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Yeah, hi, hello, whoh listen, Yes we're momings so hard right
in summer time? Had summertime? You just finished teaching? Okay, still
a teacher so yeah, well not a teacher, but a TA for the
fourth and fifth graders. You know, I have to say these kids.
I know it sounds so cliche how teachers are, like, oh, I
just love these kids, you know, but I do like when you walk
in, you know what it is, kids in general are very optimistic and
happy people. So to be around that all day long is really like it
feeds the soul, you know, like they just want to laugh, They
just want to have fun, They just want to like a lot of them,
you know, try their best and academically and like you know, really
try hard. And when you help them, it's like so rewarding. And
then if they you know, you know, write a great essay or whatever
they do, you know, get their math problem right, and then and
you just see how excited they are, and you know, after they've gone
through so much frustration, it's really like awesome. So yes, I'm still
doing it, enjoying it very much. Ready for summer though, you know,
because you are with kids all day every day, So there's that.
Yeah, there's that. But it's been a it was a great year.
And and now I'm I'm on summer break. Sophie's on summer break, Bella.
This is her last week of school. She'll be on summer break pretty
soon. But Bella, for those of you who don't know or don't remember,
is that UCLA. Yeah, so you're gonna be what I know.
It's so cute. They're finally at the same school all these years. Yeah,
and they've been hanging out. Yeah. Yeah. We went to Disneyland
together. Yep. So this is for anybody on Disneyland. I was like,
oh my god, is LB going nuts being at Disneyland for so long?
Okay? She I think she was fine. She said there were parts
of it that were really fun, and then there were parts of it that
were like a lot of long lines and it was hot, and apparently Sophie
wanted they wanted to stay. Sophie and her friend wanted to stay till I
toget eleven o'clock at night and Elby and Bella were finally just like no,
we're going, We're leaving. They were there, they left it like six
in the morning. Yes, yeah, So Bella brought a friend lb and
then Sophie brought a friend right, and Sophie and her friend wanted to get
there when it opened and leave when it closed at like eleven o'clock at night,
and Bella was the one driving. And I'm like, you're the one
driving. Bella. It was at this point, like I don't know,
seven at night. She was like, dude, already to bounce. I'm
like, give Sophie an hour's notice. We're going to leave in an hour.
And that's that You're the one driving, Like too bad. Yeah,
So that's what they did. Yeah, but it's not like they missed out
on they were there all day. Yeah. And then apparently in the middle
of the day, Elbe had to was trying to sign up for orientation and
it's like it was like a thing. She said, it was like trying
to win concert tickets. She's like, you had to keep going into these
cues. She was like, Mom, it's like this really intense process and
I have to do it now in order and then she still ended up with
a date that's like well into July. But oh that's okay, Yeah,
it's not that bad. Is this the thing where she's on campus for a
weekend or like a couple of nights. Apparently the transfer students don't go overnight.
It's just a lot a day. Okay, it's kind of a bummer
because I think she wanted to do the weekend. Yeah exactly, Yeah,
but it's it's not so but yeah, but she that's but it's where you
get your classes. You pick your classes you I don't know, but no,
you pick your weekdays. And this will be a good segue for you.
Her roommates that she chose from Instagram, you know, got a different
they've they ended up together on a different day, so she was kind of
bummed about that. You know, I will say, you'll meet you'll meet
people. Bella's good friends are the ones she met at the Oriented actually,
and they still hang out. But I was gonna tell you really quickly going
back to Disneyland. Did Elbe tell you that she woke up nauseous? So
they got up at like six in the morning, or maybe even earlier because
they were gonna leave it six and all of a sudden, Bella's wakes me
up. She's like, mom, I'm like what she like? Elbie's nauseous.
I go into the bathroom. She's like over the toilet. I was
like, oh, no, my god, what Ally's like. I don't
know, maybe it's like something I ate this and that. I was like
Zofran to the rescue. So I gave her a zofran. Oh yeah,
And I was like, God, the last thing she's gonna want to do
is go to Disneyland and be on these rides. But then she already spent
they did, you know, a park hopper, So they spent over two
hundred bucks on these tickets, and I was like, oh my god,
this is gonna suck for many reasons. Because l Be sick, Bella's gonna
has nobody to go with, Like she just Elbe's gonna waste two hundred bucks
down the drain. And within twenty minutes or whatever, fifteen minutes, the
zofran kicked in and Elbie's like, all right, let's go. I was
like, what Elbie like? She doesn't mess around, she motivates, So
she went and had a great day. I did give her two more ZO
free for the rest of the day. I'm like, you can take it
every six hours if you need to, because there's nothing worse than being away
from home and feeling like yeah yeah, but I don't think she needed the
other two. And then she was fine, Oh that's good. Yeah,
so that happened, but she did it. I know she lasted anyway.
