 Guess what guys Brian got me tea kettle, and it's beautiful. I should oh, I should hold two hands So I don't break this one all over the kitchen floor as well, but this means I can have tea again I just realized that my shorts match like my walls and the rest of my house Maybe I should get more color variation in my life. I'm not sure Oh, yes, I'm also using a fork to stir my tea because I'm a classy lady I've spent the last 24 hours laid out on the couch just feeling terrible not throwing up but almost throwing up Just riddled with body aches. I'm not sure if I had the flu or if I was just feeling terrible, but in case About an hour and a half ago. I started feeling magically better So maybe airborne like my husband swears by actually works. Well, hello there here I am looking fabulous and not without color and washed out pretty sure I have a flu sitting there thinking why does my body ache everywhere increasingly for no reason and do I feel like throwing up unlike I can get congested and can't think straight and oh Brian had the flu a couple days ago Perhaps I am coming down with that superior mind powers. Just kidding guys so I've been trying to listen to my body and Do what it's telling me to do which is lay the hell down and not move Oh, so I've been doing that all day accomplishing a lot Nothing taking airborne. I don't know. Do you guys ever take this? My husband literally like swears by it He makes me promise that I will take it every few hours I don't know if it's like witchcraft or just a sugar pill, but He says it makes you get better a lot faster or not get sick. So Fingers crossed. I thought I would share with you guys these little notes again This is not sponsored even remotely, but I got these for my cousin Erin she sent them to me shortly after I had surgery and You can order them online and send them to people who are sick or having surgery And I think it's a super sweet present and they're like 30 bucks They come in all different colors and I'll show you exactly what they are because I thought I would open one today And then I'm gonna lay back down because sitting up to talk to the camera It's a little too much. So If you open up the jar all different kinds of little notes inside So what I'm gonna do is reach down and pick one out and see what wisdom it has to share with us today So then they come in these tiny adorable little envelopes when life puts you in a tough situations Don't say why me say try me. I like that I want to put that up somewhere and they're all kind of stuff like that You can actually write your own notes on them or you can go with like pre-written ones Or you can kind of do a mix of the two I'll put a link to what these are in the description And then let me know what you guys do when you feel yourself getting super sick and what I'm gonna do is Drink airborne lay down and watch homeland. Hey, everybody. It is Saturday a day later now I feel a little less like a death. I did spend the morning on the couch and then suddenly out of nowhere I felt a million percent better. So was that the 24-hour flu or Something random. I don't own it. So I had a lot of requests for a full video on little Bridget So I thought I would do a little further introducing her to you. Come here girl. So this is I just opened her cage door And she's thinking about coming out. She's not sure I just woke up in the middle of the day rats are actually nocturnal creatures Here she comes and so when I come up here in the afternoon or before it's dark They usually take a moment to actually like warm up and wake up but because I've been coming up at like three o'clock every day they've been Waiting for me because they kind of get used to your schedule. So they are super sweet I'll just reiterate the fact that they make amazing little pets. Well, don't eat my liner. By the way, does everybody love my puppy paw extra-large adult hospital socks They've got stickies on both sides to make sure you don't fall I think attractive is the word that comes to mind when I think of these socks. What do you think? I was explaining someone in the comment section the other day. He asked me if like do rats bite I've actually never had a rat that bit me and I've had over ten rats over the course of many years. I started off because I saw two Really like abnormally large rats crammed in a tiny little cage pet store and it like broke my heart I couldn't stand seeing them like that. They looked really unhappy And so I asked Brian if I could bring them home. I knew that he hated rats So this should be like a point in his favor for everybody because he'd actually told me at one point I know that you love animals like always bring home whenever you want. Just please please never bring home rats They gross me out and I saw these little guys and I was like, I can't just leave them And so I called him and he was like, okay fine. Oh go for it, you know And so I brought them home their names were honey and Sarah and Someone had just like left them like just dropped them off at the pet store And so ever since then I've always had rats because you're supposed to keep them in pairs of two And he may be wondering then why does Bridget live alone? She did have a friend our friend was named Betsy and actually died a couple months ago and ever since then I tried to get her a friend who actually ended up being Esme who was down the cage back there And she just attacked her like badly and I've introduced rats for years you know like I've always had two or three to time and It just didn't work out and I tried another one which ended up being Delilah D That you see back there as well and that didn't work out either So Esme indeed became cage mates and then Bridget got her own cage and is happy being alone She's super cuddly I take her out every day with me so that she gets interaction, but I got Bridget from my sister-in-law actually my sister-in-law had rat babies unexpectedly and so she suddenly instead of having two rats She had like 20 and brought one down and that little Bridget Bridget was probably a quarter of this size when I got her She brought her down from Wyoming for me and I raised her from a tiny little baby Rats are super easy to raise you just have to handle them a lot You know feed them take care of them love them and they became they become lifelong little pets Unfortunately, they only live like two or three years if you feed them really well and take really good care of them so it's kind of heartbreaking to have them as pets because they pass away a lot but Like I said, I always end up just bringing more and more home Because I see them at the pet store and they always look really sad And I know that snakes are gonna be fed them if I don't bring them home And so my heart always ends up breaking and I end up bringing home more pets That's why we have too many animals in this house And I don't even have my three dogs home right now soon hopefully soon really soon we're bringing them home So that's a little more about little Bridget. She is super curious She'll go around all the corners of the room and see like what there is to steal that day and bring back To her cage. That's her food bag that she's currently trying to break into Bridget Bridget. Thank you And that's her cage. So I get them pretty big cages. I like giving them space to go home to Go back home Not yet So Brian decided this year that we were gonna do Christmas cards and I'm a terrible person. I don't do Christmas cards. I like receiving Christmas cards. I just never really write them. So we are Doing them this year and We have two options and I agreed to not write the cards but to address all of the envelopes So that is what I'm gonna be doing this year this afternoon. This is card option one here We have card option two. I don't know I'd say Brian does a pretty awesome job of picking out cards What do you think? Oh Don't don't don't. Nope. This is my copy. Don't worry. I won't let her eat your coffee This is a good good time to announce the winners of the book Not competition the book drawing So I did a video earlier this week. Don't eat these. Don't Bridget's trying to eat these. I just can't be good for rats. For this book We did a Entry all you had to do is enter five things that you think are happy things that make you smile So this book is 14,000 things to be happy about you can find on Amazon for I think it's like 10 or 15 bucks I'll post a link in the description But the winner of this book is drum roll, please if my editing skills are on point the winner should appear in this little window right here If not you all can laugh at me Congratulations, it's simply L I'll get ahold of you and make sure that I get this book to you the five things that she found happy are knitting mini Lego figures coffee Starbucks collector mugs I'm sensing a pattern here and pour over coffee and grinding said coffee for said pour over That's awesome. And those things brought me joy and reading all of your things brought me joy Don't eat my ears or my earrings Bridget So thank you guys for entering. I'm looking I would love to do a book giveaway again in the future sometime If that's something you guys are interested in leave me a message in the comments to let me know Yeah, and if you would like more pet centric videos Let me and Bridget know you're on camera Bridget. You're a star but here are a few of my things to be happy about just random little sketches like rat noses in the way rats hold their paws and new mugs and hot coffee candy canes Colors bows things like that. I'm gonna keep filling in this page but that book really got me thinking and Just want to kind of focus on being more present in the things that I'm happy about and grateful for And those can be just kind of like the simplest most ridiculous little things like a lit candle So that is what I am working on Let me know some of the things that you guys are journaling or drawing into comment section below