July 15, 2025 • 51 mins
Amy updates us on her vacation with her boyfriend + all their kids and Kat is feeling grateful for someone else's gratitude!!! Two big takeaways from this episode are we should all send more “this made me think of you” texts, especially as voice memos, and don’t leave your luggage open when you’re packing because your cat might pee in it. They also talk about how to smuggle a cookie cake across borders, how neither Kat nor Amy can dive into a pool (one of the more odd things they have in common), and the importance of actually feeling your feelings (especially when your cat pees in your luggage the night before a flight!)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, break it down.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
If you ever have feelings that you just fall ay
and Cat got you covin locking, No, brother, ladies and felts,
do you just follow an the spirit where it's on
the front and real stuff to the chill stuff and
the him. But Swayne, sometimes the best thing you can
do it just stop you feel. This is feeling things
(00:28):
with Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And Cat Happy Tuesday. Welcome to feeling things.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm Amy and I'm Cat and I have the feeling
of the day today. But first you look very tan today.
It's tanna feeling. We could make it into it. I
think it's feel.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Let me tell you know how you feel before a
spray TND and then after a spray TN do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You feel sad and then you feel happy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, there's memes or videos people make their like I
thought I was depressed and then I got a spray
hand and everything felt fine again. Well, this isn't a
spraytand this my actual tan tan because yeah, we went
on a trip and I slowly built up to a
tan And what do you mean, I was prepping for
my trip, Oh to try pre tann for my trip,
(01:12):
and I didn't get too much sun exposure. At all,
But it just feels good to actually have some color
on my skin. And tan is a feeling feels good.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm adding it to the wheel. I don't know that
now that you're saying this, I don't know that I've
ever seen you with a real tan from the sun.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, but my son damage is also coming out. So
then I'm reminded, Oh, this is why I don't like
to be in the sun.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What do you mean sun?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, I have all these little white spots that start
to pop up, and I have them on my back
and my kids were like, what is this splashing noise
on your back? I'm like, sun damaged kids, stay out
of the tanning beds because I, oh, yeah, my kids.
My kidseration, so there already tanned, right, they're very, very tanned.
(02:02):
But other kids listening. I had a tanning bed membership
in high school and college.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That is well, and they're still that idea, but there's
still people still have those.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, my daughter's friend goes to a tanning bed and
I get this. I learn about this because my daughter said,
I tried out a tanning bed today again my daughter's station.
She did, and I said what why? And she said, well,
my friend was going because she has a membership and
I wanted to see what it was all about. And
I said, well, first of all, you don't need to
(02:35):
do that. She's like, well again, I want to just
experience it, like laying in the bed with the lights, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, that's just a nice experience, though I will say
it's very warm. I've been to a tanning bed probably
ten times in my life. I splurged on a ten
pack in college, and I think for like a formal
or something, but I'm also thinking I could have gotten
a spray tan for cheaper.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why did they They weren't popular then, at least for
me when I was in high school, spray tanning and
self tanning was not a thing. Tanning beds you put
the little sticker on your.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Hip, but it's like a kind of feels like a sauna,
don't you think, Yeah, it's one. So maybe your daughter
can just go to a sauna.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Right, She just wanted to experience it one time. It's
not like she's gonna be going back. But I was
also shocked at the same time to find out she
had a friend that was going to a tanning bag
because yeah, I don't know if the mom knows about it.
I almost felt like this felt like a situation where
I should call the mom and say, do you know
your daughter's going.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
To a danning fan and she's like, yeah, we go together.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And then I was like, hey, this is none of
my business. It is all like she's smoking cigarettes, but
kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Like, wait, honestly, it could be just as damaging.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes, So therefore I tried to sun responsibly and prepare
my skin. But my sun damage is coming through, but
I still think some sun is okay. And then I
did sunscreen and tried to take care of my skin.
But yeah, I do have some natural color. Shout out,
not my face though, this is spray hand because you
cover your face self tanner like a mist that I
(04:03):
on my face.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do you have a couple questions for you to follow
up about your tan One as a child well as
a teenager, you went to the tanning bed, did you
get sucked into buying the like expensive lotion that they
would sell you, yes, of course. And did you put
us Did you put the sticker on?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What kind of sticker did you have, like the Playboy
Bunny sticker?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Because I know I'm sure I did that at one point,
but mostly like the heart or the palm tree.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Wait, did you do the Playboy bunny stick I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Sure I did it at one point or another, because
like I feel like everybody did. But I remember, well,
you only had a tin pack.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I didn't afford the sticker.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I went many, many times, oh for the stickers, stickers,
extra sticker for free.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But I was just joking.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No, I definitely had the special lotions. I did all
the things. And then probably in my thirties is when
I just that's like stock girl back in the day. Yeah,
going to the tanny bed with my I got my lotion,
I got my sticker.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
When I was little, I would go out in the
sun all the time with just baby oil, and I
put sun in in my hair for natural highlights. You
could buy the song at the grocery store, or I
put lemon juice, and then I would have this like
orange looking highlight situation.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And you said, I'm so pretty, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
This looks good, But I wasn't really tan. I was
more like red with my son and hair burnt, and
then you had to orange hair. So that those are
the days which right now I know my hair slipped
back so you can't really see it, but I haven't
seen you yet since I got my hair done and
I got it highlighted. Can you see my money pieces?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No? I can't.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is it called many pieces or money piece?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Money pieces would be the plural of piece, and if
you have two of them, that'll be pieces.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, then I have money pieces, souse.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I guess you could just get one.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But I didn't ask for them. I guess she just
did it because that's what's on trend right now. And
I asked for highlights.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's that's not what you I.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Didn't even know that's what they were called. And then
I went to work in Morgan on the Bobby Bone Show.
Was like, oh, yeah, those are called.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But she wasn't like, I'm gonna give you what do
you think about doing this?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
No, wasn't disgusted my hair.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Girl will be like, okay, do you want it lighter
in the front or what do you want it like?
She'll ask me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
She won't just like, yeah, this was the first time
this person had ever colored my hair. And there was
no discussion. I mean I told her the shade of
highlights that I was hoping for, which she nailed, and
the rest of the highlights are great. I just am
waiting for the front part to grow out. It's not
I'm I'm forty four, Like, I don't need money pieces
honey pieces.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So okay, here's a question about that. Then she dries
your hair. Does she style it for you? Okay? But
as she's drying it, you're starting to see it come
in and you're like, huh what is that? And you
say what did you say? What is this?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
No? I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I did.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I did like the color. I was like, oh, yeah,
it looks so good. And it wasn't really untill I
got in my car and then I got home and
I was like, oh wow, okay, these front pieces are
significantly brighter than anywhere else. Woll I was like, well,
this is a bummer. But I was like, well, I'm not.
It wasn't important enough to me to go back.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, I just let it grow out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Have you ever gone back to get something fixed?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes? What was it like for you to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
M I think they understood. I think what I went
back for was valid. I think just over the years,
I can't tell you exactly what was wrong with my hair,
but I know that I have gone back like, oh,
this needs to be a little bit rudy or oh.
A recent example that I do know of, and this
is in the last couple of years, was the well,
I don't know what they put, like a finish or
the the ton of the toner. Yes, the toner, I
(07:36):
don't know. Something was just off like it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It was the wrong tone, wasn't it was warm or cool? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So then I went back and she goes, oh, that's
an easy fix. Let me just put this toner on it.
So she put the toner on washing the blue drummer hair,
and then I was like, bam, perfect. So it's a
toner issue.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I just I'm curious. I always like to know how
people respond, like if they hate their I'm about it. Well,
I don't. I would never imagine you'd be some.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
People or not. I was just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm really nice. But I've never had a real well
I've had one really bad haircut. I didn't have a
lot of money and I needed a haircut. And there
was a girl I went to high school with that
was in hair school and she had a kid, and
she said, I want to go to this party. I
was living at my parents' house. I want to go
to this party. I'll put on Facebook. I'll trade a
(08:23):
haircut if somebody will watch my kid.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh for a haircut.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's also the best part. When I was like twenty one,
never probably change a diaper. She brings her kid over.
I'm thinking, I'm gonna watch this kid for like a
couple hours. She comes back at like three, wait, and
I'm at my mom's in dad's house, like, that's my
baby with the baby. I couldn't get the baby to sleep,
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so I like go to my mom's room and I'm like, mom,
the baby won't stop crying. She's like she hasn't picked
him up yet.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But you like knew her kind of I was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Like adjacently friends with her in high school. I've known
her since probably fifth grade or so. But I think
I one was like, oh, a baby, I'll watch the baby.
It'll be cute. And then I was like, she'll be
back at a reasonable hour. And then the third thing
was she'll cut my hair. I'll be great. That's the
only time I've had to get a haircut fixed. And
I didn't go back to the same person, obviously, because
(09:26):
I didn't want a baby sit again. Completely crooked, like
not like I think I could have done it. Yeah,
so it wasn't worth it. Wow, But my mom actually
said last weekend, she's like, remember when so and so
dropped her baby off and never came back.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And you're, but did you say, but I do get
my haircut? You should have waited until she finished her schooling.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, I think my mom probably was like, if you
really needed a haircut, Katherine, we could have let you
forty dollars. It was like fifteen years ago. Probably, Oh
my gosh, it was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That's crazy time. Flus.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
One of the baby remembers where the.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Baby's fifteen now fifteen sixteen so maybe older?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, no, that would be fifteen.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He was like probably one or younger.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, so he's driving. I hope she's probably got she's
probably better now, like had a salon.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm not going back. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So these are yeah, are these are her stories? You win?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, it was easy I think to fix. But what
I do remember going to like my normal hair girl
and she was like, one, why did you do that?
Two You've been walking around like this? And I was like, yes,
is it that bad? And then she did the thing
where you know how they're like, it's even. Yah. She's
like see this is up here, this system, and you're like, well,
I just turn my head and it makes it even.
(10:53):
What are you talking about? That's okay, Well we should
do the feeling of the day.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, let's do the feeling of the day, because tan's
want to feel, but it feels good.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It can be a state of being.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Tanna's a state of being.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So I have the feeling I'm feeling this is not
really a feeling either, but maybe we can narrow it down.
I'm feeling grateful for other people's gratitude. Okay, So I
guess you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Could say you have gratitude for other people's gratitude gratitude okay.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I started feeling that I got a conception. Yeah,
it's like very meta, isn't that what they say, like,
you know, isn't meta like inside the inside?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So meta?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't know, sick when all us feels sick. So
I've spent the weekend with my parents and my older
brother and his wife, my sister in law and their kids.
