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That's how we're making money right now me filming this ad so go download the anchor app or go to Anchor dot f m-- to get And now to create your own podcast. Hello and welcome back to another episode of girls talk. My name is Caitlin and I'm Abigail and we are podcast host for today and forever. If you listen to our podcast or forever, okay, just ran in the New Year the right way. Okay, Abigail. We want them to start off good listening to us now. So listen to us forever and ever. Okay, that's how you said. Habit, yeah, Happy New Year's Eve by the way. Yeah. We're so excited for this next year. So yeah today we're going to be talking about our 2018 year in review and just so you know, I'm of Abigail is but I will be doing a blog post as well, but it will be different than what we're talking about in here. So like you should actually go to read that too, by the way for sure for sure same so just because you listen to our podcast or just cause you read our Blog doesn't mean you get all of us you get more of us. If you take in all of us, you know what I mean? Yeah, you got to read and watch everything and listen to everything and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Yeah, Facebook not I do use Facebook YouTube. Yes hit up that vlogmas vlogmas is over LinkedIn when I don't hit me up on the phone, unless you want to recruit me for something. So since this is a special episode we are not Be doing any life updates. So we will do those and the next episode so get excited for those or you can just go back to last week's episode and listen to those ones. If you really mess this that much just saying yeah haven't listened to last week's episode. It was a Christmas special. So that's really exciting. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's just kind of about holiday traditions and stuff. So you should still enjoy it. If that is for it's a pretty good one. Yeah, but enough of that aside, I'm just kind of rambling because without life updates. I don't really get to do that. So we're just going to get right into this. So we have questions that we have answered and they're kind of broken down into three categories. We have life stuff. I'm using air quotes over stuff Fitness stuff and blog stuff that we're going to answer. So in total we have about eight questions. And yeah this Going to be fun little overview of our 2018. So we're really excited to share this with you guys. We are excited and Tom is on my desk right now. Hopefully he doesn't hear expand but I cast I know our mascot that he doesn't know. He's our mascot by yeah, so this is our final episode before we take a tad bit of a break. It won't be as long as last time maybe like a week but We're still just as excited to record this one as we are any of the other ones. Yes, so you can use the time. We're off to go back and catch up on episodes. You have not listened to because a lot of people told me the behind so this is your time. Yeah. Why are you behind catch up? Okay. So doing just jump right into this. Let's jump right into it. Okay, so going starting with the life stuff. So I guess we're going to start with the sad. Stuff that's what I wanted to start with the sad. So we end on like big exciting happy. Yeah. Okay, that's a good idea. So the first thing is kind of weird to talk about our low lights of 2018. So Abigail if you want to start feel free. Yeah. So earlier this year. I didn't really talk about it much but my uncle actually passed away very very unexpectedly in March. So I came back from spring break. Literally the next day I get a call from my dad that At my Uncle had passed away. So I had to go home and deal with all of that and it's just been like kind of a crazy year with that because it was so unexpected and he was so young and just kind of dealing with that emotionally with myself and with my family and not living at home anymore. So like I'm not there for my dad as much as I wish I was but it's just been kind of a roller coaster of emotions with that but You know, it happens life happens and it's about how you move on. So we're slowly getting there. But yeah, so that happened and then also kind of over the summer. I just kind of lost my passion for the gym. I didn't really want to go to the gym. I was definitely super kind of lonely here because it was just me and Brad and Brad wanted to like do other things besides hang out with me all the time, which I totally get he needs to life too. But so it was just kind of like a sad lonely period of my life but you know, we're getting through it. So I think those are like really the only lowlights of 2018 for me that I can think of this far. Okay. So I guess my my ears are not really exciting. I studied abroad all of spring semester you didn't know so I left him in January. But while I was abroad I really struggled. With like depression and my social anxiety. I've never been officially diagnosed with either. I wouldn't say I actually have depression and it's just kind of like I get depressed really easily. I'm pretty sure I have social anxiety, but I've never been diagnosed with it. But while I was abroad especially the first couple weeks there I literally never wanted to leave my room because we didn't have classes for the first two weeks. So it's basically just like orientation stuff and I remember I went to the first event and then after that like, I like slept all day. I slept through events. I was excited about going to a I didn't end up going to any of them. And