Kimberly 0:00

Hi Meredith. Welcome back.

Meredith 0:02

Oh, thanks. It's so good to see you. It feels like it's been a long time.

Kimberly 0:07

It has. You abandoned me.

Meredith 0:09

I had to go get tan.

Kimberly 0:11

Yeah.

Meredith 0:12

Which I didn't. I just lost the spray tan that you gave me, but it's fine.

Kimberly 0:27

So, welcome back to another episode of where we're thriving,

Meredith 0:34

but mildly.

Kimberly 0:34

But mildly. Yes. I'm Kimberly.

Meredith 0:37

I'm Meredith.

Kimberly 0:38

And you're in charge of today's

Meredith 0:40

I was gonna say, what? Why are you fucking talking still? It's my turn. I even planned it out and I know it's a miracle, even like post vacation, but I made a plan.

Kimberly 0:48

I'm so impressed.'cause you got back yesterday.

Meredith 0:51

Yeah. Yeah, I did. I was exhausted and not medicated, and I came back and unpacked all of my suitcases. Wow. Last night. Wow. I actually have almost all of my laundry done already. I know. I just, everything was clean and I wanted to start the week like not in Yeah. A fucking mess.

Kimberly 1:12

Yeah. So, um. speaking of that,

Meredith 1:15

oh yes.

Kimberly 1:15

I have something I wanna tell you.

Meredith 1:17

I knew it. I was gonna ask if we needed to start off with story time before we go into

Kimberly 1:20

shit. It's very simple. it's an experiment.

Meredith 1:22

love it.

Kimberly 1:23

So I am building a uniform.

Meredith 1:27

I changed my mind. I don't love it. Oh, I'm, if there are chaps involved, I'm sorry. Assless, chaps involved. The answer's No,

Kimberly 1:35

So, okay. So I. I wanna get up every morning and have an awesome morning routine. Okay. And one of the things I want to achieve is I want to work out. And I was like, okay, what, what would make that even simpler? And I'm like, okay. Every time I go to workout, I go and pick a legging. I go and pick a sports bra, I go and pick a, you know, top and socks and whatever.

Meredith 1:57

Mm-hmm.

Kimberly 1:58

So I'm like, I have ones that I prefer. I'm like, oh, I like that bra. So what I did is I went and I bought multiple, all in the same color of the same bra, and I bought some more of my favorite leggings, and I'm just gonna set them out at night in a little pile. And then in the morning when I get out of bed, I don't put on my robe, I don't put on like another outfit. I just go straight into that workout outfit so there's one hurdle that's done. For that.

Meredith 2:25

I love this so much. I'm so fucking proud of

Kimberly 2:28

you. Thank you. I just realized that there were specific bras that I really liked wearing, and if I wore them in black, then I didn't take time to try to coordinate the outfit.'cause it doesn't matter. I'm in my basement, nobody's gonna see me and. I was just like, I'm getting everything in black and I'm gonna set it out and then I go right into it in the morning.

Meredith 2:47

I freaking love this.

Kimberly 2:49

Thank you. I'm

Meredith 2:49

so proud of you.

Kimberly 2:50

Thank you. That's my announcement.

Meredith 2:52

I love that. I'm glad. Um, I also had an announcement, but it's far less fun. I don't,

Kimberly 2:58

far less cool. It's fine. It

Meredith 2:59

is, it is.

Kimberly 3:00

okay. So what were you, you were on a cruise?

Meredith 3:03

I was on a cruise with. Bo guy. who is the person I'm dating who I met on a cruise. We'll get into that later in the episode. Um, but we had to dress up for a theme night. Okay. And so we put a lot of thought into our outfits and we're proud of it. And during the theme night, they did a costume, like an outfit contest, and he invited everybody up with like the best outfits,

Kimberly 3:28

the host of the party?

Meredith 3:29

Yep. So you could like, show off your outfits and everyone in the audience would vote on who they thought was the best.

Kimberly 3:36

Oh my God. Okay.

Meredith 3:37

Bo guy was like, let's do it. And I was like, no, Yeah. I was like, I'm not drunk enough

Kimberly 3:44

Where's my propanol?

Meredith 3:45

No, I, I am. No, that's too many people looking at me. I don't want that. And I don't know, he, he was like, you know, we look awesome. Let's just do it. And I was like, okay, fine. So we went up there and got in line and he, the host. Puts everyone in a line, like on the dance floor in front of everyone, Uhhuh.

