Introducing Society Chats

Welcome to Society Chats, our relaxed fit episode where we catch up on and talk about life to carry you through the long fortnight betwixt our episode.

Take a bite out of our Christmas catch up, what we're reading, watching and who we're flashing. 

Transcript

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 0:32

Hello, and welcome to what are we calling this society chats? That's what I

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 0:37

like that. You know, we'll get a name.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 0:39

Yeah, but what's a society chat where Laura and I have employed society sit down for a casual relaxed fit episode where we just kind of discuss what's going on our going on in our lives, so that you don't have to miss us in the long term. Long fortnight between our episodes.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 0:59

So long. So long of a fortnight.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 1:02

cold. It's long, lone, coldly, coldly, lonely. All the

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 1:07

of winter already. It's barely even officially winter. We're just getting ready to go into the bone cold months of, of winter.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 1:18

I think I got about six days of winter left in me. And then on the 26th, I'm gonna be like, nope,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 1:25

Well, I got news for you. It's going to happen anyway.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 1:28

happen. We're gonna be here. And then I just wish we can hibernate.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 1:32

Wouldn't that be nice? Just a real long nap.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 1:36

Oh, good long nap.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 1:38

Hmm.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 1:40

But unfortunately we're not so we're gonna have to fill all those dark nights with something and That's what we're here to talk about. Yeah, so my big thing It's so random, but it was a Spotify. I listen to audiobooks on Spotify and One of them I just clicked at random because I have a vague interest in it, but I'm reading a book about the Donner party. So that

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 2:03

tie back.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 2:04

Yeah, that sent me down a rabbit hole of actually learning about the Donner party because I was reading a fiction book. So I'm like, OK, what's real? What's not? So I've went back down the rabbit hole and it's Reminds me a lot of our cannibalism episode at times and one of that is when the people were starving they were on their little rescue mission or their attempt to go get help and Some people were dying and they had to split the bodies up and rotate groups so that people weren't eating their loved ones They didn't want to eat their loved ones and now you know on paper. You're like sure sure but

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 2:40

Once you've done the research. Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 2:43

if I was a dead person, if, well, one day, right? If only. Um,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 2:49

You'll get there someday, Rachel,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 2:50

yes, if I can hope and pray. No, just kidding. Um, I was thinking, like, if I died, I wouldn't want that random guy I left Springfield, Illinois with to have my bones and my body and my sustenance. I'd want it to go to my kids

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:06

you want them to

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:07

to live, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it definitely changed my perspective on it, because I'm like, no, don't feed it to the hired hand, feed it to, feed, feed it, feed me

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:18

Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:19

to the kids. I mean, my kids first, then any kid, and then, yeah.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:25

I would agree with that. You know, it's funny, I had another tie in with another episode recently, actually two in the same, the same story. So, I watched the movie Red One on Amazon

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:39

yep, it is tis the season.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:41

yeah, with The Rock and Chris Evans and the bad guy, the villain, villainess, is Grilla,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:51

Oh,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:51

switch. Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:54

I had to re listen to that recently, uh, for fun, had to, but I

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:58

I was like,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 3:59

to that one.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 3:59

to?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 4:00

Well because, well I'll, I didn't want to steal the Grilla part. But Krampus was in it as well,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 4:05

Yep,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 4:06

I didn't watch it, but I heard about

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 4:07

yeah, he's in the movie and so Griela and her 13 Sons, though they did know spoon swiping or bowl licking Yeah, or window peeping that I saw at least and then but then kind of on that same thing I was at The St. Charles Christmas tradition. And I saw two like little troll looking guys, you know, like with big bushy eyebrows and I was like, Oh, Oh, Oh, I know who you are. And, uh, and then I had a really funny conversation with them about their, their rebrand and about how they don't want, they don't, they're like, yeah, we don't, we don't talk about window peeper, uh, bad PR.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 4:52

uh, that's woke trolls. Those trolls are, are woke. Uh, which is funny, that's good that you remember that a year later, because my brain was mush. I remember listening back to it and I was like, Oh, I had a two month old at the time. That's

