 Well hello everybody and welcome back to a plan with me. Today we're going to be working on Monday December 5th through Sunday December 11th. As always, let's take a look back at last week. Dun-da-da-da. Um, I didn't really have a lot going on this week. I mean I had stuff going on but like nothing really noteworthy unfortunately. So I worked, went to see my financial advisor. We did some things. After work I went to the grocery store, started Vlogmas, which is exciting. If you guys want to see my vlogs I will put my Vlogmas playlist down below. There's only a few loaded since I just started on Thursday. Actually these are like my day 1, 2, 3, like like put these little flags up here to say when I'm loading it. So essentially I'm filming on December 1 and then that's my day 1 and it's going up on the 2nd and then like I'm always going to be a day behind. So yeah. And then I went to Dragon House with my friend Jodi and we talked to all things YouTube which was kind of fun. We did that on Saturday. And then um today actually had a nap time like a two year old. I don't know why I was just so tired. I stayed up pretty late last night reading um and then it snowed today to or actually like overnight so then I went out and shoveled a little bit. I don't know like maybe that just like totally pooped me out. I don't know but I was just super tired. So I napped for like an hour or two two and a half hours. I don't know I put in more time. But now it's dark outside hence the artificial lighting which is fantastic which is why I have a big shadow right now. So I'm planning on doing my film with me right now with you guys. So anyway so that is that. So here we go. Also Friday's video I should say was a holiday giveaway. It is still up and running. So if you guys are interested I will leave my Instagram down below. I have had several entries already. Actually let me pull it up and I'll show you what it is before we get started. Actually it's right here. This is this is the image on my Instagram that you want to make a comment on. I'll post the video as well because the video gives you instructions on what you need to post. You also need to be a part of Instagram. I know some of you are not a part of Instagram and that's okay because I am going to be doing another giveaway at some point but I'm going to be doing it on a different social media platform to kind of keep it even. Instagram to me is the easiest thing to do just because I feel like it's easy. But I understand some people don't have Instagram and I hear you guys. However there's so many spammers on YouTube and it's so incredibly difficult to kind of decipher who those people are. So I don't know. I'm sure at some point I will be doing a giveaway just strictly on YouTube but the logistics of it is a little bit more difficult but I think the next giveaway that I do will be on Facebook because I feel like a lot of people have Facebook and not everybody has Instagram. So look forward to that because that giveaway will probably be coming up really soon. All right so this is this week. This video that's already stuck in here is something that I did a long time ago like this summer. So what I have to do is I have to pull this little icon out of here and hopefully I can get this under here. This is undo. I know some of you guys have seen this before if you watch my videos. I actually got this on Amazon. The link is always below for you guys actually as well as like the markers and pens that I use. I put those down below as well in an Amazon link. Actually today I just updated my... Here we go. I just updated all of my information like down below with like my most current everything. And something that I included that I have never included before is the camera equipment that I use. So I included the camera that I use. There's been a couple of people that have like messaged me privately about like the equipment that I use. The lighting that I use. Also like I'm using a tripod. The tripod I use like everything like that because I feel like that's really interesting especially if that's something that you're wanting to maybe try to start doing. My stuff is pretty inexpensive. Maybe someday if you guys are actually interested. I mean let me know in the comments if you're interested in me doing an overview on all the things that I use and why. I don't know like tech stuff. I know some of you are had been asking questions kind of leading towards the fact of like I want to get started but I'm not sure how. Really my best advice is just start filming. I know it's weird to just sit here and talk to a black box because that's literally what I'm doing right now. But you know you get comfortable with it. Actually when I was at my lunch or not. Yeah it was my lunch with Jodi on Saturday. She's a YouTuber as well. I'll link her information below. But the cool thing about that was that we you know we talked about YouTube quite a bit and you know where she wants to take her channel and all of that and my biggest takeaway for really anybody trying to start YouTube and like kind of what I was telling Jodi is that like you just need to be authentic and like lean into yourself and be you. If anyone goes back and watches my old videos which now I know some of you will go back and watch my old videos. I was not comfortable for a very long time. It took me a while and I'm still working on it. I think we're