 Happy New Year! My name is Sinali and welcome to a new vlog. The only thing better than the new year happening on a Monday would be the new year happening on a Sunday because then you can actually take the time to like reset after you know your New Year's Eve plans and all that kind of stuff and actually get your shit together before you head into work on Monday or even just start working on your goals and intentions for the new year. So I thought we could do the ultimate Sunday reset. Sunday resets or just resets in general could be whatever you want as long as you feel ready for the week ahead. Whether that's cleaning your space to make you feel less anxious, writing down your to-dos for the week, or even just chilling at home and catching up on your favorite Netflix shows. Whatever way you recharge and at the end of the day you know better than anyone else. It's super hard for me to be consistent with a healthy lifestyle and just like showing up at the gym, especially with the holidays and traveling back home, but I really really do want to make it a point to go to the gym at least four times a week. I'm hoping in the new year. I've been slowly starting to implement it before the new year so I don't feel this you know immense pressure to start it like right on January 1st. So we're gonna go to the gym and it really does not have to be anything crazy. My favorite thing to do at the gym is to just go on the treadmill and just do random little tasks that you have on your phone. So for example you can go clear space in your camera roll, which I've definitely been trying to work on because I've just taken so many vertical videos this year and going through them takes a lot of time. So I'll probably do that today and then I also love to just like watch TikToks and edit TikToks on the treadmill. So just like any task that you can get done on the treadmill on your phone or you can obviously just watch Netflix or YouTube. Once I finish on the treadmill I just like to pair it with like an arm or a leg workout so either like lunges and squats and all that kind of stuff. Or I'll just grab the lightest pair of dumbbells and do very small isolated movements and it really really burns. But like I said I don't do anything too crazy and I also don't really know a lot about the gym so I kind of keep it simple. And for me the most important thing is just showing up at the gym and getting a little bit active. Because most of the day I'm sedentary, I literally sit in front of my computer and I'm totally that person. If I don't work out in the morning it is literally not happening the whole day. So gotta get it done first thing in the morning so let's go to the gym. But it just makes time go so much faster when you're obviously distracted of things you kind of have to do on your phone. I'm kind of conscious because that just sounds really refreshing and like filling. So let's do it. I'm a sauce girl, a condiments girl, like whatever you call it. This is my new obsession, Mike's Hot Honey. I even asked for like white truffle oil for Christmas. But this is just so good because you kind of get that sweet and then I put like salt on it so it's like sweet and salty and a little bit of a kick. Like it's not too spicy but I don't even have to add like the chili flakes because that's just kind of what it tastes like. It's like honey with the chili flakes but you don't have to add them. So this is definitely one of my go-to breakfast. I think I'm gonna edit a vlog for a little bit and then I'm gonna hop in the shower and probably start cleaning. I also just remember I need to switch the laundry over. I'm showered, I'm moisturized and I just slipped into an aloe sweat set because we're gonna be comfy today and I think I've decided I don't want to put on any makeup today because I just definitely want to do a lot of chilling later today. But I do want to clean a little bit because my microwave is disgusting and I also need to put on my sheets and duvet cover. I think it's done now. Definitely want to wipe the counters, maybe clean the bathroom a little bit. I'm forgetting something. It was definitely on my to-do list but I'm forgetting one thing that I really wanted to clean. Let's get this all over with so we can actually chill in peace because I feel like if my apartment is like cluttered or just like I know it's dirty I kind of feel a little bit guilty inside so let's do this. I'm honestly so embarrassed to show you my microwave right now because it's so disgusting but I found this little hack on TikTok the other day that you could just put baking soda like two tablespoons of baking soda and then they're saying one cup of water and we're just gonna microwave this for five minutes and they say it like loosens up all the gunk in your microwave so you don't have to like spend too much time really like scrubbing it down so let's put this in the microwave and hopefully it works. This is the before I know. Terrible. Disgusting. I think my plan of action is to go in with this Dawn power wash and one of these little green pads. I wish I had more than one scrub daddy but I don't use that one for my dishes so that would be kind of gross like clean the microwave with it but take this plate out and then clean that in the sink. I am so bad. This is finally getting done because every time I go to use the microwave I see how dirty and disgusting it is but I never have the time to actually clean it so thank God it's getting