My First 7 Days in California: A Date Day and Joy Ride Day Haul

Tuesday was a special day when Ryan and I had our little date day that we went to two bookstores. I never did a haul, but it's such a good one! We went back to that local bookstore where I was so excited for this book to come out. It's supposed to come out on June 11th, but I bought it on June 4th or 5th because the local bookstore just got the package in and they didn't read when it's supposed to come out. I gasped down at the counter when I saw that it was there - not supposed to be out yet! The cashier, an older woman, noticed my excitement and smiled, saying "We just put these out. That makes sense." It was kind of funny, like I robbed the place, but what could I do? I'm probably not going to read it until it's actually out.

This new book is by Ali Hazelwood, author of Not in Love. I don't think I mentioned it before, but my friend heard that this one is "way spicier" than her usual books, which has me a bit nervous. We'll see how that goes! Anyway, we went to Barnes & Noble next and I got the new Annabelle Monigan book called Summer Romance. I love her books - they're perfect women's fiction romance novels about women in their 30s who never write more than they need to write, making them very precise stories. This one is actually over 300 pages, but barely under 316. As soon as I saw the notebook on the table, I was intrigued. It's a dotted notebook with pink dots - immediately I was drawn to it! When I got home, I realized that there was blank calendar space in the notebook that you could fill out for any month. That's so perfect, because that's what I already do in my own notebooks.

Apparently, this notebook is hardcover, which I'm starting to prefer over the dotting notebooks I used to use. The ones from Urban Outfitters are no longer available, but I think I'll start using these more often. My haul is so cute - I'm going to continue reading my book today and help Ryan with a joy ride photo shoot. It's been cloudy here lately, but apparently it's part of this "June Gloom" phenomenon where it's cloudier than usual. But don't worry, we're getting excited for Joy Ride Day on June 15th when Ryan's candy brand will be in Target! It's really good, and I'm so proud of him - I've actually been eating sour strips like they were going out of style since he created these new ones. If you haven't tried them yet, you have to get some when Joy Ride Day arrives!

Driving through a tunnel today was a huge experience for me - it's literally our first tunnel together! Ryan made a comment that felt awfully cute (or not, depending on how you look at it). It feels like everything is new and exciting about this marriage bucket list thing we're doing. We've had no visitors yet, but after that, we have a lot of friends coming to visit - I'm excited to show them around the town.

Driving home from Pilates today was a weird experience because I didn't know where I was going - it's crazy how our navigation systems can fail us like that! See you guys online!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enRyan and I are living in California for 1 month this has been on our marriage bucket list for a really long time just to live somewhere together or embark on a new adventure outside of Texas cuz I have grown up in the same place my entire life and just can't picture living anywhere else so month is like our most adventurous ever it's not really like living somewhere but it's more than a trip somewhere and it's my first time ever being somewhere other than Texas for more than 2 weeks which is crazy actually never seen a butterfly that big than ever before that wall we ran into enough of that suddenly the world I used to know I see it differently you woke me from a dream now here's reality baby baby you are really hurting me my first day in California for coffee this morning I had an espresso pod with creamer and it was actually so delicious I made two of them really yeah was it ice yeah I was waiting for you to realize and then I had I actually whipped out my jour for the first time in a while which means you know I'm in a good place cuz I'm trying to be reflective I'm trying to take this month and not let it run past me dang and I'm reading acts right now so that was good and now we're going to get coffee together coffee coffee and eat you're not allowed to say where you're going right I don't think so let's just say uh I'm going to be seeing Mr Beast I to drop off Ryan at the airport today and it is Mr Beast related everything is Mr Beast related everything on YouTube is Mr Beast related in his place or not in his place but I just want to see her I'm going to see Bri today and she's going to sleep over Bri lived with me for 3 months and now I'm in her state for 1 month I have to learn how to drive today I have driven here before but I just get nervous every time that I'm going to I don't know do something weird on the road just cuz you know people drive differently everywhere roads are different highways are different but I think it's but I think it'll be easy wo what a lens Ryan flying in the air right now Bri at my house oh I did not address this we're renting out a place that has Furniture as you can tell no you just rented a place furnitur L Bri's birthday is on June 20th which is partially why we chose this month it's also do you guys even know who Isaac is it's another one of our best friends birthday on the same exact day so he's going to fly in she's going to be here we're going to host it actually in the backyard cuz she wants a fairy garden theme we just learned this today the girly po so that is another reason that we chose this month but the other issue is Spock where is my precious son and he was actually supposed to come with us originally but then Ryan's dad who takes care of Spock whenever we travel had the great idea of just keeping him because Spock is 8 years old now and I get worried for him feeling confused or like anxious like I feel like anxiety is not good for him so taking him on a plane was stressing me out cuz I don't want him to freak out he doesn't like strangers so he would freak out at an airport he loves Ryan's dad like he gets to just walk around wherever he wants there's not really anyone coming to the door so he doesn't bark all day and he's just very peaceful and relaxed and loves Ronnie so that was hard for me to swallow at first cuz I've never spent longer than I think 2 weeks maybe I don't even think it was 2 weeks I think 10 days is the longest I've ever gone without Spock so so sad I know that was like almost a deal breaker for me I was like I don't think I can do that but doing it and it's only day one and I'm doing okay so far so you're like 20 hours in no literally yesterday I was already on the plane looking at photos of Spock and I was like I need to relax but Bri and I are co-working right now I'm reading a book for my video next week and she's editing