 There we go girl. My skin is coming along There's a number of things. I've been doing differently. The number one is changing up my products but I need to really Be consistent with my skin regimen and I need to work on my diet that comes into play And I'm sorry. I don't know what anybody says genetics is a big one too But I started really paying attention to my skin and working on My skin regimen in my 20s because in my 20s. I was going to an office setting. I worked for corporate America ever since I Never not worked for corporate America. So I always dolled myself up and for me. I like makeup So I was wearing a lot of makeup Not to say you you have to do that But that's what I chose to do and so I really wanted to make sure that was taking care of my skin early on Things switched up a little bit in my 30s. I got lazy there there toward my mid 30s. I'm 39 I'll be turning 40 in a couple more months girl, yes 40 coming out And so I noticed recently though that I'm having some issues with Texture meaning my my skin almost looks like Me looks textured you can see ridges and stuff and it's just not Looking all that great. My pores are looking a lot better lately and my skin looks bright and healthy Lately, but I just keep it up. So let me show you guys what I've been using. Yeah, this this hurts Let me get back on my flat on my arm. I Can't be on my tippy toes entire time In no particular order and I do have a lot of stuff you guys and it's kind of sad But I've also ordered more things Don't judge me. You can just me. I don't care. Yeah, I'm trying to find something to lift this thing up on So one thing that I make sure I do is I have face wipes. This is no particular brand This is like a Dollar Tree brand Renting on when I wear makeup. I make sure to remove my makeup But that is very very important have that I use witch hazel as a toner. This is deep Cleanson a pair of in free Cleans pores with eucalyptus and Yeah, I use diluted witch hazel. This is the Dickinson's brand that I just get from Walmart Again in no particular order, I have tea tree oil here I tend to dilute it but sometimes I get in a hurry and I just use just a little bit and dots where my skin is Have some acne spots. Speaking of tea tree oil a couple of weeks ago I purchased this generic value product from Sally's Beauty Supply Palm Mitchell tea tree body bar, but I use this for my face so far so good I do have a block of black soap, which honestly is awesome a block of black soap I have no idea what I did with it, but I know I have it somewhere around the house be yours Charcoal deep pore cleanser. I love this stuff. This is in my rotation we have Saravay, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right Saravay renewing s a cleanser Sorry y'all and this is with an acid Solicyic salicyic acid Yeah, no, no, yeah. No, I can't pronounce anything. It's really good to have a certain percentage You don't you don't want a lot. You don't want your face burning For your skin I have vitamin C oil. I Purchase this time like it like Ross or something, but sometimes I also get it through Amazon. Yeah, I have to use my nails girl Look, I'm been their gel nails, and I'm almost done taking them off. They are crazy to remove I've never had to remove gel nails, and it's a process Tina and Tyler shut down Plus they hard Tina and Tom on my nail technicians I have lactic acid by the ordinary 10% now, let me tell you something I use this stuff only two times a week because one is 10% They have it at different percentages. This is pretty high, but I'm like, I gotta tackle this stuff I don't use it every day. I would never recommend using Every day. I don't use all of this stuff together every day either. Okay Um, I also have this Sarah. They hydrate in facial cleanser. This is what three different um assets And yeah, this is just a little sample that I got from target. I believe I got that As far as facial scrubs, I like to use lately. I've been using this exfoliating pad that was sent to me by Red by kiss really really cute. I also have um scent Ives. I have their pink lemon Mandarin orange scrub I also have a green tea scrub by them As far as treatment goes spot treatments. I use the tea tree oil and I have just acne medication just off brand from um Walmart, I don't know if you guys saw these face scrubs. I do these once a week or as needed. Okay And then I have this is awesome by clean and clear blackhead eraser clinton mask And last but not least I have just a second I have Ashtek clay now I use this stuff way more often on my skin And as and I don't even use it the opposite. I can honestly say I probably use this once every three months or so Because it to me it acts like a deep deep cleansing So I use this way more than I put it on my hair definitely. So yeah, you guys that's what I've been using That's what I'm going to continue to use my moisturizer. Why did you tell me? For the longest I've been using this saint