Made a decision of face Sunny Sun on Iheturdaysion night. So what's up,
everybody? Welcome to you for crying out. Hello's up? Oh my gosh,
happy to see you. Hey. Now we just did a killer Patreon
Yeah no killers, good choice of word. Yeah. Lynette told a very
disturbing story which you guys will have to tune in for. That's Wednesday,
yep, but today's Tuesday. Sure, is hi, Caitlin. Almost the
end of the school year for my kids, Well it is. They're done.
They're done as okay, yeah done the time you're listening. Yes,
they're done. Actually, yeah, they're done now. They've been done since
Friday basically, and then this Thursday they graduate. This Thursday they graduate.
They have a senior brunch on Wednesday at school and that's about it. They
went to Universal on Friday night for Universal Bash. Was they were exhausted and
tired. It was good. I mean, they had fun. Do they
go all night? Yeah? They They closed the park for the kids,
so the park was open to the public till like eight and then after that
they shut it down for all the seniors for senior night, for grad night,
and it's open until I think they was one one thirty. They got
home at like two. When Elbie graduated, their grad night was at Disneyland,
but it was from like everybody went at eleven am. They closed the
park at eight to the public, and then everybody stayed till four am.
And Elbi was like, oh hell no. Yes, she was like,
I don't love Disney Like I'll go to Disneyland, but I get tired of
Disneyland on a regular way to five hours. It's like that's way two laws.
I don't want to be held, you know. And here's the thing
that sucks with this school is that if you want to go, you have
to. If you want, you you can go on your own and drive
yourself, but you have to leave at eight o'clock when they shut it down
to the public. If you want to go and be part of the school
and have it open all night, you have to get on the school bus.
So you can't come. You can't just leave leave, you cannot leave,
you get picked up, you can't. And there Elbie told me,
I mean there were kids the one where they had to stay till four am
and they'd been there since eleven am before. Albie said, I mean her
friends some of her friends went, and they've complained about it in years past.
They do the same thing every year. But I saw pictures kids were
just sleeping. That's that's what Natalia was saying. She was exhausted. She
was like, I was done, and universal like, there's not It's not
Disneyland. There's not that much to do. But even Disneyland is not Disneyland,
right, It's it's it's fine, yeah, but like, how many
times are you going to go on like the Ariel's Grotto? I know,
yeah, we like, I mean how many? Honestly, Space Mountain's fun,
but it's not like go on it thirteen times until four am? What
are you going to fucking do? I know, I know, yeah,
And it's super expensive. I know. It was like a couple one hundred
bucks yeah for times two for me, yes, yeah, it was like
one seventy five. Yeah. You know what nobody tells you, like when
you have twins, nobody says like you think, oh, I'm just gonna
have to get through the early stages where I have to buy double the diapers
and double all that stuff. But you don't realize also double the college,
also double the medical bills, also double the yearbook and everything. Buy a
yearbook. It's like, oh, do you want a yearbook? Okay,
ching, Ching. It's not just buying your kid. It's not one thing.
Every time your kid needs a you know, prom whatever, everything you
two times two yes. And we didn't ask for that. It's not like
we signed up somewhere and said I'd like to have twins now. Can you
imagine a triplets? You know, And luckily Sonny wears like the same thing
every year, but basically Natali's got to get a new dress for everything.
Imagine if I had two girls, like yes, cha chan cha ching.
The other thing that sucks with twins is just every single year at the beginning
of the year, all the forums you have to fill out for the new
school year, all the emergency forms, all the medical all of this.
And it's times too. When we got the permission slip for a universal,
they brought one home and I was like, I'm just gonna put Sonny and
Italia here's their contact, Like I'm a saving paper. Do we need to
you know, like I didn't have the printer set up yet, so it's
like I'm just gonna do you know, no, no, no, send
it right back. They're like, no, you need one for each kid.
Put the medical insurance down for each kid. You know, an emergency
phone number, like just I've been through it so many times. It's crazy
times too. I'm so happy that right this minute, LB is something happens
between and you're going to see between like this year where you're at right now,
and like next year. Elbe needs me for very little. Elbe needed
a prescription, called in to the pharmacy, and I tried. I couldn't
have anything to do with it for certain reasons right, And I was like,
well, the only way that I can see to get this done.
I was trying to help her, but I wasn't able to. She took
care of it. She got on the I gave her the number for our
Telehealth m HM and the and the website. I was like, get this
app. So she did, took care business, got her prescription, called
in, went and picked it up. And then the following month they wouldn't
renew it because telehealth for some reason, when you get a prescription through talth
right, you only get one month's supply. So she had to call she
I was She was like, don't worry, mam, I got it.
