Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
We're talking about life right now in a post-pandemic world.
And kind of how we navigated it and how we're navigating it now,
which there's so many good and bad things to all of it.
Yeah, we're going to talk the pros and cons of today.
Woohoo!
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
That's post-pandemic.
Only post-pandemic.
That never happened pre-pandemic.
I wonder who you would be.
Have we not quarantined?
Well, we did quarantine.
We quarantined together.
We were in our bubble.
Yeah, we had a small bubble because we never stopped working,
which required us to come together and immediately dive into live stream videos
to keep our business afloat, which knock on all the wood we did.
Yeah, honestly, thank you to all of you who watch the live stream,
who continue to watch the live stream.
It was a learning curve that we learned in two days.
We're still learning.
But it's something that we had wanted to do for a really long time.
But the shutdown on that Saturday that we closed,
and it happened on Monday, like we were up and running on Monday.
I mean, it was a kick in the pants to be like, hey, you have no other choice.
Yes, yep.
You have to do this now.
Yeah, we ran around.
We were looking for microphones and looking for the right setup
to be able to put the music through the computer so that you could hear it.
And then the microphones had to go through the computer
and set up a good system for us to be seen well enough for people to be able to follow,
not even talking about the how to get people to pay for it through a money system online
and how to get these videos on our website.
Oh, my gosh.
Like it was a rat race for 48 hours.
I don't even think it was a full 48 to be honest with you.
I really don't think it was a full 48,
but we couldn't have done it without Andrew.
No, he, yeah.
Andrew is the brains of the operation in connecting the wires.
Like we are so, we're good at so many things.
And we are talented in so many different fields and avenues,
but when it comes to technology or any type of like engineering way to use your brain,
that's not in our genetic makeup.
It just isn't the language.
There's a barrier and the communication to be able to read something and then put it into action
when it comes to wiring and computers.
It's just not there.
It's not there.
And we couldn't have done it without him.
And then, then the part that was like, Oh, we need to go run and get this at Best Buy,
but Best Buy is going to close at five because the world is shutting down.
So like trying to be like, well, this best buys open till eight.
And also everyone was trying to do live streams.
So the cameras that we needed or whatever setup that we needed is all out of stock.
We're limited because within 48 hours, everybody was trying to figure out how to navigate
keeping whatever they needed to keep alive.
Zoom and like all that stuff.
Zoom was something that I didn't know the name of.
I know that wasn't a part of normal conversation.
People were like, zoom.
I was like, what's a zoom?
Because we didn't do conference calls.
We didn't have to dial in other people and it was face to face.
It was a whirlwind and by the grace of all things, holy goodness,
we made it through and we thrived and we couldn't have done it with out our community.
And it was exhausting.
Oh yeah.
It was exhausting because we never stopped.
COVID was not a break for us.
COVID was not a break and it was exhausting and it was draining mentally to try to keep things new and fresh
because everyone was getting stir crazy at home.
And everybody was doing it.
Like everybody was putting out at home workouts now.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the only way.
That's the only way.
It was the only way.
So it was tiring, but there are so many pieces of it that I miss.
It was also, I'm going to add, it was exhausting, but it gave us purpose.
Every single day we woke up, we knew we had a schedule.
Like there were net, there was not one day where we were like, oh man, I'm going stir crazy.
It was like we had a schedule and we did not stop.
Yeah.
And it gave us purpose to get up every day and go to work.
And that while it's exhausting because it were physically drained.
It really helped us pass the time.
And we had an avenue to be able to get up and out.
Yes.
When so many people and like clients, I was for personal training, I was FaceTiming them workouts.
And they would just complain about how bored they were.
And how, you know, a few weeks in at the time we were told we were going to be quarantined for two weeks only.
And it ended up being 10 years.
So at the time where it started to get so crazy when people were like, you know, it's so boring.
And I was like, I don't know.
Yeah, no, we would like to be bored.
I would act.
I actually don't know.
Like I am at the end of the day passing out.
Yeah.
But there were so many good factors to it at the same time.
So one that I, this is so specific to my situation, but I was living in a condo building.
I had owned a condo in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and it overlooked 476.
So my balcony, which was awesome.
It just, you had the sound of the highway.
So I never kept my doors open, my front doors.
