Hi, welcome to Christie's couch. My name is Kristi Lukazyak and you are hanging out with me on my couch snuggle up because it's cold out there, isn't it?

I cannot stand this freaking winter. It has been it's been the winter of my nightmares because I run really freaking cold and it has snowed literally every day in Pittsburgh.

I think since I don't know the end of November and I am over it anybody else do you feel me totally yes and I think we're in the middle of like a polar vortex and insert whatever other rude weather behavior the environment can come up with that is where we all are so.

And we're in the middle of a global pandemic so it's not like I can just hop on a plane and be like i'm out of here so I will just sit with my feet in my little foot warmer under my desk and chat with you so that's where we are and it's been a week right so happy Thursday I hope that you are hanging in because we've almost made it to the end of the week and today's episode is going to be a lot of fun.

It's a little different than what I normally do but I will get to that in just a moment so last week I had mark on the pod as my guest and he was probably the most reluctant guest I've ever had he was 1000% not on board to do it and I had to bribe and beg and plead and negotiate and he did it.

And you guys actually liked it so huh what does he know so it was kind of fun to hear from a dance dad's perspective right I felt like that yes it is and then of course Clara found out that mark was on the podcast and she was like I want to be a guest and I said okay I said you can be a guest what do you want to talk about and she said anything but dance bombs and I said well don't you want to talk about what it was like growing up in like that weird environment and she looked me and she's like no anything but dance bombs she's like we can talk about my life.

We shall see but Clara is definitely angling to pop on as a guest which I think is really funny speaking of funny so right in our house I know I've mentioned before oh you can hear my little foot rubber or like my little foot warmer as I move my feet it makes a squeaky noise so in my house I think I've talked before that two of our pets we have three pets two of our pets have been.

They've been provided to us by Chloe my 19 year old because she always has these grand ideas of adopting pets that don't work out too well so somehow they end up at Christie's wayward home for animals or Christie's home for wayward animals my hopes not wayward the animals are okay so the animals end up here.

But anyway normally when we adopt an animal and everybody's a rescue here now normally when we adopt an animal it's old enough that it's been spayed or neutered and this little kitty that Chloe brought home noble she found him in a dumpster when he was like I don't know a week old or something so clearly we have been taking care of him since the beginning so all of the vaccinations like the neutering the whole thing which again I'm not really used to.

So yesterday he was neutered and Clara had this grand idea that he was going to come back sweeter so I don't know like what the correlation is I guess that maybe she felt like his testosterone made him mean I don't know but we brought him home last night and the vet told me she said you know he's probably going to be a little out of it he'll be like he'll need it to be quiet just keep him quiet and I'm like how do you keep a cat quiet.

She said maybe just lock him in the bathroom okay I'm not locking my cat in the bathroom but I brought him home I like made his little bed put him in the bed and he has been a lunatic since we came home like the anesthesia didn't bother him one bit I've tried to like keep him from jumping or just from playing and wrestling with my other with my dog no he's not having any of it so I guess he's totally fine.

I gave him pain medication today he did sleep for a moment and that's about it other than that he's just been a lunatic and but here's the story so when he went and he was neutered they always have you bring in stool and whatnot you know to test and apparently he's had worms since Chloe found him and we've had him dewormed a few times but I don't know like I don't know all the nuances of cats but I promise I've been taking care of him but he just needed another dose of whatever it is that they do.

And so the vet tech said to me she said hey we put his dewormer on the back of his neck and she kept asking she's like do you have a little kids you know is he handled a lot and I said no my daughter's 11 it's fine and she kept saying well just make sure that you don't touch this spot and I'm like oh no it's totally fine and then I brought him home in his little like his transport his carrying case whatever it's called his pet carrier.

And of course I opened it and I was like oh no bull you know and I pull him out and the very first freaking thing I did was kiss him right on the back of his neck and it was wet and I was like and I was you know just wiping my mouth and I immediately ran over and was washing my face and then my lips were kind of tingling so I call the vet and then they had me call the manufacturer of the medication to find out if I was going to like.

Die from you know ingesting catworm medicine they said I should be fine but Clara was she said to me this morning she said if you die from licking catworm medicine she said I'm going to have to come up with another reason to tell people why you died at school and I was like thank you for thinking of yourself in my time of need you six greater.

But I didn't die I mean I made it through the night thankfully noble made it through the night so we're all good here I know celebration everybody cheers toast to that right okay so what else is happening in the world today I have watched if anybody is catching up on this I don't know the exact name of it but the the Netflix documentary about the Cecil Hotel pretty interesting I have to say I knew about this case with the

disappearance or the woman who was found I don't know if they ever determined if she was murdered but the woman who was found said there and there's weird elevator footage and I've known about this case for a long time when she was found in the water tank which meant that everyone in the hotel had been drinking like body contaminated water

which look LA water is bad enough I can't even comprehend like knowing in my heart that I ate or I drank body contaminated water like I would need some serious tongue scraping and a delousing because I and I would also need mental health therapy for sure because I would have a hard time getting over that but I thought the documentary itself was really well done I think it was done by the same person who did that

the Ted Bundy tapes which that documentary was freaking wild I think any time you have footage from the 70s it's just such a brown period of time like everything is brown like even the footage looked brown it was just old and dark

but yeah so it was done by the same person I think it was done really well I enjoyed it but I will say it could have probably been told in three episodes instead of four by the end I was kind of like okay we can wrap this up we don't

need so many like dramatic water drips or like footsteps in the hallway situations like wrap it up like tighten it up a little bit but it's definitely worth a watch if you're into true crime what else have I what have I've been doing okay so I'm a little bit

invested in clubhouse right now if you are not familiar with clubhouse it is a new social media platform that's I think in beta form still so

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