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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, January 3, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Women rock!, we offer up a motivational Ted Talk, we’re planning a vacation to somewhere, Valentine’s Day is coming soon and Chantel misses celebrating with little kids, there’s a box in Josh’s brain attic and it’s very organized, we were both right about remodeling the bathroom, the numbers are in and our kids only like the dog, Chantel keeps a secret schedule and gets upset when no one follows it, it’s the year of solo travel, and don’t mix up your ointments.
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Full show transcript:
This is Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show. It's Friday. Hey. Friday.
3rd on today's show. Women rock. Yeah. They do. Yeah.
Women rock. Women rock. And pop and country and other music forms. Women just rock. Yeah.
Period. Let's go, women. We offer up a motivational TED Talk. You're welcome. Yeah.
Thanks for joining us. We're planning to vacation somewhere, but where? Probably not Bora Bora. Oh, why you gotta why you gotta crush my dreams? So expensive.
If you loved me, you'd figure it out. It's $14,000. If you love me Oh. You'd figure it out. Plasma.
Oh, really? Donate plasma? Come on. Valentine's Day is coming soon. I miss celebrating with little kids.
Now right now, you do. Yeah. But you didn't. But then you did. Yeah.
Now you do again. I flip I flip flop. Okay. Good. There's a box in Josh's brain attic, and it's very organized.
Yeah. Are you are you envious of my organized attic? Yes. Get your attic in order. I know I need to.
I don't know how. Well, let's sit down. We'll go through some visualization exercises. I'll I'll I'll walk you through my attic. Okay.
And then you can, Marie Kondo, your attic. Okay. We were both right about remodeling the bathroom. Yeah. But I was right, and then you decided that I was right and you agree.
So then you're right. That I'm right too. It makes no sense, but it can't yeah. Okay. Alright.
Alright. The numbers are in, and our kids only like the doll. Top dog. I keep a secret schedule, and I get upset when no one follows it. That is not my problem.
On my schedule, everyone. No. Please. It's the year of solo travel. Perhaps, but but to where?
I don't know. Bora Bora. Yes. It's half as it's half as expensive. Don't mix up your ointments.
That's just solid advice. Advice. Yep. Thanks for listening to our show. We hope you'll subscribe wherever you're listening, and rate the show as well.
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This day comes around once a year. They call it women rock day. All of these days come around once a year. Well, there is that. Every day comes around once a year.
Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah. January 3rd comes around once a year. It happens to be women rock day.
Women rock every day. I know. And this particularly is about women breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations in the music industry. Okay. Whether that's classical, pop, rock, whatever it is.
Women rock. Women do rock. Women rock. Yeah. What?
And that's how you have to say it. That is how you have to say it. Yeah. What? What?
So who are notable women in music that you, admire or look up to? Okay. Janet Jackson. I'm trying to think of some classy artists. Madonna.
Okay. Very notable woman in music for sure. Oh, big time. Whitney Houston. K.
Celine Celine Dion. Okay. Just looking ahead, we've got Lady Gaga. There's Sheryl Crow. All we need is Lady Gaga.
Sort of. Yeah. You know. T Swift. You didn't mention Taylor.
I didn't mention Taylor Swift. Giant notable woman in music. Oh, that's true. As is Beyonce for that matter. Beyonce.
Yeah. Giant, industry people, that happen to be, women as well. Anyway, today is a day to celebrate women in music because. But even if you're not in music, women just rock. Well, there's that.
That is that. If you're a woman Yeah. Remind yourself that you rock today. Okay. That's a good way to do it.
Let's see. I'm looking at a timeline here. The first woman to reach number 1 on the Billboard chart. Oh. You know who that is?
Let me see. What year? Give me a year. 1960. 1960.
Was she part of a group no. Or was she a solo artist? Solo. Aretha Franklin. No.
That's not a bad pick. But she's a woman who rocks. Sure. Also, Debbie Bonnie Francis. Who is that?
She released Everybody's Somebody's Fool. I don't know. She's the first woman to reach number 1 on the Billboard chart. You mentioned Whitney Houston. Her debut album came out in 1985.
Beyonce. Go ahead. I was just thinking Debbie Harry. Oh, yeah. Blondie.
You could also count her in because Debbie Harry is And she does that's like that's like early punk rock stuff, roots of of a whole format. Beyonce won 6 Grammys in 1 night. That was in 2010. That was a big deal. Oh, whoopie doo.
6 Grammys in 1 night. Yeah. Come on. Joan Jett was inducted into the hall of fame in 2015. She's very powerful.
Yeah. Billie Eilish swept the Grammys top 4. So she was the first female at 19 years old, was the first female to get the big four best album, best record Really? Song of the year, and best new artist. Was she also the youngest?
I don't know. 19's pretty young to to, win the top 4. That happened in 2020. That was only 5 years ago. So that's a that's a big deal.
Yep. Breaking boundaries. Oh, another one that didn't get mentioned, Cher. Oh, Cher. Iconic female.
Yes. Oh, boy. Love him. That's her. That's the one.
Yeah. And then you gotta toss your hair and do the lip thing. Yeah. Anyway, would you be able to guess? One more thing.
Would you be able to guess what percentage of musicians are female? Now this is according to one count that says that, of the people on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, at the end of 2021, what percentage were women? I'm going to say 64. Less than 25%. No.
Really? Yep. That's actually shocking to me. That is very shocking to me as well. Less than 25% of the people on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the end of 2021 were women.
I'm I'm very surprised by that. Yeah. I think there's a lot of women in music and so that's make up about 22 to 24% of performers. That means there's a There's a need a need. For more women in rock.
And I feel like that's a calling for me. I gotta get in there. Yeah. You do. I gotta gotta get in there.
Yeah. Let's get you that record deal. Come on, guys. I'm saying there's room. There is room.
There's certainly room. It's gonna be me. I'm gonna get in there. The world is just waiting for me to 26%. Here's your notes.
Good music. 26%. Chantel, you got it. I do got this. Yeah.
Good morning. Happy Women Rock Day. Did you how are you doing on your resolution? It's day 3. Doing just fine.
Are you? Yeah. I mean, I I I think so. Good. I mean, here's the thing about my resolution.
It's an, it's it's an overlaying umbrella, to help my decision making and planning throughout the year. It's not like I have to commit myself to doing something every day in order to be successful with my resolution, which is by design. Because if I a lot of words. I understand. But I said literally, it's about, being, more conscious about my use of time.
Yeah. And that's my goal this year is to be better at, doing the things that I wanna do and enjoy doing with people I like, hanging out with. And so that's, that is my intention, and I get to spend all year using that to drive me forward. Well done, Jack. So I don't have to be like, yep.
