 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. So I'm gonna try to Do a little vlogging Cobb log, I Haven't done a Cobb log in God knows How long? I've never been a super fan of them Because I always feel like people are more worried about their Their camera their recording device whether it's a phone or a camera To be paying attention to the road because I've always had that kind of like little phobia So anyways, I got this rear view mirror mount Which a little bit lower than I would like I'd like it to be higher so I could have a better diva pose, but You know it's lower. So it doesn't isn't the most becoming Angle my gosh So anyways, um anyways, I got this I've ordered an Amazon It's actually not bad. It really holds my phone very very securely And it gives me the ability to be able to Not worry once I position it, you know, at least I know I'm in the shot. I may not like How much You know how much I'm in the shot and I may not like that at all but It's better than nothing I guess Anyways, I thought it would do a little chitchatty little chitchatty about nothing, but I have This week. I mean this has been like a really wacky week last Saturday I woke up and I had some tooth pain and I Ignored it. You know, I ended up doing a bunch of different things and I was editing a video and all that I just ignored my tooth pain and then Sunday. I went down my mother's but my sister and we were doing the attic We were trying to tackle her attic Her attic has so much stuff in it. You know, my dad passed away last July and I Don't believe my mom and dad have been up that attic I Want to say I wouldn't guess probably in 30 years. I'm not Not exaggerating maybe even longer the most recent items up there were my sister's high school paperwork and So that would probably bring that to about the 40 year mark Anyway, so there's so much stuff up there that We needed to go through my mother had a couple of suitcases up there. It was just full of clothes her clothes and clothes that she made Old shoes, you know, just just nothing of any value So we spent a few hours my sister climbed up the attic It's not easy to get up there, but my sister climbed up the attic and she passed stuff down. We have like fold down Stairs she was passed stuff to the opening. I grabbed it some stuff We just slid down and I caught other stuff I went up halfway grabbed and she you know So we did that we kind of like passed down a lot of stuff went through it and Jay Showed up and he took up to I think two jeep foals to the dumpster So we got rid of a lot of stuff. We still have more to do but anyways long story short by Sunday night My face started to swell up and I was in excruciating pain. It was in pain all day Sunday, but I just kind of Barreled through it Right, but I was in excruciating pain So I went to the dentist and just took x-rays said I have my I had a very bad abscess I needed to go to work, you know specialists I went to the specialist Tuesday afternoon as soon as they could get in and He narrowed it down to my number 10 That may mean nothing to anyone. It didn't mean anything to me But anyways, he that's a tooth that had an old root canal And the root canal had a silver post and they haven't used silver posts and root canals and I don't know three decades He said so I know it was a very old root canal and He said it's all impacted and flamed and you know and all that he said I can I can it needs to come out the silver Post needs to come out and need to have a new canal, you know filled or whatever so He said he could do it right then and there and I thought about it and I said well You know so much pain my face looked like I had a football on one side And if the pain went up to the side of my nose and under my eye so the pain was All up my face And so is the swelling so anyways Long story short story of my life or it should have been a one and done ended up being not we did We did most of it. He got the silver thing out He I was totally numb and I had a lot of I guess it was a lot of Dunk coming out of there or whatever so he had to clean it out the best she could and then he had to Fill it up with the antibiotic and it was already on an antibiotic orally from the day before for my dentist So he he really thought the best thing was to pack it with the antibiotic finish the course of antibiotics And come back in three weeks to finish the you know root canal so he sealed it up and I Went home and Wednesday Tuesday and Wednesday. I was in so much pain. I was so swollen. I Was just really miserable. It was horrible and I looked really bad. I still look bad. It's still swollen But anyway, so that that was like the story of my week is like crazy, you know, and I'm like You know, I don't have the best teeth but I want to keep the teeth I have as much as possible obviously and So I'll go through that pain to try to you know, preserve that tooth Make sure the root canal is okay because I certainly don't want to lose it. It's a front tooth And I don't I don't want it, you know, have anything like that Anyways, my skin has been my skin is not the best It's not bad for my age, but it is certainly not the best could it be better Are there older women that have better skin? Absolutely. Are there older women that have worse skin? Absolutely So I fall probably in the middle of someone who really wants to try to take care of their skin Doesn't have the best skin doesn't have the best skin tone. I'm flabby So, you know, I'm like, oh my gosh all