 It's Sunday morning. I forgot to close the vlog probably because it didn't go the way Saturday didn't exactly go the way I thought it was going to. I thought that we were gonna get all of Bob's cabinets and then unpack them and then first thing this morning get started on the installation. It didn't turn out that way. In the meantime I'm also working on a bunch of business rebranding stuff and yeah holy cow. So I started off the morning really good because I was able to figure out how to edit available product on Teespring. Yesterday I spent a lot of time eliminating other websites that have my artwork and merch available. It's only now available either through my Etsy shop or Teespring. So but I spent most of the day yesterday deleting stuff and then I couldn't figure out Teespring. I think I just didn't have enough brain power for it but anyway I did finally figure it out. You will probably see me in some videos and vlogs wearing a few different face masks with my artwork on them. I do have a few that are thin knit masks that are I think from Redbubble which aren't available with my artwork on them anymore but you can get them with other people's artwork. They're just a flat mask. I think they're probably good for like if you're outside and you're you know hiking and exercising and you need to breathe really well and you need sort of minimal protection. They don't cover super well. It's one of the reasons that I'm not going to be selling them. That being said Teespring has a much better mask that's actually very similar to the ones that I make and I just now ordered my samples. So hopefully they'll be in in a week or two and I'll let you know when they come in. I'll show them to you. We're meeting up with the kids later. I just I'm getting it. I'm supposed to bring salad. I need to get rid of a carload full of donations. I'm going to go try to do it today and get the salad while I'm out. Bob is downstairs unpacking the garage cabinets that did come as y'all know if you watched the last vlog we're missing a key piece as of right now because they delivered everything except the corner cabinet which isn't coming until tomorrow. We were supposed to be doing the install today which we had to reschedule because isn't that fun. Yeah so anyway I crossed off a couple more things on my business rebranding to-do list. I didn't add anything new to the list which is kind of shocking. I've got my list ready for the week and I'm just looking at it. Yeah I need to edit the vlog and stuff which I might do today but I have plenty of time tomorrow and I need to write up some class notes for a zombie making class yes. So yeah I think that's it for the minute. I'm going to go see about loading the car with donations and getting them out of Bob's way in the garage because that's where they're at and yeah I think that's it for the moment. It's actually a very nice day out it's like in the mid 70s it's not too hot a little bit of a breeze it's really good and I just found out my coffee order came a day early so yay it's a good Sunday all the way around how about you all right I'll be back. So we may not have got all the cabinet parts i.e. we're missing a key corner piece but we did unpack what we do have and look how pretty that looks isn't that nice. Now we are missing also besides the corner piece we're missing some of the feet down here for one of the big cabinets which is behind me. Thankfully this cabinet is going up against a wall and we will be able to just do that ourselves but Bob is going to call them tomorrow hope maybe they can overnight some feet it's actually not going in this corner that cabinet it's going in another part of the garage so but yeah it doesn't it look nice and then there's going to be cabinets overhead and slat wall in between and it's going to be pretty. My car is full of cardboard and styrofoam so I guess I'm making a run to the disposal company tomorrow but yeah it's all right anyway that's it for the moment. Hey guys good morning it is Monday morning August 24th 8 56 a.m. I am headed out to um pride disposal um to unload that whoops that you can't see the styrofoam but there's um equal amount of styrofoam in the back of my car to cardboard um anyway I need to get that out of my car today so it's my first thing this morning then we need to edit next week's vlog um I need to work on a video project for October that I'm sort of collaborating with my deacon on and get that done so that we can sort of get things released at the same time along with some Etsy store listings and other other it's a big project so anyway I'm working on that today also editing YouTube video descriptions I'm going to try the bulk editor and I think I figured out a way to use the bulk editor to my advantage and edit all the video descriptions in a way that I want maybe we'll try it anyway I'm going to do all that after I get rid of all this stuff we had a someone digging in our trash last night well early this morning 3 10 a.m caught on security camera I'm assuming they were looking while I'm not assuming they were looking for recyclables to get money back on obviously because I looked in my recycle can and all the plastic bottles and cans and things that were in there are all gone um they didn't take the glass which is interesting but I guess you don't get money as much money back for that so I don't have necessarily problem with that I I love to watch dumpster divers on YouTube my some of my favorite channels um although I don't know that I would ever do it because I have a germaphobe the issue but um it's fascinating um plus I know people need money and as long as they're not like trying to break into my car or something or leaving a mess behind them