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Time to Express Yourself!
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Jul 6, 2022
...And just like that we are in the #PeakStage of summer! Is the heat getting to you? Ready to escape? Time to express yourself and join Caren and Mel on a new episode of Uncorked Live. Tune in to learn how to joyfully Tune out and enjoy your summer days. Grab your drink, sit back and enjoy, the best is yet to come! #expressyourself #uncorked #summertime #peakstage 📌 Subscribe to the Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc Check out the Uncorked playlist: https://www.uncorkedplaylist.online This show is hosted by Vitalcy, the guide to living in a stage of growth, purpose, and discovery. Visit to watch all the Uncorked shows and more: https://www.vitalcy.com/watch/uncorked
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hello everyone i'm mel greenberg and i'm
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karen glasser and welcome to uncorked
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life exposed in the most unexpected ways
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or what you see is not always what you
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get
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uncorked is proud to be on the
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vitalscene network we love idalcy go
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check out vitalc i'm just going to put
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this up here we just love vitalc they've
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got some great shows there we're going
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to talk about the travel program i mean
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some amazing things go check out vital
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so you will not be disappointed
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what are we chatting about today
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how we express ourselves
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and it you know it's the dead of summer
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and we couldn't even decide what to wear
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so
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and so we got a memo yeah um we're twins
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it's miserable we're hot yeah we're
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tired i'm ready for fall already which i
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tend to do but
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beyond that
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how how how we express ourselves in you
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know kind of in our
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you know peak stage movement right what
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that looks like and whether it's move
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traveling or
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crafts and hobbies and and we actually
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got to talking about that hobbies right
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and what do you do well we have to drink
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first oh god
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i'm sorry i cannot go another second
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without drinking i'm drinking iced tea
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today
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and i'm drinking water
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because i'm hot
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cheers
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cheers everyone
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okay
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so now free time
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and and we have more of it so let's face
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it and it's easy to kind of let the days
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just just pass by and and you don't i
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don't i don't want to feel that i've
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done that that they've just melded into
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one into another and i want to do things
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but i mean i do work i do have things
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but i have a lot more free time and i
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want to spend it
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you know in a good productive way yet an
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enjoyable way so so how do you do that
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what do you do um well i do you know i
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do my yoga and and that actually it's a
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it helps me because it really helps me
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quiet my head um one thing that i do is
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needle points
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and i'm going to show all of you because
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as you know i have my first grandchild
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and my sweet baby isla i am doing
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her first christmas stocking and i've
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taken this on and i'm
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working on it now so it will be ready
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for her second christmas i love that
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quite make it for the first i think i
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think i told you i mean i i used to do
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needlepoint and petty coin and when i
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lost my sight in my right eye i can't do
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it i'm living vicariously through you
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because that is so stunningly gorgeous
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so stunningly going it's so satisfying
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too and and i mean that's a huge piece i
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do that at home i travel i have little
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in fact i so i got this from my
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girlfriend who actually
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introduced me to the needlepoint she's
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she's an absolute act she teaches it so
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she's incredible
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and i do ornaments for the tree and so i
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mean i've got everything in my goal hers
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is 100 needlepoint ornaments and that's
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my goal and i'm about
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not quite halfway there um
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and i have a lot and what i started
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doing last year was
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getting everywhere we've traveled
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the ornaments because i have all the you
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know the college the answer at the
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interest the sports team all those
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things
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so now so that's been really fun so
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everywhere we go i get a new
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canvas and i love to start it and then
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it also gives me something to do i read
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um what else do i do i both do puzzles
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well yes and i have an app on my phone
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how
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and you can do it anywhere i do it on
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the plane and it it is i just unwind i
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love that
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i do i do them on my dining room table i
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know i love that too and then we glue
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them and we staple them together which
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is the coolest way to say what you do
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because usually just put them in the box
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i know and then and then you pass them
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on no no i'm like they're mine i keep
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them and i put them on the wall we
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became upset we did it always that's the
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kid summer vacations i always had a
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table in in our dining room actually i
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put up a card table
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and we did puzzles all summer long and
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the beginning of the lockdowns that we
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started that again and we were just
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going to and then you couldn't find them
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anywhere i know we were not alone
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everyone was
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and they were all everyone out now not
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so much they're back and forth
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family it's really nice
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it really was um i i actually started
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doing i'm not an artist in any way shape
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or form but
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my sister introduced me to something
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called zentangle and
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it's so cool um it's it's kind of like
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doodling but to the extreme kind of
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doodling and you make really cool things
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so i literally i made this that's a zen
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which is so cool and it's it's a
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paperweight so i actually made it so you
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create something so that's what i do so
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can you show can you show us absolutely
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what it looks like because i of course i
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had to go order this because i do love
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to doodle so here's here's here's i'm
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going to show you a couple of zentangles
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that's a zentangle so what you basically
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are doing is you create sections
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on a piece of paper and in each section
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you zentangle something so either it's
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circles it's lines but it owes patterns
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and then they teach you how to shade and
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so i've got some cool things like this
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i've literally learned so you start from
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scratch
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your mind takes you yeah so i mean it's
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like show and tell here but these are
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all zentangles and
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it's i'm having a blast i literally and
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it makes me feel like i'm an artist but
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but also how does it
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take you out of this oh yes because
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yes detached you have to you don't have
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a choice because you have to focus each
