December 13, 2025 • 43 mins
Two friends swap stories about a jarring iPhone update, older parents navigating new tech, and the tender, funny realities of being an only child versus growing up in a big family. Winter arrives with live tree needles, a quarter‑mile icy driveway, missed dumpster pickups, coyotes, and a Santa parade that melts the noise.
• iPhone update friction, button remaps, screenshot changes
• parents with legacy phones and the cost of no updates
• voicemail as memory and teaching with annotated screenshots
• only child boundaries versus sibling negotiation
• fairness in parenting and avoiding favoritism
• birthdays near holidays and keeping celebrations distinct
• live versus artificial trees, clutter and allergies
• snow, plows, gravel driveways, and delivery workarounds
• coyotes at dawn, dogs on deck, shifting winter wildlife
• Santa runs, neighborhood traditions, and lighthearted wrap‑up
Tune in next week to see who our secret guest is
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Heather (00:01):
Hey! How's everybody doing today?
This is episode three of Do WeLove That For You?
Do we I'm Heather?
Zia (00:09):
Do we love that for you?
Heather (00:11):
I don't know.
Today we'll tell.
I'm Heather.
Who are you?
Oh, I'm Z.
Welcome back.
Yes, welcome back.
So, as you guys all know, wekeep our little pages, our um
Apple pages available for whatwe're gonna talk about.
But I'm throwing something inquick on the top.
(00:32):
Did you do the new download forthe new iPhone?
Well, I got a new iPhone.
Zia (00:39):
Oh my gosh.
So you have the new download.
Yes, yes, I do.
It is kind of cool.
Um, just following aroundbecause my camera was broken,
remember?
Everybody was getting videos.
Heather (00:50):
I do.
Zia (00:52):
Yeah, so Margaret kind of my daughter star kind of
advocated for me and she said,Oh, um, excuse me, um, can you
get mom a new phone due to uh uhher sending me videos and it's
taking up space on my phone?
Yeah, that is how that works,yeah.
Heather (01:12):
But I have to tell you, because you got the update with
the new phone, so for you itwas all new.
For me, I woke up to thisupdate.
Oh and I'm not gonna lie, I amnot very happy.
So for you, you think this isall the way it came.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It didn't come that way.
Zia (01:34):
Oh, geez.
Heather (01:36):
No.
Zia (01:37):
So you're at 26, whatever.
I think so.
Yeah.
Heather (01:41):
Yeah, it updated the other night, and then my watch
updated, and now it is theliquid blast.
And so that updated first.
Oh, see, no, mine updated thismorning.
My phone updated two days ago,and then my watch updated this
morning.
So, but my biggest issue is isum I screenshot everything on my
(02:03):
phone.
Oh, yeah.
And before I would justscreenshot it and it would just,
you know, go poof up that ittook the screenshot and then the
picture would just disappear.
Now I have to click the littlecheck mark and then save it as a
photo.
So what used to be a simplelittle one-step thing is now
three steps just to take ascreenshot.
Zia (02:23):
Yep.
Yep.
So, like on my phone now, Ihave a separate camera button on
the side.
Yeah.
So oh, with the bottom.
That's a little tricky for meright now.
Yeah, because I I'm talking onthe phone and my thumb is right
there, and I'm like, Am I takingpictures while I'm speaking on
the phone?
Yes, you are taking pictures ofyour ear.
Heather (02:43):
Yes, I know.
You can adjust that.
Okay.
So I have it so that it's stillpressible, but it's um a double
press now.
I think I think you can make ita double.
I I there's a change you canmake in it, and I also took it
so that it doesn't zoom.
Uh for me now, when I do that,I can use that as the picture
button.
So I can use that to take thepicture.
(03:04):
Perfect.
Um, but I think I think mine isa double click to make it turn
on.
It might not be.
I might have just taken enoughearshots that so you got the new
foam between mine and this one,I think.
Zia (03:18):
What do you have?
Yes.
I have the 16?
Heather (03:23):
16.
Okay, so I have the 16 for mybirthday.
So you're right.
So you're a little bit ahead,which is why I'm saying I'm not
sure if your button can do that.
But I had the 12.
Yes.
Zia (03:36):
You did have a I was very far back because I was waiting
for the 21 and Michael said, youknow, that's probably five
years out.
So you need a new phone.
Um, a lot of us do that.
A lot of us don't do that.
You know my lucky numbers, so Ican't, I can't, I can't do it
again.
Heather (03:54):
Yeah, well now you have now you have the 17.
Yeah.
So you can wait now and get the21.
Your next one can be the 21.
Zia (04:01):
My next one, yep.
Heather (04:02):
And I'll have two more in between that.
Zia (04:04):
That's right.
Which normally I would, butwhen I got the 12, I was like,
I'm not letting go of this one.
Heather (04:12):
You did hold on to my mom and my dad still have a home
button.
Zia (04:18):
Okay, so my dad and his friend um actually has my my mom
Karen's old phone, which Ibelieve is a five.
Heather (04:30):
Oh.
Zia (04:30):
And I think my dad just last year got a 16 because he
was like, I need to upgradebecause he was on a fiver.
Heather (04:39):
He went from a five to a 16.
He did.
Wow, his brain is probablystill rolling around trying to
even figure out how to so good,so good.
Zia (04:52):
Like I he will ask me a question and I will take
pictures, uh, screenshots, I'llcircle it with my little note
pen on there.
And that's not steps.
Yeah, I go through steps forhim, and he does each picture
what it says.
And he he's a good learner whenI show him how to do it, and
(05:12):
he's like uh 84.
So does a great job, very smartman.
Heather (05:19):
Yeah, that's awesome.
So that's just a little olderthan my parents.
Um, but my mom refuses, shedoes not want to lose her home
screen.
Um but they have, I think theyhave the S E.
Okay.
The first S E.
Yes, yes.
So um or whatever that numberwas.
(05:43):
I think that's seven or eight,I think, even.
But they have that.
I know they don't get updatesanymore, which stinks because we
can't do a lot of stuff when wedo group texting because yeah
we can't include them, but or wecan't, you know, add them into
the different things we're doingor whatever.
So it's a little bit annoying,but right, right.
(06:05):
Well, their family friends havea new phone.
Zia (06:07):
Yeah, their family friend, uh, my dad and my mom Karen, um
they uh gave my mom Karen'sphone to him when she had
passed, and he never changed thevoicemail on it.
So when he, you know, if I callhim, it's my mom Karen's voice.
(06:28):
So he always does give me theoption, you know, if you want to
just hear her, just call me ortext me and tell me you're
calling just to hear her, andthen I won't answer the phone.
So that is a that is a littlebenefit to have a family friend
get a phone.
So yeah.
Heather (06:46):
Yes, oh my gosh, I love that.
Zia (06:48):
I love that for you.
Thank you.
And I do use that option hereand there.
Heather (06:55):
I'm sure you do.
Well, why don't we jump aroundon our topics then, since we're
talking about our parents andour siblings, and well, we're
not talking about siblings yet,but we're talking about our
parents, so why don't we justhit the family?
Zia (07:08):
All right, so I had an interesting little chat with a
kindergarten friend, and um hewalked in yesterday and he said,
Missy, do you have a brother?
And I said, No, I do not have abrother.
Do you have a sister?
Nope, don't have a sister.
You got a mama?
I said, Yes, I have a mama.
(07:29):
Do you have a dad?
Oh wait, I think we're havingtechnical difficulties here.
He's like, hang on.
Heather (07:33):
He goes, Well you're frozen on my side.
You're frozen on my side.
I'm not sure what happened.
Zia (07:39):
Your screen is black.
Heather (07:41):
Yeah.
Zia (07:42):
Oh, uh oh.
So are we good?
I yeah, I hear you.
Okay, okay.
Um, so I said, um he goes, whydon't you have a brother?
I said, Um, my mom never gaveme one.
Um, why don't you have asister?
I said, well, she never gave meone of those either.
So he said, Where's your mama?
(08:03):
I said, uh, not around.
I said, and um, where's yourdad?
I said, Oh, Pennsylvania.
Uh he said, Okay.
And I said, Is that it?
Yeah, I don't understand whyyou don't have brother and
sister.
Why don't you get one of those?
So it brought up somethingfunny that you know, like how
yeah, I how this little guy isthat interested in brothers and
(08:27):
sisters and siblings and momsand dads and where they went.
And um you know, and I waslike, okay, this is very
interesting.
So I I said I'll bring it uptoday because you know, I don't
think as just being an onlychild or having siblings, it's
an everyday thought of who doyou have, who don't you have,
(08:50):
right?
You know, where's your parents,where are you where are they
not, you know?
Right, and or even who's yourparents think about it.
This is important.
Oh my god.
Absolutely.
So he really brought a thoughtto my mind of like, no, I don't
and the other kids, you know,that are standing there, they
all had brothers and sisters,and you're thinking about like,
(09:12):
I don't know, maybe twenty kids,maybe if not more, um, all said
that they had siblings, and I'mthe only one standing there
saying I don't have any.
Right, right.
So and that's that's somethingthat go ahead.
No, it's like do you do youthink about that?
(09:34):
No, because you know you havesiblings, I don't.
Um then I had an only child.
Heather (09:41):
I have an only child, and you have multiple children.
Zia (09:44):
I don't, right, right, yeah, so like balance right.
And like my husband came from abig family.
Um, did Rich come from a bigfamily?
Heather (09:56):
Rich he has uh no, he's one of three.
He's the oldest of three.
Okay, all right, all right.
He's his his dad, he's theoldest of three, so yeah.
But it is funny because um,like I didn't want just one
child, I wanted to havemultiple, but life threw me.
Yeah, the the apples it threwme, and I took what I got.
