WEBVTT - Things Making Us Happy Now: Fall Edition EP 429 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:09.720 Hi. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.840 I'm Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.440 and speaker. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.560 And I'm Sarah Hart Hunger, a mother of three, practicing physician, 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.040 writer and course creator. We are two working parents who 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.000 love our careers and our families. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.360 Welcome to best of both worlds. Here we talk about 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.360 how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.360 From figuring out childcare to mapping out long. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.200 Term career goals. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.320 We want you to get the most out of life. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.760 Welcome to best of both worlds. This is Laura. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.000 This episode is airing in late October of twenty twenty five. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.840 This is going to be one of our What's making 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.800 Us Happy Now sort of an all love of the 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.520 Week episode. We're calling this What's Making Us Happy Now 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:00.600 Fall edition, so just as a little thing that are 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.920 bringing us joy in this particular season. But we know 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.520 that we both come across as reasonably upbeat on this 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.960 podcast by design. That's one of the things we hope 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.679 to bring to you as you are commuting to work, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:20.640 as some you know, fun to listen to. However, our 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.960 lives are not universally that way. We have both had 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.840 some recent stretches of feeling a bit low. Some of 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.680 that cannot really be talked about. Will apologize for the 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.679 vague podcasting here was it called like vague booking? 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.479 Was that the old word for Facebook, Sarah? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:39.400 So it'd be like vague, vague casting, vague blogging, vague blogging. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.160 But when that happens, like Sarah, what do you do 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:42.560 when you. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.520 Are in a chronic bad mood to try to get 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.840 yourself continuing forward? 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.480 I mean I do lots of things, but sometimes I 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.240 like to just wallow in it. I mean there can 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.559 be some value in that, not on the podcasting, Mike, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.440 but just in life. And that is sort of just 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.080 like letting you feel the feelings and maybe indulge yourself 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.520 in like the music that is like sad and like Okay, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.080 this afternoon, I'm just gonna sit on the couch and 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.200 eat some chocolate or whatever, you know, So that sometimes helps. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.400 And then one thing I read about that I think 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.320 I do, but I didn't have this cute term for 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.840 it is like having lily pads, but like focusing on 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.360 things in the future that are going to be different 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:23.919 or fun. I know I do a lot of that 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.360 when I am doing one of my call weeks and 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.359 call is not It's not like about being down in 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:28.760 the dumps. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.400 It's just more difficult. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.000 It's a week at a stretch where I'm working more 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.520 hours than I would prefer to do any job and 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.840 can be interrupted at any time. And again I've come 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.480 to just understand, like, I appreciate that that is part 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.200 of what I do and accept it for the time being, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.639 but I definitely need to focus forward to get myself 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.359 through and think about like one of the fun things 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.520 I'll get to do when I'm done. And actually, on 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.280 my past call week, I think around day four, I'm like, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.960 I am booking a pedicure and I'm booking a massage. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.960 And I actually booked the pedicure for my last day 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.440 of call because I knew I could do it all 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.400 my way home, and that's something I can do while 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.200 on call because I can answer the phone while I'm 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.360 getting my toes done. Not as easy while you're getting 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.919 your hands done, but your toes, yes, say. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.280 The massage wouldn't work like if you're supposed to text 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.400 back within a few minutes. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.040 Yeah, correct. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.560 So I booked the massage for the week after call, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.560 so i'd have that to look forward to because I 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.400 have to have my phone off during that to enjoy 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:25.799 the experience, and I can't do that on call. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.200 So yeah, absolutely, yeah, No, I like to plan in 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.960 fun stuff too. I mean I got my daughter to 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.280 go apple picking with me, even if no other kids 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:36.840 wanted to. I was like, I really want to do this, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.240 so I like promised to trade off. I would bring 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.080 her to Brandy Melville and she would go apple picking 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.160 with me. You know, just getting outside for fresh air 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.080 is always helpful, going for a walk or something, going 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.240 to bed, because sometimes things look better in the morning 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.440 reading a magazine. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.600 I don't know. I enjoyed doing that on my hammock 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.600 when it's possible. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.720 If it's in the evening and I'm not going anywhere else, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.080 I might have a nice craft beer. It's always a 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.640 feel a little bit better moment as well, exactly. But 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.360 this is a list of things that we are enjoying 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.200 right now. Love of the week for fall. So Sarah, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:16.400 I thought it might be better if we kind of 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.680 interspersed with each other. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.400 Yeah, we kind of. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.880 Our notes are back and forth, sort of pasted after 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:22.320 each other. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.080 But nobody wants to listen to me talk for fifteen minutes. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.240 So what do you have all right? You want me 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.839 to kick it off? Well, the first thing kit I 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.200 have on there. Oh my gosh, this is a very 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.400 nail nail centric episode. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:37.640 Talking about my pedicure, Well, I ordered a flash many system, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.760 meaning one of those manicure systems. It has a light 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.600 so that when you polish your nails, you put your 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.280 hands under the light and it quote cures it. There's 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.200 a lot of controversy over which lights are safe and 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.280 which are okay. And one of the ingredients in these 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.479 types of manicures has actually been banned in the European 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.479 Union and that was kind of like all over the place. 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.400 Right after one of my kids, well it was Anabel, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.280 right after my daughter had purchased a kind of I 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.599 don't know branded gel manny system. So I was like, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.400 you know what, let me resource this a little bit. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.560 And I found a few brands, which are they have 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.240 ingredients that are approved in the EU, so at least 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.400 they've passed. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:12.800 Some sort of bar. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.440 And again I don't know how toxic these ingredients truly are, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.719 but also manicures are very optional, so like, why not 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.159 pick the one that perhaps is vetted a little bit more? 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.120 So I ordered it one called Manicurist. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.560 I have no affiliation whatsoever, but I'm like really pleased 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.520 with I was pleased with how the toxic one work too, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.039 by the way. I was like, Wow, this is magic 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.640 if I can do this in my house. But the 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.440 less toxic or at least supposedly less toxic version from 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.200 this other brand, seem to work just as well. Now, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.280 my daughter did not like it just as well because 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.640 it looks more like a regular manicure, like it doesn't 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:44.920 have that. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:45.840 Sick gel look. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.479 But it did set in one minute after applying it 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.320 when you follow all the steps, and so I didn't 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.159 mess it up, and it's going a week now and 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.760 it looks really good. So yes, that is my long 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.360 winded fun love right now, which is the Manicurist Green 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.640 Flash many System interesting my llac nails. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.080 I like nails. They look very nice. They look nice. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.440 Yeah, I can't keep polish on my nails, so I 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.400 don't even bother, which probably says to me a reasonable 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.919 amount of time, although you know it's a never I 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.919 don't know. My daughter and I have never gone do 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.760 like Manny or Petties things together. Maybe that's something she'll 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.840 be writing a book about later about how I never did. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.440 But oh well, so I don't have a whole lot 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.080 of indulgences. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.200 In that category, I guess. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.920 But one thing I do I spent a ridiculous amount 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:37.320 of money on is Ellmis Creams. So this brand, I 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.360 don't know, there was like a freebie. There was one 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:40.599 in the Allure of beauty Box, but. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.760 You started with the beauty Box totally. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.279 My daughter is pretty much completely taken over now, but 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.560 I was still getting some of it then. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.280 And so I have this. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.080 The day cream is the Marine cream, I guess, and 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.920 then the evening one. The night one is this pillow mask. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.840 It's like a pillow pep tie, whatever it's called. So 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.720 you put that on at night, put the Marine cream 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.040 SPF one on during the day. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.080 It's just, you know, it feels very indulgent. Maybe it 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.520 makes my skin better. I don't know. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.480 There's a lot of psychological stuff with this, I am sure, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.880 but who cares? 