Comedy Through The Chaos

Happy Thursday to you, Cadre friends. I am miss Shannon joining you from my kitchen right now so that I can hear my washing machine. I didn't realize I didn't put my recycling away. That should be under the drawer, I mean, or under the cabinet. Anyway. Hello and happy Thursday to everybody that is out there in the cadres sphere. If you're joining us live eventually on Thursday, that's because you're here for caregiver day. If you're joining us sometime in the future for a replay, we appreciate you as well.

One of the things we love to do hello. Speak wonder. One of the things we love to do here in the Cadre sphere is provide content for you when and how you need to be able to receive it. Hello. Hello, Shrendria. Hello. I like your screen name. Hello. Thanks for joining us here in the Cadre sphere. I was saying as I first signed on that I'm in my kitchen again because I am. Hello, I am listening. Hello, Shannon. I am listening for the washing machine. I don't know how your life works. If you look through my LinkedIn profile, it will tell you that I am a comedian and a corporate speaker and a voice actor, an event mc and a benefit auctioneer.

If you hang out with me, you know that I am mostly the mother of an adorable 16 year old boy who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum. And he is downstairs, which is also where our laundry room is. And his favorite thing in the whole wide world is a gray blanket. And great blanket needed to be laundered and was in the washing machine and he decided that it was taking too long and took it out. And so he was slightly disappointed when I went down there a few minutes ago and he was sitting with an incredibly wet, soggy blanket and I suggested that we put it back into the washing machine to allow it to spin.

So now I just need to listen to see if he decides to take it out again, which I think is so interesting about so many of the things that we cover in our lives is that there's so many things that are part of a process and isn't that process. The worst part is that knowing that you're probably going to get something that you enjoy on the other end of the process. Like, I know that he will enjoy gray blankets so much more once it is done being laundered and then put into the dryer, it'll come out and it'll smell all great because I put essential oils and those cool, like I have those cool wool balls.

It'll be great. That's how. That's how great blanket should be. You know, loved and held is once it is warm out of the dryer, not when it comes out after it did not get through a full wash cycle. And it's incredibly heavy and wet. And definitely a wet blanket. Yeah. If you wonder where that whole wet blanket thing came from, I could have given you a full, full example of what it looks like in real life a couple of minutes ago on our downstairs sofa. But yes, waiting for that result can really get in our way.

Like us just doing that fortune telling thing where it's like, I can't. I have to get to the end and not worrying about the process. So that's a lot of what we are working on here in our home, is that the process, the journey, the adventure, as I like to call it, is just as cool as the result. So sometimes you have to let the process process and go ahead and just figure out what you're going to do in the midst. Find something else to do with your time, think about something else because you can't fast forward to the result.

You need these things. You know, he needs to allow me to let this blanket clean. Trust me. Any parents out there, you know how your kid has that thing? That's just Gross, but they love it. And you're like, I'm. I literally cannot let you touch that anymore. It's toxic. That's the way I feel about great blanket right now. It needs this process. And there may be some things in your life that are in need of the process. Maybe the process you're in right now is cleaning something out of your life or your brain or something to do with your system.

Maybe you are in the process of pruning or trimming something out of your life. That's not fun either. Maybe you're in the process of evaluating something in your life. That's not the fun part either. You want to skip to the end when you already done all of that, when you already have extra room in your personal closet because you figured out what you're going to let go and where it's going to do. Maybe you're like, I really would like to have something in my life be more metaphorically clean. And you want to skip to the point where it's already there, but you don't want to actually go through the process of collecting all of the things and doing the mopping because that's nothing.

The part that's fun. So I encourage you to try to reframe the process, whatever it is that you need to do. If you don't have one of these in your house, you should go get them. It's a game that we play where you throw the ball and then it sticks on here, but it's very soothing and you can't do it wrong. And that's a lot of the process. Yes, I know. You need a towel. He needs a towel. Because the blanket was soggy mess. I'm not even gonna show you. So you need a process, and you need to figure out a way to make the process part of the fun.

What part of the process can you go? Well, that part's kind of neat. I forgot that I liked that part of the process. I was so worried about the end result. Thank you, steph. I think these are fantastic. I was so worried about the end result that I forgot that I like this little piece. The process or this part of the process can be enjoyable as well. Or maybe the process is actually better than the end result, because once you get to the end result, you don't have anything to look forward to anymore.

So I encourage you to go ahead and examine the processes that are going on in your life and see if there is a way that you can make them the most important thing about it and not skip, too, to the end. We'll see if that happens. I do think that I need to skip to the end a little bit more efficiently than I normally do. My whole general plan. Thank you very much. I think these are great. We've had a great time. We've had great fun with this. So are you gonna come upstairs? Come upstairs. I'm hoping he comes upstairs.

Okay. Go get the towel out of the bathroom. Plans on plans, on plans. Go get the towel, or I'll bring you a towel. This is going to be a fun afternoon, so hopefully you have some things in your life that are part of your fun afternoon. If you wonder again why I call my particular livestream comedy through the chaos, welcome to the chaos. Find those moments in your life that you can smile about, even though they might be messy, even though they are disheveled, even though they seem like they are not the fun part of the journey.

And we are in all of this together. That's why we do what we do here in the Cadre sphere, is to give you a moment's reprieve from whatever is going down in your life, no matter how wet and soggy it may be. And there is a variety of contributors that are here that are helping you with that journey. We appreciate each and every one of them. You can see my friend Shannon that is there. You can see my friend speak wonder as well. m. central to talk about family time, which is always fantastic. And then we have other content happening tomorrow, on Friday and then throughout the weekend.

And then we start all over again on Monday, like so many of us have to do. So whatever soggy mess you were dealing with, I hope that you are quite able to clean it up with a towel or two. And if not, hey, soggy isn't that bad. So enjoy your journey, everybody. Enjoy the process and find some way to make it. We'll see you next week. I'm going to come give you a towel.