When my phone erupted with notifications during a crucial moment, it wasn't just a minor mishap—it was the catalyst for a conversation about the hilariously complex relationship we have with our gadgets. Marika and I swap stories of tech faux pas and share a boisterous 'Okay, Boomer' moment before shifting to a more tender topic. The heartache of dealing with bullying emerges as we discuss a family's endeavor to advocate for their child within the school system, revealing the emotional labor and the critical need for support during such trying times.
Unexpectedly, pop culture weaves its way through our stories, with Marika illuminating our discussion with insights on Jojo Siwa's rebrand and its varied reception among fans. We not only unpack the cultural impact of celebrity transformations but also debate the therapeutic effects of 'punching pillows' versus peaceful walks. This episode takes you on a roller coaster of emotions, from the challenges of personal adversity to the lighter moments of curating our quintessential 'gay nostalgia' playlist.
As we approach the finale of our heartfelt exchange, we find solace in the pure joy of karaoke classics and reminisce about the golden era of PlayStation games. We ponder the film industry's love affair with sequels and the delicate dance between cherishing the past and embracing original content. The episode wraps with a reflection on intimate relationships, the bonds of friendship, and the little joys in life, like catching up on belated birthday wishes. Join us for a journey that balances laughter, empathy, and thoughtful contemplation, where every listen promises to be as enriching as the last.
When my phone erupted with notifications during a crucial moment, it wasn't just a minor mishap—it was the catalyst for a conversation about the hilariously complex relationship we have with our gadgets. Marika and I swap stories of tech faux pas and share a boisterous 'Okay, Boomer' moment before shifting to a more tender topic. The heartache of dealing with bullying emerges as we discuss a family's endeavor to advocate for their child within the school system, revealing the emotional labor and the critical need for support during such trying times.
Unexpectedly, pop culture weaves its way through our stories, with Marika illuminating our discussion with insights on Jojo Siwa's rebrand and its varied reception among fans. We not only unpack the cultural impact of celebrity transformations but also debate the therapeutic effects of 'punching pillows' versus peaceful walks. This episode takes you on a roller coaster of emotions, from the challenges of personal adversity to the lighter moments of curating our quintessential 'gay nostalgia' playlist.
As we approach the finale of our heartfelt exchange, we find solace in the pure joy of karaoke classics and reminisce about the golden era of PlayStation games. We ponder the film industry's love affair with sequels and the delicate dance between cherishing the past and embracing original content. The episode wraps with a reflection on intimate relationships, the bonds of friendship, and the little joys in life, like catching up on belated birthday wishes. Join us for a journey that balances laughter, empathy, and thoughtful contemplation, where every listen promises to be as enriching as the last.
Hello, welcome back to Distant Friends of Dorothy. I am Karen and I'm here with Marika, who is pretend Mary. Yeah, I am With a very pretty ring. It's a very pretty ring. I think I got it in London. I saw ones that were similar, like in the museum. So I guess this style of ring is like a British thing from long, long ago and they made these like simple rings in like early England, like you know, viking biking times or something. So, yeah, it's cool. I think it's pretty. Also, I don't know if I can get it off my finger now, so it just lives there, fair, uh, I also need to call you out for something. Maybe I'm calling you out or maybe I'm just not.
Speaker 1:Do you have all of your notifications silenced all the time now? Um, for what platform and on what device? Text messages? No, oh, because you're my. Text messages are silenced on you.
Speaker 1:Like, when I go to message you, it says marika has notifications silent. Oh, how did I do that? I don't know, but it's been like that for like a week. Oh, okay, what about now? No, it's a setting in your phone. It's not turning your phone on to silent. Oh, um, I might have that on, but just nobody else in my life uses an iphone. Oh, so they wouldn't have known. Oh, okay, cause I'm like is she, is this everybody, or is this just me? Am I texting too much? Not at all. No, I don't even know how that turned on. I'll have to go into settings and see if I can do something about it. It's like so it's. It's basically like you don't get, your phone doesn't buzz, it doesn't ding, the screen doesn't light up, nothing, and it's just for when you need to like focus or something or like you know. So like because silent is technically silent, but not really because it still goes. So it doesn't even do that.
Speaker 1:When you have your notification silenced and like when I first saw it, I was like, oh okay, she's like studying not studying, but like doing something, like you're marking or you need to do something, where you just need to not be bugged by your phone. And then it just never went away and I was like what the fuck? And then, but apparently, if I send something, I can, I have the option to make it notify you anyways, and so then your silence notification doesn't even count. But I would never do that because that's just like a dick move. Yeah, my notifications are on. Maybe it's just for me. How would I have even done that? I don't even know how to do that. You're, okay, boomer, shut up. Um, you're older than me by a couple months.
Speaker 1:Um, I think it's when you go into somebody's contact and then maybe not contact, but like open up their whatever, and then you can hide alert, maybe is that what it is. Oh, it's turned off now. Okay, you did something and now I can message you. I mean, I can message you before anyways. Anyways, I don't know what the moral of that story was. I don't know either. But I know my one friend in vancouver. She has that message and that's the only time I've seen it, and hers is on all the time. Now I'm wondering if she's permanently blocking me. Oh, it's not blocking, they still come through. You just don't get a notification until you, like, you have to look at your phone and then you'll see that you have a message in your badges like in the oh yeah, okay, that's it anyways.
Speaker 1:Um, so, yeah, that was. That was kind of it. Um, also, thank you for validating my feeling. Um, you did I wanted, I was mad. I was so mad. I was mad yesterday and today about my kiddo getting beat up at school. Oh, you know for sure, like you have to bring that really, really, really high up. That's your power.
Speaker 1:Well, and like, the last time that this happened, um, the school, at the school level, dealt with it, and I use that term very loosely. They talked to all the kids and all the boys that were beating him up were like, oh no, we weren't doing that and he started it and he was the one that was doing it to us, and none of that ever happened. And I'm like, but he said that he like, they took him to the ground and they started kicking him, and the response at that point was well, nobody saw that happen and he's the only one that says that that happened. So we don't believe it and I couldn't do anything. I had nothing, I had no power and I felt like I had no power.
Speaker 1:And then, this time, my sister saw it happen and ran up and didn't even know it was him and all she saw was that, like there's these kids crowded around another kid kicking the crap out of him. And so she like ran up, like as a concerned parent, and then, when she got there, realized it was my kid and, like told the kids to stop and whatever. And she picked up my kid and brought him into the school to help him, like, get cleaned up, and then all of a sudden the bell rang and he ran off to class, and then that was kind of it. And then she told my mother what happened. And then my mother went down to the school Jesus, fucking Christ, how did that happen? Well, fucking christ, how did that? Well, I mean, my mom is, so she's not quite as spicy, but like she went in there and apparently, according to her, she talked to mr, like the principal, and she was like like this happened, this is unacceptable, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And like it's all about this stupid gagaball pit, like okay, that's what they're fighting over is well, yeah, so okay, good, because I'm not, but I know that it's a thing.
