 I look for a mixer, JV. Come on. Look, there's toaster. Toaster? And are you going to eat waffles with your toaster? Yeah. No, where are they yet? Sorry. Come on. Let's go down here. Come on. Get, get, get, get. Oh, toaster. Here's a toaster. We just need a basic toaster. There you go. Now I need a mixer. Yeah, I got to find another. Yo, I thought I found another. Oh, look, JV. Yo, I got to get another hand mixer. I just need a basic mixer. OK, baby. She said as soon as she's done with her homework, y'all can play. OK. What do you see? It's big old city. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I see the city. Those are landscapes. Those are skyscrapers. Cookie's almost done, baby, OK? JV is helping my niece do her homework. It's so cute. She's in first grade, and y'all know he's in between first and second grade, let's just be real. It's so adorable, though, because she's. She's like, you're my best cousin ever. I'm like, girl, I'm your only cousin. Good morning, good morning, good morning, you guys. It's Friday. It's Friday. And I'm ready to swing. Girl, I got on this little house with the peribonic. Excuse the noise, y'all, bus went by. It's Friday. It is the week before Thanksgiving. Missing my fluffy ass down here. What on, girl? I'm not too, too, too fluffy because I am back at my pre-coronavirus weight. Yes. And I did it by really just limiting the number of calories I eat, y'all. I was on a basically, I did not go over 1,400 calories a day. No snacking, no eating after, eating late, limiting my sweets or really cutting down on my sweets. Yeah, so I'm back in the 160s because, girl, I was going up, getting close to 180, and that's too much weight on my frame and so forth. So anyway, y'all, it's Friday. Friday. And I have a doctor's appointment this morning. I'm this close to canceling it. But it's my well-women's exam. And that is very important, especially for us as women of color because we are at a higher risk for ovarian cancer, breast cancer, et cetera. Now, this is just my well-women's exam. I'm going to postpone the mammogram. Fill up my titties, Nick. I'm so sorry, y'all. I'm gonna postpone my mammogram to next year because hell, it's November, you know? So I'll postpone that to next year. I'm hoping, you know what? No, I won't because I'm not sure, like if the OBGYN writes me an order for this year, I have to do it for this year. That's what I'm assuming. So I'll do the mammogram this year. No problem. JB is in there playing his little game. Let me sit down in the bed, y'all. My skin looks good. I did a facial this morning. Really took the time to wash my face, use my, you know, I exfoliated, I did everything. I basically did a face show. I need to order a little bit more of my lactic acid and some of the other stuff. Yeah, it looks really, really good. I'll order that. Girl, we gotta order these damn Christmas presents. He ain't getting nothing. I got all of these Christmas presents, y'all. Have y'all started ordering your Christmas presents for your children? For your children? So, girl, I put everything in an Amazon cart. Aw, look at this hummingbird. Anyway, y'all, I put everything in an Amazon list or I made an Amazon list like months ago, right? And so we spend money on our baby. He's our only child and it's been a rough year. So we legit are probably gonna spend close to $300 on Christmas presents for him. And JB's birthday is literally two weeks later, but for his birthday, he gets one thing. He wants a Game Boy. I'm like, what year are you in? Y'all know JB old school, so he's gonna get a retro Game Boy I found on a site and that's it for his birthday. So, what's the point? So, yeah, I have, I'm gonna order all of his Christmas presents actually next week and y'all, I can't wrap Christmas presents for sh. I remember, who was that? They used to wrap your presents for you. Was that Macy's or JC Penney's? Do they still offer that service, y'all? My one homegirl said that she would help me wrap them. That was last year when I told her, I said, girl, I'll be wrapping these Christmas presents like he ordered five pounds of catfish, like literally. And one time I didn't even wrap like the last two presents I think it was like when he was, when he was five years old, I'd gotten down to the last two presents. I put a bow on top. I'm not wrapping up no backpack. I'm not doing your Peppa Pig backpack to get a bow on top and that'll be it. So I'm not good at wrapping presents. I'm a crafty heifer, but I am not good at wrapping presents. Even when I try to take my time, I'm not good. So anyway, y'all, what are y'all making for Thanksgiving? So I really have not been, like I said, my appetite has been off the charts. So I really have not been in the mood to, oh, what am I gonna make for Thanksgiving? So we're gonna do traditional Thanksgiving now. I don't like turkey. My husband doesn't like turkey. Don't eat pork. And we eat beef, but the type of beef I like, he doesn't like. So that's out of the question. So girl, we're gonna be doing the same one. Same one, oh hell, I just realized. Oh, no, no, no, okay. So we're gonna be doing chicken and dressing. That's traditional chicken and dressing, green beans, um, fried corn. I may do some mashed potatoes. I rarely make mashed potatoes. Now I make potatoes, but I typically roast them. I may make mashed potatoes cornish hen. Now I'm gonna do roasted cornish hen, but a part of me wants