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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Fall Fashion Frenzy: From Matching Golf Shirts to Chic Winter Styles
What if matching shirts could actually improve your golf game? Join us as we kick off with a lively discussion about oversized cocktails and the camaraderie of golf tournaments, where matching attire might just be the secret to success. Then, we challenge the age-old fashion rule of no white after Labor Day and celebrate the vibrant fall 2024 color palette. With earthy tones, striking contrasts like dark brown and burgundy, and the timeless appeal of cheetah prints, this episode is all about finding confidence in your style. Plus, we highlight the latest jewelry trends that perfectly complement these exciting fashion shifts.
The debate over denim is far from settled! From the divisive return of jorts and barrel jeans to the ongoing battle between skinny and wide-leg styles, we explore how these trends resonate across different age groups and body types. We also tackle the practical and aesthetic considerations of flats versus heels in professional settings, sharing personal stories about finding the perfect balance between comfort and style for unique foot shapes. Our candid conversation underscores the importance of marrying function with fashion, especially in the world of footwear.
Winter fashion isn't just about staying warm; it's about making a statement. We reveal our latest shopping hauls, including cozy crew neck sweaters and a chic cheetah print skirt from Target, and discuss how scarves can effortlessly elevate your look. Reminiscing about past fashion choices, we marvel at the evolution of materials that now blend style with comfort. Finally, we delve into the importance of self-care, sharing personal experiences with therapeutic massages and the benefits of taking time for oneself. Get ready to embrace fall fashion trends with newfound enthusiasm and self-love, and stay tuned for more exciting fashion insights next week!
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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All right, I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration.
Speaker 3:Good evening everyone, and welcome to another episode of Three Cocktails. In you have the three cocktails and I have a cocktail, oh, yes you do.
Speaker 5:It's for you yes that?
Speaker 3:is the offer it is that looks like outlet, it is. That looks like almost a fishbowl maybe.
Speaker 5:Well, you know it is like when you catch a fish, the closer you hold it to the camera, the huger it gets it doesn't look so big.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like when you go to the Mexican restaurant and you order the large margarita and it literally is a fishbowl.
Speaker 5:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:So you definitely need a designated driver if you're ordering that. Yes.
Speaker 5:And a lot of chips to counteract the sugar. Yeah, yes, which is never really a problem at mexican restaurants. No, I'm.
Speaker 4:I'm having a can of fresca right from the can, fresh. Wow. That would be good today too. Yes, I'm the uh played in a golf tournament, a ladies' four-gall golf tournament today, so that's why my hair is lovely. I love it this way. I do not.
Speaker 2:So how did?
Speaker 4:that go. Oh well, we had an excellent start. We birdied the first two holes and then it was downhill from there. We were not spectacular, oh well. However, we did decide if some of the winning teams they were matching shirts so is that why you didn't win?
Speaker 5:because you didn't have on matching shirts.
Speaker 4:Well, we're, we're going to have, we're going to have, we're going to. We play twice a year, the same four of us. So we play in the spring and in the fall, and so we have till spring to come up with our matching. We think it'll make all the difference in our score.
Speaker 5:I don't know, Maybe you should be sponsored by Three Cocktails In oh there you go. And have a little logo on your shirt. I'm sure that that would be rather intimidating to the other foursomes you're playing against.
Speaker 4:I think it would be. I think it would be. Yes, that's a wonderful idea. Thank you for the idea.
Speaker 5:I'm here with lots of ideas regarding things to wear. Wonderful segue Regarding things to wear.
Speaker 3:Wonderful segue In our addicting conversation. Today we're going to date in fall fashion. Woo-hoo, fall fashion, as we are now in fall. So Bill and I just went and grabbed dinner. So on Wednesday we that's our one of our two nights of the week to eat out, and over dinner he said I can't believe it's almost the end of summer To which I kind of cocked my head and I said, um, summer is over. Summer is over. Kids are back in school. Summer, kids are back in school. This is technically I I in. In my view, the end of summer is when those school buses are running around. Again, kids are back in school. And I mean, clearly we still get some hot days in September, we can even get a hot day in early October. But, um, I hit the pool again today.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 5:There we go, my day off.
