 oh my gosh I think the laundry gods don't want me to play and they want me to get over ready for school I've tried like five times I don't know if it's my Wi-Fi I don't know if it's my lo-fi I don't know if it's my hi-fi but it is just not working out for me but I refuse to give up until I get my message out there into the universe and to my padlockers to my pals to my ladies I I don't see any comments if anybody's here it says there's those those for a race race amicus here if it if it goes out again I could shoot it I still have my energy you guys caught me what time is oh my gosh it's 126 I have so much to do I should not be here playing with you guys but sometimes the girls got to do what a girl's got to do exactly you know what I think that we have to well okay I'm on here on my iPad Oliver's in the living room on his phone making a video for somebody the television is on but that's it we don't have anything else tapping into our Wi-Fi so I don't know if that's it I am not technologically savvy smart bright I don't even have a clue all right well let me just tell you guys why I came on why I am so motivated why I'm feeling the way I'm feeling we are family that thrives on routine especially Steve you can set your watch your schedule your life came in to say hi hello to the low guys you could be the big fourth graders in town tomorrow tomorrow it's exciting isn't it look at your hair cut today third time is charm oh that's right you're gonna haircut today aren't you leave can you look so handsome anyways look at do you know where Nana has her iPad she's got them on your clothes look at you're in my laundry basket look at Andrea saying hi Oliver are you excited for tomorrow come on in here a little bit so then what you see half your head oh good job and Nana Judith is saying hi to you too come on in here a little bit so they can see your whole big hand okay you shouldn't rock cuz you're gonna give us all get us all seasick that's okay people just haven't caught on to your wonderfulness yet they will right come over here with Nana they'll hang out with Lisa says her grandson Landon is also a fourth grader exciting times huh yeah on the Ziplineником in here and And don't rock and talk to over here. And the zip line was like so much fun. Like it would go all the way down. My feet was like one inch like above. Lake? Lake. It wasn't. It was so much fun. Yes, zip lining is awesome. You're going to go again next summer? Hopefully. Yeah, that'd be great. I think you should go every summer. And then when you're old enough, you can be a counselor because you would be an awesome counselor because you're a people person. When? Ruby's a fourth grader, too. I like that name Ruby. I'm wearing my Ruby today, Judith. Look at me. My name should be Ruby. So I was thinking when I'm a teenager for a part-time job, because when I grow up, like grow, grow up, I want to be like my dad, like a construction worker, or a plumber, or a metal sheet worker. You have lots of time to plan it out. But I also want to be a video game developer. Oh, well, you can do all those things. Well, I came on to tell everybody why Nana is so motivated today. And do you know why I'm so motivated today? I need you all the way in or all the way out. Because you're going to meet my teacher. Yeah, well, that's not exactly it, but it has something to do with it. I was thinking that teacher, and that makes you excited. My new teacher, and that makes you excited. Yes, we are going to meet older teachers this afternoon. And also going to me going to school on the first day tomorrow morning. Yeah. OK, so let me finish what I'm going to say. Because we're already five minutes, and people, they have lives, and they have things to do. And I just want to share why I'm motivated. Oh, Rico's live. So we are a family that thrives on routine. You're going to go out in the other room? I don't want you to distract me, please. OK, you can stay. We're also known as YouTube day families. I can. We both have YouTube channel. OK, see you later. One more time, Anita, even though there's all six of us are here. Look at the hands from Hill. You know what? You know when they itch, the worst is, for some reason, when I wake up, I'm just like, argh! OK. Take three. We are a family that thrives on routine, especially Stephen Craig Johnson. And in my first life before being married to him, I was the exact opposite. I still am. If you open my cupboards, things will fall on you. If you need sheets, they are not folded. They are simply crammed into a cupboard. I'm just not an organized person. I never have been. I think it's because I moved out of my mom's house to be fair, about 15, 16, came home once, left again. I can't see any comments if anybody's saying anything. I apologize. So I never really learned how to do things properly. I just went along the way through life and did it. Why did I get on this ramp? I don't know. But I have come to find out that I thrive on routine. And since Oliver's going back to school tomorrow, that means I get my weight-watching routine back. Now let me preface by saying, since the video that I posted that said summer vacations over the warrior weight watchers back, this is true. I have been on-plan perfectly. I'm motivated. I'm pumped. I have that weight-watching newlywed just started feeling again. I don't know why that is. I lost almost three pounds last Friday