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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Seven. Oh, we're gonna lose track, I think. Yes, seven. Seven.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: We are seven.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Yes, we did. We actually made it to dinner.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: That was together.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it was fun. It was that like never happens for me on a weekend to make it out without kids. So.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Husband.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: Yeah, and a husband. So. Yeah, we tried cow and cabbage.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: On Cherry Street. I guess it's new. How long has it been open?
[00:00:24] Speaker B: I don't know. Not very long maybe. I think that first of April. Yeah, I think it just opened, so.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: And I'm pretty. I'm a. I'm a basic girl. Okay, so we know that.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Chicken fingers, right?
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Give me chicken nuggets. Fingers. Chicken. Nah, nugget, not nuggets. I'll take a good chicken finger and gravy. You know, a quesadilla, some fajitas. Like I'm very. You don't have to impress me with fancy menus. So first I had to make sure nothing there had cabbage. Right.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: That was pretty funny though. That one goes down history because they.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: I finally, I found a burger. I was going to get a burger and it said, what was it?
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Cow and cabbage.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Cow and cabbage burger. So I did ask the guy, I was like, does it have cabbage on it? And he was like.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: He went back and talked about you in the kitchen. You know, the blonde out there just had to be sure.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: And so, you know, it definitely, you know, the bun definitely came back with an $18 shine on it. Without a doubt.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: The hamburger was good. It was, yeah. It was a little tallow shine on it. No complaints about the burger. It was good. But the fries, I mean, if I'm totally honest here, I would have taken the Sonic like crinkle fries any day over that. They were just very cafeteria like and they didn't offer any sweet potato fry options, which I'm a sucker for. Sweet potato fries.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Kind of one and done with that.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah. They were not. I mean like, as you noticed, they were just very plain. There was nothing else that came with the meal. It was just your burger and then your. We. We'll post a picture of it on with our. Yeah, with the post. Just so people can see. But it was a great atmosphere. I don't want to ruin the atmosphere. Waiter was nice.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Waiter was great. I love the concept.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: I do love the concept. Very cool little grocery store as you.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Walk in with all locally raised farm raised products, fresh vegetables.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: You just need sweet potato fries. And I think I would have totally been happy.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Been happy. I liked it. I went shopping there earlier in the day because I wanted to see what the store was like. I love the idea that it's locally raised products.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: I bought several things. I bought some farm fresh eggs which I was pretty excited about. Cooked them over the weekend. They actually tasted really good.
So I loved the concept of it. It's in where the old. I think there was something in between but the Owl bar was there for a while and so if you knew. If you're familiar with that for Ulsa people, the stores on the ground level and then. And then during the day there's one little table out there and then at night it turns into a restaurant downstairs and upstairs.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: Which it was up on that little balcony thing which. Where we sat for dinner. But they also serve dinner down which.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Was kind of neat too. Just FYI.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: That overlooks the. The restaurant and the shop. So they have locally raised. They had steak and lamb and it's very neat.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: To me it's like walking in. For me it was like walking in someplace in New Orleans. Like it's just a little neighborhood grocery store but it's very upscale. And then you have your little dining area. Definitely worth going to go visit. Now your steak. I did not know you were such a raw meat eating girl.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Woo.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: That was some pancake stuff if I've ever seen it.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. It was okay. It was tough and it was. I mean it had a. Had a weird spice on it that I didn't really like. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't go back and get that again. But it was fun to try. I love trying new restaurants.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: What was it we noticed that they really liked on the menu? Not sprouts. There was something they offered a lot of. It was something. I don't know I was. I would never have eaten and that's just me. Lots of people probably love it.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Again, I don't adventure my pallet so.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: I'm going to get you out more on going to fancy places. It was. I mean I think what do you score it. Did you go back?
[00:04:04] Speaker A: I mean if there was a part dinner party there or something. Yeah, I would go back. But I would probably get a salad.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Because I don't want to trick.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: He did have high reviews of the salad. He did.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: He definitely sold that. Neither one of us got it. But he sold it.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: I would go back and shop.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: In the store. I like that concept that getting locally raised. Yeah. Produce and stuff. But I don't know. Great. That's very cool.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: I have no problems with that. 10 out of 10.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It was.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: And my burger was great. If I were to rate a burger, I'm gonna say 10 out of 10 on my burger.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Oh, was it? Oh, wow.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it didn't eat my meat.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: That's so funny. That's hilarious. So we would not go back.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: We'll hit you up next time. We'll see what happens.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see. We'll go someplace else. Yes.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: When they get sweet potato fries, I might go back.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: We should actually leave a review and say that. That they need sweet potato fries. And then you will be back.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: And if they did some sort of chicken finger, you might go back.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: They're like, we don't want people that will eat chicken fingers.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: So did you go. Did you travel this weekend out to your lake spot?
