 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. Well, it happened. I got sick. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Vlogmas number five. We made it almost halfway before I got fricking sick. It actually started happening right when we got home from the Christmas lights, which was I think the last thing you saw in Vlogmas. I started feeling like a little tickle in my throat and I was like, oh no. And I actually didn't even get to spend my dad's last day with him in LA. I was really sad about it and I just didn't wanna get him sick and he didn't have that much time here before he went to the airport anyways, but it was just a huge bummer. I was like really, really sad. I actually like was on my period at the same time and I was literally just like laying in bed crying. I was really dramatic, but it's fine. And it's been like four days and I'm like continually getting worse and don't worry, I have tested negative for COVID. It's just one of those things I guess and it's going around right now and I don't know if it was the flu or if it is the flu or not because I keep getting these bouts of like body aches and that doesn't really happen like that long for me when I am sick with a cold, but it's been like day three of body aches and it's pretty gnarly. But I gave myself three full days, like three full days in bed and I just have to like, I have to do something today. So I literally just like put on a little bit of mascara. I don't have any face makeup on or anything but I thought, you know, we got the show must go on. I'm going to take it easy. I'm not going to leave the house obviously. I'm not going to leave the house when I'm sick anyways but I'm just going to like take it really easy today and you know, it's vlogmas. So we're along for the journey, all the ups and downs. So you're going to, you know, hang out on a sick day with me. So first things first, I'm kind of in the mood to have coffee for the first time in like several days and we got this new coffee machine and I haven't even gotten to try it out yet. So I think that's first thing on the agenda. Maybe going to like try to make a fancy coffee and make myself feel better. I look how I feel. I feel how I look. I immediately just got back in bed and I'm going to watch some YouTube. I actually just finished, it's about 10 a.m. I just finished very, very, very last minute uploading my newest main channel video and I was putting the finishing touches on it at like 9.45. So really cutting it close this morning. I'm about to watch Molly Burke's new condo tour. It's so cute and I love her. Thank God I got this little tray to do my work on and I can lay in bed and I can like take it around because I don't really have a desk to work at in this house. Drew has an extra desk in his office but a lot of times like he has work calls and stuff and I just want to like give him his space. So I've been thinking about potentially putting a desk here in my bedroom or transforming my office a little bit and maybe like taking out that orange couch. It's kind of just there as an accessory at this point and then maybe putting a desk there, maybe even like a walking desk type of thing but I don't know if I'll like really stick with that so who knows. But yeah, I can't believe I got sick again. I don't know what it is. I think it's just like my immune system like readjusting and you know, maybe it's the fact that usually when I lived in Arizona, I was going out like once a month if that. Like I was doing something socially like once a month and since moving back to LA when I have like a lot more friends here, a lot of my hometown, Tennessee friends live here and social media friends and stuff. I feel like it's, I'm doing way more. Like I'm doing stuff multiple times a week and maybe that's why. I think I got sick from hanging out with my friend last week. Her husband and daughter were sick and then she ended up getting sick. So I think that's where I got it from. But it's just what happens. It's this time of year especially. And I mean, I'm hoping that since I'm sick now, I'll be okay for Christmas time because I'm usually like always sick at Christmas. It sucks. And yeah, like in a normal, first of all, I didn't get sick for two years but in like a normal year, I would probably get sick like twice, maybe three times in a year. And I think I've gotten sick four times since we moved here in June and it's December. So I don't know what's going on but I'm just trying to recover. So I'm gonna watch some YouTube videos. I don't really have any more editing work to do. I'm like pretty much all caught up on that. So I might do some like content planning, you know, that kind of stuff. Try to get back into getting some work done but also like rest at the same time hence the bed situation. And I'm very happy about this. I was just sitting there, you know, watching