February 22, 2024 • 29 mins
In this insightful episode, we delve deep into the labyrinth of single motherhood, exploring the unending challenges of striking a balance amidst work pressures, children's schedules, household chores and the exhaustion that tags along. We highlight the occasional desperation faced in the battle against time, trying to be everywhere at once while keeping up with relentless work schedules and mounting demands.
This riveting conversation boldly turns the spotlight on the importance of seeking help when needed and the indispensable role played by self-care in keeping sanity afloat. Through personal anecdotes and sharing of valuable self-care routines, we highlight how sometimes, the simple pleasures such as morning coffee and consistent bedtime routines serve as rejuvenating rituals.
Join us as we share our personal struggles, victories and insights on thriving amidst the chaos of single parenthood. Discover the art of maintaining peace, productivity and personal well-being despite the odds.
Striking the Balance: Teachers Juggling Daily Routines, Work and Personal LifeIn this enlightening conversation, three teachers candidly discuss the art and science of managing daily routines, juggling work, and maintaining balance in personal life.
We delve into the fine details of morning routines and work arrangements - the benefits of rising early, preparing for the day, and even adopting 'uniforms' for an easier start to the day. Further, the discussion intriguingly touches upon the historical practices of 'second sleep' and our teachers' individual sleep needs and schedules.
The struggle is real when it comes to managing busy schedules packed with deadlines, appointments, and the fear of missing out on tasks. From calendars to timesheets and reminders, hear about the numerous strategies deployed to stay on top of the game. In an eye-opening revelation, we also hear about the challenges of living with unmedicated ADD and strategies for effective functioning.
In the concluding part of this insightful episode, our teachers share delightful snippets of their personal lives – from school theater plays to art projects. Be sure to tune in for this relatable glimpse into managing modern lifestyle demands while keeping room for enjoyment.
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So tonight we're talking about a single woman problem.
A single woman problem.
There you go. And what is our single woman problem tonight, since it especially
affects you this week, Lauren?
It's when you and your child have to be in the same place or different places at the same time.
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Or when you need to be in different places at the same time.
And there's not anybody else to help, especially when you're working.
So when you're overscheduled.
Overscheduled. Not enough mama. Yes. Right around.
When there's no daddy to help the mama get everybody everywhere they go,
and you still have to eat and do basic housework and make sure homework is done
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and wake up the next morning.
Well, what's sad is some of those things just got to go. Well,
you should have said, I can bring home the bike. Like, that's what you should have done, man.
I think like last week, I don't know. I've had that kind of week where it was just nonstop.
And then, you know, some days I don't have my son.
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It's still been busy. But then when I get him back, it's, well,
he's got this rehearsal and I have this rehearsal, but it's at the same time.
So I stopped my rehearsal to go get him and bring him back to his rehearsal.
And they go, that was today. it was okay everybody
hold on a second let me go take him somewhere and I
had to go pick him up take him somewhere come back and then do it
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then go pick him up and it was that reminds me of
having three kids when everybody had to be in a different place only it's
just you and another one like I have a you know I'm
a professor and I have while we have like dedicated hours my job is relatively
flexible in that if I need to running pick him up from school or whatever I
can I something Something happened a couple of weeks ago and I walked in and
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it was related to my son. He had to be taken somewhere.
But I walked in and I looked at my colleague and I said, what do people who
don't have flexible jobs do in this scenario?
I don't know what I would do, you know? Yeah.
I mean, or you also weren't close. Yeah, I live like a minute away.
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It occurred to me today when I'm trying to shuffle us to everything that has happened.
I thought, you know, four years ago, I worked an hour away.
I couldn't, I don't know how I would mom this. How would I mom this at this
point? Yeah, you wouldn't.
I would be helping you, mom. Your mom would be helping you, mom.
You would have to use your village. Yeah, you know, I'm terrible at that.
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Yeah. Well, that would have forced you into it. You would not have had a choice.
And you know, I'm bad at that too. And it's taken this divorce and the fallout
after the divorce and the trying to be everything for everybody all the time
to make me ask for help, to learn how to ask for help.
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That's a hard thing when you're that kind of person. And I've always been the
person that I can do it. I can do it well enough that I don't have to have assistance.
And so it's easier for me to do it than explain to somebody else how to do it.
And I'm not good at, I'm good at delegating other things, but when it's my personal
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life, I'm not very good at that.
But I have learned, I have learned to be better. I think some of it is when
it's, when it's my kid, I think I want to be in the know about it,
you know? And so, I don't know.
It has been just a lot lately because of the number of things we have going
on. And they're all positive, fun things.
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It's not like you're like. No, nothing is. I went in today. I was late for my own rehearsal.
Like, I was five minutes late to everything today. I couldn't be on time.
I am not sure. Oh, it rained. It's probably.
But I was late to my own rehearsal because I just had to.
There were too many things to check off. and my assistant director,
who's one of my students, called me and he was like, hey, he calls me Larnie.
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He said, where are you, Larnie? I said, I'll be there in just a minute. It's been a day.
And he said, oh, oh, okay. I said, have them ready.
And I walked in and I just like,
I mean, we, you know, we started a rehearsal, but it was just like,
but hey, at least you have an assistant that could kind of get everybody ready
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while they were waiting for you.
Yeah, it just, you know, that's not an ideal. No, it's not.
But it's back up. But life happens. It is a lot back up lane.
Well, that's, you know, so let me just say you've got all of these one bajillion
hundred thousand things happening. Do you have spots where you are forcing yourself
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to take a little bit of time for yourself?
So on days that that's an option, yes.
I just happened and I have been so much. Y'all know I have been so much better
about that in the last six months.
I would say since the summer. I have been so intentional about that.
It's been this last week. I just and what's funny is my partner had surgery.
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Surgery so it he
kind of entered this like sit and recover
situation and I looked at my calendar and
I was like oh no the next
seven days are crazy how did I let this
happen like you have surgery and then I go into like
I have a million things to do in the next seven days
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so anyway tomorrow is my
last like big box to check this week and
then I do kind of have like a bit of a pause in
the next few days so that was that's good well yeah anything
to the tunnel yeah but you know even if you
have like this week i have found i think i have something every single
night so i was out of town all last weekend and then i just have something scheduled
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every night they're fun things it's not like i'm doing intense work but i started
thinking okay i can't do anything on saturday i have to have a day i need some
time in my house to do the things that must be done the washing the clothes and all of that.
