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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
The Work-Life Balance Battle
What does it take for you to finally say "no" to work during your vacation? We dive deep into the complex relationship between professional dedication and personal time off through Amy's recent experience of cutting a getaway short for a real estate showing.
The statistics are startling—40% of American employees don't use all their allotted vacation days, with the highest numbers among those with bachelor's degrees and upper income brackets. We explore why so many of us struggle to disconnect, examining everything from workplace expectations to our own psychological need for achievement and recognition.
While generational differences exist in approaches to work-life balance, the data challenges some common assumptions. Only 21% of Millennials take their full vacation allotment despite being portrayed as more boundary-conscious than their predecessors. We discuss the psychology behind "unlimited PTO" policies and why they often result in employees taking less time off.
The conversation takes a poignant turn when we share personal regrets about work-life choices, particularly regarding time with our children. When Amy reveals her mother passed away with 186 unused vacation days and unfulfilled dreams, it drives home the reality that time eventually runs out for everyone.
Whether you're wrestling with work-life boundaries, curious about generational workplace differences, or simply need permission to use your vacation days, this episode offers both practical insights and emotional validation. After all, as we remind ourselves, most jobs aren't "selling kidneys"—the world will keep turning if we take a day off.
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
Hello running, get me to the top, I don't need a hello, my dearest friends, hello how are you both uh, doing, doing.
Speaker 5:Well, look how pretty our colors are tonight.
Speaker 4:I know we didn't plan it. No, we didn't nice.
Speaker 3:I know I feel like you two match my back wall a little bit more than I do. That's all right. Yeah Well, welcome everyone. This is Three Cocktails In, hosted by Stacey Kitty and me, amy, three friends who have been doing shit for a long time and still looking forward to doing some more. Of course, it just keeps getting better, doesn't it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, did you see the post this week? That was a list and they're just weird things. But do you see the list on the influence or bad influence friends? You know friends that are bad influence and Amy and Stacey made the list. Whoo, no surprise there. No, yes, guys, that.
Speaker 3:Amy for the win. Yeah, yeah, sure, I think your name is at the top of the list, all right actually, as I was reading through that list with the exception of names like Natalie and Amanda, and there was one more I thought this just looked like my kindergarten list of classmates. So it was all people who graduated in the 80s is what I was reading, I think.
Speaker 4:so it really was kind of a list of names for people that would be our age. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Karen was in there and, yeah, a lot, lot of you know, yeah when was the last time you saw a baby, michelle?
Speaker 4:oh, I know, yeah. Well, there's no baby Amy's or Stacy or Kitty's anymore either right, nope, we're a dying breed.
Speaker 3:Actually, we're going to be the old-timey names that are going to start to circle back, right, probably, well, amy listen, amy, didn't your mom?
Speaker 5:didn't people say that to your mom when she said she was naming you Amy? And they said that's an old lady's name.
Speaker 3:Yes, she said, the old women at church thought it was a very old name and did not understand why she would name me Amy. Hmm, huh, interesting, hmm, huh, interesting. Yep, I knew one girl when I was leading Girl Scouts. There was one family that had a daughter who was Amy and she was, um, you know, 300 girls at camp and she was the only Amy under other than you know, under the age of 30, 35.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah 35.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yep, yeah. So I don't know, maybe in 20 years, is that how long it takes? I don't know.
Speaker 3:It's pretty, who knows?
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But very interesting again generations. We're going to talk a little bit about differing, how different generations look at things. So I had this aha moment in that I went on a little two-day excursion and it's you know, I've told everybody my vacation days are in the middle of the week. My days off are Thursday, you know, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, something weird like that. So I was taken to a very nice little resort up north and it was lovely and we'd had this planned and it was really fun. And like the week before, I got requests to show houses on the second day of this trip. Okay, yep, and I cut it short and we drove back so I could sell houses on the second day of this getaway and I was livid.
