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Holy bananas. My eyes were frozen. How was your day? I have nothing nice to say about that. Question mark. Question mark. I have a bit of a brief adana too. It feels like an eternity. I would have hated that. Talking directly to hundreds of people. Oh, that's probably on the high side. I totally agree. I think it's still a very real thing, I think. You never know. You never know. I still feel so much younger than we are. We're way too down. It's the mirror that checks me every time.
It's honestly torture. Or is that just Texas there? Maybe you knew me so well, you just finished my-- It's the undertones. Overwhelmed by the roles that we hold, whether that's at work or whether that's at home. How'd you sleep? Were you good? Sleep okay? This is so much fun for me. I must be the world's most approachable person. There's T-shirts for that. Like 3 million people that have a podcast, and we're 3 million in one. I still feel like I'm 25.
I don't know, I'm just going to talk until the answer comes to my mind. Natural self-confidence. And you have a really good, I think, strategy here. And this is cheesy as heck, but-- Well, I might cut that one out, but it's like-- Gosh, made it. Lighten my eyes. And I'm going to go into battle. I mean, obviously you kind of graduate into that over time. You just-- Foster syndrome is part of it, and-- And I would just be like shaking. I don't know a big word. And maybe I would control me.
Black out. So you are. Embrace things. And that always blows me away. I might have these wickets not. Keep it stupid, simple. No, keep it simple, stupid. Yeah. Or keep it stupid, simple. Not a mile, sorry. Yeah, OK. I mean, I am embarrassed to say this out loud. It's amazing. I've got a great day going, don't we? It is not a beautiful morning. So I just-- wow. So shocked. People watching bears. Incredible. It's all about me. The only one of us is down to earth. Did I get that one right?
Yeah, no. Dang it. I said-- [MUSIC PLAYING] Oh my gosh. Cut. Bear what? [LAUGHTER] Welcome to the Mr. and Mrs. English podcast. I'm Megan. And I'm Sean. We're here to talk about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, keeping life together in the middle of all the chaos. So buckle up, because we're all in this crazy journey together. [MUSIC PLAYING] So you can see it's synced up. It's mind synced up. Mine looks like it is synced up as well. Well, you're looking at a live feed of you.
I'm talking about when I'm editing it. I got to line up the audio and the video. In real life, you're synced up. Well, I was confused why you were trying to sync up. It's been a day. All right, well, we're rolling. So that was kind of our soft intro, I guess. A little behind the scenes action there. Yeah. Well, we could kick this off with a welcome to the Mr. and Mrs. English podcast. We have the intro that does that, like the video intro. Oh, man, I'm out of ideas.
I think we just say, hey, welcome back. It's good to see you guys. OK, you could do that. OK, I just did it. I can do it again. Do it again, yeah, because this is official start. Official start. Cut. All right, cut. Well, welcome, everybody. This is episode three, correct? Three. Yeah, correct. I don't know why I do that. I know it's episode-- it's just this self-deprecating life I live. You can be self-deprecating. All the time.
I know it's episode three, but for whatever reason, I decided to throw in there, is it episode three? I don't even know. Like I'm an idiot, I'm sorry. So here's how I think about that, because I do that too. More in a work setting, but a lot of times, it's more to give people that sense of approach-- you can be approachable by instead of being so sure of yourself all the time. Sometimes inserting that little bit of self-deprecation, if that's a word.
I must be the world's most approachable person then. [LAUGHTER] There's t-shirts for that. I feel like I constantly am just undercutting myself just to be an idiot. For instance, I remember when I used to work at Wells Fargo down in Chicago. And it was one of my early on in my career. So I was still younger, in my 20s. Maybe early 30s, I can't remember now. But still early on, I wasn't-- the long and the short of it is I feel like I never matured until I was 25, 27.
I feel like I came into my own. But even at 30, my first professional job in the Towers, downtown Chicago financial district, I still felt like I was a little bit of the Joker. Even though I did underwriting of $200 million deals and all this kind of stuff, I had the work side. But I still felt like I was a little bit of a Joker. And there was times when I know I left Wells and I went to the next bank after that, I remember telling you, I want to reinvent myself. I don't want to be the Joker.
Yes. Yeah, we talked a lot about that. And I think a lot of times, especially early in your career, you're trying-- that imposter syndrome is part of it. And you're like, oh, I have this big job and this big title. But I still feel like I'm 20 years old. I don't know. Maybe other people don't feel that way. That's how I feel or I felt. So I think that may have been part of it. I sometimes still feel that way. Yeah, I think it's natural for people to feel that way.
Because even when I was researching, doing podcasts and whatnot, I mean, luckily, as far as I know, there's only like 50 or so of us doing podcasts. Oh, that's probably on the high side. Legitimately, there's probably like 3 million people that have a podcast. And we're 3 million in one. But they talk about a lot in there that, well, why am I going to do a podcast? They're trying to convince people, you have your own angle. You have your own experiences.
