You're listening to the Girl Next Door podcast. I'm Kelsey and I'm Erica. We're two next door

neighbors who love a good chat and a good cocktail. We're inviting you to come on in,

have a drink, and stay a while. Hey neighbor. Hey neighbor. Here we are. Here we are. I liked what you said

just before we started recording Hot Mess Express. Yeah, we are i liked what you said just before we started recording hot mess express yeah we

are the hot mess express these days yeah i feel like we just got to share that with our listeners

to keep things real yes i was just like i mean i ran from like packing my family into the car

which was um cedric was happy dash had had been just, I mean, a hot mess himself

just two minutes before. Yeah, doing the thing where he wants to get into his car seat himself,

but that takes about 15 minutes. And then he like, it's 110. Oh my gosh. So then like, I go from

there. I immediately come to my front door and you were waiting. I hope you weren't waiting for two. for our cocktail. Uh-huh. And you had said, Dash was running around with the box of straws.

And you said, well, you can have this one.

I know for sure he didn't lick it because I offered it to him and he didn't want it.

Exactly.

So I do have an unliked upon straw.

I'm pretty sure.

I at least rinsed it as well.

Real talk.

Real talk here.

Yeah.

That is what's happening. So before we get into this cocktail, we just wanted to give a reminder about our book club episode, July 8th.

We're going to be reading We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, which is just a great summer read and a pretty quick read.

So if you haven't started yet, you still have time to join us.

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