I I I made it to the gym again today, day 3. No. It's nothing like that because that is not gonna work for me. I will fail miserably. So I'm doing fine.
That's a really good goal, and that's a really good way to put it. It's like you know about stuff. I know how to make stuff up on the spot as I go. You kinda do, but you're pretty good at explaining it. They have what's called quitters' day.
Have you heard of this? Is this where people go, never mind. Yeah. When is that? Usually happens the 2nd Friday after New Year's day.
So a week from today? Yes. January 10th. Next Friday is typically bittersweet. Say between, then and the next one, 17th.
I would say a bunch of people are gonna go, this isn't gonna work for me. And and it's hard because you're trying to build a new habit, and that's about a midway point for building a new habit. You've gotta do something at least 20 some odd times before you start to go, this might work. Gonna stick. Yeah.
And then you have to do it another, like, 70 times. You have to do something, like, 90 times before It becomes a habit. Okay. I'm comfortable with this. So if you're giving up after 10 days or 17 days, you're halfway or even a fourth of the way or less than where you need to be in order to, like, actually make a change.
Don't do it, guys. Don't quit. Keep going. Don't start. I thought that's what you're gonna say.
Don't do it. Now I'm being positive. I agree. Keep going. Don't quit.
Don't don't throw in the towel. Feed into the statistics of Twitter's day. Just keep going. Don't quit. Keep going to the gym.
Or whatever it is that you're doing. Or whatever it is. Yeah. It's usually the gym. Well, there's that.
There's, like, people will do, you know, sugar, you know, and then they'll go, I gotta have that diet Coke. I gotta have that drink. I gotta have that soda. Also, just because you take a step back doesn't mean that you failed. Okay.
That's true. So if you've committed to going to the gym every day and you miss a day and you're like, well, that's it. I'm done. I gotta quit forever. Nah.
Just keep going. What do they say? Failure is is not getting back up. Yeah. Right?
Failure is knocked down is is not failure. Failure is not getting back up. Look at our little TED Talks today. That. Oh, guys.
Don't quit. Don't don't fall victim to quitter's day. Diet Coke and you're trying to quit sugar. Just stop the diet Coke and then Or do better again tomorrow. Big one.
You know? Or the house. Maybe grab a can. And Moderation is important. Oh, here's one.
What? It's all about consistency and moderation. That's a good one. That is a good one. Yeah.
Here's a good one. Yeah. Heard that one somewhere. Here's some good thoughts. We are so motivational tonight.
I can't even stand it. Oh, we could we could make bumper stickers and t shirts like crazy. We could make wall art they'd sell at the craft store. Consistency and moderation, it would say. And you put it near the pantry.
Wood. Mhmm. Yeah. All pretty like Yes. Bumper stickers.
Nobody uses bumper stickers and more. Paint on a on a plate. What? Puff paint on a plate. And it says moderation and, and Why are you putting puff bait on a plate?
So you can put it on one of those little shelves in your kitchen. Oh, I see what you said. Nobody does that anymore, Josh. I know. Listen.
It took way too long to get you to where my terrible craft idea was. That's an old craft idea. I know. You're ruining the TED talk. No one's gonna buy a puffy paint plate.
Come on. A puffy paint plate might be just the thing to encourage you. It may be that's the problem. Maybe people need more puffy paint plates. I don't think so.
I don't I don't think anybody needs that. Motivational puffy paint plates. The propositions Here's the moral. To further your progress. Go ahead.
Don't give up your goals. Oh, I I thought you were just gonna end there. Don't give up. That's the moral. Is this that's the very moral.
No. Keep going. Fight through the setbacks. Yeah. Get back up.
Yeah. Alright. Don't quit. This one says, act like someone who's already met the goal. Fake it till you make it.
That's a good bit of advice. Put that on a puff paint plate. Fake it till you make it. I don't know where you got this puff paint plate. Nobody has that.
That's not a thing. We're gonna we're gonna make millions selling puff paint plates. That's our get rich slow scheme? Yes. Very, very slow.
Josh. Chantel. Maybe you don't know this, but this year is our 20th year anniversary. I know. We, our wedding anniversary.
We met 20 2005. 2 years ago. We met 2,003. 22 years ago. We got married, in 2000.
2005, which is now 20 years ago this summer. Years. Yeah. This summer. I've almost known you longer than I haven't known you.
Well Almost. And that happens we did the math on this, and I'm trying to remember. It's either this year or next year. I'm gonna have to do the math again. Because you are 9 months older than me, it happens one point for you, and then it happens another point for me.
But that's wild. That's crazy. It's crazy that we've been married for 20 years almost. Yeah. Crazy.
I know. This year's a a big fun year. It's a big one. So we were talking about going on a trip. Last night, we were at the store, and we were in the travel section.
Yeah. I was looking at different books. Yeah. I was looking at, different destinations, and I was trying to figure out, like, do we wanna go somewhere exotic, somewhere outside of the country, or do we wanna go to somewhere inside the states? Yes.
Because I know I know yes. I'd like to go somewhere. Right. But there's a lot of the of the country that we haven't seen, and there's a ton of the world that we haven't seen. Well, my initial when you were when we were talking about it, my initial response was somewhere tropical.
Yeah. But our anniversary is in July. Right. And I said, you wanna go tropical in July? It's gonna be hot.
But maybe it'll be less expensive because it's an off season. I don't know if it's I don't know. Is that an off season? I really couldn't tell you. Don't know.
Yeah. We gotta do some research. I know. So I need to find out a little bit about that. And then, and then, yeah, we gotta make a decision about where where we wanna go.
Bora Bora. You keep saying that. I wanna go there so much it's gonna cost to try to go to Fiji and Bora Bora. Bora is too expensive. But have you seen the little cottages they have on the ocean?
Look at it. No. I've seen it. Just type in Bora Bora. All inclusive to Bora Bora.
And I'm just gonna pull this up because, there is a a travel thing that we could we could look at. Just look at Yeah. It's gonna be anywhere from 3,000 to Per person. 5000, 6000 per person. That's that's a lot.
Like, Bora Bora is not it. Like, it just isn't I don't I don't think we can swing a 10 to $12,000 trip for 5 days. It's just not I That's not it. But look at the pictures. No.
I know. I've seen it. That's such a cool place. What would be really cool is if, somebody built that closer. Can you can you bring the blue water and the tropical, stuff and the little, tiki huts on the water, closer?
Yeah. That'd be great. Yeah. I'd be down for that. Yeah.
