A Night In: A Harry Potter Reread and Downton Abbey Marathon

I'm sitting here with my trusty sidekick Clay, and we're embarking on a night of relaxation and entertainment. Tonight, I'll be reading more of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", a book that's been on my radar for far too long. The last time I read it was a while ago, but I've always had a soft spot for this installment in the series.

As I settle into my cozy bedroom, I realize I have a plethora of emails to get through, but tomorrow is Reagan's problem. I'm not exactly sure what that entails, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. For now, I've got more pressing matters at hand – like devouring my Flamingo Cheeto Fries and getting lost in the world of Hogwarts.

But there's one thing that always brings a smile to my face: thinking about my mom. She's been away on vacation lately, but she brought back a little something special – a tea towel with her signature style and humor. I'm absolutely obsessed with it, and every time I see it, I crack up. It's become a bit of an inside joke between us, and I'm sure this will be an all-year thing.

Now that we've got our entertainment sorted out, it's time to get cozy and watch some Downton Abbey with Clay. We're currently in the midst of Season 1, but we're taking things at our own pace. The drama, romance, and intrigue are all so captivating, and I just can't get enough.

As I settle into my favorite spot on the couch, I realize I'm actually past the 600-page mark in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". It's surreal to think that I've made it this far, but I'm determined to finish reading this bad boy tonight. And, of course, I'll be snacking on some delicious ice cream – because what's a good reread without a sweet treat?

With my nails freshly painted and my tea towel within arm's reach, I'm ready to dive back into the world of Harry Potter. The Goblet of Fire is one of my absolute favorites in the series, and I'm excited to see how J.K. Rowling weaves the story together.

As I settle into my reading nook, I take a moment to appreciate the little things – like a Haagen-Dazs ice cream bar waiting for me on the counter. It's these small pleasures that make life truly special.

With the evening winding down, Clay and I retreat to our bedroom for some quality time together. We watch a bit of Downton Abbey and get cozy before drifting off to sleep. Tomorrow will bring new adventures, but tonight is all about relaxation and rereading Harry Potter.

The next day, I'm still basking in the glow of my reading experience from the previous night. It was truly an enjoyable weekend, with plenty of time spent immersed in the world of Hogwarts. As I look back on it now, I realize that finishing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has been a highlight of my week.

Now that I've finished rereading this installment in the series, I'm excited to move on to book five – one of my absolute favorites. The anticipation is building up inside me, and I just can't wait to dive into the world of Harry Potter once again.

With the summer months approaching, I know it's time to start thinking about more than just rereading books (although, let's be real, that will still be a priority). I'm planning on visiting London soon, where I'll get to experience the magic of the Harry Potter Studio Tour. It's a must-see for any fan of the series, and I'm beyond excited.

As I wrap up this post, I want to express my gratitude to all of you who have been following along with my reading journey. Your support means the world to me, and I'm so glad we can share in the excitement of rereading together.

And that's a wrap on tonight's adventure!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone it's regan and welcome to the start of another weekend reading vlog so it is actually saturday which is a little unusual because i start these vlogs on friday usually but i have a reason um and that is i actually got food poisoning really late thursday night technically friday morning so i was very sick um through friday well thursday and then friday but i'm feeling much better now on saturday and i really really wanted to vlog this weekend because it's a super exciting weekend um as i said today is saturday but tomorrow clay and i are waking up really early and i'm so happy i'm feeling better and we're going up to sleepy hollow and doing so many halloween things i'm so pumped so i'm really glad i'm on the mend but that being said um i do have monday off as well so this was a long weekend anyway so i think hopefully we should be fine in regards to content uh but yeah this is actually also a big weekend um i'm watching a pregame right now for because it's texas ou weekend and if you didn't know i went to the university of texas so big rivalry happening as well that's why clay isn't home while i'm feeling better i didn't feel like it would be a good idea to go out to you know a sports bar and watch the game so i'm just being responsible getting myself all ready because i really want to go to sleepy hollow so i'm prioritizing my health over like everything else um that being said let's talk about what i want to read this weekend so my main priority is actually one book and that is harry potter and the goblet of fire this book is actually over 700 pages long very long but i'm actually reading the illustrated edition of it uh i'm currently on page 140 something in the illustrated edition which equates to about page 230 so i have a good chunk of the wave red but i still have about 500 pages left um i'm actually flying through this pretty quickly um obviously because it's harry potter and i'm obviously loving this illustrated edition i've been so excited for it so i'm super pumped it's here so i'm gonna prioritize reading this throughout the weekend from there i don't really know what i'm gonna pick up obviously if i finish this i'll be really happy because that'll be a lot of pages read but if by sub miracle i'm able to finish this and then read something else i'm not quite sure what that something else is gonna be so i'm just going to focus on this and i'll figure out the rest later isn't that right matilda but yeah i'm just sitting in the living room uh have some pre-game on at the texas state fair how i miss all that fried food not right now but just like in general um and i've just been doing some picking up so i am going to turn this out back on watch this and then i'm going to start reading and continue to hang out with this one clay will be home in a couple hours well not a couple when the game's over but yeah just wanted to check in and say hi and start the vlog because hi i'm so excited for sleepy hollow i'm so happy i'm feeling better i'm glad it's not the flu i'm glad it was just kind of like a 24-hour bug but um but yeah all right welcome all right i've been watching football for a little while the first half is almost over i also finished editing my video which is really exciting and that is going to be uploaded but now i'm going to jump right back into harry potter i'm at the part where the schools are about to arrive i will say uh this illustrated edition has been interesting this is 440 pages the actual book is 735. there are obviously illustrations but i would say maybe at least in the beginning there's definitely less illustrations um than previous ones i mean obviously this book is so much longer than the first three so i was expecting that but the illustrations that are here are so beautiful and i've been really enjoying it a lot um but yeah so i'm going to jump right back in get to reading but yeah there's a lot more pages that are like let's see this which are like wow i'm reading a textbook again i'm back in college but yeah really no true complaints but i guess that's just something to keep in mind if you guys have been reading these illustrated editions as well but yeah this is a really nice sunday it's actually a really beautiful day outside it's like sunny and chilly which is always nice but you know i'm gonna stay inside instead i think i'm gonna try my hand on a cup of coffee but i first wanted to show off oh she stopped she stopped being all cute and sleepy well give her five minutes and she'll fall back to sleep but just a little snuggly pop and our furry blanket queen of the north i'm making myself what i think is an americano also i got this new rug for the kitchen twenty dollars friends twenty dollars i'll leave a link below rugs usa before i get all my rugs so cheap and so cute twenty dollars admire it okay okay i'm gonna go back to my coffee now matilda loves to lay in the sun she'll find little patches of sun and she'll just snap and nap and nap and nap in them and all of her toys where she where she is and where she sleeps all of her toys and her bowl must follow isn't that right matilda texas lost but it's fine because ou still sucks um but i'm gonna sit down and do a bit more reading i read about 30 pages sitting down while watching the game here and there but then honestly i was mostly just paying attention to the game but now the game is over so i'm going to commit much more time and energy into this now clay should also be on his way home soon i don't think we have any big plans for tonight he has a work call leader um so i know he has to stick around and then i think we're just going to watch a movie particularly maybe the one with matthew mcconaughey it's escaping my brain you know the space one interstellar i've never seen it before and clay loves it and there's a new space movie that came out this year with brad pitt and he's refusing to let me see it before i see interstellar so that's what we're thinking we're gonna do tonight um and just kind of lay low and then tomorrow waking up really early and