so because of that it was like really hard for me to make friends and connect with people and the time difference is really hard to like talk to people back home. So like while I was abroad it was like really hard for me and I was like, it was like a dark time at the same time as a really exciting time because I was traveling and I was getting to do all these really thing cool things. So it was a really weird point in my life, but like I learned a lot but yeah, so there was that and then also at the beginning of this year I My parents told me that they decided they're only taking a break. So that was a thing that happened this year. It doesn't really affect me as much since I am like moved out. I live in my own apartment kind of thing. But that was something that hit me hard as beginning of the year. And then also nothing really like Lolo has happened since the real beginning of the year. But like I guess the last couple months I've been kind of like in a rut with blogging not in a rut just kinda like I don't feel as passionate about it as I used to it kind of started to feel like a A job which I feel like all happens to a lot of bloggers but it also is because I am in the process of redoing it and like I told I will earlier I'm just tired of looking at my old site or like my current site because I think it's so ugly now that I know it my new sites going to look like so I feel like that will just change whenever the new year starts. But yeah, so those are my lowlights of 2018. But on to happier things, let's talk about highlights of 2018. You got me to go first. You want to go first. I think it's a good good thing. If I bring it up you can talk first. Okay. So in 2018, I well, I guess this kind of started like end of 2017, but I definitely have taken my health into my own hands, you know, I figured out my Xiety stuff and I'm on the path to figuring out like reproductive health and all that stuff. So with the IUD and getting off birth control and just or the pill and just all of that and I don't know. It feels very powerful to be in control of yourself like that and the other big highlight definitely happened in the fall of this year and I Really started taking my web development seriously. So I started working with my uncle's design for a mountain Denver and I have been doing a lot of work for them. I worked with my little box of tricks. I read in her sight and I am going to be working with the succulent company in the beginning of next year to help her reading her sight. So it's just that's just really taking off and it's a exciting to see like my life beyond college. So I'm just really excited to see where that goes. Yeah, speaking of Life Beyond college. So I had a really cool internship this summer, which I did not think I was going to get at all it was with a web design firm in Cincinnati. And I remember I found out about them just I just saw their name on a career fair like list. I didn't even go to this career fair. I'm literally like stalk their website for like four months. And I am right emailed them in like February asking if they're looking for an intern this summer and then I had while I was studying abroad. I had like three or four video interviews with them and then they told me I got the position and I was freaking out and then I was so scared that like I wasn't going to be good enough for anything but like that company was amazing like they were all so nice to me. They felt like a family. I'm so sad. I had to leave them this Summer. It was amazing and I learned so much and they're the reason That I'm doing My Capstone and what I'm doing it on and why I feel like confident that I can do it. So I'm just forever grateful for them and I may try and get a job there when I graduate. I don't really know but we're gonna see so that's one highlight. Another highlight is like I said sending a rod was great. I get got to go to five countries and I made best friends like in different countries and in different parts of the world because of it while I was studying abroad. I got to me to other bloggers three bloggers. I got to meet Cat K and then a girl called are mental, which is a UK blogger. I think I pronounced her name right? And then I just got to meet a bunch of people off like Instagram that I had like started following and I made a new best friend and he's been dying for me to say his name and a podcast. So hi James, that's my scars best friend. I talked to him literally every day. We Face Time all the time. He's the sweetest person ever and I'm waiting for his Christmas gift. He's amazing. So that was a big highlight and and the other highlight would be that I finally got a boyfriend and so I'm in to complain about not having a boyfriend but I don't know. I'm I don't know. I was really nice. I remember I would always a begun I started talking about boys. That's how we kind of started be friends besides Fitness stuff. So like it's so crazy that we're both like dating someone now, it's like really cool and I'm just really happy. So those are my highlights. Yeah. Especially like when we first started talking like spring semester sophomore year isn't in the like look where we are now like it's not easy. We were in such bad situations boys, like understatement a future episode to come. So speaking of like traveling and stuff was a favorite place that you visited this year, so Brad and I took our first Real kind of like vacation road trip to Wilmington, North Carolina in June. And that was I have my Dad's cousin lives there and she has two kids and