Episode 20 🎺 Tales of Trials and Triumphs in Adulthood

Ready for a wild ride through the ups and downs of adulting? Picture a blackout at McDs in the middle of your burger order or having to budget for a cruise. Yes, life can be as hilarious as it can be overwhelming. This episode takes you through my adventures in Queenstown, with my cousin Cam as we explore the city's nightlife and tackle the complexities of living independently. 

Ever experienced the Sunday Scaries or battled anxiety? We've all been there. This episode doesn't shy away from the core issues faced by young adults, from managing finances to making life-altering decisions. Get ready to pick up some handy tips on handling life's curveballs while sharing a laugh at our experiences. We've got insightful conversations with my inspirational entrepreneur cousin, discussions around investments, budgeting, and future plans. 

But it's not all serious – there's plenty of fun too. Hear about the time when installing an air conditioner became an epic saga or the joy of upgrading my oven. And who knew a Ninja Creamy could turn anything into ice cream and become an obsession? So, buckle up for an episode filled with laughter, reminiscing, personal growth, and some valuable life lessons sprinkled in the mix. You're in for a treat!

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Adulting and Adventures in Queenstown

Speaker 1 0:14

Hey everyone , welcome back . It is the Danny Dot podcast . It's currently just after midday here in New Zealand on a Monday . I kind of had to wait until now because your girl's suffering from a sore throat and I sound like a drag queen underwater in the morning . So rest assured , I have been to the doctor this morning and I am on antibiotics because this stupid headache won't go away and I'm just a little bit under the weather Like I don't know . I just haven't been able to get better over the past month .

Speaker 1 0:44

So here we are , but in saying that , it is podcast number 20 . I've decided what best goes with the number 20 and that is your 20s . So I'm calling this adulting , not adultery . I kind of looked at what adultery was and I was like whoop safe , search on on Google . But adulting is the assumption of tasks , responsibilities and behaviors traditionally associated with normal growing up life Along , with the implication that the individual in question does not particularly identify as an adult and the acting as one does not come naturally . Yeah , with me .

Speaker 1 1:24

I'm definitely one of those people that like is totally stuck in like 20s mindset . Maybe I don't know . I am definitely cautious of saying to my friends or I'm too old for this shit , like you know , because sometimes I look at what they get up to and I'm just like whoa , I used to do that , I used to be able to do that . No , I can't . But in saying that , just off the bat of last week , last podcast , the fortnight ago I know it was about you know , queenstown and stuff , and it's so crazy , the more I was talking about it , the more I sort of freaked out because the things that I was really I don't know excited about weren't there anymore . They were closed down bars and I was so shocked which is why I sort of want to touch on this really quickly , just because on last week I had an absolute weapon of a family member come over and visit me .

Speaker 1 2:23

His name's Cam and he is my mom's cousin's son , so I don't know who that makes him to me , but he is fun . He is scalp to toe and tattoos . Totally doesn't fit the demographic of , like I don't know Queenstown snooty people , that's for sure . He pulls up in this baby blue Mustang with this fur hooded coat and the window down . He looked like he stole it . I'm not saying that that's putting a stigma on what he looks like , but I cracked up . I thought , oh my God , seriously . And he just threw the keys at me and he was like , let's go to a pub . And I thought , oh , here we go . It's going to cause a bit of a ruckus and million , million people's views on what he looks like . Honestly , no one cared and I knew that was the case .

Speaker 1 3:11

But we went out in Queenstown on Wednesday and the funniest thing was I made it a challenge to see what bars wouldn't let him in . None , they all let him in . They all had a great time . He's an absolute weapon and I just had such a good night . I tell you I can't . It was so good . Also , my mom's auntie's son was here and he is the like .

Speaker 1 3:37

I call him the inventor of the little fat lamb drink . He is someone that I just absolutely aspire to be like . His entrepreneurship is just absolutely astounding . He has always been around such a creative mind to I don't know , invent amazing drinks and I don't know . I just love everything about him .

