my quiet morning routine and other things i like rn

Call this a list of current favorites, call this a list of current obsessions, call it whatever you want.

“But today, that's what I'm going to be sharing with you all.”

And I do this pretty frequently because I'm the type of person that will become obsessed with something for like two months,

and then I'll ultimately discard it and replace it with something else.

And it's not because I don't like the thing that I became obsessed with and then discarded anymore. It's just that I've probably found something that's more exciting to me. I like to keep my life spicy. I'm somebody who definitely sticks to a routine. And so I rely on switching little elements of my routine up to keep my life dynamic and exciting.

I'm not the type of person to eat the same breakfast every single day for ten years. On the type of person to eat the same breakfast every day for two months. And then switch it up. This is just who I am. And I do feel like I go through really intense phases with things where it like I become obsessed and then I ultimately discard it.

So that's why I'm able to make these episodes as frequently as they do. So without further ado, this is a list of some of the things that I like right now. I briefly interrupt this episode to let you know that this episode is presented by Volkswagen. Don't get me wrong. Sometimes I love to be a passenger.

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Okay, I feel like for a long time I didn't really think too much about my morning routine. Like I would just wake up and then kind of do whatever. I mean, there were certain things that were consistent, right? Like make my coffee, get to work, in whatever way I needed to get to work that particular morning. You know, I'd go to the bathroom.

I've had phases where I've exercised in the mornings. I'm not currently in a phase like that right now. I exercised in the afternoon right now. It's kind of my vibe. But I don't know.

Like I've never thought too much about my morning routine.

Or like, how do I put this? I have thought about it, but not from a mental health way. In more of like a technical way. I've looked at my morning routine in the past from like a productivity perspective. And recently I had an experience where I kind of girlbossed myself to death, I think.

“And it led me to an extreme exhaustion that, well, if you want to know all about that,”

listen to my last episode about, I think I titled it something like, I finally learned how to rest or whatever. And I took a week to just rest and do it effectively. And during that week of pure good quality rest, I got into the habit of a slow morning, a quiet morning.

And it's stuck. Now I'm back to work. I'm not resting anymore and this has stuck. And it's so wonderful. I've been waking up a little earlier to do it, but it's been so worth it.

The quiet morning routine for me is as follows.

I wake up, I go downstairs, I make my coffee and first thing I do is I journal immediately,

just brain dump into the journal. But I don't force myself to do it if it doesn't feel right for me, right? Like there have been phases in my life where I've been really into journaling and then phases where I've sort of let it go because I haven't needed it as much. But recently I need it.

And so it's been great. I sit down and I journal anywhere between one page to like four pages, depending on what I need to get out. And what I journal about is usually what's going on in my life. And in analysis of what's going on in my life, basically. I try to balance documentation of what's going on in my life with in analysis of what's going on in my life.

And that seems to be the perfect balance for me because there have been times in my life where I've kind of forced myself to journal just to sort of document what's going on in my life. And that's not useful enough to me to get me into the habit of it.

“I think the analysis element is what makes it so valuable and it's incredibly peaceful and incredibly grounding.”

And then after that, I go for a morning walk outside. I prefer to do this in complete silence. I go ahead phones in no music, no nothing, just the birds chirping, the crisp air on the face alone. I will make an exception if there's someone to catch up with on the phone.

Then maybe I'll call someone, but I would say four to five times.

I'm walking in silence and taking the first 30 minutes to an hour of the day to be silent and calm and to reflect.

And to think, just keeps me chill for the rest of the day. Because I feel like I used to wake up and immediately just boom, boom, boom, start doing shit. Immediately boom, boom, boom, and then the rest of the day was just chaotic and high energy and, oh, and so it's been really wonderful. Okay, moving on, another thing I've really been enjoying is going grocery shopping at night. There's something about the energy at the grocery store at night that is magical to me.

For a long time, I would grocery shop after my workout class and the afternoon, which was fine. You know, it was kind of like, it was kind of like habit stacking, if you will, as they call it, like you combine two habits. And that was great. That was fine. That was productive. And I still do that sometimes, but I'm in a phase of my life right now where I'm single. Let's put it out as I'm single for the first time in many years for an extended period of time.

