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hi everybody i'm mel greenberg and i'm
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karen glasser and welcome to uncourt
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life exposed in the most unexpected ways
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where what you see is not always what
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you get
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uncorked is proud to be on the
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vitalscene network we love vitalscene
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so what are we talking about today
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spring
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spring cleaning to be specific and you
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know what that means
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right but first but first we have to you
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know we were talking about we don't
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always have to drink alcohol right
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and we don't we don't today we're
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drinking um i'm drinking iced tea what
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are you drinking an arnold palmer which
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is a
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sugary version of iced tea it's lemonade
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and iced tea and i just like that little
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fresh touch of the lemonade so
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cheers
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and cheers to you all
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delicious
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so karen spring cleaning and that has
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so many meanings and connotations is it
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house cleaning is it i kind of looked at
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it from the perspective of
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cleaning my plate and my life right kind
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of starting over new birth it's new
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beginnings how about you um i i that as
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well as very much the stuff that i clean
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out so we cleaned our we're cleaning our
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garage
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it doesn't feel good it does it feels
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great you know
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i don't know if it's the same in your
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household but in my household we have
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been schlepping the same boxes from
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garage to garage to garage to garage
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literally i think for 20 years
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same and and what's ironic is that and i
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can speak for you it's our husbands that
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are the hoarders they have that there's
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a reality show there how's their carters
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husbands hh
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but seriously my and about five or six
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years ago i cleaned out our garage and i
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was relentless and i'm very sentimental
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there are things that will never leave
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our home
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but i got rid of things that he over the
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course of time would say no no no no you
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can't get rid of that it's gone to this
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day until he watches this show
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he's not gonna know those things and i
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don't even remember what it is is it
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like that for you it's totally like that
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for me uh you know and finally finally i
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got i got michael to to agree to look in
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the boxes and as he started looking the
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boxes he realized oh i didn't even know
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we still have this stuff yeah so i feel
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like it's so cathartic my garage is
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almost
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clean right now well don't you so i'm
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that person who makes lists lists and i
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get such satisfaction of crossing off
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the list
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it's the same kind of thing it's like oh
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i cleaned it's gone cleaning out
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cupboards cleaning out closets you know
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making room for new that's fun too well
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that that's just that and and the other
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thing is as we clear out
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our stuff that we're clearing out can
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help other people
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and especially now i mean seriously this
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is a time when when that should maybe be
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a joyful experience right and and the
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thought that at the forefront what can i
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do how can i give up to others because
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we're not using these things in our
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garage as you said what for how many
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years
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oh it's it's embarrassing but you know
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one man's trash is another man's
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treasure absolutely more so now than
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ever
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i agree i i totally agree i don't know
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we're going to take i mean we had boxes
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of pictures and slides and you name it
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and we're going to digitize the entire
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thing
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and toss
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all the boxes all the boxes so how okay
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i want to ask you because i i've toyed
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with doing that
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but i really like the chemistry like
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going through the photo albums
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yeah so there's a digital photo they're
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a digital photo i know and
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or is it the same is it just like
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personally too i need to step up and
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well i know i'm i'm here to say if you
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like your albums you should keep your
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albums but i like the idea of i do a
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digital and you can literally have the
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pictures go and you can constantly
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change them and all it's so the
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technology is so amazing now you can
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literally share your photos with other
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people on their digital well we got
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dean a beautiful large digital frame
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from his office and i haven't i need i
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have yet to download the pictures
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but for that purpose and it can scroll
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and you can constantly upload from yeah
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it's photos
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it's so cool and you know what i think
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it's one of the things that we have
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in the store this month
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the digital thing so go check it out
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guys it's it's kind of cool it's kind of
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a neat way to clean so the other thing
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that happens during the spring thank god
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daylight savings
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finally see okay so and i'm in arizona
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where we don't do that don't ask me why
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but i i look to that time and i love
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summer
