41: That's Grown Grown

Sheree and Tajuana continue their "Live from a Random Restaurant" series with honest conversation about reading journeys, spring transitions, and using vision boards to stay on track.

• Discussing current reads including "The Wedding Guest" by Jasmine Guillory and historical fiction about WWII
• Exploring diverse reading genres including queer Black romance novels
• How reading develops our capacity for empathy and imagination
• Moving plans and creating "grown-grown" living spaces
• Pinterest inspiration and spring cleaning as preparation for new beginnings
• Tracking hormonal cycles using apps like Lively to better understand how they affect daily life
• Community recommendations for family pools and summer gatherings

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• 0:00 Welcome to Turn the Page

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Welcome to Turn the Page Podcast. Sisters, best friends and brunch enthusiasts With relatable episodes that feel like you're chatting with two of your closest friends or sisters. Join us as we turn the page to different topics about losing yourself in motherhood, adulthood, anyhood, and finding yourself again through meaningful friendships, shameless piles of unread library books and endless Amazon package deliveries Real, honest and a little bit chaotic. We talk about it all. So grab your favorite drink, put the kids to bed, lace up your sneaks or whatever you need to do and join us. We can't wait to connect with you. Can't wait to connect with you. Hey guys, welcome back to Turn the Page Podcast. This is Sheree, again your editor-in-chief and one of your co-hosts, just bringing you another special intro for part two of our Live from a Random Restaurant series. We hope you loved the last one and we hope you enjoy this one, again bringing you real and authentic, doing what we can when we can. We thank you guys for joining us and loving us and we hope you enjoy this episode. Hi, everybody, welcome to turn the page podcast. This is tawana and this is Sheree. I am revamping my indoor garden myself. My self-care my self-care has not been on point my skincare, which is probably self-care actually has been on point. To take that back morning and probably self-care actually has been on point. I take that back Morning and evening, love me and everything spray from Primarily Pure, which I mentioned in the last episode, and the newsletter, and I shop them out on Instagram all of the time. I really just want to be like you with reading. So I was reading in the car before you got here today on my phone yes, reading currently the Wedding Guest. Did you put that in the newsletter? No, ever, because I might do that. Alasdini, the Wedding Guest, the one you told me about, oh, jasmine Gilliloy. I was thinking of something else. Did you tell me that? Yeah, yeah, did you put it in the newsletter? No, ever. Okay, I might do that.

Speaker 1: 2:22

I'm also reading beyond this the sea. I like historical novels. It's about a girl who was sent. She lives in london or england during world war ii and her parents obviously didn't want her there like during that time, so they had an opportunity. I still can't figure out if the family she went to live with in america is like family to them or like close friends anyway, a family that they trusted enough in. I want to say boston she. They sent her to live with them for the remainder of the war in america. She went over on ship, obviously, um. So I'm reading that and it's just like her life in america. They have two sons, so she's in the middle, which I think is pretty cool because they're like her adoptive brothers in a sense. They all like grow up together and how she's away from the war, but her parents are still there and like not every kid was so lucky to be able to go to a family away from the war. A lot of people have moved to the countryside, but that's still not the best and I didn't know. It was a really like a thing back then where people would send their kids away if they could to like be in safer spaces until the war was over. I can see that, yeah, so that that's a good book.

Speaker 1: 3:37

So far, I'm audioing that. I'm kindling wedding guests and I have like two more on my shelf, which overwhelms me, but I can only do as much as I can do. Correct, it's not a race, so that's how I'm trying to revamp myself. Fair enough, I keep I and I'm proud of myself for having to do this. Every couple of weeks I will look at my vision board for this year to see, to remind myself and to like reset myself. Oh nice, put myself back on track. That's smart.

Speaker 1: 4:07

Yes, and reading was wonderful. Reading more, I remember. Yeah, I've been doing only audiobooks. So far this year we're in may you've only been doing audiobooks. Yes, I've been reading. I've been reading one book since, like December. Is it long? No, it's just like I would read it when, like everyone was asleep. But lately I've been trying to, when everyone goes to sleep, I've been trying to also take my butt to bed. I know, yeah, that was like my one time, though like I would just read on my phone in bed. So, are you still reading the book? Yeah, it's just. Oh, is it audio? No, no, it's a book, but it's just I'm reading it very slowly. So, your audio, you're reading it. It's a different book, an audio, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I have. Yeah, yeah, I have. What am I listening? Oh, that's not my phone. I am listening to and I also, while she's finding that out, I have a Nicholas Sparks book on my shelf, something Miracles. I'm really bad at remembering titles, guys. Yeah, excuse me, I know, excuse me.

