 13th. Just about four o'clock. That I know because I looked at the clock. We are in downtown Lake Oswego. Walking around just for no reason. We're on a Sunday afternoon drive. That's a good enough reason because we can. So we'll bring you with us. We'll be back. I should say this is only about 10 minutes from our house. This beautiful outdoor venue space with a fireplace. So great. Not you anyway. Got me anyway. I just did that and I didn't have the thing on. So once a month or once a week we're going to try to find some new local mom and pop places to eat. Right now we're on a place on a kick to find a good burger place. So today we're going to try the Oswego Grill and we'll let you know what we think. I'll be right back. Okay so Oswego Grill. Good place. It was it was really good. That was a good burger. I had the bison burger and it was delicious. You had the bacon burger. Bacon cheese burger. Bacon cheese burger. His burger had not only had garlic. Barbecue bacon cheese burger. Yeah it had not only had garlic aioli on it but it had fried deep fried onions. Have fried onions. And mine had some sort of it tasted like oh no light. We're in the dark. Oh there we go. Mine had some sort of homemade thousand mile in dressing. It was delicious. Now I will say that it was a more posh place than we were looking for. Does that mean there was anything wrong with that? No. We did feel a little out of place because I'm in stretchy pants and flip flops. But you know he's in a sweatshirt and everybody else seemed like in the restaurant was dressed up except us. For the most part. Yeah but but I would go back again in a heartbeat because they had really good food and they had a lot of other things on the menu. I think we're still on the hunt for the perfect sort of dive bar burger place with really good food. I think we're still on the hunt for that. But Oswego Grill is now on on the menu of places to go eat. It's good. Yep. All right we'll be back. Morning October 14th. I think I think that's the date anyway. It's still morning because it's like five minutes before noon. So technically I'm cool. If you ever had one of those days mornings where you sat down with your morning coffee and we're just going to read a little while you sip your coffee and the next thing you know it's lunchtime. My Monday. Anyway I've got two Etsy orders that have to go out today so I'm going to take care of them and get some other stuff done. We're headed to an overnight trip at the end of the week back to California which I have no problem telling you all about because by the time you hear about it we're going to be back. Okay Doki. So helps if I take off the parking brake. I popped in right aid really quick and I needed a new curling iron and some pantyhose and tights things like that. I'm going to a few events this holiday season starting next weekend and some of them are dressy events, conservative dressy events which is just best if I save the whole argument of my tattoos and things by just wearing pantyhose or tights and covering them up. It's just easier people. Do I care what people think that really? But I don't always want to have the argument either so it's easier to just cover shit up. So there you have it. So anyway I got that done. I did find a pair of actually cute leggings at right aid. I didn't even know they had that sort of thing there. I don't know what the quality is going to be like but they weren't very expensive so that works. I'm going to stop and I shouldn't say I'm going to stop. I'm debating stopping at Safeway to get chocolate let's be honest. It's in times of stress I eat and I'm already getting stressed out about something that hasn't even happened yet this weekend. The trip to California. So anyway I don't know. We'll see. I'll let you know when I get home if I stopped or not. I'll be back. Back home now and I ate my lunch and yeah we stopped at Safeway and got some chocolate. Not going to beat myself up about it. All right I'm going to do a little reading get a little art done and I'll be back. Good afternoon it is Tuesday October 15th. I got no clue what time it is. I've been chatting with friends and editing video all morning. We're going to go check the mailbox. 16th I think and yes it's raining. Sure it's sleeves no coat. It's fine I'm good I'm not the wicked witch I won't melt. I was told recently that means I'm a true Oregonian now. I don't know that that's true but anyway I'm out and about running a few errands. I had to get some stuff at Staples. Popped into TJ Maxx really quick to see if they had something to wear to this weekend's family event. I didn't really think they would and they didn't. TJ Maxx is really not my store I keep trying but but I have stuff in the closet I can wear so I'm going to just do that. It may not live up to others expectations of what I should wear but am I awfully concerned about that? Not really. We're going to pop over to Fred Meyer since it's like kitty corner from here really quick. I want to see if they have a couple things for the house and then go home and I've got some art to do and video to film so I'll be back. I think it's a good thing that I'm done with the errands now because it's starting to rain a bit harder than it was and yeah I don't mind being out in the rain and it's not that cold it's 53 but for me that's not that chilly I'm you know fat fat since late right um but I'm done with my errands and I think it's time to go home and either have an extra cup of coffee or a nice cup of tea or something it's getting close to lunchtime I'm starting to get hungry all of those things so I'm going to go home I'm going to unpack everything I'm going to get my little midi travel sketch bag ready or start to get it ready I will go over it with y'all when I get ready to pack it um when I'm going on short trips like this I don't take of course my full arts suitcase with me that's a bit too much um so but I have a small delphonics bag I bring things I can do either in the hotel room or on the airplane my daily sketches I can keep up with the daily