MY HAIR IS RED _ Reading Vlog - May 14-20
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#### **Sponsored by The Great Courses Plus**
The video begins with a sponsorship message from *The Great Courses Plus*. The host shares their love for learning and highlights how the platform offers thousands of courses taught by top experts. They mention taking courses like "The History of England" and recommend starting a free trial. If viewers sign up using the link in the description, they can access exclusive content.
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#### **Audiobook Review: *I Have Lost My Way* by Gayle Forman**
The host shares that they finished an audiobook called *I Have Lost My Way* by Gayle Forman. They loved it, especially since it's a multi-perspective story where the narratives are intricately woven together. The book also features music, with characters singing a song prevalent in the plot. The host describes it as a unique and engaging listening experience.
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#### **Internet Issues**
The host mentions their frustration with no Wi-Fi at home for an extended period. They explain that they had to go to their old university to upload content and complete other tasks. They express disappointment over how reliant they are on internet access for work, despite not needing it for everything.
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#### **Unboxing the Starlight & Dreams Box from Whims of Five**
The host receives a surprise package from *Whims of Five*. The box is themed around *A Court of Frost and Starlight* by Sarah J. Maas but arrives in poor condition—so damaged that it looks like it was "Hulk-smashed." Despite the disappointment, they explore the contents:
1. **Mug**: A mug with a quote from the book ("When you erupt, make sure it is felt across worlds") but it’s severely damaged.
2. **Bath Bomb**: A floral-scented *Cauldron Blackberry Amber Bath Bomb* from The Fairy Tale Bath Company.
3. **Buttons**: Cute buttons representing "Team Rhys," "Team Lucien," and other factions from the series.
4. **Candle**: A candle with a scent described as mountain air, citrus, and orchids, likely from Flick the Wick, known for long-lasting candles.
5. **Sleep Mask**: A luxurious sleep mask that feels like a high-quality item.
6. **Lip Scrub**: A lip scrub from Literary Apothecary.
7. **Book Sleeve**: A large, beautifully designed book sleeve with themes of mountains, wolves, and swords by Whims of Five.
8. **Prints & Bookmarks**: Beautiful bookmarks featuring characters from the series.
9. **Novel Copy**: A second copy of *A Court of Frost and Starlight*, which they plan to give away or keep as a backup.
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#### **Daily Activities and Upcoming Plans**
The host shares their busy schedule:
- They plan to dress shop for upcoming weddings but have no dresses ready, so finding one is a priority.
- They mention starting *Dear Martin* by Nick Stone on Scribd and enjoying it despite its short length. They also express mixed feelings about the book, feeling it could have been longer.
- They’re working on editing videos and hope to finish an audiobook soon.
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#### **Hair Appointment and Plans for Filming**
The host shares updates on their hair:
- They recently got their hair dyed lighter but are unsure about the result. They plan to get highlights next week.
- Their hair appointments will affect their filming schedule, as they’ll have to manage different looks over several days.
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#### **Reading Progress and Unfinished Audiobooks**
The host discusses their reading progress:
- They’re 150 pages into *Fury Born* but feel it’s a slow read with many layers.
- They started an audiobook called *Emergency Contact* by Mary HK Choi. Though they enjoy the story, one character (Penny) annoys them due to her judgmental nature.
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#### **Organizing Books and Decluttering**
The host talks about their book organization challenges:
- They’ve decided to declutter their TBR shelf by creating a backup shelf for books they’re not immediately planning to read. They show the titles they moved, including historical fiction, fantasy, and young adult novels.
- They express relief at reducing the number of books on their shelves but admit they still struggle with prioritizing which ones to read next.
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#### **Beauty Routine and Skincare**
The host shares updates on their beauty routine:
- They’re experimenting with skincare products for dry skin from Burt’s Bees, despite not liking their current hair color.
- Their natural makeup look is overshadowed by an unruly hairstyle they’re planning to fix before an event.
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#### **Final Thoughts and Closing**
The host wraps up the video with a mix of excitement and frustration about their busy schedule, creative projects, and personal goals. They express gratitude for the support from The Great Courses Plus and Whims of Five and invite viewers to engage in the comments.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by the great courses plus com good morning it's actually almost noon craziness how time flies by but I'm actually about to head out for a little bit I did finish a book this morning though so I wanted to tell you guys that so I ended up finishing the audiobook for I have lost my way by Gayle Forman I really enjoyed it it was a really cool audiobook especially since it's a story that does have to do with like singing I feel like it was cool to listen to it on audiobook the end of it has like a song that's prevalent in the book they actually sing it which was really cool by it was such an interesting multi-perspective story I don't think I've ever read one where the perspectives are so interwoven it was really cool and I did thoroughly enjoy it but we still don't have Wi-Fi at my house so we have been having major issues with that I'm just going to head to my university to upload my reading blog because I wanted to get up on time and I'm gonna do a couple of other things while I'm there I'm probably gonna write while I am there so I might spend quite a bit of time there I don't know we'll see but I'm not impressed that we still don't have Wi-Fi but I mean it is what it is so I went to my old University and uploaded my video then I actually called our Internet company and it turns out we're probably not going to have internet for like the rest of the week it sounds like which is super annoying like it's not gonna rely on internet for everything but what I do I need internet for so I'm going to have to keep on like going to my old university and stuff to upload stuff and it's just gonna be a huge pain and I'm not excited about it but there's not really anything I can do about it so that's fun I also literally just have a bro sitting on my bed so fun but I got a package in the mail from whims of I so I wanted to dive into it so I actually wasn't expecting this at all or else I would have waited to do my other whims if I unboxing but they ended up sending me their starlight and dreams box so it is for a quart of mist and fury by Sarah J Maas so it's all themed around that and I'm super excited to dive in so first it looks like we have a mug here the box is actually pretty broken oh this doesn't sound good I really hope it's not broken oh yeah this has seen better days it literally looks like someone Hulk smashed this so