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12. Embracing the Storm Within as We Celebrate Life's Twists and Turns

February 27, 2024 Small Town Big Mouths Podcast Season 1 Episode 12
12. Embracing the Storm Within as We Celebrate Life's Twists and Turns
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12. Embracing the Storm Within as We Celebrate Life's Twists and Turns
Feb 27, 2024 Season 1 Episode 12
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Ever endured a downpour that wasn't just outside your window, but also within your heart? Join us as Nikki and Amber steer the ship of conversation through the stormy weather of emotions.  From LA's alarming floods to the anticlimactic visit from Mr. Big, our chat is a weave of raw personal experiences and the collective need to find brightness on dreary days.

Navigating the choppy waters of past relationships, tears of anger, and the complicated dance with an ex reaching out from behind a wedding ring, we peel back the layers of vulnerability. This episode is a safe harbor where honesty meets the heart's tangled webs, and we discuss the importance of setting boundaries to safeguard our growth. We lay everything on the table, shedding light on the delicate balance between openness and self-preservation, and the sometimes painful quest for personal integrity.

As we anchor our conversation, we ponder the release that comes with closure and the act of moving on from those who refuse accountability. Brighter horizons are on the horizon with daylight savings, milestone birthday celebrations, and the excitement of orchestrating travel plans with friends. We wrap up by embracing the power of storytelling and expressing our thanks for the community we've built together. Your stories matter too, especially in this complex post-COVID job market, and we warmly invite you to share them with us on our social platforms.

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Ever endured a downpour that wasn't just outside your window, but also within your heart? Join us as Nikki and Amber steer the ship of conversation through the stormy weather of emotions.  From LA's alarming floods to the anticlimactic visit from Mr. Big, our chat is a weave of raw personal experiences and the collective need to find brightness on dreary days.

Navigating the choppy waters of past relationships, tears of anger, and the complicated dance with an ex reaching out from behind a wedding ring, we peel back the layers of vulnerability. This episode is a safe harbor where honesty meets the heart's tangled webs, and we discuss the importance of setting boundaries to safeguard our growth. We lay everything on the table, shedding light on the delicate balance between openness and self-preservation, and the sometimes painful quest for personal integrity.

As we anchor our conversation, we ponder the release that comes with closure and the act of moving on from those who refuse accountability. Brighter horizons are on the horizon with daylight savings, milestone birthday celebrations, and the excitement of orchestrating travel plans with friends. We wrap up by embracing the power of storytelling and expressing our thanks for the community we've built together. Your stories matter too, especially in this complex post-COVID job market, and we warmly invite you to share them with us on our social platforms.

Support the Show.

Find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

Follow Nikki @otsbartender, Amber @UnrulyAmber, Misty (AKA Dolce) @Mz_Dolcezza and our Podcast Page @Small_Town_Big_Mouths
Facebook @SmallTownBigMouths
TikTok @SmallTownBigMouths

We accept ALL questions and feedback!

Speaker 1:

Welcome back to Small Town, big Mouths. This is your bartender, nikki.

Speaker 2:

And this is, amber, your one and only. We are missing our third person today, misty aka Dolce. She couldn't make it here today, but that's alright, we're going to continue, because that's what we do. We're going to roll on without her. Yeah, so can we talk about this freaking weather, though?

Speaker 1:

Dude, the weather is gross outside, I don't know like so just for reference. I don't understand you guys. You know we record a little early, so this is actually what's today. President's Day.

Speaker 2:

Yes, the 19th February 19th.

Speaker 1:

Right, and this won't come out for like a week, right?

Speaker 2:

A week or two, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So last night I had an employee party here and these fools we were in here, some of us girls are in here at the table playing cards and these fools are sitting out here. I mean, I have a covered patio for you guys that know that I'm pointing at the patio. They're sitting out there in shorts one of them, mind you. I have the door open. We're all wearing sweatshirts in here and they're outside just like fucking chopping it up, talking with the rain, and it's like windy and shit. And then one of them said something like are we going to have to drain your pool? And I'm like the fuck, no, it doesn't work. Like that guy.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, I, my daughter, got home at midnight and I was like Holy shit, I could hear it raining.

Speaker 1:

how hard it was so hard.

Speaker 2:

So I'm like, oh my gosh, but I was glad to see that the sun was out this morning.

