 Hey all, what's up? Welcome to a new vlog. My name is Sonali, if you guys are new. And today we got a very exciting furniture delivery. My desk is finally here. Let me move my Elani new. And the office is definitely unorganized right now. Just a lot of stuff randomly everywhere, but this is the desk. It is stunning. It is gorgeous. It is heavy as shit. And I wouldn't even know because I did not get this up here. I paid for like the white glove service because I knew I was not able to carry this up the stairs by myself or even just like with me and Ryan, and probably like a new crime. So this is what it looks like. And I actually got the same kind of material for our breakfast nook table, which should ship out sometime this month. I'm not really sure. It did say it would ship out early January, but I haven't really gotten any confirmation or whatever. So yeah, this is what it looks like. This is like made out of just stone. It is just so stunning. And this is what it looks like on the back, which is nice because it looks good from all angles because some desks just have like a front and then the back is like supposed to go up against a wall. So it looks like horrible on the other side, but it is so cute. I stole one of our dining chairs from downstairs just so I could sit at the table today because I really want to use it because I have a lot of editing to do, but I did buy a chair from Target and I'll put a picture on the screen here. I'm so excited to get it. It's from the Threshold and Studio McGee collection, which I've always loved Studio McGee. So very, very hyped about that. And I also want to buy the stool. It doesn't come with it. It's like a separate stool, but that's only available when the chair ships, which is also when the bathroom renovations start, which is next week. I'm so excited. Obviously, I'm gonna vlog it all for you guys. I don't have to be the one doing anything. So I'm just gonna give you guys like updates throughout the week once everything's in. Like I won't be able to use it for like two or three weeks because the bathroom, at least the guest bathroom is right behind my office. And my contractor was like, at least for demo day, it's gonna be very noisy. And like when we do the tile, it'll probably be noisy. And just like, you probably won't wanna be here when we're doing all this. And I was like, noted. So we will probably be working from coffee shops for the next like couple of weeks or just going to lifetime working out and like using their co-working space. So that's the most recent home update. I was actually between this one and another, I can't remember if it's from CB2 or not, but this one was from like a random, I think it was like interior or something. But the other CB2 desk, everyone voted on that one on my stories, but it was a little bit smaller. It was gonna be able to come faster. So I think I ordered this like maybe around Black Friday. I can't remember like maybe early November. But I think it was worth the wait to be honest. Like I really love this desk so much. I think the other one was a little bit too trendy for me. And I'm really, I'm trying to like invest in pieces that will be timeless and that I will love forever. So this was for sure an investment piece. But again, like I really hope I'm gonna have it forever. So very excited about that. Just cracked open while I knew I had my eggs for breakfast, my new breakfast fixation. I'm pretty sure I put it in the last vlog, but it's literally just like scrambled eggs with onions and this like sweet and sour sauce. It's like an Indian sauce, but it's just so good with the eggs. And I try to have a little bit of caffeine because obviously it helps me not nap throughout the day, which I haven't napped ever since I started working out, which is great because I feel like that's my biggest issue of working out in the morning. I just hit that midday slump like way harder than ever before. So this time around, thank God I found my energy drink of choice. It really does not make me feel anxious compared to Celsius. That made me feel like I wanted to die. This morning I went to the gym with my friend Kiona and she took me through her whole workout routine. So my booty is getting sore. We did booty abs and just like other random things, but it's nice because she asked if I wanted to do like arms or you know, whatever we did today. I was like, let's not do arms because that's the only thing I really know how to do on my own. So she taught me some new machines, which is always so intimidating. Going over to the like the weight section. I'll go into the gym, I'll stay on the treadmill and like if I'm alone, I will literally just stay on the treadmill and knock over the weight section because it's just so intimidating. But anyways, I got a lot of editing to do. I'm trying to like not like sit on my blog footage because the more I sit on it and wait to edit, I feel like it's irrelevant and then I don't wanna post it but I'm like, this is like good content. Like I need to be posting this stuff. You guys are loving the vlogs which makes me so, so happy. So anyways, I'm gonna stop randomly and get to work. I forgot my SD card at home because I was editing that vlog and don't mind the boxes in the back because we really need to take all this to the dump. We just went into the stone place and it made it so much more complicated than I thought. I was expecting to just like walk through and like see remnants with my own eyes but they said that like it was all on forklifts and like that wasn't a possibility. So they had pictures online which like half of them didn't even have pictures. And then the ones that had pictures were so gray and like I couldn't tell if it was just like the camera and the lighting or if it was actually gray and it didn't end up actually being