Dec. 14, 2025

S2E17-"Ain't Nobody Got Time For That" Special Guest-Sue Acton

S2E17-"Ain't Nobody Got Time For That" Special Guest-Sue Acton

🎙️ Don and Gary Doin 60 – Episode 17 “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” Special Guest: Sue Acton We kick things off the only way Don and Gary know how—by talking about Don’s jowls. From there, things only get better (and funnier) as Gary shares his...

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Season 2

🎙️ Don and Gary Doin 60 – Episode 17
“Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That”
Special Guest: Sue Acton
We kick things off the only way Don and Gary know how—by talking about Don’s jowls. From there, things only get better (and funnier) as Gary shares his special dessert recipe for Hawaiian Haupia… which we can barely pronounce, let alone spell!
Our special guest, Sue Acton, joins us to share her inspiring journey from high school to business owner. Sue opens up about the birth of her children—and her business—Belly Boo Boutique, discussing the challenges and joys of balancing family life, work, and passion projects.
A lifelong love of sewing, aging gracefully, and following your creative spark are all part of Sue’s story. We wrap it all up with our fast-paced Lightning Round, guaranteed to keep you smiling.
Hop in and enjoy the ride with Don, Gary, and our amazing guest—it’s an episode you won’t want to miss! 🎧✨

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Dude, good morning, good morning. Why are you covering half

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your face? What did you do?

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Because I'm not happy with my jowls, your jowls. I

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feel like I have to now that I'm turning forty

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seven in October ninety seven. In October, I've noticed that

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my face is starting to fall towards the ground.

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That's called gravity.

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Fuck gravity.

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Nothing can be held up for too long.

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I could pull a couple of lines up, like just

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have pulleys in the in the ceiling maybe and you

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can get away. That were kind of you know, Oh,

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I just think lying on my back no jokes would

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make a lot more sense. So how are you good?

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How is your birthday month progressing?

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Well, it's started this weekend because I'm a few days away.

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But yes, we're recording already.

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Hi.

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Hi, Well you put on a happy face. I put

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on this. Do you like this wig? It's called the Lulu.

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It's from my collection.

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That's at about to turn sixty three. I've got many faces.

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But yeah. So Friday night I went to a concert

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at the Fillmore, the legendary Fillmore here in the city,

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which I hadn't been to too many times. But it

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was fun. It's a young country artists that I saw

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on Instagram, like, oh, it's the music's nice, and they said, oh,

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he's coming to San Francisco. So I went to see him.

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It was good. And then yesterday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, I

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went to a place that I'd never been to before,

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and it's apparently been in the city for many years.

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It's called the city Scape Skybar. It's in Union Square

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on the forty sixth floor of the Hilton Hotel.

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Interesting street.

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So into the you know, go into the lobby, go

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up to the forty sixth floor, and you have this

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spectacular view of the city.

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Nice.

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And so one side faces the downtown financial district and

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the bay, and then the other side faces you know,

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the rest of the city heading towards the west. For

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it's the ocean, but clear, beautiful day, and I mean

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the whole city is right beneath you. It was pretty nice.

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So we just I want a couple of friends for

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some cocktails and appetizers in the afternoon. And then today

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you didn't ask for Gary, why are you wearing Hawaiian shirt?

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Wait, let me just set it up for you. But Hi, Gary,

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why are you wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

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I don't know, no help.

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Set that up? Really good?

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No, because this afternoon I'm gathering with some high school

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friends of ours for a Hawaiian theme cocktail party.

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Shut the front or are you kidding?

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For my birthday just happens to fall, you know today?

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Uh?

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So I decided why I would dress the part?

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Uh?

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And then I asked, what can I bring? Anything? Well,

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maybe like a dessert. So I looked up Hawaiian desserts

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and I made how pia.

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Okay, it's so.

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Dessert. It's that like a custard. So if you go

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to my Instagram account, you will see I have posted

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already because I've made it last night.

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Okay, okay, Well I look forward to seeing it because

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your Instagram account is always under siege with all of

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your followers being the influencer that you are with how

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pia or want to want a pia? Whatever you make, whatever.

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You call it, just trying to grow the business.

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Maybe you could create a Hawaiian dessert business.

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Well, let's see how the how pia goes.

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First, how pia is what it's called h a u

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p i A how pia? How? Yeah? Okay?

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So yeah, well, welcome part to that we'll see some

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of our friends that we've mentioned or as guests. Uh

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Giju will be there.

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Sure?

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Nice?

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Yeah, so nice. And I sent out an evite last night,

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which I don't know if you've checked your email, that

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a previous guest from this podcast from the East Coast,

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a miss Jamie Lizzie, is coming to northern California at

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the end of this month.

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And I learned that actually from speaking from our soon

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to be on guest yesterday.

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Yes, and we will connect the dots when she joins us.

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We will, won't We gets a mystery.

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We have a mystery guest, and this will be a

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first timer for her. Yes, she's from high school that

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we know were from there, but there's another connection and

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we will explain that.

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Excellent. Okay, well, let's let's put your how I want

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to Pia on hold? How Appia? How? How Apia? And

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then we'll come right there. Okay, how Pia?

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I don't know how?

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All right, hold on second.

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It's always about we're back.

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I'm so anyway, Hi, Gary, how are you?

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I'm good? How are you?

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I'm good? And welcome to Don and Gary do in

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sixty We're here to unwrap, unpack, and navigate the world

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at this age. Yes, yes, sorry, I gotta try something

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new and keep it fresh every time.

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Maybe it'd have birds chirping in the background.

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Our crickets when I told my dad joke in the

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last episode. You can find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify,

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and we're also on Blue Sky. Now if you want

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to catch the actual goods and get a load of

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all of this and a load of that, take a

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look at us on our YouTube channel which is under

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you'll find us. Believe me, I know we're so popular

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and so incredibly you know, relevant to the world. People

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just can google us and then we'll show up. So

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get in line, get in and Gary, where can they

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reach us on email?

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That would be Don and Gary doing sixty at gmail

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dot com.

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Perfect and finally, don't forget to reach it. Let me

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do it. And finally, don't forget to reach out for

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us on our pod page website. Thank you Gary for

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doing your pot Can you point one more time to

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the middle point? Okay? Pod page our pod page website,

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and we'll put the liner notes where you can find

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that in the links below. Anyway, so we're done with that.

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I murdered that intro, didn't I?

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No, no, no, it's all good. It's all good. They

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know us, they know where to find.

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You would think after seventy three years of doing this

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podcast that I would memorize that, but I just I can't.

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So how are you? How are you doing good?

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Yes, we start talking about I'm starting my birthday week.

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Oh is it a week or a month?

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You used to be you know it depends, okay, but

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you had asked me off air, what am I doing

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on my actual birthday, which is Wednesday, September tenth. It

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happens to me my day off from work. So I'm

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planning lots of good things, starting at ten am with

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an eye doctor appointment.

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Fancy, but I.

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Had scheduled it for the week before, but his office

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call said, oh, he can't make it on the third,

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can we move it. I'm like, I guess we can

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do it on the tenth. So I doctor appointment and

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then I will follow that up at noon with going

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to the pharmacy to get my flu shot.

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You go, you crazy?

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You know, it's wild, crazy things.

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Just a whirling dervish of activities on your birthday and.

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After that, who knows, maybe lunch.

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Well, how does it feel feel any different?

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No? No, you know, it really doesn't feel different. I

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have not been one of those people that when I

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turn a certain age, like it's either good news or

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bad news. It's just it's kind of like for me,

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like New Year's Eve, it's just one of the midnight

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No I gets you. No, I'm not dreading it. It's

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just it's just it's part of life.

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Right.

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Well, I've ran into a neighbor yesterday and she had

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a birthday recently. Issues. I just turned the big eight.

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Oh oh, I said, Well, I'm turning the big six three,

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or you can call it six point three, which is

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actually good because that actually brings the number down a bit.

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So this is the six point three version of yourself.

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Okay, okay, And you know we always have to come

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out with a new version.

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Yeah, well there you go.

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Speaking of which, let's talk about you.

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Oh okay, should we can? We? Should we can we exist? Okay? Well,

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I walked down to the beach yesterday, taking a bike

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right down to the beach. Today, did a lot of

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garden this morning. I can barely stand up or make

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a fist because I've been clenching a trench trying to

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trench out weeds today.

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So it's got a name.

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Does he though anymore? Just an object? Yeah. So it's

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been a busy weekend, but fun. Weather's still hot. It's

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gonna be eighty one degrees down here today.

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So are you at home?

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I'm at home, okay, because it's too hot over there,

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and I don't know. If you take a look at

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my Instagram page, you'll see how I was posting our

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last trip down to Palm Springs, where he said, let's

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go Palm Springs, go to the house, stay by the pool,

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blah blah blah, and I recorded me in the garage

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and one hundred and twelve degree weather creating a storage cabinet,

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which uncomfortably enough tend. I measured the cabinet, then I

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measured my height and I would fit inside the cabinet.

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So I'm not sure how I feel about the request

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to create the cabinet.

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So I saw that. That's why I thought you were

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in Palm Springs right now.

