Happy New Year, Duck and Cover

Happy New Year Dysfunction Junkies.  Kerry and Chrisy kick off the New Year by taking a nostalgic trip back to where their quirky bond began. As 2025 rolls in, the ladies spill the beans on their resolutions—or lack thereof.  Expect plenty of laughter as they chat about fitness, friendship, New Year's food menus and avoiding stray bullets on New Year's Eve. As 2025 unfolds, the ladies invite you to join their Dysfunction Junkies community—share your resolutions, your laughs, and your hopes for a brighter year ahead.

Chapters

• 0:07 Marathon Resolution in Friendship
• 7:45 New Year's Food Traditions
• 20:18 New Year's Eve Reflections and Traditions
• 30:32 New Year's Resolutions and Outlook

Transcript

DJ Nick: 0:07

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, where we may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough.

DJ Nick: 0:13

And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry. Well, hello Junkies. Happy New Year. I don't know if you know what I'm referencing.

Chrisy: 0:28

Happy New Year. Don't know if you know what I'm referencing. Happy New Year, is it my favorite, frosty oh.

Kerry: 0:33

He only said happy birthday. Oh, he said I ruined it.

Chrisy: 0:37

You tried to slide that by me. I'm like happy new year.

Kerry: 0:43

I thought he was saying happy New Year. No you're right, he did say happy birthday.

Chrisy: 0:47

Yeah, he was totally nowhere near.

Kerry: 0:49

I'm the Carrie dumbass in that one.

Chrisy: 0:52

Going back to episode one, you were referencing what I'm going to get into in a little while, that Rudolph shiny New Year. Oh, is that where they talk about happy New Year? Well, because they just say it in there oh, okay new year. Oh, is that where they?

Kerry: 1:03

talk about happy, but I will, because they just say it oh, okay by the way, I'm chrissy and I'm carrie happy new year everybody oh, I thought it was being all witty, yeah you were witty. Yeah, no, I really wasn't I failed.

Chrisy: 1:14

You can't nobody, generally you can't get those by me, because again I had no life and I got all that crap, kind of memorized it's the new year 2025.

Kerry: 1:25

Oh my gosh, do you do New Year's resolutions? No, none, never.

Chrisy: 1:31

No, no, no, I can't think of anything. I mean be nicer to people. No, don't eat all that junk food.

Kerry: 1:43

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How about you? Um, I've dabbled in it. You know it's usually the same list. You know, lose weight, do whatever you know oh, the lose weight thing. I used to do that, yeah, every year started my diet season right, right right right horrible right never works, you know so bought so many gym memberships on January 2nd. I couldn't even tell you. But yeah, no.

Chrisy: 2:07

Yeah, no, all it did was create bigger problems.

Kerry: 2:11

But I have a surprise for you. I need to hear this surprise. So I have decided, in honor of our friendship and how we met Remember how we met. I do Don't want to refresh our junkies out there who may not have listened yet to episode one, how we met.

Chrisy: 2:30

We met in high school, our sophomore year because I didn't go to our high school, my freshman year. In gym class, yes, and you scolded me quite harshly because I wasn't running Right. We were supposed to be running Right and the whole class was going to get punished if I didn't pick up the pace.

Kerry: 2:49

Yeah, and I really wasn't a runner and I was in a lot of pain because I was trying to do what the teacher said follow the rules. So, anyways, since that time in my life I have dabbled in running. And how this started was when my son went to high school. One of the first girls that he started to like was in cross country. So we were living out in Las Vegas and he was like I want to go to her cross country meet.

Kerry: 3:18

Well, her cross country meet was Mount Charleston, which is about 40 minutes outside of Las Vegas, and so we went up there to this mountain, to this cross country race, and we were watching these kids race 3.15 K up this mountain. And so we went up there and it was the first time I've ever was exposed to like a running group or a running race or a club, and I was actually really enthralled by all these people and they were running and they were having such a good time and there was so much camaraderie and support and love. And what did it for me was there was this like 80 year old lady and I have been trying to remember her name and for the life of me I've not been able to remember it. But she was running up this mountain perfect hair, just came from the salon, you know the blue hair perfectly permed, cut and now grind. Mind you, she was running, but it was really like a slow walk, but with running movements awesome, my favorite yeah, I mean, she was going up this mountain.

