Two Voices, One Vibe
Join Nikita and Lina, two best friends with endless curiosity and plenty to say, as they explore everything life throws their way. From hilarious stories and pop culture hot takes to life lessons and the occasional deep dive, no topic is off-limits. Whether you're in the mood for a laugh, a fresh perspective, or just some fun company, this podcast feels like a chat with your bestie. Get ready for unfiltered conversations, tons of laughs, and a whole lot of heart!
Two Voices, One Vibe
Spicy Chaos & Sweet Connections: Life’s Unexpected Mix
Ever experienced the chaos of attempting to make deviled eggs while critiquing New Jersey's plastic bag regulations? That's just a taste of the hilarious journey we embark on in this episode of "Two Voices, One Vibe." From the highs and lows of meeting Mr. New Year's kids to the unexpected thrill of a missing hot sauce bottle, join us for a laugh-out-loud exploration of life’s little absurdities. We navigate technical mishaps and toy with the idea of a drunken podcast, all while sharing personal anecdotes that make you feel like you’re right there with us in the mix of it all.
Spice up your life, or at least your deviled eggs, as we share a culinary misadventure involving cayenne pepper. The conversation heats up with tales of Thai food and cultural spice challenges, before simmering down with stories of family gatherings and gluten-free Crumbl cookies. We mix humor with heartfelt moments, recounting the joy of new relationships while sidestepping the awkwardness of ex encounters. It's all about finding happiness amidst life’s unpredictable social dynamics—sometimes involving free Botox offers from unexpected acquaintances!
On a more serious note, we discuss the harrowing wildfires affecting Southern California, sharing personal stories and reflections on the impact these events have on communities. As we unpack the emotional toll, we also touch on friendship dynamics in today’s digital world and the challenges our kids face growing up in these times. Through laughter and serious reflection, we wrap up with a lighthearted take on expired makeup and cooking mishaps, inviting you to share in the unpredictability and joy of everyday life.
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Hi, I'm Nikita and I'm Lina. We're two best friends with endless curiosity and plenty to say.
Speaker 2:Join us as we dive into everything and anything life throws our way From hilarious stories and pop culture, hot takes to life lessons and deep dives.
Speaker 1:No topic is off limits. Whether you're looking for a laugh, a new perspective or just some fun company, this podcast feels like a chat with your bestie.
Speaker 2:Get ready for unfiltered conversations, lots of laughs and a whole lot of heart. This is Two Voices, one Vibe.
Speaker 1:All right, so are we ready.
Speaker 2:We're ready. Let's do it On your mark. Get set, go. Welcome back to Two Voices, one Vibe I.
Speaker 1:To two voices, one vibe I'm nikita and I'm lena, and we are back for another episode of shenanigans.
Speaker 2:I don't know who's more excited you, me or them.
Speaker 1:All of the above who you need to move this cup at.
Speaker 2:Oh, we have a second video camera set up and clearly I'm new at this lena's cup was literally right in front of it and blocking the view there's only iced tea in the cocktail, so in case anybody's concerned about what's in the cup two girls, one cup are you sure it's just, I see, and it's not iced tea laced with vodka or tequila. No, it's just iced tea. No, if you guys really want to see crazy. We'll do a drunken podcast. Oh my God, who's in? I'm in. You're in Terrible idea. I'm in.
Speaker 3:How was?
Speaker 2:your week. My week was good. I had a pretty eventful week. I had a lot going on this week. Oh, what was?
Speaker 1:the okay, let's, let's do a Kardashian moment Peak and pit of your week. Oh, oh, you want to start with the peak or the pit.
Speaker 2:Let's go with the peak, Okay, go, Okay. So peak of my week? Ooh, I like that. I'm a poet and I didn't know it. Okay. So peak of my week was I got to meet Mr New Year's Kids.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you go, oh, oh, so now you would have met all three of them.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, Okay, how'd that go? It actually went really amazing. I'm not gonna lie, I was kind of nervous about it. Okay, and as I was driving to his house, I had text him and I was like I'm a little nervous. I'm like I'm mostly excited, but I'm a little nervous and he's like, well, if it makes you feel any better, he's like my son has been getting ready for the last hour. He comes downstairs, hair done and asks me what I think about his outfit.
Speaker 3:How old is your son?
Speaker 2:he's 15. Okay, so he's gonna be 16 in April. So he's like I thought you were saying for dinner, where are you going? He's like I am saying for dinner. He's like, well, what are you getting dressed up for? He's like, well, dad, you only have one chance to make a great first impression, so is that turn on. And you're like which one of us do you think she's dating? Bro? Like, so that made me feel so much better when I read that text.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like okay, I feel better.
Speaker 2:That's cute. Yeah, so it was really cute. I got there and I had made a tray of deviled eggs, because him and his son. Oh, can we forgot about?
Speaker 1:this Lord almighty the shenanigans and the text messages of you making your double-deck.
Speaker 2:I think that our listeners and viewers need to know that you and I both despise grocery shopping.
Speaker 1:Oh, with a fucking passion.
Speaker 2:We hate it so much that we just don't do it.
Speaker 1:To the point where we do shop right from home and I even despise going and picking up my groceries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like grocery shopping is the most inefficient process ever. A hundred percent agree. You're grabbing an item from the shelf, you're putting it in the cart, then you're putting it from your cart onto the conveyor belt, then you're putting it from the conveyor belt into a bag, then you're putting the bag into the cart.
Speaker 3:And then you're putting the bag into your trunk.
Speaker 2:Then you're taking the bag and you're bringing it to your counter, and then you're taking the item and you're putting it into the fridge, like how many times do I have to touch the fucking Cholula? We're getting somewhere with the hot sauce people. We're getting somewhere.
Speaker 1:Cholula is the main topic and now In Jersey, Stupid reusable bags that I always forget.
Speaker 2:We're not allowed to use plastic bags, but we can use plastic straws, we can use plastic water bottles, we can use plastic cups, everything else. Speaking of a plastic cup? Yeah, but the plastic bags are going to save the turtles or someone's life, I don't know. I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Anyway, continue about the Chulula.
Speaker 2:So yes, so we hate grocery shopping. We do shop right from home orders. We pick up our groceries. So this day and it was he sprung it on me that day yes, so we had plans to see each other that day he picked up an overtime shift at work and said wait this was Monday right, this was Monday, yeah, so no, no, no, no, no, you were supposed to have my kids on Monday?
Speaker 1:Yes, and then I was going to work Monday, and then my job wound up closing Monday because of the snow Right.
Speaker 3:So then Sunday I told you Sunday.
Speaker 1:So Sunday, you knew you were going to his house, didn't you?
Speaker 2:No, I knew we were going to hang out. Oh, okay, I did not know I was going to meet his kids. Okay, so it wasn't until Monday. I called him because I slept in Monday. I love my sleep, I knew my beauty sleep, so I had slept in. I called him when I got up and he was like I had good news and bad news. And I'm like well, what's up? And he's like well, the good news is I can't wait to see you tonight. And I'm like oh, I can't wait to see you too. And he's like you make me sick. No, it's so sweet. He's like the bad news, is he not a big deal at all? Yeah, so he's like well, you know, I was thinking why don't you maybe come up to my house and meet the kids today? Okay, and I was like huh, but I didn't even noise because I want him to know that I freaked out inside and I'm like that'd be great because I have the looking forward to meeting them.
