 Girl I got on this big at big old bonnet. Look at this Yeah, the enemy came to seek and destroy because I'm pretty sure I'm getting my cycle soon Anyone else feel that I know this is TMI my cycles have been off. It's because my ass is getting old But seriously, I read someone else who said that her cycles has been off, too And she looked young and another woman chimed in another young lady chimed in and said yeah Her cycles have been off. My cycles have been off like God stress can do that to you though. So anyway, it's Friday. It's Friday And I'm ready to swing um I'm stressed I Did not get any sleep last night JP woke up at 3 30 in the morning and that is too close to the time I normally get up which is close to 4 30 so I couldn't go back to sleep So I got like five hours to sleep last night My husband is off today. So he's probably gonna get on my nerves I'm so tired y'all yesterday I was Very frustrated with my job y'all Next week is my birthday and typically I take off a couple of days from my birthday and those of you who you know I spoke in my last vlog that I forgot to take off some days But my manager still approved several days for me to take off It is so busy at work I've had to cancel half those days when I tell you I am pissed I am livid cuz I need the time off. I'm stressed out I'm tired So I'm only taking off my birthday and my husband's birthday. I originally was gonna take off Monday through Thursday I can't do that anymore because work is so crazy And my husband had a valid point. He's like You know, he was sympathetic to me yesterday because I was ranting and he could tell I mean I I literally was at my laptop From five to two p.m. off and on but normally I get up and I could do no not yesterday I worked that long actually two almost three So my husband he was like, you know what that's messed up. He's like that you you can't even take a week off He's like I can take a week off and I work in a hospital doing a pandemic and you can't even take a couple of days off I said no, I can't unfortunately. So y'all I Think it's about that time for me to look It's not happening anytime soon, but I need to really consider where I want to go career-wise because You know, I got it I got it I didn't get into it But my husband's like well at least you work from home. I said that's not the point I feel like I'm working all the time and a couple of years ago. I'm actually the year we got married I took an extended leave because I was but when I told you I was working at that time Six days out of the week 10 12-hour days I Was anxiety was crazy. I was working a lot and so I didn't give my manager a heads up I went to the doctor. I went to go see a therapist for documentation I didn't need to see a therapist and not that there's anything wrong with it, baby If you need to go see a therapist, absolutely do it, but I did it for documentation I went to go do three therapy sessions went to another doctor this doctor I had to write me documentation that I was stressed due to work So I took a two and a half week work leave didn't give anyone a morning Just sent my manager an email sent her the forms. She called me up immediately. She was like, what is going on? I like I said work is overwhelming to me. I'm taking off And I'll be gone and when you do that is up to the manager then to determine who's gonna provide, you know Support for you, baby when I came back She was like we need to talk Because she ended up even having to do some of my job it took three people to do my job y'all She was like we need to talk because this is a lot. We need to see what we can do to support you And it's not that I didn't go to my manager and express my concerns But it's different when you actually have to do the job. So yeah, yeah, I'm ranting because it just really ticks me off and now my PTO was cut short because of people So anyway, hey It is my birthday this camera's angled weird it is my birthday y'all Let me go get my violin. Oh Let me pull this down so I don't be looking fast. I feel and I'm gonna start crying again. I woke up this morning crying because Y'all just don't know, you know, God has kept me. He's kept all of us Let's just be real and I feel so honored and blessed to have made it to 40 years old I don't feel 40 It's just an age, but physically girl. I'm starting to feel it. But anyway, I am very blessed. I thank God I'm For keeping me for keeping my mind Y'all just don't know keeping my mind and keeping my body here So y'all I think I'm gonna finish up that story time for y'all because I know some of you have was all waiting on part three And this would be a four part but let me know if y'all are interested in I'm thinking of having my story times Separate from the vlogs because if it was me, I would just want to look at the story time I don't care what you do with JB. I would just be interested in the story time at this point You know what I mean? So let me know in the comment section if you're interested. Let me take this big-ass bunny off Ciao I did my hair y'all. I'll be taking it down. This would be a separate video. So this is my birthday birthday hair and birthday makeup. I'm gonna be doing a purple girl No, a pink and gold beat. I am going to beat the hell out of my face. I'm I took my birth control yesterday. I'm already stocked up. I'm good We the days are matching up because baby when I tell you I did my hair last night, right? I Did my hair last night so all day all morning. It was down So I had half of it up Braided and then half of it down and out y'all it