Mel Went To The Hospital| New Plan To Divide And Conquer| Simple Life Reclaimed| Episode 68| 9.22.22

Good morning everybody. Good morning, good morning. Welcome back to Real Talk with SLR. How are you guys doing today? Guys, I am not doing very good. I'm doing... I'm under the weather right now, so something happened yesterday. I actually ended up having to go to the hospital. I'm all right. I'm sitting here. I'm fine. I'm talking to you guys, but I had like... Okay, so a couple days ago when we were out here and we were working and we were scrubbing the concrete floor and everything, I started feeling like a pain in my back and in my shoulder area, and I figured it was because of the hard work that we were out here doing and physically doing, so I kind of didn't really pay too much attention to it. Well, then the day after that in the same spot where I was feeling the pain, I started getting like a really bad rash, and we thought it was maybe because of a new pair of clothes that I had gotten and was wearing, and so I didn't really pay attention to it. Then it started to spread, and it started... It really, really hurt. It started becoming extremely painful to where it felt like my body's on fire, and the rash just got like bigger and bigger and bigger, and now it's like half of my back on this right side and wraps around to the front, so yesterday I just... I was in such excruciating pain. I told Gary. I said, we need to go to the hospital. I went to the hospital, and yeah. Turns out I have shingles, so shingles is a virus that lays dormant in your body if you've had chickenpox ever, and so the chickenpox virus is the same thing as the shingles, and it just... It can flare up when you're under a lot of stress or if you have a lower immunity for whatever reason, and it usually will flare up in older people, but I just get to be the lucky one. I just am so, so lucky, and the timing is just so perfect. Oh, man. Yeah, so I'm having a very bad, very, very bad case of the shingles. Yeah. It's excruciating. It is probably one of the most painful things that I've ever experienced, and needless to say, I am on medication, and I am trying to take it very easy. Me and Gary are still going to be forging ahead. There's still a lot of stuff that we are getting done. It just sucks the timing of everything, because we're like this close to moving in, and yeah. The timing is just wonderful, isn't it? Yes. I mean, it is what it is, baby. I want you to get better, and I want you to literally not do anything. I don't want you to stress your body out anymore, because the doc said it was caused by stress, and it's no needless explanation of why you're stressed. But I thought I was taking it so well. I'm laughing, I mean. That stress itself, definitely, I don't want you to stress out anymore than you already are stressed, because it's obvious that you are stressed out. Oh, my type of personality, it's extremely hard for me to stay down, or to be down for a long time. My brain is constantly going, and so my body has to react to my brain constantly be going, and my body feels the need to stay up with my brain, and so I'm always moving, I'm always doing stuff. I am going to take it relaxed, I am. I'm not going to be moving my body around, but I think I'm still going to do the videos and stuff. I'm just going to make it be the Gary show. Like I said, I want you to sit down, or lay down. Yeah, sit on the sidelines, and just video from afar, and you can handle it. That way, if I have to just be in sitting around watching TV, I can be out sitting around watching a Simple Life acclaimed Gary show live. But yeah, it's... It sucks. Yeah. It sucks. I'm sorry that you're going through it, baby. And it was such a wonderful, you know, we're experiencing such a high, and it always happens this way. Why, life, why? Shame on me for asking that question. I should never ask why, guys, never ask why. Just accept it, that's what I'm doing. But just go with it, just accept it. It's just the way that life is. But we are on, we are still on an extreme high. I'm not going to let this get us down. I'm not going to let this hold us back. We're just going to continue to divide and conquer. We're going to divide. I'm going to stick to the stuff that I could do right now, and I'm going to kick butt with the stuff that I could do, and you're going to kick butt with the stuff that you could do. We make the best team ever, so we're still going to keep going forward. We still got things that we're going to be working on between now and this weekend. The last video that you guys saw, Gary was playing Mario Brothers, and we got a lot of the water pipes plumbed in, so that's excellent. All those, all of the plumbing is roughed in. Yeah. Everything is roughed in. I got to finish up a couple of