Kerry: 4:19

It was quite the incline, but she did this 3.1 race all the way up this mountain and I was so impressed by her and I'm like, oh my God, if that 80 year old lady can run up this mountain, I should be able to do that. So I started running Now, mind you, I am not fast, I still get that stitch to my side whatever. But since then, when we were living in Las Vegas, I ran a couple of marathons, a couple of half marathons. Trust me, did not finish fast. I'm at the back of the pack making sure everyone's okay, no one's falling in a pothole or anything but but I did it, I completed them. So it's been a while since I've run a marathon and I've decided that for 2025, I'm going to run a marathon in honor of our friendship. That is my New Year's resolution.

Chrisy: 5:04

That is amazing. I have seen you post things about being in races, running races.

Kerry: 5:11

Yeah.

Chrisy: 5:12

And I scroll quickly past it because I get like the shakes and Traumatic memories of our first encounter. You're not going to run a marathon, dj? No, I have. I do like my spinning bike and that's what I do. Yes, I do try to stay fit. Yes, and I am good at that. Bike into nowhere, buddies, that's what I like to do. Bike into nowhere.

Kerry: 5:38

I like the rower. I'm more of a rower.

Chrisy: 5:40

The rower. I did for a while while. But man, that that is a workout? Yes, it is. So do you need me to like come there and uh move slowly so somebody yells at you and you can pass me up and bitch at me for not uh picking up the pace.

Kerry: 5:57

You are welcome to come and attend. I'm I'm hoping to sign up for the eerie marathon, uh, because that's in in September and it's one of the flattest races in the country, which that's what I need. It's what I'm used to.

Chrisy: 6:09

Man, that'd be the one I'd be looking for Exactly. Nobody can accuse you of being stupid.

Kerry: 6:14

Right. So we'll see if I can get entered into that, and if that doesn't work out, I'll have to find another one. But yes, that is my New Year's resolution. This year is in honor of our podcast, in honor of our friendship. I thought that would be fun and since obviously, I didn't torture myself enough during the holidays by my lack of decorating, I'm going to torture myself all year by training for this marathon.

Chrisy: 6:35

Well you're making it up minute by minute, step by step, to me.

Kerry: 6:38

I have to repair this friendship.

Chrisy: 6:40

here You've got to suffer, and this is big suffering here. Yes, well, I am going to make a resolution then that I'm going to support your resolution.

Kerry: 6:49

Oh well, thank you.

Chrisy: 6:50

That's my first New Year's resolution Support. Carrie in her resolution, because that's what friendship is all about?

Kerry: 6:59

There we go.

Chrisy: 6:59

There we go.

Kerry: 7:00

So, well.

Chrisy: 7:01

I appreciate that, I am very touched by that and I thank you. We'll see how it works out so well. I appreciate that, I am very touched by that and I thank you, we'll see I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to be able to do to something to honor our friendship. Give me a time. I'll come back to everybody later.

Kerry: 7:13

Well, you got all year, I've got all year, so All right. So how was your Thanksgiving? Well, that was New Year's growing up. Did you do anything special?

Chrisy: 7:23

no, no, just like my vacation life. Nothing special did you?

Kerry: 7:30

have any special food because, although we didn't have special food on christmas eve and we had the same christmas thanksgiving and easter dinner we did have one special food on new year's day.

Chrisy: 7:42

I wonder if it's the same. I'm sure it is.

Kerry: 7:45

Sauerkraut, sauerkraut and kielbasa.

Chrisy: 7:48

Yeah, and maybe throw some pork in there too.

Kerry: 7:51

Short ribs. All I can tell you is bleh.

Chrisy: 7:53

Oh, my God, you don't like. I still love, and I'm the only one that eats it and I'll make a whole big crock pot full of it and then I'm the one eating it for a week. I mean well, as long as you can eat it before. It's just awful, but I love. You know, sauerkraut is so wonderful it's of the earth, if anything it's like. There's a one thing I'm close to the earth with is that food, sauerkraut. Oh, don't rinse it. People used to rinse it and you know it's sour. You put the brown sugar in there, the greasy kiboshy. You're going to get heartburn from that.

