I gave up alcohol, Costco blackout, Backyard renovation, Will onion water save my plant _ WITL VLOG

**My Shopping Experience at [Store Name]**

I recently attempted to shop at [Store Name], but unfortunately, my experience was marred by frustrating staff and poorly managed crowds. As I entered the store, I was excited to continue shopping since I only had a couple of aisles left to visit. However, I soon realized that staff were going through every aisle, forcing customers forward towards the front of the store. This created a chaotic atmosphere, making it difficult for me to enjoy my shopping experience. Feeling frustrated, I decided to panic purchase some essentials and ended up buying boom chicken pop and skinny pop – both of which turned out to be great investments.

In between shopping, I also managed to get some exciting news: my sweatshirt had arrived! I've been wanting to create a unique design using my Cricut machine, and after seeing the latest trends in sweatshirts with embroidered designs, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I wanted to create a simple yet stylish design featuring one of my favorite words – "snazzy" – and an animal that holds a special place in my heart – squirrels. I started by creating a rough design on Canva to get an idea of what it would look like.

**The Design**

On the front shoulder of the sweatshirt, I wanted the word "snazzy" to be prominently displayed in a slightly darker neutral color. On the back, I planned to add a cute squirrel design that would complement the snazzy theme. After some trial and error on Canva, I was satisfied with my design and decided it wouldn't need any major changes. However, finding the perfect sweatshirt proved to be more challenging than expected. The brand I wanted, [Brand Name], had discontinued the color I desired, so I settled for a different shade in a larger size – extra large. Unfortunately, this meant that the shirt would have an oversized fit, which was fine by me.

**Pre-Shrinking and Vinyl Transfer**

Before attempting to apply the vinyl transfer, I made sure to pre-shrink the garment by washing and drying it. This ensured that any potential shrinking of the fabric wouldn't affect the final design. With my sweatshirt in hand, I was ready to start working on my Cricut machine. Although I hadn't yet begun transferring the design onto the shirt, I felt confident about how everything would turn out. For now, I'll be putting off the actual transfer until this weekend when I have some dedicated time to work on it.

