#330 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (12th February 2020)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Just as I started talking, Andre runs out of his bag, starts scratching. He's laid down on his side and he's just staring at me.

I don't know what he's doing. Hi baby. He's just staring at me.

I wonder what he's up to. Did I say this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep? Only listen when you can safely close your eyes. If you like this, please subscribe to this podcast.

And if you'd like to send me a gift, you can go to paypal.me forward slash jasonnuland and the link's on their website. And now let me think. I've got so much to tell you.

I've actually, I've not been very well for the last few days. I managed to make a recording yesterday, but I didn't make any deep sleep whisper or relaxation for stress and anxiety recordings since the 9th, I think. And it's the 12th.

Is it the 12th today? 11th or 12th. But earlier, a few hours ago, I did a relaxation hypnosis for stress and anxiety. So I did a recording and I focused on self-sabotage and relapse.

That was the name of the podcast. But like most, the episode or the recording, like most of my recordings I do, I jump around a bit from different subjects. But I try and bring it back.

I try. I do try. Unlike with this particular podcast, where my sleeping patterns have been all over the place.

I've been asleep, then I've been awake, then I've been asleep. It's been strange. Just haven't been well.

But even during the day, I wasn't very well. But now it's about 7.20 in the evening. That's really relevant to my health.

But yeah, I did a few little things. I had a bath. And I did feel better after that, actually.

So I had a bath, but then I went out because I needed to get some bits. I didn't have any milk and bits of bread and stuff. So what I did is, also, before I tell you about that, I also went, I put the rubbish out as well.

So I kind of did that when I got back. And I emptied my piggy bank because I had no money. And I emptied my piggy bank.

I've got this big pink, literally, it's a pig, the shape of a pig. And with the trotters and a nose and little tail and the ears. It's a big old thing.

And each of the trotters has a hole in it with a plastic lid, you know, that can take off to get the money. So I'm going to break the thing to get the money. Andre, no.

He's climbing up, he's going to cause... If he climbs up onto the chair, can you hear him in the background, playing around in his bag? If he climbs onto the chair, what is it you want? Oh, he wants to come and cuddle me. Hello. As he came up and just put his paws on my legs for me to pick him up, which he doesn't normally do.

I think he might be wanting his dinner. Because it is kind of his dinner time now, although the dinner time does vary. You're going to have a little sleep in my arms.

Oh, you're so beautiful. Yes, you are. When you're asleep, when you're not being naughty.

If only you knew how popular you were or are with the people on Facebook when I post your pictures. They love seeing you, you know. I don't know if those of you who have been on Facebook, on my Facebook page, but on the picture, you know the picture, the profile picture, I've got a little video of him just jumping up on two legs.

It's this little short little video, it's really cute. Oh, so yeah, I held back from doing anything for the last couple of days, also not being very well, but also I didn't, you know, I didn't really have any money to go and to spend on stuff, you know, that I needed. So I kind of, I made do with what I had, but I ran out of bread because I had some bread in the freezer.

So I ran out yesterday. So I emptied the money box, didn't know how much was in it, but it was quite a few, five pences and two pences and one pences. And I thought, you know what, I'll take it to the cash sorting machine in Sainsbury's.

And it's a machine where you can just put all your money in, it will change, and it gives you a receipt for an amount of money. It did take, it takes, took me up to about one pound nine pence off me for doing it. But in the end, I had enough to get some food.

And I had a few pound left in the bank, you know, you know, bank account. So what I did is I went to Iceland. And I sort of got some stuff and I said, can you make sure it's under seven pound? You know, the full amount of the stuff that I got, some bread, some milk, toasted tea cakes, like a frozen meal.

And I said, can you make sure it's under seven pound? And the lady said, no, it's seven pound 30. So I had to go online onto my phone and check my bank to see if I had enough in there to cover the cost as well as the money that I had. And I just had enough.

So I've left with about 10 pence. And see, I find that funny. I do, it does, for some reason amuses me.