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 5:07

You're like,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 5:08

That's why I don't remember any of this. But I was I went back because you reminded me of Cogatio, uh, who is the

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 5:16

Oh yeah, and I saw the cockatiel at the Christmas traditions

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 5:19

Well, I s I had to go back and listen because I wanted to make one. And so I started my Cogatillo. He's still waiting on a few things. But I was gonna I dug up my phone right now, not because I'm just a really inherently rude person, but I swore I took a picture of my Cogatillo and I was gonna show you. He's just missing his nose and legs and a hat, but his face is like, pretty cute.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 5:39

Pretty A plus face.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 5:41

If I say so myself. Where are you, Cogatillo?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 5:47

Cockatiel, cockatiel!

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 5:48

Yes, he's gonna be more of a metaphorical one.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 5:52

Why? You should have, your kids would love to feed him scraps, pound him with a stick, and then he poops candy.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:00

It's a small log, first. First and

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:04

A small log can eat a lot of food and poop a lot of candy.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:07

But how am I supposed to get the candy inside of it?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:09

That was the thing in the episode, that like, you just like, make the children leave the room and you just put it under his blanket.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:15

we can definitely do that.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:18

It's not hard. It's not like Elf on a Shelf. You don't have to go crazy with

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:22

Well, that's what I thought. I was just gonna make him an elf on the shelf and, like, move him around. I can't find it. That's so disappointing because I was really proud of it. So I have to send you a picture after the fact because I was like, that little guy, he cute.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:35

Hey, cute.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:36

He needs a hat though.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:37

Yeah, when I sent you the picture of one, you were like, did you buy it? I was like, well, I wish it was for sale because I totally would have bought it.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:43

It was just a

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:43

but it was just a decoration. Yeah. A display on like Christmas traditions around the world.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:49

Yeah, and the Cog an air, Cog a

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:51

Yeah, that was not in there. The cog in

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 6:54

Well, that's a family friendly event. You can't have somebody shitting in front of the children.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 6:58

Dropping a deuce

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 7:01

I'm so disappointed. I really thought I took a picture of it. I was pretty proud.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 7:06

Yeah. Well, I have another, uh, Christmas related story. I did already tell it to you, but I figure I can

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 7:13

Yeah, tell again. I haven't heard it in words, only read it in

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 7:16

only in text. Yeah. So. I was getting ready for my company Christmas party, and I was getting real particular about what I was going to wear. Like, I had this new pair of, like, high waisted pleat front pants, and I was like, I want to wear, like, a tight shirt, you know, to, like, contrast the two. And nothing ended up working out, but I was, like, thinking about it a lot, and putting a lot of effort into getting the right shirt. But then, at the last minute, I was like, no, these aren't working out to my satisfaction, so I wear The Laura standard, you know, which is like a blousey button down, uh, tucked in. And I get to the, uh, venue, take off my coat, throw it on a chair. I don't know anybody, so I'm just walking around just kind of looking at faces and like getting some, getting a

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 8:05

nightmare. Just a nightmare situation.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 8:08

then I go to fill out my raffle tickets and next, and there's like a table and pens next to the DJ, DJ guy or trivia guys set up. And so I lean over to start writing my name and I feel breeze. And I look down, my shirt is unbuttoned. Not, not, no, all of it.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 8:35

The whole

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 8:36

the whole shirt. The whole

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 8:39

underneath it? Ah! I thought it was just like you missed a few

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 8:45

No. No, I think, I think what happened was that, I mean it's kind of a crappy shirt, it's a very thin material,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 8:52

well I would just forget to button. If I were, like, that's some, I would buy that. That would happen to me.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 8:57

And the static electricity of the coat, you know, and driving and moving and pulling it off. had undone it. And I was like, the DJ was right in front of me, and I was like, Oh my God, he's like, Uh, yeah, and I was like, I start buttoning and I'm like, holy shit. I'm like, was that unbuttoned the whole time? I was like, what the fuck? I've been walking around. You're flashing everybody in the place. And he's like, well, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't notice until you leaned over. So maybe it wasn't like, I was

