Speaker 1: I'm straight up like Terry Crews like I be, like
Speaker 1: they're ready for you on set, and I'm fucking out
Speaker 1: the door. Like out the door. I'm proud of myself.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: More More Better, More, a little more better.
Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to More Better, a podcast where we
Speaker 1: stop pretending to have it all together and embrace the
Speaker 1: journey of being a little more better every day, or
Speaker 1: at least trying to. That's mostly from Marrow and that's
Speaker 1: Stephanie Beatrice. And this is a podcast. You know that
Speaker 1: because you put it on you're dragging in or you're
Speaker 1: like cleaning or something, and you were like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to listen to these two hoes talk shit
Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes. Melissa, what have you done lately?
Speaker 1: That's a little more better? Oh, you know what I've
Speaker 1: been doing lately, it's a little more better. Tell me.
Speaker 1: I have been having a routine. I've been good about
Speaker 1: the routine. I've been getting in, the workouts I've been
Speaker 1: getting in, the productivity i've been getting in, the little
Speaker 1: bit of rest time, been get into bed on time,
Speaker 1: been a little anti social. But some has to give.
Speaker 1: Something's got to give, something's got to give and it's
Speaker 1: been really helping me get through. I'm about to leave
Speaker 1: and have anxiety around that. Yeah, so I think it's
Speaker 1: good for that. Routine has been helping me a lot.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. How about you? What have you been doing lately?
Speaker 1: That's more better. I'm about to leave too. I'm leaving
Speaker 1: Cana to go back to LA. You're coming back home,
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving La. We all never see each other. No,
Speaker 1: maybe I have to make a trip to your house
Speaker 1: or something. I just don't want to be annoying and
Speaker 1: show up when you have stuff to do, because I
Speaker 1: understand how that feels. But you can come to my
Speaker 1: house because I know you, and I might do that.
Speaker 1: I might just come by for like a half hour,
Speaker 1: you know, while you take a break or something. I
Speaker 1: have been you know what I did this time? Hot
Speaker 1: tip for parents who are the main sort of working parents,
Speaker 1: and that can flip, you know, depending on what who's
Speaker 1: doing what or when I'm right. But I gave over
Speaker 1: control of packing all of my child's stuff to my husband,
Speaker 1: my sister who is here helping us, and they made
Speaker 1: a checklist and they communicated about it, and I didn't
Speaker 1: do jack shit I packed my own stuff and that
Speaker 1: was it. Oh shit, girl, that's a big one. It is.
Speaker 1: And it was hard. Like a couple of times I
Speaker 1: stuck my nose in there and was like, what about
Speaker 1: this toy? Are we leading this? You know? And they
Speaker 1: were like, oh way, yeah, I get out of here.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yep, you're right, I'm gonna go away.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put my nose in there,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it's been. It has been a source
Speaker 1: of a lot of I've been a lot less stress
Speaker 1: because of that, because I often will try to control things,
Speaker 1: especially at the end of get everything. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: I'm just letting go and you know, letting Jesus tick
Speaker 1: the wheel. So I think that that's a good thing
Speaker 1: for me to do. At this point, I'm getting I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be more better at that's amazing. Good for you,
Speaker 1: Good for you. It's hard to ask for help, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to give up control. It's very hard to
Speaker 1: give up control, especially for me. But it's really good.
