 Good morning. It's Sunday, February 20th, just about 10 30 a.m. and it's always great when you start the week by having to close last week's vlog because you forgot. Yeah, that's probably a thing. We're gonna, I think, just have a quiet day at home. Bob has some things around the house he wants to do. I'm gonna check up on the computer since I literally did not turn it on yesterday and I can't say I'm mad about that, but I need to check on a few things and I have some sketching I want to do. I've got a few chores I need to do including laundry and all of that stuff. So we will get it done and we'll see where the day takes us. We'll probably go for a walk at some point, weather permitting and all of that. Yeah, we are expecting a sort of a cold front coming in so we'll see what happens. We're supposed to have a day this coming week that is down at night into the teens. Yeah, fun stuff. All right, I'll be back. One of the things I need to do today is some art therapy. Let me start off by saying the beginning of all my vlogs right now have a warning and I am going to give you an extra one here. I am not a medical professional. I'm only sharing with you my journey and what I'm doing to try to be healthy or physically and mentally. If you need help, reach out to someone and get it. There's no shame in that. I am going to on advice from my counselor who is herself a creative do some art therapy and work out some emotions on a large piece of watercolor paper because I think it's probably going to get messy. We're going to do it in the woods next to my house which is yeah. Of course I'll hose things down afterwards and so I'm going to get ready. I'm going to hook up the hose, all that stuff, get the paper set out and ready to go and we'll take it from there. We'll see what happens. I'll be back. That took longer to clean up than it did to make and I'm not done with it yet but what I have done is needs to dry so it's outside in the giant tray um and I was feeling like it was appropriate to throw away what little bit of was left of said pigments and ink that I used on it so that's what I did. I followed my instincts listened to what I needed to do so anyway. We came and got me and moved my stuff to a different area than where I'd set it initially to dry because it started hailing hailing basically yeah we have a cold front coming in. All right I'll be the chores are done laundry is working um art therapy background is drying everything's cleaned up so we're going to go for a walk hopefully it doesn't hail again while we're out because we're not bringing umbrellas or anything. Might not be the smartest move in the planet but we'll see. I'll be back. Monday morning February 21st it is about 10.45 ish a.m. just before that I think. I got the video uh vlog edited for last week and it's loading right now scheduled for Wednesday morning. I got all the posts written and posted or scheduled for this week. Bob is working on a couple things upstairs. I'm going to have my morning fiber and calcium and all of that stuff and then we're going to go sofa shopping. We haven't gone sofa shopping in a long time but we need something that fits the space better there's nothing wrong with these sofas that we have but we need something that fits the space better and maybe fills up this whole corner so we can fit the whole family here for like family dinner night for movies that kind of thing and I do think the old sofas are going to go to one of the kids house because they have a sofa they can't my daughter Rebecca she can't stand her sofa and these may be not fabric that she loves but the style of them is good and they are super comfortable which is why we've had them for like 25 years or more. I can't remember how long but it's been a long time anyway they're in great it's 9 58 a.m. Tuesday February 22nd don't get excited I looked we are going to finish our art therapy piece today I'm going to turn on some music and that is reflecting my mood about the piece right there I'm going to do some more expressive stuff on there and I'm going to film at least some of it and we'll see where it takes us I'll be back it was more angry than I thought I was what do you think yeah anyway I do feel better I got it out on the piece of paper so I'm good all right I'll be back I also filmed a playing with my art foamy's video and I created some background papers out of vintage typing paper and some sort of tan colored or natural colored tissue paper that I had in my stash and art foamy's on my little five by seven jelly plate that was a lot of fun it's an upcoming video so watch for it and I I show how I created a couple of journal pages in my small mini journals with said papers they were a lot of fun if you didn't know I'm a designer for art foamy's and you can get my art foamy's and others with the link down below so check it out and yeah that was a lot of fun and now I'm going to sit and have lunch and watch some YouTube and I'll be back okay so I just decided to post pictures of my piece that I did for my mental health exercise given to me by my counselor and the footage in its entirety of what I did film creating that into the patreon for patrons and supporters and so if you want to see that other than the couple of little small clips that I insert I inserted here in the vlog because I will keep a couple of small clips here but that's that's it if you want to see the rest of what I did and why I did it and how it turned out um that'll be over in patreon so you need to join that anyway they have their own private youtube channel in case you didn't know finally headed out for a walk uh the neighbor babies were decorating the street so cute anyway somebody's messaging me sorry um we're gonna go try to go for a walk even though it's like 31 feels like 21 we usually walk depending on the night or our day somewhere between two and three miles a day yeah some 10 000 steps minimum we try to some days we only get eight but uh anyway but it is cold it is very cold so will we get like two blocks and then come I don't know but I'll let you know sure how far we'll be good yeah we don't know how far we're gonna get but we're gonna try I'll be back we're walking over towards the holiday house I guess they're ready for st. Patrick's day what do you think a leprechaun in a pot of gold but then they also have an alligator what's up with that I'm missing something can y'all explain it to me what is that about all right we're gonna get a few more steps and steps in before we freeze our cheeks off hey you guys keep it clean I mean these cheeks see even he thought I meant the other cheeks it's not what I meant