Welcome back to the Thick A.F. Podcast. Hello. Hi. This is Emily and that's Sarah over there.
Hello. We're going to today talk about productive procrastination. I think I'm really, really,
good at that. Same. Yes. Same. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do an FMK real quick though. So, okay. So,
FMK for today. We've got two. First one is frozen drinks. Like, you're going to do margarita,
strawberry daiquiri, or pina colada. Okay. I'm not a frozen drink kind of gal. Like,
I don't even get my margaritas frozen at like a Mexican restaurant. But if I have to, I'm still
marrying a margarita because I just love them. And hopefully they can make like a spicy frozen
one. That would be wonderful. Oh my God. That sounds good. But wouldn't it melt because it's
so fiery. Dad joke. I'm probably going to fuck a pina colada and kill a strawberry daiquiri. Yeah.
So, okay. I have to kill the margarita even though I would love to not kill it. So, I'm killing the
margarita. Okay. So, I think I'm going to marry the pina colada because it's not as sweet as a
strawberry daiquiri. And I had a pina colada at the beach at the, what was it called? I don't know.
Little beach bar place. Yeah. Like, Woolwich Door maybe is what it was called. Oh, at the wharf.
Baytown Wharf. Yeah. And it was not very sweet and it was delicious, but it was like $45. Of course.
Like ridiculous for a tiny cup. And I'm like, okay. So, I like that. But what's really good is-
Oh, ice is super expensive. Well, apparently they are having an ice shortage. And so is sugar. Sugar
is so expensive. Sugar and ice. Yeah. Anyways. Okay. So, what was I starting to say? Oh, so I'm
going to kill, I'm going to marry the pina colada and fuck the strawberry daiquiri. But do you want
to know what you should really do? What? You're going to have a threesome and do a mixed strawberry
daiquiri with the- A frozen drink suicide? Yeah. It's basically like pina colada and strawberry
daiquiri. But I only want, I just want a little bit of strawberry daiquiri. So, strawberry daiquiri.
And you girls that went with us to that village door, that bar, they have like a club next door
and you get in for free if you eat dinner there. So, we all went afterwards. And there was this
couple there that also had a third. Well, we were watching from afar. We think they were married
because the two had wedding rings on. The wife was like grinding on. I mean, they were way older
than us. They're like 60s. Okay. Okay. That's what I was looking for. It was an A train. They
might've been 50s. I don't know. Probably 50s, late, mid 50s. I don't know. Not like cute young
people. It would have been gross either way. They were not ugly or anything, but they weren't-
Do you think they were local? I don't know. I don't know. They didn't look like bajillionaire
local people. Or do you think they were on a throuple trip? Potentially the couple was there
and they found their throuple there. Oh. You know what I mean? I don't know. I have no idea.
Okay. Yeah. But the wife was like- I can't believe you didn't dig into that.
Grinding. But she was dancing weird. She was hunched over kind of like this. And she was
grinding and she would pull her skirt up. She looked like she was- I felt like the 90s outfits
were out that night. She was wearing a halter top dress, a black halter top dress with- You know
those little, I think it had one of those little wood circle things in the middle that you were
talking about? Yeah. And then she had these little kitten heel type heels on that were from the 90s.
Yeah. Okay. And the other lady was wearing a headband. I don't even know what her outfit was.
It was- I don't know. Anyways, but the guy kept switching back and forth, dancing with them,
and they were both grinding on him. But the wife was like- She had the ring on for sure. She was
like jealous of the other guy. And so this is where I'm getting- She was going hard in the paint.
Oh yeah. And he was just like- He was dancing like this with his arms up and- No. Pumping,
but like- What do you call this? But I'm trying to do it so people can hear me, see it in their heads.
There his fists were like- When he's riding the rocks for you, but with his arms?
Yeah. But his fists were in front of his chest, but he was pumping. It was really weird. So weird.
So yeah. But that is what- I don't know why. Maybe the drink- How do you grind on somebody
like that? What if he punched you in the face? Well, he wasn't doing- He was doing that to get
to the next one. He was like in between. One girl would walk away and another girl would like,
over to the other lady. And then one lady would- So I think Mason went at one point and went to
dance with the one lady that didn't have anybody to dance with because it was real awkward. Because
it was like she- He would go from one girl to the other and then the other- They would flip away.
And then the other one be standing there like, oh, I don't have anybody to dance with. Oh.
It was so weird. But that- Yeah. So anyways, back to the strawberry daiquiri. Mix. I just want a
little bit of strawberry in there. So I'm marrying my wife of- Or my husband is my pina colada.
And I just got a little extra husband that strawberry daiquiri just on the side. But not
on the side. It's mixed in a little bit. Who used to have the really good mixed frozen margaritas?
Was it Superior Girl or Christina Superior? I've never had frozen margaritas, so I don't know.
Oh yeah. Golly. Yeah, I have no idea. And you know what we pick for Supper Club next week?
A Mexican restaurant. And so hopefully- Did we? I thought we were picking- Oh, that place over here?
Yeah. I'm excited because it's right there. Yeah, I know. I could like walk, but not really. No,
not really. I might get murdered on the 280. Maybe they have no agave something. Well, it'll be okay.
I'll be good. So yeah, that I would, yeah. I think I answered. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So the next one
is we'll call it Gulf Shore slash Orange Beach because they're essentially one and the same.
You can get back and forth real quick. Destin and Panama City. Okay. Depends on what part of
Destin. I really, honestly, I'm going to marry Panama City. I like it because I've been going
there for millions of years. I've used to go to Destin a lot too, but now that my family has a
condo in Panama City, marrying it, I'm killing- What was the other one? What was the one in Alabama?
