Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with Amy and Lisa.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: Hi.
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Episode 34. It's like November's just clicking along.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: So what's going on? Sorry, I had a text. I was finishing up on it. It just came in.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: Just do your own thing.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Don't worry about, you know, about the podcast.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: You just do your own thing.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: You know, all this holiday stuff is hitting and it's like, woo, where do we. I think I might not be. I guess I might be hosting it for the first time in a while, which is fine. I mean, it's a lot easier not hosting it. Not at my house. Yeah, which is fine. So it'll be easier to not do that this year, and that's okay.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: This is my first one without.
We took my mom to the hospital the day after Thanksgiving last year, and then she was in there for a month, so it's going to be hard. And my dad announced to me a couple weeks ago that he does not want to ever do Thanksgiving or Christmas again.
And so it's like I said, well, I'll do whatever, dad. You tell me what you want. He goes, never want to do it again. He said, she loved those holidays. She had so much fun planning them with you girls. And I don't want to ever do it again.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: That's hard.
So take some time.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe, eventually. But we're. This year, I mean, I'm going to do whatever he wants. I said, dad, we can make it just any normal day. We don't have to. We don't have to do anything. We'll just. I'll come over and. Because it'll probably just be me with him and we'll just. Yeah. Figure it out and do whatever. So I'm like, it's a good day.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: To go to the movie.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: He doesn't go to the movie.
He wants to just stay at home on all the holidays. There's something about being close to her at home. So it'll be a weird day, but we'll. We'll just make it like any other day. And I'll make like, you know, we'll cook something weird that you wouldn't normally have on Thanksgiving. And so I don't mind that. It's. It's. I'm okay with it.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: I will say, last year, and the only reason why I discovered it, I was at Sam's and. And I was getting a turkey. And these older women who. You could tell, they knew it was going on for Thanksgiving, like, they. They weren't cheaping out on anything as far as how they were going to present their table or whatever.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: You could just tell.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: And they were in there like, oh, thank goodness. Both of them don't know each other. And they. It was the pre cooked Sam's turkeys that are frozen in the frozen section, but they're pre cooked, pre seasoned. And I was like, wait, we'll hold on. Tell me more about this. And they. I want to say they probably run 60 or so bucks a piece, if I'm not mistaken, is what I. And she was like, listen. She was like, my husband is outside at the front. And she said, he just made me renew my membership so we could get this turkey again for Thanksgiving. And so I took her word for it and got it. And like, it was so good and so easy. I mean, yes, because it's pretty. So all you just put in the oven to heat it up stayed real moist. I mean, it was good enough for us. We were all happy with it. I mean, so now they better not sell out if I do need to go get one.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: Like, there's the moral of the story. You spend a lot of time in Sam's.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Oh, I do.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Every week you mention Sam's, like, oh, we are.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Yes, we are at Sam's a lot. Huh?
[00:03:07] Speaker A: I don't go in, but I do go monthly. But I mean, I always. I buy the snacks, you know, because I donate it to the cancer center. So I go out there and get that, but I don't go in. Like, I would never go in the Sam's.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: And I feel like our what we buy, like, rarely ever changes. It's just like, so routine. I mean, I'm sure they're like, gosh, these palettes ever change of these people? Like, do they?
[00:03:27] Speaker A: I'm the same way. You buy anything else? Yeah, but I don't do it at Sam's. But I do.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: If Costco were closer, I'd probably go there. But it isn't, so.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a shame that it's so it is there.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: I'm like, how they've not put one a little more central.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Well, even the one in Owasso, when you map it out, it's too far. Yeah, it's further than the farm I.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Like, and I'll get a nosebleed if I go that far.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: So.
Well, I started decorating, speaking of holidays for Christmas this week, which is fun.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: Boys are begging.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: Huh?
[00:03:58] Speaker B: The boys are begging. Are they ready too?