a video for her video next week her video next week me dress shopping I was just looking good morning I'm about to try to go on my first run here and see if I can locate the beach slash any running trails so this should be interesting I did two 2.12 mil I did not make it to the beach and I also did not find a path that was without woring about cars my running Journey since my Trail Half Marathon has been pretty much zero I switched back to weight training and I found it actually really difficult to weight train one day and then run the next because it's just such a different use of your muscles and stamina I felt like to get stronger at weight training I had to just keep weight training so that I could progressively put more weight on and then if I went back to running I just felt like I didn't remember how to run anymore and it felt like I started back at Ground Zero which is awesome after all the training I did since I obviously don't have a gym here and running is free I'm going to do that for now I would love for this to be the month that I try Pilates For the First Time feel stereotypical that I'm in California to try it for the first time but I've been thinking about doing it for so long and I just never have cuz I don't know if I should do the reformer pilates or deat Pates and what it's going to be like for a beginner how to sign up for classes I don't know any of that stuff so hopefully I can just go with some friends here or something but running for now it is which is actually really fun to get back into I did miss it even though I did not miss it for a few months there I forget how good a shower Post Run feels and endorphins you get for the rest of the day especially since I read a lot for videos it's just nice to like get a sweat in and then sit down for the rest of the day and just feel no restlessness in my legs cuz they're tired I'm unpacking my clothes into the closet now I don't think I actually brought that much which I'm proud of myself for I mean it's definitely more than I need I had this luggage and then the one that I flew with and another one but more with like video stuff and then this is the stack of books that I brought five books which I feel like I actually could read but June is such a good month for new books from my favorite authors new Annabelle monan book tomorrow new Ali Hazelwood book I'm so excited for this one and then a new Ashley poson book which I'm also so excited for so we'll probably be going home with more books but the way that we got this luggage here is one of our other friends drove here so we got to put our stuff in his car which was really helpful so that's not too big of a concern done very good if you listen to the what we said podcast they have an exclusive drink with coffee dose which is a coffee shop in Orange County it's a blueberry marshmallow P latte with oat milk should I do that yeah really it's blue so I feel like I should do it I'm so excited like if just for the color you have to do it well I should wear my blue tank top when I try my blue drink hello go to Bree channel for the exclusive go to you thank you have a good day what why are you laughing cuz I did ASMR for your oh no a blueberry marshmallow latte with oat milk and your choice of espresso all righty wait take a wait wait take a picture wait they're so it's so cute okay 1 2 3 wo wo That's Unique the espresso is good the espresso is good oh it's smooth it's Unique I love the marshmallow I would get it without the foam next time but I like how it looks the foam adds a lot of blueberry but without it it's really subtle and kind of just unique and fun mhm what's your rating is it a five star buck I mean the issue is I love vanilla and hazelnut vanilla hazelnut chocolate would be way up there like that's where You' get to the 9es and 10 that's valid this is so unique that it's kind of like a 7.5 but not cuz it's bad it's good anything above a seven you would go back for oh it's delicious blueberry and now we're going to a bookstore that looks really cute wait why is this me it's hard being perfect hone I got what you want give me all of your love it's burning good morning it's now Wednesday There's Something about this house or the fact that I don't have F possibly that I wake up and time just kind of like bleeds all together the morning is suddenly 2:00 p.m. is suddenly 6:00 p.m. is suddenly 9:00 p.m. and every single day has been like that it just feels like time is moving differently here which is really interesting yesterday Ryan was taking a break from work so I decided to also take a break with work so I could have a date day with him we went to the beach at Sunset which was beautiful we did a lot of things but he got a massage and he asked the massage therapist about why I possibly get tension headaches every day because I used to never get tension headaches and I thought it was the way that I was editing videos but I've been editing videos for almost half of my life and never had these before and she said it might be because of eye strain and when he told me that I felt so relieved because not only do I get tension headaches every day but my eyes have started to hurt every day to the point where I would almost avoid social interactions cuz I just knew that my eyes like right behind them would hurt so bad that I wouldn't want to look at the person talking to me anymore and that makes so much sense so I'm putting my glasses back on I did it yesterday and when we went to the beach I couldn't believe how much I could see so I feel like I just gaslit myself out of wearing these glasses cuz I was like oh you were being dramatic you don't actually really need them turns out that's possibly why I've been getting headaches every single day which is honestly a relief to find out that I could just wear glasses and not get it anymore because I got a mouse I thought it was like how I was sitting like this on the trackpad so I got a mouse to go like this that wasn't helping that much so this is a huge Improvement but now I want to get different frames and possibly contacts if it's really that bad so that's good but today I'm going to do some editing I'm going to finish a book that I'm reading for next week's Vlog I'm really excited for it it's going to be called stalking author's Goodreads and then reading the books that they rated five stars cuz I had no idea that you could just look at an author's Goodreads account like you can look at what Stephen King reads if they post it of course so that's going really well I already found like a six-star book in that video it was insane and then I'm finally trying Pilates for the first time today at 4:30 with Bri it's on a reformer machine and I'm so excited to learn I this weird inkling that I'm really going to fall in love with it because it's going to feel like going to a dance studio and if you don't know I grew up a competitive dancer so I just feel like maybe this could be the thing that I