 I'm cooking in this cast iron desk oven. This is my second time cooking in it, baby. I started cooking in the first day. I haven't finished a video on how to make smell that chicken, but let me give you a tip that I forgot to mention in the video. When you're making the roux, the gravy, I'm sorry, you want to use warm water so it doesn't change the temperature of this hot pan. You don't want to put cold water in here. I'm going to put a little bit there. I want you to see how it thickens up. See that? See how that's thickening up like that? Now, in that video, I forgot to use chicken stock. I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to use water. See how that's already thickening up? Add some more water. Look at it. Look at it thickening up. This is my fried chicken over there. Yes. Let me zoom in some. There we go. All right. Let me get that. Now, I'm going to add a little bit more. All right. That's good enough. All right. I'm going to leave this water right here, and I'm going to start placing my fried chicken. Now, this chicken isn't cooked all the way because it's going to continue to cook in here. This will be done in about 15 more minutes. Look at that. Doesn't that look good? I rarely make mashed potatoes, maybe two to three times a year. For that reason, I don't even have a potato masher, so we're going to use a hand mixer. I use half and half to make mine. There we go. Quick mashed potatoes. Another YouTuber, I saw her do this. I think she's one of those homestead, prepping. Look at that. Very quick done. Here we are. Plate it up. I got one piece because it's so late and he got two pieces. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Y'all, we are at next stop by the, by the bra. Next. You know what? He heard what he said. Y'all, next stop by the bras. I need to get me some granny queen size, size four. I need to get me some new stockings. I mean, this is all extra. I don't need none of this, girl. No, I need like regular stockings. Why do they have to be so extra? One pair. That's what I need. That's it. I know. I love it. Look at this. Oh, boo boo. Look at that rose gold. This is so pretty, but look, I already have stuff to, I already have stuff to wrap your present with. Go backwards. We gotta go find some elderberry juice. Y'all, we are looking for elderberry juice. Does one want some elderberry juice? I don't feel like going all the way to Whole Foods because I know I would spin money. Yeah, we found it. We found the elderberry juice, but so weird. It was on the cold aisle. Not the supplements aisle. I need to go get some peppermint soap too. All right, let me pick up some peppermint bar soap. This is their little section where they have all natural stuff. And it's Jackson for feminine hygiene, which I will be having a video on this. I use peppermint soap. This is the Christmas tree, all lit up. So pretty. And again, I got these little woody ornaments, fabric ornaments from CVS for only a dollar. Very, very cute. Just a little pop of color red. That's it. But it's mostly neutral. I need to go to Harvey Live and get Richard some more feathers. The black angel is over here. Poor Richard. Poor Richard, I know. She's too big to go on top. Too little to go on top, poor Richard. I don't care. You know, JB, you should care about Richard. Let's show them all the way around. I have to excuse the background and all these pillows and stuff. I'm watching Live PD. Y'all, Live PD is like cops on steroids. My husband and I watch Live PD all the time. This man is, sorry, y'all, this man is attacking a cop car. They're giving him plenty of times to stop. Lord, he said, I'm going back to Michigan. You can kiss my ASS. Baby, you ain't going to Michigan, not in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Anyway, y'all, it is Saturday. JB didn't want to do anything today. We had a choice of doing a couple of things. He's in karate now, so they do have karate classes this morning. I don't blame him for wanting to not do karate because he did karate twice in a row. He did so well yesterday. JB can be sometimes a little unsure of himself. So the first day, he didn't do good at all. But yesterday, he did an amazing job. So I think that today he was like, okay, mama, I gave you two days in a row, which is okay because we're going to go Monday and Tuesday next week since we're off. The first day of my vacation, I don't know if I mentioned that earlier, girl, we're going to be home for 11 days straight. And yes, Teresa, I just read, Teresa, you're coming on the last vlog. You are absolutely right. My husband set up here and was talking about how he was off. He wasn't going to be, I'm sorry, that he had to work last Thanksgiving. He ended up being off. But this year, I was going to plan on cooking on Thanksgiving with or without you. Okay, y'all, sorry. Yeah, so Thanksgiving menu is still on and popping, y'all. So today, we're not doing anything relaxing. I am cooking a little bit of food. I had, what did I have for breakfast? Child can't even remember. That's how insignificant it was. So I'm cooking, I'll show y'all what I'm cooking. And I don't know if I told you, I think I've mentioned to y'all before, I have a Cajun living next to me. Cajun, I should pronounce my words, girl. She's from New Orleans. Ms. Jones. She's such a sweetheart. She's an