 Happy Monday everyone! What's up? I wanted to give a update, a YouTube update. This I guess is my 31st video I counted because I wasn't sure how many I was at. For those of you that were following since the beginning when I started a couple months ago I made this challenge for myself. I was going to do a hundred videos and blog posts and for the most part I've stuck to that. I had to go down to once a week because I just realized it making a video and editing and posting and all that takes a lot more time than one might expect. So with that I was just like wanting to give an update about what I've learned so far. Let's talk about expectations. So in the beginning I expected like I was like no one's gonna watch these videos but for the most part like I've heard from some of you that I've never met before and to me that's just astounding that like you can connect with someone on the other side of the country or the world even and like have a commonality that you that you share but it's just like that that's so crazy to me and I've had like my faithful friends that like were like yeah you're doing this channel it's awesome like we're gonna watch it with you and so I think I appreciate that but more than anything I guess I expected like no one to watch them so even if I have like five views I'm so excited. Little and like for those of you that don't know me I actually have a teaching degree I got a teaching degree in German and English education and so that's something I've always wanted to do. I have I have done a bit of teaching and instructor work in the past but I had kiddos and that kind of took the front seat for a while so now I'm getting back into my German translating work work has picked up. I'm looking at another job opportunity possibly in the near future and so I really like like just to be honest with you guys I'm really weighing like okay do I stick with this hundred challenge like I want I want to start or I want to finish what I've started and like my husband and I had this discussion like I have in the past left things unfinished once I start them and I'm not sure why that is like I've had to do a lot of thinking about it in the last week or so and it kind of left me in a really kind of rough spot just like man why do I do that to myself why do I not finish what I've sought out to start the only thing I can think of any job that I've like resigned from or or just kind of gotten sick of like I think it's because I get bored and so I'm not sure where that need for stimulation comes from either but I've decided that in in any capacity I'm going to finish this YouTube challenge because it's important to me and for those of you that have started watching these videos I can tell that it's important to you and I don't want to let any like you down or me down and I know that I can continue to learn about how to how to make a YouTube channel better I just um I think I've gotten a little bit complacent all just being real like there's been some weeks where I'm like y'all I don't know what to post I don't know what to talk about and so that's felt a little forced like have to think of something um but along the way friends have given me some really good ideas and like that's just that's been valuable so as my kids start school and I pick up more professionally because I do plan to work more especially like I'd like to do remote work out of my home yeah so I just want to let you know that like there's probably going to be a couple weeks I miss here and there but as far as my hundred videos I am committed to this I'm committed to you committed to this channel until I can um safely decide that this is not something I want to do anymore but for now I'm so excited to still do it a little bit more uh information than you probably need to know but I've also been teaching myself how to code um what like this has been something that I never thought I would do like literally ever um I've always put limits on myself saying I'm not a math person like I'm not in the logic I'm not into anything like that I sucked at math I sucked at math problems in school um but to be fair I look back and I never really had a good teacher or someone that could impassion me toward the ideas of math I just I kind of dismissed it and thought well I'll just get my C and be done so I always really prided myself on being like a languages person I let like I said I know German I love German I love the history behind languages I like how languages have morphed how languages always fluid and changing like that fascinates me so my husband like I don't know if I've said it before but he's like a software engineer he's a programmer and he works out of our home he's an awesome job when he talks about it it's really like it's kind of a beautiful thing I don't know if he would appreciate me calling it that but when when I see him talk about it he gets so like impassioned you can just tell he loves what he does and that um that inspires me I one day kind of asked him like do you think programming could be for me like if I looked at it from a languages perspective and he was like absolutely like you should totally try it so it's because of him and just I'm just sick of putting myself in a box and I'm wanting to try new things that I'm like heck yeah I'm gonna teach myself how to code so I went on code academy and it's a free website you can totally learn and check out and um it's been really cool and again maybe this is just because of my new perspective in life about how growth mindset is the ultimate the ultimate goal like you never want to stop learning or changing or um or putting limits on what you're on on what yourself can do because I just like keep going back to that thing like God made us for so much more than what we than what we can expect or um place limits on that Philippians 413 says I can do all things to Christ who strengthens me so I'm like sitting in front of a coding problem going I don't know what this is talking about but I can do it and so I I've just had a better mindset to work through challenges and problems and now that I'm learning how to do coding um I'm realizing like I can do that too just wanted to share a little bit about that with you guys and like encourage you if you have extra free time the world the world of software is is just you know exploding and you can make really good money doing it if you have some extra time check out code academy totally free website like I said you could upgrade to a pro version that has a lot more bells and whistles but for now the free one's been awesome for me and I know that there's plenty of other resources out there when I'm done with this for me to continue learning and maybe even get a job one day in it I have no idea what the what the future holds but like I said I'm not going to put limits on it anymore on that note go get messy have fun learn and I will see you again next time