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because when we spring forward i am on
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the same time zone as you and when my
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kids lived in california then i was on
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their same time zone and i didn't have
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to figure things out it's a little bit
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easier yeah what is i i mean why does
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arizona i don't know why don't you guys
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do that i would i can't be more like you
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i was just
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i mean originally i think it had to do
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with with farming and keeping the light
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and having more light and and the
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reasons that they did it right but none
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of those things none of those things
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apply i do miss i will say this because
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we don't have the late late
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light right that you guys do or that
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anyone that does data right savings does
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and and that's a nice thing that we
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don't get truly i don't know
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so i'm excited i'm truly excited that i
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can finally put the clock back you know
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to where it belongs and so we have
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longer day daylight which i love i hate
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it when it's i mean it's a strong word
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hate but i do not like when it's dark at
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4 30 in the morning
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afternoon well no
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well so we have it what we notice and
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it's hard to get up and you know
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we're both very early risers i think
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part of that is desert life right but i
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like to be up in it when it's darker
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like now it doesn't get light until 5 36
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i know so i'm up and it's pitch black
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for a good hour and a half so you're
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going to be happy yeah as things start
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to change yeah i know i i like light and
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i think that's also it helps my um
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my feelings and you know that people
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think yeah you know the light
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but do you find that that in
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like with the time changes and does that
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kind of give you a feeling of of rebirth
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that goes along with spring um maybe for
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the first couple of days and then and
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then i'm already back into this swing of
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whatever time it really is but truly i
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mean i think that it is part of the
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whole spring thing it's something that
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it's a it's something that happens in
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the spring right
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so the the the uh time changes so
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spring is here how are we coming out of
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winter so i mean it's not just about the
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clothes right
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well because we're still i mean well
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it's been though did you notice we we
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kind of look a little i got the memo
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um
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i think that coming out of winter
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has been for the past two years
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unprecedented so there's that yeah and
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we we still aren't quite sure what that
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looks like but also a desert dweller i
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tend to layer and i tend to always be
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cold so i layer things
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and and that's fun fashion wise oh yeah
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absolutely absolutely you know
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where i was laughing because i literally
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i'm in pants today and a long sleeve
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shirt i was cold i had my jacket on
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because it was cold and and it's going
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to be 90 degrees at the end of the week
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and i'm i can't wait most people go 90
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degrees that's so hot and i'm like no i
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can't wait i can't wait because this is
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too cold
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yeah i do like the cold but but i think
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it's easy because we we know it's riding
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like when we get a a deep rain day or a
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really calm we do get snow in the well
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we do in arizona i don't know about you
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we don't get well we get snow in the
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mountains yeah we do in tucson and right
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and it's fun but i also know it's going
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to be gone the next day so yeah yeah
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it's not so
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abs
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yeah um the other thing i like during
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the spring i don't do a lot of it
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because i have a brown thumb
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is gardening and in fact i have already
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gone out and bought some lavender plants
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because my understanding is lavender
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socks the flies
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but i never heard that yeah really yeah
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but the bees like it so so
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you know
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yeah yeah yeah but a gardening is
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something i've always wanted to do and i
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can't seem to get
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you know
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how to do it are you a gardener i am and
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i love gardening and i do i love um
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herbs and lettuce and i actually am
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working with um
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a specialist to create an organic
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garden oh how cool because i want a
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sustainable garden that i can and
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nothing makes me happy or my kids laugh
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at me to go out
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you know snip my herbs pick my legs for
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the evening's dinner there's just a
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great joy in watching it and bringing it
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to fruition
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and nurturing it through the growth
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process and inside but i maybe would
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suggest an indoor herb garden to start
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and then you could kind of have to show
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me i can do that because i i want to do
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it i i have a desire to do it
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my last two attempts were terrible
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everything died i mean like
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died a horrible death
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and i i want to do it the right way it's
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really fulfilling and it's it's
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something that requires you to be
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completely present
