 girlfriend. How y'all doing? I look kind of different, don't I? What is it? Uh-uh. Yeah, I mean, I'm just wanting to cough in a minute. It's a girl. It's my glasses. I switched to black glasses and I got my nails done. I do them myself. Aren't these cute y'all? Let me see if I can be still, so I can see. Yeah, I shared the picture on Instagram. I'm so damn silly on how I take pictures. You really can't see this. I dreamt of rain. I don't know what that means. You country folks, tell me what that means. I dreamt of rain. Did it rain last night? I have to look, but I dreamt of rain and I woke up this morning and it looked like it's about to rain. This color is called Canadian Maple. I used to get this at the nail salon. Now, T9 Tom are open buying going over there. Hell no, girl. We ain't doing that. So today is Friday. It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. And I'm on my first week of working the... girl, what do you call this schedule? I don't know what you call this schedule, but basically you work nine days. You'd work nine days and get one day off. So, heck yes. Our symptoms have been lingering for weeks. And like a lot of... this is what I did say in the video. Like a lot of upper respiratory illnesses. The cough is the last to go. And sure enough, we are still coughing. Like, it's July 31st. I tested positive on the 12th. My husband tested positive on either the 8th or 9th. Now, check this. This is... I'm so frustrated with his damn job. Mind you, you guys. I'm just gonna go right out and say it. I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna say that. So, my husband was scheduled to return to work on the 20th, right? He started showing symptoms as early as the 8th. Let me back up. He started showing symptoms as early as the 7th, actually. He tested positive on the 10th. So, they were like, okay, he was doing really well because the job kept calling him job every day they were calling him. So, for about four days into it, his symptoms were very mild. But then what happened, his allergies were out of control. And then the fever came back and he felt horrible. He felt the worst out of all three of us, honestly. And so, until he got his flu shot, which was not flu shot, his allergy shot, which took a good, a good number of days. But catch this. They still wanted him to return to work on the 20th. He refused because he said, no, I'm still coughing and my fever goes up. He said it stays around 99 in the daytime and then it peaks around 100 at night. So, he felt that. He went to the urgent care on the 20th. We just, Phoenix is out of control. There is a serious delay in receiving your result because of the number of cases. And I'm pretty serious like this in a lot of other states, too. He just got his results from the urgent care yesterday, which is the 30th. 10 days later, he still showed positive. Now, and then, no, so I'm glad. I'm so thankful that he said, because again, this is about preventing other people from getting at you guys. This is about ensuring that we slow down the spread. Okay. Like I said, we felt on the man's and felt good. Excuse me. Look, I'm gone. Like I said, we had very amount symptoms. We could have easily been out. And the hardest thing for me is with JB because JB has felt okay. JB has not been anywhere enough. Hey, you guys, we are in our office. I wanted to show you real quick our setup for homeschool. I organized this about two weeks ago now. So over here, I'm not going to go through all of this. Over here is just where I'm having a lot of the supplies. These are all of the books we will be utilizing. We will be doing time learning. Yeah, this is a record player. But I have sorry behind him. I have the gold math series, geography stuff, world history along with African Atlas and African American history, basically your office slash workout room. So I'll be coming back here with my laptop. I do have a desktop available. I need to get I need to contact my company to get connections from my laptop. So this is JB's desk. I purchased this desk and shared through Wayfarer. Sit down, Donald, so they can see how you look. It's cool. It's cold now. Just got it yesterday. Yeah, this is his work caddy. We have supplies up here along with Stapler and then it into these drawers. I got this container through Amazon. Those bottom ones are not that great. Oh, you know what? This one's hard. I see why. This one is really just hard. I see why. Now, try it now, baby. See? So these labels, y'all, I just purchased. I didn't purchase. I just found them online. We have Bible. I'm glad this one's just nothing. Yeah, Bible handwriting, history, math, reading. These are just all the different subjects we have. And then we have Stapler and again, some of the supplies you'll be using on a daily basis. So what I plan on doing is the week before whatever he has, this is what he has going on through either throughout the week or the day. My goal is to have everything here for the entire week. Okay, so