Welcome

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Welcome back to Catching It with Katie. I think this is the last one of 2025, which is super exciting. Also, I can't

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believe how quickly this year went, but it's been great. So, there will be a 2025 recap video. Stay tuned for that

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one. But today, I think we're just going to chat about like our Christmases and

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maybe like a little New Year's resolution chat. And also, stay tuned if you have questions going into 2026 for

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some things that we're about to be experiencing. Miss Lindsay hasn't been here for, you know, foing season,

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breeding season, things like that. And so, she as that person is going to ask questions that you probably have as well

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if you haven't watched. So, I guess how was y'all's Christmas? It was great.

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It was great. I got to go home um and see family back in Arkansas and I

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haven't I think it's been like two years since I've gotten to do Christmas with them. So, it was it was really nice to be able

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to go home. So, was it fun because both of you have little girls that are just now not potatoes? Like they're just now

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kind of like cognitively aware. Um, and so was it fun like watching them

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open presents and Yeah, I got some really good photos. I brought the camera out, took some cool photos. She went to town.

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Nice. And uh, her favorite word right now is wow. Uhhuh. So, it was great. And so, I mean, you talk about Christmas

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line constantly. Just wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

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It's like the perfect time of year for wows. Right. Right. So, what was each of their

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Okay, let me just preface this. Every adult I've talked to that has a kid between the age I mean, your little

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girls are smaller than this, so like everything is great to them, but like every parent I talked to that has

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somebody between three and like nine, every parent was like, "Yeah, they were

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a little underwhelmed this year. Uh, they were a little disappointed." And I was just like, like for instance, my

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little cousin who's three. Uhhuh. They had told him like, you know, Santa Claus is coming in the morning. Like

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he's bringing you presents. And when he walked out, he was like, "Where's Santa?" And was so upset that

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Santa wasn't there cuz he thought he was going to like like Santa was going to be handing him his presents. Oh yeah.

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And so then he was upset first thing. Yeah. He was upset that Santa had already left his presents, but then once they calmed

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him down and he got to look and all that good stuff, his big present was a bike. Mhm. And he walked over to it. Three years

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old, walked over to it and goes, "No bell."

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My My dad would have had that in a trash can. No. No bell. And And like my cousin Andrew

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is like, "You little jerk." Yeah. That's that's that's so true, though. I feel like my dad would have

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been like I if I just said no bell, he just went, "Oh, you know what? You're right. No bike. Yeah,

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you're right. Mind you, this is probably the sweetest little boy ever. Like, but his his other cousin Charlotte had gotten a

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a bell or a bike with a bell the night before and that was like the hit was the bell.

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Yeah. And so that was that was a disappoint. Yeah. No, that was a preface for sure. I'm going to start saying that now. No. No bell.

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No to anything. Any anything doesn't make sense. No bell. I just that was my favorite whole story

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of of Christmas. But like what was I guess at being just a little over one, what were their like big what were their

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presents, you know? I don't even know what what do you get a one-year-old? Did you have any big ones? She got like four babies and then

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Yeah, we got a couple babies and she got a tricycle which she loved, but it was she certainly wasn't over underwhelmed.

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She loved everything, but she was almost overwhelmed. She was overwhelmed. It was too much. We had to remove some things

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because she didn't know what to play with and it started making her upset. She

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like she was like everything and nothing was in the right place and like the babies weren't sitting in the side car right and it was entirely too much. I

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mean like Christmas was was turning south pretty pretty quick so we had to remove some

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things. Well, I figured getting her little babies would be great since, you know, y'all are expecting number two

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that getting her used to like and she's kind of mean, but um she uh

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well, she's mean to like me just physically, but like the baby, she like overly takes care of them. Like she'll

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sit there and rock them. She'll go like she go like pat ownously, which is funny. Like has she seen Maddie

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be like that with any other baby? Well, we just she's what we do to her I guess. But that's so

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And we we do it with the we do it with the fake baby, too. Yeah, for sure. Like, oh, your baby. She'll stuff the bottle in its mouth or

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whatever. And now she's picked up like we'll be able she'll be walking down the hall and I'll just go like night night and she'll just drop like five seconds

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or whatever. That's funny. She Yeah, she she had a really really good Christmas. And of course got books. Big book reader.

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Books. Books. Babies. our uh our big gift was which was a mess

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to put together. Uhhuh. Um it was a play kitchen.

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I thought it was a water table. Um it wasn't. I was swiftly corrected. Uh

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yeah, I I open this thing up and the book says 52 steps

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to put this together. Got it. It's 52. It's the night of Christmas Eve and I'm trying to be quiet.

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Um, but that was the big gift. So, Uhhuh. It had to be put together. It had to be put together. It took about

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uh three and a half hours. Oh, dear Lord. But she loves it.

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Was it a hit? It was a hit. Oh, awesome. No. Yeah, big hit. I My big thing when I was little, I I

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don't think we I had a play I don't feel like they had stuff like that when we were little like set like already pre-made play kit. Like I had a little

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play house, but it was just a shell. There wasn't like a play kitchen with play food. And I remember my biggest

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thing when I was little, so probably more like four to seven is coloring food, cutting

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it out, making stacks for my restaurant, and then I had like I was stocked up and

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then I would serve on a plate. Nice. I like that. Um, now the these things are crazy these

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days. I mean, it's it's got a little ice machine. You take your little cup, you put it in, it drops the ice out. Oh,

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it's a little too much. Like some things like like I Wow. Would like to play with the pots and the

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pots and pans are like stainless steel. They're real. Like I'm like this ain't this is I mean

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you give it a little electricity and some heat and you're cooking. That's insane. It's It's really crazy. I

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It's almost a problem because like I almost don't want her to like get too familiar with like the oven. Yeah,

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Okay, I'm going to eat my bread, but then back to the video. How'd you get that mixed up with a water table?

