❤️❤️Valentine's Day Take It or Leave It - E26

Clancy Denton  0:00  
Welcome to the loud quiet. Ooh, empty nester. Okay. What does that mean?

Rick Denton  0:06  
I think that actually probably is the theme of the empty nest. What are we doing? Let's do this. Let's do this thing. Is this Recording? Yes, Okay.

Clancy Denton  0:15  
great. Sans, children just uswe need a tissue box up here to follow along on our journey and maybe you know we can learn from others.

Rick Denton  0:23  
I don't have a clue how to be an empty nester there.

Clancy Denton  0:25  
This is the loud quiet, living the empty nest.

Rick Denton  0:31  
Everyone, welcome to another episode of the loud quiet it is episode 26. We are back for those of you that are watching, you can see that we are back in the studio. No road trip. Thank God this weekend, it was just a chill weekend, which was nice. It's another chance to to record here in the studio. It's a chance to thank you all again for listening. It is encouraging to see your comments to see what you have shared with us about your emptiness life. And just the encouragement you give for us to keep this thing going. So thank you all for listening. And thank you for telling folks about this.

Clancy Denton  1:08  
Yeah. So all right. I'm going

Rick Denton  1:13  
like throw it over to me I did with my eyes.

Clancy Denton  1:17  
I didn't know were using nonverbal cues. And

Rick Denton  1:20  
yeah, we use that.

Clancy Denton  1:23  
This is great. Leave this in because this is a great segue into today as our episode we were going to talk about Valentine's Day.

Rick Denton  1:32  
Love and hearts. This is so loving hearts, though.

Clancy Denton  1:38  
So yeah, so we thought that we would talk about some past Valentine's Day. What Valentine's Day means to us and the songs that were important to us when we were probably in our Well, mostly dating. That was more dating. I think so. Yeah. So I thought I'm sure

Rick Denton  2:00  
they I mean they carry forward today.

Clancy Denton  2:04  
Yeah, I thought we would just you know, and it's interesting. We will we'll get into some that. You know, Tegan actually brought up Valentine's Day I brought them treats when we went out there last weekend. And, you know, listening to her memories, because we're you and I. Here's how I view Valentine's Day. If something happens that weekend, or if something showed up that day, okay, great, but it's not an expectation of, you better get me some flowers and some candy, or I'm gonna be really mad at you for the rest of it. You know, we just never really treated it that way.

Rick Denton  2:42  
Didn't it's such a dangerous place for the guy to be you know, if something shows up, that's okay. But I don't expect it the danger is a very gray area. Sometimes I think the guy or I mean if the roles are reversed. But for me the guy, I'd almost be easier if it were no, this is what I expect.

Clancy Denton  2:57  
Well, yeah. And I think, again, that's where it comes to communication with your spouse, partner. You know, whatever. I mean, we just asked each other, are we doing anything? Do you want anything? Because I don't want to get blindsided that you expected me to like bake some gourmet meal or something on Wednesday night.

Rick Denton  3:20  
But if one showed up, that's not happening.

Clancy Denton  3:25  
I have done that. That's not Well, yeah. And that's the other thing is that this is such a men's holiday, you know, like, yeah, why is this all on us. But then I think it has also morphed into the gallon tines, which is probably thanks to some, you know, social media and shows and that kind of thing, to where girls who may not have boyfriends or husbands at the time, or I've even seen it with my married girlfriends do a gallon times things. So, you know, it's just it's a high pressure holiday that we don't view it that way. Is

Rick Denton  4:08  
that as what 20 Or I guess almost 24 years of marriage we'll do for you that you can actually have that honest conversation. Sure if something shows up, but then there's no guilt back and forth. And I think

Clancy Denton  4:17  
we actually well, we'll get into the let's do the songs first and then we'll get into the how we kind of nixed Valentine's Day Out.

Rick Denton  4:31  
Let's do this. Let's get to it. Okay,

Clancy Denton  4:33  
so first song some days now I know we should have had like, I don't know how to do like putting music on you'd have to do that in post but so yes, this is Donna Lewis. I love you always forever. This was a song I remember you were like please don't tell anyone that. I actually liked the song and that we kind of sing it.