Speaker 1 4:00

And he managed to catch up with us at bungalow . We had a couple of whiskeys and we just catched up , which is funny because he was actually like throwing some ideas around as to what I could talk about on the podcast , and one that really cracked me up I don't know , I don't know why I really thought about even talking about it was the culture of party pills in Queenstown , back in like I don't know 2008 to 2012 . Like when were they even like legalized ? Well , you couldn't buy them anymore . Anyway , that's a whole different topic and it's not even one that I'm even like too deep diving into because I never touched on them .

Speaker 1 4:37

I only took one party pool , was half a party pool one night and yeah , I didn't . I don't know , I wasn't really into that whole vibe of what that was , but it was just really lovely , bouncing ideas off someone that has so much to give and standing here with Cam , I was like this is crazy . Anyway , I took Cam to a strip club . It was really funny because one of the beauty and the geek girls from that TV show with Sophie Monk was in there and something happened in one of the toilets and she was like can I come in with you ? And I was like no , she's beautiful , she's not coming in here . But yeah , after the strip club I decided I had too many vodka and sodas and I had to go find something to eat I wasn't going to go to the night today and have a boiled egg .

Speaker 1 5:23

So I ended up at McDonald's and I haven't had takeaways for over a year , so the excitement of me was just like I feel like I so bit out really quick . Anyway , I'm standing at this like screen thing and everything's all really up with the technology and the new Queenstown McDonald's , which was the old Salvation Army , and I don't know . I was pressing all the buttons , I was ordering all the food . I was like , yes , I want to try this , I want to try that . I'm pretty excited about all this . And then I was order number 104 and 103 comes out and it's a little basket . And then all of a sudden I thought he was going to say my number and I was so excited .

Speaker 1 6:05

The power cut and I'm not even saying like a little bit , like I'm saying the whole McDonald's plunged into dark mess , the screens turned off , the doors locked , all of the like . Systems had to do a reboot over 30 minutes . I looked at Cam and he says I look like I was about to start a riot , like my look on my face was a salty mother fuck . I was so sad , yeah , and so I said to this guy if people aren't here to collect their orders and we're locked in for 40 minutes , can I grab their orders and I'll just eat whatever they've ordered ? And he was like , yeah , no worries , you're good with , like what they've had . And I says I don't know , I don't care .

Speaker 1 6:48

Anyway , I was like running back to this table , I was what was I eating ? I was eating a Big Mac and McChicken and apple pie . I burnt my mouth on an apple pie . Like I still have a blister on my lip from that . And then , with the light sort of being dipped , I was like yelling out whose hands that ? And Cam was like what is happening ? And I started yelling out stuff like I survived the McDonald's power cut of August 2023 . We will survive .

Speaker 1 7:22

And then , I don't know , I got really like pissed off and I started yelling out this is so bad . Who's running this outfit ? I'm going to demand free McFlurrys for a year . Expect an email on Monday . Yeah , so , and then the doors got to open and the riot that was outside that come flowing through the door . I was like I hate to be still here serving these people . One of the girls was really aggressive and I said to her hey , listen , the doors have been locked for a reason . The power went out and she went who cares , get out of my way . And I was like the aggression . At four in the morning Someone needs their Big Mac . But yeah , it was just . I don't know . It's either a feast or a famine . I go forever without having any family down here and then all of a sudden they all come at once and I just get like swamped . But I had so much fun just chilling out .

Speaker 1 8:15

And then on Saturday we had my cousin around with his 11 year old son and he's super like shy . I don't see him that often so I understood why he was a bit sort of shy around me . But by the end of it he was telling me about how he went and saw a Barbie movie and he asked me if I'd seen the new Dora movie with the adult version . And I was like man , this kid's smart . No , I haven't seen that . I live in Cromwell , there's no theater . And then the minute I said that , he turned around and he says yeah , but I saw it in Hoka Tika , the Barbie movie , which is like up the West Coast and they don't even have a website . So I think Hoka Tika is doing better than I am at actually like going to see movies , that's for sure . I don't know . It's just been such a wonderful time and because I got to spend that like new found minute in Queenstown going out with Cam and seeing how the bars and everything had progressed . I haven't been out for about a year like that .

