 Good morning. Good afternoon. It's 12 33 as usual since we got the vid and I seem to constantly get late starts in the morning. I'm just completely unable to have a usual early morning start on anything. Bob is the same. He gets, he goes upstairs to log on to go to work but it's a chore. We are going to go out and go run an errand. I want to compare Clover Amor hooks with Dollar Tree crochet hooks in 600 feet. Dollar Tree does have a similar looking crochet hook and but they only have three sizes so sizes are limited but I'm gonna go drive over to Dollar Tree. There's one in Beaverton. So we're gonna go do that really quick and then I've got to water the plants and do the dishes and all that stuff so yeah. I'm not gonna plan too much for myself but I also have to start prepping Christmas cards and write a Christmas letter and print labels and that jazz too although I'm not gonna do that today. I think I might do that tomorrow. Okay, hi guys. So it is Monday morning December 4th. It's Monday morning. It is not Monday morning. It's almost 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Sorry. I spent the morning getting some pictures printed for the travel journal book for my sister so I got all that done. It was quite a lot of photos to go through and pick the ones that would tell a story which is the whole point of a travel journal like this. So I did that and I have a few bits and pieces she sent me and I'd like to sort in some sort of rough timeline because again that helps tell the story. So we'll see when she's gonna get back to me. But the pictures are printed. That was my main focus today. Got that done. So now I'm gonna try to edit all the video clips while we were sick with COVID into some kind of vlog or something. Yeah that's gonna be fun. I'll be back. I got the photos all printed and we're just about ready to start telling a story with all those things from the Italy trip with my sister and my dad. I got the vlog for the last two weeks edited into one. Obviously because I was sick there's not a lot. It's a short one. There are a couple of projects. Well one project I'm working on in the video so you can see that. I will get it typed up as I said in the vlog as soon as I can. I won't be today. I have a couple chores to do and I got some star things hung up in the windows upstairs and down. Now I'm exhausted. So I'm gonna just sit here while the video renders and get that loaded up tonight and then we're good for a bit. Yeah I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It's 9 40 a.m. Wednesday December 6th. I don't think I remembered a vlog yesterday. I did get to see the grandson finally for a couple of hours since although we're still recovering we're no longer contagious and so my baby sat him for a little bit while mommy did some you know basics like grocery shopping which is any of us who have been parents know way easier without a baby in tow. So I did that. I did tell her I wasn't up to doing more than a couple of hours because it's still recovering but yeah it was good. I have counseling in a few minutes. I've got a cup of coffee next to me. While part of me wants to go out thrifting this morning the part of me that's still recovering is like you know no. So I think we'll be staying home. We may go out shopping later if not tonight at some point this week because we still have to get some stocking stuff first. So yeah but anyway today I think it's going to be using up the rest of the cotton yarn because if you've been watching my social media you know I've made three cotton basket bag things. I'm using at least started using a pattern from Yarnspirations I'll link it down below because my COVID adult brain could not figure out like math for this or anything and so it's a very easy pattern and I've made three so far trying to use up some cotton yarn stash that I have and yeah still still have enough I think for like one more. So yeah that's a thing. Anyway and then it'll be gone. Cotton yarn's not my favorite so yeah anyway. Alright I think that's it. I am going to get ready for my appointment and I'll be back. Okay it's almost 7 p.m. and Wednesday and Bob is off of work and we're obviously at the grocery store because you know with how sick we've been we need to catch the energy burst when it happened and make ourselves do occasional things and I can guarantee you this weekend we're not gonna want to go grocery shopping so we're doing it today. I'll be back. Okay I'm gonna insert a couple pictures here but as I said earlier this week I've been trying to use up some cotton yarn it's not my favorite thing to work with and I somehow had a lot of it despite that. I have tried making one sweater with it. I like the pattern but I didn't like how it worked out with the cotton yarn. I still may frog that sweater I don't know but I used up I had approximately 3,500 yards of yarn approximately. 3,500? Yeah I will put a picture right here this is all I have left and I made four cotton basket bag things from a pattern I found on yarn inspirations with all of the yarn that I had and that worked out great. It's actually a really easy pattern to work on the baskets are really useful I do have four of them I'm not sure I need four of them but I'm gonna see if the girls want one or two I mean you know but yeah so we use that up yay all right now I have to do chores I'll be back. Hey guys it is Thursday December 7th yeah just before 11 a.m. since having the vid mornings aren't my strong suit yeah back this morning I slept in until almost 9 a.m. so I haven't been up that long but we're gonna go try to run a couple of errands and or just get out of the house for a few minutes I haven't been thrifting in like a month not that I need to thrift for anything a particular but I might stop by a couple of my favorite places and my car is cool things are squeaky it's rainy it's 46 degrees outside at 11 o'clock which means it's gonna be a cold day so anyway we're gonna go try to get a couple things done and then head back to the house and maybe get started on my sister's travel journals so all right that's it for the minute I'll be back okay we're headed home I don't have the energy to go any other places I was able to stop at my local little resale shop I try to go in there like once a week or two I've been a month because I was sick and they I knew they were expanding their arts and crafts section and yarn really like nice wool yarns for $2 this game because everything's you know secondhand anyway I wasn't planning on buying anything but of course I did and anyway I was chatting with the ladies at the counter and said yeah I'm not contagious in recovering it just some of the side effects are horrible killer and she said yeah her family had had it a couple of times and the first time the only person who got it was her son and he was paralyzed from the waist down from like a week and then the second time he didn't get it but everybody else did so and yeah everybody I know who's had it like their experience is different there's very few that are exactly the same and even Bob and I yeah this fatigue can last quite a while so I just have to learn for the moment to live with it and know my limitations right now we're at that limit I need to go home I need to sit down I need to eat I need to take some calcium supplements I was able to finish buying stocking stuffers for my secret Santa person for our family Christmas I was able to pick up a couple things for Bob I got some more wrapping paper and some bows I have to drag some of the gifts that are downstairs upstairs sometime today but not right now so see if I can get Bob to help me with that or outside or something by outside I mean the garage so anyway that's it my brain and my whole body is just like on overload and what we're discovering is in the mornings I'm like this I'm just like dragging me getting myself out this morning it took is taking great effort but at night I'm semi-ok not 100% but semi-ok Bob is the opposite in the mornings he's alright but at night he's like dragging so I also hit a Joanne's yarn sale which wasn't marked anywhere wasn't advertised anywhere and yet I got a good I shouldn't have bought yarn today but I did anyway more projects to make all right I'll be back alright there's somebody cars it's hard to get down the street alright okay so it's Friday December 8th I think it's like two o'clock in the afternoon I have junior you're gonna hear him in the background and babysitting for a couple hours that's about all I'm up to the kids are coming over for dinner tonight but they're all helping make dinner I did a little bit too much yesterday and then felt like crap the rest of the day so yeah that's fun recovering from the vid is always a blast right so anyway I will get some crocheting down later tonight and stuff like that but for the moment we're concentrating on the grants on because you know yeah got to put your priorities straight all right I'll be back hey guys so it is eight o'clock Saturday December 9th did I vlog this morning I have no idea we're gonna chalk it up to COVID brain because I'm extra forgetful right now see we're having better days then we've been having but we're not 100% better we have bursts of energy that sometimes last a few hours and then we come home and sit down and like he passed out for I don't even know how long on the couch yeah me I started to get nauseous and dizzy so it's just it's very weird the vid is very strange anyway it's been a good week despite that we got to finally see junior yay yeah we babysat for a bit and that was great had dinner with the kids they all came over last night that was good we did get some Christmas shopping done today yep we might actually be finished and just need to wrap things not actually 100% on that but maybe so we're doing good we're getting there it's slowly but surely anyway I hope you guys have had a good week if you've had the vid I hope you've you've recovered with no bad side effects and I hope you're doing good because it's not fun anyway if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below and yes we're watching Expedition unknown yes yeah one of our favorite shows that in we TV we we TV no me we is it we or me it's anyway it's a classic TV channel if I can find a link for it I'll put it down below for you but they 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