Going back to roommates, so I have like a roommate story with Bella.
So ah, okay, So Bella met one of her roommates who's also an
acting major at the acting orientation, and it was one of those things when
you when you first get accepted, you're like, Okay, gotta find a
roommate like quick, because you want to be able to like, you know,
put in your preferences, you want to like you just need to get
that process done quickly so that you don't lose out. So I was like,
no, this girl seems really nice, like let's call her whatever.
No, well, okay, no, well that's a good one. Yeah.
So no, well seems super cool. Blah blah blah. They started
talking and then they're like, okay, great, let's be roommates. And
then Bella found a third but they were like, we want to just have
two people in our room. But if we have to have a third,
let's come up with a third. So Bella found a third on Instagram,
same thing like the UCLA acceptance page, and they started talking and she really
liked her, but Noel didn't feel as connected as Bella did. So Noel
is like, I don't know, she's not getting back to my text messages,
blah blah blah. But there's this other girl that maybe we can have.
And like this other girl is like like an Instagram model, like you
know, bathing suits Chloe's and bathing suits and this and that, and we're
likely, but we're like, well, she got into UCLA, so clearly
she's like very bright, very motivated, right, or she was on the
rowing team exactly, so so they were photographs on a rowing machine really well
exactly. So they requested the two but they ended up So then the Bella's
like, fine, if we want Chloe, that's fine, let's request a
two bedroom, but if we have to have a three bedroom, Chloe will
join us. So they didn't get the two bedroom, they got the three
bedroom. Chloe joined them. Over the summer, they were like trying to
communicate a lot to get to know each other and this and that. But
Chloe is from LA, Noel is from out of state. Chloe from LA
was like kind of know where to be found. She was really chatty at
first and then kind of dropped off. So they were like, well,
this is weird. And then like, but Noel's the one who loved Chloe
so much from the Yeah, and Noel and Chloe were friends, but then
Noel's like, I don't know, Chloe like dropped off. Like even one
of Chloe's friends contacted Noel and was like, do you know where Chloe is?
Like it was weird. She had gone to Europe, so they didn't
know. It was kind of weird. But anyway, so then they started
school and Chloe didn't really move in, Like she was kind of funny like
for the first three weeks of school because she's like I said, she lives
down the street from UCLA her house. Oh yeah, but she came and
she brought like two outpha and hung them in the closet and Belle was like,
mom, this is hilarious. Like Chloe came and like made her bed
and put like two outfits and that's it, like just kind of random you
know, like, right is this. Eventually, within the next month or
so, she did fully move in and they all really like each other a
lot there every night or does she go home a lot? Since she's down
the street, she started sleeping there more and more, and then by second
semester it was like all the time. Yeah. So on the weekends though,
she'll leave or come or she likes to really go out and have a
good time, and so does Noel, and so does Bella for that matter.
But Noel and Chloe really like to have a good time. Like they're
out till all hours of the night. They're just those people. They're just
like and Bella's like, dude, I need my sleep, I've got this
in the morning, I've got this, Like I don't know. Bella just
always has stuff going on, you know, and she's just some people can
party all night, wake up and be completely fine the next day. Bella's
not one of them. You know. She can do that maybe once fine,
but like it can't be in every weekend thing. So so then so
they all become really good friends and they all go out together. And then
Bella is in one sorority, Noel's in a different sorority, and Chloe is
not in a sorority, so they all have their like own friends and their
own thing, but they all come back together and they'll hang out together as
well. So now Noel is also an acting major and works a lot,
actually gets a lot of commercials. She's gorgeous, she's talented, she's all
the things. So she's like always working. So she started borrowing Bella's car
because Bella, by the way, has her car on the UCLA campus,
which as a freshman is unheard of. But because Jamille works there, we
were able to get a second permit, so she was able to have her
car. So for Noel, she took an outside acting class every Saturday.
So she's like, Bella's like, dude, take my car driving to Hollywood,
dear acting class. It was really you know, it just worked out
well. So it became kind of a normal thing that Noel would borrow Bella's
car to go to jobs or whatever. No big deal. You know.
Bella's like the of course, that's totally fine. And we love Noel's parents,
like love them. So the parents are like, are you sure that's
so sweet of you. Guys were like, oh my god, of meet
the parents on movin Day. Okay, Noel saw I think Noel saw a
picture of me or something, and she was like, oh my god,
my mom and your mom are like the same person, like very sporty and
this and that. And sure enough when we met, we were just completely
hit it off. Like we've played pickleball together, We've gone out to lunch
together, like I really do love her parents are so awesome and so and
so. But anyway, so, like I want to say, six weeks
ago, would you say, Yeah, Bella went out without Noel and Chloe,
but got back at like I want to say, like ten thirty eleven,
and she went to bed. It was like a Saturday night. I
think it was a Saturday night. She was tired, she had she's in
this place, so she had to get up for rehearsals this that. So
she went to bed and the next day she wakes up and Noel and Chloe
are like, oh my god, last night was crazy. We partied till
so late, and then at three in the morning we decided to go to
the beach. So the beach is like ten minutes from UCLA, right,
would you say, like, especially without far in the morning, just down
Wilshure Okay, yeah, I'd say ten fifteen minutes. Okay. Yeah.
