Rethinking Valentine’s Day: We Skip the Pre-Set Menu and Make Romance at Home

Freeze outside, warm up inside. We take Valentine’s Day back from the crowded prix fixe grind and rebuild it around ease, laughter, and real connection. From indoor picnics on a blanket to a surprisingly perfect date at a local cooking school, we share practical ways to skip the chaos and keep all the romance. If you’ve been burned by limited menus, rushed service, and too-loud dining rooms, this is your permission slip to choose calm over clamor. If this resonated, be sure to tune in and share it with a friend who hates crowded holidays. Be sure to leave a quick review to help others find the show. Your support keeps the conversation going and the blankets cozy.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen it up. And now, here your host, Chrissy and Carrie.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Hello, Junkies. I'm Carrie.

CHRISY 0:24

And I'm Chrissy.

SPEAKER_02 0:25

It is so cold outside. Yep.

CHRISY 0:28

I hate it. It's unpleasant.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

We're getting bombarded here. Well, pretty much over all the United States, but where we're at, a lot of snow, a lot of cold. It's like two degrees outside. It's stupid. I don't like it.

Pivot To Valentine’s Day

CHRISY 0:42

I don't upset anybody, but the earth is dying. So let's talk about Valentine's Day. There we go.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Good segue.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

Love is in the air. Yeah, we're all freezing to death. Smoke them if you got them. Oh my god. Oh my God. I mean, seriously, it's a stupid amount of snow. Stupid amount of snow. I am over it. I don't like it. It's like 18 inches at the farm. It's single digits.

CHRISY 1:17

You have places to go and people to see. For me, this is just another reason for me to stay indoors and avoid everything going on.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

I have a house to pack. I have moving companies coming. I have a 1900s farmhouse I'm trying to sell.

CHRISY 1:31

And there's a light at the end of the tunnel for you because you're going somewhere where it's not going to be like this. Although if you don't know, I mean the earth changes its direction, the ocean's not turning anymore. You might end up being snowy and it might be beautiful here. You'll want to come back.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

I ain't coming back. Oh, come on. Sorry, I love you, but no. I'll come visit. But no. All right. All right. So yeah, we're uh Valentine's Day. Are you ready? Are you prepared? What are you doing, little lovebirds over there?

Why We Skip Hallmark Holiday Dining

CHRISY 2:02

Just staying warm and it's a reason to eat candy and you know, I don't know. We don't do a whole lot. I mean, it's a nice little holiday. I enjoy it with the kids. They're older now, so we don't have to do the Valentine exchange too much. You don't have to make all the bags and everything. Yeah, that's good. Good for you. Yeah, but it was fun. Yeah. And we would encourage everybody too to uh listen to our most downloaded episodes.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

I know.

CHRISY 2:32

That's what I was thinking today.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

I'm like, the bar is really high. That was like our I mean, we've had some awesome episodes lately. Like, I've been like, I'm like, damn, why are we not top 10 right now? Like some of these episodes are just so awesome. But yeah, the bar's been set because last year our our Valentine's episode, it's become our number one download.

CHRISY 2:53

Yeah, it was a good one. But like you said, we have been churning out some good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Yes. So make sure you're listening. If you have, if you've just joined us, make sure to, you know, come up listen to the other ones. But absolutely. Yeah, so Valentine's Day, you know, I'm not really big on celebrating all these, I don't know, lesser holidays, minor holidays. I don't know, what do you call it? But Hallmark holidays. Hallmark holidays. Yeah, Hallmark holidays. But I mean, yeah, I'm sure, you know, there, but here's my thing about Valentine's Day and some of the other holidays, Mother's Day this happens on too. You know, you want to go out, you okay, let's go celebrate, we'll go have a nice dinner. Well, first of all, it's crazy busy. So you don't ever want to go on the day.

CHRISY 3:37

No.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

But what happens is a lot of these restaurants, and I understand why they do it. They they're they're trying to make their life easy. They don't have their regular menu. They have a set menu because they know they're gonna get bombarded with all these people. So instead of being able to order anything you want off their menu, oh no, here's our five-item menu you must order from this. I hate that. Well, because it's never the shit that I like. Oh no, it's never no, no, it's something easy and simple that they can mass produce. Pasta.

