Episode 9: Book Podcast or Lifestyle Podcast? The Lines are Getting Blurred

Welcome to Fetch and Cutitude book book Podcast. I'm Melissa and I'm Elise. This show is about two very best friends who love books but also love talking about life occurrences. Join us for the girl talk. It'll get real, it'll get fun, it'll get interesting. Sit down, buckle up, and let. Us talk to you about all the things. Hi. Hi, we missed you as always. You say that every week, we. Do, we miss you every week? Maybe you do. This is okay. I don't miss you, but I miss them. There's a difference. We all know that. Oh gosh, they. Come back and listen. You are stuck with me. There's a difference. You keep telling me that and. You Jose. So we had some interesting stuff this week, not as much as last week, which is nice for you guys. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we've been putting out a lot of like hour long videos. But it's not a bad thing. Not a video. Just say you know, it's a recording. But that's okay. Keep going. I don't have the energy for you today. You never have the energy for me today. I'm really excited because the snow is starting to melt. Oh thank god, I know. I am so ready as soon as I can get down there, I am going to be decorating. I have some grass patches on my yard already, so excited me too. I am very excited for It's just spring in general. I know I need some sunshine in my life. Oh, I've been opening all the curtains lately, so that's been kind of nice. Not me once. I'm sad for the day. I'm sad for the day. Yeah. Do we want to. Talk about the book? Because I know last week I. Did post a TikTok on our like my reactions. Specifically I hate this book. No you don't, Yes, I do. No. I ended up slapping that I took notes this week. I actually I highlighted some things that I want to chat about. Yeah, I took notes about some things that I wanted to talk about. So in the first chapter, chapter forty one, I think the only note I made on that is that Dad doesn't care about Junie. Nope, not at all. It just doesn't give a ship, doesn't take care. We have said though, that Juni was born as like the sacrificial lamb because they wanted to protect Heather, or her mom wanted to protect Heather at. Least, right, I think that both parents are trying to protect Heather in a certain way. Almost yeah, but it's really odd. It's really odd, and I'm not sure if that's because Dad feels bad about what happened to Heather, or if it's just that maybe Junie's like a sore subject because that's about the time that he was cheating on it on Constance. Right in chapter forty two, I have some notes about Heather's dad's office. She really thought about going in and looking around, but she didn't, right, But instead Heather goes to the diner, which I love that we're finally crossing paths with Beth's story. Yep, they're finally tying together. And while I hate it, I love it because I. Feel like we got some answers. I was gonna say, we find out that some of Beth's regulars were ed, and. The sheriff, I call that from the very un you did like I think, I was what a chapter and I was like, the sheriff is dirty. The sheriff did it. I actually took a quote and I actually saved it and I wrote it down and quote two bad Him and the fawns didn't get together and cancel each other. Out, which that's it's a confusing statement for me because it almost sounds like one is not necessarily as creepy as the other, which I'm getting creepy vibes from both of them. I feel like that means one of them was overtly sexual or sexualized towards her and the other one was like creepy in a not creepy way, right, like oh honey, how was work, or what did you do yesterday? Or I saw you here, like right, associating, but in a weird way. I'm still like, I know Ed is. I really think Ed is the red herring, but it just is not. I mean, both of them have been around all of the girls, yep. So it's just very weird because the sheriff has always been there whereas Ed has not. That's what really makes me think that it might be Ed, even though I know he's probably the red herring, Like I know deep down he probably is. I think that this has been going on for a long time and the sheriff got cocky and abducted someone from their own town. Yeah. Yeah, because we do learn that there is a little shed or a hole in the wall that they don't use. It's not someone's basement, but it's like a door in the basement that you can go into, and anyone has access if they have that key. Right, chapter forty three, this is when I think Heather is coming home from the diner. Yes, she hears the ambulance and follows it, and of course, like it's no surprise to any reader if i'd brenda. And she's also found. A dead man's scoring yep, in the in the footpath, though not. In wearing her own clothing. Yeah, that kind of gives me other vibes. And I'll tell you what I feel about that, Because she's found in school teacher clothes and nylons, which she hated. Wearing school teacher clothes. Why does that give me like Sunday school vibes? I didn't get Sunday school vibes, but I got like a nice blouse