And it's very easy for me to just like never leave the house except for to go to my workout.

And so I've been sort of trying to find ways to get out of the house more, especially during the week.

“And so there are times when I feel a bit restless in the evenings, especially because I think when nightfall comes, the thoughts start to get a bit satter.”

And so it can be nice to kind of get out and get some fresh air. But I don't want to go on a walk at night because that's kind of scary. But going to the grocery store at night where it's well lit, when there's people around, love that. And the vibe is incredible. There's just something peaceful about it. It's quiet. There's not a lot of people there usually. You can really just roam the aisles as though time doesn't exist.

Because the lack of people in there just kind of makes the energy more calm. You don't feel this rush. There's something about the fluorescent lights when it's dark out at night. I don't know. There's something weirdly invigorating about it. Also too, for me, living in Los Angeles, there's a no traffic. I don't know. There's just something kind of magical about the energy.

I can't quite put a finger on it. You just have to experience it for yourself. Actually, you probably have experience it for yourself. You know what I'm talking about? That nighttime grocery store magic. I just, I don't know. Okay, next. Reading before bed. I know what you're thinking. I'm like, why are all the things that you're talking about? Not that fun.

It's like, okay. First, I love just having a slow morning.

Then I love one of the groceries. I don't know. It's so peaceful. It's like, I'm like, oh, these are boring things. Talk about something fun. Those things are coming later. I just had to get this stuff out of the way first. I have gone through various phases of reading in my life.

“And I fell out of it for really a year. Honestly, I just could not get into it.”

Like, I can't even tell you how many times I tried to get back into reading and it just did not work. And in retrospect, it's because I was overworking myself unnecessarily in my work life. It made me so exhausted that by the end of the day, I could not, I could not focus on a book. Like, my brain couldn't do it. And it was my fault. Like, it was unnecessary. And as I mentioned earlier, I recently sort of had a reset of sorts.

I'm not overdoing it, like I was before. I'm not beating myself up. And it's allowed me this mental space to read again. Because I started reading during my week of rest because I had nothing better to do. And I really enjoyed it. And then I've been able to bring it into my routine, thankfully, because it's so nice, particularly reading before bed.

For a long time, I would watch some sort of content before bed. Because as I said, I was too exhausted. I couldn't open a book. You know, I had just overused my brain all day and stress myself out so bad that I didn't have any energy left to do anything remotely challenging and reading is a little challenging. It requires a bit of discipline to crack open a book, especially when there's easy content being fed to us all the time.

So luckily, I've taken a load off enough in my life to be able to read before bed. And it's great because it's so much more peaceful, but it's so hard to get into it.

“It's so hard to get into it. You have to have the perfect homeostasis in your life to have the energy to read these days.”

But it's taken me shifting other elements of my life so that I have the mental space to read. But now that I'm reading at the end of the day, I feel like I sleep so much better. I'm also doing something that's good for my brain before bed. Um, so I'm loving it. Okay, let's let's move on to fun stuff now. That was all so boring, you guys. You. Why did I start with all that boring stuff? Next, playing charades. Okay, over the holidays, my friends and I went on a little trip.

And I became obsessed with charades. Okay, there are many different ways you can play charades.

But the particular way that we were playing charades was basically somebody would be the, let's say the host.

And then the rest of the people would split off into groups, perhaps two or three groups and all the teams are competing against each other. Now, oh my god, this is so complicated. Do you care? Do I need to explain this? Whatever. I'm going to explain it just in case you, it's called running charades long story short. I'm going to keep it short because you can Google it if you really want to, if you really want to play this. Basically, the idea is is that the host has a list of things to act out and the team sends one representative up to start and get the first word. Let's say it's Taylor Swift.

That's a person. Um, as you know, no, but let's say the first, yeah, the first person, the first charade is Taylor Swift. They'll get the word Taylor Swift and then run back to their group in act out Taylor Swift.

