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welcome back or welcome if you are new this is in bloom podcast my name's abby asselin and I'm the host of this podcast. So happy to be

sitting back in front of the mic. I feel like I was gone for like forever. I literally just didn't do a

podcast last week, which y'all know if you saw on the In Bloom podcast Instagram. So if you

aren't following the In Bloom podcast Instagram, definitely be sure to do so.

So you can stay updated. Hopefully something like that doesn't have to happen again in the near

future. But I pretty much just like could not record last week. I probably could have like in hindsight,

like yes, I obviously could have carved out an hour of my day somewhere to record it but my routine

is just like recording on Sundays like that's my routine I normally record like Sunday early

afternoon or at night and I was actually pet sitting for my brother and sister-in-law and they live

I'm in Houston and they live like in Lake City, which is like outside of

Houston. And I was there for the weekend with my dog and then I was watching their two cats

and then there are two dogs for the weekend. And the whole week before was just really crazy

because I was obviously studying. I take my next CPA exam on Monday,

the day that this comes out. So obviously, like the whole week before was Thanksgiving.

And I was studying a ton because my parents actually came in town. They were here for a whole week,

but they stayed with my brother most

of the time, and then they stayed with me for three nights, I think. But I still, like, studied a lot,

but then I also had, like, Thanksgiving and spending Thanksgiving with my family, my boyfriend's family.

And I was also having to, like, get videos edited and for brand deals and stuff and basically having all of that

going on at once is like a lot in and of itself but when you add on like a holiday and like family

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