It will all work out in the end... right?! |Simple Life Reclaimed |Episode 69 | 9.23.22

Well good morning everybody. Good morning, good morning. Welcome back to Real Talk with SLR. How are you guys doing today? Well it's it's kind of a coldish windy-ish morning but it's not cold cold it's just a little uh little brisk. The wind is bringing the temperature down for sure. I'm curious to find out if you guys are going to be picking up any of that wind noise on the new microphones. Yeah. Yeah we'll find out. I've been watching or listening to the news and watching the weather or whatever and we're supposed to be having a little bit of a cold front today. Nice. And then it's supposed to heat up again. Oh bummer. I'm looking forward to the cold weather. I've got my my light jacket on today. I am still not feeling well. I'm still feeling just as awful as I was yesterday unfortunately. But I'm still on the mend and I'm still taking the medicine and I'm in good spirits so that's good. I just wish that I was physically able to do more. It's mentally driving me nuts. But what can you do right? No it's all right. We're going to be just fine. I know. We'll be uh getting into that basement here soon and uh you can just rest. I know. I just I just wish that I could really help you with the final push across the finish line you know. I've been by your side this whole time and I've been enjoying it. It's been a lot of fun and now it's like right there at the end of the finish line I tripped. It's not fair. But what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? It's life. Yeah. It's life. Well I um I don't have a video for you guys on Simple Life Reclaimed today and I know that you guys all totally understand which is why I was like you know what Mel? Why are you pushing yourself? Everybody's they understand they get it you know recover and that's what I'm focusing on. Gary did do some filming yesterday though and he got a lot of stuff taken care of as far as that end and um when you went to the store you were reading the comments that were being left about the flooring and you made a decision. So you want to share it with everybody? Yeah um so your guys comments as well as uh I was looking at the paint and everything and I was reading the instructions on the back end and in order to apply the paint on sealer type thing or whatever for the floor there can't be any sealer on the floor. So that means. We already put the sealer there. Yeah and that means that I would have to go back with a wire brush and brush out all that sealer clean that all up again and mop the floor and do all that fun stuff and then be able to apply that paint. Yeah that's just not going to happen. That's just not going to happen. We are definitely not going to go back in there and scrape the floors off just so we could put the paint. Um we are happy with it just being concrete floors honestly. The sealer on it now it's protected for water spills and it's protected for water coming up and it is not aesthetically like the most ugly thing and 90% of you guys are right we do plan on putting throw rugs down so you're only going to be seeing portions of it. It's temporary living space. It's not a forever spot you know. We're going to save the heartache, the headache, the financial burden and we're just going to throw down some throw rugs and call it good. We're going to save it. We have enough stress going on in our life right now and we just the floor is good like leave well enough alone. Exactly. That's what we're going to do with that. I could I could yet again I could do the whole should it would have thing yet again. If we were if we were really concerned with the flooring we should have done the flooring um before we put up any of the wooden walls but we didn't and you can't go back now and it's fine. Well I mean our biggest thing even then and even now I mean later on down the road we might end up putting carpet down in there or we might put pergola down there or tile even you know. So it's it's hard to say exactly what we're going to do in the future in the basement. It's it's a basement. Yeah. So it being a concrete floor isn't it's it's a basement. It's not a bad thing. We got throw rugs. It's waterproof. We're fine. We're fine. Exactly. So that decision was made about the floors um I'm going to be doing a lot of recording. We're planning on we still have our goal to be sleeping inside the basement before this weekend is over and to be moved over spending the majority of the time in our basement until the plumbing is is 100% finished and we got the master blaster 5000 working on on high for Gary and we could take showers in there and stuff. We will still be kind of in between and living in both spots um but we would like to have the majority of our living. Oh the wind. Hopefully it doesn't knock you guys over. We would like the majority of our living to be uh being done over at the basement and just going back over to the trailers temporarily for um bathroom facilities etc. We'd like to do the cooking over here. We would like to do all the the living and sleeping over here. No it's not going to be forever because. No you're working on that bathroom. I'm working on and I'm going to be my goal I might be pushing myself. I think you are don't don't don't make any announcements of big push goals because they're going to hold you to it and you're also going to be you got enough fire underneath your butt right now and you you don't have me to help you which sucks. Yeah. You know so just take it easy don't stress yourself out you don't need to catch what I got you know. Like I said I'm not I deal with stress a lot better I think than you do. I think I deal with stress fantastically. Hey I do. I just take it all and I bury it deep. I'm used to having the stressful aspect of you know stuff all the time so. You know what I was thinking about just the other uh just last night actually Gary. You guys want a little bit of story time? So true story. So when I was pregnant with Scarlet we're you know Scarlet's going to be eight years old so this is that long ago. Gary and I were living inside Boulder City which is a little town on the outskirts of Las Vegas Nevada. Home of the Hoover Dam. Yeah home of the Hoover Dam. It's where all the workers lived. Yes so we were living in Boulder City and we had a cute little duplex and it was our