And then whoever guesses it runs back to the host and says, what's the next word? Then they'll go back and act it out. Whatever team finishes the list first wins.

“I'm obsessed with this game. You have to get so creative to act out certain things because like, how do you act out the band cage the elephant?”

It's hard. You have to get creative. Like, you know, next thing you know, you're like, okay, four words. Okay, fourth word. Uh, and then you're like pretending that you're an elephant. Everybody's like, elephant and then you're like, okay, but it's also a band and you're like, mimicking a band. It's like so chaotic, but it is kind of amazing how creative everybody gets. And then when you like guess one and it was so hard to get, but somehow you were able to almost speak telepathically with people on your team.

Oh, it's so good. You guys have to play this with your friends. Have a game night and play running trades. You won't regret it. It's just the best fucking game. It's the best game and it's all I've been thinking about ever since the holidays. And I've not seen my friends since the holidays. Everyone's busy. Okay, everyone is stuff to do. I need to play running trades. I'm freaking out. Anyway, okay, moving on to subtle nail art. I know when you think of nail art, you think of someone getting excited to go to the wicked movie and getting Glinda and Alfaba portraits painted onto their nails.

And you think of somebody's birthday set of nails having candles and cakes drawn all over the nails, a nail set that took four hours to complete. You know, this is what you think of when you think of nail art because for a long time, this is what I thought of. Well, open your mind to subtle nail art. Listen, this is not a new concept. We all know what subtle nail art is, but I feel like the nail art trend got so extreme for a minute there where everyone was getting the most detailed sets of nails. It was like, whoa.

And then it sort of became, at least for me, this thing where I was like, I can't even think about this anymore. Like the pressure for me. It got so overwhelming. I was like, I can't participate in this anymore.

I never really did because I've never had the patience to sit down for nail art that would take that long.

But I don't know. I was so exposed to it on the internet and stuff that I just, I ended up kind of ditching nail art all together. Also, too, I was like, it doesn't match with anything. It's, I just, I don't know. I just was kind of put off by it in a way.

“And I was getting honestly just plain red nails for a long time. It always looks good and it's still my favorite plain polish color, but I recently was like, you know what? I think I'm ready to get back into nail art a little bit.”

nail art is cool because it's temporary. It's a temporary accessory. Like, if you buy a pair of sunglasses, you're committing to that style of sunglasses because you purchased an item, you know what I mean? When you're buying jewelry, you're committing to that style of jewelry. And that's an item that you ideally want to have and utilize for as long as possible. The cool thing about nail art is that it inevitably will come off your fingers. Yes, there is a financial commitment, but there's not like a material commitment.

And I think now more than ever, that is a cool idea because trends have sort of taken Gen Z in a chokehold. Everybody is obsessed with purchasing whatever the next trend is in participating in the next trend. Usually spawned through a TikTok. And I think it's leaving a lot of people with a lot of things in their closet that maybe they don't love enough.

“And I think a lot of people have become sort of addicted to participating in the trends because there's dopamine involved.”

And we're also social creatures. And we like to emulate one another. And it's gotten a bit toxic. And I think the idea of nail art is kind of the perfect way to participate in trends in a way that doesn't leave you with this material responsibility.

And so the key for me was figuring out how do I do nail art, enough where it feels exciting to me, but not to the point where it doesn't match anything.

And that's been sort of a fun challenge. And I've found so many cool, subtle, neutral nail art designs mismatched sets of like a bunch of neutral colors with like, blobs and swirls of color on them like just simple, neutral designs. I will say the design I have right now is not really very simple or neutral. I have like colorful stripes going on, but they're not so overpowering that they're like clashing with any outfits. So I'm back into nail art, but I feel like for me, in order for them to feel like an accessory, the art can't be too detailed.

I want to almost feel like fabric or something, like an extension of the clothes, not like detailed painted stuff on the nail. So this makes sense.

Anyway, moving on, styling hoodies in a fashionable way. Okay, hoodies are known as a comfortable piece of clothing. We think of hoodies and we think of going to the grocery store late at night, as I mentioned earlier,

“trying to like stay low key about it, hoping you don't run into anyone wearing sweatpants with it. Like we think of hoodies as being casual.”

