 under my eyes, I'm so tired. Anyway, it is, what time is it? 9.50 in the morning. I'm sorry, 8.50 in the morning. I'm looking at the clock, I still get it wrong. It is Sunday morning, August 19th, that I know for sure. Well, yeah, that I know for sure after counting in my head. We got home last night from Portland and my niece's wedding, it was a really fun time. There's some interesting film footage in last week's vlogs. If you haven't seen that, I'll link it in the description below. Some, I think, really fun video images of Portland and Washington. They live just over the border in Washington, near Olympia. Where am I going? The grocery store. I forgot. So that was a lot of fun, but tiring. And the kids are in town from where they're living in Oregon visiting Polyas's parents. And they said, you know, hey, we're in town. Can we get together for lunch or something? And I said, of course you can. The problem is I don't have anything for them to eat. So I am headed out to the grocery store. The husband's playing golf this morning for a couple hours with his friends before the kids come over. While he's doing that, I'm gonna head to the store and get some food for everybody to eat because we ain't got nothing. We got Jack's squat in the fridge. I think some bottled water and breakfast bars, cherries that need to be thrown out. I think that's about it. So I'm gonna go take care of that this morning and then I still have to do my daily postings. I haven't done that except for the positive affirmation card for today for my sister's goddess group. So which you all just saw a second ago if you're watching this clip. I didn't pull for two days because I was out of town, but anyway. I think that's it for this morning for the moment. There is a live broadcast of intervals of sanity this afternoon. I'll link the channel in the description below. It's a YouTube channel with some of my art and mixed media friends. Where we just have chatty conversations, usually at least in part funny conversations about life, about art, about all kinds of stuff, not necessarily art related, not necessarily young, years friendly. I mean, we do try to not have a B2 vulgar but you never know what's gonna come out of anybody's mouth. So anyway. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make the broadcast because the kids aren't coming over. So we'll see. And I said I haven't had any of very much sleep the last couple of days again. So my brain's not working on all cylinders. Anyway, I think that's it for the moment. I can't think of anything else. I'll be back. Let's try that again. Shall we? Holy cow. Is it Monday or what? It's Monday, August 20th and it's 204 p.m. And I know that because it's 204 p.m. I've been up doing a lot of business stuff today and my last meeting for the day is finally over. Woohoo. And we've been doing some cleaning and DIY also. And now I'm gonna go get the mail. My neighbor says a mini Cooper who's parked right near the edge of my driveway. It's not giving me a lot of room to get out of my driveway. Okay, God. All right, so anyway, so now I'm gonna go get my mail and that sort of thing. And the laundry is done. I have to do the dishes still, but you know what? I don't feel like it right now. It's 84 degrees outside, but I swear it's at least 100 on the inside of my car. It is gross and hot and yucky again. Every year about this time, I just think to myself, oh my God, is it winter yet? I'm really not a summer girl. I really just love the fall and winter, hot months, spring too. I just, I really don't like hot, hot, hot weather. It's just not something I enjoy at all. My husband loves it. He's the opposite of me. Me, I can't stand it. Anyway, so we're gonna go get the mail. We were in the Portland, Oregon and Washington area Friday and Saturday for a family wedding. So I haven't gotten the mail since Thursday, so Lord knows what's there or how much of it. Yeah, I just don't even know. I'm expecting some essential oils, so hopefully that's in. Yeah, I have no idea. So let's go find out, shall we? So nothing big, a couple of bills, a couple of magazines and my essential oils, but they weren't done sorting today's mail. But I'm not coming back. I'll let it go until tomorrow. She said they've been super busy today, which was evident by how many people were in there. So crazy, crazy, crazy. You know, it's Monday. You know, it's like full moon Monday or something. I don't know. Anyway, let's go back to the house and just chill a little bit. I'm gonna see if some of my art friends are still zooming. They've been chatting and I'm gonna see if they're still there. Maybe I can chat with them a little bit. That would be cool. I might need to make myself a glass of iced tea first because not only am I thirsty, I'm really feeling like I need a little caffeine kick, probably because I didn't sleep again. I'm just, you know, when you're a creative and you use it as your form of therapy to help you deal with life and things and all your stuff is in boxes and you can't get to most of it. Yeah, it's just not good. That's all I can say. It's just not good. So yeah, I'm not sleeping very well. That's gonna be at least three weeks before I get a decent night's sleep. So we're gonna go back to the house and just relax a bit. It's Tuesday morning, everyone. So it is Tuesday