older woman. I think she's in her late 60s. She's been retired. She may be in her early 70s, but I think she's in her late 60s. Let me not age the woman. And so a couple of weeks ago, I saw her, because I said speak to her and I saw her going, she was leaving the house and she's like, I'm going to go get something to eat. You know, since my roommate, because she runs with another older woman, since she works two jobs, she doesn't cook anymore. I said, well, I cook almost every day and I'll be more than happy to bring you a plate of food. And I could tell she was a little hesitant and I remind her, I'm from East Texas, New Sheree Port. So I can't burn. She started laughing. She said, well, I would love to try your food. A beautiful woman. I love their accent out in New Orleans, but she's an actual Cajun. If you don't know what a Cajun is, those of you who are not from the U.S., I'm going to go get my potatoes, y'all. Hold on, my food. I want you to look up a video of Justin, the Cajun cook. He used to be on PB, as y'all remember, Justin, but another one is Jesse Duplantis. Chow. I have seen Jesse Duplantis in person and he is a mess. I like Jesse, but sometimes he can be joking too much on the pulpit and I need for you to get to the word. So anyway, I cook enough food for at least four adults most of the time, you guys. And there's always enough food for my husband to have leftovers, me to have leftovers, and still a little bit more food left because we end up breaking. I've gotten to the point to where don't be wasting anything. So I noticed that when we're done eating, we're still raking in the trash. Can't enough food for one person. So I'm like, let me go ahead and fix her a plate on the side, fix our plate, and then it's still leftovers for my husband on the next day. So I sent her something over that she can still, I showed you guys, and she loved it. She said, oh, that was nice. So last night, I fixed her because we had well more than enough, and I knew we'd be going out to eat today. So I fixed her a plate of the Smothered Chicken and Mashed Potato Chow. I said, do you remember Smothered Chicken because she doesn't cook anymore. Okay, I think she's she's disabled. So long as we're a short girl, then what I'm cooking today, I'm going to fix her a plate too. You know, just the smallest things can really make someone I could tell that she's really appreciative of that. Child, this man just told me I have 15 minutes to get ready. On what planet? Don't mess with me. It will take me 20 minutes to just beat my face along. 15 minutes. Top of fullery. Let's make it work, y'all. Little. Reason I brought the man, baby. No, it was really good. The swap thing is like, yeah, the small one is like, yeah, you're right. It's $12. And I think the large one's like $14 or something. Yeah. Yeah. And those drinks, you could get too for the price of a swap thing. Very interesting. I haven't been able to get in this dress in about, eh, it's been a couple of years and I have some room here. What my hair is looking like. We are three weeks into a wash day. Yeah, we need to go ahead and wash my hair. Simple makeup, simple earrings. I do it real simple for church because I'm country and yeah. Y'all see my boots? Oh yeah, thank you. Child. I mean, I have some other cover black sweaters and stuff, but I figure I look real school teacher. Sorry. Come here, Jake. Oh no, don't scoot on the floor with those hands on. Come on. Hey. You're so cute. Got my bow tie. Got your boots. Got my shirt. Got your shirt. Oh yeah. Look at real dapper. Look at real cute, my love. What shoes do you want to wear, darling? These shoes, but I don't know. Boots. I got these from Target a while back. Yeah, I got them. Okay, you know what? No, we don't. Hey, you guys. Oh, girl, look at that face. I've been eating way too many carbs and all that little weight that I lost while I was sick. Ganked it all back. Just from eating bread and potatoes and pasta and cream and bananas. But that's beside the point. We just got back from eating at, um, I have Panera Bread, a salad. Raisin cake. You know who? Hold on, y'all. I feel like something's in my teeth. Why did y'all tell me? Looking like the salad was all up in my mouth. So yeah, after this, now we're going to go to the Dollar Tree, which is right across the street. Got to figure out how to get over there because we're the 17s right here. I got to get home and wash my hair and crank out a hair video for you help us. But it's so funny, y'all. Look, I need to take your time. And so just a second ago, there was a girl at a table with all her, I guess her, all her friends and family members, and she looked at me. She said, you're so pretty. I'm like, thank you. I thank you. I said, thank you real quick. And went on to get my food and she's like, she's like, you're so beautiful. You look like a dog. I'm like, girl, I wish I was a dog and I won't have to pay any bills. No, thank you. Okay, you know what? My budget at the Dollar Tree is going to be eight dollars. Eight dollars, baby. Yeah, now we're at Michael's. 50% off. But these things are like $10 each. Yeah, we're in an older section of Phoenix and these stores are not as nice as ours. Come on, baby. Look, this is so adorable. Greeny would love this. See this? No, baby, you can't get in there. No, JB, that's on display.