(10:19):
And I love my one my onlychild.
My husband, Rich, has three uhthree kids.
So I now have four.
Granted, they're all grownadults, but that's okay.
I still they're still my kids.
I still have been with them.
Yep.
Right.
I still have been with them forthe 12 years Rich and I have
been together.
So so yeah, so we have the onlychild, but I can remember Eliza
(10:41):
coming home a few times andtalking about her life if she
had siblings.
For example, my my Eliza wentto a private school.
And at one point, she was shewas complaining about being in a
private school and being not aswell-to-do as some of the other
kids in the school.
And and I pointed out to herthat that's a correct statement,
(11:06):
but she's in a in a privateschool.
She could be in public schooland have five or six siblings,
and she was like, Well, I don'twant that either.
And I'm like, Well, I I'm notsure what to give you there, but
she on occasion did ask forsiblings, not often, she really
embraced the only child, um,which surprised me because yeah,
(11:28):
I I feel I did too.
Zia (11:30):
I I was not one to shy away to tell people I didn't have
any siblings.
Yeah.
Heather (11:39):
So I wonder if that's a thing, because I used to wish
to be an only child.
I was the youngest.
Yeah.
I was the youngest and the onlygirl.
So I have two biologicalbrothers, and then my dad comes
with three boys, and we'reactually very similar to the
Brady bunches, and we're all thesame ages.
So my dad and my mom had babiesthe same year, basically.
(12:01):
And my parents, my mom and mydad didn't get together until I
was an adult, but they're oldhigh school sweethearts, so it's
an awesome story.
Maybe one day with theirpermission, I'll tell the story.
Um but so I grew up with twoolder brothers, and I was the
youngest and the only girl.
And there were so many times Iwished I was an only child.
Um I have nothing againsthaving brothers, but there were
(12:24):
times when I I would say, youknow, if I was an only child, I
wouldn't have to have this orget this, or you know, because
we used to get we used to get atwo-liter bottle of soda, and
that was our soda for the week.
Yep.
And if you finished it ahead oftime, you were out of luck.
And and I can remember mybrothers trying to bribe me for
my soda, and I can remembertrying to bribe my brothers for
(12:47):
soda, and yeah, and you know,but like Eliza never had that.
Zia (12:51):
Yeah.
So with with that, like I ofcourse, you know, I didn't have
to share.
Um, but when I lived with mygrandparents, um, my you know, I
got what I needed, I got what Iwanted, but I wasn't overly
spoiled.
Um like my grandfather, youknow, I had a I had chores
(13:11):
around the house.
Um, I had to work for thethings.
Um, you know, and mygrandparents uh really they they
raised the heck out of me um toknow, you know, this this is
not gonna stand if you're inreal society.
Um so you better not act thatway.
But I feel like when when I ummy mom Joyce had a dance studio,
(13:35):
I would go down to the studioand that was like my extended
family.
So I had like a hundred, youknow, sisters, older, younger,
you know.
Um they were always taking careof me.
Um a few were my babysittersand I still keep in touch with
them.
Um yeah, so I mean I see themevery summer, quite a few of
(14:00):
them.
Um, but one uh I I see rituallyevery summer.
I see her all the time.
And uh but maybe with herpermission I will, you know,
tell uh the story about her too.
Um, but yeah, it's like I Ithink I gained like a um I don't
(14:20):
know, like a sacredness toletting people in your life
being an only child because youyou don't have that, and then
it's like, oh, do I really wantthis person that close to me?
Right.
You know, um a little bit of uhcaution because of that, I
feel.
Heather (14:37):
Yeah, I feel Eliza's the same way.
I feel like she's more cautiousabout who who is in her inner
circle, yep, and and and who shewho she interacts with and how
she interacts with them.
I I feel like there is a a wallthere.
Yeah, and then I just not a badwall though.
Zia (14:56):
No, no, it's just you're just a little bit more cautious
because you haven't had to docertain things with siblings.
Heather (15:04):
And where whether I wanted whether I wanted, you
know, Brian over or not, Briancame over to play with my
brother, and either I playedwith them or I played by myself.
I had no choice, and I justmade up the name Brian.
There's nobody named Brian.
Zia (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yep.
But yeah, so I think my kids, Ithink I raised them.
Well, Michael always says Iraised them kind of like um
three only children.
Um, because you, you know, ifthey not none of them do the
same thing.
Um, they're all went differentdirections with careers and you
(15:38):
know life.
And um they, you know, if whenwe would go to the store, you
know, unless it was somethingfor like, oh, I've I just do
this and I need this to buy fortoday, um everybody was like, We
we're all going for shoes.
So you you e everybody gets theshoes, and you know, if we're
gonna go to the store for apresent, then everybody gets the
(16:01):
present.
So I kind of like did onlychildren three times together,
you know.
Heather (16:07):
I I don't I don't really think that's accurate
because that's the way we werewhen I grew up.
So we when we needed shopping,granted, I went to a different
store than my brothers did.
But if it was shoe day, we allwent and got shoes.
And and and maybe I went thenext day because I had to go to
a different store, but we allgot shoes on the same day.
We all went school shopping onthe same day.
(16:28):
We all did that.
And me and my my two brothers,we all do different things.
None of us have the same careerpath at all.
The only similarity is myeldest brother and I both did
the military.
Okay.
Um, but after that, totallydifferent paths.
So I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that that's sothat might be an accurate
(16:50):
statement.
I think that's a multi-childthing because okay, think about
it.
Because I have if you boughtyou bought star shoes, your
other two children would beupset.
Right.
In theory, right?
Yeah.
So you would go by all of them.
Zia (17:07):
So I don't think I did it.
Because I've heard of familiesthat growing up was like, oh, my
brother got shoes, and Ididn't, and my mom always
favorites him all the things.
Yeah, right.
So it's like some of the kidsin the school, even.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was not gonna be that parentthat did that.
It was like, okay, you youknow, your shoes are looking a
(17:29):
little shabby.
Heather (17:30):
Um yours are gonna be shabby, and yours are pristine,
but let's get shoes foreveryone.
Zia (17:38):
Let's get shoes, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Heather (17:41):
No, it's true.
I no, I I don't think you Idon't think you raised three
only children.
I think you raised them theright way because there are
certain things you have to do ina group.
Well, thank you, Heather.
Parenting tips from Heather.
Zia (17:55):
That's right, that's right.
Heather (17:58):
But uh, siblings are a crazy topic.
Speaking, yeah, yeah.
Go ahead.
Well, I was gonna say, speakingof siblings, yeah, um, how's
your holiday decorating going?
Well, I'm not gonna say holidaybecause I do Christmas, so I'm
not a holiday person.
I do Christmas, so how's yourChristmas decorating doing?
Zia (18:18):
Um, well, my tree uh is currently in a bag sitting in
front of me as I'm speaking toyou.
Um it looks great horizontally.
No, okay.
It has new.
Is it brown or black or uh it'sin a gray bag we have?
Oh, a gray bag, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So little and it has a redzipper, so it's very holiday.
(18:41):
Oh, so it's holiday-ish.
You're getting there.
Yep.
So um, yeah, I just have tomove a few things around.
And I did talk to mygranddaughter yesterday, and
she's like, I said, Oh, I loveyour tree.
And she said, Thank you.
She goes, I see your tree.
And I said, Oh god, I have toput the tree up.
Yep.
So yeah, I mean, when you havea two-year-old asking, where's
(19:03):
your tree?
Yeah, I put the tree up.
Yep.
So I will be fighting thattoday.
Heather (19:10):
Ooh.
Can you send me pictures?
Zia (19:13):
Oh, I will, I will, um, because that's a miracle in
itself.
Um that's just it's it's notthat it's hard to decorate for
me.
It's just oh, I think theeffort put forward to do it all
the time.
It's like, you know, it'sdifferent when you're an
(19:33):
adult-only house.
Absolutely.
That too.
Yep.
It's just it's different.
Yeah.
But now it's like I have tothink about when the grandkids
come over and see the tree.
And you know, that's uh butthen I don't like looking at it
the whole time.
Like I would love to just putit up for the day they see the
tree and take it back down.
That would be ideal for me.
(19:55):
That would be ideal for me.
And here I
Heather (20:00):
I put my tree up on typically I put mine up the
Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Zia (20:06):
Oh wow, see?
Heather (20:07):
And I take it down the s the Saturday after New Year's.
Zia (20:15):
Okay.
So I think the problem is too,with my birthday being so close
to Christmas, you know, I know Inever wanted the tree up for my
birthday.
Um and my parents did try totake it down uh so it didn't
combine that way.
And um my mom Karen, she had ain they lived in Kentucky at one
(20:40):
point, and um when they uh theyhad a Christmas tree up all
year in one room so they didn'thave to take it down.
And did they decorate it forthe holidays?
Beautiful tree.
It no, it was always aChristmas tree in the one room.
Oh my gosh, and it was like shehad her collection on it, you
know.
They collected certain umornaments, so they were on the
(21:01):
tree, and it is a beautifultree.
Um and uh not that theywouldn't use the room, but you
know, it was it was just abeautiful tree all the time.
And she if she did find anornament, you know, she could
possibly put it right back upthere when she got it and
wouldn't have to pack it.
But that's cool.
Um she, you know, she wasalways the person to send me a
(21:23):
gift that was like, you know,oh, this is um not Christmas,
this is your birthday.
Here are your Christmas wrappedpresents, and this is your
birthday wrapped present.
So it was, yeah.
And I know I keep going backand forth.
People are probably confused,they're like, she says mom
Karen, she says mom Joyce.
Um, my mom Joyce is mybiological mom, and my mom Karen
(21:46):
is my like adopted mom.