Speaker 1:

I know.

Speaker 2:

Because I do horrible when it rains. I get in my little mood and I don't want to be around anybody and it freaking sucks. I don't like being that way. Anybody that knows me knows me. I'm very social and I go a million miles an hour, so for the last few weeks I have not been myself.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I feel like I have not been myself either and we we are going to do another episode on probably seasonal depression. Not a depressing episode, though Hopefully it'll be funny with some of the shit that I went through the last couple of weeks, even though it's not funny to me now looking back at it, but like to talk about it will probably be funny because you guys may get a kick out of some of the shit that I do when I'm depressed. I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Well, have you heard about the stuff that's going on in LA? It's like totally flood. It's flooding evacuation mornings, Seriously.

Speaker 1:

Yes, okay, is this just because? Is this like inland, or is this on the coastal part?

Speaker 2:

It's West Hollywood, beverly Hills. Malibu yeah, that's inland, it's flash flood warnings.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's inland.

Speaker 2:

Ventura County.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, ventura, there's Ventura Beach right there, but like it's that's more inland, like if you said, like oh, fucking, you know what's a town that's on the on the really like on the coast. If you said, oh, malibu's flooding, I'd be like, oh, okay, well, it's on the coast.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 1:

But West Hollywood is. That's pretty inland. It's not like you're standing there and you can see the beach. You know what I mean. Right, they're saying up to one inch per hour and it's raining right now like as we speak.

Speaker 2:

I mean it's 512 right now yeah. I don't know, but this was like in the last couple of hours that they're saying this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and the only reason I even know is cause you guys, if you know me, listen my Tia, she lives next door. She came over to feed Roger and she was saying something about the flooding next in LA, and so yeah, yeah, I hope everybody's safe out there. I don't.

Speaker 2:

Can you explain, nikki? Please share what is going on.

Speaker 1:

So you guys all heard my story about Mr Big, who was supposed to come with his friend and visit me. So, um, mr Big came and did he really come?

Speaker 2:

He did not come.

Speaker 1:

I like that, anyways, not with me. Anyways, um, it was not what I expected. Like I don't, maybe I had like some. So you guys need to understand. Like it, for the two weeks, like I had went to LA with my friend Lisa. We had I had asked him for a tour of a place that he worked at. He told me the place was under construction so he couldn't do that. My friend Lisa has a special needs daughter and her friend was with her and I thought how cool for them to go see this certain thing. So we weren't able to do that. So I had text him and then he's texting me back. Like once you said, cool, we can't do that. I'm like okay, cool, I didn't think anything more of it.

Speaker 1:

Lisa and I were in Beverly Hills. We were taking pictures of all the Christmas lights. You know we were hopping out of the car, driving her fucking daughter, probably crazy. But whatever, we're gonna go here, we don't care, you guys, we're gonna park you right here. I mean, yes, they're specialties, but they're both like 20-something years old, so they know how to lock the doors and be fine inside the car. So don't think that was an issue. But I get back, we're going back and forth outside taking pictures and he's texting me and like he's like oh, it'll be so nice to see you. Oh, I wish we could have a drink. And I'm just like okay, well then.

Speaker 2:

Well, hold on real quick, Just for new listeners. Maybe they just skip to this episode. Mr Big is someone that you've had a relationship with years ago. You stopped talking.

Speaker 1:

I feel like and maybe this will change, I don't know I feel like he is and was my soulmate. He is the person that understood everything about me. He loved me, no matter what we were. He just like for me. He was my person, right, you know what I mean. And then so he came for a rodeo. That's how I met him was during the rodeo, and then we started dating. He lived in LA. Still, we were on and off a long distance relationship. We broke off several times, got back together several times. He came to my house and proposed marriage to me with his kids. He had his kids at the door and I said no. Like, looking back, I wish I would have said yes, but do I? I don't know because now, like looking back again, I don't know how that would have ended up. You know what I mean. I don't know how that would have worked. I would have definitely moved to LA and this bitch should be in a flood right now, fucking well, I'm glad you didn't, because I wouldn't know you.

Speaker 1:

I know, I think about all the great relationships I made afterwards. So I'm like you know what? Maybe I? You know, I have this wonderful house. My aunt lives next door. It's like you know, my son is here, my grandchild is here. So, like, for me it's like would I have really been happy if I moved? I don't know, probably not.