Speaker 1 9:13

When we actually started at 1876 and just wandered around like we were doing a pub grill , just like back in the day , I was a little bit like I don't know a rabbit animal . 1876 is this fabulous bar that has all these different types of drinks that are just so inviting , and I found myself falling down the rabbit hole of Muldwine with Fireball , which was delicious . And my next drink was the Jameson Hot Toddy , which was like lemon , I don't know lemon water with a shot of Jameson , and it was delicious . But I was getting a little bit drunk and I started saying that I was taking a Lemsip . This is like lemon congestion drink and I was like , oh , I actually can breathe through my nose better now that I've had this drink .

Speaker 1 10:00

But yeah , if anything I could say about the bars in Queenstown , they just are really good , like clean . I mean , sinks in the toilets , in the bathrooms are all , like you know , missing , like they're all chipped , all the ceramic stuff's all munted and I don't know . I just feel like they just need like a repaint and a respray , need a bit of a power wash , because everything's sticky , and just some new facilities , more or less . Is that me saying , because I'm like a 30 year old , that I care about those kinds of things ? Isn't that terrible , oh dear .

Speaker 1 10:36

Anyway , back to my number 20 pod about adulting . When I turned 20 , I was actually at Skybar , which is now bungalow , and there was a D theme and half the bar staff were dressed as doctors and there was a Dolly Parton drummer . I can't actually remember most of the outfits people were wearing . I just it was great , I actually came as myself . I think I was wearing a black mini dress with thigh high fishnet stockings and a crown on my head . Lord knows why . But at that age I mean I don't want to

Challenges and Excitement in Your 20s

Speaker 1 11:08

really say that .

Speaker 1 11:08

This part is about all the things that you are unable to do when you're turning 20 . God no , you can be , like you know , doing adult things early on in life . Don't get me wrong . I mean I was in my 20s when I got my license when the actual age in New Zealand back in those days was like 14 . You could sit your written and go for you like restricted . There was like this weird I think you had to hold your learners for nine months before you could have your restricted and that's probably like one of the younger things that New Zealand does . But I definitely was , and I was late 20s when I got my full . I only use the stupid driver's license for identification to go out anyway , but I was definitely still in my phase of , like , not drinking cocktails and stuff . I was just I don't know lots of shots and drinking wine and trying not to , you know , be a menace . I suppose I did , however , put a question out on my Instagram . Just , you know what's something that sucks to being an adult and it was a landslide . You guys Whitewash , absolute bloody whitewash .

Speaker 1 12:14

Everyone said the same thing and that was paying bills . And listen , I get that . When you sort of start attaining things that are responsibilities , such as a flat or a car or whatever , and you have to pay your war on a fitness , your registration , your power utilities , such as like I don't think anyone pays water bills around here , I don't know , I get that . It's terrible . All you want to do is spend your hard earned money on pissing up and traveling . Yeah , I've been there too , but it was really wild because I don't know the demographic of people that listen to my pod . I don't pay attention to that , but is the fact that bills is something that comes from 20 year olds ? That answered that question , like are you worried about this ? Is this because of the cost of living situation ? What is going on ? I'm sort of I'm scared , but I totally get it .

Speaker 1 13:05

And also off the bat of that was the Sunday Scaries , anxiety and just general anxiety , which that was really like how can we help ? I hate the Sunday Scaries as well . Like you know , for me it's one of the I mean , even now , at my age , the stupid nightclub down the street shuts it too . So before you know it , you've gotten up on a Sunday at like I don't know nine or 10 and you're sort of like jamming everything in . Whereas well , is the Sunday Scaries ? Like because of something you might have said at a party the night before . I don't know .

Speaker 1 13:39

Anxiety is definitely something like that where you get anxiety , where you may have stood on someone's toes about saying something when you've had a couple of beer , reginos , I don't know , but just general anxiety . Like I told you , you can deal with this . Every day is a new day and there's definitely ways to manage your anxiety about this , that and the other . I'm not , you know , pushing it to the side . It just comes with age and when you get older you learn how to deal with it better .

