Made de San Joe a pace sunny sue on I hadasione nice. So what's
up? Everybody? Get your girls coming atchy ear lobes into your ear drums.
What's happening? What's happening? Let us say without further ado, let's
go through our fine names, like Aaron Treon, who's a dirty Sanchez,
Sarah Stefano, she's our Paisano, Stephanie Stinker Wrinker who's giving her shout to
Planned Parenthood. Yes this month, Yes, bitch, we need you,
thank you, so my god, do we need you? We need you
on that wall, Yes, thank you and happy birthday, yes, happy
belated. Also Leslie with the coughing because because probably COVID, she just doesn't
stop. No, and the other Leslie who's car doesn't stop a costing.
Those two they got, they got. I'm surprised she stills her freedom.
Alicia Ascalante, City of Amande, Kelly Brandt, she's supportive, very supportive,
you know what we're talking about, has great ass. Missy and Gabby.
I love those two. What are they up to texting each other?
You're in jail with Leslie Acosta? Oh good? They need to wake up
Katerina check your molar, and your girl Stephanie needs to check her molar because
guess what, I have a toothache. Oh no, hopefully by next week
I won't have had a root canal. Oh no, Okay, it feels
very similar. Lerai am luxur lecturing Katerina, and I'm the one who's like
not checking your molar, and my dentist is gonna say, have you been
wearing your mouthguard at night? Because I grind my teeth and I was religiously
and then I lost it and I got a new one, and I'm you
know, okay, this is like, sorry, guys, wait for your
shouts. But you the kind that you I buy them at Target. Yes,
and you have to boil it in the water, and then you have
to make them well, and it's a whole cashaw. Yes, you boil
it for like and then you leave it in the water for six minutes,
and then you scoop it out with like tongs, and then you put it
in your mouth and you crunch down on it for like three minutes and your
jaw hurts, and then you put it in cold water for another like.
It's like a complicated recipe, right, It's like a recipe project. It's
like a science project, and then you put it in and you're like,
it doesn't really fit that well really, so for all that, yes,
so then I kind of was wearing it, but then I was forgetting,
and sure enough I didn't wear it for like six weeks and now I have
a really got toothing. Now Looka's got to check her Moler yep, sorry,
Cattery, Wow, Valerie, Bubba Fenwick hits it out of the park
and Polly, we love your pancakes. Elizabeth Williamson, we love most of
your kids. Athena Ginschard. We love your dancing. Rita. You're just
rocking everybody's kids in that Ba for you. Jacob, you're so growley.
We love you. Uh, Nikki, call your girl? Aaron? Who
is Katie's rolling on? E? Kelly ladda Ashley, you're so chic.
Dick, you're frolicking. Sandra, it's not easy being green, Jennifer,
get up and Christa making me Wanda stroop? All right, I I scare
you. I'm trying to bring the energy up because I h had a long
night last night. I didn't sleep very well. Why what happened? What
happened? Well, Sunny left for Japan this morning. Oh what time.
I had to drop him off at his friend's house at six thirty. Okay,
okay, But the point is is that his and leave until ten fifty
five. The one of she's going with four other guys and one of the
dads is driving them to the airport. God bless him. So this is
not a school trip, no, no, no, this is going back.
This is my gift to Sonny for his eighteenth birthday. Yeah. I
decided, like, okay, this kid never he hasn't. He's gone through
birthdays where I barely buy him anything, like, you know, like he's
just that kid, like I'm I'm good. If I need something, I'll
ask or whatever. You know me. Yeah, he's like me, yeah,
yes, he is like you exactly. Yes, Oh, like I
don't need anything. Yeah, he's fine. To see something I want,
I'll buy it, right okay. So I you know, and then Natalia
on the other hand, you know, she's jet setting the Cabo and Spain
and New York and wherever the hell. You know, She's always doing something,
you know. But Sonny, you know, he doesn't ask for much.
And so it's eighteenth birthday and his four of his good pals that he
grew up with are going on this trip, like after graduation trip kind of
thing. So they were already planning it. They were already planning it.
They told Sonny about it. He wanted in one of them. One of
them is a couple of them are big travelers. One of them is the
kid that dad was going to take him to Egypt. Egypt. Yes,
so he goes everywhere with his family all the time. He's been to Japan
a bunch of times. Anyway, they got an airbnb enough for all of
them to sleep, and you know, they splitting it five ways, not
that much. And then he's going, you know, on his flight this
morning. So anyway, so the point is his flame. His plane didn't
leave until ten fifty five am this morning. And Sunny's a bad sleeper.
He's got insomnia and whatever, so he's been staying up. He's been trying
to stay up really late at night. So last night he pulled an all
night or didn't go to sleep, stayed up all night. Why because he
wants to be able to sleep. The flight's twelve hours or eleven and a
half hours, so he wants to be able to sleep on the plane,
and I don't blame him. So he's like, I'm just gonna stay up
all night and then just get on the plane and go to sleep. I
was like, all right, well, good good for you. And a
couple of his friends were doing the same thing. Okay, so they were
all like, you know, hanging out till late and then so anyway,
my point is is that he went to his friend's house, but he told
me. He's like, I don't know how long I'm gonna be there.
