Speaker 1: Welcome to the Seize the Yay Podcast.
Speaker 2: Busy and happy are not the same thing. We too
Speaker 2: rarely question what makes the heart seeing. We work, then
Speaker 2: we rest, but rarely we play and often don't realize
Speaker 2: there's more than one way. So this is the platform
Speaker 2: to hear and explore the stories of those who found lives.
Speaker 1: They adore, the good, bad and ugly, the best and
Speaker 1: worst day will bear all the facets of Seizing your Yea.
Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Davidson or a spoonful of Sarah, a lawyer
Speaker 1: turned funentrepreneur whos walped the suits and heels to co
Speaker 1: found Matcha Maiden and matcha Milk Bar. Ces the ya is.
Speaker 3: A series of conversations on finding a life you love
Speaker 3: and exploring the self doubt, challenge, joy and fulfillment along
Speaker 3: the way. Hi Veer hi Vim.
Speaker 4: We suck her militia sitting in the same state, in
Speaker 4: the same city, but we decided to do this over
Speaker 4: zoo in the same room.
Speaker 1: Also, I bought and a fancy microphone for this exact
Speaker 1: purpose in case we would ever need to record remotely,
Speaker 1: which actually we've been pretty good this year. We've hardly
Speaker 1: recorded like our episodes remotely anyway. She sends me a
Speaker 1: voice note like two minutes ago. That's the crispus audio
Speaker 1: I have ever heard, going, hey, just testing for our
Speaker 1: episode mic working. She put it in for at least
Speaker 1: three other episodes, and it's it's never worked. It's just
Speaker 1: never You just never turned it on.
Speaker 4: All through COVID, because we did this through COVID, remember,
Speaker 4: and that's why you bought it. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: this microphone shit because the end result was really pooh.
Speaker 4: And then I was like, oh, and then today I
Speaker 4: had time to like set up and I was like,
Speaker 4: in my computer is changing the input. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll click that, and then lo and behold. It was
Speaker 4: the most crisp thing I've ever heard. So all through
Speaker 4: you were just hearing my microphone from my computer with this,
Speaker 4: just like for show.
Speaker 5: I'm such an idiot, just as a prom such a
Speaker 5: big bird.
Speaker 1: It actually sounds like we're in the same like your
Speaker 1: mic sounds like it normally does when we're in the
Speaker 1: same room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good. I can't believe for three hole years.
Speaker 4: We're using my three years later, we're using my computer microphone.
Speaker 1: You know, we've come a long way for our like
Speaker 1: four and a half anniversary, we finally made it to
Speaker 1: making the microphones work.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: You know what you don't have is your mic fluffer.
Speaker 1: I don't have my mic fluffer and that's hard because okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have it either. Hello. Yeah, maybe we should
Speaker 1: do it as our New Years We'll do it as
Speaker 1: our New Year's episode when we're in the same room.
Speaker 5: Our rebrand, our rebrand.
Speaker 1: So our incredible editor Sam from the podcast Butler surprised
Speaker 1: me a couple of days ago? Was it last week?
Speaker 1: He isn't Melbourne based and as part of our we
Speaker 1: have so much to catch you guys up on.
Speaker 5: It's also so to to intrude on your story.
Speaker 4: But your this is where sirs timescale is actually pooh,
Speaker 4: a couple of.
Speaker 5: Days ago, it was like more than a week ago.
Speaker 1: It was last Friday. That's like a week ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually true, so you can delete that.
Speaker 1: So the long Winter version of this story, we should
Speaker 1: have totally not left it this late to record in
Speaker 1: the year because our.
Speaker 5: Brains not.
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 1: What's the Sululu? There isn't onelu, there's no Solulu. So
Speaker 1: we planned to do Seize the a Christmas party, which
Speaker 1: would just be the two of us, and then it
Speaker 1: ended up because of timing. The plan was to do
Speaker 1: surprise activities where each of us would plan an activity
Speaker 1: for the other, and we couldn't manage to make it
Speaker 1: on the same day. So then somehow it blew out
Speaker 1: to like a three part three different days sees the
Speaker 1: a Christmas party, and we have since canceled two of
Speaker 1: the three activities because we are unhinged and tired, so
Speaker 1: they've been rescheduled to January.
Speaker 4: There's just memes where it's like, oh, you don't want
Speaker 4: to be the one that canceled, but you want someone
Speaker 4: else to cancel, so you kind of like wait for
Speaker 4: the other's counsel and then you're like, oh, oh no.
Speaker 5: That's a good idea. You should rest.
Speaker 4: Like Sarah was like, oh, I'm a bit tired, and
Speaker 4: I had been tired for days and I actually ended
Speaker 4: up being sick, and I was like, oh, I want
Speaker 4: to cancel.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 4: Might be a bit tired tonight and what we were doing,
Speaker 4: and you were like, I'm exhaus and.
Speaker 5: I was like, let's cancel. You're too retired for this
Speaker 5: we have.
Speaker 3: And then we both feel bad. So then we're like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm good now, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I'm good. And then the other one's like, no, I
Speaker 1: really want to cancel, but you don't want to say it.
Speaker 1: So you're like, oh, okay, cool, Actually nah, are you sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You're being pregnant is the best thing I know.
Speaker 1: But except I still then I feel even more guilty,
Speaker 1: so I try and uncancel, even though you actually are
Speaker 1: more pregnant than me in your energy at the moment.
Speaker 1: So actually we did this is literally six minutes of
Speaker 1: absolute rubbish already. Sorry. So we did one part of
Speaker 1: our activities, which was dry felting in the city. We
Speaker 1: had an amazing fun time making Christmas decorations and doing
Speaker 1: arts and crafts. So we did that and we were
Speaker 1: absolutely like if you guys think we're chaotic on these episodes,
Speaker 1: we were beside ourselves delirious, like so tired, which is
Speaker 1: why we canceled the next day's activity. But Ang had
Speaker 1: canceled her surprise the next morning, but then said, but
Speaker 1: we have to have brunch, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm in canceltown now, Like I don't want to get
Speaker 1: up if we're not doing the first activity, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to have any activity on and then she
Speaker 1: was like, no, we have to go to brunch and
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I'm with you right now, Like why,
Speaker 1: I don't need to see you tomorrow. I'm seeing you
Speaker 1: right now, Like what? And then I realized obviously there
Speaker 1: was going to be someone else at the brunch and
Speaker 1: we couldn't cancel the other person and and had surprised
Speaker 1: me with our amazing editor, Sam, who is not Melbourne based,
Speaker 1: had flown down. They had hidden it somehow. I speak
Speaker 1: to Sam every day. I speak to Ange every day.
Speaker 1: That hidden that he was going to be in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: and he surprised us not only with brunch, but these
Speaker 1: beautiful sees, the A branded microphone covers for us to
Speaker 1: record with when we were meant to record in person
Speaker 1: on Friday, which we also canceled, so we have video
Speaker 1: that it is now a week later and we still
Speaker 1: haven't managed a recording person.
Speaker 5: Do you know we almost canceled this.
Speaker 1: I was so close.
Speaker 5: I know, I know because just before.
Speaker 4: We started, Sarah so it was like, oh, next week
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, we go to Brisbane tomorrow.
Speaker 4: So it's what has to be today and then literally
Speaker 4: five minutes before they started, I get this message on stair,
Speaker 4: which I know is like a like, what are the
Speaker 4: chances we can postpone without asking to I suppose she
Speaker 4: goes just like just quick one so you're not you
Speaker 4: don't come back into after.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, so just to quick one just
Speaker 3: because then I was like, oh, what a fun holiday.
Speaker 3: I was sort of like, well, if you're back before
Speaker 3: ne years, we could do our twenty twenty three rap
Speaker 3: after you get back from Brisbane and not today, because
Speaker 3: I also was messaging you from the toilet and I
Speaker 3: was like, I'm late because my pregnant bows are not cooperating,
Speaker 3: so why don't we just cancel it together? So basically
Speaker 3: moral of the story is we've canceled like eight things.
Speaker 4: So more of the stories that we require, well at
Speaker 4: the point where we require the smallest inconvenience to be
Speaker 4: like cancel, Like Sarah's like, I'm going to be four
Speaker 4: minutes late because I'm still pulling cancel.
Speaker 1: I've got a paper cut. I don't think I can
Speaker 1: record on cancel. Well, so I'm really proud of us
Speaker 1: for being here today. I don't think anyone's gonna really
Speaker 1: listen further than this point, because why would they.
Speaker 4: Just and we literally dinning in thirty minutes apart from
Speaker 4: each other, but not now that because we just couldn't
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 1: So the idea for this episode was to answer some
Speaker 1: of your overspilled q and as from our last couple
Speaker 1: of episodes, because we loved your questions so much, and
Speaker 1: also to do as we do every year, like a
Speaker 1: little rap on what twenty twenty three was like, and
Speaker 1: we'll do a twenty twenty four New Year's resolution type
Speaker 1: episode when we come back, but also to sort of
Speaker 1: think about what we want next year to be. And
Speaker 1: I love these reflections episodes because then in a year's
Speaker 1: time kind of listen back to them and get to think, oh,
Speaker 1: did I do any of those things? Did it turn
Speaker 1: out how I expected? So, Bim, firstly, what are your
Speaker 1: plans for the holidays? You leave tomorrow? And secondly, how
Speaker 1: are you feeling about twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Wow, Well plans for the holidays are five am tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We're driving to Brisbane. Oh myit the dog and I
Speaker 4: which would be actually quite fun and I haven't actually
Speaker 4: ever like said the last time I drove to Brisbane.
