An Unlikely Affair: September is the Real New Year

Untraditionally Lala

In this episode of 'An Unlikely Affair,' hosts Lala and Ambyr explore the idea of September as a fresh start, reflecting on personal growth,

Key takeaways

• September can symbolize renewal and new beginnings, even outside traditional calendar markers.

Main topics

• Reframing September as a new year
• Parenting guilt and emotional labor

Notable quotes

"I thought Ocean's Gymnastics was at 3.30. It was really at four."

Conclusion

The episode ends with a heartfelt reminder that even small daily victories—like

Transcript preview

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Hi, Lola. Welcome to an unlikely affair. Speaker 6 (3:44) Okay, hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of An Unlikely Affair. Good morning, Lala. Good morning, my love. Is the 801 on your shoulders Speaker 4 (3:52) at the zip code to, uh, Utah? The area code. Because I'm LFU. You know what that stands for? When people are trying to insult me online, they acronym my ass and they call me LFU. Lauren from Utah. And I think, oh, what a burn. Wow. That's strong. Sounds like a really, really prestigious college. I was just going to say. Speaker 6 (4:17) LFU. LFU. Yeah. I'm from the University of LFU. How was your weekend? Weren't we together all weekend? Speaker 4 (4:25) Most of Speaker 6 (4:25) the weekend? Let's go back. How was your birthday? Speaker 4 (4:32) It was fabulous. Yeah. And I really can't describe why it was so fabulous because like I didn't do anything extravagant. You know, like you see people who have birthdays, they usually don't have children or their children are older and they're like in the South of France or they take a girl's trip to Paris. Like I just don't have that. Right. I don't have that yet. Like I got a community that I have to focus on, but you knew that I was dreading my birthday. Yes. My mom, I got it. Your birthday was Speaker 6 (5:00) like on a Wednesday, right? Or Thursday? Whatever. I got the text on Monday. I Speaker 4 (5:04) think Speaker 6 (5:04) I was on a Wednesday. Speaker 4 (5:06) Yeah, you were tripping Speaker 6 (5:06) on Monday. Speaker 4 (5:06) So it was on a Thursday. Easton and my mom had left town, which was absolutely fantastic that they left town because it actually made me realize how much I fucking love having my family in one household. Because for a minute I was like, everyone get the fuck out Speaker 1 (5:26) of here. Speaker 4 (5:28) Now I'm like, no one can fucking leave. No, I know. It's been great. And I also have like a newfound appreciation because although I know they do a lot, you don't realize how like the smallest thing is actually ginormous. Speaker 1 (5:45) For Speaker 4 (5:45) example, I thought Ocean's Gymnastics was at 3.30. It was really at four. So I get her there at 3.15 because I, you know. As a Virgo, if you're earlier on time, if you're on time, you're late. If you're late, don't bother showing up. It's just how I operate, which is why I'm late every day to the podcast. But it's my fucking podcast. So it's the only thing I have control over. I can't really start without me. And I asked Cynthia, the nanny, to stay just a little bit longer so that I didn't have to deal with Sosa. Well, now I fucked up the whole day. So now I have to pack Ocean back in the car and go home and grab Sosa. And take them both back to the gym. Whereas normally I could just call Easton or my mom and be like, hey, Cynthia's going to leave. Can you just like cover for me for a moment? Little things that are like, wow, that's actually a really big fucking deal. Speaker 6 (6:35) Yeah, it is a big deal. It's especially I was thinking about it like you just schlepping to the bus stop with two kids. I remember doing that with both London and Riley. It's hard. I mean, we didn't I didn't go to the bus stop with them, but still packing the kids up every morning. It's like, oh, God. Let's just stay home today. Speaker 4 (6:53) I thought about it. Speaker 6 (6:55) Yeah. It's easier. But you also, in all fairness, I've been observing. You have terrible time management. Speaker 4 (7:02) I do? Yes. I think my time management's pretty on point. No, it's not. Wait, tell me. I've never heard this from anybody. Speaker 6 (7:11) Well, you know, it's also, I also have a terrible time management, so it's amazing to see it in someone else. Wait, but tell me, explain. I just feel like you're like, for an example, like you thought it was at three or four and you were, Speaker 4 (7:22) you were. Well, because I was worried we were going to be late. So I put in my calendar that it was started at three 30. So then I got there way too early. Whereas like I put it in there so I could arrive at three 30 and have a half hour to get her like adjusted and comfortable with the space. But instead I arrived like an hour. But I also Speaker 6 (7:42) do the same thing. I'm also like way too early usually because I have such bad anxiety about being late anywhere. Yeah. But it's still getting used to like the traffic coming up the four or five. Speaker 4 (7:55) Like I cannot conquer the time getting to the podcast, by the way. Every time I think that I can leave at a certain time because my maps shows that it's fine to leave at that time. I have to tack on an extra 20 minutes to whatever time it tells me because it lies. Well, are you using Google Maps or using Waze? I don't use Waze. You Speaker 6 (8:15) have to use Waze. It's the best. Speaker 4 (8:17) Are you kidding me? So if you go, I don't like change. Y'all are skeeving me out. The little car that drives, that shows you all of the, I'm like, what's the card? Like, where's my little arrow? Don't worry about that. I'm an arrow. If you put in ways Speaker 6 (8:28) where you're supposed to be at what time you can do a future thing, it