anything that he has to do history related going here, anything that has to do with handwriting going here. Yeah, we're going to do for the entire week. Oh, Lord. So these are the different some of these posters I've already had. I already had these. These three, excuse me, the Africa poster world in US map. I've purchased these inspirational through Amazon.com. I really do like this one. Be the change in the world. Be the change you wish to see in the world. And of course, we have Malcolm X here with a great quote education is the passport to the future for Tamara belongs to those who prepare for it today. Awesome, awesome sauce. So I'm going to show you guys a little bit of the other curriculum we have. Again, a lot of it is book led. I'm a reader. I love books. So yeah, 9am every morning. We should be done by noon. Excuse me by noon every day. And look, my expectations are it will be a bit of a struggle, power struggle, honestly, for the first two to three weeks, I'm expecting that. So I got a little child pray for my patience. So I purchased this teachers planner through Amazon.com. It basically allows you to list the subjects going to Crock and the days of the week going to the bottom. As far as record keeping, look, no, I will be using just a spiral notebook and writing down everything that he did for the day and everything in a regular spiral notebook, nothing fancy just writing everything that he did, I will even be tracking his behavior, you know, so this is what our calendar looks like for the academic year I went ahead and put in our quote unquote school closures along with any holidays that we are acknowledging. Sorry, my nose is all of a sudden running. And these are the goals. Second great goals. ELA second great goals map. I got that from teachers pay teachers. I excuse the background. I do apologize. I mapped out a curriculum for history of technology slash science. This is stuff that JB requested. He wanted to know a little bit more about old school technology. So this will be a part of our social studies curriculum. And I've mapped out history curriculum for us using utilizing many of the books that I have in the back here. Oh my god, JB, we will be doing a composer of the month or you know, every two months or so. Look, this is messy. I, I included all of the well known composers into one month, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, you're okay, girl, whatever. And then we're going to be highlighting some black composers. I think that's really important. For you guys, I'm gonna show you it's been a while since I show you cooking, right? So I'm gonna show you what I'm cooking for my husband from lunch today. Look, definitely, I need to clean my stove off. I'm the type of like to keep my stove clean while I'm cooking. Hold on y'all. Definitely with the outbreak, I try to make sure that he has lunch at work. I don't even want him going into the cafeteria, like eat within the lab. They have a break room in the lab. I don't even leave. So zucchini, I don't know, girl, zucchini. Yeah, zucchini that I've chopped up. I'm likely sauteing with some spices. We have corn in the back here and couscous. Now couscous is very easy to make y'all. I'm gonna fall down if you climb up there. You have to excuse the living room. This is his play area. Now JB's is in the class, right? So, so it's a family of three and and there's a and there's a meal. Hey, you guys, we're in the back room. I'm gonna finish this one story for JB. I got put my moisturizer on first, baby. Let me show y'all what I'm going to be using to blow out my hair here in like two more weeks. Like, now I'm hungry pizza. I'm getting hungry. No, pizza. I should be supposed to be doing my hair. That's a miracle. So, y'all, I just got this in the mail from Amazon. This is can't to shave but a thermal shield heat protectant. Less than five bucks. If you don't put that down, I'm gonna pour a butt weapon on you. And some shears. I'm gonna make some phone calls. Both Angel and my sister call me back. Call me today. Nessie Nips. Yeah. She called me. I've been really busy. I just became a influencer. Well, I am an influencer. I became I have a partnership now with Design Extentials. I don't mind telling y'all that. Um person walking. Someone else contacted me. They wanted me to review their products. I can't remember if it was Korea or if it was what is the other one y'all. I can't remember if it was Korea but tentacles are kinky tresses that contacted me. You know what? I've had good relationships with brand owners. Um and one thing I forgot to say in my video snowflakes. One thing I forgot to mention in that video where I was discussing the situation between my yell organics. Excuse me. My yell cuz she took out the organics because she changed the formula on some of her products. I could have been petty and brought that up. I could have been petty and brought up the fact that people had issues with their Black Friday. I could have been petty and brought up the