[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, hello everybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Lexi Lombardos, the Lexi podcast.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in to today's episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before we get into the crux of what will be a weird series, I'll throw back to one of my oldest and favorite series that I have here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It began on YouTube.

[SPEAKER_00]: probably a decade ago, and it's just the perfect way to cover and report everything that I've been loving.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're just an acronym and stands for what I've been wearing, eating and pressed by reading and doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to get into that, but I have two announcements.

[SPEAKER_00]: One, [SPEAKER_00]: will be posting.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first one is Thursday is now going to be my official posting day.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to alternate between this show and my YouTube channel.

[SPEAKER_00]: So last Thursday, I posted a video to my YouTube channel.

[SPEAKER_00]: This Thursday, you'll have an episode of the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next Thursday, a video on my YouTube channel, the following Thursday episode of the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just so you know and you can look forward to medium to long form content for me every single Thursday.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's about time that you have a day that you can look forward to that we can stick to and you can expect.

[SPEAKER_00]: The second announcement is both my physical and digital coloring books are finished and ready for you to have.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you are someone who just needs an activity that is quiet and calming and meditative, [SPEAKER_00]: or if you are a nanny or you have little siblings or nieces or nephews that like to color or you just want an activity for yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Coloring is the greatest, sweetest little activity and I worked on this book with an artist and illustrator, Ladina, who I've known for years and I've always wanted to work with her in some capacity so to have her bring my ideas to life and then to actually have a coloring book where you guys can have [SPEAKER_00]: In your very own home, it's so exciting to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there are some illustrations in there that are very personal to my life, but are adorable to anyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: For example, a puppy sitting in a spoon, you don't have to know that my dog is spoon to want to color him, but is adorable absolutely.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I will link down below the physical book and then the digital one is good if you like to color on your iPad or if you want to print out multiple copies.

[SPEAKER_00]: So for example, [SPEAKER_00]: If you wanted to print out the spoon picture for everybody, the digital copy might be the better option for you, but both are great and the coloring book is on Amazon so you can get it shipped to your house in your day or two.

[SPEAKER_00]: Figure that would be the best way to start a physical product because then I don't have to have five hundred coloring books sitting in my closet.

[SPEAKER_00]: and worry about mailing them to you as a first time project.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this was a labor of love and a creative project that I started in this spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought it would just take a quick few weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really thought if I just buckled down and could focus.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not how it works.

[SPEAKER_00]: You get samples, you realize little mistakes and fixes that you want to make.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I finally got the book that I thought I wanted to prove.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was a typo and it ends up taking a little bit longer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it is the end of summer now, but still totally fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm excited for you guys to have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just saw someone get their first copy today.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited for them to start rolling out.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: color pages include a sleepy bed with atomic gacha we have flowers and butterflies and bikinis and girls and it's just sweet it's called warm spell because it's very Lexi Lombard summer coded and I want you all to try it and I want you all to use it and I want you all to love it so [SPEAKER_00]: Those are my turn announcements.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now on to the weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: What have I been wearing eating and pressed by reading and doing?

[SPEAKER_00]: What have been wearing?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say tank air actually the three starting from the top wearing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have more or less a summer uniform.

[SPEAKER_00]: The shoes have been my dark martin boots.

[SPEAKER_00]: And because this is a podcast, I will have to link everything down below so you can have a visual.

[SPEAKER_00]: My dark martin boots and my repetos.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're more like ballet flats with a half inch heel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say, and between my boots and my repettos, that's basically all I've been wearing, it doesn't matter if I'm wearing booty shorts or if I'm wearing a really long pair of shorts, I'm wearing it with the repettos or the boots.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a kitten heel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have been traveling and I brought only the boots, the repettos, a kitten heel, which as I was walking, I've already broken them even though I just got them repaired.

[SPEAKER_00]: My room was telling me that she doesn't know anyone that has to get shoes as repaired as often as me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, yeah, I guess I'm just really hard on my shoes and she's like, no, I think you just really like your shoes and you continue to fix them.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that was a positive, but I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm either really rough on my shoes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also feel like I'm really just rough with my body in general.

[SPEAKER_00]: I always have [SPEAKER_00]: a scratch or bruise or broken nail on me at all times.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it makes sense that my shoes are ricking, but so far Repetos and dogs have been staples, and they've been good.

[SPEAKER_00]: The dogs are in typical Doc Minds, they do have the yellow stitching, it's really settled, but they're just mid-caf, brown leather boots, and they're perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're rugged, but also fun for the city.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can dress them up to be a little bit more urban.

[SPEAKER_00]: For bottoms, it's been all about the shorts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm wearing a pair of shorts right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're long oversized.

[SPEAKER_00]: I try to get them a few sizes bigger than my normal size.

[SPEAKER_00]: That way I can roll them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And these are Puma.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they have the Puma faded in the front, which I like.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then booty shorts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have this little pair of sweatshorts from Brandy and then Mayskards.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been wearing a lot of mini skirts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a red mini skirt from Daniel Guizio, and then I have a black one that's actually a swim bottom.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like a little swim skirt from Miriam Nesir Zadik.

[SPEAKER_00]: I forget how you pronounce that brand, even though I have a bag from them as well, and I love them so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: You think I'd know how to pronounce it, but I don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once again, we'll try to link all of these things down below, but I have loved a tank top, a short and a boot, or a tank top, a mini skirt, and a heel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Any of that variation, or tank top, mini skirt, boot, tank top, big short heel.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I've been wearing.

