 Good morning, good morning. It's time to spend the entire day with me, you guys. It is Friday, it's Friday, and I'm ready to swing. It is 6.40, I've been up since 4.30, child. I have two meetings today. I'm gonna try to blow out my hair this morning. We gotta stop by Tom Thong to see what type of meats I can get. Yeah, it's a lot going on today. We're gonna be going to Papadose tomorrow, so maybe at the very end of this vlog, or, yeah, I know, you're from Texas. You know about Papadose and all that. Even if you're not from Texas. So I want to blow out my hair. I think it's gonna rain today here in Dallas, but I want to go ahead and blow out my hair. If you see this, this is for acne. We'll get to this. I know all over the place, girl. So yes, you guys, how y'all doing? It's a lot going on. This is a couple of days after Halloween. It's a couple of days after one of the Migos unfortunately died, and I'm gonna talk a little bit about that later on, or maybe I have time now. First of all, I don't even keep up with music, y'all. I'm old. I'm young, but I'm old. I'm old, but I'm young. So I don't keep up with modern-day music, so I wouldn't even be able to tell you the names or anything, but I just found out that they rockin', like two of them are cousins, and one of them is like the uncle. So this young man, 28 years old, was shot in Dallas, no, no, in Houston, excuse me. In the morning, the day after Halloween, from my understanding, it was like an entourage of people. This is my thing that regardless of who you are, you gotta be very careful of your surroundings and especially as a celebrity, you would think that the old school celebrities would educate these new celebrities in young men and basically let them know you gotta leave that lifestyle behind, because not everybody's gonna be in your best corner. Even people in your own group are not gonna have your best interests at heart, even your own family. So it's so funny, I saw a quick video from Prone Time, Deon Sanders, basically telling his team, y'all know what they call it, he's a coach at Jackson State. He was basically telling those young men that we're playing in Houston, that mean nobody can leave the hotel. Nobody, if your girl, she wants to see you, she needs to come over to the hotel. Family, they need to come over to the hotel. He even told them that it's gonna get to a certain point where you're gonna have to change your address and that's just symbolic for you got to change your group and people that you are with. If not, you ain't gonna make it. Some people don't want to see you succeed and they would do anything. I understand the young men stuff was an accident, right? But it's just really sad that, I know I heard on the radio station K-104 just a couple of days ago, they were saying that our rapper is dying every year. Uh-uh, those are big rappers. Some rappers that are local are dying, multiple are dying a year. But that's besides the point still, the number one cause of death for young black men, like I think under the age of 19, is still homicide. Hell, I didn't even know that homicide is in the top five for black men regardless of age. But regardless, like I said, this is an issue with black men in general because there are so many that are not celebrities that are not popular and famous that are still dying at a ridiculous rate. It's really sad. Gun violence in general, it's a problem here in America. We don't know what the solution is. You know what I mean? It's almost a part of our culture here, which is so sad to say, it's a part of the culture here that's ingrained in us and where a lot of the young, the population, the youth and by youth, I mean under the age of 30 has become de-synthesized to violence, which is why they had that young man's body and that is so freaking sickening. Are you done eating breakfast? I was gonna say what? You had those donuts. Okay, so what, you know on camera, what'd you think that was? Those donuts, a snack? They're pretty much nothing. Tell me if that's a snack. No, that's your breakfast, player, player. So I'm gonna set the alarm. No, actually, I'm not setting the alarm because it's already 6, 3, 2, 3. Go ahead and put on your clothes, baby. Yeah, JB is getting so tall. I'm gonna put him on camera here in a minute. He's getting so tall, but will you gonna be hitting your preteen? You gonna be a, what is it called, y'all? A queen soon. All right, y'all, I just got from the grocery store and I got all my meats here. So look, I know traditionally people like to do ham and, you know, especially with the collard greens, cooking with the smoked ham hock. We don't do pork. Specifically, my husband doesn't. And so I don't respect for him and his family. They don't do pork at all. So they mostly do game meats like lamb, goat. They do fish. Beef is big for them. And of course, chicken. So what I have here is I have some Cornish game hens and this would honestly be enough to feed eight people. This is enough for eight portions. I think there's only gonna be, including JB, just five of us here. So I just wanna travel a little bit more than enough. And then I have two different types of beef. I have to cut this into strips and then I have this. I think what I'm gonna do is have cook both of them or ask my husband which one he thinks they would prefer. And then if he thinks that I need more of the other one, that's what I'll get. So yeah, in addition to that, the side's gonna be dressing. Normally I do dressing with chicken, but since we're gonna have two different types of meats, I'm not gonna put the chicken in it. So dressing, collard greens, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob. I don't, I know, look, I don't do macaroni and cheese. I think it's so heavy. Now, yes, I eat it, but I don't like to make it because one, my husband doesn't do cheese a lot. So what's the point of cooking all that and he's not gonna eat it? I got all these sweet potatoes over here. So I may do some, yeah, so look how they're