You Ask, We Answer: Fashionable and Foot-Friendly?
Doree and Elise hear from listeners about their recent microjoys, fashionable but foot-forward shoe recs, and hear fresh requests and recs for skincare prods.
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Mentioned in this Episode
'67' things to do with tweens and teens in L.A. that will blow their minds
Photobooth museum
Anime world
Puppy goat or kitty yoga
Slime museum
Mic Drop
Grammy museum
Academy museum
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Transcript
The following transcript is AI generated.
Doree Shafrir (00:10):
Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Doree Shafrir.
Elise Hu (00:17):
And I'm Elise Hu, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.
Doree Shafrir (00:20):
And today is a You Ask We Answer episode where we get to all of your questions, your comments, your feedback, your concerns.
Elise Hu (00:29):
Your micro joys. Yes. I know we did a call out for MicroJoys.
Doree Shafrir (00:33):
Yep. We have a couple micro joys today. So yeah, we have a lot of good messages today. So thank you for all of those. Elise, also, do you want to mention who's coming on the show again soon?
Elise Hu (00:43):
Yes. Dermatologist Dr. Jenny Wong, my dermatologist, is joining us again on the show to answer your skin, skincare, skin issue questions. She's really awesome. She is not a skinfluencer. She is not a dermatologist influencer. She's just a working clinician who sees a lot of patients. Her clinic also offers a lot of treatments and some of the new fangled procedures, and so she can answer your questions about those as well. So if you do have questions for Dr. Jenny Wong or just want to write us and share micro joys or if you need recommendations for things, you can reach us at the usual spots. Forever35podcast@gmail.com is our email and our voicemail number to text or leave a voice memo is 781-591-0390.
Doree Shafrir (01:40):
Elise, what is going on in your neck of the woods?
Elise Hu (01:42):
By the time you all hear this, I will be coming back from a guys' weekend. I do my girls' weekends. We do all girl trips and we've done Palm Springs. We've done Big Bend and Marfa, but this was inadvertently, this past weekend now is inadvertently a guys weekend because my friend Steve, who is a photographer who's based in Philly, decided to get an Airbnb for a month down in Mexico City, one of my favorite cities. And he's like, "There's five bedrooms. Anyone can come down at any sort of interval." And so I got some of my friends who happen to be available and we're just going to go down and hang out with Steve. And it's all bros and me, the lady bro. So we're going to go to a Lucha Libre show, love Lucha Libre. It's like the precursor to WWE or WWS. We're going to ride bikes.
(02:40):
There's the Sunday bike ride through the city of Mexico City. They close down main roads and everybody rides bikes and it's just supposed to be an awesome experience. I didn't get to do it last time when I was there for my birthday. And so just really excited to be out there. And then I guess in the big family news is for both of our families, the kids are back at school. So it's hard to believe it. Summer's already over kind of ish.
Doree Shafrir (03:08):
I can't believe it. I mean, you and I have talked about how if you didn't grow up on the West Coast, the early start to the school year can be sort of disorienting, but I'm on board with it.
Elise Hu (03:23):
Yeah. Just being able to have a predictable start and end time to the kids' days, school days is really helpful. Totally. Because during day camps, during the summer, I have no idea where I'm supposed to be and when because it changes every week and it's hard to keep up. But yeah, Issa, my middle, started middle school and she was a little nervous about it, but as soon as we got there and she saw all her friends on the front lawn and they were all taking pictures together and stuff, she just popped out of the car and they went. And then
(03:58):
Ava was like, "This is the first day of my last year of middle school." That is crazy. And so she was really excited about that. And then Luna's on her own in elementary. And I tease this during casual chat, which is Issa has curly hair. She's the only member of our family with naturally curly hair. And it's actually naturally wavy. It's not crazy curly, like super, super small curls or anything like that. And now she's trying to play up that curliness. And so she's been watching a lot of YouTubes to see how to do that. And she got a special brush and now she's drying her hair with a diffuser, that attachment at the end, and she's using curl cream and gel. And so for all the curly haired girlies out there, we've had this conversation, I think maybe last year, but Issa wants to know the best curly hair gear.
