 230 ish, 234 to be exact. I'm headed out of the house finally. I spent the morning doing unfun stuff like bookkeeping and paying the states to have California sales tax. Ouch, is all I can say. But it's done for 2017 so that's all done. I also got the vlog for last week edited. It's uploading now as we speak. It's the one time when I'm filming that I just film, I just film. I film random clips, spontaneous clips, and I normally don't film that way. I normally film for the edit. I do a lot of stopping and starting so I don't have to do a lot of re-watching the clips and cutting stuff out. When I vlog I don't do that. It's too it's too it's too difficult to do the vlog and do that. It's a better vlog I think and marginally less boring to be spontaneous. Although I don't honestly know how interesting my life is. I think it's pretty boring. So anyway that means that I have to spend a lot of time editing. I think that took like an hour in my chair. My back kind of hurts. Re-watching all the clips and I got... I usually have a lot of time of clips when I film a regular video that I want to be about 20 minutes. Generally the clips when I'm done are 20 to like 30 minutes. I don't have that much to cut out. When I do the vlog I generally have something that's between 40 minutes and an hour and a half and I have to try to get it down to 30 minutes or less. So that's a challenge and today I had an hour and I think 14 minutes worth of clips. 84 clips I think and I had to edit it down to whatever it is. I think it's like 20 some minutes. It's just under 30 minutes I think. I try to keep them a bit shorter than that but that doesn't always work. And this week we had extra days in the vlog because I'm trying to change the days that I vlog. I was doing like Thursday to Wednesday which is weird. I even think it's weird so I'm gonna do like Sunday to Saturday or regular. Off now to the hardware store to get a part for something that I want my husband to fix really quick before he goes back to work tomorrow. And he said he had time this afternoon to fix it. So we're gonna park in the back so I can maybe get a few steps in while I'm here. I think that sounds like a good plan. Alright I'll be back. Okay we got what we needed and now I can go home as long as I can figure out how to get out of the park. Morning! It is Monday January 8th. I'm gonna go to physical therapy. I decided to walk even though it looks like this outside. It's kind of rainy but that's okay. I'm not gonna melt. I'm not the wicked witch. At least I don't think so anyway. So let's go have some fun. Let's go for a walk and yeah better now than later because it's supposed to get worse later. Alright we'll be back. Okay we're all done with physical therapy and they had me doing core exercises and because evidently my core is too squishy. Who knew? Go figure. But anyway now my legs are totally sore so I'm gonna take it easy on the way home. Plus it's still raining out so I'm gonna try to get home before it gets really bad and just dumps a bunch of water because it is supposed to do that. So we're gonna try to get home before that happens and just sit with a cup of tea. I think that sounds like a big plan. Somebody remind me the next time I go to therapy to bring a hair scrunchie or something. Like I was trying to do my exercises and my hair was so in the way. Alright that's it. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Tuesday, January 9th. See I knew again. Yay. I'm in the backyard obviously. It's been raining. Our backyard looks like crap. It's looked like crap for a while. I know you've seen it before and I've mentioned that before. We re-did the front yard and then the economy crashed and we never did anything about the backyard and then we had to do the bathroom and that costs more money than we thought. So anyway any of you who are homeowners, yeah understand. Priorities. So anyway I am out here this morning garbage bag in hand. I never go outside the house to do work without grabbing my keys. Why? I have locked myself out of the house before. Granted it's been 20 years but yeah. Having to shove your three-year-old daughter through a window so she can unlock the door for you. It's kind of something you never forget. So anyway I'm gonna pick up some dog poop out here first before I get started and then we're gonna spread some grass seed and yeah I'll be right back. Did seed. We couldn't afford somewhere between two and six bags of seed. Two bags each time over the winter when it's raining. We had the California drought recently and we had to kind of let everything die to try to save water and conserve water and yeah now we have to start all over again. So anyway what's there is mostly weeds. There is a little bit of grass but we kind of didn't want to kill off the weeds that are there until we can get something else green to grow. I don't know. Anyway I'm not a gardener. I hate gardening but anyway seeding is done. Now to take the garbage bags the poop bag out to the trash can and then on to the next thing which I think is the grocery store. I'll be back. We're gonna go hit the grocery store. Should be a good time to go and get it done early before the lunch rush. Wish me luck. My least favorite tour but I do it two to three times a week. It's first