Speaker 1:I was a little nervous about it we were freaking out inside.
Speaker 2:I was freaking out, yeah so I immediately was like what do I do, where do I go? What do I bring?
Speaker 1:and that's when you asked me, what do I bring? And I was like you bring dessert. That's what you bring.
Speaker 2:You bring dessert and then I thought, oh well, I can bring appetizers too. And I know that him and his son are on this like protein kick. Yeah, you know, they're like dieting and running and trying to like get into their summer shape, because summer bugs are made in the winter, right, yeah, and um, they have the house down the shore, yeah, so you. So you know they're always outside and they're always doing things. So I'm like, oh, I'm going to make deviled eggs, because that's like my infamous appetizer.
Speaker 3:Anywhere I go if I don't bring it, it's like why did you not make your deviled eggs?
Speaker 2:You food us, yeah. So I made the deviled eggs and when I started making them I realized, oh my gosh, I need dill, I need chives, I need you know a couple of different things. So I ended up running out to the grocery store, which I never do. Turns out Target. They don't carry fresh dill. Yep, nothing. We learned that, aldi, no dill.
Speaker 1:Learned that.
Speaker 2:Lidl also no dill. So, uh, by the time that I made it to ShopRite, my fourth grocery store of the day, right which I was not happy about I'm like all I was running out for was dill and chives Two things to make eggs, yeah, four grocery stores.
Speaker 2:So I grab what I need. I come home and I had already boiled the eggs and peeled them and everything. So now I'm putting everything together and I go to grab my Cholula hot sauce from the fridge and I realized the last time I made deviled eggs was for Christmas Eve and I made them at my parents' house and I brought the Cholula and I left it there. Dun, dun, dun. So at that point I text you and I'm like, what do I do?
Speaker 3:Do I run out to a fifth grocery store of the day?
Speaker 2:Yep. So I was looking at the time and I'm like you know what? I have time.
Speaker 1:It's not totally essential, but I make really good deviled eggs and I don lot of effort, right, I need to put in the effort. I said I'm going to go, so I ran out to stop and shop. So that is the fifth grocery store in one day, which worked out really well for me, cause my I needed roast beef because my shop right from homeowner they were out of stock of roast beef and you're like I'm at stop and shop, I'm like roast beef, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you were like no substitutions. So, yeah, yeah, so okay, I've run back out to the fifth grocery store of the day. I grab the chalula. I come back, I'm like, all right, everything's great, I'm gonna make this. Once I finish making this, I'm gonna jump in the shower so I don't smell like egg and I'm gonna, you know, throw on some makeup and an outfit and I'm gonna leave yep well, the plot thickens.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I take the plastic wrap off of the cholula. Oh yeah, and then I go to open the little wooden nubby cap. Mm-hmm, can't get it off. No, it would not open. I was so fucking mad because this is the story of my life.
Speaker 2:I have always said, if I didn't have bad luck, I would have no luck. Mm-hmm Right, this is my life. This is par for the course. I got so frustrated to the point that I started Googling how do you open a shalula bottle? And then you sent me a TikTok. And then I found a TikTok about some woman who was going through the same thing as me and she's like, it's like a different hot sauce.
Speaker 3:I need to open the bottle.
Speaker 2:So it got to a point that I was ready to take the bottle and just crack it like, smash it open and then strain it so I wouldn't get any glass in it and then just take. All I needed was, like fucking, five drops of hot sauce, that's all, but it was like liquid gold at that point because you needed it and you just couldn't have it.
Speaker 2:So after all was said and done after five grocery store trips I still didn't have the chula and I had to use a little bit of cayenne pepper. But it was great because when Mr New Year's took the first bite he was like, oh, this is really good. Whoa, there's a kick. And I'm like there's also a story behind it. So as he's mid-bite of his first deviled egg, I take the Chula out of the bag and I'm like can you please open this for me? And he's like for what? You're going to put that on the eggs? And I'm like no, I was trying to put it in the eggs but I couldn't open it and I just needed you to open it. So it did take. I do have an open bottle of Chula in my fridge now for next time.
Speaker 1:Did you? Well, I know you stopped at your mom's this week too. Did you bring the Chula from your mom's home? No, I didn't, Because what am I going to do?
Speaker 2:with two bottles of Chula.
Speaker 1:Never run out you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, and I don't put hot sauce on anything.
Speaker 1:Like I'm not like a big spicy person. You know, speaking of my boyfriend, and I got out to a thai restaurant, yes, and my boyfriend loves spicy, like loves spicy, not me. The hotter the better for him. So he went to a thai restaurant and it was like a scale of like one to five, five being thai, hot, yeah so apparently I wasn't with him.
Speaker 1:he was with somebody else and he was telling me this story that the waitress was like you know, do you want it hot? And he's like not Thai, hot, like white people, hot, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like what, that's how. I feel because there's different levels of hot. Like you have people that might be from like Indonesia and they're used to having their cuisine being really spicy. I like heat in my food when it adds flavor and it adds a kick. I don't like heat just for the sake of it being spicy and burning my mouth on fire. Yeah, that's not my jam. I think eating should be a pleasurable experience, not a painful one. I agree, you know yeah.
Speaker 2:I feel like there's different pain and thresholds for different activities in your life. Eating should not be a painful one. No, I get it.
Speaker 1:You know, you know the same thing, like when people order spicy margaritas nope, I don't like spicy margaritas.
Speaker 2:No, I love margaritas to burn when it's going down.
Speaker 1:You know, although I should, I have had like jalapeno margaritas and I have had spicy margaritas that weren't bad, but they weren't they also weren't good no, no, it wasn't that they weren't good, they weren't like overly spicy where it wasn't enjoyable, yeah so no, I like enjoy my, my food and my drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um so, yeah. So that was my crazy double-edged story. That was so fun.
Speaker 1:What'd you wind up bringing for?
Speaker 2:dessert, so I wound up bringing crumble cookies. Thanks, Nikita, you're welcome so at first I was like, oh my gosh, what am I going to bring for dessert? Should I just pick up like a cake from a bakery? And you're like, oh well, like you should just bake something. And I'm like, yeah, because I have time to bake something. I learned like half an hour ago that I'm going to meet his kids in like four hours, and now I'm going to be Betty fucking Crocker.
Speaker 1:I'm like I have time for this.
Speaker 2:Plus five grocery trips later.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, we also didn't have enough time to clean the parking lot.
Speaker 2:So there was like a handwritten sign on the door that says we're opening at noon today. Oh, okay, and I got there and it was like 11.08. And I'm like motherfuckers, I have to kill 52 minutes. How am?
Speaker 1:I going to kill 52 minutes no-transcript.
Speaker 2:Friends who were all jonesing for crumble. I walked into the store and it smelled fucking delicious. I wanted to eat all the things and I couldn't eat any of the things. I was like do you guys have any gluten-free cookies?
