 Good morning, guys. Welcome to today's video. I thought that I would do a little vlogging this week because it is my birthday week. My birthday is on Sunday, today is Wednesday, but I have a couple of fun things going on this week, and so I thought it would be fun to take you along. When's the last time I made a vlog on this channel? It's been a very long time, so I thought that it would be fun. I do have work today, but today is my Friday, and I'm off the rest of the week, and I'm off on Monday, so I took a long weekend for my birthday. Things you'll see in this video, I'm gonna go to the pool today and get some sun before I go to work. I'm going on a beach trip with my friends. Actually tomorrow, we leave tomorrow to go for a couple of days. We rented an Airbnb at the beach, so that's gonna be really fun. We're not doing that for my birthday. It just happened to fall on my birthday, but it works out. I have some Amazon packages and purchases that I can share with you, and probably like a birthday dinner here and there with the family, so there's a couple things coming. So this video should be fun. I've had a pretty relaxing morning so far. It's about, it's almost 10 o'clock. I just got done with my therapy session with my therapist. It was a really good session. I love morning sessions actually because it just kind of sets the tone for the rest of the day. I'm gonna sit down now and do my Bible study for the day, and then we will continue on with the day. So if you're interested, the Bible study that I've been doing is Milena Ceciotti's nine day study on the book of Esther. I'll leave the link in the description if you want. I think it's $10. I bought it the day at launch, so it was like $7.99. But here I'll show you. This is what it looks like. It's really well done. I'm on day five, as you can see, and it just tells you like what verses to read that day, and then it gives you like questions to think about and things like that. So it's the only nine day study. I'm on day five. It's been really good so far. It's basically all about being used wherever you are in your life and that you were put there for a reason. It's kind of like everything happens for a reason sort of story. I had never read the book of Esther before, so I'm learning a lot. Aside from that, I've also been reading a proverb a day. There's 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs and 31 days in July. So today is the 12th, so I will read Proverbs 12 as well as my little devotional. So I'm gonna do all that now for a little bit, and I will check in with you guys probably for breakfast time. Hello, so I'll just finish eating some breakfast. I just made like a little avocado feta scramble that I make. That's one of my favorites you guys have heard me talk about before. It was bomb, but I thought I would show you some Amazon purchases that I have gotten recently. I have unpacked them all already, but I thought I would do a little haul and show you guys. So first one being these things are so incredibly ugly, but let me tell you it is like walking on a freaking cloud. They're so comfortable. I think they're like moon slides. I don't know. They'll be in my Amazon storefront, but it's like walking on a cloud. I bought them not necessarily to wear too much in public. I bought them really for going to the beach in the pool, which I mean is going out in public, but you know what I mean? I would never put this with like a stylish outfit, but to go to the beach in the pool, I don't have like rubber shoes that I could just mess up and you know not care, and these will be pretty durable. No regrets. My friends judge me for these. I don't care. I love them, and I'm so excited to wear them today when I go to the pool. So that's number one. This is super random, but I got this little tray. It's a black tray, and it's for my bathroom. I used to have this on my toilet. Hold on. I used to have this basket, and this is what I would put like my jars of cotton swabs and cotton pads and whatever else I needed. It would go in here and it served its purpose for the last year, but I think we could do better. I think this, I don't know, we could do better. So I got this tray, super aesthetically pleasing, sleek. It matches my bathroom, like the detailing in my bathroom. So it's perfect. It matches beautifully, and it just rests right on top, and I put my two little jars of cotton swabs and cotton pads in here. I have a little plant right next to it, and it looks really good. It's just more modern, more mature, and I guess classy looking. I don't know. If you say that something is more mature, does that make it less mature? Probably, but I like the way it looks so much better. I think this was like 14 bucks. Could have been like 10 if you asked me, but whatever. It looks really good. So I got this tray, and then the last thing is even more random, but I needed magnets for my refrigerator, and they are all sticking to each other, but I have so many invitations for weddings and bridal showers and stuff, and they were all just sitting on my desk, and it looked awful. So I bought just a little set of clear magnets, and if you can see over there, now I have the invitations and stuff on my fridge. Where is it? There, over there. So, that's kind of a random purchase, but it was necessary. So those are just a few things that I picked up that I needed slash wanted to be honest. So