Kerry: 8:30

It's your spirit food is what you're saying. Sauerkraut is your spirit food instead of your spirit animal.

Chrisy: 8:36

It's so wonderful and it makes the house smell so delightful.

Kerry: 8:39

And that's the point. That is what I cannot stand. I don't like when I have to smell food for 12, 24 hours or whatever and then eat it like oh. So if I don't necessarily mind eating sauerkraut and kielbasa, if I don't have to smell it for the day before, so if I went to a restaurant I might order it there, or if I go to somebody's house and they're serving it, I might have it, because I haven't had to smell it for all day while it's cooking. But just the thought of waking up on New Year's morning and the smell of the house is just penetrated with that sauerkraut and kielbasa smell.

Chrisy: 9:19

But you know, you just brought up a good point. I never thought of it until just now. What's that? I don't remember ever seeing sauerkraut on a menu at any restaurant I've ever gone to in my life.

Kerry: 9:29

The closest you'll probably find is a Reuben sandwich.

Chrisy: 9:34

Yeah but they don't even they call it cabbage, don't they? Or do they actually say so? I guess they do.

Kerry: 9:42

Yeah, they do call it sauer, and maybe, if you well, I feel like some of the Amish restaurants around here you'll you'll find it, or maybe in the area, yeah. I guess, yeah, I know.

Chrisy: 9:52

For a line. Want some Sada. I'm on board with you.

Kerry: 9:56

Yeah, no, no, not a, not a fan.

Chrisy: 9:59

I shovel it in my husband's face because he has to have at least one spoonful. Don't ask me why my years have not been better or worse for it I'm sorry, you made me eat, no luck.

Chrisy: 10:12

I know, I'm sorry, I keep trying. He won't eat it. He doesn't like it. I believe his family probably had it too. He just avoided it. Did you put hot dogs in yours? No, what it. Did you put hot dogs in yours? No, what? Wait a minute. Are you going to a ball game? Or what are you doing celebrating new year's?

Kerry: 10:29

poor family here. Remember poor family.

Chrisy: 10:31

We grew up so we had sauerkraut and kielbasa, but it also had um hot dogs in it filler and in the yeah, yeah, so closest meaning of the word, hot dogs are full of filler and you filled up your sauerkraut.

Kerry: 10:45

So my mom would buy like one of those links of the kielbasa, but there was more hot dog in it than sauerkraut or kielbasa, probably because it was cheaper. But yeah. So I can't do it.

Chrisy: 10:57

I'm not saying it would be horrible, but yeah, no, that almost seems like a crime has been committed when you're not having hot dogs for baseball or something. But hey, anybody else out there putting hot dogs in your sacrifice? I'm going to tell you.

Kerry: 11:15

I don't know how I feel about that.

Chrisy: 11:17

But you guys, be you, you do you and we'll do us.

Kerry: 11:20

You'll marinate on that for a week and next week's episode we might be coming back to that. Chrissy might have more thoughts. Yeah, so yeah, because they hit me later I'm not real quick.

Chrisy: 11:30

The other food I do equate with uh new year's uh, only because I had to eat it as a child. Uh, because I was usually babysat on new year's. Everybody was older and had places to go and people to see and pizza rolls. Really, yeah, they're awful, but you got excited sticking those bad boys in the oven and then burning your face off because you bit into it and it was scalding hot inside.

Kerry: 11:57

But pizza rolls are a staple and one of our staples in our house you like them or purposely, you have them in your house yes, yeah, my son and my husband definitely like them a lot. But I mean I'll partake in them. I don't think they're horrible, but I mean yeah, so that we, we kind of like our pizza rolls yeah, but we never had them on any holiday like that was definitely something later in life. That was never something we had growing up the lady who had to uh watch me.

Kerry: 12:24

Uh, I guess she had to watch me and she's very nicely did she come to your house or did you have to go to her house? I?

Chrisy: 12:29

went to her house because actually her name was millie. She was my uh brother-in-law, who was married to my oldest sister. Uh, it was his mother, and what's uh funny about that is that my sister did marry uh the boy next door they live next door to us, oh okay. So when I was real little, that was convenient to just take me over there and she watched me for new year's and we would uh have pizza rolls and uh watch that horrible show which one the only one there is.

