 Got my camera back. Hey, I got my camera back. Hey girl like a proactive commercial. Yes Yeah, I hope the settings are out. They didn't mess up my settings. This is the third time Me having to reset these settings that they did girl, but they better not have I don't think they did so Yes, got my camera back so I can go ahead and do that braiding curl for you. Help us look What was that noise? I was going a certain type of way because I'm like I did a poll to ask y'all what hairstyle y'all went in it next and low-key if This camera was scheduled to get here later on tonight. Yes, I could do it with my old camera, but this camera you can see Everything is the lighting's are perfect. You can see everything with that camera the the lighting's it could be perfect And you really still can't see everything so I'm gonna go ahead do the braiding curl for y'all later on today It is two weeks before Christmas girl. We got a lot of do we got to order these presents We got to wrap these presents up. Look, I can't wrap presents I am a crafty heifer. Yes, but I will wrap your presents like you ordered two pounds of catfish at the market Like I can't wrap presents for anything Hmm Yeah, so I went ahead We only got our budget my budget really was a hundred and eighty dollars for Jamie's Christmas presents I got under I'm at a hundred and fifty Through Amazon girl. I'm not going anywhere. Only three Amazon. I may get him. I may get him this Lego I don't know. Yeah, I may get him this Lego on table from What do you call it from or a craft table at least or even maybe a chalkboard? From Wayfair, I may get him a chalkboard from Wayfair so that he can practice writing or maybe like an easel board You know something like that, but besides that child. That is it He's getting like half a dozen or so toys and then my baby's birthday is in Get some natural light girl. That's just like at the camera. Hold on child. Oh Maybe not his birthday is January 13th and so my husband was like so what do y'all want to do I said well He already Jamie already plant his birthday girl child He said he wants the kids to go to Chuck E. Cheese's and then they're gonna go to raising game And then we're gonna stay in the hotel at the comfort ends and all husband's like mm-hmm. I'm not saying that the couple and Boozy just boozy. So he was like, let's just go ahead and go to Sedona. I'm like You paying I'm playing If you work it I'm twerking whatever it's so corny so we decided to go to Sedona for Jamie's birthday he went ahead and Booked the hotel. We're gonna stay at the hillton. He's like a member or whatever you anybody can can become a member He ain't special child. So we're gonna be at the hillton for two days. Y'all can come with us. We're gonna do I Love Sedona first of all Sedona is only an hour and a half away from us because like I said, we're in North North North Phoenix so we're gonna do so don't for the weekend and We're gonna leave that Saturday come back Monday And we're gonna do jeeping off-road jeeping that is so fun the first time I did it I didn't realize how rough and bumpy it is, but it is and right now it's winter up in Sedona So we will probably see some snow, you know on the mountain top. So yeah, it'll be a nice vacation This will be JB's third time going to Sedona. We traveled with our child y'all. I don't think Besides myself, we've never gone without JB somewhere and we probably won't because it's just we're a small family There's no reason to drop him off at grandma's and go somewhere on vacation We are a small family. He can come with us wherever and it's it's a good experience for them to you know Now and this is another thing that people don't realize you can travel with your kids and still be have a romantic time You know if you want want it to do that You could do couples massages and have if your hotel offers childcare Oh They're all so cute Hey y'all can y'all singy How about now y'all can see me now. It's late. Bye about to make me some tacos shout out to Mimi's cookie Shout out to Mimi's cooking hour sis By the way, her channel has been taken down Yes, no more coins for you Mimi. She'll probably whoever it is will probably make another channel But you best believe any cooking stuff of mine. I will have my logo straight across anyway Let me make me some tacos. I'll talk to y'all while I'm cooking Why don't I stop by? What is all that noise? Since she wants to be loud. I'll just do that y'all I have some leftover chicken breasts from um A rotisserie chicken I know one thing can have been and I had messed up my My camera So yeah, I'm gonna put some Roasted corn in this Going to Maybe he's falling asleep. Hold on y'all because it's real quiet in here. What time is it? It's six o'clock I'm not he's just laying down. All right. Yeah, it's gonna be real simple tiny. This is not a cooking video I'm just telling y'all what I'm doing. I