 The kids came over and helped us take Christmas ornaments and decorations down so we got that done. I had an interval of sanity broadcast today so we got that done. We are going to be changing up the time of the weekly live broadcasts to I think 11am central. I will put the channel link in the description below. I'm sorry I ran up the stairs. Anyway, so it's just been not a super busy day just quietly steadily busy and I completely forgot about vlogging and so that happens, right? I did some cleaning in the art room and I rearranged my daily drawing case which is downstairs and added some gel pens into it some things that will show up on black paper because I want to work more in the little black sketchbook doing some abstract doodles. Vicki, Peg, Michelle, it's all your fault. Peg Robinson, Vicki Brown and Michelle Mitchell. Vicki Brown of Messy Table Studios, Michelle Mitchell of Lady Blue Studios. I will link all their channels in the description below all three are fabulous artists in their own right and yeah they just started something anyway. I'm enjoying doing daily drawing just for me sharing with you all on Instagram and or Twitter and Facebook posts if you haven't followed me on any of my other social media you have no idea what I'm talking about. There's a tree there's a tree there's a link in the description below called link tree and then slash and my name click on that you're going to find every single place you can find me support me follow me stalk me whatever on the internet so go look at it. I also was watching a video just now on from Kent from Oz. He hasn't been actually had any videos on it I think a year. He is the one that told me about the Filofax Maldon and I saw it first on his channel and that is a planner organizer that I actually carry as a wallet. I actually had a spare one I have two of them and I was watching his video and reminded about that he took the rings out of his a while ago. Good morning everybody it is Monday morning January 7th. I only know that sort of because I have an appointment this morning with a new doctor new general practitioner. Hopefully things work out and I like her and everything so that's a little stressful so we're going to go do that this morning and I need to run some errands and I have of course always projects to work on laundry to do oh that reminds me I gotta put some laundry in the dryer before I leave. I'm thinking about how much I want to say and how much I don't want to say. Christmas time is always really stressful for me for those that don't know why I had my first miscarriage years and years ago at the beginning of December plus I worked in retail for a lot of years plus there's always family drama over the years those things just build up to where you're just not super thrilled about the holidays you just kind of dread them. That being said I enjoy spending time with my family doing things we really enjoy leave the drama at home if you don't have anything nice to say keep it to yourself yeah and I just going forward I would just rather do things with people who I really enjoy being around than having to deal with drama I just yeah I'm done anyway it's all I'm gonna say about that don't ask because I won't say that's probably too much and I may cut it out anyway I'm sitting here in the library for a few minutes because I'm ready a little early because I'm anxious to get the doctor visit over with probably I do need to show up a few minutes early but I don't think I need to show up an hour early so that's a thing I may just pop over to Safeway I need some tinfoil and some hand soap and some bottled water and I may just go do that and then go to the doctor that'll kill some time and I won't drive myself crazy just sitting around the house anyway that's it for now I will be back hey guys how are you I'm downstairs after working upstairs I tried to shoot a little film with my camera upstairs with my camera with my phone upstairs I tried a new mic which I'm going to return to Amazon it didn't work and and honestly the footage is crap I'm going to show off what I did with my Filofax and inspired by Kent from Oz and I am loving it I've barely used it and I'm loving it already I am gonna though shoot proper footage because the footage I showed was crap and I need to do a better job at speaking at filming turn the lights on like I just need to do a better job I also have a project I'm working on for a friend for a surprise she may not want it she doesn't know about it she didn't ask me to do it but I'm gonna do it anyway I'll clue you all in once it's been mailed but yeah so I'm gonna work on that and I did get all my paperwork done all the 2018 bookkeeping is finished California State sales tax are paid I'm done and finished with California it's been nice for so long I had my appointment with my new GP yesterday and had some blood work done and I went on earlier to just see if the results were in yet not really expecting them to be but to my surprise they were and everything was good which is great the numbers looked better than they actually have in a long time so yay I think the move was really good for me I am back to tracking what I'm eating and drinking using lose it it's an app for just watching what you're eating I don't make a point of working out but I do walk up and down the stairs a lot and I'd like to do I like to walk so I do a lot of walking she also has me weeding off of the daily inhaled steroid for my asthma which I am over the moon about and as long as I'm able to control the asthma without it and all the coughing doesn't come back and stuff like that I'll cross your fingers people because I'm so excited um but I had to come down and eat some lunch because it's I think it's after three o'clock um I was starting to feel lightheaded it was probably because I hadn't eaten um and I need to do a load of laundry and stuff like that so anyway just a quiet nice day at home in