Today, we're keeping it simple.
All right. And I'm just going to be sharing with you all some of the things that I like right now.
All right. We're not going to get philosophical.
We might get a little bit analytical, but we're definitely not getting scientific.
We're not getting mathematical.
And I'm just going to be talking about some things that have recently been bringing me joy, have recently been bringing me value in my life.
And I make episodes like this every few months because I'm kind of inconsistent in my life.
I don't think any more than the average person, but my list of current favorite items, current favorite things is kind of constantly changing.
I feel like there are some people out there who have one list of their favorite items, and it's been the same for like 20 years, and that's just what it is, and it never changes.
My routine is constantly changing.
My preferences are constantly changing.
I feel like I'm constantly changing, so that's why I can make this type of episode every few months.
months. We've arrived at a moment in time where I now have a brand new list of favorite things.
And so it's time for me to share those with you again.
So without further ado, let's start with what I'm wearing right now.
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Let me tell you about what I'm wearing right now.
I am wearing a cream fuzzy robe with a hood.
It's from the brand Barefoot Dreams, which if you're unfamiliar with this brand is a very how I would describe Malibu mommy sort of brand.
The Malibu mommy aesthetic is an aesthetic that I don't think everyone's aware of.
Like because I live in Los Angeles, I am obviously very aware of what the Malibu mommy The Malibu Mommy Aesthetic is, this is not something that people in L .A.
are necessarily discussing, but I feel like everyone knows what I'm talking about who lives in L .A.
The Malibu Mommy Aesthetic is like Aviator Nation sweatpants, barefoot dreams robe and blankets at the house, blonde hair, Ugg boot slippers, Golden Goose shoes, purses that that have the logo on it, big sunglasses, kids that get really good grades and are really good at sports but, like, are also really depressed.
Like, I don't know, and I hate to stereotype, but for some reason, I feel like it's fine to do.
It's not. Stereotyping is never nice, okay?
But I'm doing it to paint a picture for you about this rope, okay?
I'm going against my own morals, my own values in stereotyping moms in Malibu in order to explain this robe to you Because that's how important it is for me for you to understand the vibe of this robe.
It's a little bougie.
It's like, whatever.
Okay, but it doesn't look that bougie.
It's just fuzzy, right?
But it feels bougie.
It's definitely like a bit expensive.
I fucking love this robe.
I don't care. My favorite thing about it is the hood, I would say.
But I mean, there are a lot of really incredible, incredible things about this robe.
There are two front pockets on the front.
I put my phone in there.
I put my little portable charger in there because weirdly I walk around my house with a portable charger so that if my phone starts to die, I can plug in it, whatever.
It's super, super fuzzy.
All right. Super fuzzy, super cozy.
I wear this robe 90 % of the time that I'm at home.
It's really rare that I'm not wearing this robe.
I also love the hood because I have a pixie haircut and my My favorite heatless hairstyle is basically just drying my hair in a hood because it makes it dry flat so that I can then, you know, add product to it and build it up from there.
But it's like starting from like a smooth flat point, you know what I mean?
So I can dry my hair in the hood of this robe.
It's just a fucking amazing robe.
Sorry. This robe brings me a lot of joy.
It's functional, it's comfortable, and it makes me feel like a Malibu mommy.
I feel like I'm waking up up next to my hot husband, cracking open the sliding glass door to look out at the beach because, you know, I live on the beach in this sort of fantasy.
I go and make myself a little cappuccino. My kids are getting ready for football practice.
Like, it's just like this hot, chic fantasy.
Anyway, okay, moving on.
Next, we have classic television.
And I know what a lot of you are thinking.
Television? Like what?
Like TV shows? Like Netflix and Hulu and Max and Peacock and I don't know what other ones there are.
There's so many, like what, Furbo?
Is that one of them?
I can't even keep up anymore.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about classic television.
Let me give you some context.
Okay. I grew up watching YouTube because I didn't have cable growing up.
My parents were like, that's a waste of money.
So if I wanted to watch TV, I would go to the library and I would get DVDs of TV shows or movies and then I'd watch on TV that way.
And that was great and I was into that.
But the second YouTube came into my orbit, that was my main form of entertainment.
From like age, I don't know, nine until pretty much now, I've been watching YouTube as my main form of entertainment.
And that's not to say that like I've never watched TV.
You know, I've gone through little phases is here and there of watching TV, but I'm sort of known in my social circles for having not seen most TV shows.
I still haven't watched Breaking Bad.
I haven't watched Friends.
I haven't watched Gossip Girl.
I haven't watched, I don't know.
I haven't watched a lot of TV in my life because I've been so into YouTube.
However, I've recently shifted from YouTube to classic television and And I'm obsessed with TV.
I love it, even when it's bad.
I can't tell you how often I start a new show and it's bad, but I don't even care.
I'm discovering television at age 24.
It's weird, it's unusual, but it's my journey.
I don't know, I like many different types of shows.
I watched Severance.
That's like a sci -fi thriller sort of series.
I don't actually really know how to genre something.
I should not be randomly prescribing the genre to a television show because I really don't know TV that well, but it feels like a sci -fi thriller to me.
I recently watched the new season of Black Mirror.
That made me depressed.
That's like a modern Twilight Zone, again, sort of sci -fi thriller -ish sometimes.
times. Oh, my God. I watched Too Hot to Handle, which is one of those sort of messy dating shows.
I watched Too Hot to Handle many years ago when it first came out.
And basically, the concept is that, you know, they put a bunch of hot people who are single on an island and then spring the news on them that they're not allowed to hook up with each other, like they can't touch each other sexually, and that they are going to be forced to find genuine true love through emotion rather rather than sex, right?
Anyway, love the show.
Obsessed. And my favorite part about it is that I watch the season and then at the end of it, some couples inevitably form, you know, during the show.
My favorite thing to do is go on Instagram after the season ends and see if they're still dating.
This is like a common thing that people like to do when they watch dating shows.
In the case of Too Hot to Handle, none of them are still together.
It's heartbreaking.
And there was one particular couple that I was so invested in.
Yeah, it actually like really genuinely ruined probably like 24 hours for me after I found out that they weren't together anymore.
But anyway, I'm just loving television.
I like the escapism of it.
I think, I think that's what I'm searching for right now in my life is at the end of the day, I want to turn something on the TV and feel like I am not on the planet anymore.