Ice renewing collagen and elastin moisturizer. So that is it you guys Let me just put this stuff back in here y'all. I have to stuff in my guest bedroom um today was interesting and got better way better than it was yesterday girl we I y'all I felt so bad for my baby being an only child He is a little bit lonely And he's been asking a FaceTime or so with his friends and let me tell you something That one little boy that kept calling don't want his friends purposely was hanging up on him And I was like what's I got on the phone. I'm like, what's the problem? And so jay b was getting sad jay b doesn't he don't be taking up for himself I said, what is the problem jay b? And he's like, well, he's hanging up on me because he can't play his video games So then the little brat. Yeah, I said it the little brat kept calling today by accident But jay b got excited because at one point he connected and he connected to where he could see all of us Don't you know this little boy saw us and he was like, oh, I didn't even I didn't mean to call y'all bye My child's heart the the look on his face. I felt so bad for him. So then the mom texted me. She said, well I'm sorry, you know, is jay b ready. Is he available to speak? I said no your son kept calling and hanging up on us and there was one point Well, they actually connected we could because they're a FaceTime of y'all I'm like the babies can see each other and he just hung up on them saying oh, I didn't I didn't need I admit to call someone else like That kid's for still don't don't So I so she told me she said well, that was an accident. So I told jay b. I said, well, baby He accidentally hung up on on you. He said no, he didn't jay b said no, he didn't that wasn't an accident. I believe jay b so The girl was the point Someone else was like, yeah, have your son called I'll have you know, my son called you guys and so it was good to talk to her They spoke for about 20 minutes And so I basically had to reach out to my facebook family friends and family and just people I know who have kids that are jay b asian was like, is anyone could anyone please call my baby because He misses interaction with other children and they had a good time So I'll be probably doing that on a weekly basis finding some kids to um for him to speak to um And of course my nieces and nephews are there but girl They've been giving me a headache No, they're sweet and yeah y'all that is what it is, you know, it's really I've spoken to several people who have unfortunately lost their jobs and it's really disheartening you guys. I was I was so upset yesterday like down in the dumps and depressed. That's why I didn't really want to get on cam Um, especially after the after the morning we were having I was like I'm not coming back on because I don't want to have that type of energy and you guys pick up on that And I I don't know y'all did anyway, but yeah, I spoke to a couple of people and just My homeboy and um, he's in manchester. He lost his job. He just got that job. He lost it And then I call um the restaurant that I go to I used to go to with my co-workers a lot to check up on them We've been going to that spot for almost 10 years 10 years. Yeah, almost 10 years come to find out they let go of almost everybody the restaurant is still open mind you They are doing um to go curbside delivery like I'm sure a lot of restaurants are doing But they basically was like we don't need to have a bartender's We don't need to have waiter waitresses. We don't I'm like what that really made that that really messed me up You know, because that that was a full day of people that I've heard who are now, you know being Released from their jobs. I'm pretty sure some of you know of people who have lost their jobs Then the kicker was when I saw at least I don't have a lot of people on my friends look less on facebook But Within 48 hours, I saw at least three posts from people who now have the coronavirus They're all doing well. They're all doing good, but that's just scary had a meeting with my manager today She's in charge of the business continuity plan um for the company as it relates to the coronavirus and she basically was like lack of better words She basically was like I have to identify key people critical people And ensure that we know what their Top tasks are just in case you're out with the virus. I'm like, oh, hey, let's get because y'all have to understand I'm in healthcare i.t. And we get news The powers to be get information fast And they are anticipating And they are anticipating for a lot of people to come down with this virus We do not have a herd immunity for this for this virus and those of you in the in the medical field You know what i'm referring to i'm like the the Flu and the different strains of flu that we've had before that have been around for a while I guess the coronavirus has been around but not at the extent that we've seen it right now in the u.s. So