 It's Sunday morning, November 3rd. I don't know what time it is. I've got no clue. 10 o'clock maybe? Anyway, got two Etsy orders that need to go out in tomorrow's mail. So we're gonna head over to the box and drop them in the slot. It's really bright out here and I forgot my sunglasses. But yeah, trying to get our Sunday morning started slowly after yesterday's helping our niece out and I think we're gonna take it easy today. We're gonna go look at a couple open houses area, do a little grocery shopping. The kids are coming back for dinner and my sister and her husband. So we're gonna go take care of that. I've got some daily drawing to do. We need to drop off our ballots, our voting ballots. It's too late to mail them, so we need to drop them off. So we're gonna go do that even though it's Sunday, we should be able to do that. And there was something else I was gonna tell y'all, but I don't remember what it is. So yeah, when I remember I'll let you know. I'll be back. I was gonna say good morning, but it's 12-11. It is Monday, November. My sister and her husband, Philip, Elizabeth and Philip, they just left a little while ago for the airport. They're flying home to Utah today. It was great to have them here and they helped get a lot of stuff done in our niece's house, which is wonderful. Our niece and her husband are the ones who had a new baby and since then life has just gotten overwhelming let's say for them. So we got them some a bunch of stuff done at their house on Saturday when we were there and then Elizabeth and Philip stayed overnight and helped them get a whole bunch more done. So that was great. It was great to visit with them. I did need to do something in my house about my wealth jar. If you're into feng shui, then you know about fixing the chi and energy in your house and that was my picker. Sorry. And my picker, see. And having a wealth jar where the chi could see it when you walk in and the energy flows in and I hadn't quite figured that out. She did help me figure out a solution that may be permanent unless I put a shelf somewhere down lower, but hang on. As I was saying, hold on. She says, don't let it get dusty, but that's a good spot. So I may not have to move it. And yeah, so that's a good spot. I didn't vlog about this because honestly, I was trying to hurry up and get the vlog edited for this week and get it saving and get all that done before he got home and we went out to go do this. I'll tell you about in a minute and that didn't happen because Facebook put me in Facebook jail again. Jail. So I'm in jail again. Did I click go? Did I click? Did I pass go? Did I click 200 bucks? Right. So the only thing we can figure is that I post a creative wanderings type, creative thoughts kind of thing in my personal Facebook group and in three other Facebook groups I'm either admin in or have permission from the person who owns the group to do and I just copy and paste. That may be a problem for the new Facebook algorithms and evidently it doesn't like it. I did get an email notification late this afternoon that they had done this, which I didn't get last time and it had to do with this particular post. So I'm guessing that's what's setting it off, but I post daily art pictures and a whole bunch of stuff across and a bunch of groups. So I don't know. I may not be able to do that anymore. So fun fact, if you guys have any ideas, let me know. All right, we're going to go now and go get some canned goods for a charity food drive that they're having at his work. So we're going to head down to the grocery outlet and we have a budget and we're going to just blow it all on canned goods for the needy and so we're going to go take care of that. And yeah, I guess if you want to see my daily thoughts creatively speaking and you want to see my daily art, you need to either be on my personal page or in my personal Facebook group. Hopefully I can post to just those two and it doesn't get flagged, but I don't know. We'll find out. I'll be back. Good morning guys. It is Tuesday morning, November 5th, 729 a.m. Guys, it's early. So as I posted yesterday to social media and here on the vlog, I'm in Facebook jail again. I think I know why this time. It seems like once a year for the past few years, something happens in my art and social media life that makes me rethink things and change things up. And this is no exception. I'm taking it as the universe's way of kick to the head, if you will, to change things. And I did it when it happened this time last year and the year before that it happened. And so I'm just taking it as a message. It was different. It were that's good English. Holy cow. Need more coffee. It was different different things than it wasn't a Facebook jail thing. Every year it's a different thing. Sometimes it's a friend falling out with an art friend or art person. Sometimes it's a YouTube thing. Who knows? Every year it seems to be something different. But this year it's Facebook jail. So I think I'm going to just take it as a message to do things up a little differently. I do post in a number of groups every day. I usually just copy and paste the same thing in all budget in a few groups, not a bunch of groups in four groups. I'm going to stop doing that. And I'm going to do thoughts in my personal group, a life of art and self-expression, which I've been doing thoughts there for a long time. I'm going to add a fifth group. I'm going to do regular posts in a chronic pain group, maybe daily posts over in the chronic pain group. Artsy endeavors, I'll probably do a color post. Leslie's creative studio, I'll probably do a muse post. And over in art joy of sharing, I'll probably do a sort of