**Conclusion and Next Steps**

For now, I'm excited to share my progress with you all and can't wait to show off the finished design once it's complete. Don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment below – I appreciate your support! In the next video, I'll be sharing more of my crafting adventures, so stay tuned for that.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enare you ready to see the backyard update so as you can see the cement is all done we have some drainage added along the edges of it and they have um like texturized it so basically they poured the concrete and then they have these big rubber stamps that they put on here to create this imprint so it looks like it's like laid stone or I guess kind of like tile type of situations and then as you can see there's like these different like little details in it and things like that so it's like textured and then they are filling back up the pool so the people came and like powered wash the pool today to make sure that it was clean after all of like the construction dust so now it's barely gotten into the shallow end but we've got three hoses one over there one here and one here we just all you know all hands on deck good morning guys and welcome back or if you're new here welcome I'm Brook and we are kicking off a vlog this morning it is Saturday morning about 8:30 and it is raining outside I am so sad about it it's been between like the mid 70s to low 80s all week and all of a sudden it's just raining today and highly unfortunate tomorrow is 6 weeks since I have had alcohol basically uh when we were in Universal Studios in Florida like that was the last time I drank and because I drank like 3 days back to back um like it threw off I'm assuming like my hormone levels because I started having like Hashimoto like flareups so I have posim Moes if you guys don't know it's like an autoimmune disease and I've had it under control without medication for several years um and I basically keep it under control with like regular exercise and like diet so um when my like whenever I do something like Buck Wild so like if I like pull an all nighter um if I'm eating really poorly if I stop exercising for like 2 weeks straight or I guess if I drink for 3 days straight and not like crazy amounts but I did drink for three separate days in a row um it like threw off my Natural Balance and I started having like insane like anxiety attacks and the super dry skin and like the like whole slew of symptoms but the one that really is the like anxiety attacks really panic attacks that I have and the particular one that happened when I was in Florida it lasted from like I think it was like 10 p.m. all the way to like 5:00 a.m. it was horrible I was like drenched in sweat like my heart was racing as if I was sprinting full speed that entire time I was so exhausted and then we had the parks the next day and it was just it was so hard it was so so freaking hard so I was like okay you know what you know I'm going to just kind of try to cleanse my body and like rebalance because before I had my hashimotos under control like those like anxiety attacks like ruled my life it was horrible so I was like oh my gosh like no I need to get this like so I was like okay no alcohol like we are cleaning up the diet for the next like week or two I need to make sure I get everything like rebalanced because like I cannot go back to that place I was back in like what was it 2017 when I was diagnosed and um and then I just ended up like sleeping better feeling better and then I was like well I mean I don't plan to give up alcohol forever but until I have a situation where I'm like hey that sounds really good or like I really want to like participate in like this or whatever it is like if I feel like I actually want to drink for a particular occasion like I'm going to do it it but it was like I just I haven't had that chance like really I only plan to do it a week and then after a week I was like okay maybe two weeks and after two weeks I was like okay maybe a month and then after a month I was like maybe 2 months so now I'm on week six and or tomorrow is my 6 week um like marker so we'll see will I go another two weeks will I hit 2 months I have no idea so I'm I'm just going to when the time is right or the time is right just you know when I want to I'm going to have a drink and otherwise I'm just pretty much not really drinking anymore these days so yeah that's that's the latest with me on that front all right taking the pups out now we also have this new um pera pera I forget what these things are called um but it also has one of those cranks that all of this like crinks open so you can have it like show sun or you can have it um you know shaded and then um all of this area oh hi s girl hi sweet girl um all of this area is all going to be leveled in the same height once we extend out the deck so in case you're like what is happening below this thing it's all going to look great so yesterday I went around the backyard and grabbed all of the dog toys that that were out there so I could wash them and look how many there were I mean they have these under here I mean and I did throw away a number of them as well that were just um had been ripped so much that the um like fluffy stuff was coming out the stuffing so I threw those away and these are the survivors this one was a close call but ultimately it's still like closed it was just like that top layer so they can keep this one for now but they do have like a pink version and a blue somewhere so um they have an entirely full thing of toys already so I'm like where did these come from I I just I don't I don't understand hi stie I see you've brought your ball thank you good morning guys happy Sunday so it's the next day um yesterday I went to Coffee Shop met up with Christina and Kelsey gopy came in um like 30 minutes in and like surprised them which was awesome had a great time catching up we actually ran into some other people from college that just happen to be at that coffee shop I've like never heard of this coffee shop in my life passed it a million times never even noticed it was there but apparently it's like really well known so who knew um honestly well I got their cold brew was not good I personally I would not go back but apparently some something is great there cuz so many people go um then um our coffee kind of decid started to like run into like lunchtime so then we relocated to a Mexican restaurant down uh downtown eight there and we were there till like 4:30 so our little coffee get together ended up lasting literally all day um came back and I found out one of my Hallmark shows that I used to watch called the way home season 2 is out very excited also looked online and confirmed season 3 is being filmed so there's going to be a third season very excited about it right now um I need to leave uh 2 minutes ago to go meet my friend ciry we are going on a walk we were going to go uh yesterday afternoon but since my coffee thing/ lunch ran so long and I didn't want to cut it off cuz I haven't seen those friends in a while kiry and I uh rescheduled for this morning so about to go meet her we're just going to go to Starbucks get a drink and walk around the park um however