The Bobby Bones Show - BEST BITS: Morgan & Amy’s Peak Adulthood Moments, Japanese Zodiac Signs, & Our Daily Uniforms

Episode Date: January 24, 2026

Morgan feels like she’s finally understanding adulthood and has some peak “adult” moments. Amy and Morgan share how they foster friendships as adults and they get into their Japanese zodiac signs. Plus, they share their “Adam Sandler uniforms” and Amy admits her boyfriend as a few different versions of himself, including one that’s her least favorite. Then, fancy churches that don’t allow jeans?? Couldn’t be us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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recording currently virtually over Zoom, just trying to fit things and schedules. So just know that we're coming from both of our homes at this moment. Are you feeling more prepared for this weekend? Because by the time this airs, and people are listening to it, we're going to have it here, whatever is hitting us. Yeah, I'm prepared. I think I have everything. Chargers to charge your phone, I think it's already charged enough to charge your phone 10 times without needing electricity. Okay.

Is this like one of those portable chargers that are really, you know, hold the charge for a long time? Yes, but it says like big. This isn't one you would like take with you to an event and keeping your purse. Oh, you have like the big mama. Yeah, like it'll charge your phone 10, 10 full charges. Why, why did you, why do you have one of those? I got it for this to be prepared. You're right on Amazon? No, just at the store. It is funny to watch, like the, the grocery shopping that I've done, the panic buying is kind of crazy. And honestly, when I was there, I wasn't panicked because I was like, I know what I'm getting, I need this recipe, you know, no big deal. But then you see everybody else panicking,

and it almost like makes you want to panic more because you feel like maybe I'm not panicking enough? Uh, yeah, I feel pretty good. I got a checklist and I feel pretty good. So I'm not going to let other people's panic panic me more. I think I'm, I think I have plenty. At least let's hope. I mean, and it's going to be, what, three days, if that, that we might be stuck? hopefully. It depends on these low temperatures and how long they stick around because I don't know about you, but like where I'm at in the neighborhood that I am, the snow trucks aren't going to come over here and take out the neighborhood. So as long as that ice is there and it's not getting melted by the outside, I'm stuck here. I have four boxes of thinnments, so. That's all you need. I feel pretty good about that. I mean, I have other groceries too, but I'm like, oh, my Girl Scout cookie order arrived just in time. I did buy some ingredients so I could like test out some baking recipes in case I am stuck at home for a while. But, okay. Yes, I keep thinking like we're not going to have electricity. So as long as we're stuck with ice, but you have electricity, you'll be able to bake.

Yes. And my mind, we don't waste electricity. I'm really thinking that like that can't happen. Yeah. So that's why I'm prepared for that with my charger. You know what I mean? So I am. I do have my little lantern. So we're there. So all that to say, there's just everybody's prepping for what feels like doomsday in a way, but it's just an o'mageddon. So anyways, I want to talk about some peak adulthood moments because I really feel like, and what age maybe do you feel like this hit for you, Amy, but I feel like I've kind of hit peak adulthood, where I kind of finally am starting to really have a handle on being an adult. for me it was probably delayed i mean you've been single longer i got married at 25 my brain was just fully developing at that point because now we know that's around the age that that happens uh and i got divorced at 41 so uh probably then took a year to come into so i don't know, 42, 43, I'm about to turn 45. In the last few years, I really had to fully develop.

Okay. Because in my marriage, there was so many things I didn't have to do because he did them. And that's just how it was. So. Okay. So then this is going to be fun to talk about because these are just some kind of fun things that I feel like have really like sent me into adulthood recently. One of them is now how I continue to like really sustain my friendships and my relationships. and my relationships with people is that I have walk friends and I have errand friends, where if we're going to get to hang out, it's either we're going on a walk because I need to walk the dog or we're going to go run errands together because we both need to run errands,

and that's the only time that we have. Have you gotten to this point yet with your friendships? Well, I have calendar friendships. I feel like this was a big phase in life. A couple of years ago, some girlfriends and I just intentionally started putting something on the calendar, So it wasn't like, let's try to get together every week or even once a month. Like we knew once multiple kids get into the mix. So then there comes a point where pretty much everybody starts to get married and then everybody starts have kids and then everybody has their careers. And then you're like, oh, okay, well, the adult thing here would be to schedule out a quarterly