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doing it slowly. Like, I've started doing some of the. I did the centerpiece on the table. And last night. And I've started doing it gradually because I put up five trees, and so those will go up last. They'll be later, but at least I'll get the decorations out. I wasn't even going to do it this year because last year with my mom, and by the time I got home after she passed away in March, I had still had my Christmas decorations up because I hadn't been at home since the day after Thanksgiving, practically. And so by the time I got him put up, I thought, oh, and the thought of it this year, just given everything that's happened. But then I've got so many things happening at my house.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: You have to.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: So I'm gonna do it, but I'm doing it.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: You'll be happy that you did it. Yeah.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: And I love it.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: I mean, and I was planning on having it done before Halloween because the kids were begging. And then here I am already, you know, a couple weeks into November, and it's not done. So I've got, like, I need to have it done this week, period. Done. Has to be done.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Well, I think because I get my lights put on my house so early, they do it, you know, they start in October so they have time to get everybody done by Thanksgiving. And so with the lights on your house, even though I don't have them on yet, there's something about driving up and seeing them that motivates me to the inside, too.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: I'd say, you can put them on now.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: I say, go ahead and do it. I mean, my neighborhood. Everybody in my neighborhood has them on because the same guy does most of them. Yeah, I've got them on in the backyard. I have them run them on two circuits so that I can turn the backyard lights on early. So I turn those on the night they put them on, because it lights up my backyard. When I'm out there at five in the morning and it's pitch black, or five in the evening when it's pitch black now, the night, the back lights have been on, but, yeah, the front lights are off.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Time to have them on. Yeah, my ears just started ringing, like, distracted me.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: How funny how all of a sudden they'll just want to start. That's a sign of dementia. Oh, not being rude. I'm just saying.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: She's like, I'm not being rude.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: I'm just. I'm just stating the facts.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: I considered dementia. No, I haven't.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: It was sort of random.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: I should think about it, worry about. I'm not thinking about that.
She was so serious.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Oh, that's funny because I always think about those things. I'm that person that if my ear would start ringing I'd be looking up to see what's wrong with me.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Well. And I don't use AirPods and all that because of that. Like I worry about that.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Well, brain cancer too.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: All of it.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: So.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: But it's gone now. I don't. Something just went off in a really high pitched sound and then it.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Went away.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Gosh.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Where I was talking about sleep. This just reminded me when you said that, you know, I'm always like, that's my number one thing constantly. And I. I had bought a pillow, I think we talked about it on here months ago that has a little curve in the center for people that sleep on their sides.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: And so I've been doing that and I do notice a difference. It does help. But when I fell out my door last week and crashed on my back patio, I couldn't sleep sleep in my bed because I fell on my right side and had a huge knot where I fell and then it jacked up my left side. And I'm a side sleeper so I couldn't sleep on either side. So I got up and I went and I have a recliner. So I put. Got in the recliner and slept on my back and slept actually pretty well for what I was feeling from head to toe. And I have one of those zero gravity beds that I never use ever. And so just laying in there one night, tossing and turning, which I do a lot. I'm a really bad sleeper from that standpoint. And I was like, why don't I lift the head of my bed up? I slept like a rock in the recliner and so I raised my. So now it's been. Was it. It'll be two weeks this Saturday I fell. So I did it like I don't know, probably Monday night. Right after I fell on Saturday I raised up the head just like it would be if I was laying in my recliner and I on my side. Even with it raised like that. I have slept so well. I've had a score of 91 night.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: So here you've had this expensive bed that you've never bothered to adjust for eight years that you've never decided.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: I've tried it every once in a.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: While, lift the head or legs.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: I've. I've done it when I've hurt my knee or something, I'll try to lift the feet up a little and then I end up using.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: Interesting though, laying it flat because I.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: I'm not comfortable, so I don't use it as much as I've had it. As for. And I bought it after I had cancer because you have to. You know, there's. After surgery, I was supposed to sleep on, not sleep on my side or my stomach for. For I don't know how long. It was a long time. And so that's when I bought it. And that's been eight years. And so I'm just now, for the first time, truly using it every night. I'm like, oh, there's something to these beds. They're so expensive, but it's helped my sleep so much.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: That's amazing. Yeah. It's called zero gravity bed.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Because then. Because the way I guess with you can. And there's a little zero gravity on the remote that then it lifts your feet up a certain level and your back a certain. So it keeps the. The pain off your lower back if you have lower back issues, which I don't really ever have except when I fell, but normally I don't have lower back issues. Anyway, it's helped my sleep. I mean, my scores have been averaging 80 for the last couple of weeks. Week and a half since I fell.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Nice. Okay, Good to know.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: Which I'm so glad I actually used the bed that I spent. Those things aren't cheap. No, I'm using it now.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: I need a new bed.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: I get a new mattress.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet I need a new mattress. Not a bed. I need a new mattress.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's sort of why I think it doesn't work that well on my mattress, because my mattress is so thick. I noticed it last night. The mattress doesn't bend like a normal mattress would in a bed that the head raises up. It just like slanted. Like I'm laying on a ski slope.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Because the mattress is so thick. So I think if I got a different mattress, it might bend when the bed. The head of the bed comes up, if that makes sense.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Okay. Interesting.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So I now I need a new mattress, which on top of eight other things I need to buy.