Speaker 4: I didn't obviously drive, but growing up we had this
Speaker 4: eight seat of Torago and every second year Dad would
Speaker 4: drive us all up like full car, eight people in
Speaker 4: this car and we were all under the eighth like
Speaker 4: me and Jen would have been under the age of ten,
Speaker 4: Capbin would have been teenager. It would have been very young.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, Dad used to drive us and we
Speaker 4: used to take it for granted how long it would
Speaker 4: take him to drive us because we just sat.
Speaker 1: And enjoyed your life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, Dad, did we sleep, Like, sure,
Speaker 5: we just slept.
Speaker 4: He's like, no, You're bouncing around, like jumping over like
Speaker 4: the seats to each other, and like he's like it
Speaker 4: was like mayhem. But yeah, he had to drive us
Speaker 4: to the Worlds because we so love going to Wett
Speaker 4: and Wild and movie on Stuffy. So that was the
Speaker 4: last time we ever drove. I remember driving, and I
Speaker 4: don't even remember the length of time it takes to
Speaker 4: get there. Somehow we just got there without.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, how many hours is it?
Speaker 1: Is it like fifteen hours.
Speaker 4: Say totally twenty hours? Yeah, around the eighteen to twenty hours.
Speaker 1: You guys are splitting it up for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll probably go to our beautiful friends in Ui.
Speaker 4: They're not even going to be there, but they're left
Speaker 4: like they're like, just stay, which is such a blessing.
Speaker 4: So we'll fang it up to you.
Speaker 1: This is the Yesterday family, the family where you do
Speaker 1: the Yesterday with the kids.
Speaker 5: Yes Day family we love so much. Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: we'll probably slowly just go.
Speaker 4: Up the coast over the next two days and sleep
Speaker 4: in the back of the car. We've got a higher car.
Speaker 4: We're going to just take my car, but we're coming
Speaker 4: down with another car like her family's giving passing down
Speaker 4: a car.
Speaker 5: So anyway, I'm sorry, sure, we're driving up.
Speaker 4: We have to drive because the family want to see
Speaker 4: the dog, and the dog was going to cost one
Speaker 4: of thousand dollars one way to fly, can you believe?
Speaker 1: But also can you imagine? So this is my big
Speaker 1: struggle with the fact that I understand people don't want
Speaker 1: to move anywhere without their animals, of course, but I
Speaker 1: can't like putting.
Speaker 3: Roomy underneath the thing and the luggage, like I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't sitting right here and I can't.
Speaker 4: He'd be like, oh, it'd be so when it comes
Speaker 4: to me to the shower, No, we need boundaries, behaves,
Speaker 4: It comes and just watches.
Speaker 5: Me pooh, like, oh he's so creepy.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So yeah, we're driving up to Brisbane, spend Christmas
Speaker 4: there to have a week at the beach and then
Speaker 4: come back like probably the thirtieth or thirty first, if anything,
Speaker 4: and then it's the next year.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, twenty twenty four sounds so weird. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about this year? What are your like
Speaker 1: big feelings as we approach the end, which I don't
Speaker 1: even know how that's happened.
Speaker 5: This year has been really pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: It's probably the year that I wanted it to be
Speaker 4: in that remember, so last year I resigned from full
Speaker 4: time yo, and that was like a big thing, and
Speaker 4: you and I discussed it was a means of me
Speaker 4: living a very free life.
Speaker 1: Like seizon your yea is that kind of what you're
Speaker 1: getting at?
Speaker 5: Kind of?
Speaker 4: Well? Yeah, because work? What the freak is the jingle
Speaker 4: happy and busy?
Speaker 5: I love the same thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you are so bad.
Speaker 5: I was like, what is the jingle?
Speaker 1: Guys? This just shows how little Ange listens to the episode.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know the song.
Speaker 5: I don't it's true.
Speaker 1: So in your twenty hours of the way to Brisbane,
Speaker 1: you're going to listen to the back catalog and like
Speaker 1: catch up on episodes.
Speaker 4: This is a yeah, seriously though I need to, But no,
Speaker 4: I think it's been. It's been really awesome and very
Speaker 4: I live a very lucky, key and privileged life. I
Speaker 4: reflect on it often in that I am very in control.
Speaker 4: I feel of what I'm doing, which I don't feel
Speaker 4: like maybe a lot of people feel like they can
Speaker 4: be in that I can choose when I want to
Speaker 4: work and what I want to do for work, And
Speaker 4: I think that's a very huge advantage or asset to have,
Speaker 4: is to be able to have that level of control.
Speaker 4: I guess at the age that I am, I think
Speaker 4: that comes though with these you know every two months
Speaker 4: career crisis that you and I both always talk about.
Speaker 5: When where like in this world where it's.
Speaker 4: Quite a novel way of working where you know you
Speaker 4: do multiple things each thing, like for example, so like
Speaker 4: how my time is split is I am technically four
Speaker 4: days a week for bloom effects, and then I do
Speaker 4: a day with you and then with the hospital it's
Speaker 4: probably once every two.
Speaker 5: Weeks or something, and then.
Speaker 4: I now, I'm doing a lot of course curriculum development
Speaker 4: for Latrobe, and then every now and then it's like
Speaker 4: a random coaching or a podcast or cool event or something,
Speaker 4: but that's kind of the split. And then I might
Speaker 4: have a couple of other clients here and there. But
Speaker 4: out of all of those things, only one of those
Speaker 4: jobs requires me to be anywhere physically and constrained to that,
Speaker 4: which is a physio But I love it. But I
Speaker 4: love it anyway.
Speaker 5: Even that though, I can.
Speaker 4: Pretty much be like, do you want me to work
Speaker 4: tomorrow or next week? And they will more often than
Speaker 4: I'd say yes, because that's just how healthcare is at
Speaker 4: the minute. So yeah, So every other minute of my day, though,
Speaker 4: is under my own control in what I want to do.
Speaker 4: And I was like, and I was reflecting on this yesterday,
Speaker 4: being like, that is a very amazing thing to be
Speaker 4: able to do, and I don't take that for granted.
Speaker 4: So in that sense, I feel like I've had a
Speaker 4: very kind of awesome work life balance over this last year.
Speaker 5: Been able to do really fun things.
Speaker 4: Were able to go to Amsterdam to the ChIL Fields
Speaker 4: for work, had a really fun season a footy even
Speaker 4: we was able to go back to doing that.
Speaker 5: Did really fun things with Ce's We're just so random.
Speaker 4: Like I think we started this year with this big
Speaker 4: like we had this brand strategy meeting, and then by
Speaker 4: the end of it we were.
Speaker 5: Like, how about next week we do a Yule event.
Speaker 5: Earl Like, that's just us.
Speaker 1: But I really like that your reflection on the freedom thing.
Speaker 1: We've been doing the show long enough and these reflections
Speaker 1: long enough that people who have been listening along will
Speaker 1: remember you at this time last year making a choice,
Speaker 1: and like quite an agonizing choice at the time, to
Speaker 1: move towards that. Like, I think it's really cool that
Speaker 1: that's not by accident and a lot of people have
Speaker 1: heard you feel last year like you lacked that and
Speaker 1: then grab it back for yourself and be able to
Speaker 1: enjoy it because I feel like sometimes people tell the
Speaker 1: story and a podcast and you weren't there for all
Speaker 1: the decisions, whereas people have been there for your decisions
Speaker 1: to get closer to where you are now. You know,
Speaker 1: that's really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm very lucky, Yeah that I get to live
Speaker 4: in and work in the way that I get to.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I think, yeah, the only
Speaker 4: downside of it is this constant feeling of in this world,
Speaker 4: the progression is not as linear and it's not as clear,
Speaker 4: so you can't see it. Like if I was doing
Speaker 4: physio full time, it's quite clear. You go from grade
Speaker 4: one to a grade two to a grade three, grade four,
Speaker 4: and these these little milestones that you can kind of
Speaker 4: see where you're progressing. You know, you get more responsibilities,
Speaker 4: you might get students or whatever. In this world, though,
Speaker 4: it's very hard to see where and how you're progressing,
Speaker 4: if it's not other people being like, yeah, but you're
Speaker 4: doing this and that, because it's not as linear. It's
Speaker 4: not like you kind of jump grades, and even things
Speaker 4: for like pay scales don't really exist in this world
Speaker 4: of like consulting or contracting and working different jobs. The
Speaker 4: only way I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess I'm progressing
Speaker 4: is being able to you know, now do work with
Speaker 4: the litrope and do that work with the curriculum and
Speaker 4: getting more hours from that, and then you know, working
Speaker 4: now in the hand therapy team and getting that as
Speaker 4: a gig. And yeah. So it's very hard sometimes to
Speaker 4: see and if you can't see progression, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: what's the directory where am I going?
