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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 Quirky Rituals We Can't Explain
Ever wonder why you maintain odd routines that make no logical sense? You're definitely not alone! This light-hearted, revealing conversation explores the mysterious world of personal rituals, superstitions, and habits that shape our daily lives.
We start by questioning whether luck actually exists or if we create our own good fortune through preparation. Sharing stories of unexpected windfalls—from discovering hidden cash in inherited quilt supplies to winning expensive power tools in random drawings—we examine those rare moments when the universe seems to single us out for special treatment. These experiences leave us wondering: was it pure chance, or something more?
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when we confess our quirky personal habits. One of us always books seats on the right side of the airplane and feels genuinely uncomfortable breaking this pattern. Another meticulously organizes office binders with all labels facing precisely the same direction. Most surprisingly, we discover 2 out of the 3 of us count steps when climbing stairs—every single time, on every staircase, anywhere we go!
We explore the fine line between beneficial habits and anxiety-driven compulsions, noting how these patterns provide comfort and predictability. From the ancient pagan origins of "knocking on wood" to why certain numbers are considered lucky or unlucky across different cultures, we examine how humans have always sought to create meaning and control through ritual.
What quirky habits do you maintain? Do you count steps like us? We'd love to hear about your unexplainable routines! Share them in the comments when this episode posts—let's normalize the wonderfully weird things we all do when no one's watching.
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 and welcome to another episode of Three Cocktails In. We are the Three Cocktails Checking In.
Speaker 3:We are. You know what's funny about tonight? I usually have a cocktail and I'm drinking Fresca. I know Kitty won't have a cocktail and I think Amy, aren't you drinking Diet Coke?
Speaker 4:I'm drinking caffeine-free Diet Coke, so I think mine is the least cocktail that one could get.
Speaker 2:Well, mine is Propel water, oh well, not plain water.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow, we're hitting hard.
Speaker 2:That's for sure. Hey it's Wednesday night. It's a school night. It is Wednesday. I had a margarita. We went out for mexicans.
Speaker 4:So I already had a margarita. So, oh yum, it was nice, very good. Not even taco tuesday. No, taco tuesday. Is that a good segue?
Speaker 3:is it sure? What are we talking about? That has to do with tacos are we?
Speaker 2:we're jumping right into it, I guess okay okay, our topic tonight is we are talking a little bit about luck, habit and superstition, and this just kind of came up in casual conversation with us and I think, you know, as we grow up and we move into adulthood and you know, we can get very set in our ways and I think we find that we do things the same way over and over again and I got to thinking so I have these quirky things that I do. Is that normal? Do other people do this? Why do I do it? No, it's not normal. Why do I feel uncomfortable if I, you know, think, oh, I'm going to do it differently this time and I'm like, no, I can't do that because it works out. Oh, my gosh, it's too much. It's too much. We're going to talk a little bit about that tonight.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and that's what I mean by Taco Tuesday. Yeah, it's Tuesdays. On Tuesday you have tacos Mm-hmm, oh Well so well.
Speaker 2:So I don't know I could have tacos in it. Yeah, same, and we in this house we have always had tacos on monday night, like for years. Oh, no, fail, monday night, we have tacos, see what happens if you switch it up if you switch it up, bo gets grumpy.
Speaker 3:If you do, do you then have tacos on Tuesday or do you just skip it and have the next Monday? You? Know what I mean you have to have tacos, I don't know.
Speaker 2:So okay, let's just. Let's start with just kind of a general question here Related to luck Do you believe in luck or do you think that we create our own luck?
Speaker 4:I do think that preparation being well prepared for situations you're in can make it seem like, when a good outcome happens, that you got lucky. But I think that your preparation had a time. Yeah, I agree. I think you then don't have to worry about the focus. You don't have to be so rigid in your focus in that moment because you've gone through it so many times, that then you're a little bit more spontaneous and it goes the way you wanted. It can come off feeling lucky. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely. Yep, I agree, you know if we're talking specifically about you know, like winning the lottery or things like that. Um, I think two things about it. I think you could play once and you could get lucky and win it. I also also think the more you play, in theory you have a better chance at winning lottery right, or even winning at, you know, blackjack or in the casino. You know, the more you play, you're going to win something eventually. But I also think you could drop a quarter in some machine and win a bunch.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Just take so.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I think it still has to do with luck A lot of luck.