[00:05:05] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Oh, Lordy, have mercy. You don't even want to know. So, yes, I just went up there just to go clean.
Just to go clean up and kind of.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Oh, you didn't spend the weekend up there?
[00:05:16] Speaker A: No, no, no. I actually just want to be. Day before yesterday, went up by myself. Never happens. And I went to go clean, get it ready. And I knew we've never had a mouse problem there. I mean, I know food doesn't go in low cabinets or drawers, anything like that. Well, lo and behold, we've been really still around there, so they're bound to come in in the country. I saw some mouse stuff, got it cleaned out, but I knew I could smell one. Anyways. I keep a portable ice maker. I always drain it, keep the lid open. I'm very OCD about making sure it stays clean and that doesn't get mildewy. Well, after cleaning just for six hours and making sure everything's ready, I'm like, I still couldn't find where the smell was coming from. And I finally get to a point where I was bending down, actually, to unplug something. I was like, yeah, it's. I smell something right here. Well, I noticed in the ice maker, the lid was open. I was about to make some mice eyes.
So apparently there's a little, like, one inch of water that was left. I guess I actually left some water in the ice maker. Not. I don't even know how that would happen because I really always drain it. And the little mouse decided to fall in there and take a little nap.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: And he was drinking.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah. So threw away the whole ice maker. Yeah, obviously.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Right.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: And that's it. So the most disgusting thing ever.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I hate mice. I actually.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: If you need to catch them, just put an ice maker out with water and that.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: And surely it didn't drown. But like.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Oh, hand.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: A hat.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Don't they live outside? When it's pouring down rain, what do they do?
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Maybe they drown. I don't know.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: I do not know. But it was disgusting. So that's my.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: So you didn't really go out there for the fun weekend?
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Absolutely not. No, no.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: I was. I was actually gonna ask for a travel tip that you. With all your travels. You know, we both travel a lot. If you have a travel tip. I wasn't gonna go down the.
[00:07:09] Speaker A: I don't have any travels anymore.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: But, you know.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: No, I mean, I did with fake, you know, many years ago. We don't travel anymore. Not like that. No, not at all. Really? So you probably still have more of an exciting life.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Well, I. I mean, my travel tip would be travel cubes. Packing cubes.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Those things are game changers. If you never. Yeah, yeah. Because you can. It just helps you organize your clothes. You can roll them and put them in travel or packing cubes, and then it's just Ziplocs.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: And so that's why to me, this whole travel cube, I'm like, how did people work? Why were people not doing this in Ziplocs? I remember my friend Carrie. And Carrie, if you're hearing this, then you know what I'm talking about. She always laughed at me. Or no, because she did Ziplocs. And she was like. It was funny to her to see that I use Ziplocs too, for stuff. Like, to me, you can buy the jumbo. Not the giant ones, just the big freezer bags. Freezer, freezer bags. I would put the kids stuff in that or do that. You know, you can. I'm like, these new cubes are, like, so much more expensive. And you can just buy boxes of Ziploc.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: So that's my travel tip.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Like these. I mean, so same thing.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: So would you roll that shirt you're wearing and put in a. In a Ziploc bag?
[00:08:20] Speaker A: Totally.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Yeah. You can do that. And my makeup bags. Ziploc bags. All day long.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: It was funny because when I remember I had written the word Chanel on it because I was like, this is my makeup bag and it was a Ziploc bag. I'm like, you can. It's one. And then you can throw it away. You can see where all your stuff is.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Right.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Like, who needs a dark colored makeup bag that you have to, you know, dig into and find your stuff? But I will say I remember flying with Ty and Rocky and I'd seen a tip where when you take your little kit, when they're still with little bitty toys and you safety. You like safety pin their toy or their pacifier to a ribbon and you pin it to a blankie to their blanket so that they have multiple toys pinned to their blanket. That way they're not dropping it on the airplane floor. And then they have multiple toys to entertain themselves. And that's like a big help.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: A good tip for traveling with.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah, super easy. And it was that way. Just rotate toys, they drop them, they don't go anywhere. So that was helpful to me.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: We have so much in common, but that is not what we have.
