 Well, hello and welcome to Vlogs Giving, is what I'm calling this. Um, I don't think I've ever heard anyone call this little series, Vlogs Giving, but dang it, we're gonna go for it. So, I am gonna be vlogging every day this week. Today is Monday, the week of Thanksgiving, and there's some fun things happening at the FDE house. Do you see? Do you see? Yep, there's some crap that shouldn't be there, because my house is like a freaking disaster area. Yep, it's true you guys. So, let me show you what arrived today. So, last week I placed an order at Target.com, and it said that my tree was gonna be here on Wednesday. Well, it's Monday, and I got a text message at like, I wanna say like noon or something, and they're like, your tree arrived. I'm like, holy shit. Um, but anyway, so let me show you what I got. Sorry about the lighting you guys, it's really dark out. Um, this is what I got, the 7 foot Alberta spruce unlit tree. Yeah, so that's what I got. And let me just explain why I got an unlit tree. Okay, so this saga goes on for many, many moons, but I will tell you I have had a few lit trees, and I feel like once the lights go out, they either end up in the trash, or they end up in a garage sale, or a donation pile, or whatever, and I don't like it, so I just wanna get a tree that's not lit, so I can just change out the bulbs as I need to. Anyway, went to Target. I swear, like my life should be sponsored by Target. Target, please sponsor my life, please. I love you Target, I can't quit you. But anyway, I got these. Well, let me show you. I got these bad boys. These are the Philips 200 lights in the warm white. I got two spools of these, and this is what the lights look like. I've had these lights before on a pre-lit tree, but they were like the bigger lights, and I love when they're lit, like how many facets they have, because it's like, you know, they kinda look like crystal-y or whatever, but they look really, really cool. They're a little bit more expensive because they're the Philips brand and they're the LEDs, so it's like, what does it say, energy savings, so I think they were like 35 bucks a spool. But the nice thing is, they're on these little spools so I can store them later too, which is kind of a nice little plus. Also, I actually looked at my tree in store, which I hadn't done before, and decided the middle kinda looked a little sparse. So I did get these. This is from the Wonder Shop. It's the 50 count. These are $15. Those are more like the champagne color. There is one that's more of a brighter gold and then there's a silver and then there's kinda that champagne-y kinda in-between color, and that's what I decided to get, because most of my ornaments are like more silvery. I mean, they're white, but they're like got more silver accents to it. So I figured those would be good like kinda filler ornaments. So yeah, but there's a few, whoa, there's a few more updates from the FDE house that I feel like I should show you. Do you guys see up there? I finally put crap up there. Look at that. Very exciting, right? Right. And Mr. Doyle is very excited about the new things I brought in today. I brought in my little step stool because I'm not sure if I'm gonna get motivated enough to actually put up the tree today, but we'll see. We shall see. The idea is I wanna put the tree in the middle of, oh, I'm popular, in the middle of that window and then move those chairs and that lamp and table over to this side, over here, just temporarily during the holidays. So I'm pretty sure that's where it's gonna go, but then that like requires moving a bunch of crap around, and I don't know if I'm motivated enough to do it tonight. So yeah, hi Doodle. And Doyle is loving his new sofa. I get questions about that all the time. He is loving the new sofa. Currently sitting on his little Eric Condren blankie. Oh, hi. Is that your little weirdo, huh? But yeah. Anyway, so that's kind of what's going on here. I have gotten a few requests to do a home tour or a holiday home tour. Yes, I am gonna be doing that. I'm gonna wait till I actually get my tree up. Hi Doyle. Do you want a holiday home tour? Okay. Yes, I am gonna do that. And I will do that as soon as all of my decorations are up, which will probably be, I'm hoping that it's all done, excuse you, by this weekend. I'm not gonna put it up this weekend or in these vlogs giving vlogs. I'm just gonna kind of vlog like I normally vlog. This is what it's like to have a Shiba in you guys. Just, it doesn't stop. But I am gonna do a dedicated video all to holiday decorations and what I've changed. And I've really been enjoying some of my other stuff, which a little preview. Doo-loo-loo. Doo-loo-loo-loo. I really enjoy some of this stuff because I feel like it's like super transitional with like fall and then like into just winter. So I can kind of keep it up for a little while and no one can hopefully judge me for it because it does get cold in the state of Minnesota, which is why I'm wearing my North shirt with my Minnesota guy on there. But I feel like every vlog has to have my sweatshirt in it because this is like the only thing I wear. Right Doyle? This is how it feels Doyle. This is how it feels. Okay, go. Dude. Dude, not even doing anything. You're so weird. Anyway, so that's what's going on here. And yeah, I think I'm going to eat a little bit of dinner because I just got home and it's like seven o'clock. And I've got a whole huge project going on with this washy situation. I thought I was going to have like no joke. I was all excited for this tree to come on Wednesday because I'm like sweet. I've got like two more days to do some stuff. I've got this washy project I've been working on for like ever, I feel like. And then I wanted to do some other things kind of holidayish related. But now I got this big box in the entryway. And I kind of want to play with it, but I kind of don't. So we'll see. We'll see. I only have like ten more rolls of washy to deal with. And then I think I'm done. So maybe I can do that this evening. I don't know. It always takes me away longer than I thought. Oh, and I figured I'd show you what else I got from Target. I got these little stars because I love me some stars. These were four dollars and there's two of them and they're gold. I thought they were really cute. Kind of my design aesthetic. And then I have these like really crummy hard sold slippers that I currently have. And the like plushiness of the bottom like the foam is like no longer there unfortunately. So I decided to get these from Target. They are the Deluxe Dear Foams. I don't know. I got the medium size seven to eight fun fact. I wear a size seven and a half to eight shoe. So the one I really wanted was like a gray and they didn't