 So it's Sunday morning and we're starting off the day here. You see my plate with the fabulous homemade bagel. And that is a nice way to start the day. Hubby's already bit into his, what does it taste like? I tore it apart. Oh, try it. I'm not gonna catch us on camera like because we're in our pajamas, but. It is very doughy. Yeah. Feels like it could be cooked a little bit longer, I think. Okay, so we did 23 minutes, the recipe said 20, so. Yeah. I mean, you can see that it's still doughy inside. Uh-huh. So. What does it taste like? It tastes good. Yeah. So we'll be trying this again, I think. All right, that's it for the moment. I'm gonna dig into my bagel. I'll be back. Good morning, everyone. It is Monday morning, January 22nd. I thought it might be. I didn't want to speak if I wasn't sure. Anyway, it's Monday, January 22nd. I'm in some workout clothes because I'm headed off to physical therapy. And I am loading a video, a little short tutorial for when a member of my design team, really quick before I leave. It's taking its sweet old time, loading. Ugh, I need to leave. Anyway, so that's working and cause she's having trouble with iMovie. And I do wanna walk to therapy. I want to get some steps in, so I'm gonna do that. And I have a few channels here on YouTube that I'm helping out today also, so with their watch time. And I gotta catch up on laundry and I wanna make a few fun journal pages, just for me, no cameras. So I'm gonna be working on all of those things today. Maybe a trip to the grocery store, although I don't know, I guess late last night, there was a drive-by shooting at the grocery store where I take y'all and I go shopping. Yeah, that's different. So anyway, we'll see. All right, I will be back. Therapy's all done, my shoulder hurts, and it's drizzling. Let's go home now, I think. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, how are you? Oops, sorry about the windshield wipers. There we go. All right, so we're headed out, excuse me. I have to go get the mail. I need to put gas in my car, my little light's on. I do have a load of, probably drive it over to donation on my way home. It's literally right across the street. Let's go do that, shall we? Look out, my local thrift shop, the Goodwill. So, I'm gonna make a donation. January 23rd, I'm 15-ish. And my neighbors are being stupid, anyway. I am headed out to go brave the grocery store. The one where the drive-by shooting happened. The whole neighborhood's in shock because we don't generally have any crime even close to that. I mean, we have crime where, you know, every place in the world, excuse me, every place in the world has it. It goes in the middle of the street when cars are coming. I got the camera facing the wrong way. To just do a quick update, I made some more bagels from the bagel recipe that we did on Sunday. I'm gonna include the link to the recipe in the description below. It's a two-ingredient recipe. It is self-rising flour and yogurt, basically. There's a lot of different kinds of directions of ways that you can cook them. And you guys, I encourage you to experiment with the recipe and try what works for you. I discovered for us that I needed to skip the whole boiling thing because if I boiled them, they look more like bagel pancakes. And they're still, like, sticky inside. They're not cakey or bread-y enough for what we want. So I didn't boil, I did one batch trying boiling them longer, cooking them longer. Like, they still came out. Like, that's one of the ones from that batch. If I skipped the whole boiling thing altogether, then much better. But I didn't make the whole quite big enough so it looks more like a bagel muffin. But anyway, I'm still working on it. But it looked much better. So without, I recommend not boiling it, but try it for yourself. I did make some with blueberry yogurt instead of just plain and no seeds on top. I did eat one, like, right away. It was really good. So it was non-fat blueberry Greek yogurt. So anyway, trying to be healthier, which means I have to cook more. Damn it, at least occasionally. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Anyway, it is Wednesday. Probably should drive, but I haven't got my steps in yet today. So I'm gonna walk. I do have one box I need to ship out, but it's not too heavy. So I've got it in a grocery bag and it's over my arm and I'm carrying it. So we're gonna head, sorry, about the weird camera angle. So we're gonna head over to the postal place and then one big day. So I need to empty all the household garbage can to get all that out. Nothing exciting. I did spend a couple hours this morning packaging up some new stencils that came in for inventory and doing inventory on the stock that we have in and getting some listings already drafted so I can just hit publish when the time is to release them for sale. So anyway, and that's it for the moment. I'll be back. It wasn't heavy, but by the time I got over here, it sure did feel like it was. So anyway, Mary, it's off to you. By the time everybody sees it, she's probably already got it. But anyway, I'll be back. Probably a good thing I'm almost on the way home. Is it just me or does it look like it's gonna storm any second? Hear the, what sounds like a barking horse? Let's see, I'll walk this way. He'll bark more. Hear that? He's the sweetest dog, but my neighbors have a great name. He barks at everybody. He's huge, very sweet. Once he figures out you're a nice person, but he's gigantic. Then they have little dogs trying to keep up. My dog, of course, is like, he doesn't bark anymore unless it's the gardener. You know. Good morning, everybody. It is just before 8.30 on Thursday morning. I am getting ready to go over to physical therapy. I've got to drive across town. I accidentally ran across some family tree information in a bunch of random papers from my grandmother who died quite a few years ago. You know, I think about four years ago now. We're still coming across bits and pieces of paper. She's stuffed in books that one or more of us hung onto and anyway. One of those random little pieces of paper written all in Italian, which I can't read most of it, looked important. So it had names on it. I recognized from the family tree. So I did a little bit of Google Translate and what little bit Google could translate because they either spelled it wrong or it wasn't a dialect. It didn't recognize or