English Conversation and Listening Practice, Learn While You Sleep

in this video we use advanced binaural beats and multiple dialogues of english conversation to help you identify and remember english words being used correctly in conversation listen to this as you go to sleep and leave on whilst you sleep for best results we use three different binaural beats in this video the first one enhances your learning ability the second initiates sleep learning and the third improves memory if you enjoy the video remember to leave a comment and hit the subscribe button hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really missed going to concerts me too i haven't been since coveted restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums oh i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while um that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents huh grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantosaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket ugh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake ugh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or a cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheese is now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since covet restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while hmm that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just coveted it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents huh grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantosaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket oh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake oh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me um i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since coveted restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums well i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bed on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantosaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket ugh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake ugh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or a cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not i'm trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since covet restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums well i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while hmm that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantasaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket oh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake ugh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me um i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since coveted restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums oh i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while um that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents huh grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantosaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket ugh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake oh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or a cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not i'm trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me um i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since coveted restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while um that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantasaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket oh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me um i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some hi it's so nice to see you you too how have you been great i've got a new job really what is it oh just some freelance writing for a website do you like doing it yeah it's great because i can work when i have time i bet you don't have too much of that you are so right having a toddler and a newborn is nuts do you get any sleep at all you know what i actually do that's lucky i didn't sleep at all when my daughter was a baby so tell me how are things back home everything is mostly the same but there must be some juicy gossip you can tell me let me think i know you've been hanging out with sharon she always knows what's going on ah you wouldn't guess who's getting married who molly and steve oh that's surprising i didn't even know they were dating yeah for a few years now that's funny because i remember them hating each other they did seem to hate each other but i guess love is fickle are you still trying to learn spanish yeah i have friends who live in argentina and i want to go visit are you taking classes or studying online i would like to take classes but i can't seem to find the time have you found any good online tutorials then yeah there are a few programs that i've checked out you should probably find someone to practice with i have heard of a group that meets at a bar to practice on wednesdays that sounds like fun i'd like to go to that do you speak any spanish yeah a little and i'd love to practice what i know all right let's go together this wednesday do you have any pets i have two cats you i really want a cat but i live with my mom and she hates them oh that's a shame i love my kitties yeah she says a cat would drive her crazy i think she used to have one what happened to it i'm not sure it might have run away oh that's so sad i don't know what i would do if one of my cats ran away yeah i think she never got over it well maybe you could have another kind of animal one that doesn't run away maybe i should get a tortoise see that's a great idea how is the construction of your new beach house coming really good it's almost ready that's great what still needs to be finished mostly the details like painting the interiors that's amazing have you done much work on it yourself yeah i did a lot of the design and logistics not so much the actual building how cool to be able to design your own house yeah it's a lot of work but it will be worth it in the end will you have a guest room so i can come stay of course it'd be great if you came and stayed for a weekend all right let me know when it's ready will do how is your vegetable garden it's a lot of work but i've been eating lots of delicious fresh vegetables that's so cool what have you been growing well the cucumbers did really well this year really how many did you grow i had so many i couldn't even eat them all i gave pounds and pounds away wow what else do you grow well i've got corn peppers and squash too how delicious what's the hardest part about growing vegetables it depends on the season