CHRISY 4:09

Well, I'm guessing they probably, when they do their they they account for some of their what's gonna put them in the black. Oh, I especially like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yeah, yeah, they're churning it out. They know they want the most profitable margin they can, and they want to make it simple. They want to make it, they know they're gonna be busy. So I I get it. But what then happens is we don't celebrate on the actual holiday then. So, like for instance, Mother's Day, of which always falls on my birthday. Go back to the episode, you'll hear all about that. But um, but I can order what I want. So we never really go out to eat on my birthday because it usually falls on Mother's Day weekend, and it's not just that day, they'll have the whole weekend menu because they know not everyone's gonna get in on the Sundays that are gonna go in Saturday or Friday night. So it screws up the whole thing. So you don't celebrate it on the day anyway. So why why have the day?

Crowd Chaos And Staying Home

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Chrissy and I would we wouldn't go because Yeah, because you're not gonna get to order what you want. A couple times and it was like, yeah, the four or five items on the menu. And you know, she would always find something she liked on the limited menu, but I I would always just not as picky.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Um I can't say that I'm picky, but I want to have a good meal. And I'm sorry, pasta and meatballs is not gonna be my first pick, second pick, fourth pick, fifth pick, probably not my sixth pick. It's not I mean it can be great food, and I know a lot of people like it, but it's just not my thing. So I want, you know, I want all the other good stuff. I want the odd stuff, you know. So, anyways, though.

Indoor Picnic And Low-Pressure Plans

CHRISY 5:38

Well, I to go out on the day, I think it basically that's a certain group of people who can manage that. Yeah, they enjoy the chaos of it. Yes, and it everybody, it's just too many people. Everybody thinks they're special, and then they see people they know and they're obnoxious, chit-chatting with everybody, and it's just like, well, you shut up and sit at your table. I'm just like over you. I just I don't want to be around that many people. I'm with you. I'm fine with being home. And uh one thing I was gonna say, I don't know if I I don't think I talked about this at last year, but that we used to do even before we had kids, and I'd like to do it again. I think the kids would get a kick out of it because we're not going anywhere. But because it's cold and miserable here. Yeah. Um now where you're going, you could just have the a legit one, but we we would do like a little picnic. Like we would have picnic food for Valentine's Day, and then we would just sort of we'd throw a blanket down on the floor, we'd sit down and have stuff, and then we would watch I have like my set of certain movies I have to watch every Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Oh, and I'm sure we'll be hearing about those shortly.

CHRISY 6:46

Yeah, we can talk about it. Finish your picnic story first. But I just think that's nicer. So if you can do something like that, and then and then it's not so much the pressure on me or him, like for him to go out and have to pick up food. Yeah. Which again, you're gonna run into a whole problem because it's not gonna be good.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

It's gonna be so many people there's even so many people, they're gonna get the order wrong. Probably. Why is it that Chipotle can never remember my extra side of guacamole in my my pickup bag? It's just never fails. They're always gonna forget it. They charge you an arm and leg and then they oh conveniently don't put it in.

CHRISY 7:17

Is this the newer one over there in the township area where you're at? Because we've never been to that one.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Oh, the one right there off Route 11? Yeah. Oh, that is the one, and we go there all the time, and it is very good. But if you order the from mobile pickup, you better check that bag because I'm telling you, your guacamole is not going to be in there.

CHRISY 7:36

Yeah, no, we don't do that. He he Nick is uh under the understanding or impression, or he feels that when you do that, it's sitting there too long and it's not as fresh.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

Uh, I have to say it's usually pretty fresh because a lot of times what you know I'll order it and I'll go pick it up, and they'll be literally bagging it as I'm I'm waiting. So I don't usually have that problem, but yeah, I I know we sidebarred. Sorry. No, no, no. I'm I'm really having a squirrel moment today. So I'm just gonna warn you guys now we're we're gonna be going down rabbit holes. So that's all right.

CHRISY 8:12

So but the I just think because then uh then I'm not so pressure's not so much on me if you do something like that, because like you can do sandwiches and you can have like just like snacky type foods, and it's just a nice little thing, and it's not high pressure food where you have to sit there and put stuff in the oven and all that. Yeah, I mean, yeah, going out is for the birds.

