LOTE: Setting Yourself Up For A Week of Success

Episode 179: LOTE: Setting Yourself Up For A Week of Success

In episode 179 of the Sober Vibes podcast, it's LOTE week, which means Courtney and Kimberly are here talking about setting yourself up for a week of success—creating systems that help the week flow easily for you. 

The sisters went a little rouge in this episode and had more of freestyle talk. 

What you will learn in this episode:

• Setting yourself for a week of success 
• Picking a day to get yourself organized for the week
• Creating systems to help you with where you are now
• The Elledge sisters chatting about life events

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:48

This is Courtney. This is Kimberly. You are listening to the show within the show Living on the L-Edge. Come live with us. We're talking about the road to recovery and sobriety and how to vibe and maintain a happy and healthy lifestyle. Welcome to the Sober Vibes podcast. It is Living on the Edge week, which means it's a show within a show. You are listening to episode 179. Sister, you're back, we're back, we're here. Let's do it. What up, Courtney? What's shaking? Nothing.

Speaker 1: 2:38

You were just hanging out together on a Sunday, a lovely Sunday, about to talk some of that shit on the pod. Today, yes, and last time we talked, we did a two-parter about your series and I just wanted to say thank you about your story and, again, thank you for opening up. But thank you to the good people of the world. There was a lot of positive feedback about that episode, kimmy and you sharing your truth, and so, yeah, we're out here. I like to be as transparent as possible the good, the bad and the ugly. Well, and I'm glad you waited to share that when you were ready. So, because I will say this sometimes, when you, for anybody who is going to open themselves up on a platform like a podcast, a social media, whatever, write a book, do whatever you want to do. When you have to open up, when you're ready, don't feel like you have to do that off the bat with certain topics or things that you went through, and just if you're ready to share, then share. But if you're never ready to share that thing, you don't have to. No, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. So that's the beauty of life, like it is all under your control and how you want your story to, and you can create your own narrative. So, yeah, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. I just felt like it was appropriate and the timing was right. And if you didn't listen to the last episode, go back and check it out, because it was a good one. It was a good one, good season opener, really.

Speaker 1: 4:16

I actually even, too, interviewed a lady the other day. This hers won't air for quite some time, but she opened up too about her experience, and afterwards she was like nobody's been able to get that out of me. Well, welcome to the Sober Vibes podcast, correct? Well, this is just what happens here. We just have organic conversations and we never know where it will go. Yeah, that's the best too, because that scripted shit I don't do well with. I'm more of like fly by the seat of my pants type gal. You know what I mean. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean shoot from the hip and that's organic content and it works and it works for us and it works for a lot of the listeners, the good people of the world.

Speaker 1: 5:02

Yeah, I wasn't even really planning on divulging that information on that podcast. It just came out, it felt right, it felt right. I'm just kind of going to switch gears here, but I do. I wanted to talk to you about this because I'm getting to a point where I need to stop watching documentaries. Okay, okay, no, it's because I, okay, I want this, okay, because, okay, I want this. Okay, I am all for the people who are corrupt being exposed, right, I'm all up for it.

Speaker 1: 5:44

But, like yesterday, I was on social media and I was on because I follow, like the Turner movie classics page, right, and then a clip from Saving Private Ryan came up. A clip from Saving Private Ryan came up and now, anytime I think of that movie after watching that Kevin Spacey documentary on HBO slash Max, whatever it's called now, it will forever be HBO. In my mind. There's a part in this exposure of Kevin Spacey that then goes back to Saving Private Ryan and it's just like I just don't want to know this shit anymore, because now I can't even rewatch that movie because it's such a great movie, right. Like it's this associate, like I just don't want to know these things anymore. What I? You sent me something on.

Speaker 1: 6:24

I was at work last night and you were I could tell you were watching a documentary, because my sister will start like sending me fucking DMs and I couldn't. I was fucking getting my ass kicked at work last night. I mean, I was in the trenches y'all. Like it was wild. So I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, because I called you and I don't. It was a trauma response, but also, too, I was laughing because I'm like what in the fuck? And I'm just going to tell you what happens. Okay, please tell everyone, because we don't know. Well, you're going to be like oh yeah, that's right, and you're going to start giggling.