was down here out big You know my husband and and JB no one sees my hair out like that because there's so much hair Baby when I tell you my husband was looking at me like I was a prime real I was like, oh, let me put this stuff up and and make sure what it was today today Monday Yeah, Monday birth control. He'll needs to be taken now He loves hair My husband does I mean what man doesn't but he loves hair. He loves my hair. So yeah, anyway What I was not saying. Okay, so a story time. So yeah, y'all let me know if you're interested in Storytime storm that I don't know why I do this. I did my nails again now. These are looking crazy because I had to get a flip-flop on JB and My nails broke in the process, but it's okay cuz It's okay because I'm probably going to do a new set here soon, but it's pretty all these are really pretty So yeah, they look good for a way. I just did these yesterday again because honestly these vlogs Bear in mind that this would be the only vlog right now that is more up-to-date All right girl, let's get into the story time. Okay, so where do we live leave off? Okay, and I already told JB this part of the other story So he won't be upset if you hear me and y'all maybe some of my stories cuz part three got a little PG 13 So maybe some of the story times will be with JB and some of them will be just us cuz there's some that I I want to go there Well, I'm not necessarily go there, but the topics are too adult. They're adults They're not for a 70 roll who think he's 45 show JB being on his past life clip hit thing or whatever. He be talking about his past lives, which he may anyway, so On the last story time we left off with Mina Driving up to the plantation and noticing that there's cop cars. There's an ambulance out there So she approaches mr. Joe. She's like mr. Joe. What's happening? What's going on? And he said, oh baby looks like the housekeeper. What's the housekeeper name y'all is it Juanita? Yeah, what's the housekeeper's name? We're gonna name her Juanita. I'm sorry. She she she has a middle name her middle name is more than Juanita Mr. Joe is like oh Juanita took a spell on the stairs like in the big house. He's like, yeah, baby in the big house But she's okay. She's doing fine. They're gonna take her to the hospital just to be looked at, you know Make sure everything's okay And so Mina sees the paramedics will out Juanita on this stretcher She has her head wrapped up in gauze and so she approaches Miss Juanita and she's like, um, it's so everything okay Miss Juanita tells her she's like, oh, I was you know cleaning and then I turned around and I saw these men in the house there's men in the house and Mina look confused and she looked at mr. Joe mr. Joe shook his head and Mina's like there was men in the house. She's like, yes, there was men in the house, you know, they're in the house It was scary. There was they they were um, they ran by me and that caused me to fall down the stairs And so before she could ask her any questions the paramedics Will turn away they put her in the in the Ambulance and she went off to the hospital. So the cops are walking around and so Mina's looking at mr. Joe and mr. Joe And Mina's just looking at mr. Joe like what's going on and he's not saying anything, right? So the cops come around and they're like, well, we search everywhere. We searched the big house We searched well, I shouldn't say that we searched the main house We searched the guest house and we have people out in the on fields. We don't see anybody So maybe you know, maybe they ran out, but you know, let us know if anything comes up And then another cops come another cop comes up behind The one cop that was talking he says well, the only thing we didn't search was the old well Mr. Joe turns around when he hears that and he's like, oh, there's no there's no reason it's such that oh Well, can't nobody be be down there and the cops start smiling because they're just kidding with mr. Joe They're just kidding when they said that they didn't search the old well, but that kind of shook him a little bit. So Mina thought there was odd, right? And So mr. Joe came up the cops eventually leave so mr. Joe comes up to her comes up to her and say baby You know, well, we're gonna go ahead and there won't be any tours for the day So you can go ahead and go home And we'll just start over in the morning. And so Don't worry about it. You know, I'll make sure everything's cleaned up She's like, all right there mr. Joe, I guess I see you I'll see you tomorrow. He's gonna see you tomorrow, baby So meaning that that was good because she has a final tonight in her law class Excuse me. She has a final the next day for her law classes Because she only works on the plantation Monday Wednesday Friday and she takes classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, okay? So this is Monday. So Tuesdays when she asked her final girl, why do y'all need the details but details are important, right? So she's like, you know what? I could go ahead and go home Study for this final because I've been just stressed out about it. So she goes home Next day studies for the final does really good in the final After she took her test because her class is early in the morning She noticed she got a text message from her friend Courtney and her friend Courtney side girl Are you doing anything? She's like, no, I just finished my test She said well remember we need to hang out more often and she texted back. She's like, yeah, you know Let me get through this last Few classes and