Speaker 1:They like one, like just a chocolate chip.
Speaker 2:I don't know that they'd be able to safely make it without cross-contamination but I feel like some bakeries do it like. There's a bakery by my office in the city and they only have one type of cookie that's gluten-free. But my god is it delicious. It's like eight dollars. I don't care if it was eighteen dollars, it's so freaking good I know I'm able to walk in and have something homey that's gluten-free. You don't get to do that every day so, yeah, no, absolutely, I get it so I was a huge hit.
Speaker 2:And then I actually stopped at target as well and I picked up one of those unsolved case file games, yes, and then I picked up a medical mysteries one. So his middle daughter is into kind of like the medical field but she kind of wants to go to school to do something in that arena, um, and then his son is kind of more into like the cold case, okay, you know murder mystery kind of stuff too, yeah, so I picked up one of each game and so we ate, he cooked for us and we played games and the kids had cookies and we had a really great time. It was really good to meet the kids. They were just super normal and down-to-earth and very well adjusted. Mm-hmm, you know, sometimes you were kind of like worried about me and somebody else's kids, cuz you don't know how they feel about like are you going to take my dad from me?
Speaker 1:And they're older too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they're older, so again it could be a tough crowd.
Speaker 2:You know, you have a 15 year old boy and a 17 year old girl, yeah, and it's kind of like, oh, this could be dicey this could go either way. Yeah, a lot of the major milestones. So now he's like I want to meet your dad and I'm like okay, so that's next on the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you sent me, you sent me a text message and you're like, um, he wants to meet my dad and talk to him. I'm like, uh, no, we're going to, we're going to pump the brakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, slow down your own conversation for another day. Yeah, so, yeah. So he wants to meet my dad.
Speaker 1:I mean it's nice that he wants to meet your parents but I love that, and you know what?
Speaker 2:I think too, that that's something that you don't see every day with American men.
Speaker 1:No, and you know and he's not right.
Speaker 2:American man and as a first generation American and growing up and seeing that culture and that being the right thing to do according to the way that I was raised, right, Not judging anybody else for how they were raised, but that's the way that I was raised.
Speaker 2:You walk into somebody's house, you say hello to everybody, you say please, you say thank you, you introduce yourself. You know so the fact that he has made such a big deal. I can't honestly say that I've ever dated another man who has come right. Can you set something up so I can meet your dad? Like what? That's crazy to me. So he's actually met my mom before, so that part's out of the way. So now he wants to meet my dad.
Speaker 1:That's exciting, yeah. Okay, so that was your peak, which I could see, how that was a peak, but I really didn't think that was going to be your peak.
Speaker 3:But that's okay.
Speaker 1:No, and I'll tell you because I know that was Thank you, but I actually thought Go for it so superficial compared to what your peak actually was. Oh, oh, do you know where I'm going with this?
Speaker 2:I don't have a clue what you could possibly be talking about. Nikita.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I thought your peak was going to be your second row of extensions.
Speaker 2:Of my luscious lofts From Lili?
Speaker 1:No, not Lili.
Speaker 2:Lili and.
Speaker 1:Lulu Was her name, lili Lili, oh, I was right, it was Lili. Yeah yeah, lili, I thought that was going to be your peak.
Speaker 3:But, I do like your peak, your peak was was good.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I did have a little mishap on my vacation where I was using the mineral sunscreen. I was not really like dunking in chlorine or the salt water.
Speaker 1:I was actually thinking about this. I think the next time you go on vacation, you should bring a travel container with some purple shampoo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's probably a really good idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. No, no, okay.
Speaker 2:Basically my hair turned orange with tinges of pink, which was really interesting and, um, not very flattering at all. So I totally freaked out and I text our hair girl and I was like um Houston. We have a problem. I'm like I need new hair.
Speaker 2:So she actually ordered a new row of hair for me to replace my discolored hair. And then when I got back home I started Googling it and I saw this video on TikTok that was recommending the Malibu Sea Crystal Packets, and you tried it. And then I tried it. I did it twice and it actually really helps to color, correct the faux pas that you have.
Speaker 1:So I think you either bring that with you or just bring some purple shampoo, yeah, and like halfway through your vacation. For sure, I think that's definitely necessary.
Speaker 2:But at that point I had already ordered and paid for new hair and my hair was a good color and I just ordered it. It was new. So I was like do you think maybe like you have time to try two rows of hair this time? So, and we have a couple events coming up that you know we're kind of like doing galas and they're more like wedding formal type things, events. So I'm like it wouldn't hurt to have extra hair.
Speaker 1:This just makes me so happy, because I've been on your case about two rose too for a couple weeks now, so like I freaking love it.
Speaker 2:I could not be happier, and this is what my hair used to look like back in the day, so it makes me feel just like myself.
Speaker 3:And I know some people might be like wow, that's so vain.
Speaker 2:I can't believe you would do that. Who would do that? I would do it because you know what it makes me feel good and it makes me feel better.
Speaker 3:I have a few rows of extensions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so whatever I would say, I am a JFZ, I am a judgment-free zone. Peak, what was your pit of the week? Okay, so my pit of the week? Huh, and I've just started with a peak and turned into a pit, but then it turned into a peak again because I was in control of the situation. So, okay, good sir. So I know we haven't really got into this yet. I am suing my ex.
Speaker 1:Wow, I was not expecting that to come out, but okay, we're on the air for it.
Speaker 2:Yes, so my ex and I were actually moving in together. Yes, and that's when I discovered things about his life, yes, that were not going to coincide with mine.
Speaker 1:Absolutely A hundred percent.
Speaker 2:Now, when he was moving in with me, we had consulted with a realtor. The realtor came and did a walk of his house and basically said there were certain things that he needed to do to bring it up to code to sell the house. And he said I don't have the money to make those changes and basically asked to borrow money from me and said when I sell my house and I get the money from the sale of the house, I'll pay you back. Right, of course it is a substantial amount of money.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So when we had split up, he basically said I'm not paying you a dime, but I had already had things in writing and text messages and emails prior where he had already agreed to pay this money back, so I did retain an attorney who specializes in collections.
Speaker 2:So proud of you, thank you. And on Friday I got the notice that they put him on notice that he has whatever. I think it's like 30 days or so to acknowledge and make a payment plan, otherwise he's going to be sued, right. So when they sent that out on Friday I guess they overnighted this probably certified mail or I don't know if they actually need to serve him and he needs to sign the paperwork so he either got it Saturday or if he didn't get it Saturday I think Monday was the holiday he would have gotten it on Tuesday, right, so that was a good peek. And then the very next day what are the chances I get a text message from one of his best friends. Let me pull them up. Yeah, um, and I have not spoken to his friend in probably about three or four months. Yep and um, he just kind of texted me and he's like hey, how are you doing? And I'm like is it a complete coincidence?
Speaker 2:yeah, you texted me yeah, I said chances that fruitcake's friend texted me today out of genuine interest in how I'm doing, since we haven't spoken since october. Or is it funny the timing since fruitcake must have just received the collections letter?
Speaker 1:and my response was I say you ignore him, block him, don't engage yeah, that was your really good advice.