Just make that available, and not cost $6,000 a person. I honestly I don't it doesn't I was just gonna say, I don't care where we go, but it it matters. It does matter. Because I don't wanna go somewhere lame. Right.
It would still be fun because we manage to have fun everywhere we go, but I don't wanna go somewhere lame. What what's somewhere lame? Like Salt Lake. Okay. Just because we go there Yeah.
Yeah. Often. Yeah. I I understand. I I get you.
I get you. What I'm saying? I do. It's gotta be somewhere new, somewhere fresh, somewhere cool. Okay.
Well, we'll figure this thing out. I'm looking. Yeah. We're just gonna have to look. We'll find a destination.
The other option is to, put a map on the wall and throw a dart. That is true. That's an idea. And then you end up in Punxsutawney. No.
No. We're not going there. No. Again, that's somewhere lame. You don't think Punxsutawney would be an interesting place to go in July I when nothing is happening?
I don't. I don't think that would be an interesting place to go. Should I? Ned Ryerson? Yeah.
You know. Alright. Well Keep thinking about it, Josh. Will keep thinking about it, and you do as well, and we're gonna figure something out. I'm always thinking about it.
Alright. You're always thinking about vacation? I'm always thinking about Bora Bora. Oh, well, save those pennies. I know.
Alright. So there's this guy in Baltimore, Maryland who, had a very merry Christmas. His friends gave him a snowflake tripler scratch off lotto ticket. Okay. And he, he got a coin.
He scratched off the thing, and he ended up, winning. How much? Well, let's let's, let's go here. The guy wants to remain anonymous. He did tell the Maryland Lottery officials that he didn't believe it.
He just couldn't believe what he was seeing. He, left the Christmas party early so he could go to a local store and scan the ticket just to make sure it was a winner. Okay. And It was a scratcher? Yep.
Okay. They scratched it off, and he was like, no way. No way. And he ran to the store and scanned it, and they said, yep. That is a winning ticket.
And he was like, no way. And, so then he went back to the party to tell everybody it is a winner. And, when I got back to the party, the celebration went up a few notches, he said. I I guess that's exciting. He won a $100,000 on a scratcher.
Hey. No way. Yahweh. I I won 15 on a scratcher. Yeah.
I that's pretty good. Was pretty excited about that. 100,000, but that's a pretty good deal. 15? Yeah.
Whoopee. I mean, what a way to celebrate your Christmas. You got your friends around. You just accidentally won a $100,000. I wanna know what the celebration went up a few notches means.
I don't think you do. I do. Party. That's what I think. They had a party.
Anyway, it's good news for the anonymous guy in Baltimore who won a 100,000 dollars. Good news to me because I won $15. Yeah. And good news to you. Yes.
I need to go cash it in still. But Well, good for you. Or do I buy another lottery ticket? No. That's how I get this.
Gambling going. No. Get out while you're up. I always say that. Don't don't just don't fall victim.
Anyway, it's good news to get you going. The next holiday Yeah. Piece made that people are gonna be celebrating is Valentine's Day. And in case you haven't been to the store, they've already got stuff out. All the stuffed animals and candy.
We put away all the Christmas tree stuff and broke out all the hearts. And all of the influencers are like, here's this cute Valentine's Day idea you could do. Here's a cool treat. And for years here's the thing, Josh. I when my kids were little, I was the mom who was like, yes.
I'm gonna make this holiday extra special. I'm gonna make the snowman pancakes. I'm gonna make the what did I do? I did all kinds of stuff. Well, yeah.
Because you had the time and the focus, and you were able to do it. I liked it. Yeah. My kids were little, and they were like, this is so cool. Now we have old people.
Now we have old people, and I see I guess, the last even 2 years, I would look at these Valentine treat ideas, and I'd say, oh, I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore. Oh, I see. But now I'm in the phase where I wanna bring it back. Miss it. Yeah.
You wanna bring it back. I get it. There's a lot of cute stuff out there. Well, get on it. What's stopping you?
You That's true. Yourself. Yeah. I know. And the attitudes of my teenage kids.
Well, look. They're Teenage and young adults. You can't control that, and they're probably not gonna appreciate it anyway. So that's fine. I need more young kids in my life.
I don't have anybody. Well But I have my great niece and but she lives 2 hours away. Yeah. Sad. Well but it's weird that I went from I miss this To I don't miss this.
To I don't miss this. To I miss it. Yeah. That's that's probably the ebbs and flows of life. Is it?
Is there any way you call it? I don't know what they call it. That's what I call it. It's just, you know, it's a it's a a pattern. It's a it's a roller coaster ride.
It's just the way that's just the way things are when you're a parent. The ebbs and flows of life. Yeah. Like, the I I miss things. What do you miss?
Oh, like adventures. Like, and maybe they, were more forced upon our kids than, than they may have liked because it was part of what we were doing. But backpacking and hiking and going out and having adventures and, you know, all that stuff was fantastic. And now I'm like, hey. Let's go to the mountains.
And they both go, oh. I know. I know. We were talking about technology in the mountains. To do this weekend?
We said, let's go snowshoeing. Like, let's go check out some snow. Let's go explore. Hate the snow. Okay.
Well, I hate the snow too, but I'm just I'm gush. I'm ready to get out and do something. Yeah. Well, maybe it'll be you and I. I know, but I like to start with all of us.
I know. But do you want a couple of grumps around? No. No. I don't.
Oh, let's get the snow. That's what I heard from the back seat. Oh. That was at that was at the kitchen table. Yeah.
It's it's it's been everywhere. Every time we talk about it, it's over. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Oh. Oh. So? Go play in it. Put on some snow pants play in it.
And go play in the snow repeated. When was the last time we told our kids, go play outside? That's what they need in their life. They need more go play outside. I need more go play outside.
Go play outside. Oh. I wanna go play. Let's you and I go play outside this weekend. What I'm saying.
What should we do? Where should we go? What should we see? I don't know. Some stuff?
What kind of stuff? I gotta get a new fishing license. That sounds exciting. No. Yes.
I was having an interesting conversation with my friends the other day about, my friend asked what we were talking about inner dialogues and different things, and then it came up that I can ask you, hey. What are you thinking about? And you say, nothing. I'm not thinking about anything. Yes.
And for a long time, when I first knew you, I I thought you were lying to me, and I would get so mad at you because I would say, that's impossible. You've gotta be thinking about something. And your metaphor for this was that everybody has boxes inside of their head. In your brain, it's like an attic, and there's this toy box in the middle. And inside is all these other, little boxes with stuff inside them.
