Picture Day | A Soft, Meandering Wind-Down

In Picture Day, Marco and Amanda ease into a softly spoken conversation about finally decorating their walls — a project that feels both practical and surprisingly philosophical. They walk through their careful three-step process for choosing which pictures earn a place on display, the simple tools required to make it happen, and the small decisions that turn a house into a home. Along the way, Marco hilariously struggles to recall a familiar “wall saying,” while Amanda reflects on why paint quality really does make a difference.
The discussion drifts into the dimensions of their narrow home and a playful comparison to the famous Notting Hill house, before wandering into an unexpected detour about Gone with the Wind and a bit of light movie research. As always, the tone is unhurried and companionable — a relaxing conversation designed to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or quiet racing thoughts. Perfect for background listening at bedtime or during a middle-of-the-night wake-up, this episode offers gentle banter and everyday musings to guide you calmly toward rest.

​Picture Day

(Original airdate: November 9, 2024)


Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a calm conversation that's meant to just help you drift your way to sleep. Find it in any way you can, or at least just calm you down. Push everything away.

Amanda: Oh, that sounds really. Calm you down. Sounds like a directive. I don't like that.

Marco: No, no, I don't mean calm you down, but like just chill, release.


Amanda Barker says she assembled all her furniture by herself before meeting Marco

There you go. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.

Amanda: We are here for your chill and that's Amanda Barker.

Marco: Thank you for joining us.

Amanda: Can you turn it down a little bit in my headphone? Just. It's loud in one ear there we go. Thank you. Hopefully that doesn't make a difference to anyone listening.

Marco: Little instructions on,

Amanda: we should read instruction manuals.

Marco: Oh, that would be fun.

Amanda: That would really. That would knock me out for sure. That would knock you out for sure. Sleep wise.

Marco: Yeah. There are certain instructions. Like the IKEA instruction manuals have pictures and no words.

Amanda: I feel like that would bring a level of not chill.

Marco: You could describe the pictures.

Amanda: Okay. But like, trying to find where to put the Allen key and all that.

Marco: Sure, sure.

Amanda: Did Allen keys exist before ikea?

Marco: Oh, I think so.

Amanda: They must have, but I never heard of one prior to it.

Marco: I have an Allen key that's for my bike. Or was for a bike.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And, now we use it all the time. I don't have the bike anymore, but

Amanda: I think I only ever got one with a kid. You know, before I met you, I assembled all my furniture by myself.

Marco: Oh, you did?

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: I didn't know that.

Amanda: Well, I mean, who else would have done it for me, I guess? But, and. And the truth is, it's not like I'm bringing pieces home for you and making you assemble things on the daily.

Marco: It's true.

Amanda: Can you imagine? you know, we're just at a place where we don't buy furniture very often, and if we do, it may not be an assemblage type of situation.

Marco: Although there's pieces of furniture. I don't know understand how people get them in their homes because they're bigger than the entrance doorways.

Amanda: There's pieces of furniture. I don't understand how we got them in our home. And I don't know that they're ever leaving until, you know, we leave.

Marco: Well, here's the thing. It's like, okay, you've got those pieces in now, you're older, you don't want to have to get them out, so you get somebody else to do that work.

Amanda: It's not like you're to be more inspired to get furniture moved the older you get.

Marco: It's true. We once drove down to Nashville.

Amanda: Oh, my goodness.

Marco: Was it Nashville? Yeah, in Nashville, to help your parents move. And we came back with so much fun.

Amanda: My father kept throwing things into the back of the truck. So much so that I was like, dad, we have to take this across the border, and we don't know what's in there. Like, you're throwing weird china pieces and all sorts of mugs and things like that.

Marco: Speaking of china pieces, your mom has some sort of Japanese tea set that she's trying to Unload.

Amanda: Not quite.

Marco: And m. I haven't heard a response from these things.

Amanda: I see in your face and I hear in your voice that what you're trying to tell me if I'm wrong, that you want to tell me, no, we don't need it. We don't want it.