the masks wearing under our masks. I was trying to get zits I still am dry skin and all that now. I I know everyone has different thoughts about the vaccine And myself, I was very reluctant about getting it but Jane I made an appointment. We brought my mother and we made an appointment for each of us as soon as we could do that and Up until the day I got my first shot I wasn't sure I was gonna go through with it had my mother like She got her shot first. Then he came around to do me and I was like Anyways, I got it. Jay got it. Then we got our second shot when we came home from vacation for my wedding trip and Still though, you know, we have to wear masks my My my in my state the mandatory mask wearing has been lifted surprisingly But most businesses still require it my company still requires it So I have to wear a mask every single day at work. So long story short my my skin has just been Really irritated and dried out. But you know with the mask wearing Nobody could see that my face was totally lopsided from being so swollen from my tooth Which was kind of cool. But one thing about the masks You know It's like a waste of money to wear lipstick. I put lipstick on in the morning when I go to work By the time I get to work and get out of the car I'm putting my mask on and the mask pretty well stays on the majority of the time So what I've been doing and I I love this stuff. I absolutely love this stuff. This is from fresh It's a sugar mango hydrating balm. Oh my gosh Now mango I love it has a mango smell and it has a mango taste So the smell of mango if you don't like it, you know, I'm sorry, but if you like the smell of mango I don't know what I have my it's on my nose If you like the smell of mango, you're gonna love this stuff I got this via the octaline network so complimentary in exchange for review. I will tell you I absolutely love this So I have been doing nothing now before I got this, right? I'd put my lipstick on I'd go to work My I put a mask on I Wouldn't put any lipstick back on and we're not do very much on my lips Sometimes I'd put like a clear lip gloss on or whatever that wasn't doing really much and then My nose and then my lips started to get so Not only did my skin dry up my lips dried up So when I got this from via the octaline network from fresh complimentary like I said for review when I got this I Just fell in love with it. I opened it up. I smelled it. I said, oh, I'm gonna love this I put it on my lips. It's like delicious. It's like you want to you want to lick it off It tastes so darn good and it's it's really nice for kissing You know and there's no color obviously so anyways long story short, I've been Putting this on I carry it with me. I've been putting this on all day long under my mask and my lips my lips are so Smooth, you know where they were dried and Icky from the masks all the time. They Didn't even do that. I love it. They're so they're so smooth. I just absolutely love it And other things I didn't mention when I went away I'm gonna put the name of the product. You'll be you'll be It is a it is a little it's a brush It's it's really small and it worked out perfectly when we were in Savannah and Hilton head and Atlanta for the wedding You put your two fingers into this and it's you can snap a brush it on you can snap a sponge on and I I apply my my Foundation with my fingers. I never really use a brush to do foundation never have And never never a sponge. I will use a brush for buffing things in I will use a brush For you know things like that, but I will never use a brush to apply The foundation I never use a sponge to necessarily apply the foundation. I'll buff them in but it won't use them I first got it I thought okay This will be interesting to try because I knew I was going away And I didn't want to pack any of my regular brushes, so I packed that it comes in a little travel I'll superimpose pictures so you can see it out. It comes in a little travel thing It's tiny to a brush head and a sponge head and you can snap them on snap them off And you put your two fingers in there and you can just you know go to town. I Love it. I absolutely love it now This was also sent to me complimentary in exchange for review And I figured what a better opportunity Than to take this with me When I went to Atlanta when I went on a trip because it's small and how did it work? because I used the brush to do like my blush I Used the tip of it. I put on and the tip of it from the sponge a little bit too. I did some of that my contour I I used it Multifaceted easy to wash easy to care for I really like it So I'll make sure I superimpose the pictures in on so you can see it anyways I thought that was so cool. I keep forgetting to mention it very affordable and Perfect for a trip and the reason why I'm really thinking about this is When I went to Atlanta, even though we were going for a wedding I wanted to minimize what I brought and that's kind of maybe a joke because I had to bring dress clothes Rehearsal dinner and then outfit for the wedding and then we went vacation right? How do you minimize? But I wanted to minimize as much as possible Because I wanted to see what I really needed for skin care and what I could get away with for makeup We are we are taking a trip and We're still a year out Just about a year out, but we're taking a trip and the type of trip that we're taking we want to each just take one bag Now I don't know if that will be a checked bag or a carry-on bag But it will