Speaker 1: Made a decision. Face sunny sun, I head oasion.
Speaker 2: It's nice.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to for crying out loud.
Speaker 3: It's another week.
Speaker 1: It's another week, another day, another dollar, lots to talk about.
Speaker 2: What How did this year go by so fast that
it's already everybody's least favorite time of year teacher appreciation month?
Speaker 1: Like month, it's teacher appreciation a week.
Speaker 3: But I cannot tell you.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're having that right now. I have
not heard let's.
Speaker 3: Say, a national thing like Secretary's Day.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought, but we haven't heard anything. I
haven't heard anything. Or maybe I'm ignoring the school. I
don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't ignore it at our school, Linnett, because
you would think. I swear to god, I was watching
a dateline the other night and they broke in with
an emergency interrupted dateline to tell you that Valley Charter
is its teacher Appreciation week.
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Did you go to sign up? Genius?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I saw it at the on the crawl at
the bottle CNN. It's like, okay, listen God.
Speaker 2: Our girl Angie, who's been a listener since for years,
she's I feel bad for her because I know she's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, guys, sorry, this is this is.
Speaker 2: She's one of the room, so she has to send
out all the emails, and I know that she's.
Speaker 3: Like, sorry, I'm sending another one.
Speaker 2: Yes, but there have been I've gotten no fewer than
like eighteen emails are a lureless texts, flyers that went home.
Oh my god, listen, we've talked a lot about teachers.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the goddamn.
Speaker 3: Shit out of teacher.
Speaker 2: We don't need to celebrate them. Why did they get
celebrated so much more than mother? We get one day?
Speaker 1: I know, one day. I usually don't bother them no
about our day.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't send flyers and go hey, hey, mother's
days coming up?
Speaker 3: Did you figure out what you're gonna do? Sign up genius?
Speaker 1: Hello, Missus Thompson, that's sign up genius.
Speaker 2: So okay, Monday is I don't know, coffee, coffee, bring
your teacher their favorite coffee drink and Starbucks.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Do they do this at
LB school? Do they do it in middle school too?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Thank god, no, thank god. I know that's why I
haven't gotten anything. Not that they're in middle school yet,
but they're at the end of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got to find you a couple of these.
I have so many sign up geniuses and once you
sign up, then they're like then there's always like an addendum, right,
It's like, hey guys, hey, everybody, thanks for signing up,
but just one thing, well on the gift bag that
we're get the gift basket that, yeah, so we need
that end of day Tuesday, not Wednesday, at the beginning
of the day.
Speaker 1: So does somebody want to put it together? We need
somebody to put it together.
Speaker 3: So we got somebody volunteered to put it together.
Speaker 1: And does somebody want to volunteer shit to put into
that gift back that that one schmuck has to put together?
Tickets to Jimmy Kimmelive.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, who's got Does anybody have a connection to
get iGaming sure Disney passes for the year?
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I would give out tour of Adam's warehouse. That became
the biggest pain in the ass because I would do
it and then months later I would get the email
from like the Dad'd be like, hey, my brother is
in town and hit him and his wife are really
car enthusiasts, So can we bring like six people. No,
No is right?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: And do I have to be there? Sure? Go go
find Dylan. I'm not gonna take him around. He'd be
lucky if you see Adam. And if you do, he
wants not gonna make eye contact with you or anything.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, he's on the spectrum, right, so he
don't expect much. Okay, this one, this is one of
the ones. Okay, so this is the best that the
email from Angie. Okay, so and so has agreed to
coordinate the basket for our teacher, Miss Parker, love her
her class. Please take a moment to sign up and
bring the item in by Wednesday morning. May second. You
can connect with so and so. That's the person who
stepped up to put it together. Thank god for this girl.
Rachel stepped up. And here's her name, and here's your
phone number, and here's your email, and here's the sign
up genius. By the way, this is like email number
fourteen from Angie and Angie, no offense to you because
I adore you. It's not your fault. And then the
next one. Apologies for the multiple emails. Please see the
updated info. We need items by end of day Tuesday.
Also to clarify, we're making two baskets, one for this
teacher and one for the teacher's assistant. Of course, take
a minute to sign up for an item for the
teacher appreciation baskets.
Speaker 1: So and don't forget the janitor, don't forget the teacher.
Oh my god, lazy. By the way, I never do anything.
We are living the same life. I know, I now know.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, everybody complains about our pe teacher,
but they're like, I forget her, and the music teacher
who's condescending, and the kids don't like.
Speaker 1: God, they're doing Willy Wonka and the kids cannot. She's
like she's an actress type, right right. I think she's cute.
But Sonny's just annoyed. It's all hell. He's like, she's
not that great. She thinks she's like jazz hands. Like
he's like, I gonna take those jazz hands, and like,
you know, he can't. Nobody likes her. She is condescending
and and the pe teacher no offense, but she doesn't
do much. So this is the thing, and drinks Coca cola.
That's not very healthy. No, it isn't.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: If you want to appreciate if you're like, you know
what that pe teacher to me? You know, some of
these other moms don't love her, but to me, I
think she goes above and beyond. Right, you know, yeah, sure,
does she drink a Coca Cola now and again? Yeah,
but I love her? Right, great, you go appreciate her.
Speaker 1: You got gary Starbucks gift card?
Speaker 3: Then why does it have to be such an organized like?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: It's just like I don't I don't want to be
forced because the more I get, the more it's like, okay, guys, listen, Okay,
So here's the here's what our schedule is. So Monday,
I think was bring your teacher their favorite coffee. So
somebody's got your brands out today. No I did not
because I'm in a hurry. I have to take the
other one to school. I don't have time to go
to Starbucks make some fancy drink order and bring it
into the teacher. Okay, but here's what I did do.
