Hello everyone and welcome back to our bonus episode. We are glad you're here. I'm Caroline.

I'm Joe. And if you're new here, at the end of every month on Thursday, we do a bonus episode,

which is an advice Q&A. So if you ever want to send in your

advice that you need, send it to our email at hello at middlegroundpodcast.co or DMS, and we'll

try to answer it on here. Yay. But anyways, Joe is your grounding moment? My grounded moment was I

picked my kitchen countertop.

Very exciting. For the new house. And the internet doesn't like it. Um, which is okay. Like, that's not, I'm not

upset by that. But the reason I say that is I feel like in the photos, it didn't, um, necessarily

translate the same way as it does in person.

Because in person, it's kind of like, oh, upset baby.

Gardner's with us, guys.

Yeah, Gardner's going to be with us probably for a while in episodes because I can't find

myself to, I can't find it in myself to

leave her with someone and we want her here um but uh in person they're like this um it's a leathered

stone and so the texture is different than what people are used to.

And it like, you know when you touch like a granite countertop or marble or quartz, it's

smooth.

Right.

It's not smooth.

I have fun.

It's not like crazy, but it has like the actual texture of the stone to it that's pretty um it's very

uh hippie almost are you smiling at me are you happy to be giving everybody advice she's like yeah

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