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Weird Confessions: Are We All Just Making This Up As We Go?
What happens when two moms decide to open up the confession booth and reveal the weird, embarrassing, and utterly human moments that most people keep hidden? This episode takes us behind the curtain of perfectly curated mom lives into the realm of strange habits we've never outgrown and mortifying moments we've tried to forget.
From the startling admission of a lifelong Bath & Body Works obsession (complete with an elaborate three-layer scenting ritual) to the hilarious story of mistaking vitamin-induced nausea for pregnancy, Claire and Jill share the kind of confessions that will have you nodding in recognition or breathing a sigh of relief that you're not alone in your quirks. We delve into the questionable skincare "routines" of our college years, the creative excuses we've crafted for being late to work, and how we've all pushed the expiration dates on medications further than we'd like to admit.
The conversation takes surprising turns as they discuss forming deep friendships with people they've only met through social media, particularly bonding over shared interests like reality TV shows. There's something incredibly refreshing about hearing two grown women acknowledge the strange contradictions in their lives – like being meticulous about children's medicine expiration dates while ignoring their own, or presenting a professional image at work while harboring memories of outrageous college behavior.
Whether you're folding laundry, running errands, or hiding in your car for a moment of peace, this episode offers the perfect blend of humor, relatability, and the gentle reminder that behind every put-together mom is a human with quirks, questionable past choices, and weird habits they've never quite outgrown. Leave a review, share with a friend, or tag @the.columbiamom on Instagram to join the conversation about your own weird confessions!
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Hey friends and welcome to mom talk, maryland. I'm your host, claire Duarte, founder of the Columbia mom, and this is your spot for real conversations, local love and a whole lot of community. Whether you're folding laundry, running errands or hiding in your car for some peace and quiet, let's dive in all right. So Welcome to lucid thoughts with Claire. My random thought and inspiration for this was just weird confessions. Okay, we did mom confessions before, but this is kind of an offshoot, right. I was just kind of like, actually I was talking with Emma, our intern, yesterday. Where were we? We were just, oh, we were checking out a farmer's market and I literally, oh, because I guess I was talking about just podcast ideas. And I was like, oh, guess I was talking about just podcast ideas. And I was like, oh, my god, um, I just started thinking of just like random weird things and I was like you know what, let's just open up a little like pseudo confessional. I feel like you've got some pretty good raw ones that I can't.
Speaker 1:I don't know, this could take some really weird and and or uh bad turns. This could also be my point where I'm like mom, please don't listen to this one, or something yeah, I don't know if anybody wants to listen to some of the things I have and maybe even my husband too, probably, um, but uh, yeah. So yeah, like before, like I feel like the mom one is like pretty, like I would say like a pretty vanilla one, a pretty, like you know, pretty common for for us like you know, more screen or things we're talking about, like things we said we never do like
Speaker 2:extra screen time or lots of junk, or saying like um, oh, the dog, ate that toy oh or ate like that homework paper that they thought I was going to save forever and I actually just had thrown it out in the trash, exactly. I think that's normal.
Speaker 1:Exactly. I was like that's pretty like standard for like mom stuff. So what I was thinking, I did like write some notes to myself. So these are like some pretty just like either, just like stupid, just like dumb isms of my life, just random offshoots that I'm sure know and I probably don't really want people to relate. I don't want you to have had the same experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I also feel like the things we did, especially like some of our college years Yikes, are just like oh my god, I did that too. Moments for people.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Oh for sure. I mean like again, like I haven't even gotten into it yet, but like college ones like this isn't what I would call like embarrassing. It's like you know, none of us wore jackets to the bars ever.
Speaker 1:I mean you're from New York, Maybe you did, but like up and down Maryland, like we were just basically like half naked in heels, like none of us wore jackets, and the other time, like like North Face stolen from the bar, so it was no jacket, so that we could just strut our stuff regardless of the weather.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we my friends and I typically didn't care really we wore our jackets or sweatshirts or anything because we were in. It was big enough, but small enough where, like, and a lot of us were athletes- at the school, so people knew us no matter what.
Speaker 2:So we didn't really care. And that's really funny because my cousin, who I went to college with, who's like one of my best friends, we to this day also make fun of her because she wouldn't just like go out in a jacket, she would go out in like the most unflattering jacket, sweater situation, but also have it zipped up all the way and sometimes the hood up and like the the next morning we would be like Liz, um, she's like, just tell me it wasn't zipped up all the way tell me it wasn't like no
Speaker 1:it was zipped up all the way and, like you, were hiding like lurking like something crazy, oh my god.
