 we're discussing the challenges of driving and parking in San Jose. Is that a nice way to determine? Yeah, challenges. Challenges, yeah. People who park in a no parking red zone, you know, because that's a good place to park. Anyway, we got in and out of the grocery store fairly quickly. Yay! We had to go out and get some food because we were lazy and didn't do it yesterday and the kids are coming over for dinner tonight, so we need to have stuff to feed them. Feeding them is good. Eating them is good. Paulie eats a lot. He's a growing boy. Oh God, he eats a lot. Yeah. So anyway, we're headed home now to have some lunch. Probably do a quick sweep of the house to make sure things are decently clean and hubby's probably gonna make popcorn and watch football and I might try to squeeze in a couple small business things. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. Alright, that's it. We'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Monday morning, January 15th. I am out headed over to physical therapy. I decided to walk because this Monday morning started off a little bit frantic. I think it's just because I woke up late and didn't have all the time I thought I would have this morning to get stuff done before I left to go to physical therapy and anyway I cut a couple things out. It didn't need to be done before I went to therapy and I'm gonna walk over there. It'll help calm me down a bit I think. It is overcast out but you know if it rains I'm not gonna melt or anything so I'm not too worried and it does kind of smell like a sewer outside so I don't know what that's about anyway. Alright, that's it right now. I still have to eat my breakfast bar. I'll be back. Well purging thing is working when you go into one of your favorite clothing stores and you're just not inspired to buy anything. It is Tuesday, January 16th. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, January 16th and it's late in the evening. It's like 10 30 at night. I forgot all day to film anything. I was chatting all day with friends. I didn't sleep well last night and I woke up not feeling good probably because I didn't sleep well so then it kind of just messed up my whole day. I did do a few journal pages and I'll try to insert some pictures here somewhere and I did some sketching. I didn't get my sketching done last night but I did catch up on it today and yeah I got some video edited. One of the video clips which will air next month in February at the end of the month has the wrong title in it. The thumbnail was all messed up and I didn't notice until after I deleted all the clips so I apologize in advance. It's gonna air on February 28th and yeah it'll be a topic of conversation on the YouTube channel I'm sure. So anyway I'm only human. I screw up. That's it for right now. I think for this evening I will be back with you tomorrow and I have some errands to do and I have some more art what I want to do. I've got to catch up on my filming for my creative year and my commitments to my giant life and explorations of me so my goal is to get those filmed this week and hopefully edited. So cross your fingers. All right that's it for the moment. Morning it is Wednesday morning January 17th pretty sure and I'm getting ready to go out onto the garage where my treadmill is and get some steps in and I just finished my morning coffee. I have to go run some errands. I'm gonna take you all with me. I am gonna address some comments and concerns on the vlogs regarding safety while I'm driving and we will be going over that and of course I take all precautions. Of course I do. Personally I've been in way too many car accidents that were somebody else's fault to not take precautions and I am uber concerned about my safety and others always especially while I'm driving. So y'all don't know me in real life but yeah I have anxiety issues so yeah that's one of my things. It's a trigger. I use a hands-free device. I set the camera to film before I leave the driveway. I stop it after I've parked the car and turn it off. I talk to myself. I know frequently it looks like I'm looking at the camera but the camera is right there where I have to look out the windshield to drive the car. I'll show y'all my setup today. I think it's probably a good thing and we're gonna run a couple errands and anyway I'm gonna go get my steps in and I'll be back. Morning everyone. So I've had some questions recently about concerns regarding me filming while I'm driving and am I abiding by laws and being safe? Of course I am. I'm not the kind of person to not do that. Anyway I've been prompted I think to share with you exactly what I do when I'm driving and why I usually cut it out of the video. I guess I'll leave it in this week. I usually complain at some point on the vlog about how long it takes me to edit said vlog. I usually try to cut that out but it takes a long time because I just film a bunch of clips. I just let the camera roll which means I have to sit and watch all the clips and not only shorten the time down because you don't want to watch me for two hours vlogging and usually the clips amount to at least an