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Welcome to What You're Gonna Love Me.

The podcast where we open the eyes, the ears, and the hearts of anyone who has judged or been judged.

Well, hopefully I'm your host Katie Maloney.

Hello everybody. Happy Friday. I hope you all had a decent week, a good week,

in okay, this week, however you want to categorize it, my week was okay. Not too shabby. I got some

stuff done, got my laundry done, pretty boring Monday things, but you know, it's the little things

that excite me these days. A fresh bed of sheets, does it get any better than that? Nope. It's the end

of the month. This January, I think we all can agree has been long. The events that have taken place,

some of them have been really uplifting and encouraging others have been disturbing and horrific.

At the end of 2020, everyone's like, oh my god, I can't wait for this year to be over and I get it,

it was a dumpster fire, but if we learned anything from 2020, it's that shit can always get worse.

And boy, did it. I like to always say expect the worst hope for the best. I like to manage my

expectations always that way, you know, you might be surprised, a little let down, but you know, all

and all, you are prepared for it. But in California, as of this week, they've lifted the stay-at-home

order, whatever that means at this point, I'm like, just tell me when things are just going to be

back normal, whatever that looks like. I don't even know if I want that normal. What is normal?

We had like a brief moment this summer where we were able to dine outdoors and that was, you know,

okay, it didn't fully enjoy it because you're not comfortable in public. It's really hard to be

comfortable amongst, you know, Jen Pop with a pandemic happening. So, you know, it was a nice

little like reprieve from staying at home from March until June, but you know, I didn't get out much.

I just felt like kind of gross about it and you know, you got to make reservations everywhere you go and

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