My 1st attempt at at using a tripod for my phone to make vlogging easier. The goal is to help me create goals and share my process, learning how to create with one hand mostly. This is an attempt at uncut blogging talking about everything from Menopause, to New Goals And adapting to our ever changing, aging bodies!
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Vlogging on this gorgeous cool to warm November morning after a late late Surprise Campout Night. Because Craig Took so long to get to his "campsite," I ended up editing and creating a couple new videos for my blogs and YouTube channel all night long.This morning vlog, spontaneous as always, discusses why it's been so long discussing some life challenges. No, nothing to do with covid. Surprised myself discussing some new goals after battling some physical and other life challenges. www.walkinhwayoverrated@blogspot.com www.heartfullycreating.blogspot.com
Yay, a Surprise Campout, and life vlog time. One ongoing, topic is the issue regarding hiring new personal care attendants because a regular one declares they will be leaving us for 2-4. weeks, once or twice a year. ever since her first year. The challenge of hiring new care givers has been unique to say the least. I share why we seem to keep hiring attendants with not much scrutiny. It, what happens when you foolishly let an employee breach the Employee Agreement protocols. You end up having annual and now biannual anxiety attacks, afraid of having no one to hire. Compromises get made and we end up not finding keepers.
Our model employee hired over 13 years ago, and who returned to help while we hire recently, knew every summer she had to go away for 2 weeks so the first year, so she respectfully resigned far in advance. Respecting her decision, because she understood she could not expect to hold the position due to the length of time asked off. Due to her decency and. honouring her employer's protocols, she ended up working for us for over ten years and I accepter her help when I was short staffed, so she was always. able to leave for 2 weeks every summer. It always worked out.
Thanks to God giving. me insight, it is all clear why these past few years have been so compromised and mega stressful with worry. Hiring where we live takes lead time and you want employees who respect an follow the protocols they agreed to in their Agreement. My fault for being to intimidated to be more star about chunks of time off when you are the only one or main one. Especially when employment had just began.
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God knows and hears, sees all things. I am trusting in His care.'
Have any of you had these issues regarding hiring care dealing with hire care givers who disregard employee agreements? How did you handle it.
Hope you got something out of this vlog when you see it.
The Morning After Campout .(Means I Slept In My Wheelchair). What A Gorgeous September. Vlog Feel free to join us where we address everything from real life, well real life from our unique perspective. My husband and I both use wheelchairs. He provides my primary care, but due to his physical limitations, I also depend on Personal Care Attendants who assist mw with getting into and out of bed. If I am having to "sleep" in my power chair, 98% of the time it means I am short staffed and have to figure out survival with just my husband and myself and of course we know always under God's care and provision.
Thank you for stopping by! Before you say it, yes, I know this video is raw and an uncut vlog. After a night of trying to sleep in my wheelchair. I was excited to get outside to vlog. Beautifying myself was the least of my concerns. So ye, I have boogers! Hope you can look past them an just enjoy my home produced honest vlogs! Thank you for stopping by!
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Watch Today's rare adventure. I mean rare. Being a homebody, (artists are sometimes like that because we are in our studio or at home creating) and Craig and I being married almost 20 years next month, we don't do much together. Well other than daily living in our cute handmade house. We got to design this home to suit our needs and friends and family through Habitat for Humanity built it! Since it is so perfect, why would we need to leave it!
Because I do not know how to upload videos from my Samsung phone to make one whole video vlog, here are 6 short parts.
Watch Part 1: A Spontaneous Adventure And An Unexpected Find (WARNING Viewer Discretion Advised )
Watch Part 2: Craig Joins Me On My Adventure
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Watch Part 3 - Adventure Continues
(No Warnings On This Video - All Sad Parts Over)
Watch Part 4: An Adventure...Where Do We End Up?
