 My life's kind of boring, but I'll film it anyway. No one else for this. Oh my God, please never let me do that again. Hello everybody, welcome back to Vlogmas. Vlogmas 2022, can you believe it? We have a lot to catch up on, there's a lot. There's a lot going on with me, my face, my hair, et cetera. But we are back for another year of Vlogmas. This is, I believe my like seventh year doing Vlogmas. So I'm very excited to have you along with me. Oh, got Drew here. We are, can you be a little more excited for Vlogmas? Come on. But we're headed to Target this morning because we wanna get some Christmas decor. We want some things for our place. We actually donated quite a bit of stuff before we moved because we were really nervous about the amount of storage and stuff that we would have in this apartment. And now we have like not enough stuff and stuff that, you know, we want to get more stuff basically. So we're headed to Target to get more shit for our apartment. We're actually gonna head to the Target that's close to where we used to live, like our old neighborhood. So that'll be fun. Visit our old stomping grounds and whatnot. And yeah, okay. So to catch you up, we've been through a lot over the last few weeks that I took off. First things first, we need to discuss my lips. If you haven't noticed, Drew is laughing right now. Um, okay. We're gonna get this out of the way right away. I did get lip filler a couple of days ago. My lips are incredibly swollen and bruised right now. It's actually kind of terrifying. And I did want to like briefly touch on this. I don't, I'm not really, I don't really love it. I see a lot of people, you know, be like it's no big deal about getting injectables, right? And I had been curious about, by the way, I need to disclaim that these are gonna go down. Like they're very swollen and bruised right now, as I mentioned. So it's not going to look like this. And I thought about delaying Vlogmas altogether or just like not filming it because of how this turned out. And it's just a lot juicier than I wanted. But like, I don't know. I see a lot of people talk about getting them, but no one really that gets it and is like, ooh, I don't really like it. And it has nothing to do with the person who, you know, gave me the injections. She's amazing and really, really talented. I just don't think I like it on me. So she told me to give it three weeks and let them like fully settle, like fully get, you know, unswollen, let the bruising go away. And then I can like decide if I want to get them dissolved or not. And then I will have to go through like the swelling process all over again. And you know, it's all right. I can say that I did it. This lighting is horrendous. I'm sorry. I can say that I did it, but I certainly would never do it again. And it was really expensive. It was really painful. And I just, it just wasn't for me. So I don't know. I'm not trying to discourage anyone if you've been thinking about doing it. And, you know, you want to like increase the volume of your lips or whatever. Absolutely go for it. But yeah, I just haven't seen a lot of people talk about getting it done. And then being like, ooh, I don't know if I like, I don't know if I like this because I really actually loved my, you know, I love my natural lips. I think they're really cute. There was nothing wrong with them. It wasn't that like, you know, I desperately needed to change them. And you don't have to have a reason obviously, but they're a lot bigger than I would like. I don't think they look bad at all. I just don't know if it's like for me, per se. You know? Okay, now we can move past that. They will be swollen for the next couple of vlogs. Probably the next few vlogs, honestly. Yeah, so mostly like right up until Christmas. Anyways, okay. Died my hair. I dyed my hair a couple of weeks ago. I just wanted to do something a little bit more like natural for fall and winter and just not have to worry about doing my roots. And I just wanted to like try something different. So this is actually like a semi-permanent or a temporary color that basically washes out in like 20 washes. So I figured this would be like a good sort of temporary thing. And then if I want to go blonde again back in the springtime, I can do that. But yeah, so much has happened. Like so much time has passed. Oh, they do have Christmas trees. Drew had his birthday, which we did go to Disneyland for. It was really, really fun. I built a lightsaber. Oh yes, you did build a lightsaber. That was a really cool. He had been like kind of waiting to do that. So that was a really cool experience and like the whole ceremony and stuff was really cool. And there was another guy in our group who also it was his birthday that day. And he also built a lightsaber. So that was kind of funny. And yeah, they both had the like evil color. Big Scorpio energy. I'm trying to think of what else. Like