Priorities. I don't think a mattress is my priority.
Without a doubt.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: I have been working on.
When we came home, we actually got on the water this weekend. Like, Stephen got me out paddle boarding. And I mean, like before the bottom.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: Fell out on the weather.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Bottom fell out that night, and it was so pretty out there. So we did went paddle boarding and sea dues got put up so they could get winterized. And that was, you know, then it turned cold. But Nonetheless, I've noticed like, I feel like with this kind of dip in temperature in the evenings and stuff, I was smelling like this musty smell down in my like laundry room and in my sun room. And you know, it's just an older house, so I feel like when we. And I don't like to leave plug ins in and things like that, so. But I do. But I like my house to smell good. Okay? So all of a sudden this lady comes on, I wish I knew her name. And she's in this beautiful home and she's like, I still like my candles, but there's. Sometimes there's just a funk you got to get rid of like it's, you know, whether it's your kids sports clothes or whatever, and in your car, this works. So I did what she said. I was shocked at how it got rid of what I, what I was smelling. Okay, so you take like a plastic bowl and for whatever reason she said use plastic. You line it with a couple of paper towels. And this, there's no real science to this as far as like, has to be perfect. Okay, Paper towels. And then you put some coarse salt. I had rock salt from like an ice cream thing. And, and I used some of my. Because then all I had was like my expensive salt that I buy. I was like, well, I'm going to mix the two, spread some of that on the paper towel out the whole, the whole way on the like whatever size bowl you're using, because I made five different ones. Then you put, sprinkle baking soda on that. And then you choose either cinnamon powder, you can choose your vanilla, like a liquid vanilla. You can put that, you can put coffee grounds, anything like that. That's, it's off an aroma that you want. And then you pour some vinegar on top of that. Well, what happens is you leave it in your car for like 24 hours or on the floor in a room.
And that paper towel absorbs that odor and then that also those things working together somehow absorbs over odor. And it's incredible.
So paper towels, coarse salt, baking soda, whatever scent you want. And so far I've done vanilla, I've done coffee, and I've done cinnamon vinegar, regular distilled vinegar. And you don't just soak it up, you just do enough to let that powder bubble up and make that chemical reaction and then. And you don't smell the vinegar like you would have thought, because really anything that calls for vinegar, I kind of steer from it because I can't stand the smell of vinegar. But in this situation, it worked. Yeah, it was very interesting.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: I'm just sitting here about to laugh because you're.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: I know you're watching me, and I'm like, why is she watching me? Like, is.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Because you are sitting across from me. But I'm laughing because you're. You go to, like, you make a chemical experiment. I. I just put a half an apple, and it does the same thing for this.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Did we talk about that last?
