Ep.60 – The Year in Review, Kinda But Not Really

Episode Notes Michelle and Henrique spend this episode contemplating the year and being thankful for the good that has come between the struggles. Also they both cry, so there's that. Email us at ThisShowisAwkward@gmail.com Buy the super awkward t-shirt! http://awkwardstore.launchcart.store Transcription: so michelle so i understand that we've both had a bit of a adventure involving our experiences with pillows oh maybe well i a few weeks ago i discovered my pillow was no longer good and that it was destroying my neck uh i found that out because i hurt my neck and back somehow maybe from the pillow or maybe from something else and then it like took forever to heal because i kept waking up feeling worse so i got a new pillow been amazing except i got into the habit of sleeping with my arms straight out under my head with the pillow between them and i was like ah maybe i need a different pillow cause like i'm waking up and my arm's really hurting so then i googled it and google was like please don't sleep like that like that was literally the answer because i was like how do i sleep with my arm under head then i was like how you know pillows for sleeping like that and everything's like don't sleep like that apparently it's horrible for your rotator cuff and uh yeah so now i just don't sleep like that and i'm already amazed it's been three days of not sleeping like that which i only started doing that a couple years ago maybe even not even a couple years ago i just all of a sudden found that was a really cozy way to lay yeah and uh but i stopped and i'm already sleeping like way better and waking up and like no discomfort so but i understand that you who i don't remember if it was on the show or if it was just you and me talking [ __ ] in our normal everyday lives but we talked about pillows and you were very like oh no no there's just no pillow good enough for me no sir they're all too big or too hard or too anti-semitic or whatever the problem with the pillows is so i but today you gave me a brief update you said that you uh you used a different pillow just the pillow from your guest room yeah yeah there was a pillow that i i don't know if it's the pillow that i bought that was way too big but i think it's the other pillow there's a pillow that like came that like my dad bought for those sheets because he wanted better sheets for when he slept over um man knows what he likes yeah so um so i just like i can't because my pillow is like there's not any pillow it's just like it just moves all the insides move away when i land it just goes over there and it's a very soft pillow yeah and i don't want that forever and so i so i was like this isn't good so how long did you have this awful soft pillow i don't know like five years oh my god you're not like well those aren't supposed to be used that long it never was good i don't think it got worse why did you stick it out so long i don't know but then you were talking about pillows and i was like oh i wonder if that has something to do with the reason that i'm like so uncomfortable sleeping oh well i mean because the pillow i had was a was i i like memory i don't like memory foam beds but i like memory foam pillows that's my thing and my memory foam pillow was like four years old all of a sudden my head was just like you know was like touching the touching the bed almost like it just loses yeah yeah so anyway but yeah so you you finally tried a different pillow after five years of suffering i don't know if it's been five years it was because it sounds like you you sound like five years of suffering that's what it sounds like to me okay that just seems like you it's not i mean it could have been more i really don't remember i used to have a down pillow but i was stupid and i uh like i i i took it with me on tour and then there was bed bugs so i put it in the washing machine and it was never the same because you're not supposed to put pillows in the washing machine but i didn't know that i don't know that how old were you 30 yeah probably so i never like attempted to wash a pillow but i thought maybe it was possible but but so i ruined that one and then i don't know what i still was using it because i didn't have another pillow so always just to save like 11. i didn't know it was that bad so this is after your shoulder surgery i believe or is this before it's in the middle there oh because your shoulder surgery was related to the way you sleep to some extent your shoulder injury or to the exacerbation uh yeah i mean kind of once you once you mess up the ligaments over in your arm like that it it's gonna it's gonna happen again well you were sleeping didn't you say you slept kind of like like yeah but but but i was trying not to but my like i would just kind of you know go back that way anyway because that's what i was used to um so yeah so describe so was last night your first night sleeping with a different pillow no it's been like it's been like three nights or so and how do you feel um i feel the same during the day but at night i don't feel as bad as i was feeling because i was like i was getting to a point where like i was sleeping on my back a lot which is really strange for me because but it was like more comfortable than sleeping on my side i guess because of the way how no pillowy it was yeah over there um and it was just i would just wake up and have to like switch positions but be like like in a small amount of pain switching positions so which i'm not used to like sometimes i'll get like uncomfortable a little and i'll switch but yeah i mean people people move a little in their sleep you know it's when you're doing it constantly and to the point where you're remembering like wow i tossed and turned a lot last night that's not good yeah i feel like now i should be like that's why and then i just like pull out like a sealy product i'm like we have these so i guess i'm gonna have to crowdsource the audience to buy you a nicer pillow that's what we're gonna have to do no no you're whispering that's good no no because by now i already have a nicer pillow because this is in the future so is it santa bringing you one are you gonna get yourself one uh i i probably have sourced it from another person that's very political of you i have sourced it from another person my mom is probably getting me a pillow so i could because if she wasn't i was gonna text her and be like oh michelle needs a pillow she's suffering she's suffering oh my god chicano's licking my foot again i wasn't ready for that oh he's glued to me today the under to be perfectly honest because we're recording this before christmas my office is an extra wreck because christmas seasons lots of shipping lots of orders so under my desk is just full of like like shredded up paper like i need to clean it up yeah and chicano decided he just needed to be near me so he's laying in a big pile of shredded papers and he had his head laying on my foot and now he's just licking my foot over and over and over again i bet it tastes really nice that sure it probably does oh he stopped okay maybe now i could talk in my normal cadence again [Laughter] he's got such a little tongue compared to hen wolf's tongue that's like eight feet long and seven feet wide he's doing it again um i can't move my foot or i'll feel that i'm so happy i just take my foot away from chicano he just looks up at me he's like i was abandoned the day after thanksgiving and i'm like oh god he's like so do the things i want and i'm like okay that's the power he has over me i just hear that whenever i disappoint him i just hear him saying like i was abandoned and i'm like oh buddy here's a steak um but uh wow so do you are you are you gonna go are you hoping to go memory foam are you hoping to go what kind of pillow are you going for i don't care you just found out you just realized that it makes a big difference and now you're like whatever whatever pillow is is better than than the not good pillow probably so we'll see well i heard uh i watched a review for a pillow where you buy it and it comes it comes a pillow but then it comes with padding and you just fill it to the amount you want that's really cool that is pretty cool i saw sorry no please no i saw pillows with little pillows inside them and then you just put them in there that's not okay that's very upsetting i don't need a [ __ ] russian nesting doll pillow okay what's inside this pillow a bunch of littler pillows what's the sign of those we dare not speak of it but uh uh no pillows man they make a difference so um i'm impressed by how much my neck feels better now that i'm sleeping on this surf i have a cervical pillow that like help it get it's for side sleepers so it holds your head like extra upright okay and uh i like it good now that i stopped laying with my arm like an idiot that was the big problem i'm sorry you know you'd think that like people would talk about like you know there's one way to sleep that injures you it's this way yeah nobody talks about that yeah no so um and the funniest part is that i literally built it up in my head too i was like oh god so i'm just gonna have to have my arm up and i have to just have it down and to the side uh and then like i just went right to sleep like it was no big deal at all like i didn't even care that much i did like once or twice catch myself like putting my arm up a little but i was able to just kind of correct it because because what would happen is i would wake up when i felt the pressure or the pain that i was used to that was annoying me and then i'd be like yeah and i just put the arm back down and go back to sleep so i so far it's already seems to be over so it's not it's not a lifelong habit it really started not too long ago so um yeah but i learned a lot about all the weird pillows that exist in the world so there are all kinds of pillows for being able to sleep with your arm under your body that are like two hundred dollars a