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
If your skeleton wears bunny ears in April, we need to talk
Holiday season used to feel like a slow build. Now it’s a sprint: Halloween launches in July, Thanksgiving gets squeezed, and December arrives with a storage bin avalanche. We get honest about how that pace numbs the joy—and what to do when the yard turns into a plastic parade. From HOAs setting limits on tree lawns to cities asking neighbors to dial it back, boundaries can actually make celebrations better. But the real reset starts at home: we lay out a practical “use-it-or-lose-it” plan to death clean our holiday bins, keep what matters, and give the rest a graceful goodbye.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now, here are your hosts, Chrissy and Carrie.
KERRY:Hello, Junkies. I'm Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. It's getting close to the ho ho ho Christmas.
CHRISY:Christmas. Because, I mean, we've been doing the Halloween thing for months now. It's time to move on. 2026 already. Valentine's Day. I don't know. We just, everything is so screwed up. But you're right. It is almost Halloween. And a lot of people love Halloween from what I've seen. Especially since you've been celebrating it since July.
KERRY:I know. The what? The pumpkin spice lattes and everything have been out since September 1st. And we've had our fill of apple cider, and everyone's yards are decorated with all the stupid stuff. I mean Halloween decorations.
CHRISY:Last year we did establish that some people really did do it right.
KERRY:Yes. There is the doing it right, and then there's doing it. Why did you even bother?
CHRISY:Well, you know, I really, I think just the one, maybe the one good thing, uh, because I talked about how much anxiety I get from all the stuff that is shown on the internet that you're supposed to be doing for Halloween and Christmas and all that, is I think that they really show you a lot of things you can do instead of putting a bunch of tacky things out. Yeah. And I really don't see that being the Halloween crime as much as it used to be. I think people really have decided to make an effort to put some thought and a little bit of their talents into uh you know celebrating.
KERRY:All I have to say is I can see the value of having a good HOA during these times.
CHRISY:Somebody who lives with an HOA might disagree with you, but go ahead.
KERRY:Because I tell you what, if I had to live next to some of these houses with some of their very tacky and I don't know, just not my eye.
CHRISY:Are you really seeing a lot of tackies?
KERRY:Yes.
CHRISY:Because to be honest, and DJ Nick, chime in, but it's because you live in an HOA. Well, it's nice. But even driving through other neighborhoods here, I really don't think that I see maybe different areas have people who like to do it up a little bit more and maybe you know don't invest as much. But you know, their hearts in it.
DJ NICK:There's there's one house I know of that they just overdo it. So much so they had stuff in their double strip. Double strip?
KERRY:You know, the uh the the uh the right-of-way, you know, the oh the space between like your property and the street? Yeah, okay, like the sidewalk and the streets.
DJ NICK:And I guess that's that maybe maybe that's a a a northeast Ohio expression, but the double strip.
KERRY:Now I know what you mean, yeah.
DJ NICK:But yeah, so the the city of made made them take everything off of the that they have.
KERRY:Yeah, because you're not allowed to post there. That's technically not their property. Wow.
CHRISY:Didn't we learn another name for that? That's here is another name.
DJ NICK:The tree, the tree tree line or the tree lawn or the tree launched? The tree lawn, yeah, I think is the other one. Yeah. I'd never heard of that before. But at any rate, they had some Halloween decorations on their tree lawn or their double strip, whatever you call it. And the city said you can't have it there. So they had to cram more stuff in there.
KERRY:You know, and it wasn't they just moved it back five feet to their side of the sidewalk.
DJ NICK:But I mean, it's you know, it's not a very big lot where the house was. It's just all kinds of Halloween stuff just crammed in there.
CHRISY:Yeah, you have to kind of know when to say when. Yeah, and even sometimes less is better. Yeah, yeah. I've learned that more as I've gotten older.
KERRY:Less effort, less effort, less people. Well, I agree with that one. Less BS.
DJ NICK:And I'd like to have less weight on me. So we all want that.