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 9:31

Maybe that was the final straw that broke it.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 9:34

the, the freaking shirt isn't a tight shirt. It's a blousey shirt. I don't even understand how this happened. And I was just like, how many people in my company watch me wander around the fucking. Venue with my shirt gaping open. I would have noticed beforehand, right? I would have had to have,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 9:52

Well you took the coat off, right? You would feel the breeze instantly.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 9:55

would think, you would think

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 9:58

Maybe there was just one little button holding it together and then he gave up.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 10:01

maybe

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 10:03

But yeah.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 10:04

But it was mortifying

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 10:06

so there you go.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 10:09

Yeah, the guy was like yeah, that's uh, I thought maybe for a second you were just uh, You know hipster or something and I was like hipster what? Okay

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 10:19

See, oh man. That is like my worst nightmare, but also I just know that I would be so pale that they would just assume there was a camisole under there. They would just assume there was a tank top. Uh, one time, um, One time when I was in middle school, people were asking me why I was wearing white tights to school. And I was like, no, that's

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 10:37

that's just my legs. My grandma used to comment on how white and like blaringly white my legs used to be. Well, it was funny and then I like I was like Jesus Christ and I buttoned it up and I started writing my name on the thing again, and he's like you handled that really well exactly, really well. I'm like, what else could I have done? That's what I

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 10:57

your shirt, like cry, run to

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 10:58

That's what I said. I said, what are the other options? Start crying and running to the bathroom? Like, that's what I said.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:06

around for a samurai sword to honor, kill yourself.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:09

myself.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:11

What, uh, yeah.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:12

wish I would have pulled that out. See, I'm not clever like you. I'm not fast thinking

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:15

Ah, boo, I just have samurai suicide jokes on deck.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:19

Up the sleeve.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:21

Yes, because I feel like I made them a lot in corporate America. That's the thing. Whenever somebody's like crucifying you for a mistake, a stupid mistake, just be like, yeah, I'll give me my sword. I'll go on or kill myself right now. And then everybody gets uncomfortable and

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:34

Like, I

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:35

forget about the mistake. What?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:40

I said, yeah, I guess I shouldn't care that much that about it and get so upset when somebody's offering to kill themselves about it.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:46

Yeah. Right. You're just kind of like, oh, well, that person's problems outshine the error they made. So.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:55

Guess

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:55

what we're going to be talking about later.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 11:58

Yeah,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 11:59

Not the typo.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:00

not the type. What else is going on in your world? Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:05

Uh, so my husband and I just had our 8th anniversary. We're getting so old. And, uh. We've been married almost as long as you have.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:16

Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:16

But any who do. 8 years. Who would have thought child brides get married at the ripe old age of 23. Here we are. We're getting there. Still kicking. And we got rid of the kids for an evening and we went to this really fancy restaurant. And like, we knew it was blood and

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:32

Oh, yeah, I love Blood and Sand. It's delightful.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:34

It was very good, very expensive. Like, we went in knowing it

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:38

prefix, or did you order off menu?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:41

We did the tasting menu, so we did five courses, plus a cheese spread at the beginning, plus a bottle of

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:47

Mmm.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:48

of um, port at the end that we shared.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:51

Sounds delightful. That's cool.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 12:53

And expensive! Expensive! And in the moment you're like, hell yeah, bring it

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 12:56

okay. Wait, wait, wait. Let me guess. Let me guess. Okay, a bot. Okay, the tasting menu for each Probably like 60 bucks per person. So that's 120 times 2 and then plus a bottle of wine. So at least 40 probably I'm gonna say 210

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 13:16

Girl, you are not winning this package from the price is right because that's like half

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 13:23

that

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 13:23

spent four hundred and eighty

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 13:25

Jesus

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 13:26

Um, the amount that you listed for both dinners was actually just the bottle of wine that we had. Cause we bougie. Each dinner was a hundred for the, the ten, whatever, ten, that ten, five course meal. And then the extras just kind of added on and then tip on top of it.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 13:45

Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 13:45

I woke up the next day and I was You would think it was the red wine that would get me but it was No, it was like, holy shit! What did we do? HAHAHA

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 13:55

money man Dan feel about

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 13:57

Nah, he was the one who organized it all and was like he picked the 120 bottle of wine. Yeah, it's like

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 14:04

Wait, you picked, you bought a 120 bottle of

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 14:07

Bottle of wine. Mm hmm. Dan picked it. So it's

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 14:10

Did he know how much it

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 14:12

Yeah, yeah. I tried to get a 30 or 40 one. He's like, no, we can't get the cheapest bottle. We can't get the

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 14:17

Why? Why

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 14:18

I, I don't know. Get you drunk the same. But

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 14:21

That's what I always say.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 14:22

He wanted something from the Rhone River Valley. So like he wanted a French wine. And so the cheapest bottle. Yeah. Uh, and like I said, it's exposure therapy for us recovering tight wads. So, you know, we don't have to live, we have, um, we've hit the milestones we need to hit and we have accepted that we are not retiring at 45. Um, so we're just going to like live for the day a little bit and in Dan's mind, it was cheaper than a vacation, but it ended up being the same cost as a weekend away. So, you know,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 14:57

Enjoy it. Good for you guys. Recovering tightwads, like you said. Do some, do some spending.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 15:05

Golly, Caleb Hammer would have had a COW! No, just kidding.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 15:10

Fuck him. What does he know?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 15:12

Yeah, he knows about saving money, I guess, but not about I don't know where I'm

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 15:18

Enjoying himself. Enjoying

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 15:20

Well, he's a rich YouTube guy now, so

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 15:22

well he's still probably tight winding it up. I spent some money, uh, kind of haphazardly at, uh, at Target the other day. Cause Amelia is obsessed with footie pajamas. Yeah, she absolutely loves

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 15:38

that's so cute!

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 15:39

newest thing. And we only have two pairs and one of them is massively too small. And so I'm like, I'm going to go buy footie pajamas. I don't have time to make a run to once upon a child or check, fix the park place. I'm just into checking things off my list. So I did. I bought a brand new set of footie pajamas for 18.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:02

And then you can just incinerate them when you're done so they don't go to landfill, if that makes you feel better.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 16:06

No, I'll just, I'll give them to somebody else or,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:08

Yeah, I was kidding, but.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 16:11

but it's just like, cause I know it, it, it weighs on my brain. Right. Because I know I can find it cheaper and I know I can find it, you know, in a more,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:20

bucks or whatever.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 16:22

18 for

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:25

That's nothing!

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 16:27

Yeah. But I mean, that's 9 each. I could have gotten it

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:30

Nine dollars is like three dollars. In the 90s.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 16:34

Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying. I could have gotten it for 3 now at Once Upon a Child or on Facebook Marketplace, but I just decided I wasn't going to put that mental energy on myself. So that, you know, 6 that I spent per onesie was an investment in my mental health because I am really spiraling my way into a Christmas breakdown and I'm just over it.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 16:58

Oh yeah, fair, fair. I can only keep it together for the next, uh. Like I said, five days, and that's about as much as I got, and I'm planning to spend at least two to three of them of those days drunk. So, we'll see how that goes. But no, I went to Target because you brought up Target, and my advice is just, that you did not ask for, mind you, is just stay the fuck out of Target, man. I was so disappointed.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 17:23

empty at

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 17:24

It looks, yeah, the Target I went to looked like a TJ Maxx. There was just garbage everywhere. I'm like, I came here as my last resort. I thought I was sure fire gonna find something for my date night, right? Cause I'm going to a fancy restaurant.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 17:38

Ugh. At Target?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 17:41

well, I went to, I went to the Goodwill first. And then I went to the Ross's. That, um, and then I went to Target. And I thought Target would sur surely have what I wanted. I don't

