Q&A this was fun!!!
Jul 8, 2018
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hey guys so you have all been asking for
QA and I've never done one before
obviously so I wasn't really sure how to
go about with it but I got a whole bunch
of questions I went on and I googled Q&A
things I don't exactly even remember
what I put in but something popped up
and had multiple questions so I thought
well you know that's a good way to start
it because I really don't know what kind
of questions to ask myself because
obviously I know myself so I'm just
gonna jump right in and answer some
questions and maybe that will give you a
little bit to know about me but I am
gonna go ahead and start by introducing
myself again and telling you a little
bit about myself just for the new
subscribers that may be as well you know
it hasn't seen one of my other channels
or my other videos sorry that had that I
had introduced myself at the very
beginning so anyways my name is Amy I
live in Salem Oregon I am married to an
amazing man I've been married for almost
nine years I have three beautiful babies
a ten year old and nine nine year old
gosh oh yeah a 10 year old a 3 year old
and a 2 year old my 3 and 2 year olds
are almost 12 months apart they're very
close they are basically Irish twins I
guess you call it a lot of people have
asked me that and to this day when I go
to the store and they're like boy are
they twins I just agree with them and
say yeah because otherwise I have to go
through the whole spiel about how am I
my son was only 12 weeks too old when I
got pregnant
yes pregnant with my daughter me and my
husband had went through some fertility
issues and it took a lot to get pregnant
with my my second son and so when I had
him I didn't think for sure I was gonna
get pregnant that easy and UPS well my
surprise was there and she was a
surprise I will have to show you sherry
with you guys my entire fertility
special story another time because it's
pretty fun and also share with you the
story about my ten year old so let's
jump into this Q&A and see what you guys
can learn about me any new
exciting things that you would like to
share well pretty much right now I'm
sharing with you guys everything that's
exciting to me right now learning this
new weight-loss journey it's not just a
weight-loss journey but it's a lifetime
journey because this is gonna be
something that I have to do for the rest
of my life like I just because I am
losing the weight doesn't mean this is
gonna cure me I'm always going to
struggle and I know I'm gonna always
travel just like a drug addict just like
an alcoholic they can't put themselves
sometimes in positions where it could be
temptation because they can
automatically fail because it's
something that they have had to deal
with in the past same with me so I'm
always gonna have to be up on the right
alert in certain situations because well
I can fail it too and and go right back
to the old routine and the old ways and
I don't want that for myself so right
now those are the really exciting things
going on with me are you a dog person or
a cat person well in previous years I
actually owned three dogs one was a
chihuahua teacup chihuahua her name is
Emma I had a lobster op so her name was
Lele and then I also had a shih tzu and
his name was Tucker and they were my
little babies I loved but I ended up
having now my ten-year-old at the time
baby and he was starting to crawl on the
floor and my 12 was just she just would
not potty-trained like it didn't matter
what I did she would never go outside
she always went to the bathroom on the
floor on the carpet and I got to make a
decision like okay am I gonna have my
son crawl around on a carpet that is
soiled and filthy or I'm gonna have to
place the dog for adoption like
somebody's gonna have to take her and so
when that happened I went ahead and just
made the decision to go ahead and put
all three up for adoption so that they
could all stay together because it
really broke my heart I didn't want to
break one apart from the other just
because they were all raised pretty much
all together the same ages so I guess I
could say I'm a dog person I'm really
not a cat person per se
um I have a friend of mine that just got
a cat and she's so cute but my husband
is deathly allergic to cats so to even
think twice about asking him for cat
he's gonna give me an ultimatum it's
either gonna be cat or me and at this
point I guess I'll choose him no I would
always choose my husband are you a fan
of any sports teams no I know my family
is really not as for T family I guess
you could say we'll watch stuff but it's
not like I'm head over one team to
another I that's just not really my
interest um are you a good cook well if
you want to consider box cooking good
meals
I guess I could say yeah no I honestly I
that would be one of the things that I
lock in is my cooking skills I try and
there are a few things that I can make
that are pretty good but for the most
part the cooker in my house is my
husband he loves to cook and he loves to
feed us all very good food especially
his Egyptian Mills those are amazing huh
um but if anybody's the cook it's gonna
be him it's definitely not gonna be me
are you a hoarder I'd like to say no but
I could be no I'm just joking um no I'm
not a hoarder I'm more of a person that
can't stand clutter so I will go on
these rampages where all of a sudden if
my family stuff is out of place it all
goes in the ground garbage bag and then
you know five months down the road
someone's gonna be like mom or honey and
I go up it's probably in that trash bag
because I couldn't handle the hoarding
so no I'm not a hoarder are you a
