 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me and coming back. I I can't tell you how excited I am when you see this video we will be I'm not too sure. I think we'll be in Hawaii. I think anyways And I cannot tell you how excited I am about doing that. We've had so many things happening these last few weeks I'm filming this before we even go on our convention and I'll tell you what day I'm filming this so you know so you have a perspective it is March 19th the day of filming and You're not going to see this probably for two weeks because I'm gonna I'm going to be gone not two weeks been already gone two weekends, and I just want to have time or Wi-Fi To edit I probably will doing a little bit more real-life updates real-time updates on Instagram So if you follow me on Instagram check the link below You might see a little bit more if you want, but when I am going to do a vlog style obviously I'm going to compile You know the convention and the vacation and do a video like that, but when you see this I'll probably be home But this is a requested video because a lot of you have made comments about my Apple watch You know I love an Apple watch, and I love wearing bling But I don't like spending a whole lot of money on bling Although I have spent a lot of money on bling it in the past, but I just love something different So when I bought this is I have the Apple watch 8 The most recent one out at this point in time. So when I bought this Apple watch, I bought it with the sport band, right? Just the plain sport band. This is the aluminum in one. Did I say that right aluminum in one and not not the Stirling silver one or anything like that. So it's the cheaper face and I always buy that This color and the cheaper band because I know I'm going to replace the band. I'm not going to keep the band So I go on to Amazon and I buy these bands. So take a look at this. I Mean this is really pretty right and this is a stretchy band So when you if you know how the Apple watch works when you stick this in you slide it into the Brackets and then I don't have to do anything else. I just stretch it put it on my wrist Make sure that's in the appropriate place and it monitors my fitness level it monitors my activity level as well as phone calls I can answer the phone if I want to and talk on my watch Which I hate to do because I find that very it's hard to hear I don't like it, but I like different watch bands. So and they hold up well, right? You can get a really pretty Apple watch band from Apple and spend a hundred bucks or more But I'll go to Amazon and I'll search them and I will order watch bands and I might spend 20 bucks So once I got my Apple watch, I've had this one Got I want to say this is about four years old now and this is sort of the pearls It just really is pretty I want you to see because this holds up the slides into the bracket This has held up so well I wear this and I put this on if I'm going to a wedding or a more formal occasion I wear the pearls because it dresses up my Apple watch perfectly So I bought that years ago and at the same time I also bought this one with the pink beads and I will wear that depending on the you know the occasion And I'll put that on and it just like I say dresses up The clunky-looking Apple watch. So those are my my favorites I also have the more traditional bands that I bought over the course of time The silver one, I'll put this on this looks really pretty with the brackets you slide it in This is not stretchy So you're going to have the clip that you have to undo and then you can adjust it What I like about the stretchy ones I would I wear the small or the medium and they just stretches over your wrist You don't have to adapt or cut or take off any links You don't have to struggle with opening a clip to put it on. I just slide it over my wrist I love it and this pretty blue one. Oh gosh, this is a pretty one. You've seen me wear this one I usually get comments when I'm when I'm showing when I have my hands up in a video when I'm showing and People can see my Apple watch. I usually get comments on my my band So I have a number of different bands that I have bought This is magnetic, which is super easy again to just take on and off and and then this is just your regular sports band This is what it looks like when I buy it from Apple. You know, I can just slide it on. It's very very plain I also bought two and I don't know where the other one is. I've been looking for it. These are from Cape Diablo, I Love these you put this on and those of you that have seen me this is the one you wrap around your wrist and it just gives you this really cool kind of bohemian look on Your Apple watch. I wear this a lot What the problem I find with this one that I wrap around is you have to be careful when you wrap it around so that it's Wrapped in the right position so the wrap doesn't go underneath and lift up the watch base Because you want to have accurate readings right for your health. I mean, that's why I have an Apple watch I didn't buy an Apple watch because I thought it was pretty I Actually thought it was ugly when I bought it, but I bought it because I knew I could get my text messages I knew I could do certain things on it But more importantly, I was at that point in time when I went to Apple I was a Fitbit wearer and I had a big Fitbit right watch and I was trying to monitor my health With the watch my steps my activity level and I just loved all the safety features that I Could get from an Apple watch so I converted left my Fitbit went to Apple and I haven't looked back This is Apple watch eight if and this has actually happened If I fall or a really sudden movement My watch will ask me if I'm okay And if I don't respond within a certain amount of time, it'll call 911 It'll get me help. So, um, I love that feature when years ago when my husband had a blood clot and It's a very very frightening. We had been away in Burlington, Vermont I had presented a session on social media This is way back in the day and we drove home from Burlington, Vermont Jay drove us all the way home. I had to run in the office So I he he got out of the car got out of the car I ran in the house with my suitcase. I was just going to get something I was gonna get back in the car and when I looked out the window I saw him weird and he comes in the house and he's staggering like a drunk I'm like looking at him like what in the world, right? He's staggering like a drunk and all of a sudden he opens the door and he just falls in his head slams on the back of my counter and I see blood and I'm like Wow, what happened? Well My house phone. I had one of those really wacky house phones. It was not working And because we were doing everything on our cell, but my cell phone was in the car It had had my Apple watch or his Apple watch. I