Gulf Shores and North Beach. Gulf Shores. I'm killing that one because, I don't know. I don't
ever go there. And then I am fucking the... Are we talking about Sandestin or regular Destin? So
Sandestin, I felt like the beach where we went, it was packed. There were so many people- It wasn't
like that the last time that we went. It was way too much. It was very... And we did the same thing
where we were across the street on 98 and took golf carts over and everything and literally walked
in the same place that we did. And it was nothing like that. If you saw pictures and videos,
it was not at all like that. And we went about the same time. So I'm surprised that it was as
packed as it was. But I don't even know the difference between Sandestin and Destin, I don't
think. Well, it's like, I don't know that I wouldn't tell you, but I don't know. I just feel like
it's different. I don't know. So yeah, when I was growing up and we would come down here for the
summer with my dad, we would stay in the Sandestin area. But I don't know, now every year we go to
Orange Beach with my mom when she comes down. So I guess I'm going to marry Orange Beach Golf
Shores. And there are a lot of things that I like to do. There are specific restaurants that I like
around there. I'm fucking Panama City because I had the greatest summer trips, two of them,
the summer after my freshman year of college. I had so much damn fun. So much fun.
It's different now.
Well, yeah. But I was also not 21, but I was having a 21 year old experience. So I have to say,
I'm going to fuck it. I stole a float that ended up being a pool, like a baby pool from...
Why would you steal it?
From a paper? Because I was drunk.
From what? Was it somebody else's or did you steal it from a store?
No, from... Yeah.
From someone else?
I mean, I'm not proud of it. I thought it was a float and I was like,
this is going to be great the next day. No.
Where was it? Was it just sitting outside in somebody's baby? They didn't get to get in
the pool. What if it was somebody's baby?
I'm sure it was. I'm a bad person.
Or somebody's dogs.
I'm a bad person. I know.
It could have been a bunch of adults.
I was drunk after the tiki bar, damn it. I wanted to float for the next day.
It was a pool.
Did you use it?
My stepmom did.
It's a huge float for a baby pool.
Well, I wasn't even living down here yet, but I had been down here for the summer and
came down here to work. It was in their garage for a really long time and she used it because
there was some red duct tape on it. At one point it was a green and white pool.
I did bring it to work when I was working in customer service a long time ago and used it
for one of our customer service weekdays. We had to dress like tourists. I borrowed my dad's
Hawaiian shirt and that baby pool and I was a tourist.
Wait, so how big was the pool?
It wasn't very big.
You carried around and put a hole in it. Oh my God, that would be so cool.
If you could just cut a hole in a baby pool and put it around you, you could wear it like a tube.
No, I did not do that.
You look like a tourist sitting in a baby pool.
No, it sat in an office.
Oh, it sat in an office. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. Well, anyway, I think that's sad. Sandestin is
further down. I don't even know if you would call it Destin technically. It's down. I don't
know how far away, but it's down the road.
I mean, Erin and Santana's condo, their first night that they were down there was quite a way.
It was like 25, 30 minutes, right?
She used to make it sound like it was 15 minutes. At first when I thought to you,
you used to make it sound like it was an hour away and I was like, oh my God, that's so far.
And then I was like, oh, isn't he like an hour away? And Santana was like, no, it's like 15
minutes. Oh, yeah. Maybe I just might be misunderstanding because I misunderstood like five times
and that's probably my bad. Well, I thought Mason and I mapped it at one point and maybe we did.
And it was, it said an hour, but maybe that was like with traffic or something. I don't know.
Traffic wasn't that bad when we came in. Yeah, traffic's pretty bad usually. Yeah. So I don't
know. Yeah. Well, yeah. Killing the, yeah, I don't know. I like Destin. It's cool. I like it too.
Yeah, I did. I mean, I went out and did more this time. I, well, no, see the last time we didn't go
last summer with the summer before that. And that was still kind of heavy COVID time. And so it was
really hard to go anywhere to eat because there were a lot of people not working in the service
industry at that time. And so it was difficult. Like I had to, we ate at Bubblegum shrimp one night.
We would never usually eat there, but that was our only option. Yeah. We were starving. Yeah.
All right. So today we're going to talk about productive procrastination, which is essentially
like when you do things, you're being productive and you're getting things done, but you're doing
it because you don't want to do, or, or you're just putting off, putting off doing something else
that's big that you need to do. And before we get the reason we are doing this is because there's
this song and I'm going to play it for you guys that is going around the social medias. And here it is.
Oh, sweet. Did you do that thing you've been putting off for the last week? That would probably
just take you an hour if you sat down and committed to it. No, this is productive procrastination. I've
done nothing of importance. Yeah. What do you think about that? I think it's hilarious. I also think
it's hilarious. And I definitely think that that is so relatable in every year, everyday life,
personal life, and like even your job. Like I know for me, I'll go like put, you know, block time off
on my calendar or whatever, but I do it enough in advance to where I know that I can procrastinate
if I need to and I can move around. Yeah. It was like, I'll have something blocked off and then
I'll be like, I need to do these other things. And sometimes in my, and you know, you, you hear
people say, Oh, you need to get the big rocks in first. And then all the little rocks will fall or
whatever into the plate. You know, I'm talking about like when they do like leadership development
things, they'll like put a container and you put all the big rocks in and then you put the small
rocks in on top and it all goes into place. But if you put the small rocks in first and you try to
put the big rocks in nothing, it doesn't fit. Yeah. Well, I think I'm pretty sure that like
Dave Ramsey has like a different thing kind of thing. And it's like, and I could be miss, I don't
know this for sure, but I think that he's like, you should chip away at the small things first.
Yeah. Is he called snowball effect or whatever? I have no idea, but it's like, I guess it gives you,
yeah, because once you start, yeah, it gives you motivation to continue doing other things. And
then you'll get to that big thing eventually or whatever. And I am a proponent for both,
but like I sometimes it's like, okay, I can get these smaller things done now and get them done
out of the way. And, but, and maybe I have an hour and I can get like 10 small things done. And then
this other thing I'm going to, it's going to take me two or three hours. And if I do one hour now,
I'm going to have to go back and like rethink about everything I did before. So I might as well
wait till later. I agree. I will very much so let in like incoming email distract me from something
that I want to put off and I will take care of that and however many other things first before
I'm going to really dig in and do what I have to do. Oh, I don't do that. So like, okay. So I have
this, this one thing that I'm responsible for this, like I do all the capital requests. So all the
capital requests come from this one girl that I work with lady woman. And I say girl, some people
get offended by that friend. Yeah. Well, you like, I like her a lot. She's really good. Okay. Yeah.