Speaker 2:

Well, I do believe that we are where we're supposed to be in this very moment, and not everybody is meant to be in each chapter. You know, or maybe it's a new book, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Like, if your life is a book, there's going to be different chapters, right Right. So I don't think your life is different books, maybe, but maybe different chapters of the book. It's all depends on how you look at it, I guess.

Speaker 2:

I'm like I don't know. Sometimes I wish I could rewrite my story.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, in that chapter would start a new one. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So part two yeah, like Clark style yeah.

Speaker 1:

So, anyways, go on. Okay, so him and his friend end up coming. Well, okay, let me rewind. They came a couple of years ago for Rodeo, him and his friend. He was very flirtatious but I was still not trying to go there because I really wasn't sure I knew he was dating someone. And I am not, like I'm not that girl, like it's me, I'm I don't want to say I'm a jealous girl because I'm not, but it's if it's me, it's me.

Speaker 2:

Right, it's not me and some other girl. You can't have me take it yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's just not. That's not who I am, that's not how I am and I'm not ever going to be that way. So him and his friend come over. They come for Rodeo. I say let's get together at my house on Sunday. I'll make food. So I make food. I invite my girlfriends over. Mr Big and his friend come over. We get ready to sit down at the table and his friend says something like oh, isn't this great. He's like your ex-girlfriend's making you lunch and when you get home your wife will have dinner on the table.

Speaker 2:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

I was just like my whole.

Speaker 2:

Sorry, you gotta go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but you know, if anyone knows anything about me, they know I fucking sucked it up. We fucking made it through dinner or lunch, whatever lunch and I was just like okay, it's time for you guys to get on the road. You know what I mean Like I'm ready for you to leave now Cause. I'm I mean, I don't know how I kept didn't have flames coming out of my fucking mouth and my, you know, like the cartoon with the flames coming out of the side of the head.

Speaker 2:

You're a lot better than I am, because I would have flipped my wig.

Speaker 1:

I just didn't want to embarrass myself, and what I really wanted to do was cry. That's what I really wanted to do, but I'm. I don't really like people seeing me cry.

Speaker 2:

Same. Yeah, you will if you see me cry Something's wrong, something's fucking wrong, and watch out.

Speaker 1:

And it's usually. I'm usually crying because I'm mad, it's not because I'm sad. And if I'm crying because I'm mad, I don't give a fuck. Don't try and hug me. I'm gonna give a fuck who you are. Don't try and make me feel better, cause you're not doing it. You know what I mean and I for all this time I thought it was like a tourist thing. But what sign are you? I'm on Gemini. Yeah, that's another. That's another scary ass sign.

Speaker 2:

You know, I think it's it's. I think it's how we've dealt with life, the cards that were given to us and how we cope with things is really why I think I'm like that. Maybe I don't know if you feel the same way.

Speaker 1:

Yes, no for sure.

Speaker 2:

Going through hard times, traumas, just different things in life have hardened me and I feel like crying is a sign of weakness. Even though as much as I try to teach my kids like it's not, it's okay to cry For me, I have a hard time swallowing that pill.

Speaker 1:

Don't you feel like, though, because it is okay to cry, but don't you fucking feel like when you don't like when it comes, it's just like. It's like the fucking flooding in LA, it's just like fucking here it is.

Speaker 2:

You know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

You're just. You could have cried oh my God, I broke a nail. All of a sudden, you're just like fucking rolling out buckets of tears, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and. But what's weird is like even when I get like that, as soon as like my kid walks in or like somebody calls, I'm like hello, like I'm fine, like I shut it off, I have to.

Speaker 1:

See, I don't know, I don't know if I can do that. So back to ooh. Okay, roger, that is over in the window for now. Hey, sorry, sorry, guys, we're, we recorded our home. So, like, sometimes you'll hear like the phone, or my dog or you know, I don't know what he's barking out over there. There's probably a squirrel in the road, so anyway, so, mr Big, we after this, you know, I go to LA and contact him and he's still reaching out to me about dinner. He says he wants to come visit and I'm like, okay, so in those two weeks the first week it was a lot of going back and forth with, like him sending me love songs, Like, and all those feelings came rushing back for me. Yeah, and he was saying the same thing on the other end, like I feel that it a duh, I still love you, I miss you, I this, I that I want to see you. Da, da, da. And it wasn't a one-way street.