things, the shower head and the tub nozzle. I do have the fittings for those guys. I just got to move the brackets here or there, but I'm waiting to get inside the basement to set the bathtub back in there, and just triple check that I am in line with that drain, because, yeah, as much as you would think it would be dead middle of that wall, it ain't dead middle. Yeah. Trust me, I thought it was, and I'm actually pretty happy that it's not, because now that'll give me a little bit more room with my P-trap for my bathtub. Everything turns out perfect, one way or another. Everything works out in the end. It's all about your mindset, guys. Exactly. That's why, you know, you build the box out for the bathtub area right there, and I'm glad I did it that big and whatnot, so. It's going to work. It's going to work out perfect. It's going to work. I'm super happy about that. So we got it all roughed in. Sorry, my voice is doing something weird. Got it all roughed in for the plumbing, which I'm super happy for, and like all the water PEX pipes, it's pretty much, they're pretty much done in a sense for the laundry room. So, well, they are done for the laundry room. Yeah. The only thing that I've got to do is I've got to hook up the hot water heater. Yes. I've got to still hook up, like I said, the bathtub spout, or like the actual bath nozzle, as well as the shower nozzle. So I've got to get those hooked in there, and then I got to get the drywall into the walls to where that's where the PEX pipes are sticking out or whatnot, and then I can put on the outer fittings and cover and whatnot. So that actually, somebody had asked, and I didn't do my homework and write down people's names or anything, but as you were saying that, a question that somebody had asked popped into my head, and somebody had asked, why are we building out the false wall just for the bathroom sink? Like, why are we doing that? Is it just to hide the PEX pipes, or why? So it is to hide the PEX pipes, as well as that's where our mirror is going to go. So if I had the pipes pretty much coming down and exposed off the wall, like how I do in the laundry room, it's going to make it funky for that mirror and trying to hang that mirror. So I just said, you know what, I'll just build that one out. But it also, it's all around, there's a lot of reasons to hide the pipe, hang the mirror, as well as on the cabinet that we bought. The cabinet's a lot wider or a lot deeper or whatnot than the sink. So that will bring the sink a little bit closer to the end of that, but not exactly meeting up dead on it. It'll make them more flush. Instead of like having the sink be deep in there, and then the cabinet sticking out really far, it'll bring them together more. The cabinet will still be out just a little bit, but it makes them, so when you're standing at the sink, just the feng shui of the bathroom. Feng shui. Yeah, feng shui of the bathroom. So it makes that just a little bit nicer that way. And yeah, that was, I mean, it was pretty easy to do. It's just a small little wall. I'm glad that it fit in there to be able to like, you know, build it out here and then bring it in there. I was sitting there scratching my head. I was like, I really hope I grabbed one of the pieces just to make sure. I was like, it's going to be tight. It's going to be close. And it was, it was pretty close. But she made it. So I'm just glad I didn't have to put that together inside the bathroom. It's really nice though, that everything's all roughed in. So when we're ready, which will be soon, I mean, now that I'm out of commission, I can't say how soon, because I don't want to just be sitting on the sidelines, cracking a whip at Gary, telling him go, go, go. I don't want to do that. And I know Gary's cracking his own whip in his own mind, you know, on himself. He's just like, ah. But I know it's going to be super soon because we have all the major things that were stopping us from, you know, getting inside and sleeping in there. They're done. We have power in there. The water situation is going to be resolved very quickly. Yes. The stress of this build though is, I don't think I'm ever going to not be stressed out about this build until the cabin's done. Well, I mean. And that's just because my brain, my brain will not shut down. It will not shut off. I will never stop thinking about all the other things that I've got to do. I know the feeling. Even right now, like, I don't know how many times I've changed up the roof pitch and the roof design and like the kinds, the way that we're getting everything else out. Like my brain just can't stop and it makes it hard going to sleep. Well, because we're doing it ourselves. We've never done it before and the plans and stuff are kind of, we have plans, but. Yes. It's not, they're