Speaker 1:And so it was in the morning before school and all these boys are playing in the gaggle ball pit. And then my kid, like pushed another kid, and then what he says is he didn't even push him that hard, he didn't even fall over, like nothing happened. But then another kid came and pushed him right after me, and then he, the kid, was like who pushed me and everybody said it was me, and so then I ran away because he was going to go tell the teacher. So I was going to go tell the teacher because I didn't I didn't push him that hard. And then, instead of going to tell the teacher, I decided to go play on the spiderweb. And because he's his first thing in the morning and his meds haven't kicked in yet, and he's playing on the spiderweb and then all of a sudden all these other kids start jumping on the spiderweb and jumping and he's like they were jumping on me.
Speaker 1:But he was very clear. He's like they weren't actually jumping on me, like on my body, but they were jumping around me and they were yelling um, the blender, the blender, which is like a thing that they do in the spider web, is, it's the blender, it's the blender. And he said I was laughing, it was funny. And then it wasn't funny and then I asked, I was screaming for them to stop and they wouldn't stop. So I just crawled out and I started running and then they were chasing me and so I ran to a teacher. I ran towards the teacher and I was screaming for help and the teacher wouldn't help me. So I went and I ran onto the swings and I got on the swings and I was swinging and then they stopped the swings, then I jumped off the swing and then I was running away from them again and I was screaming for help again and then the teacher the teacher didn't help me, and that's their job. Is that they're supposed by his throat? And then what he thinks happened is they were throwing the ball at his face over and over and over again and he said that one of the kids said that the teacher told them to do it. And he says the teacher wouldn't say that. He's like I don't believe him because the teacher wouldn't say that and I was like that's a good, good observation, buddy, but he thinks that they were just throwing the ball at his face. But when my sister was running up cause, she saw, all she saw was the end, but she saw them kicking him and he's got like a bruise on his cheek and a bruise on his forehead. So I took pictures, um, and yeah, so that was that was our conversation this morning.
Speaker 1:Was me finding all this stuff out? Um, I found out a little bit last night. My mother and sister kind of told me, um, and then I got like the full story from him this morning and then I like wrote down everything that he said, wrote it into a nice little email. I haven't heard anything from the school and when my mom went to the school yesterday she met with the principal and she was like you know, this is, this is not acceptable. Like this gagaball thing first thing in the morning it gets them all ramped up and they are getting violent and there's not enough oversight first thing in the morning and it needs to be put to a stop. Find something else that's not quite so violent. And apparently the principal told her, because they were in the state my parents and they're like we were in the states last summer. We watched a kid get his arm broken in a gaga ball pit, like it's not the safest game in the world, but I mean like it is what it is. And principal said, well, it's just a fad, it has to happen, kind of thing. And then my mom being my mom, uh, said well, yeah, and in the state school shootings are a fad, so let's not bring that here either. And thank you mom. Yeah, mom, because I mean what kind of a, what kind of an argument from an adult is, it is. Everybody else is doing it, so we're gonna do it too. Like what the fuck? You're an adult, you're not a child. Well, and like the child's responsibility was with the school and the teachers. While the kid is with us, they're in our care, yeah, and this is the second time it's happened. So, yeah, go to your MLA, go to the news. Well, we're going to see.
Speaker 1:So I wrote this all out in an email and I sent the email it started with I am aware of what happened yesterday. I understand that my mother attended the school and informed you that I was in back-to-back meetings all day and wouldn't be able to answer the phone. I would have expected an email. And now I sent this email at 1030 this morning. The incident took place yesterday morning at 830. Plenty of time for an email when your child is assaulted by a gang at school. I think, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:And then I went through the whole like this is what was said. And then, at the very bottom, I said my sister consent to being asked about this incident. She has. She emphatically, enthusiastically, consents to being asked about it. I said, before you talk to my son again about this incident, I want to be informed, because you don't get to sit him down and ask him questions. Now, I want to be informed. You'll be able to. Absolutely, I'm going to consent to it. I just want to make sure that he has somebody there with him now and right, especially like the way that this was handled and then it was um, I basically was like you know, I'm really concerned that it sounds like this was happening and like ongoing for several minutes and that he asked for help and was screaming for help from a teacher multiple times and no help was available, and I eagerly look forward to hearing about your plan to fix this.
Speaker 1:Perfect, and so are you documenting all this as well? Oh, yes, like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an email. Okay, yeah, yeah, and so. But here's the thing. So he's like okay, hi, karen, I'm really sorry about what happened yesterday. I am in meetings all day today. This is the email he sent me three hours later, so he is emailing me at 1.30 this afternoon. I finally sent that email at 10.30, after I had it looked over by someone to make sure I wasn't being rude, and so I sent that one to him and cc'd the superintendent. I gave no context to the superintendent, I didn't tell him that I was doing this Nothing, I just cc'd them. Like here you go, because I also have it noted in there.
Speaker 1:This is the second time that this has happened. The first time it became a very much a he said, she said problem, and everybody blamed my son. This time I have a witness. Now does it go against credibility that the witness is a family member? I don't think so, because like it wouldn't be just this random, like it's.
Speaker 1:It's such an out of pocket thing to happen, like she's not going to come tell me that my son was getting the shit beat out of him, as he's like like she was only there for the last part. Really, she was there for the last part and he kept saying auntie saved me, auntie saved me. Like I'm so happy auntie saved me. Yeah, I mean that's awful, but I'm happy for him that he has an auntie to save him. Yeah, and thank goodness that she was there when this happened. So yeah, and then, uh, yeah, so I sent that to him and I see the superintendent and he was like yeah, so um, three hours later replied to me and said I'm in meeting today, um, I'm available tomorrow to meet um. So I just replied to that and I said okay, I am available tomorrow afternoon, anytime after one. Let me know and I will come to the school.
Speaker 1:Um, so, like I cried a lot last night because all I'm thinking about is my poor little baby, and like I, as much as I acknowledge, like, yeah, okay, so he, he probably did push this kid. He's adamant that the kid didn't fall and he wanted to get the ball, so he pushed the kid who had the ball. I don't know how gaga ball works, but it is what. It is not great that he pushed the kid at the same time. Not a reason to have a gang come and beat the shit out of you while you're laying on the ground. I also noted in the email that he has a bruise on his cheek and his forehead. Good, because, like, people push each other, that's the thing that happens.