this was at one point a mug I don't know what happened stuff like that happens sometimes like there's nothing that they can do about it and I wasn't expecting this box and I got sent it for free so I'm not going to have them send me another one but that's kind of unfortunate I can't even like really tell what it was supposed to look like oh there's like a quote on it when you erupt a girl make sure it is felt across worlds that's fun I like that quote but unfortunately this mug is going to have to go I'm really sad about that but what can you do I honestly don't know like what they did to this not they as in the company but they as in like Canada Post or whoever delivered it okay there's all sorts of things in here so next we have a little bathroom this is what smells there's like a really kind of like floral breezy scent so this is the cauldron blackberry amber bath bomb in this is made by the fairytale bath company next is I'm imagining like jewelry or something possibly and oh no oh there's little buttons here so there is a button for Team Rhys team Lucien team cast which is where I belong and team as for Azrael next is it looks like a candle from flick the wick I love flick the wicks candles and this one I think yeah it looks like a full-size one and the scent is a house of wind so it smells like mountain air citrus and orchids well that's such a nice scent it's very like soft and subtle but really really pretty I like that a lot they honestly have like the longest lasting candles I really love their candles next there is a sleep mask again you guys would know how I feel about sleep masks if you watched my owl crate unboxing I like them for like traveling and stuff but just for like at home I just I feel very vulnerable to the elements I'm an absolute chicken so oh it comes with like a little case for it too that's so lovely but this is actually this is a really nice sleep mask I might just fall asleep right now because I'm really tired I'm we're back okay next we have Oh a lip scrub and this is Morgan and it is from I can't read it literary apothecary I think I love lip scrubs because my lips get really dry easily so lip scrubs are always awesome next we've got something big here so this is a book sleeve I love book sleeves I especially love big ones because there's so many like tall books that don't fit in the regular book sleeves so this is so awesome so it just has like mountains wolves moons arrows swords all over it it's super pretty and it is by oh it's a whims of my exclusive storytime sleeve so I think that they made it I will definitely be getting a lot of use out of this though it's like it's a good nice good big one I only have one that's kind of bigger next we've got a few papers things here so there is a bookmark by Jo painter which has a bunch of the characters from the novel on either side or from the series I should say another one by Jo painter these are so pretty so this has different characters on either side and then this one right here these are like so well done wow this person is super talented and we have a print I'm really bad at at identifying characters just by looking at them so I think this is Reese and rice and whatever and then finally we have the book so it is four across two crossed a fort what what what a court of frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas so this has a bookmark in here and it says to the stars who listen in the dreams that are answered don't let the hard days when leave this world a better place than how you found it which are all serenade mask quotes and I love all those quotes this is actually gonna be the second copy that I own of it because I have the indigo exclusive edition and I do want to keep that one so this one I might end up passing along to my old high school or maybe my sisters or my mom whatever but thank you very much to woman's of five for sending this box to me this was such a lovely surprise I will leave a link for them down below if you wanted to go and check them out so now I need to clean my room I need to clean up all this stuff I have a lot to do I think we're dress shopping tonight because I have a couple of weddings coming up and I have no dresses to wear so I need to find something to wear it's just going to be I feel like a really long week I also wanted to let you guys know that I started listening to dear Martin by Nick stone on the script I'm just so amazed by how many titles they have on their this blog isn't sponsored by that my last one was but they seriously are like it's amazing so since this is a really short book it's not like on my TBR or anything but it has been on my TBR for a while so it could fit the challenge that I have for myself of reading a TBR bed but we shall see but I'm not very far into it at all but while I clean my room I'm going to listen to it a little bit more good morning it's Tuesday it's a miserable day outside today it's like not even raining but it's just overcast it looks like it's nighttime like it's cold I'm just not feeling it right now today it's just gonna be one of those days apparently even though I like just got up it's kind of late but I just got out two things I was looking for and I couldn't find them and I looked for them for like 20 minutes and then found them which I hate looking for things because I feel like it's just such a waste of time so I'm so tired but part of the reason I'm so tired is that last night I stayed up and ended up finishing in dear Martin I don't know what it was like just because this book is so short I feel like I was like no you have to finish it in one day this is ridiculous so I ended up staying up until like 1:00 in the morning finishing it I did enjoy it I have kind of like mixed feelings on it it's definitely really short and packs a punch but I did feel like it could have been longer and I could have gotten like more from the story and more from the characters however it's an extremely important story and I think it did a good job of sending its message I just kind of wish that I was able to connect with the characters a little bit more so since I finished that I am moving on to nine days and nine nights I've read ninety nine days last week and I didn't really like it but I do still really want to read this one because it is like a European travel novel which I love so I'm gonna give it a go and hopefully I will enjoy the audiobook this one is unscripted well there's literally so many out there so I'm you know hope for the best with this one but we'll see this is another short one so I should be able to finish it really quickly I haven't been like physically reading so I'm still where I before with fury born I'm on page 21 but I'm hoping right now I'll be able to do a little bit of reading and then I'm gonna do some writing then I have to clean some stuff I just have a constant flow of books new books coming into my house and they're books that I do want to read and they're books that I do want to keep but I literally have no room for them so I have to like try and figure out something where to put them because right now they've just been like staying in random places around my house because I don't know where to put them so if they had a place to go then I could put them away right away but right now they don't no place to go so it's like it's just annoying what is that excuse you oh it's my alarm I am awake partially at least alright well I'm going to go and read a little bit well I have my morning coffee so I've just been reading fury born but I just got a package from Raincoast so I wanted to open it this is so exciting especially