Why hello, welcome to Christie's couch. My name is Christie Lukazyak and thanks for

hanging out with me on my very pink, very velvet, very cute, aesthetically pleasing couch.

See, it is Thursday. I kind of love that I put podcasts out on Thursday because it's

getting us ready for the weekend. It's so exciting. I have to say, so I've heard from

so many of my sorority girls that you guys are listening. So that makes me so excited. So

hello, hello, I see you. I hear you. Okay, so let's catch up on this week and then we have a

really interesting guest today that I'm excited to share with all of you. But as always, I like to

kind of catch you up on what's happening in my world, what I can recommend. You know, like

interesting things, I think, maybe that we can all, I don't know, just help each other enjoy

this weird, weird time of still kind of on lockdown. Speaking of lockdown and COVID and all

of the things I actually am now officially on the list to receive my vaccination. Don't come at me

if you don't believe in the vaccination. I get it. I respect it, but please respect my decision

to get it. But yeah, so our like healthcare system has finally opened it up to my age range.

So I am very excited that I will be able to get get the vaccination so that hopefully I can

travel. My husband's already received it because he works in healthcare, not frontlines, but they

just made sure everyone was vaccinated. And Claire is not quite to the point. I don't believe that

she actually needs it yet. And Chloe will get it sooner than later because she has an underlying

condition, which is asthma. But we're trying to be respectful to all of the older people out there

who need it before we do. But yeah, now that it's opening up, like hopefully we'll be able to be

vaccinated, herd immunity will become a real thing. And then we can all get back to living our

normal lives, although I have to say I do believe our quote unquote normal lives are going to be

a lot different than they were before, which is fine because you know, change is good. And hopefully

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