get really into especially since I don't have a gym here and I'm just going to be running but I would love to do something with weight resistance so I'm really really really excited for that and then Bri is going to sleep over and it's going to be a really really fun day so I'm going to edit I'm ready for Pilates Bri is letting me use these sticky socks stickies I'm going to put a little raspberry electrolytes in my water this is us before Pilates former Pilates this is us after former get it cuz my hand's shaking I actually loved it yeah it kind of ate I kind of love her I'm going to miss her when I go back home she was definitely a 70-year-old instructor which was awesome which was awesome I wish there was different music playing yeah Nora Efron was playing no not Nora Efron Nora don't know what Jones Nora Jones haly is a little dancer cuz every time I would look over her legs would be like in a perfect like what is it even called ballet position like the one 2 3 four there's a lot of turnout going on oh my go she was like this she asked me if I was a dancer and that amount of teacher validation made me want to come back every day I felt the validation for you are you lying to me you've done this before and I said I'm coming back never done it before no I promise it's just like the little dancer in me comes out I am tired though I can't believe that's a beginner no right I was think at first I understood that it was beginner right like the first little bit I was like and then we started really getting into the little pulses and I was like like I could fall asleep she's so EP good morning I just woke up I am sore from Pilates I'm going to try to go on a run let's see how that goes I did one mile all I'm capable of today good morning this is becoming a workouts of the week video who knew I would actually be in my Pilates era suddenly moving here hopefully to continue in Texas but I just took one called booty burn or something of that sort and it was so hard which is awesome but I feel like workout classes are just good for you especially since I work at home I get to get out of the house I smile at some people I have a small social interaction and I got my workout I ordered a protein smoothie that I'm about to pick up so we're going to taste test it and see if it's yummy smoothie is a 6 out of 10 I realized on Tuesday when Ryan and I had our little date day that we went to two bookstores and I never did a haul and it's such a good haul first of all we went back to that local bookstore I was so excited for this book to come out and it's supposed to come out on June 11th I bought this on June 4th or 5th because the local bookstore just got the package in and I guess did not read when it's supposed to come out and it was just on the table I literally looked down and I gasped cuz it's not supposed to be out so I bought it and it was kind of like an older woman working the cash register and she was like oh we just put these out that would make sense because it's not supposed to be out for another week I thought that was pretty funny I felt like I robbed the place because I was like they don't know that I'm not supposed to have this right now should I tell them but what am I going to do I'm probably not even going to read it until it's actually out so doesn't really matter it's just kind of funny this is the new Ali Hazelwood book by the way not in love I don't think I said it at all but I did hear from one of my friends who got to read it early that it's like way spicier than her normal books so I'm now pretty nervous to read this we shall see how that goes and then we went to Barnes & Noble and I got the new Annabelle monigan book called Summer Romance I love her books they're just perfect women's fiction romance they're usually about women in their 30s she never writes a single word more than she needs to write she's very precise her stories are usually pretty short like under 300 Pages short this one's over 300 pages but barely 316 in this one Nora goes off script was like 284 Pages they're just so short and sweet and then I randomly saw this notebook it's a dotted notebook and the dots are pink so immediately I was intrigued and then I didn't even see this until I went home with it but there's blank calendar space that you can just fill in whatever month you want and that's so perfect cuz I actually already do this in my notebooks anyways like I'll draw one out this is actually my dream notebook now which is great cuz I'm about to finish my other notebook that you saw earlier in this video and they don't sell those kind anymore from Urban Outfitters and they were dotted this one's hard cover this time but I actually think I'm starting to prefer hard cover that I can write and it doesn't Bend that's my haul it's so cute I'm going to continue reading my book today I'm going to help Ryan with a joy ride photo shoot and it's been very cloudy the past few days but apparently it's called June Gloom where it's just cloudier but according to Bri who lives here this is cloudier than it normally is now but we're back home I helped shoot the photos for joy ride if you don't already know it's Ryan's candy brand it's really good I literally didn't eat sour strips until he made these sour strips and now I eat them up but June 15th is Joy Ride Day meaning they will be in Target so go to your local Target on June 15th get some candy it's like actually so good and there's way less sugar than normal candies it's amazing and I'm really proud of him and I'm really excited for Joy Ride day like getting into Target is so insane and I'm so excited to see what it's like but yeah that concludes this first 7 Days in California it's honestly flown by but at a great Pace where like I don't feel like I'm itching to leave I'm settled in I like it a lot hear Ryan coming I told them about Joy Ride day oh really yeah I just told them a thank you read it in weat you make reading videos fre that oh my gosh I was concluding our first week in California I'm falling asleep as I say it but I do feel like it's such a fun marriage bucket list thing for us we like drove through a tunnel today I was like oh it's our first tunnel together that was really cute comment that felt like aworthy comment it's literally not true but it feels like if just Everything feels new experiences together what's that word novel novel that's a great word Everything feels novel this month including the novels you read next week no one's visiting and then after that we have a lot of friends visiting which I'm excited to show them around the town I drove home from Pilates today with no Direction so that feels huge it's crazy I we see you guys else on the internet nightRyan and I are living in California for 1 month this has been on our marriage bucket list for a really long time just to live somewhere together or embark on a new adventure outside of Texas cuz I have grown up in the same place my entire life and just