I don't think we often associate hoodies with fashion, you know, putting together a fit, if you will.

Well, recently, my perspective on hoodies has changed. For a long time, if I wanted a warm outer garment that was lighter than a coat, I would wear a sweater.

Recently, I'm getting into styling the hoodie in a way that feels elevated. Like I went to a birthday party, and it was at a bar, and it was definitely more of a formal evening, and I styled a hoodie. And I felt perfectly dressed for the occasion. I didn't feel underdressed. I styled it up until it felt elevated. You know, I wore a hoodie with a long skirt, actually a matching skirt. With a black leather jacket over it, and pointy black leather boots and a black leather bag, simple, comfortable. But it felt, it did feel elevated, you know, for more casual days. I've been grabbing hoodies like almost daily with jeans with like any sort of casual pant,

but styling it with like, you know, having a cool belt on and like wearing a cool shoe and like having a cool bag and like really just building it up. I don't know. I'm just loving a hoodie. I love the way it feels, but for some reason, I've just been liking the way it looks to. But I also think it helps that I've found quite a few hoodies over the last few months. Like I've slowly but surely developed a collection of really cool hoodies that don't feel as athletic.

“They feel a little bit more fashiony, if you will. And I think that's where this love is coming from because if you're wearing like a hoodie, like a Nike hoodie, and it's made out of like a sweat wicking material.”

That's a hard thing. Like you can't, that's a hard thing to style for like a night out. But like a simple classic gray, cottony hoodie with a really good fit. Oh, yeah, you could sell that thing, huh? You know, a hoodie made out of maybe an unconventional material like some sort of material or, you know, something like that could be styled up. I think slowly but surely collecting a few hoodies like that made me realize not only is this a comfortable item of clothing, but it can also be a chic item of clothing.

So I'm enjoying styling hoodies in a fashionable way moving on classic square shaped black glasses. I know what you're thinking. I'm a why are you not wearing those right now. If you're watching the video version of this episode, I'm wearing round very round glasses. I lost my favorite pair of square shaped black glasses. Have no fear. I ordered a replacement because I was very upset. But for right now, I don't have any square black reading glasses. It's it's hard for me. It's been hard. It's really hard. But you know what they say. You don't know what you got till it's gone.

“And I honestly don't even think I would have realized how much I love this shape of eyeglass frame right now. How do I not lost them? Because it's been a loss. Like I can't tell you how often I reach for these.”

Not just for like reading, but also I like styling them and going out in them. Luckily, I did not lose my square shaped black sunglasses. Just my reading glasses. Oh, it's been hard. Because I rarely like to leave the house without glasses for some reason. It just weirdly is like a shield for me. It's like a protector for me. I can't explain it. Psychological. I don't know why.

But in the evenings, it's more tough because can't wear sunglasses. It's kind of do she vibes. Hey, I've done it. I've done it many times, but I don't like love doing it. I had a little face where I love doing it. And then it very quickly got old for me because I'm like, I actually can't see. So I've gotten into the routine of wearing reading glasses out at night to add a little bit of spice to an outfit. And I cannot tell you how hard it's been without my square frames. Because honestly, I would say for the last month and a half, maybe two months, nine out of 10 times that I'm grabbing a glass, sunglasses or optical.

I have been grabbing my square shaped black glasses. Classic square shape. You know what, you love it. You don't even need to be watching the video version of this episode to know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about square shaped square kind of maybe rectangle, I guess, but kind of square. I don't know if I'm talking about square shaped, classic sunglasses shape. You imagine what a sunglasses shape like boom. You imagine what a pair of reading glasses is shaped like boom. You know what I mean, it's just like the classic shape. I don't know. There's something just cool about it. I feel cool when I'm wearing when I'm wearing that shape.

Not that I'm trying to be cool. Like, and cool is maybe the wrong word because the least cool thing you can do is make a conscious choice to be cool. So that's not the right way of putting it. It's like, I feel like that shape of glass feels, you know what it feels like, actually, it feels powerful in a weird way.