Speaker 2:Have you guys ever had something happen to you in your life where you thought I, I am so lucky, that was so lucky, or that was just something that was just so big and amazing and truly chalked it up to luck?
Speaker 4:I remember finding money as a kid. You know you'd find a random $5 bill that obviously came out of somebody's pocket, in Target or something or the grocery store, and there is nobody around. There's nobody in the aisle. It's not like they just dropped it and you kept it. I remember thinking that I was the luckiest person in the world.
Speaker 2:That's a great memory great memory.
Speaker 4:I once I inherited I'm sure you guys know this story, but as an adult married. My great aunt, Zira passed away. No, she moved into the nursing home at like age 97. She went to the nursing home. Evidently I was the only one that quilted and she was a big quilter. I was the only one that quilted and she was a big quilter.
Speaker 4:So my aunt, arlene or, and my dad I don't know who did it exactly, but I got one of those lawn leaf bags of quilt notions, the old chocolate candy boxes, you know, full of bobbins, and then a whole bunch of manila envelopes with um pattern like template pieces. And so I'm at mom and dad's, kevin's, there, we're going through it and I'm like, oh, look the daisy chain, oh, look this, oh, look a wad of cash. And I pull out this wad of cash and it's hundreds and I'm counting it out and you know it was. It was actually it was probably 50s, because I had to count quite a bit and it turned out to be something like 750 bucks or something. You would have thought my dad was like stretch armstrong because from like 10 feet away his hand comes reaching over and grabs that money out of my hands. It's like that is not for you oh.
Speaker 2:Oh Right.
Speaker 4:Right. So on the way home, I'm driving home with this big bag of quilt pieces and no cash and Kevin goes. You just had to go through all the pieces in front of your mom and dad, Right.
Speaker 3:Right If you'd waited at home. Nobody didn't know, Right? So?
Speaker 4:lucky and then unlucky in a snap. Yeah, that's not right. Yeah, tell Fred, I did remind him often he's gone, but you know but that to me that felt very lucky. Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow, I just remembered that years ago. So we I mean it was within the last 20 years because we were in this house and at one point we'd been up at Home Depot and Bill had filled in. They were doing a giveaway for something. So he'd filled out one of the little cards and popped it in and we got a call from Home Depot said you won this Ryobi. It was massive. So am I saying that right?
Speaker 4:I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2:It's a brand of power tools. And so we went and Bill was just like, cause he knew what it was. So we went up there and it was this giant bag, you know, like rolling bag and stuffed full of power tools. Wow, I mean it was probably a thousand dollars worth of tools.
Speaker 3:Thousand dollars worth of tools, that would be like us winning like a bag, you know this size, full of Tiffany. Um, we take a bag this size.
Speaker 2:So he was ecstatic and that would be a time that I think he would say that was pure luck. Because it is, you're just you're getting your name pulled out of something. That was just pure luck. And it's just so nice to have those random moments in life where you feel like you were, you were anointed, it's, it's your time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly, and also inspiring to keep doing that activity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so does he fill out the card on everything now um, I don't see him do it on everything, but he's, he chooses the things that he's like. Okay, that would be worth it. Okay, yeah, that would be worth it yeah, yeah, it doesn't take very long yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't consider myself a lucky person, honestly, you know, because, yeah, there's no winning things.
Speaker 4:And now you know what I mean but you don't consider yourself an unlucky person, do you?
Speaker 3:Okay, I would not say I'm unlucky either. No, just kind of average, just about like everything, pretty average, pretty average.
Speaker 4:You're not average. There's nothing average about you, Stacey.
Speaker 3:Oh, you've never heard me say that, that I'm pretty average at everything. I can do about everything, but I'm really average at it. I'm not very good at anything, I'm not below average. Pretty average Pretty steady.
Speaker 4:So, on that note, do we know people who say they have bad luck? If you believe in being lucky, do you also believe in people having bad luck?
