just a little shady - What's IN and OUT for 2024 | Ep . 20

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

Holiday recap & our INs and OUTs for 2024! Plus, some listener's shady dilemmas about the holidays, breaking up when you share a dog & how to deal with a gamer husband! Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/VyXLKoDfE8udBBim7 Shop merch at justalittleshadypodcast.com Join our Patreon for ad free content, bonus content & more: https://www.patreon.com/justalittleshadypodcast Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justalittleshadypodcast Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justalittleshadypodcast/ Watch us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR6yk19Q/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and Happy New Year. Welcome back to the podcast. It kind of feels like I haven't said that line in a long time. But we're back. And as you can see if you're watching this, we do still have our Christmas decor up. That we do. It's kind of symbolic for my house as well. Mine as well. My family's Christmas decorations are still up. It was up to me we would keep Christmas decor up through the month of January. I thought you were going to say all year.

No, no, no, no. That's excessive. But I feel as if. We can leave the Christmas lights up till January. I want to honor Taylor Swift. I want to honor Taylor Swift. I want to still be holly jolly. I feel like the holidays flew by this year. I can't name one Christmas activity I did.

I made a gingerbread house. And that was after Christmas. That was the day after Christmas. With hot glue. Yes, hot glue was used. It was cute. I sent it to you. You were jealous. I'll send a picture.

It'll be right here, hopefully. It looks like a little donut shot. Yeah, it did fly by, but the days between Christmas and New Year's, I really don't know. It felt like a whole year passed. Easily. Easily 365 days. At least. So I, yeah, I forget how to podcast. So apologies for whatever goes on today.

But on Christmas Eve, we got to watch the Lions win their division. We did. That was monumental. Big, big news for us. Big day. Big happy day. Big controversy in the NFL. I'm sure everyone probably heard about this,

but how when they were playing the Cowboys, they were about to win the game, and then the ref made a call that literally lost us the game. So pretty controversial call there. Kind of was everywhere, but that was depressing. But at least we won our division first time since 1993. That was huge. That was exciting.

Big, big news. Yeah. What else happened? There were, I don't know if you saw this, but I've seen this all over my For You page. So obviously we did, we went through Christmas. Where have we been? We went through Christmas. It was your birthday.

I turned 28. We're 28 now. I don't think I like it. I'm not a fan. You know what? It's better than turning 29 because that I think is going to hurt next year. That's true. Like that's going to be a hard pill to swallow.

And for whatever reason, 29 feels worse than 30. I don't know how. Yes. I feel like 30 is a little bit more exciting. Like a new decade almost. New possibilities. 29 just feels like Thursday. That's crazy.

You know what I mean? I like Thursdays. I do too, so maybe it'll be a good year. Let's just put that out there. It'll be a good year. But no, I saw this all over TikTok. We also had New Year's and I

saw this after New Year's and I was so confused because it's not anywhere else besides TikTok that fireworks hit the ball in Times Square. Yeah. And what they showed on TV was really from like previous recordings.

Well, because you know what else I learned? What? Via TikTok. A small creator, their TikTok may have gone viral since, but it was somebody that had gone not this year to Times Square New Year's Eve, but the year before. And she was talking about the ins and outs. But she also mentioned that every hour on the hour leading up to New Year's Eve

or like midnight, the ball dropped. And then it's like six hours to go. They have like an excessive countdown for each hour. So I think they used one of those. Really? Well, I couldn't find it anywhere besides TikTok saying that the ball like exploded. I feel like they were trying to make it seem like it didn't happen. Yeah, that was wild.

Well, I also learned that you have to buy tickets to go to Times Square on New Year's Eve, which I thought it was just like a crowd. Like a free. A free-for-all. Free gathering. Kind of like you don't buy tickets to go to a Thanksgiving Day parade or do you in New York? I don't think you do here. Yeah, not here. You just go. That's kind of how I thought it was.

Kind of like a parade. You just kind of show up and the public is welcome. But apparently you buy tickets. You're not allowed to bring food, water, alcohol, chairs. You can't bring water? No. And you can't sit either. You're not allowed to bring

a little folding chair or whatever. And if you move from either. Like you're not allowed to bring like a little folding chair or whatever. And if you move from your spot, you're done. And so everybody wears diapers and like goes to the bathroom. Yeah. Imagine being in that crowd for like 24 hours. That sounds like my worst nightmare. That sounds like I feel like as a kid you see people in Times Square and you think to yourself oh that would be kind of cool a nice little bucket list item something cool to experience but knowing what we know now absolutely not I would never want to do that I was actually laughing because the guy that I saw doing the interview talking about how like any liner guy yes and it was so the guy pulls out like a woman's

panty liner I did see this and is like I think he thinks it's a diaper and so he's like oh yeah I just use this and pee and like everyone around was kind of like um are you talking about like a diaper are you wearing like an actual like panty liner i don't think one of those could hold right no you for sure wouldn't think so i remember and he was pretty clear with it too he was like we're all the same here we're all peeing we're all using this i don't like everyone around the only one everyone around is like we're using diapers but like which was also still just so weird but it was kind of giving like you remember you remember that scene in She's the Man, and they put the tampons in their nose for, like, bloody noses?