So they're like, oh my god, we went to the beach all night.
Ha ha, you know, so fun blah blah. And Belle's like,
oh my god, that's so cool. This is that and that was
the end of it. So then Bella same day gets in her car to
go somewhere and they're sand everywhere. Belle's like wait what. She's like,
I'm so good. There's like like like McDonald or whatever, like like food
food in the car and then like McDonald's shakes, you know, like in
the in the cup holder cup holders and all that. And Belle's like,
oh my god, did they take my car to the beach, like you
know, anytime no one wants to borrow the car. Of course she asks,
you know, she's not gonna take the car because they have to partate
schedules and stuff, so dude. So then Bella was like, oh my
god, I think they took my car. Like they told me this whole
story of how they went out, this and that, but they never mentioned
that they took my car. This is weird. So then Bella runs into
Noel's friend and Noel's friend starts telling Bella a story of oh my god,
we all went to the beach blah blah blah, and Belle's like, okay,
wait, did you guys this is a third person that went with them,
did you guys take my car? She's like yeah. Belle's like,
what the fuck do me? That's crazy? What? Like, I don't
know. I would imagine they had had a few drinks. If they're partying,
Yeah, all three in the morning, what the fuck? Dude,
Like totally unacceptable, Like not cool. Now, if you're gonna do it,
at least the next morning, you can be like, oh my god,
I'm so sorry. We took your car. It's a mess. We're
getting it cleaned. We left everything in there because we were just so tired.
We got it whatever the case, maybe right, and then Bella would
have been like, oh boy, but okay, fine, thanks for telling
me you know something. But no, they went indoor purse at three in
the morning, took her car keys, and then no mention of that,
just a mention of how much fun they had. Yeah, isn't that weird?
I mean, it's crazy. When you first told me that, I
was like, that's insane. They God. So Bella calls me, She's
like, Mom tells me the story. What do I do? What do
I do? I'm like, look, you just write a friendly ish email,
of course. Jamail's like friendly doesn't need to be a friendly text,
not email. I'm old, not an email a text? Right, But
I was like, just say, like you guys, well, so yeah,
snello, snap, snap, how much? Just be like girls?
You know I love you girls. Of course I would let you take my
car anytime. Listen, girly pops. Yeah, he haye cheek guys,
we try. We have the most cringey, like teenage language. Yeah.
So I just said, make it like friendly ish and just like, hey,
did you guys take my car? Like that's not that's you know,
please ask me. It's not cool because God forbid something happened or you know.
And then on top of it, like there's sand because she came home
that day. Literally the sand was like in the creases of the seat,
but like thick, not just like little sprinkles like fix. I don't understand
how I mean, you wake up the next day, aren't you like,
oh shit, we borrowed Bella's car and we left it a mess. Like,
we should probably mention this. We should mention it. We should be
downstairs cleaning it out. We should be vend moowing her money so she can
get it clean. We should be doing everything we can to say sorry,
you know. And so they didn't. So then Bella sends the text like
hey, and you know, my car's a mess, like there's food in
it, there's sand in it, like dude. So then Noel writes back
and is like, oh my god, we'll totally clean it. And then
Chloe sayes she say I'm so sorry. That was a bat that was like
bad judgment. I think she said sorry, but it didn't. It wasn't
the apology. That was more like the I am so sorry, I'm so
sorry we didn't even tell you. I didn't tell you because I was embarrassed
because I was this. I felt like such a bad friend. You know,
you kind of go over and above when you've done something wrong to try
and really show them how you care. I think she may have said sorry,
and it was a very short like oh my god, totally we'll get
the car clean, no problem. So you know, Chloe didn't respond to
the text at all, one way or another. But maybe it's because like
she felt like Noel is the one that borrows the car all the time.
