 Hi guys, it's Monica. Oh my gosh. I don't even know where to begin. I know I've been You know, I had done the vlogs for my vacation and all that stuff But I had wanted to do a video for last weekend and then all sorts of stuff happened once we came home And it was just like It was like impossible. So I'm gonna share a couple of products a couple of things with you So if you're curious or interested stay tuned Alrighty so If you watch the two vacation videos by now, you know that Jay and I went on a trip to a week trip to Florida We spent some time with some friends with my mother-in-law and then we went to the East coast of Florida and we visited with Marlene So we had a couple of days that we spent with Marlene. She was gracious enough to host us in her home We went out to dinner. We explored Marlene and I played with videos with hair with makeup It was it was just absolutely awesome from Marlene's we ended up going to We went to we canceled our flight home And we ended up going to with to Marietta Georgia drove in our rental car from Marlene's place and We visited with my stepson and his wife and that was like absolutely awesome and then from there we drove to Myrtle Beach and that was not too bad of a ride is like a six-hour ride and We ended up staying with Sheila and her husband David and we had a blast So the longest stretch of our vacation was in Myrtle Beach Sheila and I had a blast. We did we did a video together. We did some sightseeing went out to dinner We just got caught up. We had girls chat It was it was amazing staying there and exploring the whole area with Sheila So as I mentioned, I think before we left Jay and I were doing a 1031 tax exchange We were looking for a similar type of a property to invest in and we've narrowed it down to the Myrtle Beach area South Carolina seems to be super friendly tax state It's not anything we can move into at least not for two years because if you do a 1031 tax exchange It's an investment property we sold an investment property purchasing an investment property and The rules are pretty strict. So we're super excited. We do have something under contract pending home inspection So so who knows how that is going to go? But anyways when I was down there There's a couple of things that happened I had Received some stuff some products that I was supposed to review Beforehand and I never did one was and this actually came while I was gone So there was no no big deal about this at all but many of you have heard me talk about Julia before and I've shared some of the products that I have from Julia the rings that I have and Sometimes like I'll wear this ring. It looks almost identical to my real band and people don't even know the difference So for me perfect for traveling. This is held up remarkably well I want to say I've had this particular ring Gosh Maybe two years now something like that and I've had a few other pieces from Julia over time But they recently sent me this piece and I haven't worn it yet This is a band I'm sorry and a band. So it has a band and a stone and it really is pretty I'm hoping that this will pick up on it. I'm hoping that this picks up Anyways, the band has and I'll leave all the details below now. This is a Size six so for whatever reason which is about the size my fingers normally are Sometimes when my hands swell I can't get the rings on you know type of thing but this is such a Beautiful beautiful beautiful piece. It has a separate band But I think because of the I know I can't wear it together I can't wear the two of them together on the same fingers because My hands right now is swollen a little bit But has this really pretty band that you can wear as a companion piece for this or not But I just think this is this is beautiful And if you've ever seen any of the Julia presentations when they ship anything to you or when you buy It comes secure in a wrap and bag It has a gift bag that goes along with it Which is really nice with instructions for any kind of cleaning or if you want to give a card You know if you're giving this as a gift it has all of that Plus it has all of the care instructions for the pieces and when you look at buying jewelry And you want you know, you're gonna be spending a little bit more for a a piece of jewelry and Even though, you know, it's not 14 karat gold or 10 karat gold or whatever it is or a platinum or a real diamonds You want it to hold up and you want it to look nice And I will tell you honestly the test of time for Julia the test of time has been Remarkable right because I've had and I haven't cleaned this ring at all So this has basically been Worn almost every day since I've been home and I haven't cleaned it And this is probably in my possession for about two years So when I give it a good cleaning, it'll probably just as sparkling as this brand new one that I have on here This is such a pretty pretty piece. I absolutely love it. I think it's gorgeous. So anyways Julia They they have a huge line of products that I think are absolutely Amazing so be sure to check it out. I'll link it all below. They really have some fantastic Pieces I absolutely love them. The other thing that was sent to me was and I and I use Vita Optim I've talked about this company before and They have sent me This is elevate I have elevate eight gummies juicy fruit 500 milligrams and 300 milligrams This is a CBD premium a Delta 8 gummy if you are oh My gosh, what can I say if you are into? Any kind of CBD products to relax you to maybe give you some better clarity These are these are amazing. I have tried their sleep gummies I also have other gummies that I have reviewed and tried but they're sleep gummies So far have been the best for me. I really really like them a lot and the daytime I call these daytime is because they're not drowsy. They're not anything that's going to put you to sleep but the evaluate is The 300 milligrams