No, I meant are not friend. I don't know who we talking about. Okay. No. So this girl, this
with no problems with this one, she's great. She's really like, like super awesome. Okay. So, um, so
she, they go to her and then she sends them to me. So when I get them everything, all my requests,
it comes, I sort my email by her name. And yeah. So, but, but when other emails come in, scrub them
first before they come to you scrub them like what, like make sure that whatever the request is has
everything that it needs before it gets to your plate. Yes. And no, she used to not do any of
that. Yeah. But she does. We've there are certain, well, so there are certain things that she has to
look for that she'll make sure that are there before they get to me. And then other things that
I have to do and get, um, so yes and no, but she's, um, so anyway, so, so I, I didn't use to be able
to do this. It's actually really helped me out. And so, but she doesn't get to do this because
they come from everyone. So before we changed our process, they would all come from like everybody's
emails. And so I wouldn't even know if I had like this request, but now I've stored it through my
email. So I'm in my email inbox and I'm sorted by her name. But if I'll hear all these emails coming
in and I'm like, if I, if I go check my email, if I sort it back by like received, I'm going to lose
my spot, which I know I have like tactics of how I don't lose my site and like where I am, but I
will get on something else. So I just like leave it there and I will have anxiety about that email
that just came in. I'll be like, Oh my God, do I need to respond immediately? But I have to like
tell myself, no, but like some people, I don't, this is another thing that I kind of want to talk
about is like a lot of people. And I think you were like this because you respond like this.
A lot of people expect responses from emails like immediately. Oh, I definitely do. And to me,
an email is something for you to check later. If you call me or send me a voice like that,
or text me like that's a little bit more urgent. Like if you, if this is like, if you send me an
email, I should be able to have at least a day or two. My inbox is empty when I am done for the day.
Well, and that's fine. You empty, you delete everything. I don't delete it. Like I keep the
ones that I need or ones that like, I know that I can, you know, maybe put off till the following
day or whatever, but no, I do not. I never delete an email ever. And I don't delete it. I file it.
So once I've done the task or responded or whatever, then I'll file it. Yeah. I keep all
of my stuff like in my inbox so that I can search through it. And, and I'm, I do flags,
I flag it and then I complete it when it's completed. Yeah. I do that too. Yeah. But I'll
file it after it's done. Yeah. I don't file. No, cause if I don't, if I file it, then I won't be
able to find it anywhere. And I'll be like, Oh my God, where is it? And then I'm confused. I don't
like that. But I can, I have the ability because mine is by project or whatever that I can sort,
like I have folders for projects. And then when I complete them, I move it to a completed folder.
So there's, you know, my subfolders are the completed projects that I've done. When I move,
when I file things and I do file things, but I make, I move a copy. So I have still have everything
in my inbox and then I move a copy to these other folders because I'm like,
your inbox would drive me insane. Yeah, it probably would, but I, yours would make me crazy. I'd be
like, where's all the information that I need? Oh my God. I couldn't do it. Um, but no, I do,
I have a process. I'm not as good. Oh my God. The other day I went through, this was last week or
the week before, and I went down from like, you know, I used to have like 2000 unread emails
and I think I only have like a thousand, maybe less than a thousand now. I'm like, yay, but a
lot of it was like stuff that I didn't need to read like from two years ago. Oh my God. I mean,
and like at this point I was like, okay, these are two years old emails. I, because people copy me
on things that I don't need to be copied on. Yeah. I don't have that situation because I'm client
facing. So like when I'm done with that client, I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, there may be
a question later on at or whatever, but I mean, I still have it filed in that folder. Oh, I'll get
like 15 emails for one thing in a day and like, I have to read it and I don't need to read it.
Like it's not, you know, and maybe it's an FYI or something like that. I don't believe it. I just,
I don't even look at it sometimes because I don't have time. So if, and it may be like,
I read the last email and scrolled through all of it and then I didn't like unread the others
because they were still there. So I went back and like, if it was like two years old, I just like
unread it. I'm a psycho about it. Like even if I go on vacation, I'm most likely checking my email
while I'm on vacation, deleting what I can and leaving in there everything else for me to sort
of do. Well, how many emails are you getting in a day? Probably not as many as you. Yeah, probably
not. Probably a hundred. Yeah. I mean, I get a lot. I don't know how many, but I've certain days,
like today wasn't that bad, but other days it's really bad. And then I'm on calls and so then I'm
in the call and I can't like respond to your email. But anyways, I get anxiety when that, when that
it's like bling bling or whatever the, I don't know what it sounds like. Yeah. And I'm like,
uh, I'm in this and I'm trying to finish this. And I hope that that person, because it makes me
anxious when other people are anxious about me responding. Like my boss will be like, go ahead
and respond to that. And I'm like, okay, I will have to do the hundred other things I'm trying to
do right now. Yeah. Like, and I'm bad about that. Like I had to really make myself, there'll be
times where I have to like mute my teams so I can focus on whatever I'm supposed to be doing,
because otherwise I will not, I will multitask and I will be in a meeting and I will not pay
attention and I will respond to emails and I will do other things. Exactly. And then I don't need
to do that. Yeah. And then we, we need to be present so that we can do our jobs correctly.
I made myself do that today. We're cross-training on different platforms. And so I'm working with
somebody and their platform is more complicated than mine is. And I had to make myself, I closed
my office door. Brandon was off today. He and Jolyne were out there like watching a movie or
some shit. And I was like, no, I cannot. I need, like, I have to pay attention. I have to like put
my phone somewhere else. So I won't pick up and grab it and just focus. Oh no. My phone goes on.
