 last week and now I'm looking through my fridge and like what is there to eat. I feel like there's just ingredients at this point and so I'm just gonna make like a sandwich and hopefully it turns out pretty good. Just have some sourdough bread. I'm gonna pop it in the toaster and make one for me and Ryan so we'll start with this. I've been in such a funk and I don't even like to call it a funk because it's just like this period that happens every single year at this point where I am kind of like craving something more because I have so much free time during my slower season of photography but then it just like picks right back up and I feel like I need to just give myself this grace to you know maybe focus more on social media which I've definitely been slacking on that as well and honestly I think I work better under pressure because I've been posting like a video at least a week during grad season which is my busiest time and it was hard but like now I feel like I don't even have much to vlog so I don't even want to vlog and I know I said I would post every Tuesday and Thursday which I still like very much want to do but just something in me is just like not there yet like I still don't have the motivation and quite honestly I don't even know what to film because there's not much going on in my life right now. I hate to do this like pull back what I said but hopefully it starts picking up because I feel like the fall is jam-packed with just things to do and obviously things to share with you guys. At the end of the day I really want to spend more time like focusing on growing my TikTok following because that is where I get you know most of my brand deals I literally have not gone to YouTube sponsorship in probably like a year at least and I'm also starting to post more on my photography TikTok so it's just been like a lot like even though I say I have free time like there's always more that I could be doing um with self promo for like honestly both of my businesses so I've just been kind of focusing on that because a lot of photographers just started posting like grad sign-ups are here for spring and I literally freaked out I was like oh my goodness I feel like I should be doing this um so that's coming up soon but exciting things are happening because we have started to house hunt we actually put in our first offer on a house but we didn't get it there was nine offers in six days on the house so yeah very sad time but it's okay on to the next we're gonna find something even better hopefully even closer to Austin and it's just a really exciting time but I already know it's going to be such an emotional roller coaster because I was really sad when I found out that we didn't get it I mean like now thinking that it had nine offers like duh it had nine offers it was such a good deal it was a fixer upper but it was a really nice fixer upper I mean we didn't get an inspection yet so like we didn't really know exactly what needed to be done to the house um and what was necessary so honestly maybe it was God's plan because maybe there was more to it than we thought but we're gonna tour two houses today at five p.m so I'm looking forward to that I've been obsessively looking on Zilla like I thought I was being obsessed like this whole like past year looking on it like maybe once a day maybe every other day no I feel like I look at it every two hours I'm like come on something come up because I found that one house like the day it went on the market and toward it the day it went on the market so I just feel like it kind of moves fast if you really want something but I'm glad I got the ball rolling because I've been you know looking on Zilla for so long and I finally like kind of took the next step and took it a little bit more seriously because I never knew when to be serious about a house you know like I just feel like I'm a baby and I'm like not ready to be an adult I feel like buying a house is like very much like okay girl you're you're a grown-ass woman I've actually been very proud of myself because I've been cooking at home a lot um but now we're kind of you know getting to the last of it we start off with our sourdough bread um I think we're gonna do turkey if I'm not look how stunning this looks I'm just gonna add some chick-fil-a sauce on top too that's gonna be delicious it's 440 and we have to head out because it's traffic time I just made myself like a crystal light these are becoming a new obsession which I know they're probably not the healthiest but they're healthier than sprite okay so the healthier alternative of course I'm so excited we're gonna see like three houses I think we added yeah we added one the emerald one should we like grab a snack I feel a little hungry I do want sushi we're probably gonna get sushi after we're on our way to look at house number one and I know you guys are probably gonna ask me where we are trying to like look for houses to be honest we're pretty open-minded we didn't start off like that for sure like we wanted to be as close as I guess me honestly like Ryan was like yeah let's let's live out on the farmland of Austin but I was not for it I want to definitely as close as I can be to UT because that's like my commute for like three months out of the year um and honestly UT's close to downtown so that just means we'll be close to downtown so we are finding like not that contenders definitely not as close as I want to be ideally we would