 Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel. And for today's video, I'm going to be giving you guys a little life update. So I was debating whether or not to make this video, but I've been vlogging on and off and I've been up at university if you do not know and I live like two and a half hours away from home. So I don't get this background a lot and I've been meaning to film up there and I just haven't done it and I vlogged a bit up there. So I wanted to start like vlog footage in this video just because give more of an update because I don't have enough footage for like an actual full vlog. But essentially I just wanted to talk to you guys about some life updates, school books, reading, upload stuff and just kind of fill you guys in on all that. And I also have an unboxing in a clip in this video as well if you're interested. So starting with reading, of course, I haven't been reading as much. I've been in school since September. So I've been at uni for about six weeks, five weeks and I've just been getting into the group of things. If you don't know, I'm a first year criminology student. So it's a big adjustment, especially living on my own and things like that. So that is all a lot and not to mention the amount of reading I have to do for school is really significant. So basically I'm gonna start counting textbooks on my Goodreads and we're gonna do that because that's what I've been reading. But in the last six weeks I've literally listened to one audiobook and I've halfway through another book. So I haven't been reading that much and I'm trying to make it a priority to read more and film more and that stuff because I was just trying to get my bearings at uni and get my filming back on track, my Patreon back on track and my reading back on track because I am the happiest when I am uploading and reading a ton and super active in the BookTube community and with all my friends. So I will insert some footage just of me and I'll put the dates that I filmed them up that were just me talking about the books I'm reading and what I thought of some books and yeah, jump right into that. Hi guys, it's Julia and welcome to a new vlog or reading vlog, I don't know what this is gonna be but basically I am on, I just finished my first two weeks at university and I was kind of saddling and trying to get everything together so I haven't been filming much but I did upload a video in that meantime. For today I just wanted to start a vlog and do some unboxings for you guys and talk about the books I've been reading. Oh, the book that I've read in the last little bit is You Are Bad As I'm Making Money by Jensen Cyril. I listened to this one on audiobook. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience listening to this. I think it's a great motivational self-help kind of book and I did get a lot of views out of it. Basically it just talks about how to make money, how to save money, how people view money and how you should look at money and all of that. So it was really interesting and I really liked it especially because I'm getting into all that stuff, not that I like getting into working with my own finances more so that was a really helpful tool. Another thing I would say about it is it is preachy sometimes, it is of course but and it's not the greatest self-help book or self-improvement book that I've ever read but I still really enjoyed it and got some views out of it but I'm giving it a 3.5, I liked it and I really liked the audiobook as well. I think it will help people but I don't know how much it will help you if you're really familiar with finances and all that. I don't know if it will add that much for you but for me it really helped. But yeah, so I read that and that was good and then I also listened to What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. I'm currently reading this one, I'm not listening to it, I'm reading it. I am about 100 to 150 pages in somewhere around there. I have it back up at uni so I don't have it here but I'm liking that one so far. It's basically about these two boys who meet in a post office and then they don't exchange numbers or anything and then they're both kind of trying to find each other again and it's really cute and the way the story is written is really like relaxed, teenage lingo, like fun contemporary jokes and it's just a really fun book and so I'm really liking that one so far. I just think it's a really like fun and enjoyable read. I don't think it's offered anything new yet or it's not like remarkable yet but I'm enjoying my time reading it. I've just been reading it really slow. Kind of sick all of a sudden. So my voice is like that, that's why. But I wanted to give you guys a little haul so it was my birthday the other day. I don't know if I mentioned that, it was my birthday. So I picked it myself up a few books and yeah, I'm really excited to show them to you guys. So I picked up Serpent and Dove and this one's about a witch so that's why I wanted to pick it up but it also is a romance and I think she falls for the witch hunter that's after her and I'm just really interested to read it. It looks beautiful and I've heard really great things about this one so far. So I heard it, the romance is also gonna get pretty good so I'm really excited for this. I'm not capturing the devil which I'm so excited about. You guys know I really love this series. Yeah, this one is the fourth book in the Stock and Jack the Ripper series and we follow a girl named Audrey Rose works with dead bodies basically and does all the work for them before a funeral and there's like autopsies in this book and it's gory and descriptive and it's also set, also are set during cool time periods. So the previous one was escaping from Houdini which took place on a ship and then the one before