um I'm not going to bother to say anything although I don't think it's strictly legal in Oregon it could be wrong but I don't think so anyway that's it for the minute I'm going to go get my stuff dropped off and I'll be right back okay that's all done I'd pay a five dollar fee to dispose of the giant blocks of styrofoam um which is fine so that's all done um I can head home now I kind of want a third cup of coffee today it's becoming a bad corona habit it is still Monday we're out for a walk I have a mask if I need it I've mentioned a couple of times that we are finally working on the rebranding and simplifying of the art business to hopefully make it more productive and more profitable that's the end goal anyway so over the next few days and weeks you will see changes some things will go away some I'm trying to step in mudclods um some things will go away some things will change hopefully for the better it worked all day today on video description edits again to the point where my hand's kind of hurt um and towards the end I got it done it's not the prettiest thing on the planet some of the on some of the descriptions it's a little bit there's some gaps in the way the text is but 1600 videos I do not have I did it once and sat and went through every single video I'm not doing it again so I did the best that I could um and we're working on some new logos and new artwork business artwork so yeah now we're gonna go get some fresh air it's a beautiful evening out it's in the low 80s there's a beautiful breeze nice fresh air actually 74 oh 74 see there you go so wow it's a lot a lot cooler than it's been so we're gonna go get our walking in and when it gets people you'll put this on and it's all good I'll be back look I missed him there's a he went off that way I guess it's a good thing they're not friendlier because it'd probably be mean it's just about 10 minutes to 10 a.m on Tuesday August 25th don't get excited I'm in front of the computer because I'm setting up for where we there we go live broadcast this morning we're gonna work on some more slow stitching and um have some chatting oh I've got my iPad crap I've got to go downstairs I really have had all my coffee not that you'd know that but anyway I'll see you on the live broadcast I'll be back guys it's another beautiful evening it's a little warmer today it's about 79 degrees according to my weather app but we are headed out for another walk I'm just happy it's not like 90 like it was uh I spent the day working on stuff for 2021 I got one whole project completed for the whole year next year so that is done I'm not saying any more about it except that it's for the Facebook group of life of art and self-expression that's all I'll tell you but it's all done it's being currently reviewed by the current admins and hopefully they're looking for any issues problems typos you know because it's me um but now my hands are sore again because I spent the whole day on the computer again we made a little hedgehog pin cushion today on the live broadcast I'll put a picture here and he's real cute and now we're gonna go for a walk because Bob promised me if I go walking that I get to have gelato so you know I'm all about the gelato all right I'll be back yes I have my mask in case it gets people-y there's no people around right now all right I'll be back follow me on social media probably wonder about the cat it's just a neighborhood cat and there's usually actually two of them they're just not bothered by dogs or people or anybody they're cute they're real pretty cats it is Wednesday 12 18 p.m I almost said December August 20 something seventh I literally just looked this up like two minutes ago hold on 26th um anyway I see more stuff in my desk it needs to go away anyway um I have not vlogged until today until just now um I have no excuse I haven't really been super busy I've just been having a chill morning where I really haven't gotten anything done uh I think we all need one of those now then I did do the dishes but you know I wrapped up an edgy order tried to figure out something on the computer that with google documents that I just it's beyond me I can't figure it out and I'm gonna have to do it a different way the admins and I'll have to do it a different way um which is fine we'll have to go old school I'm okay with that right now there we go I have that pile on my desk for a video project which I can't speak about yet but I need to start filming it today um and it's going to coincide with an etsy order an etsy order an etsy store new listing release so I need to get the video filmed and get everything scheduled and and yeah stuff so I spent the afternoon getting a new project done and ready and edited and the multiple things for that set and ready to go I'm gonna go for a walk now get some steps in get some walking in clear the energy out um I can't lose my lose it app up I was like 20 days behind just like currently that's not gonna help me get healthier on the midst of all that I got a call from my doctor about sending an appointment to go see her something about a six months checkup uh never done that before don't know why she wants to do that so I'm not scheduling it until I hear a call back because the hell's up with that anyway I'll keep you posted I'm gonna listen to some music and go get some steps and I'll be back hey guys it's 12 0 5 p.m. just after lunch Thursday the 27th uh the cleaning lady is here and working and I am just up here in the office fiddling around um catching up on my lose it health app and at least catching up on taking my blood pressure which I found out I can log and lose it I found that out this morning yay I'm also going to be putting my steps in there