**A Night to Remember: The Struggle is Real**

As I walked into my living room, I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. Every time this man lights a candle and walks away, I couldn't shake off the feeling that he's trying to burn this place down, taking us all out with him. The dim lighting only added to my anxiety, making me feel like I was trapped in a nightmare.

But then, I remembered why I had come home in the first place. A mysterious box sat on the floor, its contents seemingly intact despite what I thought were catastrophic injuries. It was as if it had been through some kind of trauma, with parts missing and instructions that seemed to point to confusion rather than clarity. I tentatively approached the box, careful not to disturb whatever might be inside.

As I lifted the lid, a faint scent wafted out, transporting me to a world far removed from my current predicament. The contents were unlike anything I had ever seen before - a medley of lights, each one more dazzling than the last. Icicle lights twinkled like stars in the darkness, while red and white lights wrapped around objects like a candy cane. It was as if someone had taken all the colors of the rainbow and infused them into this singular creation.

I tried to assemble it, but it proved to be a challenge unlike any other. The directions were cryptic, with missing pieces and instructions that seemed to defy logic. Some parts were listed as "extras," while others appeared to have been included without so much as a by-your-leave. It was like the manufacturers had taken all the leftover bits from their factory floor and tossed them into this box for good measure.

Despite the chaos, I persevered, driven by a determination to see it through. And then, just when I thought it was done, I realized that we still needed some crucial components. I rummaged through the remaining pieces, searching for any clues as to their purpose. Some were marked "use at your own risk," while others seemed to defy all logic and reason.

As the night wore on, the machine began to take shape. It looked deceptively simple, like something a child could build in an hour. But I knew better - I had seen the complexity of its design, the intricate web of springs and pulleys that would allow it to function. And when we finally completed it, all I could do was stand back and marvel at its beauty.

**The Machine Awakens**

We held our collective breath as we watched the machine spring to life. The lights flickered like a heartbeat, pulsing with an energy that seemed almost otherworldly. It was beautiful, yet unsettling, like something from a sci-fi movie. And then, it happened - the first main base began to assemble itself, its parts clicking into place with a satisfying clunk.

But there were still questions unanswered. Where did some of these pieces go? Why were they listed as "extras" when I had no idea what they even did? And what about those screw things that seemed to have nowhere to go? They looked like they belonged in some kind of high-tech gadget, but their purpose remained a mystery.

Despite the uncertainty, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. We had built something truly remarkable, a machine that seemed to defy explanation. And as I gazed upon its glory, I knew that it was worth all the struggle - every minute spent deciphering the instructions, every screw thread searched for in vain.

**The Truth Revealed**

As we stood back to admire our handiwork, I couldn't help but wonder what this machine was really capable of. Was it a rowing machine? A jumping board? Something entirely different? The directions still held many secrets, but one thing was clear - this machine was not like any other.

I held up the boxy spring attachment, marveling at its simplicity. And then I looked around at the pulley ropes and springs, wondering what their purpose might be. Were they meant to add resistance to some kind of exercise? Or perhaps something more sinister?

The screws still refused to reveal themselves, sitting idle on a surface that seemed barren of any use. It was as if they were waiting for something - or someone. But what? I shook my head, chuckling wryly at the absurdity of it all.

In the end, we didn't know exactly what this machine did - but we knew it looked beautiful. And with its assembly complete, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. We would have to wait and see if our hard work paid off, but for now, at least, we had something truly remarkable to show for it.

**A New Chapter**

As I wrapped up this video, I couldn't help but think about the journey that had brought us here. The struggles, the triumphs - it was all worth it, because in the end, we had created something beautiful. A machine that seemed almost otherworldly, yet strangely familiar.