I don't want to be on this planet anymore.
I don't want to be in my world anymore.
I feel like with YouTube, it's so real, which is is like amazing like I love that about it but it's so real that it it rarely feels like an escape for me and I think that that also is due to the type of content that I watch like I've been known to watch heavy shit on YouTube uh like I like to watch video essays about certain topics like I'm really drawn to that I like to watch oh god this is embarrassing and I don't know if like people are going to judge me for this or not but i recently got into watching like police body cam videos like somebody like they like the police got called because they
heard that there are like weapons of mass destruction in someone's house so i will sometimes sit and watch the cop body cam video because i didn't know this but apparently police officers are constantly wearing body cams. Everything that they do all the time, I think, is recorded.
Let me tell you about these videos.
It causes me horrific anxiety.
I shouldn't be watching them, but I can't stop.
That's the problem with YouTube.
The type of content that I click on, it's clickbait.
It's toxic. It's not good.
It's not wholesome for the most part.
It puts me into an anxious place, whereas television is a bit more lighthearted.
Even if the content is stressful, it's not real.
And I know that, and that's what I'm craving right now.
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So let's move on to doing my own gel nails, okay?
I actually just did my own gel nails 20 minutes ago today.
I have a brand new fresh set of maroon gel nails right now, and I did them, okay?
Let me tell you about my journey with doing my own nails.
It started during COVID.
I bought the whole kit.
I bought the gel curing machine thing that they have at the salon.
I bought gel polish.
I bought like the whole kit with like the base coat and the top coat and like the pH balancing nail like liquid stuff that you're supposed to.
But like I bought everything like seriously, like what they have at the salon.
And I did that because obviously during COVID, we couldn't go get our nails done.
I used it a little bit during COVID, but it was definitely challenging.
clenching. Usually doing your good hand is pretty easy, but doing your other hand, unless you're ambidextrous, is it ambidextrous?
I don't even care. I'm not even going to Google it.
You know, when you can use both hands equally or whatever, like the same, like you don't have a good hand, right?
Anyway, whatever. Doing your opposite hand's tough.
So I fell out of that routine.
And then obviously nail salons opened back up.
And I also, at the time, preferred to to have long nails, so I couldn't really do that at home.
So I stopped doing my own nails.
And then recently I got back into it because I got my long nails off because I wanted to learn guitar.
And then I realized, wait, I should have been doing this all along.
Like short nails, it's the move.
I can do them myself, right?
Which saves a lot of time going to the salon, but also like I can live my life again.
There were so many things that were complicated by I have long nails.
I love the way long nails look and I always will.
But you put a credit card in a payment machine.
Good luck getting it out if you have long nails.
You want to wipe your ass.
Be careful because a nail might pop off or might poke through the fucking toilet paper.
Have fun with that.
Going bowling. Oh, you're going to be sitting that one out.
You know, I don't know.
Like long nails really got in the way of a lot of activities and getting them off was sort of of this liberating experience.
Anywho, I've been loving doing my own nails.
I will say the first like three manicures I gave myself weren't good.
They weren't good. They were messy.
They were a little bit lumpy.
But as I've done more research, bought more elevated equipment, like I actually, I'm not recommending this because honestly, I probably shouldn't even be allowed to have this thing.
I did buy myself an electric nail file, like one of those electric nail files that they have at the salon because I got to a point where I was just so frustrated with grinding off the polish with an old -fashioned nail file.
I was like, this is taking too long.
So I bought the electric file, did a lot of research on how to use it safely.
And so now I have that.
So now it's like a breeze.
I did my nails in probably 30 minutes.
Kind of amazing. And again, do they look as good as they do at the salon?
No, but they're like 85 % as good.
And for the amount of of time that I save not going to the salon, I'm into it.
Not that I don't love the experience of going to a salon.
However, I'm all about time efficiency and doing them myself is so much more efficient.
So I'm into it. I'm into it.
This might just be a phase, though.
I might get back into going to the salon again at some point.
But for right now, this is the move because I'm also not into nail art right now.
Like I just want a red manicure, dark red, maroon.
That's what I want.
maybe bright red if I'm really feeling wild and funky, but I think they look good.
I'm going to show the camera.
So if you're watching the video version of this, you can see they look fine.
Okay. Moving on to something that I'm kind of ashamed to talk about, but I'm also not.
We can decide together if this is something I should be ashamed of.
Let me give you some context.
All right. I'm going to be talking about my Vitamix blender.
blender for probably the past like six, seven years, I used the same blender.
I had a Ninja classic blender.
Okay. And it was good.
It was good. It served me well for many, many years, but it started to, it started to have issues, right?
Like the top, like the lid of the blender started to hold water in it.
I don't know how or why, but, and then that water would get kind of of moldy and gross and like it'd be hard to get out.
And so that started to happen.
And also I think the blade was getting dull.
And so I was like, you know what?
I'm going to do something that I've been trying not to do for many years.
I'm going to get a Vitamix blender.
Now, the reason why I'm like ashamed of it in a way is because I feel like you don't really need a Vitamix blender unless you're a smoothie shop.
It's a very expensive, fancy, nice blender.
Now, I think if you want something like, and you can buy it, like buy it, like who cares?
I am just sometimes like that feels excessive.
And I felt like getting a Vitamix, like for so many years, I would see people posting videos about how amazing the Vitamix blender is.
It just blends things perfectly.
And it's the most powerful, amazing blender.
And look at how amazing it is.
And I was always like, that seems excessive.
And I kind of became rebellious about it.
I was like, no, I'm never going to buy a Vitamix blender.
It's excessive. And unless you You own a smoothie shop.
You don't need the Vitamix.
Whatever. I bought a Vitamix.
It is pretty amazing.
God damn it. And I've been making a smoothie every single day, not because of the Vitamix.
I was actually making a smoothie every single day beforehand.
I got into a smoothie phase like eight months ago.
Actually, me making smoothies every day is what made me realize that my blender was flawed and I needed a new one.
I do love it. It is really powerful.
And honestly, the smoothie texture is better.
I get it now. I was wrong.
I was wrong. And I'm also obsessed with my smoothie right now.
Let me tell you about my smoothie, okay?
I just think that this is the most delicious smoothie.
It's not that complicated.
It really isn't, but it's really good.
A lot of raspberries, a lot.
