Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Schaeffreier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a mini episode where we hear from you. We share your comments and your thoughts,

and we answer your questions to the best of our ability. But please remember, we are not experts or podcast hosts.

And we always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical and or mental

health professional as needed. How's it going? It's going. It is going. We are full on in summer

here in my household and on the west coast. I know it's really hard in New England and on the

East Coast where you go until kind of the end of June,

but you don't have to start again until after Labor Day. So that's nice. But yeah, I have the kids around a lot more during the day, which is an adjustment.

I will say, like, those last two weeks of August

before you go back to school

in the East Coast are very long weeks.

I imagine there's some good vacation deals though, right?

Because everyone else in the rest of the country has gone back?

No.

No, because everywhere that everyone from New England goes to is like still expensive.

Dark.

So I can't decide, is it better to have it like front loaded?

You know what I mean?

Or I kind of think it's better to have it front-loaded because like then by the

end you're like, okay, goodbye. Hard to say. Hard to say. Not that, you know, not that I don't want

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