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And fussin' and a fightin' Sometimes it gets to be exciting Don't lie, it'll be plumb out and neighbors next week Pickin' up the Daisy Feudan And fussin' and a fightin' Big of my heart, I love you This is a wrong that needs a right wing Let's get that funeral service over So then we can start in a Feudan Must remember this A kiss is just a kiss A sigh is just a sigh As time goes by Oh, she poisoned all the nails Now daughter, she had an order At least till she could run like the Deccans They hit it with a shovel Feudan and fightin' and a fussin' No use of standin' here, a cussion Let's give our daughter a pistol Now that she's four and go Feudan Famous beauty authority K. 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Yes Hee hee hee hee Oh now Mr. Willoughby, I'm sure that attitude Isn't true of the folks over at the Anderson boarding house Especially his girlfriend Mildred Is it Mildred?  Let's put it this way I'm a woman who has always followed the policy Of live and let live But in Dennis' case I'm willing to make an exception Oh my, I'm sure your husband Doesn't feel that way Mrs. Anderson Do you Mr. Anderson? Do you Herbert? I can express my opinion in just two words The same two words I express all my opinions with Yes pupsie I see Well I'm sure our young hero Is fully aware of these conflicting opinions And tonight as he walks down Elm Street From the bus depot or rejoin the Anderson's It must comfort him to know That at least his girlfriend Mildred Hey wait a minute What is this sight that greets his eyes On the darkened porch of the Anderson house?  Dennis stop being silly Silly that's just how it happens I know from personal hearsay Ha Been counting the days till you'd come back You didn't have to call in someone to count with you Who is this fellow? How long have you been friends? Three days So that's the kind he is I might have guessed Well what do you mean? Only known you three days And already he's letting you kiss him There He didn't let him He just turned around and did it Before I could stop him A likely story my good woman Just remember that two can play at that game I mean besides the two who are playing it already Honestly Mr. Stewart means nothing to me He's just the producer of the summer stock company That's been playing in town I was only talking to him on account of mother Oh sure sure But it's true Don't you trust your own fiance? Our fiance ship is at an end Mildred I bid you good night What? You heard me And I'll thank you to return my boy ranger badge In the morning All I can say is that it's a lucky thing I found this out before we were married Otherwise it would have been a lot more difficult To break our engagement I've told you the truth I have spoken Mildred Dennis you're crazy Even if it were like you thought Surely you'd give me another chance No Mildred No woman's gonna two time me two times Good night Dennis You have all the awful things to happen Darn that Mr. Stewart anyhow If I ever get my hands on him Mildred What a nurse wrong with Dennis He walked right past me without even saying hello Oh it's that darn summer theater director Mr. Stewart He pretended he was showing me a scene And then he tried to kiss me And Dennis saw him Mr. Stewart Oh Mildred did you ask him about me?  Oh yes yes of course Inwardly I'm a mess But life must go on What did he say about me?  Why? Mr. Anderson Suppose you came home suddenly one night And found someone kissing your wife Someone with a will of iron you mean? Yes sir Well that's what happened to me Really?  You caught Mildred doing a thing like that? Yes sir Hugging and kissing a man in cold blood I feel pretty bad Mr. Anderson I was looking forward to marriage It's kind of hard to give up my dreams Yes I know Dennis And I'm truly sorry Is there anything I can do? No sir it's nice of you but I want Mildred or nothing No I mean Is there anything I can do to help? After all you can't just give up you know Huh? Well you're going to put up a fight for her aren't you? Where's your masculinity? Where's your virility? You've got the same amount I have haven't you?  But did I stand idly by? No I got in there and fought like a tiger Gee and you were the victor huh? Well it certainly looked like it at that time yeah Oh I see what you mean Now who is this rival of yours? Well I think his name is Stuart The fellow who's putting Macbeth on in the summer theater? Well he's only been in town for a couple of days I know I guess he's just easy to love Well we've got to get rid of it Well I suppose he'll leave when the play closes but that may be too late Yes I'm afraid you're uh Well wait a minute Suppose the play closed after one performance That wouldn't be too late But why would it close so soon? Well what if the critic in the Daily Bugle Gave the show a terrible panning But suppose the critic likes to play? He wouldn't if we had our own critic doing the job Huh? Look suppose a big movie actor came to town And offered the present critic a swell job in Hollywood He'd go wouldn't he? I suppose he would Then there's your answer That's my answer? Sure Maybe I'd better hear the question again Well don't you see Dennis now Look you're good at imitations You can impersonate the star We'll bundle you up in a muffler You can wear dark glasses And the critic will be fooled by the voice Gee and then when we've got him out of town I could write the criticism myself Say it might work at that Of course Now uh uh What movie star can you be?  Somebody who's more dramatic Well maybe Racing with the moon Higher above the midnight blue No No not that dramatic Besides they aren't real actors Now couldn't you be a real picture star? Hmm How about Betty Grable? Dennis all we have to work with is a muffler And dark glasses Yeah that's right I was thinking of wearing a bathing suit But he might spot me Very possible Now I'll tell you what you do Think of somebody overnight I'll be down to Willoughby's store tomorrow To pick you up And we'll call on this critic together Okay Let's see now That's my boy who said that Umbriago A hitty Hitty you are so lovely hitty No My wife's sweetie face Gave me a great big beautiful boobook Good morning Mr. Willoughby Good morning Dennis Well here I am Did you remember this is the day I was to come back to work Certainly Can't you see I'm wearing a black tie Gee You don't change much do you Mr. Willoughby No Well get to work my boy I'll phone the insurance company And tell them you're back And they can raise our rates again Oh yes sir As a matter of fact You'll be in charge of the store today I have to leave in a few minutes For the summer theater rehearsal The summer theater You mean the one that's putting on Macbeth tonight Uh huh Haven't you heard I'm one of the play's principal backers You You've put money into it Five hundred dollars What's the matter Haven't you ever heard Of a businessman becoming an angel Yes sir I may make it before you do What are you talking about Mr. Willoughby Let me ask you a purely hypothetical question If a certain person who shall be nameless Was instrumental in your losing money What would you do I'd fire you in a minute Oh Well in that case I must ask you another question If you were to choose between Love and your career Which would you take Love Sure love You know what men feel For horses, dogs and women And stuff like that What would I know about love I've been married for 15 years Oh I see But I guess if I were young And free and had to choose I'd take love You would? Certainly Any red-blooded man would How about one in whom The white corpusils dominate That kind too Oh I'm glad to hear you say that Mr. Willoughby I guess you and I think the same way That's about the nastiest crack I've ever heard of Answer that And then get back to work Yes sir Willoughby's store Oh hello Mr. Anderson Yeah, pick me up on my lunch hour And we'll go over and see that critic I've had to choose between Love and a career and I've chosen love I've made my bed Mr. Anderson Now I only hope I can Lie my way out of it Don't be nervous Dennis There's nothing to worry about Just remember You're a big Hollywood star Okay I'm ready Good Ah Mr. Helcott The eminent critic I presume My name is Coleman Coleman? What you don't mean Yes old boy, Ronnie Natch Why this is an honor Mr. Coleman I'd never have recognized you With that muffler over your face Well Mr. Coleman's got a bad head cold Yes old boy Can hardly get my nose open To talk through it Oh I see well This certainly is a thrill For a modest unassuming And extremely talented critic Like myself I've always been a great admirer Of yours Mr. Coleman Splendid You have frightfully good taste old man Yes And I just love the late George Apley Oh we all did old boy All Hollywood turned out for the funeral You see he's referring to your last picture Ronald The late George Apley That was the title Oh of course to be sure So many things on my mind you know Yes I guess you Hollywood people Have a lot to think about Oh quite I'd certainly like to visit that town Someday I've heard so much about everything in it Gromans Chinese Oh yes splendid little chaps all of them But isn't Gromans Chinese a theatre Well Mr. Coleman doesn't get around much You see he's more of a family man Oh yes family problems all the time You know I was saying to my wife Just before I left Hortense I said Hortense Yes my wife Grand girl We're married But isn't your wife's name Benita Oh to be sure Always getting a confuse with a maid Anyway I said to her Benita darling We'll just have to do something about Junior Junior Yes my son wouldn't you say I don't think so You don't have a son Ronald remember Oh well I said to Benita I said darling We'll just have to do something about Junior Referring I hope to my daughter But you don't have a daughter either I drove you're quite right And it's no wonder No wonder what No wonder we never did anything about Junior Ronald I feel that the interview is getting out of hand Oh really Yes I think we'd better get to the business That brought us here Oh quite yes Well you see Mr. Helcott We've been reading your reviews In the local paper for some time No Really Mr. Coleman Yes Yes and we feel that you belong Either in Hollywood or New York I belong in Hollywood or New York Whichever is father I beg your pardon Well what Mr. Coleman means is Wouldn't you like to go Oh of course Goodbye old man and Godspeed But I don't understand We have a job for you in Hollywood A job You'll be a critical boy The same as here Oh for a moment I thought you wanted me to work Oh nothing like that Now run along home and pack We'll take over your duties here Yes we'll put a fine young chap Named Dennis Day right to work on your column Quite oh is there anything special This Dave person should know about your work Oh no it's very simple I just review movies and plays Like the one opening tonight And oh yes Does this Mr. Day Have a five or six year old nephew A five or six year old nephew For writing reviews of radio programs you know Oh I see that explains a lot Yes Well thank you for this wonderful offer Goodbye gentlemen I'll see you in Hollywood I just can't wait to get to the bowl For Harry's piano recital Dennis we did it Yeah can you imagine And just wait till my review of Macbeth appears There'll never be another performance by that company Your arrival is as good as out of town right now We'll