And they're twins. They have little baby twins there too,
and they're I will say they are the kind of
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kids that you are like, oh hi, and they run
away saying mommy, daddy, like they're not. They like a
little stranger danger, which is I think healthy.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's an extent to their aunt, like you know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's it's hurt. I've been sad about it. I'm like,
I'm gonna get these kids to bond with me, right anyway,
So we spent the weekend with them and they bonded
more with Patrick, which is really sweet to watch, but
also like inside, I'm like, I'm the cool aunt he
married into this family. But after the weekend, we got
I got a text this morning, a voice memo to
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me and Patrick from my sister in law, and she
was just it was like two minutes of her saying,
I just wanted to let you guys know how grateful
we are for the relationship you have for our kids
and intentionality, which she questioned if that was a word.
I'm pretty sure it is that you put into having
relationships with our kids. And it was just very kind
(12:46):
and I like teared up listening to it, and she
said some other really nice things that are unimportant, but
I was like, wait a second, she didn't have to
send that and there are so many things that I
think that I don't send people, and it was a
reminder to share those things more often. Send even texts
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are just like the mame me think of you. We
don't think about it when we have like a really
fun time with our friends or somebody. We don't get
home and think like, oh, I should let them know.
I think sometimes it feels understood. But then when you
get a text that's like, we had a great time
with you this weekend. We're so grateful for the relationships
you have with our kids.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Da da da da da da, and meant to see it. Yes,
you have gratitude for that, but then also do you
want to show up that way?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yes, because of how much that meant to me. And
it also gave me this reminder of we need to
feel our feelings so we can get our needs met
and all of that that we talk about all the time.
And if my sister in law didn't allow herself to
feel her feelings, she would never have created that moment
for me. So that's also a reason, like, feel your
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feelings and feel the gratitude and share that, feel the
happiness or the joy or whatever, so you can share
that because I mean now more than ever, we need
access to more joy I think, and gratitude.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Metta, so meta, Our new one's gonna beat Metta.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, we need a running tab of the words sick, meta,
fruiting hard and see when they'll start taking flight? Yeah,
taking flight, Yeah, take flight.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Take a flight that reminds me of this morning. You're
reminding me I need to do better at all of this,
or even yesterday, I sent my best friend from high school, Andrea,
a voice text. I've thought of her every day for
the last week and I hadn't sent a message, so
I sent her a voice text yesterday. They're saying, hey,
I've been thinking of you, and I don't know why
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I haven't stopped to text. But I'm driving right now.
I'm about to be somewhere, but I wanted to get
something going on voice text. I like voice text.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You've turned me onto voice messages.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
See?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Do you call them voice messages or voice text?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
A voice memo? Technically, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know. I feel like it's a voice text.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Voice text, a voice text.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Because you're seeing a text, you mean, oh that's voice
to text?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Are you sending a.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Word audio audio over text like a sound I'm not
like reading the.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's voice to text. That's a voice text. Oh it
is okay, But a voice memo, I think I could
be wrong, But in my head, a voice text is
when you're talking to text.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, we need to know what Apple officially says about
what these are called it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Voice text typically refers to an audio message. Dang it,
I'm wrong through messaging app. While voice memo you usually it's.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay to be wrong. Feel your feelings.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I feel wrong, feel your feelings. Okay, So anyway you
send a voice I sent a voice text.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And you know, then it was like, okay, that's you know,
felt good. I haven't heard back from Mari yet and
it's fine, but that's just that's okay. Though we don't
need to talk all the time, and I know she'll
get back to me whenever she can. But I'm like,
why am I not better at doing that? Like I
should have sent it the first time I thought of her. Yeah, anyway,
So I come down the stairs and I noticed that
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Channon got her hair cut. But I'm walking out the
door and I need to go, and I'm like, oh,
her hair looks cute, but I don't it doesn't ever
come out, but in my mind, I want to be
the person that comes downstairs and is.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like, hey, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And when I'm when I was driving, I was driving
just thinking about how annoyed I was that I wanted
to have more energy and be more like, hey, how's
it going? Your hair looks cute? But none of that
came out of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's more like you said it in your head.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, I also was. Here's the other thing. I was
on the phone with my boyfriend as I'm walking down
the stairs. So I'm on the phone, so I'm having
thoughts and I want to say it out loud, but
I don't because I'm on the phone. And then I
have to walk out the door, so I say bye
and I get in the car, and then I hang
up with him, and I'm like, dang, and I to
say what I wanted to say to Shannon, you know, yeah,
(17:21):
But then I don't ever say it later because the
time has passed, because the time has passed, and then
is one exactly. But I definitely want to be that
more like hey, I just want to be more lively
when I see people and say their names. And I
had the exact thought while I was driving of like,
why do I want to be this person? And think
it would be so cool to be the person that's
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like Cat, Catherine, giddy Cat, how's it going? You know?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But why do you want to be that person?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Because that seems fun to me?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So weird?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That would be weird if you like walked in and
I was like or or if I walk downstairs and
Shannon's at my house, I'm like Shannon, that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Would be so weird. I seek for myself Shannon. Would
that be weird? I think that would be fine? Why
does it have to be that? Why can't you just
be like good morning.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Like fine, yes, call it what you want?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Like right now, what's the word. What's the word that
you want to be?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I want to be more like yes, more just like hey,
I see you? What up? I don't want it to
be It's not fake though, because it's really happening. I'm
not trying to be something I'm not. I just don't know.
I'm like, that's who I want to be and it
doesn't come out, and I want to be that. I
don't care if you run I want to be how.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To be run away? Wait? But do you I think
sometimes you are Sometimes you are very I don't know
the words, jovial maybe, but like very boisterous, enthusiastic, Yeah,
enthusiasms that I have showed up here and you're like,
oh my gosh, hi. And there's times where you're working
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and you're not, but I think you are. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, So here's the thing. There's a blend y'all say,
and you don't want to blind And I think my
internal at my core, deep down, how I always want
to be minus work or hormones or whatever else keeps
me from being who I want to be twenty eight
days out of the month. So like what two three
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days out of the month, I get to be shut in.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Kiddy got okay? But maybe that's who so inside.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So I'm just sharing that, like you're saying you wanted
more of that, like this was a good example of
like your sister in law showing up for you, Like
I'm just want to show up even for myself of
like doing the little thing that we know would be good.
Like I don't really think Shannon would run. I actually
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think it probably feel really good for someone to be
like Shannon, Hey, hey, cat cat cat whatever, Like I
feel like that would feel warm.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You remind me of just like somebody's uncle, like I
need to do you know what I mean? Like your
uncle that's like cat welcome back. Like I just that's what.
I don't have an uncle like that, but that's what
you remind me of. Like you're being like somebody at
a family reunion.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh, uncle Laddie, Yeah, Uncle Laddie.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, do you want to accept where you are? Do
you want to work towards pulling that out of you more?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I guess I would like to work on pulling it
out of me more, because that's when I was driving.
It was like I wanted to say hi to Shannon
in a louder way and compliment her hair, and then yeah,
I was just driving, like why didn't I do that?
And then now I do know I was on the
phone with my boyfriend's but I should have been like,
hold please, Shan this your hair looks so good. But
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that's like and then I'm driving and I'm irritated, like
why am I not this way? Like I want to,
you know, I want to be the part Like at work.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I also think that we judge ourselves sometimes we give
ourselves too much grace. But also sometimes we judge ourselves
very harshly, and we perceive ourselves coming off differently than
we are, like because because in our head we want
that like perfect, we have this ideal image of ourselves
how we want to show up like you're talking about.
But other people that care about you don't usually judge
(21:52):
you as harshly, so they judge the whole of you
versus that one time you didn't say shannim, I.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Know, but I don't. I don't ever do it. I
want to do it like I don't. It's more of
like I'm in like a go mode at times.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I make you a sticker chart, so.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I have to like slow down and be intentional, sort
of like slowing down and being intentional, like I should
send this gratitude message, I should send my friend this
note because I had this one thought of this, this happened,
and then it could bring you gratitude, and then you
have gratitude for the gratitude and so metap.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So I said this a second ago as a joke
with a sticker chart. But if you do want to
start to form a habit and it start to feel
like that's what I do, how are you going to
remember to do that. Like for me, one time, I
wanted to show more gratitude and I was like, Oh,
I'm gonna buy a box of letters and I'm going
to write letters to people and that's going to help
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remind me to do it, to be intentional. It backfired
because I don't enjoy writing letters. I feel like that's
a job more for cry. Okay, she would probably do
that more than I would.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
She likes cards cards, well, yeah, greeting cards.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, So if you did have a chart on your
fridge that said say hi to Shannon loudly or people,
then you can put everybody do it. You had to
put a sticker on there, and that feels how do
you had an adult sticker chart? No, they're awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Do you have one?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I had one for a goal that I had a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Okay, did you get to the goal?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yes? And it was me and we were training for
something and me and my two roommates we were all
doing it. So we was like every night we got
to go put our stickers up together, like could you
have you got your sticker?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So I need to do an adult sticker chart. I
think that could be fair I practice on my animals.
If I'm home alone, Maggie, my cat's right here.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
If nobody comes to your house that day, you can
definitely practice with your animals.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay, I'm thinking Maggie's right here, which I've been so
angry at Maggie, Like angry, yeah, feeling feelings of anger.
Do you want to talk about it towards my cat?
Like she really pissed me off. You don't even like
that word, and I hate that word, but okay, I
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used it because multiple times. No, just now, okay, Like
I didn't know, but she peed in my daughter's luggage
right before we're about to leave for our trip, and
so share came downstairs. We're flying out in less than
like twelve hours, and I'm like, oh great, well, now
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we need to look what we need to do with
your clothes because cat pee is the next level pe.
So it says, you know, soak the clothes and vinegar,
then wash it twice. Don't put it in the dryer
because the dryer could the heat could lock in the
cat's piece smell. So then I have to go to
my boyfriend's house pick up box fans. I'm trying to
figure out this whole plan on how to get everything
washed and dried and then put into another piece of
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luggage in time for us to get to the airport
because we don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And what do you do with that luggage?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Luggage basically done? I don't know because everyone was like, oh,
take the liner out and wash it. Well, the liner
doesn't remove from this luggage, so I'm not sure if
it's ruined, but I'll have to. I'm just dealing with
that later, which is a Way luggage, so it's like nice,
that's I know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So way that luggage should. I feel like they should
make the liners come out.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I don't think I haven't figured out away.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
If anybody that works for a Way is listening, that
would be some feedback. But they probably don't want to
do that because then you had to buy new luggage.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Right because I went to the Away store in my
twelve hour window. Because what happened was then I'm like, well,
I better go check my luggage because I packed early
and I never packed early, and Share always packed early.