[SPEAKER_00]: That has been my summer uniform.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as for tank tops, I now am three.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're worth every penny because you will wear them.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is what clothes are for.

[SPEAKER_00]: The best purchases of clothes are the ones that you wear and the tank tops I've been wearing are from the brand Tank Air.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna see the price and you're gonna scream and you're gonna see Lexi Woods wrong with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you spending eighty dollars in a tank top?

[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a little scary, but they're my most worn tank tops and I love them.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just know how to work on the body.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I would say is [SPEAKER_00]: They do ride up a little bit, so if that's something that's going to irritate you, don't get them, but besides that, they are snatching, slimming, comfortable.

[SPEAKER_00]: They lift the boobs in all the right ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a tank air tank top.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a red one, a gray one, and a black one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought maybe my collection was getting too big, and then I saw Salem Mitchell posted TikTok of her tank air collection.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, oh, I'm fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have a problem, because I'm looking at her as soon as I'm like, oh, I'm not even close to that, so it's fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Eating.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is then my favorite meal this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm staying in green point and there's a restaurant called the green point fish and lobster cow.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're lobster with butter.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're in green point go get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a full delicious meal with my friend and the other day he ordered [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love going out with him because he's just so the type.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's such a man.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a gentleman.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a man that just loves to be in his masculine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus calls me up and he's like, be ready at four.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming to get you outside waiting for me at the car opens the door for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Takes me to lunch, looks at the menu, orders all the things for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's perfect and I was so hungry because I had taken a red eye and [SPEAKER_00]: you know those times where you're like okay I'm about to get a meal and then it just escapes you it's like I don't have any groceries at home I don't have time to have a meal before my flight and then I'm like okay well now I'm on a red eye I'm not gonna have a meal on this flight but as soon as I land I'll get one and then by the time I got back to the apartment it's like okay I'm exhausted now I need to go to sleep and then [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, let me go on a little walk and then I'll go grab lunch with a friend in the next thing you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're at a wine bar instead of lunch and it's just olive and toast.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm like, okay, then I'll get dinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to a murder mystery party.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will get dinner there and it's just pigs and a blanket.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Trying over that is something next stage.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is like, I can't take you out.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the taste was full time high.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was so excited to be there and we had lobster-bisc, and it was the perfect amount of creaminess.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't too pink.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they put way too much cream in a lobster-bisc.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also was finding him on it because lobster-bisc is one of my favorite soups, but it was so hot outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, we can't.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, come on, let's just go like a little cup we can try.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was delicious.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we had ceviche, and then we had the lobster roll.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind a lobster roll with mayonnaise, but butter, and then it's on that toasted bun that's crispy and buttery, and it was delicious.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we had scallops, french fries.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're nearby, I would go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now granted, if you're listening to this show from Maine, one of the New England states, no, do you need to travel down to Green Point to have this lobster roll?

[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not, but if you're nearby, and you want a lobster roll, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_00]: so good.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm impressed by?

[SPEAKER_00]: I was doing an audit of all of my posts from all of my different platforms last month and my highest performing piece of content on Instagram was the planned parenthood post.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now if you're keeping up with American politics, Trump has this big beautiful bill that he wants to get past and it got past.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how it possibly got past.

[SPEAKER_00]: It covers so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to see if I can get like a synopsis of Trump's big beautiful bill.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is off of the White House website, so WhiteHouse.gov.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's no tax on overtime, no tax on social security, no tax on tips, bigger paychecks of ten thousand dollars or more, and you'll take home pays for families.

[SPEAKER_00]: All that sounds good so far.

[SPEAKER_00]: then there's twelve point five billion dollars going to our air traffic control system permanently increasing the child tax credit for more than forty million families so the bill encapsulates a lump sum of budget reconciliation so our first social security taxes [SPEAKER_00]: Trump does to eliminate taxes on social security income.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, they couldn't deliver on that promise, but they did increase the standard deduction.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not bad so far.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another nice aspect of this is tip and overtime tax deduction.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have funding for border control.

[SPEAKER_00]: So mass funding for ICE agents and CBP officers.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how we can live in something called a melting pot, and you're like, yeah, let's put millions, billions.

[SPEAKER_00]: See, the thing is, low income people, and immigrants, especially those seeking asylum, they're not threats to the U.S., and Trump knows that, but it gets worse than the bill repeals Biden's clean energy tax credits.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, climate change, anyone?

[SPEAKER_00]: Hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: It also cuts methane tax.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to streamline fossil fuel permits, and he's investing more in oil.

[SPEAKER_00]: I put in my journal, I was like, Greta Thunberg, I guess so with!

[SPEAKER_00]: Help us out!

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's going to be an unnecessary influx in military funding as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: So far, all I'm hearing is that they're going to be millions losing healthcare because the last aspect of this bill is going to be stricter requirements for Medicare and SNAP.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the pros of this could create middle-class tax relief, but the culture that millions of people are going to be left uninsured and vulnerable and there's going to be a clean energy rollback and it could lead us into, I truthfully don't even know, [SPEAKER_00]: This is just this first year in office, and I'm trying not to get too distracted, but he's already appointed what three judges to our Supreme Court, and they're not qualified.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just messy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's terrifying, and this is all to say that I had posted prior to this building pass that Plim Parenthood is under attack because congressional Republicans [SPEAKER_00]: are going to vote to advance a bill that would defund plant parenthood.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to remind people that plant parenthood is not just for abortions.

