Hi, welcome back to Eat Your Crest Podcast. I'm Krystal and I'm Jisoo.
I have a slang word for us to talk about today, and I think it's a interesting one to discuss, mainly just because it's truly a testament of slang evolving with us because of the world that we live in.
It'll make sense when I explain it further, but I feel like we all kind of know the phrase caught red handed.
And so this slang phrase is the evolution of that.
So the evolved version is now caught in 4k and it truly kind of shows because there's just so much like, video content, Streamers you know things that get uploaded to youtube or whatever And so whenever people do something like stupid or silly the easy comment is to be like wow I can't believe we just caught this on 4k.
There's a bunch of variations of it, too I think you mentioned biting the curb in 4k So it's all along the similar lines of catching someone doing something silly or stupid quote unquote in 4k I guess it's supposed to kind of emulate a Google search where you might be looking for a video but in super high definition.
So if I were looking for a music video, I might type in so and so's music video in 4k or something.
So I think biting the curb in 4k is actually like a form of a hate comment where you would put a celebrity's name that you hate before biting the curb in 4k.
So comment under a video where Logan Paul is doing something stupid yeah it kind of reminds me of that subreddit, livestream fail, it's just like clips of streamers when they like end up doing something stupid online and getting clipped or if they like accidentally leak something sometimes it's even wholesome stuff but yeah i think a lot of times the comments just end up being in echo chamber of like oh caught in 4k or like biting the curb or like whatever yeah failing in 4k basically Which is just crazy actually, because I'm sure most people are familiar with the phrase biting the kerb or curb
stomping, but it's a very violent thing to describe.
For anyone who doesn't know, it's essentially just imagine someone biting the kerb and then bad things happening to that person while they're in that position, I guess.
I don't want to get too gruesome on this.
But yeah, it's sort of a crazy hate comment to leave. I feel like back then our hate comments were like kind of more innocent and like wholesome.
Hey, comments are pretty crazy online now.
Right. But is the next evolution of this gonna be like Logan Paul biting the curb in VR?
Dude, oh my god. That would be so funny.
In 60. Honestly, probably.
Wait, I could totally see it being like in 3D.
Yeah, 3D or VR. yeah exactly in the metaverse yeah all right well slang words aside our topic today is just about feeling like an adult and talking about our general adulting lives it's been a few years as adults i want to say and like hopefully we have a better grasp on some things but evidently not all things Kind of in the beginning of the year, or maybe it was like the end of last year, I mentioned how sometimes things still make me feel really young, or like a kid.
So we thought now we could reflect on if that has changed and if there are more things now that make us feel like adults.
Yeah, I feel like often on this podcast, we're constantly having a crisis about not feeling our age.
And being in your late 20s, we are seasoned adults now.
And recently I did have a moment where I felt very adult, which is eating fruit.
I think a big part of Asian culture, you grow up eating a lot of fruit anyways.
I feel like a lot of Asian parents love fruit.
So then inevitably it kind of trickles down to you and your preferences, but it had been a few years since I've lived with my parents, so I wasn't really getting my fruit intake on the daily basis.
And if anyone knows me in real life you know i'm like a huge candy person so i feel like all this time starting college my fruit substitute was candy but a couple times this year i've had some fruit experiences where i was like holy shit is fruit better than candy and no one told me this entire time dude fruit is just the adult version of candy no it literally is and i had this like mango the other day that was so expensive.
I think it was like seven dollars or something from this one tiny market at a mall nearby us.
When I was buying it, I was like, damn I really like mangoes but this is really expensive but maybe it's expensive because it's good.
And then I ate it and it blew my mind.
My eyes were rolling back into my head.
I was just like so impressed by this fruit.
Then since then, I feel like I've just been craving candy significantly oh wow that's so good dude that just reminds me though do you ever watch Bretman rock on tik TOK oh my god yes when he eats his fruit oh my god I'm like that is the life I want to be living just picking the ripest freshest fruit just out of his backyard he's calling himself and it looks so good when he eats it that's what I'm imagining happened to you when you ate that mango Yeah, pretty much. I got some pretty good ROI from like 7 dollar mango.
Was it like one of the greenish reddish ones?
