 Good morning, it is November 30th today, and I am going to be filming my intro for Vlogmas and preparing for doing Vlogmas. So this morning I premiered a video and in that video I announced that I was going to be doing Vlogmas. Last week I only filmed one self-tape audition and today was supposed to be the callback for that self-tape and I didn't hear anything which means I didn't get it. They were going to be filming the beginning of December, so very likely that I didn't get it because I never heard back. But I am going to be submitting to a bunch of casting calls as usual every morning when I check my email. I submit to a bunch of casting calls and of course I check on my YouTube comments and throughout the day I wait for a self-tape audition request from my agent or voiceover request, whatever my agents have for me. And right now I am also taking an acting class that I love so much. So right now my acting class is Monday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. So it's every evening and I can share with you guys a little bit about that class and after that class is over I will give you a full review of my thoughts on that acting class and if it was worth the money, the time, all of that. And to be honest, in the winter months specifically between Thanksgiving and New Year's it is so so slow but now with COVID I know that if somebody is able to do any filming, if they're able to get a project done, they're just going to do it. They're not gonna care if there's a holiday next week or you know, obviously people are gonna take the normal holidays off but I'm hoping that there's going to be some more projects and to let you know what I'm gonna be doing during Vlogmas. It's gonna be a lot of acting related things as well as Christmas related things. It's all gonna be blended in a vlog and as well as normal content. So if I do have a video that I want to share with you guys some tips and open casting call, anything new, I will definitely make an actual video and also potentially add some vlogs to there. But I have lots and lots of acting related ideas that I have for it the whole month. And I thought it would also be fun to show you the Christmas decorations that I have up because we've had our Christmas tree up for a while but we just decorated it and I made this beautiful wreath for over our bed as well. So today I need to film the intro. I don't have to do a Vlogmas intro, but I really want to because I love Christmas. Submit to casting calls and get more storage for my camera as well as show you the Christmas decorations that we have up. I don't like the way all of that looks on that side. So I'm going to see if I film in this direction. If it feels less busy. Oh, and no, I absolutely do not fill myself tapes with that. Those lights there, those Christmas lights. I am doing this purely because of Vlogmas and whenever I do get a self-tape audition, I'm absolutely gonna take off those lights. I do like the way that looks better. Hi, my name is Véljica. Hi, my name is Véljica Rodriguez, and I will be reading for the role of Vlogmas 2020. I don't know if that's silly, but I wanted to incorporate acting. I thought it would work. I'll find out when I'm editing if I like it. I can always edit out any Audio that I use and just do everything as if it was B-roll. Also thinking about putting the red paper backdrop here. I like it much better the way it looks here. I have moved the phone, the camera to a Stick, a selfie stick because I'm gonna be filming my Christmas decorations that I have up so far. And I thought I would give you a tour of my Christmas decorations while I film some of this B-roll. So in my room, I have this wreath right here that has little tiny twinkle lights, and it is right above my bed. I wanted to make the decorations in the apartment not only be in the living room. So I thought I would put this above the bed and I absolutely love the way it looks. Let me show you the rest of the decorations in the apartment. So we have some Christmas cards here right when we come in. Our door is there and I thought we could put some of the Christmas cards there because we keep our Christmas cards. And so I wanted to display them. So we put a bunch of Christmas cards on the fridge door so it can be more Christmas-y. And then we have our beautiful Christmas tree that has been up since the beginning of October. But we just decorated a few days ago. So there's our tree and So we have our Christmas tree over here and then we put garland over this Balcony doors, which we've never done before and I put a little Santa over there. And then we also put blue lights in the patio, which aren't Christmas lights. Well, they are technically Christmas lights, but they're blue and it doesn't feel as Christmas-y. So we're actually gonna leave those lights on forever. This garland has lights on it, but they're really bad. They stay on for a couple of hours and then they burn out. This was hidden. I took it out because I want to return them anyways. So we have garland up there and then over here we have this Santa next to a little baby me. But we have some pine cones because around here there are a lot of pine cones. We went on a walk and I picked up a bunch of them. And of course I baked out the bugs that were in them. So I put them distributed in random places so that it feels more Christmas-y And I'll maybe pick up more or just reorganize them. In general, this year we are way ahead of the game because all of our Christmas decorations are up and Thanksgiving just happened and most importantly, we have our Christmas letters already ready to go. Christmas cards. So we've done our Christmas card a couple of times. I have... Do I have both? Oh, I do have both of ours. So this one is from 2017. We've been dating since 2012. So we could have been doing it since then, but we didn't. And then this one is from 2015. And other than that, we always end up thinking of it a few days before this picture. This year we went to Virginia for Christmas because we flipped one year with his family, one year with my family. And this year we went to Virginia. And those photos were taken December 21st or something like that. But this year, when November started, I said, Hey, let's take our photo. Our photo is super fun. I'm not going to show it yet because none of my family has gotten it. And we have 50 cards that we're going to be sending out. And I don't want to spoil the surprise for them. But I photoshopped some really fun things. It was inspired by one of our favorite movies, one of our favorite Christmas movies. But yeah, those are all of my decorations. So I need to eat some food and then go run a few errands and get those headshots that I'm going to use for those flat lays and finish up this intro. Okay, before I go do that, I am realizing that the reason why I don't have enough storage is something wrong with either my phone or the app. Because when I go into the settings, I'm using open camera app to film all my videos and take photos. And that's not the app that came with my phone. And I am realizing that it says my external SD card still has over 35 gigs of data available or storage available. So instead of buying more storage, I am going to figure out what the settings are, why it's not letting me record. I'm back from running some errands and I picked up the headshots. And when I was ordering the headshots on Costco, it did tell me it was going to be cropped and I thought whatever, it's fine. And this is for my headshots flat lay, which I'm about to go do. And then that's going to be it. I'm going to do two different flat lays for my vlogmas intro. And that's it. I'm going to edit. And then I'll see you guys for the next vlogmas day, vlogmas vlog. But let me show you my headshots. It cut my head off on all three photos. Well, this is a good test run because of course I haven't had to physically give my headshot to anybody since I got these done in July because everything is online. So I'm glad that I had this test run. So when I do ever have to give these in real life, I've print them out far in advance and make sure they're cropped appropriately. But right now I'm going to go to my kitchen and do this flat lay Christmasy flat lay. Christmasy flat lay. I'm so exhausted. I don't know if any of you guys feel this, but I get anxious sometimes from drinking coffee and I was super anxious yesterday when I drank coffee and today I'm exhausted and I just can't drink coffee because I don't want to feel like that. I want to be productive, but at the same time, I'm just like, and this flat lay that I'm going to do is going to be there on my counter again, just like I did the flat lay for the Christmas commercial that I did, the Etsy Christmas commercial. So it's going to be right there again. I just need to clear it off. And throw on my cropped headshots like this. I could not figure out how to lay it out. So it looks Christmasy, but not too crazy. So I'm going to leave it very minimalistic and just do snowflakes and some sparkly snow. And that'll be it. Thank you so much for watching. At the end of every video, I feature another channel. This is today's channel. If you would like to be featured on my next video, make sure you're subscribed, like this video and leave me a comment.