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What's up everybody? Hey, Hey, Hey, Hi, Stephanie. Hi,
I'm back. It's been so long. It's been too long. I
know, I feel like it's been forever. How dare you be gone for
two weeks? Seems has it been two weeks? Yeah? Well last week
we had Julie and you haven't you? I haven't seen you since the whole
week before, Right, that's crazy. I know, it feels like it's
been forever. I mean, I feel like I've done a million things since
i've been you know, I know so much in God, and your life
has changed. Yeah, a lot of a lot of things. Let should
we say hi to our people and then get to it all? Right?
Okay, We've got Dick Frolicker, Rachel Beach Comber, Kelly Ladi Da Lauren's
get his gold, Katie rolls on E Aaron who it is? And Ho?
Aaron is in my new writing group that starts tomorrow. Really so I'll
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Leslie? Was she and Cabo accosting people? She was? I believe
she could have been at the airport. Yeah, I'm at that Cabo airport
and the other Leslie couldn't go to Cabo because she was coughing too much.
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Okay, so who tell us? Tell us everything? Airything? So
yeah, basically, let me think the kids graduated high school. Graduation was
on June sixth, and then on June seventh, they turned eighteen. So
my sister in law, Wendy came like a week before graduation to stay with
me. And also she's good about, you know, helping me like decorate
with the new house, like dial things in and get the right you know,
carpets here and there. Like she totally like we got a lot done.
When a lot of target runs throughout the week, got a bunch of
stuff, plants, stuff like that. And then her I need that.
Oh it was great, Oh it was awesome. The best thing she did
for me was she I when I go to her place in Chicago, she
has this I robot, you know, vacuum thing, the roomba, right,
yeah, and she's like hers would go off at the same time every
morning. She's like, you got to get yourself when it's especially with Phil
It's a great investment with those light hardwood floors. So I got it and
she helped me program it. There's an app on my phone and it maps
out the whole place and then you can set it to go off early in
the morning, which I do, and then I wake up and the house
is like vacuumed and the thing doesn't get I need that. Oh it's the
best. It's the best. You know, all get some like knockoff brand
though right now, Like yeah, and you'll be like, this thing doesn't
work. So can it get around? Like if it's let's say it's in
your dining room, yeah, there's chairs and the like. Can it get
around? Yes, Because what you do is it does a mapping to get
to know the place. So it just kind of maps itself out and itself
empties. Is it gonna like start inviting people over and stuff like like,
well, you don't go anywhere and have other robots over, starts making like
calls friends AI friends exactly friends with other vacuums in the paperhood. Suddenly you
come home there's like four meeting in your living room talking shit about my house.
Man, I got a lot of work to do in this house,
Like you guys are just chilling. This bitch has got a dog that sheds
so much hate. Yeah, I'm not getting paid enough to do this house.
Everybody, they're all exchanging notes, comparing, showing each other their video
of the day, because it takes like a video, I think, oh
no, yeah, sending it out to like oh yeah, yeah, I
used to have this friend. Uh you know how we both have our our
Grace's mom. Yes, my Gracie's mom was like a super OCD neat freak.
While she gave me her housekeeper, Like this was many years ago.
I haven't had a housekeeper in years, but when I did, oh my
god. She would get the same amount of money to clean my friend's house
who was never dirty, Like her house was immaculate, she had one kid,
and like there's never anything out of place. And I was always like,
what does she do when she comes over? And she's like, I
know, it's crazy, Like I clean my own house. Meanwhile, my
house was always crazy and a mess, and I always just felt like she
must be like griping to her friends just like this is such bullshit, Like
I get the same amount for this woman's house is a mess, right,
Always, I walk into a disaster, you know, because she was my
housekeeper when I had the twins were really young. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I always felt bad. I'm sure when COVID happened, she just stopped
calling, right and I paid her for a couple months, you know,
and then I was like, well, I can't afford to be paying a
housekeeper. It's not here and she never like. I eventually texted her and
I was like, hey, how are you, Like, do you want
to come back? Never never heard? She goes to me why, And
I was kind of like, I get it. I don't blame you.