But at the same time, it motivates me to not get into that position again. It's just, you know, it's the time of the year, bills are a lot higher, you know, gas, electric and all that stuff. And it's just the way it is, isn't it? Yeah.

Andre doesn't care, doesn't care about stuff like that, do you? No. And I started, like yesterday, the day before, I started thinking, that's it, I'm gonna have to start raising some money, you know, sort of to cover the costs. And, you know, just the thing is, every time I do it, and I've done it a few times, you've made me want to get off.

Give daddy kisses. Daddy kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss. Give daddy kisses.

Andre, give daddy kisses. He's pushing me away. Boy, I cut his fingernails later.

And so what I did is, I made some, I made some changes to the website, and to make stuff available, you know, still free just to listen to, but you can download it for a price and stuff for a certain amount. And it just doesn't feel right. I feel wrong.

It feels, I don't know what it is, but it just feels, it feels wrong. I don't want to charge anyone anything for anything. Anything for anything.

So yeah, I just, so I redid it. I took the website off a few times in the last couple of days, and tried to redo it and change it. And I thought, well, I won't charge, but I'll just get rid of the website, because that's $30 a month I can get rid of.

But then I kind of think, I do really need a website. It's a good website I've got. It's as far as, it's professional, it's, you know, I've got, I worked it out.

I've actually got one, over 1,500 recordings available to stream, listen to, and to download for free. It's quite a lot, isn't it? I mean, from three, the four podcasts, Let Me Go To Sleep, this one now, Deep Sleep Whisperer, Sleep Hypnosis Weekly, and the Relaxation Hypnosis for Stress and Anxiety, those four podcasts is over 800 recordings. I might have lied about that.

It's over 600 recordings. That's it. About 600 and something.

So that's 600 and something, because I think, what, 200 and 300. I think this is 330. This one now is number 330.

On this one, I've got 189 Deep Sleep Whisperer ones. I've got 90, I think 95. Is it 95? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's 95 Relaxation Hypnosis for Stress ones, and 34 Sleep Hypnosis Weekly.

So that's quite a few, isn't it? Plus all the other stuff I've got, chronic pain, the other relaxation sessions and stuff. So it'd be a shame to get rid of the website after all the work I put in. And also, it's nice to have it all in one place.

So I'll keep the website. And I've made it all, I've still got a little tiny little bit of work left to do, but nearly everything's back to how it was. So I'm just gonna leave it.

I keep saying that, I keep changing things. But I'm gonna leave it as it is. That's my plan.

And so what I thought I'd do today, I know I've been rabbiting, but what I thought I would do is, this is something that is like a standard kind of thing, you know, therapeutic technique, where we talk about what we're grateful for. So I'm not going to ask you to think about anything that you're grateful for. Of course, you can if you want.

But I'm going to talk, I'm going to try and think of some things that I'm grateful for. See, this is probably the most structured recording I've ever made in on this podcast. I never know what I'm going to talk about.

And now I've decided I'm going to talk about this. Gratitude. Oh my goodness.

Wow, is this the new dawn? The new, the new dawn of just concisement. Is that a word? Concisement. Making sense.

Preparatory, preparatory thing. I don't know. Hmm.

So what am I grateful for? Well, I'm grateful for Andre. I'm grateful for him. Last night I was in bed and I spent a lot of time in bed the last couple of days.

And he normally leaves me alone now. Now that he's got the freedom of the flat and he does whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Doesn't go in a cage anymore.

He doesn't really hassle me when I'm in bed. Not that I mind it. I like it when he comes into the bed and goes to sleep with me.

And he likes the bed to himself. He likes it, you know. It's almost an inconvenience to him when I actually get into my own bed.

But last night he actually climbed into the bed and started licking my face. It almost felt like he was just seeing if I was okay. So he didn't seem to want anything.

Maybe he wanted my attention, he wanted to play, wanted me to chase him around and stuff. But it just seemed like he was just checking on me, which was quite lovely. So I'm grateful I've got him.

