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So what's up, everybody. Welcome for another great week for crying out
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we also had her on our Thursday show, which was really interesting and insightful
mind of a teenager yeah yep, talk about depressed, depression and medication and
now she was really good school stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun
but a good So we had a good week, so tune in. Yeah,
but first let's say hi to our pete. Yeah we got Aaron Land
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Christy Bishop, thank you for our Christy be not Christy Krishap. Sorry we
were talking about Christy Bishop before the Yeah, Christie b thank you so much
for our gifts. Are you got us these great she made us these pillows.
I'm gonna put a picture of them on Should I put it on our
old Instagram or do I put it on our new Instagram? You can put
it on our new one. Two. I'll probably just cut this clip too
so everyone can see. Oh okay, she made us a pillow, a
cunt pillow and for crying out pillow. And they they really go very well
in studio years. They pop up against the couches, they really do.
And also as a little bonus, she made us a little rooster pillow,
which is just adorable. I took some pictures. I love it. Oh
my gosh. Exciting. Yeah. So I had a nice Sunday yesterday.
I was at the house with the kids this weekend and you know, like
I say, it's their senior year and I'm trying to do as much with
them as possible as you as a mother would with a with two seniors,
because they don't want to hang out with their mom very much. They're always
busy. Everybody's always got something going on. So Saturday, they both went
to the same party. They went to some party on Saturday. So Saturday
I was bored. So I was like, you know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna go to the grocery store and I'm going to make I'm gonna
make Sunday dinner, but i'm gonna start making it Saturday. I'm gonna marinate
chicken. Wow, that's right, motherfucker's you're a go getter. I was
a go getter this week. I was like, oh, look at me,
you know, I was like feeling good. I'm gonna like, I'm
gonna get ahead of it. I'm gonna marinate. So I have that in
my head too all the time, Like whenever i'm doing something that feels very
like, oh, I'm momming it up, like I do, have that
like congratulatory a parade, I'm like, look at it's like just to be
just to act like a lot of people act normally. I'm like, look
at me, shopping ingredients at the grocery store, planning ahead, making a
meal. Hey yeah, congoline for one. Yeah, I'm making chicken and
a salad. Okay, all right, right, set on everybody. The
sides. I went back and forth with the side I'm gonna do this side.
No, I'm gonna do this size, No, I'm gonna do this
si well, all she's got a sore mouth from her wisdom teeth, so
I can't do corner in the cops. So never mind that side. Now
I'm back to the side. But at least I knew what the main dish
was. So so I went and I got chicken. I got the I
got I got the uh, the the not the breast, the thighs,
just the thighs, boneless, skin less thighs. And then I got uh
drumsticks. But I got drumsticks with the bone and the skin. I was
just trying to mix it all crazy. Yeah, you're trying a little bit
of what's gonna happen right right enis but then you got drumsticks with the skin
on. Yeah, no, woman, all right, crazy right, a
little bit of this and a little bit of that. You're in the grocery
store with two kinds and people are like, what are you do with that?
You're like, I'm going, what do you want from me? I'm
gonna get both. So I did. I got, so I got home
and then I made my own because I know both of the kids. They
both don't like the same things. So but I one thing I do know
is they like lemon chicken. Oh, but they've been eating a lot of
Olga's lemon chicken that she's been making with her own whatever. And I haven't
made lemon chicken in a long time. So I we have a lemon tree.
I was like, I'm gonna make lemon Chickeny you got a lemon tree.
Yeah, I got a lemon tree. I didn't even have to buy
the lemon. I think our last show, you really planned ahead. I
grew in my like ten years, planted a lemon tree. You're like,
I'm gonna freaking show that Stephanie in ten years. It's on. That's right.
In fact, picked my own lemons out of my lemon tree. Who
are you? By the way? You my house is under siege by the
way of spiders? Yes, oh no word. Has anybody ran into these
issues with spiders. I'm on next door app so I'm not the only one
people are walking there's I took pictures. I mean, I don't want to
like post a man people hate like OHM post pictures of spiders. It looks
all the same, but they're these huge spiders with big webs. There's one
outside of every window of our house. What one side of the door,
right, by Sunny's bedroom when you walk out, if you walked out the
back door by Sunny's bedroom, you're gonna walk right. Nobody walks out of
there because the guy's taken over. He's his web is all in front of
the door. Are you running into any spiders? And you Caleb, you
with the neighborhood that you live in your hills and we're right now. It's
mosquitoes are the problem. It's mosquitoes too. I'm getting eaten in my house.
