Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound.

It's a podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your host's us, Ariel and

Raylene.

That's right.

It's Ariel and Raylene.

We're back. Plot twist. It's not somebody else. Ruben's not in the house today. Ruben and Muriel. Muriel never comes out, but I like that she has that name because that's pretty funny. It's cute. It's cute. It's very cute. All right. Raylene, how is stuff on the West Coast? And then I'll tell you how stuff is on the East Coast.

Ooh, okay. I wish I had some more like West Coast news for you, but all I've got for you is like what the weather is like.

Yep, that's basically what I meant.

Weather update. So since we had the big snow the day before my move, it has not really

been snowy, which is nice. There was lots of like talk that we would get another dump of snow,

freezing rain, but it never really happened, at least not out where I live. So it's all good.

It's pretty nice. It's actually very sunny today, very beautiful.

I'm going to go out for a walk probably at some point today, kind of explore my neighborhood a little bit.

Actually, Kyle and I did that yesterday, which was fun because we live pretty close to like the downtown

area in our city. And so I was like, let's just see how long it takes to get there. And it took

eight minutes to walk there. I was like, this is incredible. Like I can get groceries. I can go to cute little shops. I can go to coffee shops. I'm actually going to be getting my nails done today. And I'm going to walk there because it's very close. So, I'm loving that. Do you know what you're going to do with them? With my nails? Well, I'm getting a pedicure and I'm also going to be getting shalac gel done on my nails. And I just, I want to do like something kind of Christmasy. So I'll see if they have any like ideas there. But when in doubt, I might just do like a couple different shades of green and red or something like that.

Something simple. I don't like anything too crazy. I just want to have nice nails. Because nail update,

my nails have finally fully grown out after having acrylics. So they're not... For your wedding.

Yeah. It's been months. That's how long it took. But now they've like fully grown out and they're actually long again.

Because before they would just keep breaking. Like they could not be longer than anything. Like it was

horrible. And so now I have nails and I feel so happy. And this is kind of like a late birthday

present to myself. I've set aside some of my birthday money for this pedicure and manicure. So I'm excited

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