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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.
Self employed, boss - CHECK
Mom, wife, single - CHECK
Rural, suburban, urban life - CHECK
Vodka, gin, wine - CHECK
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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".
3 Cocktails In
Pickleball, Pride, and Pursuing New Connections: The Friendship Project Continues
The journey to forge meaningful adult friendships continues as we check in on month four of our year-long Friendship Project. Overcoming the inertia of social isolation takes creativity, courage, and sometimes just a flat driveway and some pickleball paddles!
Stacey shares her brilliant success story of inviting six neighbor women for casual pickleball games, creating a regular gathering where the breaks have become everyone's favorite part. "The best part is when we sit in my lawn chairs, chat, and then finally one of us will say, 'We have to get up and play some more,'" she explains. This organic approach to deepening casual relationships has created consistent social connections that everyone looks forward to.
Meanwhile, Amy describes her strategy of making "micro-connections" through thoughtful social media engagement, discovering how these small touchpoints can blossom into rekindled friendships. Kitty reveals how she's leveraging professional online groups to create relationships that will transition to in-person connections at an upcoming convention.
Looking ahead to month five, we outline practical next steps for strengthening these budding friendships, including follow-up texts, transitioning group acquaintances into deeper one-on-one relationships, and attending community events with a new mindset. As Kitty reflects on an upcoming concert, "I don't give a crap if we're going with somebody or meeting somebody up there. I just want to go, just the two of us, and who knows who we'll run into?"
Join us to learn how small, intentional actions can break through social barriers and create meaningful connections in adulthood. What friendship-building strategy might work for you? Listen, try something new, and let us know how it goes!
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".
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Speaker 2:I got that. Wow, 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. I'm about to start a celebration.
Speaker 3:Hello, Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I think I'm about to start a celebration. Hello Hi, good evening, Kitty. Did you change this background?
Speaker 4:just to match my shirt tonight. Aw, I'm feeling special. I did, I knew exactly what you were wearing.
Speaker 3:Good job Well thank you. And welcome everyone to Three Cocktails In Addicting Conversations with Kitty and Stacey and me, Amy. This is what friends do for each other, right? You see what beautiful blue you're wearing and they put a perfect blue background in, like blue you're wearing and they put a perfect blue background in love that.
Speaker 4:How are you guys good doing good, trying to stay cool? Yeah, yeah, it's a bit hot.
Speaker 3:A bit hot this weekend so not at all what we're talking about. But I have a question. Okay, so I sat out late last night not late, but you know eight, nine, ten ish when it finally cooled down to be like 90 degrees and it felt really good. So you feel good outside and then you come in and it's cold and you're like oh, this feels good too. Yeah, you're kind sweaty. So you go take a shower and the cold shower is too cold, but you then decide to have a hot, hot shower. Anybody else think that this makes absolutely no sense, or is it just me?
Speaker 5:No, it's not just you, no. I can't remember the last time. Well, this actually has to do with podcasts. I was doing something and got home and needed to take a shower at night, which I don't usually do I'm a morning shower but it was hot and sweaty and I thought, oh gosh, a cold shower will be good because I think it's a good for you. Oh my, my gosh Couldn't stand it. I did a hot shower, you know what.
Speaker 3:I mean.
Speaker 5:No, it doesn't make sense. But yes, that's no um, I don't know.
Speaker 3:So what about the cold plunge thing? Are you guys have you?
Speaker 4:tried.
Speaker 5:No, no need, yeah. No, that's supposed to be good for you, but I don't think so Because, like I said, I can't stand a very cold shower, even a lukewarm shower. No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like to wake up and take that cold plunge into my first Diet Coke of the day, that's the part I like to know about.
Speaker 4:There you go. Some people now are just doing the face plunge.
Speaker 5:Have you seen that Into like a or something?
Speaker 4:yeah and I feel like I feel like I could do that in the morning, like to you know, to wake up.
Speaker 3:I could do that, but I'm not going to do the full body you remember the whole scene in mommy dearest where Joan Crawford plunges her face into the bowl of the ice cold water in the morning.