Speaker 3:I did it Good. I have definitely transitioned my closet um to the fall clothes. We talked a little bit about this on a previous episode. I have pulled a few pieces from my guest room closet into my primary closet, so we're just going to talk a little bit about the fall fashion. Some of the things that we're seeing rise to the top in trends, things that we're seeing online, Some things we're okay with, Some things we are turning the other way.
Speaker 5:So curious about what you guys are seeing. We get into this. We need the disclaimer that we've always said you wear what you want to wear.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, so I threw this question out over on my paparazzi business page. Might have been at the end of last week. The question was is it okay to wear white after labor day, because that's always, that's always been the you know big thing? Uh, not after labor day.
Speaker 5:And what wait till memorial day right after memorial and what Wait till Memorial Day? Wait till Memorial Day right.
Speaker 3:After Memorial Day yeah, and it was a resounding wear. Whatever you want whenever you want. There was maybe a couple votes for absolutely not, absolutely not, unless it's winter, so I think there are still some people that are hanging on to that. But yeah, generally it's great to have the feeling, have the confidence, that you can wear whatever you feel comfortable in and whatever works for you yeah, I love a white jeans, white pants with a wheat colored sweater, or.
Speaker 5:You know that to me that's a very transitional. Yeah, it's a perfect fall color that takes you, you know, because you can wear it with shorts, yep, and then, you know, it looks really nice with some of the the whiter stuff.
Speaker 3:yeah, I, I agree. So apparently, the fall 2024 color palette is marked by a combination of earthy, muted tones with vibrant accent colors, and I love that.
Speaker 5:Yes, Tons of cheetah print. Have you been seeing it everywhere? Yes, everywhere.
Speaker 3:So the woman who shamed me a year ago and said, oh yeah, the animal print is coming back, to which I did this?
Speaker 5:For some of us it never was out. It never was out. Heck no, Heck no.
Speaker 4:Yeah, vogue says dark brown and burgundy are their two top colors, which fit into just like just what you're saying.
Speaker 3:yep yeah, I like it and I like that concept of you know, the the natural are balancing the natural warmth with striking contrasts. I love that, um, and now as I, you know, as I'm thinking about what we're seeing come out in in the jewelry line, that's, that's exactly what, what we're seeing. So I'm loving that and now I feel like I'm going to have you know once you have the conversation about it. You see it more. But the olive green, the burnt oranges, brown shades, beige and sand rust, I feel like those are naturally in my color wheel.
Speaker 5:I feel like those are very. I feel like they're very Minnesota fall colors yeah, fall colors. I have always loved those, although I'm not I don't think I've ever been real big on burgundy, just like I don't wear red right, which which I do.
Speaker 4:So that would be. That would be my colors, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yep, bold accent colors that are noted here in what I was reading Cobalt blue, which I love, fiery red, mustard yellow and then deep blue and burgundy, and I sort of I see a sort of a jewel tone in there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sounds like jewel tones yeah.
Speaker 5:I bought a pair of lovely red shoes when I was in Paris and I busted them out the other day and wore them with a new cheetah print long skirt cheetah print long skirt and I had um, I think I did white, white tank, white jacket in my cheetah print skirt. So I had all sorts of things going on and one of my favorite things is that cheetah print skirt with the blue denim or like the blue linen from summer. Yeah, I love that, that contrast. And and the richer blue, not not like the totally washed out one, but yeah, again, it's transitional. What used to be just the skirt and a t-shirt or the skirt and a tank top is now skirt, you know, layered piece. Yeah, so one of the a couple of things that I saw coming across were more in theme as opposed to color, western. Oh, really the western, the little western kind of booties, thumbs down thumbs down.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the western booties. Some of them were, um, more like a, a I don't want to say like a full-on western shirt, but more of that cut to it. Um, pointy toe flats, which I've always much preferred a pointy toe flat than those round toe things. Um, and mary janes, with the cool you know like, um, the colors, that really beautiful burgundy with like a high gloss, a patent, whatever, and I love those shoes until it gets cold here and then I'm not. They keep saying socks in your flats and socks in your heels. I've even seen like fancy socks in heels and I just go right back to 1986, walking around Gustavus with people in their little flaps and their little anklets. I don't think I can do that in those shoes. Yeah, I don't know. Look, maybe it's for the young pups.
