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Hey everyone, you're listening to Five Years Time with your host, grace Black. Hey, cuties, welcome back to Five Years Time Podcast. We are recording Wednesday morning live time. Well, it's not live because I will upload this right after but 6.30 am, because I just did not have an opportunity to record earlier this week And I was almost going to say like no podcast episode.

Speaker 1: 0:43

I went to bed with that thought last night. Well, i contemplated it You can really talk to Trevor about that But I went back and forth and back and forth, over and over again, contemplating if that was the right decision for me. And then I woke up this morning and I was like, okay, i just really want to record the podcast. So here we are. I have Ro just next door watching a show, having some breakfast. I made her a little breakfast plate. We're having bagels and cream cheese this week. We got little mini-go yogurts and some of the cute cucumbers that we love so much, the little like popper ones. And then what else did I put on it? Oh, raspberries. And while I was doing that, i made my drink of the week, and I also made a water, because I was just so thirsty when I woke up. But that's not the drink of the week, anyways.

Speaker 1: 1:39

Then I got in here and I did outline the podcast all week, and I outlined it on Monday with hopes that I'd have time to record. And then I did it and I was like, okay, tomorrow I better get a chance. And I did it. And you know what? I came in here and I was like should I grab my iPad? Should I not grab my iPad? And I was like I'm just going to come and talk because I like these little morning catch-ups. They says like this is like you know, the morning after, when you're just hanging out with your friends and talking about life and catching up on the night before In this case it's the week before and just letting out all your inner thoughts, no filter needed. So welcome back, cuties.

Speaker 1: 2:24

This overarching theme for this week's episode is going to be all about connecting with nature. I think I touched on this last week in my excitement to be back out on the lake again, but I think I had a really powerful week for me of connecting with nature and I'm excited to break it down. And this week I learned. But first let's catch up on this past week. Oh, this past week was sorry. That was literally on there This past week was really good. I just felt very much in control of what I want to be doing, which meant like I was able to accomplish the things that I wanted to accomplish or put focus on the things that I wanted to put focus on, which was great, and it felt very I want to say, routinely.

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But I always talk about this Like I feel like I always talk about how, like I love routines, but like I don't thrive in like consistent routines all the time. I really love to. Also just a little disclaimer If we hear noises in the background of this episode, this is just because this is what it is like Trevor's doing the dishwasher right now and Rose watching a show. So I apologize, i apologize, but you're getting a real slice of my life here. Um, anyways, what I was saying was that I I love flexible routines. I guess like I love feeling like I am walking through life with a really like good pace and that I'm like doing the things I need to do and have it and in like really good time blocks I don't know how to explain it Like I love the feeling of feeling accomplished at the end of my day, but that doesn't always necessarily come from like doing the same thing every day or doing the same thing every week, every every day of the week, if that makes sense. So it's more about creating like a flexible routine for each day that works for what my schedule needs it to be or what my self needs it to be, if that makes sense. But anyways, i felt like this past week was like really like I was, i was striding through it, i was really hitting marks and that I was like I was completing the dance appropriately or like I guess, well, well performed. But anyways, i also spent so much time outside and on the paddle board, which was lovely.

Speaker 1: 4:57

We had a really nice weekend, a quiet weekend heading into June, because our June is really busy, as already it has taken off And I am recording the podcast first thing in the morning of that it is released. So in my mind, i normally release it at like five am and now six 30 and I'm like, oh the time late, there's no point, but I'm happy that I'm pushing past that Anyway. So, yeah, we had a really nice weekend of just getting to like choose our own adventure, almost not having any set plans. I'm trying to think what we did on Friday, but I honestly can't remember. But on Thursday night I did go down for June 1st sunset, which was great, because I almost didn't do that, but we'll talk about that this in this week I learned. So that was really fun, because I love to go down on June 1st and just see what, what the, what the situation is on the lake in the sunset.

Speaker 1: 5:56

And then on Saturday we went to Pride in the Park, which was so fun. Oh, i found the other tack, if you were listening, last week and I said there was three tax on this board Tax. I found the other one. This is the issue with clear ones. You really can't see them. At least no one has stepped on it. Anyways, yeah, we went to Pride in the Park, which was lovely. And last year when I was working downtown I was part of hearing about the different Pride events, but I didn't. I wasn't working there anymore when they were going on, so we didn't. And then I remember we were. I think we had people over on that weekend, anyway. So we didn't get to go last weekend, but we or last year, but we had made an idea of wanting to go And then we were at the library a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1: 6:46

Oh, one second. Yes, no, it's a weekday. Sorry, rowe, he's asking if it was a weekend. She heard me talking about the weekend. Yeah, it's a weekday. We have school today, anyways. So then, okay, cuties, we're back. We just had a little bit of a meltdown realizing that it's a weekday and Rowe heard me talking about the weekend and then she was excited that it was the weekend. Anyways, all's good. Trevor and her are going to play Keep You Up. If you've been watching Bluey, if you have kids, or by yourself, i love Bluey. They have an episode called Keep You Up, where they play the game where you blow up a balloon and you have to keep it in the air. So, yeah, they're going to go play that.

Speaker 1: 7:34

Anyways, we're talking about Proud of the Park, i think. So we went to Proud of the Park And it was wonderful because we were at the library a couple weeks ago and they had the flyer, because the library puts on a part, a kid's section, of Pride in the Park. Although it's a very family friendly event, it's just like a market almost, of different vendors and they have performances on the main stage And then they have an area where and they have some food trucks and stuff and then they have an area where the library is set up and they did some storytelling and they have all different books they've selected out in that area as well. It's very shaded, they have pillows and blankets and like have it set up as like a cozy reading nook And they have very inclusive books chosen out. And then they have friendship making. They had balloon animals, which is the same person who worked at Great Wolf Lodge.

Speaker 1: 8:30

When we went we were like, oh, you look so familiar. He's like oh, yeah, i'm a great Wolf Lodge on Sundays or whatever. So anyways, we're about the same thing. She caught a great Wolf Lodge at Unicorn And they had rainbow story time, which was very interactive and telling stories and singing songs and playing with ribbon stuff. Anyways it was. It was a great event. And then it's at the parks and then there's the park to go play in and whatever. So, yeah, we had lots of fun. It was. It was really good. It was nice to be with a bunch of different kids in the community and celebrating inclusivity and love.