Speaker 1:Kids do that, yeah, especially my little ADHD kid who has no impulse control. Yeah, and like I've seen a it has the most injuries, but usually those are like scrapes. They have to hit the ball with their hands. They can't hit it with their feet, right, and so that ends up with a lot of scrapes, right, well, I'm like. And then I asked him like who it was and, uh, it was actually like kids that six months ago were his friends. That's how it always is. I mean, who bullied you in elementary school? It was my friends who bullied me. Who bullied me? Andrew Mack. Yeah, mack, daddy, right, just, yeah, I just I'm mad and I'm sad.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of feelings and I actually like called my girlfriend last night. Well, I was like I need to talk and which is kind of different for me, cause usually I just do in my emotion. You didn't shut down. That's amazing. I I called and I was ugly crying and everything that happened and she did really well. I messaged her and I was like I need to talk about something that happened to my kid and her response was, yeah, as soon as I get like as soon as she gets her kid to bed. And then she's like do you need me to listen or do you need advice? Good, yeah, I was like such a great response. Yes, I just need you to listen, for sure, in this case, just need listening. Like what a oh god, that was so nice, that was so nice. I know, isn't it so gay to like find someone who's like emotionally healthy and be like god, that's hot, that's sexy. Set another boundary baby, so yeah. So that was kind of and yeah, it's gonna be fine, everything's gonna be fine. I'm gonna meet with him tomorrow and he's gonna give me some political.
Speaker 1:But, like, after I sent the email, I was, I did kind of regret cc'ing the superintendent for a little bit, because I feel like I kind of went off a little bit like half cocked and like whatever, but like who's whole cocked when their family's involved? Yeah, well, like the conversation that that I understand was had with my mother yesterday already sounds like they're trying to minimize it and so it wasn't that bad. That wasn't really what happened. Yeah, everybody plays gaga ball, it's just the thing that happened. So I'm I'm already like, I've already got my backup. So that's why I'm like we'll see how I feel tomorrow after the meeting and maybe it will go up to the MLA because that's their job. So so it's been an interesting time, I think.
Speaker 1:And but on the plus side, look what I got for my kid. Oh, that's nice. Where's that? From Amazon? He's so excited. He's like mommy, can I do your makeup? And I was like, oh, not today, um, but so much better than the one I got him before, because the one I got him before has a lot of like jelly type makeup in it and not very well pigmented, and this is very well pigmented and so he's really excited to do my makeup and so as soon as we can, he's going to.
Speaker 1:I have a friend of mine who I'm going to possibly like hire hire, I don't know if that's the right word uh, but she does makeup like for weddings and shit. So, um, I'm gonna ask her if she'll do like wedding, not wedding uh like makeup teaching type stuff for him, and she says she's done it before for like groups, like birthday parties and stuff for girls and like maybe she'll I can like get her to do like a one-on-one and because, like he's a boy and uh, this is a very interesting climate that we have right now in our in our area. Um, I think we've gone a little bit conservative in some instances and I'm just not comfortable like just reaching out generally for that kind of thing. So we'll see. Um, yeah, also, I am, I've been told that, uh, because last week was a very we, we had our little call, but none of none of that goes on the internet. Yeah, so I was informed today. Where is it? Because it was cute. Uh, it was.
Speaker 1:Are you on a call with marika tonight? And she's like there's no new episode posted today? And I was like no, there's no new episode. We went on detention, nothing that could go on the internet and we didn't even talk about the l word. And she was like your wednesday night routine is recording and mine is listening to last week. Now what will I do? So we have disrupted her routine? Yeah, but, but. But we're gonna go see them this weekend, so that's gonna be fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna go to kamloops or yeah. Well, wait, can I say I don't know, it's a big city. I can say kamloops. Can't I say yeah, yeah, it's a big city, so we're gonna go to kamloops. We're gonna drive down saturday. My parents are worried about my car not making it, so I get to borrow the their toyota little hy thing or whatever, I don't know their white SUV those are different brands.
Speaker 1:I'm doing the. Have you seen the squeegee art? You get blobs. Have you done it? You got distracted. I am back. Sorry, he's just asking for some more time on his iPad screen time. I'll give him another 15 minutes and he'll be happy because I am a pushover there. Yes, another 15 minutes and he'll be happy because I am a pushover there.
Speaker 1:Um, yes, so this weekend I'm going to kamloops, but in and then on the, in the, in two weeks from now. Do you know what I'm doing? You know what I'm doing. You know I'm doing. What are you doing? Two weeks from now I'm going to colonna. Oh, that's nice. Yes, I have a thing.
Speaker 1:So I have a meeting on tuesday tuesday all day, and then wednesday morning, and so it's set up so that you are supposed to technically drive down. I have a meeting on Tuesday, tuesday, all day, and then Wednesday morning, and so it's set up so that you are supposed to technically drive down Monday afternoon and then you can drive on work time, and then it's set up so that you drive back on Wednesday afternoon, basically. And so what I'm doing is I'm driving down on Sunday oh, I think you told me about this. Oh, did I Maybe? Well, I don't really remember, you know me so well. I'm driving down Sunday, and then I will be there, and then Monday I have the day off. I'm flexing, so, uh, so, yeah, so I get to see my girlfriend Sunday night and, uh, monday morning, and then she'll have to drive back in the afternoon. Well, that will be lovely.
Speaker 1:Well, and then I'll get to go and meet all the other people that I have to work with. Virtually I get to meet them in person for a couple of days. I'm just saying that I'm in the area. Yeah, that should be good. What dates are those? Again, it is so I drive down April 28th, sunday. Oh yeah, I'll be free then. Okay, cool, and then I'm there Monday. I have nothing, because it's supposed to be the travel time and I'm flexing and then driving back on the first, which is Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Just saying, just throwing that out there, I'll come visit you wherever you are. Thank you. Well, I'm at the. I'm at a hotel. I'm at the hotel where they're doing the conference. Yeah, so it's pretty fun. I'll come see you. You'll be all what You're going to be sl. Only if you're doing your job right. That's what conferences are for, right there, like as much as we're like, oh, this is where you need to do the meeting and you need to get updates and blah, blah, blah. No, it's for networking, and like networking is just shooting the shit with all the other people. But like on that note not related in any way.