Yeah. I was like, really wow, she goes, oh yeah,
took care of it. I went on the telepe. It was so fun
my appointment. She knows our our insurance number. She had it called into
the pharmacy and then she went and picked it up and have a good day.
I didn't have anything. That's so funny because this morning I'm dealing with
telehealth because last so last night there was like graduation at one of the other
schools that the kids went to, and then a party of course, and
then Wendy's in town for the graduation. So she's staying with me and her
oldest daughter, Jackie is there too, so we had a little slumber party,
the three of us. But I go to bed, like I let
them sleep in my room. I'm sleeping in the guest room. I'm like,
I should like test these rooms. I'll let me test this room out.
So they slept in my room and at two thirty three o'clock in the
morning, Italia comes in my room and she's like, my eyes are killing
me now. Before she went out, she Natalia has contacts and a lot
of times she doesn't switch them out like she should. She wears them too
long and her eyes. Starked about it, so before she was going out,
she was like, my contacts are bothering. My eyes hurt. She
kept saying, my eyes hurt so bad, and they did look red.
But I was like, well you did, did you you know? She's
like no, And then she did. She did everything she was supposed to
do with her contacts. She put in the like soothing drops, and then
she went out and then she came home last night, mom, and she
would never wake me up if it wasn't She's like, my eyes hurt so
bad. She was like in tears, like I can't sleep, like they
hurt really bad. She's like, look how red they are. And I
was like, oh, I think you have like pink eye or something.
And she's like, you know, she's like, what the hell's that?
And I explained it to her. She's like, ew, you know.
I'm like, you could get it from you know, a toilet sea,
a toilet sea like fee go go back tears and she's like what the fuck?
She's like, do you think I got it at universe? I'm like,
who knows? Yeah, the rail yes, rubbing yes. And she's
always rubbing her eyes because her eyes are always bugging her for something, although
they were already bugging her before she went No, this was no, this
was she the universal was a couple of days ago. Oh go last night
before she went out for this other thing. So anyway, her eyes were
and I was like, okay, well, try to go to sleep,
you know, and we'll deal with this in the morning. I get up
this morning and I'm like, I gotta go to work her. Her eyes
were glued shut, you know, she couldn't like her eyes were just you
know, bothering her. And I said, Wendy, can you help her?
And so Wendy's like, not that great with technology, but Jackie's there.
So anyway, I said, and I said, Natalia, you know
you're gonna have to learn how to do this and if you if Wendy wants
to take her to urgent care, I had to give her the insurance cards
and stuff. But she's going to be turning eighteen, you know, on
Friday. But it's like, you're gonna have to learn how to do this
telehealth. And she's like, I much rather not go to urgent care.
And I said, okay, well, and I told her what to do.
I said, go on, I explained it to Italian. I said,
have Anti Windy and Jackie help you. I gotta go. So I
just got a text that they did it and her prescription is being called in
in like two hours. Yes, this is telehealth is the very best.
Yes, it's the best. It is the last time I was really sick
and I think I had already gone to urgent care. So I had the
flu. This was a while ago, like a year ago, and I
was like not getting better. And then I couldn't get my doctor's office to
return my call, and I didn't it was going to be a long wait
to go in there. Anyway, I add of desperation, used telehealth.
I hadn't ever done it before, but I was on the health insurance website
and it was like try telehealth twenty four to seven, and I it was
kind of a pain at the beginning because you have to like register for it
and I have to fill out your profile and blah blah blah. Then you
have to get an you're an app. But I was like, once I
did all that, you're like, now you're invested, you know what I
mean. So You're like, well, I've already taken this much time at
this point, I'm going to have this appointment, right. But then to
actually do the appointment, it's like so easy. You call a number.
It basically goes, do you want to do it by the phone? Do
you want to do a video chat if? And then you sign up like
yeah, I want to do it by phone. They go all right,
you're gonna get a call in nine minutes. Yeah. I'm like oh.
And then the person calls you, Hi, this is doctor so and so.
And then you go, oh, hey, this is my symptoms.
I can't get rid of this cough blah blah blah. And then they go,
Okay, here's what I'm gonna call it in steroids and I'm gonna call
them this, and I'm gonna call them this, and it's all where is
it going? CVS? Okay, there you go. You're like, oh
see, why would I ever go to the doctor. But this is a
good learning experience, you know, for her, for the kids, for
when they're in college and then they know something comes up, they can do
it now she knows how to do it. It's great. Teach them to
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So okay, So there, so she's getting her eyes getting out as
we speak. Yeah, we got a busy, crazy week, you know.