If I'm in something that I got to do and I got to get it done, I turn my phone, my work phone on,
and my regular phone on silent and I will not answer it. I'm sorry. I, if somebody sends me,
there are certain people that know that if there's an urgent situation, if they call me multiple
times in a row, I will answer it. Or if they send me a text message, I might like glance at it,
but like, I'm not going to respond until I have the time because I have to do these things. And
if I don't get it done, then well, and I think teams is like great and wonderful, but also
like a distractor all at the same time, because I have to like, we're in so many different,
like group messages and stuff like that. And like we have all hands, which is like our entire
company meeting once a month. And then they'll have like chats going on in there. And I mean,
it's not that I feel like I don't need to pay attention to those, but not as much as I do.
Like if it's a smaller group meeting or a client specific or whatever, and I'll mute those suckers,
but I get them on my phone. I do not push my email to my phone because that I would feel like I had
to work 24 seven. Yeah. Cause I also don't like to see the red notification dots. So that drives me
insane. Well, you can turn those off. You do realize that I do, but then I would miss things.
Not if you check your email when you go to work. I don't know. I've gotten to the point,
text messages. I used to be more like you and I used to be, and I still, I try to get all my
emails and stuff like at least looked at, like I see it there. Yeah. Try to sometimes I miss them
or whatever, but before the end of the day. Oh, I'm a detriment to myself sometimes for sure,
because I'm like that. Yeah. And I respond too fast and don't like, don't think about stuff.
I don't necessarily think about other stuff or I don't give people an opportunity to, you know,
also chime in or, you know, be the one to respond. Like even my boss, like I really like him. We get
along very, very well, but he is very methodical as far as his responses go. And he's not going
to answer real quick. Not even if it's just a message on Teams or an email, like he's taking
his time to do everything. I love that about him. I don't even know him. What's his name?
Chad. Chad. I love you, Chad. Does he talk like a Chad? I'm just kidding.
Probably. No, he's just very different than I am. Like he's not very animated. He's very calm,
cool and collected. And you know me, like I get like excited and passionate about stuff. And, you
know, I want to give like the best result to my, my coworkers and peers as well as my clients.
But sometimes like, I'm just like, come on, Chad, like just a little bit quicker, little bit.
But I think I should, maybe you should think about your, yes, you should. Yes. Because I think that
that's good. Because if you had somebody that was like trying to tell you to go faster, you'd be
like WTF, you know. I don't know that I could possibly go any damn faster than I go now.
I like to sometimes sit back and hear what other people are going to say. I used to not be this
way. I used to be like a hundred percent perfectionism. And I've learned this 80 20 rule
or whatever they call it. Sometimes it's, it makes me crazy sometimes to let things go. But I have,
since I've gotten my, this job at wherever I work and I have realized that it has to, you have to
let go. Okay. Tell me 80 20. So like instead of like a hundred percent everything is a hundred
percent perfect, you have to like let 20% go. Like 80% can be perfect. 20% you have to let go. Like,
because if you don't, you're not going to be able to have time to do everything. Yeah. And you're
not going to be able to do everything the way that, but you can choose what is not going to be like
the perfect, and you have to let yourself. That's where I need to switch it up because I think the
things that I should probably be giving more of an effort to, I'm giving it elsewhere for like a
client response or something like that. Whereas like maybe my program builds or whatever should
be more accurate and methodical than what I'm doing right now. Okay. So I'm this Pareto principle,
I think is what it's called. This is where it stems from the 80 20 rule. Also notice the Pareto
principle is a familiar saying that asserts that 80% of outcomes or outputs result from 20% of all
causes or inputs for any given input business in business. A goal of 80 20 rule is to identify
inputs that are potentially the most productive and make them the priority. So you're trying to
really, you're trying that this is that's an 80 20, but there's different 80 20. So like this,
I feel like the 20% you can let go and like not stress about it and not be like,
Oh my God, I wasn't perfect. Let that 20% go. Cause you're not, not everybody's perfect. Yeah.
And I think it's also healthy to like reevaluate what you're giving this 80 20 to, you know, if
you know, you're doing it like I know I am in my, you know, rapid email responses that aren't
perfect. And sometimes I jumped the gun on things, reevaluate that and put that effort somewhere
else and maybe have a, you know, more full inbox sometimes. Right. Exactly. Yeah. I mean,
a full inbox doesn't mean you're not doing your job and it's not full. It's just,
some things are still there. I know. Well, and I think that I have always been somebody
who feels like if I can say I've done it all, then that's it. Like even when I was like in high
school and kind of behaving badly and whatever, like my excuse to my mom was I play three sports
a year and I got good grades. You like can't tell me what to do basically. And that is a terrible
attitude to have. That's really bad. Yeah. Really bad. Yeah. And I mean, I know that now.
When it's kind of like saying like, Oh, well I just, I did everything. So I don't, I don't,
you don't, it doesn't matter how I act. I can, cause I'm doing everything. Or how well I performed
because I did the things that you told me to do. Right. And that's not okay. No. My thing is I may
not have done everything, but I'm going to do it a hundred percent like amazing. And I want it to be
right and good. And so, and that I have a hard time with that too. Sometimes you have to get
things done a little faster without it being perfect. You need to meet in the middle. Yeah.
