This is Bridget - Amuse Bouche #1

Welcome everybody. It is my very first Amose Boosh, and this is Tiny Little Bits of Bridget. Before our weekly episode of Dinner Plus Drinks, I am so glad you are here and you are listening. I'm super excited. Always wanted a podcast, so this has been tons of fun and I really appreciate you hanging out with us every week. So what you're going to get on a moose boosh is all of the things that I was indecisive about, basically. So every week when we do our outline for dinner plus drinks, I always have about five to ten other things that I think would be really great to share with you guys, but no real outlet for it. So that's what you're gonna get on a moose boosh. Here we go. And I'm very quickly learning that I have a podcast voice. I'm doing weird inflections, I'm doing ridiculous things. I'm sorry, I will work on it, but I've gotten called out. I worked in corporate America for, I don't know, 11 years before uh moving to Lake Geneva and doing small business things. Um, and I always got called out for my phone voice. You know, I'd pick up a call and be like, hello, this is Bridget. And that's not how anyone talks in real life, including myself. So I definitely am sorry and I will keep working on that. Uh, but I want to know if you guys have phone voices. Maybe we should do a whole segment of everyone calling in with their ridiculous phone voices. Okay, moving on. That's not what we're here to talk about. If you happen to be stumbling upon this and have not listened to Dinner Plus Drinks, you have no idea who I am. Hi, I'm Bridget. Uh, if you are a listener of Dinner Plus Drinks, or if you're one of my wonderful family and friends who listens to this um to my podcast, you do not need to listen to this next bit. But I thought that we would play a little fun, get to know Bridget here for this week's Amoose Boosh because it is the first one. We're kicking it off. Um, so here we go. Uh I get distracted easily. You will see that. People make the weird squirrel joke. For a long time I didn't understand that joke. Um, but I get it now, you know. I'm a I'm a grown adult. I understand. Uh, but I get distracted easily. I interrupt myself, so I will try to not do that. But let's start out with some weird things. I hate cotton balls, they're super weird to me. The texture is like nails on a chalkboard. I cannot rub them together. I think it's incredibly uncomfortable. I this is not a joke. People think it's a thing that's like funny. We'll throw cotton balls at her, like my family and friends joking around. I hate them. They make me incredibly uncomfortable. They do not live in my house. Yes, I can take my nail polish off with other things that are not cotton balls. I get that question when I tell people I don't like cotton balls. Um, snakes are another thing that terrify me. And they don't necessarily terrify me so much as like gross me the hell out. Um I the they're wily, they slither, and you don't know what their next move is going to be. So I don't like that. I really like to know what's coming next. Um, those are two weird things. Uh, I also not that anyone, anyone likes vomit, uh, but I cannot be near it. I run away, I panic, and yes, this has not changed when I had kids. Everyone said it'll change when it's your own kid. Nope, it still makes me panic. So that's horrifying. So those are three weird things about me. Uh, what else do you need to know? I'm a twin. Uh, I have a twin sister. I'm two minutes older than her. And I used to think that meant that I was royalty that I was two minutes older. Now it just means I'm gonna die first. We also have another sister who lives out in Washington. Again, you have if you've listened to Dinner Plus Drinks, we talk about them all the time. I have two kids, Elliot and Lucy. They are five and two and they are awesome, and my wonderful husband, Tyler. There is the quick recap. We are a fun, perfect little nuclear family that happened by chance. Uh, so I guess we got lucky there. Uh anyway, so I thought we would do a couple quickfire things, like, hey, Bridget, if you had to describe yourself in a nutshell, you know, what would it be? In corporate America, they call this the elevator talk. And would I share these things as part of my elevator talk? Maybe. I don't know. I think it certainly sounds better than saying, like, I am a detail-oriented person. No, who cares? So these are things that I am proud of that I think are interesting about myself or help you understand who I am as a person. Um, so let's dive right in. I have run seven half marathons. Uh, this I'm starting with because anyone that like has grown up with me would know, would think that's weird. I was never a runner. I didn't understand it. I'm like, I don't get it. Why are you running towards nothing? Like, I will run after a ball, I will do anything. I've played sports my whole life, but never a runner uh till I had a friend in 2012 um really get me into it. So I thank him for that, uh, Anthony. And my first half marathon was in Madison. It was slow and super hot, but it was great. And, you know, people say annoying runner people like myself, I guess, say that uh you kind of get addicted to it. And I did. Uh so I kept running half marathons. Never in my life do I ever plan to run a full marathon, and honestly, probably I'm never gonna run another half anymore. Uh my life has changed after I've had kids, and I ran my last half marathon in Delavin, Wisconsin, and it was miserable. Uh, I think maybe I was pregnant with Lucy at the time. We're not really sure. It was terrible, and I vowed never to run one again. So uh I'm gonna stick with 10 case. So I'm done with done with long distance running, I think, but uh we'll see. So I have a weird knack uh for being able to rap late 90s and early 2000s hip-hop songs. Uh people, I I sit here as I'm recording, uh wearing a white eyelid like baby doll dress. Um, so you would look at me and be like, what girl? But it is a thing I got maybe from my sister. Uh she also is incredible at this, but I love hip-hop. I love rap music. I also I listen to all kinds of music, but uh definitely I will turn the car stereo up aloud and sing this music. I will play the edited version if I have my kids in the car. But it's a fun thing uh that is a nice little release to me. Um next, I love, love, love some street art. So Martin Watson or Banksy. Banksy is probably the most well-known one. Um, graffiti as