How dare It's terrible. It's no, and I can't. You can't
kill him. It's really hard to kill him. Oh I got mosquito bites
all over my me. Yeah, it's everywhere. But you've got that and
spiders and spiders. Yeah, I think it's your neighborhood because I I haven't
seen any spiders. Yeah really, Oh my god, there's there's there's four
or five in different spots of our house outside, not inside, but outside.
I did almost run into a black widow the other day, though there's
black widows in our neighborhood. I was doing my pawn work and I was
cleaning a waterfall, and like I just I looked at the spider got really
close in my hand. I was like, wow, that spiders really black,
and I go, oh fuck, that's a black widow. And then
it was kind of cool to watch it. But yeah, I was very
close to accidentally just brushing over it. And I don't know, you can
a black widow can kill you, right, I don't know they could eat
you alive. I don't know. I'm scared of the brown recluse. Oh
there's the brown recluse in our neighborhood too. No, there's in our neighborhood.
On the next door app, there's a video of one of our neighbors
showing one of their spiders that they have that's out of control. That's that's
taken over their house, taken down a monarch butterfly like video of like a
nature video. Yes, like got the freaking butterfly in his web and he's
like taking him. He's eating him. Oh no yeah yeah yeah, yes.
So my point was getting the lemon tree outside. Yeah. I had
to bob and weave like that's I'm trying to get the you know, it's
like apocalypse now, like, you know, I look out for freaking spiders.
Oh god, the brown recluse and let's not forget that point. I
would just shoot the lemons out of the tree. Let's ever get brown bears
in my neighborhood too, Yes, yes, oh my god. He took
video of brown bears. That was another thing. Yeah, survival. I
have a couple of clients actually in your neighborhood. And I get to the
one person's house and they go, oh, yes, they're pawn. You
have to take care of it. Twice a day. You know, we
have a bear that comes by. I go, does it come by during
the day? Is it? Is it angry? Should I have honey?
Do I need to put keep my head on a spa? And I told
Patrick, He's like, yeah you do. They're around, Yes, fuck,
there they are. I'm telling you, I should show you the videos.
There's videos of brown bears everywhere in our neighborhood. And mama bear with
the little baby ones too, that following them around up and down the street.
But you don't hear about any like bear attacks. And you're now there's
not there's no bears like friendly bears, their chill hey boo boo, totally
like Winnie the Pooh, like they're totally fine. Right, Yeah, but
really it was what I could use them for. It kills fucking spiders.
But anyway, so as I was getting the lemons out of the lemon tree,
I had a bob and weep. So anyway, the night before I
got I got the dinner ready, so I made I took the lemons,
squeeze them like made like almost like a whole bowl of juice, and then
diced up really thin like like you've seen this like in the in Good Fellas,
how and they're in jail. I was gonna say, when they're in
prison, prison with the garlic and how they're using the razorblade straight right like
really like thin garlic cut up. And then Basil took the basil chopped up
Basil, did you put it in the lemon juice? Put it all in
the lemon juice making a juice? Yes, and then a little bit of
salt, some salt and pepper, but that yes, yes. But what
I did is take the corsalt, and because when I cleaned the chicken,
I rub it really good with the salt, with the Corse salt, you
know. So anyway, so then uh, salm pepper, and then I
just marinated the chicken like in a bowl and then he just covered it and
put the fridge. Yeah okay, yeah, all of the pieces, like
all of it, okay all and I would stuff the skin with all the
like the garlic and everything. But then I was like, oh God,
is the garlic gonna be like land mines? Because my mom would make land
mine salad. She would have like you know, the old school Italian dressing
with the the packet, the packet of like seven seas. Yeah yeah,
yeah yeah. So my mom would make that, but she would never like
mix it up really well, so there would be land mines the powder rub
the powder. Wendy used to call him land mine salad. So I was
like, oh no, am I gonna be like my mom? It's Mike
and am I in a landmine garlic in the thing. But Wendy was like
no, because like when you bake it at garlic kind of like kind of
melts all the way, like it's you know in it. It kind of
kind of like, you know, I love the idea of you doing this,
but having to call Aunt Wendy to a constantly yeah like wait because I'm
you know, I member me chicken in a while, like do I come?
