 Good morning everyone, happy Monday. I feel like I'm a cat lady with all of the dogs that are in my car at all times. It is Monday morning, I stayed at my parents last night, so I'm driving back into the city, so it's like a 40-ish minute drive. And I'm at my favorites drive, which is the Adriatica Drive-Thru. It's the best one. This is like the one that I grew up at the most. Anyways, my window is like so dirty. Oh my gosh, it's embarrassing. I need to get a car wash. But it's like all trees, so cute. There's water over there, beautiful homes. I'm trying out a different order I saw on Instagram. Hi, how are you? Can I just have a grande iced chai with one shot of espresso and then the pumpkin cream cold foam, please? Oh, no problem. Perfect, thank you. Guys, I'm gonna have a secret roommate hopefully in November. Comment down below if you guys can guess who it is. I'm gonna listen to a podcast, I'll let you guys know. I'm wearing another boys' lifestyle, this one's my favorite, word vomit. I'll see if I can link it below because this one has actually been available more than my other ones. Guys, I've just been loving the constant uploads, the vlogs, everything. It's been so fun. Coco, I swear, girl, stay over there. I need like limo blockers for these dogs, okay? That's what I need. That is like a little tiny dog I've seen in like the last three minutes. Aw. Thank you. Oh my gosh, fix. Yes, I'm surprised that you knew that. I feel like he doesn't look like a normal doodle at all. Yeah, I've seen a lot of them that have like cleaner hair. Thank you. Yeah, he did. Oh my gosh, fix. Oh my gosh, thank you. Have a good day. No, Pappuccinos for you guys today because you guys have not been good. Taste test, everyone. Here's the order, screenshot if you want. It's very good. It's very good. It's not something I get regularly. I have to be in the mood for a sugary drink and most of the time I just make me fall asleep. Here's what you should do. You should just keep your schedule clear in hopes of me being like, hey. When you have a need to hang out, it's like in a room. All right, well, I'll see you at 3.45 on the dot. I don't know about that. What? I mean, it's 40 minutes away. The last list shouldn't take a whole hour. But I'm gonna go get lost. I'll see you later. All right. Well, I'll remember this. I really will. All right, guys, I'm back home. I was just cleaning up a little bit, but I wanted to show you guys a few things that I've recently picked up. First thing, film. Not exciting. Oh, I got those light bulbs that change colors because everyone like keeps talking about them on Instagram. So I got these new colors in leashes through Amazon because rope collars like this or leashes like this cost a lot of money. These definitely don't feel as nice, but they are pretty similar. However, these are only like $10 and normally they're like 40, so I willing to rub them out, but I got this collar. It's way too big for him, so I might just order a small one for the time being. And then, Coco's came in. You guys are on her. I don't even know if this is gonna fit. Honestly, you're on the leash right now, so I can't shoot you, but it's not in a beige color. Like, oh no, this is definitely gonna fit her. Okay, so this is really cute. Honestly, guys, like, this is so inexpensive too. Bonda sent me stuff, so we've got some rotini pasta under you guys, tripod, shells, some vegan mac and cheese, which I might make today. And then we've got some Bonda rice made from chickpeas and I love chickpeas. The next thing I have is a selfie stick. I bought one of these months ago and I swear it just completely disappeared. I don't know what happened to it. I need one for the house because, like, obviously I don't have people. I work by myself, so I don't have, like, people to take photos of me today. Oh, slash, I, like, hate asking people to take photos of me. There's just a select few group of people that I will actually ask and they all have 95 jobs, so I don't see them during the day. I will be setting this up. I'm excited. I bought one because it broke forever ago and it literally just disappeared. Like, that's not okay. So, this is just assuming how you hold the phone in. This goes off of your phone. I have another thing for Maurizia. Ooh, I made one order, but it comes separately. One of them was on back order. So, it's more blue than gray, doesn't it? I mean, I like it, but I got it to match my pants. The big one, so this is gonna be, like, super slouchy. However, I don't know. I love the TNA boyfriend set. I always get a size three because in my mind, that's, like, the biggest one. I want to oversized. This is the oversized crew. Oversized. Um, then I still get the biggest size that there is. I'm literally gonna look like a marshmallow or something. I'm gonna use this to throw the trash away. So resourceful, you know? I don't know where my trash is, but I'll put on my cloths. All right, I need to finish putting stuff away. Getting that organized, I think I'm gonna go upstairs and sweep off my rooftop. I haven't been up there in, like, probably two months because it's been so hot, but it's getting nice now. And yesterday, I ordered online a fire pit and chair set, which I'm really excited for. So we're gonna make the rooftop fall. So, get pumped, everyone. Wow, just, you're gone, guys. The umbrellas over there, all of these. Like, this is not... Yeah, it could be better. I hate these umbrellas. This will be the corner