And because of that, you have something to provide to the world. So people buy stuff, I'm sure. There's all kinds of stuff you have to do to be on platforms and get the podcast up and going. So it's all economic. But they talk a lot about imposter syndrome and that. Well, why would anybody listen to anything I have to say? And it's the same thing. So I think you're right, where it comes across through life, not just in this, but even this is 25 years later almost. Oh, yeah.
People who I work with as mentor-mentee relationships actually talk a lot about imposter syndrome. I think it's still a very real thing. I think sometimes, even myself, we get kind of overwhelmed by the roles that we hold, whether that's at work or whether that's at home. And maybe inside, it's that insecurity of like, I don't know that I'm good enough. I don't know that I'm good enough to be a great mom. I've never raised a teen or I've never even had a child. So I don't know how to do this.
I don't know how to be a good wife. I don't know how to be a good accountant or a doctor, you know, fill in the blank. But I think that might be pretty common. Yeah, it's got to be to some degree. It's a little bit of that fake it till you make it type stuff.
I mean, we've talked about that a lot in our lives where-- and maybe it is that confidence as you're growing up in your career to some degree and you're looking at other people that you view as just so much smarter than you or they've just been around longer than you. Or, you know, in over time, as I matured into the role, I found out that there are people that are incredibly smart that do know everything. Oh, yes, yes. And that's not me.
Nor I. But I would say, in my experience, there are few and far in between, right? A lot of the other people, although very smart and very intelligent and hard work ethics and all that, they've made it there for a reason. But I think a lot of them-- and myself, not excluded here either. I think you do kind of fake it till you make it at some point. I mean, I remember a time where it was like, well, I don't know. I'm just going to talk till the answer comes to my mind.
And then later in my career, it was like, I think I know this answer. I'm just going to go straight to it. And that's why you're just better at your job when you're older. I think that's true. I think you have a little more just natural self-confidence. But I think, to some degree, we all still feel so much younger than we are, right? We've seen our whole journey. At least, maybe this is just me.
I still feel like I'm 25, and it's the mirror that checks me every time, and not necessarily my own brain going, yeah, you're not 25 anymore. But I'm kind of stuck there. And 25-year-old me, 15-year-old me, pick a time. I was never super self-confident. But yet, sometimes we have to pretend that we are. My phrase-- so when I know I have something that I'm not looking forward to or I'm intimidated by it, I have a phrase in my head. And this is cheesy as heck.
But it's always, I'm going to lace up the boots. And I'm going to go into battle. For whatever that battle is in that moment, I literally tell myself, I'm going to lace up the boots. Really? Yeah. I've never heard that before. I mean, I've never heard you tell me that story before. So that's how you get yourself through those.
Because for those of you that don't know, at Megan's job, a lot of the time, she's up in front of hundreds of people, one of five people on the stage or one of less than that on a stage, talking directly to hundreds of people. And it's not something-- I mean, obviously, you kind of graduate into that over time. You just didn't get to run into that. But even-- I mean, I can't imagine doing that. I have never had to do that. I probably could to some degree maybe.
But I can see where you'd have to have something-- some safe spot to find. And that's my phrase. And I think a lot of people probably have something like that that gets them mentally ready for a moment that, in reality, feels too big for me, at least. Yeah. I don't have that. I'm trying to think. Maybe that's why-- [LAUGHS] As an introvert-- people are picking up on themes here. But as an introvert, I do remember being young in my career at Wells.
And even now, there's times-- and it's not nearly as bad. But when people are going around the room and introducing themselves-- and you have a really good, I think, strategy here-- I figured out later in life by myself. But I remember just watching one by one by one. People would go, and I would just be shaking. My palms would be dripping sweat. And I'd be just sweaty, just shaky. And all I really had to do sometimes was give my name and where I'm from and my position.
Whatever. It wasn't even like I was giving an actual presentation. Sometimes you have standing up and put on the spot and coming up with things. And I didn't have anything like that. Even now, I get nervous in those things sometimes when I know it's coming to me. But I stole your thunder there a little bit. Your strategy is to go first. I think that's right on. Oh, yeah. Because the second I don't go first, then I'm judging myself, comparing myself to someone else.
Oh, gosh, they said that really well. Or, oh, they picked a really big word there, and I don't know a big word. All of that. I get nervous if I don't. And so I try to take control. Yeah. Maybe I'm a control freak. I mean, that's probably-- You're a little bit of a self-described one, living with you for 20 years. I think I'm much more of a control freak than you are. Yeah. We're both type A. Weren't we having this conversation just this week with a friend of ours?