because I'm not gonna be here on release day for this book but they sent me legendary by Stefanie Garber so this is the sequel to karvall I'm so excited for it it is one of my most anticipated releases of the entire year they actually just announced that there's going to be a third book called finale but I'm so looking forward to diving into this one so it's even more motivation to make my way through fury born and do some reading instead of just scrolling through Instagram I don't have Wi-Fi anyways right now still so I shouldn't be on Instagram but I am but I definitely want to pick this one up soon it's coming out May 29th so it's almost here and thank you so much to bring coast books for sending it to me my hair on the top just never does nice things that's why I have to like curl the top the rest of it I just wear natural but the top of my head I don't know what it's doing ever but I've just been editing some videos I edited one I'm actually almost done my audiobook already it was super quick so I think I'm going to do my makeup and kind of get ready for work because I work today and hopefully finish my audiobook well that is happening I'm enjoying this one more than 99 days I still don't like I don't love it but I'm definitely enjoying it more but I have this video that I'm editing right now that I really want to get done today so if I don't get it done before work like I work in a couple of hours yeah I working like an hour and a half so if I don't get it done or work then I'm going to have to do it after work because I want to send it off and have it all ready to go I have way more videos that I have to film before I leave for California then I was expecting to so that's going to be interesting and also I'm going to get my hair done tomorrow so today's been like a busy day of like getting stuff done cleaning my room cleaning the house but tomorrow is going to be a really busy day and the respect of I have a lot of running around to do I have a hair appointment in the morning I'm planning on dying my hair different color so like half of the videos I'm gonna have this color hair half of the videos I'm gonna have my hair another color so that will be confusing but I kind of want to take advantage of the fact that my hair will be done and I'm going to probably try and film some stuff tomorrow but I do have a couple of appointments so I don't know how that will work out I really don't know what is going to happen but I mean hopefully I'll have time for everything it's just going to be a really really busy day but for the rest of the day today I'm going to try and get a few more things done but right now I just need to give myself a face hello so I just got back from running errands literally all day I got my hair done I don't know if you can tell I feel like it looks different it's a little bit darker right now and that's because I'm trying to go lighter overall but I usually only get highlights so we were lightening the base today and then next week I go back and I'll get highlights so it'll all be lightened but right now it's just kind of this like brown color I feel like it looks darker one on camera and two it's going to lighten up like as I wash it but I haven't washed it yet because I just got done so like yeah but I wanted to show you a couple of things so first of all I got a couple of things from one of my co-workers she had some Alice in Wonderland merchandise that she brought it Disney that she didn't want anymore so I ended up getting it from her but first I got this month which has the tea party scene on it it is so cute and then the other thing you're actually sitting on top of so that is this little tea set here it's like a perfect size to like have my face in the frame I mean not now this is a bad example I put the camera way too close but you get the point I want to open it and show you what's inside though so I'm gonna do that now if I can oh struggles first we have this teacup here oh so cute so it's got the treasure count on the one side and then drink me and Alice the Tea Party scene once again on the other and it was a cup and saucer I don't want to mess this up but like I want to show you yes so this is whoa my god don't drop it this is the saucer right here and then the next cup and saucer this one has the Queen of Hearts on the one side and then I can't see that white rabbit on the other and they both say drink me and then it has like the same saucer for that one and then there's tea on the bottom so there's like I'm just gonna show it to you in here so there's like English breakfast he topsy-turvy blend which is fun it's just a really fun little thing so I don't really know yet if I'm gonna take this out and display it I'm not too sure but we'll see in other news I went half of the day today like literally it's like 3 p.m. and I just realized - like 15 minutes ago once I finally got home from all my errands that I was very mature backwards so like we're doing great adulting whoa can't even put on a shirt oh good morning this morning it is finally nice enough I haven't been able to sit out so I can read an original in time but today it's quite nice birds are chirping away but I'm going to be reading more be reborn I am 56 pages into it so hopefully I'll be able to make a good dent today I decided I'm not gonna film until like the rest of my hair is done which will be next week next Tuesday so basically like Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday like whatever of next week I'll be filming I just I don't know I might film a couple of videos but for the most part I feel like I don't want a pre film when my hair is a different color and then it's gonna change again I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone except for me but today I'm going to be planning out some videos and doing some writing doing basically like whatever I can to be productive when I can't film so probably editing a few things I think I've edited in most of the videos that I need to end it though but we'll see I kind of need to make a game plan and see how things are gonna go so I've just been planning out some videos I've had like a semi productive day I am about 100 pages actually I'm exactly a hundred pages into fury born and I'm really liking it things are getting intense so hopefully I'll be able to finish that by the end of the week because I do need to have it done by May 29 but my hair looks so much more red than it did yesterday which is weird I was fine yesterday but now I'm kind of like men I mean it's not done yet so like it's not a big deal but I was kind of considering like not doing the highlights but I'm definitely going to do it because I don't like the read at all maybe it's just the lighting I don't know but I started a new audiobook I think I told you the last one that I finished and then I had tried starting another one but we still do not have Wi-Fi it's not that like I can't survive without Wi-Fi it's just I use it for YouTube stuff and everything so if I like yesterday I put up a video of me trying to sort myself into Hogwarts house and on the thumbnail I had a typo and it said it was sorting myself into whole words I couldn't correct it until I could go to my work and use the Wi-Fi there because I don't have Wi-Fi at home like I can't just do that I on my phone so it's just very frustrating and extremely annoying but I thought that was really funny like going to hoe warts with my cohorts it just made me want but I also have a service that I wanted to tell you guys about but I can't tell you about it because I can't like show you it so I might try and just