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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Cause I Said So, episode number. What episode is it, Mom? Do you know?

No.

What?

Nine.

It's nine.

Episode nine. We're almost a double digits how exciting that's

exciting and it's the first one of the new year it's the first one of 2022 because well we took a hit

because i said so because it is okay get over it people yeah because we wanted to be the first one

no because you know when was sick and we missed one. Yeah, I had some stomach virus. You had hand surgery. We fell apart, but we're back together. That's right. You know the best part about that. What? When you don't do something, you remember how much you love it. That's true. Is that, is that a saying? There's a saying there. Yeah. It's kind of like absence makes the heart grow fonder. That's the episode. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. Distance. Absence. I guess you're distant and absent. Anything you miss in life, you learn to love it. I was, I, maybe that's why I'm so excited about today's episode, but I'm so excited about it. Yes, you are excited about it. That's good. I'm excited about it too. I think, okay, here's what we're covering. Kim, aka Mom, you moving to New York City. We're going to cover that. Okay. We're going to cover, is this the year of full send? Okay. Is this the full throttle year? So it's like a little, it's not going to be New Year's resolution. Nobody cares what our New Year's resolutions are, but I have some quotes that I want to ask you about. Okay. And then the last thing, not the last thing, but one of the things is WTF is a modern relationship and mom, are we in one? That's what we're going to conquer. You don't answer that right now okay no we have a scoop going where you're what do you mean no that's what we're

going to come to we're going to conquer you don't answer that right now okay no you have a scoop going where you're what do you mean no that's what we're going to cover in the episode you moving to new york uh happy new year let's get after it and what's a modern relationship yeah what does that mean and then we're going to talk about how you and i are going to get joint tattoos but we'll'll save that for later. Hell no. Oh, and there we go.

She's cussing, and we are one minute and 53 seconds in.

Yeah.

She's going to be so mad when you hear the cuss words.

Not on that, but I'm okay with that. You're sticking by it. I am sticking by it. No tattoos for Kim. Okay, before we get into it, though, I want to say something because you really helped me when we were home in Oklahoma before I left to come back to New York.

I had a something that's been happening to me a lot later. It has. Yeah, I've noticed. I just, I, it's like I get in my head. It's not a mood swing. It's like I, no, so you just, you just tank. I just tank. I just like sad and I start feeling sorry for myself. And I'm like. And I get a bad mood. And I take the worst part about it is I take down the people in the room with me. Yeah, because yours is pretty strong. But it's not even that I'm really tall. I just shut down. Yeah. When you do that, the room feels it. And Graham, my husband's like she's's shutting down but you what did you say you said

something to me that has literally will change my life I said Alex you cannot let your thoughts

affect you like that they're really affecting everyone else around you especially Graham and that

is not fair but you can control your thoughts that's it you can control your thoughts you can control it. You can control your thoughts. You can control,

yeah, 100%. Mom, I didn't know I possessed the ability to get out of those like slumps. I thought when it happened, I had to write it out. You literally changed my mood in five minutes by saying, Alex, you can get out of this. You don't have to plummet right here. Like, it's okay. You talked a depression anxiety mood swing thank you're welcome you can control your thoughts yes you can it's written

everywhere lots of different ways that's it i made so i made a little um thing uh i wrote it down and

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