Watch Part 6: Watch My Husband Defy Gravity
It's another night Camping Indoors. Which means I sleep in my wheelchair and Craig sleeps on the raised futon. I saw somewhere that taping your mouth shut, helps you sleep better especially if you have sleep apnea or snore. Before I Go to Sleep I made a request to my husband. Nothing surprises him!. I apologize For the severe grogginess , because, I was just about to fall asleep as we recorded part 2 my husband had to turn off the phone camera. Just another night in the life of us!
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A new vlog post video. Find out how the Alexa Echo Dot has given me an ability I didn't have before!
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Hi guys! Last night was the first indoor camp out in a week. At first I thought I was a little bummed that we didn't have one between last week and this week, but I must say after last night I'm glad it was a week apart. So about 530 this morning after my usual hour and a half of sleep or so, I vlogged a little around the neighbourhood babbling a little bit about hiring personal care attendants and other current events.
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Here is a short video of them.
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These caps were made using size 000, which. meant buying just a small 25 capsule maker. Don't be fooled, these devices don't do it for you, they just are devices that help make it easier.
My other two devices make one hundred. But since I don't like using them the way you are supposed to, I find the small 25 capsule maker faster and easier to use.
Come have some fun with us as we virtually or tastefully jet to Turkey.
Well, tonight we are preparing for another campout night now. How do we do that? Nothing special, just writing this. I am kind of hoping that by the look of the dark forbidding skies tonight, I might get to actually get out and finally watch a thunderstorm in the middle of the night! Normally, I have to just listen to them instead of watch. S yay, another Pro of camping out in my wheelchair. Stay tuned, I definitely will make a video if the storm comes.
Below is the last Campout Night when I was wandering around at 4am. If you really need a diversion,
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Definitely, raw and Uncut, a rambling middle aged woman. Most of it makes sense, just wanting to simply share this unique life we have. God has blessed me so much, even when some times may usually not seem so great. God works all things together for the good of those who love Him. Romans 8:28. (My paraphrase of that verse).
Sharing personal aspects of our life, is inspired by all the great vlogs we like to watch on YouTubers. Especially the ones who don't polish up their videos, but keep it real and honest, sharing their heart, finding them encoraging, and entertaining. As well, I kinda like to record these most unusual times for our own record.
In the olden days, I would write in my orange, 5 year kid size diary that my dear dad gave me in 1976. He had returned from working at the Summer Olympics in
. Nowadays, I get to do this, with some journalling (but not very much). Trying to keep it real, unedited and uncut and of course family friendly is my goal for our channel,
*NOTE about the video above. I apologize that clearly at 4am my thoughts are discombobulated and incomplete at times. Mind you, I am like that all day long too. It may be my ADHD. (I was diagnosed officially in my early 40's.) A follower asked me if I watched the video after I posted it. Not sure so far what they noticed, but I ralized that noticed a point I was trying to make was left incomplete.Just wanted to explain something valuable (to me anyway) that I heard from a Chuck Missler teaching series. But, I didn't get to the point and felt it was good to share the link to the video I was watching where he talks about how the Holy Spirit enables us to understand God's Word. Without Him, we can't. If you are interested Here is the LINK here to the episode I was watching. It was helpful to me.
Chuck Missler Episode One Through Bible in 24 Hours
The other night was a Campout Night. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have been blessed with seeing it. It was a total surprise to me. About 1am, I flew out the door and right in front of me was this incredible moon! All I had was my phone camera, so I started trying to capture it on video....Take A Look :o(
The frustrating part, no matter how I tried or where I went, my video and pics didn't show it's colour or hugeness. But hey, I got to see it, Here are some pics and a snippet video of it.
Bonus, one night through our living room window, with my faithful Canon Powershot, I was able to actual capture some moon details. Those are the great moon pics on this page.
Did you get to see the orange super moon?
Happy 2021 everyone. Hope and pray everyone is well and enjoying amazing weather if you live near us. Warm winters are something I love. However rare they may be.
Craig finally completed his railway painting and gave it to a dear friend. You can see the completed work on the video below!
So he has begun a new landscape scene in acrylic. I was experimenting with his iPhone to see how long it could record a steady stream and it worked well. Told him to regale viewers with his stories/life experiences while he worked.
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