September 17, 2024 • 44 mins
Not sure how it’s been four years of podcasting, but here we are! In this episode, Sarah gives some life updates and shares what she has gotten up to in the last year as she gets ready to take on married life and year five of podcasting.
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(00:15):
- Hello and welcome to Introducing Me.
I'm your host, Sarah. Istarted this podcast to get
to know other people and lifestyles while
discovering more about myself.
Each episode I give a new guest a chance
to discuss their background,culture, interests,
or whatever they want to talkabout to help increase all
of our own worldviews.
It's that time of year whereat the end of each year
of podcasting, I wrap up an episode
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and I do an episode withlearning more about me,
what's happened in my past year,
and just me talking with themicrophone a couple times.
I've had my fiance kind of interview me
as if I were the guest,
but like last year, it'sjust me and the microphone.
Today. If you listen tomy past couple episodes,
we look back at years one through three
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with doing some clipsfrom various episodes.
And the main reason for that was
because it is currentlySeptember. In August
I had a vacation in September.
I'm getting married and tryingto schedule my regular amount
of guests was just a little bit too much
with the extra things that were going on.
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And I thought it wouldbe a nice break, um,
that I could still record.
I have recorded in this time,
but in preparation for October is
what those recordings have been for.
And so that was a fun littleexercise for me to go back
and look through various episodetitles, see who popped out,
um, and which ones I thoughtI could then pull from.
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And also a nice exercise ofhow long do people talk for
and how, how much do I needto get to an episode of length
that I was willing to, willing to publish.
And I did that and then was like,
and then I'll record the,the year four finale episode.
(02:03):
Um, and I'm finally here sitting in front
of my microphone recording that.
So I, in preparation for thiswas like, I need to look back
and see what's happenedover the last year.
Many people will do thatat calendar year end,
they'll reflect on the pastyear, look into the future year.
And, and I kind of do that a little bit,
but that was nine months ago.
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And I, you know, opened mycalendar back up to September
to see what was I doing a year ago.
And, 'cause I know, you know,some things, it's been a lot
of wedding for the last year,
but I was like, I don'twant to talk for 30,
40 minutes about my wedding.
People don't, peopledon't need to hear that.
Um, so I, you know, wrote some note down
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and I realized I traveleda lot in the last year.
And so I'll kind of go through that
and share what's been going on.
Uh, it's been a really exciting year
and I think this next yearwill also be very exciting.
But before I kind of diveinto the last year, you know,
if it's been a while sinceyou've heard me talk, uh,
about myself or youdon't know me in person,
(03:07):
a little rundown of of who I am.
Um, so I'm currently 30 years old.
My name is Sarah and Ilive in Pennsylvania.
I grew up in Connecticut,
but went to Susquehanna University,
which is in Pennsylvania,
and ended up moving toPennsylvania after graduation
and have been here foralmost 10 years now.
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And I, you know, have
had a lot going on in life.
I've changed a handful of jobs,
but same job I had last year
that hasn't changed in the past year.
Um, you know, I've, I moved once, um,
after first moving to Pennsylvania
and still in that place, stillhave two cats and a fiance.
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Um, we've been togetherfor about nine years
and have been engagedfor a little over two,
so we're excited.
Um, we at this point haveour marriage license.
We have practiced ourceremony, so it's just kind of,
you know, now is soon thereaftergonna be the big event.
And I have really, with my fiance,
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Coleman really started toappreciate the ability to travel.
A lot of our travel tends tobe a little bit more local.
We actually have notgotten on a plane together.
Our honeymoon will be thefirst time that we do that,
even though we have traveled to places
that have needed planes
before, we just haven'tever traveled together
because we haven't been goingto or from the same place.
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Um, we did a really long road trip,
which I would've talked aboutin a previous year's episode.
Um, so we've vacationed together alone
and done lots of fun things, just haven't,
haven't gotten on a plane together.
Uh, I did get on a plane, youknow, in the past couple years
it's been very different because of Covid.
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Um, so there's definitely lotsof feelings around that as,
as we get ready for our honeymoon.
But, you know, that's kindof where I'm at currently.
Uh, I work in fundraising,
but as I tell my fundraisingprofessionals, like I don't
solicit people for gifts.
Um, I know that I'm still partof the fundraising process,
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but I don't wanna beasking people for money.
Uh, I can appreciatethe people who do that
and there are a lot ofskills that go into that,
but I, I'm just not one of those people.
Uh, so I work in the data side of things
and enjoy what I do withanalytics and cleanup
and training and it's, it's a,
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it's an interesting job, that's for sure.
But I'm fortunate that I doget a lot of time off with work
and I have that flexibilityto take longer weekends,
do short trips, um, andbe able to see friends
and experience new things.
Uh, we like going to different places
and seeing things we haven't done before,
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but then we also havethe things that we love
and we're like, yes, we'regonna go back to DC again.
Um, so it's, you know,it's been a fun year
and I'm excited for whatthe future has to hold.
Um, and if there are anybackground noises in this
recording, my door isopen, my cats are here,
they come and go.
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Um, but they are a joy.
And we, uh, I get the joy
of next month taking mysecond cat to the vet
for the first time he's been to the vet.
I just haven't taken him
and I really have no idea how I'm going
to get him into the carrier.
Um, I was able to trick ourother cat into the carrier
for his annual visitearlier this month, uh,
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because he really likes meand he let me pick him up
and hold him and, youknow, all that fun stuff.
And then I just put him inthe carrier, zipped it up,
and he immediately started meowing.
Um, he's not a fan of going to the vet
and then he'll just sit atthe vet quietly, just kind
of let them do what they need to do
and tends to be pretty subduedon the way back from the vet.
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Um, but I have no ideawhat, uh, Sox is going to do
and how he's going to handle that.
Um, because he is only beenfor his annual visits,
Jack-Jack has had multiplevisits to the vet, um,
only one extra one this year,which is really nice, um,
because we just never know really
what's, what's up with him.
Um, we also recently gota water fountain, uh,
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for them instead of justlike a regular water bowl.
Uh, there's a lot of information about
why fountains are better.
And when we were doingour wedding registry,
we saw one on the site we were using,
and it was like, why not put it on?
And so someone did send that to us
and it's, we've had itfor about a month now,
and I think I'm finallylike, ready to say like,
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yes, it's going well.
Um, there was some,
some concern in the beginningabout them not using it.
And then, um, I wasn't reallysure if it was going to
stop Sox from puttinghis paws into the water,
like while he drinks andoccasionally splashing around.
I think there's been less of
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that since getting the fountain,which is, which is nice
because, um, it's, it can be a mess.
Um, and it's sturdier than the bowl.
Um, we haven't had any run-ins with it.
That would happen sometimeswhere Sox would sprint down
the hall and just likecrash into the bowl.
Um, so we'll see thatthat can still happen.
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It just hasn't happened yet.
Um, and you know, they're,they're both really good.
They're, you know, kindof a main part of our life
and it's great to come home to them.
Um, Coleman recently switchedjobs in the past couple
of months and is back to being full-time.
So I get home and he's not home.
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Um, prior to him switchingjobs, he didn't have a lot
of hours at his last job,
so most times I was cominghome and he was home.
Um, so it's definitely been a switch
and it's just kind ofchanging with the schedule.
And as you know, we getready for the wedding,
there's always feels like it's gonna be
a change after the wedding.
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You know, I'm not gonna come home
and have to think about the wedding
and what needs to be done
and what, you know, emails need to be sent
or to do, getting thingschecked off the list.
Um, and so I think
after the wedding there willbe time to kind of, again,
look at the schedule, what arewe making priority time for?
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And I am looking forward to that.
Um, you know, I think as, as people go
through the engagementprocess, there's a point
where you say like, oh, I just can't
wait for the wedding to be over.
And, you know, while that'sprobably trickled through both
of our minds at times, itwe're also really excited
for the event itself, um, for the act
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of getting legally married.
Um, getting the marriagelicense definitely kind
of really pushed that intolike it is happening going
through the actual script.
Um, we're saying more thanjust, I do also really push
that into like, Hey, this is happening.
Um, we're, we're doing this.
Like we know what's gonna happen.
We know, you know, ingeneral what the day is going
to look like, but it'sactually gonna happen.
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And we're excited, uh, to beable to, to legally be married,
um, but also excited to have the day
and the party and the food.
We have so much food andit's going to be so great
and we're, you know, lookingforward to a relaxing
and fun honeymoon afterwards.
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Um, but the joke has alsobeen that nothing exists,
like October doesn't exist.
Um, it's there, it, youknow, we'll get married
and we'll get to Octoberand we'll have stuff to do.
We have plans, we have twodifferent trips scheduled.
Um, we're going to a wedding
and um, we're going to a concert
that we're staying overnightin a different city for.
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And then, you know, holidays
and travel and all of that plans.
But we're kind of like,we'll think about those
after we get to, uh, through the wedding.
We, you know, kind of needto one thing at a time.
When we flip the calendar overto October, it'll be like,
okay, you know, married life.
But also we've been livingtogether for so many years that,
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you know, things will besimilar, but also things will
be a little bit different.
So I wanna take some time to go through
what travel I have done this past year.
I think travel really helpsfigure out, you know, kind of
where you are, what you see culturally.
Um, we do kind of someof the same things over
and over again, but honestly,
until I looked at the calendar,
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I forgot about a lot of things.
