 If my hair is wet, welcome to the vlog. I'm running late as per usual because this morning, lucky for me, one of my nails popped off and that actually has never happened since I moved LA and got my nails done except for this one nail salon that like all my gel polish peeled off that night, but like my actual like gel X like tip nail thing just popped right off. So I'm actually on my way to the nail salon right now to get that fixed and then at 1130, so it's currently like 10 right now and I really like need to be quick in there. At 1130, I am getting my hair done. So that's why I just wanted to like, I don't know, I feel insecure going into the salon with dirty hair. I remember one time a hairstylist was like, oh my client's coming with dirty hair and I was like, ooh, I'm definitely one of them. So now I try to wash my hair and hopefully it'll be dry by the time my appointment arises and I am doing something a little different today. I think I'm going a little bit darker, doing one more kind of round of dark hair before I probably eventually go back to blonde for like spring and summer. Maybe in time for like my Japan trip or something. I'm not entirely sure, but yeah, that's the plan. That's the agenda. Rushing over to the nail salon really quick. Oh, detour alert. And then I'm actually meeting a friend for dinner tonight. So yeah, it's gonna be a busy day. Come along, let's do it. All right, just made it to the salon and honestly, my hair actually is mostly dry. It really just blew in the wind for the last 20 minutes. So I'm gonna head inside and we'll see what this ends up looking like. Here is a little bit of a before. This lighting is terrible. I think we might go just a little bit darker, a little bit richer. I'm gonna cover up these money pieces and we're gonna have some fun with it. So we'll see you in like an hour and a half. Wish me luck. Right, here we have it. It is definitely brown. Like my hair is brown and I kinda like it. And this is a like semi-permanent temporary, whatever you wanna call it, hair color. So it's just a toner. Just wanted to freshen it up a little bit. So now I am feeling fresh. It is about 1.15. I need to go home, feed Layla her lunch, get some more work done and go out to dinner tonight. I'm actually meeting up with Allison from the fitness martial. I'm so excited. We've actually, well, we haven't seen each other since like 2019, we met at a YouTube event and we haven't like gotten to actually like meet up since we've been in LA yet, like at the same time. So that'll be fun. But yeah, I love my hair. I need to focus on driving now. So we will check in in a bit. Brutate era. I can't wait to see what it's gonna look like when I'm like fully ready. All right, I've gotten myself ready and I'm like, now I'm questioning this outfit. But in my mind, it's really cute. This is actually a nightgown that I thrifted from the Rose Bowl flea market. And then I threw on these red boots with it cause I thought it would look really cute. But now I'm questioning myself and maybe I'll put on the long blazer with it. Drew said it looks cute and I should go out like this. But let's just try one more thing. My Uber is in fact two minutes away. So I'm gonna need to make this snappy. Okay, let's see if this looks any better. I have a feeling I'm gonna like this more. Big more of a mess in the background. I think this might be it. This is better for nighttime too. Okay, yeah, you know what? I think I'm feeling this more. So this leather blazer is thrifted. This dress is thrifted. It is a nightgown. And then these boots are from Journey Collection. And I thought a little pop of red might be fun. I'm loving this dark hair. It's really, really fun. I feel like it's gonna be a fun era for sure. But I need to pee really quick and then head out and meet up with Allison. I can't wait. Next day, Allison and I had such a good time last night catching up, chatting, having a couple drinks, having pizza. I got home around like 9.30 ideal night. Layla and I had a little photo shoot when I took her out to poop. Drew was laughing at me very much. And now it is Friday. I just got to Laguna Beach, my favorite place in the entire world. And I'm meeting up with Sierra because we decided we're gonna go on like a nice little outdoor adventure today, take a little walk, get some exercise, get some sunshine. I get to see Grace for the first time in like a year. And I'm so excited to see them. So I just stopped into Earth Cafe to pee a little bit. And now we're just gonna walk along the beach and have a quintessential, what I imagined my California life would be morning. I'm excited. And look who I found. Excavator. Number two. Oh, you like her charm on her camera? That's really amazing. See ya, that's mighty. I have done a terrible job at vlogging today, but we just had a nice, yeah, that is