Mm-hmm

... upload everything.

And he's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get them to you." And I said, "Hey, deadline's coming up." He's like, "Oh." He sent me a couple, but not the ones where I'm jumping, 'cause those were gonna involve all this Photoshoppings.

Have you ever been to an event, a self-improvement event of any kind?

I, yes.

I went to this weird life coach...

It was like a free intro in hopes that you would sign up for his life coaching, and it was very much a, like, Tony Robbins-y vibe.

like?

I just sent in tape.

I sent in tape and pictures.

The pictures are so funny.

They're so awful.

My roommate, this is when I moved to LA.

So this is probably 2007 was when I sent in my tape.

Oh, I love that.

Mm

... furniture, but for way cheaper, and you can customize everything, how long, the colors, everything.

And I kept seeing them on TikTok, so I showed Ben, and he was like, "This is fake." Like, "This is fake." I'm like, "I don't think it is." He's like, "How do we prove it?" I'm like, "I don't know." So I did what the lady said.

I WhatsApped the factory.

They sent me a catalog.

We chose stuff.

We put a deposit down.

Did you get any notification that it was going to show up? Like, was there any communication?

So let's talk about like, what do we have going on in the parks these days?

Well, we have a number of amazing opportunities for our community to get out.

One of them for sure is our health and well-being program, which is our Let's Get Moving program, which celebrated its five-year anniversary.

Not only is it about just walking and meeting people and connections, but we also have extreme hip-hop, we have line dancing, we have pickleball clinics.

But it's an amazing, amazing opportunity to get out there, get healthy, learn about our city parks.

We have over 120 city parks here in the city of Toledo that is managed by the city of Toledo Park system.

So I'm not sure if a lot of people know about that, but there are two systems in the city of Toledo.

I love the stories like this.

Mm-hmm.

You know what I mean? Like, we never got to really hang out.

But I will say that when my, when my s- first husband walked out of my life, I screamed, "I'll be remarried in a year." And when I screamed that in his face, I swear I saw Ben's face in my head.

I didn't know if he had a girlfriend.

Hmm.

But she sent me this thing that said, "You deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable." And I burst into tears.

And then the second one is, "You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head, so be kind to yourself always." And then again I cried, and I was like-