[00:12:51] Speaker A: No, no. Well, we did talk about. Not on the podcast, but we talked about it because I had an apple.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: Last night to eat it, and I'm like, saving that core. I'm going to throw that in my car.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Because it absorbs odor.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Yes. And because a lady I saw talking about that, too, said she could not figure out why her car had smelled so good. And, like, she kept getting a whiff of apple, but, like, the funk was gone. One of her kids had dropped part of an apple under the seat. Well, it had absorbed all that odor. And so. Yeah, my car is getting an apple today. Yeah.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: So funny. You know what you can use?
[00:13:25] Speaker B: But I have been downloading some wassail recipes.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Oh, I love that.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: I know. And I'm gonna use my mom's old crock pot. I didn't have the heart to get rid of the one that I grew up with. And it's just from the 70s.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: I have probably the same one you have, which was my mom.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: So I'm just gonna make it. And we gotta share those recipes on the page just because, like, the one I got one that, you know, is your pine and, you know, whatever smell. The other one's your standard wassail. And then there's another one they had put on there, too, that chat, you know, gave me. We should share that because there's so.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Good while it's cooking, too. And there's something comforting about it.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: There is. It reminds me of my mom's house. And she always had. You know, my mom had great sk.
And that is one thing. During the winter, you would always see a big pot of water sitting on the stove just on the lowest simmer setting. It would go all night. It would go. And you could just see that moisture. Like, she was so big on having moisture in the air.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: Makes a big difference.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. And I keep so many heaters going just because I like every room to be toasty.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah. It dries out so much in the wintertime, too.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Everything. Yeah. I love wassail. I've even just been doing. My friend brought me a big box of apple cider from St. Louis.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: I think it was there when I. Yeah, it was.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: It was the seat at the table. I've been drinking that in the evening with William Sonoma has those mulling spices that. I always buy those as gifts for people because they're so good. So I've been doing that in the evening. And there's just something so comforting about that whole hot apple. Yeah, but like the oranges and all.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: My mom like that stuff.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: I love it. There's comfort with that. Just the warmth of it, especially when it got so cold.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: This weekend I made more of my biscuit donuts this weekend.
Did I tell you about that?
[00:15:16] Speaker A: No, but that reminds me of a story about biscuit donuts.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I mean, they're so good.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: When I.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: We would have midnight mass and my parents would have like my.
The close family friends, the Pierces and the bomb camps or whatever, they'd come over and we would make.
It was biscuit. That would be like beignets. As we were just. We're not going to be rolling out beignets.
But you just take the regular canned biscuits and cut them. You know, we just pulled them apart, put them in the grease, fry them, flip them, fry them in the grease, let them swim. And then we would sift our powdered sugar and just put. We didn't even do honey. I think some people and do add honey if they want more of like a Mexican style, like a sopa P or something.
But. So I made them probably a month ago at the lake by a big bonfire that was going on and there were total strangers there. And I think Pilar and I probably made, who knows, I mean, a hundred donuts to feed these people because they. They were. But they loved them so much that I'm pretty sure I probably have the name Donut lady now. But then I make them.
I just want it to be a tradition that my kids remember at the lake. So now it's just easy to fry them up. And so I made it for Rocky and his friend. And anyways, so my powdered donuts. Just fry some biscuits up and your kids will think you're the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: So I made some for my mom last year.
And my mom was so funny. She had like these little one liners that would just double you over. I mean, just because she just. It was so unassuming. But I made them out of donuts or out of biscuits. And I was so excited. I took them to her and she goes, those are good. They taste just like A biscuit.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Oh, no, not my. Did you have the powdered sugar on it?
[00:16:51] Speaker A: I did, I did. I did. I did brown sugar and I did sugar. What is it? Cinnamon and sugar on some too. She goes, yeah, those taste just like biscuits.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Ours were good.
I don't taste a biscuit. I pick. But I mine swim in powdered sugar.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Like, I could eat a spoonful of powdered sugar while I'm making.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: But we.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: But they are really. I. I would imagine you'd be like, there's some powdered sugar. Probably just enough to make me really mad.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Well, I probably baked them too, instead of frying them.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: Well, then you got a biscuit.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: That's what she said. I was so excited though. But I did the donut hole and everything.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: No, you fry them.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: Yeah, well, that might have been what I did.