I'll have my Amazon storefront linked down below for you guys, should you want to look up any of these things. But now it is time to get ready for the pool, because I want to get some sun before I go to work. It's the beauty of working night shift sometimes. So I'll see you in a bit. We are about to be in route to the pool. It is 10.45 a.m. The pool is about 10, 15 minutes for me, so we'll see depending on what the traffic and the construction is like today, because a lot of construction happening around me lately. We should be there by 11, and then I'll get probably, I'll probably get like an hour and a half there today, which isn't bad. So let's get going, and I don't know how much I'm going to vlog there, because I feel like that might be a little weird, but I'll have my camera with me. So we'll see. So back home now. It's about 1 p.m. I have to leave for work in like an hour. I am a sweaty mess. It's so hot out there, and I definitely think I got even more color today. The UV was like 8 today, so it's rough out there. I'm sweaty. I'm gross. So I'm gonna jump in the shower, start getting ready. I have to pack my lunch, my dinner, some snacks for the day, and then we can get going. So time to get clean. Alrighty guys, it is that time. So this is probably gonna be it for me for the vlog for today, at least, because I'm just gonna go to work and come home and probably go to bed. So nothing more really interesting going on for the rest of the day, but it is time for me to go to work and to do the things. Here's the fit. Nothing fancy at all. Ignore my slippers over there. But yeah, super comfy. I'm not really into denim lately, as it's like 95 degrees. So summery pants it is. So I have my my work bag. I have my ring light out, which is never out, but it's only out for this vlog. Getting my lunch bag, and it's time to go. So I will see you guys tomorrow. Good morning everybody. It is Thursday morning. It's almost afternoon. My hair is wild today, but it's the day we leave for our little beach trip. So I have kind of just been cleaning the apartment a little bit just so I don't come home to a mess. Have not packed yet. Need to shower, and then I'll just have to take out the garbage and the recycling. I'm only gonna be gone for like four days, but I don't know. Whenever I leave for even just like anything more than two days, I like to leave everything like clean and just tidy so that everything's fine when I come back. So I do need to get a move on because I put packing off until the last minute, as I kind of usually do. I'm a very quick packer though. I have to leave soon to pick up some of the guys because they're coming in my car. So I have to pick them up and then we're gonna drive. It's probably gonna be like two hours. Hopefully there isn't a lot of traffic to get to the Airbnb, but we'll see. So yeah, I'm gonna get a move on and I will check in with you guys in a little bit. So as per usual, I'm over packing. I'm only going for four days, but I just don't know the extent of like what we're doing. How many times we're gonna go out are we gonna go out to dinner? I don't know. So I will show you what I have so far. Two bathing suits, even though it's looking like we're only gonna get one beach day. Jewelry, holder, pajamas, sweatshirt. I brought a pair of cargo pants and two shorts. Actually I'm gonna bring three, not including the ones I'm gonna wear today. Two dresses, one of which I'll probably wear the night of my birthday where it turns midnight and then it becomes my birthday. Four, like going out tops, two beach cover-ups. This is what I'm gonna wear today. A pair of sneakers, a pair of nicer sandals, my purse for, you know, going out at night. And I think that's pretty much it. So I'm torn between am I missing something or am I bringing too much? And both of those feel relevant. And then our Airbnb doesn't include towels and blankets. So I have those in a separate bag as well. The weather not looking great. It's calling for rain Friday, tomorrow and Sunday. Saturday at least says no rain. So I think that's gonna be our beach day. So super excited for that. But I'm just overpacking. I feel like this is okay. I should not bring more than this. So the last thing I have to do is I'm packing up all the makeup that I want to take. I'm not bringing this gigantic thing. It's just unnecessary, especially for a beach trip I think. So I just have a concealer brush, a foundation brush and um my like bronzer stipple brush in here. Those are the only three I think I need. So let's see. I'm gonna put everything in here. I'm gonna bring powder, SPF, baby cream, mascara. I will bring eyeliner for going out, concealer, my blush. I'm gonna bring my elf primer, contour stick, setting powder maybe or not setting, setting spray. Do I need this? I need lipstick. This is a nice like pink creamy lipstick. I'm almost done with it. It's by Milani. It's in the shade 26 nude, nude cream. It's really good. All right. I have the room for it so I will bring the setting spray and eyelash curler. I don't think I need anything else. Yeah I think I'm good. Okay so I'm gonna bring this, put this in my bag with my makeup brushes and that's it. Also what do you guys think of the hair? So I'm trying to embrace more of my natural texture um but it doesn't look like this naturally. I have products in it um and I found ones that I'm really starting to like. I can