all you know working on getting comfortable just within ourselves regardless if we're on camera or not. But that is my biggest takeaway from that is just get comfortable with yourself and just be you because I mean I know this is like one of those cheesy little things that you like see on Facebook and Instagram and social media. You know just be you because everybody else is taken and I never want to become any of those channels that are very product pushy or anything like that. I genuinely use what I purchase and I love. Yes there are companies that send me things for review and things like that. But my test and I told Jodi this too my test if I have companies approaching me is would I buy this with my own money? And if the answer is yes then I will accept whatever they have. However if it's something that is not on-brand with me at all what's the point? My viewers are gonna know that that is not me first of all and then I'm just doing it for a paycheck and that is not that's not where I want to take this. You know what I mean? I know a lot of YouTubers don't really like talk about that because it's like oh you're good you know bashing ad videos. I'm totally not bashing ad videos I get it. But like if I were doing something that was off-brand and it was so obscure you guys would know about it you know. It just is weird but like if Ulta Beauty came to me and was like hey we really want to partner with you on a video we've seen that you've done videos you know on our on the things that we carry in the past you know would you be interested? I'd be like well heck yeah because I use their stuff and I genuinely love their brand but if some like fly fishing company came to me and said hey you want to partner with a video I'd be like are you on crack? Like seriously no no I don't because I actually don't enjoy fishing that's not my thing but you know everyone's different so I don't know it's just I don't even know where I'm going with this whole story oh and I just realized that I like majorly messed this up not this one but the ones previously well goodness all right we'll fix that I put it to like 330 I should I only work till three I only work till three Emily get it together oh my gosh my brain is like not fully functioning and it's the evening you guys like I don't know I woke up from my nap like a little kid so yeah and anyway if you guys are watching vlogmas let me know and let me know if you guys are enjoying it it's kind of weird but I hope you guys are enjoying it you seem to be the comments or comment section is kind of funny it's always a good time though oh I should say I'm using washi samples today so I won't know where this washi is from I'm just using some samples that I had laying around I've been trying to do that recently is kind of use up some of my washi samples that I have because I have a ton however at some point I'm sure I'll buy more washi but you know it's just one of those things where I have so much of things and I just want to try to go through them because obviously I got them for a reason you know like I purchased the samples for a reason I might as well use them so I'm just just trying to use things up trying to be budget conscious and such okay so that's that let's okay so Friday oh am I gonna have enough I'm like one tree off actually I think I have yep okay hold on a second here I bought another one because you know goals or whatever let's get my Friday going and I have got like a jam packed week you guys I normally don't have anything going on because you know as you've seen in my vlogs if you've watched them I'm freaking boring but I always tend to find something to chat about and if you guys have any good vlog ideas let me know in the comments because I'm totally down for suggestions I like suggestions suggestions are good so there's some things that are happening down here but I want to put some washi on the bottom I feel like this is going to be a really long video because I'm already like what 12 minutes in yikes all right I all right I need garbage garbage all right this is just a garbage week so I will put this up here because I need to make a thing up there okay actually my brain is not functioning I mean if you guys watch my vlogs you will understand Monday's vlog was called my brain is like spaghetti because it was like spaghetti that day oh my gosh this is like not gonna lift up for me come on come on come on I'm having like all the troubles no washi don't be like that okay I have like wedded this is that a word wedded here we go come on little pig here we go and then I need this like payday removed still payday I just need to put something up at the top come on come on oh my gosh normally this works really really well the only reason I know this isn't working like super well is because I put these down like as soon as I got this planner like a year ago um so yeah that's why I'm having a little bit of issue but hey it popped up just fine it's just you know takes a little bit more bonus so let's do this I put a little like blank sticker sheet behind it too just so I don't get this page all wet as well even though it dries like it totally dries hum needum needum okay it's pretty much dry now okay cool all right so stick this washi back down push this back down we're good to go on that all right so down at the bottom what am I gonna do here's this um I think this is what I want to