so they have a house on the beach and we went out there and we got to go on their boat and hang out just in the sun all day and I got burnt to a crisp it was awful, but it was so much fun at the same time and It was just nice to get away and do something else. That wasn't like the norm. I didn't really travel all that much this year. Oh, I completely forgot. I went to Panama City Beach for spring break. You did I did that was also one of my favorite places because we met so it was me and my two friends from here and then one of my friends had like three friends from Kentucky come down. Whoo, and yeah, And so we get there and we're all sharing this one condo and we need these guys from Wisconsin like four guys from Wisconsin and we're like hanging out with them and then one night like okay Tom. You just want to sit in my lap right now. Okay one night. I don't know people just like kept coming over and we ended up like throwing this rager in our apartment and it was great and it was so much fun and The all the pictures are just like I'm just like sitting over there kind of in the corner just be like what the heck is going on here, but it was so much fun. And yeah, that was a blast. I totally forgot about that. I totally forgot I visited you this year that when I know okay. That was also another thing that yeah, and I totally forgot. Yeah, I'll be gone I met in person for the first time this January of 2018. Yeah. It was so fun her Knoxville. It was so fun. And I'm very I think with the other day. I'm very sad that I don't get to go down to Knoxville again this year. I'm all right. Yeah, we need to like honestly all the bloggers need to schedule like a vacation or something together. I uh Will literally sit down and plan out the itinerary. Just let me know. Okay? Yeah, like okay we're going here on this day and we need to know if you're coming by the state. Yeah, I will do it but my favorite place so everyone's gonna think that I'm either going to say Ireland or Denmark. So I'm not I decided to choose something different. That's what I was expecting. I was going to go ahead and fill in that question for you. Yeah. It's so I I really I spent five days in London completely alone. And I wouldn't say that London is the best place for me because I'm really not a city person but London didn't feel like a city. It felt I don't I don't know. I just felt really at home and at ease while I was in London and everyone was really weren't nicer upset, but I just kind of felt like I was there like I belonged and it just I learned so much there because I was there alone, but I also like met up with Will randomly that just ended up being in London while I was there and it was just such a great trip like one of the girls I went to high school with apparently Goes to School in London now, so like I got to go out for drinks with her one night and we just talked about high school and and I met up with this guy that was also sending a rod from NKU and we just happened lie to be in London at the same time. We didn't plan it at all and like it was just such a great trip and I learned a lot about myself and the world on that trip. So that's when I'll never forget and like I've Logged that whole thing too. And so I can always look back on it and like think about what happened. What time at what day and all the struggles I went through like I was almost homeless when I was in London you guys so like I because the COS I was supposed to stay at like I pre paid for and everything and I didn't know because of there's this law called Interpol which means that you have to have a passport or a UK identification to check in anywhere and I had never Got my passport when I went to England before because I was in Scotland and that's part of the UK and so they were not going to let me check in and so I was about to be homeless like but they the the manager took pity on me and she's like well because you're a girl and you're alone. I'll let you check in which was like kind of sexist but I was okay with it because I got to stay so is fine. So yeah, I that was a really good trip all of these things about Okay. So this is the next question is on that I put on here. So I Googled like 50 questions for like your interview stuff and this one came up and I thought it was like very interesting and it's what is the best purchase that you made this year here and so funny to this. But yeah, I know but mine is my Vlog camera. I bought my Vlog camera back in like beginning of March I think because I think I For the first time when I went to Ireland, I bought it off eBay. I have a Nikon J1. So it has like removable lenses and stuff. But I only have one lens for it. It's not like the best quality ever but like it's good. So I love it and I've Loved logging and it made like I knew it was going to be like a good purchase, but I didn't know I was going to use it as much as I was like, I didn't think I was going to come home and still use that. I thought I was just going to use it like travel vlogging lives abroad but like I'm doing vlogmas now like I freaking love it. Okay, so mine 100% hands down is my robotic vacuum cleaner that I bought like two weeks ago. It's like like yeah like a month ago and I think it just it just helps me because whatever like the floor is gross. I just feel gross. So like knowing that like my house is being vacuum every single day. It just makes me feel a little more at ease like my anxiety is not as bad. So it's just been super helpful and And I literally love it so much. I yeah, I