But I have the luxury because I don't have anything on Saturday.
So I'm covered up every other day and Sunday. I was like, oh, protect this time.
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You know, it's kind of like that, too. And I'm traveling every day.
But one of them is a short day.
And on the short day, I'm going to try to walk.
I might take a nap.
I mean, I'll be working. But, you know, I'm going to take a lunch.
I'm going to try to take care of myself. A little more. Yeah.
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Because then I end the week on a big drive.
And that always sucks my energy. But this weekend, my child has a big event.
But I don't think parents are invited to it. So I will hopefully have weekend.
Well, that's, you know, and Lauren, I remember when I was in that space with
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three kids and we would have like two in baseball, one in dance or whatever
it was trying to get everybody to all these different places.
Husband was working late and all of this. At the end of the day,
even if my day ended at 1030 or 11, I had to have that hour to myself.
And it was self-sabotage, sort of, but I had to have it.
I had to have that time until midnight or 1am where it was just me and just
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for myself and I could read, I could draw, I could watch television and veg
out, but I had to have that, that space.
I always, I always call that taking the day off and I don't necessarily have
to be, and I, I specifically do this when I have a show.
So last night was not a late, late night, 10, 10 30 is not late for what I do
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for a living, but I got home and I wasn't, I was tired, but I wasn't sleepy.
So, like, I sat down on the couch and I watched my boyfriend play a video game.
And I just, like, that's all I needed. I did that. I had a glass of wine. I was happy.
Yeah, I just, like, needed to be still. But show week, that's what I do.
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No matter what, how late it is, I'll come home.
Because when you're in that late at night, you're wired.
Yeah. Yeah. And you just have to like have a moment to just take it all off and then go to bed.
Yeah. And it's not even a reward. It's like a necessary.
I need to function tomorrow. So I need to have this time to just sort of recenter.
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It's like how some people have to shower. I did that. Yeah. Okay.
Oh, yes, you do. categories. So for my sanity, when my kids were young,
you know, we did all the activities and everything and I did dinner, cleaned up.
Everybody did their bedtime routine.
Everybody went to bed except for me.
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At that hour, I would take a bubble bath.
I would stitch. I would read, look at my calendar, see what I had to do for the next day.
And that was sort of my reset. Yeah, sort of the ease into the night, empty my brain.
If I had thoughts, I would write them down. I always kept a pad by my bed.
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And then, you know, during the divorce, I kind of lost that for a couple of
months because you kind of space out.
I don't know if you're in shock, you're traumatized, whatever.
Well, your world's changing. Yeah, and trying to get a new norm, but I always kept...
The bedtime routine, I treat myself like a little infant.
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I have to get my bath, my bubble bath. That's so good.
That's so good. Get cozy. You know, it's very calming. There's a reason you do it for babies.
It calms them, gets them warm, and then they go to sleep.
And that's what I do. And I'm an old baby nurse, so I'm. You know how to take care of yourself.
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That's what I've always done. Even on those stressful days, like especially
the super crazy days where everything hits at one time, which I call the Bermuda Triangle.
When I have the Bermuda Triangle days, I really have to make myself.
Because my instinct is just to take a bath and jump into bed.
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But if I do that, I don't sleep well. I have to do that sort of decompressing
of the day. If I don't take that time, or it used to be that if I didn't take
that time, because it's rare if I don't take it now, because I don't have near.
Well, you and I are both night owls. Yes. But if I don't take some of that time
at night, then I will find myself the next day forgetful, misplacing things,
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not doing all the steps in the right way. It's like I didn't get that reset.
You don't get a reset. Yeah. So if I don't take that time, it's a little detrimental to my future day.
Right. Yeah. My future self thanks my past self. for taking a little while because
even if I lack sleep, I'm still, I still perform better.
Well, I've taken mine, you know, a step further because I have always done the nighttime thing.
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But about a year after the divorce, I started doing a morning thing.
And I'm going to tell you, if you can make yourself get up 20 to 30 minutes,
it doesn't have to be an hour early.
I do an hour, but 20 to 30 minutes makes a huge difference on how you view your day.
I used to just pop out of bed and like I was doing laundry and making breakfast
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and, you know, it was just boom, boom, boom, boom.
And now i get out of
bed i have my coffee i do
a devotional and then i start my day i call it easing into
my day it has met it mentally it
makes a huge difference starting my day
i have a clear picture of what i need to
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do it's i don't know so help me
i have a bit of a similar thing it's probably a bit a lot more
time i don't physically have to be anywhere till
11 at my at my at
my college job i don't have to be anywhere
till 11 i start working at 9 30 but i i start
working online at 9 30 but that said i can
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wake up and i don't require anything of myself until i've
had two cups of coffee and then i'm like all right now we can like what are
we going to do like we're checking email we're answering students but also we're
going to unload the dishwasher i'm going to make my bed i'm going to set this
load of laundry and that like three It's like three hours.
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Give or take three hours, two to three hours in the morning that I do have.
Like after I drop my son off at school and before I have to leave for work,
I've got a good chunk of time to like calm my brain, do the things that are
necessary to survive and like get ready.
But then when you walk in at the end of the day, because if I do that,
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if I do the dishes. It's done.
Oh, yeah. Walk in. Oh, I don't do chores at night. it's
such a different feeling when you walk in your house and you don't
have all those chores to do on top of your
whole right evening the only thing i do at night
ever is cook pretty much so well so
okay so i would love to get up early but as you said lauren we are we are night
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it is really hard and so i was speaking to the counselor and she was like if
you wanted to get up early you would i'm like i don't agree with you at all
all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna i do not agree with Because I do want to.
But morning Bonnie is like, but this bed is so warm and it's so fun in that
place between sleep and awake.
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Just like Peter Pan said, you know, I just love that little Neverland.
It's so hard for me to pop up.
