 Sunday morning March 4th I think California and if you saw last week's vlog you know you're speeding don't tell anybody anyway we were in Monterey California last night for a work event for my husband's work if you saw last week's vlog you've seen the footage of that he works for lamb research in Fremont California this is all I know about what they do they make capital semiconductor equipment I know that makes me sound smart but I'm not that's what they make they make the big machines that make the wafers that make the little tiny chips that go in everything tiny little chips and they have big clients like Mitsubishi and Intel and Samsung yeah so yeah so anyway you can thank them for all of your smartphones and appliances and because they make the chips for those anyway anyway so we were at a work event for them so we're driving home it's Sunday morning and we have unfortunately a memorial to go to at lunchtime today so we're trying to get home so we can get changed for that drinking my giant 20 ounce cup of Starbucks coffee I did not know they make Starbucks coffee this big and I thought it was really funny at the hotel that they had a Starbucks little barista person there and she handed me the cup and said the self-serve drip is around the corner I said okay so the coffee cups the coffee sleeve the coffee sugar the little picks to block the hole everything is Starbucks but the coffee in the pots is Pete's the craft said the craft said Pete's all the crafts and Pete's I don't know it's funny struck me as odd this morning so anyway I'm gonna finish coffee are you drinking Starbucks or Pete's I know right so higher Regency and Monterey what am I drinking Starbucks or Pete's it's a nice place it's a good question anyway it's a great a nice hotel I really liked it really pretty views nice room friendly service I'd recommend it if you're headed to Monterey and you need a place to stay okay so we are going to head home if I see any interesting footage of the California countryside because we have to drive through part of farm country to get home I will take some footage for you we'll be back it's Monday morning March 5th Lee spent it's not even morning I take that back it's almost one o'clock it's a quarter to one 15 minutes to one I spent the entire morning editing last week's vlog it's a little longer than normal if you're watching this one you've probably already seen that one I don't know maybe a skipped over it because of how long it was there's some fun stuff in there there's family on family dinner and game night we did a strange chip taste testing and strange to us as strange as indifferent and because you know I left my husband alone in the Asian food in the snack food aisle at Daiso the Asian dollar store I'm just not able to talk this morning so of course he picked four little bags of some chip like things that weren't in English so we had no idea what they were other than the pictures and the little teeny tiny translation label if you can read it yeah one of them was sardine flavored that's all I'll say go watch the video if you haven't already there we also went to a big work party for his work and we spent the weekend down in Monterey California so there's a bunch of footage at the end of the video of that we had a lot of fun including the Elvis fortune-telling machine that was fun so anyway I just it took all morning to edit that and to get it down from something that was like two hours long to something that was like sort of reasonable it's like 47 minutes I think or something sorry that was as short as I could get it I swear just play me in the background while you're doing something else so anyway I got that done it is saving and rendering right now and I'll get it loaded to YouTube sometime today I'm gonna go get the mail and then eat some lunch that's my routine lately seems to be eating lunch really late in the day it's not a good thing I did get some laundry done in between video editing and all of that stuff I haven't gotten a lot else done yeah oh I did dishes but I've got some mending to do so I've got to bust out the sewing machine Lily ate a hole in her bunny rabbit toy again so I need to edit that I also need to edit edit I need to edit that again I need to mend that again and I need to mend a pillow sham for my bed so I've got to do that yet today but I need to eat something first and get the mail so I'll be back hey guys it is Tuesday afternoon March March 6th maybe I spent the morning chatting with my friends the zoomers they're over there on the computer where is it over there see him you can see Maradel Abrams right now and I've been playing with resin so I watch Shannon Green's video if you haven't seen it yet I'm gonna link it in the description where she's playing with resin and pouring resin and making journal covers with it but also covering her custom keepers with it so no idea if this is gonna work or not Shannon promised me that she'd help me if it didn't so I'm gonna take her up on that but I just wanted to do something that was sort of galaxy inspired so we'll see if it works out if it does there'll be a video on it and we'll even if it doesn't I'm gonna make a video and tell you what went wrong and what didn't and yeah I had some extra resin left over which is up on the shelf drying which I can't I'm not gonna disturb it but I poured it out in a Teflon sheet put some ink in it and we'll see what happens I don't know if it's gonna work or not it's gonna take like at least a day before I know anything so sometime tomorrow I will let you know and I will show it here in the vlog and I know if it's gonna