July 31, 2025 • 44 mins
What happens when two moms decide to open up the confession booth and reveal the weird, embarrassing, and utterly human moments that most people keep hidden? This episode takes us behind the curtain of perfectly curated mom lives into the realm of strange habits we've never outgrown and mortifying moments we've tried to forget.
From the startling admission of a lifelong Bath & Body Works obsession (complete with an elaborate three-layer scenting ritual) to the hilarious story of mistaking vitamin-induced nausea for pregnancy, Claire and Jill share the kind of confessions that will have you nodding in recognition or breathing a sigh of relief that you're not alone in your quirks. We delve into the questionable skincare "routines" of our college years, the creative excuses we've crafted for being late to work, and how we've all pushed the expiration dates on medications further than we'd like to admit.
The conversation takes surprising turns as they discuss forming deep friendships with people they've only met through social media, particularly bonding over shared interests like reality TV shows. There's something incredibly refreshing about hearing two grown women acknowledge the strange contradictions in their lives – like being meticulous about children's medicine expiration dates while ignoring their own, or presenting a professional image at work while harboring memories of outrageous college behavior.
Whether you're folding laundry, running errands, or hiding in your car for a moment of peace, this episode offers the perfect blend of humor, relatability, and the gentle reminder that behind every put-together mom is a human with quirks, questionable past choices, and weird habits they've never quite outgrown. Leave a review, share with a friend, or tag @the.columbiamom on Instagram to join the conversation about your own weird confessions!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey friends and welcome to mom talk, maryland.
I'm your host, claire Duarte,founder of the Columbia mom, and
this is your spot for realconversations, local love and a
whole lot of community.
Whether you're folding laundry,running errands or hiding in
your car for some peace andquiet, let's dive in all right.
So Welcome to lucid thoughtswith Claire.
(00:21):
My random thought andinspiration for this was just
weird confessions.
Okay, we did mom confessionsbefore, but this is kind of an
offshoot, right.
I was just kind of like,actually I was talking with Emma
, our intern, yesterday.
Where were we?
We were just, oh, we werechecking out a farmer's market
and I literally, oh, because Iguess I was talking about just
(00:42):
podcast ideas.
And I was like, oh, guess I wastalking about just podcast
ideas.
And I was like, oh, my god, um,I just started thinking of just
like random weird things and Iwas like you know what, let's
just open up a little likepseudo confessional.
I feel like you've got somepretty good raw ones that I
can't.
I don't know, this could takesome really weird and and or uh
bad turns.
(01:03):
This could also be my pointwhere I'm like mom, please don't
listen to this one, orsomething yeah, I don't know if
anybody wants to listen to someof the things I have and maybe
even my husband too, probably,um, but uh, yeah.
So yeah, like before, like Ifeel like the mom one is like
pretty, like I would say like apretty vanilla one, a pretty,
like you know, pretty common forfor us like you know, more
(01:23):
screen or things we're talkingabout, like things we said we
never do like
Speaker 2 (01:26):
extra screen time or lots of junk, or saying like um,
oh, the dog, ate that toy oh orate like that homework paper
that they thought I was going tosave forever and I actually
just had thrown it out in thetrash, exactly.
I think that's normal.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Exactly.
I was like that's pretty likestandard for like mom stuff.
So what I was thinking, I didlike write some notes to myself.
So these are like some prettyjust like either, just like
stupid, just like dumb isms ofmy life, just random offshoots
that I'm sure know and Iprobably don't really want
people to relate.
(02:04):
I don't want you to have hadthe same experience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, but I also feel like the things we did,
especially like some of ourcollege years Yikes, are just
like oh my god, I did that too.
Moments for people.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah.
Oh for sure.
I mean like again, like Ihaven't even gotten into it yet,
but like college ones like thisisn't what I would call like
embarrassing.
It's like you know, none of uswore jackets to the bars ever.
I mean you're from New York,Maybe you did, but like up and
down Maryland, like we were justbasically like half naked in
heels, like none of us worejackets, and the other time,
like like North Face stolen fromthe bar, so it was no jacket,
(02:43):
so that we could just strut ourstuff regardless of the weather.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, we my friends and I typically didn't care
really we wore our jackets orsweatshirts or anything because
we were in.
It was big enough, but smallenough where, like, and a lot of
us were athletes- at the school, so people knew us no matter
what.
So we didn't really care.
And that's really funny becausemy cousin, who I went to
(03:07):
college with, who's like one ofmy best friends, we to this day
also make fun of her because shewouldn't just like go out in a
jacket, she would go out in likethe most unflattering jacket,
sweater situation, but also haveit zipped up all the way and
sometimes the hood up and likethe the next morning we would be
like Liz, um, she's like, justtell me it wasn't zipped up all
(03:31):
the way tell me it wasn't likeno
Speaker 1 (03:34):
it was zipped up all the way and, like you, were
hiding like lurking likesomething crazy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Um, but yeah, no, we definitely.
It was a different time, though, too I think time yeah you also
like a 50 degree night?
Where I went to college was aheat wave so then we would be
like okay, we're out in our likelittle jean skirts that were
very popular then, and my god,our belted waist situations.
(04:03):
Yeah, oh god, you couldprobably pull it off.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You're a lot taller than I am, but, um, I didn't
mean for this to be like a slewon, like let's go down college
years, but it probably willsnowball into that, whatever you
know.
Um, okay, so wait, let me goback to a few of my notes,
because I was like I know I'mnot gonna remember all these,
but like some, like I said, someof them were just like dumb and
weird, but the best one wasokay.
The idea came from me.
(04:27):
I was like talking with Emma,our intern, who's only 19.
I said to her, um, expectingfull cringe.
Um, when I said this to her andI was like, I was like
confession.
I was like I have never phasedout of using the Bath and Body
Works body spray since middleschool.
I was like let me preface this,I don't have the ones from
middle school, lord knows.
I finished those, along withthe roll on body glitter.
(04:51):
You're a real OG if you did theroll on body glitter, yeah,
glitter.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
There's some songs still to this day that take me
back to roll on body glitter andglitter nail polish.
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I can still smell it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, are you a country apple girly, or what was
it?
Juniper breeze, juniper breeze.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I was a cucumber melon, cucumber melon, cucumber
melon.
When they brought that back Iwas like, oh, y'all don't even
know, but I, oh my God, I stillgo hard for a body spray, but it
like I'm very specific to body,to bath and body works.
I don't like the random cvsbody sprays.
Uh-huh, um, I and don't get mewrong, I have my big girl
(05:33):
perfumes, I have them.
And here's I still okay, mylike getting ready.
Like I put on deodorant, Ispray body splash.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do like the little, like circle body splash it in,
or like spray it and then runthrough it.
I both I have to do a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It goes like on here and then, like you spray it like
kind of into my body and I kindof like walk into it and then I
put the perfume on top.
Oh so I'm a triple threat.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, okay, deodorant body spray and all those scents
Like I've never noticed yousmelling bad, so I guess it all
works.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I was going to say, or, like I said, be very
threatening I'm here tooverpower you.
You'll smell her coming youdon't see her coming, you'll
just smell her coming.
That's how much I'm trying tomask the odor.
Maybe there was a method to themadness.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I never really my mom would get migraines from
scents.
So growing up, I never reallyhad like the scented body bath
and body work stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I mean that's probably to say it's like
healthier for you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, I was a Clinique happy girly, like when
I could like sneak it on myselfum hard, but like so brendan,
which this could be a wholeepisode itself so um my husband
brendan can't smell or tasteanything, and that's not just
like from COVID.
So I joked like he was.
(07:03):
He was victim number one, yeah.
Like he was like patient zero.
So he can't smell or taste, solike when I I don't.
I have one.
It's called flower bomb.
Oh yeah, that I like randomlyfound through a Sephoraora, like
(07:24):
free trial thing so I like thelittle travel one where, just
like a quick spray I love, buthe always jokes.
He's like why are you sprayingperfume, like when we're having
a random?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
he's like who is this for?
I'm like it's because I want tosmell.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like the smell.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
He can't even even like perfume.
That's like really strong.
I mean, I don't expect him tosmell a lot no, he can't,
literally can't smell or tasteanything.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He can feel like a burn, like if he like back in
the day, like if he was doingshots, because people always
like say like doing shots.
He's like I can feel like aburn and like if we do wine
tasting, for instance, like hecan like he'll feel like the red
wines are like more acidic orsomething, but like no, and
(08:06):
going wine tasting with this manis so fun because he will like
quickly read descriptions andbottles and see like what should
be paired with.
So he'll be like talking to thewine person and be like so this
would be like really well, likewhat do you think?
Like a steak or a burger, and Iknow what he's doing.
(08:28):
So I find it entertainingBecause he's like masking
himself, so he doesn't like outhimself, which is what I would
do.
Yeah, so I mean so with scents.
He's always like why, what?
Or like I'll come home andhe'll have like the most random
concoction of candles burningand I'm like, yeah, what, what
(08:52):
is happening?
So I have to be like I hide,yeah, the candles from him that
should not be burning.
Yeah now, for instance, like wedon't need like warm apple
crisp burning, but he wouldn'tthink about that.
Love you no.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I just hide stuff.
That's so funny.
So yeah, so that.
So body spray is like still onmy list.
It's still part of my arsenal,literally when I run low, I
still go back and get them rightnow.
And if you cared to know um, Ilike, um, what's the one?
It's like champagne somethingchampagne toast, champagne toast
(09:33):
.