my oversized uh red cross t-shirt and baggy pants and you know nothing special I'm sure I look like a just a dream on the way to the mailbox anyway um that's it for right now uh tomorrow I have to hang out around the house waiting for ups to come pick up the mic that I'm returning to Amazon and I want to get some more stuff done and then Thursday I'm going to go run errands and I might hit a couple thrift shops or or Tuesday morning or something our footstool that we had out here in the living room that we brought with us from California broke um not because we moved just because it was past it and so I'm kind of on the hunt for a new one anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back good morning it is it is Wednesday morning January 9th yes you know I should know the iPad is right in front of me um January 9th I've been up for a while I got all my daily postings done and I started working on a dot mandala project which I will put a link to um a link I'll insert a picture here somewhere but it's turning out really well and I'm having a lot of fun most importantly I'm trying out some new dotting tools that I'm absolutely loving not sponsored I purchased a set on Amazon I'll put the link in the description below super easy to use I have other dotting tools and I am filming the project um so I'll give you my thoughts on the tools uh but hint I love them uh in the in the video so there'll be a video coming out on the process soon I do need to go out and run a few errands but I am waiting for UPS to come by and pick a box up so I may not get any of those errands done until tomorrow because it's like a giant waiting game but I do have dishes to do and laundry to do and all that stuff so it's not like I don't have things to keep me busy all right guys if I don't catch it on camera you're gonna think I'm insane there's a baby deer in our front yard hang on he's eating our bushes it's the same baby deer who's been coming I just wonder where his mom is at so cool cool is that I'm gonna go try to catch him he's in the driveway now he I'm probably gonna scare the crap out of him but he is so pretty I wonder where his parents are though that's what I'm worried about there's two of them oh my gosh at least two maybe three I'm feeling right there it's just watching me so cool just watching me like come on let me go back in the house so we can have some lunch now I know why they're in my front yard they're eating the bushes and here there's lots of wildlife out today there's a whole family of baby deers I don't I'm pretty sure they're not grown-ups I don't know anything about deer they maybe does I don't know the one I saw that was in the front yard wasn't very big accidental photographs when you're not completely awake or a bad thing good morning five months after moving I'm still trying to figure out where things got put when we moved in anyway fun fact years ago when I was pregnant with our daughter who is now 24 I was in a head-on collision with somebody who ran a red light and that's how I found out I was pregnant fun fact anyway I've had problems with my um head and neck and back since then and so I was looking this morning for my little hard rubber peanut shaped thing which is this to do uh there's an exercise I can do to relieve this the pressure in my neck so I must have slept on it wrong or something periodically over the years I have an issue especially um if I sleep on it funny so I need to do that this morning because my neck is killing me and it'll lead to a migraine if I don't do the exercise which the exercise hurts but it's better than dealing with this so good morning everybody Thursday morning January 10th I think I think it's the 10th because yesterday was my baby sister's birthday happy birthday Elizabeth everybody tell her happy birthday um it's 746 am I'm gonna have some more coffee and some breakfast watch some youtube do my daily postings and then we're gonna get dressed and go run some errands I can leave the house today because I'm not expecting people I have work to do but nothing that requires me to just stay home all day and get it done so yeah we're gonna get to it maybe find the local Tuesday morning so uh I love this Tuesday morning and it's next to a different dollar tree than the one I was going to I like this shopping center a lot better than the other one so anyway but the other one has Joanne's fabric so um either or but this is a nicer shopping center when I just want to go to dollar tree I did just realize as I was putting in um to my GPS app for admire to go there next then I forgot the shopping list off the refrigerator so I'm gonna just wing it and yeah pretty much guarantee you I'll forget something but you know and I'm gonna try to reduce our amount of waste I there's no way I can go zero waste I don't think but um I did well in dollar tree but then I forgot to tell the young man on Tuesday morning I didn't want a plastic bag so um I think Fred Meyer has a thing where I can stick the plastic bags hopefully so I'm gonna put this in there and I don't know what they do with it but I think they repurpose it or something anyway oops all right I'll be back okay so I got most of what I needed I think I don't again I forgot the list so I don't know what's on the list I am shooting for healthier um um low waste alternatives to things including food less plastic packaging I am at the moment unable to avoid it completely but I'm doing my best to buy alternatives when they're available including I'm gonna try switching body wash to I back to a bar soap which I haven't used in like a million years um we'll see how that goes I like my liquid body wash um there were a couple things I wanted that Fred Meyer didn't have and when I wasn't looking the very nice clerk at Fred Meyer put my greeting card that I got for my dad's birthday in a plastic bag so now I got two plastic bags and they don't have anywhere to recycle them