(04:51):
And so I said I would ask, I was like, "Do you want to leave a voice memo for the show?" And she's like, "No, you can just ask. Can you just ask for me?"
Doree Shafrir (05:00):
Wait, I love that.
Elise Hu (05:04):
So yeah, just want to crowdsource that and see what y'all have to say about curly hair and how to get your naturally wavy hair to look great, not
Doree Shafrir (05:14):
Too frizzy. My hair totally changed texture after I had Henry.
Elise Hu (05:19):
Yes. I hear that. I mean, that happens with all the hormonal changes. And after folks get those of my friends who have gotten any sort of chemotherapy too, their hair grows back different as well. It changes your hair color sometimes, but also texture. My friend in St. Louis, a good friend of mine, all her hair came back way darker, but also super, super curly. And it was always
Doree Shafrir (05:45):
Straight. It was never curly. That's so funny. Her whole life. Yeah. If you look at, I always had a bob because my hair was so straight and I had bangs and I had a Louise Brooks straight shiny bob. And now my hair is sort of wavy. Wavy. Yeah. It's just totally different. And I tried to have bangs a couple times again since I had Henry and my hair was just not feeling it. They just weren't doing the same things that they used to do. It was very interesting.
Elise Hu (06:26):
I think it happens. And then my big hair change was just all the postpartum hair loss. I lost so much hair from the front and the sides after each kid was born that I go back - But didn't a lot
Doree Shafrir (06:37):
Of it come back?
Elise Hu (06:39):
Yeah. When I go back and see photos though, it's like I have doll hair up at the front.
Doree Shafrir (06:45):
Wow.
Elise Hu (06:46):
It's hilarious. I didn't realize it was so annoying and bad, but now in retrospect I'm like, dang, I must have lost a lot of hair. And it's really, really thick up until the baby comes out and then it just starts coming
Doree Shafrir (06:59):
Out.
Elise Hu (06:59):
It's wild.
Doree Shafrir (07:00):
Totally. I know my hair never looked better than when I was pregnant.
Elise Hu (07:06):
Speaking of which, I just wanted to shout out AOC. So AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the lawmaker from New York, she is kind of doing these long vlogs about her egg freezing, which I only caught wind of, I guess a couple days ago. And then I DM'd you, Doree, about it because I think it's so cool because I don't know a lot about the whole fertility process and she's just taking us through a journey that we get to go on. And I'm sure so many of her followers are not women who have had this experience. And so it's an opportunity for so many people who might not know very much about fertility treatments to learn about it. Certainly it's for me. I'm just like, "Oh wow, this is so eye-opening and what's happening and what is this?"
Doree Shafrir (07:54):
Yeah, it has been kind of the talk of the infertility world because it's someone very public and cool who's going through it. So I think people are really happy about the visibility that she's bringing to it.
Elise Hu (08:11):
Has she said what motivated her decision to make this public? Because it is usually kind of a private journey.
Doree Shafrir (08:18):
I thought she said something about how she just wanted to demystify and de-stigmatize and show that this is something that a lot of women are going through or are thinking about going through. Cool.
Elise Hu (08:34):
Very cool.
Doree Shafrir (08:34):
Yeah, I think it's really cool. And also, I think it's for ambitious women like herself to show that there's also this stuff going on in her personal life I think is really important. I think it's great.
Elise Hu (08:53):
I've found it very compelling and captivating and go her.
Doree Shafrir (08:56):
Yeah, totally. Well, we got a couple of notes about micro joys.
Elise Hu (09:03):
Yay.
Doree Shafrir (09:03):
One was from a listener whose emails we read on the air recently and she said, "Having my emails read on air made me smile, but there was another joy from daycare drop off this morning. I dropped off my son at pre-K and they were already serving a smack, animal crackers and milk. I think the young classrooms break the crackers into smaller pieces for smaller hands and they don't use open cups for the milk because when I commented that my son dipping his crackers in his milk looked yummy, his teacher replied, yes, this is one of the pleasures of pre-K. The pleasures of pre-K makes dipping cookies in milk sound like such a delicacy made me smile."