show you it on the app I don't know or I might just show you guys it and then do a voiceover that's what I'll probably do but I don't know we'll see it's just super frustrating but anyways like I was saying I start a new audiobook I had wanted to listen to more audio books on Scribd but I can't do that right now since I can only use data and I uses like a ton of data so instead I ended up starting an audiobook that I just already had on my phone and that was emergency contact by Mary HK Choi I am I think a little bit more than 100 pages into this one as well hello I'm a hundred and thirty pages into this one and I have like mixed feeling so far it's good but I can't stand the one character like I literally can't stand her the character of penny she is so annoying and just really judgmental and unlikable so far so hopefully if she will have some redeemable qualities but right now she just is like snap judgments on absolutely everything and her chapters are literally just her sharing her negative opinion on things like I'm negative so I feel like for me to be annoyed by someone being super judgemental that means a lot but anyways I want to go and plant some more videos do some email stuff and just get some stuff done so it is Friday and I just wanted to give you guys an update because I ended up finishing emergency contact by Mary HK choy it was good like I have mixed feelings on it so I'm still not entirely sure a mime rating I'm sitting between a 2.5 and a 3 don't like it wasn't bad I enjoyed it but the characters were just a lot for me like most of them I was just like you're all very annoying but I have to get ready because we're gonna be going out tonight but I wanted to tell you guys about something so what I wanted to talk about is something that I have talked about in videos before but I wanted to mention it again because I got a comment about it recently also the company reached out again which I was very excited about but what I wanted to talk about is the great courses plus calm so I mentioned sometimes how I take different courses and stuff even though I've done school I still really love learning and love like education that's the ravenclaw part of me coming out and the great courses plus is my favorite service that I have found for that but what it is is a subscription on-demand video service that has thousands and thousands of courses on all sorts of different topics that are taught by like top-notch people and institutions it really has something for everyone I've done a few of their courses I love the history ones they're my favorite but there are so many other ones that I'm wanting to take like my watch list is just ridiculously long I just loved education and I love the fact that there are so many courses out here that are readily available and you guys can actually start a free trial which I highly recommend that you do I think the next course that I'm going to take is a Shakespeare course because I want to get back into reading some Shakespeare but the most recent one that I took is the history of England I've always been really intrigued by like the English monarchy and the history of it especially the Tudor era in this course went through like before the Tudor era to when the tutors came to be and then even after the Tudor era so it's really cool and I highly recommend that one but really you can't go wrong with any of the courses I've loved all the ones that I've taken so if you guys wanted to try out the free trial then you can visit the great courses plus comm slash Haley or click the link in my description and sign up for your own free trial like I said I highly recommend that you do if you do let me know what course you are taking because there are so many I want to take and I want to know what you guys think I actually think I'm going to go and start a new course now before I start listening to a new audio book since I'm kind of in-between audiobooks right now so it's perfect timing but I did want to say quickly thank you very much to you the great course of + for working with me again I'm super excited about so I'm going to try and make myself look like a semi presentable human now I'm trying out some new skincare stuff it's just hydration stuff from Burt's Bees and really dry skin so I'm trying to combat that I really don't like my hair color right now so please ignore that it's just it's not my taste I don't really want red hair and it's quite bright I am also coincidentally at my hairiest right now like I have a good old stache going my eyebrows are literal fuzzy caterpillars except not cute but I'm waiting to take care of all that until like right before BA and becan so like I have like one more week of this I'm waiting so that I can be like peak looking great like fresh a.f yay great awesome so I'm going to try and do like really natural makeup and just kind of hope for the best good morning I am sitting on my floor because I wanted to show you guys something so you might be wondering why there are a bunch of back facing books here by yesterday today is Saturday by the way yesterday I decided to go through all of my books on my TBR because since I have like a constant flow of books coming in I constantly have my TBR growing and getting like out of control to the point where I'm like I don't know when I'm gonna have time to read all of these like a lot of them I do still want to read but I know I'm not going to read them anytime soon so I kind of went through my shelves and I made a little backup TBR which is here we're trying to figure out somewhere where I can put it and I think we have a solution it's just a matter of like finding a shelf that I can put it on but for now they're just going to stay here ideally I would like to have this whole shelf in my room just be books that I've read and then we're going to have a shelf out in the hallway right in front of my room that one will be books that I have to read still and kind of like my backup TBR because before I went through this I had like five and a half shelves of TBR books now I have four and a half so I was able to get rid of like a whole shelf and honestly if I was being really brutal I could probably still get rid of some more but what freaked me out about that is I almost had six and like six is what this whole shelf is it's six shelves all the way up so I had literally enough to fill an entire shelf and I was like that's too many I am getting constantly overwhelmed by that and I just couldn't do it anymore so it's just like you know what some of these they need to go I'll probably try and do this more periodically I'm not like unhauling them or anything I just I don't want them in my room anymore because I can't I can't handle it so I wanted to show you guys the titles that I'm putting on my backup TBR all so excuse the fact that I look like this I got up at 6 to watch the Royal Wedding with my mom so I'm looking a little bit a mess but I have the last one to let go here just because this somehow ended up here it really should be with my TBR books but oh well then I have the queen of sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst because I haven't read The Reluctant Queen yet so I don't want to have two sequels from the same series on my TBR at a time next I've got a stack of paperbacks and once again keep in mind I do want to still read these books and I'm going to some of them I'm definitely iffy on but most of them I'm like I want to read you I just know I'm not going to be in the mood for it anytime soon so we have I am The Messenger by Markus Zusak definitely want to read that guilt by Katherine