I always forget do I cook it covered or uncovered? And then if
it's boneless, how long is it is it? I'm all ears, you
know what I as? Yeah? Is it covered? Recovered? So I'll
uncover she said. So, so I put it in at four twenty five
for five minutes uncovered, and then turned it down to three fifty and cooked
it for a good hour at three fifty. Just the boneless thighs needs every
hour, every all of it. Just that's how long I cooked it.
Okay, did you put it in a high rex? M Okay? So
I marinated overnight in a big bowl, right, and then I laid it
out. Yeah. And then so then Natalia tells me her boyfriend's gonna stay
for dinner. Oh, and You're like that's fine. Yeah, hello,
I just cooked dinner, that's right. And I was praying secretly, praying
it comes out good. Yeah. So I'm like, wait, okay,
now hold on. Now I got somebody else that like, like, I
know, sunny in Italia what they like. But I'm like, wait,
but what is he like? Does he like tomatoes? Is he not?
Because she doesn't like tomato? Laa? But anyway, he likes everything.
So I made I made the chicken. I made it with with tomato medala.
It took it like the red and the yellow tomatoes with the mazzazza la
balls, earls and mozzarella, avocado cut up, salt, pepper and olive
oil and basil and mixed all that. That was bomb. That was so
good. That was yummy because it was like the avocado with the mozzarella and
the tomatoes, the melody of the tomatoes, the calla the red. That
was good. Vinegar too, No, I didn't put any vinegar, for
god, I do olive oil and like a little vinegar juice. Yeah,
that would have been good. That would have been good. Yeah, So
I did. Okay, So I had that for salad, and then I
had uh And then I was gonna go like corn on the cob, not
corn on the cob, but again with her mouth, so I didn't.
So then I did, Oh, rice peel off. So I made rice
pelaf. Oh my god, when you were first talking about sides, I
literally pictured rice peel off. He did, like that goes really well with
a lemon chicken. Yes, And my kids aren't. They don't where they've
never really had rice pelo And I love it and I'm like, and I
know they like rice, but they're like, you know, they're okay with
it. And I'm like, you guys are gonna love this rice. They
loved it, loved it, ate it all gone. I wish I would
have made two boxes of it that was like gone, and her boyfriend loved
it, and what else did I make? And then and so so I
marinate everything. The night before the night of Sunday night dinner comes along and
Natalia is like, her boyfriend's over. They're doing homework. What time are
we going to eat? I'm like six thirty. I time it so that
we eat at sixth Sunny's watching football. I'm like, okay, dinner is
gonna be ready. Sonny's down, call them to come eat. I lay
everything out. I feel like I'm missing something anyway. Maybe it was the
baggett of bread, but so lay everything out. They come out, they
make themselves a dish and they leave. Natalia and her boyfriend. Sonny was
like, had on, mom, I'm sitting here with you. So he
ate with me. But Natalian and her boyfriend they leave. They go and
like, we're gonna go eat in the other room. Well, there's no
reason for me to really have a dining room table. And by the way,
this is my fault. I've trained them to be to go do your
own thing, right, but it is kind of sad when you're like our
dining room table just stores like arts, just crap, school stuff, Alby's
computer and yeah, it's what I'll do one one better. Yeah, I
will literally make food and then take a plate to each of their bedrooms because
I know they're not coming. I mean him, I have to knock it
Xander and yeah, I've made a meal. It's pathetic, pathetic what I've
trained them, how I've trained them. And the same with John. It's
not even like John and I sit together like John's made himself kind of at
home. We have this now that we have like this office area and I
took one of one wall of desks out and there's a little futon couch there
and John's made that like his day bed, like he hangs out there.
That's his spot. So every and when I come in in the morning,
I've been walking people. Again. If I come in, she goes right
straight to the back of the house to go say hi to John in his
spot. So I'm like, bring John his meal, Bring Xander his meal.