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No, it was from a week ago, actually no, but again,

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if we don't show up or you don't see me

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for the next week, please alert the authorities because something

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might have happened. You know.

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Just look for the cabinet deep in the corner.

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And unfortunately I did. I was asked to step into

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it to see if I fit.

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Stupid that was That was a bad move on your

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right there.

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Anyway. Yeah, so that was my week. So what are

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we talking about today?

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So we have a guest who is a member of

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the club. Yes, big surprise, someone who went to high

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school with I was thinking about that, like, we know

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a lot of people from high school.

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I think that's a good thing.

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That's a great thing. I mean, I mean we've had

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guests on this podcast in our previous one that we're not,

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you know, from high school, but like a good ninety

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percent of them. Oh and we still keep in touch

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on me. As I said, I'm seeing some friends from

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high school later today or a cocktail party.

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Well the relevance again is because you know, this is

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our podcast is focused on talking about people and how

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they're unpacking and navigating the world at this age, right,

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So we're all basically the same age within two or

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three years. So I think it's great to let people

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know that we're all doing okay, or where we're struggling,

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or how we're finding new reinvention. And that's why I

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love this segment so much, because we get that chance

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to speak with these people and keep in touch with them.

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Right. So, as I alluded to earlier, the guest joining

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us in a few minutes is this will be a

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first time that this has happened with a guest because

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she is related to a previous guest on this podcast,

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and we will unravel the mystery. Okay in just a

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moment or two.

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Okay, Well, actually I think I hear something. Is that

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a door bell? Someone waiting to come and be asked

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to let in? Should we let them in? Gary?

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I think we should?

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Okay, here we go.

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Well, well, well, well hello, well, well hi.

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Since we were just talking about you, well, since we're

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on YouTube and also on Apple podcast where they may

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not see you, welcome to actin thank you to Don

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and Gary doing sixty. I was mentioning a little teaser

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in that you have in addition to being a friend

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from high school, you have a special recognition because you're

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the first guest that we're having on this podcast. That

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is related to a previous guest.

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Do you know who that is?

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Gee? I think it might be my sister.

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That's correct, who Jamie Lizzie who was in one of

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our previous episodes. And I mentioned to Don that she

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was coming to California later this month. Y, Yes, she is.

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We will see her in person, not on podcast, but

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in live and in.

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Person and live in person. Yes, when's the last time

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you guys saw her in person.

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Out here in California? I don't know how often she comes, but.

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I I don't remember the last time she was here either.

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I think it was the same time we saw you.

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I saw you, Sue, which was that Phoebe's get together.

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I think, Oh, then that was like twenty sixteen or something.

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Oh my gosh, really, I say it was at Phoebe's house.

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It was a holiday party, I believe. And it was

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before the pandemic that.

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Yes, and it was right before my daughter went away

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to college. Yes, the only reason why I know the year.

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Gary, and also before we get started. I did. We

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did have a sound in audio check with Sue yesterday

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and you weren't there. But I did give Sue the

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compliment that she was much more adept at technical issues

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and logging on, and she was perfectly crisp and bride.

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She came on right on time, as opposed to her sister,

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if you call that. Took us about twenty minutes to get.

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No.

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But there's a lot of editing in that episode.

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Oh my goodness. I can imagine.

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Someone through no fault of hers because of technical difficulties.

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She'd be speaking and then she'd go silent or cut

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off or something.

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It was just, oh, no, we won't have that problem

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my parents.

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I was doing a lot of this.

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Oh no.

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She kept like making a point by putting your hand

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down and would go like that in like a small earthquake.

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So oh yeah, anyway, but anyway, let's talk about you. Yes, yes,

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So what I mentioned before you came on is we

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know you from high school.

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Mm hmmm, one hundred years ago.

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Sue and I have kept inched all these many years. Now.

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I did see her at the party, but other than that,

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because you live up in the Sacramento area.

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Yeah, we're in Elk Grove. Yeah, twenty five years wow, wow, yeah,

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almost twenty six years actually.

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So here's a little bit of no. So it has

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she wears many hats I do no particular order. She's

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a wife married thirty nine years.

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Wow, that is correct, Yeah, mom to three kids.

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Yeah, Danielle and Kyle.

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Yep.

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Do you want to scare us and tell us how

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old they are?

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Sure? So Kyle, Kyle is the oldest, and he will

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be thirty seven in November. Then Marcus thirty three, and

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Danielle is twenty seven. They're all kind of spread out.

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I think it's a small miracle that Kyle and I

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are the same age. I'm not sure how that happened.

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So, yeah, I call that.

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I know it is kind of it is kind of crazy.

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Let me tell you. Moving on, Yes, let's move on.

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And then.

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I believe your career has always been in.

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The medical field, right, yes I am.

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But then you have a business that you've been promoting

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on social media recently, and so how new is that actually?

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Yeah, well for since twenty nineteen. That's when I got

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the business license and did all of the official website,

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did all that kind of stuff I sell. I have

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my own Facebook group that where I sell quite a

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bit to same people over and over, but then recently

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just into the store because I have a fabric I

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guess obsession, and I'm my happy place is sewing, and

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I'm going to sew it. I need to find an

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avenue to sell it because it'll just sit here in

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a closet. So and my grandson is just an itty

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bitty tiny baby right now, but he will be getting things.

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He's gotten things all along, but he will be getting

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more things as it gets older. That it'll give me

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a little bit of an avenue that way. But I

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needed to find a place to sell in person, not

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really an outdoor market type of person. Tried it a

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couple of times, didn't really like it. Plus says, you

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all know, it's one hundred and thousand degrees up here

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in Sacramento and the markets are during the summer, and

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so I was like, now I need to find something else. So, yeah,

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I have my stuff in a store that is run

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by well, the person that owns the store is she

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does all vintage and then she has about seventeen vendors

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in store. And I just recently became one of those

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vendors and it's been fun.

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I saw a promotion. So the name of the store

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is super Burn super Bum.

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Super Bum is the store. Yeah, and my business, yeah,

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and my and My business is belly Boo Botik.

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The program.

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Belly Boo Botik. It's all one word. It was named

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after my daughter's nickname. When she finally decided that stop

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calling me that, we're like, oh, I'll just name the

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store after you. So yeah, we used to call her

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dad Yelly belly boo long long time ago.

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She's gonna love this.

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Now, I know she will, and she'll be watching it too.

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I'm sure.

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I'm as sure she will.

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So you said you started in twenty nineteen, So the

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timing of that was that because of the pandemic, or

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you had already kind of thought about it and just

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happened me that that's when it started.

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Yeah, No, So what really happened was my daughter went

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away to college in twenty sixteen. I knew I needed

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an avenue to keep myself busy. She and are very close,

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being the only girl. She and I did a lot

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of things together, and she went away to Chicago for school,

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so it wasn't like she could just come home on

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the weekend and you know, do stuff. So I need

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and I had already known how to sew, but times

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have changed, and when I started researching, I found all

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sorts of new direction. I'm like, well, I don't like

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the old fashioned patterns. But then I found PDFs where

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you can print on your printer, and I just started practicing.

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And then, like I said, I have a fabric obsession,

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and I would see so many different fabrics and started

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buying and thought, Okay, I need to figure out what

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I'm doing here. So so that's kind of how it grew.

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And then as I was talking to Don yesterday, I

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just started researching and finding new technology, new ways to

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do patterns. Discovered projection, which seems to be the quickest

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way to do it, so I don't have to print

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out so I'm not wasting paper anymore. But I had

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a projector putting the ceiling in my sewing room and

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it projects down onto a cutting map and it's very

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quick and easy and you can do all sorts of

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different sizes quickly. And yeah, that's so that's kind of

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how it grew. But I knew, I just I knew

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I needed something and it has definitely filled the bill.

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So is this something too that's going to it sounds like, oh,

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you're passionate about it. You have been right, and then yes,

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actually are turning this into or reinventing it into a

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business again or now.

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Yeah, I just right, I'm getting a little bit more

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to where I can have a little bit more time,

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you know, to spend on it, because not only is

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there sewing, but there's also doing the books, which is

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not my favorite and I and I really I I

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do everything I possibly can. Did not have time to

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do that, but that's part of you know, having a

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business is taking care of all the book work, okay,

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and spreadsheets and everything else to make sure I'm legit.

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Is this going to take you into the next thing?

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I mean, we're all we're all we haven't talked about

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that yet, but we're all considering or contemplating or planning

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for retirement eventually.

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Yes, number of years.

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So is this something you have actually are projecting into

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taking over your work time.

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Yes, that's what I would like to have happened. Yeah,

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I mean, I you know, if it sells, it sells.

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If it doesn't, it doesn't. But that's really kind of

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where I'm headed, you know, I would like to do

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that in my retirement.

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Yeah, that's great. But also you embrace a lot of technology,

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so you're way ahead of the game for the rest

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of US boomers who you know the TV clicker? So,

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I mean, well, I can.

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Tell you that. So my daughter is very tech savvy,

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and I've learned a lot from her, But I also

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work with a bunch of people all the same age

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as her, and I've learned a lot from them. I mean,

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I'm definitely you know what bothers me. Most I think

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is when things change, like wait, it worked this way,

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Why why are you changing that? Exactly? And that's where

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my frustration comes into tech. But once I learned it,

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I'm usually pretty good with it.