It was kind of reminding me of that. It's, like, really not what it's for, but I guess it could work. Like, I guess. Poor guy. Yeah. I was like, um. We're all doing it. Yeah.

We're all doing this together. Because he, like, searched through his jacket. He thought it was so relatable. He was like um what else did he have then if he could not have water food like what did they just expect these people to starve how have people not passed out doing this i feel like it's one of those things where people probably sneak in like little saltine crackers yeah like granola bars yeah you have to but I don't know it just doesn't seem fun but also a lot of things like I feel that this year I saw a lot of videos of people being so negative about kind of having any plan at all for New Year's Eve I feel like the general public was very against celebrating new year's eve period yeah it was like if you're going to a ticketed event like you suck yeah go you're weird

yeah i was like okay we literally went to a ticketed event i know i felt kind of like people were poking fun at that yeah it was definitely, frowned upon this year for some reason. I don't know. Like, what do people do? I guess go to dinner and stay home. Which sounds nice. Yeah. I do that a lot, though.

Yeah. So it's, like, almost half the weekends out of the year we are going to dinner and then going to bed. I mean, I feel that I will probably do that next year. There's a pretty large chance. But I don't know. At least with like a group of friends. Yeah. But we did have fun this year.

We did something a little different. No, and I'm glad we did that. I do think it was fun. Technically, it was like a ticketed event, but it was really just our friends. So it wasn't like open to the public. So that was nice. We just, like, set up a thing with, like, a restaurant, and it was really nice to have just people we know.

Yeah. But it's definitely more of, like, a formal thing. We were wearing heels, dresses. Yeah, the whole nine yards. Yeah. I got my makeup done. And I kind of did wish I had sweatpants on at some point. Honestly, there was a point before we left

when we were gathering our sandals to wear. Since it was a party that we knew a good amount of people that were going to be at it, we could have just made a PSA like, hey, around 11 o'clock all the girls bring a change of like satin cute pajamas or like sweatpants and we all could have changed we could have done that anyway we could have who was gonna judge us no one was gonna judge us but i just felt like it was something we should have pre-planned and that when we were grabbing the sandals that was not the time to make that fall for the group we packed a literal bag of

sandals so that if we wanted to dance we didn't have to dance in our heels which is like a move it's a good choice but it was just kind of ambitious it was we didn't put the sandals on. We didn't. What else happened? Oh, freaking for the New Year's Times Square fiasco. No. What's the thing called with Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper that they host? Anyways, they were. No, no, no. There's like multiple.

There's like multiple. There's like multiple. There's like multiple. Yeah, there's like multiple. Ryan Seacrest's big party. Why are you saying it like that? As I feel like it is. It's like the big party.

The big party. Miley's was canceled this year. Miley's rockin'. Why? That's what I'm saying. They all have like weird names. It's like Miley's rockin' New Year's Eve. Yeah, Miley's rockin' Eve.

I don't know what theirs is called. We didn't even really watch this year, but I was happy to hear that Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper were allowed to drink this year. Justice for them. Thank God. Literally the internet bullied the network into letting them drink. That's crazy.

As they should. I love it. They've been hosting that thing for like seven years now. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Long time. That's a minute. But that that was fun we didn't really watch it but no that felt kind of weird i'm not gonna lie not seeing the ball drop yeah it didn't feel real yeah honestly it was people were also saying on the tiktok that just new year's eve in general was just super anti-climatic and i feel like for us too like we had, the dinner half of the night where we were all downstairs. And then the party was upstairs.

But we didn't start the party until 11. By the time the midnight came around, it was like, happy New Year. Yeah. Like, we had just started partying. So we were like, it's already the New Year. And normally that's, like, the peak of the night. It just, like, felt like it happened really early. Yeah, it came fast. Yeah, it's already the New Year. And normally that's like the peak of the night. It just like felt like it happened really early. Yeah, it came fast.

Yeah, it came fast. It was fun. That was the Gatsby theme. So we tried our best to look Gatsby. We were Gatsby-esque. Yeah. Inspired. Gatsby inspired.

We didn't see anyone eating grapes under the table because that was a whole thing this year too. That apparently if you're single at midnight, you're supposed to go underneath the table and eat 12 grapes so that you have specific luck and love in the new year which like I kind of wish we would have seen somebody do that well I thought that our good friend who we've mentioned on here before Tracy was going to eat 12 grapes she told me that that she had 12 grapes. I packed, yeah. They were in the bag? We packed them at my house.

So they were in the bag. But we didn't bring them. Oh, we didn't bring them? No. Well, we should have brought them because, you know, a lot of the people there were in relationships. That is true. That is true.

There wasn't, you know, many people that should be under the table eating grapes. That makes sense. Unless it's good for you when you're in a relationship. That makes sense. I don't think so. No. You wouldn't catch me under there. I also, it's crazy because I allowed grapes in my house, which I'm so paranoid. I don't usually let people bring grapes to my house because.

