 She just texted me that she's going to be here super soon, so that's the first beeper. Look at Brudy, it's my head. Yeah, I want you to come in, Brudy, come open the door. I'm wrong side of the coffee. Hi! Hey, you can come in. I keep going. Yeah, come on in, wrong time. That's not the way it goes. Very snowy here in Canada, but the weather isn't that bad. I love that pillow so much. Which pillow? The cat? I have a pillow open too. People get scared of that. There's one in the background of my videos and they're like, what is that? It's scaring me. Hello everyone. Welcome to Julia's channel. I'm sweating. I'm sweating too. This is going great. So we just have some basic questions, so just people can get to know you, you know? You don't have to answer anything, you don't want to, I'll cut it out. It's all good. Okay, okay. You pitch your channel with someone. If you saw someone on the street and you're like, hey, I have a YouTube channel, how would you pitch it? I would say that my YouTube channel focuses on story more than anything. I look at movies and books and kind of discuss story structure and analyze that. So the focus is definitely more on storytelling in general and how we can become better storytellers. I'll ask you more questions. Are you thrilled? I am psyched out of my mind. I'm ready. Your top three favorite books of 2017. Top three favorite books of 2017. I think one of my favorites, which really took me by surprise, was Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. She's the author who wrote Sea Biscuit. She writes nonfiction books and I don't read a lot of nonfiction, which is why I was so surprised that I liked this novel, or not a novel, this book. So much. It is the story of Louis Zamperini. It is a true story and it talks about his life. He was an Olympic runner and he joined, when World War II happened, he was American and he joined the American Air Force and a lot of things happened to him and it's just one of the most insanely inspiring stories and it really goes into a lot of depth in not only before the war, during the war, but also after the war and some of the effects that that had on his life. It's just really interesting and captivating and well written. It's really good. I would highly recommend it. Especially if you don't read a lot of nonfiction but want to give it a try. It was easy to read. It took a while because it's not one of those like, he had just fly through it. But it was very, very well done. So that was one of them. Fun one was The Martian. I saw the movie first before I read the book, but the book was just really fun. His voice is hilarious. He's a very funny guy, very sarcastic. It's a light, easy read. I flew through it, enjoyed it a lot. So yeah, that one was good. I think I read the Red Rising series in January of 2017. I think I started Red Rising in December of 2016, but it counts. So Golden Sun, which is the second book in the Red Rising series because that book is fire. So that one. This might be a weird question, but you want to be an author someday. Yes. Then if you had to choose a publishing company and publish your book, who would you choose? Like Harper, Simon? Like I don't know. That's a weird question, but that's hard because of that. Yeah, I feel like I haven't researched that enough to like say a hundred percent. But I feel like, okay, I feel like maybe Harper because a lot of books that I like are published by them. But there's also a lot of books that I don't like that are published by them. It's kind of a mixed bag, but they do have a lot of books that I like that are published by them. So maybe Harper. Now I'm always interested in publishing companies. I don't know why. I've been actually working with more publishing companies. I'm always researching them. So now I never really used to care who a book was published by. But like now I'm like, oh, I didn't know this one was published by Harper or whatever. I don't know. Do you think you might go into publishing? Like is that something you're interested in? I think it's cool. And it would definitely be something that I'm, you know, passionate about. Yeah. I could see you being good at that. I've known you for two seconds, but fine. You've seen a few of my videos. I've seen most. I'm like maybe just five seconds. Me. Watch as part of it. She's all right. I'll text her. No. I love how I wrote the same question twice, but just phrased it differently. It's fine. Three random reading habits. Yeah. Like I don't know. Okay. So like for example, myself, it would be I never really use like expensive bookmarks or like real bookmarks. Oh yeah. I use like a piece of paper. Tags. Or clothing tags because I always, I never, that's one. I never, whenever I buy new clothing, I actually am so lame and just never do like take. Yeah. It's like three steps to a garbage can and it, but instead I just put it on either my bookshelves or my dresser or something. So I just have like a series of like, just like stacks of tags. That's cool. And they're great bookmarks. So I just use like free book depository once all the time. Like I have such nice bookmarks. Look, look at this one. These ones move. Oh my gosh. You have a collection. Yeah. I have two terms. I just lose them instantly. Look at it. How cute that is. It's so cute. Focus. Focus. There we go. Look how cute. I love these. Those, that's so cute. And it's a ruler. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Look, this one's cute. They're like liking each other. And to go ones that they slide into your book when you buy something. They're like here. I just lose bookmarks too fast is the problem. I lose them instantly. They're gone. Sometimes I leave them in the back of the book. And then I'll put it back on my shelf or something. And then later for some reason I pick it up again to like show it in a video. And then I'm like, oh. I wonder how many of these have bookmarks in them. The other one that I have is I don't like sitting in chairs, but I also don't like lying down. So. You stand. You don't stand because I'm lazy. You're so funny. You're just sad to someone like in the middle of the room. Yeah. Just like standing by the window. No. Instead I read in my bed in like a ball against the wall. I'm like leaning against the wall. That's like my favorite spot is just like, because like my bed is in a corner and where the two walls meet there's just like a little nook. And so I'll just like cozy myself in there with my blanket. And that's where I read especially because it's like against a window. So there's like natural light. It's the perfect spot. But I just don't like chairs that much. So I have a thing against chairs. I've beef with chairs. Okay. You probably hate your stool. Yeah. How dare you place me on this. Would you prefer to stand? We'll just make the tripod really. I'll just kneel. A squat. Isn't it weird at all? I just like tea with books. Tea and books is a good combo. Wait, do you buy those cute mugs from Indigo? They're so cute. We've seen all their cute mugs. No, we have a collection of all the like Starbucks mugs that have like locations on them. So we have like, right? We have like the, we have Toronto. We have Calgary. We have like a couple of the U.S. cities. We have a couple. We have like London, Paris, some of the other ones. And we have, I think we have a few Indigo ones. But no, we have mugs from like everywhere. We're a mug family. That's cool. As you can see, I have a lot of mugs. We have a lot of mugs. Julia has a collection. She has endless mugs. Every time I collab with someone, they're like, you have a collection of this. Like last time when my friend came over, she's like, she has a lot of stickers. Do you? I like stationery. I love stationery. We are going to bond over, you, whenever you come to Toronto, we'll be like, girl, let's go to, let's go to Muji. So, get some more stationery. We might own the whole store, right? Take all the pens. I love Muji pens. They're so good. I used them for school this time. They're so good. And like the fact that they have like different, like tip sizes and the colors, like the consistency is just so good. It flows so naturally. There's one thing though that I find the, sometimes the back of it gets unscrewed a little bit and like it pops in. Yeah. Not like the, yeah that or like the little tip. Yeah. And then you have to tighten it. Yeah. I've done that before. That's happened. But like I have one of those ones where like you can insert different colors in it. And it has like, I have one of those. And I always run out of the black ink, because I just go through it really fast. And then, because I also use them for school, because like I like it. It's like fun to write notes with them. Yeah. And I can tell that these, this is messy actually. Well, no, but those look like Muji pens. Because they look like Muji pens. This is where it can be messy. Oh, by the way. I love your, your, I can't speak words. Your videos with the... Oh, the bullet journal. Yeah. That's over there. Okay. I can't speak words. It's okay. You're gonna need to fill in the blanks, Julie. Okay. No, but I remember when we went to the signing, I went into the Muji in Yorkdale. And I went in there and I'm like, I was looking for those refills for the black pen. And like they didn't have any. They're like, we're sold out. And like I was devastated. Like that was the worst day of my life. Yeah. I didn't even know they had a Muji in there. Yeah, they do. It's like hiding at the back. Oh. Like it's like that other side that usually is closed. They have one there. Okay. Cause yeah, I usually go to the one across from the eating center. Yeah. I go, I usually... But they just changed locations to like a few doors down and I'm like, Ugh. Like malls. Don't like malls. Is it the people or the shopping? Or just the environment? There's something about malls. Like I don't mind shopping if it's like boutiques. Even that I'm not like a huge shopper, you know. I'm not like wild about it. But what? He said wild again. God. Ugh. Ugh. Don't call me out on this. I would have much rather just be ignorant to the amount that I say it. Cause now I'm going to notice it when I say it. It's gonna be horrible. It's okay. Sorry. Thanks Julia. God. Um, but yeah. No, I... Like all of it. Like just everything about malls. Oh now you're not going to drink? Aw. Look how cute. Very cute. I'm such a mom to my cat. Like I'll send people photos of my cat all the time. Yeah. It's how you go live. Cats deserve every... Yeah. Like I go out for lunch at school and there's a pet store nearby so I'll buy them a toy to bring it home to. And then one of my friends was just like, why isn't my mom like you? Like why doesn't she bring me home things? Like when I get home. And then I'm like, or why doesn't she greet me nicely at the door and then there's me and I'm like, she was so excited. I love cleaning a home and he's there. So cute. My dog is like crazy. She is... Yeah. She is like, high key anxiety. She's just gotten crazy in her old age. So she spends most of the time like outside. Okay. She doesn't like spending time with people that much anymore. Me. So, yeah. But it's so nice. When you like come up to the house, she like greets you and she's like, hi. And I'm like, oh. Hi. Hi. Especially when I come home and I'm like mad, which is like the majority of the time. He's just like meowing at me. So I'm like, hello.