you know, I'll hit you up then Then later on as she's going back to She goes to her car. She gets a call from an unknown number She's like who's calling me for now from an unknown number now Normally she won't answer no unknown calls because it could be anybody so she's like let me just go ahead and answer It's phone call so she answered the phone call and the voice sounded familiar. He's like hey Mina. She's like hello He's like, hey, how you doing? She's like, I'm well. Who is this? He's like, it's Quentin Mina's heart kind of skip a little bit. She's like Quentin She's like he calling her like literally a few days later Normally dudes don't call you for like a good week, but this guy called her like within two days So he's like look I was wondering if you were free Thursday night. I got these tickets to the new show At the theater and I wanted to know if you would join me Um And so Nina kind of pause for a minute. She's like He's already calling her to go out on a date. She thought they would go hang out, you know at the bar So she's like hmm She's like, yeah, you know, I heard about that show and I heard it got good reviews. Yeah, I I'm down for it. I'm around what time because I got a class early. He's like, oh, we're gonna do the six o'clock We'll do the six o'clock show. She's like, okay, they'll be good. He's up. Well, should I pick you up and she's like No, I can meet you there because Mina don't let nobody when when she was seriously dating now She took a break from dating since she's you know in school. She wants to focus on school She don't let no man come up into her know what she lives that she ain't having it because she does not need any stalkers, right? So she's like, no, I'll meet you there. I'll meet you there. So Thirsty comes around meaning classes were going great. So later on that day She's trying to figure out what she's gonna wear. She's like, okay You know, I don't want to be too sexy, but I also don't want to look I want to look nice You know, so she found something that was really cute dress not too short really just really nice Okay, but form fitting to show off her curves. So she gets there super early So the show starts at six. She gets there at 5 30 so she could sit and watch mr. Quentin comes in 535 35 rows around she don't see anything She's like, oh, we gotta get the will go go to the willpower to get the tickets So by 5 40 she's like, okay, whatever and she walks up towards the um, what do you call it? The little box where they have the tickets and when she turns the corner there's Quentin sitting down He been there all along all along waiting for her and he has white roses And she's like, oh wow, no do that ever bought her roses before in the first day. So She's like, oh, hey, you know, I was just sitting out in my car waiting for you. He's like, yeah, I know She thought that was kind of strange So he gave her her flowers and they went inside the theater and they watched the show. It was a good show, right? They were laughing having a good time So and when they walked out the show was only an hour and a half long So when they walked out here was like, look, you know, that was good But I really want to get to know you and talk to you really couldn't talk in there So would you be up to go out to the bar that one boy? I saw you at you. Would you be okay with meeting up there? She thought about it. She looked down at her cell phone and look at the time She said, yeah, I got time even though she just had to keep in mind that she has to be at work by 8 30 in the morning So she's like, yeah, I have time. He's like, so should I drive? But she's like, no, I'll meet you there Cool. So the bar is only 15 minutes away from the lounge, right? So she goes ahead and she get there. And so it looks like she's got there Sooner before Quentin does so she finds a seat or table for them And she orders her a sweet tea Sorry, y'all hold on. So five minutes go by then ten minutes Then 15 minutes and she was looking around Making sure she didn't miss him because that's odd because she literally saw him leave the parking lot from the theater The same time she didn't take him this long to get here, right? 20 minutes and waiting. She's getting frustrated. That's when she gets a text message from Quentin that basically says, hey I'm so sorry if something came up. I won't be able to make it. That's it I mean, it looks down. It was just very vague And so she wrote back No worries. Thanks for the flowers She saw that it had been seen, you know, he read it but no response So she's like, ah, you know, whatever. So she goes ahead and go home Call it whatever the week goes by her friend Courtney still trying to hit her up to go out She's like, hey says when are we gonna hang out again? I know you busy with classes is wrapping up But we need to hang out so many things. What the hell, you know She normally doesn't like to go out a tool or twice in a week, but she's like what the hell So she decided she'll go out with Courtney on Friday night, right? She goes through her closet this time. She ain't gonna be Safe with what she's wearing. She finds something that shows all her curves honey a little low cut in the front She does her hair. She does her makeup really nice because typically she's very She doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She knows how to do it But she just she prefers to not to wear a lot of makeup So she wears her hair really big and pretty does her face up and she goes ahead and goes to the bar to meet Courtney Right. And so when