 Well, hello again from the car. I just got off of work. It's about 3.30. I feel like today is like... It's like Groundhog Day, you know? Like I just keep saying the same things and doing the same things like all the time. But anyway, today is different though because I did turn my phone ringer off. So I turned it up. Well, not my phone ringer, but my work phone ringer. I turned that off. That won't go off in this vlog, I promise. But I am gonna head to the townhouse. I'm very excited to see the progress. I actually got a couple of text messages from my painter asking me if he wanted me to put the switch plate covers back on. Because he wasn't sure if I was gonna buy new ones. I just told him to put the old ones back on because I'm gonna have an electrician come probably at the end of the summer, maybe early fall and do some stuff because I know everything is original to the home, but for whatever reason, like some of the outlets and some of the light switches are like different colors. It's really strange. It's like a mismatched electrical situation and that I don't know. Some are bright white, some are the almond. There's a couple like ivory in there too. Like that yellow, I don't understand. But I think the original electrician just kind of like used whatever they had. I think that's what happened. Anyway, I will get that all fixed and it all ended up being like a bright white is what it's eventually going to be. But that won't get switched out until a little bit later. So I'll just use what I have for now and go from there. So anyway, I'm gonna get driving and then I will open up the camera again when I get to the townhouse so I can show you guys the progress. Oh my gosh, I am here and it's almost all done. My painter is actually here, but they're just loading up right now. Can you guys see? It's all done. Actually, let's take that back. My painter is coming back on Thursday for a little bit. He's just got to do a couple of little things. But yeah, let me turn you around and let me show you everything. It looks amazing. Just set my keys down too because it's like really noisy. Here is everything with three coats and this wall is all done. I know it looks like there's like some spaces over there, but I actually kind of like it because it looks like more beachy. I'm gonna get up a little bit closer so you guys can see a little bit better. But yeah, it's just like this planked wall and it does have, let me see, like right here. This was like a little knot in the wood, but I actually kind of like those. You know, like it just, it makes it look like more unique and stuff. I don't know. I mean, sorry if you don't like it if you're watching, but I like it. I think it's really cool, but anyway, I told him I didn't care if, you know, I didn't care to fill those and smooth them out because I just thought it looked really cool. But anyway, so let's look at the two colors next to each other. It's so bright in here right now that it actually looks like really white, but it's not really white. But yeah, so those are the two colors right next to each other. So this is obviously like a brighter white and this is my paint color, which is the Sherwin-Williams popular gray, if anyone's wondering out there in Cyberland. And then if I am in this corner here, he's leaving me those paint cans, so I can paint some other things. And so I know what exactly he used, but yeah, look at this. It looks so good. And look up in the loft. That used to be the light area. Now it's like super dark. It looks like a cave up there now. Now I have to paint that little wall white on the bottom. And then on the top, I'm going to paint the same color up there. And then also into the hallway over there, it looks so dark, but it is going to be so light when I am done. But I am so impressed. I just told the guys that they did an awesome job and I am very impressed. This looks so good. And now my cabinets and my railings stick out like a freaking sore thumb. So I might need to paint those white earlier than I thought, because wow, but this, I'm just so impressed. I'm so excited. Next up is Flooring Town. Lose is actually going to be delivering all my flooring on Thursday, or not Thursday, Friday. The painter's coming back on Thursday to pick up his final payment as well as do all those little touch up things that he wants to do. So I am so excited. I hope you guys like what I've chosen here, but I just love it. I think it looks so amazing. Oh, I can't wait to move in. So I just called my mom because I figured I would go all the way home, or not home, but my parents' home. And then she would ask me, well, how's the townhouse look? And then I would say, well, you got to see it to believe it. And then we would come all the way over here anyway. So she is actually on her way over here. So I think what I'm going to do is I am going to film her reaction, or if I don't have my camera out right away, I will at least ask her what she thinks of all the new paint. So I'm very, very pleased. And I think this looks awesome. All right. So mom is here. Oh, wow. Someone's texting me. I just sent some photos to some friends. Crazy, right? Wow. Oh. Now what's interesting is that the white wall is not that much different than the other wall. Nope. There's not that much contrast. I thought there was going to be a lot more contrast. You know, I think it's going to have a lot more contrast when it's not so bright in here. So like early in the morning or later into the evening, when the sun kind of tones down a little bit. And yeah. And also, once I get my drapes up too, I don't know. But high gloss, he did a high gloss right here. So he only has one coat on there though. So that's what he has to come back to do. So he did that for the condensation and everything. So it's high gloss around the window frame. And then over here as well, high gloss around the frame. But then just a satin on the actual planks. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Nice. Oh, and if you guys are interested, this is what he used. So if you want to know what to use, this is what he used, my professional painter man. And he did not actually sand any of the boards. This apparently with the treated pine does not, you know, yellow through. So just to let you know. And then also he used the high gloss on the window sills. So yeah. Just in case you want to know, that's what he used. So what do you think mom? I love it. I love it. Isn't that nice? I think we need to do the boards in the next couple of days too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I was just saying to the blog too. Remember when the hallway and up there were the light colored walls? Now they look like caves up there. Yeah. Right? Well, it's all going to be the same color. I know. Well, Johnny said he is going to leave all of those since they're, he's like, well, you paid for them. Actually, yeah. Yeah. And he's like, you know, I just figured you could just have them. And then, and then now I know what to get at Benjamin Moore. Yeah. For the stuff upstairs, but yeah. Very cool, huh? Yeah. Very, very nice. Mom is hard at work again. This is the cleaner I had to go get at the store the other day. Greased lightning. So this did look worse than it was before. This is where the stove sits. But look at the floor though. So girls, they're going to peel all that up anyway. But that's okay. So she's having fun with that. We're going to do this one. So do you want to tell the blog what you're going to do tomorrow? I am painting tomorrow. She's excited to paint tomorrow in lieu of going to an exercise class. She's painting. I'm going to get exercise here. I think she's going to get a little bit more exercise here than she would her class. So she's going to have fun with the roller and roll the, probably the entire upstairs, at least one full coat of the color. She's not going to do anything to the pine wall yet. But yeah. I want to. Well, she wants to, but we'll get to that. We'll get the color on first because if the color drips on the white, it's kind of more of a pain in the butt. So we'll, we'll do that once we're done cutting in at least that one wall. And then in here, she's probably going to hit the roller in there too. So yeah. So on Thursday, the painter will be here as well just for a little while. And I think mom's coming over here on Thursday to do more rolling and possibly some cutting in on the top, but not on the bottom. So yeah, but I, she's going to get her workout because she's already working it out over here. It's like a new healthcare plan over here. Oh geez, injuring my mother. A little push pin. Yeah. All right. Well, that goes right in the garbage. This is our, this is our makeshift garbage that we're making right now. Okay. So I just got home from the townhouse and these were waiting for me. So we're going to do a little Aaron Condren Hall. I know that there's been a lot of people that have gotten their seasonal surprise box already. And I ordered one, but I haven't received a shipping notification on it yet. I did, however, receive the shipping notification on all the other stuff I ordered along with the seasonal surprise box. So I don't know. Hopefully that comes soon. But let's start with the purple box. All right. Oh, look how pretty these are. This one's a pretty green. They're like emerald. It says be the kind of person you want to meet. Well, okay then. All right. I don't think, no, my packing slip is not in here. So let's see what I got. I didn't order this. Oh, this came free with a planner. Okay. Yeah. This was that free gift, that take note classic lined notebook. Very cool. And I got a hard bound. I know I'm crazy, but I'm very excited about it. I want to see the spine. I want you guys to see the spine too. Come on. Focus, focus, focus. That's not going to focus. I will probably do a video all on this. That's kind of the reason I wanted to get it, because it is the colorful on the inside. It's got the pretty silver foiling and silver like all along the edges. And it is a colorful vertical. So yeah. And you couldn't pick how many, you know, days, not days, but like what you wanted. So you get July through December of 2018. So anyway, I wanted to test that out. I wanted to give my thoughts because I mean, I know a lot of people on my Aaron Condon planner haul video were asking me about the hard bound and if I was going to get one. At the time I was like, nah, I'm not going to get one, whatever. But I had enough in my credits from you guys. I'll leave the Aaron Condon link down below if you guys are interested in anything from there. You sign up, it's like an affiliate link, but you sign up using that link and then you get a $10 off coupon emailed to you. And then I also get a $10 off coupon code delivered to my inbox when your item ships. And it doesn't have to be a planner. It can be anything. It can be like one of these little guys. I think these are like 15 bucks, if I remember right. So yeah, I mean, you can buy whatever you want. But this is going to be interesting. I think, I think I have some pretty cool stuff in here. Okay. Why did they send this to me twice? I don't know, whatever. That's all right. So let me see if I don't see a packing slip. So I might have to edit some of this out if I forget that there's a packing slip in here. So I got a new cover. Favorite daughter, Emily. This is so cool. I thought these like little marquee signs were really neat. And I just, I just needed them in my life. I for surely did. So I thought this would be kind of cool to put on my planner. Also got these. I have seen a lot of people end up using these sticky notes. And actually like the sticky goes about halfway down. And you can use them like on your sidebars and stuff. So I just thought that would be kind of nice. I did get the rest of the paper tapes. So I got the mid-century circles. Come on. There we go. The only one I purchased before was the painted pedals for the year. But I wanted to test it out and see if I actually like the tape. And I do. So I figured I'd get that one. And then, oh, did I get two mid-century circles? I thought, oh, you know what? I did. I got two mid-century circles. And then I got two of the, I think those are the in bloom. Come on. Focus. All right. Well, these are the in bloom ones. Sorry, it's not like focusing very well. But I got two of those each. And then, okay. So I got some ID tags. I'm only going to show you the back for travel. But these are the ones that have the watercolor world on them. I just thought they were cool. And you get, I