where the fire pit stuff goes. We'll see. Obviously, the pool's gotta go. This rug is, like, brewing. Oh, shoot. Right in this corner is gonna be the fire pit. Over here, I'm still... I literally have this turf downstairs, and I've yet to bring it up. I haven't gone around to it, so should I put turf around here and make it like a little dog park type thing? I know it could smell, so I don't know. I need to clean the floors again. Like, my mom and I did this summer. We did this a lot. That is gonna stay, even though, obviously, we won't be, like, laying out. And then, this rug is trash. Like, it's so gross now, because of all the rain and everything. So, I need to find a better outdoor rug that doesn't shed, because as you can see, it gets on this. I mean, it comes off, but it gets all over my couch. I still need to get pillows for outside. I love this set still. I'll have it linked down below. I have no idea what that is, so that worries me. Yeah, over here will be the little fire pit area. It's gonna be really cute. I might move the umbrellas for the time being. I'm not sure. Woo! This lens is not okay. Okay, guys, sorry I did it so much later. My camera died, so I wasn't able to vlog this morning, but I just got a lot of cleaning done. I put away, like, three loads of laundry. What's new with me and laundry, guys? I know. I just got a lot of stuff done around the house, and I feel good. I self-tan. I forgot to mention tonight. It's very exciting. We are actually shooting a new cover for my podcast, which I've been wanting to do for so long, but we had to, like, rent a convertible, which sounds so douchey, but when you guys see the photo, it won't be, or at least hopefully it won't be. It's really just, like, you guys will see, okay? The brights? Oh, my sister's doing my hair and makeup, so you guys will see that in the vlog. But on the bright side, it is officially fall. It feels like fall. The rooftop feels so good. I mean, it just feels so good out, and I'm just in the best mood, which inspired me to get back to cooking. I feel like I've taken the last few weeks off. I've been ordering way too much DoorDash, and that just cannot happen anymore. So we are going to Trader Joe's, which I haven't been to in a few weeks. I've just been ordering stuff, and I have a stew and a soup that I'm going to be making. There's this pasta I want to make, but I don't think I'm going to get the ingredients just yet, because I don't want to get them, and then them go bad, and it just be, like, too much food at my house. So we'll see. This feels like such a good thing, because who remembers when I used to always sit here and then put my AirPods in before I would go on Trader Joe's? Of course all these people parked near me as I'm talking to a camera. This case is from Cover Lab, by the way. Actually, I have another one I need to try. Putting my AirPods in. Probably going to listen to a podcast, but I'll show you guys what list I made. Like I said, there's one recipe I don't think I'm going to buy right now, but I will do that later this week if I end up making it. I'm just not sure what the week entails, okay? So I make, like, my menu for the week. It's really easy. I pretty much always choose from the modern proper. Any of my recipes are from them. They're not my recipes, but anything I make is from them, basically. Nine times out of ten, I would say. I think this is going to be purchased later. I'm going to get these two things today. The lentil soup with quinoa and mushrooms, and then I'm going to make a spice vegetable soup or stew. I don't know why. I cannot read breakfast, and then I need to get something for snacks, but I always have the link here, so it's easy to go back to, and then I can check it all off. It's really simple. Here is my grocery haul for the week. I just did it on story, so apologies if you guys are seeing it twice, but vegetable broth, onions, egg, banana, celery, carrot, avocado, quinoa, seasonings, my favorite for avocado toast. Then I just got a bunch of, you guys can see it here. It's all pretty much the same stuff. Kale, mushrooms, some flowers. I'm going to make some fall arrangements. We'll see, because I actually, there wasn't a lot to pick from. That was like more fall. And also this eucalyptus is actually just for my shower. I've been wanting to try that for so long, and I just am now getting, it literally has been like three years. Diced tomatoes. This is actually my favorite bread. They're gluten-free bread. It's definitely a little more expensive, but it's so good, especially with avocado toast. Sweet potatoes, lemons, garlic, ginger, lentils. These are for the soup that I'm making. This is like my favorite thing from Trader Joe's, the glaze. It's so bomb. Oh my gosh. And then organic tahini, which I used to have on salmon all the time, but I just haven't found it. It hasn't been at my Trader Joe's since I moved, and it was there today. So really just made me so happy. Guys, I am feeling so good about this. Like, who would have thought that I could make something like this? Oh my gosh. I am just so pleased with myself. I don't even know. I mean, the tall one goes on the table, but it just looks so cute. I guess that will go on the coffee table. Wow. I'm just so impressed. This is exactly what I was worried about with my sister moving 10 minutes away from me. She's just shown up. Wow. So you can like walk. Her femur is broken by the way, guys. So how's it going? It's