I'm an everyday woman, woman, woman, in every way, yeah, yeah, I'm living my life, life, living day by day. Welcome to Every Way Woman. There are some major changes happening in the talk show world. Live from Los Angeles, here's Every Way Woman. Welcome back to Every Way Woman. So I was talking to our producer, Yolanda, the other day, and she was saying to me, it is so hard to be a woman.  But I mean, okay, so yeah, it might be hard to look like this. This is Yolanda's new cover.  Well, I did it and I did makeup so quick.  Women have to put on makeup. I mean, I don't know how long it takes. Sometimes it takes a woman to get ready in two hours. Well, for me, I'm just an eyeliner kind of person, so it takes me two minutes. But there's all these expectations of women generally in our culture to not only maintain our faces, in our hair, in our nails, in our skin. That's a lot of work and it's expensive. Yes. But I think, yes, you're absolutely right. And then there's on top of that, which is self-care, then there's care for the family. If you have kids and there's care for your parents. If, you know, if you have parents that need taking care of them, there's care for the husband or boyfriend if you're married or dating someone. See, that'd be the caretaker. And look good. Well, in fact, that's all the work, guys. And if you are caring for someone and they want you to look good while you're caring for them. Absolutely. I mean, I actually dated a young man once very briefly, I might add. Because briefly. That's intentional because he basically, after we've been dating a few months, he communicated what he was looking for in a wife. Now, one of the reasons he was attracted to me was because, you know, I'm educated, I'm intelligent, you know, I have multiple graduate degrees. That's something that drew him to me. And then when he turned around and told me what his expectations were for his wife, he basically wanted the madman treatment. I mean, he specifically said, I want her to greet me with a drink when I come home. We went to a function and his friend's wife brought the husband a plate. Wow. Look at such and such. It would be, it sure would be nice if I could get a plate. And so he wanted, and he let me know that his plan for housework included gardening and cars. Okay. I love the ground with the ring and the plate though. Well, you know what? I don't have a problem with it because quite frankly, I will fix my man a plate. No problem. But the way he was looking for, there was an expectation and it was the servitude, the level of servitude he was expecting because that built in with everything else. And I think that's part of what's happening now in society as well is that men want us to be everything because they're like, wow, wow, you can, you say you can be everyone or we'll be everything.  And by the way, you don't have any time to sleep because there's just no time in the day to do it all. And it's hard to do it all. Do you guys sleep? You don't. The mom. You know what? I tried to sleep. Like I got on my husband. I said, look, man, you want me to cook. You want me to clean, wash these kids and then do it to you.   Wait, I want to know. Yeah. Okay. Well, we're kind of on the topic. Is it true that married couples schedule sex? Yes. Yeah. Kids. Okay. Do you like to say Thursday? Thursday, you know it. You just hope something happens. I started dating someone regularly now and he has kids too. And I have kids. So we're only, we can only see each other every other weekend. You know what I do every other weekend. Right? I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. That's what you do. It takes a lot of work.  I don't sleep. You don't sleep at all. See, you don't sleep at all. That's how I was asking you. Do you guys sleep because, you know, the whole thing of perception is for me to have children and a family, I think being Latino, like one day I would want that now. But growing up, I never did. I never did. I mean, you can ask me the people that you met when I was eight years old. But like why, why even like, were you thinking no? Because it was just too much work. You know, I grew up in church. So I literally was a missionary. Oh, wow. So yeah. That's a lot of work. Not that much. My whole focus was, you know, just religion. Church, you know, stuff like just God, you know. And I'm not saying that I've lost God already. Like now. You can never lose. No. I think that you were being true to yourself. And sometimes women have pressure to have children and have a family. I agree that we can have that pressure put on us. You know, we'll get on my nerves though. We'll get on my nerves is the fact that I'm sleeping on the couch. And my kids, they know, like, because they come to work with me. They know mommy is sleeping. And they're like, ah, boom, boom.  And then my husband can sleep on the couch. And they don't bother me. They don't bother me. He's just slobbing at the mouth. Nobody bothers him. But me, I get bothered with. I get told that I'm taking you to work. Ice cream. And then all of a sudden I'm still being harassed. But Cheryl, what about you?  Absolutely. I mean, yeah. The hours I work. Multiple degrees? Yeah. You know, I sleep now more than I'm finished with school, thankfully. But no, the hours I work, you know, I mean, I have to be at work at 7.30.   And so that combined with, you know, life in general. You know, I think sometimes you can solve the world problems on a treadmill. That's what I try and do. We'll continue the conversation. We'll go back. Yeah, right. That's actually a good place to think. Very good place. We'll be back with everyday fitness. If you're enjoying this just as much as I am, then stay with us. We're going to be talking about morning yoga right here on Every Way Woman. Madison is here to help you get your morning started right with a perfect yoga routine. So what do I need to do? Because I definitely feel like I wake up and I'm go, go, go. And then I'm just like tired and stressed out. So what do I need to do to start my morning off right? Okay, well, we're going to start with a yoga chair. Having a seat. And you haven't quite moved your body just yet. Okay. All right. So we're going to sit again at the edge of the chair and engage the core. I started relaxing. You're already relaxing, meditating, breathing in through the nose out through the nose. So the first thing we're going to do is interlace the fingers. And as you inhale, look up. As you exhale, we're going to open up the hands and reach for the toes. No, not at all. I can reach for those toes. That's okay. You don't have to touch them. Just reach for them. Let your belly in. Let the head and arms hang and roll on up until your shoulders are really good.  Exhale, open up the hands. And again, reach for the toes. Let's go. Let's try to reach for those toes. Breathe in through the nose, out through the nose. Roll up. Reach up. How many times do we do this? Exhale, reach for the toes. About three or four times. Okay. Just enough to get your breath settled and getting into your body. Inhale, we're going to take the hands up and then the hands to the heart. So we always bring the hands to the heart and that kind of just reminds us to move the day with gratitude.  That's beautiful. That really is. So we're going to take the right foot out and we're going to stick it out, toes up. Be careful of hyperextending the knee. So what you want to do is put a slight bend in the knee and you'll find that it opens up the lower back. Okay. And reach towards the toes or past the toes wherever it is that you go. You're going to find that. I'm close. I'm close. But some people really couldn't even do this bend. That's okay. You can use your hand on your knee. You can put your hand on the floor. But you want to think about reaching the top of the head towards the toes and keeping a slight bend in the back of the knee so that the lower back opens up. Okay. And are you keeping the back flat? Is that really important? No, it isn't. Okay. It's more natural. Okay. No, you're not really working something out really hard. So you want to focus about getting into your breath and thinking about lengthening. I'm going to be six feet tall any day now. Good. Roll it up. You're going to switch the other side just to make it even. Okay. But we're just going to take a couple of breaths here. Otherwise you'd be lap-sided. Yep. Okay. Tiny bend in the knee. Exhale. Go ahead and take that. Reach forward. Again, you can reach past the foot, towards the foot. You can use your hand on your knee for support. And you want to have just the tiniest bend. So you can lengthen your leg a little bit more. And you're probably going to feel that. Okay. Yeah. Where should I feel it? Most of the people will feel it here behind the back of the leg or into the calf. And if you have a really tight lower back, sometimes you'll feel it here in the lower back. So what a lot of people don't know is the lower back and the hamstrings are like an old married couple. They're like, they go together everywhere, but they're always fighting with each other. There's a lot of grumpyness back there. Good. So we're going to come on up. Pull the lower belly in. And roll it up. Go ahead and bring that foot back in. So that's one way to go ahead and get the day started. Another thing you might want to do is get a nice rotation in the spine. So we're going to inhale. Take the arms up. Take that right hand behind the chair. Left hand just on the outside of that right thigh. Good. Lift the chest up. Okay. Just for a breath. I'm going to finish off with the other side.  