Speaker 1: 6:58

So in this exposure of Kevin Spacey, now I believe the victims. Okay, this has nothing to do about not believing or believing, but there is a victim explaining his story where him and Kevin Spacey go watch Saving Private Ryan during a in the movies. When people went to the movies and they went to go watch Saving Private Ryan and apparently Kevin Spacey started to jerk off during Saving Private Ryan Don't you remember me calling you? Because I was like laughing so hard, because I was like who gets off to World War II, who gets off to D-Day? Like this was insane. And then because this guy who was with him wanted to be an actor and Kevin Spacey was like bringing him up of like grooming him, of like oh, I can do this and this for you. But then that man sat there and continued to watch Saving Private Ryan when Kevin Spacey was jerking off, I would get the fuck up and say, excuse me, sir, why I have goddamn respect for World War Two, for one and for two. Put your goddamn dick away, sir, god bless. Like Pee Wee Herman, yeah, but Pee Wee Herman did, okay, but Pee Wee Herman did that by himself. But this is like at what point has it grown? And the guy was saying it Like I mean, he was in his 20s and he was, but it's like what? Again I would have gotten up and excused myself and been like nothing is worth it to sit here next to you jerk off to troops invading on d-day. Yo, war makes spacey horny. What the fuck I? This is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 8:52

There is a documentary too, where I was like, oh, I'm gonna watch it. But then I'm like you know what I don't think. So it's about, and their story is really sad, those carters, the backstreet boy and like his little brother. Do you know that three of those siblings have died of overdoses? Yeah, that family comes from trauma, trauma. So I was going to watch it.

Speaker 1: 9:15

But then I was like because they have stuff against that Nick Carter, and I'm like I just don't know if I want to know all of this, because we live in a world now where it's just like people know everything and everything's exposed, which is great, but like I don't know if I now want to. Anytime I hear a Backstreet Boys song now associate with this. Yeah, I mean I want to know everything. So I just I fear for the day, because my sister's obsessed with Walt Disney World. So I really fear for the day. If anything ever comes back about those, these conspiracy theories about Disney, my sister will fucking die, just faint.

Speaker 1: 9:56

I would like I wouldn't, I don't, I wouldn't even know what to do. I don't. It's like that's what I'm saying, all of these memories and all of the like, and then to have pure evil behind it, like it's just like again. Like I could go and not watch Kevin Spacey movies again, right, even though he was a wonderful actor. Yeah, midnight at the Garden of Good and Evil was phenom, right, phenomenal movie. So it's just like, so I.

Speaker 1: 10:25

But then it's like, dude, you're starting to then associate like we're bringing in other phenomenal movies into the Kevin Spacey story. I can't, that's where I'm at in my life, and the same thing too. You just need to stop watching fucked up documentaries. But they're all coming out and I'm like, okay. And then even, too, I started watching a Diddy thing, which I finished, which that's fine, cause I never really liked Diddy. I always something thought something was weird between him and Mace. Like that just never, like there was something off with that, so, but so Diddy I don't really care about, but I just Right, but I just don't want other things associated with.

Speaker 1: 11:08

But again, if you ever and I will say this for the good people of the world so work starts posting up Instagram stories because she watched some fucking documentary about these sisters going into a cult and all of a sudden I'm getting tagged in something and I look I'm at work in the trenches again and my sister's like, and Kimberly, if you ever go into a cult? Like kept saying Kimberly and cult. And I'm like would you stop fucking saying that, because people, because that kind of would not be shocking to people. So I was like stop fucking saying Kimberly and cult in the same sentence and I would never. So Courtney's like, if you ever go into a cult, we're done.

Speaker 1: 12:08

Because this Netflix docuseries was. It was sad, like when you watch it it was these poor sisters like this one sister was crushed that her older sister got more involved with the cult. That was slash. It was a church slash management team and this management team, all of it, took advantage of these dance influencers. Bitch, I'm never going into a cult period. Like, whatever you're saying, you need to probably just stop watching TV over there. I'm working and you are losing your fucking mandula like enough already. God bless, I swear, swear to god y'all.

Speaker 1: 12:52

I was like watching this and whoever was standing next to me, I was like this dumb bitch has lost her mind over here talking about kimberly in a cult like six times in one sentence. I was like I, so I text her. I was like I, whatever's happening, I will call you tomorrow. So so I called her, obviously first thing, and I was like what is happening over there? What were you watching? It's called the TikTok dance cult 7M, but it's really quite sad. Well, don't worry, I promise you and the good people of the world, like I'm not joining a cult, bitch, I am the cult. Get over yourself. What are you saying? I will be excited if that movie ever gets made. Well, cults fascinate me. They truly do, because it doesn't matter if you came from a broken down family or a family that had it together. Like it does not matter, yeah, I won't put us through a cult. We've been through. I've put you through enough. That's what I'm saying, because once you enter it in, like you are a goner Adios.

Speaker 1: 13:58

The only cult that fascinated me was those fuckers in the 90s who drank all that Kool-Aid with those black Nikes on about, like waiting to go ride the Hale-Pop Comet. That was weird. But Leo was supposed to star in that. It'd be Jim Jones. There was supposed to be a movie about that, so he was. I can't even imagine that sociopath that better win another Oscar for that one. But yeah, so we'll have to see that movie if it ever gets made. Yeah, I mean anything.