And I, if I was going to go out on the balcony, you just knew if there was somebody with you, you had to like yell.
Yeah.
Because it was loud.
But during the pandemic, it was peaceful.
I had my windows open.
I could open my doors.
I could sit on the balcony and not have that white noise, which ended up being like in the grand scheme of things and not a big deal.
But that was such a small piece of like having the windows open in my condo.
Yeah.
Such a nice thing for me that I didn't know I was missing out on.
And that is so specific to me.
And that is so small.
But that's something that I, I remember.
Yeah.
I just remember that, that piece.
And I remember when the cars started coming back and I was like, oh no.
We're getting back to normal.
Oh no.
I, one of my pros was my smallest child was six months, six and a half months old when we shut down.
Right.
And so Andrew worked a lot out of town with his job that he had at the time in concerts.
He was always in Mexico or what was, you know, Nashville or something.
He was always away.
But he had to work from home because there were no concerts happening.
Yeah.
He still had a job, but he was working from the basement.
And it was awesome that he got to spend every day with Dean, who was six and a half months old and got to see him every single day.
Whereas the other two, he was either coming home after they got in bed or, you know, he had been gone for 10 days at some music festival.
Right.
So it was really awesome to have family dinners.
And then as I said in a previous one, dance parties.
Yeah.
We would have dance parties every night and Andrew would get to be there.
And because our bubble was Victoria, my mom and my dad, we brought back Sunday dinners.
Right.
Which we didn't have since we were little because lives were crazy.
So those Sunday dinners, we would look forward to being like, guys, it's like a party.
Oh my gosh.
And we had like themes.
Yeah.
We would eat the same thing practically.
Chicken, rice, coconut rice, coconut rice and a salad.
Yep.
But it was an event.
Yes.
We'd get dressed.
And we'd go outside in the backyard, play music and play like lawn games.
And the kids thought it was the best.
And we'd watch Dean take his first step and like, because we were still pretty quarantined for most of Dean's life.
So that, that was a big pro for me getting all that time that we have just talked about with time.
Poe, we were not time.
Poe, no mouth during, during COVID.
And I miss my con is that I miss that time.
We don't have it now.
Yeah.
Like the, the slowness while our work was busy, our weekends were not.
There were no obligations.
There were no parties.
There were no events.
And that I miss like the, the not crazy, not hustle dance party Sunday night dinner times.
Well, the big parties that we would have would be drive-bys.
Yes.
We would all get in a caravan of cars from each, you know, family member or whatever, and go drive by someone's house for their birthday.
Yeah.
And we would all just stay in the middle of the street with our cars just idling because there were no other cars on the road.
Nobody else was out.
And everybody would sing happy birthday from their cars more than six feet away.
I would try to blast.
I had a birthday playlist.
It was called COVID party.
And we would scream happy birthday from our cars and then within what 10, 15 minutes, we'd all be like, all right, bye.
Going back to our house.
Yeah.
And there was the same thing if somebody had a baby shower and this was after we learned that you didn't have to wash your groceries.
Oh my God.
So, you know, we all started with maybe we have to wear gloves now or maybe you have to come home and strip your clothes off and put them in the laundry.
And then you have to clean or Lysol wipe your food.
So we learned that all of that was not necessary and people would be like, OK, I'm going to have my drive by baby shower.
So you were safe to buy a gift and give someone else like COVID wasn't going to transfer through the package.
Yeah.
But that was the way to do a baby shower.
And that was the way to do a bridal shower.
Just throw them a gift on the front lawn and be on your way.
Now, somebody having that baby or bridal shower might think differently.
They got gifts.
You got gifts and didn't have to stand on your feet for hours and socialize being nine months pregnant.
That's true.
That is amazing.
Yeah.
I have no experience in it, but I know for a fact that that's awesome.
She has a lot of experience in planning all of mine.
I mean, it is awesome.
And at the time, it was really great to see people.
Yeah.
And I say that because we're so overbooked now, but it was cool to be able to get in your car and put some jeans on and not wear sweatpants and be like, I'm just going to drive by.
And I'm going to still feel safe because we're more than six million feet away.
And I just say that's the way to do it because that there's no time anymore and everything's back to the way it was.
I will say, I want to go back to what you said about how Dean was six months old.