So that's why you're gettingconfused.
We'll talk about that one daytoo.
Heather (21:52):
But um, it's a topic all in itself, all in itself,
yeah.
Zia (21:56):
But yeah, so that's why I'm going back and forth.
But yeah, um, so it always wasmade to me that you know it's
not your birth, it's notChristmas.
Right.
This is your birthday present.
So we take the tree down sothat you don't have to look at
Christmas, you know.
And um, and I am trying to dothat with my granddaughter too,
because she's close toChristmas.
(22:16):
And I'm very close toChristmas.
Anything red or green oranything packaging to go to her
for her birthday, you know.
I want to clearly say that thisis your birthday present and
we're done with Christmas.
Heather (22:29):
Yep.
So I have I have two nephews,one on Rich's side and one on my
side.
And yeah, the one on Rich'sside, his birthday is December,
I believe December 20th.
Okay.
So he's just out of luck.
The trees are up for him andall that.
And and and I feel bad.
So we always make a point ofsending him a birthday present,
(22:49):
and then we send Christmaspresents as well, you know, to
them.
Yeah.
And then my other nephew, hisbirthday's in January, like
yours.
It's a little beyond yours.
So his is always cleared up bythen, but we always made a point
of splitting that up too, andwe would send the Christmas
stuff, and then we would sendseparately birthday stuff.
Um because it's hard.
(23:10):
I mean, I know I'm nowhere tocompare it to Christmas, but my
birthday being the day beforeHalloween, yeah, I always got
merged with Halloween, you know,and and so it's it's it's weird
how people don't think aboutthat until your birthday is
close to a holiday.
Zia (23:27):
Absolutely.
Yep.
Yeah, yep.
And I think the the thing aboutthe Christmas decorations, and
I tried also to buy things notred.
Um, like I love the JerseyDevils, you know, that's my
team.
It's red and black, and loveit.
Um, love my red.
I have tons of it in the house,but when it's so much red out,
(23:47):
I think my like OCD kicks in,and I'm like, this is way too
much red to look at.
Yeah.
Um, and then I just feel likemy house is messy because of it.
Heather (23:57):
I I always feel Christmas the house is
cluttered.
So I collect Christmasstockings and I have, I think I
counted this year, I have 39Christmas stockings, different.
And I'll send you a picture.
I have them up on one of thepillars.
Um, side comment.
Rich was talking, you know, ourour air quote producer was
(24:19):
talking about we should open upuh Instagram and send pictures
of stuff we're talking about.
So I know you're not big onthat social media world, so I'll
take care of that.
But I was thinking we could dothat.
Zia (24:30):
Instagram is my thing though.
Heather (24:31):
Instagram's my jam.
Yep.
Yep.
So I was thinking we could dothat.
That would be kind of probablyprobably fun.
But up on our pillar in ourliving room, I hung all the
stockings there, or not all ofthem.
I think I'm missing like four.
I didn't have room for them, soI didn't hang like four of
them.
But like the living room withthat, and then the tree, and
then the couch and the TV andthe dog crate and the dogs and
(24:55):
the people and the carpetsbecause we have lava floors.
If you ask one of our dogs, sowe have carpets all over because
of the lava.
So it's like all of a sudden,and our tree's only been up for
a week today, and it's alreadystarting to feel cluttered to
me.
So I'm looking forward now toJanuary.
Yeah.
I mean, it's beautiful and Ilove it, but it's a lot.
Zia (25:18):
Yep.
Yeah.
And and I think, you know, likewe bring back our seasonal
depression.
You know, that's another stepthat you have to take to clean
up something you don't reallywant to clean up in the first
place.
So another step.
Heather (25:34):
I've never had a live tree all my life.
We've done artificial trees.
Zia (25:39):
Yeah.
Heather (25:39):
I did them with Eliza, I did everything.
Rich loves his live trees.
So I have a live tree thisyear.
And can I tell you I amliterally sweeping the floor
around, or I shouldn't say thefloor, I'm sweeping the lava
because I have to go around thecarpets.
I am literally sweeping it now.
I feel like I'm sweeping it twoor three times a day.
(25:59):
And it's like, and I just hadto water a tree.
I mean, don't get me wrong, Ilove the plants, but I'm
watering a tree in my livingroom.
Zia (26:08):
I I'm I'm allergic to pine trees.
Okay.
Didn't know this, but you know,where I'm living is not the
ideal spot to have a pine treeallergy.
Um, I have one right in mybackyard.
So one one year, Michael said,let's try to get a real tree.
(26:30):
It'd be fun.
Let's go pick one out.
So we did.
The kids had the experience.
We went, we picked out thetree, and I was dying in the
house.
I'm like, oh my god, like thesneezing, the teary eyes, runny
nose, everything.
It smelled beautiful, but everytime I had to vacuum, and then
Michael said, Don't vacuum untilthe end.
(26:52):
And I'm like, but the kids,they're gonna get them all over
them, you know.
Um, they were little.
Um, I was like, oh no, this isnope, gotta go.
It's gotta go.
Gotta get the fake one again.
Yeah.
Heather (27:04):
Yeah.
I don't, I don't mind the realtree.
Um, I don't really smell it.
It's not a strong smell to me.
I smell it when I'm near it,but when I'm in the living room,
it's not that strong.
So I don't know if it was justthe tree.
Yeah, it's not that strong tome.
Um, but I'm allergic tooutside, so I've been doing the
honey treatment, which that'llbe a conversation for another
day because I'm going to we'llhave to talk about that.
(27:25):
Oh, yeah.
But I'm a big honey taker.
So I've been doing that sincethe pandemic, since the COVID
break, the COVID world.
Um, I've been doing a spoonfulof honey every day, and um I
feel like that's helping me withthe pine tree.
Um, but yeah.
(27:45):
Yeah.
So that brings us to gettingthe tree.
Yeah.
Yes.
Zia (27:51):
How is uh your we I know we all had snow.
So how was your uh firstexperience with snow there in
New Hampshire?
Heather (28:00):
So it's interesting.
Um they do school closings anddelays like you guys, you know,
like in New York.
Um it's on our we haveclosings.
Well, not your school district,but you know, what is the one?
Oh my gosh, what's that schooldistrict that closes?
Um up by me.
Well, down, yeah, down downbelow Albany.
(28:21):
Um Ravena?
No, Igabad Crane always closes.
Zia (28:26):
Oh, Igabad.
Oh, yes, always, yeah.
Heather (28:29):
It even made it onto the Capitol District 12 days of
Christmas or whatever that was.
Did you ever hear that?
No, I didn't.
Oh, I'll have to find that.
But anyway, um, so the day wewent to get the tree, um, I
mentioned in the last week aboutthe drive out here in that snow
squall.
Yes.
And how crazy that was.
But last week we had a littlesquall and it was right as we
(28:52):
were going to pick up the tree.
So the tree was covered in snowwhen we got it.
We put it on top of the car, wedrove it here, we brought it in
the house, and of course, thenit dried, and there was yeah, so
that was fine.
But um, so then the next day wehad that snowstorm, you know,
or whatever it was.
(29:12):
It was a day or two of after.
Um, and um it went well.
Um, I didn't go out that day.
Um I had a doctor appointment,and the doctor appointment was
first thing in the morning.
So I was out and back before ithappened, before any of the
snow started coming down orwhatever.
Right.
And um the snow plow, we gotabout five inches, give or take.
(29:38):
Okay.
About five inches.
Um and we have a neighborplowing for us.
And he made it he made it clearwhen he started this that he um
has a day job.
So he's plowing us after work,you know, when it's convenient
to kind of a thing.
And we were like, don't worryabout it.
We'll, you know, we'll be okay.
(29:59):
So he comes through at seveno'clock at night and plows.
And uh he's we pop outside andI'm like, Thank you so much.
I'm like, do you want us tomove the cars?
He's like, no, he's like, I'llcome back in the uh tomorrow and
I'll finish it.
Um, but I have to go to work,so I'll come back after work.
(30:19):
I get out of work, you know,midday, and I'm like, perfect.
Absolutely.
I'm like, just shoot me a textwhen you're coming back and
I'll, you know, make sure thecars get moved so you can finish
the driveway.
Well, the next day is ourdumpster day.
Oh so he had plowed, of course,the top of the driveway.
Now remember, I've mentionedthis, our driveway is about a
(30:40):
quarter mile long.
Yeah.
So I truly can't see ourdumpster.
So I get an email on the secondday of the storm, like close to
dinner time when the guy shouldbe coming back from um the
dumpster.
And I'm like, wow, I'm like,they've sent us the invoice
(31:02):
already.
I'm like, this is a weirdtiming.
So I open it up and it's apicture of our dumpster with a
little bit of snow in front ofit.
And it says, We tried to movethe dumpster, but there was too
much snow blocking it.
Now he didn't like in, heplowed around it, but there was
probably about three feet ofsnow in front of it.
Yeah.
Which I don't blame him.
(31:23):
I wouldn't have gotten anycloser either.
No, no.
So they didn't take ourgarbage.
And they're like, if you wantus to come back, we can do a
comeback fee.
It will charge you the comebackfee and we can get it, or we'll
be back, you know, the nextgarbage day, which we do every
two weeks.
So I'm like, what the hell?
Zia (31:42):
So when they plow, you have to go out, shovel around it so
that they can take the garbage.
Heather (31:48):
Apparently, that's what I'm gonna have to do.
Yeah.
All right.
I feel like you need to takethis up with the DMV.
I I should take this up withDMV.
I should I should reach out tothem and with Rich.
Yeah.
I need to bring Rich with me.
Permission with Rich'spermission and explain to them
that I didn't really like that.
