 It is Sunday, April 3rd. It is like 2.46 p.m. just after lunch. We haven't had lunch yet. We went to the garden store. We got a couple more pots for either side of the garage door and some plants. We're working on that now. We also have a hanging new hanging basket of flowers for by the front door. Anyway, we've been meaning to do this for a long time. We had to get, we got, we were able to get the same kind of pot as these green ones, but we had to get a different color because broken supply chain and they're no longer making this color. And if they are, who knows when they're going to get it. Those are their words. So anyway, that's okay. We kind of like this sort of coppery brown color goes with the stone on the house and also kind of goes with the green because it has some of those colors in it. It's all, it's all good. So anyway, we're going to do this. Then we're going to go for a walk and I don't know, we'll see what else to get up to. I'm going to go out for a walk. It's a little later than we intended and it looks like it's going to rain in any second, but that's okay. I think when we get back, I'm going to do some more cleaning and rearranging of some things to well past time. There's still parts of the house where we just kind of threw things in a corner or a cabinet when we moved in and then haven't thought about it since. So now that we're thinking about it, I'm going to make it work better for us. Bob and I do think we're going to have to get a new coffee table when the new sofa comes in. So we're going to take our time and look around. The sofa won't be here till June. I might see if I get the name and address of the furniture consignment place that girls have been going to. Maybe we'll start popping in there every couple of weeks or something and see if we can find something secondhand. Anyway, we'll see. I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is Monday morning April 4th, 9 44 a.m. Don't get excited. I've got the computer on already. I had an early morning doorbell ring from the beautiful little girls next door. I bought them some books recently at the thrift shop when I was out shopping and for our nephews and everything and I decided to pick up a couple things for the girls next door just on a whim and I got a beautiful thank you note from them this morning and a drawing. I love it. I hung them on the fridge. So yeah, that was a great way to wake up this morning. Anyway, we are going to do some more filming on our therapy journals this morning and I have to edit the vlog and write the posts for the week. Make sure I put up the Moody Mondays mood board and associated photo album in the Facebook group. So there's things to do. I would say places to go and people will see but no just things to do. Then either later today or tomorrow when I have time I will finish filming the first episode of the new ink blob art therapy series and hopefully also the second episode. So there might only be like three episodes but I want to give you guys some general ideas and ways that I'm going to be using this and I might release all three from at the same time. Again the patrons and supporters will have longer videos than you all will but both should be fairly complete in an idea of what you can do or what I'm doing to help myself. The patrons and supporters will get more detail but you all should be able to figure it out from the videos you get to. So anyway, all of them will have similar content and hopefully convey the same message. Do what you need to for your mental health and well-being. That's the basic message. Anyway, I'm editing those right now and I hope to get those loaded and scheduled to day two. That might be a bit ambitious for me but yeah I did sort of get the table clean back there. Yay and we got the furnace filters changed and I got the garbage cans brought up and like pretty productive days so far. If you want more direct access to me, my thoughts, my opinions about art, about life, about my journey with mental health, whatever it is, you can do that by joining Patreon and then you also get access to the private Patreon YouTube channel where the little bit longer videos are. So anyway, all right I know I keep harping on that but it's one of the ways I make income you guys. So anyway, we also still have some purge boxes available at the Etsy store and there's a few sets of rubber stamps left, not too many. There's a lot of stencils left. I'm going to cut back and carry physical merchandise. They're going to have more digital downloads for the moment and art because art, original art, manufacturing is just expensive so what I can say about that. So anyway, right hopefully in the next day or two I can catch up on mission inspiration. I actually think there's one more of these I need to print because I think I'm that far behind but anyway, all right let's get it done shall we? I'll be guys it's just before 10 a.m. and I mean like one minute before. Tuesday, April 5th and I have had just a calm, relaxing, take it easy morning. I'm not mad about it and I'm not gonna apologize for it. It felt good. Anyway, I just got done on that thing, doing all the social media stuff and printing the April mission inspirations. I'm hoping to get caught up on all my missions this week, sometime not necessarily today but sometime this week and I've already done the breakfast dishes and all that. I'm wearing a shirt that's way too big for me but that's okay I love the cover. Done my morning exercises for my knee. I'm just gonna try to figure out what I'm gonna do with the rest of my day. Okay you know just I impulsively started painting on this painting behind me and just because it's quick doesn't mean it's not good. I love it. I'm not gonna touch it. I'm gonna let it dry. If I touch up anything it'll be the edges and yeah I'm all used up three things of paint which is good yay. For those who don't know I've been trying to use up old stashes of paints for a while and I'm it's taken a year but I'm making progress. Anyway are you ready? I really like it. I'm gonna leave it. It may not be a Picasso or anything but I wouldn't be mad at hanging that in my house. What about you? All right I'm gonna clean up my mess and my hands. I'll be back. Hey guys good morning it is what time is it? 10 12 a.m. Wednesday April 6th. I've just high out here in front of the computer for a few minutes because I'm going to share the YouTube video link to the vlog this week which I need to be better about sharing video links but anyway my hair is like yeah it