going to sleepy hollow you guys don't even know how extra i'm gonna be not only am i just so excited about well the fall stuff i'm gonna bring so many outfits my instagram is gonna be fire fire so follow me on there if you haven't in fact i'm actually going to i have to run an errand i have to go to cvs and so i'm also going to walk over to urban outfitters because there are some like i want to get a cute halloween t-shirt to wear tomorrow there's i'm hoping to find like the peanuts there's like this junk food clothing peanut shirt with like all the characters on it with like pumpkins it's really cute so i'm gonna go try to see if they have it there um but first i'm gonna get some harry potter reading in and then i'll bring you along to urban outfitters and see if we can find it read another 40 pages of harry potter but i'm gonna run out now and do my errands one of them is like a real errand the other one is i really want to find a halloween t-shirt so we're gonna head out now all right wish me luck on my mission sold out of the peanuts t-shirt but i did find something that was really cute i'll show you when we get back all right i am back home unfortunately they were sold out of the t-shirt but i did find something i thought was almost exactly what i was looking for um just a little warmer essentially and it is this peanuts sweatshirt which i thought was really cute and then i bought a headband this velvet yellow headband to wear with it tomorrow and sleepy hollow i thought this would be like a cute little look plus this was really soft and comfortable and i really love crewnette sweatshirts more than most things i wear them a lot so generally successful sad i couldn't get that t-shirt but you know we pivoted all right i'm gonna sit back down and continue reading um i read a good chunk before i ran out and read my errands i don't know how much i've read in relation to actual book pages which is what i'm using as a marker so i'll check on that later but in terms of where i'm at in the story i last checked in the people were just arriving and now i'm actually at the first task so that's exciting it's interesting because book four is the one that i've watched the most like the movie for some reason it's like one of my go-to movies and it's not because it's my favorite movie it's just like smack dab in the middle so it's like not so intense where you're sad or scared the whole time but like everyone's a little older so for some reason that's the one i tend to watch a lot and maybe it's just on tv the most when i like randomly stumble upon harry potter marathons but it's the book i read the least probably because i've seen the movie the most so it's like those things are probably correlated regardless though it's really great to give it a reread because there's obviously a lot of stuff the movie leaves out and because i haven't read it in so long there's just like small things i'm picking up here and there that i'm really pumped about i'm actually also going to put on old survivor i'm so ridiculous when it comes to a survivor but i'm so excited for season 40 which is all winter season that i'm re-watching some really important seasons one that i watched like in the very beginning of my survivor watching so i under re-watch for like better context and um so yeah so i'm watching heroes versus villains season 20 right now i'm almost done with it and then i'm gonna watch fans versus favorites because i want to watch pavardi and surrey do their thing i'm such a surprise literally survivor has went from a show that i never even cared about two years ago to like my second favorite reality tv show and if someone watches a lot of reality tv that's a big crown obviously nothing can ever beat the challenge but anyway i'm gonna watch oh this season now if only the challenge was on hulu because i would watch old seasons of the challenge all the time if it was on hulu i wonder if there's somewhere i can watch him stream because that's what i subscribe to hulu almost exclusively because it has some of my favorite like cbs reality tv shows like old seasons like the amazing race and survivor let me google that let's let's ask apple tv mtv the challenge oh i have to buy this yes that's not going to work it's not going to work not going to work i don't want to buy it i mean maybe i should just invest in all of them but i really don't particularly want to in the age of streaming back on my shirts back on my survivor shenanigans i started season 17. so fans versus favorites but i don't think i've actually seen i just know about it um and then matilda's here i took a bit of harry potter break but i have read over 100 pages today which is super exciting i think like 130 actually so so far so good sue's home from his football game and from his business call we were gonna go out to dinner but to be honest my stomach is still not like really excited about any type of super indulgent food so i got some annie's boxed mac and cheese to eat for dinner and clay got some take out but i couldn't even like handle the thought of takeout because that's what did me in to begin with so annie's it is for me and then i think we're gonna watch a movie the takeout took you out wow honestly true we pivoted on the movie instead of interstellar we've decided on christopher robin because you know we just felt like a good old-fashioned childhood maybe we'll cry while watching this movie as adults isn't that right matilda plus i need to cook my mac and cheese and we are in ben in pajamas we finished the christopher robin movie it was really cute um there's no paddington wouldn't you say clay no it's not a paddy paddington is like one of the greatest movies ever made but it was super sweet i think they did pooh really yeah they nailed pooh and all the other characters um story was nice yeah it was a little heavy-handed but it was nice yeah overall though enjoyable i would say and i like i loved pooh and it's all his little sayings yeah they did the they did the like the winnie the pooh animal character and they were just like beautiful like the animation you always gotta love uh obi-wan kenobi what's his name mcgregor you and mcgregor yeah he's also in fargo season three um but now i'm going to sit down and read some harry potter and the goblet of fire as you guys know i've read about 130 pages today um which i'm pretty satisfied with i'm gonna try to read more and then go to bed we're trying to wake up kind of early tomorrow we're you know gonna have our big sleepy hollow day um which is great pumped for that i have a whole stack of outfits planned for this trip um but yeah i'm really excited to bring you guys along i'm excited to hopefully experience all sorts of halloween type things but in the meantime i'm going to get definitely in the spirit by reading task two of harry potter well harry potter's you know route to figure out what task two is about if you will within a certain bubble bath but uh yeah so i am going to get to reading as i'm trying to read more and then i'm obviously gonna have all day monday because i have monday off uh to read so i should be able to get quite a bit in on that day because clay's actually working so just be me so there's nothing to do but read on monday so you know tomorrow's for the jack-o-lanterns and the cemeteries but uh okay so i'm gonna get to reading now and i will see you guys in the morning good morning world we are about to head out it's sunday morning and we're about to go on our road trip i am wearing a pinafore and a striped sweater and tights not necessarily hiking material but don't worry i pack some more activity appropriate clothing um we are gonna pick up some pumpkin spice lattes on the way to our rental car and then we're off gonna be hopefully a really really fun day of just exploring the great outdoors and all sorts of halloweeny adventures so come along friends we got our pumpkin spice lattes clay is driving we are on our way we got a zip car this time versus just a rental car not sponsored or anything but this was really handy and cheaper than a rental car in new york city rental cars in new york city are insane like 200 a day but anyway we're off going over the brooklyn bridge how new york of us honestly i always think driving over the brooklyn bridge is so cool like this will be something i always remember dang it's also a beautiful day outside it's like sunny and cool fall is here and it is happening 30 minutes outside of new york city we're like honestly 12 minutes away it's not very far from the city itself which is a perfect day trip but look the leaves are starting to change look how beautiful it is it's gonna be a great day we've arrived at the roosevelt state park we're gonna go to the house but you need like a private tour ticket so we're a little unprepared for that but we are going to take a nice little nature stroll the great outdoors 45 minutes north of new york city and that right clay yes sir oh we decided to take the overlook trail so far we're overlooking a lake in the trail that we started walking up i know i've said it a million times but it is so nice outside today i changed first off a change of the day first nature spotting of the trip it's a hairy hairy caterpillar i wonder how hungry he is oh my god look how harry is he's cute he looks like a little belt cleaner oh leave him alone clay let him thrive oh he's fun he's real fun all right have a good day mr caterpillar people are allowed to ride horses on this trail and it blows my mind but there's also a lake here it's really pretty but also horses it's almost like we're back in scotland a little bit beautiful water foilage over there starting to peep through clay he was in scotland we're on a little like edge of the water situation it's so pretty and this look is called swan lake and