work we'll see that's it I think right now I need to go to the grocery store which yeah not thrilled about but we need something to eat for dinner and I have no lunch food so it's all gone all right that's it for the moment I'll be back to Wednesday March 7th it is 10 12 p.m. p.m. you heard me correctly and this is my first check-in of the day I spent the entire day editing video and and I was I was gonna start my day out by doing my daily writing and my daily posting which I did and editing some video and then sending out an email newsletter which all happened but then I went to go get my website ready to update so on the 10th I could just go over there and hit publish and I had problems with the website there were pages with links that were missing images whole pages of images that were missing not by me and according to Yahoo who is the host for my website it couldn't have been done by anybody else well obviously it was because I didn't do it and yeah so then I tried to get them to help me and they published my pages I did not want published early without asking me and so then I had to go back in and fix the original problems which they never did help me fix I ended up hanging up with them because I was just I was done and I fixed the original problems and then I went in and had to make the pages that they published without asking me work because they were published early so hopefully everything is clear and people don't get too upset but anyway it took me until from about 1 30 till like 6 o'clock to get it fixed yeah I know right I just got done having well I had dinner earlier obviously it's late but I just got done doing a bunch of drawing on the sofa and hanging out with the husband and I did the video I edited today is my custom keeper the resin one that I was working on and the don't mean to make you dizzy sorry and this extra piece which I'm gonna hold I have a it's sitting on a piece of canvas here so hang on see you can't pick it up so it looks like this you see that it's the coolest thing I don't really want to cut it up for a journal cover I actually think I might put it on a canvas I don't know what I'm gonna do with it that's why it's sitting here on the canvas it's really cool so anyway it's very late in the evening I'm gonna get ready to go to bed and watch a little TV maybe YouTube or something before I get sleepy the whole day just flew by it's one of those days anyway I like Yahoo's website builder it's a really easy tool to use but when you do have a question or an issue their customer service people don't always know what they're talking about so that's a problem yeah so Yahoo if you're listening you've asked me for some favors and I don't know I'm thinking about it now you need to you need to have a way for me to back up my website you need to have a way me and others you need to have a way for us to add store pages easily and those two things would have solved a bunch of problems today just the backup thing if I'd had a backup I could have reloaded the backup without rebuilding pages and I wouldn't have even had to talk to anybody but when your customers tell you that there's a problem and that they didn't do it and it's not their system and they're not it's not their computer you maybe ought to try believing them because they may be telling the truth just saying all right that's it for today classes are dirty so if you're watching this you've seen the crazy footage of me dancing around the office trying not to show you my pajamas and only film from here up because I yeah it was still in my nightgown but I had Pandora on and yesterday was a bit stressful as I already said in yesterday's clip and I woke up this morning not remembering what I needed to do today very clearly and also redoing some notes on my desk because again they got to the point where they didn't make sense to anybody the problem was I abbreviated some things I have no idea what those abbreviations mean yeah I don't have any I'm gonna insert the link here and I think it's like a fun game for everybody like to guess what I was I don't because I have no idea so you all guess I'll insert the picture here so I was dancing around the two in my office to Hallelujah by Celtic Thunder fun fact it is one of my favorite songs and I like all kinds of music I'm not anymore a practicing Catholic but that being said some things are just ingrained in you right from childhood and I church hymns and chanting monks are the kinds of things I listen to when I am stressed out my two favorite church hymns are hallelujah and amazing grace and I do have a lot of chanting monks in my Pandora playlist and also on my iPod yes I do stuff I bought an old-fashioned one again I'll start a picture here somewhere I think it's I think it's version 2 it's really old anyway so and I was stressed out this morning because of the whole yahoo thing yesterday so anyway so I was dancing around to that I do like all kinds of music though when I am in a happy place and in my art room and painting and creating I do sometimes have the church music on or chanting monks I also like things like Aerosmith and Pink and the Andrew sisters and anything Glenn Miller and that's what I mean I'm all over the place when I'm driving I listen to mostly classical music because I get stressed out from driving and here in Santa Clara County we have KDFC which is a classical music station and yep I usually have that on when I'm driving to help keep me calm so fun fact about me I also really love to read romance novels the trashier the better and no I have not read that series what the heck is it called was made into