Like they were there, I knew, you know,
those things happened.
But even just the first thing I kind
of looked at the calendar,just looking at weekends,
'cause that's when wetend to do our travel,
that's when fun things tend to happen.
And I saw this hotelbooking for DC in September,
and I was like, when did,
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that was not like we did a DC trip,
but I'm like, that wasn't that.
There were other things on the calendar.
And because of the view I was in,
like I couldn't see the whole day.
And I was like, what was this trip?
And then I realized, um, Iwas actually a solo trip.
So it's been a whilesince I've done a trip
by my own, from what I can recall.
Um, you know, since Colemanmoved in with me, solo trips
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that I've done have mostly just been home
to see my parents and my family.
Um, but not like going to a city by myself
because he's there.
He'll travel with me. Like,
we like similar things,we have fun with that.
But I went to a concert
and um, you know, the ticketswere gonna be expensive.
And I was like, I can go by myself.
I have been to DC plenty oftimes, I have no concerns.
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Um, and the concert was really fun
and I had a really greattime, but the hotel thing
was a whole mess.
Um, there was like an issuewith check-in where like,
I got assigned a room,
but somebody else hadbeen assigned a room.
So like their key card didn't work,
but my key card worked to the room.
And then, you know, when I gotback from the concert really,
really late at night, um,my key card didn't work
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and it was this whole absolute mess.
Um, I still had a great weekend.
I would've preferred tohave slept a little bit more
and slept more soundly.
Um, because, you know, likein the middle of the night,
there aren't a lot of hotel staff there.
They helped me, they were wonderful,
but I also was like, I can'tlike, let this go unheard.
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I, I'm, I'm gonna have totell the manager my story.
Like, this was not the experience
I expected to come back to.
Um, again, I still had a great weekend.
Um, it was a, it was a goodtime. Like the concert was fun.
There was just unneededstress around that trip.
Um, I also was able to seemy friend in DC he, you know,
came and we hung out at thehotel before I checked out.
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But you know, when we wereplanning our next DC trip
and looking at hotels, I'm like,
I'm not staying at that same hotel.
Like I, it was a nice hotel,the people were very friendly,
but the experience that Ihad there just, you know,
didn't want me to go back.
Um, but that trip, you know,was kind of the first trip
of the year when looking backto where I was in September.
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And, you know, I prettymuch kept to myself,
but it's something whereI don't live somewhere
where there's public transportation.
Um, I'm willing to get onDC public transportation
by myself and do all of that.
Um, I originally was actuallynot planning on using the
public transportation, butit rained, it rained a lot.
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Um, so to get to and from my venue,
I was like, I, I'm not walking.
That plan is out the doorbecause I, I will be wet
and miserable for the concert .
Um, but I know that thatcan be a concern for a lot
of people and even, you know,saying, oh, I was gonna walk,
that could also be aconcern for a lot of people.
So I, you know, know where my comforts are
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and I'm familiar with DC.
I, I don't feel
that way necessarilyabout everywhere I travel.
Uh, but, you know, itwas, it was a great trip.
I it was fun to do a solo trip.
I haven't, you know, I'm, as I mentioned,
I haven't done one in a whileand I'm kind of like, Hmm,
do I wanna, do I wanna bedoing that in the future?
Are there things that I wanna do?
And I don't know, youknow, as I said, October
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and later doesn't really exist,
so I'm not necessarily thinking,
thinking ahead about that yet.
But it, it definitely, lookingback on it, I'm like, hmm,
what, what do I wanna do in the future?
The next trip that wedid, uh, was actually
with my brother, kind of.
We did not do like your typical
bachelorette or bachelor parties.
Um, our parties likedon't know each other.
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I mean, Coleman has both ofhis siblings and his party.
So like, they, they obviouslyknow each other, but
otherwise, like theydon't know each other.
And I was like, I'm not your, you know,
go out have an alcoholfilled crazy weekend.
Like, I have no desire for any of that.
And I was kind of like, if I do things
with the people in my partysolo, like that's awesome,
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but also again, not required.
Um, the wedding industryhas really blown things
up a little bit.
So the trip, uh, with mybrother was actually kind
of a little bit of a like, oh,
this is a little like pre-wedding event,
but also at the same time wewere going to an NFL game.
Coleman came with us, you know,we split some of the costs
and uh, it was a, it was a good time.
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Uh, my team won, but , uh, you know,
I hadn't been to a sportsgame with my brother
in probably some time.
Like, we went, I'm surewhen we were younger, like
with family, that's not true.
We did, we did the baseballgame, uh, on our road trip.
And this is where like,my memory is not great,
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but NFL wise, um,
I believe this was only mybrother's second NFL game
and it was actuallyColeman and mine's third.
Um, it was actually the thirdfor me and Coleman together.
Coleman had actually alsobeen to other NFL games,
but, you know, comraderyin sports is a lot of fun
and it was a pretty good weather day.
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Um, not that weather mattersfor every single trip I take,
but after, you know, the September rain
NFL stadium is outdoors, you know,
you kinda have to plan for everything.
But it was a short trip
and I was grateful for us to do that.
We got to stop at a coupleother places, you know,
it was good company and a good time.
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And it also, I think is maybepart of the reason, you know,
Coleman ended up doing abaseball trip with his siblings.
So, you know, it was a, itwas a good fall, fall weekend,
um, for that trip.
Not travel related,
but popped up when I lookedat my calendar when we got
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to the holidays lastyear, um, we did travel
for Thanksgiving and I'll,I'll talk about Christmas,
but I think it was
after Thanksgiving wefinally put our tree up
because with two catswith we've like moved
our tree every single year.
We've lived in this house.And last year wasn't the first
year we had the big tree,
but we got a bigger tree, um,
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I think it was our second year using it.
And so it's like, thenyou need the location
and all the stuff and our catsare interested in the tree.
So I was like, I'm pretty sure I was like,
I don't wanna put the treeup before Thanksgiving
and then leave, um,
because that, that couldjust be recipe for disaster.
So we finally get our treeup, we have fun, you know,
it's always a good timeto get into the holiday
spirit and all of that.
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And um, I believe it waslike shortly thereafter,
I opened my phone, refreshed my email,
and I had an email that a weddingvendor had canceled on us.
Um, so we were nine monthsout from the wedding
and we just lost a vendor
and I was just
like, okay, now what?
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Like what do we do now?
We, we just lost a vendor,now our videographer, so
not the most important.
Like our venue still existed,our food was still coming.
Um, we're ha our photographer is a friend,
so it's not like she bailed on us.
Um, but the videographer wasone that was just kind of hard
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to book because you look at portfolios
and, you know, a lot
of the ones I was looking at were
very similar to each other.
And we picked the one we hadpicked because of price point,
and it was just like, okay,now we have to go back
to square one and now we're
nine months away from the wedding.
And these other people,they might be booked
because when we were booking things,
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so many people like had our date available
because we were booking two years out
and knowing, you know, theValentine's Day proposals
of the year, the summer beach proposals
of the year, those had all happened.
They were all booking now, you know,
if they were looking in 2024 now,
those people could have also said,
we're gonna get married in 2025.
And maybe like that's what happened.
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Um, a lot of people are doinglonger engagements, you know,
as we did, you get to pick your,
you have a lot more options in picking.
And so it was just kind of like, well,
we still have the informationfrom when we looked
for a videographer the first time.
Um, we hadn't talked toany other videographers.
We, I mean we did like outreach,
but it was kind of like wehad talked to this one person,
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he seemed good, we liked hisprice point, we booked him.
So we reached back out toa, not the entire list,
but we reached out to I think two
and said, do you stillhave our date available?
They both came back and said yes,
which like, awesome, great.
But also like it would've beeneasier for you to one of them
to like reject themselvesby not being available.
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But, you know, picked kindof one that was similar,
uh, closer in similarity towho he had we had booked.
And it was like, okay, I'll meet with you.
If you're great, we'll book you.
Hopefully you won't cancel on us.
Uh, he has not canceled on us.
So I actually got an emailfrom him yesterday confirming
the, the timing of when he was showing up.
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So, you know,
that was definitely akink in the holiday plans.
Um, and just, you know,
as people would ask us throughout our two
and a half year engagement,oh, how's it going?
What are you doing? Like wewould always say, we have all
of our vendors booked.
Like we have all of the big things down.
Like we have our guest list,we sent the save the dates,
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we have a rough idea.
Like all of these things.
Like I purchased my dress lastDecember, you know, we knew
what we were doing for the men's suits.
We knew what the women were getting.
Like a lot of things were well planned
and well moving along.
And a lot of the smallerdetails that we're in now, yes,
some of them definitely couldhave been done a month in adv
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advance, like over prior
to the last month before getting married.
In hindsight, I do wish we haddone that a little bit more.
I had wanted to do that a little bit more,
but we were also kind oflike facing this paralysis of
we're not close enough.
It doesn't, it still feels real,
but it's hard to have aconversation about something when it
still seems so far away
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and things have been comingtogether in the past couple
of weeks and you know, I'mhappy with where we are,
but to, you know, havehad all of our vendors set
and then to have one cancel on us to also
to cancel far enough outthat there wasn't like the,
oh, I'm canceling onyou at the last minute.
I have lined up a replacement for you.
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Because a lot of vendors will do that.