Speaker 1:Um, the next episode of um the l word, yeah, which one's? We are on episode seven, losing it. Remindize, your job should be summarizing, because my life is crazy. I can do the summarizing. I wrote notes. Yay, so we again have the historical part, but it's different this time because historical is in quotation. This is actually present day Italy, where there's a photo shoot and they're just talking about an old story, but the photographer is a woman, the model is a old story and but the photographer is a woman, the model is a woman and then the photographer being model. I thought we did that episode already. No, no, another one parts of the model and photoshoot. Yep, that was the one where it was the same picture over 14 years or whatever. Oh yeah, but they're okay, but just yeah, there was another one that was like that. Okay, there was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so in this one, this is like right after the whole, like tim and jenny. Tim finds out about Jenny and Marina and blah, blah, blah, oh yeah, and they have to like create intrigue. Yeah, so, like it opens up with, like Tim is packing up all of Jenny's shit and Jenny like walks in because she was on a journey. Oh, yeah, yeah, and she has nowhere to live. And she has nowhere to live. And then Tim was like it's like what the fuck was the only or he was. He asked her, he's like that was the only time. And she was like yeah. And then he was like get out. Well, yeah, because obviously it fucking wasn't yeah. And like so then she goes. You know, he doesn't actually know like officially, he just assumes right now.
Speaker 1:And then, like jenny comes back after marina and oh, oh, she goes to see marina and then she, like marina is like no, jenny comes to see her. Jenny says can I come to your house and take a bath? And then marina is like no, jenny comes to see her. Jenny says can I come to your house and take a bath? And then marina is like I can tell that, um, tim really loves you. He showed it to me because like she's got bruises on her wrist and and like they get cozy. And then jenny finds out that marina is married and she gets mad how dare you seduce me when you're right? And then so jenny goes back to tim and like can I just stay in the writing studio? And she's like I'm sorry and like it's like you know, really like emotional, and he's just like you know what. The things you say have absolutely no meaning to me. You have one night Good boy Tim, good boy Tim, good boy Tim.
Speaker 1:And then we find out also that Shane met Madonna and she gets to have a party on a yacht. And Shane met Madonna and she gets to have a party on a yacht and like the party, the yacht party is like a big part of this episode, like all the things that happen on it. Uh, one of the things that happens is that Shane does cocaine on the boat, um, oh, and also Ben and Tina apparently have gotten a little boring, because all they talk fertility, yes, and like Tina talks about like all of her pregnancy symptoms and talks and talks, and talks, and talks and talks and they're like we're not gonna go to the yacht party because of, you know, being pregnant, and everybody comes to their house and has an intervention because they're so bored. Yeah, that was a cute episode, yeah, so they end up going to the yacht party. They are the first people there and they leave early. What else? We talked about Marina already, so, already, so that was done.
Speaker 1:Oh, but on the yacht party, jenny and marina get kind of close, um, and then it cut to kit at one point and she was drinking and her son calls her and says he wants to see her, and so then she like asked that to come and support her. And so they go to this hotel and they're waiting in the bar for him and like she's like trying to not be drinking, so the she asked the bartender to make her like a fancy non-alcoholic drink. So he's like doing a shuka, shuka, shuka in the martini shaker but there's no alcohol in it and he pours it and then she's drinking it. And that's when her son walks in and he thinks it's alcohol. So he fucks off, yeah. And then she just thinks that she got stood up.
Speaker 1:And then Dana Subaru, oh, oh right, her agent is talking to her. Is this where she breaks up with her agent? Maybe she tells her agent to fuck off. Yeah, yeah, I love that part. He's like Subaru wants you to be the straight person and you have to be straight, you have to be straight. And then at the yacht party she breaks up with Laura. She gets drunk, yeah, yeah, she breaks up with Laura. And then she finds out after that Subaru actually wanted her to be gay, like they knew that she was gay and they were like you're going to be our gay icon and so she was real sad.
Speaker 1:True, though, subaru did actively seek out gay people. Well, yeah, they were like the first like they did really like sneaky, subversive, like advertisements in like the 90s and like shit that people wouldn't really notice unless you were looking for it. They had like a pride flag on a bumper sticker or they had like the license plate says xena lover, which I still need to watch xena, but, um, you've seen xena. I know I'm a terrible gay, or like. Their tagline at one point was at least we have our priorities straight. Yeah, like just gay, if you're looking for it, yeah, um.
Speaker 1:Oh, also, alice and and Lisa are a thing, except that Lisa, like gives Alice visage and then they end up like wanting to start with the whole banging thing and Lisa wants to use like a dildo, and then alice like pressures him not to. She's like that's not what I want, I don't want that, I want like you, um, and so then that happens and it's like pretty much rape let's be honest here and then after that, alice leaves him or lisa leaves alice because, like it was pressure and it was not nice, and you should never, ever, ever pressure someone to do something that they don't want to do, especially when they say they don't want to do it, they're not comfortable with it. I'm not comfortable with that means no, I don't want to do. That means no. So yeah, so that's like the little summary there's the recap of this episode.
Speaker 1:It was really kind of focused around that yacht party, yeah, but like as representative of other stuff, yeah, yeah, I don't know it was it was. It was a good episode. It was a light-hearted episode, even though there was like some heavy stuff that happened. It's still, it just kind of like ticked along and it was kind of okay, like, yeah, I mean, there's stuff that happens in every episode. Every episode is turmoil. That's the point of having a sitcom. I guess it's not a sitcom. Oh sorry, whatever it is, I don't know what it is, but it's not a sitcom. Sitcoms are terrible.
Speaker 1:So is this squeegee art? I'm not happy with it. The first one turned out cool, like very abstract, but then, like, the second one is just like kind of boring and nondescript, and then the third one's even more boring and nondescript. Maybe I can add more to them at a later date. I think that they are a great date and that maybe some like black outlined silhouettes on them, maybe something, yeah, and the colors are weird too. And then I just painted a weird scene. I don't know why I did it. I don't know what's going on here some sort of angry, weird, weird, mysterious, spooky scene. But I haven't done art. I didn't do art the last two times that we talked. Oh, you're a terrible person. You're a terrible person, I know. I just haven't felt like I wanted to. There's been a lot going on, you know, and I've been just like sort of not really coping, but I feel a bit better these days.
Speaker 1:Joy woke up, really after a week and a half of being in a coma. She woke up. Now she can't talk, but she got extubated, so she's breathing on her own. Um, she's still on dialysis, but she can sort of nod and sort of shake her head or frown to say no, so she can communicate now. So lauren um explained to her what happened. She didn't even know what happened. She woke up and she's like where am I? Why am I here, um? Because for her it didn't feel like it had been a week and a half two weeks, as far as we could tell, which must have been so terrifying I can't even imagine. Yeah, so now we have a schedule of people who just like stay there so that she's not on her own. But she said now, um, she doesn't want anyone around, like she wants to be alone, oh, and like we go around the clock to keep her company, but now she just wants, I think, time to process. Okay, I mean like as long as she's stable, maybe, yeah, yeah, she is. And like she can't do anything. Um, she had like the straps on her hand so she couldn't pull out her cords and stuff, right, yeah, it's pretty, pretty fucking intense.
