Listen to this if the New Year Stresses You Out | House Guest Podcast

hi y'all this is house guest and I am your host Kinsey Elizabeth think jenzie want to be Martha Stewart meets Dolly Parton trying to live in a Nancy Meers movie in her 20s we talk all about life relationships navigating your 20s closing at the bars or waking up at 5:00 a.m. depending on our vibe that week ultimately living our best lives and figuring it out along the way so come hang out sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things some of my best friends or it's just me in my house that I SP spend way too much time in so let's get into the show before we get into this week's episode I wanted to let youall know that the house guest holiday I guess winter collection is now available I'm wearing my favorite piece it is our cute little polo shirt it has a house gust embroidered HD looks adorable the quality is insane guys like I got this back and I couldn't believe it I'm wearing a medium right now I have an extra large like I'm obsessed with this and Jack You Know Jack who is a friend of the show she it was approved by her she loves it and says it's so cute and it's just like it's everything so we have this in a chocolate brown it's a long sleeve it's unlike any other merch you've ever seen before and I'm obsessed with it and then we have this in Pink as well I just don't have it on me we also have these cute little striped crew necks that has our house guest house which honestly I didn't even mean for this to happen but it really does look like Rose Hill Cottage I obviously did not design this if if only I could do that um It's actually kind of everything I love it we have our house guest tag I always get like larges and extra larges but very cute just this cute little striped crew so fun looks like a lot of the crews that I see on Tik Tok and then the thing I'm actually second most excited for we have this house guest hat it says chocolate brown embroidered house hat okay and then it says house guest on the back look at how cute this would be my Dallas girls walking Katy Trail with it wherever you are Westside highway I don't know I don't know your story but would love to okay anyway so this is out now this hat is so cute I cannot wait to wear this and then we actually have new aprons as well which I'm really excited for we have our Breo winning housewife aprons that are actually I think still available on the site but these are our new ones the house guest house oh that's backwards sorry the house guest house um aprons they're really really cute the perfect gift to give treat yourself this holiday winter season if you will okay so anyways love these these are all available on our merch website now so I hope you guys enjoy and happy shopping and let's get into this episode hi y'all welcome back to the house guest podcast and we are currently in the best week of the year which is the week between Christmas to New Year's Eve where days don't exist nothing matters you can do whatever you want so we're going to do just a nice little solo catchup if you will slash we're actually going to talk about quite a few things obviously but I did want to touch a little bit on like New Year anxiety because in January I always like really you know hit the ground running I'm always so excited you know me and my routines and my habits and my goals and whatever and then I end up feeling like I need to accomplish every single thing that I put on my vision board that day and then I just give myself really bad anxiety so if you guys need an episode to listen to that is a comfort listen this is the one to go back to I'm going to say some things that are encouraging you are fine the way you are life is long it's a marathon not a Sprint let's relax and we're also going to touch on people who achieved success later quote later in life which is basically just not in your 20s I did a solo episode on this years ago and I still get tagged in it and I just wanted to like kind of touch on that again I do potentially want to do like a part two one time but I think it's just really beneficial to hear that you do not have to have everything figured out right now you do not need to know everything you do not need to be on Forbes 30 under 30 you do not need to be on whatever all the lists are and achieve all these things to like matter and to make your life count like you can make your life count in so many ways that are personal to you and that matter to you um with that being said I'm obviously a very go driven I'm a very work driven person I love all those things but I will never love anything more than than I want to love my actual life so let's just take a second this week to relax before the new yearor gets crazy I'm definitely going to have a couple you know motivational goal setting type episodes I've actually already recorded them um that are coming up soon so those will be coming up very very soon I don't feel like our approach is super overwhelming though I think that it's something I don't know I always try to be kind of a cross between like a motivational inspirational Liston and a comfort listen this is defin leing more on the comfort so anyways I just wanted to speak to a couple things going into this year when you feel like you have to do everything at once and achieve the craziest things of your life and feel like unless if you're not doing that you're not doing enough and whatever slow down let's relax let's take a big deep breath it's going to be fine okay um first thing I wanted to say is you are fine just the way you are it's really great to have goals I think goals are incredible I think they're actually wildly important in life in terms of giving you structure and a purpose and something to work towards I think there's something in our brain that goals are just good for you can achieve achieving as good but I think you just can't find all of your validation in in achieving like it cannot be what you die for um but also you don't have to do everything all at once like you do not have to achieve everything by 30 just because