Speaker 1: 9:02

And yeah, on that note, i posted a tick talk about making a snack pack for a row to go to the event and lots of, lots of great comments, but there's a few people who are just being gross and clearly don't understand what the meaning of pride is or I don't know, see through a lens of something different, and that was unfortunate, but it was good. We did out some people I was able to block. And then also there are a few people who left comments about unfollowing which I've never had people. I'm sure I've had people unfollow me all the time, but I've never had people comment like I'm unfollowing you And I just found it funny and they just really wanted to give me, i guess, that feedback that they couldn't follow me because I chose to accept and appreciate all people for who they are, and the Christian ones were the funniest because, well, it's actually not funny at all. It's very sad, but I think it was a very freeing moment for me because I feel like I've always been worried about being perceived online, which I've talked about a lot, and that's why I put off creating an online platform for a while or for years, and I guess I don't talk about lots of things online.

Speaker 1: 10:22

I think here on the podcast I talk about lots of things, but on TikTok and especially where I have my biggest reach of audience. I don't talk about a lot of things because, like I don't know like things about me specifically, i'm showing you how to make meals or going out and about for a day or whatever Where. If you want to come for the inner thoughts of my world, then you head up the podcast. But I had posted photos the other week about, i guess, just a Sunday recap, and I included that I had gone to church in that photo and I remember after I posted that I was really worried that like there would be this community of people who feel unaccepted by churches, and because there's, there's I've talked about this lots here but there and I felt like that too that there's obviously a lot of different communities and Christian communities and church communities that don't show as much acceptance or are very vocal about specific communities that they don't allow in there.

Speaker 1: 11:26

I just even saying it now is so ridiculous to me because it's like how does that even make sense when the whole? do we remember who Jesus was and what his purpose was and what our purpose is is to love each other? I just I can't even So. Anyways, then I had in my mind like I was worried that people would think like, oh, i'm not accepting. If I released with one side of me, that side of me, then people would create storylines of, or I might have audiences of, people who have felt neglected or let out, let left out of or disowned or even worse, from churches and things like that would feel like perhaps I had opinions that were similar to those negative ones. So then I was like, okay, i'm going to share about going to this pride event because I definitely want that community of my followers and cuties to understand that they're accepted here and appreciated and loved and that, like this is a place for everyone to be, and so I'm so happy and that I that I did that and I shared that. But it was just like funny and one of the funniest comments to me and I'm sorry if you're listening to this and this makes you uncomfortable.

Speaker 1: 12:40

It's good to have uncomfortable conversations, it's good to feel, it's good to see different people's opinions and it's okay to. It's okay to have people in your life who you don't agree with everything. Obviously, at the end of the day, if your values don't line up and it makes you feel like you can't connect to that person anymore. It's to you to do what you want to do, but I do want to make it clear that I am a person who is here to love on everyone and accept everyone. And there's this, there's this.

Speaker 1: 13:08

It's not even a meditation, it's a song, but I consider it my meditation that I listen to every single morning and it's only a few minutes and the last line of it is saying that they it's basically says I think I love everyone, or I think I love you every, each and every one of you, and I always think about that and I think about what, when I think of loving everyone, what makes you feel uncomfortable and what makes you feel comfortable? and sometimes the uncomfortable need love. And I'm not saying this about a specific person, but in your mind, if there's, if there's somebody or if there's something you think about that you can't possibly love, maybe that's the group of people or the person who needs to love the most. I don't know. I this is a whole other conversation, but I do just want to make it clear that I am here to love on all people, and people are good and have been let down a lot by other people in our community and humans in general. I feel like we let down each other all the time. We, especially in North America, like where is our community element, where is our love for each other and neighbors and supporting one another? and I feel like we all isolate ourselves and isolate from things that make us feel uncomfortable. So, anyways, i just want to make that clear And long story short is, i just am feeling a lot of different feelings after posting a video because I didn't, i came off controversial for interesting reasons to a lot of people, and that's fine and that's the joy of the internet is you can put out who you are, and the people who vibe vibe and the people who don't can leave. So anyways, that was just a little to bit on that.

Speaker 1: 14:54

But we had a great weekend. So we went to yeah, pride in the park and then we came home around four o'clock and this was wild. So we came home and I went to make dinner and row on it some snacks. So I gave her some snack and her and Trevor just chilling outside and I think she wanted to watch a show, so we put on a show and she had a little bit of snack while I was putting dinner together and it was four o'clock, she hadn't had a nap. We were busy all day and she fell asleep like within 10 minutes and I was like, oh, is this a good thing. And Trevor was going out later that night to go see his friend in concert.

Speaker 1: 15:25

So I was like, oh, am I going to be stuck with like an awake all night toddler if she takes too late of a nap? but I was like, give her a little bit of nap, like let her have it, and I debated why she moved her to her bed. But then I was like, oh, she won't like sleep that long anyways. Trevor ended up leaving around, like that was four o'clock and then we we need to have a dinner. She's still asleep. And she was like, okay, i'm going to sleep.

Speaker 1: 15:49

So I brought her upstairs and she just slept. I think she came into my bed at some point, or did she call me to come into her bed, i don't remember. But then she slept until like 5.30 or 6.00, which is what time she sleeps till every day, but from 4.00. So I think she was really tired. I also think she's going through like a growth spurt right now and then I always feel like that comes with like a big sleep at some point. But yeah, so I just ended up having like so much free time to myself on Saturday evening, which was lovely, but also like just reminded me of back in the day when row used to have like an early bedtime. It wasn't that long ago, but she, we used to be a stickler for, like when she was really little. she would go to bed at like 5.30 and then 6.30, and then 6.30 was always the latest, and now it's like we start getting her ready for about at 7.00, but she doesn't fall asleep until like sometimes 8.30, even sometimes 9.00.

Speaker 1: 16:45

Bedtime has just become even more. I don't want to say struggle, because I've leaned into it. It was a struggle for a while because I was pushing for something that we used to have, but now I lean into it and I listen to my podcast. In one day your phone after we, after we've read her stories, done all the bedtime routine, and she's just like really winding yourself up. She's just like really winding yourself down. She quietly plays in her room.