buy an east Austin but right now that's just not in our budget unless something comes up we're just praying what ideally we would live in lake austin like right on lake austin but we're not there yet this is our first home so we got to be a little bit more realistic so we found these on zillow actually which I don't know is a good sign or a bad sign why is that a bad sign is that where everyone finds houses I mean I feel like your realtor is good early access so yeah maybe you know people aren't touring over don't want it for some reason that's so true I feel like if I see that it's been on the site for more than like 30 days I'm like okay something has to be wrong with it right like how is no one like buying this house first house of the day and I already really like the kitchen because there's some sunlight coming in so that's really pretty to me and there's like a good amount of storage I feel like in the kitchen in my apartment right now I have so many cabinets I've literally filled them all up so I need a house that has a bunch of cabinets even though these don't really look like too deep or big so I was thinking maybe we could even like put some nice cabinetry here the bathroom needs a little work Ryan says it doesn't I feel like he needs a major yes but we were going to fix it up completely that's why I want to fix her upper because I don't I don't think I'll like anything but this is nice that is nice that's really nice yeah I went to the first house and honestly it's really hard to see a house after you like loved one so much that's why I said it was like an emotional roller coaster because the first one just had such nice lighting you guys know like lighting is so important to me last house was not really like up to my standards but I really liked the kitchen because there was like like coming through there and um like there was like a good amount of storage but now we're on to the second house it took us 30 minutes because again it's like traffic time first impressions of this neighborhood it's definitely more like walkable I feel like that roads look like so brand new um and that's important too because I want to be able to you know walk Sophie and feel safe this house is pretty much completely renovated already doesn't have garage we just pulled up and the gate looks a little looks a little funky oh my goodness but we just made it to the second house we'll try to film a little bit inside look at all this storage brand new yeah yeah guys I went to open this just to see in and like look you can barely even open that side of the fridge like what the heck and there's like not even like space just let it over look how big this room is it's so much light but I feel like the whole rest of the house is dark just came from the second house which was more expensive and a newer build like it was just completely renovated but honestly I think I'm just so stuck on renovating a house myself and fixing it up that I didn't even like really like it because the floors were all gray and I want that like white wood post oak look like Ryan said I don't think there's gonna be a house that's like perfect for me in my budget so that's why I feel like we should probably just go the fixer upper route but I think this next one or the last one is going to be my favorite just looks like there's gonna be so much natural light in this and it is a little further out but you know if it's a nice house like might be worth the drive praying that this is a good one it's also two stories so I'm excited to see that because I feel like a lot of houses especially in our budget are ranch style which I do not have a problem with that because I actually really like ranch style but obviously this one's just gonna be a little bit more spacious this house comes with like this little what do they call it stock tank pool cowboy pool and I like this area more walk-in it's pretty big good morning it is Wednesday it is 8 40 a.m and I already did a workout and I did a little headshot session just now we went to moody amphitheater it's just like close by to my house and since it's a shorter session I don't want to always have to like drive too far but usually if it's a longer session I'll do it at sea home and it's honestly very similar vibe so I really don't mind shooting here when the sun was coming in so nicely usually I like to shoot very close to sunrise so that the sun's not too harsh on my subject I feel like this week has been a little bit like cloudy like it's still very sunny very blue sky but there are still clouds in the sky so that's why I was able to do it a little bit later but I'm going to go back home and shower but I wanted to give you guys an update on house number three because I know I didn't vlog after it it honestly makes me so freaking sad like this whole process I don't know how many times I've said it but yeah it's an emotional roller coaster because I told you guys I thought I was gonna like house number three the most but I really did not I think I liked house number one because of the kitchen they're all just not in like my ideal location and I know I'm being super picky right now but also I just don't really want to rush anything and I know it's coming close to my lease ending but I also like want a good location and you know it might not be like the best looking house at first but I want a fixed wrapper I think I've like had my mind set on that so yeah none of the houses last night