Kimberly 4:03

Uhhuh.

Meredith 4:03

And he is like, okay, you're gonna show off your outfit, but I'm gonna call each couple up here one by one, and you're going to dance for 10 seconds. Oh, and show off your best dance moves.

Kimberly 4:13

This just escalated

Meredith 4:15

it significantly. And I'm having a minor panic attack and I look at him and I was like, no, no. No, we're not. I'm leaving. he's like, we're already up here, and we are the first ones

Kimberly 4:26

line. Oh. And guy

Meredith 4:27

was like, No, no. He's like, he's like holding my arms. He's like, it's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. We're gonna have so much fun.

Kimberly 4:34

Did he threaten to break your legs? I would've threatened to break your legs. not He was Oh, okay.

Meredith 4:38

Oh, okay.

Kimberly 4:38

That's

Meredith 4:39

He was like, no, you're gonna have fun. And I was like, no, I'm not. I hate you. I'm never talking to you again. I, I did use that phrase a lot. I was like, I hate you. I've never, this, I, I hope you had fun because it is over.

Kimberly 4:50

Oh, okay. So you broke up with him in that moment?

Meredith 4:53

I was like, I, no, this is my nightmare. And he just kind of

Kimberly 4:57

So you don't like dancing in public?

Meredith 4:59

I don't like being the center of attention. I love dancing. If there is a large group of people, and I know that not everyone is staring at just me.

Kimberly 5:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Meredith 5:10

But the purpose of this was everyone is staring at just me. And so I don't know, in what felt like 30 seconds, it was just like, well, we're out here now. He's like, Just go with it. Just go.

Kimberly 5:20

Did he push you onto the stage? Did

Meredith 5:22

No.

Kimberly 5:22

push you on? He didn't. Okay.

Meredith 5:23

No. He was like, just follow my lead. Everything's gonna be fine. he was so good. He was just like so enthusiastic and tried to get people to cheer for us and I'm just like trying not to turn bee red. I'm

Kimberly 5:35

and throw up. Yeah, yeah. Or shit yourself.

Meredith 5:37

Yeah, exactly.

Kimberly 5:38

Yeah. These are the things that we worry about. Yeah. Yeah.

Meredith 5:41

And okay. I was like, okay, that's over with. I'm glad it's over with. The host is like. You get one last chance. Everyone's gonna dance one more time. Give us your best. I was like, please kill me.

Kimberly 5:51

Did you show everyone your boobs? Because that's usually a surefire way to win.

Meredith 5:54

I wish, but there's like mostly people over the age of 85 and I didn't want to give anyone a heart attack.'cause you know,

Kimberly 6:00

they would've been like, hell yeah, I've been waiting my whole life for this moment.

Meredith 6:04

I also didn't wanna get kicked off of the cruise. They're like, I'm gonna leave you in Mexico. So at that point we kind of coordinated our dance moves and he's like, okay, we're gonna do this. And we did it and it was over and we actually didn't get the least amount of applause, which was also my fear. I'm like, oh my God, we're

Kimberly 6:20

gonna, oh yeah. People are like,

Meredith 6:23

I was like, this is my nightmare. I was like, I can't believe it. And I just kept telling him how much I hated him. And he is like, you had fun. I know you had fun. And his friend that was there with us took a video. Of it.

Kimberly 6:36

I have to

Meredith 6:37

it exists in the universe now. And I was like, I,

Kimberly 6:40

we post it on our

Meredith 6:41

Maybe? um, I maybe,

Kimberly 6:45

Meredith,

Meredith 6:45

was like, I never wanna watch it. I'm too mortified. And then I watched it and it wasn't that bad.

Kimberly 6:49

Yeah.

Meredith 6:50

And I, at the end of the trip, he was like, so what was the most fun thing you did? And I thought about it for a second and he was like. Dude, this was a cruise of like super relaxation. All old people, you know, the most fun thing you did was dance with me out there. And I was like, yeah, you're probably right. He's like, I told you you were gonna have fun. He's like, fuck.

Kimberly 7:15

Ah, okay. But wait, you didn't win?

Meredith 7:17

No, but we did get the people who won definitely deserved to win. It was like a father and daughter team. Like they were adorable.