Or was it like a yellow golden one?
It was greenish reddish, but what was interesting about this one and what made me buy it even despite the price tag was it said it was fiberless.
It was also imported from, I can remember which country, but somewhere definitely more tropical than California.
Yeah, and I love mangoes, but I do dislike the fibers a little bit.
I feel like sometimes it takes away from the experience, so I was so curious when I bought it, and it did, in fact, have less fibers.
Oh my God. And it was very sweet.
Then was it like creamy?
Like what was the texture then?
Yeah, it was creamy.
Really, really juicy, and it kind of just tasted like I was eating custard almost, but not quite as like gelatinous.
Right. just like such a smooth eating experience.
wait that sounds so good.
yeah dude. i mean if it's good enough to convert me out of my candy addiction i feel like it's pretty ****ing good.
i have also heard that if you want usually more high quality fruits and veggies it's definitely worth it to check out your local farmers market.
usually they'll have maybe even some produce that isn't even sold in stores there's a variety of certain vegetables or fruits.
So I feel like that's kind of a goal of mine right now.
And I feel like that's also a very like adulty thing to do Oh my God, it totally is going to the farmer's market with like a basket and your orange or something.
Exactly, and also because farmer's markets usually happen earlier, right like in the mornings, and you especially want to go early to get there before everything sells out.
And I'm not a huge morning person, so I'm like, damn.
If I were to wake up specifically just to go to a farmer's market, that is true adulting.
You're like, this is why this is still a goal.
But honestly, yeah.
Waking up early to do something that's not hedonistic is so adult, I feel, because going to a farmer's market is not an obligation necessarily.
And it's not just pure pleasure, you know.
something that's kind of cool and like benefits you.
I feel like every time I've woken up early and like gone to the gym or even something like go to golf, I'm always just like, wow, I'm an adult.
Like I'm waking up early for something that's not work or like a social obligation.
So true, I don't know why, but I guess sleeping in just feels like a thing for younger people.
And waking up early, I don't know, it almost feels like a mature thing to do.
but honestly i feel like it is.
this past week my husband and i had had kind of busier work schedules a little bit so we've been trying to go to bed by 10 wow and every time i lay there and it's like you go into bed by 10 watch some stuff and then by 10 30 you're like starting to put your I'm always like, wow, I'm like 80 years old.
Oh, my god, dude, I could never.
I just like, I can't.
Waking up is just mostly only for responsibilities, work or okay.
I will say I sometimes wake up early for like golf or something of that sort.
But still it just feels like such an adult thing to do.
It's like, oh, I have responsibility and that's why I'm waking up early or maybe it's even like, I chose to have responsibility and that's why I'm waking up early.
And maybe that's the real adult part about it, that you like choose to have a certain responsibility that you're following through with.
Yeah, it's like doing stuff.
Not just because you want to do it, but because you should.
Yeah and speaking of, I think when I plan my weekend sometimes and it's just like a bunch of errands.
That also makes me feel kind of adulty.
Wait, can I tell you a moment where I felt like you were such an adult?
Oh, my God. Okay. It must have been a couple of weeks ago, but some of our friends came over to your place to binge watch The Twilight movies.
I think when we came in, you had like some sort of contraption in your hands.
And I was like, Oh, what are you holding?
And you were like, Oh, just, I just need to like weatherproof the door or something like that.
And I was like, oh holy I've never even heard that phrase ever in my entire life.
And I just thought you were such an adult in that moment.
Oh my God, wait, I don't even remember that.
Oh my God, that's so funny.
That sounds like me, I think.
I really like doing home projects, I guess.
So it's a little different right now because I'm like renting.
I can't go crazy, but if I could, I would do so much. You're right, that does feel very responsible.
And just things that we would have never thought about when we were younger.
Yeah, exactly. I was shook because I think when you're young, the chores are like sweeping, breaking leaves, wiping surface, very elementary, fundamental things or ways to clean and upkeep the house.
I feel like the older we get it's like you see more things that need to be done around the home.
So to me, the fact that you even knew what weatherstripping was just like opened up a new world for me.
And I was like, oh, I also need to do that.
Thank you for putting a term to the thing that I felt like we needed to do.
