 Hey you guys, how are you guys doing? It is time for another chit chat. For a warning, I'm going to be sipping on some Chardonnay. Isn't she cute? I got this little bottle of Chardonnay from my local grocery store and this is just two bottles and I'm not two bottles, two glasses in here. I've had half of one. I'm a pour another half and I'll save this girl. I'll save this for another day because I will be making us drinks today. You guys, I'm recording on my phone because baby, she's dead. She's done. The screen is cracked. Look at this. This is a, what do you call it? This is a screen to protect the glass screen. I have dropped this thing three times. Now there's an issue with the memory slot, so which is why I'm recording on my camera. Because my return of interest or a lie is not that great on YouTube, I will probably not buy another camera for a while, like probably next spring because I can still record on my phone and I just, I'm not getting the views that I typically would get on my channel. Anyhow, so I figure what's another four or five, six months I will be recording, like I said, on my phone until I can get another camera. So you guys, like I said, this is another chit-chat with someone. So yeah, I know how we do this. We talk about what's going on in my personal life, what I'm watching on YouTube and what I'm watching on TV. So I got my notes here, girl. My notes all here. So it is very windy here in DFW. I mean, extremely windy. My baby was out playing for a long time on Friday. JB goes to a, you know, who, those of you who've been following me for a while, my son goes to a private school and on Fridays is there, they call it Friday, free day, Friday, fun day. And so they have a lot of fun. It's a free day. They do several tests depending on what's going on throughout the week. They all do their tests in the morning. And then the kids play. When I mean play, they play most of the day. What's it's good? And we're okay with that. So JB said that, he said that both the teachers were out because one of the teachers was getting married. And so the coach was our substitute teacher in childhood. He said that I saw shit. So he said, mama, he let us outside playing for two hours. I said, well, that's good baby. But what happened is that with all the wind and everything running around, JB said he was very winded. He was out of breath. Those of you know, my baby has asthma and allergies. And so allergies and asthma do not, allergies and asthma do not work well together when there's a lot of wind and when stuff is blowing around, debris blowing around, hay blowing around. And so when he came home yesterday, my husband picks him up because my husband's off work. We're gonna get into that in a minute though. Hold on. Hold on. So my husband picked him up and he noticed that he was kind of quiet and I'm sure he's, his allergies are very inflamed. So he woke up at four o'clock this morning, y'all. Four o'clock this morning, he woke up with 102 fever and I asked my husband, like, can you have a fever with allergies? He said, yeah, you can, especially if you have a sinus infection. So he's been on the couch off and on most of the day. And it's off and on. He gets better, he gets worse, he gets better, he gets worse. So grime on. I got the Tylenol here. I got the nasal swaps here. And my husband said he's also feeling, you know, a little icky. I'm like, y'all need to be on. I'm giving everybody vitamin C drops and zinc, all of that so that they can feel better today. So make sure you guys, I will say this is about the temperatures about the drop, we're in fall officially. Please make sure, at least for me, what I like to do is I keep medicine at home. I try to keep fever-reducing medication and coughing and anything like that at home because the last thing you want to do when you're not feeling well, the last thing you want to do is go out in the middle of the night or go out in the middle of the day to get medication for yourself or even for your children or husband, whoever. So I would say before it gets crazy, make sure you have all of that at home. Make sure that you're taking your vitamins. I even told my husband, I'm like, I'm the one that has asthma, but I don't go outside and do all that nonsense when it's crazy like this. I make sure that I take my vitamin C, zinc, I take vitamin D, magnesium every day so that I and also fish oil, I started taking fish oil too. But anyway, yeah, all of that going on, making sure that my doctor's appointments are in sync and on deck to make sure that I'm cleared for anything. Yeah, so right now it's a good time and I noticed that in Dallas, baby Dallas, it is long and hard to get in some time to see these doctors. So yeah, that's going on. Y'all, I put down a two and a half year plan to pay off my debt. My credit score is increasing. It is looking good. Those of you who don't know, my husband and I had a little break. He will, for you, if you don't know, he won't say it wasn't a break. He would just say that we would just, we just had a disagreement. That's his, that's his way of thinking child. I mean, he just said, we had a disagreement. I'm like, well, we had a disagreement, but my ass was in an apartment with JB. So I don't know what type of disagreement. Y'all anyway. So when I, when we broke up about, oh my God, like it's been almost four years now when we broke up, my credit was really good. And so when we got back together and decided to, you know, yeah, we were here, I was like, yes, money everywhere because baby, I don't pay for nothing. Then now I pay for more stuff. But then I, when I tell you, a lot of my, my girlfriends will say they wouldn't say, but they would be kind of like, well, you don't have to do anything. They don't have to pay me. I said, no, I don't have to pay for nothing. My husband pays for everything. You know, so I