 I just got back from the store about 20 minutes ago, had to run a Walmart work. Work is going crazy, of course. A day before a vacation, excuse me, time off. Holiday is crazy. Went to the store, the things that I was supposed to have gotten I forgot, that's one issue. I had a couple of things to return to Walmart. Those curl daughters, deep conditioner, I returned those to Walmart yesterday. They had to give me gift cards because I purchased them with my PayPal account. The young lady was having an issue with one of the gift cards. Finally went through when I went up there today to try to purchase something, and mind you, it's very early, so the customer service isn't even open. One of the gift cards doesn't work. So not only do I need to go back and get those items that I forgot, I need to have them to correct the Walmart issue. Work is a little crazy for some odd reason. So it is now 10-10. I have to drop my little boy off there. I played at 8-11. I have a meeting at 12. That's half the day gone. If you're like me and when you do videos for your YouTube channel, you like to get things set up, especially if you're doing multiple videos, get started early. I don't know, it depends on your family. I'm gonna have to push off the video so tomorrow at this point, because by the time I'm out of my meeting and get some more work done, it would be two o'clock. And especially with me doing a wash and go, I like to do it early in the morning like 9-10 to get started around 9-10. Be done by noon. At this point, I wouldn't even be done until 3 or 4. All right, y'all. So just dropped Jamie off. Girl, got a message from the grandmother. It's like, you can bring him by any time. That's cold for, can you bring him now? I know, I know, girl, I know. They live in a nice neighborhood. It's right around the corner from us and a gated community. Look, look at these houses. Yeah, these are, I don't have my NF filter on. This is why it's so light, but you get the point, girl. These houses are big. Gotta go home, get back to work, because I'm already seeing emails coming. Yeah, hair videos are done. Now I will be, I think I have time to do a chit chat video. All right, girl, let me turn the air down. So I'm gonna get out the car in the middle. My gaslight on came on. Ooh, y'all, you see today, this Friday, she sure is acting like a dang on Monday. It's not even Friday, but it's my Friday. Technically it's Wednesday, but Wednesday's acting like Monday. And I'm not here for it. So just got out on Walmart and went to the customer service, of course, because the gift card was all messed up. It took that young man three, he used three different gift cards to finally find one that worked. Ain't that crazy? So hell, since we are here half a day and they're already gone, I'm gonna have to wait for my husband to leave before I do my chit chat video for y'all and I need for him to leave because I'm gonna be talking about his ass. Yes. But the good thing about this is that I have everything already prepared to just go right into doing the videos tomorrow. And I could take the time and pre-poo my hair today. I wasn't gonna pre-poo. I was just gonna go ahead and just detangle my hair and whatever, but I'm gonna go ahead and pre-poo. I got some fresh Oliveira. And since we are here, y'all, we might as well stop by Sally's. You wanna go into Sally's, girl? Gonna stop by Sally's and then my gym was right next. Y'all, I'm gonna go ahead and cancel my gym membership. I have been spent, what the hell's going on? I have been spending, my gym membership is $55 a month. That includes unlimited childcare. And no care, I really go there because JV be getting my nerves and I need a place for him to go. But my thing is that I'm not even going to the gym, especially since we have so much going on this summer. I have not gone to the gym at all this week. Last week, I went once. I have gone to the gym twice in a month. That's just money wasted. So I'm gonna go ahead and cancel it. That's saving me 600 and fuck. No, what, sell it over $600 more than that. I'm a year, excuse me, a year. And so that'll be saving me some coins, a little over 600 a year. I'm gonna use that towards some depth. Y'all, I'm all about getting out of this little depth I'm in. All right, y'all, I'm in Sally's. Okay. I told y'all, Sally's up the game. Hold on to me. I may have to buy some more as I am from the Long and Lux line. This line is theblonde.com. Ooh, do I have a $10 