It's kind of Noel's deal that she borrowed the car. I was just a
passenger. But they're roommates, they're friends. They both did it. Yes,
yeah, they both did it. Intimately acquainted with Bella. They lived
with her. Nothing and by the way, to this day nothing. So
then what happened was Bella came home. It was like a Sunday because Saturday
night had happened, and I see the car. I'm like, dude,
this sucks, like there's stuff all over and I'm like and Belle's like,
yeah, I mean, you know, like Noel said sorry, and she'd
you know, like get the car clean. I'm like, okay, but
like when you know, we don't want her drive the car anymore, Like,
no, like, we'll get it cleaned because I think that she's kind
of done lost her privilege. So later that day, Jamil goes and checks
the mail just randomly at home and there's a ticket. Oh my god,
I forgot about this, Yeah, a red light ticket. And sure enough,
who's in the driver's seat. No Well, and I was like,
oh my god. Two separate incidents. It wasn't like she got a ticket
that night, but like, oh my god, what is happening here?
You know. You know, when you get a red light ticket, it's
pretty obvious these days, Like the thing flashes at you and you're like,
oh no, god, oh god. Yeah. So then we're like Bella
and she's like, oh my god. I'm like, Bella, you got
a text her and just you know, the nice thing with these red light
tickets is you just fill out a form that says you weren't the driver.
You put all the driver's information in and send it off. So and then
the ticket goes to that person. We're still dealing with that. So we
she gave us all the information. Again, It wasn't like, oh my
god, I'm so embarrassed. Please tell your parents. I'm so sorry.
You know, I'm gonna fight this red light. This wasn't right. Whatever,
it's it's possible, you know, like, I don't know if she
like, you know, sometimes we all ticket. Once you give the information
and you send that off, the ticket goes to the right person. I've
been through it with John. Yes, However, we just got a bill
for four hundred and thirty eight dollars to pay the ticket, and I'm like,
okay, maybe it's just because I mean it's been like a month.
So I'm like, and I'm the one that filled out the information. I
filled all of Noel's information, so it should have gone to Noel that the
bill, but it came to us. So now I'm like, we have
till September, so I'm gonna give it another like few weeks to see if
eventually everything, you know, sometimes it's a slower processing over there, maybe
that it'll eventually get to her. But it was just like, are you
kidding me? She does this and now we have a ticket from her,
Like it's just like, okay, we're done. We're done. She's never
driving this car again. Like So then Monday, Bella showed up to her
dorm and there was flowers and a card from Noel. I'm so sorry,
you know, I love you, you know, and then just you know,
talking about their friendship and how much she values it and all these inside
jokes and dadada. I was like, Okay, that's really nice, and
then it says from Noel and and then Chloe in like a separate pen,
separate writing. I'm like, Chloe did nothing to do with this except she
signed it, you know what I mean? And does Noel still want to
use the car for her acting class? Oh? I don't think she's asked
since then. I think it's been pretty like we're good now. Oh my
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the story more because it's extremely entertaining, and I think in ten years they
can look back and kind of laugh, like, oh my god, remember
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age. Yeah, they were pretty irresponsible for sure, you know, so
like I give everybody a pass. But then so Noel and Bella, because
they're both acting majors, they had to do It's required that you work backstage
on some of the you know, other shows, so they had there was
an opera. So they both worked backstage on this opera and then it was
the last night, closing night. So at the end of closing night,
you have to like clean up, you know, the backstage area. So
Noel was assigned to one area to clean up, Bella was assigned to another
area. Now UCLA is a big campus, so sometimes they'll get in the
car and driver on the campus to where the theater program is because it's literally
a thirty minute walk, and so when it's late at night and stuff,
they're like, oh my god, let's just get in the car and drive
over there. So they drove the car together over there, okay, and
then when the show was done they were done cleaning, they're going to drive
back to the dorm because otherwise it's like a thirty minute walk and when it's
cold. Right, So this was like three weeks ago. So they do
the opera and then Noel says to Bella, Hey, I'm done cleaning my
area. Can I have the keys to go sit in your car? Fair
enough? But Bella was just kind of and she's like, you know,
actually, just just wait for me. I'll be done in a minute.
Here, I think she said, I'll be done in like ten minutes.
All of a sudden, Belae's phone starts blowing up and it's Noel thinking she's
texting Chloe, and she's like yeah. She's like, oh my god,
Bella is making me sit out in the freezing cold. She will not give
me the keys to a car. I mean, what does she think I'm
gonna walk back to like campus? Ugh like, and then she texts another
thing like, I mean in my mind, first of all, Noel can
wait inside, and you can wait ten minutes. This like you have to
help Bella with the cleaning, Like you're privileged enough to even have a car.
Chill out, so you can sit for ten minutes. It doesn't have
to be outside in the cold, sit inside like it's a theater. Nobody's
kicking you out. They're all there cleaning up. So that's what Bella said.