morning. It is still technically morning. It's just after 11, but I've been up for quite a while, making a bunch of business phone calls and arranging some paperwork and answering questions and stuff like that. I'm also giving away some more stuff. I've got it at the curb. I've been purging and I'm gonna take a little film clip out the window over here real quick. I know I'm not because I don't want to give away anybody's car license plate or anything, but I'm giving away this giant flower pot with the wheels that it was sitting on and the plant that's inside it, the whole thing. And I put it at the curb. I listed it on nextdoor.com, which is a neighborhood bulletin board website that you can sign up for. I do believe it's worldwide. Anyway, and I listed it for free. Just come take it away. You can have it. And a guy said right away he was coming to get it. He showed up in a Prius. Okay, the flower pot without the plant in it, it's like three feet tall. It's full of dirt and has a big plant in it that's at least another two feet. That shit's not fitting in your Prius, dude. Oh my gosh, he gives me my laugh for this morning though. Holy cow. So anyway, I am going to wait until he realizes it's not fitting in his car. And then I have some errands I'm gonna go run. So I'll be back. So I am outside my local orchard supply hardware store and I took a still picture of this quote that's on the wall. I'm gonna share it on social media later today. But I thought I'd film it for you all here on the vlog because I really, I don't know, there's something about it. Life is all about the nuts and the bolts. Ain't that the truth? Think about the bigger picture here people and you'll get it. Anyway, I am done with my errands I think. So I'm gonna go back to the house and unload the groceries and everything. I'm gonna pop by the PO box on the way home and whatever mail's ready I'll pick up so I don't have to go out again. And I think that's it for right now. I'll be back. Hello everybody. It is Wednesday, August 20, crap. Not 20 crap, 22nd I believe. Yeah, 22nd, I had to count. It is already 12, 24 in the afternoon and I spent the morning catching up on one of my sketchbooks, my daily sketchbooks because we got involved in all this business stuff and started neglecting my daily drawing. So I just finished the April sketchbook today. I'll insert some of the drawings here somewhere. And I was also chatting with my friends on Zoom. And right now we are gonna go get some eight cartridges for my husband's printer because he has like no ink and which is funny because he never, he doesn't use this printer that much. It's either no ink or it's all dried up. I don't know. So, but none of his printer cartridges are working. So we're gonna go recycle them and buy some new ones and then I'm gonna get the mail. I've got Nancy order, I've gotta get out. And then I'm gonna eat lunch, watch my soap opera, do some laundry, nothing super exciting. I have to email my aunt about a family event this weekend. I'm reminding myself. He did some more packing today. No purging right now, at least not yet of things I haven't found anything to purge. And they're gonna think I'm neglecting them for the goodwill, but I think we were pretty purged out, I think. Anyway, my asthma is just not doing well lately. The air quality in the state of California sucks and because of all the fires. So I sound like this all the time. If you can't sell, I tell them a little raspy. I just doesn't seem to get better. And the more I'm out, the worse it is. So I'm gonna try to make this quick and get in and get out quickly. And then go home, I have some lunch, maybe take my rescue and a healer and that sort of thing. So I'll be right back. It is Thursday, the 23rd of August. I almost said April. It is 10 something in the morning, 10, 44. I think, let's see. Yeah, 10, 44. Today's one of those I need my glasses day. I don't know, I'm just tired. Anyway, I've been this morning doing some paperwork and watching the live stream by my friends at Artjoy of Sharing. I'll link their channel in the description below and getting laundry started. I should be updating the website, but I'm stalling. And I am gonna go out and run a few errands and I've got to get some groceries. The husband's working at home tomorrow so I need to make sure he's got munchables and stuff for lunch and all of that stuff. So I'm gonna go get that done and I'll be back. One more stop. So my windshield says it's only 69 degrees outside but it feels like it's about 89. And I think it's trying to be a blue sky but there's so much smog and smoke out because of the fires in California. The air quality is so bad that there's a layer of gray haze over the sky. And the longer I'm out, the more I sound like this because my poor lungs just can't take it. So I try to be as quick as I can. I have one more stop and I'm gonna go over to the mall where I get my mail, pop into one store to pick something up and check on the mail and get whatever is available and then just go home and I'm not gonna go out again. I've been using the air conditioner a lot this summer because it's hard for me with the air quality being so bad to have the windows and doors open. So plus I'm home alone a lot and San Jose is a kind of safe, big city but it's still a big city so it's not as