there's just, yeah, like so many different things. We just had Thanksgiving yesterday with our friends. These blogs are gonna be a little bit delayed just for like my mental health. So yesterday was Thanksgiving. Today is Black Friday. So we're gonna head out and do some, you know, Christmas decor shopping because we don't need anything for Black Friday. Also last week, I got invited to the coolest photo shoot from my friend Chelsea and it was being put on by Chelsea and Ariel and they were just doing this like beach photo shoot and asked me to be a part of it. And I was like, yes, please. It was so fun. I had never met any of the girls in person before. So it was really cool to be able to have that experience and then like, you know, not be vlogging because it forced me to really just be in the moment. So it was nice to like meet people that I had already followed and then also make new friends. So it was really cool. And yeah, I had a great experience. I'm pretty sure those photos will already be on Instagram by now. Other than that, just, you know, putting needles in my face. So anyways, okay, I'm gonna shut up. This has been the longest intro ever but we're going to Target and we're gonna have a fun little Christmas-y day. Let's do it. I feel like this is the first time I've seen this during Christmas time in the US. It could be like a not new thing but there's so many Terry's chocolate oranges. We have the regular one. We have dark chocolate. We have popping candy version. White chocolate. Oh and don't be, see it is called Toffee Fae here. So everyone who was correcting me and me and Jasmine's candy video, they were correct. And look at all this candy, literally. Jolly Rancher flavored candy canes. Lifesaver flavored candy canes. Skittles. Sour punch. Soda. Hot tamales. Doctor Pepper flavor. Should we try them? Should we try a weird one? They have pepper, they have 7-up. 7-up is weird. I like drinking it but I don't know if I would like eating it in a candy cane. Oh my God. Airhead Swaver, probably would love that. Look at how freaking cute all of these things are. There's like little gnomes. These are for baking. We have like little candy canes. Oh my God, I'm dropping them. There's like lights. And then these little things. Like windows, Christmas trees, ugh. So cute. Oh my God, there's a skillet thing and it comes with a skillet. I need Kroku. Of course, I brought this camera with me and didn't charge the battery. Oh, why? My battery's gonna die soon, but look at that. Iconic. I have to get used to this being so close to my face. I got another camera to bring with me into like stores and things. My other one's like kind of big. I feel like very close up right now. But it kind of feels like old days. This is the one I used to vlog on. The old days. The old days. So happy I'm surrounded by Christmas. I have just found, I know we haven't made it to the decor yet, okay? I know that. I've just found the cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. This freaking tiny Nutella. I think I need it. I think I need it. We left Target. My camera that I brought in didn't have a charge battery so it died. And then also someone was like having a mental health crisis. Where are we? Just wanted to be respectful of that. But now we're heading to a little Christmas tree stand that we saw. And we were like, let's just see what they have. I don't know. We're not gonna be here for Christmas. And it's like a month until Christmas. So I think it'll last until then. So we're gonna see if we can find a Christmas tree. Who knows? She's the one. She is cute. She's a little short, but also I don't want like super duper tall. I like them short and wide. This is so cute too. This is like the perfect tree. Look at her. But I want it a little bit taller I think. I think we've decided on one. We've only been looking around for like five minutes but honestly, I think it's like their first day. So they're still setting up some trees and it's kind of hard because there's either like really small ones or really big ones. But this one looks really good. Number 21. I think she might be coming home with us. Christmas tree in. All right, we got her. She's up there. Let's go get her set up. Heidi. Oh my God, it's so festive. I love it. Yay. She wants them out. Hi. Let's get her in the living room. Hi. There she is. Absolutely stunning. Drew wants it in the window because he wants to show her off. So we'll decorate her later but I want to show you what I got from Target. It is time for a Target haul. First and foremost, the most glamorous purchase. Toilet paper and paper towels. All right, next up we got a couple of pillows. I am obsessed with this pillow. This is like one of the Opal House pillows and like how cute is that? It's kind of like sort of retro, like 60s, 70s looking. And then I got this one to go on the couch. How cute are these? All right, next up we