Listen - you want hard-hitting issues? Melanie and I are here to deliver them this week. We discuss plumbing problems at my house, the situation with basements in Alabama and Texas, my run-in with a stomach bug, and our continued affection for this particular college basketball season. BREAKING NEWS, right? 

We also share an update on our continued reading progress (yay for books!), Melanie details why it's so difficult to walk her dogs, and it's my turn for Five Favorites. 

Hope y'all enjoy!

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Show Notes:

- BeneRx (this is hands-down our favorite muscle pain reliever)

- Joe Lunardi Bracketology

- Buzz Williams

- Gwyneth Paltrow's closet archive

- SNL Hollywood skit

- Poker Face

- A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah Maas

- A Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah Maas

- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

- "Movie Star" by Jessica Simpson

- Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

- The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

- Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

- Meant to Be by Emily Giffin

- No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

- Orvis Quilted Snap Sweatshirt

- Harry's Fig body wash

- Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup (I did 7 cups of chicken stock and half a package of wide egg noodles)

- Kitsch satin pillowcase

- Summersalt easy high-waist flares

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