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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the

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Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is

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your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,

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a new mindset, and another day for you to become

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the Hawkgirl Energy you want to attract. Hello you, guys,

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welcome back to another episode. This week has been totally

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chaotic for me. I am leaving on a trip this weekend,

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and I really wanted to get a podcast episode up,

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but obviously all the last minute things are being thrown

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in my face when it comes to work, when it

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comes to house appointments, and just like all in all appointments,

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prepping for the trip, all that. So to be fully transparent,

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I did not have the time to write a script

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or prepare for a podcast episode this week. But I'm like,

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you know what, I haven't done a sit down girl

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chat episode in such a long time. I just thought

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it'd be fun to kind of share some updates on

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where I'm going on this trip, you know, house updates,

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my back injury, things that I'm doing to kind of

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prepare myself for pregnancy, all that. So this is very

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much just kind of like a personal episode but I

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always love to do episodes like this the odd time.

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That way we can kind of build a personal connection

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and you guys can kind of get a bit of

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a life update of what's been going on currently in

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my life. Okay, firstly, let's talk about this trip, because

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I'm leaving this weekend to go to Costa Rica, which

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I am so beyond excited for. If you've been to

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Costa Rica, please send me your rex. I would love

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your recommendations. But I've never been, and I'm very very excited.

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I feel like usually around this time of the year,

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I'm always itching for a trip.

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Speaker 2: I'm always wanting to get away.

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Speaker 1: And January is obviously the longest month of the year,

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which we all know, or at least feels like the

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longest month of the year in my opinion, and I

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just always feel like I'm craving a trip or this

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time of the year, especially with you know, February coming

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around the corner. I know February is usually a pretty

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hard month for me as well, with the winter blues

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in the winter season, and I just am always itching

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to get a little bit of sunshine, a little bit

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of a tan. So I booked a last minute trip,

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and I am going to Costa Rica with my sister

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and my parents. So unfortunately Zach is not coming with us.

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He is stuck here getting some stuff done for work,

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which is totally fine. But I just want to talk

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about like going on a trip with your parents, because

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coming from someone who is almost thirty, still going on

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vacations with my parents, I think is honestly cool in

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my opinion, because I kind of picture my life, you know,

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a few years from now, hoping that Zach and I

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have one or two kids by that point, and I

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want my parents to come on vacations with us, especially

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when the kids are young, at least one trip a year,

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and then Zach and I with our future children, all

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going to a resort that's kid friendly, you know, having

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my parents help out, kind of just going on a

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trip with my family, and then including my parents and

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my sister and my sister's future husband and my sister's

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future kids eventually as well. Like I think, you know,

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combining family trips and like doing it with your sibling

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and then having your sibling with their husband and their kids,

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and just kind of creating a tradition where you can

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go on trips, whether it's during the holiday season for Christmas,

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or if it's birthdays, or if it's honestly like just

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this time of the year, wanting to get to a

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tropical location. Like I picture my life doing a trip

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with my parents, with my kids and my family in general,

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and seeing that as like a yearly tradition thing. I

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don't know, that's just my opinion, but I can see

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that happening. And then also going on a trip with

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just me and my husband, like just me and Zach

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getting away, needing a break from the kids, you know,

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also prioritizing our relationship, making that a priority. And then

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maybe again just going on a trip with just my family,

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so me, my husband, and my two kids going somewhere

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or maybe more local that's a bit easier to you know,

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travel with kids, maybe somewhere in Canada. Again, doing a

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little trip with just us four or three or whenever

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we have kids kind of situation. So that would be

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like my dream world of how I would picture my

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life is doing three vacations each year and kind of

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spacing out that way. Anyways, I just wanted to talk

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about that quickly because I feel like some people might

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turn their head saying like you're almost thirty and you're

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going on a vacation with your parents. Hey, if my

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parents want to take me on a trip and they're

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going somewhere warm and I can't go away with my

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husband because my husband is stuck here working, I'm gonna say,

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hecky yes, and I'm going to enjoy that time with

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my family because I think I've really appreciated the time

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of you know, just like realizing how much my parents

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have done for me. I think as you age, you

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kind of realize like, wow, like my parents have done

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a lot for me, and I truly do appreciate it.

