Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
Nuns on the Run and Listener Feedback
On this episode Chrisy and Kerry enjoy sharing listener feedback from previous episodes. Sharing comments on Halloween decorations and Thanksgiving traditions, the ladies also highlight the newfound joy of holiday inflatables and the concept of Friendsgiving. Chrisy is enchanted by Kerry's Thanksgiving experience of a Nun on the Run. The conversation includes humorous anecdotes, favorite holiday memories, and starting a new tradition together.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
DJ Nick:We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough.
DJ Nick:And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry:All right, hello everybody, welcome back to Dysfunction Junkies. I'm Kerry
Chrisy:and I'm Chrisy,
Kerry:and today we wanted to take a few moments and go for some of our listener feedback. We really appreciate all the responses we've been getting those of you that have responded to our Facebook posts, some of you have messaged us, and those of you that know us in our real daily lives have made comments, so we wanted to talk about that. Chrissy, where do you want to start?
Chrisy:Well, the Halloween pics we got, yeah, I think we saw some really fantastic examples of decor, yes, and I think I might be changing my mind on the inflatables. What I think some. I guess it really can be done pretty, pretty well.
Kerry:What was your favorite one that you saw?
Chrisy:Well, the one we saw with the skeleton and then some of the other decor out there it was. It was very nice you could tell people really are getting into Halloween. They enjoy it. Yeah, they, like the whole, you know, make believe of it, which I'm all on board with.
Kerry:One of our listeners, dawn. She posted a real nice picture, and what was nice is she posted the day picture and the night picture, yeah, so you could kind of see, and that was that was very tastefully done. So good job, dawn, and her family over in Utah, for submitting that. That was really good, I will have to say, for not being a decorator myself, I thought that was. That was pretty cool.
Chrisy:Yeah, and for the decorator, yeah, thumbs up, thumbs up.
Kerry:Yeah, I'm not sure whether that was a family job or if they paid somebody to do that, but either way, great job, great job. So I did say you sent me something on Facebook about the Santa Claus.
Chrisy:Oh, my God, I am so in love with this whole idea and, as somebody who does not like the inflatables, now I'm loving them.
Kerry:Oh my gosh.
Chrisy:There was this thing on Facebook, I guess and again, I know you shouldn't believe everything you see or hear on Facebook, and I don't generally but it was. It was a fantastic idea. Even if it was made up, it was a street and somebody was driving down the street, yeah, and they had these enormous inflatable Santanta's they were big. I mean, they were huge 40 feet, but I don't know how they were. Well, it looked like 40 feet to me. They were as tall as the house. I don't know I don't, I'm really bad.
Chrisy:With how tall things are, because I'm short, so everything looks like enormous but every street and it was like an older street but very charming and it had. The houses were somewhat close and all kind of the same.
Kerry:They were all the same, santa Clauses, weren't they? Or were they different?
Chrisy:No, they were like all exactly the same Santa.
Kerry:They were the same, okay.
Chrisy:So whoever sold those was very happy.
Kerry:Boy. They made a hell of a sale. They made bank.
Chrisy:Because it was really good and it was just great watching this car filming this going down the street and every monster santa was there.
Kerry:it was something out of a dream it was so cool, it really was cute.
Chrisy:So if I can get my street here to get on board.
Kerry:You think your hoa will let that. Well, if we all do it, what are they going to do?
Chrisy:they'll fine you off, even including the president and the entire hra board. Yeah, absolutely, come on, it's festive. That was great. That was great.
Kerry:Yeah, it was yeah, now I have to say, you recommended a movie and so I was. I've been going back after the episodes, after we, you know, uh, film these or record these. And I watched the episodes. I didn't know about Chrissy.
Chrisy:What.
Kerry:The Halloween. That almost wasn't. Oh my God, chrissy. Yes, that was 20 minutes of my life. I would never get back.
Chrisy:You and my husband sound exactly the same. Do you know how many 20 minutes I've spent watching that? It's crazy.
Kerry:Plenty. Even my husband, Jim and and I we were both watching it going.
Chrisy:Oh my gosh, I can't believe we're like sitting here watching this nobody parked you in front of a tv and told you just to sit still and watch stuff when you were little. Because I can't pay attention to you right now, chrissy, so just sit here and whatever's on, watch it oh, so I have a huge affection for these crazy outlandish, ridiculous shows and yeah oh my. God, as soon as it comes on, I am like glued to the television. You mean they still purposely reshow this.
Kerry:No, you gotta search for it, I was gonna say. But you know what's really weird?
