 I think the hardest part about waking up this early is that it's literally dark outside I'm gonna show you guys how to make my favorite breakfast bowl, and it's so easy to make. So this is just a Sweet potato. I don't know if this is considered a yam or not But anyways, you can use sweet potatoes yams just like really anything and I'm just gonna cube this up And then I'm going to season it with garlic powder, paprika, salt and a little bit of oil And just kind of mix it in just to season the cubes, and then I'll show you guys what I do Okay, so I just plopped them in the air fryer and they go in at 400 for about 20 minutes I put them in for 10 take them out shake them and then another 10 and then just like basically check them with a fork to See if they're soft But yeah, now we just wait. Okay here is how it turned out I just poached two eggs put them on top added arugula because I just am obsessed with arugula and then here are the Potatoes I put an avocado in and then put any type of sauce you want spicy mayo I like putting maple syrup and frank's hot sauce or spicy mayo or just literally anything on top and it's so Good, but yeah, so that's how you make my little favorite breakfast bowl Okay, you guys so now it's time for my meditation I used to do this like first thing in the morning right after my yoga But then I realized I wasn't a very good idea because I would literally just be falling asleep Like I'd go into the meditation boom. I'd be asleep. So that wasn't a really good idea So I've started incorporating my meditation After the gym because I'm then I'm actually awake. So it works a lot better like that for me So the reason I love doing meditation so much is because during my day to day I tend to stress about the stupidest little things and Meditation is a really good tool that helps me kind of clear my mind And what is really been helping you with my meditations recently is this app called aura So aura is a new mindfulness and sleep app Which actually won the best of Apple award and is used by over 7 million people So aura is your all-in-one app for wellness and sleep has thousands of meditations Stories life coaching breath work and just a bunch of like spirituality Content literally all in one like you don't need several wellness apps This gives you everything that you'll need in one app doing my meditations for me in the morning Sometimes be a thing where I'm just like oh, I don't want to do that But ever since they started using aura I just made it honestly really convenient for me to do and easy and what I love about the app is it's so Personalized when you first sign up with the app It asks you like this whole questionnaire about like what you want to focus on and all just feels just so good after doing Their meditations and there's always like a lesson to be learned from them But yeah using their app Honestly just starts my day on the best know it makes me feel so good So if you guys want to sign up for aura You can download it completely free on aura's website using my link in the description and the first 500 people to click that link Get a free trial and also 25% off So yeah, I'm gonna put my AirPods in now and we are going to do a little meditation So today I'm gonna do the I trust and enjoy the journey meditation That was like literally one of the best meditations that I have done in a while meditation was about like trusting and enjoying The journey one of the first things she said was that calm down like there's no where you need to be right now And that really spoke to me because I feel like I'm always like thinking of the future and I never really just like let go and enjoy the present moment like it's really hard for me to do that That's why I love doing guided meditations though is because I feel like I always come out with like a lesson, you know but yeah So I decided to wake up at 5 a.m. today because I If you guys have been watching my previous vlogs I feel like you guys have heard me said say that I just feel like the days have been passing me by so fast and I just have been feeling the need to wake up earlier just because I feel like there's so much to get done in a day I usually wake up at 7 that is like pretty good But it's not like great my morning routine still takes so long like I spent an hour at the gym and all that stuff So it's like my morning routine still takes pretty long So I just feel like by the time I actually get ready to start my day. It's like already half over Yeah, anyway, so I tried waking up at 5 today, and it's so hard like it's so hard to push past that like Tired breaking point where you're like holy shit like after I showered because I just showered I washed my hair That's why I'm like have a hood on right now because I still have to do my hair and everything But after I showered I'm like holy shit like I can take a freaking nap right now Like it is nap time and I didn't do it because that would I feel like that just defeats the purpose And it's so hard past pushing past that point I don't know I'm probably not gonna continue waking up at 5 because I feel like that's just a little too early But I still just wanted to do it for this video as an experiment I've done this before but like I feel like I'm gonna try an aim