Comedy Through The Chaos

Hello, Cadre Sphere. Hello, hello, hello. And happy Thursday to you. I am getting in my car and I'm going to start driving a little bit and. Hello, Jules. Jules, this story will make sense in a second. Good to see you, Jules. So I will drive and then I might tap out sooner than I thought. Good afternoon to you as well, Jules. Thank you for joining us for Comedy through the Chaos guys. Something that I do here in the Cadre Sphere on Thursdays, and normally I am someplace landed. Hello. Speak Wonder.

My kiddo is back there because imagine this, I had to pick him up early today and I got there to pick him up early because the power is off at his school, so you got to go home early. So I don't know why the power is off, but that is what I talk about, is finding comedy through the chaos, that there is something different happening all the time. And this is how we do, right? We're just gonna roll with it. We're gonna roll with it. My kiddo and I, like, everybody was okay. It's just no power because stuff happens.

And, you know, we've had that happen in our house before. Like, I have a backup generator. Not a very big one, but I do have one. So. Yeah, I'm glad you were outside. I'm glad you were outside. Speak, Wonder it. Are probably going to have an afternoon thunderstorm here in the part of Minnesota that I live in. So we will see how that goes. It's been one of those weird weather days, so because we had early pickup and I don't want to leave him in the car so long, I'm going to make this a little abbreviated today because this is a good example of where I think a lot of us land as far as caregivers, is that we end up in that situation where we already have to be more malleable than a lot of times we would like.

We have to and jag and move and do all of those things. And. And I was thinking recently because one of his additional caregivers brought this up to me yesterday because I got home, I worked all day, I got home, and then I basically had to do more work, including things like go outside and put down a bunch of ant spray in my yard because we have too many ants because of the time of the year. So when I got inside from doing the yard work and I still had a voiceover audition to do and still needed finished doing my kiddo's laundry, it made me just really think about the concept of hustle culture, about how so many of us are in that situation where you have to hustle and hustle and hustle and we've just really over glamorized that grind.

And it was additionally brought home to me recently because I was the emcee at a conference for angel investors. I know it's a funny thing, but it's interesting. The people that are in your circle and one of their speakers, I believe her name is Monica Nasif and she is the woman who started the home brands of Caldrea. If you shopped at certain stores like Patina and those things, you could see Caldrea. But she also is the One who started Mrs. Meyers before Mrs. Myers was bought out by Procter and Gamble.

She's the one that started Mrs. Meyers. And so hopefully you're familiar with Mrs. Meyers. You can get it pretty much every place now. But it's a more eco friendly cleaning brand. And so she was talking about how she had put so much effort into starting this brand. And one of the final questions she got from the attendees at the conference was, well, and it was a very well. And I know the guy that did it and he's a sweet guy. And he asked this very well, just well constructed question about finding work life balance and then let that just lay in Monica's lap and asked her about finding work life balance and what she, she thought about it and she said, that's BS and everybody in the room laughed.

But she's like, there is no work life balance. And I think that we really need to remind ourselves that especially as caregivers that a lot of times we are not going to be able to find what that stereotypical or that romanticized version of balance is. But what we can probably do is find some version of, of blending and working towards that way where the needs of the people that we love and we care for, plus our needs, plus the things that we have to do if we still work full time or whatever we do, in addition to caring for people, that we blend that into a way that we don't fry ourselves.

And I know that that's something that often we talk about here on Caregiver Thursdays is trying to figure out a way to get the resources and the information that you need, but also leave space for yourself. And if you feel like we repeat that over and over again, it's because we know how difficult it is to do that in practice and to get into that space. And I have to even remind myself that it's like, okay, this is a busy time, but this can't be the norm. Like this can be a few days of, okay, you got above capacity, but then you have to go, well, when what's the normal going to look like?

The normal means that I have time to fully do his laundry. I have time to actually sleep and maybe brush my teeth and take a full show shower. That needs to be the normal. And then there can be bursts of ridiculousness. But trying to figure out how you do both of those things are the way that we manage to stay efficiently in this role as caregivers as long as possible. And for many of us, that's what is going to be needed is to be in the space for a considerable amount of time. Not necessarily we're doing it for a couple of weeks.

It might be we're doing this for a long run and that's the only way we're going to do it. And I remind myself about capacity just like I remind each of you about capacity all the time. So with that being said, I am going to strive for our version of normaly next week. We will see how that goes. Hopefully power remains powering all of the things by next week. And there's no early pickup. But what I'm going to do right now is tell you all how much I appreciate all of you. I appreciate you following the chaos that not only I have in my life, but sharing the chaos that you have your in yours.

And then I'm going to honor what I normally do with my kiddo is that if he's in the car, he gets to use mom's phone. So I'm gonna sign off. Please let me know in the chat or in the replay if there's anything else I could do to continue to support all of you. And I'll let you know if I find out what happened with the power at his school. Because you know your lady likes a cliffhanger. So enjoy the rest of your week, everybody. We'll see you here again soon.