lunch or dinner. And so that felt very peak adult. Do you guys still do that quarterly? Is it still part of your guys's plans? Yes. And we haven't been successful at it every quarter, but we still have group text and we still try to make it happen. So while we haven't been successful every quarter, it still happens. That makes sense. Like we're still in communication about it. It's still happening, but our quarters have gotten off because the three months have shifted a little bit. And then we have, but we have grace and patience and understanding, which I think that's also adult friendships, is knowing not to take it personally when someone can't get back to you right away or they're not able to come to the thing that's been on the calendar for two months because

things come up and life happens. And we have that space for each other to know that we have stuff going on in our lives. Yeah. Because, you know, immature friendships, I guess if that's how that we're going to categorize them is adult and then immature, is there is a lot of that tension and pressure. And not that you shouldn't prioritize and you can't have your feelings hurt or you can't be disappointed. I guess feelings hurt, I'll take that out of play.

Because your feelings really shouldn't be hurt if it's a valid reason why your friend cannot make it. That's fair. And that is definitely a part of adulthood, too, which, and that's, and that's a lot of, That's why we started like randomly, if one of us is walking, we're like, hey, if you're available, come join or, hey, I got to go run to the grocery store. Do you want to come? And it started just becoming like at least a chance for connection instead of we felt like even we still put things on calendars and we'll plan things out in advance. But it was like, it felt like every time we

were getting together, we had to have the full catch up like, okay, what happened to you since I've seen you last? And so we started doing this like errand friend thing where we run errands together. because it became more about like integrating into our everyday life. And I don't feel like I was like, oh, I haven't seen you for six months. But I, by the way, like I got engaged. You know what I mean? Like just it felt like such a drastic thing. And so Aaron friends have become my new normal recently.

And it feels like that has really thrown me into adulthood. And maybe that's still college Morgan. No, I like Aaron's friends. I have walk friends for sure. that definitely is probably my number one way of seeing people. But errands, I might have to try that one. Although I run less errands because of delivery. That's fair.

That's fair. And I did like, it definitely had to turn into like the things that only you can go and do. And I started forced myself a little bit more to shop more in person. So I did have more opportunity for that. But I do still buy a lot on Amazon, which. leads me into another peak part of adulthood. You know how there's like all these contractions and things that you just never know exists until somebody like leads you on to them? Well, that was the case with a garlic presser. So I've been like mincing my garlic with a knife

and like really going hard. And the other day my fiance sister wanted like saw us doing this and was like, you need a garlic presser. Your life is going to be changed. And she was not wrong. I bought one and it has drastically improved my kitchen experience. Did you even know those existed? I knew they existed, but I don't have one. Oh my gosh. If you like bake or cook with garlic, this thing is like my new, like it's my new favorite toy in the kitchen and I want to just put garlic in everything because I can now press garlic with like the snap of a finger. Oh, okay. Well, I'll have to try that. I just like, yeah, chop chop chop it up real quick with a knife. Yeah. How do you take the the garlic? Do you know, know this is my favorite way to remove the the the this I call it the coat the garlic's coat you slam it down

on the like the cutting board with your knife on top and then you hit the knife and yes time to take the coat off you know that that's how I get like some anger out sometimes where I just like slam the garlic when I did that very satisfying I will say and then I just chop top chop so after you do that you put it into the presser and just squeeze it out okay You just squeeze. And it's like with one hand, you squeeze and it's done. And there's a lot of recipes, especially now that I've been making that call for six, seven cloves of garlic if I'm doubling them. So it's just like now it takes two seconds instead of what was taking me like 10 minutes. Yeah. Do you have any like kitchen items like this where you're like, why have I not been using them my whole life? I love my salad chopper bowl. It's like a bowl and it's like a pizza cutter. That's what it looks like. And then you're just roll it because I like chopped salad chopped way more. Like you just, if you think it's chopped, keep chopping because that's where I want it. And so this roll it turned me on this because I have one.