Yeah.
So he was a quarantine baby.
Yeah.
Now, I don't know if this is true.
I think I see it just from being a third party of watching you raise your kids and watching your kids grow up.
But there's a difference between a quarantine kid not knowing what it's like to be in a grocery store because your kids would go to the grocery store with you all the time.
The older two, the older two.
Yeah.
And like being out in public and not knowing that your home life isn't actually your outdoor life.
Right.
And I don't even know how I want to say that.
No, no, that's true.
It's the socialization of Dean versus Melody and Lewis.
Melody and Lewis were taken out to restaurants at six weeks old and knew how to be in a public place and being like, we are not in our living room.
We are out right now.
You put on your best behavior.
Right.
Dean's behavior is one note.
One note, Johnny.
He's like the loudest note.
Yeah, the loudest note.
Now, some of that is his personality.
He's just, he's got a big personality.
But the other part is he doesn't, he didn't know how to go out to a restaurant until he was almost three.
Yeah.
That was his first time going out and sitting at a restaurant.
I would say that's a condo quarantine.
100%.
It's a con for school and socialization and he's not, he's not hitting anybody, but like he doesn't understand.
No.
Because he never got to go to the park.
He's not a bad kid.
No, he just doesn't know that like in a grocery store, you can't run up and down the aisles because it's not your brother and sister's bedroom.
Yeah.
Like you're not right.
It's not yours.
Right.
It's like the world is his playground.
Right.
And like we didn't get to go out to the park.
So the park was shut down when he was old enough to go to the park.
Now it was actually that's not exactly true.
The park was open by the time he could realize, but he didn't know how to wait his turn.
Right.
Because guess what?
There weren't a lot of people at the park when we were there.
Yeah.
So it was his park.
So when there's somebody that is going down the slide, but he wants to go down the slide, he's like, move.
Really?
Yeah.
Because he's not used to being waiting his turn.
Yeah.
I hate calling him a COVID kid because I feel like that gives them a pass for bad behavior and it's not a pass.
It's just, it's what happened.
Yeah.
It's how we're trying to figure out how to like get through it.
Yeah.
It's just something to think about when you see any, I would say toddler up to four or five year old.
Yeah.
In public where you have to remember that majority of their formative years was in quarantine
and a pandemic world.
And for us, it was awesome because Dean has, is a very lucky boy and had a, has a good life for the kids that had to be home.
Oh my God.
And it was not a good situation.
A home life.
That is horrendous because they needed school, you know, to get out from wherever they were.
Like Dean, Dean is has a good life.
So he's fine.
Yeah.
But that, I always think about that, like all the fun we had.
And I talk about that being a pro where a lot of people, that was a big con for sure.
For sure, for sure. It was actually dangerous.
Yeah.
Now the pro for all three of them is they were, you know, my oldest was in kindergarten.
They're not going to remember this.
You don't think so?
No, I don't.
Do you remember kindergarten?
Do you remember when you were five and younger?
I'm younger.
No, I do remember moments of kindergarten, specific moments of kindergarten that I know are not on a VHS that I've seen somewhere.
A VHS is what we used to watch home videos on.
It's there are moments like I think Melody will remember wearing a mask.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And she'll remember we called it the germ.
Yeah.
Like you called it the germ.
Why can't we do that?
Well, the germ is there.
Like how do you explain kids what a pandemic or quarantine or COVID is?
So I think she'll remember that term.
I don't know if she'll remember the fact that she watched kids at the playground who weren't allowed to be on the playground, but the parents didn't care at that point play and she was allowed to go.
I don't think she'll remember that.
Yeah.
But I agree.
All of this is relative.
The pros and cons of what we think COVID at quarantine and the pandemic were are so different than anybody else's pro and cons in situation that they went through.
I've got a pro and con that I think can relate to a lot of people.
My pro is, which I said, Andrew was a was home a lot more, but now he only works from home.
So he never went back to an office since COVID.
And for me, I would be like, Hey, I'm going to take a shower.
Dean's right going to sit here and play in the basement while Andrew's working on the computer on a zoom because that's all he does now are zoom meetings because his office is in Vegas pro.
He can work on Vegas shows and live in Philadelphia, which is an amazing pro.
A con is that Andrew doesn't love it.