my YouTube videos and I had this thought and I was like, I could be doing this from the bathtub. Like why am I not sitting in the bath? Like soaking in like a nice Epsom salt bubble bath situation. I feel like it's really gonna help my body. I've been taking baths like every single day that I've been sick. And yeah, like why am I not in the bath right now? You know? So I'm gonna fill up my water and make myself like a nice spa bath because that just always helps me reset. And then I can like watch the vlogmas videos I want to watch today and like maybe some TikToks from the bathtub. Genius. Of course my lens is gonna steam up cause I'm in a hot bath. Like that makes sense. But oh boy, does this feel nice. I'm actually gonna read a little bit of the next book that I've been reading and it's called One Day in December. I actually saw my friend Chelsea or choosing Chelsea from Instagram TikTok. I'm talking about this book. And then when I opened it I saw that it was in Reese Witherspoon's book club. I don't, I'm not familiar with her book club but I think a lot of people follow along with that. And it's like kind of Christmassy themed. I'm only like literally 8% into the book. Like I just started it not too long ago. I think I only read a few pages like the first night. So I'm gonna try to get some festive vibes going read like a Christmassy book. I recommend it so far. I mean, I'm not that far into it but it's about like a sort of missed encounter type of thing. And then like trying to find that person again. And it takes place in London which I love obviously as we know. So I'm gonna put a little dent in on this. And then once I get out of the bath we're gonna have some lunch and do a very fun little taste test for lunch. So I'm trying to chug as much water as possible because I am coughing up a storm. I definitely think I'm gonna put on an old Navy onesie after this. That is like my ultimate comfort outfit. That makes me excited for when I'm done with this but for now we're gonna continue on with the book. Out of the bath reluctantly I wish I could have stayed in forever. It looks like this mirror is really dirty but it's just like a mercury glass kind of finish. But I do have my old Navy onesie on and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm so cozy. Hi! Drew reminded me that we haven't done our advent calendars yet today. So aw, you set them out and everything. Go ahead. You're on four. Yeah, I am. It looks thick. It looks like a lipstick. Oh, okay. Mascara! Mine's strawberry grape. You're gonna eat gross. Yeah, that's a lot of grape. What kind is it? And it's gum. Oh, let's try it. I mean, we are gonna eat them right away. I mean, it's gonna lose its flavor in mine. Yeah, that's true. I'll try the grape, I don't mind. Here you go. Here you go. The spice is actually good. It's not like Tylenol flavor. The mascara that I got is the Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. Did you know that's what it was called? He goes... Here she is. I have a little bit of mascara on this morning and it's like the Ilya. I mixed the volumizing and the lengthening one. All right, I'll split this gum now. By the way, this is what it looks like. How cute! It's really tasty, but we're about to eat lunch, so I'm gonna spit it out. Oh boy, it's a special delivery. If you're on TikTok at all, then you would have probably seen this already. I am so curious about this. But this is like the most viral thing I've seen in a while. Hello, welcome to my office. Welcome to lunch break. It's me. You probably don't wanna get too close. So this is called a tuna kado sandwich. This place is called Joe and the Juice and I'm pretty sure it's actually like a Danish-owned restaurant or like it's in Denmark, you wanna say someone said? Oh really? And so it's this sandwich. I do see a big tomato which looks, I don't know. But it's this sandwich that's like gone so viral on TikTok because supposedly it's like super delicious. So it's like a tuna sandwich. It has tuna, avocado, pesto, tomato and some other stuff. And apparently like the bread is super delicious and unique and like crunchy. And I just see people crunch it into this shit all the time, but they talk about how good it is. So we're about to find out. It's pretty good. I'd rather just have a regular tuna sandwich with like relish. The pesto is a nice touch. I'm trying to get like everything. I like the pesto better. We'll apparently want some. Honestly, what do you give it out of 10? Kind of like an eight? Yeah. I would say so too. Like maybe even a nine. It's really delicious. Maybe 40. Our life only exists in TikToks now. Like we just communicate via TikTok. But it's really good. The tuna flavor is really good. I like that the bread has like a little bit of crunch. I actually like it on this bread a lot. And I just saw so many people on TikTok biting into this thing