We're gonna watch movies and then I'll come home. Maybe i'll come home.
I don't know how what time I'm gonna go. And whenever he does that,
he walks everywhere because his friends live walking distance, and I can't sleep
until I know he's either staying in his friend's house or he's coming home.
So I was like, okay. I went to bed at like ten thirty
eleven, and then I wake up at one and he's not home yet and
he's at his friend friend's house. I texted him and he's like, I'm
gonna come home soon. We're finishing a movie. And I was like okay.
So then I'm like so then it was just on and off all night,
and then he got home at like two thirty. Then I don't know.
I fell asleep for a few hours, and then I woke up at
four and I hear him in the kitchen and he's like making himself something to
eat. So I get up and I'm hanging out, you know, I
don't know. It was just the two of us in Italian's gone at her
friend's house, so it was just the two of us hanging out. So
I don't know. I was just spending time with them, with him,
and then stayed up with him and got you know, he got himself,
he took care of everything, packed himself everything, and then I drove him,
dropped him off, and then I went home and then I came home.
I took Phil for a walk, came home, and it was only
like I don't know, seven twenty, fell back asleep, woke up at
nine, and that's why I was late. Oh, because I can leave
at nine and get here early. Really takes youo longer. It takes any
longer. Yeah, there's the traffic on the one thirty four. As soon
as you get on the one, it just stop. So anyway, that's
why I was late this morning, but I couldn't believe I fell asleep.
Although I'll tell you what I was watching later, But uh, I was
watching a documentary, but it just lulled me right to sleep, and I
didn't have my alarm, so all of a sudden, I'm like, I
wake up. I'm like, ooh, what the fuck, I gotta go.
Yeah. So but anyway, he's gonna be gone for ten days and
I'm hoppy. I'm happy for him, and I hope he has a great
time, which I'm sure he will. What a great eighteen year old birthday
present. Yeah, it's hard when the kids turn eighteen because you're like,
especially graduation gift too. Yeah, it's a turn eighteen on the sixth,
and then they turn then they graduate high school on the seventh, right,
one day apart, right, Yeah, it's like really like a graduation present.
It's like his graduation in eighteenth, everything all in one. Buying my
kids' gifts gives me a lot of anxiety. I started getting holiday anxiety,
like in the summer. I started thinking, but their tastes changed so fast
that I'm like, I don't want to get anything now. Remember last year
when I was all proud of myself because I look, I found gifts for
them on Amazon, and I was like, I'm gonna buy stuff early and
then you know, cut to like those just some little things that ended up
being like stalking stuff first, right, I know, by the way.
One of them was this electric I'm gonna this is gonna sound way better than
it was. It's like this drum. It's basically like a drum pad and
and it like lays flat and then but you can listen to it on headphones.
You plug it in and you can. Yeah, they've never used it,
you know. They both they want big things. Yeah, I know.
Well I'm so glad like that that time is over. I remember when
they were little, like little kids, and it's like did I get did
I get hurt? Too many things? And him not enough things? Oh
yeah, like ugh, that was just mad. Now it's just like you
know, money, have a good day, you know, happy Birthday,
Merry Christmas. You know they're older now, so I don't know, but
yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I was happy to be able to do
that for Sunny loves Japan, that kid. I love that for him.
I think he likes to travel, that's the thing he likes and he likes
traveling by himself, and he likes traveling with his friends. So and his
friends went back and forth on where to go for graduation. They were going
to go to Mexico, and he was like, I'm not going to Mexico.
If they're gonna go to I'm not going. He's because he's not a
fun in the sun kid, right, you know. So but then they
were like, I don't know. Somebody was like took the rein it's over
and was like, let's go to Japan. So that's uh, that was
my day. That's a lot. I have not been sleeping that well myself.
I I just wake up on my own. I'm happy if I see
a seven in front of the number when I look at my phone, but
usually it's six. It's six something. I don't have to wake up that
early. Yeah, I'm not. There's nobody's going to school. I just
I don't know what it is. Time's not menopause because I went through that
a long time ago. What time do you go to bed? To bed
around? So if I'm usually tired because I got up so early, so
now I get really tired, like before twelve. So I have this weird
thing where I like playing these New York Times games on my and they could
the new ones come out every day at midnight. So it's spelling Bee Wordle.
Oh. Fun, there's a whole bunch of them. Is it in
an app Connections it's you, Yeah, the New York Times. You go
on the website the New York Times. Yeah, And I ended up paying
twenty dollars. I feel like it was two years ago. And then I
get access to all the game all the games. That's fun. So I
mean wordles free. You can play Wordle for free, but you can't play
anyway. It's so stupid. But it's just a compulsive brain thing. So
sometimes I'll stay up until midnight, but I'm usually tired by then. Yeah,
Like last night I was watching I don't remember what I was watching,
something like Real Housewives of Orange County, and I just was at a certain
point, I'm like, this is good, but I'm so tired, I'm
just gonna turn it off and I went to sleep. John was out picking
Sadie up. I just my brain goes off the air at a certain point.