art, large-scale, like witty art where you take cracks in a wall and make it look like something different. All of those things were um, like I like to say it's a little surprise and delight, right? You're you're expecting to just see a crack in a wall or a boring alleyway, but stuff that transforms a downtown space or any space into something else. I love. I will never forget the first time I got to see a real life Banksy. I was in San Francisco and it was just like in a parking lot. It was pretty lackluster, but I was super pumped. Um, street art, favorite thing of mine. Next favorite thing, thrifting. I love thrift shopping. And I loved thrift shopping before it was cool. Okay. Uh, I'm gonna pat myself on the back about that. I shopped at Goodwill for kitschy t-shirts before Goodwill charged $27 for everything. Uh, I used to go to Value Village in Milwaukee, kind of not in the best area when I was in college. Uh and I would pick out some who knows, shit. I have no idea what I bought there. Uh, but now, now I do it in um it's a little bit of my way of kind of recycling. Um, I know there's a lot of discussion about fast fashion, and honestly, this will probably be a whole Amuse Bush discussion on its own, the whole fast fashion culture. Um, obviously, I don't uh support sweatshops, not a big fan of that. Uh, but I also am not in a position to be paying $300 for a dress. Um, so giving be able being able to buy clothes that have been recycled through the system and then give them back um is one way that I can be helpful. Um, I do try to donate my clothing directly to people that need it rather than to go through um a thrift store that profits because I know someone's gonna tell me something about goodwill and how terrible they are. I know every nonprofit has some shady things in the background. Um, so anyway, thrift shopping that is definitely going to come back up on a moose boosh. So if you are into that, you are gonna love this because I'm gonna tell you about cool things I found thrifting. I'm gonna tell you about the dark sides of it, the cool sides. I'm gonna tell you about the Goodwill bins if you've never heard of them. We're gonna talk through it. Um next up, I lived in London uh for a semester. It was amazing. I talk about kind of two times in my life that I feel like I really grew up, and one of them was living in London. I had gone through um a crappy breakup and I had shit, like a crappy living situation at the time in college, and it was the perfect semester to be gone. Um and I realized it was kind of the first time I realized I could do it on my own, you know. Um, I of course I had lived in college. I lived in the dorms, I had my own apartments, I didn't commute, I wasn't living with my family in commuting, and so you'd think that was fine, but that never felt incredibly like I was doing it. But going to a different country, and yes, it's English speaking, yes, London might as well be America. It's very, you know, I was in a large city that spoke English. I understand that. But uh for me, you know, I got to learn the tube. Uh, I lived in a home stay, so I I lived with a family that had some kids in the school system there. So that was fun. We got to go kind of see their plays and do fun things. But so living in London um was my junior year in college and felt like I really felt like I really grew up. Then the next time was really um after college, uh living in Milwaukee on my own. Um Milwaukee, again, will come up as a recurring theme on Amose Bouche because I love it with all my heart. Milwaukee was always a place growing up that we thought just wasn't Chicago. We were like, ugh, Milwaukee. It's just not as cool as Chicago. Well, now I would live in Milwaukee over Chicago in a heartbeat. I have lived in Milwaukee for years and years and years um before we moved back here. But when we um, I guess probably when my husband and I bought our first condo there and then our son was born there, I just really feel like uh I grew up well Milwaukee was growing up, is kind of what I say. Um Milwaukee wasn't like the coolest place in the world when I went there for college, but it really started growing up as I was becoming an adult. So huh more on that in some other segment. But I love Milwaukee. Uh, I love London. Both our cities I'm a huge fan of. Um, and lastly, much like thrifting, I was on the food truck game before food trucks were all that cool. So I used to plan weddings a lifetime ago for a job. And um when I got married, I literally had people lay on the pressure thick. Like, your wedding better be creative. It better be cool. I expect a lot, and like they're just being fun and friendly. But also, I know I felt a lot of pressure. Uh, so we got married in an airline hangar, and we had food trucks not just come for our late night snack because that was the thing everyone was doing was um late-night snack food trucks. We had food trucks serve the whole dinner. So they pulled right into the airline hangar. It was think like food stations, except going to a table, you're going to a food truck. So we wanted the whole thing to be a mix and mingle, a social time, and we didn't want anyone to just have to kind of sit at a table and eat chicken. Uh so we succeeded in that and it was super fun. Crazy, crazy. I think looking back, maybe we'll talk about our wedding on another episode. Who knows? If you don't want to hear about any of this, well, sorry, then this is not for you. These are all the weird things I like to talk about. So that's a quick snapshot of who Bridget is. Uh, if you have questions about anything else I just said or any weird things you want to know about me, I would love for you to send them in. You can still send it to Hello at DinnerPlus Drinks. Um, Amouz Bouche is living on that channel. It's just a quick little bite, quick little bit of what we're going to be talking. Sometimes it's a preview of what we're going to be talking about coming up. Sometimes it's just me blabbering endlessly. Sometimes it's me um sharing some things that didn't quite make the cut from the outline at Dinner Plus Drinks. So, but I am a huge fan of answering any kind of questions or, you know, talking about any kind of comments that you have. So feel free to send them in. Um, I do so appreciate you tuning into this first amouse boosh. You just got a little bit of Bridget, and I hope you tune into our newest Dinner Plus Drinks, which we'll release on Sunday. Thank you.