 Happy holidays. Hey you guys, I'm in my she-room Um, I have a meeting starting it says I can't start my meeting So what the hell's going on? I have a meeting Coming up soon. I haven't had breakfast So i'm gonna have some banana And I need to work out today With my new battle ropes that I purchased. I'd never like the first beginning of a banana. I'm weird like that. Hold on I'm doing well. Hi Dan. How are you? Do you still live in phoenix? Yeah, my job My job things have gotten very interesting and it's so funny. Christine is my co-worker and friend I know I've spoken about by her before she thinks it's hilarious that sometimes I'll just bring her up Um, and then I'll send her the video. I said girl. I'm talking about you at this at the four minute five 50 second mark and she'll she'll look at it Actually, her and her husband will look at the video and just crack up laughing Anyway, um, we used to work in the same for the same company organization, excuse me, um Before we came to this job and we know some of the same people it was so funny when I When I first started to work with her. I said your name looks very very familiar I remember seeing your names your name on roster. So she's like, oh, yeah I work for this department and yeah, so we basically ran in the same circles y'all It is a small world and this is when she was living at the time at the time she was in um michigan um Our department is getting smaller and smaller y'all. I've been with this company for eight years Yeah, eight years and I was originally hired as a Implementation administrator and basically what that means is that I helped to Set up their system and I managed it well Nick and I my good Judy Nick and I were brought on for that and at the time Christine was the only LMS administrator Then we got other we got a team offshore to come on and then those people left Nick left Nick left and then Christine left She she stayed within the company, but she went into HR training. I was the only person Y'all I was Christine Nick and Vivian for like six months when I tell you I was working crazy hours So we've seen we've seen other administrators come and go come and go come and go We were purchased by cognizant about almost three or four years ago And when things were shaken up a little bit maybe they shook things up girl Basically, it was a huge reorganization going on now they have decided to reform back regroup our old company And we would no longer be under I don't know how they're gonna do this We were no longer be with the academy and now they decided that we will go back to our previous Division we would no longer be under this on this one division that's under cognizant I'm not sure how that works out because I really don't understand I supposed to because this is why I got you know, I went to school for some of this I understand organizational change, but I don't understand All the different layers of the onion and how that works for an organization We have to go back now to A division that you purchase even how does that work? So anyway Since that has happened They have shaken up thing again reorg and two other people that are on christine's team are now being moved out under And we have some more work. We need to do I'm like child I took monday off because I needed it off Well, I had originally taken it off because we were going to go to um jb's has a Field trip at a movie theater and one of the parents Invited me. She said you want to ride it with me up there? I'm like, yeah girl Let me go ahead and just take that whole day off since that's not happening um I'm still I'm still going to take it off. I'm just going to have a me day girl a me day That's going to be in a separate vlog and this vlogmas So I'm going to have a me day and I'm going to be making some brownies. Um, I'm going to be meeting up with my home girl Rainy. I'm so excited. Uh, so I'll be making her brownies bourbon brownies I mean y'all y'all don't have to get into this bourbon. Yes whiskey, but look Bourbon and there's some of you who probably never even had bourbon. I don't blame you girl Don't leave leave the dark liquor alone. But bourbon is really great. It pairs really well with Um dark sweets. So like chocolate to me is a dark sweet um, or rich sweet like um a bourbon glaze for cinnamon cinnamon roll rolls a bourbon glaze for a bread pudding I made that before it was bomb.com All right, y'all. Wow. I am cooking. I want to show you girl ignore. Oh lord Ignore I mostly what I do is I set stuff out what I'm going to wear like this is what I'm going to wear I can show this to y'all now This is a very simple, um Black dress that I purchased from the goodwill. It has a plunging neckline sheer black I'm wearing a skinny belt to tie they in However, I wear my hair. I'm not sure I think this would be a little too fancy because I'm already going to be slaying and hunting with this Uh, because it's fun fitting and then I'm going to be pairing it with these velvet Um shoes I got from the goodwill overall bag. I've only worn them like once or twice Very nice It's winter It is going to be winter because I'm going to have a pop of color with my handbag that red handbag This is nothing I'm just wearing this tomorrow For church if we make it to church We didn't make it as past sunday because it was cold and raining really bad. It was so nasty But this is another goodwill Um dress that I purchased a while back. It flares out at the bottom here I'm going to pair it with this brown skinny belt and then I have this cute little jacket Yeah, it's all about accessorizing and I am a bargain shopper. So these dresses cost me like six dollars and this is And then boom So Oh man That's a little bit better. Um, it is thursday No, it is not thursday. Why did I make that? It is not thursday y'all It is wednesday It is wednesday. Um, I just got out of scostal medical imaging for my mammogram y'all First of all, well, let me back up. Um, I didn't have one last year of course because I had a breast reduction The reason why I'm having to get all this done is such a young age because of my family history of cancer it is I don't know for lack of the better word like At this point, there are 13 people on my mother's side that have had cancer That is a lot of people you guys granted. I have a huge family um, even with a huge family like that my mother is third is The last of was it is 12 13 kids And there have been at least six siblings. So half of them have had some type of cancer Two have died Um, I had an uncle to die of pancreatic cancer Then I had an aunt just last year to die of lung cancer And I was thinking about her when I was up here And I started getting teary-eyed because she helped to she she used to babysit us when we were kids and so Um, she was one of my favorite aunts and yeah, as I'm getting emotional Just thinking about it my aunt Kathleen She was just a sweetheart and she would make the best The best coconut pies. She would make these coconut cream pies pineapple cream pies She was just a sweetheart. But anyway, so I say all that to say, you know, make sure especially if you have a family history that you um Get your yearly exam Get your yearly pap smear. I know of at least One or two or two women who have admitted to me that they they haven't had a pap smear in years And these are women over the age of 35 It doesn't it doesn't even matter how old you are you should get into the habit of having I've been having a pap smear TMI, but I've been getting checked every year since I was 18 years old Like you have to get it done you guys and with african-american women They don't know why but cancers autoimmune diseases autoimmune diseases these type of things affect us Uh, harsher than other races. So when we get breast cancer or avarian cancer, we have a higher chance Of dying from it than other races. So it's really important. I'm just saying all that to say Make sure you get checked out Um, especially, you know, yeah, just just get it done. It's not fun Girl not fun getting your stuff smashed up between some plates and this is my third year I I skipped last year, of course, but yeah, this is my third time I should say having to have a mammogram and it's just as quick it's done and they're like you want to say for the results I'm like, no, I'm I'm trusting God and we'll see but I actually have a classmate that's going through chemotherapy right now Due to breast cancer. So she's 40 40 40 41. Yeah It can hit at young ages, you know cancer does not discriminate and it's just It's a sad ordeal. So on to um Better and brighter things Hold on you guys I just got invited to a cookie Girl, I don't know you know, this is this is my friend Christina on the 20th Let's go ahead and go y'all I'm trying to make my vlogmas videos a little bit longer. It's hard. It is really hard because I'm literally am Don't complain about it. Don't complain. You literally have to Tape and then edit same day And I'm behind like I'm trying to catch up Which is why some of my my videos are food related because I just I can't I just can't but I wanted to do it All right y'all