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Welcome to Mildly Thriving. I'm Kimberly and I'm Merrick.

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Now let's dive into this week's episode.

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Hi, Meredith. Hi, Kimberly. How are we doing? We are doing. Now I'm good. Are you feeling so fly?

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I am.

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Thank you for noticing. Meredith is wearing a shirt that has Care Bears on it and says feeling so fly. And when she holds it up for the camera, she looks really cute.

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I look really cute all the time. I don't know what you're talking about.

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Um I'm not like extra cute.

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Oh, thank you. Thank you for clarifying.

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And if you if you want to watch our podcast, which I think is kind of weird, um, you can watch it on YouTube.

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If you want to see our not that you're weird, but we are. If you want to see us be weird in real life, then you can go watch us on YouTube. Uh I I got this thrifted at a some kind of market uh downtown on Broadway. Uh it was like the whimsical, like some I realize it sounds crazy. Uh it was very similar.

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Where they're fairies and yeah, for sure.

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Lots lots of like whimsical crafts. I got like a a blind date with a book where they like wrap a book, and it there's a lot of little like stickers and trinkets and stuff with it, and it gives you like a little tag that has like a slight description so you can see what genre it is. It was really cute, really fun thing. What book did you get? I picked a romance book and it's called The Honey Crisp Orchard Inn. It's like your most typical Hallmark movie book, and it is two people go back to their hometown to try to save the inn, and they are gonna fall in love with each other. And I'm ready to read it in in two days. I read the Game Changers book in three days this week. Is that that's heated rivalry? Yep, it's the first one in the series about uh Kip and Scott. So they're the ones that started off the series, right? Interesting. So there's like a few references to Ilya in the book, but just like externally like seeing him at games and there being like him like being an asshole still, but they never mention Shane. I just started the second one, which is Heated Rivalry. And in case you're wondering, they did a pretty good job of the adaptation, and there is just as much sex in the book as there is in the show, and it is like from the jump. Like this the heated rivalry book, it's like within a page.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

I'm like, whoa, whoa. Wow. Well, thank you for taking some time away from reading and masturbating to uh wait oh to do the podcast. You're welcome to to to chat with me today.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

I uh I appreciate it. Look, y'all, long distance is hard, okay? So I'm just kidding. Boat guy, I miss you.

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And I really don't think it's gonna be all right.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Yeah, it will. Well, do you have anything that you need to share with our listeners?

SPEAKER_03 3:36

Yes. Yeah. Uh I think that we should point out the updates to the text feature. I don't think we've done that yet. We have not. We have not. Good call. Um, so that text feature on Spotify and Apple Podcasts that we keep raving about, or we were for a while there in the beginning. So previously you could just text us and send us a little email with your text, but you couldn't like we couldn't reply or do anything about it. And now we can reply, and what else? You can send us a voicemail. Right. But it still just comes up uh did you test it out? I did. I sent I sent us a stupid voicemail. It wasn't okay. So just so you know, it just comes up as a text. Like it's not actually someone's voice. Oh, we can't hear it? I don't think so. Unless unless I missed something, but it just like when you tested it, it was just a text. Well, that's some shit. I'm not one to be super thorough about reading every detail of everything. So that doesn't mean it doesn't have a a voicemail in there, but it I just read the transcription. And that's all I saw. So we you know what? TBD, we'll go back and look and I'll I'll let you know if there's an actual voice option. But we can reply now, so that's kind of cool. Yeah, we can. Um, I don't know if we will. I was gonna say, I don't even reply to my normal text messages, you guys. So um, no promises, but I will try my damnedest. Yeah, well, look, we're busy ladies. Uh we we try. I'm doing my best. This this podcast is called Mildly Thriving. I'm I'm giving 98% most of the time.

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Okay, so do you want to know what we're talking about today? Yeah. Okay. We are gonna talk about our New Year's resolutions. Oh shit. Wish I'd had a heads up about that one.

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So back in December. Which ones I haven't been following up on.

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Just kidding. Back in December, Meredith and I made an episode called something like why do we even do New Year's resolutions?

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Where we where we talked about Janus.

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And we decided that um if we ever have children, we're gonna name them Janus. All of them.

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All of them.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

Janus one and Janus two. It's a really good gender-neutral name. It really is. Like Janus. No one will ever make fun of it. No one will ever misinterpret what it means or how to pronounce it. It's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Yeah, it is. Um so anyway, I thought because now we're midway through April, um, maybe even a little bit more through April. That's fucking bananas. Yeah. Um, you know, we've had Q1. So how did we do through Q1? And how are we doing now that we're like midway through April being reminded that we actually had New Year's resolutions?