peep i don't think they're swans i think they're geese but there are creatures in the water everyone made it to the downtown area it's so cute we're gonna get stop off and get some lunch very nutritious matching lunch of burgers and beer we're outside there's the hudson we've made it to sleepy hollow graveyard so new destination in the books i would say spooky pretty cool little spot really kind of brings me back to scotland but much more spooky vibes right much more fall the leaves having a nice little stroll bye sleepy hollow graveyard we saw carnegie's grave here that was pretty cool we found a little pumpkin place so obviously we're buying more pumpkins lots of bizarre zombie options so that's what we're going for oh clay really likes this giant gourd thing oh there's corn perfect opportunity for a corny joke oh god kill me cute little music hall and kind of like main street actually i think it is actually literally main street labeled as such there's clay charging ahead per usual we have about an hour before dinner so we're just kind of meandering around we're at dinner it's polenta fries delish butternut squash pasta and they got salmon looking delish looking and it's all foam to table fresh produce love it they wanted ice cream we found an ice cream parlor it's really cute and then we're off to the haunted house alright we've got brownie all a mode incredible like that strawberry on the only cone that's allowed to exist which is the wafer cone or the cake cone sometimes called clay and i both agree on this comment below what your favorite cone type is and why it's it's not a waffle cone all right we're back in the car it's night time now which means we're finally at the main event everything you've seen up to this point is just the appetizer because we have two really exciting things on the docket now that night has fallen we're gonna go do a haunted house clay which i usually never would agree to do for that very reason i just played as illustrated because i get startled really easily i don't want scary movies but this says it's suitable for children 12 and up and it's historical so those two things made me feel like maybe i could tough it out historical that means the ghosts are real that's fine as long as it's historically accurate um but i doubt i can film it but we'll bring you along as much as we can but then we have the great jack-o-lantern blaze which is a bunch of pumpkins which i'm sure we can film so i'm so pumped we're off dinner was super tasty we got ice cream which is super tasty it's been a really fun day but now it's time for all the halloween stuff and i changed again is this a full moon on our adventures in sleepy hollow because it looks like it looping going on a candlelit walk i'm already scared i heard someone scream wish me luck clay just said that i forgot how much a 12 year old could handle i'm pretty sure 12 year olds are braver than me we finished the haunted house it was very impressive from a theatrical standpoint very long too i did get startled multiple times but now we're off to the pumpkin patch clay wants a picture with the guillotine it's very uh jacqueline is that right jacobite very french revolution i can't remember so we're gonna do it are here just parked can you see the pumpkin arch we've arrived i'm so excited also there's a flag made out of pumpkins this is going to be great we got a hot chocolate and donuts post ice cream free pumpkins that's how we live oh you can't see the pumpkins on the other side but there's pumpkins everywhere in trees keep in mind these are all real pumpkins like holy mackeroni these are pumpkin dinosaurs it's like jurassic park but the pumpkin version and we're about to go across a pumpkin bridge wow lady liberty in all of her glory excuse me who is this talented of a pumpkin carver can you teach me how please i mean look at this and then over here there's a whole train made out of pumpkins and then here it's literally a halloween dream come true everyone come to this if you live nearby obsessed and then of course we have a jack-o'-lantern blaze version of a uh and then you have that famous painting of the diner the nighthawk diner i think geez it's a dragon made out of pumpkins and a covered bridge covered in pumpkins i just don't know what else to say except oh my god pumpkins it's a dream it's a dream matilda came to the pumpkin patch oh my god i wish this is something i could have in my house forever also look at all the other dogs so cute but mostly just like we're in harry potter book two but actually a giant spider web constructed out of pumpkins and i keep trying to decide if it's real or fake pumpkins but i really think they're real which is just so wild absolutely bananas bananas this is the thing we saw when we first walked in and i was most excited to enter wow oh and just like that we're home and off to bed because it's really late and we're tired i actually have tomorrow off so i will be doing a bunch of reading because as you guys know i read nothing today but don't worry that is for tomorrow and i will see you guys tomorrow morning hi good morning everyone i am wearing my peanut sweatshirt and it's like 9 30 on the couch i slept in a bit this morning and i sat on my phone a bit this morning as well which you know is relaxing i am not gonna lie to you i woke up with a large amount of guilt for taking this monday off of work i don't know why i think it's because usually when i take a day off work i'm somewhere so it's inevitable like it's unavoidable like it's not like i could go to the office if i wanted to but here i'm just taking off like a random monday in new york um which is a terrible feeling to have like do not feel guilty about taking a date to yourself so like i am a walking example of what not to feel but sometimes you can't help it um but i'm fighting through it i'm not letting myself cave in i'm going to take this day my whole team does not care that i took this day off so i got it approved weeks ago so i'm just going to hang out relax and kind of have like a mental health day i'm going to call it like slow down i'm gonna do some filming i'm gonna treat it like a sunday basically i'm gonna read so much harry potter today that's a huge goal of mine i'm gonna try to finish harry potter and the goblet of fire for one i'm going to film um like two videos today so not too many i have some errands to run that i've been kind of behind on and i'm gonna cook something tonight for dinner i don't know what yet but i'll run to the grocery store at some point and get something i don't know what yet though i don't know what i feel like making but it's going to be tasty and those three things i'm going to do is that three i lost count already um but i'm not gonna feel guilty for one and i'm just going to enjoy my day it's kind of cloudy it's cool outside hence the peanuts sweatshirt this by the way is so soft i wear that hawaii sweatshirt a lot i don't know if you've noticed but i love crewneck sweatshirts um but the hawaii one was always my favorite because it's like the softest this is just as soft as that and more seasonally appropriate so love it and i think i'm still gonna order that peanuts t-shirt offline because i am a fall i just love fall things and i might do a face mask today i feel like i need to be taking better care of my skin i just get stressed about what i put it through too much makeup too much makeup not enough skin care but anyway i'm gonna make a cup of coffee i might pick up a croissant and i'm just going to let myself enjoy the day and i'm not going to waste any more time or energy feeling stressed or guilty about not being at work to like answer emails you know what i mean like it's fine it's fine the world's gonna keep turning this day will be much more beneficial to me here than it would be me there though my iphone does come in today and i texted clay to ask if it would be too extra to go in stick into the mailroom at like 5 p.m and say pick up my new iphone and he said yes so i guess i'll wait to pick up my new iphone until tomorrow but anyway this has been a long rant i'm gonna get coffee we'll not get it i'm gonna make a latte now so cheers goodbye making coffee and you'll notice there is survivor on in the background because again guys i'm living my best life today oh also clay found these at the grocery store and picked them up for me thriving i'm never able to find these in new york city so excited to treat myself to those maybe today maybe later we shall see hi everyone it has been a really lovely morning it's a little past 11 i have just been doing a lot of admin i figured out what videos i'm going to film which i'm now going to do i like you know outline them and everything these are some emails watched a lot of survivors so so far this morning is great i have not read yet but don't worry i plan to do a lot of that later um i'm still trying to figure out what i want to make for dinner my appetite's still not 100 there like meaning i'm hungry but not everything sounds good if that makes sense but regardless i'm gonna film now i'm wearing my peanut i just love this peanut sweatshirt best purchase in a minute and then i'm wearing the headband i got from urban outfitters yesterday too so i'm gonna get to filming gonna get this knocked off the to-do list and then i'm gonna go pick up a sandwich i think for lunch just like a turkey sandwich and then i'm gonna get you reading i finished filming despite you know the lack of health help from this one she is just the worst employee um i'm gonna go get lunch now because i'm starving and i'm dying for a turkey sandwich i know i said i wanted to pick up stuff to make groceries for dinner but honestly i remembered that clay picked up some tostinos pizza rolls to make me feel better and i think i want to