but keeping pests like ants out is really hard i bet i would love to learn more about growing my own food i'd be happy to teach you how are your kids doing great they're growing so fast how are yours good also but my three-year-old has been sick this week oh i'm sorry to hear that what's she got pretty bad cough and she's been getting fevers at night oh that's awful yeah the worst of it is that she really wants to go to school oh i bet she misses her little friends exactly she's totally sick of being home i hope she gets better soon i'm sure she will it's just been hard entertaining her all day i just let her watch tv all day can you believe this weather i know it's wild it's been so windy these past few days yeah i'm worried about my roof blowing off same here we just had it redone last year so i'm hoping it'll be okay is it supposed to rain soon i just checked and it doesn't look like it well is the sun going to be out those days nope looks like almost a week of cloudy windy weather okay well i guess i'll be inside drinking hot chocolate then oh that sounds so good i like marshmallows in mine no not me i think they're gross what are you thinking about cooking for dinner i'm not sure do you have any ideas well i'm thinking about lasagna but it's a bit of a production that's true what do you like to put in your lasagna i like to use spinach and feta cheese that sounds delicious it is but it takes time to cook the noodles make the spinach and the sauce layer it all yeah and finally put it in the oven to cook for at least 30 minutes but i'm sure it's worth it in the end it absolutely is i love eating it with a nice glass of red wine i prefer white wine have you seen any good movies lately i've been pretty busy what about you i saw a pretty good movie the other day oh yeah what was it called the dead don't die what was it about a zombie apocalypse oh no those movies are far too scary for me i love zombie movies this one was pretty funny actually i'll take your word for it and stick to comedies what's your favorite funny movie i love groundhog day what's your favorite tv show i think friends is definitely my favorite show oh i love friends it really takes me back to the 90s yeah i love re-watching the show it's so funny it really is who is your favorite character i think chandler's the funniest but you gotta love joey how you doing nice so did ross cheat on rachel no they were on a break i disagree he totally cheated that is so unfair they were clearly on a break poor rachel how could you even say that are you planning on going on vacation this summer yeah but i can't make up my mind where to go what about you oh we always go to the same place every year where's that my family's lake house that sounds nice it is i've been going there since i was a kid and i love taking my own kids there now maybe i should rent a cabin on a lake for our vacation i totally recommend it i'll look into it let me know if you have any suggestions you know the house next to ours is usually available for rent that would be amazing i'm thinking about painting my house a new color what color are you thinking of painting it well it's yellow right now and i'm thinking maybe blue i'm sure that will look great i think so too who will you get to paint the house i'm hoping my husband will help me do it that's a lot of work it is but we enjoy working on our house i like doing projects around the house but painting is a whole other story yeah i guess it is but it's hard to find people you trust to work on your house i know a great guy i'll give you his number i'm thinking about going back to school oh really what are you going to study i think i'd like to get a master's degree in teaching that's cool what would you like to teach well i'm a substitute middle school teacher right now so you'd like to teach middle school i'd actually like to teach high school literature oh that was my favorite subject at school really why i had great teachers who made the books really come alive what was your favorite book you read in high school i loved the great gatsby i really miss going to concerts me too i haven't been since coveted restrictions were lifted me neither i used to love going to concerts and festivals what's the best concert you've ever been to i saw the rolling stones live a few years ago wow they must have been pretty old yeah but they still put on a great show i bet the best concert i ever saw was snoop dogg oh wow i bet that was a fun show it was amazing who would you like to see now i'd love to see bruce springsteen have you heard about bitcoin yeah i have but i don't really understand it it's an online currency it is a very interesting concept it is but i've heard it's very bad for the environment oh really why it takes a lot of computers to mine the bitcoin and those computers use more energy than some small countries wow i thought it would be better because it doesn't use paper i thought so too but it seems worse well i don't think i'll be investing my money in bitcoin me neither what do you think a good investment is well my dad always said to buy land because they're not making any more of it i have an old friend coming to visit me next week really how long has it been since you've seen each other wow i haven't seen her in over three years that's a long time yeah it is but every time we see each other it's like no time has passed those are the best kinds of friendships absolutely i'm really excited to show her around the city where will you take her well she loves art so we'll definitely be visiting all of the museums i hope you have fun together i'm sure we will do you ever have friends come to visit you yeah in fact my best friend from college is coming for christmas did you pick up any new hobbies during the 2020 lockdown i did actually me too what did you start doing i started baking bread almost every day wow and have you kept it up yeah i have i love fresh baked bread what hobbies did you start i started doing online zumba classes oh how fun and are you still doing them yeah i do a couple classes a week oh that's great i bet it's good exercise it is and it's something i can do while i'm watching my kids i bet they love watching you dance around would you ever move out of the city um i'm not sure the country is nice but the city is so convenient i'm just feeling really tired of the rat race what do you mean i just feel like i work so much and don't have that much time to enjoy life so you're thinking about quitting your job yes and moving out to the country i have a family house on a farm so you'd give it all up and