From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin. Welcome back to the docks of London, everybody. This is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. We're here at HPE Discover 2016. This is the first day we're wrapping up Paul Gillin and I. The cloud glasses here is the Vice President of Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Focusing on software defined and hyper-converged. Welcome to theCUBE. See you again. Thanks a lot. Glad to be here. So what's the buzz on the floor? Are people excited? Yeah, yeah, we've got lots of stuff going on. Very excited. We had several key announcements today around our synergy, a one-view platform introducing Cloud System 10 on Synergy, which is the first private cloud on composable infrastructure. Made some announcements around our new hyper-converged operating environment, adding some key capabilities there. So very excited. We've been talking about composable sort of all day. Can you make this real for us with the new Cloud System 10? What can a customer now do that they couldn't do yesterday? Yeah, yeah. So it's basically capability to deliver private cloud on composable infrastructure. Composable obviously is a key technology that allows you to get more out of your infrastructure. It's basically is built of fluid resource pools, a programmable, software-defined intelligence, as well as a key capability around software APIs where we have an ecosystem of partners that we work with to really kind of help you build infrastructure that essentially allows you to deliver a cloud-like experience on our infrastructure within your data center. So I feel like, so HP was kind of early on in talking about converged infrastructure, and then things kind of slowed down.  I mean, the early days of DevOps, infrastructure is code. I mean, it was clear those things were becoming real. And it's taken HP a while. Your strategies seem to be not just to sort of follow what the converged infrastructure guys are doing, but try to leapfrog where they're at. Is that a fair assessment? I would say we were a leader in converged infrastructure, and we're a leader now in the transformation both from hyper-converged as well as into composable infrastructure, which I think is a key piece of really helping our customers simplify delivering IT and hybrid IT. You know, I think Rick talked about today. You know, a lot of people know that public cloud has been a significant area of growth, but what you don't realize is private cloud is growing just about the same at the same rate. And so, you know, we really believe that one of our core parts of our strategy is hybrid IT is where things are at. And that's really where we're focused on really simplifying and delivering that for our customers. What makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise different, you know, specifically the products different? Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things is the fact that we believe that the infrastructure really still matters, right? And that's where, you know, delivering this software-defined capability across our infrastructure to be able to allow our customers to deliver more value to their, you know, lines of businesses and to their customers is really what it's all about. So, you know, being able to deliver that kind of efficiency and cloud-like experience for them where they can, you know, dynamically deploy and match up their infrastructure and the resources within their infrastructure to their workloads and be able to redeploy that infrastructure, you know, essentially with a line of code is really what sets us apart. Is this capability confined to HP infrastructure or can your partners play as well? Oh, absolutely. This is our partner-led. We work with our partners all the time. Our partners are a key part of our value that we deliver to our customers. And, you know, absolutely. And it's a HPE technology around composability. We're definitely a leader in composable infrastructure. Okay, I want to come back to this a little bit, but let me set it up. So, we were talking about sort of, you know, debating whether or not, where was HP and the whole converged infrastructure to play? I always like to joke that sort of, we go back to Teradata. That was kind of the first converged infrastructure. And then, I've said even today earlier, I said HP and Oracle came up with Exadata. And that was sort of the sort of next wave. And then, I think HP coined the term converged infrastructure. And then you sort of saw VCE come out. And then this hyperconverged thing hit. And it almost was like the traditional enterprise players were taking a page out of the hyperscalers and saying, hey, we can actually develop a similar capability for our customers on-prem and bring a cloud-like experience to them. So, first of all, that's kind of my setup. And I want to dig into what's really different about HPE. You said, because you believe infrastructure matters, but when you look at hyperconverged, I think VMware, maybe they don't care so much about hardware infrastructure, okay, fair enough. But certainly Dell EMC care about hardware infrastructure. I would say as well, a company like Nutanix seems to care, even though a lot of the innovation is on software. What do you mean by infrastructure matters and how does HP differentiate from some of those other companies that I mentioned? Yeah, just bringing intelligence into the infrastructure itself to deliver the experience that we deliver around composability, right? So, I mean, it's not the software necessarily sitting on top of it, which is all really important as well, but it allows you to deliver that physical infrastructure and deliver it to match the workloads that customers have in a dynamic way. An example, I think we were talking a little bit earlier before we were on air, specifically about how a customer can go take that infrastructure and deliver, say, a VDI implementation. The way they would do it in the past is you had your VDI set up, and then if you were going to do something else, you would have a different set up for that. Using composable infrastructure, you could have VDI during the day, and you don't have users that are going to log on at night. You can then take and dynamically reprovision that same infrastructure without having to stand up a new instance of infrastructure to go do something else that's very important for you, like process batch payments or something like that. And I couldn't do that, say, with a Nutanix type of system. You can't do that because it's not composed. That's the beauty of composable infrastructure. In that instance, I'm pinning that system to a workload is what you're saying, correct? Yes, yeah, absolutely. See, is composable an evolution of converged? Is it a super set of converged? Absolutely, yes. Composable is basically, you think about traditional, think about converged infrastructure, think about hyperconverged, and think about composable as being kind of the in-state in terms of the ideal way to deploy infrastructure in a private, hybrid cloud type of environment. So essentially, you're virtualizing everything? Yes, I mean, basically, I mean. So why is virtualization? But it's beyond virtualization, though, right? It's beyond that. It's bare metal, it's containers, it's virtualization. You can do the same management, the same implementation using our OneView technology as well as the Synergy platform to do that. And you said it before, infrastructure is code. It's containers, it's microservices, it's an API. It's mimicking, to a great extent, at least in my mind, the public cloud experience on prem. Maybe with the exception, maybe you debate this, but the exception of the pace of the sum of the services, but maybe not. I've always argued you don't necessarily need all the services on prem that you get in the public cloud, but maybe eventually you do. We work with a lot of partners that's part of the ecosystem and having the open API that allows us to work with a lot of our partners. I mean, if you saw the session today, you saw Microsoft talking about their operations management suite and the integration with the OneView API to deliver that cloud service, private cloud service on top of the OneView capabilities to deliver some of the infrastructure information to be able to help them better manage that private cloud environment. So there's lots of cool ways that we can take advantage of that, just to deliver value to our customers. So the vendor marketing frequently, and I use it myself, so I get the Kool-Aid injection that sticks in my brain, is mimicking public cloud on prem, and I use that term a lot, because essentially that seems to me like a good North star in a good mission. Having said that, there's trouble looming in the public cloud, particularly with regard to API, and I'm wondering if you can solve this problem. So I'm more familiar with AWS, because we use it extensively, but if you want to access different data services within AWS, there's probably 10 different APIs. There's one for Kinesis, there's one for DynamoDB, there's one for S3, there's one for ElastiCache, there's one for Search, they're all different proprietary APIs. And you're getting API creep in it, and it's bringing complexity, it's hard to understand pricing, it's hard to understand what my bill is going to look like at the end of the month. Can you solve that problem? Let me start there. And is it a real problem and can you solve it? What I'd say is what we're delivering on a composable infrastructure is a single API that's the same as I said before across bare metal, containers, virtualization. It's a single open API that allows you to manage all of your infrastructure as code. So there aren't different APIs that you have to go interface with. For hot data or cold data. It's the same API that you would be delivering that infrastructure. And I access different services through your ecosystem. Yes, the ecosystem is where those services come into play. We have a lot of great partners. And they have their own API, is that right? So sort of, you've got the Uber API. Yeah, you think about working with partners, we have a lot of partners that are in that ecosystem.  