hour and a half if not two hours or more sometimes but I just ramble on about stuff nobody cares about and because I start the camera before I leave like from my driveway which we're in right now and then I stop it when I'm done and park to the car and turn the car off. So that's my habit of what I do. I will show you here is my steering wheel obviously and this is my camera mount. So it sits right here while I'm driving hands-free. Like I said I turn the camera on and I just let it roll. I usually have it facing me so I just while I'm driving looking out the windshield and talking it looks like I'm looking at the camera but I'm not really. I'm looking at obviously where I'm going. My hands are free and I just let it roll. I try to edit out the ranting that if I've ranted about something that bugs me you know the stuff you don't want to hear. Anyway so that's how I film. When I film the driving scenes I edit those clips and I trim them out and zoom in so you just see the scenery and you don't see my dashboard and I do that afterwards and again I always if I'm gonna film driving sequences I always do it. Before I start the car and get going and then I stop it when I get to wherever I've gone and I cut out anything that's blurry, unfocused, shaky and sometimes if I'm driving far away like I'm gonna do right now it's just too much driving so then I cut it out. So anyway I hope that answers some questions. Of course I'm safe. I just got to my destination. Cars turned off and yeah we're at Hobby Lobby. I have a gift card that I need to spend. I just have to somebody twist my arm. It has like 55 cents on it I know right. It's actually my husband's gift card. He got it and he got some things for himself and yeah it's got 55 cents left so I'm gonna go spend it and probably. Staples down here because there's some Velcro clear plastic pockets I'm always looking for. My staples never has them anymore so I'm gonna see if they have them here. I'm not gonna hold my breath but if they do I'll buy them. So glad I stopped. Not only are they super nice down here at the Staples in Morgan Hill, California so if you have a chance stop by but they had a whole bunch of them. Yay! I'm gonna go to the car and I'll show you what they are and I'll talk to you about what I use them for. Okay so they are called Gusseted Binder Pockets 200 sheet capacity item number 40030. They are Staples brand item and these are they have them in the big full-size binder size or these little ones which I like the little ones. I use mini binders in my office to store different things like stickers, store-bought die cuts like Tim Holt the Tim Holt's people and I have different binders for different things and in my image binders like my die-cut binder with my Tim Holt's people and stuff in it each collection of things has its own pocket so I'm always looking for more of these pockets not only to sort and clean and organize things in my office but they are plastic they do wear out not super fast but I'm finding more and more uses for them in my office. The problem is I like the clear ones and they can't just order you clear they come in a variety pack when they get the shipments and the cases in so I just hit the different stores that I'm near and I usually pull out all the clear ones and by those I got really lucky today usually I get two or three whenever I stop at a staples I got nine today I think I'm good and I probably don't need any more going forward and that's a lie. It's really bright. I put a sweatshirt on before I left because it was cold and now I'm boiling. So I might come off at some point. Alright I'll be that's a good thing I didn't go very far. So I got what I needed and I'm sitting in the parking lot and there's this really nice older gentleman in an MG sitting next to me in the parking lot really cool old car I know you can't see it from this angle but if super nice guy he and I were chatting and yeah I like this store I hate the parking lot it's a problem so anyway we got the last thing we needed and now I just need to wait my turn from the millions of other people who are all trying to get out at the same time including the nice gentleman and we're gonna let him go first it's a super cool car you just don't see those around here too much so cool alright. Interesting bug on my windshield but he's too light colored to photograph well or at least I can't get him in the camera lens it could be I'm tired I can always tell when it's time to come home because my shoulders both hurt so yeah and we're there so that's it for today I think I'll be back. Good morning it is Thursday January 18th it's about 8.45 in the morning running a little bit behind I started send chatting with Miss Cindy Utter this this morning and setting up some things to help out some of the smaller youtubers and their demonetization issue and then was like crap I've got to leave I need to go to physical therapy I'm gonna walk it is only about 10 minutes away so yeah thankfully I need to get my steps in so this is the way to do it I think so anyway we did a lot of driving yesterday my shoulders are kind of sore so we'll see