longshore a lot of these are historical fiction since I read historical fiction around like fall in winter under a painted sky by Stacey leaves I was here by Gayle Forman reawakened by Colleen Hook in search of by Ava Dallara Prince Of Shadows by Rachel Kane the bear and the nightingale by Katherine Arden the steep and thorny way by cat winters love another alien experiences by Carey Winfrey love and war by Melissa de la Cruz and the wish granter by CJ Redwine this one is another one where like I have the first one on my CV are still so I don't want to have two of them on my TBR and the next pile I have the distance between us by Casey West dreamland burning by Jennifer lat ham the girl who drank the moon by Kelly Barnhill ink and bone by Rachel Kane the education of Margo Sanchez by lilium Rivera spell book of the Lost and Found by Moira Valle Doyle moxie by Jennifer mesial the beauty of darkness by Mary E Pearson I really need to reread the second book in this series and then here we are now by Jasmine warga and now for the final pile we have the smell of other people's houses by Bonnie sue Hitchcock the gilded cage by Lucinda gray written in the stars by Aisha Saeed raisin by Katherine longshore a thousand nights by ek Johnston I just this one is when I'm probably gonna get rid of eventually Ramona bloom by Julie Murphy truth which by susan dennard the last magician by lisa maxwell struggles and the librarian of auschwitz by antonio i turb translated by Lilith way it's this one I definitely want to read but I know that I'm not going to be in the mood for it anytime soon so that is what is going on at the bottom of my shelf right now I'm super excited to get a TBR shelf where it can put all of these books it will just be really helpful for me that way I won't be constantly overwhelmed by the amount of books that I have and the amount of books that I have to read I'm just so excited for a lot of them I just unfortunately don't have time to read all of them I kind of have to prioritize and I end up waiting a really long time for titles that I'm like really excited about like the amount of sequels that I have on my TBR or new releases that I have on my TBR that I really really want to read is ridiculous right now I'm so excited for all of them I just haven't had the time or like the energy to read them but I have been reading fury born all morning I'm about 150 pages into it it's kind of a slower read not that it's bad there's just a lot going on I am enjoying it but I'm really anxious to like get more into it so I think I'm going to go and read some more especially since I have to have it done soon youthis video is sponsored by the great courses plus com good morning it's actually almost noon craziness how time flies by but I'm actually about to head out for a little bit I did finish a book this morning though so I wanted to tell you guys that so I ended up finishing the audiobook for I have lost my way by Gayle Forman I really enjoyed it it was a really cool audiobook especially since it's a story that does have to do with like singing I feel like it was cool to listen to it on audiobook the end of it has like a song that's prevalent in the book they actually sing it which was really cool by it was such an interesting multi-perspective story I don't think I've ever read one where the perspectives are so interwoven it was really cool and I did thoroughly enjoy it but we still don't have Wi-Fi at my house so we have been having major issues with that I'm just going to head to my university to upload my reading blog because I wanted to get up on time and I'm gonna do a couple of other things while I'm there I'm probably gonna write while I am there so I might spend quite a bit of time there I don't know we'll see but I'm not impressed that we still don't have Wi-Fi but I mean it is what it is so I went to my old University and uploaded my video then I actually called our Internet company and it turns out we're probably not going to have internet for like the rest of the week it sounds like which is super annoying like it's not gonna rely on internet for everything but what I do I need internet for so I'm going to have to keep on like going to my old university and stuff to upload stuff and it's just gonna be a huge pain and I'm not excited about it but there's not really anything I can do about it so that's fun I also literally just have a bro sitting on my bed so fun but I got a package in the mail from whims of I so I wanted to dive into it so I actually wasn't expecting this at all or else I would have waited to do my other whims if I unboxing but they ended up sending me their starlight and dreams box so it is for a quart of mist and fury by Sarah J Maas so it's all themed around that and I'm super excited to dive in so first it looks like we have a mug here the box is actually pretty broken oh this doesn't sound good I really hope it's not broken oh yeah this has seen better days it literally looks like someone Hulk smashed this so this was at one point a mug I don't know what happened stuff like that happens sometimes like there's nothing that they can do about it and I wasn't expecting this box and I got sent it for free so I'm not going to have them send me another one but that's kind of unfortunate I can't even like really tell what it was supposed to look like oh there's like a quote on it when you erupt a girl make sure it is felt across worlds that's fun I like that quote but unfortunately this mug is going to have to go I'm really sad about that but what can you do I honestly don't know like what they did to this not they as in the company but they as in like Canada Post or whoever delivered it okay there's all sorts of things in here so next we have a little bathroom this is what smells there's like a really kind of like floral breezy scent so this is the cauldron blackberry amber bath bomb in this is made by the fairytale bath company next is I'm imagining like jewelry or something possibly and oh no oh there's little buttons here so there is a button for Team Rhys team Lucien team cast which is where I belong and team as for Azrael next is it looks like a candle from flick the wick I love flick the wicks candles and this one I think yeah it looks like a full-size one and the scent is a house of wind so it smells like mountain air citrus and orchids well that's such a nice scent it's very like soft and subtle but really really pretty I like that a lot they honestly have like the longest lasting candles I really love their candles next there is a sleep mask again you guys would know how I feel about sleep masks if you watched my owl crate unboxing I like them for like traveling and stuff but just for like at home I just I feel very vulnerable to the elements I'm an absolute chicken so oh it comes with like a little case for it too that's so lovely but this is actually this is a really nice sleep mask I might just fall asleep right now because I'm really tired I'm we're back okay next we have Oh a lip scrub and this is Morgan and it is from I can't read it literary apothecary I think I love lip scrubs because my lips get really dry easily so lip scrubs are always awesome next we've got something big here so this is a book sleeve I love book sleeves I especially love big ones because there's so many like tall books that don't fit in the regular book sleeves so this is so awesome so it just has like mountains wolves moons arrows swords all over it it's super pretty and it is by oh it's a whims of my exclusive storytime sleeve so I think that they made it I will definitely be getting a lot of use