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don't go as home as much, I feel like I

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definitely see my parents kind of always struggling and always

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like seeing me on a weekly basis and just kind

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of like missing me not being home all the time.

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and I know not everyone's like that, but it does

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make me a little sad because I think about, you know,

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my future, and I think about my kids moving out.

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Obviously that's years and years away from that, but the

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point is is that like my parents obviously still see

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me as their baby girl. Right, So so if I'm

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able to do these, you know, week trips with them

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or just like going to see them on a weekly

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basis and doing a dinner with them, like I know

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that means so much to them.

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Speaker 1: Our parents are getting older, right, Like that's also something

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I think about, Like it's kind of scary to think

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how time is going by so fast. Like I feel

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like I'm not almost thirty. I feel like I'm like

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nineteen or twenty not really, but you know what I mean,

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I feel like I'm like twenty five, but I'm twenty nine.

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But the point is is that I just have realized

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how fast time is going by and how much I

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appreciate my parents and kind of trying to put myself

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in their shoes of understanding that you know, their first

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daughter is married and moved out and is trying to

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have a baby. Like I think that's really wild to

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think about and something that makes me realize that like

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I should truly appreciate the time that I spend with

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my parents, and to also just feel so lucky that

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I do have a good relationship with my family, and yeah,

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I actually had an influencer message me. She's a mom,

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she has a daughter that's three years old, and she

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literally completely changed my perspective about, you know, me traveling

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with my parents at this age. She said, I pray

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that my daughter at twenty nine years old wants to

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go on vacation with me, like, and that break there

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kind of change my perspective where it's like, you know what,

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I am going to see it that way too when

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I'm a mom and I have a kid, Like, it

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would be a dream of mine to have such a

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strong relationship with my daughter or future son and be

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able to like travel with them and do fun things

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together with them. So anyways, that's what kind of changed

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my perspective on that. And now I actually look forward

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to doing a trip with my parents every single year.

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and I actually really get excited about spending time with

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my family and enjoy the moments that we do have

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together and the excitement around just I don't know, being

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able to go on a trip with them, and honestly,

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we always have the most fun memories and most funny times,

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and I want to try and film a lot of

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family content, not just like me and my sister, but

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try and include my parents, because my parents are actually

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so funny.

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not even over exaggerating.

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but she does not always want to be on camera,

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so that's why I don't always film stuff when I'm

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with my parents, So I try to respect my mom's

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privacy when she wants to be private. But my mom

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is so freaking funny and she doesn't try to be funny.

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She's just like naturally, like the queen of like drama.

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I can't even explain how my mom is.

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Speaker 2: My mom is just like, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know, she's just really funny and she just like attracts

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drama all the time and it just makes me laugh.

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Like she's just a really funny individual naturally. So anyways,

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stay tuned for live content. I'm gonna be posting a

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lot on TikTok and Instagram, and of course i'm gonna

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be blogging the entire trip on YouTube. So if you

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want to follow along, make sure to follow my socials.

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I'll link everything in my description down below. So obviously

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this week it's just been really locking in and getting

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everything done. I had a few brand deals that I

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had to film that I finished today, which I'm so

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happy about. I had one final house meeting that was

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in regards to our tile selection. Picking grout colors, guys,

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is no freaking joke, and thought, oh, you need to

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pick different groat colors for different types of tile, and anyways,

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it was just like very overwhelming, and I think there's

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so many different groat colors that you could do, and

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I don't know, I feel like that's not a detail

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that you think about when you're designing a house. You're

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just like, Okay, like this tile looks nice with this

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wall color and this cabinet color and whatever.

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Speaker 2: And then they're like, yeah, so now we.

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Speaker 1: Need to pick a groat and we got to pick

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this and I'm like whoa, Like what That's where I

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got really thrown off and things started to get really

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stressful because I couldn't make my mind up on certain things.