Does composable eventually extend to the public cloud? Is that an option or is that a direction? It does nothing that prohibits a public cloud provider from using composable infrastructure. I mean, it's an efficient way to do that. And the thing about it is it's multi workload, right? Typically what you see in a large public cloud type of environment is it's a couple of different workloads and you're basically building out a large compute farm or storage farm, depending on what service you're delivering, you're putting in a specific type of infrastructure to go serve that workload. What composable infrastructure allows you to do is actually serve the whole spectrum of workloads because you control that infrastructure and how you deploy those resources specifically around that workload. But your single API approach is all about openness and choice. Yes. Is that right? Because what AWS would say to my criticism would be what we want to control the primitives because things change, but I think what you're saying, if I understand it quickly, that's fine. You could still get to the primitive API with each of those individual services. We have a control point that's a single point of entry into our system. Is that right? Yeah, it allows you to run your infrastructure as code, like I said before. And that's unique in the industry in your view as a product marketing person, a product management person, you know what the competition is like, you have to line up against it and build something better. And so you've done the analysis, I have it. Yeah, yeah, composable infrastructure is definitely unique in the industry. It's something that HPE, it's an innovation that we've brought to market. And we've extended some of those tenants around composable into our new hyperconverge solution. So we've got our new hyperconverge operating environment that delivers multi-tenancy workspaces, which is also another unique thing that we offer within that hyperconverge portfolio of products that allows a line of business, IT to deliver essentially a service provider type of offering to their lines of business that allows them to compose these workspaces and the VMs within those workspaces so that they can get up and running very quickly. And this comes all under the rubric of hybrid IT, which was a lot of talk about that today. Yeah, absolutely, that's our number one goal is to make hybrid IT simple for our customers. So, okay, let's test that. So, you know, the old line I used to use is you don't buy hybrid, I used to use hybrid cloud, so let's use hybrid IT. You build it. There's still a lot of building going on, right? But you're making it simple to build? Yep, we're making it simple to build, simple to operate, simple to interface with your lines of businesses, all of those things come into play. Mimicking the whole public cloud model, I mean, essentially, maybe with the exception of swiping the credit card. Yep. I mean, you can do the, we've heard a lot about the capacity on demand. Yep, so we offer flexible consumption models as well. We have flex capacity, which allows our customers to, essentially, we offer the capability to do metering of the infrastructure and you pay as you go, and as you use that infrastructure. So, we offer cloud-like experience even for the on-premise infrastructure that we deliver for private clouds. But it's, and I'm not hearing from HPE that you're trying to be the central point of management for a multi-cloud environment, although that may be part of your strategy. You certainly hear that from VMware, increasingly, I'm not hearing that messaging from you guys. Yeah, no, we're a multi-cloud, multi-vendor solution, right? So, we work with all of our partners. It's not just one hypervisor, it's not one public cloud provider, it's not one private cloud stack. We're working across all of them. But one view is the way I manage all that, if I so choose. If I choose not to, then. Yeah, you think about the one view API as being kind of that, the glue that helps kind of tie all that together working with all of these ecosystem partners. So, where does this help? I mean, let's say HP's competitive edge here. You've got this partner ecosystem, anybody can play. Where do you? Well, I mean, it's delivering the composable infrastructure and our great network, through our great network of partners to go reach our customers and deliver that value to our customers. Yeah, and your channel. Yeah, so, I was including the channel in that. So, it's not just the ISV partners, but it's also our channel partners that are a key component of delivering that value to our customers. And they do a great job of it. We enjoy working with them every day, so. All right, let's line up the sort of horses on the track. You got the traditional converged infrastructure guys. They used to be new and hot. Now they're sort of becoming a legacy. You got the reference architecture folks, right? You guys play in that field. You got the hyperconverge, which is sort of replicating public cloud on-prem. You guys play in all of those, right? Yeah, absolutely. And how those markets sort of shake out. The hyperconverge is obviously smaller and growing. Yeah, absolutely growing, right? Those other ones are flattening now or? Yeah, I mean, so, you know, the overall market, you know, obviously I said before, like the private cloud market is growing at double digits, much like the public cloud market is. So that's where a lot of the growth is happening, which leads you down a path of hybrid, you know, hybrid IT, you know, kind of managing traditional, and a lot of people think of hybrid as public or private cloud, but it's traditional. It's, you know, private cloud and public cloud, all of those things kind of together and really kind of integrating and delivering value across all of those. Yeah, and the traditional is going to be more expensive to manage. You know it's going to be more labor cost. It's just, it's more siloed, right? I mean, you have your infrastructure that's deployed for a specific thing, and when you go do another thing, then you've got, you know, you either retire some old infrastructure and deploy it to go do that, or you build a new island, essentially, within your infrastructure, and really that's what Composable eliminates that problem for our customers. I guess my point there is that if you think about public cloud and Composable or private cloud, what we call a Wikibon true private cloud. In other words, private cloud that truly does mimic public cloud from an operational standpoint, you're eliminating a lot of the undifferentiated heavy lifting, you're eliminating a lot of labor costs associated with that. We think the number is maybe 200 billion over the next 10 years of labor cost that will get out of infrastructure management, move somewhere else. The application, you know, digital transformation, whatever. Are your, first of all, do you buy that? And are your customers comfortable with that notion? Well, what they're able to do is take the money that they would be spending in certain areas and reinvest it in their business and focus on innovation for their business. And I think that's a key piece of it, right? That there's, you know, this whole idea economy is how fast can you turn an idea into a product and a business? It allows them to focus more on that and less on chasing their IT infrastructure. Well, the CXO is comfortable with that. I'm not sure the IT infrastructure guy is comfortable with that. I mean, for years it was a lot of discussion around, wow. I think even they would say that, I mean, they're comfortable with it as well because they've got a lot, you know, essentially IT is the business now. So there's a lot of, you know, they have a huge queue of business behind them that they've got to go take care of and just freeze them up and focus on that. They've seen the light. Yeah. All right. Well, we're shining a light on HPE Discover 2016. Thank you very much for coming on theCUBE. Yeah, thanks a lot. Thanks for what they did. Great stuff. All right, this is a wrap. This is day one here at HPE Discover. We're in the docklands of London and the UK. This is theCUBE. We are signing out here. Check out siliconangle.tv. 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A little slice. And I know that, I know that. Like literally this on Amazon would be at least $40. It's so ghetto. Like. Whoopee, look at me. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Right outside. Hey y'all, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is going to be another vlog and I'm really sure what all is going to be in this one. If it's going to be a day or two days or what have you. But hey y'all, welcome back to my channel. My name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. It is 438 right now in the evening. Me and Bay are about to go wine tasting. We were actually supposed to be going wine tasting in hot springs if you're local. But we both worked last night and just woke up at like three something. And like I said, it's 438. So the winery wine tasting closes at six o'clock and traffic right now is a lot.  So traffic is usually only 45 minutes for me but now it sounds like an hour and hour or something. So we're not going to get there to like 535, 40 and yeah, I don't really want to be rushing and going on. So we're going to go to this local place that I went to with Niki. I'm not doing any makeup or whatever today because I'm just not feeling it. So we're going bare face, shouty. I went with Niki. It's called a Zen wine bar. Hopefully they got some new wine selections because the wine, it was only one good glass of wine. And this place, I believe you have to pay for the wine tasting. The one at Hot Springs you didn't have to pay. But that one, they give you like this much wine out of like, what, maybe like nine to 10 different wine bottles. And this one actually fills your glass up halfway. So basically you're getting like three glasses of wine dang there for like 20, $30. So I mean, I guess that's cool. So hopefully they got some better selections. I'm also hungry as well. I was going to cook cheese dip tonight but I just looked online and they had some more food on their menu. Someone said they upgraded their menu. So I'm excited to kind of see like, if I can like, I probably get like a little appetizer or something because I am hungry and I do want to do like a full grocery shop in a couple of days. So we'll talk more about that when I get home. I'm about to go ahead and head downstairs because he's waiting on me. I'll tell him to go ahead and go downstairs because I don't know. Me and he don't really rush me but like if we trying to go somewhere or like make it somewhere on time, like you can kind of tell like when someone just like getting antsy. Like, all right, like come on. Like, are you ready? Are you ready yet? And I don't like that. Like he don't rush me in stores. Thank God, you know how some of me and be like they don't want to go shopping with you, stuff like that. He let it go shopping. It's just when we trying to go somewhere. Yeah, I don't like that. So I just go ahead and go get out of the car. All right. And Princess locked up. And I got this little bitty jacket on girl. What is the degrees? It says 54 degrees. It'll be like that all. I also need to do Christmas shopping like last minute Christmas shopping but we're gonna say that for tomorrow and the next day.  She got like a 25% off coupon for Walmart. So yeah, we about to use that for some stuff. And then Prince also has a groomer's appointment tomorrow at 10 30 in the morning. Tomorrow is actually my baby's birthday.  So I am super, super duper excited. It's usually, it's gonna take about two hours for him to finish at the groomers.  This is it, I gotta add it to the room. Add it to the room, add it to the room. Add it to the room, add it to the room. Add it to the room, add it to the room. That one tastes dry. Why are you talking with me, y'all? We're back. We had went to one of his friends' houses. It is 8 21. I'm about to cook some burrito. I'm tired. Like I worked, got off this morning, woke up at like three and normally don't wake up to like five. So yeah, you're real sleepy. We're on Wally World, two guys, burritos, didn't even cook it in the fridge right before we left. Sprite for me, and then milk for the cheese guilt. And then we got our gingerbread houses. We got the exact same one because Walmart didn't have different cons, at least where they was advertising for them to be $5, they didn't have any different cons. So we got the same one, so we can really see who decorates better. This one is an E to Z build roof holder included. Okay, so the roof holder is in this one. Yeah, it includes the cookies or assorted candies and easy to use icing. Mini beads, gummy trees, snowflakes, peppermint candies and jellies. Sometime I have extra candies to use. I do have some Mike and Nikes. I have something like this. Hot tamales that I do not eat these. Nobody has eaten these from whoever has been over here, like my guests and stuff. So I'm gonna use these as well to be some candy to decorate with because like I said, I don't use these, so. I'm gonna go ahead and start cooking the cheese dip, roti, whatever y'all want to call it. I also have enough food, so I need to go grocery shopping. I don't know if that's gonna be in this vlog or not. I think tomorrow we're gonna be shopping with my mama. Got some leftover ground bean. Tomorrow I'm going shopping with my mama in the end. I'm gonna go give me a Sam's Cart as a will, but I'm gonna save like that grocery shopping hollow for a different vlog. I always say I got an attitude. That was 2017. All gunch up a little round. Fine one to see my type. Then my limits, I meet a girl tonight. Then I go on treading car swipes. I don't even know if she a wife. Try to go wash his hands when anybody get back missing. Good morning y'all. Today's the next day. Today is December 21st. My son, birthday. He is five years old today. I had a prince since he was born in 2018. 