Speaker 2:I mean, I certainly hear people say that, and sometimes people just say it in jest, you know they'll just say, oh, with my luck, Right. I feel like we hear people say that all the time and I think that's a sign of you know the person really kind of feeling like, well, I never win anything Right and I always feel bad when I hear people say that.
Speaker 4:It comes back to mindset.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a mindset thing. You know, woe is me, poor me, because this happened and you know the rest of us, whatever. You know woe is me, poor me, because this happened and you know the rest of us. Whatever. You know it happened and you're over it. I wouldn't call it a. You know the reason. Some things happen because you're unlucky. They just kind of happen.
Speaker 4:Yeah, randall things happen, yeah yeah, mm-hmm, random things happen, mm-hmm, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Got to go with the flow, okay. So if we think about the topic of superstition, so the relationship to me, I feel like I can influence some things if I wear the same. Okay, I had a really good show that night. I know what shirt I was wearing, I'm going to wear that now, or, or? Um. So I use I use a text alert system. So before I go live, I send a text alert to you know, people who are signed up for text alerts and I, every once in a while, will change the little emoji that I use on it, and there have been a couple times that I've had a little bit of a like a show that wasn't quite as good as some of the other ones and my little brain thinks you changed the emoji on your text.
Speaker 4:I think that was it.
Speaker 3:It was the emoji on your on your chest, so that was it it was the emoji yeah absolutely so kind of like you know, like people that are, you know, fans of a football team or a baseball team or whatever you know always wear the same shirt, the same hat, the same socks and whatever whatever the thing is, or you know watch it in the same place, or you know to to help. I don't think that does squat.
Speaker 1:I think it comes
Speaker 3:back to pooing your emoji on your message.
Speaker 4:I don't think. I think it comes back to mindset. So athletes are notoriously superstitious. Oh, superstitious Again. My sister, Ann, in high school I mean she's still a beautiful vocalist she sang the national anthem for the hockey team. They won that game. They said Ann, you got to come back, You've got to sing the national anthem. She ended up having to sing the national anthem so many times in a row because they kept winning and that was part of it. They didn't want to jinx it, oh my gosh. And so I think that that's funny. But if that's what makes you feel comfortable, so that you can be free, flowing and in the moment again, Yep, I agree, I agree in the moment again.
Speaker 3:Yep, I agree, I agree, they needed to know. Yes, If you're the one that is participating and have the, you know what do I want to say. So I don't think a baseball fan wearing an outfit has anything to do with the baseball team playing. A baseball fan wearing an outfit has anything to do with the baseball team playing. Now, in your case, where the hockey team wanted her to sing, that's different. You know they think that's, you know what's gonna, that's their mindset and you know didn't do anything. You know that makes sense.
Speaker 4:You didn't have a magical voice that cast a spell, like Ariel the mermaid, I'm sure she did.
Speaker 3:But if they wouldn't have known it, it wouldn't have been her juju to help them win. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:But they did know that she was singing, and so they went into that game with more confidence. Yeah, that's true, and that's what won the game. That's the difference. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Maybe Now I don't necessarily consider myself superstitious, mm-hmm, but I'm not walking under ladders. I remember as a very small child not stepping on any cracks, so I didn't break my mother's back.
Speaker 3:I bet you did accidentally well, it wasn't without cause.
Speaker 4:Yeah right, you know, when you're like I'm just going to cry.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go, step out of the crack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those are the longstanding superstitions, definitely.
Speaker 4:All right. So, Miss Catherine, what else are you superstitious about?
Speaker 3:um what?
Speaker 2:no, go ahead, go ahead. Well, I just just general. I find that I will follow the same process or the same procedures and try not to vary things that are related to you know, things that I'm particularly like. I need this to go this way. I was using the example of the shirt. I don't necessarily do that. It's a good example, but I don't really do that. But I don't know, I just I don't. I kind of do everything in general the same way If things have gone well, if things have gone well, if they haven't, I'm fine blowing the whole system up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, but then that doesn't that move towards habit. I mean, aren't you forming good habits or processes, or you know?
Speaker 2:Yes, that's a way to make me feel good about my neuroses. Yes, right.