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Um, there was just a lot of conversation about she would love a water table.

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She'd love a water table. And I thought we had gotten her a water table for her

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birthday. So this this play kitchen was a birthday present. Okay. From months back,

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right, that we decided I think we got her too much. She's going to be overwhelmed. Um so we said let's

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save this one and we'll just do it as a Christmas gift. So in my head the whole time I thought, "Oh, we got her this

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water table. I'm putting it together looking at an oven going, this is a weird water table. Why are there so many

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parts to this table? I'm like losing it. And then I was informed it's a kitchen.

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That's so cool. So, um, what what did you uh your mom came into town?

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I got to meet your mommy and she came in and had a little tour of the farm on Christmas Eve. So, did y'all have fun?

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We did. We had a lot of fun. She um she really enjoyed it. We after that we went

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to this little housesitting gig where we were hanging out with this dog. We got honeybaked ham sliders.

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So good. Yeah. Um made some pea salad, some broccoli salad. Also good. Underrated.

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Doubled the eggs. Mhm. And literally just hung out. Open presents, watched TV.

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Jonathan and I were talking about how like that sounds so nice and low-key and chill. And we were talking about how

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like our Christmas was also very chill. I'm an only child of an only child. So, hanging out with my dad's side of the

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family is very small, lowkey. Uh we played a game and barely swap presents.

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Like, we really didn't even do presents. And then, um like on my mom's side of

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the family, we had done Jonathan's side of the family the weekend prior. Uh so, my mom's side of the family was that evening and it's like all kids and it's

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like wild. But we did again like we gave them presents, but we weren't I don't know, it was just really really low-key.

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Um, and we were talking about how we need to savor the low-keyenness prior to like us having babies because then it's

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like it's not low-key for 18 years. Yeah. I Well, I'll say this. All of our We

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didn't have anything to do on Christmas Day. Mhm. Like all the family stuff either it

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happened before, it was going to happen after. I'll never go back. Nobody, I

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don't care family or otherwise ever try to plan anything with me on Christmas day. I'll say no.

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I've been there. There was nothing like waking up and going, we can just chill.

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There's nothing. We can just enjoy the morning as a family. I don't know. I I've never felt rushed

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on Christmas my entire life because we always did my we always and and this

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was prior to, you know, me getting married to Jonathan. So, we did Christmas Eve with his family as well in past years. Um, but now that

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uh there's a grandchild in the mix with our nephew, they go to their

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like her side of the family which they have to drive to. And so like we generally do their family and I like a week ahead. So that's actually amazing.

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Like we do we dedicate like a whole day to them and then uh Christmas Eve my my grandfather came

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in from Florida. We did it with him and so then on Christmas day we just had breakfast. We did the little bit of gift

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giving like barely any that morning and didn't have anything else to do till 5

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and like so I mean it really wasn't like that big of a deal you know like I I had one thing to cook and it was very

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easy like I it just it was still chill. Yeah. And I I think, you know, I think in my family, we're going to start

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pushing for a a more traditional celebration of Christmas in the sense of

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I feel like all growing up, the leadup to Christmas was really exciting and then Christmas Eve was like the peak

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excitement of Christmas and then Christmas Day happens and it's done over and it's a let down.

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Yeah. It's like, oh, but traditionally Christmas starts December 25th and goes

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through January 5th. See, I think kind of subconsciously that's how I operate.

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Yeah, because I didn't start really watching Christmas movies until Christmas Eve. Yeah, I watched one last night.

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Like right now is still Christmas. I I feel that way. My Christmas decorations are up. I'm like Rebecca

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brought her two little girls over last night. We watched The Grinch and I still feel Christmasy.

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Yeah. I I think I think I subconsciously act that way like through New Year's and and I never thought about it but I

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the song 12 Days of Christmas came on and I thought is that what do you mean the 12 like there's Christmas Day? Is

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this a real thing? So I start looking into it and it's like yeah it starts December 25th and then goes for 12 days.

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That's how my grandma is. She feels that she's like my decorations aren't coming down till after January.

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Yeah. mine to arguably stay up through Valentine's Day. As far as I'm concerned, still Christmas

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right now. We'll get to it. I also just feel so much more like cozy

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and like I love the decorations up. My house feels bare when I take them down. Yeah.

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Um so I put that off as long as I can. As long as I can. Get more decorations. We should just do different types of

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decorations. Um we should get more. Now, going into the new year though, what are our what are

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our New Year's resolutions? I have a couple, but I want to hear y'alls. You have any?

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Yes. And I'm hesitant to say it. Say it because it's a two-parter. Okay, we got time.

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We do. It started when I was a kid. Let's just go back to Let's just go back

Storytime

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to the year 2000. Close your eyes with me for a moment.

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birds chirping. Um, I want to be uh I want to be more,

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how do I want to say this? I want my word to be my word. I have a And it's not that I am a liar.