Speaker 5:Hmm.
Speaker 3:I don't remember that. That's part of her routine, you know with all of her.
Speaker 5:Oh well, yeah there you go, must be something to it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, um, I think what Stacy wants to share with us has something to do with our friendship project.
Speaker 5:It does.
Speaker 3:This is our fourth check-in.
Speaker 5:Fifth check-in. We're going to review number four, and then next is number five. A lot of course a lot, of course.
Speaker 3:So if you are just listening or watching, we decided 2025 is the year to try and make one more friend one. Um, we started by identifying what kind of friend we were looking for. We started. Then we moved on to practicing being out in public, took the training wheels off, which is like the earbuds out, put the phone down, looked around. Last month we decided, as part of the plan is, to utilize social media and digital platforms to see if that gets us to a place with like-minded people. So how did that go for everyone last week, last month? Excuse me, did you use some social media, digital access to get out there into the world?
Speaker 4:I'll go first. So I feel like I'm doing this all the time with my business. So, in addition to that, I am also I'm being more visible and present in groups of other consultants, because now we're getting ready to go to convention and I want to go and take those relationships, that where we've just messaged each other and, you know, not necessarily I mean first just talking about business, but then, you know, you just become more friendly and then being able to meet those people in Vegas at the end of July. So, um, those groups to me are related to my business. Um, but that's I mean, it was just it's right there in front of me the whole time. It's been right there in front of me the last three years and I haven't really taken advantage of it. And now I am.
Speaker 3:That's awesome and that's part of what we're going to talk about for the next month. You know that's a great tool, so you've got a head start. Yeah, Cool. How about you Stace? I have a feeling this is going to be good.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, mine's going to be kind of long. Go ahead, maybe not. During the last month's discussion I just all of a sudden had this you know light bulb idea. Don't ask me how, but during our conversation I thought about it. So my last month I decided to look for local friends, you know. So basically just people I already know, and invite them for pickleball and we play. I have, I've had a pickleball set, you know, for a couple of years and my we play in the driveway. My driveway is super flat, it even has you know lines and we just have to draw the kitchen line. And so I invited six women, knowing that not everybody can show up on the same night, and if we ever did, it'd be fine, we'd get more of a break. You know, what.
Speaker 5:I mean.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so it's been just a hoot. Some have played. You know, I've played pickleball a few times. I'm lousy at it, I'm not saying I'm good, but I know the rules and how to play. And another, you know, another of the ladies knew how to play. The rest have are just starting. So have no idea, but we're really after just three weeks.
Speaker 5:We've played, we try to either play, we try to play Monday and Tuesday, and only one week we've gotten together twice. So we've played four times out of six, mondays and Tuesdays, and some show up some night and some can't, and so we just, who's ever there? We just, we just play. But the, you know, and we're laughing because it's so stupid and funny, anyway. But I'll tell you what the best part is. The best part is when we say, oh, my gosh, we got to take a break. So we all sit in my lawn chairs, we just sit there and chat and then finally one of us will say, oh, we got to get up and go play some more. So we do that about two or three times and it's been really fun just having the conversation in the middle and after, as we're kind of, you know, resting and taking a break. That's been. That's been the fun part. So, anyway, that's my new thing. So we'll do it all summer, and we even have um a spot we might be able to play all winter too.
Speaker 5:So that's that's awesome oh isn't that funny oh my yeah, gosh, yeah, so it's. It's not making making new friends, it's making new connections. You know, I know them all we kind of all know each other you know cocktails in, yeah Right. Yeah. We did a big tournament. Yep Fun.
Speaker 4:Good idea.
Speaker 5:So that's my idea yeah, reconnecting and connecting more with the people I already know so I'm really curious.
Speaker 4:So and go ahead I'm sure that the I'm sorry we we've definitely got a delay going on.
Speaker 5:Yeah maybe a little, a little delayed, but that right, she'll jump in sometimes the reaction from your friends has to be Stacey.
Speaker 4:thank you so much for doing this. Yeah, what a great idea. This is awesome.