out of this though it's like it's a good nice good big one I only have one that's kind of bigger next we've got a few papers things here so there is a bookmark by Jo painter which has a bunch of the characters from the novel on either side or from the series I should say another one by Jo painter these are so pretty so this has different characters on either side and then this one right here these are like so well done wow this person is super talented and we have a print I'm really bad at at identifying characters just by looking at them so I think this is Reese and rice and whatever and then finally we have the book so it is four across two crossed a fort what what what a court of frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas so this has a bookmark in here and it says to the stars who listen in the dreams that are answered don't let the hard days when leave this world a better place than how you found it which are all serenade mask quotes and I love all those quotes this is actually gonna be the second copy that I own of it because I have the indigo exclusive edition and I do want to keep that one so this one I might end up passing along to my old high school or maybe my sisters or my mom whatever but thank you very much to woman's of five for sending this box to me this was such a lovely surprise I will leave a link for them down below if you wanted to go and check them out so now I need to clean my room I need to clean up all this stuff I have a lot to do I think we're dress shopping tonight because I have a couple of weddings coming up and I have no dresses to wear so I need to find something to wear it's just going to be I feel like a really long week I also wanted to let you guys know that I started listening to dear Martin by Nick stone on the script I'm just so amazed by how many titles they have on their this blog isn't sponsored by that my last one was but they seriously are like it's amazing so since this is a really short book it's not like on my TBR or anything but it has been on my TBR for a while so it could fit the challenge that I have for myself of reading a TBR bed but we shall see but I'm not very far into it at all but while I clean my room I'm going to listen to it a little bit more good morning it's Tuesday it's a miserable day outside today it's like not even raining but it's just overcast it looks like it's nighttime like it's cold I'm just not feeling it right now today it's just gonna be one of those days apparently even though I like just got up it's kind of late but I just got out two things I was looking for and I couldn't find them and I looked for them for like 20 minutes and then found them which I hate looking for things because I feel like it's just such a waste of time so I'm so tired but part of the reason I'm so tired is that last night I stayed up and ended up finishing in dear Martin I don't know what it was like just because this book is so short I feel like I was like no you have to finish it in one day this is ridiculous so I ended up staying up until like 1:00 in the morning finishing it I did enjoy it I have kind of like mixed feelings on it it's definitely really short and packs a punch but I did feel like it could have been longer and I could have gotten like more from the story and more from the characters however it's an extremely important story and I think it did a good job of sending its message I just kind of wish that I was able to connect with the characters a little bit more so since I finished that I am moving on to nine days and nine nights I've read ninety nine days last week and I didn't really like it but I do still really want to read this one because it is like a European travel novel which I love so I'm gonna give it a go and hopefully I will enjoy the audiobook this one is unscripted well there's literally so many out there so I'm you know hope for the best with this one but we'll see this is another short one so I should be able to finish it really quickly I haven't been like physically reading so I'm still where I before with fury born I'm on page 21 but I'm hoping right now I'll be able to do a little bit of reading and then I'm gonna do some writing then I have to clean some stuff I just have a constant flow of books new books coming into my house and they're books that I do want to read and they're books that I do want to keep but I literally have no room for them so I have to like try and figure out something where to put them because right now they've just been like staying in random places around my house because I don't know where to put them so if they had a place to go then I could put them away right away but right now they don't no place to go so it's like it's just annoying what is that excuse you oh it's my alarm I am awake partially at least alright well I'm going to go and read a little bit well I have my morning coffee so I've just been reading fury born but I just got a package from Raincoast so I wanted to open it this is so exciting especially because I'm not gonna be here on release day for this book but they sent me legendary by Stefanie Garber so this is the sequel to karvall I'm so excited for it it is one of my most anticipated releases of the entire year they actually just announced that there's going to be a third book called finale but I'm so looking forward to diving into this one so it's even more motivation to make my way through fury born and do some reading instead of just scrolling through Instagram I don't have Wi-Fi anyways right now still so I shouldn't be on Instagram but I am but I definitely want to pick this one up soon it's coming out May 29th so it's almost here and thank you so much to bring coast books for sending it to me my hair on the top just never does nice things that's why I have to like curl the top the rest of it I just wear natural but the top of my head I don't know what it's doing ever but I've just been editing some videos I edited one I'm actually almost done my audiobook already it was super quick so I think I'm going to do my makeup and kind of get ready for work because I work today and hopefully finish my audiobook well that is happening I'm enjoying this one more than 99 days I still don't like I don't love it but I'm definitely enjoying it more but I have this video that I'm editing right now that I really want to get done today so if I don't get it done before work like I work in a couple of hours yeah I working like an hour and a half so if I don't get it done or work then I'm going to have to do it after work because I want to send it off and have it all ready to go I have way more videos that I have to film before I leave for California then I was expecting to so that's going to be interesting and also I'm going to get my hair done tomorrow so today's been like a busy day of like getting stuff done cleaning my room cleaning the house but tomorrow is going to be a really busy day and the respect of I have a lot of running around to do I have a hair appointment in the morning I'm planning on dying my hair different color so like half of the videos I'm gonna have this color hair half of the videos I'm gonna have my hair another color so that will be confusing but I kind of want to take advantage of the fact that my hair will be done and I'm going to probably try and film some stuff tomorrow but I do have a couple of appointments so I don't know how that will work out I really don't know what is going to happen but I mean hopefully I'll have time for everything it's just going to be a really really busy day but for the rest of the day today I'm going to try and get