By next year it'll Be better, but Right now it's going to get worse. That's just the you know So my manager was like we have identified your role as a critical role So we need to go through all your sops make sure they're up to date. We need to identify backups for you. I'm like, girl I said, I'm pleading the blood of jesus. I'm not going anywhere. Um yesterday I started to prepare some paper towels for making some um chlorines wipes now I was able to get some disinfectant wipes wipes two weeks ago, and I always had disinfectant spray and I have always keep on hand some bleach now. I know I have a little container of bleach somewhere in this house I cannot find it you guys. I have no idea where it's at So I'll keep looking for it But honestly you don't need a lot of bleach when you're disinfecting stuff So like a cap full to a gallon of water is enough. So i'm going to make some diy um What am I trying to say wipes here, but I need to find this is not big enough. I need to find something to completely um Cover these wipes so they they don't dry out, but I also In the morning one of the first things I do when my husband gets back because we're not going anywhere The only places we go is that we need to get something to eat. That is it Um, so he's going to work still so one of the first things I do when I get up Is I disinfect all the doorknobs everything that I know he's going to touch and then when he gets up I disinfect our bedroom. I'm not I've been to our hell girl earth to mama. I set the dangling thing on the uh What do you call this thing y'all the diffuser? Um I'm gonna start working out today because I saw myself in some videos and I look At high-ass mess, but anyway y'all we ain't gonna be talking about that every everything on vlog I have been doing some serious shopping when I tell you and what's been pissing me off. It's okay. Vivian What has been upsetting is that oh, I shouldn't say upsetting West is making it worse is a lot of these places except quiet pay now We don't do that. Don't don't don't do that to me like yesterday. I was on children's place They don't accept quiet play. I was on asos aces They accept quiet pay for everything and don't y'all know they they actually sell um beauty products Oh, that's that's the problem. They sell beauty products. They sell A hair accessories uh flat irons shoes No, but I only got like 40 dollars worth of stuff. Um DSW has crazy sales like I got a bunch of pumps for 12 15 dollars So, yeah, I've easily spent about 100. I don't think this is bad. I spent about 150 dollars yesterday on stuff um, I'm doing something I thought I heard something I'm doing something emotional shopping. So y'all up this up early this morning Working, but I came across my perfect dream job I saw the home tonight music. Um One of the things I like to do and my I've always liked to do in my positions for the past 10 years. Honestly, it's process improvement Um process mapping. So there was a job that came up in my inbox from leaked in That was just that process mapping working remotely. Um What I learned to do Is to take if I'm interested in the position to look at the responsibilities go to It should do a job search don't apply for the job if you're not qualified for a girl But look and see what's required and try to gain that skill set within the next two or three years So I think that's what I'm gonna do. All right, y'all. Um I was trying to take y'all with me to the store, but I don't want to now I'm not I'm not wearing gloves to store I have seen so many people look You gotta be careful and y'all know when you wear those latex gloves, you can't be touching everything Unless you're switching gloves four or five times in a grocery store. Leave those gloves at home So instead I use a chlorx wipe I walk around with my wife. I need to touch a door to get my milk chlorx wipe Then I use a hand sanitizer Anything I got if I gotta touch the stuff check out. I'm not going through self checkout I will wait 20 minutes for you to ring me up. I'm not doing stuff. Check out right now I just let them ring me up, right? But I saw a picture of someone with Wipes uh gloves on eating chips You eating chips waiting in line with your gloves on you're done You touched everything in the store and now you putting your um infected chips in your mouth Bless his heart. So but I do wear this mask. I am when we wearing this mask. Um We're good. We're good. So I wrote down His his assignments came in earlier and I wrote down some things and again We separate things in three blocks with time in between I noticed that the later we start the better it is for him like yesterday. We started at 10 30 we were done by 12 um It's also good for him to do a lot of activities in the morning. So in the morning we do a little bit of stretching um I'm gonna we're gonna pray together this morning. I also Created a set of rules that I have here for him almost like I don't know. I don't