Cooking School As A Date Night

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. I hear you 100%. Although I will say, recently when we were up in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago, we we were at a birthday party for my friend on letters by lantern light, anyways. They we they had their her birthday party at a cooking school, and it was really a lot of fun. And I thought, now this would be an awesome date night on Valentine's Day. So, what did that sound like? So oh my god, it was so fun. Even Farm Boy Jim was like he was in his element. I mean, you know how he can be quiet and reserved and everything. He was like life of the party, he was so shallow, it was unlike it was amazing. So he was enjoying it, he was cooking, it was great. So, anyways, what you do is there was a group of people and they it lasted like three hours or something. They serve you alcohol, which was very, uh, very well appreciated. And you cook the meal, then the chef helps you cook the meal. And at first I was like, I don't know how fun that sounds, but oh my god, it was so much fun. So they break you up into like stations, and there's like four people a station, and they walk you through how to do the cooking and you know the food prep and everything. And at the end, you eat the food, and it was freaking amazing, and it was really, really fun. So I could see doing something like that would be an awesome Valentine's Day, kind of a special couples thing, you know, get your couple friends and do that. It was really fun and engaging. So that I thought that was be an excellent idea for Valentine's Day.

CHRISY 10:06

Yeah, that I sounds like it.

Limited Menus And Smarter Timing

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Now, when you did that, did you all like each one of you was making a part of the so yeah, so like we had four people at our station, and so we were creating the meal for the four of us. So, like one person was learning how to, you know, make the chimchuri sauce for the steak, and so they were cutting and doing things, and then another person was learning how to stuff the we had these mushroom empanadas, and so they you were learning, so like everyone was just participating as a group, and then you would go over to the cooking station, you had to fry your empanadas, and so it was all it was all group, the four of you just taking turns, learning, cooking together, drinking, having fun. Yeah, it was fun, so definitely that I could see doing, but going to a restaurant, like you said, too many people, too much, too much chaos. No, I want calm, I want quiet, and I want to order the menu that I want to order. Yeah.

Favorite Romantic Movies Old And New

CHRISY 11:05

Well, I didn't think about that, but you're right. A lot of the places just because the high volume of people coming in, they do sort of limit their menu down a little bit. So yeah. I mean, some of the places are nice enough to at least maybe tell you what the menu's gonna be that night. So if you needed to make a decision whether you wanted to be there, yeah, or you just don't want to bother because they weren't gonna have anything you like. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 11:29

So let's uh talk about your go-to movies. I have the same ones. I only know one of them. Moonstruck. No.

CHRISY 11:37

Oh. What did I have on there? A chance to look at our line. Just three. I know. Barefoot in the park.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

No. You know Pillow Talk. I know Pillow Talk.

CHRISY 11:49

No, I'm surprised. I that would have been the last one I picked. Well, clearly it was the last one you went through your life. I taste the last one I picked. How do you know that one?

SPEAKER_02 11:58

I don't know. I think I saw it on Turner Classic Music or Music, Turner Classic Movies or something like that. Yeah, so that one I do know.

CHRISY 12:05

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

I highly recognize.

CHRISY 12:07

So share with the share with all three of those. Well, Pillow Talk is Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Uh-huh. Tony Randall. And Tony Randall. Oh, gosh, don't let me forget about Tony Randall. And what's the other one? The woman that played Alma, the maid. Velma Ritter. There, thank you. Yep, I'm just pulling it up now on IMBD. 1959, I believe. If I'm correct. And the color, again, because of these movies from the 50s, they just the way they filmed them and the stuff. The colors are beautiful. And Doris Day wears these fantastic clothes, and it's supposed to take place in New York. And she's a interior designer. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

The tagline says an interior decorator and a Playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

CHRISY 12:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

It was like the original version of Tinder. The party line. What? Like, you know, matchmaking, Tinder, these apps. You know. I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Are you serious? You're showing your age. You're more than a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

You're really you really you're not just playing with her.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Tinder is a hookup. Isn't it like a hookup?

SPEAKER_02 13:15

Yeah, it's like a it's an updating app. She's still looking at me like I have horns going out of my head.

CHRISY 13:20

Tinder. Yeah. Is that my saying it wrong?

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Is it pronounced? No.

CHRISY 13:26

No, I have heard of it now that you're saying it, but I didn't know what it was for. I didn't know if it was like to find a handyman or I guess it sort of it is, maybe. Whoa!

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Save that for junkies after dark.

CHRISY 13:44

I don't know. Tinder how to survive if I had to do any of this kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application launched in 2012. Geosocial? Geosocial networking application. Definition, please.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

No, you're trying to find somebody around.

CHRISY 14:08

Oh, geographical. Okay. Okay, I got it. Geo, geo.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Geosocial has is has the combined potential of bringing a social network or social graph um to a location, having a people in the same location. So yes. Yes. Wow. Well, again, we're I'm telling you, I'm scroll today. So we're gonna go different day. Well, we're learning stuff, especially after you don't know what I mean. People reference it all the time. Yeah, I supp I don't know. What's another dating app one? Another popular one.