Speaker 1: What's the what's there is.
Speaker 5: No end goal?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's this constant, like I guess crisis in
Speaker 4: the back of your head of where am I going?
Speaker 4: But at the same time, you're also liked, that's the
Speaker 4: beauty of doing this is that you don't know and
Speaker 4: it could be anything. So, yeah, it's been a very
Speaker 4: cool year. We moved in with my partner, live in
Speaker 4: a really cool house. Now, Yeah, I feel like I've
Speaker 4: had a very in control year, which has been nice.
Speaker 4: How about you.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's why I have become so obsessed
Speaker 1: with like end of year reflections and start of year
Speaker 1: goal setting and middle of the year check ins and
Speaker 1: all that stuff because of that lack of automatic structure
Speaker 1: in what we do. Like you in a workplace, you
Speaker 1: automatically have that you don't need to care about setting
Speaker 1: your own goals at the start of the year because
Speaker 1: like you'll have a sit down with your boss. And
Speaker 1: that's why I love these episodes because this is the
Speaker 1: only time I do it. Otherwise I wouldn't and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't sit and go, oh my god, I set these
Speaker 1: goals at the start of the year and then I
Speaker 1: actually achieved them or you know, I can set new
Speaker 1: ones for next year, so I love these because this
Speaker 1: is the only time when I do it as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's your reflections bit?
Speaker 1: This year has been like a really interesting one. I
Speaker 1: think the last couple of years have been amazing and
Speaker 1: chaotic and like in a post COVID world, coming back
Speaker 1: to so many things that we didn't have before. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so many wonderful things that have happened, but they'd
Speaker 1: all been quite similar, like you mentioned, they'd been like
Speaker 1: little improvements and greater challenges, but on the same general
Speaker 1: trajectory kind of thing, like the same career, the same
Speaker 1: balance of projects between podcasts, presenting all like the same
Speaker 1: kind of pathway, just doing cooler versions of that each year,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. But this year has been completely different.
Speaker 1: For the first time in a while, it's been so
Speaker 1: like from January I was pregnant, and then that lasted
Speaker 1: till March, and then we had the pregnancy loss, and
Speaker 1: then the focus for the second that was, like the
Speaker 1: first quarter was pregnancy, the second quarter was recovery, reorientation,
Speaker 1: try and rEFInd. Like I talked so much on the
Speaker 1: podcast about how my biggest challenge for that part of
Speaker 1: the year was like I thought my year was going
Speaker 1: to be one thing, and then suddenly it wasn't, and
Speaker 1: then I had to rEFInd the track that I was
Speaker 1: on before to replace what I thought that he was
Speaker 1: going to look like. But then the third quarter was, well,
Speaker 1: we were pregnant again, so I could like pick that
Speaker 1: up again. And then the whole rest of the year
Speaker 1: has been getting so excited and surrendering to the unknown
Speaker 1: of this new chapter, but in a completely different way
Speaker 1: to any other year. So I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: first year in a really long time that's been completely different,
Speaker 1: like such a different focus. Work has almost taken a
Speaker 1: back seat, even though I've probably been busier than I
Speaker 1: have in other years. In terms of like what's at
Speaker 1: the forefront of my own brain every day, it's been
Speaker 1: much more family, starting a family, looking after my body,
Speaker 1: getting to that stage where I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: been such a shift in focus and a lot more surrender.
Speaker 1: I think, like we normally you normally have to surrender
Speaker 1: to uncertainty in our jobs, but then to add a
Speaker 1: layer of uncertainty with your body and your plans and
Speaker 1: when you could get pregnant and when you might not
Speaker 1: get pregnant and when is everything going to change? And
Speaker 1: when will you have a baby? Like the whole year
Speaker 1: has just been like a question mark. Every day, every
Speaker 1: week has been like what is happening? And it's kind
Speaker 1: of been lovely in a weird way. I've never had
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 5: Like this before. Yeah, I feel someone was asking me.
Speaker 4: I was a ktssay from five Acres who were just
Speaker 4: like how Sarah, And I was like, Sarah's one of
Speaker 4: those people where every year when I first met and
Speaker 4: I was like, WHOA, well, she's hit her peak. Everything
Speaker 4: was awesome, and then every year after that, I was like,
Speaker 4: she's still peaking. Yep, She's still going yep and still going,
Speaker 4: and even this year, I'm like yep. In ways that
Speaker 4: I don't even realize that you can continue, like because
Speaker 4: for you it always changes. It's like these presenting jobs
Speaker 4: and then now with the house, You've done such an
Speaker 4: awesome job at the house and being pregnant, and then
Speaker 4: and then that opens more doors than this other realm
Speaker 4: where I'm like, oh, next year is going to be
Speaker 4: another one where it just like kind of should actually
Speaker 4: just keeps going for you, although you also kind of
Speaker 4: you both live your life in a way where you
Speaker 4: always leave doors open to be able to continue to grow.
Speaker 4: Like it's like it's never like you hit a point
Speaker 4: where you're like, I've kind of exhausted that whole thing.
Speaker 4: Now what do I do? There's always like things, so yeah,
Speaker 4: I feel like that whole year feel your reflection was
Speaker 4: about the baby, but you've also got a house fully renovated,
Speaker 4: but to two international weddings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've fitted in so much. But I think just
Speaker 1: the difference in my mind is that even if on
Speaker 1: the outside a lot of things looked the same as
Speaker 1: they might have a different year in terms of travel
Speaker 1: and work and kind of achievements, it's funny that they
Speaker 1: all had to fit in around my personal priorities for
Speaker 1: the first time in a really long time. Like even
Speaker 1: I don't know, I look at this year and the
Speaker 1: big highlights are like there's been so many amazing career highlights,
Speaker 1: but the big highlights for me have been a family
Speaker 1: home and getting pregnant and getting so excited to start
Speaker 1: this new chapter as a mum and not feeling scared
Speaker 1: about that. Like obviously there's like small freakouts, like normal
Speaker 1: level freakouts about the uncertainty of a new chapter, and
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a magical and a
Speaker 1: total shit show all at once, but also feeling ready
Speaker 1: for a new chapter, like not being totally scared that
Speaker 1: I'm going to fuck it all up or that it's
Speaker 1: going to change my life or it's going to cost
Speaker 1: me things like I feel really lucky that I sort
Speaker 1: of think I gave it a really good crack, like
Speaker 1: I gave pre motherhood life a really good crack, And
Speaker 1: now I'm really excited for this new chapter where I'm
Speaker 1: actually okay that I have to go a little bit
Speaker 1: slower next year. I'm actually okay that I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what next year is going to
Speaker 1: be like. And that's like less idea that I even
Speaker 1: normally have, And I kind of like that. It's really
Speaker 1: weird how balanced and chilled I've been about not knowing,
Speaker 1: because normally I'm not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I almost want to go into the questions because
Speaker 4: I feel I remember there was a question in one
Speaker 4: of my question boxes that was revolved around you taking
Speaker 4: leave blah blah blah. Should we go into them do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I totally forgot we had questions do you have a reflection.
Speaker 4: So do you have any nays to your year? Beyond
Speaker 4: obviously the miscarriage?
Speaker 1: I think it tested. It was again, it was one
Speaker 1: of those years that was different to any I've had
Speaker 1: in a really long time. The challenges were new and
Speaker 1: different and bigger than I ever could have imagined. Like
Speaker 1: I think I have learnt. I am stronger in ways
Speaker 1: that I didn't know. I knew I was strong in
Speaker 1: a career sense or a mental or hard work challenge
Speaker 1: kind of way, but in terms of like a health, physical,
Speaker 1: emotional challenge, I haven't been tested like that in a
Speaker 1: really long time. But I also haven't felt like intense
Speaker 1: joy in a family way in a really long time.
Speaker 1: I'm so settled and ready to nest, and it's just
Speaker 1: this whole.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just so different suddenly, but not in a scary way,
Speaker 1: which is lovely. Yeah, I'm just kind of on this
Speaker 1: weird rollercoaster now where I've never done any of this before,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with it being different every day. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird to just surrender completely like I thought
Speaker 1: i'd surrendered before, and now I'm like, I actually have
Speaker 1: no idea and it's the best.
Speaker 4: And the weirdest thing is also you and your mama
Speaker 4: going through brignancy the first time.
Speaker 1: So special, and it's been lovely to like let myself
Speaker 1: create space for that. So the days that we have scans,
Speaker 1: I take her and then I don't work for the
Speaker 1: rest of that day so that we can like rewatch
Speaker 1: the videos and unload on how weird it is that
Speaker 1: mom never had ultrasounds. I thought I'd struggle more to
Speaker 1: like fit it in, if that makes sense, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: it works so busy, like, oh, I've got to fit
Speaker 1: in being pregnant, where it's kind of been the other
Speaker 1: way around. I'm like, I'm pregnant that takes up as
Speaker 1: much time and energy as it needs to, and then
Speaker 1: work kind of fits in around that, which is so
Speaker 1: weird for me. It just happened really naturally, and I
Speaker 1: think it's the perspective of pregnancy loss has given me
Speaker 1: even nausea and stuff this time, I've just been like,
Speaker 1: it's so worth it. Any symptom you can throw at me,
Speaker 1: I don't even care if the baby's healthy, like whatever.
