 Yeah, I am laughing my ass off this morning. You see how I look right? You see how I look so I technically hold on y'all I Technically have been working off and on for about two hours. Well, Chris Christine Christine my co-worker and friend she had a meeting this morning and she said oh my god You won't believe the camera came on my camera came on me. I started laughing my ass because look I don't know about those But when I work from home, I look like this Who am I getting dressed? Well, I have my when I call my mommy uniforms. They're these long sexy T-shirt style dresses You get from I get from Walmart for less than seven, you know five six bucks They are so comfortable great birth control to girl because he is not having it So yeah, I wear this and my hair doesn't always look like this But sometimes I have a bonnet on And once I get ready for they like I'm back today right now because it's almost seven o'clock Officially get ready for the day brush my teeth take a shower. I put back on a clean clean one So she said she said the camera came on and she was screaming for her husband to get her a piece of paper to block the camera I said girl. I first of all left my ass off I said girl before I enter a meeting which most of us who work from home we do webinars Okay, so before I enter a meeting I put my thumb over the camera to make sure it's not coming on Okay, cuz you never know girl unique technical difficulties Oh, I have some good news to share with you guys and my last vlog I talked about how I was nominated for a promotion. I received a thank-you letter last Friday I'm gonna try hard not to cry because I was claiming this I'm gonna give you a testimony in a minute I officially received my promotion and it was a thank-you letter the reason why I found out it was a thank-you email Excuse me from the big balls. He sent it Friday. Basically. Thank you me for everything. I've been doing for the organization It was it was very heartfelt When I was told I was being nominated for a promotion that Monday I say my morning prayers It ain't my morning prayers. I remember it's been a couple weeks now, but in my morning prayers I said, you know, um, I'm praying for a promotion and that's when I heard the Holy Spirit say Thank thank me for the promotion. Just go ahead and give thanks for the promotion. So I change it I said, okay. Thank you for the promotion literally Five days, excuse me four days later. I get told I'm your product God is so good Everything is on his timing for that to happen that fast I was my whole thing this year was working towards a promotion I was hoping to have it by the end of the year the praise God. I've already got it The Money thing won't probably happen until the next cycle because they don't just do it, you know for the next pay period They wait for everyone to adjust payroll is totally different. So yeah, I'm gonna get ready to I Washed my face. My face is so dry lately. So you know what I'm using just a little bit sweet almond oil I'm gonna use just a little bit Just as a moisturizer and I know who is it that uses sweet almond oil. Is it you Marlene Marlene? over in Belgium She told me that she uses there ever since you told me that girl I've started using sweet almond oil on my body now I've always used first of all, I haven't used lotion on my body Sometimes they use hand lotion. I'm not gonna front But I haven't used a body lotion in years. It's been almost 15 years. I use oils But miss Marlene Jay told me y'all know who she is She told me a while back that she uses I believe you say you use sweet almond oil. So anyway JB has a dentist appointment this morning. Let me close the door y'all cuz JB has a dentist appointment this morning. Yeah, excuse me. I'm sure if y'all don't know I am short I'm only five three. That's why I was on my tippy toes. I'm only five three girl I'm Fairly even that JB has a dentist appointment this morning. I'll kind of take y'all with me poor thing. I Have been spreading out these dental appointments and those you don't know my baby has a number of cavities We try to slow this process down by having what's called SDF applied to his teeth Which is a sodium diamide. It's basically a preventative pace that helps to slow down the decay of teeth JB has a very soft enamel. So as young as God, I started noticing it around three years old His teeth started flaking and then he started getting hold and then what happened is when I went to a dentist about that By the time we went to another dentist when he was four they turned into cavity So today's gonna be a crock-pock time of the day type of day because I have too much to do today Plus tomorrow my husband's off. I'm gonna be cooking Crock-Pot I've layered at the bottom here. We have purple onion just a little bit jalapeno to Garlic cloves we have baby potatoes baby Carrots some season this is all about layering when you do this type of stuff y'all So I have all my season is here garlic part of onion part of salt pepper