20, on the 21st, obviously. And I got him a February. So my boy has been with me basically since he was born. So today I'm gonna go get him groomed. Let me change on my battery for this love. All right, so today is his birthday. He is five years old. His groomer's appointment is today. I'm gonna get him groomed on his birthday so he can be real cute and put together. His appointment is at 1030, it's 1007. So I'm gonna take him to do that. I also wanna get him a birthday cake. I know they got a dog birthday cake there at the pet store, but I kinda wanted to actually go to a pet bakery. I know one that's in my mail that I wanted to go to and to actually get him a baked puppy treat or something. So I'm gonna look up some stuff when I actually get there into the parking lot to see if I wanna get him something there or if I actually wanna go out to the bakery or something. Cause that one I actually wanted him to have a real baked treat. And the ones at the pet store, like I got him that one last year and it was just way too much for one dog. Like at the time last year I had Oreo. So it was a little bit better because him and Oreo like ate his little birthday cake thing, but it's just Prince. And like y'all know Morkeys and Yorkies and stuff, they got bad stomachs. Like for real, especially Yorkies. Like I see a lot of y'all baby commenting when Prince gets sick, like how y'all dog and stuff begins sick as well. So their stomachs is not that good. And like Oreo, he could eat their whole little cake by himself and be straight, but Prince, he can't do stuff like that. So I be having to be real cautious with the stuff that I be feeding him. I love that little bitty, heatless curler thing. Cause look at the curls.  So yeah.    I don't know girl. So yeah. I'm about to go ahead and take him. I'm not doing anything until later today when my mom goes slightly like grocery shopping slash Christmas shopping. She got that like 20% off coupon for Walmart. So yeah. I just got to open this little letter in jacket that I got from she in and something to me. I gotta be on there for my last name period. I'm just gonna wear some black and white bands. And then I got on these little like skeleton jeans. Girl, I don't know where all my jeans went. So I really don't even wanna wear these skeleton jeans today, but this all I got to put on.  Y'all like black, ooh, girl.  I like black. So I got mostly black. We're gonna do the black frames today. I got a UPS shipment coming by 145 to 445. So hopefully that's here before I leave. Just paid my freaking car note. And I need to reorder my wallpaper for this room. I don't wanna show y'all nothing because this is gonna be a whole different video, but I took his wallpaper down. So that's gonna be in a transformation vlog by itself and I ordered more wallpaper to put right here. But girl, they've been trying to deliver that wallpaper for like three days and they talking about something wrong with the address. There's nothing wrong with the address on there. Y'all know I got an Amazon hub here in my apartment complex. So I don't know why they, I don't know. So I just canceled the whole order and I'm just gonna reorder some wallpaper. Probably not from that supplier because I don't know what's going on. So today I need to order wallpaper. I really wanna go get this IKEA mirror. I'm not going today, but me and bae was supposed to go to Memphis yesterday to pick up the mirror. The big COVID mirror used to be $130. Now it's a hundred and like $79 with tax and everything is gonna be like 196. So $200 freaking dollars.  And I should have freaking got it like a year ago when it was 130. So that one is like 77, oops, that's like 77. 80 inches tall. And this mirror I got right here, this one is not that tall. And plus I don't want a mirror with like all of this frame. So I measured this one. This one is like 55 inches of just mirror. And adding this on here makes it like 67. So I don't like that. So the mirror for my kid that I want is literally gonna be all the way up here. And it's much wider. So I wanna take pictures with just mirror and I don't want y'all to see the frame. Like I just took a picture yesterday and you was able to see the frame. So I will have to stand all the way back to really just get all of me. And then if I don't want any mirror I'll be having to stand so close that, you know, it'd be too close. But anyways, me and Bay did the gingerbreads. Thank you. This is how I turned out. He said, don't show mine because his don't look as good as mine. But I'm like yours honestly does not look bad. Like he is from Lash. Like the one that we did whenever year, this one looks definitely better than that one. But obviously, you know, I'm the home designer. So, you know, I had to, I had to do the falling icicles and stuff. The Q, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm about to start talking though cause we do gotta go. I like to do GPS just to clock my time. I know where I'm going. It's time to get there at 10, 18. So I'm about to get my stuff together, put on my shoes and stuff. I'm gonna come back and clean up a little bit because yeah, Bay just left and we didn't make the bed and y'all know I said I'm trying to make the bed. Before I get my day started, I was gonna go ahead and make it but I think I'm just gonna go ahead and wash those sheets and then make the bed. Cause this past Sunday, I didn't really even do a Sunday reset. So I guess today would kind of be my reset since I am going to be bringing in like some new gifts and stuff to wrap. So yeah, I kind of want to have a clean space. And while Prince is at the groomers, I did want to go to the gym, but I think I may just do that. I need to stop putting it off. Today's Thursday, I'm gonna start going, I need to go three times a week. This week, I've been done. So I'm gonna go Friday and Saturday. And then next week, we're gonna start off strong still because I work next Thursday. So yeah, anyways, I've been talking too much. I'll talk to y'all when we get to... Hello, part day boy. Yeah, y'all, as y'all can see, he looked real bad. Like, he needs to be groomed real bad. I've been holding out so he can actually get groomed on his birthday. I kind of wanted him to have all of his hair on his birthday, like for his pictures and stuff, but he's fine. He'll look better before he grows. So we about to go to the smart. He's gonna get all groomed. I think I told y'all that I up-skilled his little package. Instead of it costing like $50, $60 to get him groomed, it's gonna cost like $80 something this time cause I upgraded his little like bath and stuff today for like a holiday package.  I don't know, girl. So that's what he about to get done today. So it's definitely gonna take about two hours. So I'm gonna go start on my stocking stuff for shopping and figure some things out. All right, so, 1037. He's grooming a really, really big dog right now. So he was like, it may take him a little bit longer because obviously he got that big old dog to groom. I said it's fine. It's only 1030. That's why sometimes I do like to go ahead and book him early because it always normally takes two hours, like straight up two hours. So it's probably gonna take about three. We'll see. Sometimes he'd be like, it's gonna take a long time. And girl, it'd be like right at two hours, but that dog was pretty big, but it's cool. I went and looked in there a little bit. They had a few birthday stuff or whatever, but like they had the birthday cake, but it came in purple. They didn't have no more of the blue. They had cake pops. So I don't know. We'll see. I'm gonna try and probably look at like a local bakery here that's like in Ludorock instead of having to go to my meal, which is on like 15 minutes away, but still. I'm about to go ahead and go to Dollar Tree right now, though. I'm about to go ahead and get a head start on my stocking stuffers. Everybody's stocking has like two or three items in it already, but like we'd be filling our stockings like up to the rim. So I'm gonna go to Dollar Tree first to get like the main basics that we always put in stocking stuffers every year. Like I don't care to show this because like I said, we get it every year. Me and my family know what to expect. So I'm gonna go ahead and hit to Dollar Tree since I'm already out and on the side of town. And then I may go to Target as well. They had a few stocking stuffers, but we'll see. Cause I kind of already got what I wanted to get out of Target. I may peek my head into TJ Maxx because there's like two specific items that I do gotta go to TJ Maxx for that I don't wanna get there. So yeah, we'll see. But we're about to go ahead and go to, where we going? Dollar Tree. And girl, it is so busy. Like it's only 10 30 in the morning, but girl, obviously everybody doing last minute shopping and then just out regular shopping in general. So it's just too much. Like even at 10 o'clock in the morning, it is so many people here outside. So yeah, we're about to go to Dollar Tree. What's the best as well for me to get to Dollar Tree? Make sure nobody behind me. Handle somebody behind me when I'm trying to figure out some. All right, Dollar Tree. I think I'm gonna go back that way cause it's so much traffic. I was telling me to go that way. Well baby, I ain't about to be able to get out and go that way. Okay, now let's tell me to go that way. Okay. And then people just be rolling into parking lots like baby, slow down. I don't get it. Oh, it is so easy. I should have went the other way. Never mind. I'm about to get out, period. Come on. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, and then I'm about to turn right up here. Yeah, okay. I don't know where I'm going. So I'm gonna get there in four minutes. I'll talk to y'all then. All right, so just got out of Dollar Tree. That didn't take too long. I spent $40, that dang 25 cent. Don't give me every time, but I only spent $40 and 73 cent. I'm about to scan my receipt with my Fitch app. So I always link down below if y'all want to sign up for free and get money back. So I'm about to go head over to TJ Maxx. I just realized I was in a shop and I'm like, why am I hungry? Girl, I ain't ate yet. So I'm over here by McDonald's, KFC, Wingstop and stuff.  