Speaker 3:I fortunately he was just delightful about the whole thing. He's just like hey, it's your gig. If that's what we need to do, that's what we need to do. I'm going to support you in that. Awesome. And I was. I was mad and he's like don't be mad, you know this is. I'm like no, this is stupid, this is absolutely stupid. That I feel yes.
Speaker 4:I have a question. Yes, so were you mad at yourself for saying, yeah, I'll come and do it?
Speaker 3:That's what I wasn't sure 100% mad at myself that I could not be away when I'm away and not have to work. And so Kitty and I got to talking, because I we must have had a conversation about something. And I brought this up and I said you know, when do you get to that place where enough is enough? How do you especially now, kitty, you're doing your own thing. I've wanted to be self-sufficient and independent and loving. So I'm where I want to be, kitty, you're where I want to be. Have you ever thought where's the balance come in this whole work-life balance? When is it okay to say you know what? I don't need that sale on Friday? If they can reschedule, great. If not, they can work with somebody else. Yeah, it just made me think about all the vacation time that goes wasted. And, stacey, you're like well, duh, amy, of course we need to have this conversation. You work all the time, but I'd like to point out, I'd like to ask you how many vacation days do you have that you haven't used?
Speaker 4:oh, I, I get. I get a lot of vacation because again, we've talked about this I've worked, you know, 19 years at the same company. So I have five weeks of vacation and I I use my five weeks. But there were, there was a year where I couldn't use much. So I carry over a bunch, so I can carry over about four weeks, but I use five weeks a year. Does that make sense? So like say, this year I could use nine and I'd be out of vacation. Does that make sense? So like say, this year I could use nine and I'd be out of vacation. Does that make sense? So I keep using my five weeks, but I have some bank.
Speaker 3:So you're still using 2024 vacation.
Speaker 4:I just used 2023.
Speaker 3:This goes to the heart of this conversation that I want to have. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but for me I also think, you know I mean when you're on vacation I do. But you know I'm getting better at that too. I never logged onto my laptop. I just got back from vacation on Sunday, was gone for a week, never got on my laptop. So I am even getting better. When we went to France I didn't take my laptop, you know, I looked at emails, just so I can kind of keep up. But other than that, yeah, yep, I don't work as much on vacation as I used to as I used to.
Speaker 5:I think so in this situation, amy, for you, I think that it may only take once or twice of that happening and you being mad at yourself. Before you'll start to um, you'll resist that urge to say no, I have to do it, I have to be there, I need to be able to get those sales. If I can get those sales, I think you just need to have a couple of those and feel that feeling for you to know I am obviously sacrificing having some rest and relaxation. But then I feel this anger Right at different times and I think that you just have to listen to that gut feeling or that reaction for you to know when enough is enough.
Speaker 3:It's a tough one.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it is. It's very tough.
Speaker 4:Yeah, especially with what you do with the potential of losing a sale. You know, if you can't get it scheduled for the next day or when you can be in the office, then yeah, you're giving up in theory, giving up money.
Speaker 5:So that's a tough one if you had not gone back, what would have happened?
Speaker 3:yeah, they would have gone to a different. They would have. We were going to a different neighborhood and the only way I get to be part part of that sale, even though I'm the procuring cause, is if I take them. Okay, If they go and somebody else helps them, it's there that person's sale Okay.
Speaker 4:So and that's the kicker they weren't willing to just wait a day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they were from out of town. That's when they had to do it. Yeah, yep, um, it does make me irritated. I did take my laptop to my tablet to France. I think I pulled it up once. I just took a bunch of days off. Well, actually I took four personal days but banked them around that 4th of July again, so I can get a nine-day vacation and I'm planning on going somewhere and I don't know that I'm bringing my tablet. I mean I can do a lot from my phone, yeah, but that will also, I don't know. I mean, that's hard. I don't feel like I did. We never canceled in France because of it, but I did check every day, every morning. But still, even that's a reminder of what you're missing out on, which again gets to the heart of have you had conversations with yourself, independent people? You know how much is enough.