You can if you take that chair and crank your spine around. It's really just there for support. And you want to think about lifting that chest up. So you're not like pulling yourself with this arm. No you're not. You're just supporting yourself. Okay. Good. We're going to release. Inhale. Reach up. Exhale. Come to that other side. Good. Lower belly pulled in. Lift your chest up. Relax your shoulders. Is this mostly to just get the blood going and flowing or what are you trying to accomplish? Yeah. You want to get the blood flowing. You want to move that breath through your body. Kind of feel where you are in that body. And then we're going to finish. Inhale. Take the hands to your chest. And we're going to remember to move through the day with gratitude. With gratitude. I am so thankful. There's so many things to be thankful for. Yes. There are. So you just do a little pause there and just, is it a good time to think about your day or is it better to like just clear your mind and not think about anything? No. It's a great time to go ahead and meditate and where are you going to take your day into? Okay. That is a perfect routine because I really, I felt a lot looser already. And that's the whole point of it, right? Yes, it is. So do you have anything in particular that you'd like to work on? Well, you know, I definitely find in the morning, I need to stretch this area out. And it's the hardest area for me to stretch out. What do I do? Okay. So there's a couple of things that you can do that's really simple. Really quick because I only got two minutes here, or two seconds here. We'll catch it on the next time. Okay. How about that? Because I really need to concentrate on that. Okay. But I think we have a great routine here where you can wake up in the morning. It's not too strenuous, but you can really just relax and think about your day. And I loved how you were like, but thinking about what to be grateful for. And we're grateful for you watching from Every Way Woman. There's more to come with Every Way Woman. Tequila for breakfast. Mangy Rios is coming up next with her favorite French toast recipe. We're bringing the bar home. We have Mangy here from ADE Tequila. That's going to show us some simple, I'm so excited button. But, okay. ADE Tequila here with orange juice. Girl, I know there has to be a story. Yeah. You want to know how we went from tequila to breakfast? Yes, I do. Okay. So from all the different types of tequila, and Yeho has the most flavor. We wanted to make sure that we took that and incorporated some other flavors into it that people could enjoy that's different from your typical lime and salt. Everybody does lime and salt, but why not play around with breakfast? Who doesn't enjoy breakfast? It's the most important meal of the day. True. But the question is, do you actually drink this for breakfast? Can you? I would, but I'm just saying. You could?  Definitely. Please, show us how. Okay. So there's two different ways you can do the French toast. One is as a shot and one is as a cocktail. So the shot is a shot of the Yeho. So we can pour one more here if you like. Okay. That's how good it smells. It doesn't matter how much or do you actually fill it up? I would go with the full shot. Why not? Okay. Okay. So you've got your shot. Then you're going to grab a wedge of orange. Do I do one too? Yes. A wedge of orange. But does it matter what kind of orange it is? Not really. We've actually done it with regular oranges. We've done it with blood oranges. So you can pretty much do it with whatever you prefer, but these are probably the best to go with. These are the ones that are in our recipes. So you can dip one side in the sugar. Okay girl. What is that? The whole thing. What is this? It's more for rimming glasses for different bars, setups and things like that. This one you can pick up at Total Wine and More. Anywhere. Okay. But it's great for getting different things on the rim of your glass or doing things like this where you can incorporate fruit and seasonings to your drinks. Okay. Okay. So you got sugar on one side and then you want some cinnamon on the other side and just shake it off because I don't think you want too much or it's going to get a little spicy. Try it. Try it too. So like one side like this and then one side like this. Oh, this is interesting. And you can also pre-mix the sugar with the cinnamon. Okay. So I'm going to go with the orange. Completely up to you. I just did it this way because it was simpler. So what you're going to do is you're going to take the shot. Oh no. You're in his way. I have Cheryl here with me. So you take the shot and then you try the orange. And it's going to give you a special flavor with the cake. How is it? Not good. So different from the lime and salt. I have a question though. Is there something that you can separate? Something that you can separate to the cinnamon with if you don't like cinnamon because I'm not a big cinnamon person, but is that what makes it like right? The cinnamon is kind of what makes it the French toast, but you can definitely incorporate other things. We do a lot of different things with fruit. Let's say if you want to spice it up, you could do the orange slice with some sardines. Sardines is really big right now. Exactly. And sardines got so many flavors. You could do that and you can do a shot. Who thought of this? I did. I have never been big on drinking straight liquor. I'll do it because it's in the moment. Yeah. Exactly. And so I needed something else. And I'm still not a fan of like a tangy lime. I needed something sweet. So the orange was throughout for me. Okay. So then that's the first one. Okay. So let's do the second one. So now we're going to make it as a drink. So we're going to rim our glass first. So we have some lime juice in here. You're just going to dip a little bit. Does it have to be lime juice? Or is it real lime juice? It is real lime juice. It's just, you could squeeze an actual lime into it. Yeah, like on the, okay. Or you can buy it pre-concentrated. And then you're just going to kind of twist it around here to get some sugar. And then you're going to twist in here a little bit. Just dab it because you've got a lot of cinnamon in there. Now you've got your friend. Wait for me. Go ahead. And then you dip it. And then you dip it. You did better than I did. Okay. So then we're going to get a little bit of ice. And then we're going to get some orange juice. I'm just guesstimating, but you probably want to go with about like three ounces depending on the size of your glass. And then we're going to take a shot. Pour that in there. And slice of orange for extra flavor. And you thought of this too, right? Well, it was another way to incorporate it, yes. I love it. I love it. All right. Your taster? I will remember my lines after. Well, girl, tier two will be back. Coming up next, more Every Way Woman. Are you an Every Way Woman? Being an Every Way Woman is being able to do it yourself. We got our favorite DIY expert here with us today. Yelena is showing us a few great tips on how to pretty up our houses. Well, simple ideas. Again, you could go to the OOPS department at Home Detail. What's the OOPS department? It's where people try to customize the color that they want, and it doesn't come out quite right. So they have to, instead of throwing it away, they put it off to the side to where it is just that color. So you can add some tins to it or just buy as is for whatever that price point is, which is a lot less than what typically the gallons go for. Perfect. I like to do things on the cheap. Yeah. So simple things you can do, things laying around the house. You have clear bottles. You could just fill it here with some paint, swish it around. You could fill it to where it's like a nice solid paint color. So this was clear. This was clear. And then all I did in here is just... Looks like you just bought it. Right off the shelf. Exactly. And it gives that nice sheen. The reason you want to do it on the inside versus the outside because it still gives that glass this nice sheen without making it dull-licky. Like you've done on this vase as well. Exactly. Tell us about these flowers.  Nothing too fancy, nothing too expensive. And you just toss it into the freshly made vase. But much cheaper than keeping fresh florals in the house. Exactly. Much cheaper. You do have to dust them every now and again, but you could switch them from vase to vase and it creates a nice floral impact. Thanks for keeping us chic and on the DIY for more great tips, check out www.everywaywoman.com. 