Like I'm talking about a whole, like if you were to buy a small bag of frozen raspberries, I'm using the full small bag, which isn't that much, but I'm clearing out the bag.
I use one bag a day.
Some banana. I don't know, maybe a half a banana, maybe.
I don't know. I just throw in a random amount.
Vanilla Greek yogurt, specifically the brand Oikos.
Now, here's the thing.
I thought I couldn't eat dairy for many years.
For many years, dairy really hurt my stomach. Then I started slowly integrating it into my diet again in different ways.
Like I could always have a little bit of cheese, but like yogurt or ice cream would fuck me up.
It didn't really ever make any sense, but it just was the way that it was.
I would just get a tummy ache.
But for some reason now suddenly I can eat Greek yogurt again.
I don't know. It always gave me insane gas and then it just stopped giving me gas one day.
I don't know how that happens, but it did to me.
So anyway, I am so excited to be able to put Greek yogurt in smoothie.
So I put vanilla Greek yogurt in the smoothie.
Then I put vanilla vegan.
This is the funny part.
This is the ironic part.
Okay. Then I put plant -based vegan, vanilla, raw, whatever, blah, blah, blah, who cares, protein powder in it.
So it's like, all right, I'm putting yogurt, but then I'm using like vanilla pea protein.
Like, how does that make sense?
I don't know. Like I should just be using whey protein at that point because it's like, why am I using a vegan?
it doesn't make any sense okay there's no logic behind it but it tastes good so then I do that and then I thin it out with some water so that it'll blend and that's my smoothie and it's so simple but it's so good I look forward to this smoothie every day it has a lot of protein in it um which is something I struggle with because I'm a vegetarian occasionally pescatarian and it's just hard I don't know like and I'm not cooking fish I'll eat fish at a restaurant sometimes, maybe.
That's like a new sort of change in my life.
But I'm trying to be more open -minded because I grew up vegetarian and never ate any meat.
And as I'm growing up, I'm like, you know what?
I'll play around with a little bit of fish here and there.
But I'm not like making it at home.
I don't know. Making protein at home is really tough.
Anyway, so this smoothie is great.
Has a lot of protein in it.
Tastes really good.
I look forward to it it every day.
And my new Vitamix blender, you know what?
Fuck it. It is worth the money.
All right. I use it every single day and it blends that smoothie to a smoothie silky texture that I could have only dreamed of when I was using my last blender.
All right. Moving on.
Ooh, more protein. You know, it's so I don't know what's gotten into me, but I'm like really craving protein.
And I think maybe it's because I don't know.
But the next two things I'm going to to talk about are protein items. It's very weird. I'm not trying to be on my protein grind necessarily.
It's just what I'm craving.
I'm really into protein bars right now.
And here's the deal.
I don't think that protein bars are actually good for you.
I don't know. I don't think so.
They're processed. It's like not a real food.
I'm not a nutritionist. So when I tell you I like protein bars.
This is not your sign to go buy a box of protein bars.
If I develop some sort of severe constipation in the next six months from eating protein bars because they're so dense with protein and there's weird genetically modified things.
If something bad happens to me because I'm eating protein bars, that's my own situation.
Don't take this as advice from me because I actually don't think that they're probably good for me.
I don't. But I'm eating them because I crave them sometimes and because to me, they genuinely taste good.
Okay, there are two brands that I like.
One brand is Barebell.
Okay, these are candy bars, let me tell you.
These are just candy bars.
They're chewy, yummy little candy bars, okay?
They have like little crunchy things.
They have little chewy parts.
There's chocolate. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
I just want that sometimes as a little snack.
Like I crave it. I don't know why.
And I don't even know.
I never ate protein bars like that was never my thing.
So I don't know when this started.
I think one of my friends was eating one and I was like, yo, can I try it?
And then I tried it and I was like, oh, I want that.
So then I bought some and then it's been just like a thing ever since.
The other brand I just discovered is called David.
I discovered this brand in New York a few months ago because there were like billboards everywhere.
And then one one night late, I was going to get a snack from a bodega, and I saw that they had these protein bars.
And I was like, well, I'm not immune to marketing.
If I see something being promoted left and right, I'm going to try it.
I like to see what's going on.
And I tried it, and I liked it.
But I also like weird foods, like the texture of it's kind of interesting and kind of gritty, maybe a little bit, but I actually really like that.
I don't think everyone would like that, but I do.
Anyway, long story short, I'm really into protein bars right now.
But I'm telling you, if I, 10 years down the line from now, get some sort of like disease because I'm eating too many protein bars, I told you so.
But I love sometimes having like a midday little candy bar.
It feels like I'm having a midday candy bar.
To be honest, I think it's too good to be true.
You know, the 20 to 30 grams of protein that I'm getting from eating one of those, I think comes with the price.
And I'll find out that price sooner or later.
And when I find it out, I'll let you know.
out. So far, so good, but if it turns sour, you'll be the first to know.
Actually, my doctor will be the first to know.
You'll be the second.
Another protein item, I don't know what's going on.
I'm just loving protein.
Fried eggs. I was so into scrambled eggs a few years back.
I used to get scrambled eggs from this brunch spot multiple times a week.
I'd order the parmesan scrambled eggs, a side of avocado, whatever.
I was into scrambled.
Then, for many years, I was into a hard boiled.
I like putting hot sauce on them.
I like that they're like cold and firm.
Like, I don't know.
I really genuinely enjoyed hard boiled eggs for many years.
It was like my go -to favorite egg.
I felt like the texture was the most consistent because that's an issue that I tend to have with eggs is that eggs can be kind of like gross to me.
Like I get grossed out by eggs often.
I felt like hard boiled was the most consistent.
Like a scrambled egg, sometimes you'd get a weird stringy piece or a really rubbery piece or a really wet piece.
Hard -boiled was always pretty much the same.
And so I really liked it.
And then throughout my hard -boiled egg phase, I'd have brief moments of a fried egg phase.
But it never stuck like the hard -boiled until recently.
I've always liked a fried egg.
And I've had phases before where I've I've been really into a fried egg, but I feel like this time is different.
A fried egg to me is a delicacy.
I don't know. I'm just passionate about it this time, this phase, more than I've ever been before.
The flavor shift that an egg experiences when it's fried is so delightful.
The texture of a fried egg, by the way, over hard. I don't like a runny yolk.