I love that candle champagne,toast and gingham are like my
two favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, Someone.
I was actually just somewherethey had champagne toast for
their um soap and I was likeI'll just be here for a little
bit oh yeah, I know the soapsmelling it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I know um, I mean, it's funny.
I saw the best post I needed todo and it was like sorry, just
random offshoot of, like youknow, uh, I do, like you know,
all non-tox products but, likeyou know, burn my Bath Body
Works candle.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So whoopsies, yeah.
So Bath Body Works was one.
Another one that I thought wasthat I had to chuckle at for
myself is obviously like in my20s I had no sense of skin care.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh no.
Like at all.
I mean, these girls nowadaysare so lucky.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh my God.
Well, it's problematic becauseour daughter's going to be like
in.
Ulta like tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh yeah, no, Emily's already there.
I walked by her room the otherday and she had a face mask on.
I was like, hey, she put it on.
Yeah, so she's sitting there ather like little desk and chair
and she's seven and I see herjust like this.
(10:50):
I go, hey, babe, what you doing?
She's like I can't talk.
I see she turns to me and has aface mask on.
I'm like, okay.
I'm like I hope that's not oneof my face masks and she's like
no, I got this at Ulta becausemy niece took her.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh gosh, I was like awesome, okay, oh, my god, I
mean I know that like she'sgotten a few in like some like
birthday bag, which is like kindof cute.
Um, I mean Brooke, I had noidea she taught herself how to
paint her fingers and toes, yeah, and um, luckily, most of it's
like I don't know if it's alllike non-talks with the stuff
that like peels off or whatever,but I was really embarrassed.
(11:25):
I mean, luckily it was like mybest friend, like from college,
but like she had, um, she hasthree girls now and um, brooke
immediately um took the girls toher room and we just thought
they were playing.
And then she comes downstairsand Brooke had painted and the
two girls are, um, younger thanher.
They're like five and three, soa couple years younger than
brooke.
She had painted all of theirnails and I was like and I felt
(11:48):
I mean again, it's like my bestfriend, she doesn't care, and
like they were all.
But I was like, I felt like badas a parent.
I was like slightly mortified, Iwas like because you know, if
it was anybody else, I wouldlike ask the parent yeah that's
okay, you know, and I probablywouldn't have them doing on the
car in the carpeted bedroom,because I have horror stories
from my childhood of we've allmade those mistakes oh yes, um,
(12:10):
actually random sidebar.
I remember going on vacationwith one of our best friends and
she and I were painting ournails and we spilled um,
accidentally knocked a bottle ofnail polish remover oh no, on a
table oh, it effed that tablebig time, big, big, big time and
I, I had no idea.
We had no idea because, like, assoon as you try to clean it up,
(12:30):
it just oh yeah and it was alot, it was a big ass spot, I
mean, and we got, we got rippedand they were all like right
there when it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
But um yeah, so sorry , random nail polish tangent and
my funny nail polish momentwith my kids is, you know, you
see those memes where you'relike, oh, the kids are quiet, is
it a good thing or a bad thing?
And I think I had just recentlyhad Logan, so he was like baby,
(13:01):
baby mode and I think I had amoment of like I was able to
fold some clothes and get somelaundry done and Brendan had run
out and Emily and Ryan wereplaying together and they were
quiet.
So I was like sweet, yeah,they're playing, yeah next thing
, I know Ryan comes into my roomand his face had been face
painted with nail polish.
(13:23):
So I mean, it was like the nailpolish that peels heels.
I was just gonna um, but he hada full colorful range of colors
because she had gotten like apack, like a, these nail
polishes, oh my god.
(13:43):
And they were so proud ofthemselves.
Oh, no doubt.
And and and then, like a fewdays later, I said something
about um, like you know, doing aface painting, she's like, but
not with nail polish.
I'm like, no, correct my girl,no, no, and I was like, oh my
god.
So of course I had to likeclean him up before Brendan got
(14:05):
home, so that it just like Ihope you got a picture oh, I
sure did oh, we're gonna, oh, Ishould yeah.
I will definitely send it so wecan pop that in so proud of
himself too seriously, oh my god, I would be slightly mortified
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I guess that's the one thing like Grant is like so
sensory, like driven, that likehe he's I don't think he's ever
had his face painted, which kindof makes my mama heart a little
sad, which.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm gonna ignore that .
It took Emily a while.
She used to just do her hands.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh yeah, you mentioned that.
Yeah, brooke's always obsessed,but um, okay, so, but that was
my back to your skincareskincare.
Sorry, let's circle back.
So I okay.
My skincare regimen consistedof, like you know, I knew that I
was told to wash my face.
I mean, how often did we washour face in college?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Never.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right, um so, uh, like washing our face and
brushing our teeth likesuggestions.
You know what I mean.
Like they were always on thenext morning.
You know what I mean.
Um so, yeah, I washed my face,but then you know, like.
You know like, oh, my skin skinfeels all tight and dry, like I
knew I needed something.
I don't know what came over me.
I like just got in this likehabit of using like aloe,
(15:12):
because I was like using it fromand I was like, oh, it smells
really good.
I was like aloe, aloe soundslike it's good for your skin.
Like aloe like an after sun aloelotion, like the gel, yes, and
that became like my moisturizerfor several years in college and
(15:33):
then shortly after.
So and I the the my confessionpart here is I mean that but I
like literally rememberspecifically going to a
dermatologist and when theyasked me about my like skincare
regimen because I was, I havereally sensitive skin and I have
all these things so I was inthere for a legitimate something
and, um, I was like, yeah, Iuse aloe and I felt so proud of
myself and they were like oh,okay, okay, and like gave me
(15:56):
some samples.
But it's just like the funnymoment in my brain that I
literally felt so proud to tellthis doctor oh, I use aloe as my
moisturizer.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think I was a um.
I never had a skincare routine,probably until I was like 27
and I was like, oh, maybe Imight get proposed to and I
might be in a wedding.
I need like something, um, butI only was using like the, using
like the Clinique clarifyinglotion.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I feel like that doesn't sound bad though.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, but just that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Like no cleanser.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I wouldn't like wash my face beforehand, I just would
like cotton ball boop, boop,boop, like, or you know, do it
and then do this.
And I don't even think I putlike lotion moisturizer on my
face, like nothing, it was justtoner it.
And then do this, and I don'teven think I put like lotion
moisturizer on my face, likenothing, it was just toner.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And I thought that was like oh, eye makeup remover
okay, I was like how are yougetting the makeup off?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
yeah and here's a fun little tip I do um baby shampoo
for my makeup remover yeah, youcan do like when I was having
some eye issues last year.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I had to use for not the whole time, but I had to
start by doing um, a little bitof like the gentle baby stuff,
um, yeah, like, um.
So yeah, that can definitely beused.
But yeah, I sometimes look back.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm like, oh, imagine if I knew, like, what I was
doing back in the day.
Oh my God, I wouldn't look likeRight.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All the things.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, um.
So my next one, that is, mynext confession.
That I think I think is prettyfunny.
Um was so I, I, I think I gotsomewhat decent at taking
vitamins through college, butthey were probably like the
gummies or I don't know.
I wasn't like super consistent,but I think I was decent.
(17:50):
I was like, oh, I feel like Ishould you know what I mean, and
I forget if they were eitherthe gummies or swallow ones or
probably like a mixture of that,but I remember I made an
appointment.
I was like 22.
I had just graduated college.
I'm pretty sure it was thatsummer.
I was 22, 23, but I rememberbeing home.
So I think I and I lived athome that summer after college
(18:12):
and then I moved out, so, um, soit must've been 22, and I, um,
had just started dating Richardagain, um, or somewhere around
that.
And, um, I made an appointmentto see my see an OBGYN.
Cause I freaked out because Ithrew up one morning and I was
terrified and I was like, oh myGod.
(18:33):
Like I might be pregnant, and soI'm just walking you through
the logic of my brain.
Guys, I didn't even take apregnancy test, I just made an
appointment to go see the doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's better than just ignoring it and then finding
out months later you're pregnant.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So I get there and I'm like half terrified.
I was like I think I might bepregnant because I threw up and
I think it might be morningsickness.
And then he's asking me thesequestions.
I'm sure they probably had mepeeing a cup, I guess, yeah.
And I'm like terrified becauseI'm like fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck.
You know what I mean.
And he's like asking me aboutwhat medications I'm on and I,
you know again, I'm 22.
So I probably take like onewhich is a multivitamin.
(19:17):
And he was like you know, and Itold him like he's like first
thing in the morning when youwake up, I was like yeah, he's
like, are you having breakfast?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
and I was like well, later he was like that is why
you're throwing up.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, so to be.
And then, like, sure enough,you go home and read the bottle.
It says take with the meal.
And I was like oh, and likeit's funny because now to this
day, I mean, obviously I likewalked out so happy and like
felt like a world class idiot.
But like now, if I I'm actuallysometimes nervous to take my,
my multi, because I get, I'mvery I shouldn't say sensitive
(19:59):
to it, but if, like I know thatlike a half, a single bite of
banana I know is going to makeme is not enough and I will hurl
it up if I don't have more inmy stomach.
So I just like try to make sure,and I love breakfast.
I am not shy about my breakfast.
I will plow through somebreakfast, but I'm always like I
just know I have to time it,yeah Right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, I've never had that problem, probably because I
don't take vitamins.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That's the other confession.
How to avoid getting sick?
Just don't take any.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think I mean I tried my best when I was
pregnant to take the prenatalvitamins yeah.