plans that, you know. It's fluid. They're fluid, you know, it's flexible. It's not fully set in stone every which way. Yeah. I got so much stuff in my brain. Things like, you know, the flooring that we just finished. So the flooring, right guys? We sprayed that Thompson's clear spray stuff on there to seal it. And it did a great job sealing it. It is sealed. If you poured water on there, the water is just going to sit on the top. You could clean it really easily. So that's great. But the coloring of the flooring did not turn out exactly how Gary or I were picturing it. I think Gary's a little bit more upset by it than I am. But at the same time, it's not like, it's not. I don't think, I don't think upset was probably the right word. Oh, I'm upset about it. You're a hundred percent right on saying that about me on that. Because I'm not like upset. I guess I'm more like, oh, I'm like disappointed. But it's not, it's not an end all. We're going to have a ton of throw rugs and. It's an upsetting disappointment. Yeah. That's a good way to put it. But it's not an end all. So Gary, since he has to go, Gary is going to be going to the store this morning. And I'm going to hang back or whatever and wait for him to come back. But when he goes to the store today, because he's got a couple of little things for the plumbing that he wants to pick up so he could finish off making the drains and getting that, I guess, more ready for us to be using. But when he goes into town, we were earlier discussing him possibly picking up some of the garage floor paint that you can get. Where it's just, it's made for concrete. You paint it on a garage floor. You throw those little speckles in there and it's supposed to be very durable. I could see upsides and downsides of using it. Downsides is you could scratch it and then leave little scratches in it. I see the upsides of it, though, of it being, for the most part, one uniform looking and it being durable and as well for spilling stuff and easy to clean, even though we did put the Thompsons on there. So if Gary wanted to do that, being that I'm not going to be doing it, I mean, be my guest. You're welcome to do it. I guess you guys are just going to have to wait and see what he decides to do. Or maybe you should leave a comment and help sway his opinion in either direction, immediately, because he's going to the store here, really, as soon as we finish this. So that's an idea. But it doesn't look, it's not horrible and it's not end all the flooring in there. We could leave it how it is. But we also could paint it. But either way, we need to decide what we're going to do with it today. So that way it can have today to dry. And then maybe tomorrow we could start putting some stuff in there. But if I put in pergola, it's going to take some time. That's the only downside. And a lot more money. And I'm not sure I want to spend a lot more money right now. You're 100% right on that. So paint is like one of the cheapest options. You could do even more than vinyl flooring, even more than, you know, it's like the cheapest way that you could do it to make it look decent. Which we can always do pergola afterwards too. You can, we can. When we have a cabin upstairs and we have, you know, things that are more set up, we can. I'll probably just paint it. That's probably what I'm going to do is just get the garage paint with the flakes. Throw it out when it's all done. Yeah. Vinyl is a very affordable solution as well, right? But even vinyl, you're still going to spend more than you would on paint. You know. I've got the sealer. So I can seal the paint right after. If you wanted to. Yeah, you could. But the paint has a sealer in it too. So I guess it'd be like double, triple whammy. I don't know. You have to look into that. Let's see what it, what it all entails with the package of the paint stuff. But essentially if we get these floors, if he's going to do that, then they're going to need another day to dry. Which means today we could start where I'm going to be hanging back on the computer and trying to get stuff ready for you guys tomorrow. But I'm going to have Gary film the Gary show. And I'm probably just going to hang out like on the sidelines with him. Maybe record a little bit of what he's got going on. From the sidelines. I can't get up and run around. So much to do. I got so much to do today. Yeah. I've got like the beds being built and everything. I've got. Yeah, he wants to. I don't think we sell them that. Gary wants to build our beds and stuff today. No, he wants to build our beds and stuff today. So that way after he does whatever he's going to do with the floor. If, if right. Either way, we need beds before we can go in there and sleep. And we want to start sleeping in there. Like we would love to sleep in there. Our