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Well, don't you hate you? Finally you finally wrap your

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head around something technology wise, and all of a sudden

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you have to reboot it and all of your settings

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are gone or all everything has changed. You have to

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go back and figure like I don't even know how

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I set any of that.

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Yep, exactly. If my if my laptop dies, I'm going

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to be in trouble because it's old and it works

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and it has I know where everything is and how

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to do it all. And then if I have to

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buy a new one, it's going to be I'm going

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to have to send my daughter a ticket to come

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home and help me out and.

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Write up a ticket like, here's your work order.

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You need to computer exactly.

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By your ticket to fly home, But the ticket is

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actually completing the work on my computer.

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Yes, that's cool given this new ish business, and you're

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still working in the healthcare industry.

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Yes, so I am.

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What's your your time split between the two?

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So I am very lucky to be working at a

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Dignity health clinic down the street from my house. I'm

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less than a mile from there. Generally what I do

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is come home during lunchtime and so either so or

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I played the piano. Those are my two options. I

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try not to do housework. I try not to do

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anything like that because you know, it's my time and

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it's generally when nobody else is around.

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So you play the piano.

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I do. I've played a piano for many years. Did

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not have a piano for many years when we first

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got married, but I would have to say I've had

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the piano now for about fifteen. We found a piano

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at a storage locker situation storage unit situation, and turned

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out to be it was all a refurbished inside, but

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it's very old and it's an upright fits right into

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my living room nicely. And I just retaught myself since

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I had not played in a long time, but that

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I did that about fifteen years ago. But I don't

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play in front of anybody, so when they're gone, I

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sit down there and I play what I want to play.

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You know, it's just for you, really it is.

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It's a very relaxing outlet for me as a sewing.

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It's like, you know what, you're stressed out, go so something,

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sit down and play the piano. Do do any of

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those things? And my job at work has recently changed

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where I have moved into a supervisory rule, so I

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have a little bit more leeway with time as well,

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so I can get there early in the morning, take

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some time in the afternoon, and get out of there

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a little bit earlier than you know what I used

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to do. And it's been working out well in that aspect.

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And in terms of the the clothes your producer, Are

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you the only person show you already have a team

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of people assistants who are helping you or.

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Just me, just me, it's tell me.

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Do you want to expand that anyway too? Like are

480
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you planning on growing it that way or is this

481
00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:17.960
something that's a passion project? Is about you and your.

482
00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.799
Time, and yeah, it's all all me. I did. I

483
00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.319
did have somebody from where I work helped me out

484
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.920
in some of the outdoor markets, but I really don't

485
00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:29.160
plan on doing any more of those.

486
00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:34.359
And it focuses on children's clothes.

487
00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.200
Or do you have a Yeah, So I mean I

488
00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.039
sew for adults. Occasionally I'll have someone ask me to

489
00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.200
make some you know, shirt or something which you know,

490
00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:46.559
And I sew for myself occasionally as well, but mostly kids.

491
00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:49.559
It's it's usually newborn up to like size fourteen is

492
00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:53.359
pretty much what I go with. Yeah, and I belong

493
00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:56.599
to a lot of sewing companies that have patterns that

494
00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:57.200
I enjoy.

495
00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:00.240
And you know, we can't submit a work or for

496
00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.160
Donn and Gary doing sixty onesies.

497
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.319
Oh I do make onesies.

498
00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:06.880
I don't know.

499
00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:08.559
I don't know if they fit us.

500
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.359
Yeah, I don't think so maybe one and a half seas.

501
00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.319
Oh there you go.

502
00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:19.640
So sewing has been a passion? Has that always been

503
00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:21.559
or is this something that kind of came later?

504
00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:22.440
Oh?

505
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.799
My grandmother was uh seamstress. I learned a lot from her,

506
00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.279
but I would when the kids were babies, I would

507
00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:31.400
like hit and miss like, oh, let's see if we

508
00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.000
can try to make something cute, you know, And so

509
00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:36.920
I did do that occasionally, not the same quality that

510
00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:39.720
I'm doing now, definitely with not the you know type

511
00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:43.559
of machines that I currently have. But yeah, I've been

512
00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:45.240
interested in it for a long time, just had kind

513
00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.039
of gone back and forth, back and forth, and then

514
00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:51.440
it was really out of research research where I saw that,

515
00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:54.880
you know, different things are available with it, and of

516
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:58.119
course the Internet has been a great asset for you know,

517
00:25:58.200 --> 00:25:59.000
that kind of stuff.

518
00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.279
Right. Here's why I think this is so valuable. I

519
00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.039
think this is valuable because we talked about retirement. But

520
00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:08.240
also one of the things that I hear many times

521
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:09.880
for people who are retiring is they don't know what

522
00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:12.799
to do once they've given up that full time job.

523
00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:17.200
But it sounds like you're really embracing technology research, you're passionate,

524
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.519
you're really jumping into it. So I think you're way

525
00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:22.440
ahead of the game when it comes to next steps

526
00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:23.440
for yourself.

527
00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:25.359
Too, right, Yeah, I mean I really don't think I'm

528
00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.960
going to be bored. I mean that's what everybody says,

529
00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:30.079
you sah, you sure you want to retire, And really

530
00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.359
I'm not sure. I'm not sure when I want to retire.

531
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.680
I know before I took this new role at work

532
00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.519
that I was planning on retiring shortly after turning sixty five,

533
00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.319
and it may still happen. It is something I'm still

534
00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.200
kind of, you know, working around. My husband does not

535
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.920
run and retire, so when he reached my personal will

536
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.559
probably be more of a you know, we want to travel,

537
00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:54.920
like I do have a grand baby that they will

538
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:56.799
not be living close to me, I'm sure, so we

539
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.319
will be want time to do that kind of stuff.

540
00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:02.759
But I know he recently started a new job, so

541
00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.720
he's like, well, I'm not I don't want to retireing.

542
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.519
And he's a little bit younger than me, just just

543
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:12.200
a tad younger than me, so so I'm not quite

544
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.000
sure what's going on with him at the moment. But

545
00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:17.319
I mean I may take time and just you know,

546
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:19.799
you go to work and I'll love my time, and

547
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.039
then when you retire then we'll you know. But I

548
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.880
do plan on keeping the business and sewing and doing

549
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:27.279
what I until I till I can't.

550
00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:27.680
Yeah.

551
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:29.720
But also the beauty of it is is your business,

552
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.240
so you can put as much or as little time

553
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.720
in it as you want, right you're driving the bus.

554
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:37.559
Absolutely, And and what I do a lot of times

555
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:39.119
when I know I have, like I have a lot

556
00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:40.920
of family coming out in the next two weeks, as

557
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.759
you had said so. And I also had a Halloween

558
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:50.079
pre order for my Facebook group. Stole a bunch of

559
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.559
stuff there and then I gave them a four week turnaround.

560
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:55.920
Times so I'm like, but then there are chants of

561
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:58.079
time where I don't have that going on. So then

562
00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:02.319
I'm sewing for different things, and whatever doesn't sell, I

563
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:03.519
pretty much take to the store.

564
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.680
Well, we need to write up an order for a

565
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:10.440
turkey onesie, a pumpkin onesie, and a Christmas tree onesie

566
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:16.240
for the show. Absolutely, are the holidays busier for you?

567
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:19.119
I mean as you go into the fall in the holidays.

568
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.640
Yeah, And any time of celebration is busy for me

569
00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.799
because I usually do a pre order and I have

570
00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:27.079
I either custom order fabric or I have a place

571
00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:33.079
that will do fabric as much fabric as I need,

572
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.359
but I know that it's always there, so I can

573
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.279
pre order and then if a bunch of people order it,

574
00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.680
then I just order more from that place. And a

575
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:46.759
lot of times I'll do digital files from Etsy, a

576
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:49.279
seamless digital file that they make I can have made,

577
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.200
and I have a shop that will make that into

578
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:55.200
fabric for me. So I just chop around for a

579
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.920
lot of what's in now, what kids like, what you know.

580
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:01.640
But holidays are a big. Halloween's huge. I think it's

581
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:06.839
probably my biggest one. Easter is big, Christmas obviously is big.

582
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:10.400
Fourth of July is big. So anytime any of those

583
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:14.480
come up, I usually have, you know, I'll go and

584
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.480
put like six seven eight fabrics on Instagram and Facebook

585
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:21.799
and say, hey, you know, pre order what you want,

586
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:24.559
and then I'll have like a little thing with the

587
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:29.200
styles and the prices posted and then people will will order.

588
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.880
I think we're going to call you a mogul going forward.

589
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:35.160
And Eve embraces so much of this.

590
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.400
Yeah, I mean, I've I've learned a lot. I've learned

591
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:42.359
a lot about myself. I've learned a lot about you know, sewing.

592
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:47.160
I've learned what technology has brought. I knew there's people

593
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.440
that print fabric at home, which I don't really want

594
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:51.319
to do, but I find that interesting as well.

