admitting I was wrong......
Nov 30, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBJHrZKy4tk

good morning everybody and welcome to
Saturday I hope everybody had a
wonderful wonderful things giving and
you guys got your good cells yesterday I
didn't go out yesterday at all I as you
can hear I am really sick I was in bed a
lot of Thursday and yesterday um I'm
just not feeling good clearly but I just
wanted to come on here and chitchat with
you guys for a little bit cuz I was
missing you um anyways so I hope
everybody like I said had a wonderful
holiday I think everybody for such
amazing comments and messages to me um
you guys really helped me to kind of
look at things in a different aspect
rather than the way that I was looking
at it and I can understand um what
people are saying about how you know I
need to really start working on just
getting over and it doesn't mean I have
to get over the past but I definitely
need to move forward so that I'm not
carrying my past into my future with my
children and that makes so much sense it
really does and so I totally 100% agree
with that and so when you guys had
talked about that I really sat back and
thought to myself like this is true you
know and one of the messages that I had
received was a lady talking about how
her family every year they have done
this for many many many years they go to
like the homeless shelter and they take
blankets and food and just go and really
spend time with them and they've done
this with their children and now their
children are older and so now they're
doing they're now their children are
bringing their
children and this has just been a family
tradition since years ago and I was
really thinking about I was like you
know I really I like that I like that
concept you know of showing people that
you can give and it doesn't have to be a
negative thing you can always make
something positive out of something that
would have been negative at some given
time and it really just hit home so I
was talking to Ollie on Thursday and I
just told him I said you know I think
this is something that I really want to
start doing with our family is on that
days since its o day that's not like the
best day for me okay whatever we could
still make it a positive outcome which
is we can do this with the children and
Omar and Esther can still do it being
able to make something positive out of
something that was negative at some
given time okay whatever I think that I
think that that is the best thing that
we can do so going down and making
something positive out is something that
was intended about one given time I
think it's something very good and it is
teaching my children that there are
people out there that have it worse than
what we have it and we can make it good
for somebody else that has a bad holiday
and then at the same time sorry you guys
at the same time we're creating a new
tradition for our family and then we
could come home and enjoy a nice hot
meal for ourselves that we prepared and
we can even have the children help
prepare the mill so it becomes a family
thing so I just want to thank everybody
for all the comments some of them were
pretty harsh and that's okay everybody
is allowed to have their opinion some
were a little bit too harsh and I did
choose to take those ones down because
you know I'm not
I'm not trying to allow I when I talked
about this it wasn't like something I
was trying to say hey you know this is
the way that I well it is the way that I
thought that's how you deal with
something is you just don't deal with it
and so some of the comments that were
put out there was just kind of like wow
you know you don't have to be so rude
but at the same time there was some
really good comments that you could see
it is as a rude comment if you really
wanted to but I seen it more as like
kind of a wake-up call like a open my
eyes type of thing so I just want to say
thank you for that and um I think too
you know now is Christmas that one is
its own given ID we don't celebrate
Christmas and that's due to our religion
and um you know but we make a big New
Year's celebration and we have our
holidays as well Ramadan and we have
another ID which is in I think it's in
October I don't remember exactly because
it does change but we have it in October
one of them and on those ones you give
the children gifts and you know you make
meat and it's like a feast type thing
so we do have our holidays as well and
if you guys are more interested in me
talking about our holidays as well I can
do that as when the time comes to share
with you guys even more about that type
of stuff um but for Christmas no we do
not celebrate Christmas but it doesn't
mean that we're not gonna celebrate New
Year's which is very close to all the
Christmas holiday and we just celebrate
it as we're going into a new year new
beginnings I knew everything
so anyways with all of that being said
um I hope you guys had a wonderful
wonderful Thanksgiving and if you guys
went out shopping yesterday I did not
clearly it but if you did put down below
what all good things you guys got cells
are always a good time to go shopping I
remember when I was younger that was one
thing that I do remember doing on
Thanksgiving was um we would go out the
day before Thanksgiving started and we
would park our spot where we're gonna go
and usually we went to the first start
we would hit is best buy because best I
always had the good computers and I
don't know why we always seem to get new
computers every year how that I think
about heads like really uh but or the
TVs and TVs were a really good deal at
that time it best buy now I don't know
if they do but I know Walmart usually
has really good deals on TVs but anyways
we would park our little spot meaning
we'd get our chairs out there and we
would have shifts that we would rotate
people sitting in the line and so when
Thanksgiving came around whoever was out
there at that time when dinner was being
served somebody would take dinner from
the house and take it to the people
sitting out in the parking lot are in
