Family Theater presents Jane Powell and Parley Baer. Action with Family Theater presents Parley Baer as Old Judge Priest in quality folks by Urban S. Cobb. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Jane Powell. Thank you very much, Gene Baker. A few weeks ago, Family Theater presented one of Urban S. Cobb's favorite characters, Old Judge Priest. The reaction of our audience was so gratifying, and we have a number of requests for another story, so numerous, that we are happy to reintroduce Old Judge Priest to you again. It is with a great deal of pleasure, with a deep bow to you for your letters, that we bring you Parley Baer as Judge William Pittman Priest, and Ruby Dandridge as Aunt Charley in Urban S. Cobb's quality folks. Judge Priest, as was his custom, had allowed his considerable bulk to settle down in an old leather rocker on his front porch on Clay Street. He started out of his drows as he heard the latch on the front gate gear and the hinges sag open.  One of his cronies was coming through the gate, after nearly three years soldiering in Florida, and to old men, three years is a long, long time. Well, do like I do declare, I am glad to see you. Judge, it's sure good to see you. When did you get back, son? Just last night, Billy. I would have come over then, but it was late when that old train puffed in.  Yes, sir. Three years. I've missed you, son. I ain't had a decent game of croquet since you left. I declare I am glad to see you. And are you, Billy? Considerable number of things have happened in three years, I take it. Grab a seat on the swing there, Lou, and rest your hands and feet. Yep, I don't mind if I do. I don't mind if I do. I've been expecting you to come banging back here, but I had to do what I did. I had to act on my own judgment, seeing as you was nowhere as about. I got an announcement, Billy, a born in announcement. Yep, a born in announcement. Yeah, suspicion, that's what brought you high-tailing. A thing like that's never happened before, judge, not down here in the south particularly. And or anywhere else, neither, for as I can recollect, but that ain't no reason why it shouldn't. But, then, me, Lou, Billy, our own personal war. Now, now, hold on, Lou, hold on. Lots of folks is bearing the names they are, because somebody else had them first. Take Wadsworth, Jr.'s Courtney, a squire, attorney at law, for instance. His boy, and general fact totem, who sweeps out the office for him, his name is Wadsworth, Jr.'s Courtney Jones. Well, that's only natural, Billy. His mammy named him that with special intent to do honor to her right-indulgent employer. Yes, and you recollect Rowena Hill guard telling him 12 months after her Christian, there was four more Rowena Hill guards in our fair city. I know, Billy, but that's common occurrence with our people. But you'll have to admit this is the first time a white baby's been dubbed with the name of her mammy, and with due knowledge of the fact and with deliberate intent. Well, that ain't so bad, is it, Lou? It seems to me, in your official capacity, you could have prevented it. I reckon it could have. Had I had the desire, then maybe I couldn't either. Now, look, Lou, maybe you better hear the whole story right from the onset. First of all, it all started about two years ago. For more years, and either you or me, there's, remember, there's been certain people known for certain things in this town. Main most among them has been old Aunt Charlotte Helm and the loudest, most discordant voice in our town. And it was that foghorn voice going full blast one hot afternoon that sort of started bringing matters to a head. You've seen her yourself, Lou, gallivanting back and forth from the Dabney House to the store, wearing a spotless white cloth around her head and a man's battered straw hat teetering jaundedly on top of it. She'd up in a voice that could crack a window to everything about her. Her gait, despite its limp, her pose or figure, there was something masterful, something dominating, something tremendously proud, Lou. Slowly she crossed the yard and let herself out the side gate. She went out of sight, and strangely enough, even out of here and down the side street in the hot sunshine of the late afternoon. The well-rested young man, feeling a good bit of relief, settled back in the hammock he was stretched out in behind the thick screen of vines that covered the wide front porch of the Dabney House. The estimable Aunt Charlotte appears to be an excellent voice and spirits today, Miss Emmylou. It's perfectly awful. I know it. I don't know that I ever heard her when her top notes carried farther than they did just now. If Mildred and I have asked her once not to carry on like that here at the front of the house, we've asked her a hundred times. It's bad enough to have her whooping like a wild Indian in the kitchen. But it never seems to do any good. Why don't you try getting rid of her altogether as a remedy? Get rid of Aunt Charlotte? Why, how of it? Mr. Winslow, we couldn't do that. Why not? Why, Aunt Charlotte's always been in our family. Why, she's just like one of us. Just like our own flesh and blood. Why, she used to belong to my grandmother Helm before the Great War. Why... I see. She used to belong to your grandmother and now you belong to her. Tell me, Miss Emmylou, how does it feel to be a human chattel with no prospect of emancipation? Why, Mr. Winslow, don't... Never mind.  And besides, she's gone. She won't be back for a half hour or so. Oh, now, don't hit your chair away from me. I've got something very important that I want to tell you. It concerns you and somebody else. It concerns me and somebody else. And yet only two persons are concerned of it. Emm has a way of fleeting when two young people are in love. And it didn't seem like no time at all to Emmylou and young Mr. Winslow till... I'm back. Yes, Aunt Charley, we know. Huh. Your hands stopped aching? What? It seemed like Mr. Winslow rubbed it right smart. Quite the folks just don't do that. Make her go away, Miss Emmylou. I'll try. Is that you, Aunt Charley? Who else should suppose it is? Well, hadn't you better be seeing about supper? Now, never you mind about supper. I'm tending to the supper.  You see how it is? And he's so set in her ways. Yeah, she's set in that rocking chair, too. Emmylou, please try again.  This is your house, isn't it? Yours and your sister's? Of course, Harvey. I thought Southerners could handle their servants. So if you can handle this one, suppose you give me proof of the fact right now. Well, I'll try. I'll try. Aunt Charley, won't you please...  Because you know and I know, even if he don't know it, that it ain't proper for no young man to be coatin' no young lady right out on the front porch without no shaper owner being close by. Probably the folks just don't do such as that. But we aren't doin' anything. That's just why I takin' my foot in my hand and come hurryin' back from that grocery store when I saw your sister drinkin' ice cream soda with a lot of young folks in Mr. B Wilder's candy store. And by that I realized that I'd left you alone in this house with a young man that's a stranger here. But do you have to sit right here? Here I am, honey, and here I stay. But Aunt Charley, Mr. Winslow objects he... Oh, he does, does he? Well, just let him object. That's his privilege. Just let him keep on objectin'. That ain't gonna influence me not. Aunt Charley, Mr. Winslow will hear ya. I don't care if he do hear me. Maybe it might do him some good if he hears me. He'll do him good too if he hears me. Later that. Please, Aunt Charley. No, sorry, honey.  Now run along back out there and learn that young man from the know some manners as we see him. Did... did you hear what she said, Harvey? I imagine the people in the next block heard it too. She just can't seem to understand that Mildred and I have grown up.  Yes, and I, poor, benighted Yankee that I am, came down here with a great and burning sympathy for the poor downtrodden Southerners. I know she loves us with every drop of blood in her veins. She'd work her fingers to the bone for us.  We try to remember that now that she's old and fussy and unreasonable and all crippled up with rheumatism. Well, yes, you do have a problem. But it's almost unbearable to have her playing the noisy old tyrant day in and day out. I get awful out of patience with her, but you know, Harvey, in spite of everything, I think Annie likes you. Don't survive. Oh, it's Aunt Charley again. Honestly, Mild, she was absolutely unbearable this evening. I don't know what sort of people her... Mr. Winslow thinks we must be. I know. You should have heard what she said to me down at Wheels Ice Cream Parlor.  It was. And she gets worse all the time. Quality folks, quality folks. She's always preaching about our being quality folks. I'm sick and tired of the words.  