do all right so up at the top I'm just gonna put this little cute kind of peppermint washi which is fun and this will be to just indicate um doing the vlog because I mean I know I'm doing vlogmas which is great but sometimes it's just nice to like see my visual day which is really why I plan I feel like because if I can visually see it I will do it if I don't visually see it it's like wait what was that day I wanted to do that thing all right I'm back I had to turn the furnace off it's so loud the furnace in AC here is so incredibly loud so when I do like the editing it drives me crazy to hear the like dinging on and off and it's just it's like this weird thing that bothers me so incredibly much like it shouldn't bother me as much as it does but it really bothers me so anyway I just turn it off because it's still warm like it's still warm in here because it's just like on that auto thing so when it gets cooler then you know it just turns back on you know all right let's see yeah I need to find some things all right I think I'm just gonna use this because it's out vlog put a little camera on there because you know you gotta have a camera on there oh could you guys yeah you could see that wow sometimes I'm not in frame so up here we can put back payday and the little piggy all right and then down here I think I'm just gonna do this little like happy holidays happy holidays and then I don't know what it is about like ones that it washes that have actual sayings on them like even with these I get a little anal where I want it to be like I don't want like a tree to be cut off and stuff so I'll just trim it this was the little tail that was left that had the saying but I'm gonna start it at the happy holidays again I know that's kind of weird and maybe that's a little wasteful but I don't know I just like the way it looks better I don't know come on come on here we go I don't think I've ever used a skinny washi down at the bottom actually I guess I'm branching out you guys I guess I'm branching out so those are done now let me write in work and then we'll do some things from there this thing is so freaking sticky over here I'm just gonna put work on one of these labels because every time I close this it's going to stick like the pages are going to stick oh it's still sticky down how is it sticky down there oh my goodness like the stickiness like seeped down or something oh my goodness gracious you guys all right this is gonna look totally janky but I don't really care because I every time I close this I don't want it to be a problem all right so there's that okay no stickiness I'll end up writing something there at some point I don't know oh my gosh my brain all right so like every time I try to film one of these I'm like yeah I'm gonna be like this is gonna be really really fast nice plan with me nope it's not it's not it's just a really long drawn out situation so anyway okay so let's put in my videos for the week I've got an Erin Condor haul going up on Wednesday I think I talked about that video last week and I didn't know when it was gonna be up and it's you know because I like pre-film stuff but you guys know that because you know me I pre-film pretty much everything and then Friday's video is my December layout and just a reminder December's layout I filmed that back when I was still in Fargo so I might be talking about things that don't really pertain to anything anymore so I'm just letting you know in advance okay guys okay so there's the December layout Erin Condren haul which by the way I've placed like so many Erin Condren orders since Black Friday Cyberbunday I'm kind of ashamed um I don't know anybody I'm sure a few of you guys feel the same way yeah when they did Cyber Monday slash Black Friday with 30% off I was like um yes please I had been putting off actually ordering a couple of things and some of them are for you guys so hint hint nudge nudge um but I haven't received them yet but I'm going to receive them very very soon but I'm like oh my gosh and they keep emailing me with like better and better deals I'm like oh my gosh and I think right now there's like that 12 days of Christmas or something and so every day I go to the website and I haven't actually purchased anything on the 12 days yet I mean I purchased something on the 12 days but I didn't actually take advantage of whatever the sale was on the specific item because I was just not into it but um like the day I ordered but yeah because they came up with a new item that I really wanted they brought out new um sticker okay so I don't know where it stopped filming at but I'm sorry oh goodness I don't know where it stopped usually I hear the little thing beep uh well I'm just gonna keep going I'm sorry you guys if things seem weird now that I've put more things down I don't know I was just talking with my friend Megan because it's her birthday on Wednesday um she actually doesn't even have any like social media which I said I very much commend so she doesn't watch these videos um but what I was saying is she was actually my first friend that I ever made in school it was the first day of kindergarten and we met each other and we became friends ever since and I was actually the maid of honor in her wedding um maybe what like a decade ago because how old am I yeah more than a decade ago wow I feel old all right so let's get this other party started so