 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to a new week in my life. We are starting this vlog off on a Tuesday again and I am shooting content today with friends so I have everything packed up over there. I just shoot this sweater for a campaign so I'm prioritizing it first and wearing it first. And also today, apparently it's going to be up to 80 degrees and I was like terrified because I knew I had to wear the sweater but luckily we are shooting really early in the morning like 9 a.m. and it's like 52 outside right now so I think it's just gonna go up and up and up. I do have a photography session later tonight and then I'm kind of wanting to just like be outside. I feel like I need more vitamin D and just to be outside in the sunshine and also just to take advantage of the nice weather we have in Austin so I might ask some friends to like meet up at the park or something. This morning we're headed out to South Congress to shoot the photos. I definitely have my go-to spots for taking photos. It's like South Congress, East Austin, Downtown, Seahomes, the good one. I mean, those are like very vague spots because they're kind of vague but I feel like if you know the spots you have like, you know, East Austin hotel has like a cool, neutral brick wall and you kind of just like find the places while you're driving around and then sometimes I'll like pin them on my map to make sure I don't forget where they are. Just got to South Congress and I feel like I always find a spot here even if it's really busy. Of course you have to have some patience and today it wasn't that bad. There's actually a lot of parking because I feel like there's just not as many what's it called, work trucks. Like this place all used to be under construction so they took up a lot of parking. So that's nice. It's kind of cleared out that way. Hi, shooting again with Sonali. Yes. It is so cold. We thought it wasn't gonna be cold. It's not that cold. Are we being dramatic? Am I being dramatic? This is like nice. Okay. Like I feel like in the summer we're gonna be like, ugh, I wish it was. Yeah, well when it's hot we want it to be cold and when it's cold we want it to be hot. Exactly. Okay, we're just like scouting locations and this is like ABBA over here in two hands. Kind of cute, kind of cute. We're trying to scout some locations out but there's just always something like a little bit wrong. To be fair, I feel like Sonali's in a weird mood today. I'm going a little crazy. She's not liking anything. No, and I'm being really picky about backgrounds so maybe I shouldn't be but I just want like plain stuff. But also the lighting is just like not amazing today at this time. It's like really cool town, you know? I feel like those are just like not turning out as crisp as they want them to be. So just walking around, trying to find perfect lighting. I don't know if there's something. I don't know. This has been like a long day. I know. It's like time is going by so slowly. We usually have so much fun. I know. And I feel like it's one of those days. Yeah, yeah. The lighting is just not, we decided we're not ever coming back. You're so scratchy. I literally was like, oh, South Congress is all my listed places this year. And I was remembering last year we shot here too and the same thing. Like all our pictures are very cool towns. We're just don't come during the day or like the morning. Never come ever again, or not. We just wrapped the shoot and I feel like I was just like a little bit off today. Wasn't really feeling taken pics but sometimes you just go do it. Especially because I had that campaign to shoot but I want to go to Trader Joe's because I haven't been there in a while and I also really just need to get groceries badly. And I was thinking I'll just go to Uptown Cheapskate, drop these bags off. I literally have like three bags in here and I know we can only drop off two if we're not like waiting there. So I'm gonna go drop those off and then probably go to Trader Joe's. I don't know, I just feel really pooped right now. So like, I know once I get in Trader Joe's I'm gonna be like, damn, I wish I wasn't here. And then that's not fun because I feel like grocery store shopping is fun. Usually when you have the energy. Also, I haven't eaten anything today. So you know what? Maybe it's not a good idea to go to Trader Joe's right now but I desperately need food and house. So we'll see. I'll keep you guys updated. Definitely need to take these things to Uptown Cheapskate since I'm like close-ish to the place. And then I have to come and get all the bags after they're done. I made it and I've never seen this parking lot busier. It was so hard to find a spot. I put Trader Joe's in my map so it said like it was 10 minutes away. I was like, hell yeah. And then it took me to a different Trader Joe's which I'm honestly not mad about because this is like the one in West Lake, I wanna say. And it's actually a lot bigger. So I'm going to have a ball in there but I haven't really eaten much today and I know I'm gonna get kind of a lot of stuff but honestly, I really don't have that much in my fridge. So let's stock up at Trader Joe's. Just got home from Trader Joe's and I thought we could do a haul. I went absolutely insane. I feel like Trader Joe's is usually like definitely affordable but because it's so affordable, I'm like, ooh, I can get this and this and this and this and obviously adds up. So I am stocked up for weeks and I made sure to like think about, you know what can be frozen, maybe I can eat it like next week. So I can definitely make it last longer but I wanna show