Marco: Well, no, we don't need it. That's for certain. Need or want Do I want it

Amanda: is a fun game.

Marco: Do I want it? No. Do I like the look of it? No. Oh, okay. So for me, that's. For me, it's three strikes. But I don't know where you sit on that. And if we do acquire it, because it seems like your siblings aren't going to take it, I don't know

Amanda: how we would get it up here, though.

Marco: Yeah, that's true. And also, I don't know how we're going to get it up here. And where we. Where would we, house it?

Amanda: There's a lot of, Why are you. I thought we were supposed to be chill today.

Marco: We are chill.

Amanda: I'm just yelling at me about antiques that my parents have is not the pathway to chillness.


Let me ask you this. We recently used a teacup for an audition

Marco: Let me ask you this. We recently used a teacup for an audition. A really pretty teacup that has, I think, thistles on the outside and purple on the inside.

Amanda: Wow, you really memorized it. Okay. Thistles. All right.

Marco: Is it not thistles?

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco: I think it's thistles.

Amanda: Something's on the outside. I know it's purple on the inside.

Marco: I'll take. Oh, is it an orchid on the outside?

Amanda: No, no, the color is orchid on the inside. It's not like a purple purple. It's like a lighter orchid.

Marco: I see orchid color. Okay, so I'll take a photo and I'll put it on the Instagram account. But let me ask you this. Where does that take teacup co. Because I don't know where it came from to put it back. So.

Amanda: Into our, china cabinet.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: We inherited a china cabinet. That's good because it's smaller. It's antique for sure, and it's smaller. And so it fits well in our home because our home is small.

Marco: True.

Amanda: Everything here is petite. except for us. we're just trying to figure out, you know, it's always a. It's always a balance.

Marco: It's a balance.

Amanda: But guess what I'm gonna do today? Balance, probably work and life. I'm not sure. But I am going to put pictures up. But, it's gonna be like a three tiered process.

Marco: Oh, I love this three tiered process.

Amanda: So when you come home. Cause you have to leave. So when you come home. Cause I'm home all day.

Marco: I have to go to work.

Amanda: Yeah, I don't folks.

Marco: But you're always working. Let's just set that table now.

Amanda: You always set the table. Oh, I like that expression. Set the table. Ah, I am most. Even today I have an audition that's gonna be later on in the night, but I get to go there and do it. I don't have to do it at home, which is good and bad. But, I do have the day and I've cleared this week.

Marco: so you're gonna do it.

Amanda: I hope certain people don't listen to this where I'm like, no, I can't work for you. the truth is I have been doing some work this week.

Marco: You have actually.

Amanda: So that's why I said no to your work folks. but I do have some space and time today that I've made that I've created for myself, quite truthfully. And so one of the things that we have not done in, maybe ridiculously long time, it's, you know, it's one of those tasks that if you don't do it at the beginning, it's same with this furniture moving discussion. If you don't do it at the beginning, you're not going to do it. You're not going to want to do it more after.


Hill: We had our walls painted a large while ago

So we had our walls painted. I'm almost embarrassed to say how long ago.

Marco: A while. A large while ago.

Amanda: A large while ago. We had our walls painted, folks. Like a large while ago. And I was happy. And it was sort of the one thing we were doing to our house that year. We try to do a little something every year. This year was we bought a new bed. I think we've talked about that a lot.

Marco: Yes, there's several episodes about our bed.

Amanda: About our bed. So that's been covered. And if you haven't tuned in for the hot bed content, certainly listen to past you can because we're quite in love with our new bed and it's just a lovely time. But, so that year I was like, you know, we don't have a lot of money, but I am going to hire, somebody that I know that's a professional painter. He's also a friend, but he's a lovely guy and I'm going to get him to paint the house. I'll get him to come in. Give us a quote. Now we have friends that are painting their house step by step. Every day, they are painting.

Marco: And it's a task.

