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Ep.2: Growing up in the 70's and 80's
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In episode 2, the Semi Precious sisters share what it was like growing up in the 70’s and 80’s in a big and somewhat dysfunctional family. They quickly discover there are a few things they didn’t know about one another. Jade reveals that she wasn’t a goody two shoes despite her smiling façade, whilst Amber confesses, she was both a scaredy cat and “a bit of an asshole”.
As the youngest 2 of 5 sisters, they compete for the ‘who had it toughest’ award. Jade wins, because she’s the one writing this intro. However, Amber exceeds expectations with her Semi Precious moment which will resonate for many women that have had children. Amber also enriches our lives with a couple of Little Gems.
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Transcript
Acknowledgment of Country and Introductions
00:00:00
Speaker
This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung country and we wish to acknowledge them as traditional owners. We recognise First Peoples of Australia as the original storytellers of this country and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. You are listening to a semi-precious podcast hosted by uncut and unpolished sisters Amber and Jade.
00:00:33
Speaker
Hi everyone. Welcome to episode two of semi-precious. Hi. Hello sister. Hi sister. Today's focus is all about giving you a little bit more context on how we became so semi-precious really.
Focus of the Episode: Becoming 'Semi-Precious'
00:00:48
Speaker
A bit about our story, upbringing, growing up in the seventies and a little bit about me and then a little bit about Jade. Sounds good. Am I going first? Uh, I think you're going first.
00:01:01
Speaker
All right, so a little bit about me.
Amber's Childhood Reflections
00:01:03
Speaker
I am the fourth in the family of five girls and there's quite a big gap between me and the next one, like nine years, 10 years. So the family dynamic was interesting to say the least to have three older sisters and then quite a big gap. Um, I think I feel like I was the mistake and then they gave me Jade to sort of keep me company. Ah.
00:01:30
Speaker
Is that what you think? Yeah. Oh, that's sad. We're going to start on a sad note. You're the mistake. So tell me, how does that make you feel? Not validated. Not validated. I'll validate your existence right now. Thank you. Thank you.
00:01:46
Speaker
So what was I like growing up? I was a little bit of an asshole sometimes. She was a lot of an asshole. I was. As I've come to learn, I think that part of that was probably I lacked confidence and we had a background that was quite unconventional, I think is fair to say. So what that meant for me was feeling constantly like I needed to be
00:02:13
Speaker
braver and more assertive than I was actually feeling.
00:02:17
Speaker
Yeah. Is that fair? That's fair. Well, I just thought it was the real you. Thanks. Scary. Scary. Sister. Yeah. So I think, yeah, a mushy interior, probably with a mushy. Mushy? Mushy. Fragile. Yeah, I don't know what mushy is. Yeah, like soft. Soft, OK. Soft interior, lacking a bit of confidence. And the exterior was probably a bit more of a bitch face.
00:02:45
Speaker
Mm. With a bird's nest fringe. With a bird's nest fringe. Well, that was really my teenage years. Yeah. I did also have buck teeth because I sucked my thumb for a really long time. A really long time. Would you like to share with everybody out there? No, no, no. Let's just leave it at a really long time. A while. Yeah. A while.
00:03:03
Speaker
So that didn't help my confidence because I didn't get braces until I was like 16, which is quite late to have buck teeth for all that time. Do you remember the bus driver that gave you a nickname?
00:03:16
Speaker
Rabbit, Roger Rabbit or something? No, I think it was just Bugsy. Bugsy. But then I was Bugsy Jr. Oh. Yeah. So you were penalized for my- Yeah, I was. Oh, I was a little Bugsy too. Oh, right.
Childhood Fears and Design Sensibilities
00:03:29
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Yeah. What else that's interesting about me, I was, despite my kind of sassy asshole bravado, I was actually scared of a lot of things.
00:03:38
Speaker
Do you remember when, if I were scared, I used to make you sleep on the bottom bunk and me on the top so that if the monsters came, they would eat you and not me? They would eat me first. And I was there for you for that. And I was willing to do that. I think I was.