[SPEAKER_00]: They offer cancer screenings, STI testing in birth control.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in a lot of places, plant parenthood is one of the only medical centers in the town.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you're just getting rid of medical care in general.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I will leave a calling [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably not even important anymore, because the bill got passed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was just telling people to take action to call our email your member of Congress, tell them my support plan parenthood, and I did have to edit it before actually posting, because I created this little poster, and then by the time that I was ready to post it, the bill was passed.

[SPEAKER_00]: So a little bit of a bummer, this is on July second, and out of all of my July posts, that was by far the most [SPEAKER_00]: loved, interacted, shared by far.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting is that now I'm finding that my email is less.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, we have a shampoo we'd love you to try.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, we have a makeup brand we want you to try.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm getting emails.

[SPEAKER_00]: Such as, hi, we are hosting a vigil for Amber Thurman with her mother on the anniversary of Amber's death.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amber's death was preventable.

[SPEAKER_00]: Doctors were not able to act and save her life because of Georgia's six week abortion ban.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, getting invited to the vigil to hear about Amber's story and then discuss nationwide attacks on reproductive rights.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another invite I got, a press conference for Representative Deborah Ross.

[SPEAKER_00]: So she is a North Carolina specifically around the Rolly area.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is really active in civil rights and women's rights.

[SPEAKER_00]: So could hypothetically attend her press conference and I would love to be a part of those things.

[SPEAKER_00]: So [SPEAKER_00]: One, I am impressed that people care, and be, I love how it's trickling into my inbox and how this can be something that I can continue to be active on.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I love that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our stands for reading.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's no secret.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love reading a book by John Dedean, any rabbit.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are both classic, sixties and seventies.

[SPEAKER_00]: Los Angeles women, they're writers.

[SPEAKER_00]: The difference is that Eve was more in the scene and Joan was more an observer to the scene.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say Babitz is more hedonistic.

[SPEAKER_00]: She was a party girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: She liked to be salacious and Joan was a little bit more of the stick up her ass type and they were friends, but they were also friend of me.

[SPEAKER_00]: and they both died within two weeks of each other, which is fascinating.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's the woman who wrote Eve's Hollywood, or Hollywood's Eve.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the other, one Eve wrote and one a fan wrote about her by interviewing her.

[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't read either one, but then they ended up becoming friends.

[SPEAKER_00]: and the same author found a box after Eve had passed, and it was all of these untouched letters.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some of them were too Joan, and so this woman decided to write another piece, just discussing the parallels of dating and babbits.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is interesting for me, because I love them both, and I'm getting little inside details.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, I don't think that I would recommend this book if you weren't already a fan of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't, so I'm sure a lot of you are, but this wouldn't be the book that I would start with.

[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, you know what this book is making me want to read?

[SPEAKER_00]: What was her book called Prayer?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because now I'm getting inside scoops on different books and there was one love affair that I was interested by Joan when I haven't read and it's a book of common prayer is based off of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now I want to read that one.

[SPEAKER_00]: The year magical thinking if you want to book on grief [SPEAKER_00]: That one really touched me.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's obviously known for slouching towards Bethlehem, the white album played as it lays.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then Eve is probably best known for slow days fast company and Black Swan's collection of essays.

[SPEAKER_00]: She also wrote Sex and Rage.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ellie Woman.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a ton.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I would honestly recommend them both.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if you're more type A.

[SPEAKER_00]: or interested in reading about someone type A, Joan Didian.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you want a little bit more type B, a little bit more loose, you've got it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And D, whatever been doing, I'm in New York.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was in Hawaii, what a week and a half ago, and then I came back to LA.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one of my friends, born, is just a creative genius.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she's been throwing these parties, and she just did her biggest one two weeks ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: She did her big one and it was a murder mystery theme party and it got picked up by ID and she very quickly was doing another one two weeks later and she'd asked me to go to the big one and I couldn't but then I looked at flights to see if I could go to the one on Friday and wouldn't you know there was a bizarrely cheap flight my flight was I think a hundred and twelve dollars direct flight LAX to Newark [SPEAKER_00]: So, I booked a flight for me, I booked a flight for Spoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: We hopped on the red eye and we landed early Friday morning and went to her party.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was really fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a psychedelic sex coal murder mystery and so some people had parts and she had their lines on sort of a slideshow.

[SPEAKER_00]: The actors didn't know the script.

[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't know who the murder was so they were reading their lines aloud and performing in real time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I have not had vodka, and I could not tell you how long I had vodka Red Bull after vodka Red Bull, because I think it started with, oh, I'm gonna be jet lag, like let me have some vodka Red Bull, not taking into account that it's gonna be hard for me in the mornings, but not at night, I should already have the energy.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was out so late, and then I did the same thing Saturday.

[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot how easy it is for it to become five in the morning in New York so easily.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I go on Nile, I am so much more of a day person.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me meet you in the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me meet you in the mid morning, the early afternoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's stop hanging out around eleven at the very latest.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say when I go out in LA, if I do decide to go out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll think, okay, you know, I'll go out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll maybe get there around ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can leave around one thirty or so.

[SPEAKER_00]: I get there around ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think to myself, oh, it must be like at least twelve thirty.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like eleven ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, I've been here just over an hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: How?

[SPEAKER_00]: How is it going by so slow?

[SPEAKER_00]: Where is New York?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll meet up with friends at nine for a dinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, it's two thirty.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, wait, but we just finished dinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: How so many hours have passed I have no clue it just flies by and what's crazy is a lot of times the people that I'm going out with in these cities are the same people because we just flip-flop back and forth So I don't know why it is this way But it is and I felt that all weekend I kept thinking okay I'll go out and then all of a sudden it was during the morning like this It went from eight to two so quickly, but it was so nice [SPEAKER_00]: To be back and have a summer night and to go out, I did karaoke.