Like if they get sickor something comes up,
they have contingency plans,like they have networks
that they like can reach out to.
And that was not the case.
And here we were trying to,to have to rebook someone.
So didn't put too much of adamper on the Christmas spirit,
but it was just kinda like,we just put our tree up.
We were just, you know,listening to our music,
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having a good time and, you know,
but so Christmas came around
and, you know, in 2020 we had
to stay home for Christmas.
It was the first time Coleman
and I had spent Christmas together.
Um, you know, we, wegot Jack-Jack, um, and,
and we're home for Christmas.
But then, you know, in subsequent years
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we did what we had always done.
We traveled separately for Christmas.
We didn't spend Christmastogether, which a lot of people
in this area were like, what do you mean
you're not spending Christmas together?
And it's like, well, we'respending it with our families
and you know, time off is, is a thing.
So last year, um, Coleman was able
to get the entire week off and
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because he was able toget the entire week off
and we wanted to spend Christmas together,
we did Christmas at both families.
So a few days before Christmaswe headed to his family
and we opened presents on Christmas Eve,
and then the next morning,
I'm pretty sure we did breakfast,I don't really remember.
And then we headed outand drove to my family.
And uh, that was probably theeasiest drive, uh, of our life
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because people aren't onthe road on Christmas.
Uh, it was, the roads were soquiet, we had zero traffic.
Um, and people do travel onChristmas, but more locally.
Um, I mean some people
are doing the things that we were doing.
There was a concern of like,we're gonna need to eat lunch.
Is anything going to be open?
So we actually, atColeman's family's house
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had pizza one night and then it was like,
and then we're wrapping thepizza up, we're putting it in,
you know, a cooler andwe will eat it in our car
on the way from your family to my family.
And so we stopped at a rest stop
and we could have honestlysat at a picnic bench,
but we just sat in the carand ate and it, it was fine.
It was, you know, kindof a simple little thing.
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But we got to my family'shouse for Christmas dinner
and you know, we're then able to,
to celebrate with them as well.
And then I believe we openedpresents there the day
after Christmas, um,to do it in the morning
because let's be real, by Christmas
evening everyone was really tired.
So, you know, when we didthat last year, we were like,
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we have no idea what we'regoing to do in subsequent years
because again, like itreally depends on time off.
I have the two weeks offat the end of the year.
Um, so I, you know, that'spretty consistent for me.
But Coleman, I mentionedColeman switched jobs,
so when he switched jobs,he said, this is time off
that I already have planned and booked.
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I need this to work with the schedule.
And they said yes, which was really great.
And one of those wasthe week of Christmas.
So we'll be doing asimilar thing this year,
a little bit different, butum, similar sort of thing.
And you know, we just kindof will continue to see
what happens, um, with years to come.
It is a lot for traveling,but it's not too bad.
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And the drive itself,even if there was traffic,
is still relatively easy.
Um, you know, we've, we'vepicked decent places to,
to live and have to travel.
Um, but that was, you know,it was great to be able to do
that for our first time and,
and also to be able tospend Christmas together
with our families before we got married.
Um, because then itwasn't kind of like, oh,
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it's the first Christmas and,
it's the first Christmas you'remarried, and all of that.
So it was really great tobe able to, to do that.
Last year, uh, one
of the things we got on Christmaswas concert tickets from,
um, his sister, his sisterhad bought us concert tickets
for me, Coleman and their brother.
And because one of thethings that like, you know,
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as you do, it's like, whatshould you get the other person?
And so it was in my list,
like there were two different concerts
that we had been looking at.
Um, and I just kind of likelistened to 'em in the things
of things that you could possibly get us.
And so it was really cool when, you know,
she got those ticketsand it wasn't like one
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of our favorite bands.
You know, when we've goneto concerts that have been,
these are people we really,really like, like we listen
to all of their music, we listen
to their albums when they come out.
We know every single song.
So this was the concert, um, Journey
and Toto were doing together.
They were doing a tour,we know their music.
Um, we don't listen to every single song.
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We, you know, dunno everything.
So it was honestly really coolto have a concert experience
that wasn't, you know, weknow every single thing.
It could be a little bit more relaxed,
but we still had a really great time.
And so that was an overnighttrip, um, with his brother.
We went into Baltimorefor one evening, you know,
we did dinner, did theconcert, left the next day.
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Um, so a short little trip, butit was a really fun concert.
Um, and it makes me want togo to more concerts, you know,
of artists that I don'tnecessarily follow,
but I get recommendationsfrom Spotify all the time.
Like, oh, you listen to the artists,
they're coming to your area soon.
They're all coming to my areasoon this month, in the month
of September when I'm getting married.
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So, um, I'm hopeful thatnext year we might be able
to do some more concerts ofartists that, you know, we like
and love but don't, you know,follow 100% that timing,
um, is a little bit better.
Even, you know, a band wereally love is currently on tour
and we would have gone to see them,
but they are coming
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to Philadelphia withindays of our wedding.
Um, and other places that wewere like, oh, we could travel
and go see them there, it's just like,
there's just too much going on.
So hopefully we'll catch'em around on the next tour.
Um, and you know, similarsort of things, uh,
but it's also, concerts are a lot
because we don't livereally close to a venue.
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Even our closest venue, whichsome which we've been to
and some bands that we likeare still touring there.
Um, the last time I did aconcert there, I got a hotel room
and spent the night because I didn't have
to park at the venue and tryto figure out how to get out
and sit in my car for an hour to leave.
So most concerts forus include a hotel room
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and then if it's in the middleof the week, then it's like,
well then you're also taking
time off and how does that work?
And, and all of that, you know, it's
that weekend in Baltimorewas just, we were there
for less than 24 hours, which is great.
It's fun, but then it's like,
but we could have also doneother things if we had been
able to have more time.
So that's always a, aconsideration in our travel.
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The one, you know, kind of,
we had a little small weekendgetaway was to DC we go
to Washington DC it seemslike pretty much every year.
Um, but there's so much to do.
Uh, the main thing we ended upgoing for was a hockey game.
Coleman had never seena hockey game in person
and I hadn't been to an NHL game before.
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Um, I had been to some minor league hockey
and also college hockey.
My brother played in the pepband in his college career
and I went up and played as well
for some of their hockey games.
And I remember being a great time
and it was like, we shouldgo to a hockey game.
We watched, um, the frozenfour college hockey final game,
(30:06):
um, with my brother previously.
Like it happened to be on aweekend he was visiting here.
And that was really fun and a good time.
So that kind of like gotColeman interested in hockey.
He's not becoming ahockey, aficionado,
who knows if we go to more hockey games,
maybe he'll get really interested.
But, um, we kind of werelike, what if we went
to DC and saw a hockey game?
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Like we know DC we love DC.
Can we find a game that fits our schedule?
We found a game that fits our schedule
and in previous yearsof going to DC we wanted
to go and to the newest,
I believe it's the newestSmithsonian Museum, um, uh,
it's actual title I think is very long,
but it is the AfricanAmerican History Museum.
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I believe there's moreto the title than that,
but anytime we were going,
like we were typicallyalways going to DC in June
around Juneteenth, so therewere a lot of things going on,
tickets were sold out,all of that sort of stuff.
But we were able to get tickets this time.
So we experienced amuseum, a lot of history.
It was a really good timebecause we hadn't been there
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before, like we both were able
to experience this as new things.
Whereas when we go to other museums,
like we've both been there before,
they haven't changed much.
Um, so it was really niceto be able to, to do that
and see other peoplethere experiencing this
museum for the first time as well.
There's a lot of the waythe museum is set up,
there's like the mainfloor that you walk in
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and there's like the lowerlevel which kind of goes
with the historical.
It is not cheery as you can imagine,
knowing American history.
Um, and then the upperlevels are more recent.
Um, talk more about culture
and so you learn like therewas like a whole music section
that we, we really enjoyed.
We did the museum the wrongway. We went up and then down.
(31:56):
Uh, and then when wewere able to get together
with my friend in DCuh, he was like, yeah,
we've been told start at thebottom and go to the top.
And it was like we didn'tdo any research to know that
that was the recommended way to go.
Um, so now we know in thefuture if we, you know,
do ever go back,
but it is a ticketed museum, which, uh,
it still free since it's Smithsonian,
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but it makes it more, youhave to plan more for it.
Um, whereas most of the other museums,
the Smithsonians are youcan just kind of like go in
whenever, unless they're doing renovations
and they have to, you know,allow for different things.
But it was also not greatweather, uh, that weekend.
Uh, it was, it was good
and bad, like there was somegood weather and then it rained
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before we went to the museum, but we
still had a really great time.
Um, it kind of, we found ahotel that we really liked, um,
and it kind of solidifiedour, we like going
to DC we like doing different things,
we like having these experiences
and it was a really fun time.
Um, one other thing thatI wanted to call out
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that was not travel thathappened in this past year is
that Coleman played for, um, one
of the local area high school's musicals
and he did that as well pre pandemic.
Um, he did musicals a lot,uh, in his college years,
I guess you could call them around then.
And so he's had fun doing that.
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He loves playing his instruments.
I have not been in a musical,I determined for over a decade
and the direct,
we know the director, he'scoming to our wedding.
Um, and the other week he reached out
and was like, Hey, this isthe musical we're doing next
year, um, would love for you to play it
and there's enough trumpetsso Sarah could play as well.