I'm not that much of a no getter, but it's
the kids are not even appreciating the teachers. I appreciate
you running around appreciating. Day two is homemade card flower?
What pick one.
Speaker 1: Filmmade card flower.
Speaker 2: Flower and then now flower yea, so now you need
parents to put together.
Speaker 3: The you know, to my God stuff. So that's a
couple of flowers.
Speaker 2: And remember the time I told you years ago, I'm
still mad about it when I actually when I was helping,
I volunteer to help put the flowers in vases or vases,
and I cut one of them because it was really long,
and the other mom was like, why did you cut
thatt like to make it the same size as the
other ones?
Speaker 3: That No, it's supposed to be higher. How the fuck
should I know that?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Am I a florist? Go to hell?
Speaker 2: So that okay, So that's Tuesday, So of course what
have I been doing? Hey guys, you guys want to
make your teacher their card. Get ahead of the game.
Not put it off till Monday at ten o'clock at night. Okay, Mom,
Hey guys, did you guys make your homemade card for
your teacher.
Speaker 3: You're gonna do it right now, Hey, guys, hand it over.
Had that card come out?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I haven't done it yet, Mom, We're about to do.
Speaker 2: It's been made, so that'll be tonight.
Speaker 1: After the rest of homework.
Speaker 2: And then they're gonna be like, okay, so that's Tuesday.
So then Wednesday is gift basket Day. So that's where
the sign up genius, the genius sign up genius goes in. Now,
so we get multiple emails about what the basket is.
Remember last time I was like one of them is.
Speaker 3: Doing a beach theme.
Speaker 1: Last year I was like, yeah, get her some freaking copper.
Speaker 3: And like, just get a card. Nobody wants that. Nobody
wants a ninety beach towel from the nine month Sense.
Speaker 2: Store in flip Flops where that stuff is going to
get round filed as soon as they get home.
Speaker 3: They're going far the gift card and go thanks.
Speaker 1: Kikes into the drash.
Speaker 2: Right, So this one is a Spa it's a Spa basket.
So they list all the items that you can sign
up to get, which is sweet and great, but.
Speaker 1: That's all you need. Do you have to have a
whole week of this? Just do a basket from the class, right,
you go, right, we appreciate you, We want you to relax.
Speaker 2: Also, the items were super specific. You know, they were
like a lavender eyepillow. Well that sounds that easy to get.
Speaker 3: Notice.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to bed Bath andom Beyond and
go find Yeah.
Speaker 2: So act I went to TJ Max and I got
I signed up for I figured that was the most
no getor way.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because first of all, Sadie loves to go to
TJ Max.
Speaker 3: It's like the favorite thing.
Speaker 2: So and she loves to buy that kind of stuff
like smelly soaps and body butters and stuff. So it's like,
go to TJ Max and we'll look for the imask
and what have you the things on the list. So
we didn't find any Ie masks, but we got her
some body butter, a mug that says about teachers. I'm
a teacher, what's your superpower or something? Okay, I had
to send it for a mug, a mug, some pillow spray,
some relaxing sleep pillow spray, anduten yeah, something else. Oh oh,
and I'm giving her some I found in my closet.
Speaker 1: Sword and scale mugs.
Speaker 3: No coconut scrub ah.
Speaker 1: Copari.
Speaker 2: Yes, love that stuff, have a lot of it at home.
That I was going to say for that, if you're looking.
Speaker 1: At a drawer, you'd find something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, regifting.
Speaker 2: So so I have to bring all that stuff to school, okay,
so that's Wednesday. Then for the other teacher. Keep in mind,
for us it's times two. So everything you're doing for
one class, you got to do it for the other exactly.
Luckily the other class is a dude, so they're like, hey,
can you kick in Timbaio.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: I can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's smart. So that's for him and his assistant.
I guess someone will get gift cards. I don't know
what they're up to. Then Thursday is, oh, okay, so
Thursday is like the special lunch day. Yes, Thursday is
like the luncheon. Okay, so they want people. They want
people to prepare meals, not kidding, bring in treats and stuff,
and they're going to do a whole luncheon for all
the teachers on Thursday. Then Friday, Oh it's not over, Lynnette,
Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Friday is SPA day. And then I guess, I don't
know what the.
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Probably, yes, what do they want? Uncomfortable now, No, I'm
not doing that. That's inappropriate, Lenet. I don't want to
give my teacher shoulder.
Speaker 1: Rub I wouldn't do any of it, to be honest,
I'm dying I don't think.
Speaker 2: The teachers want no Stephanie Wildertailor to come in and
be like, let me give you a shoulder.
Speaker 3: Rub, Let me get behind you.
Speaker 1: Hey, how you have that?
Speaker 3: How do you feel any more relaxed?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 2: Can we talk about Sadie's that you paid for a minute,
just while you're here, while I'm rubbing you out?
Speaker 3: What do you think of Sadie's reading? Is it coming along?
Or how do you could?
Speaker 2: Can we go in another room by ourselves and the
sparker so I can just really just get in there,
get into some of those knots, and just really get
into some of these topics.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to dig your Oh yeah, that's horrible week.
That's horrible.
Speaker 3: So I feel like.
Speaker 1: And you're being raped. That's what I feel like.
Speaker 3: I am being I'm violated right now, So I did.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate our teachers, and I do want you
here to have stuff, but I think it would just
be a lot easier if I could just pay the
ten bucks, like I am for one teacher, right, But
I'm bringing in the stuff for the gift basket.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's enough? Like I don't also make
cookies for the one.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. By the way, they're not
gonna notice if you're not, if you're not dropping off
homemade sugar balls or whatever, or you know what I mean,
They're not gonna go like, wait a minute. We got lasagna,
we got the cookies, we got them, We got the spaghetti,
we got the pizza. Where Stephanie Wilde Taylor's baking? Where's
her pies? They're they're not gonna know.