Her luggage was open, Maggie peed in it. Well, then I,
while I'm taking care of Stasha's situation, go to my
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room and I'm like, oh my gosh, Maggie pea in
my luggage too, all my clothes everything. So I couldn't
believe it because I'm done packing. I never packed early,
and I packed early days early, so I just had
to like breathe and think, Okay, this is a lot
worse things in the world, which there are. I totally
get it. But we're just gonna We're about to leave,
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and these are the outfits, and now I need to
wash them, and now they smell like catpie, and now
my luggage has cat py in it. We're out of
luggage at this point, so there's no way to even
wash the luggage and dry the luggage. And then what
you put your clothes back in the cat pee luggage?
And then when you get there and it's hot and
humid where we were going, and no, so I had
to go. The luggage door was about to close. Luckily
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it's right down the street from my house. I go
to Away, I buy another bag, and I was like, yeah,
make cat piede. No, I didn't have to. We had
another luggage, Crystal Share that we could use. But after
that we were out of luggage. So then I had
to go get another, and I got my other piece
of luggage. So what does this make possible new luggage?
I got olive green.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh that was fine.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, it looks good. It's very meda.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It was sick so mad at what was your old one? Black?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
It was navy?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Okay, olive green so much better.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, so figure that out if your cat ever peasing
your luggage. The thirty minute vinegar soak worked, the double
wash in, the washing machine worked, and then drying my
clothes everything. Yeah, but Alex had two box hands, so
I went barred those and then just had the clothes
blowing overnight. And then we had to leave for the
airport like at four forty five in the morning or something,
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and I had everything drying, and then at like four am,
I just packed everything up.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Was it all dry yet or is it still a
little damp.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
One of my like swimsuits, it was really thick, which
I don't know if you've ever have you ever had
the Hunga z swimsuit? Hungsa, Hungsa Hungsa?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh, Hansa, I don't even know how to say it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You put a G in there, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Hans of g oh is the brand?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Okay, it's a little price here, but you get the
top and the bottom. It's it's not like you're buying
the top and it's it's one size fits all, one size.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What was it that stretchy?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yes, okay, stretchy. And I got this hot pink one
like I bought it and then Cat, Cat's like five
ten are you? I don't know if people heard that, Kat,
why don't you tell them what she said?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
She said, yeah with a thick ass.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So yes, Cat's body is banging and we were able
to the same one fit us this.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I was thinking, I like buying separates because I am
smaller on the top than what I need from your bottom.
But this is it works for everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's like molds to your body, whatever you need. I
read some reviews. Some people weren't very happy with that.
I was. I believe Cat was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, only one size fits all for a certain range
of sizes. Sure, yeah, which there's no way to make that. Yeah, sure, it's.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Not across the board. But what always trips me up
is I don't know this size on the top and
this size on the bottom, and then I get annoyed
and then I just end up not ordering a swimsuit. Well,
I had seen multiple people post about this swimsuit, so
I finally decided to give it a go, and I
ordered it on Revolve or something, and I thought, okay, well,
and again this wasn't like this amount for the top
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and this mount for the bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It was.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I got both pieces, and it's my favorite swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
It's my favorite your cat piece.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And I got it in bubble gum pink or something
like that, and I love it. But that one took
a little while longer to dry, but it never material.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But it was saved.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It was saved.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Also, Maggie left when she heard.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I was talking about her. I bought a new sun hat.
She peed on that and I was like, I can't
return this. How do I wash it? So I sprayed
it down with vinegar and then I wore the sun
hat on the plane and my boyfriend was like, you
smell like vinegar. You smell like vinegar, And I was like,
it's fine. When we get to the beach, I'll put
it in the ocean. The saltwater will kill everything. The
sun will clean it right up. And then when we left,
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when we were on the flight home, he was next
to me and I had on the same hat and
I said, you smell that and he was like no,
and I said, exactly, vinegar smell is gone. So that
was my My anger towards Maggie actually dissipated, so I
was really annoyed and angry. But then you told me
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that your aunt said her cats did that. They're angry
because you're leaving, or they have anxiety about you traveling.
So then I feel like, well, that's kind of sweet.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, it was her neighbors cats did that. Oh she's
not a cat person. But when I was with her
when I heard that that happened, and she said, oh,
that's what cats do. They're mad that you're leaving, because
I think her being mad has also been sad, like, oh,
you're leaving me and you're not togeing me with you.
I'm gonna pee in your luggage. However, that is a
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bummer because I was so proud of you for backing
early the last time you went on a trip. I
was so stressed.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Out for you because I've packed so late.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You should have been at the airport and your suitcase
was not packed.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It's normally me, I know, but I was I told
you I was actually legit super excited for this trip. Yeah,
and I am practicing my skills to not be ad
HD whatever it is. I'm aware of some of my
behaviors that don't end up serving me well, Like, yeah,
what do you say about therapy? The awareness is.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, the booby trap of therapy.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
The booby trap of therapy, well, the booby trap of
knowing that you have ADHD, at least for me, is
some of my behaviors that I have done forever that
come from me having ADHD. Well, now that I'm aware
of them and I know that I can try to
work on them. I don't want to just do that
because that's how I've always done it and that's how
I am. I have to be proactive about packing.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So what's the solution. You put your you pack and
then you put the suitcase in the closet.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, now what I'm going to do is I'm I did.
I did like the feeling of being packed early. It
did feel good, which I know you have ADHD two,
but we're different because you have some anxiety, like you
just want to get it done, Like I don't have that.
I'm like, eh, we'll get to the airport when we
get there. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I'm at the airport with a snack and a drink
and you haven't packed yet.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Right, So I'm just missing that anxiety piece that then
drives me towards getting that done. Now I just have awareness,
which is going to drive me towards wanting to get
it done because now I'm aware of like the piece
that I felt because even though I'm not super stressed,
I guess there is this internal struggle. But I've always
felt like I performed better under pressure and I can
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finally make decisions because I don't have a choice, Like
it's hard for me to make a decision. If I
have hours to decide, I'm like, well, I don't know,
But then it's down to the wire.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's like you know, Yeah, there's the same idea of
like you have to be it somewhere and you have
to get dressed. If I have three hours, I'll change
my outfit fifteen times, versus if I have five minutes,
I've gotten ready so fast before it to Patrick, I'm like,
don't remember that, because I can do it if I
don't have a choice. But if I have time and
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can be late, I'll take all that time up.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I did something for this trip too that I haven't
ever done before. I had all my outfits for each
night planned out, and before I packed, I try them on.
Do that, No, I did this trip.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
What do you normally do? Just throw a bunch of
clothes in the suit?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, and I don't have them assigned to Like, I
don't know for sure what shoes are gonna go with all.
I'm like, these shoes will probably go with this, this
and this, and then maybe I'll wear this, but this.
I had my designated outfits and I went ahead and
I took a picture. So that way, when I was
down there on the trip getting ready, I got ready
with such ease because I didn't even have to think.
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I just went and looked back at the picture and
I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm doing this, this and this
K Kardashian level, I felt, well, my outfits were simple.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's what she does what her I think that's what
her team does for her, is they like, take the picture,
they put a pooloid on.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
The Oh I should do that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, there's no need if you have it in your.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I know, but that'd be kind of fun. It's a
little thing that I was proud of myself, like little
steps that then made my life easier down there. It's
like being proactive and taking that time ahead of time
to then put yourself at ease when you're on the vacation.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But don't you think you did all that because you
were really excited.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, because my boyfriend's going. Yeah, if my refriend and
his family, like if they were gonna be on the trip,
if it was just a girl's trip, I don't know
that I would do that.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You're like, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Well, no, I think I still would have cared.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I think my point in saying that is it is
nice to see how much effort. I think a lot
of that effort was excitement, just pure excitement. You were
excited about your outfits because you were excited to go
on this trip with your boyfriend. Like you were excited,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
The gift of excitement on me my cat panum, my luggage.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But then it got you knew luggage. Yeah, so you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I will say that in the moment, that was a
very stressful time, but stressful, like I have perspective on life.
It's not the end of the world, but we do
have this trip planned. We are trying to get out
the door soon, and now we're faced with this like
cat piece situation. And I also was proud of myself
for just doing the next thing that I needed to do,
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like handling it, getting the vinegar, getting the like tub,
filling it up because I had to get this big
clear like basket bucket thing. And what is that called
a bin? A clear A bin, a bin a bucket.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Cat just said toe, it's not a toad.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
It's not a toe.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, it's not a tag. Have we ever told the
story of us being in a lawyer's office and yelling no.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Piper, No, I don't think so. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
We were in a we were trying to be in
a professional meeting and something what happened that you said
that he made some common about something we probably wouldn't
want to do, So you just you just out of nowhere,
go no, pap, And no, we did not get it
at all.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
And so I was like, you're not watching like White Lotus,
because I feel like that was a couple of months ago,
and so I feel like at the time that we
were saying that, like everyone was talking like her.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, I didn't watch White Lotus, and I knew.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
What it was because you saw it on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, my friend started doing it when we went on vacation.
No soon nam.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Oh my gosh, her character is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So it's not you don't call it a toe, No.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
It's a big classic swords band. So that's what I'll say.
I filled that up because you had to have vinegar
and enough water, and I didn't have, Like where are
we going? We have all all of Stashira's clothes and
all of my clothes, and I just wanted to soak
everything at once. So I did that, and I was like, Okay,
what's the next thing that I need to?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Go?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Get the box fans, what's the next thing I need
to do?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Go get the look and people help you. Yes.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Then I needed to pick up alterations, so cry Okat
went to go pick those up for me, and her
attitude about it was so great. Kav was like, I'll
go I love a task. I love checking things off
my list.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
So literally what she said, I honestly, I was in
Franklin at my family, so sorry I couldn't tap in there,
but it was so cool for you to send that text.
And then immediately Kat was like, what do you need
I'll do it. I love a task. I'm like, what
a good friend?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, and I didn't need I was I was just saying, no, well,
I was saying, I can't remember where she was, Like
maybe she was somewhere because where the Alterations places. First
of all, it's her Alterations person. She introduced me to her.
She's awesome, so I knew the Alterations person would love
to see Cat if she popped by. But it's also
right off the highway, and if Kat happened to be driving,
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I was like, if you're in the area and you're
driving by there, could you possibly do this. I'm in
cat Pee Cristis situation, and if not, no worries. I'll
figure it out. But that just definitely would help. And
she was like, I love a good task. Check and
I was like, bam baller, which I need to get
to see her because when she came to drop it off,
I was getting box fans or I was at the
luggage doore. Anyway, we got it all figured out and
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it was great, and I also pause pause, pause, pause,
congratulated myself. Pause. This is me saying pause to myself, like,
thank you to myself for just handling it even though
I wanted to just curl up in a ball and.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Cry with as much easy as you could.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Have, with as much ease as I could have, and
with good support, and you know, so to Sharon Stevenson
helped too, and it was great. We got it all done.