We're both type A. But I'm an A minus. And what are you? She was her blood type, right? I'm my blood type. And you guys are both A minuses, right? We're both A minuses. And you're your blood type, which is? I think I'm A positive, right? Yeah, you are A plus. So you're an A plus. I don't wear that proudly. That comes, I guess, naturally in my jeans. But I'm well and tight sometimes. There's no doubt about it. Hey, and so you are. Embrace it.
So one of us has to be a little bit of the person who gives. But you know very well after being with me for 20 years, there are certain things that you're like, I'm just not going to do that. Meghan's just going to go and do it because she has control of that one. I do think it's interesting that you've got that term, that phrase. And I'm just turning over in my head I don't really have that. In my mind, it's kind of like game time, right? You got to go. It's game time. You got to do it.
But for me, it's almost like closing my eyes and diving in because I just have to. It's like pointing the skis downhill. You just got to go and then you black out. And then when you get to the bottom of the hill and it's done, you take all these classes when you're in a certain profession and they teach you how to make speeches and how to get presentations and all this kind of stuff. That's always hard because that's not real life. Oh, you need to-- don't point with the pointer.
You're trying to remember all these things and talk about what's on there. And it's ridiculous. But I remember the one thing I've consistently got feedback on is that they said, oh, you seem so confident when you speak. And that always blows me away because to me, I'm always like, oh, is my voice shaking? I'm so nervous. I feel like I'm searching for words. That kind of thing. But apparently, at times-- and I'm sure I've bombed plenty of times.
But more often than not, especially in a professional situation when I'm locked in, I can really get through it. Oh, for sure. But for sure. One of the things that helped me was that one class that I had to take on presentations. And we were on video all day. So maybe-- Done that one. And that is so intimidating.
But when you actually watch yourself back, because your mind is racing, but if you watch yourself back, that pause actually felt relatively natural, even though I know in my own head I was searching for the word. Yeah. They always tell you the best speakers are able to be comfortable in that silence. In that silence, although it may be brief, it feels like an eternity. Eternity. Yeah. Yeah. One of the things I love, though-- our kids come home and talk to us about what they did in their day.
And our kids are up in front of their class quite a bit, whether it's group presentations or whatever. And they're fifth grade, seventh grade, and ninth grade. So I gave my first presentation seventh grade. It was my very first one. But even in fifth grade, they're getting up in front of the class and talking, or getting up in front of the class and singing for different parts and things like that in music.
I think that's a great way to start getting into that, because you will have to push yourself later in life. Yeah. I do like that they throw them into that fire a little bit. I would have hated that. But I'm glad they do it now. I don't remember doing speeches. I'm sure I had to do group presentations and whatnot. I think it's very well documented within our relationship that my education was lacking. District 11 didn't quite have the standards that maybe you grew up with.
Yeah, I am always surprised at classic literature that you didn't read in school. I may have been assigned it, but I didn't read it. And I wasn't a bad student. Don't get me wrong. You are National Honor Society. Well, again, we've talked about that too. And that was only one or two years out of the four years or so that you're measured on it. So I don't want to be myself as a straight A student. I wasn't, but I did get an academic scholarship along with an athletic scholarship going to college.
My hubby's wicked's not. That's not true. No, we have different kind of smarts though, right? Oh, yeah. You definitely have not only the IQ. You're very smart. I know. Yeah, there's that counter of how much we gush on each other. Yes. But you're also very savvy socially and common sense wise. Yeah. And I sometimes don't have the common sense. And I think you're just a little more heavy on the intellectual savviness. And that common sense side for you is there's just not enough room.
Your brain's so big for just some of those easy things. Honestly, you overthink the easy things. You overthink it. Very much so. And I'm dumb enough that I'm like, well, let's just do that. You know what I mean? It's like the stupid thing makes sense. It's the kiss philosophy. Right, right. Keep it stupid simple. No, keep it simple, stupid. Yeah. Or keep it stupid simple. I think either works. But they are kiss. Either one is kiss. Yeah. Now, you definitely have more common sense.
And I do overthink it. I overthink a lot. Yeah. But then what's crazy, though, is that oftentimes I overthink in the dumb situations. But I turn my brain off a lot easier than you do. Yeah. So maybe our brain just rests at different intervals. I don't know. Yeah. There's definitely more than two types of humans. We are definitely our own types, for sure. We rest different ways. We think different ways. We do a lot of things different ways.
But the good news is we do a lot of things the same way, too. That's what helps it work to some degree over the long run, I think. Yes. We have a lot of similarities. And over 20 years, we've really learned each other. And you know when I'm going to overthink something, because you often are watching me. And you're like, that should have been a simple response. She's clearly turning a lot of wheels over in her head right now. You kind of just expect it.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't-- it's funny you say that, because it's like-- after so long together-- and I don't know if other people feel this way, too, or not-- but after so long together, I don't think of you as separate Megan. Yeah. I think of you as me. So it's like, if I'm on the run, and I'm moving, and I don't got time to talk to you, you should understand that, because you're me. You know what I mean? We're just the same thing. Yeah, we're just an extension of each other.
