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hey everyone welcome back thank you for
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joining
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me um please bear with me I am recording
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this for my
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phone I don't really have the equipment
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for this I I didn't know I was going to
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do this so this is a very new experience
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for me um and and actually that's what I
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I want to address that first um just the
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video quality if I do keep doing this I
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will I will invest in a better camera um
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I'll learn some video editing
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software and you know I'll definitely
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improve the quality of my video over
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time um this was a very uh spontaneous
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thing I decided to do um I'm honestly
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quite surprised that I'm doing it cuz I
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I never really pictured myself on video
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before um but I just I really do want to
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share my experience with you and I hope
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that others get enjoyment out of it and
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if they do you know that that'll be
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wonderful and I'll keep doing it um I
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also I'm doing it for my my family when
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I'm out there um I want them to see what
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we're up to I want them to see me and my
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cats I want them
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to know we're safe you know I want them
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to see that we're happy that we're doing
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well so that's just really the first
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thing I wanted to address today um when
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I woke up this morning I felt a little
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self-conscious um that I had even posted
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you know my first video but that quickly
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passed I I actually feel really good
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about this I'm not sure why to be honest
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um I just I think it's a very cool thing
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to try to do so um please bear with me
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it'll get better over time I
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promise um second I just wanted to
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know if I look tired it's because I am I
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haven't slept in days um you know I've
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slept a little but I've just I've had
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trouble sleeping the past three nights
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um it started when I Vis visited an RV
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dealership uh I picked a Class C there
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that I really liked and when I left
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there I was supposed to come back the
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next morning cuz the sales person was
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going to actually drive me around with
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it you know try to get me to feel more
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comfortable to buy it from her and when
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I got home I just started thinking about
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all the challenges I'd have like like
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gas stations and I just
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didn't I wasn't ready so that was the
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night that I started looking at YouTube
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videos and discovered this enormous
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Community yet which is just
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amazing uh and it started to make me
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feel a lot more comfortable one of the
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things that helped a lot was seeing a
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lot of um solo female rvers out there
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like I totally applaud you
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guys it takes so much bravery to do
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something like this and you helped me to
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feel like I could do it too I just thank
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you so much for that um I'm a big fan of
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a lot of you that I'm learning
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about so that first night I was up all
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night long and I was supposed to be
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there in the morning and I just I
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couldn't do it so I I just postponed it
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I'm going to do it in the middle of next
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week um cuz like I have surgery tomorrow
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like I said in my first video probably
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need a few days to just heal up and then
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I'll I'll go back out there and then the
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second night um when I posted my first
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video just super excited about this
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adventure I I just can't wait to get
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started so I didn't sleep very well and
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that's just how it's just how the last
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couple of days have gone for me um and
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also it's Modern Life right we just
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don't get enough sleep and you know
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that's one thing I'm hoping will
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change um
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so oh I wanted to tell you guys
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yesterday I told you I didn't remember
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how I got this idea into my head and I
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remembered just a couple weeks ago I
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drove my Jeep from um Lexington Kentucky
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that's where I live uh to Phoenix
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Arizona and that's where one of my
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clients Liv I worked with him for seven
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eight years now it's our first time
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meeting a person um all that time and I
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just drove there 2,000 miles it was it
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was so awesome I loved it and I saw some
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RV dealerships you know off the side of
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the highway and once you get to the
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western states they have they have
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different it seems like they have
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different campers because they're just
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rows and rows of these small campers and
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I thought wow my Jeep could tow that now
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I'm not sure what they were I don't see
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them anywhere in the eastern states I
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don't see them in
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Kentucky and I haven't really seen them
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online either like whatever I was seeing
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it just felt like a western thing and I
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don't know if they really could you know
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if my Jeep really could tow
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them but I'm guessing probably not you
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know they probably 3 4,000 lbs it just
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seems to be like what it's like even
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with the small
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ones but but that's what got the idea in
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my head and I went in you know once I
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got to Arizona I went through the
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mountains I lived there as a kid i'