Yeah. I posted about it before. I mean, it's been a minute since I've shared it, but it's one of my favorite things. And I used it the other day. Is your salad chopper like the two pizza cutters, not just one? Is it like the two, the double? It's a roller. It's a double and it's a roller. Yep. Because some of them are like a handle, like a, it just you have to roll it. It's almost like a half moon and you rock it back and forth. This is a roller. And I feel like that's pretty solid. Yeah, you turn me on to this when I first joined the show because I've had this thing for a while. And I like and I love chopped salads like you. Anytime I have to eat a salad regularly, I get kind of sad because it's just not the same experience. Yeah. Chop, chop, chop and chopped some more.

My son is always like, don't you think you've chopped it enough? And I'm like, no. Because you keep chopping. Keep going. Just get it all mixed in there really good. Yeah, and I even use the, like the Taylor Farms chopped salad kits. Like it literally says in the bag, chopped kit. And I chop it more.

It cannot be chopped enough, basically. So you're really, you would really like the garlic presser because it is like completely smashed. But I don't do. Yeah, I don't do that much. I'm probably because I'm not doing, I could see her if I was doing six or seven, but I'm doing like one or two cloves. So it's not that crazy to me. And it's definitely cooked. Like, do you eat raw garlic ever? No. Do you? Okay. No, but my boyfriend was trying out something for his heart that he read. And he started eating a raw garlic club every night. And obviously, I didn't know he was doing it. I'm not with him at night. But the next day, Like there was a Sunday. I met him at church and he walked him with his kids and I was already there and they sat down. And I was like, what does that smell? And I was like, golly, what did y'all eat last night? You know? And then I didn't really worry about it and carried on, whatever. And then the next day he had the same smell. And I'm like, what is going on? And then I didn't see him for a few days. And I saw him again. And then this is. And then this is. the same smell. And I said, what are you doing? And he said, I said, have you changed, what have you changed? Like, you never have ever smelled. So like, what's, what if, what are you doing differently?

I need to know, like, garlic onions, what is it? And he said, oh, I've been eating one raw garlic clove before bed every night. And I was like, well, that has got to stop right now. Last night. was your last clove and he was like no i've been doing it for this that's going on with so i immediately start googling and i send him all this literature on how that there's no guarantee that the gar the one garlic clove is going to do anything and i said not only that if you're going to do it like let's just say you just have to you need to chase it with yogurt uh or it's either yogurt, a raw apple, you know, because some people bake their apples, raw apple or fresh mint. After you eat the garlic clove, I was like, I get it. If you want to keep trying for your

health and whatever's going on with your heart, keep doing that. But then I need the yogurt, the apple, and the mint. Like all three, just go ahead and chase it with all three. Because it's what happens. I watched this whole YouTube video on garlic. And what's happening is you think it's the, it's coming out of like your breath and it's not. Well, I would assume he was brushing his teeth, so like, hopefully that would take care of that. But it, the garlic, once it, something gets in your lungs and then in your skin, and it's like coming out of you.

It's just. Oh, like out of your pores. Like, yes. Out of you. And it's the, the YouTube video broke down the various chemical compounds of like what's happening. I cannot regurgitate it. I don't know.

but they gave the very scientific reason of all the different ways the garlic is forming into different types of gases. I threw out you and then coming out. And I was like, this, I sent him the YouTube video and I was like, this is what is happening. And you, trust me, if I'm smelling it, other people are. And like I knew. I know the very first time I smelled it was that Sunday morning at church when they walked in. I instantly was like, what? Okay, but good on you for like bringing it up and saying something because a lot of people wouldn't.

You know what I mean? Like they would just try and like skate around it, maybe try and like figure out things. Good on you for addressing it head on and saying, no, we're going to take care of this. Oh, well, it was just so drastically different than like I hadn't ever ever. I knew he must be doing something very different. And he was an entire garlic clove raw at night, just like a little throwing it back. And I'm like, well, now that is oozing out of you. So we're going to stop the garlic.

