A Project, A Baby, A Passion

I'm gonna put a couple of clips here together throughout , uh , the weekend and have it ready for you by Tuesday when you will be listening to this, what is going on? So I decided on a blog project@carolreremarks.com . I am going to start watching old movies. When I say old movies, I guess they really are old . But when I think of old, I think of black and white movies, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about movies that were made and premiered in the 1980s decade .

And the first one I'm going to do is top gun this weekend because Maverick, the new one comes out on the 24th, Tuesday when this, when this pod , when this episode will air, but , but I've been wanting to do this for a while and I've just, I think the 1980s has the best movies made. What they make nowadays is probably, you know, not real good, but Maverick looks good. Um, the new one.

So I'm going to go through all , a lot of old movies, 1980s that were made in the eighties and probably take , watch one a weekend and then blog about it. It'll be a good practice for me, writing on the blog and stuff. It'll be a consist consistency thing. And also it'll gimme a good practice to write. And what else is going on? Oh, I get the baby tonight overnight. I'm so excited. Little cam cam , my first little grandbaby, get to keep him again overnight.

I already did it one night overnight, a week or so ago. And I was scared to death cuz it had been a long time since I've had a newborn and I stayed up all night watching him to make sure he was breathing. Hopefully tonight will be a little different. Hopefully I will get some sleep, but I think when I go pick him up this afternoon after work, I'm gonna try to keep him up, you know, most of the afternoon. So he'll sleep at at night. We'll see how that goes. but I'm excited about that.

I get to keep the grand baby super excited. Uh , other than that, there's nothing else going on. I'm watching the baby and I'm watching the movie on Sunday. I'm blogging about it and that's pretty much my weekend. My daughter's gonna come over Saturday morning and clean for me. Uh that's very nice. I appreciate that. And then other than that, I've got laundry and ironing to do. Um, so yeah, pretty boring weekend except for having the

baby. That's exciting. Uh, let's see what else? My Allo we business. I'm super excited about my Allo we business , uh , Allo we.com/ Carol Marks . Go check it out. I'm doing my launch party this weekend on Facebook. Um, looking forward to that, I'm gonna try maybe to do a Facebook live event over there a couple of times. We'll see how that goes. Um, let's see. I also registered for conference. That'll go . That's gonna be in Nashville in August. Looking forward to that.

I'm looking forward to building this business now. I'm not gonna , you know, obviously I'm not gonna be able to dive right into it. Like some people go full time at it. I'm going just slowly build it a little by little, the product that I'm using now that I like a lot is called bio mist in the platinum line. It's takes like it takes away all the bacteria. Oh my gosh. And you know those little white bumps that you have on your skin, sometimes they're little hard white bumps.

This mist has pretty much taken them away. I'm so excited about that. Cause I was getting a lot of them on my face, but I'll have to tell you about that. It's called bio missed and the platinum line. It's very good. I highly recommend it. Um, I will talk more about that probably in the future when I have a little bit more product knowledge under my belt. But if there's one thing that you want , if you, if there's one thing you wanna try out, go try that out.

Let's see what else I think that's it for now? Um, seems like there was a whole bunch of other things I wanted to talk about. I always do this. I have these things in my brain that I wanna talk about. And then by the time I get to recording, I forget 'em all, but that's okay. That's why we do small little clips and put them all together. all right . Well , um , I'm gonna go for now and if I can think of something, I will I'll come back on here in just a minute. Otherwise stay tuned.

Don't go anywhere. And the next clip is coming up here shortly. Stand by .

we kept the baby overnight. The grandbaby, he is a month old. Cameron is his name, but I call him cam cam . And my name is SHG not nanny , not grandma, not granny. I am shook and the GT will be called pops. So we are shook in pops. All right .

So we kept him overnight because my son and daughter-in-law had to drive out to Arkansas and back and straight back by the way, Alabama to Arkansas and back to pick up some things , um , that she had received , uh , via family members for the baby furniture and stuff like that. So they had to get a U-Haul and everything. But anyway, we kept the baby overnight and they just came and picked him up.

I had forgotten what it's like to have a little small, tiny one in the house and how little sleep you get. Now. We had kept him before overnight when he was like, I don't know, three weeks old. And I did not get any sleep. Not because of him because he slept fine. It was me staying up all night, making sure he was breathing cuz it had been a long time since I had had a newborn in the house. So, but last night was a little bit better.

I did get some sleep, not as much sleep because he was a little bit more active. He wasn't fussy or anything like that, but he is right on schedule as far as eating and changing diapers and all that. So the little tyke eats a lot but he is just so perfect. So perfect in every way. I love him so much.

