 Well, I think I'm gonna try to do this sort of more like maybe a vlog style a little bit of this a little bit of that You know Jay, and I've been trying to do a lot of yard work and we have a lot still to do we're gonna probably hire a Big machine guy to get rid of that. We've got like a wild outgrown area there right behind my bird feeder and Want to knock it down and you know, maybe plant a little garden or whatever. It's good soil. So That's kind of like our plans for back here I love and I film a lot in the spring and summer back here Because I love being out here. I love the birds. We have several hummingbird feeders So from inside I watch the hummingbirds come and fly we make our own hummingbird food So I change it all the time I think maybe every two to three days and I only put a little tiny bit in my feeders So I'm always changing the sugar water and I just love when they when they come in and visit us I mean the little things in life, right? You get it. You're gonna find it while you can I Just passed well cup two weeks ago and mentioned that we had by this day here many and cause just a couple of pitches I didn't take a whole lot of pictures. I was really super busy on Mother's Day running around and I just didn't take a whole lot of pictures and I normally I it was really hard because I really wanted to pose everyone, you know, like a group photo and I didn't do that. I remember Father's Day, which is coming up in June, right? We had my father here and I remember how Difficult it was to get him here, you know, because we He was not mobile very much at all in June of last year But he was here with us and we had a barbecue and you know, we had the fire pit going and everyone's sitting around and I have a number of pictures and you know, everyone really came here that day on Father's Day and On Mother's Day, I just kept thinking of that because I didn't know that Father's Day Was gonna be the last Father's Day, you know that my hat I would have with my dad I mean you obviously never know when the last day is right, especially as your parents get older So anyways, I'm a firm believer in making memories In whatever way you can So that was Mother's Day. It was it was a great day for us here as the family and then I Last Sunday, I went down to my niece's house in Massachusetts And we had a sprinkle now I mentioned before that it was a baby shower, but she's having a baby girl and so we did that and it was just it was a small gathering that we were outside and It felt like life was normal, you know Some people were vaccinated. I'm sure some might not have been nobody asked any questions everyone, you know Before anyone hugged you they asked if it was okay Which is fine, you know But it was just lovely. She got a bunch of beautiful gifts and she's having a baby girl and She's gonna name the baby girl after my dad's sister who was killed in a school bombing in Germany as a young girl and I think she's 12 and so she's gonna name the baby after Adelina and I just think that's so So special, you know so special so anyways and clothing some pictures in here so that you can see It's like it's just really beautiful. She got some gorgeous gorgeous clothes We don't know if we're gonna give her a nickname Adi or Lena or whatever But I'm so thrilled that she's choosing to name the baby after my father's sister and her middle name will be Clara with a K after my mother's sister, so It's a great way to tie in both paternal and maternal In a little baby girl's name, so I love it. I am I'm also still a little swollen guys I had my second root canal Second of you know, you had a root canal that was an old root canal They had to clean it out as very very infection very swollen So I had the second visit for that root canal Yesterday and oh my gosh the root canal itself wasn't super painful But when they give you that injection up in the roof of your mouth, I I was glad I went to the bathroom because I probably would have peed myself in pain Really painful so Yeah, I know it's just kind of like, you know, I Don't know, you know, I was like lying there and I did take a picture I had my shoes on and it's like I said in the wintertime the views must be beautiful because it overlooks the city in Manchester the window by where I was so I took a picture of the hot but anyways last night. It was a lot of pain The Nova came started to wear off. It's just an a ton and ton of pain. It was unbelievable but this morning I'm okay, you know, I feel good my my I have a third visit to go to where they you know, take the temporary filling out and redo the whole Filling bit, you know, but I guess I'm gonna do that in a couple of weeks So yeah, I got my root canal done almost the biggest part of it. It's done. Anyways, the root canal part So thank God. I don't want to ever go through that again, and I know who knows. I probably will right But you know other than that it's been It's been a it's been a crazy week I talked a little bit about real estate last week and my video and how busy it is and You know having been a real estate agent for 36 years and I'm an associate broker and At one point J and I owned our own farm. It's really hard for us To because we know what the market does, you know, it goes up and down and so it's like really hard for us to Not jump in and tell people Don't buy but I think if it were me, you know, and if anyone asks me I would say that You know the old real estate saying buy buy low sell high well right now. It's the sell high for sellers And housing is a inherent need of people. It's it's there that The need people need that security of housing of a roof over the head of A place that can make their memory. So people will always buy and it's just A difficult market when you see things happening That You shake your head like people By passing The home inspections, which I would never do I would never bypass the home inspection No, I wouldn't because to me that's like That's crazy. Um, it's scary crazy Because you never know you could bypass the home inspection, but you never know what could be hidden, you know or um Not so much hidden necessarily by seller, but maybe even a seller doesn't even know so Yeah, seeing all that kind of stuff. I cringe at it. I really do. I cringe at it because to me it's so scary To have people do that to bypass You know, even even the appraisals they're saying, okay Well, you know the bank requires an appraisal will come up with a difference and people are borrowing From family