 I'm on camera duty. Yeah, okay. So Valerie's gonna catch it if it falls. Welcome to a drive with me and my mom video. Valerie's doing Facebook like normal. I'm driving. No, I'm actually making sure that we're not going to run into a traffic issue. Oh yeah. On the way to my doctor's appointment. Yeah, we are on the way to a doctor's appointment. We'll arrive at 9am and we love it I'm just kidding. But I was thinking because sometimes I plan things to talk about so it's not like just dead silence. I'm gonna try to not edit this. This will hopefully be like a one take wonder. So am I gonna get a chance to talk or are you gonna talk the whole time? Yeah, you can talk about whatever you want. But I had ideas just in case if you were a little stuck. Am I ever stuck with things to talk about? You're never stuck, that's true. Well, I would like to welcome all of Alex's viewers to our... Drive with us. Drive with us YouTube video and let's see. I have an interesting day planned. I am going to be grading papers all day and then I have class tonight because we're still teaching from home at DeVry and Keller where I teach DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management. So can they hear that? Maybe. I could hear it. All right, well it's okay. I think your viewers probably have heard that I wear hearing aids. Yeah. I was connected with Bluetooth to the GPS and so when it goes into my hearing aids and sometimes there's an overspend. Anyway, so I work for DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management. I teach business law and business ethics classes but because of COVID we still teach everything from home. So tonight I have a three-hour class that I'm teaching. So that is... So today really except for on the way to the doctor's appointment I have all work. Doesn't that sound exciting to everyone? Very exciting. Very exciting. Also a little fitness update. I worked out four times this week. Today it was a struggle. I was like not gonna get up because I didn't want to and... Did you stay up late? No, I didn't. I went to bed at like 10 30. I don't know. I just feel like I need more sleep. I don't know. It's weird. So that's like the fitness update. I went on my run this morning and it was good. The weather is like calming down a lot. So I mean with like heat-wise, you know? Yes, it is much nicer. Yeah, I'm just holding it so like when I accelerate the camera. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, it is getting better and actually the fall is very pretty here. It is. But the fall actually. It's still like summer in a lot of places but it's nice here so... Yeah, Central Florida does have probably three seasons. I mean they have summer for about nine months. Yeah. And then you have about oh I would say two months of fall and one month of spring. True. So but... It's basically like summer, winter. Yeah, actually probably... Yeah, because really in October you're still in almost more summer. Yeah. You're really into fall and November and December. That's true. But you know maybe we do now that I think about it. We did... January can get chilly. Yeah, it is chilly. I mean we'll watch chilly to a Floridian here. I'll hold the camera here to make sure we don't go flying away. December is usually nice. Yeah. Nice fall type weather. Exactly. So we're in October so we're pretty much still in summer even though we do have some bonus cooler mornings and cooler evenings. Yeah. But yeah, November and December would be fall and then January would be winter. Yeah. And with a touch of February. And a touch of February but I can say that by my birthday, which is February 22nd so if you want to send cards and gifts it's February 22nd. Can we close the PO box? I think we should have the PO box down so I don't know how else to send. But by that time it is normally into spring. Yeah. And probably we have spring for... I'm going to say February and March. Yeah. But by the time we are into April we're back into hot weather again I think. So also I wanted to touch on... This is like the one topic I want to touch on. Talk about the frog. Okay. The frog. Oh man. I don't even know if there are multiple frogs or not. There's multiple. There's like a family because remember we saw it. We found the baby one. Frog family. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, we have frog fright. Frog phobia. Frog fright phobia. Yeah. Yes. So our frog fright phobia really happens in the evening because we have learned now that the frogs live in this one area of my plantings that because my leg I haven't had really the opportunity to really get in and clean up. Yeah. But I will be destroying their habitat here, hopefully here within the next couple weeks so that the frogs will have to find a new place to live. I'm not going to hurt the frogs. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to hurt the frogs. Half of me thinks one of them is my prince. I should try and kiss someone. Well, I don't think... I don't think that story about the prince thing is real. I always get Valerie's go-kart. I know. Well, you know, if you want to, but I'm afraid you're going to get like a disease from kissing a frog. And then I go to the doctor. So Alex had it. And some of those frogs are little, so you might end up getting them in your mouth if you try to kiss them. Right. So anyway, I have had advised my daughter not to try to kiss the frog. But anyway, so the frogs in the evening are what freaks us out. So when we come back from, usually from Disney, is when that happens. So we go to Disney once or twice a week with well-masked and with a vaccinated and well-masked. And so we're really not like afraid to go to Disney. I mean, we're back on to Disney again. And it's very nice because we all love Disney. But when we come back, you know, it might be 