eat those for dinner because i love tostitos pizza rolls no shame in my game i cook a lot sometimes i don't feel like it today's the day voila picked up my delicious sandwich i'm gonna watch some survivor then i'm gonna do a few quick errands and then i promise i'm actually gonna start reading isn't that right matilda yep yep okay errands are officially done apartment is officially cleaned up and i'm officially out of excuses to start reading so i am going to read some harry potter um i will give you guys a page update a little later because i don't want to give myself any other reason to not just start reading um i am past the halfway point of this book so i've made really good progress um in the illustrated edition so i'm gonna read a chunk of this now and then i'll probably put survivor on to watch and read but i want to read first without any distractions for a little while before i do that so i'm gonna get to it i'm gonna get to it right now right now starting really right now hi everyone i have been on the couch with this one for a good chunk of time like about an hour and a half ouch and i'm happy to say i've read a lot i obviously haven't read the illustrated edition but it's so heavy so i'm gonna hold up this one and i just checked what page i'm on um i am about to be on task two harry just dropped an egg in a bathtub and that means i'm on page like 481 which means i've read about 250 pages so far which is great again i am planning on finishing this book today i don't foresee that being any type of problem i honestly feel like i'm reading the illustrated edition faster than the normal book and i think it might just be like a mental thing because the chapter book of the chapter book is over 700 pages so i feel like if i read 50 60 pages i would take a break similarly if i read 50 60 pages of the illustrated one i would also take a break but 50 to 60 pages in that in the illustrated edition is significantly longer than the just normal um novel version uh because there's just a lot more words on a page so therefore i'm just reading it in faster chunks than i think i normally would that's speculation but i'm not gonna lie i'm a little sleepy so i'm gonna make another latte and then i'm gonna put some survivor on i'll probably honestly just keep reading but i just also wanna watch survivor because i'm really liking this fans versus uh favorite season i'm highly entertained by it so i really wanna watch more so that's what i'm going to do catching survivor and doing my favorite pastime which is pretend house hunting does anyone else go on redfin and just look for houses in places you want to live one day this is austin i always make the price range like super high and pretend i'm a millionaire it's more fun that way taking a quick survivor break and house hunting break to do some editing for the videos i filmed earlier today so i'm gonna work on that now and then football is actually on later so i'm gonna watch that and read so every time there's football on i actually get a lot of reading in because it's like the perfect thing to watch and read to so it's gonna be top-notch also check out our pumpkin stack over there of course out of the two pick up yesterday looking good we have a nice like tone of pumpkins i'm a big fan i fell down a bit of an internet hole what's new it's also nighttime which means i'm having a bit of a crisis that my day off is almost over um but i'm actually going to sit down and do more reading i might put pregame football on for a background um noise but i'm gonna pick up harry potter and the goblet of fire and continue reading some pages i don't think clay has to work super late tonight which is awesome so i might actually see him which is great um but in the meantime i think i'm just gonna put some low noise on and read harry potter and the goblet fire i'm gonna paint my nails too i've been really so i restarted painting my nails again i used to paint them all the time like throughout high school and i just stopped because i got too lazy but i have been doing it again and so i'm trying to do it like weekly so it's time so i'm gonna paint my nails tonight too saying it so i do it all right i've been sitting here i've been reading harry potter i read another really good chunk and i'll talk about that in a minute but i also poured myself a bowl of flaming hot cheeto fries it's been so long since i've had these because i don't sell them here um they're so good i poured myself in a bowl because i'm trying to take the whole bag because i do want to eat my delicious and nutritious dinner of tostitos pizza rolls i had a real collar to throw back of most of the foods i ate when i was a college student very unhealthy but very cheap um as for the goblet of fire i'm making really good progress i've read another 40 pages of the illustrated edition which might equate to something like 60 or 70 of the actual edition this illustrated edition is beautiful but it might be my least favorite of the four that are out simply because there's honestly just less illustrations and i'm not even saying like full page because i was expecting to be less full pages but even like the chapter heads and the other ones i feel like there were custom chapter heads and those were illustrated and i'm not even expecting like every chapter had to be that but pretty much all of them just kind of have a border and everything's still beautiful like i'm not really complaining but you know if i'm being nitpicky there's just so many less there's just so many more plain pages of just full text like nothing at all on them again a much longer book i totally get it but i was just i'm just surprised mostly at the chapter headers there just aren't any custom really chapter headers at all and then even like small illustrations are less frequent and i'm sure the volume of illustrations is the same um and i'm i don't know if that's like how it is going to be for every book like the number of illustrations is the same per book but i don't know i mean if this book took two years to make versus the other ones came out every year so i just assumed because it took two years like we would have a larger volume of illustrations and perhaps i'm wrong on the volume i i really really could be i don't feel like i'm wrong but it could just be simply because this book is just so much longer it just is less noticeable that being said all the illustrations are so beautiful but i just i just feel like we're missing like some of the ambiance and some of the custom pages that we kind of got through the first three that just aren't here like i'm not even again not even full page just like beautiful custom backgrounds or things like that i just feel like aren't as prevalent in this one that being said i'm loving this story obviously so that's great um i'm gonna continue to read and eat my cheeto snack i'm gonna make my dinner and i'm just gonna keep reading and hanging out enjoying my night clay has so far confirmed he's gonna get off a little early tonight so i think we're gonna watch some downton abbey or something along those lines and it's gonna be really great and i'm really looking forward to hanging out with him a bit before i go back to work tomorrow i've been about i haven't been to work since thursday so i was sick on friday it feels weird i feel like i'm like going back after like summer vacation or something i'm not prepared i'm gonna have so many emails to read and get through but that's tomorrow reagan's problem tonight i'm gonna eat my flamingo cheeto fries and read harry potter it's bread week and the bread i'm making and the oven aka my tostinos pizza rolls are done also my mom got me this tea towel last week when she was in town and thought it was a hoot i just literally think of her and laugh every time i see it now so this might be an all year thing bon appetit see me featured in the next i don't know i would say like eat magazine that's not even a real thing anyway back to great britain guess who's home it's clay we are now gonna watch some downton abbey and i'm gonna paint my nails um and then that's that's really it for the night good news is i am well past the 600 page mark harry potter and the goblet of fire do not have i said goblet really weird but i don't have very much left um so i'm definitely still planning on finishing that tonight so that is really exciting but we do get to watch a little bit of downton abbey on the way which is the bomb and probably have ice cream later right clay yes or cookies or both just a very nutritious night tonight lily's gonna show us her special trick gentle gentle gentle good girl so gentle we have retreated into the bedroom for the night uh i am going to read more harry potter and the goblet of fire i'm trying to finish this bad boy up i don't have very much left at all i also scored myself a haagen-dazs um ice cream bar so that is exciting i'm gonna have a haagen-dazs my dear people to quote uh to be like an you know character from oh my god clay the new season of marvelous nasals december 6th oh wow breaking news sorry there's an ad wow i'm so excited anyway so i'm gonna finish reading harry potter and the goblet of fire i really like this book um it's probably one of my i mean like ranking harry potter is difficult because i love them all the fourth one might be like closer to the bottom it might be like one two four three six five seven oh please don't quote me on that ranking it changes so often regardless though i'm really enjoying the story but i'm particularly excited to jump into book five because i love book five so much and then six and seven are just like so intense so harry potter reread will continue and i can't wait for the illustrated editions to come out for those and you know the very near future i mean my god that'll be like six