Like work or family or dinner or all these topics. Got this you got this, this cool box, whatever your brain box looks like. Mine's an old wooden, like, cool looking toy box. That's what mine is. I don't know what yours looks like.
That's what mine is. It's it's a cool like, it's got, like, a varnish on it, but it's kinda beat up a little bit. It's a cool box. That's what I see in my head. I've been upset.
And when I open up the top, it's got these little hinges. It's got rope handles. It's very cool box in my brain. Have you not thought about what your what what your brain box looks like? No.
I don't have one. Okay. Get up You've got the big container. Right? And you open that up, and inside is all the other stuff.
So there's, like, like, all these little boxes of things. And if you open up one of those boxes, and it's like, oh, I'm at work. That's my work box. That might look like an old metal lunch box maybe. You open that up so that that, like, sandwich roof opens up.
And then, in inside is, is all your work stuff, and then you're at work, and you do your work. And then when you get ready to leave your work, you put all the stuff back in that box, and you close it up, and you put it back in the big toy box, and then you just sit there. You don't open that back up until you get to? Well, sometimes somebody will call and go, hey. Work thing.
And you go, oh, hang on. Let me dig that out real quick. Gotta get a alright. There's a screwdriver. Go go.
Cool. Alright. Put that back away. And then you move on to the next thing. That's how your brain works.
How my brain works. One box at a time. Correct. And I have the ability to put them all away and close the lid and not think about any of it. That is a superpower.
Is it? Yes. Because I don't have that power. That's how my brain functions. My brain is every box is open at the same time.
That's a mess. And they're always open all of the time. Clean your attic. I know. I don't know how to close all of the boxes.
So when you say when I ask you what you're thinking about and you say nothing, I go, that's impossible. No. That's an impossibility. No way. Because all of my boxes are open.
All of and everybody's like, there's the family box is jumping into this box, and, so I'm thinking about these things at the same time, and it's chaos in there. All the boxes are open. Everybody's dancing around. I can't shut off my brain at all. I don't I don't know, how to help you organize your site.
Mine's all put away very nice and neat inside. Like, I can visualize, open that thing up, and everything is placed. It's it's a nice looking, cool box in my brain. Mine's not. It's crazy up in there.
There's lots of Okay. Maybe you need to spend some time doing some visualization exercises, though. Okay. Because I think, like, I can in my in my mind, I can really see it. I can see like, if I could look in there, I can see what the box looks like.
It's not very big either. It's only like like this big. It's not a huge box. Like, how big like, think about it. The big box, how big is it?
What does it look like? I don't have a big box. I have lots of little boxes. You gotta you gotta find the big box so that you can put the little ones away. It's buried under all the little stuff.
You gotta find it. You know what you need to do is figure out where it is, turn it upside down, dump it out, and start over. Sometimes you gotta declutter. You got too much stuff. I know.
I need to declutter that brain for sure. I'm seeing a mountain of, like, stuffed animals and things, and it's just a pile of stuff. You can't find the box. Yeah. You're right.
Too much stuff. I know. I know we do. You gotta sort out your attic. I know.
But how? I don't know how. I got a good looking attic. Mine's mine's not like yours. Oh, I know that.
I don't know. I don't know that mine's always been like this, but it certainly is now. You gotta sort out your attic. That was a rude thing to say. No.
I'm not being rude. I'm just telling you. If you're gonna have, if the box theory is gonna work for you, you gotta have a decluttered attic. Yeah. I know.
I just don't know how to declutter it. That's the part that I struggle with, you see? I don't know. You're a lady who likes organization I know. Putting things away and stuff, so that's what you gotta do in your brain slash attic.
Just just to if if you just hopped in, you have no idea what we're talking about. It's not addicts. It's brain space. Makes no sense if you just caught that big conversation. Good.
Clean out your attic. Go clean your attic. Declutter your attic. I'm working on it. You gotta you gotta It's gonna take some time.
Yeah. This is not visualization exercise. Okay. Okay. And then you what you've also gotta do, you gotta learn how to put stuff away where it goes and then not do that.
Not open. Yeah. You can you can get it out later. Sometimes you need to lock some stuff up. I had a locked bag.
Do I have a locked box in there? I haven't ever thought about that. Oh, and what would be in there? I don't know. That's secrets.
That's the box box I wanna know about you. I don't have that. I want your secret box. I don't have that. I just now you just now implanted that in my attic.
It's tucked away. Must be. Get that box now. Seen it. I wanna know what's in that secret box.
Me too. Oh. Once it looks like to a therapist. That they'll get that locked box out. I don't have one, but, but it sounds like you might.
But yours is I don't know where it is, underneath the the foot of a teddy bear or something. Anyway, this attic metaphor has been fun. I'm confused. Anyway, And I've been a part of this conversation the whole time. Mhmm.
Yeah. Declutter your attic. That's that's a 2024 goal. It is. I 2025 goal.
Yes. What year is it? 2025. Yeah. Declutter your attic this year.
That's the goal. A few years ago, we decided to repaint our bathroom. Yeah. And we I wanted some wallpaper, but you and I could not agree on a wallpaper that we wanted. And so we finally just said, let's do I've seen this thing where you can put dictionary pages up.
Yeah. You take, like, old, book pages, and, and it's just, like a slurry of, cornstarch and water that makes a paste. And, and then, yeah, you just brush that on the wall, put your pages up, brush it on sort of mod podge style. Yeah. And, and then you can cover the wall with book pages.
And we had found, like, an illustrated dictionary that was kinda cool and old looking, and it was kind of a fun thing. Yeah. And we've had that on our wall for a couple years. So one wall is just a dictionary page wall. Yeah.
And it's cool. I like it. And it has yes. I do. Yes.
I do. Because a whole bunch of it's peeled off. Well, a lot of it is peeled off. And so I I think you liked it. I did like it.
Yeah. And I started to rip off the pages that were peeled, and I was like, okay. I'm ready for something new. Like, I do wanna repaint, and I wanna paint the ceiling. And Right.
I want new tile in there. Yeah. Sure. Redo all of that. Uh-huh.
In the meantime, though, I peeled off the pages of the dictionary wall that were and now it looks like gross because half the pages are there. Half of them are gone. Ripped up. But as I'm sitting in the bathroom the other day and I was blow drying my hair, I realized that I don't necessarily wanna get rid of the dictionary page wall because I learn so much every time I'm in there Yeah. Getting ready.
This is true. I find I have favorite words that I look for every time I go in there. There's, like, a limousine one that I like because there's a picture of a limousine. Yeah. And I like that picture for some reason, and I go the wall's ripped off now.