trying to keep a better record I've lost eight pounds since january I'm not sure how I did that with like covid stressy you know but yay for me um anyway there's lots of probably projects I should be doing but none I have to be doing so you know I'm gonna have some lunch and um finish laundry and go for a walk later and that sort of thing what are those days where I'm just not getting enough done it's not just me right anyway so yeah that's a thing I don't know I'm just having a black day I think I'm gonna sit and read a book I'm just gonna go with the flow I didn't do today once the cleaning lady and gardener and everybody left was I took some of my succulents out of the window and replaced them with some of the herbs that were on the kitchen counter and the green onions which weren't doing very well all of a sudden I'm guessing maybe they weren't getting enough sunlight so I took some of the succulents out of the pots that were up here and put the herbs there I don't know if they'll come back or not we are headed to the market so I may just pick up some new ones this was sage but it's like looks just about dead I don't know if it's going to come back rosemary the basil is doing just fine I clipped but clipped it that's the only reason it looks like that I don't know I might give them a couple of days and see what happens and I put the succulents that were in the window over here so I don't know we'll see move the plants around it's all right morning it's 906 a.m on Friday August 28th I'm pretty sure I am just getting started I'm in kind of a late start this morning the flaws are definitely starting to set in probably due to the worldwide situation but also things like being worried about the kids road tripping it down to California to visit family and do things that have to be done down there being worried about my mother-in-law she's kind of freaking out about the whole thing unexpected doctor visit wanting to see me or talk to me like for a six month checkup regarding my medication which is weird I've never had to do before just a lot of things it's just kind of you know it builds and builds and builds and builds and then you just kind of yeah so anyway my car is absolutely filthy covered in tree sap and god knows what else just a thing right anyway we're going to the kid's house for dinner tonight we don't we're not having it at our house which is great but I still need to go out and pick up a few groceries and check the PO box so that would be why I'm in the car and we're going to go get that done I'm not going to get too much because I think we're going to go bargain grocery shopping this weekend which means like going to like the grocery outlet and winco but there are a few things they don't ever have that we like so I'm going to go get those things at Fred Meyer and then if we have time to do the bargain grocery shopping tomorrow then we will do that otherwise I'll put that off a little bit but we don't need too much it's just the two of us so anyway I think we're finally installing Bob's cabinets this weekend and screwed them to the wall the last part that was missing is supposed to be in today so cross your fingers people all right that's it for the minute I'll be back so that's all done there wasn't anything in the PO box I don't get tons of happy mail or anything so that didn't surprise me I don't solicit happy mail that being said if you want to send me some my address is in the video description anyway I got all the grocery shopping done also and of course there's a few things that we would like but don't absolutely have to have some things that we like that are from the discount grocery stores like winco so we may go there like I said this weekend I don't know if we don't get there this weekend I'll go early next week and nothing that we're not going to start have I said yet that I've been having computer problems I think I have anyway what started out as a couple of computer glitches and then later I was trying to clean up the time machine backup files and it went south from there it went south yeah it went south from there I'm sure it's operator error I don't know what I did or how I did it but the short story is we were restoring the computer and putting the new operating uh new copy of the operating system on because everything was completely eft up so that's a thing so the last two days if I haven't really kind of been with it I said yesterday it's just been blah computer issues just really rub me the wrong way anyway we are headed out because we are meeting the kids for dinner and we need to go to the store first and pick up dessert because we were asked at the last minute to bring dessert so yeah that's a thing along with appetizers along with appetizers so we're gonna go do that neighbors are getting their house painted that looks nice yeah so um anyway we're gonna go do that and I will check in with you probably tomorrow I'll be there Saturday morning August 29th it is 10 50 a.m. I am slowly making progress on fixing my computer we've got the system restored now we're repairing the external hard drive which may be the problem for not being able to delete the files I was trying to delete that caused the problem at first place and blah blah blah blah blah the short story is once we get this fixed I'm probably upgrading to Mojave because like this is ridiculous and the Apple technical support people are fairly certain it's an operating system issue so no guarantee upgrading will solve the problem of me having all these little tiny bugs but it should so yeah in the meantime it's just a very slow process and you have to just let things run and do what they may so we're letting the computer do its first step in the process