We're live. We're live. We're live. We're live. We're live. Good morning. We are alive. We are live How can we do this so that we're both in here though? We could do that. I Could just lean over sideways We'll see if anybody's in their kitchen making their Thanksgiving meal and You don't have to do anything just be my co-host you could be my teller to my pen That can be our gig See four folks are on here with us. We puffed on you guys who just want to say Okay Hi, Charlene. Hi, Andrea. Happy Thanksgiving you guys. We were just sitting here Now I'm gonna Ozzie and Harriet's on I didn't plan this well enough. I love Ozzie and Harriet. Hi, Gary Good morning, you guys. Can you turn that down a little bit? I? Just totally we're just sitting here in our jammies as you can see Hola, Signora Smith No, it's never too early for wine Thanksgiving my mom would start drinking her champagne me at like five o'clock in the morning When she was putting the bird in Maria doesn't mess around man. Okay, we're gonna get this situated. So we were just sitting here waiting for the parade and We have the fire on and we're all cozy and I said let's go live and you know like with most things in our life He didn't have much choice I'm just waking up. He's just waking up It's noon somewhere. Amen, sister. I'm drinking coffee out of my hearst Let me turn this around my hearst castle mug In honor of our upcoming anniversary I Believe we did so what's everybody doing?  Waiting to go somewhere like we are Hi, Mary Jane. Thank you. I don't even think I've said happy Thanksgiving once today because I think like everybody else is saying it It's warm in here. We had it was my gosh. It dumped here last night. You guys it woke me up out of a dead Sleep even though I sleep next to the window. Oh my gosh.  I totally read that is playing a drinking game on my iPad Listening, what are you doing?  What are you doing lady?  See, I can't eat veggies because my friend Liz over at 23 points a day eats them all I Might be forced to eat a couple today Ham and the oven bring into the sisters Shirley has a twin sister. Yes It's you know what Liz, I don't it is early. I don't know what's wrong with me I woke up well the rain woke me up, and then I just could never go back to sleep You're laying in bed right on that's what I normally would be doing. I don't know what's up I don't know why I'm up She's Mary Jane's watching the Philadelphia parade Making mimosas, okay ding ding ding pat gets a what is pat get she gets an add a girl Add a girls are a big deal in my family if you get an add a girl from anybody in my family You have scored Angie says hi Anita. I'm cooking for my fam for dinner tonight. I'll wait watch your friendly Except the stuffing, okay, Angie is right there with Pat. She gets an add a girl too. Good morning Jimmy There's Jimmy say how did Jimmy? Hey Jimmy? Good morning my friend happy Thanksgiving. He is gonna have a Marie counters. I mean I like work because he's got to work today He's in health care, so he has to take care of somebody and we thank him for that everybody who's in health care What is listening saying? I was supposed to go to a turkey trap, but I slept instead you two look cozy We're totally cozy.  I So we're talking about age this morning because we have this Horrible terracotta floors in our bedroom and in our dining room They're very hard. They're super hard. So getting from oh, there's your sister's daughter Getting up in the morning and walking on them really makes it hard Someday, I'm gonna do a turkey trout Liz, but I'm glad I didn't sign up this year because it's pouring But it's cozy. I'm loving it. I think that's why I'm up in Adam. What time did we go to bed last night? Was it ten because I haven't slept for very long. I'm gonna want to go back to bed pretty soon So here's the news I decided to partake in Thanksgiving for anybody who didn't hear I Changed my mind What were we gonna do for Thanksgiving before yesterday But you never you never sealed the deal Yesterday you guys talk about yourself for a second Liz entertain the crowd for a second No, are you serious? Didn't you say something when I said one? All right, let me fill you kids in on what's happening Carrie says oh my goodness my nose hurts my 17 year old son is going to help me good Oh good, then we're gonna do a puzzle and walk the dog that sounds like the perfect Thanksgiving to me Yeah, we have kitty down here, too She's wrapped up in one of our Disneyland blankets. All right, so let me tell you my tell of Nella Tell a nevada. How do you say it? Tell a novella tell a novella I've been going on for days about how I'm not participating in Thanksgiving Not tell you Tell a nevada Cuz I guess at some point I asked him do you want for those you guys don't live in California Liz Have you ever been to Cambria? Cambria is a beautiful Beach town in the pine trees. It's it. Yeah, it's the they call it the oceans the sea in the pines See in the pines and it's beautiful Pines by the sea and I mentioned at one point Hi, Roxy in Belgium, we'll celebrate for you friend, okay So I guess I said let's go to Cambria, but he never said yes. No take a hike So then yesterday I said let's go to Cindy's for Thanksgiving Cindy's Oliver's other grandmother You have to come down and go sometime was it's beautiful. I'll meet you there. How would that be? Oh? That could be our meeting point Let's do it. Let's do it for the YouTube is the kids like to say So just now I was gonna tell you that I decided that I was gonna have Thanksgiving and go We're gonna go to Cindy's house for Oliver because Oliver has to have all his family there He's gonna be the happiest boy in the world And he just said he was gonna take me to Cambria But if we were in Cambria in the rain with the ocean You sit inside But it would be awesome because we wouldn't be looking at eucalyptus trees. We'd be looking at the ocean But the great thing is Cambria doesn't close. Hi, Tracy Tracy just had a birthday happy birthday. Oh my gosh Cambia doesn't close we maybe we can go tomorrow. Hi Kathleen. Thank you.  Isn't that a coinkie-dink? Oh Listen, this is he was home last year for Thanksgiving. Wasn't he?  