CHRISY:Less pumpkin pie spice. Don't buy five things of pumpkin pie spice when you finally find it, because they caused a panic. Told me I wasn't gonna get it.
KERRY:Yep. Yeah, so I do feel I do. I see some of these and I'm just like, oh my god. And you know what? And here's the worst part. I could deal with it if I knew it was gonna end at, you know, okay, Halloween, October 31st. Okay, maybe I'll give you till November 7th, you know, the weekend after Halloween to take it down. But when that crap is still up into Christmas and all they do is throw a Santa Claus hat on it, sometimes they don't even do that. But they throw the Santa Claus on it, they try to make it now a what was that, the Christmas? What was that? The Christmas where they had the skeleton, the nightmare before Christmas, whatever it is. Right, yeah, you know, no, and even worse, if you're putting bunny ears on that shit, come on.
CHRISY:Wow, I don't know that I've seen that firsthand.
DJ NICK:So this this house that I was speaking of that got in trouble. Yeah, their stuff, their Halloween stuff had been up since I'm sure July.
KERRY:See? See, no, thank God for city ordinances and HOAs. That's all I have to say.
CHRISY:They do see, but you know what? It's encouraged, unfortunately, and the wrong the certain people take it too far, but I mean, yeah, it's just look, uh you enjoy it and you want to celebrate it for as long as you can, and I get it, but October is already a 31-day month.
DJ NICK:It is not like it's February or anything.
CHRISY:Right, you know, I mean, it's a long month, and I mean, it can bleed from uh September a little bit, right? And like you said, it can bleed over into November a little bit, election day or whatever the heck's going on in early November. But yeah, I really think it's become so like almost like you're numb to it. Yeah. It's yeah, it I and I but see, I don't know how to make understand this feeling I'm feeling because I'm not a little kid anymore. I'm not a young person. So why do I think I'm supposed to still feel that excitement? Yeah, but it's gotten to the point now where I just don't even care. It's like I don't even want to decorate anymore, and that's crazy. I know, I hear you.
KERRY:But well, my attitude on decorating, you know, is a little bit different this year. Now, I'm not decorating for Halloween, no, I'm not decorating for Thanksgiving, no, but I did promise that I would suffer this year and decorate for Christmas.
CHRISY:I'm gonna hold you to this.
KERRY:You will, you can. It's okay because I I have a I'm doing the death cleaning this year. So, well, you didn't read my blog? Remind me again.
CHRISY:Come on, give me some credit. Do you know how much information overload I am on just in general?
KERRY:No. So, you know, in my blog, uh you sent me that one thing. Yeah, it's called it's I talked about in my first blog about the nobody wants your shit book. Yes. Audio book. Yes. And they talk I did look into that. They did talk about death, they refer it to as death cleaning. Okay, you know, it's just purging your life of all the stuff you don't need because you know, if something happens to you, your kids don't want that shit. They don't want the chotchkis, they don't want ever, you know, they just don't want it. So why why are you hoarding it? Sorry to break the news to you on that, Chrissy. You have a look of mortification on your face right now.
CHRISY:I don't because I it it it is something I I've slowly come to realize and agree with.
KERRY:Yes. So my goal this year is to get all the Christmas decorations out of the basement, every single last one of them. And I am going to either use it and put it up, or it's getting donated, whether it's to the burn pal, the round pow, goodwill, whatever sucker wants it. I don't know. So, but it's either one way or another, it's gonna either get used or it's gonna get losed. And then at the end of the holiday season, I will therefore have only the things that are really mean something that I'm going to keep for future use. That is my plan for the Christmas decorations this year.
DJ NICK:That sounds like a great plan. You know, we have so many lights, Christmas lights. We can light up all of Northeast Ohio where it's like.
CHRISY:There is one set I won't part with. And it's okay to have a few things that you can't part with. It's never been plugged in.
KERRY:Never?