Since when? I brought a fruit fry with grapes. It doesn't make sense. I know. But if I'm specifically asked, like, for a charcuterie board or something, I will ask the person not to bring grapes because I feel like everybody knows chocolate is bad for dogs, but not everybody knows grape can also kill your dogs. Yeah. So I don't like when people bring them over because I feel like no one rushes to grab

like a grape off the floor. No. In the same way that they grab chocolate off the floor. So it makes me nervous. So I specifically usually ask people to not bring them. But it just so happened that when we were watching the Lions game, a friend brought grapes in their fruit tray. And I was like, damn you.

But also, I'll pack these up for Tracy and hide them in the fridge. So they were ready to go. Yeah, so they were ready for her, but. She'll have luck and love without the grapes. It'll be fine. Exactly. She's good. What else?

I saw this too. Everybody, I feel like instead of doing resolutions this year. Everyone made an in and out list. Everyone's doing what's in for 2024 and what's out. I feel like we are all acting like we are in the Clickbooks. Did you ever read the Clickbooks? Or the Pretty Committee? Massey?

This is highly relatable. A lot of people read these books. It was in the end of like, not every chapter, but a lot of the chapters. She would type up on her little computer, what's in and what's out and i do kind of remember that yeah it was like very dramatic and it was always like very dramatic like i kind of like it though um i love it so much more than a resolution because i said prior to new year's eve i was like i don't want to make a resolution yeah i just feel like i hate resolutions and if anyone asks me what my resolutions are i'm gonna say i do not have

any not to say i don't have goals for this year i do i just don't like it's not gonna happen at the first of the year like no you're not just gonna change overnight i'm gonna ease into my year and have a slow January. That's nice. What about dry January? I'm going to attempt that drive. We talked about this on the drive over. I know. But I feel like if you say it here, you have to do it.

I am. I, Brittany Edney, am doing dry January. Say it for yourself. I will also do dry January. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see about that. I don't really have plans for January so I feel like it would be easy.

I don't have too many plans at the moment. Yeah, me neither. But like it's like two days in so what do we really know? There's like two weekends where drinking could occur. Like here's the thing. If somebody asks, like, say like weekend two or three, do you want to bar hop during the day? That is so, why would you be bar hopping?

Because I feel like it happens like every, like every winter we have one day where we bar hop. Who? Me and you. When? I don't know. We do it in the winters. I saw it when I was looking through my recap. That's crazy.

There's usually a day where we randomly will go and bar hop in the winter during the day. And that's an activity I really do enjoy. Day drinking. We could do it in February. Fair. There you go. Let's make a plan for February so it doesn't happen in January. Exactly.

But also, like... Is Evan going to do it with you? He says he is. I can't commit Brian to this. I think he already drank this year. Uh-oh. What, watching the Michigan game? The Michigan game.

Brian is a big Michigan fan. They won the rose bowl hayley looked like um she wanted me to absolutely change when i walked into her yeah how can you wear that yeah she's not a fan but go blue baby relax oh my god ew go green um all right let's do our New Year ends and out. Okay, let's start with ends. So I said trying something new once a month. I like that. I love that, actually.

New restaurants, new activities, new hobbies. I've been hearing about this thing, what's it called, where you, like, roll the ball and then you and then you swiffer in front of it. What the fuck? I'm so serious. You mean? Now I can't think of it. They do it in the Olympics. That's not shuffle ball.

Why did I say swiffer? Because that's what it kind of reminds me of, a little swiffer motion. They do it in the Olympics. What do you mean? Anybody can just be doing that? Yeah. And you don't know what it's called? I thought you were going to say, you know, there's this new thing called pickleball.

No, but I have heard of pickleball and I do want to try that too. Yes, I think it would be fun. What is it called? I don't know. I can't think of it. I want to say carpeting. It's something with a C. Easy. Olympic.

Oh, my God. Olympic winter sport. I don't feel like any Olympic sport is easy. Riding a sled is easiest. A bobsled? No, that no that looks scary No it's not winter Anyways Somebody comment what it is You know what we're talking about

You roll the ball and then you swiffer in front of it Anyways I would like to try that And um What did you say here What did I say? Dinners on weekdays. Oh, yeah.

Just when like I feel like. I don't know. I love to hear it. I know exactly what my trans thought was here. Like dinners on weekdays. Like dinner. Like you have to have dinner. Going to dinner with friends on a Tuesday.

Okay. Like we did for my birthday. My birthday was on a Tuesdayuesday and traditionally we would go either like the friday before friday after maybe saturday maybe sunday for birthday dinner but i remember us talking afterwards like that was kind of a vibe going to tuesday dinner it was but i my whole week did feel weird i kind kind of liked it, though. Just because it was December is the end of the year. Time didn't really count at all. So just something to think about.

Next in for 2024. Big on this one. Limiting TikTok time. We love you, TikTok, but we need some boundaries. You know you can literally set a limit on your phone. I'm not willing to do that. I did that today. Did you?

Yeah. What's your limit? One hour. Okay. I put it. I did. I think you're going to change it. I thought maybe I should start.