have, gonna take a little potty break for Leila. We have a couple, well, everything's just kind of scattered. So nothing is really in order. We got a Terry's chocolate orange for Drew's mom, the original. We got a couple of different flavors of jelly beans for our friends. They really like different flavored jelly beans. So we got some cocktail classics, Moscow Mule, Pina Colada Strawberry Decree. And then we also got holiday favorites, pumpkin pie, eggnog, cranberry sauce, hot chocolate, and candy. We just couldn't resist. We got a couple of jelly beans for ourselves. We were like, why not? Here's one of them and it's seven up flavored. Seven up flavored jelly beans. I don't know, why not? We got two little things of garland. Oh, here's the other jelly beans. These are the ones Drew picked out. These are Dr. Pepper flavored jelly beans. I don't know, kind of interesting, kind of fun. We got two garlands. I don't know if we're gonna end up needing both, but they were only $3. So we got some silver. We did use tinsel last year and it was just way too messy. We still have it, but I don't know if we're gonna end up using it. I'm pretty sure I showed this, but the world's tiniest Nutella. Can you eat it? So cute. We got a couple of ornaments. We got some ornament hooks. And then we got a little deer. This just felt very vintage looking to me and just how cute is that? And then Drew got a little gnome, Santa. As you will see, when we decorate it a bit, he has a little bit of a thing with gnomes. And also his family just continually buys him gnome stuff every year, so we have a collection. We got this, which was from the dollar spot. And I think I'm just gonna like set it down somewhere and then put like a holiday candle in it. So I thought that would be a cute little thing. We got the same as this little deer ornament. We got this little like set of ones that stand up. So it's three of them. We got some wrapping stuff. We needed some more bows. I just figured while we were there, we might as well. We got some gift tags. He specifically got these because there's a dinosaur on that one. Oh, we got some more little deer ornaments. How cute are these? Like they look like the ornaments that were popular when my mom was a kid or something. So cute. I got a couple of makeup things. I got a NYX Epic Wear Liner in blue. And then I got a couple of eyebrow pencils for NYX as well. What else we got here? Drew hat pair of sweatpants. Gray sweatpants. Ladies, if you know, you know, we got more. Don't you worry. Along with the wrapping stuff, we got three rolls of wrapping paper. Oh, and a cookie sheet because you can never have too many. So these are the three wrapping papers we got. We got this sort of like buffalo plaid looking one. So cute. We got this one that says Mary and bright. Silver with some candy canes. You gotta love it. And then this bag we got this cute. I think I showed myself getting this, but this is like a little village of mini gingerbread houses. And last year we went to our friends, Joe and Laura's house and we did like, I think like a sleigh or something like that. And it was just like a smaller project and it was much better because like the big ones are just really big. And this all came in one pack. So we can each decorate our own house. And then we can like get extra candy if we want or whatever. Here we got some deodorants. I got some deodorants. We got these two. These are so cute. These are like little tea light holder things, but they're battery powered, which is amazing. So I'm pretty sure it already comes with a battery in it. And then they just like light up at night and they're just like little houses. I don't like that. Speaking of little houses, we got an ornament. Anything that looks like it could be like sort of older vintage-y. I'm all about it. We got these hot chocolate spoons. One of them is milk chocolate with marshmallows. One of them is milk chocolate with peppermint and one's like I think dark chocolate with cinnamon. So we just, I think you just stir these in hot milk and it makes hot chocolate. Oh, this is so cute. This like felt ribbon and it's kind of like scalloped, like kind of wavy. And I thought this would be really cute with the Marion bright. And then we got a, oh, Lail's gonna be drinking water. And we got this little cookie tin because if you watch my vlogmas videos, we make Christmas cookies every year. Sometimes they're a fail, but most of the time they're good. So in case we want to like give them to people or just somewhere to like store them. And then, okay, I'm almost done, I promise. We went a little crazy, it's fine. You know what, it's fine. We got this garland that's either going to be like hung above, like in a doorway or near our TV or something like that, like on our little TV stand thing. And then we got some bubbles. We couldn't remember if we had the bubbles from last year or if we donated