Amanda: Yeah, it's a task, but they're giving their time.

Marco: And I'm a good painter, but I don't know what was going on at that time. And I was like, I just don't think I can paint.

Amanda: Sometimes you do. And I'm learning to do this, and it's tricky, but sometimes it makes sense to, delegate out something that you can and surely could do for yourself. But if you're not confident that you'll do it for yourself or in a timely way or for whatever the reason, Listen, everybody in this world works pretty hard, I think. So sometimes you delegate out. And that's what we did that year.

Marco: Give yourself a break.

Amanda: Yeah. So we got it painted. We loved the look of it. We were very happy with the paint. And some rooms, it was just a freshening up of pretty much the same color. Other rooms, we made a change, and, it was great. The thing is, it looks so great. I was reticent to put up any pictures. We had taken everything down, filled in the holes, even. And I didn't want to wreck my perfect walls.

Marco: I feel like I'm to blame, too, because I said to Amanda, we need the walls to cure. You should let them cure for three weeks.

Amanda: Oh, really? Okay.

Marco: And I said, we're not gonna put anything up till the walls are cured. In other words, you let the walls completely dry of paint so that if you put anything that leans on them, like a painting, like this.

Amanda: And I was fine with that. And, you know, I'm gonna just come clean with the timeline, because I want people to feel it, because I can guarantee that other people are feeling like they're in the same boat with some other task.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: So this was 2019. So for those listening and not sure when we recorded this, it's now 2024.

Marco: So it's been a while.

Amanda: It's been five years.

Marco: But we do have a couple of paintings on the wall.

Amanda: Very few. And the truth is, I like simplicity. So I think it spoke to me in a way of keep things clean and fresh and simple. that said, all these pictures, paintings, whatever it was we had on the walls before, I don't even remember now. They've all been in, like, whatever storage we can eke out in this house

Marco: in the nooks and crannies of the place, and they keep.

Amanda: There's one. There's some in a basket, and we're tripping on them.

Marco: Yes.

Amanda: So it's time.

Marco: It's time.

Amanda: It's just time. So I am m going to go. And this is why this is a many tiered process I am m going to go through. Once I get off this microphone, I am going to set about the task and I'm going to be gentle with myself, make myself coffee, and I'm going to find every picture in this house. And not all of them will go back up on the walls, but I am m going to assemble them on our dining room table. We don't really have a dining room. Our table.

Marco: We just have a table or the informal dining room.

Amanda: The area of the second floor have a. I think we've established we have a very narrow townhouse. So narrow as you think.

Marco: This is narrow?

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Oh, I didn't realize it was narrow. Oh, no, they're narrower townhouses.

Amanda: The one in Notting Hill might be narrower. Is the most narrow.

Marco: Okay, so we're not.

Amanda: We're not that one. But we're not far off. Okay, listen, we have length, we just don't have width.

Marco: Fair.


Amanda says it's time to go from minimalism to maximalism

Amanda: So anyway, so I'm gonna take them. They might cover. So I will tell yourself, brace yourself when you come home, they might be on the couch, on the coffee table.

Marco: Love it.

Amanda: The dining room, whatever you want to

Marco: call it, Table, wherever they need to lay.

Amanda: But they're all gonna be. I'm gonna try to find every last one because they're taking up a lot of room.

Marco: It's almost like an Easter egg hunt.

Amanda: Yeah, a little bit. they're taking up a lot of room in storage. And that to me is always silly because the storage is worth more than the thing. So let's go ahead and get them out in the open and make decisions as to where to put things up. We used to have dishes up, and I wouldn't mind putting dishes back up.

Marco: What dishes do we have up?

Amanda: My grandmother's. My dad's mother's china. Yeah, we did have dishes up. I know, right?

Marco: We had four dishes, four plates.

Amanda: Yeah, I know. We made choices, decor choices. And it's time we must again, we're

Marco: going from minimalism, which is five years of very few things on the wall, to maximalism.