And I definitely told alldoctors that I said yes, every
single day I'm taking a,whatever it's called the
prenatal vitamin, of course yes,yes, no, hardly I was like even
just cleaning out the pantryrecently and I was like, oh,
(21:01):
these are old, like prenatalvitamins I'm like I don't need
these anymore, and I was veryembarrassed to see like most of
the battle was still left.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oops, Oops, you know, I also had healthy kids.
You did yeah, but right, I know.
Well then like with all likethe great stuff, I'm sure with
Emily tooth I'm always like whatthe hell did I do during that
pregnancy was like what the helldid I do during that pregnancy
that made the things different.
We're not going to go down thatroad.
We're definitely not going andthat's probably not a healthy
road for anyone to go down.
But um, that's a side thing,wait.
(21:33):
But I was gonna say, whenyou're talking about meds, um, I
didn't, I either, I didn't know.
It never crossed my mind thatmedications like ibuprofen,
tylenol, kind of like you'rejust your everyday stuff, that
like those expire every fewyears oh yeah yeah, I didn't
(21:55):
know.
Yeah, because like you wouldget like the big old bottle of
like you know thing from costcoI mean
Speaker 2 (22:00):
ibuprofen was like my drug of choice uh-huh, and I
mean I plow through a bottlepretty well, you know what I
mean.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But like my husband one time was looking through,
he's like, oh, this is expired.
And I was like what?
That's a weird thing to say.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But like, but it's, it's still effective.
Right has to be I'm sure it is.
I mean, I feel like don't askdoctors these questions because
they're gonna be like, oh well II guess you know what, though I
also I've looked've looked atmy kids like kids medication
Right when I've been like oh no,I need like something for them,
like a Benadryl or whatever,and it's not something we use
(22:37):
often.
So I have looked at that, yeah,but I don't know if I've ever
looked at like adult.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't think I'd ever had.
No, I'm like adult, that's whatI'm saying.
I don't think I'd ever had.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No, I'm like it's in.
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I got ibuprofen in there oh no, actually my mom has
looked.
Yep, my mom loves to come andvisit.
Like when she comes to visit,we always need, like someone
gets sick, so then she's likethat's an unfortunate oh yeah,
and then it's like this is from,this is from three years ago.
Jill, why is this here?
And I'm like well, because Idon't use it ever.
(23:09):
Like I knew it was in there.
I just I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm not like one to pop, even like a Tylenol or
anything.
I try to like plow through thepain.
Also, probably why I'm in theplace I'm at right now where I'm
kind of like, Ooh, something'shappening to my back.
Well, I know I can my dad's alot like that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Um, but I'm a little mix of both, but I can.
I can totally see that.
Um, wait, hold on.
There was another, oh, thisone's kind of kind of funny, um,
like weird confession where Imy first job out of college I
was working for this law firmand um, oh my god, I forget if I
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actually had car issues.
I think I legitimately was justrunning late and I think I lied
and said um that my car washaving trouble, which, to be
fair, it actually was a reallyold car.
It was like a 2006 or no, itwas older than that.
It was like I had this red volvothat I bought from a friend in
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college and it was yeah, we werea volvo family growing up too,
so when I saw the volvo and itwas red, I was like yeah love a
Volvo.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's so funny.
My first car like outside ofhaving like my parents hand me
downs, was also a red car.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We would be red car girlies.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, totally yeah, and it had like the sparkle to
it.
I thought I was just so awesome.
Oh my God, of course.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I know Well, and I went to Maryland so, like, red's
one of our colors, so I wasalso like pretty jazzed about
that, um, but, um, but yes, itwas definitely an older car and,
um, I'm sure I was like havingpossible issues, but I'm sure on
that morning I actually wasn't,but I still lied because I was
running late and I said and Ithink I said to them that I was
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having car troubles and the guythere was a guy that worked the
front desk at the time, um, andhe was really nice and friendly
and I was explaining to him likewhat had happened.
Oh lord, and he was like, andhe said to me he was like well,
maybe it's the operator.
And I was like, well, no, Ididn't like check, blah, blah,
blah, me knowing I don't knowclearly shit about cars.
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Yeah, and still don't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Um, and he kept saying the operator over and
over again and then he looked atme and he meant like you, yeah,
it's a problem with you I waslike, that's like how dumb I was
, oh my god but I think likethat would be so funny to hear
people's feedback and, like,every single person has made an
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epic excuse as to why theyweren't coming into work, oh, or
why they're running late yeahor like missing class.
My cousin and I um, ourprofessors knew we were cousins
and we like made a lie up about,like, something happening with
our family.
We had to go to albany becauseof this.
(26:12):
We just didn't want to go toclasses that day so really let's
just come up with this story.
Yeah, yeah, it's so bad.
We're like hopefully it's notkarma, right, but like, oh, yeah
, I mean I think like everyoneat some point has done some
crazy oh my God Type of excuse.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And I think it happens more when you're like in
a job you don't love, yeah Tolike Right.
I know, like some jobspreviously, that I didn't love.
I'd be like I don't want to goin today.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What can I say Like how, how?
How can I call out yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
How can I call out or what?
What can I say?
And um, I mean, luckily for me,my one job was down in DC and
if I was late it was because theMetro and that was all over the
news.
So I be like, oh all right,that's covered for me.
You're like, I mean, not, Ididn't add in the fact that I
also left my house, like 20minutes after that I was
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supposed to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's like 8 59 trying to arrive, or you're leaving at
905, trying to arrive at 8 50.
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah totally,yeah, um, well, actually, that
actually reminds me of too um,this isn't so much of like a
confession as it is sort of afunny story, but being late kind
of reminded me of this.
So my junior year of college,um, I lived in our sorority
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house and these were, um, theywere, because it was very I
don't know how, the way that itwas made.
They're like the very heavysort of, like industrial sort of
doors and they close likeautomatically.
I'm talking about our actuallike the bed, like, yeah, I mean
I it was, I shared a room, likewe all shared rooms um, but uh,
(27:58):
yeah, it would like it was veryheavy and it would close
automatically.
So, long story short, I had,like I had my hand on the the
door frame, yeah, and it closed,um, on one of my fingers I
don't remember which one it was,I think it was actually my, my
pointer finger and, um, sorryfor a little like tmi, but like
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blood spot, like it actuallylike spotted like everywhere.
It was crazy it wasn't like aton of blood, it was.
I mean there was a good amountlike a little bit pulling there,
but like to the point that,like when we moved out that
semester, like my, my bestfriend that lived across the
hall, we still found a speck onthe wall in her room, cause the
door was like her door was open.
We're like like, oh my God, itwas very bizarre, anyways.
(28:43):
So, um, and it was like themost pain I'd ever felt and I it
wasn't broken, um, but it I hadlike a very teeny fracture so I
ended up having to get one ofthe little um finger.
Yeah, so it's good.
I mean good like.
So I just had to wear that fora little bit.
Like the swelling was horriblefor a long time but it sucked
because it was right my righthand.
So I literally had to go to Ithink was it called DSS,
(29:07):
department of, like studentservices, to like.
This is again, this is likecirca 08 09 um, where we didn't
have as many of the AI tools,but I had to like request, like
a note taker and things likethat because, like you know, I
even like obviously had a laptop, but like typing was still very
challenging.
You know what I mean so anyway.
So I had legit like passes forclass and school, like
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navigating, you know kind ofgetting some of my work done.
So anyways, giving you thatbackstory, because then fast
forward a semester when I waslate and behind on a paper.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You utilized, you pulled that.
What did I decide to do?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I pulled out the old story and I even put this on my
finger.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You kept the split.
You like, knew you're like Ican use this someday.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Just in case.
Yeah, so not not my proudestmoment.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, I don't know if I've ever done that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, like I said, the point of this is like I
really hope that we can't sharetoo many of these experiences.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I know the audience can definitely share in, like
the crazy excuses they have madefor jobs Like.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I cannot wait to hear that yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I want to hear, like, what excuses people have used,
or like, if you are the boss,people have used, or like, if
you are the boss, what excusesyou get that you know you're
like this is this mothercomplete bs?
Um, I know, like when I've beenin like a lead position and
(30:41):
getting you know the excuses,I'm just like I know it's BS,
but like also like at least youcame, you, you you spent the
time coming up with a cool story.
Yeah, that's true, I'm gonnagive you props for that.
Like, check in with me later.
And also I'm curious, likenowadays, when you come up with
an excuse, because everyone canwork remotely pretty much yeah,
(31:06):
so like do you?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
really even have the time off yeah right like so
you're just home anyways right,right, like I know well, you
know what I was thinking too,because this was bigger,
definitely bigger in my 20s,like obviously before I had kids
when I lived in the city, but Ifeel like it's worked so
perfectly for my audience.
I'm like I want to know.
Uh, give like, if this was aradio show, you'd be like submit
(31:29):
your whatever.
All your crazy excuses that youused to call out for opening day
, because that was a big one andopening day is always around my
birthday, since my birthday isApril 1st.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But, like with a situation like that I mean you
know it's coming, like why can't?
Like?
I guess, like I, brennan tookme to opening day a few this was
pre-kids um, because he told methat like I needed to
experience you do.
Opening day at some point as atransplant, yep, but like you
(32:05):
know that it's coming right, solike, why wouldn't you just
schedule, I see, more of likewhat is the excuse for the day
after?
no, I definitely want the dayoff, I definitely want that day,
but like um, but schedule itoff and then probably the next
day, you're like, I'll be ableto go to work, so, so it's like
what confession, like what?