“There's something about like a rounded frame that feels a bit softer. There's something really powerful about like a square shaped sunglasses or reading glass. Like it just feels sharp and it feels kind of smart.”

There's something about the energy that I like. I like right now. I'm craving right now. So I briefly interrupt this episode to let you know that this episode is brought to you by two good and co. I've actually got two good crimmers right here in my studio today and let me tell you this should be the latest upgrade to your coffee game. They're made with farm fresh cream real milk and contain three grams of sugar per serving. That's 40% less than the five grams for serving and leading traditional coffee crimmers. Two good creamers are available in sweet cream, roasted vanilla and lavender. All you got to do is pick one. Find them all at your local retailer in the creamer aisle. Now back to the episode.

Okay. Next. Cute bra lets. Okay. Think like vintage inspired silk bra lets gorgeous almost sort of laundry, but not like super sexy super like super sexy sexy.

I think more like maybe a little bit more understated, maybe a little bit more classic. I have a lot of sheer shirts a lot of sheer shirts for some reason. Like I weirdly over the years have collected a lot of sheer shirts and they're great for layering, but something I haven't really been able to do is where like a bra let under my sheer shirts. Why?

“Because I haven't found I hadn't found the right ones, but I also hadn't really looked that hard because I've never really been into lingerie. So it's never really been my thing.”

I've always preferred comfort in my undergarments and my thought has always been like, if somebody's taking the clothes off.

Take the undi off with the pants. You know what I mean? Like I don't care. Like let's just get like if we're going that like I don't need to like this doesn't need to be a show. You know what I mean? So I've just never really looked in thus I've never really developed a collection of cute bra lets and this has been sort of upsetting to me in some ways. There have been moments where I've been getting dressed and I've been like, oh it would be so cute if I wore like if I had a cute bra let to go under this top the sheer. But it's sort of been this thing where it's been like a gap in my wardrobe.

“And the only time I've really ever thought about it is when I need it. Why don't need it? I don't really need anything but it's like when I've wanted it and it hasn't been there.”

But then it's not like when I've been out shopping, I've been like, oh you know, I really do need to find some cute like bra lets that perhaps I could wear underneath sheer clothing as sort of like a fun element. Because again, as I said, I'm not somebody who really cares about lingerie. So like if I'm wearing a shirt where you can't see the bra through it, I'm wearing whatever the most comfortable bra is. Same thing goes for underwear.

In listen, I might end up unlocking my lingerie era one day who knows. I actually feel like it's impending like I actually feel like it might happen soon.

As my prefrontal cortex develops little things become of interest to me that weren't interesting before. And I do think that there's a chance that lingerie is coming for me, you know, no pun intended.

Because I'm I'm very picky about my bras and underwear because I'm very particular about being very comfortable.

Anywho, I mean, so the bra let thing for me is more of like if the bra is going to be seen, I want it to be cute, right? And I just never had any cute ones in slowly, but surely I've started to develop a collection of them because I really did start looking and I've been finding some.

“And you know, it is a really like it's a fun way to layer. It's a fun sexy way to layer to have like a gorgeous, you know, bra let underneath a shirt and it be seen.”

It's kind of like a shirt. It takes in undergarment and makes it fun. And I know you're thinking it's like, oh, yeah, we've all known this for years. Well, listen, I'm a little behind. Because I've just never been into it. If you're somebody who's into laundry, you already have bra let's. You already have a cute little silk little bra let to wear under your gorgeous sheer button up top. You already have that and you like feeling cute under your clothes. Well, guess what, I don't care about feeling cute under my clothes.

I care about wearing granny panties that feel good on my butt and everywhere else.

I care about wearing a bra that I barely can feel because I hate the feeling of a bra.

“It's really hard to find undergarments that are functional and cute. Hey, I'm not saying that they're not out there. They definitely are, but it's not an easy feat.”

