 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to my channel. If you are new, I'm trying to get to 25,000 subscribers before my birthday on November 25th and I'm actually, I feel like I can get there. So help a girl out. Subscribe down below and turn on the bell notifications. But I'm starting a new vlog off today. We are actually staying in the Austin proper hotel for a mini staycation. They invited us out here and it's literally like what, 15, 20 minutes stop? Not even 2015 to 10 minutes down the road from us. But I'm so excited to swim in their pool. We actually have a pool view and it looks perfect. We have like a really pretty view of Austin and it's actually in an area that we love. It's right next to the Austin power plant in the Trader Joe's area. I feel like I referenced that part of Austin a lot. I'm really excited for a stay here and I wanted to quickly show you guys the room. It's just so pretty. It's very like eclectic, but I don't know. It's really cool. Let's cut to the b-roll. And then right after that, I came home and got my luggage and headed to this hotel. So I still have like a couple of things for just like my work that I have to do. I'm currently uploading a YouTube video. I'm trying to stay with a Monday Wednesday upload schedule, but I always end up editing the day of and then it just like goes up so late. So I really need to like get all my shit and just like edit the day before so I don't have to be stressed the day of. So I'm doing that and then I'm also just uploading the headshots that I took to Pixie Set. I talked about it in my last vlog. If you guys are into photography and are doing it for a business, highly, highly recommend Pixie Set. And I think I have like a referral code, so I'll link it down below. But you know, just doing that and uploading this video, I still need to make a thumbnail. And we have a dinner reservation at 7. It's currently 6.38 at the Peacock, which is the restaurant here at the proper hotel. So I'm really excited because I'm starving. I brought popcorn here because, you know, just in case I wanted like some snacks in the hotel room. I didn't think about having a microwave. Do we have a microwave in here? Probably not. Oops, there probably is a microwave somewhere in this hotel. But I also brought like raspberries because, oh my god, I did the stupidest thing. We bought groceries on Monday and didn't even like realize that we were, well, we knew we were coming here. But we forgot that we were and we bought groceries for the whole week. So we have like two meals that we won't even get to. So maybe we can just eat them on the weekend. But let's be real, we love to eat out on the weekends. I have 20 minutes till the reservation. So I'm going to get to work really quick and get this video live for y'all. Video publish. I have two minutes to spare. Reservations at 7. Oh, 6.59. Let's go. Person food almost. It was like dumplings with lamb and the baklava. I love lamb. Yeah, we got baklava and toffee pudding. Might be my new favorite thing, not that that's like widely available anywhere, but thank god we're not too far away. So we can come and eat at the peacock. But seriously, so good. I would definitely definitely go back. Yeah, super good. But we also checked out the pool because I'm really excited to swim there tomorrow. We're going to try to go after work or at least after Ryan gets off work because I get off of work before him. But also, what? Tomorrow's my Friday. Yeah, tomorrow's my Friday. So that's exciting. Honestly, this weekend is going to be a little bit stressful because I do have like a lot of photography stuff and videography stuff. I don't know if I told you guys this, but I am doing like two stories recruitment videos so far, probably more. But they are actually doing virtual recruitment. So that means they want more videos to show their chapter and stuff. And it's getting even harder because, you know, obviously you can't really have that many like big groups. I know that it's just going to be super different, but honestly, just the whole world is different right now. So I guess it's the new normal. I'm going to go change in my PJs, take off my makeup. I wanted to do some type of movie night, but I don't even know what movie we would watch. Like I wonder if there are movies that came out recently or if they're just like waiting for them to come out in the movie theaters. But I'm just like wanting to watch like a newer movie, you know? But I will see y'all tomorrow morning. Good morning, y'all. It is currently 8.45am and I just got off the call with my team at work. We did our little huddle for the week and I'm going to work on the August content calendar. I have like literally two more posts to fill out. So I just need to find some content and make a caption out of it. If you guys are curious what I do for work, you can watch my work days in my life. I posted it like not even a week ago and it explains a little bit more of what I do. But basically I'm a content creator for a student housing company. So super exciting stuff. We're actually getting super hungry. I think we might like postmate something because I think Ryan said he had like a free delivery. So we might look into that. What are we getting? Chifolet. PSA, we're not drinking right now. That was from last night. Got our chifolet ready to devour this. For some reason chifolet makes my stomach hurt a lot. I need to take my lactate pill even though I don't even know. I just assumed everything has dairy in it now. It's kind of weird but what? It's buttermilk. It's buttermilk? I think buttermilk is okay. Deluminates so good today. All right, let's see the chicken mayonnaise. You know, they could be a little more shiny but I definitely have worse. What do you think? It is 12. I'm going to