Speaker 2:I know I always have good advice but. I'm a nice person and he has how I was doing. It's not like he said, you know. I think you guys should get back together, or why are you suing him? You know?
Speaker 1:So and I was coming at it from total outsider perspective, knowing that you had told me that the paperwork that we thought that he got served because we found out about this. So my immediate thought as I dropped my foot, my immediate thought was he's digging yeah, that's why I had said don't engage, block yeah, so go ahead.
Speaker 2:Go ahead. So basically I had texted him back and I said, you know, it's a small world, because I had been driving to work that morning and I passed the airport and he, I used to drop him off at the airport. Um, because he worked out at the airport, so some days when I would go in the office I would drop him off. So I had literally thought about it this morning. I'm like, hey, I wonder how him and his wife are doing. And he had texted me that day. So I told him I said, really strange, I actually thought about you this morning. You must have ESP. You know how are you and your wife, how's everything? So he had texted me back and said so you know, I told him I was really sorry to hear that and I remember what it's like living in construction zone because I had flipped my house and I did all the work myself. Then, out of nowhere, his response to me was are you dating anyone now?
Speaker 1:And I was like and I respond with he's digging. He has no real reason to talk to you in any other reason other than to dig for information. Yeah, Because of what happened with fruitcake.
Speaker 2:So then my response was yep, not even a transition. Mm-hmm, that was stupid Mm-hmm, and now that warrants zero response. Yep.
Speaker 3:And so I didn't reply to him. Yep.
Speaker 2:Because that was totally uncalled for response, and so I didn't reply to him, because that was totally uncalled for. However, I think it was kind of funny because, after this had transpired, you and I had come up with a million different responses that we could have sent him.
Speaker 3:That would have been great.
Speaker 2:So my first one was thinking about replying back to him and saying um, you know, I don't think that your wife would appreciate your advances towards me. I thought that that would be funny, kind of making it seem like he wanted to date me. Yes, yes, but I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1:And then you also thought about saying that you had met the most wonderful man yes, of my life.
Speaker 2:And I've never been so happy and I never thought such a wonderful man existed.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And I also don't want yeah 100% I don't want them in my life.
Speaker 1:And you don't need that. You don't need anybody from your past who brought any bad juju in.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:So then I had said well, you could have really fucked with them. And said, well, yes, actually my girlfriend and I are doing very good yeah.
Speaker 2:And we are very happy together, yeah. But then I'm like, oh my God, they would have both busted out at that point. They would have been so excited and they'd be like girlfriend, send pics, you know. So that all happened and then I was thinking about saying you know, well, am I dating anyone? I'm dating everyone, just like fruitcake was. You know? I took a page out of his book you know, so I'm dating all the people.
Speaker 2:So I thought about that too, and then I also thought about responding to him and saying you know, I'm sorry, but you're married and I can't do that to your wife, even though I've never met your wife. I can't do that, but I can't say.
Speaker 2:I haven't thought about it, though, and I sent a little winky face and like make them all feel really uncomfortable because if he's with fruitcake and fruitcake saw that response he's like you wanted to fuck my friend. Yeah, I'd be like I sent the response. I think he'd be so mad if I actually said I wanted to fuck his friend, which I didn't, but it would just be a funny response, yeah yeah, so we, we spent a few text message exchanges going back and forth but you know what, at the end of the day, yes, I have met the most amazing man, 100%.
Speaker 2:And no, it's not any of their business and I have no problem telling anybody in my life. You've met him. My mom has met him. You know some of my other friends have met him. I went out and I met his friends Thursday night. We went out for his friend's birthday. Tonight I'm going to an event with him. So we're absolutely 100% involving each other in each other's lives.
Speaker 1:It's not like we're hiding it from anybody, no 100%.
Speaker 2:also don't see any need to have any of our exes involved 100, speaking of which yes, yes, do tell so what are the chances?
Speaker 2:okay, so we went out thursday for his friend's birthday, kind of at their you know local dive bar. Yeah, they all hang out and I met a bunch of his friends and some of them I had met before because, like I said, you know, we'd been seeing each other for a while. And this woman comes over to me and she's like I just have to tell you. She's like I just texted my best friend and I just told her that Mr New Year's just walked into this bar with the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life and I'm like, oh my god, that was so sweet. Like she gives me a hug and a kiss and she tells me her name and introduces herself and then she proceeds to tell me what a wonderful man he is. And I'm like, yeah, no, I know he's pretty wonderful.
Speaker 2:And you know she tells me a story about how she had gotten snowed in at a lake house with a bunch of her girlfriends and she reached out to him. I was like how are we going to be able to get out of here? And he jumped in his truck and he went and picked up her and her friends and made sure they got home safe. And I'm like, wow, that, wow, that was really nice of him. You know, she's telling me all these great things. And then she proceeds to tell me oh, my best friend, who I was texting about you, she just got here.
Speaker 2:Oh, and, by the way, she's his ex-girlfriend and walks away from me. Wait, what it happened? Just like that. So, and, by the way, she's his ex-girlfriend. So I'm like, okay, shit, starter, so starter. So I, there's always one, right, there's always one. So as soon as she had walked away, I was going next to Mr New Year's and he kind of pulled me aside and he was like babe, he's like. I was just talking to my friend and he said if you want your relationship with your girl to last, you better keep her away from her because she's a train wreck, she's a hot mess and she's just going to. And I was like yeah, and I was like, oh, like the drama of her just letting me know that your ex-girlfriend just walked in. And he's like babe, he's like I wanted to tell you, he's like I didn't know she was going to show up.
Speaker 3:I was like no, no, I'm not upset with you, like I'm not upset about the situation.
Speaker 2:I'm not even, I don't even feel weird about it. This happened so long ago, um, but he's like. That was my information to share with you, not her information to share with you. He's like I did not know she was going to be here.
Speaker 3:Even if I thought there was a possibility that she was going to be here, I would have told you.
Speaker 2:He's like, I had no idea and I'm like, babe, it's cool, I'm good with it. So our social circles ended up kind of crossing paths later that night and I was kind of looking at her face and I was like, oh, that makes sense. I didn't say it out loud, I thought it and then she's like yeah, she's like, oh, my god, she's like you should totally come to my work and I'll do your Botox for free.
Speaker 1:First of all, that's pretty presumptuous of her to assume that.
Speaker 2:Are you saying that I need Botox?
Speaker 1:right, right, I mean there's no need for that Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I was like it was almost like a backhanded compliment, absolutely yeah. So I was like oh, thank you so much. And then so she proceeds to tell me you know, anytime you want you can come, I'll take care of you, you know. You know we could just put a little bit in here. You need a little bit here, and it'll be great. And so I'm like okay, thanks. So I find my way out of that conversation and I walk over to him and I'm like guess what I'm doing next week? He's like what?
Speaker 3:And I was like I'm going to your ex-girlfriend's job and she's going to do my Botox for free and he turned around and he's like I will pay, have my Botox done.
Speaker 2:But I just thought the whole conversation was funny and he wanted to make sure I was comfortable and I was okay, which is the way he is, and I'm like I'm totally fine, I don't care that she's here, I'm here with you, you're here with me. If you wanted to be here with her, you would have been and you're not. But just like, what are the chances Like?
