 Well hello and welcome to Lulai Day 16. First of all, happy birthday to Amanda and happy birthday to Natalie. Amanda is a good friend of mine. You've seen her and I think the Ikea vlog and Natalie is my cousin. They both have the same birthday. Kind of exciting, huh? So anyway, I just got out of the shower. No makeup situation today because it's Sunday. Who cares? But my mom and grandparents are coming over so it's my mom's mom and stepdad and they're coming over to see the place for the first time. Doyle is excited, obviously. He's been creeping and yeah. So I got a lot of work to do today. At least we'll maybe hang out for just a little while. I don't know what else they've got going on today but I can't imagine that they're gonna be here for too incredibly long. It's just turned 11 o'clock. So yeah, Natalie did my plan with me this morning. So that footage is uploaded to my computer and I need to edit that. I still haven't edited the vlog from yesterday yet but all the footage is in my computer thankfully. So I will show you around once they get here which should be in just a couple of minutes. Doyle, you having fun with great Grammy? Yeah. He's always sitting on the left, this funny little dog. Yes, it's a lefty dog. Oh, oh, that's a nice puppy dog. It's gonna kiss your face soon, you better watch out. He's gonna kiss your face soon, you better watch out. Especially if your mouth smells like fresh food. I know. What is your mouth smelling? Like kibble in desperation. Kibble's a bitch. You hanging out with Grammy? Great Grammy. He got a treat earlier. He's like, hey, keep going, keep going, keep going. It's like whatever, just keep petting me. Oh Doyle, you're so spoiled. Okay, I'm gonna ignore you. He's like, what's going on? Oh funny. Oh my gosh. Well, hello, long time no vlog. I, the last clip was my grandma playing with Doyle, maybe? I can't remember. Anyway, I've been doing some things. However, I still haven't edited yesterday's vlog. That's gonna happen in a little bit here. But I have been doing some organizing upstairs and I'm not gonna show you the progress yet because obviously there's gonna be like a dedicated video on that. And I was getting like crazy tired while I was doing that. So I took a nap for like an hour and a half and it felt really good. So I woke up just not that long ago. Someone's on periscope anyway. And I figured I would show you guys I'm making like an actual dinner for once. So I figured I would show you what I am making. Currently, I'll turn you around here. Currently there is some chicken in there. It's just marinated chicken, I guess it's just like chicken breasts that are in there. And then what I do is I actually marinate them in Italian dressing. And I feel like that's really good because it doesn't dry out the chicken because I'm, it's two really big chicken breasts. And there's no way I'm even gonna eat like half a one tonight. But I feel like, you know, when you have leftovers, because you marinated in Italian dressing, it actually tastes really good. You don't need any extra sauce. And then also it keeps it like really moist for, you know, days to come. But something else that I'm doing is I am prepping to make some sauteed vegetables. So what I do is I'm going to take some of my new extra virgin olive oil that I haven't opened up yet and put it in here. This obviously is not on yet. And then I'm gonna saute the vegetables. And then also I'm gonna use some of my penne pasta and use this as kind of like my starch for the evening. And I'll show you what it ends up like looking like in the end. But here is all of the vegetables that I need to cut up and get ready. So I have my zucchini, I've got some white mushrooms, and then some little cherry tomatoes. So I prefer to get the whole mushrooms because they're typically a couple of cents cheaper. And I'm going to be cutting up stuff anyways, because I'm going to slice all of this up and then saute it in here. And that's kind of what I use as my sauce. So the way that it all works is I put my starch down, whatever it is. So you can use like quinoa or rice. I'm using pasta tonight. So I'm going to put the pasta. And then I'm going to put all the vegetable mixture on the top. And I just load up the vegetables like to be completely honest. I just load them up. And then I put some little pieces of diced chicken on top of that. If I have the chicken, sometimes I don't actually use any meat at all. And then I put a little bit of cracked ground pepper and a little bit of mozzarella cheese. And that is it. Like that's all I it's so good though. But anyway, I need to get to cutting these bad boys up and then start the saute process. I think that's going to be another what 35 minutes. So that'll give me enough time for this stuff to happen because this stuff takes a little while because the zucchini is kind of tough. So that takes a little while to kind of like cook down a little bit. So without further ado, I'm going to start chopping and then I'll show you the progress. Oh, and I should probably show you guys this. I think this is probably really weird. But I cut these down obviously like slice wise like this. And then I stack them ever so neatly. And then I cut them into quarters. So yeah, that's that's what I do. So then they're like pretty tiny and easy to eat with like a piece of pasta or a piece of rice. So anyway, I just thought that was kind of funny. Okay, so now I have everything all cut up and cooking and it's been in here for a little while. So I like to cook them in a specific order just you know toughest to softest. So I've got my