safe as some places. So I found a really cute red and white metal enamel pitcher that matches a red and white metal enamel coffee pot I have of my grandmothers. And I think I might use both of them on the new kitchen counter to hold cooking utensils. So, or at least the new one. Anyway, put a plant or something in the old one. It's pretty cool. All right. Trying not to buy too much stuff for the new house because number one, I don't wanna do that yet till I get there, but number two, I don't wanna pack it and move it. But this little pitcher was only $8 and it was on clearance. It was the last one they had. I'm gonna stop talking now because I just sell worse and worse. I have spent most of the morning buried in paperwork and phone calls for the new house. I still need to update the website. I haven't done it yet and it's Friday. I almost said April, holy cow. Friday, August 24th and it's 11.24 just before lunch. So I actually think I'm gonna have a third cup of coffee. Like how do I look tired? I have some happy mail to open and I'm gonna just take a break from the desk for a minute. I'm waiting for an email reply to something so I can scan one last document and send it off and then it's a matter of waiting for phone calls back. After lunch I'm gonna work on the website because you know, that's a thing I need to take care of. All right, that's it for the moment, I'll be back. Okay guys, I've got some more. Yes, this is a Christmas coffee cup. It says get your jingle on, I know. But it's a huge cup, I love it. If I could find a big giant, like 20 ounce coffee cup with a really cool owl on it, I would be using that. Anyway, I have happy mail from my friend Peg Robinson. I have no idea what this is, wasn't expecting it at all. So hopefully it's something that's okay to show on camera. I don't know, nobody had any idea. It is my friend Peg from Inner Rules of Sanity. It's a YouTube channel where we do sort of live chit chats about life and art and other funny, hilarious, semi-inappropriate stuff. And yeah, I don't know what this is. I think it's just happy mail, but let's find out. But by the way, before I open it, isn't the envelope cool? Look at that stamp. That whole front and back, it's a jelly print, I'm pretty sure. So I'll be putting that, I do have one box open of art supplies and stuff or that I can get to during the move. There's even a little paint on the inside. Can you all see that? Oh, it's cool. I love that, anyway. So she set some really cool stuff. Look at this, trying to make sure I'm in frame. I love the print, I love the torn edges. This is gonna look great on a journal page. Look at this deli paper, this is from Chili's, the restaurant Chili's. She probably, she must do what I do. So when I'm out at a restaurant that has cool deli paper, I often ask the wait staff, you know, hey, is there any way I can get a clean piece of this deli paper without eating grease or food stains on it? I'm a mixed media artist, I'd love to use it in my journal. More often than not, they'll give you a piece of paper, at least one piece of paper. I've usually, they give you more than that. This is a napkin. It might be one of those Deena Wakeley napkins. I'm not sure if you're gonna get all of it in camera because we're sitting here with a little tripod on my desk, but it's like watercolor-y. Which I love. I don't know if, it doesn't feel like pig did it. It feels like it's printed, but it's cool nonetheless. There's another piece of napkin. That's a cool one. I love the beach. Grateful for you. Have fun, pig. Aw, thank you, pig. Here's a piece of vintage book paper. Oh, I love this. I don't know what book this is from. American Migratory Songbird, is what it says at the bottom. I many times thought peace had come when peace was far away. As wrecked men deem, they sight the land at center of the sea, and struggle slacker, but to prove as hopelessly as I, how many fictitious shores before the harbor lie. Really cool. Oh, look at this. It's a card, a postcard. Well, look at that last. So here's another piece of fun printed paper. Some word stickers. I love my words. Y'all should know that by now. Nice. A little cut out image. Excuse slip. Oh, this must be a... Oh, it's from like your doctor's office. Live long time clinic. That must be a joke. Oh, by APG. This is APG Jamie. She's a YouTuber. I love it. And then she sent me this card, which I love, plant kindness and gather love. It's a proverb. This is from a tea bag. There's a couple of different kinds of tea that have quotes and things on the tea bag label. And if I can think of the brand, I will put it in the description below for those of you who also love to use the words in your journals and love tea. And it feels like it's covered with a napkin, with some book text. I love it. And then there's a note on the back. Let me read. So she has that card lottery drawing on her videos on her channel. And I won. Very cool. I love that. So anyway, there you have it. Fun Happy Mail. Who doesn't love Happy Mail? That's it right now. I'm gonna finish my coffee, have some lunch, take a little break from the desk, and then I guess I'll work on the website updates, which are again, like two weeks behind. Dammit. All right, I'll be back. So it's after lunch now. I got the last of the paperwork and emails associated with such