Speaker 1 14:07

I I'm only an anxious person if I just sort of don't really know where I stand with people . And it's one of those things where some people get stressed and they stress eat . I don't I get anxious . And if I get stressed , I like recluse and I just freak out and don't . I can't function , even if I'm like sitting on the couch just scrolling on Facebook and mum's talking to me about something . If I'm anxious , I like snap and I'm like , hey , I can't concentrate on what you're trying to say right now , shut up . Like I don't say shut up , but I just think shh , sweeten , but yeah , just for the fact that everyone sort of notified that you know , when you're in your 20s , oh , maybe it's anxiety for people that , um , hey , I get it . Okay , I see what you're saying .

Speaker 1 14:50

So anxiety based off the fact that you don't know what to do with your life and you're scared you're going to make some wrong choices . But in all honesty , from what I could probably say as advice , your life's only just starting and you should probably go with an open mind that you know anything could happen but also embrace everything . Everything comes naturally . So independence and responsibility is a massive part of when you do hit your 20s . You sort of disconnect from your parents a little bit . You can make some better choices , and I get that . You know we're not in that real culture in New Zealand where you're pressured to do anything with your life . You can sort of make those decisions yourself . But whether or not it's the right decision , I get that .

Speaker 1 15:33

Are you anxious because maybe you don't know if you are going to make that right decision ? I'm 36 and I still don't think I've won the right decision of what I'm doing . But at the end of the day I always say I'm kind of good at what I do and I wouldn't continue doing something if I didn't think I was better at it . But I didn't study to do this , it came with my character , it's natural . Whereas I hate it when you know you take so much time out of your life to bear in your 20s and study for something that you don't stick with ? Yeah , that's anxiety .

Speaker 1 16:08

I'd be anxious about an outcome there too , which is funny because I had that conversation with a guy at a bar , with Cam . He was telling us that he worked , also in his 20s , night shift being a bartender at a nightclub and I thought , holy shit , mate , you've literally just like not squashed your time , but I would never say that you know , wasting it working in a nightclub when you could be on the other side of the bar , which obviously you've had days off and you can actually have those down times and drink and everything else . But I wouldn't consume myself to a night job if I was , you know , finding my feet and making decisions , oh no . But yeah , some of the best things that you can find as an adult for me , I love the whole independence and freedom to buy my own food and drink , as just you know , someone that enjoys experimenting with food .

Speaker 1 17:05

I think when I was younger , mum definitely gave me a side eye , like you probably shouldn't be like cooking dad , or I always felt like I was stepping on her toes when she was cooking me and Tom dinner . That , like you know , whatever she's brought is like you know , this is how it goes . And then all of a sudden you turn 20 and you start cooking for yourself and she was all what's this ? You know , is this good for you , right ? I was like , oh no , and I love traveling . So there's definitely this free-for-all when you get to just wander the world and as you get into your 20s , other countries allow you to drink and I don't think I was really touching on America when I was early 20s , because I know that they're quite strict with alcohol laws . But when you start having those experiences and learning about different countries and everything else , oh it's the best part .

Speaker 1 17:57

And I also say this goes hand in hand with your non-serious job . I get that people study and they commit to a career quite early on in life , but I definitely think that if you have something that's not serious working in retail where you don't give two shits when you call in sick or whatever , like what if someone called you and said , hey , let's drive to Christchurch and let's just like , go and catch up with someone you know and you're in this serious corporate job trying to make a buck and you can't I think that , being young , you get to make really fun choices . That could be a bit detrimental the older that you get . But for now , just go out and do it . Who cares ? I had a job in retail and I'm telling you , the older you get , the more shit it is to call in sick . It's not easy . You feel like you're letting the team down . I don't know , there's just weird things that come with it .

Speaker 1 18:49

But like one of my favorite things to do when I was , you know , making those decisions in my 20s was definitely like going on day trips . I don't think I ever really turned down anyone who offered to take me on a day trip . Yeah , whether it was anywhere . You know , like if I was working at call in sick , if I was doing something else , I would always abandon that for the sake of doing a day trip . And I do remember this one time that I was somewhere I can't remember it's North or South Strabbroke Island , off the coast of Brisbane , with some friends that took me to Cylinder Beach and it still plays on in my mind as one of my favorite days ever .