done today. I'm gonna feel like a brand new woman with a brand new microwave. Oh my god. Wait. Do we know baking soda really worked? I'm gonna try to let you guys see up close if I can. Look how satisfying it is. Like it just comes right off. I thought it was gonna be a lot harder. I think a paper towel will just do the job. I'm shook at how well that cleaned my microwave and that was not even that hard. Time to do the most dreaded part of washing the sheets and everything. Putting on the duvet. I have tried like the little hacks that again I found on TikTok. They just never work out from here just like I'm not understanding how to do it so I just struggle but let's get it over with. Let's do it. I actually recently just got these new sheets and they look so white compared to the ones I've been using and I don't even self-tanned. Like how does that happen? Does my brown just rub off? I guess so. If you guys are new I have been living alone for the past six months now which is crazy to think about because I was terrified of doing it. Like terrified and now I'm like wow that's kind of nice. I just really found joy in like listening to my own podcast on my Google thing. I think it's like a Google home. I'm not really sure what it is. I think we got it for free. I have no idea how but I use it every single day so I'm glad I got it for free. But I just told like hey Google like play blah blah podcast and honestly Hey Google stop. This year I do want to be a little bit more intentional with the podcast I listened to. I feel like the past years I only really listened to podcasts that were kind of just like girl talk which I love because it's just really in the background like I'm not really paying too much attention and plus because I live alone I love just hearing other people talk or like any kind of sound going on in the background. It's just like helpful to not feel that alone. So I definitely want to try to find more podcasts. I feel like my favorite right now is what we said and I've been kind of liking the Mel Robbins podcast that's definitely more self-help. It's kind of more about like manifestation and I'm kind of getting into that. I've also really been loving just playing music on the Google home and I'll tell her to play like Hillary Dove, All American Rejects, like just like really oldie but goody songs that you just like want to scream the lyrics. It feels so good but today I feel like I have a lot of YouTube to catch up on and there's always like so many Netflix shows coming out HBO Max like I mean unfortunately White Lotus has already finished. It was so good. We watched it. I think it was like early no mid-December. I guess it wasn't that long ago but it was so good I'm sad that I already finished it but there's always so much content to watch and that is what I love most about Sundays because I can just catch up on all my favorite TV shows especially without feeling guilty. I just fluffed up the couch a little bit and I usually just put this little like throw blanket on this on especially because Sophie loves to just like run and jump all over this and sometimes her paws are not the cleanest and it is performance fabric so you can just kind of like wipe it off but if I don't have to do that why would I do that so I usually just keep this on there and then I love this blanket it's from Amazon and look how big it is it literally covers more than me but I like to put this like over here it just makes it so much more cozy when there's like a bunch of blankets on the couch and I feel like it kind of defeats having a white couch but like I can always take it off if I really wanted to but again it's just so much more cozy it is candle time I'm feeling clean I'm feeling cozy I recently bought this one from Target and it smelled heavenly when I bought it but then I took it home lit it it gave me the worst headache ever love that but this is like the most beautiful little piece of home decor I got it a while ago on Amazon because I was inspired by this thing I saw from CB2 and it just like glows like you put two tea like candles in there I actually want to get like a larger one there's like the thicker taller ones I want to get that for this because I feel like that we'll just fill it up better I feel like I have to like refill tea like candles like almost every day but this just gives the prettiest glow I'll try to remember showing you guys later tonight and I guess I can just put this for decor somewhere else because I don't know if I'm gonna like this one again this candle though is the best candle this is what it's called raspberry and black vanilla from this brand and it smells like like sweet I don't even know like sweet obviously raspberries but it's just so heavenly so I'm definitely gonna like this one because those tea lights don't have scent I guess I could buy some that have sense but it's okay I think I like to light like a scented one and have that for decor I've been watching some YouTube and a lot of my New Year's intentions resolutions whatever you want to call them goals I guess are numerical I've just been kind of like setting up some like graph kind of things I found on Canva I think you probably do a lot for free in Canva honestly I know how to use Photoshop like the basics of it now that I know Canva exists with all these already made like templates and everything I go straight to Canva so for example I want to track some follower counts and I just like want