Bring Sadie her meal. If Elbie's home, bring her. I mean,
it's like the dogs. The only one that you that you can call
and say, hey, where you eat every day? You better come here
and eat, except that on meal, on a night that I have made
something, then she will just go from person to person. He's going to
offer her a scrap. It's usually not me, it's like sad right,
right, yeah, that's uh. They took off and I was like,
I was picturing us all sitting down eating dinner together. Yeah, and I
was like, wait, where are you two going? Well, they're watching
the game and they can't watch it because there's no TV and where we where
the dining room table is. So but then they can't watch it in the
living room because Phil we'll sit there and wat you know, and Natalia doesn't
want Phil around, and I can't put Phil outside because he gets out.
He's been getting out anyway. So so they go off into Adam's office to
watch it because they could sit there and watch football right in front and eat
with the door closed, nobody bothering. That fell right, And then me
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Today's Monday. We're recording on a Monday. Right. LB is on her
way home. I just thought i'd tell you the story. It's it's kind
of milestone if you think about it. Elby went away for the weekend on
her own, flew by herself, first time. Really, Yeah, made
her own plane reservation. Wow, she did everything on her own. So
yes, I dropped her off at the airport. Now, Elbi does have
anxiety, so it was kind of it was I'm gonna say it was almost
cute because she was all bold. She was. She went to go visit
She has two good friends at Berkeley, and one of her friends it was
their birthday and the mom was going into town too. So the girl's mom
right, all right, yeah, I'm listening. The girl's mom was going
into it was also coming to visit her daughter. So it turned out that
Elby was on the same flight as the girl's mom, very randomly, because
they were flying out a burbank. Wow, yeah, did Oakland right?
Right? So anyway, Elbe was all excited. The ticket was not cheap,
but she's been working a lot of hours. She just buy it recently
is that. Yeah, yeah, has it gone up well the sooner like
you got a more in advanced did ahead of time? Yeah? So anyway,
though, she she I dropped her off at the gate at the airport,
at the terminal, I should say, and then I started getting the
texts, you know do I? So she oh, because last minute she
found out she was going to have to check a bag because you know,
she was just going for the weekend, so she just had a carry on.
But then her friend was like, you have to bring a sleeping bag
because there's nowhere really for you to sleep. Oh, so she had to
check the bag. It's so funny on the way for the way home,
and I don't know what she did. I literally don't know because I'll find
out when I get home. But I told her, I was like,
you know what if it's a pain in the ad, because you know what,
we wrapped it in a in a like a leaf and lawn trash bag
because it's very awkward to pack a sleeping bag, right, So I was
just like, just we'll put it in a trash bag and then we taped
it and then we put a tag on it with her name, and then
she checked it that way. But then I hadn't thought it through, like,
well, when she has to open the bag to take her sleeping bag
out, how's she going to re So I was like, you know what,
I mean, she doesn't really go to summer camp, and she could
just leave it there. Just leave it there for their next guest to use.
I don't know if they have room in their dorm room for a sleeping
bag, but I was like, if you need a sleeping bag, Xander
also has one. Right. They start using sleeping bags less and less if
you're like us and you've never in your life gone camping, right right,
exactly, then they use it for camp and you know, or they used
to use it for like a sleepover at someone's house if you're sleeping on the
floor, right, But nowadays kids usually have a better couch for Anyway,
I was like, I don't know when you're gonna really need your sleeping bag
next, so just leave it. Yeah, I was less, they could
probably use it over there. I mean, think about the people coming and
staying and exactly exactly. But anyway, I digress to say that she was
very cute and she was texting me. Well, I told her I was
gonna I was gonna kind of pull over and wait and just in case there
was trouble. But as soon as she walked in, I was like,
well, I don't know what kind of trouble I'm gonna hup with, Like
what am I going to go part like park and come in? Like she'll
figure it out just as easily as I could figure it out. I was
like, it went in. Dao just asked somebody. There's a million air
airplane right airplane employees, you know what I mean. Yeah. She was
like okay, but I get a text. I so I pull away and
then I get a text from her. She's like, hey, do I
go to TSA pre screen or regular? So she'd never heard of that before.
So I was like, well you have to go to regular And she
was like okay, well what's pre screen? And I was like, well
that's for people that it's a whole thing. Don't worry about it right now.