Speaker 5:I I have not put a number on that and I don't really feel like I need to. I think that there might be a time where I feel like I need to. Maybe something is feeling unbalanced. If I get to the point where all I'm doing is working when I'm at home, then there's a problem, that's an imbalance and that would make me unhappy. But for me personally, I am in the building process with this business and I'm loving it. So when you're in that situation where you absolutely love every single thing about what you're doing, it doesn't feel like work right. I mean, we hear people talk about that all the time. I feel like, for the first time in my life, that's where I'm at, so I'm enjoying that. Will that change? Yeah, maybe at some point. So I think we just we have to be checking in with ourselves on a regular basis to recognize that, recognize when things are out of balance and it's not so much fun anymore.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, think about the people in your life too. I mean, with you going live as many times a week as you do, you have a pretty structured schedule.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're not any more into spontaneity than I am you know, there, there are no last minute, give me a call, I'll meet you somewhere, sort of things, Cause you know, and as we've talked, the family's got to buy in, or your partner or whoever. And, um, you know the person I was with. I already said he was very great about it and he said I will never, ever put pressure on you to change that. And I said, oh, you say that now but, having you know, been married to somebody that was in a family business, every single vacation, every single holiday, we came back to talking about work and I got it. I understood it was their baby, but at a certain point I started to resent it.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I don't want to and I'm learning, you know. But now I'm the, I'm on the other side and, um, you know, we can all say that it's fine and it's good but, you know, irritating, yeah, I, I don't think I'm alone in this. Soace, you've got a lot of vacation days that you're still rolling over. I did a little research on this and did some searching here. The four out of ten employees in the US take fewer vacation days than they are allotted. That's 40%. That's a big number. It's a big number. It is a big number. And of those that take less than allotted, 51% of us are in the upper income bracket. I don't know if I am really considered upper income, but these are not People who are not taking all their vacation, have money and vacation time that they could be taking.
Speaker 6:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Find that kind of interesting. I would have thought well, I mean, it sounds true to the three of us right here 51% of those with a bachelor's degree take less time off than allotted.
Speaker 5:So it says that's an interesting statement toward work ethic and commitment, you know. So why are these people not taking the time? Is it because they feel like if they take the time, the job will suffer? I'm the only one who can do this job. I can't leave it because no one else can step in the job itself? Well, yeah, in theory, you give me four weeks of vacation, but I can't take that. We've got too much stuff. We've got too much stuff going on, and that's one of the things that, especially with the pandemic and as the younger generations are coming up, they're the ones who are saying you figure it out, manager, because you've given me these days, I'm going to take them.
Speaker 3:Because you've given me these days, I'm going to take them. Actually, 21% of millennials took 10 to 19 days vacation a year Only 21%, so they're not taking tons of vacation either, which I think is counterintuitive.
Speaker 5:Well, how many do they get though? Well, the average, okay, how many?
Speaker 3:do they get, though? So the average job? But okay, I looked that up too. So your first year average is 11 days off. A year at five years average is 18. And 20 days at 20 years. I think those last two seem low. I think the one year and five year seem pretty normal. Millennials, they're what? 28? 28 to 30, something Upper 30s, so it's gen z's that are younger than that, but millennials are. They're the workhorses right now. They're the ones that are pushing, you know, to make the money. They're in prime money making years, and 21% only 21% took 10 to 19 days.
Speaker 4:They're also the ones with a bunch of kids and hard to probably get away.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. I would like to take, I would. I should have researched that as well, but I don't think millennials are having as many kids. I think they've been late to have kids yeah, that's, true I just find it really I I do get what you're saying. I about the, the gen z sort of sort of group. Um, I also think they change jobs more often so they're not accruing large amounts of vacation days. But I noticed that in a couple of jobs that my kids have had they've had this unlimited PTO.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which.
