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LESS PERFORMING, MORE LIVING AFTER 50 (ORGANIZING TIP: GRANDKIDS VISITING REGULARLY) · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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  Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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  you to let it go and don't look back.
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  We've nationally acclaimed professional organizer Christine
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  Stone and self-proclaimed Hot Damn Mess radio and TV
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  personality Eden Kendall. Welcome to Uncluttered and
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  Unfiltered. We are the podcast for women
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  over 50. I'm Eden Kendall.
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  Christine Stone is with me, of course, as always, you is a
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  professional organizer and if our episode isn't based on
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  organization, then she includes a tip at the end.
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  What is our tip going to be at the end of this episode?
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  What are you going to be doing? The organizational tip?
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  On Well, I am going to talk about when you are organizing at
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  home because your grandkids live in the same city.
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  Oh, that's interesting. And it may not apply to everyone
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  yet or ever, but no matter what area of the house or what type
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  of organizational tip you give, there's always a way to apply it
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  to your everyday living. Like even today we're here at
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  the television station where I work and you're on TV with me.
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  And we were talking about back to school organization.
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  And I took some Nuggets from that because you were talking
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  about packing lunch and I would like to start bringing my lunch
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  more often to work. So I feel like there's something
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  always for everyone. And then the topic that we're
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  going to discuss after we what's on each other's radars is from
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  the platform called Threads. And I don't know much about the
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  person who wrote this, but I will credit them of course.
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  And it's ways to live your life without an audience watching.
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  And I know that sounds very vague and very like deep, but it
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  basically is not being performative, not doing things
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  because you're thinking about how they look to the outside
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  world, but really doing them because you want to be doing
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  them when you're doing them. Oh, that's interesting kind.
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  Of along that mindfulness whole thing that is a little over the
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  top sometimes. But so anyway, do you have
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  anything on your radar? Because I have a few things on
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  mine. You start because I just have
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  one. OK, I saw something online that
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  I fell in love with and I reached out to the company that
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  created it and they sent it to me and I'm going to be doing it
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  on the television show with my friend.
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  But I want to say. It's Play DoH for adults.
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  Have you seen this? OK, if you, by the way, we are
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  on video on Spotify. So if you are not listening to
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  us on Spotify and you want to see what I'm holding up, it's
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  called Blooms by Play DoH and it is a Play DoH way that you make
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  beautiful bouquets of flowers and.
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  And it dries it. Dries, there's a finishing
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  spray. A finishing.
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  Spray so. Interesting.
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  Yeah. So it has one of those tubes
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  where you shove the play DoH in and push it through very much
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  like when we were little. But they make petals of flowers
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  and they're all these different kinds of shapes and pretty
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  colors. And they've all these different
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  kits and they've been marketing them to adults.
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  And I've been seeing them on TikTok and that's like.
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  When everyone was into the adult coloring books, remember that.
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  It's very much like that. It's.
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  My daughter got into that during COVID.
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  It's very mindful and if I follow the instructions on our
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  episode later on that I'm going to give, I would play with that
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  and not take any video or make a big deal about it.
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  But that's not going to happen. We're going to totally make a
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  video of that because why else would you even want to?
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  Do oh, I have to see that video. Oh yeah.
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  So you are doing. A video, yes, we are going to do
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  a video. OK, so that was one of the
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  things on my radar. What do you have?
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  I I told you this already, we're doing a renovation in early
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  January and I have been getting really into Pinterest again.
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  I mean, I use Pinterest anyway for clients a lot, but I've been
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  getting into it again for myself because I need all these things
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  in boards, Pinterest boards to show, you know, the architect
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  and all that kind of stuff. So I have really be getting back
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  into Pinterest and I missed it. I didn't realize how much I
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  missed. It I don't think I ever really
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  let myself get that deeply into Pinterest, but it really is like
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  taking magazines, going through and cutting things up and
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  putting them in a file or in a yes on a board.
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  Yes, like you can separate it out garage doors or you know,
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  small kitchens instead of big large, you know what I mean?
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  You can really define everything down and keep separate folders.
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  Are you making your kitchen smaller?
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  No, no, this is. I can't.
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  Imagine. No, no, no, no.