So sometimes I would go and be like, Hey, I just want to run to the grocery store and Dean and Andrew would say, just take Dean with you.
Like, oh, it's just so much faster if I just go by myself, which is another reason he has a hard time going out in public because I do go out more without him.
But he's like, I got a meeting in like 20 minutes.
I'm like, I'll be back.
I'll be back.
So he's sort of working sort of on dad duty.
There's no like that's up to you.
You could change that.
It's an open door policy.
The door is open.
I can leave a child down there.
But also like, Hey, can you pick up the kids from school today?
I get, you know, that kind of stuff where he loves being there to do it.
But at the same time, there's no fine line.
Like there's no line.
Yeah, there's a boundary.
Yeah, office and home.
So that's a pro and a con.
Well, you're the one who crosses the boundary.
What?
I would say I'm sorry.
I can't hear you.
I can't speak louder.
I can't hear you.
Oh my God.
That's true.
And I think a lot of people went remote for their job, which I think was a, I think it's
a pro.
It is a pro that a lot of companies realize that the same amount of work could be productive
from home.
I think there are some situations where that is impossible.
Yeah.
And you have to go into the office, but I've learned with talking to a lot of people that
they prefer maybe more of a hybrid where they can work from home three days a week that
they go in for two.
And so you're still getting that office life and maybe that office focus because there
is nothing else happening around you other than work, but you get to, I don't know, save
on gas from having to commute into the city or just get to relax a little bit more, but
still get the same amount of work done depending on what you do.
I think there's a lot of good that comes with remote environment, companies for people's
mental health.
And nope, that's it.
Well, here's my prone con about that.
I think over the course of COVID, mental health awareness was like in your face because people
were stuck at home.
The con is that people were stuck at home and unable to take care of themselves because
of their mental health.
They couldn't get out.
That was a depressing time for them.
Lots of bad things happen when you're depressed.
And because of that, there was like a boom in mental health awareness, which is a con.
I mean, sorry, which is a pro.
The boom in mental health awareness, like every workplace saying, all right, now we're
going to set a time for this and set a time for that and contact this person if you're
feeling this way.
That's a huge pro.
Or taking mental health days.
Like I never actually thought about what a mental health day was.
We would just be like, mom would be like, it's a mental health day.
I know.
Like, oh, okay.
But I didn't know what it was.
And I think you're so right, the awareness of it all.
Where we have people come into class and we're like, oh my gosh, you're not at work today.
And they're like, no, I took a mental health day.
I was like, oh my gosh, that literally means to take care of your mental health this day.
You took all from work.
And then I'm like, oh, same.
Bye.
Same.
Can't teach.
Bye.
I would love a mental.
But is there a con to that?
The con is mental health skyrocketed.
Yes.
Everything you're saying is backward.
Everything you're saying is wrong.
It's so plummeted.
No, mental health skyrocketed.
Slow down.
Mental health skyrocketed because people were alone.
And when you are alone with your thoughts and you are not well, that's not good.
For your, for, you know, in Andrew's case, he was working triple time because he was
at home and there was no off time.
He was answering emails at 11 p.m.
Now he can handle it.
Some people could not.
And I think that was a, you know, that's a huge con, mental health.
I actually don't know if there's a pro to this, but I think a big con of quarantine was everybody's
accessibility slash assumption of accessibility.
So just because you're working from home and you see my car in the driveway, doesn't mean
I'm twiddling my thumbs on the couch.
Right.
Doesn't mean you can text me at 11 p.m.
Doesn't mean that I'm available and ready to contact, correspond, get back to you the
minute you contact me.
That I think was different before quarantine.
Yeah.
Because you left the office, you left work.
When you're working from home, you're always home.
So yeah, that's definitely a post pandemic.
Now everybody, you know, most people like working from home, but that's a con to it.
I remember having a breakdown.
I forget which one.
How far in?
I've always been tapped into my mental health.
Thank you very much.
Yes, you have.
You're the one who should be very afraid to sit alone with your thoughts.
It's okay.
I had a breakdown yesterday.
I texted Victoria about it and I was like, I had a breakdown, but I'm fine.
She was like, I'm a little late.
I'm running late.
I'm on my way.
I was fine.