Speaker 1:

It was not a one-way street at all, but I knew he was married. So I wasn't, you know, and still is married, as far as I know. So then week two he kind of calmed down a little bit and then I'm like okay, is he gonna come, is it like? Then I started like replaying in my mind like what's going on? I almost was doubting myself. So I text him and I'm like you know, last week you were this and this and this. Now, and he's like you're reading too much into it. So in my head I'm thinking okay, then that means that you're still on the same page, right, is that not what that means to you? You're still on the same page, but I'm just busy. He's, he took on a new role at work. He's, you know, maybe he's thinking about how he's gonna get out of this marriage, that he's in that clearly he doesn't. If you're reaching out To me, I feel like clearly you should not be married. That's me. If I'm reaching out to you and I'm with someone, then that means I shouldn't be with that person. That's. That's not how this shit works. So they end up coming here.

Speaker 1:

The first night was cool, what we were all drinking. I had a couple breakdowns while we were out, because I just really wanted to talk about the elephant in the room. We didn't talk about that. So then, day two that he stayed the night, nothing happened. He slept in my bed, I slept on the couch. There was a point when he said you can come in and lay with me. And so I went in there to lay with him and it wasn't that he tried to do anything, because he's a gentleman, but he laid there trying to. It was our time to talk and when he was talking it was just blah, blah, blah me, blah, blah, blah this, blah blah my and blah blah blah. And I just finally was like you know what? Stop fucking talking. Everything you're saying has not a fucking thing to do with me and I don't care. Sound like Eric and Jane right now from the fucking real housewife.

Speaker 1:

I wasn't meaning to sound like that, but this is the chance we have to talk. Your friend is in the other room sleeping. Right now is our.

Speaker 2:

Alone time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's the time for you to say what the fuck is going on. You know what I mean. So I got up and went on the couch. We wake up the next day, we go out again. I'm just not having it now. I'm just done because I now I realize we're not gonna have this conversation. And now, looking back, because it's been a couple of weeks, I really think that he thought that he was gonna come here and I was gonna be like Head over heels.

Speaker 1:

No, I think he likes to drink, and I do too, but I think he thought I was gonna be some sort of party girl. Let's just like wake up and drink, let's go to bed drinking, let's. I can't do that, right. You know what I mean, and he's kind of always been that person. When he's not working, he likes to drink. And I'm not saying he's an alcoholic because he's not. I work at a bar. I know what an alcoholic looks like and he's successful.

Speaker 1:

He has a shit together exactly so I Just think that he thought he was gonna come here and we were just gonna like. You know for lack of a better term, let me use a Vicki Gunkelson we were gonna just whoop it up, you know we were gonna like have all this fun.

Speaker 1:

Well, I still have all these unanswered questions, right, I can you? Let's just put yourself in my shoes. If this was going on, would you be able to just fucking relax and like Whoop it up while he's here, or what? I'm bitter, like I was. I don't want to say I was mad. I was expecting something different is what it is.

Speaker 2:

I think I probably would have Talked about the first night like especially I tried to.

Speaker 2:

I tried to and then I'm probably a little bit more aggressive and Shit, if we're not gonna talk about this I mean, this is what you've been telling me for the last two weeks Whatever I think I would have to be a little bit more aggressive, and if it doesn't, then you can go like it's fine, like you're not gonna hurt my feelings, like, but be honest with me, right, and let me be able to choose right and that's how I felt.

Speaker 1:

Well, we were at, and I'm gonna go ahead and mention the name because I'm gonna give him a shout out and we'll hashtag him. We were at the skyline, okay, and I took a night off from fucking work what you never do never do unless I'm out of this country.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I took a night off from work. We're sitting at skyline I'm trying to speak to him about it and he's telling me now's not the time cuz we're drinking. So I had to keep getting up. And like I don't want to keep getting up, I did it twice and excusing myself to go outside to walk around the fucking parking lot to calm myself down because I didn't Want to make a scene. I'm not gonna make a scene in a bar. That like is a friend.

