Getting Projects Accomplished and Recalling Some Funny Memories

Life is going pretty well these days. Now we are 6 weeks in or so, I feel like I’m getting things done and keeping busy while getting some rest too. I mentioned that in my last post. I’ve had a bit of an issue managing how long it would take to edit videos as well as vlog them. We got a lot vlogged, but as of right now I have 3 videos to edit. lol We are also about to start the Declutter Part III filming where we are going through our dishes. People really seem to enjoy that. I was afraid they wouldn’t but they are right there with us as we make decisions. I try to cut out the boring parts and silence part to speed things along. But overall for the most part, each week feels like I’m making bounds and leaps toward goals.

Going through Photos and Videos from 2021 through 2024

Yesterday I managed to go through my photos on iCloud and save or delete. But I have 7,487 photos and 3,853 videos on there – this is after I deleted a bunch and moved a bunch over. Yes I pay for storage because without it I wouldn’t have enough space to hold them til I could get through the photos and delete every month. Paying around 21 a month (I’m guessing) gets me storage I need in the iCloud and it’s plenty of it. It was pretty necessary if I was going to do these videos using my phone.

So….in going through and deleting them my goal this year was this quarter, to go in and delete Jan, Feb, and March’s – of all the years on there from 2021 through 2024. That way it didn’t seem too daunting. I didn’t have time in January so yesterday I did both January and February. In March I will go through and do that to all the Marches from 2021 thru 2024. Hope that makes sense. Then as far as maintaining that -I won’t let it get that big again. In 2025, I will go in and delete the footage from two months prior (one month would be too soon in case something hadn’t been edited yet into a video). I set a reminder in my iPhone reminder app to do that in March.

This Week’s Plans

My list of items to do for this week? (Excuse AI’s massive amount of drinking involved in this pic. I guess it has both coffee and tea, lol. Just for me!)

I was kinda of dumbfounded when I planned this week’s schedule and decided what projects I wanted to work on. I’m like really? I am actually going to get to do a few of these things that have been on my back list for years? I copied this below out of my Notion site. Which operates like a dashboard / planner / tracking device for me. You can make it what you want it to be. Of the list below, 3 of those were already accomplished. Yay!

George and I are going to the dump tomorrow. And I’m cooking dinner. We’ll be videoing a couple of videos this week – a regular vlog and also the Marie Kondo cleanup video III as aforementioned, lol. I just can’t believe that this week is almost purely long time project based. That’s so exciting.

Memories Built around the Quilt Wine

My family has come to love the Quilt wine. It has developed a funny reputation and comes complete with a host of memories. First of all – for me, a friend named Lauren (from work) suggested it. She told me to get it in Oregon back when I was in HR and traveled with company. I tried but they didn’t serve it by the glass. So the search began at home to find it with no success until one day – there it was in a store we rarely went in. It was around $60 I think. George said “go for it”. And we did and enjoyed it at Christmas as I always liked to have a good red wine the week of Christmas.

But somewhere around that time Katy and I went to San Antonio (oh my gosh the memories we have from therrrrrrrrre). We found a restaurant with it and paid about $90 to split the bottle. Katy called George to ask permission – lol lol lol. I was scared to. We hardly splurged that much and we were at a special Italian restaurant on the river walk and it seemed the perfect wine for the occasion. George did not officially approve it. Of course I work and could have just said yes but I was concerned for the budget as he does our finances. Well Katy called to make sure it wasn’t going to royally dent the budget, lol. He laughed and said “do what you want as you probably will anyway”. George has always been a fan of living it up on vacay. He liked the idea of us girls having fun. Anytime George and I spend on splurges we always check with each other -but usually it’s if it’s more than $200 or so – just so he can move funds around if needed or not mess the budget up. So we ordered the wine.

But…have you ever tried to drink after eating a big huge bowl of pasta with Italian bread and a caesar salad with big ole croutons….wow. It didn’t seem as much fun after a half of bottle was gone. We got it down to a 1/3 of a bottle left. And we kept on talking while our tummies settled. The restaurant waiter came and asked if we wanted dessert. Just thinking of eating cheese cake, creme brûlée, or a chocolate mousse cake sent us off nearly barfing all the way to the restroom. The restaurant waiter kept coming to check and we were full, happy, and not leaving til that last sip was drunk of that $90 wine. lol. Finally, Katy drank the final few sips as I could not do it anymore.

As awful as it sounds we then went across the river to the donut shop who was very busy but Katy wanted donuts for breakfast. I was, again, nearly barfing thinking about food again. We waited an hour or more for those donuts and then went and crashed in the room. But then Cody called and someone had gotten into their account. She stayed up half the night trying to figure out what to do. I think we both ended up eating half of our donut eventually as fatigue set further in and we couldn’t sleep because of the bank situation.

Anyway, whenever Katy and I try to get together, we both try to find Quilt. It truly is the wine that binds and threads us together, with the memories going on around us as we drink it. lol. We often have it in Texas. I bought it for Christmas this year, but we just didn’t get to have her here long enough to drink it. We were always going out or eating out and that’s fine and probably more fun. So I saved it and George and I had a glass or two night before last. I finished it off last night. I love it so much I had to check yesterday morning to make sure it was still there and that George hadn’t polished it off.

So thank you Lauren, wherever you are for introducing us to Quilt. It makes me laugh when I think of it. There are more memories when I think of that San Antonio trip. Oh gosh. One was so bad that I cringe to think of it but it is funny now. When the Mexican bird pooped on me and those birds are BIG. It got on my glasses, my necklace, my watch, my shirt, my hair, my ear. Oh the smell, and the large quantities of it. The shock, the sound the bird gave when it pooped, and me wondering what had just happened, and then Katy realizing what had happened. The realization that many things needed to happen quickly. I needed a restroom fast. Where? Looking for one while being behind some really slow people. Not making fun of them, but just saying, when you need a bathroom you need a bathroom. This stuff was all over me and my face and hands and stuff. No one could walk fast enough. Katy had to give me paper towels and I had to strip down and she had to go buy me another shirt to wear. Oh the stench. The walk back she called George and they laughed and laughed at me. Katy had on a skirt and the wind kept blowing up her skirt every time she laughed. George was amused and though we’d been hit by a bus or kidnapped til he realized Katy was laughing and not crying. Big birds do not set well with the women in our family. Katy gets squawked at all the time by tropical birds – screaming and throwing coffee up in the air – that was Tybee Island, lol.

Anyway funny memories. I’m going to go now and work on video editing for a bit. Nice to get some time to blog.

Hope everyone has a great week ahead.