 Good morning everybody, welcome back to another vlog. I just got home from a hot girl walk. Yes, I am still calling it that. You can bite me. I was listening, of course, to the Laguna Beach podcast with Kristen and Steven. Love it, very nostalgic. I am actually going to make some breakfast and have some coffee. And I thought I would catch up with you all, taking off my shoes right now. Cause, you know, it's been a minute since we caught up, did a little Q&A. And yeah, I've been, it's been go, go, go lately, which I mean, I'm sure it's that way for everyone, but like since I got home from England, I've just been kind of like trying my best to catch up with all my friends. I went and actually I filmed this video while like part of it, like earlier this week. These videos are like a week or so delayed, but I ended up like the audio was messed up. I was trying a new mic situation. It didn't work out, but anyways, I went for my weekly, bi-weekly walk with my friend Lyra. She's one of my friends from Tennessee. And we walked around, got some coffee, chilled a little bit, and then Friday night, which was the 30th of September, was when Hocus Pocus II came out. My friend Lyra and her husband, Joe, hosted us for like a fun little night. And we kind of like dressed up a little bit. I dressed up as Allison, Drew dressed up as Max, and then Lyra and their friend, Sean, dressed up as Jay and Ice, which was really funny. And we made like the cutest, we saw it on Pinterest, like the cutest charcuterie board that was like in the shape of the Sanderson sisters. It was a hit. I loved it. And the movie was okay. Like it was mostly just for the nostalgia, but yeah, that was great. And then this week, I've just been kind of like putting my head down working. I will get into like a rat chats update. It's not bad. It's just, you know. Anyways, so I thought I would make some breakfast and answer some questions. Okay, I'm just gonna make like a yogurt situation. Oh, they're open next week. I have some fruit that's like on the way out. I think I'm gonna make a fruit salad. Okay, so the first and most asked question, honestly, was do you see yourself moving to England? Like, are you gonna actually move to England? Would you and Drew ever move to England someday? Like all of these questions about moving to England. And I guess we've like talked about it in the past. Like we've always said that maybe we would have some sort of experience where we move to another country for a couple of years. I definitely wouldn't say no, like if the opportunity presented itself. But yeah, I don't know. It's so funny because that wasn't that. It's so funny because like, I do think that I don't know if I'm like speaking out of turn or whatever. I'm not speaking for every single person in the UK, but people in the UK really have strong opinions about Americans and like, I get it because you know, there's reasons for that for sure. That's very disgusting. Some of the people that represent us aren't the greatest, so I wholeheartedly get that. But I just don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. I'm editing this right now and I didn't really answer the question specifically because I got sidetracked by the fact that my entire For You page on TikTok for the last like week has been British people hating Americans. Like I think I just was in a spot where I was feeling defensive or something, which is weird because like, I have no problem with people talking shit about Americans or America. But I think my answer was like more based off of the fact that that morning I had seen so many TikToks of like people walking around London and being like, what's the worst part of Americans living in London? Or like, what do you hate about Americans? And like, I've never had opinions on people from other countries. So like it just, I don't know why it like bothered me, but to answer the question, if the opportunity presented itself, yeah, absolutely. I love it there so much. I watch Escape to the country every single night when I'm eating dinner. Like I would love to live in the English countryside someday. I think I was thinking like too logistically about it. And I was also feeling the sensitive because of TikTok, okay, on with the vlog. That wouldn't be the only reason that I wouldn't move there, but I just don't know. It's like really far away, but I do love visiting. Like I'd love to make it like, I'd love to visit there like once or twice a year. So we'll see what happens in the future. I'm not like super post the idea, but it's not something that like I'm actually thinking about, but I do love visiting. And if the opportunity presented itself in like a post pets world after our pets are long gone and like possibly maybe, I don't know. But for now, probably not. I got a couple questions about my tattoo, which I guess I never really showed that much in that blog where I got it done, but there it is. It's just a tiny little smiley face, but it was a true spur of moment decision. I have always had like a list in my phone of running tattoo ideas. So this wasn't like a new thing. The idea of a smiley face tattoo was