He stopped it and the smell is gone. I'm really happy for you that you no longer have a garlic-smelling boyfriend. Thank you. Very sorry for him. He tried. He tried something new. Okay, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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or something. Exactly, with long socks. It's typically like he has like ankle or long socks on spot on. And so this is like what I call Adam Sandler uniform. And we, and you see it online, people talk about like, this is my Adam Sandler uniform. And I was thinking about this too and like my little adulthood lifestyle now. What is your Adam Sandler uniform? Well, I have it on right now. I mean, mine's either a sweat set, you know, like a hoodie and sweatpants or leggings. and a, you know, like yoga pants or some sort of leggings with a top and sneakers. It's either one of those. So if you were out and you're getting paparazzi often, you'd be caught probably wearing this similar outfit all the time.

Yeah, right now because it's cold. For sure, my winter, like if you were to catch me, I am in this 80% of the time. If I'm not, like, at work. so maybe even 90% but it's going to be like sweatpants and a hoodie with a long coat and sneakers

and that's what I'm like I just walk the dog and I'm going to be if I go do anything I've got to go to a basketball game in a little bit and I'll wear the exact I'll wear that like I just wear I put it on

when I get home from work no matter what I do whether I'm walking the dog or but the coat makes it a little more elevated if that makes sense because it's like a long brown coat. Do you know what I mean? It just takes it and then the hood pops out of the back. So that's nice. And you can either do it with leggings or sweatpants, but either works. What's yours? Okay, we have a similar uniform, but I have these pair, which I ended up buying

them in three colors. So I was so obsessed. But do you know the brand Z supply? Yes. Okay. So they have this like kind of velvet soft, like set where they're like these cute comfy pants and then these different variations of tops. But their pants are like all I wear now. So immediately when I get home, I'll put them on. I had to finally wash them because I rotate all three of them all the time. And then I'll wear like a crew neck with them. And much like you, when I go out in public, I'll throw on a long jacket and I'll have my sneakers on. And that's my like elevated sweatsuit look when I'm out. But I thought about this because there has been one too many times where I am caught wearing the

same outfit often in public. They have some of you were to see me. I don't know that they would have thought I left my house or ever changed. And that's because of this uniform that I've created. So is it your Z supply or is it something else? No, it's the Z supply. But thankfully, I just have different colors. But I really like the, like there's a maroon pair that I wear often.

And they're just really comfy. And I also, like, when it's cold out, I'll put really fuzzy socks. You got me a pair of fuzzy socks over Christmas. that I love. And I'll wear those sometimes over leggings if it's like really in they, I should not be out in public wearing these things, but I do. And I just feel like Adam Sandler is all of us. Well, I'm impressed you are wearing sneakers with those socks because those are the barefoot dreams. Like I picture you're just wearing them around the house. They're pretty thick. Oh, I do. But my feet get so cold. I am, thanks to my mom, I have inherited her like lizard jeans

where it has to be so hot in the house. And I am like, it's like I'm in a terrarium. And I get so cold so easily that when I go outside, like everything has to be completely bundled. Or I feel like I'm an Antarctica and it could be like 40 degrees outside. Okay. Yeah. I get, well, I don't keep my house that. Like, what do you have it set to?

Oh, I think currently right now it balances between 73 and 75. Oh my gosh. See, I do 69. Oh, no. If I did, even like the times where like my fiance will get really hot and I'm like, yeah, okay, turn it down. I'll bundle up. I feel like I am literally in a freezer. Like just sitting there in a freezer. I'm so cold. Wow, that's crazy. I know. And it's a bummer. But yeah, the fuzzy socks really helped for me in public. But this is why the, if you see me out, just know that that I've accepted my fate. I think everybody has their uniform like that, though, right? I think so, too. That's why we call it the Adam Sandler uniform. Yeah. I just own it.

The thing. I feel like this every time, which I'm thinking if I make it to this basketball game, I would say most every basketball game I show up. There was a game recently. I can't remember where I talked about this. It was on the Bobby Bone Show or my podcast. I can't really remember, but I showed up. I decided to get dressed for it.