Uh oh Do you suppose that fellow changed his mind about going I don't know Come in Mr. Helcott I brought your tickets for tonight I heard about Anderson and then Dennis Where's Mr. Helcott Well I'm the critic here now Mr. Willoughby I did like you told me I chose love What are you talking about Mr. Helcott has left town Homer Dennis is taking his place Dennis is to Why that means he'll review my play My boy No use Mr. Willoughby It's no use Yours was not the love I chose My Dennis what do you mean You know how a good play can get four bells Yeah Yours won't even get a door buzzer You mean you're going to pan my play You can't When the play is over tonight Just don't bother sweeping out the place for tomorrow That's all Oh so that's your attitude is it Well I'll fix you You'll never get into that theater tonight I'll have guards posted at every door Just to watch for you But you can't do that I can huh I can and I will Good boy Gee What are we going to do now Mr. Anderson Do Why sit right down at that desk And start reviewing the play But I haven't seen the play I can't write up something I don't know anything about Can I My boy you keep forgetting you're a critic Now Go to work on your criticism And don't be subtle Well alright Let's see now Last night at the Weaverville Summit theater An audience of first nighters was practically nauseated By the most horrible production Ever to smell up a playhouse Too subtle No I think they'll know what you mean Good Now let's see if I can think up something nasty Hi Mildred My don't you look pretty this morning Why Dennis Aren't you mad at me anymore You mean over that silly Mr. Steward What for I took care of him See the morning paper I know Well I got myself appointed dramatic critic on it yesterday And after what I said about that play He'll never show his face around here again Smart huh Dennis you You mean you panned the play You bet and every actor and actress in it Ooh what I said Lady Macbeth too Oh her I gave the full treatment Oh Dennis Huh My mother played Lady Macbeth Mildred incredible as it may seem I think I've made a blunder Boy will I hear from your mother when she reads that review Dennis Day I've heard from her You worm Did you write this review in the paper Yes ma'am How dare you print a thing like this The play was sick to start with But it never recovered Once Lady Macbeth made an entrance on her too On her too big left feet Just a simple mistake in counting Mrs. Anderson And what about your next line That when I got on the stage Something unfortunate happened to the lights They stayed on Sure he didn't mean that the way it sounds Stop making excuses for him This time he's gone too far This time I'm going to Dennis Mr. Willoughby I want to see you You better hurry Mrs. Anderson and I are having a little discussion From which I may never recover Mr. Willoughby do you realize what this boy has done Well certainly I do He's made our play What Ten minutes after that paper hit the street The box office was swamped with calls The play's a sell out Dennis you're a doll I lead the most uncertain life But I don't understand after that frightful review That's what did it All we needed was a good panning They panned A.B.S. Irish Rose didn't they And Tobacco Road Ha ha We may run ten years Oh Dennis I'm so proud of you Yeah me too Gee can you imagine Being pan by a critic turns out to be even better Than being banned in Boston Dennis Day will be back in just a moment with a song But first here's a fact worth knowing Colgate dental cream cleans your breath While it cleans your teeth And that's important As our Colgate players are going to demonstrate Seen a beach Where a smooth looking bathing beauty Is having a pretty grim time Listen Oh look at those men All they can see is that girl in the red bathing suit Well they can't see you If you hide way down at this end of the beach Claire They can't see me no matter where I am And that's the truth Claire Breath trouble cramps any girl's style So how about seeing your dentist honey And here's what Claire found out Scientific tests prove that in seven out of ten cases Colgate dental cream Instantly stops unpleasing breath That originates in the mouth And Colgate's safe polishing agent Brings out the natural sparkle of your teeth Cleans them thoroughly and safely Yes Colgate dental cream cleans your breath While it cleans your teeth And Colgate dental cream is famous For it's wonderful wake up flavor too Nationwide tests of leading toothpaste Prove that Colgate's is preferred For flavor over other brands tested So to clean your teeth thoroughly and safely For a wake up flavor everyone enjoys Use Colgate dental cream Remember Colgate dental cream cleans your breath While it cleans your teeth With Charles Dand in the orchestra Here's Dennis to sing Peg of my heart Earth and the rose Remember doctors Prove the palm olive plan Brings two out of three women Lovelier complexions in 14 days And this beauty plan with palm olive soap Was tested on women with all types of skin Dry, oily, even skin that was not clear Yes 36 doctors prove the 14 day palm olive plan Improves all types of skin Brings fresher, brighter, younger looking complexions So get palm olive soap And start your 14 day palm olive plan now This is Vern Smith reminding you That Judy Canova's vacation is over And she'll be back on the air This Saturday night So if it's laughter you're after Be sure to tune in the Judy Canova show This Saturday night Over most of these same stations Tonight stay tuned for the Summerfield Bandstand Which follows immediately This is NBC, the national broadcasting company


Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallach Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a homeschool show and tell. The homeschool show and tell is an open collaboration hosted by Abby from rooted arrest and myself. Our goal with the homeschool show and tell was just to showcase there's not one right way to homeschool that there's multiple ways to do it and nobody can really do it wrong. So we do that by bringing homeschoolers together from around the world each and every month to share their take on a specific topic. This month's topic is things I wish I had known when I first started homeschooling and I'm so excited for this because I feel like hindsight is definitely 2020 and I know we have some amazing homeschool moms that participate in this collaboration and I cannot wait to learn from their hindsight. I'm also hoping that this inspires some homeschool newbies to not make some of the same mistakes that we might have made and maybe save you some of the hassle trouble and stress. I have been homeschooling for seven years so there are a lot of things at this point that I have come to realize I wish I had known or done differently. The number one thing though as I wish I had known then that the thing we would learn from the least would be the curriculum and maybe just maybe I would have spent a whole lot less time stressing over finding the perfect one and you guys I know we all do it. Like I spent hours when we first started homeschooling researching curriculum seeing what other people were using spending money on buying curriculum that didn't work for us and getting rid of it and it seems like a never-ending process especially those first few years when I was trying to find my footing but now flash forward seven years and I know that the thing we learned from the least is the curriculum. The things we learn from the most are the books, the games, the field trips and experiences, the hands-on activities, oh and the conversations especially as your kids get older you guys this Emily has become between the conversations that we have like the unprompted not curriculum related questions that just manifest themselves and the things that we talk about are so amazing so I think if I had it to do over I would stress a whole lot less about curriculum I would probably spend a whole lot less hours researching it spend a whole lot less money buying it stress our homeschool out a lot less by trying it and instead I would have focused on cultivating our home the environment and the atmosphere of our homeschool and making sure that I was really focusing on cultivating that relationship because I think that once I did start cultivating that relationship I'm now seeing the dividends and the payoffs from that as she's older with the conversations we're having and those and that learning and education that is coming from those is worth 10 times more than any curriculum we've ever used the second thing I wish I had known when I first started homeschooling was that you don't have to do it all I remember being like oh my gosh we have to do all of the things and all of the curriculum because they're all look so amazing and we need to do it all this year and we would do all of the subjects and our homeschool days were making my head spin because I was exhausted and Emily was stressed out because it was overstimulating and it was just too much and it was it was just very very stressful like it was not the homeschool that I had envisioned so when I let go of the need to do it all to do all of the things and for it to all be on my shoulders as when I found our homeschool finally found peace and by that I mean you don't have to do all of the things that you find especially not in one year you have many many years of homeschooling you can save them come back to them another time you know if this like for example holidays I remember like oh there's like 10 different things I want to do for Christmas schooling but Christmas is only three weeks long and all this stuff well there's always next year like you can't do it all and would you really want to try to do it all and then make the holiday season and holiday homeschooling miserable trust me you don't I've been there and done that so just pick one do it really really well and then do another one the next year so that's one like you don't have to do all of the things all of this year you have plenty of years to do it you also don't have to do all of the subjects ever but you really don't have to do them all in this homeschool year and this week in this day you get to pick like you have 365 days not 180 and you have all of the hours in the day and not six like that's the perk that you have over public school so you can choose to do maybe history in the fall and science in the spring they don't have to be done at the same time or maybe your kid focuses better when they're doing one thing at a time so you do a week's worth of math on Monday and a week's worth of language arts on Tuesday like you get to do that if that's what fits your homeschool and then also that I don't have to be the one to do all the things like it doesn't all have to fall on my shoulders and that is something that once I realized was like oh because I remember trying to be the one to do do all of it all the time and it was stressing me out because there were things that I wasn't good at or things that Emily and I didn't click on together and it was making our homeschool well not enjoyable and so I started outsourcing for example we outsource math to teaching textbooks because that is so much better for our family in our homeschool my mom teaches Emily sewing I can't sew a button on to save my life so she teaches her sewing my dad teaches her archery because she's really interested in that and while I