go farm yeah maybe i love gardening so maybe i'd do okay i think you should give it a shot if that's what would make you happy thanks you're absolutely right what about you do you plan on staying in the city forever well forever is a long time i definitely love it here do you think i should break up with my boyfriend i don't know why what happened i looked at his phone last night and i saw he's been texting a girl i definitely think you should talk to him i don't know i just have a bad feeling he's been cheating on me that's too bad but i really think you should give him a chance to explain maybe you're right is that the only reason you want to break up well no i haven't been happy in a while hmm that's too bad you should follow your heart that's good advice it's just scary to think about starting a new life you're a strong person i'm sure you'd be fine are you nervous about climate change sometimes i try not to think about it too much same i do worry about wildfires though yeah that's pretty scary we're lucky to live somewhere that's not too prone to that very true but all the weather seems to be getting more extreme yeah there was so much rain this year they were worried about rivers flooding yeah and in other parts of the world they aren't getting enough rain and it's just messing up whole ecosystems i do try to reduce my impact on the environment same here i bike to as many places as i can and i try to take public transportation when i can i think voting for politicians who want to make big changes is important too i totally agree with you so what do you like more winter or summer summer all the way really i like winter way better why i hate the cold because it's when you can make fires in the fireplace and drink hot cocoa sure that stuff is nice but what about the beach i love going to the beach on hot days the beach is okay i guess but i always end up getting a sunburn okay but what about the longer days in winter it gets dark so early that is a really good point but it's all the more reason to be cozy inside to each their own absolutely but you know what the best season really is spring i can agree with that do you like playing board games i really like scrabble what about you i'm really into chess oh chess is so hard so scrabble true but with chess you really have to study a lot to be any good yeah i really like the way it makes you think though we should do a games night soon great let's do it at my house this weekend perfect i'll invite some of my friends i'll make guacamole and salsa to have with chips and i'll bring the beer i'm so sad oh no why i just found out my grandmother died i'm so sorry to hear that thanks she was 92 years old so she lived a nice long life wow it's still sad though i miss my grandma a lot really when did she die hmm about 10 years ago i guess we always miss loved ones after they die that is so true i plan on speaking at her funeral and i'm hoping that will give me some closure i'm sure it will do you use social media a lot hmm what do you mean by a lot well how often do you check your phone oh man all the time ah me too i'm always checking for notifications me too and there's hardly ever anything interesting i know but i still check all the time it's so addictive what do you think we could do i think turning off notifications for most apps is a good start well that's a good idea i'm gonna do that right now me too i think i'm going to delete a few of my social media accounts i don't need them all that's a good idea i think i'm going to go off a few two what are your kids favorite tv shows well my son really likes paw patrol oh my kid's into that too she really likes peppa pig oh that one is really funny my kid was speaking with a british accent for a while because of watching peppa pig yeah it was so cute that is really funny i like my kid to watch the shows i liked when i was little like what i loved sesame street and mr rogers you can find old episodes online those shows were so good it seems like everything from our childhood was better than it is now i'm sure every generation says the exact same thing i've gotten sick so many times this year oh i'm sorry to hear that thanks i've just had like a stuffy nose and a cough i've heard there are lots of colds going around yeah now that everyone is out of lockdown the good old colds are back that is definitely true now that i think of it i haven't got sick in a few years the quarantines stopped all sorts of illnesses not just covet it seems you're right i'll be drinking lots of tea this year good plan yeah and hopefully once i'm feeling better we can go out for drinks that would be fantastic do you like going to amusement parks i prefer water parks oh water parks are fun i love wave pools yeah me too i love taking my kids in the summer i do love a good roller coaster though i'm not sure about roller coasters the big ones scare me way too much that's why i love them i hate the long lines though that's the worst thing about amusement parks yeah you have to go on a weekday because on the weekends it gets too crazy we should take all of our kids this summer to a water park let's do it we can't forget sunscreen definitely my kids burn so easily are you happy at your job sort of i like what i do but now that we have to go back to the office i'm not so sure i feel the same way i work online on my computer i can perfectly work from home and do you most of the time i do which is great but they want us to come back into the office more i'm thinking about quitting and doing freelance work that's a great idea you can make your own hours exactly if i'm home more i can help out more around the house that's why i like being home too i can work a bit on the computer and then go to my garden it's a way better lifestyle than being at the office all day yes and you avoid rush hour traffic so true there's nothing worse than being stuck in traffic where do you usually get your clothes i mostly do online shopping i don't have much time to go to stores i like shopping online too but sometimes the sizes are all wrong that's true you have to really check the size charts and measure yourself yeah a size medium for one company could be an extra small for another if i have a chance to go to a store i really like going to thrift shops oh me too i found some of my favorite clothes at thrift shops same here it takes time but you can find amazing pieces where did you get the jacket you're wearing now oh this it was actually a present from my mom oh it's really nice will you ask her where she got it sure i'll let you know how much screen time