would say, okay, let me go to She-In, let me go to Walmart, let me go to Amazon. I mean packages all the time coming in, money, money, money, money, money, just spending all, and so my credit score went down because I just was opening up. I'm like, I opened up two way for a line. Let me tell you something. I opened up a way for a line with my maiden name, flipping around and did it with my married name. Child, I was like, okay, now I'm Vivian Denza. Let me go ahead and give me another credit card under Vivian Denza. Vivian Denza just came from Ethiopia two months ago. So she, and I did that. My credit went down. Child, so it's been about three years of me working hard to get it back up. I am less than 40 points away from a 700 credit score. So I'm really working. I have a two and a half year plan to bring my, my depth all the way down to where I just have, where I just have, I want to have just a line of credit open and one credit card. I'm not closing up anything else because I've been closing stuff out, which I understand that's not good to do necessarily. So I'm keeping those credit, I'm keeping credit cards and keeping those credit cards open so that my, what do you call it, where your limit, what you're utilizing on your limits is less than what you actually owe. And so that's what I've been doing. PayPal is good. Other credits is good. Car is good. Baby, I ain't done. Thank God. So, honey, that's a Toyota. I told JB, let me tell you something. I told JB a couple of months ago, I said, baby, this is a Toyota. Mama just only had it for six years. I can keep this for you when you get, he could technically be driving like in like five years, y'all my baby, five or six years. JB could be driving. Why did JB say, uh-uh, Mama, I don't want that, but we could save it for my wife? I said, what? I said, JB, what? Why would you talk about, JB is always, JB is the type of child that is very like, he is very adamant that he's going to be married. And oh God, y'all, he still looks at stuff with blinders, which I'm kind of grateful for because it just shows how innocent he is. And so he made a comment the other day where he was basically, he was under the assumption that you can only have kids if you're married. Because he said, I can't remember exactly verbatim when he said, but I'm just saying, he said, oh, um, I don't think she has a kid because she's not married. So in his eyes, you don't have kids unless you're married, which I'm like, I said, I told him, I said, JB, you can actually have kids if you're not if you're not married. And it happens quite a lot actually. So I'm kind of glad that he has that innocence in him. And so I even ask him certain things just to test him out. Does he know what this means? And he's like, no, I don't know what it means. But the kids in my school do, and I just look at them, but I don't know what it means. Y'all, he is so, when I tell you, and I don't think he will lie to me, some things he will eventually do. But I don't think he, JB doesn't have that ability yet to lie. And he doesn't want to lie. JB doesn't curse. I saw a little, I was on Facebook a couple of days ago and there was a child cursing, they were scaring her. They were going through a hunted car wash. First of all, car washes can be scary for some kids. Anyway, this little girl looked like she was around seven or eight years old. And she was scared because whatever it was opened up the door and little girl starts cursing and using a lot of profanity. I curse, but my ass is grown. The comments, people were laughing and someone below wrote, if you don't think your, your child doesn't curse, then you're ignorant. And I'm like, my child doesn't curse. My baby doesn't curse y'all. And not only that, but he doesn't even like to be around people that curse. There was an incident that happened a couple of years ago and somebody cursed in front of him that he didn't like. And he started crying because he's that sensitive to, you know, using bad language because we don't use the type of bad language around here. Okay. So anyway, y'all, that's kind of what's going on in my personal life. Child, hold on. Okay, I said I was saying, let me, let me have some of this. Now my husband is, he's not semi retired because I said that in front of someone else and he didn't like that. He said, I'm not retired. I'm not, but your ass is here and you went to work. So I feel like you retired. But no, he just said he's taking a break. Okay. So he has been working a contract job, often on, since he actually, since we actually moved to Texas in January, but he was not able to find other work. And because the roads can get really bad in Dallas, he decided to stay home until next year, like February, March. And my husband is very good with his money to where he can stay home and not, you know, work. And so he pays half the wheel. We split our bills up to where he pays half the bills I paid to have. Now I paid the mortgage because I can do that. And let me tell you something. This is the first time I've had to pay anything like this in years and like 15 years. And so I can do it. I'm like, you know what, babe? You did it for like, not even 15, he did it for about 12 years where he did like all of the major big bills. And I'm like, you know what? I got you. He leaves me alone because he's very quiet. But every now and then he'll be like, did you see this? You see this interview with Kanye and I'm looking at him like, no, I didn't see the interview with Kanye because I'm busy cooking for the laundry. So no, I didn't see the interview. He said, well, you come over here and watch this. This man. So he will probably go back to work and March of next year. God willing. But until then, we have a couple of things planned. I'm the planner, but every now and then he will say, Hey, let's do that. Just recognize my glasses is kind