paprika red pepper flakes Salt olive oil we're gonna put turmeric on the chicken now I'm gonna be using just a little bit of this Campbell's oven classic roasted chicken. So that's what I want to do I'm gonna pour some on top like this just a little bit Okay, cuz a chicken once the chicken cook cooks down. It's gonna produce its own juices, okay? I'm gonna put this on low cuz it's early. It's now once this is done I'm gonna finish it off in the oven. I find that when you do meats and crock-pock at least for me Which I rarely do y'all I probably cook in this once every other month I just don't like the texture of the chicken once it's done unless I'm doing a soup I'll do soups with like shredded chicken. Anyway, I Put my food under the broiler for about five minutes for it to get crispy sometimes longer. So that's I'm going to be seasoning my cast iron. I have a lot cast iron. I have this Dutch oven I have this griddle. I have this cast iron this one this one Okay, JV and I think I have a small one down here. So here we go ignore him So one two three four five six Every now and then if something happens you can use soap and water But you do not want to do it consistently because it messes up the safety of the pan I use a stainless steel scrubber to get the rest off. See how that has a little bit of rust and hot water and Then we're gonna put Shortening row it down each panel shortening Place it in the oven at the highest it can go do not I've seen videos will put it on self-cleaning. Don't do that because self-cleaning mechanism locks your oven God forbid if something were to happen, you won't be able to open your house is gonna burn down. Don't put it on self-cleaning I have it on 500 Scrub everything down put the grease in shortening Excuse me placing in the oven for a few hours and that's how I clean and season my cast iron skillets Now I've seen some people that flip the cast iron skillet under excuse me over Because that I help it but we're just gonna do this for now because I have so many of them I would have to do this in two batches if I were gonna flip them over, okay? This is gonna go in for a few hours. Hey you guys. So what are y'all reading? I've already I've been slowing down on the reading just due to stuff going on with the house But I started reading Christopher Pike's strange girl strange folks. Excuse me I'm a huge pike fan y'all those of you who are readers Christopher Pike is a well-known Teen novelist I followed him on Facebook and a couple of months ago. I wrote on his Facebook page I used to have the biggest crush on Christopher Pike. Who am I kidding? I still have a crush Why did he respond to that y'all? Never know y'all look at what look at what I bought the show you want it I bought him a ventriloquist dummy if when I tell you saw y'all Oh Yeah, I cover that thing up with a blanket and before I go to bed Christopher Pike to respond it to my Look, I'm not not I'm not naive to know that I know a lot of those people have Admits that managed their site, but they signed their name on his particular page The admin signed their name when they respond to a fan But this was signed Pike. It was him and plus he mentioned his wife and this man is Hold on y'all He's very private so Yeah, I know we're all over the place he wants me to show Okay Look at this look like a great massage chair all the way back I Know a short okay punch Yeah Why is it so dark? There we go You see what's happening. He's loaning up to the we are on our way to Papa does He is getting on my nerves. I did a light beat my hair is still looking like mama say mama's a cousin Yay We're gonna go to Papa does for an early dinner late lunch And Have me some catfish and red beans and rice and look I'm so greedy. Oh, you okay, but take your time take your time Y'all, I don't know about you, but lately the meats. I've been getting at the stores specifically chicken wings have been discussing so Hold on hold on y'all I'm watching you oh that is creepy You like the bread yummy you gonna peel y'all some more. There you go Why is it so dark in there? Look at sneeze I have no idea why it's dark This was good Papa that was good y'all look I was worried about looking raggedy and 30 minutes into our meal this random woman came up to our table and was like I just want to say my husband. I saw you walking in and I said to my husband. That is a woman who knows how to dress Thank you. She told her she told him. She said you have one beautiful mom. I'm like, oh, thank you Yeah, I was feeling a little raggedy today Come on, baby I'm looking for I'm looking for this purse that I left here a couple of days ago It's black Y'all we're at Ross you know why oh, this is cute not for $28 though. No That's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a bucket purse No, yeah, I found it zip it back up To be back up. Well, there's something inside. Yeah, there is baby zip it back up Leave that in there and zip it back up for mommy. Y'all I found it the first