Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tuso and I'm Anne Friedman.

You know, we have a little ritual here of our first episode of the year being made up of voicemails from people who we love talking about the practices or the energy or the ideas that they are bringing with them, that they maybe learned in the last year or that they know they want to enact in the new year.

And we have some incredible, incredible guests and voicemails today.

Hi, Anne Friedman. Hello, Amina Tuso. Come into you live from my couch under blanket and exclusively soft items. That's what I'm, that's where I am right now.

Wow, coming to you live from under the blankets in bed and I should be wearing soft things when I'm wearing spandex and it is serving me very well right now.

Do you feel held? I feel really held. I was like, I need a hug today and I live alone. So this is the hug for today. You know what I'm saying?

I honestly feel like this is a distinction that applies more than any other to me getting dressed in the pandemic, which is, do I want a loose fitting soft pant or do I want to be held?

Held by my stretchy pants. These are the two modes. And it's so funny that you say that because obviously my entire wardrobe now consists of like eight pair of sweatpants that rotate.

But my number one criteria for sweats is how much holding do they do in the waist, which I like like a held waist and I also like them to like be cinched at the, at the ankles.

Like I love that kind of sweatpants where you're like, okay, great. Like there's like cinching here and here and then at the waist, but then otherwise I want them to be billowing.

Like my ideal sweatpants is like actually like those like like is a hair and pants that is a sweatpants. It's so in sync.

Like a gapier sweatpants. 100%. But yeah, I, it's so funny how sweatpants just used to be sweats and now I'm like, no, no, no, there is like different kinds of sweats.

Well, let me tell you I developed a distinction, which I think a lot of people probably did months ago, which was like I was like, you know, there are some, there are some lounge wear that I'm in a reserve for actual lounging and then everything else I'm going to like work in or whatever.

Like this is part of this is like a long running I work from home by myself way of like distinguishing like I'm in work mode and I am not in work mode.

And so there are a couple of items that I'm like, no, this is just for lounging. These are my special relaxing only cosies and I'm going to draw a line.

And I want to tell you today I have crossed that line. I am wearing relaxing only cosies while we're here at work. Like all bets are off in year two of this pandemic.

So I love that like where everyone mentally landed in April is where you are finally at you're like, okay, like this thing is this thing is real. I am no longer wearing my my work sweats.

You know I need structure to thrive.

I you know and I love this about you. Welcome. Welcome to year two man. How's it going?

Well, I feel like the physical description of where I'm at right now should just serve as the stand in like I'm just going to let that be I'm going to describe what is and let that just be my answer to how's it going like how are you doing.

You know, honestly in this moment, minus the fact that I have the small list sorry to everyone.

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