But I know I have dropped a lot of that. I used to be like very much like, Oh my God, I'm going to
take another however long to do this. But sometimes I have to just be like, okay, well this has to
get done and you have to make choices. And I have to make like, like there are things that I have to
do that I'll have to be like, okay, well am I, is it worth saving 200? Like there was one request
that I had today that like the vendor didn't give us the contract price, but it's like $200. And I'm
like, it's going to take me $200 worth of my time to get that fixed. Right. So should I just go send
it through or, or if I let it go now, are they going to come back and say, well you let it go
last time and, or are we going to get audited or like what is it? Is it worth it? Yeah. And so,
and I've, you know, my boss and I have talked about those things about like, you know, do we need like
certain things that need to be signed? Can we issue a PO for this and the PO act as a signature
on a contract on these terms and conditions when versus putting it through a system where it gets,
it gets approved by legal or something like that. And if it doesn't get approved by,
if we do the PO, it doesn't get approved by legal. So I'll have to read through it and be like,
okay, these terms I think we can agree to. And I have to say, I am going to put myself out on the
line and say, yes, we can agree to these without legal approval, you know? And so that, that's kind
of hard to do, you know, it's like, eh, I don't know. Anyways. So what are some tasks like big
rocks, like you said, that like at home that you like often put off and do different things at home
cleaning the shower. That is like, so, and I'll like, when I'm in the shower, like spray it down
and like wipe, like have like the squeegee thing. Like I used to do that every time, but lately I
have been slacking. So I'll sometimes do that. And sometimes I like halfway clean it while I'm in
there, like sometimes, but I don't like actually clean it all the way. So I don't, that's, I don't
do that. What else? I don't know. Oh, like something that I don't know. I'm not home chores
are different, but I'll probably, I'd probably clean the shower before I would like fall through
the laundry. Oh my God. I don't know. I'm trying to think of stuff like, I know I need to do like a
closet clean out and like a drawer. I did a closet clean out, but I need to clean out my drawers
because poor Brandon has two drawers and like a third of a closet and that's it. Yeah. And I know
I gotta do that, but I just keep putting it off because I just don't even want to mess with it.
Yeah. That's not good. No. Yeah. You need to give him some stuff, some room. You could probably
get rid of some shoes. Oh my goodness. Cause I went through your shoes. You need to stop it right now.
You could, and I could use it to, I could, well, my shoe collection is not as big as I got rid of
a lot of shoes lately, but like, like before I moved in here and then before I moved the other
place. But like I need to go through my clothes and throw stuff, stuff away that are colors that
I never wear because everything is black. And if it's, oh my God, I got the cutest new dress.
Is it black? Yes, it's black and it's so cute. You're gonna love it.
Um, anyways, you need to tell Stitch Fix to quit sending new colors.
I did. I told them that. Are they still sending? Yes. Luckily they don't send me prints anymore.
They sometimes will send me like a random print and I'll be like, eh, no prints. Um, but no,
like most, and I keep telling them, I like black. I always wear black. And I know that they're
sending me this stuff on purpose because they want me to venture out and it's helpful. Let me tell
y'all what color she has on today. Oh, it's like a red orange. It is not black. It's definitely
orange. Okay. Whatever. Okay. Yes. And I've had this shirt for a hundred years. I got it from
anthropology in like 2006. It's so cute though. I love it. Yeah. But it's like a size medium and
it's not supposed to fit this way, but it still looks cute, right? Yeah. I know. And I have a
sports bra underneath it cause I don't have a, I have two on because, oh my God, so I have two on
because earlier today I was like in a mood with work and I was felt like I was going to fall
asleep. So I have this jump rope thing and you started jump rope and I was going to jump rope.
But I started with right here. Why did I do that? Or where where like right here in my office? Like
I just, I pushed this back and I was like, and then it kept hitting it and I was like, shoot,
but it has these little things on it here. I'll show you. It has these little things,
these little weights that you can take the jumper, actual jump rope off and you can just do like
swing them and it counts your jump rope stuff. Did you cheat? No, I just, I did it. I did. I cheat.
What do you mean? Yeah. Like did you swing them? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
but no, honestly, it still works out your arms a little bit. So, um, you know, you can do that with
a skip it too. Oh, sweet. Did you, can you, nice with your arm? Yeah. I don't put it on your arm
to skip it. I definitely cheated a time or two. So I did, I had this little brown, brown, blur,
or all skim skims bra on and then I started trying to jump rope and that skims were all is not
supportive and it hurts so bad. So I had to put on another sports bra underneath. Anyways, that's
my tangent for us. Another tangent. Um, okay. So what do you do? What else do you do that is
not productive that is supposed to be productive? Oh, I won't take the trash out. So another,
like the dog poop trash in the back, it'll be like, I forget to take it out every week.
And I even have Alexa, she has like, she'll remind me every day at whatever time, take out the trash.
And then I have a reminder on my phone to take out the dog poop trash every Sunday
and I forget. And then it like piles up and I have three dogs and they poop like four times a day each.
I used to have a timer set at 8 p.m. for my birth control every night and I would be sitting there
watching TV and I would not get up and take it on time. I've done that. Don't take birth control
anymore, but no, me either. But yeah, no. Um, I would say like unloading the dishwasher.
It's like not my favorite thing. No, I mean, a big thing. I don't like doing it either. I agree with
you. I probably need to clean out my shoes or whatever, but I'll go. I need to also like get
rid of old makeup. I feel like I would, I would clean out my closet and get rid of old makeup and
do stuff like that and reorganize all that stuff before I would go do a bunch of returns. Oh no,
I don't mind going to the UPS store. No, not UPS store. I'm talking about like returning things
to the store. Well, I don't go into the store, so I don't have that problem. Well, so I have,
I have done online orders from like Walmart and Target and they don't let you return it at UPS.
You gotta go to the store and I have literally got. I would keep it. I mean, yeah, I did the
return on the, on the website, on the app and then I still haven't returned it. Yeah. And it's for
something that broke. Like there's two things that I got. There was that big, it's still in my car.
Or no, it's not. I took it out because we need to go on a trip, but like the picture is still
it, but like a big picture that broke. And then this other thing that they brought it to me and
it was like, it was like a door. It was like a hangy thing with like knob things that you can hang
a coat hanger. Oh yeah. And one of the coat hanger knobby things was not on there. And I was like,
why would you send me this? And then, and it costs like $5. And I'm like, seriously, you're going to
make me go to the store to return this? No. And I'm really ticked off about it because I have it
upstairs and I'm like, should I just throw it away or should I use it without the little knobby thing?
I've had it for like a year. When I don't remember when like Walmart grocery, like pickup or delivery
like first came out or whatever, but I remember I got like really into it, um, in Cleveland
when I was living up there and I got something in a delivery or a pickup. And you know, you don't go
through your groceries for a pickup. Like you wait till you get home. So then I got home and I went
to go return it and they wouldn't let me return it because it was at Walmart. Yes. I was pissed.