Um but our driveway, um,because it's a gravel driveway,
(32:11):
um, turned into a sheet of ice.
Oh God.
And um my car can't get outeasily.
I can get out.
I just have to kind of kind ofhave to let myself get halfway
up the hill and then let myselfroll down and then do it a
second time, and I can typicallyget out.
Oh man.
Um, so I'm pretty much notdriving my car.
(32:32):
Um but Amazon, um, FedEx, thepost office aren't coming down
our driveway because it's icy.
So we need to find a way tosand a gravel driveway after
it's been plowed.
Zia (32:50):
Um you need like a little um, you have to get one of those
um uh grass feeders, you know,the little and and then put the
salt or the sand in it and thenpush it down as you go, you
know, behind you.
Heather (33:08):
And then that would be great, except um I'd have to
push that up a hill.
That's not good.
No.
So I'd have to go to the end ofthe driveway, which I can't get
to.
Zia (33:20):
Right coming down.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You need like a little box atthe end of the driveway.
We're gonna get little supplieslike that.
Heather (33:30):
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna get that.
But yeah, Rich got a picturefrom Amazon the other day, and
it was a picture of a packageleaning on our dumpster.
Oh my god.
And he's like, he's like,Amazon just dropped a pic a
package at the dumpster.
I'm like, what?
Zia (33:47):
So I jumped in my car, and I learned that yeah, because
well they drop off at likethree, four o'clock in the
morning now, Amazon.
Heather (33:55):
And what if it yes, and what if it was a garbage day?
Zia (33:58):
Oh my god, Heather.
Heather (34:00):
So yeah, so I jumped in the car and I ran up.
And that was when I learnedthat my car doesn't like the
driveway in the winter.
Oh my god.
And I'm the only one in our inthe house that's not a
four-wheel drive or all-wheeldrive.
I just have a car because I Ijust have a car.
Um, but yeah, I think my nextvehicle is gonna be all-wheel
drive or something.
(34:20):
But we did have um one of oursquare dancing events when the
storm was starting.
And the the roads here arepretty good.
I mean, they're pretty quick toclear them, it seems.
So I'm thinking that squallthat I came through when I came
back on uh the day afterThanksgiving.
Yeah, I think that was justlike a freak squall.
(34:42):
And and nobody knew it wascoming.
Um, because in in this areaanyway, they seem to clear it
pretty quick.
Um very good.
Zia (34:51):
So I'm I'm okay with this so far, but yeah.
Well, with what you've beentelling me, I I feel like they
have to, or they're gonna end upwith ice on the roads getting
compact down.
So yeah.
Heather (35:03):
I I did go, I do have to tell you, I did go to
Walmart.
Actually, it wasn't Walmart, itwas T-Mobile because they had
free blankies that they weregiven away last Tuesday.
So I did go to T-Mobile and onmy way, T-Mobile's next to the
Walmart, and on my way, I drivepast my infamous road, dirt
road, road.
(35:23):
Yes, yes.
And I'm not lying, it was clearblacktop, dry, unpaved.
What it was then when I got tothe dirt road part, it was
unplowed, unshoveled, uncleared,yeah, unnothinged, just snowy
path.
I mean, it was packed fromcars.
Zia (35:43):
Well, maybe maybe they're having like an argument as to
whether it's the town or the DMVthat take care of that road.
Heather (35:49):
Oh, I should I should go to my town hall and ask them
about that.
You should.
You should.
Zia (35:56):
I know we keep bringing that up, but it's in my head
that that happens.
It is, and if you want to knowthat's that's an episode, I
think, one, isn't it?
Heather (36:04):
Episode one, yes.
Zia (36:05):
We talked about that, yeah.
Heather (36:08):
Let me see.
Is empisode one?
Zia (36:11):
Yes, yeah, DMV in New Hampshire.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you don't know what we'retalking about, it is definitely
an episode one.
And we I can't see me notreferencing that once an
episode.
Oh gosh, I love that for you.
Oh so um you you had told methat um, you know, when you
(36:35):
first moved there, all thewildlife in your yard, um, in
your backyard.
And how are you seeing adifference between that and
winter now?
Or um yes, actually.
Heather (36:48):
No, actually, it's it's it is it's it's a different
it's different wildlife, sortof.
Um the turkeys that we hadwandering all over.
I mean, we had some days we had36 turkeys in in the group and
they're gone.
I don't know where they went.
Um, I didn't think turkeys.
Thanks, Thanksgiving.
We did have Thanksgiving inbetween.
(37:10):
So yeah, they're scared.
Yeah.
Our um Falcon, I have not seenhim in a while.
Okay.
Um the ravens, I heard them,but I have not seen them.
Seen them?
Okay.
Yep.
And then um our coyotes, if youremember correctly, they live
up on the mountain.
(37:31):
Yeah.
And we would hear them random.
You know, we would hear themtonight, and then we'd hear them
way off in the distance, andthen way, way off in the
distance, and then they'd beback close.
But the other morning, I'm up,I'm up at the crack of dawn.
Actually, I'm up to watch thecrack of dawn.
Um, so I let the two dogs out,and I come in and I hear the
(37:52):
coyotes, and it sounds likethey're literally in the
backyard.
Oh my goodness.
So I'm like, whoa.
So I holler to Rich and he'slike, I think the coyotes are in
the backyard.
And I'm like, it sounds it.
So I open the door, and ofcourse I can't see, it's dark.
Right.
Um, but I can hear them, so Iholler and it doesn't change
(38:15):
anything about them.
So I had a quick conversationin my head, which happens a lot,
but I had a quick conversationin my head, and I'm like, I'm
gonna let the dogs out becausewhen we first moved here, we
were letting the dogs bark atthe coyotes up on the mountain.
Right.
So I opened the door wider andthe two dogs went out and they
stayed on the deck.
(38:36):
They didn't go off into theirarea of the yard where it's
fenced in.
They stayed on the deck andbarked like crazy.
And the coyotes like stoppedinstantly and then started up
again.
And then I'm like, okay, we'rein.
So I brought the dogs in and wehaven't heard the coyotes
since, but they were so close,we could hear them in the house
(38:58):
with the doors closed.
Zia (38:59):
Wow, and it's when we were testing you, like if they were
testing the ground, and thensince they heard your dog spark,
they're like, Oh, okay, wegotta back off again.
Heather (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
It was, it was.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it wasa little unnerving.
I bet that they were thatclose.
Zia (39:18):
Yep.
So yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Well, we all know that your dogand well, your I think it is
the one that's with you.
I'm not sure.
No, no, I think it's Marsha.
She was the scaredy cat, right?
She's the scaredy cat.
Okay.
So we all know my dog Charlielike barks at everything.
Yesterday, Santa came throughon his sleigh um through the
(39:43):
neighborhood.
Yeah.
And she stood by the door.
The you know, sirens are goingoff left and right on the on the
uh fire trucks.
She sat there and she'swatching Santa drive past the
house like it was her bestfriend.
Are you serious?
I was amazed.
I was like, you bark ateverything and nothing.
(40:06):
She bark at leaves.
Right.
And like she'll she'll bark atlike nothing's there, and she
thinks something's there.
Sat there, cool as a cucumber,just look at Santa.
Beautiful.
Wow.
Oh my gosh.
Yep.
So it was like a full-blowntribe of you know fire trucks.
Yeah, I was gonna say they'llcome through your neighborhoods
(40:28):
with four or five and all that.
Yep.
We had two fire trucks pulledand one pulling the slide, and
nope, dead silence.
She's like, This is amazing,love it.
It's crazy.
Heather (40:39):
In the neighborhood I lived in in New York, we didn't
have a drive-through Santa, wehad the walking Santa.
So yeah, he walked when he gotto our neighborhood.
And um he was probably tired ofsitting when he left your
neighborhood to get to myneighborhood.
Um so we had um we have acouple of cars and then we have
a bunch of um kids walking withSanta through our that's how our
(41:00):
Santa comes through in in myNew York neighborhood here.
Um I saw signs for it, but Ididn't see or hear it.
But again, we're so far off theroadbag.
Yep.
I don't know if he camethrough.
I know we have um a bunch ofkids in houses right around us,
(41:21):
so I'm sure he popped throughhere.
Um, I just don't know when itwas.
We're still new enough here.
I need to go to DMV and askthem.
Zia (41:31):
You do.
Heather (41:35):
It's very catchy.
I'll have to go to DMV and askthem about it.
That's right.
Oh, I got my license, it camein the mail yesterday.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
Zia (41:46):
So that's awesome.
So you're official now.
Heather (41:50):
I am official.
I don't have my license plateyet.
I'm still driving around with apaper license plate.
Zia (41:54):
Okay, that's nice for the winter time.
Heather (42:03):
Oh my god.
On that note, I think we shouldprobably wrap it up.
Absolutely.
I'm not sure anybody's gonnaget anything out of the rest of
this conversation.
Zia (42:15):
No, uh, although it would be funny.
It would be funny.
It would be, yes.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
So we're gonna do next weekagain.
We're gonna try.
Heather (42:26):
We are, and there may be secret poppin' guest.
Yes, maybe.
Not a secret Santa, a secretguest, not a secret Santa, a
secret guest.
Yep.
Um I'm going to see.
She's she's gonna listen tothis, so I don't want to say
much, but I'm going to see ifsomeone will join us.
(42:47):
I feel like she would love it.
Um, but I can almost hear thewords coming out of her mouth.
Ah, you know, something really,really, I'm not doing that.
And then I'll be like, what?
Anyway, so tune in next week tosee who our secret guest is.
Yes, and grab your coffee andjoin us.
Yes, that's what I'm justfinishing my cup.
(43:10):
I don't know about you.
Mine too.