Speaker 1: 17:05

Whatever I listen to my podcast, i like take that as my Zen moment. I try not to fall asleep. It's really hard, and when I do fall asleep, i always feel like a little disappointed because I'm always up at like 3.00 then, because I've gone to bed so early and then I fall back asleep for a few hours and it's just. I don't like having the choppy sleep, but we're making it work anyways. But yeah, it just felt like very much like throwback to when I used to have a little sleep and I fell back to when I used to live for my evenings like row would go to bed and she would just go to bed. We would just put her down, she would have her baby and she would just put herself to sleep, like back when she was in a crib off the time to be alive, and I was just like I'm so happy I'm just kidding like I'm happy every, every day is every phase and every day is what it is and I love it all. But oh yeah, i just remember we put her to bed and then it was like we could go do whatever we wanted to do, obviously being at home, or if Trevor was home then I could go out and do something. But Yeah, it was good times. It was. That was. That was kind of a throwback And I'm you never, say never.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Who knows what's going to happen. Maybe she eventually she will want to go to sleep. Last night I was. I was asking her we're trying to get her to go to sleep with Trevor. If I'm home, like, she'll go to sleep. If I'm not home, she'll go to sleep with Trevor, no problem. Like, let hit Trevor, just put her to sleep. But if I'm home, she wants me to be there And like in her perfect world she loves what. Both of us are there, um, but we're trying slowly to like have Trevor put her down even when I'm home. So I've been like going to the basement to edit, tick talks, um, while she is being put to bed, but she like knows I'm there And then, um, she'll like stay up even later because she'll just wait until, like, i'm going to come upstairs at some point, and so, anyways, we're we're trying to figure that out because, like I do think we both appreciate our evening freedom. So it would be nice to switch off because and I'm trying, not if I'm more likely to fall asleep Trevor will not fall asleep with her pretty much, but I'm more likely to fall asleep And then it's like, oh, my day's over, and then I'm up in the middle of the day or middle of the night. So, anyways, that's a little talk on that.

Speaker 1: 19:14

But then Sunday we just went to church and, oh, we did get donuts again The Mavericks donuts. They were so good, yeah. So we got donuts, we went to church. We ended up having a little picnic. Ro wanted to go so early to church because it's like old school church. It has church bells that you like ring with the ropes, and she's been wanting to ring the bells for like the past three Sundays. But we, every time we get there they're ringing and she's like I wanted to ring the bells.

Speaker 1: 19:37

So this Saturday or this Sunday, i didn't even realize what she was doing, because normally we get donuts and then we go to the park because donuts open around nine, so we'll get donut churches until like 11 or something. So we'll get donuts and then we'll go to a park close by, have a little picnic and then go to church for church time. So this time we got the donuts, we got into the car and we're like talking about okay, which park do you want to go to, cause there's like a few different options. And she's like I don't want to go to the park, i just want to go to church. And we're like well, we're going to be really early. And she's like no, i just want to go to no park, i just want to go to church. And I'm like do you want to have like a picnic at church? like eat like on the lawn at church, have our donuts? And she's like, yeah, that's what I want to do. And I was like, okay, and Trevor was kind of like are you sure? Like we're going to be like an hour early. She's like no, that's what I want to do.

Speaker 1: 20:23

So as soon as we got there, we got out of the car and we're walking And she's like I'm going to ring the church bell today. And she like had the plan in her mind. She's like we're going early, i'm sitting on the steps and the second somebody comes to the church I'm letting them know that I'm ringing bells. And so she did. And they ring them three times And she rang them all three times and she had the best time of her life. So that was good. But I just thought that was so funny. I'm like this girl is so smart, she knows what she wants and she goes for it And I appreciate that. And I appreciate that And I'm glad that she remembered, because I be like every Sunday the past three weeks. She'll be like she'll hear them and be like I wanted to ring it And I'm like, oh, you have to tell me beforehand. So she made a mental note and she remembered. But anyways, that was good.

Speaker 1: 21:06

And then I was like actually so hungry once we got there because all I had was donuts. Like all I had was a donut, which isn't very like satiating as a complete. So Trevor ran over to Tim Horton and got us some breakfast wraps, which I was happy for, because I was like, all of a sudden I was like, oh, i just feel like really hungry and I can't concentrate or focus or sit for long periods of time If I'm hungry. That's like just the truth. And so, anyways, that was Sunday. I'm trying to think what we did in the afternoon. I feel like the weather really cooled down this weekend, so I don't know if we went swimming or anything. I feel like we just had like a really chill afternoon. Yeah, because I literally can't remember what we did. So it must have been chill. I must have been chill. I did make dinner, which was good.

Speaker 1: 21:49

So I've been cooking more on the weekends, which is nice, i feel like in the winter I'm like over it. I love cooking during the week And then I'm like over it, but on the weekends we just get take out. But now it's like during the week it's like I don't want to cook because we're out and about playing at the park after school being busy. And then it's like but now on the weekends it's like, oh, we've been out all day, it's nice to come back and cook or whatever. So it's been nice, and then that's pretty much it. This week has been so busy. Monday I just needed to get a bunch of stuff done for, like the house, and then not even like I did laundry. And then I'm saying that because I have so much stuff I have to get done for the house, because we have rose baptism on Sunday, so we're hosting people and our house needs like the works done right, and so I feel like I just have that like looming over me.

Speaker 1: 22:40

And normally I used to be someone who did everything like the day before And I loved doing that. Like I was like, okay, we're going to clean this day and we're going to set up this day like we're going to shop this day, like I had a day for everything, but cleaning was always like pretty much the last minute. So I was like I wasn't cleaning after I cleaned, like does that make sense? Like it's like sometimes you clean too early and then it's like, oh, i have to clean again. But I have learned with, like a kid and just like with busy schedules and whatever, it's just better, like, if you get a chance to clean, just clean, because my brain just thinks about it for the rest of the week. It's like, okay, i have to clean, i have to clean, i have to clean, i have to clean. But, like today, for example, i have the opportunity to clean, so we're just cleaning. After I finish doing the podcast, i'm going to get ready and get dressed and go drop off a row at school And then I'm coming home right from after I drop her off at school, putting on music and just cleaning. Because I will feel so much better knowing that on Saturday I just have to like tidy and clean the outside. I'm not sure what the weather is going to be like. Hopefully people can just be outside and we can do pool barbecue party. That's the hope but then that on Saturday I can just, you know, like tidy the outside, sweep the leaves and everything, and the inside will be already all good And then I don't have to think about it anymore. It's like don't put it off, grace, so hold me accountable to that. I'm cleaning today, but anyway.

Speaker 1: 24:02

So Monday I just needed to get a bunch of like laundry stuff done and administrative things And it just ended up being I was going to record the podcast. Like that was the full plan And then I just ended up not having the opportunity to. And then yesterday we were at church baking all day Strawberry pies. We had leftover pie shells from when we did our meat pie, so we did strawberry and it was good, but it was like I was really tired after that. I wasn't. I wasn't expecting to be as tired as I was, but I was just. I think I was even more tired because I had the mental load of thinking like I need to clean at some point. I have to still record the podcast And that's why I was like making the executive decision. We went to KFC for dinner last night, which I haven't been in a KFC in so long, but it was nice.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Anyways, we went to KFC for dinner and I was just kind of like I can't, i can't record, and Trevor's like it's okay, grace, if you don't want to record, but also you could do it tomorrow. Like he was trying to be like, or you can still do it tonight, like I will put a road to bed, like you. And I was like I still need to edit the tick talk and do a voice over and the voice over always takes the longest And I was he's like what's the priority? And I'm like honestly like I just, i, just, i, just, i, just, i, just I, just I, just I already edited the tick talk. I just need to do the voice over. And then, um, i just can't even imagine like doing the podcast.