I smiled to myself as I clicked off the camera, knowing that this was just the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. We would face challenges and uncertainties ahead, but for now, at least, we could bask in the glow of our creation. The night had been long and difficult, but it was also filled with moments of pure magic - moments I would never forget.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys welcome back to my channel or if you're new here welcome i'm brooke and i make lifestyle videos if this is the first my videos you've seen or if you've seen a couple but haven't subscribed yet don't forget subscribe below come along with me on this journey so today we have some updates if you saw my last video i was waiting for our pilates machine to arrive it didn't come that was supposed to come the next day it didn't come so it's come the next day it didn't come finally today it arrived unfortunately they delivered it in like this big box and we have to figure out how to assemble it ourselves i'm hoping it comes with directions it probably does but we're going to be trying to tackle that today and then other updates we have finished decorating for christmas it looks really good we don't have our christmas trees yet because we don't use like the artificial christmas trees we like to have real christmas trees but none of the stores have them yet and i mean i guess we could go cut down our own but we haven't we haven't gone that far just yet so no trees yet but everything else is decorated and then later this evening one of my friends is going to come and try to help me assemble the pilates machine and then she's going to be bringing us some sushi so our favorite sushi place we have two but one of them is called makuni's and so she has an appointment out in roseville so i'm gonna call in the order pay for it and then on her way here she's gonna pick it up and bring it here so we're gonna have dinner and uh hopefully successful machine building with the pilates machine so wish us luck hopefully all goes well with that but for right now i'm gonna show you guys all the christmas stuff and then we'll go from there so starting in my office so this lights up so i just hung that there and then this is like a little advent calendar so i'm gonna be putting like cute little chocolates and stuff in there have a little thing here and then i brought my nutcracker collection right over here and i didn't do too too much in here i think i put like a little gnome up there and that's pretty much it so there's a lot of room for improvement in here right by the front door my wonderful mega santa boots have made their reappearance when we first got these we used to put candy canes in here but then we got dogs so now we put um these are just like plastic ornaments because you know you gotta play it safe when you've got two large dogs and then over here we hung some like wooden snowflakes so the outer ones kind of have this like metallic-y layer on them and then the other ones just like plain matte white so we have switched out the table runner um switched out for um the candle holders for these cute little red ones i got at kohl's last year and then i just on the bar cart i just put some little gnomes here and there so we've got a couple little gnomes there there over here and i think that's pretty much it all we've done for this room over here so we put a red blanket here and then i haven't switched them out but we do have like christmas sheets um actually here they are these are the christmas sheets for the guest bedroom and then we've switched on the frame tv to a cute little like holiday type thing and then these are all of like our ornaments christmas lights things like that because we don't have the trees yet but we hauled them all up here so i didn't want to take them back down and then i started using some of our little airwick um christmas tree smelly things and then oh i put some mistletoe up here look how cute he is and then i think in here oh we swatched we swapped out the little towels that hang here for some like holiday ones didn't do too much up here i got this cute little sign earlier this year and then this is some decor we had from before halloween candy we so much still we got zero trick-or-treaters quite literally not one um and then we have these cute little wine sweaters so i got this one at nordstrom like a year or two ago and i want to say this guy's from bevmo but i could be mistaken and then swapped out the towels oh my gosh okay so this i just got like uh last week so i got this from at home look how giant he is and he actually does have like that thing in the back so you actually could i guess technically crack a nut with him santa stop here and i'm so sorry for that sound i don't know darren's like moving around furniture outside or something but this like it slides so you can actually count down how many days till christmas and then we have these cute little pillows here all right then to this little living room situation so we have a stacked santa boot and elf boot we had this last year as well these are like separate i just stack them and then i have these coasters have yourself a merry little cocktail dear santa more wine please he sees you when you're drinking and it's five o'clock at the north pole i love these little coasters we do have these ones and then we put out another little nutcracker here and a candle and then over here we have this cute little arrangement and another candle put this red blanket here and it's like white on the inside so it kind of has like the santa vibe and then i just got this guy this year so i have named him peter he's just a cute little reindeer and he has a little scarf which i love and then i put this sign have yourself a merry little christmas then we added like small little decor here so this one says it's beginning to look a lot like christmas wish you a merry christmas this is from like a painting sip that we did last year and then this phone says direct line to santa and then up here we have a little squirrel building a snowman a candle these cute little trees and then this is the um the night before christmas it's actually a box so it's like hollow but it looks like a book so i'm a fan of this little area right here because i love like all the green and kind of like tree themed and then that's the other paint set painting from last year and then since we don't have like anywhere to really hang a stocking over there we've chosen to put the stockings over here so this is mine and darren's and then we have santa please stop here and then this is a little pinocchio if you guys are not familiar um like in italy everything's like pinocchio that's like one of the big things and that's actually where we got engaged so we love pinocchio so i have a big old pinocchio and then merry christmas here's hunter and sadie stockings and then we have these like little elves and so these elves have