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good. It's really good for you. It's
Speaker 1: good for those from my relationship with both of them,
Speaker 1: because it shows them that I trust them, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to be like looking over their shoulders.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, my mom would
Speaker 1: like she'd be like, clean the bathroom, you know, we
Speaker 1: have guests coming, And I'd clean the fucking shit out
Speaker 1: of the bathroom and like work really hard at and
Speaker 1: then she'd come in there and clean it after me,
Speaker 1: and I felt like shit, you know, I was just like, well,
Speaker 1: then why do you ask me to do it? Why
Speaker 1: do I'm not gonna try then? You know? Right right,
Speaker 1: So in this way, I'm showing them like I trust you,
Speaker 1: you know, like we might leave something behind. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: might do it differently than me. You might not do
Speaker 1: it exactly how I would do it. That's the heart
Speaker 1: that that's the hard part. Oh. The vacuum packing that's
Speaker 1: going on is honestly, he's exceptional at it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Brad's like sticking everything in plastic bags and sucking their
Speaker 1: out of them and like prussing the phenomenal pretty phenomenal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: He's already talking about like wanting to buy a vacuum
Speaker 1: packer thing, and I was like, wet'll slow down. We
Speaker 1: don't need I don't think we need that. I don't
Speaker 1: think we need We don't need to be those people.
Speaker 1: But maybe we are, but maybe maybe more better. This
Speaker 1: week we are talking about hobbies, guys, hobbies. What are hobbies?
Speaker 1: You guys don't what they are? There's stuff that you
Speaker 1: do on your own goddamn time, right like that. You're
Speaker 1: not trying to get paid for not just do for enjoyment.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's exactly what it is. Hobbies or stuff.
Speaker 1: You're not trying to get paid for it. You just
Speaker 1: do for fun. You just do because it gives you
Speaker 1: a little like spring in your step, twinkle in your eye,
Speaker 1: fire in your belly. Do you have any do you
Speaker 1: actually have a hobby? Uh. When we said we were
Speaker 1: doing this topic today, my first thought was like, I
Speaker 1: don't have any hobbies. I have a bunch of hobbies
Speaker 1: I've started and stopped, which we'll talk about. But I say,
Speaker 1: I do think cooking is a hobby of mine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do like cooking. I cook quite a bit, and
Speaker 1: I recently, well not recently, but I would say in
Speaker 1: like the last few months, I've kind of you know,
Speaker 1: I go, I go through phases. I think parents will relate,
Speaker 1: parents of small kids will relate where you just like
Speaker 1: you do the menu, you do the things you know
Speaker 1: your kids will like, and you just do the rotation,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of get in these like ruts
Speaker 1: and every day you're like, oh my god, if I
Speaker 1: had to figure out what the fuck is for dinner tonight,
Speaker 1: I fucking murder someone like you get burnt out on
Speaker 1: just like a daily task of like figuring out dinner.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe because I was, well, I know
Speaker 1: what it was. It was summer, I was busy, I
Speaker 1: was working. We also traveled, so I got chunks of
Speaker 1: time breaks from cooking and from figuring out what the
Speaker 1: fuck is for dinner, and that allowed me to enjoy
Speaker 1: cooking and cooking new things or trying a new recipe.
Speaker 1: I also have learned that I really enjoy cooking and
Speaker 1: prepping when my house is empty, like when the kids
Speaker 1: are still in school, Like if I can get home,
Speaker 1: if I can get done with my day or home
Speaker 1: early enough, like even if it's just a half hour
Speaker 1: before pickup, and I can just like chop or like
Speaker 1: start something, or like you know, well, because you're focused,
Speaker 1: you just focused on that you're not parenting at the
Speaker 1: same time, Oh my god, And I'll put a podcast on,
Speaker 1: or I'll put music on, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: lovely is to be jopping an onion while listening to
Speaker 1: a podcast and no totally screaming. I think non parents
Speaker 1: probably have a different experience of hobbies, like there's more
Speaker 1: time for hobbies when and you I think, maybe, well, no,
Speaker 1: maybe we also need hobbies just as much, but we're
Speaker 1: not in touch with the need as much. But I
Speaker 1: feel like I think we need them probably just as much,
Speaker 1: if not more. I mean, people that choose not to
Speaker 1: have kids, I think choose lives that they really really
Speaker 1: like and are full of stuff that is right for them.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like whether it's you know, I have
Speaker 1: a couple of friends who who have chosen to not
Speaker 1: have kids, and like they travel a lot, they go
Speaker 1: see a lot of music shows. My friend that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of right now is in Japan. She's traveling around Japan.