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It's that I have a tendency to overcommit. Overcommit because I always operate with

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the best intentions. And even if it was like, you know, whether it's an inconvenience to myself, I'll just do it. I'll just do it. Some more just like realistic intentions

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from there. Um, but what it does is turn, you know, eventually into, well, I'll just do it. Like, well, and I hate that. So, I

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literally my biggest thing I hate about myself, one of them. Um, so that's a big one. And I think to kick

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that off, how I'm going to work this with my wife, I don't know. But I think to kick that

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off, it's going to involve a 4-day singular excursion on the cheapest

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flight I can find to Japan. And I think I'm just gonna go there and I'm going to

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get a very small hotel and I'm going to live amongst the people, do everyday things, live, you know, go eat, go go go

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sit with an old man for an afternoon and then I'm going to come home. And the level of commitment and locked in that

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I'm going to be, I think, is going to is going to change the world. I need to hear what Nate has to say.

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If I also don't like something about myself, can I join you?

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I guess uh I guess I'm confused. Why where does Japan come into this? Why

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does why because dude I've just I've been helping I wanted to go for for so long and what

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h what originally I wanted to do was just go into the woods for like a week and just disassociate.

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That's probably more attainable. And well, currently, I'm sure everybody's seen it. Currently, it is cheaper to get

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a plane ticket, get a hotel, go to Japan, and go to Tokyo Disney than it is

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to go to the Disney 4 to four week. Yeah, I've seen that. Really? Very seriously, I have seen currently

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right now. It's it's that's the cheaper option. That's insane. It is insane. Um, but it's just I've

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always wanted to go. I think it'd just be like a crazy just like a just what an adventure. I mean, you're really like

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you're by like nobody nobody knows you. I of course you could do that anywhere, but like nobody knows you. You're such an And over there it's just such an

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inviting environment. Like I could you could literally go sit with an old man and just like have a conversation, learn something, learn about his past.

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Are you going to learn Japanese prior to going? I certainly not in the time frame that I would like to go. I know a little, but I

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could know a little. But anyway, like not, you know, just just some things like I certainly want to go like I want

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to do a family trip. I want to do a I would love to go with like my friends. I can't wait till we all go for whatever

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reason that happens. Going to Japan one day. I'm sure we will. You're taking us to Japan. But um

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if you do go to Japan, Merry Christmas. If you do go to Japan, you should go go-karting and dress up as Mario Kart

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characters. I saw my aunt did that. That Who did that? My aunt. But like she went to Japan and

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did that. They had they have like they have things like that's encouraged. Should be an answer enough.

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Yeah, that's But anyway, that's uh that's my new us. That would be crazy. So, your New Year's New Year's

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resolution is to have more realistic more realistic intentions and commitments and to go to Japan.

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Yeah, I think that's pretty good. Okay. Yeah. Before prices go up on flights.

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What's yours? Um, I hadn't given it too much thought yet.

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Um, that was this morning actually about 4:00 a.m. Okay. I would like to go to Japan this year.

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I actually sent that to you in a real what I just passed. I said that this morning.

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I uh also we should say like y'all are huge anime nerds. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Um I would like to go to Japan and that's not my New Year's resolution. Um I think mine would be

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I have to take better care of my health. So

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continue. I had only from

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I I got to get back in the gym. I haven't been exercising. Um and I need I think my biggest one is

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going to be I have to figure out how to become better at time management.

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Whether that be um you know not wasting time when I have

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it or figuring out what tasks I can let

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control of go let go of control where it's like I don't have to do everything. Mhm.

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Um cuz I I try to do everything and I think well if I pass it off, maybe

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something will mess up or maybe this will happen and I know if I do it, I can get it done right and I run myself into

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the ground and I don't have any time to do anything or enough time to spend with family. So like time management is my

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goal of I'm going to try to get that as a business owner. That is a very hard

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necessity though to delegate and to to let go of a little bit of control while

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still maintaining knowledge of what's going on because that is something I had

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a lot of issue with about I mean really I still have issue with but like specifically over the last

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couple of years where things have blown up and like I truly can't have my hands on everything. It was very hard for me

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to like like know, okay, you are tasked with this now and I'm not doing it. And

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I it almost makes you feel like you're not Yeah, we had this conversation or like

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you're like but it's like no you're you're making sure it gets done like there's just only so many

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hours in a day and so like sometimes I feel I'm like wow like I should just be able to do that

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but realistically like no or you could shower. Huh? I said, "Or you could shower, for

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example." And and I just think about things like hobbies. Like I love playing golf you enjoy. I

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love playing golf. Haven't played in months because I'm just wearing myself down and just

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trying to do everything. Um like hobbies, family times, personal

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like personal projects, all of that's out the window and I've just been work work work work work and I have to change that.

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I also would like to Nate and I are signing off. So with that,

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I should clarify that I'm not your only client. No, no, no, no. We do other stuff.

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And that is like an off. We need to clarify that. We don't live here. We don't live in we don't live like all in the loft of the

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barn or whatever as it is. We don't live here. We work with other people. We take on other projects

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and we're we're in the same uh we're recently u discovering what

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relinquishing some of those responsibilities is feeling like and stuff. So,

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um I also would like to focus more on hobbies in 2026 because I think

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such as like like literally just writing and like I wrote a little bit more this past year than I have in a while, but um

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there are some things that I can't really talk about right now that are going to make it more possible for me to ride more

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unless I get knocked up, which that's a real possibility as well. So, we'll see. It's just going to get all ruined by a kid. Um

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you're talking about the new horse you bought. What? I'm not supposed to.

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Shut up. I did not. Stop. You're funny. Can we Can we cut that out?

