It is the new year. Happy 2024, y'all. We are doing the ultimate reset routine. So for the past, I would say six weeks, I've been working on like my vision board and my goals and just kind of trying to stay ahead of it. So I've already done a lot of that, but today after, you know, winter break, if you will, I'll never stop calling it winter break, even though it's quite literally not winter break. I graduated college in 2020. We're resetting today. So I'm cleaning the house, I'm grocery shopping, I'm finding new recipes, I'm doing home projects, I'm doing some goals, I'm setting up, planning the week, I'm doing all of the things. So if you guys need a little inspiration to get back into your routine or whatever it is, this is the video for you. And if y'all are new here, make sure to subscribe. I make a lot of lifestyle vlogs, a lot of cooking, a lot of gardening, a lot of style, fashion, going to the ranch, sharing my daily life, all of the things. So if y'all are new, be sure to subscribe and enjoy the video. Before we get started with the day, it's time to defeat the dogs. So thank you to Fresh Pet for sponsoring today's video. I really love Fresh Pet, this is a brand new bag. You guys know that I spent so much of my time and my life taking care of my two dogs, that's in Cocoa and I think we should really be paying more attention to what we're actually feeding them because they just get like, I don't know, I feel like so many dog foods have like really horrible like preservatives and just like bad ingredients and they're just bad overall for your dog. What's great about Fresh Pet is that it's real food. It's fresh like meat, vegetables and fruits. You have to keep it in the fridge, okay? It's preservative free, it's so, so much better for the dogs and not only is it better for them but my dogs love it so much more. I have my Fresh Pet, I have my cute little dog bowl, it fits. Oh, I can see him over in the corner and he like just perched up because he can smell it. I'll take you guys along for meal time. He is, oh my God, he's so excited. Let's chill. I mean like the actual food itself, you're gonna see how fresh it is, it's real ingredients. Again, way better for your dogs. There he is, he's coming up, he knows. Oh my God, he's like so excited. Let's see, he just got a bath. Guys, let me show you, he's so fluffy. Hi, he's so excited. Okay, I'll show you guys. Okay, it's meal time for Fitz. Are you ready? Oh, let's go. Good boy. And he will eat this like literally all of it immediately with other food that I've given him in the past. He just like will graze all day and it takes forever and this is just better in general but he loves this food. Coco's getting jealous, I'm feeding her next. Like he's just so happy. Okay, I'm gonna feed Coco. Let's get some food early. Both of them are so happy. Y'all, I just needed to chime in here really quickly because yes, fresh food is made, our meal time is so much easier because the dogs love it but I just have to say, I have noticed such a difference in their energy levels and their coats. Both of their coats are a lot shinier and energy-wise they are both like, they just have so much more energy and I know it's a fresh pet so I really cannot recommend it enough. Fitz also has a very sensitive stomach, if you will. So giving him dog food, I have to be very specific and I will say fresh pet is one of the very few that he's never had an issue with and it's also really nice to keep them on a regular schedule as far as going to the bathroom because he will eat it in one sitting versus another dog food he doesn't really like as much and he's always excited about. He'll just kind of eat it throughout the day. So yeah, I'm very loyal to fresh pet at this point. I love the stuff, the dogs love it so much and they just get so happy, which I love to see. Literally the food's already gone, guys. I went back to filming Fitz and he already ate all the food. He loves fresh pet. Oh my God, that is so funny. Welcome back to another vlog in his New Year's Day. Last night, obviously, was New Year's Eve. This is crazy. You guys are learning so much in this vlog. Last night was New Year's Eve and we went to a party at Park House, which in Dallas, it's like very similar to Soho House. It was fun. I left at like 12.30. I just was so tired. We actually sat around and played the night cab card game too for like an hour or two before we went out and that was really fun. This past week has been so good. So today we're gonna reset for the New Year. I have left my house since Christmas a total of two times, okay? Like I have been at home working on home projects and just like working honestly. There's two times of people in the world. First group being they love the week between Christmas. What guys, I can't talk. They love the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve and the other hating it. I love that week because I feel like time doesn't actually exist and it goes by so slow. Which is so nice, you know? So anyways, today we are New Year resetting. I've already made my vision board and done all of that stuff, but I wanna clean up the house. I'm filming my morning routine on TikTok every single day. Well, I'm doing it five days a week. About five a.m. in January. So there's a couple things I wanna do. Like I need to do laundry, I need to clean up, I need to prep, I wanna like set up my outfits because I really wanna start doing that again. Look at how cute my new mug is. I got this one and then running green from big order. Which, oh my gosh, so much has happened since I last talked to you guys on here. You need to be following me on Instagram at TikTok because I'm supposed to be like on TikTok. When I'm not vlogging, my TikTok Instagram is so much more interesting. I have to do ice coffee right now and it's literally 32 degrees out, so feels wrong. Actually, if we're doing one second, we're doing a G1 first. I've been doing it, that's not like an ad, it's not an ad, I promise. I do have a phone, I look at it on the podcast, but I swear to God it's not an ad. I got new garden beds, so I was setting those up always with my dad. I organized the garage big time. It's not done, we're still waiting for things with my grandma's going to basically sew a curtain for me around the work desk. But I'm doing an entire video on starting my garden. 2024 is the year of hobbies, guys. The year that I really want to store my life. Yeah, I want to get in the sauna this morning. I feel like it'd be nice to just sweat some stuff out. I'm also going to try January. That would be like that crazy of a thing. I weirdly like barely drink this December. Yes, I like the taste of AD1, like I don't have an issue with it. Fitz is still in his Christmas sweater, he doesn't want to let it go. I know that no one believes this. He loves his sweaters, like when I take it off, he brings them back to me. He is obsessed with them. I'm warning y'all of a jumpscare, trigger warning. Decor is down.  I normally wait until January 3rd, but I have a big week and then I leave for LA. I'm so heartbroken about it. Like my living room just feels so bare. I'm going to take the tree down today. I really don't want to do that. So we've last chatted, I got another antique quilt. This one's even better and I'm obsessed with it. I'm going to read, but I'm also going to go through some cookbooks for the week. I just want to see like what we're making this week. I also organized the hosting closet if y'all didn't see on TikTok. The hosting closet's kind of popping off on TikTok guys. So I'm going to do an entire organization video as well this month. So I'm not really going to go into what I did. Well, I want to get little tiny shelves to display cookbooks and dishes. So like ideally from each collection, I could have a dish out so I could like look at it and then be like, oh, I want this one, whatever. And then I want a whole like gallery wall, but really antique frames, not with the other one from photos of every single dinner party. I think that'd be so cute. So I've been thinking there's a recipe actually that I found in here that I want to try. I want to like test it for future dinner parties. So I typically will just make it for myself for dinner ones before. So that's in here. This is honestly my favorite cookbook. I really feel so inflamed. So I'm trying to eat better. This is my favorite beef stew. It's a bone broth beef stew with purple sweet potatoes. It is so good. Like this is what we're making tonight. We need to make a beef stew. And I really only need to make two recipes this week because I'm also hosting a dinner party, but like I take cookbooks, like hair salons and stuff. And I will like dog ear the recipes I want to try. So anyways, this is so depressing. Like I can't even talk about it. Turning on the sauna. This is going to be like a very chill day still. A lot of resting. I would love to watch Gilmore Girls at some point. I started watching it when I was at my brain codes appointment and we started to put back up at season three. I'm doing this brain code thing. It's like neuro feedback. We'll talk about that in an upcoming vlog, but they have you like put something comforting on and then they're like trading your brain. So I literally just sit there when I watch Gilmore Girls. But then I just got hooked back into it. And now I'm on season five, episode like 20. Like I've had it on so much this week and I'm just not like, I never watched shows. Besides shows I've already seen. So obviously I've already seen Gilmore Girls, but it's just been like the best show to watch right now. I'm also obsessed with this mug. It's my first time using it. It's so cute. I tell my dad that when he comes and helps me build my other Vega Garden meds that I will be getting, we can drink coffee out of these. Let me give you guys some good, like New Year Bookrex actually. If y'all are feeling motivated or maybe looking for some motivation, 10x is easier than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy. So if you guys are around, when I was so obsessed with that gap in the game book, it's actually the same author duo. Dan Sullivan went on Edmonds Podcast and I am not getting a listen to that episode three maybe four times. It was so good when I read the book and I'm doing an entire solo podcast episode about it. So later today I'm gonna have to like go through all my notes and stuff on my Kindle to like get ready for that episode cause I'm recording it this week. The great business book, The Microscript Rules, incredible. I would have read Unreasonable Hospitality. I listened to the author on the Marcus Stewart podcast, which I've also been obsessed with. And I've heard it or committed it a couple of times so I definitely would have read that. There's another book I'm thinking of that's like so obvious. Matt Higgins' new book is really good too. I love that one, so. But 10x is easier than 2x. Like it's basically about how like 10xing your life is easier than 2xing your life and the reason why I'm not like what to do and it's so good. Now I'm reading Glossy. I'm listening to Coco Mokis podcast and she did a solo podcast episode on the book and just like her thoughts and whatever so maybe you want to read it. So I started, I started 20% in and that's what I'm gonna read this. So here's what we're doing now. I'm gonna go through and make sure that those are the recipes. I feel like I'm definitely gonna do the beef stew just cause I want to make it today. And I need to get my beef stew out of my freezer cause I have it from Butcher's Box. Butcher's Box is, this is again, it's not sponsored. These are all like companies that typically do brand deals but I don't work with either of them. Well I work with AG1 on the podcast now. But I love Butcher's Box. Like if you were trying to get into cooking and be a little bit more adventurous, like I just think there's nothing better than Butcher's Box. Like my dad was here the other day and I was like, you have to get this. Like anytime someone's at my house, like I am fully paying, I'm a customer. I'm not like, I don't even get like gifting from them. Like, well one time they didn't send me a package but like not food. Whatever, y'all get the point. Okay, hold on.  