Speaker 1:I also have to go to my other office on friday. Yep, I'm like this is such a great thing and not great. This is actually a really bad thing, but it's great in the sense of, uh, community professionals working together. Alexa, ignore, it's great in the sense of community professionals working together. So my in in that other city, um, the worker there's only one worker in that city. They're on vacation right now until like the 23rd.
Speaker 1:Um, but the rcmp in that city I have like a really good relationship with. They, have a really good relationship with us and so RCMP like contacted me. They're like, hey, we can't find, like the workers not here, what's going on? And I was like, oh, they're on vacation for three weeks. And they were like, okay, so here's the thing. And they're like we would like to have a social worker with us when we go do this. Like such great work. Yes, absolutely Like I'm going going up there on Friday. I will be there, I will come with you and we will do this. But like, so such a breath of fresh air compared to like other RCMP detachments that are like we're not going to Alexa ignore. Such a breath of fresh air compared to like other RCMP detachments that are like we're not going to tell you anything until we're done our investigation, and it's been six months.
Speaker 1:It sounds extraordinarily useful. It's really not useful and slightly frustrating. So, um, yeah, yeah, he keeps leaving me messages. I'm wondering if he's gonna get. I told him not to call me on the lexi, but out of bed and come ask me for something. Um, yeah, so I get to go up to the other office on friday and do that and then so that's like a two and a half hour drive in the morning go and deal with this shit and it's a two and a half hour drive in the afternoon, then I get home and then it's fr night and then Saturday morning we have to get up and drive to Kamloops. Well, that's going to be a lot. Yeah, it is, he'll be okay. Yes, he will.
Speaker 1:It's cute, though, sometimes with my co-workers Not co-workers, my workers, because we are not co-workers and I'm their supervisor, your underlings Like I'm a minion, my minion, but like I'm not their friend, and I know I'm not their friend, but we can have some like friendly interaction. And it was a couple of days ago. One of the workers was like going through something really rough with one of their clients and they're talking about it and they're like you know what it just it gets me. I'm just so frustrated at it that they won't listen. And I looked at them and I said good job identifying your emotions. And how did that go? Everybody laughed, genuine laugh. That's all we can do.
Speaker 1:And then, at one point, um, a couple of them were in my office and one of them was like really heated about something and I was like are we doing okay? Do we need to take some breaths? Should we blow out the candles? One, two, three. Ah, that's me and that's how I run my team. It's so great, but I mean like I mean like we've had some setbacks whatever, but like I hope that we can get to the point that we can be like that all like not all the time, but it can be like more like that because, like I just need to trust them to listen to me. Yeah, so that's basically it. If you can do your job and like I can hold you accountable, but like I don't have to be a total and complete psychotic bitch about it, we can have fun because, like fun teams that have fun and have a good atmosphere like the work gets done better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had a principal that worked us hard. Like he would give us a lot to do and we had emails to read at home every night and if we didn't, he would call us on it and he gave us like extra things to do all the time. It was tough. He's a tough little guy, um, but then we would also go out in the weekends and we'd all get pissed together and go out for dinner and like just drink and have fun and dare each other to do silly stuff. I dared him to like stand up on the table and dance, and he did and like it was just a little community and we'd have like birthday parties and Thanksgiving and Christmas and I don't know. He was hard, he required a lot, but it was also like a lot of fun and he said that if you ever wanted to I love this about him If you ever want to come into my office, close the door and rant and rave, smash things, throw things, break things, yell, cry, doesn't matter, doesn't matter, no one will know between me and you, get it out and like it makes sense from like a boss perspective, because it's better to know about it than not know about it.
Speaker 1:If something's going on, it's making your employee that upset. You're going to have to deal with it eventually. So it's better to find out direction of the source and build trust with your employees. Absolutely Like I can like. It took me a few years and I got to that point with my like not my like, not my previous boss, but my other previous boss and I would get to that point and I would just end up. I would go into her office and I would close the door and I would lay on the floor and I would cry and I called it my floor time and then I told her what was wrong and either she could fix it or she could just let me have my floor time. And it was oh, and she also had candy. She always had candy in her office. Oh, you had a floor routine just like a gymnast. Yeah, I laid down and the tears just went sideways and it didn't mess up my mascara and that's the perfect pool in your ears. But like that, like having her, and like I, I definitely took pieces of her from that. Like, like I do, I have a fully stocked candy smorgasbord on my table.
Speaker 1:I was teaching the kids about coping strategies today Because once a month we have like a socio-emotional lesson and so we're learning about healthy coping strategies and maladaptive coping strategies and they are pretty good. But then I was like okay, so which ones work for for you? And half the boys were like punching a wall or stuff like that and I'm like no pedicat over a lot. But their responses are pretty cute. One kid brought up a self-harm and that went pretty well. I was a bit concerned, right, yep. And then I've got another kid who's like on permanent suicide watch and he didn't bring that up in front of the whole class, but that was great because that would have been super uncomfortable for everyone. He just talks about it with all his teachers. I guess his dad's the same way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I used to think like before I like really understood things. I was like, oh yeah, you punch a pillow, you get mad and you beat shit up because that's how you're gonna get out your aggression. No, it makes it worse. It makes it worse. It makes it so much worse. Yeah, I know for sure it does. Uh-huh, yep, it's not a good coping mechanism. You need to find something that's non-destructive, like going for a walk, doing breaths, whatever the hell it takes. But also, kids don't like doing breaths, neither do adults. No, I hate it, it sucks, it works, but it's um, yeah, I try and frame it as like this is you triggering your lizard brain?
Speaker 1:Because they've learned about evolution in grade seven, so they've just finished learning about evolution. So if I'm like talking about early humans and like different human developments, they know that because they just learned. So I'm like you're not tricking, like you're not. It's not what you need, it's what your inner caveman needs. Sometimes you have to give your inner caveman what they need and they're dumb and you have to trick them. Sometimes you can do it by having a snack or putting your face in cold water or breathing in a certain way. You can trick your inner caveman into chilling out and writing that email. You can even get an app. There's an app. I have an app when you breathe Yep Fox breathing app. I use it when I'm having a panic attack.