you guys everything I got. So let's do it. Start with the frozen stuff. We got two of the mini cones because I can't remember which flavor I like better. The vanilla and the chocolate. These are my weakness. Ice cream sandwiches with the cookies. I know I said I would start cooking Indian food at home more often but I couldn't pass up on the frozen ones because they're just so easy. So I got polypaneer which is like spinach and cheese and then this lamb vindaladu. So good, more paneer. And then I got some butter chicken. We also got this like Thai curry, Thai green curry which I love green curry so very excited to try that out. This sounded just like really good and refreshing and then I also got some orange juice. I used to love shrimp when I was younger then I started to get over it but now I kinda wanna get back into it because I feel like it's just like an easy way to add protein on like salads or just little bowls and stuff. I've never seen this kind of mushroom but I wanna try it and then I got some tomatoes. I love this like medley of different colors, soup dumplings. I'm really into salads lately and I wanted to try these two dressings. This is the green goddess dressing. I feel like I've seen a lot about this on TikTok and then this is the vegan Caesar. One recipe I really wanna make this week is this like lemony fish. My dad used to make it all the time. It's kind of like a Greek dish. And he always uses brandenos for this and I saw it was frozen and I was like perfect. I don't have to worry about it going bad if I don't have time to make it this week. I am literally eating this right after this haul. And it sounds so good. I also wanted to try some tofu. I don't know what I'm gonna try it in but I'll keep you guys updated. Got some mozzarella balls, some fresh mozzarella with tomatoes with balsamic vinegar all over it. Oh my God, flaky salt. Just sounds divine. Okay, one thing I love to get is Euro stuff. So I got some tzatziki dip and I usually just put it all over the meat and I already have frozen nons so that was perfect. Salad was always better with goat cheese so we got some of that. And then this chicken salad just sounded really freaking good. So I also got salmon. I can always freeze this if I decide to do the brandeno this week. This vegan butter, I love this brand called Miyoko. It's actually at Whole Foods and all the fancier markets but this sounded just as good. Hopefully it's kind of similar because it is a dairy-free butter. Doesn't this just look so juicy and good? I got some cantaloupe and when I was in Italy last year they would wrap prosciutto around cantaloupe and it was just amazing. Like the cantaloupes there were just the juiciest freaking fruits I've ever eaten and it was amazing. So I'm gonna try to recreate that. I saw this already marinated shawarma chicken thighs and I feel like this would just be an easy, kind of like I could do like a Greek bowl. I told myself I would get out of like the habit of doing like a veggie rice meat bowl but I don't know if it's stopping anytime soon because it's just so easy. And then I got some peaches for like maybe smoothies. I was in need of some tortillas because I love to make like wraps and stuff but I need to figure out what I'm gonna put in the wraps and then I can always go get like deli meat or something. Got some raspberries because I love raspberries in my oatmeal. Arugula, I already have spinach at home but I just thought arugula sounded really good. We got some sourdough bread. This always makes me think of my mom whenever I go home, I'm like, I want a piece of sourdough bread with like the butter she showed me, the vegan butter I was just talking about. Oh my God, I hit the jackpot y'all. There was sumo mandarins. They're not oranges and they're not as big as the ones that I had last year and they were kind of expensive. It was like per orange. It was like, I wanna say $2 which was nuts but they are so good and I wanna try the mandarin ones. I was literally just talking about it with my mom because really two days ago, I randomly Googled when is sumo orange in season and it said January to April. I was so hyped about it. Got some mini peppers because I actually had this like everything but the bagel dip which is so good but I wanted some more veggies to dip. I feel like I just like to suck up on cheeses just in case, you know, you need it and this one is dairy free. It's cashew cheese. I'm very, very intrigued and it says great for melting so you can use it on pizzas and one thing I love to do especially when Ryan's here are really quick and easy dinners to make like non pizzas. You can literally get the cheapest, yummiest non at Trader Joe's in the frozen aisle and then just make a pizza. It's like so good. Got some organic Turkish dried figs. I'm thinking I could put that on salads almost like raisins. Okay, this just looks so good. I know I'm trying to eat a little bit healthy but I don't want to restrict myself of sweets so this is the sea salt brownie bites. I love anything with like salt on it. Sweet and salty is like my jam. Your girl had stock up on her prosciutto so I got three packs because they're always so cheap at Trader Joe's and I just feel like this is like one of my favorite places to get it. This is the Euro meat that I get. I always like to get two when I'm there. This is best by February 20th and I can definitely eat these for like a lot of lunches and just like snacks. I also got some cashew, creamy cashew yogurt or yogurt alternative and other day I bought some new granola that I want to try and I've been looking for dairy free yogurt and