Speaker 2:Um, but yeah, no, we definitely. It was a different time, though, too I think time yeah you also like a 50 degree night? Where I went to college was a heat wave so then we would be like okay, we're out in our like little jean skirts that were very popular then, and my god, our belted waist situations. Yeah, oh god, you could probably pull it off.
Speaker 1:You're a lot taller than I am, but, um, I didn't mean for this to be like a slew on, like let's go down college years, but it probably will snowball into that, whatever you know. Um, okay, so wait, let me go back to a few of my notes, because I was like I know I'm not gonna remember all these, but like some, like I said, some of them were just like dumb and weird, but the best one was okay. The idea came from me. I was like talking with Emma, our intern, who's only 19. I said to her, um, expecting full cringe. Um, when I said this to her and I was like, I was like confession. I was like I have never phased out of using the Bath and Body Works body spray since middle school. I was like let me preface this, I don't have the ones from middle school, lord knows. I finished those, along with the roll on body glitter.
Speaker 1:You're a real OG if you did the roll on body glitter, yeah, glitter.
Speaker 2:There's some songs still to this day that take me back to roll on body glitter and glitter nail polish. Oh yes.
Speaker 1:I can still smell it.
Speaker 2:Now, are you a country apple girly, or what was it? Juniper breeze, juniper breeze.
Speaker 1:I was a cucumber melon, cucumber melon, cucumber melon. When they brought that back I was like, oh, y'all don't even know, but I, oh my God, I still go hard for a body spray, but it like I'm very specific to body, to bath and body works. I don't like the random cvs body sprays. Uh-huh, um, I and don't get me wrong, I have my big girl perfumes, I have them. And here's I still okay, my like getting ready. Like I put on deodorant, I spray body splash.
Speaker 2:Do like the little, like circle body splash it in, or like spray it and then run through it. I both I have to do a little bit.
Speaker 1:It goes like on here and then, like you spray it like kind of into my body and I kind of like walk into it and then I put the perfume on top. Oh so I'm a triple threat.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, deodorant body spray and all those scents Like I've never noticed you smelling bad, so I guess it all works.
Speaker 1:I was going to say, or, like I said, be very threatening I'm here to overpower you. You'll smell her coming you don't see her coming, you'll just smell her coming. That's how much I'm trying to mask the odor. Maybe there was a method to the madness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I never really my mom would get migraines from scents. So growing up, I never really had like the scented body bath and body work stuff.
Speaker 1:I mean that's probably to say it's like healthier for you.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was a Clinique happy girly, like when I could like sneak it on myself um hard, but like so brendan, which this could be a whole episode itself so um my husband brendan can't smell or taste anything, and that's not just like from COVID. So I joked like he was. He was victim number one, yeah. Like he was like patient zero. So he can't smell or taste, so like when I I don't. I have one. It's called flower bomb.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that I like randomly found through a Sephoraora, like free trial thing so I like the little travel one where, just like a quick spray I love, but he always jokes. He's like why are you spraying perfume, like when we're having a random?
Speaker 1:he's like who is this for? I'm like it's because I want to smell.
Speaker 2:I like the smell.
Speaker 1:He can't even even like perfume. That's like really strong. I mean, I don't expect him to smell a lot no, he can't, literally can't smell or taste anything.
Speaker 2:He can feel like a burn, like if he like back in the day, like if he was doing shots, because people always like say like doing shots. He's like I can feel like a burn and like if we do wine tasting, for instance, like he can like he'll feel like the red wines are like more acidic or something, but like no, and going wine tasting with this man is so fun because he will like quickly read descriptions and bottles and see like what should be paired with.
Speaker 2:So he'll be like talking to the wine person and be like so this would be like really well, like what do you think? Like a steak or a burger, and I know what he's doing. So I find it entertaining Because he's like masking himself, so he doesn't like out himself, which is what I would do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean so with scents. He's always like why, what? Or like I'll come home and he'll have like the most random concoction of candles burning and I'm like, yeah, what, what is happening? So I have to be like I hide, yeah, the candles from him that should not be burning. Yeah now, for instance, like we don't need like warm apple crisp burning, but he wouldn't think about that. Love you no.
Speaker 1:So I just hide stuff. That's so funny. So yeah, so that. So body spray is like still on my list. It's still part of my arsenal, literally when I run low, I still go back and get them right now. And if you cared to know um, I like, um, what's the one? It's like champagne something champagne toast, champagne toast. I love that candle champagne, toast and gingham are like my two favorites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Someone. I was actually just somewhere they had champagne toast for their um soap and I was like I'll just be here for a little bit oh yeah, I know the soap smelling it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know um, I mean, it's funny. I saw the best post I needed to do and it was like sorry, just random offshoot of, like you know, uh, I do, like you know, all non-tox products but, like you know, burn my Bath Body Works candle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like ooh.