have just a little bit of shredded chicken um and I'm going to do um green chilies A little slice of jalapeno Some roasted corn Some tomatoes a little bit of onion. Yo, we're gonna hook her up. It's gonna be done in 15 minutes Okay, that's a lot 30 minutes see me, but you can hear me. So while when I picked up my prescription today The pharmacist was like, I didn't know you were a blogger It's like a 304 second delay for me And I would say how do you know about that? Because look y'all most don't go around we don't go around telling people advertising our channels I mean because this is a hobby, you know, you don't go around telling people. Oh by the way, um I quilt on the side, you know, you know, you just don't go around communicate that so I had given the Other pharmacist who's a sister from Kenya When I was there at the pharmacy a couple um, it's been like almost a month ago. Her hair was in the cup It's cute. She's she kind of looks frustrated And she's like well my Beautician is all booked up. I don't know if you do with my hair. I gotta wash my hair I don't know what products to use. I said girl products right here in in the store. This is Alvarsons So girl, she came around that that corner counting so fast I showed her what What a VO five was that I showed her about the the garner your few teas Um, the Maui Marster, they even have the buttercream there. I showed her the sulfate free Look, I showed her with the sulfate free shampoo and conditioning was that and I I said I took all y'all conditioning Which I did I had swooped up all that conditioner He had issues with her hair and that's when I introduced myself to her and this is another person Right, you know, it's like well, I have a youtube channel. Yeah, I said, I don't really You know tell people about this but you know If you need help with rig, you know, what type of products to to Use just check me out And she's like really I said, yeah, so Now I'm doing when I go up there. She's like, you know, I've been watching your channel and The last time I was there. She's like, I'm mad at you because you're making me do my hair. I said Sonny laughing. So today when I went up there the guy He's an older Asian guy real sweet And he's like, I didn't know you were a blogger and I was like, what and then there was another guy was behind him And they hurt, you know overheard him. But anyway Long story short, he was basically like you're a real blogger You're like we have like a look of celebrity. I said y'all I'm not no celebrity. I don't I I have like only 17,000 subscribers you guys. I appreciate each and every one of you So 17,000 is a lot of people I just me personally. I think A lot of subscribers to me is 50 plus 50,000 subscribers is a lot and then I think a successful YouTube race for his numbers goes is 100,000. I'm sorry. There's people out there who has who was I watching? I watch a lot of different people y'all. Um, Marcus Brownlee has seven This brother does tech reviews and I've been watching him since he was a kid. He has seven million subscribers He pulls in coins Social latest saying he makes almost 90 thousand dollars a month Child, let me tell you something. So yeah, those numbers that that's a celebrity So I think jayby's trying to go to bed, which jayby You want some juice? He needs to not go to bed y'all Not the cutting sauce to make my different sauce. Yeah Don't play Do not play I shoot it. Hold on baby. Let me get you Yeah, first of all, are you singing a k-mart song? Okay, so okay, so let let me tell them this this real quick so they can see you a little bit Let me come around here turn this around on you so they can understand this weirdness So JB is obsessed now with department stores Well, I tell you that this is the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. Why is it now because it's zoom in on your phone That's why I did that. Don't do that, baby So child We went to Sears a couple of weeks ago because he wanted to go to Sears because he heard Sears said file for bankruptcy, right? Now I think Y'all it is out of control This week now we're on circuit city Then he tells me He's like mama most of these department stores are filing for chapter seven I don't I'm not even hearing anything about chapter. No, he said most of these department stores are filing for chapter 11 I don't hear anything about chapter seven. They liquidate. Oh my what seven in chapter 11 JB There's a difference. It is so cold It is so cold. Oh my gosh y'all It is 40 degrees 40 40 degrees out here in phoenix and um I'm staying here till I can walk a little bit JB is a mess He starts crying because he forgot his watch dropping off the school, of course And he starts crying because he forgot his watch at home the watch said he doesn't even look at it It doesn't even know how to tell time So I must have told anyone people notice him He gets even more dramatic