Speaker 1 19:26

You know , when you sit on the beach , have a couple drinks , have a cheeseboard , everything else , and then you go home . You got sanding your hair . You got a like an amazing sunburn , tan thing going on and you just sort of like you're content , you know your vitamin D's been topped up . You just humble and you have a shower and you wash that sand out of your hair and you slide into your bed and you turn the air con on because you know that you're past that adulting stress phase where you can't pay for power and just sort of enjoy those moments because I just I'd hate to look back and think , shit , I didn't do that but I should have , because that would have been a really great , you know , learning curve or whatever . And I have never been back to Cylinder Beach , to be quite honest , and I definitely should because , my god , I loved it so much .

Speaker 1 20:14

However , there's also a little tidbit here about hookups in my 20s . Of course , let's sort of drop myself in this a little bit . What can I say about this ? Some poor choices I made . Well , in Queenstown we have this friggin burger bar , ferg Burger , and I would probably tell you that if you haven't hooked up in the Ferg Burger queue you're not going to , and that's like the last resort .

Speaker 1 20:46

I did twice One night . I just sort of remember I actually have abandoned burgers before I've ordered it , met some guy gone home with them , left my burger behind . I laugh at this now because I just remember this random guy from Nelson who was down and I went back to his place and I ended up back at my place after his place and I took my burger with me . So I like , literally I'm like such a bin chicken about this I left the burger on the floor and then I grabbed it as I was leaving . I'm not proud of this , but I had an oil-fin heater and I was so hungover I lay there for about four hours turning my Ferg Burger on the oil-fin heater trying to warm it up . Yuck , that's why am I not dead really ?

Speaker 1 21:39

And the other time would be . I got into the taxi with this random guy and we went to the Frankden Arms , somewhere like the beach I don't even like remember it wasn't close to his accommodation , it wasn't close to my house and we hooked up under a tree . And I remember waking up I don't even know how long I was asleep for and I look behind me and there's this guy in his living room window just drinking his cup of coffee , just looking directly at me , and this guy that I was with he'd gone . I had no idea . I still had my phone , my wallet , my handbag . Nothing was stolen , it was just my stupid , dusty ass waking up under this tree .

Speaker 1 22:14

But I do think that when you're in your 20s you get to have these really fun experiences where you just think shit and yeah , like I would 100% just go for everything who cares , live your best life . That's what you say these days , don't you ? On that note , I'll move into some life updates . My family has now introduced a new baby . We had baby Arlo join us on Saturday . My cousin in Australia had a baby boy and baby mama's doing really well as well . I got to catch up over video call yesterday and I tell you , just hearing that he was born filled my cup . His sister is also pregnant and between the two of them they didn't want to release genders like no one knows what anyone's having , which makes it terribly difficult for someone like me who's coming over with a box for a presence . I'm like I don't know how to buy gender neutral presents . Anyway , to hear that there's a little baby boy is just so fulfilling . Oh god , I'm so excited . And , as I am in Australia in nine days , cup is going to be sufficiently filled , got some really great wedding , family and friends time coming and I think I'll do a pod next Monday just before I fly out on Wednesday .

Budgeting, Investments, and Future Plans

Speaker 1 23:33

But , as I will take it all by ear , my budget is literally almost done . The cruise was paid me and mum paid that , and then we had a glass of bubbles just to celebrate , because that was a hectic amount of money that I had to come up with in two months . I was like , oh fuck , right , susan , really thrown it on me . But the thing is is that now , until November 1 , I have to save for spending money and I don't know why . I sort of forecasted this , but I put aside $1,500 and mum cracked up laughing . She was like you're on a boat , you're not spending any money on anything . What are you doing ? Why are you saving ? And I was like , oh no , well , it's probably because we can't have the drinks package , because P&O doesn't do that . They do this responsible service of alcohol for Melbourne Cup , so it's paper drink and I sort of got a little bit nervous .

Speaker 1 24:25

But in saying that , I'm not gonna be drunk the whole time , I just I have family on the cruise and I am just really aware of just enjoying myself . So , oh yeah , look I don't know . And then I've got my bestie here the week after and then it's like Christmas and New Years and then I got a really great free incoming in February , a whole bucket load of concerts and stuff . So I started jotting down past all these budget things that I was really like putting money towards , to actually like what next , you know , and I think it's really exciting that the world is opening up and there's heaps of movement and lots of you know concerts and stuff . But for some reason , like I feel like I'm on the bones in my arse , more so than I've ever been , because I'm just like shit .