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In this lesson, we'll be looking at our very first fully operational block cipher. This block cipher would be a little bit simplistic, so we're going to call it baby block, but it does include all of the key characteristics. Baby block will be a four-bit block cipher, meaning that it will take in four bits from a key and it will also take four bits of a block and produce four bits of cipher text, and it will have all of the same characteristics of a Feistel block cipher, but just simplified. I think this will become obvious in a little bit, but I'm going to put it out there at the beginning. This is not a secure block cipher, so please do not try and use this to encrypt any sensitive information. This is a block cipher that, like all block ciphers, will work at the binary level, so any of your messages will need to be converted to binary, which we know how to do for text and images, so just make sure we're working with binary. As I mentioned, the encryption occurs on four-bit blocks, so that's the size of the blocks. Our key is also a four-bit number. We'll see in future block ciphers, the key does not have to be the same number of bits of the block, but in this case it is, and it will use multiple rounds of encryption on each block to create the cipher text block. That's again pretty common for a Feistel cipher. If you need a reminder on a Feistel cipher from a few lessons ago, here's our main idea is that we have one block of plain text, in this case it'll be four bits. We split it into two sides, the left half and the right half. We have a key that, in combination with the right half of the block, undergoes some sort of F function that does maybe some confusion or diffusion, and then the output of that F function gets mixed up with the left half of the block to encrypt it, and then we will flip those blocks to create a new block of data that we can act on again. So there's our reminder, this should look very familiar once we get to the actual baby block details. So let's take our baby block cipher here and figure out how it works, and the first thing we need to figure out is what that F function is for baby block, and we're going to see the F function is a specific type of operation we'll use here called the S box, S for substitution. We've got our plain text information here, so many binary digits, and then our key is our 4-bit number 1110, and we're going to focus on just encrypting that first block of the plain text 0011. So we're going to pull that information out, and we're going to put that down here into some boxes to organize our plain text in our key. We'll try and color code those green and purple that we do with the numbers up above. And we're going to take two bits, the left, or sort of the right-hand side of the plain text, so the bits one and one, just like we saw with the FISEL cipher, the two bits coming from the right-hand side, and all of the key information are going to go into our F function, which we're going to call the S box here. And then you can ignore the rest of this diagram for now. We're going to see the output of that S box does get mixed up with the left half of the plain text, but ignore that for now. Let's see how does this S box work? Now, the S box, again, it gets its name S for substitution. And we're going to see we can do some tabular substitution here. We can just do a little lookup by looking up the two bits of information that we get from the right half of our message block, so 11. And the row is determined by the four bits that come in from the key, 1110. And we look in the field of the table and we can see that that corresponds to the bits 01. Now that first bit, zero, is the first or left-hand side output from the S box in the diagram. And the right-hand bit, one, the second bit in the table, is the right-hand side of the output of the S box. So you can see that first output of zero, the arrow points over to the XOR operator, which is paired up with the first, sorry, the furthest left bit from the plain text box. So the zero XOR zero should result in zero. The second output from the S box, which is a one, goes over to the XOR operator, which is matched up with the second bit in the left-hand side of the plain text box. And so zero XOR one should be one. The third and the fourth bits are the two right-hand side bits from the plain text box. Come straight on down, unmodified, to create what we will call our muddled block here in this light orange. So again, if you need to pause the video, make sure you know where these four bits are coming from. The two on the left-hand side were encrypted with the output of the S box individually, by bit by bit. And the right-hand side of the muddle block is just an exact copy of the plain text box. One note about muddling is that it's pretty easy to undo. If we take our muddled box here and our key block here, you'll notice the right two sides of the muddled block are the exact same as they were in the plain text block. We haven't changed them, which means that when we feed them into the S box with the key, we're going to get the exact same output from the table, which means that if we XOR those with the left-hand side of the muddled block, we're just going to undo the XOR that we just did to create the muddled block, getting us back to our unmoddled plain text block. So this muddling and unmoddling, it's just the exact same operation. We can do them in either order, and they will undo the previous operation. That'll be helpful for us to remember a little bit later on. Now, the next part of our baby block algorithm, once we create our muddled block, is that we need to do that swapping of the sides. So the left-hand side of the muddled block becomes the right-hand side of our ciphertext block, and the right-hand side of our muddled block becomes the left-hand side of our ciphertext block. Now, we're calling it ciphertext because we could stop here if we wanted to, and we'll have created a new block that is now encrypted. But we mentioned earlier that we're going to do multiple rounds of encryption for a baby block cipher, just like any other feistel cipher. So we're going to show you that in just a moment. So let's look at what we do with the second round. Here's the exact same information. This is everything we've seen so far. It's the plain text and the key going into the S box to create those output bits of zero and one, XORed on the left-hand side of the plain text block to get our muddled block, and then we've swapped it. Now, for the next round, we're going to alter our key a little bit. We don't want to keep encrypting with the exact same key in every round. So we're going to do what's called a key rotation. That left-most bit in the key becomes the right-most bit in the key, and the three other bits all shift one position to the left. So now we have a rotated key of one, one, zero, one. And if we take those two boxes now there, our swapped box in red on the left and our rotated key on the right, they now become the inputs for another round of the exact same set of operations. So we'll take the right half of our new message block, zero and one, feed that into the S box with our rotated key to get two new outputs, zero and one from the S box, which we can XOR with the left half of our message block to create our new muddled block, one, zero, zero, one, which we swap halves, and then we rotate the key once more to get our second rotated key of one, zero, one, one. We'll do this one more time, but on the last round we don't do the swap. So we just leave the output straight out of the S box after it's XORed of zero, zero, one, zero, that's our ciphertext block. So to summarize, we had our plain text message. We took zero, zero, one, one, the first four bit block of information with our key, which is also four bits of one, one, one, zero, to create the ciphertext block of zero, zero, one, zero. To finish creating the full ciphertext, we take the same key and we do the same process on the next four bits of the plain text to create a next four bits of the ciphertext and so on and so on and so on. The algorithm that we used was our baby block algorithm, which consisted of first using the S box to generate two bits of new information using tabular substitution. Remember the inputs just came from the right half of the message block and the four bits of the key block. We took those two bits of output from the S box and we XORed them individually with the two bits that were on the left hand side of our message block and when we did that and just retaining the right hand side of the message block, we now had our muddled block. If this happened to be the last round of our encryption then we're done. This muddled block is the ciphertext block, but if we have more rounds to go then we perform that swapping operation, swapping the first two and the last two bits, the left half and the right half and that'll set up our next round of encryption. We keep doing this for three total rounds of step one and two and that will produce our ciphertext block. Now for decryption, we're gonna see is absolutely no different. The algorithm works the exact same way, we just need to use our keys in the reverse order. So we would have to kind of pre-compute what our last round key would have been and then we would have just undone the rotation in the other way. So we kind of spin the keys in the other direction, kind of just like with a physical lock you turn it the other way. We can do that because as we've already seen, to un-muddle blocks, you can just muddle them again so that operation doesn't have to change. We do the exact same thing and it will undo it. To undo our swap, we could just swap again so the swapping step will just undo the swap that we would have had on our block. And since the last two bits of our muddled block are the same pre and post muddling, the S-box will actually generate the exact same output bits whether we're doing it pre or