But yeah, usually I'm up till about midnight. Yeah, yeah,
me, and I'm up at six. Yeah, that's a thing. And
because it's been so hot, got awful hot. Like I get up early
every morning to take Phil for a walk just because it's good. It gets
too I mean even by like nine thirty ten, it's hot in our neighborhood.
I mean it's blazing. Does Phil bug you for a walk? Caw
will be? Does Phil bugs me? For uh? When he wants to
eat and for true eats sometimes not necessary walk walking isn't really feels thing,
but he needs to get out and get exercise and go for a walk.
It's good for me. I like it and bonding with him. But he
he he plops down on the lawn, like I've said many times, he
just spreads out and then he overheats, and it's like and he wants to
go home. And if I turn the corner, he stops and he doesn't.
He wants to go back towards house. Yeah, Penelope does that too,
Yeah, Penelpe's got this new thing. So I have this neighbor named
Mitch, who I've talked about on this show, and Mitch and I oftentimes
walk the our dogs together. He has a little chuaha. So Mitch is
helping out a neighbor across the street and he's bringing in their mail. And
so one day, like last week, he's like, Hey, I'm just
bringing in the mail. Do you want to bring penelpe into their yard?
And Penelope can like play in the yard and I was like, yeah,
okay, whatever before we were going to go for our walks. So Penelope
goes in the yard and then he opens the front door of the house and
Penelope just walks in there and he's like, oh, like, is she
gonna pee in the house? I'm like, what is she a monster?
No, she's not gonna pray in the house. But she had such a
great time sniffing around a new house. Yes, she was loving it.
She was like went into the kitchen and then she went and looked in all
the bedrooms and I don't know if she's getting doggie dementia and she thought maybe
it was her house that was full of new smell. I don't know what
was going on in her head. And I'll tell you why. Because we
go to leave and then every day she walks up to the gate of that
house, but the gate's locked because these people are out of town for like
six weeks, right, And I'm friends with the neighbors. And by the
way, they wouldn't care if Penelope walked in their house. There are friends.
But anyway, she walks right up to their gate and like sits there
and won't move. Last night, Xander and Lyla or Crocodile was sleeping at
our house. Last night went to go take people for a walk, and
they said they could not get her to leave that house. She wanted to
go into the house and that she wouldn't leave. They ended up having to
drag her back home. I think they even called John. I was out.
So it's so strange. That's like her new thing. And then I
brought her in again the other day because he was going to check the mail,
and she was so happy to go into their gate and then go in
their house. She went right up to the front door and was like waiting
we opened the door, so well, I mean, you know, maybe
well, you know, I always think like dogs, they must be bored
all day because then after the walk they just sit there. Yes, and
I'm like watch TV with me, so to come on, like, you
know, he gets in bed with me every night and he you know,
and he lays right next to me and I watched TV to fall asleep,
and I'm like, come on, Phil, look look at the TV,
Like are you bored? Like I just feel like what's going on in his
brain? I saw this video on like Facebook or whatever. Somebody posted this
video of this dog watching horse racing. So the dog's got its paws up
on like this, the TV stand face right in front of the screen,
and when the announcer's going, okay, they're to the gate or whatever,
the dog's getting like anticipation. The tail's wagging. And then when the horses
go, the dog starts jumping up and down. Its rear legs are literally
leaping up and down. I watched it like fifteen times. I showed it
to John. I showed it to my kids, and I was like,
why doesn't people get into the TV show? She has no interests. I
know, I've seen some videos and stuff where dogs pay attention and stuff even
when there's barking on the TV. Like he doesn't even flinch. O the
same with you now, And it's so funny, but like, yeah,
it's like, what what goes on in his brain all day? Like he
must be bored. So maybe people discovered a place like a new sense new.
You know, I don't know. Maybe that is how bored she is
that she's like, oh my god, they nap me somewhere new. Yes,
but the problem is Penelope's old. Now her leg's hurt. She doesn't
walk as well as she used to do, and she does not want to
get in the car because she thinks we're taking her to the vet. So
there's no real adventures I can take her on, like I used to take
her for a hike years ago. Julie and I used to take her dogs
hiking together. This dog could not hike at this point. A it's hot,
but Bee, she doesn't even She barely likes her walk. She's very,
very slow. She would not want to be going uphill. That's sure
about playdates, because I had a playdate for Phil this week. Oh you
did. Yes. My friend Jen walks. She has a dog walking business
and she picks dogs up every morning rain or shine, takes them on the
trails for like an hour and then brings them drops them off. So anyway,
she sometimes is like watching dogs for the afternoon, and she does the
trails in my neighborhood sometimes. So she brought two dogs over. One of
was her dog at chihuahua that was humping Phil the whole time, but it
was hilarious. And then this other like mixed breed and they were just he
fill out a blest. He was so happy when they came over. They
ran around for a while and tired each other out, and then he was
like done for the day. And I was like, this is great.
