 Hello hello and welcome to the vlog. I should be like a rapper right? Probably not. But today is a good day. It is hump day. It's Wednesday which means it's trash takeout day and there's dog. Um I've taken a dog on a walk. I have also shoveled because it snowed again and um yeah I got motivated after the shoveling and I did something you guys. You want to see? You want to see? I made a thing! Yeah! You guys want to see closer? I know a couple of you do so let's take a look. All right so if you guys follow me on Instagram you would know that I went to a place called At Home in Blaine. That's where I got all of this from minus the pinecone garland and the tray and I'll talk about that stuff in a moment. But I got these really pretty they're kind of like mercury glass but then they have gold you know hardware and I got these lanterns from At Home. They're kind of like silver and gold and then I got these guys. These are like a wax candle but it's like a battery operated wax candle. Right now I have them on the six hour setting so that's kind of cool. They don't flicker but I don't really mind that. And then also I got these trees which are kind of lost I feel like but I still like them so I'm going to keep them. I got these like glittery green trees from At Home and then let me take this out for a second. I got some coasters and then under that is an upside down little tiny bowl because they needed a little bit more height with the garland that I put with it. And the garland I actually got from Wayfair I believe. Yeah I think it was Wayfair and it's the same garland that is on my banister as well as up above there. It is a lighted garland so I did actually put some batteries in it over here so it's like kind of like lit up a little bit. But yeah the pinecones are kind of huge but I still really like it so whatever. And then these little white, I don't know, berry things. I also got it at home and they came three to a pack so there's six total in here. I just kind of like shoved them in they're all in a wire. And then this tray is like freaking amazing right? So it's like a wood lacquered tray and I got it at West Elm and you could take my bestie Instagram enabler Kelly Nan for that. I would put her blog down below. She has like the most amazing home and lifestyle blog. It's so good. I want to like buy all the things that she recommends for sure. So she enabled this 100% and I'm sure you guys are thinking like oh my gosh that is like ginormous for your table. But my table actually extends so during the holidays it's going to be extended for my holiday gathering. So I thought that was really cute. I mean what do you guys think? I hope that you guys like it. I do realize the pinecones are like a little bit overwhelming but like isn't the holidays just like a little bit overwhelming anyway? So like let's just go with it you know what I mean? So anyway that's what I did for the last like 20 minutes is put that little bad boy together and I've been wanting to put it together for a while. I just haven't felt motivated so like I've just been trying to give myself some space to just do what I feel like doing you know what I mean? So anyway oh and I should check my chargers with the size of that little like table scape thing. So I have my chargers sitting out because I don't know where to put anything and I'm like oh I put it out if I'm just gonna like grab for it in a week or two anyway. So I have two chargers here. I got mine from World Market again another Kelly Nann situation. Oh it's kind of coming off. Let's see let's check the other side. Okay this side it fits perfect so I think I'm just gonna like fudge it a little bit and like move this sucker a little further this way because the charger is just kind of cute you know what I mean? Like yeah it'll be fine. It's just going to be over a little bit. My table is a little bit narrow. It's from Ikea. Ikea typically has like really efficient furniture and not like oversized furniture so and I can always move this too if it's like too much you know what I'm saying? So I'll figure that out like the day of the gathering because I can always put it somewhere else but I think it's super cute right? So anyway let's turn the tree on oh there's the Doyle on his couch. Hi buddy hello hello. I got another one of those like today when I'm out walking the dog. I get like the weirdest comments about him um but there is a guy shoveling his driveway too and he has a dog that's like never on a leash that kind of bothers me because I'm sure his dog is extremely friendly and um hi can I oh geez um I'm sure his dog is extremely friendly and very very well behaved and I'm not trying to like shade anybody that doesn't have their dog on a leash but Doyle is so neurotic around other dogs and that's why he is specifically on a leash all the time. I'm always fearful that that dog is gonna come up to him but I did talk to him today I was just like passing by and his dog was like in the driveway with him off of a leash and I was like hey just FYI like my dog is not friendly to other dogs and he's like oh he looks really friendly I'm like well yeah I mean an axe murderer can look friendly too but like Doyle's crazy like do you see this he's a little bit nuts yeah he's having a good old time but I'm like just because a dog looks friendly doesn't mean it is friendly and like the most unfriendly looking dogs are usually like the sweetest dogs so I don't know I was like yeah you know he's just really doesn't like other dogs he never has he really likes people but he really doesn't like other dogs so I'm just letting you know um and I said like do I need to pick up my dog and he's like no I'll just tell my dog to go inside like okay well that's cool I like your style dude but now he knows and he rents there it's a rental across the street and um we're like kind of like across the street candy corner a little bit so um I see him out walking his dog once in a while too but I'm always so fearful that like some dog is gonna go bolting towards Doyle because he looks friendly you know and um it's not gonna end well because Doyle is gonna go apeshit crazy so yeah anyway that's enough of me talking about other puppies but um I wish Doyle was friendly though guys I like really wish he was friendly but he's just he's just not and there's nothing I can do about it nope nothing I can do about it this dude's almost 11 I don't think he's ever gonna get the friendly with the other puppies can I can I have this can I can I have this yeah oh ready he just loves playing with his little duck today that's his you know baby of choice I call his uh all his little plushy toys his babies by the way isn't this so much cleaner than before because I wrapped like all the gifts you guys I don't know if I've shown that yet but there's like a lot more gifts underneath there now which makes me feel really accomplished but I did film a