Speaker 1: 25:18

But then, when we came home and I finished editing the tick talk, um, i was kind of like, oh, i'm kind of in the mood to record the podcast. But then Ro was like on the verge of going to bed and she wanted me to come late with her and blah, blah, blah, and I was like, oh, now I feel like I should have just done it, and so I felt like I was letting myself down. And then I was like, okay, i'll see what I feel like tomorrow morning. Um, and then I woke up this morning and I was like let's record this podcast. And now we're 25 minutes in and I haven't even had my drink yet because I was recapping for so long. Oh, my gosh, i hope that was okay And I really hope that this is still warm, because I really was looking forward to it.

Speaker 1: 25:53

It's something super simple, but, that being said, let's get into our snack and drink of the week. Okay, cuties, my snack this week. Or let's do my drink first, because I just want to have my sip. It's just an Americano with cream, my favorite, and it is a long shot Americano, because our coffee machine needs to be descaled, so it does a long shot, but I actually don't mind. What does that? Anyways, cheers, cuties, let me just have this sip of coffee. It's still warm. It's not as hot, but it's still warm. I also got my blanket in it, so I need to wash this blanket. But ugh, i was just like when Ro came in here, when I had paused the podcast earlier because Ro was having a little moment, she came in here to talk to me and my coffee was over here and I was like, please, just don't spill it. And then I moved it closer and then my blanket got in. But it's all good, it was all good. Anyways, i also didn't know. Like you know, it's an early morning if you're watching on YouTube, you know it's an early morning podcast If I'm wearing my Margaritaville shirt.

Speaker 1: 26:52

This is my favorite sleep shirt that I absolutely love that Ro and Trevor got for my birthday in 2021, i think It was our first summer, full summer here I think, yeah, anyways, i love this shirt so much. Anyways, trevor actually got me another Margaritaville shirt when he went to Vegas and I'm like, oh yay, we started a cute tradition everywhere we go that has a Margaritaville, we'll get a shirt. But then I got what am I saying? Then I got my favorite mug. I have my favorite mug here, which kind of matches this shirt.

Speaker 1: 27:23

Anyways, this is just the vibe right now, mmm, refreshing. I hope this episode isn't too blibbly blobbly for everyone. Now I'm feeling self-conscious of recording. It's like should have I recorded? Is this worth people's time and attention? If you drop off, it doesn't matter. Like I'm here to hang out.

Speaker 1: 27:42

I personally, as you know, love to record podcasts or love to record them, love to listen to podcasts while I'm going to sleep, and I love the idea, or like the feeling of just like hanging out with a friend or with a group of friends and catching up on our day or week or whatever, like I love that. That is, personally, what I love out of a podcast is just that feeling of like connection and community and feeling a part of something or connect it to someone and like saying it. It's kind of strange because it's like you're just listening, but at the same time it does feel so warm, it feels like a hug. So I hope that this can be something for you. But anyways, my snack of the week. I feel like I had my snack of the week because I told you I'd written down stuff. I wrote down stuff, But now I'm thinking like what was my snack of the week?

Speaker 1: 28:33

But what I really think my snack of the week is is we bought these mini pretzels And they don't have to be mini, but we bought mini ones And I just like hard pretzels, like just a classic pretzel, not a soft pretzel. Oh, pretzels are so good, like when you just need a little something, and in the summer, especially when the weather is warm, i always try to have a little salty something with my water to help absorb. You know that's literally what sports drinks are like electrolytes is just some salt. So it just helps you absorb more, hydrate more, and so I usually have like an olive or like a pickle with my water. But a little handful of salty pretzels perfect And it's so nice to just like keep those in your bag because they're obviously they're shelf stable, so that's fabulous. So I'm really in a pretzel mood and these mini ones are so fun to just like pop in.

Speaker 1: 29:26

I also love pretzel sticks, but everyone's been posting, like when people share their snack plates with me. So many people like on Instagram, so many people have been sharing ones with skinny pretzel sticks. And when I was growing up, you used to be able to get the pack of skinny pretzel sticks from Dollarama, like the dollar store, and I loved them and they came in this little like plastic tray and then they were like in a tinfoil wrapping and they were so good and they were just so thin and crispy. I don't know where to get those anymore, like I have not seen those. So if anyone knows where you can get the like thin, long pretzel stick pretzels, like the really thin ones, please let me know, because I could really go for some, and every time someone shares a snack plate with it, i'm like I need those, oh my gosh. Anyways, i'm in my pretzel mood, or my pretzel era. I wonder what pretzels I've never, i don't know if I've, i don't know if I've had a hard pretzel dipped in mustard, but I think it would be good. Anyways, i'm just thinking of a snack plate right now in my mind, but that's my snack and drink of the week.

Speaker 1: 30:26

Let's get into this week. I learned this week. I learned that throwing your full body into nature is sometimes all you need. Seriously, i feel like growing up, people always are like Oh, what are your hobbies? What are your? what do you like doing? and I, like people don't always be like I play soccer, i horseback ride whatever they'd say like a sport they enjoy doing.

Speaker 1: 30:56

I was never a sports person growing up, never, never, never, never, never. And I think I could have been a sports person like I think because the biggest thing for me was I never pushed myself out of my comfort zone And sports was out of my comfort zone and it was in front of people and it involved like a talent of some sort. Like you have to have a skill and get better at it, and I think everyone can have skills and get better at them, but you have to practice and you have to put yourself in uncomfortable situations and feel trust in communities. And I feel like I was always a nervous Nellie and would never have done that. I didn't want to like show, i didn't want to try in front of other people because I was worried of how they would judge me like oh, she's not good. Anyways, that's a little other thing, but like so I never tried to do any of that.

Speaker 1: 31:46

I also like I can be a competitive person, like I do know that about myself. Like I'm not competitive, i really am not, but I've learned more. Like when I can see the chance of winning, i can get competitive. And I think I always thought I was like really not a competitive person because I never even allowed myself to see the opportunity of winning or the chance or the possibility. I just thought, like no, i, that's impossible. And so that like made me uninvolved and that turned into not competitive, because it's like I just like didn't care, but like if I'm like doing something, like playing anything in life, but like, let's say, i'm playing a game and all of a sudden I see like the possibility to win, like oh, i can get competitive, or even like a wide game when I used to work in before and after school.