The crispiness, the way that it sort of lends itself like you can put like avocado on top of it almost like whatever and cut it up and it's just like easy to eat with some hot sauce with a bunch of like flaky salt it's just to me it's a delicacy and i don't think it's a phase at this point i think now and possibly for the rest of my life that will be my egg of choice i don't know i just love a fried egg.
Okay. Moving on. Another food item.
Annie's cheddar bunnies.
Okay. Imagine goldfish crackers.
We all know goldfish crackers, cheddar cheese, little goldfish shaped little crackers.
Imagine those, but purchased by an almond mom.
Do you know what an almond mom is?
It's a mom that only shops at healthy food stores, who is always on a diet, who won't, you know, like buy things that have like refined sugar and refined flour.
And although I honestly think Annie's Cheddar Bunnies literally has the same or very similar ingredients to like a classic goldfish cracker.
But anyways, it's marketed as the healthier version of a goldfish.
My mom, this is actually a really sad story my mom bought annie's cheddar bunnies when her dog was sick and stopped eating she was buying like anything she could to to give to this dog this is a horrible a horrible story this is very sad and so it's actually really fucked up well let me just continue um she was buying anything she could to feed this dog and so one of those items was annie's cheddar bunnies these little cheddar crackers turns out her dog Sammy didn't like the cheddar bunnies and so she was like I don't really want these like I'll give them to Emma so she dropped them off at my
house one day randomly when she was coming over and they sat in my pantry for a little while and I didn't touch them mainly because it was like kind of sad that dog Sammy Sammy was my dog growing up with my mom.
Obviously, when I moved out, you know, she kept the dog.
But this was a dog I felt and feel deep affection for.
And it's just like the whole thing felt really sad.
And so I didn't eat them.
But unfortunately, Sammy passed away.
He's I know he's up in heaven eating cheddar bunnies, to be honest. I hope he is because they're so fucking good.
Well, that that leads me to my next point.
Eventually, I came around to eating the cheddar bunnies.
It's so fucked up. It's so fucked up.
This story I'm realizing, but I came around and ate the cheddar bunnies and they were so fucking good.
They were so fucking good.
And so I was like, you know what?
Fuck it. This is my new favorite snack.
And I'm obsessed with them.
I'm so obsessed with them.
And the thing that I like about them as well is that they're filling.
Like, you know, when you want to have a snack, like a little snack, maybe because dinner's in a few hours and you're like, I need something that'll hold me over till dinner, but I don't want something that will fill me up because then I won't be hungry for dinner.
So you're like, maybe I'll have a little cracker or a little chip or a little something like that or a little popcorn.
If I eat like a bag of popcorn, that tastes good and I enjoy it, but that's not satiating me until dinner, right?
Like that's not satiating me for like three or four hours.
That's satiating me for about 20 minutes.
Then I need to eat more popcorn.
The thing I like about the Annie's Cheddar Bunnies is that I eat like a little bowl of those and I feel good until say dinner.
Like They fill me up.
Unfortunately, I discovered them through horrific circumstances, but oh my God, I love the Annie's cheddar bunnies.
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Okay, moving on. We have more food to discuss.
I have a lot of food that I'm enjoying right now.
My food preferences change a lot.
My food routine, I feel like, changes a lot.
lot. And right now for dinner, what I've been obsessed with is making bowls, okay?
I've finally arrived at the point in my life where I'm making myself bowls for dinner.
It feels very mature.
It feels very prefrontal cortex has developed because it's put together.
If you were to look at one of my bowls, you'd be like, Oh, whoever made this has their shit together.
It's chic. Okay, let me I make a bunch of different types of bowls.
I'll explain them all to you Okay, so first I have I call it the pesto kale bowl.
Okay It's a base of kale with like a light vinaigrette on it.
Then I roast vegetables and potatoes Okay, I roast brussel sprouts carrots sweet potato chickpeas Then I pan fry a little bit of tofu.
Okay, that's pre -seasoned because I don't have my shit together that much pan fry that that then I put it all together in a bowl.
So you got the kale, you got the sweet potato, you got the roasted veggie, you got the tofu, you got the chickpea, like very balanced.
And then I toss it all in pesto.
Yum. Okay. That's one of my bowls that I do.
Another one. We got edamame noodles as the base.
Okay. They're a little bit weird, but they have a lot of protein and they're kind of yummy.
Then I fry some tofu in a pan.
Then I do bell pepper and green beans Fry those up.
Saute those in a pan.
Then I make a sauce that's kind of like a sesame ginger soy sauce.
Spicy with a little bit of spicy in it.
Throw that all together in a bowl.
Looks beautiful. Put a bunch of sesame seeds on that.
Yum. Let me give you another bowl that I make, okay?
Kale for the base. Again, I love kale.
Okay, kale for the base.
Some rice of some sort.
I like the rice that comes in a bag that you microwave for 90 seconds.
Nothing wrong with that.
Love it. pop it in the microwave. What else is in it?
Take some frozen edamame, warm that up, fry some tofu up in the pan again, chop some jalapeno randomly, put like a miso ginger dressing on that, mix it all up, mix it all up.
Put a little bit of spicy mayo on top, a little drizzle, put a little drizzle of like sriracha on top as well.
Yum. It's kind of like poke bowl flavor inspired.
Oh yeah, sometimes I'll do a little sesame oil on top as well.
Yum. Okay, I'll tell you about one more bowl.
Okay, this one I've made the last few nights.
Really into it. Little cabbage salad with a chipotle dressing on it.
Pre -made dressing. All right, I don't need to do everything.
Then I do microwavable.
These are three separate things.
I get microwavable black beans, pre -seasoned in a bag, microwave those.
Rice in a bag, microwave that.
And frozen corn, microwave that.
Mix all those things together with salsa and some salt and some lime juice.
and then fry tofu and then put it in a jalapeno sauce with garlic powder and onion powder and then put some pumpkin seeds on top and some avocado with tahini on it.
Fucking delicious. Bowls like this.
The key to it is some pre -made stuff.
You can't be doing everything from scratch. I'm buying the tofu pre -marinated.
I'm buying beans that are in a bag.
I'm buying rice that's in a bag.
I'm buying frozen things.
I'm buying like, we can't be doing everything from scratch, you know?
I'm super into these bowls.
And I like to make them look beautiful as well because it makes it feel more appetizing to me.
So I really try to plate them really beautifully in the whole thing.