So Anty Wendy's on Thursday. Yeah. Yeah, they have their caps
and gowns. Yes. Last night we were having fun in the kitchen with
them. Like Sonny was cracking everybody like he was, you know, putting
on his cap and gown. And I was telling him, I said,
all the boys I see on on Facebook, of everybody posting their of their
kids all have the boys are wearing ties. Are you gonna wear a tie?
And He's like, no, why do I have to wear a tie
because it's graduation. He's like, well, maybe I'll wear it for the
pictures or something. I'm like, come on, Sonny, you know.
So Auntie Wendy was like ironing out there, you know, steaming their cap
and gown. I would have never thought to do that. I would have
just taken it out of the package and just fluffed it out. Maybe.
But she's like, you can't let him go like that. They got creases
in him. You gotta steam them out, you know. So we were
steaming them out and blah blah blah, and we were talking about we talked
about planting. We talked about the hip hop class thing because Jackie was there,
and I was like, you know, Jackie was like, I want
to be the cool even though I'm your guys's cousins, I want to be
the cool auntie, you know, because she's like in her forties, you
know, right now, and she's married but she never had kids, you
know, And so she's like, I want to be the cool auntie like
you guys think of me. And she's like, you know, and I
go, you're gonna take him to hip hop class and she goes, oh
yeah, and then Natalia goes, I just figured out. I just found
out what that meant, by the way, with the hip hop last thing.
Yeah, And then we had to explained it to Sonny and he was
like, yeah, okay, I got it, I got you. He
was like embarrassed. I'm sure Natalia has been to hip hop class by now.
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. She's got all
her lessons every month planned out. Yes, my gosh, that's so funny.
Do you remember last year when Elbie graduated this? I just remembered this.
I probably told this story last year. But when Elbie got her gown,
she was like, oh, it's way too long, That's what Sadie
was saying. So then I had to She got super panicked about it.
So I had to take it to the tailor. We had to find a
tailor, like a twenty four hour tailor. I'm out there googling, like
okay, and I have to. So I had to feel like LB had
to work or she had school or whatever. So I was like, Okay,
how short do you want it? She like points like on her leg,
so I take a really bad measurement. I'm like, okay, so,
like you want it right below your knee? You sure you don't want
it like midshin And she's like, no, I want it like it should
be here. And she points to like, you know, like two inches
below her knee, and I'm like, okay, you're sure, Okay,
bring it into the tailor. They twenty four hours. It costs me a
freaking armadal. I think it costs like forty bucks. Yeahes just to turn
it around in twenty four hours and hemmet and then I go get it and
then I bring it to her and she's like, yeah, okay, this
is good, this is this is correct. She comes out her thing is
way shorter than everybody, and everybody we have all these pictures from when they
all did pictures at their friend's house in their cap and gowns before we even
went to the graduation. It looks ridiculous. It's so much shorter. But
then, you know, I'm not going to say anything because it's not even
the graduation, because I don't want her to freak out. Yeah, so
I'm like, oh, it's great, you know, I'm like, how
does she not? How is she not going to see it in the pictures
that hers is way shorter than everybody? Maybe she said anything, she didn't
care, She didn't care, but normally she likes, you know, her
whole thing is I have to blend, blend in right, right, And
I think that the reason she was upset is that it was so long,
was because it didn't blend right. But then she really didn't blend. But
either either it upset her and she just didn't say anything because what are you
going to say? Or she just didn't really notice or she was like,
yeah, I like it like that. Yeah, yeah, I know we
were talking about that. Yeah, there's a very long too, you know.
Yeah, and I think they're supposed to be. I think they're supposed
to be too, Like Auntie Wendy's like, I can have it for you
guys, and they're like, I don't know. Natalia is gonna be fine
because she's probably gonna have heels on. But you know, but and Sunny
doesn't care, you know, right, like okay, well you're gonna trip
over it. But Sunny is gonna be wearing basketball shorts. I know.
No, I gotta get his suit ready. And he's got a nice shirt.