morning person or in night owl' right
now I mean normally I'm one of those
that when I wake up I wake up and I'm
good like it doesn't I don't it doesn't
take me 20 minutes or a cup of coffee to
wake me up I just never been that type
of a person but
with my kids anyways it doesn't make a
difference like I'm awake because
they're awake my littlest one well my
three-year-old he is a morning owl like
he oh my god is he's got that whole
early bird catches the worm type of
thing yeah he thinks he needs to be
awake before anybody but when he's awake
than he wakes everybody up he does not
be quiet so I've become an early bird
just because of my kids and night owl so
what you think about it Missy oh my gosh
look at your hair
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but when I earlier in in years I would
go to bed roughly around eleven o'clock
twelve one at the very latest
but lately because I've just had so much
on my mind it's so much brewing with all
this change that I'm going through I've
found myself being awake until sometimes
three four five o'clock in the morning
like just thinking and thinking and then
I've got you know my kids are waking up
and so it's like sometimes there has
been a few times where I've gone like 24
to 48 hours with zero amount of sleep
because I just can't let my brain shut
off and that really can pack in suck big
time
are you a I maintenance person no no I
mean I like nice things don't get me
wrong but for the most part no I I mean
materialistic things just aren't it's
not very important to me like I mean I
would rather have my family health and
love rather than having maintenance of
thinking that I'm too good for something
or that you know I need to have better
because well somebody else had better
sorry I'm shaking that around a lot I'm
just like left I got um but no I'm not
high maintenance I don't believe at all
I don't feel like I am are you more
likely to avoid conflict or engage it
head-on
so I guess I am on both sides of the
spectrum to that part because when it
comes to conflict I will run and hide
like I don't like conflict I don't like
people fighting I don't like
uncomfortable situations for myself I
don't like it so for me I I normally
will run and hide I'm for the first time
just now starting to learn I have a
voice and I can say if I like something
all right don't like something or if I
agree or disagree I do it very
respectfully don't get me wrong like I
would never be disrespectful I don't
believe in that I don't believe in
pushing mice you know what I feel or
what I think on somebody just because
it's what I believe so for for that
answer I guess I can say I'm on both
sides because sometimes I hate conflict
and I don't like it I I hate it with
everything in me
but sometimes there is a point where you
do have to face things head-on and you
do have to speak up for yourself because
if you don't you're just gonna get ran
over and people are just not gonna
respect you and you're rich your wishes
or your boundaries because you're not
speaking up about it
are you named after anybody
well my full name is Amy Lee and then my
married name so of course that had
nothing to do with it but my father's
middle name is Leon my grandfather his
middle name was Lee and my
great-great-grandfather sorry brain fart
his name is Ivan Lee so my middle name
was brought down through the Lee's of
course my father wasn't on my so my
great grandfather my great Mike I can't
even talk today my great-grandfather my
grandfather and myself all have the Lee
from each other but also my father's
middle name was Leon so together they
put it together and that's how I got
named Lee Amy Lee are you satisfied with
how you spend your money what would you
change
good question I used to be a spinner
spender spender like I used to spend
money on things that were just
ridiculously stupid like there was no
reason to spend money on some of the
things that I spent money on as I've
gotten older and as I've seen my life
changed my family dynamic change
responsibilities hit more I have higher
goals in life that I want to you know be
able to get to at one point which is
like purchasing a home and things like
that and be able to travel in things I
now would change so much from the way
that I spent money at one time I was a
child
oh gosh I cannot talk my goodness I was
a childcare provider for many years and
during that time there were times where
I would see seven and eight thousand
dollars come in a month from childcare
and you know me and my husband were
talking just not too long ago that where
did that money go like my god you would
think with the amount of money I was
making a month that well god I would
have a home bought and you know paid out
cars and you know I mean really honestly
if I was smart at the time and I really
invested my money were needed to go I
would probably be set for life but
because I was young dumb and selfish I
put the money where I just wanted to
instead of thinking about the future so
now yes and now you know I am retired
out from childcare I do not work I am a
stay-at-home full-time mommy and so now
I don't have that income coming in from
childcare my husband owns his own
business so you know he provides for our
family but it was nice at the time when
I did it I did it for 24 years total and
and in let me rephrase that so for some
of that 24 years I did work in a family
child care home but I started doing
childcare on my own where I was running
it my actual my own home was in 2011 and
they ran it from 2011 to 2017 and then
17 and then I just retired last
September from childcare so yeah there's
a little bit of that are you scared of