and then I've got this one here, which is 500 milligrams They taste good. I just take one a day. It's like taking a vitamin. It kind of you know, just gives me Some a really I just feel really really good. So again, this was sent to me complimentary from Skeppers Skiper's Skeppers Skiper's Skiper's Skiper's formerly the Octoly Network complimentary from Vita Optima in exchange for review and I I've talked about these products before and I Highly highly highly recommend them. Of course any time you're doing anything with anything like CBD or whatever You should really do your own research Investigate it. Make sure that it's something you feel comfortable with. These are amazing I have really liked them thing that I got and I haven't had a chance to even set this up But Vaunt has sent me and I've reviewed products for Vaunt before I have those little lanterns that I use in my RV Well, they sent me this strip lighting With a remote that you can put on like twinkle lights behind, you know, something like that. So I haven't set them up yet. I Think I'm gonna set them up Here in the bookshelf behind me But I also they sent me a second one and I think I'm gonna set it up in my in the shop that we had The converted machine shop that we've set up I've got like a little green screen studio out there that I'm trying to work on Except there's no heat. So it's like really really cold But anyways Vaunt sent these to me for review. They came shortly before I left I didn't have time to do anything and since I've been back. I haven't had time to do anything But this is a light strip from Vaunt. I believe these you can get these on Amazon Really affordable prices. I like them and I will of course Update you after I have them set up and put on so a couple of products that I used while I was away and I just wanted to talk about how it worked because you know when you're packing and you're going for two weeks You want to try to keep it light? Of course, I always always over pack But I had taken this gommage the clean it zero. I love this. I did a really good job I took this I also took my My cleansing oil and I just got another DHC. I actually have this on auto delivery from Amazon So I took one of those in a smaller container my clean it is zero because of the Gamage and then also the clean it zero that I took pretty well everything off of my face So these were the three cleansing products that I brought with me when that I used now I Brought also this toning pad so my cleansing products and then I had a toning pad and This is that I had reviewed this. This was sent to me complimentary from the octaline network scepters as well Madekka Durma and This is the squeeze toning pad. I talked about this. They also sent me a cream Hydrating cream really like both of these products now The cleansing pad has a rough side on one side of the pad and a smoother one on the other So it's more of an exfoliating tight pad It isn't something you're going to take your makeup off with the other products would do that But I brought this in this and I thought oh my gosh, it was really awesome So those worked out really well for me. Of course while I was away, you know Sheila had shared one of her vitamin C's with me So I brought some of that home to use and and you know, Marlene of course, she was trying to teach me how to contour my face a little bit and I wasn't doing that great of a job with the contour But she was trying to really teach me how to do that when we were gone. It was what the weather was cold So there was no walking around barefoot on the beach, you know, there's no sun time like that Which was probably perfect because you know, we were going from one area to another checking this out and checking that out and always always pressed for time but I Had read about this product and so it the interesting thing is that when I read about this product I said this might be a perfect Vacation companion, you know, like you don't want to stop your retinae when you're away But you also may not want to use retinae when you're away, especially in the sun and that's what I was afraid of so I had gotten some and I had read about this in one of the Magazines that I follow which was the trends for skin care and you know consumer reports and all that stuff well this particular company was mentioned for these two retinol products and They they said it's like a little miracle If you use this it works really well And because I'm a retinae work user, I thought maybe this would be a great companion piece And I also thought maybe the eye stick stick would be something I could use under my eyes Because I used to always use retinol under my eyes I kind of stopped a lot of that especially after I had my most surgery right here But I used to always is retinol under my eyes and up here on my brow bone So I thought maybe this would be perfect. Let me show you what they look like So the eye stick is actually the pink one You'll have to read about this because it's called peace out retinol I stick and Don't know, you know everything. I read all the reviews. I read was that This is a pretty good product so it's like in a little lipstick tube and You glide this on now some people have said that it's harder to come on I have found that my eye stick glides on really easy But if it didn't I would just kind of like maybe put some in my finger and warm it up You can do it whichever way you want. I just use this It probably isn't the best thing to do it, but that's how I've been doing it. So I've been putting this on and I put it on All the way around my eye and then on my brow bone and then my crow's feet And that's what I've been doing and now when I use my retinol, obviously don't go up that close So I also bought the same time. I bought their face Stick so about their retinol I stick and then I got their retinol face stick So when I look at this, this is piece out again