 don't mind the Christmas tree still being up but welcome to a new vlog my name is Sonali and this is Ryan and our anniversary is actually today 11 years 11 years well you're gonna say it on the years no 11 years who's counting who's counting we're gonna start off this morning by going on a walk we have started a health journey i haven't vlogged like it is january 7th so i'm i swear i'm gonna you know start vlogging on january 8th but we got back mid week last week so i just like needed to get in the groove of things again but we started um you know getting on our health grind we signed up for lifetime fitness love that gym so much um and we're just really trying to be more active and eat way healthier so i'm gonna try to show you guys what i've been making we have a wedding in february his best friend from like what middle school elementary school and the girl is one of my good friends too so we're really excited but we want to like really really feel good at that wedding because i feel like we both just kind of i heard you're into my tux too so you're dead i ordered it like four months ago well like how did you know the size or can you change the size just like the size pants do you wear how tall are you can you change the size though i don't know what the episode should be to me oh so i don't know i don't know if you're not too baggy or too tight or something oh shit well i haven't gotten undressed yet and i don't know i feel like i always do things last minute but i also am doing rent runway so i might check rent runway first anyways more of the story we just want to really look and feel good especially going into the summer and the spring we're really just cutting down our portions i'm trying to do a calorie deficit and it's honestly been working very well so far and it's been like what four days um so anyways we're gonna start off the morning with a walk i actually walked this path with my friend nancy yesterday and we hit 10 k steps like that because we were just chatting away like i feel like whenever we're together we just like literally can't stop talking um so we're gonna do it again this morning and get to our 10 k steps get it over with we don't have much planned for today so i think we're just gonna go get a pedicure and see where the day takes us we definitely need to take down this christmas tree sometime today so you'll see that too just finished our walk we almost did 10 k steps i think it was like 8 000 something but i feel like since it's earlier on in the day we'll easily hit our 10 k steps a few thousand in here looking around probably yeah that's true we're um parked at central market because we thought it'd be a fun thing to do we haven't been here in a while and i do prefer the central market of north i've been to the one in south the layout was just better up north but we're gonna give it another shot because now we live in south austin so we're a lot closer to this one but i really want to look for sumo oranges and then we need more eggs because we ran through the eggs this week um i feel like that was a good like high protein low calorie breakfast i put ham ham and his um i put oh yeah onions chopped onions it was really yummy sophia is so poked right now she's ready for her nap i love to just look around in central market because they have so many like fun snacks and new brands with cute packaging so this will be fun because i haven't been here in a while like i said you want to go to central market just got home from central market and of course when we were walking through our door the handles break off the eggs crack everywhere so i think we saved like six eggs out of 18 let's see a little central market haul this is an egg salad it just looked really good the rind got on that and then i wanted this carbon sauce it's the world famous vodka sauce and gotta get some pasta too what's how perfect these shells are though the pasta there like everything in there just looks so perfect the raw chicken is literally stunning all the meat the marinated meat i'm like oh i want it all but i really just go there and try to get like ideas of what to make especially in their prepared food section this is not all we got those just out um protein muffles i got these wow so we get where's everything i've been wanting this is a tar it's just like a seasoning spice kind of thing and then we got flowers and i wanted some tulips and we got these hydrangeas they're antique hydrangeas they're a little different and then we got some roses so i think i'm gonna like put them all together when it comes to doing like floral design it's not my strong soup but i can try so it's not like about a ton of meat this week so i'm we have like one steak left so i'm gonna make that and split it and then all the broken eggs i just decided to scramble to the waste of them i got the other steak in the restaurant now it's been a while since i've used it don't judge me for using this much seasoning but i love like garlic salt onion powder salt pepper really hard to use i like it really seasoned it's 150 you gotta do like the re-match each side oh hi three to four minutes and i'll take it is and then you down a little bit and just a minute more on each side once you flip it that's gonna be pretty good a little more salt garlic salt onion powder i decided to put all the different flowers in their separate vases so that i could spread them out and i feel like then it's just easier to not have to do like whole design floral design because i'm just not there yet but one day hopefully i'll have flowers just growing in my yard that would be amazing we really need to plant those bulbs that we got and like one of the last blocks that i filmed before the new year we went to a plant store i just want flowers like this to just grow all over my yard so we need to plant those because i think it's said to plant them when the first freeze happens which i know it's really cold but i don't know if like the first freeze happened so need to research that time to decide where i should put them all maybe like one here one on the coffee table maybe one in the bedroom there's almost four now i actually just put makeup on and do my hair it's kind of like looking flat because i wanted to last a little longer so i don't want to brush through it just yet my friend FaceTiming so i talked to her for a little bit and then Ryan ended up falling asleep on the couch so he's still napping and now i am going to use the time wisely while he naps and i'm gonna do some editing for a proposal that i shot last