00:03:52
Speaker
You were there. I was quite brave actually. You were actually way braver than me. I was a big chicken. I still remember being petrified of some 19 probably early 80s curtains that were paisley that were at mum and dad's friend's house. And every time we used to do that ridiculous thing that you'd go with your parents to a barbecue and then you would have to sleep in some random bed until the parents decided to drive home or on the corner.
00:04:21
Speaker
On the floor, like just pull up a piece of carpet. I remember sleeping on this bed in a bedroom that had terrible Paisley curtains and I just couldn't sleep because the curtains freaked me out. Scary curtains. Scary curtains. I'm probably thinking now that I found them aesthetically displeasing and that I was having a reaction to them as a designer. I think that was planting the seed. It was poor taste. It was poor taste. That was what was frightening me.
00:04:49
Speaker
Paisley. It needed to be kept in the seventies and through to the eighties, it wasn't appropriate. No, no.
School Life and Rebellion
00:04:56
Speaker
I was pretty good at sports, unlike my sister Jade. I was very coordinated. I played softball for a really long time.
00:05:05
Speaker
And I was one of those, through primary school and high school, I would sort of define myself as, I did feel like I never quite fit in, but I think on the outside, I fitted in enough to sort of be with the popular people and then kind of hang out also with the nerdy, arty people. Because I sort of had a foot in both camps, I think. I thought you were pretty popular. Yeah. Like everybody knew you. Yes. But I did always still feel like
00:05:34
Speaker
I'm not quite. Why do you think you didn't feel like you didn't? No, I don't think I know in high school specifically, I just got really bored by the total discourse and I just felt like it was quite vanilla. So, so it wasn't because you were a mistake. No, no, but thank you for bringing that up. Just checking. On to that this evening when I can't go to sleep.
00:05:59
Speaker
No, and I also was quite a troublemaker, so I was definitely the sassy one. Were you a troublemaker to the level I was a troublemaker? Were you a troublemaker? I thought you were like a goody two-shoes.
00:06:12
Speaker
Ah, okay. This podcast could be revealing. This is going to be awkward quickly. So I know in high school, I had a lot of white male middle-aged teachers tell me that I wasn't really going to amount to anything. And I thank them for that. And they know best though. Oh, they do, of course. Words of wisdom. But that really sort of gives you a bit of a rocket. Nothing motivates me more than someone saying, you can't do it. And so, yeah.
00:06:41
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I did, by the time I was in year 11, I did kind of start to focus and go, this is what I want to do.
00:06:48
Speaker
By year 12, four academic achievement awards, top five percent of my year level nailed it. Wow. I did, though, get suspended for calling my geography teacher Horscock. I'm sorry, what? Why? I don't know. I was just being a smart arse and he was a dickhead. So he was kind of a... He did say thank you, so I feel like that was creepy. Oh, that was creepy. Anyway, I'll leave you on that and I'll pass it over to Jay to talk a bit about you.
00:07:18
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My first little note here is born smiling, very little with a big head.
Jade's Role in the Family
00:07:26
Speaker
You did have a very big head. I did have a big head, yeah. There are photos of us where I'm like three and you're six and I feel like my head is like twice the size of yours. It was. But I was very... You were cute though. I was cute. My big head and my long brown hair and I was just very small. I was a baby, so number five. I was the sick kid, the clumsy kid, the annoying kid and the attention seeker of the family as I should have been as the youngest of five.
00:07:53
Speaker
Hmm. You did play that role. I did. Clichély well. I rocked it. I rocked that role. And I was the mediator between the older siblings and the annoying younger sibling. How did you mediate? What did you do? Oh, I was just always having to play the diplomat in every situation. Were you protecting me or what were you doing? Not sure. Okay, that'll be another podcast. Yeah, that's another podcast.
Semi-Rural Upbringing and Adventures
00:08:18
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Yeah.