them. So if we still have them, we'll keep them in return, these ones, but if not, then we'll just use these ones. And there we have it. That's our cookie haul. Don't give me your keys back. Yes. We just finished our leftover Thanksgiving plate. It was delicious. So we're gonna try these weird-ass jelly beans that we saw. Oh, yep, there it is. He's a Dr. Pepper guy. I'm a seven up girl. If there was Diet Coke, I would have tried it. There wasn't even Coke. No, it's all. Dr. Pepper. Yeah, it's like seven up and maybe like orange soda. Yeah, orange is a crush. So let's see. Bon appetit. It's really hard to open. It hurt my finger. All right, cheers. Cheers. Are we just gonna drink them? It tastes like lemon lime, but it tastes nothing like seven up. Does it? They got all 23 flavors. Or it doesn't taste like Sprite or seven up, but it just tastes like lemon lime. It's like lemon lime, but also it's like, just what seven up is. Did I tell you that when I was in the UK, we were at the grocery store, we were picking out stuff for lunch. And I was like, oh, I should get a lemonade. And Jasmine was like, did you want to get like a Sprite? And I was like, I go, no, I said a lemonade. And she was like, yeah. Like it's a lemon lime sparkling. And I was like, that's not lemonade. And she was like, well, yeah it is. I was so perplexed that I said lemonade and her reaction was like, oh, you can get a Sprite. I was like, huh? And I was like telling Alexa and Alexa was like, what? We're both like that. So it must be like. It's like that. I know it's like that in France too. So I did find some still lemonade, but I think by default, their lemonade is usually sparkling. Okay, anyway, sorry. Cheers. Not exactly. No, it's like sweeter. One of them flavors. One of the 23. I mean, the lemon lime is good. It's lemon lime flavor though. It's not seven up at all. I'm gonna give it like a six out of 10. Do this like an eight. Okay. It's nice. Cheers. Cheers. Let's go back to our tray. Gonna turn on my tray. First things first, we have to set the scene. So we have to do a little bit of, oh, just a little bit of holiday ambiance. YouTube is the spot for that. Should we just do fireplace? Sure. This one has instrumental Christmas music. Sure. Would you look at that? I want to go to there. So Drew actually did. He had to change the batteries out of our wreath from last year. Like the batteries had died. So he just hung this up because the hook was already there from our fall stuff. So here's our first little bit. And now we're gonna assess what we have and then just go from there. We have our bin from last year over here. And then we have all of our new stuff over here on the couch. We did actually also get this from freaking Trader Joe's. How cute is this? So yeah, maybe like, I don't know, that might be cute. Like above the TV or above like a doorway. So this is nine feet. We have our gnomes. Oh my God. Oh, this is just the box. Yeah. I thought we'd saved the garbage from last year. Here's a lot of our ornaments. We'll go over those in a bit. We have a lot of gnomes happening. Drew, like I said, loves gnomes. His family gives us gnomes every year. So we have this one with some baubles in his beard. We have this one that lights up. I think we actually did get rid of a couple of them. We have this one, which is just a little jolly green color. We have another one, green and red. We have this gray. Oh yeah, I forgot I thrifted that. Oh, whoops. I'm gonna pull mine to the spot. There's like, we have the kitchen. We don't have, we don't have any other, like this is it, this is it. This freaking ornament, this is like an angel ornament. It's supposedly my birthstone, which it says, I don't know if you can see it. It says green zircon for December, but I've heard so many different people say, so many different things for what December's birthstone is. Like some have said turquoise, some have said like blue, something. I always thought it was blue. This is green zircon. I don't think this is accurate, but this is from the 90s. So anyways, our stockings, our stockings. This, is it yours? Yes. If anyone remembers this throwback, my mom gave me this. I don't think that's the ornament that's in here, but who remembers precious moments? When precious moments were everything, this was from 1995. I won't say how old I was in 1995, but everyone had a precious moments phase apparently. We got our stockings. We'll probably hang them from like the TV stand or something. Let's see your butt crap. Stop. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh my god, it's so cute. You like it? Yeah, I love that tree skirt. Yeah, that's so good. Looks like sweater. Sweater weather. These are the little houses that I showed. Those are gonna look so cute at night. They were each $5, which I thought was like a pretty good deal. They're like ceramic too. Look how cute is that? Cute. So Christmassy. All right, now it's Garland time. Look at that. Oh my gosh, it's so pretty actually. All right, here's what we've landed on. We moved some stuff around. This little tea light thing, actually like the smoke comes out of the chimney. It's so, so cute. We have our little deer here. I think this is my favorite corner so far. We have our candle lit. We have our three Wisemen over here. Love that. Yeah, that's our three Wisemen. They're also Christmas carolers. We have our beautiful glowing sparkly Garland over here. We have grandfather and other grandfather or maybe grandson over here. And then the two light up houses. They're keeping guard of everyone obviously. Then we have Miss Glorious over here. Very festive, very cute. And now it's time to decorate the tree. Did I even press record? All right, we added a little sheer curtain behind because we just thought that that would look really nice. I'm like, look how cute it's looking. So next we're gonna do some Garland. Let's see what's in this precious moments box because God only knows. Oh, it's another angel. Oh, what an angel. Our parents really loved the angels in the 90s in there. They just loved an angel of decor. Yeah, it's kind of at the top, like she's funny. She's our little Christmas cherub. We also have this one straight out of the 90s. This was Drew's favorite character, Marvin the Martian. Does it have a date? 1997. There you go. I think these are like the little vintage-y ones that we got. We got this one at a thrift store last year. I'm like, how cute is that? Little baby snow gloom. Hmm? There's my mom. We're not gonna show every single one because it's boring, but here we have a stormtrooper. We got a couple of penguins over here and the big boy. We have, oh my God, we have our 2020 ornament. There's several random years. Here's our 2020. Here's Drew as a baby. Look at that little sweet baby child. Can't you even? Here's an ornament that we got after our trip to Japan, but we wanted it to like commemorate our trip to Japan. So there's that one. Got a few more thrifted ones. We have our 2018 ornament. We have our 2021 ornament. Here's another 2018. We got two on 2018. I think I got us one and then his mom got us one that year. Yeah. Oh, we have another challenge. Of me? Where are you? Where's you? Think about the bottom. I see an ear, just kidding. Sweet angel. It even says Drew 1997 in glitter penguins. Wow, what a year. Yeah, clearly. We have our 2019 ornament. His mom got us this because that's the year we moved to LA, which thank God we're back. We actually have an ornament that my mom gave me that was on our tree every single year for me growing up. And this was my first Christmas in 1988. I don't want to talk about it. Look how cute that is. It's so old. Oh, I found one. I found two of me. Oh my God. First of all, I need to have a conversation with my mother because this hair. I went to a salon called the Pink Cadillac Salon. And I mean, this haircut explains all of that. Also, this is 1991. This was my preschool photo. Adorable. Oh, thank you. Everybody in that hair. Yeah, these bangs, you know? Not the bangs. Love it. All right, the rest you've mostly seen. We have an Arizona one. We have some faces. We have the Obama's. We have David Bowie. We have Prince. We have it all. So, all right, let's finish this strong. All right, and the last thing there is to do is honestly just put our cute little pillows out. I already switched out my fall ones. And this little tree with this guy. So freaking cute. I definitely think I want to get like a Christmas blanket or something, but like this will do for now. And then here we have this couch. Yeah, I think maybe a little pop of red, but I just know that there's like red in the rug. So I just didn't want to be too on the nose, you know? But like, how cute. All right, that's it. We're done decorating for now. We're not going to talk about this plant, okay? He's very just exhausted from this day of decorating. It just really wiped him out. Today drained me. So here we have it. It's looking so cute and Christmasy. I love the look of the tree. It feels very kind of like, I don't know, throwback vintage, like sort of like trees of my childhood, of our childhood. So hope you enjoy. I also really like the look of the sheer curtains underneath. Like so cute, so Christmasy. And with the Harry Potter lights on at nighttime. It's going to be so much fun. So I think that's going to do it for the first vlog of Vlogmas. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited to go along this month with you in case you're new here or you didn't know. I'm going to be posting a new vlog every other day. You'll have 12 new like days of Vlogmas to look forward to throughout the month. And I can't wait to take you along with me. So I'm sending you so much love. Thank you so, so, so much for being here. And I'll see you tomorrow for Vlogmas number two. Bye.