Mine too.
All right.
Well, all right.
Thanks for joining us in.
Do we love that for you?
Do we love that for you?
Zia (43:22):
Do we?
Heather (43:23):
I loved a few things for you today.
Zia (43:26):
I did, and I loved a few things for you too.
Yep.
Heather (43:28):
Yeah, that makes it all worthwhile.
Zia (43:30):
Yes, it does.
Heather (43:31):
All right, until next time.
Love you.
Zia (43:34):
Bye.
Hey! How's everybody doing today?
This is episode three of Do WeLove That For You?
Do we I'm Heather?
Zia (00:09):
Do we love that for you?
Heather (00:11):
I don't know.
Today we'll tell.
I'm Heather.
Who are you?
Oh, I'm Z.
Welcome back.
Yes, welcome back.
So, as you guys all know, wekeep our little pages, our um
Apple pages available for whatwe're gonna talk about.
But I'm throwing something inquick on the top.
(00:32):
Did you do the new download forthe new iPhone?
Well, I got a new iPhone.
Zia (00:39):
Oh my gosh.
So you have the new download.
Yes, yes, I do.
It is kind of cool.
Um, just following aroundbecause my camera was broken,
remember?
Everybody was getting videos.
Heather (00:50):
I do.
Zia (00:52):
Yeah, so Margaret kind of my daughter star kind of
advocated for me and she said,Oh, um, excuse me, um, can you
get mom a new phone due to uh uhher sending me videos and it's
taking up space on my phone?
Yeah, that is how that works,yeah.
Heather (01:12):
But I have to tell you, because you got the update with
the new phone, so for you itwas all new.
For me, I woke up to thisupdate.
Oh and I'm not gonna lie, I amnot very happy.
So for you, you think this isall the way it came.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It didn't come that way.
Zia (01:34):
Oh, geez.
Heather (01:36):
No.
Zia (01:37):
So you're at 26, whatever.
I think so.
Yeah.
Heather (01:41):
Yeah, it updated the other night, and then my watch
updated, and now it is theliquid blast.
And so that updated first.
Oh, see, no, mine updated thismorning.
My phone updated two days ago,and then my watch updated this
morning.
So, but my biggest issue is isum I screenshot everything on my
(02:03):
phone.
Oh, yeah.
And before I would justscreenshot it and it would just,
you know, go poof up that ittook the screenshot and then the
picture would just disappear.
Now I have to click the littlecheck mark and then save it as a
photo.
So what used to be a simplelittle one-step thing is now
three steps just to take ascreenshot.
Zia (02:23):
Yep.
Yep.
So, like on my phone now, Ihave a separate camera button on
the side.
Yeah.
So oh, with the bottom.
That's a little tricky for meright now.
Yeah, because I I'm talking onthe phone and my thumb is right
there, and I'm like, Am I takingpictures while I'm speaking on
the phone?
Yes, you are taking pictures ofyour ear.
Heather (02:43):
Yes, I know.
You can adjust that.
Okay.
So I have it so that it's stillpressible, but it's um a double
press now.
I think I think you can make ita double.
I I there's a change you canmake in it, and I also took it
so that it doesn't zoom.
Uh for me now, when I do that,I can use that as the picture
button.
So I can use that to take thepicture.
(03:04):
Perfect.
Um, but I think I think mine isa double click to make it turn
on.
It might not be.
I might have just taken enoughearshots that so you got the new
foam between mine and this one,I think.
Zia (03:18):
What do you have?
Yes.
I have the 16?
Heather (03:23):
16.
Okay, so I have the 16 for mybirthday.
So you're right.
So you're a little bit ahead,which is why I'm saying I'm not
sure if your button can do that.
But I had the 12.
Yes.
Zia (03:36):
You did have a I was very far back because I was waiting
for the 21 and Michael said, youknow, that's probably five
years out.
So you need a new phone.
Um, a lot of us do that.
A lot of us don't do that.
You know my lucky numbers, so Ican't, I can't, I can't do it
again.
Heather (03:54):
Yeah, well now you have now you have the 17.
Yeah.
So you can wait now and get the21.
Your next one can be the 21.
Zia (04:01):
My next one, yep.
Heather (04:02):
And I'll have two more in between that.
Zia (04:04):
That's right.
Which normally I would, butwhen I got the 12, I was like,
I'm not letting go of this one.
Heather (04:12):
You did hold on to my mom and my dad still have a home
button.
Zia (04:18):
Okay, so my dad and his friend um actually has my my mom
Karen's old phone, which Ibelieve is a five.
Heather (04:30):
Oh.
Zia (04:30):
And I think my dad just last year got a 16 because he
was like, I need to upgradebecause he was on a fiver.
Heather (04:39):
He went from a five to a 16.
He did.
Wow, his brain is probablystill rolling around trying to
even figure out how to so good,so good.
Zia (04:52):
Like I he will ask me a question and I will take
pictures, uh, screenshots, I'llcircle it with my little note
pen on there.
And that's not steps.
Yeah, I go through steps forhim, and he does each picture
what it says.
And he he's a good learner whenI show him how to do it, and
(05:12):
he's like uh 84.
So does a great job, very smartman.
Heather (05:19):
Yeah, that's awesome.
So that's just a little olderthan my parents.
Um, but my mom refuses, shedoes not want to lose her home
screen.
Um but they have, I think theyhave the S E.
Okay.
The first S E.
Yes, yes.
So um or whatever that numberwas.
(05:43):
I think that's seven or eight,I think, even.
But they have that.
I know they don't get updatesanymore, which stinks because we
can't do a lot of stuff when wedo group texting because yeah
we can't include them, but or wecan't, you know, add them into
the different things we're doingor whatever.
So it's a little bit annoying,but right, right.
(06:05):
Well, their family friends havea new phone.
Zia (06:07):
Yeah, their family friend, uh, my dad and my mom Karen, um
they uh gave my mom Karen'sphone to him when she had
passed, and he never changed thevoicemail on it.
So when he, you know, if I callhim, it's my mom Karen's voice.
(06:28):
So he always does give me theoption, you know, if you want to
just hear her, just call me ortext me and tell me you're
calling just to hear her, andthen I won't answer the phone.
So that is a that is a littlebenefit to have a family friend
get a phone.
So yeah.
Heather (06:46):
Yes, oh my gosh, I love that.
Zia (06:48):
I love that for you.
Thank you.
And I do use that option hereand there.
Heather (06:55):
I'm sure you do.
Well, why don't we jump aroundon our topics then, since we're
talking about our parents andour siblings, and well, we're
not talking about siblings yet,but we're talking about our
parents, so why don't we justhit the family?
Zia (07:08):
All right, so I had an interesting little chat with a
kindergarten friend, and um hewalked in yesterday and he said,
Missy, do you have a brother?
And I said, No, I do not have abrother.
Do you have a sister?
Nope, don't have a sister.
You got a mama?
I said, Yes, I have a mama.
(07:29):
Do you have a dad?
Oh wait, I think we're havingtechnical difficulties here.
He's like, hang on.
Heather (07:33):
He goes, Well you're frozen on my side.
You're frozen on my side.
I'm not sure what happened.
Zia (07:39):
Your screen is black.
Heather (07:41):
Yeah.
Zia (07:42):
Oh, uh oh.
So are we good?
I yeah, I hear you.
Okay, okay.
Um, so I said, um he goes, whydon't you have a brother?
I said, Um, my mom never gaveme one.
Um, why don't you have asister?
I said, well, she never gave meone of those either.
So he said, Where's your mama?
(08:03):
I said, uh, not around.
I said, and um, where's yourdad?
I said, Oh, Pennsylvania.
Uh he said, Okay.
And I said, Is that it?
Yeah, I don't understand whyyou don't have brother and
sister.
Why don't you get one of those?
So it brought up somethingfunny that you know, like how
yeah, I how this little guy isthat interested in brothers and
(08:27):
sisters and siblings and momsand dads and where they went.
And um you know, and I waslike, okay, this is very
interesting.
So I I said I'll bring it uptoday because you know, I don't
think as just being an onlychild or having siblings, it's
an everyday thought of who doyou have, who don't you have,
(08:50):
right?
You know, where's your parents,where are you where are they
not, you know?
Right, and or even who's yourparents think about it.
This is important.
Oh my god.
Absolutely.
So he really brought a thoughtto my mind of like, no, I don't
and the other kids, you know,that are standing there, they
all had brothers and sisters,and you're thinking about like,
(09:12):
I don't know, maybe twenty kids,maybe if not more, um, all said
that they had siblings, and I'mthe only one standing there
saying I don't have any.
Right, right.
So and that's that's somethingthat go ahead.
No, it's like do you do youthink about that?
(09:34):
No, because you know you havesiblings, I don't.
Um then I had an only child.
Heather (09:41):
I have an only child, and you have multiple children.
Zia (09:44):
I don't, right, right, yeah, so like balance right.
And like my husband came from abig family.
Um, did Rich come from a bigfamily?
Heather (09:56):
Rich he has uh no, he's one of three.
He's the oldest of three.
Okay, all right, all right.
He's his his dad, he's theoldest of three, so yeah.
But it is funny because um,like I didn't want just one
child, I wanted to havemultiple, but life threw me.
Yeah, the the apples it threwme, and I took what I got.
(10:19):
And I love my one my onlychild.
My husband, Rich, has three uhthree kids.
So I now have four.
Granted, they're all grownadults, but that's okay.
I still they're still my kids.
I still have been with them.
Yep.
Right.
I still have been with them forthe 12 years Rich and I have
been together.
So so yeah, so we have the onlychild, but I can remember Eliza
(10:41):
coming home a few times andtalking about her life if she
had siblings.
