 Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. I just ate a banana. So if there's food in my teeth, I do apologize, but I just arrived to this little studio space that I booked a photo shoot. I usually like at the beginning of every year, I will start usually in January and do some sort of photo shoot for like branding for both of my channels and like Instagram and stuff like that. So just to have nice current photos. I don't have any photos with, you know, this haircut. I do feel very 90s, like Southern woman right now with this denim jacket and this hair, but I also am into it. So I'm a bit early. I'm like 10 minutes early and I've never worked with this photographer before, but I'll leave their Instagram down below. It's like a quick 45 minute session. But yeah, that's how we're starting off the day. We're starting off the week. I am feeling much better. I have way less anxiety. I haven't had any problems sleeping. So I feel good about that. That feels really good to be like on the right track. I unfortunately have some bad news to report and that is that I think we have bad neighbors again. It's been over a year and a half and we've honestly like there have been times it's known in our building, but the building next door has just some of the craziest stuff. Like the cops get called on them all the time and people are moving in and out and screaming and fighting and like it's just chaotic. But probably like two, three months ago this family moved in and they leave their windows open all day long and their kids scream all day every day and not just like ha ha ha like typical kid. It's like full on like it's kind of concerning. But anyways, they also have two dogs and they leave their dogs out on their balcony like all the time. And this happened with like another family that lived there before, but then they moved out and they leave these dogs outside at like one o'clock in the morning and they're outside barking and it's directly outside my bedroom window. And so we like very politely left a note and we're just like, hey, could you please take notice of like the noise and you know, the neighbors that live around you and it's only gotten worse. I can't get the sound of dogs barking out of my head. Like it's constant and I've been sleeping with earplugs and you know, I'm trying not to complain but it's just something that we've been dealing with. It's not the end of the world. It'll definitely work itself out in time. It always does, but man, it's just been really frustrating and it's like damn, ugh. We were doing so well. We got so lucky for the first year and a half. So if this is all we have to deal with, that's perfectly fine. But anyways, I have about six minutes to get inside. So I'm gonna touch up my makeup really quick, take these photos, hopefully they turn out okay and we will catch up in a bit. Hey besties, we are done with the shoot. It was so fast and so easy and so amazing. The photographer was incredible. Oh my gosh, I felt so welcome. I felt so comfortable instantly like just the warmest, kindest person ever. We were just chatting the entire time. It just was so much fun as well. Like I genuinely had a freaking blast and it was over in 45 minutes. So that's me done for the day and I actually like, I don't know why I thought this was gonna take way more time. So now I have like so much free time. I think I might go take a nice little walk because it's such a beautiful day outside like the actual audacity of this weather. I do feel kind of bad saying that because I know that there are snowstorms and things happening in pretty much every other state. It's like Oregon, Tennessee. My dad was facetiming me yesterday and his entire yard is covered in snow and like it snows in Tennessee, but not that much. Like it was like a full blown snowstorm. So freaking cool. I mean, I personally love snow but I'm not trying to rub it in but it's like beautiful weather. So I think I might take a little stroll outside and just enjoy this beautiful freaking weather and maybe like get a smoothie or something. Who knows? All right, it's actually the next day. I took the rest of yesterday and just did a bunch of editing work but I had such a good time. Like honestly, such a good day and I already got back all of the photos. Can you believe that? It was literally so fast. I think she sent them last night if I'm not mistaken. So speedy, can't believe it. So okay, I'm gonna show you a little sneak peek of some of them. No one cares obviously. I shouldn't say that. I care. Actually, let me redirect what I was just about to say. Honestly, it was just so much fun and it was something that I'm doing for myself and for my business and so I shouldn't downplay it. It was really fun. Anyways, okay, look at these. Let me just show you this. Like I'm sorry. This was the like thumbnail photo that she chose. Are you kidding? This is so much fun. So here's all of the photos. There's so many of them. Like it was so much fun. So I did four different looks. There's the second one I guess this was like the first one. This was kind of like a denim moment. Then we did the red, which I think just like pops so much. I'm so in love with it. This sweater also looks like the one I'm wearing right now. Then we did a little millennial pink moment, which was honestly so much fun. And she suggested going with like a lighter pink that matched the pink shirt that I was wearing. Oh, this is, yeah. That's me in my essence, in my purist form. But like, they're so cute. And then we did a couple, this was the third look we did. Like we played around with some prisms, which was really fun. And then we did do a couple like proper head shots in case I ever need to submit them for anything. So like, you know, it's giving, I'm gonna sell you a house, but that was fun. So I sent back like the things, the ones that