 Hello! Happy Monday! Welcome back to another vlog. Excuse my appearance right now. It was a work-from-home day for me. So I have just been home, on my computer, majority of the day, and then I went to my apartment gym for a little while, walked on the treadmill, got a good sweat going. So that's why I look like this, but I'm about to hop in the shower and do a hair mask, wash my hair, all that good stuff, but I wanted to start a new vlog and say hello. Let me grab the stuff I need. I'm gonna do some multiplex. I started packing, so I feel like I have stuff everywhere, but then some of it is already packed away and it's just a little... I'm trying to be like smart and efficient with this and pack the stuff that I don't use on a regular basis first, but that's what I wanted to talk about and what this vlog really is going to be because I am getting the keys to my new apartment in a couple of days, so I'm gonna be moving out of here finally. And I feel like with all of the craziness that's been going on between getting the new apartment and starting the packing process and just being really busy and focused with work and trying to like rebuild my clientele at the salon, and I just feel like I've been very go, go, go. And I know as soon as I get the keys to this apartment and I officially start moving everything and unpacking and organizing all that, it's gonna be like this whole month, it's just gonna fly by. And I really wanted to take these last few days. I just want to kind of have like some calm few days, like the calm before the storm kind of and just do some self-care and just like enjoy the coziness of this little apartment one last time. But before we do that, I do want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this video, Ana Luisa. Thank you so much to them for continuing to work with me. They've been a huge supporter of my channel. 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So I love that I can just leave it on and not worry about it and I can just like be apart almost of my self-care routine. And Ana Luisa is having an amazing sale right now for Valentine's Day. You can get up to 25% off your order. So I will have a link to their website in the description. Definitely go check it out with Valentine's Day coming up. I mean this is the perfect time to either treat yourself to a little something, you know, show yourself some self-love be your own Valentine or if you want to get a gift for a loved one their jewelry is perfect for that. Thank you so much Ana Luisa for sponsoring this portion of the vlog. Now what I'm going to do is I am going to wet my hair and then I'm going to put the Olaplex number three. I have a little bit left in this bottle still but I also have a fresh one. This is not a conditioning treatment. This is a bond repairing treatment. So my hair even though it feels pretty good but if you saw my last vlog we did a color correction. My co-worker did it for me and we bleached my hair and it went through a few different processes. And even though it feels okay I just want to do this treatment just to make sure it's good and strong. And I'm going to let this sit for like probably 30 minutes and then I'm going to hop in the shower and I'm going to wash my hair with the number four and number five shampoo and conditioner. Let me wet my hair. Howl dry. I just make sure I am saturating my hair. It's a couple of days later and I'm like oh I should probably continue that vlog that I started. I cut myself care night a little short the other night because I just got so tired and originally I was gonna do a face mask and like tint my eyebrows and all this stuff but then it was late and I had to be up early the next morning for work. So after I blow dried my hair I just did my regular skincare and went straight to bed. And then yesterday I didn't vlog anything because I was working all day and I don't know my body felt like I was fighting something off. Like I don't know I just felt very exhausted all day yesterday but I got a good night's rest last night and I'm feeling 100% today I feel really good. Oh actually I totally forgot. I have a bunch of Celsius. Celcius? Celciuses? So you know these energy drinks. So today I'm gonna be home all day. I still technically have the lease to this apartment until the first week of March and I'll just like still have stuff here and I'll just kind of work on gradually getting it all over to the new place but I feel like after tomorrow like once I get the keys and I start moving like I already I know how I am I'm gonna be so excited to just get everything over there as quickly as possible. So even though I have the extra time because even though I'm still gonna be sleeping here for like the next week or two every day I'm gonna be bringing stuff over to the new place. So it's just gonna keep getting more and more empty. This is gonna be probably like the last day that I'm just here home all day in this apartment. And emotional I did not expect that. Like as excited as I am for the change and for the new place like it's gonna be so good. I'm just so excited to decorate and organize and I know it's gonna like it's a nicer apartment too. Like it's just it's all upgrades but I'm also like kind of sad in a way because this apartment