think it's really fun I don't have the working knowledge of it that he has she uses Duolingo for Spanish because I can't speak Spanish to save my life Kevin does science experiments with her because as much as I wanted to and as great as my intentions were I never got around to it it was always the thing I was like pushing off because I don't like messes so there are all of these things that have slowly either taken it off of me or me letting go of certain things and certain expectations and me realizing like we don't have to do it all in our homeschool and I don't have to be the one to do it all and that has given us peace like it is given our homeschool a peaceful environment and less stress so those would be the things that I would like really really wish I could have told myself and tell you if you're new or you're still trying to do all of the things and do it all yourself you don't have to like you're still a great homeschool mom if you're not doing it all I promise the third thing that I wish I knew when I first started homeschooling was to trust the process and let go of expectations I had very high expectations of what I wanted for our homeschool of what I expected from Emily of things I expected her to learn at a certain age based off of you know public school or kids that I knew kids around me kids I saw on social media whatever and the minute that I finally let go of those expectations and really looked at the child in front of me and what was realistic and you know learn to trust the process things were so much better because nine times out of ten something that I find is a problem today in our homeschool like let's just say for example she's having trouble with long division and I'm stressing and I'm not trusting the process and I immediately want to you know declare it a problem throw more curriculum at it stress about it nine times out of ten it will resolve itself in a few days or a few weeks like it's just that I need to trust the process like I know what we're doing works for us and I need to let go and trust it and then it will resolve itself same thing like I remember when we first started homeschooling this even goes to Kevin he had a really really hard time trusting uh game schooling when I decided we were gonna do it he was like wait you're not gonna have pieces of paper for every single subject I'm like yeah it'll be okay I promise and he had a really hard time with that like because he wasn't here with her seeing the benefits day in and day out like he was working so he didn't see the way it worked and then I think it was over like Christmas break or summer break or something and he had you know spent more time with her and he's like oh this is this is really working for her this is amazing and like I know that's why I wanted to do it and so he kind of let go and that was actually something that he said when we talked about this video was that he said I wish I had let go and trust the process earlier because I had expectations of what homeschool should look like and when our homeschool didn't look like that it worried him and stressed him out um so he would have been a lot less stressed if he had known then to let go of expectations and trust the process another expectation I think we should let go of is that every kid is the same because or even your own kid is going to be the same from year to year just because something worked for your oldest kid doesn't mean it's going to work for your youngest just because something worked for your neighbor's kid doesn't mean it's going to work for your kid just because something worked for us last homeschool year doesn't mean it's going to work for us this homeschool year the expectation that um it that's just the way it is means that nine times out of ten we're putting ourselves in a box instead of like I said looking at the kid in front of you in the moment and figuring out what is going to work best for this child for me as a teacher for this homeschool year for whatever the lifestyle that we're living right now might be uh and so I think that if we can just let go of those expectations and really evaluate the moment that changes things drastically and then the last expectation for me personally this was something that I probably the one I still struggle with the most is that if it's easy it can't be working that is like the expectation that I have always had like homeschool has to be hard right so if it's easy it can't be working it can't be good like this can't be enough easy isn't enough and homeschool has to be hard that was the expectation I came in with it needs to be rigorous we need to spend hours doing it and the funny thing is now seven years later I find the things that we do the most the things that provide the most fruit in our homeschool are the easy things not the hard things it's the reading books it's the playing games it's listening to audiobooks which totally count it's the conversations it's the field trips um it's not the hard stuff it's not the rigorous hard complicated things that are producing the most fruit it's the things that are the easiest it's the watching a documentary together at night and it not even feeling like school but she learns the most from it and so I think that that is probably something I still to this day struggle with sometimes I'll get to the end of our homeschool we can feel like we didn't do enough or it was too easy the expectation as homeschool should be hard and then I have to remind myself nope that doesn't have to be hard to count like it can be easy and still count and still be fruitful so those are my top three homeschool hindsight I really wish I had known when I first started homeschooling now I would love to know yours because I know you have one whether you've been homeschooling for one week one year or 10 years we all have something we wish we had known on day one leave yours down in the comments and don't forget to check out the playlist in the description to see everybody else's homeschool hindsight


Did I press public? Is this too bright right here? I do not have time to make a prappa. It is too bright right here. I don't know. Who cares? Nina, who cares? I care. It's got me all washed out. I don't have time to make a video, but I want to let you guys know about my van. It's washed out right here. Washed out. So I'm getting a couple things over here to show you guys, because I'm trying to hurry, because I got places to go, people to meet, things to buy. All right, where's my weigh-in book? Here's my weigh-in book. I bought some stuff I was going to show you guys. Totally excited. I know I should just make a, oh my gosh. See, this is what happens when I don't style the hair, the gray. Oh, no biggie. Does anybody hair? Hi Laurie. Hi Jimmy. Hi Linda. You guys are here. Yay. I'm sorry I'm not making like a regular video, but I just don't have time to make it. And the way to see if it loads. Hi Laura. I'll talk for just a minute and then I'll show you guys my weigh-in in case anybody else wants to join us, that they're not out there with the rest of the world. I have to tell you guys something. I miss working during the holidays, because being in the hustle and the bustle with the music and the stars and everything really puts me in the mood, and I forgot how much it puts me in the mood. Oh lord. I have my dad's waves. He'd be so proud. Oh well, who cares? One thing I'm so thrilled about. Hi Teresa. Um, as I totally dropped the ball on Oliver's high-sues, I'm so glad you're here. Excuse my look. I, you know why I look like this? Let me tell you why I look like this. Because, okay, well first of all I have to tell you is I dropped the ball on Oliver's advent calendar. I don't remember if I told you that. Oh, first of all, hi Sandy. Oh well, I'll wait a minute to talk about that in case anybody else shows up. I totally dropped the ball on Oliver's advent calendar, and I have felt so guilty. My water is all the way on the other side of the counter.  I called everywhere. Nobody has them and he's like, it's okay, Nana. It's okay. I understand. Well, then this morning I gave him the ammo. This morning he says, feeling kind of weird. And this is like directly when I woke him up. He said, what's up, Bub? What, you're not feeling well? What are you feeling weird about? He says, Nana, I feel weird that I don't have an advent calendar. So I just, I gave him the ammo and he ran with it. Hi, Sandy. How's everybody doing today? Did anybody else have weigh in? Oh, so Amir, let's stick with one subject. I had to go to Ralph's to get my Olay wraps. I am so happy that I haven't formed. Hi, Michelle. Happy birthday. Way in Sunday. I need to get on the scale. It's my way in day. Oh, I'm scared. Haven't been on strict self, but I'm going to do it. That's up to you, my love. You know what? It's that time of year. I, the only reason I'm doing it, it's the only reason I'm sticking to it is because I'm too far up for me. I'm not comfortable. Lori weighed in yesterday. I was nervous about that she would have to pay. Very good. Very good. I hope it's a great day, Michelle. Thank you, Laura. Okay, so that's what I was going to tell you guys.  And if that's not enough, because this is how bad I felt this, that kid knows how to get to me. We have a big wood advent calendar that Santa brought home one year, you know, one of the big huge houses. Oh, Nita. You guys, this is not normally how I look when my hair isn't down. Hi, Cheryl. One of those great, I mean, like alpine, I mean, really fine made. It was like, I think it was like $150. I did not purchase it. Hi, Brenda. So not only did he get those Star Wars ones, but I got some ice cream candy, Christmas candy, and let's fill that up. That's what I get for forgetting.  Since it's away in the morning, I'm going to finish my Christmas shopping. Oh, I haven't told you yet. I haven't told you yet. I'm starting off so I can let up any peeps who want to come in. Steve at dinner last night, I have to preface again by telling you guys, if you guys want to give me a thumbs up, I'll take it. But if you don't, don't. I just saw the thumb up there and I don't like asking. So anyways, the job that he's on is making him very unhappy. It's the job. And he's bringing it home, and then I'm taking it personally, and I need not, not to, not to. So he's eating him and Oliver eating Oliver's hair. Steve's here. I'm here. They're eating. I'm just sitting there, minding my own business, because Oliver likes me to sit at the table with them. No, you never sit with us. They're eating with us. So I sat at the table with my water and Steve's eating right, not saying a single solitary word. And he goes, while he's taking a bite out of his burger. So what's tomorrow? I said Friday, uh, isn't it 12, 6, 19? I said, that's my understanding. He goes, well, isn't that our anniversary?  And I wasn't having it, man. I said, yeah, it is our anniversary. You want to go out to dinner tomorrow night? Sure, I'd love to. And then he was like thinking food, dinga-ding, food is the way to that man's heart, head and any other part of his body. Let's go to Don Cucko's or do you want to go out back? I'm like, we'll go wherever you want to go because you're the food man. You know me.  