years wow that's gosh i'll be 31. scary anyway i'm gonna sit down and read now and stop having life crises and eat my ice cream because i'm an adult so i'll be 33 clay you're gonna be old hi everyone and welcome to the end of the reading vlog a few days later i just wanted to quickly pop in and chat through everything i read this weekend it actually ended up being such a fun weekend i had so much fun in sleepy hollow with clay and then having that day off was honestly so good um but throughout the weekend i read and only read harry potter and the goblet of fire and i was able to finish this which is super super exciting i'm really really happy with all that i was able to read since i read just over 500 pages this weekend which honestly is always my goal matilda just had dinner which is why she's here with her bowl trying to get seconds uh but yeah i really enjoyed reading harry potter on the goblet of fire it has been such a long time since i've read this which i feel like i've mentioned before i thought the illustrated edition was really good i was expecting more illustrations but the ones that were there were stunning and beautiful i'm not holding the illustrated edition up because it's flipping heavy it's like a workout um that being said i'm super excited to move on to book five which is one of my favorites of the series like definitely top two top three so i'm especially excited to get to that one and i plan on reading it probably next month and then i'll try to finish out the rest by the end of the year if not in january but yeah this has just been such a lovely rereading experience for me it's great to have reread all the books before going to london and the harry potter studio tour which i'm doing in three weeks now which is wild but anyway now i'm just going on and on i hope you guys enjoyed this video and i will see you soon with another one soon byehi everyone it's regan and welcome to the start of another weekend reading vlog so it is actually saturday which is a little unusual because i start these vlogs on friday usually but i have a reason um and that is i actually got food poisoning really late thursday night technically friday morning so i was very sick um through friday well thursday and then friday but i'm feeling much better now on saturday and i really really wanted to vlog this weekend because it's a super exciting weekend um as i said today is saturday but tomorrow clay and i are waking up really early and i'm so happy i'm feeling better and we're going up to sleepy hollow and doing so many halloween things i'm so pumped so i'm really glad i'm on the mend but that being said um i do have monday off as well so this was a long weekend anyway so i think hopefully we should be fine in regards to content uh but yeah this is actually also a big weekend um i'm watching a pregame right now for because it's texas ou weekend and if you didn't know i went to the university of texas so big rivalry happening as well that's why clay isn't home while i'm feeling better i didn't feel like it would be a good idea to go out to you know a sports bar and watch the game so i'm just being responsible getting myself all ready because i really want to go to sleepy hollow so i'm prioritizing my health over like everything else um that being said let's talk about what i want to read this weekend so my main priority is actually one book and that is harry potter and the goblet of fire this book is actually over 700 pages long very long but i'm actually reading the illustrated edition of it uh i'm currently on page 140 something in the illustrated edition which equates to about page 230 so i have a good chunk of the wave red but i still have about 500 pages left um i'm actually flying through this pretty quickly um obviously because it's harry potter and i'm obviously loving this illustrated edition i've been so excited for it so i'm super pumped it's here so i'm gonna prioritize reading this throughout the weekend from there i don't really know what i'm gonna pick up obviously if i finish this i'll be really happy because that'll be a lot of pages read but if by sub miracle i'm able to finish this and then read something else i'm not quite sure what that something else is gonna be so i'm just going to focus on this and i'll figure out the rest later isn't that right matilda but yeah i'm just sitting in the living room uh have some pre-game on at the texas state fair how i miss all that fried food not right now but just like in general um and i've just been doing some picking up so i am going to turn this out back on watch this and then i'm going to start reading and continue to hang out with this one clay will be home in a couple hours well not a couple when the game's over but yeah just wanted to check in and say hi and start the vlog because hi i'm so excited for sleepy hollow i'm so happy i'm feeling better i'm glad it's not the flu i'm glad it was just kind of like a 24-hour bug but um but yeah all right welcome all right i've been watching football for a little while the first half is almost over i also finished editing my video which is really exciting and that is going to be uploaded but now i'm going to jump right back into harry potter i'm at the part where the schools are about to arrive i will say uh this illustrated edition has been interesting this is 440 pages the actual book is 735. there are obviously illustrations but i would say maybe at least in the beginning there's definitely less illustrations um than previous ones i mean obviously this book is so much longer than the first three so i was expecting that but the illustrations that are here are so beautiful and i've been really enjoying it a lot um but yeah so i'm going to jump right back in get to reading but yeah there's a lot more pages that are like let's see this which are like wow i'm reading a textbook again i'm back in college but yeah really no true complaints but i guess that's just something to keep in mind if you guys have been reading these illustrated editions as well but yeah this is a really nice sunday it's actually a really beautiful day outside it's like sunny and chilly which is always nice but you know i'm gonna stay inside instead i think i'm gonna try my hand on a cup of coffee but i first wanted to show off oh she stopped she stopped being all cute and sleepy well give her five minutes and she'll fall back to sleep but just a little snuggly pop and our furry blanket queen of the north i'm making myself what i think is an americano also i got this new rug for the kitchen twenty dollars friends twenty dollars i'll leave a link below rugs usa before i get all my rugs so cheap and so cute twenty dollars admire it okay okay i'm gonna go back to my coffee now matilda loves to lay in the sun she'll find little patches of sun and she'll just snap and nap and nap and nap in them and all of her toys where she where she is and where she sleeps all of her toys and her bowl must follow isn't that right matilda texas lost but it's fine because ou still sucks um but i'm gonna sit down and do a bit more reading i read about 30 pages sitting down while watching the game here and there but then honestly i was mostly just paying attention to the game but now the game is over so i'm going to commit much more time and energy into this now clay should also be on his way home soon i don't think we have any big plans for tonight he has a work call leader um so i know he has to stick around and then i think we're just going to watch a movie particularly maybe the one with matthew mcconaughey it's escaping my brain you know the space one interstellar i've never seen it before and clay loves it and there's a new space movie that came out this year with brad pitt and he's refusing to let me see it before i see interstellar so that's what we're thinking we're gonna do tonight um and just kind of lay low and then tomorrow waking up really early and going to sleepy hollow you guys don't even know how extra i'm gonna be not only am i just so excited about well the fall stuff i'm gonna bring so many outfits my instagram is gonna be fire fire so follow me on there if you haven't in fact i'm actually going to i have to run an errand i have to go to cvs and so i'm also going to walk over to urban outfitters because there are some like i want to get a cute halloween t-shirt to wear tomorrow there's i'm hoping to find like the peanuts there's like this junk food clothing peanut shirt with like all the characters on it with like pumpkins it's really cute so i'm gonna go try to see if they have it there um but first i'm gonna get some harry potter reading in and then i'll bring you along to urban outfitters and see if we can find it read another 40 pages of harry potter but i'm gonna run out now and do my errands one of them is like a real errand the other one is i really want to find a halloween t-shirt so we're gonna head out now all right wish me luck on my mission sold out of the peanuts t-shirt but i did find something that was really cute i'll show you when we get back all right i am back home unfortunately they were sold out of the t-shirt but i did find something i thought was almost exactly what i was looking for um just a little warmer essentially and it is this peanuts sweatshirt which i thought was really cute and then i bought a headband this velvet yellow headband to wear with it tomorrow and sleepy hollow i thought this would be like a cute little look plus this was really soft and comfortable and i really love crewnette sweatshirts more than most things i wear them a lot so generally successful sad i couldn't get that t-shirt but you know we pivoted all right i'm gonna sit back down and continue reading um i read a good chunk before i ran out and read my errands i don't know how much i've read in