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It's Ariel and Raylene.

Hello, hello.

Cozy edition, I see we've both brought out the comfy sweaters.

That's true. That's true. It's a little cold here, but I think it's very cold there. Are you still in your

winter snap? Yes, it's very, very cold. I actually right now have my feet on a little hot water

bottle filled with boiling water, which has been

my go-to thing every day, like especially when I get up in the morning, which it is morning right

now. The house is very cold because we haven't had any heat on overnight. So I have to get up,

turn on the fireplace, turn on our little heaters, and then I just put my feet on my toasty

little hot water bottle and I just sit there until I get warm.

Defrosted.

Yeah.

Slowly de frost into the morning.

Yeah, it's been crazy.

Like, it's Monday right now, but on Friday when I had to go to work, it was the first day of this really cold snap where it's been like negative 12 degrees Celsius, but feels like negative 25 because of the wind chill.

And going to work that day, like it was so cold inside that I was wearing two coats.

Like people, everyone was wearing tukes and little like hand warmers and things because the building that I work in just like is huge and couldn't keep up

with the coldness. And it was, it was rough, man. I was like, you know how you, it's hard to type when your fingers are really cold? I don't know if you often have to deal with that, but trying to type. I know what you mean. With really cold fingers. I was like, I just felt like I was moving in slow motion all day long.

Yeah.

And I got nothing done.

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