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 17:53

You're right there.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 17:55

I was already south. I was like south, south to go to the Goodwill that I thought, on Manchester, that I thought might be

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 18:01

The good,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 18:02

I was not. Um, either I don't know what's in fashion anymore, which is very likely. Or, I just, I, what do people wear? That

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 18:13

clothes are terrible. Though you'll find a few here or there. Like I was browsing when I was there the other day, sans children, which never happens. I saw one dress that I liked and it was like, it had like a big bow on the front and it was kind of like it kind of flared out. It was cute. That was the only thing I saw that I had any vague interest in.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 18:33

Yeah, I was just looking for a skirt, like an A line. You know, the skirts that were everywhere. Corduroy, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. They had nothing. It was all holiday party, like, formal. Which, I guess, in theory, could have worked, but I never would have worn again. So I was like, why spend 50 on that? And I ended up, you know, happy ending. I got a 9 skirt from Old Navy.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 18:54

I was going to say, that would have been my next stop,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 18:56

Yeah, that Dan picked, my husband picked up for me. I didn't even have to go get it. It was on his way home from dropping off the kids.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 19:03

that's nice.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 19:05

Yeah, so it worked out.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 19:06

Navy. I tried, uh, I

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 19:08

add that 4. 90. Sorry, continue.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 19:12

I went and went to Old Navy to try to find the perfect shirt to go with my pleated, uh,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 19:19

did go. I thought you weren't going to

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 19:21

I wasn't gonna go, I went after Old Navy, after the party. The work party, because I still wanted the, I wanted the perfect shirt, because I was going to a Christmas party on Saturday. So I went, and I bought a shirt, and tried it on with the pants, and I didn't love it, and so I'm gonna fucking take it back. And then I bought a pair of jeans that was a gamble, and uh, it was, it lost, so.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 19:44

You win some, you lose some. Well, when it comes to jeans, it's mostly lose

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 19:48

Yes. I knew it when I saw it. I was like, I tried it on and I was like, maybe this could work. The fabric is too thin. Don't, don't buy jeans with thin fabric. It just, it's not flattering. Unless you have a perfect body. It's

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:03

Yeah, it needs, it needs a little bit of structure.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 20:05

It needs a body.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:06

jeans, right? And not leggings. Is that they have structure.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 20:12

Yep.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:13

I, uh, speaking of jeans at the Goodwill, I almost got these jeans, the brand Madewell because apparently it's supposed to like stretch three sizes or whatever.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 20:21

I feel like I've heard of those. Yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:23

yeah, and they're supposed to be really nice. And there was like three of them in the, the jeans rack that were within size that I could fit in

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 20:32

Well, if you're going to go one on either side, yeah, it's a wider range.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:35

Right, um, but they were skinny jeans. And I just can't commit to skinny jeans at this point in my life because I've spent so long learning to turn my back on them. And then I see shit on the social media that's like, Skinny jeans are back! And I'm like,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 20:49

why, just don't listen. Do whatever you want to do. I have skinny jeans. I don't wear them super often, but I do wear them occasionally just based on shirts.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 20:58

Right, and I mean, I just don't wear jeans often. I'm in

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:01

to be honest, I don't either, but occasionally it comes up in the rotation of I want to wear a longer top or I want to wear tall boots, you know, and then you slap on the skinnies. Oh,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 21:12

I got the skirt, so there you go. That goes with my tall boots. That's my look now for the rest of the winter. My one nice

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:20

Yeah, my, my look this entire last half of the summer and all winter has been the ripped jeans that I bought from Old Navy that are high waisted and like looser.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 21:30

cute. They're cute jeans.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:32

them and they're so comfortable. I love them.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 21:36

Yeah. My old navy low rise jeans were the ones I was wearing a lot, but that was because the low rise doesn't cut me in half when I eat a lot, so it's more of a comfort

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:46

Yeah, going, going down under the belly.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 21:49

Yeah. We were on to

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:50

the top.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 21:51

hmm. We were on to something. Mm hmm. Because my GERD, it can't handle that, that pressure in the midpoint anymore.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 21:57

exactly what you're talking about. I used to get that in high school. I've always had stomach problems.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 22:03