Speaker 1: It just kind of gives you this different gratitude that
Speaker 1: cancels out anything else that you might have felt it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's been a really amazing especially this last six months,
Speaker 1: new house, new baby, Like, it's just been beautiful. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited my home here next year's revolved around
Speaker 4: my best friends are having babies. Genuinely, I was, I
Speaker 4: can't not be here for you and Chris both within
Speaker 4: a month of each other.
Speaker 5: But it's genuinely is revolved around, like.
Speaker 4: Even for ages, I might want to do a stint
Speaker 4: on the Sunny coast, and I said, whatever happens, we
Speaker 4: probably I wouldn't be ready into a twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: because there's a very strong chance that between new Laws
Speaker 4: and Chris, like one of you will get pregnant and
Speaker 4: I really need to be there for that.
Speaker 1: And now it's like at least two out of three
Speaker 1: for now.
Speaker 4: And really back to the first question, yeah, some much
Speaker 4: we'll go to these corrections is what are your holiday plans?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys know, we've had like a couple
Speaker 1: of years of being back and forth from Tazzy a
Speaker 1: lot with my late father in law, so we have
Speaker 1: spent pretty much three years of Christmas in Tazzy, and
Speaker 1: normally we kind of swap between our family. So this year,
Speaker 1: we're just staying here and the kitchen just got finished
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, so we're actually having Christmas
Speaker 1: dinner with our whole family at our place. So that'll
Speaker 1: be like the first so cool family dinner in the house,
Speaker 1: all our aunties. Like it'll be really really nice and
Speaker 1: like it's kind of like our version of a housewarming,
Speaker 1: just having the whole family over for Christmas and then
Speaker 1: we're just we're just hanging around. We're actually nesting. It's
Speaker 1: really nice.
Speaker 5: That's nice. I'm kind of jealous, like I don't want
Speaker 5: to be there for your first Christmas.
Speaker 1: But no, I know there's a scene at the table
Speaker 1: for you and your bedroom is open and ready.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: I haven't even sept in a years. Okay, now back
Speaker 4: to the pregnancy, because I suck at being the MC
Speaker 4: for this. Someone had actually asked a more underscore and
Speaker 4: thirty one asked, how will she manage her leave? And
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that she gets a lot of time before
Speaker 4: for herself and after the baby.
Speaker 1: Oh that's lovely. I love Anna. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the question. It's a really really interesting one, and
Speaker 1: I've spoken actually quite a lot to friends and to
Speaker 1: Nick and Mum about it. I was so worried when
Speaker 1: I left corporate about kind of the sacrifice of maternity leave.
Speaker 1: I really thought that I would feel. You know, that
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest challenges of working for yourself
Speaker 1: is you don't have inbuilt leave and you don't have
Speaker 1: the structure of those kind of periods to deal with
Speaker 1: the financial implications of taking time off and all that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But interestingly, now that I'm getting closer
Speaker 1: to when I would have taken matt leave if I
Speaker 1: was in a company, I actually feel so lucky that
Speaker 1: I've almost landed in a lifestyle where I don't need it,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, Like I've kind of got such
Speaker 1: a flexible like you were talking about earlier, are such
Speaker 1: a flexible working structure where I don't work from an office.
Speaker 1: Everything is quite not spontaneous. But thing, you know, job
Speaker 1: briefs come in and you can ramp them up if
Speaker 1: you really want, or you can ramp them down if
Speaker 1: you need to create space for yourself. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm so fortunate that the market also allows that. Right now,
Speaker 1: the podcast I can do from home, all the radio
Speaker 1: gigs you don't need to be presentable, you know, and
Speaker 1: wear makeup to do those and there are a couple
Speaker 1: of hours here and there. Like everything's very friendly towards
Speaker 1: having a little one, and I feel very, very lucky
Speaker 1: that it's not the concern that I thought it would be.
Speaker 1: That I have sort of sat down with my manager
Speaker 1: and we've made a plan around when the due date is,
Speaker 1: and we're quarantining a couple of weeks before and a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks after to create the space for this
Speaker 1: whole new experience. And who knows what kind of recovery
Speaker 1: I'll have or what you know the baby will be
Speaker 1: like when they're firstborn, Like, there's so many question marks,
Speaker 1: so we have created we've built in sort of maternity
Speaker 1: leave around that little bit of time. But I'm also
Speaker 1: fortunate in that I don't think it would have suited
Speaker 1: me to have six months of no work or twelve
Speaker 1: months of no work and then go all the way back.
Speaker 1: I like the idea that as soon as I feel
Speaker 1: like we have a little bit more balance and flexibility
Speaker 1: and a bit of a routine, that I can start
Speaker 1: to do one job here and there or two jobs
Speaker 1: here and there and dip my foot back in the water.
Speaker 1: And then I also have a husband whose work is
Speaker 1: equally as flexible, so he can work from home, and
Speaker 1: even if he's working, there are two sets of hands
Speaker 1: to just help me have a shower, And you know,
Speaker 1: like we're set up in a way that makes it
Speaker 1: a lot less overwhelming. There's not one of us in
Speaker 1: an office all day and the other one earning zero.
Speaker 1: We're kind of both in the middle where we can
Speaker 1: juggle that whole period depending on what how needy our
Speaker 1: needs end up being. And I just sort of didn't
Speaker 1: appreciate how amazing that is that I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I've lost maternity live now. I feel like I can
Speaker 1: create as much of it as I need. But I
Speaker 1: think my brain will also enjoy going back to smaller jobs,
Speaker 1: probably quicker than I might have if I took maternity
Speaker 1: leave officially, if that makes sense. So short answer, yes,
Speaker 1: creating some space around that and also so leaving it
Speaker 1: open to when we let work trickle back in a
Speaker 1: little bit and how much just like play it by ear.
Speaker 4: I think the coolest thing is that you and Nick
Speaker 4: get to be at home with Bob. That's my I've
Speaker 4: spoken to some family and friends who did join Pat
Speaker 4: Matt leave or both. Yeah, somehow we're able to be
Speaker 4: at home together. That like, it was the best decision
Speaker 4: we could have made because it was.
Speaker 5: That first period.
Speaker 4: Even though the baby doesn't remember much, it was so
Speaker 4: great for all of them.
Speaker 1: And we're so lucky that that doesn't have to involve
Speaker 1: Nick not working, like he can do his job from home,
Speaker 1: so financially, it's not like we cease two incomes in
Speaker 1: order to have that. We have the flexibility to have
Speaker 1: at least him working, you know, as much as he
Speaker 1: is now. And we've also kind of planned around that
Speaker 1: knowing that there will be a couple of months where
Speaker 1: I not income producing. So if anyone has noticed that
Speaker 1: I have not slowed down in this trimester, that's probably why,
Speaker 1: because I'm making the most of the time when I
Speaker 1: can still move around freely and do as many jobs
Speaker 1: as I can physically fit in, because you know, you
Speaker 1: plan ahead for that knowing that then I will also
Speaker 1: get you know, I'll go one thousand percent now and
Speaker 1: then I can calm down sort of next year, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the year was so dismissive. I was not dismissing
Speaker 4: the whole answer. I was looking at the next question
Speaker 4: because I was like, I'm going to stick to the
Speaker 4: baby theme and then we'll go into other themes.
Speaker 1: To make it nice categorization.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I had a question coming to my own box saying, well,
Speaker 4: my eaty bitty titties finally grow if I get pregnant.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh my god, yours are huge.
Speaker 1: They are like huge for me, not huge for like society, yeah,
Speaker 1: and huge for me yeah, like huge for us. So
Speaker 1: the funnest bit is that I don't know about everyone,
Speaker 1: but a lot of my friends in the Eaty Bitty
Speaker 1: Titty committee had their boobs grow before their tell me grows,
Speaker 1: and that bit is so cool. It's just like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like all of us sort of
Speaker 1: have little things where we're like I could be like
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, or I could this could be
Speaker 1: a little bit different. You know, we all have those
Speaker 1: little tweaks we would make in an ideal world, like
Speaker 1: not that it's super confidence crushing or anything, but I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I'd probably like go up like
Speaker 1: one cup size and then it just happens, but before
Speaker 1: you get a tummy. So I was just like, like,
Speaker 1: everyone's like his nick being like loving it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I play with them more, like I am so excited
Speaker 1: because I've never had boobs before, Like it is so
Speaker 1: much fun. And then now I obviously have.
Speaker 3: A belly, but the boobs have kept growing.
Speaker 1: And then apparently when you start breastfeeding, it's just like
Speaker 1: next level but joggers and it's a real For some point,
Speaker 1: I always never had boobs. It is actually a really
Speaker 1: fun time to just be like because normally if I
Speaker 1: do have boobs, it's padding, so they're not real. So
Speaker 1: now I'm just like.