Uh yeah. Albie had to have a dress, right, so she
just had a freaking prom dress. Now she had a graduation dress which she
had to buy earlier, and it had to be white. Now you're shopping
for a white dress. I don't know why. And so yeah, anybody's
gonna wear a white dress. But everybody's covered in their cap. I mean
they're down, so what you know, I don't know what. I guess
you take it off or whatever. So we have that. Yeah, so
we got, you know, a lot, and then this week like,
so Wendy's in town, so she's helping me with the house, like just
kind of dialing it in, like Okay, you should put this here,
we should get you know, you got to order. I got stools ordered
for the the you know, the island where everybody sits. It sucks because
the couch isn't there. So we made like, I have the outdoor furniture
inside. But then we also made like a bed on the floor in the
living room with tons of pillows, so we're all we can watch a movie
and like lay there and stuff, or you can sit in the outdoor chair
whatever. So like the kids come and go and watch TV with us,
and so at least we have like the living room and not everybody's, you
know. But yeah, we're we have plans to go to Costco. We
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okay, my kids had their big end of the year. It's called well,
I can't tell you what it's called because that says the name of the
school, but they had a big music sho program. Yeah, so our
music program, like I've told you about before is so cool. It's just
rock bands and some of these kids play out and about town. I've told
you, like the kids when they go to the to the whiskey or the
bourbon room, a lot of times they're going to see some of these senior
guys are in and a couple of the girls have a band and they play
outside of school. It's really cool. I love that and that's so cool.
Yeah, And I mean, my kids have gotten so into this music
program. And what's really sweet is that it's both Sadie and Xander. And
Xander started last year. So Xander got in as a ninth grader because when
they went to go sign up for the school and put down what they wanted
to do for their extracurricular not extracurricular for their electas, Xander was like,
I want to do the music lab. And he'd been practicing his guitar.
We all watched him those singing country roads and now playing like you know,
Foo Fighter songs, so he was already started. But then of course Adi
saw that music program and was like, I want to be part of that.
So she started learning guitar and now she's really good. And so remember
I told you about how I got roped into being the parent Liaison. Yes,
so somehow I've become like the most giant go getter. And I've realized
that when and I have been this person as a parent, when some other
parent is like, Okay, I got it, I guess you know,
you're like, oh, good, you got it. Then you don't think
like I wonder if they really got it. Maybe I should help them get
it. Yah, yeah, maybe I should be like support them. Now
you're just like, oh, okay, well you're one of those people that
loves to be in charge of shit, so go get go have it,
you know. Well not so much for me. I'm like, well,
I don't really got it. Like I said, I got it, but
like I'm a little bit stressed out right now, and I do Okay,
this is where I complain about this, So okay, how do I put
this? How do I put this without making sure I don't get in trouble.
There's this other mom. I really really like her and she totally means
well, but she was like, hey, I put out a thing.
This was last Was it last year when I got elected to be the parent
Liaison or was it this year? I think it was this early this year,
I put out a thing and I was like, hey, if anybody
wants to partner with me on this, I'm not really that good. I'm
not that organized, like I could use help. And this other mom was
like, I got you, I'm doing this with you, and I was
like great, and then she p need to not do it at all,
and I never heard from her. And she's a flaky Texter. So it's
you send her a text and then you're like, you know, four days
ago, but I'm growing a beard by the time I'm getting a text back
from her. I'm like, okay, so and then but then I will
get a text back and she'll be like, oh my god, I'm so
sorry. I like just saw this. You just didn't want to answer me
because I'm hoping that you could go solve it myself, right, you know,
which I did because I don't have time. So the thing is,
remember that I have talked about this quite a bit on our Patreon and I
really don't think she'll ever listen. But let's call her Tammy. Tammy's been
the one who's been in charge of everything, yes, and it's one of
those things. She doesn't have the bandwidth so she's been farming stuff off to
me, including so now I'm in charge of the the breakfast staff breakfast Friday
of every month. That's been a thorn in my side. That's that's how
I perfected sign Up Genius. You know. So then that she also is
the only one who can help. Like, if you want to take money
for something, everything has to go through Tammy. Tammy knows where all the
bodies are buried. She knows everything, and she doesn't really like to share
the information. So is it her last year? Oh? So there are
two parents that are taking over for her, and they are I was gonna
oh they are No, hell no, hell no. Do not think that
they didn't try to get me. I was like, you guys, do
not want me in that position. I seem like I'm good at this.
I'm not like a lot of stuff is going to fall through the cracks.