Speaker 1: 5:24

I just finished a book called Outdrawn by Deanna Gray. One of the main characters' name is Sage Shut up, which I love. The same spelling no, oh, okay, but it's like a queer black rom-com. They're like artists for a comic book. What book? What's the one? Oh, the one you told me about lessons in flirting. Yes, I put it on hold. I cannot wait to read it. So good, I was gonna buy it. I was like you know what I'm, I'm very impulse buyer. I was like toana, you can wait for this because you don't need it right away. So it's on hold for like 18 weeks. Oh, that's annoying. Worth it, though it was very good. That's annoying. Worth it, though it was very good. That's another good one. Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Gilroy.

Speaker 1: 6:11

I've never gotten to like the queer space or the black queer space with reading. I never thought about it. So they call lessons in flirting lessons. They call it like a safe thing. A who Sapphic, sapphic lessons and flirting lessons. They call it like a safe thing, a who sapphic, sapphic. Okay, I don't know if that's the right word, but I had to look it up. I was like what does this mean? And it means like queer, basically. So like I just kind of stumbled upon the genre, I have to get the. Let me get that. That's interesting. I don't. Well, I do have genres that I like, so I like historical fiction and I like I was never really into rom-com until Cherie told me about the Wedding Guest and I'm loving it and that's kind of, I would say, like it has racial not even racist, but like racial undertones, because the main character, the guy, is white and the girl is black.

Speaker 1: 7:04

So I'm loving that and like different from different perspectives. Because they're at a wedding and she asked the question like am I going to be the only black person there? And it like stopped him in his tracks because he's like oh, I like knew the whole wedding party was white, because I didn't think of it like that until you asked me, yeah, so I was like, oh, okay, this is like an interesting perspective, like from his side. Um, I mean, of course she's gonna ask that, but like he was like I didn't think about that but yeah, so I am still early on in it, but I am loving it. So if you guys want to read it, I'm putting it in.

Speaker 1: 7:40

Whatever newsletter comes out after I read it, yeah, but if you guys want to look it up, it's called the Wedding Guest by Jasmine Gilroy, something like that. Yeah, yeah, if you Google it, google will correct it for you if it's wrong. No, no, no, I think you got it right. I just don't know if it's Gilroy or Gilroy. I don't know how to say her last name, sorry, jasmine. So, yeah, what is happening in this world? Why can't you do this for me? Anyway, so, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 8:10

So, the book about the artists, like the Black queer book. And then I just started another buddy read with Sage. Sage, your daughter reads no, I mean, I know she reads, reads, but she reads adult books with another friend and community member called they both die at the end by adam silveira. Oh, interesting, I love. So. Sheree, I love titles. Sheree is the queen of titling our podcast episodes, y'all. Oh yeah, she's the best at finding the perfect title. Probably because she reads some so many books she's able to, like, think of really good ones.

Speaker 1: 8:46

But you know what somebody told me once and this is like a downside of reading at one of my internships I was having a really hard time with um, I think I over empathize, so, like when people oh, ding, ding, that's why you're in the industry that you're in. When people detail things to me, though I picture it in my mind. I do that now it's kind of exciting, no, but, like, the example I'm using is like somebody detailed like a trauma that happened. Oh, okay, and I picture it in my mind happening to them or to you that I haven't figured out, I don't know um, but I picked, I picture it, I think to empathize and try to like meet them where they are and like be in the space that they're in. Yeah, and my supervisor at the time was like I think it's because you really like reading, like you're used to using your imagination to create like an inner world. Yeah, so you use words and can translate them into pictures or images or whatever. So that is like one downside of it, I would say. But, yeah, besides that, love it. Okay, I've read some good books this year.