Oh, from tight,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 22:04

Yeah. yeah.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 22:07

That's where I think it came from, is all my clothes are too small now, so. Let me drink this other beer about that.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 22:14

I need to get some more wine. My neighbor very kindly brought me, I, I brought them over a, like a little thing of cookies, like a teeny tiny that I made. And they gave us this gift basket with Wine, some popcorn, and then a book for the kids. I'm like, way to make me feel really guilty. But it was very sweet. Our neighbors are nice.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 22:36

Is that the one with the friends? They're friends?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 22:38

this is an older couple that live right next to me. The, the friends across the way, they're, I don't, I just, you know, they're

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 22:44

That's a reminder though because my neighbor gave Roman and Daphne clothes, so I needed to make them cook make her cookies

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 22:52

Yeah. Yeah. I, I, you know, gifting is generally, like, You know, it's annoying, right? But then when it comes from people that you don't really know that well, like, it does feel special.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:03

Yeah,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 23:03

You know, cause like if my mom were to give me, you know, a thing of popcorn, I'd be like, I don't fucking want this. You know what I mean? But when it comes from somebody, like, who thought about you and decided, like, this is what I

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:16

Like out of the blue, yeah

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 23:18

feels meaningful.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:20

And not out of obligation either just kind of like they just wanted to be nice like when my neighbor bought the kiddos clothes I was like, oh wow that I feel special And like seen as opposed to like, Oh my God, it's Christmas. We all have to exchange gifts.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 23:34

Yeah. Precisely. So there is some Christmas magic in the world.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:39

yeah, how can we capture that? I don't know. I'm not a, I'm not somebody who has a lot of mental energy to spare.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 23:48

What?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:49

Don't ask us!

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 23:50

of two children?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 23:52

Yeah, let's like, don't ask us. We can't fix everyone's problems. Just the immediate problems that are happening in front of us. And I can't even fix those. Most of the time.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 24:01

all I do is I fix everyone's problem all the time. Hence the Christmas breakdown. The Christmas breakdown is not really about Christmas, though I'm sure it's not helping. It's about all the other shit in my life that I'm just like, Can't anybody fucking do anything in this house? Nyehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 24:18

two of them have an excuse, right?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 24:20

I don't know, I also wonder like how much can I blame my husband for this and how much is it of just like, I have a four year old and a two year old where like Charlotte will be in the middle of doing something and run over to me and be like, I'm doing something, you know? And she's like, can I have blank? And I'm like, there is another parent of yours sitting five feet away from you who's doing nothing.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 24:50

they learn for what makes what works from them, right? So I would

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 24:55

their needs?

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 24:56

Well, yeah who responds to them right in the situation too? Like if they went up to your husband would he get up and give them what they wanted or would he say ask your mom?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 25:04

No, he would not say ask your mom. He would get up and do it. A hundred percent. But, I mean, he might not do it as quickly. Or the, quote, correct way, you know what I mean? Or

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 25:16

That they want.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 25:18

often as I do. I think it comes down to need anticipation. Like, I'm the one who always anticipates their needs and is always giving them what they want before they even ask for it. Because, you know, I know routine and I know what they want. Um, so I think that when they find that they do want something, they go to the provider of things. Which is me.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 25:42

Yeah, and I think some of that is inescapable, right, as the default

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 25:46

Some Yeah. I don't know. Like I said, Christmas breakdown. And my therapist is sick. She hasn't been able to meet. And I'm like, fuckin A.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 25:57

well just wait till they like are in school and then they're out of school and then they're just sitting around the house. On top of it all! Cause I'm like, I swear to God, my kids are gone feral the second that goddamn tree went up. It's just like, everything's bananas in our house for going on week three now. Yay. It

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 26:18

Merry Christmas! I mean, I

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 26:21

Yeah, if you want Christmas cheer, don't ask moms of two young kids because we're all cheered out. We're too busy making the magic happen all the rest of the time. I'm not gonna come on. I just, I like it though. I

