Hello beautiful human beings of the internet. I'm Lauren Elizabeth and I am in

for reason, goal, Chicago reporting live.

Yeah, that's right. I'm a newscaster now. I'm basically a glorified

weather woman because every time I start a podcast I'm somehow talking about

the weather or a comfort level and you know I did go to school for broadcast

journalism so it does add up. However the weather is fucking boring and we're

not going to talk about that. Actually I just lied. Okay, it is fucking freezing.

I know that I lived here for 18 years of my life. However every time I come home I

do not know how I did it. Like truly honestly I thought I was going to die

today. I fully had a meltdown in Nordstrom because it was so cold to get

there and then once I got there I didn't take my coat off for my mom's

suggestion in the car. I was like why would I do that? I'm freezing cold and we're

shopping around Nordstrom and the next thing you know I'm laying on the floor

in Nordstrom fully laying on the floor and I realized that two things. One I'm

25 years old and what in the fuck am I doing laying on the floor like I'm

literally nine? It was a really grounding, no pun intended moment for me in a

sense of like maybe you're not as mature as you think you are. You're laying in

the middle of a Nordstrom like you're nine years old. But then I also was like

looking around a little bit at people looking at me laying down and I was like

wondering are they looking at me hoping I'm not dead or dying or are they just

judging me for being a 25 year old laying on the ground and it really was just a

nice a nice thought process of humanity of like I'm laying on the ground which is

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