Cause sometimes that Sprite be flat. So yeah, I'm hungry though. So before I actually start shopping some more, I need to freaking get something to eat. Let me scan all these receipts. I had three receipts that I had to scan. I'm at 20,000 points still because I've been forgetting to scan, but I'm trying to get that free $50 from Amazon. So all this stuff coming out of here. I really need to go back to Marshall's and all of that as well. But like I said, I'm not trying to do too much cause I basically got everybody a gift. I'm just honestly need to finish shopping for they because I don't have like his, the rest of his gifts. So I'm trying to see what I can find for him in store. So therefore I don't have to order anything. Okay, I'm at 21,000 points right now. And I had sprayed my little shopping cart down in Dollar Tree with this Sprite. That's why I'm glad Donna got me the Sprite because I've been sending a lot of stuff on TikTok with their hand, foot, and mouth. And remember girl, we're not trying to get that. So I sprayed my cart down in my hands and I'm about to do it again. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and go to TJ Maxx and hopefully I can find what I'm looking for in there. And girl, I'm gonna take this jacket off cause now it's hot. It's 49 degrees, temperature coming up. Talk to y'all at TJ Maxx. Five, two, two, four. Five, two, two, four. For a free large fry. 52, 24. Can I get a large orange Fanta as well? That's all. Girl, I swear this McDonald's here is so ghetto. Like, it's just since I'm on this side of town now this one I be having to go to. And since I moved from the Valley, I hate going all the way over there, which I may go over there, but I'm hungry right now. And TJ Maxx is back this way.  Like, y'all, you're cold now, you're cold, you're cold. This like, then they'll take my code in the morning. There's this one specific girl here. She always take my code in the morning. And then when I get there to pay, it don't be on there. I'm like, I don't know. At one point in time, she was like, well, since you use your card, your code won't work. Baby, if I'm using my card, it shouldn't matter. I'm paying you. As long as I'm paying y'all, this damn code should be working. Like, I don't know. I don't get it. I really hate this McDonald's on one mark. I'm like, it is so annoying. Which card I'm about to use? I'm about to just go ahead and use my cash up card. Cause I don't got time. I'm keeping this up. It's only good for like 15 minutes. So I'm gonna keep it up and see if she need the scan it or whatever. Come on girl, speed up. Got the bang. Oh, I'm so hungry. And I wish I could wash my hands cause I just feel like sometimes sanitizing just don't be enough. Did the pants in the large fry? Yes, did you need the scan it? You need the code. We can't scan it back. Oh, 52, 24. 221. Okay. Thank you. Okay. I don't know why the code I'll be working up there. What is the artist cash up text to me? All right, let me scan my receipt real quick. I'd be trying to scan them as soon as I get them. Cause if I don't, sometimes I do forget and especially because I'm not carrying my big purse today.  Throw that away now. And it's only 1121 girl. It's still early. Hello. I'm good. Fries in the fanna. Large fry. Thank you. Thank you. You too. Myself together baby. I'm about to go this way. That's traffic. Go the back way. You better not pull out in front of me cause y'all like to try it. All right, I'm gonna eat my fries. Hopefully they fresh. And baby, I gotta see. It's telling me eight minutes now and the way they tried to take the way they wanted me to go was 10 minutes. See? See? I know where I be going. And I like to do GPS. Like I already said to kind of clock myself, but also because I be trying to see which way gonna be the fastest way to go. And it's like, I know where I be going. So I'm like turning that way. It's gonna take forever. So I'm taking the back road to go to TJMX. So, I wanted to get a Sprite but I be scared to sometimes get Sprite now because when they don't hit, like when they are that carbon, what carbonation or whatever in it, it'd be so nasty. So now I just get an orange Fanta because I've gotten maybe like one flat orange Fanta. Every other one has been hitting. Like the orange Fanta for me is like the new Sprite. Like it's always gonna hit. And you know, I don't want no flat Sprite. So I'm about to put some more hand sanitizer on my hands. Put my hand sanitizer to go. To eat these fries just to be sure. And I hope they got salt on them because what is McDonald's fries without no salt, baby? See, that's why I came this way. This is the back way. And I would have to go through all them dang lights. Baby, salty, salty. That's how I like them. All right, so I just put the stuff from TJMX in a trunk. Girl, my order was 100. I took my jacket off because I'm hot. My order was $130. So I had said that I wanted to take $300 cash out today and like spend no more than $300. So my total for today is only 170. But I am trying to save a little bit of money for when I go to Amo with my mom to buy like little gift sets there. So I'm gonna go home and like literally look at all the stuff that I have. Really the only person that I really just need to finish buying stuff for is my man. I found some good stuff in there for him and you know, my mom and my cousin and stuff like that. So what I'm about to do is if I can't find anything at this next store that I'm going to, I'm just gonna finish getting his stuff off of Amazon and hopefully that it comes Saturday. If not, then he'll just get it after Christmas. But yeah, it's only 12.30. And girl, it's gotta pay from YouTube. Okay, period. That'll pay us early today. So I'm about to go, where would I wanna go? Let me look on my Amazon because I got some stuff in my cart. The whole thing is trying to find what I got in my Amazon cart in the store for him basically. So I found some good stuff. Like for instance, I got something for him that came in like a whole like gift set package that I was about to buy like separately and I was able to find it in a pack. So I'm super excited about that. So yeah, I just have, honestly for him it's like two to three things that I'm getting on Amazon. I'm gonna try to find it in store. Let me see where else can I go? And my mom, I got her that purse, a lot of stocking stuffers and stuff. What else did I get my mom with? I might try to find my mom. Oh, I got her something out of there too. I probably try to find her like one or two more things. I wanted to find her something like some clothing items like an outfit. They didn't really have anything in there. I usually find her stuff in Burlington and I'm actually about to pass Burlington. So I'm about to go, I'm just gonna stop there. And I forgot that Dollar Tree is right here by this TJ Maxx. So I could just freaking came to this Dollar Tree and got all of the stocking stuffers and stuff and then just went over to TJ Maxx. But yeah, girl, I didn't, I thought my total was gonna be at least like a hundred dollars. I'm gonna expect the 130, but I did say I don't wanna spend over $300. So I'm about to head over to Burlington and try to find my mom like an outfit. If not a whole outfit, I wanna find her like a couple like shirts because she like to switch out her shirts a lot. Turn it down. So yeah, Burlington and then I dropped off at 1030. It's been two hours. So they haven't called me yet or texted me and said that he's ready. So by the time I leave Burlington, hopefully he's ready because I kinda wanna pick him up while I'm already on this side of town. And I have to like come back. So I might peek into Ross since Ross is right there beside Burlington as well. If I don't find what I need in Burlington. So yeah, these little TJ Maxx and everything, girl. That's definitely the place to go. I heard somebody in Dollar Tree, she was like, girl, you have you been a city trends?  But I overheard her talking about gift sets. So I kind of wanted to go and see what kind of like gift sets they got. But honestly, I don't know where no city trends at that's close over here. So I don't think I'm gonna go over there. And I do not feel like I wanna know Jacksonville, nothing. I need everything to be like 10, 15 minutes away. And every word that I'm going right now is 10 to 15 minutes away from me. So yeah. And honestly, I didn't even know city trends did like layaway and stuff. She said she has some stuff on layaway. Oh my baby. Y'all city trends out here with some layaway. I know they had started taking EBT, but I'm like, girl, you know y'all did? But yeah, I'm having a good little shopping day. I thought I was gonna have to record the rest of this like shopping video tomorrow. But I have a lot of time in between since Prist is at the groomers to do what I need to do. So I'm super excited. I really wish I could show y'all everything that I got with like I said, baby watching and my cousin be watching. They both was catching up on my Vlogmas and I can't show y'all nothing. Okay, y'all just gonna have to wait and see on Christmas. Or after Christmas, I'll probably put it in a clip or something. But yeah, I got some really, really good stuff. But y'all need to go to y'all local TJ Maxx and stuff and burn like all of those places. You definitely gonna find everything. I really wanna go to, I do need to go to Tarjay for this one specific item. But I know when I go in there, I'm probably gonna be looking around at the stocking stuffers. And I'm like, girl, you got enough. I really just need to finish getting like two more gifts for bae that I wanna get. And then I'll be done shopping. Definitely did some last minute Christmas shopping, but we cool. And I don't feel like it's too last minute. Like it's only Thursday. Like we still, Christmas ain't til Monday. So we still got a long ride. But I'll tell y'all when I get to Burleson, I'm just rambling at this point now. Big body range, you know, we're not the same. I went and flooded my red seats. I can't do too much talking, the ipsicle got me coughing. All my niggas TTG, we're trying to go for real. But my young and the BBG and all we know is blow. And how you play 22. All right. I'm here. That was pretty quick, guys. Literally run across the street and I got a good little parking spot. Okay. Let me show y'all right here at the front. So y'all, Burleson really had a lot of cute things. This tall black vase right here on the left. I literally wanted that so bad. It was only $40 for both of those. I was gonna get one and put it in my bedroom or somewhere. Like it took everything in me not to get that. But I got some of the good stuff. You'll see my haul towards the end of the video. And I just wanted to say like this store was ran through. Like Christmas definitely did number on them because stuff was all in the floor and everything. But my overall Burleson experience was so good. They had a lot of good finds. I cannot wait to show y'all my haul. So I just picked up y'all in their few plants. You look good, poopies. I'm gonna show y'all him a little bit better. But he got a little bandana on. He didn't got the works today. I spent $100 on him. This whole day, I literally spent about 300. Well, my mama paid for his stuff, but a total today has been like 300 and something dollars. So yeah, that's that. I went ahead and just got him the regular Louisville birthday cake that I said I didn't want to get. But I went ahead and got him that. So poopies, look at me. You so cute. They left your ears long too. I'm gonna have them cut it down some. You so cute. I just did a little Instagram story. Instagram fam, y'all gonna see this before y'all see the blog. Say this is my baby birthday. Y'all see that? Come on now, don't embarrass me. Say this is my baby birthday. Bird. And tagged this little page. So we about go home and eat his cake and then I'm about to put up all of my Christmas stuff. We'll wrap everybody Christmas gifts and stuff and then I'll see y'all at the house. Hopefully I got some tape for these gifts cause I think I'm about to run out. And it's only two o'clock. So I'm about to go away at home on the rest of my packages and stuff waiting on UPS. And then I also, the stuff that I wanted to buy for Christmas on Amazon said it's gonna be here Sunday. I don't really want to chance that. So I'm really scared. So I'm about to go home and try to figure out something. I'll probably go to this one store that I was thinking of going to. If not, then I'll like figure something else out. But my stuff says out for delivery. Let's see. I think you can track UPS people. I'm not sure if it's gonna let me. I saw, okay, there's follow my delivery. Let's see where he at. Because I want to track it to make sure that he actually give it to me. Cause my, they didn't have my apartment number on there. Okay, so he's in my area, but he's not here yet. So it says between 145 to 545. I do need to go get some conditioner, but I need to, there go who just grown prints. I left him his tip. Every time I come pick up prints, I always miss him. I'll be wanting to give him his tip in his hand. Okay, so yeah. I'm gonna go drop prints off though and like celebrate and stuff with him. Ooh, this dog bought the boo boo right on the concrete. And then I'll probably come back to Target. I don't know. I'm about to just go home.  