00:08:18
Speaker
So we were kind of, I guess, country girls in a sense, dirt road, lots of nature, lots of, you know, dogs wandering around. Remember that dog, that three legged dog, the bee on the ankle? Yeah. Just trying to bring up all of her traumatic memories. Thank you. Just into the one episode. I mean, when dogs could just roam freely. There were a lot of roaming dogs, yeah.
00:08:39
Speaker
I feel like our house was a pet cemetery. Well, there were live animals too. Yeah, but there was a lot of dead ones buried in our backyard. I feel like I have lots of dead animals buried in my current backyard. But dogs would just wander into your house. Dogs and cats would just, the doors open and there'd just be another dog in your house. It seemed to be acceptable back then.
00:09:01
Speaker
So this is the seventies. So when we were seventies, early eighties, early eighties. Yeah. So I was a tree climbing BMX riding matchbox car, Barbie doll, mud pie kid. So pretty much all of it. We were of the era where you were just outside a lot. And when we were inside, I was, I have a note here to remind me of squash tomatoes.
00:09:26
Speaker
Amber, would you like to share what Squash Tomatoes is? Oh, Squash Tomatoes was a great game that I made up where me being three years older and a bigger build than Jade would sit on Jade's back while she was on all fours and she would have to clamor around the house until she could no longer hold me up and then she would splat to the ground and I would claim
00:09:52
Speaker
Squash tomatoes and basically that fun. Yeah. And given you do have long-term back problems, I'm just wondering, just drawing the line. I'm connecting the dots now, but maybe squash tomatoes was the reason. Yeah. I started having treatment for my bad back probably at about the age of six. So it feels like it could be a lie. I think we should move on.
00:10:16
Speaker
What about the sort of game that you would play where you would manipulate the not so bright little sister by saying, if you give me the last of your lollies, I'll let you do whatever I say for an hour.
00:10:29
Speaker
I don't remember that. I was easily manipulated. Can I just remind you, however, that the next sister up for me, who's nine years older, left me on a fridge for like six hours while mum went shopping and then only got me down from the fridge when she heard mum's car pull into the driveway. That wasn't fun. That doesn't sound fun either. No. I didn't have anyone to torment. No, you didn't.
00:10:56
Speaker
Maybe that's why you're a counselor. Do I talk about my clients? What are you saying? No, sorry if any clients are listening to this. I'm a good counselor. Yeah, that was pretty much me.
Teenage Years and Rebellion
00:11:10
Speaker
What about Teenage Jade? Oh, Teenage Jade. Because I feel like sub 13 Jade and Teenage Jade were probably... Oh, very different. I got very dark. I started listening to Black Sabbath. I named my goldfish Black Sabbath.
00:11:25
Speaker
Can I just say, you were a huge collector of random pets, which you still are actually. I still am. And random high needs friends. I like to collect the little fix wrappers. Anyone who ran away from home ended up at our house. And hid in our house and had hide them in our... Anyone with adolescent drug and alcohol problems ended up in our house. Yeah, I was a collector of that.
00:11:55
Speaker
us trying to fix that in a child.
00:11:59
Speaker
Yeah, teenage years were just pretty dark, to be honest. That could be a whole nother episode on teenage years. We're going to lie to our children and just tell them my husband's version of teenage years, because I don't think mine. Or just cherry pick, I think is the best. Yeah. I wasn't a good student. I didn't conform. I pretended to be well behaved, but sadly, ever in school, didn't pay attention, didn't focus, dropped out.
00:12:27
Speaker
Good times. Hung around with the rough kids. That was pretty much me.
Chaotic Household and Coping Strategies
00:12:31
Speaker
Dark days. Well, you made it now. I made it. Yeah. Still alive. You saved me precious. Let's talk a little bit about the environment, because I think if anyone really understood the environment that we grew up in, there'd probably just be a little round of applause that we're actually alive. We're still here. How would you describe the environment we grow up in? And no offence, Mum and Dad, if you're listening.
