This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 943.

How to get out of your head and into the meeting in English.

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Hey Michelle, how you doing today?

Hey Lindsay, I am good.

The sun is shining.

I was just saying to you what I felt, giddy.

Giddy.

That's just like overly, it's like like overly happy like I want to hop around everywhere like the weather affects my mood so much I know it's so awesome I went hiking on Sunday of course right but I went hiking and I got the first

so it was the first hike and ice cream of the season which I always get ice cream

after hiking you know just pack back the calories right back on you know what I mean? You know what I mean?

Yeah, there you go.

But it felt good to have the first official hike and ice cream outing of the week of the year.

What did you do last weekend?

Well my parents came to visit so that was fun and we went to a random town in New Jersey

and walked around outside and got dinner, things like that.

So it was a nice family weekend.

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