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hello everyone karen glasser here and
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mel greenberg
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welcome to uncorked life exposed in the
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most unexpected ways where what you see
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is not always what you get uncorked is
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brought to you by vitalsy the guide to
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living in a stage of growth purpose and
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discovery and whether you're here live
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or on replay please make sure to say hi
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in the comments and tell us where you're
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watching from
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so what are we talking about today
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well
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self-care and more specifically it's the
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holidays something's got to give
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we're being pulled in every direction
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but first
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in that direction
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everyone cheers to
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what are you drinking i'm drinking
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eggnog yum
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yum well i took the other route of
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course i'm drinking a mold cider i
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happen to like that one
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i do that mauling spices
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so i simmer them on the stove and they
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just permeate through the house it's
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fabulous i think we have a recipe for
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that in the kit we'll talk about that
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later on
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so let's talk a little bit about
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self-care when we say that what does
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that mean
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you know it means so much and during the
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holidays it takes on it's this own it
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balloons i think because whatever you
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practice during the year seems to go out
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the window and after thanksgiving right
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you hit the ground running black friday
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cyber monday right you're addressing and
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taking care of everyone else so it's
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really important that you step back and
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take care of yourself because
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if your cup is empty and i believe this
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you're no good to anybody i totally so
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from that extent this is also a time
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while you are out running rampant to do
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and be to everyone
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to step back and breathe and take care
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of yourself
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sometimes it's hard to find the time
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though right yeah sometimes you just
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have to say okay i'm gonna make the time
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because it is the most busy season as
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you say and we get pulled in all
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different directions i mean we really do
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um you know from the family to cooking
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to gift buying to um making donut you
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know making your donations for the year
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charity there's so many things going on
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in my case i i do take time for myself
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and i do it in multiple ways i um i
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drink okay
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well okay that goes with that all right
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okay besides the drinking um i meditate
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and i do it morning and night um i i
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read i read poetry and i read things
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that really touches my soul and i listen
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to music
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a lot yes a lot what do you do well
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music is always on i i alexa and i are
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very close
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and i have her in every room and
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it is it is soothing and it brings you
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to a space where you can kind of tune
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out the world
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i also meditate i love to be out in
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nature i walk i do yoga
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i've actually started
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taking my dogs for hikes and any chance
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i can to get out into nature is a way to
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decompress and sort of reconnect
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and then when you get back into the
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hustle it has a different sense to it
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and you have a lighter sense of being
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and it's really important i i agree with
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that i i really agree with that so you
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know we want to create some really
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relaxing uh you know surroundings for
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ourselves and rituals um
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you know you mentioned that you do yo
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you do meditate you meditation you cook
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we've been cooking since you since
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you've been by the way guys you do you
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like our our um our channel our jammies
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we are we are very comfortable because
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this is this is how we take care of
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ourselves right
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um i'm not a bath taker and a youtube i
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love that yes
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i'm not that's not my thing and that's
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and that's a ritual right candles uh
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aromatherapy oils in the bathtub and
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uh fireplace some wine music you know
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again anything to kind of you know i
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like to
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kind of step away from the world i i do
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too and but i would also say that um
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well i have morning rituals i'm up at a
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god-awful hour i'm up at four in the
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morning um and the only way that uh that
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works is that i have rituals that i do i
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meditate as we said i i exercise a
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little bit um i drink my water i do all
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my little things my little rich rituals
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um and and it helps i think it keeps us
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focused one of the other things i like
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to do during the holiday times is go
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look at lights
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oh yeah
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i love that i remember that from
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childhood it was it was a big thing
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again the car and family would drive
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around and look at the neighbors and the
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neighborhoods with lights and right yeah
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i think it's i think every place has the
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same thing there's always somewhere in
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your city that the blocks the grass
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right christmas that everyone that you
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know everybody on the street has
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decorated their houses
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where i used to live every house was
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decorated so we just had to walk right
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outside wow and look around and see what
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was out there um i really really really
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enjoy that with my cup of cocoa right
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yeah and my you know my marshmallows in
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it and we we just drive and we drink
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well i don't drink alcohol when i'm
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driving but i drink you know cocoa
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that's a holiday absolutely that's
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totally absolutely totally um so how do
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in your relaxing se do you have like a
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place that you go meditate do you do i
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either outside
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um i have a fountain and i have seating
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there
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and i also have a table where i write
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and i get i am an early person also and
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i've actually started just recently kind
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of shifting my morning getting up
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earlier because i would i would lie in
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bed and you know then your mind starts
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going and that's never a good thing
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so instead of trying to go back to sleep
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for an hour and then waking up more
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groggy okay it's 4 30 i'm getting up i
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go to another part of our outside and
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it's east facing so i live in the
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foothills uh in arizona and there's it's
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very quiet and at that time of morning
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just the only you know it's the animals
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in the wild my father awake so my dogs
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and i sit outside i have my i have my