I forget to stop and remember that you are living your own life, and you are having your own thoughts, and you have your own feelings, God forbid. And I need to take those into account more often. I think that's pretty normal, though, to do that, especially when we're, I think, exceptionally close. And we've been together-- I mean, there's been times in our relationship where we lived, I don't know, 15 hours from the closest friend or relative, we were self-employed.
So we were really each other's only true coworker, other than the people who worked for us. I mean, we were all we had. And so I think through all of that, you do just become an extension of each other. And then you're like, well, why aren't you thinking of this? Because that's the way I'm thinking of it. And so you do, now and again, need to hit pause and be like, totally different person, different views, different background. But I do view that as we're just totally interwoven.
Even though we're-- I wonder if anybody else thinks that way about that. You've got to be. I don't know how else you-- maybe people think of it totally different. But from my perspective, I just don't know how else you would think of it. And that's why sometimes it just gets so-- that's why when we talked two weeks ago or whatever about date night, and make sure we have those times that we can just not be just tunnel vision on the path that we're on. And it's like, come on.
I know you're right next to me. We're both-- whatever it is, just flying down this tunnel vision path at Mach 7, and that's that pull out moment where it is like, well, how was your day? Yes. Yes. Just this morning, see, this is why we love morning cereal. So another shameless plug for morning cereal. But it's not. These aren't planned. These aren't planned. They're really not. Actually, we haven't even touched on the topics that we have in front of us.
But Carnegie, Dale Carnegie was talking about-- the author of the book was talking about a stockbroker and how he decided to smile at his wife. So this morning, we actually took a moment to smile at each other, not in a cheesy way because it was still kind of early. We were doing the morning routine. But it was really nice just to smile and get a hug in the kitchen. Yeah. That made me think of two stories. And I don't know which one to tell.
I'll stick with the sweet story first, where-- it's right. I actually-- you smiled at me, and I walked by you with maybe an eyeball raised because it was still 7.20 in the morning. It was early. It was early. And I stopped literally mid-stride, backed up, and said, I'm going to give you a smile this morning. And I hugged you. Right? And it was because of that reading.
So it's like implementing-- anyways, it's just implementing these real-world type skills and things you can put into practice that we talk about on morning cereal. But I was also laughing at it too when it was literally-- I want to be careful because I don't want to always just talk about my bad things on here because we all have our bad things. But those are some of the funny things to talk about. So take it with a grain of sand. Salt. Dammit. I was going to say salt too.
Well, I might cut that one out. But take it with a grain of salt when I tell some of these stories that I'm not that bad. Oh, gosh, no. But I do remember telling you a few months ago that-- I know exactly where you're going with it. When we get up, we're up at like 5.30 in the morning. It's early. I'm not a morning person. I am a morning grump. I'm not a morning person. I'm not a grumpy. I'm just not morning person. And after-- you're just so thoughtful and so nice all the time.
But there's two things I was like-- Gush meter. Yeah, there it is. I said, one, would you mind just dimming the lights in the bathroom a little bit when you're in the shower? Because when I come in from our dark bedroom and I open the doors into the bathroom, it's like I'm looking at the sun from 10 feet away. And I'm like, yeah, it blinds me. And it immediately almost is like a negative feeling. You know, like, god, now I got light in my eyes.
Even though I'm walking with my eyes closed most of the time at that time in the morning. But then secondarily-- and I'm almost embarrassed to say-- I mean, I am embarrassed to say this out loud. But maybe in hindsight, it's funny. But the second thing I asked, in addition to dimming the lights, was could you please not smile so big at me and ask me if I slept OK? Because I literally just rolled out of bed, fell out of bed. I'm just mad that I-- because I want to go back to sleep.
And all of a sudden, I'm blinded with this huge light. And then your beautiful smile is 100-- how do I want to say this? OK, so I'm going to defend you a little bit. So yes, we had this conversation. I like to think that I put all of these into practice because I now dim the light in the bathroom every day. Super culturable. But then I get what you're saying about, OK, don't overpower me in the morning with positivity. And it feels like energy. I'm also a little bit slow in the morning, too.
So I get it. You're just waking up. And it's too much to be like-- It's a tsunami. It felt like a tsunami. And I think that's-- Blasting me away. That's fair. That's one of those things. I'm at least coachable. And you did get feedback. I know you're being so thoughtful. And that's why I was like, I feel horrible telling you this or asking you this. But would you just mind giving me 15 minutes to kind of wind myself up for that?