there is like a for 30 under 30 list which is amazing if that is like your story and that's incredible love that but for everyone else who's not really in that place like you are doing fine just where you're at we were never ever meant to have this much access to everyone around us like when the world was created and whatever that whatever happened there we didn't have access to people in different neighborhoods let alone different cities in different states in different countries like we didn't know all that how all the ACT access to that to their day-to-day to their achievements to their life to all that stuff which I don't even want to say we're all guilty of like there's nothing wrong with posting your life and doing any of that stuff at all but it does just we're just all a little bit Overexposed to each other which leads to you know comparison and I think anxiety and it just can be a little bit difficult now I do want to say I actually really air completely on the side of like you are in control of like how you react and what you see so if that stuff is bothering you like you can mute them like that's totally fine and also if it's like triggering you I think maybe like look at the rout but with that being said we were never meant to see all this stuff and now you see all this stuff and you can't help but think like oh my God I'm not doing enough or so and so did this and I only did this or you know I achieved this but they did that five years ago therefore it doesn't really matter I don't even want to post about it because it's kind of embarrassing that I just did it like no no no whatever You' have done you should be proud of even if all you did this year was like stay alive and keep moving seriously that is very hard there are years that that that is the biggest accomplishment that you could have ever done I see you I love you it is going to be okay um life is the longest thing that we'll ever experienced now I go back and forth on this a lot obviously with just having experienced grief and loss obviously life is short and you never know what's coming but at the same time like it is the longest thing that we will all ever experience so let's keep that in mind um you don't need to put so much pressure on yourself to achieve every single thing right this second okay life is a marathon not a Sprint we are playing the long game even if you want just like longevity in your career you know Martha Stewart not to bring up our Queen again and again is Martha Stewart because she built that over decades and decades and decades right same with Dolly Parton like you think about the people who have stayed in their career and had real real longevity it's not necessarily like a viral moment whatever that might be the equivalent of in like your career field right so again you do not have to do everything all at once and it is fine it's actually really normal it's just not really what social media highlights and so I think sometimes we just kind of get in these like rabbit holes or like self-pitying or I think sometimes this week for me I love this week because it's like I stay home it's cozy I'm on my Christmas tree I'm baking I'm like I'm doing all the things that I love to do but I think that this week can also be a week that feels weird we're kind of off you're maybe working a little bit maybe you're working the whole time and you're seeing everyone else on these trips or whatever it might be I think for some reason so many of my friends and I we talked about like it's just kind of like a weird week you're thinking about what you want your next year to look like and all of a sudden you're putting so much pressure and you're comparing yourself and whatever so this episode is going to be a break from that um you deserve rest rest is good this should be the most restful week of your life hopefully if you have the work off this is the episode to Listen to If you just need to know everything is going to be okay and we're going to relax there is this analogy that I love that I stole from someone I don't even know if this is an analogy whatever this story okay think about you driving your own car in your lane right and then there's a car next to you and there's a car next to you whenever you're on the highway okay and you're driving and you feel like whatever the car is in front of you is going slow slow but the car next to you is going so fast and they're great right and so you're trying to get into their Lane in the long run when you're switching lanes so much you're actually going to take longer to get there and you're not even going to end up in the lane that you were even meant to be in which is like your own lane you're going to end up in someone else's where you don't feel right you don't feel fulfilled you don't feel successful you feel like insecure and just like weird and it just doesn't feel right it doesn't feel aligned with you if you will um I just like to keep that in mind of like even if it's taking me longer to do whatever it is that I'm trying to do I'm in my lane and I'm doing like what I am meant to be doing and in the long run like the only person who needs to go to where I need to go is myself and the same goes for everyone around me and that's okay and if it takes you a little bit longer that's fine also you don't know what is going to happen like five miles on the road so try why not to like swerve into everyone else's Lane is basically what I'm getting at CU it's going to take you way longer to get to where you need to go CU I think at the end of the day we all pretty much end up where we're meaning to go or needing to go and by trying to waste time going into other people's Lanes I think it actually holds us back like a ton and it takes us way longer which was the entire problem to begin with people that have achieved success later in life first off we've got Vera Wang Vera Wang got into fashion at 40 Martha Stewart released her first cookbook at 41 entertaining I recently got it somehow for $35 and they're normally like $800 worth I have no idea how I got so lucky the Amazon Seller