Do she think we're still babies? Why should we be so... Nothing's ready. You children come right in. Eat it while it's hot. Yes, Aunt Charley. The cat's got everybody's tongue right in it. If folks don't like it, so much is the worst for them. Prayers will come and they're not accepted. There. That's my say and I'd understand it. Mildred sat in her nightgowns on the side of Emily's bed and tried the case of spinster Charlotte Helm, colored in the scales of their own youthful judgments. Oh. There are some many, many fine things to say for Amel. Mm-hmm. If she'd only let us get her some help for around the house. But she won't. Or if we could only get it to go and live in that little house that father left her in his will. She won't do that either. Well, we've been growing up. Aunt Charley's been growing old. Remember, Amel, when Aunt Charley dressed us for our first party? Our first real party. Remember how she skimped and scrimped to run the house after Mother died? When father's investment sighed on us? Yes, I do. And it's a good thing they turned out all right in the long run. And how she insisted we go to the same school that Mother had attended? Even though we wanted to go to an Eastern school? We would have, too, if Judge Priest and Lou Lake hadn't sided in with her. And remember when... It was on a certain moonlit, fragrant night not long after this that two happy young people agreed that thereafter these twins should be one. In obedience to a feeling that told her aunt Charley should be the first next only to her own sister to share with her the happiness that had come into her life, Amelieau sought out the old woman just before breakfast time. Isn't it just too, too wonderful, Aunt Charley? Huh. You chose too young to know your own mind.  Flying over the first young gentleman to come along from nobody knows what. But Lou at prayer meeting on Wednesday night at the Zion Colored Baptist Church Aunt Charley belied her muttered complaints with an air of triumph and haughtiness which sorely irked her fellow members. But if young Mr. Winslow had been the cause of her prideful department before her own people, it was likewise Mr. Winslow who was shortly to be the instrument for humbling old Aunt Charley into the very dust. It was a stand he took with regard to the future status of Aunt Charley in the household of which he was to become a member and of which he meant to be the head. Amelieau took her sister with her on the afternoon she invaded the kitchen to break the news. I have something I want to say to you. I'm listening, Charles. Well, it's this way, Auntie. We think... I mean, we're afraid you're getting along so in life, getting so old. Who says I'm getting old? We both think so. I mean, we all think so. Who do you mean by we all? You mean that young Mr. Winslow, Esquire, late over the North? Well... Uh-huh. I might have come putting such notions of them in you children's heads. Well, ma'am, and what prayer do he want? Well, he thinks, in fact, we all three do, that because you are getting along in years, you know you are, Auntie, that, well, perhaps we should make a change in the running of the house. So... So what? Now, I see here, if you're fixing to bring up the subject of I let an arrogant one of these young, flight-headed, flippant to give it the gas come work on this place, you might as well say you're better now and hereafter. Because as long as I'm able to drag one fridge to share a kitchen. Well, it isn't that exactly, Auntie. You see, after we're married, Harvey and I are going to live here, and Mildred too, and with one more coming into the household and everything, the added work will be too heavy for you to undertake, and, uh... My own child said whatever to you. So we decided that perhaps it would be better if you left here altogether and went to live in that nice little house that Papa left you in his will. Do it all me and then, that after all these years, you're trying to get a share of me? Trying to throw me aside like an old, worn-out broom? Your wages will go on just the same. Harvey insists on that just as much as we do. Your life will be so much easier. You can come and see us, and we'll come and see you every day if you want us to. It isn't as if you were going clean out of our lives. You'll be ever so much happier. You can work in your little garden and... Well, I ain't gonna go, not narrow as them. Think I'm gonna sit quiet while I'm pulled up by the roots and transported away from the house where I spent putting out a hole in my enduring life? Well, I won't go. The aunt Charlie they knew or we would have known who waited on them that night at supper. Rather, it was her ghost. A ghost with a dusky mask of tragedy for her face. It wasn't until after they'd risen from their places that Aunt Charlie spoke to them across the threshold of the door at the back of their dining room. You know nobody... It's about the story, Lou. Being as dressed up, it happened mighty fast. Yes, it wasn't more than a week after that that Emmy Lou come to see me herself. May I come in, Judge Priest? Well, hello, honey. You're quiet on them dainty little feet of yours. Never heard you coming at all. Sit down in that cherry under there where I can look at you whilst we visit. I'd rather sit here on the sofa beside you if you don't mind. Shoot yourself, honey. It... It's about Aunt Charlie, Judge Priest. It is, huh? Well, I had a visit from her here the other day. What other day? Oh, must have been a matter three weeks ago. She wanted to know what I know about this here young Yankee, Mr. Winslow. She wanted to know if he was the kind of man fitting to be getting himself engaged to a member of the Dabney family. I don't know if he was quality folks. She...she did? Of course, I was able to reassure a child having took the responsibility of doing a little inquiring round about that young man myself. Oh, Judge Priest. Of course, we both know you and me, what was in the back of Aunt Charlie's old kinky head. When I got done telling her, she went down the street from here singing. You could have heard her a mile off, I reckon. I never guessed it. I know now better than ever how much she really loves me. And it's going to make it all harder for me to...toot. Suppose you just start at the beginning, honey, and give me all the facts in the matter. All right, Judge Priest. But you must believe me. We aren't ungrateful for everything she's done. It's only that she's old now. Aunt Charlie won't budge an inch, Judge Priest and Harvey won't budge an inch. Oh, what am I going to do? Here, here, here. Here's my kerchief, honey. Now, now, tell me one thing, Emily, just to satisfy my own curiosity.  Is that so, Raine? What? Yes, sir. That's true. My child, what would you say, or more important, what would you do? If I was to tell you that if it hadn't been for old Aunt Charlie, you never would have known Mr. Harvey Winslow in the first place. Why, Judge Priest, how could that be?  And that's the thing that I ain't much given to do. Yes, Judge.  Bigly, Judge. Well, it was snarled up a lot worse than you children had any idea of. It was only by Aunt Charlie's careful managing that you was even able to eat decent. I never knew things was that bad. Well, just about that time Aunt Charlie come to see me in Lou Lake, and she told us that you children had grown up with the idea that you'd go off to boarding school somewhere. But, Judge, we... Of course, we had to tell her just how things stood that there wasn't enough money and that you couldn't go. Well, I reckon you can guess for yourself what that old woman done then. She just rared right up and showed all her teeth. But, Judge, we went to the school for two whole years. If what you say is true...  Because taint her is no more. Over five years ago, she sold it outright. She took the money she got for it, added to it what she'd saved up as the fruits of a lifetime of toil spent in your service and the service of your people before you. That was the money. Her money, ever sent of it, which paid for your two years at college. Aunt Charlie will skin me alive most like for telling to. Why did you and Dr. Lake ever let it do it? Well, honey, we did try to discourage her from the notion, but pretty soon we seen he just wouldn't know we used to try. And then somehow we didn't want to try. Because there's some impulses in this world it's too noble to be interfered with or hampered. Judge, may I have kept this a secret for all these years? It isn't going to be a secret any longer. Everybody in this whole town is going to know because I'm going to tell them. And Aunt Charlie stays. What do you suppose your young man from the North can have say about that? If he doesn't like it, he can find some other girl in the Marriam. Gives this young woman to this young man in holy matrimony. I do. Felly gets out of touch when he's been away for three years. Yep, out of touch. Now, about that... that born-in announcement that sent you high-tailing way back up here from Florida, Lou. Oh, yes, there's a mighty interesting document. Then I suppose you already got one. I made the arrangements for having it printed, son. Yep. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Winslow take pleasure in announcing the birth of a daughter, Charlotte Helm Winslow. Born June 19th, 1905. Can you know something, Lou?  Can you know something else? It was Mr. Harvey Winslow, late of the North, who suggested that name. Factors in tonight's play were quality folks. They were trying to do something for each other to make life a little happier for those around them. And we know what a difference that kind of attitude can make in a home, in a family. Even your home, you're trying to put yourself out to do little things for mother, father, for brother or sister. Your family must have a spirit of happiness and contentment. This is what everyone wants in their family. And we know that you will learn, as thousands of other families have learned, that this spirit of helping each other, of working together, is strengthened by the practice of daily family prayer. So we remind you, as we do each week, that the family that prays together stays together.  