Gina Bronzini Ahrens - Life, Art, Self Expression

My Week In Review 6-14-26 To 6-20-26

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The narrator begins the week by reflecting on a busy family gathering where twenty people visited their home to eat leftover barbecue chicken and cookies, resulting in everyone staying up late until after midnight. Despite sleeping in until 9:00 AM the following morning, the main focus of the video shifts dramatically when she recounts an unfortunate accident involving her grandson, TomTom, who was unusually scared during a house cleaning session. While holding onto items with both hands and trying to manage his distress on the staircase, she lost her balance and fell, sustaining significant bruising and swelling on her pinky toe. Although her son Omar also slipped slightly, he escaped injury thanks to her quick reaction in protecting him, leaving her as the primary victim of the fall while ensuring her grandson remained safe. Following the incident, the narrator's week is defined by recovery rather than high productivity, as she spends much of her time resting with ice on her foot and managing stiffness in her thighs from the impact. Despite being advised to stay off her feet, she attempts to run errands but finds herself unable to visit a local art supply store due to pain and fatigue. Her creative routine continues through online lessons with an instructor named Sketching Scotty, where she practices drawing various subjects including food carts, flowers, sea creatures like crabs, and Vespa scooters using watercolors from her existing palette rather than buying new supplies. She shares that while the process is enjoyable, the physical pain limits how much work she can accomplish each day, forcing her to sit on the couch with her foot elevated instead of pacing around or working at a standing desk. Towards the end of the week, there are some positive updates regarding her health and upcoming plans; specifically, a doctor's office calls to inform her that her scheduled colonoscopy has been rescheduled for next year rather than this one, which she welcomes with relief. The household also prepares for an imminent trip by modifying a bag intended as carry-on luggage by attaching a strap, while dealing with seasonal ant activity and completing some laundry tasks before family members arrive early for dinner. As the week concludes, she acknowledges that the video will be shorter than usual because of her injury but expresses hope that viewers have had productive weeks without similar accidents. She ends on an encouraging note, reminding everyone to do something nice for themselves after a long week and inviting comments or questions in the description box before signing off with well wishes for their safety and happiness.