It's a whole shot. You have to bring ID, you have to
do a whole thing, and you didn't do it, so you have to
go to a regular And she was like oh okay, and then she's sending
me tech. She's like I made it through security, and I'm like,
yes, look at you go. She can do whatever she wants. Yes,
she wanted to get there really early because she we were going to stop
for coffee, and she was like, no, I'd rather just get to
the airport. So she was like a good hour and fifteen minutes early.
So in a small airport, not even like lax It's, she had plenty
of time. Yeah. Anyway, so she got her bag checked with the
self checked Kiosk, then she got through security. Then she's all proud of
herself. And then she ran into her friend's mom at the gate, and
then they flew together, and then they both they ubered to the school,
and then she's had a I think a crazy weekend. I haven't. Here's
the thing that I was going to tell you. I and I know a
lot of moms can relate to this, but also a lot of us are
really trying to be better with this. I really tried to just let her
have fun and not life three sixty her constantly because I kind of wanted to
just to be like, well, I had to talk with her before she
left, and I was like, look, don't go stay with a friend
the whole time. Do not go wandering off with any guys that you meet.
I think she's a little bit still sad about her situation, right,
you know. And I was like, I and you guys all know that
Elbi is definitely not a big drinker. She's had a couple of things where
she drink too much a couple of times over years. She's eighteen, alrighty,
So I was like, but who knows if she's going to be maybe
having some revenge drinking, you know a little bit of like yeah, fuck
all that I'm gonna go crazy and have some fun. I don't think she
is. She's not like me, but who knows. So I was like,
listen, if you have drinks, don't go wander off with some Don't
go wander off with some guy in a frat house to his room. I
was like, it's just a really great way to get like assaulted. Yeah.
It's like she was like, Mom, don't worry. We all already
have like a girl code. Like my friends already told me that they make
it a big point to like stick with one friend. Big girls that are
at college there like mat people stick together. Like yeah, I was like,
you don't want to get picked off by like oh, who's this new
new kid? She's drunk, Like, don't you're gonna lose your phone?
Like, make sure your phone's charged up. I was trying not to be
too extra about it, but I was like, you know, you're out
of college. Just be careful, right right. You don't go to the
school. You don't know these people, you know, you just say your
friends. So anyway, she told me she would, So then I tried
to have some trust and not like, what am I gonna do. I'm
not gonna start texting her at midnight? Where are you? Whose room are
you in? Exactly? So I was like, it's not going to do
me that much good to even see right where she is, and it's going
to make me worry because I know her phone is going to be losing charge
and then I'm going to be going like, oh my god, her phone's
at six percent? What is she doing? She needs to get a charge?
You are with your door to ask you to charge her? Yeah?
I mean, and I remember, like last I feel like it was last
Christmas. I got all the kids those portable charges and they already ever seen
them take wine? Now? I know, I get so upset when my
kids are out of charge. Yeah, like I depend on you being able
to contact me if you need me, you know, so, and I'm
like, my sorry, I just have to point out that I have a
pretty old iPhone at this point, and you know, like whenever the new
ones come out, they make the older ones really slow and the battery gets
worse. My phone is so slow and the batteries batter that I don't have
with me today. But I pretty much live with like a portable charger attached
to it, and I just have to have my small phone and then a
big ass like charger with it at all times. I just need to get
a new one. But yeah, I'm constantly just yeah, my phone is
just it's like a phone and a charger to get right at this point,
just taking up all my He's got a new ish phone. I mean,
I guess it's not that new, but it's newer than mine. She's got
in twelve or thirteen, and it loses charge so fast. Well, the
girls their phones, I don't know what are they're doing why their phones that
they do their phone charged, Like I'll be watching, like I can see
it in Italian is on the app that I have the Life three sixty or
whatever tells you like how much juice she's got or whatever, and then next
thing, you know, like two hours later, I'm looking and she's down
to like three percent. What are they doing? I don't know what they
powering a power jet? Like like like what are they making a constant documentary?
I know, filming, you know, twenty four seven. I didn't
know. I know. It's crazy. It's like they're they're charged and now
they're down to nothing. Maybe they have like eighteen apps open on their phones.
They're like instagramming and snap chatting and twittering and at the same time,
Yeah, because it takes me all day, I wake up, I charge
it overnight. I don't you know, most of the time, I don't
have to recharge my phone. This bitch got charging your phone like all the
time. Yes, yes, constant, but yeah, Sonny's got the thing
that's attached to his phone. So I did. I'm not perfect. I'm
a work in progress. I did like three sixty or a couple times earlier,
and I did see that she was running out of charge, and then
it made me so like uh that I just was like I can't look.