heights
I think because of my weight yeah
because I'm afraid that there's things
that will not hold me and I'm gonna fall
through so if I wasn't big then I don't
think I would have as bad of a reason to
be scared but because I'm afraid things
can't hold me right that's when I am
more scared that I'm gonna end up
falling through okay next question are
your grandparents still married on both
sides mom side and outside no on my
dad's side my grandfather passed away a
few years ago from cancer
my grandmother though is 94 years old
still going so strong I believe that
woman is gonna make it I want to say I
want to see her be here until she's
passed at least 105
she is so healthy for her age like she
really really is I would be devastated
if something happened to her because I
just love her to death she's so sweet
but she still goes and goes and goes all
the time she never stops and then on my
mom's side my grandfather passed away he
committed suicide back when my mom was a
child and so of course they're not
married anymore either next question can
you do splits oh my god what a question
um if I fall on my butt I probably would
end up in a splint but to do it on my
own
and now now when I was younger though
like way way younger back in the olden
days I was able to I was in gymnastics
and I was in ballet and so I was very
flexible back then actually so I was
able do splits and do it all but
as an adult he alright not gonna happen
describe yourself in a single sentence I
am fun-loving caring strong and
courageous do you believe it love at
first sight what a question and yes I do
I believe it love at first sight and
many many many reasons why but my my
very biggest reason would be me and my
husband we met over the internet was not
looking for somebody he was not looking
for somebody we just happened to fall
into the same area of chatting at the
time because back then it was chat rooms
and we both were in chat rooms that we
don't even think we would ever even end
up in but we ended up both in it and we
started talking and we talked every day
and we got engaged over the internet
because of course you know we weren't
together he's from Egypt I was from here
so of course that just wasn't gonna
happen in person and then we were
together for nine nine months no April
May June July oxygen no excuse me seven
months we were together and then I flew
back to Egypt and married him and we
have been happily married since so yes I
do believe it loved her at first sight I
believe with it a hundred percent
um do you belong to any warehouse stores
like Costco BJ's etc I actually because
you guys know I am a member of Costco
and I love Costco I have a love-hate
relationship so when I go in there I
spend money that I don't need to clearly
spin but they have such good things and
I love it so yeah do you have any
tattoos yes I do I have multiple tattoos
before I converted to Islam which is
another full story if you guys are
interested you guys can ask me but
before before I converted I of course
you know in Islam they require you not
to have tattoos but I did this prior to
that
so I have one two three four I have five
tattoos one on my wrist and it's just a
band nothing real fancy but I love it
and then I have a cherry blossom with a
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fairy kneeling down at it I have on my
other arm I have an island turtle to
represent my son because he's my little
turtle and then I have an island seen on
one lake and all my other leg it's a a
memorial for my father
and it just is American flag because he
was in the service and it says daddy my
hero and it has his date will his month
and year he was born in the month in the
year that he tattoos and that's kind of
my backstory I know a few people had
asked about my tattoos and so that's my
my backstory about it at this point in
my age I wish that I wouldn't have
gotten tattoos for the point reason I
just you know I would I just I wish I
didn't get him I am looking into
actually getting them removed not
because of any reason of religion or
anything like that nothing to do with
that
just because it was a time in my life
that I was at and I'm changed from that
and I just I would I really wish I
wouldn't have ever gotten when I did but
oh well life is life you move on and so
that's where I'm at with that next
question do you have a lot do you have a
whole lot of acquaintances or just a few
very close friends and why so I have a
lot of acquaintances and just a very few
close people to me and reason for that
being is just because that's just me I'm
an introvert so
to entertain someone to come to my house
it's very overwhelming I actually have
like I will literally have anxiety over
it because that's just my personality I
do great texting people I do obviously
great doing my youtubing that's my out
that's my output but um to actually like
sit down and go to lunch with somebody
or go shopping with friends I'm just not
that type of a person like I just it's
not because I don't like it it's not
because I don't like the person that's
just I don't know that's just me so I do
have a lot of acquaintances that I will
say hi how are you doing checking you
know and stuff but um to really say that
I have a lot of friends not really
no kind of keep to myself but it's
alright good excuse me
do you have any allergies I have
allergies to some medicines some
medications I can't take like morphine
morphine would probably make me drop
over and die but other than that no
there's not really anything that affects
me like in any certain way bad do you
have any birthmarks and if so where
we're not gonna talk about the birthmark