and like a. Pencil skirt or something like not even a pencil skirt, but. Like almost like a kink type thing. Like they're trying to make her portray older than she is. Like school teacher has always been like a thing. Yeah, they've written songs about. It, like oh, yeah, I know it's well, so maybe it's just my own trauma. But I'm just like, why does that give me? Like I really think. That the pastor is involved, and that gives me weird like the school teacher. I don't know, well, he gives me weird vibes. We didn't talk about it last week, but we do know that Heather's mom has been checked back into the hospital because she has a meltdown yes at church yep to the pastor, priest whomever he is, and says, you know where they are, you know what's happening to them? Yeah, which, and that's why I started writing notes because I didn't want to forget anything because that was a big moment too. And at this point Heather did go visit her mother too at the hospital. Chapter forty four, Heather's dad finally comes home and explains to Heather that Brenda was strangled, which is completely different from marine. Which makes me wonder if it's not more than one person. I I hate to say this, but I think that at least Brenda is. Heard at Do you think Brenda's dad No, I. Think Heather's dad the da is the one that killed Brenda. I think it's two different people. I mean, it could be even more than two again, because there's three people that are found in the basement with Maureen, So I'm thinking it's those three people, which at this point I'm thinking sheriff, Dad and the pastor. Yeah, so I'm really thinking it's that, And it is actually mentioned. I have it listed here too, perps question mark because that was also mentioned at this point. They can't find ed though, which I'm also wondering if they've just nixed him. Yeah, or he's they've relocated him somewhere. Or if he is actually in hiding because he knows he is the red herring. Yeah, we find out. This is the chapter where we find out there is a dummy door. This is the first we thought about it. There's a dummy. Door, because Heather was going to ants to go get that picture. Yes, and there's scratching, scraping and shuffling from the dummy door across from Ant's door. But here's the other thing that we didn't ever speak about. Yes, we know that Beth got out. That metal object she was trying to get out. It was a skull key, so it was a key to all of the doors. We don't know that, but that's what I'm assuming. Well, yeah, because she it was interesting how it was described. I can read that too. I haven't. Yeah, where where is that quote? Because I'm actually back in thirty so it's on page one eighty eight. I can still laugh, you bastard. If whatever was making the scratching sound was a mouse, she wouldn't eat it, even though she was starving. She befriended it. They'd wait together because soon she'd be free. She'd dug out that spike, that five int skull key, that's what she decided to call it, because she was going to drive it through his eye and that would open the door to her cage and set her free. See skulkey, skulkey, skulkey skulkey. Her laughter was rich and only a little shrill. And yeah, we actually read that roughly around the same time, and we thought it was quite ironic because there have been mentions in other chapters about skull keys and there being keys to more than one door, all. The keys open, all of them. I don't think I think it's honestly just a metaphor in the book right now. I don't actually think it's a key. I think it's an actual spike, but she is relating it in such a way that it's kind of ironic. That there are skull keys and she is mentioning skulkey. I think it's just a very ingenious way that the author wrote it. I guess we'll find out. I know, I hope we find out. But yeah, we only have two more weeks of reading this, so that's crazy. I think this week we're gonna be pissed. I'm already pissed, so whatever. So chapter forty five, this is the one that really upset Lissa and I actually I slapped Alyssa several times and she was like. Why are you hitdaches? I have one quote, and one quote that summarizes this whole fucking chapter. I just don't. I couldn't tell her that I no longer trusted Dad. I'll walk you back to Libby's. So who was that? And that's Heather. Heather is talking to her sister. She is not trusting her father. We find out more at the end of this chapter, which pissed me off. But Heather, I think, is starting to put together some pieces. And I think that Heather has had to be an adult for way too long, and I think that that is coming out. Hard right now. Yeah, So the end this chapter, which is what I wrote about. So Heather goes over to Cloudy's and Cloudy in her talk and he admits that he has had a crush on her for a very very, very. Very long time. Yeah, which is what he wanted to tell her, but he didn't because he saw the picture that. Had right, and he was and Aunt's been going around telling people that Heather and aunt are together their boyfriend girlfriend, which Heather is like, absolutely not, that is not what has happened. I