595
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.160
Wow, you know, hey, sorry quick quick quick questions. You

596
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.279
mentioned the workplace and how people and we're going to

597
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:01.680
refer to anyone younger than that as the children.

598
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:04.480
So yes, then they're all younger than me.

599
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:07.920
Well all of us. So in your office you said

600
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:09.519
you work with a lot of people that are younger

601
00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:11.400
than yourself and they've actually helped you with a lot

602
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.039
of technology and that have you in any way, and

603
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.759
not specifically to your office, but in general or in

604
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.359
anything out there, have you experienced any forms of agism?

605
00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:24.559
And that can be anything subtle. It could be you know,

606
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.000
very straightforward or whatever. I don't know if you.

607
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.000
Have it's kind of funny. So I've been working there

608
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.400
for quite some time. But in most there's a group

609
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:38.920
of girls that are probably to my daughter's age that

610
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.880
I've you know, become close to. I don't think agism

611
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.400
is really the right word, though. There are things that

612
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:47.559
I do and then they think it's the funniest thing.

613
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:50.920
But it's like I'll leave my phone on a desk

614
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.119
somewhere and then I'll come out and so I fors

615
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.640
my phone, find my phone, I'll get it and then

616
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:01.039
they've taken fifteen selfies like toddlers. Do you know half had? Okay,

617
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:03.799
I must have five hundred pictures of the people from

618
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.079
work taking selfie. So it's that kind of stuff where

619
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:07.759
you know, they make light of it. I've never been

620
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:09.559
oh my god, you're so old, you're not able to

621
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.599
do this kind of stuff. I mean, I have a group,

622
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:14.640
a good group of people that I do work with.

623
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.200
Where I get kind of flustered with though, is I

624
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.400
work with doctors that are the same age as my children, Like, wait,

625
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.680
how can you be in charge of somebody's cardiac health

626
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:30.359
when when you're you know, like my son or my daughter.

627
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:32.440
That I find that odd.

628
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.880
I have newser do you know?

629
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:39.839
No, but you know, and it's just I find it funny.

630
00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:42.559
I just you know, And and I'm sure I'm the

631
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:44.119
oldest person there. There's no questions.

632
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.240
List howser take time, show us some respect.

633
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:53.440
Yeah, but yeah, I mean I work with a good

634
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:54.480
group of people, for sure.

635
00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:56.119
That's wonderful. And you've worked for a number of years,

636
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.400
You've established in some really great relationships, which.

637
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:01.079
Is yeah, I've worked for dig for quite some time.

638
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:03.480
But and I've been in a couple of different clinics,

639
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.759
and I've been where I am now for about maybe

640
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.960
four years. But a lot of the same people were

641
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.920
I already knew a lot of those same people.

642
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:12.880
So okay, so.

643
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:15.039
Are you like a mentor to them? Do you have

644
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:15.559
that role?

645
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:20.160
Uh? A little bit, A little bit. Sure. There are

646
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.720
a group of girls that wanted to learn how to sew,

647
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.119
so we've had some sewing lessons at my house.

648
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:25.920
Nice.

649
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:28.720
But even at work, and there's there's a lot that

650
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:32.039
you know, you you can teach the young people about

651
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.720
certain things and and they do. They do look forward. Occasionally.

652
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.000
I did help somebody move out she was having some issues.

653
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:41.759
I'm like, Okay, well this is the plan. You should

654
00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:44.680
do this, this, this and this. You know. So that

655
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:47.200
kind of stuff not not really work related, but uh,

656
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:50.000
I think, as you know, as an older person, that

657
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.599
they're I'm comfortable with, or maybe they don't have a

658
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.599
good relationship with their you know, family or whatever. We

659
00:32:56.759 --> 00:32:58.799
have a pretty open door here and I live down

660
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:02.359
the street from the clinics, so I definitely have had

661
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:02.839
that role.

662
00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:04.039
Sure.

663
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:11.880
One of the questions we ask, I guess, is is

664
00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:15.279
there ever a particular age that maybe you weren't looking

665
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:20.000
forward to turney? For some people a forty or fifty

666
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:23.319
or sixty whatever, you know, it just they don't sit

667
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.079
well with that. Other people just kind of let it

668
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.079
flow and it happens. How do you fall on that?

669
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.240
Yeah, it doesn't bother me. I feel like I've earned

670
00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:35.559
my I've earned my age. Yeah, I don't have an

671
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:39.319
issue moving forward in life in an age I feel

672
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.079
like you are, you feel like what you feel, you

673
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:44.640
know what I mean. I look in the mirror and

674
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:45.880
I see what I see. But I'm like, well, I

675
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.160
don't feel like I'm sixty three years old or whatever.

676
00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:51.039
You know. Yeah, I don't have any issue with it,

677
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.880
and I really don't want to go backwards. Like, no,

678
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:56.759
I've been there, done that. I mean, may I may

679
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:58.480
have had a few regrets along the ways, but I

680
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:02.799
don't feel like anything needs to be changed in that aspect.

681
00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:04.920
Right, I'm the same way. I can look back at

682
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.119
a certain age and you know, especially with you know,

683
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:10.639
with friends, I've had forty plus years and look back

684
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.960
on you know, experiences there, But I don't do I

685
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.000
want to go back and relive them. No, I'm good.

686
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.440
I mean I have the memories and that's exactly.

687
00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:21.639
Yeah, I've got pictures, I've got you know, you guys

688
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.519
are obviously in contact with a lot of friends from

689
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.519
high school. You've done way better than me. I mean, I'm,

690
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.920
you know, in contact with a few here and there.

691
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.039
But my best friend, who I know, Don and I

692
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:38.920
talked about yesterday, Ellen Hoffman, come on the podcast. She

693
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.880
and I are still very close friends. I mean, she's

694
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.599
the godparents to my one of my kids, and and

695
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.039
I do make time to see her. She makes time

696
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.679
to see me when she can. She did recently retire

697
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:56.360
last spring, so hope and she will be at our

698
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:59.599
big family party coming up. So hopefully in the in

699
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.320
the coming months and years will be able to connect more.

700
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:04.159
But we talk to each other every single day.

701
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:07.800
Wow. And in California or.

702
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:13.039
Yeah, she's an American canyon right by Valeo in the

703
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:16.639
Valeo area. Yeah. Yeah, And she's been there for at

704
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:21.599
least twenty five twenty six years and retired from she

705
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.880
was a CFO of a construction company that she retired from.

706
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:25.840
Wow.

707
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:32.480
Yeah, so she's she's doing very well. Yeah, yeah, I noticed.

708
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:34.480
I know, Gary. I don't know if you remember, but

709
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:39.320
I recall Sue's mother very well. I'm getting a lot

710
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.519
of your mom right now from you.

711
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:42.239
Yeah.

712
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.400
By that is she was she was, as I recall

713
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:48.719
she was very She had a dry sense of humor,

714
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.800
very straightforward. She was actually quite funny because she would

715
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:57.719
like make little comments about me. Do you feel maybe

716
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.280
could you? Is there any influence that your mom handed

717
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.719
over to you or any way she influenced you?

718
00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:06.079
Absolutely? I mean, you know, I love your mom.

719
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.239
She was so much fun. She took Okay, I got

720
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:10.719
some story. She gave me some. I was sick at

721
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:12.480
your house. I think I don't know what I did,

722
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:14.400
but I got sick at your house in Foster City

723
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.320
when you and Jamie were there as something happened. Took

724
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.760
really good care of the kids that came over to

725
00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:21.880
visit you guys. So I just wanted to didn't mean

726
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.760
to rect, but it just I had very full memories

727
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:25.760
of her. And I think, just where you're wearing your

728
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:27.719
hair right now, I'm just getting a lot of your mom.

729
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.800
So we do look a lot. Ali aes that's my child,

730
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.199
my daughter as well. Yes, yeah, so yeah, my mom's

731
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.039
doing great. Actually she's up and reading. She lives right

732
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:40.679
near my brother right down the street, and and she's

733
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:46.199
doing well. But yes, she was a good, good caregiver

734
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:48.039
to all of us who came to that house. We

735
00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.760
had a pretty open house, right and uh, and a

736
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:52.360
lot of that, I mean, she was a younger mom.

737
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.480
I think a lot of that played into that. You know,

738
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:56.360
I had my kids a little bit later in life,

739
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.800
and I mean not later late. I had my daughter later,

740
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.000
but the boys I have around the same time. But

741
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:04.519
she was always and my dad as well. I mean

742
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:07.679
you probably don't know my dad as well, but because

743
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.320
when they divorced it was right around that high school age.

744
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.840
But but yeah, my mom's.

745
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.480
Doing great good. I'm glad to hear that.

746
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.519
Yeah, I will tell her you said. Hello.

747
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:19.679
Oh, well, she better be watching this because you know,

748
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.280
we're paying you a huge amount of money to be

749
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:23.079
on this podcast.

750
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:34.840
So let me go back. And another question we ask

751
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:40.239
is if you could go back to your younger self

752
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:43.639
and you can pick the age we always asked, is

753
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:47.119
there advice that you would give that younger self a

754
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:48.840
stake back now on you know.