Speaker 1:

You know what I mean. I'm not gonna make a scene in the bar anyway, unless I'm just a drunk and mess getting kicked out of bars in San Francisco. That never happened. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, I mean that kind of sucks. I I Don't know. I feel like I communicate when I'm able to. I don't know. That's a hard situation because Tears were rolling down my face. He knew something was wrong.

Speaker 2:

you know what I mean and I kept trying to like, I think he's a piece of shit for not even acknowledging that and being like you know what I do care about you enough to like. Let's go ahead and address this real quick, even if we have to walk outside. And yes, we're drinking, but the truth fucking comes out when you're drinking.

Speaker 1:

And I think that's the part that hurt me the most and why the next day, you know he knew I was mad. He said I was mad and I keep saying I'm not mad. I wasn't, I guess, mad. I was disappointed that I didn't get the answers, any answers. It doesn't matter if it's the answers that I want. I wanted an answer and I wanted you to say something, not just turn around and walk away from it, which is what he did. Day two we went out. We were doing some other things. His friend had left for a little while. We went to another place, eureka, here in town Shout out Eureka. We were having some cocktails and some and eating and his friend. He said my friend is coming back and I'm like cool. I said, now that we're sitting here, readers digest version why did you even come here?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, what was your whole point?

Speaker 1:

As I'm still have tears streaming down my face. So I think that's the part that really, like I wasn't mad, you really fucking hurt my feelings because if you can sit and watch me cry and you can't give me and I'm not saying it had to be, it didn't have to be what I wanted it to be, but you could have said anything Right, but not, we're not going to talk about it.

Speaker 1:

That's not the answer, definitely not Say anything else, but not that Cause. Then I just got. Then I just really lost it and I was like, okay, cool, now I just don't want to talk to you anymore. I fucking ate my food. We left. We got here, I walked to my room and they were like we're going to leave. I'm like, okay, bye. It was just like it was just like that day when I found out he was married. It was like that all over again.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and that's got a second. You know you didn't talk for so many years and then to talk for a few weeks and thinking that all those feelings are resurfacing on both ends, and then to come here and act like that, that's kind of cowardish.

Speaker 1:

It's cowardice, it's selfish. I feel like he is toxic to me. I for years did not talk to him. He would text me like happy birthday. He would send me, like you know, Merry Christmas. He would send me like he's listening to something in the car and it was like a song that we like are one of our songs because we communicated a lot through music because we live so far away. But the love language it is a love language and it's very much my love language and he sent me, like you know, a picture of like Toby Keith singing Whiskey Girl. That was his song to me because I used to drink Southern comfort. So he would send me like pictures like that over the years. I would ignore them because I didn't fucking want to talk to this man. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 1:

But I only reached out because and I'm not, this is not. I'm not blaming Lisa in any way, shape or form. I thought I'm an adult. I can ask him he can take us and give us a tour of this place. It's not no big deal, had it just the door shut and it been over. But no, he kept going so right. So now, yes, I do blame him.

Speaker 2:

Well, maybe he thought he could string you along again, I don't know. Either way, you know, it ended for a reason, I guess you know, and you thought maybe it could go back to what it was.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know what I thought it was going to be, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

Did you feel like you had closure the first time?

Speaker 1:

No, not really, and I don't feel like I got it this time.

Speaker 2:

I don't think you did either, and I think after the second time you just have to be like okay, I'm done. Yeah, because even if he was to come back and be like, oh it's, he's obviously can't own up to his shit as a man, and that's not cool, right.

Speaker 1:

And there's no going back now, you know what I'm saying Like now I just I see you for who you are. You're not ever coming back in my life. Don't fucking text me happy birthday. Don't fucking text me Merry Christmas. Don't send me pictures of fucking songs that remind me, Don't get the fuck gone.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, exactly, and stay the fuck gone, because I can't put myself through this Not just me, but like my aunt, you know what I mean. I'm over there telling Tia that I'm talking to Mr Big again, like we're just speaking, and she's so like happy about it because she knew that he was sorry about that. You guys, roger saw something in the street that he had to like bark at. So, yeah, I just don't. There's no, there's no going back. I don't want him in my life. I don't want any of that, because the second that he does it could probably be real bad for me and I just don't need that anymore.

