 Anyway, happy Sunday, everyone. It is Sunday, May 30th, 2021, and it is the decade of COVID. Yeah. Anyway, it's so weird. The wedding preparations are going forward. It is weird because of COVID and they had to cut down the guest list and we have to know who's vaccinated and who isn't because that depends on where they get seated and what they can and can't do. Like, it's a whole thing. Like, I'll let you know how it comes out. It's just a thing. Anyway, yeah. Here it was finishing up gluing their fire salamony ceramic lotus thing back together that was shipped over from a family friend from Lithuania. It got broken in transit and so I fixed it. It's all done now. It's downstairs. I got to let the kids know I haven't done that yet. I was grabbing a couple of scraps of fabric that are the colors of a couple of dresses I need to alter because I need to go get some thread today and make sure I have the right colors, which I don't keep lots of thread around anymore because I don't do weddings anymore. So I need to, yeah, I'll get a couple of varying shades. So hopefully I have something that's close to how that works. What else? I need to finish the sugar skull puzzle today. I need to do June 1 through at least five daily artwork drawings and stuff ahead of time because that's going to be right when the wedding is happening and there's going to be no time. If I have time to do daily drawing during that time, I'll be surprised. So I'm going to try to do that in my head. What else do I have to do today? I feel like there's something else and I can't think of what it is. Edit video. Today or tomorrow I have to edit video and also do the weekly posts and schedule those out for the week. Plus the landscaper's coming by to hopefully finish the landscaping today. He's had problems with his work vehicles, so I don't know. Hopefully. I'll let you know how it goes. All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Hey, yes, we should have probably been doing other things, but the husband helped me and guess what? We got it done. Yay! Okay, so we are back kind of on schedule with what I needed to get done before the wedding festivities start this weekend. I also just really wanted to see it done. We did think for a minute that it was either missing a piece or we lost a piece, but we actually found it on the floor. This was really hard and there's a reason I don't generally do thousand-piece puzzles. Yeah, I'm going to stick to three to five hundred. I love puzzling, but thousand-piece puzzles are just not my jam. That being said, I see another one up here. I am pretty sure the kids got me these. So here's another one, thousand-piece puzzle. I am going to kill them. I swear to God, I love puzzling. Oh, there's two of them up here. Holy cow, they really have to stop doing the thousand pieces. Holy crap. Anyway, so it is Monday morning, May 31st. Is it? Yes, May 31st. Um, Memorial Day here in the United States. And anyway, so I've been working on the computer right there editing the vlog. It's rendering. I've got a few more videos on the SD card from the camera. And honestly, I've forgotten exactly what's on the SD card. But yeah, we'll edit whatever's on there. Try to get it all loaded today. That's my goal. And then if I have time before this afternoon's barbecue, I will be working on the daily drawing journals ahead. But if I don't have time today, I should have time tomorrow morning to do that. So I'm not too far behind. But while this video is rendering, I'm going to go try to do the dishes, which is also something I need to do before people come over and Bob is out. Good morning, everybody. It is, what time is it? 1037 a.m. And I am headed, obviously in the car. I'm headed over to the beauty salon because we're getting my hair done one last time before the kids wedding. A little trim and some toner to get rid of some more of the yellow, all the things for the things because of the things. Anyway, I also have to stop and pick up coffee on the way back because we're running low. And I any other messages, the daughter like texts me to like go do this or go do that. I think most of that's going to be on one of her bridesmaids, Allison, who is coming in later tonight. And she's actually staying with us. I am also going to be having her dress. So it's good that she's staying with us so I can get that done. I was up early ish this morning posting on Facebook to a couple of different groups that are associated with the class that I'm teaching with Bea Grob, Petra Fuchs, Marie Linder, Peg Robinson and Chelsea. And I have bonus content for my share of the class that I was sharing in the two groups. One group is for all the teachers and all the students. And the other one is for people just interested in my portion of the class. I don't know if that's going to work. We'll see. This is the first time I'm doing something like that. Going forward. If I do this again, people may not want a separate group. I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, right now I am in traffic trying to get to the freeway so I can get to my hair. Hey, guys. I moved the serger to the art table. I have this dress I bought at Fred Meyer not long ago. I got a really good deal on it. It's a really cute dress. It's a very cute dress. It's actually two sizes smaller than I used to wear. Yeah, anyway. It's too long for me. I love the dress but I think it's supposed to be like mid-calf or just below mid-calf ankle length. Like it touches the floor on me. I'm short for that. So I'm going to shorten it by about eight inches. Holy cow. I'm also going to take the ties off that are around the neck because I don't need those on there. Let me just cut them off. We'll see. Anyway, first I'm going to shorten it. I already pinned the ruffle. It has a ruffle but I pinned the ruffle up. I have a serger so I can just sew this. It will do the same kind of stitch, the overlocking stitch, and cut the extra fabric off all at the same time. So that works perfect. So we're going to get that done for our first round of alterations. Do one of my own. I also cut tucked. I also forgot to speak English today anyway. I also cut the care label off of the garment. I do think as I'm sewing this I might put it back on. So I remember what the fabric content is. It's rayon but I mean just because I'll put it back on. All right, let's get it done. 20 after 9. Sorry I was wrong. It's finally below 90 degrees so we're out getting some steps in. I think the high was 97 where we are in Oregon today and to be honest we're kind of enjoying the last few minutes of sort of peace and quiet before the wedding craziness starts. So we're getting some steps in and enjoying the peace and quiet and drinking my water because have I said it's hot? It's hot. All right that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Now I'm listening. Now they've suddenly shut up but yeah it's hot and humid. The frogs are loving it. It is 10 14 a.m. Wednesday June 2nd I believe. We are headed obviously we're in the car. We're headed out to go help run last minute wedding errands so yeah. It's a hot 75. It's a hot 75. Already this morning we're supposed to hit at least 90 again today and then tomorrow we're supposed to be dropping temperature. Thank goodness finally. Anyway yeah so and our hanging bird our hanging flower basket by the front door the new one we just put in not