SPEAKER_03 6:54

I actually think this is a great, great idea and a good motivator for continuing uh things that maybe we fell off a little bit on um uh social media usage.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yeah. Um, well, if you want just if if I have to give myself a grade, um, I would give myself an F. Oh shit.

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Okay.

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I'd give myself a a B minus. Wow, I'm so proud of you. Thank you. I am proud of me too. We'll we'll get into it, but you know, there obviously I've let some things slip, but uh not everything.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Yeah, so I'm pulling up my notes, but um, I think Janus would be incredibly disappointed in me, and I might be smited by the gods.

SPEAKER_03 7:43

The doorway gods?

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Yes. Doorways and transitions. Okay, so I went back and I listened to that episode. And do you remember what your resolutions were?

SPEAKER_03 7:58

For the most part, I still have a little note on my phone, but I'm not gonna bring it up. I'm not using my phone during these, during these uh recording sessions, but uh uh I can't I just can't remember what all I said out loud because I had like lots of goals, but I don't know that I included all of them. Okay, I was only gonna use social media for what, like 10 hours a week or something, or like an hour a day. Uh I don't know. It was pretty low. Uh, and I've definitely failed at that. I gave it a I gave it a good effort for January, but I won't pretend that February and on was good. Uh let's see. I was going to do something creative like paint every month, which I have done. Um okay, you didn't mention that in the episode. Oh, okay. Uh I have I've done a painting every month. Um, I was gonna read two books a month. And I have succeeded at that. In fact, I've done more than two. Uh I have now. Heated rivalry is really really easy to plow through those books, eh? Nice word choice. I have actually finished three books this month, but Wow, you can read. I know, right? I'm at I think 13 total. But anyways, um, I was going to cook a recipe out of my cookbook once a week. And I did good up until the cruise.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

And it's like every time you travel, dude, it you just like come back and it's like you're starting fresh. It's like those routines that I did before, they never existed. I didn't know that they, I didn't know what they were. It destroys everything.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

So yeah, I I have not cooked a recipe since I've been home from that, which was last week of March, but I did do one, if not more than one, up until that point. And I have the ingredients for one sitting on my cutting board right now to make tonight. So gonna try to get back in it. Um, not giving up on myself, but took a three-week hiatus. Um okay. Then uh I know I had a money-saving one, but I don't think I mentioned that. And then um exercise. So I was gonna hit a certain amount of I don't know, I don't remember what I said my exercise goals were. I think it was to do something every day. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

No, okay. So on in the episode, you said you were gonna scroll less, um, spend less time on your phone. Okay. Then you said you were not even gonna try to read more. Really? I think you yeah, I think you were um concerned that it just like wouldn't happen and you were like, forget it. But maybe you changed your mind. Like my working memory, guys, it fucking blows. Anyways, tell me more. But maybe those were goals that you changed later. Um, and then you said you might sign up for some running races and that you want to be more consistent about the podcast. Oh, good. Okay, well, we've succeeded at that. But I did catch a theme from you when we were talking that, like, overall it sounded like you wanted to try to stop being a perfectionist and like beating yourself up for like for not sticking with everything. Yeah, or like you were go supposed to go to the gym and you were gonna work out for 45 minutes and you only worked out for 20, and you were like, Well, if I can only work out for 20, fuck it. Who cares?

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No, I then I think I've succeeded. I've done a really good job of even if I've like fallen off of something, I've come back at it. Um, I've done really good about working out, did take a dip after the cruise again, but I think that had more to do with the stomach issues that I was experiencing. If you're sick, yeah. Than anything else. Uh, but I have been back, so I am going to yoga still. So and I will say, as far as like any workout goes, uh sticking with it for we're in month four. Like this is the longest I've done in a while. So I'm not thriving, but I'm not failing. I I'd say for my overall goals, I still stand by my B minus. I have I've done pretty good.

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Nice. I'm proud of you. Thanks. High five.

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Okay, tell me yours. So mine was less screen time. Okay, how have you been doing on that? Um, no, I didn't even I like didn't even bother. Um I had some like very very specific things I was gonna try to do, like keeping my phone by the front door, turning off notifications, remove any scrolling apps, and then which I don't have many anyway, but I didn't take Pinterest off. And then putting it in grayscale. And I like I must have made this New Year's resolution and then closed the notes app and just forgot about it. Classic.