For example, my my Eliza wentto a private school.
And at one point, she was shewas complaining about being in a
private school and being not aswell-to-do as some of the other
kids in the school.
And and I pointed out to herthat that's a correct statement,
(11:06):
but she's in a in a privateschool.
She could be in public schooland have five or six siblings,
and she was like, Well, I don'twant that either.
And I'm like, Well, I I'm notsure what to give you there, but
she on occasion did ask forsiblings, not often, she really
embraced the only child, um,which surprised me because yeah,
(11:28):
I I feel I did too.
Zia (11:30):
I I was not one to shy away to tell people I didn't have
any siblings.
Yeah.
Heather (11:39):
So I wonder if that's a thing, because I used to wish
to be an only child.
I was the youngest.
Yeah.
I was the youngest and the onlygirl.
So I have two biologicalbrothers, and then my dad comes
with three boys, and we'reactually very similar to the
Brady bunches, and we're all thesame ages.
So my dad and my mom had babiesthe same year, basically.
(12:01):
And my parents, my mom and mydad didn't get together until I
was an adult, but they're oldhigh school sweethearts, so it's
an awesome story.
Maybe one day with theirpermission, I'll tell the story.
Um but so I grew up with twoolder brothers, and I was the
youngest and the only girl.
And there were so many times Iwished I was an only child.
Um I have nothing againsthaving brothers, but there were
(12:24):
times when I I would say, youknow, if I was an only child, I
wouldn't have to have this orget this, or you know, because
we used to get we used to get atwo-liter bottle of soda, and
that was our soda for the week.
Yep.
And if you finished it ahead oftime, you were out of luck.
And and I can remember mybrothers trying to bribe me for
my soda, and I can remembertrying to bribe my brothers for
(12:47):
soda, and yeah, and you know,but like Eliza never had that.
Zia (12:51):
Yeah.
So with with that, like I ofcourse, you know, I didn't have
to share.
Um, but when I lived with mygrandparents, um, my you know, I
got what I needed, I got what Iwanted, but I wasn't overly
spoiled.
Um like my grandfather, youknow, I had a I had chores
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around the house.
Um, I had to work for thethings.
Um, you know, and mygrandparents uh really they they
raised the heck out of me um toknow, you know, this this is
not gonna stand if you're inreal society.
Um so you better not act thatway.
But I feel like when when I ummy mom Joyce had a dance studio,
(13:35):
I would go down to the studioand that was like my extended
family.
So I had like a hundred, youknow, sisters, older, younger,
you know.
Um they were always taking careof me.
Um a few were my babysittersand I still keep in touch with
them.
Um yeah, so I mean I see themevery summer, quite a few of
(14:00):
them.
Um, but one uh I I see rituallyevery summer.
I see her all the time.
And uh but maybe with herpermission I will, you know,
tell uh the story about her too.
Um, but yeah, it's like I Ithink I gained like a um I don't
(14:20):
know, like a sacredness toletting people in your life
being an only child because youyou don't have that, and then
it's like, oh, do I really wantthis person that close to me?
Right.
You know, um a little bit of uhcaution because of that, I
feel.
Heather (14:37):
Yeah, I feel Eliza's the same way.
I feel like she's more cautiousabout who who is in her inner
circle, yep, and and and who shewho she interacts with and how
she interacts with them.
I I feel like there is a a wallthere.
Yeah, and then I just not a badwall though.
Zia (14:56):
No, no, it's just you're just a little bit more cautious
because you haven't had to docertain things with siblings.
Heather (15:04):
And where whether I wanted whether I wanted, you
know, Brian over or not, Briancame over to play with my
brother, and either I playedwith them or I played by myself.
I had no choice, and I justmade up the name Brian.
There's nobody named Brian.
Zia (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yep.
But yeah, so I think my kids, Ithink I raised them.
Well, Michael always says Iraised them kind of like um
three only children.
Um, because you, you know, ifthey not none of them do the
same thing.
Um, they're all went differentdirections with careers and you
(15:38):
know life.
And um they, you know, if whenwe would go to the store, you
know, unless it was somethingfor like, oh, I've I just do
this and I need this to buy fortoday, um everybody was like, We
we're all going for shoes.
So you you e everybody gets theshoes, and you know, if we're
gonna go to the store for apresent, then everybody gets the
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present.
So I kind of like did onlychildren three times together,
you know.
Heather (16:07):
I I don't I don't really think that's accurate
because that's the way we werewhen I grew up.
So we when we needed shopping,granted, I went to a different
store than my brothers did.
But if it was shoe day, we allwent and got shoes.
And and and maybe I went thenext day because I had to go to
a different store, but we allgot shoes on the same day.
We all went school shopping onthe same day.
(16:28):
We all did that.
And me and my my two brothers,we all do different things.
None of us have the same careerpath at all.
The only similarity is myeldest brother and I both did
the military.
Okay.
Um, but after that, totallydifferent paths.
So I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that that's sothat might be an accurate
(16:50):
statement.
I think that's a multi-childthing because okay, think about
it.
Because I have if you boughtyou bought star shoes, your
other two children would beupset.
Right.
In theory, right?
Yeah.
So you would go by all of them.
Zia (17:07):
So I don't think I did it.
Because I've heard of familiesthat growing up was like, oh, my
brother got shoes, and Ididn't, and my mom always
favorites him all the things.
Yeah, right.
So it's like some of the kidsin the school, even.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was not gonna be that parentthat did that.
It was like, okay, you youknow, your shoes are looking a
(17:29):
little shabby.
Heather (17:30):
Um yours are gonna be shabby, and yours are pristine,
but let's get shoes foreveryone.
Zia (17:38):
Let's get shoes, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Heather (17:41):
No, it's true.
I no, I I don't think you Idon't think you raised three
only children.
I think you raised them theright way because there are
certain things you have to do ina group.
Well, thank you, Heather.
Parenting tips from Heather.
Zia (17:55):
That's right, that's right.
Heather (17:58):
But uh, siblings are a crazy topic.
Speaking, yeah, yeah.
Go ahead.
Well, I was gonna say, speakingof siblings, yeah, um, how's
your holiday decorating going?
Well, I'm not gonna say holidaybecause I do Christmas, so I'm
not a holiday person.
I do Christmas, so how's yourChristmas decorating doing?
Zia (18:18):
Um, well, my tree uh is currently in a bag sitting in
front of me as I'm speaking toyou.
Um it looks great horizontally.
No, okay.
It has new.
Is it brown or black or uh it'sin a gray bag we have?
Oh, a gray bag, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So little and it has a redzipper, so it's very holiday.
(18:41):
Oh, so it's holiday-ish.
You're getting there.
Yep.
So um, yeah, I just have tomove a few things around.
And I did talk to mygranddaughter yesterday, and
she's like, I said, Oh, I loveyour tree.
And she said, Thank you.
She goes, I see your tree.
And I said, Oh god, I have toput the tree up.
Yep.
So yeah, I mean, when you havea two-year-old asking, where's
(19:03):
your tree?
Yeah, I put the tree up.
Yep.
So I will be fighting thattoday.
Heather (19:10):
Ooh.
Can you send me pictures?
Zia (19:13):
Oh, I will, I will, um, because that's a miracle in
itself.
Um that's just it's it's notthat it's hard to decorate for
me.
It's just oh, I think theeffort put forward to do it all
the time.
It's like, you know, it'sdifferent when you're an
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adult-only house.
Absolutely.
That too.
Yep.
It's just it's different.
Yeah.
But now it's like I have tothink about when the grandkids
come over and see the tree.
And you know, that's uh butthen I don't like looking at it
the whole time.
Like I would love to just putit up for the day they see the
tree and take it back down.
That would be ideal for me.
(19:55):
That would be ideal for me.
And here I
Heather (20:00):
I put my tree up on typically I put mine up the
Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Zia (20:06):
Oh wow, see?
Heather (20:07):
And I take it down the s the Saturday after New Year's.
Zia (20:15):
Okay.
So I think the problem is too,with my birthday being so close
to Christmas, you know, I know Inever wanted the tree up for my
birthday.
Um and my parents did try totake it down uh so it didn't
combine that way.
And um my mom Karen, she had ain they lived in Kentucky at one
(20:40):
point, and um when they uh theyhad a Christmas tree up all
year in one room so they didn'thave to take it down.
And did they decorate it forthe holidays?
Beautiful tree.
It no, it was always aChristmas tree in the one room.
Oh my gosh, and it was like shehad her collection on it, you
know.
They collected certain umornaments, so they were on the
(21:01):
tree, and it is a beautifultree.
Um and uh not that theywouldn't use the room, but you
know, it was it was just abeautiful tree all the time.
And she if she did find anornament, you know, she could
possibly put it right back upthere when she got it and
wouldn't have to pack it.
But that's cool.
Um she, you know, she wasalways the person to send me a
(21:23):
gift that was like, you know,oh, this is um not Christmas,
this is your birthday.
Here are your Christmas wrappedpresents, and this is your
birthday wrapped present.
So it was, yeah.
And I know I keep going backand forth.
People are probably confused,they're like, she says mom
Karen, she says mom Joyce.
Um, my mom Joyce is mybiological mom, and my mom Karen
(21:46):
is my like adopted mom.
So that's why you're gettingconfused.
We'll talk about that one daytoo.
Heather (21:52):
But um, it's a topic all in itself, all in itself,
yeah.
Zia (21:56):
But yeah, so that's why I'm going back and forth.
But yeah, um, so it always wasmade to me that you know it's
not your birth, it's notChristmas.
Right.
This is your birthday present.
So we take the tree down sothat you don't have to look at
Christmas, you know.
And um, and I am trying to dothat with my granddaughter too,
because she's close toChristmas.