since then, other than the doom buggy that I had, which I shared with you guys. I've been great. I counted that last night. I walked. If any of you guys aren't over on Instagram with this, you need to come over because that's where I just sit and chit chat all day. Thank you for Instagram. All right, we're just like poor Steve. He comes home and I'm like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like. So tomorrow begins my routine again. And my routine consists of walking and my boy to school. As you guys have seen in my videos, he goes to the crosswalk, he goes to school. And then I continue walking and I do a good mile and a half. And I come home and I'm at breakfast and I do a couple of things. And then I sit on my couch. I watch a show because there's a show I watch every day, but I'm just so excited. And I'm excited for him because except for camp, he's just always with adults. He's never with other children. And he can't wait to get back to school to be with the other children and play and run and have a good time, even though we have been riding bikes and stuff. So my routine's gonna be back tomorrow and I'm just so jazzed about it. And I just, you know what? When I watch my friends on YouTube, when I watch, I'm gonna forget somebody. And if I forget you, I apologize, but you guys are all my homies, my YouTube homies. When I watch Sandy, when I watch Amy. And by the way, anybody who's wondering about Amy, she's fine, she's good. She posted on Instagram today. She's just busy. She'll be back. She's not gone for good. Carrie, when she's around. Joan at Joan's Pointed Plate. Christy, all the homies, you guys all know who they are. When they're feeling inspired and they're feeling motivated and they're giving off the vibes, it's Kate. Kate and the twins are two channels that for some, the twins, we all know that I have a total crush on the twins. I am the triplet. I don't know if you guys ever saw, but back before I had my own YouTube channel, I had a picture of them with Mifo Shopton. And they showed it on this channel. It was pretty funny. But they just, there's certain things and certain people, certain actions that we take in our life that motivate me. And I'm super, duper motivated right now. And I wanna just cast some of that off to you guys to see if it helps. I can't see any gosh darn comments unless you guys are talking stand on mics yourselves in the back room when you're talking about me or something. Oh, here's Lisa, wait a minute. I had that too. My hands and arms were rough for over two years. Not make it. I'm kind of okay right now. I just have to be super careful. But anyways, thanks for letting, thank you for telling me. Yeah, no, it's all right. I'm sorry, I'm trying to gather my thoughts. When everything happened with Chelsea with the babies and everything, but I have to give you guys my train of thought. Everything that I tell you guys, everything that I share with you guys, my feelings, they are all honest and truthful. But when your day ends and you lay in bed and you take a mental inventory of what's going on in your life, it gets to you. It kind of holds that, yeah. And it did, between that and my dad, that has a lot to do with why I'm having this outbreak has a lot to do with why I wasn't losing weight. It had a lot to do with why I was drinking more wine than I should have drank, which is why I haven't lost any weight. But then I got my act together and I realized that I'm so much happier and I feel so much better when I just am in my routine and my routine does not include wine, because wine, it'd be fattening. And I'm just excited and I want you guys to be excited with me. Freestyle threw a lot of us for a loop. It did me, I tried it when it came out, I embraced it. I was like, I'm not gonna be that negative chick who goes, oh no, a new program, I'm not gonna be her. And it just didn't work for me, you guys, you know why? Cause I can eat two whole chickens in one sitting. Beans, no, Greek yogurt, no, but I can eat a lot of chicken as good. There's about 12 million ways. Nobody wants to talk, you guys! Where'd Barbara go? Where'd everybody go? Am I just chit-chatting on myself? So I am doing smart points. I just don't wanna step there, going prodigal. I don't know what that means. Does that mean that they're not home? I am not as into the faith as the... Hi Mindy's mom! Hi Jennifer, where have you been? Hold on, I gotta bring you back up because it, oh, I think it said you had a baby, congratulations! Oh my God, Kim, I'm excited too. Oh my gosh, boy or girl, congratulations! Oh my gosh, babies are so wonderful! I wrapped a dungeon, I'm making it up as I go, Judith. Oh, Connie, thank you, I'm good. Actually, I'm feeling really good. That's why I'm here, cause I'm like, haven't heard from one for a year and the other one is drinking again. I'm sorry, Lisa. Hi, Eugenia! Lisa, I am sorry. Four years, I went not knowing where my girl was, so you have my heart. Absolutely, hi you guys, I'm so happy you're all popping in. Oh, we have a new baby. Did I miss what she had? Oh, I'm so excited, I feel like I'm so happy. Oh, happy for you, Jan. Babies, babies, babies, a girl! Hi, Soos! I'm so happy you got there, I'm always so excited when I come on here. Oh, then there's a lot to catch up on, girlfriend. She, real quick, just for you, because I'll just love you so much. She is back, she was doing