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So anyways, that's kind of like a random house update.

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But I think we only have one more decision that

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we have to make, which is our on suite shower,

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and that is it.

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Speaker 2: Then we can sign off and.

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Speaker 1: Everything and I can give you guys a whole update

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of what the house is going to look like. So

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I can actually show you guys, like rendering images of.

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Speaker 1: We weren't able to provide any images just yet, just

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because we've had to change a few things based off

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of what the builder can or cannot do. I've talked

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about this a lot on my YouTube channel, just kind

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of providing house updates anytime I can, So if you

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want more house stuff, I definitely talk about it a

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lot on YouTube, just because that's the life I'm living

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right now, is really just locking in and designing this

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entire house from top to bottom. But we're basically done,

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like we are so close to the finish line. So

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I will be doing a house walkthrough hopefully when I'm

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back for my trip, and I can show you guys

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kind of like sketches and rendering drawings that our designers

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have done of like what each space is going to

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look like. And I'm so obsessed, guys, I literally am

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freaking out like all the things that we selected. I'm

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just so happy. Definitely have made a lot of like

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changes since I first started this design process, but in

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a good way. It's been like learning opportunities where it's like, Okay,

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I almost went this direction, but I'm happy we're ending

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on this decision because I think this is better for

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the value of the house, or the future for the house,

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or the design aspect, because obviously you don't want to

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be too trendy when it comes to the designs, like

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you want it to be, you know, something that's very minimalistic,

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but that will also be something that will still be

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in style ten to fifteen years from now, right, So

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just trying to really focus on going down that route

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when it comes to picking stuff, because of course you

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see stuff on Pinterest and you're like, oh my god,

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that's beautiful, and then my designer will be like, yeah,

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but you might only love that for two years, and

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as much as I want to say this is our

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forever home, like I could it could be our forever home,

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but like I do also see us maybe having one

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other house in the future that's a bit more secluded,

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the forest and be kind of out of the city.

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This house here is still in the city, which I

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like only because, like, because we're trying to have kids,

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for the support. So it might be like my kids

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will live here throughout their childhood, but then the next

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house it might be like the teenage years, you know

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what I mean. So I can't see us staying in

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this house for a very long time, like between ten

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to fifteen years, but I could also see us like

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staying there forever if needed. But anyways, that's kind of

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like the life planned for the house. But let's talk

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about the appointments I'm doing this week, because obviously, when

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these last minute things done before you leave. So the

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first thing I did was I ordered a bunch of clothes.

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Obviously I'm actually only I think I only bought three

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new outfits. Everything else I'm actually bringing from my trips

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from previous years. I told myself that I didn't want

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to purchase too many things where I feel like I'm

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not gonna wear ever again. Like, I only want to

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purchase things that I know I'm gonna wear for future

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trips or just like I don't know, just get good

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value out of it for future things. So I really

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did try my best to pick outfits that weren't things

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that I was just gonna, you know, sell or give

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away down the road. So I decided not to buy

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too much for this trip, but I did invest in

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some good quality things, like one brand that I continuously

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buy from, and I'm gonna tell you right now it

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is a little expensive, but I am always gravitating towards

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these bikinis and these outfits, and that's from Monday Swimwear.

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I'm obsessed with every Monday Swimwear bathing suit that I've

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ever gotten, including the resort wear. So just like beach

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cover ups, they had like really good like cover up dresses,

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cover up pants, over shirts. They also have like really

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cute dresses that you could wear like out to dinner

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for like a nighttime outfit. Like if you need anything

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for a tropical vacation, Monday Swimwear has everything. It truly

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is my favorite brand when it comes to resort wear.

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So honestly, I just ordered from there and Revolve that's it.

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I purposely decided to just invest in a brand that

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I knew I was going to like the stuff, and

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all this stuff that I've gotten from them in the

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past has been so great, so I just knew for

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a fact that it was worth.

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Speaker 2: Paying the higher price point, knowing.