And she walked in the door and I said, oh my God, I just saw this.
You had a breakdown.
She broke down again.
So anyway, grass-loving screener.
But yeah, I had a, I remember having a breakdown because number one, we hadn't stopped working.
No, we immediately got on live stream for my clients.
I immediately got on Skype or FaceTime, depending on what they had.
So our hours stayed the same, if not more.
But at the same time, and I don't know if you experienced this as much as I did, so
I'm not going to say that you didn't because I know people reached out to you.
So on top of me not knowing what a pandemic was and on top of me not knowing how to navigate
it or stay safe and feel safe and keep me okay on top of like helping other people,
I was getting phone calls and texts morning, noon and night on their troubles and their
problems and everything that kind of falls under the umbrella of what happens in like
a personal training session you talk, you vent, you get let it all out, it feels so good.
But I also was experiencing the pandemic as a human being too and being really scared.
And I remember breaking down being like, it's 12 p.m. I can't help this person.
Don't text me, it's midnight and I'm...
That's 12 a.m.
I was 12 a.m.
I'm not well.
I was like, you can't get a text at 12 p.m.
No, it's too late.
It's too late.
No, like 12 a.m. I would get texts truly morning, noon, night, middle of the night and wake
up to them.
Of mental health conversation that like I didn't go to school for.
And I also didn't know how to navigate anything either.
But I'm a good ear to reach out to.
So it just got to the point, a boiling point where I couldn't handle personal work, pandemic
and other miscellaneous therapy thing wise.
All at the same time, we ended up getting work phones.
We did.
We got work phones because we needed a boundary between see fit and personal lives.
Which I guess is the pro to this.
So like what I guess this little tidbit that I'm putting out there, the pro is that quarantine
allowed for boundary creating where people realized their barriers of what they could
handle and what they couldn't handle.
And it was OK to say no and kind of stop the accessibility.
But then say yes when it was allowed.
So our way of doing that was getting work phone numbers and work phones, separate work phones
where work situations happened on this phone and house party happened on the personal.
Love house party.
No one contacted me.
No one.
No one reached out to me.
I was listening to this being like, I remember this happening to you.
It definitely didn't happen to me.
Yeah.
That's OK.
That's a pro for me.
My next pro would be house party.
House party those apps that they created where you could see your family, see your friends
and also play a game.
We left till we cried.
I don't.
We should just do it.
I know.
And I remember being like, OK, we actually stopped drinking during covid.
Yeah.
Victoria and I, that was a pro for us.
We lost a lot of weight and stopped drinking and started eating well and launched our fit
coaching program.
So that was a huge pro for us.
So we didn't even sit on house party and like drink.
Victoria and I would be working all day together and I'd be like, hurry up, run home because
we're going to do this with Billy and mom and dad and everybody.
And we would get online and house party.
It was so fun.
If you don't know what house party is, it was like playing group games from home with
your phone only.
So like we played heads up.
Pictionary.
Trivia.
Yeah.
But I'm I'm thinking of the.
Oh, God, there was something that you had to like click the multiple choice question.
But like you had to answer like there were actual games.
Oh, I guess that was trivia trivia.
And you had to pick the right one first.
Before anybody else.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
I have a really bad memory, but I'm con.
Oh my gosh, it was so con.
My memory died with COVID.
It, uh, it was just you just laughed and there is nothing better than playing house party
with an older generation who doesn't know how to use phones.
Oh my gosh, it is amazing because mom would just go to your house because her internet
was horrible.
So Carly's phone was her and our mom at this in the same screen and she'd be like, wait,
what do you know?
Wait, why are you doing that?
Like it was, and you know what makes me think of the con of this is that we were very fortunate
enough to be in a bubble with mom and dad.
So we could see another face.
And I remember seeing online all these videos of like, I haven't grandparents who haven't
seen their grandkids and they were born and they're three years old and they're just seeing
them for the first time.
Like we were very lucky to have the situation and we are also very lucky not to be directly
affected by COVID except Victoria had a friend that she lost over COVID.
But as a whole, nothing super unfortunate.
Yes, we all got it.
Yes, but nothing life altering life.
We didn't lose life.
We didn't lose, you know, we didn't have a lot of devastation, personal devastation and
and grief from it, which was a lot of the norm for a lot of people.