I wanted edited. So I just thought I would share, but yeah, also something funny that happened yesterday because you know how I talked about like our neighbors and stuff. And this isn't those same neighbors, but it is like the same next door neighbor's buildings. That makes sense. There is a group of like, I would assume they have to be at least 18, but they literally look like 16 year old boys. There's probably like five of them that live in this apartment. I don't understand it, but they all drive like very, very, very, very, very nice cars. Like they all drive like BMWs, Mercedes. They must be like TikTokers or influencers or something like that. But one of them in particular drives his car down the street in our neighborhood and he pulls out of the building. He revs his engine so loud in case you just want a little bit of the neighborhood tea. In case you're nosy like me and Drew and just like wanna know what's going on at all times. Drew is the neighborhood creep. He will be looking out the window and reporting back with what's happening. And I love it. But anyways, he always pulls out in this car that has some sort of like exhaust on it or something like that. And he revs his engine so loudly that it almost feels, I mean, it's like, I've started laughing a few times because it's just so obnoxious and there have been multiple, I mean, if not every time when he does this, he sets off all of the car alarms of the cars that are parked on the street. And it's just like such asshole behavior, you know? Just like, I guess I wanna say typical teenagers, but I wasn't like that as a teenager. Anyways, he does it all the time and it's just kind of like whatever. You get used to it. It's over in like 15 seconds anyway, but you hear him going like all the way down the block and just like, like, rev in that thing so loud. Sometimes I think it like causes his engine to backfire and it sounds like gunshots. Anyways, it's a whole thing. So yesterday he was doing it and I wasn't even paying any attention. And he started like, you know, revbing it up. You can always hear it right when he turns his car on all the way until he's like a mile away. And he was pulling out and he did that. He pulled out onto the street and like took off. And then all of a sudden we heard boop boop and he was right there and literally pulled him over like instantaneously. Just boop pulled him right over. And so Drew literally was like, oh my God, I think that kid just got pulled over. And I was like, shut up. So we like ran over to the window, couldn't really see. So we literally went outside. We went outside. I don't even think I was wearing shoes. I just wanted to like peek and see and sure enough, blue lights were on. He was pulled over. I was just like, oh my God, that is the most satisfying instant karma I have ever seen in my entire life. It just made me so happy. I'm sorry, man. It was just like so satisfying. And you can't take that away from me. I thought it was hilarious in case you wanted a little bit more neighborty. And also, yeah, like with what I was talking about yesterday at the beginning of this vlog, like it's not a huge deal. I don't want it to become like another big thing and other big series. It really is like nowhere near as bad as it was before. It's just the situation. In case you missed it cause I didn't really explain that very well. A lot of you were here, but a lot of you weren't. So in 2019 and 2020, or actually I guess it was 2020 when these people moved in. We had just moved into the wrong building and we were surrounded by like 18 to 20 year olds who were just like partying through the pandemic, through the peak of the pandemic where you're supposed to be staying home and isolating and all that kind of stuff. And they like DJed and they had parties all the time until like five, six in the morning. Laila was having surgery on her leg at that time. So like we couldn't go anywhere. I mean, we couldn't go anywhere anyways. It was just so massively stressful and they were playing their instruments outside. Like they were like jam banding and like there was one apartment in particular and we got into like this standoff and they came and knocked on my door at one in the morning and were in front of me. And it was, it was like a whole thing. So Drew and I truly like when we moved back to Arizona and we moved into that house for two years. Like we just wanted no drama. We wanted to just mind our own business and we still very much wanna do that. We're so cool with everyone in our building like dream neighbor situation. It's just the building next door. I mean, you can't, you can't control it. But I like I said, it's not a big deal. It's just something funny to laugh about because this is the choice that you make when you live in a big city, you're just, you're gonna be living on top of each other. And that's just how it works. So I have thought about maybe going over there and asking the people with the dogs if they like want the dogs to like hang out here during the day, like do you want some help with the dogs? Do you want them to come hang out over here? Cause like they're really cute dogs. I just talked for a very long time, didn't I? I actually have some more computer work to get done. I have to kind of like script out a couple of videos or just outline a couple of main channel videos that I need to do because I am going to be doing a little kind of like test run with another editor for this year. So I need to just make sure that like the things that I'm filming are actually coherent and I'm not just relying on myself to like edit it together, you know? I have some work to do, so we will check in in a bit but I just thought I would give you a lovely little satisfying neighbor's update. Love to see it. Okay, here's your reminder to make your bed. Ready to film my second main channel