Yeah, I have to excuse JV's hair. I'm letting it grow out Zip it all the way No, let me show it to them. Isn't that cute y'all? It's just I thought it was 10 is $12. That's it And I've been wanting a bucket purse for forever. All right, baby. Come on. Let's go Yeah This is yours Mr.. Booster seat why did it come I got baby another inflatable car seat for our trip to Texas and He has this side little thing where he read his best his head on I got a sample of TG. I am and then we have essential oil Jenny We have me do these I have some mice, but I'm pretty sure I want to One of my favorite movies one of my favorite movies with her is not every five Let me show it like go ahead and show it cuz I'm Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You guys this is gonna be a long vlog I always say that don't I always say that and then I chop it down to like 30 40 minutes Y'all have no idea the amount of editing when you do vlogs And I guess it depends on You hear that noise girl you hear that drill it. Yeah, I mean the asses are here and I shouldn't say that Excuse my language. They mean that they are here And he's just putting up the drywall. Y'all this is just I am Fitting me tired girl. Yeah, I'm out here at the grocery store Spending money that I shouldn't be spending. Um, I saw a recipe on Um, I saw a recipe on YouTube. It was Grilled butter chicken When I tell you I must have watched that video three times Zoom it in on the picture girl. So I'm gonna try to attempt that I'll record it y'all today It's gonna be a bunch of mess because I have another meeting later on and then I have an appointment with the vain specialist The reason I'm upset is because My hair is dry as hell I took the bands out because I was stretching my hair for a style I was gonna do in like three more days So I took it down to moisturize my hair as I'm taking it down. It feels like straw. So it's extremely dry Excuses, I know you guys can't see me that well. It's extremely dry. You know, Miss Earlette was right She told me way back in December that I need to be more consistent with my products because What I happen is that I'll use something that's really good and then use something that's bad And it sets my sets me back with my hair regimen. So What happened was I used the blue magic grease to do a twist out. Hold on y'all. Is that better? I don't know. I used the blue magic grease to do a twist out and it was a fail My hair was the moisture was still but my hair was greasy and I felt like the grease Coated my strands and not in a good way so I went ahead and proceeded to wash my hair with sulfates and then I applied the Maui Volcanic ash pitiful mask to my hair and it felt like when I was rinsing it out and like I said I was looking down at my hands and I could see hair So a lot more in this shaded hair was coming to my hair was kind of coming out coming out to excuse me a little bit and Now as my hair has completely dried it really it dried out my hair basically and I know I saw One two other comments from other people that said that the product line in general more street Maui moisture dries out there. Yeah, I'm out front of the girl. I got my days all mixed up Let me tell y'all what's going on. I'm out front of the doctor's office. I'm done I had a follow-up with the vein specialist so as you don't know in February I had what's called grout. I don't even know the correct terminology. I have pain in my legs you guys For multiple reasons, but the main one is varicose veins. So I had a Who girl diva GSV done which basically was laser treatment to basically cut off Whatever's going on with the leg and so lately. I've been having some pain like yesterday last night. I Wasn't so much pain and I took one of my pills one of my Gabapentin pills, I just need to take one. I'll be okay. You know, um, I'm gonna crank up my car But I had a follow-up appointment. I wanted to make a follow-up appointment with him Which is what I had today and he's such a sweet guy. He's very very gentle He's almost like a grandpa like you know what I mean? Anyway, he basically was like when did you have this done? I'm like, it's been a couple of weeks and the girl next to him She said it was spending since February and he's like well Where it's the pain and I showed him where it was at all the way down he's like well, I you know, it takes a while to heal and Sometimes when you have the procedure done, it can hit the nerve next to it and that's just It'll just take a while. It isn't there's nothing wrong and I guess the Office manager could see my face a little bit sad because I thought it would be you know, you needed immediate Not immediate, but you know it shouldn't takes a month I thought but when he left she said I've had this done Several I've had several treatments with him. Excuse me and she said it does take a while She said a couple of months after she had it done. She was suddenly feel pain but for me to keep more in my compression stockings and My legs are so