CHRISY 14:42

What happened to those stupid ones they used to always have? Like what? Well, farmers only. I remember the names for that.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Farmers only.

CHRISY 14:53

Which I was fascinated with that concept because I am not now. I live in an area that I wouldn't say people here, but we're around a lot of farmland.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

eHarmony, match.com. I remember those. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

But they don't, I don't, those aren't a thing anymore, are they? No, because Tinder probably took it over.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Bumble, B-U-M-B-L-E, is women making the first move. It's the dating app that puts the women in charge.

CHRISY 15:19

Okay. This is all very aggressive.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

I'm not comfortable with this. Uh there's one for seniors. Let me see if I can find that one. Oh, it's probably like golden or I don't know, but I just know that I found my dad on it shortly after my mom and dad got this.

CHRISY 15:37

Oh man. I was gonna say get your mom on it, shh. I think she somebody did try that with her. No. No, thank you. Silver singles. Silver singles. Golden, silver, whatever. Gold, silver and gold. Yeah. Okay. Well, so I guess a party line would be, I guess, like that. That's what I mean. And a lot of people probably have no concept of what that is. Because to be honest, we really didn't have party lines by the time we had rolled out with staying. We're pretty old.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

So explain to our listenership, especially those maybe internationally or you know, those that are younger.

CHRISY 16:13

Very time-specific type of wording, uh phrase and concept. I believe maybe even Nick can I just understand that you shared your phone line with other people who I believe were in your vicinity, like your neighborhood. You're doing a really good job.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Yeah, so it was basically they didn't have the infrastructure to give everybody, every single person their own phone. So as they were building the infrastructure, yes, to to you know, make every, you know, get as many customers as they could possibly get, they had these party lines that you can have a phone, but you have to share a line with so-and-so until we get this infrastructure built. So that's what that was.

Party Lines, Pillow Talk, And Dating Apps

CHRISY 16:52

So your phone would ring, and maybe somebody was calling your other person. How the hell do you manage that?

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Well, you remember the scene where they talk about in that movie from the beginning of the hour to the half hour will be my time, there was that scene.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

I'm sure people actually did that when they organized their so, according to Gemini, a party line telephone is a local loop telephone circuit shared by multiple subscribers, allowing them to connect over a single line. It was common in rural areas where the cost of installing individual lines was prohibitive. So, exactly like what Nick was saying. Parting lines were widely used starting in the late 1800s and became prevalent in the mid-20th century. See what else? Etiquette. Users were expected to follow certain rules, such as waiting for the line to ring before placing a call and keeping conversations brief.

CHRISY 17:45

Pillow talk is like a nightmare. Talk about dysfunction because you're listening. Oh, yeah. Well, that made the whole backdrop for the movie. Yeah, people are listening. That pushed the plot, actually. I think I seem to recall somebody who had experience with this firsthand. Eavesdropping. They heard one of the neighbors saying something not nice about somebody in their household. So it sounds this is just that's dysfunction. Not only do you hate the people you live with, but now you learn to hate your neighbors real quick. You hate. But I would highly recommend if you wanted to watch a really fun, if you're into that sort of retro screwball comedy type thing.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

It was a romantic comedy, yeah.

CHRISY 18:35

It was. I'm gonna have to say I'm gonna I'm probably gonna watch that. Yes. So that is one of our favorites. And of course, I do love Barefoot in the Park with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Okay. I think that's real fun. And Moonstruck is. That one's a share, right? Yeah. Nicolas Cage is hilarious. And that I just love to watch it. Yes. I you have to watch him just have meltdowns all the time. Anything Nicolas Cage is in and he loses his mind, I'm like on board. If he's not losing his mind, I'm not interested. And then I was gonna mention one other one, and now like it's for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

You know, I know it's a Christmas movie for me. This is a movie for all seasons when Harry met Sally. Oh, it's that's very yes.

CHRISY 19:16

I would highly recommend that. I love that movie. That is a very good movie. Yeah, so those three I usually enjoy watching. Oh, I did turn Nick on to this really old movie, and now it's like one of his favorites. And I never connected it with Valentine's Day, but again, it's a real and we're talking from the 30s. It's called My Man Godfrey. And it's with William Powell, and it happened one.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

What is it called again?