two nights ago me and my sister made pad thae for the family we had onions and I put the onion skins in water and I have soaked them so these been it's now Sunday and these have been soaking since Friday night um according to a bunch of like Instagram videos about um I don't I mean I don't know if you'd consider about like botney but um just about like house plants in general um it was saying that like different things that you soak in water do do different things like um apple peels in waters like fertilizer and like all these things but apparently onion skins soaked in water apparently this helps get rid of like yellow leaves on house plants so I still have my big like birds of paradise from our old house if you guys remember I've brought that here the two um fiddle figs unfortunately passed away one of them um left us when we were still at the old house the other one was really on his way out and officially made his exit shortly after we moved here so um the birds of paradise is my last one left and I want to keep him alive but he keeps getting like yellow leaves so um I have my onion water here and I'm going to pour it in it kind of seemed like they only poured the water so it just kind of like absorbed the nutrients from the onion skins so now I also I think I only needed one onion skin but I'm here I mean business so I have three onion skins in here uh or the onion skins of three onions so um let's pour this in I don't know how long it's supposed to be until like results happen I also don't know are you supposed to give it a little bit of this every day or just pour it all in there were no instructions it was just like a cheat sheet so let's go pour it in and hope for the best okay so here's the current situation as you can see we're kind of getting a little bit of like brownish here and oh shoot you you know what I would consider this more Brown than yellow you know what it's fine okay this is one of those like easy plants so you pour water in there and it slowly um like Waters it over the course of a month I will say after having three of these they legitimately do not work like they were very overpriced for this type of pot and it really honestly does not work so um don't waste your money but the pot's pretty so we've kept it like honestly like watering around works way better but we will pour the remaining in here oh my gosh look at the amount of onion skins in here this is like really really potent and if I remember correctly you're only supposed to like the instructions were to soak for 24 hours I hope that wasn't a Max because this definitely soaked for like 48 all right well on that note I have got to get going because I'm now officially late um but the good news is she's usually running about 5 minutes late anyway so uhoh four minutes ago I'm here ah okay I got to go see you guys later so this is the first I've ever seen Costco has a power outage so everything's like dark in here it's like hard to read what is happening I've like never seen this before well they lost power but somehow their register still worked so I was able to buy things but we all had to go to the door so I was only able to get what I already had in my car unfortunately but I got majority of what I needed that was literally like the craziest experience I have never experienced a power outage like in a grocery store at all let alone Costco and I I tried to keep shopping after the power outage was out like most people did but I guess they weren't able to get it back on so then they started um having staff go to the back and like Usher everyone forward and like okay guys you're done shopping it's time to check out so um basically we all just had to leave with what was in our cart despite the fact that they lost power they s somehow were able to get the registers up and running so still you know bought all the food and all that jazz but I had so many more items that like I needed to get like I really wanted to buy like prepackaged ready to go like lunch items I could quickly pack and I got like two or three like items in that category but I really wanted to like peruse walk around cuz it's not usually stuff that I shop for but that was like my goal for this particular trip along with getting dog food but um yeah I didn't get to do do that so there were a lot of things that like I didn't get which is such a freaking bummer because it takes me literally weeks to build up the motivation to go to Costco like Costco is a necessary evil because it's absolutely amazing right but parking always trash the line to check out always trash people everywhere and because you buy in bulk you always spend so much more than you think you will you know of course it lasts longer and ultimately ends up being cheaper but your initial purchase is always more so it's always very sad when you get to the register so it takes me weeks to be ready and in the right mindset to take that all on and it has taken me weeks to get to this point the only reason I am here today is because I have postponed my Costco trip so long that my dogs ran out of food this morning and I had to come here like otherwise they wouldn't have anything for dinner you know so dragged myself here pulled together the motivation halfway through the shoing lost power so um feeling a little defeated today but at least I got the majority of the stuff that I needed so that'll just have to do I did get the dog food but really bummed that they didn't at least let us kind of like continue and finish up the shopping trip they were like everyone to the registers so also the lines took forever because literally everyone in the store had to check out at the same time so like you think Costco lines are usually bad well let me tell you during a power outage is worse so now I'm on my way to pick up Darren from the airport his plane lands 2 minutes before I get there so I will get their perfect timing okay oh I see him in the fuchsia oh there he is he's home woo that in a while what is up party people it is Monday so I know I've been not vlogging too too much this weekend which I thought I was going to be I was really present with everything I was doing and often times the more present I am the less like Vlog Clips you guys get so sorry about that however I had a really great weekend just connecting with a lot of people that I care about and my friends and overall 10 out of 10 weekend what I will say though is I've noticed that when I make plans on like Saturday and Sunday I don't have like my true Lazy Day that like recharges me for the week so I am feeling quite drained today thankfully I got to work from home today that is not the case for the rest of the week but I'm going to enjoy it today so um did not heat style my hair it's still kind of wet cuz I um I did a hair mask after my shower and then you're only supposed to leaveing in for 5 minutes I left in for like 35 and then I rinsed it out and then I tied it up so it didn't dry so we've got a weird thing going on I will figure that out tomorrow when I have to actually style it and then um on the days I work from home I also try not to do like too much face makeup so like I didn't really do face makeup today just a little bit of eye makeup um because I'm trying to just like make my skin better