Kimberly 7:23

Shouldn't she be in school?

Meredith 7:24

Yeah, right, bitch. No, no. It was fun and I don't regret it and

Kimberly 7:31

I'm going on a cruise, this winter, and they have a theme night that's like a color and it's like the big one that you dress up for. And last time I took this, like over the top dress with like these huge.

Meredith 7:42

is it the maroon one? Yeah. Yeah.

Kimberly 7:44

The like these like, oh, it's in that video.

Meredith 7:46

Yeah, it's in the reel that we

Kimberly 7:47

made. Yeah. and I wore it and that's why I got that dress was for that. But I'm like, I wanna go even. Further do it this time. I was like looking at like headdress, like the people I'm going with, I like sent, I was like, I wanna go all out. And so I like sent them like these headdresses and like crowns and they're like, we haven't even booked our flights yet. Um, I think I'm gonna focus on that before I like focus on my outfits. And I was like. Hurry up.

Meredith 8:15

God. We know we're going, we've paid for the cruise already.

Kimberly 8:18

Like just book your flight or just like, let's talk about this.

Meredith 8:23

Don't be Debbie Downers girls. You know who you are.

Kimberly 8:25

Yeah. Like the fuck.

Meredith 8:27

Rude. Yeah. All right. Okay. I do have an actual plan today. I am sorry. Now, now that we've gotten our. Our life updates out of the way. I guess I shouldn't be apologizing for that. I do wanna hear your life updates.

Kimberly 8:39

Yeah. That was a really important life update that I had to share with you.

Meredith 8:42

It was, I am proud. Thank you. You know what? Maybe that came out of our routines talk.

Kimberly 8:47

did actually. See, that's what I was thinking of, like simplify. I want to have this routine and then also that thing that Chad GBT made for us of like the quiz how it was like talking about, I'm like, actually I do want my mornings to be like that. Like that would make me feel better.

Meredith 9:04

yeah, chat. GPT thinks I'm a fucking

Kimberly 9:06

you are?

Meredith 9:08

I should probably work on that. Maybe I should buy this. Maybe I should take a, take a hint. Well, I started, I came here prepared with an outline. I'm,

Kimberly 9:19

I'm super proud.

Meredith 9:20

have a plan and we're gonna start it right now. Okay. Ready?

Kimberly 9:23

Go.

Meredith 9:24

Welcome to Mildly Thriving. Thank you. This is going to be a get to know US episode. Because I don't feel like we've talked about ourselves enough.

Kimberly 9:33

You know what I, yeah,

Meredith 9:35

I see. I knew you'd like that.

Kimberly 9:37

I love it. I love talking about myself.

Meredith 9:40

okay. I want you to go first.

Kimberly 9:41

Oh, okay. Okay.

Meredith 9:42

And I just want you to give a short background on yourself.

Kimberly 9:46

Oh, oh. Tell me about yourself. I fucking love this question. Nope.

Meredith 9:51

So when I was looking for examples of what to do in this outline, it says. A fun or unexpected fact about yourself and instead of taking that off of the list I wrote, not today, Satan, Not today, Satan, about the fun fact, because that is my least favorite thing to do.

Kimberly 10:08

Wait, what's your least favorite thing to do?

Meredith 10:10

in like a get to know you thing? At a work meeting or at a a, a school function, it's like, Tell me your name and tell me a fun fact about yourself. Yeah. You know, when I remember any fun fact about myself, not when it's time for me to

Kimberly 10:23

no. As soon as someone is like, what do you like to do for fun? I'm like. Uh, my brain has shut off. I don't, I don't know. I don't do fun things. I hang out in my basement with my friend and record ourselves.

Meredith 10:36

Okay, so how about this? I'll go first then, and then you can go off of the example of me.

Kimberly 10:41

Yes. Thank you.

Meredith 10:42

You're welcome. My name is Meredith. I know crazy. My name's

Kimberly 10:48

Hi Meredith.

Meredith 10:49

I was born in Texas.

Kimberly 10:50

Yay.

Meredith 10:51

I spent my time equally growing up between Texas and Colorado because my parents lived in two different states. Okay. Uh, I went to college in Colorado

Kimberly 11:00

Okay.

Meredith 11:01

and then two years ago I moved out here for a job. Yay.