And it's been fun, honestly.
Like I've been coming up with all these bowls on my own, just using common sense.
Like, oh, I know these two flavors go well together.
I'll pair these two things together.
And I've been really enjoying it and they've been turning out fucking delicious so it's very pinterest i really got the idea from pinterest to be honest like i see so many like aesthetic dinner bowls on pinterest and i've always seen them and been like oh man i wish i had it in me to do that but i don't and then it's almost like i woke up one day and i did i had it in me and i was like well let me just give it a try now it's my my go -to too.
For many years, I was like avid food delivery person.
I was I didn't cook at all for so many years.
And I somewhat recently over the last few within the last few years decided I wasn't going to do that anymore.
And this was sort of a natural progression of like, OK, well, eventually you're going to get sick of like, quote unquote, girl dinner.
You know, I can't tell you how many quote unquote girl dinners I've had where it's like I'm having randomly soup and then I'm having randomly a whole bag of chips and then I'm randomly having like, yeah, like I've done that.
But you get sick of that at a certain point.
I don't like the vibe of girl dinner.
I don't. I usually feel like shit after it.
It's just like not good.
It can be fun sometimes, but it's usually not well -rounded.
It usually just doesn't make me feel physically good.
So doing these fun -themed, aesthetically pleasing, very Pinterest dinner bowls, I'm loving it.
And it makes the kitchen kind of a mess, but it doesn't take any longer than 30 minutes.
it. I encourage you to give it a try and don't be afraid to cut some corners, like find ways to make it as easy as possible just so that you'll do it.
If that means pre -cut vegetables, that means microwavable rice, like do that, you know?
Okay. Can we move on from food now?
Like I've been talking about food for too long.
Let's move on to men's boxer briefs.
Okay. So I actually was really into men's boxer briefs a few years ago, mainly just as pajamas though, not as much under under my pants.
I've fallen in love with men's boxer briefs all over again recently, but to a new level where now I'm really wearing them under my clothes.
Now, I can't always wear them under my clothes because I do wear tight stuff probably 40 % of the time.
So if I'm wearing a tight pant, I can't wear a boxer brief.
However, whenever I can, I'm wearing a men's boxer brief.
Under a skirt, under loose pants, I'm wearing a men's boxer brief whenever I can in because here's the deal.
People can say what they want.
They are so comfortable.
They're kind of loose.
Like I buy mine like a size up.
So they're loose. I roll the top.
So they're just like perfectly like snug on my butt, but they're still kind of loose.
It feels like if I wear men's boxer briefs under my pants, it feels like I'm wearing pajamas all day.
I love the Calvin Klein ones, the classic Calvin Klein cotton boxer briefs.
They're the best. And like people can can say it's weird and like not hot that I'm wearing the men's box, shut the fuck up.
Give it a try first. Give it a try first. Feels amazing.
Also kind of awesome because if let's say I'm dating a guy and he needs underwear, guess what?
I have extra pairs unless the sizing is off.
But let's just say that I've lent a boyfriend men's boxer briefs recently and it was very helpful for them.
Like we can wear the same underwear.
You know what I'm saying?
Like that's kind of of awesome for laundry and for sharing and for like, you know what I'm saying?
I don't know. I think it's a vibe.
They're comfortable.
I don't like having my vagina suffocated.
Sorry, it doesn't feel good.
Like, I mean, listen, there is a time and a place for like a cute undie.
I mean, I'm normally, if I'm not wearing men's boxer briefs, I'm wearing a granny panty.
And then if I really absolutely have to, I will wear a thong if I have to, have to, but it's like last best resort.
Because that to me is a 24 -7 wedgie, right?
At that point, I'd rather go commando.
I've talked about my underwear preferences a lot.
I don't need to get into it again, but there's a time and a place for a cuter undie, but the men's boxer briefs are my number one choice.
Also, sometimes I, this is a bit TMI, so let's all, you know, be brave and listen to Emma talk about her menstrual cycle.
So the thing I also like about men's boxer briefs is that there's a reinforcement around the genitals that makes it a bit thicker, like the fabric is a bit thicker.
And so if I'm spotting right before my period and I don't realize it, instead of it immediately seeping through into my pants, the men's boxer briefs catch that.
For some reason, the men's boxer briefs are better suited for menstrual spotting and stuff like that than women's underwear.
Now, explain that to me, people.
Explain that to me.
Anyway, way, men's boxer briefs, love, love.
Okay, next. I've talked about this before, but I just need to talk about it again because my obsession with it has, I just, I think it's grown to new heights.
My black rubber Casio watch. Okay.
I wear this watch every single day, every single day.
There are occasions where I'll swap it out for a different Casio watch. I have a few other ones, or I'll swap it out for like a fancy, like Cartier watch or something.
If it's like a really fancy moment.
I can't live without a watch anymore.
It is almost like a little security blanket for me.
Like it is comforting to me.
Well, here's the thing.
I don't think we realize how often we pull our phone out of our bag to check the time.
I think a lot of us assume, oh, I don't need a watch. I have a phone.
Yeah, but a lot of times your phone is in your bag, in your pocket.
It is so nice to just whip the wrist up and check the time.
It's so useful. Like right now, I know exactly what time it is because I just checked my watch, okay?
Here's the other thing, and I can't even explain this.
I don't even know how to explain this.
It's going to sound psychotic.
Wearing a watch makes me feel in control.
The fact that at any given moment I can look at my wrist and know what time it is makes me feel in control.
And the only reason I know it makes me feel in control is because there's been a few occasions where I've left the house without it and I felt felt naked and out of control.
And like, I didn't know what time it was.
And it genuinely gave me anxiety.
I like being able to flip over my hand and know what time it is immediately.
It's efficient and it makes me feel in control.
And I also like the way that it looks.
Like, it's not a fancy watch by any means, 20 bucks, but I genuinely think it's cute.
It's simple. It's kind of futuristic -y looking maybe.
And it does the trick.
But I just prefer digital watches, to be honest. I don't love a classic watch. I don't know.
Like you have to wind it up.
I just like digital.
It's classic. Well, it's actually not as classic.
It's modern. But I'm waiting for a brand like a really fancy jewelry brand to make a digital watch. I will splurge on that.
If Cartier were to sit down right now and fucking make like a tank digital watch, I would buy that.
I want that. And they will never do it.
But I would love that.