Speaker 3:So on the on the Western theme, definitely, I've seen that, definitely in jewelry. We have had a lot of bolo style necklaces and I can't keep them in stock. Bolo style necklaces, turquoise crackle stone. We've had really darling cowboy boot earrings, cowboy boot charms on bracelets and necklaces, boots and hats. They have been all the rage, isn't that?
Speaker 5:interesting it is. You know, I'm always curious where do these things stem from? I mean, what set it?
Speaker 3:off. Well, part of it, I think part of it, came from the music industry this year. So country, country, country has country, music has evolved so much over the last few decades. And then there, you know, there are superstars in. I mean, there've been superstars before in the, in the more classic country, but you know, Beyonce goes and puts out a country song and that just the whole album, which by the way she didn't get nominated for anything for that album.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's interesting, Isn't that interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 3:So, but I think that was, I think that was definitely an influence and then, also the influencers. So many of them are in the South, so many of them are in Nashville, and I think they're kind of bringing, they're elevating that Western theme to a wider audience. So I think there are a few things that have been happening to raise awareness and raise kind of the appeal of the Western vibe.
Speaker 5:So I'm drawn to shoes, I love shoes. It's always been kind of the thing that I enjoy most. I'm drawn to shoes, I love shoes. It's always been kind of the thing that I enjoy most. And as we've talked about rotating your closet and getting rid of old things, I cannot tell you how many pair of shoes that Franco Sardo is advertising and Dolce Vitae and some of these other brands, and I think to myself I just gave those shoes away two years ago. I wish I would have kept them Same colors, same flats, same. And if I had a big house I would keep the shoes and get rid of the clothes Because, dang, I could have had all of them, even the boots, like the regular knee-high boots that they're professing for fall.
Speaker 5:I've got a pair of 10-year-old I think it's called Seychelles brand brown block heel. It's got kind of a Western look to it. It's got that saddle saddle kind of lighter saddle color. Just saw those advertised I'm like, well, hell, good thing I kept those. So some things I'll happily wear the second time. Many things I don't want to wear the second or the third time right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I saw a post on stirrup. I will not be wearing stirrup pants for the third time.
Speaker 2:I will only do it twice.
Speaker 5:No thirds and I thought oh man the last time I wore overalls, I was hugely pregnant with one of the girls and that was a mandated outfit. As opposed.
Speaker 3:To you know, I was so large couldn't fit into anything else.
Speaker 5:What do you think about the jorts?
Speaker 5:um hey, if you're young and you're and you're like in your 20s and rocking it. Go ahead, go with the jorts. Yeah, I think that they get to be the older we get like a lot of things. You get in that weird in between stage where they just look dorky, like they're not cool, like the 20 year olds are wearing. You know they're not cool, but they're they're. You know we don't want to look like we're wearing grandma's pedal pushers. Yeah, with some of the lengths on them. Yeah, and definitely not a fan of jorts for men. Oh is that a.
Speaker 3:Thing.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, oh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh, no, no, and they're like tighter on the tighter side and go to the above the knee and just no, yeah, that look not good, not good. Yeah, that look not good.
Speaker 5:Not good. Okay, we. I don't remember if we brought it up after we wrapped up last week or towards the end of it, but barrel jeans, barrel jeans, oh.
Speaker 4:I'm a pass, hard pass.
Speaker 3:I think they look really cute on certain people and it's probably not going to be me because I'm 5'3", but they look cute on certain people. Um, I did see some influencer showing them and she put the little um vote on it keep or return, and almost everybody said return them and she was one of those people that could pull them off.
Speaker 4:yeah, no um but I saw one and she wasn't very tall and it just made her look like a big circle.
Speaker 3:You know, just you know, I don't think that one will be around very long.
Speaker 5:No, no, I hardly remember it the first time I don't remember it.
Speaker 3:The first time it was the first time.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, they talk about it. They talk about, oh, the return of the barrel gene and I'm like, yeah, okay, you know part of me and the skinny jeans is still like the skinny jeans, sort of thing. Um, thinking back, and especially to these young women or anybody that looks smashing and is in great shape, why do you want to wear something that makes you look 30 pounds bigger?