true. That's the sign of a good time. And that's why this vlog is just me saying I'm doing something and then catching up hours later. But we actually just finished like a good few hours on the beach, just hanging out, playing with Grace. And now we're at a place called The Stand in Laguna Beach. So it's a vegan place. We're gonna get like a couple sandwiches, maybe do some more walking. We're having a great day. Just saw this little thing on the table that said if they've had a 100% vegan menu for 45 years, it's crazy. Like that's a really long time, especially like 45 years ago. When I was in high school, when I worked at Whole Foods, it was Wild Oats back then. And vegan was this like new thing that like only a few people were doing. Right? I feel like all these places are popping up now. Yeah. But 45 years. They're an OG, clearly. We got our delicious food, got a little taco bowl. I think it has like beans and rice, mostly. And then like some salsa, guac, and jicama. We got some chips. Sierra got some kind of Chipotle ranch that I might steal some of. Please, let's see how it is. Oh, we also got some habanero sauce. Looks pretty good. Mmm. She says you need to eat one more. Ha ha ha. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Mmm. Ha ha ha. Right, we just finished up some fun play time at the park. We swung. We actually went over to like where the hike is, the lookout, and just did a little bit of gazing at the beautiful view. And now we're gonna head back. Well, we had the best day. It was so much fun. And now we've decided that it's gonna be like a monthly thing. Yes, we're gonna alternate months. We're gonna see each other once a month at a midway point between LA and San Diego. And I think we're gonna alternate between Laguna Beach and Disney days. That's what we have to. All right, bye. In March. Well, no, we're gonna, we gotta go to February. Disney day. Disney day. I love you. Have a safe drive. Goodbye, all. Bye. We will head home now. And we will reunite very soon. Yes. I did. Yay. Next day, I finished up with Sierra and it took me two and a half hours to drive home. That was unexpected. Just a lot of traffic and stuff. And Drew actually sat on the phone with me the entire time we talked on the phone. Like hands-free, the entire drive. Honestly. What a sweetheart. It was like two hours and 20 minutes. Yeah, you should look. Do you have your phone? I don't have my phone on me. I don't either. Just trust me. It was over, it was almost two and a half hours. I know that. But, and then we rushed home, went out for a cute little dinner date last night. It was really nice. We went to just this like random spot that we saw. And it was so cute. We really enjoyed it. It was a nice wholesome date night and we were asleep by frickin' 9.30. I had two glasses of wine and I was like. It's the wine, it does it to you. But now, it is Saturday morning and we are going to head out. Well, first we have to get like a notary thing. We have to get something notarized for our health insurance. And then after that, I think we might get some brunch. So that's gonna be fun. I have the cutest sweater on right now. I'm gonna show you. Layla is, you know, she looks dead behind me but she's not. I am so obsessed with her. So we'll just try to go around her. But this sweater I actually picked up at the Rose Bowl flea market the last time I was there which was like a couple weeks ago. And I love it. The tag on the inside, I can't tell what brand it is but it said handmade in Korea, which is amazing. And it's just so cute. The sleeves are like a little bit too short for me but I kind of tried to stretch them out a little bit when I was hanging it up to dry. And it just has these cute little flowers all over it. And I just buttoned it on the top. I just have like a white T underneath. And then I have these good 90s, good American jeans. These are the darker wash. So I don't know, thought I would try something fun. I don't typically wear darker jeans but this was like a gift card purchase. I had a gift card to use. And then I actually have just my UGG slippers on. I don't know if I'm gonna wear these out. I might change into some sneakers but yeah, that's my outfit of the day. Still getting used to the darker hair but it's really fun. I did some cute little front braided bangs this morning. I think I might get extensions soon. I don't know. I'm kind of having fun with my look at the moment. Just sort of playing around with it, seeing what I like, trying new things. I almost impossibly got bangs when I was at the salon the other day. Listen, I'm just kind of like feeling, playing around with my look. So anyways, okay, let's head off, get some adult things done and then go to brunch. We are in the car heading to go and hike. It's like just before three p.m. It's like 2.30. We haven't done any