wonderful and she came back, Leilani, oh, I love that name. Soosie, I'm so glad you're here. Soosie, and she had two children, Waltz, she was away, a boy and a girl, Irish twins, Benjamin and Tallulah, and there's a whole backstory, but everybody is well, everybody is happy, everybody is healthy, and that's all that matters, including all over. I'm so excited that you guys are here. I never know how long I should talk because I could just talk forever. And when I'm feeling good like this, I, you know what I think? And I know this may become, yeah, no, that's one way of putting it. We bought her some new clothes yesterday too. For some of you guys who are a little on the smart side, I am a little manic, and that's okay. I would rather be manic, happy, and oh yeah, he's in the other room. You missed him, he came in at the beginning of the video. He was, it's going in the fourth grade tomorrow. So, but I'm good. I don't mind being like this when it's on an upbeat. I'd rather feel like this than being depressed. I talked to my mom this morning. My dad is doing a lot of pacing, but he's okay. She wasn't feeling well, but she's okay. Thank goodness there's family down there. Kindergarten. I swear it feels like just yesterday all over. Thank you, Connie, you know what? I have to say, you know, we say about ourselves, there's so many things, I think we tend to think about things. Okay, I tend to focus on things that I'm not so good at. I'm not so good in the kitchen, even though I really kind of am, I just don't enjoy it. I do fine in the kitchen, but I don't love it. I never learned how to sew. I never learned how to quilt. I can't art to art my way out of a bag. Hi Tina Smith. I'm so happy you're here. And I think that for 55 years, I have just focused on everything that I stink at. I stink at this, I stink at that. And I turned that all around when I started Weight Watchers, I decided to focus on what I'm good at. And I'm feeling better. I think when we put ourselves up, we lift ourselves up. My littles are so far from little. My oldest is 38, 38, 38, he's gonna be 38. Oh my gosh, my son is gonna be 39 in January. You know what? I'm not that energetic all the time, Susie. I'm not that energetic all the time. I just try to be energetic when I talk to you guys, I want to be a positive force. I want to be, when I listen to people or I watch people and if they're like E or an oh my goodness. Oh, thank you, Mandy's mom. I really don't, I'm doing laundry. I just, I'm like, then afterwards after I watch you listen to someone like that, then I just kind of go in that place too, don't you guys? Wouldn't you rather watch Happy Peppy even a little bit manic? Lisa, you're too kind. And aren't they the best though? Eugenia, you have a 30 year old? Oh my gosh, three of them. My husband is an amazing creature. Since I got this whole thing with my hands, you guys who have been watching, he literally takes care of everything. And I have to tell him to stop because if I don't get some things done then I feel like the world's biggest loser, fool, horrible wife. He's pretty amazing though. I'm extremely blessed to have, you know, and he and I have been together longer than he or I have ever been with anybody else. Our relationship is finally solidified in that spot where it's kind of, you know how you kind of go along through life and then it goes, and it just clicks and the train track clicks together and then you're kind of moving along smoother? Steve and I are funny though. We are, we have three speeds. We have not on the same page at all, don't even come in the same room with me. Okay, I'll just go along with you. You just go along with me because we've got a nine year old watching us. I know you're tired and I know I'm tired. And then we have, oh, the angels are singing. He's the best thing in the world. I'm the best thing in the world. Together we're the best thing in the world and we can tackle anything. So when you watch my videos, keep those three things in mind because we're either one of the three. Even though when you guys see Steve and he's very stoic and I'm glad he's not here right now because I need to share this with you. I have had so many people say they feel sorry for Steve and it cracks me up. You guys, he doesn't smile with his mouth open because he's very self-conscious of his teeth. He's a happy man. I keep him happy. Thanks, Mindy's mom. Mindy's mom, what's your name? Do I know it and I forgot? That's just my husband. That's just my honey. Even when I sit in here and we watch the funniest movie in the world, we'll be watching young Frankenstein. Blazing Settles is his favorite movie. And he'll be sitting here watching it and the funniest part that he loves in the world will be on it and he'll go, it's so funny because the other day over goes. Nana, Mary, I love the name Mary. I know. Oh, okay. She's not even a human, Mindy. The other day, Oliver goes, Nana, I have to ask you a question. I said, yeah, Bob. He goes, he likes it when he says, do you mind if I whip this thing out? And then he also loves the fact that it's all Johnsonville. Hi, Jill. I love when you guys come on. Everybody's name is Johnson. He loves that. He loves, do you mind if I would? He loves the whole movie, but he's just not a guffawfer. Guffawfer, is that how you say it? So Oliver says, Nana, have you ever heard grandpa laugh out loud? See, Kim? So