Well yeah, I mean, especially she's got that one house, but then
she ainn't have to do much exactly exactly. Yeah, So anyway, okay,
I digress. So anyways, Yeah, so Wendy helped me a lot
with getting the house. So we was a very productive week. And her
her oldest daughter, Jackie, lives out here, so she came and hung
out like a few days too, and it was so nice having them having
family, you know. The week of graduation, I mean it's graduation week,
it's it's birthday week, it's you know, and just moved into this
new house, like it was so nice to have family there and that the
kids loved it. The kids would, you know, instead of going to
their rooms and hanging out with their friends, they would come home and want
to see everybody and like eat dinner with us, and so it was really
nice and then gradual relation was great. It was beautiful. It was a
nice night. And was it so long? Ours was so long? It
was an I know, everybody was like Suzanne. Everybody was like three hours.
No, ours was an hour and a half. That's it. That's
it. They said it was going to be one hour. It was about
an hour and twenty five minutes. You didn't have like a ton of speeches.
Now, I feel like they go to a big high school. Like
my deal they did was they had a few, they had a bunch of
speeches, but they kept him to like a minute, oh like two minutes
maybe, yeah, and then and then they just went right in to call
him the names. And do they have anybody like famous come in and give
a no. I feel like we had you damns, but like I don't
know, like representative No, but some like city represent you know, oh,
okay, government person. Well I don't know, but it was the
principal's last year, so he gave a real heart, you know, felt
speech and he was like in the like, Sonny and Italia were in the
front row, and so they were sitting, so Sonny and Natalia were in
on opposite sides but not next to each other, so that they would they
would come up together, you know kind of thing. So they did Sonny's
names for Santino Richard Corolla and then they did Natalia Natalie Ava Corolla. I
was like wow. I was like, really, you couldn't have gotten.
Natalia was like they got it right at rehearsal, like what the fuck?
I know that sucks. It does suck, but it was fun. Olga
was there, Jody was there, Wendy, Jackie, Natalia's couple friends from
other schools came. Oh, yeah, it was really nice and yeah,
and then we went to uh we went to a restaurant after Mexican restaurant and
they and I didn't like, I didn't so I planned the reservation for you
know, like I don't know, seven thirty and we I didn't count on
the fact that after graduation they're all going to be like off with their friends.
Even though everybody is going off to dinners with their family, right,
But then no, they didn't want to. Like I was like, we
gotta go get our reservation, but they were still like I couldn't find them.
They were off with and they're like, we'll meet you at the restaurant.
That's when I broke my foot, by the way, I remember.
I remember right after walking out to try to find LB to meet up with
her, when they all come out onto the windor and yeah, and that's
when I broke my foot. So then I had to hobble over to where
yeah and find her and then let her. It wasn't like I could be
like, Okay, I gotta go, I think my foot's broken. I
had to be like, no, no, no, I'm go spend time
with your friends, go take pictures. And you were in pain. Oh
yeah, her so bad? Oh my god. Not as much pain as
the next morning when I woke up and couldn't walk on it. I was
still able to, like I was still hobbling around, you know, and
John kept going, are you sure you're okay? And I'm like totally,
I just can't like fully put weight on my foot. But at that time
I did not think it was broken. Wo oh, yeah, I was
getting around. Yeah, but then we went home right right now, I
remember you telling me. I remember I thought about that. Yeah, And
so we went to the restaurant and so you did finally well then finally like
so we're all sitting there ready to order. Everybody's hungry. And then and
then who got there for Oh, Natalia was there and then she was like
wanting to eat with She came with her friend wanting to eat and then get
going because there was a party afterwards. But then Sonny wasn't there yet,
and Sonny's like, I'm with my friend Andre trying to get his diploma because
he didn't pay his library. Fine. Ah, it's like okay, but
like your family's waiting, like let's go, and uh he didn't. He
didn't drive, he had he went with his friends. So then I was
like are you how are you getting to the restaurant And then anyway, his
friend dropped him off at his car and then then drove. So so Natali
was done eating by the time Sonny got there. And then Sonny came and
then I got them a birthday cakes, each of them their own cakes,
and they didn't they didn't want and I was like, actually, tomorrow's their
birthday. Let's sell it. Let's do the birthday cake tomorrow, because they're
too like they're two, going, like they want to eat and they want
