 everybody welcome to another vlog. I'm out on my morning walk and it feels so brisk right now. I think it's in like the upper 50s which is very exciting. I'm doing like a shortened walk today and then I'm going to meet my friend Cara for a little morning coffee date. We haven't caught up in a while. We saw each other at Trader Joe's the other day so we're gonna catch up and just have some girl time so that'll be nice. And then I have some main channel filming to do. I have some editing to do. The editing will probably take priority but yeah just wanted to say good morning and we're gonna have hopefully an amazing day. Okay back home from my walk my hips hurt weirdly. That's when it's like getting old. It's not going for a walk in your hips like being like ah but it was lovely. I got like a probably 30 minute walk in before I met with Cara and then we probably walked for like an hour so a little less than an hour so that was really nice. I feel really good. I'm gonna make my little protein shake. This is genuinely what I look forward to every single morning. It just brings me so much joy. I've shown it in so many blogs over the years but in case I haven't seen it yet why not let's make it together. So don't mind my rickety blender here. Drew and I need a new blender so badly and we really really want a what is it called Biomix I think but those things are so expensive so we thank you my way until like Black Friday. So okay here is one of my smoothies. We have one frozen banana and one usually handful of spinach but my spinach was like starting to kind of look suspicious so what I did is I'm gonna be in this I ended up like blending all of the spinach with some water and then putting it in an ice scoop right and now I have these like spinach ice cubes so I didn't have to throw away the bag of spinach. So I'm gonna use like two of these I think. I would put more but they're like frozen solid and then I will be able to screw the little blade thing down and then I'm gonna fill it up with some almond milk and then we're doing our protein powder and that's pretty much it. Sometimes I put almond powder if I'm in the mood but it's fine and then this is my current favorite protein powder it's the Coase Coase Plant Protein and it has 20 pounds of protein in it. This is great. Drew said that this tastes like artificial sugar to him. I don't taste that but I also don't mind like diet code whatever so in case you're interested I'll link it down below for you but it tastes really good to me and to me this is like a milkshake for breakfast which I have a sweet breakfast girly. You will have to let me know in the comments if you are a sweet or savory person but I scared me. I just love a sweet breakfast okay let's attempt to close this. All right let's do it. I think I can fit one more. Here we go because to me anyway I don't taste the greens. It's just like I might as well fit as many in as I can. There you have it. And here she is. I miss America. So I'm gonna enjoy this take a shower and then we will get on with the rest of our day. We have waited entirely too long to do our laundry so it's like a mountain at this point so we're gonna get it started. Close started. I am just getting ready to head out the door and run a couple of errands. I need to return a few packages that didn't work out and do a couple of other things. Today is kind of like a get things done day and because I've been trying to get dressed more lately why are these socks so difficult? I don't want to. Okay anyways whoa because I have been attempting to get dressed every day or most days. I guess yesterday I didn't. I put together like a fun little outfit so that I saw people recommending on TikTok which is that you take like a big oversized t-shirt and you put like some sort of lace skirt or slip or whatever underneath it and it looks so cute. I love it. So I decided to do like a fun little pop of color with the boots and here is today's outfit. I love it so much. It's like so girly and fun. I have like a cute little scrunchie in my hair because why not? Why am I literally out of breath from putting my shoes on? God help me. I'm literally on my way to get some water. All right so ignore the sounds of laundry in the background and also that pile of clothes. We're going to pretend that's not there. But here is what the outfit turned out like I think it is so freaking cute and fun. I basically have this slip skirt like a little slip that I got at the rose ball and I'm wearing it kind of like a dress which honestly this would be cute on its own as a dress. Just side note and then I have my iron maiden t-shirt over it which is like my favorite oversized t-shirt. I got it from the Rose Bowl flea market probably four years ago or something like that. And then I threw on these red boots that are from Journey Collection. It's their extra wide calf boot. I think these are called the Morgan. I just did like a fun little low bun and I'm not going anywhere exciting or doing anything but I just feel very cute today. I'm loving it with the reddish tinted hair. There were a few questions like a couple vlogs ago. These vlogs are like a little bit delayed so sorry if I'm like not getting to things until later but I got a few questions about like wait I thought your hair was copper and