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Birthday Celebrations- S2 Episode 5 · Sip Happens

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I'm Alexandra. I am Lynn.
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I'm Rose. And this is Sid Happens.
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We wanted to just give you a heads up.
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This podcast is all for fun and entertainment.
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We are sharing our own thoughts and stories, not professional
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advice. So relax, enjoy and don't take
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us too seriously. Let's get this started.
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Welcome to SIP Happens. What's in your cup today?
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How about you, Lynn? It's actually a mixture of two
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drinks have like a Was it a passion fruit?
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Mango Fizz. But then my friend Alex here,
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she had the brilliant idea to put like this calming mix with
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ashwagandha and magnesium and Faltheonine.
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And I just added it to it. A little bit more water so we
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can become tonight. How about you, Rosie?
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That's an interesting comment. Wait till you hear Alex's.
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Compliment. I don't even know if I want to
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share that, but go ahead. Rosie, I don't want her glass
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head wine because mine has wine. I can't remember the brand.
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It's a red blend. It's very refreshing.
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So these magnesium packets that's just talking about, I
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left one just for you next to your glass right there.
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So what I have is also wine, red wine.
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And I had the brilliant of my idea of why not put the fizz of
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natural calm and natural and healthy you need and all those
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relaxing juju into the wine. So I feel great right now.
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I've been traveling for work and I'm noticing my anxiety is very
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heightened during travels. Like I'm not sleeping well at
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the hotels. So my friend Len over here got
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some samples of this magnesium and I took some with me recently
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when I went to San Diego and I slept like a baby.
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Well, somebody has a birthday coming up and I think it's
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perfect segue to our topic of the day about birthday
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celebration, the energy as adults, almost every few men,
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I'm looking at you. Do you still get?
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Excited for your birthday or are you low key avoiding?
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It now. Oh no, I'm not the kind of
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person I've met a lot of people and I was always surprised when
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I met those kind of people that were like didn't tell that it
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was their birthday and that would just be random when you
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would find out. But no, I will let you know.
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Probably I'll start talking about a two weeks prior and then
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as it gets closer, I'll talk a little bit more about it because
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you're not going to do it. You're going to celebrate me.
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I'm celebrating myself for an entire birthday week.
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I know that there are people that are very and do the whole
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month. I only do the work and I try to
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do something nice for me every day or that week.
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So yes, you. Want to give an example of?
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That entails, well, you know, finances are tight now so it's
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probably not going to be as excessive these days.
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The prior like, OK, let's do my nails one day, let's get my
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eyebrows the next day. Let's go to a store and buy
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myself something the next day, go have lunch the day after to a
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place that I want to. And it usually it's just me
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celebrating myself. So I do all those things with
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myself. I do like those little self-care
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moments. Yes.
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What entire week? We'll make a fun entire year
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that I miss. Yeah, that one week and you do
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it all. I love it.
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All right. Well, what about you, Rosie?
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I don't avoid it, but I also don't make a big deal about it.
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Like, well, you guys know last year you're like, what are you
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doing for your birthday? I was like, nothing.
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I have a Zoom call. Yes, that's true and.
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That's what I did. I can't remember what else.
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Well, last year that's what I did.
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But like other years after becoming her mom, it's usually
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like a dinner. When I was in my 20s, I think it
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was birthday month. You're those?
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A whole month. I think it was birthday month.
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Yeah. Wow, that's a.
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Celebration. Day but every week there was
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something going on because I remember I had like different
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groups of people you know how sometimes like not everybody
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clicks together so you have. Different circles, that's the
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word. And then at some point it became
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a travel thing. This year I want to go to Spain,
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and this year I want to go there.
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I can just travel for your birthday too, right?
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I don't. Remember your birthday's in
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December? Yes, probably.
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Yes, you've. Done so, but that was it.
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But nowadays it's just a nice dinner, Quiet friends.
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Happy family. I think for me.
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Yes, motherhood has changed that quite a bit because as I'm
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trying to think here, 2 of my birthdays, I believe I was
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pregnant. So hubby believes needs to be
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celebrated and we really try to emphasize that from each other.
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So I'll always make a big deal for his birthday and encourage,
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like, we do something right. And then my birthday comes
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around, I get excited and I think I get too overhyped.
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And then I'm afraid the expectation is that gonna be
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there. And I just crashed.
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And I think it's a, it's a me problem where I'm like, oh, OK.