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It's not. He's being I'm looking at the stink bug on the monitor. He's He's just He's just

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I'm getting I'm getting playing. Um, but like I want to show Denver and I if I'm going to show

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Denver, I need to ride at home and I need to like be serious about it and like ride every day and like I,

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you know, I feel like I have had a decent balance this year with like y'all don't see like I'm not Snapchatting my

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family Christmas. I'm not Snapchatting my like parties like like my birthday party you'll barely see any of. So like I do

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think that has been good. I haven't been just like so focused on only content creation, but I would like to not

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necessarily do less content, but try to find ways of doing it to where I'm not editing until nine o'clock at night or

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10 o'clock at night. Yeah. And posting literally through 10 o'clock at night. Well, like I just I think I'd

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like to try to find a way to be like done at 6:00 or 7. I don't know if that's going to happen,

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but that's my I I would like for that to happen. AI Katie, baby. The new era.

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I'd like for that to happen. And then um in a content creation space,

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I do have lots of goals. Um and we've talked about them a bit and I I can't really talk about them on here because

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like there's, you know, we're just Yeah, we're just cooking up cooking. Um,

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but on like Tik Tok, I would like to I think I overthink a lot of the times and then something doesn't get posted about

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an animal because I couldn't make a whole three minute saga out of it or I couldn't make this like edited thing out

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of it. And sometimes I think simplicity is better. And

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so I need to just stop trying to overthink everything and and just, you know, it's okay to just post like a

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cute video with a song over it sometimes. And it doesn't have to always be like thought about and put together and you know.

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Yeah. Um that and then also on the health side,

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not so much focusing on weight or anything like that. Uh but I would like to go to the gym like twice a week.

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Yeah. And and just go to the gym. Like it's okay if I don't go all out and it's okay if I'm not like

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Yeah. You know doing like Monday is back day, Tuesday is leg day, Wednesday is like we

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don't have to do that. Yeah. We just need to go just go move. and for mobility and, you know, I mean, when I'm

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stretching and when I'm active and in the gym, I I just feel so much better.

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It's crazy to think like, man, why would I even stop? And I hate it every time because I go

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back and I'm back to my starter weights and everybody's so strong around me and I'm

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like, you know what? Stronger than me. Yeah. I think I think that this time around though, um, it sucks because

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we're moving. And that's the other thing is that this was probably the worst Christmas I had just in the sense of

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like we never put up a Christmas tree. We never did anything like that cuz we're moving. I'll just say this a horrible timing.

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So like there was no no Christmas stuff. Um, but like I want to put like a pull-up bar in my backyard and like

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stuff like that so like I can like wake up because a lot of a lot like the biggest part of the gym is going. Once you're there, you're there. You go go

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work out. I mean 30 minutes, whatever, you're already there. The biggest thing is getting in the car and going. Yeah. Which Jonathan,

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he was really good about going to the gym every day this past week or this past year, but like he wants to go right

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smack dab in the middle of me working. Like he doesn't want to wait on me or whatever. And so I'm going to try to

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convince him to like, hey, can we go in the morning or can we go at like 8:00 at night? Like I

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Yeah. Yeah. Maddiey's pretty dependent on like having a a partner, too. So I think having something at home would be

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would be cool. Yeah. Yeah. doing more traditional. Again, I'll still say it. I would love

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to have like a little sword dummy out there and just go out there at 6 am and just with the morning just

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just work on fluid motions. What about you, Lindsay? What are your resolutions? What do you got? What do you resolve to do?

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Um I am trying to teach myself more patience. Okay.

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Patience. Patience. I don't see you in Okay. In the work setting, I don't really see your impatience.

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That's the professionality. It's more while I'm driving or

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you road rage. Yeah, babe. You road rage. You road rage. Really?

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The the side of Lindsay we don't see. It's really bad. Are you Are you a horn honker? She doesn't You know what? I have seen

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you road rage a bit when you're picking me up from the airport. But I also just I I chalk that up to airport. You know

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what I'm saying? Like that brings it out. I have a lot of road rage. And so I'm trying to teach myself patience because

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of that. But also like while shopping, I I tend to like get rid of my items and

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like just walk out if the line is super super long. Really? Like I will really

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I am very impatient like which in that time you probably waste more time because you went shopping and

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then you don't get the things you need. So you have to go do it again. So I'm really just I lose lose there. So

26:48

yeah, for sure. If I teach myself more patience, stand in line and scroll, baby. Get your get your Kindle app on your phone. Read.

26:54

That's wild. That That's a cool That's a That's a cool fact. That's wild. Some wild info. I hate it. I really do. But I just

27:01

can't. I can't. Now I feel bad because there's been a couple times I'm like, "Hey, Lindsay, can you run to the store?" Now I'm like,

27:06

"Oh, no. No. It's different for like work. I'm fine when it's like something that I have to do." If you're like, "I'm standing in line on

27:12

the clock. I'm good. Whatever." I love moments like these when I could observe just how other

27:17

human minds work because like it would never enter my mind to like and like and I I am impatient

27:23

about like complet like like things that like you probably wouldn't even dream about like I have the smallest amount of patience

27:29

for but putting my stuff back like in the grocery cart would be the last thing I would do. Okay. So let me let me let me say this.

27:37

If I have a lot of stuff in my grocery cart I don't just walk away from it. I will stand in the line. But if it's like one or two things, I'm put I'm putting

27:45

it back. I'm putting it back. I should have said that first. I don't just put my whole cart away. That would be wild. You You go back and

27:52

you're like spend 20 minutes restocking the shelves. There's five people in line like not at

27:57

this. $400 worth of groceries. Oh, brother.

28:02

Or if she orders pickup and she's just waiting on the guy who's stocking, she's like, "Nah, not today.

28:07

Not today. Not today." That's awesome. That's an awesome awesome resolution. So, here's my thing.