video of the day. I've been really trying to like get ahead. I feel like I'm always saying that but I'm gonna switch up the hair and the outfit. I was actually just wearing this like while I was eating lunch cause I was cold but I did this cute little like headband moment but now it is time to switch it up and I'm gonna show you. I thought that it might be nice cause I kind of changed up how I do my slipped back ponytail slash bun routine and I thought it might be interesting to show you cause I feel like everyone does it differently and this is just what's been working for me. So okay, the two products that I usually use one or the other to slick my hair back with is either the Day Cactus Fruit 3-in-1 Styling Cream which this smells incredible but this Eco-style professional styling gel with olive oil is like, I feel like it works better cause it's more of a gel even though it's not a crunchy gel. This one is pretty much gone anyway so I don't even know if there's enough of this to use and then sometimes I use this TG bed head hair stick for cool people and it is essentially like a glue stick for your hair. So anyway, those are the products. Oh and a brush. I just bought this brush cause my friend Beth or Bethany Francesca on Instagram mentioned this and it's a GHD, I don't know what it's called. I think it was like 30 bucks so it's definitely expensive but I slick my hair back all the time so it's worth it for me. Okay so we're just gonna like brush out our hair, make sure that it's, you know, not too tangly and then what I've been doing recently is wetting my hair a little bit first and I feel like that just helps a lot more. I don't wet everything. I just wet kind of like the front and then like the crown just to make sure there's like, I don't know, just helps with the slick. You obviously don't have to do this but that's what I do. So just do a little bit of that and then I take like a considerable amount of product. Wait, is my part okay? You're sitting on the shelf that the mirror is behind so hold on. Yeah it's fine, it's fine. Okay so I take like a considerable amount of product like that is a lot, probably more than I need but I just like to be thorough so I just like slap it on. I make sure I really get it on the sides and then I like get underneath right here. This is cute. Let me just try to rub it in as much as possible. Like get it all in the roots because that's where you're gonna need the hold. I'd say I'm only speaking for myself with like my particular hair texture. This is what I do that works for me so far, so bit. Okay, I'm gonna rinse that off and then we're gonna go in with the regular brush first. Can you see me? I don't know. So I'm just using like whatever regular brush you have just kind of like brushing it in whatever sort of like position you want so I think I just want like a nice low ponytail. I don't think I want a bun. We'll start gathering, this is gonna be very hard to do because you are actually my mirror in the viewfinder right now and my eyesight is terrible. So some people do more of like this type of slick back, some people do more of like a pulling your hair back type of thing. I go back and forth between the two. You're just gonna take as much as you can, brush as much out as many of the bumps as possible. Okay, there we go. Then when you feel like you've got it in like an okay place you can go in with your bristle brush and I feel like this helps a lot. So you definitely wanna get one that's for this specific type of thing, like a fine brushes like that with the good bristles will really help a lot. So I don't actually pull that tight for these and I just use a scrunchie. So nothing super damaging, but I just brush forever until my arms feel like they're gonna fall off basically. Okay, then when you've got a place where you want it you just secure it. I think I'm just gonna do a ponytail. And there you have it. You have your nice, slick moment. However, just to like make sure nothing budges. A lot of times I will go in and actually right now it looks okay but sometimes I'll go in with this stick and you literally just like rub it on your hair but I'm not gonna add wax to my hair if I don't need to but this really helps especially with like flyaways and stuff, very, very nice. So maybe I'll finish it with some hairspray. Boom, and there we have it. Very quick and easy. This entire clip was six minutes and 39 seconds long. However, I talked a lot. So if you weren't talking and going through each of the products and things like that, it takes like three minutes. It's very nice. I'm gonna do a quick makeup touch up and then film the second video of the day. This one has a sponsor so it's always just like more complicated and I am starting to work with an ender for my main channel just once a week. And like filming when you know someone else is gonna be watching your footage is the most bizarre thing ever. And like you just act so awkward. So please frickin' pray for me in this process like genuinely I don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing my best. Okay, let's get this over with and then we will catch up in a bit because we gotta talk about shows. We gotta talk about it. All right, we're done. We did it. We got the video done. I filmed two main channel videos today. I'm very proud of myself for that. And it is absolutely chill time now. It is lay horizontal on the couch and do not a damn thing. And I could not be happier about it. We have been watching Love Island All Stars. We started it last night. Gotta sit down and chat about this because you know I'm a Love Island girlie. I think Drew and I started watching it in maybe 2022 or maybe it was 2021 but either way we got into it and we got so addicted. They're like, I think this is like the 11th, 12th season. My God. If you didn't know Love Island All Stars