Elise Hu (09:44):
Oh, that is a true joy. I don't even know if it's a micro joy. It's a full joy. Love that. I think I talked about during the pop culture episode, this new documentary Cookie Queens about the Girl Scout cookie season. Yes. And one of the characters in Cookie Queens is a five-year-old Girl Scout cookie seller. And the most memorable line from the film is, I guess they asked her to talk about what happens at the Girl Scout meeting. And she's like, "Well, we always start with a friendship circle and a snack." And I though, you know what? Every meeting should start with a friendship circle and a snack. And a
Doree Shafrir (10:23):
Snack, yes. Yeah. If
Elise Hu (10:23):
There's no friendship circle and a snack, what are we even doing?
Doree Shafrir (10:27):
What are we doing? Aw.
Elise Hu (10:30):
Yeah.
Doree Shafrir (10:31):
Elise, do you want to read the next micro joy?
Elise Hu (10:34):
Sure. I planted some flowers on the side of my house and now first thing in the morning, I drink my coffee outside just looking and admiring them.
Doree Shafrir (10:45):
That's so nice. Well, if you have other micro joys that you would like to share, please do send them to us. Again, you can send them to us at 781-591-0390. You can email us at forever35podcast@gmail.com. You can also visit our website, forever35podcast.com. We have links there to everything we mention on the show. You can follow us on Instagram @forever35podcast. We post some clips from our interviews there and some other fun stuff. And of course our Patreon. It's very exciting. Join us there. Yes. Join us there. We do weekly casual chats where we just kind of gab on Fridays and we do live casual chats every few months. We have a community chat going on the Patreon app, and you get all that for $5 a month. For $10 a month, you can get ad-free episodes. You also get a shout-out on the podcast each and every month.
(11:44):
You can shop our favorite products at shopmy.us/forever35, and we are going to take a short break. And then when we get back, we actually had two different listeners text us about shoe recommendations.
Elise Hu (11:58):
Ooh, good.
Doree Shafrir (11:59):
Tiz the season, I suppose.
Elise Hu (12:02):
Tiz the season.
Doree Shafrir (12:03):
Tiz the season. All right, we'll be right back. All right, we are back. Elise, do you want to read this first one?
Elise Hu (12:16):
Sure. Hey, Elise and Doree. I am in need of foot care advice from our forever community. I developed a sudden case of plantar fasciitis this past April and have been dealing with it ever since. I've seen a podiatrist, been going to physical therapy and started acupuncture, and it's still nagging me. Ugh, not asking for medical advice, but I would love to hear from listeners who've dealt with this issue and know what worked for them. Also, I would love to get some recommendations for legitimately fashionable orthotic/plantar fasciitis friendly shoes. Perhaps this doesn't exist, but I want to believe it does. Thanks so much. Orthotic shoes. Well, Gen Z made orthotic shoes cool again. Everybody was wearing orthotic shoes and that was the style. So I think they are cool again. That's true. Yeah, I think they are cool again.
Doree Shafrir (13:07):
I have a couple of brand recommendations. I've never had plantar fasciitis. I don't know. I say it right. Plantar fasciitis. But a few years ago now we had an advertiser on the podcast called Vivaia, and they basically make comfortable shoes, but they have a lot of options, which I like, not just ones that look orthotic-y. You know what I mean? Oh,
Elise Hu (13:40):
Okay. Yep. Yep.
Doree Shafrir (13:42):
So that could be an option that's V-I-V-A-I-A. And then I also like Flip-Flop. I will say I find their shoes do run a little wide. So if you have wide feet, that might be a great option. If your feet are narrower, maybe not, or maybe size down. I find that I have to size down in their shoes, which is unusual for me, but I do think they run a little bit wide. And then there's always aerosols.
Elise Hu (14:19):
Yeah, that's true. Yep. I had a pair of sandals from them that were real workhorses.