What the hell? Walmart has changed a lot of their policies too. Now. I mean, this was back in 2019.
That's crazy. Yeah. I wonder why they wouldn't let you return it. I don't know. That's weird.
They were like, this was a pickup. You can't return it. I'm like, the fuck you mean? They put it in my
trunk. They put it in my trunk. Yeah. It was the craziest thing. Oh my God. Yeah. I was pissed.
That's ridiculous. Yeah. I would be pissed too. Yeah. Walmart changed their policy for like, um,
you know, they would, if they didn't have it in stock, they would, they're supposed to send you
an email and give you time to, or a message and give you time to like approve a sub or whatever.
Yeah. They do that. Um, no, not, not enough time for you to, they usually send it. Then they'll be
like, there are substitutions and it's delivered already. And you're like, what? Oh, well, I use
the app and I don't know if you. I do too. Oh, okay. Well, but you can also immediately after you
place your order, they give you the option now to go in and pick substitutions or say, don't substitute.
Right. So I try to go in there as soon as I place one and go ahead and pick the substitution. So I
don't have to fuck with it later. I didn't know that they allowed you to pick the substitutions.
If you didn't know that there was a substitute item. Yeah. Like, and it doesn't even have to be
low in stock either. And this is for Walmart. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. It can be any, well,
I have seen the little checkbox that says allow substitutions, but I haven't seen where they allow
you to. Yes. If you go in there and like look at your order after you've done it, it'll let you like
choose the substitution for each individual item or say, don't. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Cause I've gotten
subs that were like not even anywhere close to the same thing. Well, that, and then if you try to like,
you can go in there and look at some of the options that they have for substitutions,
which I'm sure are just suggestions for their employees, you know, who are picking the groceries,
but some of them are hysterical. Like if you, um, ask for one of them was like, I don't know, uh,
like a, a yellow onion or sweet onion or whatever. And one of the substitutions is a three pound bag.
No, I don't need a three pound bag. I eat so many onions, but I don't have anywhere to put like,
you know what I mean? Like I'll go to Publix and get an onion if I need a damn onion. But like,
it just makes me laugh when their substitution is something like, or a quantity of like three
for the one thing that you want. Yeah. It's like, no, no, bitch, why can't I change the quantity?
Can I just get one of this other thing or two of them just because like, I don't know, like say the
16 ounce thing of like spinach or whatever, they substituted it for five, three, five ounce things.
It's like, I don't have room for this. Yeah. And now they're making you pay for all this stuff.
Yes, they are. It used to be when you would have your substitute, whatever they had to substitute
was the price of your item. Exactly. And so that's like that one time when I got all those drinks
that were like, what, why did you think that I needed that many of those drinks? So like,
are you kidding me? They gave me like 24 or more of these like tall, like liter size drinks. And I
was like, is this for real? I gave them away and didn't drink them all. Like I still probably have
in my refrigerator. Not only that, but when you get the wrong order, one time I had to have gotten
something for an office. It had to have been, cause it was a giant thing of creamer, styrofoam cups,
like distilled gallons, multiple gallons of distilled water. And I can't remember what else
it was, but it was like, hold it. Like I have nothing to do with this. And what am I supposed
to do with all this shit now? I sent the distilled water home at my mom. Cause she came like not long
after that. So she could use it in her humidifier. I got, I got an order one time. I think they,
I don't know what I did with it. They, I think the person came back and got it. It was like all that.
No, the girl was there. It was like tuna. Did I talk about, I think I talked about this. It was
like two huge gallon jugs of mayonnaise, pickled eggs. Okay. Um, bread, white bread. It was like,
they were making tuna salad and or egg salad or tuna salad with egg in it. Yes. And they were
making a bunch of sandwiches, mayonnaise. I think it had pick like relish and like, oh my God, I was
like, Ooh, this is disgusting. This pickled eggs are freaking gross. Well, it's like,
Listen, I, there have been times before where like I've, especially when I lived downstairs and like
my porch door was like right by my front door. And so Greta mostly would like fuss or whatever.
And I would talk to him. If I saw something that I knew wasn't in my order, I was like, well,
hold up. That's not mine. Yeah, no. I don't know. Well, cause I don't want to deal with having to
throw it out or whatever, give it away. Exactly. That's like, I didn't do this. This is,
this should not be my fault. This should be their fault. And I shouldn't have to pay for it.
If they couldn't figure out a substitution that was correct, like agreed, like, well,
not even a substitution though, like complete wrong order. Exactly. Well, that did, that's,
that's bad. They don't usually make you pay for that, but like, no, but I shouldn't have to do
anything. True order. Yeah. Like I had to wait for them to repick my true order. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Oh, I've had to do that. And I've had them cancel my order before. I don't know. I've canceled my
Walmart subscription like two or three times. Really? Yes. And then I get pissed off that I
don't have it anymore. So I get it back like six months later, but then that happens again,
where they like mess it up and they don't get my order. And I'm like, I needed this. Like,
and the reason I, I know it sounds, everybody's going to be like, y'all are so lazy. Why don't
you just go to the store? Because I don't want to. And because maybe I need to, need to be working
or need to be here for some reason, like, I don't know to like, yeah, hang out with my friends.
And I've got something coming up tonight. I've got plans tonight. So I can't go out and get
groceries. Or you gotta make a dip for Labor Day. Exactly. I don't, I'm working. I'm a full-time
worker and a podcaster. I need my groceries to be delivered sometimes. Exactly. Most, most of the
times for me. Well, and there's the difference is like, I have Publix like right across the street.
So I don't mind going there. But for me, like, I'm not buying my toilet paper, paper plates,
plastic bags, like ziplocks or whatever. I'm not buying that shit at Publix. It is way more
expensive. You've lost your damn mind. If you think I'm buying my Charmin toilet paper at Publix.
