It's pointed at the selection of puzzles here. Um really not as much as I expected. We have a seco here 1000 piece Oh, this is a big masterpiece collection. This is beautiful. It has an easel included in it Interesting. I guess that's to hold up the box. This is really pretty. It's $20 though There's another one here at the farmhouse. I've never seen sets that include an easel for your box I find that interesting, but I guess that makes it just a little bit easier to see what you're looking at They're very pretty sets $20 is a little more than what I would like to pay for today If I get anything they do sell puzzle glue some puzzle mats A random bin under here with some extra puzzles from seco It looks like Michael's only carries a very Small collection of brands so far. I only see masterpieces in seco. We got childhood dream series from masterpieces Let's see this one. That one's really cute as well We got the flashback series And we do have some disney puzzles here, but at 1299 That's a little more expensive than what I usually pay for seco puzzles. That's pretty. I don't have that one I have that one in the back Again, not much of a selection We also have these shaped puzzles which basically they're not like a square or a rectangle shape But I mean that's pretty cool. Again 1299. This is much this is more expensive Than what I would pay at a warmer They're pretty sets though We got some here if you're into dogs or animals from the selfies collection from seco Those are pretty though. Personally. I'm not really into animal puzzles It's probably not a very popular opinion, but that's just my personal preference. I'm really not into animal puzzles They are pretty though Then we have these trend z Puzzles from masterpieces. These are 300 easy grip large puzzle pieces That's nice Those are 999 sushi I'm short so I can't reach the rest And sets from the tv time series from masterpieces Another one there And again 1299 the prices here are more expensive than what I pay in other stores for the same brand. So Really, this is all that they have here So I don't know Let's go check somewhere else. Oh look. I found more puzzles, but they're at the very top Shelf which is completely useless Because um, I can't reach let's see if we can zoom in. Oh, we got some interesting ones up there some 2000 piece puzzles, but Oh, I can't tell what that disney one is That's only 400 piece But well, it's a little too high for me And then you have these here, which are also very high I cannot reach those but again more seco and masterpieces So kind of a poor selection really honestly, this is a small michaels location We actually came here to pick up some sewing supplies And they don't even have half the things we need. So This was kind of a bus, but it's nice to know What they have Or don't have really let's go check out what target has probably more than what they have here I like the typical seago. They have buffalo So nothing really I haven't seen before. Oh, that's a pretty Charles wassaki one Oh, that's cute Look at all those pumpkins That's a nice seago one. That's pretty We have a puzzle here from what looks to be the brand empowered. Oh, no. It's by puzzles of color. I think It's a nice image. It's not really my style, but I don't know Again some more random images here Oh, that's pretty night and day puzzles. I think I have one of those at home That's another night and day one That's really pretty I actually have this one at home But I think it's actually a 1500 piece that I have. I don't know this I might even only have this as 750 This one I actually completed and did for Christmas And if you haven't seen that video, I'll leave a link down below. We have one from Amy Stewart here. That's really pretty There's another Amy Stewart image here Quite a number of them actually Oh, I really like this Charles wassaki image. Look at that. That little old couple here That's probably me and my husband in the future And our 50 random cats And a dog and some chickens Oh, this isn't my retirement Oh, we got a nice moulin image here. I don't actually think I have this one. This is 750, but again I'm really I really don't want to spend a lot of money on puzzles At this point from brands that I already have quite a number of. I'm really just trying to look for Things that I don't have Oh, that's pretty though. I love this image Look at all those houses Now we have some of these 1000 piece seco puzzles that are They're called easy hold easy to hold larger sized pieces for easier handling This is nice. This is a 30 by 24 image. So yeah, these are pretty significantly large pieces and that's the actual piece size so This is great if you don't like working with really small pieces or if you have a time working with those This is a nice snow white image, but again, it's seco I'm not feeling seco right now. They have another one of these easy to hold Puzzles here. That's a beautiful image. You know, that's my house Oh, look, that's my cat gizmo All right, these two I already have We have a marvel These are getting more into the 500 piece sets 1000 piece pokemon. What's this one? Oh, that's fun This is Now this is mickey mini in mexico That is so cool. This gives me up cop vibes for some reason. I love this one. I know that's tempting They actually do have quite a number of disney ones I have that one already Well, I do not have that's tempting. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. This is beautiful. Oh, wow. This would be really hard to do This one is called mickey and mini sweetheart bridge. Oh, I love this one The only other brand I see here is spin masters Which I mean, I'm not a huge scrabble person Not feeling it Not feeling it and then down here is just more 500 piece puzzles. That's fun. Look at that What brand is this? Oh, it's a gallison Interesting. This is fun Oh, how much are you? Oh, this is tempting This is something I don't have And it's only 500 pieces. This could be a quick one I mean, I think this looks pretty challenging with all the rides in the background, but that looks fun Hmm, that could be amazing. I don't know For some reason these gallisons are open The bag is in the poster. I have a boaster. So I don't know We should see I'm gonna have to price check this one. I have been wanting to pick up a gallison puzzle. So that is a huge possibility Let's see. We have more of the same disney ones here. These are pretty much repeats at this point Oh, look at this tangled one That's beautiful Oh, I love that These night and day ones are really pretty. I love the use of colors here. So vibrant That's really nice We have something here from the african-american expressions And I think this is actually the name of the company or brand. This is interesting Phenomenal women 500 pieces. That's cool. It's a big piece size as well Interesting. That's something to look more into And then down here, we kind of just have some sets thrown in. It's kind of a This is kind of a disaster down here. I don't think I can really pinpoint anything specific These are more like smaller piece puzzles and some Tubes filled with puzzles. Interesting It's kind of a big mess That's pretty much it. Anything that's behind the boxes is basically repeats. So I don't know Oh, this is nice actually, but I kind of have these already I hate how they make these sets where they kind of have the same puzzles In different ones. So it doesn't really give you like a variety I don't know. It's strange the way they do these four four Set boxes We have star wars. Oh, wow. Look at that. Thomas Kincaid That is beautiful. This is 2000 pieces. What brand is this? Siko. Oh my god. This is super fun Hawaiian food truck festival a 2000 buffalo piece set This is awesome. That looks fun. I want to be there. I want to be partying. I love food trucks Got another one of these siko sets here, but I have A couple of those sets already in bigger count puzzles and the rest here I don't know Nothing nothing too interesting aside from that Hawaiian food truck festival. That one's really cute I don't know how much it is though. I'm not seeing a price. It might be 15.99, but everything is such a mess here I can't really tell Anyways, let's