Speaker 1:Now, yeah, but the free one only lets you do five rounds and then you have to like hit the restart button or whatever, like you can't keep going. If you want to keep going, you have to pay. But I mean, don't pay, you just have to hit, like, the restart button after five rounds, which is fine because you know what, after five rounds I'm actually doing okay, and then I only have to hit the restart button one time, and then I'm usually like good, that kind of unethical though they're, like you could only stop having this panic attack if you give us money, right. Well, I think that that's why they made it, maybe so that you just have to really just hit a button to keep going. And they made it like after five, because after five you've kind of got there like you're. You're kind of like halfway there, maybe, or so maybe that's how they. But yes, it should be. There should be a free one, but it is what it is. Oh, but, hey, can we talk? Can we talk? Can we talk? Can we talk? Yeah, we can.
Speaker 1:Famously, so, so famous to our three listeners, one of which is my girlfriend, tell me, can we talk about what? The dumpster fire crash? That is Jojo Siwa. I haven't seen it. Oh my god. Okay, what am I looking at? But look it up right now, because, like, honestly, everyone just keeps talking about it. Okay, before you do that, you work in the school, right? Yeah, no, I know the kids talk about it, but I haven't actually seen it. Okay, but there's this other thing that's happening. Before we do that, I have to ask you a question. I have to see if you know the answer Skibbity, toilet. What's up, brother? Oh, I've heard it, but I don't know what the next thing is. It's a bunch of different things. So one is Tuesday, tuesday, tuesday. That's the one that I know. Anyways, okay, sigma, okay, so what am I looking at?
Speaker 1:So Jojo Siwa just came out with her song Karma and she has touted this as a complete rebrand of herself. She went from this like cutesy little whatever to like this different thing, and she's rebranding herself and she's like she's referencing Miley Cyrus and she's like it's like Miley Cyrus with bangers, and that's the reference that I want people to say. And blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, she shows up to like the whatever awards and she's dressed in this outfit which is basically her entire like it's just her. It's the same thing that she would always do, except the color is black instead of not black. Um, and she looks like Gene Simmons. And so somebody like was like hey, like you look like Gene Simmons. And she's like yeah, people keep saying that I look like people who I have no idea who they are. And it's like, really, you don't know who gene simmons is and you're dressed like him. That's a concern, um, but yeah, so there's a song and it's called karma and it's supposed to be like she's. She's changing the industry and she's making a new genre of music with this song.
Speaker 1:Okay, I clicked on it, but somehow I got the like lyrics version. Don't get the lyrics version. You need the official music video. Yeah, I'm trying, but my computer's suddenly going super fucking slow, like I can hear all the fans kicking in Uh oh, I think I've seen part of it. She like jumps on a guy no, there's no guy. She jumps on a girl. Oh, she jumps on a girl, yes, and it's like very there symbolism, which is slightly irritating. Um, the lesbians are mad. I know the lesbians are mad.
Speaker 1:I've seen tiktok reactions to it, but it hasn't shown any clips and they just seem like really not happy. Well, yeah, because like she's trying to push herself as like the lesbian representation and like this is it. This is where lesbian representation is going. And then everybody's like but this isn't actually what we want and it's very like, like, like it starts off with her like happening yeah, she's being simmons and she's making it with extradur. It's very male gazey. Yeah, this is not what women do. It's not like there's parts where she's like grinding and she's got two women and she's got arms around them and like it, and so like it starts off like it starts with some cut scenes of her in the black and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Then it's really like starting off with her like all dressed in white on this boat, surrounded by women, and like there's lots of dancing. That happens, callie, you are fine. You need to chill out, you need to lay down. It's giving like, what is she reminding you? Oh, her chin's really pointy, and so for some reason it's just making me think of like jay from jay and sal and bob. Oh my god, now she's fallen off the boat, and so then she's she falls off the boat, she's all in white, she falls off the boat and then she is rebirthed as this black entity of gene simmons and doesn't even know who the fuck she's dressed up as, which is really bad. Somebody should have told her yeah, and they're all. She's kind of fishy too.
Speaker 1:She's got like a little gill flipper, flappers, yep, yep, yep and and dancing. I mean, like originally she was a dancer, like that, that's her thing. She's a dancer, right, yeah, but I mean, come on now, like we can't stop, remember, we can't stop. Like miley cyrus, that's fucking weird. It was fucking weird. It was. There's her humping that girl. That's the clip. I've seen that little bit of her humping the girl in red, so, but the thing is like with with miley cyrus, and we can't stop, and it was, it was an extreme shift for Miley Cyrus, like yeah, it was very much.
Speaker 1:This really doesn't seem like it. This seems like a teenager having a temper tantrum, saying mommy, mommy, you never, never, let me do anything and this is what I want to wear, but like, okay, I do appreciate one thing though, and that's that, like when you normally see queer women interacting on film, everyone's very gentle and like they're like throwing each other around and being kind of aggressive in a way that is a lot nicer. Yeah, there's not like soft music and candles, there's like throwing around and thrusting and stuff. Very true, I'm not very good saying it's better than a lot of stuff out there. It's not good, but like, I just I feel like she's just, she's really just done the same thing. That like it's not a rebrand. It doesn't feel like a rebrand. It feels like somebody is throwing a hissy fit, but they're still doing what they're told.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I have to read the comments. Okay, why the fuck does she look like a power ranger villain? Why did she come out of the water like pennywise? This is how she felt after taking off her ponytail. I should have stayed curious. Oh my gosh. Well, I think, like a lot of people, what I was a bad girl girl. You wore pink dresses and sold glittery bows at walmart. I'm telling a trusted adult about this. Do you need bleach? Yes, hey, want to record a music video for my song. Yeah, that sounds fun. Hey, why are you humping me in water? I feel bad for the cameraman. I respect the confidence it takes to leave the comments on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she went from pink sparkly unicorns and bows to gay electric tight tracksuit spider. She sounds like she just learned how to cuss. This should have come out on april 1st, because it's a straight up joke. This made me want to stand outside and stare at the eclipse and the glasses on. Girl, that was traumatizing. You better whip out a ukulele and make an apology. Oh my god, that's amazing. It's so, it's so bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like it's just yes, it's not she's, but why did she hump her so harshly when she, like she, she talked and talked and talked about how nobody's ever done this before. I'm the first to ever do this. This has never been done before and it's like what hasn't been done before. Yeah, man, christina and britney and madonna at the vmas this is old right.
Speaker 1:Like are you trying to say that you're the first person that ever wrote a gay song? Because, like, I've got melissa etheridge on fucking repeat sometimes, katie lang, come on, what, katie lang. What's the song, katie lang? Fuck, what is the song, katie? Like I forget, but I just know that she's done a. Oh, okay, take away my gay card. Take away my gay card. But no, like, I mean, like I remember listening to um, I want to come over over and over and over and over over again, when I was like a teenager and like didn't even really know, but like knew, but like it was a big thing for me, like I really liked that song. You just really felt connected to it. I did, and she was just really fucking gay. Yeah, see, I just watched the tattoo video over and over again. That too.