for six once I get my sunrise alarm clock Because I feel like that will really help because waking up when it's dark for me It's just makes it that much harder on top of me not even be able being able to wake up in the first place Anyways, so I just named myself a coffee. I really was craving a hot coffee today because it is a gloomy or day outside So we have like a rainfall warning for today, and it just like feels cozy I put on a sweat suit for now because my hair is wet I just feel really cozy in it and I'm gonna drink this coffee and do my emails Yeah, I really want to get a lot of like cleaning done today. I know that I've wanted to do Took a lot of stuff. Am I the only one that is like so excited for Christmas though Like I was gonna use my fall mug today, and then I realized that when this video is gonna be posted It's gonna be like in a week and a half. So it's like already mid-November Like I used my full mug mid-November. I need to go get a Christmas mug I'm like a Christmas fiend though. Like I love Christmas everything like the vibe the music the coziness. I'm just I love it I do love fall and Halloween too, but like Christmas just hits different in every aspect But anyway, so the intelligence change sent me these mindful affirmation cards that I'm just gonna pull on and then put They're basically these are the people that make the five-minute journal that I love using But they're basically these like deck of cards and then it comes with like a card holder So every day I'm just gonna start this today But every day what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to pull a new affirmation and then put it in Like this wooden slot. Let's pull one. I accept myself and I accept others. That's really cute I love that. I obviously feel like I don't do affirmations enough and So when they sent me this I got so excited. Oh my god, this is so cute. What the heck? Oh, I love this. Look at that You guys yesterday, okay, I just posted my emails, but yesterday I went to Costco and Me and Joel went to Costco sorry together and I spent the most I've ever spent at Costco We spent four hundred and I think around like $50. I was like when the freaking thing came on the screen. I was like For these four hundred fifty I was like shocked. I was like, there's no why and when we're really putting things in our car I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be expensive of like four hundred We never spent that much in a one grocery run ever like usually our grocery runs are like a hundred to two hundred Usually two hundred max and so when it was four hundred I gasp. I was like Oh So like I just like didn't expect that Costco is so easy just to blow money I was like what the hell we didn't also buy like hangers and then I got like a pack of Calvin Klein underwear Cuz they have like some of those good underwear there But I was just so shocked and I thought that I'd share because it was just I like I don't care because like we got some Really good food. We've really needed to go grocery shopping But I was just like I've never spent that much at Costco and I'm like, wow shit adds up fast but it's okay because we have that abundance manifestation mindset and Honestly spending grocery money on groceries is like so okay to me because it's the literally food and You need it like that's something that we need But I didn't want to show you guys my friends cuz I organized it yesterday I didn't film me organizing it just cuz it wasn't a filming day yesterday But I really want to show you guys because how satisfying is this? Oh My goodness, we bought a pack of vitamin waters and ZVS and I just organized it so nicely I love having drinks. It's just like the most satisfying thing ever And yeah, I just had to share because I put a picture of it on my Instagram So I have to show you guys as well, but anyways, I am going to do laundry Because I am so bad at doing laundry like it's one of the things that is my downfall for cleaning I just I don't know why but I just suck at doing laundry like I just always put it off And it's something that I need definitely want to work on Not me showing you guys a little sneak peek. I'm doing an office transformation video and It's gonna be so good you guys. I'm so excited It's not gonna be out for a while, but stay tuned. Let's do some laundry, baby So I'm currently blurring my hair and I wanted to show you guys a tip I literally thought that I was like insane I'm like, how are these girls on TikTok getting such nice blowout with the Revlon Blurr-eye brush and then this girl like explained exactly how she did it and I tried the method and I was like holy shit This is so good So I'm gonna show you guys how I've been blow-drying my hair This is just like as of recently like literally this week because it's actually a really weird technique that I would have never I wouldn't ever thought I'm doing basically I take the brush I go like this I like dry the roots first just kind of go through it and then what you do is you start twisting and You literally just twist and twist and twist Keep twisting till you're like literally all the way at the bottom twisting Let me show you guys after math as you can see they're all just like Look kind of like job-offs But