gray. So I just don't even know. But I picked out a couple and she's gonna send me some quotes. So if it's not outrageous, we might go with custom countertop which will be really exciting and I'm really hoping that it's not like crazy. But I definitely tried to stick to Quartz because I think that's what was gonna be more in my budget. But anyways, if not, we'll just stick to the white countertop. The other thing I thought about is that if we do do a custom countertop we'll be able to choose the sink size and the one that was originally on the vanity that came with it has huge sinks. And I'm like that is so unnecessary because I would love to have like more countertop space and like I don't need a big sink. Like I don't know why I would need a big sink other than for dishes, which I really do want to put in a farmhouse sink in the kitchen. And I told my contractor that's doing the bathrooms like if the guy that's doing my custom countertop for the bathroom, if he could just like really quickly get like cut out a hole because I think I need someone to like actually cut something. We'll cut the ramble short but we're gonna just pop in a Sherwin-Williams to maybe see it about picking out a paint. I really want to do lime wash in the bathrooms. The contractor didn't even know what it was. So we had to look it up on TikTok but he said Sherwin-Williams should have it. So let's go check it out. All right, so the Sherwin-Williams we went to was a commercial sales place. So like they didn't have like all the color swatches so we need to go to another one. And we just like thought we should go one other time cause we didn't really have time. But I got a package that I've been waiting on. These heels. I've been seeing so many people like wear number one just like chrome things in general but like pointy toe chrome heels. I think they're so cute and it's a kitten heel which is great because I just like honestly don't purchase many like shoes if they're over four inches anymore. Because I just know that comfort at the end of the day is the most important. So if I'm gonna be wearing heels they can't be too high. I got these on Amazon. They weren't on prime when I purchased them but I don't think they took like that long to ship. I thought they were gonna come like later this month. So I feel like they got here pretty early but I'll go ahead and link them if you guys want to check them out. I need to take out stuff from the other one and let me try them both on. I just walked upstairs to grab my SD card and it was like on my desk and my computer and I forgot that I got my desk this morning. So I was like very shocked when I walked in but it just looks even more gorgeous. They're the heels on. I feel like they're gonna look so good with like baggy jeans and just being able to dress them down a little bit. And I really don't have like any fun heels like this. So this will be cool for like a night out or something. I edited majority of the vlog that needs to go up today but still better put in some iPhone clips and just shush it up a little bit. I'm about to head out to another proposal. I'm shooting another proposal within like, I guess the past two months. I've shot three, I think. Love is definitely in the air and I'm shooting at the same location that I shot just the last time which was the Auditorium Shores dock. So it has like the awesome skyline in the back and if you guys are ever interested in following along with my work, my Instagram is just at Sonali Productions and I shoot a lot of UT grads. If you're in the Austin area, like I do head shots, I do branding, butter shoots, families, couples. I pretty much do everything just not weddings because I don't like to work on weekends if I don't have to and then also I physically cannot like be standing for nine hours with this camera around my neck. I would be on the way home from weddings because I second shot a couple just to see what it was like and I would be having like back spasms or like close to it. I don't really know if they were like true back spasms but let me tell you, it did not feel great. So I will not be doing weddings probably ever but I'm proud of myself that I try it because I feel like in college, I was like, oh, never do weddings. Like that's so stressful. It wasn't even like the stress of it all especially because I was the second shooter and I was just like this side kick getting all the extra shots. Hacking up the camera bag. I probably know exactly what lens I'm gonna use. I'm gonna do my 35 because that's what it showed on the last time. We set up shop right here on the stock. Today's weather is so nice and it was a little bit windy but I think it'll be perfect. It was a little windy but I think we got some really cute photos and it was so sweet. Honestly, I feel like I haven't cried at a proposal in a while out of like the three I did and then she was crying so much and I was like, oh my God. I had tears in my eyes but I think I'm just gonna watch the sunset while I'm here. It's like so pretty out and so nice out. I've just gotta take advantage before the freeze. I think it's happening next week. I accidentally wore my house slippers outside of the house. I mean, technically you could wear these anywhere but they're usually only worn in my house and now I got rocks up all in my feet. So super fun. Good morning, happy Friday. It is super, super windy out today. I actually almost had a headshot session but then I saw like how windy it's gonna be and I was like, trust me, you will want to reschedule even though it's like a beautiful sunny day. It is so frustrating when there's wind when you're doing like a photo shoot, especially if you're a girl and she was. The hair never cooperates and it's just so frustrating. Even at the proposal last night, the wind was just really not