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We do that a lot. I do that a lot. I yeah, out of sight and out of mind. It ain't there anymore. It doesn't exist, as you can tell by how well I remembered what I said on the previous episode.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Yeah, yeah. Well, and I think that I came with like very specific um goals, and I don't think that you had flushed yours out yet.

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I also know that I was like, I was keeping a few to myself just for like probably because if I didn't say it out loud, then there wasn't so much accountability. But I like, but I've been doing I've been doing good.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Well, here I am trying to hold us accountable and um you're thriving, and I'm you know, I'm I'm hanging on there.

SPEAKER_03 13:45

Hey, accountability, you're also displaying um integrity. Like you're admitting where you're at realistically. And yeah, nobody says that because you're failing right now, you can't continue to succeed. The year is not over.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

It's not. We are, you know, we're done with Q1, but like we've got Q2 and Q3 and Q4. That's right. And we can thrive in all of those Qs. Yeah, bitch. Okay, so my next one was to hit 6,000 minutes on Peloton, like on the Peloton app, not on my bike.

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That's right.

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Yeah, so um it's okay.

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It's okay. You also had an injury and have been sick, so yes.

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Um, so my goal for April 30th was to be at 2,000 minutes, which they track it in minutes, and I'm currently at 1100 minutes. Okay. So I have a long ways to go to hit that goal, and I um yeah. We'll see. I still could do it. I still could. 55% of my of my goal.

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Hey, we're not perfectionists, you're not at zero, okay? In my specific resolution that I wrote for myself, I was gonna run a certain amount of miles for the year. Do you know how many miles I've run? Uh uh 15.

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Yep, pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Wow. And 13 of those were in the race that I ran in January. And what what was your goal for the year?

SPEAKER_01 15:26

We're not gonna talk about it. Oh, okay. Well, running is just like um three digits, I'll I'll tell you that. Oh, okay. Um, running just isn't good for your knees.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself. I'm like, look, I made a lot of resolutions. If I don't do all of them, whatever, and I'm being physically active, doesn't have to be running.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

You are, you very much are. Um, and then my last one that I mentioned on the podcast was that I was going to try to just cry more and not like hold it in. Yes. Um, and I have not really succeeded in that, but I was feeling kind of shitty a couple weeks ago. And I was like, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna journal and I'm gonna put in my headphones and I'm gonna listen to sad music that I know always makes me sad, and I'm just gonna cry. And I just cried and I cried and I cried. And then I like went out onto the couch, and Josh was like, Are you what's going on? And I was like, I'm just crying.

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Look, I first of all, that's super impressive. And maybe I should make the same goal next year. Uh I I mean, look, I cry all the time, all the fucking time. It is the only emotion my body knows how to express. Like it overcomes me, but never for the right fucking reasons. It's like, oh, you're frustrated, cry. Mad, cry. Like, I'm not even sad, I'm just all of the other things. But I intentionally avoid watching sad movies, listening to sad music because I don't want to cry. So maybe I can reverse psychology, this bitch. And if I start crying intentionally, I can cry it out before it builds up and I get frustrated in a meeting and I have to like stop talking or I get choked up. Do you know how fucking embarrassing it is to be an adult and try to have an adult conversation? Yeah. And with your fucking boss. And are just really getting to me right now. Well, when I applied for my promotion, I cried in my interview. Oh god. Yep. Yep. That just got the job. I did. But in case anyone out there, you know, needs to feel better about how much they cry, like I can't. I like oh my God. It's just it's fucking embarrassing, okay? I just not that not emoting in general. I just want to be able to hold it together long enough to have a serious conversation. Like some sometimes I can just get like worked up over something that I'm passionate about, and I start getting choked up and I'm like, oh my God, I can't even, I can't even tell somebody something that I'm excited about because I'm about to start crying. How fucking stupid is that? Stupid.

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Or someone says something nice to you and you're just like, yeah.

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Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

But I think I think that I also feel like that, where like I will get teary and like the emotions will bubble up, but I've like learned like pressure down.

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That that like tingly feeling. I'm like, no. Let it out.

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Don't I used to just think that I was just so good at like compartmentalizing and I'm just so mature and I don't push it down. I wish I could have known then. Wait. I don't know what the words are to the song, but I wish I knew now what I know. Thank you, Nickelback.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Yeah. Fine. I recently watched a documentary actually about Nickelback.