He has been a very tough man, lived with this week. I'd love him with all my heart, but I need a drink. So while I was shopping, I got this for Oliver. You guys might have seen it on Instagram because I think it's too dang cute. Now here's the real thing. I'm telling everybody it's for Oliver. I think I might keep it for myself. What's going to happen is he's going to see it. He's going to want it and then I'm going to let him use it, but you know what? It's warm and if we go to Disneyland, I'm going to need some more. I like it. What else did I get? I'll get to my way in in just a second. Yeah, Laura, exactly. I've got some Olaywraps. Thank you. Thank you. I was out of Olaywraps and I don't do well when I'm out of Olaywraps. So I got a couple of those. I looked for the cauliflower Alfredo that the twins have been talking about. I can't find it anywhere. So I got regular. You guys, this is two points for a quarter cup. I happily will take four points for half a cup or five point points if it's that wacky Weight Watcher math. At my Weight Watcher meeting, I got some oatmeal because I need some flavor in my oatmeal. I have the regular, but it was on sale. Nina, can we see it right beside us? Yes. So this is the one I make with my promo protein. My oatmeal is my strawberry and it's four smart points. What else did I get? Okay, it's not what I thought it was. I want the sprouts and I got my Boris head. I got the Aloha turkey. Have any of you guys have the Aloha turkey yet? It's delicious. If the Aloha turkey it's got a little bit of sweetness from the pineapple juice. You put, now this is what you do. Are you listening? Do you have your listening ears on like Judge Judy likes to say? Put a spicy pepper jack laughing cow on there to counteract the sweet, but then put some chunks of pineapple on there. Roll it up, eat it. You're welcome. I got some peanut butter too and chocolate and some pineapple for said wraps. Oh, thanks Michelle. I haven't been over there yet. I'll check it out. All right. So I went into my meeting and not the best mood case that's any big surprise to anybody. It's just been one of those weeks. We all have them right when our spouse is not. So then I walk in and my leader's not there. Okay. I'm that girl. I'm that girl.  Seesoo's good job. Not bad. Bravo sticker to you. Have they changed all the green chairs in your guys' meetings rooms? So this is the third week in a row. They've changed them. And none of us are happy about them.  So I moved them all. I wanted my spot. They moved the chairs out from where I normally sit. I moved it. Oh, I forgot I had these earrings on. I'm having the best, like, uh, I need to pick up all of her looking like this. No chairs. Okay. Well, it's highly annoying. Everybody's, everybody's talking about it. How annoyed they are. And I'm like, what are they going to do? Kick us out. Let's move our chairs back to where we want them. So being in the mood I was in, I did. So I was just like, I didn't know if I wanted to stay there. My friend Lori showed up. I haven't seen her in about a month. I was happy.  But my way in was, let's see. For those of you that don't know, I cut my book in half. Brenda, if you've been traveling, that's life friend. Do you know what? Go next week. You're good. Good. I cut mine in half. And this is interesting too. The girls who weigh in said, this is wonderful.  My girls. If you're girls that work for whitewashers, you may not. And I needed to fit in my book. So this is how I did. I wasn't thrilled. Let's not look at that page. Oh, she wrote the wrong date down. Can you see that? I lost 2.4. I was going for three, man, like a maniac. I was going for three, but I lost 2.4, which I will take. It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, right? As Murray would say. Murray is my mom. So I'm back up over the 30, but I have to get to the 40, to the 45. And I know what I have to do to do that. I know I have to celebrate tonight. You know, it's you guys, it's just like, I need to get back there. I'm not happy where I am right now. Going to start the plan the day I get home. There you go. There we go. So I'll take it. I was hoping for three because I had a super duper, duper week. Now I just have to tonight when we go to dinner, since food is not green, green is good. I like green. Since food is not the be all end all for me. I'm just going to have regular a piece of grilled chicken at some veggies. Hopefully they'll have veggies I like. I admit I ain't needed J.J. Johnson. Do not care for anything other than asparagus, which is never at a restaurant.  Try it out, Michelle. See how you like it. I love it. It just puts me back in my place. I can't be let loose. Chickens around the world were screaming for any time I got anywhere near. So that's it. That's all I have to report. I have to go back out. I had to come home to feed my dog, take my dog out, report into use wells. I think I'll get a card for Steve and try to write in there. So I'll scratch something in there. See you next summer. Stay bitchin'. I'm being too hard on him right now. Just to you guys though. You guys, the systems were down. Our systems were up. They were up. Even they're down and like nothing. Is there anything else I wanted to tell you guys or show you or anything? Oh, the meeting was about, I have two bags I carry. I either carry my Innis for Nurse. He did, Suze. He remembered last night. He tried to make me pretend like I didn't remember, but I was onto his sly ways. So today I sponsored Kim and Kelly. I go back and forth between Innis for Nurse. Stay in orbit. And you got this, the twins. Oh, and here's my bingo card. They forgot to give me my stickers. And I went up there and I said, I don't want my stickers. And I want them now. See? And they said, okay, because I'm all about the charms.   You don't eat a lot of zero points, which is why I'm on the green program.  You know, I know veggies and fruit, but I wonder what it's going to look like, Laura. Oh, I'm sure there's a picture of it somewhere, but I'm all about the charms. Hey man, whatever keeps you happy. Oh, you got a bingo. I've just been placing mine. Let's look at it again. I've just been placing mine randomly because I think basically, we're getting a charm for this side, not this side, aren't we? I do all these things anyway, except for, let's see, I don't go on connect. I don't go on connect. I don't do the active workout. Active. That's the first time I've said it out loud. It's supposed to sound like active. I'll have both. No problem.   What did she say? I missed what she said. That's fabulous. Fabulous. Oh, I'm so happy for you. Isn't it the best feeling? It is. It's the best feeling. That's why when people are like, and I'm just paraphrasing, when I say stuff, you guys, I'm not thinking of anybody directly in my ear or anybody I've watched or talked to or listened to.  Have you seen my Michelle's charms? I got them all. But when I hear somebody say, oh, it's the holidays and I just had to have that cupcake, again paraphrasing. It's the holidays.  Tortellini's big in my house. I just had to have it. I would rather have the loss. I get more excited over the loss than the food. And it's in my hands and I can handle. I can. I'm in charge of it. Now pour me a drink and that's a whole different opera. Here's all my charms because I got to have charms. And here's my turtle because I'm a turtle. These are the new charms that if any of you guys are new to Weight Watchers, sorry, I can't do this with the hands from hell. These are they. These are all the old charms from when I made it up to 50. But I'm going to get back to 40, 45 tops. I'm not going to go for 50. It's just as much. So that be that. Oops, I got to put this back in here. I should probably plan a restaurant and plan my meal or he's going to come home and we're going to sit and waffle over it for. They totally helped motivate my friend that I was sitting with today. She's like, oh, I don't care about the charms. I'm like, I do. Has been got you a mini binder and she Lori, how did I know you're married? I don't know. Doesn't matter. A sheet protector for my WWE stuff. It was supposed to be for Hanukkah to arrive today. He couldn't wait. Oh, he's like me. I can never hold on to anything. I have to give it to you now. Happy Hanukkah to you. I think Hanukkah and Christmas are the same week this year. Yeah. Yeah, December 22nd, Michelle, I have mine in a lockbox where my important papers are because I would be brokenhearted if I lost them. Hi, Molly girl. Molly, Molly, tell them about your way in. Classically, Molly, this is her first week back on the grand program and she's going to tell you how she did. Tina, I only did 2.4, but I'll take it. It's a loss and it's going in the right direction. 2.4, 2.6, man. I'm going to take every single nano. It's four, right, you guys? Nano point that I can get 2.4. Dang it. Dang it. I really wanted three.  Don't be greedy. Greed does not become anybody. But when it comes to my weight loss, I'm a serious Joe. Now we'll see. I've got all my stuff in here. What's this? Oh, it's a Werther's. So I guess that's it. Did she post? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think about that. I'm sorry and I put you on the spot. Well, you guys have to go back to her video and watch it anyways. I'm sorry, honey. That was so like me. I'm so sorry. I don't think things out very well. A little too late, huh? Never say, oh, Nina, Sandy is going to you. Sandy doesn't yell at me anymore because she knows I'll just yell back. She just texted me happy birthday. It just came down on my screen. I have to text her. Thank you when I get up here. I'm sorry, Molly. That was so, oh, I'm just so happy for you. It's like when I'm happy for somebody that I love, it's like, okay, well, it's not me, but it's them. Let me put them here and let them shout from the root up. I'm sorry, Molly, but you guys have to go watch her video anyways, please. She can tell you how she did. She may not even be telling the truth here. I'm so sorry. And I have, and it's, it's, it's not, what time is it? 1015. It's not even brunch. I haven't even had any mimosas yet. Let's see. Way to go. I got to run. All right. You have a great day. Thanks for popping in. Molly has the best advent calendars. Molly, did you see that I got some advent calendars for Oliver? The Hassan at Ralph's. Oh my gosh. I was like feeling so bad. I was losing sleep. Have a great day. I didn't know if you were here when I showed you or not.  You know what? Hang on, you guys, hang on one second. Molly, keep an eye on everybody. Don't let them leave. So I totally just had to go down my stairs to get this. What if I would have fallen down the stairs, knocked myself out, been laying down there, and you guys were all just still sitting here waiting for me to come back. The things that go, they're set wrong with my brain. I'm donating it to science with this hat. So anyways, because my kid is spoiled, because I love him so much, and it's his birthday month. Yesterday, when he got home from school, I had chicken strips from Chick-fil-A for him here. And he goes, oh, thanks, Nana. Because he was totally surprised because I never did that. And I go, it's your birthday month, Bob. He's like, oh, Nana. And he jumped up and he hugged me from behind. And I'm like, I'm going to have to pull this birthday month stuff out of my hat more often. So we have, because the little Star Wars advent calendar is ending up, we have this one with my pork finger. I'm not flipping anybody the bird. So I got that bag of candy and I'm going to fill this whole one up for him. But isn't it just lovely? Isn't it pretty, Molly? And it's got a thing on the, oh, I had it hanging on the wall a couple years and I don't know how. So I'm going to fill this up. And when he gets home today, that kid is going to go down telling everybody he had the best Nana ever. Because that is my only goal in life, to go down in history as the best grandmother. Oh, but I need to have a little chit chat with this other grandmother. I've got a little something that he told me, but that's okay. So that's what I'm going to do. That's why I copped on live instead of making a video, loading it, not loading it and all that. I want to wear these to Disneyland because it's cold down there right now. These would just be delightful. Okay. Okay, I have to go to Trader Joe's. I need to swing by Walmart. I was going to go get some Clio bars at Walmart, but I forgot. I don't have to. They sent those to me.  