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if you take the time to do that like i
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will go out i talk to the plants and i
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and it sort of is me
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it's a bit meditative which is wonderful
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for me it slows everything down and i
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pay attention to what i'm doing just
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kind of get lost in it and then you you
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know you start with nothing
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and then you get to see it that's true
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you know become so much more and then
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you get to enjoy the fruits of your
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labor and your meals
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and that's really gratifying yeah i
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think you would really enjoy it i i
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think i will have to i will work with
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you i think i will and i would love like
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to know if you all want to email us and
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just like how you
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come into spring and how what what it
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means to you right right we i would love
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to hear that so send us an email or um
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i i'm karen at karengglaster.com
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malamailmediallc.com there you go um let
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us know let us know how you are entering
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spring i do know that the it's it's the
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hedgehog or the gopher
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isn't it i don't know whatever that
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animal is that came in
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his name
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he came out we have six months we said
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we know that we
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totally have six more weeks i do have a
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desire though to i'm not gonna live off
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the grid but i do have a desire to be
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more self-sufficient and that's why the
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gardening really um appeals to me yes
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and i think that um
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yeah i live off the grid that's
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i
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i read about it i do i do it's not yeah
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no yeah
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i need running water and electricity
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yeah
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but i will i think knowing you as i do
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that you would get a tremendous amount
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of
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comfort i'm looking satisfaction from
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doing in a nightmare i think starting
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again
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small herbs
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in um that's our audience our
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eight-legged audience
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they're moaning and groaning and they're
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happy for us i'm sure yeah you know the
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other thing is is that i'm starting to
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come out of my shell finally
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i'm totally coming out of my shell which
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means that i'm getting ready to travel
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and
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and so part of it i went and got my
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passport
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done
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i can't wait i'm planning on i'm
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planning on getting out there and my dog
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is like
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okay
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she's ready to go too get out of the
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house
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so this next thing is our life balance
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wheel and we're just going to talk about
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it because
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we don't actually have it with us right
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now to show you
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but i noticed that it it really didn't
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change that much yeah and i and i kind
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of think that focusing on it
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is why yeah um and i i and i noticed
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that last month yeah
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maybe slight
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variation but very little very little
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and it's kind of neat yeah well it
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i was i don't know about you and i'm
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trying to remember what yours look like
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i i
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i have some areas where i'm i'm really
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very comfortable and
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i have some areas and not so much
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and that's going up incrementally like
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quarter inches very very small because
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it takes time right to make changes yeah
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the biggest one that that has changed
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since i started it was
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organization
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because that was something that i made a
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priority priority for me right and that
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sort of circles me back to cleaning
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house right as i
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let things
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and i have a terrible time saying no
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and and a beautiful word it is a
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beautiful word and and what's more
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beautiful is to do it in a way that
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honors who you are where you are
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and let go of things and it does make
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room so organizing and getting things
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done that i need to get done and more
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importantly that i want to get done is
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so much so much easier so that's been a
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and you know one of the things and
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that's you know that's that's an
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important topic
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is is
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prioritizing the stuff that we really
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want to do in in the spring and
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eliminating those things that we're
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working on
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don't they don't resonate with us yeah
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anymore
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um and that's that's something that i'm
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working hard on
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um
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i'm working hard and saying no
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do you has let me ask you has it always
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have has that always been a challenge
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for you oh yes because i want to say yes
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to everyone and i want to please and i
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want to i want to help people like
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constantly so i say yes to everything
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not anymore i have i literally stopped
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before the words come out of my mouth
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and i think to myself self is that
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something you really want to do
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that's really good and i actually am
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writing about it and it will be up in
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the blog um in the next few weeks about