can't picture living anywhere else so month is like our most adventurous ever it's not really like living somewhere but it's more than a trip somewhere and it's my first time ever being somewhere other than Texas for more than 2 weeks which is crazy actually never seen a butterfly that big than ever before that wall we ran into enough of that suddenly the world I used to know I see it differently you woke me from a dream now here's reality baby baby you are really hurting me my first day in California for coffee this morning I had an espresso pod with creamer and it was actually so delicious I made two of them really yeah was it ice yeah I was waiting for you to realize and then I had I actually whipped out my jour for the first time in a while which means you know I'm in a good place cuz I'm trying to be reflective I'm trying to take this month and not let it run past me dang and I'm reading acts right now so that was good and now we're going to get coffee together coffee coffee and eat you're not allowed to say where you're going right I don't think so let's just say uh I'm going to be seeing Mr Beast I to drop off Ryan at the airport today and it is Mr Beast related everything is Mr Beast related everything on YouTube is Mr Beast related in his place or not in his place but I just want to see her I'm going to see Bri today and she's going to sleep over Bri lived with me for 3 months and now I'm in her state for 1 month I have to learn how to drive today I have driven here before but I just get nervous every time that I'm going to I don't know do something weird on the road just cuz you know people drive differently everywhere roads are different highways are different but I think it's but I think it'll be easy wo what a lens Ryan flying in the air right now Bri at my house oh I did not address this we're renting out a place that has Furniture as you can tell no you just rented a place furnitur L Bri's birthday is on June 20th which is partially why we chose this month it's also do you guys even know who Isaac is it's another one of our best friends birthday on the same exact day so he's going to fly in she's going to be here we're going to host it actually in the backyard cuz she wants a fairy garden theme we just learned this today the girly po so that is another reason that we chose this month but the other issue is Spock where is my precious son and he was actually supposed to come with us originally but then Ryan's dad who takes care of Spock whenever we travel had the great idea of just keeping him because Spock is 8 years old now and I get worried for him feeling confused or like anxious like I feel like anxiety is not good for him so taking him on a plane was stressing me out cuz I don't want him to freak out he doesn't like strangers so he would freak out at an airport he loves Ryan's dad like he gets to just walk around wherever he wants there's not really anyone coming to the door so he doesn't bark all day and he's just very peaceful and relaxed and loves Ronnie so that was hard for me to swallow at first cuz I've never spent longer than I think 2 weeks maybe I don't even think it was 2 weeks I think 10 days is the longest I've ever gone without Spock so so sad I know that was like almost a deal breaker for me I was like I don't think I can do that but doing it and it's only day one and I'm doing okay so far so you're like 20 hours in no literally yesterday I was already on the plane looking at photos of Spock and I was like I need to relax but Bri and I are co-working right now I'm reading a book for my video next week and she's editing a video for her video next week her video next week me dress shopping I was just looking good morning I'm about to try to go on my first run here and see if I can locate the beach slash any running trails so this should be interesting I did two 2.12 mil I did not make it to the beach and I also did not find a path that was without woring about cars my running Journey since my Trail Half Marathon has been pretty much zero I switched back to weight training and I found it actually really difficult to weight train one day and then run the next because it's just such a different use of your muscles and stamina I felt like to get stronger at weight training I had to just keep weight training so that I could progressively put more weight on and then if I went back to running I just felt like I didn't remember how to run anymore and it felt like I started back at Ground Zero which is awesome after all the training I did since I obviously don't have a gym here and running is free I'm going to do that for now I would love for this to be the month that I try Pilates For the First Time feel stereotypical that I'm in California to try it for the first time but I've been thinking about doing it for so long and I just never have cuz I don't know if I should do the reformer pilates or deat Pates and what it's going to be like for a beginner how to sign up for classes I don't know any of that stuff so hopefully I can just go with some friends here or something but running for now it is which is actually really fun to get back into I did miss it even though I did not miss it for a few months there I forget how good a shower Post Run feels and endorphins you get for the rest of the day especially since I read a lot for videos it's just nice to like get a sweat in and then sit down for the rest of the day and just feel no restlessness in my legs cuz they're tired I'm unpacking my clothes into the closet now I don't think I actually brought that much which I'm proud of myself for I mean it's definitely more than I need I had this luggage and then the one that I flew with and another one but more with like video stuff and then this is the stack of books that I brought five books which I feel like I actually could read but June is such a good month for new books from my favorite authors new Annabelle monan book tomorrow new Ali Hazelwood book I'm so excited for this one and then a new Ashley poson book which I'm also so excited for so we'll probably be going home with more books but the way that we got this luggage here is one of our other friends drove here so we got to put our stuff in his car which was really helpful so that's not too big of a concern done very good if you listen to the what we said podcast they have an exclusive drink with coffee dose which is a coffee shop in Orange County it's a blueberry marshmallow P latte with oat milk should I do that yeah really it's blue so I feel like I should do it I'm so excited like if just for the color you have to do it well I should wear my blue tank top when I try my blue drink hello go to Bree channel for the exclusive go to you thank you have a good day what why are you laughing cuz I did ASMR for your oh no a blueberry marshmallow latte with oat milk and your choice of espresso all righty wait take a wait wait take a picture wait they're so it's so cute okay 1 2 3 wo