a movie his last name is gray I can't think of it this morning see because I'm stressed my memory is for crap today so you're gonna probably hear a lot of me saying I can't remember because that's what happens when I'm stressed out and you have anxiety disorder you like you can't remember did least squat admin and pause brain in there and it doesn't help it's even worse I'm also a little bit stuffy and scraggly this morning I'm hoping it's just my asthma acting up and it's not that I'm getting sick because yeah that would suck I'm headed out right now to go run some errands I think I remember what I need a target before I forget again holy cow I need to run an errand for the husband I'm going to stop at Michaels I want to take a look at a couple of new products that are out I don't know if they're at Michaels yet or not but I keep hearing about them I don't really need them we'll see if I manage to just look at them and not buy them because I don't really need them we'll see what happens I'm gonna go to the Michaels I used to work at they did have the new Martha Stewart gel watercolors which I still don't understand I don't understand why we need them on the market but I heard folk arts coming out with the same thing I didn't see them on the shelf but anyway I was just curious but I don't need anything the yarn tempted me but yeah alright so we're gonna go get some more steps in walking around Target here I actually need something so I won't get out without buying anything I need to get some protein bars and I want a couple more of those lemon tea towels I love the fabric and I think I want to make another appliance cover I made a toaster cover recently I think I shared here on the vlog I didn't do the making of it on camera but if you all want to see a tutorial I suppose I could do one anyway I want to make a cover for my KitchenAid mixer so I want to use this detail fabric because it's really cute I'll try to get some filming done I'll be back about 3,000 steps in so far just going to those two stores that's good we are going to go now run our last couple errands my husband is a free mason which I mentioned before and this weekend they are doing a pancake breakfast and child ID event at a local elementary school I think it's elementary school where they spend time for free making IDs with fingerprints of children for their parents it doesn't go in a database anymore it's for the parents in case God forbid something happens to their child they have a picture and fingerprints to give the police and there's recommendations on the back of the form for other things you might need in case of a horrible event like that so they do this figure printing and stuff for free for the parents at the school and they also do a pancake breakfast which is a fundraiser for the school and they have a scholarship event it's all part of the same thing so it's one of their good charitable things that they do for the community and they are doing that on Saturday and I need to go make copies of the paperwork involved in the child ID part of it and get ink for the printer because my husband is a past master and most of the guys know oh let's ask Gina she'll go do it so we're gonna do staples and take care of that I made my husband make me a list of what exactly he needed because we can't get it Saturday before the event because the event starts at like 7 o'clock in the morning or something outrageous so I'm gonna do it today probably gonna park near to staples and then walk over to postal annex so we got the stuff we needed at staples I did walk to and from the postal annex store where I get my mail delivered I don't even think they've gotten their delivery yet for today there was nothing in my box and I may go back later this afternoon or I may just leave it until tomorrow we'll see what mood I'm in later hi guys it is Friday March tomorrow's the 10th I'm pretty sure so that makes today the ninth pretty sure I looked at the calendar it's been a busy crazy morning it's already almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon it's just I'm not sure where the time went I spent the morning answering more bank questions and trying to get on the treadmill which I did and also filling Etsy orders holy cow so I'm gonna go shrug these all over to the P.O. box and go drop them off so they can ship today and tonight we are celebrating our friend worshipful dads 50 years in pre-masonry and if I can and get any images or video footage of the Masonic Center I will without violating anybody's privacy that's it for right now I can't think of much else because my brain is just overloaded at the moment I probably need to do some art or sketching or something because I haven't done that in a good 24 hours it's been a little longer I think I didn't do any yesterday it's not good for me all right I'll be back okay if I complain later that my shoulders are hurting somebody remind me it's because I took those three big boxes into the postal store annex store to ship them thank you Kim Marie for buying all three of the mystery boxes from my Etsy shop and if there's any issues or concerns please let me know they are all they all have a lot of tape on them they're all seven pounds each I should have probably said that in the listing but they're seven pounds each if you saw the vlog which was a couple weeks ago now not last week's vlog week before that I show apart I show pack in the boxes they were full of ephemera and some small pieces of artwork a bunch of punches I didn't want any more for my stash they all work fine I just wasn't using them and three old creative well each