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Speaker 1: That I was going to wear it for our future

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trip that we're going on this summer. We have another

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trip that we're going to. We're going to a wedding

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in Portugal in the summer. So anyways, I just thought,

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I'm like, I'll wear this again. I love, obviously re

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wearing my bikinis. I have bikinis since like high school,

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and I'm still wearing some of them. So I bought

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one new bikini, and I think I bought two or

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three Nu dresses. So I bought one new bikini and

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then three outfits for the night time vibes. So that's

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what I got for the trip, and then a cowboy

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hat and just like random things off Amazon that I

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needed before the trip, you know, and like you think

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of like the Lost Man of the things that you

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need on your flight Zach got me a Kindle for Christmas.

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I bored my mom's kindle when I went to Italy

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with Zach this past summer, and he surprised me with

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the kindle for Christmas, which I was really happy about.

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So I think I'm going to download the second Housemaid

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book because I love The Housemaid the first book, and

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I watched the movie, and I really told you guys

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that I went to see the movie obsessed, except I

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thought the book was better. I thought the book was

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better than the movie only because obviously we knew what

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happened beforehand. But the movie was still good. But they're

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coming out with a second movie.

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Speaker 2: It looks like.

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Speaker 1: They've confirmed that they're going to be doing it for

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the second book. So I'm gonna actually download the second book.

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But if you have any other book recommendations, comment down

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below or send me a message, because I'm pretty sure

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I could probably read two full books while I'm away.

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Maybe three, we'll see. But I spent a lot of

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time reading when we were in Mexico this time last year,

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me and Zach. I just think i'll have the time

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to read a lot since i'll be tanning most of

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the time, and I don't really like to be scrolling

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on my phone while I'm at the beach. And also,

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if you guys know, like when you're in the sun,

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you can't really see anything on your phone, And the

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Kindle is really really good because I feel like you

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can see everything when you're outside.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, let me know your book recommendations. But I'm

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very excited to just be chillin by the beach reading

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a book. So anyways, ordered stuff for the trip, and

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then I booked a nail appointment. I think I'm going

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to do an almond shaped nail. Right now, I have

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my square nails. I'm going to change it back to almond,

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and I'm probably just gonna do like a neutral pink,

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like kind of like a bubble bath situation toes, probably

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like a baby pink. I don't ever like a neutral toe.

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I don't know that's weird, but I'm not like neutral

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nails on my toes, Like it's got to be some

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type of pop.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like I'll probably.

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to my nail color but not neutral, like I need

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to have a solid color. That's just something that I

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don't know, doesn't look good on me, and I just

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feel like I need to have color on my toes.

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So I booked that, and then I also booked an

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eyebrow waxing because I haven't got my eyebrows done since

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before Christmas, so.

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Speaker 2: I did that.

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Speaker 1: I booked a facial because I haven't had a facial

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done in so long. Felt so good. I got the

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facial last week and it was so needed. My skin

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was so dry. She's like, you needed this hydro facial

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so badly. But I just know that as soon as

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I'm in Costa Rica, my skin is gonna thank me.

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Like being in the sunshine. I just feel like my

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skin literally heels, and then I'll be good when I'm

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back from Costa Rica. And then you know, my skin

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will probably suffer again from being in the winter season

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and going from obviously a hot climate's a cold climate.

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Speaker 2: But that's okay.

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of February or beginning of March. But I just feel

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like facials are so important during this time of the

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year because our skin is so dry.

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Speaker 2: From the colder season.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I just feel like it's something that I

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try to keep up during the winter season versus the summer.

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I feel like my skin thrives during the summer because

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of the sun. So that's just like what works for me.

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So hopefully booking another facial in February, and that's really it.

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Just packing everything obviously is a non negotiable. I need

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to still pack to be honest for this trip. So

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just like picking up all last minute things that I

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might need from like the drug store. I'm just thinking

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of like smaller toilet trees or skincare products I might need.