(32:26):
Well, so I mean, at least forme in my twenties this is me not
being from the area- so I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, okay, I mean, yeah, everyone, I mean opening
day is well, at least a half day.
You definitely don't like youcan still work the morning or
something like that.
But at least what I rememberfrom me, like back in my
twenties and stuff like that.
I was like I had so little daysoff that I always knew five of
those were for my summervacation.
Okay, and I always like to dothe math.
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I always like to use the otherfive for Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Okay, because it also dependedon, because that was also like I
had to use, because my officewould still be open on the
Friday of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Okay, so I would need to use a like save a single day
for that Um and or Wednesday.
If I could do the math, youknow, have the Wednesday off,
cause I also, when I lived inTowson, I had to drive from
Towson down to Montgomery County.
So oh ouch, Exactly so.
That's why I like what do youcall pto yeah, math, you know
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what I mean.
So, taking a, single day offyeah or opening day was annoying
because it effed with myholiday days off, so you only
had a sick day.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Were they separate?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
yes, okay, because I feel like, yeah, you would get
like 10 pto, five sick days, umso yeah, so it was trying, it
was like leaning on some kind oflike sick thing.
But it's just so funny because,especially in baltimore, like
other probably cities, it's likeeveryone fucking knows that
it's opening day, yeah, yeah andso there's so you fall into two
categories.
You either you're the personthat you put in pto for it, or
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you just come up with a coolreason why you're not going to
work.
Basically, everybody knows likeyeah, yeah okay, no, that makes
sense.
I guess I wasn't thinking oflike younger years of not having
yeah, like all the time yeahyeah, now again, now that with
people that work from homeprobably so much easier to just
like whatever.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
But at least that was, that wasa situation then.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah okay, okay.
I mean I know I've definitelyhave called in like I'm obsessed
with Bravo TV and reality TV soI'm sure at some point in my
life I've been like I can'tattend an event, work something,
because I just wanted to likebinge watch episodes of my
(34:51):
housewives or like binge watchsomething that came out on
Netflix because I'm.
I don't have the time to dothat anymore, but oh, I'm tired
tonight and I just go upstairsand like watch three hours of
Netflix.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh, my god, I love it .
I know's just like we need thesilence.
We so need the silence, youknow yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I always say like I don't do drugs, I don't smoke
Well clearly you don't I don't,yeah, I don't even take a
vitamin.
I mean I like a gummy here andthere.
Who doesn't, that's right, Idon't gamble.
I mean Maryland live is.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
We gamble our health.
Yeah, so close I know.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
So I like my drug of choice is reality TV.
Bad reality TV too, yeah, andI'm I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, I well.
It's funny cause like it's likelove Island season right now
and I used to be hooked on Love.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Island.
That's actually one I've nevergotten into really believe it or
not.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, oh, I think the problem is now like I feel like
the older we get, that gapbetween us and yeah, their age
is getting bigger.
So now it's like, oh, how muchdo I want to be watching these
like 19, 20 year olds yeah, no,it does get weird, like
sometimes, of watching likeyoung kids, like kids.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah, now I'm like oh , if we're like.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I remember when season one, when it came to the
us, because I guess it's big inthe uk yeah, like that it was
always big there for a long time.
But yeah, when I first startedhere I was oh, I was on it, we
were and I was.
I was probably like 30, but nowI'm like I'm good and thought
process, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Going back to the pregnancy story, yeah, were you
the type that, like alwaysgrowing up, you're like I'm
getting married and having kids.
Or were you like, because youfreaked out and you were back
with Richard, you probably knew,like, okay, we're back together
, this is going to be it?
Were you like freaking outbecause you just you're too
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young or you didn't want kids?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
freaking out because too young.
Yeah, like we.
Yeah, when we got back togetherafter college we both knew like
this is it.
Yeah, and we don't like.
And but yeah, like I was, youknow, still living at home, you
know I was like barely had.
I was, you know, still livingat home.
You know I was like barely hadtwo pennies, you know to uh, to
rub together, so it was morefreaked out of like I have zero
money and I'm living at homeLike, yes, like I'm with this
guy, but, oh my God, no, we,yeah, we always like.
(37:24):
we always said like even when hewas in dental school, like when
we both like and I was likeworking, but I still wasn't
making much.
But you know what I mean.
We were like if we always saidlike you know, if we had an
oopsie, like we could make itwork.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
It would be stressful,obviously.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, you know, and that's kind of as we got older,
that's sort of how like how wefelt, and then like there was a
period of my life where I waslike I'm good, like I don't want
to be married and I definitelydon't want to have kids that's
funny and then I met Brendanit's all about the right person,
(38:00):
and I was like oh, okay, and Iremember like one of our first,
like not arguments but likeserious talks it was like only a
couple weeks into dating and hemade a comment like not wanting
to have kids and it liketriggered me and I was like,
wait, wait, wait.
What you don't want to that,that doesn't change usually,
like if you're set on it and youvocalize that to your partner,
(38:24):
like I don't want to have kids.
I feel like that's somethingyou're not going to change right
so I was like, wait, what youdon't want to have kids then I
don't know if I want to do thisis that what?
Changed you um?
I think well, I just like metso he and no, he was like no, I
do want to have kids.
I don't even remember, like thecontext of like what it was.
(38:45):
But then I realized I was likewait, no, I want to have kids,
but I want to have kids with himyeah.
I don't know about any of theseother fools, right.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I was gonna say did Brendan feel too old?
But I was like that's a feeltoo young.
But I was like wait, he's olderthan you too.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
So well, and that was the other thing.
He's eight years older than me,so I'm like I'm 20 I don't
remember how, what age I waswhen we met but like 26, 27 and
I'm like all right, he's thirdin his 30s, so like I think at
this point, like if he's like Idon't want to have kids, that's
not going to change at thispoint right, right I would.
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I would have assumed somethinglike that too but yeah, then
he's like no, I want to havefour kids.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I was like whoa I always wanted four too I was
always a three person see, Ididn't love the, even the I like
.
Well, four is my lucky number.
Four is my lucky number, myfavorite number.
I want a five.
So I and I come from a giantfamily like 30 first cousins,
like yeah um and rich comes froma big family too.
(39:47):
But we've already gone downthis rabbit hole of yeah, we did
the how the child care, math,child math, yeah, math the way
it did, yes, but yeah, yeah, sothat's.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I mean, that's like a little confession, but my
reality tv and we love yourreality.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I do I do, it's my little, you do keep us up to
date on a lot of things, andthat's very helpful.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
yeah, yeah, I'm like the pop culture.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I joke around, I say this is how I do God's work.
Yeah, by putting out funnyinformation on my Instagram
stories.
I don't have an Instagramaccount.
Like people have asked me.
They're like you should have,like a broad, like your
Instagram should be like a Bravofans or like pop culture fans.
I'm like should, but that's alot of work.
(40:34):
It's a lot of work and I justlike blooping it out onto
stories here, there, becausethat's better, that's easier for
me, um, and people are funnieron the internet than I could
ever imagine being and you knowwhat, and it's like you know,
let let them do it.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Like they're good at it and youget to share the highlights,
yeah, them do it.
Yeah, you know what I mean likethey're good at it and you get
to share the highlights, yeah,of their work.
Yeah, like if we had it, likeif we had a column on pop pop
culture, yeah, you would be ourqueen, yeah a mom at school, um,
who I never would have thoughtwas into bravo tv at all, came
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up to me one time.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
She's like your stories are just like keeps me
in the loop, like that's when Iknow I need to watch this new
episode or that a new episode'sdropping or this drama's going
on, and I was like, oh, my god,I go, thank you.
I was like you know how you'realways here at school doing
everything and involved, andthat's like your way of like
(41:31):
doing god's work yeah medelivering pop culture news.
That's right, bravo,information.
That is how I do god's work.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
She died laughing also, I think she was like I
don't know if I'll ever talk toher again, but I also feel that
way, not even about my business,but literally about memes, like
I, when I'm scrolling throughlike here's, like I have, and
you know who you are.
Actually there's a couple, butthere's one specifically.
(42:02):
I haven't actually seen her inperson in a year and we have
probably one of the strongestrelationships and we share two
to three minimum one to threereels memes a day.
Oh yeah, and I haven't actuallyseen her in person in probably
a year yeah, I mean, that's thebeauty of social media it's like
, but that, that bond you can'tbreak that you cannot
Speaker 2 (42:23):
no yeah, I totally get it.
There's a few people that Ihaven't seen like I'm one girl I
met at bar class like severalyears ago and we just
communicate through like funnymemes on.
Instagram Kind of a whole like,and I will call her a friend
and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
There's a confession?
Oh, there is.
Oh, it is deeper thanfriendship.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, I'm in like a whole DMV Bravo moms chat group
on Instagram and I legit callthem my friends.
Yeah, because we all like talkbravo, non-bravo stuff, but like
the things we're sending oneanother and I'm like, oh, my
friend and Brendan's like, butyou've never met.
I'm like, but they're myfriends, they are my people,
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they understand me, they're whoI can turn to when I need to
talk about bravo and you don'twant to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Also introverts don't understand what we mean and
what we extroverts mean byfriends, because I think I was
telling you this before like I'ma total friend slut.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Oh yeah, we talked about that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And I was like I don't think you understand.
If I've, if I've come intocontact with you, you're all of
a sudden a friend of mine andall of a sudden I've lost all
boundaries.