like the regular like ACB just didn't have them. I just got some Mexican blend cheese just in case. Persian cucumbers for salads and just snacking. Got a whole bunch of mangoes. I probably should have researched if these were in season but I am just craving to just dig my teeth into some mango. So we're just really planning that they can ripen up and then I got some pomegranates cause this also sounds really great in a salad. I was thrilled to see these. These are macadamia, salt and nuts and they're just so good. Probably not the healthiest cause I know they're like pretty fatty right? Also the other day my friend ordered fried artichokes at brunch and I was like, I'll try it. You know, why not? I loved them. And so I wanted to try them not fried obviously. So I got this little snack pack. I got purled couscous. I have quinoa and stuff but I wanted to try that in like, you know just a grain bowl or whatever. I have had this before the blueberry lavender almond beverage and I can't remember what I thought about it but I really want to try to put it in my matcha because I love when my matcha is sweet and I feel like that would be a good whole midday pick me up. Love Trader Joe's's doll and all of their like lentil Indian dishes like this. It's going to be kind of pretty much similar. I feel like this one's even more of a grainy texture. I kind of like it though. When I was back home, my sister and my mom and I went to this restaurant where they had this sauce called Peri Peri. I think it was like a South African restaurant so I think that's where it's from but I saw this and I was like, ooh, one thing about me guys, I cannot like just like see a sauce on the grocery store shelf and not pick it up. Like I am a sauce whore. Let me, let me just show you guys. Okay, like this is an apartment. I don't need my cabinets to be this full. It is actually insane. All that sauce is, and you know what I want to do one day is just take a sauce and then find a recipe that goes with that sauce just so I can like actually have a chance to use it. Something in me, I just cannot stay away from the sauces. Okay, I saw this and it sounded amazing. I'm gonna pop it in the fridge and probably have one tonight. Coconut water, sparkling coconut water with yuzu. That's like a citrusy lemon I think. I also just love having just any kind of juice. I know people say don't drink your calories but I'm like, I love a good non-water beverage at dinner. So I just got some lemonade. Trader Joe's flower section popped off today. I'm not sure if it was because it was like the Westlake location, but I was shook and I might not even ever go back to the downtown location. It's currently 2.31 and I have a photo session at 4 p.m. So I just need to put away that all these groceries eat my little wrap and I can't remember. Oh, I need a post to campaign, so I'll do that. Right after I ate my wrap, I took another photo for the campaign I'm shooting and that was like the last thing I needed to get done for that campaign. And I looked down at my phone because I was taking photos on my camera but taking them like with the remote on my phone, there's an app that goes on the camera and everything. I looked at the time and I was freaking out. I was like, holy, like I need to get the frig up and go because I have a shoot at four. And luckily I had 10 minutes to spare but usually I put like an alarm that tells me like when to leave and I forgot to do that today. So I was very lucky that I looked at the clock when I did but we are having our shoot at Maddie's which is like one of my locations that I always shoot families, couples, all that kind of stuff, 3.57 and my couple is on their way. I did a little at home workout, took a shower and now here is my dinner. I really just wanted to use up my spinach that I have before I like dig into the arugula. So I also have some cantaloupe, prosciutto and then just like a whole bunch of veggies and goat cheese and then the screen goddess dressing. Honestly, I don't even know if this all goes together but it'll have to do. I think it looks good though. Good morning all, it's Wednesday and today was my first official day lifting and I kind of loved it. I randomly woke up at like 3 a.m. and started going on TikTok and then my feed was flooded randomly with like workout videos. I guess if I just like saved like two then the algorithm thought I just like wanted everything to be workout related but honestly I wish it was like this like months ago because it really motivated me and I saved like a bunch of just like lifting workout routines cause honestly I don't really know what I'm doing and I would hire a personal trainer but obviously at number one that's just another expense. Number two, I feel like I could just learn from YouTubers. Like I know some people say maybe hire a personal trainer for like a month or something just to like learn the form and stuff. So I'm not gonna say I will never hire a personal trainer but right now I just don't feel like it. At the moment I think I'm just gonna like learn from some YouTube videos but I did some cardio on the treadmill and then I did some glutes and some abs and I don't know it just made me feel really good and also I see what y'all are saying about how walking on the treadmill is just like not very efficient. The one thing I appreciate about walking on the treadmill is that I can multitask and I can like edit while I'm being active but I totally understand now that you burn so many more calories. I think I burned like 400 calories in 40 minutes and when I'm walking on the treadmill obviously it's like at a way slower