 Good morning everybody. Did I say it yet? What morning it is? I don't know. We're visiting with Bob's family who live up this way. We are going to go have lunch with them before we head to the airport to go home. We are having lunch with Bob's mom and his brother and his wife and uh yeah Rich has a uh hot rod. The brothers both like hot rods and Bob is out right now taking a picture of it so I will get a picture from him of it and I will put it right about here. Anyway it has been a fun trip but yeah I'm tired so anyway we're going to go have some lunch and enjoy the local area and then go home and I will be back. So we landed, we're back in Portland, we're obviously in the car, headed home. It was funny because in the shuttle bus to the parking lot it said something about minimizing how many people were on the bus and everybody has to wear a mask and all of that because of what's going on. That bus was crowded. There were people it see it was full. There were people standing up holding onto the upper bars like it was so full. I was waiting for luggage to come off the luggage rack and like fall on me and now we're trying to get out. We thought the hardest part was going to be finding the car because unlike other times when we've traveled because we're out of practice we usually take pictures of where we are in the parking lot so we don't have to guess where where's the car when we get back. We didn't do that this time so we had to make a guess. Anyway it was complicated we did find the car it wasn't that hard. Getting out evidently is hard because the two lanes in front of me, us and the guy in front of us and the guy next to them, they're both having trouble paying and I guess we're stuck and there's people behind us and and yeah I don't know. I guess I guess everybody's moved because nobody everybody's sick of being stuck. I never thought this would be the hard part. I don't know. It was a fun weekend but I'm glad to be home. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. Happy Monday morning. It's Monday morning September 13th 8 55 a.m. I'm unpacking some things I purchased and or ordered from Wish that came in while I was gone and things I purchased while we were in California at Dyson and so that's on my desk behind me and so I gotta put that away today but first I'm gonna edit the vlog write my daily my day and my posts for the week for the Facebook art groups get those all scheduled get all that all scheduled and done. I also have to go to the grocery store at some point today so yeah so we'll get we'll get it done I need more coffee first because you know just it was a fun weekend but it was long I need more coffee all right I'll be back okay hello so I have this skirt style it's really cute I haven't worn it in a long time because honestly I was too fat to fit in it but now it's been so long that I don't know if you can hear this like this has elastic in it not that you know that because elastic is completely shot not to mention because normally the waist is not this big anyway not to mention the fact that there's a hole in it somewhere in the back here so I'm gonna fix it because I really like the skirt it's cute all right so the first thing to do is we are going to surge off the old waistband which will do two things it'll get rid of the old waistband and it'll finish the fabric up here so it doesn't fray because this is like a thin gauzy fabric so let's do that first looks more normal than it takes in the afternoon Tuesday September 14th other than some filming of some art stuff have I vlogged it all today I don't think so anyway it's Tuesday I normally do a chat and coffee thing with patrons and supporters everybody was busy today cool no problem life happens but I did have a lot of journaling to catch up on including this sort of year of my life journal that I've been working on I used some of mine and other designers art foams for some of the backgrounds they turned out so cute these are just journal pages like to document different things that happened in my life in any given year um like oh see if I can lift this up in June on the 5th of June my daughter got married and this is open there we go so I saved bits and pieces I bring them home and then I put them in here and if I'm traveling I save bits and pieces and bring them home and I put them here anyway and now I'm working on another messy journal or page it involves glitter and it's hey guys it is sometime after six o'clock on Tuesday three minutes after we're out for our evening walk before dinner I'm not super hungry so I think I'm just just gonna have a cup of broth it's interesting today I started to get messages and comments from an artist in creative I follow on YouTube and she follows me back and other social media um about my weight loss so yeah it started as a boredom challenge in January uh wondering if I could do 10,000 steps a day that was part of it anyway I'm about sick and you know I want to be better and I want to do better for myself so I started eating more salads and vegetables cutting out a lot of starches and carbs little to no alcohol less desserts and a lot more walking I don't know what you call that but that's what I'm doing I want a cup of bone broth every day guys it is Wednesday September 15th it is 10 19 a.m you always know it's going to be an interesting day when you start off the day working on some videos and forget to turn the camera on yeah that's a thing everybody it's Thursday September 16th it is 8 46 a.m don't get excited I looked already and I looked already because I have a doctor's appointment so I'm working on getting healthier and losing some weight and not that losing weight is my primary focus I want to be healthy and so anyway um I've been doing pretty well so far the doctor has been lowering my medication I've been on blood pressure medication since I turned 40 I'm now 58 yes that's a long time and the first time since I started it my medication has changed but it hasn't gone up it's gone down so that's good I think he feeds the ducks they come to her house every year they come from the golf course which we're about to walk by and she just said sometimes she has to walk the babies back because they get lost I guess but she feeds them all the time and they wander back and forth from the golf course to her house for food see I would be that person I would do the same thing Bob knows he's just shrugging his shoulders because he knows that's true yeah so anyway that was fun all right now we get on with our walk so we can go home and have dinner all right I'll be back obviously we're in the car again done some of my morning chores and