Chrisy:There's another show, just get off topic real quick for one second, because obviously my father was watching this back in the 70s when I was stuck home with him because my mom would work day shift and he was working night shift. He obviously was up around 10 o'clock. I'm guessing that's the time it probably started. But if I hear the theme song to match game, oh my gosh, my head will twist around like a dog. I'm like like, oh my God, match Game is on, because I'm guessing my dad was watching Match Game. And then Price is Right, because I think that was the lineup back then.
Chrisy:So, oh my God, as soon as I hear that, oh, I like run to the TV and sit, I can't say what we used to say, how we used to sit.
Kerry:Cross legs. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah used to say cross legs. Oh yeah, yeah, zach, oh yeah that's right.
Chrisy:Right, apple sauce. Yeah, whatever, get to the carpet, hurry up.
Kerry:Yeah, I'm I'm to the carpet match game.
Chrisy:Yeah but no, the halloween, that almost wasn't okay. I can appreciate your you know comments, as I will with everybody who wants to send in comments and tell me I'm an idiot and it's?
Kerry:not. I did not say you're an idiot, I just said, chrissy, that was 20 minutes of my life that I will never get back.
Chrisy:I can recommend a whole list of a bunch of shows of 20 minutes you will never get back. So just you know, be open to that idea. It's going to happen.
Kerry:So, but in another 40 or 50 years.
Chrisy:I think this is going to be the Citizen Kane of the Halloween genre of TV shows. So OK well everybody wait for that. There was that, so okay. Well, I appreciate that you took time out to watch that.
Kerry:We did. We did Absolutely, and we did watch some of the older like the Frosty and the Rudolph, and we watched those two and the whole Karen thing on the roof. You know, I will have to say I did Google on Amazon and everything, trying to see if there was an inflatable Karen. I have yet to find it. So, yeah, we definitely need those inflatable makers to make an inflatable Karen from Frosty the Snowman so we can get that on the roof.
Kerry:We're trademarking copywriting whatever we have to do to that right now, that is ours. We've got to call what is it?
Chrisy:Rankin Bass, or wherever their headquarters are.
Kerry:Add that to our trademark licensing.
Chrisy:Yeah, that's going to be ours, and everybody next year needs to have that.
Kerry:I will have to say it appears that the best quote of our show so far has been Chrissy saying the turkey was the luckiest in the room. I cannot tell you how many people have come up to me or texted me or whatever, and they just laugh and laugh. So congrats, Chrissy, you have coined a new. I think we need a T-shirt with a turkey.
Chrisy:I think we need to do that that would be part of our, and I don't even know where that came from. But then, as we were discussing Thanksgiving and the thought of it, I started to think that there might be some dark, horrible place of me that used to sit and look at that. Well, it wasn't ever a whole turkey, because we used to rip the shit out of it.
Chrisy:But it and I probably looked at it and thought that you know, sometimes I just wish I was the turkey today. They're the luckiest in the room.
Kerry:How was your Thanksgiving, by the way?
Chrisy:It was fine, it was, it was okay. It's a lot of work and I've decided I really remembered making this deal with myself last year and did not follow through with it. Last year I'm pretty sure I was completely aggravated that I had to do, because it's just usually us. I have my mom this year, which is nice, and but I don't have. Like you know, when you get together with a family, like a lot of family, everybody gets sort of assigned a dish or something to bring, but it's all on you.
Chrisy:It's all on me and I am a traditionalist for the most part, and so what was the?
Kerry:what was the menu? Turkey?
Chrisy:mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole which I'm the only one that eats, but I have to have it.
Kerry:Okay, the stuffing, of course now, what time do you traditionally have your thanksgiving dinner? Do you have it at noon? Do you have it at five.
Chrisy:What's your noon would be lovely. No, it's probably like six or seven, because I'm doing everything right and I did not wake up early this year because I was just sort of tired and so I got my turkey started a little late and so we were eating kind of late, ok.
Kerry:Our family traditionally has always had our holiday dinners at noon, and there is there's something really nice about that unless you're the person making the dinner, because then you have to get up at, like you know, oh 400., oh yeah and yeah. So there's nothing bad about eating later, because then you get to sleep in.
Chrisy:That's a good thing, yeah, but by the time, especially if you have kids everybody is starving, to the point where it does look like we're a bunch of wild animals at the table just eating.
Kerry:And then there's also the alternative of if you eat later, that means you're starting to drink earlier. So then by the time you're eating, you know you're pretty plastered yeah no, but we have to talk about something else. What's that Since?
Chrisy:you watched my crazy. Halloween show we tried the Mogan.