pace like my heart rate's not getting too high so I'm not burning as many calories as fast. So very, very thankful for you guys who told me that I should lift but I need to keep it up. I need to be consistent. Hopefully this motivation is lasting but I told you guys this year I'm gonna be more disciplined and I cannot rely on motivation so I'm very happy and hopefully I don't crash today. That's like my only thing. I feel like when I work out really hard I don't know how to keep the energy up throughout the day. So if you guys have any recommendations for that please let me know. I also don't really drink coffee but I do love Chai and Macha and that is where I'm headed today. In the last vlog I told you guys I reached out to like a lot of my friends and I was like, let's meet up, let's catch up and I just want an excuse to get out of the house. This is kind of like, you know, going to the office I guess meeting up with my creator friends and today I'm actually meeting up with a photographer. She does weddings and also grad photos probably everything but we're going to go to Sun Life. I've had it I think twice before but I can't remember if I liked the Macha. I did get a smoothie and I thought it was very overpriced so today we're going to be trying the Macha again. And of course I'll let you guys know what I think about it. I was on South Congress yesterday and I'm back baby. Very interesting so it's made with like coconut milk and it's actually sweetened up. I was just telling her that I feel like they're not going to make it sweet because it's a healthy place but I asked for actually sweetener and it's sweetened up. Still sipping on my Macha had such a good little Macha day with Lee and now we are going to go back to Abtown troops gate because they actually just finished my buy and they said it would be like 230 in cash and then 300 in store credit. Obviously I want the cash. That's such a big difference which sucks but they took a lot of stuff. So that's a win. I'm going to go pick it up because I think I'm like 10 minutes away and that's like perfect that I was already out of my house. Two birds with one stone. She got the bag, the bag and literal the bag over there. And I brought in two huge like recycling sized trash bags and they took like everything except for like a little half bag. So I'm just glad that they took it off my hands honestly. So I don't really have to like worry about like not much stuff but honestly I was thinking I was so excited about getting like $200. That was close earlier. Way more than $200. And I know a lot of people say like, oh, you should do Poshmark or Depop or something like that. That just sounds like so much time. I've actually done Poshmark in the past and I feel like it just takes so much time to not just like take the photos but do the whole descriptions and stuff. So I don't even know if it's like worth my time, you know? So I'm glad I got that done. I might take that little bag to like Play-Dohs or something because I actually have a lot more on the back or maybe even come back here another day. Should I like drop the other bags off on here? I'm kind of wondering. I also need to take a lot of stuff to Goodwill. Making it at Christmas tree. It needs to go. It's too sparkly for me and it gets everywhere. And then I have like a duvet cover in the back because I'm just trying to declutter the linen closet before Ryan gets back because that's like one of his closets. I have the bigger closet. He has the guest room closet which is smaller and then the linen closet and then like some cubbies in our cleaning closet kind of. And I just wanna make sure that there's like obviously enough room for his stuff. He didn't really like take too much stuff home. So a lot of his stuff is like still in the place. But I just wanted to, you know, create more room for more shit that we probably don't need. I'm currently uploading the photos that I took from last night's session. I'm gonna put it into Pixie Set and send that link over to my clients. And I'm forcing myself to film a fashion TikTok. Feel like I don't do these very often. I definitely want to do them more but I feel like I just don't know where to get started but I just need to do them. And then maybe they'll just like keep rolling, you know? But this morning I got this idea to style a piece in my wardrobe that I don't really wear that often. Maybe like never wear, never touch. And I have to revolve the outfit around that one item. It'll be beneficial for me to see the item in use in a queue outfit and then also it's going to be a series. So I know a lot of the growth TikTok experts are telling people to like create series because that's something that will make a viewer want to come back and watch. So I'm excited about that one. And hopefully by the end of the series I'll actually use like a lot of my pieces more often than I do. So the first item that we're working with that I don't wear enough in my wardrobe are these checkered vans. And Ryan actually told me to get these a while ago. If you don't know, Ryan probably has better style than me. Most of the time I am asking him for advice on fashion and always before I buy like bigger pieces like my new balance 550s. I remember him telling me like, no, don't get those, get the dunks. And I'm like, I don't even want the dunks. Like I had to go with my gut there because I just feel like the dunks are like lower and at least the 550s were a platform. So I really like a platform. But anyways, he told me to get these and weirdly enough, later that month I was doing a paid brand deal with DSW and I was able to choose