that was hunting Prince Dracula which I love too. And then the first one is Stock and Jack the Ripper which I don't love the first book but the second and third one are amazing. So I'm so excited about this. I got a chapter sample of this one so I'm really excited to own the physical full book now and it's probably gonna be my next read. I also got the Institute for anyone that is wondering. This is the new Stephen King book that came out and all I know is it's about like a kid with super powers kind of thing. So he's going back to his old roots there and I'm really excited to see what he's gonna bring to the table this time. I'm hoping to read this sooner rather than later. I'm bringing it up to me with university along with the other two. So I will have them there. Yes, I'm excited to read this one. I go into Stephen King books kind of blind so I'm really interested to see what this one is gonna offer. Yeah, so for today I have some family coming over and I also have packing to do because I'm going back up to university. So we gotta get that done. I do wanna film this morning if I can but my voice is dead and I wanna get on my It Chapter Two movie review but my voice is non-existent. So I don't know how I'm gonna talk for a whole video. So I might wait till I feel better and then just like get ready for my day and at the end of the day I'll have to pack up and leave. So we'll do that. I also, for audiobooks, I didn't bring my What If It's Us home so I haven't read any of that but I did get a copy of I forget the book, it's by Elizabeth Gilbert it's the self-help book, Big Magic or something. Yes, I got that on audiobook. I thought I wasn't gonna get that for like another month so when I got it today I was like, oh, so I'm gonna download that. I probably won't listen to it today but probably like tomorrow just because I listened to them when I get ready for school and like when I'm doing chores but yeah, I'm gonna have some time at home today and then I'll head back up tonight and I'm actually really excited to go back up because I don't know, I like it up there so I'm really excited to go back up and see all my friends there and like get back into the group of studying and have all that and yeah, I'm really liking my classes and if anyone has any questions about any of that just ask down below, I'd love to answer them for you and yeah, so I'll talk to you guys soon. Now I want to show you guys an unboxing so Goddus provisions worked with me and they decided to send me one of their boxes and I was so honored because this box is so cool and I talk about it so much in the next clip so I'll show you guys that but if you have ever been interested in their boxes or anything from them I will have all the links down below if you're into anything witchcraft, self-care related, aromatherapy they're definitely the people to check out I'll have my link down below in my code for you guys. It smells really good, so I really don't know. Oh my God, look. It's so cute, sorry, I'm so excited. Oh my God, this is so cute. So first up here we have Hedge Witch and this is a air element tea. So this has red clover, peppermint, lavender, lemon, star and something, linden. And this is a little bag of tea, which is really exciting. So that's really cute, this is why it smells so good. So that's really cool and it's a pretty good size too. This is also, ooh. This is Breathe Herbal Aromatherapy Enhancer. So is it like an essential oil or something? Oh, it's one of the things that you submit up, like you know when you would have a cold and you would use those things? It's like that, but it's aromatherapy and it's two clear cold sinuses, allergies and headaches. And perfect, I need this right now. I love that. Thank you, I needed this right now because I'm getting sick if you couldn't tell by my voice. This is really cool. So it's with essential oils of eucalyptus, peppermint, fur needle, Italian lemon, cardamom, tea tree and leaf, laurel leaf. So yeah, this is really cool. I'm really happy with this so far. This is a body oil. That's like chamomile citrine, it says. This is the body oil right here that it comes with. And also a pretty good size as well. So it's 60 milliliters. I love this so much. Okay, oh, it's so cute. I, okay, it's all packaged really nice. I'm really impressed, to be honest, about how much stuff is in here. Yeah, this is a little body oil and restorative herbal oil. Ooh, okay, it smells really good too. I love that. These are all little wraps, so I assumed they're little crystals. Not gonna let me show you, but it's really cool. It looks like a smoky quartz. I could be wrong. I'll probably check the packaging in a second. Ooh, ooh, ooh, is this essential oil? Wait. Activated oxygen hemp. I don't know what this is. Let's find out. Ooh, whoa, whoa, okay. It's a skincare thing. Hemp seed oil with activated oxygen. Castor oil, black seed oil. A bunch of different oils, it's organic. So I guess you use this on your skin. I guess it's like a little oil that you can use. I'm sure it will tell me on the card. And then in here, I think this is a essential oil. Oh my God, this has everything I love in it, okay. Oh, it leaked a bit. Okay, yeah, it leaked a little bit. Probably because it's been in my house for 10 years and I wasn't home to get it, but this is air. Yeah, it leaked a little bit, okay. Which is okay, but yeah, it smells really good. It has the air symbol on it and it's pure essential oil blend, doesn't really tell me. But yeah, it's like half full because I guess it leaked in the box, which it kind of did. But it leaked mostly in the wrapper so it didn't really get anything dirty. And then, I don't know what this is, but this is in here. I really love this box so far, so. So this is, I don't know. Wait, do you hang this up? I assume, do