All right, you better be funny.

I don't know if I'm funny today.

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helps other book lovers find us. Hey, Tina. Hey, Renee. How are you? I'm good. Trying to stay warm. It's chilly. Yeah, real chilly today. How are you?

I'm good. Winter is here, like you said. I've not really been outside, though, in the last month.

So I am okay. You know, I'm doing good. We're just kind of getting back into the swing of things. I'm very much in a planning mode. I want to say a planning and organization mode, but that's not true. It's organization in my mind. You know, I'm like making big plans and stuff. So I'll have to start executing them soon. But it's the start of a new year. So I have been, though,

doing pretty well with not eating out or not ordering coffee, like doing all of that at home.

And that ties in really nicely to my loving lately. It is a creator. His name is Luke. And he is

from cooking in the Midwest. It's the most Midwest food website I've ever seen. He also has a huge TikTok presence. I was like, oh, maybe he has like 100,000. No, 2.5 million. Oh, wow. Is that how you found him on TikTok? Yeah, I thought he was just my friend. Like, I'm like, oh, I like this guy. No, everyone knows about him. But in case you don't, cooking in the Midwest, it's simple. It is simple ideas. And for me, the worst part about making dinner every night is coming up with new ideas, like, what do you want to eat now? And I just love it. His food is simple and realistic. He's got kids too. And a lot of the time he'll be like, my kids love this or my kids ate this.

You know, and for me, it's just about something that's semi-healthy, pretty healthy, something

everyone will eat. My favorite so far have been Crockpot chicken spaghetti and Crockpot

beef sandwiches. And they both were just hits, very simple, easy to throw together. I would say,

if you're looking for comfort cooking inspiration, this is a good account to follow. It's also

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