[SPEAKER_00]: I went to an arcade and did dance dance revolution.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many new places that have opened up that did not exist since the last time I've been here, so I'm getting to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: To new bars, new restaurants, see your old friends, love ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have a return flight because I don't want to go yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: And things just keep unfolding.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, what if I do want to go to Atlanta?

[SPEAKER_00]: What if I do want to go to North Carolina?

[SPEAKER_00]: Really quickly and just pop over and be a little bit active.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why would I go all the way back to the West Coast just to do this now?

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I family on the East Coast.

[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe I want to go see then.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just have spoon and I have places to say.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's really no urgency.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can talk to you here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can talk to you there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.

[SPEAKER_00]: So feeling really good here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also just love these coasts where I'm from.

[SPEAKER_00]: So my line is familiar over here.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's just something different.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will say though, having spoon here.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you're walking around LA, people have time to kick you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have so much time, your dogs can smell each other.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty seconds, a minute, you can make small talk.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here, spoon tries to kick you with a dog.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-uh.

[SPEAKER_00]: The dog is being ganked away.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also we were at, I don't know if I would call it a park.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had more just called it a quiet patch of grass and I saw this dog that was chasing a ball and spoon instantly ran over and tried to chase the ball with it and that owner just wanted nothing to do with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, all right, no biggie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even though we're the only two dog owners in this space right now and your dog is looking to play.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why you care.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then thankfully another person with a really sweet dog came and played with spoon and that was really nice because [SPEAKER_00]: I can just tell that the walks are not the same for him.

[SPEAKER_00]: If he's running around, getting to play with other dogs, that's the energy he wants out.

[SPEAKER_00]: But him just going on a long walk, it's not a satisfying, you know, minor issue.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's little, and he's chilling.

[SPEAKER_00]: Feels good to be back.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do I have anything else that I want to share out of my way and eating and press by reading and doing?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know what I want to say is that I'm reading Didine and Babbit on my Kindle.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got a Kindle right before I went to Australia and I was anti-kindle.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so pro-paper-book, however, I really love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when I travel, I don't know how many books to bring because [SPEAKER_00]: there is a chance that I will read all of them and there is a chance that I might have no time to read and I will just be carrying four books around and that's taking up precious space in my carry on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-uh, can't be doing that and so finally a friend said I think you should just get a candle.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had one friend that was telling me he's like like to you really think you'll like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand why you like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't, though.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think you like it, blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second friend.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before you go to Australia, I think you should get one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Me living up how much a candle is expecting it to be three hundred dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a hundred dollars with a warranty.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I popped over to Target and I got one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I read a book so quickly on it because you can change the margins.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can change the font size.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can change the brightness.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of times plastic pieces of literature that I want to read, but because of the way they're printed, whether that be the size of the book.

[SPEAKER_00]: the typeface they've chosen, the margin size, the line spacing.

[SPEAKER_00]: It makes my eyes tired and I'm less inclined to read it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm missing out on great stories due to visual preferences, whereas that's completely taken out of the equation when you have a Kindle.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that did open my eyes a bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm pro-kindle.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also pro-paper-bucked, don't get it twisted, but I just am not a Kindle hater anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a Kindle in culture.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I found out [SPEAKER_00]: that if you get a library card, which I so quickly got, you can download the app Libby, and you can rent books to download on your Kindle from the library.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm reading Diddy and Evavids from my library card, and that's fascinating, and really convenient.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that would be another recommendation I have.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now we can get into the Q&A portion every single week.

[SPEAKER_00]: I asked for questions from you guys on Instagram.

[SPEAKER_00]: My handles, Lexi, LXIE, just like the name of this podcast.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into them.

[SPEAKER_00]: But first, a word from today's sponsors.

[SPEAKER_00]: This will be the first question I answered because it's sort of in line with what I was just talking about books.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, where new room is?

[SPEAKER_00]: Would you ever write a book if so fiction or nonfiction?

[SPEAKER_00]: Would I ever write a book?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in a writer's group and that's my goal to get pieces, collections of essays.

[SPEAKER_00]: either personal stories or fictionalized stories that can be put together as a book that would be my goal as my first book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hending a collection of short stories would be the easiest way.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess it would be more non-fiction and if it was fiction, it would be to protect identities.

[SPEAKER_00]: Belong answer to the short answer is yes, I would absolutely do that and that's one of my plans.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I could have a book published or written by thirty, that would be awesome.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God!

[SPEAKER_00]: I get the ass from my favorite sunset I've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Los Angeles has really great sunset, especially in October and November.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're beautiful.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then I saw amazing sunset while I was in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: You notice I went out in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen this before in my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll put an image of it either on my story or on the Patreon.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me scroll to it because there's no way to describe it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen anything like this before.

[SPEAKER_00]: As the sun was setting, there was a single green line coming out of the sky.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like sort of like a sun ray coming out of the sun, but it was a blueish green color and there was just one.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then about ten minutes later, there were four or five and it looks like [SPEAKER_00]: when you're at a concert and they have a fan of lights come down and they were green and it was the most magical strange sunset I've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like I was looking at a stage.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't make any sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also, I love if I'm able to see the little quick sliver of green before the sun sets.