Chrisy: 13:01

I'm trying to think is there any new year's? There's just that horrible again. Here comes rudolph, oh gosh. Here he comes. Gotta be a shithead through another holiday. Rudolph, shiny new year, oh my gosh. So. But uh, yeah, as far we can double back to that, but as far as doing stuff on new year's family things, do you have?

Kerry: 13:25

no, we really didn't do too much. Um, no, we would. We would have everybody over or like, maybe they spent the night if we had, you know, a new year's eve party or whatever. Our family plays a lot of cards, so we would play cards a lot and then, um, you know, so new year's day was usually playing cards and, um, having the sauerkraut and kielbasa. That was usually pretty much it.

Kerry: 13:48

But later in life I did, when I moved out to Las Vegas, I, I did the whole like going out onto the strip of Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and that would be the equivalent of the New York Dick Clark kind of ball drop thing and that was a one and done. Glad I did it once, but probably never going to do that again. That was way too many people. That'd be like my. It's how I felt that day on New Year's Eve, with all those people and being crowded on that strip in Las Vegas was how I imagined being on a cruise ship. So, yeah, I'm not going to do that again. Yeah, it sounds terrifying. It sounds terrifying. It was terrifying. Yeah, it was terrifying.

Chrisy: 14:27

Who are these people out there in New York? Do they bust those people when?

Kerry: 14:31

do they come?

Chrisy: 14:32

They're just there Some people, I think would probably actually go there.

Kerry: 14:35

That's their vacation, they're going there.

Chrisy: 14:38

You know, those people are all pissing all over the street. They are. Yes, they are I mean, I'm sorry You're there. I see you on the TV, congrats. You're wearing crazy hats and weird glasses with numbers on them.

Kerry: 14:55

At least when I did it in Las Vegas. I mean, yeah, it gets cold in Vegas. I mean, even though it's in the desert, it's still cold, but you're not freezing your tail off like you would be in New York. I mean, sometimes there it's like snow and ice and negative temperatures and stuff. Why would you want to do that? Why, I don't get that.

Chrisy: 15:14

But the people who do it feel very strongly about it and look at us like we are lost souls that we wouldn't have any interest in doing it, and that's fine Because have any interest in doing it, and that's fine because you can say you did it, and I sure as hell can tell you that I can say I never, ever wanted to do that.

Kerry: 15:33

Yeah, I did it once just to say hey, I did it, but yeah, no desire to do it again.

Chrisy: 15:39

No, and Dick Clark was always such a joy. Yeah, I mean, people try to fill that void. It doesn't happen.

Kerry: 15:47

No, it's got to be Dick Clark. He was classic.

Chrisy: 15:50

The worst entertainment in the world, though the worst Generally everybody was lip syncing their music and it was just awful.

Kerry: 15:59

Yeah, awful entertainment.

Chrisy: 16:00

Why are we watching this? I don't remember ever saying I have to watch Dick Clark's.

Kerry: 16:04

New.

Chrisy: 16:04

Year's Rockin' Eve Ball, because Belle Biv DeVoe is coming up and I can't miss that. Yeah, never, ever said those words, nope. But going back to Rudolph yes, because I know everybody's waiting for Rudolph what the hell was up with that show and people still watch it. I'm sure I have it somewhere here, you probably do. My kids probably put it in. I try to block it out.

Kerry: 16:32

That's one of the few ones. My husband has that whole collection of the Rudolph and Frosty and all that, but I don't think he has the shiny New Year one, not missing anything.

Chrisy: 16:43

Maybe that'll be his christmas present, it's just like really awful, awful, the baby new year, oh the baby, I don't know where the hell this concept come from. Okay, fine baby, new year baby new year gets.

Kerry: 17:00

Uh, baby jesus, I guess needed a cousin I get.

