 It's Vlogmas Day 9! I just posted a picture of myself like this with like a double hat thing on the nog and I'm so cold. I just walked the dog. So I'm freezing and it's a rock and Friday night in my world and I got like no plans. So I don't really have anything exciting to talk about. So on Instagram I had asked if anyone could send me some questions because I don't know. This is why I don't like vlog on the regular y'all because I'm boring. However, I did get some happy mail from Adriana Piper. I will leave her link below. I have ordered many things from Rebecca in the past and she is a really good internet friend. So check out her stuff. But I actually ordered this, I think was it, I can't remember if it was Black Friday or if it was Cyber Monday, but I ordered it then. But anyway, let me show you what I got and then I'll get into some of the questions that you guys have been asking me on Instagram, hold on a second. Okay, so here is what I got from Adriana Piper. This was a cute little sampler. This is a nice little sampler I got too. And then she always includes like little extras as well. So I got these. She knows I love functional things. So I think that's why she sent these guys. And then these little cute little crockpots which are kind of cute. And then these are the three sheets that I ordered. So I ordered some like little floppy disks which I thought were really cute. I could use these for like work or home because I'm like constantly like backing up files and stuff. I got these little bath tubs because I thought it would be kind of nice to put these in when I like take the dog to the groomer and stuff. I'm not a bath fan. I know that's kind of weird but I hate baths for myself. I feel like I'm just like soaking in my filth. I don't know. I'm just clean. I just don't know. I don't like a bath personally. It's just not my thing. And then the last sheet I got was this. And these are these cute little ones on the very top. They say play date and there's just like some random ones. Normally you would think someone with kids would want these but the reason I want them is because in the summertime now that I am closer I'm sure I'm going to be doing some stuff with my nephew Jackson which you actually saw in yesterday's blog. So yeah I wanted to get some of these because I thought they'd be really cute or if I have like you know something at the park or whatever. I don't know. But yeah so these like these these ones hold on I can't even talk. These ones were all like little freebies which was kind of cute and then she always puts the little card in there and then let's see here. She wrote me a little note saying hey girl so funny. So I'm going to grab my phone and then we'll answer some questions. I'm pretty sure I only got like one or two questions because I haven't I just posted it like a second ago. Oh let's see here all right let's go somewhere else and answer some questions. Oh I guess I guess not because somebody's at the front door hold on I'm back false a lot wrong place okay so let's go answer the questions this is like my corner it's like the corner the corner questions vlog. So there's a couple of questions let me get to the first one coffee or tea tea I drink I think it's twinnings or twinings English breakfast tea that's what I get I think I showed that in was it the first vlog yeah I got like a whole bunch of it from Amazon so that was really good but yeah I hate coffee and I know I'm like the only planner girl out there maybe that doesn't like coffee but I gotta tell you that stuff like not to get like too disgusting but that stuff goes like right through me and it just it's not good I actually don't mind the way it tastes at all it's just it doesn't do well for my body if that makes any sense. So yeah so tea tea is for me tea is for me the next question have you always been a planner or is this new for you actually I think I addressed this in one of my Q&As before but I've always kind of been a planner back in the day I actually used to get these like little inserts from Franklin Covey which I don't even think is around anymore and I had like a leather I don't even know if it was real leather it's probably like a faux leather like a gender thing that had like a zip around it so I've always been kind of a paper planner but then I kind of got out of that once like iPhones were introduced and I had like the iCal and everything but even then I would still miss stuff because I know like in the first couple of versions of the iPhone you couldn't like alert yourself about things and whatever so I was still missing stuff which is why I started paper planning again and also the reason I got into paper planning well one of the reasons is that I've been a huge fan of Jennifer Ross from Pretty Neat Living I'll put her information below in this video I started watching her when she had I think like less than a thousand subscribers maybe so it's like obviously a long time ago because she has quite a following now and I started watching her on her like organized like Jen channel now it's all like all of her channels I think she had like three maybe four channels total now they're all consolidated into one so it's just like her brand is her versus like all these other channels you know so anyway it makes more sense but I loved her organization videos and I also liked her vlogs I know she doesn't vlog anymore but she's on snapchat every once in a while but I can totally understand like she's a new mom and she doesn't want to share that