So cat pe.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, crazy story, now you know, and now you might
have saved other people from that. Now they got a
new cat and they're going on a trip, and now
they know, zip it up, up.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Pack ely, but zip it up, put in the closet.
And then vinegar is your best friend, except for you
might smell like vinegar, and then your boyfriend's gonna be like,
what's that smell? And then you're gonna be like, don't
let it ruin our first family vacation together.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Vinegar is not a great smell.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So he's a trooper. Speaking of your luggage, you packed
something special? What's your luggage? I did you packed something
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that to take with you on vacation?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
What you're talking about with my boyfriend?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I don't think I was what, oh the something really special?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Vinegar? Yes, I took a great American cookie cake. I
smuggled it into so another country. What my first Jill.
So we were meeting my friend Jill down there and
I met her to spin class in our twenties. So
that's fun, you know, like say hi to be people.
I had a workout class.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Friends had a spin well kind of a spin class
we were teaching there.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, you just never know, like friendships are fun like that,
how they're going to evolve and then we've maintained our
friendship all these years.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
You don't even like spin.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
This is when I did like spin. I didn't like it.
I thought I liked it. I was a cyclist.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Oh you were like a road biker.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah, like I had a road bike. We would spin
when we were training indoors because I did triathlons. Okay,
So I went to this gym in Austin that was
very you know like Lance ARMSTRONGI lived strong. He was
popular at the time. Have you watched his thirty for
thirty Yeah it's not great, bad vibes.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, okay, this.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Was before those vibes. But everybody at this gym, they
all swim, bike, run, didn't eat cereal stuff like that.
I remember one of my trainers was like, so what
did you eat for breakfast today? And I was like
cereal and she goes, you eat cereal, and I remember
being like, yeah, I was like, okay, I guess I
don't eat cereal anymore? What did she have to eat
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cereal now? But I definitely didn't eat cereal after that.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
How many years ago was that?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I was twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I think that speaks to like, hopefully people aren't saying
that these days, Like the culture was so like the
things people thought they could say.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah, I mean she was a trainer, so like trying.
She was helping like people live their best life, and like, yeah,
I don't think I don't know. She might Okay, she
might be the type to say.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
That one you weren't asking for her.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
No, I think it was I was, but I was
training though I was training for a train better, eat better.
She was my triathlon trainer at the gym. Okay, so
she was teaching me how to swim, bike and run.
Because I didn't know how to do the swimming or
the biking. I took adult swim lessons because I didn't.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I mean, I knew how like a fast swimmer.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
If you're swimming a mile, you have to swim a
certain ways. You don't exhaust yourself.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
You know that I had to quit the swim team
because I can't dive.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I can't really either, Like you struggle like going in?
Me too.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
I get in the position, but then I just jumped it.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Like it really freaks me out to like go, I
don't go straight in.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
It's like set and you get in a position.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Guess I really struggle with that too.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
My mom took me to swim meets for I was
on the indoor swim team, and I'm like, Mom, what
would you do when your kid would just can't and
ball into the water.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
And I was like, that's my girl.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Wait to this day, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I should do all, but like do I want to learn?
I think at this point it's more of a fun
fact than anything that we can't dive. But it hasn't
affected my life other than I had to quit the
swim team.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Other than like, you know some people that dive and
it's like really pretty.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
But I can do a flip into the water. That's
what's crazy. I can run and flip into the water,
but I can't dive. You would think the flip would
be scarier.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, I wonder what that's about another thing we have
in common.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Okay, side from the cookie cake.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yeah, okay, so Jill she loves butter cream, icing and
cookie cakes, but specifically vanilla butter cream from anywhere. Well,
a great American cookie company. You can get a wide
out cookie cake, the big birthday ones, and they will
cover the thing, white it out in icing. Not just
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look little white dots. They will wipe it out and
it is glorious, especially for someone.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
That loves that.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
So got a white out cookie cake, Happy Birthday Jill
written on it. Was it a circle, a big circle
and so big. How am I going to get this
into the luggage? Well, so I cut it up and
I preserved the happy and the birthday and the Jill.
And then I got parchment paper, and I got a
tupperware thing. And then Stevens impact the least of all
of us, so he had room in his luggage. Plus
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if he got caught with it, be like Svenson Stevens,
and you know you can't bring cake.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Like you can't bring cakes a chilly boy.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
He didn't even know it was in there, because trust me,
if that boy got asked, did did you bring any
food into the country he'd be like, just the whole cake.
It's in my bag, which I know it's not fruit,
but I don't know if they would freak out. I
know you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Take fruit, fruit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Fruit and vegetables across the borders or whatever. But like,
even we were coming back into America, the guy's like,
do you have any food? And we don't even have
the cake at this point. We have a cake, no,
but well he had granola, and I was like, I say,
he said, do you have any food to claim?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:44):
And then Stevens goes mom the granola, and then the
officer's like, thank you for being honest, son, And I
was like, you know, you didn't need to know about
the granola. We got it at the airport.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Wait did you say this to him?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
No, I'm very respectful. Yeah, I'm like, yes, sir, yes
we have the granola.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I'm silling.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I forgot about yeah, sorry, granola.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I thought we only needed to claim like linons or something.
But I cut it up. And then one night after dinner,
we all gathered together and Jill's parents were there, and
her mom had a candle and I piled all the
pieces that we cut up and put it into like
a layered cake because it was all smushed, kind of smushed,
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but the name Jill was preserved. Happy Birthday was a
little alone, but I just stacked it all on top
of each other. We stuck the candle on the top
and it made this like, I mean, it was really yummy. Actually,
and she did that or you surprised her. She knew
I brought it because I think I said something about
how we don't don't get dessert tonight because we but she.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Didn't know you were packing it.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yes, she did. She knew because I sent her a
video of what it looked like before and I'm like hey,
and she was like shut up, But she didn't know
how I was getting it there, yeah, and what it
was going to look like. And it looked interesting for sure,
And then put the candle in and then we all
sang Happy Birthday, and then she enjoyed her mound of
butter cream because that's basically what it was, with like
little layers of cookie in it, and.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
It was legit.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And so I just thought, well, yay for friendships that
are long like ours and we don't have to talk
all the time. But it's just funny that we met
in a spin class and then yay for butter cream
because that's something that she's loved for so long and
it was such a simple gesture. It wasn't a lot
of money, it wasn't hard.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Well, you put some heffort into that well.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
But relatively speaking, it wasn't anything difficult and it brought
her so much joy.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah, I love to say that. That would bring me
so much joy. One because if I love that, I
will say they're cookie cakes the.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Best ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I don't love icing on my cookie cake. Meta. I
think icing on the cookie cake is anti meta.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
So you just want a cookiki, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I'm weirried about things that are white, you know that,
h so, but I won't like any of the color
of icing. But would mean more to me that you
went through the effort of figuring out how to do that,
you know, like, that's I'm like, oh my gosh, you
did not have to. Some people were just like, oh,
it's hard. I don't think you can do that. You're like, no,
I'm gonna make this work. So going back to you
(47:14):
wanting to be this hello Shannon person. Oh sorry, that's
hello Jillie Billy. But that you do stuff like that,
like and I don't know if you recognize that a
lot of people wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
Oh okay, well that helps I guess in me how
I want to.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Show you were so excited to do that.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yes, yes, like that was fun to take the cake
and then maybe have to believe it on Stevenson, But
it is possible to take cake to the Caymans and
then overall a successful trip with the boyfriend, his family,
my kids. We had so much fun that loved it.
We already want to plan another trip with everybody. M yeah,
(47:59):
but it's gonna it's just hard, Like all of our
schedules are a little crazy, so I don't know how
it's going to happen. But it is exciting. I see
why you want to travel with Big Peace so much,
as like you enjoy being with him and the traveling
is like fun. And Ben and I when we were married,
we enjoyed doing stuff like that together too. Unfortunately our
relationship didn't work out, but I remember that feeling. So
(48:20):
it's just fun to have that feeling again and to
find somebody that it's like, oh, you want to like
get out of the house and do something with there's.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Like a giddiness to it.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Giddy.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
The gift of giddy is vacations experiences or even just
vacationis Oh, Shannon's still laughing about for the doc that
Maggie walked out during her story about her cats are
a vibe. Let me tell you, I guess we can
close with a little call out, a little shout out
to a listener named Cindy. She left us a voicemail
(48:55):
and it's not one to play or anything, but she
just said that she added us to her phone like
in her contacts, and it's she put our phone number
and put dealing things with Aamy and Cat so that
she can call us anytime she has.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Thoughts, which we said, you guys should do that. Yeah,
so be like her, be like Cindy.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
And save eight seven seven two o seven two oh
seven seven.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
You got it down? Okay?
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Do you have it saved?
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I don't know that I'm ever gonna call. Maybe I will,
maybe you call. You know what, it was a long
We had a couple of days where we didn't talk
right now.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah, I was really trying to like detach.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, and maybe next time you do that instead of me.
At one point I felt like I tent you a
lot of texts in a row, and I felt like
a stalker.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Oh. I think I also only had my phone when
I like, I had my phone on airplane mode, so
I only had communication if I was somewhere that had WiFi.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Well, I also think maybe I, now that I'm telling
this again, I think you had voice memos in there
and those deleted, so then it just looked like I
was texting.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Oh so you look like a psycho.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, next time you're on vacation, I'll just
call the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
And leave all your thoughts here, save it in your phone.
Feeling Things with Me and Amy, Yeah, mean put that
Amy and me, Amy and Me. Yeah, and then of
course we want to hear from you for couch shocks.
You can send us either a voicemail or an email. Hey,
they're at Feeling Things podcast dot com. And do you
think it's like next Feeling Things episode we have a surprise. Yeah, okay, yeah,
(50:32):
all right, it is. And surprises are fun. Yeah, the
gifts of surprises.
Speaker 1 (50:36):
You're going to want to watch on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Probably for sure, props or make sure us on socials.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
No, we want them on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Okay, but they can also follow on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Get some YouTube subscribers. We're at seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
I think we're climbing. Yeah, I mean it's better to
go up than so.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
If you want to say, did you.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Know people buy YouTube followers?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
People buy followers everywhere? You're surprised me.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I mean, it shouldn't surprise me, but it just does.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
It's weird. Is it weird to you that people buy
Instagram followers?
Speaker 3 (51:06):
I guess I've heard of that before. I didn't know
they did it on YouTube. I guess I just know
they did it on YouTube. We're organic here.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
We don't buy people.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
We have bought a dang thing, and we will continue
to grow. And yeah, some of it's just people don't know.