Kerry:David, I always want to say David Mogan because it sounds like a name. No, it does. Well, it kind of is a name, but yeah.
Chrisy:So Nick opened it up. Okay, and I said we have to have this in honor of. Carrie for our Thanksgiving meal and see what we've been missing.
Kerry:Did you go into a diabetic coma?
Chrisy:Oh, my God, nick tasted it. He's like he had a look on his face. He's like he had a look on his face. I said, well, give me some pour, you know? And, oh my, I think I really did go. Oh my God, right away, and you're thinking that's what they used to have at church.
Kerry:I'm telling you in my mind, because I you know, especially since COVID, they don't usually have the wine at communion.
Chrisy:You know, at the Catholic churches anymore. If there's anything that can come out of COVID, that's good. It's probably everybody sharing that damn chalice.
Kerry:But I mean I had stopped doing the wine a long time ago just because of my own germophobia. So it just took the world you know 20 years to catch up with me. But from my memory, the taste of Moak and David wine, that's what it reminds me of. So I feel like that's probably why my mom liked it, because it matched church wine. But yeah, so yeah, a little sweet there, wasn't it?
Chrisy:wow, I'm even trying to think, because drinking it it would definitely be, um, something you couldn't drink a lot of and you were very generous in that nice big.
Kerry:It was the only size the bottle came and was like a gallon bottle. It was almost, as I do think it was a half gallon. So yeah, it was close to the grandpa size?
Chrisy:yeah, it was almost a carlo rossi jug but yeah, then I'm trying to think if maybe I can did you drink his straight or did you add the sprite? No, I didn't, I had the spriteite. No, I didn't, I had the Sprite as a chaser. Oh, that was good and the Sprite was tasted like sour after having that Sprite couldn't compete with the sugar content. And I don't even drink like Dieter, I drink the real stuff.
Kerry:So I have to tell you I did take a bottle of that to my sister's house. So for Thanksgiving we went to my sister's house Now my, my one sister that I'm closest to. She has 10 children, all mostly all grown and have their own family. So she has kept the Norman Rockwell tradition of my mother.
Kerry:So you know, there was 30 people there. Well, 28, 28 people there, you know. Luckily, though, she had three tables of 10. So, like that, that did help, because we did have to do buffet style, yeah or not. Buffet on the table, family style.
Chrisy:She would not do buffet, so we had to.
Kerry:we had to do the passing. You know, here's the turkey, here's the mushroom. But at least you only had to pass it through the 10 people at your table, not the 30 people in the room. So that was good. But I did bring a bottle of the Mogan David. My mom was very happy. So I had happened to have it sitting in front of us because my mom was sitting next to me. My mom. She kept tipping back on it. Her little 85 year old hands kept pouring. She was on three glasses.
Chrisy:She was loving it, you sent the picture and I was like I've never seen anybody look like they were enjoying it more.
Kerry:So I finally like looked at my sister and I'm like she's on three glasses, we need to cut her off, because she's already got you know sugar concerns and I'm like we need to cut her off. She is definitely going to go into diabetic shock, oh gosh. But you will also be happy to know there was a church stray, also at my sister's house.
Chrisy:I know I want to so talk about this because I have my own response, but please tell us about the visitor that you got away and she did?
Kerry:She got away. So, my, there was a nun that had stopped over to my sister's house and she's a hermit and I'm not Wait what. She's a hermit, so like her whole world is like, lives alone, very secluded, only goes to church, you know.
Chrisy:So wait a minute, that's a thing I mean, as if the nuns don't already have miserable lives, this one chooses to completely yes, live alone, we need to find where these people are, because they're obviously plotting something horrid. I've never heard of this that terrifying.
Kerry:I don't know exactly why she. I think she had to drop something off. I don't know the whole story and I know I have to ask my sister.
Chrisy:It wasn't something you ate?
Kerry:No, because she. We got there like an hour or so before dinner and as we were coming out of the car and we were walking up the driveway, I saw the nun coming out of the house and scurrying to her car. I could not get my phone out fast enough because I'm like, oh my God, Chrissy would love to see this. And I got the picture of her, like getting in the car, so you can, it looks like a ghost getting into the car. She was an all white, you know can we please with within reason?
Chrisy:You have no picture of a person. We have no. There's no face.
Kerry:There's no face.
Chrisy:Yeah, I can face, it's already bucked up, make sure there's no license plates.
Kerry:Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, make sure there's nothing. Okay, I'll post please, oh my god. And I was like I can't believe you let her get away because you're so nice rolls and everything in my hand and I was like, oh, oh, I gotta get a picture. Oh, I would have been yelling at her, I would be like hey, you don't get in that car where? Are you going? We need to talk right now. Why are you here, oh?