to go. They want to go see their friends, right, So we
did that, and then then the next day I got like, uh,
I don't know, sixty balloons and like brought it inside the house before they
woke up, and Wendy and I put the balloons everywhere and they woke up,
and then uh, then we did cake for each of them in the
morning. In the morning and then they were like, okay, well do
you want any cake? And they're like, now we're leaving. They he
was off doing something with his friends, and she left to go to see
her dad in Malibu. And then that was their birthday. And then the
next day we left to go to Cabo. Okay mm hmm. It was
a mother daughter trip. God is like, go go go, I know,
so wait, so where was Aunt Wendy. Well, then she left
to go to her sister's house who lives out here, and she was leaving
that she was going to leave the day I came back from Cabo. It
was a short trip. It was only like three nights. But it was
a mother daughter trip with three other girls and their moms. And you know,
I've been on one vacation with one of the moms before, but I've
only met the other two moms once at dinner. Oh wow, yeah,
so I didn't know that. So there were four moms, there were four
miles and four girls. And the one mom that planned it, she had
everything, like she's gone to Combo so many times, you know, with
their family, Like she knew where to go, where to stay, she
got a great place. Like it was a four bedroom like sweet thing.
And but there's it's a four bedroom, right, so was it? Yeah,
all the moms had to share a room with their daughters or well that's
was gonna be the So there was one room with two beds and two queen
beds and that was where the girls really wanted to stay. They didn't want
to sleep with their other But then there was a three Then there was three
other bedrooms but four moms. Oh, and I was like, I ain't
sleeping with another mom And luckily two of the moms were there two beds in
any of the other rooms. No, And then the other rooms were just
single you know beds so I was like, and I knew going in,
like yeah, you know, unless you want to sleep with another mom,
you're and I'll have to be like mother daughters sleep. But then then there's
that one room with the two beds, like I don't know. So then
once we got there, two of the moms were like, we can sleep
together. You know, they know each other, they're a little more so
they're like god like that. Yeah, they were like and I was like,
oh, thank God, like because I ain't not I don't sharing a
room with another mom. Oh he'll know. So anyway, it was a
it was a great and then you know they had like she had things planned
like tonight we'll go to dinner here, and then tomorrow we can go to
lunch here, and then you know, like everything was like she just planned
it all and we just all. I feel like for somebody else that might
be like, well hold on a minute, why can't I say something,
But for us, for moms like us, I'd be like, oh,
great, great, I don't know like what time to get up and where
to go, and I'm there. That's all I had to do. And
it was awesome. You know, I don't want to get out map quest
or the local I don't want to google, like nice restaurants and cabo Like
she knew it, she got it. She knows everything, and that's it.
And it was fun and and we did like well, you know,
like we had dinners and lunches and stuff like that. And then it was
a lot of just sitting by the pool or going to the beach. And
then one night they did a booze cruise, which I've never done before.
And I remember your story about a booze cruise. Horrifying. Yeah, bad,
really bad. Was there a cock fight? No, there was no,
no, no, But uh, what on what planet would it be
relaxing and enjoyable to watch cocks fight? I know on a boat? Yeah?
No, this was not like our culture, right what? No?
And you have to remember that that was like the straw that broke the Campbell's
back, Like that was a build up. It was already horrible, and
then it was like it culminated with gather around and watch these chickens fight,
right, and you're and you're stuck on this boat. Oh yeah, and
the music's loud, and the music was loud, and people are drunk and
people were drunk. Yes, yeah, but I mean it kind of would
it try to make you play games pretty fast? No, I don't.
They did, like well they I mean the DJ was doing his thing,
you know, like you know, sing along and like doing a lot of
singalongs and stuff like that. And it's a lot of music that I don't
like. Like I'm like, do you got any like Bruce Springsteen or do
you have any I don't know, seventies, Like let's do a yacht rock
like come on anything like right, you know they're doing like for the Window
to the Wall, right, sweat drip down my ball? Yeah? What
is that song? I've heard that song so many times on that trip,
like something about let the sweat drip down my balls and just like, oh
my god, I don't know. I guess I'm getting old. You're like,
I know it's cobo and I know it's warm, but this is not
the vibe now I was looking for. No, how about some Steely Dan.