to fry those little damn. And I have a pot big enough to fry them too. I wanna fry them, you guys. I really do. Last year I think I made my husband's traditional food. Did I do that for Thanksgiving or for Christmas, y'all? I don't remember. And that took a long time because the prep was forever, girl. So yeah, so roasted hen, we ain't gonna fry them. Roasted hen, chicken and dressing, green beans, mashed potatoes, fried corn. Oh, but girl, this man walks in our neighborhood. I saw y'all this, because my window is halfway open. He walks, you remember how in the color purple, how Sophia was walking up to talk to Whoopi Goldberg about her telling what's the name to beat her? That's how he walks with his dog. Like he's gonna go see, you know, chow. Anyway, so anyway, I'm sorry, y'all. For dessert, baby. Oh yes, ma'am. So I made this cake a couple of years ago and I made one for us and then I made one for my husband and his job, but I spiked their cake. I put rum in it. So this is a, what do you call it? A caramel, well, a brown sugar pancake. And what I do is I combine the recipe from Divas Can Cook and Cookin' with Curlin. I combine both of the recipes. Now if you're not a baker, don't do that. Girl, don't do it. So I combine the recipes, I do a spin on it and it is so good. It's basically a brown sugar pound cake made with toffee and pecans with caramel sauce. Now I don't put toffee in it because that's just too rich, but I do use pecans. And I'm trying to think whether or not I want to put that in the batter. I'm gonna have to look at Cookin's with Carolyn recipe again and see how she does her batter. Oh yeah, let me stop rambling. Let me go eat my oatmeal before I go to my doctor's appointment. Look at my baby, y'all. Look at my baby in his school picture. I think he was five here. Y'all, my nails are coming off again. I'll have to do another set here. So yeah, y'all, that is it. I put my hair in loose two strand twists. Do y'all want to see them? They're a little messy. I'm gonna style them today. I'm gonna style my hair today in an updo. But loose two strand twists almost looks like after a week or so they start to look like log. Hey you guys, I am out of my doctor's appointment. Girl, it's hot here now. My car is reading 100 degrees inside. That's inside. I don't know what the temperature is outside. So I don't need to hurry up and get home because I have a meeting now and within an hour. They put me at, I don't know what number, I don't know what it's called, but excuse me. The doctor was basically like, yeah, I'm looking at your percentile baromet. I don't know, girl. She said you're at 19% and high risk is considered 20. So I definitely have to go get a, you know, I've been getting mammograms since I was 32, but she said after a while I'll need to get something else, an MRI. I'm gonna go, okay? But based on, you know, what I was telling her about my cycles, she has scheduled an ultrasound to look for fibroids. Y'all, hopefully I don't have any fibroids. I wouldn't be surprised if I did be quite honest. I've had two surgeries to remove a cyst and one of them ended up in a miscarriage. It was horrible, but God is good because four minutes, four months later I found I was pregnant with JB. So y'all, let me go ahead and head home. I really wanna stop by and get some to eat, but I've been eating out so much. I have no idea how I've lost this weight with as much as I've been eating out. So I'm just gonna go home and eat some leftovers there and I'll talk to y'all in a couple more days, okay? I'm lost again. I'm in a back room, by together my Thanksgiving menu together, I have all this nail stuff in front of me. Look, my nails are horrible. I had everything out yesterday trying to figure out what colors I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do all new fall colors. Look, I said, oh, I only need, before I started getting everything, I told myself, oh, I only need like five or six gel polishes. Girl, a couple months later, yeah, I have about 20 gel polishes. Now, some of this stuff was sent to me. So, girl, like four. And then I got gifts, I think. Anyway, y'all, so yeah, I'm writing down my Thanksgiving menu. My husband is off the day before Thanksgiving, so we're gonna celebrate a little bit early. I don't need to write down what I'm gonna be doing. States Command is Thursday. It's always fall on Thursday and so he's off tomorrow, which is Wednesday. So today, which is Tuesday, I need to prepare the cornbread, bra, oh, I could do the bra tomorrow. I could technically do the cornbread and make the cake because I don't want the oven on all day, even though it's cold here. So let me just write down, I'll write down in a second, but what I'm just gonna tell y'all. Child Miss Lori came by yesterday to get her turkey. I wasn't even here. I had taken JB to the park, our neighborhood park, and he went into someone he knew. So we stayed there for a while. He chit-chatted with someone, with his friend. I let him play for a while. Besides that, y'all, it's, of course, the week of Thanksgiving, but it's busy at work, which is good. I'm okay with it being busy right now because it's not like anything out of the extraordinary. So I'm maybe able to work and still do Thanksgiving stuff and not feel like it's overwhelming. You know what I mean? So it's okay. It is what it is. All right, y'all, let's try out some buttermilk pancakes. So that's what we're