a few more things done but right now I just need to give myself a face hello so I just got back from running errands literally all day I got my hair done I don't know if you can tell I feel like it looks different it's a little bit darker right now and that's because I'm trying to go lighter overall but I usually only get highlights so we were lightening the base today and then next week I go back and I'll get highlights so it'll all be lightened but right now it's just kind of this like brown color I feel like it looks darker one on camera and two it's going to lighten up like as I wash it but I haven't washed it yet because I just got done so like yeah but I wanted to show you a couple of things so first of all I got a couple of things from one of my co-workers she had some Alice in Wonderland merchandise that she brought it Disney that she didn't want anymore so I ended up getting it from her but first I got this month which has the tea party scene on it it is so cute and then the other thing you're actually sitting on top of so that is this little tea set here it's like a perfect size to like have my face in the frame I mean not now this is a bad example I put the camera way too close but you get the point I want to open it and show you what's inside though so I'm gonna do that now if I can oh struggles first we have this teacup here oh so cute so it's got the treasure count on the one side and then drink me and Alice the Tea Party scene once again on the other and it was a cup and saucer I don't want to mess this up but like I want to show you yes so this is whoa my god don't drop it this is the saucer right here and then the next cup and saucer this one has the Queen of Hearts on the one side and then I can't see that white rabbit on the other and they both say drink me and then it has like the same saucer for that one and then there's tea on the bottom so there's like I'm just gonna show it to you in here so there's like English breakfast he topsy-turvy blend which is fun it's just a really fun little thing so I don't really know yet if I'm gonna take this out and display it I'm not too sure but we'll see in other news I went half of the day today like literally it's like 3 p.m. and I just realized - like 15 minutes ago once I finally got home from all my errands that I was very mature backwards so like we're doing great adulting whoa can't even put on a shirt oh good morning this morning it is finally nice enough I haven't been able to sit out so I can read an original in time but today it's quite nice birds are chirping away but I'm going to be reading more be reborn I am 56 pages into it so hopefully I'll be able to make a good dent today I decided I'm not gonna film until like the rest of my hair is done which will be next week next Tuesday so basically like Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday like whatever of next week I'll be filming I just I don't know I might film a couple of videos but for the most part I feel like I don't want a pre film when my hair is a different color and then it's gonna change again I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone except for me but today I'm going to be planning out some videos and doing some writing doing basically like whatever I can to be productive when I can't film so probably editing a few things I think I've edited in most of the videos that I need to end it though but we'll see I kind of need to make a game plan and see how things are gonna go so I've just been planning out some videos I've had like a semi productive day I am about 100 pages actually I'm exactly a hundred pages into fury born and I'm really liking it things are getting intense so hopefully I'll be able to finish that by the end of the week because I do need to have it done by May 29 but my hair looks so much more red than it did yesterday which is weird I was fine yesterday but now I'm kind of like men I mean it's not done yet so like it's not a big deal but I was kind of considering like not doing the highlights but I'm definitely going to do it because I don't like the read at all maybe it's just the lighting I don't know but I started a new audiobook I think I told you the last one that I finished and then I had tried starting another one but we still do not have Wi-Fi it's not that like I can't survive without Wi-Fi it's just I use it for YouTube stuff and everything so if I like yesterday I put up a video of me trying to sort myself into Hogwarts house and on the thumbnail I had a typo and it said it was sorting myself into whole words I couldn't correct it until I could go to my work and use the Wi-Fi there because I don't have Wi-Fi at home like I can't just do that I on my phone so it's just very frustrating and extremely annoying but I thought that was really funny like going to hoe warts with my cohorts it just made me want but I also have a service that I wanted to tell you guys about but I can't tell you about it because I can't like show you it so I might try and just show you it on the app I don't know or I might just show you guys it and then do a voiceover that's what I'll probably do but I don't know we'll see it's just super frustrating but anyways like I was saying I start a new audiobook I had wanted to listen to more audio books on Scribd but I can't do that right now since I can only use data and I uses like a ton of data so instead I ended up starting an audiobook that I just already had on my phone and that was emergency contact by Mary HK Choi I am I think a little bit more than 100 pages into this one as well hello I'm a hundred and thirty pages into this one and I have like mixed feeling so far it's good but I can't stand the one character like I literally can't stand her the character of penny she is so annoying and just really judgmental and unlikable so far so hopefully if she will have some redeemable qualities but right now she just is like snap judgments on absolutely everything and her chapters are literally just her sharing her negative opinion on things like I'm negative so I feel like for me to be annoyed by someone being super judgemental that means a lot but anyways I want to go and plant some more videos do some email stuff and just get some stuff done so it is Friday and I just wanted to give you guys an update because I ended up finishing emergency contact by Mary HK choy it was good like I have mixed feelings on it so I'm still not entirely sure a mime rating I'm sitting between a 2.5 and a 3 don't like it wasn't bad I enjoyed it but the characters were just a lot for me like most of them I was just like you're all very annoying but I have to get ready because we're gonna be going out tonight but I wanted to tell you guys about something so what I wanted to talk about is something that I have talked about in videos before but I wanted to mention it again because I got a comment about it recently also the company reached out again which I was very excited about but what I wanted to talk about is the great courses plus calm so I mentioned sometimes how I take different courses and stuff even though I've done school I still really love learning and love like education that's the ravenclaw part of me coming out and the great courses plus is my favorite service that I have found for that but what it is is a subscription on-demand video service that has thousands and thousands of courses on all sorts of different topics that are taught by like top-notch people and institutions it really has something for everyone I've done a few of their courses I love the history ones they're my favorite but there are so many