No. It's just on the bottom part that's ripped off. I never read those words. Yeah. Because you weren't that short.
Yeah. It was never on the ground like that. But I was blow drying my hair, and I was like, I learn a new vocabulary word every time I'm in here. Well Well half of it's ripped off now. We don't have the book to replace them.
Yes. We do. We still have the Yes. The book. Yes.
Well, we're gonna have to find more illustrated pages and replace it then. Okay. That's totally doable. Man. Why are you so upset about it?
Half of it's ripped off. Because I walked in the other day, and I went, somebody got bored. Ripped off half the wall. I just got sick of the pages, like, flopping around. The ones that came on the wall.
Like, two corners that were hanging off. No. There were not. There was more than that. But it doesn't matter anyway because it's all on the bottom half.
It's all ripped off now? It's fine. It needs repainted anyway. I did not know you were so upset by this. Well, I mean, I've I've been upset that I never finished the, the trim around the Yeah.
The little linen closet thing Yep. Forever. Yep. But now it just looks really bad. I know it's terrible.
The walls ripped off. So it feels like a junk room, and I don't like that. I don't care for the junk room. Like a junk room because it's tiles. Go in, I go, ugh.
From the eighties. It's not even tile. It's linoleum. Yeah. No.
From the nineties, probably. Yeah. It's probably from the I late 80 eighties, early nineties. Yeah. We're both right.
Oh, okay. That's how that works. What you said was correct, and I agree with it. So we're both right. Okay.
I learned something new today. That's like girl math, but for being right. I see. If I'm right and you're in incorrect, but you agree with me being right, then you're also right. I get it.
Clear clearly, that's how it works. Okay. Get back to the original point, Josh. You ripped half the wall off. Do we want to add more dictionary pages to that wall, or do we wanna rip it all off and do just I wallpaper.
Here's my thoughts on on the upstairs bathroom. Say. I I will. I don't particularly, like spending time in that space. Why?
I I like the downstairs bathroom much better. Really? Yeah. And I really have big ideas for the downstairs bathroom. So whatever you wanna do with the upstairs bathroom, go wild.
Okay. I don't, I don't I don't really care. You don't like it because it's not great because it's got ugly linoleum in there. And it has torn off wall. I'm gonna fix the wall.
No. You have to I I just don't like, it's the it's the one that's closest to the bedroom, so I use it, but I don't particularly care for the space. I don't it's just not a vibe I like. I don't know if it's the paint or just I I don't shower in there. I go downstairs.
I use the downstairs bath. I know, and I use the downstairs one way less than I use the upstairs one. Make the upstairs one what you want, and I'll make the downstairs one what I want, and then we'll have the bathroom spaces we like. Okay. Okay.
There are things I need to do in the upstairs one that I can't do without you. No. I didn't say you had to do them by yourself. Okay. I'm just saying when it comes to deciding what colors and what you wanna do with wallpaper or not, I go for it.
Okay. I I don't really have an opinion on that bathroom. Okay. But downstairs, I have many ideas that I would like to make happen. I know you do, and I that's fine because you love the ideas that you have for the downstairs bathroom.
I don't love those ideas, but I'm fine with them because I know that you like them. So I go, I don't care. Right. Go for it. And you don't hang out in that space.
Go wild. Yeah. See? We're both right. Yesterday, we talked about how Emery got a year end review of her photos.
That's right. Yeah. Because you were a little upset that you were, 3rd string After that. Photo count. Yeah.
So it was, it was the dog was number 1. I thought it was her friend number 1, but we found out it was the dog number 1. Thought it was 600 photos, and it's not. I know. It's not.
Said there's no way she took 600 photos of the dog between April December. Okay. Continue. So the dog was first. Yeah.
Then, her her BFF, her best friend, was second. Then it's you. Yeah. And then it's me, and then it's her brother. Right.
That's the order of photos in her phone. So how many photos of the dog? A 172 photos of the dog. How many of her best friend? I didn't get that number.
How many of you? 53. 54. How many of me? 53.
Yeah. So there you go. You're down here in 3rd going, oh, I'm in 4th. After the dog. I get it.
The dog's top billing. So then we said to our son Every picture of the dog looks the same. No. That's not true. Yes.
That is true. Cute that dog is. That dog. That dog. That dog.
So, we ask the same of our son. How many Yes. Pictures, do you have of the dog? He has more pictures of our old dog than our current dog Yeah. Which, you know, that's fine.
And then he has, I said, how many pictures do you have of me? Uh-huh. And he goes, let me look. And he goes, 0. I have 0 pictures of you.
Uh-huh. And I said, Beck, that is so rude. Many pictures of me did he have? 0. 0.
Why don't you have pictures of your mom? And he goes, what am I gonna do with them? Right. He's that's exactly the what what am I gonna do with pictures of you? I don't need that.
He's like, I got a bunch of screenshots, some stuff I saved off the Internet. And he takes pictures of his car. Yeah. Pictures of his car, pictures of the dog, screenshots. That and he's like, I got some stuff, downloads.
Like, I got that, but I don't have I don't have pictures of you. What would I do with Yeah. What would I do with them? What would I do with pictures of you? Reminisce?
Yeah. Look at them fondly and don't look at my mom. So you got the big 0, and I got the big goose egg. Yeah. In the son's phone.
Yep. I also, pulled in 4th place in our daughter's phone. So But again with 53. 53. 170 something of the dog.
53 and 54 of the 2 of us combined, still That's right. Still not first place. Still not as much as the dog. The dog More than the dog. Who looks the same in every photo.
I know, Except not because it's so cute. No. Oh, such a cute dog. That dog. Yeah.
So, when it comes down to it, the dog is is king of the king of the kids. That's the it's the story. No. I know it's the story. We could leave the house, and they wouldn't even know because they would just be fine with the dog.
The dog's in charge. But here's the other part of the dog. Like, how many texts do we get from our daughter complaining about the dog? Like, oh. This dog is making me crazy.
Driving me crazy. And then she walks in the room and goes, but look how cute. I was just looking. I was trying to see I've got pictures of, the puzzle I built, the ties the flies that I tied. Here's a good how many pictures of me do you have in your phone, Charles?
Don't have my pictures sorted that way. Are you serious? Yeah. Let me look. Let's see.
It says of you, I have 254. Aw. Yeah. 329, that say they're of me. 220 of a boy, 180 of, our girl, and then, there's some pictures of dogs.
How many of me do you have? 200 and Well, according to this, I have 254. But I don't have my backup on. So I have my backup on. Yeah.
That's why you're gonna have 100 and 100 and 100. Yeah. Because it's you have a backup turned on. I have 1,423 photos of you. Yeah.