to see like how fast I'm going this year and all that kind of stuff so I just made a little bar graph in Canva I'm gonna try to update this weekly but maybe more realistically it might be like every other week but I did also want to share this really cool app with you guys it's called daily habit and there's a bunch of these apps and I'm pretty sure I bought a subscription for this one basically I have to do is like customize the habits that you want so for example let's say walking 10k steps a day and then I'll hit it if I did actually I'm kind of curious if I did because I walked kind of a lot on the treadmill this morning let's see if I already hit it oh 9,459 I'm almost there I do have a walking pad in my office so I might do that later just to hit it so I'm gonna go ahead and like check mark it off and then you just see like the whole week of it like lit up and it just like is a good feeling keeps you kind of in check of like what your goals actually are pretty sure you can like add as many as you want on this day around the holidays I always feel a little bit shitty about myself I'm not gonna lie just because I'm eating literally everything in sight and as I should be like I want to enjoy the holidays and not really have to worry about you know all that kind of stuff but I feel like not that I need to do a juice cleanse but I did want to do some juicing because another one of my New Year's goals is to use all my kitchen appliances a lot more than I do I mean I honestly did not do a great job of cooking at home this year I feel like I definitely ate out a lot more than I wanted to but I bought a juicer in 2021 on Black Friday and I love it to death I just sometimes forget I have it because it's like underneath my cabinet but I bought some stuff to juice so let's do that and we can like batch some juice for the coming week got the juicer out but we actually need to prep the fruit and veggies first because I have not done that yet so let's get it all out there's this brunch place that I always used to go to in college called first watch they actually have one here in Austin like up north somewhere but they sell this juice called the kale tonic and it is so freaking delicious so I was trying to make a version of that so we have some apples kale cucumber lemon I'm missing anything I think I need to look at the recipe again I feel like something's missing I love this juicer so much you'll see in a second how freaking awesome it is because normal juicers you have to feed it kind of like one by one little cucumber stalk like one half of an apple at a time but this one has a huge hopper at the top of it so you actually can just walk away it's almost like a kitchen aid for a juicer because you can you know multi-task in the kitchen I literally sold my dad on buying one because he was looking for a juicer and he was looking at another brand I was like wait literally I feel like mine's better and it's way cheaper than the one he was looking at it's definitely not cheap but if you love juicing like definitely recommend this one because also it's really easy to clean up and I'm not just saying that like it is super simple like if I can do it I feel like anyone can do it I just have one more cucumber to cut up and then also I should probably cut up like the lemon because like oranges and lemons and limes and stuff like that you don't really want to put like the skin in juicer because then it's gonna be super bitter I tried it once with an orange and it was really disgusting so you kind of have to appeal that all I kind of wish I had some ginger I feel like that would have been good in this one so this is how big the hopper is it's pretty big not big enough for like all that stuff especially with the kale at the same time so we're definitely going to have to do like a couple rounds starting with some kale apples cucumber I just want it to be like all mixed up really good so I just want to do a little bit of everything at the same time sometimes if you want to cut down your pieces a little bit smaller to make them fit a little bit better that is an option but we'll just start with this and see what it does this is the best part amazing I also wanted to show you guys this part like there's pretty much no liquid in there it is a little damp for the most part this thing is like a powerhouse I couldn't wait till I was done I was like really wanting to try it so let's do a taste test it's so good best juicers pee ever feel like if you put apples in anything it's gonna be like sweet and good so that's kind of why I like it I'm gonna finish all the rest of fruit there's a lot more I'm gonna be stucked up on juice this week I have a really bad problem where I buy fruits and vegetables and they go bad sometimes and even these cucumbers were kind of going bad but I was just like let's just juice it see what happens and it tastes fine I also heard that you could juice frozen fruit like I think you let it thaw out but I really try that one day because it's probably cheap that way too got two big bottles of juice so like I said I'll stocked up and I'm just enjoying the one I poured I took out some frozen chicken around noon to let it fall out because I think I'm gonna do butter chicken tonight just sounds really good so I'm going to make it but I never really make it from scratch last year's New Year's resolution was to learn how to cook some Indian dishes and honestly I didn't do that so that goal is gonna