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I'm Lauren D. Young Shulman. I'm Erin Simpson.

And I'm Roda, I'm Garclan.

And we are back with another episode where there are too many things in the world for us to

cram into one episode, but we will do our very best. I'll start out as always with a just singular intro question

for us for this week, because it is we're moving into September, which means we're kind of moving to the part of the year, we're starting thinking, oh, gosh, no, I plan to get that done this year and it didn't happen or I don't know. My question is, what is the hobby that you attempt to really get going every year and every year it kind of dies or fades out. Aaron? So I think the most accurate

answer here is probably plants. I like plants, but I have a balcony. I don't have a proper

garden like Larden or Rada. And so it goes and kind of fits and starts. I have this lime tree that I

bought the first year I was in my condo and like it is still growing and it grows approximately

one to three limes per year and that's very satisfying every time. But you know with travel and like

everything else and also it's like very windy on a balcony and all of these things, I invest some amount of money at some point in the year and then some number of things actually continue versus not.

So I would say, you know, plants and flowers and balcony things are, I springs eternal rata what about you i wish to be the kind

of person who crafts like in some soothing way i do like pencil draw the particular craft fairies cross-stitch

pencil drawings.

I feel that it would be a like soothing evening relaxing activity that I could do and

unwind.

And I do it for up to two to three times.

And then I never do it again.

So I have a large drawer in my house full of initially started aspirational craft

projects.

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