Doree Shafrir (14:26):
Yeah. So you could try all of those. Dr. Scholls makes some good ones now too. They have some really great sneakers actually, and that actually is something that might come up for our next text, which is, "I'm going on a 10-day trip that will include a lot of walking in Ireland in November. So rain and need a great walking shoe rack for someone who has the foot skin of an infant. I'm talking blisters on blisters and hopefully they look cute too."
Elise Hu (14:57):
Oh, yeah. I don't know. I just always wear my whatever athletic shoe I happen to be wearing because I don't get the blisters, but walking shoe racks, I feel like this has come up.
Doree Shafrir (15:09):
This has come up and I have seen the Dr. Scholl's sneakers recommended. They're like a cute white sneaker. The ones that people like, I think are the time off go women's platform sneakers, and they also come in a non-platform style. So those could be an option. I don't know what their rain resistance is like, but you could look into that for sure. Do you have any other recommendations, Elise, for this person?
Elise Hu (15:48):
I don't, though I will recommend a Substack of somebody who I really trust who makes great recommendations, which is Alicia Ramos from Downtime. So downtime.substack.com. She wrote about her favorite sneakers or maybe walking shoes at the end of 2025 because she does favorite things from 2025. So I would check that out and see if there's some good shoe recommendations there for your trip.
Doree Shafrir (16:18):
That's a great suggestion. Love Alicia. Okay. This next text really made me chuckle. All right. This person wrote, "OG listener, during peak COVID, Doree recommended a lap desk for your laptop. I definitely purchased it and still use it. My cat found it and now made it her new bed." And then
Elise Hu (16:45):
They sent a photo and this cat is a tuxedo cat, like Abe.
Doree Shafrir (16:49):
She's so
Elise Hu (16:50):
Beautiful.
Doree Shafrir (16:51):
She's really beautiful. And she looks really cozy. She looks really cozy. She has the lap desk flipped over and she's just chilling.
Elise Hu (17:05):
I love the way that cats burrow into. They repurpose our belongings. Anytime I have a suitcase in my room or I'm about to leave, or even if somebody is visiting, just coming over for dinner, Abe would crawl into their bag. If it was a big enough tote bag, Abe would just hang out in the tote bag. And then when I have a suitcase open, he's always sleeping in a suitcase. And so it's fun to see all the ways that cats find comfy surfaces.
Doree Shafrir (17:33):
Don't they love boxes?
Elise Hu (17:35):
Yeah. There was a famous viral cat named Maru, a Japanese cat named Maru, I want to say 15 years ago before, maybe during the time of Vine, and Maru became an internet cat because of all of the clever ways that Maru navigated boxes or would jump really high into a box, high jump into a very tall box. So yeah, I love kitties. I miss having a cat around the house and I still don't know if we're ever going to get one again or I guess I still need more time before we adopt again.
Doree Shafrir (18:10):
Yeah, I think that's wise.
Elise Hu (18:13):
Yeah.
Doree Shafrir (18:13):
I know some people like to immediately get a new pet, but I think it's good to have a period of mourning and -
Elise Hu (18:20):
Grieving.
Doree Shafrir (18:21):
Yeah. Grieving. I agree. Yeah. All right. Elise, do you want to read this next text?
Elise Hu (18:29):
Yes. It just says, "Best sunscreen ever eaten. We're loving it this summer. Mineral and blends so well." But I have to admit, I haven't heard of this yet.
Doree Shafrir (18:39):
I hadn't heard of it either, but I'm looking at their website. I mean, their packaging is certainly cute.
Elise Hu (18:44):
Okay. They
Doree Shafrir (18:45):
Got that. Very Gen Z, bright color, fun, like that brand Bubble. Do you know that brand Bubble?
Elise Hu (18:52):
Oh yeah, of course.
Doree Shafrir (18:53):
Yeah, it looks like that. This must be the new Gen - Kid sunscreen? Gen Alpha vibe that they're all going for. Oh, yes. And they have a teen line. Okay.