figure out. I don't know I doubt there's Any more puzzle sets anywhere This seems to be pretty much it but other than that I don't know. We shall see but I still don't know if I'm gonna pick up anything from here So I don't know. I keep saying so. I don't know what to do. Anyways guys, let's get out of here Back home now and as I was changing into my house close I couldn't really stop thinking about how Kind of poor the selection was at Michael's But then again, I don't really know what I was expecting For some reason I kind of thought that it was going to be as grand of a selection like there is a hobby lobby But as you saw that was in the case, which is fine. I'm not mad about it. I'm glad that I know now Now let me know down below if any of you have shopped out of Michael's for puzzles in particular Does your location have a better selection than what mine has or is it just the same or Worst does it even have one it may very well just be you know, not the greatest place to shop for puzzles in general But anyways, I did stop by a target as you saw afterwards and They had a okay selection and they definitely had more of a variety with brands Now also, let me know down below if you like to shop at target for your puzzle sets And if you do does your location have a bigger selection than what mine does Because I'm pretty sure in the past my location used to have a much bigger selection Or pretty much I remember there being multiple areas within the store that had puzzle sets And it's just that one little area now So I don't know are they like doing away with puzzles or something or they just don't care about them anymore I'd be curious to know what your location is like But anyways Unsurprisingly, I didn't buy anything at Michael's But I did pick up a couple of sets from target that caught my eye And the first one that I picked up is called summer amusement park It is 500 pieces and it is 20 by 20 inches when it's completed now I've seen two company names here. I see good puzzle co And I see that this is by gallison, which now that I look at the back of the box It does say that it is manufactured by gallison So i'm guessing you would consider this a gallison puzzle Right good puzzle co looks to be good puzzle co I I don't know actually is that the name of the collection or the series by gallison I'm not quite sure where to find this information on this box. Oh, I see here now. It says designs I'm guessing the design of the puzzle or the image itself is by good puzzle company Honestly, I don't know if I'm totally wrong. Please let me know down below and set me straight, please But anyways, I absolutely love this image and aside from the fact that this puzzle basically checked the box of You know being from a brand that I don't currently own The image is fantastic. There is nothing I love more than going to amusement parks I absolutely love the artwork in this image. It's super colorful. It looks fun And I love how not only did he show the rides, but look he's got some food stalls as well I don't know what I love more about amusement parks the rides or the food And you know that I'm in this image here because look there. I am waving to you.  That's so cute. You know, but while you're letting me know down below What your michaels and targets are like feel free to share with me What's your favorite thing about amusement parks? Do you like the food? Do you like the rides? Could you care less about amusement parks? You know me. You know where I wish I was right now I do anything to be at disney world right now and universal too This will probably satisfy my like amusement park jollies while I'm you know putting it together Oh, but then again, I am going to Hershey park in a couple of months. So that'll be fun I'm pretty sure whilst I'm there. I'll be scoping the gift shops and seeing what new puzzles have arrived No, I have to stop Now, please hit that like button if you are trying to not buy puzzles every time you walk into a store like me Look, honestly, I really shouldn't have bought these two puzzles today because you know times are rough And I really need to get serious about budgeting But you know what? I'm not going to think about that right now because for one, I've already bought the puzzles So let's just enjoy them. Anyways The next one that I got is you're gonna be surprised because I kind of did say that I wasn't gonna buy this brand But then I was like, you know what? I changed my mind Silly me. The next puzzle that I bought is by seco And the name of this puzzle just looks to be disney princess But it's obviously snow white in the seven dwarfs But anyways, this is 1000 pieces and it is 30 inches by 24 inches when it's completed Now, I know you're saying why did you buy seco? You said you weren't gonna buy seco anymore for a while What's your problem? Well, I'll tell you what my problem is What caught my eye with this one aside from the fact as I have said, I've really been itching to buy a disney puzzle Yeah, it's not tomas kinkade, but it's still disney What caught my attention with this particular set was that this is from the easy to hold sets So these are larger sized pieces for easier handling and target did have a number of these particular sets But of course I had to go with the disney one even though the other ones now that I think of it were a lot prettier Anyways, now, I know you're probably like whatever easy to hold But the reason why I wanted to try this from seco was because I'm very curious to see If there is any difference in terms of how these puzzles fit together Do they feel different? Do they hold together much better than what they do with the other basic seco sets? Because you know, I always have issues with like loose fits and popping pieces. So this was more of you know I was I was just a little curious I want to see if this is going to be any different compared to the other seco sets I mean, who knows it might still suck. I don't know but at least I can say hey, I tried it, right? But anyways, aside from wanting to experiment with these kind of pieces. I mean It's snow white. It's a fantastic image You pretty much have your typical scene here of snow white in the seven doors Everyone looks to be having a really good time. I think I mean, I don't know really Sneezy looks like he's having an allergy attack doc and bachel seem to be staring into space Sleepy looks bored out of his mind and I don't know what the heck snow white doesn't even seem to be paying attention to the doors She seems to be more interested in the animals But anyways, aside from all that what I don't seem to understand is why does no one seem to notice that the Evil queen or that witch in the background is kind of creeping on them I mean, not even the animals notice what's going on here and grumpy stood right in front of her That's kind of careless. Anyways, aside from that, this is a fantastic image. I love it. It's just like watching the movie I'll probably have the movie playing in the background while I put this together. So this is gonna be fun I love disney puzzles.  It's better than nothing, right? Even when times are rough But again, it's always nice to treat yourself every once in a while So if any of you guys have any of these puzzle sets Or if you happen to have any puzzles by gallison or any of these easy to hold ones Let me know down below what your experience has been like And if you want, let me know which image or set that you did because I kind of like to look them up and see what you guys I've been working on now If you want to see me put these sets together or any of the other Tons of puzzle sets that I have be sure to subscribe if you're new here. Well guys Thank you all for watching. Hope all is well and I will see you in the next one