Speaker 1: She recently traveled to Italy. Like, she goes and sees
Speaker 1: a lot of dry and she is always at drag cons.
Speaker 1: I think she went to London for a drag con
Speaker 1: this year. I mean she's constantly just like filling her
Speaker 1: life up with like cool stuff and I think I
Speaker 1: definitely had more time for that when I didn't have
Speaker 1: a kid, like I remember specifically, I really like to paint,
Speaker 1: and it's not something that I find the time to do,
Speaker 1: but the like little kid in me really loved art classes.
Speaker 1: And when actually after my last breakup, before I met,
Speaker 1: I was kind of like dating around and I had
Speaker 1: a lot of free time and I started painting. I
Speaker 1: have all these fashion books and I started painting the
Speaker 1: fashion drawings, like I would just copy the drawing and
Speaker 1: paint them on, like paint them with acrylics or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it was so fun. It was so fun. I
Speaker 1: don't have any space in my life to do something
Speaker 1: in my fat right now. Yeah, I just don't have
Speaker 1: any hobbies now, now, girl, that's not true. Actually this
Speaker 1: is a bad I feel like you're good at read
Speaker 1: like you girl only on planes? Really? Yeah, it's here's
Speaker 1: here's why I read them, Stephen came. Because that's what
Speaker 1: they sell in the airports. Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: That's what they sell in the airports. I am a
Speaker 1: sucker for an airport book because it's two and a half,
Speaker 1: maybe three maybe four hours of an uninterrupted adult time.
Speaker 1: So like you will not catch me watching a movie
Speaker 1: on a plane. I'm always reading a book because it's
Speaker 1: the only time that I have to do it, like,
Speaker 1: and it's so fun for me because I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: just like devouring that is ever funny to me because
Speaker 1: I get so excited to watch movies on planes. Plane.
Speaker 1: I feel like I never have time to watch movies.
Speaker 1: Screen is like this big wait it's yeah, certain movies
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I can I have to wait. I
Speaker 1: can't want to watch that one, but like other ones
Speaker 1: that I'm like mildly interested in and want to see,
Speaker 1: but I know that I don't have the time because
Speaker 1: I've know that's play with the movies that I see,
Speaker 1: because I have such little time to like actually see
Speaker 1: something that's more than an hour long, right right, No, No,
Speaker 1: that I get excited about it, like like sometimes you're
Speaker 1: watching a fun comedy or something on a plane and
Speaker 1: using that time to read it is like so good.
Speaker 1: It has to be a fun book though it can't
Speaker 1: be like you know, I mean for me, it has
Speaker 1: That's the thing about hobbies, right, they have to be fun.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't be out here like forcing yourself
Speaker 1: to do something that you're you're gonna get better at it,
Speaker 1: because to me, that's and you've taken on a part
Speaker 1: time job that you're not getting paid for. That is
Speaker 1: me and gardening a good day of my life, a
Speaker 1: good chunk of my life. During the pandemic, it was
Speaker 1: just like, you will fucking grow. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: a garden the fuck out of this little box that
Speaker 1: my husband bought. I'm gonna have a little mini farm
Speaker 1: out here. This is gonna be amazing. I already have
Speaker 1: like basic knowledge. My mom was an amazing gardener, like
Speaker 1: amazing garden with plants too. I mean she had her
Speaker 1: first of all, she had in her her backyard like
Speaker 1: an orchestra of flowers, so like like from Alice in Wonderland,
Speaker 1: like they sang like when some flowers were blooming in
Speaker 1: certain parts of the garden, Oh the others were fallow
Speaker 1: as they were going away, the other ones were coming up.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's cool. And I was like real brand at all,
Speaker 1: like real gardener. And then she had a vegetable garden
Speaker 1: and she grew these enormous zucchinis and canoes and like
Speaker 1: all the herbs and green beans and strawberries and everything,
Speaker 1: so oh yeah, like really good at it anyway, And
Speaker 1: I'm not, no, I am not. Well, you tried it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the other thing about hobbies rare. They
Speaker 1: feel like you have to try it, try it. I did,
Speaker 1: but I did grow some kale I did grow uh.
