I, uh, well, I just turned off the heat.

It's gonna kick off in a second here.

I'm gonna freeze for you girls.

Uh, for this particular recording.

Putting my blanket over my lap like a grandma.

We just got through a whole cold snap and it totally fucked up everything the week before.

This is an old, old cold house. It was built very early in the 1900s.

It's an old, old cold house. It's built for the summer heat and we've just had the coldest winter on record,

a couple of coldest days, like the coldest Halloween and a couple of coldest other days as well.

So we've had a real cold winter.

The cold snaps almost over.

It looks like it's going to be a lot better from here.

And I'm quite grateful for that.

Just totally depressed in the typical sense, not the not psychological sense, like work ethic

and all the rest. And then you put Christmas stuff on top. And it's just like, I'm too cold.

I can't record. The heat's got to be on anyway. What do you want me to do? Universe. What do you

want me to do? And so I've been kind of in and out of that mindset.

And it's been absolutely fantastic. It's been wonderful because I got a little bit swamped with

commissions. I'm just a little bit behind. I'm still going to get them all out in Christmas.

Everything is still going to be fine with it. But this is the first time I've ever been behind, even just a little bit, where

I didn't freak out, and I didn't have any kind of like moment where, oh no, everybody

hates me and everybody, the moment I sign on, everybody's like tisking, and if I'm not doing

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