00:12:55
Speaker
loud, chaotic, a lot of arguments. I've got overflowing Tupperware cupboards and magazines piled high and curtains that didn't fully close and little sparkly remnants of Christmas decorations in the corner of every room.
00:13:11
Speaker
And you know what I loved? That as we pulled the decorations down each year without actually getting up and pulling them down properly, you'd just go over the top with a new piece of tape. But then for the next few weeks, I think there was a spider up there until I got used to the new piece of sparkly. The new color. I don't know. That sums up a little bit. There was a lot of chaos. There was definitely a lot of chaos. I do remember and I feel like some of my obsessive
00:13:41
Speaker
house order comes from the fact that we had a very dysfunctional house that was exceptionally messy. And we had a mum that was a hoarder, not like the nth degree of hoarders, like when you see on those hoarding reality shows, but not the trauma cleaner kind of hoarder. No, no, but definitely occupying large volumes of the house with stuff
00:14:07
Speaker
And to be honest, I did used to blame mum for all the hoarding, but dad is pretty chaotic also. And so that kitchen, the kitchen used to just... Oh, the kitchen. I have flashbacks about that kitchen. I have flashbacks about the kitchen and that is why my kitchen now, nothing can be on the benches. No. Yeah. Everything has a place. Everything has a place.
00:14:28
Speaker
Well, I'm a bit of a stuffer, but still out of sight. I don't mind a cupboard stuff. I'm okay with that. If someone's coming over, just third drawer down, throw it in. It's all gone. Yeah. I've sometimes just stuffed stuff into the washing machine.
00:14:43
Speaker
Yeah, if you need some quick space, that's quite a good space, the washing machine. Never thought about that. Yeah, there you go. If you're running out of room, into the washing machine. I thought the clothes basket would be a first place, but we should use both if you needed it. Okay. Yeah, it's true. Can I just take you back for a second? Can you just press that little green button? Yeah, that one. If you need a little extra space in your life, when people are coming over, what should we do, Amber?
00:15:12
Speaker
Put it in the washing machine, Jade. Ding. There's a little gem for today. Thank you. And continue with the show. Thanks. Don't underestimate. I did want to ask. I feel like our upbringing was quite unusual in a sense that we didn't live in poverty, but we were aware of a lack of fiscal stability. Yeah, that's a way of putting it. Yes.
00:15:41
Speaker
Yeah. But on the other hand, we did have a mother that was exceptionally strict about our elocution, about the way that we ate, our deportment. I mean, all things that are very not invoked. We had really high moral codes. How now brown cow.
00:16:03
Speaker
We used to have to practice that regularly. We would have to eat in the correct manner of our knives and fork. Do you remember we couldn't have drinks with our meals? No, you wouldn't let a drink. What was that about? I don't know. That's just weird. No hydrating when you're eating. I can't even remember.
00:16:19
Speaker
I mean I am grateful because I can eat at any restaurant and understand which piece of cutlery. You know a salad fork. You won't have that embarrassing pretty woman moment. No. You'll know how many prongs. Oh no, how many prongs. I won't have to count them out loud in front of people. So there were benefits to that. And we can speak well. We can. Don't always. But we can when we want to. If we want to.
00:16:45
Speaker
What are some of the good things? I feel like we've just done a barrage of darkness. No, I think, you know, the elocution and learning, you know, correct grabber and correct way of speaking and eating. I think that's all good. It was just always just a little too strict, I think. It was very strict. And, you know, we always had special birthdays and Christmas. We always got a lot of presents, maybe spoil. We did. We also had sort of
00:17:10
Speaker
A lot of mums, didn't we? Because we had the actual biological mum and then we had the oldest sister. The very eldest sister. I had more mums than you. Did you? Because I'm the youngest. I'm with you now. You're on board.
00:17:26
Speaker
Yeah. I was bossed around a lot. You were. Yeah. I wouldn't say it was a calm upbringing. I feel like my system was probably in fight or flight a lot from a new true, I would say. Probably. Yeah. On the upside though, our parents weren't drinkers. No, but that's why we are. I think that's why we are. Yeah. I don't know where I was going with that.