post muddle, meaning that it's going to be set up just perfectly to undo the, it'll be perfectly set up to create the same bits to muddle and un-muddle the blocks. It turns out that really all block ciphers that are Feistel networks have this nice property that the decryption algorithm is the exact same as the encryption algorithm. Now, let's talk about a real block cipher. That's something that's not for babies, something that's actually used in real life. This first block cipher that came about for US use was in 1972, the US National Bureau of Standards or the NBS, which is now known as the National Institute of Standards and Time, I believe, NIST, put out a request for proposals for a standard cipher for the US and the United States. The company IBM put forward the winning idea based off of a cipher they had created called the Lucifer Cipher. The NSA, which at the time was not even publicly acknowledged to exist, vet the cipher and worked with them to make a few changes. Now, you might be pausing and say, hmm, what kind of changes would the NSA want to make to the cipher if it was already pretty good? They wanted to help make a few changes so that it would be resistant to a particular type of cryptanalysis attack called differential cryptanalysis that nobody really publicly even acknowledged existed until 1990. So they had some advanced knowledge of this kind of mathematical attack and they wanted to make sure that this cipher was resistant to it. And then they also changed the length of the key. The Lucifer standard called for a 128-bit key and the NSA had them change it down to 56 bits. So you might be thinking, wait a minute, we know that longer keys are harder to guess. They're just harder to brute force. Why would they want to do this? People were really suspicious at the time that they were doing it so the NSA could crack it. Maybe the NSA had access to some computers that could brute force a 56-bit key, no problem, but a 128-bit key they couldn't do yet. Now, it turns out when you actually analyze the security of all of this algorithm, people have kind of debunked that myth that that's why they did it. We don't really know why they had them do it, but it is a little suspicious. So all in all, after those changes were made, the Lucifer cipher now became what's called the DES or the Data Encryption Standard Cipher, starting in 1977. And it was used as the block cipher for US encryption standards for like secret data until it was replaced by the Advanced Encryption Standard known as AES in 1999. So at a good 22-year run, which if you think about it for computing technology, that's really impressive. So this DES has some similar ideas as our baby block cipher. It uses 64-bit blocks instead of our four-bit, so much bigger blocks. It has a 56-bit key instead of our four-bit key, and you'll see here that the length of this key doesn't have to match up with the block size. Those 64-bit blocks, by the way, have very many, many possibility of plain text blocks. So this is a large alphabet. If you think about it, block ciphers are really just a fancy way to take a unique 64-bits of information and encrypt it to a 64-bit cipher text. So it's kind of like taking one of 26 letters and encrypting them to some other one of those 26 letters. We're just doing one of these like 18 trillion, some billions, whatever, possible plain text blocks and converting them over to some other one of those number of possible cipher text blocks. It's just a really fancy way of doing it. The f-function in the DES cipher takes in 32-bits, so half of that 64-bit, and it returns 32-bits, so same size. Now the difference there is this f-function is much more complicated. It actually uses eight s-boxes inside, so it takes in those 32-bits, it does some expansion and compression of those bits, and then puts them into eight different parallel s-boxes to get some outputs. It's very complicated, and then the output does get XORed with the left half of the message, and it does that for 16 rounds, so not three rounds like our baby block, but 16 rounds. And then it does change the keys, it rotates the keys around for each one of those rounds on some predictable schedule so that you can follow that through forwards and backwards. Now, the DES does introduce some new, more complex ideas that we didn't put in the baby block cipher. The f-function does more than just s-box, it has what's also called a p-box for permutation, so it really is doing a better job at both the confusion and the diffusion. And the output of that f-box is just completely XORed with the left side of the message, not like our kind of bitwise XORs that we saw in our baby block. So some similarities, some more complexity, and then some new ideas completely. Now we'll see that there's different ways that we can use these block ciphers. What we've been doing so far is what's called an electronic code book. As I mentioned, we're essentially just finding a really fancy computer driven way to take each one of those unique plain text blocks of which there are very many, two to the 64 power, and find a way to map it to some cipher text block of which there are also two to the 64 possible cipher text blocks. And we're just finding a way to do that. But in this method, each plain text block will always go to the exact same cipher text blocks, kind of like how in the Caesar cipher, if the letter J went to the letter Q in the cipher text, the letter J will always go to the letter Q. Now here, it's just a little bit more complex. We've got more plain text possibilities to map to more cipher text, but the idea is the same. If the block 01010101 shows up in the plain text and that gets mapped to 11111110, that'll always be the mapping between those blocks. And you might not want to do that. First of all, you're not gonna get a lot of diffusion between the blocks when you use this because it's only gonna occur within that one block. If the same block always becomes the same block of cipher text, it doesn't impact any other parts of the message. So you're really restricting the amount of diffusion that you can get. And the worst part really is that you can find some patterns if you have this type of encryption going on where each block is encrypted in isolation from all of the other blocks. You might be asking, why is this penguin down here? We're gonna use this penguin as an image to show what happens if you encrypt with this electronic code book method. If we went through that pixel by pixel, converted that to binary and then encrypted it using our DES type algorithm or some block type algorithm with the electronic code book mode, it's gonna get turned into this encrypted message on the right, which you can tell is certainly not the same message, but there's kind of a residual pattern that's left behind that gives you a lot of ideas about what that original message might have contained. Images help kind of show those patterns much easier than just kind of looking at text or numbers. So that's why we're gonna use that example here. I could still tell that this is tux, the penguin, just looks a little bit different. I might not get the same detail out of this encrypted version on the right, but I got a lot of ideas about what the original plain text was all about. So we're gonna wanna figure out, is there another way that we can use our block ciphers to do a little bit better job? And the way that we can do that is by using what's called cipher block chaining. The only difference between this mode of encryption and the one that we've seen with baby block and we've kind of outlined a little bit with DES, is that before you encrypt the second block in your message, you're going to XOR it with the output, the cipher text version, of the previous block, say the first block. What that does is it kind of chains those two blocks together. The encryption of the second block will now depend on what you got when you encrypted the first block. The encryption of the third block will depend on what you got from the second block and then therefore also the first block. So every block that you encrypt using this method, just that simple addition of an XOR of the block from with their plain text of your second block with the cipher text of the first block, links all of these together so every block depends on all of the blocks before in the chain. It is the most popular way to use a block cipher to encrypt messages because it gives you a much more pseudo-random looking encrypted output. Here's the same image, the exact same algorithm, the only difference is we change the blocks together so that we can maximize the diffusion here. So all of these blocks are now linked together and we get this kind of static looking output. It's pretty pseudo-random here on the right hand side. So that's our baby block cipher. In this course, we're not going to dig in deep and try and program any of these cutting edge standard ciphers like DES. It's just important to understand the main ideas of a block cipher. That we're gonna split the halves, we're gonna use some sort of substitution and maybe sometimes permutation operation on the left hand side of that block to create a muddled block. We swap the two halves and we can repeat that over and over again. If you know the basics of the baby block, you'll be all set up to continue your work in this course and we'll see you in the next lesson.