Rick Denton  4:55  
It is such a catchy little. It is. It is the cotton The end of music there is nothing behind the song it is not nutritious. I don't like cotton candy is probably a bad example. But there is nothing to it. It is just fluff. But it's fun. And it was

Clancy Denton  5:09  
in that era of a lot of those kind of one hit wonder, you know those kinds of songs. So moving on we have air supply making love out of nothing at all. We've already talked about air supply how much we love them. And yes, the song was blasted all the time in the car.

Rick Denton  5:28  
It's so sweet brought us so close together emotionally from a romantic perspective. It's just two guys. In a falsetto voice somehow brought us to a deeper connection

Clancy Denton  5:43  
that I always thought in the past. They were together, but they're not.

Rick Denton  5:48  
I won't I never thought that really? No, no. Okay.

Clancy Denton  5:54  
All right, next. This is the Celine Dion. It's all coming back to me now.

Rick Denton  6:00  
And this is the one that a song is seven minutes long. I think it's somewhere in that neighborhood. And you said it there. This was this is a song that I didn't like, or I think I think I may have said this about the guiltiness around this one more than even the Donald Lewis one. Because it's Celine Dion. There's no coolness to this. And then I come to find out oh, it's written by meatloaf, well then safely on board with the song. And it is once you know that, and then when you listen to this song, it is it is the more mature version of dashboard by the paradise line or Paradise by the dashboard light. It is this classic.

Clancy Denton  6:40  
I mean, I love this song and her voice and her ballads are just so good. But this one yes. I remember playing it over and over and over again, when you have to hit repeat on your whatever you can send it to your player TJ Yeah,

Rick Denton  6:57  
yeah, it was. And you know, certainly this is somewhat timely that we just watched the Grammys last week where the big reveal was her coming on stage with her rigid body syndrome, and which is a tragic story of an incredibly talented person who is still I would imagine still has all that talent in or just perhaps can't physically deliver. Yeah.

Clancy Denton  7:18  
So then, the last Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. So all of the if you're watching, or if you're not watching, and you're listening, you can go back and look because the album cover of this one our song covers at

Rick Denton  7:39  
some good sunglasses and hair right there in line or she looks great, right? Yeah, she there's something about the 80s Perm look, guy and then the those sunglasses. Okay, so there's a story with this one. And there's a reason why this song actually became a little more special than any of us actually anticipated. And it's a mixture of sweetness and humor. We had gone to one of our favorite Italian restaurants in North Dallas at the time. It's when I was living in my apartment in Montfort. And it's called the tallies not there anymore. Great place. It was one of those that they knew us. We knew them. And it

Clancy Denton  8:15  
was an old Italian guy, his mom would sit in the corner do fortune teller. Yeah, I know. I should have gotten my tarot cards read or my fortune read from her at one point. But yeah, it's small, tiny little place. Yeah,

Rick Denton  8:30  
the classic neighborhood where they certainly knew our name and in many times would anticipate our order. Yeah. Which was absolutely fine. So we were driving on. So that was just it's a place that was a one of warmth for us one of relationship for us. And we're driving back on BeltLine, for those of you that know, Dallas, and the song comes on. And suddenly I hear a voice also singing along with this voice. And we start singing this song back and forth to each other in the car in the most vulnerable, sweet, connected sort of way. And I

Clancy Denton  9:06  
think I think the wine probably had something to do with

Rick Denton  9:10  
more the sweet loving feelings that we were held between each other. But yeah, I mean, we really did we sang this song back and

Clancy Denton  9:22  
forth to each other and I think I pulled a hairbrush out of my Did you remember that part? Watch it now. I'm thinking. I don't ever add it. Yeah, no, I had I mean, but I don't remember carrying on my part, but I probably did when I was in my 20s You know, but yeah, and now

Rick Denton  9:38  
we can actually look at each other and just go Bum Bum Bum bum and right then we know