Speaker 1: 32:31

Oh my gosh, we got we're so bad sometimes like the, not bad The staff, like we would. We would split the kids into teams and then we would have like a staff or maybe a couple staff on each team and like the staff would get so competitive with each other. Oh, it was bad. We'd have to like rail ourselves in and be like we need to chill, like we have to show good communication. No, i wasn't inappropriate, but I just remember sometimes we get so riled up over a game of capture the flag and it's like, okay, we need to chill.

Speaker 1: 33:05

But I think passion is really important in all these things and it's obviously important to learn how to communicate that. And anyways, long story short is I never did sports because I was always afraid, and so I felt like when people asked like, oh, what do you like doing? what are your hobbies? I never knew what to say like I, i, i didn't have any. Like I had lots of hobbies. Oh my gosh, i was like hobby queen. I loved baking, i loved cooking, i loved doing crafts, i loved sewing. I had my little craft room growing up where I had just like bins of infinite materials, a sewing machine. I even had like a clay turning table. I had every type of little knickknack, pattywhack thing that I could try on my own in my own personal space.

Speaker 1: 33:49

I was not good at any of these things like, but good is so such a different, like what does good mean? I always thought, like I'm not an artistic person because I like I'm not going to drawing my writing, a chicken scratch, i I can't really like I don't know I sewed pillowcases, i could stick to a square and like I'm sure if I really put myself to something I could like get better at it. But also like what is wrong with just doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that and it being whatever it is like I think it's all if you're enjoying the process, that's all that matters, like and anyway. So I never knew what to answer because I never felt like I was good enough at any of those things like it's like, oh, i'm not talented enough to share that.

Speaker 1: 34:32

I like scrapbooking and I I can't tell people that I love sewing because all I can make is furry pillowcases, literally. I would just every pillow in my house like cushion in my house. I would just like re recover in like a neon think like Lizzie McGuire, groovy girls, like neon, orange, green, purple, fluffy fabric that I would get from fabric land and I loved it and at first I was like stuffing them like I would buy stuffing. But then I was like, oh my gosh, you need so much pillow. And then I realized you could just like make a pillowcase and shove a pillow you already have in it, game changer.

Speaker 1: 35:12

But anyways, long story short is I loved doing all those things, but I never knew like what to say in those situations and everything that I loved doing was just being outside in nature. But I, i thought like nature and sportiness went hand in hand, like I loved camping and I love doing all that stuff, and I was like, oh, i'm not as campy as the other people, i'm not as outdoorsy, i'm not as athletic, i don't know. I always felt like I wasn't enough to say like to own, to own a hobby. I felt like I wasn't, i didn't, i didn't have enough ownership on it, like I couldn't, i couldn't just say that I loved it. And so, anyways, long story short is one thing I keep saying. Long story short. This story just keeps getting longer cutes. Why do I keep saying that?

Speaker 1: 35:58

I think the one thing that I really do feel connected to the most and that I loved and that I never thought could be a hobby, was just like being outside, being in nature. I always thought it was like, oh, you had to love hiking or you had to love something specific about being in nature. And there's lots of things that I love about being in nature, but I think, like overarching, it's just like spending time and connecting, and I think I did a Sunday reset about grounding, which is just like. I don't do Sunday resets anymore, but that's just short little podcast, five minutes or less. So even saying that is like, oh, remember when I used to record Sunday resets.

Speaker 1: 36:34

But grounding is basically the process of just like taking off your shoes and connecting your body, your feet, to nature, like standing on the ground, dirt, grass, and just like connecting for like five, 10 minutes and your, your energy is connecting and it just there's actually so many health benefits to it if you. But I think one really big one is just like totally calming your body and your stresses and just like bringing you back, grounding you, literally bringing you back into yourself and out of whatever, maybe going on and bringing your blood to a boil, but like literally and I need to this past week I was I feel like I had a lot of moments where I was feeling so Zen because I was out on the paddle board, i was in the middle of water, i was full body, submerging into the lake and I think I just realized, like we there's, like I love being in water I've always loved being in water and like the pools one thing but like, when I went into the lake, it was like beyond. It was like I have fully just connected with something that is Mother Nature, that is Earth. It was like a full body, grounding, and it was something so beautiful.

Speaker 1: 37:51

And the first time I did I was so nervous and this is something about me, as I'm a nervous Nelly, especially when it comes to dark water and things like that but I will just sit on the edge of whatever my nerves are and literally repeat to myself for even up to like the half an hour just do a great, just do a great. You can do this great, you got this great. You just do a great, like out loud, like I will literally do that and I have done that like my whole life and sometimes I do it and sometimes I don't do it, but I'm glad that I'm there just talking to myself just do a great, you got this great. Just do a great, you can do this great anyway. So that was me like I was on my paddle board trying to debate if I was going to go in the water or not and then I like put my legs in and then I eventually like held on to the paddle board and put like my lower half in and I was just like holding on and I the thing is I felt safe holding on and then I was like releasing was like bringing me a lot of like I'm nervous. And then eventually like I'm like just do it, because you got this great, so you can do this great, so you can do this great. So you are this, you have this, you can do this. Like you're basically there, just do it.

Speaker 1: 38:52

And then eventually I did it and that there's something beauty. Beauty, there's something beauty. There's something beautiful in that fear of when you let go of that control and you release yourself and you just like into the unknown. There's something so beautiful about that and then also that trust you have in yourself like I love that and so, anyways, i let go and I got in and then I just like got my head under and in that moment, like for me, when you put your head underwater, any part of you into dark water, but when you put your head under you're just letting go of all control, like that is that feeling for me and that connectedness to nature. Oh, and then getting back out and just coming back into the world that you were just in, but feeling cleansed and renewed, like that is something so beautiful and I will never take it for granted. I will never take it for granted. It feels like it feels like it feels like something that's so easy but that I don't do enough or that is so out of reach or I don't know. It sounds silly like how just plunging into water, open water, could like be so grounding and connecting and changing and resetting for you, because it seems so simple. But it's so. It's just a game changer and I think a lot of it has to do with like being aware, like I think sometimes people are so distracted or don't even notice that, like we all have strengths and weaknesses, right, i think a strength for me is really noticing the small things in life, and it can come good and bad, because sometimes you notice things and it stresses you out, but a lot of the times, like I really do see so much beauty in so many little things in life and I'm so grateful for that, because that is very natural for me like to see something, to stop and recognize something for what it is like, literally even just like the way that a tree looked one day and it looks another day, or noticing the way that the colors of grass blend with each other, like how there's lights and darks, like little things like that.

