 Happy Sunday everybody! It is Sunday February 27th just before 1.30pm. I have been doing chores around the house. I also got a couple more frames in some more for some more the art pieces that have been hanging on the wall. I almost said prints but those are originals. I'm waiting for a frame for that one and I've got to go find a frame for that one. But anyway yeah I've been doing that. Bob is working on bills and taxes so I'm staying out of his way. It's just after 10am on Monday February 28th. It is dumping rain outside. It's not just pouring. It is dumping. We are getting gusts of rain. It's not even just gusts of wind. It is so strong outside. We have had 1.15 inches so far this morning according to the weather app. That's a lot of rain. I don't know what it's going to be by the end of the day. And we're supposed to get rain until like next week. Yeah next week. Like the whole week is going to be rainy. What you're hearing if you're hearing the rumbling in the background? Rain and wind. Holy cow. Anyway guys it is Tuesday March 1st and it is 5.08 pm. Yeah pm. It hasn't been a super busy day but the house cleaner was here today and I worked on some sketching and watched some more of my new show that I'm binging right now. And you know just been a other than having a cleaning lady here just been a quiet day at home but one in which I don't get much done because she's here cleaning so that's usually the case anyway. Bob worked very late last night and he didn't eat dinner until like after 8 o'clock last night so I think he's going to take off early in a few minutes and then we're going to go walking. Passed out. I don't know what we're doing but we're going to do at least that. I have to do today's daily drawings. I was thinking for a hot second that I forgot to do the March mood board but we're doing Moody Mondays the first Monday of the month which isn't today. Today is Tuesday so that's next week but I probably will spend some time later this week or this weekend and get it done ahead so that I don't have to worry about it because that would be nice. The camera is like going off every five minutes. Once it's been Amazon the rest of the time I'm thinking it's like the cat. I don't know I don't think it's the babies from next door. I don't know what the heck is going on but it's going off every five minutes. Oh it is the babies from next door right now but yeah it's just crazy anyway. I was right. Bob took off a little early. It's not even dark out yet and we're out walking like that's shocking. Anyway we're going to go get some steps in otherwise like I said earlier it's been kind of a chill day. Bob's been working all day. It's hard for me to get much done on days like this because Letty is here all day and it's just her and we have a big house so I just try to stay out of her way. Anyway all right we're going to go see what we can see. Check out the neighborhood. I'll be back. You hear that? Yeah I'm guessing spring is here because the bullfrogs are out. They are so loud. All right we're going to go home and have dinner. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Wednesday morning March 6th. I'm March 6th. Holy cow March 2nd. I had I need to go run errands but I had some things I needed to do first this morning before I did that. I need to change out these four little mood boards here from 2021 and I had kind of an assignment when I told my counselor I had these hanging up here as sort of art focus inspiration. She and I both thought it would be interesting to change them out to something that was maybe artistically inspiring but also positive thinking which I could use way more of in my life. So I did that this morning so I created four more mood boards and we're going to take these down. I'm not going to throw away. I'm going to put them in a journal or something somewhere for reference and we're going to hang up the new ones right now. I have the idea of changing these out maybe monthly and creating a journal with them to reference back to at the end of the year. I kind of like that but finding one that these are going to fit into that might be interesting. So anyway I'm going to answer text messages. I'm now just now getting from my sister and I'm going to go run my errands and get that stuff done. I'll bring you with me. I'll be back. I came all the way over to CVS which for us is inside of our target store to pick up my medication for my colonoscopy only to find out that all of the registers in the pharmacy are down and all of the regular registers other than self-checkout in target are also down and they have no other backup way for you to pay for therefore pick up your prescription. Not to mention they were out of half of what I needed on my list like they didn't even have it. So I'm going to head over to go get some coffee and then I'm going to go to a different store I guess and get the other couple things I needed but yeah I did I leave CVS then they called me and said our registers are up. What the hell? I'm on my way to go get some coffee like run other errands so I guess I'll stop back my target on the way back to the house and hope their registers are still running. I don't let's hope the rest of my day goes okay and that I can find what I need to on the shelves because yeah that's just a weird way to start my errand running. All right I'll be back. I did the mood boards before I left the house because we're now zero of two so my normal source for the coffee that we like we are have a particular brand that we like is out and I thought for a hot second maybe they weren't even carrying it anymore so I checked with one of the employees she says no looks like we're still carrying it we just don't have any which has honestly been hit or miss just anyway and now I have to go back to target because they called and said that prescription is ready I don't know anyway I'm gonna stop at one more store see if I can find what I need and then we'll head back to target I guess target CVS all right I'll be back okay the clips you just saw are me working on this new journal I do mood boards for a couple of different projects that I have since the beginning of last year and different things with them but I finally decided to corral them all in one place that is not Mr. Electronics back there so I printed all the mood