And we also live across the street from each other.
So I'm Victoria.
It was easy.
Very close by.
So it was super easy, but that was definitely a pro just laughing.
And here's another pro from me.
I reconnected with my friends who I met with Andrew in 2005.
We spent three awesome summers together and then sort of, you know, did our New York City
thing, we were friends for since 2005, but we haven't seen each other in like 15 years.
We hadn't because we moved all over the country.
So we started zooming once a week and it was awesome.
And we have now gone on like a reunion, like we're going to Vegas together and we've reconnected.
And it's been awesome.
And there's 10 of us.
And it's the reconnection over the internet, which was not there pre pandemic, I think
is a huge pro.
It is, it is, and that was available to everybody.
Yeah, I didn't reconnect.
But an experience I had that you didn't have, I'm going to raise the roof.
What, what for our nurses and essential workers.
Oh yeah.
If you remember, we all banded together and supported them to the end degree for what
they were going through in this crazy scary time and I'm not a nurse now, but I think
the tables have turned.
I think it's back to normal and nurses and teachers aren't respected the way that we
had to really realize the respect for them during the pandemic.
So we need to bring that back.
We need to bring back the respect for the essential workers, the bus drivers, the teachers,
the nurses, the doctors, everybody that we needed to survive.
Even the grocery store workers, because we needed, we needed them, we needed them and
we still need them, but life has mindset has changed.
It's going back to the hustle, the sort of jadedness, give me my stuff fast, as fast
as possible.
Horrible.
Yeah.
It's really, really horrible what's going on.
Even people on the road driving is so frustrating and everybody's angry.
Everyone's trying to get everywhere very quickly.
If you are in their way, well, we've heard about all the horrible road rage stories,
but it's so true.
We craved getting back to quote unquote normal, whatever the heck normal was that we just
wanted to get back to normal.
That was the phrase to say.
And then we got back to normal, but not mentally the same.
Like we got back to normal almost trying to make up for time lost.
So we're rushing and we're fast paced and we're burnt out already.
Yeah, trying to keep up with what we lost, but we didn't lose anything really.
I think we gained some perspective of lost it.
We gained the perspective in the moment life opened up again.
We lost it and then we lost it.
We went back to the hustle and bustle of things and we lost the family time.
Oh, connection.
Oh, life doesn't have to be that hard.
We lost all of that.
Oh, the essentialness of what we need in life and what we don't need.
Now we need everything.
Yeah.
We need everything.
And we need it all over again.
So it's all about mindset.
We're definitely all tired and angry.
Yeah.
That's what the vibe is, I think.
I know.
And I think what we need to do is remember what made us happy when we were at home with
our families and bring some of that back in.
Like I know you're going to make fun of me because I am, what is it?
I'm a...
Ridiculous.
No.
Yeah.
I am, oh my gosh, an ambivert.
Ambivert.
So, I already forgot what I was.
I'm an ambivert.
I didn't hate quarantine.
I enjoyed it because, one, I was lucky enough to enjoy the people that I was with, but I
like being home.
I feel safe in my house.
And I also, if you didn't want to do an event, if you didn't want to do something when the
world started opening back up again and you said no, there were no questions asked.
There was no like, oh my gosh, are you kidding?
You're not coming.
It was just like, I totally understand.
Yep.
And we don't have that anymore.
No, you have to tell them all of the horrible reasons why you are unable to go to that 12th
birthday party on a Sunday night at 9 p.m.
I made Victoria come over and sing to Dean last night at 9 p.m.
I pulled that tongue.
You know what I mean.
There were no questions asked.
If you said no, no meant no because that's what happened and now that is gone and I definitely
missed that.
But you can just do that.
No, I know.
We can just say no.
It's harder.
It takes more work and effort on your mental health of it.
But saying no, I'm sorry.
I'll make it the next time.
Is it it's enough?
That's enough.
Yeah.
And then the next time doesn't actually have to come.
But just saying no is enough.
It's a full sentence.
We've said it before.
It's the mindset of where we are right now.
So if you can buckle up and be strong in your boundaries, which is exactly what we were
just talking about, no is a boundary.
Yeah.
You don't need an excuse.
You don't need to give them validation or justification as to why you're too tired or
don't want to or don't have the time and can't prioritize them over yourself.