DJ NICK:No. Oh God. And she bought it 30 years ago or more.
KERRY:Oh, so in other words, if you plugged it in, it's a safety hazard at this point. It's knob and tube wiring. What is it?
CHRISY:Kodak Christmas Lights from Hills Department Store. And there's no way you can duplicate those.
KERRY:Are you sure that they're really only 30 years old? Are they more like 40 because it's Hills Department Store?
CHRISY:Well, no, it'd probably be about, yeah, 30. I guess because Hills was kind of out by the mid to late 90s, I think.
KERRY:I feel like I was, yeah, in my 20s, I guess, whenever they were. Yeah, I have one set that I never used. So are they like a special design or is it just the color?
DJ NICK:It's just straight, it's regular, small Christmas tree lights.
CHRISY:But it's Kodak. And it's the colors that because they have these more energy efficient LAD lightings. And they have a different, they're still beautiful, right? But it's a different color that you don't have.
KERRY:It's a different brightness, a different hue.
CHRISY:Right.
KERRY:Yes.
CHRISY:And I used those uh very much so on my Christmas trees and everything else.
DJ NICK:In the 90s and even into the 2000s.
CHRISY:Oh, yeah, for as long as I could, and they slowly would go crappy. I never opened one set, and I just kept putting it back in the box. Just putting it back in the box.
DJ NICK:Maybe we can get some money on eBay.
CHRISY:No, no, no. It's just one box. I'm not gonna deal with that. But I do like the idea of just putting like we should just totally dig through all of our storage stuff, put out, be be one of those tacky people. Put all of these hideous, horrible Halloween and Christmas decorations out for one more time. One more time. A goodbye party.
KERRY:Yes. Okay, now that I can accept. And then I can support that.
CHRISY:We're gonna say bye to most of it.
KERRY:And you need to have a sign out there that says like one last hurrah or something, you know, so that like, you know. Yeah, I I guess, but that way your neighbors know that it's not coming back next year.
DJ NICK:Well, I have maybe a Christmas vacation movie with all the lighting.
CHRISY:Yes, everything. Well, the one thing I was thinking of, because I have a beautiful box that I haven't cracked in years of Christmas bulbs, not to get to the weird thing, but they're glass. Yeah, and I haven't used them in a long, long time. Because you've seen kids and pets and whatever, right? Things are knocked off the tree, so I totally went to the whole plastic that looks like glass bulb for a long time. And this year I said, you know, finally, I just need to because I kept going over that box and saying, no, not this year, no, not this year. Yeah. But I and I should just put them out, and if they break, they break, I sweep them up, and that's the end of it. Yeah. So I'm I'm thinking I'm gonna try this. Okay, you can hold me to it.
KERRY:Okay. All right. We're doing it.
CHRISY:And same thing with the Halloween, my paper mache pumpkins that I made back uh 40.
KERRY:You need to get those out because it's almost Halloween. So if you haven't pulled them out yet, you need to get those babies out. Well, now we put pressure on her.
CHRISY:They did stay in the box. Because there is like this whole thing where some stuff, I'm like, do I put that out? And I don't even want to look at it. Why would anybody else want to look at it? Why are you keeping it on it?
KERRY:Okay. You need to do it. If you haven't completely listened to that audiobook, you need to listen to it. And for those of you that haven't listened to it or read my blog, go back and read the blog. It's called Nobody Wants Your Shit.
CHRISY:And it's by I hear this.
KERRY:Oh, Messi Kondo is the name of the is the code name of the author, Messi Kondo. But it's a really, really good audiobook about decluttering.
CHRISY:Everybody probably needs it to some extent to really hear this stuff.
KERRY:Oh, yeah, it's really good. It's fun.
DJ NICK:So you guys covered all those phobias. You forgot to cover Chrissy's dysposophobia, which is the fear of getting getting rid of things.
CHRISY:She's got dysphosophobia a few episodes ago. If you didn't listen, go back. But yeah, I guess I do. I can't argue.