I did reconsider like at one point today. An hour? I was thinking I should start at two and then dwindle down to two hours feels reasonable but an hour like over the course of an entire day like that's like yeah but it resets at midnight which I feel like a lot of my scrolling happens between the hours of like midnight midnight and one that's what I don't want to do anymore i don't know scrolling in bed no scrolling in bed not very limited phone time in bed like once i'm going to bed i need to put my phone down and put it away because my mind needs to focus on sleeping my sleeping has been terrible lately last night i didn't fall asleep till 6 a.m i thought i had insomnia yes but also and i took

two melatonin yeah but we talked about this like two weeks ago. You did not learn from my mistake. And I talked about it on the podcast. What was your mistake? You took a decongestant. Not that day. Yeah, I know what I'm saying. So that just like throws you off. Oh, because I took a decongestant

like a week prior. I don't know. I'm just saying like. You're making bed on christmas when i was having my anxiety attack was that oh yeah she like texted me she's like my heart's beating out of my chest but i had a i had a clareton d this today i was like that'll do it i had a clareton d and another medicine i think and excedrin i took exced etc at the same time that'll do it my heart was pounding like this yeah like crazy and i was having the craziest and i had a beautiful christmas great time with my family but there was a point where i was just laying on i had there was a picture i sent to oh my gosh

i just had an ice pack on my chest and I was just like, when will this anxiety end? That's rough. But yeah, no TikTok at when. So that's an out. Going to bed. It's out. Scrolling in bed out. We're not going to do it.

In drinking more water, specifically in January. Specifically in January, but also specifically water before coffee. This will come up in our out. but you know what's out for me? Coffee in the morning. Same, I agree. Coffee is now an afternoon treat and pick-me-up when needed. But coffee is no longer a requirement first thing in the morning. No, they say you shouldn't drink it in the morning because it like messes up your

cortisol levels yeah i need to drink lots of water i haven't been i since a couple months ago when we talked about it on here i really i really still like i only get it in the afternoon if like i know i have to be up for a while yeah and i'm really tired but other than that i'm not drinking it right when i wake up my downfall is when I have to go into the office for work. I feel with every fiber of my being that I need physical coffee from a coffee shop. Like I need. So what are you going to do? I need to change my habit.

It just needs to be a habit change because I think it's less of like I need it. It's more of like I know when I drive into work I stop I grab coffee and I continue on my way into my little treat I need a different little treat or something in the morning that gives me the will to go into the office um that's another thing I put for my 2024 in getting up earlier yeah i am not a morning person i struggle in the mornings um but i did start today i got up at like 7 30 i stayed in bed for you i stayed in bed until 8 but i got up um and you are not a morning person i used to be a morning person where i would do morning workouts before work and i would like to get back to that.

And I think I said that last year too. But I feel. It was literally. I'm not just calling you out because I think I said something similar. But like we did have this exact conversation on New Year's last year. We did. But it's okay. Like we're growing.

We're learning. We're growing. We're 28 now. Things are different. Yeah. More brain develop. My brain. my frontal lobe is doing awesome and basically i'm gonna get up earlier because the days when i actually get up at like five six in the morning go work out and then start my day i feel like i could run through a wall with like the kind of like I understand why people

who are morning people and work out at five in the morning brag about it because you're on a different level of high and a different level of life when that is your constant yeah like it's something to brag about I will never shame someone for breaking about being a morning person because you're living life before the birds are like it's crazy that is um okay another n organization i won't organize my whole life but i said specifically closet this was actually so i asked evan his too he has been needing to do this since we moved into perfect this house he just like kind of put his stuff in there and never. No rhyme or reason. No.

There. Yeah. And he has like a dresser in his closet where he could easily organize all the things that are on top of said dresser. Oh, there's a lot of items up there. Yeah. That's what he. That's.

Are things like this. Do his socks have a drawer yes that's about it oh but the rest is kind of hats are just kind of thrown up their belts are just kind of thrown up there it's just one of those things and he doesn't want to do it because the first step is like getting rid of a lot of things and he's had it literally since high school and he just hasn't gone through it i see and he's avoiding that i see but he said he's gonna do it this year that's in you're gonna keep your closet organized too yeah that's my plan oh that's a good plan it usually happens small it usually happens once a year yeah and then it gets a mess yeah i i probably too could have the same goal i do need to i almost

put this as like an in or an out just the idea of like reducing over consumption because i have all the victim to like buying a lot of clothes off amazon and stuff that like i don't need like there's so many shirts in my closet that I have not worn in two years. But I like knowing that they're there. And I feel like that could be a problem. It's definitely something I think a lot of people do. They wear the same like five things. But then they just keep everything because they feel better knowing they have the option.

Even though they'll never touch it. That's what I do. That's what I do. I wear. And I was going to put this as an in as well. Not well not on the list but i think could be added to the list outfit repeating i think it's an in i love outfit repeating when i find an outfit i know what it is what capsule wardrobes capsule wardrobes are in but not in the way in which you need a new capsule wardrobe for every season because the people that do that are playing into the overconsumption.

We just need one capsule wardrobe. I think that's a good end. Okay. Cooking more at home. Yes, I did add this. I want to cook more. I like cooking. I can cook. Do I cook cook that often not as much as i

should i want to make my lunches when i'm at home when i'm at home i don't need to be ordering panera off doordash like that just doesn't need to be done all the time um once in a while but not in december there were times where i was eating panera twice a day it was a bit of a what yeah with you twice a day yeah i would get it for lunch and then we would get it before the podcast that's on you i wasn't getting it twice a day yes it was because we had to switch our meal from chipotle to something else because i still can't. To something else. I just said it. Been here. And. No. But I just.

