#233: Struggling Sisters: Not Talking About Friendship
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Friendship is hard in quarantine! How are other people connecting right now? Should I change my face to a potato on a Zoom call?
Before we ever got to the actual subject of friendship we found out that Emily has experienced Tiger King’s property first hand and how Katie’s at-home art class became more educational than planned. We also did stash it or trash it on Aha Black Cherry + Coffee Sparkling Water and Caramel Coconut Oreos.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
Katie Roadrunner-legging right out of work
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why Emily told a client to “kick themselves out”
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Emily’s raging UTI
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Emily recaps her trip to Joe Exotic’s G.W. Zoo
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Zoom call mishaps
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what Katie is loving about this weird time
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Em is incorporating Bible study back into the family’s routine
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Katie explains why you maybe shouldn’t tell Alexa to play James Brown while your kids are in the room
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shelter-in-place family movie suggestions
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being an enneagram 2 during a pandemic
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how our kids are coping with the new normal
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staying connected with friends
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stash it or trash it
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turning Em’s wet bar into an entertainment center
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| 0:00.0 | We are, we are Emily and Katie. |
| 0:04.0 | Turn on in and turn ourselves up to 80. |
| 0:08.0 | We are, we are. |
| 0:10.0 | Fumbling through the farm, talking life getting good stuff done thanks to all |
| 0:16.7 | the listeners where the struggling sisters |
| 0:20.3 | Hey ladies you're listening to the mom Strungly Mail podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I'm your host and I'm so happy to be here. I hope you all are doing really well in this super weird situation we find ourselves in with this virus. |
| 0:35.0 | But I just had to tell you about the weirdest story |
| 0:37.5 | and you can't even believe it. |
| 0:39.5 | I mean, I hope you believe it, |
| 0:40.5 | because I'm telling the truth, but it's like so weird, it's hard to believe but so my husband and I |
| 0:45.2 | decided to turn our wet bar area it's like a closet in our living room we |
| 0:51.5 | decided to open that up and make it a built-in entertainment |
| 0:54.8 | center. |
| 0:55.8 | It's not that big of an area, but we don't have a very big TV or anything, so we're fine |
| 0:59.7 | with it. |
| 1:00.7 | Anyhow, my husband was saying, is now the best time to do that? |
| 1:03.9 | And I of course said, now is the very best time. |
| 1:06.6 | We should definitely do it. |
| 1:07.8 | And so I found a contractor on Home Advisor, and I was really excited to get it started and he was really nice and so we got it |
| 1:16.4 | started on Monday and as he started working we were kind of like oh he doesn't |
| 1:21.6 | really seem like he knows what he's doing, but maybe we're just being |
| 1:25.2 | silly. |
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