be a smaller bag because we plan on doing some train travel Some bus travel so the amount of luggage that we bring with us on this trip has to be really minimum minimum and so I Was like trying to think of you know what makeup and all that stuff I even I have like I don't know if it's a brow is but I have this brow product I think I got it originally in a boxy charm and it's like three different Powder brow products a lighter a darker and a really dark and I use the medium It's sort of a topey color and then sometimes the darker brown and it just been using it on my brows I don't have big heavy brows. I don't like that look for me. I love it on other women, but it just doesn't the big brows don't don't work for me and So I've been using that And I thought last week well if I definitely would have to take a brow product I didn't want to take a pencil I want to take something a little bit more versatile. I know pencil doesn't take up much luggage So I looked at this and I said I wonder if I could do a smoky eye Did a smoky eye look with it? It worked Perfect. It was the eyebrow. I did the the lighter taupe. I did in my I did my in my crease in my eyes at first and Then I took the darker, you know, and I docked it up slightly with the darker And then I docked my outer edges with it. So I did in this entire eye look except for The over the you know, the total lid shade which I needed a much lighter shade. So I used the little elf I can't think of the name of the color, but you know, which one I'm talking about and I did that and I'm like thinking I Could get away with that if I wanted to just do a smoky look the entire trip But know me I need to have some of my purples in my pink So I'm still looking at that that my favorite one so far has been that small dior palette that I the little tiny Tiny one I brought it to the wedding. I love the shades of pink in there in the shades of purple So I'm thinking that I might be able to just take those two little small purple things from Dior and the elf all over My gosh, I can't think of the name of it and the brow is and it's not a brown waste, but it's a brown product I think and I might be able to just get away with that and then An eyeliner and that could go right in my carry-on, you know, that could go right with me so And I just don't know which foundation yet, you know Which one I have been playing around with, you know, my foundations I I've been having problems with my skin and with foundations oxidizing and I don't know why and I don't really I don't get it because my I never had I've never had foundations oxidized like this, but lately that's what's been happening so I love my SD lot and My SD lotter is in pebble It's like the perfect shade for me most of the time I can wear it and I can apply it and I love my Lancome. I have a Lancome It's a little bit lighter. Those are two my two high ends that I really like That I wear a lot. I love those two and Oops sorry and It was gonna gun it. He should have gunned it faster Those are the two I wear a lot then I wear the boots number seven for my drugstore foundations and And one of my boots it has been oxidizing and it's the one that has the The sunblock in it and I'm really bummed because I'm going to need something with the sunblock So I didn't have to be playing with that this year to see I have plenty of sunblock. I can bring You know, but I'm gonna have to play with it You know, isn't it kind of funny how you love to do the planning stage? how you love to at least me I you know, we had planned to go to Scotland and London and Ireland. We had this whole big planned trip. We bought our airline tickets We had everything all set to go and then due to COVID that was canceled and the airlines gave us like a voucher which we could use within two years and Because of the the place we were going to go to in Scotland because there's some big golf tournament That the owners of the of the home that we were going to stay at on the golf course Can't or don't you know can't get it during that time because of the golf tournament And that falls into the time where our vouchers would you know soon to be expired. So rather than lose them We decided we were going to take a trip that's been on our bucket list for quite a while and that is to go to Germany We both have relatives in Germany. I Have relatives in Germany a ton of them Jay has a brother and sister. He has nieces and nephews. He's never met his brother and sister he's adopted so he's going to be meeting them for the very first time and I have relatives. I haven't seen there since I've been Since I was 12 and they were all over the place I have an uncle in Holland in southern Germany Stuttgart Ludwigsburg that whole area south of Frankfurt and You know, we have we have everyone everyone is there. So for me, I'm like This trip is going to be a lot of Adventures, you know, I have relatives in the in the black forest, which is really An awesome place to visit. I Don't even know how many relatives I have in Germany and Jay has a lot too. Although at least I've met mine So it's going to be a combination It's going to be either a two or a three-week trip We don't know yet and it's just going to be a combination of of visiting and meeting family And I'm gonna go, you know visit the town that I was born in Jay was we're gonna go visit the town We know where he was born He'll probably, you know, be very emotional for him Yeah, especially when he meets his brother and sister for the