Speaker 5:Yeah, because you know it's good to step off the couch and doing something. And yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, I think they're enjoying it. They wouldn't come back again if they hated it. So, yeah, right.
Speaker 3:Yep. So what did they say when you first asked them? Did they?
Speaker 5:what did they say Like you want us to come play pickleball on your driveway, yeah right. And once they come and see and remember, oh yeah, you do have an extremely flat driveway and it's literally just about the right width, you know. And, like I said, we just have to draw two lines. You know that with sidewalk chalk, and then it gets washed away, draw it again every time, which is fine, takes two minutes to set it up and whatever. But yeah, at first they, you know, you know, one of them said, well, I've never played. And it's like, yeah, whatever, come. You know, and honestly, pickleball is not so hard that I mean anybody can play, literally anybody can play. And we joke that.
Speaker 5:The one said you know that this 80 year old guy kept asking her to come play pick a ball with her and she's gone. Yeah, I don't think so. And and the one son warned her that, well, you be careful because people fall and break a hip. Well, if we get injured, I guess we get injured, I don't know. But yeah, we just have fun. We're not very, we haven't even we've started serving, you know, we serve correctly and in order and whatever. We haven't kept score yet. So after four times we're still just whacking it back and forth and just kind of playing not keeping score and playing a real game yet. But we'll get there, probably this week. Good job.
Speaker 4:You're going to start keeping score.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yep, sometimes we've had three. A couple of times we had three, so we just play one against two and then we rotate. Everybody gets you know. So, yeah, we just do whatever. Everybody's pretty easy going and you know there's no real. What do I want to say? You know nobody's taking it serious that we've got to, you know, have to do games exactly and anything. So, like I said, the funnest part has been the resting and just chatting about whatever. So, yeah, that's been fun, that's good.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 5:That's mine for the month.
Speaker 3:I kind of whipped out, Other than I have taken more of an interest and this is one of the suggestions that to be more proactive in commenting on other people's posts and stuff on social media, Because it's like a friend is telling you something. They're sharing some news. If you ran into them in the grocery store and they shared with you, of course you would say something back in the grocery store and they shared with you, of course you would say something back.
Speaker 5:so I'm I'm also hoping that by continuing to do that, I get to see more actual people in my feed and a lot less ads, yeah, so yeah, and I even comment on other people's comments that I don't know.
Speaker 3:You know somebody especially. We've put things out on ours. Um, nice, nicely done, sharing that picture of me with those two antler heads without asking my position.
Speaker 5:Well, I suppose you know that's probably karma. I'll be expecting some really shitty picture of me and that picture was good of you anyway. I just thought it was funny because I knew just when it was, when we went to Vegas and we had masks. You know, you had a mask on I just had. I don't know I came across it. It was like it came up as a memory and I mask on I just had. I don't know I came across it. It was like it came up as a memory and I'd forgotten they even had the picture.
Speaker 5:So, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah so you know, commenting on stuff like that, coming on commenting on somebody else's comment starts a new conversation, and it is again one of those micro connections that you can have during real time and on a daily basis makes you laugh. Um, so I've done that quite a bit and I I I actually got a message that I graduated high school with, and she sent just a lovely little message I posted something about in kind of my disco 1970s shirt. It was brand new but I felt very disco in it. She sent me a message saying oh, you look fabulous, whatever.
Speaker 3:What a nice thing to open up your phone and see you have like a message and you look at you're like, oh my gosh, it's a real person and they said something nice to me, yeah, so we really should do more of that. Should do more of that. That should be our shot for the next week once a day.
Speaker 3:Send somebody outside the three of us, even though we appreciate those two, um, you know, kitty and stacy send somebody a little bit further out your circle. Something nice, comment, nicely, comment on their post. Send them a message, something make somebody stay so yeah, great idea yeah, so what's the plan for next month? As we continue on, we are kitty.
Speaker 3:This is so right in line with what you have been doing. It's to strengthen new friendships. So you guys are already ahead of the game. Not only did you set up something new with people that you kind of knew, stacy, you're continuing it, kitty. You've had these conversations, you're trying to take it to the next level with hopes of deepening the friendship. So action steps. Follow up with new connections by sending a friendly text or inviting them out. Yay for both of you Transition group acquaintances into deeper one-on-one friendships. Kitty, that's you.