Speaker 1:again this this would never happen to anybody else anywhere, ever. It's just a prime example of shit that only happens to you.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Lena. And this is why I told him, like when he really wanted to get serious and I was like no, and I was pumping the brakes, I kept telling him, like you don't understand what my life is like and see, now he's part of it, now we start dating and all of a sudden his ex-girlfriend starts showing up in places. It's me what.
Speaker 3:What is the common denominator in the crazy?
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm the problem it's me yeah. Okay, all right, we can't get copyrighted, nikita.
Speaker 3:I know she's always making me stop singing.
Speaker 2:Why are you trying to silence me? You cannot control my narrative, are you done? Let me speak. No, I'm going to be done when I'm done, not when you say I'm done. Okay, I didn't say you're, are you sure I love you? I love you too. Oh, my Nikita.
Speaker 1:So let's flip the switch here, okay, and talk about something serious, and we haven't brought this up. You ready, ready, ready.
Speaker 3:Okay, why are you?
Speaker 2:so serious I can't.
Speaker 1:No, but on a serious note, this is something that's been going on. God, it's got to be about two weeks now the fires out in California and they've been devastating and I know without going into detail of what your job entails, but I know you've been indirectly impacted by it for work. I'm speechless. My boyfriend has a friend who lives out in California and you know we've been checking on him and thankfully he's okay. And I know it's Devastating what has happened out there.
Speaker 2:It's. It's really awful and I think a lot of this could have been prevented, if not entirely, I think, the extent to which the devastation has occurred. I know that they actually cut the fire department's funding. I heard about that. They actually stopped having controlled fires, which they had done in the past. They said it was too dangerous and never had a controlled fire ever gotten out of control or become uncontrolled Right and especially to where it's led now. Do we?
Speaker 1:know what started it yet, and especially to where it's led now. I think there was just a Do we know what started it yet?
Speaker 2:I think it was between not having the controlled fires to take care of the dry areas of brush, so the environment to breed fires. You know, kind of like Smokey the Bear that tells you the different levels of fire danger. I think the level of fire danger was so high because they hadn't had the controlled fires. Oh, okay, in addition to that, the wind that was coming down.
Speaker 1:The Santa Ana winds yes exactly.
Speaker 2:So I think it was just kind of the perfect storm where everything kind of just collided at once Again, they had cut the fire department budget. They actually ran out of water to be able to fight the fires.
Speaker 2:That's insane. The government and not to get into politics whatsoever didn't call the National Guard until 24 hours later. They didn't have a way to contain them and the fires just kept popping up from different areas. So it was really awful. I handle a lot of the crisis management piece at work, so I was working hand-in-hand with our counterparts at headquarters, with our teams that are out on the West Coast, Our teams here on the East Coast that have teams on the West Coast, and we did have a number of employees in our company that lost their home, that lost their pets, that their parents were in ICU. So we were kind of working around the clock to be able to get air scrubbers to the area, to help improve air quality, to get the appropriate masks to help from the wildfire smoke inhalation and just kind of do whatever we can to help you know, with the aftermath of what everybody was dealing with and it's just, it's really sad.
Speaker 2:I also have friends that live out there. I, you know, checked in with everybody I'd spoken to and you know the area that really got hit. You see, on the news there was a lot of celebrities that lost their homes because it was a very upscale ritzy area 100%, so a lot of these homes were in excess of, you know, $3, $4, $5 million.
Speaker 2:There were, you know, over, I think, 15,000 or 20,000 structures. So, whether it was buildings, hotels, homes, businesses that were just completely lost, demolished malls, stores, it just it's sad, and so many icons of the area, so like iconic restaurants and landmarks and things of that nature. So, you know, my heart goes out to everybody in the Southern California area that's been impacted by it and I hope that they're able to recover. I know they've been working with different engineers to figure out how to rebuild those areas.
Speaker 1:Well, and the fires aren't even out yet?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're still burning and new fires are still popping up. As of three days ago, they just had a new fire pop up. So I know that they are making a lot of progress in containing the fires at this point, but you know I wonder how much longer they'll burn for.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know there's no way of telling, obviously, but it's just I can't, you know? I don't know if you want to call this a natural disaster. I don't know how natural of a disaster this is, but for all intents and purposes, it is like I don't other than 9-11, which wasn't a natural disaster. Let's be real 9-11 was not a natural disaster. That's the closest thing that I have lived through and been a part of, so to speak.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. So we've had a couple things with water, right so Hurricane, katrina.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's. True, We've had Sandy. Sandy hit. Yes, that had a lot of devastation. Sandy was very devastating for our area. I mean, I don't know, I don't think you really had any impact with that, but I had a tree lent on my house. My basement flooded. Oh, did it? Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:I had all of my daughter's baby things in the basement. We lost everything, all of our Christmas ornaments and things like that.
Speaker 1:But even and I'm not saying that's not disastrous.
Speaker 2:But that's nothing to compare Exactly Like it's.
Speaker 1:My house stood through Sandy. I mean, yeah, tree fall on my, on my house, my garage came down.
Speaker 2:Whatever minor problems compared to what's going on out there.
Speaker 2:I actually remember, after hurricane sandy, taking my daughter down to seaside heights and seeing the roller coaster in the ocean you know we have a picture of that so yeah, I was pretty crazy to kind of see that um, but yeah, in terms of wildfires, this is absolutely the most catastrophic you know thing that the area has witnessed and you know, over 25 people died. It's really sad and, you know, sometimes people don't take it as seriously when they issue an evacuation order and say you need to get out of here and people think I'm going to be fine, um, and you're not going to be fine. And then by the time you realize I'm not okay and I need to leave. And then you go back and you say I'm gonna bring my pets and bring my pets, and they say no, you can't, you know. Or I'm going to bring my things, no, you can't. And maybe had you heeded that warning beforehand, we would have been able to, you know, get out of there safely with all of our loved ones and our most important valuables.
Speaker 2:But I don't want to say, you know, I hope it's a lesson learned when things like this happen, because it's just so sad, it's heartbreaking, and I was in tears watching the news about what was going on and working with, you know, my coworkers to try to get help to people in that area. You know we banned travel to the area. We couldn't really have anybody going in or out, but we had 15 travelers who were traveling in that area and we needed to help get out of that area as well. Did they all make it out, okay, yeah, yeah, they did. So my heart goes out to everybody who's been affected by it and you know you continue to remain in my prayers, and I know they're saying that it may take upwards of five years to completely rebuild.
Speaker 1:Is that what they're saying? Yeah, that's crazy. That's 2030 at this point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's definitely been a really interesting start to the new year has it ever?
Speaker 1:right, it's really been a wild start. Yeah, and it's only the end of January.
Speaker 2:Right, we've recorded this, yeah, really like three weeks in. God can only go up from here, right? Yeah, it's not a challenge.
Speaker 3:Whoever's listening to me.
Speaker 2:That was. That was like a half funny rhetorical question on a challenge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the other thing I wanted to talk about that I stumbled upon this week was I was scrolling Facebook you scrolling imagine that.