being that we have no furniture except for, you know, camping furniture. Our kids would really have no place to sleep in there. We could take like some cushions and stuff outside of the trailer and just throw it on the floor and stuff in there for now. But it won't take us very long at all to, to build them a proper sleeping space. No, I want to, I want to build our bed and I want to build their bed. Yeah. And so then we can get in there and all of us just have immediate good night's rest, which I will appreciate so much being that I'm in the condition that I'm in right now. Yes. Because life really sucks with this. It's terrible guys. Yeah. If I can get those built, then I can run to town and I can go pick up two bed mattresses for the kids because we have one bed mattress already. We do inside the... Inside of the trailer, which we'll just take that guy out. Yeah. Yep. So, and then we got to go, I think maybe this weekend, if we start sleeping in there, I mean, maybe this weekend we'll be able to go and get a nice little couch in there. Cause we could sleep in there a night or two without having like the living room furniture. But we would like to, if I mean, we're very ambitious tomorrow by noon guys, tomorrow by noon, it's all going to be done. No, but we're very ambitious. Way to build on the stress on me, baby. I'm just teasing. Cause you know, it's an ongoing joke. I know. But we're very ambitious, but we would really like to be more comfortably moved in there by this weekend. That's what we really are fighting for. We're really hoping for it. It sucks. Cause now our duo is, you know, dividing and conquering even more. We're just going to have to really rely on each other's strengths right now. And it sucks because I have more strength to offer than, you know. That's all right. But we do, we do have a very good friend in the area. Call out a lifeline. And we also live with some really cool people up on top of the hill. So, you know, I think, I think, uh, our family will rally and help. If we need to send out the SOS, which we're going to try to do it without the SOS. Yes. Just because we're stubborn, but it's nice to know that the life preserver is there. Yes, exactly. Exactly. But it'll be, it'll be good. I'll be able to get this going quick. I'll be painting that on there. Get that done. While that is drying, I will start cutting all the wood and then I'll be able to come back to it, seal it, go back over to the wood, get all that done and stained, and then just keep doing that flat back today. Poor Gary. He's going to have to do all of this while vlogging. It's going to be the Gary show. I'll do what I can on the sidelines, babe. And I hope you guys at home. I'm going to warn you guys right now. I'm going to try to record as much as possible, but there might come a point where I'm going to throw the GoPro and say, nope, I'm going to get as much done as possible without this thing and I'm going to show you guys after. So I'm just pre-warning. It'll be what it'll be and hopefully you guys will enjoy watching it and I will do my best to edit it to where it's entertaining. I'll do what I could do and Gary will do what he could do. Like I said, right now it's divide and conquer and we're both going to have to try our strong suits the best that we can and just hold on, baby. We're so close together. It wouldn't be life if it wasn't like right about to, uh, you know, to be like the good part and then boom, it would, it just wouldn't be life. You know, we got this though. We got, we got this. Ain't nothing going to take it away. All right. You just have to laugh or else you'll cry. Pretty much. There's, there's a reason why I laugh all the time. Well, guys, we're going to, um, we're going to wrap this one up. I would love for you guys. I don't want you guys to worry about me or worry about us. We are going to be taking it easy. Um, as you're going to be taking it, I'm going to be taking it easy. Gary will be, uh, careful. Oh, and about the masks and stuff. Cause that came out up a lot too. So sometimes when we're, we're going to be safe. All right. So I know that stepping on like, you know, a chair isn't necessarily the safest thing, but it's not the most dangerous thing in the world either. Now the mask situation, I do agree with you guys. And we, I will say this, that we do wear them, but sometimes the shots are not showing you that. And sometimes we are not wearing them. And it's just mostly because we get into like our mindset down mode. Yeah. We just get into like, okay, we're grinding it out. We're just doing it. And we just go for it. And then, you know, we think about it afterwards, like, oh, we should have did that. We should have, you know? And so it's, it's something that is on our forefront of our minds and we will be