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Like the anticipation was so hyped.
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And as we get closer, I'm like, I don't think I'm gonna enjoy
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that. So it's just a day.
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And then he, I feel bad for him because he always comes through
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when I tell this man comes through, always come through
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with the surprises. We've had dinners with like all
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the friends who will meet up. He always try to surprise me.
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Yes. My husband is very opposite of
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me when it comes to celebration. He wants a big dinner, friends
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and celebration and I'm like a quiet dinner somewhere by the
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water is great. Just you and me that fills my
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cup because you know, my love language is time.
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So quality time is great. But yes, when it comes to like
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the the gifting and we'll talk a little bit more about that
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because I'm always like, I don't know what I want.
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I get what I want and you know me, I really love self-care.
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So yes, the nails done, a massage, all of that is like
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speaking my language of checking out on your restaurant in town.
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That always, you know, warms my heart.
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But the best has been like my friends that are in different
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states definitely will call and we will chat.
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It's better than the text. I don't know why, but on my
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birthday, I would appreciate a call.
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I don't want a text. I get the text I expected from
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some people. But if I get a call and I'm
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like, Oh my gosh, they care. So that's, yeah, that's
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adulting, I guess. But motherhood again, I was
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pregnant twice. I didn't want to do anything was
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very low key. I couldn't handle cake anyway.
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I was like, I don't want a cake. I don't, you know, I couldn't
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eat it anyway. So let's not do that.
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But post, I'm like last year, I think that was the first time
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that I truly felt celebrated and I did the things I wanted.
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I got to spend it with my friends.
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I got to spend it with my family, with the boys.
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And it just filled my cup so much because yes, we had a PJ
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party and Oh my, I've been dreaming of this for a while.
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And it happened. And it wasn't like my 30th or my
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25th birthday. It was just one of those
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birthdays that we got to do the things that I really wanted to
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do. So you know.
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Overnight parties that you wanted as a kid.
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I know you got to make it happen.
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Well, don't. Can I still do it?
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I'm gonna do it. Yeah.
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Tried to watch a movie and did all the things by, you know,
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adulting. Playing in the background.
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Yes, it kept right. I think so.
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Do you guys get like? Videos.
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Send like people singing Happy Birthday.
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Have you you seen any of those 'cause you said you appreciate
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phone calls, but it's funny, me and my friends and my family,
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you send each other videos or voice messages where we sing to
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each other. It's always the same birthday
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song, but it's still we still. Do that.
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Let's go tie into the next question of birthday traditions
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versus reality, OK? And.
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Some traditions that I still hold on to that actually
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actually with my mom growing up, my birthday, my mom always calls
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in the morning and then prays for me and will be like, this is
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your verse for the day. And that meant so much.
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And then of course going to college, she continued it right.
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We had Long story short, we had a little falling apart.
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And I remember on my birthday this woman did not call me and I
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did not get a message left and I was not happy.
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So I told her my Peace of Mind in the sense of I would
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appreciate phone call, please. Like I didn't realize in the
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moment how much you meant to me until it happened.
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And I kid you not, ever since then, every birthday, 6:00 AM,
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my mom calls me and leave me a message.
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And she prays for me every time I like get up.
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And that just like fires me up And I'm like, so that's like a
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tradition that continues to carry and I'm gonna cherish it
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for as long as I can. So what were you guys?
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Oh, do you remember what age it was?
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Just, you know, for reference where I can put that story when
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you didn't get that phone call. It was post college so.
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You were already in Adult. My 20, Yeah.
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Adult. Adult.
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Yes, not teenagers or nothing. No, this was more like post
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college so. I'm gonna.
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Say. I'm proud of myself, but that
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was the first time I actually voiced it to my mom because I'm
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like, it matters to me. Not only it's my birthday and
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you did not bother to call me like you always do.
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Oh, yeah. So it's all good now that
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happened that one year and it won't ever happen again.
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It's. Made sure of it.
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You better be in the ditch so. You better get that phone,
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mother. But yeah, it's one of those
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traditions that I honestly, I truly, truly cherish.
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And I pray that I can pass it on with my kids.
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So I like it. Again.
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I did not realize how much it meant to me until adulting, I
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guess adulthood. So what about you guys?
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Any traditions or birthday? I'm loving it because like, oh,
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you don't know what you got until it's gone.
