 Hello everybody, welcome back to another vlog. This is actually filmed after the initial first part of this vlog because I somehow deleted the first couple of clips of this vlog. I don't know how that happened, but I was filming like main channel stuff. I was filming vlog stuff and somehow I got lost in the mix. But hello, welcome. This vlog is really fun because I went to Laguna Beach for Alexa's birthday and we had so much fun. If you didn't know, I was obsessed with the show in high school as well as the Hills. It was like a central part of my personality for many years, probably still is to be honest. And I've been a few times over the years, probably like six or seven times and I just like love it every single time. It's definitely one of my happy places for sure. So yeah, the day that I started this vlog, basically I just like packed up the car, got ready, drove out to Laguna and we drove immediately to a thrift store. So it's kind of become like a tradition of ours to go to this one thrift store in Fountain Valley and do like a little thrifting video before we like go on a relaxing trip. So this trip was actually booked for back in May. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it a couple of times in vlogs but essentially like there was a fire in Laguna or pretty close by was in Laguna Niguel which is like a neighboring town and it was too late at night for us to like decide if it was safe to go or not. So we ended up like postponing the trip because we weren't allowed to cancel it. The hotel like doesn't let you cancel or you lose your money, but they did let us postpone it. So we were like, let's just postpone it for your birthday. Anyways, so that time is now. So let's rewind it back to a couple of days ago when I headed in the car, drove to the thrift store, finished my thrifting video with Alexa and then this is where it leaves off. We had to, this is like become a tradition now. We're like a mile away. That thrift store that we went to is like a mile away from a plant power. It's like a vegan fast food place and it's so freaking good. I think the first time I went, oh thank you. I think the first time I went was when I was in San Diego and either Sierra brought me for the first time or Skyler and I've loved it ever since. It's delicious. It's so, so good. So I got the Big Zach, which is like their Big Mac and it has fries and I got a lemonade, Alexa got a chocolate shake that looks unbelievable. It's vegan, delicious. So here's the Big Zach and it's gigantic. I will never eat all of it. So I don't really know what I got at you. And then a big thing of prize, honey mustard. Oh, here's your ketchup. Thank you. Of course, naturally. Sorry, I keep kicking you out of the stairs. I was trying to play footsie. So excited. Hey everybody from our room in Laguna. We got here last night. I just woke up like 30 minutes ago. I don't really think I've talked yet, except to say hi to Alexa. It's 6.45 AM. Alexa and I went to bed at like 10 last night. That's why I love these trips with her. We both say that. Like we travel so well together because we have like the same schedule. I brought something for a main channel video possibly and it's talking. Anyways, we got in around like 6.30 last night and we just like hung out. We ended up filming our like hall portions of the thrift videos out on the balcony with like the ocean waves in the background and stuff. And it was so beautiful. And we literally just like chilled in here. We just, cause we had already eaten dinner. We just laid in our beds and like talked and it was so nice. Like so chill. We were both so relaxed. We had like the sliding door open with the screenshot and we were just like listening to the ocean. We were just like, I'm so happy. So today is like our only full day here in Laguna. So I think we might do like some laying out, maybe some shopping. I don't know what we're gonna get up to but Alexa went to Starbucks really quick. She's definitely like a coffee first thing in the morning. Oh my God. Anyway, that's what we're getting up to today and I just feel so freaking grateful. I just finished my like morning gratitude in my five minute journal and I'm just feeling so grateful. So happy to be here. We're up in Adam. It's a little while later and we just changed and got ready to go on a nice little hike. Look how cute you look. You're the little goblin in the background. This is basically gonna be a repeat of the vlog from the last time we were here. We're gonna probably do all the same things. Hopefully I don't have some bowel issues this time. But we're gonna go on a hike and we're excited. It's hard to kind of see from here but this is like the middle school and that's the ocean right here. So just imagine like walking out, you know of your school and that's your view. Like I just literally can't even imagine. I have to live here, Scott. The tail end of that. All right, we've been, I don't even know what clips are gonna be in the vlog, what clips are gonna be in a main channel video but Alexa has never heard August by Taylor Swift. And today is August 2nd. So I let you get away with it for a full day but I was like, we have to listen to it in the car. She has an open mind. She's like a non-swifty. She's not like anti Taylor Swift but she's not a Swifty. Yeah, so we're gonna play it for her and her life is gonna change. I told her this is the last moments of her life pre-August and now. It's so funny cause like everyone's posting about it and I have like actively, I always have my sound on but it's like I have actively just like. You've never actually heard it. Absolutely no idea. So she has no clue what to expect. We have to make sure everything is perfect. So if. Oh, I get it. Like get it already, yeah. Alexa