Hi guys, so this is a little bit different than what I normally do. Normally we'd have a story time and I thank you guys so much for your patience this week and I'm so grateful to all the guests that I have had on that have allowed me to do interviews because this week I have been a little bit under the weather. I've been struggling with the low grade fever and some nasal congestion. I don't know if you can hear it or not. Now I did post something on the community board about having this low grade fever I've been dealing with. Two again, thank you guys for your patience with other videos that are normally out on this channel during the week and I noticed that a lot of you guys have said that you've been struggling with some of this as well these last couple of months and so I thought I would bring up something that actually Janine and I spoke about after we were finished filming on Tuesday, that video with Janine aired on Wednesday. Once we finished filming I was telling Janine that I had been kind of battling with this low grade fever and some congestion and I mentioned that I wasn't worried about it because this seemed to be pretty spiritual and I wanted to kind of share that with you guys because again some of you have posted that you have been dealing with this as well. When I first started going to India and studying traditional yoga I dealt with the same thing. I would get these like low grade fevers and I learned something. I learned that things like little viruses and fevers according to certain philosophies aren't necessarily a bad thing. Here in the West we push away, we try to like always be the best and we think anything that happens that's not the best is bad and that's not the case. Your body is constantly shifting and your body is your mind field. If you joined us on Aquarius Rising this past Monday, Chantel and I spoke about this. The body is the mind field. The DNA is the nature of your consciousness and so things you think in your brain or in your subconscious and your psyche tend to filter out through your body and sometimes when we learn new things or we process new realities the body has to detox the old thoughts, the old patterns. In fact, the idea of patterning is common within the physical body and within our consciousness. You see, just like our blood flows through our body through all these different veins, our energy also flows through our body in these different pathways that we call naughties and sometimes these naughties get blocked by whatever reason and that's when a lot of spiritual healing comes in and practices like yoga come in and the body can shift and flow in a different way. And so I wanted to bring this up because if you are one of the people who like myself has been struggling with this like low grade fever I wanted to kind of give you this perspective that I believe for myself that what I'm going through is kind of like an upgrade, like a level up in some ways that my body is having to detox old patterns out in order to make way for new consciousness and new patterns. Let me think about it this way. When the body creates a fever it's creating heat, right? Heat to burn something up. It's like when you make cookies they tell us now not to eat cookie dough because of the raw eggs. I don't know about you but I still eat cookie dough sometimes but when you take the cookie dough and you put it on the cookie sheet and you put it in the hot oven it changes the structure of the cookie dough and turns it into an actual cookie. All the ingredients are the same it's just that the heat changed it. And when we have fevers that's what our body is doing it's trying to change something. You know my boyfriend's teacher in India the story goes that he used to get excited when you got the fever. When you got the fever it meant that something was working, something was changing. The alchemy of what you were practicing had taken hold of you. So it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I noticed my fever right after I started working with negative 48 in that group. I was learning so, so much from negative 48 and I'm so entirely grateful to be a part of this experience that I was having to like restructure my thought. And I think that's what's happening as things are processing and restructuring. Now with that being said obviously I'm not a doctor so don't take this as the God's honest truth this is just something for you to consider for yourself. If you are struggling with a low grade fever you might just be shifting in your consciousness. Now with that being said especially in a practice like yoga when you do have a low grade fever we tell people not to practice but to rest because in the practice itself you're getting hot and sweaty you're inducing that heat of change but when your body does it on its own in the form of a fever you don't need to add any more heat on top of that you just need to let the body do what it wants to do or needs to do in order for the shift to take place. It's like a rebirth through fire. Anyway so I woke up this morning and my fever I felt pretty good and so I did my practice and then I went to the grocery store and I came back and I was gonna shoot a story time for you guys but when I got back I felt warm again and lo and behold my fever is back so I'm not gonna shoot the story time that I was today because I wanna do these stories justice I never wanna just have hazardly put together a story for you all so that's why I'm kinda just doing this chit chat with you right now is because I wanna save the stories for next week when I'm hopefully better and I can do justice with these stories cause they're great stories and I can't wait to do them cause I can't wait to hear your opinions on these stories cause I do value Joel's insight as well. I also wanted to bring something else up that I can just talk to you guys about without really needing my notes you know. So if you saw the episode with Janine that we did earlier this week the last question I asked was what is the new earth going to look like? What is the theory behind us all moving together into this new consciousness? And if you missed that video I'll put a link to it down below so you can go back and watch it. We know that certain people are not gonna be coming with us into this like new age. And that's okay. And I kinda wanted to try to explain what I understand around this. We know that the laws of the cosmos the laws of the divine is the law of free will. You cannot force anybody to do something against their will. And if you do that then you are breaking the laws of free will and that's not good for you. You know what I'm saying? Every single human being has to respect that. Every single entity has to respect the law of free will. We all have a choice to make. Now if you combined the law of one with like the Bible, Christianity this idea of this thousand years of peace the age of Aquarius that's coming and the law of one we know that we're going from a third density planet to a fourth density planet. So the planet itself is also shifting not just human beings that live on the planet but the planet itself. Now I'll just kind of cliff notes version of the law of one. Third density planets or places or beings are not polarized positive or negative. And third density planets, good and evil are balanced. And most of us that live on a third density planet live within the arena of the gray. We're both good and bad. The point of us living beings in this third density is to make a choice to decide if we're gonna polarize positive or negative to the light or to the darkness, to God or to Satan. Now in the law of one, they call polarizing positive as service to others and polarizing negative as service to self. We've spoken about this in some lives before and I will link those down in the description box as well. To polarize positive to be harvested into the positive you have to be 51% service to others. Doesn't mean you have to be perfect because none of us are perfect. We all mess up from time to time but you have to be majority of you has to have empathy, compassion and being willing to serve other people. To polarize negative you have to be 99% service to self. So it's actually harder to polarize negative than it is to polarize positive. And service to self, if you think about what this religious entity of the C-A-B-A-L does, the things that they do in their rituals that's extreme service to self. And it totally takes away other people's free will if you think about what happens in those rituals. And so they are actually actively trying to polarize negative to serve Lucifer to serve Satan. Now for the whole span of the earth we've been in third density. The earth itself is third density. But as we know from like revelation of the Bible and from the law of one, that the earth, the ground we stand on is also going to be going into a new density, not just us, but the earth as well at this point in our timeline. The earth itself is destined to be a fourth density positive planet. And so for those of us who are on this journey and who are in the great awakening and have made a decision to wake up, to understand what's truly going on and to really stand and hold the line for the good of humanity, we are going to be basically ascending with the earth. So again, that means the 1,000 years of peace, the light bodies that are spoken about in the Bible, this all says the same thing basically. Because the earth is moving into fourth density positive, third density beings cannot stay on a fourth density planet they won't be able to because their frequency does not match the frequency of the new planet. So people, friends, families, strangers, we all have our own choices to make. And as sad as it is, some of the people we know have made the choice, whether again, subconsciously or consciously to continue on the path of third density. So when we talk about this, the cure, some people who've gotten this will move on to fourth density positive because they've maybe decided before getting this that they had already were going to move up, but for some reason were coerced into this or whatever. But some people who've gotten this won't be able to come into fourth density because they need to stay in third density, they're still on that journey. And that's okay because we're all on our own journeys. And I think that's okay with God, it's okay with the cosmos, with the universe. And so this could be a good way to help those people transition to a new place, if that makes sense. I know this might sound a little sci-fi or a kooky if you're new to this kind of stuff, but I'm just trying to explain it from that last question I asked Janine. Now of course we know that the C-A-B-A-L, those people, the 1% who do these crazy rituals that involve really evil stuff, they also cannot be on a fourth density positive planet. Now from what I understand, they try to turn the planet into fourth density negative, but the planet was always destined to be fourth density positive. So that's why they're not gonna win. It says it in the Bible, it says it in the law of one that no matter what they do, they're not going to be able to change the direction of the planet.  