Well, hello everybody and welcome to Vlulay Day 6. As you can see, I am at home. It is the middle of the day.  I've just had a really bad migraine. So I woke up about one o'clock in the morning with a splitting headache and did the medicine stuff and then woke up at like three and it was worse. And I typically wake up at like 445, 5 o'clock every morning and I was like, there's just no way I can make it in like, I could hardly look at my cell phone screen because of the light and all that. So it is about a few minutes to three and this is what I'm normally off at work anyways, but I've been kind of up and around doing things. I took the dog on a walk and got my video published for my vlog and posted a couple of things on Instagram that I needed to post. Today, I thought it would be kind of fun to do a Q&A video. I've gotten a lot of questions. I feel like this is gonna be like a really long video. So grab a snack, let's hang out and I will answer some of your questions. So let's start with the YouTube questions because at the end of yesterday's video, I had asked if you guys had any questions, let me know in the comments. So I also did the same thing on Instagram and then most of my Instagram's post to my like favorite Dot or Emily Facebook page. So there's a couple of you guys that had put some things on there too. Questions from YouTube. If Doyle could talk, what would he say was the biggest surprise and his new home had to offer? It's worded a little bit weird, but I understand where you're going. I don't know, I mean all of the furniture besides the dining table and chairs is all stuff that he would remember. So there's really no new furniture. I guess it would probably just be the space in general. He's been kind of just hanging out on the like sofa bed thing and then also like my bed upstairs, which is totally normal and then is like really creeper spot. He's been hanging out up there too, but right now he's actually on the sofa bed thing right over there because I'm downstairs. Another question from YouTube. You had mentioned in an older video that you had filed for bankruptcy. Yes, that is true a long time ago. And another about job loss. Did you ever think you would be owning your own home? She says, I filed about eight years ago. My husband wants to buy a home, but I'm not sure. How do you overcome that fear? I think a lot of people may have or are going through the same experience. Thank you. Okay. Yes, I filed for bankruptcy several years ago. I don't remember the actual year. Let me think back. I think it was 2008 or was it 2009 once it was all done. It took like a really long time. I remember that like once I actually put in the paperwork it just took a really long time because you had to do, well, when I did it in the state that I lived in I don't know if it's like different from state to state or whatever. You had to go through like all these classes and stuff and whatever. But yeah, so how did I overcome the fear? I completely changed the way I saw money after that. I just knew I like never wanted to be in that courtroom ever again. It was like really, really like a humiliating process for myself not to make anyone else feel bad about it. That was just my own like experience with it.   So they don't teach you that in school by the way, which is like insanity. I don't know how schools, including public schools, which is what I went to, don't teach a thing about personal finance at all. Like nothing. So I don't know, I guess the way I got over the fear was being consistently, I don't want to say good with money, but like managing my money well and feeling confident that I could manage my money well, regardless of a job loss or whatever. And the next, the other question she asked is did you ever think that you'd be owning your own home? Yes and no. Yes, I always had the dream to own my own home by myself, but I always thought that for some reason, and I think this just comes with, I don't want to like bring gender into it, but I really feel like this, for me personally, and I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way and if you're starting to write in the comments, just don't. But for me personally, I always felt like I had to have a man, if you will, to save me isn't the right word, but help me along the way, like I couldn't do it by myself. And I think that just comes from like my own brain, like my parents never said that to me and no one ever said that to me. I think it's just like societal things that in my brain I always just thought like, oh well I'm this like woman, I can't do it. I don't know, I mean it's hard to say these things on the internet because I know that it's probably gonna create issues like down in the comments, but that's just genuinely like kind of how I felt for a really long time. And then once I really like got my act together financially and like figured out that I could save money and I could do this and I could not rely on a spouse or a man to take care of me and I could just take care of my own four walls, like it was a very empowering feeling. So I think I just needed to like get over my own problems before I could move forward. I hope that makes sense. This is a really great question. When you didn't wanna stick to a budget, how did you push through the budgeting sucks moment? The way that I thought about it was, do I want, let's just say I'm gonna go with the sheet of stickers, right? Just it's sitting here on my dining table. Do I want this sheet of stickers more than I want whatever goal I was trying to attain? So let's say home ownership. No, I don't want this sheet of stickers more than I want home ownership. But if I didn't kind of have a goal and like tell myself in reverse what was happening, I wouldn't have been able to achieve the goal. So like, do I want this top more than I want home ownership? Whatever your dream and goal is, maybe it's to retire early or maybe it's to fund your kid's college or go on a trip or whatever. You have to ask yourself when you're at the grocery store or you're at the shops and you're buying stuff. It's like, do I want this more than this other big thing? And the answer is probably no. So that's the way that I really had to change my mindset when I was trying to buy things or going through those slums where it's like, oh, I really want that, but maybe I shouldn't. Someone just commented, you should totally do another drunk plan with me. Even my husband ended up watching. Okay, I will at some point. I don't know when, but I've got like four bottles of wine in my wine cabinet thing up there. So I'll have to do it for you one of these days. All right, so next question. Where is my favorite place to vacation? Honestly, the only place I go to vacation is Florida. I like it because my parents are there. I mean, they're here right now, but my parents are there. And then I also have extended family. So I have my aunt and some cousins and their spouses and their kids and stuff. So that's always fun. But I don't have a place to like vacation vacation to just like do nothing, I guess. So I don't, I don't know. I'm like so boring. Then someone also asked about the food place closing down and saying, is there a reason why they're closing? Yes. So it's a family owned and operated business and has been since like the inception of it. The original, not the original owner, but the owner that owns it right now, that's really like not his passion in life is to own and run a restaurant even though it's successful. So really no one else in the family wanted it and had the desire to take it over. Everybody else has different passions and he wanted to open up a martial arts studio which he has been doing on the side for quite a long time but he is making the jump to doing that now full time and then essentially dumping the business. So they didn't actually sell the business. They sold the building. The new restaurant that's going in there, it's another restaurant that's going in is not gonna be serving Chinese food. I don't know what kind of food they're gonna be serving but it's not Chinese. I know that. So let's go to Instagram and there's like 40 questions already and I just posted this like a couple of hours ago. Okay. You guys, come on. All right. Ooh, this is a doozy. First one out of the gate. My first question is why don't you wanna have kids? Okay, let's put the phone down for this. Hmm, let's see here. I don't wanna have kids because I've never had the desire to.  