Speaker 3: They would never Where are her pie?
Speaker 4: Where's your pies? That woman is famous for her pies.
And I need no pie, no pie, not not a mince,
not a lemon, meringe.
Speaker 3: It's happening.
Speaker 2: That's going on, right, they're gonna call me at home.
We're just are you okay? We we didn't see any items, right,
and there's a lot of the bombs pitched in, right,
and I just we didn't see anything.
Speaker 3: Did we miss it?
Speaker 2: We just wanted to check because maybe it's behind the
counter in the office. Maybe you put it there.
Speaker 1: We just didn't see it. See, you're not going to
get busted. You won't get busted. I forbid you. Actually,
I say, you just give them whatever you bought and
that's it.
Speaker 3: Call it a day.
Speaker 1: That's it. No protest. I'm telling you, Adam had me
do that one year, like, no more homework. Tell them
I'll memory that. No more homework.
Speaker 3: It was the end of the year.
Speaker 1: He's like, if I they want to do a project,
I'm building a deck in the backyard. If they want
to do a project, they can come and build a deck.
I don't need any more projects. I don't need any
more cardboards. I'm not going to back out in my
garage over a bunch of pictures that's stuck together on
a cardboard, half asked done, no, tell them no, And
I remember I did, and I remember at the stink eye,
I know, I remember that back to school night. One
thing I do love about our school is we do
a lot of projects.
Speaker 2: It's project based learning. It's a great curriculum. But none
of the projects ever come home. So therefore you get
called in to come and see the culmination of whatever
their project is, and you're like, whoa, how did that happen?
Speaker 3: Had not come together?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: They're working on their biography piece or whatever. Nothing that
comes from the house. They make cardboard cutouts.
Speaker 1: So they don't draw.
Speaker 3: They do everything at side.
Speaker 1: That's what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: The homework is just homework. It's just like your mass
sheet and your spelling words or whatever.
Speaker 1: But fourth grade was all projects, constantly, home projects, science
fair projects. Sonny had to do a video on Levi Strauss.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, we had because it's famous California. Right, that's right,
that's they are studying.
Speaker 1: But fourth grade, I think is known because I was
talking to my other girlfriends on Friday and like a
mom get together and it's fourth grade was all all projects.
Fifth grade was fine. Sixth grade is sixth grade and
then they go into middle school in seventh grade.
Speaker 3: Wait, you buried the lead. You went to a mom
get together?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like you, I know, right, well it happened.
It's uh my girlfriend Melissa oh cousin sounds what was
her birth friend gets together? Yeah. But and then Suzanne,
So we were talking mom stuff a lot, okay, because
Melissa has a son that's one year older than mine
and Suzanne's kids, right, so we can ask her like
what we got to look forward to next year right now?
And she's, you know, she's like Archie loves seventh grade,
blah blah blah. So we were talking about that, well.
Speaker 3: We will be in seventh grade. You know she has
no homework.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what she was saying. She was saying, seventh
grade's pretty easy. They love their independence. They have tons
of a ton of independence and uh yeah and not
a lot of homework.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, speaking of independence. Okay, well first
woman is never going to listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: So that's what you think.
Speaker 3: Okay, so get this.
Speaker 2: Yes you remember takis? Yes talkies girl? Yeah, how could I forget?
For anybody that that forgot. I've been like stalking this
saous friend and trying to get her mom to like
let her do stuff with us.
Speaker 1: But because it's their culture, their culture.
Speaker 2: Yes they're they're not from Mexico, but they're of Latin
descent and their Latin culture is the mom told me,
she's like, we're Latin.
Speaker 3: It's our culture.
Speaker 2: We're just we just tell our kids go to sleepovers. Yeah, okay,
so you know who I'm talking about. So keeping in
mind that the dad is that they're super controlling. I mean,
that's not fair. They're not super controlling, but worried. So
the mom will sometimes call several times when.
Speaker 1: Hert it's because her daughter had to go to the
e because she was throwing up talkie because I apparently
gave her too many talkies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she I worked my way back. She isn't
allowed to come over to our house for a little while,
you remember that. Yeah, So then but then will Sadie
could only go over to her.
Speaker 3: House, which was fine.
Speaker 2: But then eventually I got back in her good graces
and then she started coming over again. Okay, So then
the other day she came over for a play date
and it was kind of a big deal because she.
Speaker 3: Hadn't been over in a really long time.
Speaker 2: And Okay, so Sadie and Xander have been getting more
freedom because John and I are not helicopters, and we
work on ourselves in this regard. And like I would say,
in the past, like a few weeks, we started letting
Sadie and Xander walk to the park, which is I
think I told.
Speaker 3: You about this.
Speaker 2: It's like four blocks from my house. It's not far
at all, four blocks in a little residential neighborhood. So
remember the story I told you where the mom where
Xander had a friend over and we let them walk
to John let them walk to the park, and then
the mom.
Speaker 3: Was like all right, I'm on my way to get
my kid.
Speaker 2: And I was like oh, and then I because they
don't have a phone, they have an iPad with them.
Of course they have to bring them electronic but so
they could take pictures, but it doesn't have Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: So now now I'm getting nervous and I go draw.
Speaker 2: I go driving over to the park and I start
looking for them and there's nobody there, and I know
they're fine, right because it started out where they were
just going to scooter around the neighborhood. But John said
they went they had gone to the park, so I
was like, ah, so I looked at this place where
they usually go, this little baseball diamond near our house.
They weren't over there, so I look anyway. Then John
gets nervous too, so he finds him in like two seconds.