Clancy Denton  9:44  
Yeah, and when you know the song was on friends too when Phoebe and Chandler singing it and yeah, it's just it's just a good again another power ballad you know with two great voices You know, the talent pool is just amazing. And this song, and also just the sidebar we just watched if you have Netflix, and you're of our age or older, the there's a documentary on We Are the World. Excellent. Yeah, go watch it. Lionel Richie made me and Dianne Ross she's in a tube but very, very good documentary about how that how that song came together. So anyway, sidebar

Rick Denton  10:36  
you know, and so we're talking about this and here it is. 20 I have not gonna get this right. But somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 27 years ago and yet this still makes us smile from that moment, on on beltline approaching Monforte right as we're singing that in the gold maxima.

Clancy Denton  10:51  
Yeah, I guess it would have been 28 years ago. Yeah. Something Oh, which when I was going back to the air supply song. Last year was the 40th anniversary of that, so I should have stopped. I didn't

Rick Denton  11:04  
follow them like a Grateful Dead tour. Just follow them around.

Clancy Denton  11:07  
I still want to see them. We met I know. Okay, so. Yes. So these were the songs that we really, you know, considered our love songs, I guess. You'd call it

Rick Denton  11:19  
kind of other ones and even ones that might be considered more cool. More current more. There's probably Depeche Mode and newer songs and all sorts of stuff. But these have just been cemented both from a humor perspective. Yes to a and I think it's almost in the spectrum. It kind of went from humor to sweet

Clancy Denton  11:34  
and that's what I did. I ended I ended with this super special one if you want to call it that, but yeah, so yeah, so when you know going back to Valentine's Day and since that is coming up this week. You know, we in our dating we I'm sure we did. I have cards downstairs from Valentine's Day and I'm sure you know there were gifts exchange when we were in the dating phase. But I know I this is what I remember that killed it. For us at least killed the going out on Valentine's gonna say

Rick Denton  12:15  
we didn't we reset that headline. This killed our relationship. We were over We're faking it now. No. Killed Valentine's as a scripted, scheduled on the 14th you will do something romantic come hell or high water?

Clancy Denton  12:28  
Yeah. Do you want to tell it or do

Rick Denton  12:29  
you? Oh, no. Well, we may have very different perspectives Go ahead. Oh, well,

Clancy Denton  12:34  
okay. We loved Houston's go to him. We would go to Houston's frequently it was right down the street from your apartment. So we're like, oh, let's go there on Valentine's night. Big mistake. Huge.

Rick Denton  12:52  
Channel all of Julia Roberts delivery of that lie. It is.

Clancy Denton  12:57  
Yeah, it was packed.

Rick Denton  12:59  
And we had reservations. We had to. We didn't I don't I don't know. It just was one of those of you're thinking Wait, I'm supposed to be romantically connecting with a woman I love. And instead I'm standing in a 10 by 10. Space, not to but with 50 other people, sweating and grumpy and loud and hungry. And the service was awful. And it probably was because they were overwhelmed. Not the individual is doing right. It was such the opposite of what you would expect an experience to be. I don't remember if it was one of the fixed price menus or not.

Clancy Denton  13:34  
I don't know I think it might have been I think that was another thing that turned us off. We're like, oh, we can't even come here and have the word we want where my

Rick Denton  13:41  
chicken tenders and fries. Do a spectacular job of it. Yeah.

Clancy Denton  13:44  
But you know, the one thing that Houston's was known for is if your tea glass was half full. Oh, here's your other. You know, that's, that's what I remember. We and I remember we were sitting there going? No one has brought me another glass. Yeah, I mean, so that pretty much cemented. And I remember we were both like we are never going and this was before we were even married. We are never going out on Valentine's Day. Night again, or even now some of the restaurants have pushed it to the weekends like this year. It's on a Wednesday. So they've done the weekend before and some the weekend after. And again, they're doing these price fix menus. Well, I don't want to go when I have to pick what's you know, on your menu unless it's something that I enjoy. But yeah, so I just see. So that's that's

Rick Denton  14:33  
what I almost I've heard it described as actually I think I'm channeling what folks have said about New Year's that it's amateur night. I almost feel that way about going out on Valentine's Day. And sorry for those of you that actually live going on Valentine's Day. I've just insulted all of our listeners. And

Clancy Denton  14:48  
this is just us. That's what I was saying. This is how we did Valentine's Day and how we treat the holiday itself. It is

Rick Denton  14:55  
the opposite of an event that brings me closer to you which is In theory, the point of a scripted holiday about love. Yeah. So no more dinners for us on Valentine's Day. But what have we done? I mean, we've done things on value.