Speaker 1:So whoopsies, yeah. So Bath Body Works was one. Another one that I thought was that I had to chuckle at for myself is obviously like in my 20s I had no sense of skin care.
Speaker 2:Oh no. Like at all. I mean, these girls nowadays are so lucky.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. Well, it's problematic because our daughter's going to be like in. Ulta like tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, Emily's already there. I walked by her room the other day and she had a face mask on. I was like, hey, she put it on. Yeah, so she's sitting there at her like little desk and chair and she's seven and I see her just like this. I go, hey, babe, what you doing? She's like I can't talk. I see she turns to me and has a face mask on. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm like I hope that's not one of my face masks and she's like no, I got this at Ulta because my niece took her.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, I was like awesome, okay, oh, my god, I mean I know that like she's gotten a few in like some like birthday bag, which is like kind of cute. Um, I mean Brooke, I had no idea she taught herself how to paint her fingers and toes, yeah, and um, luckily, most of it's like I don't know if it's all like non-talks with the stuff that like peels off or whatever, but I was really embarrassed. I mean, luckily it was like my best friend, like from college, but like she had, um, she has three girls now and um, brooke immediately um took the girls to her room and we just thought they were playing. And then she comes downstairs and Brooke had painted and the two girls are, um, younger than her. They're like five and three, so a couple years younger than brooke. She had painted all of their nails and I was like and I felt I mean again, it's like my best friend, she doesn't care, and like they were all. But I was like, I felt like bad as a parent.
Speaker 1:I was like slightly mortified, I was like because you know, if it was anybody else, I would like ask the parent yeah that's okay, you know, and I probably wouldn't have them doing on the car in the carpeted bedroom, because I have horror stories from my childhood of we've all made those mistakes oh yes, um, actually random sidebar. I remember going on vacation with one of our best friends and she and I were painting our nails and we spilled um, accidentally knocked a bottle of nail polish remover oh no, on a table oh, it effed that table big time, big, big, big time and I, I had no idea.
Speaker 1:We had no idea because, like, as soon as you try to clean it up, it just oh yeah and it was a lot, it was a big ass spot, I mean, and we got, we got ripped and they were all like right there when it happened.
Speaker 2:But um yeah, so sorry, random nail polish tangent and my funny nail polish moment with my kids is, you know, you see those memes where you're like, oh, the kids are quiet, is it a good thing or a bad thing? And I think I had just recently had Logan, so he was like baby, baby mode and I think I had a moment of like I was able to fold some clothes and get some laundry done and Brendan had run out and Emily and Ryan were playing together and they were quiet.
Speaker 2:So I was like sweet, yeah, they're playing, yeah next thing, I know Ryan comes into my room and his face had been face painted with nail polish. So I mean, it was like the nail polish that peels heels. I was just gonna um, but he had a full colorful range of colors because she had gotten like a pack, like a, these nail polishes, oh my god. And they were so proud of themselves. Oh, no doubt. And and and then, like a few days later, I said something about um, like you know, doing a face painting, she's like, but not with nail polish.
Speaker 2:I'm like, no, correct my girl, no, no, and I was like, oh my god. So of course I had to like clean him up before Brendan got home, so that it just like I hope you got a picture oh, I sure did oh, we're gonna, oh, I should yeah. I will definitely send it so we can pop that in so proud of himself too seriously, oh my god, I would be slightly mortified I mean that's.
Speaker 1:I guess that's the one thing like Grant is like so sensory, like driven, that like he he's I don't think he's ever had his face painted, which kind of makes my mama heart a little sad, which.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna ignore that. It took Emily a while. She used to just do her hands.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you mentioned that. Yeah, brooke's always obsessed, but um, okay, so, but that was my back to your skincare skincare. Sorry, let's circle back. So I okay. My skincare regimen consisted of, like you know, I knew that I was told to wash my face. I mean, how often did we wash our face in college?
Speaker 2:Never.
Speaker 1:Right, um so, uh, like washing our face and brushing our teeth like suggestions. You know what I mean. Like they were always on the next morning. You know what I mean. Um so, yeah, I washed my face, but then you know, like. You know like, oh, my skin skin feels all tight and dry, like I knew I needed something. I don't know what came over me. I like just got in this like habit of using like aloe, because I was like using it from and I was like, oh, it smells really good. I was like aloe, aloe sounds like it's good for your skin.