Speaker 1: 14:27

Leonardo Caprio. He's my baby, daddy. He is a pig though I know, daddy, he is a pig though I know he's just a pig person, like he's disgusting, but I love him. Great actor. I don't even care what comes out about him. If they tell me he fucks donkeys, I'm bravo, I do not care whatever.

Speaker 1: 14:45

Oh, my favorite is always the ones that somehow I'll get trapped in with the Leo algorithm of like the pictures of just him with his like dad bod and like eating a Subway sandwich like a monster. Or when he's on yachts with just his bitch tits hanging out like and there's like a couple 19 year old Victoria's Secret models around him. I'm like who in the fuck does this guy think he is? The best is when he was at the cons film festival standing next to like scorsese and de niro and he was just like so yakked out on cocaine. I think I've sent you that meme. Oh, you gotta send it again. When he's in his tuxedo and he's just like sitting there like rubbing his gums and like sniffing, and de niro's just looking at him like bro, get it together, I'm here for it. Yeah, see what I mean Like. And that would be like another thing If then you had like a weird association to Leonardo DiCaprio film, all because you watched a documentary about a fucking creep. Yeah, I got it, I get it, oh, I do.

Speaker 1: 15:45

Moral of the story Spacey is a prick, is a sick prick, like again, I mean there are some fetishes, right, there's some. There's like beyond, where it's just like disturbing and just like like you are filth, human being, right, and then there's like a level of kink where you're just like what, how does war turn you on? This is not feet. This is not feet, sir. Yeah, people are wild, I mean especially the rich, I think on the podcast I did share the story, I did. And people are wild.

Speaker 1: 16:25

What did that man want you to do? Not spit on him. No, I've never peed on a man. Did that man want you to do not spit on him? Pee on him? No, I've never peed on a man. I mean at this point how I'm feeling about men. I might consider it Like fuck you.

Speaker 1: 16:38

But this grown-ass man, a trust fund baby, who was in his late 60s, early 70s I used to do a lot of blow with him and drink a lot of tequila with him and he was a regular at one of my spots and he wanted me. He paid me three grand to tickle him that's right While he was wearing a diaper, yeah. And then, after he was done doing his business, he was sucking his thumb and crying and I left. I had had enough. Because what are you supposed to say to that other than thank you for the 3K? I gotta go, yeah, I gotta go. You sick, fuck. I couldn't look him in the eyes ever again. I would have been like that's another $2,000 for the PTSD you just put me through while you're sucking your thumb and crying. It actually didn't phase me. I just got my money and left and took the rest of the blow that was on the counter. I was like adios, like pussy.

Speaker 1: 17:43

What is happening here? Man, you need to write a book One day. One day I will Just like stories from the streets, because I got some ones. Man, like it's wild, these, or, oh, these ohos have seen some things in these streets. Or the book title could be like things I did for blow thing, things I did while I'm blow.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Chapter one tickle me, elmo, I'm at the real life. Tickle me, elmo, yeah, tickle me regular. Okay, but that's what I'm saying. Okay, that goes with the war that turns somebody on, so that's like that's a kink right, like that's not again going to like the bottom, where it's just like you are a sick son of a bitch and just should you should have your nuts ripped off, like gross we are. That's like you were at the Kevin Spacey. Do you know what I mean? There's a state right now that just is like legalized, like castration for pedophiles, and I think it's oh, it was Louisiana. Did I send you that article? I think you did. Yeah, great, that's when he's happened to Spacey. Yeah, but he got off over in London. He went through the court like he was not but he's canceled oh, he's canceled Some of his interviews. He's like victimizing himself. He's like everybody else got a second shot and I'm just canceled.

Speaker 1: 19:16

Like, yeah, you sick fuck. Like you were conditioning and grooming minors, like you're disgusting and abusing your power with these very kids who are very influenced by your stardom and you used it and that is predatory behavior. Like sorry, not sorry, you prick, I don't care how many movies you're in or what you do at life, like that's disgusting. So, yeah, nobody these days wants to deal with that. The behavior is not acceptable anymore. The jig is up, you sick fucks. Like the jig is up. It's not okay.

Speaker 1: 19:52

Oh yeah, there was an actor on this who was on House of Cards and I guess Spacey would just go around fucking like cupping dick and ass like out in the public where it was like and then, because he was an executive producer on that, like this was known behavior and they're like, yeah, that's spacey, like so it's like shame on you, Netflix, for you guys, you allowed that all to happen and that was like the whole thing of this is like everybody knew about his behavior. But like I'm like who has the balls just to go and fucking touch somebody like that? It's insane, kim, this is like what is happening to the world. I'm just going to stick with Bravo. I'm just, yeah, reality teller. Just stick it.

