 I got some work done this morning but I still have a lot of work to do but I do want to take a little break and get a coffee because I have this thing where I can get a hundred extra points from Starbucks if I order something spice latte today and it's Friday and I didn't work out this morning because I'm still not feeling too well so I'm in sweatpants and I figured you know why not treat yourself a little bit. I also need to make a return to Whole Foods so I figured I can take you guys along with me there. I also did a little planning for Vlogmas last night so I'm really excited. I haven't used an actual content plan calendar or strategize anything for social media in so long so I feel like 2023 was the year of like just getting consistent-ish with posting on YouTube and 2024 is going to be my year for like major growth and major strategy. That's the goal right now. Alright so I'm still not feeling well. I think I mentioned that. I'm going to try and make an adopter's appointment for next week. Anyways gotta do all that stuff but first let's get some coffee and go to Whole Foods to make your Amazon return. Here's myself to you guys. Well some of you know me so welcome back if you're new. If you're not new, wait welcome back if you're not new. If you are new welcome to my channel. My name is Nika. I'm 29 years old and I'm a clinical psychology student at Columbia University. I'm also doing a host of other things that I want to share a little bit more about on this channel. I've just been very preoccupied with PhD applications but yeah like I'm really excited for the day with you guys. I also want to chase because I need to get some cash because I need my hair done later today. So we should have a really fun day. I have some plans to go to like Margaritaville later and then a potential birthday party later but I just want to see how I feel and also how much work I get done because I just have a lot of stuff to do. Try not to get hit by this car but yeah alright I will catch up with you guys at home. Something for breakfast super quick. I'm gonna do like avocado toast, potatoes and some smoked salmon. I feel like I haven't been eating any fruit lately so I also want to try to make like a little fruit smoothie later and I'm gonna take a ginger shot right now because as you guys know I'm not feeling too well so that is the plan. The next train comes in six minutes and I'm just so annoyed. Like it's so hard to get from one side of Brooklyn to the other side of Brooklyn and it's just like transportation can be so much better in the city sometimes. Us but the good news is we're doing pretty good on time and as long as I don't get too turned around we should get there in time. There's a 15 minute grace period and right now Google is telling me I'll be there at 1.04. My appointment's at 1 o'clock so we're not gonna have that $40 late fee which I was not trying to pay. I guess let's do a little walking tour of Bud's Eye while while we're out here when it's really straight like this but I'm really excited we are going to have a tour of Bud's Eye so I'm probably not gonna give us another tour. I will see you guys when I get home. Check in with the guys then. And then after that I had another call with a woman that I'm interviewing for my birthday center which I don't think I've even told you guys about my birthday center and it's pretty close to my heart right now so I'm not going to share anything about it really but yeah so I've just been busy it's like five it's six it's five fifty it's six o'clock basically and my UN boss gave me like a little concept note to complete I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to complete it tonight I might complete it tomorrow and have some stuff to do for my other job as well I have too many jobs so anyway I'm gonna have some dinner I'm warming up some pasta that I made earlier in the week and I'm having a slice of toast because I feel like I just have been eating bread with every meal I'm gonna sit in tonight like I was supposed to go to Times Square and hang out with some friends at Margaritaville but I don't know after chatting with my Harvard colleague that even sounds weird to say I feel very inspired to like complete my applications plus I have my first PhD application due next week so probably gonna stay inside and work on that and I think I'm gonna see the people that I was supposed to see tonight tomorrow anyway so Audrey I don't think we watched the laundry in this vlog I think we watched in the last vlog so it's just been sitting here for a couple of days calling my name so hopefully I can get all this laundry done then I can think about I got really stressed last night I did a lot of work so I did all my work for one of my like Columbia University jobs and then I started working on I was like what is that noise so it is eight o'clock I'm November 11 11 11 so I'll probably do some manifestation and journaling later today let me get my like life together let me take a bath because honestly I feel like that's also why I'm so stressed because I don't think I've taken a bath in like a week and baths are always just so relaxing to feel how soft your skin is and you just I don't know I just feel so natural so when you do the apple cider if any of our baths you're not supposed to use soap on your skin after because that kind of destroys the entire effects of the apple cider vinegar so it's like I still feel that my skin's like a little like tingly but like in a good way like it just feels like uh fun fact humans are actually only like 10% human germs and like 90% other germs and so I feel like I haven't been feeling well because I've just been so out of sorts and I just think maybe it was too clean like maybe I just needed to rebalance the microbiome of my skin and I honestly already feel better I had like a lot of highs last night and a lot of lows and you'll see that in my next video which is going to be like an update on my phd application process but yeah that like stressed me out last night I was like feeling so good about it and then I started feeling so bad about it so that's such a life I also think because I've been constantly super stressed between school and work and the UN and phd applications like all the stress probably isn't too good for me either but right now I'm really excited to see how my heatless curls turned out I don't think I showed you guys last night when I put them in because I was just so ready to go to bed and I got my hair done so I was trying to just like keep it cute without necessarily like straightening in or adding more heat inside a bobby pin some of them because they were not wanting to stay down nice quite nice let's do the side little bobby pins in here it's not like ideal but it falls I know I'm like once it has some body in here I feel good I also got some stuff from Fenty Beauty well not Fenty Beauty Savage by Fenty Rihanna honestly has