That's why I really been a quarter inside the stores. I've been getting a little bit of phone footage. So yeah, I'll see y'all when we get to the house. Obviously I'm at home. I am tired girl. This is what I got. It's like $307. And then I went to my mailbox and got some more she-in stuff that they had sent me. I'm actually waiting on a she-in package of my own as well as I'm waiting on something from UPS. It's some hair from one of my customers. And then I'm waiting on stuff from Amazon, UPS, and my she-in packages. So hopefully my she-in stuff is here by the weekend cause I would like to have it. Look at him in here. Hell yeah. I'm about to give him his birthday cake. I'm about to use the bathroom cause I gotta pee really bad. They gave him a cute little happy birthday thing from Pet Smart. Super cute. And his ears are getting really long. Around this time Christmas, his ears are usually really, really matted. So normally they will have to cut them down but surprisingly his ears, they still look really good and there's no matt or anything in them. But next month when I take them, I'm gonna get his ears chopped down a little bit because they look like little ponytails. But normally, like I said around this year, he has to cut them down. He wanna stay still, stay still. Okay, whatever. All right y'all, so this is a little birthday cake that I got. I think this is the one that I got last year maybe. This one look a little different cause I don't remember all this stuff on there but it say real fruit sprinkles. So definitely did not have that one. Yeah, just a pie shaped treat for a little charming boy. Wheat corn, corn soy free. Oh it say candle included. Okay yeah, I definitely did not have this one. Look at him sniffing last year. Here you go the ingredients and stuff if you care about that. Oh this is cute, it got a little candle. That's cute. I think the one I got last year was from Wally World. And Wally World definitely not the one I did. And this was only like $6. So I think this is real cute.  And then it already has a little spot for where you put the candle. Yeah, this is definitely a different one cause yeah, this is not what I had.  I'm gonna try to get some pictures of him so I can post on his Instagram. Sit, sit. Good boy, he's so cute. All right, so we're gonna open up his little cake and we're gonna let him eat his cake. Sit, sit. See how he's trying to ease on up. It smells like cardboard. This one is a lot softer as well than the one that I got last year. This one smells good. Wait, we gotta sing happy birthday to you. Watch out. Ready, y'all ready AJ? Family. One, two, three. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.  So cute. All right, lower with me. I'm gonna cut him a piece so he can be eaten a little bit better. It's a little hot. It's a cut. The icing feels really good. All right, there we go. There we go. Work with me now. All right, there we go.  So I'm gonna give him a little slice. Oh. Nevermind, girl, he already got it. He said he gone with that candy. He is gone. I don't know why dogs go and try to hide, eat their food. He's tearing it up. Yeah, that's definitely a lot softer than the other one. I could tell because it's not crunching. I don't know why he come here on my carpet and I gotta back him again. My boy's staying here, I eat. I'm about to put the gate in here so he don't go to the carpet. All right, so I think I already showed y'all. This is all my stuff that I got. I'm about to open up what I can to show y'all. And then the rest, I'm sorry, you're just gonna have to use your imagination of what I could have gotten. Or I'm gonna record a little bit on Christmas as well so you guys will probably be able to see a little bit that I've gotten in my family. But they had this cute wrapping paper in TJ Maxx 399. I literally got something way smaller than it's from Target for $5. They're such a scam. So I literally should have went to TJ Maxx and brought it to him to get my stuff. And I know that. I know that I normally do, but you know, whatever. So, got this. My sister just liked. Oh, my sister! You know what? I'm about to have to go to, I don't really wanna go today cause I'm already tired. Well, I can go when I get to know who to talk to my mom. I may go to Bath & Body, but Bath & Body works close by my mama's at the mall. And maybe I don't wanna go inside the mall. I like going just directly into a Bath & Body works. This is it all. So, I can show you all my stuff from Burleson. Let's, let's, let's, let's communicate with you. All right. What I got from Burleson for myself is this cute fresh linen reed diffuser. I absolutely love these. I had got one from the at home store. I think I showed y'all that maybe like four or five months ago, so they last a few months. I smelled this in the store and it smells absolutely amazing.  And then the other stuff I got, these are some clothes from my mom. She loves to get her shirts and stuff from there. So I got her three shirts. And then one of them is actually name brand like Adidas. So that's nice. The other thing that I have, that's mine is right here. So why did I get in there and start boxing home decor?  And I actually really wanted to be like really, really nice. So the first thing I got for me, Merry Christmas. I always put my stuff on there for Christmas. So this is my Christmas gift. So this is so cute y'all. This is $6.99. Like I literally was about the bodies from like Amazon and Sheehan for about the same price. And yeah, I found it at Burlington, super cute. So I got one shape like that. And then I got another black one, but this one is shaped a little differently. This one was $7.99. So a little bit higher than this one. I'm thinking of kind of stacking them right beside each other. I don't think I'm gonna put anything in these because my shelf isn't like that tall, but those are super cute. And I am so glad Burlington, especially the one that's by me is really getting their home decor section back up because after COVID, trying to go home decor shop in these places, like when Burlington and like all of them open back up, like everything was completely wiped out because you know, ain't nobody been shopping forever. And so since people bought everything from Burlington when they open back up after COVID, like they, I just feel like it's never really been the same like as stock as it used to be. So now I feel like they're really getting their stuff back y'all. So I probably unrecorded a little bit of clips on my cell phone. These are, this was $12.99. How stinking cute. Like literally this on Amazon would be at least $40, like no lie. Super cute, super like girl, come on now. This is too cute. And I already have an idea for this one. I have saved some stuff on my Pinterest board. If y'all are into Pinterest, then I'll probably leave my Pinterest down below, but I saved some stuff to my Pinterest board and girl, I'm definitely about to give off the vibes. Okay. And I'm trying to get into posting on Pinterest a lot more as well. So I really want to have my apartment house. I have my apartment. Everybody in the checkout line, even the cashier and everything was like, oh, this is cute. So it's like actual marble down here because girl, this is heavy. This was $19.99. The brand is handcrafted in India. Whatever that brand is at the top, you want to look it up. Super cute. The sun is kind of throwing it off. There you go. Like girl, I was about to put this bag. I literally was contemplating putting it back, but I'm like, where am I going to find this again? Like I always see a lot of black and white or like black and gold, something like that. Never actually seen one to actually match my apartment aesthetic, like white and silver. So freaking cute. And she heavy. So I cannot wait to decorate this and put it on my shelf. I'm going to also try to make like a TikTok as well. So I may not decorate the shelf completely in here. I'll probably save it for like a shorts video. And that's, what else I get from Burlington? This is TJ Maxx. The other thing that I got from Burlington was this cute stuff that I didn't eat, but it's a set of four ceramic all-purpose bows. Look how she's using it with some fruit. So I'm like, girl, I like to have fruit. So I was thinking of using it for, you know, fruit, maybe like acai-bo, just all kinds of stuff. Something for snacks. I can even put like side dishes in here. Like when I went to Sullivan Steakhouse, their side dishes was bigger than this. And so I really want to try to start cooking more like on TikTok and like maybe YouTube shorts or something. And I really want my food to be like a cute presentation. So I decided to get these and maybe put like a side of mashed potatoes in here, spent, you know, just anything. So it's literally just a set of four plain white bows, mini bows, but girl, so cute. I can do a lot with them. So I could not pass them up. And girl, they were cheap. They were $7.99 comparable to the price of $14.99. Like, yeah, you couldn't beat that. TJ Maxx, I'm not really sure what I can show y'all because girl, everything from TJ Maxx, I think is a gift. Yeah, every single thing I got from TJ Maxx is a gift. Oh, besides this. So this is for me. I was thinking of wearing this for Christmas because why not? It was only $14.99 comparable to the price of $19.00. It's the brand Willow in Wind. I got it in a size small. It's like that really, really soft, knit and type of material. Like, girl, this is so soft. I really wish y'all could feel this little screen, but it is really stretchy and so soft. And it's just a black and white dress and it just buttons down. So I thought this would be cute to wear on Christmas. I think it's gonna be cold because it's supposed to rain the next two days. So on actual Christmas, I think it's gonna be kind of like a cold front. Let's see. Monday, I say that high gonna be like 58. So I probably just wear this without like any jacket because if it's gonna be 58, it's 57 right now.  