Chrisy: 17:02

I don't know. You can't move on to the next year without a baby. And this baby was wearing a top hat all the time and just a diaper. I don't know what the hell. Look, that is chippendales. I don't know what was going on there. And and this bird, this hideous bird with the Eon Eon, thank you, dj. Nick wants to get rid of baby New Year. What I don't understand is why the bird was gonna drop dead if he didn't stop the New Year. His time was up at the end. I'm trying to remember this show now. It was horrible. The only thing I can tell you for sure, people, is it is horrible that when that kid took his hat and those ears came out, those ears Nick knew it. Those ears, yeah, and that's how the actually the bird was worried about dying because if the new year came he was dead anyhow. He flippin' fell off the mountain and died anyhow, because the. Is that how he died, I can't remember.

Kerry: 18:07

I'm not watching it, I'm not watching it.

Chrisy: 18:08

People write in and tell me how this damn thing.

Kerry: 18:11

What is up with all these things dying in these things we have, you know, the tragic death of Frosty Melting and terror for the little Karen.

Chrisy: 18:19

Yeah, that was horrible Because it's just, it just is.

Chrisy: 18:34

We have to be taught especially our generation had to be taught at an early age that it's going to happen. I don't know. It's, it's horrifying, you know. Uh, yeah, every these things, maybe we thought too much in it. I'm sure I hate ruining it for you people out there, but I'm sure there are people out there. They're just like you know, chrissy, we just sat and watched this stuff it. We love the music, we love the story, we love Rudolph and Frosty and we got the plushies and the blankets. And you know we sit by the tree and enjoy hot chocolate drinking out of a Frosty or Rudolph mug and that's all fine and well. But I was sitting there thinking shit's going down people. This is not good. But you can sit there with that smile on your face, but I'm reading between the lines here, and they're prepping us for something awful.

Kerry: 19:20

The year to come.

Chrisy: 19:21

The year to come. That's right, and so yeah, very, very.

Kerry: 19:24

Did you ever get to go to any like New Year's parties or anything like as you got older, when you did have to be watched by millie?

Chrisy: 19:35

yeah, finally they got me to get dolled up. I I only remember when I don't even know that you and I have ever gone to.

Chrisy: 19:41

We've gone to friends houses yeah, and we've had people yeah for new years uh, not often, but once in a while, and that's all well and good and I think a lot I think a majority of people probably do that- yeah um, but uh, one year I do remember we got tickets to go to one of the uh halls, social halls in our area, uh, for new year's, and provided you with you know, like your drinks and the food and you had dancing yes um, I was still below underage.

Kerry: 20:18

It was when I was in high school I was just gonna say middle school, high school yeah, I was.

Chrisy: 20:21

I think it was like 15, I think. Okay, in fact. Well, no, you know my memory. I can tell you exactly what it was december 31st 1987. Why am I pretending I didn't know exactly when this nightmare?

Kerry: 20:33

so this is right about when we met yes okay, it would have been my sophomore year we must not have been buddy buddies yet, because I didn't get a ticket to go with you that night well, I think we were friends because that was right after we went to that dance oh yeah together okay so maybe I wasn't allowed to go with you anyway. So tell us about this party. What was so great? Believe me.

Chrisy: 20:53

I probably knew it was going to be a nightmare from the moment it was scheduled. It wasn't going to, but just the hostility of my father. I'm betting he might have been mad that he had to do this because he was a Freemason yes, and they might have been having some sort of gathering.

Kerry: 21:17

Oh, they were having their own thing.

Chrisy: 21:18

Well, I don't know that they actually had like for Freemasons, like a New Year's thing but, he had his friends in that organization and he enjoyed doing things with them very much, and somebody might have been having a get together Somehow. Either he thought it was a good idea to do this and then second guessed himself, or somebody made him feel like your mom, trumped him and said no, you're going to do this. Yeah, we're going to do the family thing.

Kerry: 21:44

So I want to go dancing New Year's Eve. You're coming.

Chrisy: 21:46

Well, pulled the mom card, might have Wife card card, might have wife card something, but big mistake, because then my father just harbors hostility through the whole thing and it's just a build-up to when he's gonna explode. And eventually he did. You know, if he complained about food, alcohol, both it turned into a big shit show and I just remember I was miserable and I think I left with my one sister and she snuck me into a bar.

Kerry: 22:15

So you left that and then you went to a bar with your sister and her husband.

Chrisy: 22:24

And that it was a neighborhood dive. I could probably even name it, but I'm not going to yeah, please don't. I don't want to and it's not there anymore anyhow okay it was just a neighborhood dive bar yeah, I only went to one.