KERRY:The word of the day is dysphobia. Disposophobia.
CHRISY:Okay.
KERRY:She's gotten better though. I think we need to put this on our website, is we need to put what the word of the days are. And we need to make a master list of our words of the day. I'm gonna talk to instant webmakers about that. Yeah, that's a good one. Words of the day. And then reference the episode that they're on. So dispose of phobia. I'm writing my notes. Definitely. And this is what episode 68. So what else you got for Halloween?
CHRISY:Well, Halloween, and uh, of course, the Halloween shows, you know, that I still try to relive my childhood. I'm not gonna bring up the one-you made that one us watch last year. You watched it, and I'm so happy that you did that because that was nice of you. I know you didn't like it. We're talking about the Halloween.
KERRY:Don't, don't.
CHRISY:You're so mean. You're so mean. I will watch it. I've watched it probably, I don't know how many times already, and we'll watch it. But one we didn't talk about before, and I highly recommend it. It was a book by a very uh wonderful author, and it's the Halloween tree. I've never heard of this. And it's Ray Bradbury, and the cartoon, which is from the 90s, is lovely because he narrates.
KERRY:Is this like the giving tree?
CHRISY:No, you went there. Did you go there to go through that goddamn book? How dare you? What a piece of crap that is. Garbage. Selfish man sitting on a stump, took that tree down for everything. Yes. And the tree still was willing. I ain't got nothing else to give because you took everything. But ass tired of standing up, park it here. Horrible. Horrible. Okay, so we've established that the. Isn't that what that book's about? It is. I summed it up.
DJ NICK:I summed it up for you people. Don't read it. Shell Silverstein. No, it's a classic.
KERRY:Shell Silverstein, is that the name of the author for the giving?
DJ NICK:Yeah, he also did Where What's Up in the Attic or something like that. I don't know that one.
CHRISY:Well, there's a lot of people. Those are good books. Okay. Unless you're mean.
DJ NICK:Go back to the Halloween tree.
KERRY:So you're talking about the Halloween giving tree. It's not a sequel or part two of the Giving Sundays.
CHRISY:Okay. It is a lovely, lovely book. I have the book. I've read the book. And it they did an animated cartoon of it. Okay. And I highly recommend it. And okay, and you will like it because it's definitely not in the same. Even Nick likes it. Right? So if Nick's saying it's good, because he feels pretty much the same way you do about the other recommendation. Please. Okay. Try to make it a point to find that.
KERRY:Is this a children's book? Is it a novel?
CHRISY:Is it it is, but it's it's got a quick read.
KERRY:Am I gonna be done in an hour, in a two hour?
CHRISY:The book is a little long, uh bigger. It's not uh typical Ray Bradbury as far as uh length, but it's uh more than children's uh it's a bit of a commitment, but not much. And the the cartoon is is wonderful, and I uh do uh really appreciate it. Okay. It's a it's a whole backstory, but it it definitely helps you appreciate how other cultures and countries celebrate the idea of Halloween. I will give it a try. Yeah, so I highly recommend that. Okay. And the one thing we didn't talk about was our and maybe we did, but I can't remember. Did we talk about Halloween parties at school when we were young?
KERRY:I know we talked about Valentine's Day parties. If we did, it was very brief because we came, we started the podcast last year. We were kind of like just off the cusp of Halloween going into Thanksgiving, so we didn't dive too much into it.
CHRISY:Right.
KERRY:I know we talked about the Hills Department store at one point, the you know, the costumes that came in a box.
CHRISY:Oh, yeah, those were everywhere. Yeah, you could get those at the drugstore, right? We'll work it all over. Yeah, the lovely.
KERRY:So, how did your Halloween parties go?
CHRISY:Well, we just I remember it was sort of a big deal, and I don't know, maybe Nick's was that or yours, but I remember we would go to school for half a day. Oh, you got a half a day? Well, we go to school, you'd have the first half of your day would be school, and then around lunchtime you would go home and you would get your costume.