I think the last few years would have been less. I don't know what, less something, without him. And I think he's taught me unconditional love, which I didn't really understand before, I don't think.

But it's something about, um, I think like, because, yeah, cleaning up after him. Having him ruin furniture and the carpet and still love him, even though he's quite destructive at times. And when he's really being naughty, still, you know, loving him.

When I give him a bath, he scratches and bites me because he hates the bath. But I still have to give him a kiss afterwards, because I know that he doesn't like it. And he thinks it's a punishment when actually it's a necessity sometimes.

You know, we all have to wash at times. And he, if you saw the color of the water, admittedly, it's probably not all dirt, because he has got oil in his skin, in his fur. And it's kind of a waterproofing sort of oil.

Because in nature, he would naturally be going into the water at times. He's got webbed feet. You know, that's a sign that he's built to swim, webbed feet.

He's basically a duck, a smelly duck. And so, yeah, I think I'm grateful for him, because he's taught me, he's taught me unconditional love. I don't know if I could do it with a human.

I don't know if I've got the ability to do it even with another, another ferret. I don't know. But I've got it with him.

And I think that's, yeah, and also he brines up my life. He's, sometimes I've just been watching telly and he'll be on the floor doing something. I don't maybe play him with a tennis ball, something just a bit silly or make it doing some kind of somersault.

Like he's trying to, like he's dancing with another invisible ferret. And it's just so funny to watch. And then those times when I go into the bed, to go into the bedroom and see him on the bed, asleep, but in some really weird position.

And I take pictures and stick on Facebook. Some of the positions he gets himself into are amazing. And I love it when he's got his tongue sticking out.

He's just, there's something just so cute about that. And yeah, so having Andre in my life is something that I'm grateful for. I don't always feel grateful, I'll be honest, but you know, as I sit here now, it's something that I am grateful for is him.

I'm not going to do this in order of importance, just in order of what comes into my mind. So the second thing I'm thinking about is my home. Having somewhere to live that is mine.

I know I don't own it, you know, I don't own the property, but it is a home for life. So for the next 40 or 50 years, because I'm probably, I suppose realistically, I'm probably about halfway through my life at 49. So for the next 50, mind you, by then, you'd probably be able to replace most of your organs, wouldn't you? I reckon in 20 years time, we'll probably have robotic parts.

And I imagine most disease will be eradicated within about 30 years, just with the technology, the way it's just speeding along. It's like, wow, so yeah, I might be around for another 200 years, who knows? So if that's the case, you know, it's nice to know that I've got somewhere to call my home. And it's a little bit tatty due to a carpet that needs replacing and a chair that's fallen apart.

But it's fine, you know, it's my little tatty space. It's fairly quiet. And I'm going to have a new neighbor moving in downstairs soon, so I don't know how they're going to be.

I say they because I don't know why, but people seem to like living together. I've never done it myself, I've never lived with another person, you know, like in a relationship, sleeping in a bed with them and that stuff. I've never done that, so I don't know what it's like.

But I kind of think if I was to do that, I want more space than this, because I'm sure I'd want to get away from them. I'm pretty certain they'd want to get away from me. So it'd be a choice of going into the kitchen or going into the bedroom or the bathroom, if you're in the living room or, you know, so that's not, you can't really get away from someone if you're in a one bedroom flat, you need a house with a shed at the bottom.

I do have a shed, I suppose. I just, I could just shout, couldn't I, I'm going to my shed. And then just get off the bed and just walk the other side of the room.

So that would be weird. But I'm grateful for this place. It took, I mention it loads of times, but it took so long to get this.

It was, basically in my life, this was winning the lottery, getting this place. Even though there's been quite a few problems since I've lived here, with stuff that I don't generally mention to be fair on the podcast. But there's been some pretty weird things happening in this area.

But, you know, I'm grateful. I don't always feel grateful. But if I take the time out to actually think of what am I grateful for? And I look around and I think, yeah, I don't have to let anyone into my home.