sketches so anyway all right that's it I'm going to head home I don't know if I can get there with that way so I need to get off the video and I'll be back merch samples just came in so I got two new tank tops one with a logo that's been in the store for a while it's actually a combination of two logos be a decent human and don't be an a-hole it doesn't say a-hole fyi if you're offended by foul language some of the merch in my store may be offensive just saying it all right then one of the new ones that's in the shop own your shit and I don't mean literal poop y'all know what I mean just own it and then a new pair of leggings with my artwork on them cool I can't wait to wear them okay so while I'm not ready to actually pack this yet I've got a couple days yet I wanted to show you all this is my large delphonics bag you see the front's covered with lots of buttons this is what I take when I'm just going on a short trip and I'm not taking a ton of art supplies and or I'm not taking a ton of art supplies with me this is the very basic basics mostly just my daily drawing stuff I don't really keep a ton of stuff in the outside pockets because I'm usually putting this in a backpack and as it is the buttons can get caught on things but then also things don't really stay super well in the pockets but I have a pair of scissors here a small pair of travel scissors and then in the back here I have my daily pages journal where I write in and I have a mini clipboard as I hard place to put my journals on if I'm like drawing in my lap or something I have a pair of reading glasses my nice fountain pen my whatever journals I'm working on currently are in here right now I've got five little journals oops those three littler ones and then these two bigger ones and then make sure things don't fall on the floor okay and then I have a rag and a chamois and there's two small mini paint brushes here these are for wiping brushes off smearing graphite that kind of thing and then I have the pencil case inside this is a home cube case I will it both the delphonics bag and the home cube case are both from amazon and I will link them in the description if you're interested the delphonics bag comes in this large size and there is a small one which I actually have here and when I'm bringing more watercolor things with me I bring this one which is packed full of watercolor stuff I'm not bringing it this time I'm going to leave this one at home I'm only gone for an overnight trip so um anyway the home cube case um has my travel daily drawing stuff in it so normally my daily drawing bag this actually sits on the sofa we're down in my family room quite a variety of pens and pencils um rags ink um rulers drawing guides um different various things in here um and this actually zips up really nicely into a sort of duffel bag shape and I can stow it away when we're having company um but it just stays down here and when I'm working on the watercoloring uh or maybe my uh black doodle journal um which that stuff is upstairs I'm not working on it at the moment anyway that's like stuffed in the corner that stuff with me this time I'm just bringing this daily drawing stuff um and so I have a variety of black pens in here a couple of water brushes of course I have my black bic crystal pen um I've got here's another water brush I've got some pastel highlighters I do use highlighter markers or at least I have been uh lately uh in my daily drawings I really love them I'm still using the gel um highlighter crayons and then smearing them with water but these sort of highlighter markers are great um I got these today and these are by these are from staples and I I'm bringing these because they're thin and they're the same basic colors I use every day generally I use these which are my favorite castel and these are great I love them I use them all the time but they're too big to bring so I got these smaller ones and then of course I've got a variety of the gel crayons that I love and some uniball signal white gel pens a couple of pencils in the bottom and eraser um a blending stuff and that sort of thing so every all the basic stuff that I really need to get some um you know quick easy daily drawing stuff done this is what I'm going to bring with me uh for the quick family thing that we're doing this weekend and that way I have stuff to work on while we're traveling so anyway I hope it gives you guys some ideas of what you can do when you're on the go hey guys it is 5 11 p.m thursday october 17th don't get excited I'm looking at the ipad um I was up um I slept in a little bit after um the husband went to work usually I get up with him but the last couple days I've had trouble getting to sleep which means that I am just there's I have no energy to get up with him when he gets up but and goes to work at I don't know 6 30 in the morning so I've stayed in bed a little bit later and I did that again today and then I went ahead and started getting ready for our trip tomorrow and getting some things done here around the house pulling out a suitcase packing I'm really hoping we can just get everything into one carry on and one or two uh backpacks um my husband and I are notorious for overpacking I'm really hoping that we can get everything in one suitcase but I don't know if that's gonna happen I don't know we'll see um I would make things quicker when we land if we didn't have to check anything which I won't get into right now on camera but let's just say that our time commitments are tighter than we thought they were on friday so um yeah and I'm gonna I'm not flying in a address and heels and makeup and no just no so anyway um but I did go ahead and get some work done today that I needed to get done upstairs in the art room some paper clips done for the next few days that I can share over the next few days and some really cute ones I think this time not that they're all not cute but these this next batch is pretty cute um I did my daily drawings already for today early I usually don't do them until after dinner but I did them already and I've got my little bit of drawing stuff that I'm gonna take with me um already packed I do take even even no matter no matter how long or short the trip may be I usually take the very minimum a sketchbook and a and a pen um it helps keep me um saying it on an even keel so and when I can't sleep um having something to do like that to do helps me get sleepy or read I will take my mini um tablet with me so it has all my books on it anyway yeah it's been in the focus of my day is getting ready for tomorrow sorry the light is funky but is that better that's a little better at least my eye bags show up a little less it's a little less unattractive um but it's overcast and cloudy out um it's been raining off and on all day so I don't know if we're gonna go walking or not um we didn't get any walking last night because it was just by the time he got home it was black outside not that we mind walking in the dark but it's probably not the smartest thing to do um but I still don't mind doing it I bring a flashlight and I wear I put on a white sweatshirt at the very least um my husband has really bad circulation like really bad even bundled up with gloves on we will come back from a walk and his fingers will be white they're so cold so that's an issue so I don't know I don't know if he's going to be up to it so I guess we'll see when he gets home which should hopefully be in a bit I don't know we'll see anyway I'll bring you with us when I can on the trip and uh yeah and I'll try to film a little something at the wedding we'll see what I get we'll see what happens all right I'll be back in case I didn't say we're going back to California for a family wedding that's why we're going it's actually tomorrow evening and um then um we come home Saturday so I'm hoping we get some time in to like do a little driving around in California maybe go to Diso I'd rather go driving around see some sites do a little shopping you know so we'll see what happens I'll be back remember what I was saying about going walking yeah more than a little drizzle I guess we're staying home all right I'll be back overnight trip for a family function and planes I don't like airplanes I've been on a lot of airplanes the last two years but I don't like airplanes what are you gonna what are you gonna do so anyway it is a pretty Portland it's you know for me it's perfect weather Fred's probably chilly you're good he's good big surprise so anyway we're hoping to get to the terminal in enough time to grab a cup of coffee before we have to go to the gate but we'll see what happens anyway I'll bring you with us where we can I got my drink tickets he has complimentary drink coupons from Southwest Airlines because of some prior issues of the flight so he's hoping for a morning Bloody Mary just FYI Bloody Mary anyway I don't drink so it's good whatever all right I'll be back landed in California literally a few minutes ago and we're in the rental car we haven't even left the vicinity of the airport and we already saw two stupid drivers and what does he say welcome to California this is gonna be fun I'm gonna get in the left hand turn lane and go straight right or make a u-turn over a double yellow over double in the middle of a street with no warning yeah welcome to California stills and video from the wedding which I'll include right about here it was a very nice wedding here at the holiday in a very nice facility we're in the executive suite which is a nice room anyway your girl here holy cow my middle name's not grace I've said that right so they had a bouquet toss for luck instead of tossing it to see who was the next one going to be to have a baby or get married as is more traditional this is for luck which I think I like better anyway they made all the women get up and I made sure to stand in the back because I really didn't want to catch it because I don't like anyway guess who caught the bouquet with her face you're you got it so your girl here she's so graceful like I caught it it smacked me right in the face and then I had to go pick it up I don't know how I'm gonna get that home anyway Fred's still downstairs partying hardy everybody was dancing I didn't want to interrupt them I told him to tell them all good night I came up here because I need to put my knee up because it's bothering me a bit and I want to do a little bit of drawing and sketching and so I'm going to do that and I will be back probably in the morning unless Fred does something cute because he's a tad toasty yeah it was also really not fun to be a part of a party where everybody was drinking it was only sober one and I couldn't dance because my knee hurt so anyway what are you gonna do all right it's Saturday morning October 19th morning don't get excited I only know that because the wedding was yesterday that was the 18th anyway we are up it's 9 17 a.m. and we are going for a drive around the back roads of Auburn California what are we in Newcastle Newcastle right now we're gonna be stopping over at Amal in Roosevelt so I can go to Daiso before we go home and one more I think quick visit with family before we fly home but we will bring you with us where we can we'll be back fun trip but we are glad to be home fully it's not rainy and storming we were worried about how bumpy the landing was going to be and how wet we were going to get getting to the car as you can hear if you can hear the kids next door are having a party evidently they're having a great old time which is good we are going to sit and chill have a snack it's something I don't know what time it is but it doesn't matter we're hungry so anyway it was a fun trip it's been a fun week we hope you've had a good one if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links my happy mail address places to follow me on social media the Etsy store and my amazon affiliate link and my tip jar see one of those ways you can support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups and all of that jazz anyway most important thing is to go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you later bye guys