I don't like that our society or our culture values early as much as we do because.
The hours are hours it doesn't like especially the education like i'm but but like i mean i'm not,
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i'm not a farmer like i don't have to we have electricity now i don't yeah i
don't have to wake with the sunrise and go to or and go to bed when the sun
goes down but my like my job,
especially when we're in the thick of it i don't get home till one o'clock in
the morning so like Like, I have to be able to function late at night because it's my job to.
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So, what, how many shows do I do a year? Probably not. Eight? A lot.
So, that many weeks out of the year, I got to be able to be up that late at
least until that time functioning and thinking.
So, I'm just kind of on that schedule where, like, I'm not.
I had a friend. I had a friend who used to, like, get up at four.
We had this little, it's how I met you, Bonnie.
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Oh we had this little running group and yeah so
it's not that i can't get out i just need an external motivation our friend
wakes up very early and she wanted to get up at four to go running and i did
it twice and then i thought i am absolutely not designed for this i i wasn't
meant for this i can't do i think i went twice and you were there and then i
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went one or two more times.
And i just couldn't do it anymore yeah so because i was going home and going
back to bed dead like it was too and but then once you work out that early in
the morning you're so wired,
but then if you wake up at four there's no way I can
cut it till 10 11 o'clock at night because
that's a lot so I just I guess you
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were not working in town at that point we're an hour away so what
I do I guess is flex my hours like if I know I'm going
to be up till midnight one o'clock I'll sleep as late
as I can make myself sleep so that I can get but if
I if I know I'm going to be be normal time then I'll wake up at
7 I typically wake up at 7 7 30 especially when
I have my son so but if I can push it to 9 30 if
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I know it's gonna be late I do it so that would work for me if I could just
get up at 8 every day and not have to be anywhere till 10 my life would be fabulous
but I don't get that I have to be out the door at 8 so my goal is to get up at 6 six.
Right now, I don't get up at six. I get up somewhere right around seven,
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which gives me an hour before I have to leave, but that doesn't give me enough
time to do hardly anything except do the things I need to do.
Take care of the dogs and make my bed, start a load of laundry,
take my shower, get ready, check my calendar, make sure I didn't forget anything,
and then leave. Maybe make a lunch.
But I do pick my clothes out the night before because I know I'm going to sleep late.
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Like I do as many of those things the night before because I know morning Bonnie is terrible.
I'm glad I just wear, it's only
on my lecture class days that I have to actually wear like real clothes.
Not dress clothes. I mean, I can wear jeans and a sweater to lecture in.
But my typical, I mean, I teach musical theater and dance.
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So I usually. You have to be able to move. I usually wear like,
you know, yoga pants and a t-shirt to work.
So anyway, I don't have to. What I'm saying is I don't have to prep for that outfit.
I know what shoes go with that. I have an outfit. I have a uniform to wear every
day. You do? Oh, yeah. Is it black? It is.
It's head to toe black. And then I just throw on a jacket. It's so easy.
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But that's what, if I had to wear like a certain type of, I mean,
I wear black most of the time.
Anyway so well i
think it's interesting this is completely off subject but you know people didn't
used to play eight hours a day you slept
and watch it you had that sleep yeah you wait did we had first watch and second
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watch and you slept in shifts people slept in shifts and did we talk about 1600
is like something like us like not it's after the civilized world you're You're not talking cavemen.
Did the three of us have a conversation about second sleep? Oh,
I'm sure cavemen slept even less because we were going to be eating.
I don't know if we have or not.
So there's this thing called second sleep. Yeah. I had a conversation with someone
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about this where they found it in some article or some.
Oh, we talked about it. Didn't we talk about second sleep? Where like you would
go to sleep and then you'd wake up and have like basically like a midnight snack
or a small meal and then go back to sleep.
But they used to do it on watches. They've forgotten medieval habit of two sleeps,
according to the BBC. Sorry, just Googled it.
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But also, they used to call it watches because other people would sleep and
somebody would say, I've been watching, and then the next shift would sleep.
They slept in shifts, or what we would think of as shifts.
They didn't sleep eight hours at a time. Right. So that's like a modern kind
of invention. Well, you know, and I tend to not need eight hours.
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I need seven and a half. I'm at my best at seven and a half,
but I can function at five.
Well, and that's so five to six. I feel great. Five to six is about my happy spot.
According to my Apple watch, when I actually wear it, a lot of it is because
I toss and turn because I'm a side sleeper and I, and I go back and forth and
back and forth and back and forth all night.
I don't know I'm doing it. So I don't know how much of it means I'm actually
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sleeping or not, but you know, my Apple watch will register anything from three
and a half to five and a half or six hours of actual sleep if I wear it.
And that's when I wake up feeling incredibly rested. I mean, it's fine.
But if I can sleep eight, nine, or ten hours...
I think we went to bed at like 1230 last night and then I woke up at 715.
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What is that? That's about seven. About seven hours. I feel great.
Like I had a frustrating day, but I felt great today. You know what I mean? I'm not sleepy.
Okay. So is it more important for you when you're in this crazy period of you've
got a million places to be for you to make sure you get that sleep?
No, it's not. No. That doesn't make me think about it at all. No.
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Now, last night, I knew I needed to go to bed at 1230. Like,
it hit, and I was like, okay, this is, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and let's go to bed.
But, no, my main thing when there's so much stuff going on is I have to know
exactly where I have to be when, because my brain will, like,
it will let it go. Your ADD will take over, and you won't remember to go to places?
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Yes, that's what, it's literally what happens to me. So, do you put them in your, like, your phone?
Do you have a reminder set? Some of them, but I have to have a tangible calendar
so that I can look at the big picture and I know exactly what happens when.
Because if I write it down with my own hand, I can see it on the page.
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Yeah. And it helps me remember it.
I'm very visual that way. Well, but even like I look at my calendar.
So I had someone I saw last night and they said, hey, you want to do something Saturday?
And I was like, I looked at my online calendar. I said, well,
by this, it looks great, but I'm going to have to let you know after I can get
home and open my physical calendar. Right.
And then I can let you know. And so today I text him was like,
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yeah, no, that's my only day.