part or she wants to you know like control what she shares and I totally understand that but she did a bunch of planning videos a while back her showcasing Aaron Condren stuff was like oh maybe I should check this place out and I like would go online in Peruse but I never like signed up or you know I didn't like use the like referral code or anything and I was just like looking and looking and I'm like I don't know and then like the next year came and I'm like well maybe I should do it and so I looked and looked and looked and then I never did it and I was like the next year happened and I was like okay I need to just do this and it was right before I remember it was right before the launch of like the new planners so it was like the summer time that I was looking yeah and then you know signed up for my $10 off coupon code and the rest is history because I'm pretty sure I've already placed like 20 Aaron Condren orders which is like insane it's just it's it's insane you guys it's it's insane so to answer the question yes I have always been a planner I've always been like very goal oriented I've always been someone that likes to write things down and like you know all write things down on my daily like to do list just to check them off because it's just like who I am so yeah I've always definitely been a planner and someone that likes paper to pen I've always been that person technology is great but only if it works for you and some things work well for me in technology and other things do not work well for me in technology so you know you gotta figure out what works for you ooh this my gosh these are difficult questions okay it's a really short question one word for 2017 oh gosh if I can only pick one word for 2017 oh man I'm have to come up with something like really good I've got the word the word is gonna be progress 2017 if I have to pick a word for 2017 it's gonna be progress because I feel like it's a hopeful word and it's also a word that keeps us moving forward and I'm all about progress I'm all about moving forward I'm all about learning something new that's what this channel is about that's what I'm all about is an individual that's what my personal life is about and my professional life is about so yeah progress I think progress is a good word I mean what do you guys think if you guys have a word for 2017 post them in the comments below I would love to know what your word for 2017 would be that's a really good question I also have do I have any resolutions for 2017 resolutions I don't like the word sorry just don't like it um I like to use the word goals instead because I feel like that's easier for someone to achieve a resolution is I'm doing this wrong but a goal is I'm moving forward so you're not like it's like more of like a negative connotation I feel like in society and then also like in my own brain but just the way that I think I mean if you don't think that that's totally fine but as for resolutions or goals of 2017 I'm actually gonna be filming like a whole video on that and that'll be up either at the very tail end of January like the early part of January or like the tail end of December I haven't fully decided yet sorry I keep moving the camera around because like my arms are so sore I'm gonna be sharing some things I'm gonna be doing a whole video on it I have some categories that I want to talk about so if there's certain things that you guys want to know about in like my goals for 2017 make sure to post them below and I'll answer those in that video because I haven't filmed it yet but I probably will be filming it actually I might be filming it this weekend or next I don't I don't know but I want to talk about career I want to talk about personal like life you know just like my own like social life and then I also want to talk about like YouTube in this channel so I think those are the three things I'm gonna hit on in my like goals video for 2017 but if there's anything else that you guys want me to talk about let me know and I'll consider it all right so I'm gonna answer this one last question because I feel like I'm just like going on and on and on all right so I've got another question here from planning with Gabriela or Gabriela Gabriela probably let me know if I'm wrong planning with Gabriela says if you could live anywhere in the world where would you live well planning with Gabriela that is a good question so recently okay I've got like two parts to this answer I feel like I would love to live in Wilmington North Carolina I live there before it is such a beautiful town the people are so nice the weather is fantastic minus the hurricanes but the oceans right there it's a great space the housing is beautiful the weather is beautiful the people are beautiful like I don't know I just love it I love East Coast West Coast isn't really my jam long-term like if I were to live there for a year or something like I wouldn't really care but I've been out to like the West Coast a lot in my life and I just never felt comfortable even on like vacation you know what I mean so I don't know it's just not me but I am definitely an East Coast person I actually went to Boston this past summer and had a great time obviously I know that's like Northeast that's a little bit different but even like all my trips to Florida my parents live in Florida now so I don't know I mean I've just loved the East Coast I think it is such a great place I think it's a little bit more like relaxed and chill which I really like because I feel like