the the line and and it wouldn't just be
us that's the thing is we would already
be other people out there so it was just
kind of cool because we would all get
together and we would be talking and
sharing stories learning other people's
lives and it was really cool I can
honestly say that is something that I do
remember as such a fun thing and that is
one thing we all look forward to and um
so we would sit in line so that started
the day before Thanksgiving then when
and back then see now a lot of the back
Black Friday stuff starts on
Thanksgiving which you know aside I
think it's kind of sad because it's like
those people
are in the stores that you're going to
to get those deals think of them as not
being able to even be a participant with
their family either and they don't
they're not shopping so they're not
giving the deals either so uh I think
like hmm I wonder like the lawyers they
should let the workers go in and have
their Black Friday shopping first and
then let the consumers go I think that's
what they're called the other shoppers
go because it's uh it's not fair they
have to bust their bottoms while you
know we're all out there shopping by
anyways so we would go to Best Buy first
and then from Best Buy we would go to
Toys R Us cuz at the time Toys R Us was
open and the lines I'll never forget
because see nobody stood in the line for
that one or for any of the other ones
and that matters so when we would get
finally to over to and we would stake it
out like we you know we would start
branching our people out our families
and so some would go to Toys R Us some
would go to another store called shop go
um then we would all meet up at Walmart
and we would do the Walmart shopping and
then from there the last store we always
would hit is Fred Meijer
because Fred Meijer has the good socks
so every here we all knew that's when
you get your new socks so you better
make your socks last for the year so we
would go to Fred Meijer and then we
would have doughnuts because the Fred
Meijer has always had doughnuts
so we'd have doughnuts and hot coffee or
chocolate and we would get our socks and
then it was a completed day by that time
everybody would be ready to crash
because we had been up at this point for
hours some of us don't even so well we
didn't at the time we didn't sleep we
would stay up for a full 24 hours
because we were doing the dinner and
stuff and then doing the shopping so by
the time he was ready to go home it was
ready to go home and go
so it was those are good memory times
now for me I know now that I'm old I
don't
well.one now Black Friday starts on
Thursday a lot of it does and then also
um so many now you can do most of all of
your Black Friday shopping on on the
internet so it's kind of like one of
those defeats the purpose of going out
and doing the shopping because you could
just order the stuff online and actually
just have a ship to your house or you
can have a ship to the store but either
way you're not having to go into the the
line of all the busyness so it it just I
those are thoughts and memories that I
do remember during my my younger years
but that is not what I would bring into
my children one my kids do not like
shopping and two I don't think I could
handle the crowds I really can't I just
know I used to be able to handle it when
I was younger but now it's like no I
don't think it's an enjoy thing no no
but I do have you know family that still
do the Friday shopping and so I talked
to all of them yesterday and they were
telling me all those stories and stuff
about what exactly you know they staked
out and what they got and sending me
pictures I'm like oh now you're sending
me these pictures and now I see what I
want and so it was it was funny because
like Walmart had Barbies for five
dollars and I'm like oh my god if I only
knew I would have got her some but you
know and that's the FAFSA you snooze you
lose
so anyways but all in all we had a
really good weekend Thursday I'm Olly
made a wonderful roast oh my gosh a
wonderful roast and then we had some
Olly had made potatoes and some red
sauce and then
we had a salad and I can't remember what
else rolls or something but we you know
we had a wonderful dinner and we just
enjoyed ours time all he was off that
day anyways so it was a nice day just to
spin as a family and everything well not
yeah and that's the other thing too is I
remember years ago all the stores would
be closed on Thursday like all of them
and they would open up you know like 4
or 5 o'clock in the morning the
following day and Walmart's being 24
hours now they were closed to now
everything's open I we had to go to
Safeway on Thursday and I called and I
cuz I told all they I was like oh I
don't think they're gonna be open he's
like just check-in so I did sure enough
they were open until 12:00 a 12:00
midnight so they were saying open all
Thanksgiving so they didn't even close
for nothing because they were open the
whole time and I just thought God how
sad like then the any of those workers
didn't even get to spend any time with
their family and it's you know I do
understand that it is a family day and
you know so anyways I think other than
that I was it I just really wanted to
jump on here and chat with you guys and
have you guys comment down below like I
said the good deals that you guys got
and if you guys do the Friday shopping
and what you guys did for your family
dinners and things like that is just fun
to hear everybody's different stories I
am going to close here I'm gonna go and
get some tea for my throat I don't know
what happened I woke up on Thursday and
just my throat was hurting me and I knew
I had that funny feeling that I wasn't
gonna be feeling good and I just kept
pushing through and pushing through and
pushing through and then I was just like
Friday evening I was just I was so sick
that I yeah and then this more I woke up
and I'm just feeling still really bad so
anyways I'm gonna go and take care of
myself
I hope again you guys have a wonderful
wonderful day and I will check in with
you guys again real soon bye bye