Speaker 1 25:08

But in saying that , my brother's definitely in a position to buy a house at the moment , it's super exciting in our family , but nothing's really fitting what he needs his house . He's not picky , he's just got a fair few you know things that he wants . And I just sort of laughed . I said to mum this is ridiculous . If he can't purchase property based off the fact that he's the most chill person and he just needs you know sort of different things , what's someone like me who just needs to buy a piece of land gonna be stuck with , you know . But also , if I buy the land , I don't know how long it's gonna take to actually like put anything on it . And if I had a batch , when am I gonna have time to go to the batch ? I don't know . It's just I feel like I had to take a little step back on the whole , like , I don't know , purchasing of something like an asset , whereas I fell down the rabbit hole of finding out about investments and not just like shares and crypto and stuff like that , because that's just kind of not really where I'm vibing , but investing in something where I could do like compound interest , because in New Zealand , savings accounts are really , really low on their saving interest rates . So I don't know , I'm just I'm sort of stretching my legs out a little bit in some different areas , so I'm a little excited . But lo and behold don't stress I have my budget done and I am very proud of myself .

Speaker 1 26:32

Didn't take much , but took something . I was like whoa , the wine of the week , I'm gonna say . Me and mum got back on the cask thing and had a Pino gris in the orange box from Countdown . She loved it . She loved it , and her mum used to drink cask wine , but she was like . You know , it's come a long way . I think I told you that last podcast , so I don't know , I can't fault this cask . However , I would definitely say that the Muldwine with a shot of fireball at 1876 was definitely a goer . Oh , my goodness me . I don't know if it was because it was freezing outside , but the whole thing just tastes like Christmas in a cup and it was stunning .

Speaker 1 27:15

So I definitely rate that my book , that I've been reading the 101 essays that were changed the way you think I got stuck on page 17 . I know there's a handful of people reading this at the minute . It's part of an essay called 101 Things that Are Worth Thinking About More Than Whatever's Consuming you , and that essay is like a . I'm not stupid , I'm not . I've read this essay four times but I feel like , over these 101 things , I sometimes like reread and I'm like , okay , that's really amazing .

Speaker 1 27:48

One of the things that really cracked me up that was one of the like worth thinking about more than whatever's consuming you is how will you remember this time in your life , 20 years from now ? What will you wish you had done or stopped doing ? What have you overlooked and what little things you didn't realize you should have appreciated . I hope that out of everyone listening to me in 20 years time to this day , someone is gonna message me and say remember when you did that podcast about being 20 again and where you know where do you think you had overlooked something or what's something that you didn't realize you should have appreciated ? I appreciate every single one of you guys who are listening to me and you know , helping me fulfill my hobby and my joy . That makes me so happy because , honestly , my job sometimes is sort of like negative . It is positive in its own way , but sometimes I feel like I need to throw the book at it and just be like I'm done . I don't want to be in this industry

Reflections on Personal Experiences and Excitements

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anymore .

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Right here , however , the joy of actually being able to record something that comes off my own experiences and vulnerability is my pride of place . Hands down , and To think that every sort of episode is a different combination of people that are joining us . You know people drop off and then they binge , three at a time . The whole thing is just so great and I just I'm so thankful for this Opportunity , but more or less like in 20 years time Holy crap , where is where am I gonna be ? What ? What am I now ? 36 , whatever you 56 or four years off , 60 ? That's scary .

Speaker 1 29:32

But these 101 things we're thinking about , more than whatever is consuming you , is Like some of the really I don't know Really good things to think about . I mean , what ? What does , yes , feel like to you ? People very often focus on the warning signs it's something's wrong , but not the subtle song was it's the subtle signals that something is right . Yeah , I get that anyway .

Speaker 1 30:00

Um , I Love that essay . I just definitely Recommended it . Oh , I sort of like went a bit forward there with a couple of other ones . We are definitely moving past that , page 70 . I promise you , oh , it's just one of those things . I'm moving in a snails pace with this book because I just and wrapped up in it . Oh , it's weird .