So I would one hundred percent do that. That's a great idea. Plus,
that's basically like these doggy daycares that you could drop your dog off for
the day and they go have fun with other dogs. Right. But Penelope,
who I've told you is the sweetest dog, will come up to any
human and just walk up and become like a petting whore. Yet like will
not leave them until they give her a pat. And she's fine with dogs
if we're out on the street, she'll never bother another dog. Right,
She's more timid if you get a dog in her, Like if they're together
in an enclosed place, well maybe into somebody's yard, she would do better.
Yeah, you cannot have her in the house with another dog, right,
she will go after them. Right, She's just super territorial. Yeah,
So then I then it becomes that's another thing, you know. Then
it's a whole thing, Like I don't know if she's gonna get along with
your dog, like right, so right to stressful cold try it. But
yeah, yeah, that's why I like, I've even thought about bringing Penelope
back when you would bring Phil sometimes to the studio and I would think about
bringing Penelope. But then I'm like, I just don't know, Like Phil
will be like a big glof and like have fun with Penelope, But I
don't know if Penelope is going to be like following Phil around, like right
right, challenging Phil to a pissing contest. Yeah, I don't know.
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Sadie got her driver's license. I saw that. Congratulations, Oh my lord,
which DMV did she go through? Just carry? She went to one
net C Okay, good, Okay. So she'd been practicing and practicing and
practicing, and you all recall my pain. I don't know when. It
was a couple months ago, six weeks ago when she had an extra behind
the wheel lesson and the instructor came back and was like, m is that
ready yet? No, I give her a fifty to fifty chance of passing.
So we were like, okay, we let the rest of the school
year finish, and then we were like, she's going to drive every day
and then we're going to set a date for her license. We set the
date for her license. Now, her license, her permit was set to
expire on let's I think it was July twenty sixth. Okay, so if
you don't get your license before your permit expires, you have to reapply.
You have to get your permit again. Right for my little ADHD girl,
who's going to have to then relearn like because I read at written test.
Oh my god. So that was going to be a nightmare. So we
plotted her driver's license day test for to have enough room for if she failed,
then we could have two weeks. Then we would be able to You
have to wait two full weeks and then you can do it again. So
we planned it so that there'd be enough room for two weeks to go by
and she could take it again, try again. Smart. I wish we'd
done it so that there was like two more times, but there was.
That was not to be okay. So morning of it, John's going to
take her to get her test. Obviously that's not something for me and my
temperament. But of course I'm in charge of making sure all the paperwork is
in order. I'm like, here's what you need, here's the checklist.
You need the certificate from the online test, which is staple to her permit,
and you need her permit, and you need as you remember because you
had this problem. You need registration for your car, registration plus proof of
insurance. Yes. So when LB got her license years ago, she didn't
her name wasn't on the insurance even though she was on the insurance right,
but her name, it didn't say her name on it. So she got
we had he John had to call our broker and while you know, while
she's waiting, it was like a whole thing, and LV was crying,
and so he had to call the broker and then she luckily it was during
the day obviously, and then she had to email over something with her name
on it, okay, and then she was able to do it. So
such a cushaw. Don't want that to happen again. So he has the
card, he has everything he needs. I start recording a podcast with Cecily.
I'm recording like something for you know, the bat for Rose Pricks.
My phone rings during the time that you know she's at the DMV. John
calls me. I'm like, bitch, now, I'm recording an episode right
now, Like why are you calling me? Right? So, but he's
got to be calling you for a reason. Like first, so I said,
I text back, I text and I go I'm recording right now,
and he goes, okay, never mind, problem solved. I'm like,
okay, cool, yeah, cool cool. Then he calls again. I'm
like, what is happening? That a problem apparently not solved, so I
have to pause my podcast. I'm like, I'm so sorry, Cecily to
my I was like, this must be something must be going on. John's
panicked. He's like, do you know we don't have the there's a form.
It's a yellow form that is for when they've completed their behind the wheel
hours with the direct Driver's Direct, which is the company we use. Yes,
there's a form that they say has to be and I was like,
I don't remember seeing that form. I don't know what you're talking about.
And he's like, well, they're saying that she cannot take her test about
that form the form for when she was taking the instructions. What the So
there's there's the one that they get. There's a certificate they get when they
finished they complete the online right, yes, portion, Then they get another
certificate when they've finished their six mandatory hours behind the wheel. That's the company,
right, Well, she completed them and apparently they spoiler alert they had
mailed it out to her. Oh, they didn't mail it out, so
they did mail it out, but I don't remember getting it. I don't
remember. Later Elbie told me, oh, yeah when we when I got
that in the mail, I immediately stapled it to my because Elb's yeah,
I know, yeah, not like me or Sadie. ELB was like,
yeah, we that came in the mal and then I attached it to my
permit and I know I had it with Italia did that too, Yeah,
So but I don't know. I don't remember it coming in the middle.