Amanda: And to be fair, there were some years in those years where people didn't come over and I didn't feel as inspired to put things on the wall.

Marco: And that's fair.

Amanda: One would argue I should be more inspired just for our own selves because we were home so much. But anyway, I didn't.

Marco: We're here and we're going to, Carry on.

Amanda: There's that expression where it's like, the best time was whenever it was, and then the next best time is now.

Marco: Oh, I like that expression. You know, I bought that tool, and I'm excited to use it. So there's a tool, and it's. I don't know if tool's the right word.

Amanda: Oh, that measure Y thing.

Marco: Yeah. So there's this. Our good friend Dale, who we often, often reference on the podcast. Hi, Dale, if you're listening. I don't think she listens, but she's a great guest. Dale is my person when it comes to house and home, work. So if I. Or even the car. Like, when I have a question or when I have someone, I need to say, look what I did. She's the person who's gonna appreciate it. And likewise, when we were at their house yesterday, she was pointing out, first of all, the painting job they did was fantastic.

Amanda: It's pretty remarkable. Like, that is some quality. Like, it looks like they hired someone.

Marco: Yeah. And I'll say this. This is a good tip for anyone who's, like, not so handy or somewhat handy or it's like, I need to paint a wall. If your budget allows, buy a higher quality paint.

Amanda: Uh-huh.

Marco: Buy a higher quality paint. It'll make your life easier. Because in one of our bedrooms I bought, we had one wall. We were gonna do an accent wall. And, Amanda, I think you wanted it gray.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: And so I was like, okay, well, it's just one wall.

Amanda: Right.

Marco: I'm gonna get a gray. The gray that you like or the gray that we liked. And I'm not gonna spend a lot of money on the paint because it's just one wal. Oh, this was years ago.

Amanda: I was gonna say. Does this wall still exist?

Marco: It's the one in the spare room.

Amanda: Which spare.

Marco: Where Debbie recently slept. Isn't that a gray wall?

Amanda: Oh, yeah, right.

Marco: But where the.

Amanda: Where the, board was gray. See, this is. When you live in the same house, this is why people should move. I think we've been here maybe too long.

Marco: Move. Because they don't know the colors of their walls.

Amanda: No, because you get so used to seeing the same thing that you don't see it with a new perspective.

Marco: Okay, fair enough. So.

Amanda: But we're not moving.

Marco: We're not moving. But, imagine. Let' we can't remember what our.

Amanda: What color the wall is.

Marco: Yeah. so I bought this inexpensive paint, and, Amanda, I would roll it, and half the paint wouldn't stick to the wall. And I was like, what's going on? And I'm like, I didn't realize that, remember, this paint has a adhesive quality or has a quality that allows it to. To remain on a surface. M. And I don't know what paint I used. It was like a silly putty paint. Like, you roll it up and it would not adhere. It took me so many coats to get the gray that was there.


When you say early morning, most people envision a 5am Wake up

Amanda: Oh, my goodness. Thank you, babe.

Marco: It was such a pain.

Amanda: Thank you, Marco. Fifteen years ago, whenever this was, that.

Marco: That young lad is not the person who. Who sits behind this mic microphone right now. I would not do that. I would spend the money on a higher quality paint. And m. One of the first things I said when I saw the paint on the wall, I said, you spent money on this paint? And she's. We did spend money on this paint.

Amanda: It's like, we had to, is what

Marco: she said, because her walls, as in older homes, are not perfectly smooth. You know, there's some. There's some divots or dimples and whatnot, and they filled them all in, but they needed a. They needed a good quality paint, and you can tell, and it's in it. What's that expression? You smooth. you make everything smooth when you need to. Something like that. I don't.

Amanda: Yes, that. I saw that once on a horoscope.

Marco: That old chestnut.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: sorry, I can't think of the expression.

Amanda: But it's like, you make everything smooth when you need to.

Marco: I think so.

Amanda: Wisdom.

