 Today I'm gonna be sharing with you some things that have really made me happy. I haven't done a favorites video I think February 25th was the last one so I have I don't have very many But the ones I have I really like a lot and then I want to announce the three winners of my last $100 e-gift card giveaway. Of course, there's always gonna be some chit chat I'm gonna give a hopefully a temporary channel update and if we know something about I don't know anything New right now with Jim. We should know soon. I will put it at the end of this video or I will type it in the top message So I want to thank you all I just want to thank you all for your prayers and support before I get going you are wonderful and I appreciate you I Want to talk about the solar eclipse? We had three minutes and 53 seconds of totality Where I live I live in Southern, Illinois, and I'm like right in that X spot We're we got the 2017 solar eclipse and the one in 2024 This was twice as long and I tell you I was impressed My oldest grandson called me and he asked if I was gonna be outside watching and I said you bet I am so he came Over and watched it together. It was just so special. It just makes you realize so much You know, we are just a little tiny tiny part of this great big world And we just keep need to keep on doing the best we can do. Well, you know, I'm a copycat. I Get some of my best ideas from well I've got one idea in here that came from a channel and a friend of mine and Two of them are came from a friend of mine that are viewers on here So I'm gonna talk about the first one because it really did. I love it. I was watching elf That from the channel L is for living. I've watched L since before I had a channel and she's a good friend of mine She showed this picture of her she and her sister and mentioned a coat And I was gonna put the footage of L doing this, but I couldn't figure it out I took some screenshots Then she showed the part with the hand and I love the way that you could either cover the hand or not Because that really does make a difference with cold going up your sleeve Then she showed the hood and I usually don't like hoods, but I liked so many things about this coat As soon as I was done, I clicked on her link and I ordered it I'm gonna go ahead and put some pictures in here and these pictures are from Amazon But you can buy this from the Amazon website or the Colombian website My daughter saw mine and she liked it so much She she got one and she got it in the beetroot and here I'll put the pictures from the front this is what it looks like from the front and If you notice on the bottom something I love about it It it zips up from the bottom. So if you're in a car Driving in a car. You don't you can unzip that part of the way up and when you get out You can zip it down. I oh, I like that so much and then I especially like the way the hood when you put it up it Protected a lot of your neck from the wind and it does get really cold here in the winter And I haven't gotten to wear it yet, but the good part was this retails for a hundred and eighty dollars and I bought mine for ninety and Gretchen's was ninety and now it's eighty one dollars and not all sizes are available But I will put the links below to both the Amazon website and the Columbia website But I'm going to show you the color that I got L's color was camel brown. I believe Gretchen's was beetroot and mine is Dark nocturnal and since mine's so dark. There's so many features I won't be able to show you but I want to show you a couple I'm not sure if I said instead of an extra large I got a extra extra large and they do have plus sizes also I saw that on the website, but it has a lining very lightweight Reflective lining that's supposed to keep you warm. But anything I've ever had from Columbia has has been high quality The it has an inside zipper pocket right inside the inside like men's and I like that really nice pockets Being able to unzip it from the bottom. I Love it. I absolutely love it. So I haven't gotten to wear it But in our area, I've had to pull sweaters out in May So you never know, but it's lightweight and and it's my favorite thing I've gotten in a long time as far as clothing or coats and this does not bother me at all The hood is so lightweight and that's just kind of like a suede fur And it's machine washable and driable. I think you can dry it too. I'm not sure But I probably will wash it see what it looks like and maybe bounce it for a little while But that's the first thing that I've just really been thrilled about I know I've mentioned this a couple of times Later, but I've got to tell you a story The only thing I did not like or do not like about my prequel Glenser I do have two of them is when I ordered it It was I mean, it was a great price. I thought so. It's it's $18 for 13 and a half ounces, but the shipping and handling was 750 So I went ahead and got two of them. So there wasn't any shipping and handling. So in my brain This costs like $11 because I wanted wanted it and I never ever thought I would find a cleanser That I liked as much as purity made simple When my daughter was over I went to my cabinet and in my cabinet I have the 32 ounce purity made simple and it retails for 62 dollars And then I have a little one that I would pour it into So I gave that to Gretchen because I don't want to use anything else and believe me I've tried everything and I've never been sponsored. I bought this myself. I don't have a Discount code. I can leave a link that this is a new skincare line from a dermatologist and I absolutely love my Glenser because it's half glycerin. I did place another order for something else And I like it a lot the second item, of course I had to order too because I didn't want to pay shipping and handling of 750. I ordered the hand wrap I'm really kind of funny about hand creams. I've not really big on them. I like the loxatone I think that it's a really nice hand cream The loxatone the smell is getting too strong. This is Water-resistant and it's supposed to be a Hand shielding lotion and how I apply it might the but the backs of my hands are never dry I just put that much on my back of my hand And I just take my other hand and I just rub them together and it really makes my hands feel good They haven't been dry at all and I think this will be probably the last team brand of hand cream I will buy I don't know if you've been able to hear the weed eating and the lawn mowing that's going on It's it's just if nobody does it the same day so one of my viewers and friends on here's name is Mary Nestor and Because of Jen's inability to it's hard for him to get up and down and he has fallen You know, we just have had some issues She recommended this lift assist and this is what it looks like and I'm gonna put a link directly to it Because they show a video on how it works and it does work with Jim You it's you have to use really good body mechanics. It's you taking yours it's me taking a step back and Helping Jim get up and I think this it's I got this on HSN And I think it was like $19 for shipping and handling and it has come in handy And it's just a lift assist, but thank you