Although I will admit, I think owning your own space, you know, whether it's a rental or truly owning it, or whatever.
But having ownership of your own space does feel much more filled with responsibility or just adult -y.
How many times will we say adult this episode?
But I think it's different because when you're with a platonic roommate, it's much more almost college -feeling.
You still feel pretty young.
You have to share space.
So it doesn't quite feel like - And it's hard to describe, but it just doesn't feel to the level of like, you get to take control of this entire space.
Hm. And I think you're right about like the sense of ownership that comes with it, being purely your space.
Mm -hmm. An easy example that comes to mind is I feel like when I was younger, I would be like, Oh, we should throw a party, like it would be so much fun.
Mm -hmm. And I would just think about the fun part.
But the older I get, the space aspect is more important, you know?
So that now if I'm thinking about throwing a party I'm like, damn, that's a lot of cleanup.
That's a lot of prep like that's like all this work that comes with it instead of just thinking about the joy that comes out of it.
Ooh, so true. I think back in, you know, college or even before that inviting people over, it's like not really your place.
If it's your parents' place, you're not really cleaning it up.
If anything, your parents end up cleaning it up and you don't even realize.
or like in college, you just invite people over and you don't think too much about it because it's like, well, everyone's dorm looks about the same.
But now it's like, oh my God, I want to like, you know, have everyone be really comfortable when they're here or like leave a good impression, impress people with my artwork.
You know, that kind of stuff.
With my floating show.
Yeah. All my plants and like, my decor.
I need them to see my whole personality just when they stepped through the door.
Yeah, exactly. And I think that makes you put a lot more of your like heart and soul into cleaning or like decorating and whatnot.
Instead of it feeling like just a space it's like your place, right?
Yeah, it's like an extension of yourself.
Yeah. I feel like I really feel it too when sometimes our conversations with our friends literally turn to, like, what kind of furniture we're looking for or what kind of furniture we like.
And then in that moment, we're all just like, oh my God, this is really what we've become.
We get so excited over furniture.
Yeah, that's such a good point.
Like conversation topics are really evolving, huh?
I think it's going to start to feel really weird when maybe some of us have kids, some of us don't, then like half of us are talking about like, oh, what preschool are you going to send your kid?
And then the other half will maybe still be talking about the furniture aspect.
It was like that time we went on a mini girls trip up to Napa at the first winery where just starting to settle in and drink a bit, and we're all like, so thoughts on freezing eggs?
Oh my God, you're so right.
We literally spent the entire time at that first winery talking about egg freezing.
Oh god, it's in full force we can't even stop it.
But I mean I think the benefit of this too, maybe now our brain is able to grasp bigger concepts and talk about these things that uses feel a lot more intimidating when we were younger, you know?
Yeah. And it also means we have maybe some of the more financial means to be able to even consider something like egg freezing.
So that's kind of cool.
Yeah. And I guess it's just like kind of inevitable to write that we're like getting to the age that these things are happening around us.
We're seeing it happen as well.
So I'm glad we're able to have open discussions about it with each other.
Yeah, we're kind of experiencing the same age together.
And that in itself is very special, even if we each experience it in a different way.
Yeah, and we're not trying to shield ourselves or like hide from reality.
We're just like, Yeah.
So this is kind of the reality that's coming up on us, like, what are your thoughts?
God. Although I will say that some of the other moments where I feel proud of my ability to be an adult is more simple and maybe look a little bit more light -hearted.
I was kind of thinking about this recently, but every time I go up to the fish counter at like a grocery store and I asked for a salmon to like the fish guy instead of buying like frozen salmon filet, um like holy shit this is late 20s.
Oh my god, I actually had a similar experience recently where I was at I think it was a 99 ranch or something and I noticed that the stores, their own cut up ground pork was cheaper than the like pre -packaged one, and I had a moment where I was, I just stared at them for a second and I was like, no, I have to buy the cheaper one.
So I forced myself to talk to the butcher guy and I was like, can I get a pound of this?
I was like, they're always so nice too.
But yeah, I have to like muster up all the courage inside me and be like, give me a pound.
And dude, I had the same feeling as you.
I was like, wow, this is like adulthood.