reward? I wanna ask if I have a reward before I get anything, y'all. They have a lot by the main choice, but I'm gonna need these to be buy one, get two free. I'm not gonna spend no money on that. This looks good. I'm gonna ask y'all to see if I have any rewards. Isn't that ghetto? Now, they have a cholesterol. I've been wanting to try here, this salon care, but I'm not so sure. Child Rhonda, Mr. Life on. You old, how about you? Y'all, I just sent her a text message because look, girl, I saw your video about, first of all, when I saw all the emojis of the other wine, the apple, I'm like, okay, what's going on, sis? What's going on? We going to happy hour? Where you going? I thought you were going to happy hour or something. Y'all, she said, she said that she made a keto friendly drink. Y'all, I heard it was vanilla vodka. Y'all, vodka is my drink. That's my spirit of choice. Vanilla vodka, no girl, I have had every other thing. She said vanilla vodka, and the keto recipe called for grotto, remember, I think you said vanilla vodka, root bear, supposed to be diet root bear, which is fine. Whop cream and some cherries. I'm about to take my fluffy ass up here to CVS. I better find me some vanilla vodka, and then we're going to head to fries. Y'all, I supposed to be recording this chit chat video. Oh, let me go ahead and get it, so I can start recording my video. Look, I said I wouldn't be drinking on cam anymore. Yeah, let me go ahead and gather my spirits, my stuff together. But you know what I think that would be good with? I haven't, I don't really drink soda, but I do like me ginger beer, non-acoholic ginger beer. I think that vanilla vodka would hit this spot with a can of ginger beer, yes. Or some cream soda, ooh, girl, cream soda. Let me go ahead and go up here, see? Y'all see what will happen to you? I need to clean up on down three. Oh, Lord. Hey, old man. Hey, what's happening? Nothing, you know what I'm looking for? What? I am looking for vanilla vodka. Do y'all have it? I didn't even know they made such a thing. Mama's positive we don't. The last time we had it, it was here. All right, baby. You wanna get on this? So big, big buck gonna get on there. Oh, wait, this thing is almost 20 years old, so. I know you guys can't see us. We're gonna go out here. We decided to come up here to the Anthem outlets. Come on, baby. Here we go, here we go. I have the NF filter on, so now you can see me. My hair is drying. I've only been out here like out here a few times. This is a great way to allow my hair to air dry because it's so dry out here. Because let me close this blind. First of all, it's 4th of July. Happy 4th of July to those of you who celebrate the 4th of July. Just a second, y'all, I'm so sorry. I don't like to cook with bedroom doors open because I don't like to, I don't want that smell to be traveling in the back. You know what I mean? So I have to make sure all the bedroom doors are closed. I have to excuse my bed if you're sorry, bro. Did not make it up today. Excuse the house, too. It is what it is, baby. So, happy 4th of July, like I said. I'm in my kitchen. I just fixed me a little drink at a drink. We're gonna call a little girl. You can see it's brown today because I stopped by CVS and got some root beer. I didn't have any intentions of drinking again today, but my husband is off. JB and I, as you guys saw, we went out to, we went to the park and to the outdoor mall and when we got back, I'm like, why is this ninja's car still here? Because we got back at 2.30. I'm like, why is your car? So I go look at his schedule because my husband does not speak, y'all. It's not that he doesn't speak. He is an extreme introvert. And if you know anything about introverts, there's an almost delay and then responding to you, but he's extreme. Like, I'm waiting for a damn response immediately and he's thinking about how he's gonna respond to my ass. Because if he responds incorrectly, I'm gonna snap. He knows I'm crazy, girl. He knows how about that VCR incident. Anyway, y'all, yeah, you know the liquor. So I come up, we come back at 2.30 and he's here. I'm like, what the hell? So I look at his schedule. I ask him, I'm like, are you off today? No answer. Cause he's probably thinking, you see my schedule up there, why don't you look at it? So I look at his schedule. I'm like, it says chemistry. Your ass supposed to have your lab coat on in chemistry. So he's saying, no, that's wrong. So I'm