755
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.199
Yes, I do have one regret, and I think it's

756
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:56.199
not finishing school. Not that it has hindered anything for me,

757
00:37:56.280 --> 00:38:01.599
I don't think because I have like five thousand classes,

758
00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:06.199
no degree, and I actually have a pharmacy Tech degree

759
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:11.800
that I've not used. There's that, yeah, But I mean,

760
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.360
I guess it's helpful in my job currently, but it's not.

761
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.320
I'm not using it as the pharmacy tech part of it.

762
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:20.719
But yeah, I think that's my biggest regret, is just

763
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.199
not you know, and life happens, you know, you start school.

764
00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:25.320
I mean, I got married, I had kids, and really

765
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:27.159
it was just the progression of life. And I had

766
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.880
a job, so it didn't really you know, but you know,

767
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.760
I've always been very interested in classes, So I've taken classes.

768
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.440
I know, even when my kids were young, I took

769
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:39.039
online classes just in things I was interested in, and

770
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:41.559
a lot of it medical, even though I was working

771
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:43.320
in the field. I mean I did a lot of

772
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.679
medical biology that kind of stuff, and then and then

773
00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:50.239
the pharmacy stuff, and then I did a separate pharmacy

774
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.719
tech thing. But I've never I've never used it. But

775
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:56.280
I mean knowledge is good, no.

776
00:38:56.360 --> 00:38:59.400
And especially in the health industry. I mean there's always

777
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:02.079
new things coming out and new energy and new things,

778
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:04.320
so it's a constant learning process. You're never just going

779
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:04.800
to stop.

780
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.960
And you know, oh absolutely, and this day and age,

781
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:10.719
the medical field is crazy, yeah.

782
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.119
And I think they could use your help over the

783
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:14.679
CBS dealing out the drugs. So if you have.

784
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:22.719
Got, I've got my own issue with That's funny.

785
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:26.480
A question that wasn't really on the list, but I

786
00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.440
was thinking about the other day. No, it's an easy one,

787
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:33.440
I think. I think it's when you think about everything

788
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:35.800
your lafe and your family and your kids and your

789
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:40.039
new grandmother as of earlier this year, right, and then

790
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.599
with you know, growing your business, uh, and then think

791
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:46.199
about everything else is going on around us out there.

792
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:48.480
There's anything that keeps you up at night.

793
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:50.800
No, actually there is not.

794
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.280
I am pretty good quickly, right you think about it.

795
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.760
I'm pretty good about shutting things off. I really am.

796
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.480
I know other people are not. I've had to discussions

797
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.199
with other people about it, and I cannot tell you why.

798
00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:06.719
But I'm very much like if it's happened, it's happened.

799
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:11.320
I can't change what occurred. And you know, in my

800
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.639
own life anyway, and you know, move forward, do you

801
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:16.400
have to move forward? But so no, I do not

802
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:16.920
lose sleep.

803
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.800
I do pretty well. But in my case, I just

804
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:26.119
think of as I was growing up. I have three

805
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:29.639
older brothers, so as our parents got older, it was

806
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.840
never concern on their side because the four of us

807
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:35.440
were always around to help them out, especially as I

808
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.039
got older and they needed more help. So, right, my

809
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:40.119
dad literally ninety two, my mom is ninety eight.

810
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:41.719
Wow, that's amazing.

811
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.079
One brother is like, you know, the one to take

812
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:47.360
you all the doctor's appointments and handles that part. I'm huh,

813
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:49.760
take care of paying the bills. And I'm a social director.

814
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.079
So we all have a role, right, Yes, So they

815
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.320
have that built in support system so they never have

816
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:56.559
to wear like, oh do I have to do this

817
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:58.559
on my own or especially as they get older, if

818
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.920
they don't have family around, you know, how are they

819
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:04.440
going to get by on certain things? But in my case,

820
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.440
no partner, no kids, and I think I'm like and

821
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.039
I live alone, and I'm like part of it. Not

822
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:11.960
that I lose sleep over it, but it is a

823
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.159
concern for me in terms of you know, what's going

824
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:18.199
to happen at you know, if I have an accident,

825
00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:19.679
all you know, where am I going to go?

826
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:20.360
Right?

827
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:20.719
Yeah?

828
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.440
I do. I think about that stuff occasionally. It doesn't

829
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:26.400
keep me up at night, but I always think, Okay,

830
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.159
which one of these kids is going to.

831
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:32.599
That's why you had kids, so they can take care.

832
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:36.599
Of you exactly. And I and Bruce's mom lives fairly

833
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:40.519
close to us and is ninety just turned ninety, and

834
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:43.320
Bruce has no other family members, so it's it's just

835
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:46.679
him and his mom and it's us and I do

836
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:49.239
a lot of that for her. She is in an

837
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:56.239
independent living apartment situation. It can be a system the

838
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:58.239
thing when she needs it to be. It is not

839
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.360
right now she's able to do everything on her her own,

840
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.920
but she really she stopped driving it that I don't know,

841
00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:07.280
she was like in her early eighties maybe and was like, okay,

842
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.280
now what. So she she got herself into a place

843
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.039
where she could, you know, still socialize and didn't have

844
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.679
to worry about driving anywhere. But you know, she does

845
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:19.159
have the appointments and has that kind of stuff going on.

846
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:23.360
And I can definitely see how we may need that

847
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:25.079
in the future, you know, right.

848
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:29.760
Yeah, we're talking in another episode Don and I about

849
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.840
you know, if we're looking ahead, if I can't continue

850
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:36.840
to live on my own, do I move into like

851
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:41.679
a senior community or assistant whatever it is. But at

852
00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:44.599
least here in California, they are super expensive.

853
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.119
They are super expensive. We're very lucky that she's in

854
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:51.800
a situation where she can afford it. I'm not sure

855
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.039
we would be able to afford it for sure, right

856
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:56.920
So and then my husband is actually very resistant to that.

857
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.440
So we'll see what happens when the time comes. But

858
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:03.760
and actually I'm worried about having a two story house.

859
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:06.599
So we have a two story house, and I've been

860
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:10.360
wanting to downsize, you know, and he's like, no, because

861
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:12.679
we have He loves the neighbor loves the neighbors, loves

862
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:14.719
the people down the street, loves you know, everything about

863
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:17.400
where we are. And who can afford to buy a

864
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:20.079
house at this point in time? I mean, you know we're.

865
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.119
Sitting I wonder about that for kids right now because

866
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.320
I was looking at the prices, like when we you know,

867
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:27.280
new construction in my neighborhood is now at two million

868
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:28.119
bucks around.

869
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.280
It's crazy, crazy.

870
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:33.039
Even if you put twenty percent down on a house

871
00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:35.679
and you had the cash and then you had a

872
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:37.719
payment that we figured this out. I know this is weird,

873
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:39.400
but like at two minutes, I know that's a very

874
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:42.320
high amount, but it'd be nine thousand dollars a month.

875
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:44.119
Yeah, who can afford that?

876
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:48.039
I worry about kids, like your children are at that

877
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:50.960
age where they're contemplating it maybe and thinking about buying

878
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.000
a home or not. But it's like, I don't know

879
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.800
how how the kids, the children actually can do this

880
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.400
right now, because anywhere even in Elk Grove, Sacramento, all

881
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:00.440
of comm Yeah, I.

882
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.480
Would think California is out for sure.

883
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:03.119
I do.

884
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:06.760
My Mark, my middle son has owned a home. He

885
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.360
owned a home in Oklahoma. He is in the military, though,

886
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.079
so I mean they get housing allowance, they get, you know,

887
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:16.000
help with the down they get you know, so a

888
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.079
little different for them. But they sold the house, made

889
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:20.719
good money on it when he had to go to

890
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:25.320
Hawaii for the Navy. But he's planning and buying another

891
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:27.440
one when he comes back. But now you're looking at

892
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.800
houses in Oklahoma, which as some of the ones that

893
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.480
he has sent me to look at are. You know,

894
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:35.199
they're four hundred and five hundred thousand dollars and look

895
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.400
like mansions and they're on a chunk of land, you know,

896
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:41.880
And so yeah, they won't be able to do in

897
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:42.800
California for sure.

898
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:43.760
I understand.

899
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:47.840
I understand, And I'm like talking to my daughter about

900
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:49.400
you know, do you think you might want to buy

901
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:52.039
a condo or buy something. You know, she's in an apartment,

902
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.000
but half of her stuff is still in her bedroom here.

903
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.360
So I'm like, but she's in Oregon.

904
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:59.039
Correct, Yeah, she's in Portland.

905
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.840
Portland, okay, so yeah, I mean a little more affordable.

906
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:05.559
Maybe it depending on she wants to settle there too, right,

907
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:06.920
because that's a commitment.

908
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:08.840
Right, And that's that's exactly what she's like. She says, no,

909
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:10.400
I don't want to buy anything. But you know, I

910
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:12.719
see what she pays in rent, which is about what

911
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:14.840
I pay in my mortgage, you know, and I'm like,

912
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:15.599
it's crazy.

913
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:19.239
M Sue. Let me ask you a question. This is

914
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:23.000
a different one. Is there any question that you wish

915
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:30.119
people would stop asking you? I mean, I don't know

916
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:33.159
people because I don't know or start asking you. Is

917
00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.199
there a question you would like people to start asking you?