and like the bread was really crunchy. It's a good crunch. It's a good crunch. And I'm eating it with tomato on it. So that's how you know it's good. They have a spicy one too. So maybe you'll have to try it out sometime. Really delicious. Not mad at that at all. It's many hours later and it is now that time to get nice and cozy. So we're gonna turn on these lights. Super cute. A personal fave. We're gonna turn on, actually I don't even know if we've turned these on yet. Our little houses. So cute. Love that. We can turn on our little wreath. We can turn on the lights behind our TV. We'll do green. And we can even change the color of that. It's holiday time, baby. This is so much fun. Oh my God. It's so Christmasy. I don't know how I feel about this. Maybe green. Whoa. I would turn these on. Honestly, most of them are dead. I actually kind of want to take them off. They're sort of bothering me because if they don't all light, like what's the point? But okay, there we go. About a third of them light up. At least it's cozy. We've got a couple of different shades of green happening but it's fine. So it's been several hours and I've just been trying to like rest up, relax. Now it's time to make some dinner but the day's not a total wash because we did something very exciting. Do you want to share? Well, so something happened and we're possibly going on a trip for sure. Going on a trip in our little rocket ship. Back to Arizona. Yay. We're going back to Japan. Oh, if I wasn't sick, I'd have a lot more energy but basically I'm gonna just sit, I've been sitting in this chair a lot today. It's kind of nice. Drew told me I should just sit here and he'll make me dinner and I was like, that sounds like a deal. He's obviously in a very good mood but basically we've been talking about taking a trip back to Japan for a while and when our friends were here for Thanksgiving we kind of got to talking about it and we had always talked about going with them like for years, honestly. I think we were talking about going together in 2020 and then obviously we know what happened. So that just got put on pause and now here we are and so we were kind of just like chatting about it and then on Thanksgiving we were all for like, yeah, let's do it. Our friend texted us like in the group chat and was like, hey, tickets are pretty affordable right now. Yeah, like the cheapest we've seen in a while and it's on the airline that we wanna fly and so we were like, should we just book it now? So we literally just booked it probably 15 minutes ago. So that is very exciting. We're not only going to Japan but we're going with our friends. We've been like talking about doing this trip together for so long and like they're so wonderful and they're well-traveled and really fun to go places with and explore with and they're like very much the same as us with like they wanna try all the foods and they wanna see all the things and experience a different culture and like all that kind of stuff. So we are freaking stoked. Unexpected turn for the day is that we're going back to Japan which like we knew was gonna happen but now it's like official official, like it's booked. Drew's crying because he's cutting an onion but also you're just crying because you're so, yeah. So in celebration, we are going to make a Japanese recipe which we were already gonna make anyways. Don't cry, it's okay. He's so excited. Drew's just very emotional about it. To our Japan trip. To our Japan trip. I'm gonna be alone because I'm on a sick. Yay. He's using it for the sauce. So he was like, why not? Yum. Cover it? Yeah. With our scenic sauce. Here she is. We usually do like green onion on top but honestly just too lazy. There it is. It's delicious. I'll link the recipe we used down below. Let's go eat and watch our Christmas movie. Time has come for the classic. We're done eating and we figured it's time. And we've, if you like haven't watched us for a while we recently learned last year that like English people take their Christmas chocolates very seriously like every year during Christmas time. I agree too. They're good. Their chocolate is bomb. But every year during the holiday season they have like Christmas chocolates that come out so we did try celebrations which is like, it's like a Mars company so it's Mars Bar which is like our Milky Way. Is it like a Snickers? There's like Maltesers. Yeah, it's like, you know, stuff that we have here. And then we also tried the movie in the background. It's kinda loud. We also tried Quality Street chocolates which are very popular as well. And then there was one more that we haven't tried. And I think I showed this a couple of blogs ago but we ordered a tub of roses. We've never had it. It's Cadbury. It's Cadbury, yeah. And we also got a Cadbury Hero's advent calendar last year. I love the Niki Deckers. We loved the Niki Deckers. I love them. So. Wow, pretty. They're so pretty. So we're gonna test them out and rank them. We won't make this as long as the other one. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine flavors. Yes. To try. I want the strawberry one. Oh, and it actually says on the front. So we have Caramel, Hazel Whirl, Hazel and Caramel, Strawberry Dream, Caramel, Signature Truffle, Country Fudge. Ooh, that's you. Dairy milk, Tangy Orange Cream. Yeah, there you go. You're gonna love that. Golden Barrel. So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Got them. So let's test. Are we picking random? Yeah. Drew's been waiting all day for this, by the way. Pick one. Don't look. I think we should start with the dairy milk first, because that's like the plain milk, right? Oh, come on. And then we've had dairy milk before here. I'm gonna adjust it so you can see, because we're gonna rank them after a while. Dairy milk is first. We've had this before. And it's just really, it's like pretty much a solid piece of milk chocolate. We've all. Mm. It's just really good chocolate. Nice. They don't make them like this here. What are you gonna try next? Golden Barrel? What's Golden Barrel? This is one of my favorite. Yeah, we don't know what Golden Barrel is, so it's the gold in it. Is it honey? Oh, it's a barrel. Oh, it's so cute. Wait, can you see that? It is, like a little barrel. That is so precious. Oh. Is there goop? Oh. Mm. That one's tasty. Mm. It's like a salted caramel, maybe. That one's really good. Okay, you've chosen country fudge next. Country fudge, little bar, little baby. It's not chocolate fudge, it's just fudge. Because their fudge is by default like vanilla, but if you say like fudge in the US, it's typically chocolate fudge. It's like, I don't think butterscotch, but it's like sweet. It does have like a buttery taste. Really good. They're all bangers so far. You pick one. Let's do a fruit one. Okay. Let's do strawberry dream. Sorry, strawberry. Strawberry. Here's what she looks like in the wrapper. Is it a strawberry? Is it? Oh. It is. It has little strawberry seeds. Cute. It's, you're not gonna see that because honestly like this lighting is atrocious. But like there's little indentations for strawberry seeds on top. How cute is that? All right. Is it a cream or is it a jelly? You're gonna love it. Oh, it's like the. It's exactly what you like. That's delicious. That's better than the quality street one. I just noticed how green we are because of the green on the TV. We're set. We're gonna do the orange. I'm getting like that like cloying. Yeah. It has a little orange on it. Ah, you're not gonna be able to see it. We keep trying to show it. We're doing what's it called orange tangy orange cream. Tangy orange cream? Yeah. Tangy orange cream. It's the same. Do you like it? I'm not a massive chocolate orange fan, but. It's good. It's good. The texture of the cream. And it just like cuts the sweetness a little bit. I will say with each year, I warm up to chocolate orange more. First time I had it I was like, ew, ew. We have one of the terries in the pantry for my mom. I might break into that. That's not bad. Next, I'm gonna be ill. We have two hazelnut ones and should we try one of those? Hazel Whirl or hazelnut and caramel? Hazel and caramel. There she is. Hazel and caramel. I wonder if there's a nut in it, like a hazelnut in it? Maybe. Mm-hmm. Wow. Mm-hmm. Oh my goodness. So good. I like that the caramel has like a salty-ness to it because these are so sweet. Like the dairy milk by itself is like so sweet. You're gonna have a nice chocolate. Oh my god, delish. Let's try signature truffle. Signature truffle. This must be like the OG. That's a rose. Oh cute. I don't know. We keep trying to show it every single time and then it's just big. Look, look, there's a rose on top. Truffle. Is it so good? Mm-hmm. It's like our fudge, so that would be like if we had like a chocolate fudge. Oh, it's so good. It's almost like hot cocoa, like cocoa. Absolutely delicious. I'm struggling. Yeah, I'm struggling. I'm not gonna have more when this is over. All right. So there's caramel. Just a little bit. Caramel, should we do it together? Oh, I got more. Mm. The caramel's like buttery. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's almost like the Werther's caramels that you get. You know what I'm talking about? Almost like butterscotch. Like a butterscotch-y caramel. Mm-hmm. Wow. Just better. It is better. All right, last one. Last one is Hazel Whale. Hazel Whale. Oh, I wonder if there's like a cute little, like, squirrel on the top or something. Yeah. Ah, cute! There's like so much attention to detail. It's got a little swirly-whirly on the top. There's probably a nut in it. Mm-hmm. What's in it? Just the chocolate and the- There's a chocolate and a nut. Mm-hmm. Deflicious. All right. Should we take full ones? So we don't have to use a wrapper. I'm gonna bring you down a little bit so you can see it. Okay. So my number one. Wait, is this controversial? Well, Lea just come to join us. I just can't get this angle right. It's fine. It's fine. No one cares. I honestly wanna say like strawberry cream was up there. And I don't know if that's like controversial. Watch, I pick like the worst ones. If there's one thing English people have the most passionate opinions about, it is food. And like if you make their food wrong or if you eat it wrong or if you choose the wrong thing. No, you're not supposed to use that milk or you're not supposed to use that in that order. You're not supposed to put those beans on the toast or put the other beans on the toast or whatever. I mean, it was good, so. It was good. So I'm like scared I'm gonna be doing this wrong. I mean, dairy milk has to be up there because it's so delicious. I can't believe that I would say strawberry dream is number one. There's no way. Like they were all good. There actually weren't any that I didn't like. So it's a matter of just like putting them in order. I really liked the signature truffle. It's like somewhere in the middle here. I can't believe, like what? I would probably put orange cream as the last, just it was still really good, but I would say it's probably the last. The golden barrel was delicious. That had the caramel in it. I would say like fudge next to cream. The hazelnut ones, I mean they were both great. I would prefer the caramel one over the plain. We'll go, this is my order. Here's my official order for roses. Number one, strawberry dream. Number two, signature truffle. Three dairy milk, four golden barrel. This is off the top of my head. Five hazelnut caramel. That feels like it should be higher up. I'm gonna switch that with golden barrel. Six caramel, seven hazel world, eight country fudge, and nine tangy orange cream. There is my ranking. Your turn. My turn. Is that number one? Number one, strawberry dream, signature fudge. Tangy orange. Signature truffle, babe. Oh, what did I say? Signature fudge. Oh, truffle, golden barrel. Golden barrel was good. Country fudge, caramel, dairy milk, this is just chocolate. And the ones with nuts are at the bottom. Hazel caramel and then hazel world. Wow, and there you have it, that is Drew's ranking. So that's us and the roses. I'm eating more. This is not official, so please don't be mad at us if we did it wrong. But let us know if you agree with our choices. If they're extremely controversial, that would actually be really interesting to know. But yeah, I can't believe that strawberry cream was both of our favorites. That's just like, I would never pick a fruit as my number one, but it was just really good. Dare I say my official ranking would be... I like these better than quality street. I was gonna say celebrations, roses, than quality street for me. Same for you. I like celebrations because it's like, I don't wanna say it's more, it's more typical American candy bar. Or it's just like more what we're used to. You know, quality streets or like the chocolates your grandparents have. It's the, yeah, sorry if that's like an incorrect assumption, but it did kind of feel like these were the chocolates that you would have at your grandma's house. We did bring them to your moms and people enjoyed them. They're all good. So we'll have to bring these back for Christmas this year too. It's always like kind of fun coming back and be like, here's this chocolates from England if anyone wants to try them. People are like, yeah, I wanna try them. So anywho, my cough. Now I need some of the salty. Now he's gonna go eat chips. And that's gonna do it for me for Vlogmas today. Thank you for hanging out on our sick day, or my sick day, you're not sick. We were actually supposed to be going to Disneyland tomorrow and Friday with his family that's coming to town. They come like, I don't know, every couple of months and go to Disneyland. And we were like all excited about it, but we're not able to go just because I'm sick and Drew is like not sure if he's gonna get sick or if he's contagious. So unfortunately, we're gonna stay home and it's sad. But I mean, you guys have seen enough Disneyland for the year. I wasn't gonna vlog anyways, but now we'll probably just try to focus on like, obviously me getting better and then like finding... Christmas. Yeah, like Christmas presents. Like shopping for the family and whatnot. And then maybe looking for some stuff for ourselves. We might go to the Rose Bowl this weekend. So if we do, I'll definitely vlog that. But yeah, hopefully I'll be feeling much better. Thanks for watching and for hanging out with us. And we will see you next time. Well, boy. Bye. In Japan. Bye. That's a don't mark. He's gonna be insufferable until then, goodbye. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.