night i ended the year with shooting a proposal 2023 and i started the year with shooting another one so might be my new thing shooting proposals this guy it was so funny though i took a video i usually always set my phone up to take a video just for them to have and also for me to have for posting on reels and tech talk and stuff because the last proposal i did did so well on my photography tech talks i was like okay from now on like i have to video every single one and so this guy drops the ring and like obviously it's not his fault he like opened up the box and the ring wasn't secured in the little like indentation so it like falls out on a dock which is made of wood thank god there were no gaps in the wood but it literally fell like in the crevices of uh like the wood plank so he just picks it up and like keeps on going but it was just funny and terrifying at the same time um but i edited like pretty much everything last night whitened teeth and now oh straightened also the photos but now i might have to do a little photoshop work um because the guy had his phone in his pocket during the proposal and obviously i can't just be like hey can you take that out really quick and then you know proceed but i told him take it out after um and we did some portraits right after so those turned out really cute too because the the sun was perfect last night and just the weather's been really really nice lately which thank god because i'm not ready for like a dreary miserable winter which that usually happens in february so really not looking forward to it um but i think we might be gone for a good amount of it because we are going to a wedding in february two um i really want to go get a pedicure though we have a dinner reservation at 6 30 i don't think i told you guys where we're going yet because i also don't really know how to pronounce it but by then in the night i will definitely know how to pronounce it it's um e z o v so easel off i'm not really sure um but it's a Mediterranean restaurant and i've literally seen two people post a lot past two days saying it was so good like top five restaurants in awesom so i'm like okay we're going there and usually like i really told ryan when we were in central market and we were like by the sushi this is probably the first anniversary that we like don't go and eat sushi because we usually always go to a sushi restaurant or i think last anniversary when we went to sushi bar atx which is like an omakase here which is delicious but also like especially now that we're gonna cook at home more often like when we go eat out we need to start trying new things there's just so many restaurants to try and if we're gonna eat out less like we might as well you know go and try new things i'm gonna vlog this week i think i might do two vlogs this week originally i wanted to get back into my weekly vlogs but at least this week i feel like i can make two vlogs out of the whole week and like why not have more vlogs if i can um but i want to get into like my ins and outs because i feel like those are the new fun thing um and then i also want to get into my new year's goals because i just brain dumped on notion i feel like there's just a lot of things that i want to do that are like pretty realistic so i thought i would be fun to share it with you guys i can do it in the next vlog um but let me go through these photos and then i'll probably only photoshop like the hero photo meaning like the one where he like pops the ring out and then because i feel like it's also like that's just what happened in the moment you know and it's like something to laugh about so and i really don't even know if they'll even like care like you know see it but maybe it's just me being a photographer me being like super picky and picky and stuff so let me just photoshop these two photos it's funny though because i like don't really know how to like photoshop things out like i could try my hardest and i could like get close but i'm not like a professional photoshopper but um if you are anywhere in the creative industry you would know that photoshop just came out with their ai generative tool so you can literally like select this area and be like put a pigeon there like remove this person in the background and it just like literally three seconds and it's gone it is nuts and like i don't know thank god that they have this stuff nowadays because it just makes my job so much easier but it is also funny because i've seen a lot of ai headshots like people legit using them because i think you have to pay for them too they just don't really look great you know because i've actually tried because i was so curious and i wanted i think i got like a free trial so i did um like an ai not even just headshots but just like have my photos done or something like that and it didn't even look like me so i'm like what the heck like i don't think it's worth it they put you in the same like outfit as everyone else so if you're in like that pink blazer then if people are gonna know it's an ai headshot it's just kind of weird to me i don't know maybe that's just me again being a photographer computer that i'm using right now i purchased it when i first moved to austin so that was like about four years ago i feel like every other computer that i've used before this lasted only four years i just feel like i used my computer so much and like a lot of apps that take up space and i don't know just run the computer to the ground basically so i'm very happy to report that this computer is still feeling brand new hopefully i don't jinx myself but i don't know you can really like tell when a computer is slowing down and thank god i'm just like not having that issue this time which also like i spent a lot more money on this computer because i got like way more memory even though i used hard drives or solid state drives not hard drives if you're a photographer and you're still using hard drives and not solid state drives just do yourself a favor treat yourself write it off get a solid state drive because one of them like i had an error it like said it was um you couldn't copy anything new to this old state drive but you could still access the file so like thank god it wasn't like corrupt or anything because these have never really failed me the the sabrant ones sabrant whatever um anyways i got in touch with their team and they were able to like literally like replace it even though it was out of warranty or i didn't register or something like that um so they were really good their their um support is