They're just scootering around the couple like two blocks away.
So that was fine. So I'm out, Oh at oh
Elbe had a volleyball game on Thursday, So this is
when the girl was at our house. So the mom
calls me or texts me and she's like, hey, how's
it going the Taki's mom. Taki's mom says how's talkies?
And I said fine, you know, and she's like, well,
can you have her call me? Like I want to
talk to her? And I was like okay, So I
text John and I was like, hey, John, Takis needs
to call her mom. And he's like, oh, well they
went to the park. I was like no, no, no, no, no,
no no no no.
Speaker 1: It's one thing for us to let my kids go.
Speaker 2: To the park because I've got that right, but this
mom is not in a million no, she is not
going to be down for that.
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh shit. I was like when did
they leave? And he goes, oh, not very long ago.
I told him, oh so then so I'm like, oh,
I got to buy the.
Speaker 1: Time, like I get so I got any service?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, so I go. So they went
for a walk and can I have her? They don't
have They went for a little walk and can she
call you in a little bit And she was like okay.
So then John, So now it's four thirty. So this
is what had been at like four twenty. So at
four thirty, I was like, hey, are they back yet?
And John goes no, I told him to be back
at five, I'm like, this mom is gonna lose her mind.
She's gonna drive over to our house. I'd be like,
where is my daughter?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean she's called before and she has like likes
to have a long chat with her daughter in the
middle and find out the whole schedule, what's the agenda,
what's going on? Like, what are they letting you do
that you would never get to do? It's a dog
liked does a dog bite? Stay away from the dog?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was my parents.
Speaker 2: So the So anyway, five o'clock rolls around, I guess,
so I'm still at the game. So John texts me.
He's like, uh so Taki's called her mom and told
her she told her they went to the park. Oh
my god, and he goes, I don't think it went well.
He goes, there was a long pause, and I was like,
oh no, no.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then I'm like sweating my arios.
Speaker 3: So I text the.
Speaker 2: Mom and I was like, uh, Kentucky's day for dinner?
I said, because, And she's like, I'm picking her up
for church. Yeah on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: I really eat at five.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then I said I was just trying to like
get back in her good graces. I was like, well,
I said, I was going to order some pizza. I said,
but and she's like, well, I need to pick her
up by whatever. It was going to be in like
half an hour. I'm going to be there to pick
her up. And I was like, okay, well I'm going
to feed. I'll just make sure she's fed. She goes, oh,
I would like her to have eaten.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Also keep in mind, but not that you would know this,
that she'd been at our house. So Thursdays is a
one pm pickup day, so she'd been over for a
lot for hours, Okay, So of course she wanted her
to have eaten something, right, she's going to pick her up.
So I was like, okay, I'm going to I'm going
to give her dinner. I gave her a big bag
of takies and I got so I didn't know, Oh
my god, she was. She gave me a little laugh
face emoji, got the humor. But picked her up, and
I haven't heard anything about it. But like I know,
I know she's never gonna let her come over, not
untill like eighth grade. So yeah, so that happened, and
then you know, she's like, did so you you did.
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Where did you went to?
Speaker 3: Where?
Speaker 1: How far was the park? Just the two of you knew?
How long were you going?
Speaker 3: My god, she's gonna die.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know her, but I know hopefully
she'll think her daughter was exaggerating. Also, her daughter was
trying to get all into the snacks again, which you
know she's not allowed to do, and Sadie was like, oh,
I was trying to stop her, but she just kept
going in, going into the refrigerator, going in the pantry
like getting and John knows about the no snacks thing,
so he was having to do the be at last work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: What do you gotta do? Tell little takies like you're
gonna have to put like a lock on the on
the cabinet next time she comes over, like she because
she can't have any any junk foods.
Speaker 2: Right, this girl's nine years old and you just know.
So my other friend, Okay, so the kid, the original
friend of Xander's who came over, who I was freaking
out a little bit, looking for looking for the kids.
Speaker 3: And she was coming to get him.
Speaker 2: I the other day he came over yesterday, So I
texted the mom and I was just like, hey, do
you would you be cool if they want to go
to the park, and she and she was like by themselves.
Speaker 3: And I was like yeah, I mean they're too.
Speaker 2: Old for a parent to be like, hey, guys doing Hey,
they're not at that watch me, watch me climb the
monkey bars age, you know, and they're not even really
going to go to the play equipment. I mean, my
kids are going on eleven. They're just going to go
scooter around, yes, on the path. It's a very safe neighborhood. Anyway,
she was like, yeah, I'm not comfortable with that. So
I felt like I had to be honest because I
don't want to be sneaking around sending somebody's kid to
the park, right Anyways, Then she was just like I'm sorry,
I just feel like, you know, there's could be some
wacky people around. And then I was like, okay, well,
is it okay if they scootered around the neighborhood at least?
Speaker 3: And she was like yeah, just like as long as
they're kind of close to home.
Speaker 2: So if she's not cool about it, you know, Talkie's
mom oh like left her mind when she found out,
and she was probably like, you're never ever going to
her house again.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: And in my defense, if I had been home, I
never would have let her. I never would have let
her take talkies to the park right right, because I
would know that, you know what I mean, I would
never have allowed that. But John doesn't know, like how
insane people are, right, So there you go. I know,
you guys who are listening in other parts of the
world are just like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: You can't go to the park. You just have to
people they're they're worried. Everybody has to use their best. Yeah,
you said you would have been a little concern. Yeah,
I think at that. Hell are they well?
Speaker 3: Sadie's ten and a half, she'll be eleven in November.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's so like last year. I I I'm
trying to think that's the age where I started letting
them walk around the neighborhood by themselves. Yeah, I started together.