This is I know that I have a I know that I have always had
ADHD and we called it a d D. Yeah, it's become so clear
to me though as an adult, Like I laugh about this with my with
my writing students, we all laugh about this kind of stuff because all of
us I feel like a lot of creative people have add oh yeah, But
it has become so clear to me how much I relate to like Sadie Sadie
because I will there will be whole conversations about things that like money, like
apps, like stuff, and I'm like, I'll have a zoom that they'll
be talking about stuff because I'm on this fundraising committee now and they're like,
okay, and then we have to send this and there's all this stuff and
I'm like, I didn't hear or get any of it. It might as
well have been in another language, right, because I'm like, somebody either
needs to explain this to me like I'm five or better yet, don't explain
it to me. Else put me in front of people. I will ask
everybody for money and I'll think of creative ideas, but I can't. I
don't understand the details of the bank accounts and who is what signatures are required,
or how are nonprofit is formed and how this money has to root through.
You lost me so long ago. I can remember key words and I
don't know how they fit together, and I feel so dumb, like I
feel like I feel like a little kid sitting in on like adult, an
adult converssion even like I'm telling you, even these movies like Adam McKay,
movies like The Big Short, you know, Oh, I know a lot
of people. I know there's there are movies where they're doing they're literally stopping
the movie to do an explainer. I'm like, I need an explainer for
the explainer. I need somebody. I need you to take it all the
way back. Like I don't understand anything about financing. And I'm not bragging.
I'm not like I don't get any of that. I'm like, no,
it makes me feel me too. Something's missing in my brain that I
just don't understand. I'm that way with numbers and math like and you know,
I've sat down with like financial planners, you know, and and they're
doing these graphs and they're going, you know, five years this, and
iras that and T bills. I'm like, ah, can you like really,
I didn't even know. I yeah, I don't even like understand.
I know I have the same like you have to really break it down.
I think I need to, like once I write it out or read it,
but when somebody's explaining, like it's just I'm still stuck on the first
thing. They said in the beginning of their sentence. By the time to
get to the end of what they're I'm still like you no, I have
to like I have to read it or something. I know, you know,
like I'm It's like when Succession, when the show was at there was
just and the dialogue goes so fast. It was like, well, wait,
wait, wait, I didn't understand any of Succession, I love the
personality of the show, didn't understand what their company did. I know,
what was what was that joke? Go Joe, gojo or go oh.
I was always having to stop it and go John, can you just explain
it to me? But not all the way because I'm never gonna You'd have
to start at the beginning of time at the companies and how they work.
I don't know that. But I'd be like, wait, who's taking over?
And he'd be like that was like last season, and I'm like,
yeah, well I've just been I'm still at last season. I know.
Yeah. The interestingly, well, it's not interesting boringly way back. I
remember in grade school, I remember feeling so frustrated by math. I know
we've all we've talked about this many times, especially when it comes to like
Sadie, Yeah, I'm watching in real time have the same problem, and
I'm like Sadie. I did not understand math at all, and it was
very frustrating. I would feel so frustrated in my body because math would be
happening. I was in the group of like the brightest kids, but I
was like the one who wasn't getting it of those kids. So I had
this high reading level, but I could not, and so my teacher,
Thank god, because I went to basically what became your high school, Magnet
Magnet. It was the alternative school, and we got so much nurturing and
like attention, so you know, it was a very small class, and
I remember my math teacher. I remember crying because I was like, I
don't understand. That's how I was. And I remember her going like,
okay, I'm gonna draw a picture like and she would explain it and explain
it and explain it, and then all of a sudden I would be like,
oh, yeah, okay, I get it. But then it would
go away. So then I would take the test, I'd be like,
okay, I understand it. Then when I got to high school, ain't
no teachers having time? I explained stuff to me. So then I just
gave up and I wouldn't do it. And I told Sadie she was just
like crying the other night about math and she couldn't do all these problems and
Xander doesn't really have that issue. So I was I paid Zander. Yeah.
No, I'm going totally off topic here, but I paid Xander forty
I was like, I want because he told me first. I offered to
pay him twenty dollars and he was like, gonna be He was like,
you don't have to pay me. But I was like, I want you
to treat it like you're actually tutoring her. Yes, yes, I don't
want you to think of it as you're helping her as her brother, because
then she's going to feel like you're gonna get frustrated, I know, if
you think of it as a job and it's going to teach you patients and
as if this was a stranger to you and anyway. I was like,
so let me do this. But then he was like, well, when
I had to do that math, it took me two hours, so you
know with Sadie it's going to be four hours. And it was. But
he really helped her and She was so relieved when she got it done,
but early in the process she was crying and she was just like, it's
just so hard. I just don't understand it. And I said when I
was your age, I did not understand it either. I said, but
really, I didn't need math for any job, and I am actually good
at just basic math, Like I can figure out a tip. Like nobody's
business. I can these percentages. That's all the math you need. Unless
you have a job requires math. I'm not going to be anybody's accountant.