(33:41):
And I was like, okay,
but like you were getting back really late
at night that week.
Um, but like I know howmuch Coleman enjoyed it,
I believe I would enjoy it as well.
And so it's just been intheory we've committed to it.
Um, the director hasn'tgotten the book yet,
so doesn't entirely know which book
Coleman will be playing on.
(34:02):
He's, you know, stated his preference.
But I'm like, I, when I waslooking back at the calendar
and that popped up, Iwas thinking like, okay,
what about this spring?
What about, you know, sothat's gonna be something
that we'll have to plan around.
You know, we will have to getthose dates and figure out.
And Coleman was like, oh,well, like if you have
to miss a rehearsal, likehe'll be fine with it.
You just won't get paidfor that rehearsal.
(34:23):
And I was like, but I needto be at the rehearsal.
It's not that he needs be there, it's
that I I need to be at the rehearsal .
So that's something fun,uh, that once we get
to October, uh, I can, Ican be more excited for
and look forward to for next spring.
Um, I think it'll be really good.
(34:43):
Um, we have scaled backto we are only in one band,
which is great.
I think it really,scheduling-wise works for us,
but I don't typically seek outother musical opportunities.
So I think this will bea fun option. I'll see.
I might end up, you know,getting to the end of week
and getting that final check
(35:04):
and being like, wow, thischeck is really nice,
but I am exhausted.
I cannot commit to this again.Like, I don't really know.
Um, but it should, itshould be interesting.
And then there were two other things
that we did this summer vacation-wise.
Um, for years and years and years
and years, Coleman's extendedfamily has had a family
reunion and Coleman hadn'tgone for a long time, um,
(35:29):
just with scheduling and whatnot.
He hadn't been going, but he went
for the first time in a while last year.
And I don't remember reallywhat I was doing last year,
but the timing of it and takingthe time off, I was like,
yeah, I, I I'm not going with you.
Um, but when he came back fromthat, it's, you know, kind
of a long weekend inWest Virginia in a cabin
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extended family that he really likes.
Like there's like thesmall extended family
and then the big extended family reunion.
Um, but you know, he had a good time
and he was like, oh, I'd really
love for you to come next year.
So I went this year andit was kind of funny
because, you know, when you say, oh,
we're gonna be in a cabinkind of like in the woods,
I'm like, okay, so what'sthe bathroom situation?
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What's the, what's the building situation?
What, like, do we have air conditioning?
Do we, you know, all of these things.
And so, so we went, itwas, it was a good time.
It was definitely like,it was multiple days being
with more than just likehis immediate family.
So that was definitely somethingthat was new and different.
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And I met additionalextended family as well.
So then like that was, youknow, I've, I've heard names,
I hadn't met people and, um,
because we're, oh, wherewe're getting married,
where we are like, you know,
we knew larger extendedfamily like wouldn't be able
to travel, you know, as peopleget up in years, you have
to consider like health and ability.
(36:53):
And so it was nice to be ableto meet these people, some
of whom, you know, were gettinginvitations to the wedding.
And, um, so it was, it was a good time
and we've talked about whatdo we wanna do for next year?
How do we wanna do this? Do we wanna
do the same sort of thing?
Do we wanna get our own cabin?
Um, and so it's been, it'sbeen, it was a good time.
(37:14):
It was fun. Um,
but it's, it's definitely,it was definitely different.
'cause I, my family doesn'tdo extended family reunions.
Um, we have done large parties, um,
every five years for mydad's parents' anniversaries
and my mom's side of thefamily is very small.
Um, so it's just like,
(37:37):
it was something I had never experienced,
but I realized that likefamilies do, um, you know,
family reunions, my mom's in-laws,
I guess you could call them, um,
like they do family reunions.
And so I've always knownabout those family reunions,
but every family reunion'sobviously very different.
And you know, my maid of honor,her extended family, a lot
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of it is like in this area.
So I've met her extended family
because I've gone to theirbig extended family things
and they do a reunion,um, I think every year.
And I've seen pictures from that
and they talk about the treeand all this different stuff.
So it was just, it was if ajust a different experience
of something I had not done before.
Um, but you know, people wereso welcoming, so excited,
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you know, for us to be there.
Um, I think, you know, 'causeColeman it had been a while,
you know, he had went the previous year,
but it had been a while sincehe had been able to go around
to then be like, oh, and nowyou're bringing your fiance
and you're getting marriedin a couple, couple months.
And, um, so I was really excited.
And while we haven't fully solidified
what we're doing next year,
it is in the summer, we have time.
(38:43):
Um, I don't quite rememberwhen all of it really, I mean,
they kind of like do thesame weekend every year,
but in terms of like bookingthe cabins when all of
that happens, um, I knowfor our family vacation
that we take in August every year,
like it's usually in the fallthat we're booking that week.
So it's a lot of likeforward thinking and planning
(39:06):
and you have to figure out like,
financially, what do you wanna do?
What do you not want do?
Um, so it's definitely,you know, there's a lot
to look forward to in this nextyear based just looking back
on things that have happened this year.
And I think these nextfew months are really
going to fly by.
Um, and as I typically do
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with the podcast on theseyearly episodes, I talk about
where the podcast is going to go.
Um, with the wedding. I haven't put a ton
of thought into it, but myplan as of right now is to kind
of keep the course, keepdoing what I'm doing.
Um, I don't foresee things changing
drastically in the next year.
(39:47):
Um, I would love tohave more listenership,
but I also realize thatthat requires more from me
and sort of promotion
and figuring out whatI want to do with it.
But I also, you know, Italked with somebody who kind
of like does small business related things
and I was talking aboutthe cost of podcasting
and the cost has gone up andall of these different things
(40:08):
and she really reframedmy mindset of like,
you're spending moneyto put out this podcast.
What is like the purpose, likewhen it comes down to the end
of the day, like, why am I podcasting?
Is it to put a high qualitything out into the world
and I want thousands andthousands of listeners
(40:29):
and I think my podcastshould be number one and
therefore like, the cost is fine
because I'm putting out this great thing.
Like when you start a small business
and you put money into something
and then like, you know, areyou doing it to make profit
or are you doing to putsomething out in the world?
And when she kind of startedsaying, you know, looking at it
that way, you know, sayevery month I were to
(40:51):
like decide to startgetting massages monthly,
like I'm spending that money
because I want that benefit for myself.
And I'm not necessarilylooking at that as like, oh,
I'm wasting money on something.
And so when she reframed mymind when thinking like, oh,
well I'm spending this money on podcasting
because I am getting something out of it.
(41:13):
I am, you know, doing something for myself
and enjoying it myself, Iwas like, well then I'm okay.
You know, I am willing to,to spend that sort of money.
So, you know, at least for now, my plan is
to continue where I release.
Um, on Tuesdays, all
but the last Tuesday of the month,
that timing has definitelybeen a help for me.
(41:33):
Uh, I haven't gotten asahead as I would like.
I find that that extraweekend I tend to kind
of take off from podcasting instead
of like forward thinking.
And, you know, so wedid get into this crunch
of me not having enough peoplerecorded before the wedding.
And so people are like,take the month off.
And I was like, I don't reallywant to take the month off
(41:54):
because I definitely feelif I were to stop recording
and stop releasing, like Iwouldn't come back to it.
I'm aware that like the cost is there.
I'm aware that I likerecording with people
and learning new stories andhearing from different people.
Um, I know that there are definitely
(42:16):
some avenues I would like to take with
who I'm getting onto the podcast,
but I realized thatlike if I took too long
of a time away from it, itwould be really hard for me
to get back into it
because I would fillthat time in other ways.
I would continue onhobbies that I've picked up
or find myself reading more all the things
(42:37):
that I wish I was doing more.
But I think many of the mainthings taking away from that,
while yes, podcasting is more so the fact
that there's a wedding comingup and, um, the little things
and just again, trying tostrike that balance if, oh,
I just did somethingproductive, now I'm gonna relax.
What does relaxing look like?
Um, so for now you cancontinue to expect, um,
(42:58):
that schedule from the podcasting.
We'll see what year five brings us
and what that means for future recording.
But for now my plan is tocome back in a year, same sort
of schedule, um, and,
and just see where, wherethe podcast takes us.
Now, typically at the end of my episodes,
(43:19):
I do ask my guests a random question
and in these episodes I havetypically had a question
prepared for me, but to be fully honest,
I didn't have a question prepared for me.
And since I didn't addrandom questions in my three,
you know, look back episodes,
I decided we could skip the
random question for this episode.
So the random questions willdefinitely come back in, uh,
(43:41):
my next episodes becauseI've had them recorded
and I've asked questions,
but I'll continue to askmy guests random questions,
just not one for this episode.
All right, that bringsthis episode to a close.
So of course come back next week
and here from, well notnext week actually, um,
(44:04):
the first week in Octoberto hear from another guest
and hear from guests there on out.
If you would like to connect with me,
of course my social mediais in the description
and my website is in thedescription for the podcast,
which brings you to all ofthe past episodes, resources,
guest information, andall of that good stuff.
If you would like tobe a guest on the show
and share your story, myemail is in the description.
(44:26):
And if you would like to donateto the podcast monetarily,
there is a link to do that as well.
So thank you so much fortaking your time outta your day
to hear my story.
Until next time, bye.