Honestly. This is so terrible. But. I. Can't look at meat the same. Since I got food poisoning. In Mexico. It's a personal problem.

I want to. I've been starting to crave Chipotle again. For like the first time. Since November. Because I had a similar problem. But let me tell you something. During the pandemic, me and my parents, we used to have taco night.

And let me tell you, it hit harder than Taco Bell or any fast food type situation ever. Yeah, making your own tacos at home, delicious. They're so good. I kind of want that and you feel like better about it too because the ingredients aren't so like they're still processed to an extent but not in the way in which taco bell is processed does some at home tacos no well both but yeah and like pizzas you taught me how to make a great personal pizza.

Like I crave those. I made one today. It was delicious. And just knowing you made it yourself, a little bit of pride. Chipotle at home. What do you mean? Just getting the ingredient. Oh, like making your own. Yeah, making your own chipotle.

It never tastes anything like. I think it tastes better sometimes. That's wild. Yep. So that's just my hot take is sometimes cooking like you know what I want to learn how to make? One of those smashed

Big Mac burgers. Have you seen those? The smashed one? It's like a Big Mac. No. They look so good. I've been on a cheeseburger kick. Me and Brian eat cheeseburger egg rolls in Disney, and I'm going to learn how to make one this year.

Well, you can come cook for us. That's my rant. I agree. Cooking more at home. I kind of cook a lot, I think. I know. But also, I do get lazy a lot. And I like ebbs and flows.

We can't fully commit to one thing all the time but I I need to stop ordering yeah no I was I was thinking maybe like weekdays cooking not eating out yeah weekends eating out yeah I think that's a good goal okay what's next on our ends i put i put diet pepsi because traditionally we are coke zero girls and i will stand by that and i stand by it too but is it something we really put as an end no that's a constant that's a staple that's like so you think only for 2024 you're going to be drinking Diet Pepsi? I think Diet Pepsi is the drink of the year for me. Like, I have a Diet Pepsi in front of me right now.

I'm shocked. And I was recently telling you about this Diet Pepsi I had. And so I was at this little diner. And I was finishing my meal. Brian and I were out to eat. And this sweet waitress brought me not just one, but two diet Pepsis to go. Why two? I don't know.

She was giving Brian one. Brian doesn't drink pop. He was drinking a water right there. And it was just like the perfect ice ratio. It was so fizzly. I may go back to this restaurant just to get diet Coke to go. Coke or Pepsi? Diet Pepsi.

Diet Pepsi to go. Don't trip? Diet Pepsi. Diet Pepsi to go. Don't trip me up like that. You said it. It was so good. And it was just like. It does happen once in a while. But I feel like it's really hit or miss. Like I can always, always rely on a Coke Zero.

But if I get a Diet Pepsi, sometimes. Not the same. It's not. Like I can't count on it. It's not reliable. The spot in which I specifically told you I went and that's a diner, their Diet Pepsis hit different. And I would recommend. I would have to go try it.

Mm-hmm. Another thing we said is in this year, red wine. Red wine. And a couple months ago, I would have told you I hate red wine. I don't like it. It's not good. I still have not seen you drink a full glass of red wine. I did on Christmas Eve at Brian's family's Christmas Eve.

I didn't see it, so it doesn't count. We had red wine. You know when else I had red wine? When I was drinking around the world in Epcot. Delicious. Does it make my mouth look a little blue? I'm not a fan of that. That for sure happens.

That's an out for me, for sure. Not something my mom would be sure not something nothing you can do nothing you can do it's not my problem i i think the red wine is in i like it it's so cozy cozy so cozy mature i think we're just getting old we really though ever since traverse city or why i've been drinking wine no it's i was thinking about drinking wine this weekend it's a kick but now I can't. No, it's January. This is a bad time to talk about it because now I'm like

how good does that sound? It sounds good. Maybe in 30 days or whatever. Yeah. Okay, we have on here DIY projects and craft. This was a gateway for me to talk about the fact that I've been making friendship bracelets like crazy.

Like it's so calming to me. I think the DIY projects is for sure. I want to learn how to use a cricket this year. My mom has a cricket and it just sits collecting dust. But you know what it could be doing? I'm like scared. I could see you just like making a bunch of shirts with like and then putting rhinestones on them and i'm like actually

scared no that's exactly what i'm gonna do probably i don't know i'm gonna open an etsy shop i think um no i made these bracelets what's it say this one says brit i think yeah look at it? Oh, thank you. It's pretty quality. I honestly think I do a really good job of making it. This is her infomercial for her. And then this one says 28 with a heart.

If you want a bracelet, let me know if I should sell your Etsy shop. I did that. I actually, I have a plethora of bracelets. I gave bracelets as a lot of people as like gifts this year. That's cute. For Christmas. This, I made this. I gave bracelets as a lot of people to like as like gifts this year for Christmas. This I made this.

I did one of those when those like when they first became popular. You made me one. Yeah, I made it. It was really good. Those are cute. I like that. All right. Oh, just know people watch out.

