 Hi, today I'm going to talk to you about my favorites, what's been making me happy for the past several months. And I have a few things, but the first thing I want to talk about is something I found. These earrings you have seen me wear a ton of times. They're my very, probably one of my very favorite earrings. I bought them about 30 years ago and I lost one. It's a type that has a little wire, clips down and goes in just like these, but only these are a lot smaller. Well, I had one in my ear because I sleep in these. A lot of times I sleep in them and I looked everywhere that I thought they could be and I went around on the other side of the bed and I found this in my bed and it attached to it. It has a 14 karat gold wire that clips it in. I think I said I've had them 30 years. I've had them at least 30 years. And I think I've paid about $100 for them. I do get questions on where did you buy your earrings? I'll tell you if ever I have a new one on. But I bought back in the day, back in the 80s when gold wasn't expensive. I bought a lot of earrings. I bought things that were truly what I consider classic. Either they were hoops or studs. I've never, I've always thought my face was too long for dangles. So I didn't buy any dangly earrings but I am just thrilled that I have these. I'm thrilled that I found them and I just wanted to share this with you. You know I have a CPAP and I had a small bedside table and I knew I needed a bigger one and I really didn't want to go shopping. I did not want to go shopping because I did not know what I wanted. I thought I wanted something black. I didn't know. So I just went to Google, good old Google and I put bedside table and I think I put 24x18 or something like that. I wasn't worried about the height and I put in three drawers. So I didn't know what website to go looking for furniture. I've heard of several of them but I just didn't know. So anyway it brought up Wayfair. I've heard of Wayfair. I know it's not good quality furniture as far as heirloom type furniture. So many of the things I have in my home are things that are family antiques, pieces of furniture that means something to me or else like what I wanted to do is I wanted to wait and save my money till I had enough money to buy what I wanted and what I wanted was solid wood, something that I could refinish if I wanted to. So I've never bought a piece of furniture from any place except a furniture store where I knew the owners. This picture came up and I'll put it in here and I thought you know what that looks about perfect. I made sure sometimes on furniture, sometimes the drawer pulls won't go all the way through and so that's a problem because if it ever gets loose or you ever want to change them you can't do it because it doesn't go all the way through to the back. All the drawers were the same size. When it came I could not believe how well it was packaged. I'm not kidding you. I had to sneak it in the house because I knew Jim would want to help and I'm thinking it was like 50 pounds plus the packing something like that and I got it into this bedroom and it took me forever to unpack it and it had it was I knew it wasn't going to be scratched so I got it out and I tell you what I really like it. You can't tell that it's not wood it's black and it you know it but it's serving its purpose. I thought if it didn't work I could find someplace else for it but it does work. Well I wanted to be able to put my CPAP machine on it and I did not know if it would leak I had I don't know how strong they are. I started using this March first so I was looking for a table in March so I went to good old Google put in the word tray I put in the dimensions I think it was 10 by 6 or something like that and this came popped up and this is from Amazon and it's resin it was about $23 I liked it it's faux marble so I thought this will be perfect so I got this and put it on here and it didn't work. It is just a little the dimensions work but it won't be it won't go flat on here. So what I decided to do is put my CPAP machine on a small table between my bed and my nightstand but I really like this so I kept it and I put it on the table and like I'll put my jewelry and something else anything on here my glasses and my phone and I made use of it. So I liked it so well I ordered another one and this is it and this was I think under $12. It's about seven by four with that little you know like seven eight seven inch lift around it and I like it I put my water I come in here with a fake yeti of water every night and then I put my pills in the little container that I have to take at night and I'm just really happy with it and isn't it funny how the small things can make you happy. It has little tiny cushions like glue type fissions on the bottom but they were both a winner. Probably around April Jim started getting this great big bump between his eyebrows. It started out several months ago before that he was saying he had a really sore spot there. Well it has ended up it is healing now but we went to the doctor his family physician twice and that was in April and he made it an appointment for him to see a dermatologist and that wasn't until August the 16th. In the meantime he went to a dermatology clinic and he saw a nurse practitioner twice well anyway he has had a ton of appointments and it is better but I was using my earbuds a lot and these are what I have I have these these are Apple and they were probably a hundred and twenty five dollars then I have these and I can't remember the name but I bought them from QVC a long time ago and they were like seventy five dollars but I was looking for something I was afraid I was going to lose them is what I was afraid I was going to do so I looked on Amazon to find some that were good quality not expensive I think they're around thirty five dollars they're from Soundcore by Anchor well when I got