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morning which i drink lemon water and
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then cucumber or excuse me uh celery
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juice
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and i watch the sun come up and then as
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that and in the silence and that is in
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and of itself meditative and i think
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that's important to know too because
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meditation is anything really where you
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just kind of
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quiet yourself and your mind whether
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it's walking and looking you know or
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sitting and doing a guided meditation
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which is equally beneficial so that's my
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meditation and then i do my morning
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pages okay okay so and and writing and
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then i get my day started and and coffee
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it's always called coffee well of course
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coffee i'm sure
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for our viewers that are watching their
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pro some of them may be saying i don't
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know how to meditate how do i do this
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and we're going to be talking about this
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in months to come but
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if you want to get started right now
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there are a lot of apps out there that
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all you have to do is download they're
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free right and if you if you happen to
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like a guided meditation what that
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really means is somebody is leading you
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through the meditation or maybe you just
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want to listen to really great music or
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you want to listen to sound and or asmr
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which is kind of have you ever done that
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that's really cool it's like
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they literally record the noises that
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you make maybe when you eat when you
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brush your teeth it is it is an actual
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thing guys look it up it is really weird
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but but you know it's really weird but
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some people like that so we encourage
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you to go check out it'll be in the kit
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you go check out inside timer and david
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gandelman he's amazing he is there are
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so many and we are going to be covering
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those things absolutely but you know
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what you just made me think of someone
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my mind again
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recording yourself eating no but
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something that's really really
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calming to me and enjoyable to me is
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cooking
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and it's the combination of the scents
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and and and the aromas through the house
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and and then feeding i mean i think you
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know mothers or women in general i think
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we we want to take care of those around
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us whether they be other family members
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or friends
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and this time of year cooking and your
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traditions traditional meals or the
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season it's just from you know from
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really from halloween on it's my
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favorite and do it with a friend cook
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with a friend we're going to be cooking
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together on some shows in the future
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get on a zoom on a face time i know
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whatever and decide what you're going to
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do together
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maybe it's the same recipe maybe it's
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not two different recipes and do it and
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that's a great way to take care of
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yourself you're incorporating your
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friends you're incorporating the smells
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the the actual act you know during this
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whole pandemic
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i never i was never a baker ever really
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never and during the pandemic um
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i started face timing with my sister and
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we started baking
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so i love it
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like every week we baked something from
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cinnamon roll cinnamon cake um regular
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bread and then we found this amazing
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recipe the best the best that i
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introduced to mel yesterday and we baked
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bread together and there's something
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about putting your hands into the dough
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and mixing it it's very sensual um it
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really is very sensual and then eating
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what you cooked later on i mean it is so
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amazing um
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for days for days for days it is it's
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really great i got hair sticking to my
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lips there it is that's what yeah i got
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here um so that's and cooking is great
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and do it with a friend why not right
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and traditions during the holidays you
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know cookie exchange we want to eat
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healthier and there are so many great
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recipes out there for sweets there are
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alternatives
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what i used to do when the kids were
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young and in school i would always host
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a cookie exchange and the joke was kind
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of you know the jewish girl at school
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and then my house was was rifled with
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sweets and beautifully decorated treats
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and that in and of itself created
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by tradition so again
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like from from the point of self-care
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it's such a broad overarching statement
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but every little thing you do so i
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couldn't possibly
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the thought of baking a hundred cookies
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would give me anxiety it's giving me and
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i know i'm just saying that i'm getting
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like let's see but self-care i said how
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can i do this how can i provide this for
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my family and having a party it was so
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fun and everyone's sharing their recipes
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and and then they're the the you know
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the fruits of their labor and carrying
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that on self-care so it can manifest
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itself in so many ways and so be open to
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that think about any little way that you
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can kind of take care of yourself and
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please share those with us because we
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would love to know in the comments let
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us know how do you take self-care for
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yourself what do you do what are your
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rituals what are the things that you do
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to help
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you know bring you to a place of calm
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and peace well and how do you cope
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now during this this time and for many
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of us we are we our houses are empty our
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children grandchildren are coming to
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visit us so if you're alone isolated or
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needing to be out with them or travel to
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them how are you coping with that during
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these times and how are you taking care
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of yourself you know i was thinking when
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you were talking about the cookies and
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doing that you know
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i think homemade gifts are the best yes
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right gifts from the kitchen and if you
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have a particular recipe or skill or
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something that you do it may even be
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that you cook something and bring it to
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someone that really needs it that's a
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wonderful way it feels good for you and
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it feels good for the person you're
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giving and and you were
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finding peace while you were why you do
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it and i find such such satisfaction in
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planning and executing and then giving
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last year for our company i did i made
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candles and i ordered tins and i got the
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cutest little
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uh containers for the candles um did a
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holiday scent
