 looks good. So they're coming back today this afternoon to finish the painting hanging up the new lights. But wow it looks good. It's Monday morning, May 13th I think. Day after Mother's Day, that I know for sure. It's just after 8 a.m. sometime. I don't know the exact time. So yeah wrapping up some Etsy orders and getting them in the mail early so they get picked up today. Still dealing with the contractor on the work on the outside of our house. What do you think of the new color and the new lights? I'll insert a picture of what it used to look like here somewhere. Looks pretty good I think. Anyway as per usual with any house that we've owned, any contracting job we've ever had done things don't go smoothly. I don't think they ever do. There's a few electrical issues and paint touch-ups that are going to be done today. The big thing of course is that the contractor broke one of our retractable awnings in the back. I didn't say anything and we noticed it last night. Husband is not pleased. He's pretty peoed and he had to help with some of the electrical last night and his back is killing him. So he's at home today working from home in his PJs. So yeah just you know when we decide to do contracting work on any of houses we've ever owned we don't do it lightly because there's always issues. So anyway that being said it's a coolish morning, a little bit overcast. The birds are singing as you can hear and it's all good otherwise. We still have Lily but she's being picked up at about lunchtime today and yeah I'm gonna leave the windows open as long as I can until it gets warm again and we're all good. My dad's coming down to help us with some of the electrical issues and I think when he's here we'll get his opinion on the awning. I have calls into the homeowners insurance and the awning people and I let the contractor know and I need to go around sometimes this morning and like they do on TV blue tape any painting issues or touch-ups that I see that need doing so it's my job today. I'll be back. So I blue taped all the issues I have with the paint around the house. My dad's driving down to help me with some electrical that was done incorrectly and now the only last thing on the list is well two things waiting for somebody to call me back about what we can or can't do about the awning and the contractor's supposed to come back and fix all the little blue taped things and also power wash the concrete and hopefully get the paint splotches off. He spilled all over the concrete so meanwhile I can't focus on anything more for more than five minutes. All that being said the house looks great so glad we made the change. Now let's just see if we can get the job done and over with before it rains again. Good morning. It is Tuesday morning May 14th 903 a.m. Hello computer thank you very much for helping me with that today. By the way holding the phone up like this to vlog for you all hurts I was for quite a bit yesterday helping my dad do some electrical at our house. He very nicely and my mom came down they live a couple hours north of us and helped us with some electrical we're having some work done on the outside outside of the house right now and the contractor while he's very good at some things is not good with electrical and we won't be having him do electrical anymore. Yeah we'll either be doing it as a DIY because my dad is a retired electrician or we will be hiring one because yeah my husband also can do electrical work so anyway I was helping because Bob was working and I was you know holding fixtures and yeah so I have a bad back and a bad shoulders which is why I stay home and do art now because I can't do what I used to do anymore yesterday it was the first time I did anything like that in all very long time and I'm paying the price for it today but that being said it could be worse and I do have an appointment to go get my hair done finally today and get the white roots covered up it's 905 we've got all the social media done the website is updated um the design team's blog page is updated as well as my blog page which I didn't realize until this morning I hadn't updated since March I forgot to update it for all of April really uh yeah anyway the archives are updated too I'll link the website and the appropriate pages down below for you all um I've had a website for longer than I've had a youtube channel um it used to be filled with different sorts of things uh when it first started it was for my day here business and it was full of stuff pertaining for the parents to download as far as menus and things like that and permission slips and all that kind of stuff um then it was knitting and crafting and crafting with the kids and now none of that is on there and it's all mixed media and art related so yeah anyway the pat knitting patterns if you're one of those people and you're looking for the knitting patterns but like 20 years later I'm still getting questions about the knitting patterns they're all on uh Ravelry and I'll try to figure out where they're at and give you all a link in the description below um I was a published machine knit designer and a former incarnation um so yeah anyway um my arm really hurts I need to put the phone down I need to go take a nice long hot shower and get myself dressed I want to go run a couple errands before my hair appointment so yeah let's go get it done all right the hairs are all fixed yay thank you Cassandra at Mint Beauty Lounge which is in Beaverton holy careful hold on card right here let's see the card says Portland Oregon which if you're from the area you know that there's a lot of zip codes that the post office just says Portland Oregon but it's in the Beaverton area anyway I will link her information in the description below I would