first of all I've never stayed anywhere. Like other than my parents house like where I grew up I never stayed in an apartment longer than a year. Like I've never renewed a lease anywhere that I've lived. So the fact that I was here for over two years is a big deal. So it feels sentimental for that reason but also like I grew so much in this apartment and I went through so much like I think some of the hardest stuff but also the best. I think back to when I first moved in here at the end of 2021 I had never lived away from the northeast. I never lived further than two hours away from my immediate family. I always felt growing up like I always would say like oh I'm gonna move to California. I always had these dreams of like moving moving to a completely different part of the country but I was always like really shy and timid and even though I wanted to do these things realistically the thought of doing it alone was never even an option for me. Like I always thought like oh I would do it with a friend or with a boyfriend. I also never thought that like I financially would be able to leave and move and go live somewhere by myself. We're like getting deep now but I always say in my comfort zone like even in college I went to college with my best friend. We roomed together. We were roommates every single year in college. I never branched out. I was not like a risk taker at all. I had severe driving anxiety. If I ever went anywhere like on any trips or even just like took a day trip to go into the city or something like I never did stuff like that by myself and I never was the one driving. It's just crazy to think back like 10 years ago to how I was and to think like holy shit I made this career for myself even though that was so scary like oh my god I'm gonna go do hair like I'm this shy person that dreads making small talk like I don't put myself out there and like have conversations with strangers. How am I gonna do that? Like I have to touch strangers heads and talk to them the whole time. I don't know if I can do that but I do it. I did it. I do it now. Then I moved like I was just in a situation where I wasn't really happy and it just felt like it was I was just ready. It was just the right time and even though it was like very anxiety inducing and I was terrified because it was a huge thing for me and some people might be like it's really not the big video. Like I see some people that they literally graduate high school and then they go and they move to like a different country and I'm like that is amazing but like that was just not me. So for me it was like moving down south 600 miles away from everyone that I know it was scary but I did that. I literally came here I moved here knowing no one never being here before knowing nothing about this area other than what I researched on Google and I got an apartment by myself with no one's help. Like I got this place me and my dog I do it all on my own. It's crazy it's so crazy and it's like I get so caught up in just like everyday stuff and I don't really like stop to reflect and think about it but I feel so proud of myself for creating this life for myself and doing it on my own and moving. This will always be a big part of my life like a chapter that I will look back on fondly and I've done so much personal growth in this space over these last two years. I also I turned 30 in this apartment too so I had my Saturn return like right around the time that I moved I think. How much has changed not even just like as far as my surroundings and like what I'm doing in life but just like in here like mentally even with my relationship the state that that was in when I first moved down here compared to like everything we've been through the last two years and like the growth we've both gone through to get to where we're at now and it's just like I came here feeling excited for the possibilities but like so broken like the first few nights just in general the first few months that I was down here my anxiety was through the roof constantly but the first few nights that I was you know in North Carolina I cried myself to sleep where I'm at now it's like the the person that moved into this place compared to the person now that's leaving is just I always thought I was gonna need to rely on another person to split things with or to like help me and I don't I don't need anyone like not only do I not need anyone like I came down here I made a life for myself I've built a community of friends and not only have I been able to put roots down here but now I'm on to like even better things like I'm upgrading I don't know it's just cool it's like girl you did that you did that for yourself by yourself anyway that's a whole I was just rambling for like over 20 minutes I'm gonna do a little more packing because I still have I'll show you the progress we have so far my car is like filled to the brim pretty much there's a little bit of room I have a new vacuum like some new cleaning tools I'm gonna bring that stuff with me tomorrow because I want to deep clean the apartment before I start moving my stuff in so there should be enough room in the car just for like these couple things and then everything else oh and I need to remember to bring my toolbox these boxes over here that are