this I had lost I had a black strap like this that I really liked and I ordered this in red and it attaches to your earbud I don't know if there's anybody out there like me or not but I use a lot of times I use one and I'll get used to it in my ear and by George it falls out and I find it a week later well I thought I'm not going to do that anymore so I got another one of these and they're very inexpensive this fits all three I mean what what it's intended for is to attach both to it and then you can take them in and out but I'm pretty well just use one earbud and I am not like the person that knows everything about sound I'm not listening to the symphony on my phone but they are every bit as good as my other two and I know it was less than half the price of these and a whole lot less than the Apple iPods so I'm really so glad I got it because if it falls I'll find it I mean I'll see that string hanging somewhere or it'll hit my shirt and I'll feel it dropping so this little tiny thing has made me happy the one thing I should have done with the the last one's a soundcore in the black I should have ordered them in a lighter color because they're a lot easier to see especially if you have a dark lining to your purse so I need to remember that the next time I get something like that that's small to get it in the lighter color from the very beginning of my channel I have loved the Callista Tool hair styler and I don't know how many I have of them but I will I do have a playlist and at the end of this video I will put the playlist in case you want to see it I demonstrate it for long hair for short hair and they're just good products I think it was before my first one quit working I wanted to order another one like these what I'm going to show you is not available on QBC right now they may be on the Callista Tools website but I couldn't find what I wanted because I wanted a bigger one and I knew exactly what I wanted and I went to eBay I found the one I wanted it wasn't at a bad price I mean normally they're $100 and I think maybe it was 50 I can't remember but I ordered it got it home I plugged it in it worked and I put it back in the box because I thought well I like you know I liked it so much I wanted to make sure I had a backup because I didn't you know you never know when it's going to go out well anyway when mine did go out I got that out of the box and it would not work it would not work I contacted the seller and just said I mean it had been a long time since I purchased it and she said why don't you contact the company and I thought well they're not gonna you know I bought it on eBay they're not gonna make they're not gonna do anything well I called the company and for 1995 they would send me a new one and I'd had no idea and they didn't even ask me to return the old one and a friend of mine Laurie that is she loves the Callista tools and she's a she's a viewer of mine she said that that's how they've always done it if there's something that goes wrong when it's at a warranty they will just call just charge you $19.95 for a new one so anyway this is one I bought on QBC got a hair in it I tell you what it's so gentle on my hair and what came with it is this little tiny one and I'm going to do a demonstration using this tiny one to show you how easy it is this is just on and off but I tell you it it is that it's a slacker's way to do hair you can't use it as a roller and roll it roll it all the way up because you could get it tangled but you know you comb it through your hair and it's just easy I love it I'm glad to have it my other one still work to get both of these home I think it was about 112 dollars which you know shipping handling and tax but I'm glad I have them this is just so handy and I love it this is a longer barrel than the other one I mean it's so easy the other thing I really love about it it does not matter you can have it on the highest it'll go and you can still hold your hand on it so I never burn myself and I used to burn myself all the time my friend Dixie from Springfield is of Illinois is the first person that ever told me about these she said you have got to try it and that was about 10 years ago I have a favorite shampoo and I'll talk about that in a little while but I know every once in a while my hair does need a change a different shampoo just for one time or so it used to didn't but the older I get the more my hair changes and I've always wanted to try Colleen Ross Child I've heard so many things about her products they had a special and you got this cosmetics case full of pretty nice size samples or travel size probably products well I'll give you my synopsis on it I have one of these the one I have is much nicer than this one Jim loves it on his hair I mean this won't go to waste I'll have one in my bathroom and one in Jim's bathroom but I mean this is nice but the one I got on Amazon was nicer the number one thing that I wanted to try from Colleen Ross Child is their restorative hair mask I've used it twice the scent is good but it is not it's not my favorite I mean that wouldn't keep me from using it I love scent in shampoo in hair products it does and I'll use it until it starts bothering me but this was okay I used this on dry hair before I shampooed my hair and the next time I used it and left it on for five or ten minutes and then rinsed it out and I really couldn't tell that much difference I heard about this from Ellis for living years ago this shea moisture strengthen and restore leave-in conditioner I mean I can't I'll put I'll link it below if I can find it but this was not expensive at all and it works as good if not better than the Colleen I have not tried the the protect and perfect styling cream I haven't tried it I tried the shampoo and the conditioner I shampooed like twice with this and I could not believe how much you had to use I mean this it has so much