[SPEAKER_00]: That works, I feel like best if you're looking on a coast because then you can really see right when the sun passes the water and you can see that sliver.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's really special.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then Virginia also has beautiful sun sets.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then when you can see a nice sunset through the buildings in New York, I mean, I rarely meet a good sunset, I don't like.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tatum wants to know my favorite craft right now, Coloury.

[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all have to color with me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to have a coloring party y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pick a spot, I'll bring the color pencils, bring the crayons, bring the markers, y'all come with your coloring books of mine, and we'll help ourselves a little craftier noon.

[SPEAKER_00]: Julia says, I got a bad haircut and I'm struggling to feel pretty, and I feel like I lost my identity help.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, a bad haircut sucks.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've all been there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you guys see I'm Rodas?

[SPEAKER_00]: Even the most beautiful people in the whole world can suffer from an outrageously bad haircut.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the beautiful thing is you can style if your hair is too short, into pin slick back.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would also start looking at Pinterest to find ways to style it.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you have bangs that you don't like, you can always pin them back.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I don't like my haircut, I always opt for a ponytail.

[SPEAKER_00]: I used to drive my mom crazy because I hated fresh haircuts as a kid.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I like dead ends or what, but I would instantly as soon as the woman did the blow dry, I would take my ponytail holder and I would put my hair in a ponytail and walk around the salon in a ponytail.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's so rude, but [SPEAKER_00]: Uptoos, pins, gel, and eventually it'll grow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give it two weeks, and it always sort of shakes out a bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first two weeks is the worst, but you got this.

[SPEAKER_00]: You did not lose your identity.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you need to find a role model that looks like you find a hot girl with that haircut in a movie, in a TV show, and channel her until it grows out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Libby wants to know, oh, you have the same name as my library.

[SPEAKER_00]: Persian, how to find a cool roommate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry for the urgency, just need a Lexi Lombard perspective.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have lived with many strangers in my day, and out of the twelve roommates I've had in my life, there's really only been one I didn't like.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the best thing to do is if you have a friend that you have similar living habits to, live with them, don't live with someone just because they're a friend.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think a lot of people know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a bit of a trope of friends who become enemies after living together.

[SPEAKER_00]: For example, Tyronite, we have very similar living styles.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, us living together has only made us closer.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have other friends that are so sloppy.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we've their tissues and all of their things out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, uh, uh, I would kill you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would be so frustrated.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really only live with strangers when I first moved to New York and I found them on gypsy housing and Facebook.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the other time I was subletting a friend's place and both of them were on semesters abroad.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was a friend, but then the other roommate that was a friend found a random girl through her school website.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we just got along.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of nice to live with a stranger because you don't have any obligations towards them.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to invite them out everywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're not expecting to be in your inner circle, whereas it might get [SPEAKER_00]: maybe a bit diceier if you are living with a close friend and there's maybe too many expectations.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know there's so many cool people, like a lot of my favorite people that I've lived with that were strangers, I wouldn't have known how fun it would have been to live with a British consultant or to live with when I was twenty years old, a thirty-seven-year-old dancer or [SPEAKER_00]: When I was twenty-three, like a nineteen-year-old religious girl, or when I was twenty-three, a couple of twenty-eight-year-old dudes, I wouldn't have been able to know who I would have liked.

[SPEAKER_00]: My first perspective is that you can have a wider horizon than you think.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't stress yourself out over making sure you live with the coolest person because there's a lot of cool people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jane Nelson favorite shoes right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I already have them linked below.

[SPEAKER_00]: The docks and the repettos.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I went to Hawaii, I only brought the repettos and hobby on us.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would never wear flip-flops in New York City.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not insane, so we're boots and kiddin' heels.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't link down any of my kitten heels because they're all second-hand, hence why I have to get them repaired so often.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, repetitive as you can buy.

[SPEAKER_00]: If there's an essence sale, it very will be the essence sale right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I obviously haven't linked them yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm speaking to you because I know once this episode's up, you'll be able to click the link.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, I think the essence sale might be happening right now, so this could actually be a really good time to buy them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those are my favorite shoes right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Nico wants to know my favorite cocktail.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm a woman of twenty twenty five.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm drinking what all of you are drinking, which is probably dirty martinis, espresso martinis, and skinny margaritas.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when I'm out now, there's just so much good natural wine, so if I get drink a good bit of that, and then I love a beer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like seeing how scary the vodka hang over was.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like a beer so nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also sometimes, why not their hits mean right, or it hits me wrong?

[SPEAKER_00]: I've never drinking a beer and thought, oh, it was a horrible mistake.

[SPEAKER_00]: Unless it was after a slume.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cocktails though, they can't be too sweet.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really do not like a sweet drink.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also have to watch my sugar.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sugar and I are enemies, and alcohol already has sugar in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I can't have too sweet of a cocktail.

[SPEAKER_00]: J.K.F.

[SPEAKER_00]: wants to hear about the aura reading.

[SPEAKER_00]: So Helen Anna and I went to Magic Jewelry downtown and we got aura reading for the last aura reading I got was in twenty seventeen maybe twenty eighteen so easily.

[SPEAKER_00]: seven eight years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: I last ever remember my image was really yellow and she told me that I was holding a lot of pain in my stomach.

[SPEAKER_00]: I told the woman there the other day I said last time I had so much yellow.

[SPEAKER_00]: She was like oh you're very popular.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're a leader.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like maybe in my head I'm like that's not what I remember.

[SPEAKER_00]: This time my aura was so rainbow.