other ones that I'm wanting to take like my watch list is just ridiculously long I just loved education and I love the fact that there are so many courses out here that are readily available and you guys can actually start a free trial which I highly recommend that you do I think the next course that I'm going to take is a Shakespeare course because I want to get back into reading some Shakespeare but the most recent one that I took is the history of England I've always been really intrigued by like the English monarchy and the history of it especially the Tudor era in this course went through like before the Tudor era to when the tutors came to be and then even after the Tudor era so it's really cool and I highly recommend that one but really you can't go wrong with any of the courses I've loved all the ones that I've taken so if you guys wanted to try out the free trial then you can visit the great courses plus comm slash Haley or click the link in my description and sign up for your own free trial like I said I highly recommend that you do if you do let me know what course you are taking because there are so many I want to take and I want to know what you guys think I actually think I'm going to go and start a new course now before I start listening to a new audio book since I'm kind of in-between audiobooks right now so it's perfect timing but I did want to say quickly thank you very much to you the great course of + for working with me again I'm super excited about so I'm going to try and make myself look like a semi presentable human now I'm trying out some new skincare stuff it's just hydration stuff from Burt's Bees and really dry skin so I'm trying to combat that I really don't like my hair color right now so please ignore that it's just it's not my taste I don't really want red hair and it's quite bright I am also coincidentally at my hairiest right now like I have a good old stache going my eyebrows are literal fuzzy caterpillars except not cute but I'm waiting to take care of all that until like right before BA and becan so like I have like one more week of this I'm waiting so that I can be like peak looking great like fresh a.f yay great awesome so I'm going to try and do like really natural makeup and just kind of hope for the best good morning I am sitting on my floor because I wanted to show you guys something so you might be wondering why there are a bunch of back facing books here by yesterday today is Saturday by the way yesterday I decided to go through all of my books on my TBR because since I have like a constant flow of books coming in I constantly have my TBR growing and getting like out of control to the point where I'm like I don't know when I'm gonna have time to read all of these like a lot of them I do still want to read but I know I'm not going to read them anytime soon so I kind of went through my shelves and I made a little backup TBR which is here we're trying to figure out somewhere where I can put it and I think we have a solution it's just a matter of like finding a shelf that I can put it on but for now they're just going to stay here ideally I would like to have this whole shelf in my room just be books that I've read and then we're going to have a shelf out in the hallway right in front of my room that one will be books that I have to read still and kind of like my backup TBR because before I went through this I had like five and a half shelves of TBR books now I have four and a half so I was able to get rid of like a whole shelf and honestly if I was being really brutal I could probably still get rid of some more but what freaked me out about that is I almost had six and like six is what this whole shelf is it's six shelves all the way up so I had literally enough to fill an entire shelf and I was like that's too many I am getting constantly overwhelmed by that and I just couldn't do it anymore so it's just like you know what some of these they need to go I'll probably try and do this more periodically I'm not like unhauling them or anything I just I don't want them in my room anymore because I can't I can't handle it so I wanted to show you guys the titles that I'm putting on my backup TBR all so excuse the fact that I look like this I got up at 6 to watch the Royal Wedding with my mom so I'm looking a little bit a mess but I have the last one to let go here just because this somehow ended up here it really should be with my TBR books but oh well then I have the queen of sorrow by Sarah Beth Durst because I haven't read The Reluctant Queen yet so I don't want to have two sequels from the same series on my TBR at a time next I've got a stack of paperbacks and once again keep in mind I do want to still read these books and I'm going to some of them I'm definitely iffy on but most of them I'm like I want to read you I just know I'm not going to be in the mood for it anytime soon so we have I am The Messenger by Markus Zusak definitely want to read that guilt by Katherine longshore a lot of these are historical fiction since I read historical fiction around like fall in winter under a painted sky by Stacey leaves I was here by Gayle Forman reawakened by Colleen Hook in search of by Ava Dallara Prince Of Shadows by Rachel Kane the bear and the nightingale by Katherine Arden the steep and thorny way by cat winters love another alien experiences by Carey Winfrey love and war by Melissa de la Cruz and the wish granter by CJ Redwine this one is another one where like I have the first one on my CV are still so I don't want to have two of them on my TBR and the next pile I have the distance between us by Casey West dreamland burning by Jennifer lat ham the girl who drank the moon by Kelly Barnhill ink and bone by Rachel Kane the education of Margo Sanchez by lilium Rivera spell book of the Lost and Found by Moira Valle Doyle moxie by Jennifer mesial the beauty of darkness by Mary E Pearson I really need to reread the second book in this series and then here we are now by Jasmine warga and now for the final pile we have the smell of other people's houses by Bonnie sue Hitchcock the gilded cage by Lucinda gray written in the stars by Aisha Saeed raisin by Katherine longshore a thousand nights by ek Johnston I just this one is when I'm probably gonna get rid of eventually Ramona bloom by Julie Murphy truth which by susan dennard the last magician by lisa maxwell struggles and the librarian of auschwitz by antonio i turb translated by Lilith way it's this one I definitely want to read but I know that I'm not going to be in the mood for it anytime soon so that is what is going on at the bottom of my shelf right now I'm super excited to get a TBR shelf where it can put all of these books it will just be really helpful for me that way I won't be constantly overwhelmed by the amount of books that I have and the amount of books that I have to read I'm just so excited for a lot of them I just unfortunately don't have time to read all of them I kind of have to prioritize and I end up waiting a really long time for titles that I'm like really excited about like the amount of sequels that I have on my TBR or new releases that I have on my TBR that I really really want to read is ridiculous right now I'm so excited for all of them I just haven't had the time or like the energy to read them but I have been reading fury born all morning I'm about 150 pages into it it's kind of a slower read not that it's bad there's just a lot going on I am enjoying it but I'm really anxious to like get more into it so I think I'm going to go and read some more especially since I have to have it done soon you\n"