And remember this is after everything that had already happened. So I think
at this point Bella was okay to say, hey, just wait for me,
will go together to my car. Could if Bella just handed her the
keys and said sure, sit in my car. I think Bella in the
past has done that many times. But Bella at this point just like,
oh, just wait for me right there. I want to go get her
keys I give to her. Maybe Bella was yes, let me just finish,
yeah exactly. So no, so Noel is texting Chloe like nothing like
mean, but just like I can't believe Bella. Dude, Bella's making me
wait in the freezing cold, which again that's her choice. If she wants
to wait outside, why wouldn't she just give me the keys? I mean,
this is so ridiculous. And all of a sudden, it's like a
pause, and then it's like we think she realized what she did, and
so she's like so she goes to as if she's texting Chloe again, She's
like, I mean, you know how much I love Bella. Cry I
we're like besties and she's a close person. But like it was awesome.
Oh my god, yeah, it was like the best like like revet like
you know. And so then another text comes back and she's like, oh
my gosh, bell I'm so sorry, like I was just like annoyed or
like I don't know what she said. And then she goes, I think
we need to all sit down and talk about like things that have been going
on, and you know, we just said, like, what exactly can
we talk about that? Noel and Chloe both vape in the room, but
they blow it out. They open the windows and they blow it out of
the window with all the fans going. And then some of them, I'm
not gonna say who, but one of them is also smoking cigarettes, straight
up cigarettes in this tiny ass dorm room. Again like blowing out of the
window with the fans going. But it's cigarette smoke, you know, vape.
I understand, you don't smell gets over everything. Isn't it illegal,
it's it's the dorm is Well, you can't smoke anywhere inside in California,
period, right, but I'm saying you can spook inside your house, but
your house dorm room on a college campus, it is not a It's completely
illegal. And so Bella was like not saying anything about that because she's trying
to be the cool roommate and not be all like annoyed. But it's like
on top of everything, like wow, yeah dude. So then they all
had to go out that night for their friend's birthday. So Bella's like,
all right, I'll so she went, I hate the idea that they're gonna
have a talk with Belle, like we need to sit down and talk about
everything that's been going on. Belle's not doing anything Bella car and and you
were irresponsible. You also got a ticket on her car. You guys have
not really thoroughly apologized. What are you going to talk about that's going on?
I know, And I said, I go, look, Bella,
when three of you are living in a small area, maybe there's things you're
doing that you don't realize are annoying them or you know, everybody annoys everybody.
I was like, so listen to what they have to say. Maybe
they're like a something or this or that. And Bella's like, of course.
I just don't like the fact though, that the two of them are,
yeah on being in cahoots, yes, like texting each other about being
annoyed. Thinking they're texting each other about being annoyed at Bella, Like that's
cool. I mean, no, you have to go have a talk.
It's not like it's not like one. It's not like Noel is also annoyed
at Chloe and complaining to Bella that like Chloe's irritating her. And I mean
I think they all kind of at times have complained about each other to each
other, you know, for sure, like you're three people in a really
small room. I'm I'm sure there's been time where they're like, well,
you know, like oh, she came into three in the morning and she
wouldn't stop talking, and that she's on the phone. You know. I
think they've all done that, like talked about the other person being loud or
waking them up early or whatever. Fair enough, But anyway, so I
said, well, listen to what they have to say. And but anyway,
they didn't really fully talk because they were all getting ready to go out
at night, and I think they wanted to keep it kind of light.
So I think they all just kind of apologized and moved on kind of thing.
It wasn't a real talk. So that being said, you know,
they're all moving out this week. Anyway, I think Noel and Bella will
remain friendly and they are friends. I mean, they're good friends and they'll
remain friendly. And I just said to Bella, I go, well,
now you know you have boundaries with your friendship with her. You know,
she's may not be like the closest because some of your other friends just wouldn't
do that kind of stuff, you know, and so maybe she's the fun
time girl. You guys go out have a great time together. You're both
in acting. You're probably going to see each other jobs down the line,
Like you'll still remain like good friends in a different capacity. Chloe, this
is the weirdest thing I have a story about, Chloe. So then last
week, so they have like a lady that cleans the dorm bathroom, all
the dorm bathrooms, you know, like once a week or whatever. Okay,
So Bella comes back to the dorm and she's like, hey, Chloe,
did the housekeeper come yet? Because if she's coming, I don't want
to take a shower. I want her to be able to do her thing
and not have to wait for me. And She's like, no, she
hasn't come yet. And Belle's like, okay, I'll wait for her to
come. Because it was around the time she comes. So Noel is has
her headphones on and is studying. So Noel is not listening to Chloe and
Bella talk about did the housekeeper come? Did she not? Chloe's like,
no, she didn't come. Noel's just sitting there with her headphones on,
studying whatever. And then Noel like kind of takes her headphones off, joins
the conversation, and Belle's talking about like, yeah, God, I really
want to get in the shower, but the housekeeper is not here yet,
and Noel's like, no, the housekeeper already came. And Belle's like what,
and She's like, yeah, Chloe, and I got her like a
little gift, like to say thank you for the year and this and that.