- Hello and welcome to Introducing Me.
I'm your host, Sarah. Istarted this podcast to get
to know other people and lifestyles while
discovering more about myself.
Each episode I give a new guest a chance
to discuss their background,culture, interests,
or whatever they want to talkabout to help increase all
of our own worldviews.
It's that time of year whereat the end of each year
of podcasting, I wrap up an episode
(00:37):
and I do an episode withlearning more about me,
what's happened in my past year,
and just me talking with themicrophone a couple times.
I've had my fiance kind of interview me
as if I were the guest,
but like last year, it'sjust me and the microphone.
Today. If you listen tomy past couple episodes,
we look back at years one through three
(00:58):
with doing some clipsfrom various episodes.
And the main reason for that was
because it is currentlySeptember. In August
I had a vacation in September.
I'm getting married and tryingto schedule my regular amount
of guests was just a little bit too much
with the extra things that were going on.
(01:20):
And I thought it wouldbe a nice break, um,
that I could still record.
I have recorded in this time,
but in preparation for October is
what those recordings have been for.
And so that was a fun littleexercise for me to go back
and look through various episodetitles, see who popped out,
um, and which ones I thoughtI could then pull from.
(01:42):
And also a nice exercise ofhow long do people talk for
and how, how much do I needto get to an episode of length
that I was willing to, willing to publish.
And I did that and then was like,
and then I'll record the,the year four finale episode.
(02:03):
Um, and I'm finally here sitting in front
of my microphone recording that.
So I, in preparation for thiswas like, I need to look back
and see what's happenedover the last year.
Many people will do thatat calendar year end,
they'll reflect on the pastyear, look into the future year.
And, and I kind of do that a little bit,
but that was nine months ago.
(02:24):
And I, you know, opened mycalendar back up to September
to see what was I doing a year ago.
And, 'cause I know, you know,some things, it's been a lot
of wedding for the last year,
but I was like, I don'twant to talk for 30,
40 minutes about my wedding.
People don't, peopledon't need to hear that.
Um, so I, you know, wrote some note down
(02:46):
and I realized I traveleda lot in the last year.
And so I'll kind of go through that
and share what's been going on.
Uh, it's been a really exciting year
and I think this next yearwill also be very exciting.
But before I kind of diveinto the last year, you know,
if it's been a while sinceyou've heard me talk, uh,
about myself or youdon't know me in person,
(03:07):
a little rundown of of who I am.
Um, so I'm currently 30 years old.
My name is Sarah and Ilive in Pennsylvania.
I grew up in Connecticut,
but went to Susquehanna University,
which is in Pennsylvania,
and ended up moving toPennsylvania after graduation
and have been here foralmost 10 years now.
(03:27):
And I, you know, have
had a lot going on in life.
I've changed a handful of jobs,
but same job I had last year
that hasn't changed in the past year.
Um, you know, I've, I moved once, um,
after first moving to Pennsylvania
and still in that place, stillhave two cats and a fiance.
(03:50):
Um, we've been togetherfor about nine years
and have been engagedfor a little over two,
so we're excited.
Um, we at this point haveour marriage license.
We have practiced ourceremony, so it's just kind of,
you know, now is soon thereaftergonna be the big event.
And I have really, with my fiance,
(04:13):
Coleman really started toappreciate the ability to travel.
A lot of our travel tends tobe a little bit more local.
We actually have notgotten on a plane together.
Our honeymoon will be thefirst time that we do that,
even though we have traveled to places
that have needed planes
before, we just haven'tever traveled together
because we haven't been goingto or from the same place.
(04:34):
Um, we did a really long road trip,
which I would've talked aboutin a previous year's episode.
Um, so we've vacationed together alone
and done lots of fun things, just haven't,
haven't gotten on a plane together.
Uh, I did get on a plane, youknow, in the past couple years
it's been very different because of Covid.
(04:55):
Um, so there's definitely lotsof feelings around that as,
as we get ready for our honeymoon.
But, you know, that's kindof where I'm at currently.
Uh, I work in fundraising,
but as I tell my fundraisingprofessionals, like I don't
solicit people for gifts.
Um, I know that I'm still partof the fundraising process,
(05:17):
but I don't wanna beasking people for money.
Uh, I can appreciatethe people who do that
and there are a lot ofskills that go into that,
but I, I'm just not one of those people.
Uh, so I work in the data side of things
and enjoy what I do withanalytics and cleanup
and training and it's, it's a,
(05:39):
it's an interesting job, that's for sure.
But I'm fortunate that I doget a lot of time off with work
and I have that flexibilityto take longer weekends,
do short trips, um, andbe able to see friends
and experience new things.
Uh, we like going to different places
and seeing things we haven't done before,
(06:01):
but then we also havethe things that we love
and we're like, yes, we'regonna go back to DC again.
Um, so it's, you know,it's been a fun year
and I'm excited for whatthe future has to hold.
Um, and if there are anybackground noises in this
recording, my door isopen, my cats are here,
they come and go.
(06:22):
Um, but they are a joy.
And we, uh, I get the joy
of next month taking mysecond cat to the vet
for the first time he's been to the vet.
I just haven't taken him
and I really have no idea how I'm going
to get him into the carrier.
Um, I was able to trick ourother cat into the carrier
for his annual visitearlier this month, uh,
(06:45):
because he really likes meand he let me pick him up
and hold him and, youknow, all that fun stuff.
And then I just put him inthe carrier, zipped it up,
and he immediately started meowing.
Um, he's not a fan of going to the vet
and then he'll just sit atthe vet quietly, just kind
of let them do what they need to do
and tends to be pretty subduedon the way back from the vet.
(07:06):
Um, but I have no ideawhat, uh, Sox is going to do
and how he's going to handle that.
Um, because he is only beenfor his annual visits,
Jack-Jack has had multiplevisits to the vet, um,
only one extra one this year,which is really nice, um,
because we just never know really
what's, what's up with him.
Um, we also recently gota water fountain, uh,
(07:29):
for them instead of justlike a regular water bowl.
Uh, there's a lot of information about
why fountains are better.
And when we were doingour wedding registry,
we saw one on the site we were using,
and it was like, why not put it on?
And so someone did send that to us
and it's, we've had itfor about a month now,
and I think I'm finallylike, ready to say like,
(07:51):
yes, it's going well.
Um, there was some,
some concern in the beginningabout them not using it.
And then, um, I wasn't reallysure if it was going to
stop Sox from puttinghis paws into the water,
like while he drinks andoccasionally splashing around.
I think there's been less of
(08:11):
that since getting the fountain,which is, which is nice
because, um, it's, it can be a mess.
Um, and it's sturdier than the bowl.
Um, we haven't had any run-ins with it.
That would happen sometimeswhere Sox would sprint down
the hall and just likecrash into the bowl.
Um, so we'll see thatthat can still happen.
(08:32):
It just hasn't happened yet.
Um, and you know, they're,they're both really good.
They're, you know, kindof a main part of our life
and it's great to come home to them.
Um, Coleman recently switchedjobs in the past couple
of months and is back to being full-time.
So I get home and he's not home.
(08:54):
Um, prior to him switchingjobs, he didn't have a lot
of hours at his last job,
so most times I was cominghome and he was home.
Um, so it's definitely been a switch
and it's just kind ofchanging with the schedule.
And as you know, we getready for the wedding,
there's always feels like it's gonna be
a change after the wedding.
(09:16):
You know, I'm not gonna come home
and have to think about the wedding
and what needs to be done
and what, you know, emails need to be sent
or to do, getting thingschecked off the list.
Um, and so I think
after the wedding there willbe time to kind of, again,
look at the schedule, what arewe making priority time for?
(09:37):
And I am looking forward to that.
Um, you know, I think as, as people go
through the engagementprocess, there's a point
where you say like, oh, I just can't
wait for the wedding to be over.
And, you know, while that'sprobably trickled through both
of our minds at times, itwe're also really excited
for the event itself, um, for the act
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of getting legally married.
Um, getting the marriagelicense definitely kind
of really pushed that intolike it is happening going
through the actual script.
Um, we're saying more thanjust, I do also really push
that into like, Hey, this is happening.
Um, we're, we're doing this.
Like we know what's gonna happen.
We know, you know, ingeneral what the day is going
to look like, but it'sactually gonna happen.
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And we're excited, uh, to beable to, to legally be married,
um, but also excited to have the day
and the party and the food.
We have so much food andit's going to be so great
and we're, you know, lookingforward to a relaxing
and fun honeymoon afterwards.
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Um, but the joke has alsobeen that nothing exists,
like October doesn't exist.
Um, it's there, it, youknow, we'll get married
and we'll get to Octoberand we'll have stuff to do.
We have plans, we have twodifferent trips scheduled.
Um, we're going to a wedding
and um, we're going to a concert
that we're staying overnightin a different city for.
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And then, you know, holidays
and travel and all of that plans.
But we're kind of like,we'll think about those
after we get to, uh, through the wedding.
We, you know, kind of needto one thing at a time.
When we flip the calendar overto October, it'll be like,
okay, you know, married life.
But also we've been livingtogether for so many years that,
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you know, things will besimilar, but also things will
be a little bit different.
So I wanna take some time to go through
what travel I have done this past year.
I think travel really helpsfigure out, you know, kind of
where you are, what you see culturally.