highly recommend anyone get one. I really want one but like because my apartment and I always like the floor so dirty and it makes me so upset and we have hardwood like everywhere. Yeah. Well, like what makes me even more upset is like my roommate won't she has not vacuumed a single time my roommates and I'm like, can you please like help me? Like, I'm the one that cleans the bathroom. I clean all the floors, you know, I cleaned the windows. Whatever needs to be done. I clean it because like I don't like living in filth, but like I just frustrates me when you're like the only one that does anything anyways, my blue and no no continuing this rant. My roommate just got a dog and she like barely clean still. I'm like why you're definitely making a mess. I'm not cleaning up. Yeah, and I don't want to be living in that, you know, well like the dog stays in her room like so like all the she's potty training at now, but like all the pee pads and for like in her room but like your walk by her room and it'll smell like shit. Yeah, and it's at like no, thank you. Yeah. Moving on people that aren't ya know. I'm yeah, so we have wine written down question about Fitness stuff and it's what are we most proud of fitness-wise? So if you don't know last October my mono made a reappearance and I was out of the gym from like the end of October until the beginning of January actually Caitlin. I went to the gym together when she came to the hospital and that was like my first time back in the gym so fun. But yeah, so I am just proud of myself for coming back after mono and like getting back into the swing of things and like just doing Fitness because that could have been a time where I easily it was just like, you know, what like whatever like I don't really care that much anymore. I'm not going to get back into it and it was definitely hard getting back into the swing of things because it was Starting from like square one and a half basically like you weren't back at square one. But you know my weights were significantly lower than they were when I stopped going to the gym and it was I think it was harder mentally to get back into the swing of things because I was like, I was so much stronger than this one at one point like I could do so much more weight at one point, but like I really tried to take really this entire year to focus. And getting better at like form and focusing on balance and just kind of working on my imbalances that I do have. So I'm just proud of myself for that. That is like something to really be proud of because like for the loss besides this year and last year before that. I was always like I would work out for like four months and then I would like be out of the gym for like three months and then I'd go back for four months. It's really hard to like keep it up, especially like if you go for a little bit and then you give it up like after you give it up. It's so hard to go back. Yeah, because then you're so sore and it's like, well, I'm so sorry. I don't want to go back, you know, whatever but it gets better. So mine is I feel like all I do is talk about being abroad. I'm sorry guys, like I'm not trying to squeeze it in there on purpose, but I honestly I didn't think this was that big of an achievement because going to the gym was just kind of like I go to the gym like that's who I am, but I would post a lot of stuff about being at the gym while I was abroad and I had people be like, oh my God, you're sending your bond. You're going to the freaking Jam like that's crazy. And so it just kind of made me realize that like, I like last year. I Like that was the first year that actually did it consistently and so like doing that this year just made me realize like think it is a part of my life now like it is not something I will ever like willingly give up like I feel so weird if I don't go to the gym like so and just just doing that made me realize that like I had to pay every month to go to the gym live there. That's not something I'm used to either because like the school here like it's in your tuition. You get to go to the gym for free like I don't know it was like Really? It just made me feel proud of myself that I just was able to finally see that like click that. It's I've never really given up kind of thing that it's like fully like who I am now not like me like trying to you know, kind of person that I was going to the gym like I am that person that always goes to the gym. Yeah, cuz it could have been so easy to just be like whatever like it's too much work. Yeah, and like also like going to the gym, why was there like really helped with me not being so depressed all the time because it was the one piece of like home that Still had so that was really helpful. So that's all we have like for fitness and we think of more later we can totally that. I just put up a bunch of your interview questions. So if we run we have like a lot of time left we can answer some of these. Okay, sounds good. So next we have blog stuff. So the first question Abigail, what was your favorite post from 2018? So my favorite post I just recently published it but it was a fitness circuit workout. So it was like the 12 days of fitness and it's a 12 circuit workout and it was just like super fun to make and it was just really creative to well. I just like enjoyed being able to like do a creative process instead of just wired like writing a workout be like do this many sets of this. Many sets of this it was like, oh you get to like, you know do something new every single circuit