Yeah, no, I buy my toilet paper at Costco and I get it delivered because if I go into a Costco,
I will spend way more money than I would if I got it delivered. Cause my mom's like, well,
it costs more to get it delivered. I'm like, yeah, but my spend more. It'll be like, you know,
two extra dollars for the two toilet paper. Oh, a hundred thousand percent. Rather than me spending
a hundred dollars on extra clothes that I saw were cute in there. Brandon and I went with his mom
for his birthday to Costco. I spent 150 damn dollars in there and I didn't need any of that shit.
Yeah. Didn't need it. Wanted it, bought it, but I didn't need it. Yeah. Yep. What's wrong with us?
I gotta stop. I think it's because I don't have that much exposure to shopping
because I do it all online. So when I get in a store, I'm like, oh my God, they have this here
and this here and this is great. Yeah, not good. Which I don't know why I say I don't like, I
really don't like shopping. I think I just don't like the going out part of it. Yeah. Another thing
that I procrastinate, I didn't used to do this, but lately the past like year, probably year,
maybe less, working out. I will do anything but work out. I'll be like, ooh, let me scrub the
toilet with a toothbrush. Not a toothbrush. Ew, that sounds gross. Let me clean the baseboards
rather than get on the bike and watch TV. A hundred percent. Even out at my parents' house,
I let their bigger house and me walking around it all day and shoveling stalls be my excuse for not
going out to their no cars on the road, long ass subdivision driveway or whatever. I won't go out
there. I don't know. No. I won't even walk to the barn. You won't walk to the barn? What do you
drive a golf cart? Or my car. It just depends. If it's really hot, I'll drive my car and leave that
hoe on the whole time so it's cold AF when I get back in it. Yeah. I mean, I mean, you do what you do.
Yeah. During the like fall, winter, spring or whatever, I may drive the golf cart. I'm not a
huge golf cart fan. My car gets me down there a lot faster. Yeah. I saw this video of Mariah Carey
on probably Instagram where she was like, I mean, with the right bug spray, hair and makeup, and
I don't know what else she said. And clothes. I could be an outdoorsy person in a picture.
I was like, oh my God, that's hilarious. I feel like that. I have a similar sign to that in my
apartment that says I'm outdoorsy. I like drinking wine on patios. I actually like being outdoors,
but if it's like- But not when it's 9 million degrees outside. Yeah. Like I'll go for a walk
or a hike or not anything difficult, but I mean, I'm really out of shape so that ain't happening.
But I just don't want to be miserably hot and swollen. I like it. I like it a lot,
but I don't like to not take a shower. And when I sweat like that, I stink. Oh, I know.
Yeah. Are you just saying, you know, because you smelled me before? No, but I need you to make a
report to everybody on this podcast that I was a good roommate and sleeping partner at the beach.
Okay. But I did not say anything, but you did snore two nights. The first night you didn't
really snore that much and it was bad. And I woke up one morning, I can't remember if it was the
second night or the last night, and I went downstairs and I was like, oh my God, Sarah snored so bad.
And everybody else was like, we know we could hear her. Melanie snored too. Well, I didn't hear
Melanie and I was only sitting next to you shaking in my boots or in my bed. She was not bad. She was
good, but she did snore. And honestly, I got over it like one night. I think it was the first night
you started snoring and I was like, boom, I hit you with something. No, I poked you. I was going
to hit you with a pillow, but then I was like, no, I'm not going to be mean because she might kill me.
And then I like poked you. I was like, you're snoring. You're like, what? Oh, wait, I never
told you this. Did I ever tell you this? I was telling Melanie that you were in the bed. I think
this was the last night and you were snoring. And then I woke up because I remember when my face mask
was, you probably don't remember this because I'm pretty sure you were still asleep. We had a whole
conversation. We did? Yes. In the middle, I was like tossing and turning or it wasn't turning. I
was like moving around because my face mask had fallen off my head and like gone under my body and
I couldn't find it. I was like digging for it. And you were like, are you okay? And I was like, yes, I'm
fine. And you were like, what are you doing? And I was like, I'm looking for my face mask. You were
like, oh, and you like waited for me to find it. And then you were like, started and I was like,
have a sleep. I put it back on and I'm like laying there and you kept talking. I think I was like,
I said, maybe I said, you're such a light sleeper because you kept every time I moved, you would
wake up and you'd be like, what are you doing? And I'd be like, none of your damn business.
And I slept through the night, like the whole time. Like I did not have a bad night's sleep.
Well, I know because listen, you were talking and I was like, why is she still talking? And I'm like,
I'm like, not going to say anything back because like she keeps talking and maybe she'll just
realize I'm asleep because I'm so, I'm like, have a sleep and I'm laying there and you're like,
no, no, no, no, no. It's like five minute conversation. I don't even know what you
were saying. And I was like, what is she doing? And then you, real you stopped and like,
not even a second later you were snoring and I was like, what just happened? I like almost died.
You had a whole conversation with me.
Oh my God. It was well, at least I didn't make you completely miserable though.
You didn't. I was just like, what? I tried not to drink a whole lot so I wouldn't be a bad snorer.
Well, that was the one night. I don't know what night it was, but you were snoring pretty bad
that night. Night one is probably the night I had the most to drink. Well, you didn't snore that
bad that night. That was the night you didn't snore the most. Yeah. I mean, I was damn exhausted by
Saturday night. I mean, I, the second, whichever night was, was Friday night, I guess. The second
night you went to sleep before me. I was so tired and I felt sick and I was like, I got up and I was
like sitting at the table and I was like, I'm going to try to stay up. And it was like nine 30 or 10.
I might've been earlier than that. And I was like, I gotta go, I gotta go to bed. I did. I liked it.
Santa. I was like, I gotta go. She was like, are you going to bed? And I was like, I have to, I have
to like, I got it. And I was like, maybe I'll sleep here for a little bit. Mason, you came up there too
and talked to me and you asked me if I wanted to go to breakfast to go look for Mason at one point.
