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: it's so gross. Yes. I don't think I've ever done that. Sure. Jenny O'Mahony: like you've almost died Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: of like bubonic plague. Maybe I Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: would clear my throat then. But like I'll just and it's always right when you go into that first REM cycle and then you cut Samantha Potter: yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: why are you walking in the room and clearing your throat? Like what? Samantha Potter: Do it downstairs. Come on. Jenny O'Mahony: even think he clears his throat during the day. Meagan Smith: Room. Jenny O'Mahony: Why? But every time at night before bed his throat has to be clear. I don't understand the it doesn't make any Meagan Smith: I don't get it. Jenny O'Mahony: sense to me. But yeah, that's what I think of with like the noseblow. You're like cool. Samantha Potter: Yeah. It also makes me think of the the sneezes. I don't know about your husbands, but like it's an earthquake up in here when Jenny O'Mahony: I was just gonna say Samantha Potter: there's a sneeze. it's you. Meagan Smith: So I am the loudest sneezer. It's yeah, it's Jenny O'Mahony: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: so shocking and loud. I did it at Sam's in-laws' house the other day and scared the crap out of your father-in-law. He like yelped. because I forget how loud I am. And Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: He yelped. Meagan Smith: yeah, I'm just I sneeze like a 250-pound 6'5 man. Like it's crazy. Jenny O'Mahony: It's amazing. Samantha Potter: That's I'm I'm intrigued. Meagan Smith: It's we it's very and I can't help it and it's really weird. I don't do any of the other stuff, but my sneezes are loud. If my husband is listening to this, he will not be able to stop laughing. Yeah. I'll try and sneeze next time I see you guys. Yeah. Samantha Potter: The sneezes are are there. Jenny O'Mahony: my gosh, that is so funny. Samantha Potter: That's really funny and hard to picture. I can see why it would be shocking. Jenny O'Mahony: I can't wait. Meagan Smith: Like it just doesn't you expect it out of me. I I'm gonna someone's gonna have to make me sneeze next time we hang out. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Do you know what? well it's we've been two days into school. Someone's gonna be sick by Sunday. So like then you're gonna get it and well here you sneeze. Perfect. Meagan Smith: sure. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Someone's going Samantha Potter: And we'll hear you see it. It'll be perfect. Meagan Smith: down in the next few days. It's bound to happen. It's coming. Jenny O'Mahony: I was in a meeting this morning and my coworker was like, my god, my kids school is calling I was like Meagan Smith: the first no, second full day. Jenny O'Mahony: The second full day, and her kids are like little. She's like, my god. Samantha Potter: Yeah, it's not good. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that's so funny. my god, it does. But I think, Samantha Potter: Ugh. And it begins. Meagan Smith: The worst. And it begins. Jenny O'Mahony: like, on the topic of self-care, A, we need to book our craft night. We need Samantha Potter: Yes. Meagan Smith: We do. I love that idea. Jenny O'Mahony: a witty name for it. This is where in the times where life just kind of We we live where we do, the hustle is here, it fucking sucks, and yet we participate. So how can we use some of that hustle energy for the good? And I think Granny Crafts is the only Samantha Potter: Yeah, Jenny O'Mahony: answer. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: I'm so there. As far as the name. Meagan Smith: And booking it and committing to it, Samantha Potter: Yes. Yeah. No, it's it's all Meagan Smith: right? We do need a name. You are good at witty names. Jenny O'Mahony: We do need a name, Samantha. You're good at witty names. What do you think? Samantha Potter: Wendy from like the Quendi home. She calls Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: Mmm. my god, I love that. Samantha Potter: it a crafternoon. And so, like she does it in the afternoon. She does Jenny O'Mahony: afternoon. Except for it's gonna be the evening. Samantha Potter: like an afternoon thing, which I think is so cute. But I don't know how to make it a cutie evening thing. But it's always every time I'm crafting in the afternoon, I'm like, what's a crafternoon, you guys? Jenny O'Mahony: afternoon. That's so cute. Meagan Smith: That's so cute. Samantha Potter: Ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: I've made the best algorithm for myself though, looking for adult crafting reels. Like what a joyful community. So bright. So many colorful Meagan Smith: So have I now. Yeah. Mine's Samantha Potter: yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: things. Meagan Smith: adult crafts and kittens right now, and let me tell Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: you, my Instagram is bringing me so much joy. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: my god. So much joy. I don't when people talk about Doom Scrolling, I I don't get I will mindlessly scroll because I have like No, but people come Samantha Potter: Yeah. That's what I call doom scrolling. Is that not correct? Meagan Smith: A hundred percent. Me too. Jenny O'Mahony: but people describe okay, but I think that's because we are all not normal brained and have really niche curated Meagan Smith: Fair. Jenny O'Mahony: feeds because Other people will Meagan Smith: Fair. Jenny O'Mahony: they get like in a comparison game and like get caught up in the news cycle when they're sc they're scrolling and then they doom Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: scroll and they feel really like dysregulated. I don't have that because the news will l never touch my feet unless it's Aaron, what's his last name? Par Parnas Parnas. Parnas. Samantha Potter: Aaron Parnas, we love him. Meagan Smith: yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: He will pop he he'll pop up and then right now I do see Lindsay Clancy stuff, but that's kind of petered off until they decide what they're gonna do with that. Other than that, I am seeing ducks. I am seeing people upholstering because I am making a headboard. Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: And so the good people of the internet algorithms are showing me all the DIY upholstering niche things. I don't find any stress. I will get sucked into my feed because I'll be like, this craft is awesome. And then it won't Meagan Smith: Me too. Jenny O'Mahony: I'll get sucked in. But I never leave I'm like less I'm I don't ever leave with a low feeling of self-worth. I feel like I need to go buy more craft supplies. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I need to go to Michael's and buy all the things. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, same. I I I I Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: leave with a cart full of stuff that I need to check out on. It's very expensive. No. But it is time consuming. Jenny O'Mahony: It's expensive, but it's not dysregulating. Meagan Smith: And and then it sits there and I don't do anything with it. Jenny O'Mahony: It is time consuming and it Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: does impact my sleep if I'm on the small screen before bed. I cannot relate to doom scrolling from like a I feel bad afterwards perspective. Samantha Potter: was I mean, it like makes a lot of sense that it's probably the correct definition of Doom Scrolling, but I consider Doom Scrolling as like I'm stuck in a cycle where I'm just scrolling. I like my feed. I'm giggling away at whatever's on there. I have some hilarious Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. You're time blind and you're yeah. Meagan Smith: Me too. Yes. You're time blind. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: stuff. You guys have like the animals on there. I feel like I have wives playing practical jokes on their husbands on there, like parents rolling in, having a party Meagan Smith: I get those randomly too and they're so funny. Jenny O'Mahony: I do too, said Samantha Potter: on the first day of school. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Ha ha Jenny O'Mahony: I do too, and I wish I'd get a little more of that. Cause Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: like I will never prank my kids the way other people do, but I appreciate people that prank their kids. Samantha Potter: prank them. Meagan Smith: Me too. There's some funny husband ones though. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, I no judgment. There are some funny husband ones. I don't think it would be well received by my husband. Some of the ones that I've seen because I wouldn't receive it well. I wanna watch other people have that experience. I it's not for me. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I wouldn't receive Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: it well, but I feel like my husband would receive it well. So if you see any good ones, send them my way. He also just Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. He's Scottish. They have that type of humor. Yeah, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I will, I will. Meagan Smith: like puts up with a lot of my shit, so yeah. He's use he's used to it. Samantha Potter: Whatever. Jenny O'Mahony: That's awesome. That's so funny. Samantha Potter: I get caught into the evening scroll very easily because I got I have Meagan Smith: Me too. Samantha Potter: zero motivation. So I've actually been leaving my phone downstairs to charge. I need to figure out how to set up the alarm on my hatch because the past couple days I've had to bring it back upstairs so that I have an alarm. Meagan Smith: I used to be so good at doing that. I got in a really bad habit this summer of not, but I went through a phase Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: where I was so good I plugged it in in my kitchen. you just set up yeah, you can s Samantha Potter: Yeah, that's where mine is. It's actually really nice. Meagan Smith: and you set up the hatch. You can do it by times. So on a certain time it'll click in the nighttime schedule. That's what I've done. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I Yeah. That's all I need to do. I just probably need to re-download the app in fairness. And so Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: the first night actually I I used my daughter's watch. She she so she's not allowed Meagan Smith: Smart. Samantha Potter: it in her room when it's off. So it was in my bathroom and I was like alarm clock. Perfect. Meagan Smith: Or even an iPad, like I sometimes will have my iPad in my room and I don't have Instagram on my iPad. I don't know. Yeah, that's another way you can do it. But it does help because having Samantha Potter: that's smart too. Yeah. Yeah. No, I've yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: to walk downstairs to get your phone is not something, yeah, you wanna do. Samantha Potter: No. Yeah, it's and it's nice too in the morning because it's like not the first thing in like just instinctively I'm like Meagan Smith: It's so nice in the morning. Samantha Potter: reaching for my phone. I'm like, why? Nobody needs to talk to me this early. Meagan Smith: Totally. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, so I no, I don't use my phone for the first thirty minutes of any day. And it's now that I'm used to it, it's fine. It was a very hard tick 'cause you don't think about it. It is cause Meagan Smith: And is your phone beside your bed? Do you plug it in in your room? Jenny O'Mahony: we don't have a landline and so I just want now anybody would have to call me three times. to like trigger the Samantha Potter: To have it go through. Jenny O'Mahony: it I have like nighttime mode. But Samantha Potter: Yeah. But do you have your favorites on there? Meagan Smith: Yeah, you can put people that will bypass it all the time. Jenny O'Mahony: I I ever anybody can bypass it if they call is it twice in a minute or whatever whatever the default is. Samantha Potter: I think it's twice, yeah. Meagan Smith: But you can but you can also put certain people on it that always will bypass it. Like I have my husband, so even he can bypass the do not disturb. I think my mom. Yeah, fair. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, I just said like call me twice. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: You're right, I should do that just in case. But realistically, Samantha Potter: So cat Jenny O'Mahony: it'd be like a hospital or something that I'd actually want to hear from. And they all know to call twice, like Meagan Smith: That's true, yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: anybody that's calling like we know to bypass how to bypass. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah, you know how to do that. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: so Kat GPT created the physical phone. So it's literally a phone that's connected to your phone by Bluetooth. So you can have I have the physical phone in our room and Jenny O'Mahony: Whoa Samantha Potter: it's connected to my phone by via Bluetooth. So if someone needs to call me in the middle of the night, I'm available. I will hear that phone ring, but my phone is downstairs. Cause yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: If they bypass your s your do not disturb settings, you mean? Okay. Samantha Potter: So like any however you have your phone set up. It'll it'll trigger the same thing. And the other thing I really like about it, I will the tricky part. Jenny O'Mahony: Can you need to share that phone with us? 'Cause that's that's what I need. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I need to look into this. Samantha Potter: I'm going to see my mom in a few weeks. So if you guys want it, I can bring it back. You can only get it the States. But it is so it is so like I love it because it just Jenny O'Mahony: it's only in the States. Damn it. Okay. It's brilliant. Samantha Potter: it it's so smart and you can hit like so you can dial out from it too. So if I wanted to call you guys, I'd of course like I can press star, I think, and Siri will come on. So I can like, hey Siri. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Instead of the operator. You don't tell zero for the operator, you just Samantha Potter: Yeah, it's so cute. And so and and you can do it for anything, right? I'm like, hey Siri, set a reminder for tomorrow at whatever time I need to do, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's great. I highly recommend. Jenny O'Mahony: I like that. Meagan Smith: Mm, I love it. Samantha Potter: especially 'cause Jenny sounds we're similar, where I was like, if somebody is has an emergency, I want them to be able to get a hold of me. And that was giving me anxiety not having my phone down there. So yeah. Meagan Smith: Like something happens to my p I mean, Sam, your mom is young, but my parents are not. our parents are older. Yeah. It's like what if some Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, but our parents are older. Samantha Potter: Yeah, but she also shattered her shoulder, so Meagan Smith: my parents have a heart attack in the middle of the night or I don't know. Something happens. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Hundred percent. Hundred percent. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that's me. It's like I just want that. I've basically trained myself to not use my phone in the morning and at night, but my Meagan Smith: So good. Jenny O'Mahony: hard window is so right before I go to bed is no problem for me. The hard time is like say 7 p.m. when my vibe's leaving. And I will look up and be like, How long have I been s looking at crafts on my on Pinterest? I don't even know. Samantha Potter: Sitting here. Yeah. Well let's call it Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: let's call it joy scrolling. Jenny O'Mahony: It is joy scroll. Pinterest is I love it. But Meagan Smith: I like it. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I will be like, my God. Or if I'm working out because I have an app on my phone that my trainer puts my reps and stuff in and in a break, I'll like I don't even know how I get there, but I'm I'm I'm not on the workout app. So Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. You're there? Yep. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, that's it's the end of the day where my brain's like it ha doesn't the viance is leaving, but I haven't clocked that it's leaving. And then when it's gone I'm like, we're this is where we are and I have awareness, but there's a window where I just I just nope. There's no Samantha Potter: Yeah. Nope. Jenny O'Mahony: time. What's time? I don't know what it is. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah, what is time? Samantha Potter: So aside from hyperfixating on your phone at seven PM by Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: accident, what else are we hyper fixating Meagan Smith: Okay. Samantha Potter: on this week? Jenny O'Mahony: Megan, you start. What do you have? Is it cat related? It's gotta be cat related. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I feel like I've just really just my cat. Like I am now so Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: obsessed with him. I don't know where he is, otherwise I'd show him. He's somewhere around here. I'm so obsessed with Jenny O'Mahony: I'm so obsessed but I don't know where he is. Meagan Smith: him. We named him Angus. Haggis did not go. Yeah, Gusgas. Although the kids agreed to Jenny O'Mahony: No. Meagan Smith: name him Angus Hagis. his middle name is Haggis. But yeah, I would say just real easy to Jenny O'Mahony: That rolls right off the tongue. Meagan Smith: spit all up. Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: but yes, I call him Gusga, so does Sam. And I love him. He started sleeping on my chest and tucking his little neck. His little head under my neck. Jenny O'Mahony: buddy. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: and I'm obsessed with him and I want more. So if, you know, by next week I have four more cats, don't be shocked. Samantha Potter: Next week. Meagan Smith: Keep taking them. Crazy cat Jenny O'Mahony: Crazy cat lady coming in hot. Meagan Smith: lady coming in. I used to be a crazy cat lady and it's coming back. coming back. Samantha Potter: Coming back to your roots. Meagan Smith: Sam, what about you? What's your hyperfixation? Samantha Potter: Mine is definitely cozy whimsical jammies right now. I've like, yeah, they're they're Meagan Smith: So you have some good ones. Samantha Potter: really fun. And I feel like I could spend all of my money on all of them the ones that I really love are like three hundred dollars, which seems a little excessive. But they're real cute. Jenny O'Mahony: But they're so but it's like they only make but the patterns like and the thing I don't understand is like you could make that stripe pattern, for example, Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: in a lower price fabric at a lower price point, but they don't. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I think it's because of the rise Meagan Smith: Yeah. Why isn't Gap Jenny O'Mahony: Like if there's a gap in the mar but there's Meagan Smith: copying this? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a gap in the market. Do you know what I mean? Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Like there Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: are pe places like Gap, like Aritzia, like they could do Samantha Potter: Quince will do it. mark my words. Quince will have them out soon. Meagan Smith: That's true. Quince will Jenny O'Mahony: They will Meagan Smith: do it. Jenny O'Mahony: and they ship from California, right? So they they give Blue State energy, so hopefully the tariffs won't apply for them. Meagan Smith: But doesn't Quince now ship from Canada too? Samantha Potter: I don't it gets to my Jenny O'Mahony: Live. Samantha Potter: door very quickly. Maybe they have a Canadian warehouse now. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, they might have a Canadian warehouse. I hope they do 'cause I really Meagan Smith: They might I don't I could be wrong. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Maybe. Jenny O'Mahony: wanna order some of their sweaters and I don't wanna I don't wanna pay a tariff. Samantha Potter: I don't think I honestly Meagan Smith: No. Samantha Potter: don't think you're gonna get I I didn't see them. They were very strategic. Gotta love Carney for playing playing Jenny O'Mahony: It sounds like they were very strategic. Which is brilliant. Props props to Carney for that. Meagan Smith: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: the game very openly. So well. Jenny O'Mahony: And so well. Meagan Smith: Yeah. And well. Jenny O'Mahony: So well. Ugh. But yeah, so your jam what's your favorite brand right now for jammies then? Samantha Potter: I've gotta say I do like my dairy boy jammies. the the linen's really lightweight, which I like 'cause I'm I'm a hot sleeper. I might try their cot I think they have a cotton one and so I'm debating if I'm gonna get those next or not. I probably should. Jenny O'Mahony: I was just gonna say you're debating, which means you will and we support that. Samantha Potter: I have sat I've sat on it for like five days so far, so mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. No, Meagan Smith: We do support that. That's pretty good. Yeah. Not impulse. Jenny O'Mahony: see there you go. Yeah. That sounds like an appropriate no, not at all. Absolutely not. Samantha Potter: not at all. What's yours, Jenny? Jenny O'Mahony: I'm entering a new hobby era, which is phenomenal. This to me is like the epitome of like ADHD middle-aged woman healing is when you have your all of a sudden you have energy to learn hobbies. So I found my old sewing machine that I don't know how to use. It's actually Dave's mom's sewing machine that she got a new one and she gave it to me. so don't know how to use it and I'm gonna learn and I'm really excited to learn. And I'm making a like a a headboard right now, like an upholstered headboard. And it's been so fun. So I am in my is it a DIY era? No. But like I'm I'm gonna learn how to sew and I'm excited about it. I am embarking on a new hyperfixation that I haven't started yet. Samantha Potter: I love it. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm looking forward to it. I'm gonna be kind of insufferable once I learn how to use the sewing machine, so get ready. Samantha Potter: What are you making us? Meagan Smith: Yeah, I love that for all of us. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't even know yet. I Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: don't know. I don't even know. I don't know, but I'm definitely making new things. Time will tell. Will they fit? Probably not. Samantha Potter: Perfect. Here for it. Meagan Smith: Excited. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: That's okay. Samantha Potter: Fine. Make us a scrunchie. I feel like that fits Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: all. Jenny O'Mahony: I did see a really cute scrunchy pattern that was like a little t anyways, we'll see. I don't even know. it has been it is now out of the attic and ready for the place where I was like, Don't make sure Meagan Smith: so it was in the attic. That's where it was. Of course it was. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: you don't put it away in the attic and he was like, I won't and then he's like, It was in the attic. So Samantha Potter: And then for how long though? Jenny O'Mahony: probably years. Let's be very honest. Probably years. Like probably probably Meagan Smith: Ha ha ha. Samantha Potter: Just checking. Jenny O'Mahony: three years. Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: It's an ADHD hobby. We're gonna cycle through it and we'll come back to it later and it'll be fine. Samantha Potter: I love it. I love it. Well, thanks everyone for listening and hanging out with us today. And we'll see you next week.