 just Monday and normally I don't start my vlogging on Monday but I want to come on and just share something with y'all. She doesn't have that many subscribers at all still. So every now and then as a content creator I search myself to make sure no one's look no one's using my information inappropriately to see basically to see what's out there and it's a good thing to do if you have a blog if you're you know a youtuber you know aka content creator whatever so y'all give you a little flash. So anyway I did a search for my maiden name and I totally forgot that I attended another youtubers meetup a couple of years ago and so my maiden name came up and it was posted on Estus and I was like wow I totally forgot about her. Now her name is I don't think she's here anymore I think she moved to Dallas. Her name is Adessa Tula and she was able to grab Essence attention. She's a small-time youtuber of 5,000 subscribers and have them to list her photos on the page but anyway this brings me to just the fact that here in Phoenix because the demographics are not there and we're so spread out we don't have turnouts for meetups for natural hair or anything like that I am actually in a natural hair meetup group on meetup and it shut down this year because no one had the initiative to pick it up and I know a lot of people have reached out to me and said well maybe you should have me I'm looking the wrong way. No baby I would not for several reasons one we don't have the demographics to I wouldn't be able to get free products because again we don't have the demographics and three people don't show up there's no way to communicate with other black people out here there's no foundation of a black community out here as opposed to other places like St. Louis Houston Dallas Georgia Atlanta we don't have that here y'all I've been here for 12 years and you'll be surprised who actually lives there are some top youtubers and content creators that live out here who do not work together to do stuff. Ambrosia is out here ex golden eggs oh yeah she's out here muffins is my lover is out here what is her name she's from New York she's out here there's two other youtubers one young lady she has very high cheekbones I want to call their fat cheekbones very high cheekbones she's light-skinned she does makeup she beats the hell out her face she does makeup and she does hair I know I just described like a thousand youtubers she's out here and I know my friend Dee has reached out to certain people not gonna name any names and they completely ignore her which is why she's had to fly out it doesn't make any freaking sense that you have to fly out Shari J or Tamika aka the curl whisperer when we have well-known vloggers and bloggers here in the state in the city 30 minutes away that don't want to show up I haven't feeling that's hot it is in a lot of other places too but you were thinking a place like Phoenix where there's only 6% black people that we would try to get together so this is how things can get out of hand real fast real quick now as you can see this is a lot more products than what I had showed y'all in my current haircare collection that video was only a month old but I already have about 10 between 10 to 15 more products I will show y'all what's coming up cuz I'm like that I'm one of those type of youtubers I know a lot of people want to be secretive and boom here's a review but I like to let y'all know what's coming up that way you can give me feedback now one thing I did want to say is that where's how the Hollywood would beauty cholesterol are down there they were going to sue me some more products they said I'm not gonna review those Lord have mercy so let's just start here I purchase chocolate kinks and curls her co-wash these me clay wash has some great reviews on that this is still coming this is we're about a month behind on this deep conditioner here and then the texture ID now they have been having great sales I stopped by a couple of weeks ago purchase the mask and the styling cream but then I stopped by today with intentions on getting the Egyptian what is that y'all the clothe line by the main choice but girl I just didn't feel like spending $40 almost $40 on three products instead texture ID had a sale it was by one get 150% off I got these two foot for $13 so here we have a moose and then we have a leave-in spray I don't like this camera okay they being stopped complaining at least you have alright y'all it's Tuesday I'm going blank y'all so anyway it's Tuesday look I've been stalking one of my packages I ordered a dress I think I told y'all ass now to address him ASOS is here in Phoenix it's so weird like I guess they didn't update the tracking from Spain to here but it's here in Phoenix I should get it today I'll show you what it looks like it is bad it is a blush not pink it's a color blush very very different the cut as bad I'm gonna be wearing this dress at the banquet for my 20-year high school year I'm not that's going on y'all my husband is off today I'm gonna be cooking let me tell you what I'm cooking girl glad you ask I'm gonna be making I'm marinating some chicken right now it's been in the fridge all this time all right y'all I'm gonna go check my mail because I knew my glasses are dark I knew I was going to get my dress from my high school you yeah girl speaking of child I am a I wouldn't consider myself a type a but I want those type of people who are aware I really don't like change if I have things already planned ready to go you can't spring stuff on me so my husband decides that he wants to go for now to Texas my new he's been knowing all this time that I've been planning this trip so he