As long as they're together. Now, Natalia is starting to
walk to her friend's house by herself after school, and
that kind of worries me. I still like a little
girl walking by herself. And she takes the back road
because it's quicker, and so she has to cut through
an alley some pepper spray. I bought some. Actually, it's
a good idea to I just thought of that. Yeah, yeah,
it's just that's the only thing that if it was sunny,
even though I don't know, it's just when they're by
themselves and they're walking around the backside of things, like
there's a horse trail by us and stuff, it's a
little even when i'm I.
Speaker 3: Agree, me too.
Speaker 2: But if they're together, if they're together, I know they're
every Friday, is there a treaty?
Speaker 1: They walk together with a bunch of them. It's kind
of far. It's like, I don't know, six or seven
blocks away, that's far. That's not far. But but when
you had your backpack and all that shit. But so yeah,
so they go to the town center and they hang
out there and they get ice cream and they do whatever.
You know, they play around. Ol goes spying on them
for a while to tell you, we'll get to like
back off. But but no, they they go walk. They
takes Phil for walks now all the time. It's nice.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so dumb, go oh, go ahead, this is so dumb, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: There's never any dumb complaints just dumb people.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I have a new therapist. Remember I think
I was going to tell you about this last week. Yeah, okay,
keep in mind this is a really this might seem
really dumb.
Speaker 3: But okay. So I went to the therapist.
Speaker 2: She was recommended by a friend of mine who and
I trust her opinion, and I went to her and
she was great. But okay, So the first time though,
I went to her website and I emailed her and
I was like, dude, I need therapy, you know. And
I didn't hear anything back. So then I went and
used the phone number on her website.
Speaker 3: I called.
Speaker 2: She called me back on my cell phone and I
chatted with her, told her what was up, you know,
this is what's up, right, and she was like, come
on in. So we made an appointment. So I went
and had the appointment. And I really liked her. You know,
she's very into thinks most things that ail you can
be cured with mindfulness, which ain't nobody got time for mindful.
I know.
Speaker 1: Mine's all about meditation. She's a Buddhist, she's a hippie,
she's h yes, like you should really try to meditate,
and every times I've heard that.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, meditate.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fall asleep. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I could meditate, I wouldn't be here. My mind
works way too fast to meditate. But I get it.
Speaker 3: Like, look, yes, I get it. I don't expect a magic.
Speaker 2: Pill right, well, will be nice. Yeah, but I understand.
I just I of course I'm open to it.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the complaint though, So everything's fine.
Speaker 3: I liked her.
Speaker 2: We made a few We made an appointment okay for
the next week.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Then uh like two or three days before, three days
before I got an audition, which I will also tell
you about. And it's only my second one.
Speaker 1: My lucky day today.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I have it already.
Speaker 2: Audition okay, good, Okay, therapist Okay. So I'm like, oh,
like the audition was going to be at the same
time as my second ever therapy. Yes, but I was like,
what do I need more? A commercial and national commercial
or therapy? Obviously a commercial?
Speaker 1: Of course therapy.
Speaker 3: I can stay.
Speaker 2: Crazy, Yes, I can't always book a commercial, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3: It's fine. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, crazy, we're ahead of We're
way ahead of time. You know so, and this time
that she gave me wasn't going to probably be my
regular time anyway.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 2: Email her, right and I say, hey, so sorry, I
know this is only like our second appointment, but I
need to I just need to change switch it. Either
I have these other times like in the afternoon, or
if worst comes to worst, like the same time the
next week. Right, but something came up, and.
Speaker 1: This is three days ahead, right, this is twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: It's like now, it's like I did it on first thing,
Monday morning, and my appointment was for Tuesday at eleven
thirty okay, okay, so early in the morning. Like yeah,
so way over twenty four hours. Yeah, it sounds though, right, Okay,
So I don't hear anything back, like for the change
of time.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, it's so weird, you know.
Speaker 2: So the next morning, which was Tuesday morning, I was
I just want to make one hundred percent sure that
she got my email. So and then it occurred to
me that the first time I emailed her she didn't
respond to that either.
Speaker 3: I had I called her.
Speaker 2: Oh, so so I go into the phone number on
the website and I call her and I was like, hey,
I just want to make positive that you got my message,
my email yesterday changing my appointment or so. I then
she calls me back on my phone, and I didn't
answer the phone because at that point I said, no,
it was at the doctor's office with one of the kids.
I was at a doctor's appointment, like orthodontist or something,
so I leave it. I checked the message and she
was like, oh, hi, uh no, I did not get
your email. And by the way, I can't. I don't
take emails for changing appointments or appointments. It's not hip
a compliant, my god. And also texting, which I didn't
do anyway, is also not him a compliant. So you
need to call me if you and you know normally,
I mean, you didn't do this twenty four hours in advance. Yes,
I did because I emailed her, because how the fuck
should I know that I email?
Speaker 3: Is I have a compliant?
Speaker 1: So that's when it's.
Speaker 2: An email, not hip a compliant. I'm sorry to scream
right now, but my life about doctor's appointments for kids,
and I do all of it over email. How often
do doctors call you back on them? They rarely do.
Most of the doctors that I deal with Sadie and
the chronologists, all of their different doctors, pediatricians.
Speaker 3: They email me all the time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they even have like a portal like patience portal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mind big on an email.
Speaker 2: My doctors all prefer email to tell me, even to
tell you things. And in fact, Xander's doctor who I
did blood work through, texted me the results. So, how
results of a blood test? How's that hip A compliant?
So I like, and it's me, I'm the one. It's
not even my kid, And at this point it's me.
Speaker 3: How's it not hippo complaint to me? I'm the one
calling you?
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, hippa is They.