They can't go out and buy the most expensive makeup bag to go on every trip. Every new trip I go on, I get a new makeup bag.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Get a Ziploc bags.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: All spending money on the shopping cubes, packing cubes.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: No one ziplock bags all day long tried that.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: I might have to try it on my next trip.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: Oh, heck yeah.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Oh, and back on the. The back on the mouse thing, I'm just laughing because I think about my house. I have a camera in my attic just to keep an eye on any rodents that might get in there. My neighbor had bats. Oh gosh. Last summer, or this I guess last summer in. She has a detached garage. She had hundreds of bats. And I kept telling her, I see bats flying out of the top of your garage. And then her. So and because they were hundreds that had gotten under, like, you know, you have the ridge vent on your top of your roof line. They got in there and they were inside between the ceiling because it's a finished garage on the top level between the ceiling and the roof line. And so they were just in there, you know, during the day while her kids go up there and play video games and stuff. So her one son got. It's a bat disease that you get in your lungs and was so sick.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: Gosh.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: And you can't kill bats. Apparently there are.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: They are protected, which is why they have bat houses.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: People spend so much money and putting.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: On their houses, you can't kill them because they are protected. So you have to. She had to have the bat people come and they put something so the bats can fly out at night, but they can't fly back in the next. When they come in to roost during the day, the next morning. So that's how they got em out. And then they had. She had to come in and, you know, redo All. Everything. And so when that happened, I put a camera in my attic because I didn't want those. I knew they were gonna have to go somewhere when they got evacuated from her roof line, and I didn't want them to come into mine. So I have a bright light that stays on in my attic, and I have cameras. My neighbors just laugh at me because I've done that.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: We've got raccoons up there. It's awesome. They'll be up there. We used to have. When we first got that house, we had a soft ceiling tile type ceiling in our bedroom. And one night we were sleeping dead asleep, and we were woke up by something falling through our ceiling straight onto Steven's chest. It couldn't have been a more perfect landing. We were covered in ceiling and seal and insulation. And as he's looking at this pet, he realized he recognized it. And it was this giant cat. It was my neighbor's cat, Shannon. It was their cat. That cat went bonkers. Like, it jumped after it realized, like, it had just fallen through a ceiling and onto Steven's chest in the middle of the night. It had jumped to my curtains. I mean, just clawing those. It was like a ping pong ball through my whole bedroom. Finally, it ran through the house and got out. But, yeah, I mean, so, my gosh, I love those midtown fairs.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, we get. We get all the fun stuff. Well, I definitely. And I remember a contractor coming over. I forgot what he was doing, and I had him get up in the attic, and he. And he's always making fun of me because there's. You can't go anywhere outside my house. The perimeter of my house. There's cameras everywhere. My neighbors call it Fort Knotts. And he climbed down the attic, and he looked at me, he goes, you seriously have a camera up there?
There's a camera everywhere.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: In fact, I was getting a privacy fence put up, and I had some guys out there working on the fence, and I have those motion detector lights on the fence that are solar. And he made a comment because he saw the cameras all around my house. And he said, I told my workers, don't even pick your nose. She's got cameras. And he pointed to those. I was like, those are not cameras. Those are lights.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Better. You think they're cameras?
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's. I'm like, don't tell your workers. So they'll keep working.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: I have cameras everywhere. But, yeah, I've kept an eye on my mice, and I get all sorts of varmints in my garage. I've had a squirrel that stayed overnight in my garage. I couldn't get it to leave. I had to hire the squirrel people to get. To get it out. They put traps in. I have five traps at one point in my garage. And that squirrel would run in and run right back out.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Smart.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So I finally had to. I got it out on my own, and then I've had a rabbit that spent the night in my garage.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Cozy.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: The midtown life is so much fun. So tell me some. We're gonna probably get sad again, but.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: I want to hear the best advice your mom gave you since we're getting close to Mother's Day.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Well, I think. I think I've probably said it before, but it was just a little phrase. I mean, my mom gave me lots of great advice, but I will just go with a phrase and I'm not gonna cry. But it was. She was always right. Don't borrow, worry. Because I'd worry about things. And she'd be like, amy, it's not happened. It's not like, don't worry about it. No, don't borrow worry, because this may be for nothing. So she was very right about that.
She had lots of little mama leaves. I remember buying her a book called Mama Lees, and it was really, really good. Um, I wish. I need to get. I. I need to get another one. I don't even know where it went. How about you?