Thanks, Jill. Hey, lady, what's happening? You just missed all my stories.  How's your day going? What, you, what did you lose? I know you are, but what am I? Super busy. Me too. That's why I'm doing a live instead of shooting a regular video.  You're starting to confuse me. I thought you were going to do it on Friday with me and Molly. Hi, Tony. Okay, then I was only lost 2.4, but I'm going to take it. I should say I, I'm sorry. You're right. You guys, if Sandy hears me, she's going to give me the kibosh. I hope so, Susie. Hi, Connie. So I did 2.4. Amy, I was, I really wanted three, but can't meeting this morning. Okay, I get you. You'd have a job. You work for a living. People need you.  No, no, see Katie. Okay, Katie, forget everything you've heard me say. One pound is awesome. It's absolutely fabulous. So is 2.4. I should never have said only it was just because I was on a quest this week because I had a huge game last week. It's wonderful. Way to go. Fabulous. Good job. I'm giving you a Bravo sticker if I had one. You spilled it right, Susie. Thanks, Amy. I wanted three though.  I mean, I, but it's okay. Katie, don't listen to me. It losses a loss.  I have to ask you guys, you guys are my age. Do you ever look in the mirror and like everything is, even since a week ago has shifted, it's like you look in the mirror and you're like, holy smokes. How did that happen? That was there and now it's here and pretty soon it's going to be here. And it's like, it's very, it's very disheartening. And for you younger guys like you Molly, be prepared for that. Oh, but yeah, after I took my shower and laughed. Oh, okay.  For those of you that were here last night and we were talking about if I should walk or not, because if I would have a gain or not today, does anybody remember that conversation that we had? Is anybody here that was in on the conversation?  Okay, good.  Nothing's going to happen. So I go for a walk. I'm minding my own business. I Instagram Amy and it's for nurse. Hi, I'm going on my walk. Aren't you proud of me? Look at how great I am. She's like, girl, I never walked the night before weighing or else I gained and I was like, I came home and I told Steve. I'm like, I shouldn't have walked. I'm like, oh my gosh. And he's like, and then he takes me seriously. He's like, well, how many steps did you get in? And I looked down and I'm like, well, for all day I got in four miles, but I just did about a mile, two miles right now. He's like, well, there's nothing you could do about it now. Quit Instagramming your friends while you're walking. It was so funny. It was funny because I was like, what are the chances that we just had this huge conversation about this?  That's also what Steve said. But no, no. It was just so funny because I never have had the conversation before. I never thought to bring it up.  Talk to the people. Get their votes. I got all the votes to walk. And then I have the redheaded nurse coming in and just like, pow. All right, I missed something. I'm sorry. You're right. Activity is important, Molly. That's why in the middle of the night, they make sure to roll over from one side to the other. That's my activity. That's okay, Lori. Gray is not meant for everybody. Not everybody has the color you for gray. I don't even know if it's meant for me, but I just had to. It's just my thing. You do your thing, that, and it's just, as you can tell by my mustache and my eyebrows. Keeping up cosmetically isn't hot at the top of my list. I'm just kidding. You know, I think that hot coffee because you're cold. Oh, hi. Oh man. See now, isn't watching me drink water? Uh-oh. Battery's getting low. I've been playing on my iPad while I was at my meeting. And it was plugged in. Kitty, where are you on the iPad?  So we only have like a smidge left of Diana. A smidge left of Christmas decorating to do because we have a small home. Our home is maybe a thousand square feet, if that. So Steve was kind of daunted by the wee amount that we have left to do. So you know what I did? Does anybody want to guess what I did? Because I'm so smart. This is how smart I may not be smart in some areas, but I'm pretty dang turkey in others. I said, oh, hey honey, let me hook up my phone to the YouTube as the kids like to say, and let me show you Sandy's Christmas decorations. And let me show you Joan's point at Joan at the point of plates decorations. And I ran him all my way larger friends who are already decorated with the Bibbled houses with so much stuff. And he's like, yeah, I guess we don't have that much left to do, do we? And Molly, I'm taking bets this year on when you take the tree down, honey.  This woman is wonderful. I love her. Rode your bike 42 miles. That's fabulous.  Have a great day, have a great birthday, enjoy yourself, enjoy your dinner. I'm going to enjoy my dinner too. I'm going to enjoy my liquid dinner. Food doesn't float my boat. Look at it.  Oh, I didn't notice there was butterfingers in there. I have Steve do that. Oh, so anyways, after Steve saw all the big houses with all the decorations, he was like, yeah, I guess we don't have that much left to do. And I'm like, nope. I was very proud of myself. I looked around, not very many people are decorated. Molly, I checked, double checked on you. I was pretty sure you still only had Amy. You didn't do a video just on your decorations. Did you? It's just incorporated in one of your other videos because I looked for yours. Who else did I look for? Maybe that was it. I was trying to remember. Don't remember. But your tree is so beautiful, Molly. It's all white and pretty. Amy's is so pretty. You need to do a video. What's going to be about? You haven't started, Mima. You know what? Hand to God, if Oliver wasn't here, feel lame. What do you feel lame about? If Oliver wasn't here, I can't honestly with a straight face say that I would have decorated. I worked at, did you say you had at Lowe's, right? I think you said I worked at Lowe's. We have good trees there. What, Amy, I need to know why you feel lame. Not about your house. Your house looks amazing. Boats to my heart to hear that. Uh-oh, what did I say? See, I'm in the opposite boat. I can't wait till there's a note. Oh, well, it might have been a little bit of a lie. I don't know because it's a hard time of year for me. I do get the seasonal blues, but then once I have it all out, I'm like, yeah, so in the years to come, if I'm like, okay, I'm not decorating, you have, you guys have full permission to be like, Nina, don't you remember how happy you get once you do it? And it looks like Santa Claus barfed in your kitchen. Don't you remember how happy that makes you? Just do it, lady. Just do it. I give you permission to tell me that. Man, Molly, that's the bummer since my best friend moved because she lived in my complex and we would go shopping together and we'd go decorate her house and decorate my house and we'd go back and forth and it was just a Christmas wonderland of love. And I, that's, thank you, Laura. That's very kind. I can't wait till we get our trees done. That's my favorite part. My favorite part. And then with my kids, you know, Amy, you're not alone. Just, I'm just, this is all I'm going to say, but Chelsea is not here right now. She's not in jail. She's okay, but she's not here. My son is in Washington. He's coming to California, but he doesn't plan swinging by to see his little mom while he's in California. So yeah, I have my stuff too and I'm just, I, I don't know, I just try to keep a a stiff upper lip with a nice little mustache. Oh, I know what I was going to say. I swear I have not, I've not been to brunch and I haven't had any mimosas. I just, when I go to the, to the market and I hear the Christmas music and everything, it just gets me jazzed. Are they not coming home at all? Amy? Are you going to see them? I don't even know. I'm sorry, you guys. Everybody has something different and it is hard. And then when you're, when you're married to a man who just, before Steve started dating me because he realized something was missing in life. And when I say something, I'm not talking about me personally, but things I can provide. He said in my cousin's house, in his bedroom, he had a TV. He had a thank you.  He had his golf clubs. He had a blue Barklander and he had his bed that looked like it was straight out of an army barrack. I, I'm not kidding you. It had a sheet, a pillow, and a wool blanket. I'm not kidding you. Then I talked him into marrying me and that all changed.  Thank you, Susie. It's just, I love my kitchen like this. It's fun. Judith is decorating. No kids at home, so it's hard to get motivated. Exactly. It's, you know, we're always happy when we're done, but sometimes I feel like my upper lip is so stiff instead.  You're not alone there. The one thing we have to be careful about though is Oliver is upset that his mom's not around because she had promised him that she would be around, which we were all telling her, please don't make promises to him. Don't make any promises to him. We know you intend on keeping them, but we can't always keep our promises. And if you're not here for his birthday and Christmas, which he's not, so now that's just here, just this shovel war crap and throw it on Anita's pile and cleaning up mess after mess after my kids. I'm telling you. Yeah, it's so, so much fun, isn't it? Oh, I tried to call her. She can't talk to anybody for two weeks. I can't, I just can't think about it or else when, when are we not responsible anymore? Not that when they reach a certain age that we are responsible, right? So anyways, I'm going to go to Target. I need to get some little whites for this tree, this little tree in the window. Have you guys seen Jones pointed plate her decorations? Oh my gosh, I love all those trees she has in her house. So when Steve and I were watching it last night, I'm like looking at the screen and he's on my left. So I start looking around my house trying to take a place so I can put trees. And he's like, we don't have the room. And I'm like, they have skinny ones. They have skinny. He totally knew what I was doing. They're so pretty. They're so very pretty. Love Christmas trees when I'm decorating them always not. But wait till you guys see my ceramic trees. Thank you, Laura. It's I'm you know what? I'm doing the best I can and that's all I can do. Sometimes I feel like, but I don't know about your new house. I need to know about that later on. We are not working to take