Speaker 1: 20:38

I'm good with the fucking Housewives and Below Deck. I'm on a Below Deck fucking binge right now and I can't get enough. So good, this is what's fucked up about Below Deck and this happened to me when I was pregnant. Fucked up about Below Deck and this happened to me when I was pregnant and all I wanted and I went through this lobster kick. I love Below Deck, but I just want to fucking eat, like eat some steak and lobster.

Speaker 1: 21:01

When I watch that show. What's the problem? Well, the problem is just like it makes me hungry. When you binge that, I like to binge that.

Speaker 1: 21:15

I'm sad, though, that Captain Lee is not on that anymore. No, he can't sail a yacht anymore or drive, ride a yacht, whatever the fuck term it is. But Captain Lee is, he's got. The jig is up. The man is retired, no, I know, but he was funny. He was funny, go on, he was a curmudgeon prick, but I liked him but it was funny. But it translated well where it was. Like his one-liners were humorous.

Speaker 1: 21:44

What's that? One hot captain from Australia, captain Jason, yeah, that when he's the captain, I mean that show makes you hungry, that show makes me horny because he is so hot. I can't like. Good God, I remember what I would do to that man. I remember when you told me to first watch that, you're like Courtney. You got to watch it and Kim was like it's. He's not only like physically hot, she was like, but the way that he leads his team and he's all about like getting in there and leading by example, and he is hot. It made me horny. I would like I had a sex dream about him one night, because I fell asleep to blow deck on my TV and I woke up and I was like, oh my God, now I'm in love.

Speaker 1: 22:28

Now I'm going to hyper fixate on this man that I will never meet and definitely will never be able to fuck. But a girl can dream, and I did Excuse me, let's take this back. You can meet him when we go to BravoCon in 2025. Viva Las Vegas. Good people of the world, who's going Slide into our DMs and let us know? I'm going to pay for your life that weekend and we are going to whoop it up in Las Vegas. All right, that's fair. So you can meet him. Yeah, maybe I'll pull a spacey and just go fucking up his dick and then I'm going to have to recount everything I said on the pod because I went full spacey on that hot captain, because I'm not going to be able to contain myself. Sir, guard your dick, I'm coming.

Speaker 1: 23:17

Bravo, the best is oh, this is an uncensored, unplugged LOT. Jenny, our podcast editor, we love you. I'm sorry, oh my God. God bless Cheney, our podcast editor. We love you. I'm sorry, oh my God. God bless Cheney, the most wholesome guy. We love you. I'm sorry, courtney's got me working on a Sunday and I drank too much coffee and now I'm horny. Okay, so we're going to go to BravoCon and great 2025, viva Las Vegas. I'm going to be on those tickets, because the last time around those tickets went again. So we're going.

Speaker 1: 23:53

So who's ever listening? Meet us in Las Vegas. See ya, watch my sister get arrested, watch me get Me Too'd Going up and patting Pat him on the dicks. Anyways, all right, sister, thank you for listening to our rant. We did, though. Have we wanted to talk about setting? Since we're we're talking, we're recording on a Sunday? We wanted to talk about setting yourself up for a week of success and really getting tuned in on Sunday. Disclaimer here, though, I want to add in if you are in the service industry, or maybe you are a nurse, whatever you do, if your quote unquote week does not start on like a Sunday, right, like, and it's more like okay, tuesday is like your Sunday, do it to whatever day works best for you. Yeah, my Sundays used to be Tuesdays because that's what I'm saying. Yeah, cause I.

Speaker 1: 25:00

I now work for almost the past two years for a family who we were close on Sundays and it is literally the most glorious thing. I don't know why I just now like because for how fucking old am I? I'm 44. So for what? 22 years I worked every goddamn Sunday Like, and in the service industry, sundays are. It's great money. I mean you go in at like whatever day or whatever time and you're making money all day long and then usually places close a little bit early on Sundays and shut it down. But I worked on Sundays, sunday was. But the only thing that sucks about that is you miss out on like so much shit because of like Father's Day, mother's Day, easter, fucking, like shit goes down on Sundays, family events, just cool shit.

Speaker 1: 25:47

So I have really relished in the fact that, like, sunday is my day. I really thrive on Sundays Because they're the best. Yeah, they really are. And especially too, I mean obviously I've appreciated Sundays a lot more since I got sober. But it is like when you stop working on them because I did my fair share of Sundays, when you stop working on it and you're like, wow, this is what this feels like, yeah, this is nice. This is how civilized people fucking live. Oh my God, there is life out here. Yeah, I didn't know, I didn't know. Yeah, so it's a good thing and too, especially too, when you enter in sobriety and you're not spending your Sundays all hung over, slash with the Sunday scaries. It is a, it's a beautiful thing. But even too, if you have, I think, people, I think sorry to cut you off, but I think people too, even if they're not like in an active addiction people cause I, they get the Sunday scaries Cause it's like our work culture in the United States.