That doesn't have to happen.
She's specifically talking to me right now.
You all are not here.
She is literally lecturing me right now and I get it.
I hear you with everybody else.
I think we all need that.
I do too.
There are times that I'm like oversharing as to why I can't do something because you
think that that's the only thing that like you need their validation of like, OK, I
understand.
You don't need that.
It was Jacqueline, I think Jacqueline.
Yeah.
Who said no is a full sentence.
Yeah.
That was a long time ago.
Yeah.
I definitely think that is a con these days in the post pandemic world that yes, we all
wanted life to go back and now that it's back, it's like you always want what you don't have.
That is the whole thing here is that you want what you don't have.
You didn't want the pandemic and the quarantine when it was here.
Now that it's over, you want it back.
You know, the pieces of it, pieces of it, not the whole thing.
God, not the whole thing.
But yeah, it's you always the grass is always greener and you got to pick pick your grass.
Pick your grass.
Water your own grass.
Yeah.
Okay.
Water your own grass and then you won't want the grass on the other side.
Yep.
That's the truth.
Karlie would have to go outdoors for that.
I kid you not.
My curtains are closed.
I am locked into my house.
I've always felt very safe in my house.
I feel safe in my house and I would rather not be drained by people in big crowds, but
I want my windows open.
I want some plants.
I want some life.
No, I don't like life.
I did see something on the internet recently on the big old internet that said Taylor Swift
is single handedly bringing the world back from a pandemic world because everybody, what's
everybody doing, going out, going to concerts.
Now she is very famous.
She has a big concert, but she is making so much money and making the economy boost again.
The economy.
Yes.
People have jobs just for you to go out.
Yeah.
You have workers that need to be employed for your one ticket to be accepted into the
venue and those tickets are so expensive.
Oh, that's not a problem.
But how about it?
They are saying that she is bringing it back because the economy was getting so bad and
it's coming back now.
When I talk to people, every single person is like, oh, go into this concert this weekend.
I'm going to this concert.
We want to get out and I get that.
And that's awesome.
Down with COVID the next week, but it's fine.
All good.
That's fine.
I think a pro from COVID was that I was watching all the concerts from my living room and I
really enjoyed that.
That was cool.
There were so many things televised that were you wouldn't experience otherwise because
you wouldn't pay for the ticket or you couldn't get there.
You couldn't travel.
Couldn't get it to California or so, you know, whatever it was.
Yeah, you're right.
That's so true.
I loved that.
It was like, oh, we're going to do Disney sing along Sunday at seven and you know, everybody
was watching the Disney sing along to see what stars were at home and then when they
would have technical difficulties like a star's home would not be able to get the sound
working.
I'm like, yes, it's not just Z fit.
It's not just the normal citizens of the world.
Obviously, as we've said and we'll wrap it up, there were a lot of good things that came
from, I don't want to say COVID.
I want to say that time period of quarantining and slowing life down.
Like we were all forced to slow down, stop really.
We were all forced to stop and then slow down and actually picked up the pace.
No, see if it never stopped.
But the mindset of obligations that we've had stopped the obligatory things that we
are just supposed to do.
Like that changed.
We're really like, no, I don't want to prioritize this.
So that didn't that stopped.
But I think there was a lot of good that came from it.
I think there was a lot of bad and I think our perspective is different than others.
But if we could all for the real tip of the week, write down or make a list in your head,
whatever it may be of all of the silver linings that you got from your quarantine experience
that you may have forgotten because life got back to normal.
Drop them down, remember them, be aware of all of those little wins that we didn't realize
were wins until we lost other things.
And now that we're in the hustle and bustle of productivity and making sure the world
is working the way that it is and we're all burnout and tired, try to get them back.
But you have to take a moment to do that.
And now for your real extra tip of the week, it's called Crash My Party.
Oh my God.
What does Crash My Party mean?
It means download house party and invite your friends, invite your family and play and laugh.
It is so fun.
It is an app on your phone.
I guarantee you will be laughing out loud with people not at your house.
You can sit at home in bed and do it.
And it's so fun.
So crash somebody else's party on house party.
Make it happen.
As always, if you've got nothing else, remember you're always fit to be real and always allowed
to be a little extra.
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