first real house together because before that we always lived in apartments and yadda yadda. Well we loved the duplex. The duplex was great but we were growing our family. I was pregnant with our second child and it was time for us to upgrade into a bigger house and we were looking to purchase a house. Yes. So we were looking in Las Vegas. We were looking in Boulder City and then one day Gary just he heard that still small voice that told him to look in the other direction. He ended up finding the house that the house that was directly across the street from my parents house in Arizona had just gone up for sale. The one directly across the street and it was just the timing was incredible. Gary we ended up looking at that house. We had looked at it before uh like a couple years before but they were asking too much money for it at that time and anyway the stars aligned and it worked out perfectly and we purchased that house. Well I was pregnant with Scarlet at the time when we started the home buying process. Well when it was all coming to a close and it was time to move it was literally it closed the week of my due date with Scarlet. Literally it closed I believe like two days after you had Scarlet. Yeah. And I went and got the keys. Yes. And then on the third day after you had Scarlet we moved in. Yes. So I ended up giving birth on a Monday and we moved into our new house in Arizona. The one that you guys have seen on some of our old videos and stuff. That house. We moved into it on a Friday. So I gave birth on a Monday. We moved into that house on a Friday. I guess it was four days or whatever. Needless to say I was not very much help for Gary when it came to the finish line because I had just given birth and then before that I was nine months pregnant. I couldn't really do much. And on top of it I had to move my work from one location to another. I feel so bad for Gary. And you want to talk about heavy machinery and heavy crap to have to move. That sucked and that took a long time. And then right after that we moved. I was just like oh my goodness I don't I don't ever want to move ever again. This is nothing like that. No. This is like nothing at all compared to the size the scale of things that need to be moved and things that need to be done. I guess I was just referencing the correlation because it's like damn it man I get to the very final finish line with you and then I couldn't really be of a help like when it came to it twice now. And so I just thought it was I just was tickled by it. I found it to have some sort of relevance and poor Gary. I'm sorry. Somebody up there is laughing at me. My dad's laughing at you right now. Haha sucker. Oh that hurts so bad I can't even laugh. I can't laugh too hard. I got like a little chicken wing too like my arm right now if I don't have it bent and like up against because I have some of them in kind of my armpit area a little bit like right there. Those are probably some of the most painful ones and then the back back I mean I can't really lean on it. But I'd say the one right underneath my arm right here is probably the worst because I do the most movement right there. And so that piece of skin is always oh it's fire it's horrible. I know Gary has been such a great nurse to me. He's been helping me every single day with all the tasks that I need help with which honestly I'm still doing a lot by myself but the task I guess is I can't reach my back to put the cream and stuff on there. I can't really put a shirt on or take one off really because it's I can't reach back there and I can't have the clothing like drag on it like it's hard for there to be anything touching it. No. And so with the the big we got these giant lidocaine patches. A subscriber actually had sent it to Gary last year when he pulled his back and we didn't use them all so I have them and thank you so much for them because they're a big blessing because I'm using them right now. But they're they're like these giant patches and it's almost like a giant band-aid so I've got what three or four of them on my back covering up the space? Three. Three of them taking up the majority. Two of them are covering the majority of them and then that third is in your armpit. Yeah. Which probably doesn't feel good but. It's better than the rubbing because it's like something on top of it so when clothes or anything does touch it it's not as sensitive because something's already like protecting. It seems like it's getting better. Well today's day three of the medicine and you know I'm still taking all of my vitamins. It's just really strange. I've been like in the last month I really have decided that I was going to start taking better care of myself and have better health and Gary can attest to it too. I've been curving like my caffeine. I've been trying to eat a little bit healthier. I've been exercising more. I've really been trying to help like and not that I had poor health but I've been trying to pay extra attention to my health and now. Stress is one of the worst things for your health. Like stress and not not eating right and. I've been eating better and stuff though. No I know. I've been like. I know. Drinking more water. I know but the stress is like stress is huge. It's horrible. They're. So dumb. It's a it's a huge thing that everybody lives with you know. Yeah. Nobody wants to deal with stress. Nobody does. But everybody has to. Well that and I do have the virus dormant in my system so. Well yes. It just was a matter of time. It's a darn ticking time bomb but. Yes. Oh well. And you're you're stressing aspect for trying to rush and get in there and which I can't I can't blame you for that you know. Watch your mouth. Just saying like I can't blame you for it. It's we're on track to do it and it's just a lot of stuff to have to do and it's stressful you know. It's not. It's like the accumulation of all this anticipation and finally about to it's just like yeah I know. Exactly. It's fine. It's fine. This is fine. Everything's fine. This is fine. So today Gary is gonna keep working on some stuff around here. I believe our good friend from Come On Mountain is coming over. Coming on. I don't know. I think. Pretty sure. This is what we talked about earlier on in the week but lots of things has changed since then but I believe he's supposed to be coming on today. I'll talk to him probably when