Speaker 1:Like aloe like an after sun aloe lotion, like the gel, yes, and that became like my moisturizer for several years in college and then shortly after. So and I the the my confession part here is I mean that but I like literally remember specifically going to a dermatologist and when they asked me about my like skincare regimen because I was, I have really sensitive skin and I have all these things so I was in there for a legitimate something and, um, I was like, yeah, I use aloe and I felt so proud of myself and they were like oh, okay, okay, and like gave me some samples. But it's just like the funny moment in my brain that I literally felt so proud to tell this doctor oh, I use aloe as my moisturizer.
Speaker 2:I think I was a um. I never had a skincare routine, probably until I was like 27 and I was like, oh, maybe I might get proposed to and I might be in a wedding. I need like something, um, but I only was using like the, using like the Clinique clarifying lotion.
Speaker 1:I feel like that doesn't sound bad though.
Speaker 2:No, but just that.
Speaker 1:Like no cleanser.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't like wash my face beforehand, I just would like cotton ball boop, boop, boop, like, or you know, do it and then do this. And I don't even think I put like lotion moisturizer on my face, like nothing, it was just toner it. And then do this, and I don't even think I put like lotion moisturizer on my face, like nothing, it was just toner.
Speaker 1:And I thought that was like oh, eye makeup remover okay, I was like how are you getting the makeup off?
Speaker 2:yeah and here's a fun little tip I do um baby shampoo for my makeup remover yeah, you can do like when I was having some eye issues last year.
Speaker 1:I had to use for not the whole time, but I had to start by doing um, a little bit of like the gentle baby stuff, um, yeah, like, um. So yeah, that can definitely be used. But yeah, I sometimes look back.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh, imagine if I knew, like, what I was doing back in the day. Oh my God, I wouldn't look like Right.
Speaker 1:All the things.
Speaker 2:All the things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um. So my next one, that is, my next confession. That I think I think is pretty funny. Um was so I, I, I think I got somewhat decent at taking vitamins through college, but they were probably like the gummies or I don't know. I wasn't like super consistent, but I think I was decent. I was like, oh, I feel like I should you know what I mean, and I forget if they were either the gummies or swallow ones or probably like a mixture of that, but I remember I made an appointment. I was like 22. I had just graduated college. I'm pretty sure it was that summer. I was 22, 23, but I remember being home. So I think I and I lived at home that summer after college and then I moved out, so, um, so it must've been 22, and I, um, had just started dating Richard again, um, or somewhere around that. And, um, I made an appointment to see my see an OBGYN. Cause I freaked out because I threw up one morning and I was terrified and I was like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Like I might be pregnant, and so I'm just walking you through the logic of my brain. Guys, I didn't even take a pregnancy test, I just made an appointment to go see the doctor.
Speaker 2:It's better than just ignoring it and then finding out months later you're pregnant.
Speaker 1:So I get there and I'm like half terrified. I was like I think I might be pregnant because I threw up and I think it might be morning sickness. And then he's asking me these questions. I'm sure they probably had me peeing a cup, I guess, yeah. And I'm like terrified because I'm like fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. You know what I mean. And he's like asking me about what medications I'm on and I, you know again, I'm 22. So I probably take like one which is a multivitamin. And he was like you know, and I told him like he's like first thing in the morning when you wake up, I was like yeah, he's like, are you having breakfast?
Speaker 2:and I was like well, later he was like that is why you're throwing up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so to be. And then, like, sure enough, you go home and read the bottle. It says take with the meal. And I was like oh, and like it's funny because now to this day, I mean, obviously I like walked out so happy and like felt like a world class idiot. But like now, if I I'm actually sometimes nervous to take my, my multi, because I get, I'm very I shouldn't say sensitive to it, but if, like I know that like a half, a single bite of banana I know is going to make me is not enough and I will hurl it up if I don't have more in my stomach.
Speaker 1:So I just like try to make sure, and I love breakfast. I am not shy about my breakfast. I will plow through some breakfast, but I'm always like I just know I have to time it, yeah Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never had that problem, probably because I don't take vitamins.
Speaker 1:That's the other confession. How to avoid getting sick? Just don't take any.
Speaker 2:Excellent.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:I think I mean I tried my best when I was pregnant to take the prenatal vitamins yeah. And I definitely told all doctors that I said yes, every single day I'm taking a, whatever it's called the prenatal vitamin, of course yes, yes, no, hardly I was like even just cleaning out the pantry recently and I was like, oh, these are old, like prenatal vitamins I'm like I don't need these anymore, and I was very embarrassed to see like most of the battle was still left.