she gets there, she already sees her friend at the bar throwing back drinks She's probably had about two at this point Her friend turns around and she sees her friend Courtney. She's like, oh, yes, girlfriend. Come on now, sis Mina's kind of shy and embarrassed by that But she walks over to the friend and sits at the bar with her friend Courtney and she's like Her friend Courtney is like, yeah, go ahead and get her a sweet tea because that's how she drinks And then but then Mina's like, no, what are you drinking? She's like Her friend Courtney is like, you gonna have a drink with me? She's like, yeah, just go ahead. She's like, whoa, okay new look new Mina New look new Mina bartender go ahead and get her a daiquiri So Mina gets her a daiquiri 15 minutes into it She's really feeling this daiquiri because mind you, she doesn't drink sister woman does not drink at all, right? So then Courtney is like Yeah, girl, let's go ahead and go dance and let's get on the dance floor and dance and That's another thing Mina doesn't dance and she knows how to dance But she just doesn't want to be this she doesn't like to be in a spotlight. She doesn't like a tangent. So no The Courtney finally convinced her to go out on the dance floor and their dance and having a good time All of a sudden Mina feels a tap on her shoulder and she turns around There's this all many chocolate looking brother with these light eyes and he's like, hey You mind if I dance with you and Courtney's like she she walks off to go back to the bar to her drink And so she dances with the brother and he's fine y'all real fine by six four Like I said, all many color with light pretty eyes So when they're done dancing and walking off the dance floor He's like, you know what my name is. What's his name could be y'all divan divan He said my name was divan. He's like, you know, you you're a great dancer I saw you when he first came in, you know, which you mind do you have a man? I would like to take your number. She's like, you know what? She looked at him. She's always fine She's like, you know what? I just got out of her relationship and I Just I'm trying to focus on myself right now and I'm in school. He's like, okay That's not a problem. But hopefully I'll see you in here one day again. She's like, yeah So she makes her way back up to the bar and her friend Courtney was like, yes Girl friend. Who was that? She's like, did he ask for your number? Mina's like, yeah, he did. She's like, you didn't give him time. She's like, no And so Courtney's kind of looking at her by now Courtney has had three drinks, right? So she's real. She's real Bold at this point. She's like, well, what seems to be the problem? Mina doesn't know she should tell him and she should tell Mina hasn't really told Courtney about her date with Quentin and she's not sure how she were at how she would react. So she's like, you remember that guy That was up in here the other week Quentin the albino guy. She's like girl. How could I not forget him? Mr. Light bright Mina kind of rolled her eyes. She's like, well, he took me out to the theater the other night She's a little worse. So y'all went on the date. She's like, yeah, we went out on a date but later on we were actually supposed to meet up at here up at here And he never showed up instead. He sent me a text message. Let me know that something that came up She's like girl look this man would do that. You cannot let that ruin your day You need to go ahead and give mr. Armini your phone number and she's like, no, that's okay so they hang out have a good time things go well and You know, she goes ahead and she goes home Days go by and she decides to go over to her grandmother's her grandparents house for Sunday dinner And her grandmother says, you know what Mina? I know you normally don't spend a night on Sunday nights But would you mind staying because I've been having issues with your grandfather. He's been sleepwalking She's like sleepwalking. She's like, yeah, he's been sleepwalking and having night terrors She's like, oh Mina psycho. That's no problem big mama. I can say tonight anytime you need me to stay Let me know and I'll be here. She gets another Unknown phone call and she's like, you know what? I'm with my grandparents. I need to focus on them I'm not answering this so she ignores the phone call, right? Goes to bed while she's sleeping. She hears screaming and yelling Coming from her grandparents room. So she gets up She goes into the grandparents room and she sees her grandfather I guess in the middle of a night terror and her grandmother trying to calm him now She goes in the room. She's like big mama. Do you need any help? She's like, baby He's been at this for a while now. Do you mind staying in here? She's like what big mama? Yeah Why don't you go into my room and try to get some sleep and I can stay in here with with Pa Pa And she's like, okay Grandmother goes into the other room to get some sleep Mina sits up and they have a recliner in the bedroom They have a recliner in the bedroom and she tries to get her grandfather settled down in bed He you know, he's tossing and turning at one point. She could tell he had been crying because his face is wet So it finally he gets to sleep and Mina Mina Doses off eventually in the recliner as soon as she does off. She feels something on her On her leg and she opens her eyes and she sees a dark figure in front of her Because she's still kind of hazy and sleepy. She when she really comes through she sees her Grandfather standing in front of her mind you her grandfather has had problems since the stroke from walking He needs a walker just to stand up But he's standing straight up in front of her eyes wide open Mina kind of looks up at him and says Pa Pa and her grandfather looks dead at her and says beware of the NOA That's part three y'all Oh god, I'll have to think of what about poor for I think this is going to end with part four y'all Okay, cuz this is pretty long. Hey y'all I'm in the background getting my makeup together for later on I guess my husband calls someone to come clean our driveway. Y'all this man will hire someone I'm like we can go rent a pressure washer at Home Depot, but if you want to spend some money go right ahead. I'm not like that. I'm gonna do it yourself Um, I want to speak just briefly on this I'm this new video with Megan the sallion Megan the sallion and Cardi B. Y'all I just don't understand like I Feel like those of us who are not feeling this new type of music. It's so rare. It's not a lot of us that are like this and I'm Still a hip to what's going on and I'm just like what is enough gonna be enough So I saw some of the video in the new video of those of you who are not aware is called WAP WAP and it stands for wet as You know what first of all, that's just crass in itself. Um What do I start I saw some of the video there was first of all there was symbolism everywhere. I mean Very disturbing Very highly sexualized. I mean when our stuff not, you know sexualized anymore. I Didn't even recognize Kylie. I didn't I did not recognize that it was some fair-skinned Latino or whatever. I thought it was a Latino I did not know that was her. I didn't recognize the other young ladies who are in the video But apparently they're in the industry too. Yeah, the video just gave me low vibrational sex cult We're gonna have all these women on display for you for your appetite and they can do whatever you want That's what I was getting from that thing that just with this generation and future generation It's like when is it going to when is enough going to be enough? Because of course, I saw some people who are commenting on just you know, other people's reactions and they're like, I don't know why People are saying that this is too much when you guys had little Kim. Yeah, we had little Kim, so But now we have full-fledged videos Music videos that are like that and it's just too much. I mean I feel like sooner or later It's gonna be full on nudity and videos and that's gonna be acceptable I'm just sick of this highly over sexualizing fetish of black women and I get it and you know, I saw comments and well There's the double standards men can talk about, you know Laying the pipe for women all these and why can't women express as you can I'm not saying that But at what point is enough gonna be enough. This is the sky y'all here are the ingredients for this Vanilla velvet cake. I'm making y'all this eggs So one of the things that I'm going to do that I have to do is put out all the ingredients at room temperature to bring it up Now I am missing ingredients This is supposed to be a layered shantilly cake and I am missing missing heavy cream and mars capone cheese But I'm not gonna do that. I mean we could have it again the next day, but whatever. Yeah, that's butter, baby So we have here So I have ingredients for the icing and for the Cake set out. So I'm gonna put that the ingredients for the icing I'm gonna just go ahead and do a cream cheese buttercream icing for the Quote-unquote icing and I'm gonna ice this as a very naked cake meaning it's gonna be a thin layer of icing It's not gonna be that thick because it's this is gonna be um, I'm making a Feeling a berry filling now. I'm debating. I don't know if I really want to go get that heavy cream I honestly don't like heavy cream, you know what I'll do I'll substitute with a little bit of milk. I'll just add a little bit of milk in there I typically either have half and half in the fridge. I don't have anything. I have buttermilk milk almond milk Yeah, a half and half is half cream Half milk. That's why it's called half and half And then you have heavy cream, which is all cream. So anyway, that's what I'll do I'll add a little bit of milk to this so it won't be so, you know rich So anyway for the ingredients for the cake itself We have five eggs. It's gonna be egg whites one cup of buttermilk two sticks of butter Vanilla, I got the good Mexican vanilla. Mm-hmm Bacon powder and sugar That's all probably won't need that. I don't know why I put this out here Salt and we're gonna be using cake flour. I got this on clearance a while back And I knew I wanted to make my cake from scratch. So that's why I got it. Oh even worse All right, you guys, this is what the cakes looks like a little bright here. I know so cakes Hold on y'all. That's a little bit better cakes turned out really really great So this is my buttercream cream cheese. Well, I should say cream cheese frosting. This is my filling and This is some fresh berries. I'm gonna put on top. Okay, so I'm gonna do a thin layer of this fill of this icing I'm gonna put this on the middle And then put the cake on top and we'll see Hey, you guys, okay, I'm gonna be doing a pink and gold beat. I'm going to beat beat beat beat Bow bow bow Yeah, it grew. Yes, it's dread maiden form girdle Boo boo JB was like, where are you going? Yeah, pick up. That's what that is. Just pick up Oh, yeah, let me show y'all my balloon So gaudy another year of fabulous. Yeah, it has fur on it They were way too expensive