Yeah, I would have loved that. Oh my god, I mean
Lido, Yeah, yes, that's a boss gags. Yeah yeah, I
didn't mean yeah that it was actually Steely Dan, but that's that's the vibe,
right, yeah, little holler oates, Yeah, it would have been
nice. But and then the moms on the van ride home, they were
like, oh, the Booskers was so fun, and one of them goes,
yeah, the music was great, and I was like, what,
really, I didn't know one song. The only song I knew was gold
Digger that song. And then uh oh oh baby got back. They played
that, of course they did. I was like, did they got any
b C Boys something something that I know of, Snoop Dog, ice Cube
more Bounced to the Ounce something. No, No, it's all this like,
well, if we were DJing, you know, we would have played
much better music. Yes, we would have, but it was more like,
come with our playlist. Yeah, it was uh, what was that
that? There's that song to come with our Shannon boom boom boom bomp.
It's like it's it's in Spanish, you know that song? So you don't
even know that song? Only is that the song no Despuscito? Yeah?
And then yeah her Justin Bieber does. Yeah, I'm sure they played that.
Yeah, of course they did. But yeah, I mean, so
it all in all, and then it was what happened after the trip.
Then we got back and then Wendy was still in town. So I went
and saw her and then that was that's it. And then it's been just
like you know, Natalia's going to Spain with with her got invited to go
with her family, and that's crazy. Yeah, your kids get invited to
the best stuff. The best was like when it last year and the year
before or whatever, when Sonny was like, Okay, I might be going
to Egypt. Oh yeah, yeah that never worked out. Oh yeah I
didn't. No, he did go somewhere though, with that family, right,
No, he never did family. No, he went to Japan with
the school, okay, and he's going to Japan and he's going to Japan
in July this time, not with the school, with his friends. So
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baby, Okay, So Spain. So this is with a close friend
of hers, yes, so not a Cobo friend now, one of the
Cabo friends. This is like one of her closest friends and their family is
going to Spain because they got a older She has an older brother that is
like he's a you know a dirt bike and he competes in competitions around the
world in Switzerland when we were in Cabo. So he's going to be in
Spain and her parents are going and they want they want her daughter to have
a friend. So Natalia gets to go and you know, I mean,
she's living life like one of the real housewives. I guess Cabo Spain.
Like all she needs is to like have some big fights right on film.
Yeah, yeah, so fun, yeah, it's fun. Yeah. So
I but she needs the right like traveling with her with her luggage and stuff.
Like I gotta get her like situated before this trip, and she can
only bring she can't have anything more than I think forty forty eight pounds because
they're taking like a like a puddle jumper to like one of the islands and
stuff. So I gotta get her like situated with that. How long is
the trip? Ten days? Oh wow? Oh okay, that's interesting because
as you know Xander, well you might not remember, but Xander's in des
Moines right now. He oh yeah, for nine days. It's funny the
difference between boys and girls the way they pack. Because Xander was like,
I'll just bring a carry on yeah. I was like no. He's like,
well, let me just I can just use a small suitcase. And
I was like, I don't think your stuff is going to fit into a
small suitcase, you know, because then he wanted multiple pairs of sneakers.
He had he was wearing a pair of sneakers, He had a pair of
dress shoes with him. He also had a nice pair of a nice pair
of sneakers, and then he wanted another one other pair of sneakers. So
he's you know what I'm saying, And I was like, you're not getting
all that, Like where do you Where are you going to have room in
the rest of this It's like the size of a carry on. I was
like, you have, but we don't have anything in between. So it
was either the carry on size or a big suitcase. I was like,
you got to bring the big suitcase and he was like, okay, so
how is it going? Like, hell, you know what I have barely
heard from him. I love it. It's so cute. He's I think
I told you he went with his speech in debate speech and debate coach who
is so great? I love her. She's just the she's cool, she's
fun, she's really passionate and she's so good with the kids. And then
her sister is really funny and fun kind of young, and so her sister's
coming to be a judge. So it's Xander, the kid, the older
kid that he just graduated that qualified for nationals, and Xander. So the
four of them are in an airbnb. There's another girl who traveled there with
her parents who is going to be joining them, but not I know,
maybe not until Wednesday. So he left on Friday and he is there until
this upcoming Sunday. Wow, that's a long time. So I've texted with
him a little bit, like I keep checking in and are you having fun?