00:17:51
Speaker
But, you know, as we said- It hasn't helped. No, we do like our gin. Just harking back to the type of disposition that I am, I'm the sort of person at maybe 14, 15 that raids the parent's liquor cabinet and then refills them with either water or tea that's perfectly Pantone matched to the dark spirit that I'm replacing. So if you had raided it,
00:18:17
Speaker
By the time I came to read it, was I just drinking water? You were drinking water, maybe with just like some very intoxicated effect. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, OK. Did you ever mix like the Irish cream with vodka or rum or anything?
00:18:37
Speaker
No, me either. I don't remember doing that. No, I don't remember doing that. I do remember our elder sister when I was probably 15 finding a bottle of rosé. It wasn't wine. What was that? Like an island cooler. No, it was like a spumanti. It was something terrible. Yeah. And she found it in my drawer and rather than speaking to me, she just daubed me straight in.
00:19:04
Speaker
I also remember just while we're now talking about the elder sister, sorry, if you're listening, because you probably will be, um, also dobbed me in for wagging. I might've dobbed you in too, though, so maybe that's just the... Oh, you would've dobbed me in for anything. I think I would've, yeah. I did not dob you in, Emma. No, you didn't. You helped. I was real.
00:19:24
Speaker
Melanie and I drunk through the window at 16. Your arse is through the window. Yeah, we were not that small. No, and I never dobbed. Yeah, you were a good sister actually. Yeah. So just to recap on our environment, we had lots of mums. It was quite strict. It was a bit fend for ourselves, wasn't it? If we didn't point that out, there was a bit of offending for ourselves. There was making your own lunches and getting yourself up ready for school.
00:19:54
Speaker
And the children are seen not heard mentality. There was a lot of that going on.
Humor and Resilience
00:20:01
Speaker
So compared to how we parents didn't really have a voice. When they're really just, our children are people, aren't they? They're allowed to have conversation and thoughts and feelings. It was a different time. It's not a criticism of our parents because that was... No, that was definitely generational as well. The kids just went along with whatever the parents were doing.
00:20:22
Speaker
We were not put on a pedestal, we'll put it that way. No. I didn't even have any extracurricular activities. Didn't you do ballet? Yeah, Elder Sister bought me ballet for a birthday, but it was just one term. Well, I played softball, but I did have to get myself there. And then Dad on the Weekends took me. Fend for yourselves.
00:20:52
Speaker
All right, so how did we survive this? How did you survive? How did I survive? You haven't filled in your little notes, so you don't know how you survived. I don't know how I survived. This is just going to be like a live reflection on the spot. Okay, go for it. I have made a note mouse in a bulldogs costume when I was at uni.
00:21:18
Speaker
um an international student was petrified of me. I wasn't quite sure why and she described me as a mouse in a bulldog's costume. So from year one to year three obviously she got to know me a little bit better and I'm sort of sensing that that's like loud bark but back to the mushy bit maybe not as
00:21:43
Speaker
Hard on the inside. No, you're definitely not as hard on the inside. But you can be very scary. I can be scary. I think all of our sisters can be scary. I mean, I'm an assertive person, I think. But I think how I coped was potentially always looking forward.
00:22:01
Speaker
There was a lot of processing of things. It was just, what's next? What's next? What's next? And if you kept that tough exterior, that kept you safe. That kept you safe. Yeah. I'm not going to soften. I'm not going to be vulnerable here. I'm just going to be brave and tough, except for when...
00:22:22
Speaker
there was a monster under the bed and then I'll just stick my little sister down there and that all. You've just reminded me of another brave tough moment of mine. Do you remember in Queensland?
