Well, I’m happy because I didn’t have to go to jury duty today.

Will I have to go to jury duty tomorrow?

Who knows.

They have until 6pm to email.

Me and I are recording these words at 4.36pm Eastern Standard Time.

Or Eastern Daylight Time.

I never know.

Eastern Time.

I’m recording at 4.36 Eastern Time.

Whichever it is.

And so they still have an hour and a half to tell me if I have to come tomorrow.

Let’s all hope I don’t because I was much happier today than I was yesterday.

Listen, there’s a lot of reasons to love Hanukkah.

And if you don’t love Hanukkah, that’s okay.

You can still hear about the reasons to love Hanukkah.

But you know, obviously, there’s presents and there’s the menorah and there’s giving gifts.

I really, you know, once you’re a parent, it’s so fun to give gifts to your kids and see them get excited.

The tricky part, at least in my family, is figuring out what do you give kids who don’t need a lot.

I don’t want to give you just crap.

I don’t mind the Hanukkah equivalent of a stocking stuffer, but it can’t just be more crap.

It’s got to be something that’s useful in some way.

So you try to give, sometimes it’s like experiences.

This year we’re doing a couple sort of digital and sort of not digital things.

Sierra, for example, got notified of having the Bubbles package on an upcoming cruise where she’ll be able to get sodas and seltzers because she likes those things.

The other two don’t.

They didn’t get that.

Ani got a subscription to AMC’s A-List, the thing where you can go see a bunch of movies each month.

And so doing more of those kinds of things, but I don’t know, just giving kids stuff that they get excited about is fun.

But what I was really thinking about was latkes.

And I was thinking about latkes because I like them a lot.

And Lauren made latkes yesterday, which were great.

And then Lauren made latkes again today, which will be great.

The challenge is Lauren made them much earlier in the day and we’re not allowed to eat them until dinner.

So I’ve been smelling latkes all freaking day and not eating latkes all freaking day.

Now some people like their latkes with applesauce, some people like their latkes with sour cream.

I like my latkes with either nothing or sour cream.

I don’t understand people who like latkes with applesauce.

And I get that it’s very popular, but like I can’t imagine me saying, hey, here’s some french fries.

Do you want to dip them in applesauce?

Like you’d have to be a crazy person.

Applesauce and potatoes are not a combination in my opinion.

Like I said, I get that it’s popular.

You’re just all wrong.

Trump is popular too.

Also wrong.

But so I’m excited to have more latkes tonight.

Last night latkes were dinner.

Tonight latkes are a side dish.

And I received as a gift for that same upcoming cruise, a massage on said cruise.

So that’ll be exciting.

I haven’t had a massage I think since my honeymoon.

So I might be very tense, who knows.

And let’s see.

I got to work out today.

I didn’t work out yesterday because of how early I had to be at the courthouse.

So that was nice.

So far it doesn’t look like I have to go tomorrow.

So ideally I’ll be working out tomorrow.

I’m endlessly checking my email.

And it’s funny, last night I was really checking it over and over again and you’re checking it for nothing.

Like you’re checking it to not get a message.

If you get a message, it means you have to come.

If you don’t get a message, you don’t have to come.

I wish they would send a message that says, hey, no need to report tomorrow.

But they don’t.

It’s just if you get the email, you have to go.

So you’re checking and checking and checking to make sure you don’t get an email.

And I was as nervous as when you’re waiting for an audition acceptance email, which I haven’t had to do in a little bit.

I haven’t started rehearsals for Misery yet, but those will start in January.

And I have the secret hope of kind of knowing all my lines before then.

That’s tricky.

I probably will fail, but it is my secret hope.

Now it’s slightly less of a secret since I told you all, but that’s okay.

Anyway, I think those are all my topics.

And you never have to make these episodes longer just for the sake of being longer.

The episodes can just be what they are.

And this episode is this.

So enjoy the rest of your Tuesday and let’s all hope I don’t have to go to jury duty tomorrow or any other day this week.

Thank you.

Thanks.