Speaker 1:Oops, Oops, you know, I also had healthy kids. You did yeah, but right, I know. Well then like with all like the great stuff, I'm sure with Emily tooth I'm always like what the hell did I do during that pregnancy was like what the hell did I do during that pregnancy that made the things different.
Speaker 1:We're not going to go down that road. We're definitely not going and that's probably not a healthy road for anyone to go down. But um, that's a side thing, wait. But I was gonna say, when you're talking about meds, um, I didn't, I either, I didn't know. It never crossed my mind that medications like ibuprofen, tylenol, kind of like you're just your everyday stuff, that like those expire every few years oh yeah yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, because like you would get like the big old bottle of like you know thing from costco I mean
Speaker 2:ibuprofen was like my drug of choice uh-huh, and I mean I plow through a bottle pretty well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But like my husband one time was looking through, he's like, oh, this is expired. And I was like what? That's a weird thing to say.
Speaker 2:But like, but it's, it's still effective. Right has to be I'm sure it is.
Speaker 2:I mean, I feel like don't ask doctors these questions because they're gonna be like, oh well I I guess you know what, though I also I've looked've looked at my kids like kids medication Right when I've been like oh no, I need like something for them, like a Benadryl or whatever, and it's not something we use often. So I have looked at that, yeah, but I don't know if I've ever looked at like adult. That's what I'm saying. I don't think I'd ever had. No, I'm like adult, that's what I'm saying. I don't think I'd ever had.
Speaker 1:No, I'm like it's in. No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2:I got ibuprofen in there oh no, actually my mom has looked. Yep, my mom loves to come and visit. Like when she comes to visit, we always need, like someone gets sick, so then she's like that's an unfortunate oh yeah, and then it's like this is from, this is from three years ago. Jill, why is this here? And I'm like well, because I don't use it ever. Like I knew it was in there. I just I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:I'm not like one to pop, even like a Tylenol or anything. I try to like plow through the pain. Also, probably why I'm in the place I'm at right now where I'm kind of like, Ooh, something's happening to my back. Well, I know I can my dad's a lot like that.
Speaker 1:Um, but I'm a little mix of both, but I can. I can totally see that. Um, wait, hold on. There was another, oh, this one's kind of kind of funny, um, like weird confession where I my first job out of college I was working for this law firm and um, oh my god, I forget if I actually had car issues. I think I legitimately was just running late and I think I lied and said um that my car was having trouble, which, to be fair, it actually was a really old car. It was like a 2006 or no, it was older than that.
Speaker 1:It was like I had this red volvo that I bought from a friend in college and it was yeah, we were a volvo family growing up too, so when I saw the volvo and it was red, I was like yeah love a Volvo.
Speaker 2:That's so funny. My first car like outside of having like my parents hand me downs, was also a red car.
Speaker 1:We would be red car girlies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, totally yeah, and it had like the sparkle to it. I thought I was just so awesome. Oh my God, of course.
Speaker 1:I know Well, and I went to Maryland so, like, red's one of our colors, so I was also like pretty jazzed about that, um, but, um, but yes, it was definitely an older car and, um, I'm sure I was like having possible issues, but I'm sure on that morning I actually wasn't, but I still lied because I was running late and I said and I think I said to them that I was having car troubles and the guy there was a guy that worked the front desk at the time, um, and he was really nice and friendly and I was explaining to him like what had happened. Oh lord, and he was like, and he said to me he was like well, maybe it's the operator. And I was like, well, no, I didn't like check, blah, blah, blah, me knowing I don't know clearly shit about cars. Yeah, and still don't.
Speaker 2:Um, and he kept saying the operator over and over again and then he looked at me and he meant like you, yeah, it's a problem with you I was like, that's like how dumb I was, oh my god but I think like that would be so funny to hear people's feedback and, like, every single person has made an epic excuse as to why they weren't coming into work, oh, or why they're running late yeah or like missing class.
Speaker 2:My cousin and I um, our professors knew we were cousins and we like made a lie up about, like, something happening with our family. We had to go to albany because of this. We just didn't want to go to classes that day so really let's just come up with this story. Yeah, yeah, it's so bad. We're like hopefully it's not karma, right, but like, oh, yeah, I mean I think like everyone at some point has done some crazy oh my God Type of excuse.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think it happens more when you're like in a job you don't love, yeah To like Right. I know, like some jobs previously, that I didn't love. I'd be like I don't want to go in today.
Speaker 1:What can I say Like how, how? How can I call out yeah?