in the Midwest things are kind of stereotyped a little bit but me being from like Minneapolis I'm very much like go-go-go all the time and when I go to the East Coast I feel like I kind of level out a little bit like even when I lived there took me a really long time to just chill out because I was so used to like everyone being so fast and so fast but they weren't fast there like I remember going to the bank repeatedly because this is like I mean they had drive-up ATMs but you know I always just go inside I remember them like always wanting to get to know me and like asking a lot of questions and like just just taking a really long time and I would just get so frustrated I mean I wouldn't like go off on them or anything but it was just like I was just so in this other mindset of like go-go-go like get the next person done you know but that's just the lifestyle there so I feel like that's good for me to just like chill out not worry so much about the next five minutes and just like be there and be present and that was like really difficult for me when I lived there but once I was there I loved it the reason I left is because of the housing situation my roommate was leaving and I didn't really have anybody else to room with and this was back when I was like not in a good financial space I mean obviously if you watch my financial video you know about me so then I ended up coming back to Minnesota and staying with my parents for a little while until I got my act together and yeah then the rest is history so if I could pick somewhere in the US that is where I would live Wilmington North Carolina looking up on the map it's amazing and then if I could live anywhere in the world so I've recently been thinking about this a lot lately because I mean I don't I haven't traveled a lot I mean I've traveled in the US but I haven't traveled like internationally a lot I've been to like Mexico I've been to Cancun and like Tijuana I don't know I mean I've been to I've been to back there I've been to been to Cancun what was it twice yeah twice once when I was a kid and then like once when I was like 8 19 I think it was 19 yeah I was 19 I'm pretty sure but yeah so I don't know where I would like live internationally just cuz I haven't like experienced it I have to say that a lot of my like not to get political y'all but like a lot of my views really align with Canada like just very open and very accepting and things like that so I don't know I mean it would still be cold because I mean I'm in Minnesota so I understand the coldness factor because you know you're more north and I lived in Fargo before which is you know I like to say basically Canada but it is actually very far away from Canada but it's closer but yeah I don't know maybe Canada I mean I don't know enough about other countries like enough about the economics and stuff I mean I know some of the economic stuff about Canada because when I worked for the granite company we actually sold to Canada vendors so I knew a lot about some of the logistics and some of the other some of the other stuff that we had to figure out because we dealt with Canadian vendors that I had no idea about and I'm you know learning more about them so I don't know maybe I would say Canada a and I feel like most Canadians that I've ever met are like pretty chill as well which is kind of nice I think that's the theme of this video like Emily you just need to chill out you just need to chill out okay so I think that is all I am going to answer for today because now I'm into the 15 minute mark which probably won't be 15 minutes for you because I'm going to edit the snot out of this thing but if you guys keep posting comments that I haven't gotten to on my Instagram I might use them later for another like vlog Q&A because let's face it my life is kind of boring but I'm glad that you guys are enjoying the vlog miss situation and I hope you didn't mind that I just did like this one take kind of a thing today with my crazy double my double hat situation because I'm still kind of cold even though I got in like 20 minutes ago that's what happens when you live in Minnesota and it's like four degrees outside you coming over here you're gonna say hello to the video all right well I'm gonna get going Doyle is here as well he wanted to say hello to you guys I know you guys haven't seen him in a couple of days I feel like it's been a couple of days you just always get a little furs right on this now right on this now right on this now why are you letting me do this to your face he's weird he just wants tummy rubs that's that's what he wants tummy rubs tummy rubs all right well I'm gonna get going I want to get this footage edited and uploaded and scheduled for you guys tomorrow I actually have really fun things planned I might do some filming in the morning but I am going to a planner meet-up which is gonna be exciting so hopefully I can vlog a little bit there we are gonna be going to the Mall of America and Bloomington Minnesota we're going to a place that I've never been it's called Crave it's a like a place you know like a food place so that'll be fun I'm not sure who's all coming but I'm excited nonetheless even if I don't actually know anybody that's okay because then you get to know people yeah so anyway I hope you guys are having a better rock and Friday night than I am but by the time you see this it'll be Saturday night so hope you're gonna start having a good Saturday night and I will see you all in the next vlog bye guys bye guys