a break. You need to come on Instagram and feel me in. You know, I don't worry about my son, because I don't I mean I always worry about him, but he I don't lose sleep over him. I don't know I can't talk about this or else I'm going to I'm going to take off my hat, brush my hair, take all my ornaments down. That's too much. I don't know. I feel okay. So this is what I feel like. I feel like, don't you like I'm just pouring out my soul in the internet? Who cares? I'm grateful for the internet to have somebody to talk to. I mean, if anybody's going to judge me so be it, then I don't need them. Well, I'm happy me mom happy. But here's the thing is that I had a lot of trouble. I was a single mom with both my kids and I didn't do the greatest job. I did the best job I could. They got tons of love. They ate a lot of arco hot dogs because I didn't always have money for food and our hot dogs back then were like 25 cents. And I feel like I'm paying for that by having to do it again with Oliver, you know. But you know, my parents always had my son. So I don't know. It's he needs me and he's my pal. He's my buddy. And that's okay. No, anything about the new house. I'm just out of the loop. I need to know. Amy, is Asher, Judah, Dakota, are they coming home at all? Are you going to see them over at all? What is, what is a BV? Okay, honey. What's a BV? I can't wait to BV see the new house. Who do you think you are me? Every time I dictate on any of your guys' videos, it's like totally wrong. I shouldn't have asked. But although I'm so glad you typed it because I'm only, I'm the only one that's ever like, not even inappropriate, but just like steps outside the bounds. Sometimes it's like, I need somebody else to do it. I keep reading it and laughing. All right, well, I have my Olaywraps. I have my board's head. I'm all set, I believe. I can feel his, I'll make a video of, oh, hello, AM.  I am at home, homeschool, 16 year daughters on the spectrum, right, right, right. Oh my goodness. You're so very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to say that because thank you so much because I feel like it's like, need to just make a regular video like everybody else, but sometimes I just can't. And I appreciate that. And oh my gosh, thank you so much. Happy holidays to you. It does get lonely. I, lonely is my middle word. It's my middle name, too. That's why I'm on these lives all the time. I should be facebooking my friend. I need to call her.  I have a couple hundred bucks in my well right now. I should just hop a plane and go surprise her. Her husband might not like that too much though. Well, I guess I will clean up. All I need to feed my dog. Kitty dog, are you wondering where your food is? Maybe I'll attempt to carry up all the trees from the garage by myself because my fingers are, my hands are pretty good, kind of pretty good right now. Except for this finger, this finger. I wonder if I could do it. Give it the old college try, but if I drop one I'll be so angry. So did we cover everything kids? Is there anything else we need to cover? Is there any subject that the class would like to address before we hang up? Oliver's going to be home for three weeks over the holidays. A bit of bad month to quit smoking, quit sniffing glue. Molly, they're the, you know, the old fashioned vintage trees that came, that everybody built in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s in ceramics class with the little lights and everybody had them in their attics for gazillion years and then they came back into style. Well, it, we have, I've been, I collected, I, one year I got one and then I go through these phases and I had lump sum of money at the time and I bought all different kinds and they're beautiful.  They're really pretty, I really like them, but there are a lot of work to put together. Well, how would I know if there are a lot of work when Steve's the one that does all the work? That poor guy, he didn't know what he was getting into when he married me. Maybe I should get him a card, a card with some coupons, some coupons. Amy speaking of vaginal distress. I could share up his adversary for him. Lori hasn't fit her dog yet and it's 136.  Where is she? But I do have a corner I could put another tree in like Jones. You guys may need to see Jones pointed plate. Your bill bars just arrived. I can't eat bill bars, but I'm happy for you. What flavor did you get? Oh, wait, hold the line up. Shit. That's all good. Nobody got hurt in the reenactment of this video.  Bye, Laura. Have a great day. Thank you. Go take care of them. Thanks for hanging out with us. I think I'll have one right now.  I don't want to go to Target by myself. I don't want to build a snowman by myself, but I guess I just have to get a card. What else do I need to target the lights? Have you tried the aloha turkey at Molly? It's so good. I know I talked about it already, but it's totally stinking it up in here. I've never noticed that before. It's a girl to do. I told my meeting about the Clio bars today too, because since I had that other leader, this might come as a surprise to you guys. I have a really mean side to me when it comes to change. Assorted in the new mini almonds, something like straight from the fridge, but they're little, right? Aren't they like two points for like a little or one when the regular one's three points? I might be wrong. I don't know. All I know is so happy when I figured out that I couldn't eat them anymore.  I mean super duper duperly duperly. That and tomatoes I can't have, and I missed the salsa from my chicken at the Mexican restaurants. But you know, I love almond. I can't eat it. Everybody's getting bill bars. You know, I have some down in my downstairs refrigerator in the garage. I wish there was somebody around here I could give them to. I don't like the flavor though. They're pina colada. Mm-hmm. I like the salted caramel. They're good. They're absolutely good. I like coconuts, my favorite. I hope so, Laurie. They're probably super duperly good. All right. I don't want to go, but I can't think of anything else to talk about. I had a 2.4 loss. They tried to sell us. Oh, this was kind of interesting. The leader was like, Ann, I got to show you this great cookbook. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the best cookbook in the world, and all these people were going to buy a cookbook. And this one lady goes and she grabs a cookbook and she shows everybody. This is the old smart points. If you're on purple or green, you're going to have to recalculate everything and everybody put their books back. I don't know why I think that's funny. They send me more if the drink things. If they drink things. Is that code? They send me more if the drink things. Built, send you more. I'll wait for you to fix that. All right, you guys.  Me and my hat are going to clean up this mess in here. Maybe try to bring up a few of those trees. Thank you, Judith. Thank you guys for hanging out with me. Amy, make your video. Molly, when you take a break, let me know. Built Boost. Built Boost. I don't know what Built Boost is. I can't go yet till I know what Built Boost is. I'm going to grab a water while you're typing that glory. What's a Built Boost? No, I know what Built Bars are, but what's Built Boost? What are you laughing at, Susie? I didn't know they made drinks. Did I know they made drinks? I don't think I did. Well, somebody has to tell me what they're, oh, they're flavor enhancers. Okay. Has anybody had them? Are they any good? Are they just flavor enhancers or do they put a pep in your step? That's why I get my zip fizz at Costco. So it puts a pep in your step. Has anybody here had zip fizz and Built Boost and can compare them for me and let me know? I can't. Well, Molly, do you have the Built Boost? I want to see the labels. I guess I could look them up on the line, but I can't. I'm afraid of Built Bars now just for me personally because of my hands. Hi, Sabrina, honey. Hi, hi, hi. I just my boost in the mail today, but it cut off what you said. Do you say I love them? Sabrina, I'm so happy to see you. Happy holidays, my old friend. Hey, if they're free, I'll take anything. Well, hi, kitty. I'm going to see you in just a minute. The drink, Sabrina. I'm so happy to see you, honey. I wish you'd come back, but I know you know that. No pressure. Okay, Lori. I'm wondering how they are compared to zip fizz. Zip fizz is vitamin B, isn't it, you guys? I should go and let's make a deal because I have everything in this drawer.  I don't have my glasses. So zip fizz is 20 calories. I can't read this thing thing. It's too small. I'll have to look it up online, but I've got zip fizzes. Does that get me in? Okay, this is the funniest thing in the world. The other night, I was cleaning off the top of the refrigerator so I could put stuff that's on my counter up there so Santa could barf some more in here. And everything that Steve has ever taken away from all of us sitting up there, there were three harmonicas, two of those clacker things, you know, where there's three things everything Steve's would take away from all of us on top of the refrigerator. Now they're in the junk drawer. Sabrina, are you doing Weight Watchers? Are you doing either any of the new programs? You know what, today's video, today's video. See, I keep coming up with things to talk about. Okay, that's what I thought. Because I just don't want to go and be alone for the rest of the day. Honestly, isn't that pathetic? Don't you guys feel sorry for me? Because if you don't, you should. So the today, today's meeting, we have a couple new girls who, like me, like to talk. But they don't know when to stop. And this is my channel. I'm sitting here. It's different. I'm different at my meetings.  Okay, so this one lady starts talking about this recipe that she makes with nutritional yeast, and tofu, and all these things that she sprinkles on top. Oh, I got a hair in my wedding ring. I'm sorry, Kitty, I'll be right there. And everybody started laughing. And I even heard a couple people grow and go, oh, I'd never eat that. And I'm thinking, you guys, that's not nice. But it was kind of funny. I didn't do anything. I just sat there straight faced, thinking about all the things I had to do. I wish I could work at Sprouts. I love the music in Sprouts. I go in there and I dance and I go around and I talk to everybody and it's just, but I think they've been watching me in the cameras too long because every time I apply, they turn me down. Here comes that lady. As she asks for an application, tell her we don't need anybody, even if we do have a huge sign in the front of the store that says, now hiring. I couldn't count out any money anyways. All right, Kitty, now come here, girl.  Come here. Are you cold? Oh, she's shivering. All right, guys. Have a great day. Thanks for hanging out with me. You're all the best. I sit in here and talk for almost an hour.  And here I sit. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me. For those of you who talk back with me, thank you so much. You're truly the best. Maybe I could get like a, what is this called, buffalo checkered? Maybe I could get a buffalo checkered negligee to go with this hat tonight for my anniversary. I'll see you guys later. Oh, I'm glad. Oh, Sabrina, honey, I miss you. Message me when you get a chance. Let's chat, okay? All right, love you guys. I'll see you later.