do a separate video on that if you want and then I lightly diffuse it with a with my blow dryer with a diffuser on the end to dry it and then I go in with a half inch curling wand and I just add some curls to the front just to give it like some structure I guess and I think I'm getting the hang of it. I think it's perfect for summer. I can't wait for my hair to be longer because I think it'll look better but what do you guys think? I'm I'm tired of just straightening it all the time. I want to give it some some body so I'm experimenting with it but I think this is the best it's come out so far so so glad we're going to the beach where it's gonna frizz five seconds after I get there but yeah this is what we're looking like for right now so I have to start assembling everything and getting the apartment ready to head out all right guys I have all my bags with me because it's clothes blanket bathing suits all the things this is my beach bag for when we get there plus towel beach towel and bath towel and a bunch of like toiletries that didn't fit in there and then I have my actual like purse purse with snacks and chargers and stuff for the drive so I have to head out now to pick up my friends I don't know how much I'm gonna like vlog the trip per se I'm not really into like shopping the camera in people's faces you know I just want to be present and enjoy but I will try to get little clips for you guys here and there so let's get this show on the road so tired it was a very fun weekend though I didn't really have my camera out at all but I took little clips on my phone so I will make maybe like a little video montage somewhere in this video but it was a very fun weekend the weather held up today was a really bad weather day but we just went out to breakfast and drove home anyway so it was fine it's about 4 40 pm today is my birthday so I just got in and I have to leave in an hour to go meet my family for my birthday dinner so I'm celebrating with mom's side of the family today dad's side of the family tomorrow so it's very nice I am off tomorrow I took Monday off so I have a very long weekend which is very nice I'm very thankful for that but I really have to hustle because I have to shower wash my hair blow it out change do all the things and make sure that I look presentable I think I was actually born at like 4 something pm so I officially am 27 years old and this last year has been a good one it's been a really hard one but it's also been a very um it's a year that's caused me to grow a lot which is great and I'm really excited about 27 and just this new chapter I guess so I'm feeling really good about turning 27 although it is a little surreal also side note I just want to show you I have never had an experience with dip powder ever like this in my life it's so bad just every every day a little piece would just crack off and I'm not really happy about it it's only been about two and a half weeks since I've had these on so obviously and it happens you know whatever but obviously something was not done properly and I hate saying that and I actually went back and got them fixed one week after or like two days after I got them done the first time and even still with them being fixed they did not hold up so I have a wedding coming up this week so your girl cannot show up like this so I think tomorrow while I have the day off before I meet my family I am going to go get a manicure as well so I will take you along but I cannot procrastinate anymore I really need to get in the shower and I'll try to show you my outfit and everything before I leave oh guys I'm running late I wanted to leave at six o'clock it's like 6 13 or something crazy like that but we're heading out now you're gonna laugh when I show you what I'm wearing if you've been with me for a while you know I wore this for my 25th birthday um it still fits which is great um all my other options that I tried on I tried on a couple dresses all the things it just I was not feeling any of them and yeah my apartment is an absolute mess I'm gonna unpack tonight and tomorrow probably more tomorrow I have my ring light still out I have a package over here that I have to open um for my other channel the something that a company sent me if you could just see my apartment right now it's like making me itch it's so dirty but it's okay so I have to go I have to go meet the family and I will see you guys in a little bit good morning hi guys it is Monday morning you can tell it's early morning because my voice is kind of deep um I just woke up I just did like the washing face brushing teeth routine all that um and I'm realizing that I have more to do today than I thought I underestimated a little bit I'd like to work out I gotta do my bible study I need to get these nails done I can't last night at dinner which by the way sorry I didn't film an outro last night I was just so tired and it was just a really long day but dinner was great it was wonderful I feel very blessed and very thankful um but all night I was like whenever I would touch my hair it would just get stuck under all my nails because they're all broken and it was like physically irritating me so I need to get I need to get that taken care of um so I'm gonna call them now actually see when they can fit me and then everything else I have to do today is gonna resolve around that I also need to unpack I have packages I need to open