But then I did get I checked one more time. I forgot when it
was. Maybe it was like eleven o'clock at night. Maybe this was like
on the first night, and it was back up to like seventy percent.
And the feeling of like happiness over to my whole body was better than any
like drug or alcohol high. Seeing that green battery, yes, like you
can relax. It got to a charge. I felt so serene. I
was like, oh, this is so good. This is a good feeling.
But then I was just like, why put myself in a situation where
I need to then re check to make sure, you know. I was
like, I'm just not going to keep checking. So I texted with her
very infrequently, but she sent me a couple of pictures. She seemed like
she was having a fantastic time. That's good. Yeah, they went into
San Francisco with the friend and her mom on whatever Saturday. They had a
great day. They went to dinner and they went to parties and you know,
that's nice, that's awesome. Sent me some pictures she looks super happy
and then she's flying back. So the last text I got from her,
she was like, I'm in an uber on my way home, but I
think John's going to have to go get her because yeah, so her flight,
she's probably in the air right now. But then I had to tell
her, which I hate to do, but I was like, if you
have any issues, text dad because I'm recording. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, I do that too. I don't know. Nowadays people put that
little uh notify you know, I'm sleeping. What it is that ye did
not disturb thing? I don't know how to do notifications or silence? Yeah
yeah, but then you know what you can do. You can go notify
anyway. Right, I've done that to my kids many many times, like,
bitch, do not silence my notifications. And then what will happen is
you go notify anyway and then it'll I'm like, oh, you are gonna
see my notification. So what happens if you don't? What if how do
you notify anyway? Like you just hit it like I don't because I've seen
it which says notify any It just notifies anyway, Yeah, pops up just
I don't know if it makes noise, but it like they will see your
mom's going calling you again, your mom's texting you again. Yes. So
it's funny because this weekend Natalia is going to we're going to look at a
college. We're going to Texas. Yeah, you are, this coming weekend,
this coming weekend, this weekend. Okay. Yeah. So she's flying
with her mom, her friend, her mom, she's flying with her other
she's flying with her friend and her friend's mom on Thursday night. And then
I'm coming on Friday because I have something on Thursday. I can't leave.
I have to go Friday morning. So I'm going to go early Friday morning
at a burbank which is nice to Texas, to TCU, TCU Texas Christian
University. Oh didn't I already tell you guys that that was like one of
her I think I told you guys that that was like her early choice decision.
Sounds a little familiar, early decision, early decision, Yeah, oh,
but that you not early action, but actually early to looking like how
much she wants to go there. Yeah. Yeah, because then you're committed.
I know, I know. So that's why we're gonna go look at
it. Okay, So we're gonna go look at it. But it's that
in other schools. But it's a big football school, and Stephanie, you
should know this is the school, right, you know what I'm going next
for now, Yes, that this is the school that that your team beat
first week beat Yes, Colorado? Right? Oh really Dean Sanders Oh okay,
yes, okay, yes, yes, they were like they were gonna,
you know, we're going to digress to talk about that in a few
minutes. It was not pretty. I'm not pretty, I know. Let
me tell you. After our big dinner last night, Sunny and Night took
Phil for a lot, nice long walk. I had to hear about what
must suck to be a Denver fan tonight. Yeah, the Sunday evening.
He had to tell me what it really like. It's got to suck to
be a Denver fan. John told me the championship, they're fine, that's
well, that's true, he did bring that up. But as far as
college and NFL, it sucked to be Endeavor over the week, well because
University of Colorado lost so bad to Oregon University of Oregon, and it was
they just got demul They just got their asses handed to them. And I
was like, wait, I liked football last week. This isn't fun.
This is painful. And then did you hear about on Sunday NFL that Broncos
and like a record, like a record beat, Yeah, like a forty
eight spread. They want seventy twenty yeah, senty to twenty Yeah, pretty
bad. So anyway, back to TCU. So we're going this weekend to
go to go check it out, Okay, and I want Sonny to come
with me, but he's like, I'm not interested in that school. So
I'm on why you know, But I'm like, just for the fun of
it, just to go and look at us college. But anyway, so,
so her and I are going this weekend. Yeah, so we're leaving.