had to ask you an important question. What did you think of August? I get it. I like it. Yeah, yeah. She wasn't just saying that either. I made sure to not film her reaction just in case but she liked it. I think she enjoyed my performance as well. Yeah, that was the best side of it. I like the different levels. How it's like, you know, it's more calm but then she's like. She really, remember when I was on August 2nd. So good. August forever. Wednesday, so excited. We're celebrating her birthday this morning because her husband has an orthodontist appointment this morning. So he's doing his thing for like the first half of the day. So I've got her for another couple of hours and we're gonna go get some smoothie bowls. We had such a good day yesterday. It was so nice. It was so like wholesome and cute. And we actually went to this smoothie bowl place the last time we were here and it's across from a surf and sport. If you know, you know. If you're a Laguna Beach fan, TV show. We're walking past it right now. I'll show it in a minute but gonna get some smoothie bowls and then go to a beach we've never been to before. Seemed a lot of people talk about it. It's called Thousand Steps Beach and we're excited to check it out. If you know, you absolutely know. Love you, Steven. Got our smoothie bowls and first they gave them to us with no toppings and we were like, oh hey, can we get the toppings that come on it? And they gave us each four slices. But it's gotta be delicious. I know I said this during the last vlog like when we were here a year ago but this hotel right here, right up at the top is where Lauren and Jason had their first date on Laguna Beach, if you remember. And he like picked her up in his dad's vintage car and they drove to a date and that was it. Okay, bye. Every single person was out of breath. I must sorry. Yes, even the fit people. There was one girl, she was ripped and her face was so red. I mean, we're pretty sure that she like did it multiple times, like running up and down. But like we only did it once and once was enough. So now we're back home. I actually didn't even like think to finish filming like or say a goodbye clip with Alexa because we were just like living our lives but it was such a nice trip. It was so, so fun to be able to do this again. And like it's definitely gonna be a tradition for us. And we just had so much good quality friend time together. It was amazing. I feel like she's like a little sister to me. I just adore her. She just deserves the best. So if you're not subscribed to her, definitely check her out. Her link is gonna be down below. She's just the sweetest, literal actual sunshine. And I'm just so lucky to have a friend like her. But now we are back. It is Thursday. I've got a couple packages to open. And I also want to redecorate, not redecorate but like kind of fix up this room a little bit because this is basically like my filming background right now. And there's nothing wrong with it. It's super cute. But I just kind of wanted to add some extra stuff to the walls. It was just feeling a little bit bare to me. And I kind of liked that sort of like maximalist look on the walls at least for when I'm filming. So I ordered a few things on Urban Outfitters. They're not my favorite. I'm not gonna lie. They don't have the best ethics. I like swore off ordering from there for a while but sometimes they have really cute home decor stuff. So I decided to just bite the bullet and order a few things. And then I have like a couple thrifted things to hang up as well. So we're gonna like mix and match and just kind of like spruce up this area so that hopefully I just feel a little bit more inspired by it when I'm filming because I'm just not really loving like my filming background right now. So that's what we're gonna do. And then other than that, I'm just kind of trying to like reset after a trip. You know, I was only gone for like, I think it was less than 48 hours but just like getting my laundry done and like usually I do this right when I get home but I'm not gonna lie. Yesterday I just came home and like took a nap because no matter what like introverts you feel me like the second I am social for more than five minutes I literally need like an entire day to recover. So anyways, I guess I can show you the package that I got. I'm actually like trying to remember what it looks like because I ordered it a while ago but it's from a brand, oh, look at this hair by the way. It's from a brand called Oddly and I saw someone mention this shirt on their Instagram. Oh wow, this is not what I expected. It's like a sweatshirt. But regardless, it's like a little baby T style shirt and it says mm-hmm. And like 50% of the proceeds for this go to different like abortion funds and I just thought that was really cool and I wanted to support it. I think there's like a little thing in here, yeah. Thank you for supporting the My Body Tease and NNAF. Excited for you to have this special piece. Each one is unique with different letters and is made from sustainable dead stock fabrics in Los Angeles, Oddly. So that's so cool. I don't know if I love like the actual fabric. Like it literally feels like a towel on the inside and it feels like really rough but overall it looks really cute and I thought it was white but it's actually like a cream color but I'm still gonna rock it. Like I absolutely love that. So yeah, and I paid my money for this. It was extremely expensive. It was $100 for a T-shirt but I wanted to buy it number one because it's a cute shirt but number two because it goes for towards a good cause. You know, so there's that. Should I have another package? Oh, this one I actually kind of already opened. This one is from Outdoor Voices and if you watched