really want I didn't even really want that picture be taken right. So Cloudy finally tells Heather, but then decides to give her a necklace. But it is not like a necklace indoor earrings that either of the other girls I've had. I just want to make that. Clear very but it just gives me icky vibes, considering it's almost like them getting the pieces of jewelry is like a target. I thought that too, this is your next target. What pissed both of us off. And I want to say I called this one from the beginning. Heather out from her mom when she goes to visit in the hospital, in the hospital that she gave her father. Heather's mom gave her father a copper bracelet. It's an id copper bracelet. I freaked out, man, like I called it from the beginning. Where the fuck did Cloudy get? Well? Again, we've mentioned this, there were several of them that were sold a few years ago, Like what did they say at the counter? Was like ten twenty years ago? I think so again, I'm still in this Colt mindset that it is some sort of initiation, and I think that's how you get in, is that you target girls, which is. Why I think they played Junie as the little doll, because I think she was made as a sacrificial I do. But then my question to that though, is why would they be targeting Why would Cloudy target Heather instead of Junie. That's why I'm saying, I think there's multiple things going on. So can't wait to get the next five read. Oh it's a good book. But I hate this fucking book. No, it is a really good book, and I'm I'm looking forward to finishing it so I can do my own reading on it. But I do highly recommend this book. So od me too. Absolutely, Yeah, It's. One of those books that's going to piss you. Off, devote sometime to just sit down and read it all the way through, because doing it this way. Yeah, I mean again, if people find this podcast later on when we've already finished this book, good for you. You can just read one chapter, write after another and then we'll talk about it together. But this is torture for us. Yeah, this sucks. I'm not saying that it's going to suck for every book we read. This book sucks. Yeah. This is one of the ones that I think both of us would have probably just sat down and read all the way through once we started. Yep. And it's been three months. Yeah, and I have. No answers none. I'm so mad, not as mad as hard. So I don't know if I had much this week. I honestly, God have been. Like we talked about this earlier, I've just been We've been busy. We've been really busy. Work has been zapping all of the energy I. Have right work for you. I've been doing training. We're just in. Busy season, and busy season starts for us in December November ish and goes straight through until about now. But we've been having wild amount of work coming in and then on top of that, it's busy season for another department that I also help out with, so like, once they get a good handle on what they need, all probably moved to that department and helped them as well, even just for like an hour or two in the morning and then on Saturdays. But right now I'm at the point where, like my brain. Is so fried. Yep. Yeah, I feel that I. Had so many plans for like tiktoks I was gonna do, and like posts I was gonna make, and by the time that I'm done work, I like to sit down and just don't know which way is up. I was gonna say, I'll remind you now because I think we need to make a post. Today is the International Women's Day. Yeah, yes, so there's a stuff for Kindle today. Mm hmm, I know we missed one. I checked it and I was like, oh, I missed it. Oh well, yeah, it's just been one of those weeks where my body is just begging me for more sleep and more rest and oh. I missed Cinnamon Roll Day. Yeah you did. Oh no, that's my favorite. Yeah. Again, it's been a very busy couple weeks. I would say the fourth was Wednesday. Of course I missed it. Right, So we've got a couple of stuff here Kndall's coming up. There was a bunch of book releases this past week. I have a TikTok. That I need to record. I need to go to Walmart and pick up like a stanchion of some sort to hold my phone. But I have a. Bunch of books coming in because I might have found an app and bought. Way too many books. I am very proud of myself though, because most of the books that I did get are books that I'm missing from series, so I'm trying to complete those. Two of the books are books that like I lent to people and then I just. Never got them back. Yeah, they're poof gone. I hate that. So I did get a bunch, and I'm really proud. I didn't spend more than fifty dollars on them, and I bought uh, well, okay, one of the books that was on pre order that was released on Wednesday, that came in Thursday. So I was really happy about that that I paid full price on. But I went on to I finally got on WhatsApp. It's a little bit addictive and very bad. I mean my sister, I. Told my sister and My sister was like, I told you not to do that, and I'm like, too late. Whoopsie, oh, whoops, Daisy. But I got one of the Harry Potter books that I'm missing, so now I'm only missing the first