Speaker 1:Do scrolling? Oh, it's my favorite pastime. I don't even know who you are. Yeah, so I was. I was doom scrolling Facebook and I came across a People article and I'm gonna read the headline. It says woman buys antique cabinet on Facebook marketplace. She couldn't believe what she found when she opened it Exclusive. So I opened this link and I'm reading it and it goes on to say that this woman bought an 8-foot long antique marble top buffet and she opens it and finds boxes of Hermes things Winds up being China and she did the absolute right thing, at least as far as I'm concerned, and she contacted the people that she bought this thing from and said, hey, this was in here. And she gave it back. And I was like, wow, first of all, that is something I would do, because I mean, it's the right thing to do. But how many people out there would have been like, oh well, keep their mouth shut. Yeah, not saying anything, is that?
Speaker 2:not wild, though yeah, that's a pretty amazing find to stumble upon yeah um, but not just that. I think one of the really heartfelt moments of the article is she was saying that she was getting married, or she just got married, yes, and she wanted china, or registered for china for her wedding, and she felt like this may be that couple's wedding China.
Speaker 2:And it turned out that it was, you know. So just having that sentimental connection to it and you know, like we were just talking about the fires, like things are replaceable, but sentimental things like that you can't always get back yeah, so the fact that she was able to reunite the wedding china with the wedding couple from you know many years prior and do the right thing, and the right thing isn't always the easy thing no, not at all, you know, and sometimes it takes extra steps and sometimes it takes a lot more work, but in the end it's always rewarding to be a good person and be able to put your head on your pillow and sleep at night knowing that you did the right thing, regardless of what's happened to you or what somebody else you know would do in that situation knowing that you did the right thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just thought that was you know it's not.
Speaker 1:it's first of all, it's not something you stumble upon Every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first of all.
Speaker 1:But then hearing about it in the news like that's positive thing.
Speaker 3:Like you, usually everything in the news is oh doom and gloom and you know the fires out in California, or who got shot in New.
Speaker 1:York, or who got mugged, you know. So it might seem like an insignificant thing, but it just brought hope.
Speaker 2:There's still a little good left in the world, a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3:Better than none.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I worry, like for our kids' generation growing up I can't.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I think how hard it must be to be a child these days and some of the things that we were talking about, where kids are arguing because they had a sleepover and somebody wasn't invited and they got offended. Or you know you were talking about me and I know because you put it in your TikTok and I heard it. Or we didn't have that growing up. You know we didn't have cyber bullying. If you had an event and you found out that somebody wasn't there because they were talking about it the next day at school, by the next day, it blows over. You don't know about it in real time while it's happening and you're not. You know crying, knowing that people are doing something and you weren't included. So I do feel for kids because they have an extra layer of issues and problems that they need to deal with because of things that we didn't have. So you know social media, cell phones, you know regular access and instant gratification to other people's lives and the ability to be voyeuristic and know what everybody's doing at all times.
Speaker 2:So I do feel for for kids that are kind of going through that.
Speaker 1:And you know, and speaking of like the whole bullying thing, my, my little, one poor kid has been through the ringer. She's got. It's her and two other little girls who are, like their core group, friends.
Speaker 1:And I use the word friends lightly at this point because we'll get there anyway, there's been a lot of drama between one specific girl and my daughter and her other little friend, to the point where we were at a school function not last Friday but the Friday before not yesterday yeah, a week ago yesterday and it was just so much drama between them to the point where my daughter came over to me hysterically crying over something that happened at the trampoline park, and my daughter and friend we're gonna say friend A and friend B, my daughter and friend A, we're going to say friend A and friend B my daughter and friend A came running over to me crying about what friend B did to them and I was like, wait, what happened? And they tell me their version of the story. Then the other friend comes over and tells me her version of the story and it's completely different than the story my daughter and her friend told me. So anyway, long story short. I said to all three of them'm like listen, I don't care what happened.
Speaker 1:I said y'all need to figure out a way to be nice to each other and be kind. You don't all have to be friends, but you all need to be kind to each other. I said I'm tired of hearing. She did this to me, she did this to her, this one did that one to this. It's not right. You're eight years old, there's no need for this kind of drama. Yeah, then my daughter and friend a stepped off to the side and friend b says I'm blocking them from my phone. I was like, that's fine, you can block them, you don't need to be friends with them. I said, but you need to be kind, yeah, and I walked away and then my daughter and friend a came over to me and my daughter's's like Mom, I'm deleting her from my phone, I'm not going to be friends with her anymore. I said, listen, boo, that's fine, you don't want to be friends with her, that's fine. You need to be nice to her.
Speaker 2:She's in your class, you need to be nice you need to be kind, and so where's friend B's mom at this? Oh?
Speaker 1:Friend B Friend.
Speaker 3:B. I had to think about that. I'm like well.
Speaker 1:Friend and then I was like no, no, no, we're talking about Friend B. So Friend B's mom was at the trampoline park with us.
Speaker 2:And being a non-involved, parent.
Speaker 1:She tried to get involved and then she found out that there was two different stories. She's like I'm not getting involved in this anymore. I was like are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:So to step in and tell her child to be respectful and kind, because you're prominent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's annoying. She actually later then reached out to me and said hey, you know, I'm sorry that our girls can't get along, you know? I talked to my daughter and said you know you need to be nice. I was like yeah, well, I talked to your daughter too, and I said I don't know Five hours ago, yeah, I was like I'm done with this. All three of these kids are in the same class too, it's going to be a long year.
Speaker 1:So you know, ironically enough, my daughter's teacher reached out to me for something completely not related to this, so we talked about what we needed to talk about and I said hey, listen. I said you know, by the way, has there been issues between my daughter, this person and this one? She's like oh, I've already seen that. I was like oh, you have have you. She's like yeah, I was like well, listen. I said I know you have your hands full. I know you got a class full of 25, 30 little kids, I get it. I said can you do me a favor and keep my daughter away from this person? She's like oh, I already do. She's like I don't need them interacting with each other. I was like I get it. She's like I've also gone so far as writing in your daughter's file I do not suggest they are in any classes together.
Speaker 3:I was like oh, did you really?
Speaker 1:I said, that's really funny, I said because my daughter had said to me mom, if I'm in this person's class again next year, what are we going to do? I said I will make the school and have you moved out of that class. She's like oh no, no, I already have it marked down that they should not be in the same class together and I will 100% back you up on that, I was like well, thank you some of these teachers have like such good intel.
Speaker 2:They should be the CIA. They know what's going on in these kid groups.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you my daughter's teacher. She's a first year teacher, is she? She is a first I love her.