boards out from my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression if you want to access to them go join the Facebook group the link is in the link tree list down below I also am one of the three artists in the artsy trio here on YouTube and we have a Facebook group for that too that link is also down below check it out um that's fun art of arm fun isn't it um anyway I decided to print all the mood boards and make myself a sort of a reference book of them for when I'm feeling a lack of inspiration or um feeling a little bit down they're all positive affirmation mood boards positive thinking um art creative art so I have taken a composition notebook as you saw and I've decorated the cover and I have glued and taped them in and see so anyway I am loving it already so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep doing that this year I'm gonna as I create more mood boards I'm gonna keep doing it and the mood boards seem to be a thing that I'm doing and I'm now also doing them for as I said earlier for my mental health and well-being and um as inspiration to keep on track with that so they're all gonna be glued into this book so I don't know how I got in this kick but you know it is what it is and I'm not mad at it so all right I'll be back good morning it is Thursday morning March 3rd it's just before 8 30 a.m. it's like 8 25 or something I just realized I forgot to get yesterday's mail oops so I'm gonna go get it now I have a counseling appointment in about a half an hour at nine o'clock I think I'm all set up for that um probably grab a cup of bone broth if I have time anyway and then do some art I'm gonna go for a walk Bob has his masonic lodge meeting tonight so uh I will probably go for a walk by myself this afternoon get some steps in oh yeah there's no um it's mostly junk but yeah anyway so I keep walking out all right so stuff to do places to be things to see hopefully it's sunny and clear out but a little bit cold so as you saw it looks like it was cold enough and damp enough last night the sun's beating down on the fence and steam is coming off the fence as the water's drying I guess that's interesting you know when I got up this morning it was blue skyd and sunny I had my counseling meeting which went well I sat and had some bone broth and my fiber drink and calcium afterwards watched a couple youtube videos it's now just before lunch and I'm gonna head out for a walk before I have said lunch close that mailbox um and it's that color outside the heck anyway we're gonna go for a walk as I said earlier Bob has a meeting tonight so I don't have a walking buddy and I would rather um that's pretty I would rather walk during the day than at night by myself and waterfall back there a little waterfall here because a little one I kind of see in between a creek that runs by our house anyway we're gonna go for a walk get some steps in I'm tempted to go thrifting because I haven't been in a while I do like thrifting I don't think today's a day to good that do that because I think the shopping thing might be a response to emotional stress and trauma and I want to go thrifting because I enjoy thrifting and not because it's my response to the counts counseling session this morning does that make sense all right anyway I also found out about the five four three two one grounding technique today which I will be trying I will put the name of it down below but you can just google five four three two one grounding technique if you have panic attacks anxiety maybe it'll help you I don't know I'm gonna try it so anyway I found some free free principles on google and I'm gonna I made a couple of little cards one for upstairs one for downstairs and we'll try it all right let's go get some steps and see what we can see I'll be back it's 12 0 8 p.m on Friday March 4th Bob and Rebecca are headed back to California as I said earlier to celebrate his mother's 93rd birthday everybody tell Betty Erin's happy birthday I have no problem telling you all any of that because by the time you all see this they'll be back anyway we're going to go to the bank and then go pick up the daughter and then head to the airport and then I have to run at least one Erin all the way home so we're going to go see what we can see then I'll be back I put everything away still haven't had lunch yet and it's almost three o'clock and at this point I'm thinking lunch is going to be dinner I'm kind of debating just taking a bottle of water or juice with me from the fridge and going for a walk and then coming back and having something to eat that's a good idea let's get to it shall we well at least until the pond dries up again what are you going to do all right let's get going because now we're really hungry buddy it is saturday morning february 5th um it's just about 9 a.m. I am going to be getting ready to go thrifting this morning uh at least for a little bit I have two or three favorite stores I like to go look at and then I've got to stop over a foot mile really quick I should have gotten more coffee creamer at the store when I was there the other day but I didn't thought we had enough but we don't anyway I also for the second time in about as many months broke another sugar bowl at this point I think I just need a plastic one I keep dropping them I don't know what the deal is well part of the deal is I grab them with this hand since rotator cuff surgery I never recovered all of the feeling in this hand and so I forget I grab things with this hand and then I drop them that's part of the problem so anyway I broke another one and so I've mostly cleaned up the mess but I'm going to take a shower and before I leave I'm going to set our robot vacuum aka hazel to um do the floors and hopefully she'll catch any glass shards that I missed and because anybody who's dropped anything and broken it on your floor you know there's like seems to be an endless amount of little teeny tiny shards that you just yeah anyway I can tell it's going to be an interesting day already plus Wiley Coyote was by last night just before midnight so that's a thing yeah all right I'll be back to get myself dressed and showered and all of that stuff without breaking anything else bonus points for me um and despite the fact that I um had the house to myself last night and was able to get a lot