one. Shocker. So I'm missing the first one now. But I did finish my House of Night series. I was missing two of my books. I could not find them for the life of me, and I got the two that It was actually super ironic. The sellar had just the two that I was missing, and I'm like, I will take both of them, perfect and she was like, awesome, I'll bundle. It for you, and I'm like, oh, thank god. So I got both of those for under twenty dollars, which was great. Yeah, and that was with shipping obviously perfect. I ended up getting a Stephen King novel that I was missing, one of the most famous Stephen King novels that I was missing. I was I don't have I didn't have Kujo. Oh, that's so funny story. That's what my cousin calls TJ. That's his nickname is Kujo. That's funny. Why I don't know. I was actually gonna call her after this because I have to talk to her for a minute, and I bet you she'll ask me where Kujo was. Wonderful? Oh that's what else I got. I got one of the Aqatar books because I'm gonna start getting those because with Akatar six and seven being released this year and next year. Gross, it was so bad. It's not are we fighting today? I mean we can, you'd like it. So I have one of the Aqatar books coming. And I did buy a sprayed edge. Fucking course you did. Fourth Wing people like that. I got a. Spray to go be buddies for that. Gross. You know what we are buddies. We bully you something mean on what Else's teams. All the time. Yeah. I'm just so nice to you guys, and you just treat me like poop. No, no, so we are fighting again? What else is new. There? Well, let me add a picture unless I take a picture with my camera and I don't want to take a picture with my camera. Oh much. Again, I'm trying to add the international women say, oh yeah, so don't own munchkin. Met rude act. Can own munch can you all I fucking want? Oh? No oh no, oh no. No oh no, what you do? I deleted the link. Oh no such Oh so I finished the first part and I'm almost on the second part of binding thirteen. I am fifty one pages and divining whatever thirteen. Ye, it's really good. It takes a bit. It does take a bit because I was like and then it got good and I was like, Okay. It does give me like some very nostalgic, like high school feels, though. And I'm not sure how much I like that. But I don't know. It's decent. It's a decent book. I definitely didn't give it. I think I gave it three stars. I mean, yeah, there's no. Spice, which is bugging me. No spice. I can't. I can't do comfy cozy. I just can't. There's nothing there for me. M So, I did have a game. It said this or that and it's a brackets so you have to choose fuck. And come up with a final. Are you ready for this? Trope madness is what it's called. I did find this on Facebook from the profile you had me at h e A is called. Trope madness instead of march madness. You know, okay, enemies to lovers or celebrity romance, celebrity you and your fucking comfy, cozy second chance or one night stand. Second chance just because one night stand doesn't turn into one night stand. I mean, that was what we were supposed to be. But oh my god, he'll tell you. We're not supposed to talk bad about it. It's not bad. He loves me, I love him. We're getting married. End of story. Okay, only one bed or forbidden romance. Neither. If you had to choose one, just choose one. Only one bed. I say that very progretchingly. Marriage of convenience or mistaken identity. Convenience, Friends to lovers or not so meet cute, not so meet cute. I don't even know what that is means. It's not a meet cute. M Like, they don't bump into each other and spill their coffee and oh my god, fall in love. It's they run into each other and like, fuck I hate this person. Oh they run into each other and they're like, oh I guess I. So I go. I don't have that. Yeah, fake dating or slow burn. Fake dating slowburn can suck a right one. Ah. Yes, Oh grumpy Sunshine or faded mates. Grumpy Sunshine. That's again my relations. Why choose or friends with benefits. Oh see, I'm gonna go friends with benefits, but you're gonna. Go why choose? Okay? Now, Second round, great celebrity romance or one. Night stand, one night stand okay, only one bed or marriage of convenience, Marriage of convenience Okay between those two, Marriage of convenience or one. Night stand, one night stand okay. Next bracket not so meet cute or fake dating. Not so meet cute okay. Grumpy Sunshine or friends with benefits, Grumpy Sunshine or not so meet cute, Grumpy Sunshine okay, final Grumpy Sunshine or one night stand. I love that for you. I mean that one's such a like no brainer for me. I kind of had it all like planned out before we did this because I was like, oh, I know where this is going. I just know you so well. I mean, you can cut out me being mean to him if you want to. Know I put it in there. He needs to know how mean you are. I mean, he does know how mean you are. He knows that already. I don't know what you think I'm hiding. There is nothing to hide with you, guys. No, that was my game. Do you want you a question? Yeah? We could probably do like two