Speaker 1 30:23

So for me In the house lately we have been getting air conditioning installed and I have had three different businesses Come and give us quotes for some ideas as to how we can air condition our living room , because it's like 12 meters and , oh , look , I don't care . Apparently , though , I'm not allowed to be in the backyard this year with the paddling pour and a glass of wine , like I've been threatening all the other times , susan's put her foot down and says no , we're getting air conditioning . I don't know how , but we're gonna do it because there's just different Components to our living area that we need to take into consideration . So it's been really wild having three different businesses basically fight for which system to use . However , in our garage it's kind of like a hoarders nightmare because we've got my flat , my brother's flat and my mom's Storage .

Speaker 1 31:19

Also , my brother's got his weapon of a jet ski , so we had this really little guy Like . He was like five foot , nothing , which is not a little late . I apologize if anyone's five foot . He says to me oh , can I just get up into your manhole and have a look in the roof to see how we could install this ? And I was like , oh shit , here we go . How are we gonna get you through to the manhole ? Because everything is in its way . And anyway , I had the garage door up and my neighbor came over and these little legs were hanging out . The the manhole Look terrible . And they were like what's going on ? I says I'm trying to get air conditioning stalled . This is nightmare , but I think we've come to an amical family decision as to what we should be doing , and I'm so grateful because that was a nightmare and I'm glad it's over .

Speaker 1 32:04

But also , on that note , we've decided to upgrade our oven , which is super exciting because when we built this house , well , we I didn't do anything . My brother built this house . It was based off the fact that we were gonna sell it and then my mom got super attached to it because Tom had written things on different beams in the house and he'd like Plastic over them and there's just different , like almost like a time capsule , and so I don't know , mom's gone to sell it twice and she can't just oh , I love this house . Your brother built it , rara . So we are upgrading the oven , which is making me very happy , because I feel like we don't use the oven because it never had Fan bake or fan grill and we always use the airfryer .

Speaker 1 32:49

So we went shopping Harvey Norman I don't know why I end up there , it's just such a vibe and we got to pick out a new one , which I'm very excited . It's all got . It's got all the bells and whistles . However , I was in there and I walked past a device that I have been searching for for about a year and a half and I'm not even gonna lie , danny Listeners , I was a very excited young lady , I almost screamed is the ninja creamy .

Speaker 1 33:18

Now , look , this is this device where you freeze anything and I mean anything and and it whips it up and turns it into ice cream , and it might not even be the most easiest of ingredients . There are definitely ways to do it dairy-free . And then there's like full-blow and like instant pudding cream , chocolate , sugar , diabetic overload and , quite frankly , I've fallen down that rabbit hole for the past week . But I have definitely got a sort of play with the settings a little bit more just to find my base mixture that I like , because it Can't be good having this much dairy , and it's one of them things that the containers not big but it's not small . But sometimes I'm like , oh , it's fine , I can finish the whole lot , and I'm like I shouldn't have finished the whole lot . Oh my god .

Speaker 1 34:08

So if you look up like tiktoks , the ninja creamy has people in America that use what they call it like strawberry or cheesecake flavored jelly to make sort of Not really like cream freeze I would say like mr Whoopie cream freeze , and so we in New Zealand don't have that . I had to like sub sort of sub in something . So I decided to start using vanilla instant pudding . It's so fun , oh my god . So I freeze instant pudding with cream and milk , like half half and not any like anything extra , and then you whip it into cream freeze and Then you can add in mix ins and there's an actual button that says that you can add in like anything , like biscuits , you know , muesli , peanuts , chocolate , chocolate sauce I don't know who cares and I have a favorite restaurant , a favorite ice cream shop in Australia called cold rock .

Speaker 1 35:08

Is it cold rock ? I keep calling that hard rock and everyone was telling me off cold rocks . So what they do is they get your favorite ice cream and they sort of like mash it around on this ice block and they turn it into cream Freeze and they add your favorite sweets . Oh my god . You guys , I have the machine in my house and what was really great about it was the fact that they were $600 and Because Harvey Norman had a display model , I got to take that for Shretinal , yeah .