recommend her she's a really nice girl and she does a great job with my hair um now we're going to go over to Ross and then because I'm looking for a table for the backyard and then we're going to go to the Japanese grocery store and then we'll go home and have lunch unless I decide to stop somewhere else all right that's it for the moment I'll be back so we're at Yuajima is that how you pronounce that anyway it is a Japanese grocery store and they have a bookstore slash stationary store inside which seems to be a division of Maido MA ideal which I'm familiar with shopping at in San Jose California before I moved so we are going to go check it out maybe I can even find some sushi to go for lunch that would be cool all right I'll be back I caught a few clips of the bookstore inside the grocery store and it is similar to um Mitsua back in San Jose which was a grocery store which had a bookstore inside of it which um the bookstore part of it takes takes up about half and the stationary part takes up about the other half um and they have Japanese anime gifts and stuffed animals and toys and stuff too but that being said this one had a better pen selection than the what bookstore in Mitsua not quite on par with Maido I don't think but it was pretty good they did not have any white uniball signo gel pens they had every other color except white which is weird and there was no slot for it but they had every color of jelly roll um but I didn't buy anything in the bookstore I did buy a few groceries I got some rice and I got some sushi for lunch I got some california rolls and that sort of thing they have a great seem like they have a great deli section um nice meat department and fish it won't be someplace I shop at all the time because it's too far from home but if we're over in the area I'll be saying to my husband hey you don't want to go to yujima and let's get some stuff before we go home that being said we're gonna go home now so I can eat my california rolls I'll be back good morning it is Wednesday morning May 15th 8 11 a.m don't get all excited the ipad's right there anyway um it's been a stressful like 10 days with the construction outside and everything we're having the final walkthrough this evening thankfully not this morning so I don't have to do it with the contractor by myself the husband's gonna be home yay bonus points for the husband um but I need to head upstairs I need to edit the vlog which I'm late again editing so yeah that's a thing so I need to get it edited this morning and then loaded to YouTube and then I have Etsy orders to package up while that's a rendering or loading or whatever I also need to finish the artwork part of the two tote bags for that I'm painting for a friend and so they can dry and I can get stealer on them and hopefully get them out in the mail to her by Friday or Saturday Monday at the latest um I also have my traveler's notebook journal to catch up on I haven't done any of April much less may yeah so that's a thing I guess I better get up and take a shower and get dressed get my day started all right let's go okay I've got the social media done I've got some um posts scheduled out for the month of June in my creative year for my creative words and I got the Etsy order wrapped up and um sent out into the mailbox I guess there's no stalling anymore I've got to edit the vlog all right I guess I better get to it morning everybody it is I almost said Friday it's not Friday it's Thursday Thursday morning it's just after eight o'clock eight oh nine what day of a date is it day of the month I have no idea it's May May let's see wait okay enough stalling I got all my social media done YouTube comments replied to um a clear coat on the project I'm working on for a friend and it's time to go take a shower and actually leave the house and go run my errands I guess I'd rather just stay home with my pajamas all day but you know shit's not going to get done that way anyway I have a YouTube YouTube order no an Etsy order I've got to get out in the mail too and most days our mail service comes pretty early here so I need to get out that that out in the mail to um either here at the house or or probably more likely run over to McCann's and drop it off over there because I can also then check the p.o. box when I'm over there oh let's make sure the door's over here locked before I get in the shower I like to make sure everything's locked before you know I do something like getting naked in the shower when I'm home alone you know call me crazy but it's a thing all right I'm gonna get my day going get myself in gear get myself started yeah we'll see where it leads me I'll be mailman's been yet so I'm gonna try to walk this Etsy order down to the mailbox Bambi hasn't been to eat yet so I don't have to fill the bowls I do notice when it's raining out uh the deer don't come by to eat as often um I don't know anything about deer so I don't know why that is anyway so we can hold off on putting more corn out for the moment all right I'll be back okay we're gonna go to um just random stuff in the car I'm gonna go to Fred Meyer I think I'm gonna go to the one in Tualatin because there's the home goods across the street and Michaels and New Seasons Market not that I need to go to any of those last two but I want to go to home goods I am looking for one more um table thing to put some potted plants on in the backyard I have one that I bought years ago I used to have a um a booth at a arts and crafts cooperative type shop I know you all know what I mean if you've been doing this for a while you either do shows or you or you have a booth in a shop um I did both for a while now I just do Etsy um because that's like now we do online things right anyway um I would I kept the