believe it's a set of two. Is what you get, which is kind of nice. And then, oh, I got two of these as well. Very cool. Oh, I got more of these. Oh, why did I, why do I have so many of these ID tags? Did I, okay. They're all, they're all mine. Interesting. Oh, I need to remove these really quickly. I will show you. Give me just a second here. All right. I did get some address labels for my new address. And I got the bloom. I think they're the bloom ones in white. I'm not going to show you my address because that's just weird. Hold on. We'll look up for a second. All right. And another spoiler. I got another planner. I got the smaller version of the planner. So it's actually the same size as the notebooks, but it's a lot thicker. I also got the same colorway, which is the linen with the silver. And it is also a colorful, but these only come in the horizontal version. So I don't know what I'm going to use this for, but I just thought it'd be really cool to review for you guys. So all the hard bounds I will end up reviewing in a video. Don't mind my pajama pants right there. All right. So then over here, we have some sticker sheets. And I bought two of these. Maybe that was a miss pick. I usually don't buy more than two sticker sheets like that, but that's okay. And then I got this one because it was just too cute to resist. So yeah. And then I got Doyle stickers. See, he like sticks his tongue out. So I figured those would be kind of fun for Doyle times. And then I finally caved and I got the Aaron Condren pajamas. I'm very excited. I think that this should be a pant and a short sleeve, but let me check really quick and I will be right back. So I'm pretty sure that these pants are probably an extra small, but they say extra large on them. Like this is a very small. Like let me show you with the notebook. Like this is the waist on them. And they do stretch slightly, but that is not an XL. The shirt is definitely an XL for sure. Like I'd rather have stuff, you know, like bigger rather than smaller, but the shirt is definitely an XL. But yeah, because I've heard that these things are like super roomy. Like look how wide the shirt is. It's like double the size almost. It's more than double the size of the pant. So I'm going to have to email customer service and say, can you just send me out some new pants? Because yeah, I don't know. Anyway, that's all right. Yeah. And even like it's not just that this like elastizes like a lot where it actually stretches a ton. Like the actual legs are quite small as well. So anyway, but the fabric quality is really, really nice. And I did hear that this stuff actually washes up really nicely as well. So, okay. Now there's another box and I don't really know what's in here. So give me a second. I need to open this up. So I just open or just let this open. There's a box in a box. So let's see what's in here. Oh my goodness gracious. It says enjoy. Oh, this is my seasonal surprise box. No, I don't want to open this. All right. I need to do like a actually like dedicated video on this. So dang it. All right. I'll be back. Okay. So I am done filming my seasonal surprise box, which was an interesting process. That will probably, will be up, I don't know when. I already have my video going up tomorrow for Wednesday. So probably next Wednesday, maybe? I don't know. But my parents were like in earshot as I was doing the video. So it was just a little bit, she was a little interesting. They had some comments, we'll say. But it's a little bit of a shorter video because I guess I didn't really have a ton of comments on the things that they provided in the box. But I think I'm gonna close out the video here because nothing else is really happening today. I'd like to download all of my footage off of my camera into my computer before bed. I'm gonna try to go to bed a little bit early today, hopefully. I've just been like really tired and I think it's just because I'm like stressed out from work and the house and you know, all of that stuff too. But yeah, but tomorrow is gonna be really fun. I am gonna be going to lunch with my friend Jodi from Life's Organized Chaos on YouTube. So we are gonna go to our favorite Chinese spot and she's gonna be in the area. So every time she's in my neck of the woods, which isn't that often because she lives like all the way in the south metro and I live like all the way in the north metro. Actually, I don't know. We probably like legit don't live in the metro if you want to say that because yeah, we're pretty far away from each other. But it's kind of fun when she has work stuff that's already in my area. So we're gonna go do that tomorrow and then my mom, the paint, okay so the painter is not actually coming back tomorrow. He's coming back on Thursday. I think I might have already said that. But my mom is gonna end up rolling some color on Thursday or sorry, Wednesday and then possibly on Thursday too. So I will go to the townhouse after work tomorrow just to like show the progress because my mom's not gonna do any of the cutting in and stuff. She's been having some knee issues. So she doesn't want to like obviously get down on the ground, which I will for sure do all of that this weekend. But yeah, so there'll be even more progress, which is exciting. And where there's existing color, we don't have to prime it. So definitely we're gonna need two coats, maybe even three just depending. But I'm excited for that to come full circle, which will be awesome. I am gonna jet for now. Actually, let's see if we can get the dog out here. I'm in the bed now. Let's see. He's coming. He's coming. I can hear his little twinkle-toes. Doodle, come here baby. Here he comes, here he comes, here he comes. Doyle, come up here, come up here, come up here, come up here. And the dog in the bed now. Gotta have a Doyle cameo, you know. Every vlog deserves a Doyle cameo. But anyway, we are going to go. Right Doyle? Yeah. I've got a little earplane here. It's just hello. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I stop petting you for a moment? So we are gonna go and enjoy the rest of the evening. And I will talk to you guys in tomorrow's video. You gonna say goodbye to your friends? Say bye guys. We'll see you tomorrow. Oh Doyle, you're such a funny boy. Whoa.