And Belle's like, wait what. She's like, Chloe, you just
told me the housekeeper didn't come. She goes, oh, I just I
don't know. I didn't want you to. I didn't want to, like
cause we got her a gift, and so I didn't want to mention the
gift and stuff that. I was like, you didn't have to mention a
gift. You could have just said yes she came, go ahead and take
a shower. Like she looks at Cloe. She goes, no, really,
Chloe, why didn't you tell me that's the housekeeper came? And Chloe
just went like shrugged her shoulders and like almost became like an infant and like
didn't say anything. It's so, And I go, Bella, did you
feel weird that you weren't included in this gift, and Belle's like, honestly,
no, I'm not here as much as they are. They really like
whatever, the housekeeper's here, they're here because Bella comes home a lot.
You know. She's like, I didn't have that relationship with the housekeeper that
they did. I that's fine that they did that. I don't feel like,
oh, they left me out. Why didn't you know? She's like,
it's totally fine. Yeah, but I'm just saying and I'm not trying
to cause trouble. Ye, Like, how easy would it be if there's
three people that live in a room together to be like, Bella, we're
getting the housekeeper a gift, you pitch it? Do you want to?
Yeah? Which fine. Bella could have been like, uh no, I
don't really have it like that, yes, did. Or Bella could have
been like sure, let me give you twenty five bucks or what you know
I mean? And I said, Bella goes, mom, I am not
bothered by that in the least bit. She's like, I'm more bothered that
Chloe lied straight to my face. So, and Chloe saw me sitting there
for an hour waiting to shower, and she was in the room. We
were talking, so weird. So I don't Ella's going to remain friends with
Chloe after this anyway. Chloe's moving back home for her second year she's so
I'm like, I don't see why you would remain friends with that. That's
so bizarre, so bizarre. I don't you know. It's interesting, totally
off topic, but just from what you just said, Yeah, Elbie has
a friend who lived on campus the first year and is now moving going to
live at home for the second year. Yeah, and I don't understand.
I'm not really understanding. You can save a ton of money, So I
feel like Chloe might be doing it for that reason, because I think it
goes from like thirty thousand to fifteen thousand, like without housing, it's a
it's substantial, So I if it's financial, I could see that. Otherwise,
I agree with you. If it's not a financial thing, why would
you want to go from living with friends, living your best life to like
back home? I guess, I mean, if she's down the street,
but I don't know for for elb and for Elbie's friend who were talking about.
Yeah, I don't know you, then you're not you didn't go away
to college. I totally agree you're notence, Yeah, I think it's And
also this girl that's Elbie's friend doesn't live, like lives in the valley,
So I feel like, so every day you have like a commute, it's
like a commuter school. Yeah, and then you're not really engaged in your
I get what, I agree. I don't know. I guess it depends
if you're an a sorority, if you're in clubs, if you're like in
other things that then you can get that experience. But it does seem to
me like it could be so much more fun to live with a bunch of
roommates in an apartment or you know. Yeah, I mean it's going to
be hard to afford for us too, but I don't I can't imagine not
letting elb have that experience, of course, after everything that she's gone.
I mean, I you know, I guess I just don't. Yeah,
but you're right financial reasons, I guess. I mean it's a it's a
I looked at the difference back home, does not really have any like is
not bummed at like wants to Yeah, And then there's that there's some people
that like Bella's best friend lives at home, not at UCLA, at a
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two week Yeah, they're in summer school, but for two weeks. Yeah.
And is that daily or yeah? It's daily? Oh nice? So
normally they would go three days a week from nine to two. Now they're
going five days a week from nine to twelve. I think, Okay,
are they sorry? Good? Are they liking that? Going every day?
Yeah? They're like, yeah, I like school? So is it?
Are you in like the first week of it? The second week of that?
This is the first week of it? Oh more after this and then
they're off until they start at their new school whenever that is, oh a
new school. Yeah, well I was just graduated. She had like a
a grad school preschool graduation, so she's I was going to kindergarten next year.
Yeah. Okay, Wait at the preschool graduation, do they say what
they want to be when they grow up? Okay? What she say?
You said a doctor? Oh nice? Okay. Wow, the first time
I heard you say that, but all that's so cute. Yeah, I
remember when my kids did that. I can't remember what they said they wanted
to be. But do you remember when your kids graduated? Did they ask
that. It's kind of like a standard thing. I don't remember what my
kids said. The best answer that I heard there was spider Man. Nice.
That's so cute. But so, so is there a preschool at Ila's
kindergarten? Yeah, there's like a yeah, there's a pre K. So
every old enough to go to pre K? Is it like TK transitional?