Speaker 5:than you are. Maybe people don't but having now that I am 30 pounds heavier than I was, what was I doing wearing big baggy things back then? You know this whole.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I am thankful for some jeans trends because, like I was looking through stuff jeans trends because, like I was looking through stuff, there's a lot of high rise, wide leg, you know, and I'm not so much the wide leg piece but it's at least back for me to the boot cut type. You know, and I have some wide leg jeans, I have a lot of boot cut. You know it's not all the skinny, there's still skinny jeans but, um, you know it's not all skinny leg jeans.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I love a wide leg jean. I love a wide leg jean. However, I do not like pleats to get the wide leg.
Speaker 5:Yeah, there's nothing worse than putting some pleats on this stomach right now. You know that's not a look so um, and it's hard to get the length right. I am tall, I, you know, stacy and I are both tall, I'm five, nine. But even I put these on and they're so freaking long and I'm not dragging my, my jeans, I'm not dragging pants on the ground, you know, I was talking to somebody about it and they're like, oh, I'm perfectly fine with them dragging. I'm like, oh, I don't want to clean them, yeah, so what about the flats? Kitty, I know you're not a flats girl, although you have. You wear slides, you wear tennis shoes.
Speaker 3:You do wear things that are not the heel yeah, I mean when I, when I put on my hokas, it's because I'm probably wearing athletic pant. You know, I probably got lululemon bottoms on and I've got a big oversized sweatshirt on. That's what I'm gonna wear, my my true tennis shoes. Or, like, before I went to convention, I bought the beautifully blinged out white, uh, you know, tennis shoe. It's not a tennis shoe, but it definitely a flat it's. But it's very few outfits that I wear flats with and I just don't. I just I feel frumpy when I wear something other than heels, unless it's an athletic shoe, but other than that, you do not see me very often in just a, in just a pair of flats.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I would agree that the ones that I have, which I think I have like two pair, the ones that I have, which I think I have like two pair, they have a chunky heel and big gold on it, or like the ones that I've been eyeballing, they're actually a patent leather, they're that burgundy color, they've got that pointed toe and they've got like a double strap. I'm like, okay, well, that's a sassy shoe, you know. So it's still a statement piece, it's not utilitarian. That's where I think that it gets hard to. And, like I said, you guys, I have to walk, I have to walk job sites that you know I get hell about having high heels for, but I still can't just throw on the. So, anyway, I'm excited, you're not a ballet flat person no, also, I have a very narrow foot.
Speaker 5:Those are very hard to stay on like I bought. I bought um, I was gonna buy a pair of Rothy's before we went to France because people rave about those, but I decided to buy the inexpensive version off of Amazon first and I read through the million different reviews you know how do you size these or whatever and I got them and they were just so honking wide it was like no, so those, those aren't an option for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I I've been kind of curious about the Rockies. I don't, they're not real, they're not attractive shoes to me, so I've been curious about why people rave about them so much. I haven't bought one, so I and people love them on them at all.
Speaker 5:But well, the ones I would have bought were the cheetah print, yeah, the leopard print, something you know to have to wear with all the black. But nope, I just wore my white, my white coach tennis shoes every single day, yeah, and other sandals.
Speaker 4:Have you seen the trend and this is a question have you seen the trend where it's a one color? You know your sweatshirt and sweatpants are all one color. You know pretty colors. My question is, where do you wear that? You know, I'm sure you've seen it Not, not a. It looks like a fancy sweatsuit. It does look like a fancy sweatsuit. It's not the true crew. You know tighter sweatshirt, it's a baggier. You know. You know what I mean. All in color, yeah, where do you wear that?
Speaker 3:Just to the grocery store or that's totally my Saturday and Sunday uniform.
Speaker 4:I feel like, yeah, just lounge Lounging in Running errands type thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:I don't have a set.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 5:I don't either. We'll look at it, but I don't know. I ordered one. Didn't like the material.
Speaker 3:I mean mine when I put that kind of look together, it's not a set. I put that kind of look together, it's not a set it's. I mean, for me it's a. I'm pulling out my you know, my Lulu bottoms that I have in a few different colors, and I have a couple of oversized crew neck sweatshirts and I always try to yeah, it's like all black.