then it kind of looked brownish so basically when I got my hair done at the salon it was like in the evening like right around sunset golden hour time so when I got home I was filming it in sort of like direct sunlight and it looked really coppery and I was like all excited about it but then when I was like going to bed that night I was kind of looking at it and I was like it kind of looks brown so that was when I realized that my the copper kind of didn't really take that well and it was more just like it turned into kind of a brownish color so then I did the head and shoulders vitamin c thing lightened it out a little bit got rid of some of the brown but then added like my own little copper tint and I'm really happy with it so anyway it's obviously much more copper in like certain lighting and then when I wear certain things like in the last vlog when we went to Trader Joe's it looked kind of just brownish because I was wearing like a brown sweater but then today I feel like it looks more kind of copper strawberry-ish so anyways I'm going to gather my things and we're going to drop off some packages it's like something I do probably once a month I think I've mentioned it maybe a couple times a month depending on like what I'm ordering for main channel videos but it is kind of the vein of my existence so we're gonna do it together and get it over with okay welcome to our errands adventure who's excited I know I am why are errands like the worst thing in the entire world I don't know it should be fun it's like oh I hate to run around to a bunch of places no I want to be home first stop is we are going to run to UPS and then USPS and then I might run to the grocery store and get like a couple things for this salad dressing that I want to make for lunch because I have some chicken left over from last night and I really want to make like a sweet green which is like a salad place here in LA I think there are other places in the U.S. as well a sweet green sort of like dupe type of situation for lunch so we'll see anyways okay first things first packages let's do it my first win of the day the good sign from the heavens is that I pulled into this parking spot which first of all there was a parking spot which is miraculous and the meter is green someone paid ahead and actually I usually always do that like I'll add a little bit of extra time because I just feel like it's good karma so now it's come back around for me I'm very excited it's the little things okay that literally took two seconds I feel silly for taking so long to do that sorry the AC is so loud in here it is freaking hot like we are fully back in summer weather in LA and it's kind of sad and I'm getting hungry it is time for lunch all right made it back home and now I'm gonna make my little sweet green dupe for lunch I think I'm gonna start by doing the sweet potatoes because I usually get sweet potatoes on and I also need to make some quinoa am I gonna do that I might just be lazy and use some of the rice that I made last night typically my order from sweet green is like kale and quinoa base black and chicken um almonds parmig what's it called crispy parmesan you say parmig parmig crispy I know you're not made fun of the way I said something because you have strokes like every night people say a word and I'm like what did you just say anyways um crispy parmesan spicy cashew dressing a couple other things so okay first we're gonna start with sweet potato sorry I'm too lazy to use a cutting board so I will not be doing that so I'm gonna cut these into like little half and then half again so like little quarters I guess and I'm gonna cut them thin so they cook a little faster oh maybe I should have used a cutting board as much as I want to be one of those like aesthetic girlies I'm just simply not it's just not me all right so in the air fryer they go I would usually do this in a bowl but I'm just feeling lazy so we're gonna do a little bit of avocado while this is just like the avocado spray oil we'll do salt and pepper this salt is like so empty okay little garlic powder little onion powder that's it there we go perfect okay so now we have 10 minutes to do everything else what else am I gonna put in here oh and I have to make the dressing too I think someone said that sweet green posted the recipe to their spicy cashew dressing which is like one of their more popular dressings um to their tiktok I didn't see that but I did screenshot a recipe that I found which I will leave down below so what I'm gonna need is kosher salt garlic cilantro which I don't have but I don't like anyways sesame oil ginger rice wine vinegar maple syrup red chili flakes cashew butter I'll serve that for all my butter and lime juice and water I don't think I have lime juice either maybe do I turns out I do not but you know what we're gonna roll with it because that's just the way life goes so we're gonna do one and a half tablespoons garlic I have these little frozen things for reasons like this when I don't want to like peel and snap an entire little bowl of garlic I'm just gonna do like two of these and then a half a cup of ginger that feels like a lot so I'll maybe do like three of these okay boom done that was the easiest thing in the world next we're going to do a third cup plus two