will show you the best time to leave or exactly. And I'll like all that's maps too, though. No, it's not ways like does the traffic and people communicate. Yes. Correctly. Yes. Okay. Just use with look what happened with you and Brittany the other day. You got diverted and you literally went an hour out of your way. You called me. I'm like, I'm an hour from home. How the fuck did that happen? Yeah. Google Maps Speaker 4 (8:54) or whatever it is. Yeah, don't Speaker 6 (8:55) use Google Maps. Use Waze. Anyways. You got a wrist issue? Speaker 4 (9:01) She's rubbing her wrist. No, listen. I have the same wrist. Listen, listen. That's a real problem. Speaker 6 (9:07) You need PRP or something. I don't need PRP. I just need to pop my wrist. Speaker 4 (9:13) That's Speaker 6 (9:13) all it is. I'm like, I like to crack things. Disgusting. Yeah. Speaker 4 (9:17) Imagine during handjob. He's like, is she breaking my dick off? What the fuck is happening? My Speaker 6 (9:24) wrist is really dirty. It's what? I do this. Not I'm not Speaker 4 (9:29) doing it. You do this to get it. And is that is that the proper stroking? Well, yeah. You don't want him to just feel like he's like being jackhammered. But Speaker 6 (9:40) eventually when they're officially hard. it's hard to bend it. Like it's not as malleable. Speaker 4 (9:48) If I have to get your dick hard with my hands, you should just look at me and get hard, especially right now. Speaker 4 (9:54) We don't get immediately hard. There's a real problem. You're gorgeous. Stop. I will not put a soft dick in my mouth, though. You got me fucked up. I'm not getting it hard with my mouth, buddy. We just deferred it so fiercely. What were we talking about before? Time management. We're Speaker 6 (10:12) time management. Speaker 4 (10:15) I'm so sorry. I'm telling you. Okay. Well, the good news is it's September. And that, oh, you know what I. Oh, my birthday. Yeah, your birthday. It Speaker 6 (10:22) was Speaker 4 (10:22) fantastic. We ended up just getting a little group together. We went to Sportsman's Lodge. It was Amber, Janet, Brittany, the gays, Jared, people who have kids, brought their kids. Everyone ran around. It was like. We got Mexican food. We got Mexican food. It was, it was just a very, oh yeah, we went to lunch before that with Michelle and Amber and myself. We went to Century City Mall. It was just like, I think because I was so stressed out about it. And then I had Jenna on the podcast and she said, you need to take this birthday to like focus on all of the things that you have accomplished and what you've built. And then I looked at my babies and even though my mom and Easton were gone, they like sent me this sweet cake, whatever. I think the pressure and the expectation dropped. And it was like, I have such a full cup with all of these people that I have the luxury of having in my life. And it just ended up being the perfect day. But can I tell you, I'm the worst fucking mom ever. Because Sosa's birthday is the next day, right? Oh, you're going to tattle on yourself. It's okay. Moms will relate to this. She's two. And she's going to have a big old birthday bash in a couple of weeks. Yes. So I had cake coming out of my ears for my birthday. Everyone was sending me a cake, except one friend got me a cinnamon roll from this place called It's All About the Cinnamon. It was so good. Speaker 1 (11:49) And Speaker 4 (11:49) when I tell you, oh, you guys. I would dream about it and I'd be lying if I said I didn't wake up at three in the morning and go downstairs and heat it up and eat it half asleep. Speaker 6 (12:01) That's why your ass looks so good. Speaker 4 (12:02) That's Speaker 6 (12:02) why Speaker 4 (12:02) my belly looking. I'm also a booty do right now. Her belly sticks out more than her booty do. Like I wasted for a while. That Speaker 1 (12:11) is Speaker 4 (12:12) not true. I'm sucking in. It's fine. So my mom sends me this cake and I'm like, I'm just going to use the Susie cakes for Sosa's birthday. So Amber and I go to pavilions. We get like all these balloons because Sosa's obsessed. The day is just going to be swimming for her birthday. It's going to be fucking easy. I opened the Susie cakes day of and my mother and Easton, I wanted to punch them. Happy birthday. La la. I was like. I've got to scrape it off. I scraped off my name. Okay. Tried to make it as pretty as I possibly could. We got a bunch of candles and we just like put them where the Lala smear was. Yep. And I gave it to Sosa. That's amazing though. Happy Speaker 6 (12:55) birthday. Speaker 4 (12:55) You didn't waste. You didn't waste. Think about that. You're so right. Like, what's the point? No, there's no point. I'm a little too in the moment. I did get a video though. I put my phone up of me and Sosa and Ocean singing her happy birthday. Because I just wanted a little memory. So her birthday party will be in a couple weeks. Dos cuideños. But let's talk about this because you sent me this article that the New York Times published that September is like functioning as the new year, which as a September, September, September. Speaker 6 (13:29) But remember, I said this to you, too. I was like, it's I was like, it's the new year. This is like a new year for you when it's your birthday. That's the new year for you. Not January 1st. Speaker 4 (13:41) Amen. Right. Yeah. That's just like. The new year is just an excuse for everyone to get fucking wasted. I know. Speaker 6 (13:48) I'm exhausted. The new year. I'm still recovering from Christmas and I'm usually really depressed. That's for another episode. Yes. Speaker 4 (13:57) You're still depressed from last Christmas? No, not from last Christmas. I was like. From like December 25th to like January. Speaker 6 (14:05) Yeah. Well, I told you Speaker 4 (14:07) what the game plan is. This is how you