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line goes in a particular place and you
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you're you know so you're very
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studiously doing this it takes me to a
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completely zen no pun intended a zen
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place and i think that's really kind of
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how they created and i think that's what
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then that's what needlepoint does that
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for me because we're so used to always
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being on we have our phones like putting
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something down to check and i put it i
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keep it on a table
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i just focus because it's so detailed
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that you have to and it's relaxing and
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it's you know i i totally love doing
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that the other thing i do is i have an
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app on my phone like you have one for
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puzzle i have one for coloring
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i have a coloring app it's called happy
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color and again for the same thing you
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totally just go into it and nothing else
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is the world around the world and like
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you don't have to be an artist it's
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color by number basically yeah you see
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it you push it i love it i feel like i'm
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an artist yeah which is always always
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always a lot of fun and we're all
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musicians well you are too we're all
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musicians in in our house and i play the
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violin and i i've started with isla my
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granddaughter is sitting here with me at
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the piano and just letting you know kind
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of help like yeah and watching that and
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i always i mean they're there or with
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the violin and playing and hoping to to
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how wonderful is that i think that's one
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and starting her at a very early age
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which is great and who knows she might
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be the next virtuoso virtuoso on
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violence possibly
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so
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it's i think it's hard for all of us who
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are go go go people
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to find balance in our life and and and
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find the time
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to get that balance do you create
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hobbies i mean i know that you're you're
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needle pointing do you do it by yourself
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do you do it with your partner
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what how do you decide what your hobby
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is going to be now that we're trying to
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find some balance i think i don't i tend
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to
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when we decided to to go into this i
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thought about
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i don't think of it as hobbies and i
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don't think of it as finding time i
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think of it as allowing time for myself
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good distinction and and i do that and i
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i
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that i do pretty easily i i will i know
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that what i do well i know what i need
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to do to keep my cup full which helps me
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be there for other people and i can tell
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when i have not done that so i i mean i
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do like and i alter you know i love
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being out i golf i walk i all of those
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things are to me
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right hobbies you know i i don't really
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know how to funnel it into a term like
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that i enjoy it things that i do for me
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that i enjoy you like to do yeah so it's
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maybe self-fulfillment
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i and you know for me it's trying
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whether i'm going to do something with
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my husband an activity we're starting to
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cook together so that's that which is
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always
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my husband likes peanut butter that's
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that's his thing you know peanut butter
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or or pasta with sauce on it so we're
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trying to branch out a little bit and
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starting to cook a little make some
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pizzas together you know put your own
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stuff on the pizza some lasagna italian
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he loves italian so we we kind of do
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that that's wonderful which is which is
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kind of fun for me again music is the
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same thing for me i listen to music all
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the time but i think what what happens
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is we get a little bit older and more
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more mature uh we start we want to honor
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the the personalities that are in our
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lives yes right um and we were talking
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about how we unwind and my husband owned
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wines one way i unwind a totally
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different way and we very specifically
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talked about you know crew i the reason
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why i like to go on cruises is that i
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like to sit on a chaise lounge like the
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whole time because so you don't you're
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not the person that plans the excursions
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and goes and discovers the cities that
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you're in no i could i would be very
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happy if i never had to leave the chaise
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lounge because it's an enforced
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um
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time for me to not work i don't have my
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phone with me because you're on a cruise
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ship there's no no connection you can't
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have it so the only thing that i can do
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is do the one thing that i can't do
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during the rest of the year so but
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that's what a vacation should be and
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whatever it is like for me it is getting
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out i and that's why i've always i've
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preferred
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land travel to cruise because i like
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more time i like to spend time in a
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place that we visit i like to get to
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know the people and kind of feel like
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i'm a resident there so
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and you and you know that and you know
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that about yourself and you honor that
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you know my husband likes to scoop it or
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not and actually not scoob anymore but
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snorkel he loves to snorkel and so
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that's why we cruise because
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no matter where you go at least where we
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go you can he can go and cr he can
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literally go and do a snorkeling like
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for the whole day and i don't have to
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worry that he's worrying about me and
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i'm not worried about him i'm on i'm on
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my shay's lounge with a little umbrella
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drink in my hand reading a really good
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book and he's out taking pictures of
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fish because that makes him happy he
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loves it he loves it and that's a really
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good example about and about honoring
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your partner or who you are spending you
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know who you travel with but my husband
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has
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he goes more than any he has more energy
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than god i just
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i don't know where he gets at all and
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it's amazing
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but he needs to slow down so we go on
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vacation and i want him to slow down and
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we were for my 40th birthday he
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surprised me we went to tahiti
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and we were there for three weeks
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it wasn't until the second week i lit i
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saw him change right because there was
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nothing to do and he really started to
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embrace that until we were in bora bora
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and he realized that it was also when
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that that year the giants
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were in in the playoffs to go to the
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super bowl and he couldn't get the game
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oh and he went crazy he was like i gotta
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get the puppy yeah i mean you could then
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you could see it come back but he