tablespoons of cashew butter again I have almond butter so I'll just go with it and she goes one teaspoon and two two spoons that should be good a tablespoon of red chili flakes this one that only really has like a teaspoon left but let's do that is there another one uh jk we have more I've been trying to like be more intentional about what I'm eating for lunch lately because I used to only make like peanut butter sandwiches and things like that and now they're totally wrong with that but I just I want to like cook myself more nourishing meals so I'm trying to do that okay two tablespoons maple syrup I will not lie to you I do not have maple syrup I am not unlike regular maple syrup curly I'm like a born syrup early I'm so sorry this is like mrs. butter's words I think two tablespoons rice wine vinegar that was like literally nothing okay the thing we have another one one tablespoon of sesame oil I don't know if I have enough sesame oil that's like probably a tablespoon what do you say okay a little bit these things I'm using up I'm using up all three of those is that it oh and then salt and then add a little bit of water two tablespoons of salt I'm going to do like two three inches okay put a little water in there it just says water so I'm assuming just like a splash of water like that one blend it up and see if this somehow makes dressing all right here's what we ended up with for the dressing it honestly like is really good it kind of tastes like bitch and sauce if you've ever had that it definitely would be better with lime but it's really delicious like I'm very very happy about that it's not the same but it's close enough let's see what else we're gonna put on this salad does anyone care about this sorry I have to stop like every time I vlog something which like kind of prevents me from vlogging sometimes but here's my leg you know so we're gonna do some chicken and rice I'm gonna heat up the rice I think and then I'm gonna do some breaded kale and we'll do maybe some pistachio instead of some crispy parm some harmy crispy I usually do spicy broccoli too but I'm not in the mood to like cook broccoli and we're having broccoli I think with dinner tonight so okay let's assemble this freaking salad oh I'm gonna heat up the rice real quick too I'm gonna put this rice pilaf that's left over from last night in the microwave for like a minute and then I'm gonna chop up this chicken thigh that I have left over I did end up getting the cutting board out so don't you worry this is like a I think it was called a savory herb chicken thigh from Trader Joe's it's like one of those pre-marinated ones wasn't my favorite but like it'll be good in a salad all right now we're gonna assemble we're gonna do breaded kale I just got like the pre-washed pre-chopped kind so I'll do that usually I would like to massage it with some olive oil salt and pepper but I'm feeling particularly lazy so I probably will not be doing that and we're gonna add some of our rice just a little bit nothing too crazy like maybe a quarter of a cup and we're gonna do our sweet potato this is already looking so good our chicken I'm just gonna do it cold you can heat it up if you want this is already so much food do some pistachios I have the crunch of course and then some of these Trader Joe's oven baked cheese bites I like the parm crisps better but we'll just work with what we got and I like to kind of crunch them up this will likely end up being two different salads for me but that's fine okay so now we're gonna do some of the dressing over the top this is how they do it at sweet green they do like a swirl and I get medium we're just gonna mix it up and hope for the best hope all these flavors go together okay and here is the finished product it honestly doesn't look that different from when I get my sweet green so I'm excited to try it let's give it a taste taste test time here we go gotta make sure I get everything obviously cheers spicy water of the day by the way water little watermelon pretty much as usual oh my god it's so good I can't believe I made this at home it's definitely something to do with like the flavors of the leftover chicken and then like the dressing which really didn't take that much effort to make so it doesn't taste like the sweet green that I usually get but it tastes so good I'm obsessed with it and I have so much leftover dressing in the fridge so I'll probably make this again tomorrow and honestly I don't even know if I'll be able to eat this whole thing it's very like hearty healthy it's got like really good ingredients in it I'm so happy it's much later in the day now it is 6 30 we're just getting started on dinner we have like the cozy vibes going we have the lamp on the jazz music we're really into it but I just realized that we haven't talked about the trip that we referred to get over here he's going we are um so excited because it looks great um we're so excited because we're finally someone finally invited me to go to go to england we actually planned this pretty impulsively after a move passed away it was like we were just grieving and drew was like let's book a big trip like let's go somewhere and initially Alexa and I had been talking about going together and she just has a lot going on right now so she's not really able to go