Family Theater is brought to Parley Bayer as Old Judge Priest in Urban S. Cobb's classic, Quality Folks. But Jane Powell is your hostess, and Ruby Dandridge is Aunt Charlotte. Others in our cast were Fred Howard, High Aberback, Virginia Gregg, and Eve McVeigh. This adaptation of Urban Cobb's familiar work was written by Fred Howard, with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman, directed for Family Theater by Jaime Del Valle. 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Hi, I'm Professor Susan Perkins, I have been working with the inner city capital connections that is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente for about the last five years. Here at the ICCC we focus on assisting small to medium sized entrepreneurs, really focus on creating exponential growth. So in the strategy session that I actually teach, it really allows for entrepreneurs to think about what is their strategy, what activities that they're doing that actually are not very strategic that will allow them to experience exponential growth and one of the big takeaways that we focus on is helping them do activity analysis that helps them uniquely identify what are those competitive advantages that they bring to the marketplace. Overall I think the program is great at really igniting our future generation of entrepreneurs and I'm really excited to be part of the program.


Welcome artists to this pastel painting tutorial where I will share why I love Sennelier Le Carte pastel card. Oh it's such a wonderful pastel surface. I'm so glad you've joined me here in Monet Café and here we go. This month in Monet Café we've been focusing on nocturne paintings, night paintings in other words, and this doesn't look like a night painting, right? But I will show you what I did to convert a daytime image into a painting with a night mood. My first step was converting the original image in a way I've been doing lately using some photo editing apps and I then convert this as I paint to a night scene by changing values and color temperatures. Now if you want to know a little bit more about the app that I used to do this I recently just uploaded a video. A lot of artists are very concerned about AI technology. I do think there are ways it's being used that is like plagiarism. So check out that video if you'd like to know my thoughts on how to use it and how not to use it. Now let me tell you why Sennelier Le Carte pastel card is truly one of my favorite pastel painting surfaces. There's multiple reasons and you might be surprised you know how I like to do wet under paintings. This paper is not water-friendly so you basically can create only with soft pastels on this surface. I love that it comes in so many different colors and also just so you know this is a great surface for animal paintings. Great for painting fur and feathers. And here is one of my pads. I have two different sizes that I typically purchase. This is the smaller one and I'm just gonna flip through it and show you some of the colors and also let you listen to how the surface how gritty it sounds. See if you can hear this. And even though it has quite a textural gritty feel there's something that's kind of soft about it. So I feel that landscape paintings especially with the impressionistic flair and also like I said animal paintings it really lends itself towards the softness of fur. Now this is the smaller size and it is well it's approximately 9 by 12. You could get a 9 by 12 standard size but it's 9 and a half by 12 and three-quarters. And the next size is actually 11 and three-quarters by 15 and three-quarters. And I love to buy them in these pads because of the color variety but also they sell these as individual sheets as well. Another thing I like is that the individual sheets are pretty sturdy. That's why it's called pastel card and it lays nice and flat. And since I never add any water-based mediums since it's not water-friendly that also helps it to never buckle. It's just pastel that I apply to this wonderful surface. So let's get started with this painting. This tutorial here on Monet Cafe is sped up a bit. The full real-time version is over on my Patreon page. So I've got my reference photo here. Here are the pastels that I chose. Again my patrons have access to downloadable images of my reference images and the pastels I use. But basically you can get a good glimpse of some of the colors I chose which make for a really nice moody night scene. And before I start painting I'd like to ask you a little favor. It's not big. Would you go ahead and like this video and subscribe to Monet Cafe if you haven't already. And if you'd like that extra content and real-time footage I'm always talking about consider becoming a patron of mine on my Patreon page. It's only $5 a month and it just supports this channel as well to keep these videos coming. Now first what I like to do is identify the big shapes. You can even do this by marking on your reference image if you printed it out. It kind of just gives you a basic simplified version of your composition. And then I just basically sketch it out. In this case I'm using Willow Charcoal. Now you can see my paper was actually kind of a leftover piece of Sennelier-Lecart pastel card that I had used for a previous project. I had some pencil lines on it. But not to worry. This paper layers so beautifully. You can get so many layers. I wish I had done a video one time where I actually count how many layers you can get. Keeping these shapes big and simple is crucial during this stage. Actually many of my tree shapes look more like geometric blobs. But it actually works better that way. Now we're going to block in. I've got my basic composition in. Very simple. And what I'm doing now is choosing some values. This is a really deep beautiful purple. I believe it's a Terry Ludwig pastel. And if you squint your eyes and look at the reference image I'm going to provide you a link to the reference image I originally started with which is from unsplash.com. I love that site for copyright free reference images. But my patrons have my altered version as well. So as you can see I've gotten in the two main trees that were the darker purple. Got in some of that dark for the foreground grasses. Add a little bit of that green to the distant trees to make them feel further away. Now I'm cooling them off a little bit. That was a blue earth pastel. I love that company. It's from Dakota Pastels. I know I'm converting this to a night scene but I wanted a little warmth in the sky. So I chose this pretty lavender pink and echoed a little bit of it down on the ground especially in the distance. Now I've got the basic paper covered. That's kind of the goal of the blocking in stage. Now we're going to start doing a little layering. I'm using a lighter value and even cooler color temperature to push some of those trees even further back. You see how I've now got like three levels of, well actually four, the big one in the front. I decided to darken a few to give even more feeling of depth and perspective. Often I let my painting kind of evolve itself and I use my artistic license to add things and once again I love a feeling of depth in a painting. Add more trees and now I'm cooling that sky off. Look at this beautiful periwinkle purple. I believe this is a Mount Vision pastel. Don't forget even though we've got a paper that has lots of layering capability, it is still very crucial to keep a light touch. You may be tempted to press hard. You may doubt yourself by seeing all of that surface of the paper still showing through. That's exactly how I felt when I first tried the surface but I still advise to keep a light touch. The more layers you add, the more it all starts to come together. I actually do some blending in a minute with some pipe foam insulation that will soften those spaces from showing through and give more even coverage and even though I was converting this to a night scene, I still wanted a little warmth in the ground. I imagined this as one of the early mornings that's like behind my house. I have this cow pasture behind my house and it is really foggy in the morning sometimes and sometimes you can still see the moon. This actually reminds me of the scene behind my house but you can also see a little bit of warmth to the grasses underneath, just a little bit. It's going to look a little bold right now but remember this is embrace the aspect of soft pastel, the layering capability. I'm going to be layering over these warm colors to cool them off a bit. You can see I've taken that dark magenta I used originally and layered it down even more in the foreground grasses. You see how fresh this color looks right now? Now this is a really dark green even though again it's a night scene. I wanted to give it just a little bit of feeling of either early morning light or late afternoon just when the moon comes up and you'll see how these warm tones just basically peek through by the time the painting is done. You can see I'm just developing things more and really I often use the analogy of it being like a dance or a symphony as you paint with soft pastels. For me it's so meditative and beautiful. You may not feel that way when you first get started though.  