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knowing
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your no yeah and and knowing that how to
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handle that and and i've had to i've
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worked with people and i've listened and
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i've shared because it really is hard
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and i always feel like i'm letting
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someone down and
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because
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most of the stuff i can do you can do
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we're multifaceted we're our brains are
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always working just because we can
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doesn't mean we need to doesn't mean we
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should or we should yeah
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you know and it's
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just to actually say the word no
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sometimes it evokes mine
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it's empowering sometimes it's guilty so
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one of the things that i've learned how
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to say is i like to give 100 of whatever
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i'm doing of myself right and if i know
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by saying yes to something i really
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can't give 100 of myself that's actually
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what i say you know what i really want
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to give you the time and the energy that
14:46
this deserves and i don't have the
14:48
bandwidth right now
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thank you for asking them that's
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beautiful or i'll say
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no
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not right now
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because it's not definitive right but
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it's a gentle way it's a gentle way but
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i you know i
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that way by saying i just can't give it
15:05
my all and i know how much you know
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that you're going to get your all when i
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say yes
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and so when i say no so it's it's a
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constant ever it's a constant it happens
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every day
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and i think it's really important that
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as we continue to age
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that that we use our time as efficiently
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and
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emotionally gratifying ways in ways that
15:29
that
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um are productive
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and satisfying and that we can follow
15:35
through right in the way and the way
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that you just said that is i'm going to
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kind of take that yeah and take that
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with me i
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i never want to hurt somebody's feelings
15:43
and i also don't want to feel guilty and
15:45
i found by doing that
15:47
it makes that person feel heard
15:50
that i acknowledged that they needed
15:52
something
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and i just said i can't do it right now
15:56
or it's you're not gonna get a hundred
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percent
15:59
and they respect that and they really
16:01
respect that because and it's it keeps
16:03
me true to my word and so for me that
16:05
that has worked but it has been a long
16:07
process trust me
16:09
i lose sleep when i have to say no to
16:11
somebody or when i want to step back
16:12
from something that i have said yes to
16:14
right that simply isn't working for me
16:16
yeah
16:17
yeah that's hard too because again i
16:20
don't want to let somebody down
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but
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for a myriad of reasons right this is
16:25
not right at this time and that's but
16:27
that's important too it's like we we
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tried to play now we need to step back
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and right now it's not okay but it could
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be as you don't know so yeah i think
16:38
we have to be true to ourselves there's
16:40
no question about that yeah
16:42
you know we talked about the fact that
16:43
uncorked is on vital see we want to make
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sure that people go check out all the
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shows you guys not just this one if you
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go to vitalscene.com forward slash watch
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go over there go binge watch tell us
16:59
which one spoke to you the most and i
17:02
think what i love about our shows is
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that
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we really
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try and touch and uncork
17:09
things that we're all feeling at this
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time and this peak stage of life that
17:13
we're all living and
17:15
figuring our way through and like you
17:16
say like i mean it takes a long time to
17:19
get from a to to b to z to certain z
17:22
and and if when you watch the different
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charges you can see that and you can
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take something from it and that's really
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what we hope that you're gaining
17:29
absolutely we also hope that you'll go
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check out the uncork shop all you have
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really cool things in there this month
17:41
uh one is one of them is that picture
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frame so we'll go check that one out
17:44
because i think that will
17:46
it's kind of a it's a cool thing to get
17:48
all your family involved with that and
17:50
all the pictures going on we have some
17:51
great stuff in there so go check it out
17:53
and see if there's something there that
17:55
just lights your fire and finally um
17:59
go check out the playlist mel has been
18:01
very busy so i have so much fun and i
18:04
try and i really
18:06
reach
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for music that
18:09
over the years has inspired me or brings
18:11
back memories you know music is a memory
18:14
or what's that saying it's a memory or
18:16
something
18:17
it takes you
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back some place or forward and places
18:20
you and it
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so a lot of the songs you will listen to
18:24
like you know back to the 70s and 80s
18:26
and i hope you enjoy it and then a lot
18:27
of new music and there's so many
18:29
incredible new artists oh i know i know
18:31
yeah so we're our current obsession is
18:33
teddy springs oh my god the guy is
18:35
amazing i know but the one thing i just
18:37
have to say
18:39
i i it's like i cringe because i wanted
18:41
it like when he got his eyelashes
18:42
tattooed i mean and i did have the i
18:45
have the eyeliner that's totally
18:46
different it's a little bit different i
18:47
just ache for him when i see it but i
18:49
just adore him his energy and his voice
18:52
and his lyrics oh and he came he came to
18:55
being in his last couple of years during
18:57
the pantheon and that's
18:59
that's the good stuff that's good all of
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this he's amazing go check him out he's
19:03
on the playlist yeah all of his stuff is
19:05
on the playlist yeah i i like one of our
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favorites and when it when mel whenever
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you you know create these playlists the
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first thing i do is i go in there
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because every i have music playing all
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day long on my computer while i'm
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working so i have this month's playlist
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is playing right now um and april will
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be the next one and so forth and so on
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but all of the music all the music that
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you have created is amazing um go check
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it out we know that you will like it and
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if you have songs that are special to
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you send them and we'll add them to the
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playlist so that would be really fun
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absolutely
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you guys you have a choice as to where
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you spend your time you came here today
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to spend it with melanin we're very
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happy we appreciate you so much we do
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and we look forward to next month yep
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yep yep go out and give somebody an
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awesome day we'll see you next time bye
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everyone
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