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It's Ariel and...

Really?

I'm back, baby.

I feel like I was away because we didn't do video last week or two weeks ago.

I've been here the whole time, but I feel like I'm back from something for some reason.

I do agree, but also this is kind of a big reveal for our video viewers of Raylene's new background,

which I'm sure will continue to shift as I said, my hair.

I thought you were going to say because my hair is purple. But yeah, no, the background is also different. The hair is a big change as well. I was going to get to the hair. I promise. It is for our audio listeners, Raylene's hair has been green. Well, okay, that's a fake picture. It's been like what 25% green?

How much of your hair do you think is colored?

25%?

I'd say 25% to 30% is probably an accurate. Yeah. Like it's not my whole head. It's not half of it, yeah. But it's a couple of big chunks, yeah. Yeah. It's been green, but today when we got on camera, well, actually, there was a series of of shocks because Raylene figured out how to do virtual backgrounds and I logged in and I didn't even notice

your hair because there was a dragon and a castle behind you. Yeah my new house is a castle

with a dragon so but once I got over that I was like oh my god your hair it's purpley

bluish green now. Yeah I was going for void purple because that's Kyle's like favorite color. It's like a World of Warcraft void is this whole thing and he just like, this would be such a cool color for your hair. And so I was like, okay, I'm going to mix together some blue and some purple, a little bit of black to like make it dark. Like, let's see what I can do. And it's hard to see on camera right now because the light's not hitting it, but it is quite purple. But it just kind of looks like my hair is black right now on camera. So it looks cool though. Thanks. But then once I got over the hair shock, I was able to see your new background, which is pretty exciting. You've got some lovely frames up. It's something. I see your Gatsby's, right? Yes, so behind me, finally, my Gatsbyes are on full display. I don't have a bookshelf for this room yet, but I do have this dresser that just like holds all sorts of things, cords and whatnot. And I was like, you know what, I'll decorate it. Why not? And so I threw all of my Gatsby's on there. And they honestly don't look like I have that many when they're stacked up like this. But like that's, I don't know, 40-something copies of the great Gatsby behind me. So there it is. People have been wondering where I was going to put them for now? That's where I put them. So last time that we were chatting, you had had a big plumbing disaster. And I know that people

are going to be wanting that update right away. So how's the house? So it's fine. It's not by any

means like awesome, but it's also not terrible. There have been a lot of people coming in,

just like, you know, willy-nilly, just showing up like, hey, we want to come

see how it's going. And then another time they're like, hey, we're here to cut some pieces out of the wall. And then they didn't finish that day, so they came back the next day to cut more pieces out of the wall. And so there's been just a lot of that. And so it's been a little annoying, but we are still, like I said last time, like we are still very much enjoying where we are and the house itself is very good. But it has been a little tiring, a little draining. And so it kind of ruined the Halloween season a little bit because we just didn't have the energy to like do anything. We had all these ideas. We were like, oh, it would be so fun to like go to a pumpkin patch or like a haunted house or go apple picking. But every day we

wanted to do it, we were just like, I can't. So that was, that's the main thing I think that

it has taken away is the lovely October month that we should have had was a little bit ruined.

But say lavi.

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