Kimberly 11:04

Yay.

Meredith 11:05

currently live in Washington State. Most of my family, is still somewhere in Colorado or somewhere in Texas. I'm not going to give you a fun fact about myself.

Kimberly 11:13

I have a fun fact that I'll give you,

Meredith 11:15

uh, about yourself or about me?

Kimberly 11:16

No, it's about me.

Meredith 11:17

Oh, okay. Tell me.

Kimberly 11:18

Well, no, when it's my turn, I I'll

Meredith 11:19

Oh, okay. Fine. but outside of podcasting, I work in. the emergency management field. most of my career history has been in 9 1 1. Dispatch. I have a degree in clinical psychology A bachelor's degree. That's as far as I went in Uh, that was expensive enough and I did, I still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. So wasn't willing to spend grad school money. And I have a miniature dachshund named Gunner. You can see him on our Instagram page. Uh, he is cute. He shits everywhere. He is 15 years old. I am the oldest of three I'm 36, my brother's 32. My sister is 25 and that is the down and dirty about me. Oh, one more thing. I am dating someone. Uh, I have never been married. I do not have kids. I'm dating someone who lives in San Diego because we met on a cruise. And that's why we call him Bo guy. Yeah. And

Kimberly 12:11

I like calling him Bo guy. I do too. I can't even remember what his name is at this point.

Meredith 12:14

Yeah, that's fine.

Kimberly 12:15

Do you remember his name? No. Oh, okay. I didn't think so. It's

Meredith 12:18

fine. I just fine. Sweet cutesy things to say instead of his actual

Kimberly 12:23

name.

Meredith 12:23

Um, your turn.

Kimberly 12:24

Okay. Hi, my name's Kimberly.

Meredith 12:27

Hi Kimberly.

Kimberly 12:28

I also live in Washington State. I was born and raised in North Idaho. And I've lived out in Washington for like a long time. Uh, I am married, it's my second marriage. I'm married currently to a man named Josh. and I talk about him on the podcast. He is very, very wonderful.

Meredith 12:45

Can confirm,

Kimberly 12:46

I have, I have an older brother. He is six years older than me Uh, my parents lived nearby. I went to college in multiple places. I went to three different colleges. Okay. and I got a degree in communication and I work in marketing

Meredith 13:04

oh, you said you had a fun fact by yourself.

Kimberly 13:05

I do. I have a piece of pencil lead stuck in my foot, in my toe bitch

Meredith 13:11

from when,

Kimberly 13:13

I don't know it was a kid and well, I was, I think it was a teenager and I, there was a piece, a pencil on the floor and it, like, I hit, like kicked it or hit it just in the right way. Pencil had went in and it broke off and then I couldn't like get it out and I was like, well that's staying there. And it's, and it's Yeah. What

Meredith 13:33

man. That was not on my Bingo card.

Kimberly 13:35

Well I'm full of surprises. Lemme see if I can, it's right there. The fuck

Meredith 13:40

It's, I can con confirm, dude, I could get that out with a fucking

Kimberly 13:43

No. Ow. I,

Meredith 13:46

Fine.

Kimberly 13:46

That's my fun fact. In my free time, I like to doom scroll and

Meredith 13:51

play Sims

Kimberly 13:52

and play Sims. I fucking love the Sims, I'm trying other games. I got a new computer so I can try Enzo, which is a Korean like life sim game and I'm trying that and um, I hate learning new things. The frustration of like trying to figure out a new game. Like I just am like so

Meredith 14:11

same. That's why I don't do it very often, Wow. The things we do.

Kimberly 14:16

Yeah. I, it feels so weird to be an adult and be like, I play video games. There's essentially digital Barbies. I

Meredith 14:23

I, mean, I have a switch and I played Mario and Donkey Kong. That's like the extent of my video game knowledge, but Okay. how did we meet?

Kimberly 14:32

We met through a mutual friend.

Meredith 14:36

who we both met.

