Hello and welcome back to Middle Ground. I'm Joe and this week I am solo on the mic, which is pretty

crazy because I have not been alone on the mic.

I don't know.

Since we first started Middle Ground, I would say it was probably in 2020.

I don't think I did a single Just Me episode in all of 2021.

So this is an adjustment, me just talking.

But I'm excited.

I am going to be talking to you guys today about things I wish I could have told younger me.

This is inspired by a TikTok that I made this week that was all about things younger me would be proud of now.

And I thought to myself, that would make a good episode. And then Caroline and I were texting. And she gave me some options for solo episodes. She thought would be

interesting. And it fell right in line with one of her thoughts. So here we are. I'm going to go

ahead and get started with my grounding moment. You guys know,

as I said last week, my grounding moments are all going to be house related because we are so

close. About a month out, a little bit longer than that, I think, but five or six weeks. And

pretty soon we're going to be living in our new house and things

are moving quickly. Our cabinets are getting set this week and lots of other good stuff and I am

just focused on that and I have been really in my head this week and appreciative of the fact that I'm actually going to get to live in this house.

I feel like the project has gone on for so long now that it started feeling like it was just this thing that I would always and forever work on.

And the idea that it's actually going to come to an end, I'm going to get to live there.

Whew, wild.

It does not even seem possible, but I am very, very excited.

All right, guys, I'm going to go ahead and get into it.

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