The perspective of this I imagine down very low like the photographer literally got down on the ground and you're seeing through the very tall grasses and all of those values are going to be darker in the foreground. So now here comes the pipe foam insulation. When you see me moving it out of the frame I'm wiping it off with a paper towel. I'm really trying not to contaminate colors. So I work colors in sections. I don't want my colors to become muddy and this can happen if you just take a blending tool and just haphazardly start blending. I also blend directionally. Notice how I'm pulling up to give the feeling of those tall grasses. Alright look at that nice soft moody feel. Now I'm creating an even deeper sense of perspective by just using value and color. I'm making those distant trees feel far away making the sky feel a little bit foggy and I also now I'm going to start deepening the values to establish a night scene. So I'm starting to add those cooler values on the tops. You see how that's already starting to feel like fog and if I had not gotten down the warm values to start the entire painting would have felt too cool and very monochromatic or even analogous and I wanted a little bit of warmth there. And now finally we're going to start adding some detail. Notice I didn't jump to the flowers right away. Also, I typically if flowers are smaller like this, I put them in later. And what I'm doing now is I decided to make my flowers purple and blue. I love those colors. And I'm just giving very gestural marks. I'm using my reference image that I altered and the actual reference photo as a guide, but not as a rulebook that I've got to follow it exactly. So I let my instinct maybe or my just feel of how I want these flowers to be reaching and I often place my flowers in a way that they look like they're an audience, you know, anticipating a sunrise or staring at the moon in these cases. Now I've just just surely gotten in some basic shapes for the flowers knowing that I can add a little bit more detail later. I'm also trying to keep them once again, like the grasses. There are some peeking on top. Keep the viewer's perspective in mind while painting. You wouldn't want to add flowers that are too light in those deep roots. So make sure you bury some of those flowers. Now I'm going to start carving in some grasses. I've chosen some greens that aren't too heavy on the warm side. And I'm literally just kind of carving carving them in down into kind of the deep places. And the same principle trying not to take the light values too far down where it wouldn't make sense in a scene like this. Now this is a beautiful little purplish blue. And I'm using it to just glaze ever so lightly over some of the trees over the grasses. And it's giving that moody feel of like I said, fog or something like that. I'm continuing to choose colors that enhance that nighttime moody feel. And as I stated earlier, I feel the cart pastel card really does lend itself towards that painterly impressionistic style. I always feel like my landscape paintings come out with a more soft and dreamy feel. And now I'm going to enhance my stars, my focal point flowers, I'm going to choose some flowers to give more detail, more color and color contrast to strengthen the composition. I don't want them all facing the same direction or in an equally spaced pattern. Keep in mind nature has this beautiful rhythmic spontaneity. And I've already sort of predetermined that I'm going to place a moon in the upper right third. So I'm envisioning these flowers kind of looking towards that. Oh, I need my glasses sometimes. I'm darkening some of the focal point flowers to give them a little more interest and contrast and still playing with some of these sky colors carving in these are called sky holes, carving in the negative spaces in some of the branches and trees. That's why I said originally, sometimes it's okay just to create the geometric shapes of trees when you block in because we can carve in the negative spaces later. I'm working in some of the cooler blue colors down this is like a pretty blue green down into some of the grasses. I know that they're going to be cooler where the deeper grasses are they're more in shadow. And I'm trying not to lighten up the foreground too much because that's really just not going to give that effect of deep grasses and those flowers buried deep. And now it's time to add the moon and stars. I've zoomed in here so you can see a little better.  I'm not trying to draw lines. I'm trying to draw a circular shape. I don't want real edges. I want a just a value change. And I'm giving it a little bit of warmth with some of the lavender. And now I'm just adding some stars with a lighter pastel. You'll see me brighten those up in a minute. I got one of my pan pastel blenders to kind of soften the moon a little bit. I want it barely there. I realized I needed a little bit of depth or darker values in some of the sky. And then I want to create a little bit of a light kind of coming from the moon. So I had to darken it before I lighten it. You'll see me do that in a minute. And also I later decide to make a little crescent shape. Sorry for that. Who is that old woman that just got in my frame with the gray hair? I don't even know. But I missed a little bit of footage, but you'll see at the end how I brighten the stars. And here's where I'm doing that little kind of crescent feel. Now I'm realizing that some of these grasses on top will capture a little bit of that silvery moonlight. I don't want to overdo it, but I just add a little bit of glimmer to some of those grasses that are reaching up to see that moon rise. I continued to add my more enhanced color by pressing harder. It's the final marks where you can begin to press hard. I continued to deepen some of the color and then give more of the bright highlights to the stars and the moon. By the way, I never used white. I only use kind of a light lavender. So here's the final. I think you can kind of see where I made that little crescent moon. You know, sometimes you can see that and the other side of the moon. So I enjoyed this. I hope you did too. And if you are in the Monet Café group on Facebook, Monet Café Art Group or one of my patrons, keep sharing your night paintings. It's been a fun month so far and I love seeing what you do. Find me in all of these places. Tag me if you recreate from my tutorials. Become a patron to support this channel. And as always, God bless and happy painting.


Thank you. Thank you. Excellencies, honorable ministers, ambassadors, ITU elected officials, these things delegate ladies and gentlemen. To begin with, I would like to thank you all for your support across the region. I appreciate the value of your votes and our TSP director-elect. I commit to further improving the ITU's sectors and making it as best it can be. Considering my background in the private sector, I believe being an outsider of ITU, which I humbly admit will bring the new diversity into the ITU leadership. With a strong sense of committed responsibility, I look forward to working with Ms. Dorin Bogdan-Martin, next Secretary-General, and the first woman to lead ITU in its 157-year history. And Mr. Thomas Yamunoskas, the youngest Deputy Secretary-General. I don't know what I would be. And it will be our honor to join such a dream team alongside with Mr. Mario Manevich, most competent real director. During my campaign, I was fortunate to be able to interact with other talented candidates from all corners of the world. One of the people who inspired me, and here we meet again with the interaction encouraging me to be the best, to be my best. Thank you, my friend, Dr. Mario Manevich and Dr. Thomas Mikasa. I will be happy to work together to connect the unconnected anywhere in the future. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the Romanian government for its warm hospitality and the leadership of the PPTEN2 President and Chairman, Honorable Mr. Saban Selmaiz. It's not very Japanese to place one's own, but I would like to thank the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Kishida and my entire campaign team for their tireless and supportive effort throughout the campaign.  All former were current GSB Director. The Secretary-General Horin Jiao started calling me the father of 5G. Since his address as Japan's reception during the WTDC in Kigali, Rwanda, this last June, I am delighted to be acknowledged as the father of 5G by the ITU Secretary-General. It is a humbling blessing to be called the father of LTE and father of 5G. In my previous life, I am the proud father of two children, both of whom are now independent adults. I must express gratitude to my wife whose support raised good children while helping me be a better father. Finally, I want to thank all the ITU members. I strive to realize the ONOE commitment that I have made during the campaign. As I always say, I aim to be a director who listens carefully to the voices of member countries and families on to them with their focus intent in order to increase the value of ITUT for all. Thank you all very much.