it's just, it's, and I, you know what? I'm the same way, mine are horrible, but I can't keep my mouth closed and I can't be self-conscious anymore of my life. I've kept everything stuffed in. I'm not doing it anymore. I found YouTube where I can fly my freak flag happily with people who enjoy flying it with me. So when you see Steve, if he looks sad or depressed or unhappy with me or any of those things, if he's on the camera, he's fine. Before I turn it on, I say, do you feel like being on camera today or no? And if he says, you know, not so much right now, I don't record him, you guys. I never ever record any of my family or friends without getting their permission. Would never do that to anybody. So even though you see, and he thinks too that he looks like a tough guy with his beard. He thinks if he's just, you know, quiet with his old man's sunglasses on, thank you, Kim, that go over his glasses, resting Steve's face, yeah. He's a love though. He's an absolute love. He's just, and he's been really, really into and helping a lot with Oliver lately too. I think he realizes the impact that he has on Oliver. Right, Kim, exactly. And I do, you know, it's a good thing he's like that because if he wanted to talk, it's not like he'd get a word and edge with it anyways. But you know what, I have him to thank too. No, you have Seuss, you know, maybe after I've applied him with a couple of margaritas when we've done a cooking video, I always have a margarita on the side for him. I have him to thank for everything in my life. I am so thankful to him. And I do wanna talk about him for a minute because again, I've said in my videos, I feel that if you put out what you're feeling, I think it's a good thing to get out the positive. I have everything in the world to thank him for. My life, Oliver's life, being loved. But I was not me until he married me and let me be me. He lets me be me. He's the first person in my life, be it family members, close family members, ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-best friends. Nobody would ever let Anita be Anita. They always wanted to pick me apart and tell me you're too loud. You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that, you shouldn't say this and you definitely shouldn't say that. By Kim, thanks for popping in. You're always so kind, always so kind. And he's the first person that lets me be me. So there you have it. All right, enough of that. I'm motivated, I have my water. It is liberating Connie and you know what? You know what's the worst part about it? The worst part about even though it's great is that for 50 years I stuffed it all down in instead of just being me. Susie, I love you. I love you so much. I'm so glad you noticed that about him. Hi Annette from Ireland and your name is O'Connor. I love that. Hi Annette. You know what? Everybody I tell them they say, what's your name? I say Anita, they always call me Annette. No one ever remembers Anita. Because Anita means small Ann in Spanish. I've always been fat. So whenever I worked with anybody of Mexican descent they always said, no, no, your name's not Anita. You need to go by Ann because you're not small. Isn't it great Connie? I just wish I could go back to the young me and be me. Yes, Andrea, 57. So, I've been talking for a long time and I should probably wrap it up. I could sit here, it's only 10 minutes to two here. I could sit here until Steve gets home. Sherri, I just saw you comment on my Instagram. I'm sorry, your classroom's so hot. Oh no, what? Everything's good, everything's good. I just came to pass along the motivation, the positivity that I am feeling right now and I want you to join me. Sherri, I love you guys too, you're the best. In your classroom, over a hundred? I think you need to call in sick. Hi, this is Sharon. I can't come to the first day of school because, well, you know, I just am not feeling well. Maybe I'll show up tomorrow. Is anybody doing regular smart points with me? Let's talk about Weight Watchers for a minute and then I'll let you guys know because I could talk forever. I agree, but I wouldn't wanna do it. I don't like the heat. Hi, Mary, thank you so much. It hasn't changed yet, Jen. It hasn't changed yet. Sherri, Disney Land, I don't call it Disney, I call it Disney Land. It's my go-to place and it's my escape. It is, it's my escape from life and daughters and babies and dads and all the like. But anyways, is anybody doing just regular smart points like I am? Jen, they haven't changed. You're doing freestyle, Sherri. They're talking about changing. It probably will be in December. I don't know, you can get on the internet and read all the rumors on what they're gonna do. I have no idea. I'm doing what works for me. That's all that matters. I think in the 60s, that's when it was in its heyday. Points plus freestyle. So you guys know I'm the only one doing smart points, but yay for anybody who's very liberating, Robby. Good to see you. No, Jennifer, I'm pretty sure they'll keep freestyle. If nothing else, I'm pretty sure they'll keep freestyle. Mindy's mom, Mary, you're doing smart points with me. Because there's so many people extremely successful on freestyle. The bummer is I have found in my own inventory of the internet is either people are like kicking major arse, and I mean major arse like my friend Liz over at 23 points a day. Angela and Caitlin at SmackVision, those