From the beginning of time because they exist in a backup. That's on the cloud. That's not on your phone. From the beginning of time. What you need to find out is how many exist on your phone, but I clear my phone off regularly.
Oh. So I don't I don't much better than me. Better than anybody. It's just the way I remember we were talking earlier about keeping your attic organized? Same with my phone.
I know you are. I don't like a bunch of desktop icons. I don't like a bunch of icons on my phone. I know. You're like a bunch of clutter in my stuff.
I know. You're a clean person. That's why I put things away. You're very organized. I get it.
I know. I'm just saying. I'm happy that you have pictures of me in your phone. That's all. I have I have pictures.
Quite a bit too. I'm impressed. I think you kinda like me. Maybe. High five.
We're too far away to high five. You're clear across the room. But, yes, high 5. Air 5. Good deal.
You didn't even put up your hand for air 5. Air 5. Yeah. There you go. Good job.
Good job to you. Let's talk about, a secret schedule. What does that even mean? I here's the thing. I didn't know this was a thing until I saw another woman talking about it, and I went, oh, I do that.
You have a secret schedule? Think it was a secret schedule. Oh, great. Here's what happens. Great.
No. No. No. I don't know. Here we go.
Settle down. Settle down. Throwing papers. What happens is we spend this 4 hours of our morning together, and then we separate. You stay here.
I go to my other job. And To your secret schedule. No. No. No.
No. No. Where's the secret schedule? Come in. Send to me.
So when I'm at my other job, I go, okay. Here's the things I need to get done today. Or even if I'm not at work and maybe we're separated. Or even if we're this happens when we're together too. Where in my head, I go, here are the things that I need to get done today to either feel accomplished or because they need to get done, and, also, here's maybe something I wanna do for fun.
So yesterday, for instance, I was at work and I go, okay. I've taken all the Christmas stuff down. Now they need to be put away in boxes. So that's my plan for this evening. I wanna put Christmas in the boxes, but I need your help getting this stuff down.
Right. And you said, to, our son, Beck, you said, you're probably gonna need to help dad get down those Christmas boxes so I can put the stuff away. To which he said Yeah. That was the noisy. Okay.
So in my head, I said, I wanna do I wanna put the Christmas away. And what else did I have? There was something else that I wanted to do. So I have this schedule in my head of things I wanna do. I didn't communicate that with you initially.
Later, I did. No. That's the extent of it. You said No. I wanna put you're gonna need to help dad get those boxes down listen.
So that I can put that stuff away. That was End of In message. I know. You're going too far ahead. Okay.
I'm still at work. We're still separated. Alright. And I go here. I wanna do the Christmas away.
I wanna do this other thing. And then you picked me up from work, and then you had the kids with you. And I went, what a nice surprise. And we drive, and we're driving, driving, driving, and I go, where are we going? And then for a minute, I was like, oh, maybe we're gonna go get a treat.
I like going to get a treat, a delicious warm beverage. K. No. That's not where we're going. You said, I wanna go to the mall.
The kids wanna go to the mall. Yeah. Not me. The kids wanted to wanted to go, quick shopping and look at a couple of stores. They were gonna go on their own.
The roads weren't great. Traffic was ridiculous. I said, hey. I'm going out and about. We'll just take you after we, pick up mom from work.
K. So then you say we're going to the mall, and immediately I'm upset because I go, that is not that was not I read that on your face. Schedule. Yeah. I had a schedule.
It was my secret schedule, and it's my secret schedule because I didn't tell any of you what my schedule was or the plans that I had for the evening. But you guys also had your own plans, your own secret schedule that you didn't tell me about. I wouldn't say it was a secret. We weren't intentionally I know, but I'm calling it a secret schedule because you I was unintentionally I was looking at the convenience of, we're already out, and, now I can just, do that, and it's done. I know.
That was my it was there was no secret. It was just me being, real lazy about things and going, hey. Get everybody out of the house at once. We gotta we had to come pick you up, and then I said, let's just while we're out, take care of this, and then we'll go home. And that's what we did.
And you got a treat. When I I did get a treat. So you should be fine. I am fine. The thing about it is I watched this woman say, I I noticed that I get upset so many times when I had these ideas in my head of what I wanna do, and my husband has his own ideas and never the 2 communicate.
And so she goes, so we create these secret schedules in our heads Uh-huh. And then we're upset when our spouse is like, you didn't tell me that you had a secret schedule. No. You had a secret schedule. I didn't know there was anything on a schedule.
So I didn't know there was a schedule to be secret. I know. I all I knew is I had to be somewhere to get you at a specific time, and I made that happen and that I knew that the kids also had a thing they wanted to do. So I said Right. I can make that happen.
I know. I'm just trying to please the masses. I know. The point of the matter is No. I get the point.
It oh, it's just lack of communication, isn't it? But I wasn't upset by any of it. Oh, I was. No. I know.
That's a you thing. I'm that's what I'm saying. Don't make it a me thing. I'm not involved. This is a you're upset about your own expectations that no one else knew about.
That's what I'm saying. You're making me feel bad, like it's my fault that you were upset. That's a you thing, man. So I don't know what to tell you. No.
It's a part you thing. Uh-huh. Yeah. No way. Because you could have said, oh, hey.
Nope. After I get you, here's this plan. Oh, there's there was no plan. You had the kids, so you did have a plan. No.
I had I had 2 things that had to get done to make everyone in the house happy. Exactly. Yeah. You moved up from work on time. Uh-huh.
Nailed it. And? Deliver the kids to the mall safely. See? Nailed it.
The part of the story you didn't share with me. You had your own secret schedule. Nope. That's wild. You said, where are we going?
And I said, do a secret. No. I said, the kids wanna go to the mall, and you went You don't get it. No. You're right.
Clearly. Yeah. We've been talking a little bit about travel. I've been looking at some trips today. There's just been a lot of that kind of stuff that, that we've kind of had in our brain space for a minute.
Mhmm. And I just saw this, statistic, and I thought, no way. Like, would you would you do the solo vacation thing? It depends. I've seen people do this, and I I think it's kinda fascinating, and I kinda I don't mind being alone.
That's not the problem that I have. Mhmm. It depends on where it is because a lot of places are gonna be more fun with another person. I don't disagree with that. Yeah.
And so I feel like I'd be okay maybe a day maybe a day or 2 by myself. K. Then I'd start to feel like, oh, man. I really wish I had somebody else here with me. Where would you go though if you went by yourself?
I don't know. Like, would you do a staycation thing? No. I'd wanna go somewhere. Like, I'd wanna leave the city.