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.280 But who cares? It's fun. It's fun. I like it. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.560 That's making me happy right now. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.280 And it'd be nice to simplify to like one brand 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.760 that you enjoy and then just kind of like don't 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:25.400 have to think. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.280 Yeah, actually this weekend, I pulled everything off my counter 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.240 and out of the basket that was on my bathroom 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.360 shelf except the stuff that I use every single day, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.280 and so other stuff is now in the cupboard. And 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.520 I threw out a lot of trash and expired stuff too. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:40.680 But it's goods. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.920 Like I use four like makeup products during the day, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.360 and I have two creams, and then I have my 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:53.160 my Nexium, so my contact lens stuff. Yeah, my toothpaste. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.520 I guess of face wash, but yeah, that's it. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.920 I like it. It's minimalist, it's functional, it works. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.160 Yeah yeah, and it's fun to have a lot less clutter. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.080 All right, Well, so have Sarah, all right? 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.360 Next on my list. These are really not in any order, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.560 but who cares? My sticker printer? Oh my gosh, so 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:10.480 I ordered. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.040 I did some research on various planning sites, et cetera, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.720 because I used to have the Kodak Step, which is 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.320 a sticker printer that printed on zinc photo sensitive paper, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.640 and I used it to you can use a phone 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.240 app and print out little pictures and I would put 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.880 them in my five year journal and they look good. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.280 They don't look great. They're a little greeny. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.560 I think they're fading a little bit with time, and 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.520 I'm like, I gotta and it stopped working, the app 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.080 stop syncing with my phone entirely. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.840 I tried resetting, I tried all kinds of things. I 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:38.520 was like, I give up. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.760 So I decided to look for what's out now and 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.760 came across a different kind of category of printers that 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.240 instead of using this photo sensitive paper, they actually use 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.400 actual ink. So it's like a little, tiny little printer 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.959 in a box that has these little ink cartridge is 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.000 like inkjet or something. And I chose the Cannon Selfie. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.400 It is so much better. It's so much sharper and crisper. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.000 The app is easy to use. I can print like 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.640 little seasonal collages of what's going on. I could even 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.520 print like book titles, so I could do like little 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.679 stickers with like a book cover my planner if I 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.960 wanted to track reading in a fun visual way. I 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.360 love my sticker printer. It just brings me a lot 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.800 of joy. And yeah, I chose the it's the Kenon 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.520 Selfie QX twenty. I believe it's the one I have excellent. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.800 Well, this is the time of year when many of 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.400 us start ordering our twenty twenty six planners our planners. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.720 For the next year, whatever that happens to be. So 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.000 I recently. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.840 Indulged in buying the plumb paper notes and Days for 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.040 twenty twenty six. I definitely do not use all the planners' functionality, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.680 like I don't use the calendar in it. I don't 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.120 use the daily to do list thing in it. I 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.120 have a regular notebook that I just do for my 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.800 daily to do list, and I use a different calendar. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.280 But that said, I like opening a new page every 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.640 week and making my weekly priority list in the planner, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.440 and I enjoy the cover. I almost never have the 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.000 cover even visible anymore, like on the desk. You know, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.520 it's folded over to whatever week it is, and so 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.800 I don't see the cover. But I have fun with 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.480 the art on the cover, and it has a nice 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.280 LV for twenty twenty six for it, So it's it's mine. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.040 It came in the mail recently. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:21.280 I love it. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.360 There's a lot of ritual in like ordering that next 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.920 year's planner, and you know, why not get into it. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.160 There's so many great options out there. You can find 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.880 a planner to suit almost any of your preferences. You 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.760 love that layout of the days on the left and 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.120 then like a blank page on the right. So I'm 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.480 excited for you to have your next generation of plannets. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.480 Yeah, all right, Well we're gonna take a quick ad 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.640 break and then we'll be back with more of things 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:57.920 we are loving now. All right, well we are back 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.240 talking in all Love of the Week episode our fall edition. Sarah, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.199 what else is on your loves of the Week list 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:05.800 right now? 