and I ignore him And you know the teachers are walking me like oh, what's wrong? I'm like he forgot his watch at home She's like oh, I said no don't just don't don't pay any mind So I gave him three three chances. I said I'm going to walk out if you keep crying. I'm literally I'm going to leave And that's what I did. I left but I left my head I hid and literally less than a minute after I had left he had stopped crying because he's just looking for attention y'all He wants me to go home and get his watch forget You think I'm gonna go home in this cold and come all the way back in this cold Just you do we're watching your arm that anyway Anyway, and I'm ready to swing. It is Friday. It is cold Don't really have much going on today. Just got to submit my time. She's a girl and that's about it So talk to my mama last night and she says she's gonna try to see if she can come down here for the trip to Sedona But I need to let her We will you know, she's like I got to get my ticket. I got to sell these pods to get my ticket I'm like, well, you're gonna have to sell a lot of pods because the hotel we're staying at the rooms are 250 a pop a night Yeah, my husband that the total was like a little over $500. So I'm like, um I mean that's something I need. I need to go ahead and send her a message like is that something you really want to do I remember when I used to work in dietary, they would give us, you know, the farm So you have to go you have to go buy the recipe or whatever Um, but I'm like this doesn't look like it looked like my mama went way off the recipe You know Yeah, yeah, and this is school too. It's not like this, you know, it's not like in a nursing home where they have, um Dietary restrictions, you know, so We could basically do it So I'm talking to my talking to my mama and um Um I should she yeah, she invited herself my mama's petty as hell She went and she went and invited herself to our trip right and last minute trip and when we I told y'all when we go on a trip. We don't do any budget stuff So I said, um the hotel we're staying at is 250 a night So she's like, oh the planting is already over 400. So I don't even know if I'm gonna go anyway I said, okay, just let you know, but she's so funny. I told I I sent her a text message and I was like, you know um I'll cover everything else if you could do your Your uh hotel and she's like, what's the name of the hotel? Then she's like, oh, y'all so sweet y'all gonna play for my pain playing Together at my hotel. I said it That's helpful. So I called talking about she started laughing. But look she she works and um, she works for A lot of your high school. She works in the in the kitchen right and shout out to eat sex And so she works and died Terry good. She's been doing this most of her life because she loves to cook and so She posted she posts pictures of the kids meals and I'm like she going way off them I can tell just by Looking up the food and she's going way off the recipe I used to work one of my first jobs taken after my mom one of my first jobs is actually working in a kitchen At UNT so I know that you have a recipe I never had to do it because I had certain food I had to cook But you have a recipe you have to go by and the reason why they want you to stick to their recipes because they don't want you Using more ingredients dipping into the budget. So that's helpful. My mom. I'm talking about I don't never go by the recipe. I say I can't tell by looking at the pictures you be All right, y'all. So I am done. It's still friday Met with miss earlet to go over the footage for her Her videos i'm doing for her. I love her. She is so inspirational and just my girl like she She clocked me on my hair y'all. That's why I love her, you know, you new yorkers don't hold nothing back But no, she's sweet She was like, um, you need to get you have your ends trimmed I'm like, what And she nonchalantly brought it up like once or twice and I was like, okay, you know what Show me how much I actually need to have trimmed So she showed me she demonstrated pull my hair pulled my hair all the way up and It's about an inch and a half that needs to come off. So she's like, you don't have to do it but if you you can see through your ends and She says it doesn't mean your hair isn't healthy, but you need a trim But yeah, you know, I'm gonna go ahead and have to have my hair trimmed I know I am so I told her that I will Have her to trim it and stop by one day and um You know have her to, you know, just cut my hair off. Hell, I do it myself. No Can I do it myself? Y'all I can pull it all the way up. You know what? That's what I'm gonna do Y'all let me go ahead and go look I don't see it at all, baby. I'm up here and they're doing some type of construction And when I came out I heard a guy, um singing Construction workers, let's saw a guy singing and he comes around and I'm