 It's Friday. It's Friday the 13th. January 13th. Yeah, my skin looks good. I've been really focusing on my skin anyway, girl. It is JB's birthday today to you guys. It's so my baby is turning 10. Yes, he is entering the double digits girl. What? That's gonna be a pre-teen this year, so I am so happy. Even though he's getting on my nurse's week, if you watch my latest Jeopardy! Hell, y'all know that we've been having some issues with JB at school. The teacher has moved him, made some arrangements. When he came home yesterday, the first thing he said, he's like, Mama, I got all my work done. I said, that's good, baby. JB's a good boy. He doesn't like to get in trouble because even his teacher, the main teacher in the classroom said, when I talked to him, I could tell he was scared. When I was talking to him, I said, okay, good. I hate to say that. I would rather him be scared than to him be disrespectful and be like, so what? No, I don't. Hello, hello, hello, you guys. I'm trying to see how I can set this up. Hey, hey, hey, you guys. I stopped by the store and got me some coffee. We had an early morning this morning. I went ahead and dropped JB off at school, only like 10 minutes before the alarm, the bill rings. I had set out, or let me back up. The Tom Thumb here has a lot by here. So I had set up, set up well. I had, on days like this where I'm really busy and I have, you know, meetings and stuff, I make a long to-do list. So I literally have eight items on my to-do list that need to be complete by two o'clock. I'm gonna get rid of the first set and this is milling off my father package and returning an item from Amazon. And so while I was going to Tom Thumb, that was the EPS store here. I'm like, oh, that's the EPS store right here in Heath. I can just wait here till they open and do everything real quick here. So they open up in about four minutes. I let JB's teacher know that I will be picking up his cake and dropping it off around 10.30. What else? What else? What else? The good thing about working from home is that I'm able to do nearly everything from my phone. So check emails, messages, even getting to the system that I work in, both the company system and the learning system that I work with. Those of you who don't know, I'm what's called a learning management system, learning management administrator. Y'all, you know I got a promotion right. Baby, I figured out how much I was getting extra. Y'all, I felt like Clark Gable on the Christmas movie where he thought he was getting a real big bonus and they tried to give me some coupon. Chow after what I'm gonna say, like after my increase in insurance and everything, it's like $40 extra. But hey, I got it off. Thank you guys for the $40 because look, I don't have to have that. Quiet as it gets. You know what I mean? Thank you Lord for the $40 because I tend to look at the things that I do have and I'm grateful. You have to really be that way y'all. I'm grateful for the little things. I really am. I'm shy and grateful these raggedy ass nails. My sister keeps saying, she's like, why do you keep getting your nails done? And they keep, you know, they keep messing you up. Farnie has most people who at least most black women who get their nails done. They don't even get their nails done here. They go to Rockwell, they go to Mesquite, they go to Dallas. I may have to suck it up and go somewhere else. My sister has had been doing my nails also. I was thinking about going to her, but she does my nails a little too thick. I know if I told her I don't want them that thick, she doesn't have to make them that thick. But let me tell you what happened with my nails this time. I got dip powder, which I like. But unfortunately, the woman put the tips right here. Instead of putting the tip three, four for the way down, she put it right here. Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip. So guess what was happening? When I was hitting my nail or anything, my nails were cracking. They were cracking, cracking, cracking. Literally after a week after getting my nails done, this was way back in Christmas. A week after getting my nails done, they all broke on this one hand. And so I'm like, what the hell? And then one morning or one night, I woke up with my hand and arm radiating thrombin. When I tell you it hurt so much, I took some pain reliever, some pain medication and went back to bed. When I woke up, I had liquid, basically this side was swollen with liquid. And I forgot the correct terminology, the medical terminology, but there's actually work for it. What time is it, y'all? Oh, they opened y'all. Let me go and hear y'all. Anyway, basically, I had an infection. Sorry, I'm spitting. I had an