big y'all that I have to reorder them, you know, every other month So like every four or five months I have to reorder a new pair because they get loose Real quick and I have to go get I have to leave and pick up JP girl girl girl Jerry is a Let me tell you what happened today Can you see me can you even see me? Can you girl get it together? Let me tell y'all what happened today with Jerry and Travis Yesterday out of the blue. Well, y'all y'all heard it Y'all heard me earlier today and the guy was here. So yesterday out of the blue He texts me. This is Jerry the one that told my husband never to text me again So Jerry takes me and say that I'm not even asking when you're available Telling us that's another thing that we don't like that these folks have been doing out of the blue 4 p.m. The drywall guy would be there between 8 and 9 Okay, Jerry, you know, can you ask me if I'm available the drywall guy comes at 7 30 No problem with me miss Jackson has been up for a couple hours, but my husband is still sleep So I tell him by the way The drywall is here guys here. I have to leave so I leave drop JV off. I come back and it's been busy This is all what happened this morning. It's been busy all morning The hell all morning. I've been busy with meetings and just getting substituted with my just at work I'm busy y'all right Chow Wow when I was in the living room, no in the den doing something Jerry walks through the damn door. No knocking no sending me a text message to say I'm on my way to see how things are going. He walks through his outdoor like he coming in To come to come over for them not even that like this is his damn house He wave didn't even speak wave and just walked on in so I went in my husband was sleeping in the guest bedroom I went in and I said Jerry is here. I Don't mean to be dramatic. I was like Jerry Jerry is here. He just showed up and walked through the house My husband put those covers over his head. I was like, oh shit So Jerry was there for about 15 minutes 15 20 minutes I guess he was picking up some supplies that the guy was done with My husband was heated. He was like I specifically asked the manager that we did not want My husband say he has to you just can't say Jerry can't be on a on the Project he is the project manager He manages the subcontractor. So we don't want Jerry. We don't want Travis We don't want anyone. I've been trying to tell my husband is y'all for damn near two weeks So we've been going back and forth Since earlier this week because the guys just showed up What's today Thursday and then we're supposed to been here a Monday girl So we've been going back and forth all week on whether or not we should fire them and my husband's so I don't know. I wouldn't say he's passive aggressive. He's There's no great area with him. He's either really Soft or aggressive. So he's been telling me he's like, well, you know, you're your people skills You know are better than mine and not necessarily that but he's basically you're gonna have to call them if we decide We don't want them anymore. You're gonna have to do it because they take whatever I say and Offensive so I said, you know what you need to learn how to change your communication style based on the individual I've been I've been doing this for damn near 20 years working in corporate America Some people you just can't go up and be like, hey Regina. Yeah, I need for you to do this. You have to be a good morning Regina How are you doing? How was your weekend? Even though you don't give a damn about her weekend You got it. You know, I mean put that little so whenever I've been calling Travis the owner I'm like, hey Travis, how are you doing? And the whole thing about getting another contractor on is that it may take even longer You know what I mean? Because these people they're already the ball is already rolling um So I fired them I fired them my husband's like can you just call him? I'm like, you know what? So I call up the owner and I was like, you know what? We thank you for whatever you done now, but due to the lack of communication and we've had a number of issues that have come up on this project it has Extended longer than we had anticipated. We would no longer be needing your services Girl that was like a two-second pause and Travis was like Okay, then thank you for your business and I'm gonna send you an invoice for whatever supplies you guys are used and my That's what my husband's shining. That's fine. I Need to hurry up here. I told myself to have peace of mind is priceless because that guy was look when he came in Jerry came in this morning. It was negative energy y'all. It was a weird type of negative energy and What do you got there? Let me see let me see what it is What do you think that is I Really never bought him one of these y'all. I made him one when he was one years old, but It's calling Easter basket, okay, that's what that is. Okay. He doesn't even know what it is. Oh My god, let me sit this camera down so I can