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night, and even probably starting as early as 9 o'clock, froggy and his friends come out. And we do see that we do know that they are out in the evenings because the next morning, there is frog excrement that we can see little frog excrement that I have to take the broom and clean up. And so they do leave little trails of gifts for us. But the frogs will, you can see them. And they're like, you know, I mean, I don't want one to jump on me. I mean, that's that frightens me. I mean, it would cause me really to scream. And you already have seen that funny video of Valerie going, ah, I'm like, I was just saying I like your belt. Oh my God. So. Oh, also, the reason why you're not on my car tripod, my car mount is because we're in Valerie's car. So I just want to also clarify that because I have a car mount. So I don't like have to worry about the camera or whatever. Yes. Yes. We're in Valerie's car because I really like driving this car. If you guys don't know, this is a Ford Escape. I think I vlog this getting it, but it's one of the newer versions, I think. Yes. So. Well, they had Ford Escapes for years, but they remodeled. They remodeled the whole. They restyled the whole thing. So I really enjoy driving it. Yeah, I turned in, turned in. I had a used car that I traded in as part of my payment for this new Ford Escape in 2020. And I can just tell you the difference between. I can't remember what the other Ford Escape was that I had. It was probably about five years old, I guess. But I'd driven it so much back and forth to Ohio. We're in a traffic jam. That it was like had like 120,000 miles on it. Yeah. And I didn't want, they still say we're on the fastest route. So we still should get there by nine. Okay. So when I turned in the Ford Escape, turned in, traded in the Ford Escape. I'm sorry I'm distracted by the traffic. I get easily distracted. I was just amazed how much nicer and prettier and sportier and easier to drive and wonderful new technologies and features that the new Ford Escape has. So I think all of us would agree that the Ford Escape that I had, which probably was like a 1990, excuse me, I don't mean 1990. 20, I'm living in the past. Yes. 2016 maybe. 20, yeah, 15 or 16. Yeah, 2015 or 16. Yeah, I just had an abnormally high number of miles on it. Things are starting to break. So but the difference between that Ford Escape and which I liked. Yeah. But this one is just like night and day. I love this car. Don't you love this car? Yeah, if I was like considering getting a new car, like I would actually consider it like getting this one, this like model. Yeah, because I really like it. Yeah. And it's like easy to drive and it's comfortable and it's just the right size. It is. It's just the right size. Yeah, you can you can still, you know, put a lot of stuff in the back. You can then seats fold down. I feel this is not a commercial for Ford. It's not a commercial for Ford. No, we're just saying how much we like the car. But Ford, if you want to sponsor us. Yeah. Hit us up, man. There you go. We really like this product. We love it. So anyway, but no, but actually I have bought Ford products for many, many years, but but I had a Ford pickup truck. It was a Ford Ranger. That old Betty. Yes, we called it Betty Ford and that pickup truck was a 1992 truck, but it knew and it lasted until 2008 and the it had like a like a severe problem like it was like a transmission issue. I think it was and it just wasn't it just wasn't worth it to fix it. But I love that truck. That was a great truck. We used to go and we lived in Ohio. Well, and even here in Florida for a few years, when we tried real Christmas trees, which we learned that Florida, the Christmas trees, like aren't the same. And they also have lots of bugs in them. But in Ohio, we always took Betty Ford out, got our Christmas tree is so great. Just put it in the back of the truck that was a great truck and it was so reliable. I hardly had any issues with it. So and I had a Ford van too. The the van that we had when you were little, that was it was a conversion van and it was a Ford product. So now that I think about it, I'm really like Ford. So I guess I do by default have brand loyalty because it seems like every time I go car shopping, I always end up with a Ford product. So again, it's not a commercial for Ford, but it is a very, very good product in my opinion. That's true. So anyway, do they know where we're going? Yeah, we said that we're going to your doctor's. Yeah, the wound care. Our home away from home. Yes, twice a week. Yes. Do they know while you drive? It's for safety. It is for safety because my doctor, not my wound care doctor, but another doctor that I go to has given me drugs to help me endure the pain of a wound care. Yeah. So they're like strong pain medications that they gave her just for like these days because they do this thing called the Bridement and they scrape her leg. A little graphic, you know, graphic warning, but they scrape her leg and like everything. So it's painful. It's very painful. And it's painful. The aftermath too. So it kind of helps get me over the This is a PSA. If you have varicose veins, which a varicose vein is like you can see the vein through your skin kind of. I don't know. I don't really have an illustration to show you because I can't get my leg up that high. True. But if you have them, that means you have poor circulation and you need to do exercises and wear compression socks. Yeah. And you know, the And your wounds will not heal. So like make sure, well, they will heal eventually, but it'll take longer. Well, if you have very bad ones, I mean, because I have varicose veins for years and never had this issue. True. Yeah. But it's a PSA. But I won't tell you though that I'll hold the camera here. So we can continue to have this