Clancy Denton  15:09  
Yeah. And so yeah, so we did we, this was,

Rick Denton  15:14  
so for those that aren't here this way. He was literally listening. This is a picture of us at Blue Man Group in Chicago in Chicago. And that's us wearing clothes in the theater called February

Clancy Denton  15:27  
in Chicago. Not a great idea. Love Chicago.

Rick Denton  15:31  
There's a reason why valentine's day trades cheap.

Clancy Denton  15:34  
I mean, all of our pictures from this trip or you can see his our eyes because we weren't covered and covered. I don't even remember what year this is. But it's

Rick Denton  15:42  
I don't remember the year but what I do remember is torturing that poor Dukes. It took us about five or six pictures to get this right either way. But he couldn't talk. They weren't allowed to talk so we could do whatever we wanted.

Clancy Denton  15:52  
Yeah. So yeah, so that was you know, a trip that we did. Yeah. That revolved around

Rick Denton  15:58  
that was fun. Energy. Remember, they actually called out my name before the show started. Do you remember? I don't know why. But it was really Denton. Yeah, stand up. They did. They pretended that you were the VIP and made everybody plug for you. So I felt very spoke.

Clancy Denton  16:10  
Yeah, no, that was a fun trip.

Rick Denton  16:11  
So you were with your VIP happy valentine's day.

Clancy Denton  16:17  
I think we know who the VIP in this crew.

Rick Denton  16:22  
Oh, so it is thrown down.

Clancy Denton  16:27  
One thing I will say with Valentine's because we're about to get into some pictures that are more. I turned the focus more to making the kids feel special on there. You know, and I enjoyed their parties and all that kind of stuff. And I did here this week. Several on different podcasts, dad saying how they want to make their daughters feel special on Valentine's Day because that's how they want them to learn that this is how a man is supposed to love it treat you love it. And I was like, yeah, and you've done a great job of that. And we'll get into some of that. Do you get a second? Yeah, if the boy didn't open the door for now she's even set and she's noticed it with her other friends. He didn't open the door for her. That is not you know, now she knows so. So yes, so that was our trip. So then yes, this was one of Tegan. It's her it for those of you listening. We got very creative with her boxes for Valentine's Day. And this was the year she was really into frogs. And so we made a frog. That's a milk jug. Yeah, some milk jug. And I don't you know what I was trying to think this was before Pinterest was around, I'm sure. Well, then you're just because I don't know how I don't know how i I must have seen this on something. But I really don't think Pinterest or I was not involved in Pinterest at least during this time. So we there's

Rick Denton  17:57  
a whole side conversation we'd have about actually having creativity before the social media world just forces upon us. Look if this were just authentically organic. Yes. I

Clancy Denton  18:05  
don't know where I saw this in a magazine something but she actually and this is her home. She actually brought this when we were with her last weekend and I gave her something for Valentine's Day. And she said, Mom, I really the frog Valentine's box that we did. And then I gave her that year a gigantic frog, you know, Walmart Valentine's. And she said, that was one of my favorite gifts. And she said I guess I was really into frogs, I

Rick Denton  18:37  
guess so. We're just along for the ride with kids. Right? So

Clancy Denton  18:40  
I tried to find her frog, a big frog, but he's maybe up in the attic. So that was yes, fun. And there are parties where I was room mom for many, many, many years. So I was always involved in the parties. So and I'm glad that they've at least kept that going. Right. So then this is again, what killed another?