like, dang, you know, cause it's 4 for July. I could have done the barbecue right today. So me being the creative person that I am, I'm thinking in my head what I have in there, whatever I have in there. So we're gonna be having Asian food today. My intentions were me personally, since if it was gonna go to work, I was gonna use the leftover chicken. I bought a rotisserie chicken yesterday and I was gonna use the leftover chicken to make me some soft tacos. But instead, and I'm gonna show you guys what I've done so far, cause I'm hot. I need to probably get that thing out. I'm hot because I'm in the kitchen, the hair is big and I've been cutting up vegetables for like 15, 20 minutes. So I pulled all the vegetables out there in the fridge that's almost going bad, like three more days, two or three more days. Even what besides pasta and stuff, I always keep rice on that girl, always. I mean, I have, I have a huge five pound bag of rice at the bottom for emergency's, don't ask. I keep rice, I keep dry beans. I keep couscous, you know grains on that, cause you never know. Y'all, this child is screaming, hold on, hold on. I can never catch a break. All right, y'all, sorry, he had to show me how he could jump in the pool, y'all. Anyway, so yeah, we keep rice and all that. So let me show y'all what I have. This is dessert, I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna put together here shortly. So like I said, I keep carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers and I keep all types of carrots. I'll keep shredded carrots, I'll keep baby carrots and I will keep sometimes between one to two bags of whole carrots, okay? So I divided this up. This right here is celery, half a bell pepper and carrots diced up. This is gonna be for my fried rice. That'll hurt something. This right here is sliced carrots, what it says. Broccoli and there's something else in here. Oh, I have green beans on the side. This is gonna be for my orange chicken, all right? I never made blueberry pie, but it looks like it's very simple. I saw two recipes on YouTube, so I figured, hey, I can do that. So this is one of those large cartons of blueberries and all I'm gonna do is add three tablespoons of lime juice, excuse me, lemon juice. I'm gonna grate up some lemon. Add a sprinkle or two of cinnamon, maybe like half a teaspoon, you don't need to add this. I have a cup of sugar and a sprinkle of cornstarch because that's what's going to help hold it together so it's not so liquidy. I'm also gonna add two tablespoons of cold butter after it's all done. Did you put a coin in? Two coins, it's two coins. You guys, this lady came up to JV and gave him a sister that I spoke to earlier, came in and gave JV all of her tickets. That was so sweet of her to do that, right, JV? That was so nice of them. Let's see if you'll get close to 300. A man gave you all his tickets. You probably don't remember. You remember that? Wow, JV, that was two years ago. You remember that? Hey, you guys, sorry, hold on, but I'm gonna turn it down real quick. Girl, this hair. Whoever recommended texture ID, I'm gonna turn it off. With Xtreme, we fighting. I have a curly fro now. If I was going for a curly fro, I wouldn't be mad. We wouldn't have to square up on each other. Bye, I wasn't going for this. Now I gotta wash my hair right today. Sorry, y'all, hold on, baby. We just got it back to eat, and now we're headed home. I'm gonna have to work out sometime this week, y'all, because I got on a scale, let's say at 166. I was 162 just two weeks ago. 166, and I get it, that weight is water because I've been eating a lot of, I've been eating out a lot of it. We better watch it. I know, child, so, yeah, oh, lord, y'all, and my clothes fitting tighter, and I'm gonna, because I'm short. When you only five, three, it's some change. You know, a gas bubble, that's it. You gained some ba- And I built this by looking at the sword that somebody's holding. Pretty cool. I looked at it via on how to make the sword. And that's, I made the sword all by myself. Didn't even need, this is how I did it. I put shirt on to shirt. That's what I did. Shirt on to shirt. I did the t-shirt, but I wear it backwards. All right, you guys, I'm gonna show you how to make, how I'm gonna make this curry, coconut, lentil, stew, or soup. I'm gonna do it in a crock-pock because I have a lot going on today. We're in the middle of the week, so over here I have some lentils. Now these are brown