Kimberly 14:37

we both met on Bumble b fff. Yes. So we are, I would, I would count us as Bumble b Fff. Friends, yeah. Funny story. Our friend. Started hanging out with Meredith, told me about Meredith, and she was so excited. Um, our mutual friend was so excited and I was like, great, like I'm excited and I can't wait to meet her. Blah, blah, blah. And then our mutual friend tells me. That you like, stopped responding to her and I was like, fuck that bitch. We're burning her house down. Well,

Meredith 15:08

she like invited me to this Christmas market and I didn't respond for three

Kimberly 15:13

Yeah. And we were just not having it. We were like, we're gonna burn her house down. Like never talking to her again, like hate her. And then. The mutual friend informs me that no, Meredith actually had a kidney infection and was in the hospital, and so that was why, um, she had not responded. And then she said, well, I had a kidney infection and my house burned down at the same time, so,

Meredith 15:40

Now my life is

Kimberly 15:41

ruined.

Meredith 15:41

Thanks a

Kimberly 15:42

lot. Yeah.

Meredith 15:43

no, I did actually have a kidney infection and was in and out of urgent care and it got so bad that I got sepsis, and so it was a little bit of a nightmare. But yeah, I was, I was ignoring my phone for a little bit.

Kimberly 15:54

I would, yeah, but to be very clear, no one's house got burnt down. No, no, that, that is just a joke.

Meredith 16:00

No. Houses were lost in the making of this story

Kimberly 16:03

section. I'm not that into arson,

Meredith 16:05

Not that into arson.

Kimberly 16:06

I like candles. That's my extent of

Meredith 16:09

arson.

Kimberly 16:11

And now we're doing this

Meredith 16:11

podcast. And now, yeah. And then we hung out enough and we're like. Dude, I think we're funny. Yeah. And I like talking to you. Do you think we could do this for fun? And here we are doing it for fun. Oh. What made us realize that we'd work well together? we got stoned and both thought we were fucking hilarious.

Kimberly 16:28

Yeah. I don't know that we knew each other well enough to know that we would work well together, but I think we were both willing to find out.

Meredith 16:37

Yeah. Actually I think that's what it is, is we both wanted to do it badly enough. Yeah. That we were like, well the worst thing that can happen is it doesn't work out, so. Right. Let's give it a try.

Kimberly 16:48

Wouldn't you rather try and then. I like the trying part. I tend to not be the fault, but like I'm shocked. How much follow, does that even make sense?

Meredith 16:58

It does. Uh,'cause I was trying to relate and I was like, well, I think I'm the same, which, I like the trying part, but the follow through is hard. And I think

Kimberly 17:07

We are trying very, very, very hard to be consistent and I think because we have both struggled with that. I guess I'm speaking for you a little bit, but because we've both struggled with that consistency, I think that's why we're trying so hard.

Meredith 17:22

If this was me doing this by myself, this wouldn't have happened. Like having, it's like having an accountability buddy that's, I'm like, oh, I'm not the only person that is depending on this. Right. I need to make sure I'm following Yes. And that, I mean, yeah, I think it's working well.'cause we're both trying to follow through, not only for ourselves, but for the other person.

Kimberly 17:43

Yes. I'm having fun and I, you and I just had a conversation about some stuff that I think is gonna, that I think kind of solidifies, like we both still wanna do it because it was a, it's a decent financial commitment for

Meredith 17:56

not a lot of return

Kimberly 17:58

maybe ever. but it's like the more we put into it, think, kind of proves that we're serious and enjoying it at least.

Meredith 18:05

Yeah, think you're right. well, the next thing I have is why we started this, but that really

Kimberly 18:13

Well, I think there's the idea that we would work well together, but then there's also this idea of like, I think the concept of mildly thriving. Is something that you kind of have to come to terms with a little bit of like, oh, I may never be this X, Y, Z, X, Y, Z,

Meredith 18:29

or I may never be a millionaire, or I may never, I don't know, be this in my career, be this in my personal life, I. I may never be a mom, I may never be married. I like Right. Just, just examples, but like being okay and not just being okay, but being happy with what you have. Right. And being able to appreciate the mediocrity.

Kimberly 18:52

Yeah. And I think in a lot of ways I'm thriving. Yeah. And especially when I compare myself to some people AKA, my tenant I'm,

Meredith 19:01

we are crushing it. Yes,

Kimberly 19:02

yes. I'm on fire. And then when I look at like, people like Taylor Swift and I'm like, how do we have the same amount of hours in the day?

Meredith 19:11

Yeah. Yeah. How are we also the same age? Like that?

Kimberly 19:16

Like, yeah.