CHRISY 19:41

My My Man Godfrey. She passed, she got killed in an airplane crash.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

That's the passage. Carol Lombard. Carol Lombard. Oh, you're not talking in the movie, you mean like in real life this time. In real life, yeah.

CHRISY 19:52

She's actually listed as a what do they call that? Uh because they were selling, they were promoting war bonds. That's where she was.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

She was killed in action. They give they give it a few.

CHRISY 20:04

She's considered killed in action because she was trying to promote war bonds.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Oh, oh, I would have never put that in there. Okay, yeah, 1939, uh 36.

Moving Day Picnic And What Not To Watch

CHRISY 20:15

Yeah, it's a very good, kind of fun movie because the family uh they're so eccentric, and it's like 1930s eccentric, and they're you're going through the depression at that time. Okay. I highly recommend it.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Oh, it's one of my favorite movies of it.

CHRISY 20:30

Really? It's very funny. Is it very Valentine y? It is, because it it it it could be definitely, it could be at any time watch, but Valentine's Day would be fun too.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

There's more to it than the love story. Okay. But the, you know, yeah. That's how it wraps up.

CHRISY 20:44

Okay. It's it's a totally dysfunctional family, just like everything else. Uh-oh, that's why we like it. We like it. Yeah. So you have outside of when Harry met Sally, do you have anything you Well, you know, I don't spend as much time in front of the TV.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

No. So you have things to do. I got I'm a little busy right now. No, I can't really say that I have. I mean, that's just not my my go-to, but I like I said, uh When Harry Met Sally would definitely be a good little love. Actually, I like any of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies. So, like Meg Ryan was in uh When Harry Met Sally, but like the Tom Hanks um Sleep is in Seattle and You've Got Male. Like, I love all of those. So Joe versus the volcano.

CHRISY 21:26

That was alright. Yeah, that one's a little one of the uh out of the three. I'm guessing that one's not the more watched one button.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

But yeah, I you you gotta watch my man got it.

CHRISY 21:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

And that's one you watch with Jim. Because it's not, even though it's kind of a romantic thing. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

It's I actually, you know, well, maybe well it's not a straight chick flicks.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

I'm gonna tell you more than that.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

We should be arriving at the new home on Valentine's Day. So we probably won't have any furniture. So we probably will be doing you need to have your picnic. Yes. And watching the Yeah, we'll I'll bring my laptop. We can, you know, picnic and and have that. And there's thank God a Del Taco at the top of the street. And we'll go get Del Taco and picnic. Perfect. There we go.

CHRISY 22:11

Three movies you probably shouldn't watch on Valentine's Day. Yeah. Intolerance, Birth of a Nation, and Lawrence of Arabia. And maybe Schindler's List.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Yeah, don't watch. Those are my recommendations. Don't watch. If you're if your Valentine's Day wants to watch those, that's a red flag. Swipe right, swipe right. I don't know. Is it swipe left if you like, swipe right if you don't? I don't know. But yeah, you know what I'm trying to say. Right, right, right. Yeah. I will have to say I was surprised that there was no Valentine decorations up.

Simple Decor, Winter Blues, And Dust

CHRISY 22:46

Yeah, I because I'm trying to, I have been trying to declutter a little bit. For you. And I did do pretty well with the Christmas stuff. Yeah. But I generally didn't have a whole lot for Valentine's Day anyhow. Good. And I probably should try to put just a few little things out because they're just little cute things. Yeah. In the winter, you kind of do like something to make, especially after Christmas when you take all your pretty decorations down. Yeah. And you know. You see your house for what it is now. Well, yeah. It's a bunch of yeah, dust. Well, the furnace is running because it's so cold, and I'm like battling the dog's hair and dust in general. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

So just the one dog. The other one doesn't shed.

Service, Cookies, And Checking On Neighbors

CHRISY 23:28

Yeah. We have one that does kind of shed. So but all right. What else you got on this Valentine's Day last year? I just was noting that if you wanted the distraction from traditional expectations, maybe like what you could do with your partner, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, a volunteer for some worthwhile cause. And you can make really cool cookies. Yes. Uh for Valentine's Day and maybe send them to people who you think they would cheer up. And because it's so cold, maybe check in on some of your elderly neighbors and take them some cookies. That would be nice. Make sure they're okay. So that would be good. You don't feel the pressure of all of that romance and going out to eat. Which you don't nobody out there really wants to do. I have another really good idea. Oh, what's that?