Speaker 3:What you got going on and then the last is kind of a suggestion on how you can go about doing this without having to plan your own pickleball league. Um is to attend trivia nights or karaoke or local social events to bond further. So, um stace, you posted a picture of you manning the bounce house. What was that?
Speaker 5:for that was jewel jubilee, jewel jubilee and did you volunteer to go?
Speaker 3:do that?
Speaker 5:yeah, I volunteered. They asked for volunteers. So one of the pickleball ladies, allison, who lives four down, four houses down, she's like the jewel area, development something, something you know, director now as of this year. So she'd put out a thing for you know, volunteer, need volunteers, you know whatever. So yeah, I said, okay, I can do it, for I can do it for a couple hours and that's what she wanted. I asked her, like what do you need? So that was the thing. Oh my gosh, yeah, can you imagine. And there was two bouncy houses. So just my sole purpose was to make sure nobody, you know, clunked heads you know, if they did start crying, push them off onto their parents.
Speaker 5:You know, and you can only put 10 kids in a bouncy house at a time. And, oh my gosh, they were just going back and forth, and back and forth and finally I just said you guys do what you want. The one kid, one kid, I wasn't even thinking. He goes, hey, I can do a flip, and I said, okay, yeah, great, well, I'll watch it. And then literally, literally, on the bounce house, you know, don't rules, yeah, rules, no, no.
Speaker 3:Flipping, no flips it's like whatever, whatever I I just chuckled and I'm I don't know that I put it out on social media, but I know that I sent you a message that said I'm not sure I would have asked you to handle the risk.
Speaker 5:Logistics, no literally, yeah, literally, let them do whatever. There was this one busy time where, you know, like I told, my sole purpose was to make sure there was only 10 in there at a time. Well, I was kind of counting yeah, it's probably at least 10, it's probably 15, and so I stopped this little kid and I said, oh, just wait a minute till somebody goes down the slide or comes out, and he looks at me like, and went in anyway. So, so that was pointless, I know. So it's like what are you here for, lady? And you know their parents. They're little, so their parents were all around and the rest of them that were bigger, their parents probably weren't anywhere close. So, yeah, they were happy. Somebody else was gonna watch, right? Yeah, well, that was that. It was only two hours and then I was done. So you know things like that. It didn't kill me to go volunteer for two hours. Yeah, it was kind of funny, honestly so good entertainment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it kind of was oh, that's a great example, yeah, so, um, I, you know, I, it's pride month here in minneapolis and there's parades and there's usually things going on and of course, they're always on the stinking weekends and I don't get a go and, uh, bum me out. Um, I've talked to one of my daughters and they were spending this afternoon decorating a pride float, boy, you know. So there are a lot of things that are going, especially in summer. There are a lot of things that are going on, a lot of opportunities to go. When people are just so dang happy to have more volunteers, they're super happy that you're there. Grab, grab a neighbor, grab somebody and say, hey, you know you want to go do this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I, I sent, I, um, I sent a message. Uh, on Monday went to work and it was that first really hot God awful day that it was like 95 degrees and about 700% humidity and it felt just like the first week in August when we always had Girl Scout camp, when you'd wake up that Monday anticipating a couple of hundred girls getting dropped off for six hours and it was going to be muggy and hot and you're just going to come home so nasty. I sent that message to a few of my former leaders and I'm like did they camp get moved, anybody else? I'm getting the same thing, and that was one of those nice little touch points. Did they camp get moved Anybody else? Again, the same thing. That was one of those nice little touch points with friends from years past Finding those memories, yeah.
Speaker 4:Something I've been thinking about this week, with 4th of July coming up quickly. I've always loved 4th of July in the neighborhood, in the community, because there's always just so many fun things to do. And I said to Bill the other day I'm really excited about Fourth of July coming up because with him not working and me working from home, it just feels completely different. And I was thinking about it further and I was remembering so, amy, you know all the community things that happen, right, and so for many years they do this big party up in the park and they have a band and everything. And I know that there were several years that we would you know, you guys went with us several times, other people went with and I always had the.