I don't have to answer the door if I don't want to. I always pay my bills. So I'm not going to get, you know, I'm not behind on anything.

So I always pay them when they come in, even if it leaves me short. So, you know, so I'm never going to have my electric or gas cut off or I'm never going to have my water cut off because I always pay the bills. But that makes me a hero, doesn't it? It's like, yeah, you pay your bills, everybody pays their bills, Jason.

What are you going on about paying your bills for? It doesn't make you a superhero. Well, I think it does, actually. Thank you very much.

A lot of people get behind on that stuff and I'm determined not to. And I haven't. I once got a little bit behind on electric bill.

But other than that, I pay everything as soon as I get it through. And there is some security in that. You know, it's paid.

It's something quite nice about paying bills off. So it's done. You know, at the beginning of the month, I have the council tax, television license and the internet broadband, Wi-Fi thing.

Those three bills come out on the first of every month. So I always have to make sure there's enough money in the bank for that. So that's straight away, you know, a hundred quid or something.

A hundred quid was it? One thirty, about 70 pounds. And yeah, I mean, I'm quite pleased with... Because I've never been particularly good with money. I never really had much money.

So when I did have money, I kind of maybe a bit too spendy with it or too generous or maybe too generous to myself. Or buy too many books. But the last few years, because I haven't had that luxury, I've been a lot better, I think I would say.

I think, not recently though, because I've got no money, so I must be doing something. I think it's because I bought stuff for the flat from the catalogue, the online catalogue. So it means I'm in debt for that.

So I'm paying a hundred and fifty pounds a month on that. And I'll be doing that for the next probably seven months until it's paid off. But it meant I got some stuff.

I got my punch bag. Technically not the most important thing to buy, but you know, I wanted it. I got a microwave oven, which has come in really handy.

I needed a new toaster, a new kettle, because the kettle was about a hundred years old. And when it boiled, steam didn't come out, dust came out, seriously. And the... I'm trying to think what else I got.

I must have got something in order for me to be... I think I just got stuff and it kind of added up. So what else am I grateful for? I was actually thinking about this earlier, and I was thinking back to the past when I didn't have anything. Not all about like personal possessions, but I didn't feel like I really had a purpose, or I was looking for the purpose, looking for something to... I don't know, maybe, you know, people say, hear people say, this doesn't define me.

This doesn't define me. I think maybe, you know, that term, maybe I wanted something that did define me. And perhaps, since I've been making these recordings, not just these, but you know, generally, over the last 14 years, I've... I represented myself in this way, or I've built a foundation.

So I would say over the last 14 years, or since 2006, I've built a foundation. So these 1500 recordings that I've done is the basic foundation, but it's a sturdy foundation. And anything that I build upon that foundation will be very stable.

I mean, I don't know if the word stable is correct with me, but, you know, as far as the foundations are pretty sturdy. They're very, very strong, I would say. And it's just from the sake of whatever... I don't know if any of this make sense, I don't know.

But that's what I was thinking earlier, kind of almost like I've built a foundation. So the purpose is there. The reason, the reason is there.

It's been built. And anything that I do from onwards from now is whatever I want it to be, I guess. And so that the building isn't being built yet, but the foundations are in.

They're now set and now ready to build upon. And I almost feel that all of the other recordings I did were part of the foundations, but the pillars, the, you know, the ones that sometimes you have the first pillars. And the first pillars, the big bits, the strong bits that are there, seem to be sprouting up from the ground.

And they seem to be in the form of the podcasts, like this and the other three. There's six podcasts all together that are doing quite well. So they're the strongest ones.

It's almost like they're the ones sprouting up and they're going to be a big support for the rest of the building that is built around them. You can tell I don't know the first thing about buildings or architecture. I don't know.

I really got no idea. I was almost thinking like Superman, you know, remember the, his Palace of Solitude or whatever it was called. Do you remember the original film where he chucks that little icicle, that Popeye's or, you know, ice lolly or whatever, chucks it into the water in the Antarctic.