something. Just made it sound more and more important to the family tree. So I took a picture of it and put it in. We have a family Facebook group, private for family only. And I put it over there and immediately my aunt, my dad's sister came on and said, don't do anything with that piece of paper. So anyway, it is important. I'm taking it over to her house this morning. She's going to add it to the other papers she has. And hopefully we're going to be able to fill out some more of the family tree. So I'm going to go do that after physical therapy this morning. And I'm not sure what else I'm going to do, but anyway, I'll bring you with me and we'll see what happens. All right, I'll be back. I'm going to head over to aunt's house and drop off some stuff to her family tree stuff. And we might stop by university art while we're over there. I don't really need anything, but we are over on that side of town and it's one of the only or very few. We don't have that many fine art supply stores in San Jose. We only have a couple of them. And university art really is the one. There's another one called, I think it's called Arsenal. I never seem to get in there because whenever I go by it, it's closed. So I don't know. But let's go to university art. I don't really need anything, but let's go walk around and yeah, let's go to my aunt's first. All right, I'll be back. Okay. Hey guys, I just wanted to show you this cute little neighborhood here in San Jose near the Rose Garden. And I love this neighborhood. I wish we could afford a house here and not go into debt up to our eyeballs, which at this stage in life is not where we want to be. It's, we couldn't afford this neighborhood when we bought our house that we have now and that hasn't gotten any better. I shouldn't say that we could afford it, but we have a mortgage and we're trying to not have a mortgage. So anyway, but it is the cutest neighborhood. If I could afford a house here, I would stay in San Jose because I love this neighborhood. Anyway, all right, we are off to the next place. I'll be back. I'm gonna take you on a little drive here. We're gonna go over to university art. We're gonna see a little bit more of the neighborhood. And so yeah, let's go for a little bit of a ride. Two things I'll share with you on camera. They did have free samples of Quar watercolor. So these are sample cards with a piece of paper inside and they have just enough to do a little painting in. So they had this and then they had a couple of booklets, one on the Quar watercolors and one on the Liquitex cadmium free paints. For those that don't know, cadmium is a toxic material and it is in some paints. Liquitex, among others have started making paints that are similarly pigmented without the cadmium and I have been wanting to try them. I have the cadmium ones at home in my bin of artist paints and I've been wanting to try them, but I didn't really wanna mail order them. They had them here in a small two ounce tube. This is cadmium free orange. Yeah, and this one I got cadmium free red medium and cadmium free yellow deep, which I'm pretty sure those are all colors I have in the regular paint at home so I can compare. And then art graph. I have some water soluble graphite by them. I know I do. I wasn't aware that they made these other little cakes and other colors and so I got, they're kind of pricey. So I got only two of them. I got the ochre, which looks like this and then I got the dark brown, which looks like that. So that'll be fun to add to my water soluble graphite collection and play with those. So I didn't get too many things. That was pricey little bag, let me tell ya. All right, so that's it for the moment. I will be back. Good morning. It is Friday, January something, I think it's the 26th. I'm starting to lose it, people. I have to figure out what I'm gonna do for dinner tonight and I went the wrong way. Off to go pick up the mail. I forgot my sunglasses, it's a little bright out. It is Saturday morning, January 27th and we, as you saw, just got done donating blood. I'm drinking some water. We're at a shopping center. My husband's gotta do some banking stuff for his Masonic Lodge and yeah, I'm not all up into that. So I'm gonna actually walk over and go to Barnes & Noble and pick up a couple magazines and then I think go around the corner of the shopping center and upstairs to Bed Bath and Beyond and pick up a couple things I need there too. So I'll be back. Japanese department store, we have one here in San Jose and yeah, I hope you got some good clips there. We got some gel pens and things to try and of course, I had to get a bag because you know, the bag, see? Oh wait, got a bag. All right, so now we're gonna go see if we find some place to eat lunch or just walk around or something, avoid the screaming homeless people. San Jose Museum of Art, this is where we normally have ice rink in the winter and what? Oh yeah, KQED, it's our local public broadcasting station. It used to be the Mercury News. Yeah, not anymore. And this is the Fairmont, right? Backside of the Fairmont. Backside of the Fairmont. We just got told by a homeless young man to go have an effing good day, so yeah. So we're gonna go do that. He didn't use that word by the way, but I am because I don't want to have to edit out the audio. Because we're gonna have an effing good day. We are. I hope so. I hope so. We'll see. Here's some prettier bits. Hey guys, so I hope that you enjoyed this vlog and you've had a great week. It's been fun for me too. Fun fact, I'm filming this week's vlog closure on Sunday morning because after donating blood and running errands, yeah, we were just dead for the rest of the day and I forgot. Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this week's vlog. I will put any relevant links in the description. If I forget, somebody remind me and yeah, anyway, it was fun. I really love Muji by the way. I can't wait to go back. There are a few things that I'd like to go back and take a second look at and there's another one in Palo Alto, I think at Stanford Shopping Center, which isn't too, too far away, so I might have to make a trip. All right, that's it for now. Don't forget to have a great day, have a great week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Like, share, and subscribe. If you are new here, I have new content every week and that's it for right now. I'll see you later.