And a lot of things in life, not just children. I've never seen myself as a mom and I've never seen myself with kids. Like that was just kind of something that like didn't fit in my world. Like, and I know that's really difficult for a lot of women to understand because I think a lot of women are like kind of like what I was talking about earlier. Like, I feel like we're kind of like pre-programmed and have these ideals in our brains and things get ingrained in us. And you know, sometimes you gotta just like get over the stereotype and make your own decision. And I did that very, very early on. When I was in high school, I always thought, okay, I would get married and I'd be a mom and that's just the way it would be. And then there was like a shift that happened about when I was, I think like a 17, 18, 19, 20, like somewhere in there where I was just like, this seems like so undesirable to me. And I don't wanna offend any like mothers or fathers out there, but I just, I couldn't see myself having children ever. So I hope that makes sense. It's difficult to describe. Oh, and she also asked if you were to find a soulmate who wants kids, what would you do at that point? We wouldn't be together. That's what would happen. We just wouldn't be together. That's like if somebody says, well, I wanna live in Australia. And then I say, well, I wanna live in Alaska. Okay, well, either we're gonna compromise on something or we're not, you know, I guess it really just depends. I have had a relationship like that where the guy I was dating for, I think we were together for like three years. And I was in my 20s at the time. So I was like, maybe I wanna have kids. Like, I don't know. Like, I didn't really like stand up for myself enough in that and I probably should have. But in the end, it was all about the relationship moving forward and he wanted to get engaged and get married and have kids. And I was just like, whoa, no, thank you. He went off and got married and had kids and that's what he did after that. And I'm very happy for him because he got absolutely everything that he wanted out of life. And I had to kind of like let him go. I mean, I loved him and I still have like love for him in a platonic way, but I knew I couldn't give him what he needed from me. You know, like if that's what he really wanted out of life, like I wanted him to have that because I cared about him.  And I'm also 36, which means that if I were to find somebody right now, which I'm not dating, but if I were to find somebody right now and say it takes two, three years to figure out if you wanna be together forever, I'm almost 40 at that point. So it becomes increasingly difficult to birth your own children. Not to say at 36, it might not be possible for me. I don't know. I've never, I've never inquired, I guess. But I have had friends that have had a lot of fertility issues even earlier in life than I am in right now. So it's just not something that I desire at all. Someone asked, what's the most awkward question you get asked?  Like something is wrong with me.  So why aren't you doing it? Someone asked celebrity crush. I don't really have one. I don't know. I don't like watch enough TV and movies to like have a crush. I don't know. I don't know if I would freak out. I probably wouldn't say anything because I'm just that person that just like doesn't say anything. And I have my mom can attest to this in the comments if she comments on this but I have met tons and tons of different like celebrities and movie star people and I don't know, just random people in my life. And I just kind of don't care. Like I feel like they're normal people and if you can be normal around them it's a little bit easier for them. Like if I were in their shoes and doing a job that they do, you know the immense pressure that they're under whether they're like a sports person which I don't know anything about sports anyway or like, you know, in movies, TV, whatever. The last thing I would want is in my downtime say when I'm out somewhere or going and buying something or at a hotel or whatever is someone walking up to me and freaking out. I would just be like, ah, but I'm just kind of an awkward person anyway but which is why I'm not a celebrity at all and nor would I ever want to be a celebrity. But I feel like the more normal you can be around somebody, if you meet them, the better that it is even if you're freaking out inside. But I think if I ever met, I don't know, like I don't have like one person that I'd be like, oh my gosh, I totally freak out. I would just be like, oh that's cool. Like I don't know, I mean, we're not, like I have this, I don't have like this fantasy brain where it's like, oh if I meet this person we're gonna be best friends forever and we're gonna like exchange phone numbers and braid each other's hair. Like no, like that is not going to happen. It's just like absolutely no way. So that's a hard question. I have no idea. Let's see, next question. Have any of your viewers stopped you or recognized you in person besides Jodi from Life's Organized Chaos or people at the Planner Crawl. So like the Planner Crawls, like the Minnesota Meetups. Yes, actually, one time. And I thought maybe I'd met her before or something. It was at the Dave Ramsey event, that marriage and money event that was hosted by Les Parrot and Rachel Cruz. I was a volunteer there and I had like put that in my plan with me. This gal came up and said hello to me and I thought maybe she was a volunteer but she wasn't like wearing the volunteer like t-shirts that we got. So I was like, do I know her?  And I'm like, okay, hi. Like I thought maybe I had like seen her before already cause people were like starting to come in. And I was at the booth that was like selling all the merchandise. So like the Rachel Coors wallet and like all the books and like the CDs and DVD packages and stuff. So I was like, well maybe she came up here before and I just, I don't remember. Well then at the end she tells me like, oh, I'm a viewer, I've been watching you for a while and then it started to get like really busy. So then I wasn't able to like talk to her. So I felt kind of bad, but that's the only time. Next question is, what is your favorite splurge meal? Definitely Dragon House. Someone also asks, are you interested in dating and do you date? Am I interested in dating? Sure. Do I date? No. I know the follow up question is probably why but they didn't ask and I will probably answer why right now. The why is I haven't found anybody that's worth going on a date with. I feel like once you're my age, I'm like I said before, I'm 36. The pool gets like smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller because most people my age are married or they're just getting out of a relationship or they're getting divorced or just got divorced and they're just looking for another mother for their children.  You know, if you've got kids I don't have a problem with that but I'm not a replacement mother because they already have one and she lives down the road, you know? Like I don't, I put myself in those kids shoes. I wouldn't want that for them even though I don't know them. Like, I don't know. So I guess in short, if I were to find somebody that was worth spending my time with, sure I would date but I haven't found that. So if you know of anybody, well, I know. All right, so the next question is did you keep a credit card to build credit to buy your house while you were saving? Yes and no. I did keep a credit card. My credit card is still currently open. I need to close that. I haven't used it since I put the offer in on my home that I'm currently sitting in. So it's been several months since I've actually used it. And what I would use it for is one tank of gas in my car a month and that was it. So my credit card bill was usually about $20 to $30 depending on the place I filled up and how much gas was at the time. The reason I did that is because I started looking in December and I knew probably within that next calendar year I was going to be purchasing a home but I didn't wanna close my credit card because it can take anywhere. There's no real formula. That's the issue. Some statistics say it can take six months to get your credit score down to zero. Some of them say it takes two