so um I don't know I'm gonna head across the street to new seasons market which is sort of a combination of an organic grocery store and a regular market I was in the wrong lane dang it um I think I'm still in the wrong lane that's okay um anyway so I'm going to um go head over there and see if I can find what I need over there we'll see it's gonna be a journey I yeah so I'm hoping between the two stores that when I do need to go shopping that I can get the bulk of stuff at um you know one store and when I can't find there I can go to the other store I like Fred Meyer and it's right across the street from new seasons so hopefully that works I'm becoming an Oregonian the sun is blinding me what is that not used to the sun it's very bright out I love new seasons market so I um was successful so they had frozen Marion berries which I've been looking for yay they were back in stock and they did tell me in all fairness when it was here last week that they were getting new stock in any day and so they had some so I got a bag for the freezer because I want to try baking with them I also found half and half in a glass bottle I keep forgetting to look every time I come over here and I finally look today and um the bottles aren't very big so I got two of them and they're also you know they don't have a super long shelf life but we drink a lot of coffee um but they're in a glass bottle which can be recycled uh returned um the plastic bottles and the waxy coated cartons are none of that is recyclable so um in these glass bottles it does have a plastic cap but that's the only part that's not recyclable so um I love that and so I might have to have an extra cup of coffee today so I can try the new creamer that might be a thing hand here then we have that um good morning it is Friday morning January 10th maybe 11th maybe I don't even know I just know it's Friday it's 9 13 a.m the only reason I know that for sure is because I'm sitting in the car and the clock is like right there um I started off yesterday I think I said already um in yesterday's vlog with my old neck and back injury bothering me and you know I got it worked out I didn't found my physical therapy tools did my exercises as you saw um and I worked out most of the pain and and stiffness but because I started my day off on a misstep note um I hesitate to call it a bad note because it wasn't a bad day but uh because that happened I you know led to a series of things like me forgetting the shopping and errand list which meant I forget to forgot to do a couple of things forgot to pick up a couple things so yeah so I'm headed back out to the store so anyway we're gonna go to I'm just gonna run to Safeway I forgot a couple things at the store and I need to mail some stuff over at McCann's um so I'm just gonna go do that really quick and then come back and work on some art and journaling and look at my to-do list and figure out what needs doing and stuff like that so I'll be back good afternoon everybody it is after 12 o'clock I don't think it's not one o'clock yet it's like 12 30 ish anyway it's Saturday I almost said December January 12th um had an impromptu intervals of broadcast intervals of sanity live broadcast this morning and now we're out just running a few fun errands we probably will go antiquing a little bit but I had to stop at McCann's you see behind me um they have a little post office in the pharmacy because our former PO box sent us a piece of somebody else's mail they forwarded our mail for us like once a month which is great but when I got the envelope today I took everything out there was a piece of someone else's mail in there so I called them and let them know and I'm sending it back my husband dropped me off he went to go to the bank across the street real quick and then we're gonna drive into Newberg and Sherwood and just go drive around for a little bit maybe grab a sandwich or something on the way home and yeah have some fun we'll take you with us we'll be back and yeah that thing out there that bright blue thing and the bright light yeah the sun's out I don't know what to do with that anyway I'll be back all right so that's been our week it's been an interesting one pretty good I think overall this next week we celebrate my dad's 80th birthday and I just ran up the stairs sorry um I'm taking him he's gonna stay overnight I'm gonna take him to the airport he's going down to Southern California to work with my brother for a little bit and what else have another doctor appointment with a new doctor um colonoscopy doctor yeah it's that time I think so oh joy I'm gonna see what she says she's gonna review my records and oh boy anyway um I'm also gonna continue my journey trying to reduce our plastic packaging consumption and the amount of trash we produce can I go zero waste probably not but I got some more stainless steel straws because I'm gonna switch the family over including my husband who's very reluctant from disposable straws I also bought some silicone uh ziploc bags they're reusable you can put them in the dishwasher to sanitize them between uses so I got a few of those to try I'm on the hunt for products and food that are in less packaging so that's my current obsession I mean it does mean I'm probably going to have to cook more but you know I probably should be doing that anyway it's healthier so yeah that's a thing anyway it's been a great week I hope you guys have enjoyed it if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them in the um comments below you can check out all my links and places to follow me on social media support me on social media in the description there's a few gonna be a few links in there but also there's a link to a place called link tree and then slash my name click on that you're going to find every single place I am on the internet plenty of places to follow me and support me including all 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