She's ready to open her shop. You put in YouTube. Yeah. I love YouTube and I think it's going to make a comeback this year. Not that it ever really went away. Yeah. But I think that like more creators are going to like move off TikTok. I think TikTok is becoming oversaturated and people are going to find their way back to making long form.

I think our minds are going to start as weird as it sounds because I know people's attention spans are getting shorter. I, for one, I love a long format video like an hour long video. That's what I need to put on because then I can just do that and then go

about my other little half like cleaning or working and have it on the background i agree i love a long format video and i think more people are gonna do that type of content i hope they do that's content i love i like it i like it okay outs now we've got the 2024 what is gonna be out i was laughing so hard you guys i was talking to ev Evan about this I'm like what are your ins and outs for 2024 he didn't really get it at first I'm like like what do you what do you want this year what do you want gone he's like oh out queso he screams queso I wild I thought he loved he does

but I was like that it worried I could not control Like, what do you mean? Like, no, what do you mean? He doesn't want queso from like. I don't know. I think some of the staple restaurants we go to as friends. He's for sure still having it. But I think he was like, nobody eats as much queso as me. And I was like, that's true. So I think he just wants to stop because like no other people

don't me and Brian love queso no but like every time he gets like let's say we get chipotle he gets side of chips and queso he like always feels like crap after and so he doesn't want that he wants to not feel like crap but I also can be just like a combination of things. But yeah, so he's just screamed to me. He's like, oh, ow. Queso. I'm like, okay. I did not see that coming.

We literally had it like two days ago. Queso would be such a cute name for a dog. Okay. It's kind of, but like, are you planning that? i thought you already had no i do i do dog two names one for a boy one for a girl dog you know both names you came up with one of them i already forgot out is bad memory my memory is so terrible i say all time. I have a memory of a goldfish. Oh. But probably our first dog's name. Nobody fucking steal this. Thor.

Thor. Maybe Thor. I have a feeling probably they won't steal it. No, I don't think they will either, but like that's... Mine and Brian's first dog name is going to be Thor. And it's going to be so... It's going to be a tiny little dog. Its name is going to be Thor. And it's going to be a tiny little dog.

Its name is going to be Thor. That's cute. And we're going to get a stuffed animal hammer. Thor's hammer. First aid without. I said scrolling in bed, which we kind of already talked about. Negative self-talk. Got to stop. It it's gonna be so

difficult but we have to keep each other accountable for that I didn't write that you did but I'll hold us accountable yeah I like this saying like if you're talking bad to yourself I'm gonna say don't talk about my friend that way I'm gonna say the same thing to you okay and then you're probably gonna be like shut the fuck up and i'm gonna be like check episode 20 of this season okay we'll hold each other accountable all right you put this next one yes i did i started with false lashes um but then it changed to false strip lashes um you and i both used to be big on wearing fake eyelashes I would say probably half of the first like season one episodes we did we always had fake eyelashes on I would say more than half yeah well now I'm just too lazy but I don't even think I like it really anymore a lot

of the time your lashes look better sometimes just without them. Yeah. Thank you. I agree. It depends on the day, like, or the event. But definitely not an everyday thing. Like, if you have a major event, fine. But if it's just, like, a daily thing, I just have been, like, less is more lately. Which is so wild because I love makeup so much.

Same. I don't know. I feel you on that. It's that clean girl aesthetic type situation, but I think just very light mascaras. My makeup's not that light right now. I'm working on it. I have a hard time with the no makeup makeup look.

Yeah, I always attempt. Same. And it's always like I took it a little bit too far when I look in the mirror. All of a sudden there's a wing. I know. I don't know how to do my makeup without a wing. That's just. All right.

You put this one to next on the outs is FOMO. FOMO. No more feeling FOMO. I don't want to do it. I don't want to be a part of it. I'm not missing out on anything. If I'm not there, that's fine. People can have their fun, but I'm not going to live in this can have their fun but I'm not gonna live in this fear or this

anxiety I agree I feel like I kind of did this in 2023 I think you did too I think you did very well with it I feel like I'm halfway there yeah getting better yeah I definitely don't do things I don't want to do anymore like if it's an event and I'm like, oh, but like, I just don't, I don't really want to do it, but like, I just don't want to miss this. Or what if, what if something happens? Like I'm, I'm over that. Like, yeah, I made my choice and I'm happy with it. And how's living life without FOMO? It's pretty good. Yeah. See something we can all learn from, but the problem is I don't really get it but evan still gets it does he yeah so he needs to learn so it's out he's getting better though too i think but still

he definitely still gets so like if i'm like i don't really want to go to that and he's like but what if it's the most fun thing ever yeah i'm like nothing's gonna be the most fun thing ever I don't think I don't know I don't know what you put chipotle on out I did in the moment but I'm as I'm saying that I'm craving it like I could see myself eating it tomorrow so it's not totally up but not totally how about this for an overall trend out for the general public i think it's not what it should be yeah i agree don't see it making a comeback did i tell you what happened what happened so we got it through drive-thru drive-thru like we picked it up lane yeah i gotta change that name chipotle lane yeah i thought it was the chipotle lane i don't know

whatever it is that's a better name for it if it's not the chipotle lane now it is chipotle no so we go through the thing and i like open the bag and i got a side of chips and queso for myself not i've been okay so because it's out no aso and no queso um no's out. No queso. No queso. What are you talking about? Ow. No, so I open the bag and I pull out the little side of queso and it's literally a fourth full. Yes, you did tell me this. One fourth full. And, oh. So I'm like, Evan, please drive back around and just ask her if she can, like, add something to this because I can't even, I can't even use this for a chip.