a where, what are you making today kind of post? That's my thoughts for the moment anyway. So I'm going to use it as a message of what I should change and how I should change things up. I'm also going to be looking into new forms of social media, someplace else where it's more safe to post things, not that there is any. I know Facebook and they own Instagram now, Facebook, if you didn't know that. So Facebook, Instagram, even Twitter, YouTube, they're all undergoing changes for the new year. Algorithm changes, YouTube's undergoing monetization changes. Some of them are very needed. But in the meantime, some of us who have innocent posts get caught in the crossfire. So we're just going to have to work with it, right? So I'm going to have some more coffee, take a shower. I did get the vlog edited last night. So I've got to get that loaded and get that set and ready to go. And then I may go run a couple of errands and try to get tomorrow done today. So we'll see where we get with that. I'll be back. If you're watching this, you watched the video clip of me at the sewing machine. I have a new bag pattern I'm working on of my own design. Pencil bag, daily drawing bag, a small one. And so anyway, I'm going to make a few of them as Christmas gifts. I've got two made. I need to make eight. I've got two more cut out. I'm using fabric with my own artwork on it. If it's something you'd like to see a video on, leave me a comment down below and we'll see what we can do. I'm hoping I can get all eight made by like Sunday, but we'll see. Not sure if that's going to happen or not, but we'll find out. I need at least four made before the weekend. So we'll see what we can do, how far I can get. All right. That's it for the moment. I'm going to go take down the skeletons and things that my husband was going to do like four days ago and forgot or ran out of time or was working late and it was too dark or yeah. So I'm going to go do it for him and leave him on his workbench and he'll, he can put them where he wants when he gets home. And yeah, I'm going to go do that and I'll be back. Okay. So it is, it's late. It looks later than it really is. It's black outside. We don't care. We're going walking anyway. We got flashlights. I got a hand warmer stuffed in my glove. So does Bob. It's 46 degrees outside. Sorry about the weird lighting, but you know, it's dark. Anyway, we're going to go get a few steps in before we go home and have a nice big bowl of chili. All right. I'll be back. It's Wednesday morning. It's 1138 ish on the 6th of November. So I got out of Facebook jail last night. I'm back in Facebook jail again. So I'm going to just take a 30-day hiatus from Facebook. I have to rethink how many posts I do in the morning and how quickly I do them because it obviously doesn't like that I post a bunch of things in a row within the space of like 20 or 30 minutes. It doesn't like it. I support a lot of different art Facebook groups, including two of my own. And I do put some kind of creative support thing in all the groups. And evidently, Facebook doesn't like that. And there's nobody to manually review anything. Nobody to talk to. I've tried emailing a few people. I don't think it's going to help. I'm just going to take a 30-day break. So if you want to follow what I'm doing every day creatively, you're going to have to follow me over on Instagram or Twitter. Keep in mind Instagram is owned by Facebook. So maybe Twitter and YouTube. Anyway, I'm chatting with some friends and trying to get my sewing done. I had planned for today and we'll see how the day plans out. I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Thursday morning, November 7th. And I am just now leaving. It is what time is that 8.56 a.m. I am leaving to go make a run to the post office really quick. I've got Etsy orders and Christmas presents that need to be shipped out. And yeah, Christmas presents. I have a few things I want to get out kind of early. So I'm going to do that today. And then I need to go to the grocery store. So we're going to do those two things. I said yesterday I might go to Costco on my Instagram live. I don't know if I'm going to actually do it today. I'm just kind of, I'm not filling up to it. Dealing with more people than absolutely necessary is just, I don't think my bag today. And the sun is like right there and really bright. Welcome to Oregon. All right, let's go get to it and get it done. I am including some footage. If you're watching this, you've seen it already. Bambi has been by a lot in the last 24 hours. I was going to try to do an Instagram live from my game room, which Bambi was right outside of eating my bushes. But as soon as I sat down and got everything set up, something scared her off. It doesn't take much. They're pretty skittish. So anyway, that didn't happen. Maybe someday I'll keep trying. I am enjoying doing more Instagram situations and really exploring Twitter more than I've been and that sort of thing since I'm on a Facebook vacation. So I'm really enjoying that. So I'm going to keep up with that for the next month and we'll see where we go from there. I just dawned on me. I have a vlog today. Oops. So I spent the day making some more paper clips, working on chores. You can, you might be able to hear the washing machine and the dishwasher running in the background. I'm figuring out how to do a little bit of social media on Instagram rather than Facebook since I'm on a Facebook vacation until the 6th of December. According to Facebook, I can post again as of like 4.57 last night or yesterday afternoon. But I know that's my fourth time I've been in Facebook jail and I know from the past times that if I