KERRY:You physically went home?
CHRISY:Yes. To get your costume on.
KERRY:Uh-huh.
CHRISY:And then you came back to school for your Halloween party.
KERRY:Did you ride a bus to school? No. Oh.
CHRISY:So it was some level of commitment. I wonder what happened with the bus riders, because there were bus riders, but and how they were able to maybe they were allowed to. It seems wrong, but I do remember that you had to go home and get your costume. You couldn't bring it to school to put it on.
KERRY:Okay, so what I do remember is that we had a Halloween parade. Yes. And I loved the parade.
CHRISY:Yes, we did too.
KERRY:Okay. But I don't remember, did we I don't think we went to school in our costume, but I can tell you we did not come home and go back.
CHRISY:I feel like we did, but maybe I'm wrong.
KERRY:I don't know. I'd have to ask. I feel like we somehow put the Halloween costumes on. Now, whether our parents came and they maybe helped us put them on and then we did the parade and then went home, but I know that we did not go home and I know we did not wear our costumes all day.
CHRISY:Well, I just I feel like we went home because then like you showed up and you were kind of mingling outside, weather permitting, uh-huh, before we did our parade. And some people would show up in a costume where you had no idea who it was in the costume because it was just that much uh completely covered disguised. Yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, just the whole fun of it. That that's a time you can't ever get back. And I'm glad I was able to experience it in the school I went to, and and I'm sure you and uh Nick, did you have a parade at your school too? Yeah.
KERRY:The um church that I work at, we have a preschool, and I will say this is one of my favorite times of the year with the preschool because they they do a Halloween parade. And so the parents will come, but then the staff also we get involved, and so we all line up, and you know, they come and they do this parade, and they come by each of us, and you know, we add things to their little bag and stuff. That is fun. Now, those kids come to school in their costumes. Oh, okay. And but it's preschool, so they're only there for half days a couple hours. So they come to school in their costumes, and then they and they I think it is a shortened day. They do their little parade and the parents take them home, and it's it's more of a party day. But I do really enjoy. I will say that is that that is a part of Halloween that I enjoy is working at the church in the preschool in the costumes.
CHRISY:Watching the yeah, when my when my kids were uh of that age and that type where they had the parades and dressed up and yeah, because they're older now, they're not really in the world.
KERRY:What way did that kind of stop though? Because I feel like I only have a couple years memories of that. Like I feel like that was only like first second grade. Like I don't remember doing that all through grade school, and I know we didn't do it in high school. If we had a hell if we dressed up as something, it was because we had like a Halloween dance. Right. But I but I don't feel like we ever came to school like dressed up. No, at school in high school, no.
CHRISY:No, no, no, I don't think so. I seem to think that maybe by like fourth grade, yeah, it was kind of phasing out. Yeah. Because I don't really remember doing, even though I was still at the same elementary school, I don't really remember doing it that much in like fifth or sixth grade.
KERRY:No, no, I can say I don't think so either. If any of you went to high school or I'm sorry, grade school with us here in the area, refresh our memories. Send us something on our Facebook page or uh send us an email and what help us remember what we did in those later years. But I believe that's correct. I think we only did it like first second, third grade-ish, you know, maybe. Yeah. I don't think we did anything older. Right. Yeah.
CHRISY:I mean, but yeah, great memories.
KERRY:Yeah, I will say that was that was kind of fun. It was kind of like at the end of the year when you had that field day. You know, basically you had one more last day of school, but all the testing was done and they didn't have anything else for the teachers to do with us, but they had to keep us, so we had a field day, and it was basically playground day for the whole day. Did you do that?
CHRISY:I don't remember.
KERRY:You're looking at me like I have ten eyes.
DJ NICK:Nick remembers it. Yeah, we would actually go to a park.
KERRY:Oh, did you? Did whereas your school not have a good play area for that could accommodate?