and I don't know it was just super fun to do and the pictures for that cause me a bunch of headaches, but I figured them out good. But yeah that one I mean, it's like a simple post but definitely super fun. It's hard choosing a favorite though. It is hard choosing a favorite I had to but I decided on one now. I have one so my favorite post from 2018 was what to do when you're having a bad body image day because I feel like that's something everyone has and it's definitely something I still struggle with and it was what I got a lot of positive feedback about there was one girl in particular. I don't remember who was that DM me on Instagram about it telling me how much it like affected her and like really helped her and she appreciated that I posted. so just made me feel really good and that's something that I think everyone should know how to handle they shouldn't just think that it's they have to like deal with it. There are definitely ways to like make yourself feel better when you're having a bad day like that. Okay. Yeah I'm saying. I do like I'm also like introspective in this and you're just like I don't know vacuum cleaner vacuum cleaner. The next one is what it was your biggest blogging achievement in 2018. I'm a weird announcer. Yeah, I agree mine for sure is the whole Adidas blogger Community thing. I will never ever. Shut up about it. So I'm so sorry. I'm tired of hearing about it at this point, but it was honestly shocked when I got the email and I never thought I'd be working with such a big brand and working with a brand that I genuinely love and Adidas has been on kind of my radar of like I really wish I could work with this brand like that would be a dream. Dream come true to you know work with them and the fact that I got an email from them in June saying like hey, we'd love for you to be a part of this and now I get to work with him like every other month. It's actually insane and I never in my right mind thought that I would ever be able to achieve something like that. I thought you could I'm very proud of you. Thank you. Well, I mean I just didn't start this whole blogging thing like three and a half years ago be like I'm going to work with Adidas one day. Yeah, like it's just so weird, you know. It's so crazy. Yeah, I agree. My biggest blogged achievement was I so I've never ever gotten into like reward style. I'm applied like three or four times. They always deny me so I still use shopstyle Collective. That's like the only one I use because Amazon I just never got enough from it. So like I just use this one and I got my first pay out this year, which is really cool. So yeah, because you have to make like a certain amount of money before you can like cash it out. So I made that amount of money and I'm very proud of myself. Shout out to you guys for a clicking on the stuff and buying the stuff. I link on my blog. Love you is honestly for sure though. Yeah, like That's so exciting. It was so exciting. I didn't even think it happen and like I like logged into the account. I was like, why does it say $0? What is going on? On and then I like had an email and I was like, oh my God, I just got paid what is going on? I was so confused, but it was I loved it. It was good confused. Okay, so I have another question. I'm going to read a question. You can tell me what's dumb. If not, just answer it. Okay. I'm sure it's not dumb. Okay. What what is one event that happened this year? You're going to tell your grandchildren about Panama City Beach for sure. That's a good one. Yeah. I was at a party where someone shit his pants. So wait, what did I not tell you? Yes, that was the night of our rager and did he just get surgery? I honestly have no idea but yes. Wow. Okay, and the best thing is probably not for him, but it's on video. So oh my God. Yes Lord. Sorry. Sorry to him. Whoever you are. Oh my God, it's just like what the heck? Yeah, so I'm One of it I'm gonna tell my grandchildren is the freaking whole Escapade with cute train boy. Holy cow. That was crazy for short short story for people who don't know this. I was on a train obviously it one day coming home from somewhere. I went while I was abroad and this cute guy was on the train with me and you're sitting across from each other and we just kind of talked and then I ended up giving him my phone number and this crazy way that will explain in a future. So do whatever and then we talked every day for like two weeks. He asked me out I go on a date with him and then apparently has a girlfriend and it was just like we still talk like he's he liked photos of me and Kyle on Facebook. I'm just so confused to this day. What happened? Yeah, that is I will definitely be telling my grandchildren that story. Well, good luck City Beach and then I love floor Bama Shore. So like oh God, it's so good. If you've never seen floor banished for watch it. Um, so I don't know if this is a good one and it's going for me, but I don't know about you. So what book or movie affected your life in a profound way this year. The Christmas wedding planner. How did that profoundly about your life? I don't know. I don't really watch movies how much and I don't really read books that much. I know so I didn't think it'd be good for you princess which you know, Vanessa Hudgens. For sure, I don't know. Because I have a good answer you can answer it. Okay, so I'm going to say to all the boys. I've Loved Before the movie. That was it. I forgot about that because I forgot about that movie. Well, listen to this story. I just realize it