This is like stuff my parents would not be afraid to do.
I know and I feel like the next step up is like, if you're buying steak or like fish, for example.
If you're brave enough to be like, can I get that filet instead of that other one?
Like that's true adulthood was also funny and the moment was, I was fully ready to speak Chinese to this guy.
I was like, oh s***, how do you say ground pork in Chinese?
And then I was like worst case.
I'll just point and be like that one in Chinese One pound, but then the person who came up was fully not Chinese You're like, oh thank God The other crazy part of that too is I guess for something like steak or fish fillets.
You're not really asking for a pound of something.
But for something like ground pork or maybe bigger slabs of meat, you do kind of want to know how many pounds of something that you're getting, right?
I feel like being able to visualize and just visually understand what a pound of something looks like is also just crazy because sometimes I'll ask.
They'll be like, how many pounds do you want?
And I'm like, I don't know.
How many should I get?
You tell me? Yeah, I feel like that's harder with the fillets because I think at least for the like ground meat, the prepackaged ones will say like, oh, this is you know, half a pound or this is a pound.
So I'm just like envisioning that but for the fillets it's way harder.
I'm like, okay. I don't know how much that cut looks like.
It could be point 30 pounds for all I know it, it's like when you order steak at restaurants and it's like three ounce or like six ounce.
I'm like, I literally have no idea what this is like.
So we're like, thanks!
this means nothing to me.
They're like, would you like the three ounce or the six ounce?
And I'm like, um, how much does a normal human eat?
No, literally. I feel like parents are so good about that kind of stuff.
Yeah. They can just look and instantly be like, yeah, that's like 12 .4 ounces.
I'm like, is your, are your eyeballs calculators or something?
And I'm like, dude, you didn't even grow up in the fricking imperious system.
How do you know this?
Even with the conversions, they're still better and faster than us.
There was this one time where I was kind of confused, because the weather okay, so in California, it very rarely ever goes below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, right?
And so anything below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, I literally have no idea what that means.
But in Celsius, I do understand it because I've experienced lower temps in Celsius.
I was like, what does this even mean?
What is 40 degrees?
And so I looked it up in Celsius and my dad was like, dude, are you stupid?
And then he gave me the conversion equation and I was like, you just have that off the top of your head, like ready?
What? Wait, I feel like I'm torn between being like, yeah, the Celsius Fahrenheit conversion equation is really easy, but also like I myself don't know it.
So I can't clown you.
It is not that difficult.
But yeah, like, why would I just know it off the top of my head?
Honestly, being able to google stuff in like two seconds just at our fingertips has ruined my ability to obtain any information.
That's so true. And I have like a google home too, so sometimes I'll just ask it directly.
I'll be like, what is this degrees in celsius?
No, I literally do that too with my Alexa.
It's gotten to the point where I'll ask it when I wake up and I'm like, oh, okay.
And then like 10 minutes later after my shower, I'm like, what temperature did they say I I was gonna be like, can you repeat that?
Oh my God, dude, it's so bad.
I recently went on a trip.
And it was maybe two or three days.
Immediately, I was like, wow, I miss my Google home.
I had just the urge to ask, like, hey Google.
So many times throughout the day, I was like, this might be a problem.
We're slowly becoming our parents.
Oh God. Okay, I thought of another example.
This one is slightly less positive, but I feel like when I was younger, I was always buying shoes that were so cute, but uncomfortable.
Comfort was not even in my like top three lists of priorities, you know?
I would just bear through the pain, I would buy really high heels for like formals and dances and stuff, and we just always wear these like toe pinching ballet flats and whatnot.
But now that I'm older, I feel like comfort is one of the biggest things that I look for.
And if I know I need to go on a trip.
And there's going to be a nice dinner.
So I'll need to bring my nice shoes.
If I know we're going to be like walking around and whatnot, like I will also pack my comfy, huge, like wide toed sneakers as well.
I can I can relate comfort is big.
You don't care as much about maybe quote unquote, impressing the people around you.
it's more just like, I could make a home in one piece and like happily.
I know what blisters feel like so I will choose to avoid them.
Yeah, even like the thought of breaking in new shoes is annoying.
I'm like why can't they just be comfortable out of the box?
