You're listening to the Girl Next Door podcast. I'm Kelsey and I'm Erica. We're two next door neighbors who love a good chat and a good cocktail. We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey neighbor. Hey neighbor. So we have what we think will be a little bit of a shorter episode for you today.

We are both in the middle of pretty big transitions.

Yes.

It's a Monday night.

Yeah.

So Erica, as you know, is adopting two little girls and is settling into life as a family of four.

And I've just started back to work after maternity leave.

This is my first day of my first full week

back to work. First Monday. Yes, my first Monday. So we're still kind of figuring out our

routine and fitting in the podcast, although they will definitely keep coming to you every two

weeks. We're pretty committed. We are. We are here. Post a bedtime, cocktail in hand. Kelsey is in a robe and slippers.

We are no joke. We are making it happen. But we just wanted to come say hi to everyone and let you know what's going on.

But first, a cocktail, which is especially necessary. It seems, I think, this evening. Agreed.

And this is exciting. This is actually a cocktail

that was a listener suggestion. So thank you so much to listener Elizabeth. I think she might go by Liz.

She suggested this cucumber cooler to us. It is simple syrup, equal parts, sugar and water,

as we've talked about many times, and about an ounce

of that or about a shot glass of that, a shot of gin, shot of lime juice. And then this is the

key ingredient. This is the dry brand cucumber soda. This is fancy. This is very fancy.

And so you can't find these at all grocery stores.

I found it at fries here.

Elizabeth said she bought it at Kroger.

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