our friend with the girl's hair, even though, you know, we got some cute photos but anyways, if you had the choice to take photos on not a windy day, I would definitely recommend and I forget that that's also a factor, especially during grad season. Rainy weather is one thing but then when it's windy or like really, really humid outside, I'm like, trust me girl, like let's reschedule because obviously I want their photos to be really good too. But anyways, we are starting off the day at a little coffee shop, Mueller. I'm meeting my friend Nancy here and we were supposed to go on a walk around Mueller but it was just so windy this morning. I literally thought I was gonna be blown away if I stepped outside my house. So I was like, I don't know if we should walk but now I'm like, okay, it's not as bad as this morning. So maybe we'll get our coffee and walk. We'll see what she wants to do. Within the past two months, I've had two friends that are moving away, including Nancy, which is so sad because I, well, she just moved here like pretty much last December. So we really only like met up in January I think and she's just been such a good friend this year. And obviously I really did not like think she would move so soon. So I'm really, really sad about it. And my other really good friend Mackenzie moved back to Georgia. She's originally from Georgia. We didn't know each other then but she also went to UGA and Ryan didn't know her either apparently but she moved back for like her job because they wanted her in that region. So it's just really sad to know that Austin is not everyone's forever. And I don't even know if it's my forever to be honest. I don't know what I want. Life could take me anywhere. So I never want to say never but I also think it's so sad that it's very temporary for some people because it's really hard to make friends and like see them go so soon, you know? Oh no. It's a little bit later I got ready for the day to just like back hair because I want my hair to like last just one more day. I'm going to a workout class tomorrow so we'll wash it then. But it is so windy outside that we had to like take our hammock down because it was like twisting and twisting. But Ryan is walking through the door with Chick-fil-A. What? What? Oh my God. Ryan? It's like something that was falling over. Ryan? Like nodding off. What the? What the fuck? What? Like I'm starving in this. Holy shit. What the fuck? It's okay buddy. Oh my God the nails. Holy crap. Yeah. Hi. I don't know if it's like a stray or. Oh. Hey. It has a funny smile. Sophie's like what the hell? Sophie literally hates some pretty bright creatures in the house that live in her. And this is not the first time this has happened. It's freezing out there. Oh my goodness. She's not gonna talk. She's not gonna talk. She won't do that. Oh my God I see it's ribs. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy crap, Ryan. Holy crap. What do we do? Holy shit. Oh my God I feel like it's a skeleton. Oh my God. Where'd you find her? So I was coming back from Chick-fil-A and I pulled into like our, like we live on like this road. So this one goes out to the main road and I was dragging over the speed bumps and it was just like stumbling across. Like it was like hitting the curb and falling over and like I tried to get out and it like ran from me. It was like I felt skittish you know. So walking into a yard and it was like walking into like bushes with its head and stuff. So I just picked it up and I don't think it can see her well. Oh sure. So it's old. I think it has like white fur on its mouth so it's probably as old as a puppy. It's really sad if it's that old and skinny. We put her in the sun with a nice little blanket. Does that feel nice? It's so windy outside. So not a good day to be outside. I'm sorry Sophie. I'm sorry Sophie. You don't like being sister? Okay you need to help people. You can get a treat if you want. How cute is this little treat jar I got on Amazon? I don't know. She's in the vlogs. Okay you can have a treat. If you're gonna be nice to her. What I was saying is that Ryan went to Chick-fil-A to get us some food and I got some grilled chicken nuggets and apparently one Chick-fil-A sauce is like more calories than all these nuggets but I refuse to eat the nuggets without the sauce. So what do you think? How does it taste? Do you want more food or do you think it's enough for now? Oh that's enough for now. Sophie you're okay. We'll get you more food. If you share you can always get more. Sophie's being nice and she's sharing her skim sweater. I think we're gonna maybe keep it like a day or two. Maybe let it just eat and drink as much as it wants without being around other dogs and then being all scared, you know. And then you call Austin Petzel live and see if they can help or what we should do with it. Sophie's also getting pretty old so I feel bad bringing another dog in the house. I feel like she just really doesn't get along with dogs that well. So I don't want her to be the other dog to be all kind of illy needed either but maybe a good foster family out there for her and we'll take care of it. Ryan's watching the dog. I named it Rosie because I don't know why I have like this gut instinct to name every little creature that comes my way. You guys know Fendi. Fendi we haven't seen in a while so she hasn't come back to visit us but we also were home for like Thanksgiving and Christmas so she could have come back and we weren't here. I'm not really sure but I miss seeing her face. If you guys don't know that's like the cat that comes to visit sometimes. She won me over and I'm not even a cat person but I got my desk chair just now, Target delivered and I'm so excited to open it. I wanna film a little TikTok while I do it too. Really hoping it doesn't require like