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  This isn't inside our house. This is a garage apartment.
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  That's. Right.
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  So I'm kind of doing everything to a smaller, you know, like
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  everything's on a smaller, but I see still.
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  So I have. I've totally been on Pinterest,
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  like all the time. Well, that's a lot I.
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  Mean. That's kind.
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  And you know what I found about it?
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  It's relaxing. It seems like you would be very
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  relaxing and we're actually going to be talking about
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  something that's going to play into that when we get to our
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  subject. So I'm excited about that.
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  I love it. OK, so I mentioned last week
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  that I am taking a class. You had said that you're
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  enjoying learning all the new ways to learn your iPad.
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  So I said I'm taking a class. So every Sunday for six weeks,
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  I'm I'm coming up on my third week.
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  I'm taking a stand up comedy class.
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  So when is the graduation because I have to go?
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  There is a date set, it's in September, it's a Monday night.
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  And. It's a workshop and.
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  I don't care if it's a Monday night, I'll I'll stay out late
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  for you. I don't even think it will be
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  late. It'll probably be pretty early.
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  So they So here's who's in my class.
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  There are five of us in my class.
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  I have a great story about this. So it's taught by a female
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  comedian who's a professor at a local college and then a male
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  comedian who we know here at the TV station he's on quite a lot.
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  And so they're teaching this class and it really is going
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  through joke structure. It's nothing.
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  Let me just tell you that I have zero and I'm not even fudging 0
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  desire to ever do any stand up comedy.
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  But I do quite a lot of emceeing and I even hosted a bingo for
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  300 people Monday night at for a retirement company that was
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  hosting their clients. So I wanted to be able to have
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  some things prepared sometimes or think on the fly.
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  And what we're learning is really about writing a joke
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  structure. So I don't know that this is
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  going to result in much even I'm even a little bit terrified.
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  When it was my turn to stand up and deliver my homework to the
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  class, my heart was pounding so bad.
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  There are five of us in this class and my heart was pounding
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  more than if I was emceeing thousands of people in the room
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  kind of event. Because that's your comfort.
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  But this isn't. This is not so in the class.
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  We have one gentleman that's very autistic and he's on the
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  spectrum, very leaning. He has some medical issues.
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  His parents have to attend the class with him.
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  But it's very interesting and it's it's a struggle.
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  Like he's definitely doing the work.
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  It's it's a struggle, but he's getting a lot out of it.
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  He very much enjoys it. So that brings me a lot of joy
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  to see. There's a married couple.
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  So that's the there are five of us.
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  So there's a married couple and they're cute because they are
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  straight out of central casting. She is vivacious and adorable
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  and southern and funny. And he could not be more clean
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  cut and straight laced. He is like a city planner and
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  it's just a very, like you couldn't picture two more
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  opposites, but they're both very into the class and it's funny.
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  Then there is me, of course. And then there's this other guy.
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  He's, I want to say he's in his 40s.
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  I know he'll never hear this. So I'm going to go ahead and
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  just tell this. He's in his 40s.
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  And I hadn't, he was really tired at the first class and I
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  had just purchased. I can't condone this, but I like
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  Celsius energy drinks. I like them too.
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  And you have to always get them two and three at a time based on
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  what the sale is at the convenience store.
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  So I had one in my purse and I was drinking 1 and I offered one
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  to him, very sweet guy. And he took one and he said, I'm
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  going to bring you one next week in a flavor that I like.
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  And so he did the next week and I'm like, I'm making friends.
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  And he put his seat right next to mine this time because it's
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  in a bar. So, you know, he moved his
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  little table and chair, right? And I'm like, I have a new
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  buddy. This guy's my buddy.
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  Well, he gets up to do his homework, present his homework,
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  and his whole act is about the fact that he and his wife date
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  outside the marriage. Oh my, good.
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  So now I'm like, is he flirting with me?
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  Like for real? Or was that just a story?
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  He was no, he really does, because the teacher of the class
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  stood up and said I have a lot of questions and I want to know
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  more about this dynamic. They.
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  Date outside of their. Marriage.
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  They date other women. He and his wife go on dates.
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  Oh, he was definitely hitting on you.
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  I don't know, I don't know. How old was he?