Well we weren't really drunk cause it was one margarita and that's dramatic but just looks so weird. Anyways, like this vlog is gonna be so long. It really is just gonna be like a prep with me. Let's hang out. I haven't vlogged in a week and we're catching up. I think it's great because the meat is actually grass finished. And a lot of the time at the grocery store you'll see like grass fed, which is supposed to be better. But when you say grass fed, you can do that all up until the end of their lives. And then they typically like stop that at the end to like plump them up before they, you know, wow, this is really gonna be depressing.  Anyways, but also it's just nice because it's good pricing. It shows up at your house, you keep it in the freezer, whatever. This sounds like an artery and it's not. With that being said, I have stew meat from them so I definitely want to make it. I will put this here. Typically this is when I write out my recipes. There's nothing that I love more and this is not because it's my product. We're actually out of stock right now. We completely sold out of the recipe journal and the dinner cards from like two to talks. Like it's gone until we have a restart coming probably the end of February. Follow the Instagram if you guys want it. I keep getting DMs from people and you really just need to be following the Instagram because that's where all the updates are gonna be. Also, by the way, if y'all are in Dallas, I think today it's live. I'm hosting a Dallas dinner party where you just buy a ticket and you can come. It's gonna be at Paradiso on the 18th and I'm hoping to do them a lot of other cities. So if you guys want me to come to other cities, let me know.  Like I don't know why I feel that way. I think it's because I've taken a break. But let me know what cities y'all would want. Like I'm thinking Dallas, Austin, Houston, Chicago, New York, Boston, Nashville. I'm also thinking St. Louis. Like that's where I was actually born. I moved to Texas when I was two. It was like where most of our family lives and every time I go there, I get so many DMs from y'all and I feel like no one goes to St. Louis. So I don't know. Look, I don't even know that's a possibility but I don't know. You guys let me know. So anyways, bone broth beef stew. This is normally what I would write in my recipe journal too which I'll do later. I just didn't bring it down with me. And then, sorry, I'm gonna try out this recipe before I write it in my journal because I don't know if I'm gonna like it. It's this braised, garlicky eggplant with chickpeas and tomatoes. Okay, it looks good. And it's a make-ahead vegetarian meal that looks incredible. So I'm also gonna plant some eggplant in my garden. So that'll be exciting when I can actually do that. It actually looks really good. So anyways, that's our cooking this week. This isn't like new to this year because I have been cooking so much but I definitely want to branch out and try a bunch of different meals and things. So I'm gonna make my grocery list right now which I do on my phone. I really just like hate being on my phone. Like I despise it, something about it. Like, oh my God, but I just hate it.  Like that's like largely why I even did the recipe journal because I feel like the kitchen is such a like sacred place and to just like add more technology when you're like reading recipes online and stuff. Like I hate. But with that being said, I'm making my grocery list. I could just write this down. I actually should literally, I should start. Like I'm, I really should. I also wanted to talk about this book if you guys are wanting to do like dinner parties in the new year and you're new to them. Even, I'm not even new to them and I still love it. This book is amazing. It's the dinner party project because you go in here and let me get to the page. Okay, well they even have like a cheese board chart. So that's like so helpful. So helpful. Oh, here we go. There's a what should I make for dinner flow chart and then it'll give you like all these things. Like how much time do you have? Like how experience are you in the kitchen? Wobble a lot, whatever. And then they'll have like menus for you and they just have menus all throughout. So like burger nights, steakhouse night, pizza night, taco night. And it's the drinks, the appetizers, the mains and desserts. Like how amazing is that? So I'll link this below. I just randomly picked it up by anthropology like last year when I saw it and I'm just now going through it this past week. And I really like it. Like this looks so good. Like so, so good. So anyways, I have so many cookbooks and I'm really trying to like get through them this year. Something about a cookbook is so just calming to me. Like I don't know, I love. I'll also link this one too because it really is my favorite and it's my go-to. And I just love it. The grocery list is done. I also just made a TikTok story and I wonder by the time you all see this, like my Christmas tree obviously like my stuff isn't up anymore. But listen, this tree was my best personality trait yet. Like if you know me, if you, I feel like you guys know me. Like I love to make every single hyper fixation a personality trait and my tree has by far been my best one yet. Like I think we can all agree on that. Buy your Christmas decor now. Like I know it's so boring and like two or three years ago I would have been like, oh that's a good idea and like not done it. But now if I like know I want certain things like dishware last year I bought from Anthropology after Christmas. Oh shoot, I left my oyster ornament. I just noticed that I'm the tree topper. But anyways, everything is on sale. So like my tree itself is 50% off my ornament. A lot of them are out of stock but they have a lot that are on sale. The ribbon, the classic ribbon that was so expensive that's impossible to find. You guys saw my journey on sale. So I will have that linked in to just go on my like LTK profile. It's pinned to my profile all of my Christmas decor. Like not even just the tree like everything else and it's all on sale. So get it now because then you're gonna save probably like 60% at least on all of your Christmas stuff for next year and you can just put it away immediately, you know. So anyways, little coconut updates. My dog, this is coconut. Hello. She has IVDD so her two back legs don't work. She loves to just scoot around. She actually gets around very quickly. She has wheels, like that's not like what she really does. Also we like never even, I never even justified that I got her stroller on here. I realized that like when we, I was watching back the blog. Yeah, I got her stroller.  Like that's not something that's cool. But my dog can't walk. So if she wants to go on walks, she's gotta be in a stroller and sometimes you sacrifice for your animals. You know what I mean? So anyone who's gonna make fun of me, just keep in mind you're making fun of a handicap dog and I hope he can sleep well at night. Anyways, slow progress. Like I'm fine with her this way. We've adjusted to this life. We're happy, she's happy. Like she's having a good time. She smiles all the time. She's a lap dog anyways. Maybe there's a miracle. She's still in physical therapy and stuff. And she is making slow progress. But at a certain point I'm just like, is it still worth it? I don't know. So anyways, hi girly. I never pictured this for us. I really didn't. But we've really adjusted quite nicely. She's a great dog sitter. She's a great setup all around. So I really do have like best case scenario for everything. Yeah, I mean I was heartbroken and depressed when this first happened, but we've adjusted and we figured it out. So anyways, that is the update. Still not walking and it's been months in surgery. Like typically they walk with them like a couple of weeks of surgery. And there are cases where it takes like a year or two. But I don't know. I really don't know. She has a lot of energy right now. She's like trying to jump. Hi cutie. Hi. She's a great life. She really does. So anyways, I think I'm gonna sauna now. I like need to, I need to do that. I want to sauna and something that I definitely want to do more of in 2024 slash I've already started is meditate. I feel like that's like really, I mean not that I do every single wellness thing but I feel like that's like one of the biggest most common ones that I just don't do. Like I will do pretty much everything else I just like really not, I've not been a meditator. Okay. Like I've done it here and there but I haven't like made it a part of my routine. My friend Liz went to, one of my friends was telling me all about Dr. Jardis Benza. I went to a retreat of his and now I'm hooked and like I need to go to a retreat but I started meditating when I'm in the sauna. Habit stacking if you will.  Okay, I'll link below this one. It's pretty inexpensive off Amazon but it really helps. And it's just like, I don't know if I'm excited to see this here once I like actually am meditating and like doing it regularly and doing my like morning routine and like really back at it but yeah, that's what I've been doing. So I put on a Dr. Jardis Benza meditation and I stay in the sauna and it's really just like a fabulous time. I really like it.  I put it here so I can have a visual every morning and then I think I'm gonna like bring my vision board out here because this is like where I meditate. So I feel like it would just make more sense. I also over in that corner I'm starting a seeding area which is when you like start to grow things for your garden from seed obviously. Like I don't know why I felt I need to explain that but sorry guys, I'm doing a whole area over there and then I've been printing off because I've been learning a lot from the Dallas garden school and I'm getting a lot of their like printable stuff because I'm literally 80, like I'm actually 80 years old. So I'm gonna like hang it all up here. I'm a very visual girl so I can have everything. Like again, I am 80. I'm printing off things from the internet and putting them on a board above my gardening station in my garage. Like that's crazy guys, you know? But anyways, so this I'm gonna put over here and have all my stuff hung up. Like as you can see here, I already printed off. This is I believe the cutting, planting schedule. Yeah, cut flower, planting schedule. How nice, right? Really into that, that account has really helped me a lot and that I like the Dallas and Greenish. I don't know, we'll talk about that in my gardening video. It's gonna be exciting if you're not a gardener. Stay tuned, okay? I feel like you guys like these. So don't even, don't even worry. But anyways, I'm gonna go in the sauna for however long, I think it literally just turned off, for however long I want. I don't really know how long that's gonna be. And look at me go guys, I'm a meditator, okay? Hey guys, we finished.  