And he's like so much fun, and he'll just be like, we
just made a target run and now we're eating dominoes and working on our speeches
and that's so great. And you know, he's never been away from home.
I know, he doesn't sleep over at any He hasn't had a sleepover.
I think he's had one or two when he was in young elementary school.
Really, he just doesn't. It's just not his thing. He sleeps
at home right always, and he has friends come and sleep at our house,
and he doesn't. But he's never gone on a trip without us,
He's never done anything. Wow. But he was ready. He was ready.
He's a fine cool as a cucumber. Were you nervous like a little
bit with traveling and stuff? I was, yeah, I was a little
bit. And he said he was nervous about like the airport. He wasn't
nervous about the trip and being gone, but he wass about like the airport.
And I said, well, that's going to be the easy part for
you. That's where I get anxious. But you you have adults with you.
We're going to handle everything. Right. I go. You don't need
to have your Your tickets are on your teacher's phone. R like, yeah,
you're good to go. Yeah, like you just follow them along.
And then he sent me a text and he was like, life, milestone
just got through security. I know. That was really cute. Yeah.
And Natalia used to get nervous with the airport too. I think it's just
like, you know, put your cheap you know, get everything, you
know, put it into this tray, take a shoes off, take your
pants, you know whatever this and I think and you know, rushing through
I think that gives maybe kids anxiety a little bit. He was also like
trying to be such a minimalist and he wasn't going to bring his computer,
and I was like, you know what, you're going to want your computer.
You have room for it. Because he was checking a bag and then
he was bringing a garment bag with all his dress clothes and the competition.
I was like, in a backpack. I go put your laptop up in
your backpack. You're gonna be so happy you have it. You're gonna want
to watch a movie on the plane. You're gonna want to have a little
comfort from home, like if you want to like play Fortnite or do your
thing. Because he was like, I could do everything on my phone.
I was like, but once you're there, you're gonna be like, why
didn't I take my computer? Yeah? And plus you need it for your
speech and debate stuff, like you just don't want to have to be doing
everything from your phone, right, And I did ask him if he was
glad he brought his computer, and he was like, oh my gosh,
yes, yeah, so good. Yeah, so he's he's good. It's
weird though, with him not being there isn't well because every time I'm thinking
about dinner or whatever. I think, Oh, there's only four of us,
right, you know, LB is hardly of her home. So yeah,
yeah, so gosh, but Natalia is going to be gone for ten
days. That's crazy. Yeah, Oh she'll be fine. Yeah, she's
she's in that family. She's she loves that family, and they're so good
to her. They're really sweet to her. Yeah, and yeah, it's
just you know, it's weird because they're meeting up with this other they're meeting
up with. So Nate Adam used to work with at the studio and now
him and his family live out there. Oh they know him because her because
Nataia's friend's father works at Warner Brothers. So she he knows Nate and they're
good friends. And also Nate hired their oldest son to work at the studio
for like a couple interns, like a couple of summers. Oh wow,
so they all like so it's so she's so I know, like she's going
to be at family's house, you know, with other families and you know,
and then she is traveling by herself too there with with her girlfriend.
That's just the two of them. And then the parents are meeting all meeting
at the airport in wherever they land, and then they're going to travel together
to the next but they're going like two different places. So wow. Yeah,
yeah, it's gonna be social. That's exciting. Yeah. So I'm
happy, like, yeah, my kids are going to be doing some traveling
this summer, international traveling. I feel like Saie. I feel like Xander
is going to be having this kind of fun summer and looking for a job.