Speaker 2: Don't they can't give your information out. So yeah, but
I'm calling you and it's okay. So I was like,
so the message was so chastising. It was just like,
you know, I could you know, normally I would charge
you know, if you don't do it within twenty four hours,
then I have to charge for the whole appointment. This time,
I'm going to I'm not going to charge you this time,
but like next time, I will have to charge you.
So anyway, you can call me, call me back, and
I can give you and I don't have blah blah blah,
I'm not going to be able to do this time
next week because I have a thing or whatever. So
then of course now I'm like, I don't want to
call her back. I don't blame you because it's like,
oh my go you're calling a mom.
Speaker 1: Now I know.
Speaker 2: And the whole reason I go to therapy is because
I don't like my mom. You know that where I
was just like, oh, so chastised, and I didn't do
anything wrong. I emailed her like a normal person, right,
So then the next day, so now I'm putting it off.
So the next day she leaves me another message and
she's like, Hi, I'm waiting to hear, like when you
want your appointment? Okay, So I call her back and
she answers the phone. I call her on the cell
phone number she gave me, and she answers, You're not
supposed to You're a therapist. You're not supposed to answer
the phone. I'm supposed to seem way too busy. Yes,
you don't answer voice?
Speaker 3: What about a voicemail? Be a professional.
Speaker 1: I even thinking about becoming a therapist just for that reason, just.
Speaker 2: To be like, oh yeah, only the only time that
you're allowed to tell me anything is in the office
for forty five minutes, right.
Speaker 3: So she answers the phone and.
Speaker 2: I was like, hi doctor, Uh yeah, so and she's like, hi,
uh you know. Oh, So, I said, I just here's
the thing. I got your message, but I emailed you.
You you have an email. I'm worried you don't get
your emails because you have an email address on your website.
She's like, yeah, I don't use email for that. Well
what I said, But I just I'm afraid you're not
getting it, I said, because the She goes, I only
use that my email address for making new appointments and
I go first time appointments. So I said, well, I
actually did email you the very first time for the appointment,
and you didn't call me back, so I called you.
Speaker 3: Oh no. Then she started arguing with me.
Speaker 2: She's like, no, the first time you called me, and
I said, yes, I did, but that's because I emailed
you and you didn't email me back. So I called
you and then you called me back and we set
up an appointment. But I had emailed you and didn't
hear back. I said, so when I emailed you again,
because I said I do a lot of dealings with
doctors over email, so I never would have known. I've
never heard of that not being HIPOCOPI. She's like, Nope, nope,
it's not I don't work that way. So I was like, Okay,
well now I know.
Speaker 1: That you're a bitch.
Speaker 2: But so now I have like a weird feel now
even though I loved her, I thought she was a
great therapist. I really thought she was smart and like
you would like it, but yours doesn't live here right now.
Speaker 1: She's in Portland. She's importantly. Yeah she's in Portland, but
she she does phoners and she does skype. She used
to live here, and she would she's in her sixties.
She's got like that long gray black hair, you know.
And we talked about this, yeah, and she just she's
like wonderful and like warm, and I love her. I've
seen them seeing her forever. But she would start to
fall asleep, all right. And my other friends that I sent,
they were like, thank you for sending me. It's gonna
call her Linda. Thank you for sending me to Linda.
Does she ever fall asleep on you? I'm like, oh
my god, she falls asleep all the time she sits
and she tries to, well, do you think she's I
think I'm boring.
Speaker 3: She just I think like.
Speaker 1: She sits like he had problems, like her hands plant
her her palms are planted on her knees, and she's
sitting like upright, like you know, with a nice posture.
And she's like, okay, so tell me, and then I
start telling, and then she starts snoring. She starts going
I would die. Her eyes start to get heavy, and
then she'd like she'd like went.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, I could not handle that.
Speaker 1: It was bothering. That was lower my self esteem and
it was bothering. But then when I found out my
was doing she was doing it to my other friends,
and she was doing it almost every time I went
in there. And I only went in there like once
a month at that point or whatever. But then everybody
was like, oh yeah, she falls like send like a Starbucks.
I know that's true that I should, but now I
see I talked around. Then she had to move. She
wanted to be closer to her grandchildren. And uh so
she's she does skype or she'll she'll phoners are fine,
like I like it. I'll just pull over the side.
She always says, are you in some place quiet where
you can talk. You're not driving, are you? Oh? No,
I'm not driving. I'm on the one on one's Oh
now that's not a horn, that's Natalia. But yeah, she's
she's great. But now you gotta start I don't know.
Are you gonna start over? You're gonna go see her?
I to me, I would feel embarrassed, like I would
be like, I don't want to go in there now
and tell her all my like after she's chastised me
a few times and argued with me, now I gotta
go see therapists for my therapist, like.
Speaker 2: You know, I know, I guess the thing is, like
I could just okay, now I know the rule. So
now I know I have to call her if I
have to change. And by the way, why didn't she
say that up front? She should have said And by
the way, I only take phone calls. I know she
never said that. And I had to fill out a
mountain of paperwork.
Speaker 1: Does do they? Does she take insurance?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: That's good, yeah, so I I so for the next appointment.
She was like, well, I can give you I might
have this afternoon one. And I was like, maybe I
can do that, but I don't want to. I can't
commit for sure. Can I just say maybe and call
you and let you know? And she was like, Okay,
I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'll call
you if somebody wants to take that spot. And I
said okay. And now I feel like I'm not taking
that spot. So now I feel like, oh, I think
I have to call her it's this Thursday and say yeah,
I don't want that spot.
Speaker 3: But now I'm worried she's going to answer the phone.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She does is go, oh, wrong number. You can just
call her back another dime.
Speaker 2: Or then she has one number that's her office that's
on the website. Maybe I'll just call that one. That
one she doesn't answer. But then when she's on the phone,
she's like, hellot, she's not falling asleep, that's true.