story we'll keep that one for another
day maybe but not today okay and then
for the next question you guys said I
got is do you hi do you have pets well I
kind of explained that in the question
where it asked if I'm a cat person or a
dog person
obviously I explained my husband's
deathly allergic to cats so that would
just be an automatic no dogs we would
like to get some dogs when we get
property because we would like to have
some outside animals but for inside
animals I know I had like I said those
dogs that I you know had prior to any
children and it was okay and all but I
just you know the smell of animals and
stuff just isn't appealing to me and
honestly I don't want the responsibility
of animals it's enough responsibility to
deal with myself and my kids I don't
need
extra responsibilities of animals so for
that answer a big now do you know any
triplets I I don't know them anymore but
I did care for a set of triplets when I
was doing childcare and that was pretty
interesting it was fun
there were challenging times because
when they're all doing the same things
like blah but it was awesome it was
something you don't see every day do you
know how to pump your own gas a big now
I hear an Oregon and in Oregon we do not
have to pump our gas so we do not pump
it I don't have any acknowledgement
about it in fact we went to Washington
last year for Mother's Day my husband
took me and my family up to Washington
and we wouldn't took Oh get gas and
we're all sitting in the car just
waiting and we're waiting for somebody
come out and pump the gas and we're like
God why is nobody coming out and then it
dawned on us uh we're in Washington you
pump your own gas my husband looked you
mean he's like Amy I've never pumped my
own gas I don't know how to do this so
we're just like how to play around with
it and fiddle with it until we figured
it out which we did and now yeah my
husband knows how to do it but I don't
and I would probably be completely lost
and probably break down and cry
somewhere if I had to because that is
just something I would not do or I guess
I could YouTube it because everything's
on YouTube
do you love dancing
like I mentioned prior times as a young
girl I was in dance class I love dancing
as my wait hey as my weight has gotten
more it's very hard to be mobile like to
be able to move in stuff but definitely
there's gonna be dancing in my weight
loss workout regimen I am gonna be
promoting some dancing because it's a
great way to get exercising and every
part of your body not just in one
section so I'm sorry my kids are being
loud do I love my job yes I do as now
that I'm retired I'm able to be that
stay-at-home mom that I've always
dreamed about and always wanted to be
and so yeah I like my job I love you
mommy
I love you know I love being a mommy I
love being a wife
there's always excitement somewhere not
all days are perfect but whose life is
perfect you know you're always gonna
have your days so but I love my job and
I would never want to change it to
anything else do you prefer kissing or
cuddling I prefer both really I mean I
think that affection is very important
with within your spouse and yourself I
if I didn't have that I guess I would
almost feel unloved so I prefer both um
do you prefer that people shoot straight
with you or temper their words and why
honestly it depends on the day the time
the hour I mean really it just depends
there's some days that I can handle
straightforward and there's other days
that it can really hinder the what the
work that I'm trying to do but for the
most part if you tell me your true
feelings I've got such a thick layer of
skin I usually can just let it roll
right off my back and and take what
needs to be taken out of the subject and
then move on
so I guess either way really either
either one do you prefer Titanic or The
Notebook Titanic do you really know all
the words to your national anthem nope
not because I didn't want to it's just
I'm horrible with like trying to
remember songs do you remember your
dreams sometimes I do sometimes I do and
sometimes I don't I don't normally talk
about my dreams with people I keep those
kind of private just because I don't
really believe in talking about your
dreams so yeah I do sometimes do you
save old greeting cards and letters or
throw them away I have to be honest with
you I usually throw them away the only
ones that I've ever saved are my kidses
cards that I've been sent for my
congratulations and things like that but
for the rest of them no because again
like I said I am NOT a hoarder
the can't stand clutter and that just as
a part do you see the head glass as
half-empty or half-full honestly it just
depends on the situation the subject
though is and to say if I see it as
half-full or half-empty
so with that one it just depends it's
like I'm not gonna say yes or no do you
sing in the shower no showers with me
are jump in jump out hurry up and get
your business done because you got kids
at the door screaming and banging and
wanting in so I don't have time for
singing do you sleep with the lights on
or off off do you spell the color as
gray G re Y or GRA GRA Y good question
I think it's GRE y I think now I'm gonna
be double checking that one but I think
that's how I do it um do you take any
pills or medication daily I do I take my
lexapro which is my my depression pills
I take those every single day and I also
take a multivitamin every day those my
only things I have you ever been to old
garden yeah I who has it I mean unless
you don't have it a wrap for you um but
I haven't been there for a while my
husband doesn't like it I had honestly
say like I said earlier he is the cook