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I did go to Sephora yesterday actually and pick up

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travel size like curl cream because I plan on doing

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like my natural curly routine while I'm down there, just

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because whenever I try and blow out my hair in

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a very hot location, it never stays straight or it

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never stays curly. It just goes really frizzy. So I'm

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trying to do my natural hair routine because it stays

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way better with a curl cream and a wave spray

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in that type of climate versus like wasting all this

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time blowing out my hair and it not turning out,

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you know what I mean. So definitely going to prioritize. Yeah,

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probably doing less heat on my hair in Costa Rica

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and just embracing the natural curls. So that's kind of

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everything I'm doing before the trip. I'm so excited. I'm

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really looking forward to shooting fun content too with my

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sister and just kind of being in a different location.

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I feel like it always inspires me when I'm traveling

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to kind of like shoot video content, take photos, obviously,

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also give like outfit inspo all that. It's definitely one

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of my favorite types of content to provide. I feel

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like I always have such a fun time when I'm

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traveling and doing content. I just feel like for me personally,

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like I love doing routine videos and filming that. But

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obviously for me sometimes I kind of feel like I'm

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in a rut when I'm filming the same thing like

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what I eat in a day, my morning routine, all that.

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So it's kind of nice to go to a different

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location and change it up a little bit and do

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things that are a bit more out of my comfort zone,

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like doing fun content with my sister, outfit videos all that,

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And then when I come home from my trip, I

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always feel reinspired to get back into my morning routine,

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get back into filming my what I eat in a

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days or whatever the case may be, you know what

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I mean. So it's just a nice little content break

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that I look forward to and change it up a

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little bit. Okay, next point that I wanted to talk

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about was my back injury because I am finally seeing progress, guys.

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It has been such a long injury and I don't

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even know if I told you guys that this injury

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happened like four months ago, three or four months ago,

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So it's something that I've been dealing with for a

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while and just kind of ignored. But I am on

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an anti inflammatory from my doctor, which I want to

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talk about my doctor's appointment, just because the last episode

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we kind of ended off there and I never really

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got to share.

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Speaker 2: With you guys, like an update of how the appointment went.

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Speaker 1: But my doctor did prescribe me with an anti inflammatory

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and I feel like it's helping a lot with my

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back and obviously keeping up with stretches, and I haven't

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been working out for two weeks now. I think my

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body just really needed the break and just needed to

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step aside from pilates and not work out at all.

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But I do think this was for the best, and

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I am seeing a lot more progress than what I

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did this time last week. So I'm really happy that

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things are working and I'm just going to keep doing

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these things so the next two weeks in hopes that

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my back is fully healed and I can again slowly

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get back into getting back into my workouts and getting

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back into routine, and hopes that my back injury is healed.

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So that's a little update on my back injury. I'm

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also really trying to focus on this back injury because,

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as some of you may or may not know, my

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husband and I do want to start trying soon. We're

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not trying currently. Some people have made it pretty clear

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to me that I shouldn't be taking an approxyin, which

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is what I'm taking for my back, because it kind

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of like pauses ovulation. It doesn't really happen when you're

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on it. But I'm not actively trying in this exact moment,

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So no stress on that for anyone that brought that up.

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But I'm really trying to focus on my back right now.

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That's like my main priority. The one conversation I had

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with my doctor was I do not want to have

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this back injury and be pregnant at the exact same time,

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Like that just sounds like absolute hell in my opinion,

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because if you've seen a few, you know, women posting

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about pregnancy a lot of the time, the last few

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months are like really difficult on your back. So I'm

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really just trying to strengthen my back and make that

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the main priority right now and then focus on, you know,

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trying to conceive later. So that's kind of been on pause.

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But I'm still prepping for pregnancy in the sense where

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I'm still kind of like mentally preparing myself and getting

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my body in a healthy state that I want it

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to be in. So let's kind of talk about pregnancy

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preper a second, just because I know there was a

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few people that wanted me to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about this on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about it a lot on TikTok and kind

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of just shared some things that we're doing, me and

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my husband, not just me, to kind of prepare ourselves

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for trying to conceive. So one of them being I

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had a doctor's appointment last week, as you guys know,

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and I got blood work done, So that was my

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first time ever getting blood work done, which some people

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were like, killie, that's crazy that you've never gotten blood

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work done before.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know.