918
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:35.840
Either or.

919
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:42.039
I really don't have that. I've yeah, I don't have

920
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:44.760
people asking me things that.

921
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.800
Well, some people. I mean the way why I'm referencing

922
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:50.039
that is because some people say, oh, how old are you?

923
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:51.159
It's they don't.

924
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:54.159
Oh yeah, no, I don't get that at all.

925
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:54.719
Okay.

926
00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.400
People that I work with that know me know where

927
00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:58.800
I'm at.

928
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:02.719
You know, you don't have any because you don't have

929
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:04.480
any sensitivity about being asked.

930
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:08.559
No, absolutely not good. I mean, yeah, I don't know.

931
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.400
I'm okay with it. Like I said, you know, ages age,

932
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.559
it's it's how you feel is more important. And you

933
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:16.360
know I have aches and pains, but I don't think

934
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.119
I feel like I'm you know, going down the deep

935
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:25.559
end or anything. I spent yesterday afternoon painting. Were we

936
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.480
doing our backyard patio thing that so I've got all

937
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:33.239
these boards in the backyard and one of my younger

938
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:36.360
friends and myself we're out there painting yesterday afternoon. And yes,

939
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.800
do what my body feel like it today? It absolutely does.

940
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.719
And I still have to go out and paint more today,

941
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:46.719
you know, but I'm I'm in good health. I go

942
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:48.360
to the gym, I'm you know, I do all the

943
00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:51.440
things you're supposed to do. So you know, we'll see

944
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:52.280
if it works.

945
00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:55.639
But the future is bright and Rosie right now.

946
00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.440
Right, Yes, it absolutely is good and.

947
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:01.280
You are able to do. You like to travel. I

948
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.280
know you guys have gone to Hawaii a couple of times.

949
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:06.360
Yeah, so we've gone to Hawaii a few times. I

950
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:08.840
mean my son's been there for a couple of years,

951
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.960
so we made the truk a couple of times, went

952
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.239
to one different island, and we actually were supposed to

953
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.360
be going to Maui when the fires happened, so we

954
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:22.159
quickly switched to to the Big Island. And then just

955
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.639
when the when my grandson was born, Bruce and I

956
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:28.639
and Danielle went over and h and saw him. So

957
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.519
that was in February. He was just like six seven

958
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.760
weeks old. Then nice, Yes, he's like a real little

959
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:37.079
person now though, and I'm like, oh, two weeks. We'll

960
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:38.000
see him in two weeks.

961
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.599
But they're just in Hawaii temporarily.

962
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.559
I mean they yeah, they're no there, he's so he'll

963
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:48.880
be back in Oklahoma. That's where his next job is.

964
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.360
They'll actually be here at our house in November for

965
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.599
about a month. There's usually a time span in between

966
00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:01.199
when they moved to different posts, so they'll they'll all

967
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:03.880
be here then, and then actually after this party that

968
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:05.760
we're having at the end of September, they're going to

969
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.599
Oklahoma to see if they can actually buy a house

970
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.280
that they've been looking at, so it'll be there when

971
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:14.159
when they move right, So they'll actually be moving there

972
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.079
in December. But yeah, I like to travel. I've I've

973
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:21.119
not gone a lot of different places. Recently. I saw

974
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:24.639
Jamie I think about a year ago in February. Last

975
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:29.679
February back in Baltimore with my mom. We went. When

976
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:31.920
Danielle was in college, I was back and forth to

977
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:37.320
Chicago four years every six months, so which I mean

978
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.400
I grew up in you know, Wisconsin, so but we

979
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:43.760
both loved the city of Chicago. I would like to

980
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:45.719
go back, even though she's not in school, and you know,

981
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:48.800
do some stuff there. My husband and I talk about

982
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:52.679
doing some sporting things. I'd like to go see the

983
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:55.719
Giant spring training in Arizona one year. I mean, we

984
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:58.519
start talking about stuff like that, and he's into NASCAR.

985
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.880
We've looked at going to some now scars things that

986
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:03.159
are like we've been to the ones here in Sonoma,

987
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.920
but other places, you know. Sure, So yeah, that kind

988
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:07.360
of stuff.

989
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:09.880
You're keeping busy, that's great.

990
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:13.559
Yeah, yeah, oh I think so it's important.

991
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:15.599
I mean we mentioned that, you know, the high school friends,

992
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:17.280
a lot of them have stayed in the Bay Area,

993
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.519
so it does make a little easier to you know,

994
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:24.480
plan some things. Yeah, a couple people we went to

995
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:28.400
high school with who are year ahead of us. They

996
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:32.039
both Elises Ada and Amy both both retired this year.

997
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.840
So I hosted a pot luck picnic a couple of

998
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.760
weeks ago. Yeah, and then some of the folks and

999
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.880
I are getting together November the Felolia State that's in

1000
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:47.039
Woodside for Halloween and also for Christmas. They decorate the

1001
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.079
house and the gardens, so we're beautiful in November to go.

1002
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:53.639
There's like eight or ten of us right now that

1003
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:55.679
are like, we'll do dinner first and then go. We

1004
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:58.519
bought to some house and tour the gardens and so on,

1005
00:49:58.599 --> 00:49:59.280
so it'll be fun.

1006
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.239
So yeah, that's absolutely fun.

1007
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:02.079
Yeah.

1008
00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:05.320
Yeah, I mean I'm on Facebook and I see things

1009
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:07.800
here and there. I Mean we do travel down to

1010
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:10.639
the Bay Area occasionally, not very often. I mean, we

1011
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:13.239
moved out of Foster City, and when we go down there,

1012
00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:15.800
we're like, it's so different. They've changed so many things

1013
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.519
down there. I'm like, what the seven eleven is a school?

1014
00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:19.239
What happened?

1015
00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:23.239
Yeah, and the cost of real estate over there has

1016
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.199
just gone crazy.

1017
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:27.559
It was even crazy back then. I Mean, I know

1018
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:29.599
it's crazy everywhere, but I mean that's why we moved.

1019
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:31.679
We wanted to buy a house and there's no way

1020
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.320
we could have done it there, you know. And Elk

1021
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:36.039
Grove has been a really good place to raise my

1022
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:41.039
kids for sure. I mean good, good education system and yeah,

1023
00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:43.159
it's got a small town feel and though there's a

1024
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.199
lot of people here nice.

1025
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:47.840
Well that was the reason why. The only reason why

1026
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:50.119
I was able to buy my condo twenty one years

1027
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.079
ago is that I couldn't have paid full market value.

1028
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:57.960
But they had a program for first time home buyers.

1029
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:00.320
Oh yeah, my got it that so you basically buy

1030
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.280
it kind of in partnership with the city. So the

1031
00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:05.320
downside is that if I want to sell it, I

1032
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.480
can't sell it in the open market at the full

1033
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.000
market vats. Oh yeah, I have to go back to

1034
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:12.519
the city and they work out a formula. So I

1035
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:15.360
could never sell this and then just go buy another place.

1036
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.880
You know, and you're pretty happy there, correct, Yeah?

1037
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:22.760
Yeah, moving, Yeah, no, what we talked about it. But

1038
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:25.559
it's like, well, my family's here in the Bear, so

1039
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:27.960
I'm not going to move out of the Beyer, out

1040
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.920
of state to especially and when I'm older, like where

1041
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.760
am I going to move to to a place I

1042
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.159
don't know anyone. No, not doing that. Yeah, but that's

1043
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.559
the idea of the conversation about well maybe you move

1044
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.800
into a senior community or or you know, with another

1045
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:47.800
friend we buy a place together. There's something where you

1046
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:52.159
still have some connection to someone, but just move out

1047
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.760
of the area or moving buy another place by myself.

1048
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.639
I wouldn't do that. Yeah, we're trying to, you know,

1049
00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:58.800
say for retirement.

1050
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:05.079
So say for retirement. What's that? That's probably a whole

1051
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:06.320
nother podcast.

1052
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:10.039
With this business growing. I mean, it doesn't sound like

1053
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:12.920
you have any plans of slowing down anytime soon.

1054
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.760
No, not, not anytime soon. Yeah, I'm hoping that it.

1055
00:52:18.119 --> 00:52:22.039
I just hope that I can. I mean, I I

1056
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.360
I want to be able to create more, I guess,

1057
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:28.559
and I constantly finding new patterns. I'm like, oh that's

1058
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.639
kind of cool. And you know, patterns are reasonably cheap.

1059
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:34.519
Is there a style that you do go towards the

1060
00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:38.519
vintage styles or you stay with what's current or like I.

1061
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:41.519
Try to be Yeah, well I try to be current.

1062
00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:44.840
There are definitely baby trends when they when when I

1063
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.519
see a new a new pattern or something, I'll usually

1064
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:49.800
try it just so I can see how it works.