long ago already has a baby bird nest in it and one egg and mama bird does not like when we water that plant but she does come right back so fun fact. Anyway we are going to go find some things that my daughter is looking for for the wedding and try to help her out and one of the bridesmaids is doing the same and we're going to kind of text each other if we need help finding stuff the thing. When if Barracuda decided to die at the kids house and decided to uh yeah need to get towed home hence the tow truck now we have to try to maneuver it into the garage so it's put away for the wedding or until Bob can get it to the shop to get fixed uh I think it's a fuel pump anyway um that's gonna be fun not here okay see hi oh and this back over here who you saw that's Allison say hi hello so yeah um it is a power steering car but it's not running so any of you who have tried to steer a car like that yeah this is gonna be fun let's see what happens good morning it is Thursday morning uh about 11 30 ish Thursday morning obviously we're in the car uh so yeah wedding celebrations commence shortly uh we have a church blessing this afternoon wedding rehearsal for the main celebration tomorrow and a big celebration and hand fasting on Saturday and then Sunday open house brunch thing and then Monday maybe a couple of lingering friends over and then Tuesday I'm just gonna just turn everything off and shut the door and pretend I'm not home that's a lot the church ceremony uh and blessing is over and I will insert a clip here I probably have to take the sound out for obvious copyright reasons but they figured you know if we have to put everything off we're gonna just have fun with it so they've had a legal wedding a church wedding and then Saturday they have a hand fasting he says three tries to get the presents right so you know yeah to remember the cards yeah but the question of the day is going to be for their for their anniversaries is she going to be mad if she doesn't get cards for all three anniversaries so that's going to be a thing all right everybody say hi to grandpa hi youtube uh hi youtube see there you go so we've had a whole week of crazy wedding family planning parties I'm exhausted can you tell by these maybe not because I got them from him they're his fault guilty yeah anyway so we're having the last event today it's going to be an open house I'll film what I can but no guarantees because like the last few days have been insane uh but it's been a lot of fun hey guys so it's been a few days since I checked and it has been crazy we have the last of our house guests left this morning it is Monday morning June 7th 9 10 a.m holy cow um yeah it's been a week any of you who have planned a big event to know how crazy the week before the event can get and this was crazy it was it was a week it was very peopley the first peopley thing that any of us have done since covid and of course we did it safely and took all the precond necessary precautions but um you know it involved a lot of last minute running around trying to get things that we needed and there was a church blessing and then a dinner afterwards and then a rehearsal dinner and a dinner afterwards and then a larger wedding celebration and hand fasting and a dinner afterwards and then an open house the next day like it was just it was a lot I haven't done any art since like Tuesday last it's been almost a week I'm ready to like turn the phones off and just shut the door pretend I'm not home but I can't do that because there's other stuff going on this week because we're back to regular life so anyway it was a lot of fun I'm very happy for the kids they finally got the wedding celebration that they wanted when covid started and derailed everything I will also say that the event venue the old schoolhouse was gorgeous and fabulous and the staff was just very very lovely and robin are very determined and very efficient wedding planner that helped the kids out was just fabulous I'm going to leave links for both businesses down below if you are in the portland oregon or new berg oregon area I do recommend you check them out if you're having some sort of big party or event or wedding or something that you need to take care of I wouldn't recommend anyone else um yeah so anyway I'm very tired there's no lighting on the planet right now in here that can help with these I've put on five or six layers of puffy eye gel and it helped a little bit but yeah yeah just a lot anyway we have some friends from california that are still in town for another day and so I think we're going to meet with them for lunch and we are going to um we have to go to the grocery store I know you know if I had done any filming oh you guys so much food I mean I don't know why I didn't think that as the mother of the bride and the last person at the event you know before after everyone else left besides the staff because I am that person that will stay and make sure everything is okay and the staff doesn't need anything and then there's no questions and that they I wanted to help well I guess I could help by taking all of the kids decor that they owned home and then the caterer said wait we have food and then the bartender said wait we have liquor leftover you own it all so you've got to take it so thankfully a couple of old college friends of ours and um one of the bridesmaids stayed behind and her boyfriend thank you Allison and Phil and thank you Andy we appreciate you all so so so much um and Allison and Jenny and uh Phil and Brian we love you all so much you helped so much on the day of the open house can't thank you enough um anyway they all helped and they helped us load up their cars because there was just too much from my little Subaru I wasn't going to be able to fit it all in there so they helped to get all of it back here to the house and literally my fridge was full to the gills with just open house food and wedding food and then the leftover food after the church blessing ceremony we had food back here at the house so we had leftovers from that and it was it was just a lot we got rid of 99 of it at the open house what didn't get eaten got given away and so it's all good so now I can get back to rights and I can get the few things that we need that we're out of that we use every day like I need some more bone broth and a few things like that and then we can get back to normal we do get our new door in the dining room in this week uh and um so that project is going to be going on I also am going to be making a trip up to my dad's probably on saturday uh to help him out with some few things now that we know mom's not coming home he needs some help with some organizing and purging up at the house so I'm going to go up and help him with that which means I need to do a trip to Walmart first and get some bins and uh yeah I guess I have a video to edit because I've got something to do with all of this I don't know so anyway it's going to be a weird vlog it's probably going to have an extra couple of days in it I don't know it's going to be strange so stick with me though maybe uh I have of course a lot of projects I'm working on and stuff I want to film for you all now that things are so maybe supposedly getting back to normal we can get that done maybe all right that's it for the minute please check out the video 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