go ahead and do some posting, it won't take long for them to put me in jail again. So I'm just going to go on a Facebook vacation until the 6th. I can still go look at things. I can use Instant Messenger on Facebook but I'm not posting or liking or commenting or anything. So if you need to get ahold of me, then you need to instant message me or comment on the video here. Go over to Instagram or Twitter. I have both. It is giving me an excuse to go look at Instagram and Twitter and pay more attention to them, which I don't think that's a bad thing. So anyway, got some interesting work done today and I've been catching up on my reading and, you know, art education things and I've got my drawings done already for the day because the kids are coming over for dinner and we'll be walking and doing family stuff. So I got all that done early and some posts shared early. Now I'm just going to watch some YouTube and have some water and take a little break and I'll be back. It is Saturday, November. Oh, cred. It's 147 PM. Yes, I had to stop the camera and go look. It's been kind of a quiet morning. I'm getting ready for some business stuff that's going to happen next week. So I had a Zoom conference call this morning and then the kids dropped off. Lily, they're out doing wedding planning stuff. So we said we'd watch the dog while they're doing that. And I think we're going to go help them in a couple of hours. Go do some house hunting because they're looking for a house. They're tired of renting. I can't say to blame them. And we might get together afterwards and like do dinner or something. Kind of discuss, I think, our findings. It is Saturday night. I think it's just before nine o'clock. It's pretty late later than I planned on filming the ending of the vlog this week. But I did get a shipment of little bubble wrap nailer bags in a couple of different sizes. It's there. So start selling some small things, maybe some of the art clips. So if you're interested in one you've seen me share on social media, let me know. DM me on Instagram or whatever. I picked up some more Tyvek envelopes. Gonna shut things down for the evening. Start fresh tomorrow. So anyway, it's been a fun week. I've got some stuff coming up that I can't share right now but it ought to be really fun. So stay tuned to next week's vlog. Because yeah, some really fun stuff I think. Stuff that makes me nervous. Stuff that scares me a little bit to be honest with you but it's going to be fun nonetheless. Anyway, we had fun helping the kids look for a house. I think there's one they might try to put an offer on. I'll keep you all posted. It's been a trial and a tribulation. They really are tired of renting. They really don't want to move again. They want to just buy something and stay for a while. I can't say to blame them. We were in their position. It seems like just yesterday and it's tough buying the first house and trying to get money together and finances straightened out and we're helping where we can. And if all we can help, if all, if one of the ways we can help is help them look at a house and give them our opinion then we're happy to do that. So we saw some interesting properties today. One I think was really cute and might work for them. So anyway, it's interesting doing that again but not having the pressure of it be our house. Does that make sense to you? It's more fun when you're doing it for somebody else. Anyway, then we went out for a big, huge Mexican dinner at a local place that we really like. I had a salad. I had a shrimp fajita salad which I really like. They make, everybody else had big giant burritos and stuff. So Bob's on the couch and he's just an agony. He ate too much. Anyway, it's been a fun week and a fun day and hopefully next week. So repeat of that. I'll bring you with me either way. Anyway, I hope you've all had a great one. If there's any links I need to leave you, of course, they'll be in the video description. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please leave them down below here on the video. All the different ways you can contact me are on my link tree list of links, among other things that are also in the video description. So be sure to check that out. My happy mail address is down there and all that stuff. If there's content you all would like to see here on YouTube, on my channel, please put something in the comments. Let me know. By the way, in case you haven't heard and I don't remember what I filmed yet this week, 30-day Facebook vacation. Yeah, I'm not sure what's going up with Facebook. I'm not sure why I've been targeted and why I've been put on as a spam. I don't know, as a spammer, evidently. I don't post political things. I don't post anything violent, anything mean. I post art things. So I don't know. We're trying to figure it out. My daughter does know somebody from Facebook through her work. So she's giving me some tips. She's in marketing, my daughter, by the way. So she's giving me some tips and hints and we're going to see what we can do. But 30-day vacation, everybody agrees. It's a good idea. So I don't know. Anyway, I'm on Instagram and Twitter in the meantime. So look me up. All right. And of course, here on YouTube, I will be on Patreon. I may be on Patreon on a little more, not right away. Give me until after the 17th. But going live on Patreon might be a thing, just FYI. I'll of course let you know if that is. All right. That's it for now. I hope you've all had a good week. I hope you've all had a good day. Go out and do something fun for yourself. And don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you later. 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