Speaker 1: She's too wide awake. She's on top of it.
Speaker 3: She's alert.
Speaker 1: She is wait, I want to hear about your ear audition.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. I feel like we should save something
for Friday's episode.
Speaker 1: But all right, okay, but do.
Speaker 3: You have anything what's going on with you?
Speaker 1: I just had a busy weekend. I got stuff we
can talk about on Friday too, but it's just one
of those weekends. As Adam was out of town Friday,
I spend Friday with my girls. We went to a spa.
We took Melissa to the spa, and it's fun talking
to them because they she's you know, I haven't seen
them so long. And there's also that awkwardness sometimes because
Suzanne's my best friend, my love, and Gracie her daughter,
and then they're going it's nobody, like, I don't know.
I love them both equally. They both have different qualities,
but like, so okay. So then there's Melissa, who Susanna
Melissa love each other, which is fine, which is great,
But then Melissa has her kids see my kids every Sunday,
well really during football season. So Sonny and Archie, her son,
are like besties. Whenever they see each other, they never
get to see each other. So when they see each other,
you know.
Speaker 3: So I thought they see each other every Sunday, well.
Speaker 1: They during football season, but it's over now, so now
they haven't. Okay, So what I'm saying is that we
went to Rancho Relaxo, right, but we forgot to invite
Suzanne and her daughter, and I feel bad, but it's
just it was just a different dynamic, you know what
I mean, of course I do. It's it's like, I
don't know, it's.
Speaker 3: Not going to work right. Well, the girls don't get along.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they do not get along. I think
I guess they get a I mean, I don't know.
They haven't been with each other. We'll find out because
we're going to Chicago together. That's another story yet. What Yeah,
well i'll tell you it's so all right. But okay,
so Suzanne says on Friday, because we went to the
spa and then we had lunch outside and we're talking
about how nice it is, and then she's like, Susan's
like and yeah, you bitches, next time you guys go
to Palm Springs, I'm on in on that, like you know.
And I felt I was like worried that she was
going to bring it up because I even as Melissa,
I was like, shoot, we should have invited Suzanne. And
she's like yeah, She's like, well, you have so.
Speaker 2: Many friends that think they should be in on. It's
like I feel like you can't do something with a
friend without a different friend.
Speaker 1: Like I not get invited, right, I know, what are
you supposed to invite all of them? If you go
see Bruce Springsteen, you got.
Speaker 2: To call everything for one of our bus and be like, hey,
just so let you know, I'm going to Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3: So if you're going to get your feelings hurt, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I don't know
what it is. I don't know, but I just feel bad.
And then like when we go on our annual where
we're going to make it at annual vacation. Now you know,
over the holidays, we got together with their family, my
family because Melissa and I are Melissa and I, and
then there's Adam and sal who love each other, they're
like best friends. Then there's the boys, and then there's
Natalia who doesn't have a girl, and then Daniel Kellotson
and his wife and they have a boy, right that
gets along with their boys, right, And Italian is like
the odd girl out because it's boys and I could
I easily have Susanne come, but then which is fine,
I guess, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Should do that, so so that I don't know, I understand,
there's certain dynamics that you're like you're it's not gonna
be the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's it's like Cammy, you know, Cammy is very
wise for her little age because she has like a
policy where she only has one playdate at a time,
like she's not she doesn't want to be with Olivia Natalia.
Sometimes she will, she'll make exceptions exceptions, but for the
most part, she likes one on one like somebody's gonna
spend the night. She just wants one girl to come
over and spend the night. Like she's gonna go do
something on a Saturday. She does it with one friend
she likes to. So I'm kind of that way, like
if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do something with Melissa,
and you know, or it's kind of if it involves
the kids, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: I do know what you mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's the kids is the is
not the problem, but it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we have talked about this a lot,
but it's something that everybody who has kids is going
to find out. It changes the dynamic of a lot
of relationships. It does your kids have to get along great? Yeah,
and if they don't, if it's anything less than great,
It makes your friendship, right. I mean I had that
friend the same as you, with the daughter with the
same name, and it broke up our friendship.
Speaker 3: I just watch it. Yeah, I mean I haven't talked
to her in a long time.
Speaker 1: It's just because her daughter was not being nice to
your kids.
Speaker 3: She wasn't being nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she would just my daughter, who loves everybody, did
not love her daughter. Was like if it was like, hey,
do you want to go over to her house?
Speaker 3: Like, she'd be like all right.
Speaker 2: You know, her daughter would do stuff like just we'd
come over to our house and she would invite us over, like, hey,
come come over and come swimming.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we'd show up and I'd be like, where's your
daughter and she's like, oh, she's upstairs watching a movie
in her room.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's elbe's supposed to do? Right?
Speaker 2: Or she's sleeping. I mean this was they were old
enough to not be taking naps. You know, it's like, uh,
you just invited us over, what's my kids supposed to do?
And then LV would be like, what am I supposed
to do? And she'd be like, oh, I forgot what
I used to call her. Her name Tina.
Speaker 1: She'd be like, Tina, Elby's here.
Speaker 2: She doesn't want to come down right now, she sees
And then and then there'd be other stuff that she
would do stuff and she just wouldn't discipline her.
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask.
Speaker 3: And then it was the thing where she'd be like,
do you want You're going to.
Speaker 2: Get a time out if you keep doing that, And
then she'd keep doing it, and Albe would just be
looking at me like are you kidding me right now?
And then one time she pushed Albie's head under the
water and there swimming pool and U and Albie was
freaking out and I and I said, Tina, don't do that.