so I re-watched this movie for the third time. Well, they're not half time on lot this past Saturday and at the very end of it spoiler alert for everyone who has not seen this movie. So Peter and large, you know broken up and it's at the point where Josh is talking to her about how she has Received a love letter and he's like large and you just have to go tell Peter and he's like you can't just not tell people how you feel about them. And I remember the first time I watched this movie when he said that was whenever at that time when the first time I watch his movie, I had been talking to Kyle and this other guy at the same time and I was so confused about how this other guy felt about me and I remember when Josh said that I immediately texted that guy and we had this huge conversation and then we decided we weren't going to see each other anymore. And that's why I'm with Kyle. And I just I just realized that the other day when I was re watching this movie and I think it's the craziest thing because I freaking love that movie and I didn't mean for it to be like a big part of my life. But now it is so like that's legit. Cool. Yeah. Did you cultivate any new habits this year good or bad? Drinking. Yes. I'm I don't know if that's good or bad but I definitely cultivating that habit. Yeah for sure. That's it. That's it. Just drinking. I think my peace sign thing really came out this year because I used to do it but I never used to do it as much. Yeah, you do it all the freaking time. I col makes fun of me for now. Like I will start from peace sign right only when I'm with him. He's like really you don't have a peace sign already. That's one and I'm like, I'm good. He starts counting them. You're not about 2019. Yeah. Do you want to answer this other one first? Sure. So our final question for liquor look back at 2018 is what cool things. Did you create this year and the same answer? Yeah, and it is 100% hands down this podcast. Yeah, we're like we did not think it would be this amazing this cool thing that it would take off this quickly this some Exponentially. Yeah, it's insane. Like I love it so much. It's it's so fun. And I'm so glad that we had this idea and that we went through it and we didn't just like say oh this is a cool idea and then just like put it on a shelf and never pull it out again. We put it on a shelf, but we did pull it out again. Yeah, we put on a shelf for about a year and then yeah, but by far it's so cool and Yeah, I think it's just like another way to bring not only not only like the bloggers are blogging Community together like with other bloggers and everything, but just like our readers like in a different way of getting to know us and it's I don't know it's just so cool. We connect a lot more people like we like while you get like comments and stuff on like your blog and stuff, but I feel like we I got more messages from the podcast this year about that than I did about my blog. In the second half of the year since we started the podcast. Yeah, and which is crazy because we're almost at the six-month Mark. Yeah for this podcast. We're like almost done with season two like this is the end basically if season to season two, yeah crazy and like we're on iTunes for on Spotify like how crazy like it blows my mind. It's all I love it so much. It's so great. It is so great. So yeah, that's like what we wanted to talk about with 2018. So now we're going to answer just a few questions about what we foresee in 2019, which is so weird to say. Yeah. Well 2019 is a big year for us. We're graduating. I know we're graduating college. I mean you really don't know what like this is going to be my four-year blogger versary in 2019. I know like to think of where I was 4 years ago, like applying to colleges and stuff like that to like where I am. Now, that's absolutely insane. It really is like, oh my good like I'm a completely different person but I was in high school. I was so mean in high school. I was just so unhappy. I was like I was so unhappy, but I've never told anyone I mean same yeah. Yeah, and so we're graduating this year. We're going to be getting real jobs. We're going to have a salary freaking salary. And if so exciting we should be able to visit each other because we have a salary I'm gonna have money like not just like Going paycheck to paint while paycheck to paycheck like monthly deposits for my parents trying to budget my food. So I have enough money to do other things. Yeah. Wow, is there so like went are like your things top five things that you want to do in 2019 and you can't say graduate because you're going to graduate. We already know that yeah, definitely in 2019. I want to travel Or I would love to either get a job or position or freelance and be able to travel travel travel. I really really really really really want to go to Seattle and Portland like I need to do that for my soul to be like do I want to live here, or do I not want to live here? So I think definitely traveling one. I know I'm trying to think of other things. I definitely want to go ahead and go ahead. No you go ahead talking think I really want to get a cat and 2019 and if I have like my own apartment, I should be able to because one of my other things have my own apartment like either by myself or like with one of my best friends because right now I live with two people that I didn't know before hand. So I would really love to live with someone that I actually know personally and I want to get a cat. Those are two things Caitlin what we can have cat play