28:14

I I would like to read more, too, but I just cannot bring myself to read something that makes me smarter. I only

28:21

read fantasy. So, are you going to read fantasy? Because I know we we share

28:26

that. That does still make you smarter though. And that is food for thought. Reading in general, reading words on the page is

28:33

good for your mind. Which is why it's like I read does not make me smarter. E it it

28:38

works your mind in a way that a screen doesn't and that's just scientific fact. Um even even so

28:45

if you read 10 pages a day of anything just 10 pages a day your brain will be better off for it and that's

28:50

scientifically whatever it is. It doesn't have to be the the scientific names of cows.

28:56

Oh it can be smut. Smut. It can be smut. Yeah. Um

29:01

brain stimulation. Don't tell people I read smut. We've had this conversation before. It's been a

29:07

It's probably been a thumbnail at this point. Bleep it. Bleep it. I just bought uh the Thursday Murder

29:14

Club. Oh, so like little I do mysteries every now and then. I like to solve. It's this. So the way

29:21

they set the book up is it's the fir like the first little page is like I've compiled all these emails, newspapers,

29:28

blah blah blah for you. Um hopefully you can figure out who killed it, who killed the person, whatever. So, it literally

29:34

is just a book of emails. Okay. Uh newspaper clippings, stuff like that.

29:39

And you pretty much have to like figure out who killed them just from that.

29:44

That's cool. It's It's a little complicated, but it kind of gets my like it gets my brain moving. What are you guys laughing?

29:51

What are they snickering about? I'm so sorry. He looked at my screen and there's stuff all over my desktop.

29:57

And he is notorious for for harping on how dirty. And I'm a neat freak. Okay. for computer

30:03

stuff. And let me just show you here.

30:09

Good lord. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff. Um, you should see mine. It's just scattered.

30:14

I made a So, I said I was trying to be funny and like solve the problem. So, I

30:20

went to make a folder and name it organize. And I was just going to dump it all in there so the desktop looks

30:26

clean. And I named it organize. And it said, uh, there's already one named Organize because I've already done that

30:31

once. Look, looks like you can't do it. Oh my gosh.

30:36

I've literally already done this once. Yeah, I have a lot of uh organize

30:42

organize later December through January. Organize.

30:48

Um it's just not important stuff. But anyway, um I think those are solid resolutions. I learned some things about

30:54

Lindsay I didn't know. I would love to be in the car with you now because it's road rage bad enough that it's worth having a resolution

31:01

over. Like like you sat here you sat here at the end of the year and you're like something's got to change.

31:06

I'm trying to think. My best friend hates me driving that she drives all the time now because she hates how I drive.

31:12

Oh wow. What is What is your What is your biggest pet peeve of other of like driving other drivers?

31:18

Um like if somebody does this, this is immediately about them driving slow or like

31:23

Yeah, speed no blinker. Speed limits one of them and then blinkers are one. Like if I'm on your if

31:29

like I'm behind you and you know that you have a turn coming up within the next 500 ft. Put your blinker on.

31:36

Are you a tail rider? If I have to if you're not

31:42

I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm already getting heated. I I feel like I'm like sometimes, especially if I'm by myself, I'll like

31:48

marshall the road and like if if I'm going what I feel like is an acceptable amount over the speed limit, then that's

31:55

just the national amount. And if you're going over me, you're going entirely too fast. Yeah. And if somebody like zips past me,

32:02

okay, all right. And now now I it's on me to go teach them a lesson. And like like that's the psych that's

32:09

the psychological stuff that go on a 15minute drive to the grocery store, dude. Like it's psychological war. So I

32:15

I get that. I feel like I tell me if I'm wrong. I feel like I'm honestly like too straight

32:22

laced of a driver. Like I You're overcautious. I'm very overautious. We'll be sitting there trying to cross the road to your

32:28

house for 45 minutes. No, we do not. Like, wait, I can I can hear one coming. No, we do not.

32:35

I don't know. I don't know if it's because like half the time I'm driving with a trailer. So,

32:40

I just like you have when you're driving with a trailer, you have to just be okay with

32:45

not like you have to be okay with people sitting behind you and you're waiting for your turn cuz like not just a trailer, but like a living animal in the

32:51

trailer. So, like wherever you park that thing is where it's parked. And so it's like I don't know if that just crosses over to when I

32:57

drive my car too and then I'm just I go the speed limit and I I don't turn out

33:02

on people and I you know I don't know. I think I get I think I annoy people

33:07

with the fact that I just I drive the speed limit or even under doesn't help that her car whips.

33:14

Does it? Yeah. Whenever you turn out

33:19

she's like yeah it does. Yeah it does. Yeah it does. Not when you do it, but when I'm in there. Yeah. You don't do it

33:25

right. Whenever you turn it out, it goes like I mean I don't like put my uh put

33:32

the pedal to the metal, but yeah, she whips. Honestly, like mine does too a little.

33:37

It's It's a problem. It whips a little too quick. Mine don't whip. Don't whip. Don't whip.

33:43

The biggest fear ever of getting pulled over. Like it is on my brain. I see that for sure.

33:48

The entire time I'm driving. I see that for sure. Have you been pulled over before? I've been a pulled over twice.

My Speeding Tickets

33:54

Did you cry? No. So, the first time seemed like you cry. I definitely learned my lesson because I

34:01

used to be like a speed demon. And so, my dad told me nothing good happens after midnight. You do not need

34:07

to go to this boy's house. Ain't nothing out past 10 but sin. You know what I'm saying? You do not need to go to this boy's house. You know, whatever. So, I went to

34:14

this boy's house at like 10 o'clock at night to go hang out, watch a movie. came back at like 2:00 a.m.