Yeah, that's what it is. I'm sorry, it's TK. So now
all from my understanding, public schools in Los Angeles County, Yeah, okay
have to have to I think have to provide have a t K. Now,
so like normally you pay for t K through a pre school, but
now they all have to have TKS if they can. If they can,
you have to like have a certain the classroom has to be a certain size,
and you have to have a playground for these TK students. And if
you have all that then you can And it's kind of nice because it's free.
It's like not paying preschool prices. Right. We don't know if she's
actually going to go to it though. That was the plan, and then
it was like, well, you know, she's she did the same thing
that Isla did. It's their first year there. They went only two days
a week, and even Ila only went from nine to twelve, and then
sometimes we paid the extra to stay later. Lake's been going two days a
week, nine to two, and then to go from that to five days
a week eight to like three two or three or whatever, it is like,
yeah, just sounds like a lot. So we're thinking of maybe just
keeping her at the preschool and then moving her over afterwards. How old is
she exactly? Now? They keep aging she's getting close to four, so
she'll be four when she starts maybe TK right around there. It's August.
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty young. I mean LB was a November birthday,
so she was at three. She was like three going on four.
But she would have gone into the she would have gone into the older It
wasn't pre K, but it was like they it was like it was like
they called it pre K but it was the oldest pre school class. It
wasn't transitional kindergarten. But she the teachers were like, no, she's not
ready. She's still young. She's young three, so we kept her and
then when she was she did the transition, not like pre K, she
was already four she turned she was already turning five. Ye, so she
was like five going on six when she started actual kindergarten. So would Blake
be four going on five starting kindergarten, she would be Uh, I think
she would still be three going on four starting, but then then she'd be
young. It's pretty young. Yeah, well she's yeah, she's right at
the beginning of the year. So wait, when's Blake's birthday? August?
Yeah, Sophie's July, so same, she's like on the younger side of
her classes. Yeah, class, but I was July as well, but
August is even younger. Yeah, she wouldn't turn until the following year.
But I mean, it all balanced, but I think it can be a
little challenging at the beginning. I don't know. For LB, it was
nice to start older, but then it costs more money because they're in preschool
for longer. Yeah. Well, the the cost of the two of them
to go to the same school, even at the five days a week,
was less than what we were paying for the for the preschool for the two
of them. So I was like, all right, yeah, yeah,
nice, All right, Well what are you going to do with them though?
All summer? Go to the beach a lot, is my plan.
Nice. Yeah, I've been very much enjoying the beach. I've been wanting
to get into surfing. So are you guys like five minutes from the I
mean is long be a fifteen minutes? So you walk a lot too,
so like I do. But luckily my job, a lot of it is
work from home, and I just do it whenever I want to, so
like I can schedule my editing like around whatever. You know, if I
need to do something during the day, then I'll just edit at night.
But isn't your wife a teacher? So is she off in the summer and
she's doing summer school? Okay, got it? Okay, she's a Teacher's
aid. Oh no way, but for you know, kids with disabilities?
Oh right, right right? Oh wow, good for her, God bless
her. Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. So what are your
summer plans. Let's see, so we're supposed to we built this house in
Lebanon, so we're finally supposed to go see it. So if you're doing
at ten day Trent. Yeah, if everything is stable over there, we'll
be doing that. And then we're going to my friend's lake house in Idaho
do some wakeboarding ATVs, all the things roasting marshmallows. It's beautiful up there,
and that's all we Well, that's a lot. Circling back to Patreon
ish we had. We couldn't make other plans because Sophie had like three cheerleading
like intensives that she had to go to, but since her coach got fired,
uh, those have been on the back burner. So we kind of
now have a lot of July to plan something whereas before we didn't. So
I don't know. I don't know if we'll do something else as well,
but that's it for as of now. And then Bella is doing the cheer
camp for a week out of our house and yeah, that's kind of it.
Yeah, I'm so scared about summer for my kids because I don't they've
been really thriving this past year it sounds like it, and having a lot
of friends, and Xander does so much better just mood wide wise and everything.
When he is very social. Yes, he likes keeps busy socials not
busy, his mood tends to dip and he just gets kind of like bummed.
And even if he just doesn't see certain friends for like a few days,
he gets like, I'm so bored, like and so I'm kind of
a little bit worried. But today is Friday. Yeah, sorry, Friday,
and today Xander will have left for a nine day trip to Des Moines.
I'm sorry nine days. Yes, he's going for nine days. Wait
what are you doing for nine days? With speech and debate? Like like
every day there's like a lead up, there's the main event of it.