We haven't been on YouTube, and then on Instagram people
that one's growing too. So I love our community, and
we have a surprise next Tuesday. Thursday, we'll have couch
Talks coming up and then Tuesday fun, yeah, fun, exciting cool.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Meta's sick. It is sick. It is sick. Well, we
help you have the day you need to have.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
Bye bye,
All right, break it down.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
If you ever have feelings that you just fall ay
and Cat got you covin locking, No, brother, ladies and felts,
do you just follow an the spirit where it's on
the front and real stuff to the chill stuff and
the him. But Swayne, sometimes the best thing you can
do it just stop you feel. This is feeling things
(00:28):
with Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And Cat Happy Tuesday. Welcome to feeling things.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm Amy and I'm Cat and I have the feeling
of the day today. But first you look very tan today.
It's tanna feeling. We could make it into it. I
think it's feel.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Let me tell you know how you feel before a
spray TND and then after a spray TN do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You feel sad and then you feel happy?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, there's memes or videos people make their like I
thought I was depressed and then I got a spray
hand and everything felt fine again. Well, this isn't a
spraytand this my actual tan tan because yeah, we went
on a trip and I slowly built up to a
tan And what do you mean, I was prepping for
my trip, Oh to try pre tann for my trip,
(01:12):
and I didn't get too much sun exposure. At all,
But it just feels good to actually have some color
on my skin. And tan is a feeling feels good.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm adding it to the wheel. I don't know that
now that you're saying this, I don't know that I've
ever seen you with a real tan from the sun.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, but my son damage is also coming out. So
then I'm reminded, Oh, this is why I don't like
to be in the sun.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What do you mean sun?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, I have all these little white spots that start
to pop up, and I have them on my back
and my kids were like, what is this splashing noise
on your back? I'm like, sun damaged kids, stay out
of the tanning beds because I, oh, yeah, my kids.
My kidseration, so there already tanned, right, they're very, very tanned.
(02:02):
But other kids listening. I had a tanning bed membership
in high school and college.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That is well, and they're still that idea, but there's
still people still have those.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yes, my daughter's friend goes to a tanning bed and
I get this. I learn about this because my daughter said,
I tried out a tanning bed today again my daughter's station.
She did, and I said what why? And she said, well,
my friend was going because she has a membership and
I wanted to see what it was all about. And
I said, well, first of all, you don't need to
(02:35):
do that. She's like, well again, I want to just
experience it, like laying in the bed with the lights, and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, that's just a nice experience, though I will say
it's very warm. I've been to a tanning bed probably
ten times in my life. I splurged on a ten
pack in college, and I think for like a formal
or something, but I'm also thinking I could have gotten
a spray tan for cheaper.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why did they They weren't popular then, at least for
me when I was in high school, spray tanning and
self tanning was not a thing. Tanning beds you put
the little sticker on your.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Hip, but it's like a kind of feels like a sauna,
don't you think, Yeah, it's one. So maybe your daughter
can just go to a sauna.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Right, She just wanted to experience it one time. It's
not like she's gonna be going back. But I was
also shocked at the same time to find out she
had a friend that was going to a tanning bag
because yeah, I don't know if the mom knows about it.
I almost felt like this felt like a situation where
I should call the mom and say, do you know
your daughter's going.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
To a danning fan and she's like, yeah, we go together.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And then I was like, hey, this is none of
my business. It is all like she's smoking cigarettes, but
kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Like, wait, honestly, it could be just as damaging.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yes, So therefore I tried to sun responsibly and prepare
my skin. But my sun damage is coming through, but
I still think some sun is okay. And then I
did sunscreen and tried to take care of my skin.
But yeah, I do have some natural color. Shout out,
not my face though, this is spray hand because you
cover your face self tanner like a mist that I
(04:03):
on my face.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Do you have a couple questions for you to follow
up about your tan One as a child well as
a teenager, you went to the tanning bed, did you
get sucked into buying the like expensive lotion that they
would sell you, yes, of course. And did you put
us Did you put the sticker on?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What kind of sticker did you have, like the Playboy
Bunny sticker?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Because I know I'm sure I did that at one point,
but mostly like the heart or the palm tree.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Wait, did you do the Playboy bunny stick I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Sure I did it at one point or another, because
like I feel like everybody did. But I remember, well,
you only had a tin pack.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I didn't afford the sticker.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I went many, many times, oh for the stickers, stickers,
extra sticker for free.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But I was just joking.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No, I definitely had the special lotions. I did all
the things. And then probably in my thirties is when
I just that's like stock girl back in the day. Yeah,
going to the tanny bed with my I got my lotion,
I got my sticker.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
When I was little, I would go out in the
sun all the time with just baby oil, and I
put sun in in my hair for natural highlights. You
could buy the song at the grocery store, or I
put lemon juice, and then I would have this like
orange looking highlight situation.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And you said, I'm so pretty, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
This looks good, But I wasn't really tan. I was
more like red with my son and hair burnt, and
then you had to orange hair. So that those are
the days which right now I know my hair slipped
back so you can't really see it, but I haven't
seen you yet since I got my hair done and
I got it highlighted. Can you see my money pieces?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No? I can't.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Is it called many pieces or money piece?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Money pieces would be the plural of piece, and if
you have two of them, that'll be pieces.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay, then I have money pieces, souse.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I guess you could just get one.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But I didn't ask for them. I guess she just
did it because that's what's on trend right now. And
I asked for highlights.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's that's not what you I.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Didn't even know that's what they were called. And then
I went to work in Morgan on the Bobby Bone Show.
Was like, oh, yeah, those are called.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But she wasn't like, I'm gonna give you what do
you think about doing this?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
No, wasn't disgusted my hair.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Girl will be like, okay, do you want it lighter
in the front or what do you want it like?
She'll ask me.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
She won't just like, yeah, this was the first time
this person had ever colored my hair. And there was
no discussion. I mean I told her the shade of
highlights that I was hoping for, which she nailed, and
the rest of the highlights are great. I just am
waiting for the front part to grow out. It's not
I'm I'm forty four, Like, I don't need money pieces
honey pieces.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So okay, here's a question about that. Then she dries
your hair. Does she style it for you? Okay? But
as she's drying it, you're starting to see it come
in and you're like, huh what is that? And you
say what did you say? What is this?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
No? I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I did.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I did like the color. I was like, oh, yeah,
it looks so good. And it wasn't really untill I
got in my car and then I got home and
I was like, oh wow, okay, these front pieces are
significantly brighter than anywhere else. Woll I was like, well,
this is a bummer. But I was like, well, I'm not.
It wasn't important enough to me to go back.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Okay, I just let it grow out.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Have you ever gone back to get something fixed?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes? What was it like for you to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
M I think they understood. I think what I went
back for was valid. I think just over the years,
I can't tell you exactly what was wrong with my hair,
but I know that I have gone back like, oh,
this needs to be a little bit rudy or oh.
A recent example that I do know of, and this
is in the last couple of years, was the well,
I don't know what they put, like a finish or
the the ton of the toner. Yes, the toner, I
(07:36):
don't know. Something was just off like it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It was the wrong tone, wasn't it was warm or cool? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So then I went back and she goes, oh, that's
an easy fix. Let me just put this toner on it.
So she put the toner on washing the blue drummer hair,
and then I was like, bam, perfect. So it's a
toner issue.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I just I'm curious. I always like to know how
people respond, like if they hate their I'm about it. Well,
I don't. I would never imagine you'd be some.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
People or not. I was just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm really nice. But I've never had a real well
I've had one really bad haircut. I didn't have a
lot of money and I needed a haircut. And there
was a girl I went to high school with that
was in hair school and she had a kid, and
she said, I want to go to this party. I
was living at my parents' house. I want to go
to this party. I'll put on Facebook. I'll trade a
(08:23):
haircut if somebody will watch my kid.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh for a haircut.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's also the best part. When I was like twenty one,
never probably change a diaper. She brings her kid over.
I'm thinking, I'm gonna watch this kid for like a
couple hours. She comes back at like three, wait, and
I'm at my mom's in dad's house, like, that's my
baby with the baby. I couldn't get the baby to sleep,
(08:55):
so I like go to my mom's room and I'm like, mom,
the baby won't stop crying. She's like she hasn't picked
him up yet.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But you like knew her kind of I was.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Like adjacently friends with her in high school. I've known
her since probably fifth grade or so. But I think
I one was like, oh, a baby, I'll watch the baby.
It'll be cute. And then I was like, she'll be
back at a reasonable hour. And then the third thing
was she'll cut my hair. I'll be great. That's the
only time I've had to get a haircut fixed. And
I didn't go back to the same person, obviously, because
(09:26):
I didn't want a baby sit again. Completely crooked, like
not like I think I could have done it. Yeah,
so it wasn't worth it. Wow, But my mom actually
said last weekend, she's like, remember when so and so
dropped her baby off and never came back.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And you're, but did you say, but I do get
my haircut? You should have waited until she finished her schooling.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, I think my mom probably was like, if you
really needed a haircut, Katherine, we could have let you
forty dollars. It was like fifteen years ago. Probably, Oh
my gosh, it was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That's crazy time. Flus.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
One of the baby remembers where the.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Baby's fifteen now fifteen sixteen so maybe older?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, no, that would be fifteen.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He was like probably one or younger.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, so he's driving. I hope she's probably got she's
probably better now, like had a salon.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm not going back. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So these are yeah, are these are her stories? You win?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, it was easy I think to fix. But what
I do remember going to like my normal hair girl
and she was like, one, why did you do that?
Two You've been walking around like this? And I was like, yes,
is it that bad? And then she did the thing
where you know how they're like, it's even. Yah. She's
like see this is up here, this system, and you're like, well,
I just turn my head and it makes it even.
(10:53):
What are you talking about? That's okay, Well we should
do the feeling of the day.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, let's do the feeling of the day, because tan's
want to feel, but it feels good.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It can be a state of being.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Tanna's a state of being.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So I have the feeling I'm feeling this is not
really a feeling either, but maybe we can narrow it down.
I'm feeling grateful for other people's gratitude. Okay, So I
guess you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Could say you have gratitude for other people's gratitude gratitude okay.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I started feeling that I got a conception. Yeah,
it's like very meta, isn't that what they say, like,
you know, isn't meta like inside the inside?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So meta?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't know, sick when all us feels sick. So
I've spent the weekend with my parents and my older
brother and his wife, my sister in law and their kids.
And they're twins. They have little baby twins there too,
and they're I will say they are the kind of
(11:53):
kids that you are like, oh hi, and they run
away saying mommy, daddy, like they're not. They like a
little stranger danger, which is I think healthy.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's an extent to their aunt, like you know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's it's hurt. I've been sad about it. I'm like,
I'm gonna get these kids to bond with me, right anyway,
So we spent the weekend with them and they bonded
more with Patrick, which is really sweet to watch, but
also like inside, I'm like, I'm the cool aunt he
married into this family. But after the weekend, we got
I got a text this morning, a voice memo to
(12:25):
me and Patrick from my sister in law, and she
was just it was like two minutes of her saying,
I just wanted to let you guys know how grateful
we are for the relationship you have for our kids
and intentionality, which she questioned if that was a word.