34:20

and I was like 19, 18, 19, and I had my little white Jeep. That Jeep started

34:26

like shaking after 65. Okay. Like I should not have been go I was going 70

34:32

on a 40 because it was 2 a.m. It was a straight shot. It was 96 like it or like the you

34:37

know the road 9 the highway 9 96 and I I was just going straight and not

34:43

you know it was in the summer so it wasn't like it was deer like you know it wasn't like it was the rut where like the deer were going crazy I wasn't

34:49

watching and I get pulled over and that cop was so mean to me that I like was

34:54

scared straight for a little while. Um and he was so mad at me and mean to me

35:00

and rightfully so. like why was I going 70 and a 40 at 2 a.m.? Like it was stupid. Um but then so like I had to go

35:07

to court, had to do all the it was super inconvenient, you know, had to go through driving school, like all the things.

35:12

And so then I got pulled over again when I was I was in college. I was probably 19 or

35:19

20 again, but this one time I was going five over. Like it wasn't crazy. It was just late at night because I had been to

35:24

like a sorority meeting and then I was housesitting. So, I was driving back to the house that I was housesitting and I was the only one on the road and it was

35:31

in the middle of winter and so the cop pulled me over and he was like, and it's just funny. He was being very sweet, but

35:37

he was like, "Sweetheart, uh, there's this thing called the rut going on. So, here like during that time, you know,

35:43

deer run a lot like and mind you, like I'm I'm a hunter. Like, I know all this, but like I was like, "Oh, oh my gosh,

35:49

I'm so sorry." You know, just like say you seem like you would be a good person to cry to guy.

35:54

I didn't cry, but he let me out. like he he let me let me off I let you off the hook. Um he let me off the hook on that one.

35:59

He was like I just want you to drive safer, you know. And so very nice guy on that one. I wasn't going 70 and a 40 on

36:06

that one. Yeah, right. You got that one for sure. You were cooked. But yeah. Um okay, so to wrap this video

36:12

up, Miss Lindsay has some questions because we are h how do y'all feel about the fact that we are two days away from

Questions and Answers

36:19

a safe date? That's what my was my question is like what's the what is fing season looking like? Like we we rolling.

36:25

Today is day 318 for Raven. So day 320 is her safe date. She's getting her full alert put in on Wednesday.

36:30

So we are we're cooking. Yeah. Like we're you're we're at the point where I could make the call this week

36:37

and be like time to I feel good about it. Time to come in. I feel I feel ready to get it rolling.

36:44

I think we're good. We do still need to have our pow-wow on like how we're attacking the foing season sooner than

36:50

later. But yeah, like maybe on Wednesday, but we uh yeah, it's we're ready. So, Lindsay has not experienced

36:56

foing season yet. She has not experienced breeding season yet, and there's a lot going on with that.

37:01

And there's a lot of you who haven't watched during this time. So, you are going to speak for the masses of

37:07

those who have not been here for some questions going into this. All right.

37:14

What is full alert? So, I knew you were gonna ask that. I keep I kept telling her I was like, "You'll see on Wednesday."

37:19

You just said it again. Put it in. Put one in. Honestly, you've seen a Catholics, so

37:25

you're not going to be horrified. Okay. Or I mean, I've seen the No, she's still going to be horrified. Yeah. It gets like because of all the

37:31

lidocaine they put in and it gets all swollen. She's So, when we are

37:37

thinking that they're within two weeks of folding, there's this device that they sew into the vulva.

37:45

Yeah. Oh, yeah, buddy. So they sew it. It's just two sutures.

37:50

They numb them. They're numbed. It's just two sutures. So it's not anything crazy. They sew it

37:56

into the vulva. And then when the feet poke out when the baby's born, it it there's a magnet and it breaks the

38:02

device apart. And then that sends a signal to the full alert which calls my phone and tells me that she's having her

38:09

baby. So, if I fall asleep, which I try to stay up, but if I fall asleep, if we're

38:15

at dinner, if it's in the middle of the day, like, you know, no one's watching, like, then we get called. That's crazy.

38:21

And you should see the phone call that when that happens, it's it's wild. What is it? What do you mean?

38:26

Full alert. Your mayor is full. It's coming. It's coming. Everybody go. It's coming right now. Everyone get to

38:32

the board. That is not how it goes.

38:37

It's the gummy bear song. That is not how it goes. Oh my. Could you imagine waking up at 2:00

38:43

a.m.? You're light. You're light. Have you ever accidentally like flicked an antill?

38:49

That's what happen. That's what happens when the phone rings. Well, okay. Generally, if we're watching

38:55

and like we know it's coming, we're pretty calm. Yeah. We already, you know, like as we get

39:00

farther into foing season, it gets calmer and calmer and calmer. The first one,

39:05

it's just excitement. Yeah. Yeah. There's never a like a panic. Oh,

39:10

the first one was born without us knowing last year. We woke up to a baby. Noel, the first

39:16

Yeah, that was awesome. We don't do that very often, though. Okay. We had two awesome ones. That one and a

39:22

pm birth. Yeah, Ethel. Yeah. Tight. Don't expect that either.

39:27

Okay. Interesting. Okay. Uh, what do you do immediately after they fall? I know

39:33

you do the iodine. So like the kind of systems of

39:38

operation. We get down there. We try not to be too loud. We let her do her thing. We Yes.