paying a bit more attention to it. I hear you guys out there and, um, Gary will be putting on a mask or a bandana or something to help cover up his face when he's cutting stuff. So will I, but I can't promise that it's going to be every single time. And it's just because that's, we film our genuine life and how it goes. And sometimes it's, you're in the getter done mode and it's like, nope, I'm no, I'm not taking five seconds to go and grab that. Yeah. It's not, it's not like we prep for the shot and it's scripted or anything. We just literally grab the camera. Sometimes we think about and foresee, okay, we're going to be working in this area. So I'm going to set up a couple of cameras shooting this area so I can have a few different angles of the same thing. And that's about as far as the preparation goes. So we're like, we're going, we know we're going to be working in this spot. So, and that's, that's pretty much it. So yeah. Yes. But I wanted to address that. Definitely wear a mask you guys when you are cutting. Don't be like us. Try not to be like us. Yes, exactly. Wear a mask. But, but we are going to do the best we can, but I don't want you guys to really worry. I don't want you guys to be worried. I want you guys just to. The good thing is, is that we're not doing this on a, you know, we're not painting for our business, like a business wise, and we're doing it every single day. I know. We're not. It's still not. No, I know. I'm just, I'm just saying we're not doing it. And so the times that we're not, it's. Gary's trying. I don't think it's going to be an end all type of thing. Gary's trying to ease y'all's worries. Or as much as of a worry, as much as, you know, it's. And not only that, but when I don't wear a mask too, and if I'm cutting the dust, I try to hold my breath. I'm like, I just need to cut it real quick. I get in there real quick, get out. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna let that dust settle and do that thing and go on to the next. And I don't know. We should be wearing a mask though. We should be wearing a mask. I'm not saying that we shouldn't. I'm just saying do as we say, not as we do. Yes. What he said. But we're going to get rolling guys. It's got a lot. We're very ambitious for this weekend. We will have the Gary show for you guys tomorrow. Whatever happens today is going to happen. And I will edit it out tonight and get it posted for you guys tomorrow. And then we're going to work really hard this weekend. I'm going to help out as much as I can. Hopefully I'll start feeling better. The medicine that they gave me, I started it yesterday. So it's a week long thing that I have to take. Doesn't mean that it's going to be gone in a week. It just means that it's a week long medicine that you take. And so hopefully, you know, by this weekend, I'll be on it for a few days and I'll start feeling better. If it's anything like chicken pox, it should go away in two weeks. Yeah. Two to three. And if you're on medicine like this, then I'm thinking it would go away in like two weeks. Oh, I don't know. Maybe. I can't even shrug my shoulders, man. And it's like involuntary things that you do. I'm like, oh, it sucks. I noticed all these stupid little involuntary things that I do. And I'm like, oh, it's painful. It's horrible. I'm just thinking of every little aspect of life. I've been in so many different pains. You would hate this. I'm just sitting here like, no, I'm thinking of all the stuff that I, like, when I blew out my back, just trying to go to the bathroom was the worst thing ever. So I'm just thinking about that. I'm like, I can understand what you're going through, baby, a little bit like, oh, buddy. But literally fire. It feels like somebody has a torch. It burns. And it's like I said, stretched feeling almost like your skin is super. It is. It's nerves. It's nerve damage. It is. Yep. It's horrible. So I'm going to go and I'm going to go and do stuff and try to feel better. Please don't worry. Everything's going to be all right. I'm going to try to keep her sleeting and not doing any lifting or anything crazy. And we are still going to keep pledging forward. Devil ain't got us down. We're going to keep moving, but we got to go. I'm going to send Gary off to the store and we got to start our day. So I want to say thank you guys so much for watching today's Real Talk with SLR. We should be back tomorrow and we will have a video for you guys on Simple Life Reclaimed tomorrow as well. It's going to be the Gary show and it's going to be awesome. You guys are going to love it. So until the next one, guys, we love y'all and we hope you have a good one. And we'll catch you on the next one. Bye, you guys. Later, later. You got to get up and push it today. I ain't getting up there. My back hurts too much.