just kind of filled it was like all the stuff that was in these drawers here which these were kind of like my overflow drawers my hair color supplies like extra skincare travel size products like those kind of things so like stuff that I don't need on a regular everyday basis but I still have these boxes over here that are empty so I may as well fill those up I'm thinking like the stuff on these shelves I can pack up for the most part because most of that is just a core and like books and stuff oh and I guess I can take the stuff off the fridge too I have a bunch of magnets that's been my thing over the last two years is anytime I go somewhere I get a magnet so I have aruba Las Vegas that's another thing too I did a lot of traveling since living in this apartment I never A have the money to do it and B I was always afraid like the thought of getting on a plane by myself absolutely not but now I'm like this one is from Venice this was actually I went there when I was in high school I'm like a school trip with my French class and Universal Studios I went there as a kid but this magnet is from when I went it was literally right before everything shut down because of the pandemic me and my boyfriend went on a little trip to Orlando and I think it was the night that we got home was when they had like shut down travel and I was like thank god we literally made it in the perfect time Atlantic City that was a couple years ago we went for my friend Jess's birthday which actually this is her save the date for her wedding in October this one is Bonnere when I went on a cruise back in August this one Dominican Republic that was right before I started beauty school I went with my now ex-boyfriend but my like high school longtime boyfriend at the time I went with him and his family Gettysburg I used to actually live like 20 minutes from Gettysburg but I went there with my friend Julia who I do my podcast with that was fun I love history and visiting like historical sites outer banks North Carolina this one I think is from the first time I went to the outer banks I went there to celebrate my 23rd birthday and we got a big beach house with a bunch of my friends and it was so fun like easily one of the best vacations I ever went on this one is from Salem one of my favorite towns at Burr I went there a couple years ago with my boyfriend he was like right before like two weeks before Halloween and that was so fun it's such a good time another Gettysburg magnet this one uh from the statue of David this was actually a gift from my friend Julia when she was in Italy for her birthday a couple years ago forensic Florence that was from when I was just there this past fall with my family Charleston from the first time I went to Charleston this was like one of the trips that made me really fall in love like I knew I was going to move down south to the Carolinas after this trip because I just I fell in love with Charleston that was years ago with my ex-boyfriend he had like a work trip like the work conference so I tagged along Ocean City Maryland gone there like a bajillion times that's always a good time eastern state penitentiary Philadelphia and went to college like a few blocks away from there and they do well they used to anyway and for Halloween they would do like a really big haunted house attraction thing Myrtle Beach went there for me and my boyfriend our birthdays are a few days apart so we went there to celebrate with our birthdays a few years ago and then that like Charleston I was like okay I love the Carolinas I definitely want to move down here and then after we went to Myrtle Beach I was like mm-hmm love it down here Rome that same trip when I went with my family in the fall but it's just so fun and it's cool like seeing all the magnets and then remembering like oh yeah I remember that trip like wow look at all the places that I've been we got another wedding saved to date okay and then I have all these Polaroids I just stuck them on with double-sided tape so I'm gonna remove the tape I love this too like I just love having physical memories and I've been trying to be good about pulling out the Polaroid camera a little bit more often and getting pictures because you know we always get pictures for Instagram and stuff and that's nice to have too but I just love having like physical photos so this picture came out really dark but that is me with my two friends we were on a boat ride this one was me and my two friends slash co-workers at my friend Nina's birthday this picture of my little baby Benny he was so tiny this was in the apartment I was living in back in 2020 when I first got him I should have wrote down the date on this it's me with a bunch of my friends on that boat ride downtown again and it's so funny because after we took this picture we were like wait why do we look like the cast from Jersey Shore like the way that something about like the way we're posing I don't know it's so funny to me me and my friend Maddie on that same boat ride we got a lot of good pictures that day this is an old one that is me and my friends from cosmetology school this is a terrible picture but I just think it's funny so I saved it my friend like very drunkenly took this picture but this was at my 30th birthday party