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

and I'm Elise Hew 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.

We are podcast hosts.

And we always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical and mental mental health professional as needed. Yes. Yes indeed. Yes indeed. What's going on, Elise? We are now rounding, I guess by the time this episode comes out, it'll almost be the end of January already,

which is pretty wild. How did that happen? I know. I know. And February, there's always like the

trifecta of activity for whoever is the romantic partner in my life because there's Valentine's

Day, my birthday, and then the Lunar New Year, all within like five to six days, usually. So Rob is really gearing up. He's like, okay, I need to make sure I'm emotionally prepared for this because this is a lot. And as you know, I love my birthday. So I'm like, what are we doing for my birthday? Where are we going? What do you have planned? Right. What do we have going on? Did you know it's my birthday? Three days after Valentine's Day?

He's like, I am aware.

Oh my gosh.

But I am going to keep it chill.

I decided since we now have a restaurant that our good friend Rose owns and it's become

like our cheers where everybody knows your name.

The cool thing about the restaurant is the restaurant is just one part of it.

Like you've been.

So it's like the rest of it is this giant food hall surrounded by a bunch of food stalls.

And so what I was thinking is, and I texted Rose about this, just like finding an area in the kind of food hall area to take over to occupy so that friends can kind of just come and go on a

Friday night or a Saturday night. And then they can get their own food or drink from any of the

five or six different food stalls and bars all around. And then we can just kind of hang and catch up.

And that is my way of keeping it chill for a birthday celebration. It worked out really well in New York. I don't know if I told you. Yeah, that I just put up a signal flare. This is what I do every time I'm in New York. I like just pick a bar and I put out a note to the friends who all live in New York and say, hey, I'm here. And if you can make it come out. And then you never know who's going to turn up. And sometimes people I haven't seen in like six years. And other times, it's somebody I just talked to on the phone that day. And they were like, oh, yeah, I'll come down. So it's fun. And we'll just do kind of an L.A. version of that. And the restaurant's pretty central. It's in West Adams. So it's not going to be like having

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