Speaker 4:I always felt like I didn't want to go unless we had somebody to go with, or like we were going and we knew that we were going to meet up with people there. Yes, and now I just said to Bill the other day how it's going to be super fun to go and I don't give a crap if we're going with somebody or meeting somebody up there. I just want to go, just the two of us, and walk around and who knows who we'll run into who knows. So I'm glad that I feel less. You know, nobody would have known if you'd gone up there, if we'd gone up there just the two of us and we weren't meeting anybody or with anybody. What a weird right, what a weird thing for me to be worried about.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it was a habit.
Speaker 3:It was a habit, you know, yeah, and also when we had younger kids it was also an opportunity to actually go go have a night out with another couple that you know you were so longing to. If you've been, I know for myself. When I was home with the kids I was I was so excited to go talk to somebody new. You know that. Excuse me, what else was going on?
Speaker 5:Well, that's good. I hope you go and I would love we'll love to hear who you met, who you, if you saw anyone you already know. Yeah, yeah, I think that's a good opportunity to you know, talk to somebody new. There will be another couple standing around with nobody you never know. Yeah, for sure. Or even just go into a group.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because again now you've got a chance to meet other people in the group and you would assume, if A and B are good together and B and c are good together, that a and c probably have a connecting point too.
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah so cool yeah, so I, I'm the. I'm the one that's got to work on something here. I know, oh, I'm making a new friend at work. I've got a junior realtor. A junior salesperson is with me. She's been with me for three days and she's going to come back the week after we get back from Italy. Cool, nice, she's 21. I have to chuckle. I'm like, hey, if anything I say to you comes out like your mom, don't be offended, just ignore me. I'm not trying to mother you.
Speaker 5:Sort of deal. Yeah are you sure your mom, because you're probably older than her mom.
Speaker 3:Oh, well, thank you for that. Thank you, thank you for that. Just saying my baby's 25 for a couple more weeks, yep so funny for a couple more weeks.
Speaker 5:Yep, yeah, work. Friends are a thing. I think work would be torture if you had no one, you know. Mm-hmm, no one, you're friendly with at work.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, it really is helpful. The only person I see daily in my job is my sales the construction supervisor, because he offices out of the home that I work and I get such a kick out of him. I so enjoy him. You know he likes to tell stories with a little drama, just like I do, so we are forever laughing about stuff that's going on and you know he's full of oh my gosh, I can't believe, can you believe?
Speaker 3:and I'm like, yeah, we speak the same language here, so those are kind of fun that is a good one, yep yeah, it's really good when I sent him a text and said I think that there are birds in this unfinished basement of a house that just got framed and I'm not going down there. And yes, I know I'm a grown adult, but no, I'm not going down there. I need you to go look at this tomorrow, go and shoooo them out. Yeah, yeah, but I did have to tell them. I know I'm an adult, but no, I'm still not doing this. I don't like birds. So somebody took care of it. It wasn't me.
Speaker 4:There you go. What's the market like right now?
Speaker 3:It has. Honestly, it's kind of ground to a halt in the metro area Really. And it's kind of ground to a halt in the metro area Really. And it's not just new construction, it's something weird. There's just a little hiccup right now. End of June.
Speaker 3:July is usually slow, especially locally. For us, a lot of people are kids, are out of school now. They've got vacations planned. Sports are winding down, summer sports are winding down, so fourth of july, big vacation week in minnesota. So that's not unusual. Yeah, but in talking to a lot of realtors at all sorts of price points, price points everybody has just kind of put things on hold. So you know the Fed doesn't help in that they. They've been talking about moving interest rates for well. I mean months and months and months and nothing's happened. So I think people are just like you know what? I'm just going to enjoy my summer for right now and maybe we'll come back, yeah, yeah. So I think for the first time since I joined the company, I'm not going to hit my goal for the quarter. It's killing me. I hate that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, maybe it just means even more for next quarter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hopefully, yeah, but maybe it just means even more for next quarter. Yeah, hopefully, yeah. And it does mean the people who come in, they're not, they're not kicking tires, they actually have thought it through. So I've had more conversations about people who want to build um, and that's a different budget where you know they don't it's not a job transfer, it's not. Uh, we're having more kids, it's you know. We've been thinking about it.
