 well hello and welcome to vlogmas what is it day 16 i think um i just went to work and now i have a maple grove and i'm at the shops at arbor lakes this gives me so much anxiety it took me like five minutes to park like i know that's like not a lot but when people are acting stupid it's it feels like longer it felt like 50 minutes not five minutes so anyway um i need to go to world market because um they sent me a coupon for a ten dollars off of a thirty dollar purchase and i actually need to get some trays i was going to get them at target but um if i can find them there i'll get them and then behind me also is trader joes which now i haven't said this on the vlog yet but i think i might be hosting another holiday gathering on actual christmas day so that's kind of still like up in the air so i'm gonna go to trader joes and get some more crackers and some more chicken because i'm basically gonna make the same thing if um we end up doing this but i'm not sure things will be decided probably like wednesday or thursday of this upcoming week uh what's happening on christmas day so anyway i just want to be prepared and i just wish me luck because this whole situation makes me super anxious and i absolutely hate grocery shopping when there's a lot of people out it could oh and by the way just for reference it is one twenty seven in the afternoon so it's like the worst time to go to a grocery store but whatever i need to get two things so hopefully i can get in and get out and i don't need a cart this time uh carts drive me a little bit crazy so whatever all right but uh i'm gonna stop rambling now and i'm gonna go get my shop on okay bye well hey i am back from all the shopping and i just went to noodles and company because i'm going to eat and i think while i'm eating i'm gonna call my mom and dad and see how life is going my dad i feel like i don't need this on i don't know why i do that i do that every time um my dad actually had eye surgery he had two different he had like a surgery and then like a procedure all done on what was it wednesday thursday i'm not sure but anyway um i talked to him like the day before and i haven't talked to him since everything was going on because he's had lots of doctor's appointments and whatnot so yay that's going on so i'm sure you guys are curious of what i got but i got a bottle of water because water is delicious and my meal of choice is penne rosa with parmesan and if you guys are like noodles and company fanatics you will know that penne rosa is typically like it's like spicy or it's like on their spicy menu for me i don't feel like it's that spicy i mean some people make it like hella spicy like let's be real here but most of time it's pretty mild so i can stomach it like seriously something's up with my bra straps like they just like fall down all the time so this is what i got it's delicious and it's healthy they're spinach look they're spinach so i'm gonna eat this oh update okay so i went to world market that's all behind me went in for platters and came out with a lot more stuff because of course like everything's on sale and i hit a coupon so it's fine it's fine but um they were actually quite busy and then i went to trader joe's and trader joe's was not as busy as i thought it would be like i mean there was people but it wasn't like crowded you know what i mean like it wasn't as bad as it has been in the past so that was the like pleasant surprise because the parking lot was crazy and i was like trying to leave and there was like four people like trying to get my spot and my spot was like total crap you guys like it was not even a good spot so i'm like dude like everybody needs to like calm down i'm in a jet i'm gonna head home after i eat this but i'm gonna chat with the parentals while i'm eating and see how things are going and um yeah i didn't want to be rude and i would have normally just sat inside of noodles and ate there but i didn't want to be rude if i wanted to like chat on the phone you know what i mean like throw it on speaker and just sit here for a little bit well anyway all right well i am gonna talk to the parents see how things are going and um next time you see me i will probably be home with a doodle dog so yeah lots of fun things happening this weekend and a lot of things i need to take care of so yippie yippie skippy and i'm home i have unloaded the vehicle and loaded up the dishwasher with all of my things i got like a little cake stand thing too and um yeah i'm gonna wash the well i'm not gonna wash the dishes the dishwasher is gonna wash the dishes for me and i got some candlesticks and i'm gonna do something i think a little bit different it's like it's like a such a mess over here now it's like all alcohol um on my table i think i'm gonna do something a little bit different because i don't know what it is but it involves the candlesticks i have an idea but i think i'm gonna mess with that like later on um so anyway some people were asking me what kind of beer i got like on my instagram post and this is my brother's favorite beer it's the northeast grain belt good times and yeah that's what i got oh also i got this uh yesterday that i didn't talk about but it's from those erin kondren sticker books it's the new one so let me do a quick flip through with you guys i just did this on instagram so if you follow whoops my instagram stories you would have already seen this but there is december november october which is really pretty we got september august which this one might be my favorite because super cute right and then we've got july june may whoops oh my gosh can't do this right april march which is super cute we got february and then january so yeah that's what i got yesterday but i forgot to show it in the well actually no i didn't show it in the vlog because i did a q and a yesterday p s i have like not downloaded the footage and it was really freaking long so i'm sure it's a lot of footage to go through that i don't really want to go through right now so yeah but i have a few things to do here i need to clean up some stuff um i got some pigs ears yesterday because i went to pet smart and i got doils food and stuff but he doesn't like them which is weird so i don't know i think i'm gonna talk to i have a neighbor that's like across the street that has a baker dog i have a like a next door neighbor that has a really really really tiny dog like way smaller than doile like a quarter of his size so i don't think there's any way that that dog can handle the pigs ears like doile