of the house and he makes amazing
Italian food so for him it just tastes
fake to him which I'm not please don't
think I am bad I'm a bad mouthing Olive
Garden because personally I like it and
I've gone there with my friend but not
like as a family or as a date no because
my husband just doesn't really care for
it but that's okay it doesn't matter um
have you ever dated two people at a time
no have you ever had Indian food oh yeah
oh yeah my favorite have you ever had to
wear a uniform to school no have you
ever ridden on a motorbike no have you
ever seen Finding Nemo
Oh God if I only had to see it one more
time my daughter is so stuck on Finding
Nemo that we watch that movie
least at least once a days so there's
your answer to that one have you ever
suffered a fracture no have you ever
taken karate lessons uh-oh do I have to
get into the story of that one I'm gonna
jump into it really quick and tell you
so when I was younger I think I was like
four years old maybe five but not more
than five me and my mom actually were
taking karate lessons and there was a
boy that got up to do a karate move and
in karate I don't know if you don't know
you're supposed to be very straight like
you're not supposed to have any emotion
on your face
you can't talk you can't laugh you can't
some kidding smile hardly at least
that's what it was when I was there and
so anyways so this boy gets up and he
goes to do a karate move and he does a
big high kick and he let the biggest
fart out and I died I died laughing I
couldn't help myself and of course my
mom started laughing because I was
laughing and the guy that I don't know
what you call him the the guy the coach
whatever I know there was a different
name for him um he kept looking at me
and my mom did said and I liked death
like you better stop and of course his
poor kid because we're laughing is
probably like wanting to die because of
it and so by the end like it probably
went on for a good ten minutes finally
the master I think is an master master
or something um he came and told my mom
she had to take me out and leave and
because we couldn't stop laughing and we
never did go back I you fart in front of
me other than my children and you're
gonna get embarrassed because I've gotta
laugh I don't know what it is about me
but bodily noise just especially farts I
I know everybody does it but come on
don't do it around me because I'll make
sure everybody knows because I'll laugh
have you ever taken self defense lessons
no I haven't really seen a reason for it
so for me no have you ever urinated in a
pool
that is just nasty that is a nasty
question but in the reality and the
truth of it who has not serious who has
not have you ever visited a country
outside of your continent yes of course
because that's where I married my
husband in Egypt have you ever won a
trophy or an award not that I can
remember I don't really remember ever
getting a like a trophy have you
forgiven yourself for past personal
failures why or why not yeah I
definitely have and I think that I have
more now lately because of this life
change that I'm doing I had to forgive
myself for a lot of things so I can move
on and forgive you myself for allowing
myself to get to this point was one of
the biggest things I've had to challenge
and I still fall through and like want
to beat myself up for it but where's
that really gonna get me in the end so
um yeah yeah I have have you read any of
the Harry Potter Hunger Games or
Twilight series I haven't I just don't
have time to read really it's really
hard for me to find time to really pick
up a book I mean as you can hear my kids
in the background it's always crazy here
I mean when you've got two kids that are
back to back and then you have an older
one and they all feed into each other
there's just like no silence in this
house how many children did or now do
you have well I kind of answered that
because I told you I have three I do
have four but one is not here anymore
but I do have three and right now that's
I'm good with that I I don't set a a
limit of how many children that we're
gonna have but as it is right now our
focus is my health and whatever happens
from there will happen but at this point
that is not one of my focuses of mine or
my husband's it's more just getting my
my health under control um do you want
more in the future well there was your
answer after meeting your lifetime goals
what is the one thing you want to do
this is so funny because I just said
this to my husband today in the car I
said you know the one thing that I can't
wait to do once I get to a point where I
can walk not my lifetime goal would be
to be able to walk on the beach with my
family that is something I want to do
and I haven't been able to for a
lifetime goal or like once I reach my
lifetime goal of what I want to be the
possibilities are endless because it's
become a new life so I really don't have
any one given thing that I want to do
but just finally have time with my
family and do things with my family that
they have so deserved to have but have
been held back because of my health
issues so I guess that would be what it
is is I want to give my family what they
deserve and that is a life outside of
the home because that's really what our
life contains is right now is being home
or car bound or you know we don't get to
go and do a lot of fun things so that
would be probably the answer to that one
okay so that concludes my Q&A for today
I'm sure there'll be more but I hope
that you guys were able to learn more
about me and my life and where I kind of
come from that was really fun I enjoyed
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