No. Like, one chip's gonna be gone so he pulls back around he like literally holds it up he's like hey um you think there's any way we could get some more of this like it's just really there's nothing in here and she goes no I'm sorry like her check depended on it my face dropped I was like what Evan was like and of course like Evan was driving like if it was me I would have been like oh what do you mean yeah like can we talk about it like what do you what do you mean but he was just like oh and he's like well there's nothing in here and she's like yeah but that's like two ounces like that's what you're supposed to get for a side and he's like every other time

we get a side like it's full but okay and she's like yeah no I time we get a side, like, it's full. But okay. And she's like, yeah, no, I'm sorry. And so we just left without it. I was like, I would have not left that window without a full queso. If I had to pay for it, whatever I had to do in that moment. Yeah, there would have been a full. Yeah. Like, I was shocked. He was thinking to himself, good, queso's out.

He's like, it's out for everyone. Yeah, no. If I can't have queso, neither can Haley. Nobody can. Yeah. so that was my experience recently so i'm kind of i'm kind of feeling that yeah that way you also just straight up called out another company like i don't know what you went through recently but like what did you go through i don't like uber yeah you said out yeah it is but i will what do you want people to do take taxis we don't even have i think we should bring back tax good old fashion good old fashion

i used it when i was in college you would have to call a number and order a taxi and i feel like we could do well by that i just don't think that's likely. I don't either. Will I probably call an Uber throughout this year? Yes. But I don't like it. I think they need to do some updating of their business model. Okay.

I just. Write that down. Write that down. Write that down. And then we already did talk about this next one. Yeah, the coffee in the morning. No coffee in the morning. No coffee in the morning. No coffee in the morning. No coffee in the morning.

I don't know. That kind of concludes what's been going on with how we're starting this new year. Some hot takes. Hot takes on the bonus content. We're going to be doing 2023 highlights, going back through our year, talking about things that happened. So if you want to see that tune into the bonus but um let's get into some of these shady stories we had some good ones so keep let's go writing your stories and these were some good ones starting with shady story number one

i've been with my partner for 18 years and we have a 17 year old son together his mom and sister never liked me and made this clear with together. His mom and sister never liked me and made this clear with their constant snipes and digs at me whenever we were around. However, I would just ignore it and always remain polite. Five years ago, my partner got many long texts out of the blue from his sister and mom explaining how the family does not like me and I'm not welcome in their home anymore and they're sick of me. They told him I'm not good enough for him and that if he doesn't leave me, he is no longer part of the family, as well as a load of other insults, including saying I wasn't raised with class.

They also said they felt sorry for my son having a mother like me. The list is endless. I want to stress I've never done anything wrong. He was shocked, embarrassed, disappointed, and disgusted with what they were saying about me and chose me and our son. His mother still called him every Christmas and on his or our son's birthday and sent the money. The rest of the year, nothing. Didn't hear anything from the rest of the family at all. Every Christmas, he would take our son and go over for one day and have a meal there. I would stay home or go see my mom. They would come home with loads of gifts for them

both and my name wouldn't be in the Christmas card. It was like I didn't exist. Anyway, they called my partner the other day and told him I'm invited to go over for this year for Christmas and gifts. I have no contact with them for five years and I have no idea why the sudden change. But what I want to know is whether I should keep away or forgive the past and go around oh that's a tough one I wish we would have seen this before Christmas yes because I obviously don't know how it played out but in this situation I almost feel like I would want to know why now what's the incentive, what's the reasoning

what's the motive there's a motive there could be an ulterior motive some there was a flip that switch is there a family member amongst that group a flip that switch a switch that flip that's a saying

um yeah yeah no did the switch flip yes you said a flip that switched that too um potato tomato or no what do i say what do you say i say now i can't even remember my own funny saying i don't either tomato potato potato tomato something like that but yeah so what'd you do can you write back in please um yeah we want to know i don't really have good advice for this because like i feel like i am a people pleaser and i would have went just to know what was gonna happen for the plot yeah i guess would have you gone i feel like i would have gone maybe i don't know i wouldn't have gone you wouldn't have gone but i also feel like it depends on the husband's reaction i wouldn't have have gone. Now you changed your mind.

I would have asked you if I was in this position, if I should go or not, and you said no. So then I probably, I would have said no because I would have asked you. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like there comes a point where you just have to be like, that's enough's enough. And you kind of like move on from that in your head. And she already probably had closure and accepted that they weren't a part of her life. And then to just change it up.

I don't know if I would be like just be like, oh yeah, let me just come back and pretend that didn't happen. You're right. Stay bitter, don't go. But if you did go, how'd it go? Let us know. Did a switch flip.