I just like like a digital watch, but mine in particular.
I think when a lot of people think of their dream watch or their favorite watch, they think of their nicest watch because watches, there's like a whole watch culture, you know, about the fancy watches and stuff like that.
I think that's fun.
I think that's great.
I get it. There's a lot of beauty in watches.
I don't think that that's necessarily like a cringe thing to be into.
I mean, it's definitely an expensive thing to be into, but But I get it because the craftsmanship that goes into a watch is really kind of incredible, to be honest. Before I understood it, I didn't care.
But then once I did a little bit of research, I was like, ooh, that actually is kind of cool.
Made me appreciate like a Cartier watch, a Rolex. You know, it made me understand why people care about it.
But it's still kind of like a little crazy sometimes.
It's like cars. It's the same thing.
You can be aware of the craftsmanship, but not want to necessarily participate in it.
And that's, I feel like, how I feel.
The funny thing is though, this is my favorite watch. And I'm not saying that to be like, oh, I'm so cute.
I love my $20 Casio watch. I'm so cute like that.
It's genuinely not that.
It is genuinely my favorite watch because, number one, I'm not worried about it.
When something's expensive, you're worried about it.
I like that I can replace this watch whenever I want for 20 bucks.
If it gets lost in the ocean, if I break it because I like slam my arm against the wall or something, it doesn't matter.
better. Also, it's like fully waterproof, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And guess what? If it isn't, doesn't matter.
I can go buy another one for 20 bucks.
I like the fact that it's replaceable, but I like the design though.
I like how it looks and it's really replaceable.
That's very rare. Okay.
Moving on. Classic alarm clock.
For the last few months, I've been waking up to a classic alarm clock.
Okay. Now, I will be honest. This wasn't my idea.
Okay. There's somebody in my life who wanted to wake up to an alarm clock, who sleeps at my house a lot.
And they were like, I have this alarm clock.
Like, I it's fun to, like, wake up to the radio or whatever.
And I was like, OK, you fucking freak.
What are we are we living in, like, the 90s?
Like, what are we doing with an alarm clock?
But we plugged it in.
We set it up. And at first it was sort of a novelty.
But then it became this thing of like, wait, we're struggling to get up in the morning to a normal alarm.
This actually is becoming sort of a necessity because the alarm is across the room.
And in order to turn it off, you have to get up and press the button.
Whereas the phone is right next to the bed usually.
That's where the charger is.
And yeah, I could set up my phone across the room and have the alarm go off across the room, but it's not loud enough.
We have this alarm clock set on the highest fucking volume and every morning we wake up to the radio really loud.
Sometimes it's the news, sometimes it's like the classical music station, whatever.
But it's so fucking loud and annoying.
I have to get up and turn it off.
I like the way that it looks.
I think it's kind of fun to have like a real alarm clock, you know, a functional piece of decor in the room.
Now it's a part of my routine that I can't imagine living without.
Moving on to window shopping.
Okay. For many months, I really had to avoid shopping because I was a recovering shopping addict.
And I'm not putting that lightly.
Okay. For many, many, many years, I had a shopping problem.
I could not stop buying things.
And I think it's because I got a job at a young age and had sort of financial autonomy.
And I didn't really care about buying expensive things, but I just cared about buying things.
When I was younger, I didn't have that freedom.
You know, I think as most young people don't have, like even if you have really rich parents, a lot of times you don't get to just buy whatever you you want.
I came into a unique situation where I was like 17 and supporting myself all of a sudden, and I was like, wait, I get to buy stuff?
And I ultimately developed a shopping addiction where I couldn't stop shopping.
I'd buy 30 things for like 50 bucks, but it's like, why do I have 30 things?
Do you know what I'm saying?
And so I really had to break that cycle.
I donated a majority of my closet.
And so through that positive experience of scaling down my closet, it, feeling less stressed, having an easier time getting dressed every day, being able to sort of figure out my personal style through that experience.
Like it really motivated me to get a handle on my shopping problem.
But at a certain point I was like, I love clothes.
I love fashion. I love seeing what's in the stores.
I miss it. And so I slowly started allowing myself to go shopping again, but instead of shopping, just window shopping.
And so now going shopping Shopping is like a little hobby for me again, but it's so different because I actually rarely buy stuff.
I am so critical and harsh nowadays on like what I actually spend money on and what is worth taking up space in my closet that it is very rare that I'm like, oh, yeah, this is worth it.
Everything about it has to be perfect or else I'm not going to buy it.
And that's really hard to come by.
But I say like window shopping because recently I've been really enjoying shopping, but I'm not actually shopping because I'm not buying anything.
I'm just looking. I don't need to buy things at clothing stores anymore to enjoy myself.
I just like to see stuff.
And sometimes seeing stuff that I like at a store will make me think about what I have in my wardrobe that's similar.
And it inspires me to like maybe wear that item the next day.
You know what I mean?
It was a long and hard journey to get me here, but I'm here.
here. Okay, next. I'm really scared to mention this next one because it involves a public figure and now I feel like if I talk about them on my podcast, I'm scared that I'll have to talk about this with them in person, which is fine and I would, but it's like weird to talk about somebody on my podcast and then if they ever find out that I said something and then they like bring it up to me, I'd rather say what I'm about to say to their face first, but I don't really know this person them very well.
I love Finn Wolfhard's music.
Okay, Finn Wolfhard. Let's talk about who this is.
This was one of the young men on Stranger Things, the television show smash hit.
He is doing music. He's doing like a solo project.
I found it through like Spotify radio, I think, like Spotify just gave it to me.
And I fucking love it.
I think it's incredible music.
I really do. I think it's so so cool to be like a mainstream sort of actor and to go and make an album that has like a really unique sort of alternative sound and to have it be genuinely good.
Like I don't, he's not trying to be alternative.
Like he's not like trying to be cool and have this certain cool alternative sound.
Like that's actually his sound.
Very hard thing to do.
And he did it. and it the music's not pretentious at all it's genuinely just good it's just good music and as i'm recording this he's only put out a few singles there's an album that will be coming out i'm excited about it and the thing that's cool is that i haven't been excited about an album coming out like in current time in a long time so good on you finn wolfhard i'm loving the music it's fucking good and uh and i'm really uncomfortable right now talking about it and if Finn Wolfhard, have you ever hear this, do not just pretend that you didn't.