Speaker 5:Right, but we've all been wearing all black, yes, you know, for forever. These are like that taupe, all taupe, and it's this different kind of material and it's a little bit and it's got a print or whatever.
Speaker 5:I've seen a number of influencers that have been rocking those. Okay, speaking of all one color things, the utilitarian looking jumpsuit yeah I think it's cute, I do too and I looked at one and I I'm like, oh man, if I could wear I just can't spend. I can't spend the money I would need to spend on the one that I wanted, because it was actually camo. I really wanted it. It was like 250 dollars and I don't want to spend that on something that I will wear twice yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3:I think they're really cute, I think they're really flattering. I think Good American makes a really good one. Yeah, they're cute.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but also the bathroom thing yes.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I'm going to get totally undressed Body suits. Do you guys wear a lot of body suits?
Speaker 3:No, I have body suit in like three different colors and it's I don't. I wouldn't say that I wear them a lot, I wear them with specific tops. So how about you?
Speaker 5:um, I don't have body suits per se, other than the Honey Love kind of. You know undergarment, that's a whole body suit sort of thing.
Speaker 4:Like a shaper. A shaper instead of a body suit.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but I mean, the premise is the same One thing that you wear that smooths you out all over. You know nice, streamline, and some of them are pretty enough that you could wear a jacket over it and call it a day. But, dang, it is not easy to get you know to live in for the day. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So have you been shopping? Have you been shopping? Have you bought anything that speaks of fall trends?
Speaker 4:I have not I know the big chunky loose sweater is is back again for this winter, so I still have some from last winter, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah and that that was one thing that I was thinking about preparing for this conversation. I feel like what I have in my closet still works and I feel like I haven't really changed a lot in my closet the last few years even closet the last few years. Even so, it makes me start to think about well, what would those? What would a couple of key or, you know, significant purchases be that would add some flair or add something updated to my wardrobe, that would be on trend for fall, and I haven't figured out what it is yet.
Speaker 5:I have bought two and they're almost the same color, um of the crew neck, um, cream, nope, wheat to almost oatmeal color, one's plain, the other one has a more stitched in it and I'm really excited about. Unfortunately, I can't wear that one to work either, because it has something stitched on it. Right, no words. Yeah, okay, and I bought that cheetah print skirt which I got at Target Target, the one that Target's advertising super long Like it went almost to the top of my feet 30 bucks. Sizing was good, like on the large size, because I pulled on the, I bought, I grabbed both a large and extra large and the large is just perfect. And I have been, you know, borderline between those two. So I will be. And they have a beautiful burgundy wine one that I didn't know what to wear with it. But I just saw something online wearing one of those kind of tan color sweaters with it and I have a pair of tan Western toed little booties I might have one from.
Speaker 4:Target you do? I can kind of answer the question for you, kitty, because I know you'd have some of this stuff. Some of the Vogue things were matched with either a silk skirt or leather skirt, you know, like the faux leather skirt, or pants, those In fact. I bought some faux leather pants this summer and I'm hoping to have to wear them this winter. I know, yes you do.
Speaker 5:So there's your. There's an answer. Yeah, they're really nice for work because they're all washable machine washable Hang them up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have the leather pants in black, green, burgundy. Yep, there you go, and I love to just put you know just add a comfy sweater over the top of those.
Speaker 5:Hey, here's something that Stacy and I saw, that I am seeing pop up in my little statement shop, and I've seen it in a couple other areas, and that's scarves Like the silk scarf, the short, short one, the long one, the the tiny, like you know, right up here, like the kerchief sort of thing, and a whole bunch of different. Um, that's something super easy. Matter of fact, I wore that with a black dress, whipped on a black and white polka dot scarf on it, threw some good jewelry on, and I felt like I was just, you know, zippy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, when I ran into you downtown when we were out for our anniversary, do you remember what I was wearing?
Speaker 5:Yes, you had your bow on Nice.
Speaker 4:You got your picture and got it in a frame already. That's impressive. Usually that takes me forever, oh, oh it was on your phone you put it way up. It looked like a nice pretty frame. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fun. Yeah, how about stuff we don't like? I was looking through, like I told you, I deep dived into the vogue top, you know, top things. How about the boot pant hybrid? Yeah, yeah, those look so weird, aren't they the weirdest?
