 Well, hello everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. Today is Monday. I lied, it's Tuesday. It is, I don't know if you can hear the sound. Hold on, I'm just gonna let you listen to this. It has started raining so much in LA over the last few days. It's been like two days straight of rain and it makes me so happy. Drew and I actually just got back inside from shooting a couple photos out in the rain. I needed to do like some branded stuff. And it just feels so good. Like it feels so cozy. I'm so happy. So I just finished up my work day. I did a lot of editing today. Then just shot some content and a box came while I was getting ready. And it's from Aerie American Eagle. I ordered some more loungewear stuff. So I thought we could try it on together. Why not? It's a little dark in here. So I don't have much sun because it is currently raining. Oh, I forgot about this. Wait, I wanna put this stuff on right now. Okay, so the first thing is I've been seeing everyone on Instagram wearing these like waffle. I think they're called the waffle Jane shirts or something like that. And it's basically just like an oversized button up waffle shirt. And I am obsessed with this. It's almost like bordering between a shirt and a jacket. Like it's not lined or anything like that, but it's so fall and so cute. And I literally just pictured this with like a bralette and some leggings and this over it. Like such a cute look. I mean, you could even dress it up wear some of those cute little Uggs or like some Converse or, you know, whatever and truly like make it an outfit. So this is gonna be, I literally wanna wear this tonight but I wanna wash all this stuff first. I got this in an extra large by the way. So, so cute. I love Aerie and they always have good sales. I just really wish that they would like extend their sizing more. I don't understand why they only go to a 2XL. And then like American Eagle got rid of their plus sizes in like most of their jeans, but I just like love Aerie's quality so much. All right, this looks like a bralette. Yes, okay, perfect. This is just like a long line bralette with adjustable straps, which I love. This would be cute under that. I did get a couple pairs of leggings to try out. I think there's three because I wanna like try them on and see the difference. This first pair, this is called the Offline Hugger legging and these are just like an athletic legging. And I love my Lululemon Align leggings but I just wanna like diversify it a bit and I love Aerie's leggings. These look really good and they have pockets. And I wear those aligned so often that I was like, let me try, before I go and order another $100 pair of leggings, let me like try another pair. And these look really cute. So just another pair to have into the rotation that have pockets, which is great for my walk. So I can like bring my phone and stuff. And then I got two pairs of flare leggings because I wanna see which ones I like better. This pair is so freaking cute. These are called the Offline OG Flare. I don't know if you can see it, but they're like striped and they have like a lettuce hem. And I actually have a tank top to match this as well as the bike shorts to match. And I love the material. It feels great. I love the wash. It like fades a little bit over time. And I got these in an extra large long because I think in the past the flare leggings have been too short for me but I don't know, we'll see. These look really cute. They would look adorable with everything I've bought so far. And then this pair is just the Offline OG Flare as well but I think it's just like a different material. And I also got these in an extra large long. I wanted a pair of flare leggings that wasn't like the fold over waist kind cause like that just like messes itself up and bothers me. So these look like they're gonna be really good. I think I ordered these in the past in just like a regular length and they were too short. So got the long, we'll see which ones of those I like. And then I did get a pair of underwear. I just wanted to test out. I'm always like on the hunt for more underwear. So this pair is just like a, oh it's kind of high rise actually. I don't know, here it is. Just a forest green color. And then last but not least, we have, oh, this is gonna be so good. Actually, I worry that this might be a little bit too thick but this is a quarter zip sweater and this looks so cute. I can't really wear things that are like too, too thick and like warm because it doesn't get that cold here. So cute. It's like a waffly but like sweater texture and this oatmeal heather color. Like I love this but I just worry that like it doesn't really get that cold. So this was that thick. So we'll see but really, really cute. And then I got this in an extra large, usually with airy stuff. Unless it's an actual bralette, I don't size up usually because their stuff runs kind of oversized. It's like that baggy look. So how cute. All of this stuff is gonna look, oh, hello. All this stuff is gonna look so cute together. So I thought I would show you my little airy haul to start it off. And it is like a rainy cozy evening. I'm so excited about it. I think we're just gonna chill the rest of the evening. Maybe like make some dinner or order some dinner. But anyways, okay, that's my airy haul. I just love life right now. It's raining. It's so nice. And I'm gonna go get cozy. Good morning. It is the next day. And I'm heading out right now to go get my nails done. I'm just gonna have like a me day today. If you see any crustiness on my nose that's like remnants from this like random small cold that we had that's gone but my nose is like peeling. I'm just ignore that. Anyways, it's been so chilly. I don't wanna say chilly but chilly for LA and it's been so exciting. Like