Speaker 5: And then your nipples will be like sauces hugemongus.
Speaker 1: Which they're not, and they're nonsters. They've grown a little bit,
Speaker 1: but the main change has been this is such a teammate.
Speaker 1: The main change has been they've gone so much darker,
Speaker 1: which okay. One of the things about pregnancy for me,
Speaker 1: at least in my particular strange brain, is that every
Speaker 1: day I can't believe the magic of nature that my
Speaker 1: body has never built a human before, and it knows
Speaker 1: how to do it. It knows how to cope with
Speaker 1: two hearts, two livers, like to everything, we have different
Speaker 1: heart rates, and it knows how to do that and
Speaker 1: like it's growing a human from scratch Like that blows
Speaker 1: my mind. But also the fact that my nipples have
Speaker 1: gone darker because when the baby's born, it makes it
Speaker 1: easier for them to find the food sauce like that
Speaker 1: is why, Like, but how cool is that that your
Speaker 1: body figures that out? Like that is so wild?
Speaker 5: A mine dark already because so that my partners can
Speaker 5: find me.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lesbian thing. I think that's actually
Speaker 1: like lesbian nature, lesbian side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, must feel like same sex relationship stuff like everything
Speaker 4: born so dark. Next question, Colour at Purple says, congratulations
Speaker 4: firstly when you do, and what prim are you're getting?
Speaker 1: So we're due first week of April, and that makes
Speaker 1: so much sense because Nick's dad and grandfather were both
Speaker 1: born on April Fools, which really explains a lot of
Speaker 1: their sense of humor. So we're gunning for the first
Speaker 1: pram interestingly. So one of the things that happened, I
Speaker 1: think because of having a loss immediately before this pregnancy
Speaker 1: is that we were a lot more conservative firstly in
Speaker 1: announcing we waited till eighteen weeks, but secondly in allowing
Speaker 1: ourselves to get excited enough to buy things. So our nursery,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in it right now, there's nothing in it.
Speaker 1: We haven't sort of started that setup process because it
Speaker 1: always felt a little bit early, and we just have
Speaker 1: that layer of hesitation that we probably wouldn't have had otherwise,
Speaker 1: which is fine, it's just part of the journey. It
Speaker 1: has meant a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of extra anxiety at certain times, but we have
Speaker 3: literally I'm twenty four weeks yesterday and I.
Speaker 1: Figured we still have enough time to do all that.
Speaker 1: So I actually don't know what PRAM. I still am
Speaker 1: very very new to even all the brand names, like
Speaker 1: it's a whole new lingo. I don't know the cot brands,
Speaker 1: I don't know pram brands. I don't know anything. The
Speaker 1: only thing we have bought is wall decals because I
Speaker 1: saw the cutest Safari animals ever. But otherwise we will
Speaker 1: have to do an updated episode on all the actual
Speaker 1: purchases a little bit further along, because YE had no idea.
Speaker 4: Remember those years ago when I was running Match Maiden
Speaker 4: and I did those.
Speaker 1: Quizzes Pramney bus everyone. So one of the questions was
Speaker 1: what is PRAM short for perambulator, parram something else and
Speaker 1: then pramney bus and everyone said pramney bus.
Speaker 5: It was the funniest thing, and it was like a
Speaker 5: voting thing, and it was like eighty percent of people
Speaker 5: said pramnibus and I was in hysteric. So now I
Speaker 5: just would think pans with primary buses.
Speaker 1: Nick, and I use the word primary bus all the time,
Speaker 1: like all the time since that day.
Speaker 5: I feel like I can't unsee it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a few questions about this baby names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I actually did a poll on my page
Speaker 1: for people to guess to see if anyone guessed it,
Speaker 1: and I have screenshot of them all so I can
Speaker 1: give the people a prize who did or did not
Speaker 1: guess it. We've had some very close guesses and some
Speaker 1: correct guesses for the second name, but not the first name.
Speaker 4: WHOA.
Speaker 1: Yes, we do know. We chose our girl and boy
Speaker 1: names like five six years ago because we have common
Speaker 1: names in both genders on both sides, So as soon
Speaker 1: as we knew that there was a common boy name
Speaker 1: and a common girl name on both of our families,
Speaker 1: it just was sort of automatic. But they're quite traditional,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people thought they'd be
Speaker 1: more quirky, but they're not.
Speaker 4: Okay, that really explains one of these questions, because I
Speaker 4: was like, well, I don't understand the question was Elliot
Speaker 4: John Peter Ivy Lee.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think they put it in the wrong book.
Speaker 5: I have no idea. I have no idea what this
Speaker 5: is about.
Speaker 4: Another maybe related one is will you be having godparents?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Interesting? So I don't think we'll have official like I
Speaker 1: know some of our friends have very formal godparent appointments.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's in the church, sometimes it's like a on
Speaker 1: a naming day or I don't think we'll have that,
Speaker 1: but we will probably have some nominated godparents. Again, we
Speaker 1: haven't really thought about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't really know what a godparent even does.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, I think the idea behind
Speaker 1: it is that if anything happened to you, they would
Speaker 1: be the people who took over guardianship of your child.
Speaker 1: I think that's the Oh, well, obviously it's going to
Speaker 1: be the gay auntes, the guarantees, the guarantees.
Speaker 5: What a silly question.
Speaker 1: So silly. I mean, obviously it would be obviously you
Speaker 1: would be one of them. I think we'll probably have
Speaker 1: like a god group rather than just like often there's
Speaker 1: like one godmother and one godfather, which is what.
Speaker 4: As in god aunties as in me.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I mean gay aunties. No, I know, it's are we connecting?
Speaker 7: Are we connecting? Are we not?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 5: But that's cool, Okay. Next bub question.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of bub questions this question, but I
Speaker 4: think it was already answered in the miscarriage pregnancy episode.
Speaker 4: But the question is was there any difference between your
Speaker 4: first and pregnancy and your second pregnancy?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know. Yeah, maybe I did answer.
Speaker 5: That, but I think we did touch on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess a little bit further along now. So
Speaker 1: the first pregnancy was only nine weeks and we never
Speaker 1: had a heartbeat, so there was a big physiological difference
Speaker 1: in terms of like we didn't get to most of
Speaker 1: the stages we've gotten to this time, and the fetus
Speaker 1: were sort of never viable, so some physiological things didn't happen.
Speaker 1: But overall that nine weeks in terms of nausea, food
Speaker 1: versions were pretty much the same this time around. But
Speaker 1: I think the big difference from zero to nine weeks
Speaker 1: and then or four to nine weeks or whenever it
Speaker 1: starts and onwards has been as I just touched on
Speaker 1: was the extra level of hesitation to celebrate, I think
Speaker 1: was the biggest difference, And like being a bit more
Speaker 1: circumspect about sharing the news, buying things, allowing yourself mentally
Speaker 1: to fully embrace the idea of your pregnancy as a
Speaker 1: child as well. And now we're at twenty four and
Speaker 1: he's kicking wildly and he's got all the organs and
Speaker 1: we know his gender, it's a lot easier to embrace that.
Speaker 1: But earlier on, I think the biggest difference was definitely
Speaker 1: that concern, or that extra level of anxiety. I think
Speaker 1: I said before in that episode that as much as
Speaker 1: it's beautiful to have a completely unhindered, beautiful pregnancy where
Speaker 1: you can take it off for granted and just enjoy
Speaker 1: each step for what it is, I'm not sad that
Speaker 1: we've been more anxious this time, because I also think
Speaker 1: maybe it is better if you do have a little
Speaker 1: bit more awareness around the statistics as well, so that
Speaker 1: you kind of self protect yourself a little bit. Like
Speaker 1: I think it's a healthy anxiety if you don't let
Speaker 1: it consume you and you still allow yourself to have
Speaker 1: joy at the same time, if it's balanced, if.
Speaker 5: That makes sense. Yeah, and it's because you've got a
Speaker 5: good opie and stuff as well.
Speaker 1: It's totally supportive and it hasn't ruined the joy at all.
Speaker 1: Like we've still been incredibly excited. But you can have
Speaker 1: two emotions at the same time.
Speaker 4: I think last pregnancy kind of related one, but then
Speaker 4: it's a good segui into the next Sigi SIGHIII by
Speaker 4: missus Jen Lucas.
Speaker 5: I'm really inconsistent with saying who these questions are wrong
Speaker 5: to apologize?
Speaker 4: Are you worried about your friendship changing when bubb arrives?
Speaker 5: No time for yourself, let alone friend?
Speaker 1: Great question. I think a lot of new mums do
Speaker 1: struggle with this in that they but you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you become a lot more physically isolated because you're not
Speaker 1: out and about as much. I feel very lucky that
Speaker 1: I'm not as worried, particularly because we're not the first
Speaker 1: or anywhere near the first in a lot of our
Speaker 1: friendship groups to have babies. I think that makes it
Speaker 1: a lot easier because your friends automatically know what you're
Speaker 1: going through. They remember what it's like. They have their
Speaker 1: own kids, you know, so they kind of understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the situation that you find yourself in and can
Speaker 1: help by dropping in or making kid friendly dates to
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard when you're the first one and
Speaker 1: the only one in a friendship group that has children.