to come up with a shot fall I don't know and I don't know if there's any end in sight because I think the big difference in this Escalated market is that it is not investor driven, you know our last real estate boom and bust The market was investor driven So when you know speculation and all that right now, it's that basic need of housing I think a lot of it has to do with covet with the feeling of being secure and people are You know, they're they're actually coming up to the country. You know what I mean? They're they're escaping in some cases the cities because You know, they want You know, they want to have That security of feeling You know that maybe They're away from A lot of things. I don't know if that's the right way to say it or not, but Yeah, so my real estate market is totally crazy Totally insane and I don't know how long it's going to continue to be that way But it is what it is. I guess In that sense, you know, how much you can do about it I do and I'm happy I live in the country Even though I complain we don't have things like public. Well, there is public transportation, but Not readily, you know, you'd have to go into one of the cities, but where I live in my little country House, there's no public transportation To get a cab to come here would be like crazy expensive So I do have a A different lifestyle in that sense. So I know somebody you're going to ask is this a wig This is actually my bio hair This is no, there's no topper a lot of times I will wear my hair And I'll put a topper on my hair or I put a fake bun and I twist it up But this is just my hair down In its Natural state it's getting a little bit longer. So it covers a little bit more of my forehead I have such a wicked high forehead that You know, I always feel like I'm all forehead. I'm such a long face So Yeah, anyways, I just wanted to share a couple of things with you. I I I probably will Pick up a little bit more as I go forward in the week But I wanted to sort of start sort of a little vlog. Oh this weekend. We're getting company And um, I reached out to Sheila life with Lily Simply sila and I said What can I cook that I can't mess up And so she she had made a suggestion of chicken kebabs And so I really don't know. I think I could mess that up. I'm not a cook. I'm not a susie homemaker. I'm not a A kitchen diva at all. I'm not a kitchen diva. I don't like the kitchen. I don't like kitchen work. I don't like cooking I don't like any of that So anyways, but we're having company friends of Jay's golf and his wife and I know them both. They're a lovely couple So they're gonna come over and we're gonna have a fire pit I'm gonna sit about I do make a mean margarita. So I'll make a picture or two of margaritas And um, and then whatever we cook. I don't know idea, but I would have probably go shopping That out Get any ideas? Anyways, by the time this goes public because I'm gonna probably wrap this up as a sunday vlog so to speak And uh, so by the time it goes public, it will be sunday sunday sunday sunday sunday sunday So anyways, um, that's it for now. I'll come back in a few or you know hour or two or tomorrow I'm back. I Yeah, I wasn't very good. I didn't come back yesterday, but something happened this week that has I guess it's been weighing on me and it made me think That this is probably something that would be very very Very good to discuss or to bring up and you know that is maybe the role of influencers and product reviews and endorsements You know, I first of all just let me say I have never as of yet done a sponsored video. I'm not saying I wouldn't do a sponsored video If somebody offered me a sponsorship on a product I believed in you better believe I jump on that opportunity to make money Sure, why not? But the key thing is a product I believe in So for me I don't want to just You know, I mean I do a lot of octally reviews but I'll tell you 90 times 90 of the time when I go into octally, I don't even select a product There's either nothing there that floats my boat that pulls me in. I don't even select it So if I'm selecting a product to review from octally, it's going to be something Something I really want something I really like And and then I may because octally has funny rules of 21 days You know, I may talk about it way before I use it up to really know But I usually say that you know just started going to be starting looking forward to trying it And then there are other companies That reach out and in my email, I'm not exaggerating in my email And I have two emails that are affiliated with my youtube channel But without any exaggeration in that email, I probably have on any given day between 20 and maybe even 30 to 40 emails from brands Many of them I might take a quick look and I delete Most of them I've never heard of, you know, because obviously I'm a small youtuber, right? I'm not going to get no big brands that are going to reach out to me But every now and then I get something that I'm like, oh, you know, I want to try this And there's a number of those that I have done dermatology. For example, I love their products Um new face, you know, um skin store. Oh my gosh, I love them and got all these bugs around me, but You know color science I love their their products and science serum um A number of products the cool oil CBG so I can probably count on my two hands the number of brands that I've said yes to That I've enjoyed and continue to use and the rest I say no to So I guess what I'm trying to say is that we all know because we always say it Just because something works for me doesn't mean it's going to work for you It's the same thing. You know, I like blink eyelash serum. It works great on my eyes But people that I know and love dearly it does not work for So it isn't going to work for everyone. Um anything I talk about on my skin isn't going to work for everyone but If I'm talking about a product I usually Before I say yes I usually will google that product. I actually read reviews on that product See because I don't want to be talking about a product that has terrible reviews I also firmly believe that Service customer service is super important So I kind of feel like I put my name down on the line type of thing, you know and anyways So this week And this is the first time that this has happened to me to this degree I've had other times where you know, one of you said I tried that I left them It's just not for me. So it wasn't the product. It wasn't the service. It was it was um I