And that brings us back to this topic of having to be in charge of
things that I don't understand. So but so this doing this music show.
The teacher is the nicest man on the planet, and he's such an amazing
musician. I can't say enough like good things about this music program. So
like I'm happy to help. And Tammy was not there. She was happy
to just go like you got it, you know, But now Tammy's the
only one who can do certain things. So every time, but I have
to be like, Okay, well I'm going to do this like a raffle,
right, but I can't. I need you. Like now, She's
made herself indispensable, but now wants to be dispensed. Do you know what
I mean? Yes, yes, you go to people that are like,
I've made it so that nobody can do anything without me, But I'm not
going to be there, so you guys are gonna have to figure it out.
Holy fucking shit. I can't. I got enough on my mind having
to corral all these parents anyway, So I do a sign up genius.
I remember a lot of stuff, but you know my brain the way my
stuff slips through the crack. So I'm like, okay, I got the
raffle, by the way, if our girl Kelsey from Kelsey Fern from Fern
Candle, I love those candles, by the way. Yes, So I
did a basket with some of her candles and the wax melts, and I
have to tell you, Kelsey, if you're listening, and this is this
is your shout out. Uh. People were going crazy for the candles,
so it got the most tickets. Really, candles, people were undo it.
They come in these beautiful little jars and people were unscrewing the jars and
smelling them and going like, oh my god, these are so good.
Yes, yeah there, yeah, they're really I love them. I've been
burning them at my house and everything said furn candles on it, so it
was like really nice. But anyway, So I had that, and then
I had procured a Trader Joe's donation thing, a bag of groceries plus two
Trader Joe's gift cards, plus I got all these like facial stuff, plus
somebody donated some earrings. I had these really nice baskets. Nice, but
really my job like I got all these yeah, putting the baskets together,
except that that was only like a tiny percentage of my job because Tammy was
like, I don't even think you need to do that, like a raffle,
and I was like, well, that's the only thing I'm kind of
good at. I had to organize food for the kids, drinks for the
kids. I had to organize like the tickets, the bake sale, selling
pizza, making sure that we had enough. Are you kidding? I had
Where is everybody? What are these parents? Well here's the thing. I
all supposed you have. The mom that was supposed to help me, she
was nowhere to be found. So guess who came to help me. You're
gonna be annoyed. Robin Oh, Rob she's the best Rob Robbie Like,
what are you doing today? I'm like, oh, like my kids have
this show or whatever. She's like, oh, do you want me to
come help? Oh? Because I was showing her the baskets she's she just
does a lot of these for when her kid was in uh drama. At
this company, she organized the raffles, so she she helped me with when
I did parenting out Loud, So she was so sweet. She was like
going, Okay, I think you should group this with this and put this
together. And she came in and she was like I'm gonna come. She
goes, do you want me to come help you? And I was like,
actually, yeah, because I knew that my partner in your quotes wasn't
going to show. I knew she wasn't going to show up. Yeah she
didn't, and was like I got them early, got there before me to
the school. When I got there forty five minutes early freakin' was in charge
of selling the raffle tickets. Real, so here's the thing I had to
be also taking money. I was one of the So we had to work
it out with our best friend Shauna, who is the outgoing president of like
the PTA basically okay, the Parents Association, she's out, but she had
to hand over the reins, so it's complicated. You have to get on
the Apple pay app so you can take people's credit cards whatever where exactly,
so we had to be able to do that. We had to get the
QR codes for our Venmo account, like the whole so my brain was going
crazy, but it all worked out. So this mom, of course,
of course, she calls. I'm like, hey, can you get there
at two? The show starts at three. She's like, oh, well,
this and this and this and this, And I'm like, okay,
it's okay. She's like, but I can get there by like by two
thirds. I was like okay. So of course she calls me at like
two fifteen and she's like, oh she has like, oh my daughter forgot
something. I have to go back and get it. Are you gonna be
okay without me? I was like, yeah, I got it. My
friend is coming from a an outside in front of mind who doesn't have a
kid at the school is going to come and out. She's like, oh,
great, great, great, that was it. She never came.
She came because her kid was in the show. But she got there right
before the show started, and you niter, did she help? Did she
offer? I mean no, she didn't really help. I mean yeah,
she offered, but it was kind of too late. We had control.
So anyway, me, this other mom who's in charge, who's going to
be the president next year. Love her. There's two moms they're going to
be co presidents that are taking over her team. I love them both.
Yeah, and they are on it. They're smart and they're much more like
collaborative, Like they were asking me like what do you think of this?