water in it to me the conditioner reminds me just of a cream rinse from back in the day do you remember our cream rinses we used to buy for our long hair none of these are bad products but they really weren't worth the hype for me and you know I will pay especially with older hair I will pay money for hair products there is one product I like a lot and this is the smooth and shine hair serum but I will show you how much I have to use if you can see that tiny amount right on this knuckle that's all it takes I can put my two fingers in here and go like that and go down and it does work the first time I shampoo in the new month I use the color well dreamcoat still and I do it that way because I will remember to use it I think you can use it every third shampoo well I'm not I'm not I wouldn't remember but I will remember to use it on my schedule but toward the end of the month my hair will start to get a little bit more frizzy and I have used this from Colleen and I did like it but to get this home at the time it was 5625 they had a sale so I've had this for a few months I ordered the eight ounce bottle of the bumble and bumble building bond shampoo and I've loaned that to somebody to see if it helps because it really did not do anything for me so I thought well maybe you need to have the whole kit so I ordered this so I ordered this kit from Ulta for $29 and it has all three things that you need the hair repair the shampoo and the styling and it still didn't do anything for me so I'm going to show you what works for me and this is what I've been using not this bottle I've had two bottles of this I'd say three or four years it's a living proof full shampoo and I used to use a conditioner but I quit using that this adds volume and body okay I like I like the way you know after you've washed your hair how your hair feels like sometimes some shampoos make it feel really dry but something I really like about this is one two three pumps is all you need that's all you need and that will wash my whole head of hair I feel like when I buy this I am not buying water in general I like living proof products so that's what I like and I usually get it when it's on sale but none of the other things have beat it and instead of using a conditioner I've been using leave-ins and I had to buy this one from soldation arrow it is a milky leave-in conditioner I love their cream and in fact I will use it their boom boom cream I'll just use it on my arms just for the smell I love their body wash in this scent I love this and how I use it I don't use it like I don't spray it all over my hair I just put two sprays in my hand put my hair to your hands together and put it on my hands and what's left I tell you I like to rub it in my arms it just smells so good I had purchased the conditioner did not like it a bit because I do love that smell so I'm very happy with this and it makes my hair behave just as well as as they wash out conditioner I love the leave-in see I do try new things I found my very favorite mascara the superhero it superhero mascara on sale for three tubes for 2950 but they always get them I mean every so often they'll have specials sometimes it's six for 60 but to me this is drugstore price it's not as cheap as essence but there is no other mascara that I've tried that I like as well as this it'll take like 10 swipes 11 swipes one coat it gives me good lashes and it never flakes on me and it's very easy to take off just easy that's why I don't wear waterproof mascara because it's hard to take off and I do not pull and tug at my eyes I'm not going to start doing that at my age and something else I ordered and I don't have a discount code but I'm sure you can find it somewhere the factor dinners I thought they were really good I just did them the one time I think you could get six for 52 dollars which is not cheap but it's a lot it's a lot less expensive than eating out and plus Jim and I just eat differently I'll give you the names of what I have oh my gosh the jalapeno lime cheddar chicken excellent garlic and herb chicken breast creamy parmesan chicken sour cream and chive chicken and I have two in the freezer so the thing the reason number there's two reasons if Jim would like these I would get them every so often but I'm the only one that likes them he didn't even want to try them and they're they're not frozen they're refrigerated and they'll refrigerate for up to a week well I ate them four days in a row and then I froze the other two and I thought they were really good but I'm not really willing to pay more than that more than what I paid for them but if they have a special deal I will do it again I could use more vegetables I can always add more vegetables to it but the meat was really tasty I did like it a lot and the convenience where you couldn't beat it and that is all I have for today I am wearing makeup today just some powder I've been wearing and I've had this on for three and a half hours and I have not touched it up I've had coffee I haven't had breakfast but this is the bk beauty oh luxe lipstick that I love I do love her formula and this is in gratitude and I just think it's really pretty I didn't I usually put gloss on just because I like the look of gloss but I wanted to try it without any and I'll have stains six hours from now if I don't do anything else to it I put this on when I got up before I left the bathroom I had it in there so I could put it on I wanted to and I'll let you know how long it hey that's what I'll do I'll let you know how long it stays that is all I have for today it is all good I hope you are doing well thank you for being here I will see you in my next video and take care I think I have I I put this on before when I when I bought my any time anybody I get a lot just you know oh I'll do that the next time I'll go ahead and get so but I it's not that's why I don't wear and it gives me