[SPEAKER_00]: There were colors inside and outside of me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a lot of blues on the left side.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a lot of greens on the right side and then I had a little rainbow inside of me and [SPEAKER_00]: She told me that I have come from a reflective place, so an aura reading is where you put your hands on some sort of aura reader.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess reads your electromagnetic field, correct me if I'm wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they take a photograph and it catches all the colors.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Halloween was like a consistent red and purple, or pink and purple, or orange and purple, some sort of warm color and purple.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was consistent across both sides of her.

[SPEAKER_00]: So she's going through something consistent.

[SPEAKER_00]: The left side is your last five days.

[SPEAKER_00]: The right side is your next five days.

[SPEAKER_00]: So she told me my future is looking bright and it's going to be a really fun week of financial blessings and popularity and leadership.

[SPEAKER_00]: People are going to really be listening to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: She said, I'm a leader.

[SPEAKER_00]: So y'all better be listening and up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the rainbow inside.

[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't really touch on truthfully.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, Sean tells the chief finish season one of Hacks ten out of ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for the recommendation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gladly.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're looking for a TV show to watch, I highly recommend Hacks if you haven't seen it before.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give yourself the first two episodes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I feel like you'll be hooked.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really not much of a TV person.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm like very picky about my TV.

[SPEAKER_00]: I try to watch the popular shows to keep up, you know, severance, whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I recently started watching righteous gemstones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in need to be a girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm glad you like tax.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, Shuntel also asked, would you bring back weird maybe as a podcast segment?

[SPEAKER_00]: Shuntel asked, and you shall receive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wow!

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the greatest episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's perfect for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: How I'm madey Armstrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I recognize that username.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I've answered a slew of your questions.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tips for good sleep.

[SPEAKER_00]: To not get into your bed too soon before you actually go to sleep, I think to have good sleep hygiene.

[SPEAKER_00]: My therapist told me that bed should only be used for sleep or sex.

[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, there's times in place where you do want to just have a duvet day and hang out in your bed for six hours.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I also love a little nap.

[SPEAKER_00]: That also goes with sleep hygiene.

[SPEAKER_00]: An nap is totally fine and acceptable.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what I'm saying is if you normally fall asleep at midnight, maybe don't start hanging out in your bed watching TV around eight because then you'll start to become restless and you won't fall as deeply into sleep.

[SPEAKER_00]: If that's the type of person you are where you do like to chill, [SPEAKER_00]: and watch something, I would watch it on your couch, wait till you're sleepy and then get into bed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I have Maltape, I sleep with, and that's one of my sleep tips, but I don't think everybody needs that, but I like sleeping with Maltape.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also normally keep my phone outside of my bedroom, I'll charge it in my bathroom.

[SPEAKER_00]: or at least like on the floor far away so that the last thirty minutes or so before I actually fall asleep are phone free so I read before bed and now I can have all my lights off because my Kindle has a nightlight on it so then I can really just be in the dark with my Kindle on night mode and then I turn it off and off I go I will say I've gone through little phases where I'll listen to a DI or a deep meditation before I go to sleep and not annoying because [SPEAKER_00]: it is all my phone and I have to have my phone near me to do it but the best sleeping tips I can give are to not get into bed too soon to leave your bed only for sleeping insects and then to leave at least twenty minutes to an hour before you actually fall asleep to be screen free these are pretty basic pieces of advice but they work definitely not bad advice [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, Jayla, it's how to be hot and not cute.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I said wow.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's because my eyes sort of shifted to the question to the right and said how to stop hating men.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think everyone would go through that phase.

[SPEAKER_00]: Straight or gay, you're just a little frustrated because you're acknowledging the differences, especially with our age where we were grown up and it was sort of [SPEAKER_00]: Girls can do anything boys can do and then you see that's not entirely true.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of internal frustration.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of generational frustration.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of ancestral frustration that it breeds a lot of resentments.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have this space to talk about that right now because I'm not in a man hating phase.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I was a really pissed off admin, I could probably go on a ramp that feel like I have a lot of good men in my life and that also is a way to ease yourself out of [SPEAKER_00]: the hatred.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of the phases where we're hating men is when we're keeping men all of an arms length.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or have recently been hurt by one totally acceptable, but when you're in a phase where you are surrounded by good men, you're like, oh my y'all are all that bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now back to the other question, how to be hot and not just cute.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it's an age thing and people reach it all at different ages.

[SPEAKER_00]: because i'm thinking of different times when i lit like i felt so hot when i was sixteen i really did and i felt so cute when i was twenty i was like god i have regressed in such a way that i am not a fan of i'm not hot i am not sexy [SPEAKER_00]: I am cute and sweet.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I age in and out of it, it's a phase.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel cute when I have short hair.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel hotter when I have long hair.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there are other people opposite.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a friend too.

[SPEAKER_00]: She looks really cute and sweet when she has long hair.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then when she cuts it short, it's like, oh, oh, that's a baddie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that is a sexy woman right there.

[SPEAKER_00]: One into the energy, two, it's a face.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was a mediocre advice that best I would say.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was not a strong answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will admit.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is such a good question.

[SPEAKER_00]: Katie asked for a Spotify listen to color along to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can't wait for my order to come in.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's so exciting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me go to my Spotify.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can definitely just type in, like, the Lumbar on Spotify.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, interesting what it shows is my top artist of this month.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, I can't talk about one of my top artists of this month.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love my inner vintage convertible playlist.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's great for a road trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's my road trip playlist.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd start there while I used to make playlists all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I scroll through, I have [SPEAKER_00]: Twenty thirteen twenty fourteen twenty fifteen and then I made a seasonal playlist in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen and then it stopped after twenty twenty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds about red.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have spring twenty twenty and then it all sort of ends but I could totally make a new playlist but I think I would listen to in a vintage convertible.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'd start.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can link that one down below.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gabby wants to know how do you get over the idea of someone you were never actually with?