you hang this up? Oh, okay. So this is like the air symbol. Okay, yeah, this is the air box, that's what I thought. And bell making is an ancient Indian craft with enhancing origins, traditionally used by farmers to identify their livestock. Each bell is hand-tuned to produce a distinct chime made from recycled metal. Yeah, it's rustic bells, it's handmade. Okay, so they wrapped it in like a little thing. Product copper bell. So it's like a little copper bell. This is so cool, look. So this is the card it came with and it has a monthly mantra in it, it has the artist in it, and it has all this divination, divine details, so rate your box and win, plant a tree. So for every box sold, we plant a tree with our partner, so it's just really cool. We love recycling, your box and this card, 100%, 100% recyclable. Monthly giveaway, refer, God is programmed. So I do have links for you guys if you want that. Honestly, should get these boxes instead of book boxes, I'm kidding. But like, these are super fun. So yeah, if you're into any of the, even if you're not into any type of witchcraft or anything like that, this is also just super about the elements and about tea and aromatherapy and self-care. And there's a crystal in here and body oil and stuff, so this was great. There's also a digital bonus, so you get a free download of something. So yeah, it was a smoky quartz, a, the breather enhancer, the aromatherapy, the little drops, the essential oils basically, the body oil, the tea, the good medicine, electrodes, so the skincare item. Place six of the term on your palm and gently press onto your skin and the Imatra Bumi Fair Trade Wind Chime. So this is what it looks like in there. And yeah, this is what the card looks like and yeah, that was the box. So this is what it looks like on the inside. It looks super cool. I'll have the site linked down below if you guys wanna check out a box or if you wanna take a look at the website. So I'll have that all down below as well as my links. Just general updates about how uni is going. I am pretty happy there. I really like living on my own and I've managed to fit 60 of my books in there. I'll insert pictures of my shelves and some of my room because I'm sure some of you guys are curious about the dorm, but that's how I got it to look and that's how it's going so far. So that's what's happened in there. I, for anyone who is interested in the courses I'm taking, I'm taking this semester, I have women's and gender studies, psychology, sociology, criminology, and social justice. So I'm taking all those courses right now for those who are interested. So for those of you who are also in school right now, I wanted to wish you so much luck. It's super stressful and it makes, I kind of felt bad that I wasn't reading as much because I'm busy reading for school or I'm busy going to class and doing schoolwork and then I also am trying to make times for like family stuff, my own personal time, which I get none of, but then also trying to socialize, join clubs, get involved on campus, stuff like that. So it's been an adjustment. But yes, I also cut my hair the other day for those of you who care, but yeah. I did that in terms of TV shows, movies, all that fun stuff. I've been watching the Big Mouth season three came out so I've been watching a bit of that. I've also been watching American Horror Story and I did a video recently about books and American Horror Story and stuff, but I'm in the middle of hotel and then I'm also watching the newest season as those come out, the 1984 season. For films, I watched It Chat for Two, which I'll have my review linked up on the screen about that if you wanna know any of my thoughts. I also watched The Joker Movie, which I posted it on my Instagram story and I got a lot of questions about how I liked it and I would recommend it. And I'm not a person who is super involved in like that fandom or in that universe, I'm just not. I went to see it with my boyfriend because he really wanted to see it and it did look interesting to me because Joker is a cool villain, but I'm not like a hardcore fan of the entire series, franchise or any of that. So I just don't have an opinion to offer even on my letterbox where I track my movies. I just didn't rate it because I don't think I have enough background, knowledge and enough thoughts, I guess, to rate it. But I thought it was an interesting film. It dragged, I think, a bit at the beginning, but it definitely picked up and was a lot and there's a lot of trigger warnings for it. So I would definitely recommend looking into those before you watch it. I think that is all the updates I have to give you guys today. Thank you so much for watching this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. Let me know some requests for videos you would like to see in the future and I will put a poll up if you do wanna see me kind of film more in my dorm and stuff and it's gonna be a different background, of course, but if you do really want me to film up there, let me know, because I can, it's just I'm kind of nervous about it, but let me know. And hopefully I'll have some new recent reads videos out soon for you guys and October's here so maybe I'll vlog for Spookathon. I don't know, we'll find out, but thank you guys so so much for sticking around. We hit 19,000. So happy, so shocked about that. Thank you so much. My end goal of the year is 20K. I said it at the beginning and I honestly didn't think I was gonna reach it, but like I might, so thank you guys so much and yeah, I really appreciate it. Yeah, and I've been doing some giveaways as well so if you wanna check out any giveaways, they're usually on my Instagram or on my Patreon or my Twitter or whatever, so yeah. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you super soon. Bye.