carry on to this year but today we're actually gonna make just butter chicken from like a packet that I get at HB it's just so easy so all I have to do is like cook the chicken put the packet in done and then I have some like roti stuff that I have frozen I think that's gonna be dinner tonight I'm going to probably play some YouTube while I cook I'm working at night and I'm just getting a little too comfortable on the couch so I'm gonna do my little night routine and then get myself to bed but I feel like there's not many nights that I go to sleep without my heat was curling thing on my head ever since I dyed my hair back which was was that in August I just did it but ever since I dyed my hair back to my natural color I've just been really wanting to keep it as healthy as I can and I've actually had this thing for a really long time this heatless curling ribbon I think they call it and I have used it in the past that I literally just perfected how to like use it and make it look perfect every single time so starting off dry hair that is the that's the key is to start with dry hair and I'm using this plya new-day mist and I'm just dampening it a tiny tiny bit I misplaced my claw clip so I just use some random one a lot of people take one piece of hair and then wrap it around and then add some hair to that piece wrap around but I found that this way that I'm not sure you guys even though I've already shown you guys in another blog I just feel so passionate about this okay so basically you're gonna want to take your front bangs or just like your front pieces of hair and we're gonna start how I just said pull tight make sure you pull tight because I think that will definitely make or break I guess how tight you want the curls okay now we're gonna take a piece in the back just like brush it down and we're gonna be bringing this across in the front and then back to where it was now we're going to add hair on to the first piece in the front and brush that together and then take it across the front and back to the back I was showing a friend's this one night and she was like so it's basically like braiding I was like wait yeah like the heatless curling ribbon is like the third strand so that was cool so take that back piece it's gonna come across in the front and go back around the back and then you just keep doing that until you run out of hair and then just keep wrapping it and tile so now I'm just gonna wrap around the ends but we're gonna leave a little bit of the ends of the hair out because it gets a little too curly if you don't so I just recommend you do so but not like too much because then it looks weird okay so kind of like that and when you do this way instead of the first way I showed you guys it barely moves in your sleep because I feel like the other way it gets really loose in here so we're just gonna just fixing the claw clip and then we're gonna do the other side I've been watching some YouTube on the TV and like multitasking I was editing some client galleries and then also just replying to emails because whenever I'm home I am so so bad at like answering emails I don't know why but that's another thing I need to do this year is just get better about like replying to emails faster I'm not sure why I do that but I need to stop the only thing about these heatless curls is that if you want curly hair you have to decide the night before you can't really decide day of unless you have like a couple of hours because it definitely works if you have just a couple of hours but it works better when you leave it overnight but then the last like month or two months I think I only used heat on my hair like maybe three four times like to blow dry it but I've just been loving doing this and if it's heatless and it turns out literally perfect not only that it saves me so much time in the mornings because this takes me like three minutes especially when I'm not talking to the camera and I can just do it really fast and then in the mornings I take it out and it's perfect well I have to like brush through it and then I like flip my head over because sometimes it gets a little too curly in the mornings but throughout the day it like falls perfectly I'm just like shook over this I just need to share my love for it because I feel like this is definitely going to be the key to healthy hair in the new year and I'm very excited about it. I'm very happy that I made the decision to do no makeup today but we're just gonna do a little more skincare before I go to bed putting on some Sunday Riley Luna oil I swear by this it is amazing it's pricey but like holy crap I have never consistently had like better skin then like these past few months where I've been pretty consistent with this oil and I've also been using this Clarence serum I don't even know if I should be using these at the same time but sometimes I do especially in the mornings I like to use this and then like definitely at night we don't oil all the way it's so good I do get my brows laminated so I make sure to brush them out before I go to sleep just brush them all the way up to the sky that wraps up to Sunday reset vlog I hope you guys enjoyed it and felt chill and calm while you're watching it and just reset for it the new year ahead I have such a good feeling about this year and I cannot wait to see what comes of it I'm sending my best wishes to you kill it this year we're gonna do great things and I will see you in my next video bye