thing in the morning the neighbors gardeners are out. He just waved at me. Our dog, our dog is old and cranky and at this point pretty quiet. He doesn't really bark too much unless two things are going on. The neighbors gardeners are in the front of the neighbor's house and way too near his property or there's somebody in our driveway or on our property. He's very, he is protective but he used to like bark at every squirrel and fly and when he was younger he barked at everything. Now he's 14. He really just only barks when there's an issue. He really hates the gardener though. Anyway. Alright so we are out going to my favorite place again and I'm being sarcastic at the grocery store. My husband is a free mason for those who don't know and for those that don't know what that is that is a masonic fraternity. It's not just for men. There is a women's group that your husband has to be a mason for you to join or you have to be the daughter of a mason. I know it's kind of sex history. I am not a mason. In fact other than that one little rule that I don't really like. It is actually a good group from both ends. It's all about making men and women good men and women and making them better, better for themselves, better for their families, better for the community. In fact we have a blood drive coming up. Anyway enough with the speech. It also gives my husband something to do besides drive me crazy so I mean I love him dearly but and he works a lot but he everybody needs a hobby and for him it's being a free mason so anyway. Enough of that little speech. He has an event coming up. Sorry sorry it's kind of wet outside still. He has an event coming up and an installation of officers for which I have relented to helping. So I'm off to go get food for said installation of officers. I've got to order a cake and I've got to get some food. It's on Friday so he just told me last night can you order a cake? I'm like well yeah but you should have told me like three days ago. So we're gonna go do it now and yeah so anyway. I hate the grocery store I really do. Alright so we're gonna go do that and we'll be back. Did I say what day it was? It is Wednesday January 10th. So anyway yes I still know what the date is. I'm trying hard to be better at that. Alright I'll be back. Hey alright so we're in my art room and I'm going to be setting up to film the next few parts of the repainting the canvas series which you already saw on a blah blah blah blah. What is this vlog? Last couple weeks and I need to bring it in from the other room. I need to clean it. I need to set it up on my easel and so I'm gonna show that part of it here on the vlog. It's my room is not that big and although it's fairly decently organized it's not that big it's 10 by 10 so my easel lives in the closet so I have to get it out of the closet. So yeah I'm constantly purging and getting rid of stuff and yes this is my art room with less stuff in it I know right. It's still sometimes depending on the camera angle looks like it looks like it has way too much stuff I realize that. I'm still constantly finding pockets of things in here that I'm like why do I have that so it's got to go for me it's a continual process I have. You think she's done except for so much I wish I had actually a place to hang it up but I don't so I do think it's gonna go up for sale. The videos showing at least a speed through of what I did and why I did it. Voice over where I can and where I have clear shots I did do footage with both my HD video camera and my cell phone to try to get some good shots it's always hard when I'm doing a canvas I kind of need a cameraman so but anyway all right that's it for today I will be back. Good morning everybody it is Thursday January 11th. I am already covered in dog hair it's not even nine o'clock in the morning. All right so I've already done all my typing and posting for the day I did a little more work on the canvas with the face on it I'll try to put a picture here somewhere and I think now she's done I have loads of video footage I'm gonna have to get fancy with and edit that's gonna be fun and I couldn't remember what I said in the intros and endings so I filmed a bunch of extra intros and endings it's gonna be interesting okay so I don't know what I'm gonna do with the footage it's gonna take me a while to edit. I've got a cough drop in my mouth because I'm feeling kind of off this morning and I'm headed to physical therapy. I have physical therapy and then I have an appointment at the hairdresser to get my white roots covered up because I am really not a brunette anymore my hair is mostly white and silver so anyway I'm gonna get it covered up and I think that's it by the time I do those things I'm probably not gonna want to do anything else I'm probably just gonna want to come home so I'm not really planning on anything else I did have to order last night some I want to put like a matte or satin finish on the face canvas that I've been working on and that started out as an acrylic pour and I am out of some of the product that I used to do that with I have some Dorland's wax but I don't have the other stuff so I had to order it last night I really was thinking I wasn't gonna probably be up to running around town trying to find out which store has what