Hey, guys, this is Joy.

And this is Claire.

I'm 46.

Joy is 46.

Welcome to Joy's first episode as a 46 year old.

Welcome to the middle of September.

We are recording this a full week in advance in a very bizarre.

It was like the middle of the afternoon.

We both had a break and work making it work. I am going to Jackson Hole this weekend or to Jackson, Wyoming to visit my friend's stuff. Over the years, recording has just become such a part of my life that I often forget that this is like something I need to reschedule if I'm traveling. This has happened probably like the last three or four times I've traveled, right? Joy, where I text you like the day before I'm leaving.

I'm like, oh no.

You're like, oh, no, I'm going on a trip. I did it again. And so like when I was in Steamboat, I just recorded it from Steamboat. When I was in Wisconsin, I just recorded when we were there. We've made it work. We always make it work. And this time we were able to make it work to get it quickly.

Yeah.

Somehow I feel like the podcast itself is its own person that at this point,

it's like it just makes it somehow work. Yes. I don't even know it's bigger than us now.

I'm like, how does that always happen where we just make it work? It just happens. We just find

time. Like there's always an hour that just works. It just happens to happen.

Lucky you guys. Lucky you. Never miss a beat. And we got a couple of folks in the chat who are here in the middle of their day or at very late at night for some people like Mira, who is a 10 30 hours.

Who said she's a sleep procrastinator. Are you a sleep procrastinator? I used to be that in college. I was so, this is the weirdest thing. I just remember staying up, staying up with my roommates and not wanting to go to bed because I didn't want the next day to come because I was having so much fun with them at night. And I just didn't, I was like, I don't want the day to end. And I don't want to, because I worked so hard. I had like so many jobs and I didn't want to go to school.

So I like would just delay sleep for as long. I mean, that was like now we're very different people. But just I think back, I have vivid memories of sitting up in the room being like, I don't want to. I know. I feel that way. parenting sometimes thinks he feel that where I'm like, I will stay up for no good reason other than that.

Like, it's the only time of the day where somebody doesn't need something for me.

And like, I am shooting myself in the foot here because I know that tomorrow morning is going to come real quick.

And I should just close my eye, turn off my phone and turn off my light and close my eyes. But 11 and 1130 rolls around and I'm still just like doing nothing. Yeah. It's so weird. I do that sometimes like right now. I mean, granted, I fall asleep pretty much the same time. But if I get like stuck on a reality show, like selling OC came out with the new season. And I was like, I don't want to go to bed. I want to watch the whole season in one night. I constantly have people ask me at work, like, just conversationally, and it's fine. Like, oh, do you watch such and such show? And my answer is always like, I don't because my, and it's like, I don't want to say like, oh, I don't watch TV because that sounds so like I don't do TV pretentious like oh I don't because my and it's like I feel like it's I don't want to say oh I don't watch TV because

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