work and I need to go pick up a few more things at Walgreens that I couldn't find anywhere else yesterday Walgreens is my favorite store but you know you gotta do what you gotta do right I keep hearing rumors from friends and acquaintances people I know in supply chain or retail the retail setting that the supply of goods may actually get a little worse this fall and spring then it's already been so I don't know how true and accurate that is but it might get a little more difficult than it already is to find stuff like one of the reasons I couldn't find a few things yesterday was not because the stores didn't normally carry them it's just because they were completely out so I'm going to go over to Walgreens and see if they have it otherwise I'll just have to keep my eyes open my sincere apologies to Walgreens I everywhere I went yesterday running errands was looking for my mascara and you have this crayon I use and instead of eye shadow those of you who are of a certain age and experience dry skin and hot flashes know like you want to wear a little bit of makeup but there's just certain things you just can't wear anymore they look terrible on your skin or you start sweating and they drip right off so anyway I have a particular eye crayon that I like that works to just give a little color it's actually an eyebrow crayon but I use it on eye shadow just in the outer corners and then blend it out it is a l'oreal palette l'oreal paris brow stylist kabuki blender pencil crayon I use the dark brunette color they had that they had my mascara which was on sale buy two get a third free I don't need three mascaras so I just bought one they had my night cream they also do carry my day cream although I didn't need any right now they have both here and they had the mouth rinse I need to be using on my that I use after I brush my teeth I had all of it here so my apologies Walgreens the patrons will get first look and if you want first look on some of my videos being said we are going out obviously tonight it is Friday still it is 503 p.m. we're going to go over to the kid's house and then we are going to our first concert of any kind since this whole pandemic thing started and we are going to go see kiss we like rocket I like music I don't know what to tell you I like rock it all I want to see the show they put on yes they're all old enough I think well most of them are just about old enough to be my dad yeah I mean you know my mom just passed away she was 79 so I mean yeah but you know they do they I like their music so we're going to take the kids and we're going to go up it's actually for Becca's birthday present last year yeah her birthday yeah her birthday present last year hers and his they're a week apart by the way and we didn't get to go because of the pandemic they rescheduled it to this year now I have to tell you I was half nervous they were going to reschedule it again but nope we're doing it you have to wear a mask you cannot you either have to have a clear plastic bag or it can't be bigger than four by six so and no paper tickets it has to be on your phone so we've done all of those things and we've got our mask and yes my mask matches my bag because you know why not who doesn't love a good sugar skull all right that's it for the minute I will see if I can safely without getting copyright issues get some sort of something videotape probably not of the show but maybe of us walking in and stuff yeah but if kiss has a youtube channel which they probably do I'll link it down below you can check them out if by chance you've never heard of them and you're because you're like my dad and he has no idea who they are my mom knew who kiss was she liked rock and roll dad as he says likes elevator music so he has no idea it's good morning it's saturday morning september 18th uh 10 something am it's just before 11 am um so if you're watching this clip then you just saw a clip holy cow of me on the freeway with the kids and bob on the way to the kiss concert last night and there was a large fire at a homeless encampment on the side of the freeway it was so big and so hot we could feel the heat inside the car I did try to call 911 about a dozen times it was busy every time I'm assuming that's because everybody else on the freeway was also trying to call it did I understand get it put out safely I don't think anybody got hurt but holy crap anyway you also saw some video clips from the kiss concert for obvious reasons I'm not going to put the sound in I'm going to take it out for copyright issues and the clips will be brief and probably from fairly far away again for copyright issues I'll put some other music in there I don't know what I'm going to put in but anyway it was a lot of fun wow did they put on a great show glad I got to see it everybody was required to wear a mask and socially distanced as they could plus it was also outside so we did do it safely but it was nice to be able to go to an event like that again um but we're tired today um my dad is in town today he's over at the kids house he's helping them with polyas with some car stuff and I guess buying tools and getting some advice from the tools um what he's probably going to need and Bob is going over there to join them and I am here at the house I'm going to catch up on some computer stuff all right that's it for this week the family is all coming for dinner as I just said my dad is here with Tala his dog and we're going to be having a family dinner night maybe watching the new Clint Eastwood movie yeah so anyway I hope you've all had a good week we've had a fun week I mean you know it's weird it's COVID but it's been a fun week I hope you've had a fun week I hope you have a fun week next week I'm getting questions about my weight loss journey if you guys are interested we'll have a conversation maybe an open zoom meeting I don't know put something in the comments down below check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the free content here on youtube and in the facebook art groups and places to follow me on social social media I can't speak today um which include instagram and all that stuff I do have a snapchat I don't think it's linked there yet because I don't know how to work it but anyway um there's a link tree list the links down below it includes patreon and my Etsy shop and all of that stuff so check it out um don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and have a great day have a great week and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it hear that voice my dad's here so I'm gonna go get the door I'll see you all next week don't forget to have a great one bye guys