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  Like late 40s. Oh, 40s you said?
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  Like late 40s. So I don't know, I mean, maybe
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  not. He was just probably a really
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  friendly guy. No, I'm not that person that
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  thinks anyone who's polite or nice is hitting on me.
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  I'm, I'm really just saying it for the humor of it that it
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  could. Be Oh my God, this is good, but
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  oh, this is. Good, but I'm excited.
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  Not really going to the live show.
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  Yeah, yes, yes. Because he said like, what did
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  he say? What was his joke?
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  It was something like, you know, it's really hard to date because
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  I'm trying to be interesting, but all the girl wants to do is
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  look at my wife's boobs, but I'm bumped.
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  And then yeah. So he's got a comedy based on
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  the fact that he and his wife this.
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  Is so fascinating. Polyamorous, OK.
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  OK, this is. So anyway, so yes, I'm taking
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  that class. That's on my radar very much.
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  So, and I'm laughing because just what you need to do is add
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  another thing to your schedule. I know, right?
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  But you know, I've accepted it. Accept it.
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  It's happening because my husband's glad because usually
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  Sundays at one, which is when this is I'm walking around
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  around the house going let's go do something.
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  What are we going to do? We got to get out of the house.
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  So he is like, good, no? Well, what happens during the
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  Jags games? Well, that's during the Jags
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  game. Oh, for this class, it's going
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  to be over. By then, OK, because I was going
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  to say. No, it'll be over.
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  OK, It. It will be over, Will it?
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  I have to do the math. Yeah, there might be some
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  pregames, but sometimes the pregames are Saturdays and I'm
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  not so worried about that. You're right.
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  OK. I haven't.
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  Really. That's so funny.
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  She didn't think about that. No, I, well, I, I think if there
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  is anything, it will be one or two at the most.
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  But anyway, what else you got? That's it, That's it for you.
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  Because I have been really, really working a lot in my real
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  job and I also have been working on this renovation since it
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  starts in January and time seems to be flying so fast.
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  I feel like I'm going to blink my eyes and.
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  Yeah, it will be. It'll be time, so.
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  I've been. Doing a lot of work work and
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  also on Pinterest. Are you going to do any of the
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  demoing yourself? Because that's very this is.
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  This is like contractors kind. Of OK the reason I ask is we had
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  contractors too but I wanted to do some of the demo just for
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  stress relief. Oh, I did that once.
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  A bathtub I shredded. It oh, it's so great it.
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  Was great. I took a sledgehammer.
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  The best? It actually was the best.
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  I highly recommend if there's anything that that's not this
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  kind of project, but we did a bathroom and we had this really
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  archaic built in bathtub. And I said, do you mind if I
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  sledgehammer that? And he's like, OK, you have to
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  wear glasses. Yeah, you got to.
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  Cut. So I have.
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  Pictures of me with the goggles on and I I he's like, OK enough.
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  I'm like wait, I have another hole.
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  He goes, no, no, I got it. Like shards are flying.
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  We had a closet that we were knocking out, so I took a
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  Sharpie and I invited all the neighborhood kids to write
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  things on the wall that they were mad at.
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  And then they could take a turn with the goggles, of course, and
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  the sledgehammer, and just feed on it.
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  It was like they would write homework.
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  Yeah. No, we don't have anything like
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  that unfortunately. But that's good.
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  It was fun. It was.
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  Fun Speaking of things that kids don't like back to school can
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  cause a lot of stress. So we want to give some love to
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  our friends at Hearts for Minds. Back to school season is here.
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  If you're listening to this at another season, well, just know
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  that it came and it went. But this among so many other
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  things can stress people out. And there's an organization that
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  has been very supportive to us in this podcast and it's called
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  Hearts for Minds. And they have something on their
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  site. It's about taking the stigma
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  away from mental health issues. And they have H4M Connect on
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  their site, which helps you connect to a mental health
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  provider who fits your family's needs.
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  So you're not facing whether it be back to school or other
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  issues. So you're not facing these
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  things alone. So whether it's anxiety, a big
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  transition, or just needing to talk to someone, please don't
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  feel that it's a big deal to to get a therapist or to talk to
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  somebody hurts her minds. And our friend Cheryl Johnson at
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  Hearts for Minds wants you to always remember that there are
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  many, many resources out there. In fact, you might even work for
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  a company that has what's called an EAP and they will cover the
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  first four sessions for you. So check into that, ask where
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  you work or visit heartsforminds.org.