Speaker 1: 26:55

It's you work all week and then just to have like, it's like you're really only day off. It's like Saturday, because then Sunday it's like you're gearing up to go back to work. And a lot of people who I've talked to, it's like they get anxiety on Sundays, like even if they're not hungsies, I mean, if you're went on a couple day bender because you're a weekend warrior, and obviously that's gonna have added anxiety because you're just like a fucking mess on Sunday. But yeah, sundays are tough for people sometimes because then they got to like work to get themselves going for the week. So that makes me sad for people because it's like I don't know, I don't have a fucking care in the world on Sundays, because I just really like own it as like my day and then look forward to like setting myself up for the week and kind of get organized, because I need that for myself for the week, or else I'll be out here all willy nilly and just like I need a little bit of structure. Hey, good people of the world, as you live your sober life, don't just count the days. Make the days count.

Speaker 1: 28:00

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Speaker 1: 29:00

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Speaker 1: 29:33

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Speaker 1: 30:43

Yeah, and I was gonna go that route before you got me. I gotta stop drinking this yummy coffee before these clogged tasks. I am so sorry, I cannot with that. Oh my God, that's so much. That's so much. But yes, so like the Sunday scaries I feel for people who have that. I experienced that when I was in the medical field. It was especially too, if you are in a toxic work environment or one that you are just so completely over where you're trying you just want a change, like I feel, because it's terrible, it's fucking terrible. Yeah, like it's not fun. No, it's not pits, and I do agree with you that having just two days, but really only one day, and especially too with people with have kids, like when the kids get to a certain age and then they start doing sports and whatnot and then you're running around all weekend or at a sporting event for like 12 hours. Kim, this is what's happening out there on those streets with these parents. Yeah, I know my best friend. She's like I did and I'm like what in the fuck? Absolutely not. Like that's too many events. Like I get it to each their own, but at some point it's like these kids get overstimulated and put into too many activities and then it's like dude, they don't even, they're not even enjoying, like what they're in, because then they're on to the next, like who knows if they're fucking good at that, because they're in eight other things. Like they can't hone in on their talent. Yeah, but some of these sporting events they have to play like four games in one day, travel teams you've got to drive an hour or two, sometimes more, into another state. Like it is serious out there in the sports world even say like dance, cheer, same thing.

Speaker 1: 33:01

I hope cj just wants to be in a band man like we can just go listen to music, rock, rock out. Well, I mean his little development. This is where this looks like it's going. He's really good at drums. He's playing a guitar Like he sings to himself all the time. This kid knows the words to songs that I have no clue and he picks it up within a matter of like a couple of listens. Yeah, he loves music and I love that for him. Yeah, like loves music.

Speaker 1: 33:32

Currently, right now, the kid's favorite song is what is it? Let me look it up real quick. Look it up. He likes it all. He loves Bob Marley Dancing in the Moonlight. The kid loves Dancing in the Moonlight and Goodnight Sweetheart, and he's starting to really like the Moonlight. The kid loves Dancing in the Moonlight and Goodnight Sweetheart, and he's starting to really like the Beach Boys. I could really do without that. I hope that's just a face. The Beach Boys yes, kim, watch that documentary on Disney that just got released. No, brian Wilson is one of the greatest producers of all time.

Speaker 1: 34:10

Courtney, I am not going to co-sign on the Beach Boys fandom like you. It's not happening. No, you don't have to go to the concert. I don't even know if they perform anymore with John Stamos. I hate John Stamos up there. Oh man, anyways. But regardless, the kid is into music, so that might be the route that we're going up. However, when he turns four, I'm going to get him into soccer, because he does look like he's good at soccer. But then there's a decision into each their own with their parents, of the travel of getting into sports, where then it's travel and all of that. So I don't know, that will cross that bridge. Time will tell, time will tell.

Speaker 1: 34:55

So, going back, though, to the weekend thing, is that it is honestly, it's like you said. It's like a day. People get a day. If they even get that, yeah. Yeah, some people don't at all, and then that makes me sad because that's not like. It's like quality of life, right. So we're just like all, like I don't believe life is like in this rat race go, but I mean, you got to live, you got to work, you got to support. So it's like what do you do? What do you do? Yeah, and that was for me when I was in the nine to five, when I was working in the medical field, and I thought that's what I wanted to do and eventually go into nursing. And when I woke up sober in that career, I'm like no, thank you, because the nine to five I just knew was not me. So, whatever it is, you just have to figure out what's best for you and your situation and if you can turn it around, turn around, yeah.

