 everybody. It is bright and early and I'm on my way to my hair appointment. I'm getting my hair done today. I am going to a new salon that I actually just booked yesterday. I was supposed to have a hair appointment yesterday and like an hour before my appointment the hairstylist just canceled on me which has never happened before. Actually it happened one other time. She ended up like having a migraine and couldn't get rid of it and then she couldn't get me in before my flight to England so I had to go find somewhere else and luckily I had seen a couple people recommend this salon in Orange County. I am driving all the way to Orange County for this which it's far. Just trust me it's far. But I used to drive like an hour to get my hair done in Arizona so I guess it's not like that big of a deal. Anyways I've got like the Laguna Beach podcast to listen to. But I saw when I asked on Instagram for like hairstylist recommendations a couple people recommended this place and then I've actually seen a couple people I follow on Instagram go to this place so I was like okay it's a good salon like they do good work and they just so happened like when I was looking at their Instagram yesterday they just so happened to have two slots open up like last second I think they were like cancellations or something and I was like oh yes. So I jumped on that quick I'm gonna get my hair done today it's gonna be a long day but we're gonna get through it. I wanted to get there a little early 30 45 minutes before my appointment actually which is perfect because like in case there's traffic or whatever and I want to do my makeup when I get there. So anyway that's what's on the docket for today I think I'm also gonna try on my way home to maybe go to Trader Joe's. I've just been missing some like Trader Joe's essentials in my life and also there's a couple things I want to get for Jasmine. So you know we can do our like every time we visit candy swap situation and also we're gonna try some like more foods this time instead of just candy. So anyway okay I'm blabbing see you in a bit. Oh you my hair but I just got rained on the rain just started like as soon as I left the salon but they were all so so lovely and nice there. I can definitely see like some more fall vibes happening here so I'm happy about that like it's definitely more blended and just like a better tone overall um but I think next time she said we'll definitely go a little bit darker it's just hard because my hair has a hard time grasping onto pigment which I did know from the first time I went red like basically nothing stuck she had to do it twice but yeah it's just like refreshed a little bit. It's not as dramatic as I wanted but honestly like that's I need to just relax. That's how I get myself into trouble with getting my hair done is being like I want to go dark and then having a hard time when I want to go back blonde. So still a blondie I picked up some hair products as well they used Orbe which I've used like their purple shampoo and like the dry texture spray before so grabbed some of that stuff and now we're gonna hit the road and hopefully beat traffic back to LA. Bigger scross for me. All right just made it back into LA it's a little while later and I'm going into Trader Joe's. I just need it to happen. I have been craving a Trader Joe's day since like July which was the last time I was at Trader Joe's I'm pretty sure like literally July. It's just my happy place so I actually just put in my AirPods. I've got my Laguna Beach podcast going I'm gonna put my mask back on and we're just gonna go do some retail therapy at Trader Joe's and I can't freaking wait. Haven't sound and I'm gonna show you my Trader Joe's haul. First thing I got are these flowers I don't think it says oh Dianthus mini Dianthus flowers and look how pretty these are just like a small little bouquet. Got some cotton candy grapes these don't look like as green as they've been in past years but this was the best of the bunch if you haven't had cotton candy grapes they're so heavenly. I got like some fall stuff I also got other staples I also forgot things so whatever I guess I should start with frozen things so we can put those away so first thing they have these back again the mini tomatos yeah got some mini beef tacos they didn't have chicken this time but we'll take it beef is still good not as good but it's still good um I got some malting cakes I know the other night I was talking to Drew and I was like I want a lava cake so bad so we got these I think we had those on Valentine's Day last year and they were okay they're not like the best in the world but that's all right we got two different pines of croissants we got almond croissants for Drew and chocolate croissants for me so those will be good for like the weekends and there's four croissants in each of these so you can like keep them for a while I got this cacio e pepe yoki I'm just gonna try it for if you know the tiktok then you know but um this looks like it would be good for lunch and if you know me you know I'm obsessed with the sweet potato yoki