Speaker 1: I almost grew some snow peas. But then they shriveled
Speaker 1: up and died. Uh yeah, it just it would give
Speaker 1: like one and then die. And the squirrels are also
Speaker 1: very aggressive. I feel in Los Angeles, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to fight the nature. It's not angels likes the raccoons,
Speaker 1: the squirrels and then the bugs. And then that's when
Speaker 1: I usually tap out. And eventually my husband threw out
Speaker 1: that garden box because they just had a bunch of
Speaker 1: sprouted herbs and lettuce and things with Sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: let the hobby go, like it's just not for you.
Speaker 1: Re the longside. He was like, can I throw this out?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, no, that's mine. Do not
Speaker 1: I know it. I'm a farmer. She could be a
Speaker 1: farmer in those clothes more. I don't know that. I
Speaker 1: like kind of game of farming slash growing things to try,
Speaker 1: but I do feel like some people are just fit
Speaker 1: for you know, one of my hobbies lately is shopping,
Speaker 1: and you are very good at it. And I'm getting better.
Speaker 1: I'm getting better at, like getting better at understanding what
Speaker 1: my closet needs are. I'm getting better at understanding what
Speaker 1: I do and don't use. I'm getting better at, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing how valuable something is to me, meaning I a
Speaker 1: lot of us, you know, for example, like people are
Speaker 1: always like, oh, you need to do like sustainable fashion,
Speaker 1: sustainable fashion, sustainable fashion, right and like, but to me,
Speaker 1: sustainable fashion sometimes means like, yeah, I am going to
Speaker 1: buy this thing that like might be might be necessary,
Speaker 1: might not necessarily be like the most sustainable thing right
Speaker 1: when I buy it, But I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep that thing for probably ten years, So like it's
Speaker 1: better than me buying a new pair of pants every
Speaker 1: year because bus stout or whatever. There's these apps now
Speaker 1: that you can upload your closet into, Like you can
Speaker 1: take pictures of everything, wait and like make outfits and stuff.
Speaker 1: Wait what like send the mess I will. And my
Speaker 1: sister was telling me about this, and I'm dying to
Speaker 1: get back to La to get into my closet. Get
Speaker 1: rid of the stuff that I don't need anymore, that
Speaker 1: doesn't fit that I've been holding on too because I whatever,
Speaker 1: just like let it go. And also like nothing like
Speaker 1: four months away from your clothes that'll make you go
Speaker 1: like I don't really need that. I don't really need
Speaker 1: that thing anymore. You know. I've been in Canada for
Speaker 1: four months. I know what I want to wear and
Speaker 1: what I don't. Yeah, so when I get back, I'm
Speaker 1: like really excited to like go through stuff. And I think, like,
Speaker 1: fashion is a hobby of mine. I enjoy I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say fashion is a hobby of yours for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, you enjoy learning about it and
Speaker 1: up with it, and yeah, it really brings you joy.
Speaker 1: I have a whole file folder on my phone of
Speaker 1: pictures from like this year's like shows that I've I
Speaker 1: want to recreate with like stuff that I already have
Speaker 1: or like stuff that I drifted or whatever that would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a hobby. Anxious as the girl is so fun.
Speaker 1: I love it so much? Is it? No? I know
Speaker 1: it is. It is for you. It is for you,
Speaker 1: and I love that for you, and I love that
Speaker 1: because then you help and I love that free because
Speaker 1: then you help me. Yeah, I do, and you do?
Speaker 1: You do? You know? I Are there any hobbies that
Speaker 1: you always wanted to start or do you know? I
Speaker 1: started in the pandemic cooking and that was really fun.