I've definitely had better ones, but I just, I don't know, like it was hard for me to focus, but I'm still glad that I did it. I still feel better and I feel like progress is progress. You know what I mean? I'm a little bit scared from when I started doing them at like 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. and I have those on, like I might as gonna fall asleep, I don't know. Oh my God, I forgot I had water boiling here from last night. And I thought I was just gonna be drinking water while I was just shocked to the system. I know I said I organized the garage, but like I'm in the middle of putting Christmas decor away, so ignore that. But this stuff is being organized. It's so much better than it was. I'm gonna have really cute fabric all along here. So it is gonna hide that stuff and look less cluttered. That's gonna be like my seating area. And then look, I hung this stuff up. I definitely wanna keep these two friends. I'm kind of over that one. I've had that literally since my LA house so long ago. And I'm kind of over this frame, but like I'm really leaning more into like antiques, older, more traditional, cozy kind of vibe. But frames are so expensive, so I'm never getting rid of the frame. So I might get a new print. I kind of want to paint some stuff with Macy, just like stuff that's cute little sayings or whatever. I definitely wanna keep that. That's Dolly and that's like, you know, on a ranch. So definitely keeping that. Also that I have these robes. I got them for the sauna, so I have them hanging up over there after I wash them. I just recorded the intro for the first episode of the year, which I think you all will really like, especially if you are like me and you like routines and whatnot. I had two of my friends actually founded a Candice Bresson Routini brand, which I cannot believe didn't already exist. It's actually kind of crazy. Maybe it did, but they looked out of the best. So anyways, these girls are so busy. They're at every single event. I mean, they're literally everywhere, always doing something. And they still have their five a.m. morning routine. And it's actually earlier than five a.m. because their workouts start at five a.m. So I needed to have them on to ask them all the questions about building routines, habits. Yes, I've been an early morning girl before, but never like, this is also them like ears at this point. It's been like a bit that they've been doing this. And I'm getting back into it. I feel like I normally will do like six a.m. But I like the idea of kind of like shocking my system because I'm a very all in sort of person. So I know that like building habits and doing things like that, it's not, that's not really the best way to go about it typically. But because I already wake up at six a.m. waking up at five a.m. is not that much different. And even though it is that one hour really makes a difference. And I'm just gonna like do it. I wouldn't recommend if you're building habits and doing things to go from being someone who wakes up at like eight a.m. to waking up at five a.m. Like that's kind of crazy. And it's still gonna be really hard for me. Like I even think it's best to do it at like 15 minutes, like intervals and whatever. That's not how I'm doing it. I'm gonna do a challenge on TikTok that's gonna force me into it because if I don't do it, then I'll be publicly humiliated. And that is the motivation that I've decided that I need. So anyways, I'm uploading and sending all the files over here. And I just had a couple of emails to respond to. Friend of Mine is doing so well, guys. Like I'm so grateful. If y'all don't know, I own Friend of Mine. I started it in September only a couple of months ago. It's a homemaking and hosting brand. We dropped the recipe journal first, dinner cards, and then we just dropped nightcap cards that launched this week. So they're available if you guys are interested. But I'm so happy because we sold out of like pretty much all the inventory that we had out until like March. So very grateful, but I've been like working like a mad woman trying to get stuff as soon as possible and like all the other things that we have and whatnot. So I'm very excited. I need to go through some shorts to review for the YouTube channel and then make some breakfast and then we're gonna head off to Sprouts, my favorite place. Guys, I got the best Christmas gift this year. It's literally just my art place pan, but the mini version. And it is amazing for breakfast.  I have used an always pan every single day, sometimes multiple times a day for three years now. Like I'm so obsessed. Like, did you think of me? I literally got a sworn I got around Turkey yesterday. I basically only asked for garden beds and then just stuff to more art place stuff. So I really just want my entire kitchen to be art place because that's really the only stuff I grabbed or anyways, I had the big pot and then I had the art place pan. I can just show you guys what I have. I was like, okay. So I have this pot that I use all the time and then this one that's just like a smaller normal size and then I have this normal size and then that's the mini. And it is amazing. It is my favorite kitchen stuff. I also really like hair way. I'm just like an art place girl. I think it's so amazing and I use it all the time. Anyways, this is a lot better for my breakfast size. I normally make every morning. I have the same breakfast and I haven't gotten tired of it yet. But you know, I will eventually will help because we always hyper fixate for whatever reason on breakfast and then we don't, oh my God. And then I can't eat it ever again. But look at how cute my plates are. I ate these a couple of weeks ago. All right, I thrifted them a couple of weeks ago. I do typically a ground turkey scramble and then I add in chow chow that I get at the farmer's market and it's S&J canning. They're actually McKinney based. They go to the White Rock farmer's market but I ordered it online this time because I'm just so obsessed with it. Like I crave it every morning and it just makes my meal taste so much better. This is the chow chow. It's amazing. Okay, I just got to Sprouts. My favorite place in literally the entire world. But guys, like my phone addiction is out of control. It's like even when I will drive five minutes and then I park, I check my phone immediately. Like why? I just hate it. Like I really, really hate it.  Obviously a lot of my job is on my phone but I don't know.  Like I would much rather, I have like, I am so lucky to have like such a cool house. Like I have like things that I can do. I can go garden, I can clean up, I can work on a project. There's so many things that I can do. Anyone can do at home. Besides scrolling your phone, I can read. I would rather even be watching like Gilmore Girls than being on my phone. Like I just, I don't know, like really this year I want to make it a goal to be off my phone less because it is genuinely really bothering me and really concerning me. My mom was talking about this recently how like she was listening to something and how like researchers don't even know like the epidemic of like phone addiction, like what it's gonna be and how it's gonna affect us or whatever. Which I think we can all agree on and I think we all know, but like, I don't know, it's really bothering me today. But with that being said, I'm listening to The Skinning Confidential. It's the new episode, how to get people to like you more, create connection and develop, I don't know what it is after that, but I'm only like less than halfway through and I've already sent it to three people and posted on my Instagram story because it is so good. It's talking about like ambiverts, introverts, extroverts, how to like have charisma, how to talk to people, how to, whatever, like I don't know, it's actually so good. Like I highly highly recommend it. Here is my grocery haul. I haven't had cottage cheese in so long and I love cottage cheese guys. I know it sounds gross, but you just have to trust me. It's also a really good dose of protein. I put this on like rice cakes, sometimes I'll add some jam, sometimes some honey, really good snack, really good breakfast, amazing. Playing Greek yogurt for my recipe. Onions, I got herbs, guys. Like I should not be buying herbs, I should be getting them from my garden. So that's gonna be changing this year. I was at a cake house, so I'm gonna try these. I always like Colombian coffee. It's organic, I don't know, whatever, it's what I saw. I think it was like five bucks and I got broth. So bone broth is better for you, but it is more expensive. But I got the bone broth just for the beef stew. Bone broth, I'm not kidding, it's like, it cares all for me. Bone broth is the equivalent. If you guys have seen my big factory wedding and the dad is obsessed with Windex and he just uses Windex to fix all these issues, that's how I feel about bone broth. I just love it. And I got some vegetable broth, eggplants, cherry tomatoes, purple sweet potatoes, lemons and carrots. So this is pretty much all for my two recipes this week. I'm gonna make this stew today in this vlog. Oh, and rice cakes, I don't know if I said that, I'm bonza, mac and cheese, I love bonza, so. I'm crashing guys, I'm so tired now. It's crazy, I think because I haven't really been drinking that much lately. I had three drinks total from the span of five to midnight and I'm just exhausted, so tired. So I'm gonna make coffee and I'm gonna get it together. Another thing I really wanna get better about this year is, what is it, meson place, meson place, how do you pronounce that? When you actually have all of your ingredients ready before you start cooking, because it makes your life so much easier. So I have the stew meat right here and I chopped everything that needed to be chopped. The thing about this recipe is it's so easy. You literally brown the meat 10 minutes and then you add literally everything else. It's that simple.  