Comedy Through The Chaos

Hey, friends. Happy Thursday to you in the cadres fair. Coming to you from our household backyard. If we're fortunate, some of my local rabbits that I have been cultivating a friendship with will make it into the live stream. So we're out here because it's summer vacation still from a kiddo, and I've set up a little habitat for him over there. And this seemed like the place where I would be able to have the most peaceful conversation with you today. If you are checking in with me for the first time, I am miss Shannon.

I am a professional comedian, corporate speaker, voice actor, eventMC and benefit auctioneer. Hello, Lena. Thanks for joining hubbing out of the twin cities here in the lovely state of Minnesota. But mostly I am the caregiver. Hello, doctor Christina. Mostly I'm the caregiver for this adorable 16 year old. Where is he? Athenae over there got a thing that's mostly what I do is follow him around. Hello. Hello everybody that is joining us, Jules Newfound lover, Sue. Love to hear from you as well. Thank you for being here today as I'm hanging out in my backyard wondering if this is gonna blow over.

But we appreciate being able. Oh, Vermont. I have not been to Vermont yet. I should have to put it on my list of places to travel to. But normally on Thursdays we have a variety of contributors that talk about the experience of being a caregiver. You don't need my phone right now. Play him on. Play in the water. Play him on. I'll give you my phone when I'm done. That's life. He has his own phone, but it's not mom's phone, so it's not as important. So I will talk to you all for a while. Cause I think the concept today is the concept of divided attention, which is already complicated for us fully functioning, adulting human beings.

But when we are thinking about it in the perspective of people that we are caring for, it's probably very difficult because they want to monopolize your time as they are want to do. And you are still probably trying to figure out how to find enough time to care for yourself even though you are a caregiver. And this is definitely one of those subject matters where I do not always practice what I preach, which takes me to a story I want to tell you about last week. There was a day last week when I woke up.

I woke up sure that I needed to hurry up and get dressed to go and do my radio show that I do Sunday morning. So I woke up like abruptly, immediately went into my routine of what I do when I leave the house to go and do my radio show on Sunday morning. And this is normally, this is an extra special day because I had some guests that were coming in. So I was like, oh, my gosh. I gotta get there in time to make sure I can let them in and make sure that they are comfortable before we go live. And we'll have all this time to get prepared.

So I get up, and my sister, who is the swedish person in the whole wide world and also watches my kiddo for me when I'm working, I text her. I was like, hey, good morning and happy Sunday. Hello, Shannon with an ooh. I said, hello, happy Sunday and good morning. I'm a hop in the shower. I'll be ready to leave in like, 20 minutes. And she text me back, but I didn't see it because I was already in the midst of getting ready to go because I was sure I had some place to be. So she comes over to my house and knocks on the door because she lives next door.

And I'm like, okay, I'm almost ready to go. And she goes, but, Shannon, it's not Sunday, it's Friday. And I'm like, oh. And I actually had to look at her and go, are you sure it's Friday? It's Friday, right? It's not Sunday. And she's like, no, it's only Friday. And I was like, okay. And I exhaled and went about what I needed to do for Friday because I was actually looking forward to Friday. That's when, you know, one of his last days of the summer program and everything. And the reason why I think my brain scales skip to that is that.

That Saturday, for the first time in, I don't know when, I had nothing to do other than hang out. I had a Saturday that was empty as far as things that were scheduled and what was going on in there. It was a Saturday where I wasn't busy or booked. And so I bring that up because maybe that happens to you, too. You're so used to being busy and booked because we're caregivers and doing all this other stuff that when you have a day to yourself or a day where you don't have to do anything, you completely, completely lose track of that day because you're already thinking to the next time that you have something to do.

And isn't that just amazing that our brain won't process our downtime, but it'll definitely think about the next thing that you have to do that keeps you busy? So I encourage us all to allow our brains to enjoy the downtime, the not busy time. So that that is something that your brain's looking forward to as much as the things that are keeping you busy. And the have tos. Like how insane is that? That my brain's so hardwired to only process busy that when it's not busy, it washed away an entire day.

So I did, in the long run, end up enjoying my Saturday. We got to just hang out and lounge around, which I've almost forgotten how to do. I've also did a great job with Sunday. We had a great time talking there. The show that I was getting ready for was a show I do with a holistic healthcare provider and some estheticians were in, and we talked about skin care and taking care of your largest organ you have in your body. And the other thing that we got to talk about is basically also a little fun fact.

You don't need to go and get salmon sperm facials, no matter how many Kardashians think that you do. You don't have to do that. The other thing that you do not need to do is use a bunch of snail mucus things on your face either. Cause it turns out that the only way they get the mucus is by menacing the snails a little bit. And I just figured there's other way I can hydrate my skin than menacing snails. If you wanna know about how they get the snail mucus to put it into the jars that we can put on her face, hit me up.

You can hit me up in the chat. And I'll be happy to educate you on how they get enough snail mucus for all of us to use it for our skincare regime. But thank you, Doctor Christina. Thank you, Luke as well. I'm glad you had a good time at the show. You were always welcome to join us. And Doctor Christina. Yes, it is something that we all need to remind ourselves that those moments of contentment are always as important as our moments of busy. And the things that fill us and fuel us need to be. Those moments of peace and contentment and refueling and resetting need to be just as important as the other things that we do.

And if we don't consciously work on that. So our brains rewire to imprint on those moments will miss them. You'll have whole days miss out of your experience, and you deserve those as much as you deserve all the other things that you do. So hopefully that is your takeaway for this week. Hopefully you're not flashing forward beyond the moments of rest and rejuvenation, the things that will actually make it so that you feel young and rejuvenated, so that you don't have to use salmon sperm facials or snail mucus in order to get that same return on your investment.

So thank you for joining us here on the Cadre sphere. Thank you for all of the information that you share. As you can see, there's a number of contributors here that talk about a whole host of things to help you and your whole host of a human being help navigate all that we have going on. And we know that it is a strange, wild and wonderful world for so many of us. And so if you can be bolstered through what is going on here in the cadres here, please continue to pop around. Please continue to let us know what kind of content we can share for you to help support and scaffold you through your adventures out there in the universe.

And, you know, check out the other days that we have going on here. There's usually something a little something different from day to day and a little something different for everybody. And we are always looking for ways to continue to build this community so that we can be a resource for you through all of these difficult times and the crazy adventures that we have. So I am really happy that I have a couple of quiet spots on my calendar over the next couple of days and I'm going to enjoy them and not ignore them.

So I will see you back here next Thursday when life gets back busy again. And in the meantime, love yourself, hug yourself, take a deep breath, and we all deserve to have a little bit of respite in our life. Thanks for joining us, Cadre. We'll see you again soon.