Speaker 2:How can I call out or what? What can I say? And um, I mean, luckily for me, my one job was down in DC and if I was late it was because the Metro and that was all over the news. So I be like, oh all right, that's covered for me. You're like, I mean, not, I didn't add in the fact that I also left my house, like 20 minutes after that I was supposed to leave.
Speaker 1:It's like 8 59 trying to arrive, or you're leaving at 905, trying to arrive at 8 50.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah totally, yeah, um, well, actually, that actually reminds me of too um, this isn't so much of like a confession as it is sort of a funny story, but being late kind of reminded me of this. So my junior year of college, um, I lived in our sorority house and these were, um, they were, because it was very I don't know how, the way that it was made. They're like the very heavy sort of, like industrial sort of doors and they close like automatically. I'm talking about our actual like the bed, like, yeah, I mean I it was, I shared a room, like we all shared rooms um, but uh, yeah, it would like it was very heavy and it would close automatically. So, long story short, I had, like I had my hand on the the door frame, yeah, and it closed, um, on one of my fingers I don't remember which one it was, I think it was actually my, my pointer finger and, um, sorry for a little like tmi, but like blood spot, like it actually like spotted like everywhere.
Speaker 1:It was crazy it wasn't like a ton of blood, it was.
Speaker 1:I mean there was a good amount like a little bit pulling there, but like to the point that, like when we moved out that semester, like my, my best friend that lived across the hall, we still found a speck on the wall in her room, cause the door was like her door was open. We're like like, oh my God, it was very bizarre, anyways. So, um, and it was like the most pain I'd ever felt and I it wasn't broken, um, but it I had like a very teeny fracture so I ended up having to get one of the little um finger. Yeah, so it's good. I mean good like. So I just had to wear that for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Like the swelling was horrible for a long time but it sucked because it was right my right hand. So I literally had to go to I think was it called DSS, department of, like student services, to like. This is again, this is like circa 08 09 um, where we didn't have as many of the AI tools, but I had to like request, like a note taker and things like that because, like you know, I even like obviously had a laptop, but like typing was still very challenging.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean so anyway. So I had legit like passes for class and school, like navigating, you know kind of getting some of my work done. So anyways, giving you that backstory, because then fast forward a semester when I was late and behind on a paper.
Speaker 2:You utilized, you pulled that. What did I decide to do?
Speaker 1:I pulled out the old story and I even put this on my finger.
Speaker 2:You kept the split. You like, knew you're like I can use this someday.
Speaker 1:Just in case. Yeah, so not not my proudest moment. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if I've ever done that.
Speaker 1:Well, like I said, the point of this is like I really hope that we can't share too many of these experiences.
Speaker 2:I know the audience can definitely share in, like the crazy excuses they have made for jobs Like.
Speaker 1:I cannot wait to hear that yeah.
Speaker 2:I want to hear, like, what excuses people have used, or like, if you are the boss, people have used, or like, if you are the boss, what excuses you get that you know you're like this is this mother complete bs? Um, I know, like when I've been in like a lead position and getting you know the excuses, I'm just like I know it's BS, but like also like at least you came, you, you you spent the time coming up with a cool story. Yeah, that's true, I'm gonna give you props for that. Like, check in with me later. And also I'm curious, like nowadays, when you come up with an excuse, because everyone can work remotely pretty much yeah, so like do you?
Speaker 1:really even have the time off yeah right like so you're just home anyways right, right, like I know well, you know what I was thinking too, because this was bigger, definitely bigger in my 20s, like obviously before I had kids when I lived in the city, but I feel like it's worked so perfectly for my audience. I'm like I want to know. Uh, give like, if this was a radio show, you'd be like submit your whatever.
Speaker 1:All your crazy excuses that you used to call out for opening day, because that was a big one and opening day is always around my birthday, since my birthday is April 1st.
Speaker 2:But, like with a situation like that I mean you know it's coming, like why can't? Like? I guess, like I, brennan took me to opening day a few this was pre-kids um, because he told me that like I needed to experience you do. Opening day at some point as a transplant, yep, but like you know that it's coming right, so like, why wouldn't you just schedule, I see, more of like what is the excuse for the day after?
Speaker 2:no, I definitely want the day off, I definitely want that day, but like um, but schedule it off and then probably the next day, you're like, I'll be able to go to work, so, so it's like what confession, like what? Well, so I mean, at least for me in my twenties this is me not being from the area- so I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, I mean, yeah, everyone, I mean opening day is well, at least a half day. You definitely don't like you can still work the morning or something like that. But at least what I remember from me, like back in my twenties and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I was like I had so little days off that I always knew five of those were for my summer vacation. Okay, and I always like to do the math. I always like to use the other five for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Okay, because it also depended on, because that was also like I had to use, because my office would still be open on the Friday of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I would need to use a like save a single day for that Um and or Wednesday. If I could do the math, you know, have the Wednesday off, cause I also, when I lived in Towson, I had to drive from Towson down to Montgomery County. So oh ouch, Exactly so. That's why I like what do you call pto yeah, math, you know what I mean. So, taking a, single day off yeah or opening day was annoying because it effed with my holiday days off, so you only had a sick day.