I'd like to talk about how we interpret the flow speeds from a stratigraphic column and the water depth and how I want it marked for the projects. So I've taken a few selections from the various example stratigraphic columns and I want to just give an example for each one. So if we look at flow speeds, the black here is coal, we have trough cross stratification, planar cross stratification, ripple cross lamination, root cast, and then shale at the top. So if we're just taking this part, the flow speed for a coal which forms often in a marsh is really slow. So I would mark that part of the column as being slow. That's also true for the mud settling out at the top. So those are slow or the slowest in the column. We know that the trough cross stratification comes from sinuous dune crests and the planar comes from straight dune crests and the trough cross stratification occurs at faster flow speeds than the planar and there's also a decrease in grain size. So if we just take this little part of the column, the lowest part represents the fastest flow in the column and as the grain size decreases and we go from dunes to ripple lamination, the flow speed goes down. So could draw something like this, the upper part is about the same. So basically at the base of the channel there might be some erosion there because channels often migrate laterally. So we could draw in the jump in flow speed if we wanted there and then we have plants and mudstone on top that represents another abrupt change in flow speed. So the causes of the abrupt change here at the bottom would be channel migration and at the top it could also be the opposite sort of going from a channel to a floodplain or possibly the mudstone is in an oxbow lake. So it could be floodplain oxbow formation. If we look at the next example, this represents a diamigthite and we have some rippled sands and we have some shale with dropstones in it. So you get diamigthites. These are from ice which I think those of you with a section have interpreted and the ice is very low flow speed and it also has a very low flow to settle mud out from suspension. So I'd accept that either one of these, either the diamigthite or the isolated pebbles and mudstone would be the slowest flow speed. I'm going to make the ice, ice is often really slow moving. So I'm going to say that in this part of the column, the ice is the slowest, but the mudstone is very slow. But then we have these two sandstone beds with some ripples. So that requires a medium flow for those two beds and then it's not quite lined up. There's a little bit of sandstone in here before you go back to the ice. So this could be a representation of the flow speed for this section of the column. If I was just looking at this part, the fastest flow is probably where there are ripples. So you could mark that or not. The ripples show two directions of flow. So this sort of change in flow speed between those, so like all of these spots here, I could say represent tide changes as the cause. And then going up into this one, it would be ice advances. So you end up with that very low flow. If we take a look at this example, we have some beaches, we have some scour marks, we have some storm deposits and ripples in general, and then we have roots at the top. So to form the plants, we have to have the low flow speed. So right at the top represents the lowest flow, often in the sort of breaker zone, which the scour marks represent, we have a very fast flow. This is coarse grained on the beach, so we need to have a fast flow there. So we can make a fast flow for all of this. And as the grain size declines, we go down to a lower flow speed here. So this is a case where the flow speed is a gradational change except right at the top. And we could say this would be a change in environment causing that. You could say specifically what it is, like going from the beach to vegetated dunes or areas like that. But in this case, the flow speed, the grain size change is variable, and so this is variable smoothly so the flow speed is variable in the same sort of way. Okay, here we have some storm deposits, and there's this one bed that's a whole lot coarser. So that's definitely the fastest part of the flow and the speed. In this area, particularly the erosion at the bottom, and the flow speed goes down through time, and to sort of the average storm speed, and there's none of the shale preserved here. So if there was some shale in here, if I draw it in here, then we would have the lowest flow speed with the shale. So we could have two examples. This jump in flow speed and this jump in flow speed are due to a storm, as you can say, sort of peak storm currents and waves. So the storm advances and causes these jumps in flow speed. Now if we get down to some of these where we have hammock-u-cross stratification in some beds, current ripples, wave ripples, some of these are turbidites, some of these are storm beds. I just chose a couple of parts of examples. In these, you don't actually necessarily have to go the shale, I should say the shale represents the lowest flow speed, and then you have these sort of jumps up in flow speed for the various beds. And those represent sort of short-term intervals of faster flows, so you could draw sort of dots or you could draw lines coming out for each one. An alternative could be to draw an average. So you could through here say that the average flow speed is a little bit higher because it has more sand beds, then you go down to mostly mudstone with a few spikes in flow speed coming up representing those sandstone beds, or you could draw it as an average. And these sharp variations in flow speed, in this example we would have some of them are storms, some of them are turbidites coming and going, causing these variations in flow speed. But the water level, the interpretation of this bit of stratigraphy is that it's a river channel. So basically we have a river channel, and then we have the choice of whether this coal is land and the shale is land or flood plain or lake. And in this little bit I don't really know. We will make the coal be on the flood plain and the mudstone for example in a lake. So in this particular case there's a big abrupt shift between the sandstone and the finer grains on either side. So the causes of the abrupt change would be for example migration of the channel, or you could say for the lake, if it's an oxbow lake could say abandonment of the river channel to become a lake. If we look at the next one down, these two directions of flow suggest tidal flow. And then we have some mudstones with isolated pebbles. So those isolated pebbles if they're dropstone require some standing water for those large stones to be transported by glaciers, or by icebergs out into the water. So for those we could say that they're somewhat deeper marine. We come up to a tidal sort of environment, maybe at sea level. And then we have this question about whether this diamig tide is actually deposited on land or in a shallow marine environment. And we don't really have enough information. So like if the glacier extends out over the standing water, it can create a diamig tide. So here we have either sort of shallow marine somewhere in here or land here, right? And we don't really know which one of those it is. There aren't necessarily abrupt changes, but one of the changes in the facies that you could add if it does go all the way to land would be to say ice advances to get that diamig tide. So if we go down into this environment, we can't actually see. So let's see. So at sea level here, so the beach is right very close to sea level. The breaker zone is just a little bit deeper, and then we have the waves going shallow marine here and the plants indicate land. So right at this environmental change, let me draw this a little bit more. We have this abrupt change here, and it doesn't actually go through the river and lake. The lines don't necessarily tell you, but you can say this abrupt change is going from beach to land with the plants. So for the storm deposits, we have some choices here below SWB stands for storm wave base between fair weather wave base and storm weather wave base or shallow marine. So we're obviously above storm weather wave base, but we don't necessarily know just from this section if we're above fair weather wave base or not. So we'd be somewhere in this zone generally. So you could sort of fill it in or provide two lines, whatever you feel like, however you want to show that uncertainty. Now interestingly, the sea level doesn't significantly change when there's a storm versus when there's not a storm because it's a periodic event. And that's the case with these rocks down here, and we're getting a little bit of storm and a little bit of waves. So we know from those that we are above storm wave base, but there's a lot of shale. So we're probably below the fair weather wave base where waves really frequently influence the sediment. So again, you have these events that represent storms, but probably the whole environment down to where we have the wave ripples here is above storm wave base to get those big ripples. When we get to deeper water here, we just have the turbidites, and so we're not seeing any evidence of storms. So there's probably some transition here into an environment that's below storm wave base because there are no storms. We're not seeing any influence of the storms. So that's why I'm interpreting this as going deeper. So it could be deeper water, or it could be that climate has changed and there are fewer large storms. So let's zoom out just a little bit here and look at this overall section. So the difference in flow speeds, the flow speeds can change when you have events, but sea level, those events don't necessarily mean that sea level changes. There are a lot of times when there's uncertainty in the sea level, and you can show that by drawing a couple of lines like I did here, saying it's either land or at sea level, or here where I sort of filled in the whole range, and either of those is okay. And this sort of interpretation of the change in sea levels, one of the things that really helps us reconstruct environments, and it will help with the sequence stratigraphy, which is using sea level changes in different columns, the relative sea level change to understand how to correlate columns across environments in time with sequence stratigraphy. Thanks for watching.