relation to actual book pages which is what i'm using as a marker so i'll check on that later but in terms of where i'm at in the story i last checked in the people were just arriving and now i'm actually at the first task so that's exciting it's interesting because book four is the one that i've watched the most like the movie for some reason it's like one of my go-to movies and it's not because it's my favorite movie it's just like smack dab in the middle so it's like not so intense where you're sad or scared the whole time but like everyone's a little older so for some reason that's the one i tend to watch a lot and maybe it's just on tv the most when i like randomly stumble upon harry potter marathons but it's the book i read the least probably because i've seen the movie the most so it's like those things are probably correlated regardless though it's really great to give it a reread because there's obviously a lot of stuff the movie leaves out and because i haven't read it in so long there's just like small things i'm picking up here and there that i'm really pumped about i'm actually also going to put on old survivor i'm so ridiculous when it comes to a survivor but i'm so excited for season 40 which is all winter season that i'm re-watching some really important seasons one that i watched like in the very beginning of my survivor watching so i under re-watch for like better context and um so yeah so i'm watching heroes versus villains season 20 right now i'm almost done with it and then i'm gonna watch fans versus favorites because i want to watch pavardi and surrey do their thing i'm such a surprise literally survivor has went from a show that i never even cared about two years ago to like my second favorite reality tv show and if someone watches a lot of reality tv that's a big crown obviously nothing can ever beat the challenge but anyway i'm gonna watch oh this season now if only the challenge was on hulu because i would watch old seasons of the challenge all the time if it was on hulu i wonder if there's somewhere i can watch him stream because that's what i subscribe to hulu almost exclusively because it has some of my favorite like cbs reality tv shows like old seasons like the amazing race and survivor let me google that let's let's ask apple tv mtv the challenge oh i have to buy this yes that's not going to work it's not going to work not going to work i don't want to buy it i mean maybe i should just invest in all of them but i really don't particularly want to in the age of streaming back on my shirts back on my survivor shenanigans i started season 17. so fans versus favorites but i don't think i've actually seen i just know about it um and then matilda's here i took a bit of harry potter break but i have read over 100 pages today which is super exciting i think like 130 actually so so far so good sue's home from his football game and from his business call we were gonna go out to dinner but to be honest my stomach is still not like really excited about any type of super indulgent food so i got some annie's boxed mac and cheese to eat for dinner and clay got some take out but i couldn't even like handle the thought of takeout because that's what did me in to begin with so annie's it is for me and then i think we're gonna watch a movie the takeout took you out wow honestly true we pivoted on the movie instead of interstellar we've decided on christopher robin because you know we just felt like a good old-fashioned childhood maybe we'll cry while watching this movie as adults isn't that right matilda plus i need to cook my mac and cheese and we are in ben in pajamas we finished the christopher robin movie it was really cute um there's no paddington wouldn't you say clay no it's not a paddy paddington is like one of the greatest movies ever made but it was super sweet i think they did pooh really yeah they nailed pooh and all the other characters um story was nice yeah it was a little heavy-handed but it was nice yeah overall though enjoyable i would say and i like i loved pooh and it's all his little sayings yeah they did the they did the like the winnie the pooh animal character and they were just like beautiful like the animation you always gotta love uh obi-wan kenobi what's his name mcgregor you and mcgregor yeah he's also in fargo season three um but now i'm going to sit down and read some harry potter and the goblet of fire as you guys know i've read about 130 pages today um which i'm pretty satisfied with i'm gonna try to read more and then go to bed we're trying to wake up kind of early tomorrow we're you know gonna have our big sleepy hollow day um which is great pumped for that i have a whole stack of outfits planned for this trip um but yeah i'm really excited to bring you guys along i'm excited to hopefully experience all sorts of halloween type things but in the meantime i'm going to get definitely in the spirit by reading task two of harry potter well harry potter's you know route to figure out what task two is about if you will within a certain bubble bath but uh yeah so i am going to get to reading as i'm trying to read more and then i'm obviously gonna have all day monday because i have monday off uh to read so i should be able to get quite a bit in on that day because clay's actually working so just be me so there's nothing to do but read on monday so you know tomorrow's for the jack-o-lanterns and the cemeteries but uh okay so i'm gonna get to reading now and i will see you guys in the morning good morning world we are about to head out it's sunday morning and we're about to go on our road trip i am wearing a pinafore and a striped sweater and tights not necessarily hiking material but don't worry i pack some more activity appropriate clothing um we are gonna pick up some pumpkin spice lattes on the way to our rental car and then we're off gonna be hopefully a really really fun day of just exploring the great outdoors and all sorts of halloweeny adventures so come along friends we got our pumpkin spice lattes clay is driving we are on our way we got a zip car this time versus just a rental car not sponsored or anything but this was really handy and cheaper than a rental car in new york city rental cars in new york city are insane like 200 a day but anyway we're off going over the brooklyn bridge how new york of us honestly i always think driving over the brooklyn bridge is so cool like this will be something i always remember dang it's also a beautiful day outside it's like sunny and cool fall is here and it is happening 30 minutes outside of new york city we're like honestly 12 minutes away it's not very far from the city itself which is a perfect day trip but look the leaves are starting to change look how beautiful it is it's gonna be a great day we've arrived at the roosevelt state park we're gonna go to the house but you need like a private tour ticket so we're a little unprepared for that but we are going to take a nice little nature stroll the great outdoors 45 minutes north of new york city and that right clay yes sir oh we decided to take the overlook trail so far we're overlooking a lake in the trail that we started walking up i know i've said it a million times but it is so nice outside today i changed first off a change of the day first nature spotting of the trip it's a hairy hairy caterpillar i wonder how hungry he is oh my god look how harry is he's cute he looks like a little belt cleaner oh leave him alone clay let him thrive oh he's fun he's real fun all right have a good day mr caterpillar people are allowed to ride horses on this trail and it blows my mind but there's also a lake here it's really pretty but also horses it's almost like we're back in scotland a little bit beautiful water foilage over there starting to peep through clay he was in scotland we're on a little like edge of the water situation it's so pretty and this look is called swan lake and peep i don't think they're swans i think they're geese but there are creatures in the water everyone made it to the downtown area it's so cute we're gonna get stop off and get some lunch very nutritious matching lunch of burgers and beer we're outside there's the hudson we've made it to sleepy hollow graveyard so new destination in the books i would say spooky pretty cool little spot really kind of brings me back to scotland but much more spooky vibes right much more fall the leaves having a nice little stroll bye sleepy hollow graveyard we saw carnegie's grave here that was pretty cool we found a little pumpkin place so obviously we're buying more pumpkins lots of bizarre zombie options so that's what we're going for oh clay really likes this giant gourd thing oh there's corn perfect opportunity for a corny joke oh god kill me cute little music hall and kind of like main street actually i think it is actually literally main street labeled as such there's clay charging ahead per usual we have about an hour before dinner so we're just kind of meandering around we're at dinner it's polenta fries delish butternut squash pasta and they got salmon looking delish looking and it's all foam to table fresh produce love it they wanted ice cream we found an ice cream parlor it's really cute and then we're off to the haunted house alright we've got brownie all a mode incredible like that strawberry on the only cone that's allowed to exist which is the wafer cone or the cake cone sometimes called clay and i both agree on this comment below what your favorite cone type is and why it's it's not a waffle cone all right we're back in the car it's night time now which means we're finally at the main event everything you've seen up to this point is just the appetizer because we have two really exciting things on the docket now that night has fallen we're gonna go do a haunted house