Speaker 2:Were they separate?
Speaker 1:yes, okay, because I feel like, yeah, you would get like 10 pto, five sick days, um so yeah, so it was trying, it was like leaning on some kind of like sick thing. But it's just so funny because, especially in baltimore, like other probably cities, it's like everyone fucking knows that it's opening day, yeah, yeah and so there's so you fall into two categories. You either you're the person that you put in pto for it, or you just come up with a cool reason why you're not going to work.
Speaker 1:Basically, everybody knows like yeah, yeah okay, no, that makes sense. I guess I wasn't thinking of like younger years of not having yeah, like all the time yeah yeah, now again, now that with people that work from home probably so much easier to just like whatever. Yeah, you know what I mean. But at least that was, that was a situation then.
Speaker 2:Yeah okay, okay. I mean I know I've definitely have called in like I'm obsessed with Bravo TV and reality TV so I'm sure at some point in my life I've been like I can't attend an event, work something, because I just wanted to like binge watch episodes of my housewives or like binge watch something that came out on Netflix because I'm. I don't have the time to do that anymore, but oh, I'm tired tonight and I just go upstairs and like watch three hours of Netflix.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, I love it. I know's just like we need the silence. We so need the silence, you know yeah.
Speaker 2:And I always say like I don't do drugs, I don't smoke Well clearly you don't I don't, yeah, I don't even take a vitamin. I mean I like a gummy here and there. Who doesn't, that's right, I don't gamble. I mean Maryland live is.
Speaker 1:We gamble our health. Yeah, so close I know.
Speaker 2:So I like my drug of choice is reality TV. Bad reality TV too, yeah, and I'm I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I well. It's funny cause like it's like love Island season right now and I used to be hooked on Love.
Speaker 2:Island. That's actually one I've never gotten into really believe it or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I think the problem is now like I feel like the older we get, that gap between us and yeah, their age is getting bigger. So now it's like, oh, how much do I want to be watching these like 19, 20 year olds yeah, no, it does get weird, like sometimes, of watching like young kids, like kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now I'm like oh, if we're like.
Speaker 1:I remember when season one, when it came to the us, because I guess it's big in the uk yeah, like that it was always big there for a long time. But yeah, when I first started here I was oh, I was on it, we were and I was. I was probably like 30, but now I'm like I'm good and thought process, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Going back to the pregnancy story, yeah, were you the type that, like always growing up, you're like I'm getting married and having kids. Or were you like, because you freaked out and you were back with Richard, you probably knew, like, okay, we're back together, this is going to be it? Were you like freaking out because you just you're too young or you didn't want kids?
Speaker 1:freaking out because too young. Yeah, like we. Yeah, when we got back together after college we both knew like this is it. Yeah, and we don't like. And but yeah, like I was, you know, still living at home, you know I was like barely had. I was, you know, still living at home. You know I was like barely had two pennies, you know to uh, to rub together, so it was more freaked out of like I have zero money and I'm living at home Like, yes, like I'm with this guy, but, oh my God, no, we, yeah, we always like.
Speaker 1:we always said like even when he was in dental school, like when we both like and I was like working, but I still wasn't making much. But you know what I mean. We were like if we always said like you know, if we had an oopsie, like we could make it work. Yeah, you know what I mean. It would be stressful, obviously.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and that's kind of as we got older, that's sort of how like how we felt, and then like there was a period of my life where I was like I'm good, like I don't want to be married and I definitely don't want to have kids that's funny and then I met Brendan it's all about the right person, and I was like oh, okay, and I remember like one of our first, like not arguments but like serious talks it was like only a couple weeks into dating and he made a comment like not wanting to have kids and it like triggered me and I was like, wait, wait, wait. What you don't want to that, that doesn't change usually, like if you're set on it and you vocalize that to your partner, like I don't want to have kids.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's something you're not going to change right so I was like, wait, what you don't want to have kids then I don't know if I want to do this is that what? Changed you um? I think well, I just like met so he and no, he was like no, I do want to have kids. I don't even remember, like the context of like what it was. But then I realized I was like wait, no, I want to have kids, but I want to have kids with him yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know about any of these other fools, right.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say did Brendan feel too old? But I was like that's a feel too young. But I was like wait, he's older than you too.