had no idea what they had on their hands Chris Jenner was 52 when Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered Julia Child released her first cookbook at 50 launching her career as a celebrity chef Betty White landed the role that made her career at 51 Steve Carell was 42 when the office premiered if you like those we have an entire episode where I go back and I go through like probably 20 30 people it is so comforting cuz I we just put so much pressure to achieve everything in your 20s even sometimes like your 30s there is so much life to be lived past that so knowing that these people either didn't even start their careers or didn't get their quote big break until they were you know 40 plus is very very comforting like I love that so if you ever need another Comfort listen that's a really good episode I'll have it linked below um and I love it you're going to be fine it's going to be great and now I'm here to distract you and we're just going to be talking about things that I've really liked this year okay first things first Gilmore Girls obsess like I've always loved gimore girls I grew up watching it but like in the past 18 months it has become my possibly like my number one show it's wre Hill it's Nashville it's Gilmore Girls and it's Friday Night Lights I clearly like Comfort shows but the one that I go back and watch the most I watch definitely like one Tre Hill and Gilmore Girls the most which we'll get to Gilmore to W Hill soon but loved Gilmore Girls we went to Warner Brothers isn't it no Universal yeah Universal I think I don't know whatever John and I went there a couple months ago because we were like this is been the worst year ever we should go see Gart girls we get there and we do the set so it's like a studio tour right so we're doing the whole tour so excited to see gilm more girls right that was the one show you couldn't stop at because they were shooting something thing so like you just couldn't but they don't tell you that ahead of time so we got there and the entire time we were like so excited and it wasn't Gilmore Girls but don't worry because I actually don't even want to jinx this because I'm recording this before I even go to La I am going to La and supposedly supposedly we're supposed to go to Gilmore Girls at Christmas which is very exciting up need to come on that speaking of they just did some like Walmart deal with Scott Patterson who plays Luke and Laura like Gilmore and they did something with like coffee and Walmart I don't know all I know is that we got one of those like ambient videos ambiant videos whatever ambian Ambiance videos in Luke Steiner like you know all the like firewood crackling videos that you have on YouTube that are comforting very like Danielle Caroline coded they have something about saying Danielle Caroline felt so weird like that felt like so official like I would never call her Danny Danny okay I don't know it just like that felt really weird anyways they have one of those videos now that plays the TV so I had it on this morning I was in Luke's Steiner I was just obsessed like it was really everything I could ever want my dream podcast guest is Scott Patterson like I need Luke from Gilmore Girls on so bad and I need you guys to like really lean into having this happen for us like it's not happening for me it's happening for us you and I I love the podcast I feel like it would just be like such a good fit it's been such an amazing show it's got me through so much seriously I love love love Gilmore Girls and hopefully I will have gone at this point I'll will be like absolutely thrilled and like happier than ever if that happens so updates to come on that but Gilmore Girls I've Loved You know who I've loved more Jess I'm a Jess girl through and through I am not a Logan girl Logan IRL is my actual nightmare there's nothing more that I hate than like a rich pretentious man especially under the age of 30 because I would say like early 20s when it's like your parents money oh my God it makes me want to scream like that personality type I just think about them they're like the guys I don't even want to say the place in Dallas but if you're in Dallas you know what I'm talking about you you know what I'm thinking I'm not going to say it because I don't want to be banned from the establishment because I do have to go sometimes but it's just like the rich guys who are just such [ __ ] like God I hate Logan I do understand I don't hate Logan there's Parts there's definitely like character development he does to get better and like year in the life and really at the end of the day Rory is the problem but I just like can't get past his pretentious ways and like the rich F like oh literally hate it which I should definitely go a little more towards that cuz like every guy I've ever dat like really even has a job not really every guy but you know what I mean like maybe I should find like a good in between or lean more towards Logan maybe that's maybe that's really the answer anyways I'm a Jess girl through and through but you know who is the real villain on Gilmore Girls It's not Rory it's April April oh my God I feel so bad because she's a child but I hate that character so much so that I actually would probably hate actually personally the woman who played her and I feel bad it's not her fault she did a great job by the way to make me feel like such a reaction to this girl but April April is Luke's daughter if you didn't know and I didn't even care about her like kind of ripping apart Luke and Laura like because that was really Luke's fault I am so oh my God I think she's so annoying and it's horrible cuz she's she's a kid she is she's like 13 but it's fine because it's fictional there's just something about her like oh God she's Mak me so angry like I don't know what they did there's a couple things they did wrong with that show one bring April in two when um wait when Emily and Richard get divorced for a second when they split up that was so wrong that they did that it's also like in an into with us this isn't spoiling it because the show