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Yeah, Yeah, I think that would have done.
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I don't have any. I'm listening to you guys.
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And there are no traditions that we follow or that anybody with
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me, I would say that only my brother, my older brother will
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call every year and he will say like him and my sister-in-law,
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if I pick up the phone, like as soon as I say hello, they're
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going to be singing. If I don't pick up the phone,
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he'll leave the voicemail. So I know that if that didn't
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happen, I would miss it and. Honestly, my brothers, they do
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call me. I don't know when we voice that,
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but even though we text each other very often, but on
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birthdays, I do the same thing. We get a phone call and if I
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don't pick up, they will try again because they're like, we
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want to hear, you know, it's not like a memo or a video.
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Probably for my aunts, you know, like my family or extended
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family probably would do it. And I'm trying to think if we
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really do videos. No, no, it's usually that phone
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call for me. What about you?
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We do videos like short videos. 1 tonight for my 40th birthday
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was so cute. My mom had like, there's this
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thing in Germany where you it's called a coffee clutch.
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So you have coffee and cake in the afternoon.
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I love this tradition I. Don't have that so they had a
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coffee clutch. My mom with her friends on my
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40th birthday. They put my picture in the
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middle of the table and then they called me and put me on the
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I too so I could be a part of it.
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And they sang happy birthday. That's and yours just like the
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cutest thing ever. And they put it was weird
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because they put me on a seat, but they also had I could see my
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picture in the middle of the table and I was like this is
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weird. But I guess I'm just.
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What you do when you're international, right?
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Hey, you still partake. It's beautiful, but that's.
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What we do, we call each other, of course, because there's a
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time difference. They're in Germany, 6-7 hour
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difference. It's not always the easiest to
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get a hold of each other, but we try to call but if we can't get
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a hold of each other, we leave a video message or we leave a
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voice message and where we sing to each other.
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My sister is a very musical talent and she always gets like
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her little guitar out and sings with her boyfriend.
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It's just always so beautiful and I like that I can replay it
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as much as I yeah, it's my life. Yes, they're so far away and
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what, you know, makes me makes me emotional to think about it.
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Yeah. How much I actually miss doing
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about that It's. Crazy how birthday has changed
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over the years. Abby and I, we've been together,
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which feels like actually for a decade now that I'm thinking
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about it. We've had the birthday, you
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know, as boyfriends and fiance and now married and now kids.
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He's been through it. Through.
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Through it all, he's like been that constant and honestly till
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today, it's like one of those things that we do celebrate and
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like doing dinner or something. Like I have a dating.
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Oh, you remember that one where you guys surprised me?
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I was I was trying. That's definitely your story.
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I was trying to guess like, who did he invite?
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Because again, I'm going back to like, I would have been fine
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with just the two of us, but knowing him, I'm like, who did
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he invite? Who does he know that I can
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handle right now? Can handle.
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You at. This at this special spot that I
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love and it end up being you guys and I was just so
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overjoyed. It was the perfect night.
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It's really, it's really was. Those are the things that I
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cherish just for the. Listeners, to paint a better
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picture, we were for me and my husband and my mother were
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supposed to babysit. Story so.
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She was like, OK. She we were out.
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Of the picture she's like a plane in her family are
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babysitting the boys let's. Back up a little bit, Oliver is
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still a baby by the way. So this Mama here is still like
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who is watching the baby because mother in law's not in town.
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We don't have a babysitter. The only person that I know to
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trust this baby wet is Wet who lives 2 doors down.
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Please continue. So, you know, it was a secret
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and we already planned it out. My mom and my girls are going to
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watch the baby in Omari and I was getting ready, right?
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So I have to beautify myself to go to this fancy restaurant with
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them. And that takes like 45 minutes.
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And who rings the doorbell to just check in?
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I was. Checking in, yes.
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I was like, I'm going to just go over.
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Hub is getting ready. I'm like, I'm just going to go
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over to Len to check it because he already confirmed Len is
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watching the baby. I've accepted this, but I'm
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like, I want to see her and who opens the door?
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Kevin. And I'm looking like suspicious,
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like OK, but he's wearing like PJ pants or sweatpants or
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something and I'm so casual. I'm like he's not going
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anywhere. She's upstairs supposedly not
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feeling well. I'm like what?
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And he have to go. I had.
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Red lipstick on and I was already like full blown glam.
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I'm like if I go downstairs and open the door.