Speaker 4:I have one that has nothing to do with process, but when I don't do it, it makes me uncomfortable, okay. When I don't do it, it makes me uncomfortable, okay. And so it's totally appropriate, because we just posted something that said Stacey and I are going on vacation and one of the things you know, I've been the travel agent for my family, always booking flights, all that. I always book seats, as you're looking at the airplane, on the right-hand row of the airplane. I cannot tell you. Matter of fact, kitty, when we went to Vegas last year and somebody else bought our tickets, I moved us.
Speaker 2:I do recall that, yes.
Speaker 3:Okay, because, okay, that's interesting. I can understand. Like, when I go to book tickets, I would say most of the time I'm looking on the right, but if the same seat is on the left that doesn't bother me at all. But why would you, even when someone else does it, need to be on the right side?
Speaker 4:No rationale to it. And this is where we get into one of those things that you know, maybe I'm super I don't think about it as being superstitious but I just know that there is a comfort for me on the right-hand side, on picking the right-hand side.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, the key here is that there's no specific reason, right, correct, right. Nothing has ever happened, nothing, okay, it's just, it's a comfort, that's what you've always done.
Speaker 4:Yes done?
Speaker 2:Yes, what would happen if you couldn't sit on the right side? Everything was booked and you had to sit on the other side. What would happen?
Speaker 4:Well, I do it because I still want to go on the trip. I just would feel generally, I mean it hasn't happened in a million years, so I don't know. I mean I do it, Of course I would do it. I wouldn't feel like anything bad was going to happen. It just would feel really awkward, Really really awkward.
Speaker 3:It's more like you're used to the other side.
Speaker 4:And I don't know when it started, because I don't think it's always been that way. You know, I don't think that. I don't know. If somebody wants to book me on first class, I will sit on the left-hand side. That would make it okay. Yes, I'll take it one-hand side, right, that?
Speaker 3:would make it okay. Yes, I'll take it one for the team. Yeah, so I was thinking about different. You know things I feel like I have to do. You know habits or processes at work that I have to do, right, and so I've. Sometimes I'll joke that you know I'm OCD, but that shouldn't be a joke, because a lot different than what most of us actually have. So and I looked up what's the difference. So habits are generally manageable and often beneficial.
Speaker 3:So you think, whether right or wrong, you know honestly, you think it's beneficial where compulsive behaviors are driven by anxiety and can be distressing and disruptive. So it'd be more like you know, you know, you just can't. You're so anxious about something. You have to do something a certain way, you know, whereas you know just, a habit is a habit and my, my funny one is at work and my boss one time, well, two times, I think. Now he's kind of made fun of me.
Speaker 3:But I have this bookshelf right. Big, tall bookshelf has like six, six shelves, it goes to the ceiling and one, two, three, four of the shelves have binders right. So they have binders and there's contracts in half of them. There's, you know, historical bids going for 20 years in one shelf and just some different things on the rest. They're all white, they all have a nice blue paper label going this way, because so the words go to the this way, right, and they're all just lined up and blah, blah, blah, right, and so he's made fun of it. You know like, however, you know like, oh my gosh, that's, you know, too neat and too put together. You know what, too organized, whatever. So that's my thing, everything has to be look the same, facing the same way. You know what I mean nice, tidy, neat. So so there you go, is that a problem or is that just a nice organized?
Speaker 4:habit. So the question becomes and this is just like, I gotta put this down. This is just like when you asked me if I sit on the other side, what happens if somebody takes it out and just puts it back any in which way?
Speaker 3:which happens, which does happen, because I don't file stuff in everything anymore. Somebody else will do it. Um, I'll change it. I won't have to that minute, but I'll change it. You know, like if one would be upside down the other way which it could be you could still read it. I'll eventually change it. Yeah, yeah, just because I don't know. See, like I said, that sounds very OCD. Am I anxious about it or can't function not the right way?
Speaker 4:no, if somebody put a purple label in, would it be irritating.
Speaker 3:But would I change the label? Oh, I would. I would change the label, oh, I would. Eventually, yeah, but you know, yeah, so weird things like that. I'm sure, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm sure people think that's weird well, they have their own weird things too. Right, everybody probably does. Yep, everybody, yeah, everybody has their weird things. No, I noticed, and I've done this for years. I've noticed. I mean talk about quirky things. So when I go up or down stairs, I count the steps. Do you guys do that.
