 Hey good morning people. It's Sunday May 1st. It is 11 44 a.m. still morning technically but you know a few minutes before lunch. Anyway I finished two more journals for the month of April and now I need to prep the ones for May and I need to pull the word lists and all that stuff so we're going to get that done and I'll be right back. It's just before 10 a.m. Monday May 2nd. The only quiet day this week. I'm going to have the rest of the days are full of appointments and things. Anyway we're supposed to dog sit this week and we're going to dog sit Lily here because the kids are going to the kids are going out of town. Well all the kids are going out of town so we're going to dog sit for Rebecca and Paulius and then we're supposed to also cat sit for Jenny and Brian because they're also supposed to go out of town. However late last night we got a message from them that cats something's wrong with the cat. He's sick or something biscuit. His name is biscuit and they had to take him to the 24 hour vet so I am not sure what's going on with that and or if their plans are going to have to change or any idea. So I'm waiting to hear about that. We also have the furnace people coming down for annual inspection and all of that and we have I have counseling and and and and and yeah it's a lot. Anyway I got all my Monday morning work done yesterday so I'm just up here making sure a few things get posted that couldn't be scheduled and then I think I'm going to turn on my soap opera general hospital. I've been watching it since the 1970s. It first came to TV I don't know um maybe one of you all know leave it down below. I remember watching it on our old Black and White TV. Anyway I am going to sit and catch up on those episodes while I work and try to work in and see if I can finish this gel pen journal. I'm really I said before not a super huge fan of the gel pen and if you're watching this you've already seen maybe some of my posts this week in Facebook groups that I'm members of and stuff. Gel pens are just not my favorite. I keep struggling with them but and this is like dead. It has just teeny tiny bit of ink in it. I may try to pull the cartridge out and stick it in a like something of water to see if I can soak the rest of the color out just because I'm cheap and I love the color but yeah this is dead. I had to grab a new one in order actually some more. My brain's all over the place this morning but you know what are you going to do? All right I'll be back. So I always think you know I'm just really not a huge fan of gel pens. I'm not working on that journal maybe I should get rid of them and then I sit and do something and go oh yeah they're kind of fun maybe maybe it's the bag I was keeping them in and that was why I didn't use them much. I have these other pen bags that I use for my other stuff downstairs and they have pen loops in them so I'm wondering if I organize them in that and sort of force myself to do my daily drawings and journaling plus one page and either this or my watercolor journal every day. Have you gotten the ideas about how to use products that you just maybe kind of like and maybe kind of don't want to get rid of but effective ways to incorporate them into your stuff like on a daily basis or regular basis let me know because yeah struggling. All right do some more drawing and I guess set up this other drawing bag I'll be back. So you know I took the gel pens in the journal I was drawing with upstairs with the idea that I would leave them up there and maybe I would let them go because anyway it's back in the bag anyway got some artwork work done today got some chores done today I'm gonna go upstairs and grab husband's lunch dishes because I need to start the dishwasher and of course it's raining on and off again today it's like 50 something outside we're supposed to have a day where it's like 72 that's assuming the storm clouds go away I don't know I'm freezing again all right I'll be back funny Monday so I randomly randomly find out of course grand kit biscuit is grand kit. Grand kit in biscuit is not well and which isn't great but it means I have one last thing on my plate this week because his parents aren't going out of town I thought I was going to be purging and getting rid of the gel pens and I ended up making three doodles with them I'll put them here and repackaging them and bringing them back downstairs got a nice message from a friend of mine I haven't spoken to you in it a little bit it hasn't been too long and then I just randomly got a message from one of my nieces in Iowa that I rarely hear from out of the blue asking me about watercolor paint so it's all good it's just a weird day welcome to Monday everybody it is I don't know what time 8 27 a.m. we have annual furnace inspection and plumbing inspections and things going on this morning so people in and out of the house and yeah it's a thing I'll be back morning everybody um what time is it 9 35 a.m. Wednesday May 3rd I think it's going to be a busy day today I've got a bunch of errands for on this morning then I've got a couple projects to work on and then I've got to take daughter to the airport because she's flying to California for one of her dear friends way and Bob is going to stay at home well I do that because he's going to be one watching the dog grand dog and two he's got a phone call with India so anyway we are going to go run some errands I've got a mail some stuff to my niece Sarah in Iowa Sarah if you're watching this the package is going to go out today I'll send you tracking and I've got to pick up some groceries and and and I