clock out for lunch and we are going to go downstairs and take a couple of pictures while I have makeup on. All I'm thinking about is going swimming in that pool when it hits five and Ryan's off of work. I'll try to take you guys along to see what's downstairs because it is stunning. We just got back into our room. We need to change to come be close because I'm going to get back to work. This hotel is just so picturesque and like the lobby is stunning so I really want to take advantage and like shoot a lot of content while I'm here but I don't think I brought anything like amazing clothing wise. Like I was just looking through it and I was like I don't even know why I stuffed this into my bag because like it's just like a bunch of things that I haven't really shot in but I'm not really feeling it and like it doesn't really go with the vibe of like the hotel if that makes sense. Our plan was to go to the pool at five but I think we're going to do like a really quick get into an outfit, go shoot at five and then go to the pool. But I also want to do some photos like on the bed because the bed frame is really cool and I just feel like I could get some really cool like branding shots even though I don't know what I would use it for but I do need to like obtain my youtube banner so maybe I can use one of the photos for that I don't know but we'll see I'll take you guys along but I'm gonna get back to work like I said and then I'll talk to you guys around five. I'm done with work for the week. Ryan's still working but he has a little bit of free time so I decided to just like get dressed up really quick and do some photos on the bed because I wanted some like really just like nice bright and airy kind of like almost branding photos but then I didn't have like that many clothes to choose from so I decided to go with like their robe and do kind of like a champagne shot because they gave a champagne yesterday. I think it's gonna be really cute. I'm using my Sigma 35 1.2 lens today on my Sony a7 III. I know a lot of people on my Instagram always ask me what camera I use and it's almost always this one or my iPhone. I used to use the one that I'm blogging on a lot but I just feel like the a7 III is obviously a hundred times better. The quality is like so crisp that I'm just like I need to use it if I have it so I definitely have been trying to use my camera way more than I used to because honestly I just used to do a lot of iPhone pictures which nothing wrong with that because honestly sometimes they do edit a little better and just it's easier to edit iPhone photos but we're gonna be using this camera today. We decided to order in some food so we can eat it at the pool but I think it got here a little too early but it's okay because I'm honestly kind of hungry. I'm gonna go down and pick it up and hopefully we can go to the pool soon right it's almost done with work. All right we're headed to the pool finally we're actually gonna go swimming but before that I'm gonna take some instruments. We just got to the pool and a lot of the chairs are taken up where I can't tell if they are so we just got this cute little cabano that you got for you guys. We're drinking our juices and it's called hugo-me and they're in ATX this is the mango one it's really good. I'm gonna go so now I feel like I've made use of my makeup so ready to wipe it off. It is 8 p.m. and we've literally just been chilling watching Desperate Housewives after the pool and now I think we're gonna go on a sunset walk and then get a late night snack at the peacock because there was some really good appetizers that we had last night that we want to get tonight. Creature in the river and I'm really curious as to what it is so I posted out my story is it there? I've never seen anything other than like turtles in this river so I'm really curious to what it is. Ryan said it was an otter. I just feel like it looked like a giant rat. It was like this big. Yeah it was huge. The long tail was like that big. Yeah so I mean if you can identify it let me know in the comments down below what you guys think it is. Good morning y'all it is 9 30 a.m. and this morning I got up really really early because I had a video gig downtown Austin so I just like Uber over there because I don't want to like have to deal with the car but I think it went really well and I actually just invited my friend over. We're gonna go to the pool. I'm gonna edit there she's gonna study and we're gonna have a super chill morning. Today is actually super freaking busy for me. I had the video gig in the morning. I have a photo gig in the afternoon and then I have to film a recruitment video interview thing later tonight so we have a jam-packed day. We're actually gonna check out of the hotel at 12 today because I have to go home and like get ready for all the stuff. I have to get my lights for the recruitment filming later tonight. I feel like I'm gonna be a little stressed so I don't know how much I'll vlog but I'll definitely try to get some clips here. I'm here with Mia at the pool. See each other in forever so this is super exciting but we're literally both like on our computer. She's studying and I'm editing and we're just chilling at the pool with this lovely construction view. Yeah but honestly it's a really nice day. It feels really good outside but um I think we're gonna go in seriously. Is it gonna get hotter later? Yeah we are in the shade right now. I don't think we're staying out here for too too long because we got shit to do. Like I said today's a busy day. Packed up. We're staying by the Austin proper hotel for now. Definitely be back especially at the restaurant downstairs. That was still delicious but we're gonna check out. It is currently noon and I got to prepare for my next photo gig. Thank you.