fact that people had issues with their May order and even you know I could have went there and brought up the fact that she had made some excuse me some shady remarks in regards to the main choice Courtney y'all y'all who don't know Courtney started here on YouTube So anyway, this is a expensive base. Got it for $4.99 at the Goodwill. favorable comments in response to I'm saying something in response to Jane Carter products and also Mish Beauty is a brand. They both were very open to the feedback. Um and it charade basically called Juanita products. Her clay washes one of her clay watches trash. I will she she Juanita is cool though. Juanita is the owner of chocolate kinks and curls. Mish Beauty was very over. I was surprised. I wasn't surprised but I was surprised because I was less unfavorable in one of my reviews. Y'all know me. I don't call back and she she's a YouTuber. Also, I forgot her YouTube name but she came under my my video was very, you know, grateful for reviewing it was positive and yeah, that's how you supposed to be. Okay, so y'all let's get into the story time. So let's get into the story time baby about Jasmine who works at the old Wilson Plantation and had the encounter with Quentin, the mysterious man who just so happened to be albino and the interactions he had with Mr. Joe, the old caretaker of the plantation. So I'm gonna put the camera more on him y'all. So quit all that dang all bouncing. I was thinking about the rest of the story. So you ready for it? You ready to hear it? Okay, baby. Things slowly returned to normal and she slowly forgets about the altercation between Mr. Joe and Quentin, right? So one morning as she was getting ready for her first, I think she has like a nine o'clock tour, right? One morning as she was getting ready for her nine o'clock tour, she receives a phone call from her grandmother. And she's like, that's odd. Her grandmother knows that her first tour starts now. So why is she calling her now? So she quickly turns it off and put her phone on silence so that she can go ahead and get to work. So the first tour went well. Everything went great. She had a great crowd. She got some great tips. She's like, Oh, with these tips, I'll be able to go out later on tonight with my friend. So in between her, you know, break, she goes ahead and turn her phone back on. She sees that she now has five missed phone calls from her grandmother. That's very strange, right? Not only did she have five missed phone calls from her grandmother, but she also got one missed phone call from her from her cousin, Monica. So she's like, Okay, what's going on? Not the doll, Monica child. Look, this is my, my thick old Barbie doll, Monica. Her child. Yes, come through a Monica with the pooch. So she's like, I'm the voicemail. On the voice message, her cousin was like, Mina, can you hear me up and call me right away? It's about your it's about on Papa. There's something something happening to him. So she calls. She's like, what happened? You know, she calls her cousin Monica. She's like, what happened? Can you let me know what happened? She's like, girl, we've been trying to call you all day. She's like, you know, I'm at work. So I turned my phone off. She's like, Okay, well, Papa had a stroke. He's in the hospital. She clicks before hearing anything else. She goes outside runs outside. She sees Mr. Joe. Mr. Joseph says that she's where she's Mr. Joe. My grandfather just had a stroke. He's like, Oh, okay, baby, I hope everything goes well. She's like, I'm gonna take off for the rest of the day and I'll I'll give y'all a call and let y'all know she gets into the hospital room. She sees her grandmother there and her poor grandfathers hooked up to all these machines, all these tubes. And she's like, you know, what happened big mama, they call it big mama. They're like, what happened big mama? She's like, Oh, honey, your grandfather was in he was in the he was in the garage going he was in the garage looking for my old pressure cooker. I was wanting to make this make these pot of um of beans and the pressure cooker. And all of a sudden, I heard a crash and when I'm like, yeah, he was on the floor. She's like, Oh my god, big mama. And so she holds her mama's her grandmother's hand. And then that's when her big mama tell her she's like, Well, baby, can you stop by the house and make sure that everything's turned off? I'm gonna stay with um I'm gonna say with your cousin Monica for the night and for probably the next night. So Mina says sure. So she she already still had a set of keys because she's still live with her grandparents right? She's still she still has a set of keys. So this is where it gets good. Are you listening? Yeah. So Mina decides to drive back to her grandparents house which is only about 10 minutes away. So when she arrives there, you know, she makes sure you know, she opened up the door her grandmother did remember to lock the door. But when she goes in, she see the kitchen is in a disarray and she