 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm going to share with you some things that are making me happy. Some things that are working and not working. I'm going to talk a little bit about my CPAP and I'll save that toward the end because I had a lot of questions about that and then I'm just going to follow up on a few things. And I'm going to announce the winners of last times giveaway, so that always really makes me happy. And today I was planning on wearing makeup, but when I talk about the CPAP, you'll understand I did put on some blush. So I've got a mascara. I've tamed my brows with something clear. I have on a the Tarte Maracuja lip balm in Passion and then I put one dot. I'm not kidding you the tiniest dot. Milani Kiss Cheek and I put my fingers together and I put it on my cheeks and on this side of the camera it looks very, very, very pink. So I don't know how it will translate. It is interesting how I can put on a lipstick and think it's super dark and when I look on the video it is not near as dark. The first thing that really made me happy is something I got last November. My sister just sent it to me and it was from Amazon and it's a Himalayan salt lamp. And I just think this is beautiful. I've used it every day since I got it. You can maybe you can make it really bright and you can bring it down very low and turn it off. It's not near as pretty when it's off. My sister use has quite a few of these and she's loved them for years. She said the body source was a good brand and something about Windsor and I'll type it in that she really recommended those but I've really enjoyed having this. I know there are health benefits but I'm not going to get into those because it's all available online. Do you know that I have been on a quest that anything that makes my life easier I'm going to consider and this definitely fits the bill. This is a broom and a dustpan and you can just place the dustpan. You all probably have one of these already but I didn't. I'll put a picture in of how it works but what I like you only need like 5.9 inches or 6 inches little space to slip it in and it'll stay. The broom is attached there and it has this area that you can clean your broom off with. It really has made me happy and Jim was sweeping up something the other day and which is wonderful. I don't know that he would have done that had he not seen me use this because it does make it easy and when you can just dump your contents out in the trash I don't know what brand it is I just like it. I am happy to say Ulta has started using padded envelopes and they are reusable. You can use them to send something to somebody else but I received something from them I bought something and it wasn't busted up because I tell you what you could order powder and it would be in a box the powder would be in a box and it would be put in a big box and it just went everywhere and so many things were broken so I'm glad they started doing that. I get really tickled I don't watch TikTok but sometimes you'll see people making videos about what they saw on TikTok and one of the hacks that I saw was about an avocado and I will tell you how to make an avocado last three weeks and this wasn't in the hack but our avocados usually are hard when we get them so I buy a bag or mostly I buy two bags of you know the smaller avocados and I put them on my countertop and they're hard and I go by every day and I just kind of I don't squeeze it I just kind of see if it presses in at all and I'll do that for several days but once it's where I can press it gently and it gives I put them in the refrigerator. Well I made some excellent guacamole three and a half weeks after I purchased my avocados and it just works real well. If you check them every day and put them in your refrigerator I knew mine lasted three and a half weeks and there's other ways you can look at the top where it was attached but you have to take that little thing off to see it. I like romaine lettuce so I usually buy three hearts at one time and when I get it out it's put the bag in the refrigerator and then I take it out and I break off the end if you want your lettuce to last a long time don't use scissors on it or don't use a knife on it and then I wash it and I let it kind of drip place it on a paper towel and put it back in the container it came in of course I've already washed that out and my lettuce will last up to three weeks but I do have something I'm going to throw this in. I don't I don't think I'm going to ever be able to get that amulet or watchman for my heart because of the atrial fib so I went I got off cumitin and I am now on eliquus and I know it's going to it's a lot more expensive but I can eat the greens anytime I want to but for nine years I've been taking 10 milligrams of cumitin every day I get my blood checked once a month and that part's not bad but having to actually limit the amount of vitamin k foods which are the things I love Brussels sprouts spinach any leafy green I'm not wasn't willing to go higher than 10 milligrams I'm going to try eliquus at least for this year and then we'll see what happens not every time but a lot of the times I get samples for bill bars and I got some really good samples and I don't know if they're available now but if you have received these offered again then at least you will have heard of them one of them was the was the mint brownie and I would not have ordered these because I would have thought it would have had brownie chunks in it but it didn't it was as smooth as can be I'm not a mint fan both of my sisters are like the Girl Scout cookies the thin myths would be my least favorite but I loved these mint bars and these are puffs so I just wanted to share that with you I don't eat a lot of processed food but this to me I like the built puffs the best they have they're lower calorie lower in carbohydrates and they have usually anywhere like 17 grams of protein so even though it has a lot of things written there and that I'm aware of this for me works real well when I have I'm hungry for something sweet that does not make my stomach hurt and that does not make me crave more so I do always have a discount code 10 off and I want to thank you any of you who have used that discount code because that enables me to get the free samples and I do earn a little commission I probably had been eating these for a year before I got the commission so I felt good about it there was something I signed up for that I was so excited for and it did not work in my area and what it is is Walmart plus for 90 some dollars a month you got paramount plus I believe which is five dollars a month so that's 60 dollars if you were going to be getting the paramount plus plus app anyway so that brought that cost down to like 34 dollars you got free shipping and handling on anything you ordered from Walmart and the thing that kind of got me it was free grocery delivery so if you look in your area and see that they have that available and you're interested in having your groceries delivered or having free shipping and handling from Walmart it is a good deal and I will put a link to it so you can read about it but I was real happy when I found out that it did not deliver groceries in our area I canceled it I have you know you have 30 days a free trial and they just accepted my cancellation perfectly but I will get that once they do the delivery in our area what I'm going to talk about goes back to my last video and I'll put a link to it here and if you're interested