questions. If we'll do one and then we'll find out where we are. I swear is this one I put back last time? This question is just for you? Why? When I read it, you'll understand. Oh, I didn't put it in there just for me. I made them for us. When I read it, you'll understand. Explain your book reading system. Is the one for me? Okay, I didn't know. Take a different one. I don't want to explain it. Explain it, Broski. I think I did, though, on one of the last ones. So at least made her own way reading books. She tells me all the time, how excited. I'm very proud of myself. You're never you know, you're never proud of me. I'm very proud of you too. I just you make me giggle. Okay. My brain is just a little bit more analytical in terms of like, I need to do this for my own sanity, and you're just like, no, I just want to read like it's not that plain like cut and drive me. It's just not Oh is it a good one? The face? Yeah, yes, because I literally just had this happen to me. Oh okay, t He's gonna be so mad. My fiance is gonna be so mad because I have the physical book and it was for free to listen too. And I listened to It's gonna be so mad. Oops, I don't remember this question. Then let me let me see it. I want to react first before you read it. I don't know what mine. Is best audiobook ever. My best read audiobook ever would be Homa's Bodies Are by Geneva Roads. Well, that's right, and he's going to be. So mad at me. And I listened to it. It was for free and it had multiple people reading it, so each point of view. Was a person. I love those I love the duets I do. It wasn't a duet. It wasn't it was three four, it was four, so it's all three. Yeah, it was all three kids and then mom. Oh, I actually like that. I like that so good, and kids are adults. I wish that more authors specified that they wanted that for their different characters, because I know that some people have a huge ick when it's like a female narrator doing male voices, like like, I would not be able to do that myself. I'm listening to. A book that is all female characters and it is male reading it. What. Yeah, why, I don't know that it's it's fine, it's fine. It's not my favorite, but it's fine. I don't like that. He does have a good range okay for different voices. Yeah, they're not female voices. But he's trying. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. He's trying. I don't know. Oh, that is it? That is the one for me? Okay, so it's not it's not a qatar Okay. No, Actually it's Ready Player one and Ready Play well actually, no, I read Ready Player two. Ready Player one is narrated with by Will Wheaton. And Will Weedan. No, I'm serious, though, No, we just watched some big bang theory. In my head Will Wheaton. But no, but uh, it's actually super funny because Will Wheaton is actually like referenced in this in this book, and it's hilarious to me because it's Will Wheaton reading about Will whet But he also does a really fantastic job at narrating this book, and it's great. It's fantastical, and I think that's the only reason it's actually really funny. It's not one of my dark romances. I do love my dark romances. Read to me because I want them to talk to me like that. Here's a fun fact that is totally out of the blue and. Doesn't go with us at all. But also I think it's hilarious. Okay, Alice is a dark romance reader. But Alice has been listening to One Fluffy and reading One Fluffy and she's loving them both, and I think it's so funny. I think Alise is coming into her Fluffy. No, no, that's no okay. I'll keep you updated, don't you worry. The kindle Fluffy Wrecked is only because I really do enjoy the survivalist books like I like Hatchet, those types of books. And we talked about this last episode, but I like the adventure side of it. I'm not so much in it right now for the romance, although it is a why choose, so. I'll keep you updated. It's a why choose. It's not dark, it's not fluffy, It's just. It's fluffy, Sir Alisa's reading it's fluffy, fair fair. And I'm gonna call you on it all the time. But don't worry. I'll keep you updated. So glad you can update the people. You gave me access to all of the things that's your friend. I have access to an email. I have access to a blog which I've written one blog post. I did go and update mine. I actually posted my my February book read, which was between two kings. I think I'm gonna update my physical whatever already. I think that's gonna be my step is the most effort I have read. I need to go and post the poll on Facebook so people can start voting on it. We have gotten a couple of TikTok and thank you so much. One was my sister thank you, and one was another follow up of ours, who's awesome. Yeah. I didn't have much this week. I kind of was just in my own like loopy land world. Plus the fact that Costco yesterday just drove me. Costco was a hot mess yesterday my stepdaughter. So we stopped at the gas station afterwards and my stepdaughter rolls down the window. We were talking because her fiance had gone in to get drinks for. All of us, and she rolls down the window and she goes, I could tell