[00:14:14] Speaker B: I. I don't know of any specific advice. She wasn't kind of that kind of a person, but I think I learned so much from her as far as, like, how to treat people.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: She truly was the kindest person, you know, to know her was to love her. She never in a bad mood, never got mad. I mean, the only time she. If somebody did something to one of her family members, she. You knew it. But as far as, like, she just was always the kindest person and so cheerful and always happy and never ever moody, just even killed all the time. And so that's really taught me, I think, how to be just a better person, because I feel like that's how she was. So I. I don't ever remember, like, specific advice, but she was just always there, you know, with that kindness, that smile. And so kind of just to bring up this, my fundraiser, and I don't know if you're aware of it, but I. When I turned five year cancer free, I started a fundraiser to raise money for the cancer center where I had chemo. They have. They give you snacks while you're sitting out there because it can be a really, really long day. And, you know, you get there sometimes at 7 and you're still there at 3 and 4 in the afternoon. You forget that you're starving. And some people come by themselves because they just come from work and then all of a sudden they're starving. So they have like, crackers and. But they never have enough. They don't really have a budget for it. And so they would, you know, as a volunteer out there, you. They'd say, don't give away snacks today. We're really low on them. So that's something I really wanted to do, is just to supply their. Supply their snack closet.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: And that's nice.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: My mom loved it so much that I did that. That just always made her day. And she'd always get so excited when I take out Max once a month. And so then this year I was doing the fundraiser, and I always do it in December because that's the last month. I mean, that's when I stopped chemo had to stop because she went in the hospital. So I have a fundraising event at my house. And it was the night that she went into the hospital. So I went ahead and did it because she made me promise to do it.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: And then I obviously stopped. At that point, I stopped raising money and I didn't. Haven't have a chance because she was in the hospital for so many months and then home on hospice.
So her birthday's this coming Friday.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: And so I've kicked it back up my fundraiser, and I'm going to take the food out, the snacks out there Friday in honor of her birthday. So this year I've kind of changed it. Instead of my cancer celebration, it's to honor my mom.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: So how can people donate my Venmo?
[00:16:36] Speaker B: I can post the Venmo on the. On the page if people want to.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Any amount helps.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's. I just go to Sam's and stock up, fill the back of my car up and take it out there.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: And it was the deadline for them to get money to you whenever.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: I mean, it's ongoing. So I do it. I do it for the. I try to. I try to raise a meth for the year.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: And so it's just, you know, something. Now I'm going to do an honor. My mom and I know she's going to be smiling.
[00:17:01] Speaker A: She'll love it.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: She will love every minute of it. So anyway, that's this Friday, so I'm excited.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I Mean, on that note, if you're gonna like so I can say this like my mom, I cannot think she was huge on. She would not lie for anything for anyone. She was a very honest, sincere person to the point where, you know, like it was like, oh my gosh, mom, don't tell dad. Amy, I will not lie to your dad, you know, under any circumstances. If it could be. Let's say the home phone rang. Yeah. We didn't have cell phones. Mom, if it's, you know, that's for me, I'm not here. Amy, I can say you cannot come to the phone. I'm not going to lie to somebody and say you're not here. Like it was that extreme to the. You know, she was just a very honest. But that was the kind of person she was. I just never saw her out of control and that. I mean that was just her. She was always in control and put together, so. And she never spoke unkind about any of her kids. When you raise six kids, you know somebody's doing something stupid. I mean, she never talked bad about one of her kids even probably when they deserve to be talked bad about who never bashed one of them to the other that I know of. I mean she just really didn't disappointed in them. But I remember there were times maybe I was mad at my dad's so bad or he's so. I'm so mad at him. I'm not going to talk bad about your dad. Don't disrespect him like that. Just the kind of person she was.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: So great to have moms like that. That's why we are still grieving them.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Because they were pretty awesome.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: I wish I could say I was as great as her.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. My dad always calls me little Virginia because I'm. My mom had a little, you know, she was a little spunky. She had a.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Had a little fight in her keep her. Yeah.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: And so when I get Maddie like, you know, she would. She held her own to him. He didn't walk all over her by any stretch. And he's a strong personality. And so when he calls me little Virginia, he thinks he's being funny. And I'm loving it.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: I'm like, you know what? I'll compliment all day long to be like her. I thought she was.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Amazing. So I'm excited to do it this Friday just in her honor because I know she's going to be smiling that day. The fact that I'm back doing it and doing it on her Birthday to honor. And she'd be 90. Be a fun day.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: Hey, but you know what? I'm super proud of us because we have made it.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: And we didn't cry first time.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: That's huge. That's a big milestone.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: It is huge for us. So it's time.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: My next thing I want to talk about is this month. May I keep thinking it's already maybe a couple days away. Is my 25th year of having this business. My marketing company.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Geez. I remember when you were just starting it. I mean, really, for the most part, that's when I met you.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: When I met you, I was still a TV guide.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: And even started it. I think I started it shortly after that. I started it.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I know it had to have been just. I. I don't know. But 25 years. So you must have just been dipping your toe in it.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: I. I had already launched it. I was still working there, but I had already launched the company. I already had a website and.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: And I'm at 25 years. Crazy.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: And I've been around for the whole room.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: And the crazy thing is I still have one client from my first client.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Isn't that crazy?