Rick Denton  19:00  
Didn't a couple killed the couples part of Valentine's Day I think yeah, you're saying yeah, that it translates. So this is Daddy daughter dance. This is getting dressed up going, you know, she gets to wear the little frilly dress or whatever, you know, the nice dress. And me so don't eat the court. Move on. So she's eating, she's eating.

Clancy Denton  19:26  
Ie y'all did go eating an

Rick Denton  19:27  
HDMI cable, you know, essentially so so it's a special time. It's one and of course it ends with butterfly kisses and all that sort of stuff. It's just sweet. And even as she got older, it may not have been as sweet. It just was still a memory. It was a moment and I think even she would say that those were just times to connect and just be in that the relationship of the love between a dad and a daughter got to manifest and I hope that it did show her what it does mean to be loved by someone and how that can be. I did see actually a picture of somebody that We went out to we would go with other dads and daughters and I saw Eric picture yeah with Alexei and it wasn't the same year but I remember going with them once to Randy steakhouse we'd always go to a nice place and and have a nice dinner before going. It was these are great memories and great picture Frisco

Clancy Denton  20:18  
does a really good job. Yes, putting this on. I mean, I this was not a thing when I was younger, but you know, when we moved here were like, Oh, the daddy daughter dance and it sells out. And it's always the weekend before Valentine's. So that does, you know, table but yes, she would have fond memories. And I mean, yeah, we loved we would go dress shopping and we would do her hair. And so yeah, that was those are a good, good good memories for y'all. Another thing as we got older do

Rick Denton  20:51  
couples do balance? This

Clancy Denton  20:53  
one was on jeans day. Sorry. Yes, I know. I forget that. This is soccer games. When you're on varsity soccer. In high school, I guess all the all the teams are it's always Tuesdays and Fridays. So this Valentine's Day, we

Rick Denton  21:12  
were at soccer. We were at soccer. And I've

Clancy Denton  21:16  
spent many of my holidays. It's like a Mother's Day tournament. Yeah.

Rick Denton  21:21  
Yeah. So I mean, and I think I'm glad that we had decided early on that Valentine's Day wasn't gonna be the scripted declaration. Because instead of being bitter about these introductions, we could laugh about them. You know, we would always joke to do Valentine's, but we didn't mind.

Clancy Denton  21:38  
Well. I didn't even know it was Valentine's Day. Yeah. Well, okay. But by this point, the kids were not doing parties. They weren't doing I mean, yes, I would get the kids someday. But yeah, so yeah, so that was another you know, stealer of time. But so

Rick Denton  21:52  
how do we get it back? Yes. This actually, so this actually was Valentine's Day. And yes, this was Tanner took Tanner was invited to go visit Arizona State and the honors college there. And they're like, alright, well, if they're paying for his ticket, let's all go. He was he had a girlfriend at the time. So he wanted to go back. So when I say a day trip, we all flew out on the first flight out that morning. He flew back that evening. Well, Clancy and I decided we're gonna go state resorts. So this is the Westin Kierland. Up in Scottsdale. For those that know the waste management tournament. It's very close to there. And the classic leg pointed at the pool picture. This was a return a couple's Valentine's and again,

Clancy Denton  22:38  
I mean, yes, we're laying out by the pool. And you know, it's February 14. Yeah. This is why we love Arizona. Now this week, and you not be able to do that, but this is why we love Arizona. And so yes, that that kind of book ended or, you know, Valentine's? We didn't

Rick Denton  22:59  
we stopped doing it because of kids. Now one is going off to college we get to do because this is because of kids. Yeah. That was a good dad. We ate in the hotel with hotel reservation like we didn't. I'm no, no.

Clancy Denton  23:13  
Thanks. So that's the way to do so. And, you know, this is also a special trip because it did solidify his decision to go there. And we've obviously had a great time, the past four years.

Rick Denton  23:29  
Here's here's a tip, if you want your kids to go to Arizona, have them visit the school in fifth. Yeah.

Clancy Denton  23:35  
Yes. All their other forms are visiting places schlepping through snow and

Rick Denton  23:39  
Boston College doesn't feel the same. February 14, as ASU or UVA does.