weights in their hands so you like throw them up there and they stay because of the weights and then we added some cute little like i don't know what you call these but little cute stuff on a stick we shoved that in there love that and then we have these little like christmas pillows they're usually kind of well covered dog fur joys of having large dogs they're usually kind of positioned where it's like those three those three in here and then we have like a large like queen size like cozy red blanket right here that we can snuggle up with so in the bathrooms we have these like red knitted like little rugs that are super cute and then we have cute little hand towels so these ones say mr claus and then we have like a miss claws here and then we've got a whole bunch of other ones in each bathroom then here we have little icicles and then we have this christmas light garland and we have it going all the way downstairs and then down here i'll show you guys kind of the plan for the pilates machine because we're trying to figure out what exactly to do here okay so this is the gym and okay so i'm gonna kind of whisper so that we don't have echoing so this table was coming all the way out to i think right about here and then darren just like scooted it all the way that way to make more space so we have like the treadmill and then i have like my balance bar and i have like all of my different like pilates things for like matte pilates and then we have like one of those things called speed bag and then a punching bag so i think we're gonna get some other um other like machines and stuff but for now i think i don't know i kind of want the pilates machine to go this way but that would take up like so much space so i think we might be putting it against the glass like right here so that's what we're going to be doing and then i'll show you like how big the box is like i'm not really sure how we're going to lift it so here's the box they had to use a pallet jack to get it here so i'm not not really sure what we're going to do about this so i think we're just gonna have to open the box and like carry everything in piece by piece but the issue is that there are gonna be a lot of like big pieces so it's gonna be really helpful to have my friend here so that we can like hold like you know carry them together and bring them in i just got a call from petco that the dogs are finally done we took them this morning to um go get like a haircut and everything because their hair was getting kind of long so they are finally ready so i'm gonna go pick them up and then um when we dropped them off we had made them okay i'm so excited we made them an appointment so the day before christmas eve we are getting them a holiday blowout so it's like the specialty shampoo conditioner they get like sprayed like spritzed with like i think it's a gingerbread little spritz so they smell good and they're gonna get like their hair done and such so we um we're hosting christmas eve um at our house so our whole family's gonna be here so we're gonna have them looking all cute smelling cute looking their best you know put your best paw forward so we're really excited about that um it's typically really hard to get appointments for that especially like this quote i mean it's like two months out but like this close to the holidays but somehow they had an appointment so snatch that right up but right now i'm going to go pick them up and i'll show you guys their cute little haircut so i'm heading out but i had to tell you guys okay so this morning i had and early afternoon i had like work meetings all day so i was like you know like blouse slacks blazer all the whole whole nine yards now i'm in like a bodysuit oversized sweater sweatpants socks and slides like we we have fallen a long way from this morning and then um also how strange is it so i have to like bring the pups um oh my gosh i forgot my keys um we have to bring their like harnesses and leashes you have to take them home with you and then you have to bring them back because apparently they can't keep them there because of covid so i have to lug everything back i thought that was just so strange i feel like there are a lot of interesting rules because of cobin and i think i told you guys in the last video that i lost my car keys like um after my sister's birthday dinner on wednesday i i had driven and then i came home i put everything down like on the like entry bench that's kind of like my catch-all area i put it there and then um we have like the cleaning we have like a clean people that come every other week so um the following day they came i was working from home that day and then friday i had to go to some work meetings and i couldn't find my keys anywhere and so i um i called the company and i was like hey by any chance like did your team see them like they lifted every pillow went under like all furniture like if anyone were to have seen them it would be your team and they said no so it's like oh my gosh so i was looking everywhere i couldn't find them anywhere luckily i had like a spare key so i had i had like my air pods on there i had everything so i reordered my earpods i reordered the same case i had i borrowed darren's house keys and i like made new house keys and i like made a new mini little like key ring then um so i finally had like everything together like yesterday so like a week after they've been missing then i get a call this morning and they're like okay so we um they like take all the trash and like recycles like with them i thought they put them in our bin but apparently not they take it with them and they're like we were just um getting rid of everything and we heard something jingling we looked in one of the boxes that we had taken as recycled and your keys are in there and i was like are you kidding me so they came today and dropped them off in the mailbox which yes super exciting because also it's kind of scary knowing that like your house keys are somewhere out and about you know so that was excellent so now i have two sets of keys two airpods but you know they said i asked them and they said they didn't have it so i really thought that um i was gonna have to buy a new one so uh that's that but i was really paranoid because i thought that like something going missing we were it was also right before halloween right so all like paranormal activity and like we were watching like all of those like types of shows but like real like true paranormal activity and like paranormal investigators and stuff and like all of those entities so i was like oh my gosh do we have like a poltergeist or a spirit living in this house because keep in mind we only moved in like two months ago so i was like oh my gosh what is living here with us i know where i put my keys and they are not there the cleaning people don't have them so where did they go and i mean i like turned the house upside down darren turned it upside down again