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Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Yeah. It actually was really interesting because they're like the guy, Chad, uh-huh, is like, yeah, nobody likes us, but like people are still talking about us. What an attitude to have. I love that. First of all, like, so where's Huba Stank? And, you know, it's like, you're right.

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Where is Huba Stink? Yeah. I shit. I still listen to Nickelback. Also, hot take. I don't know where any of that Nickelback is trash shit came from because I listened to them in high school and thought they were fantastic. In fact, it like I'm not a listen to a whole album type person ever. And in high school, I listened to their whole album and new songs that no one else knew. And I've never been a I hate Nickelback. I've always liked Nickelback, so I got your back, Chad. God, that's such a horrible name.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Chad. I like never, I I mean, I think I liked their songs enough that I like maybe wouldn't change the radio station, but like I wasn't a fan.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

But I'm also not like a fan, I wasn't a fan of Huba Stank or any of the like in rock from but you weren't like a aunt, like you weren't intentionally like, ew, no, nickelback. No.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Because a lot of people that I went to high school with were. And people started like making jokes about not liking nickelback, and I was like, I'm indifferent to nickelback, so like, I don't know, let's make them the butt of the joke because everybody else is. So I'm just gonna fit fit in here.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

No, my I get it. Also, I I apologize to all the really nice Chads out there. It's it's just a perfect example of how quickly, just like hating nickelback, like people just want to fit in and stereotypes start playing out, and now there's like jokes of chads being douchebags, and now it's like stuck in my head that that's a douchey name. So but I know I do know at least one nice Chad.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

So um, I can only think of one other Chad, and he grew up down the street from me, and then he ran over another kid in the neighborhood and killed him. So holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 21:28

Well, Kimberly's Kimberly's here to bring the good news, folks. Oh my god, we got real dark.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Yeah, sorry. It was really sad. And then the kids twins and it was and of even worse. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

It was it was sad. Okay, well, let's go back to uh New Year's resolutions now.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Oh. Yeah, so I kind of feel like I need to like reconfigure my New Year's resolutions. Like maybe I'm gonna do new quarter resolution and or reevaluate some of my goals because trying to do 2,000 or do another 900 minutes of working out in the next like few days of April seems like a bit of a I don't know how that math is going to math.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

And I don't think it's gonna math. I don't think it would math very well. Um so I we know from the last episode I'm not good at math, but I'm pretty sure it's not possible.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

Oh, not to like go back to another episode, but I'm gonna go back to the last episode about visualizing and like what goes on in your brain. Yeah. So I asked Josh, I said, How do you visualize calendars and yada yada yada? And then I asked him about numbers, and I said, How would you do just a simple math problem, like 77 minus 68? And he's like, it's a vertical line with the numbers, like there's zero, and then the numbers go up or they go down. So like you have your negative numbers down here, and you and I was like, What?

SPEAKER_03 23:09

And is he just like counting from 77 to 68? And that's it. Oh my god, mind blown. Yeah. I feel like that could have helped me all these years.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

That's amazing. I was like, wow, I never thought of that. Like, I literally take what I would have written out on a piece of paper and try to do that equation, but in my head, but like the this vertical line thing seems like it could be legit. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

All right, I like that. I asked one of my coworkers and uh about like the calendar stuff, and he was like, I don't really think I see anything. And it's like, oh, okay, fuck. Uh we had a much longer yeah, we had a much longer conversation about it, but uh yeah, it was interesting to still explain my way of thinking to someone else. And I'm gonna be like, whoa. And your circle circle.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

First of all, I think it's circular.

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Ovalteen.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Do you remember Ovaltine? I didn't have Ovaltine. We we had an earthquake.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Wow, you were rich. We had Ovalteen. Also, did you ever watch Young Frankenstein? No. Okay, well, never mind. Anybody who's seen Young Frankenstein will know the reference, but whatever. Moving on. That's weird. Uh so tell me what uh resolutions you're gonna get back on track with. Let's let's hold ourselves accountable here in Mildly Thriving Universe. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_01 24:53

I think I want to still try the uh screen time. Okay. And I think I'm gonna do it. I have this thing called a brick that I bought on the internet for like $70, which was really, really expensive because it's basically like an NFC tag. Um, but anyway. And I'm gonna try to that it it like blocks apps and stuff. Oh, I think I've seen the ads for this. Probably. I have one of those.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