And you know, it's funny because when my daughter-in-law was pregnant and we were found out, we were first expecting our very first grandchild, my sister and some other friends of mine who had already become grandparents said, you just wait, you just wait until that baby's born. You think you've loved your kids before, but you are gonna experience like no love you've ever experienced before you , you know? And I'm like, okay, you're putting the bar a little too high for me.

What if I don't feel that way? Well, they were right. Of course I stood out here in the living room, you know, late last night, holding the baby, just walking back and forth with him because I can, he wasn't fussy, but because I wanted to and I can, I get to hold him while he can't while he's a little and I just was thanking God over and over and over again. And I just started crying tears of joy and gratitude because oh my gosh, just a perfect, perfect little baby. So anyway.

Yes. All right , so now it's on. I'm gonna go, oh , I don't , I don't know. I've thought about doing some laundry, but I will do all that tomorrow. I am gonna go have coffee tomorrow with my friend. I just arranged that to a , my friend that we had, we're supposed to have coffee a few weeks ago and things fell through and she couldn't go. But uh, we are meeting tomorrow and I'm looking forward to that. It's been a while since she and I had has , have gotten together.

All right , I'm gonna go because I think I need to lay down and take a nap. and I will be right back though. Don't go anywhere tomorrow. Be a different day. So I'll make him on tomorrow and talk to y'all. Okay. So stand by . Don't go anywhere. Sunday's next. Well hello, welcome back. Or if you haven't left, thank you. we're on the same episode, but today, now is

asked them what they talked about and they said, you know, I talk about how the insane they talk about politics. Okay. And that's what I kind of wanted to do for more remarks. When I, you know, transitioned from my daughter and me doing it to what it is now. And I thought , you know, maybe I don't wanna deal with all of that. So I'm not doing a whole lot of politics. I might comment or remark on a couple of things here and there. But overall, my podcast is not about politics.

And you know, I was telling this person , I was having trouble trying to find a niche or trying to find a voice for my podcast, blah, blah, blah. And they asked me, they said, well, what are you passionate about? Well, you know, what, what, what are you passionate about? And I thought, I really don't know. I'm really not passionate about one particular thing. And then on my drive I was thinking about it. So what am I passionate about? And basically I'm passionate about life.

I know that sounds stupid and corny, but I really I'm telling you after thinking about my life, I really should not be here. And that probably goes for a lot of us. If we think back on our life, I've had two head traumas as , as a child, I've put myself in situations where, you know, very risque , I don't know what you call it. Very, probably could have been dangerous situations before when I used to drink, when you know, a lot, I was a blackout drunk and I put myself in situations.

I probably shouldn't be in. Um, and as a child, I remember playing hide and seek, and I don't know why this thought came to me, but I remember playing hide and seek at my neighbor's house. We live , you know, out in rural Ohio at the time Southern Ohio. Uh, and they, the neighbors had a refrigerator out back an old refrigerator and I thought it would be fun to hide in it when we were played night and seek well, you know, you can't get out of a refrigerator once you get in there.

Okay. But at the time I didn't know that I got in and I , I , and after that, I don't really remember much after that. Obviously I wasn't in there very long. I mean, they found me, but you know, that just thought, that thought came to me. It's like, what if they hadn't found me? I have , like I said, I have put myself in a handful of situations maybe at maybe more that I really should not be here. And I know I am not the only one I'm not special when I say that. I mean, come on.

When we drive a car, we put ourselves in danger. Right. So, but where I came from and what I did and how I got sober, you know, I it's through the grace of God and the kindness of people. Let me tell you that I am still here. And , uh , anyway, I think that's what I'm passionate about is living a healthy life nowadays, a healthy life, a healthy, sober life, a healthy in all respects, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, all of it. And , um, obviously I'm not perfect. I lack.

And a lot of it like, you know, I consider myself a Christian, but I don't read the Bible every day and I really want to, and I just need to find the time. And I know that sounds so selfish that I can't find the time to read the Bible, but you know, I have no excuse, but it's something that I would like to do and get back into doing on a regular basis. Maybe I can't do it every day , but I definitely wanted to grow that relationship with God.

Again, you know, I was there for a long time thinking and being grateful that he sobered me up. He snatched me out of situations and put me on the path that I'm on now. And I just wanna be grateful and, and, you know, show him, I don't know. I don't know. But anyway, that's my passion, I think is life. My life that I have now, I'm so grateful and I'm passionate about life living life, you know? So there you go. I don't know. I don't know how that becomes a niche for a podcast, but that's it.

Okay. And I think I'm going to end it. I'm gonna end this episode with that right there. I think that will be enough , uh, for you to digest. okay. Um, yeah. So thanks for listening. Go to my blog. I'm revitalizing the blog again. Carol remarks.com and you can email me or you can find me on social media. I'm all over social media, Twitter, Instagram, all under Carol remarks. So just search me. You'll find me if you wanna send me a message or whatever, that'd be great. I'm on Facebook.

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