of extra drawing done and um do um some daily of course my daily practice and some a bunch of stuff I forgot to post any of it last night so I did that already first thing this morning I know like honestly um so that's done I think I've just checked on social media so then I think what I'm gonna do is go oh that doesn't actually go there anyway I'm gonna go I'm gonna pick up a couple things here around the house do my breakfast dishes and then we're gonna go thrifting for a little bit and I guess look for a plastic container to keep my coffee sugar in because evidently I can't be trusted anymore with anything breakable so anyway all right I'll be an interesting day and I'm gonna just take it easy on myself because I also forgot to put the breakfast dishes in the dishwasher before I left I mean they'll still be there when I get back but I did mean to do that so now I'm here at Goodwill a few minutes early before they open so I'm gonna have to wait about 10 minutes or so it's just you know I don't know all right I'll be back there are some die hard thrifters in the neighborhood because there's at least three people oh no take that back four people that I can see without looking around too much up five I see one behind me there's a bunch of people here waiting in the parking lot with me for them to open so yeah and there's four cars waiting in line to donate speaking of which I have some donations in the back I'm going to give them to one of the other thrift stores but yeah anyway all right plastic sugar bowl it's on my list today I don't know if there is such a thing or just a cute plastic container with a tight fitting lid if I can't find one thrifting I'll just stop at Fred Meyer on the way home oh boy anyway I'll be back we're done at now and headed home it is just before lunch probably good timing the stores are starting to get real busy I think I've mentioned it before on the vlog but in case I haven't and it was in a conversation with somebody because at this point I get confused who I've told what to um I have lost so much weight I need new clothes I know I shared with you all that we did a big giant closet purge I had an instance where I was walking from our bedroom to the coffee pot which is just our bedroom and the kitchen are both downstairs anyway it wasn't a long walk but my pajama pants fell off on the walk and I realized I've lost so much weight like none of my clothes fit so it led to cleaning out a closet and other closets and drawers and then my husband also decided he had some things he needed to get rid of too and anyway six giant bags closed later um I was going to drop these frames off for donation I forgot anyway um I had some clothing items that I needed to replace because I did wear them a lot and obviously they were too big I couldn't do that anymore um some of which I was able to find new but some of which I just can't or didn't want to I had a really cute denim skirt I really like to wear often especially in the summertime and I had a couple of black skirts that were my business slash funeral skirts I know that's a little bit more big but yeah anyway you get to a certain age you have to have those kind of clothing items in your closet for some reason at regular shops around here like skirts are just not a thing I don't know so thrifting for them plus I don't want to spend $30 on something especially like the denim skirt that I might rip or get paint on or like I'm not known for being super great with my clothing um anyway I found three black skirts today and a denim skirt one of the black skirts is corduroy so it's a very casual which would be a great alternate sort of thing to the denim skirt and yay and I spent less than $25 for all four of them so like I couldn't get a skirt for that price even if I could find one in the store so anyway the house is for sale on our street it's very cute I like ours better it's a little bigger a little more open you like open concept anyway I'm gonna go see if I can get some steps in it won't account for all my steps because hello forgot to put my Fitbit on this morning among other things I don't know if I mentioned that already yet anyway we're gonna go get some stuff soon see if we can get a few today's views hashtag organ life pictures and I'll be always a great walk when you get to make friends with the neighborhood dogs just saying all right let's get going I'll be back at night and I am working on finishing my sketchbook I have one more page to do and I'm waiting for just one to dry anyway I'll be posting pictures of the pages I've done on my social media in the future so follow me on Instagram or Facebook go join me over on Facebook patrons get an early sneak peek and I've been giving them the photos I'm drawing from to see if they want to do anything with the same photo and what they come up with so if you want to see what kind of art I'm doing get a sneak peek on some stuff there's a few projects I'm not really sharing how the how to publicly unless you're a patron so anyway join patreon if you want to see all of that stuff and support the free content here on YouTube they also have their own private YouTube channel just FYI all right that's it for the minute it is uh getting later in the evening I still have to do my word brain puzzles and my daily sketching but I really really really want to get this sketchbook done and I don't have anything else to do so Bob gets home tomorrow and Rebecca so it'll be back to normal things as usual and that is great and I have had a good day today a good couple of days it's been nice to just sit and chill and do some art but yeah I'll be head glad to have him be home so anyway that's it for this week I hope you guys have had a great one and that if you haven't you have some care and support for whatever is going on with you don't be afraid to reach out to professionals friends family if you need it there's no shame in that I certainly am doing that so anyway that's it for right now don't forget to like share and subscribe check out that video description for all the relevant links most of my stuff is in the link tree list of links which is down below and uh yeah leave any questions comments or concerns down there too I'd love to have a conversation that's it for right now go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys