 And does anybody else know how, notice how I talk and... Does anybody else have a water? No matter what I do, I still have a waddle. Alright, anyway, I'll be back. Good morning everybody, it is Sunday morning, I don't know what time it is, hold on a second. About 10.08 am, I was gonna crimp my hair and stuff today, but you know what, we're going out to run errands and I just don't feel like it, so it's not happening. Anyway, we've got kind of a laundry list of errands to run today and we want to start taking down the Christmas decorations today. Bob has tomorrow off, so if we don't get it all done today we can do some tomorrow. Uh, but it's kind of a busy-ish week, I'm still doing physical therapy for my knee. I've got to get Dad at the airport one day this week. I need to pick up my new quest of orthotics, all the things for the things. We're starting a couple of new things over in a life of art and self-expression. I've got journal stuff I need to work on, see it's all laid out over there. I also have a couple of daily art videos I want to film. I don't think I'm going to call them tutorials, more like this is what I do. Encourage you to do what you do, kind of. I don't know what else to call it. And yes, it's... anyway, I'm going to get on the internet. I forgot to post one picture last night, so I'm going to do that in the Facebook art groups, uh, art group, a life of art and self-expression. And take care of that this morning while Bob takes a shower. I'm not completely awake, can you tell? Morning everybody, it's Monday morning, January third. 9 37 a.m. Don't get excited while I'm in front of the computer. Um, yes, I'm still in my pajamas. Our goal today is to get the outdoor Christmas decor down. Um, but before we do that, Bob and I are both gonna... obviously I'm up here we're checking on computers, I'm gonna download vlog footage from last week, write all this week's social media posts, we're gonna start something new over in a life of art and self-expression for this year and see how that goes. And all of those things. And then if I have time later this afternoon, I want to film a couple of daily drawing videos, um, fast forwards of which will be here on the public channel talking, me blathering on about what I'm doing will be over on the Patreon channel. Um, I might decorate a couple of sketchbooks for February early so that you all can see how I do that. Um, yeah, like all those things. I've had all my coffee, I swear. I'm, yeah, but anyway. Okay, so Bob and I both upgraded our computers to the next version of operating systems and kind of held our breath while we were doing it. Doing it, his computer's a bit newer than my desktop, but you never know with these things. Both came out fine. Thank goodness. Anyway, so that's done. We also got all the Christmas decorations down. Yay! And put away. And put away. Sort of. The outside ones are drying in the garage. We're going to go for a walk now while it's not doing much raining before it starts again, because we're supposed to have a whole entire week or more of just rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Anyway, we're going to maybe try to find a new way to walk, but um, I think we've done them all already so I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but we'll see. We haven't told you the excitement in the house. We've been noticing for a couple of months that our internet router seems to, gateway thing seems to, sort of have a mind of its own. I heard a noise. Um, it has these periodic bouts of very iffy connections. A few times in the last few months we've had to reboot it, and that seems to fix it temporarily. We finally called the internet provider last night. They double checked it from their end and guess what? They're bringing us a new one tomorrow. So that's a thing. For the moment it's working. I'm going to try to get my vlog loaded and maybe the new one will be faster. That would be nice. All right, I'll be back. It's a lot of water down there or something. All right, I think we're headed towards home. We're done with our little hilly adventure, but it's been interesting. It is Tuesday, January 4th, 10 18 a.m. Don't get excited. I've already looked at the phone calendar stuff like hello. What started out it was going to be sort of a quiet day with just one appointment with a foot doctor. It's turned into kind of a busy day. I might get rained on. It's always a possibility, but I've got an umbrella in my pocket and we're going to walk over to the podiatrist's office. So yeah, we'll see how this goes. I'll be back in a day. So as I'm trying to get to my appointment, my neighbor stopped just to say hi because she doesn't see me in a bit. And we chatted for a couple minutes and as we were talking the roof guy drove by who wasn't supposed to be here for a couple hours yet. So I'd call my husband and say can you take a minute because the roof guy is there if you just drove by me. Meanwhile, I still have to get to my appointment. Why does it feel like Monday on Tuesday? We got the new orthotics. I'm headed the wrong way. They feel good, different, but good. Yeah, I like the way they feel a lot. I think I need to adjust the one in the shoe a little bit but yeah they're different but they're good I think. The two tests will be going home because they got to wear them home. So but yeah, we're going to go home now and see if we can relieve Bob of some of the craziness that's going on at home. I'll be back about me. I love to read and I love to do puzzles. Besides all things creative. So we started on this guy, New Year's Eve. He's a little difficult. Anyway, we got a little bit of a ways and I just finished well for the most part. I have these pieces left but the wings, the red and white stripes on the wings, that was hard. So I might work on it a little bit. I sorted the pieces by color just now and I'm going to see if I can get a couple more pieces then I'm going to stop and I think Bob's going to pick it up later but yeah we both love to do puzzles so anyway. It's a thing. I'll be back. Good morning. It is Wednesday morning, January 5th. Helps if I take off the parking brake and put the car in reverse. Anyway, so we are headed out. It's just after 8am. I have a physical therapy appointment this morning. Car is cold. Car is cold. So anyway, we're going to go take care of physical therapy this morning and then we have to later drive to Portland International Airport and pick up my dad. So he's flying in from a visit with my brother in Southern California so we're going to go take care of that. Those are my two things for today. Hopefully it doesn't end up being like yesterday where I end up with a whole bunch of other things. I haven't been able to do art in the art room. I've done art just not in the art room in like two weeks. Maybe a week and a half? Like it's been a while. Like I've been doing art and cleaning in art room but I haven't actually been able to sit down and like paint on my at my easel or like it's just it's been a thing because life is just busy. It's crazy. Anyway, so if you're like that you're not right. Right onto Southwest 130. Hey guys, all right. Physical therapy is over. Scott and everybody else at Northwest Physical Therapy do a great job by the way. If you are in the Portland area they have a few offices. Look them up. All right, we are going to head towards home. I do think I might stop at Dollar Tree and just poke my nose around. They're supposed to be getting new merchandise in and or moving things up so they don't no longer cost a dollar and I don't know if mine has actually done that or not but I'm just curious. I might just go straight home. I don't know yet but I guess we'll find out in a minute. I'm supposed to pick my dad up at the airport today. I said earlier he's flying in for my brothers in California. Yeah, he's stuck for more than two hours in Sacramento so I have time so I'm upstairs in the art room finally. I'm doing some backgrounds in the year of my life journal. It is a journal scrapbook type travel journal I used to do back when we could all travel. I put receipts and photos and different things for different events that happen or places I see or people people I go places I see people I see places I go holy cow. Anyway, so I'm doing the backgrounds for that and I've got four days worth of stuff or four double page spreads worth of stuff I need to do so that's kind of my art to do thing for the week. I'm checked on social media, took my blood pressure, fun fact I have high blood pressure and I am on lower medication than I used to because I've lost weight and I'm exercising but still got to keep an eye on it. Anyway, my dad's flight's more than two hours late and yeah so I ate some lunch, did some art. I don't have to leave until like two o'clock to pick him up because he's not going to land until like three so yeah that's a thing. I'll be back. It is 9 32 a.m. Thursday January 6th I think pretty sure. Anyway, I'm up for a little bit. I've already got the dishes done. We are making some fresh batches of homemade vanilla and I've added new beans to the old batch. The old batch being about 20 years old every little bit. Sometimes it's five years, sometimes it's once a year. I lose track. I take all the old beans out and put fresh beans in it and then top it off with fresh vodka and so this is the old one. We'll leave it out on that counter for a few two weeks maybe with the new beans in it and we'll give it a shake once a day at some point when it gets dark enough look at all those yummy seeds floating in there. When it gets dark enough then you can you can keep it out on the counter or you can refrigerate it. I refrigerate it you don't have to do that and this is some fresh. I just put this in here last night. I cut the beans in half this morning. I usually cut the beans in half or I split them or both. vanilla beans can be expensive so depending on how much they cost depends on how many beans I put in to be honest. I might order some more though and put more beans in those. We'll see how it goes. I also am in the process of reorganizing my pantry with containers for storage that fit better in that space in this house so I got a few more of those in. I just do a little bit at a time and I took care of those this morning. I get the dishes. I've got laundry working. I answered a few questions on the socials and now we're going to go upstairs so I've got some stuff to do up there. I also want to do some drawing in my main sketchbook which I have done in a couple of days. We've been doing the daily doodly word stuff but we haven't been doing this sketchbook for a couple of days so anyway all those today. No appointments today. I get to stay home. Maybe go walking if the weather lets up a little bit. We'll see. Yeah yeah that's it for right now. I'll be back. I got my journal all cut up and finished. Well finished. I got the pages that I needed to catch up on done in the journal. The one for my brother's wedding. We celebrated one of the kids Brian's birthday at Betty Hannah in October. We also went on a family weekend to get away to an Airbnb in Cannon Beach so I did that page and then of course Christmas, the Christmas page which is big and I had to do flip-outs on most of these because I've got stuff I wanted to put in there but yeah there you go. The person who sent me that handmade card with the r-foamy stamp you know who you are and yes that card made it into my journal. Anyway yeah so I got that done. I think tomorrow I'm going to work on the painting on my easel. I got the paints out for that. I think right now I'm going to make a cup of bone broth number one and then I think I'm going to film a couple of well at least one short video on how I decorate my daily drawing and sketch daily drawing doodle typebooks and also my sketchbook although I think I've shown that before. I think I'm going to do that. I need to sort some stickers I bought and put them away. I don't know if I'm going to do it for the vlog or if I'm going to do it separate video. I might just put it here in the vlog