I'm not doing anything that day. I can't, I can't go anywhere else.
I'm sorry. I got to say that.
I have to keep it. Yeah. I didn't, I had to see it on the physical.
I have to see it. So I know every day what I'm doing and where I'm supposed
to be. That's between now.
I realized this week that between now and Easter, between me and my son,
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we have so much going on that I was like, OK, if I can't spend a couple of hours
with my calendar, I'm going to collapse.
So I like sat in bed one morning that I didn't have anywhere to be and I color coded.
I get those Aaron Condren calendars. Those are my favorites.
I'm a plum paper girl. Girl, I'm not a like epic color coder,
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but I thought, all right, I'm going to sit down and write everything down.
And then I'm going to establish a color code for everything so that I can just glance at it and see it.
Because when I do that, I can remember it. It's like lines. It's like memorizing lines.
And your visual. If it's on the page and I've written it down,
I know what it looks like.
Well, that's funny. I had my friend Angie once. She just laughed so hard at
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me. We had a baby shower to go to. We worked in the same office.
So we had a baby shower. I had three physical planners, one on my refrigerator
and one on my desk at work, one I carried in my purse.
This was back in the day. Because do you fear forgetting?
Yes. I fear forgetting more than anything. I did forget.
She was like i mean she was like how many calendars do
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you have and you still forgot i was
like oh you know but it was back before cell phones yeah
and i couldn't so now not only do i write it in all 1200 calendars
i have i also do a reminder on my
phone to go off and then remind me every hour
oh let's explore our reminder for big events big events
i stick it i have a magnetic calendar on my
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fridge and i write big events and apply to everybody on
that yes i used to be you know when
i used to be type a i think
i have just moved into the closet of type a and your masquerading but i used
to have one of those huge craft paper ones and everybody in my family had a
different color and all the activities were color coded all week so all they
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had to do is look for For their color.
Okay. I did that too. But guess what? If you go into my mudroom right now,
you'll find a huge calendar that covers the whole wall. And it's called the big ass calendar.
It gets every month all the way across so that I can put my weekends and when
I have stuff. Because I love seeing that huge.
I have a whole year view in the mudroom now.
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It's the big picture helps me. And what it does is it for me with this art,
what it has done, because I know that I want to make some strides in my art to see the whole year.
I see how little time there really is.
If I'm in my day or I'm in my month, I feel like I have all the time in the world.
But if I look up on that calendar and my son's wedding is blocked off and this
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is blocked off and this is blocked off, those are times I know I can't do anything.
It shrinks that time I know is available and it becomes, oh, okay.
And it just becomes more important that I truly take action every day that I can.
You know, I used to have a big a year calendar when I had the shop,
because when you're in retail and you're pushing things, you have to put the
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Christmas out, you know. Oh, yeah. Really fast. Yeah.
Valentine's would be out way before Christmas was in. So you need to know.
You're a couple of months ahead.
So you have to know what you're blocking for decorating the whole thing.
I I have ADD that I don't medicate. And even though I have the medication sitting
in my drawer, I do not medicate. It just scares me because I don't take anything
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and I don't want to, you know, it just worries me.
Anyway, I don't like medicine. But you know how to function.
But I know how to function. And part of that is that I have to overdo it in
the area that I'm not good at because I'll just, my personality will just go,
okay, well, what's the next thing that we're supposed to do or have to do?
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And that I won't be able to plan ahead for that thing that needs that,
that needs me to prep for it. So anyway.
Well, all right. Well, I think that we have, what do you think?
What are y'all doing this week?
I know that, well, Lauren, maybe should I say, do you have some time you're
not doing something this week? Or is there one particular thing you're truly looking forward to?
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Wait. That you are looking forward to you're doing this week?
What am I doing this week? Hold on. Ash Wednesday is tomorrow.
Tomorrow and also so so anyway i've got to go to church there's churching and we're in a new,
liturgical season oh we are so lit that that this is what color is lit.
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I'm not good at that ordinary time is green right
it's purple i think yeah that's not right or
is easter purple no easter is white all high holy days are yes white so i'm
sorry we have a show at school this weekend oh my son's school play is this
weekend yay so he's excited he's He's doing, can I just, funny little quip,
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he's doing Beauty and the Beast at his elementary school, and he's a fork.
My daughter was a fork in that play. And he's a fork. I think he's a kind of
flatware. My daughter was a fork.
We're going to have to have a picture of him and his fork outfit,
and I'll pull out my daughter and her fork outfit.
But my son, he took out, he's got this like, he loves a prop.
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And he has this wonky broom that he got at River Clay.
Oh, yeah. And so he texted the broom the other day, he's dancing with it.
And he says, mommy, look, it's baguette.
And I said, oh, you mean babette? The Fender Guster.
He thought her name was baguette. She thought my song was very red. Baguette.
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I love it. I love it. It was really cute.
So yeah that's kind of my i've got
many things coming up but his also it's
kind of nice to check the box of one performance when there's so many coming
up so yeah that's good yeah well on that
note my daughter is going to thespians this weekend and i do not think adults
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are required or even invited so who you've got a weekend to yourself i'm looking
forward to a little bit of downtown and I have one project that I may try to
dive into. So we'll see how that,
Okay, well, I have a pottery class on Friday. Oh, what do you do?
And I told you about that. Really?
Yeah. Where are you doing it? At the Monteceno Folk Art School.
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Yeah, I've looked into that. Yeah, so that's that one spot left.
I think I was up at 2 a.m. one night and went, okay, done.
And just like, what is impulse buys in the middle of the night?
So in the thread of my word of the year, explore.
So I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. Well, next one we'll have to
do, too. I would do that, too.
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Good. Okay. So, when you look for another, do it. You know we have those classes at the school.
You can take pottery, like, at the school. Yeah, I don't know.
I just want to go and see. Yeah, but this is just a one day.
I'm dipping my toe. And I've done the pottery world before.
See, and I haven't ever done the pottery world. I haven't either.
So, yeah. So, I'm dipping my toe in.
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So, Low Mill offers dip toe classes and that kind of thing, too.