And sometimes the most comfortable is a little ugly, you know, I've been on this journey to finding cute comfortable bra let's that also look cute under clothes. And you know, I'm I'm in a phase of my life. Now where I take my time with the shopping. So it's taken a bit of time. But now I have all the neutral colors. I need a nude one, a black one, a cream one, I'm good. So it's a vibe. Okay, next. This is very random. So stick with me here. This is a very specific item. I cannot express you as specific it is.

But I will, but I actually will proceed to express you as specific it is. So I will tell you about this item through a story. Okay, a year or so ago I bought this bag of vintage bag. Uh, it's green. It has pockets on the front. Kind of feels like if a pair of cargo pants were a bag. There's like two pockets on the front with like fold over pockets and buckles. It's a boxy sort of bag. I love it. Recently, I had this idea to take my entire, I could do not my entire collection of buttons in pens cute little ones that say funny little things have funny little pictures on them.

And put it all over the back. Something came over me. And I was like, I feel like if this green bag had some colorful little details on it, it would really make my outfit right now. And it worked because the bag is fabric, right? So I could just poke it right through ever since I did this with the bag. Put the buttons all over it. I have used that bag like every day. I kid you not. It's become my go to bag. It was money like I loved that bag before and I used it all the time. But I put all the buttons on it. That has become my go to bag.

All the colors on it, the fact that it's so dynamic and I am now obsessed with that bag. It's the only bag I want to take around with me because it's the most interesting one. But at the same time, what's great about it is that at any point, I can take all of those buttons off all those pins off and I have my simple green bag again. Sometimes really taking something that you love and really putting effort into it to spice it up can make you fall in love with it in a way you never even knew possible. You know, it's become sort of a trend to personalize your bag.

Put a bunch of key chains on it, attach jewelry to it, put stickers on it like whatever. Like it became a trend to sort of beat up your purse and give it personality. Perhaps this idea subconsciously came from that. But I think the reason why I love it so much is because I've collected the pins over time. Some of them are ones that I found online that I thought were funny and like match my personality. The other half random vintage ones that I found that like flea markets and stuff like that. But they all do feel personal to me. And I think that's what makes this sort of version of personalizing my bag feel kind of genuine I guess to me. Like it doesn't feel like I forced it.

“So buying things that they didn't maybe even like that much to follow that trend. They're buying things that weren't personal to them key chains and clips in little like dangly things to add on to the bag.”

I always try to inspire myself and others to participate in trends only that feels super honest to oneself in one sense of style. Like if a trend pops up and it feels you great.

You probably already have the stuff then to participate in the trend because if it's so you, you know, you might already have it. And if not, you know, I think in extra step of thought and due diligence is necessary in order to ensure that the trend is not being participated in just because it's simply a trend.

Because I'm going off on a tangent that is so unnecessary. Really unnecessary. Let's move on. Oh my god. The next thing I'm about to talk about might be my favorite thing on this whole list. Okay, it's a food item. A concoction that I came up with now did I invent it? Probably not. I could probably find this sort of recipe online. It probably already exists.

“But I didn't see it online like I invented it and so I feel like I invented it. So like let me believe that I invented it. Okay, let me explain it to you. You need green apples. You need vanilla flavored Greek yogurt.”

Okay, or any sort of yogurt of choice, but vanilla flavor is ideal. I don't know. Is there caramel flavored yogurt? That could work. Okay, you need peanut butter powder PB2, you know peanut butter powder. It's like, you know a peanut butter powder is it's peanut butter, but but turn into powder. Okay, you need flaky salt and optional. If you want to find this very niche random product. You need peanut butter extract. Okay. Yes, I somehow found peanut butter extract. Don't ask me how I found that. Don't ask me how I know that exists.

Don't ask me why it's in my pantry, but it is. It's definitely an optional ingredient, but I do think it adds a little bit of extra peanut flavor to this.

Okay, now there's a few ways that you can assemble this, but the most important element is this peanut butter yogurt. Okay, I take probably like anywhere between a half cup two thirds cup of yogurt.