So bright Sav be prepared Got my strawberry fields So what did you get a cold brew?  So hi guys. Good morning. Um, Sav is back Oh, sorry. I feel like I just I know I'm so sorry. Um, I got my strawberry fields I took her to Lala land for the first time. How did you like it? It was cute It is like you're right they hire they work with like foster kids and stuff, too Like a lot of the system So we love Lala land as you guys know, I've been going so much in vlogs lately. We're actually on our way to Lowe's go. No, we're going Ikea first. Oh, but Lowe's Lowe's. Yeah, we go to Lowe's now guys like Lowe's The meme I shared it at my pastor sauce last night. I was showing them the meme I wish I wouldn't have said you like no, we go to Lowe's now I wish I would just sense that picture. Well, I agree I actually already made that decision for myself and then I just said out of habit. Yeah, it's getting really hot I'm turning on the AC. I'm sorry. So anyways, I decided I don't like my office and like it's not really fair to say I'm redoing it because I never really did it So I ordered a cow hide rug because it fits in there and then I'm gonna move the chair What do you say? I look how I've heard the best And then I got so many prints yesterday I'll put them on the screen like so many from society six and those should be in within like six to nine business days Right here. Yes. Yes, and then it's like that small And and then we have to get frames and stuff on Ikea. I need I think like 20 frames I need to do returns anyways, and then I need candles for My kitchen, you know those clear acrylic things in my kitchen counter or kitchen table. Oh, yeah, so those are candle holders Uh-huh Guess not me know exactly right and like now that I have all these like I'm become a florist And I had these beautiful flower arrangements there. It just feels even more obvious to me I would have never guessed Okay, this is not mixed, but it's so good. So anyways, we're going to Ikea It's really fun Really looking forward to it. I've actually never been this excited to go to Ikea Maybe besides the time that I moved to Oh, then you can visit at least my dad's oh I have my dad's truck because obviously I need it. Okay. Here we go Okay, guys, we're in Ikea. We just took the returns. We're gonna go pick up a few babies Well, of course I'm getting more than I came from but this is so cheap and I need a few serving things and I wasn't obsessed I got this little grill thing. It's only $15 and a few kitchen things. I'm not and then a bathroom underneath But guys, this isn't successful. Okay guys, I forgot I needed more stuff. I have two carts now two carts I've heard this frame is bigger than my hand, but Ikea just has the best prices for frames And I came really organized. I'm just trying to see if I really I don't know I might change these colors again Well, no because there's not that many shoot. Okay. Well, I'm actually gonna go to see these colors out But yeah, I found this mirror, which I'm gonna hang in my living area. It's so cute. We can't find it We've been looking but it's like the coolest mirror ever. Ikea has great mirrors guys I have a lot of candles like this that I need to get. That's my Really big thing that I need. Okay. I just got five honestly. I'm hoping for the best I've literally looked my own Instagram to see the sizes But we have lots of big candles guys. We've got a lot going I really want that mirror too, but part of me is like Maybe I pulled off. I don't know. Okay. Let's play guess the price for what this is gonna be. I originally Thought I was only gonna spend around 300 Yeah, and like honestly this stuff like all the like small stuff I got is like really cheap but it all these obviously adds up And I say like 696 Come down below your bets before you know the total But yeah, I mean honestly like it doesn't it's one of those things where like if I bought this anywhere else It would be so much more expensive But could be 802 I don't know why I'm feeling that Yeah, oh Sucks, you know So many candles though these candles are so cheap just to like have around I'm doing 696 just in hopes Plus I returned 107 so that counts towards it These are guys we're gonna build more of these they take quite some time actually Guys best day ever it only was 445 I cannot believe how much stuff I got and then like so much Okay guys Can you turn the car? Yeah, so bad. It is so hot guys I'm getting hands-on it has your own, but Good thing is this car you see is like next level Hey, so this is hi sir Thanks, mom Okay, now we're going to love Whoo, and that won't be faster. I cannot believe that it was only 445 We I literally got so much stuff like he has the absolute best Shots I shot literally shocked But I wish I would have gotten that mirror, but they couldn't find it anywhere And the cashier was just so rude and like it was this whole thing This whole process so anyways we're getting We're going to most so So I was put in charge of Going and making keys and the first one very good I was afraid honestly that they were gonna be a really out there, you know There's a Star Wars one, but I didn't do it So I should do a job Texas so cute little foxy if you will and princess which everyone has seen this one This is a classic key, you know, so here we go I truly feel like an adult because this stuff is like so exciting to me and I used to dread it. Absolutely dread so The most exciting round of the day This is literally what my kids is gonna look like look out up there That's literally what my counter is about to look like guys Anyways, we made it from Mexican sugar guys. I just got my first neon Well, I ordered a won't be here for four to six weeks when my first neon cowboys had It's literally like glowing cowboy hats like how oh my gosh guys. I'm literally obsessed Also, it's a black-owned business and they're currently donating 100% of the proceeds of their clobid clobid glow mask To grassroots and then digital and divided really want to have age on my podcast. I think she's just so freaking cool So anyways, I'm really pumped guys. This is like me so much better Okay, so this is just in the middle right now only cuz my TV I think I already told you guys this but I literally bought a new TV use it twice And then I shot it the screen so I moved that out there because that is trash But this will be over here normally a little bit more than there will be a TV here But I love how this is looking. I got one new frame and then I replaced the prints I know this is like kind of uneven. I actually love how that's the frame is too big for this print Like I did that on purpose The candles are great over here My room is just a mess because I'm getting things ready for trash also. This has been hung up I know it looks abnormally high right now But we're gonna do like a little collage of like cute photos underneath it you guys will see it's gonna be cute I promise guys. I'm moving this to somewhere else in the house, but this candle smells so good I forgot how good it actually smells. Okay, so I love this, but I'm gonna have to figure out a TV situation I don't know guys. Honestly, Sav and I did not sleep last night until that looks so weird so high But if there's gonna be more underneath I just need to get that hung ASAP Since when do I say ASAP? Do I say that guys? Anyways, um, it's only 8 p.m. But I'm so tired and I forgot that we didn't sleep last night Like I literally was up reading until like 3 a.m. Which I don't never do so anyways I'm gonna read and hopefully go to bed early I am gonna wake up in the morning and go run actually a friend of mine who I'm not in LA So it's like an LA friend of mine, but they're from Dallas. They're in town right now So I'm gonna go get breakfast with him in the morning after I work out and then tomorrow We are working on the house So I will be hopefully starting to paint and then I'm gonna work on everything else that I bought and put that all together So I'm really excited so stay tuned for tomorrow. I cannot wait. Good morning guys. It is Wednesday I went on a run. I actually went to my dad's and ran on the treadmill But then I got outside and I was like why did I do that because the weather is so nice out right now? Like it feels incredible Anyways, it's like 945. I am on week 4 day 2 of my run So I'm like halfway through which is crazy just got home and showered I'm just wearing I'll show you guys in a second But I'm actually about to go upload a video to send