And then Sunday, I'm going to see the Broadway To Kill Mockingbird with my mother.
We're going to dinner with my mother. Okay. I think John Boy is playing the
lead in the touring production. John Boy from the Waltons? Oh, really?
Oh. I think. I could be lying right now. I'll let you know on Sunday.
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My parents are going. My mom and my stepdad are going to see it on Friday night.
I got that for Christmas.
Yeah. Well, we're going Sunday. She asked if I wanted to. It's great. The new script is so.
I loved it. Well, you know, that's one of the books that I taught for years.
I know it backwards and forwards.
My copy is annotated. Like, there's hardly any spaces left.
It's just I loved teaching that novel. And so it'll be kind of neat to see it.
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Anyway, so that'll be fun. So good. So, all right. Well, I think champagne problem
not solved, but discussed.
Single woman problem.
Discussed. Yeah.
Cheers have a great week thank y'all for joining us for Champagne Sunday see you next week.
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Music.
So tonight we're talking about a single woman problem.
A single woman problem.
There you go. And what is our single woman problem tonight, since it especially
affects you this week, Lauren?
It's when you and your child have to be in the same place or different places at the same time.
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Or when you need to be in different places at the same time.
And there's not anybody else to help, especially when you're working.
So when you're overscheduled.
Overscheduled. Not enough mama. Yes. Right around.
When there's no daddy to help the mama get everybody everywhere they go,
and you still have to eat and do basic housework and make sure homework is done
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and wake up the next morning.
Well, what's sad is some of those things just got to go. Well,
you should have said, I can bring home the bike. Like, that's what you should have done, man.
I think like last week, I don't know. I've had that kind of week where it was just nonstop.
And then, you know, some days I don't have my son.
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It's still been busy. But then when I get him back, it's, well,
he's got this rehearsal and I have this rehearsal, but it's at the same time.
So I stopped my rehearsal to go get him and bring him back to his rehearsal.
And they go, that was today. it was okay everybody
hold on a second let me go take him somewhere and I
had to go pick him up take him somewhere come back and then do it
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then go pick him up and it was that reminds me of
having three kids when everybody had to be in a different place only it's
just you and another one like I have a you know I'm
a professor and I have while we have like dedicated hours my job is relatively
flexible in that if I need to running pick him up from school or whatever I
can I something Something happened a couple of weeks ago and I walked in and
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it was related to my son. He had to be taken somewhere.
But I walked in and I looked at my colleague and I said, what do people who
don't have flexible jobs do in this scenario?
I don't know what I would do, you know? Yeah.
I mean, or you also weren't close. Yeah, I live like a minute away.
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It occurred to me today when I'm trying to shuffle us to everything that has happened.
I thought, you know, four years ago, I worked an hour away.
I couldn't, I don't know how I would mom this. How would I mom this at this
point? Yeah, you wouldn't.
I would be helping you, mom. Your mom would be helping you, mom.
You would have to use your village. Yeah, you know, I'm terrible at that.
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Yeah. Well, that would have forced you into it. You would not have had a choice.
And you know, I'm bad at that too. And it's taken this divorce and the fallout
after the divorce and the trying to be everything for everybody all the time
to make me ask for help, to learn how to ask for help.
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That's a hard thing when you're that kind of person. And I've always been the
person that I can do it. I can do it well enough that I don't have to have assistance.
And so it's easier for me to do it than explain to somebody else how to do it.
And I'm not good at, I'm good at delegating other things, but when it's my personal
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life, I'm not very good at that.
But I have learned, I have learned to be better. I think some of it is when
it's, when it's my kid, I think I want to be in the know about it,
you know? And so, I don't know.
It has been just a lot lately because of the number of things we have going
on. And they're all positive, fun things.
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It's not like you're like. No, nothing is. I went in today. I was late for my own rehearsal.
Like, I was five minutes late to everything today. I couldn't be on time.
I am not sure. Oh, it rained. It's probably.
But I was late to my own rehearsal because I just had to.
There were too many things to check off. and my assistant director,
who's one of my students, called me and he was like, hey, he calls me Larnie.
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He said, where are you, Larnie? I said, I'll be there in just a minute. It's been a day.
And he said, oh, oh, okay. I said, have them ready.
And I walked in and I just like,
I mean, we, you know, we started a rehearsal, but it was just like,
but hey, at least you have an assistant that could kind of get everybody ready
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while they were waiting for you.
Yeah, it just, you know, that's not an ideal. No, it's not.
But it's back up. But life happens. It is a lot back up lane.
Well, that's, you know, so let me just say you've got all of these one bajillion
hundred thousand things happening. Do you have spots where you are forcing yourself
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to take a little bit of time for yourself?
So on days that that's an option, yes.
I just happened and I have been so much. Y'all know I have been so much better
about that in the last six months.
I would say since the summer. I have been so intentional about that.
It's been this last week. I just and what's funny is my partner had surgery.
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Surgery so it he
kind of entered this like sit and recover
situation and I looked at my calendar and
I was like oh no the next
seven days are crazy how did I let this
happen like you have surgery and then I go into like
I have a million things to do in the next seven days
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so anyway tomorrow is my
last like big box to check this week and
then I do kind of have like a bit of a pause in
the next few days so that was that's good well yeah anything
to the tunnel yeah but you know even if you
have like this week i have found i think i have something every single
night so i was out of town all last weekend and then i just have something scheduled
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every night they're fun things it's not like i'm doing intense work but i started
thinking okay i can't do anything on saturday i have to have a day i need some
time in my house to do the things that must be done the washing the clothes and all of that.
But I have the luxury because I don't have anything on Saturday.
So I'm covered up every other day and Sunday. I was like, oh, protect this time.
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You know, it's kind of like that, too. And I'm traveling every day.
But one of them is a short day.
And on the short day, I'm going to try to walk.
I might take a nap.
I mean, I'll be working. But, you know, I'm going to take a lunch.
I'm going to try to take care of myself. A little more. Yeah.
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Because then I end the week on a big drive.
And that always sucks my energy. But this weekend, my child has a big event.
But I don't think parents are invited to it. So I will hopefully have weekend.