Meredith 19:17

yeah. Yeah. But, Being happy with being

Kimberly 19:21

Being okay with like, I'm average. Yeah. And I'm okay with that, and

Meredith 19:26

I think I'm crushing it. I, I'm super thankful for all of the things I get to do and I mean, for being able to do this at all, but I also wanted to be able to. At least have one person resonate with some of the shit that I go through or the things that I say, or Stupid things that I've dealt with. Like if any one person out there is like, oh yeah, I've also had that stupid moment, or, yeah, it doesn't bother me that she talks about A DHD in every single episode.

Kimberly 19:53

I did have a friend ask, uh, he listened to the peasants episode. Yeah. Yeah. And he was like, do you guys actually do that? Like, do you and Josh actually do that? And I was like,

Meredith 20:02

is a fair question.

Kimberly 20:03

Yes. We actually do like, we actually do that. I know it's fucking weird, but he's like, I could totally see you guys doing it, but like, so if we say that we do something, yeah, we actually do do it.

Meredith 20:16

Yeah. I'm not making any of this shit up. And like, I mean, some of it's like, why would you, that's embarrassing as fuck.

Kimberly 20:25

Yeah. That's cool.

Meredith 20:27

Yeah. That's cool.

Kimberly 20:28

for listening.

Meredith 20:30

Thanks for coming here. How do our personalities compliment each other? I don't know. Maybe because we were just talking about how neurodivergent people flock together.

Kimberly 20:40

I think that has something to do with it. I also think the fact that we're both in therapy and we're both trying to. Improve ourselves.

Meredith 20:50

We are at very similar points in life. Yeah. On a lot of different milestones. Personal, family. We have a lot of similarities and we are, we have hit a lot of the same milestones.

Kimberly 21:02

Yes. And I think both of us are trying to better ourselves. We're not just kind of like, I mean, we are coming to terms with being mildly thriving, but we're also like, I can be better. Like I can do better or I can understand myself better or I, I want to improve. I want to change these things and I don't wanna take just the status quo I think that's a good compliment.

Meredith 21:23

I agree. Look at us. We're more than mildly thriving. What Oh, what's our podcast process like? well if you're Kimberly, it's, she really works really hard. I said really twice and I'm not gonna cut that. she does everything. She plans her episodes very well and writes outlines. Um, she does research. she learned our editing and recording software before I did and was editing all of our episodes. she does a good amount of social media work, she has learned everything and then taught it to me. Who shows up half put together, probably not with an outline. Like, this was my first pretty put together episode. That's not true. I, it's not true. I put together the routines episode

Kimberly 22:11

pretty well. You've put together quite a few episodes, I think you're not giving yourself enough credit.

Meredith 22:14

Well, thank you. I feel like I'm drowning some days and Kimberly is just ruling the world and I'm very thankful for her doing all of this stuff that she has done. She is, she is the leader of this pack. That is for sure. but I have learned how to do the editing software and. I am, I am posting on social media.

Kimberly 22:34

I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. You do work a very stressful job with long days. That is very. mentally consuming, but you do make time for this. You consistently come over on our recording days and you sit in traffic to get over here. There were days that we were doing it after work, and that is insane. So you're the one coming to me. So it's a lot easier in that drive time, that hour, sometimes more than it takes you to get here. I can whip together an outline. I can post on social media. So I think you have to consider that into that.

Meredith 23:09

Well, thank you. I, that makes me feel a little better. how do we pick our episode topics?

Kimberly 23:13

Actually, that's a great question. It's whatever we wanna talk about.

Meredith 23:16

Yeah. Honestly, it's things I write on a post-it note throughout the day at work, or in the notes tab of my phone. and that's based on something I thought about, a conversation I had. something I saw on social media, a book that I listened to, a suggestion from a friend. I comes from all sorts of places.

Kimberly 23:34

Yeah.

Meredith 23:35

what is your favorite episode so far?

Kimberly 23:38

I think the, the last, uh, the should episode and the, um, was it the perimenopause? Yeah. Like I didn't love the perimenopause topic, but I liked that we were like, we had our outline, we knew what we were gonna talk about. Like we just busted it out and it was fast. And I think we got, had gotten better at, at episodes, so, or at editing. Mm-hmm. So it was just like,

Meredith 24:04

yep, the should episode was my favorite. Yeah. So far. But yeah, I think we're growing into it. Like it's getting more comfortable.