So yeah, this is cute. I can't wait to put this on. I'm definitely gonna wear this for Christmas. Like I already got my Christmas fit. So this is cute though. I'm like, okay, it's RJ. They got a lot of cute stuff in there actually. Yeah. So everything else is really Christmas again, so I can't show you that. But from Dollar Tree, I did buy another picture frame because I wanna put my LLC certificate in here. Been long overdue. And then I got some stocking stuffers and stuff for Dollar Tree. I'm gonna show y'all me putting together some stocking stuffers or maybe like one stocking stuffer. I'll probably show y'all putting together my mom's cause I know she probably not gonna be watching. And then oh, from Pet Smart, they also gave Prince another treat girl, a small bone cookie for holidays. I think it's because I gave him the holiday package. So it says apple and cinnamon flavor. So he'll probably eat this. I'll probably give him that one actually on Christmas cause he's still, he gonna finish that birthday cake. Then they gave me a whole booklet of coupons. So it saves up to 300 plus dollars. And I love when they gave me little coupons because if y'all got pets, y'all know Pet Smart is high. So like grooming, I could say $5 on a pampering pack. Yeah, so they got a lot of stuff. So I'm about to open up my little bitty Xi'en packages and see what we got. Cause I don't know why Xi'en be sending all these packages when I want to do anything. This is some highlighter. Girl, what is this? So that's a highlighter. Okay, I ain't never seen a highlighter like this. Ooh, see I always wanted to try to put on like single false lashes, but I'd be scared. It's a DIY at home kit, so only five minutes. This is cute, but I'm really scared to do this. So I'll probably get this away to someone who actually like to do that. They keep giving me these 15% off coupons. If y'all want a coupon for Xi'en baby, there you go, if it ain't already on the site. It's Xi'en 2023. And then they keep giving me false nails. Like, I don't wear purse zones. Comment down below if y'all wear purse zones. I've been wanting to try it, but I'm like, you know, I work at the hospital and stuff and watch my hands repeatedly. I'd be scared to try on purse zones. Or y'all can comment down below a good glue. I know I want to do that KDS glue. That's the glue that they be using at the nail shop. And girl, I know that glue gonna last. So I got a beauty blender. Like they be putting one thing in the bag. What is this? A UV LED soak off gel polish. Six piece. Let's say expiration 2026. What's in here that's about to expire? They need to come out with my regular package, okay? Oh, so it's just some more nail polish. So I just got back from the office. I had this box at the Amazon little hub waiting on me. I believe I know what this is because I've been waiting on this. This is a gift for my cousin if I'm not mistaken. So I'm not gonna show y'all because she be watching my step. And I think this video is gonna be up before Christmas. So that's why I don't wanna show y'all anything. But if it's not up before Christmas, then I coulda showed y'all. Yeah, exactly what I'm waiting on. I'm about to look at it off camera, make sure it's exactly what I ordered. And we gonna get to wrapping the rest of these gifts and doing my stocking stuffers. And I need to figure out what I wanna eat today. Because yeah, I'm hungry. Me and Bey have y'all saw cheese gift last night. I don't really have much stuff for a meal. Like I don't have any more potatoes. Like I really gotta go grocery shopping. So I might try to do a Sunday reset this Saturday because Christmas Eve, I know it's gonna be hectic up in the store. So I'll probably try to wake up really early on Saturday and do a Saturday reset so I can be ready for the rest of the week. Because I do need time to figure out what I wanna eat for the week and do a list and meal prep and stuff like that. I am gonna go ahead and get my own Sam's cart. So I'm gonna be buying a lot of stuff from Sam's. Sam's, I don't want my order to be over $100. But everything else that I need, I'm gonna get from Walmart. And then Walmart, I usually, when I have like a big grocery order and like I really need a lot of stuff, I normally just do like afterpay on my groceries. Now, if it's like dang that's $200 I'll afterpay. So I think I'm gonna have to do another afterpay payment because me, I cook every day. So it's like what I buy is to try to last me up a week. Sometimes it doesn't because my man be over here and he's up here a lot more now like over my apartment. Like he's here like dang it every other day. So it's like it's not just me eating anymore. So like when he's here, obviously I'm gonna, you know, cook for him and feed my man. So it's like I be having to get a lot more food rather than just what I would have for like one or two servings.  They hear like everything he's done. Like we finish everything right here. So I'm gonna have to do another big one more order, I believe. And I'm probably gonna afterpay him just to be real because I didn't just spend, now I just pay cash money for like all of my furloughs and stuff, like I literally just spent like $300 today. So that's why I'm gonna afterpay my groceries either afterpay or I think you can use like pay pals at like all of those, whatever. I just say afterpay but you know, pay it later. But Sam's, I probably am gonna have to pay that flat out. I think I saw Sam's on maybe zipped hair or something, but like I said, my budget for Sam's is $100 and that's all I'm gonna get. So whenever my total get passed $100, that's it. So yeah, I'm about to open this up this gift and then we gonna get to setting up all my gifts.  Alexa, pause.  I'm gonna show y'all how I can finance this. Make this whole present be covered. So it's all like that. I'm gonna look at my tape right here, I gotta get some more. Oh, forgot some. So I gotta use my freaking packing tape. This ain't priority mail. I'm gonna have to use this for my actual mail and stuff. Notes to self, buy more tape just to have in the house. Gotta use some more packing tape.


Mighty Cause recently released a new and improved dashboard called the Mighty Cause Manager that allows nonprofit administrators to more easily and intuitively manage their nonprofits presence on Mighty Cause. And today we're going to do a walkthrough of the Mighty Cause Manager to make sure that you know where everything is located on your new dashboard. To get started, the first thing you'll want to do as always is log into your Mighty Cause account. When you're logged in, you'll see your name on the upper right corner of the page and you can just hover over that with your mouse to view your user menu. From your user menu, you'll be able to see all of the nonprofits you're approved to manage on Mighty Cause and you can access the dashboard you want to access just by clicking on the name. So we're going to manage the Homework Trails page. Then you'll see your home screen, which is where you'll see some important metrics from the last week, as well as a to-do list that will list things you can do to improve your organization's presence on Mighty Cause and will be putting news and updates admins should know in this area. To the left of your home screen, you'll see a dashboard, which is typically in a collapsed state but expands when you move your mouse over to it. And we'll go down the dashboard one by one to help you get a feel for where things are in your Mighty Cause Manager. First up is your profile, which is often referred to as your organization page on Mighty Cause. You have three options in the submenu, the first of which is the live page view, which shows you what your page looks like to visitors without any admin-only areas accessible. Next, you can access your page editor, where you can edit the content of your profile on Mighty Cause, update your story, add images, connect your social media galleries to Mighty Cause and more. And when you want to exit the page editor menu, you can just click the X here at the bottom and just as a reminder, all of these options you can edit just by clicking into them on your page. Finally, you have your profile settings, where you can make changes that affect how your page looks and functions. Below your profile options are the donation options. The new dashboard has organized everything related to donations and money under this part of the dashboard so that you can easily find the information you need. In this option, you can access your donation report, your disbursement settings and history. You can customize the donor experience, which will be releasing more news about soon. Add a matching grant and view your grant history. And for premium subscribers, set up and manage your custom donation page. The next option on your dashboard is your campaign screen. This screen will allow you to view and access all fundraisers on Mighty Cause for your nonprofit, whether they're project pages started by your nonprofit, peer-to-peer fundraisers or teams. You can toggle between fundraisers started by your nonprofit and fundraisers created by others by using the options at the top. So this view right here is of fundraisers that were created by admins of our nonprofit page. This view here is all pages that were created by others who are not administrators of the Homework Trails page. Going back to this view, another cool thing you can do is you can create new campaigns from this screen by clicking the plus sign. And you can export a report of all of your fundraisers by clicking the icon right next to it. You can also filter by the type of campaign you're looking to find. The next three options on your dashboard are for premium subscribers only. So if you don't have a subscription, you'll see these as grayed out and inaccessible on your Mighty Cause manager. But just to go over them briefly, we'll start with the supporters tool. And this is what you can use to find robust records of your supporters, including your donors and people who've created fundraisers for you and volunteers. Under the supporters area, you can also access data connect, which allows you to set up automated processes called Zaps through our partner Zapier. And that helps with donor engagement, exporting data, and so on. Premium subscribers also have access to some preloaded Zaps that you can use to optimize your efficiency on Mighty Cause. Below the supporters icon is the analytics screen. And the analytics screen gives you a snapshot of all the most important fundraising metrics about your fundraising on Mighty Cause, from your donor retention rate to your average gift size. Below that, you'll find the calls to action tool. And this is a tool you can use to post volunteer opportunities and manage volunteers. These last three options are available to premium subscribers only. So if you're interested in seeing them in action or would like to learn more about Mighty Cause Premium, you can sign up for a demo, view pricing plans, and get a free 30-day trial by going to mightycause.com slash premium. The last item on your dashboard is your settings.  Your look and feel section, which tells us how you'd like your non-profit to appear on Mighty Cause throughout the entire site. And for premium subscribers with a custom subdomain, you can manage those in the domains section. The new dashboard is designed to be intuitive and make the process of managing your non-profit on Mighty Cause even easier. If you have any questions about your dashboard, you can email our customer support team at support at mightycause to get some additional guidance.