to a brand and then I'm meeting my friend Caleb at La La Land again Guys, I literally live at La La Land We were gonna go to Foxtrot But then one of you commented that I need to try this new drink at La La Land So I changed our plans and now we're going to La La Land I think I'm their number one customer right now because I go all the time. We literally won't yesterday guys If you guys live in Dallas, you need to go to La La Land, but anyways, I'll show you guys what I'm wearing Um, I didn't grab my clean clothes from my dad's house. I totally forgot so I literally had like nothing to wear I'm just wearing these actually. It's all Eritzia I have to do a little errand and then I'm going to Hopefully start painting my walls I think my stepfather might come over and help me and then I just need to work on the house today So that is the plan. Very exciting. Also guys my scrunchies from Jane. Dotty Vintage came in yesterday They I got a large because I wanted it to be like crazy crazy big They're just so freaking cute and then I got this really pretty like lilac-y color So yeah, obviously I love the I just like love these I also want to get like a lot of smaller ones too that I just wear every day These are obviously like a lot more But it's so cute when people wear like huge scrunchies like this when they're wearing like dresses and sneakers and stuff So I love it. Oh just did some errands got to be the king shocker. Did you want to come around or no?   So here we are So we're gonna paint the office and then I have more things to build So you've got a chill. I'm really tired. We went to Lowe's again. I had to get a ladder That was not super fun. Here's the before The office I have two broken mini TVs to my house. So that's great We're gonna move that all the way down to the den I need to switch the den I have to move things around in there, too. Are you so glad you're here? Wow So God, so this is gonna be black This is exciting. This is the first one. Okay. Oh So it's done. It's only been an hour since we started and then in about an hour I'll do the second coat and then it dries in two to three hours. So this is very exciting I'm playing Amy Winehouse and about to cook while I'm painting. I just feel great I'm about to make a meal on my crock-pie. I'm actually hungry now This is gonna take about three hours, but it looked like literally the easiest thing ever I did on my pantry. I'm so confused right now because I thought I had so much marinara sauce And this isn't even like what I wanted. Okay, so I'm just wearing a sports bra But I can't shower yet, and I definitely have paint all over me. So it's covered, you know, okay Have my favorite pasta sauce and how I'm gonna go and make the pasta kale salad I used to make a mushroom salad. I used to make like all the time last summer. It's really healthy I'm not using brown rice pasta. I need to go get brown rice pasta. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm so I'll be right back I'm gonna put something I normally wash up the morning toes or something as I cook And then anyways, so I have my new pasta Seriously so excited about this got a very exciting package from Prest So I'm so excited because I actually really need a juice or like a pick-me-up of some sort I also got the way a body oil in or not body oil body scrub I ordered on Amazon now because they're certified and it comes in two days very exciting. This is a rug That is gonna go under the table in my office. I'm really excited. I got this one over stock I ordered it like literally two days ago, and it's already here. All right run Coat number two All right guys, the wall is done. I'm going to let it dry just overnight I love how it's looking so far, and I'm so excited for the rug to be in here It's just gonna be so much better like unbelievably better All right guys, I'm downstairs now I actually just went upstairs because my mom said I need to take the tape off or else the paint will peel So I went upstairs and moved everything. I actually threw a bunch of stuff away, and then I Like moved the furniture back and put the rug in there. It looks so good. So I'm so excited. I'm in the garage I wanted to just have a chill night. I have some computer work that I need to do But I also really want to watch becoming by Michelle Obama So that is on the agenda. Coco is just having literally the best day ever I love this. Okay Ignore this clutter. That's like my laundry room. Um, but It feels like a laundry closet. So like, I don't know Anyways, but I feel like this is not as bad This room isn't for like interior design necessarily this room is literally just for like comfort and having friends over and like things That I don't care about as much for like if people are rough I want to like hang some stuff up And do all of that, but it's just like the best and then I'm gonna get it insulated really soon It's actually pretty an expensive to get the door insulated which basically just helps with the temperature in here I get a lot of questions on if it's really hot in here and like It can be hot, but honestly, it's never been like too hot to where I don't want to be in here I also have a tower fan right there. That's on But honestly, no, I probably will sleep here again tonight I haven't slept here in like a week or so, but it is really nice to just like Like chill here. I don't know. It's super comfy and cozy and once the lights go off like I'm not getting up It's just absolutely not happening. So I'm gonna get some work done and then probably watch becoming Good morning guys I just have a little sort of morning toast on I'm so confused because I woke up to I woke up to an email Saying that I have to reschedule my delivery because they can't make it today anymore But then I went online where it said and it said that it's still scheduled to be delivered today So I'm just gonna wait until after one and just like Hope for the best like I'm so confused So anyways, I'll have to reschedule that with a little brother just texted me told me that he will be coming Staying with me for a few days. So anyways have my espresso shot Yeah, so I need to clean my house really bad. I need to have someone come honestly I feel like all I do is clean 24-7, but it still is never clean enough, you know, okay This is the first look in the morning. Okay, so I'm gonna be honest guys the edges are rough, but honestly Wait, why does that look like that right there? Okay, well that's much is really bothering me Other than that guys it looks really good I'm gonna have to have my parents fix the edges because it was just next to impossible And I need to discover like the top mess. I can't wait to redo like get a new light picture in here Because it'll change the game. I need to clean this all out. They could really don't know that I have a ladder This drug does not need to be like exactly under there. It's that's just like what happened I need to move it. I don't like it perfectly under there like at all Coco, what are you doing girl? Cocoa just always loves her new rugs. Also, look, I would love to have a mini TV mounted right here Because I just feel like that would be great and I can watch like the news and stuff in the morning You know who knows guys, but anyways, I need to get all this stuff together and clean up But first I'm going to go put my laundry away As I just cleaned up a ton I have a little more cleaning to do but not much I just got a text saying that the guys are gonna be here pretty soon. So it's so weird I don't know why I got that email is saying to reschedule so I'm glad I didn't because they're almost here Okay, so this is what I am wearing. Um, this top is XLE Lord Elizabeth fine I'm wearing these shorts that are the skirt that is the exercise skirt from after voices So comfortable and then just Air Force ones. I have therapy today and I'm seeing my grandma She's gonna help me. Um, we're gonna have to go through all of my jeans because they never fit me perfectly and she Can be a seamstress so we're gonna go through I probably have more just so I can have them all be the perfect fit and it would be the best thing ever I seriously love this area so much But like now a full TV won't fit there. So I have to figure it out Maybe I'll get like some big black type thing. I don't even know I need to get rid of these things But also these IKEA candles smells so good. I keep forgetting about that Anyways, I'm gonna go downstairs and make sure everything is good. Um, guys, I'm actually still tan from Savon a la luxe unfiltered. I know we're shocked that I'm mentioning it again, but I haven't even applied it in a while.  