So, yeah, this will make my life so much easier, but there's something so therapeutic about having a background show on or watching like a master class, more at the stew or at mine, I suggest. I'm obsessed, I keep watching it over and over again. Something about it is so peaceful, but I'm just chopping and cooking, like I just really love it. So anyways, this recipe is one of my favorites. It's so simple. I will have it on the screen as we, I'm okay, partly I want. I'm gonna send you, actually screenshot this right here and as I'm chopping and doing it, like put the recipe throughout on the screen. I don't know if that's focusing. There we go. So just like add that on the screen as we go through it. Okay, back to it. Anyways, it's so simple, it's so easy. It's healthy, it tastes amazing, and it's just the best and it makes your house smell so good. I also love having kombucha while I cook. It's weird because I don't drink wine by myself while I cook anyways, but like I act like I made myself a cocktail or something and it's literally always kombucha. You've ever seen wine glasses when I'm cooking? It's always kombucha. I like better brewed, I like healthy, or olipop root beer, my favorite drink ever. Also guys, I am in love with these mugs. They are the perfect size, they're fun, they're cute. Like I just love this mug. Also y'all, we're already just dropped out of Yale. The drama is crazy. Okay, I'm waiting for my stew to boil, but I'm going through, I've already done this. I'm like always on my goohounder, if it's like I live on my goohounder. But every week on Sunday, I'll go through and I make my like weekly to-do. So in my notes app, I put like the weekly to-do and then I do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, whatever. And I put like my schedule in there to check off what also like to-dos that I need to do. So it's partly a to-do list, partly schedule-wise. I don't know why I just really like doing it, so it'll be good. Also like I'm sure you can tell by facing, I'm so tired, I know I keep saying that, but like I need to go to bed at eight p.m. Like maybe seven, honestly, I'm exhausted. Okay, so like tomorrow, Maggie Sellers is in town, so I'm going out a walk with Maggie. I have to meet with my neighbor at 11. I have a meeting at noon, finance meeting. I have another meeting at one, editing meeting, organized bathroom, bridal shower, planning. Okay, so like I just go through and it really helps me. I'm just a very visual person, so I like need to be able to see it. It's a little extra, I will say. Like I could just obviously keep everything there or whatever, but that's how I do it and that's how I schedule it and it all works out. This week I have recordings, I've got planning stuff, I have a lot of meetings, I have a dinner party that I'm hosting, I have a whole other video that I'm filming, so I just like get all this out before, so then I stay scheduled. And also, since I'm doing the 5 a.m. morning thing, I want to try out like different routines with the 5 a.m. morning, so I want to like do it in different orders. Whenever it is to see what I like over this band of the next like month that I mean I'm gonna keep doing it. Hopefully it's a lifestyle change, but I just want to see, also this top is so awful. It's just like a really cheap turtleneck, it's just doors. Anyways, I don't feel like changing. Also, I'm like really depressed about taking the tree down, so like I might keep it up. I haven't decided, I'm taking out all the other Christmas decor, but like maybe I give the tree up for a couple more days, like give me a break. So just getting all that stuff done, but I do this and this is something I'm trying to do in the new year. I'm trying to implement like little small habits that make a big difference. Number one, being back on NutriFull, like hair health is a huge thing and I am back on NutriFull, okay? That's happening. I need you guys to DM me every day and remind me to take my NutriFull. And then also I want to have my outfits picked out the night before, so it takes no time in the morning, like my workout if it's done, my outfit for the day is done, like I have it all set up and ready to go. So I'm gonna go pick out some outfits once that starts to simmer for my week, so that those are all laid out and ready to go and it's just like one less thing to worry about, one less thing to think about. I'm trying to like minimize having to think about stuff that doesn't really matter throughout the week. You know what I mean? Like I want to just all be prepped and done because I really like it when I travel and I have my outfit set and that's it. I can't think of anything else. I like that. Sometimes it's just like too much thinking. You know what I mean? It just like adds time in the morning and I don't want to deal with it. So that's the plan. I'm just getting all of this done. Let's go to my to-do list for today. I've pretty much done everything. I'm doing laundry right now, planning outfits. I don't know. I want to do a lot today but like I just don't know if I have it in me. I want to still, I want to be resetting and prepping but I also want to be resting so that I'm able to like actually do well. You know what I mean? I don't need to have to prep so we're gonna see. All right, so the stew is on simmer. I just put eye patches on because I figured it would actually wake me up and honestly it's helping. My skin also has been breaking out so bad the past week, like worse than ever. So I still need to do more organizing in this closet room. Don't get me wrong. It's not fully organized and I could use a refresh. I dig to go through a bunch of stuff. I just like I need to do the week outfits. You know, so I'm gonna forget that one out. A lot of these though are just, they were like holiday fits that I never got around to wearing. I got all these like really cute clothes guys but I'm still gonna wear them but the week that I had all the events to go to I got really sick. So I couldn't wear any of my like cute nicer outfits for the holidays which sucks because like if I don't wear them then like I don't really dress up much which I'd like to start doing. I need to start wearing a few outfits which is why I'm forcing myself again to do this. Like oh my God, this coat by the way from Cezanne. I mean I always wear outerwear is everything and maybe I'll wear this tomorrow morning on my walk. Maybe I will but I also could wear, no, what I'll do is I'll wear a vest. Okay, so anyways, I'm just gonna pick up my outfits. Couple outfits for this week just to make it easier. Look at how cute this hat is. It's from Opera Hours, they're my podcast cast this week and I think it's so cute. So I can definitely wear a hat, do something, I don't know. We're gonna figure it out, we're gonna get it together. Okay guys, I actually had quite a lot of success and that took me 10 minutes. I'll show you guys some of my outfits that I have planned. So it goes from like most casual to nicer.  So this is my walk morning for the morning. My work on walk outfit for the morning. By the way, I got this cute bag from Lucky Loves and I've been waiting forever to get it. I didn't really want the white one but it's all they had in stock. Anyways, love it but I haven't worn it still. So like I need to actually incorporate that into these fits, didn't even think about that. Anyways, I need to do more casual outfits but I'm not really in a rush to do those. Another walk outfit. This is a fit that I have planned out with a belt. So that's good. This is if I don't like the white with it. Then I have this skirt I haven't worn yet with this oversized sweater that would just be cute with a pair of nude heels. This is a new top that I've been wanting to wear. Jeans heels. This is another like super Western fit. I just have this vision of wearing like jeans. Either I'll put a white sweater on or I'll wear this top with my favorite belt from Revolve. This one's only $40 too. I'll link it. I love belt buckles. That's definitely been like a 2023 thing for me that I will be carrying into the new year. And then this jacket is the coat I got last year for Europe and I'm obsessed with it. It's so massive. It's obnoxious but I love it. Like I want to wear this with my Tacoma Josie boots and go to Fort Worth. Like that is my vision and I'm excited for it. Then I just have some nicer outfits that I'll be wearing to different things. I think I might wear this to my dinner party for a friend of mine. And then just some of my random things that I need to pull but I definitely can add more but I feel like I'm good for right now. I could do a little bit more lounge but I honestly, like I know I'm not gonna not wear lounge. So I just need to pick cute lounge that makes me feel put together and also put it in here. I feel like a lot of goal setting is like being realistic. Not really like, okay. That's not what I'm trying to say. Goal setting is different. More so developing new habits and routines and stuff. I know myself and the core of who I am is like I like to be comfortable. So I want to still do this, make myself feel a little more put together so I can outfit a little bit cuter, like accessories, whatever and hang it up here so I have it instead of just putting on like sweatpants and like a sweatshirt and whatever. Anyways, love this. And this is something I can definitely keep up with because it's only 10 minutes. Also, by the way, the new house guest merch that's coming out is so cute. Like I saw the designs that I was going through yesterday and I was showing friends and everyone is just like, it is so cute. I'm so excited for you guys to see it. Also, I have my little closet buddy. She loves it. This is her spot. And whenever I'm getting ready in here, she just is obsessed and she sits there. I do my makeup on the floor here and she just sits there with me the whole time. It's very sweet. So anyways, I'm feeling good. I'm glad I have this all situated. Like thank God, honestly. Also, these boots, they're gawney and I need to wear them more. I honestly, they were just hidden in another closet and they're gonna be so cute, like I can wear them gardening and just I wanna style these. So I brought these out as well. I need to go through and organize this but I really love this. I also have my stetson up there. Yeah, it feels good. Time to clean the pool, check the chlorine levels. Need more. Ignore my hair and ignore the fact that it is so dark in here. You guys have good recs for garage lighting. Let me know. But I'm gonna start putting some Christmas decor, I guess, upstairs, which is really so sad. Or I guess, yeah. Oh, my gosh guys. I just don't have it in me to take the tree down. Like I just, I can't do that yet. That's, it's just too much. So I'm gonna put the tree up, I think today. And like we'll see about tomorrow. But I already have like the main stuff done and like ready to go anyway. So I feel like it's okay.  So anyways, putting this stuff in the attic. I also just wanna say that I did this in my townhouse and I finally just got it together. But I use this basket as like my work basket, my laptop basket, this cord. I don't know what it's for. So I just, I have to test that out tomorrow. But I really like having, sorry for all the cords and the clutter and literally coconuts, sweater. I can't. But I really like having just like a basket. I don't know about you guys, but I don't like clutter. I don't like seeing a bunch of stuff out on the counter and whatnot. And this works better because I like work from home. So I can work wherever and I move outside. I work there. I work there. I work in the dining room. I work really all around the house. I like having this basket. So everything just stays in one place and it feels less cluttered. Keep my laptop in there. I keep my iPad in there. Everything just currently charging. So I don't know if you guys are getting really annoyed. I used to keep it just in a bag, but now this work basket's great. I'll try to link one below similar. I cannot remember where I got this from. This is, I feel like the most obvious thing in the world, but it's just like something that I'm doing now and it makes my life better, so. Okay, I needed some fresh air. So I'm outside now and I'm still planning. 