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Episode 28

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so yeah I didn’t get much sleep last

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night um but what I did get done is I

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got the cover for the book done the back

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cover most of the interior fixes that I

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need to make and then one last finishing

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touch that I want to add to to the book

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and then we can get ourselves a proof

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ordered so maybe I was thinking like –

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by Tuesday I have it done but but I’m

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thinking like by like tonight or

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tomorrow morning I could have it done

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get that proof ordered and maybe have it

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by like mid next week by like Wednesday

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maybe um and then once I see the proof

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everything’s cool I’ll place the order

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and approve it and then people can start

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doing that stuff online i self empower

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God talked to mark today talked John um

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my sister’s coming over we got to go for

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a walk I need to shoot a video which I

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don’t know if I’ll be able to do today

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I’m hopeful but we’ll say and now I

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gotta go get an Ava who’s bothering her

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Molly while she’s trying to do stuff for

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her like cocoa cream a week all right

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heading out to go walk Ava you gonna go

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for a walk you’re gone and I think you

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want to go for a walk and take a nap

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yeah let’s take it back yeah where’s

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your nose where’s your face so we just

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silly face he smiling alright let’s go

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for a while so today I want to talk

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about sleep

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how it’s the thing that even though we

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do it every day our lives

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generally we suck at I know I select

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that for a long time but us because I

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didn’t always wake up first thing in the

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morning

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he’s not even first thing like 4 or 5

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a.m. hated doing that wasn’t until I

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decided to get really intentional about

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sleep thanks to this little girl right

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here taking up lots of nights where I

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couldn’t get sleep sleep in low decent

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ok anyway it’s it’s uh it’s uh or as I

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said yeah so so what I did to get better

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sleep was uh I started taking some

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sleeping pills and like like as equal

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knock off if you will like a wall will

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or something anyway a couple weeks in I

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started to change how how I was

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utilizing at first I was still really

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kinda good because I couldn’t go to

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sleep is I used to go to sleep at like

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midnight and that’s aw

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that was a not good because able to wake

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up a one and they not go back to two

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till two so I couldn’t fall asleep to

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like three and I’d be up by like six or

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seven so I was pretty terrible now what

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happens is or so what I did was I

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started taking the pills earlier and

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earlier to go to bed at like 9:00

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then that was when things started really

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changing so for me going to bed at 9:00

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it only took like three or four or five

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days three four or five days and at that

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point I couldn’t couldn’t couldn’t stay

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up much past nine o’clock some lights I

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do but I try not to uh really really

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time that’s holding this this tripod as

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a as a handle is really tiring I can see

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why people get selfie sticks instead um

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that’s the chance okay so so yeah so I

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utilized the sleeping pills to get me to

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go to sleep sooner earlier and it seemed

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to work out now I go to sleep you know

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my alarm

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um tells me to go sleep by 9:15 on my

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phone and generally I wake up and uh by

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like 5:15 at the latest a lot of times

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them up earlier so last night I stayed

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up to like 10 a 10 20 want to tried to

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go to sleep had a stomach ache can I go

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to bed too like 11:30 woke up at 2:00 no

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woke up that one never went back to

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sleep so that sucks

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um well no I did a venture I’ve invested

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I think but I felt actually was like for

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like debated staying up and decided that

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if I even if I could get two more hours

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that was more important because I had to

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you know be here with Ava today say hi

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you she’s she’s shop all free anyway so

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I we’re out for a walk we used to do

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this all time like so for a while there

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melissa was uh because she went back to

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work and I didn’t I didn’t go to work I

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stayed home and it was like September

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October and into November and every

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morning it was pretty nice out so we’d

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go for a walk so it’s been a while since

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I’ve gotten to go on a morning walk Ava

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of course it’s a little later than we

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would normally we would have normally

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went and uh hopefully she’ll fall asleep

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we used to do like four miles during

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this walk so I’d like to get four or

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five miles in today I do have a call

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with Mark asked with you should check

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them out on uh excellence expected no

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wait that was his old podcast his new

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podcast is I’m not sure so you should

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but you should go check it out

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if I be mark-ass clip you’ll you’ll find

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it maybe I’ll link to them all so maybe

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I should start linking to people that I

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talked to in in the descriptions

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anyway I’m curious if anyone else has

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done what I did where they utilized

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sleeping pills not as a as a crutch but

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more as a tool to get them where they

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want to be and in my case there’s going

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to sleep earlier so I could go to sleep

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and then the other thing I noticed is

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now I can I can go to sleep and then

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able wake up in the milk she were to

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wake up in the middle night which we can

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talk about that too um and if she wakes

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up and wakes me up in the process I’m

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able to fall back to sleep I’m having

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much better sense of like I’m in sleep

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mode before if she woke me up I’d wake

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up and that’d be it I’d be off so if it

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was a 3 of 1 to 3 in the morning it

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might take me two hours to fall back to

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sleep and that was no good because I

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always felt guilty that Melissa would

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wake up and deal with the earth and I’m

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trying to stay in that frame of mind as

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soon as I turn my mind on it’s off to

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the races so so yeah speaking of sleep

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though

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Ava got a new new thing for her bed is

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basically a vibrating pad where she can

