Welcome back, everybody, to Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire.

Hello, mid-January.

You know what?

January typically is like the worst, slowest month.

But this one, for whatever reason, is not been so slow.

Although it has been rough.

I don't feel the normal feeling so far of like, oh my gosh, how is it not January

100? I agree with that. I mean, that is typically like what we're always saying is like, it's January

110 or whatever. I definitely feel this year that we are. It's moving in a normal pace. Yeah,

and it's just, it's been a blur. That's the only way that I can describe it. It just feels like a freaking blur. I mean, I think it kind of helped just like logistically that New Year's Day. Like we didn't really start the year. You know, in my opinion, the year doesn't really start until that first Monday. And we were already at January 5th by that point. So we kind of got like a

funny how we play those games. Oh yeah. Are you someone that looks at, do you look at your calendar often

and like how do you conceptualize your calendar? Do you like to look at it from the month view? Do you do

a day by day view? Do you look at it from a week? How do you look at your calendar? Oh, it depends on

the calendar. Okay. I mean, I have a pretty, like, robust time visualization system in my brain. So I don't use a lot of calendars. In our family, we have a ginormous, like, 36 by 24 monthly calendar that hangs in the kitchen. Okay. It's my coffee. Then at work, I would say I do like on a weekly by week, like my work meetings or whatever. And then everything else, like our family, kind of like Google calendar. I guess I normally do it by week because I'm like, I don't really need to know outside of this week's like appointments. I kind of already have a sense of what they are. And so I kind of just need to know like what how the week's going to go. Okay. But I also like have I actually made a TikTok about this a couple weeks ago. I have like I've talked about this in the podcast before. I have synesthesia when it comes to time. And so like my experience of thinking about time is pretty detailed in my brain and like very geospatial.

Can you explain that a little bit more?

Yeah.

So like, let me look up the type of synesthesia this is called because people are like,

that's not synesthesia.

That's like the most kind of well recognized or the type of synesthesia people think

about when they hear about this is like when people hear certain notes and they'll see certain colors

or if they see a certain color then maybe they'll associate it with like a smell even like these really kind of bizarre

but synesthesia just means when one part of your senses triggers another sense and so for me I didn't know that this was something that everybody did until I heard about it on our radio lab. And I was like, well, does not, doesn't everybody have this in their brain? Like everybody sees like a timeline. And Brandon was like, I mean, I kind of see a timeline, but maybe I see more like a calendar. And like, yeah, if I like think about a calendar, then I can sort of conceptualize where I am in the week. But for me, it's almost like a roller coaster.

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