I've said everything, I'veovershared yeah and yeah, that's
just how it is so, anyways,well, on that note, I think we
shared lots of fun confession,yeah, and we saved you from too
(43:46):
much of the collegeembarrassment, yeah or some like
way too raw stuff I was like.
I was like we'd go that way, wecould take a serious, we could,
we could, if you want to hearthe real raw crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
But yeah, let me know um, I know I'm deciding how
much, how far behind the curtaindo we go?
Yeah, it's questionable right,right.
So anyways, well, cheers tobeing weird, cheers to well
cheers to being weird.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Cheers to being moms.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Cheers to being extroverts and, you know, maybe
the takeaway is wash your faceand take some vitamins.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Take some vitamins.
I'm ordering some now as wespeak.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
actually, that's my new thing.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I'm going to be a vitamin person as I turn 41.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
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Hey friends and welcome to mom talk, maryland.
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Whether you're folding laundry,running errands or hiding in
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So Welcome to lucid thoughtswith Claire.
(00:21):
My random thought andinspiration for this was just
weird confessions.
Okay, we did mom confessionsbefore, but this is kind of an
offshoot, right.
I was just kind of like,actually I was talking with Emma
, our intern, yesterday.
Where were we?
We were just, oh, we werechecking out a farmer's market
and I literally, oh, because Iguess I was talking about just
(00:42):
podcast ideas.
And I was like, oh, guess I wastalking about just podcast
ideas.
And I was like, oh, my god, um,I just started thinking of just
like random weird things and Iwas like you know what, let's
just open up a little likepseudo confessional.
I feel like you've got somepretty good raw ones that I
can't.
I don't know, this could takesome really weird and and or uh
bad turns.
(01:03):
This could also be my pointwhere I'm like mom, please don't
listen to this one, orsomething yeah, I don't know if
anybody wants to listen to someof the things I have and maybe
even my husband too, probably,um, but uh, yeah.
So yeah, like before, like Ifeel like the mom one is like
pretty, like I would say like apretty vanilla one, a pretty,
like you know, pretty common forfor us like you know, more
(01:23):
screen or things we're talkingabout, like things we said we
never do like
Speaker 2 (01:26):
extra screen time or lots of junk, or saying like um,
oh, the dog, ate that toy oh orate like that homework paper
that they thought I was going tosave forever and I actually
just had thrown it out in thetrash, exactly.
I think that's normal.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Exactly.
I was like that's pretty likestandard for like mom stuff.
So what I was thinking, I didlike write some notes to myself.
So these are like some prettyjust like either, just like
stupid, just like dumb isms ofmy life, just random offshoots
that I'm sure know and Iprobably don't really want
people to relate.
(02:04):
I don't want you to have hadthe same experience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, but I also feel like the things we did,
especially like some of ourcollege years Yikes, are just
like oh my god, I did that too.
Moments for people.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah.
Oh for sure.
I mean like again, like Ihaven't even gotten into it yet,
but like college ones like thisisn't what I would call like
embarrassing.
It's like you know, none of uswore jackets to the bars ever.
I mean you're from New York,Maybe you did, but like up and
down Maryland, like we were justbasically like half naked in
heels, like none of us worejackets, and the other time,
like like North Face stolen fromthe bar, so it was no jacket,
(02:43):
so that we could just strut ourstuff regardless of the weather.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, we my friends and I typically didn't care
really we wore our jackets orsweatshirts or anything because
we were in.
It was big enough, but smallenough where, like, and a lot of
us were athletes- at the school, so people knew us no matter
what.
So we didn't really care.
And that's really funny becausemy cousin, who I went to
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college with, who's like one ofmy best friends, we to this day
also make fun of her because shewouldn't just like go out in a
jacket, she would go out in likethe most unflattering jacket,
sweater situation, but also haveit zipped up all the way and
sometimes the hood up and likethe the next morning we would be
like Liz, um, she's like, justtell me it wasn't zipped up all
(03:31):
the way tell me it wasn't likeno
Speaker 1 (03:34):
it was zipped up all the way and, like you, were
hiding like lurking likesomething crazy, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Um, but yeah, no, we definitely.
It was a different time, though, too I think time yeah you also
like a 50 degree night?
Where I went to college was aheat wave so then we would be
like okay, we're out in our likelittle jean skirts that were
very popular then, and my god,our belted waist situations.
(04:03):
Yeah, oh god, you couldprobably pull it off.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You're a lot taller than I am, but, um, I didn't
mean for this to be like a slewon, like let's go down college
years, but it probably willsnowball into that, whatever you
know.
Um, okay, so wait, let me goback to a few of my notes,
because I was like I know I'mnot gonna remember all these,
but like some, like I said, someof them were just like dumb and
weird, but the best one wasokay.
The idea came from me.
(04:27):
I was like talking with Emma,our intern, who's only 19.
I said to her, um, expectingfull cringe.
Um, when I said this to her andI was like, I was like
confession.
I was like I have never phasedout of using the Bath and Body
Works body spray since middleschool.
I was like let me preface this,I don't have the ones from
middle school, lord knows.
I finished those, along withthe roll on body glitter.
(04:51):
You're a real OG if you did theroll on body glitter, yeah,
glitter.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
There's some songs still to this day that take me
back to roll on body glitter andglitter nail polish.
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I can still smell it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, are you a country apple girly, or what was
it?
Juniper breeze, juniper breeze.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I was a cucumber melon, cucumber melon, cucumber
melon.
When they brought that back Iwas like, oh, y'all don't even
know, but I, oh my God, I stillgo hard for a body spray, but it
like I'm very specific to body,to bath and body works.
I don't like the random cvsbody sprays.
Uh-huh, um, I and don't get mewrong, I have my big girl
(05:33):
perfumes, I have them.
And here's I still okay, mylike getting ready.
Like I put on deodorant, Ispray body splash.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do like the little, like circle body splash it in,
or like spray it and then runthrough it.
I both I have to do a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It goes like on here and then, like you spray it like
kind of into my body and I kindof like walk into it and then I
put the perfume on top.
Oh so I'm a triple threat.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, okay, deodorant body spray and all those scents
Like I've never noticed yousmelling bad, so I guess it all
works.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I was going to say, or, like I said, be very
threatening I'm here tooverpower you.
You'll smell her coming youdon't see her coming, you'll
just smell her coming.
That's how much I'm trying tomask the odor.
Maybe there was a method to themadness.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I never really my mom would get migraines from
scents.
So growing up, I never reallyhad like the scented body bath
and body work stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I mean that's probably to say it's like
healthier for you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, I was a Clinique happy girly, like when
I could like sneak it on myselfum hard, but like so brendan,
which this could be a wholeepisode itself so um my husband
brendan can't smell or tasteanything, and that's not just
like from COVID.
So I joked like he was.
(07:03):
He was victim number one, yeah.
Like he was like patient zero.
So he can't smell or taste, solike when I I don't.
I have one.
It's called flower bomb.
Oh yeah, that I like randomlyfound through a Sephoraora, like
(07:24):
free trial thing so I like thelittle travel one where, just
like a quick spray I love, buthe always jokes.
He's like why are you sprayingperfume, like when we're having
a random?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
he's like who is this for?
I'm like it's because I want tosmell.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like the smell.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
He can't even even like perfume.
That's like really strong.
I mean, I don't expect him tosmell a lot no, he can't,
literally can't smell or tasteanything.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He can feel like a burn, like if he like back in
the day, like if he was doingshots, because people always
like say like doing shots.
He's like I can feel like aburn and like if we do wine
tasting, for instance, like hecan like he'll feel like the red
wines are like more acidic orsomething, but like no, and
(08:06):
going wine tasting with this manis so fun because he will like
quickly read descriptions andbottles and see like what should
be paired with.
So he'll be like talking to thewine person and be like so this
would be like really well, likewhat do you think?
Like a steak or a burger, and Iknow what he's doing.
(08:28):
So I find it entertainingBecause he's like masking
himself, so he doesn't like outhimself, which is what I would
do.
Yeah, so I mean so with scents.
He's always like why, what?
Or like I'll come home andhe'll have like the most random
concoction of candles burningand I'm like, yeah, what, what
(08:52):
is happening?
So I have to be like I hide,yeah, the candles from him that
should not be burning.
Yeah now, for instance, like wedon't need like warm apple
crisp burning, but he wouldn'tthink about that.
Love you no.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So I just hide stuff.
That's so funny.
So yeah, so that.
So body spray is like still onmy list.
It's still part of my arsenal,literally when I run low, I
still go back and get them rightnow.
And if you cared to know um, Ilike, um, what's the one?
It's like champagne somethingchampagne toast, champagne toast
(09:33):
.
I love that candle champagne,toast and gingham are like my
two favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, Someone.
I was actually just somewherethey had champagne toast for
their um soap and I was likeI'll just be here for a little
bit oh yeah, I know the soapsmelling it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I know um, I mean, it's funny.
I saw the best post I needed todo and it was like sorry, just
random offshoot of, like youknow, uh, I do, like you know,
all non-tox products but, likeyou know, burn my Bath Body
Works candle.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So whoopsies, yeah.
So Bath Body Works was one.
Another one that I thought wasthat I had to chuckle at for
myself is obviously like in my20s I had no sense of skin care.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh no.
Like at all.
I mean, these girls nowadaysare so lucky.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh my God.
Well, it's problematic becauseour daughter's going to be like
in.
Ulta like tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh yeah, no, Emily's already there.
I walked by her room the otherday and she had a face mask on.
I was like, hey, she put it on.