Elise Hu (19:08):
Yeah. Yeah.
Doree Shafrir (19:09):
That makes sense. Cute. Okay. I'll add it to the list. And then another listener wrote in to say, "Pausing the pod to send a rec for the listener who wants a regular/plain old sunscreen for her face. I tried this recently at Sephora and was very impressed. Though I'd share in case it fits the bill for the person who called in. And it is the Tower 28 SOS FaceGuard SPF 30 sunscreen. I have tried this sunscreen. I also liked it.
Elise Hu (19:45):
I also like the brand. It's an Asian - I like Tower 28. Yeah, it's an Asian American founder who I love. And then Tower 28 is the lifeguard tower right by us in Santa Monica. Oh, how funny. So she named it after - Do you think it was named after that? No, it was. She's talked about it before. Oh, it was? Oh my gosh. Yeah. She named it after the Lifeguard Tower that's close to us here in LA, the Santa Monica Lifeguard Tower, I think at Ocean Park.
Doree Shafrir (20:13):
How funny.
Elise Hu (20:16):
Yeah.
Doree Shafrir (20:16):
Oh my gosh.
Elise Hu (20:18):
Speaking
Doree Shafrir (20:19):
Of kid brands,
Elise Hu (20:20):
The teens really like Tower 28. So
Doree Shafrir (20:23):
It's another - Yeah, I think their products are great. I do believe this is a tinted sunscreen.
Elise Hu (20:30):
Oh, not a plain old?
Doree Shafrir (20:31):
I don't think it is a plain old, so just FYI.
Elise Hu (20:37):
Okay.
Doree Shafrir (20:38):
Okay. And then we got a voicemail about tretinoin. So let me just play that.
Elise Hu (20:47):
Oh, right. We had a question about tretinoin recently.
Doree Shafrir (20:49):
Well, it was a question about retinol, and I was saying that tretinoin I think is the gold standard. So anyway, this listener had some thoughts as well.
Listener Voicemail (21:01):
Hi, I just wanted to second Doree's recommendation regarding the retinol question.
(21:06):
The gold standard is tretinoin. You can get it prescribed to a dermatologist or there's some services online. Start with the. It comes in three strengths, 25%, 50 and one. And it takes people's skin at first, but you just kind of put it on once a week, but then twice a week, then three times a week. And then the goal is to get to the 0.25 every single night. That's what I do, and I've done that for probably about a year, a year and a half, and I might round up to the 0.5. But honestly, if you stay at the 0.25 forever, it's great. Tretinoin is the gold standard. It's studied. It has amazing skin turnover. Tretinoin's where you want to go. My insurance does not cover it. It's prescribed by my derm, but my insurance does not cover it. But it's even out of pocket, it's like, I don't know, 20 bucks or something.
(22:02):
Whereas you buy a retinol over the counter or something from a fancy brand and it could be hundreds. So yeah.
Doree Shafrir (22:09):
I love to be seconded. I love to be told I agree with Doree. Doree is correct. Feel free. Just music to your ears. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, I will play this voicemail multiple times. No, but seriously, thank you. Yeah, I kind of feel like there's a bunch of products that are fine to use, like tretinoin. You don't have to pay a lot of money for a fancy skincare brand retinol. And tretinoin will probably do the same or better job. You heard it here first. Okay?
Elise Hu (22:51):
Yeah. Yeah. Dr. Jenny Wong has said to Ava the same thing about all the different acne products out there. She's like, "Just use different, just use different gel. It's so affordable. You can buy it at a drug store or on Amazon and it's not fancy, but it works and it's not in cute packaging."
Doree Shafrir (23:12):
Yes. Right. Exactly.
Elise Hu (23:15):
But it's really about the chemical.
Doree Shafrir (23:17):
It's really about what's in it. Yes, exactly. All right, Elise, we are going to take another little break and when we come back, we have a request for a rec for a face cream.