years. So I didn't wanna go in with like a 200 credit score and like not get approved for a loan. So I just decided to keep it. I would say if it's like, if you're about two years or more out from or like a year and a half to two years out from buying a home and I actually responded to somebody's private email today about the same question is I would close all my credit accounts if I didn't need them and just say goodbye to the plastic. Just say goodbye to it. And then you can go to a place like Churchill Mortgage which is where I went and they can do a manual underwriting on you. You know, you're not gonna be able to go to like a normal bank to get a mortgage but that's okay. There's other places that do the manual underwriting cause that's what they used to do back in the day before, you know, credit scores and all that good stuff. Is your nephew Jackson Phil's son? Yes, he is. Oh, this person says, you have to jump on a plane right now. Where to first? I don't know. How did you decide on getting a Shiba? What's your favorite characteristic of a Shiba? The reason, okay, so a long time ago I did a video of like a doggy Q&A or something. If I can find it, I'll post it down below for you guys. Answers all the questions about the dog. My high school boyfriend, his name is Jay. Hello Jay, if you're watching, I don't think he watches but maybe his family watches, I don't know. But they had a Shiba Inu growing up and in high school we dated and he had this nice little dog named Merlin which was a Doyle dog, same color and everything. And he was just the nicest dog. He was just very respectful and just very chill and a very cat-like which I liked. I had a lot of other friends that had dogs that were just very aggressive and jumped up on you and I didn't have animals growing up so I didn't like, that kind of freaked me out and I knew I wasn't like a fan of cats. Sorry to all the cat people out there but I just knew I wasn't a fan of cats. When I met Merlin for the first time I was like, this dog's cool. And then Jay and I dated kind of like off and on for a few years in high school. I mean, we were friends first. We were friends for several years before we ever dated. So I knew of Merlin and I'd been to his house before and met Merlin and all of that. That's how I decided on a Shiba Inu. And what's my favorite characteristic? Probably because they're, I probably like them a lot because they're very independent and they don't need a lot of, I'm gonna say work. Like Doyle right now is sitting on the couch just lounging so I really like that about Shiba's that they're very independent and they kind of just like do their own thing. This next person says, do you get fed up of people constantly asking why you're single? I know I do and I really enjoy being on my own which seems to freak people out for some reason. Yeah, yeah, it's irritating. And the most irritating part is like having to explain it to, you know, grandparents or like aunts and uncles or cousins or whatever that just don't understand it because they're in a, you know, relationship. I mean, and I feel like everybody in a relationship wants you to be in a relationship at least the people in my life and because they want you to have what they have like I'm missing out on something but I'm like, nah, I'm not, I'm fine. Like I'm okay with the choices I've made in life. Like it's, I'm good, okay? And this gal says, you can star in any film ever made which one and what character? And she says, I'd be Scarlet O'Hara. Well, if this says anything about me my favorite movie of all time is Silence of the Lambs I would not want to be Clary Starling. So I guess that answers that question. Another gal asks, are you planning on making any career moves or are you happy with your current job? Super random question I know but I love watching your videos seeing how organized you are and how you get shit done is super motivating for me. Well, thanks. As of right now, I'm happy with my current job. I am a person that says never say never. I don't know, I don't know where I'm gonna end up. I have no idea, but we'll see. Someone asks, what's your favorite store to shop at? Target, of course. What is your favorite and or least favorite thing about living alone? My most favorite thing about living alone is I can do whatever I want whenever I want. And my least favorite thing, I mean, I guess maybe not, I don't have someone to like share the responsibilities with with like general home maintenance, I guess. I don't know, but I don't need that. Someone asks, why did you choose your YouTube name, favorite daughter Emily? I'm guessing it's a family nickname. You are right. My mom and dad have myself and my brother. So they have a favorite daughter and a favorite son. And they have called me that my whole life and they've called my brother that his whole life. And it's kind of a joke. So that's where the name came from. How has it, if at all, your planning style changed over the years? When do you think you finally found your groove? That is a good question. So decorative planning is what I'm sure that you're talking about in the fall of 2015. Whenever I started planning, I can't remember. It was a couple of years back. So yeah, 2015. As soon as I got my first Chrissy and Design stickers, I will leave her link below. I definitely found my groove into functional stuff.  And then I found Chrissy and Designs and everything changed. And I still love Chrissy and Designs and I use her all the time, but I have found other sticker shops and really just like got into my groove of what I like and what I prefer and all of that. Really what helped me along. Also following Instagram, like anyone on Instagram that does planning and shows their pictures and stuff. Follow them and see what your style is and try it out. I mean, you try it out for the week and if you don't like it, you know, move on to something else. Why did you pick the name Doyle for your doggo? Does it have any significance? Yes. Okay, so the guy I was dating at the time when I got Doyle was a huge poker fan. So he would watch incessantly the World Series Poker. There's this old dude with a big cowboy hat on named Doyle Brunson. And I always knew that I wanted, cause Doyle was my dog and he always was my dog, but my boyfriend at the time had some say in the name. And I originally wanted to name him Marvin. He didn't like the name Marvin and I really wanted like an old man name. And so we were watching the World Series of Poker like we do all the time. Or like we did all the time, I guess I should say. And Doyle Brunson came up on the screen and I was like, what about Doyle? And he's like, yeah, I like that name. So that's actually how we got his name was from Doyle Brunson. Where will you and Jodie be meeting? And now that the dragon house is closing, I don't know, we talked about it last night. Her vote is here. She wants to meet at my place because she wants to like check out all the stuff in person. So I don't know. I think my place for right now, I don't know. Next question, what is your dream job? My dream job would be to be doing this full time, YouTube. This would be awesome to just share my life and experiences and build this community. And I think that would be a really cool job. Next question is, do you use your monthly view of your planner? We rarely see it. Well, there's a reason you don't see it just because I don't use it. So that's why.  No. What is your favorite craft slash planner store in Minnesota? Probably Crafts Direct in Wait Park. I will put their link down below if you'd like to take a peek. If a movie were made about your life, who would you want to play you and why? Such a hard question. I don't know. I have no idea. So this one kind of asks similar questions. Kind of. There's a lot of questions. Okay, first question. Why don't you want any children? I already answered that. Is that hard explaining it to men? No, because I say I don't want any children. And then we either proceed or we don't proceed, I guess.  