482
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Speaker 1: I've been healthy, I've never like needed to get blood

483
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,440
work done for anything, so I just never needed to

484
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,440
do it, so I never really went. And then I

485
00:22:25,519 --> 00:22:26,960
just had this gut feeling where I was like, you

486
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,599
know what, I feel like my sister needs to come

487
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,240
with me to this appointment because I don't know. I

488
00:22:31,279 --> 00:22:34,200
just felt like I felt weird going into the appointment

489
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,799
not having someone there, just because I was like, Eh,

490
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,599
I don't know, I've never gotten blood work done before.

491
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Speaker 2: Can you just come with me for moral support?

492
00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: Like it really wasn't anything serious, but I'm like, if

493
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you could just come, that would be great. Thank goodness.

494
00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:50,039
She came because I fainted, which was not expecting to

495
00:22:50,079 --> 00:22:51,400
do that in twenty twenty six.

496
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Speaker 2: It was wild.

497
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Speaker 1: I have never experienced anything like that before. I'm talking

498
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,960
like full on body chills on my I was sweating,

499
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,880
I was very loopy, very dizzy, I was very nauseous.

500
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,640
I thought I was gonna throw up right there and then,

501
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,440
and all these symptoms had me thinking like, oh, I

502
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,839
must be low in something like I thought for sure

503
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,119
my blood work results were gonna come back. When I

504
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,759
saw my doctor about being low iron or being low

505
00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:19,839
something right, And based on the symptoms that I was

506
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,119
experiencing from the blood work appointment, it was really gearing

507
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,680
me towards the low iron thing, which I'm like, okay,

508
00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:28,799
maybe I'm iron deficient, Like I had no idea, right.

509
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,400
My doctor comes back with the results and she's like,

510
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:36,359
all right, everything looks great. I'm like sorry, what and

511
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,519
she's like, yeah, like no, everything is like in a

512
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,559
very healthy state, like there's nothing that you're low in.

513
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,519
I said, are you sure I'm not low in iron?

514
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,920
And she's like, you're actually like higher than most women.

515
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,319
I was like really, Like I was just like totally shocked.

516
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,440
I was like, okay, well, is there any other vitamins

517
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,839
I need to take, because here I am thinking, okay,

518
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,599
I gotta buy more vitamins to get my body in

519
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,200
a better state before pregnancy whatever. And she's like, no,

520
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,319
everything's perfect. Just keep doing what you're doing. I'm like, wow, okay,

521
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,160
Like I was just in complete shock. I really did

522
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,319
not think that the results would come back as good

523
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,480
as it did, and I'm so grateful that it came

524
00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:15,079
back because I am a hypochondract Okay, I kind of

525
00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:17,039
posted it on my Instagram story last week, just kind

526
00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:21,079
of reminding everybody too, you know, go to the doctor's appointments.

527
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 2: Don't avoid it.

528
00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: And there were so many people that messaged me after

529
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,200
just saying thank you so much, Like I was actually

530
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,440
going to cancel my appointment, but then you posted this,

531
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,000
and it just kind of like motivated me to push

532
00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:32,720
through it and know that it's worth doing those checkups,

533
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,599
and it really is. It is so important to just

534
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,839
go through those appointments. I was so nervous going into

535
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,519
that appointment a finding out my results about the blood work.

536
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,519
I also had a PAP test booked that day, so

537
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,359
everything like was just like I was very uncomfortable.

538
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 2: About the entire situation.

539
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: Like I was vibrating in the room in terms of

540
00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:55,000
like I was shaking constantly because I was so nervous,

541
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,480
and I just didn't want to be there. Like clinics

542
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,319
freak me out, hospitals freak me out. Like I do

543
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,119
not like anything medical. I could never be a doctor

544
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,079
or a nurse. I just freak out when it comes

545
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,640
to that kind of stuff, blood, anything, you name it.