I can only imagine Carrie. I know that you do We love you. We love all of you guys our community. We're all here for each other Thank you Brenda from West Virginia. Yes, Jimmy says. Good morning, Steve. Thanks for my thanks for my thanks my patient And I are chilling this Thanksgiving. Good morning, Sookie. Oh Carrie and and all you guys who are you're missing somebody who is just not there or Couple who have lost people this year. It's got to be a hard Thanksgiving a hard holiday Holidays are not all they're correct to be In my book Like right now, I don't know why we don't just do this every day We're all comfy and nice and you're being nice because it's Thanksgiving You're always nice Carrie Carrie you're gonna have a good day though. What else did you say you guys were doing? Who was doing the puzzle? You were it's gonna be a great day.   I don't even have a good reason There's it's too much hype. It's like the hype that's expected from you. Good morning, Connie. Thank you So black Friday at Cambria there take no black Friday at Cambria.  Are you cooking? She's like She should have a cooking show That's why she's on to because she wanted a cooking show I listened to everything all my friends say on the YouTube channels And she thought it would be so easy to have a cooking show on YouTube and then she realized it's Especially when it's a one-man show and she doesn't have producers and cameramen and all that stuff It's nice to be nice rocks he says I wish I could repeat what she said in I wonder I wish I could pronounce that Black Friday here in North Carolina. Are you guys that far ahead of us in California? It's already Friday there I Daughter is working, but you'll see them tonight, and that's all that matters at least you'll get to see him I'm not seeing my daughter I'm not seeing my son my son is in Washington. My daughter is in I'm not sure where my daughter is it's she's okay But I found out yesterday didn't tell you she had to move Because I just found out at the last minute too she had to move out of where she was So I want to tell you guys something yesterday. I kind of Once I found out that we were gonna go somewhere and do Thanksgiving I Kind of decided well, let's start early anybody want to guess how many points I ate yesterday Most of them last night And I'm not gonna say why Even though Liz knows why but after that is when I ate everything anybody want to guess my total of points yesterday was Here miss.  Okay, thank you. We don't do Black Friday. No, Brenda, but you're close. I had let me go back and look I had 49 points yesterday I'm going to my in-laws. I have today off. Yay Wait, you have today off, but let's discuss that later. I have to find Brussels sprouts. Oh my god I had 300 points yesterday. Thank you for telling me now. I don't feel so alone. I feel so much better Cheers, I know you don't have coffee yet because you're in bed, but here's to you my friend Seriously, I don't I Don't feel as bad now He's ice skating on the laminin floors, but I tracked everything The problem is is I buy things and I think that I can get a grip But then I'm in the frame of mind Roxy says and I thought that was French Roxy I don't know how to speak French. I am French. My English isn't that great Oh, it looks pretty good to me, but I understand you perfectly. I had 26 points and 20 today Just had dinner. Just had dinner We have not had dinner yet. It's only 8 20 here in the manana. That's my French manana And you should have today off isn't your place of business closed the whole thing until tomorrow. I'm interested in that I You know, Sukey, that's the one thing about me. I'm a tracker track track track. Good morning, Victoria Everything's tracked, but I I woke up this morning going. Oh, I don't think that was good because I did I ate at night Good morning, Katie from UK. How is it over there? You're not doing Thanksgiving either You're in the right place even though I'm not at the beach. Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he say, oh honey? Let's go to the beach instead of we're going over to Cindy and Alan's I'm gonna pack a bag and 1124 in North Carolina, I've swamped from green to blue today.  How come I Love green man. Love green, but you Katie. Did you did you start on freestyle? You didn't start on freestyle. What'd you start on? Where's your coffee mug from today? You have to show everybody what coffee mug you're using Mammoth Mountain that's mammoth lakes. I don't think that's Twin Lakes Oh So it is so it is Katie I'm curious to know what you're switching and if you started on freestyle Liz up there Who had 300 points yesterday? And I'm wondering if Liz all your points was it was it candy was a chocolate because I know that that's your trigger my triggers breads Happy turkey day Rachel. I was just looking at your story. How do you are having some fabulous hair days? I mean your Steve too I Recommended the hours this year and recommended be closed. I'm in retail for those who don't know but I'm up at 6 a.m. Tomorrow Purple plan looks so intriguing the purple plan Liz I think you and I should try the purple plan sometime even though you're wildly successful on the blue Katie says I did freestyle for two weeks New plans came so I tried green. Okay. I did love it, but had a massive binge. So needed to swap something just For that starting new feel. Oh good for you. That is a great plan of attack. That's such a great plan of attack Carrie says I made a yummy pumpkin pie bar from drizzle me skinny, but I lightened the crust So it's a big score for four points right on you guys are so inspiring and I'm so glad I helped on that We can inspire each other that we can do this Eliza says hello all fell off the WW wagon last evening and had pie it was so so good wasn't it though your taste buds are probably very happy with you And now I'm afraid every time I look at the rest of it on the counter Well, you know, I've been known to take a little dish soap and douse a thing or two maybe but don't tell Steve My friends daughter used to work at Now she's a chiropractor in Portland, Oregon.  Oh, I said you want to go to Cindy's or why don't we go to Cindy's for Thanksgiving? I said sure and he said sure and then just now he said But his plan was he was gonna take me to Cambria, which is the beach Rather be at the beach, but the beach doesn't close so he's gonna be sorry said that because we can still go We still have three more days This purple chocolate Katie's vegan, okay, so that's awesome because they have all those great green foods Melissa's in the same boat with us listening. She had 49 points yesterday must have been something in the air It's the whole thought it's the whole there's food. We're surrounded by food everywhere. I mean You know, it's kind of hard not to so here's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna say screw it I'm gonna enjoy today. I don't eat You vouch for me. I'm not a big eater No, that's not what I'm asking you to I'm not asking you to tell me what to do I'm asking you to vouch for me that even when I do eat. I'm not a I'm not a banger Really because I'm a picker you guys Roxy says I am eating a meal at my doctors every Wednesday with a few other ladies at your doctors Okay, I think maybe this is where your English is coming in a little wonky That's my weight watching meeting. Okay, I was a member for only a few months and Following inspiring youtubers like you. Thank you and thanks for hanging in here with us We're we're fun to hang out with weight-watchers or not Aren't we all just like the best and I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about our community Angie loves the purple plan To have a pound. Oh, do you guys want to see what I made to take today? Carrie, thank you for mentioning drizzle me skinny I'm going to go find the recipe and make my own pie with lawyer blower points, you know Eliza There's also a zero-point pumpkin recipe That I got from the twins years ago. There's no crust. Good morning cat Look at cat is like she is the You don't fit in this crowd cat.  I'm gonna get what I made to take today to show it to you guys Okay, Eliza before we hang out remind me and I will look it up for you She went to get her chocolate cherry Drizzle pie cake So this is the box I got at sprouts you guys It's it's swerve and for those that you don't know swerve is a sweetener It's an artificial sweetener, but that's a cake mix So I made this I Made this chocolate cake with some powdered sugar and then I got the light It's good. I got it. It's got the light Powdered sugar on there Rachel Anna saying hello to you Steve. Hi, Rachel. She's got those beautiful bouncy curls like Sally on peanuts only she's brunette And I love her. I'm hoping it'll be good Thank you, babe, isn't he like the best co-host ever I Hope so oh My gosh, we're not eating till four. We're getting a message right now This just in This just in good morning We decided to eat at four and the kids are coming over at two. So would you like to come around to? Well, we need to go have a Thanksgiving giving meal before a Thanksgiving meal My taste buds are ready I hope it's good you guys I had I have never made one before this I remembered I had it in there after we decided to go and I of course want to take something Bulk up on veggies. That's perfect English Roxy. Man. See, I just I just blew it. I just 49 points yesterday Like he's not even here, but he is you know what I mean welcome to my world guys But he's cute to look at so I don't mind most of the time. Oh Hang on. Does everybody have their water? This is a great importance today Look at their jerseys So, you know what we can't figure out you guys is The Macy's Day parade live because we haven't had it on here yet and I thought it was because it's tape delayed because we're behind But I think it is live isn't it? So so for all of us who kind of didn't do so high I did really well up until yesterday too, which is kind of Stupid Okay, so cat Katie is it Thanksgiving today? Oh Katie. You're in the UK. Yes, darling. It's Thanksgiving today. That's why we're talking about all of us eating so much Okay, so Eliza are the floats going or is it just the pre stuff because we just have the pre stuff here We're looking at football players with food on there For us yet starts in a half an hour Hmm, I don't think I've ever seen a Thanksgiving Day parade because I'm not a big parade Gal and usually I'm sleeping But today I was just up and out. I'm so nice and early because of the rain All right, so those of us anybody who wants to give me a like I never asked for lights lights But I just watched a big youtuber who said hey if you give me a like It really helps out my channel. So I think I need to start asking for likes Thank You Katie Yes, the balloons are going but close to the ground due to the winds. I have you okay No parade spoilers Okay, here's a parade spoiler. Everybody's gonna walk down the street Jimmy Fallon did a live from a whatever float. He's on and that was really kind of cute. I like Jimmy Fallon Let's see. Did I miss anybody's comments that are important day? Okay, we got to remember to get Eliza the zero-point recipe, you know what if you Google We'll get it for you. No parade spoiler. Okay. I keep starting to say for those of us It was on Instagram cat it wasn't on our parade our parade we still just have Al Roker standing out here in his blue glasses Roxie says I like you all the time lovely lady and husband She's a teacher of children the same age as Oliver over in Belgium Yes, and I think that No, it's just the same one Okay, so for those of us who went off the tracks yesterday Today just you know, I'm not gonna worry about today My biggest problem is pumpkin pie. My biggest problem is the whipped cream on the pumpkin pie I have this much pumpkin pie and this much whipped cream And I told him it's the same one I'm just I'm not gonna worry about it today. You know what? I'm probably gonna I'm gonna go to my meeting tomorrow I'm gonna weigh in hey here. I have a question for you guys. I have never not weighed in Can you go to a meeting and not weigh in? When did you start working for weight-watchers? Is that your side hustle?  We got a troll hang on. Anybody want a mod? Let's remove this person Okay, so just go in hi Becky Okay, I gotta remind what are you guys doing up there? Let's see. Happy Thanksgiving and eat and Steve having a blizzard today, right?  Oh my gosh, how I would love that I would love to be in your house right now And do you have you started decorating for are you gonna do your whole village this year? Remember if you stopped doing it or not pound dropper has a zero-point pumpkin pie recipe.   