And what do you think of that? And how should we do this next
year? And I was like that's what I like. I like to give
my input and then go you guys got it, like you know you understand
finances. Yes. Yeah. So anyway, the show itself was amazing.
It was so fun. But here's the thing they have. All the kids
are split up into bands, and the bands played for and this is not
a this is not hard hyperbole. Five hours. The show was five hours.
It went from three o'clock was the start time, and we started on
time and we didn't get out of there until three, four, five,
six, seven, like eight fifteen. Niche closer to eight thir Wow,
that's a long day this one band, but it kind of makes them a
bunch of seniors. Was doing like led Zeppelin songs and like Jimmy Hendrix,
and they were doing the jam version of it. So this they did a
version of a song that went for fourteen minutes. So John said it was
the song was Little Bird, which is by Jimi Hendrix, I believe anyway,
So John told me that. So John and I had separate cars because
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home, John Goes, I decided to listen to the live version of that
song just to see how long it goes. Four minutes. Wow, they
made it fourteen minutes. That's crazy. So this last one band, they
had a bunch of bands did their set was an hour but there were like
nine bands, So did they make that song all musical? Like were they
doing a lot of guitars? So so many guitar solos. Yeah, so
tries to solos. It's like, all right, I can barely stand guitar
solos when I'm watching a real band up on stage. I like, I
cut it short, like get back to the song. We don't need to
watch the drums and the guitar go at it, you know, battle it
out. But but it is like that's what you know. They're like,
you know, little budding musicians, you know, I know, great,
But not every band needed to do five or six songs. Some of them
could have could have been fine doing four right, moving on, like four
songs, and none of them needed to do a fourteen minute song. But
then people kept saying, well, those were the seniors. But I'm like,
yeah, but every year there's going to be seniors, like every year,
you know. But it was like really fun. I have I have
some video, I I'll post some videos. And they were in separate bands,
so I got and also, you know who's in a band who's an
amazing musician is our little Lyleyley good Y plays guitar. He's a freaking badass
guitar player. That's great. I just want to say, remember how much
we help this family. Yeah, you know, and he's got good tastes.
Literally got them out of transitional housing into like permanent housing. They live
in an apartment. Uh, they're Lyle's younger sister is thriving and she's going
to be coming to THEO. And Lyle was at the neighborhood like very big
school and not thriving, as you might recall me telling you. And Xander
was always telling him like, Lyle, my school has this amazing music program.
And Lyle's school he was in guitar class where he thought he was going
to get to play guitar, but it was basically like just doing scales on
the guitar at a traditional high school. Yeah, And Xander was like,
dude, our school is like a performing arts school, Like come over,
you know. And so this year mom, Lyle's mom called me and was
like, crocodile, missus. Crocodile called me and she was like, I
want to move lyle over to your school, like I'm going to do it,
and I was like you should. Plus it's freaking closer to your house
anyway. I love seeing her there because she just she just cries like she's
so happy for a while. Because he's like he's in his little pork pie
hat like a cool outfit. He's playing the guitar like a freaking badass.
He's got friends, he's in like a group of friends. It's like Xander
there and they're gonna be in a band together. Wow, he is like
it it just my heart sings, sings when I see it. And John
two, John and I were sitting there just going look at wild wild crocodile
just up there on the stage, and his mom and sister sat there all
five hours sitting in their seats in the front row videotaping him. And then
after the show she just came over and she was like, I just want
to thank you again for this school. This is like I mean, he's
just come out of his show. It's so sweet. It's so good.
I could see next year, like they're gonna be bad asses, They're gonna
be in bands. Like it's just it's just the beginning. I think right
now for your kids and for a while, like, yeah, I think
it's gonna be amazing, Like how many more years do they have? They
have theirs two more years their soft Oh they're gonna next year and senior year.
Is gonna be so fun to watch them grow. Yes, And it's
so nice because it's this really small school. Like I've told you, it's
similar to like your school. And I think for a lot of kids that
would just not work. That would not have worked for LB. She's just
not that kid. She's not quirky. She's always telling me, Mom,
I'm not quirky, Like I want to blend. I want to do what
everybody else. I want to be in a big school where there's you know,
she wanted that classic and she did great there. That was fine for
her. But Sadie and Xander are both quirky kids. They just don't know
they're quirky because they cause Xander doesn't come across as quirky, like he dresses
really cool, he you know, but he is quirky, Yeah he is.