just sort of something I came up with last minute because if we're being honest, the tattoo shop we were at, the original idea that I thought of, just it didn't turn out great. And then I tried to think of another idea and that didn't turn out great either. So this was like my third idea. And it was just like a cute little fun one, just very, very tiny. But I have had the idea of like something to commemorate just sort of this chapter in my life. Does that make sense? I need to wash this kiwi. We are going to ignore all of the dishes in my sink, but this chapter in my life has been like really meaningful because this year in particular, I feel like was the year that I really started taking care of myself and prioritizing myself. And like, oh my God, we have to move again. I really started putting myself first and prioritizing like my mental health, my physical health. I went back to therapy for the first time since like my early 20s. I started trying to exercise more and just like take better care of myself overall. And I mean, it's still very much a process, but I'm just really proud of that. Even things like trying new foods that I've never had before standing up for myself in situations like in friendships or whatever, this kind of like, I don't know, I wanted to commemorate that for this year. And also like my trip to England and all that fun stuff. So yeah, this question I thought was interesting. I don't really have like a set answer for, but it's something that I'm seeing a lot more creators kind of talking about recently. And the question said, how do you decide what to share with your audience and what you keep private? That's still a balance I'm very much trying to work on. And I don't know if you've been, how long you've been watching me, but what I show online has very much changed over the last few years, the last couple of years. I think back in the day, I used to share absolutely everything, like everything you could imagine. I shared personal family details. I mean, I told story times for like two years of my life, past relationships, like so many different things, personal details of my own relationship. Like it was just a lot. And so now I'm just a lot more, I don't know, I've learned the value of having a little bit of privacy. And I know it probably doesn't seem like it because yeah, a lot of my life, well, I would say 25% of my life is online. And then like the other 75% is for me personally, like it's my private life, but I actually, I'm very in a routine now of like what I will and will not show on my channel. Like friends, kids, for example, I don't show anymore. Family members, I don't really show anymore. Drew's family members, I don't really show anymore. A lot of friendships that are outside of like the social media space, I don't really share anymore. It's just things that I'm like protecting, you know? And like what's great about boundaries is they can shift and change whenever. And I love that. I love being able to take a few steps that are probably really small to most people but that like help protect my peace. And nothing matters more to me than my peace and my private life. Sometimes I film things and then I'm like, ooh, actually I don't really feel comfortable sharing that or like it feels like it may be like a safety thing or whatever. So it's just a matter of like learning as you go along and I very much am still learning. But yeah, I definitely don't film half of the stuff I used to and that's for a reason, you know? Okay, let's make coffee. The questions are actually about Midnight's which is Taylor Swift's new album that she is now releasing in 17 days. Holy shit, my coffee is spilling. And I got some questions about like, how are you doing? Are you gonna be filming a reaction video? No, I won't be filming a reaction video because to be honest, like my brain cannot compute. Like I can't like give you a reaction. I'm literally just sitting there in silence like this. I feel things very deeply and so I would never be able to like film a good reaction. So that probably won't be for me but one of my friends Ally asked which track are you claiming on Midnight's? And I haven't heard what track five is yet, obviously. I don't know, like there are so many different things that intrigue me. Anti-hero obviously sounds so interesting. That's the most recent one at the time of filming this that's been released. But also the fact that there's a Taylor Swift song called Vigilante shit that exists that I haven't heard yet and I'm doing much for my random process, I can't. I think that one's gonna ruin my life. I think it's gonna destroy me in the best way possible. I think it's gonna be my new favorite Taylor Swift song. Honestly, to put in my coffee by the way, Drew and I found this chai concentrate because we haven't been a Trader Joe's in a while. We found this chai concentrate that's decaf so he gets to put it in his coffee and then so do I. So I get to have like a little dirty chai situation. I don't put that much because I don't like super sweet coffee and it is concentrate so I do like that much. Someone asked will you be doing