gonna do, make some pancakes. Do you know what the word tangible means? Yeah. Let's think about stuff that's not so tangible. This is tangible. Many of you can see it, you can feel it. But something that we may be thankful for that you can't really be thankful for peace of mind, that's the only thing that you're thankful for. And we went somewhere. Okay. So why don't you put vacation? You're thankful for family time. I gave them up. You have to write it, no drawing. If you have trouble with the spelling, that's okay. I promised him, if he was a good boy this morning, I'll take him to the Krispy Kreme. He ain't been a good boy, but whatever, girl. So this morning, you know, I check my emails, y'all. And it's been really crazy at work, but hey, it is what it is. So I'm checking my junkie mail and I'm saying Google payment, Google payment, Google payment, now this is 25th. We typically get paid on the 21st. So I'm like, okay, this is Google's messing up. You know, these are spam mails or it's an accident. So I'm like, whatever. So I delete it and then, what do you do? Change your top shirt. You've been wearing gold change your shirt and then brush your teeth. Okay. Yeah, go ahead and do that. Okay. Okay. So I'm like, whatever. Why are they sending me junk mail? They've already sent my payment, which was, that time I looked at it, it was a little bit more than I got last month, but still considerably less than what I'm typically used to. Fine, hey, anything is a blessing in my eyes. Seriously, at this point. So something definitely could just go look at your Google ads and account. And I look at it and I see a balance there and I'm like, okay, this is still messed up. Now go brush your teeth and then we can go. So I'm like, again, so then I go into transactions where you can actually look at the separate transactions. Y'all, they're sending me an additional four payments. When I tell you that is a blessing, let me tell you something, my cup runs over. I don't need anything, but to have that cushion right now when I really been trying to up my savings account and I'm a type of person, y'all. I'm gonna try hard not to cry. I give, I give and I say, okay, even, you know, when I feel convicted, the Holy Spirit tells me, just give it. And I'm like, okay, but I really needed to do this and this and this. I remember I gave money to someone as soon as the pandemic hit and I had a little extra and it was, it was like $75 or I think about, yeah, it was $75 and she just had to close down her gym. I'm like, I really need to save this, but I have it. So I gave it to her and I'm like, I know God will bless me with it later on in his time. And so to get it right now during the holidays where I could really need it, you know, I could really use it, excuse me. Y'all, I really am so important to be obedient. Even when you don't know what the end result is gonna be. So anyway, hey y'all, I went over, I just got back from Miss Lori because I just got back from Lori. I dropped off JB and I dropped off some soup. Chia, I made my husband one of these. I thought I made him some dinner and he's like, oh, I'm not gonna be able to do that soup because I can't handle the cream. So I'm like, oh, you got, you got the bubble goods. Okay, so I'm like, let me drop this off over somebody's house because I'm not gonna be able to eat all this food since I'm technically, I'm cooking for Thanksgiving tomorrow, right? So y'all, I finished my cornbread today. I have been so busy at work that I did not do my pound cake today. I'm gonna go ahead and do it. If I get finished eating my dinner or lunch slash dinner, I'm gonna go pick up JB and then start to make the pound cake tonight. And then I'll just do the caramel glaze in the morning. These bread secrets to hurry up. Ms. Lori was like, you can leave him here. I'm like, JB, so you can leave him here, go do something. Go bake something. So I'm like, I'm like, dang, I just bought y'all some soup. You want me to bake something too? Lord have mercy. It's three o'clock Wednesday. Let me show you some. I bought JB this new thing. Y'all, God is so good. I got five extra payments. Sorry y'all. And they were all over $100. The most one being 175. Let me tell you something. So I bought the baby a new toy. That's what he's playing with, a claw machine. So y'all, I'm cheating because it's three o'clock and I'm just not cooking things, giving me dinner, girl. But technically, we don't even eat to six. So that, what, that's three, four, five. I have three hours to cook. That's more than enough time. The cornbread is done. The dessert is done. The cornish... Oh, sorry. It's okay, baby. Go ahead. Sorry y'all. I bought, oh hell, I bought a store-bought roasted chicken and that's what I'm using to make my broth. It's been basically simmering for about an hour. I'ma let it simmer low for two hours. Cornbread. Y'all, I have here some sweet potatoes. This is my broth. Look at that dark rich broth from a roasted store-bought chicken. Corn. This is my celery, onion. I know, girl, butter for my dressing. Here are my hands in here. I'm sorry, y'all. It's four o'clock. Over here, I have my rotisserie chicken. I pulled it apart. I have on here some sage, brown, sorry, brown. Sage, black pepper, salt. I have some cornbread in here. I've pummeled it up. I'm gonna go ahead and put this in here. I have one egg. The egg is just to mix it, to bind it all together. It's my binder.