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Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the fifth thing. My sister is here with me and we're going to do something different today.

I've got like rapid fire type situation questions, although some answers might be quick and some might have a little bit

more depth to them, but I put up the little Q&A box on Instagram and got a lot of questions.

We'll be able to go over all of them here, but maybe I'll address them over a period of different

episodes, but I thought this would be a fun way to answer questions. We always start the Tuesday

episode off with a quote, though, and I recently

got a new puzzle from my friend Gracie. It was a gift, and it's of Dolly Parton and a rainbow,

and it's really cute. And there's a quote on the top of it, which is a Dolly quote. And it says,

if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. So, Christy and I are, well, you haven't really been helping me with that puzzle. I'm not a huge puzzle person. But you're the one that triggered my puzzle. I don't remember why I even brought you a puzzle. Oh, you know what? I actually brought that puzzle to Stasheera. Oh, you did? Because I came and I brought the kids a couple things, and I brought Stevenson a little and Stasheera the puzzle. And I thought, well, maybe they actually both will work on it. Well, yeah, back in December, I even thought, why did she bring me this puzzle? I don't like puzzles. But now I love puzzles. And I have it set up at my kitchen table so I can also watch birds while I do my puzzle.

So the whole new you. This is 40. Well, actually, I'm not 40 yet, but I will be 40 soon, March 18th. Yeah. I like to do puzzles occasionally, sort of like certain times of the year. Christmas. Well, I'm all in. I want a puzzle going around at all times. So, Christy, I'm going to have you read the questions and I'll share some answers. Okay, so the first question is, how are you? Like, really, how are you?

I put that one first because a lot of people get asked, how are you these days? And a lot of people

ask that in the little question box. Do you feel like you get asked, how are you? And it's a lot of people ask that in the little question box.

Do you feel like you get asked, how are you? And it's just like, what am I even supposed to say?

Yeah, because if I said how I really was, it would be like a lot. I know. So I get it. But sometimes

you do want to ask someone that because you genuinely want to know, okay, what's going on this week? Or is there an

update to this or that? Or how are you today? Because every day is a little bit different and there

might be an update. I'm definitely guilty of doing the blanket, how are you to people and to friends?

But I will say on Instagram, if there is stuff going on that hasn't really been

talked about, or like there was a season where I wasn't on my podcast and people are like,

what's up? How are you? Like, what's really going on? And it's like, obviously, if I'm very

much an open book and if it was something that we were going to talk about, we would talk about it,

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