I feel like if something came from Drivers Direct, I would have been like,
oh, oh this is important, but I don't remember that. So
but I'm like, I don't I don't know. So then I say,
can you call, well, call drivers Direct, call the company and ask
and he's like, well, what's the number. You have the ability to
google as well as I do. But you understand hanging in your hands,
right, But he's stressing out. Apparently Sadie's really upset. He's stressing out.
So I was like, all right, it's stressful because you get in
line and then you get up there and then they it's just it's such you
know, you wait for a long time. Your kid's like anxious, ready
to get this over with. You know, you're wanting to get this.
It's just it's it is. It's yes, Yes, it was aht of
thing. They'd started an hour before, they went and got coffee, and
then they'd practiced driving, and they'd already driven the route a couple of times.
So she's ready to go, right, So I said, so I
give him, I get him the number. He calls. He's like,
Okay, they're gonna prepare a copy of it, but I can't go in
and pick it up until after twelve tomorrow. Okay. So I'm like,
okay, can email it to them or anything you have to. And it
has it's like a yellow It's like there has to be a form. I
said, okay, okay, He's like, can you I said, well,
we have to make sure that she we have to reschedule the test.
We can. We need to reschedule it immediately for like tomorrow, maybe tomorrow
afternoon, so that because we still need to she needs to have enough room.
Yes, if she doesn't pass, to reschedule it for another two weeks.
So I go online, I put the information looking for another test date.
Well, they'd have nothing for that week. So this was on This
was last Tuesday. Yeah, okay, there's nothing that week in any DMV.
Look, I check Thousand Oaks, Santa Monica, all of them nothing
for that week. The only appointments they have are for the following Well,
the following week would be too late if she doesn't pass, right, so,
because it wouldn't leave enough room if she fails, even if it was
on that Monday, it wouldn't have been two weeks until we could reschedule it
again. Yeah okay. So I'm like, oh, this is not good.
This is going to be so much pressure if she can't take it till
next week. She can't fail, right, So I happen to have the
text, And this goes way back to COVID. We're friendly with the guy
that owns drivers Direct because one of those mom Mom Mafia things where one of
the moms got to know him and got his phone number and then started passing
it like going just call this guy directly. His name's Eric Creditor, and
he's super nice and he arranged for but I've never like abused my Like I've
had his phone number and I used it when I first got it to help
get LB was during COVID to help get lbe an appointment. I've never used
it again, but I'm like, I'm gonna just text this guy. I
text the guy. I'm like, Hi, you might not really know me,
but my daughter is at the DMV right now. She didn't she doesn't
have her form, blah blah blah. My husband says that you guys can't
get him another one until tomorrow, after twelve. He writes me back right
away and he's like, I can get it for you right now. Wow.
He's like, So he's like, can you And he's in Chatsworth and
they're in Winnetka, so it's not that far. He's like, we're like
ten minutes. He's like, which DMV are you at? I said,
Winetka. He's like, we're ten minutes from you. Wow. Have your
husband come over and get it and see. I don't. I can't guarantee
they're gonna still take her though, right she had an appointment. She had
an appointment. He's like, but then you could try to come back right
and see if they'll take her. Yeah. Okay, So so I called
John already on his way back. He said Sadie's super upset. I was
like, well, guess what turn around, go to go to Chatsworth and
they're gonna make it for you, and he's like are you sure? Are
you sure? I was like, yes, I just talked to the owner
of the company. They're gonna get it's gonna be there. So he goes
there sure enough. They're like are you John, John and Sadie and he's
like yep. They're like, here's your form. He goes, thank you.
He goes back to the DMV. Meanwhile, I am trying to still
do a podcast. Just gonna say, right, this is default parenting everybody,
This is this is DN default. Yes, I'm here, Yes,
John's driving, and I understand listen, we're If John was listening to this
right now, he would have his own side of the story. Yes,
it was a lot for him. He's having to deal with Sadie being upset.
He's trying to do what I tell him to do. But now he
goes back to the DMV with Sadie and he's like, dude, the line
is long. We have to get back in the line, like start over
basically, And it had been like twenty minutes the first time even with an
appointment, right, So now he doesn't even really have an appointment because it's
been it's been like at this point, like an hour and a half.
Does he even know if once he gets up to the line that they'll take
her? Noah, No. So he's like, basically he had said,
meanwhile, let's make let's make an appointment, you know. So that's when
I'm like, guess what, there's no appointments. There's nothing else this week.
So I'm like, you better pray, and I go, you got
a beg and explain the situation. Just tell them like that she's gonna it's
gonna be too much pressure. We're not gonna have two weeks. Please take
her. And he's like, I'll do my best, you know, got
to get through this line first. There's a lot of people waiting. Anyway,
I try to finish the podcast that I'm recording, and then I'm like
I text him, I'm like, what happen are you through the line?
Like this line is really long? Anyway. Finally he texts me a picture.
He's like, we're on deck during the line to take the test.