That's why they have to leave. So the people that are exiting stage left are going to be again those that have made the decision to go fourth density negative and have succeeded in that and those who haven't made the choice yet whether they're gonna go negative or positive and they have to stay in third density until they make that choice, until they're ready to be harvested into either positive or negative. Now I know from the law of one that sometimes when planets shift from third density to fourth density, you don't, people sometimes don't even really notice it. It's not like this huge thing happens and colors change. It's just your, the vibrations just move up and things just shift naturally. Now I know from people who are big into the law of one that they say earth was one of the most hectic third density places to live on that a lot of the other third density planets are not as challenging as earth. And so we might actually experience something that pushes us into that shift kind of sounds that way. If you look at the Bible text and if you look at the law of one text we might actually see it happen. But then again, you know, there's also, you know we already started transitioning on December 21st with the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter into the age of Aquarius. And of course it takes a couple of years for things to totally transfer. But we have seen people leaving the earth plane. You know, we've seen the crumble of the old guard which is bound to happen. So we are seeing these shifts happen as we move into this new place of existence.  And we've already made these decisions. We've already decided where we're gonna go. And even if there is somebody in your life that is not going to be moving forward with us just know that they already made that decision. That decision was already made by them by their own free will. And that's okay. You know, sometimes people need to repeat grades a few times. Sometimes people need a little bit more time to understand in their soul what's happening. And for those people it doesn't mean they're not ever going to ascend and they're not ever going to come to that place. They just need more time. And that's what I think this is all about and why some people and the good guys are actually supporting this because they know that people like you and me we found our sovereignty. Once you find your sovereignty there's nothing anyone can say that's going to make you give that up if that makes sense, right? Like Mr. T knows that you and I are not gonna go get this regardless of what he says to do because we have found our own sovereignty. And finding that sovereignty and being able to put healthy boundaries up is a positive action, okay? But he also knows there are people that have made this decision not to move forward with us. Whether they know it or not, again it could be subconscious. And so therefore by getting this it might be easier for them to then transfer to their new realm, their new journey, their new school. I hope that makes sense. Again that might seem a little out there for some people who are new to this stuff. In my journey I've learned that the psychedelic stuff, the mystical stuff is actually more real than like the matrix stuff it seems. It's all about spirituality. It really is all about our spirit. And so I just kind of wanted to clarify that for today. Again this is a very short video and I will get back to storytelling next week hopefully when I'm feeling better I'm gonna try to shoot tomorrow. I have tomorrow, so I'm filming this on Thursday. So this is Thursday, September 2nd. This will air on tomorrow on Friday, September 3rd. Now Taymara is coming on tomorrow. I'm gonna be talking to her at 6 a.m. my time. And depending on how long it takes me to edit that video and do all the bells and whistles for YouTube it will either air tomorrow afternoon or Saturday morning. So either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning is when I'll probably get it out to you guys. And then hopefully starting next week. We'll get back to our mystery Mondays and some of our stories. I've got two stories for you guys that take place around the New Orleans area. One story I found while I was researching some stuff in New Orleans. The other story I had known about but was reminded of while I was researching for New Orleans. I won't say much more than that because I'll wait for Monday Mystery for you guys to see it too. And again, both of these coming stories don't happen in New Orleans but they're around the vicinity of New Orleans. And then we'll get back to our deep dive into certain people and characters in the city. For those that are living in New Orleans and you just had Ida come through we are definitely thinking about you and we are definitely praying for you right now. If you guys saw my video with Janine I did ask her and that was a black hat operation. I kind of felt like it was in my gut. There they are still around. I think a lot of people in our community the military back channel, this one, y'all can see that. You'll see what that is. Y'all know what I'm talking about. Number 16 plus one. That guy said that basically the white hats were in control. He didn't use the white hat's name. He used another name but I can't say that the P word anymore. That's considered, it's not a good word on YouTube apparently. Anyway, I think a lot of people in the community think that means that there are no more black hats in this game in this movie but that's not true. What I got from that is that the white hats basically just have the upper hand. Doesn't mean that we're not still gonna see backlash from the black hats. This is very much an active W-A-R and they do still have some power. We know it's gonna be okay and that this is the end for them but again if you think about it from their perspective they are fighting basically for their lives right now and so they're gonna try anything they can. It's like backing an animal up in the corner. It's gonna do whatever it can even if it doesn't make logical sense because it's in a panic mode. You know what I'm saying? So we are still gonna see motion coming from that side of the game and that sign of the movie and we just need to keep our fellow friends and family members and our fellow humans and our prayers as we move into this. According to 1-0-Save-In and some other people we're gonna have one last gut punch coming and so I'm preparing for that. I'm sure you guys are all too until everything's over and done with. We know that we're getting towards the end though and the best is yet to come. So anyway, sorry that wasn't a typical video for you guys but I wanted to just communicate with you guys why there hasn't been any story times this week. I have definitely been feeling feel all the fever this week so hopefully by next week everything will be back to normal though and I hope for that you guys all that said that you were experiencing this too. Feel better, know that it's probably just your upgrades coming so anyway and those med beds are coming soon so that's good too. All right guys, lots of love to each of you. Be looking out for tomorrow's video that should be posted at some sometime soon and I'll talk to you soon, bye.


In this video, let's get a flawless epoxy resin coat on a painting. So me and Zoe caught a crafty bug. She's so nice. I traced this lily onto a circular piece of wood. Then I just painted it with acrylics. Yeah, just simple. And now watch how we resin it. I start by making a box that I can use to cover the whole piece. Just make sure my piece is raised off the table and it's perfectly level. And mix equal parts of resin and hardener. So stir for three minutes or so and pour it right on. I wipe my tools down right away so that I can reuse them easily. Same thing with the spreader. Just use paper towel and you're good to go. I just run my hand along the edge to wipe the resin into the sides and rub off the drips off the bottom. And just a fast torching to get rid of all the bubbles. Okay, now just cover and let it sit overnight. So always exciting when you reveal your cured piece. This one turned out perfect. It's really not hard to get a perfect pour. You know, you just practice on the non-masterpiece first. And in no time, you will have flawless art resin pours. Cool. See ya.


