Tuesday, March 24, 2020
It is Tuesday, which is Susanne journal video day. Today I edited the best video reading so far. My friend, Cass, sends me hilarious videos to edit. When Cass makes a mistake while filming the video, she says a funny line to me and keeps going. I edit out those funny mistakes, so viewers are not going to find Cass’s videos nearly as funny as I do, until today (or June 3rd, the day the video goes live on my YouTube channel). Today I laughed out loud at least five times each of the at least three times I watched it.
Viewers will probably laugh only once, but it is really funny. I talk about how much I admired Spock from Star Trek, and when Cass reads the words, she throws up the Live Long and Prosper Vulcan sign. It cracked me up. I appreciate every single video my volunteers record for me, and I know it is not nice to have a favorite, but I cannot image anyone giving me more joy when I watch a video than I received today, not even Cass. This video was simply a matter of the text matching up perfectly with the ideal personality.
I do not match a particular post with any particular person for the most part. My friend, Crystal, has asked to read the posts I write about her and her family. Crystal usually gets very emotional when she reads my posts because she loves me so much, and I usually wait a month or longer for Crystal to record a tear-free video. Yesterday, when Crystal was visiting me, she asked me for a post that did not involve her family so she might be able to get through the whole video without breaking down.
Crystal thought she would do a better job with the assignment she already had, if she could record a tear-free video first. I chose a post I thought was not emotional until I read the final paragraph. I read the last paragraph out loud to Crystal to see how she would react. I watched the tears well up in Crystal’s eyes when I read the paragraph. When I finished reading, I told Crystal I would choose another post for her and she told me she could do it. I sent her text to record, hopefully her experiment will work
I do have a fairly political post coming up soon that I will probably end up reading on video. I skipped it for the person who would have gotten it in my volunteer rotation because I thought she might object. I do not want to assign the video to anyone who has not yet read any of my videos because they might not feel comfortable telling me no. I have assignments currently out to two people who might not misinterpret my words. When they return their assignments, I will send them my post. If both my volunteers decline, I will record it. I was not trying to insult anyone when I wrote this particular post, but sometimes what we say, is not what others hear. Angry Susanne wrote that post, so there is not much chance it will make me cry when I read it out loud (I may, however, raise my voice a little).
My helper came today instead of yesterday, so I could limit the people here for our play date with Crystal and Lily, and because I had a big project I wanted to start this week, and I would have been too distracted yesterday.. The switch in days worked out very nicely today because I did not have very many videos to edit today. I would have spent the afternoon programing journal entries to my blog, but I chose to start my cleaning project instead. I need to start getting my items ready to transport to the donation centers. I have been slacking on trying to do any decluttering because I did not have any volunteers scheduled, and I had expected my sister to be here this week to help me.
My piece of advice to you is to revisit what make you laugh often. I have a parody video saved on my desktop of an acapella group called The Maccabeats performing Candlelight. I do not know the original song, and I am not Jewish, but every time I watch the video it makes me smile. The young men in the video are so adorable and dorky, they remind me of my adorable and dorky children. When I am having a bad day, I watch the video and my mood instantly changes.'
Until next time,
Susanne
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It is Tuesday, which is Susanne journal video day. Today I edited the best video reading so far. My friend, Cass, sends me hilarious videos to edit. When Cass makes a mistake while filming the video, she says a funny line to me and keeps going. I edit out those funny mistakes, so viewers are not going to find Cass’s videos nearly as funny as I do, until today (or June 3rd, the day the video goes live on my YouTube channel). Today I laughed out loud at least five times each of the at least three times I watched it.
Viewers will probably laugh only once, but it is really funny. I talk about how much I admired Spock from Star Trek, and when Cass reads the words, she throws up the Live Long and Prosper Vulcan sign. It cracked me up. I appreciate every single video my volunteers record for me, and I know it is not nice to have a favorite, but I cannot image anyone giving me more joy when I watch a video than I received today, not even Cass. This video was simply a matter of the text matching up perfectly with the ideal personality.
I do not match a particular post with any particular person for the most part. My friend, Crystal, has asked to read the posts I write about her and her family. Crystal usually gets very emotional when she reads my posts because she loves me so much, and I usually wait a month or longer for Crystal to record a tear-free video. Yesterday, when Crystal was visiting me, she asked me for a post that did not involve her family so she might be able to get through the whole video without breaking down.
Crystal thought she would do a better job with the assignment she already had, if she could record a tear-free video first. I chose a post I thought was not emotional until I read the final paragraph. I read the last paragraph out loud to Crystal to see how she would react. I watched the tears well up in Crystal’s eyes when I read the paragraph. When I finished reading, I told Crystal I would choose another post for her and she told me she could do it. I sent her text to record, hopefully her experiment will work
I do have a fairly political post coming up soon that I will probably end up reading on video. I skipped it for the person who would have gotten it in my volunteer rotation because I thought she might object. I do not want to assign the video to anyone who has not yet read any of my videos because they might not feel comfortable telling me no. I have assignments currently out to two people who might not misinterpret my words. When they return their assignments, I will send them my post. If both my volunteers decline, I will record it. I was not trying to insult anyone when I wrote this particular post, but sometimes what we say, is not what others hear. Angry Susanne wrote that post, so there is not much chance it will make me cry when I read it out loud (I may, however, raise my voice a little).
My helper came today instead of yesterday, so I could limit the people here for our play date with Crystal and Lily, and because I had a big project I wanted to start this week, and I would have been too distracted yesterday.. The switch in days worked out very nicely today because I did not have very many videos to edit today. I would have spent the afternoon programing journal entries to my blog, but I chose to start my cleaning project instead. I need to start getting my items ready to transport to the donation centers. I have been slacking on trying to do any decluttering because I did not have any volunteers scheduled, and I had expected my sister to be here this week to help me.
My piece of advice to you is to revisit what make you laugh often. I have a parody video saved on my desktop of an acapella group called The Maccabeats performing Candlelight. I do not know the original song, and I am not Jewish, but every time I watch the video it makes me smile. The young men in the video are so adorable and dorky, they remind me of my adorable and dorky children. When I am having a bad day, I watch the video and my mood instantly changes.'
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.