Speaker 1:Does everybody.
Speaker 2:Please tell me, everybody does that. I do that, yep.
Speaker 3:Every single time Every single Every time.
Speaker 2:Every single time. That's a lot, every single, every time. Even here in my house, I know there are eight steps that go from the living room upstairs. There are eight steps that go from the kitchen downstairs. I know how many steps there are and I count them every time, but you still count them.
Speaker 3:Do you count them? So, on the eighth one, you know you're at the end, or you just count them.
Speaker 2:I think I'm just counting them because I do it anywhere. I could be at the mall taking the steps. I could be at the airport, it doesn't matter where it is. I will count the steps. Amy, do you do the?
Speaker 3:same thing I do Yep Every time, every step.
Speaker 4:Every stairway and and weirdly, I don't do it when I'm walking flat, right.
Speaker 1:You know I don't count the number of steps from the elevator to my home.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, step only every time.
Speaker 3:Wow, what happens on an escalator. Are you confused? You just say one. No there's no counting on the escalator. It looks like steps, but it would just be one. Maybe it's two. Is the escalator really actually two? Oh, that is funny. Yeah, that's interesting. So we need to research. Why is that? Because that's an interesting one, especially where you have to. I can see once in a while, but if you do it, every single staircase, that's interesting to me I'm so glad to know that at least two of the three of us do that.
Speaker 3:You're not the only weirdo. I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2:What else that's a good one. So I have a little. Do you guys know what the origin is of knocking on wood? No, okay. So whenever you hear you know somebody says something and they don't want to jinx it, say knock on wood. This superstition comes from ancient pagan cultures who believed spirits lived in trees. Knocking on wood was a way to call upon them for protection or for good fortune.
Speaker 4:Those pagans have all sorts of really good, helpful hints For sure when to plant, when to to sow, when to bring the spirit yeah, how do they know they were only getting good spirits and not bad ones? That's it oh, to ward them off.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's interesting Lucky versus unlucky numbers. So 13 is always lucky, 13 is unlucky. So in many Western cultures the number seven is considered lucky, while 13 is unlucky. However, in China, eight is lucky because it sounds like wealth and four is unlucky because it sounds like death. So it doesn't really explain why, why luck or bad luck has been attached to those numbers, but for China it does. I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know those words. I don't know those words.
Speaker 4:I don't have lucky numbers.
Speaker 2:I don't either.
Speaker 4:So if I win the lottery, it truly will be a lucky circumstance, because I've not picked the numbers Right, just saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would think that if you're picking the numbers, your odds would be even less. I don't know.
Speaker 3:If you're picking the numbers. That's a good question. I think if you're picking the same numbers all the time, like if you always pick your birthdays or I don't know, like if you always pick your birthdays or, I don't know, kids' birthdays, I don't know and playing the same number all the time, I think those odds would be greater that you'd win. But what do I know? You just let them random pick Again. I think you have the same. You probably have the same odds either way. I don't know. Have you guys ever won?
Speaker 2:Do you play the lottery? Either of you Ever Scratch off tickets.
Speaker 4:Pull tabs. I like a good pull tab, but I will tell you.
Speaker 3:Occasionally Go ahead.
Speaker 4:I don't think pull tabs are quite as heavily leaning towards luck, because by law they have to put up there what the winnings are and you can see how many have been scratched off and you can look at how many are left in the basket. So to me there's a little bit. It's not just straight up luck, yeah. Yeah. If there's hardly any left in the basket and there's, majority of the prize winnings are still here, I'm playing them Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's a little different, yep.
Speaker 4:Not done scratch offs.
Speaker 2:No, do you know people who have won the lottery?
Speaker 4:Yes, my aunt has my aunt who has passed away, I think she won it three times like maybe 10,000 the first time, maybe like 50,000 the second time, and then she was in a pool with some other coworkers and they won a couple hundred thousand split amongst them. Wow, I know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it would be cool, but again you have to play to win. You can't. You can't win if you're not going to play.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think there is a hundred percent of shots, you don't take. That is true, don't you love that?