Well, that's, you know, and Lauren, I remember when I was in that space with
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three kids and we would have like two in baseball, one in dance or whatever
it was trying to get everybody to all these different places.
Husband was working late and all of this. At the end of the day,
even if my day ended at 1030 or 11, I had to have that hour to myself.
And it was self-sabotage, sort of, but I had to have it.
I had to have that time until midnight or 1am where it was just me and just
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for myself and I could read, I could draw, I could watch television and veg
out, but I had to have that, that space.
I always, I always call that taking the day off and I don't necessarily have
to be, and I, I specifically do this when I have a show.
So last night was not a late, late night, 10, 10 30 is not late for what I do
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for a living, but I got home and I wasn't, I was tired, but I wasn't sleepy.
So, like, I sat down on the couch and I watched my boyfriend play a video game.
And I just, like, that's all I needed. I did that. I had a glass of wine. I was happy.
Yeah, I just, like, needed to be still. But show week, that's what I do.
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No matter what, how late it is, I'll come home.
Because when you're in that late at night, you're wired.
Yeah. Yeah. And you just have to like have a moment to just take it all off and then go to bed.
Yeah. And it's not even a reward. It's like a necessary.
I need to function tomorrow. So I need to have this time to just sort of recenter.
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It's like how some people have to shower. I did that. Yeah. Okay.
Oh, yes, you do. categories. So for my sanity, when my kids were young,
you know, we did all the activities and everything and I did dinner, cleaned up.
Everybody did their bedtime routine.
Everybody went to bed except for me.
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At that hour, I would take a bubble bath.
I would stitch. I would read, look at my calendar, see what I had to do for the next day.
And that was sort of my reset. Yeah, sort of the ease into the night, empty my brain.
If I had thoughts, I would write them down. I always kept a pad by my bed.
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And then, you know, during the divorce, I kind of lost that for a couple of
months because you kind of space out.
I don't know if you're in shock, you're traumatized, whatever.
Well, your world's changing. Yeah, and trying to get a new norm, but I always kept...
The bedtime routine, I treat myself like a little infant.
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I have to get my bath, my bubble bath. That's so good.
That's so good. Get cozy. You know, it's very calming. There's a reason you do it for babies.
It calms them, gets them warm, and then they go to sleep.
And that's what I do. And I'm an old baby nurse, so I'm. You know how to take care of yourself.
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That's what I've always done. Even on those stressful days, like especially
the super crazy days where everything hits at one time, which I call the Bermuda Triangle.
When I have the Bermuda Triangle days, I really have to make myself.
Because my instinct is just to take a bath and jump into bed.
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But if I do that, I don't sleep well. I have to do that sort of decompressing
of the day. If I don't take that time, or it used to be that if I didn't take
that time, because it's rare if I don't take it now, because I don't have near.
Well, you and I are both night owls. Yes. But if I don't take some of that time
at night, then I will find myself the next day forgetful, misplacing things,
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not doing all the steps in the right way. It's like I didn't get that reset.
You don't get a reset. Yeah. So if I don't take that time, it's a little detrimental to my future day.
Right. Yeah. My future self thanks my past self. for taking a little while because
even if I lack sleep, I'm still, I still perform better.
Well, I've taken mine, you know, a step further because I have always done the nighttime thing.
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But about a year after the divorce, I started doing a morning thing.
And I'm going to tell you, if you can make yourself get up 20 to 30 minutes,
it doesn't have to be an hour early.
I do an hour, but 20 to 30 minutes makes a huge difference on how you view your day.
I used to just pop out of bed and like I was doing laundry and making breakfast
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and, you know, it was just boom, boom, boom, boom.
And now i get out of
bed i have my coffee i do
a devotional and then i start my day i call it easing into
my day it has met it mentally it
makes a huge difference starting my day
i have a clear picture of what i need to
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do it's i don't know so help me
i have a bit of a similar thing it's probably a bit a lot more
time i don't physically have to be anywhere till
11 at my at my at
my college job i don't have to be anywhere
till 11 i start working at 9 30 but i i start
working online at 9 30 but that said i can
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wake up and i don't require anything of myself until i've
had two cups of coffee and then i'm like all right now we can like what are
we going to do like we're checking email we're answering students but also we're
going to unload the dishwasher i'm going to make my bed i'm going to set this
load of laundry and that like three It's like three hours.
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Give or take three hours, two to three hours in the morning that I do have.
Like after I drop my son off at school and before I have to leave for work,
I've got a good chunk of time to like calm my brain, do the things that are
necessary to survive and like get ready.
But then when you walk in at the end of the day, because if I do that,
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if I do the dishes. It's done.
Oh, yeah. Walk in. Oh, I don't do chores at night. it's
such a different feeling when you walk in your house and you don't
have all those chores to do on top of your
whole right evening the only thing i do at night
ever is cook pretty much so well so
okay so i would love to get up early but as you said lauren we are we are night
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it is really hard and so i was speaking to the counselor and she was like if
you wanted to get up early you would i'm like i don't agree with you at all
all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna i do not agree with Because I do want to.
But morning Bonnie is like, but this bed is so warm and it's so fun in that
place between sleep and awake.
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Just like Peter Pan said, you know, I just love that little Neverland.
It's so hard for me to pop up.
I don't like that our society or our culture values early as much as we do because.
The hours are hours it doesn't like especially the education like i'm but but like i mean i'm not,
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i'm not a farmer like i don't have to we have electricity now i don't yeah i
don't have to wake with the sunrise and go to or and go to bed when the sun
goes down but my like my job,
especially when we're in the thick of it i don't get home till one o'clock in
the morning so like Like, I have to be able to function late at night because it's my job to.
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So, what, how many shows do I do a year? Probably not. Eight? A lot.
So, that many weeks out of the year, I got to be able to be up that late at
least until that time functioning and thinking.
So, I'm just kind of on that schedule where, like, I'm not.
I had a friend. I had a friend who used to, like, get up at four.
We had this little, it's how I met you, Bonnie.
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Oh we had this little running group and yeah so
it's not that i can't get out i just need an external motivation our friend
wakes up very early and she wanted to get up at four to go running and i did
it twice and then i thought i am absolutely not designed for this i i wasn't
meant for this i can't do i think i went twice and you were there and then i
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went one or two more times.