And he was up there with you. Yeah. He was up there. I forgot what he came up there for, but he was
like cuddling with me drunk or something. He loves to cuddle and cuddle. He wanted me to wake up,
but he had his nasty feet in our bed. His feet were so nasty the entire time, the floor and the
VRBO, it was a beautiful place, but you have to keep your shoes on in that place because your feet
would be black. Well, can we give like a full review of our experience? Yes, let's do it. We get there and we
rented this place and it's a beautiful place. Yes. But we had nine people. So we got it because
there were two golf carts. One of them is a six seater and one of them is a four seater. So we could
golf cart all of ourselves all over the place and go to the beach, go wherever we want to go.
Because the place, everybody drives golf carts everywhere. Well, we get there and the six seater
golf cart is not there. So there's only a four seater for nine people, which was unfortunate.
And then the TVs weren't working. Most of them, right? The TV in our room did work.
Because on the last night I did watch some TV with Melanie, but the living room TV didn't work. The
ice maker in the fridge didn't work. That's right. I forgot about that. The golf cart was missing. And so,
I mean, the very first thing that Santana did, because she was the one who it was in her, the
place was in her name, called them. And they were like, I don't know. The conversation was just,
the lady was kind of condescending to Santana. Like, yes, ma'am, I know that's disappointing.
And she was like, somebody should have called you yesterday or today and let you know. And it's like,
yeah, you should have, because we could have picked somewhere else. Right. Like we put,
I mean, it really kind of started the whole trip off, like on a bad note, because we were all
like concerned about how we were going to get back and forth everywhere. And because with a four
seater and nine of us, I mean, unless you squeeze all your shit, your coolers, your chairs, your
umbrellas and everything, you really got to take three trips. And it's going to take you a minute
to do all that nonsense. Right. And it just put a bad taste in my mouth immediately because they told
us, you know, the HOA wouldn't allow outside golf carts in. So like we couldn't personally run a golf
cart, you know, and spend our own money on it. And they didn't have a replace, you know, a,
you know, rental replacement for us either. So we were up shit Creek and I just that.
And so Santana tried to get, she did get a refund, a small, it was like $70 or something.
I said that when, cause I ended, I got her Venmo last night and I didn't ask any questions about
it or whatever, but I told Brandon, I said, if this is the amount that I got, these motherfuckers
gave us less than a hundred dollars back. Yeah. It was like teeny tiny amount. And she said,
I was like, I was like that, like that isn't even how much it would cost for us to like rent a golf
cart. I looked it up and it was going to be between like 250 and $400. Well, she told her that the golf
cart was not a guaranteed amenity, apparently. Which is baloney. It is baloney because the VRBO
listing says two motherfucking golf carts in the title. Two MFing golf carts. Yeah. Like what?
How can you say that's not a guaranteed amenity? That's the only reason why somebody would rent
that house. We're not on the beach. That's bullshit. I think somebody else may. God,
I'm getting fired up about it again. I know. Don't get fired up about it. We saw, I mean,
well I did, um, had a good time. No, I mean, it was a good time. Like I had really good food
while I was down there. And I mean, it was, it was, it was very hot at the beach, but it was still
very beautiful. I've never been down there while it was so hot, but the water was fricking pristine.
Like clear as a, well they were jellyfish, but I didn't see any. So I saw several and they were
big and I did not like them. Um, but yeah, it was nice. The water was nice. It did get a little rough
at the end of the day, like, and then the next day that hurricane coming in and, um, but they
still had the yellow flag and the purple flag up. And I was like, I think this shouldn't probably be
a red flag because I felt like I was being undertone. Like I needed a float, you know?
But, and it, but there were so many people, it was hot in the water. The sand was hot as fire. The
sand was hot and the hot, the water was still kind of hot. Like it would get, it would feel good
like when you first get in because you're so hot outside of it. But yeah, no, it was probably like
80 something degree water. We sat in this place that was like right by the beach bar in this other little
place that has like, I think like hot dogs and like snacks and whatever. And, but they have a
place, like a shower where you can wash like your feet off or whatever. And that was like the
greatest thing in the whole world. Cause the water was cold. Yeah. We would just go over there and
like how actually it was, it kind of was too cold sometimes. Like I'd go over there and be like,
ah, yeah, but it felt so good though. It was so hot. Like on day number one, I mean, I got overheated.
Like it was crazy. Yeah. It was very hot. Yeah. So my overall review is that that rental company
procrastinated, um, on getting a golf cart replacement. So, uh, they, they didn't procrastinate.
They just didn't do it. I mean, epic procrastination. Yeah. Not good. So, so yeah,
moral of the story, not the golf cart story, but, but moral of the rest of this story is
that sometimes we procrastinate and maybe we shouldn't, but at least we're still
doing stuff done. Yeah. Like, Oh my God, my silverware drawer is organized. Yay. I dusted the,
the baseboards. I hate dusting too. I'll procrastinate that for the rest of my life.
Really? I like hate when stuff is dusty. So I like dust constantly, but it's constantly dusty.
I hate it, but it's usually not dust that I'm dusting. It's like dog hair. That's everywhere.
Um, yeah, no, because if I do not like it, if it's dusty, cause if you let it go for too long,
it'll be like sticky dusty. You know what I'm saying? Like, Oh, uh, no. Okay. Well, anyway,
you got any other procrastination, uh, suggestions for the peeps? Um, I don't know, make a list and
decide, you know, how you want to approach it. Oh, but listen, I have a list of things and I will
procrastinate the list. I'll be like, I'm going to do number five first. Oh, well, I mean, to me,
a list isn't necessarily like number one is the one that you need to like do the most. It's just
like the shit that you need to do and then figure it out. I don't know. Listen, I need to, I've been
procrastinating, cleaning up my like marble top table where like my quote unquote bar is or
whatever for, I mean, since I moved in and I really need to do that. You saw it clean that up. No.
What is on it? Well, the top looks okay, but the shelf underneath has all kinds of stuff. Cool.
Yeah. All right. Well, you know what to do guys? Uh, check us out on Instagram and Sarah will tell
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