came out eight years ago more than that so I don't care when Toby and wait Kate when they split up oh my god that actually ruined television for me that was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life and they were meant to be that actually like talk about like not believing in love anymore so anyways hate that too something else I've been loving shocker needle point I've been talking about it a lot because I talk about hobbies in an upcoming episodes so it just like keeps coming up but I'm like back on my needle point journey I love it's such a cold month cold season hobby so amazing we have Stitch night tomorrow I'm working on a diet coke one for Dom I'm trying to get that done by her birthday but we'll see I've been working very very hard going to make her a cute little pillow what I love so much about needle point this is what I love about the home that I say all the time home should do two things one look like you two tell a story and I love that about needle point that you can personalize it in so many different ways and it tells a story and you're sitting there and you're working very hard on one thing I love the people that you meet through it whatever we we get into that into like a future episode I don't need to get into all that here but I love that like all the pillows that I have in my home right now like tell a story I just got a new one I got a new one I mean we we finished a new project it's a Serial hobbyist which is friend of mine's needle point canvas one of them and it's like a green leopard and that fabric is so cool that my grandma chose that fabric because that fabric we had in our like childhood bedrooms growing up so everything is just like very meaningful I just love a good I love a trinket you know but I love a good story if you will so I love that another thing that I have been so obsessed with lately maang turns out I'm a game night girl okay so maang is a game that originated in China with Chinese women and then there's like a US version of China of maang and then there's a Chinese version of maang I believe I'm getting all this right along these lines basically Chinese women started maang and then um it was brought to the states like it was I don't know if it was brought to the states by Jewish woman but basically Jewish woman created I believe it's the national maang league in like the 1930s so that's like the US version of maang and then there's the Chinese version of maang I play the US version let me tell you these women I've got a lot I would write them I would kiss them all on the lips I would write them all thank you cards seriously I would invite them all of them to my dinner parties I love that game so much I didn't even think I was going to like it so much like my new friend Clara if you guys are in Dallas by the way great event to host if you guys are trying to like change it up she's the Majong teacher so she reached out to me she's working like with the maing line which is where my stuff's from and offered to do like a class for like me and my friends and I sent it to my friends and I was like is anyone interested and they've been wanting to so we did it it was so fun she's fabulous friend of mine love her um her Instagram's like like so bam fun I don't think CLA is in I think it's so bam fun so so bam B which is like a mun thing fun really cute anyways she's great to hire for like events and stuff like it would be really fun that has been so fun I've only played as I'm recording this now I've only played three nights but I have mun all three nights not to PR seriously you guys know I would never do that um but I really really love it it's so much fun and it's something that's like really brought me a lot lot of Joy so if you guys are like interested in like any sort of game I highly recommend it and like maang nights like I'm constantly anyone that I know that I think could like possibly into maong like earlier today Kathy was here she's coming on the show very very soon very good episode by the way and I looked at her and I just thought you look like someone who would maong and I asked her and she does so we're going to start monging together we're gonna you maong no I'm going to maang they're going to play maang I'm going to have to keep my winning streak part of me is like I should never play it again because I'm three for three right now not three games but like three nights of playing it's really fun my step sister is into it now and like we talked about ma we like send each other step back and forth all the time we got my grandma into it we got my stepdad playing it I'm going to make my dad learn it is just like the most fun game ever and it's really so incredible I would love to learn like a lot more about the game um that's when I know like where it came from I want to learn more but it is so amazing so whoever invented that game you're long gone but your ancestors I love you okay I love them forever and they can come to my house whenever they want okay this goes without saying and I'm not going to get too into it because I did an entire Martha Stewart episode but the Martha Stewart documentary is the greatest thing to happen in Netflix probably ever it was so incredible so good again I'm not going to go into this because I already talked about this I actually didn't talk about the documentary we did we recorded that before the doc was out I just did a little intro for it that dock was so well done it made her look incredible it showed her more vulnerable than she's ever been before it gave you new eyes to the court case really put a lot of respect on her name it was incredible and I loved it so I'm not going to talk about it again you know I would like an AA Garden doc like that too AA is definitely like more in just like the cooking scene like she's less mainstream I would say than Martha like you know with her Justin Bieber roast and the Snoop Dog stuff and you know all that stuff but I love Ina Garden speaking of okay I've have been listening to Cherry Bomb radio I am obsessed I don't even fully know what Cherry Bomb is I