I think it's just the way the travel is. So it's basically like a
week, but you attack on the travel days because the teacher wanted to get
them there with a day or two to relax and like like acclimates out and
see des Moines and prepare right, and so there's like the travel day is
Friday. But then so then Saturday they'll get into you know, we'll do
stuff or whatever I guess do stuff, and then I think Sunday the event
starts or maybe they're there Sunday, and then maybe Monday it starts, and
then it goes all week. They're kind of intense ave like there's there's preliminary
rounds and then there's the finals. He in one category or will he's doing
a couple of different things. Good. Yeah, that's so awesome. Yeah.
So, as I said, he didn't qualify for finals for the what
do I call it state final? You know? For the yeah, nationals.
Sorry, he didn't qualify for nationals, but one of the kids from
our school did, so they had an extra space to bring a kid,
and so the teacher wanted to bring Xander because she feels like he's going to
do really well in speech next year, so she wants him to see,
like what's happening. So meanwhile, Xander, like a couple of days before
the last day of school, started feeling well. And he's so funny because
he's so social, like I said, and he will like if it's Sadie
and she has a little cough, she's like, oh, I'm sick,
probably shouldn't go to school, you know where. Xander's like, what,
No, I'm not sick. I'm like, Xander, you don't sound good
like you're coughing. And he's like, what, no, it's just a
little I got something in my throat. It's nothing, and I'm like,
are you sure. He's like, yeah, no, I got to go
to school, you know. So he the day before the last day of
school, he was sick and I'm like, Xander, you're sick, and
he goes, but I can't. I have to go to the last day
of school. There's a I have to give this presentation. But so he
goes. I was like, okay, but I think I should take you
to urgent care, like when you get home anyway. But then he came
home and he's like, he doesn't have a fever, you know. And
he's like, I think I just have a cold, you know. And
I was like okay. But the next morning he woke up and he still
wasn't feeling well, and I was like, you know, I'm going to
just run you to urgent care on the off chance because he was complaining of
a sore throat too at that point. Yes, yes, I brought him
to urgent care. I think he was like, I mean, I'm probably
fine, and they're like, okay, no fever whatever. But they gave
him all the tests and strep throat wow, which I have to say I
was relieved to hear because you treated it with an antibiotics. He felt.
This was in the morning. He took two antibiotics when we got them,
and then that night next day he was feeling so much better. I would
say like seventy five percent better. Took the antibiotics that day. Next day
he was like, I like almost fine, So much better than having a
virus that you just have to wait out. Yes, yes, so now
I feel like, Okay, he's going to be fine to go on Friday.
But yeah, so he's got that for nine days, he'll be having
like a great time. Meanwhile, Sadie's my introvert. She's just not the
kid that's constantly making plans with people. That's like keeping herself busy. So
she sits and waits for the phone. If somebody calls her and is like,
let's go do something, she'll be like hmmm. She'll be like mom,
my friend so and so called and wants me to like go to the
hall, and I'm like, ye, I'd be there yesterday. Like yes,
She's like yeah, I guess. I'm like what else? What else
are you doing? And so there's no she doesn't ever want to go to
a camp. Yeah something she really wants to do. Yeah, that's so
hard. And you know what's funny. So the school's music program is,
uh, you know, they love their music program. The teacher of the
music program asked them to come basically today the day we're recording, to come
in the afternoon and help him do auditions for incoming freshmen to the school.
And they're so excited. You would just think kids that don't like school right
would be like go back to school right, Like they can't wait. They're
just like, oh, we're going We're going into school. Yeah, we're
going in to help mister mister m do the auditions. They're like so excited.
And I love those kinds of teachers that are like, come on,
let's do it. Yeah. That just yeah, I love that. Yeah.
So I wish there was like some kind of program at school because I
think, well, there is, like they're doing plays. But Sadie was
like, I don't know, can she get into some sort of like rock
band ish camp situation where it's not little kids but like for teens and they
perform at the intensive And the only thing is they're like we get that for
free at their school. That's what it is. It's like basically, rock's
just something to keep her skills up over the summer and give her something look
forward to, something to go to. I don't know what that looks like.
That's possible. Something to do with music, I guess, is what
I'm saying. That is possible. Also, I really want to help them
like buckle down and get jobs. Yeah, they both really want a job.
What happened to the color of my mine? So that's a great idea.
Yeah, no, she wants to do it. And someone recommended did
you see that on the Facebook group that they're like individually owned, so just
go in there and ask like the owner or whatever. Yeah, so there's
one right by our house. So we just haven't done it yet because like,
well you were in school, just got out exactly. So yesterday was
the first their first day off yesterday. They need like a week to decompress.
Yeah, and like then, and Sadie then went and had you know,
I say that, but she went and had to sleep over at her
friend's house. She slept over at her friend's house last night and said,
and then she's gonna work on her driving and but yeah, we'll get them
a job. But you know, yeah, fun we got going on all
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