Yeah, so she's sitting there ather like little desk and chair
and she's seven and I see herjust like this.
(10:50):
I go, hey, babe, what you doing?
She's like I can't talk.
I see she turns to me and has aface mask on.
I'm like, okay.
I'm like I hope that's not oneof my face masks and she's like
no, I got this at Ulta becausemy niece took her.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh gosh, I was like awesome, okay, oh, my god, I
mean I know that like she'sgotten a few in like some like
birthday bag, which is like kindof cute.
Um, I mean Brooke, I had noidea she taught herself how to
paint her fingers and toes, yeah, and um, luckily, most of it's
like I don't know if it's alllike non-talks with the stuff
that like peels off or whatever,but I was really embarrassed.
(11:25):
I mean, luckily it was like mybest friend, like from college,
but like she had, um, she hasthree girls now and um, brooke
immediately um took the girls toher room and we just thought
they were playing.
And then she comes downstairsand Brooke had painted and the
two girls are, um, younger thanher.
They're like five and three, soa couple years younger than
brooke.
She had painted all of theirnails and I was like and I felt
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I mean again, it's like my bestfriend, she doesn't care, and
like they were all.
But I was like, I felt like badas a parent.
I was like slightly mortified, Iwas like because you know, if
it was anybody else, I wouldlike ask the parent yeah that's
okay, you know, and I probablywouldn't have them doing on the
car in the carpeted bedroom,because I have horror stories
from my childhood of we've allmade those mistakes oh yes, um,
(12:10):
actually random sidebar.
I remember going on vacationwith one of our best friends and
she and I were painting ournails and we spilled um,
accidentally knocked a bottle ofnail polish remover oh no, on a
table oh, it effed that tablebig time, big, big, big time and
I, I had no idea.
We had no idea because, like, assoon as you try to clean it up,
(12:30):
it just oh yeah and it was alot, it was a big ass spot, I
mean, and we got, we got rippedand they were all like right
there when it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
But um yeah, so sorry , random nail polish tangent and
my funny nail polish momentwith my kids is, you know, you
see those memes where you'relike, oh, the kids are quiet, is
it a good thing or a bad thing?
And I think I had just recentlyhad Logan, so he was like baby,
(13:01):
baby mode and I think I had amoment of like I was able to
fold some clothes and get somelaundry done and Brendan had run
out and Emily and Ryan wereplaying together and they were
quiet.
So I was like sweet, yeah,they're playing, yeah next thing
, I know Ryan comes into my roomand his face had been face
painted with nail polish.
(13:23):
So I mean, it was like the nailpolish that peels heels.
I was just gonna um, but he hada full colorful range of colors
because she had gotten like apack, like a, these nail
polishes, oh my god.
(13:43):
And they were so proud ofthemselves.
Oh, no doubt.
And and and then, like a fewdays later, I said something
about um, like you know, doing aface painting, she's like, but
not with nail polish.
I'm like, no, correct my girl,no, no, and I was like, oh my
god.
So of course I had to likeclean him up before Brendan got
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home, so that it just like Ihope you got a picture oh, I
sure did oh, we're gonna, oh, Ishould yeah.
I will definitely send it so wecan pop that in so proud of
himself too seriously, oh my god, I would be slightly mortified
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I guess that's the one thing like Grant is like so
sensory, like driven, that likehe he's I don't think he's ever
had his face painted, which kindof makes my mama heart a little
sad, which.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm gonna ignore that .
It took Emily a while.
She used to just do her hands.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Oh yeah, you mentioned that.
Yeah, brooke's always obsessed,but um, okay, so, but that was
my back to your skincareskincare.
Sorry, let's circle back.
So I okay.
My skincare regimen consistedof, like you know, I knew that I
was told to wash my face.
I mean, how often did we washour face in college?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Never.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right, um so, uh, like washing our face and
brushing our teeth likesuggestions.
You know what I mean.
Like they were always on thenext morning.
You know what I mean.
Um so, yeah, I washed my face,but then you know, like.
You know like, oh, my skin skinfeels all tight and dry, like I
knew I needed something.
I don't know what came over me.
I like just got in this likehabit of using like aloe,
(15:12):
because I was like using it fromand I was like, oh, it smells
really good.
I was like aloe, aloe soundslike it's good for your skin.
Like aloe like an after sun aloelotion, like the gel, yes, and
that became like my moisturizerfor several years in college and
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then shortly after.
So and I the the my confessionpart here is I mean that but I
like literally rememberspecifically going to a
dermatologist and when theyasked me about my like skincare
regimen because I was, I havereally sensitive skin and I have
all these things so I was inthere for a legitimate something
and, um, I was like, yeah, Iuse aloe and I felt so proud of
myself and they were like oh,okay, okay, and like gave me
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some samples.
But it's just like the funnymoment in my brain that I
literally felt so proud to tellthis doctor oh, I use aloe as my
moisturizer.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think I was a um.
I never had a skincare routine,probably until I was like 27
and I was like, oh, maybe Imight get proposed to and I
might be in a wedding.
I need like something, um, butI only was using like the, using
like the Clinique clarifyinglotion.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I feel like that doesn't sound bad though.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, but just that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Like no cleanser.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I wouldn't like wash my face beforehand, I just would
like cotton ball boop, boop,boop, like, or you know, do it
and then do this.
And I don't even think I putlike lotion moisturizer on my
face, like nothing, it was justtoner it.
And then do this, and I don'teven think I put like lotion
moisturizer on my face, likenothing, it was just toner.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And I thought that was like oh, eye makeup remover
okay, I was like how are yougetting the makeup off?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
yeah and here's a fun little tip I do um baby shampoo
for my makeup remover yeah, youcan do like when I was having
some eye issues last year.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I had to use for not the whole time, but I had to
start by doing um, a little bitof like the gentle baby stuff,
um, yeah, like, um.
So yeah, that can definitely beused.
But yeah, I sometimes look back.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm like, oh, imagine if I knew, like, what I was
doing back in the day.
Oh my God, I wouldn't look likeRight.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All the things.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, um.
So my next one, that is, mynext confession.
That I think I think is prettyfunny.
Um was so I, I, I think I gotsomewhat decent at taking
vitamins through college, butthey were probably like the
gummies or I don't know.
I wasn't like super consistent,but I think I was decent.
(17:50):
I was like, oh, I feel like Ishould you know what I mean, and
I forget if they were eitherthe gummies or swallow ones or
probably like a mixture of that,but I remember I made an
appointment.
I was like 22.
I had just graduated college.
I'm pretty sure it was thatsummer.
I was 22, 23, but I rememberbeing home.
So I think I and I lived athome that summer after college
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and then I moved out, so, um, soit must've been 22, and I, um,
had just started dating Richardagain, um, or somewhere around
that.
And, um, I made an appointmentto see my see an OBGYN.
Cause I freaked out because Ithrew up one morning and I was
terrified and I was like, oh myGod.
(18:33):
Like I might be pregnant, and soI'm just walking you through
the logic of my brain.
Guys, I didn't even take apregnancy test, I just made an
appointment to go see the doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's better than just ignoring it and then finding
out months later you're pregnant.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So I get there and I'm like half terrified.
I was like I think I might bepregnant because I threw up and
I think it might be morningsickness.
And then he's asking me thesequestions.
I'm sure they probably had mepeeing a cup, I guess, yeah.
And I'm like terrified becauseI'm like fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck.
You know what I mean.
And he's like asking me aboutwhat medications I'm on and I,
you know again, I'm 22.
So I probably take like onewhich is a multivitamin.
(19:17):
And he was like you know, and Itold him like he's like first
thing in the morning when youwake up, I was like yeah, he's
like, are you having breakfast?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
and I was like well, later he was like that is why
you're throwing up.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, so to be.
And then, like, sure enough,you go home and read the bottle.
It says take with the meal.
And I was like oh, and likeit's funny because now to this
day, I mean, obviously I likewalked out so happy and like
felt like a world class idiot.
But like now, if I I'm actuallysometimes nervous to take my,
my multi, because I get, I'mvery I shouldn't say sensitive
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to it, but if, like I know thatlike a half, a single bite of
banana I know is going to makeme is not enough and I will hurl
it up if I don't have more inmy stomach.
So I just like try to make sure,and I love breakfast.
I am not shy about my breakfast.
I will plow through somebreakfast, but I'm always like I
just know I have to time it,yeah Right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, I've never had that problem, probably because I
don't take vitamins.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
That's the other confession.
How to avoid getting sick?
Just don't take any.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think I mean I tried my best when I was
pregnant to take the prenatalvitamins yeah.
And I definitely told alldoctors that I said yes, every
single day I'm taking a,whatever it's called the
prenatal vitamin, of course yes,yes, no, hardly I was like even
just cleaning out the pantryrecently and I was like, oh,
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these are old, like prenatalvitamins I'm like I don't need
these anymore, and I was veryembarrassed to see like most of
the battle was still left.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oops, Oops, you know, I also had healthy kids.
You did yeah, but right, I know.
Well then like with all likethe great stuff, I'm sure with
Emily tooth I'm always like whatthe hell did I do during that
pregnancy was like what the helldid I do during that pregnancy
that made the things different.
We're not going to go down thatroad.
We're definitely not going andthat's probably not a healthy
road for anyone to go down.
But um, that's a side thing,wait.
(21:33):
But I was gonna say, whenyou're talking about meds, um, I
didn't, I either, I didn't know.