Speaker 1:She's young, she's she's young, she understands the impact of social media. These kids are under right now, which is awesome, but she's definitely involved, she's invested in these kids, which is really nice to see, because there's other teachers that my kids have had and you can just tell like they're done. You know they're on the tail end of their of their career and they don't want to be involved and I'm like so. But yeah, she was like I I got you, I I got your back. I was like thanks, that's awesome. So I love her, though. She's really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I hope for your little one that she finds some peace, because she's a good kid and I think she just genuinely wants to have fun and be accepted like all kids do and it's unfortunate when there's kind of like that rotten apple that screws up the whole bunch of apples.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and listen, I wish no ill will on the one child that's causing the issue and I'm not talking bad about her at all, but whatever she's dealing with, it's manifesting in other ways and it's impacting not just my daughter, but it's also impacting her and the way she deals with other kids in general, and it's impacting not just my daughter, but it's also impacting her and the way she deals with other kids in general, and that's heartbreaking and then to throw a monkey wrench into it child B's sister is friends with your older daughter.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, so there's also that dynamic. Well, and then?
Speaker 1:because that's not enough. She's also got a little sibling. She's got a little sister and her little sister enjoys playing with my younger daughter too, so like they're all intertwined and it's just, it's chaos, but hopefully they can get their shit figured out.
Speaker 1:You know I try not to get too involved, you know, because I want my kids to be able to resolve conflict exactly resolve conflict on their own, stand up for themselves, stand up for what's right, you know, and stand up for their friends and have their friends. And and listen, my daughter is a very self-sufficient. I mean, you know her, yeah, she, she will stand up for what she is a hundred percent. She is not afraid to speak up for herself. But when she gets stuck in a position and she's feeling attacked, she has a hard time, she gets emotional, she gets very, she's a highly emotional kid, yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. And it just gets to the point where she gets overwhelmed and she can't. But she's eight.
Speaker 2:I used to have a really hard time regulating my emotions and one of the things that would happen to me is when I would get frustrated or I would get angry, I would cry. And that's exactly what she does. And I hated that because to me again, growing up in the home that I grew up in as a first generation American, crying was a sign of weakness. That was not okay. We don't cry. If we have a problem, we fix it. We don't have feelings.
Speaker 1:We don't talk about feelings, we don't talk to other people about our feelings. We just figure it out and we just carry on. Yeah, it's so not good, though it's not healthy, to stuff those emotions down. Yeah, I'd rather her cry, get the emotion out and then deal with it. Now we're gonna fix this, we're gonna deal with it.
Speaker 2:So that's why, whenever I'm with her and she starts to cry, I'm like let's use our words, let's.
Speaker 1:I try to do that too with her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a hundred percent. So you can understand what you're feeling, because you know, when you see somebody crying, immediately you think they're sad, but sometimes they're not. They're angry, or they're frustrated, or they're feeling unheard, um. So I think that that's, that's important, that you know you're allowed to cry.
Speaker 1:I'm not telling you you can't cry, but you need to tell me what's going on. You need to tell me why are we crying, what's causing the cry? Are you hurt, are you upset, are you sad, like you need to put it into words for me so I can help you, you know, and we can fix what's wrong. But yeah, a hundred percent, and it's. It's heartbreaking to see her go through this at such a young age. But you know it's going to build character in her, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:It's only a year worse. Mine's going to be 17, three months from today, and the problems that we have in high school little people little problems, big people big problems. I would trade them for a bratty little eight-year-old in third grade any day, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, it's definitely wild. And you know what's even funnier talking about this, thinking about it, as you said, my oldest is friends with my daughter's friend of me, sister. Yeah, friend of me, sister. To a point to a point, my daughter, my oldest and the oldest in that group. They got into a fight a couple years ago right, and now they're friends like go figure like it's wild. I'm like, um, you don't need to figure this out, because I can't deal with life changes.
Speaker 2:I always used to tell my daughter when she was little is there any blood? No, are there any broken bones? No, I like I'll go figure it out. If there's a serious problem, you come back to me. If there's no blood and there's no broken bones, I want you guys to hash it out. Yep, figure it out. Yep, that's it. Be respectful, be kind, keep your hands to yourself. Yes, if anybody puts hands on somebody, come get me. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm always that I have no problem. I'm like the first boy that my daughter brings home. I'm going to like beat him with an inch of his life because I don't have a record right. So I think they're going to yeah. I think they're going to take it pretty easy on me, but going on from there, they're going to be like don't mess with her.
Speaker 3:Her mom is crazy.
Speaker 2:And I'll be like yeah, yeah, oh, goodness, yeah. And then be like don't go anywhere near that. That girl's mom yeah, she just got out of the slammer You're gonna be that mom. That's gonna be me, I'm gonna be that mom.
Speaker 3:Oh God, that's funny, too funny.
Speaker 2:Good times. Yeah, what else you got for me? Anything Ain't nothing. Getting ready to go to events tonight? Oh yes, I'm doing your hair makeup for yeah, you're gonna beautify me you see this, this is all natural. There's anybody watching us on YouTube right now. All natural, so won't be for long.
Speaker 3:It won't be for long.
Speaker 2:We're gonna like we transition to, we're going to transition to like full glam mode what yeah? So we'll take some pictures and stuff, so yeah we're doing hair, we're doing well I'm.
Speaker 1:Am I going to recurl this for you? Make it look pretty? Yeah and oh, can we talk? So I have the bio ionic long barrel, one inch curling iron. Yes, as do I love my curling iron. Now I have what? 20 inch, 20 inch extensions in my hair. Yep, I have two rows of 20 inch extensions, and I've been using my one inch no problem, and I've gotten to the point where I realize, though I love my one inch, I don't love my one inch with my long hair. I love it with my shorter hair. Okay, great. So I've been telling you I wanted to get the one and a quarter inch by a lionic long barrel. So, were you were doom scrolling.
Speaker 2:I was researching. There's a difference. You were researching, mine was researching for a purpose, with intent to buy Yours, is just to mindless scroll. A hundred percent, I'll give you that.
Speaker 1:So you were doom scrolling and you found the bio ionic. I love you too.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:And you found the bio ionic. I love you too. Yeah, you found the bio ionic one, and a quarter inch on some like fragrancenet ororg yeah, random, yeah, random website.
Speaker 3:You sent it to me.
Speaker 1:You were like oh, it's half price it was half price.
Speaker 3:I was like okay right.
Speaker 1:I said, if you're gonna order it, order me one too. So you're about to hit buy, yeah. And I'm like, wait, don't order it, because we had gotten into a conversation. I'm like, you know, sometimes ulta and sephhora has it on sale. I jumped on my Ulta web, on my Ulta app, and I was like, oh my god, it's on sale.
Speaker 3:I was like wait, don't buy it.
Speaker 1:I bought this liner, this curling iron it's a hundred and fifty dollar iron $22 out of pocket that's crazy.
Speaker 2:So you tell me you have a bunch of Ulta rewards yeah.
Speaker 1:So Ulta has the most amazing reward program, like I love their reward program to the point where I would I hate shopping at Ulta but I love it. But all of my preferred products I get from Sephora, so I wish Sephora would implement this. So for every dollar you spend at Ulta, you get a dollar in reward points and you can bank your for every dollar you get a dollar, every, every dollar you spend, you get a point.
Speaker 3:Oh, a point, Okay yeah.
Speaker 1:And X amount of points you can convert into X amount of dollars. Gotcha, now, I don't know how many points I had and I forget what the threshold is, but I do know, for the record 813,467. Possibly.
Speaker 2:It's ridiculous to have that many points.