Speaker 1:That's on my little list. Oh my God, why don't we have a point spotify list? Yeah, oh my god, you know, what came to my head the other day was I'm fucking in my kitchen making soup or whatever, and all of a sudden it pops into my head I'm jealous of your cigarette and I'm like what the fuck? Oh my god, yeah, that can only you. You're the only person who's ever shown me that song. All the things, all this time you're talking. No, yeah, no, that's what was going on there and I had no idea what prompted it, what inspired it? That was just blasting up in the old noggin. It was a couple days ago. Oh my god, that's a good song. I need to go listen to that song again. How the fuck do I remember that, though?
Speaker 1:And we need, like, a spotify playlist. What do you mean? We need a spotlight. What am I making? I'll make a spotify playlist. What am I making? A spotlight, when we can add songs to it. How does that happen? Little, I don't know. Technology. Maybe later, um, make t who's your? Okay? Um, well, you can like just make a playlist and then people can just like access it. Right, yeah, but I'm gonna make, I'm gonna give it a little name. Okay, I made one, gave a little name.
Speaker 1:Now I need to, uh, add a person. Um, how do I add a person? I will send it to you. Oh shit, yeah, I just texted you the thing. Maybe I have your notification silenced. Oh, no, there it is. I'll go on Facebook. We have.
Speaker 1:I have a conversation with you and then I have a secret conversation with you. Oh, that is a fantastic question. Um, I'm sure it looks. Uh, so our conversation, like our regular conversation, is just like it's always there you have a secret conversation with someone, it like deletes, doesn't it? I don't know? But look, I just sent you a picture, so I have one that's you and I have one that says you. But like secret, oh, I don't know, but like secret conversation, I'm pretty sure, delete, maybe possibly question mark where's I don't know where's marika, is that it? Yeah, oh, I don't have the secret conversation if I go to marika. Uh, I don't know how to make this happen. If I do this, go to secret conversation.
Speaker 1:Okay, so a secret conversation is a disappearing messages conversation. Messages disappear within 24 hours or in 24 hours. Messages will disappear 24 hours after they're sent. You will get screenshot notifications in this chat and conversations can be reported. So disappearing messages can be reported up to six hours after they disappear. Okay, good to know. And it's end to end encrypted.
Speaker 1:Well, I've just added four songs and Katie Lang did constant. Which fucking lesbian yearning? That's it. Oh, holy shit, that was fast. Okay, I just added four songs before that we just talked about. Okay, yeah, can I add? I can add, uh, I will.
Speaker 1:What's a j song from our youth? I wanna come, I wanna come. Oh, I had come to my window. That always gives you the same vibe. Well, it's because it's the same. Yes, okay, to hell with the consequence. You tell me you love me. That's all I believe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I never sing anymore. I just stopped. Should do that. Oh my god, do you know what I got? Now? I don't know. Hepatitis. No, what that sing star? What's that sing star for the playstation? You just sing. You remember sing star? You just play with kevin. Is that what you're like? Is that what you do to my bachelor party? Maybe it's like you do, like sing on a certain pitch, yeah, and like along with it was like guitar hero, but for singing, yeah, okay, yeah, so I got, so I have a bunch of the ps2 ones, but I have a ps3 and but, like I made it work, and then you know them all and now there we go, we're singing, they can have exciting, that's it. That's the moral of the story.
Speaker 1:So now we're gonna have this playlist and it's where did it go? Oh dear, where did it go? It's there it is. Just give me a second. Hold your horses, be stable, I can't. I've never been. Where's my playlist? Oh, playlist, gay nostalgia that is a fantastic name for it. Thank you, oh my god, barbie girl, like some songs just feel gay to me, oh wait. But also iris, by the goo goo dolls. That's so sad. You want to cry always. Oh my goodness, this is toxic. Oh my god, ermigird.
Speaker 1:No, I don't want to listen to it, I just want to click, click, click, whatever, okay, oh, here's the other thing I need to drive, okay, really, congratulations, oh, yeah, yeah, I need, I need a book on tape, stone, uh, uh, but I need to listen to a story for six, like, like, I mean, like, music is amazing and I love music, whatever, sorry, you have spotify, right, yeah, okay, so spotify just started with um audiobooks. Oh, you notice that? Okay, so, if you, well, okay, I've been doing it while I've been driving to work and back. Um, they have some like trashy, fucking summer beach books, romance books, but they're sapphic and they're just lovely, okay, so, as great as that sounds, oh, come on, I'm gonna have an eight year old in the car with me, okay, never mind. So, like you can't do anything fun, I know.
Speaker 1:So, like it worked for like um, like gideon the ninth worked well. Yeah, there's no. Like there's no overt. Yeah, like that worked very well. He had no real idea what was going on, but like he fucking does, I know right. Oh, my god, can I just say I'm so happy, okay.
Speaker 1:So I'm listening to gideon the ninth again, now that I finished everything, I'm listening to it again and I'm happy. But I'm also real sad, cause I know that Gideon's about to, you know, and it's the first book, and like I'm sad. But listening to it again from the beginning, I'm like, oh, I'm actually not as sad anymore. Yeah, Like I'm a little bit like it's not as sad because like it's okay and things make more sense now, like at the beginning of the book, when all all the babies died and she didn't die. And now I know why, right, and why she's so desperate to become a lictor, because otherwise she's not going to be able to, like save her planet. I'm just a little bit still depressed. It's still a really depressing story. I am, I need, I need a gideon the ninth where it's just happiness and roses, though that will never happen not fair, I know. And like we were always told that it was.
Speaker 1:The book was coming out, electo, and there's nothing. She isn't finished writing it. I know it was supposed to come out last year, this year or last year. Yeah, sad face, but you know? Do you know what is coming out this year, what?
Speaker 1:There's two things that are coming out this year that I'm really excited for anyone, you know. The first one that I'm excited for is a remake of the movie leprechaun. Okay, but with peter tinklage as the leprechaun. He's amazing, he is, and so I'm really excited for that. Um, the other thing that I'm very excited for that's coming out in September and I'm so ready for it, is Beetlejuice 2. Oh, isn't it going to be going down? No, it's going to be Michael Keaton again. What, michael Keaton? What do you mean? He's like a million, he is still a person, yeah, but like, okay, beetlejuice 2.