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forgotten how beautiful those mountains
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are I just fell in love with those
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mountains both on the way there and the
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way back I
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just it sparked something in me and then
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on my way back you know I'm seeing these
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RV dealerships again and it's in my head
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it's in my head you know maybe I can
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tellw something with my Jeep because I
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didn't think I could do it the other way
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around I have to tell you I feel a lot
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more comfortable with the idea now after
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watching a lot of things um on
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YouTube and joining a few groups on
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Facebook and actually I wanted to
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mention that um there's there's a woman
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named Natalie who had posted something
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in a Facebook group just asking what
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were your
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fears and I just said gas station and
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she gave me a really good advice she
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told me that what she does is she pulls
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up her RV GPS looks at Satellite Mall
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mod checks out the gas stations you know
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in front of her you know ahead of where
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she's going and she looks for the ones
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that have two two
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exits so that it's easier for her to get
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in and out and she just you know she
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looks for the bigger ones and and I'm
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like wow like perfect idea and it turns
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out that she's a full-time camper and
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she
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has uh an Instagram and I just wanted to
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call her out and say thank you um I
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don't know how to put anything on this
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screen yet so I just did this she's on
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Instagram Fearless Fairy Godmother so
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maybe check her out if you want
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to um so that's
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my
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um you
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know that's just that's just how I'm
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doing things
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today also I had this interesting idea I
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think I am in the buying and selling
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phase of this transition I'm selling
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everything in my house but but I'm
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buying new stuff for my RV right so I'm
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thinking this is the buying and selling
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phase and when that's over you're just
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closer to your dream and I have some
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stuff coming today that's why I think
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this oh I'm sorry I didn't even mention
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it I think this will probably be in two
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parts I don't know how
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to um you know combine two videos yet so
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just thought I'd start with this one and
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then when the stuff gets here then I'll
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make a second video but I have some
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stuff coming for my cats and I want you
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know I'm going to I'm going to introduce
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you to them and I'm going to show you
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how they live here and then how I want I
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expect them to live with me in an RV
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so um it's important to me that you know
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they're happy that they're
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getting enjoyment out of the experience
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too um you know they like to come
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outside they like to be outside but I
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don't let them run free they they have
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um they have like a screened intent that
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outside that I put them in when I'm
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outside with them um but I don't feel
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like it's big enough for what we're
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going to do so I have found some really
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cool stuff that's modular that you can
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kind of put in all kinds of different
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ways and could give them a lot of time
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Outdoors
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um and I just think that they'll love it
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and I just want to share that with you
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we're just I'm just going to assemble it
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see how long that takes um you know and
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then take it apart see how long that
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takes cuz that's going to be what my
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life is like every time we move and
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we're just going to put them in there
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and let them play and and just see how
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that
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goes so that is my plan for the second
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part of this um just bear with me guys I
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love what I'm doing
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here
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um and I just I hope that some of you
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get something out of this I really don't
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expect to have like a big following or
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anything like that I I really want you
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know like my mother my family to be able
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to find some of my friends there's some
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friends
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who feel like they're going to live
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vicariously through me they've said I
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have some friends in Ukraine um who I
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love dearly they're following along I'm
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friends in Michigan or I'm from
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originally you it's really you know it's
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I kind of think I have them in mind but
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I also have just just you know the the
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community in general mind hoping that we
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might connect and I'm trying to be as
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authentic as I can be I don't want to I
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don't want to make multiple takes of
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something um if I say something wrong I
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mean that's just being human you know I
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want you to get to know the real me and
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that way if we do um and end up meeting
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somewhere along you know this wonderful
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country of ours that you feel like
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you've already got to know me and you're
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not you're not being somebody else so I
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guess that's it for now uh I'll be back
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when my cat stuff is here really excited
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thank you
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bye