Speaker 2:let's get back to sports. Um, so well, I guess, in general on this topic, the habits, and I can't one one of you said this basically a little bit earlier if you're doing something over and over again and it's producing positive results, you're just kind of continue, you're getting better at things, and I think this is what they call keystone habits. So there are these habits that actually end up creating positive results in other parts of your life. So, like, exercise would be one of those. So if you decide, okay, I'm in really bad shape, I'm going to start exercising, so you start exercising and so not only do you improve your health, but you also improve your mindset, your social life, your, you know other things. So I guess, just on the topic, I am going to look at these things more, as these are habits of mine, and these are habits. They're not weird, they might be quirky, but as long as they're working, this is a good thing.
Speaker 4:So we're going to come back and ask you how many times you've switched up your emojis on your text to see if there's one emoji that is a better habit than another emoji. Maybe it's the fact that you put an emoji in the text oh, it's a good habit okay, what am I gonna do with that Stacy?
Speaker 2:are you on text alerts cuz you?
Speaker 3:yeah, I think you are yeah, oh yeah, I get them, and I never pay attention to the emoji. I'll tell you that I just thought oh yeah, there's a show today. You know what I mean? I don't know, but I read, I have to.
Speaker 2:I open it and look at it, but I guess I've never here's what's funny like so if you yeah, and I don't know if you delete those or not, so let's just say that you didn't. If you don't delete those, you could go and you could look at the whole. You know the progression of them and you could see when the emoji changes and know ooh, she was good to know now, that's good to know.
Speaker 1:I would be happy with that show.
Speaker 3:So if I reply to that, are you going to get the reply or does it go to who knows where?
Speaker 2:I do get the reply.
Speaker 3:I'll start replying and say oh, I don't know, I didn't like this, I'm not watching this show. Weird emoji.
Speaker 4:Don't use that emoji again.
Speaker 3:Don't use that one. That's not going to get you any people, any viewers, that's funny what else. It can't just be that, it can't just be those things. Are there any other funny things we do?
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, I think we all have a lot of habits that are just the default. The habit becomes default, yeah, for no apparent reason.
Speaker 3:Right and, like we said, if it's working then it must be a good habit. You know, I read somewhere where there's passive habits like brushing your teeth. You know you're always going to brush your teeth. Right, it obviously is good. But do you really think of it like, oh, I'm making a choice today? No, it's just a habit, it's in your routine. You know, you just always do it. You know other things might be harder and you know I can't remember the word. I don't know what the other word was, besides passive. What other kind of habit that you really have to make a conscious effort to? You know to do and exercise would fall in that? You know things like that where you have to make more of an effort to include that habit.
Speaker 2:What side of the bed do you guys sleep on? As you're facing the bed, as you're facing the bed, as you're facing, as you're facing the bed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm, I'm a right Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm a left, amy's a middle.
Speaker 4:No, I'm not a middle. I'm, I'm weirdly I'm not a middle, but I told you guys my approach to bed. Yeah, I sleep on, I really do sleep on one half and as a matter of fact, I sleep really close to the edge of the bed because I like to always have my feet out. So the other half of the bed totally clean, so I switch and then sleep on the other side.
Speaker 3:So I think that makes perfect sense to me, because I don't you know. And then I thought maybe your next question was me Do you have to sleep on that side, Like when we go to hotels or somewhere else? It makes no difference to me, I can sleep on either side. I'm just like that. I don't do a lot of moving, I'm right at the edge of the bed and you know, and it really doesn't make any difference how about when you go to a restaurant?
Speaker 4:can you sit with your back to the door?
Speaker 2:I have to because bill insists that he has to see the door yep, yeah, so it doesn't bother me, I can.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just know that about barney too, he'll want to, so I just sit in the other spot what about you, amy?
Speaker 4:um, this person that I've been seeing is such a gentleman. He always says, where would you like to sit? And I'm always like I want to see what's going on in the room. So I always sit with my back to the wall, not because I want to see the door, but I'm I love looking around, so that this poor man always ends up sitting with his back and only being able to look at me or the two people next to us.