Good morning, Cindy. Happy Thanksgiving Saturdays Kerry's birthday. I've heard of those bunk cakes, but I've never had one Yes, thank goodness Chris retired and doesn't have to drive down the mountain. Thank goodness. Oh My gosh, are people coming up are you guys staying in? We're expected rain here in the desert been about an hour from us up in Flagstaff. They will have 30 inches of snow No problem. Let's see Kim. I missed. Oh holidays. It's okay friend. No problem. Oh The five is closed here. The grapevine is down So anywhere that we were gonna go taking the grapevine we can't go not that we've ever have we ever been on the Grapevine together since we've been married. I don't think we have it's a different route To know where that we go for a clock. Oh my goodness gracious. It's pouring down here right now twos Becky Pouring pouring so that kind of makes me feel a little bit better about not going to Disneyland for Thanksgiving Because we've gone to Disneyland for Thanksgiving the last three years Made buttercream frosted sugar cookies last night and I'm gonna eat them Good for you. Oh, man. Those tastes good Oh, it sounds good in the room of Weight Watchers Trying to get ready and watch at the same time leaving soon for our early dinner cat Can I come to your early dinner because apparently my dinner is not going to be for hours You know what maybe we go to Subway and get a turkey sandwich But you know anyways with the rain I don't feel bad about not being down at Disneyland even though the The food's so so so good down there at Thanksgiving Kim says holidays are hard for many of us my younger brother 55 years died of a sudden heart attack last week. Oh my goodness Food around what would have been his 56th birthday? I'm just heartbroken But I need to be here for my kids and nine grandsons food is an issue and yet seems so insignificant now Kim It's completely insignificant my friend Don't worry about anything more than you have on your plate And what a horrible pun that was for this time and it came out of my mouth before I was thinking about what I was saying Just get through the day. I my condolences. I am so sorry That's gonna be hard Suki is going to an enormous fancy buffet at five.  Oh my gosh nine grand boys I Have two grandsons and one granddaughter, but I only know one grandson and the granddaughter just barely I've never met one of my grandsons. Life is just weird, isn't it? You just don't know Are you answering your sister? Yeah, okay, I'm You know, I think that's I I'm so so incredibly sorry and the pressure of the holidays and how it's you know, I Think that's it's the great holiday letdown for me every year. It's like we expect so much and oh My gosh I'm so incredibly sorry. I wish I wish I could just give you a hug through the internet There's something and there's just nothing anybody can do Kim Do I know where you are geographically are you in California or where are your cranberry sauce has so much sugar? But I need it Marty Come sit next to me Come sit next to me last year I Cat I'm trying last year. I tried to make a Wait watch a recipe for cranberry sauce and just not the same. It's just but one good thing. I'm going for me I do not enjoy gravy. I don't understand gravy. You're in Minnesota Don't cat says I don't stress over a day. It's a blessing to see family whenever a day doesn't matter You know and hence that is part of the problem Everybody wants to see their family It's sad but true, you know, it's a Doesn't always go Okay, thanks when there's some family that I don't have to see Just one just one remember one Christmas It was it was between it was after my first husband took a powder and left me with the house and My kids and I mean just literally he just left And left me with everything and it was a really sad year and I got my kids Everything they wanted for Christmas only one Roxy just one And it's I still couldn't make anybody happy I didn't get anything anybody my kids were they were teenagers though And you know what I don't know what I'm gonna do when Oliver becomes a teenager I'm gonna skip town for a few years. I think It is raining. I can hear it on zealoth. I'm hungry So is kitty, are you hungry kitty you want to say hi to everybody? She's like when I lift her up Don't mind him. I said don't mind you since you're standing.   Hi kitty dog. Could it dog? Welcome over Maybe Becky's still here. She's happy to see you even though she was more of a Clara kind of gal Eliza, I don't spend Thanksgiving with family because I always worked this day for decades Retail I take it or health care now my husband and I spend it quietly together and Visit family tomorrow instead of shopping. There you go. That sounds wonderful. Mom is 88 In poor health. I'm sorry. So talked by phone this morning And you know what that's just as we age things change, right? Everything changes completely. This is a funny one or younger We never expect anything to change like our thanksgivings with our family because we kind of have the same family It's weird story, but the family got so large with all of our kids My one cousin had eight children now. They have all their children and there's no room for us oldie Maldives There is Becky. Look at kitty. Say hi to Becky She does see Steve standing in front of me Becky with her dish But yeah, I miss Clara I miss Clara back. I need to talk to you about that sometime Kitty's lonely acting kind of weird Kitty down You know the other day she was sitting on my bed and she was totally seated and cleaning herself like a cat And I should have taken a picture because I have a lot of folks that asked me why did you name your dog kitty? Because I'm just so inventive that way All right, so now let's let's let's think now that I have you guys here now that I've called you all This morning. Good morning, Kim Eliza I wanted to go back and tell you that I haven't spoken to my mom And then my dad is in uh, oh diane comfy My dad is in a what are they called? What is it called? What is it called where my dad is, honey? Well, it's not a rest home. It's a memory facility because he has Alzheimer's So this would be the first Thanksgiving. I haven't talked to him It's it's it. You know, it's it's life and You have a great day too. Kim. I hope you're feeling good and ready for the day Diane you sound cozy. I'm pretty darn cozy here. I have to say We never have our heater on and it's on right now. All right, so back to my food for the day today. Do I track today? You guys tell me what you think should I track today I should I stay within my points because I haven't not eaten anything yet today. So oh, that's incorrect I had my oatmeal. Oh, yeah, Becky. I haven't talked to him so long He just um This is a sad story Oh my gosh, I do have a lot to fill you in on me I have a lot to fill you in on he wrecked a car and then we realized he was farther gone than we thought and so my mom is down in San Diego and then One of her daughters and her son and his girlfriend are with her My other sister is on the road to well. She's probably there by Nash went to Memphis to see one of her daughters And here we are Going to eat but tracking everything I think that's wise because you know, I think tracking will help us keep from going over For anybody has trouble going over. I don't really think I'm gonna go over because The foods that I'm having I don't eat like green bean casserole. I don't eat yams I wish I could Eliza, but it just Could you give me some more coffee, please? You want some more coffee, please? Absolutely. Thank you. I love you Yes track, but if you don't want to stain your points, don't Gosh because I'm torn No, no, no, I I No, no, no, it's totally awesome Everybody can say whatever they like thinking out loud. No, it's totally cool I'm an open book. You know, it's funny because I was thinking the other day. I want to do one of those Ask me anything videos But nobody ever asked me anything because I ever tell you guys everything before anybody asked me Cat says I'm only eating stuff. I normally don't eat during the year, which is what they tell us at W. W. You know, here's something funny. You guys the first year I did W. W. On Thanksgiving Like I said, we were at Disneyland. Thanks darling Sure Sure. Oh my gosh, it's crazy. Um, Becky. It's like too too much.  