And i just couldn't do it anymore yeah so because i was going home and going
back to bed dead like it was too and but then once you work out that early in
the morning you're so wired,
but then if you wake up at four there's no way I can
cut it till 10 11 o'clock at night because
that's a lot so I just I guess you
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were not working in town at that point we're an hour away so what
I do I guess is flex my hours like if I know I'm going
to be up till midnight one o'clock I'll sleep as late
as I can make myself sleep so that I can get but if
I if I know I'm going to be be normal time then I'll wake up at
7 I typically wake up at 7 7 30 especially when
I have my son so but if I can push it to 9 30 if
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I know it's gonna be late I do it so that would work for me if I could just
get up at 8 every day and not have to be anywhere till 10 my life would be fabulous
but I don't get that I have to be out the door at 8 so my goal is to get up at 6 six.
Right now, I don't get up at six. I get up somewhere right around seven,
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which gives me an hour before I have to leave, but that doesn't give me enough
time to do hardly anything except do the things I need to do.
Take care of the dogs and make my bed, start a load of laundry,
take my shower, get ready, check my calendar, make sure I didn't forget anything,
and then leave. Maybe make a lunch.
But I do pick my clothes out the night before because I know I'm going to sleep late.
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Like I do as many of those things the night before because I know morning Bonnie is terrible.
I'm glad I just wear, it's only
on my lecture class days that I have to actually wear like real clothes.
Not dress clothes. I mean, I can wear jeans and a sweater to lecture in.
But my typical, I mean, I teach musical theater and dance.
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So I usually. You have to be able to move. I usually wear like,
you know, yoga pants and a t-shirt to work.
So anyway, I don't have to. What I'm saying is I don't have to prep for that outfit.
I know what shoes go with that. I have an outfit. I have a uniform to wear every
day. You do? Oh, yeah. Is it black? It is.
It's head to toe black. And then I just throw on a jacket. It's so easy.
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But that's what, if I had to wear like a certain type of, I mean,
I wear black most of the time.
Anyway so well i
think it's interesting this is completely off subject but you know people didn't
used to play eight hours a day you slept
and watch it you had that sleep yeah you wait did we had first watch and second
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watch and you slept in shifts people slept in shifts and did we talk about 1600
is like something like us like not it's after the civilized world you're You're not talking cavemen.
Did the three of us have a conversation about second sleep? Oh,
I'm sure cavemen slept even less because we were going to be eating.
I don't know if we have or not.
So there's this thing called second sleep. Yeah. I had a conversation with someone
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about this where they found it in some article or some.
Oh, we talked about it. Didn't we talk about second sleep? Where like you would
go to sleep and then you'd wake up and have like basically like a midnight snack
or a small meal and then go back to sleep.
But they used to do it on watches. They've forgotten medieval habit of two sleeps,
according to the BBC. Sorry, just Googled it.
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But also, they used to call it watches because other people would sleep and
somebody would say, I've been watching, and then the next shift would sleep.
They slept in shifts, or what we would think of as shifts.
They didn't sleep eight hours at a time. Right. So that's like a modern kind
of invention. Well, you know, and I tend to not need eight hours.
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I need seven and a half. I'm at my best at seven and a half,
but I can function at five.
Well, and that's so five to six. I feel great. Five to six is about my happy spot.
According to my Apple watch, when I actually wear it, a lot of it is because
I toss and turn because I'm a side sleeper and I, and I go back and forth and
back and forth and back and forth all night.
I don't know I'm doing it. So I don't know how much of it means I'm actually
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sleeping or not, but you know, my Apple watch will register anything from three
and a half to five and a half or six hours of actual sleep if I wear it.
And that's when I wake up feeling incredibly rested. I mean, it's fine.
But if I can sleep eight, nine, or ten hours...
I think we went to bed at like 1230 last night and then I woke up at 715.
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What is that? That's about seven. About seven hours. I feel great.
Like I had a frustrating day, but I felt great today. You know what I mean? I'm not sleepy.
Okay. So is it more important for you when you're in this crazy period of you've
got a million places to be for you to make sure you get that sleep?
No, it's not. No. That doesn't make me think about it at all. No.
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Now, last night, I knew I needed to go to bed at 1230. Like,
it hit, and I was like, okay, this is, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and let's go to bed.
But, no, my main thing when there's so much stuff going on is I have to know
exactly where I have to be when, because my brain will, like,
it will let it go. Your ADD will take over, and you won't remember to go to places?
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Yes, that's what, it's literally what happens to me. So, do you put them in your, like, your phone?
Do you have a reminder set? Some of them, but I have to have a tangible calendar
so that I can look at the big picture and I know exactly what happens when.
Because if I write it down with my own hand, I can see it on the page.
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Yeah. And it helps me remember it.
I'm very visual that way. Well, but even like I look at my calendar.
So I had someone I saw last night and they said, hey, you want to do something Saturday?
And I was like, I looked at my online calendar. I said, well,
by this, it looks great, but I'm going to have to let you know after I can get
home and open my physical calendar. Right.
And then I can let you know. And so today I text him was like,
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yeah, no, that's my only day.
I'm not doing anything that day. I can't, I can't go anywhere else.
I'm sorry. I got to say that.
I have to keep it. Yeah. I didn't, I had to see it on the physical.
I have to see it. So I know every day what I'm doing and where I'm supposed
to be. That's between now.
I realized this week that between now and Easter, between me and my son,
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we have so much going on that I was like, OK, if I can't spend a couple of hours
with my calendar, I'm going to collapse.
So I like sat in bed one morning that I didn't have anywhere to be and I color coded.
I get those Aaron Condren calendars. Those are my favorites.
I'm a plum paper girl. Girl, I'm not a like epic color coder,
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but I thought, all right, I'm going to sit down and write everything down.
And then I'm going to establish a color code for everything so that I can just glance at it and see it.
Because when I do that, I can remember it. It's like lines. It's like memorizing lines.
And your visual. If it's on the page and I've written it down,
I know what it looks like.