Speaker 1: 41:13

That comes so natural to me but brings me so much joy. And I think a lot of people that might not be their strong suit and they can just walk through a field and not notice those small details, and or they go for a swim and it's just like they went for a swim and it was refreshing, but they don't notice exactly what could potentially be happening or the beauty of each little drop that falls on the water. Oh, i love it all, but anyways, i'm just so grateful that that is something that I have as a strong suit and I just want to share more of that. I think that's what I learned this past week. It's like I want to share more of the little things in life that I find so miraculous and wonderful and bring me so much joy and peace. But yeah, i just think that we really. I think that connecting with nature is a hundred percent a hobby, but also it's something that we need to do more often, and after this week it just felt so fabulous.

Speaker 1: 42:14

But, that being said, now it's pretty wild. There's like all these wild fat, literally wild. There's all these wild fat. why do I want to say wild flowers? it's not flowers, it's fires, and it's scary, and they're all coming, like all the smoke is blowing into us, like I know we each, like we're not the lake is literally saving us from the fires, like we're, they're not getting to us. That being said, fires could happen here too, and that's scary idea. But the fires that are currently happening, like they, physically they, they get really red. They come up to the lake and they can't keep going because obviously there's a lake, but all the smoke is blowing in, and today's Wednesday, yesterday it was, it was very ominous on Sunday and it was almost like beautiful, before really thinking about what was going on, because I remember we were at home deep. No, we were at Walmart looking at barbecues and we were in the garden center and row was like glowing orange and we were like, why is she glowing orange? and then we realized that it was the way the Sun was glowing through the smog and I was like, is that from the wild? I'm gonna say flowers, again, fires, and then, anyways, it was. It's just gotten like yesterday morning was okay and then by the afternoon it was really, really smoggy and you could smell it. Today, i'm sure is gonna be like that as well. But Thursday, tomorrow, is apparently supposed to be the worst.

Speaker 1: 43:37

And it just reminds me of we went to BC a few summers ago to visit friends and we were in Vancouver and then we drove out to Kelowna and Vancouver wasn't like it. You couldn't see the mountains, like that was my first time in BC and it's like I did not see one mountain. So obviously I have to go back. But we Vancouver, you couldn't see the mountains, but like the actual city part wasn't too bad. But we drove to Kelowna, which is about five hours away, and on that drive it was just like smokier and smokier and smokier and smokier was also wild, because you're supposed to be driving on this highway, that's like between these giant mountains, and you literally could only see, like you, you could almost not even see the car in front of you, but you definitely couldn't see the mountains next to you.

Speaker 1: 44:22

And as we were in Kelowna, it just got continuously worse. Our drive back oh that was that was felt a little dangerous, but you just had this horrible headache and it just smelled. Your hair smelled like campfire and you didn't see the fires. I think we saw one fire driving at one point, but like, like far, far away, like you couldn't see them. But it's just wild how the smoke travels. And even here it's like Quebec is like I don't even know how far Quebec is from here, but five, six hours, it's five hours from Toronto, like where they are going on, but how far is it from here I don't even know anyways, but like it's that far away and it's like it blows, it's like we. But then in these moments I think like we truly are all really connected, like can we lean on each other, love on each other, support each other, like come on anyways, that's just like a whole nother thing. But why I'm saying that is because it's gonna be harder to connect to nature because it's gonna be unpleasant to be outside and also just like not good for the breathing. I think they want us to wear masks and stuff and we should probably close most of our windows. But yeah, it's just one of those things that is going on right now in nature that we really need to all. Just I don't know. I think we just need to all all focus on our whatever, whoever you talk to you or hope to for better and good things, and put out the good vibes and, if it's prayer, if it's just thinking, good thoughts, like we need to focus on that, because it's very early in the summer for this to be happening, but hopefully a rain comes soon, fingers crossed anyways, back to my point.

Speaker 1: 45:50

Is that growing up, i didn't have hobbies that I owned, that I didn't own any of my hobbies. I didn't own a lot of myself. I felt very small compared to other people and I am learning. This is my year of being big, like literally, and I'm about to turn 30. At the end of the summer or I don't know if it's the end of the summer. In the summer, i'm about to turn 30 and I think I've just learned.

Speaker 1: 46:18

Like I try to, i've been trying to think like, not that I don't think like turning 30 is gonna be like this revolutionary thing and I'm definitely not scared of it or sad of it. I I enjoy. I mean, i've been enjoying aging and growing and I feel like life's been getting just like more full with each year. I also feel like maybe I'll do an episode about this, because I was gonna say I have other things to say, but I also feel like I don't know, like when I look back, when I see young people, i feel nostalgic to that and it feels like today that I soak it all up. Anyways, i'll do an episode on this, but I feel like I've been wanting to I don't know have some sort of theme going into my 30s and I think it's really, for me is about feeling big and powerful and taking up space and ownership in my life and and not being afraid to say that I believe in something, or I am this person or this is what I do, and also knowing that you can change, but knowing that, like you don't have to be perfect to have ownership in something, over your life and over your hobbies and over your interests, and that you can.

Speaker 1: 47:27

You don't need to be the same as somebody else who does that. It doesn't need to be the same. You don't have to be as good as them or the same as them. It's not even about good or bad, it's just. It's for me, i feel like it was always like I don't have the equal strength, but like you don't need to have. That it's not true. So, anyways, connecting with nature this week has really helped me to ground myself and I think that's why I had really good stride like and routine. But we already talked about what routine means to me, but why I felt very flow with my life this past week and I love the feeling of flow. Go with the flow. But so if you can get out into nature this week, i really, really think you should. Even if it's just connect, even if it is just the act of grounding, like connecting your feet to the ground for five, ten minutes, it actually does wonders and if you want to look into it, there's like a lot of health benefits as well. But yeah, it's really really powerful. So that's what I learned this week.

Speaker 1: 48:30

Let's get into what's next roses, buds and thorns. We are at 48 minutes and here I am thinking I literally was like, okay, even if I just hop on quick and just have a quick conversation with the cuties, i'm like checking the time to, i'm like, okay, it's 7, 7, 30, i do have to get row to school at some point and get dressed, but we're cleaning, so it's not like I have to get dressed dressed also, i never get dressed but I don't even have to. Like I probably don't even need to shower because I'll shower after I finish scrubbing the ceiling to the ground. I'm not doing that much cleaning, just so. You know, cleaning means like shoving everything into one room and then vacuuming and wiping and mopping and all that stuff. Like I'm not doing a spring clean. Okay, we're not doing a spring clean here.

Speaker 1: 49:22

Anyways, my roses, buds and thorns my rose, i think, truly was just oh, you know what my rose was? I was gonna say going out on paddle board, but nah, that is my rose. But my rose is how social paddle boarding is, cuties, i don't know if any of you paddle board out there, but nobody told me it was like a community. Oh, my gosh. Also, now I get to say that that is. My hobby is paddle boarding and I'm owning it. I'm owning it literally. I am owning it because this past week was the first times I've been out or like this past couple weeks, and I already feel like I am not a pro like at paddle boarding, but I feel like I am like it is my hobby because I have connected to a community of people.