Um, we do kind of someof the same things over
and over again, but honestly,
until I looked at the calendar,
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I forgot about a lot of things.
Like they were there, I knew, you know,
those things happened.
But even just the first thing I kind
of looked at the calendar,just looking at weekends,
'cause that's when wetend to do our travel,
that's when fun things tend to happen.
And I saw this hotelbooking for DC in September,
and I was like, when did,
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that was not like we did a DC trip,
but I'm like, that wasn't that.
There were other things on the calendar.
And because of the view I was in,
like I couldn't see the whole day.
And I was like, what was this trip?
And then I realized, um, Iwas actually a solo trip.
So it's been a whilesince I've done a trip
by my own, from what I can recall.
Um, you know, since Colemanmoved in with me, solo trips
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that I've done have mostly just been home
to see my parents and my family.
Um, but not like going to a city by myself
because he's there.
He'll travel with me. Like,
we like similar things,we have fun with that.
But I went to a concert
and um, you know, the ticketswere gonna be expensive.
And I was like, I can go by myself.
I have been to DC plenty oftimes, I have no concerns.
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Um, and the concert was really fun
and I had a really greattime, but the hotel thing
was a whole mess.
Um, there was like an issuewith check-in where like,
I got assigned a room,
but somebody else hadbeen assigned a room.
So like their key card didn't work,
but my key card worked to the room.
And then, you know, when I gotback from the concert really,
really late at night, um,my key card didn't work
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and it was this whole absolute mess.
Um, I still had a great weekend.
I would've preferred tohave slept a little bit more
and slept more soundly.
Um, because, you know, likein the middle of the night,
there aren't a lot of hotel staff there.
They helped me, they were wonderful,
but I also was like, I can'tlike, let this go unheard.
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I, I'm, I'm gonna have totell the manager my story.
Like, this was not the experience
I expected to come back to.
Um, again, I still had a great weekend.
Um, it was a, it was a goodtime. Like the concert was fun.
There was just unneededstress around that trip.
Um, I also was able to seemy friend in DC he, you know,
came and we hung out at thehotel before I checked out.
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But you know, when we wereplanning our next DC trip
and looking at hotels, I'm like,
I'm not staying at that same hotel.
Like I, it was a nice hotel,the people were very friendly,
but the experience that Ihad there just, you know,
didn't want me to go back.
Um, but that trip, you know,was kind of the first trip
of the year when looking backto where I was in September.
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And, you know, I prettymuch kept to myself,
but it's something whereI don't live somewhere
where there's public transportation.
Um, I'm willing to get onDC public transportation
by myself and do all of that.
Um, I originally was actuallynot planning on using the
public transportation, butit rained, it rained a lot.
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Um, so to get to and from my venue,
I was like, I, I'm not walking.
That plan is out the doorbecause I, I will be wet
and miserable for the concert .
Um, but I know that thatcan be a concern for a lot
of people and even, you know,saying, oh, I was gonna walk,
that could also be aconcern for a lot of people.
So I, you know, know where my comforts are
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and I'm familiar with DC.
I, I don't feel
that way necessarilyabout everywhere I travel.
Uh, but, you know, itwas, it was a great trip.
I it was fun to do a solo trip.
I haven't, you know, I'm, as I mentioned,
I haven't done one in a whileand I'm kind of like, Hmm,
do I wanna, do I wanna bedoing that in the future?
Are there things that I wanna do?
And I don't know, youknow, as I said, October
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and later doesn't really exist,
so I'm not necessarily thinking,
thinking ahead about that yet.
But it, it definitely, lookingback on it, I'm like, hmm,
what, what do I wanna do in the future?
The next trip that wedid, uh, was actually
with my brother, kind of.
We did not do like your typical
bachelorette or bachelor parties.
Um, our parties likedon't know each other.
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I mean, Coleman has both ofhis siblings and his party.
So like, they, they obviouslyknow each other, but
otherwise, like theydon't know each other.
And I was like, I'm not your, you know,
go out have an alcoholfilled crazy weekend.
Like, I have no desire for any of that.
And I was kind of like, if I do things
with the people in my partysolo, like that's awesome,
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but also again, not required.
Um, the wedding industryhas really blown things
up a little bit.
So the trip, uh, with mybrother was actually kind
of a little bit of a like, oh,
this is a little like pre-wedding event,
but also at the same time wewere going to an NFL game.
Coleman came with us, you know,we split some of the costs
and uh, it was a, it was a good time.
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Uh, my team won, but , uh, you know,
I hadn't been to a sportsgame with my brother
in probably some time.
Like, we went, I'm surewhen we were younger, like
with family, that's not true.
We did, we did the baseballgame, uh, on our road trip.
And this is where like,my memory is not great,
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but NFL wise, um,
I believe this was only mybrother's second NFL game
and it was actuallyColeman and mine's third.
Um, it was actually the thirdfor me and Coleman together.
Coleman had actually alsobeen to other NFL games,
but, you know, comraderyin sports is a lot of fun
and it was a pretty good weather day.
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Um, not that weather mattersfor every single trip I take,
but after, you know, the September rain
NFL stadium is outdoors, you know,
you kinda have to plan for everything.
But it was a short trip
and I was grateful for us to do that.
We got to stop at a coupleother places, you know,
it was good company and a good time.
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And it also, I think is maybepart of the reason, you know,
Coleman ended up doing abaseball trip with his siblings.
So, you know, it was a, itwas a good fall, fall weekend,
um, for that trip.
Not travel related,
but popped up when I lookedat my calendar when we got
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to the holidays lastyear, um, we did travel
for Thanksgiving and I'll,I'll talk about Christmas,
but I think it was
after Thanksgiving wefinally put our tree up
because with two catswith we've like moved
our tree every single year.
We've lived in this house.And last year wasn't the first
year we had the big tree,
but we got a bigger tree, um,
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I think it was our second year using it.
And so it's like, thenyou need the location
and all the stuff and our catsare interested in the tree.
So I was like, I'm pretty sure I was like,
I don't wanna put the treeup before Thanksgiving
and then leave, um,
because that, that couldjust be recipe for disaster.
So we finally get our treeup, we have fun, you know,
it's always a good timeto get into the holiday
spirit and all of that.
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And um, I believe it waslike shortly thereafter,
I opened my phone, refreshed my email,
and I had an email that a weddingvendor had canceled on us.
Um, so we were nine monthsout from the wedding
and we just lost a vendor
and I was just
like, okay, now what?
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Like what do we do now?
We, we just lost a vendor,now our videographer, so
not the most important.
Like our venue still existed,our food was still coming.
Um, we're ha our photographer is a friend,
so it's not like she bailed on us.
Um, but the videographer wasone that was just kind of hard
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to book because you look at portfolios
and, you know, a lot
of the ones I was looking at were
very similar to each other.
And we picked the one we hadpicked because of price point,
and it was just like, okay,now we have to go back
to square one and now we're
nine months away from the wedding.
And these other people,they might be booked
because when we were booking things,
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so many people like had our date available
because we were booking two years out
and knowing, you know, theValentine's Day proposals
of the year, the summer beach proposals
of the year, those had all happened.
They were all booking now, you know,
if they were looking in 2024 now,
those people could have also said,
we're gonna get married in 2025.
And maybe like that's what happened.
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Um, a lot of people are doinglonger engagements, you know,
as we did, you get to pick your,
you have a lot more options in picking.
And so it was just kind of like, well,
we still have the informationfrom when we looked
for a videographer the first time.
Um, we hadn't talked toany other videographers.
We, I mean we did like outreach,
but it was kind of like wehad talked to this one person,
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he seemed good, we liked hisprice point, we booked him.
So we reached back out toa, not the entire list,
but we reached out to I think two
and said, do you stillhave our date available?
They both came back and said yes,
which like, awesome, great.
But also like it would've beeneasier for you to one of them
to like reject themselvesby not being available.
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But, you know, picked kindof one that was similar,
uh, closer in similarity towho he had we had booked.
And it was like, okay, I'll meet with you.
If you're great, we'll book you.
Hopefully you won't cancel on us.
Uh, he has not canceled on us.
So I actually got an emailfrom him yesterday confirming
the, the timing of when he was showing up.
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So, you know,
that was definitely akink in the holiday plans.
Um, and just, you know,
as people would ask us throughout our two
and a half year engagement,oh, how's it going?
What are you doing? Like wewould always say, we have all
of our vendors booked.
Like we have all of the big things down.
Like we have our guest list,we sent the save the dates,
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we have a rough idea.
Like all of these things.
Like I purchased my dress lastDecember, you know, we knew
what we were doing for the men's suits.
We knew what the women were getting.
Like a lot of things were well planned
and well moving along.
And a lot of the smallerdetails that we're in now, yes,
some of them definitely couldhave been done a month in adv
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advance, like over prior
to the last month before getting married.
In hindsight, I do wish we haddone that a little bit more.
I had wanted to do that a little bit more,
but we were also kind oflike facing this paralysis of
we're not close enough.
It doesn't, it still feels real,
but it's hard to have aconversation about something when it
still seems so far away
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and things have been comingtogether in the past couple
of weeks and you know, I'mhappy with where we are,
but to, you know, havehad all of our vendors set
and then to have one cancel on us to also
to cancel far enough outthat there wasn't like the,
oh, I'm canceling onyou at the last minute.
I have lined up a replacement for you.