You wanna leave town? Yes. You wanna go somewhere else? Yes. K?
Where would you go? I don't know. I don't know if you would do I know that you wanna do some solo camping. Yeah. You're not a solitary person.
You don't enjoy being alone. The I I I like company, but I think the the more I've like, the the older I've gotten, the more comfortable with it I've become. Okay. I think there was certainly a time in my life where there was, a major amount of separation anxiety codependency stuff that I that I dealt with. And and I've I I'm kind of at a point where it's like, whatever.
Like, I I don't necessarily mind it. I prefer to have people and noise. I don't necessarily like when the house is quiet, for example. Like, I'd rather have people around the house. But but when I'm out in nature and stuff, I'm totally cool with chilling Being alone.
And doing doing my own thing. I haven't done the solo overnight campout thing, and that's very intriguing to me. Yeah. You wanna take the dog and go. Take take the dog and go.
I don't mind. Take her. Take the dog. Take the dog and cook hamburger. Take the dog.
Get out of here. Go have a time. Get that get that dog out of here. Yeah. Yeah.
Alright. Well, it's nearly, half of females, that they surveyed anyway in this thing that that said they are interested in traveling solo in 2025. And the reasons why were for personal growth, adventure, and the flexibility to create a uniquely personal itinerary. Okay. I kinda like that idea too because I I like the idea of just making your own schedule, doing whatever you want, not feeling like you have to.
Here's here's something that I do that I realize that I'm doing it, and I know I'm not responsible for everyone's happiness. But You do that. If I'm doing something Yeah. And the family's involved or there are other people, I'm worried constantly if everybody's having a good time. Right.
And we've talked about that, but that extends to anyone at any time, whether that's extended family, whether that's, like, anybody. If it it's not just who's in the room, it's who's in the proximity that you should be paying attention to or feel like you should be paying attention to. Correct. Like, that's why in a social situation, you you, like, run yourself ragged because you're like, I I didn't spend enough time with this person, and I didn't talk to this person, and I didn't missed out on that conversation. And it's, like, too much going on in your attic.
Yeah. I do that. I do that. I know. So So a solo vacation for that purpose alone sounds heavenly.
Yeah. Because the only one that I would need to worry about, the happiness factor, is myself. Right. In in that in that instance. Right.
So if you wanted to go spend time shopping at stores you like, you could. If you wanted to go, I'll never pick shopping as a thing to do if I'm traveling by myself. Not even to, like, stores that you specifically want to go to. Oh, I would probably do that. That's what I'm saying.
You get to look at the sections of the stores that you want. To those. Everybody goes, why are you looking at this trash? Walk on. They put it out here so you'll buy their garbage.
I know. Like, I love it. I love $3 garbage. Walk past it. I don't have to look at fly fishing stuff?
That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You don't have to go to the music instrument stores. You don't have to go to all the clothing sections you don't care about. I actually that sounds lovely.
I would I would not mind taking a solo vacation. So let's say would get bored after a while. I'm sure you would. Let's say it's, something like Jackson. Would you go to Jackson solo?
Like an overnight Yes. Whatever. You don't ski, so you wouldn't be doing that. No. You but you could walk the little shops Yeah.
And whatever. Yeah. Absolutely. I would do that in a second. Yeah.
Interesting. Sounds neat. And it does sound neat. I kinda wanna do it. Well, it's the thing for 2025, apparently.
It's the year of solo travel, they say. Okay. I'll do it. Okay. I'll go.
Sold. You've sold me about it. Then what if you and I each take a solo trip Yeah. To the same destination Oh, interesting. But we're separated.
Yeah. We're safe on gas. We spend a couple of, yeah, we spend a couple of days alone. Yeah. We're in different hotels.
We do our own thing. Yeah. And then after 2 days, we get bored of our own company, and then we're like, hey. You're here. I'm here.
Okay. Let's meet up. That's interesting. That's an interesting thought. And then you spend a couple more days together.
So then you have a week long trip, but solo and together. Interesting. That's an interesting concept. I don't know. I don't know if anybody's done that.
They they didn't say sure people have done that. Nope. That's brand new. You just thought of it. You're a genius.
Look at you. Look at me. Big ideas over here. A combined solo vacation. Weird.
But also not weird. Great. Yeah. Well done. Have you ever confused, like, maybe some hemorrhoid cream for your toothpaste?
Never. Or No. No. I haven't done that either. But That's like a prank thing.
No. That's never happened. I've never confused ointments. Thanks for checking, though. Should I hit the button?
Or what? That's it? No. I know. What's what's up?
What's going on? Woman in North Carolina who picked up her nail glue instead of her eye drops. Way. And I can see how this would be confusing because that bottle the bottles do look very surreal. Yes.
That's scary. Yes. The nail glue bottle is smaller, but it's basically like But it's considerably smaller. Right? Considerably smaller.
Yes. And it's quite smaller. Yes. I mean, depending on what size it is. She think her hand all of a sudden got larger?
This bottle is small. Glue is basically like super glue. Right. So she dunked it in her eyes. In both.
Squirted the glue into her eye and it in just one eye, and sealed it shut. No way. Yep. So do they have, like, an acetone they can dissolve it with that won't also burn your eye? I don't know.
What happened? So her eye was covered in the white glue, and she tried to blink repeatedly and then panicked, And she went to the hospital. Her daughter drove her to the hospital, glued her eye shut. Doctor said it would take 5 to 7 weeks before her eye opens, and then she would have to have it examined for damage to her eye. So they they just said there's nothing we can do.
Well, I don't know. You're just gonna you're just gonna have the one eye now. There has to be something you can do. What do you do to take crazy glue off? That is no good.
Oh. That's no good. There's no way. Listen. The way you opened up this break, I was real not excited.
Why? I'm ending this break also not excited. Why? Because they didn't help. They just said it's gonna take days.
Oh, and Good luck. That's just the article that I read. I'm sure that they helped in some way. I just don't know what the way they helped is. But I think you also have to if she squirted it into her eye Ugh.
Can you imagine the pain? I gotta get more information. K. Get more information. I gotta find out.
K. Find out. What a terrible, terrible thing. Yeah. Let's see.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I would rather I would rather use hemorrhoid cream for my toothache. 5 to 7 weeks until they can properly identify if there was any damage. Yeah. But is your eye still shut for 5 to 7 weeks?
Yeah. Should we out of work? Just one eye? Yeah. They couldn't even patch it up?
Well, maybe, but it's already shut. So what are you gonna do? Oi. Oi. Oi.