it's literally 60 something degrees today. The rain has stopped unfortunately. I showed a little bit of it yesterday. It lasted like two days. And oh man, it's just so good. It's really been getting me in the spirit like very cozy vibes. So I love it. I am going to take a little bit of water and I'm actually gonna walk to my nail appointment today because the normal nail place that I go to couldn't get me in. And I'm going back to the place that I didn't have the best experience last time but I'm gonna give it another shot because it does have good reviews. So we'll see how that goes. I actually need to leave here in about like five minutes. So I think what I'm gonna do is put on my little fake Uggs. When I bought the slippers that I'm wearing right now I also bought like, you know, knockoffs of these cute little like mini Ugg boots which by the way, these were so not that many ones but these Uggs were so popular when I was in high school and it's just so fun to see them come back into style everyone's gonna have opinions about it and whether or not they think it's like a good thing or a bad thing or cringy or whatever, I don't care. So I got these on Amazon, I'm not like recommending it. I'm just seeing how I feel about it before I commit to like $150 for the real deal. So I'm gonna put these on and then head out and get my nails done and have a little me day. I might do some reading later. It's almost noon right now and I've spent like the first half of the day just working, working, working. And so now I'm gonna reward myself and have a little bit of time for myself. Okay. They're on. Do I think they look a little bit like horse hooves? Yeah, a little bit. That's fine. I'm wearing this lounge tank that's from Old Navy. My target, like Colsea brand I think. High waisted leggings and a flannel because I was cold this morning taking the dog outside. All right, let's do it. Oh, and I have a little clip in my hair but I don't think you can see it back there. There it is. Okay, let's go. Nails are done, feeling fresh and actually I just walked home and took Layla out to go to the bathroom. When I was walking back, I was like, I don't want to be done walking. Like I'm really enjoying this so much. So I think to continue this me day, this lighting is horrendous, sorry about that. I'm going to walk and get a smoothie and then take my Kindle, which I already packed to like just a little park nearby and do some reading. Why not? All right, got my smoothie, found a little area to stop and just like chill. The grass is kind of wet because it just rained. So I think I'm just gonna sit on a bench instead and there's like so many people outside right now just like enjoying this beautiful weather and I love that. I got myself a chocolate lover smoothie. It usually comes with peanut butter but peanut butter tastes funky to me right now because of my prasmia. So I got it with almond butter. So let's give it a try. Cheers. Really good. Yeah, I'm into that. I went to creation month before and I got probably the rankest smoothie I've ever had in my entire life but I don't think I was looking at the menu closely enough because they have smoothies that aren't frozen and then they have ones that are. So the one that I got last time was a green smoothie that was room temperature but this is actually like frozen. It has like frozen bananas in it. So very good. And I'm listening, oh God. I'm listening to the Laguna Beach rewatch podcast with Kristen and Steven, the Back to the Beach. Obviously I've talked about it before. At the day that I'm filming this, this morning I just watched the video version of the episode with Lauren. If you were a Laguna Beach fan back in the day, first of all, if you watch my vlogs you probably know that that's been like a central personality trait of mine since high school when the show came out. The show came out when I was a junior in high school, I wanna say, or maybe a sophomore and I've been obsessed ever since. I love it so much. And so this episode with Kristen, Steven and Lauren has been just like so healing. I'm genuinely so surprised that they even got Lauren on the podcast because I feel like she just has like totally removed herself from all of that which I completely understand but she's still good friends with Steven and it was so nice to be able to see the three of them just chat and hang out, like old friends and put all the stuff in the past behind them and also seeing Kristen and Lauren apologize to each other for calling each other slut because I feel like a lot of the time in high school it was like that. Slut shaming was very popular, I mean way more than it is now and if that show had aired now there would be so many things that they would have to do as far as PR repair stuff. It would just be a nightmare. It was rough back then. It was really rough back then to be a young person. So that was just really cool to see that they both like grown up and just kind of moved on. But anyways, okay. I'm gonna sip on some of this smoothie, read some of my book. I like really wanna sit in the grass and I brought my blanket but it is kind of wet and I really don't wanna get wet. Should I do it? We'll check in in a bit but gonna do some reading on the bench first. All right, just made it home and I was walking along, listening to my podcast, had my ear pumped in, was totally zoned out and not even thinking about anything. I was literally just like listening and all of a sudden I see this girl in front of me's mouth start moving and I like took my earphones out and she was like, are you carrying? I was like, oh my God and it was a lovely girl named Melissa. She was so sweet. So if you're watching this, it was so nice meeting you and we chatted for a few minutes just kind of like talking in the street and