00:22:33
Speaker
We did used to go to Queensland a lot because our dad's family was there and we used to drive all the way up. These were days where you drove. You drove everywhere. Firstly, in one trip when I was little, three sisters in the backseat, me and the dog in the boot. In the boot? I was like a Holden, like a wagon, so it was open, but just like in the bassinet, just rolling around the back with the dog. Yeah.
00:23:00
Speaker
Yeah, seems safe enough. No, but sorry, the story I was actually going to tell was when we were staying at our grandma's and I lowered you out of the window with sheets and sent you up to the milk bar to get me lollies. How old was I? And you were like four.
00:23:21
Speaker
Yeah, because I was too scared because it actually was a very unsafe suburb and I was too scared to go. So rather than sort of going together, I thought it was a great idea to send you out on your own. And you did come back with lollies. You actually made it. I did it. You did it. And then I pulled you back up and we ate the lollies. And then a couple of years later in that same house,
00:23:45
Speaker
You pretended you could do karate and flip me over and gave me a fracture. In my wrist. I remember that. I don't feel like I'm going to come out very well. Episode two is not really going to be for me. I'm getting this vibe. I'm getting this vibe. All right. Talk to me about how, how did you survive?
00:24:07
Speaker
Well, my motto was just keep smiling. I was told I was born smiling, so I just continued to do that. So again, similar to you, you were, you know, the bulldog.
00:24:23
Speaker
And I was just smiling, but probably quite sad inside, quite sad and alone. Like the clown. Yeah, pretty much. If you had an avatar, it would be the clown. Let's not paint that picture. That's creepy. Totally creepy. But I did just smile and try and, you know, if tensions were pretty high in the house, I would either smile and try and make people laugh and I would fall or say,
00:24:51
Speaker
Silly things. Yeah. Or I would have an asthma attack. There were lots of that. Yeah. And I know that, yeah, unconsciously, I could bring on the asthma attack in order to change the focus to something else in the house. Just back to the point of me being a bit of an asshole at times, I do remember watching Home and Away and being quite annoyed that you had your ventiline
00:25:18
Speaker
The nebulizer was too loud for you. The nebulizer going in the background because it was just too loud. It was very inconvenient while you couldn't breathe. And I was steaming up the room. Yeah, that I had to listen to that and try and watch Home and Away. It did have a big loud motor on it. It was really annoying. And after listening to it for years and years and years, I'm like, this is inconvenient. You should have put me in the hallway or something. Yeah.
00:25:39
Speaker
Go and not breathe somewhere else is what I was thinking. That could have been your whole philosophy around me going to hospital every week. Go and not breathe somewhere else. Again, you're not coming off so well here. She gets better. I'll redeem myself in episode three. She gets better. I guess I just kept my feelings to myself. I know that I only ever cried in my bedroom on my own.
00:26:08
Speaker
I did have, you know, three, or three kind of big sisters that were kind of a mentor and I looked up to, and then there was you. And then there was me. No, I just wanted to be you. So I was just like, your little puppy dog and I'd follow you around. And then when you weren't home, it's a bit creepy. I'd go in and I'd put your red door perfume on just so that I could be you a little more.
00:26:37
Speaker
Yeah. And then you still had it, like I remember up in the top of the wardrobe, you still had it in its little box. I like to keep it pristine. Pristine, red door. Yeah. And then I'd go and spray it. I sprayed it outside so that you wouldn't know. Did you fill it up with tea though when it started to get low? No, I wasn't that smart.
00:26:58
Speaker
Back then, I just wore it and hoped you wouldn't notice. I didn't notice until now. Yeah, right. And I was a big rebel through my teens, but I learned to do it very stealth. You must have been very sneaky. I was very stealth. I was much more outwardly rebellious. I had the facade of a good little girl, but really I was doing all sorts of hard drugs. I was.
00:27:28
Speaker
Nobody knew, because I was a sweet, smiley, friendly one. Well, now you know. Now everybody knows. Now everybody knows. Okay. Whoops. Alrighty. We have got a professional disclaimer at the beginning, so... What was that? You're not doing drugs anymore. I'm not doing drugs anymore.