Chrisy:my God. And then she's a hermit, does she? But she talks. I mean, yeah, she does. Because I know some people who are like really that's more like monks and stuff, well, like more Eastern types of philosophy where they they kind of close themselves away from everything and go into like deep meditation.
Kerry:I don't. I honestly I'm. I am showing how poor of a Catholic I am right now because I don't know the whole thing of it, but I just know that she's a nun and she's a hermit.
Chrisy:The fact that you know as much as you do is great, but terrifying. Yeah, oh my gosh I know.
Kerry:But it was great though, because, yeah, so my sister has, you know, she, she has kept the Norman Rockan rockwell tradition.
Chrisy:Well, we thank her for that and I did love the pictures of the tables set before anybody had sat down and it did look. I would have great, I would have been honored to be at that table.
Kerry:So I don't well, next year you can come.
Chrisy:oh, if only if the runaway nun's coming. Nun's on the run, nun's on the run. They're not going to get real far with me. I'm going to camp out.
Kerry:Well, we'll definitely figure something out. Yeah, but you know what the best part of my Thanksgiving was Friendsgiving.
Chrisy:Oh my gosh.
Kerry:Chrissy had her first Friendsgiving.
Chrisy:It was my first and yeah.
Kerry:Tell us, tell everyone about what we did on friends.
Chrisy:well, we went to have Mexican food at a lovely restaurant, which is funny because it's a restaurant that you have frequented way before me yeah, and it's over here by me and you introduced us to it. But we went there. We had great food no, six of us.
Kerry:There was the two of us and our husbands, and then another set of friends that we have, and now I have two new friends, which I'm really thrilled about.
Chrisy:And they were great and the food was great and we played a really interesting game.
Kerry:Yes, we did Cards Against Humanity.
Chrisy:Yeah, never heard of it. I think we caught on fairly quickly.
Kerry:You guys were acing it. Yeah, the name of the game is something like the card game for horrible people or something.
Chrisy:Well, then you know it was meant for me, but it was great.
Kerry:It was on Black Friday because we went the day after Thanksgiving, so it was kind of nice. We went to this Mexican restaurant so it wasn't really crowded because we were able to sit and relax and play the game and drink our margaritas and, you know, we just tipped the waiter a little little extra since we were taking up his table. But the funniest part though, could you see the lady sitting behind the guys, the older couple?
Chrisy:Yeah, the lady was very interested in what we were doing.
Kerry:She was probably what would you say, 70s Probably.
Chrisy:Yeah.
Kerry:And so my husband was so worried he's like, oh, carrie, we can't play this game in there because you know like that could be offensive. And I'm like, ah, we'll be fine, it'll be fine, whatever. So this older couple was sitting behind us they were practically the only other people in the room and this lady was practically bending her ear I think she was turning her hearing aids up because she was loving our conversation, things we were talking about with this game. And then at one point she got up to go to the bathroom and she like went really close to the table and like was eyeballing the game to try to see what the name was. And heather was so great she caught on, she picked up and she goes this is the best game and yeah, that's right, she was making sure the lady knew what we were doing in case she wanted to get it for her fun evenings, I guess.
Kerry:But she was telling her husband about it because his back was to us so and I don't think he could have heard as well. But it was just great. We had a great time. It was a wonderful time with all of us friends. Yes, just, it totally encompassed Friendsgiving.
Chrisy:So I think that if all holidays are like that, that's probably the way they should be. I mean, I save the family thing. After we did that and I saw how nice it was, I felt like maybe we should just always do friends everything for holidays.
Kerry:Yeah, friends Christmas a friend holiday, a friend everything.
Chrisy:Friend holiday and you really should just save your family for where the real. You really should just save your family for where the real place is Where's that? That's funerals and weddings, because that's where all the drama is anyhow, so just forget spending time with everybody Sisters, brothers, moms, dads in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins. Because you're going to see them at a wedding.
Chrisy:And they're still going to be the jerks that you always knew they would be. Why are you torturing yourself on you know right, jesus's birthday or a turkey day where the luckiest thing in the room is the turkey Right Rune in the turkey's day, I mean? Yeah, I think really you should just say we're just going to see you at somebody's due to get married here. We'll just see you there.
Kerry:So, instead of what did they say about the Catholics when they only go to church at Christmas and Easter? They're poinsettia and lilies, so we're going to only see our family at funerals and weddings. So what would that be, roses, and what do they send it?
Chrisy:Oh, for funerals. Roses and lilies, yeah.