fizzes. No, you can't take that from... You are so annoying. Maddie, that's literally my water bottle. Yeah. But it's dry. You are actually being so annoying. She just comes over here. Maddie, I was literally just about to edit. It is so big. Oh my gosh. What if it doesn't want that? Oh, that's actually... Oh, that's actually really cute. I'm not going to lie. Wow. Maddie's doing my hair while I edit. It's really great. She was so happy, too. We were supposed to go shoot my new podcast cover art in like two or three hours, but now it is a 90% chance of rain and it's outside and it involves a car dealership. So I just like feel bad because there's so many people who are involved. It can't control this, but it still sucks because it's like, of course the one day it rains. I love rain, but I don't want it to rain right now because I want to go shoot this. So I guess we're probably not to reschedule. I'm going to give it like 30 more minutes before I say something as of right now. It's at an 85% chance of rain. So that just can't happen. I'm surprised no one from the dealership is texting me saying like it's going to rain. But I don't know. I mean, it's not the worst thing ever. Fall night at home cooking and stuff. It just like sucks because I like feel bad. You know what I mean? So anyways, I'm editing my anxiety like morning routine that I've been working on. I'm just doing the intro and that'll go up in the morning and I'm trying to get another video up right now, but it just like won't finish processing, which is so annoying. My videos have been taking so long to process lately. All right, everyone. Welcome to a cooking with Kenzie. Tonight I'm making lentil soup with quinoa and mushrooms. Very exciting. As always, you're going to start by cutting the onion, carrots, and celery. I don't know why I did that up. And then it says that we're going to put them in the pan for like 20 minutes, which is a long time before adding everything else. It honestly looks super easy, but I'm excited. All right, guys. So we have the carrots, garlic, onion, celery time. I also need to do some seasonings and do some olive oil and let it sit for like 20 minutes. You want the vegetables to soften. 20 minutes, honestly, is a pretty long time. So it says that you need to be patient, which is, you know, not my best faith. It's left, and I'm just getting really impatient. So we're going to go ahead. This is exactly what you're not supposed to do, but it's literally two minutes. It's fine. We're going to add in 10 cups of vegetable broth. Now that is a lot. So you're going to add in the lentils, the quinoa, and the mushrooms. So here I am with the lentils. It says in the recipe that it'll take about 15, or 35 minutes, but the bags is just 15 to 20. So I'm just going to check in, and then you also want to add in the mushrooms. But that is what we have. Ooh, we brought all the lentils, quinoa, mushrooms. We're going to bring this back down to a simmer. Timer on for like 15 minutes. All right, guys. I just made myself a bowl of this soup. It's kind of hot. Liz is coming over and kind of surprised. It's just like so much food, and it looks so good. It smells so good. Like, I can knock it over this. You guys actually applied, and you said to put glaze on, which like, you know, it's my favorite thing. So I'll try it. This is my new, like, such a weird thing to put on, but this is truly my new. If you guys have never seen my big truck quick wedding, where the dad thinks that Swindex cures everything, and solves everything, which I kind of do too. Um, glaze is like my equivalent. It's definitely an odd thing, but it's too hard, you know? But honestly, the glaze with it, I can tell it's incredible. And it smells so bomb. I know it will freeze their soup, but that scares me. Like, I don't want to freeze that. Ignore all the stuff on my counters. This is what I'm going to use for, where it seems how I don't have one big enough. But this, I just put the dog on the walk. It's raining out. And Fitz is like the biggest diva in the rain. But this tastes so good. It smells incredible. I would recommend putting the glaze on. Thank you for those recs, guys. It was very good. Guys, confirmed by Liz, this is actually really incredible to add. It just, wow. I definitely noticed a difference. I just packaged them all up. Put them all up. Um, the ones that I catch, like the lentils and quinoa, definitely got bigger. So it is what it is. We still have, maybe I'll just hopefully eat the rest, because I don't want to like throw it away. But, here we go. This is my meal prep for the week, basically. We got our beautiful Sonic Blast drinks. Why am I doing this, guys? If you've seen the TikTok, see, isn't this the perfect size? The mini, no, it's not. Not big enough. I could honestly do a medium. Okay. Mini, personally, for me, is like the perfect size. Sonic Blast. You get the Oreo and cookie dough. It is so good. You probably won't even finish this. I probably won't. Liz is just mad because I never finished my blast. Like, literally so mad. Because I inhale it in like five minutes. I don't know why. It's just like really heavy for me, but it is so good. All right, guys. That is it for today's vlog. I definitely thought it was going to be a little bit more eventful, but I'm glad that we still did some meal prepping, some grocery shopping, all that stuff. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I love you guys so much, and I'll see you soon. Bye.