infection. All right, y'all. That's nine. That was quick. What? Less than 10 minutes? Heck, yes. I'll come to this. It's only about 10 minutes away from where we live at. All right, y'all. So now I'm going to go home. So what was I saying? So I had set up this chicken thighs. I really am not a fan of chicken thighs, unless I'm eating it because chicken thighs are so bland, right? Hold on, y'all. The sun gonna be in my eye. Chicken thighs are so bland, right? Which way am I gonna go? Oh, look at that traffic right there. No. What time is it, y'all? It's eight o'clock. I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna go this way. But the problem is that I've already set these chicken thighs out. Defrosting and frosted it. Oh, you brave as hell. Hey, hey, hey, you guys. It is, oh, excuse me. It's Saturday morning. Um, look at all this food, child. I made some good food last night, but got to put it up. I could have had that as a snack. Um, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, we have nothing planned today but going out for dinner. Um, I'm going to do a little bit of straightening up around the house this morning and then I'm literally gonna sit down because I was running around all yesterday. Running around. I'll take y'all with me to dinner. Try to remember the girl film some. They don't get, do a get ready with me video. Um, I'm gonna go ahead and start scheduling doctor's appointments for the year. Possibly in February. Um, I think I'm gonna get contacts this year, y'all. Normally, I don't like contacts because I have stigmatism in both eyes and if I drop that contact, unless I got somebody new me to find it, it's lost and that's just money wasted. So I'll just do it anyway. I don't like contacts. I really don't. I love wearing glasses but I'll buy some contacts. I haven't had contacts in like 10 years. No, it hasn't been. I so wore contacts for my wedding about seven years. Um, but I'll go ahead and get some. Y'all, I'm trying to watch this new series on, uh, Netflix called New Amsterdam. I'm really, I'm not into certain medical dramas. The last medical drama I watched had like a, oh lord, the baby gonna fell out. The last medical drama I watched had like a thriller type of sci-fi knife. It's like that. I'll watch it but just regular medical drama. I don't think I'm gonna watch this. So thank you for the recommendation girl and it was on my list but I don't want to watch this. The first episode looks good but y'all we're about to get ready to go out to eat. Let me show you. I got my outfit real quick. I should have put an iron to put this. I don't have an iron to put this in the thing. It's a little wrinkly. These are these boots I got from EMP. No, for fries. Girl, fries. $30 on sale. 50% off. I'm gonna have a jacket over this. Hey guys. So I am giving what you guys have requested in my last video. A couple of ideas for dinner or lunch. I'm gonna be making, well, I'm gonna be making dinner tonight but I'm gonna be starting for marinade for dinner tomorrow. Just a second. I saw something that bothers me. So when if it all possible, I tried to cook with fresh ingredients. So what I'm gonna show y'all is what I'm making tonight and then like I said the marinade for tomorrow. So today I'm gonna be making honey barbecue wings along with some potatoes and corn. Very simple. It will only take me about an hour to make like anything else when it comes to cooking food. The prep is what takes the longest which is why I'm starting today on the prep for my food tomorrow. So tomorrow I'm gonna be having a what's called a black pepper stir fry with chicken. But I'm gonna start the marinade tonight. The marinade is gonna consist of soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, garlic, red pepper, garlic sauce, a couple of different spices, and chicken thighs. Excuse me chicken breasts. And I'm going to go ahead and prep all of my veggies tonight to make it easy. All right you guys. I've gone ahead and cut up these red potatoes. Now I'm gonna rinse these off and then I'm going to pour water on the top. I'm gonna boil these to their almost done. Drain them off and then finish them and then cast on skillet with Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt, and a little bit of butter. Okay. All right you guys. Here is my meat. Stop it. Here is my meat that I'm marinating. This is two chicken breasts that I'm marinating with. A one-fourth of a cup of brown sugar. I have sesame oil. I have um dark soy sauce. I have garlic powder and ginger. Don't mind JB. Here I've gone ahead and diced up or excuse me I have sliced up my bell peppers, onions. I have ginger in here and two sleeves of jalapeno. This is for tomorrow, okay?