because like why not. All right and if the footage is interesting I'll cut it out in total and make it a separate video like on the patreon channel the private youtube channel but you know something like that. Anyway so that's next on the list but first I need to cup of bone broth. I'll be back. Most of the morning in the art room sketching and decorating sketchbooks and y'all saw some clips. It's a little bit drizzly outside but I've been in the art room so long and over the desk so long my neck is starting to hurt so I need a break. Bob has a masonic meeting tonight and so I'm going to take the opportunity when it's just lightly raining to go for a walk and get some steps in. I do have an umbrella just in case and my pink jacket which is semi-water resistant. I get asked a lot about the pink coat not so much online but in person when I'm walking the neighborhood I've had this coat like it's 2006 maybe 2008 a long time. I used to do the Avon Walk for breast cancer and after doing my first one I realized I needed a water-resistant coat because I walked in San Francisco and it didn't matter if it was July it was cold and rainy and I found this one at like JCPenney on clearance 20 bucks a day. Anyway it's lasted and it's pink it doesn't like it. All right we're gonna go get some steps in and see what we can see. Hey guys obviously we're in the car it's 808 a.m. Friday January 7th in 700 feet. Some winter storm issues this morning. More so at my dad's house than at our house. He's under a flood watch and a level two evacuation warning. We are having some problem with under a minor flood warning. I don't really expect flooding although the creek is pretty high but we have some gusty winds so and because so much of our neighborhood including our house is near wild and open woods and wetlands yeah so we're keeping an eye on things it's only supposed to be until about lunchtime today so. Turn left onto south. Initially black and white and now and this process to get to now it never turned out the way I thought it was going to do I like it yes I loved it as black and white I like it here there were there were times when I didn't like it but I do like it is it done I don't think so but we're gonna let it dry because at this point if I move it around anymore it's just gonna make mud so anyway progress I guess time to clean up and do something else maybe go for a walk if it's near end of work day for my husband I don't know we'll see a quick walk and I got a few steps in got one picture but it's a dark out it's too hard to get too many pictures um we're gonna go out and get some takeout for dinner to the local mom and pop our barbecue place I think and yeah not family dinner night is tomorrow instead of tonight so we can just chill and relax and I'm okay with that audio everybody oh I'm sorry good afternoon it's 12.02 oops um we've just had a lazy morning we're gonna go ahead out and run some quick errands I've got to drop some books off at the library and pick up some groceries we also spent the morning catching up on bookkeeping mostly that was him and bills and um we're thinking about buying some new sofas we haven't bought new sofas since the 1990s uh yeah early 90s yeah the sofas we have are that old um we could just get them reupholstered but honestly with the cost of labor and all that stuff it would be probably not too much cheaper than buying anyone I don't know we'll see plus we kind of want a different style so took some measurements took some pictures today we're not going to go shopping for them today but we're ready when we are feeling up to doing that and I think we found a local furniture place furniture um manufacturer that can do a good quality sofa so bonus points anyway I also got a little bit of stuff done in the art room and checked on social media so now we're going to go run our errands and it's brighter than snot out because the clouds are cleared mostly but you know family dinner night tonight but it's not at my house so I don't have to do any yippee yeah I don't have to do anything except go buy some salad and liquor I was told to bring salad and liquor booze the son-in-law said bring booze he didn't say bring drinks he said bring booze so yeah all right I'll be back errands done but this week's empty shelves frozen pasta like there just wasn't any any of it there was none no frozen pasta no frozen pasta so we made some substitutions yes we like to cheat and do frozen meals like hello so shoot me it's they're easy it's just the two of us anyway mostly just hinting that eats it because I eat salad anyway so we came back had lunch did our word brain game to exercise this up here and now we're going to go for a walk because we're going to the kids house for dinner later we're not sure we're going to get any walking in so we'll get some in now anyway then go back to the house and I don't know do stuff before we go to the kids I don't know what stuff we'll see I'll be back this bird supposed to fly south for the winter including ducks ours never do they just fly from pond to pond so yeah I don't know all right we're headed home I'll be back in two points very late last night the kids house for dinner but wow what a wonderful dinner we had black and salmon tacos it was wonderful I need to get the recipe from Rebecca and it was a really good time but it was late we retired I didn't even get my drawing done you guys so I am gonna need to catch up on that later today because that's a thing anyway I also have forgotten the last couple of days to put the daily creative words up in the a life of art and self-expression facebook group I apologize you guys I try to be better I'll endeavor to be better but I got them caught up to yesterday to Friday this morning and then I will do yesterday's and today's later today because I haven't done yesterday's pages yet so anyway anyway I'm on my way to an appointment this morning but I'll explain more about that in the next vlog you guys all stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you in the next vlog bye guys