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, I mean, probably after that, like, Han Appliance has been my client for 15 years. And so funny. They become part of your family, which is really fun. I have some. I have amazing clients. And they are. I feel like they are part of my family. They're definitely my friends.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah. So congratulations. I should do a party, huh?
[00:20:20] Speaker A: At 25, you should do a party for sure.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Didn't even think about that.
[00:20:24] Speaker A: Good idea.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Think about all this stuff I've been through in 25 years. There's a lot I've planned, I think every gala in this town. Nonprofit. And then gave that up in 2013. I don't do events anymore. It's too hard. And now I just do all the marketing. Digital marketing, social media marketing, website. I think about the restaurants I built websites for. And you've done awesome.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: You're smart woman people.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: It's just fun. So it's fun to reminisce, but I can't even believe it's been 25.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: You need to have a party.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: I do.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: It would be fun, except it's event.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: I have to plan exactly to do it.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: So you're gonna celebrate yourself? Because I'm like, think of event. And my eyes already start crossing.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: I'm like, can you imagine? No, I can't be a citywide. I actually just turned down a Citywide event, big Halloween party. And I was like, not even. No. But no.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Hard.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: No, it's not hard.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: Halloween. No, no.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: Can you imagine? No, there's no way. I would not even think about doing that.
[00:21:22] Speaker A: First of all, like, this is kind of off the topic, but have you heard about everything that's going on with this whole European grid going down? I mean, it's really not what we normally talk about, but it is kind of a really hot topic because a lot of people don't even know about it. I mean, they have. Have. Have you heard anything about.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: I've been shooting content all day for clients, so I have not been paying attention to any news.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: So, I mean, another reason why I really knew, but I didn't see anything about it on my social media. It didn't. Wasn't brought attention to me until my friend who does a lot of traveling, and I actually shared it. I shared her post on my Facebook. I left her name out of it. And actually, my husband, like, this looks like a fake post, because I'm like, no, no. I just blocked her name out of it because I didn't want people to know who it was. I was like, it's very real. But she was traveling, and she is duck. I don't know at this point if she is freed up now, but the grid went down. Like, hotel keys quit working.
She didn't have any power charger cords with her. Her power bank was almost empty. She only had $8 of euros. Whatever. I don't even know what that comes to. ATMs, quit electricity, all the essential services. You can even see whether Eurotrams are, like, stuck in the middle of field. She was like, I'm completely paralyzed. Mass confusion. Money does not protect you if you cannot use your source of it. She's trying to evacuate Madrid completely for return to the US as soon as possible. But she said she just recently lost her mother. And she was like, may my mother rest in peace. That every warning she offered about my travels fell on deaf ears. Until now. Her mother was, like, really a very savage prepper, apparently. And, you know, a lot of times we don't want to listen to advice, but now with, like, always have cash. Power cords with. Or power banks with cords and water stores close when it becomes unsafe. Even if I had Euros. Also know where your US Embassy is and screenshot your walking routes. You. You can go out to my car right now, and you'd be like, whoa, I need military backpacks back here intact to the max, but they are. I am prepared to Be able to throw a backpack on my back and to be able to walk from wherever I need to to get back to safety. That is, you know, if there's, if something happens and I possibility.
So it's just something to, you know what, There ain't anything wrong with it. Somebody can say it'll never happen. Great. It never happens. But if it does, you're ready, you know, smart. Anything. A storm could cause me to have to do that.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: And is that just Madrid or is that all of Europe?