I wanted it and yeah so I just ordered it at Amazon sometimes that's cheaper even if it cost me a couple bucks more so I won't be able to do that until Friday or Saturday or next week I you know any of those is fine I have to get ready to do some videos for my creative year for February I want to get those filmed next week along with other February commitments that's my keys sorry so I want it that's gonna be on my to-do list for next week when I really wanted to get this face canvas finished before then so it can be sort of drying and out of the way so I may even set up the easel in the guest room once I clear coat it and just put it in the guest room and leave it sit and dry we'll see what happens we're here therapy so I'll be back said December I do actually know the date today again it's a really weird way to start the year off when I actually know what date is and don't get lost that much it's not normal for me anyway we're all kind of as my husband would say guzzied up he's in his nice suit and tie yeah I actually have a dress on no stretchy pants I have my own everything I know right so we're going out to a Masonic event and we're gonna spend some time with friends and have dinner and yeah we've been just kind of we haven't been doing anything particularly well he's been working from home today I haven't been doing anything particular I have no reason to not not vlog this morning I've been lazy I've been lazy yeah cuz what time is it it's 5 30 5 5 o'clock 5 o'clock 5 o'clock like yeah the whole day has gone by I haven't turned the camera on once no reason for that anyway so that's what today is I don't think we're doing much tomorrow either so it's kind of a boring week I think I have a couple things I'm working on for YouTube I'll probably share with you all tomorrow and I think that's for it for right now if I get any good clips of the party tonight I'll share all right I'll be not amazing is my brother my brother's a big Mets fan me I can't you know if my brother is a Mets fan what do I got to be I gotta be a freakin Yuckie suck! Yuckie suck! Hey, thanks for the baby! Hey, appreciate that! Yeah, you guys are looking forward! I can see that! Yeah. You're at eight? Yeah. You know, it's funny. And I voted for it! I voted for it! Hi guys. It is Saturday afternoon. It's January 13th. I'm looking at the computer. It's 4.25 or so in the afternoon. I haven't been doing a lot. Uh, kind of. So I started off early this morning with an online meeting with the new 2018 Design Team. That went really well. Got a lot of feedback about some things we were brainstorming. Not just about my products and my business but also about things going on with them. And I think that we've got a fast, fantastic team this year. I've got to say. So anyway, I've spent the rest of the afternoon doing laundry and drawing on the iPad and working on some new designs to the point where I think my eyes are crossed a little bit. I need to take a little break. Some new stencil inventory came in which I have to package up and stick this as the box where I keep the inventory in. Some new prototypes came in over there, whoops, there. And I'm sorry if I'm making you all dizzy. The canvas is drying back there. Can you see it? There you go. It's hanging on a wire. That's why she's crooked. She's got her clear coat on and so she's going to dry really well and then I'm going to put a second coat if I think it needs it and then I'll do some waxing and she'll be ready to sell and go on to her new home. Well, after I sign the back, I haven't done that yet. I just didn't have the heart to sign the front so I don't think I'm going to sign the front. I think I'm going to sign the back. Every now and then I just feel like my signature on the front I'm not ashamed of my signature but it just is not cohesive with the painting and I don't want it on the front. I want it on the back. So, or sometimes I do it around the edge so, but usually the back. I think that's it for right now. I don't think there's anything else going on for the moment. We are just having a quiet evening at home and we're going to be eating leftovers and just chilling out, I think. It is a three-day weekend. Monday is Martin Luther King Day and so my husband's going to be home. We may decide to go out for a drive or something. I don't know, but of course if we do, I'll bring you along. It's been an interesting week full of inspiration and possibility and lots of routine and catching up and that's okay. I have enjoyed this week though. I think that yeah, I look forward to 2018. I think it's going to be a really interesting year. So anyway, I hope that you all have had a great week, that you've had some fun following me around this week even on days when I didn't have much to do. I'm going to go this way because it's less, the lighting is less weird. I hope above all that you're doing what you love with those that you love and enjoying yourself. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Of course, check out the video description for any relevant link including my link tree link which has, if you click on it all my social media and internet links everywhere, you can find me. That's it for right now. Have a great day. I'll talk to you next week and that's it. See you later. Bye-bye.