off. I got some stuff organized for the new house, purchased and moved, and I feel it sounds like crap again because I'm outside in the case and the smog. Anyway, I'm dragging my feet about updating the website. Once I get it done, once I sit down and actually get motivated enough to do it, it will only take me about an hour or so, but I'm gonna go get the mail and see what's up with that. This next week, there's a hoovers and packers show up a week from Tuesday to start packing up the San Jose house. So you pack one day and then they come back the next day and load the truck. I got a lot to do before then. What else? Of setting up a Patreon. I've resisted this for a long time. At least to me for a while, it was too much like begging for money, which I still don't wanna do, but I'm thinking about taking the online classes that are currently available for purchase in my Etsy shop and putting them in Patreon instead. And that way you can make a donation and get instant access to all of the old classes. And then I have kind of some ideas for some new ones where I would do maybe a speed through on YouTube, but there would be a full talking version on Patreon. And maybe for patrons over there, there would be like a monthly bonus of something special that isn't really available any problem. So I don't know if that's something that you think you guys might be interested in supporting my art that way. Let me know, I sure would love to go back to being a contributing member of the family budget because right now I'm not really and not really okay with that. It'd be nice to be able to help pay for some things. Dude, it's nice if you wait until you back up until you see. There's people back there. Jesus Christ, almost got run into turning into my parking space. I'm gonna go check the mail over here. First of all, the mail delivery came really late, like a couple minutes of it wasn't sorted yet. It's come late all week. And somebody came in right before me, dropped this big, huge giant box almost as big as me, like right in the middle of the floor and then just walked out. So I helped her move it, because you know, I told her about some new merch that I'm thinking about coming out with. And she said, I told her what one of them said and she said, oh, I'd buy that. So I will put some pictures here, somewhere of the new merch. I have two samples coming. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. So no mail today. It's all right, it's probably just bills anyway. It'll still be there tomorrow. Good morning, everybody. It is Saturday morning, 11, 11 a.m. So technically it's still morning. It's August 25th, yeah. It's August 25th. I have the iPad, so I just checked. I am watching a video by my friend Peg Robinson. If you don't know who she is, I'll link her channel in the description below. Yeah, she did a series on traveling journals where she swapped journals with some other people and she's showing what she did in their pages. So that's pretty fun. Did some more, a little more packing this morning, made some arrangements for things because I will be temporarily unavailable online or irregularly available online for about a week or so is my guesstimate from the first until about the seventh. I will be filming it for the vlog but the vlog for that time period will be late and I will probably end next week's vlog on Friday instead of Saturday. I'll still film Saturday, but I'll add it to the following vlog and then get that posted. So anyway, you probably won't miss the vlogs but the first one you see in September will be the end of August and then the next one you see after that will be a little bit longer because it'll be actually the one where we're moving. I know, right? And yeah, so. Today we need to go get my husband's car to service and we have a dinner with some family and friends before we leave town tonight. So, well, I don't have to worry about dinner, yay. I do need to, on the way after I'm done taking the hubby to get his car serviced, I need to go to the grocery store and I need to go to the mail box. I have an Etsy order that's got to go out and stuff like that. So nothing super exciting today, but if I can, when I can, I will film some things for you later today and if I can film some stuff at my aunt's house with the dinner, I will do that and I will be back. You have a family dinner, chaos that is our house at the moment with all the boxes, somewhere where we can take a deep breath. So we're gonna, yeah, chill. So we're gonna go do that and we'll be back. Hey guys, so it's 9.19 on Saturday night, the 25th of August. We are just now leaving my aunt's house. After having a great dinner with the family, I did get a couple of shots. I was trying not to invade anybody's privacy so I didn't get too much and I'm gonna be taking the sound out, but anyway. It was really great to spend time with family before we move and they're so supportive. We do appreciate them so much. Absolutely. And we had a really great time, but now it's time to go home. Time to go home. We're gonna end the vlog this week. We hope you've had a great one. We have, definitely. The next week's gonna be super stressful, but we'll do it. We'll do it. We'll bring you with us. So have a good one. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you later. Bye guys. Goodnight Fred.