one had one old creative memories punch storage bag does anybody remember those black bags or bags to store your punches anyway I had three of them and so I filled them with punches I didn't want any more for my stash and then put one in each box so Kim Marie bought all three boxes people so Kim Marie you message me on Facebook because we're friends on Facebook if there's any issues or anything but all three boxes should be coming priority mail they're leaving today the ninth pretty sure it's the ninth I said that already exactly positive but pretty sure you should get them by you know it takes three to five days or two to three two to five I don't know anyway you should get them early next week one at a time but if your postal postal person complains that they were heavy it is Saturday March 10th and I only know that because my design teams videos went live today which is the 10th they go live in any of their videos what my team has done with my products I'm gonna include all their links in the description below go check them out they've all done a really great job this month as they always do and I've been painting do you see the painting behind me you probably if you're watching this you've seen the footage I'm really only gonna film bits and pieces of working on this canvas here on the vlog so stay tuned if you want to see more of that it's a commission for a friend and yeah it's a work in progress that's just like layer two of like I don't know how many so it'll be a few weeks before it's finished or at least one more week maybe two we'll see it depends on how much time I have to sit and work on it so anyway I have a meeting at noon and hopefully my husband will be home for that and then we have errands to run we've got to go to Costco and get dog food and I've got laundry to do crap I just remember that shoot and shine ola all right so I've got to do that too that's I think that's all anyway I can't think of anything else at the moment I'll include a few images if I can of last night's Masonic event my husband's friend and our our friend I should say we call him worshipful dad as I actually stated already had his 50-year pin celebration last night so we did that this morning my husband's at another Masonic event which is a college it's called adopt a college so it's in a college encouragement program at a local elementary school in a needy neighborhood and to encourage kids in the in that neighborhood to better themselves and to go to college and so they're having a fundraiser this morning a pancake breakfast they do free child ID where they fingerprint the kids for the parents they don't keep them in a database we've been asked that before no and encourage parents to keep a file you know God forbid something should happen then they have a way to you know aid the police you know you never know these days so anyway they do a child ID program they do pancake breakfast there's face painting and everything so it's a whole whole big fundraiser thing and the Masons do it free of charge and all the money goes to the program and yeah so he's doing that this morning I'm hoping he's home by noon because our meetings at noon so we'll find out and I'm gonna go I guess do laundry I'll be back so the husband is back from his adopt a college thing this morning pancake breakfast a fundraiser for the adopt a college program at Edenville elementary school here in San Jose to encourage the kids in the needier neighborhoods to go to college go to college get an education yeah so he's down with that so we're headed out to Costco and we need to eat snacks snacks while there yes get a hundred hundred calorie snacks yeah where we got to go to the post-alarmics yeah we got to go drop off some Etsy orders and pick up our mail and yeah the dog needs food so we have to go to Costco today even though it's kind of a rainy icky day gotta get food yeah all right that's it we'll be back it is kind of funny that we're so busy eating the snacks at Costco we almost forgot what we came in here for oops no one in line for Costco this is really good I think we came in a good time hey guys it is late it is Saturday night it's like 10 30 at night I spent the rest of the afternoon after our meeting running errands with the husband as you saw we went to Costco and all that stuff and honestly just chilling at home I chatted with some of my friends online including my friend Shannon green she's having a big sale over in her Etsy shop if it's still going on I'll link her shop and the sale in the description I'll put details in the description if there's no details down there it's because the sales over but I will link it if it's available she does make the custom keeper which is made out of repurposed billboard vinyl it's like a traveler's notebook style notebook cover really cool so anyway and here's the painting we started on today it's nowhere near done but it's a really good start I'm really liking the way it's looking so hopefully the person that I'm painting it for the customer does too so let's see cross your fingers I do have another big canvas if they hate it I can paint something else we'll see but that's it I think for the week I think I need to go to bed now I don't know what we have planned for tomorrow I think I'm gonna just try to get some art done and get on the treadmill and yeah that sort of thing I hope you've all had a great week and interesting one and that you've had fun that you've made some great art you've done some fun experimenting and yeah be good to each other go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I will see you in the next vlog bye guys