zucchini that I put in first and then I cut up on my mushrooms and then the tomatoes go in last. And obviously this is going to last me like the entire week of dinners even if I like am very, very generous with you know, the helping essentially. So yeah, this is kind of what it looks like. I just wait for the zucchini to get a little bit softer. And I think I've got about 15 20 minutes left on my chicken. So that's like perfect timing because I am going to get my noodles started right now. But just wanted to show you kind of what it looks like. If you like more of a steamed thing, I mean you can obviously put your cover on it as well. I don't like to steam it too too much just because I feel like the tomatoes get a little bit mushy. I mean they kind of get mushy a couple of days later anyways because they're obviously in like a Tupperware kind of a situation. But anyway, I still love it and it's delicious. So all right, well I'll check in once I get everything else figured out. All right, so I finished my meal. So this is actually what I'm going to be eating in a couple of minutes. I have my pasta, all of my veggies, and then I have my meat kind of all diced up. I put a little bit of mozzarella cheese and then all the black stuff that you see is cracked pepper. So as you can see, I have quite a bit left for leftovers. I actually made all of the pasta that was in there because it just makes life easier. I can just toss it in the microwave and you know, eat that for the rest of the day, not the rest of the day, the rest of the week. And then here is all of my leftover chicken in here. I got my mozzarella cheese that I need to put away and my dirty dishes. So I got to work on that. I think I'm going to soak them while I'm eating and then I will get to actually doing the dishes. And I have a little Doyle dog here. Yeah, don't I little buddy? He's been very excited because I've been making food but nothing actually, you know, smells good to him besides the meat of course. Right bud? You like the meats? But I am going to eat this thing. It looks delicious and I'm very excited. Oh hi, I think I need to put a light on. Let there be light. Whoa, so blown out. I'm sitting at my dining table, you know, normal. And I'm just uploading this footage and realizing like from today, realizing I never closed out the vlog like I ate and I watched an episode of scandal and then I started working and then I just sat down and was like, I'm going to edit the vlog. I never closed out the vlog. Whoopsie. Also, YouTube is having like major issues. I uploaded my vlog from yesterday already and I was trying to upload my plan with me because I got that edited and ready to go. And I don't know what's going on but I go on to YouTube and my channel like isn't there. I mean, it's there. My videos are there but I can't, oh here it goes. Now it's up. It was so weird. It said like error, check back later or like, I don't know, something like that. But it's finally back. There it is. All right, so I'm going to try to actually upload my video for Monday morning. Ah, see, and now I'm getting this. Hmm. There's something going on with YouTube. I don't know what's happening but I think I'm just going to not try to upload it tonight because there's all these issues and I will upload it like early tomorrow morning. I'll just get up a little bit earlier and then just load it while I'm getting ready because it shouldn't take that long. The video is only, I don't know, like 12 minutes or something. It's not, it's not like craziness but obviously they're having issues because someone pulled a plug somewhere, did something at YouTube but hopefully they get this figured out. I'm sure that they will. I wanted to come on and say goodbye to the blog for day 16. I am going to edit the rest of this footage and get it ready at least and then hopefully if YouTube figures out their life, it will be up. So hopefully it'll be up after the plan with me though. So it'll be up at like, I don't know, 10 or later, something like that. So yeah, but I want to at least comb through this footage and do like a raw edit and get my thumbnail figured out and everything because tomorrow is Monday and it's going to be crazy at work. So yeah, and also tomorrow I ordered some stuff online today at Container Store because I'm doing my desk upstairs. My desk is like my makeup vanity as well as like my desk desk. I bought some like office organization stuff at the Container Store but it was free if I picked it up at the Container Store but if I didn't pick it up and got it delivered it was like 14 or 15 dollars which I thought was like a little steep for shipping especially since I was spending you know like 70 bucks. Anyways, I'm gonna go pick that up tomorrow and I'll pick that up on the way home, well it's not on the way home at all but I'm already kind of down there ish so I will go grab that down in a diner and then you know come on back home. So I'll show you guys what I bought tomorrow because I don't think I'm gonna like lulli gig in the store at all because then I know I'll want to buy like all the things you know because it's the Container Store and I love that place. I have got to go because I need to finish up this stuff before the end of the night and it's already almost 10 o'clock so it is time for me to go to bed. It was fun hanging out today. I will see you guys tomorrow. Thank you so much for watching. If you like the video give it a thumbs up. If you want to catch up on either Vlun or Vlulai, the playlists are gonna be down below and I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye guys!