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and then made labels for everyone and
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yeah were they the best candles no i
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could have gone out and bought beautiful
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because it doesn't matter but it was
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from that gave such satisfaction so
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warmed my heart filled me up self-care
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it's that simple and and that's what
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this is all about so we want to share
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some of the items that are in our encore
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kit
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because we picks well actually mel
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picked them out she's really good at
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this so this one i'm gonna you're gonna
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see i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna put this up
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right now pj harlow and i'm actually
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wearing the monroe gown and the bed
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jacket and it's long and i literally
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came across this brand while we were in
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rosemary beach over the summer and
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there's a beautiful little shop there
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called pish posh
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and i went back and got every they
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ordered every color for me because
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you can i could put a belt on this and
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go out if you filthy trust me if you
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felt it you'd say it's washable satin
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and it's reasonably priced pajamas short
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little boxers everything you can imagine
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so nice and so comfortable
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how many of you on facebook end up being
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intrigued by a product that shows up in
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your feed and you go and buy it right
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you go oh that looks really really well
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i did that and that is actually what i'm
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wearing today i found it on facebook
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it's a company called skivvies it is a
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brushed cotton it washes it's so
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comfortable i feel like i could wear
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this out you could wear it like a
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totally we may do that maybe that's
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we're good we'll see you we're leaving
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tonight
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see ya
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um but comfort and that's also part of
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self-care it is it's being feeling
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luxurious instead of throwing on your
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ratty t-shirt that you sleep i know i
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like this little shimata that you
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wouldn't barely right out of the line
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yeah right exactly exactly what else do
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we have
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this has been happening this entire week
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we've been together let's talk about
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these candles i'm all about the aroma
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and there are so many and healthy you
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wanna you you know i would recommend soy
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base yes the wood wicks the the way they
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burn and and do do your research don't
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just buy the candles the cheap candles
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in the
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it's almost like well it is it's
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aromatherapy that's coming out of a
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candle and that i don't if if you've
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never tried aroma therapy if you've
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never used candles to set the mood and
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set the whole environment
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think about doing that right yes
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it's it's amazing yeah calming
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exhilarating whatever you want to feel
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you can get it from your candles and
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with their eggnog or your coffee or
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whatever
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mugs and have fun with them get these i
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found these and i fell in love with the
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they're just they're happy
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and again it's it's treating yourself
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well
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don't go get the paper cut cup if you
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don't have to if you have a couple of
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really nice mugs that
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make you feel like uh it's really the
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the actual enjoyment is not just the
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liquid but the action
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yeah right of the visual and then the
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drinking of it i i just absolutely love
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these well i'll share something with the
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mugs i my i have my grandmother's
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teacups and she collected
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over the years beautiful hand painted
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little you know and you don't think you
15:10
think of tea you have to have tea
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i drink espresso or americano i have my
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morning tea in those cups so not only am
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i enjoying the coffee which i love so
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much but i'm holding it and she's there
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with me i'm remembering her and that
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takes me down another memory which warms
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my heart so so yeah
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so totally self-care so we have
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lots of other items in the kits but
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these are the ones that we kind of
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wanted to highlight today
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for the month of
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december so check it out on the uncourt
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kit just go to bit dot lee forward slash
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uncorked live it's all capitalized go
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check that out and
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i have our questions yeah because just
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you know this month it's the holidays
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and
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we are all celebrating so many different
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holidays
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and i have a variety within our family
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what what do you celebrate how do you
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celebrate we sell well my son just got
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married and um
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she is not jewish i'm jewish
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we celebrate hanukkah but
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and she is learning she's learning the
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traditions as well from my with my son
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for hanukkah but she's christian so you
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know they also they celebrate christmas
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and they do they do the whole thing
16:19
because you can't have too much
16:22
celebration right celebration but we we
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do the hanukkah um i make latkes
16:27
same yum yum outdoors though because the
16:30
house i have an electric fryer i do in
16:32
my outdoors so that my hair does not
16:34
smell like a lot guys for the next month
16:38
and the house doesn't even talk about
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that's the truth it's interesting yeah
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you make like this i do in the house so
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now i mean
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you know and we do the you know we with
16:47
the applesauce and the sour cream but i
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actually do something that's really like
16:51
special i do um my latkes with creme
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fraiche and caviar
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okay
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sour cream
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applesauce done done
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um we mentioned in the beginning that
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vitalsy is our proud sponsor we are
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thrilled that we have them on our team
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doing this it is a great platform so we
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want to encourage you to go ahead and
17:16
follow us on social media we're on
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instagram
17:19
we're on facebook we're on youtube we're
17:21
on twitter everywhere everywhere we're
17:24
everywhere um check us out and check out
17:27
vitalc too oh it's so exciting it's so
17:29
exciting
17:31
we want to thank you you have a choice
17:32
as to how you spend your time you
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decided to spend it with mel and i today
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and we are
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grateful so grateful so great wishing
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you the best this season and always but
17:43
especially during this december and all
17:46
that all the stress you know deal reach
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out there are
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your friends your family you know no
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one's ever alone and
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one thing i would love to see if you
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would share your traditions with us yes
17:59
we would love to see the traditions um
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and and put them in the comments and you
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know we can grab these and we can
18:05
actually share them on future shows if
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you want you know we can talk about all
18:08
of this some recipes and oh and recipes
18:12
absolutely can't have too many recipes
18:14
so go out give someone an awesome day
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we'll see you on the next
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on court
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see you later
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