don't know what else we'll get up to we might stop a good well we might not I don't know it's kind of early good well I don't think opus until 10 so we'll see I'll be back but I guess I'm not just sitting and doing my daily drawings and stuff we're taking spas out for a walk I know I'm not talking about Bob talking about the dog not this time yeah no not this time so anyway we're gonna go take her for a walk it's after 8 o'clock but you know sorry I'll be back okay it's been a bit it's just about three o'clock and I have gotten through my counseling session the contract are coming over to measure the kitchen the gardener coming and and EPS sorry squirrel and reorganizing and straightening at least the bottom two-thirds of one side of the closet so I at least got this side done I have a bag of trash a bag of donations there is one bin up there that one I need to think about it's a wool felting stuff because I bought it thinking I would like it and I'm not sure that I do so that's a thing I don't know so yeah and there's random stuff stuck between the bins that I need to I need to take care of that so I need to relabel some drawers I need to find a place to put my next batch of rocks until they're painted so I need to get a little bit out for that and yeah things are going along nicely I'm remembering to breathe taking things slowly and being kind to myself yes all right that's it for the minute let me go get a bin and I'll be back it's ready do you hear that it's dumping rain again it's not even just raining or pouring rain it's dumping rain again it's been doing that on and off all day I seriously doubt we're taking crazy pants for a WA okay tonight anyway I haven't gotten much of anything done other than dishes and a few chores because I started working on a new project today and now I'm just totally obsessed it's been something I've been thinking about for at least a year talked to my counselor got a thumbs up from her she says it's a great idea checked with my sister Elizabeth who my trust dearly she also I sent her some snippets she's like yes you have to do this and so yeah holy cow it's really raining all the gutters are just it's a river it's a river of water down our driveway I don't know if you can see that it took me a quite a while to get this project done get the first draft written there's a hint um it has to go out to people to have them check it get opinions all the things for the things because of the things but it feels good to do it I'm completely obsessed which is usually a good sign and so anyway if nobody likes it except me I'm okay with that so there you go all right I don't think that's going to be the case but anyway all right I will be back we're gonna go for a walk we're supposed to have clear weather for about 30 minutes so yeah we're gonna go get some steps in I'll be back through the mud to get pictures of the ducks and you think I'm kidding and not so much we're in the car again it's Saturday morning it's about 10 25 am May 7th Lily is not happy about being in her crate while grandma and grandpa go out without her she was whining when we left poor thing anyway we are gonna go run to the grocery store really quick and to her house to pick up their mail and then we'll be back and if it's not raining we'll take her for a walk I can actually say the word because she's not in the car so we'll see what happens all right okay so like yesterday we're gonna try to go get some walking in and take crazy pants aka lily grand dog for some steps and to do her business before it dumps again I don't know I've got an umbrella in my pocket just in case we'll see then I think we're gonna spend the afternoon I'm gonna do some sketching I think we might watch a movie I've got a couple chores I need to do first but I think it's just gonna be a chill relaxing afternoon and I can't say I'm mad at it so let's go get some steps in and see what else we can get up to I also heard there's a new resale shop in the neighborhood but I don't think I'm gonna get there today but definitely need to check it out sometime soon I'll be back hey guys yet again it is 11 04 pm on Saturday May 7th and I haven't closed the vlog yet it's just been a relaxing day of running a few out errands we did some chores took the dog for a walk I know the lighting is weird because it's late we're still working on this vintage puzzle from the 1930s it has no picture the box looks like that there's no yeah anyway I'm working on it very slowly and we watched some movies I didn't get a lot of sketching done because we were doing other stuff but we weren't doing anything super important I did get a little bit but not a lot hopefully I can get some more done tomorrow it's difficult with the dog it's like having a toddler in the house only she's got four paws so you know anyway we hope you've all had a good week and yours was hopefully maybe calmer and less crazy than ours was I know I probably didn't show it all on camera but it was a week filled with appointments and contractors and phone calls and just like one thing after the other including puppy sitting our schedule was a little bit lighter because our grand cat biscuit got sick unfortunately but it was still in that so anyway just remember take my advice it's okay to say no don't do don't be me say no anyway all right so I hope you've had a good week I hope you have a great week next week don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like share and subscribe if you will check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the channel all that stuff and I'll see you in the next video bye guys