And then my friend was like, do not, please, don't
ever discipline my child. She goes, I will, I'm in
charge of the discipline or whatever, and I said, well,
you weren't saying anything and it wasn't safe, so I
am going to stop your kid if something that's not safe.
Speaker 3: And then we have like a little kind of weird
tension about it.
Speaker 1: That weird.
Speaker 2: And then another time her daughter we were at her
house and her daughter kept like grabbing toys out of
Elbie's hand and they were way older, than an age
where you grab stuff, Oh, that's mine. But she would
grab stuff out of Elbie's hand and Albie would just
be like all right, And then she kept doing it
and just being really bratty. And then eventually I think
I told you this story because eventually she was like,
if you keep doing that, you're going to.
Speaker 3: Get a time out. If you keep doing that, you're
going to get a time out. If you keep doing that,
It went on and on and on.
Speaker 2: I was so uncomfortable, and then finally she was like,
get out of the pool right now.
Speaker 3: And then she.
Speaker 2: Pulls her out of the pool, takes her in the house,
and they're in there forever right she's getting a lecture.
I don't know what's happening, and they're having a fuck
an hour long talk about her feelings and how and
event Elbie's like.
Speaker 3: Mom, col we go, pleasequ we go.
Speaker 2: So we went over to my so and in the meantime,
but when I I'm not exaggerating when I say they
were probably in the house.
Speaker 1: For a family, I believe it because I've had the
same experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So finally we left and we come, we walk
in the house and we got all our stuff together,
and I was like, we're gonna go, and we'd been
there all morning and she was like what wait wait,
oh my god. And I was like, we have to go,
but we'll talk later. And then we leave and then
she's super mad at me because and I said, but
you were in the house for like over a half
an hour talking to her. And then we were friend.
This is your friend. Before you guys had kids, you
guys were friends. Well, no, not you, not so much.
But we became friends when the.
Speaker 1: Kids were really little, when they were babies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Albie was like two.
Speaker 1: I see, and then that was that and then.
Speaker 2: Or maybe her daughter was two in mine was three
and Lbie was three. Yeah, So I mean but we
were the ones that got along. She's hilarious, yeah, and
fun and like a really was a good friend, right right,
But it was too hard.
Speaker 3: It was just like so eventually I started just doing stuff.
Speaker 2: With her without the kids, and I'd be like, let's
just you know, but that's hard too, because then you it's.
Speaker 3: Clear that you're kind of avoiding.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, well, Suzanna and I, I mean we've been
friends for I don't know, forty years or something, right,
and we just had this, you know, we had the
fault with her. They just didn't get along when they
were age zero to five or six. And then we
just I finally gave up and we just and then
I think we moved and we didn't so we didn't
see each other very much. And then we didn't talk
to each other very much. And yes we did have
conversations about it, like I feel uncomfortable and this happens.
And it's also parenting styles. You know, it's different, and
it's hard when your friend is your friend, but then
you see them parenting or they see you parenting in
a way that you they don't like. And I'm sure
she isn't like the way I parent I guess I
don't know, and I don't let you know. And so
at the time, I don't know how things are now
because everybody's older now and we don't really see her
that much. However, we're going to Chicago. So why are
you going to Chicago for Nicholas's wedding?
Speaker 3: My nephew got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we were telling to We were telling Melissa
this on Friday, and so Melissa's like, so you guys
are both going to Chicago Yeah, with your with your kids,
and Melissa knows our situation. Oh yeah, and she's like, oh, okay,
so you, Lonette, you're bringing your kids, and Suzanne you're
bringing Gracie, and you guys are all staying at the
same hotel. Yeah, and then Melissa's quiet for a second.
She's like, Sonny's gonna hate the shit out of that
trip because she knows Sonny, because you know, it's true,
like he's the now, he's gonna be the only boy
with all the girls. We're gonna go to our hair
done and you know, and get dressed up for the
wedding and he's gonna be in a suit and he's
just gonna be But yeah, we're going to Chicago. Where
are you going end of May? Memorial weekend?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're gonna be back in time for
our San Francisco trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, our San Francisco trip.
Even second, Yeah, it's the following weekend. Is our San
Francisco Oh it is, yeah, because I come home on Monday, Memorial.
Speaker 3: Day, which is like the well maybe Memorial Day is
like the twenty.
Speaker 1: Sixth, I'm not sure. Yeah, but anyway, anyway, Yeah, we're
all be fine, don't worry.
Speaker 3: Alright, awesome, you're a parent, now, don't f it up?
Speaker 5: Your mother, mother, house, a family.
Speaker 1: I'm this God. You say, hello, how's the webb? How's
my father? And my lonely cabin? Snow? Mother?
Speaker 3: Mother?
Speaker 5: I listen, just a phone call to ease your mind.
Life is perfect, never better. Distance make the heart girl.
Speaker 3: Weak, A handy off to see the world where you
head that I'm my kidper.
Speaker 1: What I try to middle to a bath though what
he can though my skirt.
Speaker 5: I'm hungry, I'm dirty, I'm losing my mon I'm freezing,
I'm starving.
Speaker 3: I'm leading to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm working, making money.
Speaker 3: I'm just started to build a name.
Speaker 1: I can't feel it. I'm the corner. I couldn't make
it any day. Mother and bad?
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: I'm sober?
Speaker 3: Sure I'm saying like this present, never beat of.
Speaker 1: Still your daughter?
Speaker 3: Still a safe?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you.
Speaker 1: What you want of it?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: You're hell anxious? Sleep will that night? I can show
that on your birth?
Speaker 1: How? God up?
Speaker 3: Very same time.
Speaker 5: I'm hungry, I'm dirty, losing my mind, I'm fraising, starving,
I'm fleeting.
Speaker 1: I miss you.
Speaker 3: I love you