these as one of the items that I was going to style. So that worked out perfectly. But now I have them and I just really don't know what to wear with it because I wouldn't say this is my style even though I don't really know what my style is because I feel like it just changes with the trends. And also I think I just don't really like these because I always want to wear socks with like sneaker type shoes. And these require like those weird socks that always come off your heel and all that kind of stuff. The other day I actually did wear them without socks. It was terrifying, but I did it. And they didn't really smell that bad because I wasn't wearing them all day. But I'm going to go in my closet and see what we can find that goes well with this and I'll share the finished outfit with you guys. Here's that outfit I came up with. Honestly, still very on brand because of all the neutrals. So top is from Nasty Gal. Jeans, I also haven't really worn in so long. So it's kind of a double whammy. These are from Abercombe. It's a collab with Bree Shepherd. And I just feel like I haven't worn crop jeans in a while but I love the way these fit on me. And then obviously you checkered vans. The hat is from Gorin Brothers. I got it on South Congress. It's like their farm collection. Has a really cute teddy bear on it and it's like Sherpa. And then the bag is from Charles and Keith and it has this like cool quilted texture on it. So that is the outfit. I feel like it's realistic and casual and I need to remember this outfit. I'll probably take a picture and like put it in an album or something but I feel like it would just be so basic without all the accessories which there are really only two accessories. I would totally add sunglasses too to make it that much more cool girl vibes but I think I did a pretty good job. I changed the fit because I'm going to happy hour. With my friend Beachel, we have never really hung out one-on-one outside of photo shoots because she's one of my blogger clients. I think I've been shooting her for the past year and she is the best. So really pumped for a little date. Top is Amazon, belt is Amazon. These are one of my current favorite jeans. They're from H&M. They're like ultra 90s baggy. I don't even know. And then the shoes are from Princess Polly. I'm also going to wear this bag that I've never worn which is wild because I bought this in Venice, Italy. And I was really excited about it when I bought it. It's just a little hard to stop because I feel like it has those orange undertones but honestly I wear all neutrals anyways. So like, I don't know if I have any excuses but it is just beautifully made. So just coming to happy hour with me. Okay, I had it out pretty early because I have to go send Ryan his car key because the man's bought a new car. Ryan has literally had four cars ever since his first car. What the heck? But I'm really excited for this new car. I think it might be my favorite and I'm only gonna show you guys when he moves back. So gotta be patient because that's when I get to see him for the first time but I think he's trading in his car or selling it or whatever. So I have to send his key back. So I'm at FedEx and I thought I would send my fashion pass package back too. But forgot it drops. It was hot as hell. Yeah. And I was like, oh, I can get away with the sheer tight. I need to remember that the temperature drops a lot. This Thursday I did my workout this morning and even by the end of the day yesterday I was like, my hair's kinda gross but I actually signed up for this workout class, outdoor workout class on Saturday morning. So I definitely wouldn't do my full hair washing day then but I usually do it on Friday. So to make it last a day longer I just decided to wash the top of my hair like I have this little pony in the back but I just washed the top of my hair in the shower because I feel like this is the easiest to style. It just goes really fast but I don't really wanna style the whole head because I want to film a sit-down video and my apartment gets super, super sunny in the afternoon so I just wanna get it done in the morning. So I'm just using my Dyson to blow it out and then I'll probably just curl it with the air rock but it's working so far. I think it's gonna be voluminous and look really clean. Obviously I did clean this part and this is the part that just doesn't look as fresh so we're gonna fix that. I love doing the bangs with the air rock or actually I don't really use the air rock I use the rolling thing, what's this called? A roller brush really. Just gonna get it a little wet with some heat protectant and then I just take it under, let it go. Look how fluffy and amazing. Okay, now let's take out the bottom hair and see what we're working with. Hopefully it still has like a little bit of weight to it. Okay, not freaking bad for what my hair looked like last night. I just had my breakfast, I did like butter and toast and then a smoothie. I felt like I needed a little bit of energy to talk for so long because I feel like filming sit down videos, they're honestly very draining, like it's so fun because you're like talking about something that you're passionate about but also because you're so passionate, it takes a lot of energy. How is it 1 p.m. I just finished filming? I think I started at like at 11? There's no way, it took two hours. What the frick? Well, I feel like whenever I film sit down videos, I stutter a lot and that's not always fun because then I get really frustrated with myself but we got it done, we got it filmed and now since I'm like in good lighting, how my hair makeup