 Okay, I'm probably gonna delete this but I can't rant at the camera anyway because why not? It's just you and me, right? Happy Sunday, everybody. It is Sunday, March 14th, 106 p.m. We've just spent the morning sort of lazing around and having coffee. You know, it's such a switch from yesterday where it was so bright and sunny and warm. We actually had windows open and the furnace turned off. Today, it's gray and gloomy and we both have umbrellas because it's frisley. It is Monday, March 15th. It's still a.m. It's like 11... 11 something, hold on. 11.22 a.m. Anyway, we're back home. Bob's gonna work on his car. I'm gonna fiddle around the house and in the art room and I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is 8.35 a.m. my car clock is still on. And obviously we're in the car and it's freezing cold in the car. 8 degrees or something outside. It's supposed to warm up today, but it's not warm yet. And I have to go run a couple errands and then I've got my doctor's appointment and then if they don't take expired medications at doctor's office, then I've got to go try to find a place. So, I've got that to do too. Then go home and then I can finally have coffee and lunch. Because, yeah, I've got blood work done, so it's a fasting thing. Hey guys, so it's one o'clock. It's just after lunch. It's still Tuesday and the doctor's appointment actually went pretty good. Of course, we're waiting for the blood, annual blood labs to come back, so we'll see what they say, but overall the doctor basically said keep doing what you're doing, keep walking, keep losing weight. We may be able to start lowering some of my medications. So, yay! That encourages me to keep going and keep doing what I'm doing. And so in that vein, I'm gonna go get some steps in by myself, the husband's of course working and later on we're going to the grocery store. So while that'll garner me some steps, it won't be like going out for a neighborhood walk, which we're gonna do right now. Also, one more thing. I know you want to make your art and your family a priority. But you can't do that if you don't make yourself a priority first. So do that. Take care of you. You can't take care of the rest if you're not here to do that, right? If COVID's not taught us nothing, it should have taught us that. All right, I will be back. Morning everybody. It is, what day is it? Wednesday morning, just before 10 a.m. March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, I think. Anyway, I'm about to go live, hence the view. I'm sitting at the table. I've got the webcam up here. We are going to work on some, I've got a couple of these pads of primed canvas. They're already, it's the canvas fabric like you find on a stretched canvas, and it's already been primed. This one's primed for acrylic. This one's primed for watercolor. I don't remember exactly why I got them. I think I just wanted to try them. And I've had them for a while, but now I'm obviously not going to use them because I still have the pads. I think what I'm going to do is over the next few days or a couple of weeks, I am going to paint each piece of the fabric and or collage on it, work it up. I think I'm going to turn them into journal covers. And then the journal covers will be made into journals, and I think I'm going to list them in my Etsy shop. I may just list the flat pieces of fabric, aka journal covers, in my Etsy shop without paper in them, and then you all can make your own journals out of them. What would you prefer? So leave something in the comments below. I'd love to know. All right. We are going to get started on this and get some painting done because there's some drama going on in my family. And I think I need to just get some painting done. So and then go for a walk later. So anyway, all right, I'll be back. Okay, I've spent the afternoon after the live. Well, first I made two masks because a friend of my daughters and son-in-laws let them know he eats masks and they're gonna actually see him this weekend. So I made two masks for him. Then I made some egg bites. Starbucks has what are they called? Yeah, Starbucks has a, I guess a food item that's called an egg bite. It's a little round like thing of scrambled eggs basically and stuff in it. And I thought that was such a good idea for something for breakfast or lunch that I could have in moderation and I could sort of portion out and make with fresh ingredients that I like. And so I've made, I kind of cobbled together a couple recipes and altered a couple things. I came up with basically my own recipe. So I'm going to type it up and I'll link it below for you all if you want to try it. I was able to get 12, 18 egg bites out of the one recipe. And then I also had some of these vegan sausage patty things that I browned up, which I'm going to put in with a few of the egg bites. And I'm going to be portioning them out and they will be a breakfast for me and let's see what is one serving. They are about 183 calories per egg bite maybe-ish. I'm going to figure it out exactly and if I can I'll put it on the recipe. And so I'll put one little egg bite and then the little vegan sausage patties are 80. So that's not too bad actually. So I'm going to bake this other batch 19 minutes to go and then let them cool and then portion them out and put them in the freezer. And then all I have to do is pull out a little bag with a bite in it and maybe a sausage patty and put it and pop it in the microwave and warm it up a little bit and have that with my coffee. I love that idea. All right, so we're going to do that. I've got some lavender, dried lavender I need to get rid of. It's just been hanging around forever and um I did all the dishes cleaned up after myself. Yay uh I think I have time to sit down and watch YouTube. I think. All right. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. Happy Thursday. It's Thursday, March 18th, I think. It's just after 9 a.m. We are waiting on the contractor to show up He is going to start work on installing our new laundry room sink finally First of a few things we're going to have him do and uh, yeah, it's going to be good. I'm going to basically hide upstairs while he's here Um, but yeah, it's going to be good. I can't wait to get the laundry sink installed The egg bites turned out great. The husband even likes them. So that tells you something And all the dishes are in the sink ready to go. I don't feel like emptying the dishwasher at the moment So I'm not going to um I'm going to do a couple things down here in preparation for him coming And then when he gets here, we'll just be um working on those canvas pieces We were working on yesterday that will be future journal covers And then looking at my paper stash of papers that I bought to try And that I don't need And or I'm not going to use for one reason or the other not because they're bad paper Or I'm not going to use for their intended use because sometimes they make great mixed media paper But maybe not great say watercolor paper So um, and those are the papers that are going to be the pages in the journals And as usual when I make journals, I always end up falling in love with one or two So one or two will probably end up in my stash Before they go in the Etsy shop like, you know It's a thing Anyway, all right. That's how my day is working out so far. How about you? I hope you're having a good one. I'll be back. Hey guys, it is quite the day Got my blood work back from the doctor And everything is good. My blood my blood glucose is good My cholesterol was good. I am medicated for that, but it was good. It wasn't good last time So she was wondering about upping the medication, but I got it under control So yay, we don't have to do that um As you saw if you saw this clip, I got some more work done on those pieces of canvas I found in my closet that I was talking about in the last live broadcast I had And I think they're done now and ready to be made into journals or something so morning everybody It is a bright Partially cloudy semi wet day Can we have all those at the same time? Yes, we can in Oregon Anyway, good morning. I hope you're having a good one. It is Friday morning March 19th, I think It's about 9 a.m. Just after 9 a.m. I'm headed out for a quick walk by myself to go get some steps in I'm going to be playing shuttle service to and from the airport today with a couple different groups of people um For those that aren't aware Both my mom and bob's mom Have both been poorly recently I'm struggling with their health My mom's 80. Bob's mom's in her 90s and so We've been trying to check in on them as much as they'll Let us You all with senior parents know exactly what I mean um on a regular basis, but bob and rebecca Because of covet haven't seen Bob's mom in a long time and it's most important that the two of them see her so I'm staying here to watch the dog And they're flying to california to go check on her And bob's brother. There's some other stuff going on there. I won't discuss. It's not my business But anyway So they're going to check on the family Prayers would be welcome for all all involved If you're so inclined um Anyway So they're going to go do that polyas has Some commitments that were already pre-ranged all quite a while ago For this weekend too So I will be puppy sitting overnight Bob and rebecca will be back tomorrow. It is just a quick trip, but I'll be puppy sitting overnight and I'm not super comfortable walking the dog by myself So I'm going to go for a walk before I get her now And maybe a quick Walk after I do the first trip to the airport by myself And then I'll have at least today's steps in so Yeah Anyway, I'm going to go do that. I'll bring you with me where I can and I'll be back Two trips to the airport that I had to do today do this again until tomorrow late afternoon It is saturday morning march 20th. I think I don't know what time it is to be honest with you I think it's after 10 a.m No pull I'm attempting to take crazy pants for a walk by myself I know it's probably a really bad idea and it's raining outside But we're going to go for a quick walk and see how far we get I'm going to have to keep her on a short leash so she doesn't pull me over so And concentrate so I doubt I'll get too many pictures, but we'll see I'll be back Hey guys, it is saturday afternoon. It is 3 59 p.m. Do you know what I've done this this afternoon? Whole bunch of nothing Got some chores done that I needed to get done like feeding my sourdough starter and laundry and stuff like that And then you know what I've been to watch Star Trek All of Star Trek Picard I'm done and now I'm on Star Trek Discovery So I'm going to go to the airport now and pick Bob and Rebecca up All right. Anyway, I'm going to go Deal with traffic and get to the airport and I'll be back. Fun fact everybody It's 7 41 a.m. Sunday morning because I forgot to close the vlog last night Between everything else that's going on um, I just yeah, I forgot um, Bob's mom is Quick update Bob's mom is doing much better. She's recovering very nicely She's a very strong will 92 year old woman 92 or 93 somewhere in there. Anyway, very strong will blow them Um, there's a few other things going on with the family health-wise. I won't get into publicly, but they're doing well too Um in Bob's family My family on the other hand Isn't handling things so well. My mom's fallen a couple more times and hurt herself a couple more times and so I don't know what's going to happen with that. There's lots of discussion going on right now It's getting to be too much for my dad so I guess we'll see Anyway, we'll get it done right together. All right, that's it for this week I hope you've had a good one and if any stress stressful situations have come up that you've handled them with grace and if you can You can't always but if you can um and conversation and That you're doing well and big hugs to you. I feel you anyway Breathe do art turn off your devices go for a walk all the things that I've been telling you for weeks It does help. All right. That's it for the moment I want you to remember to Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Please stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative. Please wear a mask I know things are Approving a bit or they seem to but please don't forget to wear a mask and sanitize your hands and all that stuff I Support the free content From your favorite creators when you can whether it's shopping in their Etsy store or They have a patreon or a paypal tip jar or whatever it is. Check out their video description. It's probably listed down there. Mine is There's a link to a list of links down there my link for my art foemies that you can buy Is down there all of that stuff. So check it out um, don't forget to Oh boy, I need coffee. Hello Don't forget to go out and Well like share and subscribe that would be great But don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself. You deserve it. That's what the walks are for Take care of yourself clear your brain Then you can get back to the stressful stuff Don't forget to take care of yourself. You can't take care of everybody else if you want to hear of yourself first All right, that's it for this week. I'll be back. Bye guys