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:06.559 Yeah? 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.280 So I am enjoying pilates, which was kind of a 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.200 goal of mine to figure out I don't know, in 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.360 addition to the strength training that I already do at home, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.800 just another exercise outlet that's different from my prior running days. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.280 And honestly, I thought about trying pilates even then, but 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.400 now I have a lot more time to do it 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.200 since I'm not running, and so I chose the studio 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.400 closest to my house, which turned out to be Club Pilates, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.559 and I can get there in like seven minutes and 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.559 it's nice, it's relaxing. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.280 I think I. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.000 Will enjoy it even more once I go up a 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.760 level so that it will become a little bit more challenging. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.600 But I just like having a place to go. I 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.760 like the instructors, I like the vibe, and I like 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.000 that it fits into my schedule on the days that 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.200 I don't drive at tend to go to classes, and 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.800 I can just kind of like have mornings that are 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.400 more focused on me versus the other three mornings of 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.440 the week are focused on the kids, which both are great, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:56.760 but it's nice to have both. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.960 What do you mean, move up a level? So there's 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.320 different levels of lunch for Pilates. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.120 Club Pilates has like I mean, this is just specific 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.200 to that franchise, but like they have level one level 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.240 one point five to and you don't get to decide, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.920 Like I can't just be like I'm I have to 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.000 ask for permission to at least that's how it works 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.760 at our studio to like move up a level. So 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.360 I'm planning on asking before I book my You know, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.440 we're recording this in September, the end of September, but 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.360 hopefully by the time you're hearing this, I've been granted 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.080 my permission because I'm. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.360 On the next level exactly. Oh my gosh. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.480 It's like the kids gym where to get to start 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.599 to do parkour two versus park worps. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.240 Yes, it's like that. Yeah, it's like that. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.199 Okay, Well, in the hobby realm for me, I am 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.680 enjoying singing in a second choir. So longtime listeners know, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:47.520 I join my church choir about eight years ago, right 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.600 around the same time that this podcast started, in fact, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.400 and I've enjoyed that immensely. But I decided last year 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.600 to start singing with another choir that meets in downtown 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:02.520 Philadelphia and is doing you know, they sang the back 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.240 me Bine our Mass, which is why I originally joined, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.559 but I've enjoyed the other stuff they've done too. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.199 It's a little bit more challenging, I would say. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.800 And we are doing the Howls Requiem as part of 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.880 our next concert, which will have happened by the time 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.280 you were listening to this. But you know, I sang 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.680 that with my church's chamber choir eight years ago. So 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.559 it's a fun, little full circle moment where I sing 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.080 the same pieces with different choirs and I get to 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.600 feel like a seasoned choral musician, even though it's kind 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.200 of ridiculous to be spending two evenings a week on 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:37.960 choral music. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:39.240 Not if you like. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.120 It, it is not easy to fit it in. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.040 Let's just put it that way. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.600 It is a lot of evenings for my interest, but 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.480 it will it's not every we don't meet during the 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:50.520 summer for either choir. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.720 I was gonna say it's probably seasonal. It's seasonal. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.600 And then the Downtown Choir actually takes significant chunks of 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.240 time off, like they do a concert cycle that's like 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.880 five weeks, and then take a week or two off 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.719 and then do another one, and then we take all 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.640 of January off, so it's not as many rehearsals per 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:07.800 year as one might imagine. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.439 Well, I like it. It's like your sport. It's my sport. Yeah, absolutely, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.160 it's my sport for sure. All right, what do you have, Sarah? 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.760 All right? This one? Okay? 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.640 I said the Apple redesign. Apple came up with a 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.760 new operating system, number twenty six. I just did the upgrade. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.440 I said, it's pretty. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.320 I'm not sure it's pretty. I like, I don't know. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.800 I think it's a little busy. Actually. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.600 Upon further reflection, however, I love that they have now 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.680 added an app called Preview, which does what was already 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.840 doable in Apple Notes, but I think it does it 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.760 even more elegantly. Because we love having the feature where 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.800 you can just scan documents straight on your phone and 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.400 then email them or a up wherever you need to go. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.760 And I used it in Apple Notes, but I found 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.120 it clunky that I couldn't just like scan my document 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.480 not within the notes ecosystem, Like what if I didn't 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:56.800 need it in Apple Notes and then I have to 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.120 like pull it off of notes or whatever. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.240 So I think this is fanas past. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.040 So I don't know about the whole esthetic clear glass 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.640 situation and the flashes when I'm texting. If you have upgraded, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:08.720 you know what I'm talking about. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.640 But I do like previews. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.240 All right, Well that is good, Well, thank Apple for that. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.400 I'm going to go totally non tech and I'm going 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:23.680 to say botanical gardens in the fall. So many people 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.640 think of botanical gardens as a spring thing and that 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.760 is when peak crowds will come, but many also have 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.600 a season for the fall because there are a lot 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.800 of fall blooming flowers. It turns out that this is 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.560 an evolutionary strategy that some number of beautiful flowers employ, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.440 and the upside of fall flowers is that the backdrop 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.080 against the fall flowers is also more colorful, so you 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:53.840 have these interesting juxtapositions of like yellow flowers with orange 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.800 trees behind them and purple asters with yellow oaks behind them, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.680 and so you get these different dift color combinations that 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.080 you just don't in spring, where the back color is 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.120 all mostly green. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.960 So I find that esthetically fascinating. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.680 So I would heartily encourage people, if they have botanical 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.600 gardens near them, to go visit. Some close for winter, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.480 but they often are still open into the fall. I've 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.800 been going to Chanticleer, which is about twenty minutes from 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.600 my house, so that can be a long lunch if 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.800 I wish it to be. And then I went to 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.680 Longwood Gardens the weekend before we recorded this. That was 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.560 a lot of fun to walk around there. See there 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.160 are lily pads, Sarah, speaking of lily pads, things to 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:38.880 look forward to. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.480 They have a whole display of lily pads. Oh yeah, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:41.800 we went. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.080 I saw it when we were there in July. I 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.720 love those lily pads. I mean, don't miss those lily pads. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.800 They're pretty impressive. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.560 It turns out lily pads can get quite large, and 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.240 so you could definitely envision yourself leaping from lily pad 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.480 to lily pad as you are trying to get through 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:58.920 a low moment in your life. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.880 Yeah, if you're in the Philadelphia area, check out Longwood Gardens. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.920 It's beautiful, all right. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.720 My next one is not really seasonal, but who cares? 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.639 Ice cream Fridays We've just designated Friday. My kids always 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.000 ask me of ice cream, and like, we don't have 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.720 ice cream every night. Partly I don't want to stalk 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:15.720 the house without much ice. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.520 Cream like all the time. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.159 But Fridays is like ice cream night, and then we 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.919 can look forward to it and make sure we have 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.000 fun ice cream at home, different bars that people like, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.040 different flavors, whatever, or every once in a bloom moon, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.600 won't go out to Dairy Queen or something like that. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.000 But I just like the concept. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.560 I'm not saying we would never have ice cream on 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.800 any other night, but I'd like looking forward to it 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:33.600 on Fridays. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:34.880 Would we were at the beach. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.680 We have our favorite ice cream place at the beach. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.280 We went basically every night while we were there. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.720 Ice cream today, ice cream Tuesdays. Yes, I know, well 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:43.080 we won't. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 You know, we would never go out for ice cream otherwise, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.399 like and most people don't even eat it here, like 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.199 I don't know. We don't really buy it here, so 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.520 it's just like a fun beach treat. We like, indulge 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.440 in ice cream for two straight weeks and then let 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:56.040 it gets it. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:56.919