any assembly and that it just comes all in one piece that I have no idea. Shout out to Ryan's mom for buying a season the first one I've done because these are very helpful. I've actually put them on the dining room table, the dining room chairs and I'm gonna put them on this chair. I wasn't home when they did my desk. I really wish I put something under it to like slide it around because it's heavy. I'm going to figure that out when we do move it but for now we'll just put these on the chair. I was thinking about getting a roller chair but I feel like it's just really distracting that I could like roll around and swole around so I've just got like a static chair I don't know what they call it just like a sand still chair. Houston I think we have a problem. So dumb. The office and dining room probably has like the worst lighting of all the areas in the house. Mine's very much like is better lighting but it has a smaller closet and it's a smaller office. So I was like whatever I'll just like film in other parts of the house but I really wanted the closet or just all my stuff. Like I just feel like I have more stuff than Ryan. So anyways, I think it looks so good. I feel so professional with this chair and the desk and everything. I feel like I need a cute little tray over here to like organize the planner and pens and all that stuff. All my dongles, it can have so many of these like ugly little things but overall I'm so happy with this new setup and I cannot wait to like actually work from my desk and not just like the couch or I mean I guess I've been working from the dining room table and I can't remember if I told you guys this but I also ordered the breakfast and a table probably around the same time I ordered this which was in November and they just told me that it's actually back-ordered even longer so it's only gonna ship out in late February but it's fine because I didn't really wanna rush buying chairs for the table and I have no idea what the vibe is that I want so now I can take my time looking for those. Update on Rosie, I think she's in a food coma. Rosie, good girl. Yeah, that's your name now. That's your name. Rosie. She's been peeing a lot so we're gonna put her in the bathroom where it's tiled so that we don't ruin floors until we get back. The freeze is supposed to happen on Monday like now there's snow on the forecast which shall be interesting because this will be our first freeze as home owners so like seriously pray to God that everything will be okay for everyone and the power grid will not, I don't even know what it did the last time but like it won't do what it did the last time because I think that's what everyone's worried about and just like the pipes freezing but thank God we'll be home so we could like drip everything. I just saw something on Instagram that a lot of the H-E-Bs are like fully wiped out and I'm terrified because we just ran out of like meat and stuff so we definitely need to go grocery shopping before the weekend, before it gets like even crazier. We'll try to go to Costco and see what they have. Oh. Stalked up. No we do, we do. I forgot I was vlogging but we're headed actually into the Spurte where our friend's Jack's birthday dinner. This is a bit, everything is rented except that she's there and long there's like the tops heels that I showed you guys the other day, so we're excited to eat. It is Saturday, still have not taken care of these boxes. I don't know when that will happen. This morning I did a workout class that kicked my butt and that was actually a really hard one. I think it was like bar fusion or something. Just like the smallest little movements that like you don't think will burn. Oh my God, they burn so much. I actually liked the running class better. I feel like the workouts that are slower I just don't feel as productive even though I like burn like a shit ton of calories. So anyways, I do it again. Not my favorite, it was just really hard for me and I feel like anything that's really hard and that I'm not good at, I don't like. Ryan is currently taking Rosie over to Awesome Pads Alive and trying to figure all that out. I don't know if I mentioned this but on the next door neighbor app slash like the Ring app we get a lost dog or cat notification every single 30 minutes. Like it is insane. I don't know if it's just this neighborhood. Has it always been like this? Like do other people get these notifications all the time or is it just the area I live in? Like I'm shocked at how many, you know lost dogs and cats there are. But on the way over there he saw a picture of a lost dog poster and he faced me and he was like, this isn't her, right? And I was like, I really don't think so because it was more like Chihuahua-y looking. And I don't know, I feel like Rosie has a very distinct like puppy look even though I don't think she's a puppy. Like we think she's older. So I'm taking Rosie to, I guess the shelter or somewhere like a no kill shelter or trainer to help some food and her nails clipped and everything. And as I was taking her, I found this poster before I'm missing Chihuahua. But when I drove by, I thought it was her but this one said it's a boy and it's sick and needs medicine. So it's not her, but it's unfortunate. I'm really interested to see if she has like a chip in her cause I don't know why but Sophie doesn't have a chip in her. I don't know why we didn't do that. I mean like she was in my family dog so it wasn't really my decision at the time. Right now I'm about to head out to Forehands. It's like a home store. I think it's an outlet store and me and my friend Keana have been wanting to go for so long, so we're finally doing it today. And then I need to return some jeans at Eritzio. We'll probably just go to the domain, walk around and shop. I think she's going to