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be vibrated all my huh all night long

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and you know what it’s been working the

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last two nights she’s been she’s been

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sleeping all night long and it’s been

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amazing I mean last night wasn’t amazing

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because I do not feel well like the

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night before was amazing to not feel

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like I needed to like wake up and do

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something about it yeah hello you’re my

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little fella leave ah do you want your

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bottle there you go

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I know so she’s trying to put it in this

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in the cup holder

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good job Ava the problem is is these

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cups too big for the cup holders so I’ll

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hold it back here okay and then you

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don’t have to worry about that okay

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anyway

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feels good to be out walking what can I

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get in the mornings from my car to the

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to the hope works to my desk and go up

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and down stairs a lot throughout the day

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but not enough to feel good about the

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wolf but what we’re not walking I get

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every day oh and the workout I did

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yesterday man I mean I didn’t do the

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elliptical but I mean I ain’t do you

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look too cool but I’m sorry you get to

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do the elliptical I’m just gonna have to

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stay down there I didn’t get to do the

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gold but what I did do is like a bunch

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of burpees and weightlifting and I am

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step and boy are my arms tired they are

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still tired today

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alright so hopefully hopefully when I

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talked to John later day I think I’m

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telling them at 3:00 he’ll have some

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really good information for me that we

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can take to the bank

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all right uh so finally keep talking to

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uh my man

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mark Asquith oh wait where you at right

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now

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Oh awesome awesome awesome and I’m here

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in not-so-amazing East Greenwich New

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Jersey

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alright we’re yeah we got a lot of

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catching up to do

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I’m sorry what oh wait you are well I

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mean it’s beautiful out here though

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it is yeah you got a sweatshirt on all

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right so we’re gonna we’re gonna catch

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up and talk about map con

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well I didn’t get to have a call with

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John yeah I had to push him back a

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little bit so we could even I could try

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to get a nap in that didn’t that didn’t

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go so well not as well as I wanted it to

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at least so now I pushed him back to

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like 4 o’clock Melissa should be home

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soon okay what sounded 348 if you don’t

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like the report she should be only like

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4:30 ish if she gets out soon actually

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she probably call me soon to let me know

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that she got out of work so yeah there’s

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that uh the book has been submitted to

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Amazon it’s almost time to escape

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are you sure what are you trying to do

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eight you trying for mommy with that

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phone are you triangle okay I’ll call

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mommy come here I’ll call mommy come

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here

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I’ll call mommy oh hi mommy hi mommy yes

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yes Ava is here you want to talk to her

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okay here’s mommy

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[Music]

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is that Holly say hi to mommy

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hi mommy hi mommy

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[Music]

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yeah I’m talking to her you’re not

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saying much he’s telling her how much

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you miss her and love her I’m bad I miss

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her too

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hopefully she’ll come home soon and we

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can have dinner maybe had lots of movie

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she wanted to go out and do some gift

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cards to get like a ton of gift cards

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you know gift carding is like was like

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multi-billion dollar a year’s a year is

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like wasted on gift cards that are never

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spent maybe it’s even trillion I don’t

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know it’s some ridiculous number you

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should google it um yeah we have a ton

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of gift cards I haven’t used tonight

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something like to use that because I’m

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quite tired from last night not getting

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much sleep I mean really get sick enough

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but it’s really hot in here Ava oh wow

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so start like seven degrees in here oh

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let’s lower that a little yeah wonder

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what all right all right

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you haven’t bond there girl all right

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I’m gonna I’m gonna get something to

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drink

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and we’re going to go play some more

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a bit of inaudible uh Melissa and Ava

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are going to stay at her parents house

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tonight so because there’s like a yard

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tail or something on Tamar uh and I

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don’t I don’t get involved with those

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anymore I’ve learned my lesson

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um so I have my conversation with John

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went really well I said there was only a

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handful of things I need to get fixed so

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that’s what I’m gonna do tonight get

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them fixed bullet point my script

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instead of reading my script and then

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tomorrow I’m going to do the script or

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do this video that I’m supposed to do so

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yeah time to eat some dinner

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Alexa office on okay all right time to

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dig in and get them so I got pretty much

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everything that John asked done already

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it’s only 7:15 so now I just need to go

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over the ad the ads see here the ads

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that he that he wrote for me to check

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out uh and then give any feedback and

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see what we want to change and what we

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want to adjust oh good I’m so tired you

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know to go back home the whole host

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bring it back full circle the bearings

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back to the sleep thing um I am going to

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sleep about 9:00 between 9:00 and 10:00

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night and since Ava’s not here I’ll be

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able to sleep I’ll sue me I get through

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it all I’ll be able to sleep right

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through the night um sue me I don’t have

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any like stomach issues or anything

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though I already feel that coming on um

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and then tomorrow I got to shoot the

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video so the other thing I need to do I

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should do tonight other than finish up

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this vlog is I gotta I gotta make bullet

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points for this talk I wrote a script

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and I got it I gotta put the bullet

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points together so I’m not reading from

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the script tonight

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when I do the video um talking about the

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the journey um all right so I’m gonna

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get back to reading this stuff man

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I I am NOT a fan of reading I am just I

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need to be super focused and super awake

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in order to be really good at reading