Speaker 2:

I wonder how many of our listeners have had circumstances like this where you close the door, you don't have closure, and then somebody comes back into your life or even like situationships right, Because you get in these situations where it's like you're dating and then you know shit falls apart and then somebody starts really seeing somebody or whatnot, and somebody tries to come back. Like I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that have things that go on like this.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'm sure, because it happens to me too. I have a, there's a, I have a situation ship and every once in a while this was his always like I knew he wanted me to come over. He'd be like hi, I'm gonna be like, hey, what are you doing? Oh, blah, blah, blah, Come over before work, I'll take you to dinner or come to you know, until just the other day I get this hi, I'm like hey, what do you want it hit different?

Speaker 1:

this time because I was like he's like hi and I'm like, hey, what's up? Yeah, like I'm not talking. We're not talking about that because I'm not. I just don't, I don't have the energy for it anymore. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

I just don't. I feel like I don't have the energy for fucking nothing lately.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it's just goddamn.

Speaker 2:

let's come and circle back to this damn weather. I do not like it, it is definitely the weather.

Speaker 1:

It is definitely the weather. Although today was actually nice, but it's looking a little windy outside now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I need warm weather, I need like late days. Yeah, down between my toes.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, we're just weeks away from daylight savings time, so please, yes, exactly, and you are going somewhere for your birthday. That's going to be.

Speaker 2:

Yes, so I'm doing I'm flying out to Miami for three days, um, in June, and then I'll be doing that, the whole Miami thing, and then doing a cruise to the Bahamas, dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos. You're going to have a lot of fun. Oh my God, I can't wait, I bet not. I'd be 40th to me. I really I'm accepting a gift card.

Speaker 1:

She's accepting gift cards. Vin Mo Zell you know cash out. She's going to make a go fund me page pretty soon. Yeah, this, it's been expensive already. I bet I wish I could go with you. I just cannot get that much time off. So yeah, I think.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to be gone like 10 days.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, night.

Speaker 2:

I fly out on the 19th I'm doing like a red eye to be in Miami early the next day and then I fly back um the 29th. Yeah, so.

Speaker 1:

I could get 10 days off, but mine have to be like from Sunday to like the following Tuesday and I think the way you have it worked out it's not. It doesn't work.

Speaker 2:

I fly out on a Wednesday night and come back on a Sunday. Yeah that just well. Where are we going to go, nikki? I don't know. I'm I'm traveling is my love language. I traveling is my love language. And it's the only therapy I really need.

Speaker 1:

I have a friend that's in Bali right now and I really just want to go back and she keeps posting pictures and I'm like, uh, I'm so jealous, I want to come back. And she's like, let's plan a trip. But the thing is, you know well, you know cause you try, planning trips is so hard with people and people say they're in and then they're not.

Speaker 2:

That's my biggest problem is I'm down, like you talk about, like, let's do something. I'm like booking the flight in the room like or, you know whatever it is. But, like a lot of people back out that I can't commit and I'm just not that person. Do not talk about travel unless you're really ready to travel.

Speaker 1:

That's C and I used to be that person, but ever since COVID and the bar because it's so hard right now, y'all it is still hard to find people that want to work. I don't know where. We have a lot of listeners that aren't in the business but aren't in Fresno and Clovis. We um, actually a majority of our listeners are not here. They're all over the different countries. Yeah, it's really weird. I mean, it's not, it's great, it's, I'm so happy for it, thankful, all the whole nine yards. But the crazy thing is is that I just want to know if anyone listening reach out on Tik Tok, instagram, facebook. Are you guys experiencing the same thing that we're experiencing here? Covid is over, shit is back to normal and people still do not want to work.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't get it. I'm a worthy money from Duh. We should know this. Where are they getting money from?

Speaker 1:

Only from Duh. That could very well be true. That could be true, all right. Well, I just wanted a chance to tell my story because I know that some of you guys like heard me talk about Mr Becoming and all that good stuff, so I wanted to let everyone know, kind of, what happened. That was like the reader's digest version, um, and just a little short, because we don't. It's just Amber and I sitting here at the table staring at each other, so I just wanted to touch base and let you guys know what had happened. But I like staring at you. I know, well, we're beautiful, that's why. So, um, I want to thank everyone for listening and, as always, if you have any questions concerns comments, please reach out Instagram, tik Tok, facebook. We're here, we're listening. We appreciate you.

Speaker 2:

Please share, follow, subscribe All of the above Roger that, roger that.

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