Clancy Denton  23:45  
So yeah. So that was that. And then I just put a couple of pictures because there were times that I actually these were both I showed up to work. And you had left there were these are pictures of Rosie, they were in Ashley's office, because I don't have an office. But that's

Rick Denton  24:03  
where I said it would have been odd if I left it on the treadmill. Yes. Yeah. So.

Clancy Denton  24:06  
So yeah. So you, you know there have been times that

Rick Denton  24:11  
yeah, I'm not a good flower giver. This is something that I don't do well, at I I just tend to forget about them. And then even I enjoy having flowers in the house. I think they're nice. I'm just I'm not the I'm not the greatest of gift givers.

Clancy Denton  24:25  
Well, and I think because there was one point in our relationship that I said, I don't want flowers because they just die. And so I think then that I've never find flowers ever again.

Rick Denton  24:37  
Which just went off.

Clancy Denton  24:41  
And then one day I said well, it would be nice to get flowers sometimes. And I

Rick Denton  24:47  
have it's so rare. I will be the first to admit that I am the worst at this but thrown some flowers your way on Rando days and I think that like it's fall so let's get a fall decorate that kind of thing.

Clancy Denton  24:58  
I mean, I see and I I don't I love fresh flowers, you know, to have around the house and stuff. I just don't buy them because, yeah, they, you know, die in a couple of weeks. But But I do like it does add, you know, to your house and that kind of thing. So, so yes,

Rick Denton  25:17  
it is it is this is another one that it's hard for me to choose to do it on Valentine's Day and not, yes, there's the cost, I get that. I feel like I'm not being authentic if I do this on the day, because then I feel like it wasn't me thinking of you. It was me looking at a calendar that forced me to think of you and that's not necessarily the right view. It's just that's what sticks in my head. So that's why I struggle with this one when it comes to gift giving it again

Clancy Denton  25:43  
has become a holiday that's so commercialized. I mean Kroger has the huge 10 out front. And it's always again like we talked about men come get your you know, feel embarrassed,

Rick Denton  25:54  
like the big Oh, you're the loser that forgot to get them until today, which isn't their fresh flowers, but it just feels like you're the loser doing the drive thru. And that's wrong. It just feels

Clancy Denton  26:05  
that's like all the men at the mall on Christmas Eve to get.

Rick Denton  26:10  
That's true anymore. But

Clancy Denton  26:12  
so yeah, so there was a couple of and then last year you did you made me a mixtape on Spotify? Yes. So that was sweet. It had songs that meant something to us. So I

Rick Denton  26:27  
hope I included all the ones that we mentioned earlier. I think I did have a it was a lot more than that. And that makes tape. The good thing about Spotify is it's still there. We can listen to it anytime we want. I actually looked for an mp3 like something that was a physical cassette tape that you could load songs on and you would just plug into like aux not an actual cassette tape, but I couldn't find it. So business opportunity if somebody wants to go into business with me creating faux cassette tapes

Clancy Denton  26:56  
I'm I'm just waiting for talking about mixtapes, and everything is going backwards. And so I am so ready to see these kids walking around campus with their Walkmans and their headphones, because they've already started to go back to the big headphones again. And so I call it next year.

Rick Denton  27:22  
I think I was at some influencer with the crappy little headphones and the yellow one, it may not

Clancy Denton  27:27  
be like you just said it may not be physical tapes that go in there. But maybe your phone goes in there. And then you can play your I don't know, I think they're because they are starting to show going back words to cameras and that kind of thing. So I don't know,

Rick Denton  27:43  
the washed out. Well, yeah, the camera with the washed out flash photography. So

Clancy Denton  27:49  
yeah, so there's

Rick Denton  27:50  
the evolution. So for those that were looking for Valentine's tips, you may not have gotten it but you at least have heard how we've evolved through Valentine's holiday.