Hi folks, I'm going to be a little bit different because I'm profoundly deaf. If you're going to ask questions, you're going to have to come up to me after the session because I read lips. Thank you. So what I thought I would do is, first of all, give you a little bit of background where I come from. So we're down in Bass Coast. So Bass Coast, of course, is in a beautiful part of the world. The school covers about 1,500 kids, but it's a very unique school in that we cover 864 square kilometres. That means kids probably travel an hour and a half to school and then an hour and a half back, three hours on a bus, big ask for a kid. And I've been delivering things in different ways. I thought I'd give you a little bit of a history. I presented first at a Middle Mutant 2010 at the Convention Centre. I've done 2015 at Monash Uni, 2016 at Perth. I thought I'd go over and give a bit of homage to the birthplace of Moodle and, of course, today. I was in industry. I ran a private registered training organisation, 15 years, and we started with Moodle 1.4. I found something we were doing, IT training, anyway. I thought, well, this is pretty cool. We'll be able to edit and modify this. And when I went into secondary schools, I said to them, I'm not going to use paper teaching. They said, wouldn't you man? And they wouldn't give me service space. So I had to use my laptop. And so I got in the DNS settings if you know anything about that and told the technicians just to put Beasley and so the kids would put that in the location bar and get Moodle off my laptop. They'd give me service space. And now we've got significant more courses. As you can see, there's a huge list that I keep archive because there's nothing quite like Moodle in being able to see stuff that kids did in 2009. I've still got them.  We have a group of people who have been promoted as leadership group, but our specific focus is on teaching and learning. That's a really powerful and positive career move for Victorian education. You may or may not know about secondary education in Victoria, but we call them the three big Vs, Victorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning and Vocational Education and Training in the VCE sector. So 16 and 18-year-old kids, VCE is the broad general program. So that's the one where kids go in, get their ATAR, Australian Tertiary Achievement Rank, which a lot of you post-secondary providers would be using for filtering students. VET is available for both streams. And that's a really important thing to understand. VECAL, kids go on to get apprenticeships and traineeships. They do two days a week work and they must do vocational education training. We have very poor provision for vocational education and training in the Basco Shire. Country are bootstrapped. In Australian country, as the Woollongong guys shout, we bootstrap ourselves. We have to, because there's no services. And so we do internal VET. And what I do, which is a little bit unique, I run VET Certificate 3 in Creative Digital Media. I also do VET Certificate 2 in Business, but I have mixed groups. It's the only way we can offer this to get the numbers up as I mix the groups. So I have VCE Year 11 and 12 students, VECAL Year 11 and 12 students, with special needs students, two teacher aides, and I teach both programs simultaneously. And so I use video and self-management absolutely critically through the thing. Outreach is a program I started in 2014 for mentally ill students. We have an epidemic of mental illness amongst our teenagers in our community and we ignore that at our peril. So we provide education by visiting the students at their home and I deliver through Moodle. I wanted to get some definitions out of the way. Differentiation is an incredibly important thing to understand in all education. Differentiation, of course, gives the ability to educate and train students irrespective of where they start. And it's our obligation as 21st century educators to completely differentiate our training. And how you target that instruction is something I wanted to show you. That's what I'm here for, why Moodle is so perfect for those sorts of things. And so another differentiation, we all talk about blended learning but nobody actually puts it up on the stage. And I'd like to put it to the Department of Education in early childhood, decided that they would give us a definition of blended learning and it's an approach based on the needs of the students. Go figure. You mean teaching and learning is about the student. So another definition, the difference between a learning management system and student management system is something in state education, secondary education, I've always struggled with. My staff do not know that there's a difference. We use a student management system called Compass. Every school almost in the state use it and they say, well, that's a learning management system. No, it's not. You can say the kids can upload a document. There's no engagement, there's no differentiation. It's an assessment and recording of attendance. Learning management is the ability to manage learning. And I can't stress how important it is for us in this community, our Moodle community, that we push learning management. And the students use the systems to manage their own learning and that's a really important point. Did you realize that a Victorian government have negotiated deals with all the major vendors? We get the Adobe Suite for nothing. That's $8,000 every year for nothing.  That's $12,000. We get access to Office 365. We get access to Google Docs for nothing. So I've had staff say to me, whether this Moodle thing, that's gonna go by the wayside. I said, well, quite the reverse. Moodle's the glue. We need to have a contextual-based learning system that allows us to draw collaboration software from wherever we go and tie it together. And I'm absolutely insistent upon that. So why Moodle? Well, everybody knows this. It's accessible. Yeah, you can get individual pathways happening. And I use a blended video and direct instruction. And I use, the videos are intensive. It's a really important thing to kids to learn how to use videos. So what I thought I would do is to show you how I've established at our school. We use Office 365 to do collaboration. We use Compass for marking roles. But Moodle's where course documentation occurs in sequence. So I do it either in topics or week by week or a range of different ways of structuring it and actually building their knowledge.  You made us do Moodle and we're three, four, five months ahead of our peers. I haven't touched it at Deakin. They haven't touched it at Latrobe, but they don't know how to use it. I know how to use it because you forced it down my throat. Every secondary school should be using this system. And the fact that I feel like I'm a minority here, I think there's about three or seven secondary students, secondary school people in a group of three or 400 people is because we're not pushing our staff to think of learning management in a systems approach. It's free. And as the guy from Iwo Wara was saying, the skills base is really, really tough. So I'm giving you some content examples now. Grouping's the critical way of doing any combined thing. So you can set access by groups. This is the magic. So as my intermediate vCal delivery, you can see there's some topics there. There's my VCE, same year. Same year level, their peers in the same room at the same time, different course. But it's the same course because it's based on accessibility. Are you in that group? And have you done this thing? That's what you're gonna see. It takes ages to set up. But once you've set it up, it's like automation. It's perfect, I think. I have one thing I really wanted to emphasise about differentiation is we have a special needs students in that group. I said we've got two teaching aides in the same group. One of them has Down syndrome. His mother has been a fierce advocate for him to be in consistent secondary education, all his education life. He's 19 now, he's in year 11. And I'm just working on motor skills with him and I'm working on his computer literacy. And he has his own videos. But you know, he knows, he looks around and looks similar to everybody else. He doesn't feel like he's being separated at all. And you can't do that with anything else. That's where the access is the most critical, I think. This is a different course. This is the VCal business course. You can see I do everything in topics. I love collapsed topics. I really like the collapsed topics as an interface. And that's my year 12. So my year 12 VCE students are working to study scores. So we're based on SACs, which are called down to school assess coursework. They get a study score for that, contribute to their ATAR. As most vet in the VCE programs do. My senior VCal, Creative Digital Media people are working on just a partial certificate. Again, different courses. Now, I thought I'd just show you very quickly how I try and structure the video. So now we've done some work on the GST. This is quite complex. So there with me, we're going to use Google Sheets in a chart to try and map that.  I've logged in on Google. And I can go to... I'm going to kick through here because there's lots of... Now, taking the videos, how do I encourage my staff to take videos on themselves? First of all, we're professional learners. And we should... I don't edit these. If I make a mistake, I make sure the mistake is shown so the kids can see me work my way out of the mistake. It's really important that we participate in the learning experience as a team in a classroom. I'm not an expert. I'm a professional learner. That's my expertise. And be able to put myself out there and say, here's how you try some stuff. So what we want to get to is something where we have a menu. You can see that I've done this. So that's another way of showing something. This is my year 12 VCE. Let's have a look up here on the screen, please. So what I've done... And Kai's suggestion, I actually had it. What I've done here is I've opened up a couple of things for you. They know I close things off. They know I open things up. In fact, the students say to me, it's wonderful because they don't feel overwhelmed, but they feel like I'm an iceberg. Yeah?  And I think that's a really critical thing we do. This is an example of my language I use for my special needs. There's a couple of special needs, and I want to...the language. Okay, Jesse. I'll pause it there. I type slowly. He types slowly, so I type slowly. He does things slowly, so it's slower. And some of the lessons I want to share with you is they need to have continual exposure to this. So I insist that the kids log on every morning, every time they're in the classroom, and unlike a lot of tapes and, you know, corporates, networks in schools get hammered because the kids log on it, and then 50 minutes later, log off and go to another class. So they have to get in the habit of logging in. That's what I mark my attendance on. I was there, basically. No, you weren't. It didn't log in. But I was there. You didn't log in. Bang. Consistent immersion in that headspace. How they use it? What do the icons mean? Actually, be explicit. And then clear instruction on the step-by-step. I sat with a couple of my special needs students with their aides and said to them, if you learn how to use a video for instruction, you can teach yourself anything for the rest of your life. It's the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. So to contextualise video instruction within Moodle as the glue is a really critical way for them to see that there's a logic step-by-step process.  No, I have shown you. Rewind it. Because, of course, I put a video on, they kick back and just watch it. No, no, no. Watch a bit. Do a bit. Watch a bit. Be that explicit. Kids don't know how to do that. And I thought I'd share in the last couple of minutes some thoughts about secondary education moving forward. I love the fact that Martin gives us a predictor every Moodle move. We use a gradual lease learning model. I do, we do, you do. Videos are perfect for that. I'm doing it. And I'm doing it over and over and over again. You can rewind it as much as you like. And this idea of high-impact teaching strategies collaboration. 21st century skills informs my practice. And some of the most important one here is self-regulation. With that Moodle, you can't do that. Really, it's almost impossible in that combined class not to have them being self-regulated. So the Moodle's the glue. And some of the reports I use to inform my practice, I don't know whether you know of EDUCAUSE, they used to be called the New Media Consortium. You must, for higher ed, you must bookmark the New Horizons report because they predict one to two, four to five, or they do wicked problems and good problems. And Open Universities UK, my God, what they have contributed to the Moodle project is spectacular if you know anything about what Open Uni UK have done. And for our conclusion here, I've done a little, this is how my mind works. This is my mind map about the ways in which various reports can fit within a 21st century framework. Drones, AI, every report talks about the use of drones or AI or robots in instruction. How prepare to you for that in higher education? Every report talks about the achievement gap, the digital gap. As a country teacher, it's critical my students get the skills to use these learning management systems. And it's critical for my special needs people to know they can be empowered. Thanks very much.