And then all these big things pop out. Looks cold. But then, see, I don't get, he's going to feel temperature, isn't he? And Superman's got to feel, got to have feelings, like physical feelings.

Otherwise, how would he know how to open a door without crushing the door handle? How would he be able to hold a knob without crushing it? That's what I'm basically saying. How would he know to hold the doorknob and not completely, you know, to be able to hold it gently and delicately? Or how would he peel a banana? How would he go to the toilet? You know, you need to have a degree of sensitivity. Maybe he doesn't need to go to the toilet.

Or perhaps he doesn't need to eat. But that doesn't make sense to me. Because he came from a humanoid race, which was far in advance to humans.

And the reason he's got his strength is because he's a long way from where he used to be. And he's got the sun, this sun here. Kind of a bit like people that live high altitudes above the sea, when they come to lower ground, they're just stronger and more, almost, you know, if they come, they are their superheroes, superhuman.

They've almost got, if someone can run for an hour at really, really high altitudes, then when they come to somewhere like England, they're going to be able to run around for about 100 hours. Again, I'm making this up. It sounds plausible, doesn't it? It's a superman.

It's very much like, what's in a high altitude place? Mexico? Is that high altitude? Venezuela? Wales? I know that Rocky Marciano used to train at high altitude. I think he used to go to the Rocky Mountains. Again, that sounds like it might not be true.

But we should never let the truth get in the way of facts, or facts get in the way of lies. So what else am I grateful for? Yeah, I'm grateful for these recordings, because it does give me a purpose. The only purpose really, for me, for what, you know, my life.

Yeah, so Andre's my son. This is my home. And doing these recordings is my job.

And luckily, it's the kind of job where if I can't work for a few days, then I don't. And I can't get sacked, which is good. I had a lovely message today, I think it was on Facebook.

Yeah, I can probably read it to you. Give me two seconds. I'll get it up.

If you're still awake, let me have a look. No, it's not on there. I just realized I better put a Do Not Disturb sign on my phone.

Otherwise, I might get a phone call. I got a message. And it's really, really lovely.

So I'll read it to you. It says, Hi, Jason. This is from Cassia.

Hi, Jason. Thank you so much for your podcasts. You've helped me so much.

You have literally saved my life. I haven't listened to all of your works, but I've listened to some of the ones for stress, anxiety and panic attacks, and the bore you to sleep ones. Absolutely brilliant.

So if you listen to this, Cassia, thank you. And isn't that groovy? I don't know. It gives me a big buzz.

Just to know that actually, I'm doing something right for some people. It's not going to be for everybody, but it isn't for everybody. These podcasts, these recordings aren't for people that don't like them.

They're only for people that like them. You know, that's the rule, I think. It's still weird though.

I had, I don't know if I mentioned this, but I had a, I think it's Feedburner. They put me on the, I was number 11 on their top anxiety podcasts in the world or whatever to listen to, that you must listen to. And I was number 11.

I was in the top 20, number 11. Should I say number 11 a few more times? 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11. So that was quite cool.

And that was for the relaxation and stress anxiety one. But this podcast is, I don't know. It is out there, but I was just searching for sleep insomnia, you know, recording podcasts.

And this one wasn't even listed, which I didn't really understand. Why is it not listed? Where is it? I mean, people are listening to it, so I don't know what. Yeah, I don't know.

But the, yeah. I mean, to be fair, more people listen to these podcasts, these recordings on two of my podcasts, which are for the sleep insomnia recordings. So more people listen there than listen here.

So you might be listening to this, not on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast, but you might be listening on the Jason Newlands free hypnosis service. You might be listening to the Hypnosis For Sleeping Deeply podcast, or you might be listening to it on sleep insomnia hypnosis. Sleep insomnia, sleep hypnosis, and yeah, podcasts.

So there's three podcasts, four podcasts that this is on, including this one. So if you are listening on any of the other podcasts, just want to say thanks. And you can go to my website, all the podcast recordings are on there, all of them.

So back to the gratefulness. I'm grateful for people listening. I am.