looks nuts. Anyway I need to go check on the PO box which I think I'm gonna do today and I don't know what else I'm gonna do but yeah I think that's gonna be on the list. You know there's a lot of pollen when you've got to stop before you can even leave the driveway and use the windshield wipers. My whole car is covered in a layer of yellow pollen. Just you know it's a good thing I keep an inhaler in the car it's all I can say. Anyway okay yay I caught caught up with Mission Inspiration. There's a sneak preview all four that I was behind so yay and I got them filmed and now they're gonna dry and uh sometime tomorrow probably I'll get the video edited it's probably all I'm gonna be up to doing after counseling tomorrow so but I'll get the video edited and I will get them loaded to the YouTube channel. Yay that was a great productive day I feel like I had a good productive day so I'm gonna go downstairs I wanted to do some cleaning and rearranging in the laundry room I know right I need to write down an appointment in the family calendar to get the oil changed in my car so don't forget turn off the computer all the things for the things because it's the things you know what I mean all right hey guys we are out walking obviously my knee is still hurting but I'm walking anyway we'll probably do a couple miles that's our usual you can tell we just had a windstorm because we keep seeing things like that in the street yeah pine cones everywhere tree branches the people here who have a bad knee aka me I need to watch where they step everybody it's just after 9 a.m. Thursday February 7th I think holy cow did I say February it is just after 9 a.m. Thursday April 7th anyway my knee is feeling better today it's been bothering me the last few days in case I didn't say on camera not super bad but I probably overdid it or twisted it or something anyway I have a more compressive sleeve on it today and I'm gonna give it a break from exercises and probably walking and just let it rest but I can get up and down the stairs as you just saw without any twinges which is a good sign anyway I am editing my mission inspiration videos that I got caught up on yesterday and I will be loading them and scheduling them out here on YouTube so look for that and yeah while I'm doing all that we'll catch up on some YouTube watching and all that stuff all right morning everybody it is Friday April 8th just before 9 3 a.m. we have had our breakfast and our coffee and all that stuff Bob has today off so we are going to go to the grocery store this morning and run some errands the kids are coming over for dinner so I need to go downstairs and check and make sure we've got stuff for dinner otherwise I don't know what we're eating and I have to do the dishes there's some chores I need to do so I'm going to take care of that hopefully my knee cooperates today it is slowly getting better I did twisted or something and every time I do something like that with it and it takes longer to get better for those that don't know I have a torn meniscus so I mean yeah anyway there's only so much they can do with it so I have to learn to live with it and I have a house upstairs so you know anyway um past that past running errands and doing chores I'm not sure what we're going to get up to today besides the kids coming over I have no idea will I be up to walking tonight I don't know we'll see I'll be back hey everybody it's Saturday April 9th 1108 a.m. I know I looked don't get excited that noise in the background is our little robot vacuum hazel and anyway we've set her to do her thing we're going to go out and run a couple well not errands we're going to just go out and do some walking around in in downtown and my knees doing okay it is slowly slowly emphasize slowly improving that's how I know I probably don't need another cortisone shot or anything more drastic because when it doesn't improve then I know yeah and it's keeping me up at night which it's not doing I just need to be careful with it at the moment anyway I didn't make my five day a week five days this week of physical therapy exercises but I did do four so I'm not going to beat myself up about it so I'm going to continue to do at least four try to get to five as you all just saw we were just walking around curiosities and it's my our favorite antique and thrift vintage mall they did have one of those sewing boxes as you saw but they wanted $60 for it I'm not sure I want to pay that much it wasn't completely sold on it so anyway we're going to leave it we're gonna we were going to go walking by the creek but as you see by the window over Bob's shoulder there it is raining outside it was actually hailing a few minutes ago but it's sunny down there it's sunny it's sunny across the road so anyway I think we're going to go over to the mall and get steps in over there as my knee will allow so yeah anyway all right gonna see what we can see maybe get some lunch I don't know we'll be back out on the fanno creeks trail it stopped raining I just got a knee twinge um so we it's not supposed to rain again until well after dark tonight so we're gonna go for a walk see we can see I'm gonna take it slow and get some stuff in I'll be back so I have to say this is a really pretty area at least the part of it that we've seen you're sort of out in the middle of a wilderness green space full of lots of wildlife but you're also in the middle of town of course there's a shopping cart in the river I'll put the picture here because you know humanity is full of assholes but anyway so far we're enjoying the walk and what we're seeing we did hear down farther on this trail near to city hall there may be a homeless issue but we haven't seen evidence of that yet so we'll see I'll be back wildlife including wild geese ducks yeah so here's me talking it's everywhere we'll be back for sure sure I forgot to close the vlog last night oops anyway I hope it's been a good week for you all it's been a good week for us mental health issues are going good um physical issues with my knee well I'm learning to live with it so anyway I um hope if you have any questions comments or concerns you leave them down below and uh check out the video description for relevant links um all of my social media stuff my edzie store patreon all that stuff is in the link tree list links which is down below along with my happy mail address not that I get any from y'all but you know anyway stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and if you want to see what we're up to tune in next week