Speaker 1: 50:06

Like I will be blowing up this paddle board. It has like a electric pump that connects to the car and so it takes like maybe five, ten minutes to blow it up. So you're sitting, it's like really loud, it's like, and you're like blowing up this thing and the amount of people that come up to you like, oh my gosh, where did you get that? like I've always wanted one. Oh, my wife loves doing that. Like, how much was it? what does it come with? oh, where do you like to paddle board? like so many? I've never talked to this many people in my entire life. Literally, like, literally.

Speaker 1: 50:39

And then you are walking to the water holding your paddle board and people are like, oh my gosh, i gotta bring my paddle board out. Like how was the water today? you're like coming in, how is the water today? oh, i didn't even think about it yet. Like, oh, i gotta bring mine out, maybe I'm gonna go later. Just stop and talk to you literally like stop you, stop you in your tracks and just start talking to you. A yell across the field. Oh, my wife loves going this place. You gotta go there. There's, there's a bridge, there's a herring.

Speaker 1: 51:06

People on social media, you post about it in my inbox oh, i love going here. I love going here. Oh, you gotta go here out in the water. You're out in the water, people are kayaking and paddleboarding. Oh, stop and chat. What? what? literally what this is. All I've ever wanted in my life is to connect with people in spontaneous ways like this, like I, absolutely the power just go out. My light just turned off. What just happened? one second we're back, cuties. Oh my gosh. That was like a moment of. I'm not even distressed, i was just like wow, it was really not meant to be an episode today.

Speaker 1: 51:48

So the power did go out and I just need to do a shout out to Zencaster, which is the platform I used, which I showed out. I have an episode called how to start a podcast, or something like that. If you so, if you're interested in starting a podcast, i give you all the details on everything I use. But I use Zencaster as my recording platform and, honestly, they are so good. They went through this a rebrand or like I don't know. They're changing things up and they change their interface, which kind of I haven't learned to love yet. But the fact that they like, if you're the host, i'm not sure if you have a guest, what the situation would be if their power went out, but if you are recording by yourself and you are the host, like it will continue, it even record it. Well, the power was out, like I even have I tried to pause it, but then it was like it won't pause, it's not connecting to the internet and I still have, like the recording of everything I was saying. Well, the power was out, so I'm just so grateful. Thank you anyway. That's my shout out there.

Speaker 1: 52:47

But oh, okay, we were talking about paddle boarding and just how it's been such a connection and literally I was never expecting I thought this was gonna be like a solo adventure for me, of me just like going out by myself, and that's why I almost was like, didn't want to do it, because why was like, will I keep myself accountable to actually using the power to board? because I feel like there's so many things where you're like, oh, i just envision that for myself, but do you actually end up doing it, or whatever? and I was worried it was gonna be like that. But then we like jumped, we committed, we got it and literally I am obsessed with it. I love doing it and it is so much. It's less hassle than I thought it would be going to be. I thought like blowing it up and taking it down would be a lot of hassle, but honestly, this thing is amazing like it is. It is so easy to blow up and it is so it is even easier to take down. It has a backpack to put it back. Just the amount of socializing that it has brought into my life, or small, small conversations with people and I feel like people who are like-minded, who enjoy connecting with nature and being out there oh, it's just been so fabulous. So that's my rose. My rose is the connection that this new hobby of mine that I have taken ownership on has brought me in my life.

Speaker 1: 54:05

Okay, next up my thorn. What is my thorn? Oh, this is hard. I think my thorn is I feel weight of people in this world who don't see the goodness in people. They can't see past their own prejudice, they can't see past their own-. I don't know, and I feel like everyone has been raised in a different way and has a different experience and a different vision over the world, and that is so true and we cannot understand everyone's point of view. We can't understand a lot of things and a lot of people haven't been exposed to love in positive ways and haven't been exposed to viewing the world in a lot of different ways. I have empathy for a lot of people too. I have understanding and I have But then, at the same time, it's like ugh.

Speaker 1: 55:19

I feel weight for a community during this month of June, which is pride, where we've come together to celebrate and love on the LGBTQ plus community, and I just feel this not as much as obviously, members, as I am only an ally but I just feel a sliver of that weight and it feels heavy and so that makes me feel more weight, because I feel that I feel that I can't even imagine the heaviness that people of this community can feel and I just want to make sure that I can do everything I can do to make sure that they feel loved and welcomed and appreciated and amazing and beautiful humans that they are and they bring me joy and I'm grateful. So that's my thorn and I hope that we can all look inwards and see how we can make sure that people in our life everyone in our life is feeling supported and loved and valued, and how we can go out of our way to help people feel safe and loved on and appreciate people for who they are, who they are as their freest form, because we all just want to feel loved and supported and cared for and connected and part of the community and we all just want to be who we can be deep down singing in the shower, who you are in those vulnerable moments where you let down your guard and you just share who you are, fully like ugh. So that's my thorn this week, my bud. Well, we have rose baptism this weekend and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now. As you know, i need to clean the house from top to bottom, but I actually like cleaning, like once I get into it and I love the finished product. I love it And I don't really have a plan in place for what we're doing.

Speaker 1: 57:21

I think I have gone back and forth like we were debating, because we don't have a barbecue and we were debating we wanted to get like a gas hookup, but then we did the whole gas thing and it's like going to be so much effort and money and time. And then we're like, should we just get a propane barbecue or eventually will we want to do gas? and then it's like, oh, why don't we just do charcoal? so now we're like kind of on the charcoal route, i don't know. So if we get a barbecue, then we'll do just like you know hot dogs, hamburgers, simple things like that and I'll make a bunch of sides ahead of time Potato salads, pasta salads, all of that stuff.

Speaker 1: 57:50

I also need to figure out. The cake rose, just like me, my baptism cake. I went to the store and I chose that a strawberry and cream cake, and row always chooses strawberry and cream. She loves that, like her first birthday cake, every cake she wants that. So I'm thinking like I could make her a strawberry cream. But then I was like I don't want to make it, i just want to buy it.