just really good and i other than that i really haven't had any problems with it other than the cords being like fucked up in my computer like i don't know i just replaced the cords and it's super easy because you just buy from amazon but my hard drives on the other end oh my god like they would just randomly like break and like corrupt like the files would be corrupt i couldn't access them like it wouldn't even show up on my computer as a photographer that is like the worst feeling when things say like corrupt file which funny enough last night when i plugged my sd card into the computer it said like the files were not readable like on um lightroom and i was like that's weird they were there on my camera i just saw it and so i went and plugged it into my um camera again i saw the photos there so what i did was i took the sd card reader plugged it straight in my phone and i just imported everything to my phone just to have because i was like i saw it on the camera they're there just so i have like this little backup even though the quality of the photos more were not as good if you didn't just download them straight to the computer i feel like i'm rambling what but anyways basically i don't know i think i just had to like restart lightroom and it was fine and i was able to get the photos on my computer but that is just so scary i literally have the biggest paper i saw when i saw that and i feel like other photographers can relate so let me show you guys how this works hopefully it does it well but i'm just gonna like circle this part and then right here i'm gonna say remove phone okay press enter and it literally takes no time at all comparatively like if you were to do it manually you know let's see stop it so it gives you options it gives you three options so that's the first option second third wow that is insane i'm gonna go with the first that's amazing and there you go no phone just send the gallery out to my clients and now it's time to get a pedicure i was in leggings but ryan made a very good point that we should probably be in shorts or just something that's like not as tight because i'm just ready for like a leg massage or foot massage that is what i'm most looking forward for this pedicure and also like my toes are like super grown out i can't remember the last time i got them done can i do these at the same time or should i do feet do feet and those at the same time should i get a pedicure or a manicure too do we have time for that i don't know how long these stuff is i hate my outfit for tonight i'm not feeling confident i've really just caught my period i did however just get the best pedicure that i've had in a while so that's exciting hair is flat kind of getting greasy don't mind all the packages in the back it's really bad i've been ordering stuff for the bathrooms but this is outfit for tonight i mean i love these jeans and the sweaters separately but like i don't know what shoes to wear and it's just it's just not a vibe we're not gonna like think too much about it we have to go um we're gonna go to is off in east austin to be a real starving it's probably another reason why the mood is not great right now because i'm angry i love my fit i'm not really confident well i'm hungry i don't want to just let that bring you out we just pulled up to the restaurant and we realized that we've eaten here before i think it was called something fork i want to say pretty fork remember but now she's nice inside too yeah turning off with their bread i think it's called frenna and look at this butter i think it's time for this started some laundry and we're just gonna do a quick pickup it's like 8 30 and it feels like so much later we said i was gonna put away the tree and we cannot push it for another day i got this little ornament organizer on amazon so i'm gonna try to set it up right now um but what did we give the restaurant overall rating 8.2 i think i give it like a 7.8 like this is already good the dessert we got was like the toffee pudding which i love but i really love it at the peacock which is top five favorite restaurants in austin and it just is not it's just not that lovely you know but that's okay it was still really good like a lot of the dishes were really good they were really refreshing since we are trying to do the caloric deficit i feel like that was you know the most like healthy but like indulgent at the same time meal um and the portions were pretty like small like we split everything so we got to try a lot and we were pretty cold by the end of it the bread though oh my god like i would just go back for the bread because it came with this like lamb butter it was so delicious and like flavorful so anyways that's my review i would definitely go back but like i said there's just so many restaurants in austin that we need to keep trying more and one of my goals well i guess you'll hear it in the next video if i put it in there i feel like it's a stupid goal honestly a lot of my goals are kind of just stupid and things that i just want to like do in the next year to like branch out but i want to try more food trucks because some of the food trucks we've tried are like insanely good and like honestly better than sit-down restaurants just the food itself is like oh my god mind boggling there's this one called kg barbecue and it's been getting a lot of press lately our friend from high school moved here over the summer and he is a big foodie himself but i guess i didn't really realize this until we went to that food truck basically he was like yeah i've heard of this food truck we had never heard of it and we had been here for four years and so right after barton springs pool we went over there and the line wasn't even that long but we literally waited like i don't even know like two hours or something and i remember being so annoyed because it was really hot that day and then we got the food and i was like okay it was all worth it like literally top three bites that i had that year was some kg barbecue and it's the bacon ribs i think it was called it's just like so fatty and so delicious and the flavors anyways you guys have to try it if you guys come to austin or live in austin definitely a must and i'm i want to go back and i just found out that they do like take out you're in order online too so like i might do that next time looks like a lot to put together and it's just a cardboard i thought it'd be like at least plastic so it'll hold up better but let's try to figure this thing out oh maybe you put these out first are you kidding me