Well, I'm leaving on Friday. She's leaving on Thursday, and she's
gonna have a tour on Friday and then she's gonna show me after because I'm
not gonna be able to be there for the tour, right right. But
it's cool. Yeah, Okay, that's your first one? Is that the
first one for her? For her, no, this will be her second
one. Her first one she went to, uh Miami when I was remember
when I was in Florida, right right right? Thank God for this other
family. It's the second time. Now she's flying out with them. But
but they're go getters. So yeah, so we'll we'll see it's so funny
to have you where I was last year and when I was full of the
hope. Yeah, should we oh Noah, should take a quick break?
Okay, Yeah, we're back. Yeah. I think that's cool. You
know, I think that a lot of the colleges that we went to see
we jumped the gun a little bit. Yeah. I wish I hadn't gotten
her so excited, But you know what, when I think about it,
she loved Santa Barbara. She should have gotten in there. She didn't.
But now she knows that she wants to tell like, we don't have to
do it all again. Right, she knows that that's the school that she's
tagging they call it, right, Yeah, I mean we're going to be
filling out applications. She will be soon. Yeah, the transfer applications are
due a little bit later, and they have to. It's it's hard because,
uh, like, she doesn't have any grades yet. You know,
she only has one class that's been graded, and that was because she took
it the second half of summer. The classes that she's in right now half
a semester. She really needs to finish a semester to to be able to
send over grades, right, right, but uh, yeah, yeah,
she'll be doing it too good. I don't I think I having to write
the essays doing all that shit. Yeah, she's working on her essay,
both of them. Yeah, they both are. Yeah, and they got
a good I really liked their college counselor. He's really great. He's the
same for both of them. And he talked to him about you know,
Natali is on top of everything, Sonny. You know, I think I
think it's still I think that it's it's still early. It's early, but
also like I think he's still couldn't like doesn't know where he wants to go
or what he was gonna ask you. Is he interested in Colorado again now
that their whole football things said they ruined it for him the other way?
Yeah, no, he no, but I think that the Boulder was a
really easy school to get into, but now it's now it's gonna be He's
like, so thanks a lot to your pald Dion Dijon Sanders. That made
it actually harder to go to the school. I don't know. I would
guess people want to go there now because it's exciting, right, That's what
he was saying. He was thinking, like it's probably gonna be harder.
Now he doesn't know for sure, but but he's applying there. I think
he's gonna apply there. And then I think he's really gonna look into this
Columbia School in Chicago because they do have this big, you know, alumni
program out here, and we have friends that have gone there, and then
we also have family that lives out of course. Yeah, that would be
perfect for him. Yeah, so or I don't know, or maybe he
goes to the community college out here and then I don't I don't know.
I don't know. But Natalie's got her plan and she's like on top of
everything, and then I can't believe it's gonna be like it's gonna be the
holidays and like that. It's gonna be you know, Christmas, Thanksgiving and
everything's gonna be like, you know, isn't like things are due November first
and stuff like that, you know, or October first, No, November
first, November first, some stuff. Yeah, the UCS weren't due until
the end of November. I don't think of very many things or do November
first. Maybe early decision, I think that's what it is. Yeah,
but but you're only going to apply to one place early decision, right,
right, you can apply early action to a bunch of places. So early
decision means you're committed, right if they if you're in, you're in.