tells me and y'all my husband oh this dress looks big as hell y'all yeah I'm animated so it says UK size 16 but this is not a 16 I can tell look at that look at that bag that's not a 16 because I ordered a 12 this is supposed to be a 12 look at my dress y'all I'm gonna I'm gonna try I'm gonna try it on for you guys but look at that cut I'm gonna try it on here in a minute but they're all let me tell you so my husband is a man a very little word so when he speaks I listen so earlier today he's like so yeah I was looking at those dates you were talking about and come to find out I'm off that weekend so I figured why not take two more days off and just go with you got happy and I'm a little bit like perturbed that you said because absolutely I'm happy for my husband for us we traveling as a family because he gets to help me with JV my classmates get to see him I get this you know we think of our family because he has family in Dallas to you guys but what was like what the hell because I had everything already planned the first two days I was gonna say my best friend we were gonna get turned up at her place and then while I'm in Longview shout out to 903 Tyler Texas Marshall let me shut up while I was in Longview I was gonna stay in my sister's hotel she works at a hotel there off of essence Parkway and I was gonna stay there and she was gonna come over we won't get turned up some more I can't do that with my husband around right now even when it comes to something as simple as I might my rental car he said okay what type of what type of rental car you got I said just got a regular compact shake me say something my husband is bougie you guys I wouldn't even call it necessarily bougie he's not one of those type of people who wear you know let's let's do a Uber was how you say a Uber let's do an Uber from that from the airport no girl he's like no we need to rent a SUV intermediate size no I'm gonna call it with it is he's a little bougie so I told him about the hotel I said well we're gonna be staying at this hotel my sister works there we can get a discount he said no are there any Hilton's there I'm like this oh she is cute let me show you excuse the mirror excuse Jamie this is very cute very very cute I got this from ASOS very nice I think this goes up like this and this goes up like this sort of kind of the effect I thought that I would have to lose weight for this but I don't think so and I thought the fabric is a little thick I mean the thing is gonna be in September they banquet I should take me except this job is ridiculous it's gonna be in September but the fabric is funny it's like a you know the fabric almost like the fabric of biker uniform I know it's weird so yeah you guys this is what it looks like these are the shoes you do y'all remember these shoes hold on I'm gonna show some girls I'm gonna be wearing these shoes do you remember these oh it might well now I don't want my husband had to kind of match up so I will probably find him like a blush pink or gray we're like gray and then like a pink and gray tie so we can match this would be very cute very very cute very nice so yes man it's like I want to go with y'all which is fine like I said so I went ahead and upgraded our vehicle to an SUV which really wasn't it was only $50 more so that was okay and I booked us another hotel and Longview but now we're looking for a hotel in Dallas I told him we should probably stay in girl and which you know is on our way to Longview which would be good we've said a lot of hotels but baby one hotel I saw and we've stayed here before this started doing renovations that Anna told off of steamers freeway those of you who you know familiar Dallas you know what I'm talking about that hotel it's bad now I hadn't seen what it looked like since they've done the renovations it is beautiful yeah it's been a crazy type of it we're in the middle of the summertime here and it's kind of slow but not really really so it's been a little crazy lately at work a little slow but then we get you know spikes the busyness so um yeah y'all still waiting on my camera to come back it should be here on Thursday hell still waiting my camera to get here it should be here on Thursday and um I did call a you fix it I did call you fix it or I fix it they don't fix anything the only other place that fixes the cameras the canon camera I don't even know if it's canon the problem is they don't make this camera anymore so they don't have any parts for it that's why canon was like we can replace it the only parts I've been able to find have been um international sites I can't tell me there's no god y'all heard me complaining about this volunteering thing how I haven't had any um training y'all y'all y'all I I've told them that I've had I have other volunteer um another volunteer opportunity and I'll let you know what my schedule is now mine you there have been three separate people emailing me all these times and I feel like no one is talking to the other person so yesterday I checked my email from the main lady who does the coordination and she has been going to schedule for July 7th or 8th for volunteer training I didn't say anything I'm gonna go ahead and do it y'all I'm like okay a y'all heard me I'm being complaining all this time by not getting any training is unorganized and out of the blue they put me on a schedule to actual do some training so I'm gonna do it I'm going to do that and I will also be waiting on more information from the library and I'm going to volunteer there too so y'all keep myself busy I hell I'm already busy I'm about to get drunk too here is my honey siriachi chicken thigh set a couple of pieces is going