546
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,559
Loved watching Grey's Anatomy, don't love being in the situation

547
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,160
if that makes sense. Like I truly am just not

548
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,079
that kind of person that enjoys those things. And I'm

549
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,000
not saying people do enjoy those things, but I just

550
00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:23,039
I don't like being in that environment. Like I don't

551
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,359
like it at all. It freaks me the fuck out.

552
00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:28,680
So I was really scared going to that appointment. I

553
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,279
did not want to do it whatsoever. But I just

554
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,839
kept thinking to myself and like, you are going to

555
00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:36,079
feel so much better mentally, and I do. Just going

556
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,359
through that appointment getting the results back, feeling so good

557
00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:42,240
knowing that everything came back great.

558
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: I am healthy.

559
00:25:43,519 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: I got my PAP test results back, which came back

560
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,480
great as well. Like I'm feeling really good now mentally

561
00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:52,960
going into like trying to conceive with my husband because

562
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I know all the results I came back.

563
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,039
Speaker 2: And I don't know.

564
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Speaker 1: I just feel like also for yourself, like even if

565
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you aren't trying to conceive, and you just like want

566
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,680
to know if you're healthy or not and just kind

567
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,119
of get that peace of mind of knowing that you

568
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,799
are a healthy individual and that everything you're doing is

569
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,759
right and you don't need to stress about it. I

570
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,880
just really want to encourage you to face your fears

571
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,559
if you're like me, and just push through those appointments,

572
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:17,680
because I know it's not fun. Trust me, I didn't

573
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:18,759
want to do it. I didn't want to do the

574
00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:20,880
blood work. I didn't want to do you know, the.

575
00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 2: Pop test or anything like that.

576
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,799
Speaker 1: But I'm so happy I did it and the results

577
00:26:24,839 --> 00:26:28,359
came back so positively, and I'm so so relieved, and

578
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,759
I feel really really good and proud of myself for just.

579
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Speaker 2: Kind of getting through that.

580
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Speaker 1: Now, the next step for us is my husband going

581
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to his doctor's appointment. So he has a doctor's appointment,

582
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,759
I think it's next week for him, and then we

583
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,279
both booked dentist appointments that are in February, so we

584
00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:45,599
have a dental cleaning that we're doing. So that kind

585
00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:48,599
of just like gets all the medical appointments over with.

586
00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:51,400
We don't need to stress about it, like get it done,

587
00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:53,599
get it over with, and we can kind of move

588
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,359
on from that. So that's kind of what we're doing

589
00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:00,160
for appointment wise, to prep ourselves for TTC, and then

590
00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:02,359
all the other things we're kind of doing is just

591
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,279
eating better. So we're really trying to follow a healthy diet,

592
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,160
just eating specific foods that are like really really good

593
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,559
for fertility. I've been reading a book which I've talked

594
00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:13,759
about i think here on the podcast before. It's called

595
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,359
Real Food for Fertility.

596
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,799
Speaker 2: I'm learning so much.

597
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: I'm almost done the book. Actually, I'm more than halfway through.

598
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,319
It's a large book, okay, I'm I'm like on page

599
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,400
three hundred and ten, I think. Anyways, it's taken me

600
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,519
a while to read, just because I'm not reading every

601
00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:30,720
single day. I'm reading like every second day on my

602
00:27:30,759 --> 00:27:34,680
treadmill for forty minutes. But we're very close to finishing

603
00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:37,799
this book. But it's been very educational for someone who

604
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,319
knows nothing about fertility and just seeing how food plays

605
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,000
such a big impact and just certain foods that you

606
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,519
can eat that can really help you out is really beneficial.

607
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:49,880
So I don't want to tell you guys, like, oh,

608
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,519
you should eat this, you should eat that. Like I

609
00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:54,079
am not a medical expert or a nutritionus at all,

610
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,079
but if you guys want to learn about.

611
00:27:56,799 --> 00:27:58,839
Speaker 2: The education around food when it.