I already answered that. Why did you meet Jackson so late in his life? Okay, well, let's talk about this. I didn't know Jackson existed until a couple of months after he was born. My brother was out of the state. Heidi was pregnant with Jackson and then also when Jackson was born. I was also living in North Dakota out of the state. My brother had still never met Jackson either. So I felt that it would be kind of weird if I was the first person to meet Jackson. I was kind of like my brother's job to meet his son for the first time. You know what I mean? So I waited until Phil actually met Jackson to then meet Jackson. So yeah, that's why. Oh, and then she also said, what happened to painting your nails? Life happened and I haven't painted my nails in a really long time but hopefully I can start getting back into it once I get the house settled and everything. Next question, do you still have a good amount of savings after purchasing your first home? Yes, I still have six month worth of expenses in my savings account and I ain't gonna touch it. Someone asked, what were you like in high school? Do you miss it? What was I like? I don't know. I was odd and I was quirky and I was friendly but I was weird and I was outgoing. I don't know. I guess I was me like I am right now but like really, really excited. I don't know why but that's kind of like what I was like in high school. And do I miss it? No, I don't miss high school. However, I miss parts of it I guess. I wish sometimes I could go back knowing what I know now but I think if I knew what I knew now I would have had like no friends because I would have just had like a piss poor attitude about everything. So I don't know. I mean, I had a good time. It was fine. I was in activities and had friends and whatever, it was fine. Someone asked, do you use a separate planner to stay on track at work? Yes, I do. I use an hourly air and a condron and that helps me stay on track at work. I rarely actually show it because there's so much like client, personal client information on there and phone numbers and stuff that I can't really share it unless I like blur out 90% of it. So, mm. Have you thought about using a planner besides air and condron, maybe a happy planner? No, not really. I used like, what was it a day timer? Like an A5 or something back in the day like way before this like decorative planning thing kind of like took off. Like I'm talking about like 15, so years ago. And I used one of those for a really long time. And then I had watched Jennifer Ross on Pretty Neat Living for years. Like I started watching her like the first year that she started YouTube. And then she got into air and condron and I had like lurked for a long time. And I was like, well, maybe I should buy one. And then I did. And then it's like, then you guys know the rest of it because you saw all of it because it's all on the internet. So no, I've never thought about purchasing a different planner because it works for me. If it wasn't working for me, then yes, I would seek out a different planner for sure. And if it's, if air and condron isn't working for you, go look for another planner because the whole idea with your planner is you want it to work for you and your lifestyle. And if it doesn't work, it's not, it's not worth it. So it's time to move on. Next question. Is there anything you have not bought slash done because you were trying to save money that you regret not purchasing? No, I don't remember anything specifically that I was, you know, upset or regretted not buying because I was saving up for a home or saving up for things, not at all. I don't even remember to be completely honest. It probably would have been like that shirt I saw at the store or, you know, something at the grocery store, like something where I was like, ooh, that's not really in the budget, but should I? It's like, no, it's not worth going $5 in the hole on my grocery budget for this and not, you know, getting further and getting more traction into my home. And yes, it's only $5. But if I say that every single week or every single day or whatever, no, I ain't gonna do that. And then my friend, Kristen, puts in these comments and she says, how bad do you want crack pickles? And I want them very bad, Kristen. And she says, who's your favorite person in Boston? Well, me so, obviously. Don't tell Saki, okay? And then she says, if you could sports all the sports, which sports would you sport?  So Kristen's my friend that I went to visit out in Boston last summer and we've been friends for years and she's got two shibas. But yeah, she knows about my affinity for not sports. And I don't know anything. And her husband is like some baseball guy. I don't, I don't know. He like played baseball in college or something. So we like watched, I think we were watching, yeah it was baseball that we were watching on TV when I was there and he was trying to explain things to me and it's just like over my head, like I don't know. And then we did go to a Boston Red Sox game, which was fun and we got to drink, so that was a good time. And I got burnt there too, so yeah. But yeah, if I could sports all the sports, which sports would you sport? I'd probably sport NASCAR because I know a little bit about NASCAR. So I think that's what the sport would be. Ah, this is a good question.  That is a wonderful question. I have like actually two part answer for you. I am gonna be purchasing probably in the next, well sometime this month, I will be purchasing full bed and frame. So I need to do that because I have a guest coming this day at the very end of the month and I wanna have my guest room set up for her. So, but that's not like crazy expensive. That's gonna be like a few hundred dollars. Like that's not thousands of dollars. So my next things I wanna save up for is I wanna get a like leather reclining couch for my living room right over there. The ones I've been looking at are anywhere from like 1400 to like 2400. So I'm estimating about 2000 for that. I don't really know. Also a friend of mine is an electrician. So I'm gonna have him come over probably in the fall. I wanna live here for a little while and he's gonna switch out some of the outlets for me and also put in some different lighting fixtures and maybe put in new lighting fixtures in places that I don't have lighting. But that's probably gonna cost quite a bit. Just even in supplies. Like obviously I'm gonna pay him for his labor too but it'll probably take him a day to get everything done. But then we need to like go to the store together and then I can buy all the stuff. I'm not hiring like a company electrician. Like I'm just hiring him for the day. So I've already talked to him about it this past summer and said like, hey, would you be interested? And he's like, absolutely. Yeah, I'll just come there for the day. And you know, if you wanna feed me, that's cool.  But yeah, that's fine. So those are the two things I'm kind of saving up for right now with the home and that's really it. There's nothing else I can think of at the moment. Someone asked, are you still planning on having a renter? No, I was planning on having a renter if I had a three bedroom, but I only have a two bedroom. So no. And then they say, how do you set goals and plan? The best thing I can tell you to do, you're probably looking for some advice maybe, is to write down goals. If you write down your tangible goals, I feel like the goals are more likely to happen that way. And that's really what's helped me over the years. And then also think it out. If you get paid, say in a month, you get $2,000, for example, and that's your take home pay. If you wanna save up for something that's $10,000, you might not be able to do that in six months. So don't make your goals completely unattainable. Make them realistic and then kind of divide it out by how many months you have to save up for it or what your big goals are in mind and things like that. And maybe that'll be a little bit more helpful for you. But I feel like if you put pen to paper and write it down, it's more likely to happen versus some pipe dream that you're just kind of thinking about. Like, oh, well maybe I wanna do this.   