my main channel video where I tested out a bunch of different exercise dresses they were just, it just wasn't perfect. And I went to go return this one which was called like the Ditzy butterfly print I think and it's this like gorgeous. It says it's black but to me it looks blue. I don't know. But it's this pretty exercise dress and I ordered it in my usual size which was an extra large and it was just too tight and too short. And when I went to go return it there was an option to exchange it for another size. So I did exchange it for a double XL and I think it's gonna just have to do. The shorts that are in it are definitely too short. Like that inseam is what? Two inches probably, like it's not that long but I think we can make it work. I think either I can put other shorts over it or whatever but it's just such a freaking cute dress like this with my hokas, it's gonna be so cute. So yeah, that's my little mini haul. So okay, I've thrifted this when I was in Orange County this is like a cute little clock that I wanna hang on the wall somewhere in here. That's like a sneak peek for something I got in my thrifting video that I just filmed. And then I'll go and like show you all the urban outfitter stuff. Don't come for me. I just, that's just what I thought was cute. It's like super cloudy outside so it's kind of dark in here but I got just a couple things for like either the bathroom or our bedroom or whatever. I got this tapestry that says take it easy. I got this little tapestry that has a bunch of like mushrooms on it. It's kind of like a little, what do you call this? Not like a banner but whatever. Got like a bunch of different mushrooms so I thought that could go in our bedroom. I got a couple of different shelves. Don't know if these are gonna be too heavy. It says that they're only like a pound so I'm gonna try to do these with command hooks but I got this one and then I also got this one that has like the checker so I figured like one of these could go in my filming area. One could go in the bathroom. I got this cute little like daisy chain thing. It's kind of like a, I don't know. It's just like a wall hanging so that'll be cute in the filming area. I got this huge tapestry. I did not know it was this big but we'll roll with it. I got this cool. This is my favorite and Drew's favorite as well. It's like a tiger tapestry. I think we're gonna hang this in the living room maybe. We'll see. And then we got this little mirror. So cute. It's like this little, I think it's called like a bean shaped mirror which how perfect is that? And I was thinking maybe even like right here kind of an awkward angle but I think maybe like right here on this gallery wall. It'll be cute. So we'll see. Okay, we'll start here in my bedroom with this cute little thing. Why can't I think of what this is called right now? Whatever. It's adorable. It matches like our other little tapestries in here which are flowers and butterflies. And it just, it's kind of cute. So keep in mind we have to use command stuff for this entire house. It's gonna be fine, it'll be difficult but I think we can figure it out. There's no way. So perfect. Drew, can you come tell me if this is straight? Wow, it's terrible, I'm just kidding. Is it? No, I'm just kidding. We will come back to her because Drew has to, he's in a meeting and he has to go back to it but we'll fix her later and I need to be taller for that. So that's the general idea. The final Monday. Okay, after much moving around and rearranging, here is sort of what I've come up with. I think it's a lot better. It's a lot more stuff going on on the walls and I just think it looks really, really cool. I love a gallery wall moment. You'll be able to tell that throughout my house. It's like kind of a phase that I'm in right now. So I just love having it be kind of funkier. This I got in a state sale for a dollar. This Drew and I thrifted. This I think was from Amazon a couple of years ago. That I thrifted, these are from Urban. This mirror was from Urban. This is thrifted. It's a little too heavy to hang on top of, like I was gonna put it down here but it's too heavy to hang on top of like those command strip things. So it's just gonna have to stay there for now. Same goes for this mirror. This mirror is so, so cute but it's too heavy to hang on the wall and then this tapestry and this little thing are from Urban. So that's my little, my little haul. Pretty stinking cute. I'm actually quite pleased with that. I will still definitely be on the hunt for more things like thrifted and just kind of like funkier pieces but I do like where this is going. I'm happy with it. I'd love to get like a real tree in here. I don't know, we'll see. I also have the rest of the house to decorate. We have an entire wall in the living room. We have our bedroom still. We have our bathroom. So like there's definitely gonna be more sort of like vintage and thrifted decor to come but this satisfies the itch. It makes me feel less like this area is plain and boring and I'm like excited to start filming in here. So my laundry is about to go off and the dishes are almost done in the dishwasher. So I'm gonna go spend the rest of my day like just unwinding, resetting but thank you so much for being here for watching this vlog. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so, so much for allowing this to be my job and giving me the opportunity to do things like going to Laguna Beach with my friend and making it a business trip and also a relaxation vacation trip. Like I'm just, I am so, so grateful for you all. You have no idea. So thank you if I haven't told you in a while. I'm so, so glad you're here. Thank you for watching and supporting me and I will see you very soon in the next vlog. Bye.