sees there's a the door leading out to the garage is in the kitchen. It's slightly a door. So she goes in there. She proceeds to turn up the lights. She goes in to turn up them. No, these are these are black people. I don't know that but that's why she's investigating. She investigated. She turned the stuff off to get the house ready for her grandmother returning a couple more days. So anyway, Mina is in the garage. She sees where her grandfather possibly have fallen. There's a box with a bunch of old photos that have stills out. So she starts organizing the photos and then she sees one photo that catches her eye. She looks in the photo is a group of old man. It looks very old like early 1900s. But then one man catches her eye and she looks at him and it's the albino man quitting in the photo. But she's like, everything looks old. I mean, it looks like early 1900s house is possible. So she flips the card over. Excuse me. She flips the photo over. And it has the date 1908. And then the initials underneath the date n o a. And she's like n o a. She's like, how is this possible? The band that she saw quitting couldn't be no more than 30 years old. But yet there's someone on this picture looks like it looks just like him from 1908. So she she stuffs the rest of she stuffs the rest of the photos in the box, takes a photo, the old photo with her and quickly turns off the light shuts everything off. Make sure that you know, this special effects that that stopped child. So her grandmother is very distraught. She eventually makes her way back to the house. So one Sunday while they're all together, Mina decides to ask her grandmother about the photo. So she's like, big mama, I found this old photo in the garage. Can you tell me about it? Do you? Do you know what it means? So her grandmother looks at the photo and Mina could see that a very concerned look on her face. She's like, Mina, where did you get this photo from? She's like, I saw it in the garage where, you know, you know, where Papa all had failed. So do you know what it is? She's like, No, I don't I don't know what it is. She said, you know, I don't know what it is. You don't worry about it is nothing. I don't know what it is. Mina thought that was kind of odd. She was pretty sure her grandmother was lying and she doesn't know why her grandmother would lie to her because from what she knows, her grandmother has never lied to her. So why would she lie to her about this old photo? So she didn't think anything of it. She didn't think anything of it. She put the photo back in her pocket. They continue on the rest of the evening like everything was normal. And so Mina decided to spend the night over her grandmother's house. And she goes to bed. As she's sleeping, she hears some noises. She's like, What is that noise? She sees noises. She looks at the window and she sees something that looks like fire. She's like, What is going on? Why is there a fire? So she gets out of bed because she's concerned. So Mina opens up the curtain. She pulls back the curtains, which leaves and she goes, I don't mean no sound effects sound effects. She pulls back the curtains to where she can see the backyard. And there is her grandmother standing in the backyard tossing old photos and papers into a fire. So Mina goes out into the garage in the backyard. She's like, Big Mama, what are you doing? She her grandmother is startled. She turns around. She's like, Oh baby, I thought you were sleeping. She's like, What are you doing? Why are you burning all the Papa House stuff? She's like, this is stuff that he really shouldn't be looking at anyone anymore. This just brings back so many bad memories. She's like, What type of bad memory? She's like, Baby, it's stuff that we don't want bring up anymore. We just don't want to discuss it. Maybe one day I will, but right now it's not the time. So she's like, Why is everyone keeping secrets from me? This is what Mina is thinking. So she lets she lets it go. She lets it slide. She allows her grandmother to continue burning all these old photos and documents or whatever. And so as she's heading back into the house, she sees all the boxes that her grandmother is preparing to burn. She decides to steal. Well, I still, it's a hard word. She decides to take a few more pictures that she saw and documents and she runs back into her room. She hides stuff and she decides to steal. Okay. She's decides to steal. Okay. So she runs back into her room and she hides the stuff that she took. Child, her grandfather made a miraculous miraculous this recovery. The doctors can't explain it. He returns home after two weeks of being in the hospital and a week after being in an induced coma and he's well now. He has a hard time walking assistance of a walker. Excuse me. He's a little slow at things and so Mina decides to hire a caregiver to help her grandmother and grandfather on the days that she's not available. That's it for now. You good? No. So she's again, she decides to use her good