Marco: but you know what I'm trying to say.

Amanda: It's like, let's put it on a T shirt.

Marco: All cracks get filled if they have to.

Amanda: okay.

Marco: Like, I'm just trying to think of, like, isn't there an expression like that that's like, stop, you're making me laugh. I had to edit out that last

Amanda: thing that I said something, and then

Marco: we both started laughing really loudly, and we couldn't have that on.

Amanda: It was like, loud.

Marco: Loud. Anyways, enough with the expressions. A good quality.

Amanda: I'm trying to. I would like to know what the expression is you're trying to say. I'm sorry.

Marco: It's kind of. It has the meaning of. Listen, if there's bumps on the wall. Chill.

Amanda: Okay, There we go.

Marco: Do you have an expression like that? Is there.

Amanda: No, not in my arsenal of wall, expressions. Something that one does not come up.

Marco: It's also. We're recording first thing in the morning, and I just ironed a shirt, so.

Amanda: Okay, but to be fair, it's 9:24 in the morning. I know, but I've said it before on this podcast. I'll say it again. When I met Marco and we started dating and I was trying to get to know him, I said to him, what time do you wake up normally?

Marco: And he said, here we go.

Amanda: I like to be up by 11.

Marco: Okay, hang on.

Amanda: So I can have my coffee and watch the View.

Marco: I was also working late nights.

Amanda: So was I with you. But I was also working days.

Marco: You, you always establish I work a lot. You always remove the other aspects of the conversation. For example, I don't fall asleep at night. So when I do. Although last night I did. when I do, and we were up early, we just didn't get out of our shaky bed.

Amanda: All I'm saying is your early morning, it's all relative. And when you say early morning, most people envision a 5am Wake up or 6am Wake up.

Marco: I was awake around that time. I just.

Amanda: Because you hadn't gone to sleep.

Marco: Yeah. So anyway, I don't know. I don't know how I got morning shamed just now.

Amanda: I wasn't trying to. All I was trying to say is you're saying it's early in the morning. And my counter to that is, most people are living their day at this point. They're at work, jogging, or in my case, having a coffee. I'm going to put up some pictures around their house. I say pictures. A lot of them are in frames, but not all of them.

Marco: It's wine o' clock somewhere. Is all I'm going to say though.

Amanda: Is that the expression you're trying to. It's wall o'. Clock.

Marco: It's wall o' clock somewhere.

Amanda: I will say this. Some of those pictures are going to leave the house because we're going to go, I don't need this anymore. Okay. Some do not have frames.


Amanda started crocheting to help decorate her new home

Marco: There's that picture of you as a baby in a carriage that's leaving the house.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: No, I'm kidding.

Amanda: I don't think I was ever in a carriage. I'm a second. I'm a middle child.

Marco: Pram perhaps?

Amanda: No, I was in a hand me down something or other. I, I was not that baby. I'm second child baby. My mom lied to all of her students that I would be born in August just so she they wouldn't quit because she had to start back up in September. For those who don't remember, my mom

Marco: was a dance teacher and Amanda's born in September.

Amanda: Yeah. So, but my mom, to this day goes, oh, I always think your birthday's August. Because she had told everyone I would be born in August so that they wouldn't leave her dance school. And they didn't.

Marco: so pictures are going to leave the house, some never to be seen again.

Amanda: Some are also going to get framed or reframed. Like, we have those honest ads, ones that are great and they do not have frames. And I would like things to get framed.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: I would say I'm not. Some people are very intuitive with how to do, like a gallery wall or how to do. I wouldn't say I'm intuitive with those things. I know it looks good, but I have to be shown it. I'm not back to my mom. My mom is, like, expert at knowing where things should go and live in space. That's just not my brain, which is fine. So what I want to do is I want to get everything out, see how much storage we have and how much room everything's been taking up, and then we can plan it out. Since the house is kind of a blank slate, it has been for a long time. So let's just really talk it through and go. Okay, let's put these here, that there.