In less you're supposed to get a certain amount of like financial aid, and
then they don't give you that financial aid, and that's the only reason you
can get out of it. I don't know how they hold people to it,
right, But you know on my college one oh one paying for college
one on one Facebook group, yeah, which there's really absolutely zero cause for
me to be in that group except to like raise my blood pressure and get
mad constantly. And then I have so many times typed out a response and
then just erased it because I'm like why, Yeah, why am I arguing
with? There's no reason to argue with these people, right right? Are
you still in it? I'm in it because people are so crazy, like
entertainment purposes. Can't stop reading the crazy. Yeah, you know what it
is. It makes me feel better about stuff like circling back to the like
checking life three sixty. I always I find that I I'm somewhere in the
spectrum of like very sane parents or or more like free range parents to like
policing every single move. Right. It's like some of these parents act like
they're the ones applying to college. Right. They're like it's almost they have
to keep themselves from writing I applied to this, this, this, and
I'm doing this, and it's like, no, you're not. Your kid
is right, you know, And I think I fall somewhere in there where
I'm like, oh, I need to take a step back. But also
in some ways I'm very free, Like in some ways I've always let my
kids do stuff I think just the whole time. It's such a microcosm of
parenting like this, this these parents who are having kids that are going to
college, right, just shows you how different parents are in the way that,
you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, when I was when
my kids were younger, and you know, we've talked about this a lot,
but there were things where I was like, Okay, my kids were
eleven and I wanted to let them go trick or treating on their own for
a little bit. And remember my friend that freaked out and was like what
what right, Like it's just our neighborhood, Like what do you mean that
that's not a crazy decision? Like this is just this is all very residential
streets. It's a huge Halloween destination. And also like you know your neighborhood
and you know it's it's it's it's their neighborhood. They had phones already,
they were middle school, they were like in already. And my friend freaked
out and was like, I would never let my daughter walk around. I
was like, it's full chalk full of parents and kids. But did she
did she know that neighborhood? Did she was? She is familiar with that
neighborhood. Yeah, she totally knew the neighborhood. But she's just a different
kind of parent. Although, funny enough, that's the friend who elby just
want to go visit at Berkeley. But she's still very overprotective, very like
constantly checking in with her daughter, and like, you know, she's just
a little more. Oh a lot of it I think with parents stems from
anxiety, and some parents just have less anxiety and they're not thinking about all
the worst case scenarios constantly. I tend to be a worst case scenario parent,
but I have to. I have to fight the urge to be over.
But then there's some stuff that I used to tell you, like Xander,
before he had a phone, would want to walk to the park that
it's like four blocks from our house, and sometimes he would. But then
one time he had a friend with him, and then the friend's mom freaked
out that I let them go to the park, so then I had to
go find them. And then I was like, oh my god, like
I didn't it didn't even occur to me that that was such an awful thing
to do, right, which it's not. I know, like every every
every parent has their anxieties and their quirks and their whatever, right, what
they're afraid of, And so I think I fall in the middle. And
then I see some of these parents on the paying for college one on one
site that I'm like, oh, that bit should be crazy, right.
Then I'm like, I'm doing it's entertaining. Yeah, it makes you feel
like, yeah, it makes you feel better. Yeah, I'm like,
oh, you need to lay off, you know. But then somebody else
could probably say the same thing about me telling these stories about life. Three
sixtying Elbe when she's away for the weekend, she plugged in that phone.
Right, we're all different. It's all different. If you know your life.
Three sixteen The Girls right, all right, way bloked out the front
door yesterday, all on her own, so maybe I got installed a little
boy. They're putting Halloween decorations up, so she wanted to go look at
the decorations. She just didn't tell anybody she's going out there. So,
oh wow, what are they gonna be for Halloween? We keep saying paw
Patrol, but they don't even really watch paw Patrol anymore, so I don't
know if they still want to do that or something else. Yeah, that's
an Italia last night. You know, a little hussy. What are you
going to be for Halloween? At time? It's like we're all gonna be
astronauts, her and her boyfriend and his friends and her. I was like,
okay, I don't know how you're gonna like hussy that up? Yeah,
schermuta astronaut? Are you gonna come up with? But we'll see no
astronauts where g strings? But okay, good for you. That's funny.
Yeah, that's kind of cutest nuts we went to. I mean we have
to it's September still, but we did go to a halloween store yesterday,
Oh you did, uh huh, And just to walk around. We didn't
buy anything, but I mean I used to remember taking Sunning the Tali to
the Halloween store and they would Natalia would want to buy the scariest, the
scariest decorations, and Sunny would be like no, like flip out, crying
no no. I mean they fought over this one spider. Natalia wanted the
spider that dropped down every time you walked underneath it, and Son he was
like hell no, hell no, no, I'll run away. That's funny.
Yeah, I was buy the Halloween decorations I've bought are usually at cvs,
like either on Halloween because they're already dropping the prices, or like the
day after, and then I save it for the next year. Then you
can get like I got this giant black like furry spider with up eyes for
like two dollars, you know, but it was like day after I think,
yeah, but then you gotta sit on that shit til next year.
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