Poor Sadie is so stressed at this point though, and I was even like,
I don't know if this is a good idea for her to take it
like upset, you know. And apparently I found out later she was.
He had her driving everywhere. So she drove from the DMV after they didn't
let her take the test to Chatsworth to go get good. Yeah, but
he said she became like this aggressive driver. He said he'd never dealt with
that before I have, And he said that he she almost got in an
accident. She like started driving fast and she like swerved around somebody who was
like the pulled over. He was like, yeah, no, no,
Sadie, I was scared for my life. Do not ever do that again.
And then and then he said she drove fine after that, but you
know, she was just anyway. Anyway, all of this is like my
im having a heart attack, trying to like talk about you know, the
Bachelor or whatever the hell I'm talking about ninety eight on rights And meanwhile I'm
just waiting to find out. And then he writes, oh, so now
he's giving me minute by minute. I was like, well, what happened?
Because you know, they go off with the driving test person and he's
like, okay, she's she's talking to the guy. Yeah, they're talking.
They're back. He's like, they're back. I'm like, okay,
they're back from her test. So we're timing it. He's like, it's
supposed to it's about seven minutes, but now it's been ten minutes. Then
it was twelve minutes. And then he's like, they're back, and I'm
like, okay, what's happening. And he's like, she's talking to the
guy. He goes, she doesn't seem sad. I thought I saw a
little smile. And then he writes, oh no, and then I write,
oh no no. Because of course, now I'm like, we're fucked.
We're absolutely fucked, because now we the she she can't even do it
again, right right right. I'm like, oh my god, oh no.
Well at least I was like, well, she'll have one more chance
to do it, and that's it. Yeah, But then he goes,
she passed. I's gonna say. I was like, oh my god,
I'm gonna kill you. Yeah, oh my god. I like that she
got aggressive. I mean, I just meanwhile, she hasn't driven by herself
since then. I'm too scared to let her drive by herself. I'm like
that, I'm still nervous about her weird driving. So I think I'm gonna
let her drive with Lbie even though it's not legal, right, It's technically
not legal. They're supposed to drive, yeah, their provisionary license. They
can't drive with any friends in the car. They all do it. They
all do it, and they have to drive. The only way they can
drive is with a licensed driver who's over twenty five by them, that's the
only person they could be in the car with. But I was like,
I don't know. I mean, well, I think, you know,
I know that's the it's technically not legal, but I'm probably gonna let her
do it. Yeah, And I think Lby's a good person for her to
go with. Great person, Yes, And then I don't have to be
that could be a a to B conversation. I see my way home on
my bed watching TV. It's like, let them, you know. And
and I think seems to me like Elbe would have like a very like calming
presence, very calm, whereas you might like, you know, so calm,
so calming. Yes, right, yeah, but you would think John's
calming. And yet she freaked out and was driving. Well I think that
was probably because well, First of all, I the reason why I kind
of like it is because it seems to be she's getting comfortable driving, Like
yeah, now think about it that way. Yeah, if she's she's getting
comfortable with the maneuvering of the car and the you know, the the rules
of the road. But yet she's now panicking and trying to get trying to
get this you know, piece of paper that she needs and you know,
so she's in her mind is kind of going like, Okay, I need
to you know, get there. So that's you know, I feel like
having a kid get their license and you you won't know this yet, but
it's almost like childbirth in the way of like, I know that I was
really nervous driving with LB. I know I was nervous after she got her
license, but it's like I've forgotten about it because now I'm really comfortable with
her driving and I don't think about it. Right. So I'm sure I
was bad about Elbe and nervous about her going places. Yeah, but now
I don't know if it's if it's an age thing, but now my anxiety
it feels like it's tripled. It's possible I felt that way the first time
and I've forgotten. Yeah, no, it's gotten worse. Well, first
of all, the good news for there's good news for Xander, Like when
he's ready, he's gonna be perfectly fine. He's gonna have everything he needs
as a DMV. He's gonna have his appointments at the right time, like
smooth sailing for him. This sounds this is going to sound so bad.
So I hope my kids don't listen to this podcast. But I have a
feeling that Xander is just going to be a good driver. Yeah. I
think he's just different than I'll be, and very different than Sadie in the
way that he's very calm. Yes, he's very smart, he's he has
very good instincts, yes, yet, and he's defensive, he's but he
has enough. He's very careful as well. I can just see he's cautious,
but he's also confident, do you know what I mean. There's a
lot of things about that I don't understand why Xander isn't in more of a
hurry to get his yeah and that his permit. I have a feeling that
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on Patreon. Right, I'll just tell you about it now, Yeah,
tell me about it. I'm interested. Okay. So we talked about this
on Patreon, a long Patreon about it, but I felt like it got
such a big response from people. I think a lot of people are dealing
with this with their kids. So the long and the short of it is,
I had taken Sadie a few months ago, I think I talked about
this on the Regular Show, to a place in Agora, California that took
insurance and I got her the whole all the testing to see what is happening
in her brain with her learning struggling in school. Blah blah blah. Also,
her doctor had said she suspects ADHD, but all the tests that she
was doing on her and then you know, they make the parents do a
self report, and they make the kid do a self report, and the
parents fell out a report and she said, all the information still comes out
borderline for Sadie. She said, I don't feel comfortable prescribing her medication.