[SPEAKER_00]: you get a crush on someone else because it's a fantasy so as soon as you dip into a new fantasy you can get over the previous one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also saw a really interesting video about lover girls need to make art that feels the same as crushes and by that she means a project that isn't fully fleshed out but there's no traction to the idea and it's an idea that makes you so excited that you're kind of nervous [SPEAKER_00]: because a crush is a fantasy and a fantasy is imagination and imagination is creativity.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to channel the creative energy that you have for a crush, to channel it into your art and I love that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to channel it, that's another way to deal with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: fun ways to feel hot to eat food that makes you feel good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's so easy to eat food that you're mentally craving but you know your physical body is not going to be as happy with it and the more you eat the food that makes you feel better and then you see how much better you feel it starts being motivating.

[SPEAKER_00]: and you don't want to end the cycle because you're like, wait, I'm feeling so good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to keep doing this and now I go to the grocery store and instead of grabbing comfort junkie foods or I remember I would always order a chicken biscuit from sweet chick with honey and it was fried chicken and it was on a biscuit and that would be like my go-to landing order that I would have delivered to me when I got to Newark and it's like, okay, is that gonna make me feel great?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, but if I get some fruits and vegetables and maybe some groceries and I make myself a little something will that make me feel better?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that's one way to feel hot because I will say when you feel hot in your clothes you do feel hot like I it's distracting to be insecure by your body and I went through a lot of that in my twenties of just feeling so awkward and [SPEAKER_00]: I was holding on to a lot of stress weight in a lot of pain and that doesn't feel so hot because you're holding on to literal weight like there's a weight on you that's exhausting and stressful and painful and uncomfortable and distracting.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's one way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, if you go a long time without wearing makeup, like maybe you've been on vacation, you haven't been wearing makeup, and then you put on or just been wearing casual clothes, then you actually dress up, and you think, I didn't know I still had this in me!

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay!

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at those lashes if I go a long time without putting on mascara and let her see my lashes with mascara.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel pretty cute.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel pretty good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, to feel hot, just to hang out with other confident people that think you're hot.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's great when you're around someone who has a lot of self-assurance.

[SPEAKER_00]: They think they're hot.

[SPEAKER_00]: They think you're hot.

[SPEAKER_00]: The energy is just contagious.

[SPEAKER_00]: and it builds upon itself and it breeds the confidence, which is great.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, when you hang out with people that are picking apart themselves, that's not sexy.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, but when you're around someone who's self-assured and loves themselves, that's attractive and it contagiouss.

[SPEAKER_00]: Faith vacation you've ever been on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I wouldn't call this a vacation, but obviously Australian New Zealand.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ten out of ten.

[SPEAKER_00]: For some reason, there's traveling in my head and there's vacations.

[SPEAKER_00]: Vacation is when you leave your home to be relatively horizontal with a very, very empty to do list.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are tasks of peer pleasure.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas traveling, there's destinations [SPEAKER_00]: There's concepts, there's plans, there's lots of movement.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I wouldn't really consider New Zealand or Australia vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a trip, but it was an vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas Hawaii, that was a vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was relaxing at the pool.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what my to-do list was?

[SPEAKER_00]: It was working on my tan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was making sure I don't get too dehydrated in the sun working on my tan.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was how stressful it was.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: So love Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love Laguna Beach.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was a minute there where I think two years in a row, Tyran I drove down to Laguna Beach and we stayed there hotel walking and we had ourselves a little.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sort of staycation because it's in driving distance.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even one night.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Martha's vineyard.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, did that last June?

[SPEAKER_00]: So good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, it's Hyra.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like vacationing with Hyra.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also like traveling with Hyra.

[SPEAKER_00]: We work really well together as a team.

[SPEAKER_00]: But us driving around the island, Jeep Wrangler, Brat Album Playing, Bikini's on.

[SPEAKER_00]: See now, that I thought hot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_00]: You want to feel hot?

[SPEAKER_00]: Put on Brat by Charlie Xiex.

[SPEAKER_00]: We just gotta get some tunes that make you feel sexy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even think of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and this is a stressful question.

[SPEAKER_00]: How am I ever going to answer something so serious?

[SPEAKER_00]: Cat asked for my top three fruits.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw this one yesterday as the questions were coming in.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was with Helen Ann.

[SPEAKER_00]: We also went to a scalp spot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did I say that?

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to a scalp spot yesterday.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was couples massage vibes.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we were two beds next to each other getting our heads washed.

[SPEAKER_00]: and then also getting our shoulders rubbed it was so great.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then she came back and was hanging out and was like, what are your top three fruits?

[SPEAKER_00]: As a fruity girl, it's a tricky question to answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are so many I have to think of it almost as if I'm in a five star resort.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm walking into a lounge and there's a platter of all the fruits.

[SPEAKER_00]: What am I grabbing first?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a sucker for a tropical fruit, which I think is a little biased because in my fantasy I'm out of resort.

[SPEAKER_00]: So of course, I'm probably somewhere tropical.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because apples are really an OG.

[SPEAKER_00]: Top tier fruit of mine.

[SPEAKER_00]: And an apple in the fall.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing like it.