So the smile and the hug this morning was after we had been up for a while. It felt appropriate. Yeah, we were up. We were just showered. We were going-- It was actually really natural. Yeah. Like, yeah. But maybe not-- yes, a smile in the morning is great. But maybe not the 100 watt smile. Like, it's amazing. It was fair. Yeah. I think I referred to that as the full 10 level smile on morning cereal. Yeah. Smiling robots. Yeah, the smiling robots. And I think that's good. I'm kind of like you.
Most people are-- some people are like that. But I do think that a lot of people take some awhile to warm up. Yeah. You should test that one morning and get up before you and just hide in there and just blast the lights. And when you open those doors, just nail you with the biggest smile ever. How'd you sleep? Were you good? Did you sleep OK? You got a great day going, don't we? After 20 years, if you did that, I would be so shocked. If I just-- wow.
Just straight punch to the face because you have no idea who it is. Yeah. I'm going to like Ferris Bueller kick you, you know? Like, yeah. That would mean I was up all night on illegal drugs. Right. So this isn't going to happen. Well, you mentioned it in there. And the first item on our list, you mentioned us being in Vegas working together. Which was funny because-- so we were in Vegas last weekend with the youngest in his soccer team. And I could tell you a little bit about that.
But Meghan was talking about we-- you should tell the story of just how dumbfounded I was. And you quit your good corporate job to come work for ICS. See, this is-- I didn't really know that you were so dumbfounded. I thought you were just excited about it. Yeah. Did we already cover that? I don't want to repeat things on that. I think we did. Like a little bit in the first place. Yeah, we may have. So ICS was a construction services company where we worked with like Pulte Home Builders.
And we would provide cleaning services over the different phases of the build. Put our dumpsters out there. Our garbage trucks would come empty them and all this. Started it from scratch, which was a crazy experience. And honestly, that was a really good company. Unfortunately, I was not aware of 2008 and all that would come with that, the crash of the housing market and the financial markets to follow, that would put a quick end to that. It wasn't a mature enough company to get us through that.
But point being, that was a long tangent to get to the fact that I went back by there in Vegas because we started in Colorado and we moved it to Vegas because Vegas was booming. And so I always tell everybody, I feel like we built or helped build half of Vegas because we just put up track homes of 500 homes, 200 homes, 400, just tons of homes because it was growing like crazy there. But I went back and I went and tried to find some of the old neighborhoods that we built.
And this just changed so much there. Vegas has built up a ton. No, but it was fun. So we were out there with the soccer team. And generally, when we went out there last year for the same tournament, we stayed on the proper Vegas. We stayed in the Aria. And what was the other hotel? We stayed at the Trump Hotel. Oh, that's right. Because it was the only hotel on the strip that didn't have gambling in it. Right, right. Yeah. There's an age. There's a club rule around gambling and young kids.
So you're not supposed to have a casino on the-- Yeah, so we stayed there. And I think that's changed because this year, we stayed at the Golden Nugget. And let me tell you, that was different. Because we stayed at the Bellagio after that. And you and I, when we lived there, we stayed in a lot of places because locals get discounts. Yeah. It was always great. We always got these really nice suites. And because we lived there, we were residents. So we'd get this huge discount.
So we got to live it up a little bit when we lived there. But yeah, the Golden Nugget is not quite the Bellagio. Oh my gosh. The parents were having a good time talking about it on the sideline saying, how do we end up at the Golden Nugget? And you walk out-- I think it's Fremont Street, right? That's covered. Yeah. So it's the closest place to go for food.
And of course, you kind of want to show the youngest who's been to Vegas, but the main strip by the Bellagio and all that, Paris and everything. And so we walk out there. And I haven't been there for 25 years. I honestly don't even know what to expect. I wouldn't either. I know that it could be a slightly questionable, maybe at some spots. I'm just kind of be aware of that. So we walk out. And it honestly wasn't that bad. But it was fun.
I mean, I think Liam just-- the whole thing's got a dome on it. There's people-- I mean, the people watching there is incredible. Yes. Yes. And I did just the smallest of little Instagram-type things to show Liam and I's trip out there. But Liam got to see all these street performers, this guy that was big and tall. He fit himself into this little box. Liam got hugged by this huge 10-foot gorilla. And we had this zip line that we want to do.
We did a lot of really cool things and saw some really neat things. He never asked about the Showgirls, which was good. And he never asked about the pasties, which was-- Even better, I guess. Probably his first experience there, if you noticed. But Vegas was fun. The soccer team, unfortunately, one of our good friends on the team and part of the car pool that we talked about sometimes on this show, his son had the flu, unfortunately. So he missed the entire weekend.
So they literally flew to Vegas to sit in the hotel room with the flu. Oh my gosh. And at the Golden-- The Golden Nugget. Well, and one of the other things-- first of all, I feel so terrible for that family. I did reach out to the mom to ask how he was doing, the poor kid, poor dad. I mean, who brought him? Like, just wasn't not a great experience.