done, I'm just gonna film some TikToks and while I'm doing that, I will upload the footage. I'm uploading the footage but I realized that I'm a little low on storage and I have this application called Daisy Desk. I can't remember if I bought it or what but I use it all the time to like clear out things that I don't need. So I literally have the Mac Daddy of computers. I have two terabytes, it is insane but very necessary so usually you'll just click scan and look how much I have in my downloads. I also have a lot in movies because obviously I do a lot of video editing and then I think for some reason my light room catalogs might, no wait, the light room is on my external drive so I don't know what that's about but the downloads are insane so I'm deleting all of these. More than 7,000 items, that is insane. We're gonna move them to the trash and hopefully this will clear out a lot of unneeded files because all of these are literally just iPhone clips that I airdrop to my computer to add into my blogs or just like iPhone videos that I need to edit the TikToks for so we are going to move it to trash and hope that nothing important is in my downloads. I really don't think there would be but I wonder how long this is gonna take. I used to delete files and I thought that would magically solve all my problems and then I realized that even the trash needs to be emptied so we have, let's see, more than 8,000 files in my trash. Let's empty this. Guys, downloads used to be 430 gigabytes and now it's nine, let's see. Wow, that is a beautiful sight to see. Now I just need to get my freaking external to that place. It's a lot later, we are going to make some dinner right now. Let's do some mushrooms and some salmon. Pretty basic stuff but I don't really need to give you guys an explanation so I think I'm just gonna cook them with some random seasonings. I hope that they turn out okay but I'm currently starting a new show called Revenge. My friend recommended it because it's located in the Hamptons and she said it was really good. I actually just finished Bridgerton season two last night. I didn't actually watch season one but because the girls are Indian in season two I really wanted to watch that one. It was pretty good but it only really got super good at the end and then it ended and honestly that's the worst part when your show ends and you're like just got good, you know? So hopefully Revenge is good all the way through and then I also wanna watch the bold type. I've been hearing so many people say that's a good show after the girl from the second season of White Lotus Megan Faey. I think she's in the bold type apparently. So and it just seems like a fun girly show. I love little girly shows like that with like some drama. So anyways, I'm gonna cook these mushrooms up. I'll probably do the salmon and the air fryer just to be able to multitask and not have to think about it. Salmon's cooked. Now I'm just gonna add some lemon on top. Good morning you guys. I made some overnight oats last night. I feel like it's turned into like chia pudding because I put so many chia seeds in it. I'm gonna put some raspberries and banana and of course, peanut butter. This morning I'm going to meet up with the girls from Sunday Riley. Last year, like in September, can't believe it was that long ago honestly, but last year I hosted an event with Sunday Riley. We did my dream dinner party, garden party, whatever you wanna call it and it was at Elizabeth Street Cafe which honestly I've been thinking about. I need to go back there for their happy hour because everything's like super cheap and I love their food. It's so good. So I think I haven't seen them since that which was a long time ago. So I'm excited to catch up. I really wanna get matcha today. I might change my mind at the last minute but I have learned my lesson and I cannot drink matcha on an empty stomach. It is very gloomy today and I guess my outfit's matching the weather because I'm all gray. But I think I got this from Nasty Gal like a while back and I'm just wearing a sedactive little one shoulder sedactive leggings and then my favorite new balances. Actually, I don't know. I have so many favorite new balances but I love new balance sneakers. They're really cute. I just realized that I feel like all of my outings this week were to go to South Congress and there's like so much more to Austin than South Congress. So I apologize because I really just don't know how that happened but next week we're branching out. It was honestly just a random coincidence I guess. Today we're going to Mannyana and I've actually never been to this location. On South Congress, I've been to the one in Seaholm which is their newer location but I really, really liked the chai and then there's like this pastry I like from them. I don't know if I'll get the pastry because I just ate some oatmeal and I feel like I'm good on that but that could definitely change when I see it like in front of my face. It is a lot later and it's still gloomy outside. I feel like in the mornings it's always kinda gloomy during the winter and then it gets really, really bright but I have found that I feel like I'm more productive on these days because I feel like the sun coming through my apartment just makes me so sleepy. So I did have a lot of editing to do and I didn't do it but I did make a new Pinterest account for my photography page and I really don't know why I haven't been doing this in the past years because I have so much photography content but honestly like putting the descriptions, keywords, hashtags, all of that. Pinterest is just really time consuming