want to say guidelines almost like a mantra. So we Repeat this just three of them. I happen to read them every day. This will be our third time doing this Um, and that's been working. So hey you guys it's friday. It's friday And I'm all off key Oh My god y'all Who lawyer I just looked at my last vlog that was so depressing towards the end But that was real life. I honestly contemplated whether or not I wanted to even include that footage But it was so it was a struggle last week. It really was not this week has been We're going towards the end The end of that vlog was the beginning of this week We're going towards the end of this week where they have adjusted some of the work And so it was it's it's okay now that it's friday friday. They have reduced the Assignments drastically so that we can catch up basically. So I got up early and Sorry, um, started to do some things at work, but you know what last night I attended a live with a man named Cal Kyle y'all know i'm country Cal Winker But he basically he's a very um How do I put it He's he's a very no-nonsense type of preacher, but he also Preaches the word of god he breaches the gospel and one thing that But he almost has like a joel olstein approach to it. But unlike joel olstein Who doesn't preach the gospel in my opinion joel olstein is very lukewarm He's very kumbaya and you can't be like that honestly, especially in times like this and so this guy cal was like, um Y'all run it basically in other words y'all are you know, I understand you're in fear. You're struggling with fear You're struggling with anxiety And the one thing that hasn't changed is the word of god So to combat this fear to get past this struggle You need to stand on the word of god because that's the one thing That is still is unchanged and would never Um, we would never change honestly, but one thing he said that that really struck with me was that What if god is using this as an opportunity for you to step into your purpose Because we really have no distractions now. Yeah, we're doing some You know, our our lifestyle may change if our kids are at home, but we can't go anywhere Some of us can't go into an office to work. We are limited to you know Our surroundings if wrong if our cities are on lock down we're limited on where we can go That forces you to be still and staying in place Hey, you guys it is the weekend. Look, I am emotionally drained. I've been looking at sad I don't know why I do this. I've been looking at videos That make me cry you have your phone for I've been looking at videos that make me cry I'm okay. So we're on our way to the grocery store. I'm going to try to get as many groceries as possible possible Because I don't want to go again until the end of next week JB it's probably JB it's supposed to be left on the charger the charger Is there let me charge it up while we're in the car too. Give it here. Oh, is it working? Yes, okay So my husband is like I was in my husband. I'm like I ordered some more face masks because the masks we have Um, they're not good. He's like what happens to all those masks I bought a couple of months ago. I'm like we Open up one of those when we went to texas and then we have what we didn't even use them I just open them up. He's like you can still use though. So we have These regular N95 mask and then I have this mask here But then I have a other mask here that has a coffee filter in and he's like I said, I can't I've already used this Hey, I'm talking basically my husband saying just use anything. Don't worry about if it's old You just use it, you know, it's better than nothing at all as I stated before you guys I I do have some masks coming in that I ordered. I'm gonna go ahead and share that information We'll face masks. We're gonna put these on we're gonna go to the store. We're gonna pray JP JP will we have to help us when we go to the store? What what do we have on our side to help us when we go to the store? Besides my antibacterial soap my um my uh What do you call my antibacterial lotion and my wipes? What did you say that we have when we go to the store now to protect us? Jesus cross and the whole The Jesus of the cross and the holy and the holy but that out of the mouth of babes That's right. Y'all the first time he said that I said what because I I was getting my stuff together going to the store Right. I said I got my antibacterial. I got my I got my face mask. He said and you got Jesus on the cross Thank you for reminding me Okay So, baby, let me close the door Y'all can't see me, but it's about to get real bright About to get real uh, what are you doing real the barge up in here face sevens. Go ahead, baby Hold on y'all, let me make sure that this He ain't gonna fall sweetheart. Yeah, it's so pretty out here. It's so pretty It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood Look y'all we ain't we avoiding people even at the park. So but we're gonna go down in the big area. Okay