first time, it's like holy moly, you know, so that's a tentative Time frame is is not tentative But the the time amount whether it's two or three weeks Exactly what part of Germany how much of what we're gonna see and do is all still very tentative But we are definitely going to do it next year We know when we're going to do it and we have to make up our minds Where we want to fly into where we want to fly out of so we can actually book Our airline tickets one thing that I'm thinking about and I keep talking to Jay about it I have always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower. I've always wanted to see Paris There's a couple of places in Paris I would love to see or and I know this is the Pal the The palace I'm gonna call it mess mess it up versus versus for rest aisles or whatever that big beautiful Gilded palace I want to go see that I want to see the Eiffel Tower And so one of the things that we're thinking about doing if it works out is when we're down in Stuttgart if we end up doing that as the tail end of our trip go to Stuttgart and then actually go to Take the train maybe and this is all very tentative take the train they have Really quick, you know train that you can get that is I guess a really easy nice ride We can go from southern from Stuttgart, which is right on them. You know pretty close to the border of France We take the train to Paris And I said to Jay that's that might be the way to go You know plan it all coordinated on the Germany then you know east and west or whatever and then down to you know The southern end then take the train To to Paris and fly home from Paris, you know spend two days And I would definitely want to see the Eiffel Tower at night. I told them that so if we go to Paris It isn't going to be a couple of hours. It's going to be we we go we get on an early train We get there. I don't know how long the ride is having to wait damn never been never done it We get to Paris Yes, have a hotel obviously somewhere and You know to the Eiffel to Eiffel Tower at night Do whatever we want the next afternoon or next day fly home either later that day that you know an overnight flight or You know stay two days So it really all depends if we choose one three weeks and where we fly into and where we fly out of But we can easily do that we can fly into Frankfurt and fly home from Paris It's kind of like really react. It seems really weird to him to say that So Yeah, anyways It's nice to it's nice to be able to make a plan of something It makes you feel somewhat normal at least me to plan something, you know I mean gosh, we haven't felt normal and gosh knows how long right? so I'm really I'm really optimistic that Next year there will no longer be any COVID or any COVID restrictions and I think I Think that I just you know, I think that'd be awesome. You know this year, of course, we have our camping trips coming up We go to Bahar, but we do that every year, you know I think we're gonna have a total new appreciation of things like that We do every year because we haven't been able to do with them so we'll have a total new appreciation of all that and It's so I don't know. I'm feeling I think I'm feeling optimistic. I mean last year was just a horrible year COVID You know my poor dad passed away It's just a horrible year and my mother, you know, bless her knock on wood. My mother You know seems to be very healthy. Although I can see she's slowing down and You know, she's 93, right? I mean that stands to reason But she seems to be very healthy. So I'm You know, I'm optimistic. I don't know. We've a lot of things to look forward to mother's days coming up in May My one of my nieces is going to have a baby. I think in late June or early July And she's gonna have a little girl One of my other nieces has settled into her new home in North Carolina and I'm optimistic that things will work out super well for them there and That Life will life will settle down for everybody. I think you know, we can get back to breathing and feeling Normal Whatever normal is it just would be really wonderful to feel normal again so Yeah, that's the you guys wrote with me all the way to work I am pulling into my office parking lot It's quarter of nine. I have a class at 9 30 and teaching in Maine reciprocity class at 9 30 so should be busy day and We'll see this I may never publish this right. I mean who knows but we'll see if I do publish it But yeah, I think it's so good to to be able to dream I think it's so good to be able to dream and Especially when you know, you have a really good chance of your dream being a reality, you know, especially for our European trip because We have the tickets. We have relatives and even though we have relatives All over the place. We're not You know, I don't I'm not planning on staying with people necessarily So, you know the part of the trip like flying into Berlin Maybe or wherever right and then spending a night in Berlin and Everyone says if you go to Berlin and do a little river cruise through the city of Berlin at night It's beautiful. So thinking about where do we stay there then we drive down there So I'm actually in my mind mapping out and checking out different areas. So if you got any tips for me, let me know But I'm super excited. I'm super excited just to look forward to something like that. So Anyways guys, I know this is probably long and it's a little bit about nothing But I just wanted to try it out and see if I actually publish this Bye guys