You know, I've always followed this thing that Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss, and other people say just follow the love in your heart and the rest will take care of itself. When I got into spirituality, I just, the more I got into the glee and the joy and happiness, I did get into the fun of extending it in all kinds of ways that people could relate to. That's why I use movies. I had so much fun with movies, letting the spirit do commentary on movies, that actually it is becoming more common where people have mystical experiences with me in my movie gatherings. More so than meditation or talks or anything else. I just, I totally get into the joy and the glee of it when I'm showing a really super, super, super deep metaphysical movie. And I'm there just in the glee of it and the spirit is ripping through me. I was in Venezuela, a woman came up to me after I showed eternal sunshine and the spotless mind. The spirit was just ripping through me. It was like a, one of these revival tents or something down there in Venezuela. And she came up after the movie with tears pouring down her face. She'd been a 14-year course student, but it never had her first mystical experience. And she was crying when she came up to me afterwards and she says, Now I know, oh, my practice will be changed forever. You know, when you, when you haven't had them, it takes a lot of, of, of faith and, you know, determination to hang in with the practice. When you, when you do have them, your whole practice gets knocked up a notch or two. And then there was another man in, at our monastery. I think it was Solaris. I was showing Solaris and I was so into it there and got so just totally into it. And he had a mystical experience. So it's starting to happen more and more that people are having mystical experiences in my movie gatherings. That's delightful for me. You know, that's a beautiful reflection.  I'm feeling that much just lifted up and taken beyond time and space in, in the glee of the moment. And the movies, they're like the modern day parables. So imagine if you had a great, great, great parable with great instruction, kind of priming you and priming your mind and priming your mind to really get leaped, vaulted into this experience. That's really what it is. Some of you might have seen a movie that was filmed in Hawaii called 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore. What I like about that movie, I had, I had a really mystical experience one morning when I was down in Cali, Columbia. And I was just thinking of that movie and it just went into euphoria.  And she can't think past a certain day. She thinks it's the same day. And then it's such a great movie where Adam Sandler plays the character, starts to fall in love with her, and he uses a video to reorient her mind over and over, day after day, about the accident. Everything that she's pushed out of awareness, he uses it over and over in order to reach her, you know, to break past this separation problem, this memory problem. And when I was in Columbia, I thought, that's it. That's it. We just have a memory problem. We're just reliving the unholy instant. We're reliving the past every day, like Groundhog Day. And we've forgotten what the present moment's like. You know, Eckhart Tolle is telling us, power of now, everyone's telling us live in the now, live in the moment. But we're just reliving this time of separation over and over. And it seems to be that people push our buttons and we have struggles, but we're just reliving the past. You know, we haven't learned how to let it go. But I thought of that movie and I thought, wow, that is so cool that he had so much love that he could use this video to reorient her mind, to bring her fully into like a link with him, where she would feel peace and calm and she wouldn't have fear and she could join and link with him. So much so by the end of the movie that she still didn't know who he was, but she would see his face in her dreams. You know, he was starting to, his spirit was breaking through her consciousness. And so what I thought is, you may not see me so much for these shiitakwas because I might just be in my house watching these mystical movies that I've done these commentaries on, because I get so excited when it happens. And I'll just be, just to see, you'll hear these sounds going in there and I'm just going to be higher than a kite in being reminded of everything that I've taught. You know, now getting played back to me, you know, just reminded, reminded of the glory of all this is that I've let pour through me, let it come back to me. Wouldn't that be a fun way?  I'm going to find the fun route, you know. People are getting bored with the synagogue and the temples and the meditations to dole and everything. Come on with me. We are going to be the movie watchers. The movie watchers guide the pathway to heaven, you know. Because I, you know, you got to go with where your passion is. You got to go with where your fun is. Your pizzez, your joy, you know. If your spiritual journey seems like so many rituals and, okay, I got to do my spiritual practice now before I get on with my day. Who wants to, how are you going to make that your 99% practice if you don't even like it? You know, if you've got resistance to it, how are you going to do it 99%? Now, with me, with movies, I could probably do it 99% of the day. Yeah, I just, because I, it's the spirit like using it in some higher way, so. I'm always advocating the fun way to God, you know. I have a friend in Asaira who's called the Laughing Saint in Australia and her pathway is to laugh. She went on to laugh for over a week continuously. I thought, how could you even laugh for over a week? But that's her pathway and I think that it can be fun. You know, if you think you're waking up to all that is, why shouldn't it be fun?  Of course, I had those too. And we play them out and sometimes the things that the ego sponsors is fun aren't fun anymore after a while. You have fun for a while and then all of a sudden you reach a boredom with it or a dullness with it. It's not fun anymore. But this stuff is, this is intoxicating in a good way. It takes you up into the ecstasy but it's through your willingness to go with it, you know, to dive into it. So I actually, somebody asked me, they said, are you, how many weeks of the year do you vacation? And I said, what do you mean? Like vacation, like have fun? And I said, they said, yeah, I said, well that's 52 weeks, that's the whole year. They said, don't you work? And I said, well, it's your own perception. I'm working all the time or I'm having fun all the time because I do feel my work is fun. You know, I have a good boss actually, a good creator. So that's where we're coming, you know, with this. We're coming more into that alignment of have, why can't we have fun with spirituality? You know, I just, I really think that that is a question we really have to look at. If we're not having fun with our spirituality then there's something to question. Maybe we've gone too serious with something. There's some kind of a tweak we need if our spirituality isn't fun. Of course there'll be pockets of resistance but fun can overcome the resistance.


Thank you to everyone who has created the space who Collecting all of Pack Parker's poems and and one and one book you get to feel the weight of her words like there's This is her body. This is her opus And I like to think of poets as house builders and the house that Pat has built is one where you can be visible Emotionally alive you can talk in your own talk Wear what you need to wear cut through the bullshit and Create that space of safety that is necessary in this world And She's not afraid of conflict the dialectic That's necessary to evolve and change us and deepen how we see and and move in this world And that's what I appreciate about her work. Just like severe and necessary truth So I'm gonna be reading from her earlier Work and then I'm gonna read a poem that very much embodies that that truth that I feel is Pat Parker's words I've entered her house from deep within Nature tests those she would call hers slips up naked in blank down dark paths Skeletons of the sea this we would become to suck a ray of sight from the fire a Woman's body must be taught to speak Bearing a lifetime of keys a patient soul moves through a maze of fear in Bolts clothed in soft hues and mini candles The seasons tongues must be heard and taken and many paths built for the travelers a Woman's flesh learned slow by fire and pestle like succulent meats. It must be sucked and eaten So in reading this book and in reading the notes, you know There's like this way where I'm like Pat Park has entered my life at different times You know and sort of consciously as an undergrad but sort of unconsciously this poem was recited by Cree summers on a different world. It's the the brother poem that begins with a quote from Harriet Tubman There are two things I've got a right to and these are death or liberty One or the other I mean to have Harriet Tubman Brother, I don't want to hear about how my real enemy is the system I'm no genius, but I do know that system. You hit me with is called a fist Achoo So I wrote a poem dedicated to sake a gun who was murdered in May 2003 in Newark, New Jersey gun For sake a gun Sakea if you had the weapon of your last name, I would not know you This steady scrape against paper to transport for con lament never If in your hands the pearl handle gun my stepfather kept in the bedroom Closet, I'll give you the aim. I practice at 12 Home is where the heart is marks an average man's forehead in the trash Can is somewhere near his jewels if you brought me roses in high school wrapped in newspaper To protect me from thorns I would take them and wash ink from my fingers and the jeans and jersey flood of your girl boy body Let me be your girl forever to eternity onto my back your fingers ball point in again and again Practices the heart over I and into the morning we stash whispers where over thread thread crosses I promise I have impeccable aim Pulling a trigger loosens mustangs in your veins Piss into my mortar an old war recipe makes bullets complete Let your shower wash an asshole from the streets If blood quickly betrays its avenues for new work sidewalks his shirt tires of its thirst If his buddy drives him to the hospital or leaves him to watch the night unspool What a Jacob ladder he makes if you're shocked your life requires this exchange Come into my arms to Kia come into my arms. Thank you Arissa White come on give a hand