I'm grateful for comments that I get, like messages that I get like that, that I just read out. I'm grateful when I see a little ping on my phone saying I've got PayPal gift. I'm grateful for, it's just nice to have an audience.

Because if I didn't have an audience, I would stop doing it. Or I would just not do the podcast and just put the recordings on my website and just, you know, leave them there. So not have, you know, not do it this way.

Like the way I used to do it, just have the recordings so people could download them. Because I didn't, I stopped doing podcasts for years and years and years, and focused really only on YouTube for quite a few years. And the audios were just available for people to download from the website.

Via various different, and various different ways just to download really. So yeah, I'm grateful for the audience. And people that listen, or those that are listening now, thank you.

Because without you, I wouldn't be doing this. Without you, there'd be no point in doing this. So what else am I grateful for? I can't think of anything.

That's quite a few things, isn't it? I mean, they're big things. I'm grateful for some of the friends I've got in my life. People that have helped me over the years.

I'm grateful for opportunities that I've had, most of which I didn't take up. But it's still, you know, it was nice to have had, looking back, it's nice to have had that opportunity. And in my next life, I might be a bit more adventurous.

Grateful for my bed. I like my bed. It's the best bed I've ever had.

And, you know, when I moved in here, and I bought a new bed, I thought, well, I'm just going to get the best one I could afford. So I did, about £350, I think it was. And it was the best.

It was a proper, well, all beds are proper beds to me, but it was top quality. Clearly, it's not, you know, it's not a royal family bed. It's not a billionaire's bed, but it was, it's the best one I've ever slept in.

That might not be true, but it's the best one I've ever had for myself. And it's still going quite well. What other things am I grateful for? I'm grateful for the internet.

Because not just for the information that's available, for the streaming ability to watch movies and TV and stuff, box sets. But without the internet, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing. I wouldn't be doing this.

I'll be able to reach a much larger audience than I ever would have been able to in real life, really. And I suppose that there were ways of getting an audience in the past. But that would have, I mean, I might have gone down that route, I might have found a way.

I'm fairly determined when I get going, but this has just been an amazing opportunity with, you know, with Facebook and MySpace when it started, YouTube, all the different video channels, the websites. And now with the podcasts, Spotify, iTunes, you know, it's growing. And it's, it's just amazing, really, that I can, I could record or broadcast live to anywhere in the world, anywhere that's got an internet connection.

They could listen to me live. If I did live broadcasts, I don't really do live broadcasts very often. But with the internet, anyone could listen to this recording anywhere in the world.

And I just think that's amazing. I know the internet gets a lot of bad press at times, but it's still a phenomenal invention. It's still got so much, so much opportunity there to do great things and to help people, which is what, you know, I think is amazing.

If you can help people, then you kind of should. I think if you've got something that can help, you can help people with to me, that seems like a no brainer. It's like, just do it.

It's the right thing. And the internet offers infinite ways that we can help others. I'm just choosing my little way, but there's so many different ways.

I mean, I could do counseling, possibly online. I could do maybe hypnosis sessions online, you know, one to one. And I just don't want to.

Because the whole point of this is to reach as many people as I can. So it'd be fine, you know, if I was seeing either online or in person, six people a day. But that's okay.

And, you know, I could hopefully help those people. And I've done that in the past as a therapist. And six a day is quite a lot.

But I'd much rather reach thousands a day. Just personally, as is my personal opinion. I'd rather reach thousands.

Than just six. And there's no way, no matter how good I got, how popular I got, as a therapist in my town, even if people traveled. But you know, I'm saying if people traveled from across the country to see me, I still only be able to see six people a day.

I think comfortably and I suppose I could see 10, 12 people a day, but that would just be too much. So six people, I think would be the maximum for me. And six people is not enough.

I want to be able to, I just need to have that need to reach more than six people a day. Even though if you reach one person, it's amazing. But you know, I did, I've done it.

I did it. I was seeing six people a day when I was a full time therapist. Very, a lot of work.