Speaker 1:It had to be well for what it's worth. I'm also a platinum member at ulta, so I get shocker this is like brand new information.
Speaker 2:Can't believe it.
Speaker 1:Newsworthy, no, so I get I don't like triple the points and my points acquire quickly. That's true. That too. Uh, words are not my friend. So I saw that it was on sale and I knew I had like $83 in reward points and I was like, ooh, can I put it towards this? Sure as shit, $22 out of pocket.
Speaker 3:I was like, don't buy it, I'm buying it through Walton.
Speaker 1:So I can't wait for it to come in and I wish, I wish we would have done this a couple of days, so we would have had over today yeah yeah, but you have. You have a one inch. I can. I can make the one inch work, especially doing it on your hair as opposed to doing it on my hair. So you'll, you'll be fine, but I'm also going to do your makeup, and I'm so excited to do your makeup today because because you brought your makeup well, not only that.
Speaker 1:So the last couple of times I've done your makeup, I've used your makeup because it makes sense it's in my house, it's my colors. Yes, so one of my biggest pet peeves was you didn't have finishing powder, you didn't have a translucent powder, you didn't have a loose powder, you didn't even have a pressed powder.
Speaker 2:I wasn't even like a real girl before I met you.
Speaker 1:This is true. So I was at Ulta nope Sephora with my daughter, my little one, and it was really funny. I was like, oh, boo, we have to go get something, cause I had to return something or I was buying something I forget what it was. And while I was in Ulta Sephora I was like, oh my God, lena needs powder. I need to get her powder. So I said to my daughter I'm like, boo, come on. I said we gotta go get a powder. She goes for what. My daughter's big in makeup, you know this. And I said to her I was like, oh, lena needs it. She's like she doesn't have any.
Speaker 3:I was like All right judgmental.
Speaker 1:She was like what?
Speaker 3:judge, you judge her sin.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just like how does she not have powder? Mom? I'm like I don't know ask her why do you have powder? You're eight. She has a whole makeup. Yeah, girlfriend's gonna do it or makeup like it's scary. So I buy you powder and I gave it to you and you did your makeup just recently. Yeah, you said to me today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I put the pastor. I did my whole face of makeup and then I put the powder on and I was like, oh, I look so pretty.
Speaker 3:Like it's a game changer finished everything.
Speaker 2:It just kind of like smooth everything out and just made it look so flawless. And I'm like where does this build my life? Like I did not think it was going to make as big of a difference as it did, yeah, and I was like feeling myself yep, yeah, so thanks, you're welcome. Goodbye, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got you but I did bring my makeup too, so I have blush that's not expired.
Speaker 2:There's no expiration days on makeup. I'm pretty sure you're making this up.
Speaker 1:There's no expiration date on spices.
Speaker 2:No, actually there are. It's on the spice bottle it tells, and it says expiration date, and then there's a date.
Speaker 1:And on makeup it says 12 months.
Speaker 2:I don't believe you Open it.
Speaker 1:We're going to do this. Hold please.
Speaker 2:One girl, two mates.
Speaker 1:Alright, let's look at the bottom of this soft sculpt bronzer by Makeup by Mario. It's just a bronzer Powder, bronzer, right. What does this say? There is a little icon that says 24 months on the bottom right.
Speaker 2:Yep that actually has a 24 month. Look, it actually says 24M. It might be the type of metal that this container is made of? No, it's 24 months how do we know this?
Speaker 1:What does this say Right there 12M, 12 months. What does this one say? What's that one say 18. 18 months, my mind is blown.
Speaker 2:Did anybody know this? Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1:Did anybody. But you know this. What does this one say? Good luck reading that one. But what does that one say I don't know. It's, in French, 24 months. Huh, what? That's eyeshadow palette. Here's another one. This one says I don't know if that's 12 or 24. That's another pressed powder. Do you want me to keep going? This is absolutely insanity.
Speaker 2:Do you want me to keep going? Concealer. I can't see it Did anybody know this, this is either 12 or 24 months?
Speaker 1:Not sure. I can't see the bottom what? Because it's so small glitter 12 months.
Speaker 2:Wow, do I need to keep going? But they don't put the date that you actually have it.
Speaker 1:So I don't know how old some I mean some of the makeup was. All of the makeup you have, except for the stuff that I've just recently bought you for your birthday. You've had since I've met you. Yeah, so everything you have, except for what you've just gotten for your birthday and whatever you've bought in the last six months is expired.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Expired Expired. You see the commercial. You're welcome. We will not be doing expired makeup tonight, no, but we will be doing makeup, but not expired makeup. I can't wait to see how pretty you look. It won't be, expired. Well, I feel like this is a really great PSA for our listeners To buy new makeup. Yeah, who knew? Go home and check your makeup packages, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Now you know. Now you know You're welcome Things you know On that note. Do you have anything else Now?
Speaker 2:that I just completely threw you under the bus, nothing else. I hope everybody goes, checks their makeup, I hope you go and check your spices and I hope you throw out things that are no good for you. Oh, and I really hope, if anybody ever cooks for somebody and brings them a dish and says you must bake this in the oven on 375 for 30 minutes, that you heed their warning because they may bring something over that's not cooked.
Speaker 2:Care to elaborate on this one real quick. Yes, I made a tray of my famous baked macaroni and cheese, which is really delicious, right, you can attest to. Thank you. Yes, you can make me some For Mr New Year's kids and I wanted it to be fresh for them. So I didn't want to bake it at my house and then bring it to his house because he lives quite a distance away. So I baked it, I put are ready to eat it, pop it in the oven for 30 minutes on 375. Make sure the kids understood, make sure he understood. So today I talked to him and he tells me that his daughter had it for lunch yesterday. And I'm like lunch? I'm like didn't she have school? And he's like yeah, she came home from school and she had it. And I'm like how did she cook it so quickly? And he's like she, you mean? And I'm like the pasta was raw. I parboil it for three minutes so it doesn't overcook when it cooks in the oven.
Speaker 2:it was raw, you can't cook it in the microwave and he was like oh, let me ask her how she liked it and I'm like, don't ask her how she liked it. I'm like I can't even face so bad. This kid ate raw pasta. I need to know. And she's probably like your girlfriend doesn't know how to cook Dad. This is shit.
Speaker 1:Now she's like. I don't like her anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah. She can bring cookies but she can't bring food.
Speaker 1:She's done, don't ever let her bring it. You make me some. I got you boo, and can you make me a split pea soup please? Yes, See.
Speaker 2:I'm actually a pretty good domesticated bitch. I'm just saying I'm a catch. Just no potatoes. I love potatoes. I made potatoes for breakfast today.
Speaker 3:I had bacon and eggs, and then I made potato soup.
Speaker 2:I had bacon and eggs too, with my hash browns. Yeah, how could you have breakfast without potatoes? And I made potato soup this week. It's very easy to have breakfast without potatoes. I made potato soup this week to have breakfast without potatoes, I made chili.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like on a cooking bender, you did do a lot of cooking this week. Yeah, maybe you can do some cooking and give me some next week. I got you boo On that note you got anything else.
Speaker 2:That's it. Thank you guys for joining in and listening to.