And I just hope Sadie, like we don't have any trips planned nothing,
but does she want to I don't know. Yeah, she's a hard
read. So here's the thing about Sadie, and I did a whole Patreon
about a situation that happened that's fucked up. She's just she's she's a homebody,
but then she likes to have something to do because then when she's home,
she's clingy, you know what I mean, She's like, what are
you doing? I want to do something, you know. But I feel
like I'm not the I can't like I've got a life, you know what
I mean. I'm busy, and I just it feels like a pressure of
I have to entertain her, whereas my other kids really entertain themselves and don't
like Xander is very social and if he's home he's bored. So he will
call a friend and make a plan. And then the most he'll do is
go like, hey, I want to make a plan with so and so.
Would you be available to drive us? You know? Where as sadies
just like is there anything to do? Like a little kid, you know,
And I'm like, I know, make a plan, call somebody and
do something. But then she doesn't like the commitment being with a friend all
day because then she feels like well social, yes, yes, so it's
it's tricky. I know I've been dreading it being summer without reason. I
think school is good for her. It gives her a social life that's built
in beginning, middle, an end, and then she's not my kid who
makes plans after school with friends except for the weekend. Right, So she
has she doing with driving? Okay, glad you asked, but also not
glad you asked. So she we yesterday. My driving anxiety with her has
kicked up. Well now John has anxiety driving with her. Now. I
think it's because the last couple times we drove with her it wasn't fantastic or
she made but even though John was like, she only made like a couple
of mistakes, but the mistakes she made were kind of like jarring. So
now he's a little he hasn't been wanting to drive with her, but he
will. So I was like, well, I got to drive with her,
Like this girl's got to learn to drive, you know. So I
think I told you the last time she had an official driving lesson, she
had an extra one and they told us, yeah, she needs more practice,
don't go take the test yet. I only think she has like a
fifty to fifty chance of passing. So since then we've literally not taken her
driving. But it was sort of towards the end of the school year and
there was a lot of there were finals, and there was always sort of
she was always tired, you know. Yeah, so yesterday I was like,
Okay, we got a drive. So I kind of came up with
this genius plan, which is that Elbe was in charge. So Elbie can't
drive with her alone because she's not twenty five. Okay, so there needs
to be a licensed driver over twenty five in the car. But check this
out. I was like, how about Elbe, you sit in the front
seat with her? And I'll just sit in the back and like read a
book. So we did that. So yesterday Sadie drove us to the Tapanga
mall and I sat in the back seat and like read real phone. You
could do that without I don't mean there's a law, no, no no,
I mean like for your meant I wouldn't want to go. Like it
was better. It was better because Elbe is a very good driver, and
she's also really patient with kids and with her siblings, so she was so
calm about it, she says. Elvie said it didn't give her anxiety at
all. Nice and she just gave Sadie like I had driven with Sadie a
little bit like the day before. I don't know. We went to the
store, and even just going to the store, I was like, uh,
you're a little close to this car. I was doing that thing that's
so fucking annoying to other people and it's not it cannot be relaxing for her.
And I was like okay, And then this is me. I'm like,
what put on your blinker? And she's like I was about to mom,
and I'm like okay, but you were already like we're getting close to
the door. I'm like, you got to put it on before, but
it's it's got to be. I hear myself from outside of myself, like
I would not be fun to drive with. So then I try to keep
my mouth shut, but it's like like my whole body. I grabbed the
hand in the bar, you know. So I was like, Ohmi was
like, how about I sit in the front seat with her and write chill
in the back seat. No, it really worked because I know I'm being
crazy, like I have the self awareness to go. It's not it's not
good for her to have me grabbing. So I was like, if I'm
not I trust, I trust Sadie. Sadie told me that driving does not
make her nervous, so that's good. That's good. So I don't want
to create anxiety in her, right, So I was like, but I
don't know what the answer is. So this, this seemed to really help.
That's great. That's a great idea. So Sadie drove to them all,
did a perfectly good job. We worked a little bit with her on
her parking and then but then she was having period cramps and didn't want to
drive home. Right, was she really having period cramps? Or does it
really kind of make her nervous, but she doesn't want to let on.
We'll never know. Did she have to get on the freeway? We did
not take the freeway. No, we just took streets. Yeah yeah,
yeah, I get it. Well, I mean, like it is nerve
wracking. I mean that's a bridge too far. Yeah, I'm only I'm
only one person. I can't like, I know, we're not driving the
freeway with me in the car. She can do that with John, but
don't they need like a certain amount of hours with an instructor behind the wheel.