Wednesday is actually a really fun day for you guys I know I already talked about this but my holiday giveaway is ending on not Tuesday what do I talk do I say Wednesday seriously Tuesday December 6th at 6 p.m central standard time my holiday giveaway is closing and I will be announcing the winners there's going to be two winners I will post the YouTube video down below with the instructions but you have to enter on Instagram I know it's kind of weird but the reason I do that is there's so many spammers on YouTube there's a little less on Instagram okay all the information about the rules and everything are on the video as well as the Instagram post but anyway that's that little like red image I showed you guys on my phone earlier but that is happening on Tuesday and I'm really hoping that the two winners get back to me like ASAP so on Wednesday I can just go to the post office and get those prizes sent to you the whole idea behind that is I wanted to make sure that I did my holiday giveaway right away because I wanted to make sure that you guys had the prizes because a lot of them are more holiday themed by Christmas time um I know not everybody celebrates Christmas but I know a lot of people in the planner community regardless of like religious denomination actually do a lot of red and green in their planners so I wanted to get this already like sent to you like the first full week in December you know so that's just a note to me to pick my winners at 6 p.m. on my randomizer app thing that I have so good luck to everybody that's entered I think I have over a hundred entries already so thank you to everybody who's entered and don't fret if you don't win I will have more giveaways coming up very soon I know I keep saying that but it is true because I have ordered some of the things for a upcoming pending giveaway so start your trend all right I think I'm gonna use some funny little emojis for my um for my winners here a little heart and a little happy happy happy face so hopefully whoever wins will feel very happy happy happy all right so Monday night I have a dinner date more dragon house you guys more dragon house I'm going with some planner girls so that'll be really fun but I also have like an issue so I will tell you guys all about my issues well you guys already know some of my issues but that's a whole other story okay we are meeting up at 6 30 which is fantastic I'm very excited I am super pumped for dinner however here is my issue I get off work at three o'clock and I'm already like all the way down in the cities really close to where we're gonna have dinner but we're not having dinner till 6 30 so and I live about an hour away so it's like well do I go home for like 30 40 minutes and then go back and then like waste all that gas and mileage or do I just stay down there so my point is I want to stay down there but what am I gonna do for like that much time you know what I'm saying like I don't know what to do with myself and I keep thinking like do I need to buy anything like do I need something no I literally don't need like anything so what I am actually going to do but that's okay um I mean I'm working with other people's schedules so that's you know why it's you know later and all that actually you know what I'm gonna use a different half box here here we go I'm gonna use this one instead it doesn't really make sense to have like a little header because I already have something that's going to be my little like header so I'm gonna go to dinner with my friends summer and Kate and they're actually both from my Minnesota planner group which is fun because we're actually meeting on Saturday as well but I don't think Kate is coming but maybe summer is I'm not sure I'm not really sure oh and I actually wanted to use this dude rose gold is going into my planner um this is from one of those um erin kondren sticker sheet book things looks like this I think this was from um functional flags but I thought this would be really cute up here which is why I pulled it out it says hashtag planner addict on my little like giveaway okay and I'm just gonna put summer and Kate 6 30 on my little sheet here all right so Kate or summer and Kate 6 30 p.m if you guys have any suggestions leave them below of what you think I should do while I'm down in the city I don't really have any like things to do so whatever and then I actually got these like dragon house custom things made so sorry can't find them anywhere because I'm sneaky like that you guys I'm sneaky all right so that's done that's done I love the way like I have things to do you guys this is an exciting time in my life which means that the vlogs will actually be quite interesting I hope um all right so let's do Thursday night okay so I have some stuff going on with some family we have like a little like Christmas celebration so I think I'm going to use this guy and then actually let me pull out my christian design celebration binder I have a video on this if you guys are interested you can find it I don't need to link it you guys no you guys are savvy you know how to do things let's see here like we're doing like a little gift exchange because I won't be here for Christmas time I wanted to bring all the gifts for my nephew and his siblings over so we wanted to like figure out some day to do that and Thursday night well like Thursday after I'm done working is like the day so we