Well, guys, I am back, sort of. I will explain more here in a minute. But it's been a long time since I've sat in this chair recording a podcast. And I've had many Instagram messages and emails asking me where the heck I've been. So when I decided to pause for

the season, I think the last episode was April or May of this year, I intended to take my normal

couple week break, maybe a month or two, and then roll back into it. And honestly, I just

wasn't feeling it. And I'm going to explain why here in a minute, but it's now almost December. It probably will be December by the time you listen to this. And I'm feeling the urge to start recording again. And so I wanted to give you a life update today, explain where I've been, why I've been so quiet, what you can expect moving forward. I think you're going to like it. I think you'll find it interesting. I hope it could be rambly, but we're just rolling with it.

So here we go. I'm not even going to do an introduction today because I feel like I just don't want to.

So I guess I could say that the reason I was quiet the last six months or whatever was just the normal reasons,

which were definitely valid.

We, you know, summer is always really hard to record.

It's really hard to keep up with content.

I have been working on my second cookbook, which I think I mentioned at the end of the last season,

but this summer was really intense trying to do all our summer stuff, plus finish the

manuscript and get ready for the photo shoot. So we shot that in, we did actually a little shoot in

July and then a big, big food shoot in September. And that's just like crazy intense. It was a blast.

And if you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen the reel I created.

But we did like 85 recipes in five days.

And I had a food stylist and a prop stylist and an amazing photographer.

It was the same one who shot my first cookbook.

And my whole house, we just turned it into a studio.

It was wild and fun.

But like it took a lot of work to get up to that point of being able to shoot that many recipes in that short of time period and not lose our minds and keep

organized.

So anyway, a lot of my summer was spent preparing for that.

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