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She knows. I am not babysitting tonight.
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Told Kevin. Go downstairs and he already has
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his his. Nice pants.
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He was ready. He switched out of the.
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Pants so fast. That is love, y'all.
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That is love when his sweats. Off and I'm like tell her.
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I'm sick in the back. Tired.
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Tie sat on the. Couch the baby fell asleep and
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she just she's. Like I'm not moving when we.
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Came home, she's like, can't you take the baby?
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I need to go to the bathroom. Potty, my God yes so see these
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are the things again, my husband does that I just give him a free
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range and he always surprised me and come through and I'm just
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like, you know, I just need to stop doubting because you know
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you got it question for you Rosie.
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Do birthdays ever make you reflect on where you thought you
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would be versus where you are? Not that I.
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Recall, I know. Some friends that on birthdays,
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this is when they reflect, right?
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And they get stuck in that like, oh, like I don't want to say the
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past, but they get stuck into this mindset of this is not
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where I thought I was going to be.
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And then I feel like they missed the point.
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They missed the moment. They can't enjoy it.
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So that's the lens I'm trying to think it's like, okay, because I
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don't reflect that way. My birthday to me is a
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celebration. I'm looking forward.
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Like I'm excited. It's been a year we're
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celebrating. But I do know some friends or
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some people are very into like, that's not what I want.
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And sometimes it can be, I don't want to say like a downer, but
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it takes a toll on some people to kind of digest and not really
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enjoy the moment. And I feel like you miss out,
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especially when you have family, you know?
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So I think what? We offer the question is like
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reflecting. I don't feel like I reflect on
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it in the moment for the birthday, but I do feel that at
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some point I stopped looking forward to it because it doesn't
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look like it used to. So I may be attached to what
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birthday celebrations used to look like.
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So after motherhood, it's just like it's different.
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I don't know how to explain it. What's the?
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Expectation. What did it look like?
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But what was fun was to find that adventurous.
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So traveling. Is that what?
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Exciting. When we didn't travel, we would
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just go to like a really nice restaurant.
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Maybe we would just pick one, I don't know.
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Is that something that stopped after motherhood?
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It stopped. But it stopped more because of
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me. So.
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The 1st birthday. That I had after motherhood.
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Diego was probably two months old.
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It's in October. He was what, not so he was two
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postpartum. I'm tired, I'm restless, but I
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do like Sunset Grill. So I'm like, let's just get
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ready. Let's go to Sunset Grill
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driving. I don't hated the car seat.
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Quiet. Yep, he did not.
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Stop Sunset grill is like 20 ish minutes away.
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I was like, no, what did you turn?
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Around we turned. Oh, we turned.
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Around. So that's why you have me
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thinking, I was like, OK, how can I change that this year?
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Because I think since then I've just created a thought that
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they're just not going to be the same.
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This is the season that I'm in, but I could change it.
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I have the autonomy to do that. Agency.
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I think there is agency to change it.
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So yeah. You got me thinking.
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I do reflect my life. Oh, it used to be this way and
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life is different now, so no one looks like this, but I'm
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creating that. Well, this.
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One would be great for you then if you stripped away
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expectations, kids partner hubby, because that plays a big
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role too nowadays. What would your perfect birthday
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actually look like? I like this question.
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I'm gonna go with you then. Without.
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Everything, yes. Everything.
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So without the people around me, because what this is what my
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birthday is about is celebrating with the people that I like.
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So their actual birthday or the birthday celebration.
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So that's like the most important part because you
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create the memory so. Without all these people, are
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you booking the trip? Are you staying in bed, solo
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dinner or outside all night? What are you doing?
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None of that works because you want the people.
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He's just saying the people are not there.
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We're not celebrating. I'm probably.
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Just doing something for myself then if it's just me.
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And exploring. Something I am not going to sit
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at home by myself for sure. So probably creating a memory
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with myself, if that would be creating a memory and just, you
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know, doing some self-care like you like to say, I know.
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I'm like I'm all for like self pampering.
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Myself, you're not getting a massage done.
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Maybe I even let somebody touch my feet.
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That's another story. No, I.
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Do not enjoy it, but yeah, I like massages.
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I like feeling rested and I like feeling beautiful.
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So something in that, you know, area and makeover.
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Yeah, and makeover and massage. Something that makes me feel
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good afterwards. For like you Rosie, you booking
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the trip. I'm gonna escape.