Speaker 1: I had a menu I would like, you know, do
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I found it really soothing during
Speaker 1: the pandemic because I did have a ton of time
Speaker 1: on my hands. But post pandemic, it is not really
Speaker 1: something that I've been able to keep up. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just don't have the where with all. Man. I
Speaker 1: watch my sister and she like, she'll get cookbooks from
Speaker 1: a library, like from all over the world and stuff.
Speaker 1: She'll like, your sister is an amazing cook, amazing baker
Speaker 1: if you're in La. Actually she does have a secret
Speaker 1: baked baking endeavor called Fakasha Forever, and you can order
Speaker 1: from her and she'll make it. And you ever had
Speaker 1: it's rude, it's really go at. It's it's rude. That's
Speaker 1: how good it is. It's really really fun, it's really good.
Speaker 1: We had people from they were visiting from London and
Speaker 1: they bought it. Really they bought like three and they
Speaker 1: took them back with them. Every time. It lasts like
Speaker 1: one day in her I know, it's so good. Basically,
Speaker 1: just wake up the next day hungover from fakasha because bread,
Speaker 1: it's delicious. Overdid it? We can't? What can you do?
Speaker 1: It's so good, so good. She's really good about you know.
Speaker 1: And I can see her getting I can see her,
Speaker 1: I see antaste her cooking getting better all the time.
Speaker 1: Like the other night we had kimchi fried rice, which
Speaker 1: I'd never had before. I think like she just made
Speaker 1: she had read about it somewhere and made it from
Speaker 1: scratch and it was delicious. She's She's like, I wish
Speaker 1: that I could do stuff like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I went to a phase of
Speaker 1: being vegan and I was really into baking for a while,
Speaker 1: and I would bake like a vegan cakes and pies
Speaker 1: and and and then for a while I had a
Speaker 1: Betty Crocker phase where like the old cookbook and I
Speaker 1: was yah. I think, honestly, I think it was because
Speaker 1: I was in a play that was set in the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. Oh my god, that's hilarious. So I was
Speaker 1: like super into trying to like make a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff from this cookbook and I made some really good pies. Ooh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing about hobbies is like it has to bring
Speaker 1: you joy or or then it's not a hobby like that,
Speaker 1: you're just like trying to it's a part time talking. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was on unpaid job. I was on a dance team.
Speaker 1: This was I was on a comedy dance team for
Speaker 1: a while. And at first it was really fun, and
Speaker 1: then as we went along it was like a great
Speaker 1: hobby because I love to dance. It was really fun.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of other fun women that were
Speaker 1: a lot of them were actresses or comedians. And then
Speaker 1: the rehearsals started being I remember you saying that to
Speaker 1: me specific. I was like, I have rehearsal this time,
Speaker 1: and then this time, and then this time, and then
Speaker 1: we have the game on Saturday. And you were like,
Speaker 1: that's like fifteen hours, Stephanie, that's fifteen hours a week
Speaker 1: for why, Like, what are you doing It's a two
Speaker 1: minute dance on a Saturday afternoon. Yeah, why are you
Speaker 1: guys rehearsing so much? I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's not fun. It's not fun anymore, so I quit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't fun at the band. You know, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. I wanted gardening to be fun. But then
Speaker 1: when the afids attacked my basil. The affids, is that
Speaker 1: what you call them? I thought they were aphids? Or
Speaker 1: are they aphids? I thought so? I thought there were afids.
