Hello and welcome back to this month's special edition middle ground episode. I'm Joe. I'm Caroline.

I don't know a special edition or like advice edition. Anyway, I'm excited for today because not only

do we have great emails from y'all, but we also have some updates or an update from a previous

question that we answered last month, I think. Perfect. I think it was last month. Yeah, I think it was.

Maybe it was a month before. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I think it was last month. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think it was. Maybe it was a month before.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. I think it was. Details. Do you want to just jump right into it? Grounding moments? Grounding moments, yeah. Caroline's been getting grounded today. Today has not been my morning. I woke up late, but not like super late. like I wasn't late to drive here, but I just woke up at like nine, which is late. She was supposed to be here at 10. Mm-hmm. And she arrived at like 10.45. And Joe called me. She's like, are you, like, alive? I'm like, I'm alive and well. I don't think I'm ever going to make it to you, though. Well, she had texted me and told me she was going to be late. I want to say that. Like, you didn't just not show up at 10 and I waited 45 minutes to text you. But she texted me and said that she was on her way. And it'd been like an hour. Yeah, I woke up late, but I was like, I can get ready in 20 minutes.

That's not a problem.

So I did.

Got out the door, fed Frankie, like 20 minutes out.

Then I got my car.

My car would not drive past 40 miles an hour.

And I was like, and then my head, I'm like, I could drive there going 40 miles an hour, but I don't want to.

Yeah.

And that's also dangerous, and I would have to stay in the slow lane.

So then I had to act fast, and I got over off the next exit to Chris's school, which is conveniently right there.

So then I texted him.

I said, hey, run your keys out to your car. I have to drive your car, I'll leave mine. He's like, again. So then I got in his car. But then, like, I was like, good, smooth sailing from here. I'm good. But it was like traffic. And then, like, I was behind really, really slow people. And I'm like, I don't think I'm ever going to make it. It's just not going to happen.

We're here now, though. And then she got here and it's trying to get our normal setup hooked up and like the mics wouldn't work. She looked at me, it was like, we're not recording today. It's just I don't think it's going to happen. Literally, I'm like technical difficulties, but now we're going to flip the page and have a great day.

But that was very grounding, and I'm thankful for that because it makes the good moments,

which that wasn't bad.

Like nothing bad happened to me.

It was just kind of funny.

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