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  OK, let's talk about this, this very deep topic.
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  OK, on threads, the person who posted this or the company was
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  at poor Rav Bolar. I'm going to spell it and we're
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  going to lead to it POORAVBOLAR. And I'm only saying that because
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  I want to give credit to where credits do.
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  All right, so this is what it started started saying.
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  You've never actually tested who you are without an audience
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  watching. These are 20.
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  We won't go through all of them. 20 experiments that you can run
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  on yourself to see if you're doing things for yourself or
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  you're doing them for an audience.
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  Wow, this is interesting. The first one is called the
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  unwitnessed Hour. Do something you enjoy for an
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  hour with absolutely no plan to tell anyone you did it.
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  Don't take a photo. There's no story later.
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  It's enjoying it versus performing it.
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  I do that all the time though. You are someone who?
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  Does I do I do that a lot? And I think, yeah, I, you know,
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  I not as much as a lot of people, but it would be
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  something like going and taking a walk and not telling a single
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  person that you had a nice long walk or going to the thrift
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  store and not taking a single picture or mentioning to anyone
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  that you went to the thrift store or just anything, just
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  something that happened for an hour today that you did not
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  document. If, if as far as you're
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  concerned, it never happened, the delete test, delete the app
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  you open first every morning for 48 hours.
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  Watch what your hand reaches for instead.
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  That reach is the real habit. Oh, wait, say that again.
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  That reaches the the real habit, the one.
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  I'm not sure I understand it myself.
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  Because I would think the hardest part would be.
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  Getting rid of? Yeah, because that's a habit.
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  Getting rid of. That.
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  Yeah, that's the habit in my opinion, if I had to get like
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  delete Instagram or TikTok or whatever it is.
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  But but that let's so let's forget that that's the habit
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  part of it and think about that. For me it would be Instagram if
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  I deleted something. That's what I go to 1st.
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  And and what does it say for an hour?
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  You have to delete. It 48 hours, 48 hours of
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  deleting Instagram just. Well then I do my Pinterest
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  because I find that to be very relaxing.
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  There you go. OK, you're going to love this
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  one. The full stop.
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  Cancel one plan this week for no reason except that you don't
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  want to go watch the guilt arrive before the relief.
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  I feel no guilt. OK, we've covered this, but I
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  would feel the guilt before the relief.
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  I would feel the instant relief. You've witnessed this because I
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  don't know how much of it you overheard happening when you
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  walked in this door. But I had something I have
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  supposed to do later today and I was like, I really want to
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  cancel, but I don't want to cancel because I feel bad
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  because it's too short of notice.
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  But I really want to cancel. So I just feel badly.
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  Yeah, I don't. I, I, the only way I'd feel
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  really bad is if it were one-on-one versus like a party
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  or you know what I mean? Here's one that I think you have
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  to be really careful if you're going to do this.
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  The unsent text write the message you'll never send.
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  The truth you can't say out loud usually runs your mood in
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  silence. That is interesting.
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  But be careful. Please don't write it in your
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  text, put it in your notes. Well, that's what I was just
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  going to say. I would never do it in a text
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  because I would be so worried it would get sent by accident
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  because being the Gen. Xer that I am, I would forget
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  that I somehow it would get sent.
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  So yes, I would do it in my notes.
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  But are you like this? I feel like everything that you
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  put on your phone somehow everybody knows about, like
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  whether it's a video or something you're personally
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  writing. Like they have all these like
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  journal apps and I'm like, I would never use one of those
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  because somehow I feel like, yeah, you keep getting all these
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  notifications how things got hacked.
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  I just feel like people are going to end up going back to
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  paper journals and going back the other way because there's no
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  100% security that what you say or videotape or write down is
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  not going to be. Absolutely.
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  Good. I'm glad you feel that way.
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  Too. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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  I feel that way. OK, this one's so easy for you
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  and not for me. The call, not the text.
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  Call someone instead of texting them today and notice how much
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  faster real connection lands than a typed sentence.