Speaker 1: I'm probably wrong, probably listen. I like to make up
Speaker 1: ways to say things fed aphid. You say tomato, I
Speaker 1: say you can I grow it. It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1: But then it wasn't fun anymore because I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to get rid of these motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry more more. Having a hobby, this is a
Speaker 1: nerd time. Having a hobby is tied to happiness and
Speaker 1: well being, which great no pressure, no pressure, and don't
Speaker 1: have the time. A study published online September of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three by Nature Medicine suggests that having a hobby
Speaker 1: is good for your health, mood, and more. Researchers combed
Speaker 1: through five large studies involving more than ninety three thousand
Speaker 1: people across sixteen countries, including the US, Japan, China, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of European countries. Participants were all aged sixty
Speaker 1: five or older, and more than sixty percent had long
Speaker 1: standing mental or physical health conditions and they periodically answered
Speaker 1: these questionnaires. But compared with people who didn't have hobbies,
Speaker 1: those who did reported better health, more happiness, fewer symptoms
Speaker 1: of depressure, and higher life satisfaction. The findings were similar
Speaker 1: across all countries. Now, I will say my mom, after
Speaker 1: my dad died, she had a really hard time for
Speaker 1: a while. And then when she came to live with
Speaker 1: us for a little bit in LA, she immediately found
Speaker 1: a church that was nearby and that she could walk to,
Speaker 1: and she started volunteering with them. And she has like
Speaker 1: a whole group of friends now in LA that are
Speaker 1: all from her church. And she's got like a little
Speaker 1: ladies group and they like volunteer and they do like
Speaker 1: a good rash sales for the church or like fundraisers,
Speaker 1: or they'll go and like do like canvassing or you
Speaker 1: know whatever. They're just doing a bunch of stuff. And
Speaker 1: like that's her her hobbies. Yeah. I love belief and
Speaker 1: her faith and her desire to like be involved in
Speaker 1: her community and in through church. And I think that's
Speaker 1: really it's really good for her. She really like she
Speaker 1: feels like she has a purpose. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of like people, you know, I mean we talk
Speaker 1: about how busy we are right now because we have kids,
Speaker 1: but there is going to be a time when we
Speaker 1: choose to retire. Yeah, our kids are gone, our kids
Speaker 1: are out of the house, and like what are we
Speaker 1: going to fill our time with, you know, right, And
Speaker 1: it's important to still have like purpose and joy and motivation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting to think about, right, like
Speaker 1: like what am I going to do? And and you know,
Speaker 1: as somebody that doesn't go to church, I don't go
Speaker 1: to church, and you know, I have no issue with
Speaker 1: people that desire that, but I want to have a
Speaker 1: form of community in my life, right, especially when I'm
Speaker 1: older and I'm not going to be working as much.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting to think about like how you start
Speaker 1: to like fill in the world of hobbies, like as
Speaker 1: you get older, you know, things like I mean taking
Speaker 1: I would love to take a painting class, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to like a still life painting class
Speaker 1: or something, or like be one of those like cool
Speaker 1: ladies that has her sketch pad at the art museum
Speaker 1: and it's just like sitting there for two hours in
Speaker 1: front of something copying it. That is something I share
Speaker 1: that love with you. I used to go to painting
Speaker 1: classes as a kid, and it was like I just
Speaker 1: loved it. I didn't have any aspirations for like I'm
Speaker 1: going to do this as a job one day. I
Speaker 1: just love doing it. I have artists in my family,
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was, you know, like contributing
Speaker 1: to the family legacy or something. You know. I can
Speaker 1: kind of paint and so I'm you know, keeping it
Speaker 1: up for the fam. And yeah, and I miss it
Speaker 1: and I and I like you, I wish I had
Speaker 1: the time or the space too, you know, so relaxing
Speaker 1: painting the Huntington. The Huntington sometimes does like painting classes,
Speaker 1: so like when you're back, we should do one together.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just for like an afternoon where they're like
Speaker 1: they'll they take you around. Like the Huntington is a
Speaker 1: big I guess, like with the Botanical Party. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's got like multiple buildings and like lots of gardens
Speaker 1: and stuff in Pasadena in California. And they sometimes do
Speaker 1: them because I'm on their mailing list because I'm a member,
Speaker 1: and they sometimes do like classes and stuff. I sign
Speaker 1: up for one once and I couldn't go because I
Speaker 1: got a job. Ah, but we should do one and
Speaker 1: be real. Lakma has little like a little that little
Speaker 1: kids area too where you can do because I had
Speaker 1: actual sew into art and he actually I took him
Speaker 1: to Lakhma recently for the first time. Oh was he
Speaker 1: so into it? He was so into it. Did he
Speaker 1: like those cars? The car exhibit thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I don't think they had that. Oh
Speaker 1: there's like that big installation that's like those tiny little
Speaker 1: cars that are like constantly moving. Oh and it's like
Speaker 1: a city with all the yeah yeah, urines and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he did think that was cool.