Kimberly 24:12

I think if we are ourselves. And we talk about things that we're interested in, then we are presenting a product that's genuinely us. Yeah. And we're happy about it.

Meredith 24:22

Yeah. It just took, it took a little while to get to that realization. so I wanted to do some like fun questions just'cause I was looking for question examples and it was like, favorite song, favorite movie, blah, blah, blah, blah. I was like, Hmm, I'm gonna tweak this a little bit.

Kimberly 24:37

Okay.

Meredith 24:38

What is your favorite comfort movie or comfort TV show?

Kimberly 24:44

Um, maybe younger.

Meredith 24:47

Oh, okay. Like Hillary Duff? Mm-hmm. Okay.

Kimberly 24:50

I feel like I've watched that show multiple times and it's just cute and funny and like nothing bad really happens in it. And it's a com. Yeah. I don't think I have a comfort movie. I don't really like to watch things. multiple times

Meredith 25:06

really? That surprises me. I love watching things multiple times but with movies, I don't know that I have comfort movies. I have ones that I'll watch every year. I guess they're comfort movies. I'll have ones I watch every year because they make, they're nostalgic, like Yeah, yeah, yeah. Holiday movies that I watch at Christmas and Halloween. Yeah.

Kimberly 25:28

my holiday movie is Prancer. I think I've watched that movie every year.

Meredith 25:32

I don't even know what that is.

Kimberly 25:33

it's super cute.

Meredith 25:34

I like, like at Halloween, I really like watching Casper.

Kimberly 25:38

Oh really? I don't think I've watched that since like 1995

Meredith 25:41

when it came out.

Kimberly 25:42

Oh, I was gonna say two, but you know.

Meredith 25:46

it. No, I like Casper Hocus Pocus and Trick or

Kimberly 25:50

I love Hocus Pocus.

Meredith 25:54

Oh, TV shows, uh, mine's bones.

Kimberly 25:58

Really?

Meredith 25:58

I've seen it all the way through 400 times. It was just one of the earlier ones that I started watching and I just, I was very invested in the characters and the relationships and I just, yeah, that is my number one show. But I still have like, I also really like Gilmore Girls.

Kimberly 26:16

yeah. I haven't watched that show all the way through. I tried watching it, but I felt like it was kind of, sometimes when you watch things too close to get like too many episodes at once, you're like, I fucking hate these characters.

Meredith 26:27

Oh it. And I do that with it now. So now that I've watched it all the way through, multiple times I know which episodes stress me out and I'll start skipping certain episodes.'cause I'm just like, this person did this dumb thing, or this is when this relationship gets spicy. Don't need that part of it. I wanna watch the feel good parts when Lo and Luke get together or Yeah, when Jess comes back, like that kind of stuff. I think that's why I stick with bones, because I know what to expect so much now and I like it all the way through. Do you have a current hyper fixation song? I do.

Kimberly 27:03

What, what is it? Uh,

Meredith 27:04

I usually go through like five or so on my Spotify list that are just like, these are the ones I listen to regularly, but right now it's a Man I Need by Olivia

Kimberly 27:13

D Oh yeah. You came over the other day and you were like snapping your fingers and singing that song and Yeah. Yes. Um,

Meredith 27:20

love that one. And it's all over the interwebs. I'm not the only one that loves

Kimberly 27:23

it, Right. No, I actually, I like that song. I, I'm in this weird point with music When I get in the car, I haven't been listening to a lot of music. I've just been like sitting in silence, which is weird.

Meredith 27:34

No, yeah, I go through phases like that where I'm like, I can't listen to music today,

Kimberly 27:37

but I'm like tired of listening to the same music and it's like Spotify, like I just need the radio.

Meredith 27:44

Yeah, I do that too,

Kimberly 27:45

but I don't know how to use the radio in my car.

Meredith 27:48

Oh my God. All right. Well after this, we're getting the owner's manual

Kimberly 27:52

out. Yeah.

Meredith 27:53

oh. What is, you have a hyper fixation food or like a meal that you really like right now?

Kimberly 27:58

Right now I'm like really into frozen waffles. Like I've been trying to do breakfast first thing in the morning and like frozen waffles, which reminds me I'm actually out. So The protein ones? case?

Meredith 28:13

Yeah. Yeah.