Heart Health, CPR Classes, And Chocolate Debates

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Okay. So Junkies Care This Month is we are focusing on the American Heart Association.

CHRISY 24:26

There's a perfect.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

So your date night could be go take a CPR class. We'll give you a reason to mack on each other in public. What what was that? CPR. You could, you know, the the breasts can it's not funny if I have to explain it to you.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

Do I deflate the joke so quickly? Remember, remember you talked about why you can't.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

Yes, because you don't want to have to right do the breasts. But you know, if you love them, you can.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

No, she wouldn't do that to me anyhow.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

It just isn't appropriate. She's still calling a squad if I'm thanks a lot, flying squad. I should do that. You're right. But yeah, so this month, uh Junkies Care, we are parting in the American Heart Association. And so yeah, that's just something that, you know, gotta take care of that healthy heart. Have a good, healthy Valentine's Day dinner. Don't go overboard on the sugar and the chocolate. Chocolates. Well, yeah, go overboard. That's all right. Just do it. You do you. Get dark chocolate, it's better for you. There you go. Even though you don't like it.

CHRISY 25:28

Does anybody like no?

SPEAKER_02 25:30

You know, it's weird because I never liked it, but as I'm getting older, I'm finding that there's times I actually crave dark chocolate. I'm getting it.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

If it's with mint, I like them.

CHRISY 25:38

Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. I don't mind it, but it's not a first pick.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

White chocolate's always my favorite. So really?

CHRISY 25:46

Oh, I love it. You are like one of They're both giving me gross chocolate. Because I don't even know by definition if that's really white chocolate. It's not chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

I like my hot venti white chocolate mocha from Starbucks. I like white chocolate candy. Like I used to love it Easter time. If I got the white chocolate bunny, oh hallelujah, I was happy.

CHRISY 26:06

So yeah, I I would see some of those once in a while. And at Easter, especially like you're saying, is when you saw it the most. The most, yeah. And I'd be like, you know what? Damn. It's white chocolate. I love it. But desperately, I would sit there and gnaw on it anyhow.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Yeah, you know what though when they would have like the 50% off, it was always the white chocolate. You know what? Yeah, yeah. It's the only ones left over.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

I love it. So you like the white Reese cups? Oh my god, yes. Well, yes. Oh, and the white Kit Kat bars. Oh fascinating. I know. I never met anybody who preferred you prefer that over regular milk chocolate? I mean, I like milk chocolate, don't get me wrong. But if I if the two were sitting there, I would I would pick the white chocolate first. Yes.

CHRISY 26:47

I bet a little maybe this is why you and Jim. He likes milk chocolate. Yeah. So you guys are able to manage each other. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I gotcha. Perfect.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Of course, Chris and I were fighting over the chocolates. Don't touch it.

CHRISY 27:00

I will eat the creams out of a box of candy, though. I do like the cream. He doesn't. I don't mind them.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

No. I don't like any surprises when it comes to milk chocolate.

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SPEAKER_02 27:09

But I will tell you, that is, you know, speaking of chocolates, that is the one thing that Jim and I, I mean, we don't do a lot of um gift giving because, you know, we're getting things for each other all the time, blah, blah, blah. You know, one thing that I can probably guarantee that will be given by one or the other or both is the Ghirardelli chocolate squares with the caramel inside. And part of that is because on our honeymoon we went to San Francisco and we toured the Ghirardelli factory. And we had that that there. And so that's always kind of been our thing. So I can pretty much guarantee there will be some Ghirardelli caramel chocolates. It's a good thing.

CHRISY 27:48

That's good though. That's nice. It has a connection. It has a connection.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Yeah, I was talking about the dark chocolate mint. I love the Girardelli.

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SPEAKER_02 27:54

They're Giardelli, yeah. They're so good. So, anyways, not a sponsor. Not a sponsor. Should be. Should be. Everyone should be a sponsor. Yes. We're working on it. We're working on it. So grateful. Well, it sounds like love really is in the air despite the coldness. It gives you more reason to cuddle. But just remember, if you don't want to be changing a diaper in nine months to uh watch what you're doing this Valentine's Day.

CHRISY 28:18

Yeah, be careful out there. Be careful.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

So, all right, everybody. Well, thank you for listening to this episode today. Hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day. But you know, tell tell the people you love around you that you love them no matter what the day is.

CHRISY 28:36

Yes, absolutely. All right, see you later. Happy Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Bye-bye.