wo That's Unique the espresso is good the espresso is good oh it's smooth it's Unique I love the marshmallow I would get it without the foam next time but I like how it looks the foam adds a lot of blueberry but without it it's really subtle and kind of just unique and fun mhm what's your rating is it a five star buck I mean the issue is I love vanilla and hazelnut vanilla hazelnut chocolate would be way up there like that's where You' get to the 9es and 10 that's valid this is so unique that it's kind of like a 7.5 but not cuz it's bad it's good anything above a seven you would go back for oh it's delicious blueberry and now we're going to a bookstore that looks really cute wait why is this me it's hard being perfect hone I got what you want give me all of your love it's burning good morning it's now Wednesday There's Something about this house or the fact that I don't have F possibly that I wake up and time just kind of like bleeds all together the morning is suddenly 2:00 p.m. is suddenly 6:00 p.m. is suddenly 9:00 p.m. and every single day has been like that it just feels like time is moving differently here which is really interesting yesterday Ryan was taking a break from work so I decided to also take a break with work so I could have a date day with him we went to the beach at Sunset which was beautiful we did a lot of things but he got a massage and he asked the massage therapist about why I possibly get tension headaches every day because I used to never get tension headaches and I thought it was the way that I was editing videos but I've been editing videos for almost half of my life and never had these before and she said it might be because of eye strain and when he told me that I felt so relieved because not only do I get tension headaches every day but my eyes have started to hurt every day to the point where I would almost avoid social interactions cuz I just knew that my eyes like right behind them would hurt so bad that I wouldn't want to look at the person talking to me anymore and that makes so much sense so I'm putting my glasses back on I did it yesterday and when we went to the beach I couldn't believe how much I could see so I feel like I just gaslit myself out of wearing these glasses cuz I was like oh you were being dramatic you don't actually really need them turns out that's possibly why I've been getting headaches every single day which is honestly a relief to find out that I could just wear glasses and not get it anymore because I got a mouse I thought it was like how I was sitting like this on the trackpad so I got a mouse to go like this that wasn't helping that much so this is a huge Improvement but now I want to get different frames and possibly contacts if it's really that bad so that's good but today I'm going to do some editing I'm going to finish a book that I'm reading for next week's Vlog I'm really excited for it it's going to be called stalking author's Goodreads and then reading the books that they rated five stars cuz I had no idea that you could just look at an author's Goodreads account like you can look at what Stephen King reads if they post it of course so that's going really well I already found like a six-star book in that video it was insane and then I'm finally trying Pilates for the first time today at 4:30 with Bri it's on a reformer machine and I'm so excited to learn I this weird inkling that I'm really going to fall in love with it because it's going to feel like going to a dance studio and if you don't know I grew up a competitive dancer so I just feel like maybe this could be the thing that I get really into especially since I don't have a gym here and I'm just going to be running but I would love to do something with weight resistance so I'm really really really excited for that and then Bri is going to sleep over and it's going to be a really really fun day so I'm going to edit I'm ready for Pilates Bri is letting me use these sticky socks stickies I'm going to put a little raspberry electrolytes in my water this is us before Pilates former Pilates this is us after former get it cuz my hand's shaking I actually loved it yeah it kind of ate I kind of love her I'm going to miss her when I go back home she was definitely a 70-year-old instructor which was awesome which was awesome I wish there was different music playing yeah Nora Efron was playing no not Nora Efron Nora don't know what Jones Nora Jones haly is a little dancer cuz every time I would look over her legs would be like in a perfect like what is it even called ballet position like the one 2 3 four there's a lot of turnout going on oh my go she was like this she asked me if I was a dancer and that amount of teacher validation made me want to come back every day I felt the validation for you are you lying to me you've done this before and I said I'm coming back never done it before no I promise it's just like the little dancer in me comes out I am tired though I can't believe that's a beginner no right I was think at first I understood that it was beginner right like the first little bit I was like and then we started really getting into the little pulses and I was like like I could fall asleep she's so EP good morning I just woke up I am sore from Pilates I'm going to try to go on a run let's see how that goes I did one mile all I'm capable of today good morning this is becoming a workouts of the week video who knew I would actually be in my Pilates era suddenly moving here hopefully to continue in Texas but I just took one called booty burn or something of that sort and it was so hard which is awesome but I feel like workout classes are just good for you especially since I work at home I get to get out of the house I smile at some people I have a small social interaction and I got my workout I ordered a protein smoothie that I'm about to pick up so we're going to taste test it and see if it's yummy smoothie is a 6 out of 10 I realized on Tuesday when Ryan and I had our little date day that we went to two bookstores and I never did a haul and it's such a good haul first of all we went back to that local bookstore I was so excited for this book to come out and it's supposed to come out on June 11th I bought this on June 4th or 5th because the local bookstore just got the package in and I guess did not read when it's supposed to come out and it was just on the table I literally looked down and I gasped cuz it's not supposed to be out so I bought it and it was kind of like an older woman working the cash register and she was like oh we just put these out that would make sense because it's not supposed to be out for another week I thought that was pretty funny I felt like I robbed the place because I was like they don't know that I'm not supposed to have this right now should I tell them but what am I going to do I'm probably not even going to read it until it's actually out so doesn't really matter it's just kind of funny this is the new