Speaker 1: 9:59

Oh, I was laughing at the meme you sent me about your the t80 not t83, whatever that calculator is we had to use in school. What meme it was about? Like no one has ever asked me to do math since I've learned, or something like that. It was something about how we're bad at math and no one has ever asked me to use the math that I learned and it said like notIP to your T83, but it was like something about that large-ass, complicated calculator we always had to buy for school and I just posted it on my stories earlier in the week saying oh, please don't ever speak to me about math. I've moved on. Yeah, I'm bonded with my TI, ti 84. I got part of it right that tracks trauma. Bonded with my ti-84. I got part of it right. That tracks for me.

Speaker 1: 10:46

Um, and I put this is why I do law. I don't do math. Correct, this is why I'm in law, not math or anything that revolves around numbers. Um, I just I read. I mean I'm in the law, I read, that's what I do, mm-hmm. I'm better with words than numbers. Y'all Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1: 11:08

Okay, so spring for me? We're moving in June, so spring for me is like spring cleaning, a little decluttering and packing, and one of our favorite families is having a party in June. Yes, we love their parties. We're really excited because it's in the summer and they have a pool and it's out back and we just I mean other than them being our cousins, like they always have the best parties. I think I'm also just in a space of like I'm heavy into Pinterest right now, just getting inspo. I'm heavy into Pinterestinterest right now, just getting inspo. I'm heavy into pinterest for turn the page guys. Yes, so I've been doing that, trying to like, find the aesthetic to um for decorating the new place, because I wanted to feel like grown, grown, um, grown, grown, grown, grown, like we're not just like in a college dorm anymore, like I want to get right. You know, yeah, I want to live like that. I see, I see. So that's been my current hyper fixation. It's been all my free time looking up inspo for the move and, yeah, it's going to be a good summer. This is the precursor, though, so I'm enjoying it. I'm not rushing it and, yeah, we'll see what it takes us.

Speaker 1: 12:34

Y'all girls need to be at our pool a lot this summer again. Yep, oh, you guys won't have a pool. Nope, we have a little pool for her in the backyard. I think we can. Maybe you can find a community pool, or obviously, come over to us. There is one nearby, but it's exclusive. I bet that's grown, grown, but you can also come to us. Obviously, we didn't even really use our pool like that, but it's literally right out your front yard. I know We've been a few times. Do you have a big enough backyard to put like a blow-up pool, like a little kiddie pool for her, maybe like the one we used last summer, like that wading pool that Harrison Doven with his socks on yeah, or his yeah that one socks on, yeah, or yeah that one? Um, is your backyard big? Not really, but okay, it's bigger than I've ever had.

Speaker 1: 13:29

Guys, you come from humble beginnings. I do, um. So, yeah, I think we're just in a space of transforming and growing and learning and flourishing and thriving, one day at a time. Keep an eye out for the May and or June newsletters, depending on when this drops. Let us know if you're doing any spring cleaning or anything to transition into the warmer months. And, oh guys, yes, we'll talk about this on the next episode. We do with um, just us. We have a few coming up with guests.

Speaker 1: 14:07

But sheree told me about this app to track your cycle, not for, like, just tracking your period, but it goes all the way down to like the phases of your cycle and my girl Mariah at the restaurant it's called Lively right and it tells you each phase of your cycle and tells you, like what to eat, what to do and like movement to do so. I've been really honing in on that. You can do a seven-day free trial and then you can do a paid version. It's like either $33 annually, like either 33 annually or like 333 a month or something. But I'm excited about that because, as I'm getting older, I would like to know how my hormones are affecting my everyday life. So we'll talk about that more once I start to like study more, but I look at it every day. I just haven't gotten down to a science yet.

Speaker 1: 15:00

But yeah, so that's it, guys. We're going to wrap it up here. Pay for our food and get home to our babies and call it a night eventually. Yes, so we'll talk to you guys soon. Thanks for hanging out. Bye, always bye, all right, everyone. This was another episode of Turn the Page Podcast. Thanks for hanging out. Always Bye, all right, everyone. This was another episode of Turn the Page Podcast. Thanks for hanging out. Don't forget to like, listen and subscribe, and also don't forget to leave a review, please, and let us know what you thought about today's episode and all the other episodes. Thanks, guys, talk to you soon. Bye, you, soon bye. Thank you.