Did you flip a switch? I'd say this is like 8 out of 10. Yeah, that's pretty shady. All right. Shady story number two. Second shady story of 2024. Why do you not think that was funny? Well, I'm going to be honest.

I just, a message popped up from evan and he said first of all he asked me what he should eat for dinner and i was like i don't know we got panera and no bread but i was like there's no fucking bread so don't get it like how are you panera bread but you run out of bread they did have bread for our girl cheese that's true but anyway so i told him i was like don't get that they won't have bread no so then he goes coney island and i was like that's crazy because how weird is this i think we've talked about this before but i think getting eggs for takeout was so weird yeah i don't like it and he only gets omelets there so what's he gonna get so i go sir we have plenty of eggs at home.

Just make eggs at home. He's not going to get an egg. So he texts me. He goes, just cooked an omelet with moldy fucking cheese. Had to start over. Queso is out. No queso. Tell him that.

Queso is out for 2024 Also I love a honey Takeout from Coney Island That makes more sense Because you're not going to make that at home The only national, not Leo's But like you're going to go get eggs From takeout

And by the time they get home They're cold That's nasty You've got to reheat. You gotta reheat them? That's weird behavior. You cannot reheat eggs. Uh-uh. Anyways, go ahead.

I'm sorry. Shady story number two. Second shady story of 2024. There you go. Ha ha ha. Okay. My husband and I have been together for 10 years, and we have our fair share of pettiness. At one point in our relationship, we worked different and generally were not getting along he is a huge gamer and would always play online with his friends well i noticed while

making a payment for our internet bill that i had the ability to manually turn off the wi-fi well from the that day on every single time we would get into an argument the wi-fi would just magically stop working i was the only one who was an authorized user on the account time we would get into an argument the wi-fi would just magically stop working i was the only one who was an authorized user on the account so he could never call the company and ask what was going on just so he wouldn't catch on that it was me doing it i would randomly turn off the wi-fi when we were happily together at home i have always watched tv on my ipad so it wasn't inconvenient for me, but for about a year, he would constantly complain about how our internet provider sucked.

I no longer do this, but to this day, he will never get service with that provider and tell his friends about how their Wi-Fi was so spotty. That's hilarious. That's a 10 out of 10. I think that's really funny. It's like so innocently perfect. Yes, it is the perfect amount of innocent petty. Yeah, I love it. It's just funny that they're still together,

married, and he never found out. No, you're never going to tell him. They actually don't have bad life. That's a good one one that is a good one i like that 10 out of 10 because perfect okay shady story number three shady or downright illegal well i want to start off by saying that i know this is illegal but i had no choice my ex-boyfriend got me a dog for christ a few years ago. This dog was my life. Fast forward two years and I broke it off.

It was the best decision for me, but he kept my dog. Because he was the one who adopted it and his name was on all the papers, so legally it was his dog. I know that he did this to hurt me, and boy did it hurt. I was the one that took care of the dog. I took the dog everywhere with me. My entire life revolved around her her and he barely petted her when I moved out he would hire dog walkers to walk the dog and he was traveling a lot so the dog was being left with random people he was in no position in his career to be caring for a three-year-old dog we hit the six-month mark of being broken up and I just couldn't let it go she was my dog and I wanted her back. So I took matters into my own

hands. I know that when he is home every night he lets the dog out around 11 p.m. and she stays outside in the yard for about 15 minutes. So I went to his house one night and I parked on the block and waited outside near a bush with my friend. As soon as the dog was let out and he was out of sight I got her attention and she ran over to me and I let her out of the gate. We leashed her and ran back to the car and took off. I did all this knowing that the next morning I was headed back home many hours away and he would never know. I know I made the right decision because I never heard that he was looking for her. We still have the same circle of acquaintances and nobody ever said anything to me and he never posted on social media that she was

missing. Me and my dog are perfectly happy and I'm in a new relationship and he never posted on social media that she was missing. Me and my dog are perfectly happy and I'm in a new relationship and he loves her just as much as I do. Damn. You didn't do shit that was illegal. That was the most legal story I've ever heard. I feel like in that scenario he literally got the dog for her for a gift. I feel like if she had that in writing anywhere yeah a judge literally would be like you said this was for her so it's her that is her dog so that's fine I mean I don't see a problem with this I think you did absolutely what was necessary I wonder if he didn't say anything because I wonder in the back of his head if he knows like it was her that took the dog 100% I was thinking that the I was thinking like do you think like he knows that like she like like imagine he just saw her in the bush and was just like you know what she went she took all these measures to do it

let her take the dog yeah i feel like he had to know especially also if like acquaintances weren't saying anything to her i feel like probably because they also knew so they just didn't want to be awkward of like have you seen the dog like knowing she had it so they just didn't want it to be awkward of like, have you seen the dog? Yeah. Like, no way she had it. So is she just, like, not going to ever post any pictures of the dog online or anything? Like, did she have to live with this dog in secret?

Perhaps. I know. That's what I'm kind of curious about. Kind of seems like it. But good for you. I feel like this was a pretty shady one. It was shitty. I would say that's like an 8 or a 9

and a 10 agreed did what you had to do well that concludes our first episode of 2024 yay we're happy to be back and we will see you guys in the next one bye everyone bye