00:27:47
Speaker
No, don't do drugs, kids. It's bad. Don't do drugs. All right. So mouse in a bulldog's costume and then just keep smiling. That's pretty much how we... That's it. That's how we survived. I went over to my best friends almost every weekend and her mum.
00:28:05
Speaker
do the mum things like baking and you know ironing and folding washing and making a lunch and and that was nice.
Humorous Moments and Mishaps
00:28:15
Speaker
Basic care things. We didn't get those sort of things. Make sure he's you know wearing a singlet and that's warm. Remember singlets? You always had to wear a singlet. Yeah it's always a singlet. Always a singlet.
00:28:27
Speaker
That enough of that? Yeah, I think that's enough. Now I'm traumatized all over again. Yeah. All right. So let's talk semi-precious moment, because we did commit our last episode. I actually couldn't think of anything.
00:28:40
Speaker
I took notes. I've got like a stockpile of them now. Oh, go to town. But I wanted to add in half-assed to the definition of semi-precious because I feel like I'll always have material if I can talk about something I've done half-assed. Half-assed. Yeah. So that's just adding in to the definition. Context. Yeah.
00:29:04
Speaker
I'll share it with you and then you can tell me if you think it fits in the semi-precious. Okay. First of all, last time- We'll just cut it out. We'll just cut it out if it's crap. Okay. So last time I was talking about the golf balls flying down the freeway towards me. And then a few days later, I was on another, it wasn't a freeway, but it was a highway, still 100k.
00:29:22
Speaker
And somebody wound down their window and threw a steak knife out the window. Wasn't Danos direct. Have you ever seen a steak knife bounce? They can bounce. It had a few bounces in it. Did it land in someone's windshield? What happened to it? No, I don't know. I just drove over it. I just saw them throw it out the window and I saw the knife bouncing towards me and then I drove over it and kept up with my day.
00:29:50
Speaker
Do you think that was like someone had been stabbed with that knife? Or do you think someone was cutting up an apple and just forgot where they were and threw it out the window? I don't know. I had my kid in the car, so I didn't really go into the stabby content.
00:30:05
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or just not sure. I mean, who throws things out of the window anymore? Especially steak knives. Especially, yeah. Instruments in the kitchen do not go out the window, people. Did you say instruments? Instruments. Did you meant implements? Implement? It's an implement, right? It's an instrument. Well, it's an instrument of murder if you kill someone. Oh, right. Okay, yeah. But it's an implement if you're using it to cut your steak. Okay. I think we're both right.
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And if we're not, this is going to come out. All right. So that's not actually my semi-precious moment. That was just anecdotal carry-on from last time. Random. All right. So I was going away on a girl's trip and I wanted to get a camera so that I could watch my dog in the backyard because we had a pet sitter. And I left it to the last minute and it was late the night before I had to get up and leave for the airport at four o'clock in the morning. So I'm like, where can I fix this thing? I'm not going to screw it into any bricks or anything because
00:31:03
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I wouldn't do that. So I climbed out the kitchen window, which is quite high off the ground, late 10 o'clock at night or something, and I just balanced it on the windowsill. This is already sounding half-assed. I'm just letting you know. It was half-assed. It was quite a windy night and I'm like, it should be right.
00:31:25
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I didn't do blue tack at that point. I was kind of a bit of an angle on the windowsill too. No, there was nothing. I just placed it there and went, you're a trusting person. It'll be okay. And then I woke up in the middle of the night and I was like two o'clock or something and I just couldn't sleep. And I decided to just have a look at the feed and realized the feed was down. I'm like,
00:31:48
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Damn these things and I'm trying to figure it out and then I thought I'd just go and have a look and then realized it had blown off the windowsill and was smashed on the ground. So at 2am in the rain I traips out there and pick it up, dry it off, put the batteries back in, get some blue tack and stick it to the windowsill.
