090 - Making Friends When You Don’t Leave the House

In this episode, I’m sharing a very ordinary, very real Sunday-night peek into my world: heated blankets, Rocky Road ice cream, meal prep, McKenna’s upcoming graduation, and the moment I remembered I still needed to record this podcast. I made a commitment back in January to show up here every week, and this is one of those episodes where I simply kept my word, even when I didn’t have a perfectly polished topic ready to go.

What came out was a little bit of everything that has been floating around in my brain this week. I talked about cleaning up years of photos on my phone, losing a 400-plus-day streak in the Swipewipe app, trying to identify random babies in old photos, and laughing at the truth of this line: “I’m definitely the friend you meet through other people. I’m not outside enough for you to just stumble upon me.” That opened up some honest reflection about friendship, this stage of life, and realizing that I may be ready to make a new set of local friends, which probably means I’m going to have to leave my house more often.

I also shared about going to see the Michael Jackson movie with Cliff, how much I enjoyed it, and how much I love the behind-the-scenes stories, documentaries, and little rabbit trails that come after watching a biopic. Somehow, that led to Costco, Cincinnati Reds thoughts, TikTok, and a very accurate example of what it is like to live inside my brain. One small thing catches my attention, and suddenly I’m on a whole journey I did not plan to take.

This week ahead includes projects around the house while Cliff is away, watching One Piece with Matthew, having McKenna home for the weekend, and finally getting the family together for poker night so we can hear all about Meagan and Jacob’s trip to Africa. It feels like a full and meaningful season, in the quiet everyday kind of way.

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