table even though I had no use for it and I moved it all the way to Oregon still not sure why or at least it wasn't at first it turns out it's great on the back patio for the um some of the pots of vegetables and things I'm great back there so uh woohoo but the problem is now I could use another one so I'm gonna I'm on the hunt for it doesn't have to match but I'm on the hunt for something similar similarly shaped that's metal that can withstand being outdoors at least for a few seasons before it falls apart I live in the Pacific Northwest so we have harsher conditions than we had in San Jose so yeah so I think I'm gonna go to that one that was a long explanation for you know we're gonna go on errands I don't know it's rainy and cloudy out today it's a gray out but I have my sunglasses because it's a Pacific Northwest if you live up here you know it could be rainy and cloudy and still be so glaring that you need sunglasses is glaring award it might be a word anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back morning it's Friday morning May 17th my father-in-law's birthday he's no longer with us but anyway today's his birthday tomorrow is my wedding anniversary anyway it is 8 30 ish in the morning and I'm working on my second cup of coffee I've already done the social media thing and checked on YouTube and all of that stuff went out and fed Bambi pulled my positive affirmation cards one of my neighbors is coming by today with a lady from the HOA I made the mistake of mentioning and passing that there's some graffiti on the on the neighbor's wall yeah hang on but it's Friday and caught up with my must-do-things for the week I'm gonna sit down and finish my coffee and watch some YouTube husbands working upstairs it's Friday so he's working from home and that means I can't do any conferencing or loading of YouTube videos or anything because it interferes with his signal well he thinks it does I actually think it's a server at work there's not a big enough server for everybody who works at home on Friday why whatever all right I'll get your food is empty the other one's still full so yeah but they're eating they're out there somewhere all right I'll take little pieces of blue tape I think I'm gonna be finding them for a while everywhere sort of like moving company stickers so what happens when you have the outside of your house painted anyway I'm gonna go run to McCann's I need to check on the peel box but I also need to send this project I was working on for a friend back to I'm done with it so when it's dry so I'm gonna send it back to her 18th I tried to film this once already and did a crappy job so it is just before 10 a.m. and we're going to go down to Habitat for Humanity and donate the light fixtures that you just saw slowed in the car and run a couple errands it is our anniversary 28 years married 30 something years together 30 yeah we met 1984 September 22nd was our first date um anyway so we're gonna go do all that and then meet our daughter later to pick up her wedding dress and see her in that and then we're gonna go celebrate Mother's Day and our anniversary with the kids we're gonna go out to dinner to McMinnomins which is a local chain and I'll link their website in the description below some of their restaurants are in historic buildings so that'll be fun and um I'll bring you with us where we can I'll be back he doesn't really like being on camera in case you didn't know hey friend doesn't like it friend doesn't like it so we just left a really nice afternoon we went with our daughter to pick up her wedding dress which no I can't show on camera you got all they're gonna have to wait like until October no no we're not allowed we have to wait until October 3rd 2020 so um we're gonna be doing some DIY projects coming up for her wedding we will be showing some of those on the youtube channel um but yeah anyway so we went and did that and she looks is gonna just look she's gonna make a beautiful bride um and then we went out to dinner afterwards we met some friends of theirs Jenny and Brian and um we had a very nice dinner at McMinnomins uh and um what was it oak something oak hill oak hill what nope the McMinnomins oak hill pub oak some and I'll link it below I don't remember which one it was um it's one of the littler ones but anyway we had a very nice dinner with them we did find out at dinner that contrary to prior conversations Rebecca and Polly is are coming for dinner tomorrow so I need to go to the grocery store on the way home get some food because I don't have enough to feed them because they told me they were coming so we're gonna go get some more food for tomorrow and then we have to we have to go watch GOT tonight tomorrow tomorrow at 6 o'clock the last episode of Game of Thrones is on tomorrow so they're coming over to watch it with us and be disappointed by whatever happens because you all know that's going to be the thing everybody's anticipating being disappointed honestly I don't like Game of Thrones because there's never a happy ending so why would you expect the last last episode to be any different um anyway so that's been our week we hope you've had a good one if you want to support the free content here on youtube or over in facebook you can do that a lot of different ways including buying merch from teespring the link for that along with my etsy shop and the patreon and a whole bunch of other stuff along with my social media links if you want to follow me on social media are in the description below click on the link tree list of links and you'll get a whole list of stuff when you do that um don't forget to like share and subscribe hit the little bell icon if you want notifications of new 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