Ali Hazelwood book by the way not in love I don't think I said it at all but I did hear from one of my friends who got to read it early that it's like way spicier than her normal books so I'm now pretty nervous to read this we shall see how that goes and then we went to Barnes & Noble and I got the new Annabelle monigan book called Summer Romance I love her books they're just perfect women's fiction romance they're usually about women in their 30s she never writes a single word more than she needs to write she's very precise her stories are usually pretty short like under 300 Pages short this one's over 300 pages but barely 316 in this one Nora goes off script was like 284 Pages they're just so short and sweet and then I randomly saw this notebook it's a dotted notebook and the dots are pink so immediately I was intrigued and then I didn't even see this until I went home with it but there's blank calendar space that you can just fill in whatever month you want and that's so perfect cuz I actually already do this in my notebooks anyways like I'll draw one out this is actually my dream notebook now which is great cuz I'm about to finish my other notebook that you saw earlier in this video and they don't sell those kind anymore from Urban Outfitters and they were dotted this one's hard cover this time but I actually think I'm starting to prefer hard cover that I can write and it doesn't Bend that's my haul it's so cute I'm going to continue reading my book today I'm going to help Ryan with a joy ride photo shoot and it's been very cloudy the past few days but apparently it's called June Gloom where it's just cloudier but according to Bri who lives here this is cloudier than it normally is now but we're back home I helped shoot the photos for joy ride if you don't already know it's Ryan's candy brand it's really good I literally didn't eat sour strips until he made these sour strips and now I eat them up but June 15th is Joy Ride Day meaning they will be in Target so go to your local Target on June 15th get some candy it's like actually so good and there's way less sugar than normal candies it's amazing and I'm really proud of him and I'm really excited for Joy Ride day like getting into Target is so insane and I'm so excited to see what it's like but yeah that concludes this first 7 Days in California it's honestly flown by but at a great Pace where like I don't feel like I'm itching to leave I'm settled in I like it a lot hear Ryan coming I told them about Joy Ride day oh really yeah I just told them a thank you read it in weat you make reading videos fre that oh my gosh I was concluding our first week in California I'm falling asleep as I say it but I do feel like it's such a fun marriage bucket list thing for us we like drove through a tunnel today I was like oh it's our first tunnel together that was really cute comment that felt like aworthy comment it's literally not true but it feels like if just Everything feels new experiences together what's that word novel novel that's a great word Everything feels novel this month including the novels you read next week no one's visiting and then after that we have a lot of friends visiting which I'm excited to show them around the town I drove home from Pilates today with no Direction so that feels huge it's crazy I we see you guys else on the internet nightRyan and I are living in California for 1 month this has been on our marriage bucket list for a really long time just to live somewhere together or embark on a new adventure outside of Texas cuz I have grown up in the same place my entire life and just can't picture living anywhere else so month is like our most adventurous ever it's not really like living somewhere but it's more than a trip somewhere and it's my first time ever being somewhere other than Texas for more than 2 weeks which is crazy actually never seen a butterfly that big than ever before that wall we ran into enough of that suddenly the world I used to know I see it differently you woke me from a dream now here's reality baby baby you are really hurting me my first day in California for coffee this morning I had an espresso pod with creamer and it was actually so delicious I made two of them really yeah was it ice yeah I was waiting for you to realize and then I had I actually whipped out my jour for the first time in a while which means you know I'm in a good place cuz I'm trying to be reflective I'm trying to take this month and not let it run past me dang and I'm reading acts right now so that was good and now we're going to get coffee together coffee coffee and eat you're not allowed to say where you're going right I don't think so let's just say uh I'm going to be seeing Mr Beast I to drop off Ryan at the airport today and it is Mr Beast related everything is Mr Beast related everything on YouTube is Mr Beast related in his place or not in his place but I just want to see her I'm going to see Bri today and she's going to sleep over Bri lived with me for 3 months and now I'm in her state for 1 month I have to learn how to drive today I have driven here before but I just get nervous every time that I'm going to I don't know do something weird on the road just cuz you know people drive differently everywhere roads are different highways are different but I think it's but I think it'll be easy wo what a lens Ryan flying in the air right now Bri at my house oh I did not address this we're renting out a place that has Furniture as you can tell no you just rented a place furnitur L Bri's birthday is on June 20th which is partially why we chose this month it's also do you guys even know who Isaac is it's another one of our best friends birthday on the same exact day so he's going to fly in she's going to be here we're going to host it actually in the backyard cuz she wants a fairy garden theme we just learned this today the girly po so that is another reason that we chose this month but the other issue is Spock where is my precious son and he was actually supposed to come with us originally but then Ryan's dad who takes care of Spock whenever we travel had the great idea of just keeping him because Spock is 8 years old now and I get worried for him feeling confused or like anxious like I feel like anxiety is not good for him so taking him on a plane was stressing me out cuz I don't want him to freak out he doesn't like strangers so he would freak out at an airport he loves Ryan's dad like he gets to just walk around wherever he wants there's not really anyone coming to the door so he doesn't bark all day and he's just very peaceful and relaxed and loves Ronnie so that was hard for me to swallow at first cuz I've never spent longer than I think 2 weeks maybe I don't even think it was 2 weeks I think 10 days is the longest I've ever gone without Spock so so sad I know that was like almost a deal breaker for me I was like I don't think I can do that but doing it and it's only day one and I'm