Speaker 4:so they'll be, like you know, over the knee, thigh high, you know, and they're boots, but they look like they have pants over it and it's like well, no, not that I would ever buy that kind of thing anyway, but you know, I've seen it all over and they just look hideous, in my opinion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's kind of odd Very odd.
Speaker 5:The short little balloon skirts. Again, that's got a very 80s feel to it, of course, much more staid and pretty fabrics. The 80s were a lot. We had a lot of polyester, did we not? And cotton, cotton, cotton, cotton. And I know people love cotton, but everything dries wonky and it all shrinks.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, so yeah, we have just material and fabrics are better now.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, well, now we just pay attention to it. It's just like shoes. I can't believe that I do not have the world's worst feet based on the sheer shit shoes that I wore for 30 years. I mean, they were plastic, yeah, with no arch support. Yeah.
Speaker 4:We used to walk in those Dr Scholl's hard plastic candies, but the Dr Scholl flats with the one thing over the toe. I mean we'd walk miles in those things and it's like oh my gosh, how did we ever do that?
Speaker 5:I was thinking about the white Keds cheap white Keds that we wore in high school and college. I mean they were what? $8, $12? Yeah, very flat.
Speaker 4:Yeah, with our little mini skirts.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, very flat, yeah With our little mini skirts. Hey, what about the super duper, duper long denim or faux leather or leather skirt? That looks like a. You know, that looks like a. Just an ankle length jean skirt.
Speaker 3:I, I don't wear skirts in general actually, so it's a it's a hard no for me.
Speaker 4:You know it looks like the trendy length is below the knee.
Speaker 5:Oh, even longer. These were very long yeah, and the slit still comes up mid-thigh.
Speaker 3:I remember those, though. So when I worked at, I worked at the gap and banana republic. In must have been the early 90s, and I remember having the long jean skirt with a sweater, and that was yeah. So if that's in that's, I don't know how many times has that one come around. Yeah, because that probably wasn't the first time in the early 90s. Yeah, but it's too much material, it's too bulky and, again, just things like that make me feel and look frumpy well, it overwhelms you yeah it's too, again in my size.
Speaker 5:It makes me look like I have no shape. It does nothing other than make me look like a rectangle. Yeah, Speaking of, can I take us on a weird tangent? So, um, I was feeling rather blue, let's say purple, not quite blue, but you know, maybe somewhere mid, lavender, amethyst, light blue, um, and I was listening to a podcast. I'm sure it was Glennon and Abby I love those two, but they were talking about when you are trying to break old habits, um, and you, you know how you zone out, like when you're driving and you get home and you're like, oh my god, where was I? I wasn't even thinking. You, you know these different things.
Speaker 5:Well, sometimes, when you're in the midst of life and you are trying to break old habits, but things get going, you just revert back to your old, old mode. So I had found myself caught myself a couple times just zoning back, getting back into the old mode. But what they suggested was when you were trying really hard to prove your worth or to get somebody to notice you or to do something like that, you're looking for exterior validation. What you need to do is step back and love on yourself. Okay, do something for yourself. You don't need approval from the outside, you need to be happy with the inside.
Speaker 5:So, on that note, I booked myself a massage. I did, and I went back to my favorite masseur, ling. The ladies might remember the story I told about Ling how, the very first time that I met this very small woman who shook my hand like this, you know, and I thought, oh my God, this is going to be the worst massage I've ever had. And we get in there and I, the first time I had this massage, I seriously thought I was being punked.
Speaker 5:I thought that there was like a camera up in the room somewhere, because she was doing things that I never had done in a massage, where she was like pulling my fingers and like rubbing my head and then flicking it, and then at one point she got on the table and had my arm and my leg, I mean, and the whole time you, you're laying like this with your little face and I was laughing so hard. I just was like what the hell? What is going on? And you know, and she did some other things and I didn't understand what she was saying. So when she did, I was like oh okay, like oh okay. I mean nothing, nothing weird, but you know, just different.
Speaker 4:yeah so you're made.