Speaker 1: But he was honestly into the paintings more. Oh and also,
Speaker 1: by the way, when you go to a museum with
Speaker 1: a very little child, the security guards will stock you
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that they don't touch anything. Oh. But
Speaker 1: then so it was so weird because you know, I
Speaker 1: just had that feeling of like someone watching me watching
Speaker 1: all the time. Realized the security guards it's really funny.
Speaker 1: But then we got in a couple of compliments because
Speaker 1: they were like, she so well behaved, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: which I also like like that, yeah, exactly. I hate
Speaker 1: compliments like that because it's actually a comment about other children.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, because he's into this and
Speaker 1: he actually really loves this. Right, if he hated it,
Speaker 1: he'd be like fucking bounce them off the little Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But uh but yeah, so I'm I'm trying to start
Speaker 1: to take him to like art classes. Also, that's cool,
Speaker 1: so I can paint something next to him. That's really cool.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. You know. Part of the reason I
Speaker 1: know that I want to paint again is because Roz
Speaker 1: got these little sugar skulls. They were like porcelain sugar
Speaker 1: skulls with a little paint set, and she was like
Speaker 1: into it for the first like half hour or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then like I could feel myself like ching to
Speaker 1: be like to like finish it. Try Like I was,
Speaker 1: could I try one? Can I paint a little bit?
Speaker 1: And then like she's like off doing something and I'm
Speaker 1: like sucking, you know, my eyes and ship and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is my kid's thing, Like I
Speaker 1: should common dear. This feels feels like I'm messed up
Speaker 1: here somehow, At least I like kind of thought about it.
Speaker 1: I remember my mom fucking taking my like gingerbread house,
Speaker 1: I'm like fixing it. I'd be like, oh god, yeah
Speaker 1: I would do that ship too. Yeah up, just let
Speaker 1: them let it, I say, as I like took it
Speaker 1: from her, I was like, do need that? No, I
Speaker 1: do that too. But when it's Axel, he will be like,
Speaker 1: don't you dare, don't touch myself about my creation. That's
Speaker 1: really funny and great. Yeah, he has like strong ownership
Speaker 1: over anything he like draws or paints or oh that's
Speaker 1: o good. He's always been like that. It's crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: very interested to see how it manifests when he's yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, more better all hobbies thereby have Maybe we
Speaker 1: I feel like hobbies honestly, I kind of want to
Speaker 1: give more time and energy to hobbies. And just even
Speaker 1: like talking about it a little bit was kind of exciting.
Speaker 1: I kind of forget that they're there. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we get so busy that we get that like, this
Speaker 1: is also something that we can do for ourselves. Because
Speaker 1: everybody talks about self care is like a massage or
Speaker 1: a nap or whatever, but likes to we can do Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is also like so good for them for
Speaker 1: the mentals scratches your brain in a way. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like a good reminder. This is a good I liked this.
Speaker 1: I do feel more better. I feel more better, especially
Speaker 1: about like going home and having some free time to
Speaker 1: explore what I want to do with myself. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that things are going to do to your closet. Girl,
Speaker 1: It's going to be hectic up in there, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be giving away some stuff, some periodic text updates. Oh,
Speaker 1: you want to get on the journey. You will get
Speaker 1: them excited for that. Okay, you'll get them all right.
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