to be Cajun style girl hey is what it is some cilantro lime rice this is the bomb.com I may do a separate video on this one day sweet potato puree and of course gotta have your greens this is kale and collard greens they have time shares too they have a time sharing so don't I think y'all girl her is looking big big um y'all I have to give my husband props um I know I don't talk about him that much on my channel because it's just something I like to give a little private but I have a great man um we had some issues while we you know we did a little split up right there a couple of years ago but even then he has always been a provider that is one thing that I never have to complain about when my husband asked me that I never put him on child support there was never even thought as if anything I know about this man is that he is good about his money very blessed because I know some women don't have that anyway so this morning he tells me he's like we could go ahead and say at that hotel that you like I'm like for real he's like yeah we can go ahead and reserve it hey man so I guess he saw my my uh response because they've done renovations y'all my hair is really looking messy they've done renovations there we've stayed there before but not at this level drop off JB at summer camp and while we were there we saw all his little friends and y'all I study JB or I'll watch his interactions with children um I think as a parent one of the things that we are responsible for not only teaching our children but making sure that our children are prepared for the world because we're not going to be there all the time so I was speaking to some of the mothers and letting them know about because they were asking about the summer school this particular school had two weeks of summer boot camp I'm like JB doesn't need two weeks we'll do one week we're good so we saw a lot of his friends including Thomas across the street there because this week is the second week and I felt a little bad because you know he's going over to the summer camp and there's not a lot of kids his age in that summer camp um I think there's less than five kids his age and they can hold up to 25 people right so uh I dropped him off but then I stayed behind through the windows he couldn't see me just to see him interact with other children because again he's one of the youngest ones there I think there's him and another little boy that are five and six years old maybe two or three not a lot so I'm seeing him interacting and he's trying to get a ball from another child because I planned a three kids playing with two balls so JB's trying to get another ball so JB is in front trying to get it and there's another little boy he looks to be about eight or nine years old another little boy behind him and he eventually he's trying to get JB shoulder he's tugging his shoulder and eventually he pulls JB away and he gets the ball and look at my mama bear reflexes poked in but I'm looking he the child wasn't rough at all but still I'm I'm the mom and I'm looking and it's like you need to get your hands off my child right but no I'm looking and JB looks at him he's like JB makes his face he's animated girl don't know where he got that from right so JB looks at him he's like he's like he walks so he walked away from the situation instead of just keeping at it he figured hey this kid doesn't want me to get his damn ball I ain't gonna try to get him on walk away so he walked away and I steadily just watch him enter act again he's a little bit older children and he look like he can hold his on so I'm proud of my boy he's he's he's good you know maybe some other kids probably wouldn't have been able to deal with that but he knows how to gauge a situation and leave and I like that about JB um he also comes home and tells me because I know that they're not playing with him because they're a lot older some of the kids do but they're older maybe you came as a baby technically so I'm like well how does that make you feel he's like oh I'm okay he's I'm fine sometimes I'm sad but I'm fine that's good y'all one thing that I do with JB is I pour into my child I pour into him meaning that I speak words of encouragement this week when I dropped him off when he had made the comment that no one was playing with him I let him know you are brave you are courageous you are smart God loves you mama loves you that's our little morning thing that I do to pump him back up sometimes where I could tell that his you know he's feeling a little down and he was like he's like okay mama so he'll he'll be good y'all so yeah y'all nothing much going on today look today is technically the start of my wash day I have began breaking up my from the time I detangle wash style my hair it's three to four days I don't have time to detangle wash set my hair in one day it will literally take half a day like I'm not even exaggerating it takes me I can get through a quick detangling session is an hour I got me a new wooden comb um that I ordered from amazon so still it'll take me about an hour especially now this is what I'm working with in the back yeah it's starting to rope up you see some areas some areas are starting to dread up so I get my camera tomorrow if I get the camera before five I will be reviewing two products if not it is what it is and then um what is it I may have to blow out my hair oh because I'm going to that brunch on Saturday and I need for my hair to set on on Friday so I'm more than likely I'm going to have to blow out my hair tomorrow after I wash it and then set it Friday morning before to be ready I'm not doing a hairstyle because if my camera's not together yeah anyway y'all