I'm pretty sure it is that you put into having
relationships with our kids. And it was just very kind
(12:46):
and I like teared up listening to it, and she
said some other really nice things that are unimportant, but
I was like, wait a second, she didn't have to
send that and there are so many things that I
think that I don't send people, and it was a
reminder to share those things more often. Send even texts
(13:10):
are just like the mame me think of you. We
don't think about it when we have like a really
fun time with our friends or somebody. We don't get
home and think like, oh, I should let them know.
I think sometimes it feels understood. But then when you
get a text that's like, we had a great time
with you this weekend. We're so grateful for the relationships
you have with our kids.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Da da da da da da, and meant to see it. Yes,
you have gratitude for that, but then also do you
want to show up that way?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yes, because of how much that meant to me. And
it also gave me this reminder of we need to
feel our feelings so we can get our needs met
and all of that that we talk about all the time.
And if my sister in law didn't allow herself to
feel her feelings, she would never have created that moment
for me. So that's also a reason, like, feel your
(13:59):
feelings and feel the gratitude and share that, feel the
happiness or the joy or whatever, so you can share
that because I mean now more than ever, we need
access to more joy I think, and gratitude.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Metta, so meta, Our new one's gonna beat Metta.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, we need a running tab of the words sick, meta,
fruiting hard and see when they'll start taking flight? Yeah,
taking flight, Yeah, take flight.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Take a flight that reminds me of this morning. You're
reminding me I need to do better at all of this,
or even yesterday, I sent my best friend from high school, Andrea,
a voice text. I've thought of her every day for
the last week and I hadn't sent a message, so
I sent her a voice text yesterday. They're saying, hey,
I've been thinking of you, and I don't know why
(14:48):
I haven't stopped to text. But I'm driving right now.
I'm about to be somewhere, but I wanted to get
something going on voice text. I like voice text.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You've turned me onto voice messages.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
See?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Do you call them voice messages or voice text?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
A voice memo? Technically, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know. I feel like it's a voice text.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Voice text, a voice text.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Because you're seeing a text, you mean, oh that's voice
to text?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Are you sending a.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Word audio audio over text like a sound I'm not
like reading the.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's voice to text. That's a voice text. Oh it
is okay, But a voice memo, I think I could
be wrong, But in my head, a voice text is
when you're talking to text.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, we need to know what Apple officially says about
what these are called it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Voice text typically refers to an audio message. Dang it,
I'm wrong through messaging app. While voice memo you usually it's.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay to be wrong. Feel your feelings.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I feel wrong, feel your feelings. Okay, So anyway you
send a voice I sent a voice text.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And you know, then it was like, okay, that's you know,
felt good. I haven't heard back from Mari yet and
it's fine, but that's just that's okay. Though we don't
need to talk all the time, and I know she'll
get back to me whenever she can. But I'm like,
why am I not better at doing that? Like I
should have sent it the first time I thought of her. Yeah, anyway,
So I come down the stairs and I noticed that
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Channon got her hair cut. But I'm walking out the
door and I need to go, and I'm like, oh,
her hair looks cute, but I don't it doesn't ever
come out, but in my mind, I want to be
the person that comes downstairs and is.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like, hey, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And when I'm when I was driving, I was driving
just thinking about how annoyed I was that I wanted
to have more energy and be more like, hey, how's
it going? Your hair looks cute? But none of that
came out of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's more like you said it in your head.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, I also was. Here's the other thing. I was
on the phone with my boyfriend as I'm walking down
the stairs. So I'm on the phone, so I'm having
thoughts and I want to say it out loud, but
I don't because I'm on the phone. And then I
have to walk out the door, so I say bye
and I get in the car, and then I hang
up with him, and I'm like, dang, and I to
say what I wanted to say to Shannon, you know, yeah,
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But then I don't ever say it later because the
time has passed, because the time has passed, and then
is one exactly. But I definitely want to be that
more like hey, I just want to be more lively
when I see people and say their names. And I
had the exact thought while I was driving of like,
why do I want to be this person? And think
it would be so cool to be the person that's
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like Cat, Catherine, giddy Cat, how's it going? You know?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But why do you want to be that person?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Because that seems fun to me?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So weird?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That would be weird if you like walked in and
I was like or or if I walk downstairs and
Shannon's at my house, I'm like Shannon, that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Would be so weird. I seek for myself Shannon. Would
that be weird? I think that would be fine? Why
does it have to be that? Why can't you just
be like good morning.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Like fine, yes, call it what you want?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Like right now, what's the word. What's the word that
you want to be?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I want to be more like yes, more just like hey,
I see you? What up? I don't want it to
be It's not fake though, because it's really happening. I'm
not trying to be something I'm not. I just don't know.
I'm like, that's who I want to be and it
doesn't come out, and I want to be that. I
don't care if you run I want to be how.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To be run away? Wait? But do you I think
sometimes you are Sometimes you are very I don't know
the words, jovial maybe, but like very boisterous, enthusiastic, Yeah,
enthusiasms that I have showed up here and you're like,
oh my gosh, hi. And there's times where you're working
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and you're not, but I think you are. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, So here's the thing. There's a blend y'all say,
and you don't want to blind And I think my
internal at my core, deep down, how I always want
to be minus work or hormones or whatever else keeps
me from being who I want to be twenty eight
days out of the month. So like what two three
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days out of the month, I get to be shut in.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Kiddy got okay? But maybe that's who so inside.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So I'm just sharing that, like you're saying you wanted
more of that, like this was a good example of
like your sister in law showing up for you, Like
I'm just want to show up even for myself of
like doing the little thing that we know would be good.
Like I don't really think Shannon would run. I actually
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think it probably feel really good for someone to be
like Shannon, Hey, hey, cat cat cat whatever, Like I
feel like that would feel warm.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You remind me of just like somebody's uncle, like I
need to do you know what I mean? Like your
uncle that's like cat welcome back. Like I just that's what.
I don't have an uncle like that, but that's what
you remind me of. Like you're being like somebody at
a family reunion.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Oh, uncle Laddie, Yeah, Uncle Laddie.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, do you want to accept where you are? Do
you want to work towards pulling that out of you more?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I guess I would like to work on pulling it
out of me more, because that's when I was driving.
It was like I wanted to say hi to Shannon
in a louder way and compliment her hair, and then yeah,
I was just driving, like why didn't I do that?
And then now I do know I was on the
phone with my boyfriend's but I should have been like,
hold please, Shan this your hair looks so good. But
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that's like and then I'm driving and I'm irritated, like
why am I not this way? Like I want to,
you know, I want to be the part Like at work.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I also think that we judge ourselves sometimes we give
ourselves too much grace. But also sometimes we judge ourselves
very harshly, and we perceive ourselves coming off differently than
we are, like because because in our head we want
that like perfect, we have this ideal image of ourselves
how we want to show up like you're talking about.
But other people that care about you don't usually judge
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you as harshly, so they judge the whole of you
versus that one time you didn't say shannim, I.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Know, but I don't. I don't ever do it. I
want to do it like I don't. It's more of
like I'm in like a go mode at times.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I make you a sticker chart, so.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I have to like slow down and be intentional, sort
of like slowing down and being intentional, like I should
send this gratitude message, I should send my friend this
note because I had this one thought of this, this happened,
and then it could bring you gratitude, and then you
have gratitude for the gratitude and so metap.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So I said this a second ago as a joke
with a sticker chart. But if you do want to
start to form a habit and it start to feel
like that's what I do, how are you going to
remember to do that. Like for me, one time, I
wanted to show more gratitude and I was like, Oh,
I'm gonna buy a box of letters and I'm going
to write letters to people and that's going to help
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remind me to do it, to be intentional. It backfired
because I don't enjoy writing letters. I feel like that's
a job more for cry. Okay, she would probably do
that more than I would.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
She likes cards cards, well, yeah, greeting cards.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, So if you did have a chart on your
fridge that said say hi to Shannon loudly or people,
then you can put everybody do it. You had to
put a sticker on there, and that feels how do
you had an adult sticker chart? No, they're awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Do you have one?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I had one for a goal that I had a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Okay, did you get to the goal?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yes? And it was me and we were training for
something and me and my two roommates we were all
doing it. So we was like every night we got
to go put our stickers up together, like could you
have you got your sticker?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So I need to do an adult sticker chart. I
think that could be fair I practice on my animals.
If I'm home alone, Maggie, my cat's right here.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
If nobody comes to your house that day, you can
definitely practice with your animals.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay, I'm thinking Maggie's right here, which I've been so
angry at Maggie, Like angry, yeah, feeling feelings of anger.
Do you want to talk about it towards my cat?
Like she really pissed me off. You don't even like
that word, and I hate that word, but okay, I
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used it because multiple times. No, just now, okay, Like
I didn't know, but she peed in my daughter's luggage
right before we're about to leave for our trip, and
so share came downstairs. We're flying out in less than
like twelve hours, and I'm like, oh great, well, now
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we need to look what we need to do with
your clothes because cat pee is the next level pe.
So it says, you know, soak the clothes and vinegar,
then wash it twice. Don't put it in the dryer
because the dryer could the heat could lock in the
cat's piece smell. So then I have to go to
my boyfriend's house pick up box fans. I'm trying to
figure out this whole plan on how to get everything
washed and dried and then put into another piece of
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luggage in time for us to get to the airport
because we don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And what do you do with that luggage?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Luggage basically done? I don't know because everyone was like, oh,
take the liner out and wash it. Well, the liner
doesn't remove from this luggage, so I'm not sure if
it's ruined, but I'll have to. I'm just dealing with
that later, which is a Way luggage, so it's like nice,
that's I know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So way that luggage should. I feel like they should
make the liners come out.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I don't think I haven't figured out away.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
If anybody that works for a Way is listening, that
would be some feedback. But they probably don't want to
do that because then you had to buy new luggage.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Right because I went to the Away store in my
twelve hour window. Because what happened was then I'm like, well,
I better go check my luggage because I packed early
and I never packed early, and Share always packed early.
Her luggage was open, Maggie peed in it. Well, then I,
while I'm taking care of Stasha's situation, go to my
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room and I'm like, oh my gosh, Maggie pea in
my luggage too, all my clothes everything. So I couldn't
believe it because I'm done packing. I never packed early,
and I packed early days early, so I just had
to like breathe and think, Okay, this is a lot
worse things in the world, which there are. I totally
get it. But we're just gonna We're about to leave,
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and these are the outfits, and now I need to
wash them, and now they smell like catpie, and now
my luggage has cat py in it. We're out of
luggage at this point, so there's no way to even
wash the luggage and dry the luggage. And then what
you put your clothes back in the cat pee luggage?