I was trying to make them healthy.
I know, but she mumbled it under her breath and I was like, it's like a biscuit.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: And she said, now the truth comes out. Yeah, she baked the biscuits, guys. No, you gotta fry em. It's a totally different experience.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: So funny. They are good. Do you like pomegranate seeds?
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they're pretty hard and they're kind of slimy, so.
Or the ones I've. I mean, when they're fresh out of the pomegranate. Yeah, they're real slippery. Yeah, right. I mean, so, no, I don't make a habit out of them because they take a lot of work.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: I was just laughing last week after you talked about your crazy little Debbie Christmas tree. I've seen those things everywhere now.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: By the way, they got them last night. I couldn't. Oh, you did it trigger last night. And I ate it in the parking lot before I left. The whole box and one of my. Both my kids. No, I only ate two. Okay, thank you very much.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Well, you said you go through the.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: Whole box, so I limited myself this time.
My kids already found it. Rocky had already found it. And then in tide already said. He was like, mom, what do I. What's that sound? And I was like, oh, I'm just picking up papers because I wasn't going to tell them. Well, then he comes in, he's like, oh, oh. So you lied to me because I see what Rocky has. Where's the rest?
[00:18:44] Speaker A: So I was like, he had to give it up.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Gave it up. And they're gone. They're off the trip. Well, there is a box. No, they might have found that one too. I don't know. I need to look and see tonight.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Well, I was laughing because I thought, you know, we couldn't be more opposite. You are who are going after Christmas trees. And my obsession is pomegranate seeds.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Really?
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. I can't get enough of them.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: See, they feel like they're going to break my teeth.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: They're pretty hard. Well, the inside, yeah. But it's. I can't. I can't help it. And so two years ago, I couldn't get enough of them. I was literally driving all over town to grocery stores trying to find them. Because at the end of the season, you know, they come out in early, kind of late September, early October. And then you can buy them already.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Right.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: Shell, They're. They're already. The seeds are out. And so I went to every grocery store within miles of my house trying to find them. Towards the end of the season.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Are they still slimy? Are they, like, in a jar or something?
[00:19:41] Speaker A: They're in a little. Like, if you would, like, buy a thing of jello, like one of those little plastic things with the pool top. Okay.
Plastic on top. And the. They. It's the same brand, like the Palm brand.
So good. But I mean, I drove everywhere to find them. I was getting so mad. And then they switch after, like, the Palm brand, which is the best.
Only sell them for. So, like, by Thanksgiving, usually can't find their dad. And then, like, they switch over to an off brand and they're not as good. I've even gotten them so late in the season where they're bad.
Yeah. And then you get, like. It makes you sick because, like, rotting, I think. Yeah. I couldn't. I can't get enough of them. But this year I've only had two. Two.
And it's the middle. Almost the middle of just November. I've only had two. Like your Christmas trees. Well, my pomegranate seeds are healthier than your Christmas trees.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: That they are. But I won't break a tooth.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: And you won't stain your fingers.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:20:36] Speaker A: Because they do stain your fingers. But, boy, they're good. I love them so much.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Go down the hatch.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: They aren't as good this year. I think they have off seasons and on seasons, and I think this is an off season because they weren't that great. So I was. I was okay with two. I probably won't have any more.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Oh, it's disappointing.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: I had a fruit the other day and I was like, oh, no, it was. I had those little peppers that I like those little. I like to just keep those washing on the counter. And then when you want something crunchy, the little red yellow.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Oh yeah, they're a little bit sweeter.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: And a batch of them were just really not. I was like, that's was disappointing.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: Just eat them like that.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Just crunch on the plain. Yeah, we all do. Yeah, I just keep em on the counter for like, I might grab that instead of chips. I do try to be good, but.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: A pepper is the worst thing ever.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: But they're not hot, they're just sweet and crunchy.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: No, I can't even imagine chomping on a pepper in the middle of the day.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: I keep it simple now. Rocky went and bought, you know, some Mazio's ranch, the family size. He's like, this is much better dipped in the Mazio's Ranch, like I'm sure it is.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: Well, my big fundraisers coming up. I just did the invite last night. You know I do a fundraiser every year.