gift wrapping video which I'm not sure if that will be up before this video or not but I gotta say I haven't even watched the footage back but I was out of frame like so much in the video and it kind of was driving me crazy actually just filming it so I may just scrap it and then film another one even though I don't really have anything I mean I guess I have a couple of things to wrap but they're for like gifts for people in another state that I can just ship to them yeah I don't I don't know I haven't really like I need to look at the footage though I just need to look at the footage because I just I'm very suspect that it's not good I'm very suspect that it's not good what do you think Doyle do I need to film another gift wrapping video probably probably um I don't really have an update from the overstock situation uh they emailed me it was the same email um that I read to you guys last night and um they're gonna be sending me out to my actual items I did get the return slip so that is going to be going back um I just left the little rug thing at my office because we typically get UPS like once a week so hopefully but we haven't had it this week at all so I don't know I told the guy that actually orders stuff that comes UPS I was like dude you need to order some more stuff because like I gotta return this thing and um so yeah so hopefully um we'll get UPS this week or next week I have like 45 days or something to return it so I'm not really worried about it and I can go to a UPS store too but just to like not go would be like really helpful but we'll see if it if I don't get a UPS driver that comes to my office by the end of next week I will take it to a UPS store for sure so just to make sure that it you know gets to the right place it needs to be going but anyway um I have been rambling on for a little bit too long about things that probably don't matter but that's the whole point of the vlog right yep um I'm gonna eat a little bit of something and then um I don't know what I'm gonna do because yesterday I said I was gonna add it and then I didn't and um tonight I should add it but I don't know if I'm going to so it's gonna depend on how the mood strikes me but um but yeah so uh I will see you guys in just a moment okay so it is past like 10 30 at night I didn't get anything done I just kind of like hung out on the internet and got suckered into watching a bunch of videos anyway um I just took the dog out on a walk and took the trash out here's the pooper and I figured I would show you guys um how he gets his meds I don't know it's not very exciting but he has one quarter of a piece of cheese every morning and every evening so basically he has a half a slice of cheese a day so it's obviously the evening time so we're gonna go for the one quarter that is in here and we're gonna put this one back because this is what he's gonna eat tomorrow so yeah I used to let him eat like a whole slice of cheese every single time or like one a day and I'm like there's no reason for that so here is his little pill container so we're on Wednesday evening and um yeah here's his beautiful pills he takes seizure medication he takes fish oil and then he also takes uh like a generic benedryl because he has like itchy um itchy skin so and then he just eats it like that so excited about it it's like his most exciting time of the day but anyway update on the centerpiece I'm getting lots of nice comments about it I did turn all of the like electrical things off so that's good and now I'm gonna turn all the other electrical things off and Doyle's like peace out lady I'm going to bed and the heater or the furnace just kicked on so it's like his most favorite thing is to sit on the um heat vent upstairs oh you know I bought this like timer thing for the treat I've never learned how to program it I just have it plugged in I don't know maybe I'll learn how to program it at some point I just like haven't sat down and decided to do it oh gosh some days I'm like super duper motivated and other days I'm like freaking the laziest as they come I'm gonna put all of my water in my tea kettle so I'll be ready to go for the morning time and yeah that's that's what's happening I'm going to bed you guys exactly what's happening all right so I got all my water in my tea kettle and then in the morning I just need to like flip the switch and click it on and wait for it to get done and while I wait I'm never sure you guys this in the morning because I'm not a morning person but I cut an apple take an apple cut it my favorite is a honey crisp I don't think it'll no it's not gonna focus that's okay um a honey crisp and then I have one like little packet of strawberry yogurt as well so I prep the apple I eat that actually on my way to work in the morning and then I have the yogurt as I'm just kind of waiting for the tea to get done just kind of like get something in my system so I don't eat like really super gross things throughout the day but yeah that's the update here I'm gonna finish and drink the rest of my water here because I like to have at least two of these when I get home from work every day full of water I swear it's water you guys and um yeah that's that's it that's I mean you know it's I feel like I've been super boring lately but also I feel like that because I haven't actually watched back any of the footage because I haven't done any ending so I think that's part of it but anyway but I'm gonna let you guys go for now because if I keep going I'm just gonna ramble on about like total nonsense that you guys probably don't care about I don't know I can save it for another day okay but I think I'm gonna do a laundry day Q&A I don't think this video will be posted by the time it's laundry Q&A but my next laundry Q&A like the next Friday I guess I should say not this Friday but next Friday my brother's gonna be in town so I don't really want to do a Q&A then because I want to show I'm gonna bake that day right like Emily's gonna bake like oh my gosh alert the authorities you guys but I want to show you guys the baking process and I don't want to do like a Q&A and I haven't done a Q&A yet in this vlogging series I thought it would be kind of fun so I'm gonna post on Instagram and Facebook uh questions or not questions but like a call for questions and then hopefully some of you will ask some questions and I will do a laundry Q&A this upcoming Friday so yeah but I think I'm gonna post that tomorrow so you guys have enough time to you know ask your questions because I will answer most any question there's a few I don't answer because it's like either nobody wants to know that or you just be in freaking nosy so no thank you but all right I've rambled on for too long I'm gonna go I will see you guys tomorrow for the next vlogmas thanks for staying tuned feel free to thumbs up the video or like that if you 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