my friend Julia at my birthday I had rented out an adorable house in the middle of the woods I had a bunch of my friends come and stay the weekend with me and we just partied the whole time and it was so much fun clearly like that is what I love to do like there's just something about renting out a house and getting all of your favorite people under one roof it's just so fun it's me and some of my friends we did a girls trip for the weekend to Charleston this past summer that's from that same trip so much fun I love a girls trip and we had so much fun like we made so many good memories this trip my friend Hailey and my friend Nina me and my brother my friend Robbie from my birthday party this he's like one of my oldest friends we've been friends since we were 11 this is me and my old boss who I love and miss so much sounds like at an event that we went to where we were doing hair and makeup together I have some pictures I got printed out in here I mean they're gonna put these on the fridge or like get frames for them but I want to have more photos in the new apartment so there's me and my friend Paul and Hailey on the cruise we took this past summer me and Hailey on the cruise again me and my friend Taylor and Molly at Taylor's wedding in Vegas last year me and some family over the summer I went to Florida my dad was going down to visit my sister and me and my brother decided to show up and surprise him this was from that Charleston Girls trip love that picture this was on my birthday my 31st birthday this past summer we took a boat ride it's all the ladies that were on the boat I love this picture too like stunning the colors and everybody just looks so good oh I have some more Polaroids this is me and my boyfriend on New Year's Eve this past year like you know a month ago I cannot believe by the way that New Year's Eve was exactly yeah this was exactly one month ago today January feels like it's been four months long no like that's not just me right the other day I was like wait Christmas was a month ago it feels like it's just dragging me and my best friend Kayla this was my college roommate she's like a sister to me literally my boyfriend a little candid I took with him cutie uh long distance sucks but it's temporary and I'm enjoying my time living alone like it's hard at times for sure don't get me wrong then there's other times where it's like I love being alone it's so fun to get to just decorate however you want like just have privacy and just be in your own space you know it's like such an amazing feeling you know there's pros and cons highs and lows but if you would like me to talk more about like relationship stuff and doing long distance and like how we even got to where we're at now let me know and I can share a little bit more maybe I'll do like a get ready with me and just over share kind of like I'm doing in this video it is a couple hours later I packed up a good amount of stuff but I was like let me stop before I start getting a little bit too crazy and end up packing stuff that I'm gonna like still need here but we got a good amount so this is what I have so far and the car is completely full I brought a couple things down like the new vacuum I put in there and I don't really think there's room for anything else so I think for today I'm done with packing and all of that and then in the morning I'm gonna head over there and get the keys and start the process I'm so excited anyway I'm gonna make myself some lunch now and go get some work done I need to edit the podcast episode for this week and edit this video oh I now I like feel so antsy like I wish I could go get the keys today because I'm ready let me get in there let me clean let me start unpacking I have work that I need to do anyway so I may as well do that that will help the time pass I will check in later I'm so tired I've just been on the computer editing and I'm like so sick of staring at a computer screen now it's like seven o'clock seven thirty and it feels so much later than that but tomorrow I want to get up decently early so that I can have the whole day to go clean the new place and you know start unpacking so I kind of would rather just go to bed early anyway but the next vlog I'm going to share with you guys an empty apartment tour I can't wait to show you the new stuff that I got like some of the new furniture pieces but thank you guys so much for watching and thank you for being here if you've been with me since the very beginning or even just like since I first moved to North Carolina and into this apartment it's just been a journey it's gonna be weird leaving this place and like not recording from this spot I have this shelf in my bathroom and that's where I always rest my camera like this has just been my spot for recording in like pretty much every vlog since I've lived in here I'm gonna get ready for bed now I will see you guys super soon my next video I am now gonna be posting videos every Monday and then occasionally on Thursdays that's the uploading schedule I'm gonna try to stick to um so you will be getting videos every week and then you again and Louisa for sponsoring a person of this vlog don't forget check the description for that link to their site I will see you in the next one for moving day bye