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  I mean, that's been you from day one.
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  From day one, from day one, I feel like everything gets lost
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  in translation in a text. You think someone's mad at you
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  or something. I think the phone call is a lot
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  lust art and it needs to come back.
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  It needs to come back. Here's a great one the apology
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  you owe yourself. Write down one thing you've been
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  punishing yourself for, and then stop the sentence.
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  There something you've been and. What do you mean you stop the
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  say you? Just, I don't know, I feel like
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  this. I don't know what they mean.
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  I think they're just trying to be very light.
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  And you stop and maybe just write 1.
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  Sentence. Write the sentence down
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  something you've been punishing yourself for, and then you just
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  stop punishing yourself for it. This one the one honest answer.
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  Ask yourself what you're avoiding right now.
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  What are you avoiding? That's a good one.
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  What are you avoiding right? That's a really good one because
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  you know, if you think about it, there are things you're
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  avoiding. Oh, I'm a yes.
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  I mean, me too. I usually think it's
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  confrontation. I don't like confrontation.
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  So I think like how you're feeling, but you want to say it,
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  but you're worried it's going to stir drama, so you just don't do
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  it. That's what that's what I think
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  of. That's that's very authentic.
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  I think for me, it's usually something like, and we talked
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  about this, I think it was our last episode about going to the
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  post office. If there's ever anything I have
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  to send or mail, I'm always avoiding that.
• 19:47
  A procrastinating is a better word for that than avoiding,
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  right? You know what to go to the
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  mailbox. Like going to the post office,
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  having to mail things like I hate, I hate doing it.
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  I hate doing it. But I don't think that's the
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  same as avoiding. And then avoiding would be like
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  if there's a person I know I really need to talk.
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  To that's what I mean. And you don't do it because
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  it'll cause drama and you just are like, it's not worth it.
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  I'm just going to avoid it. You know what I mean?
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  Yep. And then there are so many of
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  these. These are really interesting,
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  but let me I'm just going to randomly pick one more, pick one
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  more, just one more this. Is fun.
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  The silent commute. Travel somewhere with no music,
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  no podcast, no scrolling. Your thoughts get loud fast.
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  That is so true. I don't know if I could actually
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  do that. I do you think you?
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  Could do? I do think I could do that.
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  I have. Done that, I don't think I.
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  Because I my brain is, my husband will tell you my brain
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  is like, sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing it.
• 20:45
  I haven't even turned on the radio.
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  But do you sleep with the TV on? I can't.
• 20:48
  See, and I do, because I can't stand silence.
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  I. Can't I have I have a like a
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  white noise? Machine I I just sleep with the
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  TV on. Preferably Keith Morrison's
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  voice from day. What is wrong with you and all
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  you have like women that love? Like a it's a lullaby.
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  It's like the minute. Keith comes.
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  On the minute Keith Morrison comes on, my husband will laugh.
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  He goes. You are out in 5 seconds flat,
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  do you? Not have nightmares when you
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  hear his voice. I He has the most soothing voice
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  I've ever heard, even any of them, even Andrea Canning, Josh
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  Mankiewicz, anyone from Dateline.
• 21:27
  I could just. Anyone that does the murder
• 21:29
  podcasts. Yeah, no, not a podcast.
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  It's got to be like ATV it has. To be a dateline 48 hours, 2020.
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  Sometimes some of their voices can annoy me.
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  It really is voice dependent. Wow.
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  So there you go. That's.
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  Funny, have you ever seen the Saturday Night Live skit with
• 21:48
  Bill Hader as Keith? Hilarious, yes.
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  Oh, that's terrible. Of course, of course I.
• 21:55
  Have so funny. Yeah.
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  OK, so that's wild. All right.
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  Well, anyway, so those are just some interesting thoughts
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  starters. I mean, I don't know how deep
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  they are. I don't know how necessary they
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  are. I don't even.
• 22:05
  I wish I could give full credit to this person.
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  I don't know anything about their background, but I can tell
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  you that, yeah, I do drive with silence.
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  Sometimes I could never do that. Now I'm want to test myself,
• 22:17
  like to leave here and drive all the way home and I could.
• 22:20
  Tell me how far you get. I honestly, I don't.
