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What Was On Your Pre-Pandemic Wish List?

Nerdette

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If you had a one-week pre-stay-at-home warning, what would you have done? This episode is filled with your pre-pandemic wish lists, from spending time with loved ones to buying nail polish to dancing your face off. 

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0:00.0

This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.

0:05.0

Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.

0:09.0

Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events.

0:15.4

From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette I'm Greta Johnson.

0:21.0

It is the month of May and my cat is like super getting sick of me which

0:25.7

means this must be another edition of Nardets introverts Guide to the Good Life. I don't know about you but the internet team has been working

0:35.3

from home since Friday March 13th which now that I think about it makes me think

0:40.1

that maybe I should be taking Friday the 13th much more seriously. We have

0:44.9

been hunkering down for seven weeks, which means seven weeks of banana bread and

0:50.2

Zoom friend hangs and really shitty sleep,

0:53.7

and mauling over the things we should have done

0:56.2

before stay-at-home orders started.

0:58.6

I am the first person to admit I am super lucky.

1:01.6

I still have a job that involves sitting on the floor of this

1:04.4

closet. Lots of local bookstores here are still open. I have a really nice yarn hookup. I upgraded my internet and somehow it's

1:11.8

cheaper than it was before, so I'm streaming to my heart's

1:15.3

content.

1:16.7

But my dog's toenails are getting like really long, and my car could definitely use an oil change. Which got all of us thinking. If you somehow

1:26.4

magically got like a one-week warning before stay-at-home stuff started, what would you have done?

1:34.2

We put the question out to our listeners, and I gotta say,

1:37.2

y'all did not disappoint.

1:47.0

Hello, Nurdette, this is Andrea Calling from Vancouver in Canada. Hey Nurdette, this is Jay calling from Queens, New York.

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