39:46

Can I say them? Yeah. Good. You got it. After the fo's born, we let the mother

39:53

um tend to the fo. We observe how that happens. We give it an a time which up

40:00

30 minutes. up to 30 minutes to watch the mother care for the fo. If it looks

40:06

like the mother is suffering with a little bit of aftershock perhaps from everything that just transpired in the

40:12

birth, um at that point a professional like Katie would go in there with uh some blankets, warm blankets and start

40:19

roughing it up, scruffing it up, um getting some blood flowing, drying it off. It's often very cold during folding

40:25

season. Um at that point in time, uh there would be a reintroduction to the mother. um constantly trying to enforce

40:34

that that connection to, hey, this is your baby. Love it. You know, mom just gave birth. I mean, she's

40:39

sound more complicated than it really is. I just want to see if I could do it. You You keep going. You keep going. Keep going. Um and then at that point,

40:47

once everything's good with mommy and baby, we will

40:52

Somebody's here. We will um

40:58

get dip the belly button with iodine. Yep. And then after that we will sit there

41:04

and watch for the fold to latch onto the mommy. And once you hear the suckling of

41:09

milk and dripping of milk going down. Once there is a for sure latching of the

41:15

milk and we have established that that fo can feed itself. Um at that point in time we will let them carry on.

41:21

You're missing one. Wait.

41:27

What is it? Think about your own child. What do they need to do before we like like what's one of the steps that we want to see

41:32

that they can do? Oh. Oh, yeah. And then you have to um they have to poop. You have to see if they pass their mcconium.

41:38

Placenta. Mcconium. And then the placenta. The placenta, too. So, damn it. I was close. If the mom passes her placenta quick,

41:44

then I might give her some meds to help her relax. But if she hasn't passed it, then sometimes we have to give her

41:50

oxytocin, which makes her contract. And then sometimes when those mares are contracting, they're like not super nice

41:56

to their babies. And so then we kind of have to like help them out a little bit. But there's lots of like some Mars it's

Horse's Birthdays

42:02

super easy and quick. And like honestly, one of the things that makes me the happiest is when I hear that placenta

42:08

drop and it's like within an hour I'm like like some of the times that y'all

42:14

left and I I had to stay down there was because everything was done but the placenta drop. Yeah. And at that point it's like no use in

42:20

anyone being down here like I just have to wait for it because it is like kind of an emergency situation if they retain

42:26

it. But yeah. Okay. So iodine on the navl. We do that twice.

42:32

We usually give an enema to ensure that they pass their mcconium and all of it. We uh

42:39

I felt like I was really doing good. You were good. You were. Uh we make sure mama is like taking care of it. We make sure it eats. We make

42:45

sure it stands. We make sure um she passes her placenta. Yeah. Why does foing season start in January?

42:52

Is that just because you start breeding later? So within AQA, APA,

42:59

thoroughbreds, like almost all North American breed registries,

43:04

January 1st is considered every horse in that registry's birthday. So regardless

43:11

if they were born January 2nd or December 26th, they turn a year older as

43:17

of January 1st to the registry. So, when you're showing horses and they're in age

43:22

groups, which they all are, you could have a baby in like, let's

43:28

say, the three-year-old maturities. The babies born in January are way more

43:34

mature and ready than the babies born in June. They're six months older, but

43:40

they're considered the same age. So, we try to have our babies born as early as possible. Now, breeding season is hard

43:48

and so sometimes mayors don't take the first time or sometimes they go super long with their baby and then have it

43:54

and then you have to wait a period of time before you can rebreed. So, generally speaking, we try to keep our

44:00

foing season between January and March. Sometimes it sneaks into April. We had a horrible breeding season last year. So,

44:06

that's why we have a bunch of April babies because it just took forever. But if that baby, like Noel last year,

44:13

if that baby is born December 26th, like she was in 4 days, she is

44:20

considered a yearling and therefore she is at an incredible disadvantage

44:28

until she's about five or six years old when it all evens out. So yeah, we do not want pre January 1

44:37

babies, but then we love January babies because then that's just they're that

44:42

much more mature for that year. Okay. Yeah. I did not know that. Yeah, that makes a

44:48

little more sense. Yeah. Like if Raven had her baby right now, I would go into

44:53

a comeomaosse state. I would go into a

44:58

spiral. Yeah. Honestly, she would just go. Yeah, night.

45:04

I would just Yeah, I would just pass out, honestly. Why do you use lights? Like whenever you

45:12

like whenever you're like we're out in the barn or whatever, you're like, make sure they have lights. So the mayors

45:19

that aren't pregnant that were trying to breed so early in the year to get January and February babies,

45:27

it's earlier in the year than what naturally they would be like primed up for breeding.

45:32

They are usually that's like the summer. The longer the days, the hotter the weather, the you know, the longer

45:38

they're under sunlight, it tells them that their body should be cycling better. So, we mimic

45:44

a summer day by putting them under 16 hours of light. So, their lights go off

45:50

at like 11:00 p.m. And that generally allows for their body to continue

45:55

cycling and ovulating and building mature follicles in a time period where they normally wouldn't so that we can

46:01

breed them earlier in the season. Okay. Yeah.

46:07

I Yeah, I've wondered that for a little bit and just never asked. Yeah. Um, whenever a baby a f not a baby

46:16

horse, we we call them baby horses, but yeah, they're a full baby horse full. Um, how much do they

46:21

typically weigh when they come out? Like standard is kind of like 10% of mama. So my mares are like, you know, I

46:30

would say average is like 1,000 pounds. So I would say they're around 100 pounds when they come out. Sheesh.