too many businesses but I wanted to show you guys too it looks like a sweatsuit set and then I also got a bunch of underwear but you guys do not need to see my underwear all right let's open up the package you don't know I have been living in sweatsuits recently and so I saw that she had like a sweatsuit set that I could get with my like credit that I had even though I don't think it's a total scam to have like a membership and to get these credits every month like that's it's not what I want girl it's just that's not what I want but I do like the discounts you get with the membership and I like that I got this sweatsuit that I think a credit like $65 so $65 for sweatpants and a top isn't that bad I'm gonna actually try these on quickly it's not too tight but now I'm thinking I definitely probably got a small the inside is so soft I was thinking it was gonna be like like super cropped but it's not even that cropped I do wish I would have gotten a small in the pants but let's see if we can tighten it up oh and these are like little metal tips so they feel really nice and luxurious it's a savage on them okay okay Rihanna I see you girl yeah I think I can tighten them would be fine they look a little bunched but I think it's fine I'm honestly not gonna return home just because I don't feel like doing the most rather return and I like that they're like wide like like why are they dragging up before for me but my Lulu's due to you so I guess it just comes to being 5-4 but yeah I am because I really like them all right great purchase great purchase we're gonna take this free volleyball course I mean if you've been watching my vlogs for a while you know I play volleyball I have a little rock team I absolutely love them and honestly I cannot get over my hair when it's this straight like I feel like I need to put water in it or something because it looks crazy but I might bring like a little quad clip grungy let's bring this off-white one and that just better and yeah then we're off to a QBK here's something so I just got a little banana walnut fried from Starbucks as well out in New York City today Aaron's done like meal plan for the week I feel like I've been eating just a lot of carbs because I wasn't feeling well and like my body was craving like pasta and breads and all that stuff but this week I want to be really intentional and like actually make a nice salad for the week and then maybe get everything I need for like a Caesar salad too so I have like two salad options depending on like what I want I also need to get some more apple cider vinegar as you saw I ran out in my bath this morning and then just like groceries and stuff and then I also want to return those headphones that I got from Target a very long time ago hopefully they'll give me at least store credit or my money back preferably and then I also need to stop by Anthropology today and pick up something for a moment do you 12 days of Christmas this year I'm going to journal a little bit because it's 11 11 and then have my coffee have my banana walnut bread and then we'll probably get moving again to uh let's just be outside because it's so nice you know like why not my trip always makes me so nostalgic because I moved to New York City in 2012 to go to this university right here East University it's crazy and now I'm at Columbia and it's literally been honestly like 12 years later it's almost 2024 wow that is actually insane I've been in New York for 12 years wow okay so the trains are like a little crazy today but I finally have made it towards Anthropology so we're gonna go there really quick I also remembered while I was on the train that I forgot the target return so that's gonna have to happen another day I'll see you guys at Anthropology cross street oh god this is the alpha 5100 did you say it's very old yeah camera is old and shitty compared to this one out that I get everything I wanted it's gonna be like $1,400 which is cheaper than the Gucci person I wanted to get myself for my birthday so I'm probably gonna go ahead and do that instead I'm gonna hold off and like wait until Black Friday see if it goes down anymore but yeah probably gonna be getting a new camera soon and then right now I was going to run to Trader Joe's but I'm in the area of Strand and I just love Strand so much and I wanted just like pop in and get a book because I've been reading what is it the laughter the eternal laughter the lightness of being no that's a different one here but oh I've been reading the book of laughter and forgetting by Milan from there and like I don't think I really like it that much like I'm not excited to read it in bed so I'm just gonna get something fun and light to read at Strand and then uh then we'll go to your dress and I think the pomegranate itself was like $2 so that was just like a no-brainer I really hate this light oh my god whatever okay then I got some kidney beans for the chili and some tomatoes some eggs celery and baby kale because I really don't like like then I got some shredded cabbage for a salad I'm gonna make some bananas labor kombucha I've never tried before it is citrus immune food obviously I've been not feeling well for a while so hopefully this helps and then I got some semen for $50 which is insane to me because the last time I went to Trader Joe's I said so much money so definitely definitely shop with a list because that is going to you know really change the game then I picked up my order from anthropology but I cannot show you what it is yet you have to wait till vlogmas to see which I'm actually like really really and then I got where the car that sings from Strand and it was only $5 is that not insane like so happy I got a little book because I was just like looking on Amazon I didn't want to support Amazon and then Strand is such a cute little bookstore so I'm happy I was able to support them and I forgot that they actually buy books too so I have a lot of books in this apartment so hopefully maybe in the next vlog we can go and sell some books there and there's also it's watching another youtuber there's a bookstore in the city that gives you a jar of pickles if you donate some books so maybe I'll do that I'll be on my middle to do list okay I feel like I've done absolutely so much in this vlog and I'm pretty tired I think it's like five o'clock it's six o'clock and I want to do like an 1111 little journal and edit my video that's supposed to go like tomorrow that's not ready yet and just like kind of relax for a bit so I'm gonna end the vlog here if you're new please make sure you subscribe my goal is to get to a thousand subscribers by the end of the year and I think we can get there I just need like 180 people so hopefully that happens otherwise I'll see you guys in the next video I'm gonna love you and leave you leave me a little comment below as well if you liked the vlog and yeah I will see you guys in my next video bye