New York in a week so she just wanted to like see if there's any cute stuff around. So that's what we're gonna do. I just had some rotisserie chicken. Costco rotisserie chicken is like so good. I dream about this rotisserie chicken you guys. I actually don't know if I've had others other than Boston Market growing up but like I can't remember getting like grocery store rotisserie chicken unless like my mom did. But like picking at it and eating it, oh my God. It's so flavorful, it's so good. And such an easy, like really quick snack because I didn't really have time to make myself anything but I need to get on the road because I told her I'd be there at 1.15 so let's go. We're finally doing it Keana. How long have we been saying we needed to go here? I mean maybe four months. Yeah, because I guess it was starting when you bought your house. Yeah. And we're finally here. I'm already overwhelmed. There's so many cute things. Holy crap. Is that only that much? It's only 30% off that. You're choking. No. Oh my God, wow. Insane, okay, I need a console table or like, you know that space near the TV downstairs? I need something that's so like a console table, yeah. Ooh, these little tables. We're in a different store now called a dough I think, right? I don't know. Guys, look at these ladders. I had a vision of putting one in the bathrooms once they're done and like hanging towels on it. I feel like that would look cute. They have such fun little trinkets. Okay, for this, $53. I feel like somebody can sell this for 100 something and people will buy it. Yeah, for sure. Look at this beautiful hutch that I found. I really wanna put something like this in the dining room or somewhere in the house and it's only 800, which so expensive. But for this whole thing, like I feel like I have been finding it to be like $1,000 minimum, probably like $1,500. I found an even better ladder. This one back here. It's $100, but it's so pretty. I love this stain and it's like big enough for an actual bath towel. Got it! I think this is my first decoration piece that I bought from the house because I feel like I've just been finding like just furniture which I guess that's technically decor too, but like, look how stunning. I'm so excited. I am pooped. I'm really feeling the after effects of that morning workout and just like walking around not having like a break after that workout. I just need to like lay down for a good hour or two. We have an update, like a really, really good update. I literally bald in the car and I will turn it over to Ryan to tell you guys the update. I took Rosie to Austin Pets Alive downtown. They said they can't take animals in legally, but to take her to Austin Animal Clinic. And I did that. So I went in there, it said intake was closed for like, you know, drop off animals. So I took her to a Mansa pet right next to it. I got her nails clipped. And my girls were saying that she's so skinny that she can't even get like shots right now and that she's in pretty bad shape. So I took her to, we're actually gonna take her home, but I walked past the door and the lady came out as I talked to her. And she said, given her condition that they may be able to take her even though they're at capacity. So the guy, like the, I guess vet came out and did like kind of looked at her and was like, I'll come back Tuesday if you don't find the owner kind of thing. And I was like, I feel like it is in really bad shape. But I don't want to get it back to the owner even really skinny and like taking care of. And he was like, okay, fine, we'll take it and came back out with a blanket and took it. And then I came home and ate and my mom and I actually joined this, Austin found pets, you know. So my mom's when he sent it to me. I was like, I think this is near you at least. The location was actually on the road that I found her on. And so I like, it was like the picture and it was definitely her, but it's a lot younger picture. So I messaged her and she called me back and she was like crying. She was saying like, she got out while they were at work yesterday, the wind had blown their gate open. And she was windy and it wandered out and it's diabetic and it's lost its eyesight from the diabetes. And then she was like, I stopped giving it insulin because we were going to put her down. And she was really scared that that's how she was going to die is being out in the cold because it's going to freeze today. So she was really worried and she was like, I know she looks like she's really skinny but it's because she hasn't had her insulin and we take a care of her, I swear. Not the guy I gave her a lot of food and she was all warm. I gave her a sweater and everything. So she was happy and really appreciative. So she's going to go pick her up and she'll be back home with her family. And Sophie does not care. Sophie? She said, boo-hoo. She's been a lot long. Sophie, we helped a dog. Yeah. And you're such a good girl for sharing your food and sharing your sweater. Hey, you're a very good girl. I know you didn't have a choice, but. Yeah, you're a good girl. It's an ally named her Rosie. It was just a gut feeling, you guys. I named her Rosita. Yeah. And how? Like, I literally made a nickname ever. Like within, like not even 24 hours, I already nicknamed her after I gave her a name. But her real name ended up being Runty. Like R-U-N-T-E-E. So I'm really close to Rosie. Yeah. And Sophie didn't think it was very cute. You don't like that name, Sophie? You said it was too close to your name, Sophie and Rosie. Ryan told me that in the car and I literally started crying. We're very glad that she could get home because it is kind of like, you know, not the best feeling like giving it to, even if it was a no kill shelter, right? Yeah. But anyways, we'll always remember Rosie or Runty.