Speaker 1: So I'm a lot less worried about that because we
Speaker 1: have such amazing friends and we're very lucky to have
Speaker 1: to be surrounded by a lot of fellow parents, And
Speaker 1: that's also just been amazing. In asking questions like the
Speaker 1: whole pregnancy, it's been a lot easier because a lot
Speaker 1: of my friends have done it before. I think that
Speaker 1: is much more of an anxiety if you're the first
Speaker 1: one and you worry that your friends just won't understand
Speaker 1: the life stage. That you're right, And even my friends
Speaker 1: who don't have kids, they're ang who's obsessed with babies.
Speaker 1: So I feel very lucky. Yeah, And I think the
Speaker 1: other thing is as well. With Nick working from home
Speaker 1: as well, it's not like I'll be at home physically alone,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And that's also something that I
Speaker 1: feel very lucky about because I have a lot of
Speaker 1: friends whose partners are in an office out of the
Speaker 1: house for like long stretches of the day, which is
Speaker 1: a lot more isolating than at least having another adult
Speaker 1: in the house with you. I feel very lucky at
Speaker 1: that setup. And then Mum lives around the corner, so
Speaker 1: I think I'm very very lucky in that regard.
Speaker 4: I'm like forcing my friendship at once, sir, because I
Speaker 4: need to spend time with this baby, because I feel
Speaker 4: like some people like I need to see them often,
Speaker 4: and they say that, but I don't know how to
Speaker 4: stress how how really I do mean that?
Speaker 6: I need like I'm just going to pop up, And
Speaker 6: so I was like, yeah, anytime I was like no, no,
Speaker 6: I think you need to really consider saying yes or
Speaker 6: no because I actually am going to just be there.
Speaker 1: I think I already understand that there is no me
Speaker 1: saying yes or no. Since you've had a key to
Speaker 1: the other house since yeah, seven years ago and have
Speaker 1: never announced your arrival.
Speaker 5: It's quite true.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, and I'm going to that question publicly. That's great.
Speaker 5: It's on the record.
Speaker 4: It's on the record if you're listening. Okay, great, and
Speaker 4: then ah, there's another question about Oh. This kind of
Speaker 4: takes us into like friendship questions, the first one being
Speaker 4: how do you know?
Speaker 1: And just quickly we just got a group text from
Speaker 1: Nick saying, why was that so loud? My nipples have
Speaker 1: gotten so dark? Said our neighbors on every side heard that,
Speaker 1: and they're at work in the city and they still
Speaker 1: heard it. I just want people to know, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised how often every time we do a
Speaker 1: question box people ask how we know each other.
Speaker 5: Like, if you want this, if you really want the story,
Speaker 5: this is this true street.
Speaker 1: We need a laminated handout.
Speaker 4: In twenty seventeen, Sarah adopted me from the public toilets
Speaker 4: at Princess Park.
Speaker 5: She said, this girl looks sad.
Speaker 1: She looks like a hobo, and.
Speaker 4: Then she said I need toilet paper and I was
Speaker 4: in the next few books, So here you go, miss
Speaker 4: She said, Wow, let's be friends.
Speaker 5: That's really sorry.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't even remember which episode we spoke
Speaker 3: about it in, but.
Speaker 4: Do you know what? Do you know? What you know?
Speaker 4: I remember where we filmed this one. It was my
Speaker 4: birthday episode. Were in lawn and we pulled up the
Speaker 4: original message I sent you do you remember, and then
Speaker 4: Sam had put this like funny music for funny story.
Speaker 4: So I think find the episode from yeah in February
Speaker 4: two thousand and or.
Speaker 1: You find it and we'll put in the show notes
Speaker 1: for ease.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. Actually, I will do my job. I
Speaker 5: will find it for you.
Speaker 1: Long story shot when not related?
Speaker 5: Yes, that was another question. How are you related?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not related, not sisters as many people assume, but
Speaker 1: basically might as well be, is the answer. And Also,
Speaker 1: I've known and since she was six.
Speaker 5: So that age changes. Every time I knew she was two.
Speaker 1: It's always six. That's one thing in my time scale.
Speaker 1: I get correct, It's always.
Speaker 5: Six, No six or eight, it changes whatever.
Speaker 3: If I knew you when you were six, I would
Speaker 3: also have known you anyway.
Speaker 5: It's true.
Speaker 1: They're not usually.
Speaker 5: Exclusive, which leads a listen to the next question.
Speaker 1: This is the worst episode we've ever made.
Speaker 4: I think that every week, best lash, funniest friendship memory together.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there are so many.
Speaker 4: Obviously has to be Christmas in Alex's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely the year that we
Speaker 1: all went to my late grandmother's house in the countryside
Speaker 1: with a group of our friends and had Christmas and
Speaker 1: Christmas and Newyears No just New Year's. We had New
Speaker 1: Years there, yep. And she is not a big drinker,
Speaker 1: and we had been trying to get her drunk just
Speaker 1: so we could see drunk, and for like a really
Speaker 1: long time, and then this night she was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's do it. We played Gooner Fortune and
Speaker 1: then there was an extra sock and if the sock
Speaker 1: landed on you, you had to do tequila shots. She
Speaker 1: has a lightweight at the best of times, but drunk,
Speaker 1: like half a bottle of a tequila I drank.
Speaker 4: I was like, screw your more if we're gonna go hard,
Speaker 4: and we want to go hard now.
Speaker 5: And it was like six pm. It was six pm,
Speaker 5: and then I was gone by like seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: By seven point thirty, she was face planted like bum
Speaker 1: in air, but face on grass with one gum boot
Speaker 1: where we have no idea where it came from a
Speaker 1: knee brace avocado all over your face because you wouldn't
Speaker 1: eat your dinner. And I have never been more angry.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been angry at you, except
Speaker 1: that dame like seven.
Speaker 4: Pm, youd sport like I never I wouldn't it. I
Speaker 4: barely call it a fight because it was only one
Speaker 4: party was involved.
Speaker 1: It was not awake, and I am going to use
Speaker 1: as the cover of this episode, the photo of you
Speaker 1: with your like hilarious New Year's headband and your face
Speaker 1: down on the grass.
Speaker 4: I actually think the funnier one was me putting the
Speaker 4: torch in my face or trying to eat the avocado
Speaker 4: or something. But I actually genuinely think one of them
Speaker 4: I've realized probably one of the best memories was actually
Speaker 4: probably good Will hunting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: We had weird like it.
Speaker 4: Was unpla and what we were going to do. We
Speaker 4: kind of just had houses that we want to stand
Speaker 4: and everything else. We were like whatever, We'll just figured
Speaker 4: it out between three of us, and we were pretty
Speaker 4: fresh as friends and zan with Nick. But we had
Speaker 4: the best time.
Speaker 1: We were really fresh. Yeah, we wrote so and wrote
Speaker 1: from Adelaide to Melbourne for charity, but it was so
Speaker 1: fun and we just came with you randomly staying at
Speaker 1: airbnb's all along the way.
Speaker 4: And we didn't plan each day what each day was
Speaker 4: going to look like, and we just it became this
Speaker 4: little like weird gap like I was gonna say gap, yeah,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't.
Speaker 5: But it was like eight days, got a little backpacking trip.
Speaker 5: It was just so funny, like out in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: I also loved Cradle Mountain where we went together.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say second, second most mainly
Speaker 4: because that was really funny that I flew across by myself.
Speaker 4: Afterwards their people from the airport and then we just
Speaker 4: did Cradle phrase see and at that time it was
Speaker 4: like literally was like you were a child, really beautifu.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They had this beautiful accommodation that got off it, you know,
Speaker 4: with a fras and a and has that netting that
Speaker 4: you can lie outside and then outdoor bath time you
Speaker 4: can look at them, oh.
Speaker 1: In tazzy like the honeymoon sweet thing. And then we
Speaker 1: took the like school camp lodge so that we could
Speaker 1: have our little baby and with us true.
Speaker 4: Took the school camp lodge because I was gonna be there,
Speaker 4: and we played trivial pursuit, got thumped by Nick, and
Speaker 4: then remember that we went to Crane. We were in
Speaker 4: that we're in that hotel and I was in the
Speaker 4: trundle in.
Speaker 1: The corner of oh my god, yeah we did it.
Speaker 1: We had a one room. It wasn't even too rude.
Speaker 4: It was weird on this like king bed and then
Speaker 4: me on a camping trundle in the corner of the
Speaker 4: same room. And like you think that this was a
Speaker 4: story of when I was twelve, but I was twenty four.
Speaker 1: It was like two years ago.
Speaker 4: It was funnies just like we didn't even think of
Speaker 4: it that we didn't even think that it was at
Speaker 4: all weird or we just did it and it was
Speaker 4: really fun and it was very easy, and yeah, just
Speaker 4: like spontaneous a lot of road trips. We've had a
Speaker 4: lot of road trips. We bought it town.