I know. Like I remember one time I got these Doc Martens and I tried to break them in for like a year and they would just refuse to break in.
And I don't know if it was like the model I got or maybe the size was off or something like that, but I still fucking wore them.
And every time I wore them, I would just like bleed everywhere.
But I was like, oh, my outfit.
My fit looks good. And now I'm just like, what was wrong?
I would never do that in this day and age.
Oh my god. And I guess that also plays into the whole thing about, you know, trying to sleep early, getting the right amount of sleep, being healthier.
I feel like that's all part of taking on the responsibility and recognizing the need to take care of yourself.
I mean, maybe it's just like we see more and experience more.
We learn to not take things like health or like comfort for granted.
On a lighter note, I thought of this because holiday season is coming up, but another thing that makes me feel pretty adult is for sure going to family friend parties even if my parents aren't around like if they're out of town or something.
I don't know. I feel like I chat with adults a little bit at these parties, but you know back in the day, the separation between adult and kid was always so clear cut.
It's almost like I'm forcing my way in like hey guys, I'm an adult too now.
Honestly, yeah, that is such a big one.
It's like people who felt like giants to you are now not necessarily peers, but a little bit more on equal footing.
Recently, actually you were also there, but recently I did like a big golf thing with my mom and like a bunch of her friends and then afterwards we went out for dinner.
We just all sat around the dinner table chatting about our day.
Oh my god. And I was like, wait, I'm included?
I can open my mouth and talk Oh my god It's like that time when one of our friends who is like good family friends with James He told all of us he was like, oh my god She soon James are out on a triple date with a feel of our like family friend parents Like after you guys got married and I was like, damn that is that's adulting You guys made it Dude, the phrase triple dang is so fucking crazy to describe.
Dude, but it was, wasn't it?
It low key was. After I saw that I was like, wow, I can't even say anything because it's true.
But honestly, maybe the barrier that we felt with our family, friends, parents and stuff when we were younger, was not just the age, but the fact that we were like students and stuff, because I feel like as soon as I entered the workforce, I was able to talk about work with parents.
And even on the golf day that we did, James and I golfed with the dads.
One of the dads has a very similar professional background to James.
They use the same language in their coding and whatnot, just like work in very similar fields, even within engineering.
They like talked about it for like, I don't know, a good five minutes, every couple of holes or whatnot.
And I was like, this is crazy.
There's common ground to the point where there's professional common ground, and you can talk about that kind of stuff.
Wow. I think that's super reasonable.
Because honestly, just thinking and reflecting, at work, I talk to people who are probably around my parents' age quite often, too.
And it's very normal because they don't know you as some kid who grew up, they just know you as who you are right now.
And so that's honestly not so different from these family friends.
They just have like more context about who you are I guess.
That's very true. Like all these barriers are just being broken down every year.
I don't know about your family friend group, but in mine, none of the kids are married yet, and I feel like that is another barrier that would be taken down once that step gets reached.
I don't know if it's like just you and James who are married or if other people have started getting married too.
That's a really good point.
I mean, we're definitely not the only couple married within the family friends that we know and like see regularly.
And also, there is a couple who we see who has recently had a baby.
So I'm really excited to see them hopefully this holiday season and just kind of like see how the dynamic changes.
Because I feel like going from a single slash unmarried woman to a married woman is a big jump.
And then also the jump from being a married woman to a mom is also a big jump.
So, yeah, I will report back.
Okay, I'm excited to hear.
This also makes me wonder what if you just showed up to one of these family friend things and you tried to act really, I don't know, important in terms of like, at work, maybe you're like, damn, it's been so busy.
I'm managing all these people, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I wonder if their parents would be like, whoa, they have like serious work going on.
They suddenly just start respecting you more.
I thought you were gonna say the other way.
They would be like, bro, I'm literally a VP, like this tech company like don't try to act like you're all busy.
I mean, that is an interesting question, though, it's like, what do kids do to gain the respect of like family friend parents.
Yeah, because I want to say that they might still think we're just really young in our careers.
And I mean to a certain point that is also kind of true.
But just because that is true doesn't mean that there isn't complexity or things that happen at work that would be very similar to what happens to them in their work.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if this is just my personal opinion.