shouldn't say it wasn't the company. It wasn't the service It was just simply the product did not work for you and it's the same thing with foundations Eyeshadows for example So, you know, when that's all that's a bummer didn't work for you or and all that However, um this week There was a product that one of you bought and I'm not going to mention the name of the product or The person that bought it but one of you bought it based on my recommendation based on the fact that I was using it and I was liking it And that's quite an honor, you know, that's quite a compliment. So I take that really serious If you ever buy anything because I've talked about it Uh, or or I've influenced you in that sense to buy it And it didn't work out and I know sometimes that's a case and I know that You know, when that happens, I usually I'm usually told nicely lately in in a comment Oh, I tried it didn't work for me. Uh, you know, whatever But sometimes the product simply fails And sometimes it fails because it's a bad product bad batch bad You know bad storage of from the manufacturer had nothing to do with the person that bought it so sometimes the product simply fails and It's very telling when a company a manufacturer Doesn't stand behind their product that bothers me a lot. And so that's actually what happened And I know everyone has a bad day I've had them. I've had more than my share of bad days Everyone has a bad day And I know not everything works for everybody and I do know sometimes you can have new people handling your front desk Maybe they're not fully trained Or maybe that's a likely excuse. I don't know but again, like I said, I'm not going to name names Ultimately the end of the story is that if you ever Are influenced To buy or try something and I know some of you have gone through reliable rx because I buy my retinae in india And I know from a couple of you that right now shipping is delayed But aside from that, you know, if you ever have an issue if I've had something you've bought And it just hasn't Worked out and you go to return it, right or whatever and you feel that you're getting bad service I want to know You know and not to say that I could fix it But maybe I can or maybe I can try but I want to know I don't I don't feel personally responsible for A company or a brand Bad service I just want to know if that happens because I don't want to recommend them or their product In that sense and it's really sad when the product in question Might be something I enjoy and I use and I probably will continue to use it because for me it's worked out really well So it's really it's really bad because I do know you you know, everyone has an off day Product can have an off product too. I don't know But it just made me really think about influencers the things we talk about and I'm I'm super guilty of it You know what when someone talks about a new hair serum or something that's gonna, you know prevent hair fall out I'm like all over it. I'm like Yeah, you know because you want to believe it, right? And and I've been disappointed too And I just don't want to disappoint you guys like that I don't want you to be disappointed like I've been disappointed. I really don't So when something doesn't work And it's beyond it just doesn't work for me You know my mascara, right? I love my mascara, but some other people that was that wasn't worth it. No, no, you know um anything like that you know, I I don't want you guess I I guess I don't want you to ever feel like you can't say it to me You certainly can say it to me and send me an email. You can leave me a comment and I will do whatever I can within my power to make it right and I think that if a brand Values, you know, like I'm considered more of a micro influencer. Obviously. I don't have a huge huge following my channel is growing at a very slow moderate pace And uh, well sometimes it seems like it's standing still. I do know it's growing and even though it's a slow moderate pace It's a growing and I enjoy it. So Yeah, I just want you to feel that It's okay to reach out and I will do what I can to fix it to make it better If possible And I also want you to know that I value Every single one of you and if one of you buys something you had earned money Buys it because I talked about it and it works for me. I so Wanted to work for you. I do. I wanted to work for you so I take and I think ultimately this is really what I wanted you to know I take my My reputation fairly but more importantly I take products. I talk about seriously. I want you to know that I actually do check them out And before I say yes, and I think most content creators do that, especially The ones that I know and yes, I only know smaller channels because we take the time and you know, we want to grow our channel the right way and And we know that our name is on the line basically So I know most people that I know that that are in my You know my circle of people that I hang out with so called on youtube Do the same thing they read reviews. They check out the product before they say yes so Yeah, I just I want you to know that I want you to know that there is some thought process into a product that I say yes to and I don't lightly talk about a product unless I've actually tried it and if I Haven't had a chance to really use it. I was tell you that, you know Just like I always tell you if it's a product that was said to be complimentary from octaly Or or any other company for that matter. So I'm going to definitely check it out And if I talk about it, I'm going to hopefully Always, you know be able to try it a little bit before I talk about it And if not, I always say that, you know, I just got this this is the first look see And all that I mean I really value I really value all of you And so that's sad if you ever buy anything That I've talked about and It hasn't worked out for you. I do want to know that and if you have an issue with a company that I'm talking about Oh Gosh, do I want to know that I do I want to know that So, um, I know this is going to be like a super long video right like crazy me just jibber jabbering But I think the role of an influencer a micro influencer no matter how big or small I think it's super important I do and um Yeah, I think it's super important. So anyways, thank you all so much for watching. I'm sorry. This is so long and Just in my backyard again, but it's this time of year when I love being out here So thank you guys. 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