2024, I want to get good about is I want like one day that's all podcasts. Cause we're horrible at multitasking. So keeping it all in the same day. And honestly, like even, I would love to get to two episodes a week. So like I would love to do like, the first week a month is when I'm recording and I'm in different cities every time. And then that way it's easier to schedule guests and stuff. But also like on my calendar have like other things that I need to get done this week. And so when I do it that way, I'm like, okay, I'm doing house stuff. I'll organize the bathroom then. Like just small things like that. But it really doesn't make a huge difference. Okay, I'm going through basically goals for this year, which I've already had said, but I read this book, How to 10X Your Life, which I've already talked about and I'm talking about it literally nonstop. But it just says the book is actually, sorry, it's actually not how to 10X your life. It's 10X is easier than two X I think. And it's the whole idea that it's easier to 10X your life than it is to just two X your life because you have to change 80% of your life in order to 10X it, but you only have to change 20% in order to two X it. Therefore, you're less likely to do it. And I'm like really on this 10X thing. And I've been doing this as a career for the past 10 years and it is time for me to like hire people. And first I thought I really wanted like full-time hires and now I'm, I don't know, I'm not against it. I want by the end of the year to have like a team that's working with me. Like I have a team management and like general media wise but I want like a team that's working with me. I'm obviously gonna need people for a friend of mine. Like I, there's a lot of things. But I really need I think what I actually need because I have editors, I have people who are doing that. I have someone that I'm hiring for community stuff but I also think I need more of like an administrative assistant that's like all over and it's not a full-time role necessarily but I need someone who can help me like streamline scheduling, streamline like communication with booking for podcasts, which is like a main thing even though I'm trying to do less guests but I keep going back and forth on that. Like I can't decide that, I don't know, I'm going back and forth on that on stop, on guests, not guests, like an ideal world and have two podcast episodes a week and I would do, I don't know, that's like a whole other topic or whatever. I need someone who is really, really, really organized and has experience in it and can like streamline my life especially on the friend of mine thing and communicating with like the factory doing that stuff like schedule wise, timing wise, calendar wise, wind payments or like things like that. So anyways, that is something I'm definitely wanting to get handled basically as soon as possible. Like I mean, I don't want to settle and I want the best fit and whatever but I really, I really need that.  So yeah, that's something that I'm trying to do. I know a lot of you guys actually own your own businesses. I'm curious, what do you guys do, comment below because I have been getting so many DMs from girls who follow me who own their own businesses. So I'm just like wondering like is this topic even like interesting to talk about? Because I can only imagine if you have like a more traditional job, it's really not interesting and it's boring, so let me know. Hopefully my food is gonna be done soon. I'm very, very hungry. Also, I will say these eye patches did wake me up. Okay, it might have also been the coffee but like these eye patches really did something for me. I am figuring that out and I also just like optimize my calendar for the week. So that I'm like doing the right stuff on the right days and I'm in the right headspace and zone, you know? But yeah, it's good. Also, for the actual like executive assistant, like someone in that realm, like I want them to be in Dallas because I just want them to be in Dallas. Like there's other things but I think I really need someone here for that. So anyways, I'm gonna go check on our food.  Hello. She's so cute. Coco, look at the camera. She's not interested. The tree is not going down today guys. Like I can't do that. I literally can't do that to myself, no way. I make this mistake every time I make this. It's still good. It just doesn't look, it looks disgusting but it's very good. I put too much bone broth in every time. I'm like, no, I'll just add another cup and then it just makes the potatoes like kind of soggy but like that's not really the right word. It sounds gross. I promise you this tastes amazing. It just looks disgusting but it tastes amazing. It smells amazing. It's so good. Thanks to Scott Patterson's repop episode. Podcast I mean, I, sorry it's so loud. I actually love with a rewatch podcast because it's like an episode where I can like turn my brain off. Like it's just comforting, it's easy, whatever. I try to listen to more of like entertaining relaxed and chill episodes at night. I literally want to be sleeping by 8 p.m. So we're working on that. Update, it's 7 p.m. Putting on my red light therapy face mask is a true relaxation. Normally I read every single night before bed and I still wait before I go to bed but I read it so much this weekend that I'm watching nowhere else tonight. Isn't this amazing? Okay, I have it. I'm pretty positive I would just kind of go for this one. This is the best looking mask like this I've ever seen. I also hate the clutter back there. I need to get to that. But it's nice because my other ones they have to be like plugged in at all times so I couldn't move around. This one I can like move around my house. Like there you go, done. It's actually so convenient. So I'll link it in case anyone's interested. Red light is amazing for my skin. Like I noticed the biggest difference from red light. That's why I love infrared sonnas. That's why I love it all so. Anyways, here we go. I look scary, I know. Another thing in 2024 I'm gonna utilize more is a nice relaxing evening in the tub while watching a show.  Like I don't watch shows unless I've seen them when I grew up watching them a million times and even then it's like so rare. And I wanna watch shows because they're relaxing and it's fine, like I can do it.  I need to catch up. I've got like a decade to catch up on. Guys, I look crazy. There's nothing better than getting to bed so early. In my Christmas gift in Germany, they gave me these. They're the high confectionary. It's kinda hard to see right now. I wonder why. They go to sleep, hemp infused gummies. I've taken them twice. I need to charge my wore ring that I need to do tomorrow. I don't even know where to put it now that I think about it. But anyways, I'm interested to see what my sleep score is with my wear ring with this. So anyways, these hemp infused gummies I just have two of them an hour before going to bed and I slept really well those two nights. I don't have a problem sleeping but I think I woke up more rejuvenated is really it. And also I like it because you can kinda control the hour that you would have been which I think is so nice. Anyways, we're gonna have a little dessert. There's these chocolate covered bananas that I don't even know why I decided to try them it's about one day.  But obviously with this I can't have them. So we're gonna gather our things. I don't feel like making tea tonight either but I feel very well rested and ready for the year. A lot of my goal setting and like journaling and stuff has been done. I'm gonna journal in the morning. I have some prompts and things but I just feel good for the year. I feel repair, I feel ready. Good to go. Gotta do the doctor medicine. Exciting life things. Okay, I did my skincare. I have my favorite dessert. It's so good. And I'm actually gonna take like two gummies now because it's 7.06 p.m. I was not kidding about going about at eight. I used to do this in college on Monday nights because Monday I didn't have class and that's like when I worked and then I had like a crazy busy week. The rest of it and I would go to bed every Monday night because our Sundays were 16 hour days. Every Monday night at 8 p.m. so I'd be able to like survive. I would catch up on sleep, you know?  I hope you guys enjoyed this video of my new year reset prep. Whatever this video is. I love you guys so much and I'll see you in my next video. I have a lot to say and not only do I have a lot to say because I pretty much always have a lot to say. I have a lot to say that I actually think might be good and hopefully you'll like one thing. Okay, we're doing a little bit of a what I've been learning 2023 recap reflection and kind of like into the new year, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy new years. It's the best week of the year which is the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says if A upon B is a rational number with B not equal to 0, what is the condition on B so that the decimal representation of A upon B is terminated. So we are given a rational number A upon B where the denominator is not equal to 0. We have to find the condition on the denominator B such that the decimal representation of the rational number A upon B is terminating. Let's see its solution now. We have that A upon B is a rational number and we are given that the denominator B is not equal to 0. Let's try to find out the condition on B such that the decimal expansion of A upon B is terminating. For this let's consider an example where we take, let's consider the decimal expansion of a real number that terminates. So let's take this 0.0875. Now we express this as a rational number. So this can be written as 0.0875 upon 10 to the power 4. Now as you can see we have factorized 0.0875. So we can write 0.0875 that is the numerator as 5 to the power 3 multiplied by 7 and now denominator that is 10 to the power 4 and we know that since the powers of 10 can only have powers of 2 and 5 as factors so 10 to the power 4 can be written as 2 to the power 4 multiplied by 5 to the power 4. Now we will cancel out the common factors between the numerator and the denominator. So we would get this is equal to 7 upon 5 into 2 to the power 4. So we have 0.0875 can be written as 7 upon 5 into 2 to the power 4. So we have expressed this as a rational number 7 upon 5 into 2 to the power 4. Now as you can see that the prime factorization of the denominator is of the form 2 to the power n into 5 to the power m where we have n and m are non-negative integers. So this is the denominator it is of the form 2 to the power 4 into 5 that is of the form 2 to the power n into 5 to the power m where n and m are non-negative integers. So we get the result that for any rational number a upon b where b is not equal to 0 and where a and b are co-prime then the decimal representation of the rational number a upon b is terminating if the prime factorization of the denominator that is b is of the form 2 raised to the power n into 5 raised to the power m where n and m are non-negative integers. So this is our final answer that the prime factorization of the denominator should be of the form 2 raised to the power n into 5 raised to the power m where m and n are non-negative integers. So this completes the session hope you have understood the solution for this question.