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Yeah, I'm gonna. Bye.
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I see you in three days. For some reason when you asked,
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I thought of like a day, like a spa day at the hotels I'm
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envisioning. I've never been to that hotel.
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Yeah, at the pool, at the beach. So I'll be like, but I.
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Would also feel lonely like when the saying I'm like well let's
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just message my friend. I'm gonna go take a nap.
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Ask me after my nap. Where's my phone?
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Why ain't nobody calling me? Why no one's wishing me happy
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birthday? Connected.
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Oh, my gosh. Well, I think my last question
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would be, do we make a list? You didn't.
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Answer your own question. You're not getting off the hook.
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What would you do? Booking the trip the guy oh
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you're. Booking.
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I'm booking. The trip with you, where we're
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going, where we're staying, we. Can be together remember you
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have to be by this time well, I'm sitting.
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With her like because she says she's also booking the trip.
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I'm booking a trip for my birthday.
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She gave her trip for her birthday.
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Oh my. But why did?
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You get to go with her. But you know, I also, of course
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enjoy self-care and all of those beautiful things I had to learn
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to be OK with, like solo dates, like actually going to town and
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go to a restaurant. There's something about it.
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And just be by myself, like be present.
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It was very intimidating at first because I'm just sitting
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there like, OK. And I felt like everybody was
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just staring at me. It was really awkward.
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And now I'm like, I own it. I'm like, I am too grown for
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this. I am enjoying the steak by
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myself. And I'm gonna take dessert to go
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and I go back to my room and I put a show on.
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I eat my beautiful cake and I pass out.
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So it's definitely different. I've had a taste of it and I
22:44
enjoy it. But you're right, family, the
22:47
people, that's really what makes it enjoyable and celebrating as
22:52
adults is I want to be and feel celebrated with the people that
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I'm sharing a life with. I enjoyed what we did for my
23:00
birthdays last year. I love the beach, you know that.
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I also enjoy my beautiful cocktail.
23:05
You know that we got to do all the things and coffee.
23:07
We sure did and I enjoyed so much that hubby was there like
23:12
participating and and actually making us drinks.
23:15
I'm like, Oh my gosh, you're serving my friend like that
23:18
fills my cup because he was also involved.
23:20
And then I got to enjoy dinner with the boys.
23:23
So everybody that is currently in my life in close proximity
23:28
was able to tackle it and I enjoyed it.
23:31
So if I can carry that, I would. I would hold on to that far as
23:34
long as I can. I wanted to talk or ask if you
23:40
guys make a wish list for your birthday then your birthday is
23:43
coming up. So do you have a wish list now?
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If you do, please share it, we need it.
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No now. That we are adults.
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When I want something I get. It makes.
23:55
It harder though it makes. It so much harder.
23:57
If I want something, I get it and the things that I don't get
24:00
are the things that I can't afford and I wouldn't want
24:02
anybody else to get it for all right.
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I want a Breville espresso maker.
24:09
I can't afford it. That's the only thing.
24:11
So that's. The.
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Only thing I want right now you know that is one of.
24:26
Those things, that is. On my On my.
24:33
Amazon yeah, just submachine like those are the only.
24:37
Things that I can't check out even with Karna, the payments
24:42
are too high. I agree though as adults it
24:45
makes it harder. I always ask hubby for a wish
24:49
list but I never give him one which then I'm realizing that's
24:52
not fair. So I'm trying to be better this
24:55
year of things that I really want and do the Amazon list
24:59
where it's like birthday wishes gift card actually used to be a
25:03
thing in terms of gift ideas that I did not care for.
25:08
Like you didn't really put thoughts into this.
25:09
I want you to work on that a little bit.
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But now as a mom, I'm like, get me a gift card.
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I will figure it out. I don't have time to sit here.
25:16
I will buy something. So it's just interesting how
25:19
things just changed, I guess throughout the years.
25:21
What about you? I have an ongoing Amazon
25:24
wishlist. So we all have Amazon wishlist.
25:26
I'd love it. I have.
25:28
Affordable things on my Amazon and my husband has finally
25:32
actually used, put it to use because he would have, he would
25:35
say the same thing. He's like, I don't know what you
25:37
get you because you buy everything that you want.
25:39
I was like, I don't, I have that wish list of things that I want,
25:42
but I don't want to pay for that.