So um did you did you get got by an Instagram ad so you could stop looking at Instagram ads? Yeah, I did. Yep. That's okay. How's that going for me? Welcome, welcome to the year of our Lord 2026. That's dude, it I think of it all the time. I've almost bought it and I was like, no, you have to resist. Yeah, I told my friend the other day that I I was explaining that I didn't I I was not succeeding at my uh social media reduction, and she was like, you should just uh delete the app for a month. She's like, I I know it seems impossible, but if you can do it for a month, you kind of start forgetting about it. And she's like, doesn't mean you can't occasionally check it, because she's like, I do, but I gave it up for a month and it was fine. It's like, damn, I did tell her I was gonna do that, so maybe sometime here soon I will give it up for a month. Should should I do it? Should I do it, guys and gals?

SPEAKER_01 26:20

And yeah, I think you should. I really like not having it on my phone. I really I should do that and just like put the barrier in place of getting logging on on my computer if I want to get on it. Yeah, because like you can st I can still I have my iPad and I can still interact, but it's so cumbersome to scroll. I don't take it with me, so I'm not out in in public on Instagram. Okay. I also it also means that I'd never really post much.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Um I have been enjoying my my monthly roundup posts. At least you can still do that. Yeah. Anywho.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Yeah, and I'm gonna adjust my Peloton minutes so that I can still try it, like try to be active and and do something on Peloton and use that as a gauge, but make it more reasonable so that it's actually motivating. Because the idea of like trying to get 900 more minutes is like, why why would I even try?

SPEAKER_03 27:23

The yes, that's how I felt about the running stuff. Once I got to February and I was only at like pretty much 15 miles, I was like, you know what? I don't think I'm gonna do it. It's too stressful, and I can let one of the 10 goals I made go. But You made a shocking amount of goals. I um I I th thinking back, I think one of my biggest things was to just stick with routines, and uh I have still done much better. I again like post-cruise hiatus on a lot of things because it is so hard. Like once I break it, it's like fuck, now I'm fucked. And like I was taking my vitamins every day, I was uh doing some sort of physical activity every day, and I like I know it seems silly to probably everyone out there that like taking your vitamins and doing little shit like that is so hard, but it's fucking hard for me. And so um I I have noticed a difference in how good or bad I feel, and so I've I'm trying to use that as a motivator of like, remember when you felt good and not tired all the time? Let's let's go back to doing that. Let's go back to them vitamins. Yes. Also, I went to the doctor recently and uh I've been taking a vitamin D supplement because Pacific Northwest, we don't get any sunshine. The doctor was like, So do you take vitamin D? And I was like, Yes, I do. And she was like, Cool, we're still gonna test your levels because I want to see if you're taking enough. And I was like, it's like, oh, rude. And then I got my levels back, and it was like just a scooch above like within the normal range. And I was like, oh, scooch above the minimum. Yep. It's like, yeah, it's like she knows. It's like, I guess I should maybe be taking more. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

All of my depth came back fine. So well, it's better to test and know than just be like, I'm gonna take all this and it not be what you need.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

True. I do struggle sometimes with like the I want to make sure I'm healthy and looking good and do all these tests, and then I have that like little gremlin in the back of my head that's anxiety that goes. Um what if you have cancer? Like you don't want you don't want to see these test results. It could be really bad.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Isn't that like I'm assuming I'm not the only one that does that, but I just like you're not because I just recently signed up um with this company called Function, and they they do lab work for you, and but they they give you all these like tests that you can do, and then they test you again in six months. But they're like, Do you want to add on cancer screening and like um chut tests for forever chemicals? And like all and I'm like, no, I don't. Like, no. I mean, yes, but no. For like if I've been exposed, what am I gonna do about a forever chemical?

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Oh, yeah, that one no, maybe cancer screening, but forever chemicals, no. We all like, I'm sorry, we're all like 30% plastic. What are we talking about?