You want it sweet like don't do unsweetened. This will not taste good. I put in I kid you not a fourth cup of peanut butter powder. Okay, dumping it in dumping it in a little bit of the peanut butter extract flaky salt, a little bit of water.

“You need to put a little bit of water in there. It's too thick to just mix the peanut butter powder into the yogurt. You need to add a little bit of water to help it mix. Okay, now cut up that granny Smith apple or two.”

Okay, if you want to make a yogurt bowl, cut the apples into chunks. If you want to dip your apple slices into this yogurt peanut butter mixture, be my guest. When I first started making this bowl, I was cutting into chunks. Then I realized you know what? There's something about eating cubes of apples over and over and over and over and over and over again in a yogurt bowl that's hurting my mouth.

It's like cutting up the roof of my mouth. I'm going to start doing slices. So now I'm doing slices. Just get that green apple into that yogurt and enjoy.

I mean, it is so good. I don't this is my snack of the moment. Like I look forward to this snack. It is so good. And I'm telling you the flaky sea salt makes it. And you might even want to take the flaky sea salt to the table with you while you're eating because you might want to add a little bit more as you go. It's so good. It's special shout out to my apple slicer. A very unnecessary kitchen gadget that I'm not sure why I have. I don't even know when I bought it when it came into my life, but I have it. And I do use it every time I cut an apple because makes it a lot easier.

I mean, cutting an apple is not that hard. I'll tell you it's really not, but to just be able to push down and have like a bunch of big slices. I'm going to do a little bit of grooming of the apple slices after that, right? It's not like they're fully complete. Cut them a little thinner, you know, cut off any little bits that maybe you didn't want in your slice, but definitely cuts the time down. So if you have one, show some love to it. If you don't have one, you don't need one. I don't know why I have it. It's so bizarre. I don't know where it came from.

But I use it. It's my favorite snack. Just give it a try. It's delicious. It's fun to eat. Like it's just such a joy. I wonder how long this snack fixation will last to be honest in my be years. I could see this one going on years.

“I had a phase with this one smoothie. I was so obsessed with this one smoothie. It was so good. I think I drank it every day for over a year.”

And then it got replaced by this snack, this apple peanut butter yogurt snack. And I have a feeling I'm going to be honest one for a while. You won't hear about me replacing this snack for a while. This is like one of the best snacks I've ever I've ever made. I mentioned flaky salt in my next favorite thing is flaky salt. I love flaky salt. I like having a little dish of flaky salt out while I'm eating. And I like to be able to add flaky salt as I'm eating. Like for example, I've been recently making a lot of soups. And listen, my soup is salty, but like I try not to make my foods too salty because it kind of scares me.

Because like you can't take away salt, right? You can only add it. So I always one cooking under salt a little because I'm like I can salt to taste in the moment.

Like there's something about the experience of like pinching the salt and crushing it in your fingers into your food that's so satisfying and fun.

“And it just adds to the experience while you're eating. Like instead of taking your salt shaker and just whatever, hey, why not have a little dish out with some flaky salt, it's fun.”

A little extra, but I don't know, sometimes the little things like that can be weirdly satisfying and kind of fun. Okay, next another food item. Let me tell you something about golden kiwis.

Okay, take everything you know about a normal kiwi. What do you know about it? Well, it's brown and fuzzy on the outside, it's green on the inside, it's tart, it's a little sweet.

Okay, now imagine a kiwi that's the same, except when you cut it open, instead of it being green, it's golden. And when you take a serrated spoon, if you have one, yes, I have those so random but so helpful for eating kiwis, a spoon with like sharp edges for eating grapefruit or kiwi. Anyway, very helpful. Maybe that should be on this list as well. Well, consider it added. Okay, imagine taking your serrated spoon or your normal spoon. Taking it into your kiwi and taking a bite and imagine taking a bite of the best kiwi you've ever had. That is what a golden kiwi tastes like. I didn't believe it. Okay, my dad started talking to me about golden kiwis a few months ago.

“He was like, oh, if you tried golden kiwis, I was like, no, or maybe what is that? He's like, it's like a kiwi, but it's like better and I was like, come on, like kiwis are already really good, like how could they get better?”