Elise Hu (23:33):
Okay. Well, there's a lot of those out there, so I'm curious what the question is. Yep. All right. Stick with us. We'll
Doree Shafrir (23:39):
Be right back. All right, we are back and we got a text that said, "I just finished the ELF Holy Hydration face cream, which is perfect for a summer nighttime face cream because it was so light and fast absorbing, but I'd love a rec that's similar in price range, $20 or under and is a little more hydrating."
Elise Hu (24:07):
$20 or under.
Doree Shafrir (24:09):
Everything
Elise Hu (24:09):
Is so expensive these days.
Doree Shafrir (24:12):
You know what I thought was nice and not expensive is the Cetaphil moisturizing cream. I mean, it might be a little too moisturizing, but I thought it was great and it is under $20, so that could be an option.
Elise Hu (24:31):
Yeah, that's
Doree Shafrir (24:31):
Also
Elise Hu (24:31):
Dermatologist favorite
Doree Shafrir (24:33):
Too. It's unscented. It's got all the things that I like. Elise, do you have any suggestions? That's
Elise Hu (24:42):
Awesome.
(24:43):
I've been wearing the exact same. I've been using the same moisturizer for so long. I use the yellow clinique box squared moisturizing lotion, and then occasionally, or when I'm traveling, I mix it up and I use the Tacha moisturizer, but neither of those are under $20. And so the CeraVe, I hear about a lot from dermatologists also, because you said Cetaphil, right? I said Cetaphil. Or did you say CeraVe? Yeah, Cetaphil, but then CeraVe. They're very similar. Right. So those are the drugstore favorites. Yeah, I'm using. Let's see. How much is the Tacha? The Tacha is 25, so almost under.
Doree Shafrir (25:30):
Tacha's 25?
Elise Hu (25:32):
Oh wait, it says 25 to 93.
Doree Shafrir (25:34):
Yeah, the 25 must be like a sample size.
Elise Hu (25:37):
Okay. Yeah. No, sorry, it's not.
Doree Shafrir (25:41):
It's not 25. No way. I love Tacha, but it is not cheap.
Elise Hu (25:48):
The full size is 74. The mini is not available, but it is 25.
Doree Shafrir (25:58):
There's another brand I like called Versid that is sold at Target, and they have a gel cream moisturizer, which is a lightweight moisturizer that's 14.99. I mean, it's only two ounces for the tube, so it's not like a ton in the tube, but it is under $20. So that could be another possibility.
Elise Hu (26:20):
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Doree Shafrir (26:22):
Well,
Elise Hu (26:23):
I haven't tried this ELF product because I really love the ELF lip oil. There's a lot of ELF makeup that I like, so I would like to give that a try. And then kind of mid-range, the other moisturizer that I like is in the $30 range is the Linege Waterbank. It's the blue line of their products. It's the Waterbank blue hyaluronic moisturizer or something like that.
Doree Shafrir (26:48):
All right. And listeners, if you have suggestions, please let us know. Elise, do you want to read this next one?
Elise Hu (26:56):
Yeah, sure. "Forever 35, friends. I was catching up on Eps and heard the caller coming to LA with teenage kids wondering what to do, and just a few days later, this article ran in the LA Times. "And then she links us to the article. "I have a 14-year-old myself and had never heard about some of these places. Elise, I know you have a teen and tween, so maybe these will be of interest. I know Sweet Henry is still too young, and it's an LA Times travel list, Los Angeles Things to Do with Tweens and Teens. I hope we can give gift subscriptions, but if not, then let me just log in and see what's on the list, and we can just tick them off really quick because I think we have the time. They came up with 67 things so that we're not going to go through entirely, but there's a lot of cool, cool experiences that are on this list.
(27:54):
I'll just tick off a few. Embrace an old school ritual at the Photo Booth Museum in Silver Lake. Silver Lake has a photo booth museum. There's an anime world at Little Tokyo's One Piece Cafe. There's puppy, goat, or kitty yoga at Laughing Frog Yoga in Sawtelle. I would like to do goat yoga. I think that that could be fun. I mentioned this when we were asked, the Lake of Slime at Slumu, the Slime Museum. The kids love the Slime Museum. It's a little pricey, but the Sleumu Slime Museum, and they've gone to a lot of birthday parties there. It's a cool place to have birthday parties too. Just a few more things. There's escape rooms. Get a first taste of corporate greed at the premium LA escape room, the latter. Oh boy.