three alone are on freestyle and they are slaying the program. I mean, these women have congratul- Oh my gosh, Lisa, here's to you. Eugenia, I miss yours. I don't know, Mary, what Eugenia did. I missed it, but you're two pounds from 80 pounds lost. Cheers girls, raise your cups of water for Eugenia and Lisa, you guys. Oh my gosh, that's so exciting. I wish I was in position to like send you guys congratulatory gifts, that's so great. Oh you guys, that's so wonderful. The three ladies I just mentioned, if you're not watching them, SmackVision, two ladies in one video, and Liz over at 23 points a day on freestyle. If you're on freestyle and you're not familiar with them, so successful. I mean, these ladies have dropped a ton of weight and I say my hat's off to them. It just didn't work for me. And there's a couple other YouTubers who are doing freestyle and they're sticking by it, but they don't seem to be losing any weight. So I say, what works for you do? I track bites. I have I track bites, but I don't track on my I track bites. I still go to my Weight Watchers meetings. So I track on my Weight Watcher app, but since I'm doing smart points, I keep I track bites for restaurants. And anything else that I still am a Weight Watcher. I'll always be a Weight Watcher. Always go to my meetings. I've been back for almost half an hour. Where'd you go? I was waiting for you before I said goodbye. Yeah. You guys are the best. I wish I could just, how you did. Where'd you go? I've just been sitting here. I can because I'm a little manic. Just a skosh. Hi, Sandy. You know what? I almost text you before I got on to tell you to jump on. Oh my gosh. I'm so happy to see you guys. I track bites. I track bites is an app. Look it up. It's I track bites. You can get it for free. You can pick any program that Weight Watchers has had. It has all of them. It has a calorie counter. It has keto. You can pick any program you want. It has all the foods in there for you to scan. Tills you the points. But if you want certain things like the restaurants and a couple other things I'm not sure besides the restaurants, you have to buy the pro version. But it's only, what is it? You guys like $40 for a whole year? Something like that. Me, Barbara, am I quitting Weight Watchers? Is that question at me? Because I can't see all the commentitos. No, I am not quitting Weight Watchers. I'll never quit Weight Watchers. $35 for a year, Sharon said. Cheryl, it is a little more difficult. I've heard that and I heard it before I purchased it. Again, the only reason I purchased it was for the restaurants. Because on the smart points, I'm just like that chick that has to have every point. I can't have anything dangling that I don't know what it is. So, and you guys know me. I just try to keep it as simple as possible. Okay, this is four smart points. This is five. Okay, I've used my smart points. That's it. I'm done. I don't know, Sandy, I'm not gonna, I can't, the weight tracker is now in your profile. I don't know. I'm gonna wait till they tell me because since I have joined Weight Watchers, they have changed the program twice and the whole internet gets in a whole blustery. What's gonna be? It's gonna be this. It's gonna be that. It's not gonna be this. It's not gonna be that. And everybody gets their panties in a bunch. And it's like, it's not like we have any controller over there. I'm not a huge fan of Midi Grossman. I think that they focus too much on the younger crowd and they didn't take as old broads into consideration. That's just my personal opinion. Bye, Cheryl. Thank you for hopping on. Get dinner in the air fryer. I gotta load my video with my gnocchi from in the air fryer. Sandy, Barbara, I've been here for 35 minutes waiting for you guys and now I feel like I'm just a glutton if I talk for too much longer. I just came on to spread some of my enthusiasm for the program, for my program. Oh, it goes back to school tomorrow. I'm gonna repeat myself one point. No, Sandy, we never are live at the same time together. Sharon, I haven't filmed a, oh, yum. Playing is good. You didn't miss anything. You just missed a need to just rambling, rambling because she has a place to ramble. Sandy, I was gonna ask you something and I forgot what it was. Now that I have you here, bye, Seuss. You're at the beach. You didn't have to tell me. I'll see you later. All right, you guys, well, I will take that as my cue. Jennifer, I'm so excited for you. I'll take that as my cue to ship my, I gotta do all of his furniture. Oh, you know what? His dad needs to be here soon for his haircut appointment. So I need to go check on him. I need to fold these clothes. I need to get him ready for tomorrow. I'm so excited. But join me in my enthusiasm, you guys. Join me, join me. You have a wonderful day too, Kim. I'm gonna be folding clothes. Yesterday, this kid had on a pair of shorts and he lifted up his t-shirt and he couldn't button them. He's grown out of everything. So I have to go through his clothes and get rid of everything that doesn't fit. Thank you, you guys, for being so awesome. You guys are just so, I just love you all so much. Mmm. You're the best, you guys truly are. Drink water, I love you Barbara, so much. I love your, you guys are the best. All right, I'll see you tomorrow. I'll be writing, I'm making a video the first day of school. Okay guys, thank you so much.