how it goes I don't know I have video to film for my creative year this afternoon for February and I have two commitment videos for February I need to film if not today tomorrow so I need to work on that too so I can spend Saturday editing and I think that's my only plans for the next day or two besides laundry and fun stuff like that anyway all right that's it I'll be back hello everybody it is Friday afternoon it's 2 31 exactly and I spent the morning oh Friday January 19th sorry and I've spent the morning working out on the treadmill somebody remind me not to do that again before I've taken my asthma medicine for the day because that was pretty stupid I forgot yeah that wasn't good anyway then I sat and just did some art and chatted with friends and I was working on explorations of me for February while I was chatting with friends and I gave them all a sneak peek of my table while I was working so they saw what I did but they couldn't hear what I was saying so if you're in the zoomers you didn't see anything I am headed out now to go get some taken big pizza for tonight's dinner the kids are coming over and what else am I doing oh getting the mail and I need some coffee creamer so yes we're gonna go run a couple of errands hey guys it's Saturday January 20th I think I think it's the 20th anyway I have spent the morning filming one last video sort of series and I kept having to re-film like different parts because they kept changing my mind about how I wanted the intro and ending and what I wanted to show anyway it's all done and now I'm downloading all the footage and I need to start editing I have the house to myself for most of today my husband's off doing a few things with his masonic group I'm a little tired I didn't sleep super well last night so there's that but anyway I am gonna just spend some date some time chilling at the house today I'll need to go out later and pick up a couple things at Staples the office supply store and get the mail which are in the same shopping center so right across the street from here so I'm gonna go do that a little bit later but I think first I'm gonna go sit and have some lunch and maybe watch some YouTube catch up on a few things if you haven't heard yet about YouTube deciding to demonetize little channels who don't have a thousand subscribers yet don't have 4,000 hours of watch time then I have a video I will link in the description below called please help and there is a running document that my good friend Maradelle Abrams has kept updated she's been great about keeping it updated with the channels that currently need help we have managed to get a few of them to their goals so they don't get demonetized we won't get everybody but every little bit helps and gets them a little bit closer so if you can help well let go over and watch the video and start subscribing to some of the little art channels I'd love to see our art community no matter the size of your channel big or small lend a helping hand to each other that would be great that's it right now I don't have too much else to say probably because I'm hungry all right I'm gonna go do that I'll be back hey guys I'm sorry for the bright light over my head there we go it is just after seven o'clock in the evening and it's pitch black outside and I have been editing video most of the day I did create one video this morning and then I spent the rest of the afternoon editing video it is all uploading to YouTube now it's all scheduled the thumbnails are all created and hopefully I got all of the links I promised in the videos that I would put in the description if I ever forget one in a video somebody make a comment or PM me over on Facebook or something and let me know because you know it happens anyway coming up with some more ideas to support the smaller creative channels here on YouTube and my friends and I are brainstorming trying to think of things besides what we've already done and I think we have a good idea so we are going to in the next 24 48 hours or so make up our minds about what we're doing and we'll let y'all know and yeah we'll be announcing that and hopefully it'll turn out to be good for everybody it's been an interesting week not too exciting I don't think just my normal routine and you know you all let me know if you want me to keep doing this and you want you know or if you're bridges boarded tears I'm not gonna keep doing it if y'all don't want to watch but if you do then okay all right that's it for right now and I am going to catch up on my daily drawing now cuz don't tell anybody I'm a couple of days behind so I'm gonna catch up right now and I'm gonna watch some TV or YouTube while I'm doing it and I'm gonna just chill for the evening you do the same and I hope you've all had a great week and a great day check out the video description for any relevant links and of course my link to my tip jar and my Etsy shop and all of that stuff if you want to support the free content here on YouTube I sure do appreciate it don't forget to like share and subscribe if you're new and that's it right now go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later