and so it was like kind of the perfect sequence of events where we were just in a situation where we were able to travel so now we're going and we've had a plan for like a few weeks now actually or maybe like a month so we're really excited we're going do you want to give the rundown of the itinerary so far because it's Drew's first time we are spending most of our time in London yeah we only have seven days so it's like I mean that seems like a lot but it really isn't so we're like not able to go up north or do anything like that that we want to do but that'll be in the future this is a first suit menu but we're starting in London London and then we're going to the Cotswolds we're staying in a cottage in the Cotswolds it's so little and cute and like so much character and yeah we're just really really excited I'm gonna drive over there because um Drew here is our little anxious driver and honestly more than anything he stresses me out when he drives and then I'm like yeah and then I'm in insufferable like I just can't help it so I'm like a pretty confident driver I think I'm a pretty decent driver honestly so I think I'll be fine like I really you know if anyone has any tips let me know but I'm gonna watch like a bunch of youtube videos I already started the correct side of the road yeah left left left that's just what I'm gonna tell myself the whole time I'm only driving for like one or two of the days that we're there because we'll be in the Cotswolds but we're just so excited and I love going on my girls trips with Alexa to the UK it's like one of my favorite things in the entire world but there is like always a part of me but I'm more fun that is not true Alexa you know that's not true but it there is always just a part of me that's like oh I wish Drew could be here every time I've gone because we just share a love for the UK together so yeah we're really excited we're gonna meet up with Jasmine and Nick and I'm gonna try to meet up with as many people as I can but this is also just like my Andrew's trip so we're just really really excited we're saying it like a couple different hotels in London and then our little cute cottage and that's really all we can fit we're basically gonna stay based in London so that we want to do day trips elsewhere yeah we're definitely going to Richmond which is so exciting and like if you're from London or if you're from the UK then maybe like Richmond doesn't sound that exciting but to us because of Ted Lasso it's like the best thing in the world so anyway we're really really pumped it's like coming up pretty quick so that is like what we've been focusing all of our attention on it's just planning all of that and figuring out what we're gonna wear the weather has been a big question mark because they had sort of like a delayed summer situation and I think there also might be the potential of like a heatwave while we're there toward the end of October which would truly be the most tragic thing in the world because they don't have air conditioning and like that would be really scary but um we will persevere we will get through it and yeah we're just so so excited like it's all we've been talking about and now when we watch like oh that music's probably low so now when we watch like our shows and stuff we're just getting like extra excited and there's still so much of London that like I haven't gotten to explore yet and I mean we won't see everything of course but it's just gonna be so much fun to like check it out and um explore it together so that's gonna be really fun and there's so many things to do obviously in England and throughout the UK that we want to do that are outside of London but this is just kind of because it's our first time going together it's just what what we're doing we gotta get all of the classics out of the way drinks to see all the museums um we want to do like all of the typical like we want to get a Sunday roast and there's going to be so much content I feel like I want to go to Greg yeah Drew needs a sausage roll yeah we got to try mackeys what else it's just so funny because a sweet shop yeah definitely get some sweeties a tuck shop yeah I think like it's funny when you watch people from the UK coming to the US and they're like oh my god I'm in CVS like I love CVS it's so cool and we're like what and that's kind of like I got excited going to boots for the first time like I I'm still excited to go to boots I would say one of my biggest regrets is when I was in England the last time um we were at Primark and there was Greg's and Primark like Greg's in Primark did a collab and I didn't get something from that collab and I'm really upset there was like a bomber jacket that said Greg's and like I really kind of wish I had gone in so yeah we're gonna like do all of the fun things we're just so so so freaking excited so just wanted to share let you know because we've been pumped about it for a while so anyway we're gonna make our dinner we're making like peanut Thai noodles type of thing and it's going to be really good that's pretty much it we were gonna make a um like a I wanted to make this dessert that I saw on tiktok that's like these apple chocolate freezer bar type of things but we don't have pretzels when we have dill pickle pretzels they say we have dill pickle