 Hello! We're doing a vlog today! How fun! You're gonna come along with me. I have a lot to do today. Some errands to run, one of which obviously includes Joanne. But we've got some brunch with some girlfriends, some grocery shopping. I've got to come back here and work on some projects. So I thought it would be a fun day to do a vlog style video and take you along. So buckle up, get ready to get in the car and go to brunch. Well, all done with brunch. Speed racers on motorcycles. It is the most beautiful day. 57 degrees, sunny. We sat outside for brunch and it was genuinely so nice. Moving again so I can't talk long but we're on our way to Joanne. Okay, add another stoplight. I hope you liked our little scenic tour through Charlotte. Very green and beautiful. That was like a very expensive part of town so all the houses were like mansions. But it's fun to drive through there sometimes. Football players, basketball players, like reality, TV stars, like all kinds of people live back there. Okay, so at Joanne we have a plan. I need notions. I need notions like nobody's business. I need a lot of one inch elastic. I need a little bit of one and a half inch elastic. I need white shirt buttons. Is that it? I have to go through my list again. But those are the kinds of things that we're shopping for. All right, quick pit stop. This Joanne is next door to a target. So we're gonna walk to the target because it's so nice out. Get some steps in and grab two things from a target. Literally two things. No makeup, nothing for the dogs. I don't need any of that. So we're gonna be good in target and only get what we need and not get anything we don't need. I need eyedrops and I need deodorant. And that is it. Okay, hold me accountable. But you just turn the corner here and then there's the target and Joanne, right next to each other. So convenient. Waiting target but quick fit check. Ride patterns, seaside cool ups, neko top and then who makes this cardigan? I can't remember. I'll have to look when I get home. But I've got a little vintage clutch. Woe winches. All right, welcome back to the car and target. So I mean the car and Joanne. So I didn't do perfect. As you saw, I also got toothpaste and cherry water flavored stuff because it's like a treat. It's like truly temples without the sugar that's in grenadine. So good. And they've been out of the cherry flavor for seriously like months. I don't know what happened with the supply chain with the cherry water flavor, but they didn't have it at target. And they've also been out of it at like Harris teeter, like our grocery stores. So when I saw they had so many of them here, I just bought a bunch. And that'll get me through like several months. So that was kind of a necessity. So yeah, pretty good. But I'm just remembering that I had a return for Joanne that I forgot. I had some buttons and I got too many of them. But I forgot to bring them. I also have a return for the pet store that's over here too. I also forgot that. So that's annoying. Okay, I'm not buying this, but look, they have elastic ribbing for like sweatshirt cuffs and stuff. They also have it in this. So they're coming along with their garment sewing stuff. But yeah, for like sweatshirts, bomber jackets, things like that, you can use that for your cuffs and collars. That was a good time to buy some notions. Am I right? Everything was on sale. So I ended up getting a couple of extra things, but only because they were like basically free. And what else was I going to say? They had something else I wanted to tell you all about, but now I can't remember. Oh patterns. They did have Vogue and Butterrick on sale, which they did not have in their flyer. And I don't know if they're doing these sneaky sales all the time now just to get everybody to comment every weekend or what the story is. But it's a little frustrating. I didn't need any Vogue or Butterrick patterns. Need, no, I didn't need. Did I want any? I think I just shopped the Vogue sale not too long ago. So I think I'm good on that Butterrick though. I do love a good Butterrick pattern, but there was a lot of people there. I didn't feel like fighting it kind of tired from the chicken and waffles that I had at brunch and not having enough coffee. And I need to get home because I got a lot to do. So all good decisions were made in Joanne. Didn't even look at the fabric. So proud of myself. Got all these notions to finish up these projects that I started a couple weeks ago and should be able to get them all done today because it was little things like add buttons and add elastic and this and that and the other thing. So it should be good to go there. I've got to go the food store. I don't know if you know this or not, but I make dog food for the girls. I did it for Sunny for years and years and saw many many health benefits over the course of his life. So I do it for the girls as well. So but I've got to go buy them groceries basically. So gonna go do that and then back home where I get to put some of this stuff to good use. So if you're curious, this is the girls food. It's made in a crock pot. It has green beans, butternut squash, zucchini, chicken thighs, rice, red kidney beans, garlic, ground mustard, ground turmeric, iodized salt, water, coconut oil. Some of those things are say the same every time. Some of them swap out. If you want to look into it for your own pet, it's called the crock pet diet. Formulated by a like veterinarian specializing in holistic pet health. I don't know. But like I said, it really helped Sunny. He stopped getting ear infections. He stopped scratching. So look into it if you want. It's like my little thing that I do for them. And I feel like they know that I do it too. Like they can tell that I'm making the food. They get real excited. They love me more. That's probably not true at all. But that's what I tell myself. Mom was home cooking, you know, like when your mom cooks you a home cook meal, like nothing's better than that. So they get that twice a day. Well, it is just too nice outside for me to stay at home and do anything so long as the sun is up. So grab the girls, put them in their car seat, and we're going to go to the park. I'm going to meet a friend. We're going to walk around this little park with the girls, let them get some energy out and get some vitamin D as well. Should be a nice afternoon. No, I am sort of. I have a good documentary for me. I am documenting it for you. Do I love it? Is it so good? What? Locked myself out of the apartment, but we'll be in tune. You guys are not even going to believe the emotional turmoil that I have just been through. I was like, it'll be fun. Let me get some light. It'll be fun. Go to the park. Bring the girls. They'll love it. My keys disintegrated, evaporated. I don't know where they are. I literally don't know where they are. My car key is separate from my house key. So I was able to get in my car and I got home and I couldn't get in my home. And so I'm like, oh my gosh, so I live in an apartment. So I reach out to it's like community liaison who reaches out to the property manager who's like, call a locksmith. Do you guys know the insanity of the locksmith business? Absolutely crazy. But it was hours and I had all these plans. I don't have sheets on my bed. The oven was on this whole time because I've been making the girls food and I do it in the crock pot and then I double batch in the oven. So the oven's been on. I had all these ideas to get all this sewing stuff done. Obviously did not get any of that done. Now I'm thinking I have like an hour left on the girls food. They're fed. We're home. You know, I need to obviously decompress, take a shower, all of that. But I'm thinking that I'm just going to get one of those sewing projects done, just put that elastic in that one project so that I can just like in this day on a positive note. Everybody's fine. Everybody's safe. We're home. We have a lock. The door is locked. Man, what a turn. You know, we're having such a great little day there. And then we take a deep, deep, deep turn hard left, hard left into unhappiness. But we are going to pull ourselves back together, get clean sheets on the bed. I'm going to take a bath. I'm going to give the girls a bath. I'm going to get a sewing project done and we're going to end this day on a high note.