[00:21:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: On the anniversary of my last chemo treatment, which is December 4th.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: So I'm planning my next fundraiser and I raise money to give snacks.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. Bring it to this.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: That's right back the back of my car full of snacks right now. Gotta take them out there.
But yeah, so I start. I'm excited because I love doing it. I wasn't gonna do it this year. You know, everything is just different this year. In fact, last year, the night of my fundraiser was the night they took my mom to the hospital.
So it wasn't really fun for me because I was so worried and I went up the next morning and then, you know, everything went downhill from there. But so then I was like, do I do it this year? But I think I would feel bad if I didn't count on you. So I'm doing it and I did the invite last night and I'm kind of excited. Mark your calendar. December 4th for you, Amy.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: To mark my calendar. That's my least favorite thing to do.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Is marking my calendar.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: You should see her looking at me.
My sister looks at me the same way.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: I love to mark my calendar.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: That calendar is my least favorite thing because I'm so scared, like somebody in my family is going to need something and then.
Yeah, well, write it down.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Pencil, don't pencil. Pen it in ink.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: Permanent marker it in.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: That reminds me, my dad's at a doctor's appointment today and I didn't go with him. And so I'm like, I keep checking my phone. But he taught us growing up that if you are on time, you're late.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Be five Minutes early.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: And so he has his appointments here every Monday and Wednesday. He arrives 20 minutes early. So I have to get there 20 minutes early because I don't want him going in without me. So I have to be there waiting on him when he gets there. Well, today he got there. He left his house, and of course, we have it on the live360. I thought, why is he leaving already? He got there 30 minutes early. Did he really?
And it's only because I'm not there to make him slow down. It's.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: And I get. I mean, I'm the same way. I cannot handle being on time. I'm always early. He definitely in. You know, got that in my brain. And so I do arrive, but I don't arrive 30 minutes early. I'll get there five minutes.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: I like to be on time for things. Like, it would really be. It's really somebody in my household that runs me behind, and it really stresses me out.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: That would bug me, too.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Oh, it draws me cries.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: I wouldn't do that. Well, now, that's the one thing I like, that I can get there when I want to get there. And I. If I'm running late and I have to text, like, a client to say I'm running late. Oh, it's like, the worst thing for me. Absolutely hate it.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: Nope. I totally agree.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Always arrive early. Yep.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: I do like that.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: But I was laughing today. It's like he's 30 minutes early for this doctor's appointment.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: So I'm sure he's still there. I don't know. Hopefully he's done by now, but made.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: A day of it.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: Yeah. It's, like, so crazy. But he always does. Anyway, so this coming Monday is my. My November seat at the table.
Yes. I'm so excited. It's so how this little idea has come together has been so fun for me. I was already calculating, like, it'll be. Because I've got two in December.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: Right.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: That, like, I'm at, like, 18 people coming through. And it's so fun.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: It is.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: And each one's so different.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: That's a lot of fun.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: I think I've already penciled you in for one in, like, January or February. More scheduling.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: But I have girls coming that I think that you.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: It would be a good mix.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: That's how I'm, you know, planning it based on who else I have coming that night. And then I think, oh, that would. Amy would work for this group.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: See, And I'm that friend who you can always call and be like, you Know what? Let's change our plans night. You know, we don't have to. And I'm like, okay, that's great. No hard feelings.
Lisa's the one. I'm like, lisa, Like, I really. I just can't. I can't. And she's like, it's radio silence. I'm like, oh, my gosh.