it's like one of my favorite meals in life and I got four bags and I'm not going to apologize we got two of the frozen jasmine rice honestly this rice slaps like it's actually really really good and it keeps really well in the freezer and you just microwave it and it's like you made rice off the stove to me it tastes the same it's like the same texture and everything and we've tried other frozen rice and it's just not I got a veggie fried rice this is good for like lunch I'm just like throw some stuff in there um I got two butter chickens for Drew he likes those for lunch I got some hash browns finally he's going these are great in the air fryer honestly iconic um we got some butternut squash ravioli click why not and then I got some Alfredo sauce to go with it like a nice easy lunch or whatever um I got some vanilla ice cream to go with the lot of cakes this was the smallest one they had I got these pumpkin overnight oats I thought I would try something pumpkin and fall since I'm like kind of warming up to it a little bit more I tried the like vanilla or maybe the almond butter chia one and it was okay but I really like the mush brand because they have chocolate so I thought maybe pumpkin would be good so I got that to try I just saw this very chocolate fudged brownie oat milk ice cream and that sounded delicious so I got that got some cookie butter because this on top of an egg a waffle is like the best breakfast you'll ever have in your life oh this is very fall I got a non-dairy oat beverage maple flavor that sounds amazing for like lattes and stuff they only have this big size though and since I tried the brown sugar last time I was like I'll try maple and then I got two everything but the bagel seasonings one of these is going to the uk to jasmine and the other one is staying here because I'm almost out I got these for you they were at the checkout and they looked good and it says crispy crunch mochi rice nuggets you want to try them i think so salt is that the flavor rice palm oil sea salt sunflower left the tin so they're in a band clearly oh I got these everyone is saying that these trader jose boba kits are actually pretty good and it's just a like brown sugar flavor sorry it's loud out there um I got my favorite mixed nut butter I like to pour this on top of yogurt parfaits it's just really good and like easy to pour um I got some salsa verde to go with the mini tacos got one of these for drew he likes these wafer chocolates and this one's peanut butter oh yeah I don't you haven't had the peanut butter one you just had the plain chocolate so I got that for you and then they had the sour ones from the navy and swim ups we've only tried the regular ones and the texture was 10 out of 10 the flavor was myth so we were hoping that maybe the sour ones I mean I'm not a huge fan of swedish someone also had put these in the freezer on tiktok so I might try some of those but yeah that's my tj's haul it was like $120 things that did I need no but did I want yes obviously do you want to try something let me put the cold stuff away and then we'll do like a couple taste tests this angle is fantastic okay you see he started opening it and I was like wait for me don't you know that youtube channel they're cute I won't balance you said oh sorry you said it's a it says crispy crunchy yeah on the front of it in Japanese okay cheers cheers it tastes like a a puffs like some big cracker like a rice cracker yeah it's all right we have it like that's six out of ten I'm gonna try one of these which one do you want do you want pink or blue or this red what really purple what they're the same color no they're not oh this is blue this is pink shut up I swear which one do you want the darker one it's like red yeah mm-hmm better than the ones without the sour they're chewier than regular yeah these are good these get like a nine it is also going to rain here possibly the wind is like blowing around in the background and stuff and it's so funny because people in I'm not generalizing everyone who lives in LA or southern California but it was so funny because it started to like rain a little bit when I was at the salon and everyone was like freaking out about it it's just so funny how like people from sunny states like in Arizona when it rains every single person you follow on instagram is posting a story of the rain everyone's running outside kids are like jumping in puddles in the streets I remember as a kid when it would rain it was like yeah it was like the most exciting thing ever and it's just so funny like in climates where it rains all the time like in Tennessee I never got excited when it rained because it rained like a lot but when you live somewhere where it's sunny all the time surprisingly rain is like a very welcomed thing at least for me and I know Drew's the same way and like all of our friends in Arizona and stuff so it's just kind of funny like we're getting all like super excited about this rain that's coming in and Drew's like I hope you get home before the rain starts and like the girls at the salon were like I hope you make