Speaker 3:I think is a crock. I do too, Because clearly, from the stats, employers know that you're never going to take all the vacation you possibly can. So one of the things I also looked up was what does it cost employers? What's the cost? I phrased the question as how much are employers saving? But what came back to me was it costs employers on average $7,600 per employee for tax liability for unused vacation days when they retire, Because a lot of companies will offer and it varies by state and it varies by your contract if they're going to pay you, if they pay out for vacation days.
Speaker 6:So life affirming and shattering.
Speaker 3:That couldn't be done five days later.
Speaker 4:Right, right, that is exactly right.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Nope.
Speaker 3:Nope, I made the mistake when I was working. You know, I was pretty, you know, in one of my first sales positions something wasn't going right and the furniture wasn't get going to get delivered on time. It was gonna be like four days late and I was in the lunchroom and I was talking to another salesperson. I'm like, for God's sake, it's you know, we're not selling kidneys here, this isn't, you know, brain surgery. And the boss came right around and he gave me the biggest glare. He was pissed. But I still stand by that comment. I mean, yes, it was not good, the situation was not good, but we needed to dial down just a bit here. Yep.
Speaker 4:Yep, this was not life-saving.
Speaker 3:It was not life-saving equipment that we were selling.
Speaker 4:Yep, yeah, I don't know. I always feel like you know, for me, I'm working a lot to be able to go on vacation and get back and then work a lot to catch up, which I think is how it is, and I think one I don't know what episode and what the topic even was at this point, but I still stand by my if you're salaried, you don't work 40 hour week anyway. You know, you can, you know, work more, work a little less, whatever, you're still paid to do a job, not a week. So if you take some vacation time, you still have to eventually get that work done. So it's not, like you know, in my experience anyway, there's nobody picking up. You know much of the slack, a little, you know when you're gone sometimes, but nobody's really doing. You know what I mean. No one's. No one's doing my job for the most part when I'm gone. I just do it when I get back. Yeah, so there's no reason not to take time off. You're going to have to do it anyway, yeah.
Speaker 3:Kitty, do you have that funny video, that reel?
Speaker 4:I do.
Speaker 3:Okay, so this was also how we got to laughing about this. We follow, or I follow somebody, I think Stacy you do too. Do you have the name of the account? Do you see what her account is, Jamie?
Speaker 5:Let me I can look it up real quick. I don't think it is on the reel.
Speaker 3:She's a millennial who is kind of runs a team of photographers who go shoot videos and photograph homes that are for sale and her team is hilarious and it's all recorded phone calls that she's had with them and we can't decide if it's spoof. If it's real, we'd like to we're hopeful that it's had with them and we can't decide if it's spoof. If it's real, we'd like to we're hopeful that it's a spoof.
Speaker 4:Yes, I hope that it's not real.
Speaker 3:I hope. We hope that it's not real, but this one I thought was especially good. And on this topic now, I know I know the video doesn't show quite right, but listen to, to the phone call.
Speaker 5:Okay, her name is Jamie Lynch. Her Instagram handle is simply, simply, and then another Y, and then a period, and then Jamie, j-a-m-i-e-e-e, okay and yes. So if you're watching this on YouTube, really just listen to it. It's not formatted for this screen. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 6:Hey Reverie, what is up? Can you move me back down to one shift a week? You just went back up to three shifts. Yeah, now I'm over it.
Speaker 5:My gosh.
Speaker 6:I literally used to work two jobs when I was your age. I'm so tired of hearing you old people say that Old people, two jobs when I was your age. I'm so tired of hearing you old people say that old people like congrats, you all worked yourself dead. Long days, long nights, no days off, never called in sick. Well, I wouldn't say that. No, for real, it's like an honor that you guys didn't stop working at five or take weekends off. Like where are you in life? Are you super rich and further ahead in your career? Do you have a plaque at any of those jobs? Okay, that's, that's a bit harsh reverie. But for real, jamie, don't be bragging about that grind vibe. It's giving super low self-worth. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna go reverie, okay.