DJ NICK:It actually it did, but we could walk like three blocks down to another park.
KERRY:Oh. No, we just did it at the school.
DJ NICK:I do remember going to my school didn't have a lot of playground equipment. It was it was big. Yeah, the parking lot, and then there was a an adjacent field. There was nothing on it. So we would go like three blocks down.
CHRISY:Okay. I do remember going to park where near where I lived, and with uh my grade school class, I even have some pictures of it somewhere. Wow. If I can find them.
KERRY:We didn't go off site much, they didn't transport us much. I think the circus we went to Symphony. Yeah, we go to the symphony, you didn't go to the circus. There was like maybe one Milk Creek Park for something. Yeah, that was where we went for this sort of uh but it was for like a special education and not to play.
CHRISY:I don't know. I feel like it was just sort of to hang out and have a good time.
KERRY:Yeah, we no, we would do that at the school. They didn't they didn't take us off property much.
CHRISY:I a lot of times when we did have like little field trips, I I do know that parents sort of transported, like certain kids were assigned into cars and really oh yeah.
KERRY:Oh yeah, no no no no.
CHRISY:And my mom actually did participate in driving some students with me to uh a specific uh always in a bus, big yellow bus, never, never personal transport.
KERRY:The only personal transport I ever was in was when I was in eighth grade, we would go with the priest to the nursing home once a week, and they would do mass for the n at the nursing home. And so every week, like four kids got to go in eighth, like from the eighth grade class, seventh, and eighth grade class with the priest to help serve mass, and it would rotate who would get to go every week. So you might only go once every two months or once every three months, but every week somebody went. So at that point, we were allowed to ride in the car with the priest, but again, there was four of us total. So it must have been three kids in the past because there was four total, so it was three yeah. In fact, that's the first time I ever heard Bruce Springsteen's song Born in the USA was in the car with Father. Nice, I just remember that, and then the only other time was in high school when we did the service projects that we would go off site and we'd be a group of us in the car and the we would drive ourselves. Oh, but any other time, school bus. School bus.
CHRISY:Well, I remember being on the bus too for like the symphony, like you mentioned, and things like that. But yeah, I do remember the little transport of five or so kids in a car with a parent.
KERRY:Very cool. Yeah, right. What's this thing you got about candy?
CHRISY:Well, uh just again talking about how, you know, we roll right into the next thing. There's no downtime. No, and in fact, I would say we're almost to the point now where they are riding side by side. Yes.
KERRY:So we've got the Thanksgiving.
CHRISY:Does that even mean anything? I mean, as far as it's a meal, it's almost like the the pre-show to Christmas. The opening act, if you will. It's not really the warm-up. It's not, yeah, it's definitely the it's it's not, it sort of doesn't even feel like it's its own thing anymore.
KERRY:The amouse boosh.
CHRISY:The word of the day. Amoose boosh. What is that a word?
KERRY:It is Nick's. It's actually, I think, two words, but and that means something, it's a one bite. It means one bite. It's an appetizer. He's shaking his head, yes.
CHRISY:He's agreeing with you. And I have no idea what the hell you got.
KERRY:I'm offended that you didn't believe me. Well, I didn't know you did it. You you said you looked over at Nick and he goes, is that a word? And then when he says yes, you're like, oh, it really is a word? You didn't believe me? I believe you! No, but I'm offended. Don't be offended. A moosh boosh. A moose boosh. It's a one-bite appetizer.
DJ NICK:It's like uh it's actually it's not technically an appetizer, but it is a one single bite-sized complimentary food offered to guests at a restaurant, chosen by the chef to showcase their skill.
KERRY:It's often served as an appetizer.
CHRISY:Here's where he knew that was, which might I want to know who he went to a restaurant that did this with, because it wasn't me.
DJ NICK:It's entertained, it's amuse, like the word amuse, but it's the French. It's mouth in French. Yes. It's amouse the mouth.
CHRISY:Amuse bouche. This sounds filthy.