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it was beautiful to see that he could
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and in the meantime i
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was out on the hammock every day or we
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had that little over the water yeah the
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house yeah and very cool um sitting and
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enjoying that reading and he can't do
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that as easily he he unwinds a different
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you know differently and then for him
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too it's like it's on the golf course or
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i mean it's a very high-powered job the
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financial industry is very strong very
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stressful so he really does need to
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check out and he does it the best way
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that serves him and what i've come to
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after 30 years of marriage is to to
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respect that not say oh yeah but you
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should do this it's like this works for
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him let him do what works for him and
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that's i think what you expect
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absolutely cruz
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it's certain
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it's like a perfect kind of vacation for
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us because we both can do what we want
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to do without feeling like we are
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impinging on what the other one wants to
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do he has no expectation that i'm gonna
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go snorkeling it's not ever gonna happen
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and he's okay with that he takes his
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little bag of bread you know in the
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little ziplock bag and he goes and he
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does his thing and he's so happy and
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it's a great way for him to unwind and
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i'm happy for him that he can do that
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yeah well when we and when we go when we
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travel for extended periods of time he
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will often work during the days i love
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to walk right and again get out and
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explore wherever we are and i have no
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illusions that he's going to wake up one
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morning and say
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i'm going to go walk with you because it
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ain't gonna happen and i don't know that
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i wanted to either because i do enjoy
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that time and i know he's enjoying his
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time so really and i think that as we
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move through our lives we become
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more comfortable with
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that space and allowing those that we
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love to be who they are and not trying
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like i i love that you're cooking
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together yeah that will never happen in
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my house
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but i but then i get it because he he
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enjoys
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what i cook so i love preparing a meal
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and my husband does not enjoy anything
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that i cook because he's not a foodie
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and so my root actually that was my
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response to that is like okay you don't
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like what i make let's make what you
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like and we'll make it together and
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that's been kind of fun it's been kind
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of fun
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yeah we have we have he likes it he he
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likes no choice
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he likes it smooth he likes you know
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like it drips off
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it's a huge um i'm actually not a peanut
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butter lover i will but i will i'll eat
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when when i do do it it will be the
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creamy um will he try other like
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sunflower butter or almond butter no it
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has to be peanut butter crunchy peanut
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butter no no chunky it's smooth peanut
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butter totally likes the smoothie likes
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to see it drip over the side so you know
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there is that
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so
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i want to you know we've been talking
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for the past couple months because we
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are really really excited about the the
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new travel platform that that rolled out
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on vitalcy a couple of months ago
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specifically and specifically corner
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it's right around the corner now alaska
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and you're going yeah
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there's only just i mean i only think
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there's a few cabinets left on this
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particular group trip um so don't forget
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go and check it out at vitalscene.com
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because
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mel's going
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yes and i want to share i i've started
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wearing and working with a company
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called coolibar and it's it's sun
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protection clothing and
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they have the greatest just great i mean
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you could wardrobe your entire your
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entire family i got right you know sweet
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baby i left but it protects you and it's
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it's spf and it's protective and so much
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better than the stuff you slather on
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your body with the chemicals it's
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fabulous and it's the designs are
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wonderful and they travel really easily
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so check that out you'll see it in the
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store we've put some items from there
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well you're also going to see like
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needlepoint stuff things that we're
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doing zentangle you're going to see that
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in the store go pick it up we'd love to
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hear from you guys like what do you like
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to do what kind of hobbies do you have
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are you creating new hobbies right now
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are you how do you unwind all of the
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things that we're talking about and it
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is fun to learn it like i had never
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heard of zentang and she started
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sharing this and i'm like the heck is
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that i know and of course i was on you
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know the website again you got your own
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i did okay
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um and i can't wait to give it a try we
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probably should like zentangle something
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for the uncourt crowd i don't know while
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we're drinking you know how they do the
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art the wine and art things you go to um
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you know you i think it's loosened you
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up well that would be fun to
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just to do one yeah without drinking and
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then see this and see the difference and
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see how your creativity expands we do
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want you to go check out the um
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our store i'll go over to uncorked dot
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shop you can also go to uncork dot store
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either one will take you over to the
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store and see some of these really cool
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things again mel is really good at this
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and she's also really good at carrying
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some great music and so we want to
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encourage you to go to the uncourt
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playlist
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summer fun
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fun fun so much fun with it this weekend
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my daddy took the t-bird away sorry i
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had a song coming everything's a song
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for me these days i'm sorry you keep
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talking and i'm going to have a sound
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that to you i know you have done that to
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me
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any any last thoughts it's july guys
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okay we're all ready um
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i am on my way next week so far
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well
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i'm on my way to british columbia um
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next week so i'm so excited uh so when i
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get back and we have our next show maybe
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we'll talk a little bit about that
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um we want you to go out and have a
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great time go out and enjoy your summer
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this summer right have some fun today
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yeah totally enjoy your summer and we'll
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see you next month yes we will
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