Speaker 5:You made another appointment because it was a fantastic massage. I felt really, really good after it. After I got over and and I know that we had met for we met as a girls group for lunch, probably that weekend, and I recall trying to tell you guys the story and I was laughing so hard I was crying. Well, she and I have always had off schedules. So I got the massage with her again yesterday, and now I know what I'm in for.
Speaker 5:And she says so, you know what, where are your issues? And I said my back, my, my shoulders are always tight. I'm having issues with my lower back and my calves, for whatever reason, have been an issue lately. Okay, you know, and and she goes, and how do you like your massage? I'm like, well, I kind of like it pretty hard. And she goes. Well, I do some Chinese and I do some Thai and I do some stretching and I'm thinking to myself oh, I know I've done this before. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, I know I've done this before, so we get on, I get on the table again and I always book the 90-minute massage. That's my recommendation for people who maybe don't get massages very often Always go with the 90-minute massage and she's, you know, she's just kind of getting me ready, where she's doing some, like you know, I can tell it's like a little bit different, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 5:But then she puts her elbows on each side of my spine, right below, like right above my tailbone, and kind of goes, you know, leans on it, and she gets up to the bra strap area and wails on it and my whole back went and went too hard. I'm like unexpected, oh my god. So she and I both started laughing, which was great, and then, you know, she carried on a little bit more and she goes is this pressure better? I'm like, yes, thank you.
Speaker 5:So I've done it quite as hard as I thought I did, but it was the best 90 minutes. It felt so good. And then, you know, it took a very nice shower there, the spa shower, and had all the good aroma. And I came back yesterday and I was just like, oh, it felt so good. So you know, we need to do what we need to do. Buy something that makes you feel good, yeah, sure. Look inward, yeah, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
Speaker 3:Yeah definitely.
Speaker 5:I think it's illegal to prank somebody in a massage room. I'm pretty sure that there can't be any cameras but oh my god it was.
Speaker 3:It was a delight yeah, I bet good for you yeah, I'm more the hour.
Speaker 4:Hour long massage, just because I feel like I'm gonna fall asleep, you know?
Speaker 5:oh, that's the goal, man, if I could zone out the middle of it no, I want to.
Speaker 4:I want to know all of it, you know, experience all of it. I don't want to sleep, yeah, but I get really tired about 45 minutes in. Maybe I just lovely I.
Speaker 5:it takes me like 10, 15 minutes to relax into it, and so then, if it's an hour massage, then I'm wondering how much time do I have left? I know how much time do I have left? Yeah, whereas the 90 minutes I can get a little bit lost and I'm like, okay, it's all good. So, yeah, oh, and she did the hot rocks.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I hadn't had that for a while either, I felt good, yep, when I went in and got a pedicure a few weeks ago which I don't do very often, I usually only do that when we're on girls weekend and we go, we go somewhere but um, she did hot rocks on my, on my calves, really Really.
Speaker 4:Interesting. Yeah, that would be nice. It was quite nice.
Speaker 3:Where'd you go? Zen Nails in Chaska, just down at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 4:How do you keep the rock on your back of your?
Speaker 3:She was just rubbing it. She had a couple in her hands. She was just rubbing them up and down on the calf muscles so you could definitely feel the heat just permeate in there. But then it was just, she just kept it moving. That would be, good.
Speaker 5:I think Ling used the side of the rock. It dawned on me Cause I was thinking how many massages does she? Give a day and I bet her hands really hurt. But then I thought that's not her hand, that's the rock that you know, instead of like a deep, you know so, yeah, I know they have to.
Speaker 3:Their hands are so strong to do that all day long.
Speaker 5:Yes, and it's so surprising when you see a little itty-bitty person. Yeah, yes, but, then they get on the table and work you over and you're like never mind, oh man, wow, yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 3:Well, we are out at time, um, so this was a fun conversation. I look forward to seeing where the fashion goes this fall and and into I would love to know who else is wearing barrel pants.
Speaker 5:Yeah to print.
Speaker 3:Yeah, who's really loving it yeah, sheer pictures yeah I love to see them you do. Who's pushing it? Um? So we will be back next week with another addicting conversation. You can always expect something fun and interesting With these three. You guys. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week. Thanks, you too.
Speaker 4:Thank you, you too. Bye-bye, bye.
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