have it in my size. They only had like nine to ten and then five to six. So that didn't really work out. But these are like epically smooshy on the bottom. It's like oh yeah. So I'm excited about that. So I think I'm gonna like bust these out and start wearing them because this hard floor really really hurts my heels. So yeah. And I stand on concrete all day at work as well. It's not so great for the heels. I think I'm gonna sign off for this moment. Get my new slippazown and then I am going to eat a little bit of something but I will check in with you guys in a little bit and show you my progress as to what I did. I'm hoping fingers crossed Future Emily gets all the washi's project done. I'm hoping that's the plan and if I can get some of the tree up I'd be really excited too. But I might have to wait for tomorrow on that. So anyway, I'll see you guys in a minute. Alright so I am currently watching Coffee Break Planner on They're talking about right now. Anyway I am watching Coffee Break Planner on Facebook. I will leave down below the group if you would like to join in the fun. Normally Mondays or Tuesday nights depending they have like a little chat or whatever. So anyway, so I'm going to post right now. Do y'all want to say hi to my vlog? So let's see what they say. Do y'all want to say hi to my vlog? Sure. Oh my gosh are you filming your vlog right now? My favorite daughter Emily. Let us know what. My favorite daughter Emily's vlog. This is so exciting. She's filming us. She's filming us filming alive. Oh my gosh Emily. I feel so famous right now. It's like a vlog deception. I think I might cry. Seriously. I'm going to put makeup on. I don't normally look like this. That's Nick. That's Catherine's husband. Oh my gosh everyone's saying hi. Keep saying hi. Hi to the vlog. Amazing vlog stickers. Right I heard that there was also an amazing favorite daughter Emily Bundle. An Emily budget Bundle. Look at the copper. We got to do some for the V-log. For the V-log. Look at the sparkle. The copper. Wait they have like, I'm going to turn this down for a second. They have like the best foil and they have copper. I mean they have rose gold too because I'm like anti-rose gold but they have copper which is a really cool alternative and I believe they also have like holographic which is really interesting. I've never seen that in person but I may need to order that. So anyway we're going to say goodbye to them for right now and I'm going to finish up this little chat so I'll check in with you guys in a minute. Alright so those are my friends from Coffee Break Planner that I talk about a lot on my channel. That's Catherine and her husband Nick and they live in North Carolina but I believe they're from I want to say New York maybe New Jersey somewhere I can't remember but I know they live in North Carolina now but so anyways I'm going to like I said before I'm going to link them down below. They are having an epic epic Black Friday sale they just announced it today and there's a ton of new releases and spoiler alert just for these people I will let you know that there is a collaboration coming up very very soon with myself and Catherine. So stay tuned. Also her shop is having a 40% off Black Friday sale and she said it's going to be going Friday Saturday, Sunday and I believe Cyber Monday as well so I really like her shop the sticker sheets are super affordable and they're matte removable stickers and then also she's got lots of different things that are like really functional and then also things that are like really decorative too. So you can kind of find a little bit of everything which is what I like in stickers and a lot of people ask me like budget friendly options of how to get started and my always go to is find one sticker shop that has the basics as well as some decorative things that you like so you can kind of mess around with your style a little bit to start because you just never know kind of like what planner you're going to be if you're going to be super functional if you're going to be like a pen and paper kind of a person or if you want to be super super decorative you know you kind of figure that out as you go but anyway wanted to share that with you guys and I did something exciting I finished my dang washi project I did not get to my tree at all the bulbs are still sitting here but they're going to sit here another day so whatever so I finished my washi project let me show you what I was doing is wrapping every single roll of washi and putting it in here so that's what I did so washi project is finally over which I'm super pumped about and I think I'm going to go to bed because it's 9 10 which means that I probably won't get into bed until like 10 something because I'm going to walk the dog and wash my face and get stuff ready for tomorrow also sorry I'm like messing with the washi as I'm like talking to you guys like trying to organize it a little bit better okay also sorry sidebar tomorrow I need to do some cooking well my screen is like messed up do a little bit of cooking which I haven't really done on the channel before but I am going to show you guys well am I going to show you yeah might as well I am making this like taco dip thing for a potluck that I'm having at the office on Wednesday and then also I'm making the same thing for Thanksgiving on Thursday because my brother is going to be in town and we are going to my uncle's in Elk River Minnesota so my uncle is like a huge fan of this taco dip thing and I'll show you like how I make it I'll probably show you at Thanksgiving maybe because I can't really show you when I'm at the office because it's like super weird because people don't really like know that I live my life on the internet at work and I'd like to keep it that way maybe I don't know I mean someone will find me at some point be like hey I watch your vlogs I'll be like oh shit anyway so that is going to be it for me today hope you guys like this surprise little vlogging series and if you like these types of videos feel free to give it a thumbs up you can subscribe I don't have a posting schedule anymore but if you hit the subscribe button and you hit the little bell next to it what that'll do is it'll actually email you notifications when I upload a video so then you just know when it's up and then you can decide if you want to watch it or not depending on what the title of the video is and stuff so actually right now sitting back down at my computer I'm going to upload this not upload the footage but I'm actually going to get the footage off of my camera and get it on my computer and get the editing process ready to go so anyway that is it for day one of vlogs giving and I will see you guys tomorrow for the next one bye guys