but I really wanna start being consistent on there so I made a whole separate photography account just for my photos and then I could like pin other photographers' photos and like ints and stuff like that because I just wanna keep like my personal brand and my photography brand separate because on my personal Pinterest account I did pin like some grad photos in the past I just haven't really been that consistent on it and I am excited to see if this is helpful, if they get saves, if it's like helpful for other people, for inspo, maybe it'll create brand awareness which is really what I'm hoping for but I've been working on that. Also I've been a little discouraged on TikTok this week because my views have been shit and I feel like whenever brands reach out or want to work with you they definitely look at your past few videos so I've been a little worried about that but I just made a TikTok about some Amazon finds that I've been really liking recently and it's doing really well, it's a photo carousel and I know that's currently being pushed so maybe that's why but I also feel like I have a lot of followers from all my Amazon videos so I really wanna get back into it because I mean I'm still buying stuff on Amazon it's just like not as often but I did buy some more gel-x stuff so stay tuned for that when I redo my nails I literally just got a text from my friend Natasha she was like, I'm on my way and I was like, what? And I forgot I had dinner plans at 5.30 she texted me at 5.26 I literally called her right away and I was like, hey did you leave? Cause I kinda forgot but we're just gonna push it back like 15 minutes I'm gonna leave right now and I'm actually very happy that I planned some dinner plans because I just need to get out of the house I know I was gonna slip into some sadness if I was alone the rest of the day so very, very, very happy that I get to see my friend Natasha I can catch up cause she's been in New York for a while with Natasha you know what? I realized that I did put it in my calendar but I put it on Sunday I don't know why maybe I'm just like multitasking when I did it but I feel so stupid but we're here now so cute of course I needed to get out of the house to be honest I got the cube in and then I got some gumbo which I'm so happy that she said I could do a side of this cause I was actually looking at this originally and it just sounds really good on this gloomy day and then once you get I got the cherry tart salad it has dried cherries, pecans, arugula, feta wow good morning, it is Saturday I'm sorry for the morning voice you guys are the first people I'm talking to but I am doing a workout class this morning which is very unlike me but I got invited to this event cause it's for a new studio opening up here in Austin it's not at the studio just yet but it's at this place called Skybox it's right above Mayfair and Bull & Bull and they are just promoing their new studio and honestly I usually say no to any kind of fitness events just cause I don't love working out but I am trying to get better about that and just force myself to try new things number one and then also to work out but there's also a brunch afterwards at the well and I've been dying to try their brunch I've had their dinner but their brunch looks insane so that's gonna be my little reward afterwards and I invited my friend Andy so she's gonna be joining it's kind of another gloomy day here and it's also kind of rainy luckily the place where we're going to it is outside but they have like a full on covered venue so at least we won't get rained on I brought this hat out of hibernation it's been in Ryan's closet actually so maybe that's why I didn't really remember that I had it but this is like the ACL what's called an aviator nation hat that I got when did I get it? 2021 I think cause we didn't go last year at ACL I usually do separate weekend in my life but since I didn't vlog on Monday I thought why not add it to this week in my life and with Andy we're heading in to Skybox we're up here in decreasing we have a lot of people are dying to be opening shortly right on down the street on 5th and Prazos I guess we could have if we wanted to but they just had food food and our systems and then I really want to try their matcha because I've heard it's like a really good one and I don't know if I'm being dramatic or not but I feel like maybe that was one of the best matchas maybe top two it was really good I sweetened it with maple syrup and Andy said that they use their own or they make their own they make their own cashew milk cashew milk and house it was really good yes very good milk definitely gonna be sweetening my matcha with some maple syrup when I'm at home it is Saturday morning and so in Republic Square they have a farmers market I actually usually go to the Mueller one have you ever been there? I've never been we should go we should go I love the Mueller one but I've never been to the one Saturday right downtown and a while back somebody said that they had really good chai concentrate so I'm gonna be on the hunt for that we're not having any luck finding this chai maybe they're not here today but also this place is just not as big as the Mueller one so I don't know maybe they just aren't here anymore sad we were done with this in like five minutes I know but can you like it used to be so much smaller yeah like it literally I remember I came here like like a month no I'm sorry like a year and a half ago or something yeah it was like there were like five people oh that's so sad well it's grown I guess guys we made it to here washing day and I think I'm