Okay. Cause this is, it's awkward now.
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Okay, next. Let's get really deep here.
I'm obsessed with being sober.
I fucking love it. I've been sober since October of 2024.
And it's one of those things where I know it's a complicated topic, right?
And everybody has their own relationship relationship, to alcohol, to weed, to whatever.
It's very individual.
And so I don't want me saying like, I love being sober to make you feel bad if you're not in a place in your life where that's something that you could do.
This is not a moral thing.
It's not like I feel morally good because I'm sober.
No, I'm not attaching any morality to it.
It's not like that.
I'm simply saying, I love the way being sober feels, which is shocking to me because I didn't think it would feel this good.
I will say I'm not sober from nicotine, but that's debatable on whether or not that's like a substance that it definitely alters your brain, but it doesn't.
I'm not like I can drive while I have nicotine in my system, right?
Whereas like alcohol, marijuana, these these things really like impact you.
And I don't know, you get what I'm saying.
Like I'm sober from all those types of things.
The real thing that I quit was alcohol because I have no problem not smoking weed because when I smoke weed, I almost call 911 because I think I'm dying.
I quit alcohol because it was making me sick.
Like I think I developed an intolerance to it.
And, you know, people would be like, why aren't you drinking?
Why aren't you drinking?
And I felt all this pressure to explain.
And then I felt like I was kind of being a downer and I felt kind of bad about that.
And then I was also really bummed that I couldn't go hang out at a bar anymore and go get a drink.
And that's something I really enjoy.
I've gotten to the point now where I'm like, fuck it.
If I want to go sit at a bar and order sparkling water, I'm going to do that.
And I think I felt bad about it in the beginning because I'm like, this is not profitable for the business.
They make money if I get an alcoholic beverage.
I'll just tip well.
You know what I I mean?
It's all good. A lot of places have mocktails.
You know, there's a lot of different options.
And I now feel no loss and only benefits.
It's strengthened me socially.
I don't have a crutch. And now I don't feel like I need one because I've existed without one for so long.
Physically, I feel amazing.
And it's been a really sort of magical experience for me.
On my birthday, actually, at my birthday dinner, they asked me, my friends asked me like what my my highlight of the year was.
And I was thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about it.
And the first thing that came to mind was not drinking alcohol.
Moving on, allergy medicine.
Okay. I have horrible allergies, seasonal and a little bit to my cats.
I didn't take allergy medicine for many years.
And in retrospect, I don't know what I was doing and how I survived.
I had itchy eyes and a puffy face all the time.
What was I doing? Now I have a full regimen.
Okay. Take Allegra every day.
Now, don't just take Allegra because I said that it works for me.
You have to talk to a doctor first. But I do Allegra and then I do sometimes Flonase if I'm really in a cycle of bad allergies, which is something you snort.
It's like a liquid that you snort.
Not the most fun activity, but I spent so many years of my life having horrible allergies and suffering because I didn't want to take allergy meds.
Stupid. I was so miserable.
And now now I feel so much better.
Having itchy ears, a stuffy nose, a cracked throat, a puffy face, puffy eyes.
It is miserable. It is a miserable existence and there is no reason to suffer.
I am so happy I finally got into a good allergy med routine.
I was on Claritin for a while.
That didn't work as well for me.
The Allegra and the Flonase, wow, I'm on fire.
Again though, don't go doing that because that's what I do, okay?
You have to talk to your doctor and you you have to try stuff for you.
Okay. Okay. Moving on.
This is really random, but I'm obsessed.
Okay. I edit content such as YouTube videos, Instagram reels, things of the like on my laptop.
Okay. And instead of storing all the footage on my computer, I store it on a hard drive.
So I constantly have a hard drive plugged into my laptop.
Now, if let's say I'm working on the couch and then I want to move and work on my dining room table.
It's not really that big of a deal to pick up my laptop and then make sure that I have my hand on the hard drive so that it doesn't fall out because it's connected.
But I can't tell you how many times I've gotten up too quickly and dropped the hard drive and then it's unplugged and then it's fucked up stuff that I was working on on my computer because you're not supposed to just unplug it.
You have to properly eject it.
And if you unplug it like that, it's not good.
I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally unplugged it because it's just this like random floating block connected to a wire just floating around.
You know what I mean?
So I was at a photo shoot recently and this woman had a little pocket, like a little stretchy, sticky pocket stuck to the back of her laptop.
And she had her hard drive stuck into the pocket so it wouldn't move and it would be out of the the way.
And I was like, where did you get that?
She was like, I don't know.
You can just find it online.
It's everywhere. I was like, what?
Found it online, ordered it immediately, obsessed.
I love little random niche items like that.
Brings me fucking joy.
And you know what? It has brought me joy because I don't drop my hard drive anymore.
If you have an issue in your life, find the material object that can fix it.
I'm all about that.
I don't think there's anything anything wrong with that.
That is a good use of your money.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay. Anyways, moving on to Listerine tongue strips.
I know what you're thinking, Emma, these have been around for 5 ,000 years.
Like, why are you just talking about them now?
To be honest, I actually really discovered them at the Met Gala this year because this is such a random story.
My makeup makeup artist was doing a brand deal for Listerine and had a bunch of Listerine products and was like, hey, do you want some?
And then I became obsessed with them from that.
I'm not being paid to say this.
She got paid for this.
Okay. And it worked.
She influenced me. She gave me little Listerine tongue strips and I've been carrying them in my bag ever since.
I don't just like them because they work really fucking well.
Okay. They do work really well.
Let me explain to you how how they work if you don't know what they are.
They're like little tiny rectangles, super flat, as thin as paper or maybe even thinner.
And you place them on your tongue and they dissolve really quickly and they're super minty.
That's it. They come in a tiny little pack.
And not only are they super effective, but they just taste good.
Like it's just fun to have a super minty explosion in your mouth for like 10 minutes until it wears off.
I'm obsessed with them.
I'm going to order a huge pack online with like 90 of them in there, I absolutely love these.
And I just find it funny that like my makeup artist was fully doing a brand deal.
Like I am all about being marketed to.
It doesn't bother me.
Sell me your product and make me like it.
Like try, you know, if I don't like it, I don't like it.
Right. But I'll try everything once.
And if something was marketed to me really well and it makes me want to try it and I try it and I love it, fuck yeah.
If it's a a product that genuinely will make my life better in some way, fuck yeah.