I finally have a little bit of peace I know I have I have some peace, you know But Becky, I don't know if you know or not, but Chelsea's doing really really good So much to catch up on Only track your adult beverages You know what I'll be having adult beverages at dinner because and you'll track the sugar Oh, you you're running a hard bargain there, lady Thank you. Oh my gosh, there's not going to be any adult beverages at Where we're going, but I'm sure there'll be some at home when we get back I Track but enjoy tracking is big part of being unplanned. Oh, so I started to tell you guys the first Thanksgiving a few years back We went to disneyland for dinner and you know what I had for disneyland dinner This is how this is what a good weight watcher. I am I had spinach salad for my Thanksgiving meal But I lost 50 pounds Happy Thanksgiving Brenda Eliza, you're in the right group lady.  Thanks for popping in with us. I should probably let all you guys go do what you're supposed to do Instead of giving you a place to procrastinate I think I'll just take the day as it comes I'll just see what happens, but I am hungry now I forgot I bought those English muffins I want an English muffin pizza I'm 57 years old if I want to have an English muffin Pizza for breakfast. I can right? Have a great day cat. That's what I'm looking forward to You got to get dressed, but I read dressing Like the gal who was drinking tea on her ipad and I thought she was having a drinking game I'm so glad I have myself to crack me up Track and move on is my motto I think I'll just take it as it comes I want a poached egg on an English muffin. Liz wants a poached egg on an English muffin She says coming right up. That does sound kind of good, doesn't it? I've had oatmeal and a yogurt this morning. So I'm at five smart points right now, but I am hungry Do I want to just eat bread though? It doesn't When it comes down to brass tacks, it doesn't keep me full And I don't maybe some eggs and guacamole All right. Have a wonderful day Whoever's there. Give them my best. Won't you please? I know that you're gonna make some fantastic meal Good thing you're snowed in up there. I'd be pounding on your front door I love you and I hope to talk to you soon. We'll catch up. That's so nice. Eliza. Thank you.  Mmm eggs and guacamole. You think that's maybe I'll have that I don't like eggs though. All right. I'm gonna go feed myself Thank you for the 12 likes the 12 of you who gave me a thumbs up Everybody have a wonderful day and here's my parting wisdom If If at the end of the day, you're not happy with the amount of points that you ate.  It's one day Um Eliza, are you on instagram? Because you can message me over there if you are I'm over there to chap hadouac And if you can't find it, then I am more than happy to track it down for you I had not going to do anything for hours Um, just enjoy your day and whatever it is the hi susan Thank you so much hugs right back to you my friend Uh, just you know what don't beat yourself up. It's one day and if you've been doing this for long We all know how to get it back off. It's just gonna take You know a little time to do it and it's life and uh, it's it's about Santa is about to make his appearance. Isn't that true?  Liz i'm thinking about you. I forgot about private baby. I wasn't thinking All right Cheers here's to all of you for always giving me something to be thankful, which I truly am and I can't wait till my Camera is up and running again, and I can start posting videos regularly. Okay Drink the water and know your bathrooms are wherever you find yourself today


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Let's go back down since Actually, we turn off the sounds we can just focus on Movement the thing that I like in terms of progression is that he is a bit faster at the beginning and as he gains Confidence he gets slower and slower, you know with those type of moves and especially this one I think that is a great contrast for you have. Yeah Okay, I ordered this compared to Those moves and the fast moves here. I think It doesn't really bother me You might argue because I read your mail first and then I watch it and I felt like oh, okay Maybe this is a bit fast, but then I'm watching it again. I think it's fine. I know that seems fine Maybe you know you go up and that like you're going all the way up And it's if you're really picky Which I am you're tracking The fingers going over here and then whoa changes direction and also goes back the same way I think this you know to give weight with all that momentum and going up You can go here, but then imagine that the tip would do something more like that So you give it a bit more time to round out that arc and then come back Which means that you're gonna take frames away From that hold maybe right so you're gonna have to add Because if you're adding more frames to finish that then this drop is going to be even faster So you're gonna have to steal some frames somewhere Let's see. Hold on. I'm gonna put the back to sound just in case I can please do the house salad Yeah, you got it and then I do a piece of bread on the bottom and on the top, please Okay, maybe just throw in a piece of meat in the middle with Yeah, it's tricky. I do a piece of bread on the bottom and on the top, please. I mean what you could do Turn the sound off again Because we are fairly clear in terms of negative space So if he's going like this right and he's this high What if you only bring it this high just throwing it out there, right? It's maybe it's a bit lower and then Because it's the same timing but different height It's going to be slower and then that gives you just enough time to finish that arc And it would be something more like that into that And I think that's fine That's