you were getting stressed. And I'm like, well, yeah, I mean you know me, but how could you tell? And she goes, First of all, your face is still red. Second of all, you get really cranky and I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm like, I'm sorry if I snapped, and she goes, no, no, no, no, it's fine. I get it. I know how you are. It's fine. I didn't take offense. And I'm like, well, I am really sorry. She's like, I think we have time. We could probably do another one. We're only at forty minutes, not. Even No, I ended out like almost half an hour usually at a time. Okay, we're doing two questions. Of the week. Give us some bookish advice. Read what makes you happy. If you don't like it, stop reading. Don't read with your best friend because she's gonna pick on you every time you pick up a new book. Genre. That's a lie. I mean, as a mood reader, I think that's fair. Not even as a mood reader. I spent way too many years making myself read books that I did not like, and I'm not doing it anymore. To be completely fair, I feel like we're forced in schools to read books that we don't like. So I feel like when you get the freedom to choose them, I mean, and this is like, my poor sister, I'm gonna be talking about her, but my sister when she got out of school, I think, and she can correct me on this if I'm wrong, but I feel like the books that got her into reading, like as an adult, because she was never a book reader was the Virgin River series. Okay, she read through those like crazy, and actually after that she was just like, I'm going to look into more books. She's like, I really liked reading those. I'm going to look at some other ones. And people were giving her some. To read on her TVR and whatnot. So that I think is how she got into reading. And correct me if I'm wrong, please, because I know you listen. H I tell you. Oh my poor sister, she's so cute. So I did say that we were in Costco yesterday. Did you find the Costco mimosas I did? I did, but I didn't get any Oh no, no no, because we're going around, so they've moved all the wine and stuff next to all of the thing next to So they moved the wine and whatever next to the meats. Why does my stepdaughter's fiance turn around on me and go, don't look over here, this is your section. Don't look over here. And I was like what are you saying? And she goes, I just I know you like wine, and I'm like, I have some sort of self control. Although yeah, drunk, It's like I have some self control. I wasn't gonna buy any, but now that you're mentioning it, I kind of want to go. Look, and we did. We walked right by the Mimosa one and I was like super tempted to just sneak it into my carts. I was really tempted. Maybe we can do that for your bachelorette. What are you talking about? I have some home, No I know, but I'm gonna need like more than one bottle because okay, and I will just drink the whole bottle. I have. I have some home. I know you're gonna be a bum about it. Only drink like half of a glass of mimosa. I sat down with a full bottle the other night. I didn't drink all of it, but I did pretty good. And then I went to bed at seventh. That looks goes you good? Ye nice to. Sleeping along with my my Cosco mamosa. I love that for you. It's so good though. Yeah, it's way better cold though, Just so you know, Yes, I know that's not great. I know, I know it is. I guess my advice my book advice, because I haven't given that yet. I think my book advice is same as yours. Yes, read whatever you want to read, but also do some exploring. Yeah, find your book style, because your book style is not going to be everybody's. And good for you for finding your book style, because some people don't even pick up a book. My dad, I think, just picked up a book and it's been years since he's ever picked up a book. Your book style might not be your best friend's book style. And that's okay, clearly obviously in our case. Yes, But if you find a book and you want to read it, and you look at recommendations, I do that dessert an extent. Yeah, that doesn't mean that that's how you're going to feel about it. Please, if you look at it and you're like, oh my gosh, this looks like the perfect book for me, just give it a chance. I was going to say. I when I go on and look at different recommendations, I look at some of the top recommendations, and I look get some of the bottom recommendations, and I weigh those out. I go right, in the middle. Every time I don't read the tire, don't read the top, and. I don't read the I go right in the middle because I feel like that's gonna be the most sincere. Yeah response, well. And I mean I always read the description, and I always read the description, and then I go and read the recommendations. Because I'm like, okay, read the recommendation. If I'm not interested, I just skip over it. But if I'm like on the fence, I'm like, okay, well I want to at least go see if it's written halfway decent. Right, that's my thing. Not like Mortar Cycle. I would have lost my ship I did, which is why stop pretty right. So, yeah, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna post another TikTok later this. I think I have an ear infection. Just you know, I said that last week. I think I have an ear infection. Just gonna let it live there. First of all, you make it sound like it's a monster. I'm gonna let it live there. Oh so what did you do? I didn't know. It's good. So I feel like this needs to be shared because this is something we've talked about since the beginning. So my daughter again a speech delayed. However, she's been really good lately, really good. We've been working on asking questions like can I have or I want? When Alissa walked in today, she asked my daughter for a hug. I said, can I have a hug? Because I know that that's what we're working on. And she came running over and she gave me a hug and a kiss and then she said, unprompted, I love. You, yep, and then I cried yes yeah. And then later on in the day she kept bringing me books and we were reading books and she was talking to me about the books. And she's been doing really well identifying objects. It's an egg, it's an egg. Yeah, we're reading an Easter book and or you guys were and it's a pop out or not a pop up. It's a hidden picture, yeah, book where you have the little tabs, and she just looks at it. She goes, it's an egg. She was following along because when I was reading the ABC book, I was trace the letters and she was tracing the letters with me. So that's what I do with that book too, and that's what it's made for. But this so this week at school, they're working on the alphabet and sounds. However, I have told her teachers she has her tablet which. Like them or don't like them. I get it. We were not going to be tablet parents. But there's balls there. Or birds blow bubbles. But she's really good with her bees now and she likes to do her cat Yep. She's trying to say girlage earlier and it was so large roude. She's working on it. It's really funny to watch her because she has little short video clips of the individual letters and she gets to h every time she goes, and then she says horse like it's nothing like. I'm like, oh okay. I was trying so hard not to laugh at her because I was chasing the g for the garage and I was like garage. She was rah. Rah ray oh. She ended up going to Costco with us, so we took two separate vehicles. So fun fact, Alice and her stub daughter and her fiance took two separate vehicles. My mother and I also had another vehicle and was not invited to as party infran into the Yeah. But I mean, you guys were doing your own thing yesterday, which is fine. I love that for you. It was just happenstance that we were in it too. I mean, you knew we were going to Costco. I told you that was already on our list before I go away. Yeah, but we went because both my stepdaughter and her fiance and us we got our returns or tax returns, and so we were. Like Costco trip, Oh, we need food. Well, so the girls just bought a freezer and they wanted to fill it and I'm like, perfect, absolutely, this is the perfect opportunity for that. And my stepdaughter has started getting more self sustainable. She's like, I want you to teach me how to separate out this pork loin because you said that was a good idea. And I'm like, yeah, my dad got me a pork loin last week. Now I got myself another porkline. I spent about two and a half three hours separating everything out between the pork loin, two flays of salmon, a five almost six pound package of ground beef, bacon like fresh bacon. See, I don't like their uncured bacon. I've tried so many times. I want to like it, and I just can't. Yeah, the girl can't. A few years ago and I was like, yeah. I'm gonna have to put seasoning with it, which is fine. My husband doesn't eat a lot of bacon anyways, because he can't really chew it all that well. But what else did I get? Oh the chicken, I got drumsticks, and I got thighs. I didn't have to separate those out. I just cut those. I cut them individually before I put them into the freezer because they's so much easier to get out. And I asked my stepdaughter if she had done that. She was like no, And I'm like, have fun, like you can do it. I just it's so much easier to just reach in and grab a package. What else did we get? Oh, we got thin steaks, like they're not thick steaks. It's not ideal, but it was the cheaper of them, and I can. I made I think four or five different meals. So our freezer is now kind of full too, which I'm super happy about. Our freezer is chocolate block full of shit right now. Oh, I need to go through this and like get rid of some stuff because. I think she just cleaned it out. We I should have. Before put everything in, but I didn't. Yeah, this is turning in like this podcast is going to be a lifestyle podcast, not a. Book podcast this week. But that's okay. We didn't have a lot of book news. We just did a whole bunch of book stuff. Yeah. So going back to Elisa's little yeah, mom and I we went shopping. We saw them, said hello. We completed our shopping and filled our car and were leaving as they were. Still trying to pack their cars full of crap. And I looked out as we're driving