think it's like a media company I'm subscribed to their magazine and I have their cookbook and I love everything that they do and they have a podcast and it's all things that I'm interested in it's like people in the food world and the woman who owns like Blackberry Farms it's more in like Hospitality food creative Ventures design art like all that stuff I wouldn't say I'm like in art but you know what I mean I I'm fascinated by those conversations of I I know literally nothing I don't know if I'll actually do you guys think I'll ever get into art cuz it's just like so not me but at the same time it's like really me but it's so not me so let me know what you guys think anyways love Cherry Bomb radio that's a new podcast that I've had on rotation recently and I really really have enjoyed it I was listening to the one with the man who started Flamingo estate this morning and it was such a good episode like I I love it I feel like it's it's like all the women that I want to be with like at a dinner party but they're all like 20 years older than me so I don't know I really you know what I need to do I feel like I'm talking so fast guys sorry I need to relax taking my deep breath I need to get myself invited to like a 50-year-old dinner party like weekly that's kind of the crowd that I want to be hanging out with it's so it's all funing games I love my friends I do I really really do but I would like to be with people also who are like way older than me because I've got some questions about life I think they're fascinating I really just want to hear them talk I don't know there's something about I've always been that way that like I really like people who are older than me I don't know I need to do some research on that like I've got to like I've got to like somehow what's the word I'm looking for um not push but insert myself into a dinner party group of like 50 plus in the Dallas Texas scene so if you guys know anyone I would absolutely love to come and I would like to find 50-year-olds who go to chaparall or needle point this uh they probably shop at like Nicholson Hardy they like framebridge like that's kind of what I'm looking for I'm kind of thinking for like me at 50 if you think about it okay my hosting closet this year guys where do I begin first off it is a Tik Tok Money Maker let me tell you actually i' I don't think I've made a dime no I did one deal I I've actually made literally no money off these videos but it goes viral often which I appreciate so we're very I'm very grateful for this hosting closet I wallpapered it this year I added all the photos the photos are telling a story of all the different things that I have hosted in my home I have to go back and continue on with that I love we have all of our new like aprons like the house guest aprons and everything everything in this hosting closet just brings me like so much joy I'm obsessed with like making closet's kind of like everything you still use a closet like why not go all out like I I'm running out of like space in this house to do things so next we're working on like the vanity closet in my closet room the hosting closet has just brought me a lot of joy and also a lot of Tik Tok views which you know love that so thank you so much guys it ends with that it's like dare I say I liked the movie I liked it okay I'm sorry I didn't like the drama I felt like that was a little overdone and it it's kind of crazy how like one day it's all all it was the name on everyone's lips all anyone talked about was the eight ends with us drama and then just one day we all woke up and collectively were like we don't care anymore like that we just got over the drama we were fatigued and that was kind of it it happened so quickly I don't really know I wonder what drama came up that knocked it into us like off its pedestal um but yeah I really liked it you know what speaking of seeing things you guys are going to be shocked to hear this I went and saw Gladiator 2 which I haven't even seen Gladiator it's also like the least like me movie to see I don't even see really movies period I do watch things more now than I needle pointer that's a new take a shot every time the shot game is every time I mention needle point anyways Paul mcow loved it it was a little gory I definitely could have seen a little less of some things for sure but it was actually an incredible movie like I would watch the first one I loved it it was shocking I thought I was going to hate it at the time I'm recording this I still haven't seen Wicked I want to see it I'm not a musical girl um but I know that I would really like the movie because Macy and Dom said that I would and they wouldn't lie to me so I feel good about that Taylor stuff in general this year guys has really just done something honestly the past two years I went to AAS six times I almost went for a seventh time but I would have to be leaving like tomorrow in real time I I'm recording this and I just have like way too much going on and like I didn't want to go unless I could like bring someone else with me because like I don't need to experience it again I was going to like go if I could bring my sister but I didn't get a plus one and anyways what an incredible run we had with the Aras tour that was really something to never forget bringing my niece to AAS and surprising her like I literally I'm like getting Cher I thinking about it oh my God I might cry relax bringing her to Aras was like the most special weekend of my life she was over last week she stayed with me for I pretty much had a kid from like Monday to Friday technically sure her parents were there Thursday and Friday but whatever I was also there I could have a kid like I think I'm ready anyways having her there at AAS it was just like so special when I was at AAS in London this summer it was what I thought was like the last time I was going to go to AAS and I was just looking around and Sophie became my niece became a very big Swifty she's nine by the way um the week after my sister and I went to Aras in Arlington so I couldn't take her obviously and then