Speaker 4:The grind vibe, yeah, the grind vibe. You old people and I'm pretty sure Jamie's probably younger than we are oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you have a plaque? Yeah, do you have a? Plaque for all the hard work.
Speaker 4:Yeah, how's that?
Speaker 3:for you. Yeah, those conversations that Jamie has with her employees or her team, oh God, they're funny.
Speaker 5:It's got to be parody. If anybody ever came at me with that sort of conversation, I would not be able to hold myself back.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'd end up laughing just like Jamie, what old people? Oh, okay, yeah, so do you get that? I'm sorry, go ahead, but you have to wonder what they think.
Speaker 4:You know, do they really? Do they really think like that that we've just, you know, just work hard because of the money and sacrificed home life in some situations? You know what I mean. So, um, you know, you wonder if they think that because I feel like the Gen Z's really don't care to work so much you know they're not working for the money that they have some other motivation. I think you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't know, maybe, what I mean. So I don't know, maybe I think a lot of us who work a lot of hours are doing it for not always the money either. I think we do have a lot. We get a lot of self-worth Right, our self-worth, and Reverie says that you know, we do choose to work a lot.
Speaker 3:I know for me, I want the win, I want the win of the sale. I think I told you, kitty, when I got my W-2 last year, I had no idea how much money I made. I mean, I had a general idea but I had not really a number, because mine is kind of commission-based a number, because mine is kind of commit kind of commission based. So numbers fluctuate. But I could tell you exactly how many sales I had and I could almost tell you who bought every single home and what the address was, and so that was a little bit of the whole. Self-discovery is sure Might not be just about the money, it's also about Ooh, I got another one, I got another one you know this whole right, the win, yeah right which serves you really well in what you're doing, yeah.
Speaker 5:I mean your, your employer's got to be just jumping up and down that you're on their team, because that's what they, that's what they want, right they hire a lot of athletes, a lot of former athletes, okay yeah, well, and that's uh, that's a.
Speaker 4:You know there's a big list of things that motivate people, and one is you know meeting goals, you know being, you know doing your job very well. You know I get it. Yes, it's just not. It's not just for the money.
Speaker 6:And.
Speaker 4:I'm guessing. You know those are some of the things that I think the Gen Z don't don't see. Does that make any sense? You know what I mean? They're not. They're not working for all those reasons, and so that's what I'm saying. They're working, maybe for money, but yet they want to take, take the time off. You know they want to be done at four o'clock or five o'clock or whatever. Those kinds of things. More for the. You know, work life balance.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 5:Well it's. It's when we were, when we graduated from college and we were getting those first jobs and starting to work. You worked and we never talked about work-life balance and things like that.
Speaker 3:We also didn't take jobs doing things that we loved.
Speaker 5:Right, yeah, every experience that we have in life makes us who we are today, so I really try to not have regrets, but I do acknowledge that when Bill and I were first married and we had Beau, I really do wish that I had taken more time to be home with him.
Speaker 5:I wish that I hadn't put so much pressure on myself to get up and out the door and get him to daycare by 7 o'clock in the morning or 7.30, so I could get to work. Because, oh my God, I'm going to be late Really. Like you said earlier, amy or Stacey, I can't be late really. Like you said earlier, amy or stacy, I can't remember which one of you said it now, was the world going to end if I wasn't in my office by 7 30 in the morning? No, you know dipshit, who likes to comment on who. You know who's the?
Speaker 5:Oh, there was a guy I worked with. He called everybody five o o'clock Charlies if they were leaving the office at five o'clock. And yeah, I was one of those people. I wanted to go pick up my son from daycare and get home so I could have an evening, but it just wasn't the norm. Yeah, and I've got a bit of regret on that and I've even stopped myself short of sitting down with Bo sometime and saying Bo, did you feel like and I, you know it's going to make me cry to actually say the word, so I'm not going to say the word but did you feel like you had a good youth with mom and dad working and the rigor of that and going to daycare and you know.
