Comedy Through The Chaos Part Two

Hey, friends, we'll see if this is working because I got an interesting new message on the livestream today, but hello, Cadre spirit, in case you can't hear me, I'm miss Shannon, a comedian, corporate speaker, voice actor and performer here based in Minneapolis. And today you were getting to talk to me while I'm also about to put bratwurst in our air fryer. So it's been a day, and it may be a day for you wherever you are hanging out and caregiving. So hopefully you are being blessed with the gift of peace and time.

I know that as caregivers, that is something that we are often not blessed with. Hello. Hello, Donick. Hello. Hello. Speak, wonder. Speak, wonder. I need to check out your streams. I'm sorry I missed you. Welcome to my kitchen, everyone. You get to not only meet Miss Shannon's kitchen, you get to meet Miss Shannon's air fryer, which currently has Cyclone kids bratwurst in it today. If you wonder why the day has been robust is I have an electrician who is currently outside the house who had to come and check some things out because if you're fans like Sci-Fi movies or old like Frankenstein movies, you know, at the point where the house is, like, doing this because of the electrical surges going through the house, my house has been doing that, which is not a good thing for a small house in West Minneapolis in Minnesota.

So, no. So, hello, speakworder. Yes. Peace and time. Yes. So what I have been blessing myself with is the fact that I am at least well positioned enough that I'm not going to try and figure out some of these things. And maybe you do that, too, is that there's things that you could be doing with your time that you're like, oh, instead of hiring a professional, do you try and figure it out yourself? So for me, a great example of that was the other thing that we got done today is a new screen door.

So it's a storm door. It's a very industrial strength storm door. I'm gonna show you from the outside, because normally we do this from my home studio and you guys don't get to see my house. But look. Look how robust. Look how robust that storm door is. And when I decided that I needed a storm door, it was because the other one had been broken. I don't know how you open your door, but in my house, it involves a great deal like booty bump and a little hip check, which is not eventually good for the tensile strength of your door.

You will eventually booty bump your door to the point that it breaks, which is what had happened in our home. So I was going to go and purchase a new storm door and then spend my time trying to put it on because I am very much one of those people who do it yourself. Yeah, exactly. Speak wonder. So you do it yourself. I have a small chainsaw and I chop down things on my trees. I am always going, oh, I can figure out how to reinforce this wall in cyclone kids bedroom that he stops kicking holes in it.

And I've gotten really good at things like repairing little holes in our sheetrock. So at first I'm going, you know, I'm gonna spend the time to try and figure out how to put up this storm door. Could. I could do it. And then once I started doing the math in my head, our little personal at home pythagorean theorem that we all do as caregivers, I'm like, you know what? The amount of time that it will take for you to put this up and hope that it is correct. And you can see in my social media that I'm a gangster.

I do a lot of stuff myself. I'm going, the likelihood of you doing this in an efficient manner is probably small, so use your time for what you are good at, which is taking care of my kiddo, talking to y'all, showing up to the event tonight, I need the host. And I hired a lovely man to come and put the storm door in, and it is secure and it is taken care of. And it is now adding to my peace and time because I released myself from having to be able to do that, too. Same thing. I'm not going to figure out how to do my electrical.

I'm a hired at company. And the person that is in the truck out there, he's a lovely young man that can figure out how to do this electrical work because he went to a great deal of school and education to get the certifications to do it. And I won't end up going, hey, what happened to Miss Shannon? And then one day in the Cadre sphere, you're going to see a little note that says, one of our creators electrocuted herself trying to rewire her own circuit box. I again, strong strength. You got to use your skills where you are and using that time also for the thing that we often remind ourselves we have to do, especially here on caregiver Thursdays, if you can take a little bit of that time back to take care of your self care.

I've been trying to lately, like, really work on you know, the. The way that I fuel my body and working on redoing some things with, again, mine and cyclone kids sleep schedule because I can see that falling off again. And just some of those things that are really necessary as you continue to take care of yourself so that you can efficiently stay in the marathon that you are currently in as a caregiver. And I mean, some days the days are not efficient. I meant to sign on today at 02:00 and then the day got away for me and some other things.

And then you saw I was almost running late for 230. So giving yourself that grace to be perfectly imperfect and to show up at whatever your best is for that day is what you need to do if you're going to stay in this game efficiently. So I encourage you to do that. I'm going to try my best to see if Cyclone kid wants to make a cameo appearance today. I make no promises. That is why I am slowly sauntering back inside the home to see if he is willing to come in. Do you want to say hi to mom's friends?

Say hi. You gonna wave? Yeah. So that's our new hahaha. Don't worry, he has a room. He has things. He is elected to lay there. Nobody told him to. Nobody encouraged him to. That's him living his best life in our hallway. So whatever your best life looks like, hey, man, this week, baby steps towards that. Absolutely. Yes. Speak, Warner. Every day you have to do it. And the day, no matter how much you think it needs to be efficient and whatever standard you're holding yourself to, that you're going, this is my idea of success is probably more than you really need to be doing.

I do that all the time. Like, okay, man, I got up this morning, I took an efficient shower, I managed to get him bathed, and he has been fed all day. That's an achievement for us today. Right? So that's what we got for you today, that's what we got for each other, is going. I still need to hold space for what I am able to give today and in reserve space so that you are able to give tomorrow as well. I know my buddy JC is going to be coming on here, presumably at 04:00. That's what we put in the schedule.

So we'll see what kind of day he's having. Maybe he can be there. And then that is one of the most wonderful things about our Cadre community is the way that we discuss all of these things, or a very realistic, authentic way. And some days they look really pretty and we have time to put on all of our concealer and cover up some of the things that we're dealing with and some days we do not and both days are perfectly perfect in their own way. So I'm going to go finish. We got six minutes for the bratwurst so I'm going to go work on that and check out with the electrician and so that gives you a little cliffhanger for next week when I sign on.

By then the electrician should have come and completed all the work and so our home should not be going like this throughout the day. So hey, Anna, thank you so much for joining us. And so what we'll do is that we'll just go ahead and we'll check in next week, man do what you can, release the things that you can do but probably should not and we'll see you back here next week. Let's talk to you later. No makeup speak wonder no makeup.