And this is how much I'm in my uniform. I wore like, you know, this brown denim flare jeans that are high-waisted and I put on boots and like a denim top. And I showed up to the game and my boyfriend was like, oh, hey, look at you. Like he was acting like I, I mean, it wasn't that much extra effort. But it's like I just took the time to get ready and put on real clothes to go do something. And you thought I was totally dressed up, like ready to go out on the town, like have a day. Like he was shock. I walked in. He's like, where are you going? I was like, just to hear. But he like couldn't believe it because I just normally show up in my uniform. I was to say, do you normally see him most of the time in your uniform unless it's like a specific, you guys are planned a date night because of just how much shuffling there is between both of your schedules? My uniform. He sees me more in my uniform than anything. Like I can't wait to be in my uniform. But he will wear, he has different versions of itself. Like he has, I call work Alex. Then there's also, like, church Alex, which is like he always wears a sports coat, which I did not grow up dressing up for church.

And people didn't wear sports coats at my church. And even the church that I've gone to as an adult here for a long time, it's when I'm going to church with him, I'm visiting his church. And it's sports coats, which is weird for me. I definitely had to up my game a little bit when I'm getting ready. I'm like, oh. So what is your, what would you have to wear to that situation? Or is it like dresses or? I wear a dress or slacks, you know, or like a skirt.

Oh, so no jeans situation. No. And see, I have always gone to a church where I could wear jeans. My kids can wear, you know, like Adidas pants and sneakers. Like, it doesn't matter. And I guess Stasheera hasn't gone, but Stephen Cicero. has gone to church at his church. And, and like, I had to, I'm like, you need to put on a button down, polo. And I got him some, like, new slacks because it's just, it's just a,

everyone there, it's not stuffy or anything like that. It's very welcoming. It's just a more traditional, I don't even know what you call it, because it didn't grow up going to it. I don't know how to explain it. It's like the first time of my life where I've been like, okay, this is interesting to me. But they definitely, it's just church, you get dressed up. And I think I finally understand what my friend meant. She visited my church with me a long time ago. And I guess she grew up, maybe going to a church like Alex's, more traditional and when you have to get dressed up. And I always loved the vibe of my church really laid back, whatever. And she's like, I think I'm just looking for something a little more traditional. And I remember thinking like,

well, that's weird. But, but now I get it. Like, if she grew, up this way, I can see how it might be very different. And there is a service, apparently, they offer a service that is a little more casual that's at a different time and a different section of a different building or a different room. Wow. I did not realize that this is, I definitely, when I grew up going to a church, it was we wore jeans and stuff. So I don't have the dress up church either. It's a whole thing. And so that's, I say, we've got, you know, church Alex, which I find very attractive. I like him in a sports coat. We've got work Alex, which it's not, he knows. It's not my favorite look. He wears a lot of like, it just is a little on

the nerdier side, you know? And then there's casual or hike, I call him hiking Alex, because the first time I ever saw this look was when we were going on a hike, but you could, it could be workout Alex, casual uniform Alex and that's his hiking look like that might be my favorite hiking Alex favorite why is it your favorite is it because he's also comfortable and you can also be comfortable or like i just think he looks hot as workout workout Alex is i don't know it's like sweatpants and a hoodie and sneakers i just think it's a vibe he wears his hat backwards it's cute. I like it. Okay, so much more

academic vibes than the nerdy vibes. Yeah, like I need any, and I'm not talking about behind his back at all. Because he knows all good. He knows, basically. It's like church Alex and hiking Alex, looking good. Those are like two ends of the spectrum. And then work Alex, he's like, well,

help me figure out some work clothes. I'm like, well, I don't really care that much. You're just going to work. Like, I don't even see you. There's just like a bunch of golf shirt. like tucked in, you know? And, oh, he was at, he plays golf at a specific place, but that's where he gets a lot of his golf shirts. And he's like, oh, I'm thinking about getting this other shirt.

And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. The last thing you need. We don't need any, no, I think we're good. I don't know. I don't know why you would think you need another golf shirt because there's no way you need another golf shirt. And he's like, oh, that's a good point. I'm like, yeah, let's get another hoodie.