pretzels they're not the same maybe we can wash them disgusting so anyway we'll catch up later but we're just so so excited are you excited so excited I'm excited to go on a plane he's excited to go on a plane we're gonna take the tube go on all the trains hopefully the bed bugs from Paris won't have gone over to the the tube by then anyways uh just so happy so excited it's the end of the night and you can tell my makeup I didn't wear any like long-wearing foundation today it's for like a tinted moisturizer and some concealer and uh you can tell but anyway it is my new nighttime ritual before I go to bed because I am a 35 year old woman and I can do whatever I want I have a glass of chocolate milk pretty much before bed every single night these days it's chocolate almond milk and this stuff is so freaking delicious to me I literally love it so much it's become something that I look forward to every night before I go to bed it's like my little sweet treat yes we are in the press we're just pulling our laundry and putting it away it's fine cheers oh my god it's so good okay this is like kind of a weird niche topic but I think the reason I like this so much is because the taste reminds me of when in the 90s um my mom was on like slim fast I feel like a lot of our moms were on this slim fast diet in the 90s and I loved those things I would always steal them and drink them and she would get really upset because it was like expensive like the dark chocolate silk almond milk kind of tastes like slim fast like the dark chocolate one and like I just really enjoyed the taste of it it just it's nostalgic for me I will now have to pee like seven times before I go but okay now I figured I would show you actually have my second monthly facial tomorrow because if you watch my vlogs I started getting a monthly facial as a way to try and take better care of my skin last month and so I've been on this new skincare routine recommended by the facialist that I went to and I think it's actually I mean don't look at it right now but I think it's actually working I think it's like doing some good things I'm gonna walk you through my routine so I'm warming up the water nobody come for me so I take this milk makeup hydro ungrip makeup removing balm I do a little bit of it all over the place and now things are going to start getting real freaky with my eye and it literally just like removes everything and she told me when she was doing my facial to like really focus around like the t-zone area like where I have more pores and stuff just to really like get all the dirt oil makeup etc out of there wow so cute and then all you have to do is rinse it off with water for my cleanser I'm doing the same one that I always do that I still haven't found the pump for but I did order a new pump don't worry it's the youth to the people green tea spinach kale cleanser and this is my double cleanse next we're gonna take a cotton round and go in with this indy lee coq 10 toner it's an aloe and hyaluronic acid toner so I use this first I only use this one at night I do like three sprays of it and then I just go over especially all of like my problem areas I never really toned that frequently I mean I've gone through phases in my life but it really does feel like extra clean so I like that then I'm gonna do my ordinary niacinamide and it also has zinc 1% this I think is for like breakouts and just keeping all the bad things away from your skin from what I understand and then while my face is like still a little bit damp this is what they told me to do I'm using this moon juice plump jelly hyaluronic serum and this I don't really know what it does to be honest but it was recommended and I bought it this really does feel like a really nice jelly and I love it so much I'm pretty sure hyaluronic acid is really good for your like moisture barrier your skin barrier as well and then for my nighttime moisturizer which is different than my daytime moisturizer it's the ursa major golden hour recovery cream and it's really nice it's like very luxurious so I take like a dime sized amount and I work that in and it feels so good it's like so refreshing it just feels like really luxurious to me I love it and that's pretty much it's really nice and simple the only difference during the day is I do use a different moisturizer I use one with spf 30 it's not as like heavy obviously and then I also use this dermalogica vitamin C serum so yeah that's pretty much my nighttime skincare routine so that's kind of how it's changed lately I can't really tell if I've noticed a huge difference or not but I feel like my skin does look a little better all ready and that's pretty much it just rushed and flossed and did my eyelash serum and moisturized my brows because I got them laminated a few weeks ago and they're like a little dry and that's it I'm going to go to bed so thank you so much for hanging out with me today I really appreciate it well my hair does look like kind of coppery in this light I really like it I was definitely gonna fake tan before I went to bed and now it's like almost 10 o'clock and I'm too tired so I'm gonna curl into bed read my book and hopefully pass out very soon so I appreciate you being here thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in the next vlog bye