Kerry:Oh for funerals, Roses and lilies.
Chrisy:Yeah, I don't know. Oh my God. Carnations, Roses and caskets.
Kerry:We'll only see people with roses and caskets.
Chrisy:Carnations, I guess, I don't know. Yeah, oh God, yeah, oh my God, the funeral flowers. Oh God, the funeral flowers.
Kerry:Oh, that was great. Hey, another thing our first episode, or our second first episode, we talked about the cars.
Chrisy:That oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we had some really great we did and vivian.
Kerry:Vivian was great I did he.
Chrisy:Vivian is great, yeah, so love vivian.
Kerry:Shout out to vivian yes, uh, vivian really liked my truck because they had a truck that kind of brought back memories. And then they were saying they also had a Plymouth Duster. Well, this got my husband, Jim, all excited because he was like I had a Plymouth Duster and he's like ask if their Duster had, I don't know, some slant bore. I don't even know. So then became a full-on Facebook conversation about cars.
Chrisy:But we love those. Yes, because, yeah, we yeah, oh, absolutely yeah, no, thank you, vivian for that, and everybody. So yes, oh my gosh.
Kerry:I had to laugh to it. Heather from Vermilion made a comment about her brother got a really cool car, but then she had to get something that was economical or safe or something. Let me see if I can find it. First car was a seattle uh silver honda accord, but her brother got a cool trans. Am I just got a boring honda? How is that fair? That is so. That's what she was saying. She was like that's why they got the cool car, but I, because I was the girl, I had to be a safe car well, I still, I don't know that you had to sacrifice that much for safety, but oh well, it's character building.
Chrisy:Yeah, right, right, that's true, I guess I don't know.
Kerry:If I had that car.
Chrisy:I'd be accidentally scraping it up against a building. Oops, dad Got a big old scratch gash in it. If I had a Trans Am I wouldn't have done that. Yeah, exactly, I would have been able to move faster. The hood sits lower. I could have seen where I was going much better.
Kerry:We also had some comments about our childhood nicknames and stuff and I thought it was so sweet because Sweet Karen, I think she's from North Carolina area. She was talking about like all these wonderful memories of her childhood, about playing, kick the can and everything. It was so sweet.
Chrisy:I can't believe it.
Kerry:What is that all about?
Chrisy:but you know, what she did, say what, as much as she had a great time what she said and I uh, just to let her know too, I love the activities you did with kids in the neighborhood the bike riding, the, you know oh yeah, trying to kill each other on swing sets and doing all that insane stuff.
Chrisy:love the activities. Not so crazy about the company during that, so you really just try to like close that out, but the fact that she had so much fun with these people, these kids, which is lovely and it creates wonderful memories. And I totally applaud that. She did seem to mention that she doesn't know where any of these people are now.
Kerry:Oh yeah, that's right. I'm reading it now.
Chrisy:Yeah, I have no idea where they are now, since we moved out of state. Yeah, so I mean, how great early are they? If you didn't really want to keep tabs on where they were, you're like it's been fun.
Kerry:Bye won't see you ever again moving away.
Chrisy:See you, see, you, see, you see you. So actually I applaud that kind of approach too. That was good, that was good, yeah, yeah.
Kerry:Yeah, it was good, so I think that was a that was really nice. We love the engagement from all of you listeners. Chrissy and I, we do. We read everything, we comment on everything, we talk about it Facebook messages, the messages on our website, the messages that come on on Facebook. So we are listening.
Chrisy:So we appreciate it and we are looking at everything. Please keep it up and send more. We really we love it. Yeah, it feeds us. It feeds us, it gives us better perspectives on things, some sort of different point of view.
Kerry:So we are on board, so we're going to do this every I don't know five, six, seven episodes or whatever. We're going to do this every I don't know five, six, seven episodes or whatever. We're gonna do a little recap like this. So definitely, please, you know, like I said, respond and uh, who knows you? You might be our topic of our next uh recap episode. Absolutely, we'll give you a shout out. Yes, absolutely, all right. Well, that wraps up this episode. So thank you so much for listening and please don't forget to leave us a review on wherever your streaming device, whether it's Spotify or iTunes or anywhere else YouTube. Keep those comments coming, keep sending pictures. We want to hear more about your holidays. You know how everything was going, how everything went, what plans you got coming up, what family issues came up that you just want to talk about. Send it to us.
Chrisy:Yeah, and please let everybody know that this is a great podcast and we will make everybody feel better about their day, their life their everything. So spread the word. We're here for you. We love you guys. All right, love you Bye.