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. It's like all over. I mean, it's like Spain. The I, I, I don't even know all that, but it's like a bunch of different places are affected. Couldn't even tell you because I haven't been able to watch a whole bunch about it.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: So.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: Millions and millions and millions of people. Yes. Anyway.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: And it could happen here.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Yeah. So for sure.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Anyways, very scary.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Okay, so Beauty hack.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you got one.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Okay. Do you dermaplane?
[00:24:12] Speaker B: I do.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: Oh, good girl.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: I love it.
You do it at home or do you have it done professionally?
[00:24:18] Speaker A: I used to have it done professionally if someone wants to have it done professionally. Janatha is your girl over at Sterling Salon. I think she's amazing.
But yeah, I started a long time ago with like the basic, you know, tinkle razor. And then I moved up to the big guns.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: You're using the big guy?
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Oh, the big guy. Yeah. The big, you know, straight razor. Yeah. The one you could do surgery with. So, yeah, obviously it does not make you grow a beard or anything like that, and that's what people's biggest fear is. But I will tell you a tip, though. If you, so like, if you, after you do it, if you splash, like sink tap water on you, it stings. Okay. If you splash distilled water on you, you get no sting. It's so interesting to me because you can tell the purity and the water difference, the ph, all of it's just so different. But if you use that solar essence oil on you, you know how a lot of times you're like, I can't put anything on my face because it burns so bad. Any moisturizer, any oil will put solar essence oil on you. After that, literally no burn. You won't break out. You don't like that is the best thing you can do after you dermaplane.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: So I love playing, I love how your makeup wears for days afterwards.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: And I don't know a man in the world that wants his woman to have a mustache and a Beard.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Just Even the dry skin, too.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Oh, it takes it all. Yeah.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: So it's always that little.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: And I'm due.
[00:25:40] Speaker B: There's nothing like. No, I do it. I don't ever do it myself. I always have it done.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Oh, do you. Where do you go?
[00:25:45] Speaker B: I been going to emerge. Okay.
[00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: My girl Savannah.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: See, I'm gonna figure it out. Do it at home. I know kind of girl.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: I like to go and get it done.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: I love a facial beauty of being single and like.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Spas all over the world.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: See, that's good. I love people to do to the spa. Might just figure this stuff out.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't be bothered at home, but I'd love to go have it done as I like the whole, like, you.
[00:26:14] Speaker A: Know, I. I'll live vicariously three years.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Oh, it's the best. I did it when I was going through chemo. I went every. I had chemo on Friday and I went every Saturday to us. Yeah. A spa and got a facial. And it saved my skin, I think. My skin.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: Which your skin? You know, chemo destroys your skin because it's everything that divides my skin came out better. It looked better when I was finished with chemo than it was when I started with chemo.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Well, you showed me your lips.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: During chemo.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: Those were fabulous.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah. It's crazy.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: And there's no explanation for that. It's not scientific or medical. It just. That's just my body.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: I do weird things. Wow. What your lips look like during that. Yeah, they were beautiful, by the way. Nobody knows what I'm talking about. But they were just. It just plumped them up, swelled them up.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: In this certain way. They were like luscious, gigantic. Yeah, they're very pretty, but not.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: I wouldn't do it again. I wouldn't go through. Have those lips.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: There are easier ways, by the way.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: But yeah, the facial and the dermaplaning. She didn't do dermaplaning when I was going through chemo just for fear of, you know, infection and stuff. If she nicked me for some reason, because I had to be so careful, I'd probably lead to death with low blood count, white blood. But yeah, I do recommend one. They are great. And you do kind of feel it for the next week with how your skin feels and your makeup just looks so much.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Oh, it just feels so much better. I can. We can link the. The razor. I can link the ones that are kind of the basic kind of learning ones that are easy for people to you. I can link that stuff on there. And then I've got, like, the razor box that you'll pop off the razors with. It's. It's real easy. I can teach it.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: My kids walk in, and I'm like, do not come in here fighting where I can nick myself.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: Don't mess.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Whoever marries my boys, they're gonna. They're gonna know what a woman goes through, I'll tell you that.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: Well, it's probably good.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they are. They are. Oh, they'll walk in. They're like, right. Mom's shaving her face.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: Get out of the way. Oh, man, that's so funny. Well, I think that's it for the day. We've already run out of time.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: Yes. All right, here we go.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: So we will be back.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: See what we get into in a week.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Next week. Yep. I'll see you then.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: All right, bye.