46:35

They don't look that big though. No, they don't. They don't look that big. And like so

46:40

like we have a mini baby due soon too. And so we like Coco her day 300 is like

46:47

Friday. And so we're very close to having a mini baby too. And she like I

46:54

would say I can't remember. Do you remember how big Squirt and George and Jack were? Were they like 20 pounds?

46:59

I think 20 25 pounds. Yeah. Like I mean little like I'm trying to remember.

47:04

Oh no. You were with Jack. You were with Jack. Jack with the Yeah, he was like 20 pounds. a cutie man.

47:09

Yeah. So, we have another one of those. But it'll be like I honestly love when they're bored when it's cold. We put

47:15

little blankets on them and like we play with them in the barn a lot because it's cold so they stay up and we like we'll

47:21

like close the doors and let them just like run around. I kind of want to bring one into the shop and like hang out with it.

47:27

We should. We should do that. Have a shop horse. Honestly, with this next one, because it's going to be cold,

47:33

I think Karen would come hang out in the shop. She can't wait till she just lifts that tail up and just opens the floodgates.

47:38

It's We can do it. We have LBT. Yes, we swift clean up.

47:44

Imagine there's one thing a little We're going to do that. We're going to bring Karen and

47:50

Okay. I not Karen but Coco. So, when Karen has her baby, if it's a boy, one

47:56

of my mom's like best friends and like I grew up with her son. We were only six months apart. His name is Kip.

48:02

Mhm. That's a If Karen has a boy, I want to name it Kip. That's cute. Yeah, Kip.

48:07

If Coco I Her names are kind of set in stone. If she has a girl, Chanel. Yeah, that makes sense.

48:13

Coco. Chanel. And then if she has a boy, Glenn. Glen Coco. Glen Coco. So, it's kind of set in stone

48:19

what her names will be. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I feel like we've been talking for a while.

48:25

We have been an hour and a half. I have one more question. That was a lie.

48:31

I was like, one more question. All right. Last question of the whole thing. Okay. Um, so whenever

48:37

horses are in labor, Uhhuh. when when and if

48:43

do you inter intervene? Generally speaking, so like and I've talked to vets about this, not just my

48:49

vet, multiple vets about this. So like there's there's lots of schools of thought and a lot of pe like there's

48:55

some people that their mayors fall out in the field like a herd. Totally fine.

49:02

We have our mayors up so that if something goes wrong, we can intervene because I've seen where like had someone

49:08

not been there, Mary and baby would have died, you know, and so generally speaking, we're we watch pretty much

49:15

every birth. Um like so for instance, this last year, Ethel didn't need help. Everything was fine. Everything was

49:20

lined up perfect. Every time she was pushing, she was making progress. the sack didn't break until after like it

49:27

was already, you know, partially out and it was within a time frame. So, no one went in and intervened. It was all good.

49:34

Now, there are some times where they are in a bad position. Mhm.

49:40

So like let's say like I remember Petey a couple years ago his head was like underneath his leg and it was like like

49:48

we had to go in and kind of like re kind of configure it and then after that he

49:54

could come out streamlined. So sometimes there's like a a bad presentation you could call it. Yeah.

49:59

Um where you might need to go like reconfigure or like if a leg is hung back like go bring it back up things

50:04

like that. They're going to come out kind of a little staggered and in like superman position. That's normal. So,

50:10

you don't want their legs back here with their feet, you know, head. Uh, you want them out front and they're going to be a

50:16

little offcentered. Uh, but if if like one leg's out here and then the other one's back here, you bring it up. Things

50:21

like that. You don't want breach, which is like backwards. You don't want upside down. That's bad, too. Um, so bad

50:28

presentation could warrant help. And then also, if like here's my philosophy

50:34

on it. uh if they are working really hard, like maybe they have a okay

50:40

presentation, but they're working really hard and not making good progress, like they might be able to get it done

50:47

and then they're just going to be so worn out by the end of it. I'd rather go hold pressure, not pull,

50:53

hold pressure to allow them to maintain their progress. Yeah. So that when they have had their baby,

51:01

they're not like so worn out that they can't take care of it. I'd rather that mom have the energy to lick her baby and

51:07

take care of it and like, you know, all that rather than her being so worn out because I've had that where they've been

51:13

just so worn out that like I end up doing everything and baby is up walking around and stuff by the time mom even

51:18

gets up cuz she's just like laid there so tired. So, I think there's a balance to it. I

51:24

think when you know your horses super well and like they are comfortable with you. Um, again, not pulling and not like

51:32

forcing a a quick birth or anything like that, but like you know, if you see that she's not making progress and like it's

51:38

just taking her a long time, like just like holding so that cuz sometimes you'll see this, they'll push and then

51:45

it'll pull back. It goes retracts back in. So, it's like that's that's good for a little bit. That actually preps the cervix. So

51:50

that's needed at first because that's what prevents tearing. That's what like like it gets that baby awake when it's

51:57

um like the pressure around it. You want them to have enough pressure for a long enough period of time. So you don't want

52:03

to do it right away. But if it's just taking like over 30 minutes and especially when the sack breaks, you do

52:10

have kind of like a timeline after that because then like you don't want them inhaling any of

52:16

the um fluid. You don't want them aspirating. You don't want them

52:21

suffocating like you know. So anyway, cool. Thank you. Yeah. Well, hope you enjoyed today's

52:28

episode, the last episode of 2025. Again, we are doing a 2025 recap, so stay tuned for that video as well. And I

52:36

just hope youall all have an amazing New Year's and we will see you next year.