Speaker 1 35:38

And I was walking out of Harvey with this bloody big creamy machine on my shoulder and mom's like what is that ? And I stood there . I said you can buy an oven , susan , but I'm buying an ice cream maker and it comes in three containers , which is really flexible , because right now I'm freezing the hell were they blackberries ? Because I'm gonna make blackberry sorbet . And then I sort of touched on making protein yoghurt , so I was freezing yoghurt to add to protein powder and maybe turn into a thick shake . Anyway , I've got my containers wrong . This isn't swear . These things should come with like labels .

Speaker 1 36:18

Anyway , I went to make mom a thick shake , a chocolate thick shake yesterday and I was so like excited to push the thick shake button . I was like what's gonna happen ? No one knows . This is so cool . And she's like significantly like hates yoghurt , like the smell , everything . She's like get it away from me . And I thought I was like mixing up this decadent , bloody chocolate thick shake with Like a vanilla instant pudding base . I was like , yeah , this is gonna be great . And then I gave it to her . Oh , my god , she almost like spattered on the carpet and all of a sudden I had to try and drink it . I was like , oh , this is sick . So , yeah , I think I need to buy like some pen or some shit to write on these containers because I can't let that happen again . She's . If it keeps happening , she's not gonna trust me , she's not gonna eat what I make her , and that's just not okay . So I'm thoroughly enjoying all my creations in the creamy thing .

Speaker 1 37:09

And what was really cool is I went to the doctor this morning and I was messaging a friend saying I was at the supermarket and I was specifically buying things that would go in ice cream . How terrible is that . And , honestly , the stuff I was at the chat cash register buying , the lady would have thought I was mad or like some diabetic binging female who broke your heart . Yeah Well , exactly , the Tinder update is really funny . So I actually had two invitations to go to the Symphony concert up on chronic pecan Saturday . I was kind of weirded out by it , though , because I didn't want someone to like I don't know . There's something really weird about going to a concert is the first time you meet someone because you can't talk . And anyway , to be honest , hearing about the feedback about the concert , I was like people were standing behind fences and they were mad , so sort of glad I didn't go to that . But also a couple of times I keep seeing People posting just wheelchair emojis , like a man in a wheelchair and on Saturday I actually like replied and I was like , hey , I'm all good , what's with the wheelchair emoji ?

Speaker 1 38:13

And the answer oh , brilliant , I'm telling you , very creative . This guy actually message back and he says what did he say ? I said , oh , I questioned the wheelchair . And he says what it means is that I'm I'm wheeling into your DMs . I'm sure there was three people that had the same thing . Just a wheelchair emoji . Just who comes up with this shit ? I'm wheeling into your emojis and not slight . Oh , maybe I could do a snowboarding female and snowboarding to someone's DMs . I'm gonna try it out , anyway .

Speaker 1 38:56

So that's where we're at with that and honestly , I haven't really paid too much attention because I've been a little bit consumed with my family's attendance in Queen's Town , which has just been . I Think I only fall down the Tinder rabbit hole when I haven't got anything else going on and I'm like , oh well , we'll see what's going on around here . So still haven't actually been on any dates or anything . I don't . There's not no , just a whole lot of chatter , which is really lovely , and , yeah , being invited to St Anthony , but One of the symphony invites was actually someone that I knew he , I swiped on him . He swiped on me , which is all good , but I wouldn't see myself pursuing a future or anything . I just thought he was a crack up and I wanted to say hi . He was like I've got a spear-ticket to symphony ? No , but anyway , that's where we're at . I hope that I can get better and next Monday I sound not as Terrible . I've actually tried to get through this , to Complete it , just because I don't want to drag myself on and ruin my throat any many further .

Speaker 1 40:01

However , I Love you all . Thank you so much for listening today and I hope everyone takes care and just gets through this bitterly winter part of Winter , but I don't think it's that cold . I don't know . I go through phases and I'm like ah , and then I'm like oh , it's really hot . Take care . If anyone needs anything , please reach out . I think I've changed my Instagram handle to just daddy dot pod , which , if you're still following , you'll still see it . It's all good , but it was just confusing some people . I can't find you right . It's alright , you weren't looking hard enough . No , I'm kidding . Anyway , love you all , take care and I will speak to you all again soon . Bye .