It never crossed my mind thatmedications like ibuprofen,
tylenol, kind of like you'rejust your everyday stuff, that
like those expire every fewyears oh yeah yeah, I didn't
(21:55):
know.
Yeah, because like you wouldget like the big old bottle of
like you know thing from costcoI mean
Speaker 2 (22:00):
ibuprofen was like my drug of choice uh-huh, and I
mean I plow through a bottlepretty well, you know what I
mean.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But like my husband one time was looking through,
he's like, oh, this is expired.
And I was like what?
That's a weird thing to say.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But like, but it's, it's still effective.
Right has to be I'm sure it is.
I mean, I feel like don't askdoctors these questions because
they're gonna be like, oh well II guess you know what, though I
also I've looked've looked atmy kids like kids medication
Right when I've been like oh no,I need like something for them,
like a Benadryl or whatever,and it's not something we use
(22:37):
often.
So I have looked at that, yeah,but I don't know if I've ever
looked at like adult.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't think I'd ever had.
No, I'm like adult, that's whatI'm saying.
I don't think I'd ever had.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No, I'm like it's in.
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I got ibuprofen in there oh no, actually my mom has
looked.
Yep, my mom loves to come andvisit.
Like when she comes to visit,we always need, like someone
gets sick, so then she's likethat's an unfortunate oh yeah,
and then it's like this is from,this is from three years ago.
Jill, why is this here?
And I'm like well, because Idon't use it ever.
(23:09):
Like I knew it was in there.
I just I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm not like one to pop, even like a Tylenol or
anything.
I try to like plow through thepain.
Also, probably why I'm in theplace I'm at right now where I'm
kind of like, Ooh, something'shappening to my back.
Well, I know I can my dad's alot like that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Um, but I'm a little mix of both, but I can.
I can totally see that.
Um, wait, hold on.
There was another, oh, thisone's kind of kind of funny, um,
like weird confession where Imy first job out of college I
was working for this law firmand um, oh my god, I forget if I
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actually had car issues.
I think I legitimately was justrunning late and I think I lied
and said um that my car washaving trouble, which, to be
fair, it actually was a reallyold car.
It was like a 2006 or no, itwas older than that.
It was like I had this red volvothat I bought from a friend in
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college and it was yeah, we werea volvo family growing up too,
so when I saw the volvo and itwas red, I was like yeah love a
Volvo.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's so funny.
My first car like outside ofhaving like my parents hand me
downs, was also a red car.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We would be red car girlies.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, totally yeah, and it had like the sparkle to
it.
I thought I was just so awesome.
Oh my God, of course.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I know Well, and I went to Maryland so, like, red's
one of our colors, so I wasalso like pretty jazzed about
that, um, but, um, but yes, itwas definitely an older car and,
um, I'm sure I was like havingpossible issues, but I'm sure on
that morning I actually wasn't,but I still lied because I was
running late and I said and Ithink I said to them that I was
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having car troubles and the guythere was a guy that worked the
front desk at the time, um, andhe was really nice and friendly
and I was explaining to him likewhat had happened.
Oh lord, and he was like, andhe said to me he was like well,
maybe it's the operator.
And I was like, well, no, Ididn't like check, blah, blah,
blah, me knowing I don't knowclearly shit about cars.
(25:23):
Yeah, and still don't.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Um, and he kept saying the operator over and
over again and then he looked atme and he meant like you, yeah,
it's a problem with you I waslike, that's like how dumb I was
, oh my god but I think likethat would be so funny to hear
people's feedback and, like,every single person has made an
(25:49):
epic excuse as to why theyweren't coming into work, oh, or
why they're running late yeahor like missing class.
My cousin and I um, ourprofessors knew we were cousins
and we like made a lie up about,like, something happening with
our family.
We had to go to albany becauseof this.
(26:12):
We just didn't want to go toclasses that day so really let's
just come up with this story.
Yeah, yeah, it's so bad.
We're like hopefully it's notkarma, right, but like, oh, yeah
, I mean I think like everyoneat some point has done some
crazy oh my God Type of excuse.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And I think it happens more when you're like in
a job you don't love, yeah Tolike Right.
I know, like some jobspreviously, that I didn't love.
I'd be like I don't want to goin today.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What can I say Like how, how?
How can I call out yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
How can I call out or what?
What can I say?
And um, I mean, luckily for me,my one job was down in DC and
if I was late it was because theMetro and that was all over the
news.
So I be like, oh all right,that's covered for me.
You're like, I mean, not, Ididn't add in the fact that I
also left my house, like 20minutes after that I was
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supposed to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's like 8 59 trying to arrive, or you're leaving at
905, trying to arrive at 8 50.
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah totally,yeah, um, well, actually, that
actually reminds me of too um,this isn't so much of like a
confession as it is sort of afunny story, but being late kind
of reminded me of this.
So my junior year of college,um, I lived in our sorority
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house and these were, um, theywere, because it was very I
don't know how, the way that itwas made.
They're like the very heavysort of, like industrial sort of
doors and they close likeautomatically.
I'm talking about our actuallike the bed, like, yeah, I mean
I it was, I shared a room, likewe all shared rooms um, but uh,
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yeah, it would like it was veryheavy and it would close
automatically.
So, long story short, I had,like I had my hand on the the
door frame, yeah, and it closed,um, on one of my fingers I
don't remember which one it was,I think it was actually my, my
pointer finger and, um, sorryfor a little like tmi, but like
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blood spot, like it actuallylike spotted like everywhere.
It was crazy it wasn't like aton of blood, it was.
I mean there was a good amountlike a little bit pulling there,
but like to the point that,like when we moved out that
semester, like my, my bestfriend that lived across the
hall, we still found a speck onthe wall in her room, cause the
door was like her door was open.
We're like like, oh my God, itwas very bizarre, anyways.
(28:43):
So, um, and it was like themost pain I'd ever felt and I it
wasn't broken, um, but it I hadlike a very teeny fracture so I
ended up having to get one ofthe little um finger.
Yeah, so it's good.
I mean good like.
So I just had to wear that fora little bit.
Like the swelling was horriblefor a long time but it sucked
because it was right my righthand.
So I literally had to go to Ithink was it called DSS,
(29:07):
department of, like studentservices, to like.
This is again, this is likecirca 08 09 um, where we didn't
have as many of the AI tools,but I had to like request, like
a note taker and things likethat because, like you know, I
even like obviously had a laptop, but like typing was still very
challenging.
You know what I mean so anyway.
So I had legit like passes forclass and school, like
(29:29):
navigating, you know kind ofgetting some of my work done.
So anyways, giving you thatbackstory, because then fast
forward a semester when I waslate and behind on a paper.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You utilized, you pulled that.
What did I decide to do?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I pulled out the old story and I even put this on my
finger.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You kept the split.
You like, knew you're like Ican use this someday.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Just in case.
Yeah, so not not my proudestmoment.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, I don't know if I've ever done that.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, like I said, the point of this is like I
really hope that we can't sharetoo many of these experiences.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I know the audience can definitely share in, like
the crazy excuses they have madefor jobs Like.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I cannot wait to hear that yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I want to hear, like, what excuses people have used,
or like, if you are the boss,people have used, or like, if
you are the boss, what excusesyou get that you know you're
like this is this mothercomplete bs?
Um, I know, like when I've beenin like a lead position and
(30:41):
getting you know the excuses,I'm just like I know it's BS,
but like also like at least youcame, you, you you spent the
time coming up with a cool story.
Yeah, that's true, I'm gonnagive you props for that.
Like, check in with me later.
And also I'm curious, likenowadays, when you come up with
an excuse, because everyone canwork remotely pretty much yeah,
(31:06):
so like do you?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
really even have the time off yeah right like so
you're just home anyways right,right, like I know well, you
know what I was thinking too,because this was bigger,
definitely bigger in my 20s,like obviously before I had kids
when I lived in the city, but Ifeel like it's worked so
perfectly for my audience.
I'm like I want to know.
Uh, give like, if this was aradio show, you'd be like submit
(31:29):
your whatever.
All your crazy excuses that youused to call out for opening day
, because that was a big one andopening day is always around my
birthday, since my birthday isApril 1st.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But, like with a situation like that I mean you
know it's coming, like why can't?
Like?
I guess, like I, brennan tookme to opening day a few this was
pre-kids um, because he told methat like I needed to
experience you do.
Opening day at some point as atransplant, yep, but like you
(32:05):
know that it's coming right, solike, why wouldn't you just
schedule, I see, more of likewhat is the excuse for the day
after?
no, I definitely want the dayoff, I definitely want that day,
but like um, but schedule itoff and then probably the next
day, you're like, I'll be ableto go to work, so, so it's like
what confession, like what?
(32:26):
Well, so I mean, at least forme in my twenties this is me not
being from the area- so I don'tknow.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Well, okay, I mean, yeah, everyone, I mean opening
day is well, at least a half day.
You definitely don't like youcan still work the morning or
something like that.
But at least what I rememberfrom me, like back in my
twenties and stuff like that.
I was like I had so little daysoff that I always knew five of
those were for my summervacation.
Okay, and I always like to dothe math.
(32:51):
I always like to use the otherfive for Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Okay, because it also dependedon, because that was also like I
had to use, because my officewould still be open on the
Friday of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Okay, so I would need to use a like save a single day
for that Um and or Wednesday.
If I could do the math, youknow, have the Wednesday off,
cause I also, when I lived inTowson, I had to drive from
Towson down to Montgomery County.
So oh ouch, Exactly so.