kind of like movement besides like walking to get brunch. Our brunch was pretty good. Then we walked home and just kind of like hung out for a bit. We actually, I'll show you when we get home but we actually made a beef stew this morning in the crock pot. So that'll be ready by the time we get home. It's been like slow cooking for the last six hours or so. By the time we get back, it'll be ready so that'll be really good. But we're trying out an area that we've never been to before and it's like near Will Rogers Park. I think it's cold. So I think this is like closer to the Palisades, the Pacific Palisades, this little kind of hike trail thing. So I think it'll be really fun. We're gonna get in some movement, get some sunshine. Yesterday in Laguna was so nice. I like need as much outdoor time as possible. Plus for the first half of this month it rained. So for the second half, I've just like desperately needed sunshine. So that's what we're gonna do. So we're almost done with our hike. Drew and I have actually never done this hike before and both Drew and I have imposter syndrome to like the point where sort of hinders us from doing stuff. Cause we're like, where do you park? How do you get there? What if I look stupid and I don't know what I'm doing? So it like kind of prevents us from doing stuff sometimes. It's like definitely been a hindrance. And we did it. We had no idea where we're going. We faded out and I would highly recommend. Oh, he's helping me now. I'm the accident prone one. Anyways, we're back on flat ground. I don't know, like if you were considering stepping outside your comfort zone and trying something new, I would recommend it. Cause we both said that we really enjoyed coming. It was so fun. Yeah. Very cute and very pretty here. I would recommend coming. If you're in the LA area and you're like visiting or if you have family in town or whatever. This is called the inspiration loop, I think at Will Rogers State Park. What a lovely afternoon. We made it just in time, like before sunset, sort of ish. Now we're going to go home and eat our beasts too. All right, we made it home. We got into our cozy clothes, aka our pajamas. And if you can hear our neighbors orange tree being cut down. We do apologize, it's been happening all day. But anyways, we made a beef stew for dinner and we found this recipe on Pinterest and it's by the cozy cook. I think it's called, ooh, this looks really good. I'll show you what it looks like. Here she is. It looks phenomenal. We're going to finish it off with a little bit of sea salt. There's like finishing maldon salt and then maybe some more pepper. We were going to get some crusty bread on the way home to eat this with, but honestly we're hungry and we're just going to eat it and cozy up on the couch and watch some shows. I'm also calling myself out because I've become re-addicted to Diet Coke. I don't want to talk about it. I stopped drinking Diet Coke years ago, not because I was like, oh, it's so bad for you, but because I stopped drinking caffeine like almost 10 years ago, probably like 10 years ago now. And caffeine free Diet Coke isn't like super widely available everywhere. Like when sometimes you go to like, you know, random sub shops and they'll have like this little, it's like firehouse or something and they'll have the little touchscreen one. And I've always preferred fountain, but like I caved recently. I was like, let me just like get a couple cans. This is my second 12 pack. So. You put it in a little baby ice? Wait, okay. So I think this is going to go out of order, but I did recently get an Opal ice maker and I will be reviewing it in a main channel video but Drew just had the most genius idea. God, I love you. I'm pretty smart. I'm pretty smart. My Stanley, all the girlies on TikTok are doing that. Okay. I'm doing it. Oh God, this is full. Oh my God, I'm so excited. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. This is a monumental occasion. If you're on TikTok, you understand. I'm going to make my credit. Ooh. Cheers. It's so good. Wow, you're a genius. We should try to do what the Utah girlies, the Utah mums and they put like half and half or something like that or like coffee cream or anything. Have you all heard of that by the way? There's like, and I mean, if you're from Utah, you already know this, but there are like. You're like soda shops. Yeah, soda shops in Utah because they don't drink alcohol, but I also thought they don't drink caffeine, but I guess some people do. But there's like these drink items on the menu that are like Dr. Pepper with milk in it. And I'm like, at first I was like, ew, that's disgusting and feels like sacrilegious. But now I'm like, I kind of want to try it. So maybe we'll have to try that in the future. But anyways, okay. It's beef stew and diet coke time. I love being trash.