Kerry: 22:40

Oh well, my husband and I, when we first moved back here to Ohio back in 2013, we were friends with a couple and they wanted to do go to those places like, like you said, rental hall and everything so we went to a couple of them, but my husband doesn't like to dance, so he will sit and watch me dance and everyone else, but he doesn't want to go up and dance. So, you know, it was nice for the food and the camaraderie and again, it was nice to check it off that bucket list and say we've done that. But yeah, no, not my thing. New Year's Eve, usually in bed by about nine Smart.

Chrisy: 23:12

Yes, that's the smart thing to do, and most I do talk to a lot of people with New Year's. They would prefer just to be asleep when it happens. And let me tell you, new Year's is, in my opinion, again here it comes, my opinion the most depressing day of the year. It's not your birthday. Forget that birthday thing Everybody gets. Oh, I'm getting a year older. I'm so depressed I can't believe it. Oh my God, yeah, new Year's. That clock ticks over.

Chrisy: 23:38

Really, it is like the countdown to death Again here with the death. I'm here to ruin every holiday for everyone out there. But it is you count down? Yeah, now you're in another year what's gonna happen this year?

Kerry: 23:51

am I?

Chrisy: 23:51

gonna drop dead this year. I don't know what the hell. It's a whole new year. I'm terrified.

Kerry: 23:58

It's awful there's no hope of oh, this is gonna be the year that we do something great or fabulous or whatever.

Chrisy: 24:04

No, it's all death and damnation yes, do you have thoughts like that? Yes, not, if doesn't do me. No, you're on the other end. Yes, you're like this is going to be my year.

Kerry: 24:20

It is, things are going to happen, because usually the year before was so shitty it's like next year has to be better.

Chrisy: 24:28

But see, the year before that. You were sitting on New Year's Eve that year before saying this is going to be, and now you just told me the year was shitty. I know.

Kerry: 24:37

Yeah, yeah.

Chrisy: 24:39

You might as well just prepare yourself. You're lying, look. I want everybody to have fantastic upcoming years. I want to have a fantastic upcoming year, fantastic upcoming years. I want to have a fantastic upcoming year. Already I'm on track to have a fantastic upcoming year because I am with my friend and I'm hopefully, hopefully, I'm entertaining all of you out there and uh see there it is, there's your ray of light, so maybe I've rubbed off on you.

Chrisy: 25:07

2025 is gonna be that one year where I can maybe sit there for a second and say, huh Nah.

Kerry: 25:19

Oh, chrissy, but.

Chrisy: 25:20

I love the fact that you guys have gone out. You partied hard, you had a great time, you wore the crazy hats and blew all the confetti all over the place. Somebody's going to clean that shit up, I mean, you know.

Kerry: 25:29

Here's my biggest beef. I think, with New Year's, it's the people shooting the guns. Now, you see, when we were in las vegas, we experienced this a little bit more than here back east, but in las vegas it's. This is like this phenomenon these holidays, especially on new year's eve to oh, new year's eve, let's everybody go outside and shoot our guns straight up into the air. And well, I'm sorry, what goes up must come down. Where are those bullets coming down at, you know? Okay, great, now I'm completely freaked out.

Chrisy: 26:03

But it's weird you say that because, yes, actually, when I was very little yes, I was some parent would stay home. Maybe they just weren't going out yet or they didn't make plans that night. But when I was very little, I do remember my father taking me, in the stroke of midnight, going out and standing on the porch to hear the chaos. Oh okay, and it was gunfire. Yeah, and it was. But if you know where we're from, I mean that was cut right.

Kerry: 26:30

That could be any night it was comforting well, it was comforting.

Chrisy: 26:34

But now you're telling me, stuff's coming down. Well, yeah, what goes?

Kerry: 26:37

up must come down.

Kerry: 26:37

It's true, I do remember there were a couple years living in Las Vegas and I would just dread New Year's Eve or July 4th was another one Because I was so worried about this and especially the one place that we lived in. I literally slept on the floor because I was afraid of stray bullets coming through the house, because everyone, all these people just outside, you know this was in Vegas, this is in Vegas, yeah, wow so. But you know houses are closer together, you know like you're like on top of each other and everything. But I wouldn't go outside on new year's eve because like to celebrate or whatever, because I'm like the other straight bullets people.