I am just only pulling from my experiences.
I feel like gender also has to do a little bit with this, because I feel like maybe this is more of a male thing.
I feel like when I talk to family friend moms, we don't talk about career or work that extensively, but I feel like I've heard James have really long in -depth conversations about what he does at work.
So I wonder if part of it is kind of gendered, at least in Asian circles.
Honestly, maybe I think also the most I get sometimes because I'm also not in like engineering, right?
So low key people, no one truly knows what I do.
Literally a month or two ago.
My mom was like, wait, hold on.
So what do you do? Your mom?
And I was like, wait, mom, I feel like I've shown you my work.
before. She's like, I just need a refresher.
Yeah pretty much. But I'll get like, oh, are you still working at whatever company?
And I'm like, yeah, and then they're like, cool.
Because to them, it's like, that's a good company.
Like that's all we really need to know.
Sounds like you're doing great.
Don't need to know the details.
The checklist of how they like rate your career is so small.
Like do I know the name?
Yes, yeah, and they're like but Aolokie have no idea what she does so we shouldn't ask any more questions We shouldn't confuse ourselves further Let's just leave it God that's so funny.
I'm also just imagining myself as like a future family friend -parent Just like trying to talk to people decades younger being like How's how's your job?
You're like, um, is like school still the same?
Like, do you guys still learn this?
Like do you still read this book at school?
Jokes aside though, sometimes when I talk to my Gen Z coworkers, I do feel this way a little bit.
It's like half feeling old and also half just being like, wow, this is reality.
I'm not the youngest person at my work anymore.
Dude, I wish I've still remained the youngest person at work.
I think there's pros and cons, but mostly pros.
That's a little cool.
That's true. You're still the hip person.
It's definitely not terrible but I want to know what Gen Z is like in the workforce.
I will say it's very interesting.
I think it's really fascinating actually because maybe even up to our generation, work is like formal, you know?
So, like, there's a side of you that you present at work, but it may not necessarily be what you are presenting to, like, your friends.
Right. But I feel like for Gen Z, that gap is a little bit smaller and less pronounced, so there's definitely a sense of casualness and kind of friend vibes, less formality in the words or, like, phrases that they use, and definitely less formality in their outfits.
And I kind of like it, but it's also, like, a little bit intimidating.
Oh, really? Oh my god.
Okay, Loki though, maybe that is what I seem like to my coworkers.
I feel like I go into work really casually.
I'm a little quiet though, so I don't know about that part in terms of showing a lot of personality.
But I do think I still give off the like, casual chill vibes.
So they're probably just like, yeah, Chrystal is just young.
Damn... Maybe I should be more like that.
Sometimes I wear - I mean I think I wear like, slightly more formal outfits in general, but there's this one cardigan that I have which I feel like it's a cute cardigan, but I think I'm just styling it poorly, but every time I wear it, it's like a white cardigan, tweed jacket vibes but not tweed.
And every time I wear it and I look in the mirror, I feel like I'm doing like Hilary Clinton cosplay.
I can envision it now that you've said that.
And I just, I feel like my billion years old.
Oh my god. They're like, she gets married and these are the others she comes in now.
Exactly. Yeah, I definitely go in pretty casually and then I wonder sometimes like Oh, am I maybe too casual?
Should I dress up a little bit match my co -workers vibes but then I'm like, it's kind of like a lot of work.
Think about it for like half a and you're like, I'm good.
Also, I think maybe if I try too hard, they might be like, that's not how Crystal usually dresses.
She's usually very casual.
Is there something going on?
Why is she dressed up?
Right, right. This is the road I've paved, so let's continue down on it.
No, I dig that though.
I feel like it's kind of a privilege to grow up in an era where we don't have to wear a suit and tie to work every day.
Yeah so might as well take advantage of it, I go on to work in t -shirts all the time.
Especially in SF. Sometimes walking around during commuting hours on the streets of San Francisco, I'm like, wow.
People in New York would have a fit.
Barney from How I Met Your Mother would actually have a heart attack.
I will admit though, when I worked in SF, I would dress up a little more.