looking. My mama said they look okay. She said, no, this is okay because this is organic. This is from, you know, I don't know if these are gonna last for another two and a half weeks. I may put them in the refrigerator. So, yeah, this light, and this thing, this light is gonna be hard to switch out anyway, child. But let me tell you something. You have to excuse these towels. I'm gonna get some new towels, but whatever. Gone are the days of me doing stuff that will, you know, I'm gonna be in the kitchen all day, which is why I'm not doing the macaroni and cheese, which is why I am not doing. The only dessert I'm doing from scratch is the sweet potato pie only because to me, that's very easy. My dress is gonna be from scratch. Everything most of it's gonna be from scratch, and fairly, you know, in my opinion, easy. But this is where I'm gonna get my cheating from. So, I've been trying some different store bought, it's not store bought, some different pound cake mixes. This right here is the truth. But what I like to do, if I'm gonna be making something that's already stored, you know, something like this and cheered, I'm gonna add some stuff to it. So I'm gonna go ahead and add some pudding to it, and I'm actually gonna use two packages. I'm gonna add some pudding to it, and I'm gonna do like one-fourth of a cup of cake flour. I'm gonna do vanilla. And then I'm gonna make your traditional, I'm snacking y'all, I'm sorry to the wrong girl, looking at this, then I'm gonna make your traditional lemon glaze. And so I have a couple of different pound cake pans in there, and I may just do, I think I have like a 12 quart. My mom even got me a 14 one, and I'll put it all in there. And so yeah, this is what we have, I'm gonna put everything in the freezer. I do have a whole chicken in the freezer because I like to make my chicken broth from scratch, from scratch at least. So one thing that helps me is I start cooking the day before I'm off the entire week, so we'll have time. All right y'all, that was a quick little time. It's now a little after eight o'clock. I have a meeting here soon. Like I said earlier, I have two meetings today. I just uploaded a chit chat video, so I need to go on there and see how many comments are going on. Girl. It's so funny, the one, the person I'm having a meeting with this morning, she's in India, she's based out of South India. Most of our associates or employees are in India actually, and I was telling her, she was surprised, she sent me a message. I think it was 5.30 in my time, and she was like, Vivian, what are you doing up? I'm like, working, what are you doing? She's like, it's 5.30 over there, I know it's really early over there. I'm like, yeah, it is, and it's late over there. So, you know, and I was telling her, yeah, and I was, you know, she just had a child. I think her baby is like six months old, and I was telling her how I've had a child since I've been working here, and it's all about, you look, you have 24 hours in a day, it's all about planning your days out. Do I get everything done every day? No, I don't. What we were talking about, you know, being a wife and being a mother, and it can be challenging at times, and so the good thing with me is that, you know, my husband is at home, he doesn't work, so he picks up JV from school, he helps JV to a certain degree. He's almost like a dictator when it comes to making sure JV gets his stuff done, and I have to talk to him. I'm like, you need to bring it down. Let's be not just... Good morning. Hi there, Neha, how are you? Good morning, how are you? Good. Look, before we get started, I harassed you and requested, you know, the GoPro farm end of year is due in like a couple of more weeks. Very questionable for me. Absolutely, I was just gonna say that if you definitely want to request a note from me, go ahead and do so. Okay, y'all, the first meeting of the day is done. I got some stuff to come in. I'm getting a little flush, I need to take off this. I was laughing at my coworker because I will tell her how... The one thing I like about working with people of all different backgrounds is that you can share so much information, and so I really, excuse me, y'all, I really like to ask people who have been in my position before, just to ask for advice, you know, whatever. Cause I don't know everything in child, so I need to, you know, and so one of the developers that work here, he said that he's looking to broaden his skill set because AI, meaning artificial intelligence, can replace his job soon. Cause he's doing voice overs. And I was like, oh, you're right. It's getting so good that it can be replaced. And so I was talking to another woman, who's been doing this stuff since the 90s. She said, Vivian, the artificial intelligence is so smart now that we are teaching it how to respond to you based on feelings, quote unquote. I said, what? She said, yeah, it's learning, basically. It can, to a certain point, it can learn. Child, when she said that all I saw was iRobot, iRobot, and Will Smith, when he was in the shower. But anyway. What's popping, guys? No, it's just today, today. House, where I live, he lives in Dallas, Texas, in a Texas side. And he's at our house for two days. He's staying here for a whole, like mostly the whole day. And I'm gonna go to a hotel. I'm gonna go to- He's at, the hotel that he's at is Best Western Plus. Yes, and I wanna do vlog there, so. See, you guys, it's a little late, but I'm making this soup, loaded chicken soup. I have in here my aromatics, besides the carrots, sorry, sorry, girl. Salary, onions, garlic, then I have some carrots. I have over here my chicken thighs, cooling off. Over here, I have some potatoes. I have some corn. I have some, what do you call this, some parsley. So I'm going to take out about three cups of the soup and add a little bit of cream in mine. My husband can't really do cream. And yeah, this will be our late dinner and then I have some rolls. They're gonna go into the oven also.