No way. Oh, PSA, be careful when you're in the bathroom. Make sure you read labels of what you're putting in your mouth and eyes. This is not the first time it's happened as as you assumed. Back in October, there was another lady who had a similar mix up.
She picked up nail glue instead of her eye medication she was using to treat a bacterial eye infection. She said after I got the note got the notification, I blindly reached over, grabbed the bottle, opened my eye with one hand, put the drop in. And as it was falling, I realized the consistency of the bottle felt wrong. And as soon as it hit my eye, I started screaming. Yeah.
I bet. I bet. What do you do? Oh, man. That's a new fear unlocked.
Thanks. Just Just read read the bottles before you put stuff in your mouth or eyes. You gotta be you gotta be real careful. Be careful out there. Crazy stuff happens.
Wow. Friday and, would you rather this or that? Would you rather have the ability to read minds, but only when people are thinking about food That's boring. Or be able to talk to animals, but they all constantly give you unsolicited advice on your life choices. These are very specific.
I know. I asked AI to help. Oh, you did? I did. These are very specific.
Thank you, AI. Yeah. Because listen. I could just say, would you rather have the ability to read minds or be able to talk to animals? But where's the fun in that?
No. So you said make it make it weird. Yep. Yeah. I think I would rather talk to animals even if they give me unsolicited life advice because they're wearing those shoes?
They might have good ideas. Yeah. I'll have advice. Maybe you shouldn't make that decision today. Maybe you shouldn't have that extra snack at dinner.
Don't tell me what you do. Animals. Dog. I think I'm gonna go ahead and pick the, mind reading for food. Why?
Because I don't really wanna be judged by animals all day. So I can read your mind and know when you're hungry and solve that. And and yeah. Here's why I'm picking it. And here listen up.
Okay. Listen up. Woah. Woah. Hey.
What do you guys want for dinner? Yes. You do because I know you want pizza. We're doing it. Smart.
I'm taking the brain reading food situation. Smart. And never again will I hear I don't care, I don't know, nothing sounds good. Yes. It does because you're thinking tacos, and we're going.
Well, now I'm thinking about tacos. I will just not even have to ask. That's what's gonna happen. I'm just gonna read minds and start driving. You know my favorite thing?
Getting in the car and going, did we decide where we're gonna eat? No. I'm not driving out of the driveway until we know where I'm going because I'm not gonna drive down the road and go see all the food go past and go, well, you didn't like any of that. I'm taking the food right from my diet. Down, Josh.
Well Settle down. You you woke up a beast. That's it. Would you rather this or that? Are you ready for more construction?
Ready. Because there's more construction Is there really? On the way. Really? Yeah.
This is actually I just found out about yesterday, but they posted they, the city of Ammon, posted this on December 20th. So they've been trying to give a heads up for a long time. Okay. But there is some, big time road closure coming. Big time.
Yeah. Why? Where? January 20th. Okay.
17th Street. Oh, no. Yep. Right there by the Albertsons shopping area. Oh, no.
So 17 and 17th and Hit. 17th and Hit. Hit. The Ammon Albertsons. This is Ammon Oh, okay.
Mount Idaho Falls. Right? So, right there, there's a there's a bridge that goes underneath, seventeenth Street right there. There's a canal that goes behind, like, Albertsons and Target and that whole area. Okay.
So there's, they're gonna replace that whole bridge. Oh, no. You know how they, just built the the new intersection on John Adams so you can go that way? Mhmm. And First Street's currently under construction because they're doing that same canal, that bridge.
That's the same one. So they're they're doing First Street right now. They already did John Adams. They're gonna be doing 17th Street starting January 20th. Yeah.
Good luck, everyone. It's good luck, everyone. Real messy around that area. So, this is this is kind of a big deal. A lot of people on Facebook have a lot to say about it.
Of course, they do. Because what else is Facebook for but to complete? And and look. I get it. It's inconvenient, and it'll be inconvenient for a handful of leaks.
Yeah. Think about It's very necessary. Process. Yeah. The end process is always better.
It is inconvenient, but Right. Long term. Let's think long term. And, also, I always feel bad for the construction workers because I know. They They're just doing their job.
Just trying to get it done, and people get in their way constantly. Yeah. So, what from what I can understand, it will not be closed at hit road because there are still businesses, that tire store, and there's a couple of, there's like a drink place and the sandwich place. Right? They're right there.
Right. Plus, you gotta be able to get into the Albertsons parking lot, and to get gas and all that kind of stuff. So, that, I believe that intersection will be open for those businesses. They'll push back the road closure, to right there by the Albertsons entrance, so that you can still access those business. I'm making that up.
That's what I it says here that the First Street Bridge will be temporarily reopened to facilitate travel during the 17th Street closure. So you'll be able to take the John Adams way, you'll be able to take the First Street way, and you'll be able to take the Sunnyside way, but 17th will be closed right there. Here's what I foresee happening. What? You know, you can get to 17th Street via the Walmart parking lot in Ammon?
There's gonna there's gonna be a disaster because I believe everybody's gonna try to cut through the Walmart parking lot to get around that. So it's gonna be messy. It's gonna be messy for a while in that area And that starts beginning Monday, January 20th. January 20th, you said? Correct.
Yep. So look. It it's a big deal. It's a big project, but it's necessary. It's gotta be done.
Think of the end result, everyone. That's right. It will eventually reopen And then everything's gonna be cool. Then you're gonna forget all about it. Right.
And you're gonna go, remember when that was terrible? When I was so mad about it. Yeah. Shh. Settle down.
This, is going to be weather permitting as well because that's gonna be a struggle. So there is no estimate on the completion date at this time. It will begin now. On January 20th and take as long as it takes. That's the hard part.
That's the really hard part. So, anyway, it's a for real deal. They've tried to give, like, a month's worth of notice about it. I saw it yesterday. So I'm weeks behind already, and it's coming up in Couple weeks.
A couple of weeks. So just know that's gonna be a messy, messy area in Idaho Falls. And tell everyone you know mess. Word-of-mouth Yeah. So that people aren't shell shocked.
Just say avoid the area. Yeah. Just don't go there until February or March. Don't go there. No need to go there.
It's gonna be nuts. But, anyway, that's what I know, and I saw that yesterday and thought I'd share. More construction. Hooray. Hooray.
That's gonna do it for the show. That is it. That's it. That's all, folks. Leave you on some good news.
More construction. Construction. Yeah. Have a great weekend. And then we got big Monday coming up in a couple of days.
So enjoy another couple of days of rest and whatever you end up doing, relaxing, working if you work. That's that's cool too. People have to work on the weekends. I get it. But we'll be back here Monday morning.
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