No matter how you found yourself here, we are bonded as family. This is just a great outreach opportunity for us as an organization to let veterans know that DAV is here, the services that we can provide and the resources that are available to them as a result of their military service. And we don't want them to think that they're forgotten. I feel sadness. I really do. You know, it helps build your esteem.  So sometimes you do things differently, you know, and you never know what might be the outcome, you know. So overall, it's been a great day.  You're a better person at the end of the day. Your vibe, your aura is better. It's brighter, you know what I'm saying? I might get a girlfriend. Yeah, you know. This kind of support is very, very important, not only for, you know, material things that they need, but more importantly for the mental well-being of the veterans and their families. I didn't know none of these resources were available and now I'm getting my feet back underneath me. It feels amazing. Oh, I think it's wonderful. I really do. I mean, because I didn't know a lot of the benefits that I had coming to me. But I'm overwhelmed. I don't want to expect to this. And like I said, you can tell, not just only by talking, talking, see, they're about it. Love is an action bird. This is love. This is love. This is a brotherhood that would never die, you know. Once a veteran, always a veteran.


Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Reagan. This program is made possible by grants from Metropolitan Life Foundation and Richard King-Mellon Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the JM Foundation. Welcome to the White House and welcome to a very special and important evening. We've gathered here tonight because of a frightening problem that concerns you and your family. Did you know, for example, that a vast number of school-aged children may be using drugs and alcohol for two or three years before their parents are aware of it? That's very alarming. But there's a new and hopeful answer. We're introducing it tonight. It's called the Chemical People. From the East Room of the White House, the Chemical People hosts First Lady Nancy Reagan and Michael Landon present an appeal to all Americans to join the fight against the problem of drug and alcohol abuse among our nation's youth. Many historic occasions in this special house. Tonight marks another. On this occasion, we are launching a landmark effort to fight back against school-aged drug and alcohol abuse in your community. Public television is joining communities across the nation to start finding answers. Tonight I appeal to all Americans to join in. That means attending town meetings in your community on two upcoming Wednesday evenings, November 2nd and the 9th. Your town meetings should then evolve into ongoing task forces. The local community task force has proved to be a most effective instrument in creating results. That concept began in Pittsburgh and was designed by a coalition of community organizations and Pittsburgh's public television station, WQED. Their effort and the National Chemical People Project is guided by WQED's president, Lloyd Kaiser. Kai, would you explain how it works? What's the real secret of its success? Oh, Michael, it's surprisingly simple, but first the hard part. You have to admit that the problem exists, that it exists in your community and then to care enough to organize the community to deal with it. For most people this is the most devastating, the most cruel crisis that they've ever faced. It's the unthinkable. Drug and alcohol abuse by one's own son or daughter. The process is so frightening, so foreign to past experience that it becomes paralyzing to a parent and can't really be faced alone. And so in Pittsburgh we created community task forces in which parents, educators, drug and alcohol professionals, juvenile officers, in fact the entire community could work together to find answers. No more struggling alone, no more finger pointing, no more denying that the problem exists. We've tested the concept in 120 communities in western Pennsylvania and it works. Kai, I've heard about the success of the Pittsburgh plan, but tell us exactly what community task forces do. Well, they confront the amazing ignorance about the problem by first informing themselves and then informing the community. And they seek out professionals to work with parents and with the schools to help them to detect when a young person has started to have a drug problem. But their major work is in the crucial area of prevention. Prevention in the community and in the early grades. Now none of this is a quick fix, but believe me, Michael, when a community task force is there and resolves to take action, it can make an amazing difference. As public television carries this vision nationally, viewers need to know that watching is not enough. They need to become involved. Kai, tell them why. Well, the problems of the 80s are huge and the effort of one person seems so small. We withdraw, we concede, don't. If you are a parent, if you are a grandparent, a son or daughter, an educator, a member of one of our 35 national supporting organizations, or if you are just one caring individual, you are needed at a town meeting on November 2nd and 9th. The first program is an eye-opener and the second will help you learn what a community can do. And you'll meet some pretty wonderful people. I've seen it happen. Together, you can change panic into hope. And I have to believe that you are the kind of person that will want to help. Well, you have a choice.  Two television programs. The first documents that ours is the Chemical Society. The second provides community answers. Let's preview a minute of each. The first program, the Chemical Society, details the terrifying scope of teenage drug abuse. Bill Bixby reports the hard facts. And young people whose lives became chemical nightmares relate their experiences. I was drinking a whole lot. And there are months that I can't remember. Rita Moreno explains how denial clouds the problem and parents who've had to face the frightening truth about their children's chemical dependency tell their stories. I was hurt. I was resentful. I was angry. I was terrified. Bruce White's confronts a pusher with the truth. Hey, give me a break, Marcus Welter. Now, you give them a break, Bill. You got to let these people in on how the abuse of these stimulants can result in hallucinations and convulsions and maybe even death. The second hour of the chemical people provides a clear course of action. Community answers. Willie Stargel explains the task force concept. Neighbors joining neighbors for unified action. It's a method to combat chemical abuse proven throughout the country. And this message is getting out. And I'm convinced. If I didn't have that kind of feeling and fervor for it, I was just sitting on that task force. Sandy Duncan explains that chemical dependency is no longer a condition of despair. There is hope for young people through caring, effective treatment. When I seen that I was addicted was when I got pregnant. And here I was trying to quit dope because of the baby's sake and I couldn't. Michael Landon provides the starting point of community action for a long-term solution, prevention, deal with the problem of drug abuse before it gets started. They want you to feel good about yourself so that you don't need drugs and alcohol to make you feel good. The two programs of the chemical people hosted by First Lady Nancy Reagan examine the problem of chemical abuse and provide a solution. Chemical abuse is a huge problem that can confuse us. But there are ways to find solutions if we break the problem down to a manageable size and work together. Don't leave your meeting tonight before you agree to meet next week and get organized. You can see these public television programs in your home on November 2nd and 9th. But don't. Watch them in your local town meeting. At home you'll miss the follow-up discussion on drug abuse and alcohol abuse in your community and what you and your neighbors can do about it. View the programs with them and hear the local story. That has to be your priority. In addition, most local public television stations are producing local television programs which will document the problem where you live. Don't miss them. And now after months of preparation the moment has come. Is anything happening across America? Well, we have four regional reports that will answer that. Our first report is from the Northeast and John Dimmesdale. The concept of town meetings was created more than 300 years ago in New England. Now once again, citizens are getting involved and town meetings become the cornerstone of the chemical people. Led by public television stations and supported by 35 national organizations they are receiving an incredible response in the Northeast. The town meeting task force concept does appear to once again have found its time. In fact, eight governors in the Northeast region are personally leading their state's efforts. But the real test of success is the number of town meetings. Let's look at that state by state. Main will have an unbelievable 230 town meetings. That is a huge accomplishment by any standard. In Lewiston there will be 13 additional television programs dealing with the local drug and alcohol problem there. In ORNO the 4-H clubs have pledged to join with others to evolve every town meeting into an ongoing task force which is the real goal of this project. New Hampshire with a projected 100 town meetings has had the same success. And in Vermont with 52 town meetings they're ready for the chemical people. The legislature here has passed a law requiring all schools to have a drug education program for grades kindergarten through 12. Among students who participate in such prevention programs almost 50% fewer start using alcohol and marijuana. Massachusetts will have 443 town meetings. The governor has taped a promotional spot for them and as in other states the commercial media are providing a great deal of promotional support. Rhode Island projects 25. The Family Counseling Alcoholism Unit of the Rhode Island Family Court has been especially active here. As expected New York State has a very large number. 832. The effort here is statewide. A citywide student poster contest in Schenectady. Special meetings for the deaf in Rochester. And unique cooperation among the New York City public television stations and southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. Town meetings are working with the youth officers of the police department in most New York City precincts. Connecticut working with the Junior League and others will have 30 and New Jersey working with the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth and other groups will have 110. In Pennsylvania where it all started the number is 470 led by the governor, the speaker of the house and their wives. There will be Halloween floats, messages on grocery bags, milk cartons and promos by local sports figures. The project takes on an international dimension too since Erie will also serve four Canadian communities in southern Ontario. Delaware will be scheduling six. Maryland with 80 town meetings is using soccer and Baltimore Oriole stars to appear in a number of promotional spots there. 80 town meetings are planned in the District of Columbia and part of nearby Maryland and Virginia. The two public television stations in the district have jointly developed an excellent almost block by block organization. In the nation's capital the congressional wives have also agreed to support the project nationally. 