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Okay, Emily, what made you realize that you weren't keeping up with your passion projects the way you really wanted to?

Yeah, so I think during this extra time at home with the pandemic, I've become so much more aware of all of the passion projects that I've been avoiding or putting on the back burner

because it seems like a time where I'm sort of re-establishing how I'm spending my free time.

A lot of it is spent alone and at home and so these passion projects would sort of be the perfect things for me to do right now.

And I realized recently like just scrolling through the notes on my phone,

that I have lists and lists of hobbies I want to explore

and ideas that I have, and creative projects that I've

started and haven't quite finished yet. In addition to all the notes I also have

been just looking around my bedroom and just seeing in like different corners unfinished projects that

I've begun. So I know that these projects are ones that I want to complete that I

want to work on because they're things that have made me really excited to get started on in the past and these are activities that make me feel fulfilled.

But I just realized I've had this extra time where I think I have had a little bit more space to do it in my schedule, but just haven't done it.

Yeah.

I hadn't thought about that that going to the office every day if you have an

anchor job like both of you do that you can easily ignore your side gags because

they're not staring you in the face that hadn't really occurred to me. Exactly there's so much

more time now at home so now I can see them every day every hour of the day.

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