DJ NICK:Entertains the mouth.
CHRISY:That is filthy.
KERRY:That's what it's the translation.
DJ NICK:Dirty, dirty. Yeah, but it's only dirty because you you're interpreting it that way.
KERRY:I mean absolutely. Okay, that'll be another list on our website. Words that Chrissy thinks are dirty. So we have barn swallow, a moose boosh. And I'm sure we can find some. I'll have to go back to the other episodes because I know there were other things.
CHRISY:It's always uh what you the other one that you said that I did say was the word of the day. This is gonna be bad. Shithole. Um so yeah, so basically what I was saying here with the last piece of candy is handed out, lights are off, yeah, blow candle and the pumpkin. Right. And it's Christmas. Yes. It's Christmas.
KERRY:What happened in between? Nothing. Wherever the six hours in between.
CHRISY:Oh, yeah, we're gonna get a turkey. We're gonna have the Thursday, whatever, the third or fourth Thursday of the November is gonna be a get-together. Yeah, but even it seemed excessive to have the tree up the day after, but it became acceptable. Yeah. So that Friday, that weekend, instead of shopping or in with shopping, I will you put your tree up.
KERRY:Well, I will tell you because like I said, we are going to do, we're doing the decorations this year. Right. It's happening. So we will be going to buy a live Christmas tree the weekend of Thanksgiving. So probably that Saturday. We're gonna go, we're gonna go trudge out there.
CHRISY:You're gonna cut it down.
KERRY:We're gonna cut the tree down.
CHRISY:Just the fact that you're having a live, I've never been in the presence of a live tree unless it was rooted in the earth. When I was little, my my cousins, they had, they did have a real tree. Yeah. And like I said, it just seemed like a big pain in the ass because they were always like, Did you want in a tree?
DJ NICK:It looks dry. You're feeding into your own thing. What? How it's all about Christmas, and you're continuing to talk about it.
KERRY:Halloween's.
CHRISY:I can't. I know we're still on Halloween. It's embedded. It's embedded.
DJ NICK:I can't talk about Halloween without Christmas. It's terrible. Halloween's not even here yet.
KERRY:I know. Oh gosh, Nick caught us on that. He did. Okay. But yeah, I get it. So but I am I am looking forward to this season coming up. And so, yeah, I don't know. But you know, the one nice thing is this is uh I don't get trick-or-treaters, so I don't I don't have to worry about that.
CHRISY:If they they're good at hiking, because yeah, there's a lot of space in between your next house. Exactly. They must not want much candy if they come that way.
DJ NICK:So RHOA, and I think you talked about this last year. Yeah, it has to be someone who is living, a child who's living, or it's a a grandchild, or it can't be.
KERRY:Did they give you your date on when you're allowed to have oh, it's way too early for we get that last minute. Oh, yeah.
CHRISY:So because they don't want it to sneak, leak out. We know it's coming, and we're we're we're on standby. Sort of like the military.
KERRY:It's gonna have hurry up and wait. Well, this was great to kind of talk about Halloween and everything. In the meantime, uh, speaking of Halloween, we have our special Chunky's Care initiative this month to support United Way of Wayne and Holmes counties. And they with this is gonna be on this Saturday, October 25th. We're gonna be at their 5K, the Heart and Ghoul, 5K and one mile spooky sprint. That'll be in historic downtown Worcester on Saturday the 25th at 9 a.m. Uh Chrissy and I will be there. Dysfunction Junkies uh podcast is a sponsor, one of the sponsors for the event. Um, so be sure if you're in the area, come on out, join in the fun, support this great organization, meet Chrissy and I, uh, see what costumes we come up with. Yeah, it's a it's a good time. Absolutely. Uh, in the meantime, check us out on our Facebook page. You can also uh look at our website, dysfunction junkiespodcast.com, learn all about us, see what events we're doing, where we're at, read our blogs and uh everything you need to know about us. So yes, all right, happy Halloween.