Could have gotten help immediately as it was I'm screaming trying to get him help Trying to get the house phone, which didn't work Then I had to run out to the car to get my cell phone and I had bad cell reception I'm screaming in the phone for help. He's bleeding out on the floor And I have no idea what happened. I can only when I got somebody, you know, 9-11 they connected They got me help the only thing I could describe is that he fell. I didn't know what was happening I did not know they had a blood clot. I had no idea it was really going on with him physically and But it was the most frightening thing and I always think back about how Paralyzed in fear I was and how I could I could not get My house phone to work I had to leave him lying there run out to the car to get an other phone and then have crappy cell reception inside and I Sorry thinking about it. I am It was it was frightening. It was frightening. So when I first started to hear about some of the safety features on the Apple watch I said That would make life so much easier should anything happen to one of us again Because I could I could give this phone at my watch a command to call for help if I needed it I wouldn't even have to dial something. I wouldn't have to hold something in my hand and dial it I could I could get it from my watch and At my age 69 J will be 69 in in June at my age that sense of a little bit of security of if something happened, you know, I could get help and It's huge and I also remember hearing a story about a kid Who had gone off the road and we was in a ditch and he was pinned and he couldn't get out and there was a creek I think and He he couldn't call for help. He couldn't get out He was stuck in his car and all of a sudden they dawned on him and he asked for Siri, which is a command that wakes up our phones and we have that Siri I don't want to say because I don't want an answer me now But he called for her in his car because he knew his phone was somewhere He just didn't know where because when the accident happened and went flying everything went flying and He said I need help and he was able to direct his phone, which was somewhere else in his car To dial 911 and get him help and it saved him And I thought, you know, awesome. Awesome. So I'll never be without my Apple watch I may leave my phone behind at times, but I'll never be without my Apple watch because of that one thing So having these pretty little blingy bracelets to Dress up my Apple watch makes me happy. I love it So a number of you also and I'm not trying I'm Apple doesn't know I exist Well, they know I exist because I spent a lot of money on apples because I'm an Apple person I have iPad. I have a MacBook Pro Actually, I have two iPads now. I have an iPad Pro and my old original iPad I was gonna sell it, but I've been using it more as a reading device at night in bed So I'm thinking I'm gonna keep it where my iPad Pro. I've been using it as a workhorse I've been doing a number of other things with it. So I am an Apple user Anyways, some of my earrings now my life Wendy or Wendy's creations created a number of these earrings for me and They are absolutely beautiful. Some of the work that she has done I get in some of them some of them. These are not all hers, right? Some of them like this one is one that I had when I was a kid This is when I bought at the beach So not all of these are ones that Wendy created but a good amount of them are and whenever I wear earrings in it I mean in real life as well as in video life, I'll get people that'll ask me about my earrings a lot and Most of the time I'm wearing something that my life Wendy created for me And I have a couple of different stands here with earrings, right? So I've got like the one I just showed you and then this one and then in my bedroom I have an earring tree But I just wanted you to see Some of the different earrings again Wendy didn't create all of these but she created a lot of them What I did is I asked her I told her what I was looking for and I said would you do like a surprise package? Give me a price. I Can't remember whether it was a $50 or $75 I don't remember what the package price was that I paid and she And I said take your time. I'm not a rush. Whatever you create. Here's the type of things. I like surprise me and And she created and sent me the package. I was so thrilled with that. I had a second one done So Wendy, I hope you still doing them because I think I'm gonna do a third one But anyway, she created these earrings and I wear them a lot and I always get compliments Always always it doesn't matter and people will say which get those all those are pretty so I do like wearing earrings I'm an earring person. I'm not so much a necklace person because I like I wear this one for my mom all the time And and every now and then I'll wear my pearls or some beads and stuff like that that I have some really pretty pearl necklaces but I'm more of an earring junkie And that's what I just really like. I think earrings dress you up make you feel good They can frame your face and Wendy has done some really nice earrings for me So I wanted to just talk about that and of course share my Apple watch So if you're an Apple watch person check out my link below because I'll link it to the Amazon my Amazon storefront and You can see some of the different designs and even if you search on Amazon if you don't want to go through my link I get it. I understand Even though it's not gonna cost you anymore to do so But if you can just search on Amazon Apple watch bands, you you'll get you'll get page after page after page of entries. It's Amazing how many they have so I love all my bands. So we're getting ready to leave I've been packing. I've been going through clothes. I've been trying to figure out what to wear what to bring I'm gonna bring this top if it's long sleeve But I think it's perfect for at night and I can wear it with a pair of leggings Because it's a longer top that goes down below my butt sort of like almost like a short dress But it's not a dress So and I have another one that it were in a previous video So I'm gonna think I'm gonna bring that and I'm gonna bring my hats I need my hats right as well as my sunblock. So so I think we're gonna be all prepared Jay is trying to book us a sunset cruise ahead of time almost everything We've tried to do has been sold out, but I almost don't much care because I just want to Relax I've had so many different things happen. I just want to relax veg out and just Just enjoy Some time away, you know, and then I'll come back to reality I'll come back to everything that's going on at work and my health and you know Family stuff and and deal with whatever happens after I come back. So anyways, thank you all so much for watching I will see you in my next video much love to you all Bye-bye