then what we're gonna do I'm just gonna comb up the top a little bit slightly just like separate the curls I don't know if you can tell but Kind of just gives me like a really sleek kind of like it looks like I just like waved my hair a bit I feel like it works really well on my hair and it kind of just makes it look like I curled it But it's like very loose waves and I love this look I use this trust me a protective spray and then I also use a mix of this one This one is the new one and it's called like a flat iron spray. I like this one putting it at my end She's just because it makes them not be so frizzy and this is just like your generic heat protective But make sure you guys use a heat protectant especially while you do this Revlon Blow dryer brush because I know that this can be super hot and bad for your hair if you don't use heat protectant I really do want to get a Dyson though But maybe for Christmas we'll see but yeah make sure you guys use a heat protectant Heat protectants are so important and they never used to use one, but ever since using one I've noticed such a huge difference with how my hair Turns out in terms of like I can use a flat iron on my hair once and I'll look and I'll get like a million split ends And I'll be like what the hell but then ever since I started using heat protectant It's been the opposite of that like there's barely any heat damage to my hair after I cut it And it just makes it so much healthier So if you guys aren't religiously using heat protectant Please start because it makes the biggest difference. But anyways, not that I'm like a hair guru or anything But that's just my little tips on how I do my hair I am going in with the watermelon glow nice into my dew drops by Glow recipe my friend Marilyn. She swears by these She's like use it under your makeup and you will have such a nice glow I read the thing and apparently you're supposed to put them under your moisturizer But she's like no I do my whole skin here in the morning and then put it over top of everything So that's what I'm gonna do because I already put like SPF on and stuff today. So that's what we're gonna do Let's see how this lives up to the hype Glow recipe actually sent me a little package to try some of their stuff out. So I'm really excited I kind of like the gloomy days sometimes like I really do appreciate them and we have a lot of gloomy and rainy days here in Vancouver especially and So I think like I just have to learn to love them because if I'm planning on living here For a long time or even like the rest of my life I'm gonna have to learn to like them and appreciate them because if I'm always complaining about the rain if I'm always complaining about them then like What's the point of even living here? And it's just so important to me in the near future actually I really want to just like experience Other places because if you think about it like our planet is so big like we live on a huge earth and there's so many different countries, there's so many different continents and It's like we stay in the same spots basically like the normal average person stays in the same spot of the world for their whole lives It's crazy to think about that because we live on such a big earth and every single part of the earth is unique and it's different and The fact that like most of us just stay in our one little corner of the earth our whole life Is crazy to me and it's like how do you know where you really want to live if you don't go explore? And so one thing that I really want to prioritize being in my 20s because I'm 22 turning 23 next year is I really just want to go see more of the world because I've never really traveled. I've been to Mexico I've been across Canada like little trips here and there, but I've never really just traveled I've never been across the world and So one place I really actually want to go is Hawaii. It just seems so magical there But with that being said that's like something that I really want to do within maybe the next upcoming year It's prioritized like traveling because who knows where I want to settle down like what if here isn't the place that I want to be I Feel kind of pulled to settling down here. Just because like this is where my family is and I really do Want to be close to my family because I don't even know if I can mentally do that not living close to them But I don't know. It's like who knows so I definitely want to like in the near future do some traveling and Just kind of experience other places in The world How do you really know where you want to settle down and live for for the rest of your life if you don't go explore? It's like crazy how different the climates can be in other places like here in the winters September through May is super basically like rainy and a lot a lot of gloomy days and This climate it can't be for everybody, right? so somewhere like California or Australia where it's like or Hawaii even where it's like more hot and sunny year-round Maybe I would be happier there like who knows I don't know I know this sounds like really morbid but every single second that you live is a second closer to you dying and Not saying I'm gonna die tomorrow, but it's like it's true like every single second we have here on