Sadie's been saying forever, I think I can't focus, I can't focus.
But I was like, I think it's something else. I think that you
have maybe some kind of processing, like maybe an auditory processing. That's what
I felt like, because I would look at the symptoms of ADHD, and
I'm like, she's organized, she's a hard worker. She's if I tell
her three things to do, she does them like she's not typically like airheaded
or seems like she's not listening, like right right right, But they're agree
with that. I mean, I remember reading those symptoms with my kids too,
and I was like, you know, this doesn't match their personality.
And I mean, I wouldn't call I wouldn't say Sonny's got eighty HD at
all, but they did when he was younger. But I think, I
think, I don't know, it could be something else. I don't know
if it's a processing I don't think for him it's a processing thing. I
just think that he tends to zone out, but he also takes in the
information, which is weird. Well, so yeah, so and did well
on tests, so yeah, go ahead, Like so, Sadie does not
test well at all. She has a thing where teachers think she's not listening
because and though she is, she gets over her brain gets overwhelmed very easily,
you know, if she's she can only learn so much and then she
just like I can't handle it well. So we did take her to the
place they did all this testing on her, and we just got the results
back on July fourth. Okay, And that is what I did the Patreon
about, So the testing. Is there anymore test results coming back? You
got? No, we got everything. I just didn't tell you about the
other stuff because it was like she's behind in certain air in certain grade levels.
They this was like comprehensive testing, right, but all of it was
like normal, A little elevated here, a little below level here, blah
blah blah until it got to the ADHD and then it was like off the
charts. Well, and of course I was like, okay, but how
do you know? And they said, it's basically scientific. They give them
these tests, they give them these tasks to do, and then they increase
the complexity. So it's like, okay, okay, you're gonna if you
see a if the light turns red, you're gonna hit the yellow button.
And if the light turns yellow, you're gonna hit the red button. Okay.
So first it's like every time the red button lights up, you're gonna
hit it. Then we're gonna change it. They keep adding things, they
make it more complex, and as soon as they made it more complex with
her, she couldn't do it, or she would just do it but make
mistakes and not even realize she was making mistakes because her brain just wasn't it's
like a scientific thing, and it's all like kind of computerized. Yeah,
And they run them through all these tasks and you could see where the reading
was like yeah, yeah, so ADHD fo sure, And it explained a
lot of things. And then I asked the woman, the doctor, the
one that and I said this on Patreon, so for you Patreon people,
bear with me. But the doctor who who gave us all the results was
really cool, really knowledgeable, and said she'll come be a guest on our
show. That's right, yes, And she was like, listen, I
have ADHD. It's really obvious. And I tell these kids like this can
be your superpower. You know, you just have to understand yourself and understand
how your brain works. And I told Sadie the news and she was overjoyed.
All she wants. All this kid was like, medicate me, please
medicate me for this. And I'm like, I'm not medicating you. You're
drug seeking, you just want stimulants. I'm like, it sucks a quick
fix, right, like we all do, like I love a quick fix,
and I get it. But but I was like, if she's not
actually ADHD, I'm not medicating her. She drinks enough coffee. But the
doctor was like, listen, this is probably foresure having to do with her
prematurity and the way that her brain developed, and like not that lots of
kids have this issue. Tons of kids have ADHD, and I'm sure for
all different reasons. But she was like, I think with Sadie. It
was the brain development in utero. You know, she wasn't getting enough oxygen
blood flow because she was where she was attached, was there scar tissue,
and it changed her brain a bit because you know, she hurt the most
of the oxygen and blood flow went to her. I don't know if oxygen
comes, yes, because the blood has oxygen. Again, I went to
medical school and I specialized in obgyn, but then I dropped out at the
last minute. I didn't do all my hours, so you forget, you
know, exactly, so whatever to like private high school, right right,
So the stuff goes through the umbilical courts. Stuff happened, happens, and
we can't explain w sideways. She went sideways and she was like not eating,
and you know, blah blah blah. Xander got all the all the
blood flow. He was doing fine. He was attached in a perfectly reasonable
place. She wasn't. And they said look out for when she's in school,
look out for learning differences, which I did, but then we never
got the proper diagnosis. Okay, anyway, she started meds and I'll tell
you so, we had the meeting with her psychiatrist who was like I saw
the report. Yes, this is such a clear cut I feel very comfortable.