entertaining conversation. Oh yeah. And it's informative. Yes. And the thing about my varicose veins is, you know, I don't look at anything I did or didn't do. It's just hereditary. But I had varicose veins from the time that, I mean, in high school, I had some varicose veins. So over the years, they've gotten worse plus because I have been, I've spent, you know, the last 20 years in education doing a lot of real estate education too. In those classes, they would be, let's just say this, most courses that you teach in real estate are not particularly entertaining because there's a lot of like factual information you need to know, math, law, and well, I find those things to be fun to teach and to learn about. Not necessarily do all the students. It's almost like a necessary evil to take that education so that you can get your real estate license. So in order to keep your students attention, you can't just sit up at a desk in front of the class. I mean, you've got to have, you know, you've got to walk around. Whoops, you can't see me here if I took too much shade on me, but you've got to walk around. You've got to be entertaining. You've got to know, you know, you've got to be able to interact with the students and stand up. I mean, you know, one of the things that as a public speaker, I have learned is that standing up makes a huge difference in how your audience perceives you. And so, you know, and you can't just stand in one spot. You've got to have some movement too. And I think I'm making a mistake here, because I'm looking at the screen and I'm not looking at the lens, but I should know better than that. But I'm just fascinated with my own image. But you have to, so when you're a public speaker, not only should you like look at the camera lens, but you also need to entertain your audience. You can't just be, you can't be boring, especially with all of the things that people do today with video games and, you know, with Netflix and I mean, people expect to be entertained. And you have to realize that. And so, good public speakers are also going to be entertainers. And part of entertaining is movement. And so, I spent many years gratifying years teaching real estate courses. And but I was up on my feet. I was up on my feet for eight or nine hours a day. What I didn't realize was that I was making my varicose veins a lot worse. I mean, more than I could visually see. And I didn't even realize that it was like a bad thing to be making them worse, because I was thought of varicose veins as cosmetic. And then I ended up with a wound on my leg. We'll be celebrating the first anniversary soon of that wound. I had got this wound on my leg, no one healing right. And so I was like, you know, so I went to different things and finally ended up in wound care last April. So I've been doing wound care now for about seven months, I guess. So long time. But the good news is that there is a solution to this. And that is they do an ablation, which basically cuts off the varicose veins that are bad. Because what happens is that when the blood doesn't circulate correctly through your veins, then it will dump the waste product in your wounds. And it causes your wounds then not to heal correctly. So what they do is they cut off, not cut off literally, but cut off through this ablation process so that the veins are no longer expected to do anything. And other veins take over so that you can get the right circulation and your wounds will heal faster. So I'm looking forward to that. October 20th. Alex can make a YouTube about it. October 20th is my date and I am so looking forward to that. Because according to my wound care doctor, once that happens, even though I've seen a lot of progress in the healing of my wounds, because I did end up with two other ones in addition to the main one during the course of time, that I should be well on the way to recovery. So I hope that by Christmas I will be back to normal. And by the way, once I learned this, I immediately, on my other leg, started wearing support hose. And you can get them over Amazon, by the way. This is not, you know, sponsored, Amazon, Amazon's not sponsoring all the things I was supposed to say. But you can get them in different colors, you can get them in different designs. Alex hates the ones I bought. You can get them in plain. I have my plain gray ones on today. But I could longer wear one because the other leg is wrapped with like gauze and an ace bandage and a bunch of other stuff they put on it. As I can only wear, so I wear a matching short sock. So I look like D-D-D-Dumpling. I don't even know if they even do those nursery rhymes anymore. But he had bunched you on and bunched you off. But anyway, I was sort of like D-D-D-D-Dumpling. So Alex had all this list of things that she thought we could talk about. And I have just, I have just taken over having a baby. Yeah. Well, I only had that one about the frog. So, okay. Well, we covered that. Okay, good. That was just in case if we needed stuff. But we never need stuff with me around. I want to keep this video like less edited because like I know a lot of you guys like to watch like just the raw footage, which I kind of like to do too because it's more just like, I don't know, chill. Like it's like a podcast almost. Spontaneous. We should, I mean, you really should start a podcast Valerie. I mean, then again, you're like busy with everything. Actually, one six cop down a bit. Yeah, you should have it. 2022, I have. Okay. Because then we could put the podcast on YouTube and stuff. That's right. I'm going to start one for my universe responding work. Yeah. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Make sure you give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe because, you know, we appreciate and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye. Bye.