in it I had a lot of questions about the Omni Lux mask and I did a 32 week review I'm going to keep using it it's comfortable it's I use it four times a week and I know I'm going to get two years use from it because that's as long as it's guaranteed if it went out I mean after two years I'm going to take those specifications I'm keeping them because I know the specifications that are on the Omni Lux mask works for my 69 year old skin so I will look at other masks but I want to make sure it is contour I want to make sure it's comfortable and I think just like I was telling some people when I bought my first first microwave it was almost $500 and the last one we purchased was $45 so I think the price will come down it's not something you have to jump on and get I'm not willing to take one and rub it all over my face I just want to put it on and sit there and let it do its magic so that's the answer to that I'm still using my first future formula I've used it four nights a week since January the 30th there were several products I didn't want you to use when you started this and one of them was vitamin c and I use vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid and love it so I was off of it for four weeks and now I'm back I learned so much from you all I did not realize curology was still in business I'll type the website up here if you're interested in another way to get retin A that is $10 less a month I will put it up there and you can go and give the information I thought this future formula replaced what cureology did so I wanted to share that and good rx a lot of you are already using good rx to buy just your regular retin A your retretinoin because whether you have insurance or not you can check the good rx website and see what your cost would be there versus a drugstore even if you have insurance jim always gets his inhalers through good rx I do know about a good sale coming up from dermatology and it's 30% site-wide I love their tinted moisturizer I love their peptide cream they have an excellent cleanser that it burned my eyes but those are the things that I use all the time the peptide cream and it's not that I don't like a lot of the other products they're a lot more expensive than what I want to pay for it like their vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid I don't know I'll check and see if it's 30% off is I don't know if I will or not but those are the products that I stand by it's their sixth anniversary sale it's April the first through the 10th and if you click on the link that I provide below it'll take you directly to their website and you don't have to put in any code whatsoever and you'll get 30% off of your total free shipping to anything over $40 free shipping in the United States and Canada so I thought that was good in the past I'd mentioned that Dermstore had gotten in touch with me regarding a 15% off code I have that I have it below I've ordered something and it works and skin store is 25% off so I'll put those links below a lot of times when you go to their website their percent off is better than mine so I thought I'd just tell you that but I'm always happy I buy like grande brow grande lash revitalize for my hair the foam there's several things that I buy and I noticed one of them had cover girl it had revolution I haven't really gone through all the brands they have I really thought it was just all expensive stuff so now I'm gonna talk about my CPAP and then I'm going to announce the winners you may not find this interesting but even if I didn't have a CPAP machine I want to learn I want to learn about anything I want to learn how snakes have sex you know how do snakes have babies I want to learn about little houses those little bitty homes that people live in there are some I'm just so curious I want to watch any video I can even though I don't ever want plastic surgery I love watching those things so the people that have have a CPAP you might be interested but this is what mine looks like this goes under my nose these go down my cheeks this goes in the back of my head and this is where the air goes through and it's at the top of the head and so I added these because it really hurt my cheekbones and these are those makeup wipes and I just sewed them and then when I take it apart to clean it every week you just pop this off and this comes out and I can wash these separately but it really bothered me and what has worked for me is the nasal cushion and I'm going to bring it up close and then I'm also going to put a picture to me it reminds me like of a sling with two holes and it goes up underneath your nose it doesn't go in your nose and then that's it goes to that that strap then it goes up here and goes in the back and it's I'm doing okay with it I'm still have a lot of work to do but I'm wearing it every night I really wanted to try the nasal pillows and that this is what they look like they have they actually go in your nose but what's so cool about them is you just put this behind your ear it has two sides and then you put it in your nose and that's all you wear I wore it one night semi comfortable the next night I don't know what happened but it made a sore in my mouth and I'm really chapped here that's why I couldn't wear makeup today because my nose this just runs from time to time so this still runs so I only use this two nights I might try it if we can figure out why it did that I might try it again but in the meantime I'm going to use what I have something that's been real helpful after the first night what I did I just put my hair on top of my head and I use real silk scrunchies because they won't draw moisture from your hair and they don't make a dent so I put that on top of my hair I put the strap back there and the top right there and it is so much better than having your hair down and you know messing with that I would say I am probably 65% doing well with it use it every night and sometimes I wake up feeling better and sometimes I don't and sometimes I wake up at two o'clock in the morning and I can't take it anymore but last night I wore it all night long so so that is a good thing so now I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway and what I'm going to be doing I'm going to be sending you a pack of the makeup remover claws I like I'm going to try to find the six by six inch there's several in a package the mad hippie cleansing cream that glitzy fritzy got me to buy just because she loved it and if you're not subscribed to mary I would love it if you would go check her out because because I wanted her to hit a goal we've been friends oh my gosh well since we started we've met and enjoyed each other's company so anyway she made me want to buy the mad hippie and then also the fukai oil that's what I use on my neck every other night I used random comment picker the word spring had to be in your comment first name that came up was mary meadows congratulations mary and the next name was joe d clark lumpa congratulations joe d and the last winner is ziggy's bookshop congratulations ziggy just make sure you leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me if you're out of if you're in a country that I can't send this to you will work it out and get something you like anyway it is all good as always I want you to know how much I appreciate you I will see you in my next video and you take care of this of and you can also tell at the top if you take that little it's attached the broom is attached and it but I but I was I did that you know