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I just decided to do whatever I want

that's what I usually do

Actually, I don't remember. I got email notification of your reply and I had to check to see if it was me that posted this. lol (since I have a couple posts here I sometimes get pings on thread that I didn't start.)

I probably wouldn't read what was in the OP but in your example, I'd do like you suggested, just space it out with pauses to show the break.

Smart man. We all know that information in parentheses is just that, extra information that isn't necessarily part of the sentence in terms of structure. Normally, in North American English, we just do not read it aloud. In my classes, I don't bother unless there is something really important in there, in which case I will go ahead and read it AFTER I or my students have read their sentence/s.