(28:45):
Yeah, you can roller skate the night away in Glendale at Moonlight Rollerway. And then they have a new karaoke spot in West Hollywood for kids called Mic Drop. Well, maybe we'll do it for Doree's birthday next year because we had briefly thought we were going to do that this year. So anyway, and then they have the Grammy Museum and the Academy Museum and lots of cool things on the list. I actually think this isn't just for tweens and teens. I would do a lot of this stuff. I'm sort of like, "Oh, I didn't even know there was goat yoga so close to me. I've been wanting to do goat yoga. I've done puppy and I just haven't done goat." So very cool. Anyway, thank you listener for calling in with these suggestions, and I hope that the listeners who came to LA with their teens had a really good time.
(29:29):
And if you didn't, we also want to hear about that. Give us the tea.
Doree Shafrir (29:32):
Yes, yes, yes. Give us the tea. All right. Well, that does it for our listener questions and emails and messages for the week. Thank you so much. If you want to hear more from us, write in, call in 781-591-0390 forever35podcast@gmail.com. Now we are entering the intention zone. So last week my intention was to get Henry ready for school. I think I did as well as I could have. Great. Yeah. Good job, mama. TBD. Thank you. This week I am getting back into strength training. I went to a class the other day. It was great. So I'm going to get back into it.
Elise Hu (30:26):
Great. I got that lecture. I went to get my physical yesterday. I went to get my annual physical because the school requires that you have a fresh TB test, a negative TB test within the last 60 days. And I actually had just gotten a new TB test in January of this year because of this rule. And then I had to go again because I was signing up for another school, the middle school, and they're like, "It needs to be within 60 days." And my doctor was like, "What is this? This is a lot of TB tests. Even nurses don't get this many TB tests." Anyway, so I was at my physical and she was like, "You got to get your breast thing removed." And I said, yes, I know that is going to happen. I'm going to get around to it. But the other thing is that she was like, "Oh, you're only doing strength once a week?" And I said, "Yeah, because I run and I take a tennis lesson." And she's like, "Oh, that's not enough strength.
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You need to be lifting if you can lift at least twice a week heavy weights because that's such a great guard against muscle atrophy and bone density issues, but also just extends your lifespan and the enjoyment of your life and doesn't get you weird body things and weaknesses and being misaligned, which gets us back to my intention of last week, which was my body's random kinks and how to work them out because I was feeling weird stuff in my knee and weird stuff in my left hip was talking to me. And I made some progress. I did a bunch of foam rolling and just more stretching after I started exercising. I warmed up and then I stretched because I'm not a big stretcher. I've never had the patience for it. So I actually tried to do that, but then I am not fully back to not noticing anything.
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So I think I still need to do an acupuncture treatment. I was trying to save some money and not do it, but I think
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That I will do that. This week, this week, I think I'm just going to intend to try and maintain my eight hours of sleep, seven to eight hours of sleep a night because school is back, which means zero hour is back, which means I'm losing an hour of sleep at least in the mornings because the kids have to be at school at seven. So being able to maintain eight hours of sleep means that I have to go to bed earlier and I'm not good at that because I like to be up and out late. So that's going to be my intention. I'm going to try my best because when I am sleep deprived, I'm cranky. We don't want that.
Doree Shafrir (33:04):
No.
Elise Hu (33:05):
Nobody wants that.
Doree Shafrir (33:06):
No one wants that. No one wants that. All right everybody, thank you so much for listening. Forever 35 is hosted and produced by me, Doree and Elise Hu and produced and edited by Samee Junio. Sami Reed is our project manager and our network partner is Acast. Thanks everybody.
Elise Hu (33:23):
Talk to you next time.
Doree Shafrir (33:24):
Bye. Bye.