were a go for us unfortunately but honestly my realtor Keona she told me that she looked at 75 houses like in person and I was like what the heck that is like so many and honestly I really hope that I don't have to look at 75 houses to find the one but we will see I'll keep you guys updated at first I was gonna like kind of keep it a secret because I didn't want anything to be like jinxed or anything especially with us putting on an offer on the other house which I guess it's good thing I really only waited until after because we didn't get the house but it's also like a really fun process to share and I feel like Austin's a booming market and I don't know could be fun to share it with you guys so let me know if you guys even like this like house hunting content it's definitely different from like the new builds that you know you're used to seeing I just want it to look like perfect to me and hopefully after we sell it maybe it'll be perfect to someone else so that is the update on that and I have to go home shower and start packing because I am leaving tomorrow at 12 which means I have to get to the airport at 10 so I need to not procrastinate on that because I feel like I'm always procrastinating packing just showered and I'm honestly not that hungry right now it's just 10 a.m so I think I'm gonna have a protein drink this is the premier protein there's the caramel flavor I've never tried this flavor before so it's a little taste test I always have to pour it in another glass I hate drinking from this little carton thing I've tried the chocolate one and the cake batter one I think I really like the cake batter so I'm hoping this is similar I have three more so I'm gonna have to just suck it up and like it for now um definitely the cake batter is the best chocolate's good too but caramel is no go for me it just has like a little chemically like taste at first makeup is done and honestly my hair is not as bad as I thought it was going to be didn't even put dry shampoo in like after I worked out and it looks really freaking good so I'm very shocked at that I might still do like a slick back bun but before that I really wanted to try that like 10 second bun that I've seen on tiktok you literally like take your hair and wrap it and it just becomes a bun and it looks like actually perfect so I'm curious to see if it'll work on my long hair and also if I'll get the hang of it on the first try my hair is growing so freaking fast like I feel like it was not this long and um I can't remember when I got a haircut the last time I should probably go in for another one and I also want to get a gloss because you can see like the brown coming in very clearly that's the annoying part like I wanted to dye my hair dark so I wouldn't have to go to the salon and like get it touched up because it used to get really brassy pretty easily like orange colored instead of like really nice and ashy so I thought I would be like saving time and money by just dyeing it dark so I would never have to go to the hair salon again but unfortunately I didn't think about having to do a gloss while this all grows out I'm the type of person that has to work out in the mornings otherwise it's not going to get done for the day so that's why I go so early because I like to be done early but the issue is that my midday slumps have been worse than they ever have before I really feel like I need to take a nap most of the time I do I take advantage of my self-employed work schedule but I end up working in the night which is annoying because I want to work you know during the actual normal work hours so I don't have to work at night so if you guys have any recommendations on just how to maintain energy throughout the day please let me know I don't really drink coffee um I could drink a chai or macho but I don't drink it every single day because so when I do drink it I like it really really sugary so that doesn't help um because I feel like I have a crash from it and then I try the alani new drinks and I actually really like them but again I don't want to be dependent on it and then drinking it every single day I know a lot of people say like eat a lot of protein in the morning I'm trying to do that right now I did run out of like breakfast meat so we need to get back on that when I come back from Florida so other than that let me know if you guys have any advice I prepped my hair just as if I was putting in a ponytail so what I saw on tiktok is that you grab the hair you kind of pull it as if you're making a bun and then uh I'm kind of lost from here something like that oh okay and then I think you come in oh my gosh okay it doesn't feel very secure at all actually sweating trying to figure this out but I went to tiktok and did a little bit more research tried to practice a little bit so we're gonna start with a smaller nub try to like take this hair somehow and just make it a little bit shorter maybe something like that and we're just gonna try to pull it through and hope this works that time wasn't half bad but I feel like it would look a lot cuter if I curled my hair because a lot of the videos had people like curled hair and so it would look a little bit less like just you know this piece is sticking out and so straight I wanted to give you guys a quick plant update this is my click and grow and I think it's been about three maybe four weeks since I planted all of these I think I did it on the vlog if not I did it on