102 is the number in West Virginia. Much of the success in the northeast is due to the powerful project alliance between public television and the 35 ever present national organizations and their many local chapters. As a result the entire northeast is mobilized. Every state is involved. The grand total of our town meetings is 2,560. Michael by any standard that is impressive. Thank you John that is indeed awesome. But let's all remember so is the problem. American young people have the highest level of illicit drug use to be found in any nation in the industrialized world. In a recent year the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that illegal drugs generated approximately $79 billion in retail sales. So you see why we need to get organized. Mary Rawson, how about a report on the southern region? Once again it's the solid south Michael. Every state has enlisted. I would call their strong response militant. In fact two states, Texas and Kentucky, call it a war. Let's start with Florida, which has a total of 303 town meetings. The timing of the chemical people is particularly right for Miami. It will cap a month long campaign by public television, the Miami Herald, the Junior League and the governor's office. Jack Nicklaus has cut public television promotional spots to help the campaign. Tampa has created informed teens made up of teenagers who will help. Jacksonville, like many cities, will offer on-air and off-air consultation for those who need help. The goal in Georgia is 200 town meetings guided by a 12 member steering committee formed by the governor's office. 122 town meetings have been organized in South Carolina by the Drug and Alcohol Bureau. North Carolina will have 153. A very supportive school system has centered these meetings in both rural and urban areas. Virginia plans 116 town meetings. And as is happening in a great many states November 2nd to November 9th has been proclaimed chemical people week. 180 task forces have been planned for Kentucky with the state government and Kentucky War on Drugs playing a major role. Kentucky Public Television has commissioned a play directed to young people and their parents. Tennessee has organized 212 town meetings. 30 town meetings are planned in Alabama. Incidentally, of these four will be entirely run by teenagers. Mississippi projects 100. They have embarked on a massive distribution plan to get the word out. Arkansas with 80 is led by the wife of a U.S. representative supported by much effort involving the 4-H clubs and friends of public television. Louisiana projects 75 led by the wife of the governor. Three other southern governors are leading their states in this cause. In Louisiana, 5,000 school-aged children are attending a rally on drug and alcohol abuse. You expect big numbers in Texas and their number for this project is 875. The Texans War on Drugs and all 10 public television stations are involved. As in many other states, the commercial broadcasters are proving to be a great help in Texas. Lubbock Public Television commissioned a local survey of their young people. Houston has been given 100 billboards to promote their effort and Dallas has actually organized all of their school districts into town meetings, a mammoth task. Special plans have been made to serve the Hispanic communities in large in Texas and in many other states. On November 2nd and 9th, the Spanish language version will be simulcast on radio. Our final state is Oklahoma and a remarkable 500 that took a lot of organization. Our total then in Region 2, primarily the South, is 2,946 community town meetings. In summary, I would say, Michael, that the effort here is serious, determined, and amazingly successful. Thank you, Mary. Two-thirds of all American young people use an illicit drug at least once while in high school. At least one in every 16 high school seniors will drink alcohol daily. The same number smoke marijuana daily. More than one-third have used drugs other than marijuana. Our task forces can change those statistics. Well, let's see how they're trying in the heartland. For the Midwest region, here's Chris Moore. The chemical people continues to gain momentum in the Midwest. A number of governors have made a strong commitment to utilize the chemical people as a vehicle to help eradicate drug and alcohol abuse in their states. In Minnesota, for example, where 300 communities are establishing town meetings, the outgoing governor of one party initiated the effort, and the incoming governor of the opposite party now leads the cause. As elsewhere, the effort here is nonpartisan. Search, a national research organization conducted a statewide survey which validated the extensive use of drugs and alcohol by school-aged people in Minnesota. North Dakota will assemble 22 town meetings. In South Dakota, where the governor has been active, 75 meetings will take place. Nebraska has a goal of 100. The nine-channel state network, which will provide a live phone-in program to stimulate local discussion, is working closely with the State Department of Education. Kansas has a total of 140 town meetings, which are organized in both the largest and smallest communities throughout the state. Missouri has the surprising total of 481 meetings. They involve practically everybody. A Baptist congregation in Roytown, near Kansas City, for example, has chartered a bus to take the whole congregation to a special town meeting. 10,000 Boy Scouts and 15,000 Girl Scouts will attend watch parties and join adults to form groups throughout the state. A special merit badge is being designed. Ohio projects 540, led by the governor and his wife, who are appearing in spots promoting the state's efforts. In Indiana, the number is 106. An important element will be a six-month follow-up program to measure the outcome and progress of local task forces. In Illinois, the number of town meetings is projected at 323. The state drug agency and the PTA are collaborating with many other groups. The Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, and other fraternal organizations are playing a major role here, as they are in most states. In Chicago, both public and private schools are involved. Iowa has a goal of 100 town meetings statewide. Michigan's total is 291. In East Lansing, a three-part series on alcoholism will be directed to the campus population, as well as the total community. In Gross Point, former First Lady Betty Ford will appear in order to add outreach impact. And in Detroit, the Detroit for Blacks organization has given its support to the Chemical People Project, as has the Urban League nationally. The Black and Hispanic communities each have a special kind of problem, and their own meetings will reflect that. The Chemical People Project is designed to be flexible. Each community determines the nature of its problem and decides what it's going to do. Wisconsin, where 201 town meetings are planned, is our last state in Region 3. The region total is 2,679. The Midwest is really ready, Michael, and we haven't seen anything quite like this. Thank you, Chris. That's most impressive. You know, abuse exists in every community, but there are dramatic regional differences. For example, there are three times as many high school seniors using cocaine in the West as they do in the South. Our final town meeting report is from the Western Region and Patty Burns. That's my country, so I hope this number is as phenomenal as the others have been, Patty. It certainly is, Michael. Throughout the West, there is an assurance that the Chemical People concept will work. New Mexico will have 36 town meetings. The New Mexico Federation of Women's Groups adopted the project and is working with many others. In fact, the state legislature and special assembly has viewed both programs. This is significant because task forces are interested in wise laws. Nine states have recently raised the drinking age, and when they did, fatal nighttime auto accidents decreased by 26%. Arizona will have a total of 270 town meetings. The statewide PTA and the medical auxiliary are spearheading the project. In recognition of the unique needs and resources of American Indians on reservations, a volunteer from Arizona State University is taking the Chemical People to those citizens. They will have 10 town meetings on their own. Michael, California with 1,162, has the most town meetings of any state. San Diego has a blue ribbon committee with support of the mayor, the city council, board of education, junior league, parents who care, and many others. All citizens have even received Chemical People information with their water bills. Fresno is using promotional messages featuring former drug abusers. The greater Los Angeles involvement includes a computer referral service run by a volunteer staff. To the north, Oregon has a statewide total of 80. Some actually drove 150 miles to attend some of the satellite project training sessions. The state of Washington has 193 town meetings planned. And of special note, the small town of Packwood where a concerned pharmacist is securing tapes of the programs. You see, Packwood is located on the side of Mount Rainier where television reception is non-existent. Idaho has 25 meetings scheduled and Montana, even without a PBS station, has arranged two town meetings. Nevada will have 20 town meetings. In Las Vegas, a city of billboards, a local billboard advertiser has donated eight to the Chemical People. They're going to be located right next to those touting casinos and showgirls. Utah will have 97 town meetings. The projection for Colorado, 245. Fans attending Bronco football games in Denver will see Chemical People messages being flashed on their gigantic scoreboard. Wyoming with a brand new PBS station has assembled 13 town meetings. And amazingly, there will be 127 town meetings in Alaska. Former pro football star Rosie Greer has keynoted enthusiasm here. And incidentally, one of the communities is just 35 miles from Siberia. In Hawaii, 30 town meetings are projected. And on the South Pacific Island of Guam, village meetings are being organized in their 10 school districts. And they are planning six local television programs to follow up the national effort. In the West, the challenge to establish town meetings has been clearly accepted. In fact, six governors in the western region have pledged their support. The total is 2,306 town meetings. Well, Michael, I hope you are now ready for the national total. I can report that in the entire United States, the Chemical People has generated a projected 10,491. They are in every state plus the territory of Guam and in the coverage area of all but three of the 263 public television stations. Now that has to be impressive. Thank you very much, Patty. And actually, the numbers continue to increase. Just in are additional town meetings which raise our total to 10,675. This landmark achievement demonstrates how together communities and their public television stations can make an enormous difference. I believe in this effort or I wouldn't be appearing in all three of these programs. I learned the hard way what drugs can do to a child and to a family. And I will not accept non-participation as my role in this effort and nor should you. Be at those town meetings on November the 2nd and November the 9th. This is your country. These are your families. Love them. Now I'm very pleased to introduce the dedicated leader of this parade, the host of our two programs, a very, very caring First Lady. Mrs. Reagan. This is a very encouraging evening for me. I've been visiting and observing and trying to help with this terrible problem for several years now. I've seen the heartache, the lost lives, the saved lives, and the very desperate search for hope. And that's what the chemical people brings, hope. It's the largest bundle of hope I've seen. Across the nation we now have a fantastic opportunity, one for which we've all prayed. And as we heard, it's happening in over 10,000 neighborhoods. I'm so happy with the reports we've received tonight from around the country. I believe that television and the community working together can revolutionize attitudes toward drugs. I long for the day when our schools and homes will be drug free. I'm very grateful to the 260 public television stations across the country, the 35 national organizations, and the 50,000 dedicated volunteers who are making chemical people a reality. You're preparing for the day that we desire so desperately. Tonight, I'd like to ask for the support of all the media and all drug and alcohol professionals. I appeal to the citizens of each community to give this project their very best. This may turn out to be the most powerful opportunity we have to battle the drug epidemic. From the bottom of my heart, I appeal to each of you to get involved on November 2nd and November 9th. Thank you. This program was made possible by grants from Metropolitan Life Foundation and Richard King Mellon Foundation. Additional funding was provided by the JM Foundation.