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We would like to thank Joshua Smith, Executive Director of Green Mountain Support Services for joining us on Ableton on Air. Yeah, Lauren, thank you for having me come back. I'm really excited. We haven't been able to talk at all for, you know, haven't been in the... Doing a Zoom show, is that how we do it? Zoom shows are kind of different, exactly, but I am excited to be back here and talk about some of the big projects that Green Mountain Support Services has been doing. So before we begin on the new projects on Green Mountain Support Services, for those that don't know about Green Mountain Support Services, why don't you tell them a little bit about your agency and what you guys do? So Green Mountain Support Services, we are a specialty service agency. We work with people living with disabilities, whether they be disabilities based off of intellectual disabilities, brain injuries or disabilities based off of the benefits of age. And the reason why I say the benefits of age is because those that my mentor or mine once said that disability is a natural part of the human experience. And he said, my hope to you is that you live long enough to experience your own disabilities because not everybody gets to live long enough to experience disabilities. And so, as we say, that is a natural part, disability is a natural part of the human experience. And what we do is we make sure that we provide advocacy and support for people living with disabilities to make sure that they are being able to access the community of their choosing. And a good point about this is like a few years ago, our mission statement for our organization was ensuring that our neighbors with disabilities are at home in the community. We tweaked it. We actually changed it to say ensuring that our neighbors with disabilities are at home in their community because community isn't a location. Community is the group of people that you want to work with, the group of people that you want to be a part of. We all have different communities. It could be a church community. It could be a fishing community. It could be a community of the Rotary Club or a bookstore or a book club. Whatever it is, we get to choose our own community. And it shouldn't matter whether or not if you have a disability or not that you should still have access to the community that you choose to belong to. And it shouldn't be forced upon you based off of financial reasons. It shouldn't be forced upon you based off of guardians who pressure you into going to certain places. So that's really what we stand for. And the benefit that we have agreement support services is that we work almost statewide, we work out of 12 out of 14 counties right now. What does that mean, 12 to 14 counties? So there's 14 counties in Vermont. And we work out of 12 out of those 14 counties. Us as a specialty service agency, you'll see Northeast Kingdom Human Services only works in the Northeast Kingdom. Washington County Mental Health only works in Washington County. Howard Center only works in Chittenden County. A lot of Rutland County Mental Health only works in Rutland County. We have the ability, based off of our statute and designation, that we're able to work statewide. So that gives us and that gives people living with disabilities a freedom of choice. Whether they're working, living with a brain injury, having an intellectual disability, or as I say, having a disability based off of the benefits of age, that they're able to choose what services they would like to get from. And one of the benefits is us as a specialty service agency is that we are able to give people that choice. So that's basically what we do as Greenmount Support Services. We provide advocacy work and we provide choice. And we provide community based supports for all of the Monters who are living with a disability. So let's talk about, I looked on your website and you have lots and lots of services. One of the things I would like to talk about is supportive employment. Now, I know that your agency doesn't believe in congregate care. But in a sense, what did your agency do about supportive employment and supporting people with special needs in employment? So basically what that entails is that what we do is that we work with some direct support professionals who specialize in supportive employment. And what that is is to allow to give people living with a disability some access and assistance in making sure that they're successful. And you're right, see the benefit, I would say that the challenge of congregate settings and segregated settings, it creates a culture of them instead of a culture of we. Any time that you eliminate a portion of the population by, without their consent in the sense, away from the larger community settings. What you do is you do create this culture of them instead of a culture of a we. So that's where it's important for us. Exactly, between we and them. Well, first of all, the point of it like being with a we is that we are all together, but if you start basing it like a segregated or institutionalizations or congregate or segregated settings, you do create this culture of that is where that group of people live. That's where that group of people live. The differences is that when I get back to what I said earlier is people should always get to choose their community. And if they choose to be part of a segregated community, whether it be out on a farm someplace, or if you're looking at a group of people that have specific values and beliefs, that they have the capacity and the decision and the informed decision to be in a congregate setting based off of the people that they feel most comfortable with. But the difference is in a segregated setting and an institutional setting, the folks that are in there, it's really important to make sure that they have that choice. If they choose to do that, you know what? That's where we get back. We make sure that we help support that because our job is to let people be a part of their own community, the community they choose to be a part of. So when you talk about the support and employment program is that being a part of a working environment where you're among your peers of the people that also are in that same working environment, whether it be working at a maple fields, working at a Dunkin Donuts, or working at a library, or working in a school system, or a school situation. The point is that you still get to choose that this is the community you want to be a part of. Or if someone from, if a participant in your agency wants to say, Oh, I would like to work in a TV station. Let's find you someone to pair you up with, you know, that kind of thing. Before we get to your new projects, staffing, all across the board globally, has been a problem. Direct support professionals and their wages, as a matter of fact, not too much in the past. There was a thing about two years ago before the pandemic, there was a documentary called Invaluable. Yeah. How valuable is the DSP workforce? And what is your main focus on higher wages for the DSP staff? So there's a really good point is that I'm working with the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals to work on creating a federal standard occupational classification for direct support professionals. There is no standard occupational classification.  They have a listing, but they do not have a standard occupational classification for a direct support professional, which is something that is... So what states do is they find the cheapest level of what that would be, whether it would be an LNA or a custodian or a whatever they find, whatever the lowest level is, and then they equate that to how much they want to pay a direct support professional. But as anybody knows in this work, a direct support professional is everything. They are a coach. They are a job coach. They are a personal care attendant. They're an LNA. They do medical administration. They do a lot of advocacy work. They do a lot of... What about medication? They do a lot of medication administration. They do so many things. No other position is so involved in that because it involves somebody working not only in a residential setting, but also in a community-based setting and also in a job setting. And you're also working to make sure people are able to make good decisions. So there's a lot of advocacy and coaching involved in a lot of that stuff. So there is no standard occupational classification for a direct support professional. So with that said, it actually is... It behooves us as a society to make sure that we actually enforce that by actually having that standard occupational classification to say, we are looking at the people who provide very direct and intimate support for a most vulnerable population. And how are you expecting us to do that if there is no legally recognized job description that involves that? So as you brought up the point of pay is... Pay is very important, but it's also a reflection of the values given to that. So why is a doctor paid more? Why is a lawyer paid more? Why is a teacher paid less? Why is a nurse paid less? And it's based off of what we feel is the value in our society of someone's position. So when you increase somebody's salary, you're basically giving a monetary value to say we value the work you do and we value and you need to be respected in the work you do. And that comes down to that monetary piece. But a lot of it comes down to also as we say is the dignity and respect of that position is when you provide a level of dignity and respect to somebody's position by actually having a standard occupational code and that standard occupational classification. And you also are able to say, you know what? The work you do is valuable and we recognize that and we also truly believe that you should not be paid below minimum wage. And here's the point too, specifically here in Vermont. The poverty rate, if you're a single person living by yourself in Vermont, you have to make a minimum of $21 an hour in order to survive living in Vermont. Not having money. This is just the amount of money because of the cost of living has increased so much. And the state of Vermont has now says that they're going to be paying direct support professionals $16 an hour. So basically the state of Vermont is telling the people who provide support for the most vulnerable population of our state to say, you deserve to get paid below poverty level wages to support our most vulnerable population. So why is it $21? Is there a reason for that? It's based off of how much things cost. So it's the cost of living. So how much groceries cost here? How much rent costs? How much gas costs? And many of you know here in Vermont, if you don't have a car, it is hard to get around. So the fact that you need a car, you need a place to live. Everything has gone up in price in Vermont. So basically what we're saying is that in order for you to barely survive if you're living by yourself is $21 an hour. And if you're married, it's double that. It's more. It's exactly. It's more. So keep in mind too, if you're married and then your partner's bringing in money, that will increase it.   