Clancy Denton  27:59  
Or maybe you can say you knew what Rick and Clancy do. They just don't do and here's

Rick Denton  28:04  
your excuse. Well, I heard this on a podcast. I

Clancy Denton  28:07  
don't know, by our age, people are probably already set and what they do, but you're not really learning from us. And I have tried to tell you no. I mean, I even told Tegan this week because she was talking about one of her friends whose dad is deployed right now. And, you know, he sent her something to give to her mom. And I, you know, I said, Yeah, I said, you know, your dad and I just, we don't view it as something that we have to do on that day. So I'm trying to let her know that, you know, the guys have a lot of pressure on them. It doesn't always have to be, you know, that way so. So there we go. All right. Memory Lane walking down Valentine. So we have a couple of kid texts. And you brought up waste management because one of ours was at the waste management tournament, this golf tournament this weekend

Rick Denton  29:06  
and it's just a salad for those that can't see it WMO right, just how about the waste management open? Baby gotta love it. And what a fun experience for those that have I don't even have a real depth of awareness of golf. But this is the people's tournament, their 100,000 people maybe 200,000 They don't take attendance. And it's in Phoenix. Yeah. And it's it's the crazy one where you actually get to cheer and celebrate and Boo the players when they do badly and the players are cool. They know that's when the CME is the players encourage it. They're pumping up the crowds. So it's it's the least golf golf tournament. There is and so he got to go to that

Clancy Denton  29:42  
this week. Yeah, the decorum is not Golf was not masters costumes. I mean, there was a guy in a brat swim swim suit, which Tanner just you send a text saying sending the brat guy, so he must be sending us some video but

Rick Denton  29:57  
yeah, so yeah, for those that don't know the bride that swimsuit then you shouldn't know. But if you do know it, well then you know,

Clancy Denton  30:03  
say so he had a great time. And I'm so glad that they got to go their senior year and the weather turned off great. It was not so great in the beginning. So it turned off great. And then we had some really good masses from our other child. Tegan. She said, Yeah, I think I'm gonna like my new roommate. For those of you who have been following us along, we have discussed the situation with chicken's roommate and how she was not they were not vibing. So she got to move this weekend, her friends that are awesome, helped her move. Her new roommate was gone. But she left her the super sweet note. So

Rick Denton  30:46  
without knowing who Tegan is, it was titled Hi, new roommate. Yeah,

Clancy Denton  30:50  
because they don't tell Tegan didn't know who she was moving in with. This girl didn't know who she was getting, still

Rick Denton  30:57  
went out of her way to write a sweet note to a stranger that's going to essentially come into her space that she's had. And we are so optimistic that that is a sign of the and we're not even looking for best friends out of town here. It's just compatible humans that can enjoy each other's company. But that was just so sweet. And last week, you saw or heard Clancy tear up a little bit as we were kind of talking about things. And there have been tears talking about the roommates. Well, there were tears this time when we saw that letter to Yeah, that. Yeah, it was just Yes. Where there is some answer to prayer. We are Yes. We are very thankful to God that hopefully the seems like it's going to be a good situation for her to end her freshman year. So.

Clancy Denton  31:42  
So yes, so we are so thankful that we got that text yesterday, or the

Rick Denton  31:48  
move didn't seem to be too nice, either. Right? She just had to move stuff from across the street, which was the room itself looks great. So it's just

Clancy Denton  31:56  
yeah, and we were just out there last week. And we're like, do you need us to come? She's like, No, she she was like, I have four people helping me move. It's

Rick Denton  32:03  
including today. She told us are quite the organizer. Yes. Yeah. So

Clancy Denton  32:06  
they went Yes, it was. Yeah,

Rick Denton  32:08  
if you're moving, find friends that are organizers.

Clancy Denton  32:11  
So yeah, that just makes us so happy going into this week and just

Rick Denton  32:18  
thankful. Well, we plan to release this episode a day early. So you already know that if you're listening to this, so I hope that for those of you that are listening on the day of release that you do have a wonderful Valentine's Day whether you did script something we're sorry if we just killed your vibe for going out to dinner tonight. And for those that aren't enjoy that pizza in front of the TV snuggled up with your significant other or whatever the heck you do.

Clancy Denton  32:42  
Yes, yes. Happy Valentine's Day. This has been another episode of the loud quiet living

Rick Denton  32:47  
in the empty nest

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