You're so cute All right guys, um, I've been doing a little bit of work on my computer Um, I have just homework that I needed to get done After I finished this class, which I'm almost done I only have four classes left and I have two at the end of the summer and then two at the beginning of the fall I'm gonna have my bachelors. I'm so excited. Um, but The um guy who is dropping off and installing my washer and dryer just texted or called me and he said He is going to be here in five minutes, which is exciting. I don't know what is going on their whole thing is like Um, I haven't listened. Yeah, it's so excited. Oh, I wanted to tell you guys I feel like I haven't really talked about like the podcast much lately, but we do have new episodes up, obviously like I mean, I have a new episode of every single week, but if you guys don't listen to my podcast I think those would really like it and I know some of you guys say you don't listen to it because it's like You don't want to listen to like a influencer podcast or whatever Um, it's not really just like influencers and I feel like that unless I'm doing like a life update talking about something that I like posted on youtube, um It's not it's not like about being an influencer or anything like that I just did an episode with y'all Robert because I really think you guys would like because we talk about like moving home to Like moving home post college moving home because of covid Um career advice and stuff because she actually moved to la and then had to move home and then back to la Um, so yeah, anyways, I think a lot of you guys would like that episode So I would check it out.  We're doing one this Friday. I don't know if we're gonna keep doing them But like I really love it last week like everyone cried and it was just so good afterwards she looked a little meditation and um, I think we're doing it Who did we do last week national bailout this week this week all the funds are going to reclaim the block And then last week was national bailout. It's just like ten dollars to join It's super fun and it's just like a really great way to like give back I really need to get marinara sauce Wait, are they here yet? No, they're not this is so exciting guys. I need to wash my sheets and stuff I'm gonna wash my sheets today. I need to order even more.  I want to be that person Um, so tell me what the best kind is because that's really what I need All right, I figured it out It's my dryer that needs to be rescheduled So the washer arrived and the dryer has not So I need to reschedule that today and hopefully that will be here as soon as possible So it's not a big deal. Obviously. I mean whatever, but also I will never get over these prints guys. I need Society six. I love you. Please hit me up. I will do anything for you guys. It's my entire life All right guys. I'm going to therapy. Can't wait seriously the highlight of my week I'm back. I got another strawberry field from I almost said chachamacha. Oh my gosh Um, no from la la land and I actually got a few things I need to pick up from Trader Joe's for a recipe as well that I'm probably going to make today I think okay, so something very exciting is happening. I'm cleaning my carpets. I know you guys love my vlogs, right? I love a really glam life everyone. Um, okay, so these I didn't have a mat for the longest time down there so like these stairs are just so messed up from Everything like I've spilled stuff all of our shoes all of that but apparently this thing that my grandma gave me My mom and my grandma swear by it It was like the best carpet cleaner and they're like it will be out of there in no time So I'm going to quickly um do this to my stairs updates to come Guys quick break because I actually wanted to put dinner in the I guess dutch oven of a four. I'm actually afraid that I'm not going to come here And I haven't left over to do salad But I need to make this today. Okay Um, so I'm making while I got a dutch oven, which is exciting. Yes. I have a crock pot Whatever, it's it's okay. It's okay. We're fine Wow, like all I want as gifts ever candles um, like cheese boards Anything kitchen basically actually not that I think about it. It is just Beautiful Wow We love this. Oh, it's kind of shipped on the side. What here it is obviously need to clean it and um take the sticker off, but It is just so beautiful For today's recipe. I'm making a it's like an instant pot, which I can use my dutch oven for instead even though I have an instant pot um Basically like chicken with marinara and then you serve it on polenta. Um, I'm hoping that I'm hungry tonight I've just been having the weirdest appetite like I either cannot even think about food or I'm starving Um, I think it's from my bed. Also just because it's so hot outside Like I'm switching to like not even being able to eat pasta anymore because it's so heavy I don't know how to describe it. I'm like, oh, I can't eat that right now Like I need like fruit and vegetables and like green stuff I don't know if any that haven't said anyone else, but it just seems too heavy for summer, which is like a weird thing I don't even know. Oh also guys. Oh my gosh. I forgot that I even have this in here Okay, I don't know if any of you guys have ever had this ice cream It is the best ice cream ever from Trader Joe's and it's dairy-free. It's so weird I actually got ice cream the other day. I don't know why Um, but this dairy-free ice cream is like next level the best So Sorry, I need to turn off. I've been listening to Lauren Elena. Is that how you say it? Yeah, I think so non-stop the past few weeks, but this is legit the easiest thing Ever to make so right now. I just have eight chicken thighs I season them with salt and then you literally just pour literally and then you literally just pour all this marinade and it is By far the absolute easiest recipe ever Also, it's really good if you're someone who has kids. Um, I'm not but Everyone knows who else kids, but I'm just saying like this is what I will be doing when I am a mother because um It's like the easiest thing ever. So you literally Um, but I'm gonna clean the rest of this also I don't know if I showed you guys these but I got these sandals from raffies and like I'm not a big Sandals person, but these are so cute. I actually really like them um, okay Like they're actually so cute I love them like I will be these are the only sandals that I will ever wear like this with like a cute dress like oh my god summer, you know Okay Off to cleaning the carpets now guys I finished cooking that literally took 20 minutes. So good. Um, I'm not hungry now. So I'm not gonna eat My house just feels so amazing right now. I'm listening to mood with Danielle But half of my prints from society 6 already came in the mail, which I'm so excited for like this one's insane So I'm gonna do this tonight guys. I am Just absolutely obsessed with these like I will never get over it Um, there are seven more prints. Most of them are a little bit smaller and then I have neutral frames, but Oh my gosh, I just think this is so freaking cute. So all these are society 6 Um, I just like first off this is my favorite one and I accidentally ordered two So I need to figure that out. Um, I love them and then I have more coming Soon, hopefully and then they're ready to go on the black wall, but oh my gosh, it looks so good I just went the last hour building these boxes for my pantry. I'm all right guys kitchen updates It looks so much better. Um, I realize I did the bottoms of these wrong. Um, those are better It just it's fine. It ended up working out totally fine. That's snacks that sauces I'm gonna eventually switch that out and put that in a cabinet actually Um, but this is what we have right now baking stuff. Um snacks drinks beans Tomato paste and then also marinara sauce chicken broth oatmeal pasta rice all of that stuff Um, yeah, so I'm actually gonna eat and edit this vlog So I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog and I'm thinking about doing a vlog week If you guys made it this far comment down vlog week, but I also would love to just do one Julia Haven's inspired where I do where I daily vlog for a week. I think that would be really fun So let me know if you guys want to see that. I love you guys so much and I'll talk to you soon. Bye