(22:16):
And I'm very close toChristmas.
Anything red or green oranything packaging to go to her
for her birthday, you know.
I want to clearly say that thisis your birthday present and
we're done with Christmas.
Heather (22:29):
Yep.
So I have I have two nephews,one on Rich's side and one on my
side.
And yeah, the one on Rich'sside, his birthday is December,
I believe December 20th.
Okay.
So he's just out of luck.
The trees are up for him andall that.
And and and I feel bad.
So we always make a point ofsending him a birthday present,
(22:49):
and then we send Christmaspresents as well, you know, to
them.
Yeah.
And then my other nephew, hisbirthday's in January, like
yours.
It's a little beyond yours.
So his is always cleared up bythen, but we always made a point
of splitting that up too, andwe would send the Christmas
stuff, and then we would sendseparately birthday stuff.
Um because it's hard.
(23:10):
I mean, I know I'm nowhere tocompare it to Christmas, but my
birthday being the day beforeHalloween, yeah, I always got
merged with Halloween, you know,and and so it's it's it's weird
how people don't think aboutthat until your birthday is
close to a holiday.
Zia (23:27):
Absolutely.
Yep.
Yeah, yep.
And I think the the thing aboutthe Christmas decorations, and
I tried also to buy things notred.
Um, like I love the JerseyDevils, you know, that's my
team.
It's red and black, and loveit.
Um, love my red.
I have tons of it in the house,but when it's so much red out,
(23:47):
I think my like OCD kicks in,and I'm like, this is way too
much red to look at.
Yeah.
Um, and then I just feel likemy house is messy because of it.
Heather (23:57):
I I always feel Christmas the house is
cluttered.
So I collect Christmasstockings and I have, I think I
counted this year, I have 39Christmas stockings, different.
And I'll send you a picture.
I have them up on one of thepillars.
Um, side comment.
Rich was talking, you know, ourour air quote producer was
(24:19):
talking about we should open upuh Instagram and send pictures
of stuff we're talking about.
So I know you're not big onthat social media world, so I'll
take care of that.
But I was thinking we could dothat.
Zia (24:30):
Instagram is my thing though.
Heather (24:31):
Instagram's my jam.
Yep.
Yep.
So I was thinking we could dothat.
That would be kind of probablyprobably fun.
But up on our pillar in ourliving room, I hung all the
stockings there, or not all ofthem.
I think I'm missing like four.
I didn't have room for them, soI didn't hang like four of
them.
But like the living room withthat, and then the tree, and
then the couch and the TV andthe dog crate and the dogs and
(24:55):
the people and the carpetsbecause we have lava floors.
If you ask one of our dogs, sowe have carpets all over because
of the lava.
So it's like all of a sudden,and our tree's only been up for
a week today, and it's alreadystarting to feel cluttered to
me.
So I'm looking forward now toJanuary.
Yeah.
I mean, it's beautiful and Ilove it, but it's a lot.
Zia (25:18):
Yep.
Yeah.
And and I think, you know, likewe bring back our seasonal
depression.
You know, that's another stepthat you have to take to clean
up something you don't reallywant to clean up in the first
place.
So another step.
Heather (25:34):
I've never had a live tree all my life.
We've done artificial trees.
Zia (25:39):
Yeah.
Heather (25:39):
I did them with Eliza, I did everything.
Rich loves his live trees.
So I have a live tree thisyear.
And can I tell you I amliterally sweeping the floor
around, or I shouldn't say thefloor, I'm sweeping the lava
because I have to go around thecarpets.
I am literally sweeping it now.
I feel like I'm sweeping it twoor three times a day.
(25:59):
And it's like, and I just hadto water a tree.
I mean, don't get me wrong, Ilove the plants, but I'm
watering a tree in my livingroom.
Zia (26:08):
I I'm I'm allergic to pine trees.
Okay.
Didn't know this, but you know,where I'm living is not the
ideal spot to have a pine treeallergy.
Um, I have one right in mybackyard.
So one one year, Michael said,let's try to get a real tree.
(26:30):
It'd be fun.
Let's go pick one out.
So we did.
The kids had the experience.
We went, we picked out thetree, and I was dying in the
house.
I'm like, oh my god, like thesneezing, the teary eyes, runny
nose, everything.
It smelled beautiful, but everytime I had to vacuum, and then
Michael said, Don't vacuum untilthe end.
(26:52):
And I'm like, but the kids,they're gonna get them all over
them, you know.
Um, they were little.
Um, I was like, oh no, this isnope, gotta go.
It's gotta go.
Gotta get the fake one again.
Yeah.
Heather (27:04):
Yeah.
I don't, I don't mind the realtree.
Um, I don't really smell it.
It's not a strong smell to me.
I smell it when I'm near it,but when I'm in the living room,
it's not that strong.
So I don't know if it was justthe tree.
Yeah, it's not that strong tome.
Um, but I'm allergic tooutside, so I've been doing the
honey treatment, which that'llbe a conversation for another
day because I'm going to we'llhave to talk about that.
(27:25):
Oh, yeah.
But I'm a big honey taker.
So I've been doing that sincethe pandemic, since the COVID
break, the COVID world.
Um, I've been doing a spoonfulof honey every day, and um I
feel like that's helping me withthe pine tree.
Um, but yeah.
(27:45):
Yeah.
So that brings us to gettingthe tree.
Yeah.
Yes.
Zia (27:51):
How is uh your we I know we all had snow.
So how was your uh firstexperience with snow there in
New Hampshire?
Heather (28:00):
So it's interesting.
Um they do school closings anddelays like you guys, you know,
like in New York.
Um it's on our we haveclosings.
Well, not your school district,but you know, what is the one?
Oh my gosh, what's that schooldistrict that closes?
Um up by me.
Well, down, yeah, down downbelow Albany.
(28:21):
Um Ravena?
No, Igabad Crane always closes.
Zia (28:26):
Oh, Igabad.
Oh, yes, always, yeah.
Heather (28:29):
It even made it onto the Capitol District 12 days of
Christmas or whatever that was.
Did you ever hear that?
No, I didn't.
Oh, I'll have to find that.
But anyway, um, so the day wewent to get the tree, um, I
mentioned in the last week aboutthe drive out here in that snow
squall.
Yes.
And how crazy that was.
But last week we had a littlesquall and it was right as we
(28:52):
were going to pick up the tree.
So the tree was covered in snowwhen we got it.
We put it on top of the car, wedrove it here, we brought it in
the house, and of course, thenit dried, and there was yeah, so
that was fine.
But um, so then the next day wehad that snowstorm, you know,
or whatever it was.
(29:12):
It was a day or two of after.
Um, and um it went well.
Um, I didn't go out that day.
Um I had a doctor appointment,and the doctor appointment was
first thing in the morning.
So I was out and back before ithappened, before any of the
snow started coming down orwhatever.
Right.
And um the snow plow, we gotabout five inches, give or take.
(29:38):
Okay.
About five inches.
Um and we have a neighborplowing for us.
And he made it he made it clearwhen he started this that he um
has a day job.
So he's plowing us after work,you know, when it's convenient
to kind of a thing.
And we were like, don't worryabout it.
We'll, you know, we'll be okay.
(29:59):
So he comes through at seveno'clock at night and plows.
And uh he's we pop outside andI'm like, Thank you so much.
I'm like, do you want us tomove the cars?
He's like, no, he's like, I'llcome back in the uh tomorrow and
I'll finish it.
Um, but I have to go to work,so I'll come back after work.
(30:19):
I get out of work, you know,midday, and I'm like, perfect.
Absolutely.
I'm like, just shoot me a textwhen you're coming back and
I'll, you know, make sure thecars get moved so you can finish
the driveway.
Well, the next day is ourdumpster day.
Oh so he had plowed, of course,the top of the driveway.
Now remember, I've mentionedthis, our driveway is about a
(30:40):
quarter mile long.
Yeah.
So I truly can't see ourdumpster.
So I get an email on the secondday of the storm, like close to
dinner time when the guy shouldbe coming back from um the
dumpster.
And I'm like, wow, I'm like,they've sent us the invoice
(31:02):
already.
I'm like, this is a weirdtiming.
So I open it up and it's apicture of our dumpster with a
little bit of snow in front ofit.
And it says, We tried to movethe dumpster, but there was too
much snow blocking it.
Now he didn't like in, heplowed around it, but there was
probably about three feet ofsnow in front of it.
Yeah.
Which I don't blame him.
(31:23):
I wouldn't have gotten anycloser either.
No, no.
So they didn't take ourgarbage.
And they're like, if you wantus to come back, we can do a
comeback fee.
It will charge you the comebackfee and we can get it, or we'll
be back, you know, the nextgarbage day, which we do every
two weeks.
So I'm like, what the hell?
Zia (31:42):
So when they plow, you have to go out, shovel around it so
that they can take the garbage.
Heather (31:48):
Apparently, that's what I'm gonna have to do.
Yeah.
All right.
I feel like you need to takethis up with the DMV.
I I should take this up withDMV.
I should I should reach out tothem and with Rich.
Yeah.
I need to bring Rich with me.
Permission with Rich'spermission and explain to them
that I didn't really like that.
Um but our driveway, um,because it's a gravel driveway,
(32:11):
um, turned into a sheet of ice.
Oh God.
And um my car can't get outeasily.
I can get out.
I just have to kind of kind ofhave to let myself get halfway
up the hill and then let myselfroll down and then do it a
second time, and I can typicallyget out.
Oh man.
Um, so I'm pretty much notdriving my car.
(32:32):
Um but Amazon, um, FedEx, thepost office aren't coming down
our driveway because it's icy.