1065
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:52.440
I do have a couple of people in Texas of

1066
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.000
all places, that buy a lot from me, and I

1067
00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:57.360
tend to sew for their kids' ages, but as they

1068
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.440
have grown, because one of them has been me since

1069
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.960
some was the very beginning. And then they advertise if

1070
00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:06.360
you go onto my website, some of the kids that

1071
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:08.800
you see pictures of there, they're the people that are

1072
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:10.840
buying from me in Texas. So I give them a

1073
00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:13.360
little bit of a discount if they advertise my stuff,

1074
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:18.360
you know, on websites and things, and give them a

1075
00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:22.400
little bit of a discount. So so yeah, so I

1076
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.519
do tend to be I try to be trendy. I

1077
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:30.039
don't sell the character stuff usually. I know, Disney is

1078
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.880
a big copyright situation, so if I sell that, it's

1079
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:38.079
on the sly it's not on my website exactly, but

1080
00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:40.639
either anything else. But I only know pet patrol was

1081
00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:43.039
in popular for a while, and you know, that kind

1082
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:46.239
of stuff I tend to stay away from. But other

1083
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:48.599
than that, the styles are, you know, I try to

1084
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:50.679
see what's in what are kids wear and what are

1085
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:54.880
babies you know, or now I'm asking my daughter in law,

1086
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:57.039
what do you what does he wear more of you know,

1087
00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:57.960
is it the onesie?

1088
00:53:58.079 --> 00:53:58.280
Is it?

1089
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.800
You know there there's this one thing I make that

1090
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.599
I really really like, but I don't know if it's

1091
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:09.119
you know, what's the word easy? Yeah? Is it easy

1092
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:11.400
for them? Is it? You know, something more complex? But

1093
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:16.639
it's a onesie that has a T shirt attached to it,

1094
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:19.880
so that you know, it's they can wear a pair

1095
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:21.639
of pants and it looks like just a T shirt

1096
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:24.280
and a pair of pants, but it, you know, it

1097
00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:26.519
stays tucked in because it's a onesie. So it's kind

1098
00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:27.760
of an interesting thing.

1099
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.599
But it's an adult size.

1100
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:35.000
I'm not sure my my my pad that I sew

1101
00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.519
that I cut on is big enough for that, but

1102
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:40.559
but it's it's kind of cool.

1103
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:45.639
Do we have your website to be able to promote It's.

1104
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:50.800
Just www dot Bellyboo boutique. It's all one word dot com.

1105
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:53.880
Okay, please send us some artwork anything with the logo

1106
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:55.119
you've designed.

1107
00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:57.000
I can. I can send you my card.

1108
00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.400
We will plug you like yes, we will then your

1109
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.199
sales into the stratosphere.

1110
00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:05.679
Perfect like calling out sick at work because I've got

1111
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:06.079
a sew.

1112
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.199
Hey on another question here, sue you know, our segment

1113
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:14.679
here is called Ain't nobody got time for that? And

1114
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:16.880
the reason why we called Gary came up with that

1115
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:21.679
because he's actually the mastermind on the funny titles and things.

1116
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.599
But is there anything that you just don't tolerate anymore?

1117
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:28.000
There's something you're just done with and you have no

1118
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:28.760
patience for.

1119
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:33.639
Yeah, I really have no patience for anything but that

1120
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.039
I can. I can. There are a couple of things

1121
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:42.119
that bother me. I very much don't like, especially at work.

1122
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.320
You know, the younger generation does not have the same

1123
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:49.559
work ethic that I think our generation has, Yes, and

1124
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.840
I get very frustrated over that. They have a lot

1125
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:57.519
of different technology or different avenues that they can take

1126
00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:01.639
to not work, which we were never privy too, I

1127
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:04.159
think when we were going through the ranks. I get

1128
00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:07.320
frustrated over that for sure. The other thing that drives

1129
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.000
me insane. And I don't know about you guys, but

1130
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.000
when I go to a store and I want to

1131
00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:15.199
buy something and it's locked, that kills me. I'm like, Nope,

1132
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.039
I'm gonna buy it on Amazon. I Am not going

1133
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.239
to stand in this aisle and push a button waiting

1134
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:19.800
for someone to.

1135
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:22.360
Show up and push it again, and push it again,

1136
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:23.079
and push it again.

1137
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:26.159
Because if I can't get my laundry, sup, Come on,

1138
00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:27.239
what is up with that?

1139
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:28.239
Yeah?

1140
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:31.840
Yeah, no, that that bothers me. So they get a

1141
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:33.960
lot of online business because I won't do that.

1142
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:40.440
I agree. Yeah, I used to have used to work

1143
00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:46.280
in office with younger folks and they're you know, shooting. Yeah,

1144
00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.239
I'm just looking around perplexed, like am I the only

1145
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.559
one actually working? It would drive me nuts.

1146
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:57.599
Yeah, So, I it's kind of funny because before I

1147
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.599
took the supervisory role where I'm in the same clinic

1148
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:03.079
I was in prior. But my prior role was I

1149
00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:05.519
was the lead over the front office. You know, the

1150
00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:09.199
girls that check in the patients, and there's like six

1151
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:12.199
of them up there, and yeah, sometimes I see stuff

1152
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:16.119
up there and I'm like, uh, hold off, we need

1153
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:20.360
to have a little meet meeting of the minds here now.

1154
00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:23.760
I'm actually my office is back in the back office

1155
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:26.960
where the patients and the m as and stuff, and

1156
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:32.480
they're they're much more serious and and and there I

1157
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:34.719
see things that are you know, and I'm not even

1158
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:37.159
see them doing great things. You know, I can't say

1159
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:39.599
that they don't. And we definitely have people that catch

1160
00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:42.119
things that oops, this shouldn't have happened. Let's you know,

1161
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:47.079
safety things, oops, let's make sure this doesn't happen type things.

1162
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:51.679
But overall, yeah, I'm the younger folks are It's a

1163
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:54.320
different generation for sure. And then I think, how did

1164
00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:56.880
I raise my kids? Because I know my daughter is

1165
00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:58.840
not like that. Of course, her job is a little

1166
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.519
different and is locked in a booth. She is not,

1167
00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:06.599
you know, they go to work every day. You know,

1168
00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:10.000
I don't have I don't see in them what I

1169
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:12.280
see with people that I work with. So I'm kind

1170
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:16.199
of wondering what. I don't feel like I did anything

1171
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.880
extra special, but maybe I did, you know, well, I think, well,

1172
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.800
I feel like I was raised with parents that had

1173
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:28.519
a good work ethic as well. Yeah, and I feel

1174
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:30.639
like that's you know, I learned that from them. And

1175
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:34.079
you know, I think our generation is different in that

1176
00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:37.000
aspect for sure. And I do think the kids coming

1177
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:43.280
up through COVID are they've had a hard a hard situation.

1178
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.239
I think I'm glad my kids were kind of past that.

1179
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:51.519
My daughter had. She graduated the year of COVID, so

1180
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:56.559
no graduation, which to me was devastating, and she was.

1181
00:58:57.159 --> 00:59:00.039
She turned twenty one, got her degree all in that

1182
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:04.800
twenty May of twenty twenty, and they did had not

1183
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.679
discovered the zoom graduations or anything at that point in time.

1184
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.440
Once she got her degree in the mail or her

1185
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.000
diploma in the mail, she was over it. I'm still

1186
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:17.800
not over it. I'm like, I wanted that graduation, you know,

1187
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:25.880
I feel like I earned it. She survived college. Yeah, yeah,

1188
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:28.880
so I don't know. I think that generation coming through

1189
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:30.480
is I think that's a harder thing.

1190
00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:35.840
Okay, you ready for a quick lightning round? Sure, Okay,

1191
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:40.239
it's real easy, Okay, I don't think too much about it. Okay, Ready,

1192
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.719
here we go. Red wine, white wine, champagne, beer, or soda?

1193
00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:51.960
About a mixed drink? Okay, I would like toptail please God?

1194
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:54.719
Yeah?

1195
00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:57.719
Good? Okay, we're on a roll. Movies, comedy, horror or

1196
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:02.199
romance comedy. Okay, A morning person or a night.

1197
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:03.400
Owl night Owl.

1198
01:00:03.960 --> 01:00:06.239
Okay, this might be a reference. You might not get it.

1199
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:08.440
Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Walking Dead.

1200
01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:11.440
Probably Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

1201
01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:14.159
Okay, I know the answer to this one. Cats are dogs?

1202
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:18.599
I have both. I'm gonna say dog. I do. I'm

1203
01:00:18.599 --> 01:00:21.440
gonna say dogs, but I have I have a very

1204
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:24.039
old cat and I have a very very crazy dog.

1205
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:30.000
Okay, okay, perfect perfect combo for your Yeah. Yeah, sweet

1206
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:31.159
snacks or savory sacks.

1207
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:34.800
Oh, I like them both. Okay, I would, I would.

1208
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:36.639
I would like pretzels and M and M's together.

1209
01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:41.079
That's a good answer. That's my my go to city

1210
01:00:41.119 --> 01:00:46.880
life or small town a small ton Okay, sushiir tacos, tacos. Okay,

1211
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:50.880
do the kicking. Oh sorry, do the kicking. Don't do

1212
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:55.079
the cooking or do the dishes cooking for sure, Okay,

1213
01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:58.320
do the cooking. Celebrity gossip or true.