Mary It is it has been very helpful another friend and the viewer of mine her name is Janet But I think her title on her notes are a rose is a rose. She told me about the kind zero bars There's zero added sugar the it'll tell you it tells you on the front It like one gram of sugar four net carbs and five grams of protein Well, I love the built bars and but and and I like my bill bars smooth I don't want anything in my bill bars, but I do miss crunch and chewy. It does the trick it It's delicious This is the kind of bar and this is the built bar This weighs 1.2 ounces and this is 1.4 ounces Now the built bar has a lot more protein and it has 17 grams of protein to the five But, you know, just if you're hungry for something different it was excellent and I think I figured up how much these were at the price that I got them for I always when I order built bars I always order to and I was I ordered from the company I haven't tried them on Amazon yet If any of you all have ordered them on Amazon, will you tell me if they're fresh? Just I don't want to order a box and They're not be fresh, but I ordered two boxes and this in-depth costing 224 a bar and this is 236 a bar, but for me, that's that is fine. You know, I do not buy any drinks out whatsoever Even when Jim and I were going out to eat a lot. I always get water. I never buy coffee out So, you know, there's everybody spends their money differently And I just a long time ago and Jim, but he thinks this is horrible that I did not horrible But one time when my children were small, you know, and I raised them alone and money it was really literally Paycheck to paycheck. I mean it was I know a lot of you know exactly what I'm talking about Well, they had pizza at the time. This is how long ago it was. It was six dollars for a large pizza So we would we were having pizza and I got my bill and I at the first time I really noticed how much drinks were and it seemed like they were there It was like three dollars for the drinks and I said to both of the kids I said, would you rather go out and have pizza more often and drink water? That's what Jim thinks is horrible that I even said that or Would you like to go out less and look we can get a picture of Coke? It's up to you. Well, they 100% wanted to have pizza more often and water Well, if you went usually went twice a month for pizza if you aren't getting another drink You could almost go three times a month. But anyway, I may cut that one out, but He goes, I don't know how you did that to your kids pizza and coke just go together Well, I had someone ask me and I've had people ask me this before when I say I examined my face in a 15 times magnification mirror I want to let you know what I look for but first of all this mirror I bought in May of 2007 The month before Jim and I got married My girlfriend Mary Ann we have been best friends since fifth grade still are my friend Pat who's departed and Our friend Kathy we all went to Santa Fe, New Mexico So the three of us Kathy Pat and I Flew from Southern, Illinois to Santa Fe, New Mexico to meet Mary Ann She lives in Midland, Texas They had a place in Santa Fe and she got this out of her suitcase and I was just mesmerized by it and This is the same one that I've had this is how big it is and I'm gonna put a photo in just so you can see it It has a light, but I don't really ever need the light I just put this to my face and you can remove this if you want to it I don't see any reason to but you could and I just look at my skin. There's a light in here That's where the light is Right in here and you I've changed it once in 17 years and I have an extra one of course if it ever would go out But I just look at my skin. I look at see the texture I can check on certain Wrinkles that's how I know if something is helping or not. I can see the depth I have to get this close to it if I really want to see what's going on But you know you have to sitting on your on your counter this moves You know this suggests and it's perfect to tweeze your eyebrows Or if you have something in your eye or get a contact stuck, you know I could never put on makeup with it, but I can check and see if I'm lines in my lips the depth of wrinkles and Just to see if there's like a dry spot coming, you know It's just I'm just assessing my skin just like as a nurse you assess Someone's skin turgor you assess the hydration and that's just what I do I look at it and I can see if my skin starting to look worse Or if it's starting to look better But I love my phlox eye 15 times magnification mirror. I started my channel in May of 2014. I Consistently uploaded two videos a week and sometimes three until February of 2019 So just about five full straight years. I did two or three videos a week So in February of 2019 I started filming one video a week and it was always on Sunday That's my day is Sunday morning it to upload a video and I did that until January of 2021 and My best friend from birth her name is Pat She died and it really did affect me and I just started doing every other week My goal is to go back to doing weekly but for a while I'm gonna commit to doing one video a month and what it's gonna be Hear the mowing going on because it's important for me and always has has been to do what I say I'm gonna do so I know I'm almost positive I can upload one video a month and it's gonna be the last Sunday of The month and so the next video after this will be May 26th, I think that's the Sunday before Memorial Day if I have the opportunity to upload more I will but I'm not gonna commit to doing it because I really don't know what's going on And if you miss me just go back and watch my old videos and that does help YouTubers it keep the views keep your channel in the algorithm If that it just it just helps your channel get views and that's I don't care about how many subscribers I have I Just want to get to share my information with as many people that are interested in the simple things I have to say, you know, I mean, it's not rocket science what I talk about and I don't really hype up very many things I just like to share with you the things that have really worked for me And I learned from you and I learned from my other friends on YouTube So now I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway and the word was kind was the word that I wanted you to use in your comments and I'm gonna go ahead and read them and give you the order that they popped up in random comment picker The first winner is Barbara loose Congratulations Barbara The next winner is joyful denay congratulations denay and The last winner is Nell Cooper Make sure you leave a comment below and I will get back to you and tell you how to get in touch with me I have an email address. It is just for giveaways and and it is all good with God on my side and all the support from my friends and viewers and relatives and It is and I will see you in my next video Which will be May 26th if not sooner and you all take care It that and that's how if you get a it did not it was you couldn't see anything This is a couple my daughter like Before from and I don't I don't bathe Not a scent at all. I haven't done a I