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Because a lot of vendors will do that.
Like if they get sickor something comes up,
they have contingency plans,like they have networks
that they like can reach out to.
And that was not the case.
And here we were trying to,to have to rebook someone.
So didn't put too much of adamper on the Christmas spirit,
but it was just kinda like,we just put our tree up.
We were just, you know,listening to our music,
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having a good time and, you know,
but so Christmas came around
and, you know, in 2020 we had
to stay home for Christmas.
It was the first time Coleman
and I had spent Christmas together.
Um, you know, we, wegot Jack-Jack, um, and,
and we're home for Christmas.
But then, you know, in subsequent years
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we did what we had always done.
We traveled separately for Christmas.
We didn't spend Christmastogether, which a lot of people
in this area were like, what do you mean
you're not spending Christmas together?
And it's like, well, we'respending it with our families
and you know, time off is, is a thing.
So last year, um, Coleman was able
to get the entire week off and
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because he was able toget the entire week off
and we wanted to spend Christmas together,
we did Christmas at both families.
So a few days before Christmaswe headed to his family
and we opened presents on Christmas Eve,
and then the next morning,
I'm pretty sure we did breakfast,I don't really remember.
And then we headed outand drove to my family.
And uh, that was probably theeasiest drive, uh, of our life
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because people aren't onthe road on Christmas.
Uh, it was, the roads were soquiet, we had zero traffic.
Um, and people do travel onChristmas, but more locally.
Um, I mean some people
are doing the things that we were doing.
There was a concern of like,we're gonna need to eat lunch.
Is anything going to be open?
So we actually, atColeman's family's house
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had pizza one night and then it was like,
and then we're wrapping thepizza up, we're putting it in,
you know, a cooler andwe will eat it in our car
on the way from your family to my family.
And so we stopped at a rest stop
and we could have honestlysat at a picnic bench,
but we just sat in the carand ate and it, it was fine.
It was, you know, kindof a simple little thing.
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But we got to my family'shouse for Christmas dinner
and you know, we're then able to,
to celebrate with them as well.
And then I believe we openedpresents there the day
after Christmas, um,to do it in the morning
because let's be real, by Christmas
evening everyone was really tired.
So, you know, when we didthat last year, we were like,
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we have no idea what we'regoing to do in subsequent years
because again, like itreally depends on time off.
I have the two weeks offat the end of the year.
Um, so I, you know, that'spretty consistent for me.
But Coleman, I mentionedColeman switched jobs,
so when he switched jobs,he said, this is time off
that I already have planned and booked.
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I need this to work with the schedule.
And they said yes, which was really great.
And one of those wasthe week of Christmas.
So we'll be doing asimilar thing this year,
a little bit different, butum, similar sort of thing.
And you know, we just kindof will continue to see
what happens, um, with years to come.
It is a lot for traveling,but it's not too bad.
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And the drive itself,even if there was traffic,
is still relatively easy.
Um, you know, we've, we'vepicked decent places to,
to live and have to travel.
Um, but that was, you know,it was great to be able to do
that for our first time and,
and also to be able tospend Christmas together
with our families before we got married.
Um, because then itwasn't kind of like, oh,
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it's the first Christmas and,
it's the first Christmas you'remarried, and all of that.
So it was really great tobe able to, to do that.
Last year, uh, one
of the things we got on Christmaswas concert tickets from,
um, his sister, his sisterhad bought us concert tickets
for me, Coleman and their brother.
And because one of thethings that like, you know,
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as you do, it's like, whatshould you get the other person?
And so it was in my list,
like there were two different concerts
that we had been looking at.
Um, and I just kind of likelistened to 'em in the things
of things that you could possibly get us.
And so it was really cool when, you know,
she got those ticketsand it wasn't like one
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of our favorite bands.
You know, when we've goneto concerts that have been,
these are people we really,really like, like we listen
to all of their music, we listen
to their albums when they come out.
We know every single song.
So this was the concert, um, Journey
and Toto were doing together.
They were doing a tour,we know their music.
Um, we don't listen to every single song.
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We, you know, dunno everything.
So it was honestly really coolto have a concert experience
that wasn't, you know, weknow every single thing.
It could be a little bit more relaxed,
but we still had a really great time.
And so that was an overnighttrip, um, with his brother.
We went into Baltimorefor one evening, you know,
we did dinner, did theconcert, left the next day.
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Um, so a short little trip, butit was a really fun concert.
Um, and it makes me want togo to more concerts, you know,
of artists that I don'tnecessarily follow,
but I get recommendationsfrom Spotify all the time.
Like, oh, you listen to the artists,
they're coming to your area soon.
They're all coming to my areasoon this month, in the month
of September when I'm getting married.
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So, um, I'm hopeful thatnext year we might be able
to do some more concerts ofartists that, you know, we like
and love but don't, you know,follow 100% that timing,
um, is a little bit better.
Even, you know, a band wereally love is currently on tour
and we would have gone to see them,
but they are coming
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to Philadelphia withindays of our wedding.
Um, and other places that wewere like, oh, we could travel
and go see them there, it's just like,
there's just too much going on.
So hopefully we'll catch'em around on the next tour.
Um, and you know, similarsort of things, uh,
but it's also, concerts are a lot
because we don't livereally close to a venue.
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Even our closest venue, whichsome which we've been to
and some bands that we likeare still touring there.
Um, the last time I did aconcert there, I got a hotel room
and spent the night because I didn't have
to park at the venue and tryto figure out how to get out
and sit in my car for an hour to leave.
So most concerts forus include a hotel room
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and then if it's in the middleof the week, then it's like,
well then you're also taking
time off and how does that work?
And, and all of that, you know, it's
that weekend in Baltimorewas just, we were there
for less than 24 hours, which is great.
It's fun, but then it's like,
but we could have also doneother things if we had been
able to have more time.
So that's always a, aconsideration in our travel.
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The one, you know, kind of,
we had a little small weekendgetaway was to DC we go
to Washington DC it seemslike pretty much every year.
Um, but there's so much to do.
Uh, the main thing we ended upgoing for was a hockey game.
Coleman had never seena hockey game in person
and I hadn't been to an NHL game before.
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Um, I had been to some minor league hockey
and also college hockey.
My brother played in the pepband in his college career
and I went up and played as well
for some of their hockey games.
And I remember being a great time
and it was like, we shouldgo to a hockey game.
We watched, um, the frozenfour college hockey final game,
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um, with my brother previously.
Like it happened to be on aweekend he was visiting here.
And that was really fun and a good time.
So that kind of like gotColeman interested in hockey.
He's not becoming ahockey, aficionado,
who knows if we go to more hockey games,
maybe he'll get really interested.
But, um, we kind of werelike, what if we went
to DC and saw a hockey game?
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Like we know DC we love DC.
Can we find a game that fits our schedule?
We found a game that fits our schedule
and in previous yearsof going to DC we wanted
to go and to the newest,
I believe it's the newestSmithsonian Museum, um, uh,
it's actual title I think is very long,
but it is the AfricanAmerican History Museum.
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I believe there's moreto the title than that,
but anytime we were going,
like we were typicallyalways going to DC in June
around Juneteenth, so therewere a lot of things going on,
tickets were sold out,all of that sort of stuff.
But we were able to get tickets this time.
So we experienced amuseum, a lot of history.
It was a really good timebecause we hadn't been there
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before, like we both were able
to experience this as new things.
Whereas when we go to other museums,
like we've both been there before,
they haven't changed much.
Um, so it was really niceto be able to, to do that
and see other peoplethere experiencing this
museum for the first time as well.
There's a lot of the waythe museum is set up,
there's like the mainfloor that you walk in
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and there's like the lowerlevel which kind of goes
with the historical.
It is not cheery as you can imagine,
knowing American history.
Um, and then the upperlevels are more recent.
Um, talk more about culture
and so you learn like therewas like a whole music section
that we, we really enjoyed.
We did the museum the wrongway. We went up and then down.
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Uh, and then when wewere able to get together
with my friend in DCuh, he was like, yeah,
we've been told start at thebottom and go to the top.
And it was like we didn'tdo any research to know that
that was the recommended way to go.
Um, so now we know in thefuture if we, you know,
do ever go back,
but it is a ticketed museum, which, uh,
it still free since it's Smithsonian,
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but it makes it more, youhave to plan more for it.
Um, whereas most of the other museums,
the Smithsonians are youcan just kind of like go in
whenever, unless they're doing renovations
and they have to, you know,allow for different things.
But it was also not greatweather, uh, that weekend.
Uh, it was, it was good
and bad, like there was somegood weather and then it rained
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before we went to the museum, but we
still had a really great time.
Um, it kind of, we found ahotel that we really liked, um,
and it kind of solidifiedour, we like going
to DC we like doing different things,
we like having these experiences
and it was a really fun time.
Um, one other thing thatI wanted to call out
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that was not travel thathappened in this past year is
that Coleman played for, um, one
of the local area high school's musicals
and he did that as well pre pandemic.
Um, he did musicals a lot,uh, in his college years,
I guess you could call them around then.
And so he's had fun doing that.
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He loves playing his instruments.
I have not been in a musical,I determined for over a decade
and the direct,
we know the director, he'scoming to our wedding.
Um, and the other week he reached out
and was like, Hey, this isthe musical we're doing next
year, um, would love for you to play it
and there's enough trumpetsso Sarah could play as well.