like what a fantastic day. Like this has been such a good me day. I was gonna like chat about it while I was at the park but it was loud. There was like some construction happening next door so I was like, okay, I'm just gonna like enjoy my time. But this is like, this is, I don't know, I just felt like I needed it when I woke up this morning. The traffic agrees. Please ignore this fricking outlet area up here. We need to find something to cover that's bothering me actually quite a lot. Okay, there we go. But like, I don't know. There's just, I feel like today in today's day and age with like social media and just like the way the world is going and how fast things are moving. Like you really can put yourself on the back burner a lot. I definitely like put everyone before myself. And I mean, I'm pretty good about having me time from time to time, but like I could be better about it and like being more intentional about it. So that's kind of like what I really wanted to do today. And I feel like I did a pretty good job. I feel so good. I feel so in touch with myself and like, I don't know, it's really good to just spend time alone and like do things that make you happy. Which for me right now is like reading, listening to podcasts, getting my nails done, getting a smoothie and I enjoyed it so much. So hopefully, especially for those of you who are parents out there, I hope that you will give yourself some time and maybe if you have to get a babysitter or ask someone if they can, you know, watch your kids just so that you can like take a bath or call your mom or your grandma or your best friend or read a book or like get a pedicure or something. Like hopefully you will find some time to just spend time with yourself and enjoy that time with yourself because it's, I don't know, I just feel like I'm back in touch with me, you know? It feels really good. I'm in a silly goofy mood and I'm just really grateful. I'm really grateful for this chapter that I'm in and my life, I'm really grateful for you all. I was actually talking to Drew about this like a couple of days ago and I was like, I don't think I am vocal enough about how appreciative I am for all of you. Like you have changed my life. I could cry, I won't, I won't, but I could. My life is exponentially different because of the support and love that you all have shown me. So anyways, just a moment of gratitude. This, yes, this is a juice bottle that I got from Erawan that I am reusing because it was like $7. And it's like the smallest water bottle that I could take with me. So my book is going great, by the way. I'm currently reading Archer's Voice. However, I will tell you that this book is also full of toxic men. That seems to be a huge theme with Koho books and this one is, well, I think her name's Mia. I already forgot, but there's also toxic men in this book, so that's maddening. But other than that, it's going well. I think I'm like 80% done with it. So I'll probably finish it tonight before bed. And Drew is gonna get off work soon. So we're just gonna hang out, spend the evening together. Now is my time to get into my comfy, comfy, comfy clothes. Cause these are like comfy clothes, but we need like to step it up a little bit. I need to get on like an old navy jumpsuit of sorts. You know what I mean? Those loungewear ones, so that's what I'm gonna do. That is much better. I just showered. I washed my face. I did my skincare. I probably could have been a little bit better about wiping some mascara off. And I just realized something. I am not reading Archer's voice. I am reading the Colleen Hoover book called It Ends with Us. And it's funny because the book is really, really, really heavy and a lot of you warned me in saying that it covers like domestic violence and it kind of, I have some thoughts about that. And I know a lot of you do as well. And I had heard about that and I had heard about people talking about a character named Atlas. And I noticed that there was a character named Atlas in this book. But I was just like, oh, that's a coincidence that like these two are about similar things. No, I'm reading It Ends with Us. I am like 93% done with this book. And I'm reading a different book than I thought I was reading. I thought I was reading Archer's voice this entire time and I am not. That's just cause I'm on a Kindle. So I'm not really like paying a lot of attention to it, but there it is. Hopefully there's no spoilers on that page. Yeah, I do have thoughts about this book and I know a lot of you do too. I'll maybe like touch on it. Actually, no, I won't. I don't think I will. I don't need to like explain. There's plenty of people who have reviewed this book for sure. Oh yeah, I'm in bed by the way. I just really like after I get out of the shower and I'm just like so clean and cozy, I just wanna get into my clean sheets. Like it feels really nice and moves in here with me. So I'm enjoying myself. It's quite literally 4 p.m. Drew was on his last work call of the day and I was like, I'm just gonna like read for a few minutes. For a few minutes before, you know, we'd chill for the night. Also our internet is down. So anyway, I just thought that was hilarious. I literally thought that I was reading a different book than I am. I should have known too because Colleen Hoover puts like weird names in her books. I don't wanna say weird, it's like unconventional names. And some of these names, like the main character, one of the guys names is Ryle, like Kyle with an R. And I should have known. Anyways, okay, I'm gonna probably finish this book because I'm 92% done. I can't believe I thought I was reading a different book this entire time. Imagine if I just started like talking with someone about it and they're like that. And I was like, who's Archer? Okay, anyways, goodbye.