Kimberly 28:14

yeah, yeah.

Meredith 28:14

Good choice. Uh. go-to coffee order.

Kimberly 28:18

The oat milk espresso

Meredith 28:20

from Starbucks?

Kimberly 28:21

Mm-hmm.

Meredith 28:22

Okay. Uh, don't think I have a hyper fixation meal right now, but that's because I was on vacation and was just eating whatever the fuck I wanted for seven days, and I've definitely gained at least five pounds, which is fine. I'll, I'll figure it out. By the end of the trip I was like, Ooh, my pants are snug. Everything is bloated. but coffee order, non-fat latte.

Kimberly 28:43

Oh, I like the fat.

Meredith 28:45

I mean, so do I, but every day I'm trying to keep it at a minimum.

Kimberly 28:49

Oh, what do I drink every day? Because I make my coffee at home.

Meredith 28:53

I, yes, I make coffee at home, but

Kimberly 28:54

I use

Meredith 28:55

I use 2% milk at home, but I get coffee out more often than you do.

Kimberly 28:59

Yeah, I don't leave the house a lot. Uh, but I,

Meredith 29:03

by that.

Kimberly 29:04

Oh, I wasn't insulted by it. Oh, okay. Oh, no. Uh, lately though, I have not been drinking coffee. I've been drinking match. I fucking hate it. Oh. Um, so I'm trying to learn to love it. Um, but I'm trying to learn how to make a latte and make something yummy.

Meredith 29:22

That was all I had. Do we, can you think of anything else about yourself that you would like to say or talk about or.

Kimberly 29:32

I'm excited to be doing this podcast and thanks for doing it with me.

Meredith 29:35

Yeah, thank you. And I hope that people will continue to listen and you know, I think we'll get to show more of ourselves along the way.

Kimberly 29:43

Yeah. I think the more, I think more of our personalities will come out as we discuss stuff.

Meredith 29:50

Yeah. Agreed. but in the meantime, if you're listening. You would like to follow us on social

Kimberly 29:55

media Ooh. and see

Meredith 29:56

all of these fun things that we do, which is not a lot, but

Kimberly 29:59

that's the point.

Meredith 30:02

uh, what did we say? I would post, oh, the video of me

Kimberly 30:05

Yeah. I have to see this. You have to post it.

Meredith 30:07

If I get, if we get five more followers in, I don't know, the next. A month. I feel like that's a high, a high goal. That's a lot.

Kimberly 30:17

Okay.

Meredith 30:18

we get five more follow when we get five more followers?

Kimberly 30:22

No, you have to post it.

Meredith 30:24

post it. Okay. I'll post it. Um, but it's mildly Thriving Pod. Yeah. Is our Instagram handle. what,

Kimberly 30:31

you can send us a text message. Yeah. So Spotify, I think you can do it on Apple Podcasts as well. Um, but if you want to send us a text message, like if you hear something, you can click in the product or in the. Episode details. It says Send us a text. Oh. And you can click it.

Meredith 30:52

And I know that it works because we tested it and I got an email and I checked our email before Kimberly Te told me she was testing this and I was like, Kimberly, we got fan mail. And she was like, no we didn't, bitch. I was testing our Spotify. And I was like, wow, my heart is broken.

Kimberly 31:08

Yeah. I meant to tell you. I'm sorry.

Meredith 31:11

It's fine.

Kimberly 31:12

Oh yeah, it's like right at, It's a purple hyperlink in Apple Podcasts and you just hit, send us a text and it will pop up a short code.

Meredith 31:23

Emily, I know you have Apple Podcasts. Test it out. Send me fan mail. I love you

Kimberly 31:27

and we can respond to you.

Meredith 31:29

Yeah.

Kimberly 31:29

So maybe tell us who you are, if you wanna tell us who you are. What do you want us to know? If you don't want us to know,

Meredith 31:34

then don't tell us.

Kimberly 31:35

don't tell us.

Meredith 31:36

And if you have something not nice to say, well. Do what your mama said and keep it to yourself,

Kimberly 31:40

And hopefully your mother did say that to you.

Meredith 31:42

Yeah. Anyways, I think that's enough for today, don't you? All right. Well, remember folks, that

Kimberly 31:50

Mildly thriving is thriving enough. I keep pee. Bye.

Meredith 31:54

bye.