dates. Oh my God Tom loves Cats like I loves to play with other cats. I'm like, yeah already know what I would name cats. Like I've been planning this since I was a little girl like and I know the kind of cats that I want like it's perfect. I'm so excited since you said something about an apartment. Like I really want to live by myself. I cannot stand having a roommate. Like I enjoy having a roommate but like also I don't it's nothing against her. Her it's just I don't I don't do well with roommates. I don't know. I just because I don't I don't know. I just like things like my way. It was just like freaking vacuuming. Yeah, but I think definitely living by myself, like officially moving out of my parents house. Probably for sure. I I had really I'd really like a year and a half ago up until like the beginning of this semester. I was telling people I was hundred percent gonna move in 2019 and I still really really really want to move preferably to the West Coast, but I have to get a job first so Two things get a job and move. I do not want to live in Kentucky or Ohio anymore. I'm so done with it. I don't blame you at all. And my my last thing is I want to go back to Europe. Yeah, that's what I want to do this year. My friend one of my best friends and I it's our it'll be our 10-year friend of our Suri and September 2019, and we want to go to Greece. So he's so fun that those are my big overarching goals for 2019. This is probably only for but my last one is I don't really really really want to hit 225 on a deadlift. Like that was my goal by graduation. But yeah, we'll see if that happens. I I really want to get back into like just doing the core lifts like just doing squat the squat dead bench and shoulder press. Because I did a lot of deadlifts while I was abroad and I got really back into it, but it's really hard to do it when you don't have platforms. So like I need to join a new gym. Basically what you're gonna have to yeah, and I'm oh my God I get asked out Jim's I'm so excited. Whoa. This is crazy. Oh my God knows she's gonna be crazy. I'm freaking out. I'm so excited. Okay. Yeah next year. It's just I can't even begin to like process. What's going to happen in the next 365 days? I can't believe that like 2019 starts in like 13 days. I cannot believe it's already 2019. I feel like I just graduated high school and I was like, I don't want some 2019. I'm like so crazy. I feel like I graduated high school at 10 years ago. It feels like that too. But it also feels like it was yesterday. I don't know. I feel old. So I would say my one giant overarching goal is to have me you Kayla and Gabby in one place and we all hang out together. I'm gonna say I'm gonna stick cat into that group. Yeah, but like I'm just saying like I want I want to hang out with everyone at the same time. Yeah, that is like so hard I would but kill for that we would all be graduated that point. So like I feel like we could do it either. Last year the year after yeah. Yeah for sure but it needs to happen. So if you're listening to this, please send me your schedules plan of giant blogger beat up and we can all go get brunch. It'll have to be in the summer for sure. Yeah. Oh my God, we could rent a giant house somewhere. And just wow, that'd be so fun. I have a ghost freaking out over this. Hello. It would be like one of those giant YouTube meetups but like bloggers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll bring her favorite wines except for you. Ha ha ha. Okay. Well, this was kind of dessert 2018 year in review what we're looking forward to in 2019. We would love to hear how your year went, which you want to happen next year. So, you know Hennis up on the Twitter or the Instagrams, and if you want on Instagram include as both and the message because that makes a bouguereau really happy. Yes, please I'd like to be included. So thank you guys so much for listening not just to this episode, but to all the previous episodes this podcast started in July this year and so it's about 6 months old and it's just crazy and thank you guys all so much for your support. Port support on the podcast support on our blogs everything like Y'all honestly mean the world to us. Yeah, so thank you guys so much, and we will be back after about a week break, and then we'll be back with more girls. Talk for you guys. Yes. We love you guys so much. Yes. 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 Welcome to the end of 2018 and the end of the first half season 2! We had so many highs ans a few lows (we all get them) this year and we wanted to share them with you. We'd love to hear your highlights from 2018, too! Make sure you keep in contact through email or DM while you wait for new episodes. Okay bye! Caitlyn & Abigail  Mentioned in this Episode: Abigail Year in Review - http://livingthegraylife.com/2019/01/02/2018-year-in-review/ Caitlyn year in Review - http://collegewithcaitlyn.com/2018-year-in-review  Check us out! Abigail:  Blog - http://livingthegraylife.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/livingthegraylife/  Twitter - https://twitter.com/livingthegray  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYDFramBthYg4KrNGJTLf7A Caitlyn:  Blog - http://collegewithcaitlyn.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/CattyElizabeth5/  Twitter - http://twitter.com/CattyElizabeth5 YouTube - https://bit.ly/2SsecBN  Music: Friends by Ikson @ikson Music provided by Free Music for Vlogs youtu.be/0sUIfW8R2BM   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 