Speaker 3:Now it's kind of the time sort of deal so yeah, cool, yeah, well, probably a good time to be on vacation, then it is. It is a really good time. Um, jace, hate to break this to you. I have an appointment 530 on Monday night, the night that you're coming there.
Speaker 5:Oh, I won't be. I won't be there early because I'll be trying to shove all my work together, probably work late and get there late.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So I think it's funny. This is the third reschedule. Oh, this realtor has said she goes. I am so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm like it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But this last time I said, yep, that'll work. But, by the way, I'm going to be out of town July 1st through the 9th.
Speaker 5:So you need to get it done.
Speaker 3:I said so, if there we, I we can work it out beforehand, or it's going to have to wait till after that. Oh, no worries, I'm gone. The second through the sixth. Ok good.
Speaker 3:Good, we're all on the same page, and that's that's pretty typical for realtors. Usually the weekend before Fourth of July through the weekend after is. So if you really wanted to buy in the metro area and you didn't want any competition, get out there. That way there's not going to be anybody who's you're going to have to bid against. So there you go. There's your tip. There is your tip, the real estate tip of the day yes, tip of the day, yes, speaking, speaking of our vacation. Yes.
Speaker 5:Bonjour, bonjour. Guess where we're going? Yeah, amy and I are going to Italy. We're a little more than a week out. I do have a packing tip, okay good what is that Organizing tip?
Speaker 5:Here's my thought. So a week out, I'm going to go, you know, down in the basement, get my carry-on, get out my you know bag that I take and start chucking stuff in it. You know, not clothes, I'm not packing clothes yet but you know I've got my passport. You know all the other little stuff I could pack, my jewelry. That would be something you could do instead of the day before I'm going to pack all of my little, you know, travel size, travel size stuff. I can pack that all the way and put that in. You know, find all those things, the two pairs of shoes you know, and put those in. Do all this stuff ahead of time, cause I'll think, oh yeah, I need to get that and oh yeah, I need to do that.
Speaker 5:My thought on the travel size stuff If I pack that on now, I've got a whole week to. You know, if I don't have enough of something, I could get it this week, cause I don't want to do that last minute and have to go somewhere, you know, to get stuff. So get all of that kind of stuff out of the way and then start figuring out clothes and I'll be packed, you know, two days early probably yeah, I like that, I like that idea yeah, yeah, because you know I don't have, I'm not gonna wear stuff this week that I'm in a pack, right?
Speaker 5:so, like I said, just start this early getting stuff organized, so I'm not doing it last minute.
Speaker 3:Well, I always think you do that. Early A week ago you sent me don't forget, your, your, your compression socks and your night mask and your sleeping mask and something else. I'm like are you packing already? Cause I thought she was seriously packing.
Speaker 5:Yeah. And I said, oh yeah, I'm all packed already. And she goes oh no, you're not. And of course not. But like I found all that stuff and I'll put it in a pile, you know, just so I'm not frantically looking for it later, I'll have all the stuff ready ahead of time.
Speaker 3:Well, we're going to have to report back because I am trying to do this in only a carry-on bag. Yeah, we have a carry-on. Yeah, just a carry-on, and I'll check it. It's not that I don't want to check the. I don't want to carry it Because all I've heard about Italy is that it's cobblestone streets and it's a bitch to try and roll your luggage.
Speaker 5:You've got to be able to lift it upstairs and stuff I'm going to try and go with, like you mean, like a duffel bag, you mean like a duffel bag, you're carry-on, you're rolling, not a big one, yeah, not a big one, yeah yeah, I'm hoping are my packing cubes, which I have sitting out right next to me um will help, help do that yes, I did order packing cubes, so we'll report back how how that goes, because I think for me too that'll end up being yeah, super, duper, slick, get it all. Yeah, compact and matter of fact.