looks ridiculous eating the pigs ears so i can't even imagine so i think next time i'm outside and that guy's outside um which actually happens quite a bit because it seems like we walk our dogs at the same time i'll ask him if his dogs if his dog likes pigs ears and if it does which most dogs do doily usually does too but he's sometimes he's just kind of finicky like i bought them they're right there that bag right there and um i was like oh he'll like him nope he just kind of like ran around with it for a while and like licked it and like chewed on it a little bit and then just like let it go i'm like that's really strange because normally he like guards it for a while but i gave him like all night last night and he just he was just not into it like i took it away and showed him i was taking it away and he didn't even care he was like whatever it was just it was strange so i'm like okay he's obviously not into it so you know uh i've opened it so i can't really return it so i think it's just better to pass it along to somebody that might be able to use it so that's what's gonna happen with that i got an update from my mom today my dad is doing good with his eyeballs i don't know if i've talked about this in the vlog my dad had eye surgery he was supposed to have eye surgery like not surgery but like a procedure done a while back and then he didn't get it done and then the other day he got the surgery and the procedure like it's really it's like a strange thing he's doing good but sleeping has been challenging and it's going okay so that's good but it's getting better every day so i think that's you know a positive and uh hopefully after all this is done and my dad stops being a pirate because he can't see um that maybe he'll be able to have like use of his eyeball again hold on we're gonna turn we're gonna turn this on whoa there we go and uh yeah that's that's what's happening here doyle's already upstairs doing his upstairs things which means he's either sitting on the heat vent or sitting on one of the beds and let's be honest they're both his because that's just how he does things around these parts but i think i'm just gonna hang out i have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow i'm actually gonna make myself a list um i have a list here of all the things i need to go and buy still and i'm not sure if i'm gonna do that monday or if i want to just go like tomorrow night because i just want to avoid the crowds and like it's like it gets so people outside and i'm like i don't know oh i will show you this so i'm like super scatterbrained today you guys so like i apologize for the content that you're watching on this video and any of my videos for uh future reference um so i bought these little pine cone ball things to go with my like tablescape well that's not working out so and they're actually ornaments so i think what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna put these on this and have like the two balls on it and like do something with it i don't know what but i'm gonna do something and then i like the glass ones because they're not like holiday i was looking at ones that were like i don't know they just looked more holidayish to me and i was like i didn't want to like pigeonhole myself into like having that out all the time so i think the glass is a good one because it's really neutral and i can use them year around and i don't really have to worry about it so i think that's that's a good idea right but like i said i think i'm gonna hang out for a little while and um make a list of all the things i need to do tomorrow or at least accomplish during this upcoming week as well my brother is coming at least on friday he might be actually coming on thursday night but i'm not really sure yet so um i think that's just gonna kind of depend on his work schedule and things like that so he's pretty sure that he's off on friday like totally off so um but he actually might just come on friday but come like in the afternoon and then be here when i get home because i have a bunch of not a bunch but i have some baking and some other prep work that i have to do on friday night so um we're just gonna probably hang out here together and then um Heidi and the kids are coming over on saturday so that'll be exciting but yeah so i just need to make a list because if i make a list and i cross stuff off the list it makes me feel better okay it just makes me feel better guys so i'm gonna work on that and just hang out for a little while and then i'll just check in so see you a little bit whoa so it is several hours later i am just hanging out like mid yawn huh i gotta do the dishes which means put a dishwasher pack in the dishwasher hey gotta do that oh my ear itches because it's not totally full but it's pretty darn full and i gotta get some of that washed for tomorrow's most difficult part turning it on gotta say but it is time to go for the evening it is late and i don't think i've shown so i haven't sown doil nor have i shown doil on the vlog yet my gosh i'm losing it that's when you know it's time to geogo oh goodness well let's turn the crickets off for you guys all right do you want to see what the dog goes up to there he is basking in the glory he is basically like a little sticky bun though hi bud you want to say hello to your friends they all love you so much he's not having it today it sounds like oh well oh well oh he's moving he's moving hold on he's moving he knows i came up here because we need to go outside and then he can sleep all night long oh my goodness doiled dog oh my goodness doiled dog such a rough life buddy such a rough life but we are gonna say goodbye so goodbye i will see you tomorrow for more adventures and the mission for tomorrow is get all the things done just you i just need to do all the things so i started making a list and i'm gonna finish that list tomorrow and i think i think i'm not actually gonna go shopping tomorrow like i planned i think i'm going to just get more things done and then um go shopping and stuff like after work you know during the week this week so i think that'll that'll be fine fun fact he doesn't really like his butt being touched so i like to touch it i'm such a mean human oh well hey are you ready to go you want to go outside do you want to go outside yeah all right so doile and i are gonna go and i will see you guys tomorrow for more fun vlogmas and uh clean dishes because my dishes are going now so we i accomplished something for the day all right i will see you guys tomorrow bye