Oh, yeah. If you have to cancel with me, I'm like, oh, it's awesome.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Because you don't really want to go. That's the difference.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: I'm so scared of commitment. I don't know what it is. It's a. It's a thing.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Hello. I'm. I'm scared of commitment, but I will.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Commit to events because you're event. You're an event person.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: Well, yeah, So I understand, like, the dynamics around it, that when you cancel, it throws everything.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: I totally agree. And especially don't cancel on your dinner.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Right.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: And I was like, I know things like that are like.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: It's all like a puzzle that goes together. Yes. And so if one cancels, it throws missing piece of the puzzle.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: It would not cancel in your dinner.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Well, it. Like in this. And it's fun because everybody is excited for them, too. So I think they just are looking forward to it. And I try to give everybody. It's that fine line of not giving somebody too much time, but giving them enough time to get on the calendar so they can schedule around it.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: Because they already have a commitment versus if I send it out, like, you know, a normal invite for something like this would be 10 days. Well, by 10 days, people are booked up, especially this time of year.
And so I'm trying to give people at least almost two months to get it on their calendar.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: So then they save the day.
So the idea is you put it on your calendar and you schedule around it.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: Got it?
[00:26:58] Speaker A: Got it.
That's.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Y' all heard it here. She's giving me an ample warning.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's. I'll have to look, but you're. You're on the list. There's a couple of girls that I thought you would. Well, good. Work well with to be with.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: The ones I won't, I wouldn't work well with. Let's see how that would go. I'm kidding. No, I don't.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: I think that's a bad idea. Maybe.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
There might be a few person I try to get along with most everybody.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: I mean, everybody that's coming.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Such a good group of people that I can't imagine there would be anybody no.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: Somebody would have to literally just downright be going out of their way to be rude.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Yeah. No one's going to do that.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I'm just not. I get along with most anybody.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: I feel like.
[00:27:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I think. I can't imagine that there would be. You know, and I've said from the beginning, which I haven't really run into this kind of a little bit at the last one.
No politics and no religion.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No way.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Unless I know the people. Like our first one, we talked politics, but we all are on the same page. So I didn't mind that and I let that happen. Right. But it was also the timing of what was happening in that time period.
But I just. There's too many people that I know are on both sides and I don't want it to turn into.
And for whatever reason, humans can't really have a disagreement about politics.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: No.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: Still get along. And so that would be the only thing that I'm not having happen. But that hasn't happened.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: So I haven't even had to bring it up. But I will put a kibosh on it if somebody brings it up because I don't want it to get. Lisa flips the table.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: That's exactly.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: Well, guess what? We're out of time already.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: Okay. So we'll wrap it up with one little hack that I discovered. Another one. So Rocky's been having really bad dry hands. Like just. You can almost just look at them and see that how dry they are. And the lotion, the deep lotion wasn't working. Nothing was seen to be helping. And he washes his hands a lot.
But I had. And people can squawk at it and be like, she's crazy. But I just kept seeing review after review after review. And so we put a little. A small pinch of borax with the Borax. The 20 Mule Team Borax mixed in with some of the soap. And I did a soap that was like the scent free baby soap mixed in with the Dr. Teals oil because I've just made a solution to that. But he washed his hands with that.
And later that evening his girlfriend had even made the comment. She's like, his hands. I've always been worried about how dry they were. She's like, this is the softest they've ever been. So like, it really.
I don't know why it works or how it works, but it worked.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: And you took it.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: That will save that for another show.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
Because I was like, I'm gonna have to find a new podcast partner.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: No, but it is a very interesting group. People should look at the. There's a Borax group on Facebook and there's a new one starting called Borax 2.0. But the, the first one has like all, all kinds of information in it. But it is a very interesting rabbit hole because we like rabbit holes on here because I think that's how you learn.
So I would definitely take a look at that group because there's so many interesting things on there, the history of it and all of that.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Well, that's what I love too is there's so many things now that people are using again that was used back. Yes. Years and years and years ago. That actually that was the way they fixed a lot of problems. And then we got medical and prescription involved and they kind of gone by the wayside, but they actually really are beneficial. So it's interesting.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: Anyways, okay, that's it. See you next week. Bye.