right now and it's gonna take probably as much as an hour and we're gonna go out and run some errands and then I'll try to have it do with the next step and then go do something else and yeah so it's a thing anyway we're gonna go on a drive and we will pick up a few things that we still need and we need to um well we're on a hunt for Pepsi sugar because that's a thing but I already told you all that so yeah we're gonna go do the all those things and be safe while we're doing it of course and we'll be back I mentioned yet that my computer issues are not completely resolved yeah so the short story is I upgraded the operating system on my computer and I went from El Capitan straight to Catalina which is the current operating system um I have spoken to two different Apple tech support people today and someone is going to call me back at 530 to see if this worked or not it's just yeah I don't know it's a thing so anyway oh joy I'll be back other things I wanted to do with my Saturday instead of this but I you know they're not getting done I'm not even sure what I'm going to be able to edit this vlog at this rate I need a computer um yeah so that's a thing we did go to a new Fred Meyer um that we hadn't been to before in Wilsonville I think I don't think we've been to that one before um we had a lot of rewards points from Fred Meyer from buying groceries there we were we got a whole dollar off on our gas a whole dollar we paid a dollar forty seven nine for gasoline so basically a dollar forty eight a gallon it filled up my Subaru it was almost on empty and it only cost I think just under twenty one dollars I can't remember the last time I only spent that much on a full tank of gas so it hasn't been a horrible day I just switched my computer was like working anyway Bob's downstairs getting um his garage parts ready for tomorrow because tomorrow is the install of that um and let's hope that goes better than this all right I'll be back hey guys good evening it's Saturday evening what time is it nine thirty nine I am waiting for the computer to finish emptying the trash it does look cross your fingers at this moment that upgrading the operating system was um what was needed that there was evidently a bug in my system somewhere um I did do um the deletes in a couple of different batches and that seems to have worked I was able to do that I was able to manipulate it a bit so I wasn't able to do that before um while I was waiting I updated a couple of the apps so I'm not going to do too much of that um because I'm going to let it do the deleting first I am hoping it does the deleting before I want to go to bed and then it's done because I would love to turn the computer off and just leave it off maybe all day tomorrow and just revisit the computer on Monday and edit this vlog on Monday and all of that stuff I did make sure iMovie the iMovie app was updated and the Logitech webcam app was updated because I'm going to need those pretty quickly so um unless there's any bugs we should still be live on Tuesday but watch my YouTube channel and my Facebook art groups for a notification on that one way or the other and yeah so far so good crush your fingers anyway um I hope you've had a good week it's you know getting weirder and weirder by the minute but I mean it's a pandemic what are you gonna do I know I'm just you know it is what it is right so we're just trying to make it work and we're trying to keep making art and keep being creative and you know just to try to approach everything with calmness and kindness as much as we can because there's enough anger and frustration going around for you know a couple of different planet earths we don't need to add to the mix in my opinion no matter what your opinion about the situation is anyway if you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups there are lots of different ways to do that check out the video description if you click on the link tree list of links down in the video description this is link tree slash and my name um you're gonna find every place that I am on the internet you're gonna find my Etsy shop there um my patreon um YouTube you can join YouTube membership there is a support the free content link um my um Facebook art groups are there my instagram is all that stuff so check it out check out the video description it always has relevant stuff down there um don't forget to um you know right now something I've done a few times in the last few days see thank you the apple tech support people I'm gonna give them a little plug right here I am I'm a mac person I have all mac products apple technical support has been great this week trying to help me figure out what was going on walking me through the steps of fixing it or trying to fix it even sometimes when it didn't work they were fabulous all at no charge they've been great so we need to remember to say thank you I say I've said thank you a few times this week to them I thanked the staff at Walmart when I was there recently because they have been great through the pandemic with keeping things clean and sterile and six feet and that at least mine so say thank you to people I don't think people right now especially you know tech support people and essential workers and frontline workers and they're not hearing that enough I think they need to hear that more anyway it's my little lecture for the day so support where you can not just my content but other creatives content I know they would appreciate it they usually all have a way check out their video description if you can't figure it out ask and don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it just remember to say thank you all right that's it we'll see you next week bye guys