Speaker 1: One of my other oh yeah, brought it town. One
Speaker 1: of my other favorites though, was when it was your
Speaker 1: birthday and you wanted like, well, all your favorite people,
Speaker 1: we knew you just want to be together and then
Speaker 1: and then we knew that you loved it. Then we
Speaker 1: knew that you love like hills, Andrewly loves hills and
Speaker 1: city skylights and also like being outdoors and picnic but
Speaker 1: being up high so you can see the city lights.
Speaker 1: But it was like a wet weather plan because it
Speaker 1: was raining. So we found this like airbnb that was
Speaker 1: forest themed so that covered like nature and it was
Speaker 1: in a high rise. It was up high in the
Speaker 1: city so you could see the city skyline and then
Speaker 1: we could all have a picnic on the ground in
Speaker 1: this forest and cl themed airbnb where everything was covered
Speaker 1: in like fake grass. The phone had like contact on
Speaker 1: it that was like log colored, and there were log
Speaker 1: pillows everywhere. That was so weird to sorry.
Speaker 4: That everyone could write like the public could write in
Speaker 4: about their experiences there and were it was like I
Speaker 4: could tell it was funny, and then it just got
Speaker 4: weirder and weirder, and then Nick was like.
Speaker 5: I could tell. Nick was like, I'm believing he's trying
Speaker 5: to be very positive for my birthday, but he was like,
Speaker 5: what the heck is his point?
Speaker 3: I'm pretty Oh god.
Speaker 5: Okay, on to the next question. Great question, very reminiscent.
Speaker 1: Of I can't believe if anyone is still listening, they
Speaker 1: deserve a trophy because I'm not even listening at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do random quick fire questions, okay, and
Speaker 1: I'll do cricket.
Speaker 5: I'm going to skim through random questions.
Speaker 3: I'm not very good at one one word answer, so.
Speaker 5: One last longer one, but is how to keep spark alive.
Speaker 4: To live slash work with your bestie as well as
Speaker 4: having long distance s becties?
Speaker 1: You or Nick?
Speaker 5: Is that about well, supposedly we live together. Well basically, please.
Speaker 1: Oh how does SPA get the spark alive? I think
Speaker 1: the best thing about our friendship is we've never have
Speaker 1: to try. And I think that's because you are are
Speaker 1: a spark, Like the spark never dies. Really, it's just
Speaker 1: never been through a lull.
Speaker 5: But I think it's also because.
Speaker 4: We're both pretty communicative, Like we're both like if you're tired, like.
Speaker 5: It's a very but yeah, we are very You're right
Speaker 5: where it is going.
Speaker 4: I'm really sure I was going to get to the
Speaker 4: point where I was going to say the best thing
Speaker 4: about you for me is that I can be like
Speaker 4: we're going to do this random thing. You'll be like, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: In that way, we can ever be very silly.
Speaker 5: And spontaneous, and it makes it fun and funny.
Speaker 1: I think also like you have to have a pinky promise,
Speaker 1: so you have to have like a line in your
Speaker 1: communication where it's like are you just saying that to
Speaker 1: make me happy? Or is that actually how you feel?
Speaker 1: Like that has been a game changer in our friendship,
Speaker 1: is like pinky promise, Like are you really telling me
Speaker 1: how you feel? You're just saying that to make me
Speaker 1: happy because that gets really hard to double guess people
Speaker 1: who are people pleasers. Yeah, but I think also the
Speaker 1: most beautiful thing is being with someone who's really different
Speaker 1: to you, but we both come each other's direction. Like
Speaker 1: when you're like, I'm taking you to an activity and
Speaker 1: you won't know what it is and bring bathers and
Speaker 1: goggles and I usually am like no, I'll just be like, yes,
Speaker 1: I trust you. And same as when I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to make you wear makeup and we're going to
Speaker 1: go out somewhere fancy and you're like okay, cool, Like
Speaker 1: we kind of come each other's direction.
Speaker 5: It's true, it's true. Actually that's a good point again.
Speaker 4: Now, random questions, Yeah, which is more painful holding a
Speaker 4: pooh or we a pooh?
Speaker 1: Who's admitted that is a question?
Speaker 4: Was it you? No? It's odd.
Speaker 5: Well you can tell when it starts becoming people that
Speaker 5: asked on my change because it.
Speaker 1: Was a weird ad oh, I mean pooh yeah from
Speaker 1: my marathon story.
Speaker 5: Definitely poo Sarah and your MBT.
Speaker 4: I I don't really know what that is.
Speaker 5: I think it's like a sixteen personalities test, which we
Speaker 5: probably should do and just put up the answer.
Speaker 1: Oh, haven't done it. Yeah, we should do that.
Speaker 3: We'll do it live in our first episode next year.
Speaker 4: Someone ol mates brother in Brisbane ask how many milli
Speaker 4: liters of water can you hold in your mouth?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, we have to test that live as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should play guests and we'll put up a
Speaker 4: pole on what people think and then I'll go measure it.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then also like how many jelly beans can
Speaker 1: you fit in your mouth?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Because that's fun?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: True?
Speaker 4: True? Actually, how are you so beautiful? Why is your
Speaker 4: girlfriend so hot? I don't know, it's natural. I was
Speaker 4: born like this.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's believe true.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe it's water and soap. Two questions passing any
Speaker 5: community events soon.
Speaker 4: We actually were organizing when we just couldn't larne up
Speaker 4: by the end of this year, but we'll probably have
Speaker 4: it at the start of next year.
Speaker 1: Yes, we would definitely do at least one more yeahhood
Speaker 1: event before bub arrives.
Speaker 5: What is the size of your boob in fingers?
Speaker 1: What in fingers?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Whose fingers?
Speaker 4: Well, this is obviously a question from Jen.
Speaker 5: What is your boob sized? And fingers like? Measure like
Speaker 5: your sister Jen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I say like it's like.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, sorry, sorry sorry. I know why
Speaker 4: she's asking this, because I've just clicked. When I was young,
Speaker 4: I used to walk around being like I have the
Speaker 4: biggest boobies everyone, and then I used to lift them
Speaker 4: up with my two fingers like this and be like see.
Speaker 1: I would say three at this point, Wow.
Speaker 5: That's big. I reckon, mind's still that too. The same
Speaker 5: as when I was telling how many photos such videos
Speaker 5: do you have on your phone?
Speaker 4: On or eye cloud?
Speaker 5: Oh god, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: To look at So I cleaned mine out recently, bim,
Speaker 1: I cleaned it out after clean out, after clean out,
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand, six hundred photos and videos or just
Speaker 1: photos videos three thousand, two hundred.
Speaker 4: My photos and videos combined fifty three thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 1: See my phone like gets to full before I have
Speaker 1: fifty thousand.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've paid for like like unlimited terrbytes
Speaker 5: or something stimulated.
Speaker 1: That you paid for something I know.
Speaker 5: Can you believe that's a subscription?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I can't.
Speaker 4: It's one of the I'm the worst. I start subscriptions
Speaker 4: that I never cancel them. When can we get some
Speaker 4: Judy and Banoi content. I'm going to Vietnam in March
Speaker 4: my sister's wedding, so probably then there is also if
Speaker 4: you could give one piece of advice to your younger self,
Speaker 4: what it would be and why.
Speaker 5: That's a quick fire.
Speaker 4: So that's been quick.
Speaker 1: I would say every chapter, like nothing is a waste
Speaker 1: if you learn from it. Every chapter is part of
Speaker 1: you getting to where you're supposed to be and you're
Speaker 1: not meanted what that is my news?
Speaker 5: Continue and always be unapologetically yourself.
Speaker 1: Can that be the snippet?
Speaker 3: Always be buttlarly yourself?
Speaker 1: Hey, oh my god, we always be yourself.
Speaker 4: That's so good.
Speaker 5: That was really good.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to cut ourselves off.
Speaker 5: Where there's a few more quick bites. I'm just cut
Speaker 5: down to three tips on how to approach house innovations.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, good planning. So in terms of like, before
Speaker 1: you go and lock someone in, do a little bit
Speaker 1: of research on different suppliers, ask people who have done
Speaker 1: it before, or use people before, like, do a lot
Speaker 1: of Pinterest boards research. I feel like being quite organized
Speaker 1: about what you want things to look like can make
Speaker 1: save you a lot of time later. Number two, be
Speaker 1: really communicative with your if you're doing it with your
Speaker 1: partner or a housemate or whatever. Really open communication, because
Speaker 1: it can be a really like everyone has really different expectations,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where things get stressful, is when
Speaker 1: you haven't communicated them. And then yeah, it can get
Speaker 1: really heated and budget always blows out. And I think
Speaker 1: if you're you have a really good strategy for like
Speaker 1: saying what you want out of it. Whose priorities are stronger,
Speaker 1: like there are some things I really cared about and
Speaker 1: some things I didn't, and vice versa, but nicks are
Speaker 1: working those out. And the number three would be always
Speaker 1: put more in your budget than you think, because it
Speaker 1: always ends up being more expensive. So don't like have
Speaker 1: your figure and then that's all you've got, Like add
Speaker 1: a buffer and make sure you have that buffer, because
Speaker 1: once you've started, you always uncover things that you didn't
Speaker 1: think you needed to do.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 5: One being actually okay, three more questions.