Chrisy: 27:17

So yes, no ordinances against that.

Kerry: 27:19

Oh yeah, there's ordinances but nobody's paying attention. How are you going to enforce that? I mean, like you got a hundred thousand people or whatever, whatever the population is, but you got all these people shooting. Oh, there's no way they can. I mean, I'm, I know, here in young, maybe here in the area that we live in, they have that thing called shots fired and if you fire a gun there it tells you kind of the exact location. The police respond. But we didn't have that there, but still, yeah, it's just, it's a crazy town, that is crazy, yeah I understand people want to celebrate.

Chrisy: 27:52

Uh, fireworks would achieve the same thing exactly yeah, I mean, and they're illegal too.

Kerry: 27:57

At least you know, at least out west. They were because of the fire hazard. But I would much rather have a firework going off and look at something pretty than hear something go off and then have to worry of coming through my house. But yeah yeah. So no, no, not a big, not a big fan of it.

Chrisy: 28:11

Well, I mean, I can totally get it. So, then you get through the new year Yep.

Kerry: 28:19

And what do we got to look forward to? What's coming up next for?

Chrisy: 28:22

us Well, january through March, and my whole thing was just depressing Right. And that's usually when the weather showed up that you wanted to have for christmas. Yeah, this is true and and you're like, but I'm so not interested in this right now, like I really just rather go into like 60 degree, 70 degree. I guess when you're out west you kind of are there.

Kerry: 28:44

But yeah, um, yeah. I'm not looking forward to the next three months of snow and slush and ice and melt and rain, and then you know, rinse and repeat same thing over in cold weather. No, I'm not looking forward to it when's the next vacation. I think I got one coming up to get away from all this. I need another one.

Chrisy: 29:01

I'm sure you do I have, uh, let me think, um, is there anything coming up on tv I might want to watch? I don't know.

Kerry: 29:10

That's my whole thing, I'm just waiting for something good to show up? Yeah, because right now we're in the law, even on tv shows. You know, things got on break, so they gotta wait till they come back but yeah, I'm old school.

Chrisy: 29:19

The season started in like with the school yes yes, that was seasons. Right now they have seasons for shows it's so yeah, so weird well.

Kerry: 29:32

So the one thing I best I best get going then is I I need to go start running because I got that marathon to run.

Chrisy: 29:37

I better go get my ass in shape and I guess, yeah, I mean god love you, god love you. No, that the running I I I know some other people uh, family and some friends who also post. They are very involved with the running and marathons and they all look very happy they're like happy.

Kerry: 30:02

I know, smiling it's one of those things that when you finish it's like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to do this again. But then at the same time you're so elated and happy and the next morning you find yourself back on trying to find something else to sign up for, but whatever, wow. But this year I have a little different motivation.

Chrisy: 30:18

Well, I appreciate that that is lovely, and I am your number one fan. I need a shirt with your name on it.

Kerry: 30:25

I'll wear a sandwich board. I'll wear a sandwich board. I'll wear a dysfunction junkie shirt when I run.

Chrisy: 30:30

That's the best one to wear.

Kerry: 30:31

It is.

Chrisy: 30:32

So yeah.

Kerry: 30:33

All right junkies. Well, Happy New Year. Please make sure to check out our Facebook page and maybe give us what your New Year's resolutions are. Do you look at the New Year as something to look forward to for great things to come? Are you about gloom and despair? So, are you a Chrissy? Are you a Carrie?

Chrisy: 30:50

That's right, you are, you a? That's perfect way to put it, and I like the fact that I am part of the gloom and despair group.

Kerry: 30:57

I will rep that all the way well, you're wearing a black t-shirt right now, so you're good, I am yeah, so uh, yeah and uh, we are.

Chrisy: 31:06

One thing we are looking forward to is 2025 and our junkies and growing our family and keeping our family laughing, yes, and keeping you in your safe place.

Kerry: 31:17

Yes, absolutely All right, junkies. We'll see you next week. Happy New Year.

Chrisy: 31:22

Happy New Year. Duck and cover.