Speaker 1: 35:54

So what would be some tips you would suggest to somebody of setting their week up for success, and what would success be of? Are we talking about having like a chaos-free week? Are we talking about not drinking, not using? What's this type of success? Look like sister, or all of the above, fucking all of the above. I mean you're using and drinking and all that shit. I mean that's like would add for anybody who's an addict. Would add, definitely add chaos and stress to your life.

Speaker 1: 36:30

So what do for me on a Sunday? I like to. I look at my week. I obviously know my same work schedule at the restaurant and then with the nonprofit. I get that kind of down and set my boundaries with the time. That I'm going to lot there, so I get like my obligations first in order, and that I'm going to lot there, so I get like my obligations first in order and what I'm going to do. And today I'm going to go to the grocery store because I need some nutrition in my house, because I just went to go get some coffee and I opened my fridge and I was like, huh, that is not good, like I don't have any fruit in the fridge. I don't, and it makes me feel a certain type of way when I don't have shit in the fridge. Wait, we'll talk about that in a minute, because I actually just thought of this the other day. But go on. So the fuck, courtney, you made me skip Like goddammit sister. Okay, you need to go grocery shopping to get food in the fridge. I need to go grocery shopping, so I'm staying.

Speaker 1: 37:30

I'm trying to get my nutrition back on order because I'm feeling a little nutrient deprived right now. So when I don't have proper food like I need my kombucha, I need my there's certain things that I need or I just don't feel right. So I need to go and get some things and be an adult and not order fucking Uber Eats all week and waste my money on garbage. Because Courtney hates my Uber Eats addiction. It's bad. So I'm like reeling it back in with that and I'm going to go over here Because all that food when I say it's not good, you cannot tell me that every time you get an Uber Eats it's fucking delicious. No, it's disgusting. And then I waste it and then I feel bad. It's like haram. They're starving people out in the world. So I feel bad.

Speaker 1: 38:19

It puts me in like a weird cycle because it's like actually dog shit. By the time you get it, you're just like except for oh, sushi, shout out in Dearborn. They don't ever fucking miss. But I can't be ordering sushi seven days a week because the shit is expensive and it's high in mercury, let's get real. So I have to go to the grocery store. So I feel like I'm a functioning adult because for years and years I did not. And when I open up my fridge and there's nothing in it, sometimes it's triggering for me because of how I lived for so many years and how we were raised. So I need shit in the fridge, I need my beverages, I need soda water, I need all the things. So that's going to set me up for the week and put me in a good headspace.

Speaker 1: 39:03

And then I like to write down a couple intentions and I do like, on Sundays, to read, like I do a little bit of reading because it just like gets my mind in a different place from coming off of a like work bender the whole week. So it kind of slows me down a little bit. And yeah, just if I need to tap in with certain people who I haven't because I'm missed, like I'm definitely going to call mom today. I haven't talked to her. I'm going to tap in with your father, see what kind of mood he's in and just tap in really and get my head straight, set some intentions and just Sundays I lay low. That's good.

Speaker 1: 39:42

And two laying low because you also as well to get yourself ready for the week, anybody who is in this position where you serve you're in customer service you deal with the gen pop you need to recoup your energy. Fuck, yeah, dude, like it's wild and my personality, how I'm good at my job, it's a lot of personality going on from me, like it's a vibe. So I definitely like exude a lot of energy while I'm working, not just with my guests, also like with my coworkers, because you just I like to fuck around and have a good time at work. But it's also like when you go into work and clock in, you got to be on and people expect a certain performance from you and certain. So sometimes do I feel like just like being a dickhead and joking? No, not all the time, but once I get into that mode, but it's almost like I'm so used to being that that I go into autopilot and it's like sometimes I'm just really not feeling that. So then I feel like that's fake, but like I'm putting on a performance and there's like no need for that, yeah, totally Well, I think those are good. I think those are good ones to set yourself up for, ones that I would do for myself.

Speaker 1: 41:03

And, as a mom, I definitely order some groceries. The groceries as to on Sundays is like a hit or miss. Either I have taken the dictator with me, but lately I'm ordering them again because he wants to go in there and then he requires a balloon, and then we will go through the store and he says that he wants like the five other balloons. So I'm back to ordering groceries because I don't want to go through the balloon debacle. And he had a Mentibi a couple of weeks ago at Kroger and Dwight this was my second one of a child meltdown. Where you're just looking around and being like I'm sticking to my guns. I don't care if this kid is crying his eyes out, where snot is coming down his nose and that he is redder than red, I'm sticking to my guns.

Speaker 1: 41:56

And where I disassociated in a crotter yeah, you got to stand on business with a little dictator. I ruled a school, I know, but there's a point in motherhood you fucking straight up disassociate yourself and just start walking down the aisles and grabbing what you need. So there was that and then that music class one time when I had to disassociate. So I will order the groceries for the week. And also to laundry I will do the laundry. I will reset the home of just picking up stuff, anything that I need to toss, especially too with his toys. Sometimes I just start tossing some toys that he does not use anymore or rotate the toys around, pick up in his room and for me that's kind of it. I mean, and for me that's kind of it. I mean that's kind of my reset on Sundays.