vlogmas this year? I don't know. I always do some iteration of it. I've done it since 2017 but it's a lot. It's stressful and you feel this sort of like fomo if you don't do it but then you also feel like really burned out. So I don't know, I may have to figure it out. I love that so many creators now. This is coffee by the way. Anyway, I love that so many creators are starting to be like, yeah, no, I'm not doing it this year or I'm gonna do it in my own way because like it started as this thing and there's sort of pressure to like post every day. Also those videos are usually really good ad revenue. So a lot of people wanna do it because obviously like you make more money than you usually would but I don't know, we'll see. I'll do some form of vlogmas obviously. A couple questions about customs. Did I get stuck at customs? And I guess I sort of breezed right past that in the vlog but that was something that I was very nervous about because if you remember, my last trip to the UK was kind of a traumatic situation at customs. I was literally held for like an hour and a half and questioned and they called Jasmine and they asked me every single question you could ever imagine in your entire life. And like I genuinely like was almost not led into the country because she was confused about my job. So anyway, this time I was kind of like, okay, I'm prepared for what I can say. Also, this time around is a little bit different because I'm a business owner. I own my own company now because of YouTube. Like I'm a registered business. So I was just gonna say like, oh, I own my own business, you know that and whatever. And then when Alexa and I got to the area where we were supposed to go through customs, first of all, the line was crazy for anyone who like was a UK resident, I don't know why, but the line for EU passports and US passports just like breezed right past it. And we actually just went through a machine. Like we just stood there, it took our picture and we left. So I don't know why there was a difference between this time and last time, but then when we got back in the US, we stood in a line for about 20 minutes. And then literally as we were going around the corner, this random guy comes out of nowhere and he was like, hey, come this way. And he like kind of re-routed us to this area where again, it was just like a kiosk. And I just stood there, it scanned my face and then I was let back into the country. So much different experience this time. It's a great British bake off contestant this season so far. I've only watched two episodes at the time of this being filmed, there's only been two. So I'm gonna say Yannouche probably because I think he's really funny and quirky. And he makes me laugh with like his, his just like confidence and I just love him. So him so far, and then there's another guy that I really like, hold on, I need to look it up. Oh, I like Maxie, she seems really nice, Drew's in here now. I'm talking about my favorite bake off contestants. I like Maxie a lot and Sandro. So those are probably my favorites. Who are yours? Yannouche. Yeah, same, that was the first one I said. I got Skarkanker. I got Skarkanker. He's adorable, so Drew and I like him a lot. Also, he's really nice, so. Yeah, and he's very talented. Never taken me so long to make my breakfast in life, but I think that's been blabbing. Okay, next question. A couple of different questions. This is like broken up into two parts. The first one was how was visiting England during like the time of mourning? And then also how was traveling internationally during COVID and like was it weird that everyone was maskless? To answer that part, yes, it was weird. And I'm just being perfectly honest, like I'm figuring it out. I have no idea what I'm doing. Alexa and I wore our masks like on the plane, on the trains. And then like when we got there, just nobody else was wearing one. And I don't know, I'm not gonna like speak for anyone else, but I just sort of like fell into it. And it's just like, oh, no one else is wearing it. I don't know. I'm just being perfectly honest. It felt really weird. I'm still learning how to navigate all of this. But yeah, it felt weird. And like now that we're back in LA, we wear masks at the time. We wear them to the coffee shop, grocery store, like everywhere. So I don't know. It was weird and like nobody, nobody, nobody wears masks over there. Like it's very, very rare. So I don't know. But no, I was not comfortable being maskless. It was just sort of like, I sort of fell into it. I'm gonna be honest. And then how was it being there during the Queen's stuff? It didn't affect our trip at all, except for that one day we tried to go down to Green Park to like get a view of the palace and it was closed off. But like we were only in London for the Friday and Saturday before her funeral, which was Monday. So it wasn't, we didn't really get affected by anything. But the only, I guess probably difference was that things were closed on Monday for her actual funeral. It was like a full national holiday. And then just like everywhere you went, there were like flowers and photos of