25:43
Yeah. Well, that's kind of what I do.
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Every now and then I'll have something that I really, really
25:49
want and I'll mention it a few times.
25:51
Yeah, sometimes he'll surprise me with it, sometimes he'll
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forget. So the one that I remember, I
25:57
wanted these Air Max shoes. So I'm on Instagram.
26:00
I'm an Adams. I really like these shoes.
26:02
You don't have a gift for me yet.
26:04
I really like these shoes, but I really didn't think he was gonna
26:07
get the hit. And then when the day king and
26:10
I'm opening the gift, it is these shoes.
26:12
I can't tell you I was like a kid, like I always like.
26:15
You've got. The shoes, Oh my goodness, I
26:18
hate them. Beautiful them on Sunday I.
26:21
Rarely wear them they're. Really cute.
26:23
They're very tight, like they're very rigid.
26:25
So I wear. Them on Sunday, I was like,
26:26
babe, this is one of my favorite surprises that you've got in me.
26:35
But yeah, I do have that list. He got me my Valentine's Day
26:40
gift from there. I don't remember I told you guys
26:42
I had wanted this little egg cooker.
26:45
I like soft boiled eggs. Oh yes.
26:47
Yes, think. I told you, right, I like the
26:49
soft boiled eggs and I had it on my little wish list.
26:51
I didn't want to pay for it. It's a small gift.
26:53
It's like 10 bucks. And then when I open my gift,
26:56
like there's flowers, there's chocolate, but there's a little
26:58
bag and I pull it out. I was like, I literally started
27:00
laughing out loud and like you got me that.
27:04
Egg, you work so hard on that list.
27:07
I have less of a less of a less on Amazon.
27:11
I just need to share it, but we'll share I'll.
27:13
Share my list with Yes. Share your list with YES.
27:15
I have to sit. Down.
27:19
List. Let's.
27:21
Clarify an affordable list. This is not the Elephant Party
27:29
gift exchange here like for. Groceries.
27:31
Oh my. Gosh, all right, y'all, let's
27:33
keep it real with us. Are you celebrating your
27:36
birthday for you or for everyone else?
27:38
For me, definitely for me. Doing for me mainly, but I'm I'm
27:45
a chronic people pleaser. I want to make sure that you do
27:49
something that everybody can enjoy.
27:51
So yeah, that's something that I probably have to work on, but
27:56
yes, it's for me. But I always have other people
27:59
in mind to make sure that it's doable.
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Well, I have. One question to follow up to
28:04
that question, What is something that you wanted to do for your
28:07
birthday that you've never done? Oh, that's a good one, people,
28:11
please. Yourself so there must be
28:13
something you're like man, I would really like to do this but
28:15
I don't know if anybody else would like to do this I haven't
28:17
done it so I. Haven't done.
28:18
That's a good question. I.
28:19
Really can't think. I would put her on the spot.
28:21
I can't really. Think of anything I was just
28:23
thinking about my favorite birthday, but I can't think of
28:27
anything that I haven't that I would like to do.
28:31
I was surprised one year when my mom got us some tickets to go to
28:36
an island in the Philippines. So I had celebrated my birthday
28:39
in the Philippines and she got us some tickets for an island
28:43
that had those floating cottages.
28:45
It just happened to be it was my my Kevin, my husband, my sister,
28:51
my brother and his girlfriend at the time who's going to be or
28:55
Bruce's wife now. And when we came to that island,
28:59
we were the only visitors. So we had the entire island
29:03
into. Yourself.
29:05
That's amazing. Floating cottages and there was
29:08
nobody there and. All the.
29:10
Sights, zip lining. I didn't do it.
29:14
But I kissed. You know this would have.
29:16
Been the time we. Had like live musician, we ate
29:19
so much that we ran out of food. That was like less than 10 of
29:24
y'all and you ate all this food. We all Yeah, because.
29:27
They calculated, you know. Per head.
29:29
Per head. Cute and then.
29:31
They're like now did. You see our size, dude, We like
29:36
it. Think I'm a Phoebe?
29:38
So that's something, you know, that I never thought of,
29:41
something that I would love to do.
29:44
Yeah. Being on this island but nobody
29:46
else, it sounds scary to me because there's no security.
29:50
Whatsoever thinking. About it back, it's like, Oh
29:53
yeah. I can't wait to hear from our
29:56
audience. Maybe they can drop birthday
29:57
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