So she's already done. So she's done that. She's had her freaking
permit since last July, so she has to try to get her license in
July in the next few weeks. She has to try. Otherwise she has
to get she has to retake her permit test right right, which is not
fair to her. No, well, she needs to go out like as
much as possible. But to be fair to us, a lot of times
we ask her if she wants to drive, and she's like, oh,
I'm really tired right now, or there's like a reason. She has a
reason, So she's not really rare and to go all the time, right.
I remember that too with my kids, Like they would like drive to
one place and then be like, Okay, I'm done, I'm done for
the day. Yeah, you can drive home. So for a while we
were taking Sadie out for like an hour at a time, like just driving
around everywhere, and I think she was more used to it, And now
that she hasn't gone as much, it is more like Okay, I'll drive
there and then you drive home. Yeah. So, but the plan is
to drive with her like every day for the next couple of weeks and then
schedule the test and go do it. That's good, that's good, or
we might I might schedule it like even today for two weeks from now.
Yeah, you should just have it on the books and then just knowing it's
coming up, we'll just drive drive drive. Yeah. And you know the
good the good DMVs to go to right, Wittier, Well, the Sherman
Way one in Kanunga Park is supposed to be good. Oh okay, okay,
and Wittier. What am I thinking? Connect that's the one I was
trying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's to that one. That's the
one on Sherman Away. Probably it's almost Yeah, Yeah, that's what I
hear is the best one, so I'll try for that one. I Elbie
did it in the Van Eys one and it went fine. They got their
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Yeah? It was nice. Father's Day? Yeah, we did.
It was kind of like a party at the house on Sunday with Amy's dad
and her brothers and everyone came over. So we kind of celebrated Fathers down
Saturday for me and we just went to the beach, made a beach day.
Nice. That's it. That's it. That's all I wanted. Amy
got me another surf lesson, so I'm gonna be doing that on Wednesday.
Oh my gosh. As I've said before, I want to get into surfing.
So really, have you done it yet? I took one lesson a
few weeks ago. Did you stand that? Yeah? Sure, Wow,
it's so hard, but it seems very hard. Yeah. I guess it's
a little tough, but you know, but it seems very satisfying when you
stand up and catch a wave. Yeah, yeah, it's it is,
and you know, you just fall in the water, so it doesn't hurt
that bad, that's true. Yeah. I took a surf lesson when I
was doing parental discretion, uh huh, and I could not I couldn't stand
up. I did an entire lesson and never stood up once. It was
lame. I was lame. It's it seems like you have to you have
a good balance, not really actually, corese strength, No, not really.
Actually I don't have either of those things. But you know, I
was like dedicated to do it. So and the board that they give you
when you're practice just giant, like eight foot really. Yeah, it's it's
not like a little it's a big giant surfboard. It's a little easier.
It also seems like a lot of work, like you would be out of
like how do you manage that big ass board? It's in the water,
waves are carrying it down to the carrying is like I'd be like, I'm
good, yeah, and then then you got to put it into the water,
and then you've got to wrangle this ship like and then you got to
catch it at the right time. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like a
lot. Then you got to remember all the surf terms. You gotta be
like hang ten right, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's like
a ten inch surfboard. No, ten inch surfboard would be very ten foot
ten. But yet still that'sike antic I, who am six feet tall was
using an eight foot surfboard. Okay, so forget the whole hang ten meaning
meb it means like hang your ten toes onto the board? Oh could that
be it? Can you find out and report back. I have friends that
that I grew up with that they to this day because one of them is
a manager at the gels. Oh, you're actually right. It means to
ride a surfboard with all ten toes curled over the board's front edge. Wow,
hang me out? What what upp even a blind pig finds a truffle?