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 26:35

I like parts of it, too. Yeah, like, I did some cookies with the kids. Like, we did the spritz cookies. And then the neighbor kids came over, and I was like, Well, shit, you're right here, let's all do it together. You know, and we, we, I made spritz cookies with the neighbor kids, and, and Charlotte, and had a good time, and then I got a little, like, cookie kit. Merry Christmas! From somebody that I work with actually, she has a cookie business on the side like a sugar cookie business and they had those make them make it kits where it comes with them like the cookies already baked and then the icing in the bag and the thing and it was, they were really fun and it required zero setup. You know what I mean? Like, we just, like, opened it and started doing it and the kids were entertained for, you know, 20 minutes, however long it was that it took. And the cleanup was easy. There was no, and they tasted good because those sets that you get at the grocery store do

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 27:31

I was gonna say, I've heard your honest thoughts on those sets

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 27:37

They're atrocious.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 27:38

to hear it.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 27:39

The ones that she makes like as, oh, they were

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 27:43

you going to plug the business? Are we

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 27:45

Yes, I will. Cookie magic. Uh, there she's on

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 27:49

it here first,

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 27:50

And they are

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 27:52

promo code Impolite Society. No, just kidding.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 27:55

Yeah. She don't know who I am. She doesn't know I have a podcast, but yes, check it out. Cookie Magic in, uh, she's in Wentzville and they are delightful. You can order like special, you know, you know, the fancy ones for bridal showers, baby showers, whatever else people order fancy ass cookies for, but again, they actually taste good, which many of those sugar cookies

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 28:17

Do not. They just look pretty. Oh, well, there you go.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 28:24

I had a whole conversation with her at some work event. I'm like, well, so what do you, you know, do you use the,

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 28:30

And how many items of clothing were you missing during that conversation?

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 28:37

Probably three or four who can keep track.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 28:39

just like, I just roll in in the buff, you know, this is business, this is how I get to business. Give me the business.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 28:48

The bidness.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 28:50

Well, I think that's about time to wrap it up, right? We're, we're just kind of chit chatted. We're nice and chit chatted out. So we hope you

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 29:00

know. Like, are you like, shut the fuck up girls. I don't want to hear about your

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 29:04

Well, stop. We're going to still do that anyway. So, I mean, like, let us know. Join in the conversation. What are you watching? What are you reading? What are you doing? And we'll talk about it on here. Because this is the same bullshit that all podcasters do, but we're just really confining it and putting it into an episode that you can choose to not

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 29:21

Yeah, you can choose to skip past it!

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 29:24

week? Everybody wants to hear about our lives. No, really what happened was we were doing this shit anyway So we figured might as well record it. So if you do want to hear it, it's there

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 29:37

let us know. And by the way, I'm watching The Closer, or wait, no, Major Crimes. I only have space for old TV shows I've already seen a thousand times. No room for new characters podcast. So go enjoy that, everyone.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 29:52

Netflix reality show ultimatum. So I am looking forward to nap time tomorrow so I can watch the finale and reunion

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 30:03

Okay, I'm not gonna give you too much shit because reality TV show really isn't that much better than procedural crime dramas, so I'm

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 30:08

it's just a common denominator

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 30:10

it really is. It really is. Sometimes that's all we have space for.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 30:14

Right. Right. But if you're listening to this, you're not a common denominator. You're special and you're smart. So check out our real episodes too. And then you can learn about things and not be so common and denominational. That's what I always say.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 30:32

I think that's great. All right. Well, we'll see you next week with some new topic.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 30:37

weeks and be back here chit chatting.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 30:41

Yeah. Bye.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 30:43

Stay curious and all that bullshit.

lb_1_12-19-2024_201456 30:46

Oh, bullshit. We don't have to do the sign off on this. This is informal. This is our time, down here. I don't have to remember a tagline.

rachel_1_12-19-2024_201455 30:55

this is, yeah, yeah, you're welcome. Thank you.