clay which i usually never would agree to do for that very reason i just played as illustrated because i get startled really easily i don't want scary movies but this says it's suitable for children 12 and up and it's historical so those two things made me feel like maybe i could tough it out historical that means the ghosts are real that's fine as long as it's historically accurate um but i doubt i can film it but we'll bring you along as much as we can but then we have the great jack-o-lantern blaze which is a bunch of pumpkins which i'm sure we can film so i'm so pumped we're off dinner was super tasty we got ice cream which is super tasty it's been a really fun day but now it's time for all the halloween stuff and i changed again is this a full moon on our adventures in sleepy hollow because it looks like it looping going on a candlelit walk i'm already scared i heard someone scream wish me luck clay just said that i forgot how much a 12 year old could handle i'm pretty sure 12 year olds are braver than me we finished the haunted house it was very impressive from a theatrical standpoint very long too i did get startled multiple times but now we're off to the pumpkin patch clay wants a picture with the guillotine it's very uh jacqueline is that right jacobite very french revolution i can't remember so we're gonna do it are here just parked can you see the pumpkin arch we've arrived i'm so excited also there's a flag made out of pumpkins this is going to be great we got a hot chocolate and donuts post ice cream free pumpkins that's how we live oh you can't see the pumpkins on the other side but there's pumpkins everywhere in trees keep in mind these are all real pumpkins like holy mackeroni these are pumpkin dinosaurs it's like jurassic park but the pumpkin version and we're about to go across a pumpkin bridge wow lady liberty in all of her glory excuse me who is this talented of a pumpkin carver can you teach me how please i mean look at this and then over here there's a whole train made out of pumpkins and then here it's literally a halloween dream come true everyone come to this if you live nearby obsessed and then of course we have a jack-o'-lantern blaze version of a uh and then you have that famous painting of the diner the nighthawk diner i think geez it's a dragon made out of pumpkins and a covered bridge covered in pumpkins i just don't know what else to say except oh my god pumpkins it's a dream it's a dream matilda came to the pumpkin patch oh my god i wish this is something i could have in my house forever also look at all the other dogs so cute but mostly just like we're in harry potter book two but actually a giant spider web constructed out of pumpkins and i keep trying to decide if it's real or fake pumpkins but i really think they're real which is just so wild absolutely bananas bananas this is the thing we saw when we first walked in and i was most excited to enter wow oh and just like that we're home and off to bed because it's really late and we're tired i actually have tomorrow off so i will be doing a bunch of reading because as you guys know i read nothing today but don't worry that is for tomorrow and i will see you guys tomorrow morning hi good morning everyone i am wearing my peanut sweatshirt and it's like 9 30 on the couch i slept in a bit this morning and i sat on my phone a bit this morning as well which you know is relaxing i am not gonna lie to you i woke up with a large amount of guilt for taking this monday off of work i don't know why i think it's because usually when i take a day off work i'm somewhere so it's inevitable like it's unavoidable like it's not like i could go to the office if i wanted to but here i'm just taking off like a random monday in new york um which is a terrible feeling to have like do not feel guilty about taking a date to yourself so like i am a walking example of what not to feel but sometimes you can't help it um but i'm fighting through it i'm not letting myself cave in i'm going to take this day my whole team does not care that i took this day off so i got it approved weeks ago so i'm just going to hang out relax and kind of have like a mental health day i'm going to call it like slow down i'm gonna do some filming i'm gonna treat it like a sunday basically i'm gonna read so much harry potter today that's a huge goal of mine i'm gonna try to finish harry potter and the goblet of fire for one i'm going to film um like two videos today so not too many i have some errands to run that i've been kind of behind on and i'm gonna cook something tonight for dinner i don't know what yet but i'll run to the grocery store at some point and get something i don't know what yet though i don't know what i feel like making but it's going to be tasty and those three things i'm going to do is that three i lost count already um but i'm not gonna feel guilty for one and i'm just going to enjoy my day it's kind of cloudy it's cool outside hence the peanuts sweatshirt this by the way is so soft i wear that hawaii sweatshirt a lot i don't know if you've noticed but i love crewneck sweatshirts um but the hawaii one was always my favorite because it's like the softest this is just as soft as that and more seasonally appropriate so love it and i think i'm still gonna order that peanuts t-shirt offline because i am a fall i just love fall things and i might do a face mask today i feel like i need to be taking better care of my skin i just get stressed about what i put it through too much makeup too much makeup not enough skin care but anyway i'm gonna make a cup of coffee i might pick up a croissant and i'm just going to let myself enjoy the day and i'm not going to waste any more time or energy feeling stressed or guilty about not being at work to like answer emails you know what i mean like it's fine it's fine the world's gonna keep turning this day will be much more beneficial to me here than it would be me there though my iphone does come in today and i texted clay to ask if it would be too extra to go in stick into the mailroom at like 5 p.m and say pick up my new iphone and he said yes so i guess i'll wait to pick up my new iphone until tomorrow but anyway this has been a long rant i'm gonna get coffee we'll not get it i'm gonna make a latte now so cheers goodbye making coffee and you'll notice there is survivor on in the background because again guys i'm living my best life today oh also clay found these at the grocery store and picked them up for me thriving i'm never able to find these in new york city so excited to treat myself to those maybe today maybe later we shall see hi everyone it has been a really lovely morning it's a little past 11 i have just been doing a lot of admin i figured out what videos i'm going to film which i'm now going to do i like you know outline them and everything these are some emails watched a lot of survivors so so far this morning is great i have not read yet but don't worry i plan to do a lot of that later um i'm still trying to figure out what i want to make for dinner my appetite's still not 100 there like meaning i'm hungry but not everything sounds good if that makes sense but regardless i'm gonna film now i'm wearing my peanut i just love this peanut sweatshirt best purchase in a minute and then i'm wearing the headband i got from urban outfitters yesterday too so i'm gonna get to filming gonna get this knocked off the to-do list and then i'm gonna go pick up a sandwich i think for lunch just like a turkey sandwich and then i'm gonna get you reading i finished filming despite you know the lack of health help from this one she is just the worst employee um i'm gonna go get lunch now because i'm starving and i'm dying for a turkey sandwich i know i said i wanted to pick up stuff to make groceries for dinner but honestly i remembered that clay picked up some tostinos pizza rolls to make me feel better and i think i want to eat those for dinner because i love tostitos pizza rolls no shame in my game i cook a lot sometimes i don't feel like it today's the day voila picked up my delicious sandwich i'm gonna watch some survivor then i'm gonna do a few quick errands and then i promise i'm actually gonna start reading isn't that right matilda yep yep okay errands are officially done apartment is officially cleaned up and i'm officially out of excuses to start reading so i am going to read some harry potter um i will give you guys a page update a little later because i don't want to give myself any other reason to not just start reading um i am past the halfway point of this book so i've made really good progress um in the illustrated edition so i'm gonna read a chunk of this now and then i'll probably put survivor on to watch and read but i want to read first without any distractions for a little while before i do that so i'm gonna get to it i'm gonna get to it right now right now starting really right now hi everyone i have been on the couch with this one for a good chunk of time like about an hour and a half ouch and i'm happy to say i've read a lot i obviously haven't read the illustrated edition but it's so heavy so i'm gonna hold up this one and i just checked what page i'm on um i am about to be on task two harry just dropped an egg in a bathtub and that means i'm on page like 481 which means i've read about 250 pages so far which is great again i am planning on finishing this book today i don't foresee that being any type of problem i honestly feel like i'm reading the illustrated edition faster than the normal book and i think it might just be like a mental thing because the chapter book of the chapter book is over 700 pages so i feel like if i read 50 60 pages i would take a break similarly if i read 50 60 pages of the illustrated one i would also take a break but 50 to 60 pages