Speaker 1: 42:54

And get clear for the week. Clear for the week, what? Clear for the week, yeah. And then I set up my calendar to like in that grocery ordering groceries, and I will put on the board like what we're eating. So and then to Matt and I started ordering those factor meals. So I'm on my third week of that. That has been made a huge difference, which is great. So I'll probably keep more with that. And I did reach out to them for them to give me a code. So if I get that for you, I will share that. But those factor meals are really good. Yeah, those aren't bad. I've tried those before and it just takes. It has made the week a lot easier.

Speaker 1: 43:33

So, yeah, so, laundry, groceries, resetting the house, cleaning up and then just enjoying some time with the dictator and Matthew and kind of chilling as a fam. Yeah, serene, light, some candles. I've been back into the candle business of bringing that type of energy. You know me, I fall asleep with burning candles all over the house like a goddamn witch. I'm going to burn this bitch down one day and it's going to be Ken, don't say that it's not going to be good. Me and Drexler are going to have to jump out the window. Oh my God, don't say that. I mean, I've like caught myself, like, oh fuck, I got to go blow out the candles, but there's definitely some nights where I don't. But I'm working on it. It's a work in progress, but you definitely always got to have a candle going. That comes from mom. Mom always had candles. Candles are the best, yeah.

Speaker 1: 44:35

But I do want to touch on with what my sister said about that empty fridge, and I legit thought about this. Matthew went to Costco on Friday and so I was stocking up the fridge, right and again, even though if you do a Costco run, you still need some groceries from Kroger. So if you're like, well, this bitch just said she went to Costco. She's ordering up food on a Sunday, so because we do like a Costco run probably twice a month, but anyways so, and I was stocking it up and I was like like admiring my fridge with food and I'm like this feels nice, right, and it is because I, when I see a bare fridge, it legit makes me like shoulder shake of like you would fucking have a trauma response if you open my fridge right now there's coffee and a Brita and a vial of Ozempic and a can of cheese from when Matthew sent me home with that from Easter. Oh man, yeah, yeah, it's just, it's not good. I'm just like.

Speaker 1: 45:45

I opened it today and I was like, oh my God, kimberly, no, but I wouldn't, I would not judge another person's, but for my own is, I always feel better when there are groceries because it is legit. Like we did not. You would look at mine and be like, kimberly, get your shit together, you don't, you have nothing. Like you would be like, yes, you would judge. You'd be like what are you doing over here? Anyways, that is your fridge, your business, my fridge, my business, and I need it stocked. I need some bevvies.

Speaker 1: 46:25

The dictator has a whole cabinet full of snacks Like I just I don't ever want I really am going to work very hard and of him having a healthy relationship with food, because we did not. So that is like one thing I am very intentional about of a balanced nutrition for him. So cause it, and I'm sure anyone listening to this they're like oh yeah, I didn't have food in the fridge, whether it was for financial reasons, or you had parents who were not feeling Forgot that they needed to feed their children. Yeah, so it's not a good feeling. It's not a good feeling. It's not a good feeling. It's not a good feeling. No, it's not no. So that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 47:06

My fridge, my business, I don't like it either, sister. That's why I know when my fridge looks like that like Kimberly, you're running on fucking, like life's a little bit chaotic, reel it in, like I can always tell what's going on with if there's not shit in my fridge, because I haven't taken the time to go to the grocery store like a goddamn adult, that's all. Yeah, know what I'm saying? Well, you will. So, to set yourself up for success, figure out what that means for you, and just, I would do a couple things. Don't try not to do like 25 things in one day, because then you're going to be really tired by 4 pm and want to go to sleep. So just choose a couple things that works best for you.

Speaker 1: 47:49

For some people, again, that's meal propping right, and that relieves a lot of stress and makes their week a lot easier by meal planning and propping. Yeah, god bless the people who do that. You are organized. I could never. I'm always jealous of the meal proppers prepping. Yeah, god bless the people who do that. You are organized. I could never Like. I'm always jealous of the meal preppers. I'm like God, that is fucking impressive. Well, after we do this, yeah, after we do this, I gotta go put some chicken in the crock pot for Matt's lunches this week. But I used to do it pre-child and then, well, up until until really, let's just say, 2020, march of 2020, I, I, up until then, and then things went haywire and we all know the story march of 2020, they, that was fucking weird times, bro, weird.