And the fact that the state of Vermont says we're paying DSPs, because the state of Vermont gets to decide that. They say that we're paying direct support professionals $16 an hour is basically an affront to our most vulnerable population. So let's talk about some of the new projects that Green Mountain Support Services is doing. Yeah. So one thing is that we were able to partner with the Brain Injury Alliance of Vermont. Our values and mission values are very much aligned. So we were able to, during the pandemic, is reach out to the Brain Injury Alliance of Vermont to partner with them with our projects and our programs. And it's been amazing being able to sit down and work with them on a lot of their projects with supporting brain injury survivors. The caveat to a brain injury survivors are that it's not an intellectual disability. It's not age-related. It is, and nobody ever plans on getting a brain injury. So the difference and the reason why the Brain Injury Alliance is so, so important in Vermont. People living with an intellectual disability have an intellectual disability. So there's research and work done to kind of determine and know ahead of time the support and services that are available. Same thing for somebody with age-related disabilities. Yeah, how does a piggyback, but how does, as a person gets older, for example, I'm turning 15 next year, but as a person with a disability gets older, what services do you provide for the older population? Very the same thing as we do with intellectual disabilities. We provide advocacy work and we provide community-based services and residential services. So if somebody wants to live in place, if somebody is looking to be a part of a shared living model, or if somebody is looking to be able to get shopping done, these are the things that the Greenmount Support Services is the type of work that we do. So. Now, the pandemic, which we're still partly in, how has Greenmount Support Services helped people with visual needs during the pandemic? So we made sure I was really, I'm very proud of the fact that and very grateful for the fact that Greenmount Support Services was not negatively affected by any turnover. People stayed, people stayed and worked, that people stayed and worked with us. We didn't have anybody quit, for instance. So we were very, and I think a lot of that comes down in the fact that we truly work with our staff to make sure we say, you know what, you're adults, you're able to make adult decisions and we want to treat you like adults. So, you know, with our unlimited vacation policy, our six weeks of pay time off every year for our hourly staff, having one of the most robust health insurance plans in the state, some of these things. And already having allowing people to work remotely are all things that we're able to put us in a pretty good standing. Because a lot of services for people, especially either closed or put it on hold during the pandemic. So how did you guys really deal with it? So it was based off of the same thing for everybody. We all had to stay home. We all had to work separately. So what we did is that we made sure that people we provide services for had the same access and the same ability as everybody else in Vermont is that you had to work remotely. Were you safe? You had to work remotely. You had to be home. What we did is we did a lot of deliveries for people. We made sure that people stay connected. We had Zoom meetings. We had Zoom interactions with playing bingo and all these other things that could be. Oh, you got a Zoom conference too. Zoom conferences, exactly. Yeah, with our cerebral palsy conference we did for two years during the pandemic. So all of these things we were able to do to make sure that people still, the point of it, and this is what I love about this, Lawrence, is that there's a really good quote from, I see, a Biva, Dave Petoniak, who was a very, very well-known advocate for people living with disabilities. And he said, loneliness is the only disability. So the fact is, is like recognizing, making sure that we are recognizing to make sure that people are not alone during that was paramount to the types of services that we provided is that we made sure that the people we provided services for were connected to the communities of their choosing. What are the, in your opinion, what are some, what are some misconceptions around people with special needs? That when people first meet them or something like that? I don't know. So not living presently with a disability, it's hard to determine what that is, but I do know, like looking from an advocacy perspective, is that we don't work with diagnoses, we work with people, and we make sure that we work with people to say, what communities do you want to be a part of? Where do you want it? Where do you see yourself in 20 years? It's all about helping them with planning, just like we would do with anybody else, that anybody else that might be wanting to try to find and form their own communities. In terms of, let's get back to some congregate question. There are still certain states that still, and I know we keep going back to the same question, but there are still certain states that still institutionalize. Is that ever going to end, do you think, in your opinion? Like, will we ever stop institutionalizing people with special needs, or putting them in congregate settings? I don't know, I do know that as I was saying earlier, when you create a culture of a them, instead of a culture of a we, that's where you start having divisiveness. So making sure that everybody still has access to the same level of interaction with the community of their choosing, that's what it comes down to being a part of a community. Having people freely access gymnasiums and libraries and malls and stores and school settings, and they still are able to have that, having everybody have the same access to every part of the community of their choosing is important. The, and plus, this is what it comes down to, it's actually more cost effective as well for a community, for a society to make sure that everybody is included in it. We're a richer society for it, we're a stronger society for it, when we're able to have multiple backgrounds and life experiences and cognitive abilities altogether, makes us stronger as a community. And as soon as you start thinking for the sake of safety, that separation is important, that's nothing ever good, nothing ever good comes from separating out people. Well, explain a little bit more about that. Well, it's there's, as I say, when you create a culture of them instead of a culture of we, then you have, you create issues of xenophobia, you create issues of prejudice, you create issues of all that stuff, but if we are all interacting with each other on a regular basis and we all have that ability to do that, that's the most important part of what makes us stronger. What are some of the other projects that you're working on? I know that you guys merged with the Brain Injury Association, but is there anything else that you're working on right now? I think we're continuing to work on our advocacy piece, we're continuing to do education on what a shared living provider is. We're always, always in need for having more shared living providers. So can you explain what a shared living provider is? Yeah, so a shared living provider is somebody who opens up their home, who has been trained by our agency, that has oversight of our agency, who acts as an independent contractor, that provides a nursing level, nursing level care of service, and for somebody living with a disability in their own homes. So there's that ability of making sure that their home is accessible, that has all the bells and whistles that you would find in a nursing facility, but in the convenience of somebody's own neighborhood among their own friends and family. Is talking about shared living providers, is it difficult sometimes to pair up people with special needs and shared living providers? Yeah, so there's, and that's what comes down to is like looking at what the best fit is for somebody. And really keep in mind, we're not talking about the perfect fit, we're talking about the best fit. If somebody says they wanna live in a certain town, or they wanna live in a certain neighborhood, or they want to have access to somebody that goes to the same church as them, or you have somebody that says I can't be around dogs, or I can't be around smoking. It's basically thinking about that from perspective of a, what you're looking for if you're buying your own home, or renting your own apartment, is you're trying to find the best match. It might not be the perfect match, but we're trying to find the best match for the person to make sure that they are living the life that they need to be living. Okay, so what are some of the, while we still have some time left, what are some of the future goals of Green Mountain Support Services? I mean, I just believe it's really important that we continue to advocate and educate people on the work we do as making sure that we are also an aging population. We are needing to make sure that housing is extremely important, but really ultimately what Green Mountain Support Services stands for is to make sure that, to be very clear is that we ensure that all of our neighbors with disabilities are living in their community, their community of their choosing, and that's what we need to do. If those that choose to live in other, if they choose to live in a congregate setting, or living on their own, if they want to live by themselves, or live with people that also experience the same levels of disabilities, as long as they're making that own choice, it's not forced upon them off of budget, not forced upon them by overzealous or being pressured into making that decision. Those are the things that we really advocacy, advocately really want to make sure that we're pushing to make sure that it doesn't happen. But that's, like I say, that's what we do. That's what we stand for. And we truly believe at Green Mountain Support Services that we are stronger. We are a stronger state, Vermont is much stronger when everybody has the same level of access to everything else that everybody else does. And that doesn't matter if you were living with an intellectual disability, age-related disabilities, or disabilities based off of a brain injury. 