But I mean, you told me-- I didn't hear about the Showgirls, but you did tell me about-- because you called me, and you're like, can you hear this in the background? There was like a full-on rave going on. And can you imagine if this poor child with the flu had to listen to the rave all night long like you did? Yeah. No, I think-- hopefully they were on the other side. I'm guessing they were, because there's two sides, I guess, to the hotel.
And I know there's only one other dad that I could confirm was on the same side as us, because he knew just how obscenely riotous the rave music was for seven hours straight. Literally-- I called you to see if you could tell it, but I took a video of it. It was shaking my wedding ring on top of the heater. It was so much bass. And if you're on the other side-- they gave you earplugs. Like, that was to make up for it.
I mean, it's like I put extra money into the vibrating bed all night, because it was just so crazy. But anyways, that was half the reason why I didn't even make it out to see some of the dads at night, because I know they went out and did a little bit of gambling, did a little bit of drinking. And hopefully nobody's offended by that. But I mean-- Hey, be more-- People are just having fun. We're in Rome, right? I mean-- No judgment. But I was on zero sleep after two nights of that.
Oh. And if you're on the other side, you couldn't hear it. You could hear it a little bit, but it wasn't literally shaking the room. I mean, it was-- I don't know how it's-- I just don't know how it's possible that you could have a hotel and allow that. Yeah. See, and this is one of those things. Sure, I said I still feel like I'm 25. And I said that the mirror was the only thing that told me I wasn't 25. Oh, no, no, no. Experiences like that tell me I'm not 25 anymore, too.
But I wasn't there to experience this. Yeah. Yeah. No, I've always needed to sleep. So that was not a great experience as far as that was concerned. But we had a good time there. The youngest, we went back to Paris, where he loves having some Paris hotel, where he loves the breakfast there. So that was fun. Messy was in town, which was really cool, with Inter Miami. So we were on the lookout. You never know. We might run into him. Hey. Probably not at the Golden Nugget. But you never know.
You never know. We went to the Luxor. He could have been checking out Carrot Top or something. He could have. Is Carrot Top still at the Luxor? Yes. So is the Blue Man Group. Yeah. They were there when we lived there? Yeah. Seven, 18 years ago. Yeah. Wow. You actually played basketball with Carrot Top, didn't you? Oh, I almost forgot about that. Yeah. There was one cool thing about Vegas there's celebrities all over the place. Saw Andre Agassi there. Yeah. I played basketball with Carrot Top.
I mean, that dude is roided out. I couldn't tell. He was huge. I don't know if he's still that big or not. But yeah, I was laughing. I thought the same thing, that I cannot believe these same acts are still here. Clearly, they're coming up with new material, I would hope. I mean, talk about longevity. But maybe not. We just went and saw "Oh" again. Last year. True. Yeah. "The Cirque du Soleil." Yep. And how much did that change from when was the last time we saw it?
It didn't change at all that I remember. No. And we saw that. It was our fifth wedding anniversary. So 15-ish. Yeah. Yeah, more than 10 years later. Wow. It didn't change. Although I'm kind of glad it didn't because "Oh" is my favorite Cirque show. It was great. Is the Michael Jackson one still there? I always wanted to see that one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe you can go see it when you go back to Vegas because you're going back to Vegas this weekend. So-- Yeah, so heading back tomorrow morning.
That's why we're recording this late tonight. Yes. Yeah, we were early last week. Now we're late tonight. But that's all right. Was there anything else about Vegas? You know, I don't think so. I mean, I think it was a good experience except the non-sleep. I think our youngest had fun. Well, it was cold too. Oh, yeah. A little bit. I mean, you think it's fun to go to Vegas. It was cold. I mean, numb toes at night. It got down to 26 or something like that at the night game.
And we had two of those. So we had two teams out there. And we went to watch one team. And then we'd play our game. So we were outside for three, four, five hours straight at times. Wow. Maybe not that long. We're close. Although was it as cold as the game that you and I went to the other night for our oldest son? No. No. Holy bananas. We sat out at a soccer game on Tuesday night. I don't even remember now. My eyes were frozen. I don't know.
That was, we say, the second coldest game we've ever been on. Yeah. And then we were sat there wondering, why did we pick our kids? Why did our kids pick outdoor sports? Yeah. Yeah. I remember thinking that. I mean, I never talk about it. But I played basketball. That might be the first time some people ever knew that, listening to this, honestly. But I was always happy that that was an indoor sport. Yeah. And I remember my hands being cold. I remember when a gym was cold.
I would warm up with those little black stretchy gloves sometimes. So my hands would get cold. And that was cold for me. So now we're sitting out. Last night was the second coldest. And thank god there was no wind. Because if there was wind, I mean, it's honestly torture that they make these kids play this. Because soccer down here is year round. Year round. And so we played last night when the real field temperature was 17. And the real temperature was 26. Something like that.