lentils. Typically we eat red lentils, which you would traditionally see in Ethiopian dishes, miso art, believe it's what it's called. So here in this bowl, I have all my veggies. Now I need to get rid of a lot of stuff, so I have a lot more than what you would probably see. So I have in here one full onion, three carrots, one sweet potato, half of a rum or tomato, one tablespoon of ginger, one tablespoon of garlic, a slice of a jalapeno, and I think that's it. And all I'm gonna do you guys is just dump everything in here. I probably put like one tablespoon of olive oil on top of here, okay? No particular order. Lentils have been rinsed off with red lentils. You have to wash red lentils several times, but these lentils here, well, until the water weren't clear. I only took two washes with this one. I'll probably get my hand and scoop the rest of this. And the spices are going to be, yeah, we're gonna bring the spices over. So this is what it looks like with everything dumped in. I'll put in one tablespoon of olive oil. Now I don't have any vegetable stock on hand. I typically have some vegetable stock or vegetable broth. Honestly, you guys, I try to have chicken beef and veggie on hand just because, like I said, I didn't have any. So I just use half of a chicken bouillon and pour water over it. You don't even have to use a chicken bouillon. You could just use plain old water. You could use vegetable broth, like I said. So these are all the spices I'm gonna go through. Measurements will depend on your taste. So we have coriander, turmeric, cinnamon. I know, cinnamon, but let me tell you something. Cinnamon is actually a form of a heat. It's considered like a, it's considered a sweet heat. But when you add it with all of these, it comes off as a heat, okay? We have garlic powder, paprika, onion powder is back there, curry powder, excuse me, red pepper flakes, blueberry, this is what she's using. Ethiopian food, we're all out. I gotta stop by the store to get some more or the shop actually, and some pink Himalayan salt. I'm going to put the lid on here. I actually like to wash this lid. Wash this lid, place it on. Once the veggies are, once everything is about 75% done, I'm gonna pour in some coconut milk. Hopefully this liquid will have reduced. Pour in some coconut milk and sprinkle in some cilantro. And I'm gonna serve this on top of brown rice, and that's it. JB's hair is drawing. His skin is so beautiful, y'all. Look at, let me just zoom in on my baby's skin tone. He's red right now, cause we've been outside. Look at him, so precious. He gets embarrassed when I talk about him. Gotta let you hear air dry, boo-boo, okay? Yep, that's right. But you may not- And I'm gonna practice swimming at home. Yeah, but baby, you're not gonna have time for that probably today. We're not gonna be back till one o'clock. You know what, I don't know. Y'all, let me show you. This is gonna be in my video. I get my glow, mm-hmm, he is. I get my glow using city colors, timeless beauty, bronzer. This thing was like less than seven books. Amazon. I'm sorry, go ahead. Daddy said we were gonna go to the pool. It's fine. What did he tell you this, yesterday? Yeah. Okay, that's fine, thank you. You wanna leave that phone here cause you ain't gonna be able to use it. Girl, so I did a wash and go yesterday using wetline Extreme Gel and Texture ID. And it was a mess, so the texture to where it was, to where it would be a bank and high post. So that's what we got. Zoom in back because there's a lot of hair. Really pretty. Skin is clearing up. I'm gonna be sharing a hair mask, not a hair mask, y'all. You need to stop, baby. I'm gonna be sharing a face mask so I've been using it. Very, very simple, okay? We're gonna Walmart. Finally made it to Staples to pick up my order. Gonna return this stuff to Wave for a Girl. I had so much of a return to them. But let me back up. We got out of swim lessons. It's been about 30 minutes now, y'all. JB is so good. And I couldn't film, well I forgot to film cause I was busy talking to another mom there. But anyway, y'all, today it's just a relax today. We just had to do that for JB. I'm going to work on my little book. I wrote some books, that's one of the reasons why I was here at Staples. And then I'll probably have this vlog up. I'm getting behind, I'm getting almost two weeks behind in vlog, so I need to be very careful. So that is it, y'all. Thank y'all so much for watching. Take care, bye.