was happening right now, it is. And it's so iconic. We only watched the first episode and it was the, I'm not gonna give any spoilers away but it was the most iconic episode maybe yet. Like I was just like, oh wow, they're really, they're really doing it. They're really doing the most this year. And like I couldn't be more excited about it. I'm literally so excited. We have I think now three more episodes to catch up on cause we like wanted to wait a little bit so we could have a few to watch at once. And I mean, oh my God, I can't wait. Yeah, Love Island is a dating show in the UK and they have a US version. They have Australia and I think this summer they did a version where like all of those people met up and stuff and like, not that into it. But this one is all of the UK All Stars. So it's people from all 11 seasons before or 10 seasons before this and they all go into a house together and like new people are coming in all the time and like, oh my God, it's so iconic. I literally can't believe it. Drew and I have only seen seasons four onward. So I don't think we saw the first three seasons yet. You don't really, I mean, there's a couple people I don't know of yet. I mean, unless it's gonna be heavily like seasons one through three people, there probably won't be cause those seasons are a bit older but there are people from like season one, definitely. We'll see what ends up happening, but oh my God, I love it so much. I can't even begin to describe. And we have like quite a few ITV shows that we've been wanting to watch as well. Have we watched any, ooh, we did watch for like a US friendly version because for Love Island in the UK you can watch it, I think on Hulu here but it comes out on a delay so it's like a week late or something like that. So Drew and I have a VPN. A VPN is what makes you be able to watch the shows in the UK cause they're very strict about that. They like don't want other people watching it. I'm like, don't you want more viewers? I don't understand. But we did watch a show recently on Netflix called Fool Me Once, which is another Harlan Coban book that was turned into a show. And he did, he's American author but he mainly writes these books that turn into shows that are entirely cast by British people. So he did Safe, he did The Five, he did The Stranger. There's a few other ones that we've seen as well. Some of them were like in other languages and stuff but those are the three main ones that we had seen. And there were a couple others that I already forgot the name of that we saw too but this one was really good. It was just, you're like, what? Like there are twists and turns and stuff and it just felt silly at some points but it definitely is worth watching. So yeah, it's called Fool Me Once. Definitely recommend that on Netflix. There's an ITV show that I wanted to watch that's from the same creators as Happy Valley which is like one of our favorite shows of all time. If you can find a way to watch Happy Valley, it used to be on I think Netflix but now it might be on Amazon Prime but I think you might have to buy it. I can't remember. It is one of the best shows of all time. There's a show that came out apparently on ITV recently from the same creators or producers as Happy Valley. So I'm like, well, obviously we need to watch that so that'll probably be something that we watch this weekend. I think there's only one season so far and then I also saw people talking about, I think it's called Mr. Bates versus the post office or something like that. And it's like a series covering a true story of Welsh post office workers who were like, I think falsely accused of things or falsely imprisoned or something. Am I mistaken? Let me look this up. I'm at a desk here now so I can fact check as I'm chatting. The extraordinary story of the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and post-mistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system. Yes, please, that sounds so interesting. So anyway, no one asked for that, but there you go. They're some of my favorite recommendations. If you know one thing about me, it is that I am passionate about my British shows, especially like that has anything to do with crime. Like I just love it so much. Drew and I have already been talking about going back to England because we just miss it. We, they won't let us live there. So we're just gonna visit. We thought about maybe going back for an anniversary but it's like we were just there in October so like going back in March feels like a lot but also would love to go back and you know, Alexa and I wanna go back together too. So I've gotta start thinking about that but man, watching the shows at least makes me feel like I have a part of that with me when I watch like Love Island or when I watch any of my crime shows or whatever. It's just, it's very cozy. It's comforting. I don't know what it is but I love it. So anyway, we're gonna get into our comfies, watch our Love Island and that's probably gonna be it for this vlog. So thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you watching this vlog. Like I always want to apologize sometimes because I'm like, what even was this? Was this even entertaining at all? But y'all keep coming back and I love you for it. So thank you so much. If there are things in particular that you love seeing in vlogs specifically of mine, definitely leave them in comments below just so I can make sure that like we're on the same page, you know? Cause sometimes I have no plan. I have no concept. I'm just kind of filming my life and I know that a lot of you like that but sometimes there's not really a point. So I'm like, should I even put this out there? But you know, that's just the constant struggle of being a YouTuber I suppose. But yeah, thank you so much for being here and I'll see you very soon in the next vlog. Bye.