doing okay so far so you're like 20 hours in no literally yesterday I was already on the plane looking at photos of Spock and I was like I need to relax but Bri and I are co-working right now I'm reading a book for my video next week and she's editing a video for her video next week her video next week me dress shopping I was just looking good morning I'm about to try to go on my first run here and see if I can locate the beach slash any running trails so this should be interesting I did two 2.12 mil I did not make it to the beach and I also did not find a path that was without woring about cars my running Journey since my Trail Half Marathon has been pretty much zero I switched back to weight training and I found it actually really difficult to weight train one day and then run the next because it's just such a different use of your muscles and stamina I felt like to get stronger at weight training I had to just keep weight training so that I could progressively put more weight on and then if I went back to running I just felt like I didn't remember how to run anymore and it felt like I started back at Ground Zero which is awesome after all the training I did since I obviously don't have a gym here and running is free I'm going to do that for now I would love for this to be the month that I try Pilates For the First Time feel stereotypical that I'm in California to try it for the first time but I've been thinking about doing it for so long and I just never have cuz I don't know if I should do the reformer pilates or deat Pates and what it's going to be like for a beginner how to sign up for classes I don't know any of that stuff so hopefully I can just go with some friends here or something but running for now it is which is actually really fun to get back into I did miss it even though I did not miss it for a few months there I forget how good a shower Post Run feels and endorphins you get for the rest of the day especially since I read a lot for videos it's just nice to like get a sweat in and then sit down for the rest of the day and just feel no restlessness in my legs cuz they're tired I'm unpacking my clothes into the closet now I don't think I actually brought that much which I'm proud of myself for I mean it's definitely more than I need I had this luggage and then the one that I flew with and another one but more with like video stuff and then this is the stack of books that I brought five books which I feel like I actually could read but June is such a good month for new books from my favorite authors new Annabelle monan book tomorrow new Ali Hazelwood book I'm so excited for this one and then a new Ashley poson book which I'm also so excited for so we'll probably be going home with more books but the way that we got this luggage here is one of our other friends drove here so we got to put our stuff in his car which was really helpful so that's not too big of a concern done very good if you listen to the what we said podcast they have an exclusive drink with coffee dose which is a coffee shop in Orange County it's a blueberry marshmallow P latte with oat milk should I do that yeah really it's blue so I feel like I should do it I'm so excited like if just for the color you have to do it well I should wear my blue tank top when I try my blue drink hello go to Bree channel for the exclusive go to you thank you have a good day what why are you laughing cuz I did ASMR for your oh no a blueberry marshmallow latte with oat milk and your choice of espresso all righty wait take a wait wait take a picture wait they're so it's so cute okay 1 2 3 wo wo That's Unique the espresso is good the espresso is good oh it's smooth it's Unique I love the marshmallow I would get it without the foam next time but I like how it looks the foam adds a lot of blueberry but without it it's really subtle and kind of just unique and fun mhm what's your rating is it a five star buck I mean the issue is I love vanilla and hazelnut vanilla hazelnut chocolate would be way up there like that's where You' get to the 9es and 10 that's valid this is so unique that it's kind of like a 7.5 but not cuz it's bad it's good anything above a seven you would go back for oh it's delicious blueberry and now we're going to a bookstore that looks really cute wait why is this me it's hard being perfect hone I got what you want give me all of your love it's burning good morning it's now Wednesday There's Something about this house or the fact that I don't have F possibly that I wake up and time just kind of like bleeds all together the morning is suddenly 2:00 p.m. is suddenly 6:00 p.m. is suddenly 9:00 p.m. and every single day has been like that it just feels like time is moving differently here which is really interesting yesterday Ryan was taking a break from work so I decided to also take a break with work so I could have a date day with him we went to the beach at Sunset which was beautiful we did a lot of things but he got a massage and he asked the massage therapist about why I possibly get tension headaches every day because I used to never get tension headaches and I thought it was the way that I was editing videos but I've been editing videos for almost half of my life and never had these before and she said it might be because of eye strain and when he told me that I felt so relieved because not only do I get tension headaches every day but my eyes have started to hurt every day to the point where I would almost avoid social interactions cuz I just knew that my eyes like right behind them would hurt so bad that I wouldn't want to look at the person talking to me anymore and that makes so much sense so I'm putting my glasses back on I did it yesterday and when we went to the beach I couldn't believe how much I could see so I feel like I just gaslit myself out of wearing these glasses cuz I was like oh you were being dramatic you don't actually really need them turns out that's possibly why I've been getting headaches every single day which is honestly a relief to find out that I could just wear glasses and not get it anymore because I got a mouse I thought it was like how I was sitting like this on the trackpad so I got a mouse to go like this that wasn't helping that much so this is a huge Improvement but now I want to get different frames and possibly contacts if it's really that bad so that's good but today I'm going to do some editing I'm going to finish a book that I'm reading for next week's Vlog I'm really excited for it it's going to be called stalking author's Goodreads and then reading the books that they rated five stars cuz I had no idea that you could just look at an author's Goodreads account like you can look at what Stephen King reads if they post it of course so that's going really well I already found like a six-star book in that video it was insane and then I'm finally trying Pilates for the first time today at 4:30 with Bri it's on a reformer machine and I'm so