Marco: So you're doing a three stage process. We only got the third stage, but before we get to that, the, tool I was talking about is this piece of plastic that sort of guides you. So I have two tools. I have a stud finder which will help us find a stud for certain heavier paintings.

Amanda: And then my stud.

Marco: And then I had to. And then. Is that. Is that a famous saying? And then I have that yellow, plastic guide.

Amanda: There is a famous stud saying from Greece. She's like, what's it to you, stud?

Marco: I don't know if that's something you're going to crochet into. you know, you don't know. Okay, fair enough.

Amanda: Speaking of crochet, folks, I started crocheting.

Marco: Oh, that's right. Oh, we might not have time to get into that in this.

Amanda: I mean, that's really all there is to it. Because I learned how to do, like, the one move and I can make a chain.

Marco: Do you know how to start the chain?

Amanda: I don't know how to start nor end it, nor do I know how to turn it around to make a double chain, which could maybe graduate into a scarf. I don't know how to do any of that.

Marco: So you're just gonna make a long worm is what you could do.

Amanda: Yeah, we're not there. Baby steps.

Marco: Okay? Baby steps. So I have this tool. It's a plastic tool. It will guide where the nail goes. And on, next episode, I'll tell you how that went.

Amanda: Brilliant.


Amanda says she's hesitant to do this project because it's long

Marco: So, Amanda, you were saying three stage process. First process, all the paintings on the tables and on the couch.

Amanda: Yes. Second process. We choose and we also make decisions. Is this the right frame? Because sometimes people give you things and they're just in that frame, and you just go, okay, that's the frame. Let's be more specific with our framing.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: That could be a challenge, but let's just try.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: And then final stage, they go on the walls.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: So that's. I guess one of the reasons I've been hesitant to do it, or reticent, as I said earlier, is because it's. It might take over our. Our room. Like it might take over our living room. And then what if we don't finish it? But we'll finish it, or it does until we don't. But we've got to do it right?

Marco: We have to do it.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: All right. So you'll work on stage one.

Marco: Together we'll work on stage two.

Amanda: Uh-huh.

Marco: And then on stage three, I will hammer. You will tell me where you want it, high or low or not.

Amanda: And I'll say, what's it to you? Stud. With the stud finder. Isn't that the line? Bill's gonna message me and go, you are quoting Olivia Newton genre.

Marco: Or was it Olivia de Havilland?

Amanda: Oh, well, I've never. To be very truthful, I've never seen Gone with the Wind, so I don't know.

Marco: You've never seen Gone with the Wind?

Amanda: You say that every time I say

Marco: such a good film.

Amanda: Well, Christmas is coming. We can watch Gone with the Wind.

Marco: I don't think it's a Christmas movie.

Amanda: Well, what movie is it?

Marco: It's more of, It's more of a, I don't know.

Amanda: What's the right holiday for Gone with the Wind? Easter Remembrance Day, maybe, though.

Marco: It has. Yeah. They do go to war in it. In the top end of it. All right, maybe we'll watch it.

Amanda: I don't know. You tell me when. The right time to watch Gone with the Windows. Also, how long a time commitment is this?

Marco: It's a long film, but it's a

Amanda: really, like how long?

Marco: Like, long.

Amanda: Like four hours, eight hours?

Marco: Well, it's not eight hours.

Amanda: Well, I don't know.

Marco: Okay, so all I know is that generally speaking, it's aired on television. Or was aired on television. So when they aired it on television, there would be commercial breaks. It would be at least a two hour movie. Now if we were to get the movie.

Amanda: But every Oscar movie is a two hour movie.

Marco: Two hours plus. Two hour plus. I mean, you, you have a phone. You could look up the running time,

Amanda: but we want to take bets.

Marco: I'm going to say 2:30. 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Amanda: I'm going to go four hours.