• 22:23
  Seriously. Know if I'm dying to know how
• 22:25
  far you can get OK, it is time now for our organizational tips.
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  So walk us through this. We're going to talk about.
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  Well, I didn't. I don't know if I I told you
• 22:37
  this, but I haven't told our audience.
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  I have a daughter that is moving back to her hometown, which is
• 22:44
  my hometown, which I am beyond thrilled about.
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  Imagine you are. And a grandma because she's the
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  one that has my 2 grandchildren. So they are moving to where I
• 22:54
  live. So it is already started because
• 22:57
  I don't live in a big humongous house.
• 22:59
  So all the kids toys, all the kids things like we have to have
• 23:04
  a step stool so he can wash his hands.
• 23:07
  We need to have a high chair. We need to have a little step
• 23:11
  thing. He can sit and go on the potty.
• 23:13
  We need to have all his toys. And he's a boy, so he's really
• 23:16
  into these trucks and cars and Monster Jam trucks and all this
• 23:24
  stuff, trains. So I have a lot of that.
• 23:27
  Then clothing, I always have to have spare clothing.
• 23:31
  So I decided in the past couple weeks that I need to create some
• 23:37
  space for just kids stuff. So that's what I'm in the
• 23:40
  process of doing is paring down some of it and creating place
• 23:45
  for storage for all kinds of arts and crafts that you don't
• 23:50
  realize how much it is until they're spending a lot of time
• 23:54
  at your house. Well, suddenly the things that
• 23:57
  are at your house aren't necessarily the same things that
• 23:59
  need to they get to go back with them.
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  They're staying. They're staying.
• 24:03
  So what this process? Can we get some photos in the
• 24:08
  future as it builds? Yes, I promise I will.
• 24:12
  So you'll be. Employing all of the usual Chris
• 24:14
  Stone techniques, you'll be doing the transparent bins.
• 24:18
  I will be doing we're we're actually in the process of
• 24:23
  thinking about doing some built insurance from some of the toys.
• 24:26
  But even in my kitchen, they're all their cups, their plates,
• 24:31
  their bowls, their little silverware.
• 24:33
  I've kind of carved out a pull out drawer in my kitchen that's
• 24:37
  all kid friendly items. That is for them.
• 24:41
  So, yeah, you, you do. You have to not let it be all
• 24:45
  over the place. You have to create little spaces
• 24:50
  for their items or else it will be all over the place.
• 24:54
  And when you're someone like me that all of a sudden has become
• 24:59
  OK, now let's get real. I mean, even their first aid
• 25:02
  stuff, their baby Tylenol, their thermometers, that things that I
• 25:07
  would never have but I have to have them now.
• 25:10
  So using the bins to keep all the first aid, the little
• 25:14
  dinosaur band aids, you know, easy for me to get to.
• 25:19
  And also remembering, you know, when my husband and I are alone,
• 25:23
  we don't need to put our medications up high.
• 25:26
  You have to now create spaces to keep those type of things up
• 25:29
  high so that their little hands don't get into some of that kind
• 25:34
  of stuff. So it's a process.
• 25:36
  So I, for any of the ladies out there who are grandma's, whose
• 25:40
  kids live in the same city, you all can relate to what I'm
• 25:44
  talking about. It can get overwhelming.
• 25:47
  Wow, so much to think about. Yep, a blessing.
• 25:52
  A blessing for sure, but definitely something to think
• 25:54
  about. Well, you mentioned for anybody
• 25:57
  who is a grandma, if you're a grandma or you're not even close
• 26:00
  to being a grandma or whatever the case may be, we would love
• 26:03
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• 26:06
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• 26:10
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• 26:21
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• 26:24
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• 26:29
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• 26:32
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• 26:35
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• 26:39
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• 26:46
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• 26:50
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• 26:54
  YouTube. So having said all of that,
• 26:56
  let's think of a good way to say goodbye for today.
• 27:00
  I kind of want to go with something like, you know, if you
• 27:03
  are, if you are letting the Legos and the sippy cups and
• 27:10
  what else is there, the high chairs, the monster trucks take
• 27:14
  over your entire house, you can let it go.
• 27:16
  And don't look back.