just gonna do like a hair mask because I have so much time today I definitely need to get the editing done that I didn't do yesterday okay but I don't have any plans tonight which is not good because I feel like I should just not be alone in my house all day so we'll see what I get up to first I'm using this product from Bacomore I had actually been eyeing this for so long because I originally bought the Divi hair serum for hair growth the bottle is so small and it literally ran out I want to say like within a month so I wanted to try this one and see if it was any different it is pricier like it's a hair growth serum and they actually reached out to me like two weeks later and I was like what the heck that was so funny because I was gonna ask for this for Christmas but I've just heard really good things about honestly both companies I'll be honest I haven't really been as consistent with this one but I want to try to be and it really does not make your hair feel greasy at all it's just like gets it a little bit wet but then it obviously dries I'm just gonna massage it into my scalp my legs are shaking and I think I said this before but I was trying not to work out too much yesterday because I didn't want to be too sore for this workout the day before Thursday I was doing some upper body workouts and my back of my arms like from these ones still hurt and there was this one move like the crab walking thing you didn't really walk but I was just like you were holding yourself up with your hands turned behind you oh my god I literally just could not do the move because my back of my arms were so sore but my legs are now feeling it too so I feel really good burns and calories had a little healthy breakfast I really hate that I get into phases of like working out because I want to be consistent and I feel so good when I am consistent going to the gym like actually eating good foods so hard when you like fall into the trap of you know maybe missing a workout here and there and then eating out more so this year I just really need to be more consistent with everything and all of that starts with the little daily habits that we're trying to work on over here I'm gonna let this sit in my hair for a little bit and just like clean up around the house because I feel like the counter is kind of a mess I need to like break down some boxes all that kind of stuff then we will wash the hair I ordered my favorite like little packets of rice on Amazon because I always see them in the store and they just like look so much more expensive and I feel like they're probably cheaper if I buy them in bulk so this is like my favorite rice the brand seeds have changed and I really like this one I've actually tried like the quinoa one it just wasn't not as good so now that I've tried one I'm like okay I'm just gonna stick to the blue one so I'm just gonna take it out of this package and try to find some room for it in the pantry one of my favorite meals and super, super easy meals that's an Indian dish is heating up one of these 90 seconds in the microwave and then taking like any doll or lentil little dish like this I got this one at Trader Joe's I think I've seen like similar ones at Whole Foods and like Central Market but you just add some ghee you just add some salt and that is my easy comfort meal my mom actually showed me how to make the all from scratch so I need to attempt that soon because one of my goals was to make some Indian food from scratch at least once a month and we're hitting the end of January I have not done that yet so I actually needed to do some research and see what I even wanna make because I have a lot of ingredients right now so maybe I could do something this coming week already 5 p.m. it does not feel like it it feels like it's two or something but I just got a lot of editing done and I was like on a roll so that felt really good now I don't have to worry about it last minute because sometimes I find myself on Sundays editing my whole week of my life on Sundays just like two hours of footage usually so that's never fun I didn't export it yet I just have to like add music and that's it but I wanted to try this drink with you guys I got from Trader Joe's it is this coconut sparkling water with yuzu and I honestly forgot I had this so let's try it it tastes very tropical almost like an alcoholic drink maybe I love it but it is very very refreshing I'm glad it came in like a small pack of four so I don't have 12 of them or something it really isn't bad maybe I just need to like get used to it but I am going to chill on the couch for the rest of the day probably I did not end up making plans for tonight unless I do something really spontaneous which I don't see in my future because that would require me to probably put on some makeup and I just don't really feel like it today but I do feel really productive that I got a workout in and edited a vlog I'm my favorite candle on right now and it just pops with popcorn so looking forward to chowing down on that but I am going to end the vlog here I hope you guys enjoyed this week in my life vlog and if you guys are interested in more content for me I'm also on TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest like literally everything but majority of my accounts are so underscoring Arley without the G so go ahead and follow me over there so you can keep up with me throughout the week and you don't have to wait till Sundays to see like everything if you made it to the end of this video I want you to comment the best thing that happened to you this past week and I will see you guys in my next video bye