are going to do that I think I'm going to use one of these little guys because these are kind of fun all right so I'm just going to write down Christmas even though it's not Christmas all right I think we're yeah we're meeting up at 3 30 with the huge kids and it's going to be 3 30 cool I'm excited I actually have to wrap all their gifts they've been like sitting like off camera that way for a while that is also going to be part of one of the blogs that I'm going to do for you guys so yeah all right and I think what I might do I actually haven't even talked to their mom about it but I think what I might do is I might order pizza or something um for everybody just to kind of like you know sit and hang out um I know that one of the kids has some dietary restrictions so I'm not sure about that but I know I'm going to be hungry so I don't know I might just excuse my voice I might be ordering pizza so possibly pizza on Thursday evening so that'll be kind of fun because I'm going to be like starving Marvin by the time I get home all right and then on Saturday December 10 um so I've got this party to go it will not a party but like a planner meet up to go to and it's supposed to be starting at three o'clock my mom's texting me um supposed to be starting at three o'clock but I don't know where it is yet so I think I'm just going to lay some washy down and then um like if if for some reason I don't end up going or something you know happens where say it's starting at five o'clock or whatever like I guess I could always move the washy around I will just tentatively put this in because if it starts at three then the idea is it would probably go till you know six or seven or something like that like it would be kind of like an all evening kind of a situation so I'll just put this in here and then I'm just going to put my little sticky note right back on top just to kind of signify that like I need to get my I need to get my information you know I'm saying all right and then Saturday is going to be laundry day do I have laundry stickers around here I'm pretty sure I do but I don't really remember I thought I had some laundry stickers around here oh here we go these are like my all-time favorite laundry stickers from christian designs they're so cute so I'm pretty sure because okay the meetup is on saturday and then I will just end up filming well I might film a little bit on saturday and a little bit on sunday but I will just put in that laundry is happening this day laundry day laundry day we like a laundry day so really the only days that I don't have something going on after work are Wednesday and Friday that's actually exciting like I feel popular you guys I feel like oh my gosh I have something to do oh you know what I don't have anything to do on Tuesday but this just fills up my chunk this makes me feel like I have lots to do so thank you for entering and making me feel like I'm a popular person like my planner my planner looks popular you guys okay but yeah so this is my last full week of being here until next week because next week I actually leaving for Florida on saturday the 17th so that means that there's going to be lots and lots of travel prep this upcoming week so you guys will see that in the vlog and you will also see that in the planner okay so I think that's going to be it for now sorry for rambling on so much if you're interested in vlogmas the playlist will be below if you're interested in the giveaway that information will be below as well like I said it is going to be closing on tuesday december 6 2016 at 6 p.m central standard time the actual giveaway is going to be held on instagram all the information will be in the video link down below as well as the instagram post with that little red thing that says holiday giveaway blah blah blah you guys can figure it out if you watch youtube you can figure it out and I hope that you guys enter and I'm really pulling for you guys to win but if you don't win don't fret there's gonna be more giveaways coming up very soon I've actually already ordered some things for you guys but anyway those things should be arriving fairly soon within the month so maybe at the end of the month uh slash probably january actually um there will probably be some giveaways coming up on the channel so stay tuned all right so I'm gonna let you guys go make sure to give this video a thumbs up if you like plan with me videos as well as subscribe if it's your first time here or maybe you've been lurking for a while hit that subscribe button I'm almost a 5 000 subscribers you guys like that's crazy and you guys are awesome so thank you so much to everyone that's already subscribed and if you're new here come and stick around with this weird little community that we've all built together because we're all a little planner crazy and finance crazy here over at the favorite daughter Emily so I hope you all are having a wonderful start to your week feel free to leave any comments or suggestions below I always like seeing what you guys have to say and if you guys have any questions I always do my best to get back to you and yeah that is it so thank you so much for hanging out with me for a little part of your day make sure to stick around because I will see you on Wednesday and Friday as well in my upcoming videos thank you guys so much for watching and I will talk to you all in my next video bye guys