And that's not the first time. That's not like that's an outlier. That happens all the time. We play. If we can play, we play. And gosh, there's two ums in a row. Sorry about that, everybody. I've gotten good at not uming. But I'm uming right now. However, we also play in the summer. And thank god now we started getting July off. But for the longest time, we didn't get July off. And the kids would play in 100. And what's the highest we played in? I think it was 112. I was gonna say 112 as well.
Yeah. Regularly 107. Right. And they gave the kids, instead of just half time, they would split it up and give them like two water breaks per half or something like that. And you're like, that isn't enough. We're literally just bathing in our own sweat. Our poor children were like, hustle, run. And you're like, I can't. And good conscience even say that. That's here in Texas. I mean, I grew up in Colorado, which we played in cold. We played in snow. I don't know what you did in Minnesota.
I mean, I didn't play soccer. But no, there were plenty of games where it was freezing because it's Minnesota. But they didn't play in the dead of winter. Right. Negative 30. Right. I mean, it's just common sense. That's hockey weather. Right. Hockey players are out there. But yeah. That's a good point. So we were just saying like, so what would you rather do? Would you rather sit in 112 or sit out there at the real feel of 17? I think we were unanimous.
Yeah. I was questioning for a while, but after last night, was it just last night? It was just last night. It was last night. I'm still falling out. After last night, I would rather be hot. 100%. We've got some listeners I know that are on the East Coast, and it's hot and humid where they are. And I'm curious, because their kids are grown up now, but I'm curious if they played sports that were hot there, because it would be hot and humid there. Luckily, it's not that humid here.
So at 112, it's not incredibly humid, which saves it a little bit. I don't wanna say it's a dry heat. It's not really a dry heat, but it's also not humid. It's kind of a nice in between. Yeah. But, yeah. I mean, we came from Vegas, we know dry heat. That's true, that's true. So heading back to Vegas tomorrow morning with the oldest, and our game on Friday morning is at 8 a.m., and it's supposed to be 28 degrees. It's gonna be lovely. Lovely. I mean-- But we're staying at the Mandalay Bay, so.
Hopefully no raves going on. Yeah. Like-- Apparently I'm a little bit of a prima donna when it comes to where I lay my head at night. It's okay, own it, I am too. And distance between raves. Well, yeah, I think that I'm with you, like, but again. (imitates chomping) We're very similar like that. Well, I was there, and you were getting some quality time here too, I think, right? Yeah, so I got quality time with the older two.
I also got quality time with your mom, who thank you, thank you, thank you so much for coming to help out, and it was just so good to have another adult in the house, and I do say I have the best mother-in-law in the world. She's fantastic, so got to hang out with her. But we had a bit of a girls afternoon. Our daughter went to go buy, she wanted to buy her dress for the very first dance that she's gonna be going to in a couple weeks, so. I don't know how I feel about that.
It was a little tough, and dress shopping, your mom and I would exchange looks like, you know, we'd pull out dresses and be like, oh my gosh, like we can't have our, you know, our daughter wear that, no way. Our teenage daughter now. Our teenage daughter, yeah. So dresses are a lot shorter than when I was growing up. We did find a dress that was a length that was appropriate, and she can wear shorts under it, so I was happy.
But it was so fun to pick things out, and I think Cece was actually the one who kind of found the dress that she ended up getting, so it was a really-- Yeah, she looks beautiful in the dress. She does, she looks so grown up, so. And I do love that she's comfortable enough to dress it down, you know, she's put it with some tennis shoes, so I was like, sweet, we still got a little bit of the tomboy look to the really glitzy dress.
Yeah, yeah, and she's just going to that with friends, right, to the dance? Yes, yes. So, and it was fun, we actually ran into one of her friends while we were there, so then the girls could show each other the dresses they were trying on. That's kind of a great little girls afternoon, so it was fun.
The listeners could pick up on a big sigh of mine right there, I probably edited out, but if you heard a big sigh of mine, I was literally thinking of what's coming, you know, with homecomings, when they get to high school, and even with our oldest. Whatever those stupid, huge ribbon things are that they do here, I mean, do they do that everywhere, or is that just a Texas thing?
It's called a mum, and I always have to go back and be like, for someone who is not from Texas, I absolutely loathe those things, they're absolutely hideous, and I have nothing nice to say about them, but a mum is actually a flower, and so I'm from a place where you actually grow mums, it's a fall flower. My mom is a big gardener, she loves to have flowers and everything, so that's how I know that. Very educational, thank you.
Yeah, yeah, but I come down to Texas, and everyone's talking about mums, and I was like, oh wow, where are they getting all these flowers, you know? And then I see these big ol' ribbon things that are quite literally the size of the girl that's wearing them, which is a teenage girl. It's atrocious. If you're from Texas, you know what these are. Yes. And I just don't know if it's a national thing, it was not when we were younger. It is not where I'm from.