like, oh, hey I'm like, can I go up this way? He said, oh, yes. I'm like, they got a queen working at the construction site. Yes A little cute self They always be the cute ones on the other playing field, right? Y'all I'm telling you the finest to date To date the finest black man I have ever Seen and my life was gay. I would never and would never forget him Quentin He used to work the front desk at a hospice. I'm not gonna name the name of hospice I used to work in both me and my girlfriend Chauncey at the time Chauncey, excuse me, we would be like he is so fine And I know I know that other women will always look at him like that I'm like, he is so fine with those green those fake ass green contacts That was back then when people were worried that wasn't that long ago, but he was still wearing colored contacts, but he was so I don't remember one time new drink on my car because it's hot I remember one time He gave me a hug, right? I was like, give me a hug Quentin because we were going somewhere for the break or something I think it was for Thanksgiving break and I gave him a hug and he said Vivian if I was straight I would I would definitely give you the time of day. I'm like, don't you tell me that Why would you say that if you were straight you would give me the time of day shit Hey, you guys oh lord, look at that hair. Yeah, I didn't know it came down some and look at my hair guys JB nothing gonna know of your hair. I'm gonna need to pin this No, they ain't gonna see it. Let me get a bobby pin real quick and fix his hair. All right, you guys so um Today is one of those war this morning. It's one of those mornings where I'm going to do a lot of cooking in the morning for the entire day Because one o'clock I'm going over to miss our left and she's going to figure this out So let me show y'all what I'm cooking and JB is going to show you his hair, which I don't understand Put this syrup down child I'm going to make some breakfast this morning, which I rarely do I rarely cook breakfast because I cook Dinner and I don't do no hot dogs or real pies. I cook a meat and two sides and a dessert Which we're doing the all this morning. So let me show you how the dessert I'm making I'm gonna have you get some stuff out the fridge in a minute. Okay So this is just a regular one and a half box of cake mix for it I think I'm gonna add an egg white to this and then I'm gonna this is uh French vanilla by the way. I added a tablespoon of vanilla. I'm going to do a cream cheese Buttercream icing with pecans. Oh, yes, it's gonna be good So I'm going to be making a big pot of chicken stew and the ingredients are chicken stock Half an onion three sixes of celery, you know three six of carrots two sixes of celery some peas garlic potatoes Now this is from oh and I have a package of chicken thighs. I'm gonna show you guys the seasons here, but this is a I got this idea from a young lady who did if you do a search for chicken stew the very first video where it's asmr. She did something very similar For um seasonings and other stuff. We have flour garlic powder onion powder Italian seasoning a bay leaf and some red pepper. Excuse me black pepper I'm not going to add salt because the chicken um the chicken stock or broth or whatever. It has sodium in it Are y'all so I've cut up some chicken thighs and I added some Italian seasoning a little bit of salt Onion kind of garlic powder a little bit of black pepper. I'm going to allow this to cook Once it's done. I'm going to sprinkle in some flour Um, she's gonna you know thicken this up. I'm going to add a little bit of this chicken stock Stir stir stir add in my potatoes add in my uh The other vegetable sorry All right, so now what I'm going to do is bring this to a boil I put two bay leaves in I'm going to bring this to a boil once it comes to a boil boil I'm going to bring it down to a simmer put the pot the lid on excuse me y'all If I need to thicken it up. I have over here a mixture of chicken broth and some flour I could just pour it in if it needs to All right y'all. This is my butter pecan cake. Look. I'm not the greatest decorator. This is homemade icing I put pecans and you have to hey, hey, hey this child is wasting my food Yeah, I don't if you don't want it put it down. You're not going to waste food especially texas toast Oh Okay, then I'll eat it off. Thank you very much. This is going to be bomb that comma ask my neighbors if they want some Let me show you guys what the soup looks like. This is what the soup looks like. I added peas at the end I ended up this child. I ended up adding um that Flour mixture and I had to add a little bit of corn starch and we'll go ahead and take out these bay leaves I'm going to ask my neighbors if they want some of this too My neighbor just had knee surgery y'all turn her husband's been running around So this is enough food for like six people easily