That's why I like what do youcall pto yeah, math, you know
(33:29):
what I mean.
So, taking a, single day offyeah or opening day was annoying
because it effed with myholiday days off, so you only
had a sick day.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Were they separate?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
yes, okay, because I feel like, yeah, you would get
like 10 pto, five sick days, umso yeah, so it was trying, it
was like leaning on some kind oflike sick thing.
But it's just so funny because,especially in baltimore, like
other probably cities, it's likeeveryone fucking knows that
it's opening day, yeah, yeah andso there's so you fall into two
categories.
You either you're the personthat you put in pto for it, or
(34:05):
you just come up with a coolreason why you're not going to
work.
Basically, everybody knows likeyeah, yeah okay, no, that makes
sense.
I guess I wasn't thinking oflike younger years of not having
yeah, like all the time yeahyeah, now again, now that with
people that work from homeprobably so much easier to just
like whatever.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
But at least that was, that wasa situation then.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah okay, okay.
I mean I know I've definitelyhave called in like I'm obsessed
with Bravo TV and reality TV soI'm sure at some point in my
life I've been like I can'tattend an event, work something,
because I just wanted to likebinge watch episodes of my
(34:51):
housewives or like binge watchsomething that came out on
Netflix because I'm.
I don't have the time to dothat anymore, but oh, I'm tired
tonight and I just go upstairsand like watch three hours of
Netflix.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh, my god, I love it .
I know's just like we need thesilence.
We so need the silence, youknow yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I always say like I don't do drugs, I don't smoke
Well clearly you don't I don't,yeah, I don't even take a
vitamin.
I mean I like a gummy here andthere.
Who doesn't, that's right, Idon't gamble.
I mean Maryland live is.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
We gamble our health.
Yeah, so close I know.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
So I like my drug of choice is reality TV.
Bad reality TV too, yeah, andI'm I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, I well.
It's funny cause like it's likelove Island season right now
and I used to be hooked on Love.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Island.
That's actually one I've nevergotten into really believe it or
not.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, oh, I think the problem is now like I feel like
the older we get, that gapbetween us and yeah, their age
is getting bigger.
So now it's like, oh, how muchdo I want to be watching these
like 19, 20 year olds yeah, no,it does get weird, like
sometimes, of watching likeyoung kids, like kids.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah, now I'm like oh , if we're like.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I remember when season one, when it came to the
us, because I guess it's big inthe uk yeah, like that it was
always big there for a long time.
But yeah, when I first startedhere I was oh, I was on it, we
were and I was.
I was probably like 30, but nowI'm like I'm good and thought
process, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Going back to the pregnancy story, yeah, were you
the type that, like alwaysgrowing up, you're like I'm
getting married and having kids.
Or were you like, because youfreaked out and you were back
with Richard, you probably knew,like, okay, we're back together
, this is going to be it?
Were you like freaking outbecause you just you're too
(36:58):
young or you didn't want kids?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
freaking out because too young.
Yeah, like we.
Yeah, when we got back togetherafter college we both knew like
this is it.
Yeah, and we don't like.
And but yeah, like I was, youknow, still living at home, you
know I was like barely had.
I was, you know, still livingat home.
You know I was like barely hadtwo pennies, you know to uh, to
rub together, so it was morefreaked out of like I have zero
money and I'm living at homeLike, yes, like I'm with this
guy, but, oh my God, no, we,yeah, we always like.
(37:24):
we always said like even when hewas in dental school, like when
we both like and I was likeworking, but I still wasn't
making much.
But you know what I mean.
We were like if we always saidlike you know, if we had an
oopsie, like we could make itwork.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
It would be stressful,obviously.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, you know, and that's kind of as we got older,
that's sort of how like how wefelt, and then like there was a
period of my life where I waslike I'm good, like I don't want
to be married and I definitelydon't want to have kids that's
funny and then I met Brendanit's all about the right person,
(38:00):
and I was like oh, okay, and Iremember like one of our first,
like not arguments but likeserious talks it was like only a
couple weeks into dating and hemade a comment like not wanting
to have kids and it liketriggered me and I was like,
wait, wait, wait.
What you don't want to that,that doesn't change usually,
like if you're set on it and youvocalize that to your partner,
(38:24):
like I don't want to have kids.
I feel like that's somethingyou're not going to change right
so I was like, wait, what youdon't want to have kids then I
don't know if I want to do thisis that what?
Changed you um?
I think well, I just like metso he and no, he was like no, I
do want to have kids.
I don't even remember, like thecontext of like what it was.
(38:45):
But then I realized I was likewait, no, I want to have kids,
but I want to have kids with himyeah.
I don't know about any of theseother fools, right.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I was gonna say did Brendan feel too old?
But I was like that's a feeltoo young.
But I was like wait, he's olderthan you too.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
So well, and that was the other thing.
He's eight years older than me,so I'm like I'm 20 I don't
remember how, what age I waswhen we met but like 26, 27 and
I'm like all right, he's thirdin his 30s, so like I think at
this point, like if he's like Idon't want to have kids, that's
not going to change at thispoint right, right I would.
(39:22):
I would have assumed somethinglike that too but yeah, then
he's like no, I want to havefour kids.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I was like whoa I always wanted four too I was
always a three person see, Ididn't love the, even the I like
.
Well, four is my lucky number.
Four is my lucky number, myfavorite number.
I want a five.
So I and I come from a giantfamily like 30 first cousins,
like yeah um and rich comes froma big family too.
(39:47):
But we've already gone downthis rabbit hole of yeah, we did
the how the child care, math,child math, yeah, math the way
it did, yes, but yeah, yeah, sothat's.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I mean, that's like a little confession, but my
reality tv and we love yourreality.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I do I do, it's my little, you do keep us up to
date on a lot of things, andthat's very helpful.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
yeah, yeah, I'm like the pop culture.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I joke around, I say this is how I do God's work.
Yeah, by putting out funnyinformation on my Instagram
stories.
I don't have an Instagramaccount.
Like people have asked me.
They're like you should have,like a broad, like your
Instagram should be like a Bravofans or like pop culture fans.
I'm like should, but that's alot of work.
(40:34):
It's a lot of work and I justlike blooping it out onto
stories here, there, becausethat's better, that's easier for
me, um, and people are funnieron the internet than I could
ever imagine being and you knowwhat, and it's like you know,
let let them do it.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Like they're good at it and youget to share the highlights,
yeah, them do it.
Yeah, you know what I mean likethey're good at it and you get
to share the highlights, yeah,of their work.
Yeah, like if we had it, likeif we had a column on pop pop
culture, yeah, you would be ourqueen, yeah a mom at school, um,
who I never would have thoughtwas into bravo tv at all, came
(41:10):
up to me one time.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
She's like your stories are just like keeps me
in the loop, like that's when Iknow I need to watch this new
episode or that a new episode'sdropping or this drama's going
on, and I was like, oh, my god,I go, thank you.
I was like you know how you'realways here at school doing
everything and involved, andthat's like your way of like
(41:31):
doing god's work yeah medelivering pop culture news.
That's right, bravo,information.
That is how I do god's work.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
She died laughing also, I think she was like I
don't know if I'll ever talk toher again, but I also feel that
way, not even about my business,but literally about memes, like
I, when I'm scrolling throughlike here's, like I have, and
you know who you are.
Actually there's a couple, butthere's one specifically.
(42:02):
I haven't actually seen her inperson in a year and we have
probably one of the strongestrelationships and we share two
to three minimum one to threereels memes a day.
Oh yeah, and I haven't actuallyseen her in person in probably
a year yeah, I mean, that's thebeauty of social media it's like
, but that, that bond you can'tbreak that you cannot
Speaker 2 (42:23):
no yeah, I totally get it.
There's a few people that Ihaven't seen like I'm one girl I
met at bar class like severalyears ago and we just
communicate through like funnymemes on.
Instagram Kind of a whole like,and I will call her a friend
and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
There's a confession?
Oh, there is.
Oh, it is deeper thanfriendship.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, I'm in like a whole DMV Bravo moms chat group
on Instagram and I legit callthem my friends.
Yeah, because we all like talkbravo, non-bravo stuff, but like
the things we're sending oneanother and I'm like, oh, my
friend and Brendan's like, butyou've never met.
I'm like, but they're myfriends, they are my people,
(43:06):
they understand me, they're whoI can turn to when I need to
talk about bravo and you don'twant to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Also introverts don't understand what we mean and
what we extroverts mean byfriends, because I think I was
telling you this before like I'ma total friend slut.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Oh yeah, we talked about that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
And I was like I don't think you understand.
If I've, if I've come intocontact with you, you're all of
a sudden a friend of mine andall of a sudden I've lost all
boundaries.
I've said everything, I'veovershared yeah and yeah, that's
just how it is so, anyways,well, on that note, I think we
shared lots of fun confession,yeah, and we saved you from too
(43:46):
much of the collegeembarrassment, yeah or some like
way too raw stuff I was like.
I was like we'd go that way, wecould take a serious, we could,
we could, if you want to hearthe real raw crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
But yeah, let me know um, I know I'm deciding how
much, how far behind the curtaindo we go?
Yeah, it's questionable right,right.
So anyways, well, cheers tobeing weird, cheers to well
cheers to being weird.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Cheers to being moms.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Cheers to being extroverts and, you know, maybe
the takeaway is wash your faceand take some vitamins.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Take some vitamins.
I'm ordering some now as wespeak.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
actually, that's my new thing.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I'm going to be a vitamin person as I turn 41.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
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