all right I'll be back it's Wednesday February 23rd time it is it's just after 10 30 I think it's not quite 11 o'clock yet anyway I'm headed downstairs because I've got to get my bone broth and my fiber drink and all of that stuff I'm gonna sit and work on some more of the little journal pages while I watch some YouTube it is cold outside today it is currently 32 feels like 22 it's been pretty consistently at least 10 degrees colder feeling outside than the actual temperature and our low tonight is supposed to be somewhere between 18 and 20 so that's the thing and it was also cool besides so yeah can you say cold front um anyway I made a couple more journal pages in my small journals I'm feeling the need to keep it simple this morning so that's what we did painting marks which surprises me but in a good way because lately in these journals I've just been collaging mostly I'm all right with it not mad about it uh anyway I'm gonna finish my bone broth wash out some paint brushes and let things dry for a little bit before we move forward today I'll be back it is 9 45 a.m thursday february 24th I have counseling at a just over an hour and I'm gonna go downstairs and make my bone broth and stuff and then I'm just gonna sit and do art and things we haven't at least had some snow flurries overnight yes snow flurries um I think today was or last night was the coldest night in a while I could be wrong about that but anyway currently the outdoor temperature is around 33 so yeah it's kind of cold anyway I have art to do I don't have anything else to do today except the counseling which might be a good thing anyway I'm gonna get my drinks ready and get situated and get mentally ready I have some quotes to cut out I've used up all my tea bag quotes so I like yogi tea for those that don't know um a different I like different kinds of tea but my favorite brand is yogi tea my favorite one is the Egyptian licorice this one they all have little quotes on the tea bag tags and I save them and use them in my journaling I've used like almost all of them up I need to check my little bowl and see if there's any more in there so I was printing out some free quote things today I need to drink more tea or find some people who drink that same kind of tea and can save me the little quote tags because yeah I mean I'm using a lot of them right now all right that's it for the minute I'll be back I'm like a half an hour and I'm setting up for that and I just turned around and looked out the window and saw this hold on snow flurries I'm guessing that means it's cold outside and it's kind of sticking it's not melting good morning everybody it is Friday morning I think it's February 25th it's 9 10 a.m I know it's Friday pretty sure it's 25th anyway obviously we're in the car I need to go check the PO box and I need to go get groceries so um it's Friday so family dinner night my dad is coming along with two of the four kids and so um our daughter our blood daughter Rebecca and her husband so we are going to go get some food because I'm not sure I have enough to go around today and I'm completely out of one of my staples salad it's funny I commented on a food network Facebook post recently that said something along the lines of when you don't feel like cooking what's your favorite meal and I commented salad which is my favorite I eat salad a lot um a lot of people in support which is great including my family they all are like oh yeah you've always liked salad which is true but the people who are like commenting things like said no one ever to my comment that I like salad are actually kind of funny how do you just not like a bowl of greens like I don't understand I'm only at the post office and there's not a whole lot of people here but probably half with no mask I'm not even at that grocery store yet this is going to be fun I'll be back morning everybody it is Saturday morning February 26th I think uh just after 9 a.m hold on to the exact I'm going to check on social media and stuff bob and my dad are off at cars for coffee I opted to stay home a couple reasons one I didn't feel like getting up and getting dressed early to go out to do that and two um I didn't feel like climbing into the backseat of the barracuda like yeah no so anyway I do think they're on their way back now and in the meantime I am going to check on YouTube and all of that stuff and I'll be saying that um I appreciate all of your comments and suggestions and things below the videos please continue to do so like share and subscribe of course I would really love that you can turn on the little bell notification uh if you want to um be notified when I post new videos but if you're gonna be mean and nasty your comments are gonna get deleted like I just can we just be kind I'm okay with constructive criticism so just don't be mean okay to me or anybody else I'd appreciate it all right all right I'll be back it's already turning out to be an interesting Saturday so my dad came down for family dinner night last night and spent the night and then I told you this morning he and bob went out to cars for coffee and um came back he had some breakfast I cut both of their hair and then he left to go home he forgot his telephone and he doesn't have a landline so bob left in the car to go try to catch him and hopefully he didn't get too far because he literally had just left but is he gonna catch up with him to give him his phone are we gonna have to change our plans for today and drive up to my dad's house and bring him his phone which is an hour and a half minimum away I don't know is bob gonna have to just keep driving to my dad's house and bring him his I don't know oh yeah anyway happy Saturday I'll be back I'll let you know what happens okay so it's Saturday afternoon it's 5 12 p.m we are puppy sitting crazy pants and of course she just got here she's been here like five minutes and what does she want to do yeah that so despite the rain I've got my umbrella we're going for a walk see what we can see I've we've just been chilling watching like Netflix and stuff on our tablets all afternoon once we got the phone situation with my dad straightened out and I can't say I'm mad about it right now I'm hooked on Chicago med I don't know why no no idea I'm gonna do some drawing later while I watch more episodes and just have a good evening it's been an interesting day to a good week chill week I hope you guys have had a great week I hope you have a great next week too don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative if you have any questions or comments leave them down 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