Marco: All right, well, we'll see. But remember that they would chop up that movie a lot. So sometimes they would show certain scenes and have it in its entirety with commercials. And sometimes they wouldn't. You know what? We need to remember not to bring up movies because every time we do, we upset Bill. So we have to just.


Have you read the book by Margaret Mitchell? Maybe you should read the film

All right, here we go.

Amanda: You ready?

Marco: I say 2:30. What did you say? Four hours?

Amanda: Yeah. And the actual running time?

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda: 3 hours and 58 minutes.

Marco: Okay, so there you go.

Amanda: I win the prices. Right. Without going over. Oh, I went over though, so you win the.

Marco: Thank you. So we'll, we'll watch it. It's a really good film. Surprising. Not surprisingly good. But have you read the book by Margaret Mitchell?

Amanda: My goodness, no.

Marco: Maybe you should read the book.

Amanda: I mean, if the movie's four hours, how long is this book?

Marco: The book's only like, what, 350 pages?

Amanda: Have you read the book?

Marco: No.

Amanda: Is it. The book's only 350 pages.

Marco: Look it up. You're on that. On that website on the market, Google,

Amanda: the one known as Google. That website.

Marco: How many pages do you think it is? Think I say 400 pages.

Amanda: I'm going to say 800.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: How.

Marco: Men. This is always fun. Just listening to Amanda search on is gone.

Amanda: with the wind. 1400 pages.

Marco: There you go. See?

Amanda: Or I can listen to it on audio for 49 hours.

Marco: Who reads it on audio?

Amanda: What do you mean? Oh, I don't know.

Marco: Who's the, who's the narrator?

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco: The voiceover artist?

Amanda: I'll look on my little Libby app.

Marco: I'm sure there's a few, few recordings.

Amanda: You don't have the Libby app or a library app that gives you audiobooks. I highly suggest getting one.

Marco: So I'm reading Agatha Christie's books.

Marco: And I got two of. I'm reading. I'm on her sixth book and I've got two versions of it. Because I wasn't. I wanted a book quickly, so I, I checked out two of them. Whichever came faster, I would start reading and they both came to the library, but one has a. Has a CD with it. Oh. And I'm like, okay, this is cool. But what's going on? It looks like it's half book, half cd, so I have to spend a moment taking a look at it. Okay.

Amanda: The most recent one I can find, which was released in 2012, audiobook is read by Linda Stevens.

Marco: Oh, good old Linda.

Amanda: She's read a lot of. Here are other books she's read. Texas Rain, Texas Blue, Tall, Dark in Texan, Wild, Texas Rose, Texas Princess. So she must be Southern.

Marco: Well, I would hope so.

Amanda: Imagine she's from North Dakota.

Marco: Well, because, you know, Gone with the Wind takes place in Georgia. In Atlanta.

Amanda: Is it Atlanta? I knew it was summer thereish.

Marco: Yeah. Yeah. Ah, so we'll watch that film, too.

Amanda: We haven't been to Atlanta. We used to go to Atlanta all the time. I know, it's true. Now we just fly through it. See my parents.


A special hello to you and everyone else from Decatur

Marco: I know.

Amanda: Well, there's a lot of beautiful in Atlanta, including Decatur. We love Decatur.

Marco: We do love Decatur. Beautiful Decatur. A special hello to you and to everyone else. Another special hello. Until next time.


Amanda: Put your photos up. If you have a particular picture or painting you like

Amanda. We've reached the end of this episode. Hope you enjoyed it.

Amanda: Put your photos up. Put your pictures up. One foot in front of the other.

Marco: If you have a particular picture or painting you have hanging on your wall that you like, send us a picture and we'd love to see them.

Amanda: Or if you have a task that you've put off for a very long time and you want to join us in this process of, you know what? This is the week. I'm going to tackle it. I'm going to tackle it one little step at a time. I am with you. I am feeling that. And I'm just letting myself move forward as slowly as I can, but moving forward. So let us know about your journey, too.

Marco: Fantastic. Until next time. We hope you listened and you slept.