I was influenced and it worked.
Let's move on to sunscreen.
For me, this is sunscreen summer.
I hate putting on sunscreen.
It's so annoying, but it's sunscreen summer because you know what?
I'm almost 25 and let me tell you, I need to start getting serious about the sunscreen.
Up until this summer, I've always said like, this is the year I'm really going to wear sunscreen.
And then I ultimately don't wear sunscreen.
This year, I'm sunscreened up.
At the point that I'm recording this, I haven't burned yet.
I don't need to be tan anymore.
I don't care what I look like that much anymore.
I used to really care about what I look like.
And so being tan, I felt like made me look better.
It was really hard for me not to be tan during the summer because I was like, oh my God, but I'm going to look so much hotter and cooler if I'm tan.
Now I'm like, it's totally fine.
I don't need to be that tan.
I'd rather not get skin cancer, which runs in my family, by the way, and not get uncomfortable sunburns.
And you know what? You can still get a little sun kissed with sunscreen on.
It's not going to be the same.
And here's the other thing.
I'm not afraid of wrinkling.
Like I will wrinkle.
I'm already wrinkling.
Okay. And people on the internet love to say I'm not aging gracefully.
So, and I'm 20, I'm 24.
It's like, relax. But anyways, I'm not going to not wrinkle.
I don't think me wearing sunscreen is going to make me not wrinkle.
Wrinkling is inevitable and I'm not afraid of it, but I don't need to wrinkle more than necessary because I wanted to be tan when I was younger.
Like it's finally clicked this year.
like this is the first year i'm fully sunscreened up every other year i lied in the beginning of the summer lied to myself and probably lied to you if i talked about it with you all saying i was gonna wear a sunscreen and then didn't but this year it fucking happened um okay next let's talk about makeup for a second here okay face highlight with no shimmer okay you know what highlighter is i'm saying of course you do but maybe you don't so i'm gonna explain it just in case there's like three of you out there who don't know what highlighter is.
It's a product, a makeup product that you put on your face on the high points, such as the bridge of the nose, such as the high point on the cheekbone, such as the Cupid's bow on the lip.
And for many years, I knew highlight as being like shimmery.
And I don't really like shimmery makeup.
Like I actually prefer a matte, well, not a matte look.
I don't want my skin to look matte, but like, I don't like glitter in my makeup unless a makeup artist is doing my makeup and and they have like a specific vision then it's different but like if I'm doing my own makeup no I'm using only matte eyeshadows no shimmer no glimmer and so for a long time it was like all right well I can't wear a highlighter because it's just too shimmery it doesn't match my vibe and then I discovered the oily non -shimmery sort of highlight the brand that I use is tower 28 I think it's just like a dewy balm and you just basically it's honestly Vaseline it's aquaphor and you
just put it on the high points of your face as you would with highlighter lightly dab it on it actually works and the reason why I bring this up is because I think a lot of people think that it doesn't work and I think that because I thought that for many many years I was like that's a scam highlighter that's just like clear oily balm like what's the point of that I don't get it I get it now I've I've been using it for many, many months now and it's just every day that I use it, I'm like, wow, that really just took this look to the next level and added dimension and it just looks so good and I'd
really recommend. Okay, next, traveling with a water bottle.
I like to travel with my Stanley cup.
I don't know what I did before this.
I used to be so dehydrated when I travel and it is a little bit inconvenient to bring your cup or your bottle, not your Stanley cup or your bottle or whatever ever on your trip, right?
It takes up a little bit of space.
But I find that it's weirdly comforting because our water bottles are like our little pacifiers, you know?
So it's kind of comforting.
And also it really ensures that you stay hydrated while you travel.
I'm all about bringing some sort of cup, bottle, whatever on your trip.
It's the move and it's not a waste of space.
Speaking of that, I need to update you all on my favorite electrolytes to put in my Stanley Cup.
I've talked about these before, but I just have to cover my bases here.
The brand Ultima, raspberry flavor.
The brand Element, mango chili flavor.
Or the raspberry salt flavor.
And last but not least, strawberry liquid IV.
Those are my favorites.
Do what you want with the info.
Moving on to a new drink fixation, lemon ginger drinks, okay?
I just recently got got over a cold.
And so I was drinking a lot of lemon ginger honey tea.
Hot, delicious, fresh ginger chopped up, fresh lemon squeezed.
Yum. Soothes the throat, but also tastes really good.
But I've also been obsessed with sort of a popular cafe drink that I've been seeing around in cafes recently because I love, I don't know, going to different cafes and trying what they they have. It's sparkling water with ginger juice and lemon juice and honey, a little teeny bit of honey all mixed together.
It's almost like a lemon ginger spritz.
Yum. And I learned how to make it at home.
You basically just have to juice ginger and lemon and add a little bit of honey and then pour it over sparkling water.
I absolutely love it.
I will say like I do still love my apple cider cider vinegar in sparkling water combo.
That's still going strong for me.
But if I want something a little bit more vegetal, a little bit more fresh, a little bit more summery, the lemon ginger vibe is a vibe.
Okay. And that's it.
Oh my God. Should I throw this in?
My favorite lip balm.
Fine. I'll throw it in.
Laneige lip glowy balm in berry.
Okay. I think I've probably gone through 4 ,000 of those.
They're always in my car.
They're always in my bag.
I have one by my bed.
It's just my lip balm of choice.
It's not that tinted.
So if I want like a tinted vibe, I'm not going for that.
But if I just want to be hydrated, that's what I'm going for.
So that's it. Okay, now I'm done.
Those are all the things that I like right now.
There are probably more that I forgot, but I'll add them to my next list that I'll do in like six months because that's how this works.
Like every six months, I come back and share what I like.
And you all listen.
And you might all be a little bit bored, but you sit through it anyway.
And that's why I love you all.
I appreciate you all.
It's always such a joy to sit and hang out together.
And if you enjoyed this episode, have no fear.
New episodes of Anything Goes every Thursday and Sunday.
You can find Anything Goes on the internet at anythinggoes.
You can find me on the internet at Emma Chamberlain and you can find my coffee company out in the world at Chamberlain Coffee.
I will talk to you in a few days.
Until then, remember that you're awesome and remember that I love and appreciate you if that means anything to you.
Hopefully it does a little bit.
All right. Talk to you all soon.
Bye.