Speaker 1: 48:36

We'll do it. We'll do an episode. Let us know if you want us to do a recap of that or even to like some of the stuff that has come out and then they read like like the covid era was in that that year, those couple of years, I'm like I don't want to relive this, like on the morning show when they were leading up to covid. I was like I don't want to go through this again. I don't want to go through this again. But if you want us to recap yeah, what the fuck? The Elledge sisters If y'all want to know what our pandemic looked like, holler, just let us know.

Speaker 1: 49:11

Slide into Courtney's, deanne's, mine. We'll make sure that the podcast on that one we're a little more organized than what in the fuck just happened in this past hour. Well, here's a good thing, because this is what I think that has happened, that what our pandemic looked like, and then what were the habits that we still carried, slash trauma that we still carried into the years, because this has been a process and there was a lot of trauma done to people and especially to of just like your nervous system and the cortisol levels and a lot of people's lives didn't really go back to that norm or people really processing what exactly happened during that time. That's a lot, it's a fucking lot. Yeah, right, and this is not like and it's like now getting brushed all under the rug like it fucking never happened and it's like, well, this is how it all panned out. But we were telling you four years ago run for the hills, lock yourself in your house. So it's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. I did the opposite.

Speaker 1: 50:18

That was wild, that was weird times, but we can discuss it on another day. We can discuss it on another day and, as always, if there's other topics you want us to talk about, please again reach out to myself or Kimberly. We will be more organized. But, kim, we set this one up of just saying that we shot from the hip. So we talked about Kevin Spacey. We talked about documentaries. We talked about you tickling a grown ass man. We talked about Kevin Spacey. We talked about documentaries. We talked about you tickling a grown-ass man. We talked about how to set yourself up for a successful week. You're right. You're right.

Speaker 1: 50:52

I said in the beginning we were going to talk that shit. So this is what Courtney and I's phone calls sound like, really on a daily basis. So it's welcome to our lives. Yeah, welcome to our lives. Yeah, and welcome to our lives. I hope that I didn't ruin Saving Private Ryan for you. Well, we have Kevin Spacey to blame for that. Okay, right, let's like call it a spade, that fucking creep. Good God man. But that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 51:20

Like, going back to that point, I think I'm at a point I don't and it's not ignorant because I really think that, or being ignorant I just don't want to know these things anymore. We have gone through such a quiz of social media and all of it and I am happy that people have been exposed and will keep getting exposed and karma will do for them. But, like, I need to stop. I need to stop engaging because I don't want to know about this stuff anymore. It's just so. It's terrible. Yeah, I just see whatever algorithm your Netflix is on or whatever. I would just reset and start to a whole new fucking account. Ok, it's HBO Max. It tell it. Just tells you on what's new.

Speaker 1: 52:06

You know what I'm interested in? Like, give me some. Like, give me a documentary about Pat Sajak and Vanna White, that goodbye she did to him. I mean, kim, they had a 41 year working relationship, like to me, and they're not creeps. Give me some good, wholesome story of that of pat and vanna being friends, being co-workers. Imagine working with somebody for 41 years and like liking each other, and that send off that speech she gave him was like it was amazing.

Speaker 1: 52:40

Yeah, we need more wholesome content out here, because this shit is toxic. I can't do it. You're right. Give me. I want more wholesome stories. I don't want to. I don't want to know more about fucking people grabbing dicks and assholes on a movie set, and that's the thing with all of these people.

Speaker 1: 53:05

We have paid to be entertained. We, the good people of the world, have paid for these pricks to keep being fucking sociopaths. Listen, the jig is up for Hollywood. People are starting to see what time it is with these. Fucking Big is up for Hollywood. People are starting to see what time it is with these fucking dick licks. Like they are. We put them up on a pedestal for so long and it's like they're. They all have God complexes and we definitely feed into it as a culture.

Speaker 1: 53:35

But like fuck that dude. Like these people aren't shit, honestly, except for that fucking captain of that yacht. He is the shit, but he's for that fucking captain of that yacht. He is the shit, but he's just a captain, a normal guy. But these Hollywood A-list fucks. Or like these reality stars like get real, get real.

Speaker 1: 53:53

Those realities. Like who? What reality stars are we talking about here? Like the Kardashians? Oh, okay, so nobody on the Bravo network. No, I would never. What the fuck? I would never. Those people are my friends. They put me to bed every night they really do. And if you guys are not on the Valley yet, oh, that was so good. I didn't think I was going to like it. I didn't want to like it, and then I watched it. I'm like God damn, this is pretty relatable. Yeah, so they. No, I would never speak poorly of anyone on any Bravo show. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, we're going to end this. We are going to end this for him. Thank you for listening. As always, if you need to check out any of the resources, make sure you check out the links in the show notes and check out our sponsors for the show. Kimmy, great talk on this amazing Sunday. Good people of the world keep kicking ass and taking names. Bye.