And then when you get there and it's hot and
humid where we were going, and no, so I had
to go. The luggage door was about to close. Luckily
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it's right down the street from my house. I go
to Away, I buy another bag, and I was like, yeah,
make cat piede. No, I didn't have to. We had
another luggage, Crystal Share that we could use. But after
that we were out of luggage. So then I had
to go get another, and I got my other piece
of luggage. So what does this make possible new luggage?
I got olive green.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh that was fine.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah, it looks good. It's very meda.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It was sick so mad at what was your old one? Black?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
It was navy?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Okay, olive green so much better.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, so figure that out if your cat ever peasing
your luggage. The thirty minute vinegar soak worked, the double
wash in, the washing machine worked, and then drying my
clothes everything. Yeah, but Alex had two box hands, so
I went barred those and then just had the clothes
blowing overnight. And then we had to leave for the
airport like at four forty five in the morning or something,
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and I had everything drying, and then at like four am,
I just packed everything up.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Was it all dry yet or is it still a
little damp.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
One of my like swimsuits, it was really thick, which
I don't know if you've ever have you ever had
the Hunga z swimsuit? Hungsa, Hungsa Hungsa?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh, Hansa, I don't even know how to say it.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You put a G in there, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Hans of g oh is the brand?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Okay, it's a little price here, but you get the
top and the bottom. It's it's not like you're buying
the top and it's it's one size fits all, one size.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What was it that stretchy?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yes, okay, stretchy. And I got this hot pink one
like I bought it and then Cat, Cat's like five
ten are you? I don't know if people heard that, Kat,
why don't you tell them what she said?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
She said, yeah with a thick ass.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So yes, Cat's body is banging and we were able
to the same one fit us this.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I was thinking, I like buying separates because I am
smaller on the top than what I need from your bottom.
But this is it works for everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's like molds to your body, whatever you need. I
read some reviews. Some people weren't very happy with that.
I was. I believe Cat was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, only one size fits all for a certain range
of sizes. Sure, yeah, which there's no way to make that. Yeah, sure, it's.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Not across the board. But what always trips me up
is I don't know this size on the top and
this size on the bottom, and then I get annoyed
and then I just end up not ordering a swimsuit. Well,
I had seen multiple people post about this swimsuit, so
I finally decided to give it a go, and I
ordered it on Revolve or something, and I thought, okay, well,
and again this wasn't like this amount for the top
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and this mount for the bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It was.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I got both pieces, and it's my favorite swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
It's my favorite your cat piece.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And I got it in bubble gum pink or something
like that, and I love it. But that one took
a little while longer to dry, but it never material.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But it was saved.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
It was saved.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Also, Maggie left when she heard.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I was talking about her. I bought a new sun hat.
She peed on that and I was like, I can't
return this. How do I wash it? So I sprayed
it down with vinegar and then I wore the sun
hat on the plane and my boyfriend was like, you
smell like vinegar. You smell like vinegar, And I was like,
it's fine. When we get to the beach, I'll put
it in the ocean. The saltwater will kill everything. The
sun will clean it right up. And then when we left,
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when we were on the flight home, he was next
to me and I had on the same hat and
I said, you smell that and he was like no,
and I said, exactly, vinegar smell is gone. So that
was my My anger towards Maggie actually dissipated, so I
was really annoyed and angry. But then you told me
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that your aunt said her cats did that. They're angry
because you're leaving, or they have anxiety about you traveling.
So then I feel like, well, that's kind of sweet.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, it was her neighbors cats did that. Oh she's
not a cat person. But when I was with her
when I heard that that happened, and she said, oh,
that's what cats do. They're mad that you're leaving, because
I think her being mad has also been sad, like, oh,
you're leaving me and you're not togeing me with you.
I'm gonna pee in your luggage. However, that is a
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bummer because I was so proud of you for backing
early the last time you went on a trip. I
was so stressed.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Out for you because I've packed so late.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You should have been at the airport and your suitcase
was not packed.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It's normally me, I know, but I was I told
you I was actually legit super excited for this trip. Yeah,
and I am practicing my skills to not be ad
HD whatever it is. I'm aware of some of my
behaviors that don't end up serving me well, Like, yeah,
what do you say about therapy? The awareness is.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, the booby trap of therapy.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
The booby trap of therapy, well, the booby trap of
knowing that you have ADHD, at least for me, is
some of my behaviors that I have done forever that
come from me having ADHD. Well, now that I'm aware
of them and I know that I can try to
work on them. I don't want to just do that
because that's how I've always done it and that's how
I am. I have to be proactive about packing.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So what's the solution. You put your you pack and
then you put the suitcase in the closet.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, now what I'm going to do is I'm I did.
I did like the feeling of being packed early. It
did feel good, which I know you have ADHD two,
but we're different because you have some anxiety, like you
just want to get it done, Like I don't have that.
I'm like, eh, we'll get to the airport when we
get there. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I'm at the airport with a snack and a drink
and you haven't packed yet.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Right, So I'm just missing that anxiety piece that then
drives me towards getting that done. Now I just have awareness,
which is going to drive me towards wanting to get
it done because now I'm aware of like the piece
that I felt because even though I'm not super stressed,
I guess there is this internal struggle. But I've always
felt like I performed better under pressure and I can
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finally make decisions because I don't have a choice, Like
it's hard for me to make a decision. If I
have hours to decide, I'm like, well, I don't know,
But then it's down to the wire.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's like you know, Yeah, there's the same idea of
like you have to be it somewhere and you have
to get dressed. If I have three hours, I'll change
my outfit fifteen times, versus if I have five minutes,
I've gotten ready so fast before it to Patrick, I'm like,
don't remember that, because I can do it if I
don't have a choice. But if I have time and
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can be late, I'll take all that time up.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I did something for this trip too that I haven't
ever done before. I had all my outfits for each
night planned out, and before I packed, I try them on.
Do that, No, I did this trip.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
What do you normally do? Just throw a bunch of
clothes in the suit?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, and I don't have them assigned to Like, I
don't know for sure what shoes are gonna go with all.
I'm like, these shoes will probably go with this, this
and this, and then maybe I'll wear this, but this.
I had my designated outfits and I went ahead and
I took a picture. So that way, when I was
down there on the trip getting ready, I got ready
with such ease because I didn't even have to think.
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I just went and looked back at the picture and
I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm doing this, this and this
K Kardashian level, I felt, well, my outfits were simple.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's what she does what her I think that's what
her team does for her, is they like, take the picture,
they put a pooloid on.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
The Oh I should do that.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, there's no need if you have it in your.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I know, but that'd be kind of fun. It's a
little thing that I was proud of myself, like little
steps that then made my life easier down there. It's
like being proactive and taking that time ahead of time
to then put yourself at ease when you're on the vacation.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But don't you think you did all that because you
were really excited.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, because my boyfriend's going. Yeah, if my refriend and
his family, like if they were gonna be on the trip,
if it was just a girl's trip, I don't know
that I would do that.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You're like, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Well, no, I think I still would have cared.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I think my point in saying that is it is
nice to see how much effort. I think a lot
of that effort was excitement, just pure excitement. You were
excited about your outfits because you were excited to go
on this trip with your boyfriend. Like you were excited,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
The gift of excitement on me my cat panum, my luggage.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But then it got you knew luggage. Yeah, so you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I will say that in the moment, that was a
very stressful time, but stressful, like I have perspective on life.
It's not the end of the world, but we do
have this trip planned. We are trying to get out
the door soon, and now we're faced with this like
cat piece situation. And I also was proud of myself
for just doing the next thing that I needed to do,
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like handling it, getting the vinegar, getting the like tub,
filling it up because I had to get this big
clear like basket bucket thing. And what is that called
a bin? A clear A bin, a bin a bucket.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Cat just said toe, it's not a toad.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
It's not a toe.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, it's not a tag. Have we ever told the
story of us being in a lawyer's office and yelling no.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Piper, No, I don't think so. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
We were in a we were trying to be in
a professional meeting and something what happened that you said
that he made some common about something we probably wouldn't
want to do, So you just you just out of nowhere,
go no, pap, And no, we did not get it
at all.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
And so I was like, you're not watching like White Lotus,
because I feel like that was a couple of months ago,
and so I feel like at the time that we
were saying that, like everyone was talking like her.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, I didn't watch White Lotus, and I knew.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
What it was because you saw it on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, my friend started doing it when we went on vacation.
No soon nam.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Oh my gosh, her character is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So it's not you don't call it a toe, No.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
It's a big classic swords band. So that's what I'll say.
I filled that up because you had to have vinegar
and enough water, and I didn't have, Like where are
we going? We have all all of Stashira's clothes and
all of my clothes, and I just wanted to soak
everything at once. So I did that, and I was like, Okay,
what's the next thing that I need to?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Go?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Get the box fans, what's the next thing I need
to do?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Go get the look and people help you. Yes.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Then I needed to pick up alterations, so cry Okat
went to go pick those up for me, and her
attitude about it was so great. Kav was like, I'll
go I love a task. I love checking things off
my list.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
So literally what she said, I honestly, I was in
Franklin at my family, so sorry I couldn't tap in there,
but it was so cool for you to send that text.
And then immediately Kat was like, what do you need
I'll do it. I love a task. I'm like, what
a good friend?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, and I didn't need I was I was just saying, no, well,
I was saying, I can't remember where she was, Like
maybe she was somewhere because where the Alterations places. First
of all, it's her Alterations person. She introduced me to her.
She's awesome, so I knew the Alterations person would love
to see Cat if she popped by. But it's also
right off the highway, and if Kat happened to be driving,
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I was like, if you're in the area and you're
driving by there, could you possibly do this. I'm in
cat Pee Cristis situation, and if not, no worries. I'll
figure it out. But that just definitely would help. And
she was like, I love a good task. Check and
I was like, bam baller, which I need to get
to see her because when she came to drop it off,
I was getting box fans or I was at the
luggage doore. Anyway, we got it all figured out and
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it was great, and I also pause pause, pause, pause,
congratulated myself. Pause. This is me saying pause to myself, like,
thank you to myself for just handling it even though
I wanted to just curl up in a ball and.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Cry with as much easy as you could.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Have, with as much ease as I could have, and
with good support, and you know, so to Sharon Stevenson
helped too, and it was great. We got it all done.
So cat pe.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, crazy story, now you know, and now you might
have saved other people from that. Now they got a
new cat and they're going on a trip, and now
they know, zip it up, up.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Pack ely, but zip it up, put in the closet.