Speaker 3:I think that I don't think you should have that. I don't think you should frame the conversation that way, because he's in a no-win situation. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's not going to tell you. No, you know it's all your fault.
Speaker 3:So I wonder if you can phrase the conversation to have it with him to say you know, I don't have many regrets in life, but I do wish that I could have spent more time with you when you were young and that, and that I have loved having this time with you as the older person, and that's maybe that's a better way to frame that conversation. Yeah, um, I, I, I had, I had a very serious conversation. I had a very serious conversation it was short but serious with one of my girls and I apologized. I said you know, I did not, I was not a good mom around this aspect of your life and I'm very sorry that of the way I handled it and I just felt like as an adult, I needed to acknowledge my you know, and she felt it was really awkward and you know, of course it's like no no, no, no, and I'm like, no, you know you're being nice now, but we both know I didn't do a very good job with that.
Speaker 3:But you know, I think it's a, I think it can be a gift that we can give our kids to say you know, and also so they know you're gonna screw up, yes, you're gonna screw up. So I guess I want to be a little bit more present, a little less harsh on myself that I've got to do all this stuff, because I think we all know, kitty, you've lost your dad. Stacey, you lost your dad. I lost both my parents. Time runs out. I lost both parents in their 60s. My mom was three years older than me right now when she passed away. Yeah, she had 186 unused vacation days my gosh 186. All of her life she'd won her her latter 15 years. She'd always wanted to go to Germany to meet this friend. She never went. I think we can take a real lesson, a real lesson from the younger generations, and you know what Time off is needed. I think studies have also been shown that you are much more productive and better when you come back rested rested or you've gotten away so well.
Speaker 5:Other other countries do this much better than we do as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, they do, yes, 100 and they seem to be doing fine.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so all right. Well, I am going to take another vacay and I'm going to be better about it.
Speaker 4:There you go.
Speaker 3:Leave the tablet at home. Leave the tablet at home, so um anybody have any shots?
Speaker 5:Okay, well, so let me just say this, and I've been meaning to reach out to Ann as follow-up to the Oscar episode.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's, that's dropping tomorrow.
Speaker 5:Okay, I've been watching. I've been watching. I've been watching some of the movies.
Speaker 3:I did too what did you watch? I just watched Conclave. I thought it was great, you liked it. I really liked it.
Speaker 5:I need to watch that. So I watched Anora and oh, so I watched Anora and Anne was right when she said there, it's, uh, it's a lot and don't watch it with kids around. Um, I had to kind of keep turning it off because I'm just like, ah, it's too much, it's too much, it's too much, it's very intense, you know, um, and you know, and just have it a sad story as well, did you?
Speaker 3:think it was oscar worthy. Do you think her performance was oscar worthy?
Speaker 5:I think she, I think she did a fabulous job. Yes but. Since I didn't, since I didn't haven't seen the others, right, I can't, can't, really. Well, no, I'm sorry, I did watch the Substance Bill Bill, and I did watch that and that's just weird. Um, I did feel that she, uh, what's her name? Mikey. Yeah. Yeah, um, I did feel that that she was um, that she was um more, that she was the Oscar quality over Demi Moore. I did.
Speaker 3:Interesting.
Speaker 4:Okay, very interesting. So how about?
Speaker 3:you Stace? Did you watch any more of them?
Speaker 4:No, I was not. I've been on vacation, you know my vacation. So no, I have not. I've not watched anymore since we anymore, since we recorded that episode.
Speaker 3:That wasn't streaming on your plane, anora. Oh God no.
Speaker 4:Okay, I did read a book, I got a book read, so yay, chalk one up for me.