Let's explore respiration and breathing. Wait, aren't they the same thing? No. Breathing is where we get oxygen from air or water into our bodies. Respiration is once the oxygen enters into the cell, the cell uses that oxygen to break sugars down to give us energy. Let's start with respiration. I remember respiration is the exact opposite of photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, you take carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to give us glucose and oxygen. Well, here's the exact opposite. There it absorbs energy, here it releases energy. But wait, this is not a one-step process. This is a multi-multi-step complex process, but it can... There are two big stages for this. The first stage is to break down glucose into pyruvate. Pyruvate. Glucose is a six-carbon molecule. Pyruvate is a three-carbon molecule. We don't need the formula. So there will be two pyruvate molecules. Now in this stage itself, there is a tiny amount of energy released. Then that pyruvate is further broken down using oxygen to give us carbon dioxide, water and even more energies released. But what if this oxygen is insufficient, not available, and we need a lot of energy? Say, during exercising. Then that pyruvate can be broken down, usually by your muscles, even without oxygen. When that happens, you don't get this, you get lactic acid. And that's why during strenuous workout, lactic acid gets built up in our muscles. But there's yet another way in which pyruvate can be broken down without oxygen. Yeast, for example. When they break down pyruvate, they don't give you lactic acid. They give you carbon dioxide and alcohol. Yes, this is how we produce alcohol in your wines, beers, or whatever that is we use for consumption. So you can see actually there are two kinds of respiration. One in which we use oxygen. This is called aerobic respiration. And the one in which we do not use oxygen. This is called anaerobic respiration. So let's look at some similarities and differences. The similarity is that in both these cases, the first stage is the same. You break down glucose to get pyruvate. Okay, now what are the differences? Well, clearly here you use oxygen to break down pyruvate. Here you don't use oxygen to break down pyruvate. What are the differences? Well, this happens inside the mitochondria, which is the powerhouse of our cell. So for aerobic respiration, the pyruvate has to go inside our mitochondria. The oxygen has to go inside the mitochondria and then we get this. Whereas anaerobic and all the other stages, everything else that happens outside of mitochondria in the cytoplasm of our cell, which is basically in this space over here. But there's a third important difference and that is in aerobic, you get a lot of energy released when you break down pyruvate using oxygen. But in anaerobic, you don't get any extra energy when you break down pyruvate. You only get some little energy in the first stage. Now let's talk about breathing. How exactly do we get oxygen into our blood? Well, it's all thanks to our lungs and the diaphragm. When we inhale, our lung size increases. How exactly? Well, have a look at this animation. Keep your eye on the diaphragm. See what happens to it. What did you see? Can you see that the diaphragm actually moves down? Look at that. So the diaphragm moves down making space for the lungs to expand downwards. And then also look at what happens to the rib cage. Have a look at that. You see the rib cage actually expands and goes a little up as well. So the ribs move up and out. The diaphragm moves down. That increases the space inside your lungs, decreasing the air pressure inside.   Okay, what happens then? Well, for that, let's look inside our lungs now. The trachea divides into two branches called the bronchi. Singular is broncus. And then the bronchi also keep dividing into smaller and smaller bronchi, which then divide into bronchiolas. What's the difference between the two? Well, bronchiolas are usually much thinner than the bronchi, but the main difference is that bronchi has these cartilages that even the trachea has. Cartilage helps maintain their structure and ensures that under low pressure, they don't collapse. But once they get too small, the cartilage disappears and that's when we call them bronchioles. Eventually the bronchioles end into these tiny balloon shaped air sacs called alveoli. And these sacs are wrapped in blood capillaries. So what happens over there? Well, if you zoom in, because you inhaled air, your alveoli contains oxygen. Whereas over here you have the deoxynated blood. Since these are microscopic structures, diffusion works now. So carbon dioxide diffuses into the alveoli and the oxygen diffuses into the blood. In fact, they get attracted by the hemoglobin inside the RBCs and then they are carried to the different parts of the body. And now when you breathe out, when you exhale that carbon dioxide eventually goes out. But finally, why do we have alveoli in the first place? Why can't we just wrap these blood vessels directly around the lungs? Because the lungs do not have the necessary surface area. When you divide them into eventually alveoli, if you look at the surface area, that increases tremendously. So alveoli helps increase the surface area, which eventually helps increase the amount of diffusion and exchange that happens. And this is how oxygen from the air moves into our blood. Isn't that amazing?


Fix the hair position for when I wake up on camera. Just kidding Good morning, my beautiful internet friend. I literally woke up like this. Not ironically I've gotten a lot of requests for a day in the life of an amputee, what my days actually look like, and heck, why not? I've got like a fun idea, and I'm at home today, and I actually kind of like sick and don't feel awesome So I figured this would be a great idea. Now first question, why am I waking up on the couch? Like did I do something terrible?  That might be the wrong phrase But no, actually Brian and I sleep down on the couch when my leg is bad last night It was really not feeling well. We got home from the Avengers premiere, which was awesome No spoilers. My little nub in here was killing me And so I needed to ice and elevate, and so I got all set up on the couch to do that He just slept down here with me, which was super sweet of him to do. First thing any warm-blooded Joe does is get some coffee Good musty bun. Never hurt anybody. So every night I set our Coffee pot here to go off at 8 a.m I sleep in a little bit now because I cannot sleep so I'm just awake for hours and hours at night So I slept in a little bit this morning, which I hate doing. I feel so not productive When I wake up like after 8, but I also need to sleep and my work can be done whenever I need to do it So that way do fall So now that I have my coffee I'll return back downstairs, but real quick I want to note something this eye walk has really helped me I'm not sponsored at all to say that first thing when I wake up in the morning I'm a couple things I'm usually in pain and I'm out of breath and I'm dizzy The out-of-breath and dizzy and in pain actually aren't due to my leg at all They're due to other chronic conditions that I have so before to get downstairs or upstairs because the living room is downstairs And the bedroom is upstairs and the kitchen is in the middle I'd have to brave the stairs on crutches trying to carry anything would be dangerous as I'm dizzy and out of breath And don't feel good now that I can actually kind of walk with the eye walk It makes things a lot safer and a lot easier where I can actually like go good breakfast and make some coffee And yeah, it's really helped so I will return to the couch with my coffee to begin my day All right, so real quick. Whoops leg keeping things before I move on So I've slept with this thing on all night, which is called shrinker, which is basically a really tight sock Usually in the morning. I will take that off and kind of let it just air out Let me like actually breathe the clean air I realize that this is probably not great for productivity, but this is an honest day in the life So this is just where I am right now when I get my coffee come back sit down I will probably watch a YouTube video or two before I actually dive into like the good stuff of the day right now My favorite to watch as I'm sipping coffee and waking up are Kaylin Nicholson Gus Johnson and Michelle B. Very different creators Let's actually start the day now. The next thing that I'll do is get set up With a heating pen because like I said, I do not feel great in the morning and he usually helps that and then I spent a few minutes Every day reading this so stoicism is a philosophy and I really like it because it's all about really understanding what we're in control of And what we're not in control of and separating emotion from logic and figuring out how to make decisions Really seeking to understand ourselves and be in control of the things we're in control of which is very few things mostly just ourselves All right guys the time has come to turn this into something more socially presentable. I'm just kidding I'm actually not leaving the house today. So there's no such thing as socially presentable and also this is perfectly socially presentable However, I am gonna go do my makeup and my hair a little bit because it helps me feel more put together I noticed that like when I actually wash my face or maybe do my makeup or you know Do something with my hair aside from throw up in a messy bun Maybe maybe not actually get more done. I'm more productive. I'm able to focus better because I've taken some time I actually take care of myself. So let's do that So here we are in my laundry room So most of my clothes live here right now because it's a lot easier than actually Carding them up two floors. I get dressed in laundry room, then I get ready in our tiny little like laundry room bathroom That's not a thing the bathroom downstairs So because of the whole missing leg situation I have a stool here that I always balance my leg on if you don't know I have a prosthetic leg We'll get to that in a second, but I can't actually use it more than like a minute at a time right now And I can't actually put my full weight on it. So So I just balance on this little puppy here and get my face done I was listening to a podcast of some kind and right now I'm listening to School of Greatness by Lewis Howe It's a really good podcast like a lot of different guests. I also really like getting curious by John Hood fan mess I mean, I said no more messy