Speaker 2:So well, and that was the other thing. He's eight years older than me, so I'm like I'm 20 I don't remember how, what age I was when we met but like 26, 27 and I'm like all right, he's third in his 30s, so like I think at this point, like if he's like I don't want to have kids, that's not going to change at this point right, right I would. I would have assumed something like that too but yeah, then he's like no, I want to have four kids.
Speaker 1:I was like whoa I always wanted four too I was always a three person see, I didn't love the, even the I like. Well, four is my lucky number. Four is my lucky number, my favorite number. I want a five. So I and I come from a giant family like 30 first cousins, like yeah um and rich comes from a big family too. But we've already gone down this rabbit hole of yeah, we did the how the child care, math, child math, yeah, math the way it did, yes, but yeah, yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's like a little confession, but my reality tv and we love your reality.
Speaker 1:I do I do, it's my little, you do keep us up to date on a lot of things, and that's very helpful.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I'm like the pop culture.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I joke around, I say this is how I do God's work. Yeah, by putting out funny information on my Instagram stories. I don't have an Instagram account. Like people have asked me. They're like you should have, like a broad, like your Instagram should be like a Bravo fans or like pop culture fans.
Speaker 2:I'm like should, but that's a lot of work. It's a lot of work and I just like blooping it out onto stories here, there, because that's better, that's easier for me, um, and people are funnier on the internet than I could ever imagine being and you know what, and it's like you know, let let them do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. Like they're good at it and you get to share the highlights, yeah, them do it. Yeah, you know what I mean like they're good at it and you get to share the highlights, yeah, of their work. Yeah, like if we had it, like if we had a column on pop pop culture, yeah, you would be our queen, yeah a mom at school, um, who I never would have thought was into bravo tv at all, came up to me one time.
Speaker 2:She's like your stories are just like keeps me in the loop, like that's when I know I need to watch this new episode or that a new episode's dropping or this drama's going on, and I was like, oh, my god, I go, thank you. I was like you know how you're always here at school doing everything and involved, and that's like your way of like doing god's work yeah me delivering pop culture news. That's right, bravo, information. That is how I do god's work.
Speaker 1:She died laughing also, I think she was like I don't know if I'll ever talk to her again, but I also feel that way, not even about my business, but literally about memes, like I, when I'm scrolling through like here's, like I have, and you know who you are. Actually there's a couple, but there's one specifically. I haven't actually seen her in person in a year and we have probably one of the strongest relationships and we share two to three minimum one to three reels memes a day. Oh yeah, and I haven't actually seen her in person in probably a year yeah, I mean, that's the beauty of social media it's like, but that, that bond you can't break that you cannot
Speaker 2:no yeah, I totally get it. There's a few people that I haven't seen like I'm one girl I met at bar class like several years ago and we just communicate through like funny memes on. Instagram Kind of a whole like, and I will call her a friend and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1:There's a confession? Oh, there is. Oh, it is deeper than friendship.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm in like a whole DMV Bravo moms chat group on Instagram and I legit call them my friends. Yeah, because we all like talk bravo, non-bravo stuff, but like the things we're sending one another and I'm like, oh, my friend and Brendan's like, but you've never met. I'm like, but they're my friends, they are my people, they understand me, they're who I can turn to when I need to talk about bravo and you don't want to hear about it.
Speaker 1:Also introverts don't understand what we mean and what we extroverts mean by friends, because I think I was telling you this before like I'm a total friend slut.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we talked about that, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was like I don't think you understand. If I've, if I've come into contact with you, you're all of a sudden a friend of mine and all of a sudden I've lost all boundaries. I've said everything, I've overshared yeah and yeah, that's just how it is so, anyways, well, on that note, I think we shared lots of fun confession, yeah, and we saved you from too much of the college embarrassment, yeah or some like way too raw stuff I was like.
Speaker 1:I was like we'd go that way, we could take a serious, we could, we could, if you want to hear the real raw crazy stuff.
Speaker 2:Let us know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, let me know um, I know I'm deciding how much, how far behind the curtain do we go? Yeah, it's questionable right, right. So anyways, well, cheers to being weird, cheers to well cheers to being weird.
Speaker 2:Cheers to being moms.
Speaker 1:Cheers to being extroverts and, you know, maybe the takeaway is wash your face and take some vitamins.
Speaker 2:Take some vitamins. I'm ordering some now as we speak.
Speaker 1:actually, that's my new thing. I love it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be a vitamin person as I turn 41. There you go.
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