fine Silhouettes nice here. We understand the structure of the arm to have a bit close almost tangent here And it's a bit tricky maybe you can cheat by pulling out that shoulder Or I mean you can see how That neck This may be a bit like this so maybe you can pull that head Over so just give this a little bit more room It's not crazy. It's kind of like So close so close. I'll probably go a bit more to the right But I already have some good stuff in there Before we're getting into details, you know, like detail stuff like offsetting fingers Uh for our movement that needs to influence the wrist So it's not just Uh broken IK I love how it's that deflated slide down. It's great Oh, I feel so defeated at the end Is it too much is it too much of a life it's just That's the only thing maybe again being super picky and that's extremely subjective here With all the energy and the humor in the in the shot To then end on a slow move like that This is almost like this like super tragic at the end. So we're gonna go out there If that might be too much, but maybe not All right, can I please do the house sale? And I think uh, you also mentioned here that I think something about timing He feels fast. I don't think it's okay You don't see it here. I think it's just you have to go as you go into the lip sync some areas feel late All right, can I please do the house sale House sale. Yeah, so the lip sync just kind of bring that a couple firms earlier and then When you hear is can I please I would have a little bit of up and down in the head Can I please because again, it's kind like that overall feeling of he's going to be more active I think he's going to have your head accents with the jaw going up and down just as he talks He's more skittish and and nervous and then as we get to here with a bit with some cheese on it You know, why not like then that feels fine With a bit with some cheese on it. You know, why not even the head accents that they can stay So uh cheese bigger No, I said how solid Yeah, that's that was my no for still lip sync just watch out obviously for the timing But then give it some more head accents and more energy in the head All right, could I please do the house sale? Yeah, it's some really nice stuff already. You like the rhythm in your finger All right, could I please do the house sale An extension. Yeah, you got it. And um, can I do a piece of bread on the bottom and on the top, please? Okay, maybe maybe just throw and then as for polish, you know, once you get into a pose like this Okay You have a little relaxation in the thumb here, but you can start earlier so that tension could then release a bit Okay Okay, because the moment he hears the okay He's like, oh, he can relax a bit so the shoulders can go down a little bit fingers can relax a bit And then he gets into that maybe maybe just throw in uh Maybe maybe just throw in uh Bread on the bottom and on the top, please Okay, maybe maybe just throw it Maybe now that i'm watching this maybe this is fast. I think the only thing is when I was looking at this you have a You're beginning to turn but then it's a linear key in terms of your translates So it ease into that a bit more so you might have to get Maybe start that sooner or again not go as high so you can be here So that the distance is shorter. So it's going to be slower But also careful that it's not too straight It feels a bit straight arc wise I think the rest is okay because it gets to the the armrest You have a bit of ease in and rotation. I think that should be okay Okay, maybe maybe just throw in a piece of meat in the middle.  It's a meat in the middle with uh with a piece of cheese on it And I think here you can hear in the voice middle with uh with a piece of cheese on it He's still kind of fumbling the words So then here you can still have a little bit of a dirty arc and a little bit of head accents So it's kind of it's almost moppity where the head accents go Every time up and down when he says a word just to give this a bit Because he's very smooth at this point with a piece of cheese So I think that can reflect the voice a bit more Put some cheese on it. You know might not So uh cheese bigger No, and now watch out here mechanically it gets a bit Locked in terms of an ik arm as you go up and again watch out It's fairly straight and because we don't change the rotation that risk that much either in terms of that angle It gets a bit straight ik looking and then we get to this I'm framing through here. Here you can see how it's locked fairly and then it just rotates clockwise See that and then your stomach Goes down everything goes down. So you're gonna have to bring that arm down as well To really rest on that stomach and here again. It feels like real lock. We're just kind of rotating this way It's better there and that's fine And the rest is fine It's really cool. It's a really good update I'm looking at this which is leaning over and it's leaning over to his butt cheek On stuff like this, this is again super picky if you're leaning on this like the way you're pivoting over this feels Right there feels a bit much like we're pivoting right off the middle as opposed to shifting weight from one butt cheek to the other That's super picky, but Again, it feels like that line stays here. He just rotates over instead of pivoting and leaning on this so that His line here will be here. I know it's hidden behind the chair But you don't want to have that feeling of just we're pivoting off in the middle and just go up and down Whoa, that was me shifting the frame See with uh with a bit with some cheese on it. Yeah, why not? So uh, but that is great. I really like the shifts there. That's really cool cheese burger No, I said how solid And then you're bringing the knees together Yeah, yeah, it's really cool. There's so much great detail stuff that you've added here. It's really nice All right, that's it. Thanks All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