Instagram stories but the cilantro is growing so much as you can see the basil is getting there and then the mint is having a hard time last time the mint didn't even like sprout so I'm not sure if it was a bad pod but at least there's a little bit of something going on this time but honestly I feel like last time they like sprouted so much quicker and I see this little like moldy areas on them and it worries me so let me know if you guys know what I should do about this but this is self watering and it has a light so it's literally just in the corner of my kitchen I would barely have to do anything especially when I'm gone because I just have to fill that up and it lasts so long this is that time again I just pulled out my suitcase and I kind of like just went through my closet pulled some stuff to see if I would want to wear it on my trip and I want to show you guys this set that I got from aloe I have it in black and so while we were at the domain this week and I was like I have worn it in another color and I actually had this like really pretty green color so I bought the skirt and then the top is a little bit different than the other one I have they honestly didn't really have much to choose from so I just went with this it's a little bit more padded you can take out the pads which I'll probably do um but I thought it was so cute so it's definitely coming with me and my friend Kailin sent us a itinerary every weekend and I'm so excited just lots of chill dinners drinks and pool days and beaches so I'm very very pumped for that um and honestly not really worrying too much about my outfits I mean it would be nice to get some cute pictures for the gram it's not going to be the end of the world if it doesn't happen I'm pretty much re-wearing like all of my outfits which I don't mind at all because it's like coming to a new season and obviously it's just a stupid time to buy you know more summer stuff even though it's Austin and I feel like summer's gonna last like three more months one of the influencers I follow she was at like this music festival I think it's called outside lands I looked it up because I saw on her story everyone was in jackets I was like where the hell is this music festival that people are in jackets right now and it was in San Francisco which totally makes sense because I went there in July one year and it was actually really cold so I get that like just the thought of people being in jackets right now in the US like that's just wild to me I also just checked the weather app and this is big news guys it's been like a record of 100 degree or plus days and it's finally going to drop next Tuesday so I'm very excited about that maybe like plan a little afternoon walk just to get out of the house and take advantage of like what is this like six degrees cooler weather rant over I need to actually start packing because I want to make dinner earlier than later and then I can get really cozy and take my makeup off and all that kind of stuff so let's do it pretty much packed everything I just need to do like underwear and bras and stuff like that I just pack my makeup and I'm just hacking my skincare for the makeup I actually had a mini of this already so I literally just put some of this powder because it's brand new I just bought it I didn't have to take this big thing and now I'm transferring my luna oil over to the mini that I literally just ran out of and for some reason I did not throw it away but thank god I didn't because I'm literally going to just like pick it up and put it in another one this is so clutch that it has a drop or two amazing and now I don't have to bring that big thing sometimes I just try to find like the smallest bottle of like a face lotion or just like anything like that and not care about what I use on an everyday basis but I've learned my lesson because it's so important to like stick to your products that you know are good you know what I mean so I was going to try to find another face lotion but I've been really liking this one from sunday Riley the ceo afterglow so it is a big container but I don't have a mini one I don't even know if they saw me a mini one so I'm just going to take that I have my sunscreen alta md definitely going to need to use a lot of this because we're going to be at the beach in the pool um might as well pack my glow screen just in case in the morning I don't want to like put on makeup but I want like a little bit of color on my face I'll do that and sunscreen oh okay razor good thing I just saw that because I would have totally forgot I got some laundry going but for the most part I'm done packing so I think it's time to cook some dinner and I'm doing a little sheet pan action so just some chicken taco seasoned chicken bell bell pepper red onion and I'm gonna let Ryan decide if he wants to do like a chicken taco bowl with rice or if he wants to do like a taco I'm fresh faced it took off all my makeup because I was cutting the onion and my eyes burned so bad to the point where I was like I just need to take off my makeup and like wash my eyes out um but I'm gonna end the vlog here I hope you guys enjoyed coming house hunting with me and it does not stop here so let me know if you guys want to see more hopefully I don't have to go see more I'm headed to Florida this weekend so definitely go follow me on Instagram and TikTok I'll be posting in real time over there and I will see you guys in my next video bye