I think she should. You should try medication. We wanted to try
it in the summer. We wanted to try it as soon as possible so
we can make sure it works with her system. This is a kid who
can drink so much coffee. I've told you that if I drink a little
bit of coffee, Yeah, I have this such a it's like a small
cup of coffee. Any more than that, I'm a total cunt. Yeah
yeah, like I can't help it. I'm just irritable, nervous, like
more than I normally am, right, more hunty than usual. With Sadie,
she can drink like a lot of coffee. She's told me she's never
really felt jittery. Well, John's the same way, so they have the
same system. Yeah, that's yell. Well it's like there, that's their
makeup. You know. She can drink a big cup of coffee at night
and go to sleep. My dad used to do that. I think it's
her. I think it is because she needs stimulants to make her brain work
better. So anyway, they prescribed her a drug called a Starry, which
is a new brand name drug, which when I went to CBS to fill
it, they wanted me it was it's four hundred and ninety five dollars a
month. Okay, obviously I'm not going to be paying that so but the
doctor said, yeah, they had a coupon brought it down to twenty five
dollars. Wow. Yes, Otherwise I would have just gone with an older,
a drug that is off brand now that has a generic. That is
what I'm trying to say, like Concerta. But anyway, she and of
course I was like, do they make a non stimulant version of this?
And she said they do, but that is not the gold standard. That
is not that is what we go to if the kids can't handle the stimulant.
So sounds like I don't know if anybody out there is judging me for
putting her on medication, but guess who Guess what? This shit is a
miracle drug. Even though it's summer and there's nothing for her to really focus
on, started her on the meds. She read a book in two days.
Oh, because I told her that if she wants to be medicated for
ADHD, she also has to do things on her own. It's not it
isn't just a quick fix. You have to read because you've gone all this
time reading because you hate it and you have no tolerance for it. But
if I think it should be easier for you to read, but you're it's
a muscle. Yeah, you're gonna have to start reading. So she read
Thirteen Reasons Why in two days and now she's reading Dear Evan Hansen and yeah,
and she doesn't feel any different on the medication. So we were talking
about it and I was like, you don't feel stimulated at all, and
she goes, no, I feel the same, and she goes, but
I did read a book in two days. And I was like, well,
there you go. It's working. Wow, that's amazing, that's great
news. Yeah, I am telling you she's like sharper, do you know
what I mean? Like there's something she's she's more like quicker responses, but
doesn't seem at all nervous or right or speedy's net service. What do you
call it? The central nervous system. You know it is probably because,
like like you said, with the caffeine out effects her doesn't really affect her,
so you know, it's probably in the same category. Or so I'm
still letting her drink a bit of coffee for any because you know why she
I tried the first day. I was like, okay, the no more
coffee. You're on a stimulant. Of course, got a caffeine withdrawal,
a headache. So I was like, all right, let's let's wean slowly
have coffee. Right. She makes herself like a three shot three shots of
espresso. She used to do that for school. Wow, and feel fine.
Yeah, well you can't argue with success. She was getting good great,
So I was exactly, do what you gotta do, sister, exactly.
So what did they say, what the side like, any side effects
or anything. She's not having any side effects. She feels fine. And
do they they say like to stay away from caffeine or like any other I
mean, is there any like? She just like, don't she shouldn't be
drinking a bunch of coffee because she's on a stimulant. It could be like
bad for her heart, you know. So she has cut down, but
she can. She's having a little coffee and like, I don't know,
but it's great. So for anyone out there on the fence, Yeah,
this is a success story so far. Well now I'm starting to wonder because
you know, Natalia has complained about, you know, being able to focus
and stuff like that at school, and so now she's always struggled a bit,
she has, and but she's never really been proper diagnosed. You should
take her to this place. I think I'm gonna I'm gonna look into it.
Yeah, And she said before, she's like, maybe I need medication
because of course, like her friends, some of her friends are on it
and stuff like that, and she's like, I think maybe I need something
like I And I was like always like no, just you're doing all right.
You're doing all right. I don't need medication. But now hearing this,
like, I would love to have both of them tested. It's called
Diagnostic and Counseling Center and it's in a Gora, Okay, California. For
anybody that is wanting to rench out to me. They do take insurance and
they take insurance. Yeah, that's amazing, very hard to find places that
take in now, so I love the whole thing. Cost us fifty bucks.
Wow, isn't that crazy? It's crazy? Yep. I'm gonna start
to finish. I'm gonna do it. I wonder if I can get them
in before school starts, you might be able to. Yeah. I mean
when we did it, we got her in in like three weeks to a
month. Okay, when does Sunny leave for school. Sunny leaves it that
like towards the end of September. She leaves at the end August. Okay,
so I gotta get on it. It doesn't have to go until the
end of September. Now it's community college, so that's when they start out
there. Okay. Yeah, LB doesn't go till the end of September either,
that's nice. Yeah, all right, this is great news. I'm
so happy you shared that with us. I bet a lot of people are
gonna get a lot of, you know, helpful info from this. Yeah
and bye. By the way, Sadie gave me permission to talk about it.
Yeah, she had given me permission to talk about it. I still
felt like it was a little bit private, so I talked about it only
on Patreon, but she said, if you want to talk about it on
the regular show, that's fine. I have no shame, no shame in
my game. And the response was so big from you guys just wanting more
information and feeling like you're going through the same thing. That. I was
like, I think it's worth bringing up our own show. Glad, Thank
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