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Yo what's poppin boys and girls ladies and gents welcome back to another episode of kicking their bass TV big Thanks to each and every one of y'all for supporting the channel supporting the brand I really appreciate it you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell also hit the like button I'd really appreciate that really helps out the video. So anybody hits the like button. Thank you so much We're gonna go ahead and hop into this one. We're actually doing something a little bit different We're out here on the Ogichi River again, you know, we've been catching a lot of fish out here It's actually been a little high recently the water level it flooded a good bit last week And we haven't been out here in about a week and it seems as if the waters came up again But we are still gonna try our best to catch some of these fish. We're doing some a little bit different too So it's like I got a couple top waters on my rods We have this devil's horse right here on the kicking combo We have a buzz bait on this kicking combo as well And I also have a new lure that I'm wanting to try out today. So this is actually a beetle I picked it up at Dick's Sporting Goods a few weeks back I've been waiting to film a video on it and I was like today might be the perfect day to go fishing with this beetle So that's gonna be the topic around today's video is throwing some top waters trying out some new stuff And more importantly trying to catch a few fish on that beetle because that'll just be really cool I've never thrown one before and just be some different It has two feather hooks on it and it's got that purple and black very unique very different If I could have to assume, you know The bodies join it right here that you slightly reel this bait and it just kind of goes across the water like that And one thing that I've talked about a lot recently is out here in this river These bass eat a lot of crabs wherever in brackish water if you go around one more binge You're pretty much in solid salt water I know that there's flounder and other types of saltwater fish that live in here with these bass So these bass are used to eating crabs and I was almost thinking about I'm like man I know this is a beetle, but it kind of looks like a little crab It could could look like a little crab and imitated. So we might end up slaying them today We're just gonna have to find out get our baits in the water and see if they're gonna eat some top water today I hope you guys enjoy this one. Let's hop right into it. All right boys and girls We're gonna get this one started and we're actually gonna start off with the beetle because I'm just curious I really want to catch a fish on it. That would be sweet. It's just something totally different This thing is so weird-looking. I don't know But I was just playing around with it in the water and the action of this thing It was kind of like what I was saying. It kind of has just a little dart wobble to it And it has a bunch of little rattles in it as well here. Let me shake it So it's pretty loud, but my main plan with this thing is just to throw it up in those little current breaks And slightly reel it and pop it off the bank. I think we're we'll end up getting some fish catches on it I'm pretty excited about it I just want to see if want to actually eat this and figure out You know the best way to work this bait to get these bites and hopefully they'll end up You know just eating in general eating a topwater today. That's a big thing.  That's it right there You kind of got a reel it a little fast. It goes like a little bit beneath the surface Just like that. It's got a good rattle to it. It's like a wake bait Let's go ahead and get this thing started guys see if we can get one on it I mean, I don't even know what a bass would think this thing is We're gonna sure give it a shot though Bass and Beatles today It's the title Bass and Beatles.  I was like a two and a half pounder. Oh my gosh Yo, that got me so excited.  Little crankbait for that that was a good little fish too I don't know if that's a that's a not a good sign Like maybe it was the color.    Yes, he ate it. I think that tells us something He came off right there. That's first cast on the jerk bait like That's already telling me top order is not the move today But what we're gonna do is we're gonna put our heads down and still throw that top water and try to catch Some good fish on it That's uh, that's crazy man. I wasn't the same fish. I hit that beetle though.  I think if I got a warmer craw down there Oh my gosh, did you see that finish? All right? I'm gonna fast boy that sucker tanked it. I Stuck them though. I don't know if I'll eat it. I'm gonna throw a beetle in after that. What's up, buzzbait? I Cut her off Yeah, cut her off put that beetle on I think they just want some under the surface. Oh my gosh, dude I never felt that fish never nothing but I saw my line just pop up the moment I jerked it down Knocked slack in the bait little bass On the whole jerky squirky.  I don't know if I'm gonna put this bait down until I don't catch one Watch me catch like 25 in a row at that point. I might as well pick up another bait See if they eat it. I'm gonna keep throwing it until I if I don't get a bite this cast Okay, I'll do it. It's better for the video, but not really good for nose feelings.  Like if they eat that they should eat it And I get you're talking about two different things two different actions, but it's like Can you please just launch it?  I'm gonna pick up this Jesus, that's a good one Like you see what I'm saying Like How many cast did I just throw the top water?  I'll throw it in there. He's I don't understand Plus a lot of you guys have been catching on this jerk bait, too I've got a lot of DMs and pictures from y'all.   They they just pepper this thing. I mean the paint's ripped all the way off this bait But if you guys want to check it out or get like a discount I got the codes and links down below you can get you a little discount on it But I'm telling you that thing's been catching some fish like we call it 10 pound here on a few weeks ago Like pond fishing river fishing Savannah River O'Geechie everywhere. We go there just munching that bait It's too good, dude. It's too good. I promise guys.  I'm just kind of breaking the ice. We got to get started somewhere I can get all the bad you do off of us Custom fish All right, boys. So I want y'all to see this, you know, we got the beetle. We don't throw five cast. All right. Here we go Boy that was a good one Cody Yeah Dude, I mean just that was like a two and a half dude the fish set of eight The fish they might have been the same fish to try to bite it earlier I've had two bites on this today and they were both like solid two pluses That fish I thought had it, bro. He just never ate it all the way. Oh Gosh, that was a good bite It was like right below the surface I'd say probably like three or four inches below the surface I saw this whole body I really wasn't expecting that dude. I was just throwing it up there Yeah, what I was going to do is I was gonna be like, all right I'm gonna throw five casts of this and then pick up that and then watch it's gonna happen on the first cast Now all of a sudden you just Rails it Hi, like they're not committed to it. It could be the color of it It could be everything could be the action Could be the color Could be that they're not wanting to eat top today That's why I'm kind of trying to crank it But I will say the two bites that I've had were good ones. All right boys, we have been throwing this beetle lure for like three hours and Nothing I've had two bites on it had two good fish to swirl on it But rather than that, I mean I have not caught a fish on that thing I don't know if the beetle lures it sucks with fish aren't eating top water today or it's the color of the beetle lure There's so many little things. I've tried throwing it like a crankbait.  So it's like I know the fish are there They're just not wanting to eat it even the ones that I came after it. They just kind of swirl on it They're a little iffy on it, which kind of keys off to me that that color I don't think that color is the best bet, but we're gonna keep on trying it guys We're gonna fish with that thing today whether we catch them or not We're gonna keep on throwing it and I really think we're gonna end up getting one good one on it I think a good one to eat it. Here we go Beetle Lure I'm gonna be honest. I was thinking about going back in that tree spot before this one, but I still don't know How shallow it is? Are they ready for a beetle lure? The spot's just done bro As I say that is a good one Pretty colors on them Yeah, it looks like orange is orange is red Nice Hey man, you gotta tell them we just need a beetle bass I was just trolling and I got this fat guy dude We didn't know if it was a stick or a tree or a fish. Dude that thing is a brood, too That was crazy. Yeah, I'm about to say when it started running at you I'm like that has to be a fish. I'm not one of the fattest small guys I've ever caught Wow So boys, we kind of have a problem I Did not mean to pull into this spot it Put it this way Towards the mouth of this canal is like half a foot of water and I just scraped over the sandbar and The water is getting pumped out so so quick and I'm just terrified that I won't be able to get out So fingers crossed we're gonna spend about five minutes fishing see if we can load up on some possibly get one on this beetle And then we're getting out of here because this is I Don't know. I'm a little sketched out, but I guess we'll see fishing hasn't been the best today You know, we've been trying all this top water is just not happening So at this point Just hoping we'll get one on this beetle real quick and get out of here. We better be able to get out of here Bro, I'm gonna lose it. I will not get chapped in here all night. I'm telling you we should not be in here right now Let's try to attempt to get out of here Yeah, I'm a little Like you can tell just in here how low it is, you know, I mean I'm usually very cautious, but maybe like pulled up in here. I was like yo Cody Can you stand up on the front? I was like just see the depth of it You couldn't see the bottom but by the time it was too late. My my boat was getting sucked in there See that's why I'm scared though, you see I'm saying we're going up in current, right? We have to have force to get us out this time it pulled us in So we have to have this force to get us out which sucks because the motor goes down. See what I'm saying, so Maybe I use the trolling motor. I Don't know. We're about to find out Yeah There you go, how level in it out more Oh my god Dude that was close look at it. Got it Something I was saying oh gosh Dude, he's I got him under the gill.  I was like Yo, I don't know I thought I had a tank you saw my rod though like that was some serious bended Hey, I'm just happy to catch them. Yeah, bro. I leaned into that sucker Oh son, I couldn't even move him and he was just going with the current. I was like boy I thought this was like a six seven pounder Man well boys and girls we just got off the water and let me tell you it was a tough day We did not catch one dang fish on this beetle lure. Normally like me and Cody were talking about we wouldn't post a video like this Like we didn't complete the task that we were here to do today, but then again. I was thinking about it We got a lot of rain that's pushing in here. I don't know how much content We're gonna be able to film I was thinking about I was like man How about let's just show this video and show the people, you know, sometimes this happens sometimes you go out there You don't smoke the fish Sometimes you don't catch what you want to catch or catch them on the bait that you want to catch them on and that's just the Realization of it and we were gonna show it today, you know, we went out there Our main goal is to catch them on this beetle lure It didn't happen, but we still got to go catch some fish on a regular bait I'm but I really hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys want to see some more videos like this where we Take out interesting lures and go put them to the test and try to catch some fish Let us know down below and the biggest thing does this beetle lure work. Is it worth it? I really don't know like I said, we had two bites on it the fish didn't commit I think if I would have had a different color like this one right here, you can tell it just has purple and blue on it You know, it don't have much on it. Just purple and blue and I Don't know. It's not a realistic color. I just thought it was cool and I wanted to try it out So maybe we'll have to do this challenge again sometime soon get a couple different color beetle lures and go back out and give it a shot But I hope you guys enjoy this one if you did please hit that like button. I love you guys so much. I'll catch you all in the next