Speaker 1:Beetlejuice 2, they have to like, have new people. It's been 30 years, yeah, so everybody's older. So, like, winona rider is going to be like herself, but older, jenna ortega is going to be like the new winona rider. Basically, yeah, I'm excited willem dafoe is in it. Why would they just okay, yeah, yes, I mean, no, fuck it. No, I don't like it. I think it's a cash grab, I think it's uninspired. I think they should come up with something new. I think it's indicative of a trend of our time that I find really boring and just, I fully embrace the cash grab because I just really like it. People like you are the reason why the world has gone to shit, I know, but like, oh, I'm so, I like it.
Speaker 1:I like Michael Keaton. I think that he's like one of the like more underrated actors. I've really enjoyed anything I've seen him in. I mean he's pretty fantastic. Like I just watched the Founder Is that what it's called? The one about McDonald's, you don't know. It's like it's not a documentary, but it's like a very, very true to life like explanation of how McDonald's started. And he's one of the people in it and he's not a great guy in it. He's not a great guy in it at all, but I really enjoyed it. I do.
Speaker 1:I like Michael Keaton. I genuinely enjoy him, him. And then there's Bruce Willis and then there's Doug Stanhope and they all just kind of look alike and are all vastly different people. But just the kind of energy that they all have I don't mean that in like a flurfy, durfy crystals kind of way, I mean that just like I just genuinely enjoy them. I mean like not so much bruce willis anymore because he's like not doing well, but like you know what I mean. Yeah, I get really sad when I feel like yeah, but like, yeah, I don't know, I don't get excited about movies very often anymore. Yeah, and katherine o'Hara is coming back as Delia again. I guess Alec Baldwin probably isn't coming back. Eh, no, he isn't coming back, and neither is what's her face, gina Davis? That's the one my dad it's like.
Speaker 1:The older I get, the more I realize my father and I have the same taste in women and like, holy shit, this woman is so incredible. Little fucking six-year-old me was like shit, this is incredible. I'm like, I still feel the same way. Like do you remember the movie Flashdown? Okay, I never watched it.
Speaker 1:Okay, welder by day, exotic dancer by night, hopeful ballerina, you know, it's just, it's got everything. What else could a person want? I love it and my dad loved it and we would watch it together. And like he just thought she was so beautiful and it's true. And like he was like a newly divorced man, whatever, in his 40s, living his best life.
Speaker 1:Um, I also think she's fucking stunning. And then she's bet in the l word same actress. And like she hasn't aged a goddamn day since the 80s. She's stunning, stunning, like, really like, looking at the l word and then looking at the l word, generation q, she looks the same. She looks the same everybody else aged, they all aged. Yeah, and she stayed the same. I mean, part of it's got to be genetics, um, but like I mean, or unless she's like a vegan who just does yoga all day, which, in la, might be the case, you know, we never know but also like what was? It was generation q, when they had, like they, they did Iowa, ayahuasca, did they. Oh yeah, I remember that, yeah and um, when Alice did hers and Dana came around and I was like that does not look like Dana, but it must be, because they would have gotten the same actress, but it does not look like Dana at all. Well, she got an acting or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really, I'm a pumpkin. A pumpkin, that's fine. Aka, I thought I'd go to bed. It's 9 20. I should charge my apple watch, I should go make sure my child's actually asleep. Little shithead I'm. I'm, I'm 36 and I'm like it's 9 20. I need to be unconscious, la-di-da youngster.
Speaker 1:Honestly, though I've been, I've been having a rough two weeks. So two days in a row, I have not felt like shit. I felt like being alive is better than not being alive two whole days days, so I'm going to keep it up. I need to acknowledge, though, because it was my birthday on Monday and you didn't text me and I wanted to make sure. I genuinely appreciated not getting a text. Oh, fuck off. It's just because I don't remember anyone's birthday. Like I don't even know what my brother's birthday is. I have to look it up every year. I didn't want tech't want tech, I didn't want anything.
Speaker 1:I hate the expectation, on your birthday, to be on all the social media so that you can say thank you to everybody for all the birthday shit. Like I just want to chill, but just chill then. Like you don't have to do it. I didn't notice you were on social media because I didn't realize until I saw you say thank you for all the beautiful messages I'm a cold buck, shit. And then I went and looked and I'm like fuck shit, god damn it. No, I like I. I mean like it's great that people wish me happy birthday on Facebook. That's like good for you.
Speaker 1:But like I have always been more of a like texty kind of person, or like at least a Facebook message kind of person. I'm not a really like a post on Facebook kind of person it feels. It feels weirdly performative and inauthentic. Yeah, yeah, and so like I'm so and this was actually the first year, I mean like I did get a lot of text messages on my birthday, but like, even like my brother-in-law messaged me, like texted me, and I was like that's real life, like the text is way better and I wouldn't fucking text you I don't use facebook and so I didn't remember.
Speaker 1:And like I don't know, man, I've met a lot of people in my life and you're important, but like, so my immediate family members and I don't know their fucking birthdays every year. I don't know which one's my dad's and which one's my sister's. I know they're both in November. I got to Google it every year. When's my mom's? I don't know, sometime, fuck, hey, I always thought my mom was a tourist, but she's not. She's drove a tourist birthday's in january. I'm an idiot I have. So one of my sisters, um, is, is may. Her birthday is may 20, I think, uh, but I can never remember that. So it's either march or may. I never remember ever.
Speaker 1:I know it starts with an m. It will start with m, so like, if they start it's the same month, it starts with m? I got it. Oh my god, it's terrible. Okay, you go to bed. I'm going to drink some water and then I'm going to also go to bed while reading a book.
Speaker 1:What are you reading? I'm still reading Gearbreaker. Oh, it's good. Yeah, do you like it so far? I do, I it's honestly. I have it set up so that I'm I don't know where my book went. Oh no, is it at work? No, anyways, I have it set up so that, like, when I'm laying down, I like have my head tilted and it's set up so that it like matches where my head is and then I can just like read and then fall asleep as I'm reading, and it's. So I'm not working through it quickly, but I am working through it and I really enjoy it so far, but I'm like still at the beginning, yeah, I liked it. I thought it was cool.
Speaker 1:I wish there was more than two in the series, but I kind of like it when a book series is just two. It seems like mostly it's either one or three, but like two is a nice number. Two books, we'll see. We'll see how I feel at the end of it. Yeah, we will. Okay, I love you so much. I love you too. Have a wonderful sleep. I'm glad your friend is doing better. Thank you, happy belated birthday and I'm sorry I didn't. You're a monster of a human being, but I love you anyway. All right, a wonderful time and I will. I will talk to you next week. It's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be amazing. Okay, all right, add more on the playlist. Absolutely better, don't forget, okay, okay, bye.