Yeah? Maybe I know a thing or two. I don't know,
honestly, that was a guess. But I do have friends that I grew
up with. One of them is he's a manager at the at my Gelson's
in my neighborhood. And when it's once in a while, I go in
there and I see him. When you go in there to spend forty yeah
exactly, they do have good birthday cakes. But he I would see him
and he'd be like, what up, Lynette, Like still the surfer dude
who I grew up with, married to the same woman for all these years,
goes surfing every morning before Wow like gets up at like that's a four
fat yeah, And he lives in the valley, lives by you and Wow,
goes every day to Malibu and surfs every day. It's a lifestyle.
I mean, this guy's like and he's like sixty by now. That's what
my the other podcast that I do, the only one in the room,
the producer Scott, that's what he does. He gets it before thirty every
day, or not every day, but he gets it before thirty. He
drives to Malibu and he goes surfing there. And I'll see him on like
Mondays at like one and he'd be like, oh, yeah, I went
surfing this morning. I was like, you drove all the way to Malibu
and went surfing and then came home and it's like one. He's like,
yeah, wow, terrible. Yeah. First of all, you have to
be packed, like you have a wet suit. Yeah, the amount of
equipment unless I lived on the beach, I can see and you just put
really only a wet suit and a surfboard and a towel. Yeah, but
for us, you need a chair. Well you've got to rest take a
whole time. Yeah, don't you got to take a break from Facebook.
Yeah, we're all calls and go on Facebook. Yeah. I mean you
would think you need to take a break and have something. Call your mom,
friends, just be like, what are you guys doing this morning?
Brag about you got up? Yeah, shame everybody. I've been up for
two hours surfing. But that not for me, not for me and stuff.
No, well that's for me. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well it's
a good way to keep in shape, I think. Oh yeah, it's
a hell of workout. Yeah. Yeah, and it's fun. I've been
going to the y m c A you have. Yeah, I've been getting
even like during the week with Wendy and stuff. I was like, I'm
just gonna go to the gym, trying to go like at least three or
four days a week just to get some cardio. That's it. I just
want to get like my cardio going because it's good for the heart. As
my doctor told me, our doctor, our doctor told me. Yes,
interesting, I'm gonna see our guy doctor knock around. I'm gonna see him
because I'm having eye surgery on the twenty seventh, and I have to have
I guess this this Friday, so today's Tuesday for you guys. Yeah,
I have to have one of those like a physical before you you know,
where they check everything, make sure you're not gonna die under anesthesia. Mm
hmmm hmm, not that you can ever be sure of that. But what
are you So you're having eye surgery? Mm? So you know how in
the past, like year or so, I always glasses. Now I used
to wear contacts and then put on readers to Yeah, so I can't.
I have double vision because I have something wrong with my eye muscle. And
John has the exact same thing. Wow, it's called strabismus. For some
people it looks like a laundry and eye looks like a lazy eye. I
have that, but it doesn't show so apparently, and I developed it as
an adult only a couple of years ago. Nobody knows why. Could be
from looking at my phone really close all the time, but still don't know
looking at computer. I don't know, but it's bad and I can't.
I have to have special a prism in my glasses and it's just it's expensive
to make the glasses. I can't have like several pairs because they have so
much to make and it's a pain in the ass where they're going to fix
it. That's interesting, Well good and this strip. So I had a
friend that had lazy right that Ray met at a party. Huh And I
was like, don't I knew where he was going to say something? And
then of course Ray goes, what's up stra business? Ray? Mind your
own strip business? Like shut up. I knew he was going to say
something. It's like, nice to meet you. I was like, you
had to do that, and he was like, I don't think he knew
what I was talking about. I'm sure he did. He did. Anybody
that has stra business probably knows it's actually that that's the medical term for you.
Yes, yes, but yeah yeah. I mean he's like a twelve
year old. But I was like, why do you have to do?
I knew I felt it in my bones when he was going to say something.
And he's like, yeah, what's up stra business? Oh my god,
unbelievable. There's a there's a dateline about this woman I think who killed
her husband. Pretty sure, yeah, you know, and her their last
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like strabismus business. Yeah, I wonder if she gets that a lot.
So now I always tell you. She's like, no, it's strabismus.
God, all right, yeah, so that's happening. I get some shows
I'll tell you about on Friday. Okay, yeah, I've been watching something
so stupid that I will tell you about on Friday. But before we go,
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