I was sitting there at London or in London at wimbley just like watching everyone and I was just thinking like Sophie has to experience this like I'll never forgive myself if I don't take her there and I have the means I can make it happen I can take time like I it'll happen so I got permission and I took her and I surprised her like the day of I am still very close to my aunt but growing up my aunt was my everything like that was all I wanted to be in life with my aunt I love my aunt to this day but it was like my whole childhood was like me and my aunt that's against the world that's all I ever wanted so without realizing it I've like completely like recreated that relationship so anyways like my favorite days were always with my aunt like going and doing things so taking her to eras was just so amazing like it was just such an incredible experience and also all the other things like it's brought us such like I don't want to say like Community but it's just brought us like something to be happy about like it's been a bad couple of years having this much access and also seeing like Taylor and Travis like it's just been such a good fun time seeing all the era stuff it's just something to be get excited about it has been incredible so AAS has been like such an amazing thing that has happened this year Macy being a DCC guys oh my God yes Macy being in DCC obviously has been incredible sure Macy getting told off by a 10-year-old on Instagram wait let me see actually we probably oh sorry I already got it sorry got it already that's Macy texting me right now for a Starbucks order I am going to find the video what send I'm texting ma can you text me the video of the 10-year-old telling you off okay we're going to insert that video um hopefully on YouTube if we're allow to if not we'll have it linked below Macy was told off by a 10-year-old on on um Instagram I think I'm not actually not even going to go so into it because I'm sure we did in the Christmas special and like I could never ask for anything more I had no idea what I wanted for Christmas and who knew it was for Macy to be told off so seriously by 10-year-old it was everything I showed my dad the video Mr Ed myet himself mck Piper he was in tears he was laughing so hard I showed guys I showed Sophie she was you know staying with me CU I'm very responsible I showed Sophie the video and she laughed at first and then she was like wait that girl's being mean to Macy and I was like oh no and so she didn't like like it at all she is up for an apology from the 10-year-old I'm sure but that was just such an amazing thing to experience like if you guys have an experience this video it's a video by the way where Macy is kidding like it is a joke and everyone else took her seriously so she's not I wouldn't feel this way if someone was like telling Macy off like to herself it's funny because like the video was a joke it's Macy's video the Big Ben video if you're a podcast listener it's what she Dr you know this basically long story short if you're new Macy's my best friend she made a video kind of like mocking all the Disney adults when they see the Disney castle like screaming crying at the castle she made that when she so Big Ben it's like not even close to her funniest video ever but it went so viral it was funny don't get me wrong that sounded like I was saying it wasn't funny her other videos are just like so funny and for whatever reason this one picked up traction there's all the like UK tabls are writing about her making fun of her and like it's just been so funny because obviously it's a joke and they're like so dead ass over there apparently as seen by this 10-year-old so that's just been like a really incredible time and I'm really grateful for the moment that I spent on my Instagram see seeing this 10-year-old tell Macy off like it is so good and so funny so I love that um Keaton got engaged which is incredible that's like one of my first really close friends that has gotten engaged that I've like been aart and been there and it was just so magical I loved London oh my god I've Loved actually haven't loved it it's actually kind of bereaved me I don't know if that's the right word so made a little sad the Wonder hill behind the scenes drama so I as we mentioned earlier I'm a huge wry Hill fan okay I love the series I binged it my junior of high school and it's been a comfort show ever since so much so that I hosted book club last week and or last month and we read Joy lenses who plays Haley James Scott we read her Memoir she was in a cult it's actually kind of crazy you should definitely like watch it I you you don't watch a book you should read it I was thinking one but I love anything that it revolves around a cold they're so interesting to me anyways good B and we hosted book club and again to make life a little more exciting you have to have a theme duh so I made it Karen's Cafe theme which is from wry Hill and Haley worked there so it was like really fun anyways there's a lot of drama between like her and Hillary that I do believe it feels like a little one-sided on Hillary's end so that's been something that's just you know I've been kind of keeping up with also another thing I didn't even realize this I don't know how I didn't know this because I'm like so locked into the one Hill drama I'm just so fascinated by like who was dating who during certain I think it's because I wasn't at the age of watching the show when it happened so like with other shows you know that stuff you don't really care but because like I watched it so much later without any context of any of the drama and then I found out that Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray were going through a divorce in season 3 when they're like madly in love on the show like that really got me like I was hooked in so I really loved that but I saw there's like some reality show or something where like Chad goes and like a truck with Sophia and it's like behind the scenes of lry Hill there's like a hurricane I'm seeing them on Tik Tok so anyways that's just like a