we're done with this. I'll give him a. I have his term work. Yeah the morning. Hello. How's it going buddy? But so Gary is gonna stay here and he'll possibly have some help with SOS and I am going to go to town because we are almost out of food and my kids are you know I'm running. I have all of this stuff that doesn't match. You ever have stuff in your house where it's like you got cereal but no milk. You got bread and jelly but no peanut butter. We have peanut butter now. Well I know but I'm just saying like I'm just making making uh correlations. You got the spaghetti sauce but no noodles. I've been going to the store. Macaroni with no cheese like. I don't like doing the grocery shopping. I really don't but there's certain things that I knew. I was like I know we don't have peanut butter. Yeah. I know we don't have milk. Well I know we don't. Part of the divide and conquer process is going to be a lot. Gary's going to stay here and he's going to keep working on stuff. I'm going to go to town but I am not going to town alone. I called in another SOS with my mama and so I'm going to go to my mom's house. It's hard for me to kind of drive but she lives you know right down the dirt road. I don't even have to go on a paved road to get to my mother's house so I'm going to drive over there and drop my truck off and then we're going to get in her vehicle and she is going to drive me to the store and she's going to go shopping with me and stuff so that way you know she can help me reach stuff off the shelf. She can help me you know the cart and everything. Yeah thank you mama. Thank you mommy. Makes it really nice. Yeah so mom I'm going to go to my mom's this morning when we're done with this and then we're going to go together and I'm going to hang out with my mom and then we'll come back here and I'll see where you're at. Hopefully I've got a lot done. There's a lot that needs to be done. No pressure. We both cannot be out of commission. That's all I know is we can't. And that's the thumbnail. There's so much to do but not enough time. I know I know but hey it's okay one day at a time one step at a time. And now it's windier than windy. You'll be all right. You'll be all right baby. It's all right. I got this. Hey ain't nothing but a chicken wing. Yeah I got a chicken wing. Just gotta just gotta get in there and get it done. Yeah. If I'm happy. So yeah guys um maybe because I'm not going to have any videos to put out on Simple Life Reclaimed maybe I'll we'll do some extra real talks this weekend and give you guys little little progress nuggets or maybe I'll make some shorts or something. I don't know because I know that I'm not going to be putting out a video on Simple Life today because I just I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I slept almost the entire day yesterday. I kept having um micro naps you know where like and that's how it was last night all through the night too. It's hard for me to sleep so every hour or so I'm just passing out for like 10 or 15 minutes and then I'm awake and then I'm passing out again for and that's just how it's been because I'm not doing anything other than sitting there and I just keep passing out at 15 minutes and it's adding up to sleep time. So I didn't have anything in me to uh the tank was empty. I couldn't put any footage together and um Gary's running around like a madman and I don't want to put any extra stress on him or anything so but I know that by the end of this weekend I will have some uh we have some things in order and I'll have some time to edit it all out and put it out for you guys. So Monday should be a pretty exciting video because I anticipate by then for us to be inside the basement. I know Gary is too so there's that. See how that goes. But maybe I'll put out some extra Real Talks because they don't take hardly I love Real Talk because I get to hang out with you guys and give you all the update and everything but as far as effort wise it is such minimal effort for us to be able to have this second channel because we literally just have to set up our camera there's no editing involved we just talk with you guys and we post it up and it still is that communication it's still you know it's fun it's in it's fun and it's our social outlet so yeah so maybe we will no promise but maybe yeah I'm just working if I get bored maybe I'll make some funny shorts of Gary uh out here working we'll see what I can come up with let's see what I can come up with in my spare time I got lots of spare time now so I'm trying not I'm trying to make her uh sit I can relax and not do anything I can sit it's hard because no I don't want you I don't want you over exerting yourself or doing anything today is going to be exerting enough because you're going to the store I know and I know that as soon as I get back from the store I'm going to be dead to the world and I'm going to be inside that I already know it's going to take every single ounce of everything I have just to go to the store today it's okay it's okay it's going to it means no worries for the rest of your days what was it it's our problem free all right we're gonna wake up and get this day rolling I gotta give uh I gotta give some family a call oh I want to say too huge shout out and thank you before I forget see I've been falling asleep and waking up and I'm yeah mama v over at possum run homestead thank you so much she came by yesterday with a little care package for me a little love box it was so sweet had those little Rochelle chocolates in there and an iced coffee and um cute little stuffy and whatnot it was a get well package and she just randomly showed up yesterday and was like I know you're sick and I was in the neighborhood so I want to say thank you possum run mama v for it was very sweet or to me it's got some uh some bath stuff in there too maybe after maybe in a few days I'll be able to use it yeah so before we forget I wanted to say that um and we're gonna go we got stuff to do this morning I gotta give some family members a phone call yep figure out what's going on yeah well I already talked to my mom but I gotta let her know hey I'm on the road I'm coming yeah I gotta do the darn thing I'm not getting up and pushing the button oh yeah yeah that's you so until the next one you guys we love y'all we hope you have a good one we'll catch you on the next one bye you guys