Hi, so my first slide was going to be all this but M fist did a really great job introducing me so I run a tech support team about 150 agents now and we have about 400,000 customers all around the world 24 seven support and this is going to be important because this is a bit of a context For the tips I'm going to give you later for a bit of personal context. I am Gen X I grew up in Europe. I'm single and I'm in a tech leadership position. This is all gonna kind of make sense later This presentation is about work-life balance, which I didn't even know was a thing until it became a problem for me So and that is not me But it could be because I kind of felt like that throughout the years trying to figure out my own work-life balance and the balance for my team Lightning talk 15 minutes gonna go fast. I'm gonna share some do's and don'ts and They are gonna be somewhat specific to my role and how my team functions, but I hope that you find some Useful examples here. So first, let's do the do's Figure out who you are and what are your core values digging into why you are who you are will also help This is basically where you come from your past environments your old managers This is something that you can build on or if you hate it because of the examples that you experienced before You can do a 180 and create your own foundation to move away from all that and of course Your life is gonna keep happening and it's gonna keep adding to This work-life balancing act basically So do understand the company culture where you work and understand how the roles are defined You as an individual as a manager do not exist in a vacuum. So you need to understand Where you work? Assess quickly if you do or do not belong to this environment Because ideally where you work should align with your personal values in my case after after a finished college I Knew that I needed to find something solid in long term because that's what my family role models did And that's what I knew how to do So I set out to do that and I failed the first option that I picked I left after six months because I realized that we just weren't a match However, my second one. I'm still there and this is my 20th year at the same company And I'm very fortunate that I've been working. Thank you That's a big deal like 20 years in a tech company is like huge And I know I'm not even the oldest tenured person in the company I work in a very supportive environment that takes care of its people and that makes a big difference So Understand that you need to leave room for change like maybe you figured it out You have a good balance, but your life and needs will change so That's the leave room part at the beginning when I started I was like work work work. I was fine. No break I don't need it work is fulfilling love it won't work all the time Later, I realized that work was okay but there were other options for me to fulfill my needs to Achieve whatever I wanted to achieve or to be happy So I was able to adjust a little bit and added more life to the balance For example, I love to travel and we have a good vacation allowance So my workplace basically encouraged and supported my wanderlust and I created sort of new balance But I wasn't done Because due to my nature and the nature of my work I Couldn't completely switch off. It's tech support 24-7 manager position and I felt like I was responsible for everything. I internalized the SLAs and It started affecting my personal relationships and then my relationship would work and I almost didn't realize it until it was too late I was feeling resentful and Responsible and alone and I felt like the my peers Didn't feel the same way and they didn't care So that's something that I needed to rethink and change my perspective on that and recognize my own limitations as a human being so try not to get yourself into a position where Anything makes or break makes or breaks on your availability So you need to train mentor Delegate communicate and most importantly you need to trust the people that you rely on because somebody else needs to take care of The work so you can have your life And of course work is just work Which is obvious for some people but not for others Bad decisions do have consequences But they can be also used as learning opportunities and in the grand scheme of things it probably won't matter as much But all this needs to come from above leadership needs to Model this behavior Now let's do a couple of do's on how to be the right kind of manager to help your team with their relationship with a work-life balance Because you as a manager you're in a position when you affect people's lives and you can accidentally impact them in a negative way And why you don't have to constantly stand in attention Be aware of your influence and try not to best try best not to model the wrong behavior so remember what I mentioned about Finding the right environment for your values if you hire or manage other people help them do the same They need to also understand the company they are entering or working in and the expectations of their role And that means that some people will not align with what the expectations are and that's fully okay because there are places for everybody In other you know other environments like remember how I Left the workplace after six months because I was like this is not for me, but then my second workplace I'm there for 20 years. So it's possible to find the right places Get to know your team I feel like this is the most important thing that you can do as a manager You need to find out who they are What motivates them? What are their baselines and what are their boundaries? Talk to them, you know, you can do one-on-ones. You can do team-building events All those things are familiar for managers Knowing these baselines and boundaries will help you recognize when they go outside that baseline and that's when you start asking questions Because while we know that not everybody needs to be a top performer Some people are so when they start acting like not like that Then you need to figure out what's going on and you need to find a way to offer assistance and bring them back up So it's a personal note here. I used to be a really really bad manager I know one person here in the audience who remembers that and one of the best things that I did is to Get to know my people get to know who they are. What are their values and what is Their relationship with work life balance and stop applying my own template on everybody Another way to to get to know your people, especially if you work with different cultures Like we do we have seven different countries and our teams now is to to try and and understand the different cultures that make up your team because all of them will have a little bit of different approach to work and you know, just stay curious and Work with HR if you have a team and they can help with the basics or do social events and and talk to them and figure out who they are So now that you figured out the boundaries Make sure that you respect them yours as well And if ever there is a need to go outside those boundaries It can be okay, but you need to communicate you need to acknowledge and you need to appreciate When