and I need to go grocery shopping and then meet my family around like three o'clock so it's 10 20 right now I have less than five hours to do all that so let's just call the nail salon now you can call with me hi I was wondering um how busy you guys are today do you have any availability in the morning or early afternoon for a dip manicure yeah what time do you want to come um now okay yeah I can come now that'd be perfect I'll be there in like 20 minutes is that okay okay sure thank you so much okay bye bye well she was the sweetest thing okay so they're not busy today so that's perfect so I'm gonna go get dressed right now go to the nail salon and then the grocery store is less than five minutes from there so I'll hit that on the way home and then I'll come home and work out and see what else I have time for so that worked beautifully okay let's go okay kind of a weird angle here I forgot my tripod at home but I would say that was a success we went for a little bit of a chrome moment which I've never done before and I've always wanted to try um and I got my favorite girl in there when I went so she did a fantastic job made them a little bit thicker this time because I you know I showed her that my nails didn't really hold up last time um and she was very nice about it and so I really like the chrome I would definitely do it again also totally forgot that I went to that nail salon with a pimple patch on my chin you can't really see it so it's fine I'm sure most people didn't notice but totally just have a pimple patch on my face okay so groceries are put away I actually did my unpacking too so we love that and now we're unboxing a package this is um a ring light oh my gosh it's so heavy this is a ring light from the band the brand newer I've used their products for years but they sent me a new set to film with so in a situation like this the brand is not paying me to show their products in a video but they're sending me their products for free um in exchange for free publicity so that's kind of how it works so this is the brand let's open it up this is what it looks like so yeah it's actually smaller than the one that I'm using now which is good if you are a follower of my main channel which I'm sure most of you are you will be seeing this in an upcoming video soon I'm sure okay so last thing to do is to get my workout in so I'm already changed and I'm gonna try to do like an hourish maybe a little bit less on the treadmill you guys have seen my treadmill I've showed you my treadmill before so I'm gonna get on there for like an hour maybe 50 minutes we'll see if I do an hour that would give me nine minutes to shower and get ready before I have to leave to go meet my family so we'll see I should be good so let's do it here we are again with another really weird angle I am just filling up my water I'm getting ready to head out with the door um I'm gonna meet my family in a few minutes I just got off the phone with them so we should be getting there around the same time I did have okay this is weird hold on I did have a little bit of lunch after I finished my workout so I feel good I'm probably gonna have dinner there so we're just gonna hang out it's only it's like 3 15 so the sun is still kind of strong until like six o'clock these days so I think I should still be able to get a little bit of sun as if I didn't get enough this weekend so I got my beach bag packed and I'm ready to go enjoy the last of my long birthday weekend so I will see you guys in a little bit probably to wrap up the video and to tell you guys how today went all right guys we did it we reached the end of the birthday weekend it was a long weekend but it was really good I just don't mind me I'm already wrapped in my blanket I just did my skincare um and I'm ready to sit on the couch and watch at least two episodes of my show it's still early enough and yeah the birthday celebration went really nice today um my family did get me some some goodies um I have my birthday cards from my family very cute I'm very thankful and very just feeling very blessed and feeling the love this year if you could tell my life is usually um pretty hectic like 8.5 out of 10 times this is what it's like oh my god it looks so funny right now um but yeah I'm usually just like go go go honestly whether it's work or like social life or youtube stuff or going on a trip like I'm always doing something it's very rare that I can just like sit and do nothing which I'm I'm thankful for it it's all good things but sometimes it is nice to just get home and like sit down and have it be early enough um to just chill and I'm very proud of myself because my instinct is telling me okay I finished filming this vlog now I need to start editing it because I want it to go up tomorrow but you know what it's 10 15 at night I have yet to really just sit down and chill this weekend so I'm telling myself I can do that tomorrow thank you guys for hanging out with me this weekend I hope that it was somewhat entertaining not boring thank you for all of the birthday wishes that I got on instagram and in the comments of my other channel it always amazes me that you guys remember when my birthday is without me even having to say it and that's just amazing to me and I'm really grateful for it so I'm thankful for you guys thank you for being here again thank you for watching and I will see you in my next video bye guys