A lot of work. But I do prefer to, I know it's from a distance. So I guess it's less personal.

Well, it is less personal, isn't it? There's no, not much in a way of interaction. But I think it still is personal though, because I talk about personal stuff sometimes in these recordings. I've definitely talked about my personal issues and stuff in my, you know, relaxation for stress and stuff at that podcast.

The Sleep Hypnosis Weekly, it's just a straight sleep hypnosis recording. I don't really mess around at all in those recordings. I just get straight to it.

And what's the other one I do? I forget. Oh, Deep Sleep Whisper. I'm dead pretty much straight to it as well.

So I mess around in this one. I open up about personal stuff in the relaxation for stress one. But I don't really mess around so much in that.

But I don't mess around at all in the lover two. So yeah, I'm not, I'm not like super serious in anything that I do. It does mean I don't take what I do seriously.

I just don't take myself seriously. Does that make sense? I think it does. Yeah, I think it do.

Or you think it makes sense? It makes sense to me. So what else am I grateful for? So I'm grateful for you. Thank you, each and every one of you.

Yes, there is, I know I'm going back on it, but I'm very grateful for having a home. I'm very grateful for having Andre. I'm very grateful for having this thing that I do here, you know, the recordings and to have an audience.

You know, that's a big, a big feeling of gratitude. Yeah, I think all the other stuff would just be not pretend, but I'd be thinking of little things that I'm grateful for. For example, yeah, having a new door, a new front door was good.

That happened a few months ago. So that was cool. The novelty's worn off a bit, if I'm honest.

And having a microwave, I feel grateful for that. Having a freezer. I've got two freezers, actually.

So I feel grateful for that. Having enough toilet paper. I don't feel grateful for that right now, but there are times when I do.

Especially when I think I've run out. And then I realize, oh no, I haven't. I bought some new packet last week.

I've got to figure a way to get to the cupboard without, you know. So yeah, it's nice. It's the little things sometimes.

I'll leave you with a story, actually. A friend of mine from the past. He phoned me up and he said, Jason, I need your help.

I said, why, what is it? He said, I need you to phone my office. Because he owned a company. And he said, I need you to phone the office.

I said, well, why don't you phone the office? You'll phone in me. He said, I can't get through. Because the phone, the office phone is engaged because someone's on the phone.

And my battery's about to run out any second now. So I said, okay, what do you want me to tell him? He said, can you tell him to bring me some toilet paper? I said, what? He said, yeah, I'm in the toilet. What, what, what Bill? You mean, he said, I'm actually at work.

I'm in the toilet. And there's no toilet paper. I've just come in here, done what I needed to do.

There's no toilet paper. Can you phone the office and ask them to bring me some toilet paper? Because my phone's about to run out the battery. And their phone's engaged.

Can you just keep phoning them till you can get through? That's a true story. Of course, I didn't phone his office. So I don't know if he might still be there.

What brilliance. It's like, can you phone the office? Because I've run out of toilet paper. That's, uh, that was a strange phone call, I tell you.

Well, I phoned, I did phone them. I said, yeah, your boss is in the toilet. And he hasn't got, he needs some toilet paper.

Can you take it to him, please? I thought it was a prank call. So who are you? What are you talking about? I said, look, your boss has just phoned me from the toilet. Asked me to call you to take him some toilet paper.

Because there is no toilet paper in the toilet for him to use. They didn't believe me. I said, it's up to you.

But all I can, all I'm doing is passing the message onto you. I think they put in a loud speaker. Because I heard them like all this, like calling other people into the office.

Listen to this. Listen to this sexy man talking. Can you please take some toilet paper into the toilet? Because your boss is sitting on the toilet without any toilet paper.

And I think someone did go in there and they came back, shouted. It's true. He's in there.

And they all started laughing. Anyway, that's that story. So what are you grateful for? So I'm going to go.

Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Because you do deserve to be happy.

So what can you do for yourself? What can you do that's really nice, just for you? Take care. Lots of love. Bye.