So we need to find a way tosand a gravel driveway after
it's been plowed.
Zia (32:50):
Um you need like a little um, you have to get one of those
um uh grass feeders, you know,the little and and then put the
salt or the sand in it and thenpush it down as you go, you
know, behind you.
Heather (33:08):
And then that would be great, except um I'd have to
push that up a hill.
That's not good.
No.
So I'd have to go to the end ofthe driveway, which I can't get
to.
Zia (33:20):
Right coming down.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You need like a little box atthe end of the driveway.
We're gonna get little supplieslike that.
Heather (33:30):
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna get that.
But yeah, Rich got a picturefrom Amazon the other day, and
it was a picture of a packageleaning on our dumpster.
Oh my god.
And he's like, he's like,Amazon just dropped a pic a
package at the dumpster.
I'm like, what?
Zia (33:47):
So I jumped in my car, and I learned that yeah, because
well they drop off at likethree, four o'clock in the
morning now, Amazon.
Heather (33:55):
And what if it yes, and what if it was a garbage day?
Zia (33:58):
Oh my god, Heather.
Heather (34:00):
So yeah, so I jumped in the car and I ran up.
And that was when I learnedthat my car doesn't like the
driveway in the winter.
Oh my god.
And I'm the only one in our inthe house that's not a
four-wheel drive or all-wheeldrive.
I just have a car because I Ijust have a car.
Um, but yeah, I think my nextvehicle is gonna be all-wheel
drive or something.
(34:20):
But we did have um one of oursquare dancing events when the
storm was starting.
And the the roads here arepretty good.
I mean, they're pretty quick toclear them, it seems.
So I'm thinking that squallthat I came through when I came
back on uh the day afterThanksgiving.
Yeah, I think that was justlike a freak squall.
(34:42):
And and nobody knew it wascoming.
Um, because in in this areaanyway, they seem to clear it
pretty quick.
Um very good.
Zia (34:51):
So I'm I'm okay with this so far, but yeah.
Well, with what you've beentelling me, I I feel like they
have to, or they're gonna end upwith ice on the roads getting
compact down.
So yeah.
Heather (35:03):
I I did go, I do have to tell you, I did go to
Walmart.
Actually, it wasn't Walmart, itwas T-Mobile because they had
free blankies that they weregiven away last Tuesday.
So I did go to T-Mobile and onmy way, T-Mobile's next to the
Walmart, and on my way, I drivepast my infamous road, dirt
road, road.
(35:23):
Yes, yes.
And I'm not lying, it was clearblacktop, dry, unpaved.
What it was then when I got tothe dirt road part, it was
unplowed, unshoveled, uncleared,yeah, unnothinged, just snowy
path.
I mean, it was packed fromcars.
Zia (35:43):
Well, maybe maybe they're having like an argument as to
whether it's the town or the DMVthat take care of that road.
Heather (35:49):
Oh, I should I should go to my town hall and ask them
about that.
You should.
You should.
Zia (35:56):
I know we keep bringing that up, but it's in my head
that that happens.
It is, and if you want to knowthat's that's an episode, I
think, one, isn't it?
Heather (36:04):
Episode one, yes.
Zia (36:05):
We talked about that, yeah.
Heather (36:08):
Let me see.
Is empisode one?
Zia (36:11):
Yes, yeah, DMV in New Hampshire.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you don't know what we'retalking about, it is definitely
an episode one.
And we I can't see me notreferencing that once an
episode.
Oh gosh, I love that for you.
Oh so um you you had told methat um, you know, when you
(36:35):
first moved there, all thewildlife in your yard, um, in
your backyard.
And how are you seeing adifference between that and
winter now?
Or um yes, actually.
Heather (36:48):
No, actually, it's it's it is it's it's a different
it's different wildlife, sortof.
Um the turkeys that we hadwandering all over.
I mean, we had some days we had36 turkeys in in the group and
they're gone.
I don't know where they went.
Um, I didn't think turkeys.
Thanks, Thanksgiving.
We did have Thanksgiving inbetween.
(37:10):
So yeah, they're scared.
Yeah.
Our um Falcon, I have not seenhim in a while.
Okay.
Um the ravens, I heard them,but I have not seen them.
Seen them?
Okay.
Yep.
And then um our coyotes, if youremember correctly, they live
up on the mountain.
(37:31):
Yeah.
And we would hear them random.
You know, we would hear themtonight, and then we'd hear them
way off in the distance, andthen way, way off in the
distance, and then they'd beback close.
But the other morning, I'm up,I'm up at the crack of dawn.
Actually, I'm up to watch thecrack of dawn.
Um, so I let the two dogs out,and I come in and I hear the
(37:52):
coyotes, and it sounds likethey're literally in the
backyard.
Oh my goodness.
So I'm like, whoa.
So I holler to Rich and he'slike, I think the coyotes are in
the backyard.
And I'm like, it sounds it.
So I open the door, and ofcourse I can't see, it's dark.
Right.
Um, but I can hear them, so Iholler and it doesn't change
(38:15):
anything about them.
So I had a quick conversationin my head, which happens a lot,
but I had a quick conversationin my head, and I'm like, I'm
gonna let the dogs out becausewhen we first moved here, we
were letting the dogs bark atthe coyotes up on the mountain.
Right.
So I opened the door wider andthe two dogs went out and they
stayed on the deck.
(38:36):
They didn't go off into theirarea of the yard where it's
fenced in.
They stayed on the deck andbarked like crazy.
And the coyotes like stoppedinstantly and then started up
again.
And then I'm like, okay, we'rein.
So I brought the dogs in and wehaven't heard the coyotes
since, but they were so close,we could hear them in the house
(38:58):
with the doors closed.
Zia (38:59):
Wow, and it's when we were testing you, like if they were
testing the ground, and thensince they heard your dog spark,
they're like, Oh, okay, wegotta back off again.
Heather (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
It was, it was.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it wasa little unnerving.
I bet that they were thatclose.
Zia (39:18):
Yep.
So yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Well, we all know that your dogand well, your I think it is
the one that's with you.
I'm not sure.
No, no, I think it's Marsha.
She was the scaredy cat, right?
She's the scaredy cat.
Okay.
So we all know my dog Charlielike barks at everything.
Yesterday, Santa came throughon his sleigh um through the
(39:43):
neighborhood.
Yeah.
And she stood by the door.
The you know, sirens are goingoff left and right on the on the
uh fire trucks.
She sat there and she'swatching Santa drive past the
house like it was her bestfriend.
Are you serious?
I was amazed.
I was like, you bark ateverything and nothing.
(40:06):
She bark at leaves.
Right.
And like she'll she'll bark atlike nothing's there, and she
thinks something's there.
Sat there, cool as a cucumber,just look at Santa.
Beautiful.
Wow.
Oh my gosh.
Yep.
So it was like a full-blowntribe of you know fire trucks.
Yeah, I was gonna say they'llcome through your neighborhoods
(40:28):
with four or five and all that.
Yep.
We had two fire trucks pulledand one pulling the slide, and
nope, dead silence.
She's like, This is amazing,love it.
It's crazy.
Heather (40:39):
In the neighborhood I lived in in New York, we didn't
have a drive-through Santa, wehad the walking Santa.
So yeah, he walked when he gotto our neighborhood.
And um he was probably tired ofsitting when he left your
neighborhood to get to myneighborhood.
Um so we had um we have acouple of cars and then we have
a bunch of um kids walking withSanta through our that's how our
(41:00):
Santa comes through in in myNew York neighborhood here.
Um I saw signs for it, but Ididn't see or hear it.
But again, we're so far off theroadbag.
Yep.
I don't know if he camethrough.
I know we have um a bunch ofkids in houses right around us,
(41:21):
so I'm sure he popped throughhere.
Um, I just don't know when itwas.
We're still new enough here.
I need to go to DMV and askthem.
Zia (41:31):
You do.
Heather (41:35):
It's very catchy.
I'll have to go to DMV and askthem about it.
That's right.
Oh, I got my license, it camein the mail yesterday.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
Zia (41:46):
So that's awesome.
So you're official now.
Heather (41:50):
I am official.
I don't have my license plateyet.
I'm still driving around with apaper license plate.
Zia (41:54):
Okay, that's nice for the winter time.
Heather (42:03):
Oh my god.
On that note, I think we shouldprobably wrap it up.
Absolutely.
I'm not sure anybody's gonnaget anything out of the rest of
this conversation.
Zia (42:15):
No, uh, although it would be funny.
It would be funny.
It would be, yes.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
So we're gonna do next weekagain.
We're gonna try.
Heather (42:26):
We are, and there may be secret poppin' guest.
Yes, maybe.
Not a secret Santa, a secretguest, not a secret Santa, a
secret guest.
Yep.
Um I'm going to see.
She's she's gonna listen tothis, so I don't want to say
much, but I'm going to see ifsomeone will join us.
(42:47):
I feel like she would love it.
Um, but I can almost hear thewords coming out of her mouth.
Ah, you know, something really,really, I'm not doing that.
And then I'll be like, what?
Anyway, so tune in next week tosee who our secret guest is.
Yes, and grab your coffee andjoin us.
Yes, that's what I'm justfinishing my cup.
(43:10):
I don't know about you.
Mine too.
Mine too.
All right.
Well, all right.
Thanks for joining us in.
Do we love that for you?
Do we love that for you?
Zia (43:22):
Do we?
Heather (43:23):
I loved a few things for you today.
Zia (43:26):
I did, and I loved a few things for you too.
Yep.
Heather (43:28):
Yeah, that makes it all worthwhile.
Zia (43:30):
Yes, it does.
Heather (43:31):
All right, until next time.
Love you.
Zia (43:34):
Bye.
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