do you let your kids have i try to keep it to 20 minutes a day that is so good how do you do that i only let them watch one tv show a day that is so hard so many shows are at least 30 minutes that's true there are only a few things i let them watch and what about movies does your family have movie nights oh yeah we watch a movie on weekends what about you how much do your kids use screens oh man a couple hours a day sometimes between tablet games and tv at night my kids don't have a tablet so that helps i bet the tablet was a christmas present from their grandparents grandparents love spoiling grandkids can you believe queen elizabeth has been the queen of england for 70 years i know it's such a long time she has lived through so many changes so when she became queen it was 1952 the world was such a different place yeah and there have been so many changes and no one had even heard of cell phones if you could travel to any point in time when would you go oh i'd definitely go and visit the age of the dinosaurs wow wouldn't you be afraid of being eaten by one that's a chance i'm willing to take can you imagine how cool it would be to see a gigantosaurus i would be terrified well when would you like to visit i would love to go far into the future and see if humanity survived see that's too scary for me what if there's nothing left of earth but what if there is and humanity has ended war and lives in peace and harmony that would really be something to see i absolutely believe it's possible i wonder what kind of food they would be eating in the future i have a big lemon tree in my backyard and it's covered in lemons right now oh we should make lemon pie i'm terrible in the kitchen it's easy you bring the lemons i'll bake the pie that sounds great it's not too much trouble i love baking it's no trouble at all okay let's do it i have so many lemons and i want to use them before they go bad cool drop by my house later and we can have coffee and pie you'll have to bake it first though that's the easy part great and how do you take your coffee with sugar and cream i can't believe my big test is in two days and i don't even know what a function is you've got a calculus exam coming up yeah and i'm so behind on my classwork wow sounds like you need to sit down and get to it it's so hard turn off your cell phone tv radio computer everything if you just sit there you won't have a choice but to study i can't turn off my kid she's a million times more distracting than a cell phone what about putting her in front of the tv then i can really only concentrate when she's asleep well does she go to bed early most nights she does luckily what about your kids i wish they were in bed earlier but usually around 10 o'clock do you play any sports i used to play soccer but i broke my knee when i was in high school seriously i'm sorry to hear that that sounds so painful it hurt terribly and i couldn't walk for a long time how did you break it i was celebrating that we won a game and i got up on a table and fell off oh no that's such bad luck were you really good not at all i think that was the only game i ever won really but did you used to like playing i did i wasn't good but i had fun i love playing tennis i like watching tennis but i've never played it hey i read what you wrote it's good but there were a few mistakes really like what there were just a few grammatical errors i went ahead and corrected them great thank you so much how did you get so good at grammar i don't know i guess i just paid attention at school that's not true in fact i remember you used to skip class all the time i can't believe you remember that i remember a lot of things that happened in high school oh like what else like what happened at sarah's party that was just a rumor no it wasn't i was there and i saw everything have you ever been kayaking no i don't really like water sports really i love them i just went whitewater kayaking this weekend that sounds really dangerous it can be you have to be very alert wow you're so brave and what about water skiing have you ever done that no way i would be terrified you're really missing out the next time i go water skiing i'm going to take you so you can lose your fear all right i guess i'd be willing to learn that's great it's so much fun you'll see okay but i'm wearing a life jacket ugh i am so tired why are you so tired my baby didn't sleep at all last night oh no was she sick or something no i guess she just didn't feel like sleeping she was happy but awake ugh that sounds exhausting it really was it's so hard having a new baby tell me about it luckily my kids are older now my clothes are always covered in messes the baby made yeah i can see that yeah being a parent is a messy business i hope you can get some rest soon are you a dog or a cat person oh definitely a dog person i love dogs i'm totally cat person do you have any dogs i have two dogs do you have cats yes i have three cats i love them so much the best is when they sit in boxes they're so funny i bet that's pretty cute i love my dogs because i can go out and do things with them like go to the park that's the nice thing about dogs but cats are so great to cuddle with i like to cuddle with my dogs oh that's pretty cute i guess cats and dogs are great i could not live without my pets me neither they always know when i'm feeling down i often prefer to hang out with my dogs than with other people should we go out for a drink after work thanks but i'm not really drinking right now oh really why not i just find that alcohol really doesn't make me feel very good but what about just one beer no i'd rather not i'm trying to stop drinking all kinds of alcohol okay i understand how about getting some coffee instead i'm also trying to cut down on caffeine wow you're getting really healthy yeah i'm feeling great these days i'd be happy to go get smoothies oh i love smoothies what's your favorite flavor definitely mango banana what do you think about veganism what is that it's when people don't consume any animal products like no meat right but also no milk or dairy either sounds interesting but difficult there are animal products in lots of food that's true i've been looking into it and i think i'm going to try to be vegan for at least a month let me know how it goes and if you find enough to eat i will and if it goes well would you want to try to be vegan with me um i'm not sure i really love cheese there are actually a lot of vegan cheeses now made from nuts that's interesting i'd like to try some you

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