Let's go out of a hoodie. It means you're hot. That's what we call the girlfriend glow up, where they start to do better with the girlfriend in the picture. The girlfriend glow up. Yeah, the girlfriend glow up. And not so much worried about work Alex yet. But I wish he could wear hoodies. I was like, well, if you could wear hoodies and jeans to work, you be good.

He was like, no, no, no, I can't. He has to wear like khakis and I guess a golf shirt. Oh, my gosh. Okay, we're going to take a quick break before I make Amy keep going down this rabbit hole. I know, I hope he doesn't listen. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program.

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And this was so funny because I've never even heard of this. But do you know your Japanese zodiac sign? No. Did you even know that you could have a Japanese zodiac sign? side? Well. Okay, so they apparently it's based off of your birth year, not anything else. There's no like other numbers, anything like that. It's just your birth year. And you could be like a rat, you could be a snake, you could be a dog. And they kind of make sense. I'm not going to lie. So tell me what year you were born and I'm going to look up your Japanese zodiac sign. 1981. Let's see what you are.

Oh, you and I are both the same. We're both roosters. Oh, so animals repeat? Yeah, well, so if you, like, so it's anybody born in 2005, 1981, 1969, 1957, it like kind of goes down. But like, so there's certain years that are attached to different animals, kind of like how we have like, you know, the categories of if you're born at the certain time. But there's just based on birth year. And so roosters, the people born in the year of the rooster are deep thinkers and are always busy and devoted to their work. they always want to do more than they're able to and if they undertake a task beyond their abilities

they are disappointed. Do you feel like you're a rooster? Hmm. Not entirely. That doesn't totally resonate with me but also I could be in denial. That this is you. I definitely feel like there's a vibe of this for me for sure.

I do take on more than I can chew in a lot of ways. But I think that's also because I am meant to be just a rooster and maybe just have one task in the morning and get to hang out the rest of the day. Yeah. I guess I've also gotten better at asking, yeah, asking for help. Yeah, I could see where that's me. I mean, and I've gotten better at work. Balance.

Balance, if there is such a thing. Yeah. Like not saying yes to everything. but I also feel recognize the privilege that comes with that statement because I think there was a time where I didn't feel like I could say. I was saying yes to everything.

And maybe I need to get back to that a little more because there's some stuff that I miss. You know, like we did the look back at 2016 because that was, you know, the whole trend and whatnot. And I'm like, gosh, we used to do so much more. Like I had way more pictures of like in work stuff doing things, being at things, out and about. And I feel like there's less of that now. And I wasn't a mother then. So that also changes my availability for things or my bandwidth to go out on a week day,

yeah, to say yes to a work event. Um, yeah, during the week, um, which is when a lot of this stuff takes place. But that, I did have that, oh man, I mean, I kind of miss. being a part of the stuff. Well, you can always add a few more things in now that you found your balance. Now it's easy to add things in. It's always hard to take things away, right? But like now you're in a position where if you feel like you found a little bit of balance, this is a time where you can add things back in.

Yeah. I don't know if you found that when you looked back, but I had so many more pictures of me doing things. Well, I just, in 2016, it was so funny for me, because I had moved to Nashville that year. So it was fun to look back on because it was the year that I made a move across the country that I didn't know anybody. I didn't know what I was doing. I'd never been to Nashville before.

And it was like one of those moments where I'm like, dang, I had a realization of just how much changes in 10 years. Like you really don't feel it when it's happening. And you're like, you know there's big moments in your life and you know you can look back and like there's a lot of change. but like watching, like seeing the two photo comparisons between 2016 and 2026, I just am like looking at two separate people. It feels like two completely different worlds. And maybe that's kind of what you're referencing too is like that was a different part of your life. And you were a different person then. No is very different.