Speaker 4: Okay. One person asked, what was your meet you with
Speaker 4: your girlfriend? I'm assuming she's talking about me unless you
Speaker 4: have your friend. We met on the stroke ward. I
Speaker 4: always say this, and she gets really mad. Always say
Speaker 4: we met on the stroke ward and she was a patient.
Speaker 4: She's not a patient. We met on the stroke ward
Speaker 4: at the hospital because we both worked there. We're both
Speaker 4: in the Allied Health team and we work very closely together.
Speaker 4: And then one day I was like, well, she's really cute.
Speaker 4: This is after months of knowing each other, and then
Speaker 4: the rest is history. I shooted my shot. Okay, I
Speaker 4: think you can hear about it also in another podcast.
Speaker 4: We'll have to find that. And then just last question,
Speaker 4: I reckon what to round up this episode that has
Speaker 4: gone very delulu very quickly, Solu is what is the
Speaker 4: most delightful thing to happen this year? And then the
Speaker 4: most cringe thing? Okay, that's a second last that's the
Speaker 4: second last question because I've just found another last good
Speaker 4: last one.
Speaker 1: Okay, My most delightful thing to happen this year is
Speaker 1: our little boy on the way, and specifically, I think
Speaker 1: the first time we heard his heartbeat and the first
Speaker 1: time Nick could feel him kick, they have been like
Speaker 1: just such special moments etched into my mind. The most
Speaker 1: cringe thing, God, there are so many, so many. One
Speaker 1: that's really hard. There's just too many with me around
Speaker 1: my whole life. I don't know. I can't even think
Speaker 1: of one. That's just you can probably think of one.
Speaker 4: It's probably just every time you have to do a
Speaker 4: skit like us bringing that obnoxious light and hose of
Speaker 4: electrical wire to the cafe.
Speaker 1: To a cafe. Yeah, but you know, it's really bad.
Speaker 1: I don't even cringe about that anymore because I'm just
Speaker 1: so used to being like obnoxiously in public, Like I'm
Speaker 1: just so my standards for what people think about my
Speaker 1: bavior is so low that I'm not even embarrassed anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, eh, I don't even know. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't have any really standout like, oh.
Speaker 5: God, cringe.
Speaker 4: Yeah. My only cringe one is that one time I
Speaker 4: went to pick up room is Pooh and I really
Speaker 4: was trying to get it and then the bag ripped and.
Speaker 1: Use did you have to use a cup?
Speaker 4: Was that you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: That was one time with Paul I had to use
Speaker 4: a little protein bar because poo I didn't have a
Speaker 4: food bag. And the highlight is probably even like the
Speaker 4: like the runner up Best and Ferres, which is very unexpected.
Speaker 4: Yeah that was really cool. Yeah and then okay, so
Speaker 4: now last question for real, I promise you guys our
Speaker 4: lovely Katie kill girl very.
Speaker 1: A listener, Yeah, we love Katie.
Speaker 4: Said, what is one lesson you were taking into twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four and one that's staying in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Oh. I think the biggest thing that comes from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three for me that I will take into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four is how and I think I talk about
Speaker 1: all the time anyway on Cca, just how like your
Speaker 1: life unravels in chapters, and like I've been in the
Speaker 1: same one for quite a while and then a really
Speaker 1: really different new one is starting, and that that involves
Speaker 1: so much uncertainty and discomfort, but it's kind of beautiful
Speaker 1: that at different stages of your life, different things will
Speaker 1: matter to you differently. Everything has new meaning and all
Speaker 1: the old things have different meanings, And like, my priorities
Speaker 1: have changed so much already, and I think that's part
Speaker 1: of evolution, Like I think the reminders you're meant to
Speaker 1: be a different person at every different stage of your life,
Speaker 1: and that's lovely when you feel yourself changing and.
Speaker 5: Then something you're going to leave behind.
Speaker 1: I think the flip side of that, like the me
Speaker 1: who put a lot of other things before the things
Speaker 1: that now really matter to me, like health, and being
Speaker 1: healthy enough to have a baby time with my family,
Speaker 1: especially now that we don't live with Mum, carving out
Speaker 1: time to spend with her, like maximizing those moments over
Speaker 1: anything else, which have always been a big priority for me,
Speaker 1: but probably not as much as suddenly since I'm like
Speaker 1: we're on the cusp of having our own family and
Speaker 1: realizing how I don't know how beautiful that is, and
Speaker 1: so much talk about adoption and stuff this year, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, a lot of things have kind of
Speaker 1: reiterated themselves as the things that I really really care about,
Speaker 1: So leaving behind the me that is not the meat
Speaker 1: that's like super career driven. I'm still really career driven,
Speaker 1: but that being like the only thing I really cared about.
Speaker 3: Leaving that kind of like hustle, not leaving it behind,
Speaker 3: but just making it in the passenger seat.
Speaker 4: Maybe Yeah, for a little while, I think mine would be.
Speaker 4: I think I'll probably always bring it with me. Is
Speaker 4: It's a weird one because it's definitely it has probably
Speaker 4: a net positive outcome, but also has negatives to it
Speaker 4: is for me to continue saying yes to doing cool things,
Speaker 4: I feel like it's only really benefited me or enriched
Speaker 4: my life in the past, you know, like being able
Speaker 4: to try new things and do cool things and then
Speaker 4: be adventurous continue saying yes to opportunities has been really
Speaker 4: great for me. And then weirdly at the same time
Speaker 4: that I'll leave in twenty twenty three is actually I
Speaker 4: was going to say, say, protect my time were but
Speaker 4: I feel like this year I've done that very well.
Speaker 5: Is probably I guess.
Speaker 4: Giving too much of my time to things that don't
Speaker 4: better me or something or something.
Speaker 5: Something like that in a more articulate way. I'm sure
Speaker 5: there's more aricula saying that anyway, that's probably is.
Speaker 1: I also think I'll have next year, like more dot
Speaker 1: points to add to the My priorities are changing. But
Speaker 1: I also think, and I hope I'll be a good
Speaker 1: example that, like you can completely embrace motherhood in a
Speaker 1: new chapter and not abandon your career if you don't
Speaker 1: want to as well. I think that blend will be
Speaker 1: really interesting because my priorities have changed, but I'm also
Speaker 1: still smashing work at the same time, so I think
Speaker 1: there'll be heaps of conversations.
Speaker 3: Around the whole, like can you have it all? Like
Speaker 3: what does balance look like like? What that means to
Speaker 3: me next year versus this year. I love how no
Speaker 3: one's gonna understand that joke except me.
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: Well, we made it to the end. I'm very proud
Speaker 5: of you.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we actually did an episode. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a close, so close, it was like two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes more, and I would have canceled for sure.
Speaker 1: In fact, now I'm like, maybe I just should have canceled.
Speaker 5: No, you know, you know, we always think it's silly,
Speaker 5: but it's a good road trip listen.
Speaker 1: And also I think it is a good example when
Speaker 1: people are like, do you guys ever have a lullin energy?
Speaker 1: It's like, just listen to the last episode of the year,
Speaker 1: because yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah every year, this time every year.
Speaker 1: I'm not God, I forgot to even talk about Richard Branson,
Speaker 1: so like separately we had an amazing I don't need
Speaker 1: to talk about it, but just quickly, like just so
Speaker 1: you know, that was so beautiful and so high energy,
Speaker 1: and I slept the entire rest of the day. So
Speaker 1: just never want to give the wrong impression that I'm
Speaker 1: not like crawling to the finish line. I mean, you
Speaker 1: saw me, do you see that where I slept, like
Speaker 1: in the dress that I was wearing with all my makeup,
Speaker 1: I slept for four hours because I was just like, you.
Speaker 5: Cannot anyway beautiful but worth it.
Speaker 1: So we're de Lulu. Merry Christmas, Happy silly season, festive season,
Speaker 1: whatever you celebrate, Happy end of the year. I hope
Speaker 1: you're all reflecting on your year and ready to seize
Speaker 1: your yeah again in twenty twenty four. If you want
Speaker 1: anything new or different from us next year, we have
Speaker 1: no plans. Obviously, we have no idea what we're going
Speaker 1: to be doing. But we are taking a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks off from this week and we'll be interstate and
Speaker 1: we will be with family, and then we'll be back
Speaker 1: like mid Johan. I think so maybe we will have
Speaker 1: done our surprise activities. Maybe not, who knows. I feel
Speaker 1: like this whole the yeahborhood is just surprise and delight.
Speaker 1: It's like, will it.
Speaker 5: Happened on another community event?
Speaker 1: Who knows? Will we be back in January? Won't we?
Speaker 5: Who knows? Is she really? Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1: I hope you're all season you're Yeah, We'll see you
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, And thank you so much for
Speaker 1: listening for this year. It's like a fourth year and
Speaker 1: I still can't believe people are still listening and we
Speaker 1: love you so much.