The black one is for the face. Let me put this down There's a little cover in it got stuck in here. There's a little cover inside. Anyways, same thing But this is a lot more harder So I've been taking this and putting it on my hand and then warming it up a little bit and putting it on my face But what I've been doing with this is I've been running right up my face Now I've got the other retinol around my eye. So I don't have to go up there But I'm running all up my face Above my lip because of the smoker wrinkles when I used to smoke and then of course on my forehead I'm working on my 11s. I still use my frowny at night. I took I had my frowny with me on vacation and they used it so this this was I thought maybe if it's a Product as good as they all is all the reviews I read if it ends up being that good for me I'll probably be super happy. So this might be a miracle. I mean the reviews are saying it's a miracle I have not really noticed any difference in My face now some people saying oh, I woke up and I saw a difference right away Well, you know what I see a difference is that it is my skin is very moisturized in the morning It's not dry. So I noticed the moisturizing now. I have not while I was using this I've I've not used the mom the milk of Magnesia, which is still my holy grail go-to and But I've not used it while I was just using this and trying this out. So I Think the idea is pretty cool. I like it. We'll see how it works I'll link the information below for you guys. You can check it out if you want. We'll see how it works this is by no means a finished review on it because So far I like it, but I can't say oh, it's a miracle. I woke up with less wrinkles No, I did not wake up with less wrinkles. I still have wrinkles. So anyway, since I've been home My company has doubled in size They had an acquisition which I knew about and we were planning before I left on vacation But then it got moved up a week and so that kind of was like, oh my gosh So my company has doubled in size and that means that I'm actually doing more work now than I was before So this whole week coming back from vacation was Insanely crazy and then this weekend the cold weather, you know, we've had like we've had below zero temperatures and We're not used to the below zero temperature I mean every now and then you're gonna go below zero, but on a norm. No So can I handle zero seven degrees 10 degrees 20? Yes, that's more of a normal thing But when you go, you know, 17 below zero, it's crazy So people's pipes were bursting people were having furnaces furnaces couldn't keep up. Well yesterday got a call talked to my mother in the morning and she was very very cold and So Jay went down to look at at what was going on because I wasn't even dressed and Her furnace was really not operating correctly house was like 64 and for my mother at 94 64 is very cold I could handle 64 but it's very different for her So long story short Jay spent all day yesterday down there Trying to get someone to come service the furnace to look and see what was going on even though we had suspicions We're not in that industry was almost impossible. So long story shot. Obviously, it was like everyone else She furnaces cannot keep up with the heat demand So today's Sunday at the time of this filming. I'm not too sure. I'm gonna upload this later tonight. Hopefully Her heat is operating. Thank goodness for that. So Yeah, it's been it's been totally crazy. So vacation was awesome. We also had a huge company event I'll show you my My little my little mask that it wore We had this huge company event that we went to Jay had a mask and the theme was masquerade. It was a formal event We do our award ceremony. They call them the Aussies every February in my company So every now and then it's we have a theme a couple of years ago. It was wrong 20s this time It was masquerade so people came with masks on you know different getouts but it was a formal event so you had to wear sort of more formal clothes and This is what I wore and I had taken these threaders These I had actually gotten these I bought these from glitzy fritzy when she had her store years ago And you thread them through you get the pearl and you get the little diamond Well, I took the threaders and I just temporarily put them on my mask because I wanted to have something dangling and everyone's Going look at you little look at your pearl and your little diamond and and I thought Yeah, I said all those are earrings right away. I said, yeah, they're threaders. So anyways That was my mask and I'll I'll enclose a couple of pictures so you can see what we What we cut what we looked like Jay didn't even want to wear a mask But I did get him one at the party store and he ended up surprising me the reason he surprised me was When I told him I put on my blonde blonde wig and I said to him put my mask on before we were going I Said do you think anyone will recognize me? He goes they're all gonna know you because you're gonna be with me and I just looked at him and I said No, no, I'm gonna ditch you. I don't want people to know who I am. You're on your own a Couple of hours lady comes walking out with the mask. I bought him on and I said, ah, you gonna wear a mask He said yeah, probably I Think it was because I said it was gonna ditch him. I Think anyways, it could be wrong, but that's that's that's what I think so yeah, he wore his silly mask I wore my silly mask and And It was a fun fun night, so I hope you enjoyed some of the photos and thank you all so much for coming back And I'm sorry. Sorry. I've been missing an action, but you all know like life happens sometimes and You just you just don't really you don't know right? I mean you got to go with the flow So and that's what we did and take a look at this beauty is spring From Julia my gosh, I love it Anyways, thank you all so much guys, and I'll see you in my next video