tips. Remember she got all these tips up from the other day at her job and so now she's gonna go hang out with her friend Courtney at the local at the local bar and but Mina doesn't drink. Okay. But her friend Courtney. Oh yes. So anyway, give me the beer. Give me the wine. Oh god. So anyway, an hour into it, guess who walks through the door. The mystery man, Quinton, walked through the door. This time Mina is not gonna hold back. She excuses herself from Courtney. She goes outside because she's pretty sure she left that old photo. She goes through her car looking for her. She doesn't have it. She left it at home. So she decides to approach Quinton. She's like, hey, um, I don't know if you remember me. He's like, of course I remember you. She kind of, she kind of, it was a little flirtation. So he's like, what are you drinking? Let me buy you a drink. She's like, I don't drink. So you can get me an iced tea. So he's like, okay, iced tea it is. They give her, he orders her iced tea. They sit down. And so she's like, you know what? After you had love, I noticed that Mr. Joe was very upset. You know, I know it's none of my business but I've just never seen him that upset before. And that's when Quinton kind of smirked at her. He's like, what? He's like, you know what? I'm sorry that that happened. Sorry y'all. He basically, I'm sorry that that happened but I was asking him questions about the old well. She's like, hmm, okay. And so Mina then took it upon herself to ask him questions and she's basically was like, so are you from around here? Because I've never seen you before. He's like, no, I'm not but my family's from here. And you know, he was born up in Chicago. She's like, oh, okay. She's like, so your grandparents were from here? He's like, yeah, my grandparents are from here. So she's like, so what do you do? He's like, I thought I told you before that I work in, I work in the history department. I'm a professor at the college outside of town. She's like, oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. She's like, you know what? I'm sorry. I'm a little bit I'm a little bit out of the place. My grandfather is recovering from a stroke. He's like, oh, I'm sorry to hear about that. She's like, yeah, it's been it's been challenging but we got him some help at home and he's made a full recovery and I think he's going to be fine. She said, but you know what? I did find while I was in my grandparents' garage, I found a bunch of old photos and in one of them there was a man that resembled you, Quentin's eyes. That's the thumbnail. Quentin's eyes kind of deepened when she said that. He said, oh yeah? She's like, yeah. I mean the man looked just like you. She's like, if I believe in time travel I would say that was you. Hold on, baby. She said, well then I flipped over the photo and it had the date 1908 and the initials in OA. He's like, well the man in that photo was my great-grandfather. If it wasn't about my great-grandfather it wasn't about no man. She's like, wow, y'all look interesting. Does she know it's actually him? Jazzy knows it's not. She looks over at the bar and see her friend Courtney is really throwing back drinks shaw. So that's when she tells Quentin, you know what? This has been nice. Thank you for answering some of my questions, but I got to go back to my friend because I came here with my friend Courtney. Quentin was like, you know what? That's cool. It was nice talking to you and I'm really sorry to hear about your grandfather, but it's good to know that he's doing well. He's like, you know what? I would like to get your number and maybe we could do this again sometime. So she kind of looked at him like, that's cool. You know, typically she'd give me a different number, but she decided to give Quentin her real number because she was really curious about that photo in her grandfather's garage. If that was the trauma, the traumatic event that made him have a stroke. So she gave him her number and she walked over to her friend Courtney and her friend Courtney turns around. She's like, girl, I didn't know you like them like bright. She's like, girl, whatever. The girl, this is someone I saw at my tour. It's really not like that. She's like, the way y'all were talking, it seems like you met him more than once. She's like, well, yeah, that's like the third or fourth time I've seen him around, but it's nothing like that. She's like, oh, okay. So she ends, you know, the night with her friend Courtney. She's like, girl, we have to do this, you know, I don't understand you taking classes, you know, big live student, you know, you working at that slave plantation, but we gotta do this again more often. The next morning she has to work like she normally does when she gets to work. There are cop cars at the plantation. She is like, what is it now? Cop cars all at the plantation. They get there. Yeah, they get there. Mr. Joe is there. There's an ambulance there, Mina thinks to herself, what is going on now? That's it for part two.