of, I'm sorry, my glasses is kind of glaring. But every now and then he will offer up something. But since it is fall and it is what I'm trying to say, festive season, we are going to be so busy for the next week at JV school. They're going to be busy all week. They even have a festival going on Friday. Y'all want to watch on YouTube? I am finding that not finding before. And I understand there was a glitch with YouTube where a couple of YouTubers were getting demonetized by accident. I know that Tyrone Magnus, a couple of other YouTubers, I know lovely Tia several of her videos every now and then. It does get demonetized for when I also understand that some of the drama channels and some of the channels that talk about gossip or celebrity or even journalism and I use that term loosely, those channels are being demonetized. But if you are CNN YouTube, MSNBN or NSNBC YouTube or Fox News YouTube, you're not being demonetized to be talking about any news. I don't want to say this because I don't want to get in flag. It begins with a U and it rhymes with not, not, but boobang with a U. There's a war going on in Europe with Russia. Those YouTubers are being demonetized too, sadly. So it's really upsetting. Besides that, I like watching some of the old videos of 90 Day Fiancé, Chow. I'm just, the things people do for love and I'm finding that it's just a lot of people that either have low self-esteem and so when someone reaches out and they have any type of interest, they latch on to that and that's really sad. I don't really watch it, but I just like to watch little bits and pieces. I don't watch a series in total and hold, I should say. I rarely have seen a full episode of 90 Day Fiancé, but I get on YouTube and watch little four or five minute clips if that makes sense. What else? What else? I'm catching up on Linda Lend's video. She's doing well. She's going to follow through with her divorce, we'll say, and I know a lot of people have mentioned on Linda's channel to, I think she spoke and she even said this on some of her videos, meaning Linda. She said this in her last video. I mean, say, leave it off of social media. People don't need to hear. If you're having any issues, leave it off. If there's stuff going on, leave it off because there are people, even though they may be in your corner being your cheerleader, Ruja, they are seriously sitting on a sideline, waiting for the bullshit. Excuse my language, they're waiting on the nonsense. They're waiting on the wretchedness. They're waiting to see you fail because they just live in your demise. So I learned a long time ago not to speak any of that. Don't say anything. If they want to know something, call me up. Don't put your business out on social media for people to pick apart. Excuse me. What else is going on? That's about it. All I'm looking up on YouTube. Girl, what I'm watching on TV, I actually have a girl before I get into what I'm watching on TV. I started back reading you guys, which I'm an avid reader. I got rid of tons of books on our way here. I only have less than 100 books in my library. I love to go to Borenha Nobles to look at books. I love the smell of books. My husband is like making fun of me. He's like, you're one of the few people who still read books. I'm like, no, I'm not. I have a couple of books on my Kindle. That's nice. But I love books. Books smell, wait, this one doesn't smell too good. But the older they are, the better they smell. I love that. This is new. This is new. It smells like ink and paper, new paper. This is old. Oh, that smells good. So let me tell y'all what I've been reading. I read recently Terry McMillan. I almost forgot about you. This is a used book that I got off of Amazon, thriftbooks.com, but Amazon actually. Terry McMillan, I almost forgot about you. It was good in the beginning, but I hated how this book ended. I don't know if Terry was going through issues with her ex-gay husband, T girl, T at the time, but I didn't like the way that book ended. I'm going back to reading my number one Lady Detective Agency, the series written by Alexander McCaw Smuff. Is he still alive? I was very surprised that this was written by a white man, but he spent a great deal of time in Botswana. I'm on book four of the series. I think I have like two or three more love. And so I had almost finished book four, but I'm going to go back and read this. And then I got this book just today and I'm a fast reader, you guys. I'm 100 pages in. This is called, what is it called y'all? Finley Dunovan is called Finley Dunovan is killing it. This is a cute little book. So far it's about a single mom who is struggling with two kids. She's going through a messy divorce and she's at like a restaurant. She's an author. She's a struggling author too. She's behind on her bills child. Her electricity got cut off. She had to call her ex and say, Hey, can you pay this for me? So she decided to meet up with her agent manager because she's an author. She's a struggling author and she's talking about her latest book, the idea well by her book. That's a well there's a woman sitting next to her kind of ear hustling and hearing what she's seeing and she's like, she's assuming that the author is a hit man. Is that what you call it? She's a and so she basically passes her a note while the author is at the bathroom was like $50,000 for you to kill my husband. So it goes off from there. So I am really excited to read this. I don't know when I'm going to have time to finish it, but what I'm trying to do is to read on the weekends. Or I love to read in the mornings, I can do a quick 100 pages 200 pages in the morning. This book is just 300 pages. Yeah, I'm a big collector of what do you call series. So I would collect an entire series. I have nearly all the books by Stephen King, a lot of the books by John Saul, I love thrillers and rice. So