612
00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: Comes to fertility, highly recommend getting that book. It's been

613
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,240
very very informative and I've really really enjoyed reading it

614
00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:09,160
just kind of learning about you know, women's bodies and

615
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,079
fertility and men's sperm and all that jazz. And then

616
00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:15,440
the final thing for prepping for pregnancy is that my

617
00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,680
husband and I have decided to cut alcohol out completely.

618
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We are both not drinking. And I had my first

619
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,960
outing last weekend or this past weekend. Sorry, it was

620
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,519
my girlfriend's thirtieth and I.

621
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 2: Did not drink.

622
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: I was sober the entire time, and guys, I still

623
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,759
had fun. I still had a good time. You don't

624
00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:38,319
need to have an alcoholic beverage to have a good time.

625
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,799
So I had a mocktail too, mocktails actually, and then

626
00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:44,319
some water and had a really fun time. And it

627
00:28:44,359 --> 00:28:48,119
was funny because my girlfriend was also not drinking as well,

628
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,599
so it was kind of fun that we could just

629
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,440
like drink mocktails together and people didn't care. No one

630
00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:55,640
judged us. If anything, everyone was like super supportive. And

631
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,000
you know, it's good to have friends like that, because

632
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,519
if you have friends that are like making fun of

633
00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:02,039
you for not drinking, like why are they your friends?

634
00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:04,240
Like that's not a true friend. A true friend would

635
00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:07,079
be there to support you and your own decision. Again,

636
00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:10,160
this is something that's pretty extreme, like not everybody does

637
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,400
this before prepping for pregnancy. This is not something you

638
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,480
have to do, and everything that I'm saying you do

639
00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:16,440
not have to do if you're someone like me who's

640
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,480
prepping for pregnancy. But these are just things that I'm

641
00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:22,680
doing that I want to do for my future self

642
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,599
and for my future baby. And this is just something

643
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,440
that I wanted to do for myself and my husband

644
00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:30,440
wanted to do. So we're very much treating this as

645
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,200
a team thing where it's like, in order for this

646
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:35,400
baby to happen, it's a two man straight, you know

647
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,559
what I mean, Like both of us have to do

648
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,759
our part and you know, do what we can for

649
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,160
our future child. So yeah, that's kind of what we're

650
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,519
doing right now. And I kind of just wanted to

651
00:29:46,559 --> 00:29:48,400
give an update here on the podcast about that, just

652
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,599
because I know there's some girls who are in a

653
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,319
similar situation like me, or you know, you guys might

654
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,480
not be, but I just thought it would be informative

655
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,480
to kind of just share things that I'm doing and

656
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:01,599
my husband is doing to prepare ourselves for this next journey.

657
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,680
But that's kind of all the updates that I wanted

658
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,519
to share with you guys. I don't really have much

659
00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:07,519
else happening right now. I think those are probably the

660
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:08,960
three things or four things.

661
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: Sorry.

662
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: I kind of chatted about like my trip to Costa Rica,

663
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,960
my back injury, my house, and then my whole prepping

664
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,519
for pregnancy journey. So that is today's episode. I hope

665
00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:21,839
you guys enjoyed this girl Chat episode. Again, I feel

666
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,440
like I don't do these episodes too often, but I

667
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,160
do love to throw them in there once in a

668
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,240
while just kind of catch up with you guys and yeah,

669
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,960
just chat about things that are going on. So I

670
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,319
hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you're new, definitely

671
00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:37,319
make sure to follow me the host, Kaylee. I'm on Instagram, TikTok,

672
00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:40,400
and YouTube. You can also follow at the hawkgirl Energy

673
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,039
Instagram page. But I love you guys also much thank

674
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:45,680
you guys for listening to another episode. The following week

675
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,720
after that, I will be uploading an episode with my sister,

676
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,200
but we're gonna do a conversation episode of how our

677
00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:53,279
trip went along with how we're going to be getting

678
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:57,039
back into routine after travels all that fun stuff, So

679
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make sure to stay tuned for that episode in February.

680
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:03,000
And I hope you guys have the best week ahead

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