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And I was like, okay,
but like you were getting back really late
at night that week.
Um, but like I know howmuch Coleman enjoyed it,
I believe I would enjoy it as well.
And so it's just been intheory we've committed to it.
Um, the director hasn'tgotten the book yet,
so doesn't entirely know which book
Coleman will be playing on.
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He's, you know, stated his preference.
But I'm like, I, when I waslooking back at the calendar
and that popped up, Iwas thinking like, okay,
what about this spring?
What about, you know, sothat's gonna be something
that we'll have to plan around.
You know, we will have to getthose dates and figure out.
And Coleman was like, oh,well, like if you have
to miss a rehearsal, likehe'll be fine with it.
You just won't get paidfor that rehearsal.
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And I was like, but I needto be at the rehearsal.
It's not that he needs be there, it's
that I I need to be at the rehearsal .
So that's something fun,uh, that once we get
to October, uh, I can, Ican be more excited for
and look forward to for next spring.
Um, I think it'll be really good.
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Um, we have scaled backto we are only in one band,
which is great.
I think it really,scheduling-wise works for us,
but I don't typically seek outother musical opportunities.
So I think this will bea fun option. I'll see.
I might end up, you know,getting to the end of week
and getting that final check
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and being like, wow, thischeck is really nice,
but I am exhausted.
I cannot commit to this again.Like, I don't really know.
Um, but it should, itshould be interesting.
And then there were two other things
that we did this summer vacation-wise.
Um, for years and years and years
and years, Coleman's extendedfamily has had a family
reunion and Coleman hadn'tgone for a long time, um,
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just with scheduling and whatnot.
He hadn't been going, but he went
for the first time in a while last year.
And I don't remember reallywhat I was doing last year,
but the timing of it and takingthe time off, I was like,
yeah, I, I I'm not going with you.
Um, but when he came back fromthat, it's, you know, kind
of a long weekend inWest Virginia in a cabin
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extended family that he really likes.
Like there's like thesmall extended family
and then the big extended family reunion.
Um, but you know, he had a good time
and he was like, oh, I'd really
love for you to come next year.
So I went this year andit was kind of funny
because, you know, when you say, oh,
we're gonna be in a cabinkind of like in the woods,
I'm like, okay, so what'sthe bathroom situation?
(36:11):
What's the, what's the building situation?
What, like, do we have air conditioning?
Do we, you know, all of these things.
And so, so we went, itwas, it was a good time.
It was definitely like,it was multiple days being
with more than just likehis immediate family.
So that was definitely somethingthat was new and different.
(36:32):
And I met additionalextended family as well.
So then like that was, youknow, I've, I've heard names,
I hadn't met people and, um,
because we're, oh, wherewe're getting married,
where we are like, you know,
we knew larger extendedfamily like wouldn't be able
to travel, you know, as peopleget up in years, you have
to consider like health and ability.
(36:53):
And so it was nice to be ableto meet these people, some
of whom, you know, were gettinginvitations to the wedding.
And, um, so it was, it was a good time
and we've talked about whatdo we wanna do for next year?
How do we wanna do this? Do we wanna
do the same sort of thing?
Do we wanna get our own cabin?
Um, and so it's been, it'sbeen, it was a good time.
(37:14):
It was fun. Um,
but it's, it's definitely,it was definitely different.
'cause I, my family doesn'tdo extended family reunions.
Um, we have done large parties, um,
every five years for mydad's parents' anniversaries
and my mom's side of thefamily is very small.
Um, so it's just like,
(37:37):
it was something I had never experienced,
but I realized that likefamilies do, um, you know,
family reunions, my mom's in-laws,
I guess you could call them, um,
like they do family reunions.
And so I've always knownabout those family reunions,
but every family reunion'sobviously very different.
And you know, my maid of honor,her extended family, a lot
(37:59):
of it is like in this area.
So I've met her extended family
because I've gone to theirbig extended family things
and they do a reunion,um, I think every year.
And I've seen pictures from that
and they talk about the treeand all this different stuff.
So it was just, it was if ajust a different experience
of something I had not done before.
Um, but you know, people wereso welcoming, so excited,
(38:21):
you know, for us to be there.
Um, I think, you know, 'causeColeman it had been a while,
you know, he had went the previous year,
but it had been a while sincehe had been able to go around
to then be like, oh, and nowyou're bringing your fiance
and you're getting marriedin a couple, couple months.
And, um, so I was really excited.
And while we haven't fully solidified
what we're doing next year,
it is in the summer, we have time.
(38:43):
Um, I don't quite rememberwhen all of it really, I mean,
they kind of like do thesame weekend every year,
but in terms of like bookingthe cabins when all of
that happens, um, I knowfor our family vacation
that we take in August every year,
like it's usually in the fallthat we're booking that week.
So it's a lot of likeforward thinking and planning
(39:06):
and you have to figure out like,
financially, what do you wanna do?
What do you not want do?
Um, so it's definitely,you know, there's a lot
to look forward to in this nextyear based just looking back
on things that have happened this year.
And I think these nextfew months are really
going to fly by.
Um, and as I typically do
(39:26):
with the podcast on theseyearly episodes, I talk about
where the podcast is going to go.
Um, with the wedding. I haven't put a ton
of thought into it, but myplan as of right now is to kind
of keep the course, keepdoing what I'm doing.
Um, I don't foresee things changing
drastically in the next year.
(39:47):
Um, I would love tohave more listenership,
but I also realize thatthat requires more from me
and sort of promotion
and figuring out whatI want to do with it.
But I also, you know, Italked with somebody who kind
of like does small business related things
and I was talking aboutthe cost of podcasting
and the cost has gone up andall of these different things
(40:08):
and she really reframedmy mindset of like,
you're spending moneyto put out this podcast.
What is like the purpose, likewhen it comes down to the end
of the day, like, why am I podcasting?
Is it to put a high qualitything out into the world
and I want thousands andthousands of listeners
(40:29):
and I think my podcastshould be number one and
therefore like, the cost is fine
because I'm putting out this great thing.
Like when you start a small business
and you put money into something
and then like, you know, areyou doing it to make profit
or are you doing to putsomething out in the world?
And when she kind of startedsaying, you know, looking at it
that way, you know, sayevery month I were to
(40:51):
like decide to startgetting massages monthly,
like I'm spending that money
because I want that benefit for myself.
And I'm not necessarilylooking at that as like, oh,
I'm wasting money on something.
And so when she reframed mymind when thinking like, oh,
well I'm spending this money on podcasting
because I am getting something out of it.
(41:13):
I am, you know, doing something for myself
and enjoying it myself, Iwas like, well then I'm okay.
You know, I am willing to,to spend that sort of money.
So, you know, at least for now, my plan is
to continue where I release.
Um, on Tuesdays, all
but the last Tuesday of the month,
that timing has definitelybeen a help for me.
(41:33):
Uh, I haven't gotten asahead as I would like.
I find that that extraweekend I tend to kind
of take off from podcasting instead
of like forward thinking.
And, you know, so wedid get into this crunch
of me not having enough peoplerecorded before the wedding.
And so people are like,take the month off.
And I was like, I don't reallywant to take the month off
(41:54):
because I definitely feelif I were to stop recording
and stop releasing, like Iwouldn't come back to it.
I'm aware that like the cost is there.
I'm aware that I likerecording with people
and learning new stories andhearing from different people.
Um, I know that there are definitely
(42:16):
some avenues I would like to take with
who I'm getting onto the podcast,
but I realized thatlike if I took too long
of a time away from it, itwould be really hard for me
to get back into it
because I would fillthat time in other ways.
I would continue onhobbies that I've picked up
or find myself reading more all the things
(42:37):
that I wish I was doing more.
But I think many of the mainthings taking away from that,
while yes, podcasting is more so the fact
that there's a wedding comingup and, um, the little things
and just again, trying tostrike that balance if, oh,
I just did somethingproductive, now I'm gonna relax.
What does relaxing look like?
Um, so for now you cancontinue to expect, um,
(42:58):
that schedule from the podcasting.
We'll see what year five brings us
and what that means for future recording.
But for now my plan is tocome back in a year, same sort
of schedule, um, and,
and just see where, wherethe podcast takes us.
Now, typically at the end of my episodes,
(43:19):
I do ask my guests a random question
and in these episodes I havetypically had a question
prepared for me, but to be fully honest,
I didn't have a question prepared for me.
And since I didn't addrandom questions in my three,
you know, look back episodes,
I decided we could skip the
random question for this episode.
So the random questions willdefinitely come back in, uh,
(43:41):
my next episodes becauseI've had them recorded
and I've asked questions,
but I'll continue to askmy guests random questions,
just not one for this episode.
All right, that bringsthis episode to a close.
So of course come back next week
and here from, well notnext week actually, um,
(44:04):
the first week in Octoberto hear from another guest
and hear from guests there on out.
If you would like to connect with me,
of course my social mediais in the description
and my website is in thedescription for the podcast,
which brings you to all ofthe past episodes, resources,
guest information, andall of that good stuff.
If you would like tobe a guest on the show
and share your story, myemail is in the description.
(44:26):
And if you would like to donateto the podcast monetarily,
there is a link to do that as well.
So thank you so much fortaking your time outta your day
to hear my story.
Until next time, bye.
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