show y'all what I got you like it Yeah, I was gonna make you but I saw that at Albertson seven dollars Yeah, that's very affordable. All right. That's in my budget, right? eBay I don't know my fish. Oh She said a large But that is a medium. This is not gonna fit me y'all. This is not gonna fit That's okay, baby. Yeah, I'm gonna go wash it. It's gonna fit me y'all Maybe I can make a skirt out of it This is not gonna fit y'all Girl, you got me messed up. All right you guys I think we're about to end this vlog cuz we're at the 30 minute mark But it looks like we would definitely have our Try to have this have a new person by the end of the week, which is good We are already interviewed someone yesterday or he came by and y'all he already told us that some of the stuff They were doing was wrong. I am so glad we listened to our good instinct in camps of these people So he sent us an invoice over the crappy part Not crappy. I should watch my language. The frustrating important is that He and his invoice he gave us an itemized invoice and he's gonna charge us for the rework, which is fine So anyway, we should definitely have someone a new What I'm trying to say Contractor by the end of the week and it seems like most of the people were going with they work on one or two jobs And that's it. We're asking other people would do a multiple jobs at the same time one or two jobs That's it. So anyway, I'm excited about that girl. Hopefully Look, why did Jerry send me After I'm so tired talking about this man girl after we had told them we no longer needed their services This ass fat the PM Jerry, I hate to just call him that but seriously He sends me a text message a few days later and was like we could have had you finished by the end of the week Lies all lies The fact that he sends me a text message after we fired him lets me know that we can't be working with you Anyway, because you're inappropriate. You don't know you have no sense of professionalism. So anyway, y'all Y'all these little boys, I feel kind of bad, but not really these little boys in the neighborhood We ran into these cute little boys last month and They come over here every I would say like every four or five days Wait wanting to know JB can come out and play with him Play with them. I'm sorry. The little boys look like one of them told me he's turning eight soon in the other one It's nine and I remind him JB just turned six And so I see the little boys. I asked my where y'all live that One of them lived two blocks away The other one lives around the corner and they're riding around in the neighborhood on their bicycles y'all coming over protective But I would not be allowing my child Riding around on his bicycles under the age of 10 and these little boys are scrawny and little One of them just a few inches tall within JB the seven-year-old. There's no way where we live at We live in a nice neighborhood, but it's always you know, the bad things happening in the nice neighborhood You always see we never thought that we happen in this neighborhood type of stuff going on So you put it like this I would rather be safe than sorry. This is not the 80s. Hell This is not the 90s. We used to be able to ride Where I was growing up we used to be able to ride our bikes and be out seven or eight years old and No one would mess with us because everyone will look after each other. My neighbors are not even like that My neighbors from Texas are they're cool, but I don't even talk to my other neighbors, you know under me I talked to miss Lori. That's I guess my point is that JB. No, and he's he's a little sad He's like, oh, what can I get first of all you're a kindergartner second second the age is 10 Maybe not even then. Mm-hmm. I know I don't know y'all. Let me know what y'all think This is a nice neighborhood, but another thing is also we live five minutes away from the interstate So it will be real easy for someone to snatch up a kid and get on the interstate. You would never see that I mean, seriously, I was telling Another grand a grandparent actually and I said I'm not letting my let my kid play out in the yard And she told me there was a case out here Guess in the 90s where a little girl was playing out in the front yard and someone kidnapped her and they've never seen that child again No, Phoenix is up there when it comes to Sex offenders, I think they're either number one or number two They're basically in the top five when it comes to sex offenders y'all Phoenix is no joke not doing that not doing it I'm not like allowing my baby to Unless I'm welcome me even then. All right, you guys that is it for this vlog Tomorrow, I'm gonna be meeting with Nick again and mission long though We're gonna go out to eat and the weather has been a little funky here, but we'll see y'all I've been in a weird mood lately. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is I think it's because of what's going on with the house. I know that's what it is. So All right, you guys take care