And I kind of just didn't believe him, which is really rude and retrospect. I couldn't imagine a kiwi would be like that good.

And I couldn't imagine how like different, you know, a different breed of kiwi could be. I was like, I don't know. Anyway, over the holidays, when I was home for Thanksgiving, specifically, my dad was like, get into a golden kiwi and I was like, all right, sure. I tried it and I was like, oh, I totally got it. The flavor is just a little bit sweeter, but also just a little bit tartar. Let's not a word. Then a regular kiwi.

“It's like the flavors are turned up a notch, but also the texture is better. The texture is a bit less grainy, like a kiwi is often very is a bit grainy.”

Well, let me tell you about a golden kiwi smooth a bit more buttery. I don't know. They are better. So if you see golden kiwis at your local grocery store, pick them up and give them a try. I actually just talking about them makes me want to have a golden kiwi right now. So after I'm finished recording this episode, I'm going to go eat at least four of them. And let me tell you they go down easy. I can eat so many golden kiwis and one sitting. And they probably help you poop. I bet I poop amazingly after I eat them. I don't know for sure, but I can imagine that it's not hurting.

Next, another food item. We have sesame anything. I'm in my like, I've always loved sesame. It's been a flavor profile that I've loved for many years, but recently I'm just really into it. Like I'm like gravitating towards it. I'm like putting sesame seeds on everything. Okay, if I can add sesame seeds to something I will. If it remotely makes sense from a flavor profile perspective, I am adding sesame seeds. I went to an ice cream shop. They had a sesame flavor ice cream. I got it. It was delicious. Very recently. Actually, I went to a copy shop. I wanted to get a drink. I wanted to get something to sip on, but I couldn't do caffeine. It was too late in the day. I just couldn't do it. And so I got a sesame latte.

Okay, if you don't know what a sesame latte is, it's basically like sesame paste mixed with water and then milk is added to it. So good. So good. Now I'm obsessed with sesame lattes delicious. Add a little bit of honey to it. Yama yam yam yam. There's just something about it. Sesame oil. Oh my god. To like, if you cook anything and sesame oil, it'll taste good. I'm craving sesame right now. It's all I want moving on. Weird dessert fixation. I've been having lately. All I want to do is eat a brownie or a chocolate cake. A dense chocolate dessert is what I want right now. Now this is weird because I normally don't care for.

I mean, I always love a brownie. I always love a chocolate cake. Who doesn't? There's probably a few people out there, but they're few and far between. That's obviously a delicious dessert. Like obviously duh. And if it's in front of me, like yes, but I feel like there was a long period of time there where I'd probably choose something else before I choose a brownie or a chocolate cake. But for some reason right now, I am craving that a dense chocolatey super rich chocolatey chocolatey baked dessert.

That's just what I want. And I did make brownies a week ago and it's very fun to make. It was very fun to eat, but that's just my dessert craving right now. I used to be more of like a chocolate chip cookie cinnamon roll.

And last but not least, for the list of things that I like right now, I like what I can't have. There's just something about it.

“There's something about what I can't have right now that I like. If I can't have something right now, I like it. I really like it.”

Yeah. And we'll end on that now. So that's all. That's all for today. I will check back in with you soon on more things that I like.

But we have to let time pass because that is how the list forms. So if you enjoy this episode, stay tuned. There'll be another one. I can't tell you when because I can't force the list to be finished, right?

“Just it happens when it does. But until then, new episodes every Thursday about a lot of different topics. If you want to watch video episodes, see fun pictures on screen sometimes.”

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At anything goes, I'm on the internet. I'm a Chamberlain in my coffee company exists and it's called Chamberlain Coffee. Thank you all for listening and hanging out as always. It's a joy to psychoanalyze things with you to the point where I start to feel my sense of reality sort of escaping me to be honest. Perhaps that's just who I am as a person. And I'm grateful if you made it to this point in the episode that you can tolerate me that long. So that's a blessing. And I'm very grateful for you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for hanging out. I love you. And I'll talk to you soon. Bye.