And then vinegar is your best friend, except for you
might smell like vinegar, and then your boyfriend's gonna be like,
what's that smell? And then you're gonna be like, don't
let it ruin our first family vacation together.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Vinegar is not a great smell.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So he's a trooper. Speaking of your luggage, you packed
something special? What's your luggage? I did you packed something
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that to take with you on vacation?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
What you're talking about with my boyfriend?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I don't think I was what, oh the something really special?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Vinegar? Yes, I took a great American cookie cake. I
smuggled it into so another country. What my first Jill.
So we were meeting my friend Jill down there and
I met her to spin class in our twenties. So
that's fun, you know, like say hi to be people.
I had a workout class.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Friends had a spin well kind of a spin class
we were teaching there.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, you just never know, like friendships are fun like that,
how they're going to evolve and then we've maintained our
friendship all these years.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
You don't even like spin.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
This is when I did like spin. I didn't like it.
I thought I liked it. I was a cyclist.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Oh you were like a road biker.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah, like I had a road bike. We would spin
when we were training indoors because I did triathlons. Okay,
So I went to this gym in Austin that was
very you know like Lance ARMSTRONGI lived strong. He was
popular at the time. Have you watched his thirty for
thirty Yeah it's not great, bad vibes.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, okay, this.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Was before those vibes. But everybody at this gym, they
all swim, bike, run, didn't eat cereal stuff like that.
I remember one of my trainers was like, so what
did you eat for breakfast today? And I was like
cereal and she goes, you eat cereal, and I remember
being like, yeah, I was like, okay, I guess I
don't eat cereal anymore? What did she have to eat
(41:05):
cereal now? But I definitely didn't eat cereal after that.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
How many years ago was that?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I was twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I think that speaks to like, hopefully people aren't saying
that these days, Like the culture was so like the
things people thought they could say.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah, I mean she was a trainer, so like trying.
She was helping like people live their best life, and like, yeah,
I don't think I don't know. She might Okay, she
might be the type to say.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
That one you weren't asking for her.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
No, I think it was I was, but I was
training though I was training for a train better, eat better.
She was my triathlon trainer at the gym. Okay, so
she was teaching me how to swim, bike and run.
Because I didn't know how to do the swimming or
the biking. I took adult swim lessons because I didn't.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I mean, I knew how like a fast swimmer.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
If you're swimming a mile, you have to swim a
certain ways. You don't exhaust yourself.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
You know that I had to quit the swim team
because I can't dive.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I can't really either, Like you struggle like going in?
Me too.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
I get in the position, but then I just jumped it.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Like it really freaks me out to like go, I
don't go straight in.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
It's like set and you get in a position.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Guess I really struggle with that too.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
My mom took me to swim meets for I was
on the indoor swim team, and I'm like, Mom, what
would you do when your kid would just can't and
ball into the water.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
And I was like, that's my girl.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Wait to this day, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I should do all, but like do I want to learn?
I think at this point it's more of a fun
fact than anything that we can't dive. But it hasn't
affected my life other than I had to quit the
swim team.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Other than like, you know some people that dive and
it's like really pretty.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
But I can do a flip into the water. That's
what's crazy. I can run and flip into the water,
but I can't dive. You would think the flip would
be scarier.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, I wonder what that's about another thing we have
in common.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Okay, side from the cookie cake.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yeah, okay, so Jill she loves butter cream, icing and
cookie cakes, but specifically vanilla butter cream from anywhere. Well,
a great American cookie company. You can get a wide
out cookie cake, the big birthday ones, and they will
cover the thing, white it out in icing. Not just
(43:29):
look little white dots. They will wipe it out and
it is glorious, especially for someone.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
That loves that.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
So got a white out cookie cake, Happy Birthday Jill
written on it. Was it a circle, a big circle
and so big. How am I going to get this
into the luggage? Well, so I cut it up and
I preserved the happy and the birthday and the Jill.
And then I got parchment paper, and I got a
tupperware thing. And then Stevens impact the least of all
of us, so he had room in his luggage. Plus
(43:57):
if he got caught with it, be like Svenson Stevens,
and you know you can't bring cake.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Like you can't bring cakes a chilly boy.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
He didn't even know it was in there, because trust me,
if that boy got asked, did did you bring any
food into the country he'd be like, just the whole cake.
It's in my bag, which I know it's not fruit,
but I don't know if they would freak out. I
know you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Take fruit, fruit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Fruit and vegetables across the borders or whatever. But like,
even we were coming back into America, the guy's like,
do you have any food? And we don't even have
the cake at this point. We have a cake, no,
but well he had granola, and I was like, I say,
he said, do you have any food to claim?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:44):
And then Stevens goes mom the granola, and then the
officer's like, thank you for being honest, son, And I
was like, you know, you didn't need to know about
the granola. We got it at the airport.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Wait did you say this to him?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
No, I'm very respectful. Yeah, I'm like, yes, sir, yes
we have the granola.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I'm silling.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I forgot about yeah, sorry, granola.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
I thought we only needed to claim like linons or something.
But I cut it up. And then one night after dinner,
we all gathered together and Jill's parents were there, and
her mom had a candle and I piled all the
pieces that we cut up and put it into like
a layered cake because it was all smushed, kind of smushed,
(45:24):
but the name Jill was preserved. Happy Birthday was a
little alone, but I just stacked it all on top
of each other. We stuck the candle on the top
and it made this like, I mean, it was really yummy. Actually,
and she did that or you surprised her. She knew
I brought it because I think I said something about
how we don't don't get dessert tonight because we but she.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Didn't know you were packing it.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yes, she did. She knew because I sent her a
video of what it looked like before and I'm like hey,
and she was like shut up, But she didn't know
how I was getting it there, yeah, and what it
was going to look like. And it looked interesting for sure,
And then put the candle in and then we all
sang Happy Birthday, and then she enjoyed her mound of
butter cream because that's basically what it was, with like
little layers of cookie in it, and.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
It was legit.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And so I just thought, well, yay for friendships that
are long like ours and we don't have to talk
all the time. But it's just funny that we met
in a spin class and then yay for butter cream
because that's something that she's loved for so long and
it was such a simple gesture. It wasn't a lot
of money, it wasn't hard.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Well, you put some heffort into that well.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
But relatively speaking, it wasn't anything difficult and it brought
her so much joy.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah, I love to say that. That would bring me
so much joy. One because if I love that, I
will say they're cookie cakes the.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Best ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I don't love icing on my cookie cake. Meta. I
think icing on the cookie cake is anti meta.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
So you just want a cookiki, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I'm weirried about things that are white, you know that,
h so, but I won't like any of the color
of icing. But would mean more to me that you
went through the effort of figuring out how to do that,
you know, like, that's I'm like, oh my gosh, you
did not have to. Some people were just like, oh,
it's hard. I don't think you can do that. You're like, no,
I'm gonna make this work. So going back to you
(47:14):
wanting to be this hello Shannon person. Oh sorry, that's
hello Jillie Billy. But that you do stuff like that,
like and I don't know if you recognize that a
lot of people wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
Oh okay, well that helps I guess in me how
I want to.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Show you were so excited to do that.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yes, yes, like that was fun to take the cake
and then maybe have to believe it on Stevenson, But
it is possible to take cake to the Caymans and
then overall a successful trip with the boyfriend, his family,
my kids. We had so much fun that loved it.
We already want to plan another trip with everybody. M yeah,
(47:59):
but it's gonna it's just hard, Like all of our
schedules are a little crazy, so I don't know how
it's going to happen. But it is exciting. I see
why you want to travel with Big Peace so much,
as like you enjoy being with him and the traveling
is like fun. And Ben and I when we were married,
we enjoyed doing stuff like that together too. Unfortunately our
relationship didn't work out, but I remember that feeling. So
(48:20):
it's just fun to have that feeling again and to
find somebody that it's like, oh, you want to like
get out of the house and do something with there's.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Like a giddiness to it.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Giddy.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
The gift of giddy is vacations experiences or even just
vacationis Oh, Shannon's still laughing about for the doc that
Maggie walked out during her story about her cats are
a vibe. Let me tell you, I guess we can
close with a little call out, a little shout out
to a listener named Cindy. She left us a voicemail
(48:55):
and it's not one to play or anything, but she
just said that she added us to her phone like
in her contacts, and it's she put our phone number
and put dealing things with Aamy and Cat so that
she can call us anytime she has.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
Thoughts, which we said, you guys should do that. Yeah,
so be like her, be like Cindy.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
And save eight seven seven two o seven two oh
seven seven.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
You got it down? Okay?
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Do you have it saved?
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I don't know that I'm ever gonna call. Maybe I will,
maybe you call. You know what, it was a long
We had a couple of days where we didn't talk
right now.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah, I was really trying to like detach.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, and maybe next time you do that instead of me.
At one point I felt like I tent you a
lot of texts in a row, and I felt like
a stalker.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Oh. I think I also only had my phone when
I like, I had my phone on airplane mode, so
I only had communication if I was somewhere that had WiFi.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Well, I also think maybe I, now that I'm telling
this again, I think you had voice memos in there
and those deleted, so then it just looked like I
was texting.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
Oh so you look like a psycho.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, next time you're on vacation, I'll just
call the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
And leave all your thoughts here, save it in your phone.
Feeling Things with Me and Amy, Yeah, mean put that
Amy and me, Amy and Me. Yeah, and then of
course we want to hear from you for couch shocks.
You can send us either a voicemail or an email. Hey,
they're at Feeling Things podcast dot com. And do you
think it's like next Feeling Things episode we have a surprise. Yeah, okay, yeah,
(50:32):
all right, it is. And surprises are fun. Yeah, the
gifts of surprises.
Speaker 1 (50:36):
You're going to want to watch on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Probably for sure, props or make sure us on socials.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
No, we want them on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Okay, but they can also follow on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Get some YouTube subscribers. We're at seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
I think we're climbing. Yeah, I mean it's better to
go up than so.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
If you want to say, did you.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Know people buy YouTube followers?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
People buy followers everywhere? You're surprised me.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
I mean, it shouldn't surprise me, but it just does.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
It's weird. Is it weird to you that people buy
Instagram followers?
Speaker 3 (51:06):
I guess I've heard of that before. I didn't know
they did it on YouTube. I guess I just know
they did it on YouTube. We're organic here.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
We don't buy people.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
We have bought a dang thing, and we will continue
to grow. And yeah, some of it's just people don't know.
We haven't been on YouTube, and then on Instagram people
that one's growing too. So I love our community, and
we have a surprise next Tuesday. Thursday, we'll have couch
Talks coming up and then Tuesday fun, yeah, fun, exciting cool.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Meta's sick. It is sick. It is sick. Well, we
help you have the day you need to have.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
Bye bye,
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