Speaker 1: 58:07

I'm trying to be like very practical with what I'm doing and with my time and also because we're going to all be coming, we could go to church and then we're all going to come home, so there's not like prep time. Everything has to be either done ahead And then. So I'm thinking, or do we just order a bunch of pizzas and then I still make sides? I don't even know. I just want to be really practical. I don't want to be like just simple things or even just sandwiches. Maybe I'll make sandwiches, i don't even know, we'll see anyway. So I still have to come up with that plan, but I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 1: 58:35

I always love a good hosting moment, so it'll be nice to bring together people in our life. We at first I was like, okay, we'll just tell the grandparents. But then I was like, oh, we should invite like other important friends in our life who have been a big part of supporting us as parents and being there to love on row. So yeah, we're still keeping it small, but just invited those people who have been like have been our you know our village, so that's great. Yeah, so that's what I'm looking forward to. It'll be nice and Rose really looking forward to it, mainly for the pool party aspect.

Speaker 1: 59:09

She also keep the way. She says baptism is so cute. I can't even like say it, but she just says I can't wait for my back to back. She misses. She like says three parts of it back to or something and misses all the rest of it. I don't know, it's so cute, it makes me so happy. That's what I'm looking forward to. Okay, let's get into entertainment recap. Entertainment recap. Entertainment recap Okay, entertainment recap.

Speaker 1: 59:38

Honestly, i did not watch anything this past week Like I like this past week. I just like every time I hit the hay, like hit the bed, i was just falling asleep. I feel like I had no time to do anything in a good way. I was either out and about in my free time I was like okay. In the morning I was like well, let's go paddle. Or at sunset I was like okay, let's go paddle. So yeah, i just feel like I literally didn't have the opportunity to watch anything.

Speaker 1: 1:00:06

That being said, love Island started two nights ago and I need to figure out if Trevor can find a way for me to watch it live. But I feel like every time I try to watch it live, i like can't get into it for some reason. I don't know I'm debating, or if I wait till, i think, in September, it comes out on Hey You, which seems like so long from now, but then you watch it live with all the Canadian people. I don't know, i don't know, i haven't decided. So maybe I'll watch the first episode and decide if I'm going to watch it now or if I'm going to even just wait and watch it later. We'll see, we'll see. But I've been still watching Desperate Housewives.

Speaker 1: 1:00:45

I feel like this season started off with a boom. This is the one where they like went five years plus And you're kind of like figuring out what happened in the past five years, and then it kind of lulled and now it's back. So I'm watching it still, but slowly. Or and then I did watch the summer house reunions, both parts, oh my gosh, i just feel like the whole Danielle, and I feel like every week I can remember one of their names, not the other, and Lindsay drama. It's just like at the end they ended it by saying like I think you both are being so passion filled because you both have so much feeling towards it. But I just feel like Danielle's done everything to like make it clear that she wants to continue this relationship and Lindsay's done everything to feel like you are not a good friend, you're not been a good friend to me and like make it so much of a bigger deal than it is, and I don't know That just like is off putting to me. It makes me feel like I hope that they're, if they do continue their friendship, that Danielle holds her in a different value spot, because I don't think that she deserves to own as much of her life or like she deserves to take as much of like her life up. Like I'm not saying that they can't be friends and of course they can do whatever they want, but I just feel like Danielle will not be worth as much to Lindsay as Danielle will make Lindsay worth to her, and I don't want her to have an unfair relationship. So yeah, other than that, it was a good reunion. I felt like everyone had their things to say and there was a lot of apologizing and grace given at point. So, yeah, it was good.

Speaker 1: 1:02:25

And then I'm back to watching below deck, sailing out. I caught up and, oh my gosh, we finally got to the part where Daisy and Colin made out and I literally the whole time was like this If you're watching on YouTube, like I literally was covering my mouth wide open, like it wasn't even like anything, like they were just making out, but like I was literally and I knew it was going to happen because they showed it in a preview at one point but I was actually like oh my gosh, like I was speechless, i was like freaking out. I was like oh my gosh. Anyways, i'm just excited we've gotten to that part and I really just like Gary just always gives me the egg and he's just like he's just like such a little horn dog and I feel like he just wants attention from everyone and he's just like a little playboy and Daisy's too good for that. So, yeah, he has a really good stuff coming out and I feel like they're growing up to do. But Colin, i just like can't believe it. So that was really exciting, but that's really all I've been watching.

Speaker 1: 1:03:25

I feel like there's so much stuff coming out this month and also on Netflix I've been wanting to watch Firefly Lane and oh my gosh, there's so much good stuff coming out. I follow my friend Jass on Tiktok JAS. She does like film and TV reviews and all that content and she's amazing. You should go follow her. But she always gives like a monthly recap of everything that's coming up that we're looking forward to, and I just watched her on Thursday and I'm like, oh my gosh, there's so much good stuff coming out. Like what am I gonna have the time to watch it all? so I'm really looking forward to the content month ahead but also trying to figure out like what I'm gonna fit that in. I also have been reading Old Enough by Hailey, who sent it to me in a PR package which was like the best PR package ever.

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I've been reading so slowly. I feel like I could easily just like sit down and read it, but I just have not had the opportunity to. But I've been really enjoying ingesting like a couple chapters here and there and it is totally. I feel like it's gonna set me into my like reading era again. I feel like I always am up and down with my reading, but you know how much I love it's a coming of age age novel and it's really. I just know it's gonna be powerful. I'm already I'm only a few chapters in it can feel the power that it holds and it's based for like college 20 year olds, coming of age, which is like reflect me there. But anyways, i just feel like it's gonna turn me on to my summer reads and all of the other things that I'm gonna be reading and I just am really looking forward to that era. So, anyways, that's where we're at.

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We have finally made it to the end of the podcast. This is a long one and we've had so many ups and downs, but the power outage was really a down and down one. It is almost. It is five to eight and I need to get up, get dressed and have something to eat, because I've only drank my beverages so far, so that when I come home from dropping off row, i am energized and cleaning the house. Please check in with me on IG, confirm that I am cleaning, that I am tidying and that I am vibing to music, because I need accountability. I need to do this so that I can feel good and move on with the my life and stop thinking about okay, i need to clean, i need to clean, i need to clean. I love you all so much. That being said, i also remembering that I have a load of laundry in the washing machine from two days ago, so I need to run that through again and pop it into the dryer. It's towels, and towels are so satisfying to fold, so that's a good thing.

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But thank you so much for being here. I feel like this episode was a little bippity, boppity, boo all over the place, but that's what we get for our morning episodes and also I feel like that's what we get here. It's just gals hanging out. Well, it's not just gals, it's whoever you are, it's just a bunch of cuties hanging out, chillax and vibing and spending some time with each other. honestly, i am so grateful for the opportunity to do this. It means so much to me. These moments and these podcasts, the connections that come in the conversations after, are so powerful over my life and I am so grateful for each and every one of you. So thank you so much for being here. Come follow me over on all the other platforms at five years time podcast. I love you all so much. Sunny, you love hugs and kisses for the rest of the week. Happy June. Oh yeah, this is our first episode of you love ya. Bye you.