Speaker 3:I'm going to give you another tip. I think that packing cubes are a wonderful gift that you could give anybody who travels, and by travels that could just be a couple of trips a year. Yeah, you can organize so much stuff. You don't have to dig through your whole suitcase, yes, and take it all apart just to get another pair of socks which I always do.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah. So I think this will work really well yeah, so there you go what do you? Have kitty, do you? Do you have a shot for us? Do you have a tip okay?
Speaker 4:so I just started, I'm taking, I'm doing a through an app, I'm doing an ai course are you doing like the 28 day?
Speaker 5:ai course that one oh, I can't wait to hear what you said, what you find out because I've looked at it a bunch of times I same.
Speaker 4:so I keep seeing the ads for it and and so I finally it was. It was very inexpensive and I thought, okay, because I use chat gpt every single day and I'm using it more and more and I'm I'm using it now to like, create um, canva templates, and so not just not just asking it things, I'm, I'm having it do things. So it's the one that I picked is called cursive c-o-u-r-s-i-v um, trying to figure out if I can give you a visual. Well, anyway, it's a really, really nice interface, and so the the first one is chat GPT, but then it will go into I can't remember how many, like eight or nine different AI models and it'll show you, you know, what makes this one different, what you can use it for, and it gives you exercises to go through. So it'll give you you know what makes this one different, what you can use it for, and it gives you exercises to go through. So it'll give you a little bit of the education and then you can put it, you know, put it to work.
Speaker 4:So I'm finding the ChatGPT one to be very, very basic, but just, you know, we all probably would, because we all use it. So I'm excited to get past this one and into the next one. So I'll report back in a few weeks, but I'm loving it. So I take, you know, 15 minutes in the morning and run through a few exercises and yeah, I just think it's really cool Really good, yeah, I can't wait to hear what you think, because I've looked at it a bunch.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm, so use it for translation too, like it can help you translate things. Oh, and also, I was watching somebody else on Instagram and they were traveling. They were in Japan or China or somewhere and they had some sort of app. I don't know what it is. You should look into this. So there's a sign. They would shoot the app at the sign and it would translate the sign.
Speaker 3:Oh nice, super helpful for menus. Yes, yes.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think Google does. It Doesn't Google translate Google translate. Probably Maybe. I think Google does. It Doesn't Google Google translate, google translate?
Speaker 4:Probably Maybe that's what they were using. I guess I've I've never used it before.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I'm going to let my tour guide take care of that, okay, no, I think.
Speaker 5:I think that's why we travel well, because we each have our own set of skills. Sometimes I just go I got nothing, and then Amy takes over and then she'll say I don't know. And I say, yeah, we're going this way, that kind of stuff, whatever.
Speaker 3:We're going to be way more patient this time when we exit a building and we're going to wait for the Google Maps to get itself switched around before we start walking halfway down the block and have to turn around and walk back the other way.
Speaker 5:I'm telling you, when you walk out of a building and you're facing that way, it thinks that's the way you're going. You have to get going one way so you know which way the arrow is going. I know you've gotten so frustrated with me, like I was always going opposite, but you got to see which way the arrow points. You got to go that way. Then you're going to go the other way, so we'll see, we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3:But after you've started off the wrong way, seven times a day for the first four days, on the fifth day, on the fifth try is that's pretty much when like you know.
Speaker 5:Oh my god, not again. Well, if we always turn left, will we be right 50 percent of the time? What are the odds? I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 3:We should just be thankful we're not printing out map quest directions from point a to point b, to point c, to point d, yep, I know, yes, for sure, yeah, so all right, ladies, okay, so good to talk to you, my oldest and dearest friends, on our quest to make new friends go forth and lean in a little bit more to a new friendship that you've got. You got cooking, yeah all right, all right see everybody next week see you soon.
Speaker 2:cheers, cheers. All right, I can't ever stop. 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. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past 10. Turning up the crowd when I hit them with the power.