It's like just write it down and make a plan and do it. Do you have a bucket list? If so, what's the one thing you would look forward to? I do wanna go to Alaska. There are some plans to possibly go to Alaska next year with my mom and aunt. So that's definitely a bucket list item. I don't really have anything else on the bucket list. I do wanna travel and I do wanna go to like Europe and do some things over there. I don't know what. I really would love to go to like Australia someday. I think that would be really cool. Basically, traveling would be on my bucket list but I just have like a whole laundry list of places that I would love to go. I need somebody to go there with, you know what I mean? So let's go to Facebook. There's a few, oh my gosh, there's so many more questions on Facebook.  This video is gonna be so long. I'm so sorry you guys. Oh, this is a good question. Where did you get your decorating inspiration for your new place? You were clearly organized and methodical about it. What is the process for inspiration slash planning slash implementation? Well, that's a good question. So my decorating inspiration really came from years ago, makeup by Tiffany D. I will put her channel link below as well as her blog below. I believe her blog is still up but she used to blog about home decor like all the time and I loved her style so much. And in several of her blog posts and I think videos about, you know, home decor and stuff she talked a lot about that she gets sick of things really fast and I'm the same way. So she would choose neutral decor so anything in any room could go into another room and kind of refresh it. So she doesn't have to spend a ton of money, you know, redoing a room. So say if she's got, you know, her guest room is like purples and blues or something. If she's got another room that's like reds and oranges like that kind of wouldn't like intermingle with each other. So she chose really neutral decor like whites, browns, creams, tans, grays, et cetera. And so she just like refreshes a room by just moving stuff around. And I love that idea because I'm on a budget as you know. And I wanna make sure that I really love all the stuff that I'm bringing into my home. And if for some reason I end up getting sick of it at some point, I might be able to just move it around and give it some, you know, breathe some new life into it I guess. That's why I choose pretty neutral stuff plus you know, just the Instagram culture I guess of the way things look. I mean, I don't have any kids nor do I want any.   I mean, maybe I'll mess it up someday, but not today. Let's see, have you been contributing to a 401K or is that your next baby step? I had contributed to a 401K when I was at my previous employer. My current employer does not offer a 401K or a retirement program. That is my next step. So by the end of the year, I will start contributing again. And then she asked, have you been recognized as the favorite daughter when you're out? I've already answered that. Where do your parents live in the winter? They live in Deland, Florida. All right, so someone asked, how do you watch live TV with no cable? Does your new antenna pick them up? Also, how did you clear your credit and keep up with current bills? Okay. All right, so I haven't really been watching my television to be completely honest. I don't watch a lot of TV. So that's why I got the little like flat antenna thing. I'm pretty sure I need to put like an antenna on top of my home. Other people have done it in my community. So obviously you can do it. So the antenna that I currently have doesn't pick up anything very well. I think I need that external antenna, like on the top of my roof, but I don't know, I'll figure that out. And it says also, how do you clear your credit and keep up with current bills? I guess I'm not understanding the question. Clear your credit. Does that mean get your credit score down to zero? If it means put your credit score down to zero, that just means that you have to close all your credit card accounts, but you can't close them until you have everything paid off. And then how do I keep up on current bills? I track everything. So I track all my bills and all of my spending and I do all of that on my Money Talk playlist, which I will put down below for you if you'd like to watch. And then how did you decide on a Shiba versus any other breeds? I already answered that one. Places you've lived in or places you would like to live in. I've actually lived in North Carolina before and I really loved it. And I would absolutely love to retire there again. I lived in a town named Wilmington and I had just the best time there and it was this cute little coastal beachy town and I would love to retire there someday. And someone else asked about the TV. I wanna know what you use to get cable and what shows you watch. Well, I don't have cable and what shows I watch. I don't really watch a lot of TV. I did watch last year, This Is Us and I'll probably watch that when it comes back, but you can watch it on the NBC app or online like in an hour after it airs. So everybody's asking about the TV. What channels do you get with your antenna? My antenna thing doesn't really work right now because I don't have the external antenna. Someone asked dream vacation location. If all expenses were paid, of course. I would love to go to like the French Polynesian and stay in one of those like over water like bungalow little tiki huts. I don't know are those like little huts. I don't think they're probably not tiki huts but they're just like those little huts. That would be kind of cool. Do you ever regret starting a YouTube channel? No, I actually regret not starting it sooner.  And it's weird, it's weird sitting here talking to nobody and if someone walked in they'd be like, what are you doing? No, I guess I don't regret ever starting the YouTube channel. I do from time to time end up having to delete comments and block users and things like that because they just say kind of hateful things. And I don't care if they say hateful things about me. It's when the audience gets involved. I don't want a lot of hate going towards that person if that makes sense. So I will delete Instagram comments because I see people not necessarily engaging with them but saying things about the other. I don't know. I just want a community of positivity. That's all I want. So from time to time I will end up deleting and blocking people if they've just got like nothing constructive to say and all that's happening is people are ganging up on them and it's like, just be done. I'm done, I'm done. Let's see, next question. How did you end up in Fargo? It was a job offer. So that's how I ended up there. Dream job, this. My longest romantic relationship. Three, three and a half years. Never gone longer than that. I don't know. It's like I hit the three year mark and you know and then it just like, oh goes downhill. What are your must haves for planning? Stickers and washi. Top five all time favorite shows or movies. Well, I already talked about Silence of the Lambs. That was a good one. TV shows, my so-called life. Anyone that's a 90s kid will know all about that. That was a good one. Dawson's Creek of course. Loved Felicity and like I watched that back now. Felicity, cause it's on, or I watched the whole season again cause it's on Netflix. Man, that show is whiny. I never really realized that, but anyway. But I still love it. I still love it. So what, that's four things. Another one. Sons of Anarchy, I really, really liked and I'm really sad that that's done now, but yeah. And then it says, does Sir Doyle shed? Oh my God, yes. He sheds like a madman. And the next question is boyfriend crushes? No and no. So I think that is going to be it. My battery light is flashing. So I am going to say goodbye, but before I do, let's go see the Doyle dog. Oh, there he is. There he is. Battery, stay with me. There's the Doyle dog. Whatcha doin' Doyle? Anyway, well I am going to go. Thank you guys so much for watching Blue Lie Day 6. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you have any questions, put them down below. All the things that I talked about will be down below. Sorry, this was such a long video, but I wanted to get through all your questions. So there you go. Hopefully I'll have a regular Blue Lie video for you tomorrow and you can walk around with me and do some laundry because it's Friday tomorrow. Yay. But I'm in a jet. Thanks so much for watching and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys.