excited to learn I this weird inkling that I'm really going to fall in love with it because it's going to feel like going to a dance studio and if you don't know I grew up a competitive dancer so I just feel like maybe this could be the thing that I get really into especially since I don't have a gym here and I'm just going to be running but I would love to do something with weight resistance so I'm really really really excited for that and then Bri is going to sleep over and it's going to be a really really fun day so I'm going to edit I'm ready for Pilates Bri is letting me use these sticky socks stickies I'm going to put a little raspberry electrolytes in my water this is us before Pilates former Pilates this is us after former get it cuz my hand's shaking I actually loved it yeah it kind of ate I kind of love her I'm going to miss her when I go back home she was definitely a 70-year-old instructor which was awesome which was awesome I wish there was different music playing yeah Nora Efron was playing no not Nora Efron Nora don't know what Jones Nora Jones haly is a little dancer cuz every time I would look over her legs would be like in a perfect like what is it even called ballet position like the one 2 3 four there's a lot of turnout going on oh my go she was like this she asked me if I was a dancer and that amount of teacher validation made me want to come back every day I felt the validation for you are you lying to me you've done this before and I said I'm coming back never done it before no I promise it's just like the little dancer in me comes out I am tired though I can't believe that's a beginner no right I was think at first I understood that it was beginner right like the first little bit I was like and then we started really getting into the little pulses and I was like like I could fall asleep she's so EP good morning I just woke up I am sore from Pilates I'm going to try to go on a run let's see how that goes I did one mile all I'm capable of today good morning this is becoming a workouts of the week video who knew I would actually be in my Pilates era suddenly moving here hopefully to continue in Texas but I just took one called booty burn or something of that sort and it was so hard which is awesome but I feel like workout classes are just good for you especially since I work at home I get to get out of the house I smile at some people I have a small social interaction and I got my workout I ordered a protein smoothie that I'm about to pick up so we're going to taste test it and see if it's yummy smoothie is a 6 out of 10 I realized on Tuesday when Ryan and I had our little date day that we went to two bookstores and I never did a haul and it's such a good haul first of all we went back to that local bookstore I was so excited for this book to come out and it's supposed to come out on June 11th I bought this on June 4th or 5th because the local bookstore just got the package in and I guess did not read when it's supposed to come out and it was just on the table I literally looked down and I gasped cuz it's not supposed to be out so I bought it and it was kind of like an older woman working the cash register and she was like oh we just put these out that would make sense because it's not supposed to be out for another week I thought that was pretty funny I felt like I robbed the place because I was like they don't know that I'm not supposed to have this right now should I tell them but what am I going to do I'm probably not even going to read it until it's actually out so doesn't really matter it's just kind of funny this is the new Ali Hazelwood book by the way not in love I don't think I said it at all but I did hear from one of my friends who got to read it early that it's like way spicier than her normal books so I'm now pretty nervous to read this we shall see how that goes and then we went to Barnes & Noble and I got the new Annabelle monigan book called Summer Romance I love her books they're just perfect women's fiction romance they're usually about women in their 30s she never writes a single word more than she needs to write she's very precise her stories are usually pretty short like under 300 Pages short this one's over 300 pages but barely 316 in this one Nora goes off script was like 284 Pages they're just so short and sweet and then I randomly saw this notebook it's a dotted notebook and the dots are pink so immediately I was intrigued and then I didn't even see this until I went home with it but there's blank calendar space that you can just fill in whatever month you want and that's so perfect cuz I actually already do this in my notebooks anyways like I'll draw one out this is actually my dream notebook now which is great cuz I'm about to finish my other notebook that you saw earlier in this video and they don't sell those kind anymore from Urban Outfitters and they were dotted this one's hard cover this time but I actually think I'm starting to prefer hard cover that I can write and it doesn't Bend that's my haul it's so cute I'm going to continue reading my book today I'm going to help Ryan with a joy ride photo shoot and it's been very cloudy the past few days but apparently it's called June Gloom where it's just cloudier but according to Bri who lives here this is cloudier than it normally is now but we're back home I helped shoot the photos for joy ride if you don't already know it's Ryan's candy brand it's really good I literally didn't eat sour strips until he made these sour strips and now I eat them up but June 15th is Joy Ride Day meaning they will be in Target so go to your local Target on June 15th get some candy it's like actually so good and there's way less sugar than normal candies it's amazing and I'm really proud of him and I'm really excited for Joy Ride day like getting into Target is so insane and I'm so excited to see what it's like but yeah that concludes this first 7 Days in California it's honestly flown by but at a great Pace where like I don't feel like I'm itching to leave I'm settled in I like it a lot hear Ryan coming I told them about Joy Ride day oh really yeah I just told them a thank you read it in weat you make reading videos fre that oh my gosh I was concluding our first week in California I'm falling asleep as I say it but I do feel like it's such a fun marriage bucket list thing for us we like drove through a tunnel today I was like oh it's our first tunnel together that was really cute comment that felt like aworthy comment it's literally not true but it feels like if just Everything feels new experiences together what's that word novel novel that's a great word Everything feels novel this month including the novels you read next week no one's visiting and then after that we have a lot of friends visiting which I'm excited to show them around the town I drove home from Pilates today with no Direction so that feels huge it's crazy I we see you guys else on the internet night\n"