with me like i mean i searched everywhere i mean every cabinet every drawer all of our like different like laundry bins i took out every article of clothing i took everything out of my closet article by article checked all the pockets anywhere it could have been stuck just in case like really like i every shoe every shoe in the house reached into to make sure maybe it didn't somehow end up in a shoe um in case the dogs found it i like went all around the yard checking everywhere in case like they dragged it somewhere i mean like i really got in there and i was like okay the fact that it's still missing like something is happening here i don't know if someone or something is trying to send me a message or that like get out you know because and it seems like most paranormal like movies or shows the goal is the spirit is trying to get rid of you so i was like uh is someone trying to get rid of me you know so oh my gosh yeah but nope plenty of people accidentally took it and uh in the recycles so i feel safer now that's the good news okay here they are here's hunty see girl say the girl wow look at you guys and your cute little haircuts look at you cute taboo cute taboo yes brooke yeah with an e at the end okay cool um can i please get one order of pepperfin sashimi so i just called in the order and it's gonna be ready in an hour so it's gonna finish up right as my friend finishes her appointment which is right next to it so she's gonna swoop it up come here so yay because it's thursday night and the feeding's right because it's thursday night oh wouldn't i what a night cheers the sun is making everything have this like pinkish tint right now and it just feels like we have like red light going on in here which makes it feel even more like christmassy i'm just i'm loving it and all the christmas lights over there this is just like so vibey and then this is a real like wood-burning fireplace so imagine when it gets a little colder and we have this fire going and like the whole thing oh my gosh this is gonna be just the vibiest most cozy christmas i have ever experienced in my life i can't wait i am so glad we did all of this beginning of november so we get to enjoy it even longer look look how cute you are sadie come here come here oh my gosh look how pretty you are look how cute your little haircut is look how cute oh they did such a good job what about you hunties yeah yeah they do a good job on you too honeys so i just came down to the garage if i had a dollar for every time this man lights a candle and walks away and forgets about it uh he's trying to burn this place down he's trying to take us all out i was down here all the lights were off he was done he closed up shop and this guy was still burning my stress levels are raised okay so i just opened the box it's not really in pieces it's like one gigantic thing i mean there are a couple pieces but like i don't know how to get this thing inside sorry for the clicking sound it like keeps away birds and such so they don't nest here um i mean could i even no no no okay that's that's like 200 pounds so update it is 322 pounds so i i was not being i was not exaggerating when i said it's like 200. in fact it is far more than that i've been able to like scoot the box like sideways for some reason i can move it like sideways but i can't move it like front and back so i cannot advance it towards the doorway which is very challenging and then i like trying to do what i like pinch my finger so now my like thumb hurts but i i have a feeling tonight might just be sushi and hanging out and i feel like we're gonna have to recruit some like strong guys and or girls but um some strong people i should say to come help move this look how amazing all of these lights are so we put all of these um icicle lights here and then wrapped all of these in like red and white lights like um like a candy cane and then we have these lights over here on the fireplace and then we have green lights all the way down there and then we're coloring the pool green okay so we got the first main base we accidentally carried this with it but now we're going to start assembling it so we're going to put it right here in the gym but this thing is freaking heavy it's no why but we're ready to open everything up got scissors and let's hope this thing turns out well hey guys so it is the next day it took literally hours to put this thing together it looks so simple but the directions suck and then also the directions were like missing pieces like it shows you like we followed all the directions and then at the end we have like all of these extra pieces and we're like okay what do we do with this um and some of them were like listed as like you not checklist where it shows you like everything you should have some of them were listed there but then it never shows you how to use it or where it goes and then other things were in the box and clearly part of something and it didn't even acknowledge that they should be there so yeah i don't we don't really know what's going on but i'll show you guys because it looks really good here she is in all of her glory so um this thing this like jump board was like an add-on that technically didn't come with it and then same with the um like boxy so those i got and then here are like the springs that you attach here so that there's some resistance and then we have like the pulley ropes we have all the springs for the tower and then we don't know like what oh here it is what this is this was one of the things that acknowledged but then didn't tell you where it went so technically like some of these springs are supposed to attach here but like what what is this i don't know if maybe these clamp onto like the pulley rope how you have like these handles and then you have like these handles here and then i'm wondering if maybe this is one of the other options for like almost like a rowing situation i i don't know i really don't and then there are these screw things that don't seem to go anywhere like i don't i don't know are they supposed to like go no no they obviously don't go there i don't know where they go there are no holes that like aren't being utilized right now so do they no see i don't oh is it no those are screws see i don't know where where this would go there's like no openings that are like just left open so i have no idea it's interesting so we're holding on to them because they look important but like i don't i don't know where they go overall though overall she does work she looks beautiful we're super excited now that the machine is built i'm going to officially wrap up this video thank you guys again so so much for watching if you haven't already don't forget subscribe below give this video a big thumbs up don't forget to check out some of my other videos and my playlists you will probably find more stuff you like thank you guys again so so much for watching and i'll see my next one keep on fighting\n"