in that in the illustrated edition is significantly longer than the just normal um novel version uh because there's just a lot more words on a page so therefore i'm just reading it in faster chunks than i think i normally would that's speculation but i'm not gonna lie i'm a little sleepy so i'm gonna make another latte and then i'm gonna put some survivor on i'll probably honestly just keep reading but i just also wanna watch survivor because i'm really liking this fans versus uh favorite season i'm highly entertained by it so i really wanna watch more so that's what i'm going to do catching survivor and doing my favorite pastime which is pretend house hunting does anyone else go on redfin and just look for houses in places you want to live one day this is austin i always make the price range like super high and pretend i'm a millionaire it's more fun that way taking a quick survivor break and house hunting break to do some editing for the videos i filmed earlier today so i'm gonna work on that now and then football is actually on later so i'm gonna watch that and read so every time there's football on i actually get a lot of reading in because it's like the perfect thing to watch and read to so it's gonna be top-notch also check out our pumpkin stack over there of course out of the two pick up yesterday looking good we have a nice like tone of pumpkins i'm a big fan i fell down a bit of an internet hole what's new it's also nighttime which means i'm having a bit of a crisis that my day off is almost over um but i'm actually going to sit down and do more reading i might put pregame football on for a background um noise but i'm gonna pick up harry potter and the goblet of fire and continue reading some pages i don't think clay has to work super late tonight which is awesome so i might actually see him which is great um but in the meantime i think i'm just gonna put some low noise on and read harry potter and the goblet fire i'm gonna paint my nails too i've been really so i restarted painting my nails again i used to paint them all the time like throughout high school and i just stopped because i got too lazy but i have been doing it again and so i'm trying to do it like weekly so it's time so i'm gonna paint my nails tonight too saying it so i do it all right i've been sitting here i've been reading harry potter i read another really good chunk and i'll talk about that in a minute but i also poured myself a bowl of flaming hot cheeto fries it's been so long since i've had these because i don't sell them here um they're so good i poured myself in a bowl because i'm trying to take the whole bag because i do want to eat my delicious and nutritious dinner of tostitos pizza rolls i had a real collar to throw back of most of the foods i ate when i was a college student very unhealthy but very cheap um as for the goblet of fire i'm making really good progress i've read another 40 pages of the illustrated edition which might equate to something like 60 or 70 of the actual edition this illustrated edition is beautiful but it might be my least favorite of the four that are out simply because there's honestly just less illustrations and i'm not even saying like full page because i was expecting to be less full pages but even like the chapter heads and the other ones i feel like there were custom chapter heads and those were illustrated and i'm not even expecting like every chapter had to be that but pretty much all of them just kind of have a border and everything's still beautiful like i'm not really complaining but you know if i'm being nitpicky there's just so many less there's just so many more plain pages of just full text like nothing at all on them again a much longer book i totally get it but i was just i'm just surprised mostly at the chapter headers there just aren't any custom really chapter headers at all and then even like small illustrations are less frequent and i'm sure the volume of illustrations is the same um and i'm i don't know if that's like how it is going to be for every book like the number of illustrations is the same per book but i don't know i mean if this book took two years to make versus the other ones came out every year so i just assumed because it took two years like we would have a larger volume of illustrations and perhaps i'm wrong on the volume i i really really could be i don't feel like i'm wrong but it could just be simply because this book is just so much longer it just is less noticeable that being said all the illustrations are so beautiful but i just i just feel like we're missing like some of the ambiance and some of the custom pages that we kind of got through the first three that just aren't here like i'm not even again not even full page just like beautiful custom backgrounds or things like that i just feel like aren't as prevalent in this one that being said i'm loving this story obviously so that's great um i'm gonna continue to read and eat my cheeto snack i'm gonna make my dinner and i'm just gonna keep reading and hanging out enjoying my night clay has so far confirmed he's gonna get off a little early tonight so i think we're gonna watch some downton abbey or something along those lines and it's gonna be really great and i'm really looking forward to hanging out with him a bit before i go back to work tomorrow i've been about i haven't been to work since thursday so i was sick on friday it feels weird i feel like i'm like going back after like summer vacation or something i'm not prepared i'm gonna have so many emails to read and get through but that's tomorrow reagan's problem tonight i'm gonna eat my flamingo cheeto fries and read harry potter it's bread week and the bread i'm making and the oven aka my tostinos pizza rolls are done also my mom got me this tea towel last week when she was in town and thought it was a hoot i just literally think of her and laugh every time i see it now so this might be an all year thing bon appetit see me featured in the next i don't know i would say like eat magazine that's not even a real thing anyway back to great britain guess who's home it's clay we are now gonna watch some downton abbey and i'm gonna paint my nails um and then that's that's really it for the night good news is i am well past the 600 page mark harry potter and the goblet of fire do not have i said goblet really weird but i don't have very much left um so i'm definitely still planning on finishing that tonight so that is really exciting but we do get to watch a little bit of downton abbey on the way which is the bomb and probably have ice cream later right clay yes or cookies or both just a very nutritious night tonight lily's gonna show us her special trick gentle gentle gentle good girl so gentle we have retreated into the bedroom for the night uh i am going to read more harry potter and the goblet of fire i'm trying to finish this bad boy up i don't have very much left at all i also scored myself a haagen-dazs um ice cream bar so that is exciting i'm gonna have a haagen-dazs my dear people to quote uh to be like an you know character from oh my god clay the new season of marvelous nasals december 6th oh wow breaking news sorry there's an ad wow i'm so excited anyway so i'm gonna finish reading harry potter and the goblet of fire i really like this book um it's probably one of my i mean like ranking harry potter is difficult because i love them all the fourth one might be like closer to the bottom it might be like one two four three six five seven oh please don't quote me on that ranking it changes so often regardless though i'm really enjoying the story but i'm particularly excited to jump into book five because i love book five so much and then six and seven are just like so intense so harry potter reread will continue and i can't wait for the illustrated editions to come out for those and you know the very near future i mean my god that'll be like six years wow that's gosh i'll be 31. scary anyway i'm gonna sit down and read now and stop having life crises and eat my ice cream because i'm an adult so i'll be 33 clay you're gonna be old hi everyone and welcome to the end of the reading vlog a few days later i just wanted to quickly pop in and chat through everything i read this weekend it actually ended up being such a fun weekend i had so much fun in sleepy hollow with clay and then having that day off was honestly so good um but throughout the weekend i read and only read harry potter and the goblet of fire and i was able to finish this which is super super exciting i'm really really happy with all that i was able to read since i read just over 500 pages this weekend which honestly is always my goal matilda just had dinner which is why she's here with her bowl trying to get seconds uh but yeah i really enjoyed reading harry potter on the goblet of fire it has been such a long time since i've read this which i feel like i've mentioned before i thought the illustrated edition was really good i was expecting more illustrations but the ones that were there were stunning and beautiful i'm not holding the illustrated edition up because it's flipping heavy it's like a workout um that being said i'm super excited to move on to book five which is one of my favorites of the series like definitely top two top three so i'm especially excited to get to that one and i plan on reading it probably next month and then i'll try to finish out the rest by the end of the year if not in january but yeah this has just been such a lovely rereading experience for me it's great to have reread all the books before going to london and the harry potter studio tour which i'm doing in three weeks now which is wild but anyway now i'm just going on and on i hope you guys enjoyed this video and i will see you soon with another one soon bye\n"