Well, that's funny. I had my friend Angie once. She just laughed so hard at
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me. We had a baby shower to go to. We worked in the same office.
So we had a baby shower. I had three physical planners, one on my refrigerator
and one on my desk at work, one I carried in my purse.
This was back in the day. Because do you fear forgetting?
Yes. I fear forgetting more than anything. I did forget.
She was like i mean she was like how many calendars do
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you have and you still forgot i was
like oh you know but it was back before cell phones yeah
and i couldn't so now not only do i write it in all 1200 calendars
i have i also do a reminder on my
phone to go off and then remind me every hour
oh let's explore our reminder for big events big events
i stick it i have a magnetic calendar on my
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fridge and i write big events and apply to everybody on
that yes i used to be you know when
i used to be type a i think
i have just moved into the closet of type a and your masquerading but i used
to have one of those huge craft paper ones and everybody in my family had a
different color and all the activities were color coded all week so all they
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had to do is look for For their color.
Okay. I did that too. But guess what? If you go into my mudroom right now,
you'll find a huge calendar that covers the whole wall. And it's called the big ass calendar.
It gets every month all the way across so that I can put my weekends and when
I have stuff. Because I love seeing that huge.
I have a whole year view in the mudroom now.
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It's the big picture helps me. And what it does is it for me with this art,
what it has done, because I know that I want to make some strides in my art to see the whole year.
I see how little time there really is.
If I'm in my day or I'm in my month, I feel like I have all the time in the world.
But if I look up on that calendar and my son's wedding is blocked off and this
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is blocked off and this is blocked off, those are times I know I can't do anything.
It shrinks that time I know is available and it becomes, oh, okay.
And it just becomes more important that I truly take action every day that I can.
You know, I used to have a big a year calendar when I had the shop,
because when you're in retail and you're pushing things, you have to put the
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Christmas out, you know. Oh, yeah. Really fast. Yeah.
Valentine's would be out way before Christmas was in. So you need to know.
You're a couple of months ahead.
So you have to know what you're blocking for decorating the whole thing.
I I have ADD that I don't medicate. And even though I have the medication sitting
in my drawer, I do not medicate. It just scares me because I don't take anything
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and I don't want to, you know, it just worries me.
Anyway, I don't like medicine. But you know how to function.
But I know how to function. And part of that is that I have to overdo it in
the area that I'm not good at because I'll just, my personality will just go,
okay, well, what's the next thing that we're supposed to do or have to do?
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And that I won't be able to plan ahead for that thing that needs that,
that needs me to prep for it. So anyway.
Well, all right. Well, I think that we have, what do you think?
What are y'all doing this week?
I know that, well, Lauren, maybe should I say, do you have some time you're
not doing something this week? Or is there one particular thing you're truly looking forward to?
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Wait. That you are looking forward to you're doing this week?
What am I doing this week? Hold on. Ash Wednesday is tomorrow.
Tomorrow and also so so anyway i've got to go to church there's churching and we're in a new,
liturgical season oh we are so lit that that this is what color is lit.
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I'm not good at that ordinary time is green right
it's purple i think yeah that's not right or
is easter purple no easter is white all high holy days are yes white so i'm
sorry we have a show at school this weekend oh my son's school play is this
weekend yay so he's excited he's He's doing, can I just, funny little quip,
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he's doing Beauty and the Beast at his elementary school, and he's a fork.
My daughter was a fork in that play. And he's a fork. I think he's a kind of
flatware. My daughter was a fork.
We're going to have to have a picture of him and his fork outfit,
and I'll pull out my daughter and her fork outfit.
But my son, he took out, he's got this like, he loves a prop.
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And he has this wonky broom that he got at River Clay.
Oh, yeah. And so he texted the broom the other day, he's dancing with it.
And he says, mommy, look, it's baguette.
And I said, oh, you mean babette? The Fender Guster.
He thought her name was baguette. She thought my song was very red. Baguette.
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I love it. I love it. It was really cute.
So yeah that's kind of my i've got
many things coming up but his also it's
kind of nice to check the box of one performance when there's so many coming
up so yeah that's good yeah well on that
note my daughter is going to thespians this weekend and i do not think adults
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are required or even invited so who you've got a weekend to yourself i'm looking
forward to a little bit of downtown and I have one project that I may try to
dive into. So we'll see how that,
Okay, well, I have a pottery class on Friday. Oh, what do you do?
And I told you about that. Really?
Yeah. Where are you doing it? At the Monteceno Folk Art School.
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Yeah, I've looked into that. Yeah, so that's that one spot left.
I think I was up at 2 a.m. one night and went, okay, done.
And just like, what is impulse buys in the middle of the night?
So in the thread of my word of the year, explore.
So I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. Well, next one we'll have to
do, too. I would do that, too.
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Good. Okay. So, when you look for another, do it. You know we have those classes at the school.
You can take pottery, like, at the school. Yeah, I don't know.
I just want to go and see. Yeah, but this is just a one day.
I'm dipping my toe. And I've done the pottery world before.
See, and I haven't ever done the pottery world. I haven't either.
So, yeah. So, I'm dipping my toe in.
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So, Low Mill offers dip toe classes and that kind of thing, too.
And then Sunday, I'm going to see the Broadway To Kill Mockingbird with my mother.
We're going to dinner with my mother. Okay. I think John Boy is playing the
lead in the touring production. John Boy from the Waltons? Oh, really?
Oh. I think. I could be lying right now. I'll let you know on Sunday.
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My parents are going. My mom and my stepdad are going to see it on Friday night.
I got that for Christmas.
Yeah. Well, we're going Sunday. She asked if I wanted to. It's great. The new script is so.
I loved it. Well, you know, that's one of the books that I taught for years.
I know it backwards and forwards.
My copy is annotated. Like, there's hardly any spaces left.
It's just I loved teaching that novel. And so it'll be kind of neat to see it.
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Anyway, so that'll be fun. So good. So, all right. Well, I think champagne problem
not solved, but discussed.
Single woman problem.
Discussed. Yeah.
Cheers have a great week thank y'all for joining us for Champagne Sunday see you next week.
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