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Yeah, the microplastics in me recognize the microplastics in you. Namaste. Yeah. Well, that was all I had for you, honestly. Um, all right. I just wanted to like see how you were doing, and now I feel like a total loser because you had like a bajillion and you got an A plus, and I got a B minus.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

Now someone else needs to work on their perfectionism, not just me. But I want to win. Wait, it's a competition now? Now I have more motivation. Oh, really? Are you competitive? Uh, I would have told you that I'm not competitive at all. At all. That I didn't care until we learned to play pickleball. And you want to know who's really competitive at pickleball for some reason? You. This bitch. I and I'm not even good, but I I want to be. I want to be so bad.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

You want to be so bad or you want to be so good? I want to be able to be good.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

So badly. Fuck, I don't know. What are you, my English teacher? I'm just trying to understand what you're saying. I want to be good so badly. Comma. Good. The comma isn't fuck it. Never mind.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Whatever. It doesn't matter. But yeah, I'm gonna reevaluate my maybe I'll just do new New Year's resolutions.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Hey, nobody says it has to be January 1st.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Like Besides if you wanted to go back to the gym now, great time because it's not full of vassals.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

My mom did my mom was here last last week, and she was like, Yeah, the you know, February drop-off people coming to the gym has not happened, and she was like really upset about it. Wow. And her friends, she has a little um group of lady friends that she meets there, and they do bar together.

SPEAKER_03 32:31

I I want to say that sucks, but like in reality, uh good for all those people sticking with their New Year's resolutions, you know?

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Exactly. I had another thing that I was gonna mention and theory. So my mother, um, she came to visit last week and she was talking about her blood work. Cause like we'd gone to lunch a few weeks ago, and she was like, I don't know, like she was like, I got my blood work done, so I'm gonna eat a burger. And I was like, Okay. Like, she's like, I wasn't gonna do it before. And I'm like, why? Because one burger was gonna fuck up your cholesterol levels? Like, what? Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

Oh, bless her.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Um, but then all of her all of her blood work came back and most everything had gotten better. And I was like, Well, mom, what what have you changed? She's like, she's always been a healthy eater, like she doesn't drink, she exercises. Like, I wonder if it's because you have like established a group of friends, and you're, you know, between this year and last year, like you've been doing a lot more socializing, and you have a group of friends in this community, and you feel more at home. And she's like, Oh, I don't know. But like, that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

And I'm sure I've mentioned this before because I'm the queen of repeating stories. I am my mother's daughter. Uh love you, mom. Um, but uh the Blue Zones documentary where it talks about the different areas in the world where people uh they have the most centurions, like people live to over a hundred. Um, that's one of the like main factors that they found that extends life is having a uh like consistent social circle.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Mm-hmm. So well, I think we talked about it in our episode about friendship, about how it's like like there's studies that have been done, and people who have friends and they have a social circle, they their health is like physically better.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

It it makes sense. And we're just gonna hammer that. Make friends. And if you need help, contact your your buddies at Mildly Thriving. We'll help you. Also, if you haven't listened to that episode, you should go back and listen to all of them.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Yeah, I don't even remember what we talked about because again, out of sight, out of mind. Soon as we've done it, it's gone. I forget, it just falls out. Like diarrhea, mental diarrhea, it's just fallen out. I don't think we can make it an episode without mentioning poop somehow. Does is that there's gotta be some what's wrong with us? Some psychologist out there probably has a theory about why we talk about poop so much. Um, and I'd love to hear it. Tell me. I don't know. Send me a text. I may or may not reply. Try sending us a voice text because we want to hear your voices. Actually, we just want to figure out if it's a real feature or if Kimberly just fucked it up, or I just fucked it up. Yeah, I thought you had gotten to listen to it. No, I just read it. But that again, that doesn't mean the feature's not there. Um, before we go though, would you like to share with everyone what your thoughts about cheese are? Because we've had some really uh revolutionary thoughts the last few days, and this one couldn't wait. She had to tell me immediately. So I did maybe the world wants to know what you think about cheese.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

Well, for a little more context, I ate a whole gummy.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

And then if I get a voice note from you, I know that marijuana is involved. And I like it again, it's the best thing ever. Continue.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Um, and I just realized that milk is coagulated cheese. No wait. Nope. Nope. Nope. Cheese. Cheese is coagulated milk. Uh-huh. And I just thought I needed to tell you that because it's gross.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

That was it. That was that was it. Just got like a 12-second voice note. Just like, did you? But she's like wheeze laughing. Did you know? Milk. Wait, Jesus. God damn it, I can't even do it right. Never mind. We're done. We're done.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Moving on note. That's all I've got for you.

SPEAKER_03 36:57

On that note, I think it's important to remember that if you continue to mix up your sentences like we do, that uh mildly thriving is enough of thriving. Yeah. Go team. No, we have to say it for real. Oh, okay, fine. Uh please remember that mildly thriving is thriving enough. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

Okay. Okay, bye. Bye.