And it's weird because it feel, yeah, 10 years, it feels like forever ago. And then it also seems like, no way, that wasn't 10 years ago. Right? Mm-hmm. Like, I even think about that, too, like coming up on this summer will be nine years for me on the show, and that feels crazy to me. Like, I don't know if you keep, when you keep adding, like, more every year, you're like, okay, now, what number are you on now? Like, seven, is it 17? Me? Yeah. Oh, in June, it'll be 20. Okay. Yeah. So you're like, holy crap, I'm coming on a 20 year anniversary of being on this show. And those moments also stick out for me where I'm like, how is, how? How is that even possible? Because then there's moments of me where I'm like, no, I'm like, no, I'm. I'm still like that young 23-year-old, like trying to figure out her life and, you know, doesn't know what's going to come. But I'm like, nope, you're the inverse. You're actually at 32 and still kind of have similar experiences. Right. Very.

It is weird. It is. Time is weird. And I feel like if anybody younger is listening to this, they're like, okay, yeah, I hear people say it all the time. Like, it goes by so fast. It's already almost February. That is insane to me, which tells me only one thing. Adults that used to tell me this were so right. The older you get, the faster it goes. Because I can already tell this year is going to fly by, and I'm going to have to be intentional about it.

I just am. So I'm trying to pause. I put up a new bird feeder, and I'm going to spend more time sitting at my table, maybe doing a puzzle looking at birds. But this time from a different perspective, last time when I was really into birds and puzzles, it was like a survival thing.

And now it's going to be more of a to slow things down thing. Like I was depressed then. And while I'm no longer that, I'm going to be doing these sort of things to be intentional with my time. Because I do feel like stuff like that slows it down. and I'm reading more. I've already read more this month than I read all of 2025. So, and that's 100% accurate statement.

So those are things I'm doing to intentionally slow time down. Mm-hmm. It's so hard. Like, genuinely, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, too. You know, you go to work and even just being out in traffic and stuff. People are hurrying everywhere. Like, you feel like everything's rushed. I was seeing this the other day.

There was somebody posting about how you need to, like, literally slow down like a sloth. Everything you do, every movement you make, walking and doing laundry. Like, you're supposed to go slower. And after watching that video, I was, like, really thinking about it because it was on top of mind. And I was watching myself, like, felt like I was kind of having an out-of-body experience. And I was like, dang, you move fast. Like you get slowed down just like a little bit, maybe like a half second and maybe it won't go by so fast. But I think that's part of it too is we genuinely like and we stack our days of like here, I have to be here at this time and here or there and I'm doing this. And I'm, you know, and you think when you pack your schedule and you're active and you have this, you know, full life and you're taking advantage of all that. But there's also like you're rushing life when you're doing that. You're just like planning every hour of every day to be sure that you are. you know, getting the most out of life, but there's also this inverse reality of that where you're

supposed to be slowing down to really experience life. And I've struggled with that. I've struggled trying to do that. I didn't realize how much I literally move in fast forward. Yeah. Even just thinking of like our nervous systems, like you're talking about savoring and slowing down. But we may be able to save her more if we're slowing down our nervous system because you're talking about videos that you've seen online. It makes me think of this one girl. I have no idea. She just popped up on my feed. I don't even remember the whole video, but I know that she was pointing out that she cleans her countertops with such force and, you know, pressure and quickly. And just her whole demeanor is her nervous system. And she's in, she's like, I'm in survival mode and I'm cleaning my countertop

like I'm being attacked. And so she started to change the way she cleaned and tried to be real intentional, even with a task like wiping down counters. And she started to move with more ease and with grace. And it was calming to her because she's like something in her nervous system was keeping her like, you know, fire, flight, like got to be ready. And she was able to intentionally say, like, you're cleaning your countertop. You're at home. You're safe. And that when she started to change her movements, it changed her nervous system and her whole demeanor.

And I think there's something to be said about that, too, of like slowing to be intentional and saver moments and then slowing to be intentional. So you're not constantly like on edge. Yep. Yeah. This was the other video that I saw. There was like a few of them on it where I was just like didn't realize that that was something I was even doing because of just, you know, how we're taught and how we're raised. and how you interact with the world. It's just not something that anybody ever realizes or talks about, I guess.

And that was my first introduction to it. So I'm trying to do that a lot this year. But it's also proving a lot harder than I thought it would be. Yeah, you can be a sloth right up until you're about to be late for work. And then you have to turn into a maniac. Yep. And then the chaos hits again. And then the cycle repeats itself.

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