Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Middle Ground. I'm Caroline and I'm

actually solo this week. Joe is not with me. We just decided to do solo episodes because we haven't

done them in quite a long time.

And yeah, so it's just going to be my voice this time. Sorry if you hate my voice, but I'm so glad

you guys are tuning in. If you're new, thank you so much. Usually I have a co-host, which is Joe

Johnson. And if you're old, you guys know the drill. So yeah, this episode

I'm going to be talking about how to get out of winter blues and kind of help you have a better day

and all of that stuff. And so before I dive into that, my grounding moment from this week was I have

started swimming back again. I, if you

guys know, I swam a lot in the summer and, you know, worked out and I was really good. Oh, my foot is

asleep really bad. Also, since I'm doing a solo episode, I'm not in Joe's closet. I'm in my boyfriend Chris's and he made me this like fort.

So his closet's like probably half the size of Joe's, but it's perfect because it's only one person.

Obviously, I'm the only one in here.

But he made me, he's so sweet.

He made me this fort.

So, okay, let me set the scene.

I'm in this dark closet and and I'm in this, like, fort that he built out of, like, two blankets,

and I'm sitting on a beanbag chair, and he found this crate, and my microphone is inside

this crate with blanket on top, and my computer's on top of that and it's

literally honestly a good studio it's um really comfy and yeah I'm really grateful that I made it

this for me because my apartment you can hear everything because my my apartment's small and you can

hear like the fridge humming and it's just

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