Speaker 5:Good for you. I know right On our last flight, well, when, when we went to the dominican I was why. I don't even remember now what the movie was, but there were a lot of sex scenes, and so it was bill and then myself, and then there was a younger person sitting here, a boy who was traveling his family. They were all split up, so I mean he was probably 14, 13, 14. So every time it would start to get hot and steamy. I'm like it's just ask for did you do this to him?
Speaker 5:um yeah, oh my god, there's nothing worse than that. It makes me feel so awkward, even if I wasn't a kid.
Speaker 3:It would have been worse if he was watching it. That, I think, would have been more awkward. You could have said excuse me, could you rewind that Wait?
Speaker 4:a minute. I was watching that part. Don't fast forward through that.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's funny, awkward, yeah, so I want to watch Anora and I did really like Conclave. I like a good, yeah, a good kind of mystery and it was yeah, that was good and I mean it was just a packed cast oh yeah, it was a big cast.
Speaker 4:I think that's why they thought that had some big potential, just because of the cast, yeah good, good, good.
Speaker 3:When we were talking about shots, I needed to circle back on a shot, kitty, that you had suggested to us a while back about washing our bananas. Okay yeah, I must be doing it wrong or using too cold of water or something, because I rinse them. You know, rinse them, put them in my drying rack, and I come back and they are instantly bruised, right.
Speaker 5:Weird. That is weird Cause I do it every time now and it works like a charm. Cold water or warm water Regular, like it's just you know the no temperature, like not cold and not hot, just whatever you're.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, that's what I thought I was doing, but no, I've been doing it and it has not worked for me.
Speaker 5:And they're bruised. They're actually bruised, they go to brown.
Speaker 4:They go brown faster. Faster instead of slower.
Speaker 5:Weird.
Speaker 3:Are they organic no, I don't buy. I don't buy organic bananas because I'm not going to eat the outside. I will buy organic apples, berries that's really weird. I'm stumped, and you've tried it more than once yes, yes, maybe I just have horrible water down here, which could also be why a lot of my plants die and why I'm healthy. Because I don't drink water.
Speaker 4:I drink diet coke so you would like shrivel and die if you drank your water.
Speaker 3:I could be totally bruised, just like my bananas, if I started your water. I can be totally bruised just like my bananas if I started drinking water, for sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, follow us for more health tips.
Speaker 3:Yes, exactly, I do have a shot that I'm pretty geeked about. Okay, cool, I found a product Kenra it is the anti-humidity spray. It's getting to be rainy season. Yes, this is fabulous Frizz and static control spray. I've been using it for the last week and I absolutely love it and it lasts like more than one day. And also, this is something maybe you all knew, but I didn't know until my last haircut, which I just got see, got a little cut. Um, spray your hairspray in the direction you want your hair to lay, not just this, but like I want this to, to lay here. I need to spray it from here pointing down. Never knew that. Okay, what did it? I'm in my 50s, but this is awesome. Kenra anti-humidity spray.
Speaker 4:Can you get it at target? Where do you get it?
Speaker 3:I got this at ulta. I don't know if Target has it. Target's Ulta section is hit and miss yeah. And this is not one of their standards. I don't think.
Speaker 4:You never know. Okay, yeah, excellent, a good one, anybody else, anyone. I have nothing, ladies, I know Well moral of the story take vacation.
Speaker 3:Take vacation and nation don't work on your vacation to be present at work, be present on vacation. Yeah, there you go. Yep, all right, let's all try it. Okay, see what happens. Um, and I think with that we can call it a wrap. Look at what Kitty's drinking not. Not only does she not have water she has nothing.
Speaker 4:I don't have a beverage.
Speaker 3:Oh my god.
Speaker 5:Terrible. I've got my lipstick and my ring light there you go, have a good week, you guys, you too.
Speaker 2:Bye, bye, go coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Give me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in. Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past 10.