1214
01:00:58.079 --> 01:00:59.960
Crime, true crime?

1215
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:01.239
I'm okay.

1216
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:04.159
Pineapple, pineapple on pizza? Yes or no?

1217
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:05.000
Yes?

1218
01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:11.159
Yes, good for you? Housewives or survivor Oh neither, okay?

1219
01:01:11.159 --> 01:01:22.599
Good coker PEPSI coke? Okay? I Gary, so.

1220
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:27.400
Neither.

1221
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:32.320
I love you both. And I'm so happy you guys

1222
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:35.159
are doing this and that you're together and and everybody

1223
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:36.000
gets to see you.

1224
01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:38.679
Well, we'd love to get to see you because I'm

1225
01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:42.280
honestly we haven't seen you for quite a long time. Yeah,

1226
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.199
and Gary, were you going to talk about bringing anybody

1227
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:47.599
together in the Bay area. I can edit this too.

1228
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:51.239
So no, Jamie will be staying while she's in San

1229
01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:55.440
Francisco at Todd's house. So he's asked me to send

1230
01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:59.320
out an ebit there. They're doing a gathering, uh while

1231
01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.000
she's here, because I know how many days, I don't

1232
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:03.800
know how many day she's here completely. I guess she's

1233
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:05.920
staying with them for a couple of days. So she's

1234
01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:07.239
for like a week or two, do you know.

1235
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:12.159
Yeah, she's coming in on the Saturday, the twentieth, and

1236
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:16.159
our big family thing is on Sunday. She is just

1237
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:18.360
staying here in a hotel as I have no room

1238
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:19.079
in my house.

1239
01:02:18.840 --> 01:02:22.079
For her, too many fabrics.

1240
01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:27.559
But my poor children I have. I have my son,

1241
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:29.960
his wife and the baby staying in my daughter's old

1242
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:34.239
room and my poor daughter is on the couch. Nobody

1243
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:38.760
will be in the sewing room. But she she's gonna

1244
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:42.599
just be here Saturday night to the party on Sunday.

1245
01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.159
After the party on Sunday, I believe she's going up

1246
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:47.079
to Redding to be with my mom for a few days.

1247
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:48.320
Okay there.

1248
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:50.559
What's going on after that? I really don't know. I

1249
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:53.960
know that she did mention that she was going to

1250
01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:58.239
be seeing you guys on Saturday, the following Saturday, right.

1251
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.000
Yeah, so the falling weekend for a couple of nights,

1252
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.920
She'll be staying at Todd's house, so he's organizing a

1253
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:03.719
gathering there.

1254
01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.760
So my husband and I actually have tickets to the

1255
01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:10.199
Giant's game on that Sunday, so we will be down there,

1256
01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:13.280
but it'll be on Sunday, so I'm not sure we

1257
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:17.639
would be able to make that Saturday, but I told Jamie,

1258
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:19.559
so I talked to Jamie this morning, so I said,

1259
01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.079
you know, we'll try to figure something else out because

1260
01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:24.719
you know, I don't know what's going on. I took

1261
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.000
a little bit of time off of work just so

1262
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:31.199
I could figure things out with them. I don't know, Okay.

1263
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:33.760
The party that we're having here on Sunday, though, is

1264
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:36.840
I've got my aunt and uncle coming from Wisconsin, who

1265
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.920
I've not seen since they moved back there, and my

1266
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:43.480
brother his wife. The kids or the girl, they're not kids,

1267
01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:46.199
they're Danielle's age. They're like just a little younger than

1268
01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:50.559
my daughter. One of their boyfriends. I've got Ellen and

1269
01:03:50.599 --> 01:03:52.920
her husband are coming. I've got a whole house full

1270
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:55.920
of people coming, so I know they'll all be here

1271
01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:56.960
for that all day long.

1272
01:03:57.039 --> 01:03:58.880
So nice.

1273
01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:02.559
So I'll have I'll have. Yeah, I'll have eight hours

1274
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:03.840
or more of Jamie than.

1275
01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:07.280
So there's going to be more time, more than enough.

1276
01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:12.159
I love my sister Jamie.

1277
01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:16.400
I love you. We love just giving a bad time

1278
01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:18.920
fun and we weren't joking with her exactly.

1279
01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.440
Yeah, well, this has been so much fun.

1280
01:04:22.519 --> 01:04:23.480
Has been fun.

1281
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:24.920
Y.

1282
01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:28.000
Yeah, I'm glad I agreed to as well. Thank you

1283
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:29.960
for the invite.

1284
01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:32.559
And we have to help promote your business, so we

1285
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:34.480
have advertisements.

1286
01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:37.039
Okay, yeah, I'll send I'll send you over a business card.

1287
01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:40.719
Perfect, and thank you again for coming on the podcast.

1288
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:43.559
We truly appreciate it. You did great, you were wonderful.

1289
01:04:43.639 --> 01:04:47.440
Gary sometimes is questionable, but you did great, so well.

1290
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:51.079
Thank you. This is apparently my my year of getting

1291
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:52.320
out of my comfort zone.

1292
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:55.000
So okay, well, we hope you weren't uncomfortable because you

1293
01:04:55.039 --> 01:04:55.440
did great.

1294
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.320
You were absolutely not. This was better than I anticipated,

1295
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:00.519
so thank you. It's very nice.

1296
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:03.119
And please say hi to all of your family and

1297
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.639
your family we say hi because they better know who

1298
01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:08.360
we were are.

1299
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.079
Everybody knows. My My daughter was so funny though, because

1300
01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:13.840
she said do I know them, and I said, I'm

1301
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:18.199
pretty sure that Gary has met you, oh, because he

1302
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:18.920
used to come.

1303
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:20.440
A long time ago.

1304
01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:22.440
Well, I know you've bet you were at the house

1305
01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:24.960
after we were in that same house we were in

1306
01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:28.320
with my family once everybody else moved away, so I

1307
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:30.679
know you'd been to the house. But she's a little

1308
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:34.559
struggler with my you know, she's far apart from the boys,

1309
01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:39.440
So I don't know if you had better or not done. Yeah, yeah,

1310
01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:40.559
I know you met the boys.

1311
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:43.840
Yeah, but I'm even then to spend a super.

1312
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.239
Long time, super long time they were little little guys.

1313
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:49.840
Yeah. Okay, Well again, thank you for being on the podcast.

1314
01:05:50.599 --> 01:05:51.599
Thank you for having me.

1315
01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:54.079
Of course I'm going to stop this, but please don't

1316
01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:55.719
hang up yet because you want to make sure that

1317
01:05:55.760 --> 01:06:04.360
we get every single bit of this. Okay, thanks, how

1318
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:06.119
puy lack of nookies got me.

1319
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:12.199
Come on, I want to let you anyway I met.

1320
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:15.599
We want to thank our guests to acting for joining us.

1321
01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:19.559
We will be promoting the heck out of that one

1322
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:25.000
at her business, so we stay tuned any closing remarks

1323
01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:26.039
before we shut it down.

1324
01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:28.159
No, I would just love to see I will go

1325
01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.199
visit your Instagram page so I can see the hambo

1326
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:35.800
pana wana kana collie ye know whatever, you're Hawaiian dessert,

1327
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.760
because that sounds really good and hopefully you can post

1328
01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:39.719
some pictures from it. But no, it was wonderful speaking

1329
01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:41.440
with Sue. It's great catching up with her. She's doing

1330
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:45.079
so well. I'm so excited for what her future is

1331
01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:48.000
going to be rolling out with it right. Business is

1332
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:50.079
on fire, it sounds like, and the kids are all

1333
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:52.800
doing well, and you know, everyone seems to be on

1334
01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:56.480
a really good vibe, so I'm very happy for her.

1335
01:06:56.719 --> 01:07:00.519
Yeah, yeah, it was great, So all right, Well, on

1336
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:03.960
that note, then we were going to close out this episode.

1337
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:10.079
Remind everyone that you can find us on pot page,

1338
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:14.119
which is our website. Yes, and you can also hear

1339
01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:20.559
us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We're available on Blue Sky.

1340
01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:26.679
You can see us in all our colorful glory on

1341
01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:33.519
YouTube five per pod email us. Gary, excuse me, it's

1342
01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:36.679
not Gary, it's Don and Gary. Let's get it right.

1343
01:07:37.239 --> 01:07:39.079
We'll change it next season, Gary and Don.

1344
01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:45.760
Oh no, it's always Beauty before age. Don and Gary.

1345
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:49.840
You're in sixty at gmail dot com. I think I

1346
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:50.880
got all our platforms.

1347
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:54.000
Yes, listen. They'll figure it out. They're smart people.

1348
01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:58.360
They are. They are all hundreds of thousands of yes.

1349
01:07:58.559 --> 01:07:59.800
So, thank you did a great job.

1350
01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.800
Questions, Thank you it was fun, Yes, all right. Well

1351
01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:05.480
then you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

1352
01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:11.000
You do the same with your hawa. Okay, you do

1353
01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:17.600
that talk like an Egyptian sorry references. Yes anyway, Yeah,

1354
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:22.680
talk to you soonculator. Bye bye,