Speaker 3:Right, poor guy, meanwhile you're watching basketball.
Speaker 4:Now, if that's something that's on, we will sit at the bar so we can both see what's going on. Yeah, and it's, but I don't feel, I don't feel anxious if I sit on the other side. You know, it's fine that isn't one of those things. Not gonna die on a hill for that one yeah um, I have another little quirky one, and kitty.
Speaker 4:You probably might remember this whenever I go for a walk or a drive, I go in a circle. I need to. I need to make a loop that connects. I cannot stand walking out somewhere and turn around and walking back. That feels okay, that doesn't feel right, correct. That doesn't feel right, correct. That doesn't feel comfortable, okay, I much prefer to walk in a loop. Hmm, all those walks we went on always a loop, always a loop.
Speaker 2:That's right, always a loop.
Speaker 3:Hmm, so you can't just walk to the end of the road and then come back and that be it. You know what I mean? It has to be where you can go around the block and get back to the same spot. Yes, in other words, yes.
Speaker 2:You feel like it's because you're not making the most of the walk. I feel like I already saw that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's like back to my airplane thing, because if I always sit on the right I get to see both sides.
Speaker 2:I get to see the view out of both sides of the trip well, you kind of do yeah yeah, people have a lot of funny superstitions about flying yes, yeah, I used to have to get a visual on the pilot. I used to travel a ton for work and so every time I would get on, I would, before I would turn right to go into the cabin, I would take a look left and the door was usually door to the cockpit was usually open and I would have to see the pilot, and what I needed to see was an appropriate amount of gray hair.
Speaker 3:So if he looked 12, you were going to get right back off. I mean, what would happen if that would be the case?
Speaker 2:I wasn't going to be, happy about it.
Speaker 3:Oh, you were just going to sit.
Speaker 2:It would make me uncomfortable. And then the best of the best was when you get a bonus pilot. So you've got a pilot who's just flying home somewhere and because then you're like, okay, well, if something bad does happen up there, so that guy's gonna that guy's gonna know what to do.
Speaker 3:he could take over. Yes, yeah. I suppose, yeah, that was always good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was fairly neurotic about that and this now just came to me. And also and I would always fly with a co-worker We'd get to the airport. We have to go to Caribou, we have to get a coffee, the same kind of coffee every time and no matter what time of the day it was that we were flying. We had to get a cotton and we did that for the safety of everyone on that airplane.
Speaker 4:oh good, good, okay, you guys, we talked about this a little bit when we were throwing around this idea about church. We talked about this a little bit when we were throwing around this idea about church and how, if you went to church for a long time, you always sat in the same spot in church.
Speaker 3:Yeah, didn't have our name on a plaque on that part of the bench, but nobody else sat there, yeah, and if somebody did, you walked up. Like what are you doing?
Speaker 4:You know you didn't say anything, but it was like what are you doing in my pew? Interestingly enough, we always sat on the left side of the church, which, when I took my kids to church, we also sat on the left side of the church.
Speaker 1:I've always been a right sitter Right side.
Speaker 4:Now I will tell you the church that I grew up in in Wilmer and the church that we took our kids to. They had windows along the left side of the church, and in Wilmer there are these gorgeous stained glass windows. So I always felt like if the kids were, if you know, when we were there, if we were zoned out, at least we had these beautiful stained glass windows to look at. The other side just had this large brick wall. There was no daydreaming with that large brick wall. And so I did the same thing with our kids. They had more windows on the left, and I tried to push us up a little bit towards the front so they could at least see what was going on outside, in hopes that I could keep them, you know, occupied. What else has everybody got? I can't wait. I hope people let us know what their odd quirks are.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We'd love to hear.
Speaker 2:Let us know, send us messages, drop comments on the post when this drops on Facebook. We would love to know that we're not the only ones that are a little.
Speaker 4:Yeah, especially if you count your stairs.
Speaker 3:Yes, Please, let us know we need to take a poll and figure out the percentage of the people that actually do that.
Speaker 4:So right now we're I think I read that people who count stairs are brighter.
Speaker 2:Highly intelligent. Oh yes, they're high achieving individuals.
