Category: holidays

  • Face Shaving and Stinky Cats!

    Face Shaving and Stinky Cats!

    In this episode of “Wine Down with Shawn and Cyd”- It’s our take on the Victoria’s Secret lower budget show, women with hairy faces and shaving freedom, airline line jumpers, and the nightmare of flying with a stinky cat!

  • Love is in the air! And under water apparently….it is everywhere!

    Love is in the air! And under water apparently….it is everywhere!

    It is February and the month of love! So, we talk all about whether opposites truly attract, the celeb couples who have made it work, and the animal world species that mate for life. Buckle up and put on your Apple Vision Pro Goggles,( yes we talk tech too!)! It’s a love theme on this…

  • Holiday fun stuff and an homage to a Christmas Stye!

    Holiday fun stuff and an homage to a Christmas Stye!

    Happy Holidays from Shawn and Cyd! Today we chit chat a bit about the pressures of gifting, girl math,  holiday retail shopping bias and stresses. Oh, and the reveal of the new smash hit, “Oh Christmas Stye”! Seriously tho, thank you for a great year! We look forward to more fun and friendship in 2024!

  • Do Holiday Traditions Still Matter?

    Do Holiday Traditions Still Matter?

    We are rolling right into Thanksgiving, and from this point forward the holidays are officially underway at full speed! So, why do people seem to care less and less about them? We chat traditions today and whether the younger generations care all that much about them. And, the universal need to have love has never…

  • A stumble through Bumble, and what’s up with Ashley Madison?

    A stumble through Bumble, and what’s up with Ashley Madison?

    Online dating “ain’t’ for the faint of heart! The journey has been a big stumble through Bumble! While Cyd roots her mother on, she also has her opinions on the whole process, and the skeevy world of Ashley Madison! We also have some fun with weight loss topics, the sights you see and can’t unsee…

  • Calling out all chicken-themed decorators!

    Calling out all chicken-themed decorators!

    Part of the risk of doing a show with your grown daughter, is you get a definite dose of reality from time to time! Today, Cyd reveals that my decorating choices in the 90’s were lame, and are now the focus of the latest TikTok viral spoof. Great! Also today, we talk about “shrinkflation” and…

  • Who’s High At Work These Days?

    Who’s High At Work These Days?

    More and more states are legalizing pot, and not surprisingly, more and more people are high on the job. YIKES! We sort out the most buzzed workers on the job these days. We also talk about that first tongue kiss and the intro of herpes to the world. YIKES! Oh, and we chat about how…

  • Easter egg hunt fails, and other odd human behaviors!

    Easter egg hunt fails, and other odd human behaviors!

    Happy Easter, and Happy Passover too, to you and yours. Today Cyd and I talk about crazy parents and the failed Easter egg hunts we have witnessed and read about. People are NUTS! We also discuss the TIKTOK newest obsession with Sonny Angels, and then we round it out with lively chat about the new…

  • Valentine’s week…and some things we love, things we don’t!

    Valentine’s week…and some things we love, things we don’t!

    Since it is a week of  “love” and emotions, we tackle them in our own special way! We chat about Valentine’s Day gifts, our love/hate relationships with massages, why people on planes are on another emotional plane altogether, and the unique emotions men feel while watching sports.

  • January is hard to do, let alone do it dry!

    January is hard to do, let alone do it dry!

    Whether you go hard core in January and go dry (alcohol free) or damp (dial it back), many (including us) are taking on 2023 without the “clink” of the glass. We talk abut how that has been going for us, Cyd considers getting chickens, we comb through blonde dysmorphia, and call out the scammers who…