buns, but it's what we're gonna go with for today But we'll add a headband to feel pretty. Now some people have asked me like what I do for my makeup It's real simple anyone's super interested in comment and I'll like post what products I use but I'm by no means a makeup person I just kind of enjoy it. It's fun sometimes now. Let's get some work done So let's practice them walking. I'm gonna grab some water first But what I need to do essentially now is practice walking with my prosthetic leg I actually picked this up two days ago. Oh god. I almost fell. All right. We're good We're good. So I'm gonna go ahead and suit up put this on and we're gonna do up the workout this morning All right So I've actually got pretty fast pretty fast I've gotten pretty fast and getting this puppy off and on but here's essentially what I have to do This is a liner. This is what actually goes on my leg. First of all, I turn it inside out The inside is like aloe vera and actually feels nice on your skin not doing a great job demonstrating how fast I am It's stuck So this is like a silicone skin lotion, which I use to make sure that it doesn't rub too much This whole Pac-Man looking thing I put right here on my leg It's to help like offload some of the pressure because it's still super painful I had surgery six months ago had another surgery about three weeks ago and I got my leg like I said two days ago And so it's still pretty sensitive So we're still trying to figure out kind of the right way to make this not hurt so much right now I actually just put my leg in my leg that sounds weird generally There's gonna be like another liner that comes off over everything over the outside of my leg But it's so tight right now that we actually don't need that. I just remembered. I forgot my shoe Well, so I'm not the smartest person alive I need my crutches Located over there to walk now that I actually have my leg on hopping it is Simon today is to practice walking back and forth hoping to keep it looking like as natural as possible Not walking too weird for as long as I can it's probably only to be a couple minutes But I'm hoping to get maybe up to like three or four which is a little longer than I could do yesterday This actually feels pretty good today guys like it's not bad. Yeah, anyways, I won't push it too far But I'll push a little further I think I just missed a call from you. Sorry about that. Are they in like CSB format or something like that? I'll get right on it. Thanks. Bye. Well practice got interrupted So we are gonna move this train upstairs and actually start work because something came up I think I'm gonna go ahead and take off my leg because it is starting to kind of hurt a little bit I've kept it on for like seven minutes though. So that's like double the time of yesterday I'm gonna I'm gonna call that good for now. I'll actually try this again later today See how it feels then in a perfect world I would do this like three or four times a day right now just as tolerated But it's really important that I don't like really aggravate it right now because we don't send me spiraling backwards. So Let's get to work. So by the way, I can walk backwards on my I walk. Yes, I feel accomplished Sometimes I like coming up to the main level to actually get some work done It makes me feel like you know, I don't know it's just better than sitting on the sofa all day So I'm gonna get something to eat and then start Just as long as friends and family sing along And I don't need more money or faster car now Don't need a magazine to call me a superstar I'm gonna take this little house and make a hole And then I'll never have to face my nights alone Because in my heart I hate to be and on my face. I feel you breathe Next to me. So it's a few hours later now I'm gonna go ahead and move downstairs to continue working Generally, I have a desk that I work out like a normal working person here at home But it's not comfortable sit there just yet We need coffee don't we? Now this late in the day we make the good kind of coffee French press. I was introduced to French press coffee Not that long ago And it's changed my afternoons So no one else love coffee this much. I legitimately feel like it's a gift like I'm so grateful for it literally every day Yeah, anyways moving on now. So I got a lot of logistical stuff done last couple hours Now I'm gonna attend to a lot of Conversational things like replying to lots of emails and eventually I'll dive into some YouTube stuff It is definitely a dream of mine to do YouTube eventually full-time combined with public speaking full-time But that's not the situation right now And so I dedicate a chunk of my day towards Progressing that but a lot of my day is spent working on my normal job. Is that loud enough? So I'm basically constantly eating throughout the day like it's hard to find me without a snack somewhere nearby I trouble eating full meals just because that usually makes me feel sick. So Just realized probably looks like Quaker is sponsoring this I assure you they are not times now 238 in the afternoon Which means it's time for me to take a quick break from work And I am actually gonna do some looking for a date night online for us Not you and me for my husband and I and a site that I'd love to use is group on That's so good. Now group on is a site that I've actually used for a really long time to find great deals on Products and services in the area. I usually just use it to find like events to go to I've been able to go to things like spas and couple massages wine-tasting events and ballroom dancing And there are a lot of options and things that I never would have done otherwise So I'm gonna take the next few minutes to go through group on and find something for us to go do this weekend If you click the link down the description that is actually a referral code Which means that I will get a little bit of a kickback and you will get access to really cool deals It's not just events. I just like using the event section There's also deals on clothing and all kinds of online stores and all different kinds of things So definitely check it out date night bot.  There you are. So this is everybody on Instagram being a part of the day in the life video So since this is an actual day in the life video This makes sense as I've mentioned before I have chronic pain and chronic migraines I was about to go ahead upstairs and hang out with my little raddies They're so cute try to spend some time with them at the end of my work day Let them go around but then my head decided to do what it does So I'll get migraines like people usually get migraines It's not like always piercing piercing pain like so dizzy and nauseous And I can't think straight and there is also a lot of pain and like sensitivity to light not really sound ever I eat really hot too, which is weird hence the change also Dog walks are my happy hour. This is a very real day in the life It's not like terrible right now, but I can feel it starting and if I don't stop it It will just keep going like pull all the shades turn off all lights that I can Show my computer screen And lay down with heating pad on so there's like heat on the back of my head the back of my neck because that's often where it originates and Hope that he goes away. This happens in varying degrees like three to seven days a week But thankfully they usually don't last I have meds they take forward to or if I don't or if it just doesn't want to respond That day it'll last like through the night into the next morning But I'm gonna go ahead and take care of this and do I need to do to rest? I'll be back hopefully soon because I have the thing to go to tonight that I'm supposed to get ready for But but I can't do it if I'm like this Which is why I end up canceling on a lot of people often which I feel bad for but That's just how it goes sometimes So I still feel pretty crappy, but the kitties have graced us with their presence They make my heart feel better even if it doesn't help my head too much Cakes can I keep your mommy company to help me feel better. I think my head is starting to ease up a little bit, which is Good news I'm gonna keep my eyes closed for another 30 minutes or so and then try to get up and take a shower Maybe Brian got home from work a little while ago He often finds me brought up on the couch like this because the migraines like we usually hit around the same time every day Just depends on the day, but this one is not getting horrible and I can feel it like starting to leave All right, we're three hours from initial migraine inception and I am doing okay now So I'm gonna go ahead and take a shower that usually helps to kind of like finish loosening things up And hopefully it'll be good to go tonight So showers usually take one in the morning and I totally skip that this morning But there are a little bit difficult not difficult, but just different missing a leg So generally I would just like stand up in the shower like anybody else But I have to sit down in a chair to shower because balancing on one leg is like way too scary and dangerous So I'd like the shower head hang down there and then everything else is kind of right within reach Shower complete now. It is time to turn this into Into this so there's one final consideration before going out and this kind of applies any day So I have the eye walk which is like the standing crutch And then I have crutches that I use since my prosthetic leg is not in working order just yet So we're going out to dinner and then a show with friends tonight And so it's always a decision which one to bring because the eye walk definitely still hurts my leg a little bit But it's so much easier to use like if we're gonna be walking around for a while or doing stuff I can keep up with people a lot easier if I'm on the eye walk But it's definitely more difficult to store and it's harder to Get up and get down.  That is pretty much the day-to-day I don't live a very thrilling life, but I'm super grateful for the life that we have The friends that we have and being able to live here I hope you guys enjoyed the day in the life of a Semi-functional amputee and I appreciate you spending your time here with me. Also side note It's now four and a half hours after my migraine started. It was not bad today I was able to keep it under control and it's pretty much all gone now Which I'm so great before because it looks like I'll be able to have a good time with my friends tonight So I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys


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