Speaker 3:No, I'm thinking the people that are smart. Don't need to count them, they're there, you don't need to count them, they're not going to change, fine.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, let's wrap this. I have a couple things to share that I can share real quick. Oh, you've got shots. I've got shots. Did you guys happen to catch Oprah's menopause special?
Speaker 4:No, but I've been watching reels and I want to find I want to watch it my favorite Dr Mary.
Speaker 2:Claire, yeah, and um, it's been fun to kind of watch her socials too, because this has been a huge exposure for her. This will be life-changing for her career it.
Speaker 4:You know, since we started following her, her socials have gone bananas just yeah, and so this is going to be yeah.
Speaker 3:Uh, well, if we haven't, if we hadn't talked about it, I thought I might have mentioned it, but I'm going to mention again. When we first started this, we kept, you know, googling or, you know, doing AI searches. For what topics would women of our age want to? Blah, blah, blah. And number one was always menopause. And we've steered clear of that topic, not because we're necessarily afraid of it or, you know, don't want to talk about it. We just don't feel like we're very, you know, medically qualified to have a lot of say about it, so we've just stayed away from it.
Speaker 3:But yeah, there's lots of resources today. I thought it was interesting. Did you know Halle Berry did her? Oh, I blanked, Amy. What did you get Alex for Christmas? That, oh, masterclass, Masterclass. Halle Berry did a masterclass on menopause. I thought that was an interesting flex for her to go that direction for a masterclass.
Speaker 2:So there you go. Yeah, so she was on it. She was one of the guests on the Oprah special. So, yeah, I feel like this is the best advice that we can give on this topic, that that will be a great resource. You can catch it in replay. I'm sure that it's available. It's on one of the streaming services. Yeah, it's got to be so that's really good. Cool, um, and then I want to show you my latest Amazon find.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, is that a chicken shredder?
Speaker 2:No, it looks like it. This is a microwave popcorn popper. So you guys know how much I love popcorn, have always loved popcorn. I can eat popcorn every day and I don't because I don't buy microwave popcorn. When I make it, I make it on the stove, so it's oil and butter and it's not good for you. So I stumbled upon this. So this is just a silicone thing, basically, and so it flattens down. So when you go to use it you just pop it open like this. There's two lines in here for the size or for your fill lines. So if you just want a small batch, you just put it in there. If you want a bigger batch, you put it here. You put your little silicone thing on, it fits down in it and then and it pops. And I have made this and you know how. You just wait until you it starts to slow down. I have had no burns, I have had minimal unpopped kernels and it's basically like air popped popcorn and then I put butter on it.
Speaker 2:I have to have butter on my popcorn, but I don't have all the oil that I was having before and I also don't have a big mess inter so what brand is that?
Speaker 3:because I did buy that oh pop pop one, oh yeah I saw that.
Speaker 2:I saw that one. This is called this Popco you can barely see the logo over here but just on Amazon, Popco microwave popcorn and there were lots of options. So I looked at them all and this was cheap. I don't remember how much, it was $12, $15, something like that. Cool, Great. And then yeah, and then it just collapses down so it goes into your cabinet like this Love it Cool.
Speaker 4:Now I'm hungry for popcorn, I know.
Speaker 3:I think we'll all go make popcorn.
Speaker 4:I might go make some too.
Speaker 3:There we go. Amy, do you have a shot? I've got nothing. I don't today. I can't remember the last time I had a shot. I need to pay more attention and plan ahead, right.
Speaker 4:Make it a habit. It's been for eight homes and my brain has been. I have been fried. I did absolutely nothing today but dink around on the computer because I just needed to zone out. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Good, yep, yep Good. You have to do that when you can.
Speaker 3:All right, yep good you have to do that when you can all right.
Speaker 2:Well, let's wrap. We will see you guys next week. Have a good week. Yes, you too. Now we're all going to be, hyper focused on our, on our habits. So come up with other quirks.
Speaker 3:We can talk about it next week for sure that's right all right, all right, bye, bye, ladies, bye, all right, alright, alright.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, ladies, bye. So you're wondering how I got that vibe. Here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top, I don't need an invitation. Knock, knock. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