past, and little miss ma'am has her leg out and she's trying to stand up in the car, and I said, put your leg back and say back down, and. Her body hit the seat and she shouted sobbing. And was. Right, I would rather you cry than take a digger off of. The Oh me too, that would not be fun. No, And then I left her. So a fun story about this. So we were getting ready to leave, and because we took two separate vehicles, I was gonna put my daughter in with me because that's where the cars he was. She had a fit. She did not want to be with you. Yes, And I looked at my stepdaughter and I'm like, yeah, I'm just I'm not cool anymore. We've already reached that teenager phase where and I did say I said, I actually am on my way back home. I had called my husband and I was explaining. I'm like, so it's probably a good thing that the girls live right down the street because when I was younger, I didn't have a lot of family that lived around me within walking distance. I didn't have any family within walking distance. And I was like, so when I got mad at my parents and I said I was gonna run away because I was a big tough child. I packed a Duffel bag like it was I think my dad's old Jim Duffel bag, and I climbed a tree. That's where I was gonna live, within the trees. But with them living less than a mile down the road, I'm like, oh, I can see it. She's gonna pack. She's gonna pack a bag, but she's gonna walk her button down door. She's gonna be like, she's you. Come get me. I call me taught her being so mean and it's gonna happen, or. She if she has a phone by the like, she's not gonna have a phone from like for a while. Like I said, that was a tablet too, but I'm not doing the phone. You never know if she could take yours and be like, I want you to come and get me right. Now, I'll dial it for her. I'll dial it for her. And the worst part is is that her sissy would come get her. I'll be right down. It's either gonna be that or what. Did she do? Let me come and get you? Whatever? Keep her? Oh my god, So I saw this TikTok the other day that I almost sent you. Then I should have it, said my niece and nephew talking about their mom, like I didn't grow up with that shit and know exactly what they're saying. It's like, I didn't grow up with you, but I. Know, yeah, Well, I think it's funny because we've kind of said it a couple different times. It's probably a good thing that we didn't grow up to together, because one. We would have been a lot of trouble together if you were already a lot of trouble. I also was. I'm a wonderful human, and I was a great kid. I was good at hiding my trouble. Okay, Mom and I had this conversation yesterday. I was a really good kid because I had. To be okay. Well, apparently I was not a good kid, so apparently, like my parents probably would have found out and then told your parents. I also don't think that we would have been friends in high school. I just don't think that we would have That's. The same thing that my fiance says, we would never we would not have been friends. No, I don't think we would have been friends in high school. I definitely would not have been friends with my husband. Ah, that's actually a lie. That's that is who I probably. Hung out with in the high schools. That sort. I did well, and I hung out with a lot of guys too, and a lot of them are from tech. But I just could speak their language. Don't even go there with me. I don't want to go there. I didn't say a single word. You didn't have to. It was a facial expression. My face is cool, calm and collected. I don't know what you're talking about. I think that is a guilty conscience speaking. I had here. Oh, if you take out your goddamn snort, I'm coming. Oh, I'll just leave yours in. Sounds like you, sounds like a plan. Do it to. Take this. I'm gonna take this whole section out. I also know where you're sleep because I'm staring at it, and I know what time your husband leaves for work. I can be sketch if I want to, then just take the daughter. I will. I mean, I'll come in one day and be like. Like that would scare the bejeezms out of me. Don't do that. Oh my god, that. Is my worst fear because I never do that. Okay, it was wonderful chatting with you guys. I'm parched. M m listen. Needs to go get more drink. You drink water, more water, so and we've we've gotta go read. I don't want to, fine, don't I don't care. It's gonnas off. Shut up, bitch, I hate you. What's gonna piss me off too? You're just probably gonna get more slapped. I don't know. Maybe I'll sit somewhere else across the room so when you reach out to slap meat, you can slap. One of the guys. But that's okay. Your husband already is like fuck, I know he hates it. Hear it, he hates it. He hates it when I like when I read. In general, he's just like great, So yeah, we're gonna head out and we're gonna go read and we'll be posting more. I gotta post the poll on Facebook. There's a dog hair. I want to read it. Oh sorry, you fella get touched my breath. On that note. We're done. We're done. We will talk to you guys next episode. Have fun, have fun. We'll miss you. Bye,