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All right, guys. It's Sunday. Of course, I started out this week by closing last week's vlog cuz why didn't why not? I mean jammed this recently. Anyway, we're getting ready to have some dinner. We have some leftover chicken barbecue chicken Mr. Bob made yesterday from family dinner night. There was hardly any food left. Some fruit and a little bit of chicken. Everything else got eaten. We had 20 people in the house Owen some cookies. But I mean we all had a great time. They were here we didn't get to bed. Well, by the time we sat down it was like 10:30 and I think immediately Mr. Bob and I were like, crap. I'm tired. We slept in until 9:00 this morning, but that's all right. I'm going to do another sketching class with sketching Scotty after dinner and we'll see where I go from there. I will put a picture like here somewhere. All right. I'm going to eat my salad. I'll be back. You're on my footstool. Yes, I'm leaning over you. That's why I look this way. Uh, I was doing some extra babysitting today. Oh, let's do that. And well, I'm not going to show this on camera, but let's just say my pinky toe on my right foot is black and blue. Um house cleaners were here today and I was also doing the extra babysitting. TomTom was scared of the house cleaners, which he usually isn't. I don't know what was going on with him today. Um and Omar already had her hands full of other stuff and he insisted on me picking him up and he was screaming and crying and anyway, we ended up slipping on a couple of steps on the staircase. Tom Tom is fine because Oma made sure and Oma is fine except for her toe. Yeah, anyway, I can still walk on it but yeah, it's tender and black and blue. Um anyway, he went home a little while ago and I sat and I did some more um sketching. I did another lesson with Sketching Scotty and we did food. So there's my food. I am going to clean out my palette, wash off my brush. I want to uh see what other colors I have and maybe add an orange. He mixes a lot of orange but I I have a lot of paint. I'm sure I have something that will work that I can put in here and not have to mix it all of them. Oh, you know. All right. I'll be back. I found some paints to refill a couple of colors and I found an orange I think will work. Um we're using what we have. Cuz I got a ton of paint. So we're using what we have. I'm not going to buy anything if I don't have to. And um that being said, I have colors that'll work and yeah, we're going to just go with that. So All right. I'm going to put my foot up, try to reduce the swelling. Yeah, anyway, after work Mr. Bob and I are going to go run a couple quick errands and yeah, I'm going to rest until then cuz he's got meetings until 6:30, 7:00, something like that. I'll be back. So yeah, I sat on my foot because let's just say my toe is colorful. And well, the fronts of my thighs, the muscles are very stiff. You can You can tell I fell on the stairs yesterday, so. Anyway, I did go out and run a couple of errands today, but I am stiff and sore and um I'm probably supposed to stay off my feet. So, um I just did what I had to. I wanted really go over to Dick Blick. We do have one near us. And not that I need anything, but I just haven't been in a long time. But, I just Yeah, I'm not feeling up to it, so that didn't happen. Um so, I came back and I got to sleep in. So, yeah, I ate. Um I came back and I did another sketching uh Scotty lesson from his Patreon. So, we did flowers. And I'll probably do one more tonight. Um and I might be brave enough to post some of them in his Patreon. He has a community like chat um place. So, other than that, I'm not getting a lot done this week. So, if this video is really short, it's cuz well, hello, I fell down the stairs. Um I will say grandson, not a bruise or mark on him. He's doing just fine. So, Oma did her job. I took the brunt. He is was safe and uh that's the point. Um How did it happen exactly? I don't remember if I said, but my hands were already full. The house cleaners were here. He was um scared, although he knows them, so he is not usually scared of them. Anyway, he was crying. He wanted didn't want to walk down the stairs, although yes, he knows how to He's three. And um he wanted Oma to help him. So, I was trying to grab him and deal with him with my arms already loaded full of stuff. We anyway, we ended up falling. I let go of the stuff. I made sure I had him and so I turned so that he didn't get hurt. Um anyway, so yeah. My hands still work. So I'm able to do some drawing. Yeah. I did get some mending done before all this happened. So there's that. Um He was hanging out here in the chair where I'm sitting right now while the cleaners were downstairs and he was watching his tablet while Elmo was doing some mending and yeah, I was trying to get him to um play with some markers and crayons. If anybody has any ideas on how to get a three-year-old that who's like uh very focused on certain things and that wasn't one of them, let me know. Uh it's been a long time since I raised any kids and or helped and I only had a girl, so headstrong boys are a whole different ballgame. Anyway, all right. I'm going to do some daily puzzles and have some water. It is hot. I don't have the air conditioner on even though I'm upstairs. I do have all the windows open, but I will probably change that shortly. All right. I'll be back. Despite the fact that I can't really do much cuz my foot she's banged up, but anyway, um I did get two lessons from Sketching Scotty done today. I got another one, sea creatures. Um turned out pretty cute. Wasn't sure about the crab, but I mean, it's not too bad. And uh yeah, I'm really enjoying that process. So anyway, now I'm just like on the couch because everything hurts. I feel like I fell down the stairs. Yeah. I'll be back. I'm trying to do my next lesson with Sketching Scotty. Um which we have two like food carts, a light a lamp post, a door, and a table and chairs. Anyway, um doctor's office called cuz I had questions about my um some info in my record, and their patient portal is just like completely not working right now. And um anyway, question is answered. My next colonoscopy does not need to be this year, it's next year. Yay! Uh and um then as soon as I hung up the phone and picked up the sketchbook, daughter called. Um she's um out more this way than she is her way, and so she and they were coming for dinner anyway, so she and grandson are going to run a few errands. I'm going to finish up my sketching lesson hopefully before they get here, and um then they're going to come early. That's fine. I told her, "Just Just come. It's fine." All right. And uh that's it. Let me get back to that lesson. I'll be back. Hello everybody. All right, so as I can, I am sitting with my foot up with ice on it. Um it is feeling better. I can walk on it without limping. It didn't really hurt much. I mean, it's my pinky toe. It may or may not be broken, but there's nothing they're going to do about it unless they have to, so I don't think it is though. I think I just bruised the crap out of my foot. Um anyway, what I did do is I've been using this bag for my water coloring stuff, and we are going on a trip soon and I may or may not may not like bring this bag as my uh carry-on personal item purse bag. So, I attached a strap to it just a minute ago and made a strap. And Bob's off running some errands. I'm supposed to be sitting down with ice on my foot. So, I guess I better go do that. Uh I do have laundry to do. We're waiting for um the service from our bug people. Um it's ant season, so you know. It's not a huge problem, but uh they are here and there. So, anyway, I am going to do another sketch today. Um here is the one I did yesterday. Um the little food carts I'm not sure I did a great job on, but here we go. Um today I think is a Vespa. So, um and again, I'm doing little lessons little lessons. Some of them are long, but I'm learning a lot from Sketching Scotty and um he does have a YouTube channel if you want to check him out over there. And if you want to get access to the lessons that I'm doing, you can go join his Patreon. I think it's like $8 a month. Anyway, it's worth it in my opinion. All right. I'm going to grab the ice for my foot, maybe change one load of laundry, and put my foot up like I'm supposed to be doing and not pacing around. Yeah. I'll be back. Hello, everybody. All right. I figured before I go get more ice to put on my toe, maybe I had actually try to close the vlog on time this week. >> Ooh, what a concept. >> I know, right? Um I did um just finish um second to last lesson in the section I'm doing with sketching Scotty, uh which was the Vespa, I will uh break here and we will um show all the pictures I've done this week. I've actually done I think one almost every day. Um so that's a lot of fun. That's been the focus of what I'm doing uh cuz I can't really get up and do too much cuz I hurt my foot. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Um it's feeling better today. Um we did get a few other uh random errands done and went and did some driving around. And uh yeah, but that was the end of this week. Not as productive as I wanted to be, but when you take a fall like I did and you hurt yourself, what do you expect, right? So anyway, we'll rest and get better. We have stuff coming up I want to do. So, yeah. Anyway, I hope you guys have had a good week and you've been able to get some stuff done and you haven't fallen and hurt yourself like I did. I I hope not cuz that Yeah, that wasn't fun. All right, that's it for this week. Please like, share, and subscribe. Uh leave a question, comment, or concerns down below. I do reply to all of them. Uh relevant links will be in the video description and uh go out and do something nice for yourself cuz you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye, guys.