Welcome back to another review and today it's not going to be in the review closet that's actually in there. It's going to be in this room. Why? Because let me just walk over here. I got this. Can we see it? There you go.  This is the base. This is the table. So this shall be now assembled. That is the plan. Let's time-lapse this and then the plan is to actually take all this out. You can see there's a massive mess here. I started taking my stuff out and this here which has a lot of my stuff on there as you can see here. I got a bunch of goodies here.  I got this out of the closet. The plan is going to be to take this out and put the table there so it can go up and down. I can put some stop motion stuff on there. I can put my VR stuff that's over there on there. I got some plans for this corner. Take this out and then rearrange things and then I can also review what's over there in this big box but that's going to come later. So lots of plans. Let's get to this table. This is the website and through Desk there you go. Link in the description of course. This is what they're offering. This is the desk that I got from them. These are the buttons. These are all the things that come with it. You can see some more photos and then the tabletop was this one. Again additional photos that I mentioned. This is what I got from them and this is sponsored since they gave that to me for review purposes but all my opinions are my opinions. They're honest and they are subjective of course. Spoiler. It's already set up. It's dirty. Quiet. More about that later. But the question is if you're watching this like why should you have a standing desk?  The thing is I've been working for about 20 years now and one of the things that I'm really picky about is ergonomics and the lifestyle in terms of being able to work for a long time uninterrupted without any problems. So when I sit I usually start an okay posture and then I devolve into like a goblin, smeagle type of posture and it's not good. That was kind of at the beginning and then at work we had standing desk and then it started to be like every hour I would stand and then I would sit and then when I had my office my home office with my Jarvis desk it's the same thing but they're pretty expensive and over time the prices have come down and actually pretty stoked about this one because the price is not that expensive and the quality is pretty good. Spoiler again more about that later. But the thing is if you're an animator and you have a home office and you have to set that whole thing up I highly recommend a standing sitting desk just because posture will be better. It's just a healthy lifestyle. I think when you have breaks and you change that you move around I get a clear focus. I feel like my productivity is better too I don't know. Might just be me. This is a subjective view but as an animator any type artists highly recommend anything ergonomics wise that's going to help you work better, longer, healthier in a more productive way if that makes sense but anyway my two cents why I should have this now what is this? It's time traveled back into the unboxing time way back and I'll walk you through the pros and cons about the desk and my experience with it. So let's take all of this out. Probably not the best idea to do this in the evening as the heater is blasting so I have to get my sweater off. So I'm going to put all of this here out this way and install it down here and then I'll see how this goes. Shouldn't be too bad. I got starter here starter desk that is what we're going to work with. So let's see how this goes. There is a specific price point to this but I wish this was not here upon unboxing here. Let's see that's a bit of a bummer right up the bat right but there are no marks either that has a top or bottom. I see some coloration differences here so I'm going to put this as the bottom the base right there. Pretty heavy it's promising that it's dirty the table not too bad we'll see how that goes. All right we got some pieces here that these two that looks like the motor here interesting and that is the whole thing I'm going to assemble all of that now to get onto the table. All right well here we are the desk is ready and it's it's pretty cool so this is the lowest level right up down it's pretty fast too and this is almost 90 degrees I would have to stand pretty sit pretty straight so I would have to adjust my chair all the way up a bit lower it's actually perfect so for me this works I like it again the speed is pretty fast and as you can hear it's not that loud to be honest I was expecting something a lot louder because the price is a lot cheaper than my other desk which is over there so that's my Jarvis it's super sturdy I love it and I put a lot of weight on this this has 70 kilograms which is I think 154 something like that 150 pounds it's not too bad either but I'm shaking obviously this but this is pretty sturdy so my gripes as you saw at the beginning were the scuffs right off the bat there was stuff going on on the corners which is a bummer and then I'm not quite sure why this is so loose there's nothing else maybe that's just to adjust I'm not sure that you need that kind of adjustment and it's kind of radially loose and I have one screw left and I checked everything and unless I have a screw loose but there's nothing there's nothing there that could attach this and there's a gap in between so I don't know there's nothing in the manual so it's probably user error or it's something just to adjust I don't know where you want it to be obviously this you got straps that come like sticky things so you can do your cable management I haven't done that yet because I'm not done yet with the adjustments but the scuffs on the side and this are the only two things where I thought that's kind of weird I mean the scuffs are bummer it's also a cheaper table but also lets you put any type of table top on top of it given you have to watch the the the low the weight of it but it's customizable in those terms that you can put whatever you want on there which is cool that being said it's massively offset by the sturdiness I'm really shocked because I wasn't to be honest I wasn't expecting something crazy good given the price point because a lot of other tables are fairly expensive when you want like sturdy quality and I was pretty shocked this is really sturdy and a lot more quiet than I thought speed is good all the way down I gotta say it's very cool I like the size because the one that I have is really big which I needed for all the monitors and all that good stuff that I have on there as you can see it's a pretty big set up there so like I said I'm gonna put this table over there that is not interesting for you to see or to watch it's just for me to kind of rearrange my my room so that's not really part of the review so I would say it's cool I recommend it minus the things that I talked about especially the the scuffs if you have maybe a darker table less of an issue I don't know maybe it's kind of like a work table where you don't mind that stuff if it comes out not super pristine that's a bummer other than that it's really sturdy the build quality is great it's not loud which is a big factor because you don't want to be with someone like you know it's your office next to someone's room next to a bedroom or some apartment or something and I think really loud so I was really pleasantly surprised by the sound and the build quality and what you get for the price I have to say that's the honest opinion I'm given this table for review purposes but they said I can say whatever I want this is an honest review thank you again for the table link in the description with all information if you want to check it out if you want to order it purchase it that's solely up to you go check it out I put all that stuff in the description page and that's that from me thank you for watching until a next review