rabbit hole that I really like to get into I like a good rabbit hole that I'm like stuck in for like weeks at a time because it it really helps me to think of like other things in life and not like my own like misery or something you know what I mean like it's just nice happened forever ago it doesn't really affect anyone these days but it is like really crazy once you realize that they were fully married fully married and allegedly he cheated with Paris Hilton and that's why they divorced as they were love interest on one of the most popular TV shows so that's like really really crazy also she's so interesting because it's interesting to see the difference between like TV stars then and now because they didn't have social media like when what I mean maybe they did like Myspace it was pre like social media being what it is now so it is just like interesting to see probably even like the amount of stuff they got away with like people not knowing you know and Sophia Bush dated did like James laery she did pretty much everyone on that show and then Julian who that was the best thing they ever did for that show was the Julian and Sophia storyline Julian Austin Nichols I believe they were dating before and she had them write him in I'm pretty sure she had the writers write him into the show so they could like live near each other because they were living in Wilmington or at least they like Found Love in the show but I'm pretty sure she had him write them in I'm not quite positive it makes sense because they have the best camera trip ever seen they that is like the best couple ever that's made me think of Alex depri which makes me want to like literally throw up hate her anyways um yeah I also wrote Taylor and Travis have been incredibly top of mine obsessed um going to aist store six times which is insane it was insane um I was invited a couple times but I I did also fully bet oh I did want to do a couple things that were like content favorites so books this year 2024 was I was actually just saying this was not the year of reading for me I only read like 20 something books normally read like anywhere from 50 to 100 and I really didn't read that much I actually got really into audible like I listened to what if I broke into like in this episode of sponsor by audible um I love listening to an audio book on like a memoir audio book so I listen to like Kelly Bishop's on Audible I listen to Ana Gardens I love that one I'm listening to Lauren grahams like love that one um yeah I like how everything that I even semi like it's like I talk mentioned it a billion times on the podcast already but anyways love that one this is what I have for my books her top three the lies that b Emily giin this one is interesting I like when Emily giin has things that are either inspired by US history or she kind of intertwines it like in um meant to be by Emily gfin it's very Loosely based off like Caroline betet actually not even very Loosely it's like pretty based off her but it's a fiction book it is so good I read that book years ago and I like still think about it the lies that bind um it's interesting because they tie in 911 so there's something about reading a fiction book and then something that you obviously have so much context on happening in that book and it's not the it's not what the book is about it just like happens in the storyline I really liked that and I thought that was very interesting and I would like to read more books like that I'm not fully on my historical fiction thing yet I do feel like it's coming though when I had Jackie asy on the show a couple years ago and she was saying you know it comes with time I act I actually like see it happening for myself which is crazy and at that point I did not see it coming out another one I loved this used to be us by Renee Carino this one was a very devastating sad book that'll make you cry but sometimes I just like a devastating sad book that'll make you cry like that's kind of like a genre it's my genre of choice if you will loved that it follows two couples this really feels like we're on FaceTime right now and I'm like talking to dumb this follows two Coupes NOP by the way it's one couple I'm already a liar all right it follows one couple but it is like a then and now trope so you see them in their beginning their in their early stages of their divorce and then it flashes back to like when they met and it just does that for the entire book it was such an amazing book I loved it I love Renee Carino fun fact I actually don't even know if she remembers this she probably doesn't she came on the podcast like years and years ago this was Co so it was Zoom I barely remember what podcast we did then but yeah she's been on the podcast so anyways I loved that book and then this song comes with a trigger warning pretty girl by Karen Slaughter this is the sickest and the darkest and the most Twisted book I have ever read in my entire life it is gruesome it is gross it is sick the fact that anyone would even write this book slash I would even like this book is sick okay it is sick it is so good it is one of the best thrillers I've ever read in my entire life I need to read more Ken Slaughter so I not do we think that's actually her real name because Karen Slaughter like Slaughter being your last name when you're a thriller author is just to perfect like that doesn't that doesn't feel right to me at all so I actually could just Google this but instead of asking you guys and then we'll eventually find out when I am thinking about this and I'm recording an episode in like four months and I think to Google it I just feel like that's too perfect that that has to be a stage name anyways if you guys like a thriller book that's dark and twisted it's really good I love that one shows for this year kilm more girls wry Hill Law and Order SVU I grew up watching SVU Olivia Benson is everything to me speaking of Olivia Benson actually didn't become Olivia Benson let me see when did Olivia Benson book oh it says she was 33 she was 33 when she got her breakout hit show that has been running