I'm gonna guess and say it's a Texas, or maybe a Southern thing, because neither of us grew up in the South, per se. Could be, could be. But I guess this is one of those things where Texas really embraces the, everything's bigger in Texas, because these mums are usually about five feet. They're probably like two feet wide by five feet long. And they wear them on their dress or something? I don't know, around their neck, I don't even know. Question mark. Question mark.
So our listeners who know about mums, I will be hitting you up on how to make them in case our kids go to homecoming in high school, and I'm gonna have to do this, but I'm gonna die a little bit inside when I do. How about just the good old fashioned wrist corsage? Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Classy. Just classy, exactly. Like understated. We're nothing if not classy, hun. Anyway.
But yeah, so it was a nice, it was actually a quiet weekend here at the house, and then you got home a little early, so we could have a full family day. It was kind of a PJ day. Got a couple things done around the house. Yeah, it's freezing outside, so it's a great excuse just to sit around the house, and I think we're a big movie family. Yeah. And we haven't even done as much as that lately, this last six months.
Yeah. There haven't been very many new movies that have been put out that have made it to your home yet. We've gone to quite a few in the theater, but I think that's probably why. Yeah, streaming, we don't have too many new ones that we haven't seen.
So, generally, our idea of having a good family in-day, especially on a cold day like that, with chocolate, sitting by the fire or whatnot, is either watching sports, depending on what sports we're on, but watching a movie and putting that on, and putting a Lego together. Yep. We've got so many Legos out in the movie room right now, and we're missing a bag in one of them. I know. I don't-- I literally spent an hour on Sunday looking for bag 27.
We all did, and we still can't find bag 27, so we're gonna have to call Lego and say you're missing a whole bag. So the Eiffel Tower is being delayed. Yes, which is really gonna upset our youngest because he wants to build the Eiffel Tower, and we can't go past bag 27 at this point. And it's my turn. And it's your turn, yeah. The big Legos, we do take turns, and it is your turn. Yeah, well, I called it, and Bear started working on his big Lego that Santa brought him. Yep. So that's fun.
So we have a lot of Legos. Yep. And I know, I can't blame it on the dog because she can't eat a whole bag. Honestly, the bag's about the size of the dog, so I don't think that's our culprit, but. Yeah. I know, so we're a little bit delayed, but it was a really, really nice family day, a way to cap off what was a weekend that was filled with some excitement, but then get back to just hanging out together.
I think another reason why we haven't watched as many movies lately is our kids have really been asking for more family dinners, and they've been asking to sit around the dinner table, which warms my heart. Yeah, and I didn't finish that, or we'll do like a family game night. Yes. We'll do that a lot. Yep. In the game room there, so.
So yeah, just anytime we get some family time, and I do feel bad, because there's a lot of times when some of our sports families, you know, will get a practice canceled or something like that, and somebody will want to set something up to replace that practice.
Yeah. And, you know, I don't know if it's, you know, maybe they have less kids, maybe they have more kids, maybe they're just more dedicated than us, but there's times where we're like, if we're canceled, man, we want to take advantage of the family time. Yeah. And even if it's just watching a movie together or hanging out, whatever it might be, being all together, all five of us, it just doesn't happen that often anymore. Right.
And so, a lot of times, we'll choose not to do that extracurricular with the team or with somebody else, because we're trying to take advantage of those times that are fleeting, sadly. They are, and not only are they fleeting, they're just so rare. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, we try to protect that as much as possible and, you know, kind of any excuse. Like tonight, we actually had a free night, we had a family dinner, and it was fantastic. Yeah, yeah.
You know, a couple kids are sick on teams, one of ours is sick, so, you know, we didn't have practice tonight. And that, to have one of those nights on a weeknight, ooh, that is rare. Yeah, and it's still cold out, so I'm happy to stay inside. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think it's getting that time. I think so. Well, I mean, I think we actually did get to everything on our list. We took a huge detour on a couple things, so hopefully that was-- I like the detours better.
Hopefully they're more interesting. Yeah. You know, when you get into these things. Well, I know I enjoy them. Yeah. Hopefully others find them. That's all I'm thinking. Right, it's all about me. Didn't you say only one of us is down to Earth, I guess that's right. (laughs) If the hat fits, did I get that one right? Yeah, nope. Dang it. If the shoe fits. (laughs) That's two tonight. I know, I know, but-- With a green sugar?
Back to the very beginning, do I do want a purpose though, just to be-- I thought you did. So approachable. I love what you did there. You brought it back around. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're very approachable. I thought maybe you knew me so well, you just finished my-- Sandwiches. All right, there you have it. See you next time. Bye. (laughs)