her. And it was like, I mean, as an American we don't have anything to compare it to. And I mean, I have my own thoughts on like the monarchy and stuff. And like, anyway. I understand that like she meant a lot to a lot of people we as Americans. It's like really hard to comprehend. But overall, like yeah, it didn't affect our trip at all whatsoever. Couple of wash jins, one of which says, are you coming back to Japan now that it's opening back up next month? And the other one says, will you be going to Tokyo soon? Oh, you can't see it really well. Keep going. Basically our plan is to just sort of wait it out and like see what- Yeah, like how it's going. I've heard that, I don't even know if they've come out with like the full, it's not really a lot of, I don't know. This would be up like shortly before that. You don't know what the protocols will be. So I've heard people saying that they're going to get quarantined in a period. I don't know. So we'll see. But yeah, as soon as we can. You can't see him at all, but anyway. I'm over here. He's over there. But yeah, we're going to wait and see like what the situation is like and then decide from there. But yeah, we'd love to go back. Oh my gosh, of course. Do you ever think about just focusing on the blog channel or growing either channel? And yes, if you would have asked me back in like October of last year, I wanted to delete my main channel. I literally never wanted to film a main channel video again, and I just wanted to vlog. And then I went through a phase where I like felt that I loved my main channel and I wanted to delete my blog channel. But I do think those two types of content are kind of different. So I like to keep them separate. And I don't know, there are aspects of me that are like, don't know how I feel about putting my life online and like letting people say whatever they want about it. I'll probably do another video about that in the future about how it's really kind of affected my own perception of myself, like reading people's perception of me. But long story short, I'm going to keep things the way they are for now. I would love to only have one YouTube channel because if you remember back in the day, like everyone had two YouTube channels. So that's just sort of how it happened. And then a lot of people have started like kind of dwindling it down to one channel. And it just wouldn't make sense for the type of content I make. So we'll see maybe someday. Yeah, the goal would be to like have one channel for sure. But also sometimes I like having two. Which one would you give me? If I was, if you were asking me today my main channel, but I love like, I love my main channel. I just love making an editing vlog so much more. Like it feels more creative and stuff. And I love, it's like a virtual photo album to look back on for my life, you know. I think that's all the questions I'm going to answer for today because I'm gonna have my delicious, look at these cute bowls by the way. My yogurt parfait has yogurt, granola, almond butter. Or a mixed nut butter. I'm gonna have my fruit salad. These bowls I got at Goodwill, but I'm pretty sure they're from like Dollar Tree. So here we go. So cute. It just really felt like having another very cute, astounded breakfast. Oh, and my dirty chai is delicious by the way. Dirty, filthy. Dirty, filthy, slutty chai. It's actually, well I guess it would be really dirty because I didn't put that much chai, right? It's more dirty if you put espresso. Anyway, thanks for watching. Thanks for catching up with me. I'm sure a lot of you have questions about the rat situation. I'll give you a brief update. We can hear them now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so we're not freaking out. We're just gonna be proactive. And it's just part of like living in an apartment. Our apartment's like over 100 years old. So yeah, it's gonna happen, you know? It's like, these are just things you deal with. And we're more like quite from the last experience and at least so far. We can't hear them like eating away at the walls or like screaming at night or feeling them like when we're in the bathtub. I could like feel them like crawling under the bathtub. So, but yeah, we might have to bring ratchats but actually because... Or mice. I think it's rats. I think it has to be because that's what I forgot to mention in the other video. I'll keep this brief. But one night we were coming home. It was after we watched that movie in the cemetery. It was like one in the morning. We had walked our friends out to their car or their Uber or whatever. We got back and I was walking up to like our alley and there's another neighbor who had like a little carport situation and I watched a rat crawl up the wall and into the roof and I was like... They have a fruit tree. They have a fruit tree right there. So anyway, I don't know. Whatever, it's gonna be fine. It'll all work out. We're not moving. So we're just gonna have to deal with it and it's not bad. And this apartment's like amazing and we love it. That's gonna do it. Thanks for watching. Oh my God, that's so good. And we'll see you next time. Bye.