it home before it rains look as if it's like the worst thing because these California drivers do not know how to drive in the rain and neither do where was I think because it feels like it's the beginning of fall even though it's not I'm like forcing it to happen it was 96 degrees today I think I'm gonna make these pumpkin bars that I saw on tiktok and there's not like a real recipe I think you just like throw everything in a bowl and then bake them so I think we might try those in a bit but we're gonna make these bars that I saw on tiktok I don't even know what the tiktok is I literally just screenshoted the recipe they looked really good so we're gonna need two cups of rolled oats boy do we have enough that wasn't one of the reasons I wanted to do this recipe because I bought this huge thing and I'm just simply never gonna eat it all so we're gonna do two cups of rolled oats one two that barely made a dent in this okay next we're gonna use two mashed bananas so my bananas aren't that ripe I can't see what I'm doing we're just gonna do what we can you know whatever it's not about perfection here so we're gonna mash these two bananas wash banana mash banana what was that from mash banana mash banana oh the wiggles maybe I don't know but I didn't watch the little my brother washed she doesn't have a brother there are three oh that sound yeah it does sounds like Laila when she's licking her feet um two eggs two mashed bananas then two eggs thank you sous chef I wish I could be one of those cool kids just like open it in one let's move that to practice half a cup of pumpkin puree which we had when Laila had a tummy oh I can't do the right thing here put the rest in half the food or something she'll love that why is canned pumpkin so repulsive to me it smells like baby food I think that's why I like my years of feeding my younger siblings baby food and then also like nannying it reminds me of just making pumpkin pie with my grandma oh that's cute that's a better memory then we have three tablespoons of coconut sugar which was expensive by the way I don't actually I don't know I don't think I know the difference but it doesn't smell like coconut Drew is the coconut police in every dish supposedly I think it's like healthier but I mean in sugar just sugar I don't like it should I just use regular sugar then pretty cool pretty cool it's weird it's weird I'm gonna try it I'm gonna go with by the recipe three tablespoons it looks weird it looks like wood okay chocolate chips it just says chocolate chips and mix oh no vanilla wait hold on I'm skipping ahead hold up pumpkin pie spice it doesn't sound like you not following our recipe wait do we have cinnamon no isn't there cinnamon in this yes so I mean whatever one teaspoon pumpkin spice we have a little bit extra yeah splash of vanilla I can do that how much is a splash like this was that too much heavy splash oh that should be good oh I need a half a cup of almond butter almond butter check and then it just says chocolate chips so I suppose it's like yeah however many you want here's what she's looking like it's kind of bleak but it looks like a brown mess it's really like kind of gross but I think it'll come together when thinking about how many chocolate chips add to a recipe I just say go until your soul tells you stuff you know you just feel anything but so I'm going I do like a whole bag the whole bag no it's really not let's see if this all comes together it looks delicious let's say it smells interesting um there's a quite a combination of smells going on we'll just pretend that um that didn't happen okay I'm trying to get things done and he's just standing there I hope you clean up you're great we're gonna put these in a little baking dish and then we bake it for like 30 minutes so we'll see how it turns out the banana bread that we made in quarantine turned out really good so hopefully this doesn't make our own flour our own oat flour here's the dough we're gonna bake it at 350 for 30 minutes okay oh she's bubbling oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my damn lost in tiktok land like drew in myself there's just everything everything is a tiktok we're gonna cook some dinner and then try these once it's cooled off a little bit but it looks pretty nice honestly not bad and this is cooled off I might actually just like be a serial killer and just cut into a piece with the chocolate still melted do you want to try some I'm actually excited okay it's a big ass piece there's a lot of chocolate maybe I did do too many chocolate chips weird thoughts I don't know how I feel about chocolate and like pumpkin flavor I don't know I think it's good I think this will be delicious for like breakfast you absolutely don't need coconut sugar for this kind of just like a banana bread but it's really really good I think like a 9.5 out of 10 just got out of a lovely bath I soaked in there for like two hours did my skincare just took Layla outside fed her her dinner and now we're gonna head to bed so thank you so much for watching this vlog and we will see you in the next vlog bye