anyway, y'all, that's enough for that. I know I went all over the place. What I'm watching on TV, when I'm watching on TV, the handmaid's tell child. I am very, very surprised at how things are going with the series. So spoiler alert, I am going to be given spoiler. So, yeah, I'm been drinking sorry. So old girl had her baby. She had a baby and June is feeling a little sympathetic. She's feeling like wow, you know, June helped her because hey, June had a baby too. And so, you know, June is like, you know, helping her and she had it towards the end when y'all, sorry, I forgot the woman's name. She ends up in the hospital. While she's in the hospital, the cops come, detectives come and they're like, you're under arrest. They read her rights. They read her her rights. And she's like, okay, but what's going to happen to my baby? And she's like, we're going to put your baby basically on like CPS. And June is surprised. She's like, what's going on? Why are you taking her? I'm like, oh, June, remember what she did to you? Don't cave in June, but she can't, y'all, the woman just had a baby. So June is sympathetic. And so they arrest her and go off. And so it's, it's spot to get really interesting on the handmaid's toe. I wanted to say something really quick about the actor, Jonathan Majors. He's the black actor that played in Lovecraft Country. Chah, I guess the internet had a field day because he got his body tightened and ready together. And the women were going crazy. I was seeing, you know, a couple of pictures of him shared. Let me tell you something. He don't do it for me. Even in Lovecraft Country, I was like, I saw a couple of people that were like, oh, it's the nose for me. I'm like, it's the nose not for me. Yes, he is physically fine. But there is nothing about him that's appealing. Is he a little bow-legged? Maybe. But if you, you ain't a little bow-legged to get you some swagger, he doesn't do it for me. What do y'all think? Again, Jonathan Majors. I was like, okay. I mean, y'all were going crazy over him on Facebook, Instagram, especially. I was like, so what? Y'all, I, I, no, he doesn't, I'm sorry. No, no, sorry. Continuing on with Abbott Elementary. I love my girl, Ava. Ava is that person you love to hate. Ava is the principal who don't do a damn thing in the series Abbott Elementary on Hulu. I just love the series all around you guys. It's just feel good comedy, clean comedy to all what I have to say. Started back watching the center season four. It is called Percy. If you have not watched the center, please check it out. The first season it had Jessica Bill and it was a little disturbing, but it was good. The second season was not that good. Third season was really good. And now the fourth season, I'm feeling the fourth season too called Percy on Hulu, the center. Okay. America Horror Story season is a season 11 or season 14. I can't get into it. We're talking about bath houses, people walking around and plastic, you know, giving me, I'm getting some of the feeling I got from season one with these spandex black and all that, but I can't get into it. So it's a pass for me for American Horror Story. I rewatched the Wendy Williams movie y'all because I just wanted to and I really did like that movie. Wendy Williams did a really good job on that movie overall. A new series I'm watching on Hulu is called Reasonable Doubt. Now it has a woman named, I'm going to butcher her name, Ema Taze, Emaia Taze, Emaia Taze, Corinna, Corinna Dolly, Child, no, Mckinney Freeman and Michael Ely. I am really digging this series. Now for a warning, there is heavy language. Again, it's called Reasonable Doubt. There is a bit of a heavy language and it basically talks about a lawyer. She started off as a public defender who then moves into a private sector as a lawyer and she's kick ass. She's really good at what she does. Michael Ely is someone that she represented like 16 years before. He decided to, he decides to take a pleady after 16 years. She's married, well, she's married, but going through a divorce with Lewis, the actor that plays him is fine to me you guys. His name is Mckinney Freeman. He reminds me of, now if you look at him, you're like, oh okay, but to me it's the entire package. It's his swagger, it's his intelligence, it's the way he walks. It's his charisma and he plays her husband and they're going through a separation, a separation because she basically gave him an, well sorry, he gave her an ultimatum is either you or your career and she chose her career, which is really interesting. They have two children, one preteen and one teenager, a boy. I will say the language is very heavy and I stopped watching it after the first, the first or second episode because they use the N-word a lot you guys and I don't use, I don't use the N-word. She refers to herself, her son, using the N-word and that's not cool to me. I just don't, but anyway, I'm getting past that. I'm continuing to watch it and Michael Ely. Look, I normally don't go for light skin, dudes. I didn't, I have to be careful because my husband, my husband's light skin. You know, he's a red, he's a red mom, but I normally don't go for it. That's not really my thing, but Michael Ely, again, he's one of those, it's the entire package. He has that swagger and he does it for me. He's so good looking and this McKinney, McKinney, who the hell names the child McKinney? McKinney's 49. Y'all know me and all the men, once you get over 45 and you a little fine, that brings your finest meter up. I was hoping it would be like 50, 51. Y'all overall, I like it. So I binge watched all the episodes and now I'm caught up and so I'm really excited to see what this series has in store. So y'all, I need to go in and cook and that is it, you guys. Thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all of my new subscribers. Take care. Bye.