you cross those things don't just like barge in there And then there might be people who don't know how to set those boundaries on your team or don't know how to say no and Maybe they don't think they can say no because you're the boss or they just really really love to be over engaged like I used to be when I started and it's your job as a manager to identify those people at risk or those situations at risk and help them set those boundaries before they burn out and You know, there might be other people on your peer level Who do the same because it's really tempting to go to people for help who never say no so talk to your peers as well and You need to start and model Availability expectations try not to message people outside their shift I know it's tempting and there is all these things that you can use to talk to people But there are tools that you can use to help like there is you can schedule slacks you can schedule emails Because even if you tell people when you send a message at 10 p.m. That you don't need any immediate answer They're like, oh shoot the boss is working at 10 p.m. So maybe I should be working at 10 p.m so be mindful of mindful of your impact and try to not model this very questionable behavior Time away from work is also important to maintain the healthy work-life balance And sometimes you as a manager struggle with the fact that there are not enough people on your team But that should not be the main or the only reason to deny pay time off So find whatever works find ways that work for your business and your team to allow your people to be Away from work when they need to be For example, my team shots off certain channels during holidays and we communicate to the customers That we won't be available doing live chat for example during Christmas So we have our team can spend time with their families instead. So stay empathetic Couple of don'ts Do not assume that People have the same relationship with work-life balance Even if they have the same job as you or even if they used to have the same relationship as you Because people grow and change at a different rate and they deal with life at a different pace Like if you remember Maslow's hierarchy of needs the pyramid We move up and down those steps and everybody deals with things differently Some people sometimes people need to step away from work Sometimes they need to really step into work to deal with whatever is happening just like you and so keep an eye out and Going back to get to know your team the more you know about your team the better you know your people The better you will be able to help them in these shifts Do not consider yours as the de facto work ethic or strong work ethic because work ethic is basically just a set of personal values related to work You're not the de facto person Which is what I thought when I started as a manager and I was like I wouldn't ask anything from them that I wouldn't do myself So what's their problem? But that's not good. That's a fallacy because all people are different people So remember that And here's a quick reminder to be self-aware and try and model the right behavior for your team but of course you're a human being so you will make mistakes and You know reach out for help to those that you trust and keep going So you did the work you figured out your work life balance You are modeling consciously the right behavior. Well done. Everything's okay. We're done here. Not so fast This is one of my favorite quotes here Life is not static. So never assume that the work that you're doing towards work life balance is ever fully done because stuff happens and Yeah, we all kind of remember what this did to our work life balance So let's try this again Give yourselves a break things got a little more complicated on the tightrope and when COVID hit we gave up the offices and went fully remote and During the beginning I felt like I had to almost start from scratch trying to figure out my balance Took me about six months really to adapt and adjust and move on So here are some basic tips that I learned I'm in a very privileged position. I have a separate room for home office good for me That's not the standard, but even if you don't Some sort of physical separation will help If you can do it at home great if you can go co-working spaces even better There is another way that I solved my problem like I said, I'd like traveling So I picked other cities to work from Mixing travel with work, but I know that's not somebody not every now Not everybody can do this or want to do this, but it's you know, it helped me you just need to find what works for you Mental and emotional separation is also very important. You need to find activities that demarcates Life from work, even if you can fully physically separate With no commute or you know having to dress up for the office. I would just roll out of beds and I would work until dark and That was not good, especially when I forgot to eat all day I needed to set some time for me in the morning and set alarms in the evening to stop working and This is how you can help your team During these trying times you need to remain curious supportive and accepting and take their consider take their circumstances into consideration when communicating about remote expectations and Even if you're struggling you still need to pay attention to your team because you're responsible But you need to communicate you need to make them understand what the new requirements are and You need to set and manage those expectations Based on the the new reality. I guess do not micromanage Just pay attention And remember you work with people so try and foster some sort of like Community environment with remote events if possible Great, you did it again. So good job Well, you will have to do it again and again because circumstances will keep changing and change is never easy so These are something to remember when you go into the next changes pay attention to your team Do not assume their circumstances communicate the expectations and keep everybody a break yourself as well and quickly we're bringing in some takeaways of of What I find the most important to Try and figure out your own work-life balance and to to help your team do the same and model the right behavior And I think I am out of time So here's a quick Thank you for listening to this and if you have any questions those are all the availabilities and I'm happy to expand on all the ways that I did it wrong at the beginning and the things that I learned To you know to be the right kind of manager and leader for my team. So thank you