for what like 30 years influencers okay top three I literally only wrote down three and it doesn't even quite make sense I love Savannah Barry she has the cutest most comforting Home Videos love that on Tik Tok Cherry Bomb just in general I love their content that they put out I'm going to add another one homeworthy which has been a favorite for quite some time but now that we're in the fall and the winter there's something about like homeworthy being on in the background when I'm working that's so inspiring to me and I pick up so much stuff when I'm watching it even of how different people have designed or used spaces or made them more useful like this girl made this basically side table the other day with all these random books that she had but she made it look so sick and I'm going to do that because I can do that isn't that crazy how that works um but I just love that content it's very inspiring to me there's nothing I love more than the home you know tell a story look like you obsessed but it has just been incredible and it's content that I consume that doesn't make me feel like I'm not doing enough and I really love it so those have been some of my favorites I know there's other influencers that I've absolutely loved this year but I've just been like Savannah Barry like just comes to M because I like send her stuff and I love her and she's has the cutest house ever and she to text in so I love that oh guys something we need to talk about it's like we're having a town hall meeting I wish I had like a little whatever that is the I don't know the judges have little update y'all we are bringing back an old series and we are bringing a new series to the show the first up is going to be a new series which is going to be a dinner party series I really want this show to feel like every single time y'all are coming over you're coming over to my house for something whether it's you know just like a couch conversation we're just hanging on the couch chatting talking we're FaceTiming whatever it might be book club we are doing dinner parties like every single time you guys are listening to this podcast it's like you guys are coming over to my house and I love a good dinner party very exciting news y'all we are adding some things to the podcast which I'm very excited for okay first off all of the video episodes all of our podcast episodes are going to be uploaded to my main YouTube channel so we can keep it in one Hub it's easy it's so much easier for the subscriber to not have to go look and search in two different places you can see it right there love that so it'll all be on my main YouTube channel I don't know if we've already started that but at least starting now it'll be on the main Channel very exciting stuff um and we're adding two series the first one is a new one this is going to be our dinner party series I want this podcast to feel like every single time yall are listening to an episode you're coming over for something like you're one of my friends so my friends come over weekly for something it could be book club it could be a dinner party could be just like hang out on the couch and talk could be like a fire P side chat whatever it might be so we are going to start doing dinner party episodes don't worry we won't be eating for my misophonia girls I see you and phobia whatever I hate hearing people chew so we'll be drinking a drink at most but it's going to be set up in the dining room and it's basically going to be what like our round T episodes used to be where I would bring on different guests that I would have just throughout the podcast like periodically and bring them all together and then it's just going to be like more of like a dinner party like conver ational like round T episode it's basically a round table but it's going to be shot in my dining room and it's going to look stunning on YouTube so I'm very excited about that that will be um on YouTube obviously weekly and that'll be every so often whatever then we are bringing back book club I really wanted to do something that felt very interactive for all of us and I know a lot of yall are probably going to have a reading goal when it comes to this new year so I wanted to mention it now every six weeks I will have a new book club episode we're going to be reading with someone and that's like another guest another friend of mine an influencer whoever it might be and then we'll all read the book together this will be the one episode the singular episode that I will record virtually I will never do a zoom podcast episode ever but just because it's a book club episode and it's people that I'm already friends with it's just kind of how we have to do it so we'll do some of these virtually I believe our first guest is Brook Mito cuz she did call it we haven't picked out her book well actually by the time yall are listening to this we will have the book picked out and it's going to be on our Instagram but it'll be really fun y'all can read along we can play our book club cards from friend of mine it's going to be so fun and I already have like a really cute setup for it I'm like really really excited for that so Book Club episode dinner party episodes all on my main YouTube channel it's going to be really fun and then we of course have like the Kinsey out of the house episodes where I'm in studio in LA or Nashville or New York or Austin or wherever I am so that that's going to be really fun I'm really excited about that um but yeah just take it easy this week guys let's practice some self soothing let's relax life is a marathon it's not a race you don't need to have everything figured out you don't need to be going a million miles an hour you can't be on all the time you can't always be in this like growth mindset sometimes you just seem to like stagnant for a little bit that's fine that is healthy let's relax deep breaths in and out I hope you guys have a fabulous week catch up my YouTube Vlogs while you're just laying around you know I I wouldn't mind that at all so anyways I love you all and I will talk to you in my next episode