I feel like because I work in south bay, like more Silicon Valley area, it's just so much tech and like way more casual, I can get away with it a lot.
I'll go in with like an oversized hoodie sometimes and it like literally doesn't matter.
Yeah, I mean, I guess when you're like driving into work, you don't get perceived as much because you just get out of your car going to your office building and then immediately get back into your car.
But if you're taking public transportation or something, they're just risk of, like, more people seeing you.
And the city's just a little more alive.
What if after work you want to go out and, like, grab dinner with someone?
So it just makes more sense to be, like, a little dressed up just in case something happens.
Maybe there's a happy hour.
Here, down in, like, the South Bay, dress however you want.
It doesn't matter. It's um...
it's a special perk of being in the Bay Area.
Yeah, for sure. Oh, you know what?
But I have one more thing that really makes me feel like an adult.
It's kind of like back to our whole grocery shopping and errands topic, but whenever I buy a bunch of meat and then I have to separate it into portions and then freeze it, I feel super like an adult in that moment.
Yes, that's such a good point.
that is like the wombo combo of being economically smart and also just time efficient.
That ground pork that I bought, I went home and I literally portioned them out so that it's enough for one, I don't know meal, I guess each time if I wanted to use it.
And then I was like, I'll have to make sure that I kind of squish it out flat so it freezes quickly and melts quickly, all that stuff.
And I like wrote the date.
I was like, I gotta make sure I'm responsible and like, can't let this sit out, sit in the freezer for too long.
And after I finished doing that, I was like, wow, I'm truly an adult right now.
I totally agree with this one, but I have like a exception.
I feel like freezing everything doesn't just automatically make you an adult because sometimes I will make twitch rice and I'll freeze it.
And then the rice will just like sit and rot in my freezer.
And I'll just like toss in later to be like, why why did I do that?
Like, did I think I was going to eat that?
Because I did it. So it has to be like you freeze it, and then you use it.
Yeah, exactly. You have to execute, you know?
You can't just ideate.
Yes, yes, you're right.
You're right. I do think portioning it out and putting the day on it though helps a lot because then when you look at it, you're like, Oh, my God.
I put this in almost a month ago, like I should probably eat it sooner than later.
Cristina Curp Right.
Right. Damn, actually, this reminds me of another time where I looked at you and I was like, oh my God, Chrystal's a real adult.
It was like a long time ago, we did a Tahoe cabin trip with a bunch of our friends.
And the dinner we were going to all cook and eat together was hotpot.
So I was like, oh, well probably go and get a bunch of those meats that you can get from H bar or Ranch 99, that's like specifically for hot pot.
And then I think you and another one of our friends suggested just getting, like bulk meat and slicing it using your meat slicer and we actually did that.
And I was like, holy shit, this is crazy.
We're fucking Bear Grylls out there slicing our own meat.
Oh my God, that was fun.
Yeah, that was me and Jimmy.
Jimmy had like a wholesale connect and we're like, yeah, fuck it.
Let's do that. Yeah, we made it work.
And it was pretty nice.
Yeah and I feel like moments like that kind of inspired me too.
Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and I'll walk out with only ingredients, you know?
Like, I didn't pick up a sweet treat, like I didn't pick up any processed food, nothing in like packaging it's just like veggies and meat and fish or something, and I'll be like wow this is it.
Dude that's like, yeah that's true adult.
Right? Whenever I buy like non -frozen foods, I'm like oh yeah, I'm a real person.
Exactly, this is farm to table baby.
yeah exactly honestly shopping at costco makes me feel adult -like too because you need the membership and it's just all stuff that like adults with real families would buy that's true but sometimes i get tempted by like the chrysants or something and i'm like no don't buy this wait don't worry my dad loves buying the chrysants and muffins and he's an adult so it's acceptable adult verify yeah Well, I'm glad that we're starting to really feel like we're adults now that we're almost 30.
But it's really cool that we look at each other and we can recognize moments where we're like, wow, we've really like taken on responsibility and like, owned up to whatever needs to be done.
I think it's almost like a confidence booster, chatting about how we've been able to see ourselves more in those adult shoes and taking on responsibility, whether we realize it or not.
Maybe it just shows how prepared we're becoming for like the next steps in life.
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