[SPEAKER_00]: A honey crisp apple, a little peanut butter on it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Best snack since I was four.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's never gotten old.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've never, ever once, not once gotten sick of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But in this thick tissue's resort, I'm going towards pineapple.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going towards mango.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kiwi papaya dragonfruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: When I'm at the grocery store, I love grapes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love a grape and the fridge I love a grape and the freezer.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could argue that bananas are versatile, but I don't think they make top three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Strawberry is great, but I honestly have trouble finding ones that are really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's rare that I have a really good strawberry, but you know what I can find pretty easily, a good blackberry.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I might need to pick an apple because it's like a white tank top.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pair of jeans.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or is it pineapple?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a fun accessory.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a sparkly bag.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's my jock moose purse.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a this is fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is special.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, most people aren't like having a pineapple and they're going to work the way that they might have an apple.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then berries are pretty versatile.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love a blackberry.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think I'm going to have to go with pineapple apple and blackberry.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, a lot of you are needing help getting over situationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: I swear when a man treats you well, because I think a lot of people also have trouble accepting nice treatment because you're like, wow, this is a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: What am I doing with this?

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can accept nice treatment, receive nice treatment from a man, you'll never go back to anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: So situationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably the wrong person to ask.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really haven't had too many situationships.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I'm pretty clear in my head on what I want and then if I'm not, I can at least play myself for my own lack of communication.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't have that as the last question because that's not helpful.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate when I can't be helpful.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I wanted to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Was I being helpful?

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Beach Bunny wants to know life changing skincare products you're always glowing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had a pretty hard skin journey in my late teens early twenties.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have it pretty unlock now.

[SPEAKER_00]: My biggest skincare tips.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm always [SPEAKER_00]: heavy on the moisturizer.

[SPEAKER_00]: I try to keep my skin moisturized all day.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wash my face in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just put on moisturizer and an SPF and then I take off my makeup and I cleanse my face.

[SPEAKER_00]: I might do a couple serum or two, but really what I focus on is heavy layer of moisturizer.

[SPEAKER_00]: heavy layer of eye cream if I have some.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the key to good skin is hydrated skin and then I also not super regularly like I would say at most maybe like once a week or so it's kind of as needed and as I remember I will do an exfoliant.

[SPEAKER_00]: So [SPEAKER_00]: I do have a face scrub in my shower that I keep, but I'm talking about a Paula's choice, AHA, BHA, liquid exfoliant, so really just getting the dead skin off, moisturizing the fresh skin, and then protecting it from the sun.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once again, with the sleep tips, kind of basic, I'm no doctor, but if your skin's already oily, it's probably feeling really dry and it's creating more oil, whereas if you just hydrated, I don't think it will continue to be as oily, but as I said, I'm not a doctor, so I don't fully know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But keeping your skin hydrated A one and I also drink so much water I drink so much water in LA because I hate the water and it's so dehydrating and I feel like I've to drink so much water I always say this I joke that in my memoir my years in LA that chocolate is gonna be titled the dehydrated years [SPEAKER_00]: because that's how it feels when I'm in LA.

[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot drink enough water.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here in New York, I'm having a cup of water and it works.

[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly I'm not thirsty anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have this huge cup that I keep.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like a big gulp cup from seven to eleven, but like a little bit cheaper, but not my much.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I am chugging water out of that all day long, because I need to keep hydrated and I can't.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think that definitely helps with skincare.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not done chatting.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also have to think of what I want to talk about for the Patreon.

[SPEAKER_00]: What juicy things do I want to share?

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me look through my camera roll and see what has gone on in the last week or so that I can spill some tea on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm in a pretty calm mental headspace, because sometimes I'll dive deeper into something that's been bothering me on the Patreon.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know, every single one of these episodes is ad free and extended on Patreon.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I also will do additional videos, YouTube style photo booth, hard to hearts on there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you just want a deeper level, that's there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm [SPEAKER_00]: scrolling through to see what I could tease.

[SPEAKER_00]: My friend cutting my hair, the red eye, the murder mystery party, the night out.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: I could talk about mooncat.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been having a mooncat summer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me see if you Google it if it will come out because I don't want to spill the beans.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now it doesn't come up on Google.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have this little fun thing that I've been doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're some of my friends and it aids to a really cheeky experience and it's not ad friendly and it's not public approved and you can't Google it if you've tried.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just tried and it's my dirty little secret that [SPEAKER_00]: It's a guilty pleasure.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not, I'm not guilty about it, but it's just not ad-friendly.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're curious about a little, like, I have not been drinking alcohol at the extent that I have other years.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I, and obviously I live in LA.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's alternatives, but I have recently discovered one that is so incredibly of my alley.

[SPEAKER_00]: so I will get into that.

[SPEAKER_00]: For everyone else, thank you so much for listening, be sure to check out my coloring book.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's digital or physical, I can't wait to see you guys coloring pages in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to be a part of the little coloring afternoon, or in a softer noon as I said, that's something I would so love to plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also will have a YouTube video going up next Thursday.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to remind you that Thursday posts are when I will be uploading, so I will see you back in two weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to get better at truthfully like promoting the show.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a little overwhelming to have multiple pieces of content promoting each episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to give this show space to breathe.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it'll also be nice that the episodes can be a tad longer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So look forward to the video next week.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll probably be a New York vlog.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can see a little bit of what I've been up to.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a Patron member, we'll get into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all so much for listening.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you like this episode, give it a nice little review, rate it five stars, share it with your friends, share it with me on Instagram, I'll repost it on my story.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy your day, ticker, exo, exo, exo, Lexi.