earth is so precious and It's just so important to live your life. Yeah, so that's like one of my goals for 2023 2024 is to travel more see the world. What I realized is I do like having a home base I do like having my stuff somewhere somewhere where I can come home and be like I feel comfortable feel like I'm at home Because I do get homesick when I leave and I feel like what's just really important to me is to have a home base So my ideal travel schedule would be to go somewhere even like for a month But then like still be able to come home and like Deep breathe for the next few months and then like leave somewhere else for a month or a few weeks You know, that's like my ideal travel scenario that I would want for myself Comment down below if you've traveled if you guys Want to travel because I know that some people are perfectly content without traveling and they just like want to stay where they are And to each their own obviously, but for me personally, that's just how I feel But yeah, I've really been learning how to romanticize the gloomy days not being so sad about oh, it's raining outside I feel so unmotivated. I feel like just like the simple act of like me putting on jazz music During the day and in the morning when I'm working me setting the vibe with a candle while I'm working with some cool Like orange light like that really just like helps me uplift my mood even though it's like not that big of a thing It's still like those small little things do really add up and help you romanticize and appreciate every little moment Just because I do like getting out of the house like if it's raining gloomy like this I feel just like it's really cozy to be indoors all day But at the same time I do like running of mini errands just to get out of the house Because it just makes me feel a little bit more productive in that sense So even though we're going out today for nothing that I really need we're just going out for the front of it So I saw these lip liners on tiktok and apparently it's like a the dupe a dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk lip lip liner and They're only like a few dollars and they're from the brand Essence And so I really want to see if I can find it I'm just going to shoppers and I'm gonna see if I can find the liner that The girl had in the tiktok because that would be so dope because I've been wanting to get the Charlotte Tilbury one for so long now But it's literally $30 and I always lose my lip liners So that's why I haven't gotten it because I always lose them and I don't want to lose a $30 lip liner So I'm like I don't even know if it's worth it for me because I might just lose it So we are going to go see if they have them. I'm so excited If they do and apparently like they last all day and they're really good, so we'll see I just feel so cozy right now with my sweatsuit on my uggs on This is why part of me really does like winter and fall because you just get to dress so cozy and comfortable And it's like so cozy and warm So that's like why Part of me does really like cozy days just because the feeling is unmatched Christmas is unmatched. Oh my god. I can't wait. Okay, let's go Guys, I got them. I don't know why I just wasn't expecting them to actually have them. I am so excited. I got two Because I know myself and like I said, I literally lose lip liners like that because I carry with them with me everywhere They were only $2.99 each. Are you hitting me $2.99? Which you said your total is $6. I'm like What excuse me? They're in the shade My choice and they're by the brand essence. Let me see if this camera will focus here But oh shit the lid on of course, of course happens the lid just fell in the crack. I'll find it But anyways the shade looks so good and this girl I'll show you the video actually because what she did is she put one side of her lips the Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk and then the other side of her lips this one and As you can tell her lips just look so good and they both look identical. Okay now we're going home. Just a little cute outing Okay, you guys so we just ate dinner and now I have some very bright bananas So I am going to make a banana bread with you guys I found this recipe showed you guys in like a previous vlog that I made this banana bread It's Emma McDonald's banana bread recipe. I'll link it down below. It's vegan. It's so good You can make it gluten-free. I don't have gluten-free flour I wish I did and I'm so excited cuz it's literally the best banana bread ever mean Joel demolished it in one day last time And it was just so freaking good. So in her recipe. She says to add chocolate chips I personally I don't know why but I don't like chocolate chips in banana bread I don't know why like that's something that I would normally like I feel like because I do love chocolate But I just don't like the vibe of it in banana bread I just like having plain banana bread. I don't know what it is, but you can have chocolate chips if you like chocolate chips in there So let's make it Okay, so here are how the banana breads turned out. They look so good Putting the banana at the top just tastes so good. I highly recommend you do it, too But now I'm just gonna bake these and I cannot wait