And Sadie is very quirky, and they're at a place where that's just
embraced. They did this one of the bands, like, there's a very
big LGBT component at this school, and a lot of the kids and a
lot of the like the guys are normal guys, but like will wear makeup
or put on pearls. And they did rocky horror Picture show song, you
know, you know the song that's jumped to the left, right, and
then it jumped to the right. Let's do the TimewARP song. So they
a band did the TimewARP song and it was unbelievable. And the lead singer
was a guy, and he was dressed that he was doing that kind of
you know, wearing makeup and had lipstick and a wig. And then and
then they were and they were all wearing like boostiers and like garters and the
like, and then liked he was wearing these little like hot hot like little
like leather shorts and like a net shirt. And then they did the dance.
The whole place there was like one hundred and fifty people there and it
was screaming for them. And then he had put out this thing and he
did at the end of their song, right, he did a tap dance.
Oh really freaking tap shoes and he wanted tap dance, and the place
just went fucking oh crazy standing ovation chills. Yeah, and Xander was just
like, I don't even Then there was an intermission and Xander was like,
I can't follow that, like that's but I was like, what a crazy
cool place told Like that's just celebrated these kids just being themselves and having fun.
You can, you know, yeah, dress how you want, express
yourself how you want, and that's school. Great, that's a girl.
I'm so happy you found that school for them. No sports, yeah,
there's no locker room, there's none of that. It's like a it really
feels like a performing art school like in New York. Yeah, and the
kids love it. They're also happy there. I love. That's so nice.
So thank god you found that school. I know, I just reminds
me of my school when I was a kid. We were always painting murals
and stuff. Everything was embrace It was very artsy, like my dad.
That's what my dad wanted for me, Like he's like, you need to
be in a school like that like that. I know. You know,
the whole school didn't work for me. I didn't join anything. I didn't
I think I played volleyball one year and I was terrible and I was sat
on the bench the whole time, and I got put in one time at
the very end of the game when we were way ahead. I told you
the story and that I messed up my serve and I was so embarrassed,
and then I just dropped out of that. Right, That's the only thing
I ever joined. Yeah, no, I know. We had like,
you know, the typical pe class, but then we had like photography and
you know, ceramics and just it just and like all kinds of like I
loved our teachers, you know, the like Sue the health teacher. You
know, like everybody was just so cool and great. And we'd go on
field trips a lot. We always went to Leo uh Leo Carrio. That
was our thing. Like at the end of the year, I was always
looking forward to the Leo Garrio trip. The beach trip was tense and like
spend the night a couple of days. It was just so cool, so
fun. Yeah, every at the it didn't matter if you were a senior,
was just like the end of the year's school trip because it was a
school, a small school, right then we just get on the bus and
get tense and just camp at Leo Grio and I just like remember camping and
like and then wanting to sneak into the tent with the boys and like that
kind of stuff. But it was so fun. It was just like yeah,
like because the traditional schools were not it for me. I was going
to Columbus Junior High which was awful. When my dad sent that that that
letter to my violin teacher, like because I broke a string and I wasn't
allowed to take the violin home anymore. And he was like what he was
so excited for me to learn the violin and then I wasn't because I broke
a string. I wasn't allowed to bring it home anymore. And he sent
a letter like, hey, you know, I don't know, just really
like learn how kids learn, you know, and called her an asshole,
I think, and he was really they did, yes, yes, right
right, And so that was that my dad like, you know, these
schools are not for you. I was supposed to go to Canelka Park High
School and that's not a good school. No, that's a rough school.
So even back then, so my dad was like and he sent me to
Van Eyes, Yeah, to the alternative school. So when you talk about
your kids school, it reminds me of my school I went to, I
know, and I always think of that, and it reminds me of my
elementary school, which was really the highlight of all of my schooling. Is
this teeny alternative call your teachers by their first names really small. I learned
the most at that school, where it wasn't just and then when I went
to junior high it was in Spokane, Washington, at a huge junior high
school, terrible, worst two years of my life. And then really high
school, big schools where I never got any personal attention. I don't really
remember any of my teachers, like, you know, I still remember so
well my elementary school teacher. Yeah, so you don't forget. I know
that that kind of does. Those kinds of things stick with you forever and
makes an impression. And this school sounds amazing for your kids, it's really
great, and you know, I mean, listen, I could be singing
a different tune next year, but I don't care. Right now. They're
happy, yes, and like yeah, and no, I think it's just
going to get going on that trip for speech and debate right right after.
Yeah, I mean, he wouldn't get that opportunity at some big school.
No, I know, like so much cool stuff. Anyway, I'm excited.
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