00:32:10
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And it remained, that bit of blue tack did wonders, but I didn't get back to sleep and I was pretty exhausted. So there's my half-assed attempt at doing something that kind of failed. But I got back out on the windowsill again, about like two, three in the morning. It was just unnecessary. Yeah. There was no logical way that that was going to stay. There wasn't, but no.
00:32:35
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Anyway, no judgment. This is the section for semi-precious, half-assed, chaotic. Awkward. I've got loads of them. Yeah, I'm just going to keep stockpiling these. And if we don't have any, we'll just call my husband and he'll be able to throw a few at us. He's got a few of his own, so I've been stockpiling those.
00:32:53
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All right. What's yours? What's mine? Well, mine is a live, semi-precious, embarrassing moment. For any women listening who have given birth and are potentially over 40, you will understand that jumping on trampolines or jogging or anything is potentially dangerous for leggings, jeans, or anything if you have bladder legs.
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So today I did a five kilometer run with the business, with the team. We were raising money for the Royal Children's Hospital. We got to $2,000. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, I contributed by the way to your donation. And halfway up the Baltic Bridge, as I was very proud of myself, was still running. I'm really feeling like something else is running.
00:33:46
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And I'm wearing new black pants that were matte black. So matte black with a bit of wee. Textually, you can really see the difference there. And I'm also wearing a t-shirt. So I have nothing that I can tie around my waist like you do in high school when you get your period. Yeah. So I just had to keep running and then stop and go to the toilet and then splash.
00:34:14
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sort of water all over me to try and mask. Oh, so you just turned the whole pants completely red? Yeah, so then I was completely red because I was trying to diffuse. I was trying to camouflage. Can we just like press a little green button? Thanks. Share your little gem there. Little gem is if you do wet your pants in public, make it look like you intentionally have splashed water on yourself. Wet the entire pants. Wet the entire pants, yep.
00:34:43
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So here I am with, you know, 20,000 other people running up the bridge. Um, and I have to stop, not only go to the toilet. I had already been to the toilet, by the way, made no difference whatsoever. There was nothing in my bladder. It was just being reserved for the fun run. Yeah.
00:35:01
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And then I had to take off my short sleeve t-shirt to sort of put it, tuck it into my bike pants at the back. Well, I had to make a call. Did I want people behind me looking at a wet patch or people from the front? I chose the back. I chose the back. You got to make these calls in life. You do.
00:35:23
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Yeah, so that was really fun. I was really loving being a woman and loving my bladder at that time. So that's the semi-precious one. Yeah, there's crickets now. You did promise in the first episode that there would be bladder-related anecdotes. And now we've had our first one. Yeah, well, if anyone's been down that path,
00:35:51
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You know, you've either got surgery options, which is, you know, there's a lot of problems with getting surgery, or you just don't sneeze often. Don't sneeze. Yeah. Or you have to wear period undies, but permanently.
00:36:06
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Which is just a modern day incontinence pad really, aren't they? They are. They're kind of cute. Yeah, but they sort of dig in. That's why I didn't wear them. I do have period on this. Ah, but with your new... But with my new bike pants. Like you said, give you a little bit of muffin. It's not an invisible type. No. So that was the decision and it was the wrong decision. It was the wrong decision. Okay. And I paid for that.
00:36:30
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All right. So there you go. I think we should move on from next episode. Yep. Thinking different.
Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser
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Our ADHD diagnosis story. I'm not sure I even mentioned I had ADHD. I think you did. I think you said that when you were a diverse
00:36:47
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Did I? There we go. We have ADHD. Yeah. Mic drop. So in episode three, we'll be talking about the aha moment, our diagnosis journey and how that's impacted us.
00:37:03
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Has it impacted you? Oh, gotcha. And I talk about it all the time. So yeah, good luck. That's probably going to be a double episode, I will say. It might take some time. So if you would like to listen to more of our ramblings and pant wedding, please follow and subscribe on your podcast platform of choice. Thanks for listening. Until next time, embrace your uncut and unpolished selves. Bye. Bye.
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