I have revamped my skincare routine and Things Are going wonderfully my skin is actually the clearest it has been in about 2 and 1/2 years and that's crazy and very exciting so um don't know what the heck went wrong originally and why it took so long to be able to get under control but what I'm doing now seems to be working so I'm just going to continue with that I will say the biggest change that or the product I think is having the biggest impact is um Paulo's Choice um like exfoliator it's like a liquid exfoliant and I've had it for years but usually I would use it like once a month if I was really being consistent once a week and then um I was watching this like Dermatology videos and they were talking about that product and um using it daily and I was like oh oh am I is that the frequency so I read the back of the bottle and it's like uh Ed like every day I I guess I just never read the back of the bottle and yeah so no wonder it it would help the times that I would use it but then you know obviously my skin would kind of revert back to not going so well so apparently yeah you're supposed to be using it every day so now I don't use it every day every day but um at least like every other day and things have really improved so um yeah yeah not reading directions for skincare things like U apparently yeah it's important but I also changed like my face wash and mo moisturizers and a couple other things so um I think everything has kind of helped but that's that's the big one um and then um what else was like going to tell oh broke into my boom chicka pop that I got from Costco uh the kettle one love it we used to get this all the time we used to always have this in our house and then one day we just kind of forgot about it and haven't purchased it in possibly over 2 years like how did we how did this go from a staple to like forgot it existed I don't know but went across the aisle that had this um when I was in Costco and decided to buy it it was also kind of a panic purchase when they were like ushering us out the door at Costco cuz like the blackout situation um which I guess okay I I know I kind of talked to you guys after as I was leaving Costco but basically um like all the lights went out they waited like maybe four or 5 minutes kind of just let people continue shopping and then when they couldn't get the power back on they announced that like like okay please stop shopping everyone to the front you are able to like check out you can buy everything in your cart um but like shopping experience is done um I tried to continue shopping cuz I was like I only have a couple more aisles I have to go through like I I can power through I'll just be quick didn't work they like had staff going through every aisle and like okay to the front to the front and like forcing everyone forward felt we were being like hurted unfortunately so um yeah I didn't get to toally finished but I panic purchased boom chicken pop and very glad I did great investment I also Panic purchased skinny pop um and you know what also happy I did that so um in that sense that worked out also um my sweatshirt came in uh what so excited actually I don't even know if I told you guys did I tell you basically I have I had this idea for this sweatshirt I wanted to make and I was like with me my skills and my mighty Cricut Machine I'm going to make it and I've been seeing um it's been like super trendy have you guys seen like those sweatshirts where it's like a a neutral color right and then in another neutral color usually it's embroidered but I don't have an embroidery machine so it's going to be vinyl for me but um the design or the words whatever it is is another slightly darker um also neutral color so it's very like monoch chromatic very subtle and um I've been liking it so I decided that I want to kind of do a design like that now one of my favorite words in the world is snazzy and one of my favorite animals in the world um are squirrels so um I decided that I wanted to create a little like squirrel design situation so let me show you guys I created it on CA um just to like get an idea because you guys ever have pictures in your head and you're like this is gonna be so good um of like outfits or really anything and then um you see it and like you were wrong it was better in your head so I decided to make it on canva first to see like am I being delusional or is this actually going to be cute so let me show you so this is what I created so on the front uh shoulder it says snazzy and then on the back it says snazzy squirrel and then has a little squirrel in the middle so it's honestly not anything like super crazy or super unique but um I mean it doesn't exist and it's cute simple and I love it so then one online need to find just that neutral sweatshirt right so I wanted the brand is it Gideon or Gillian something like that like starts with a g a lot of like merch Brands and like even like my school like Spirit swag and stuff were always on those sweatshirts um they're just like the ultimate standard sweatshirt but they also have like a really really soft inside unfortunately obviously it does wear out but at least I know what to expect with those so I found one of those but unfortunately it looks like they discontinued that color so the only one I could find was in the color I'm sorry the only one I could find was in the size extra large so um I bought it I was like okay it's just going to be like an oversized fit totally fine it came in a few days ago yesterday I just washed and dried it because um if you guys know or I guess if you don't know um before you transfer vinyl onto like anything you should always wash and dry it because it will most things depending on the material will shrink so if you put the vinyl on and then you wash it and dry it for the first time the shirt shrinks and the vinyl does not so that's when you get all of like the ripples on it and like the vinyl is like not smooth looks kind of weird so if you pre-shrink the Garment or whatever like cloth you're doing your project on before you do the vinyl transfer then it stays smooth because it's it's not shrinking beneath the vinyl you know so I washed and dried it so pre-shrunk it but I haven't gone to cricet just yet to try to like I mean not that it's like some you know complicated design I just I haven't started so um I think it's going to be great I'm planning on doing it this weekend because Darren is going to be out of town this weekend so while I'm home I figured I'd have have a project but on that note with the rest of my lunch break I'm going to start to edit this video thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't already don't forget subscribe below give video a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for another new video and I'll see you in the next one bye guysare you ready to see the backyard update so as you can see the cement is all done we have some drainage added along the edges of it and they have um like texturized it so basically they poured the concrete and then they have these big rubber stamps that they put on here to create this imprint so it looks like it's like laid stone or I guess kind of like tile type of situations and then as you can see there's like these different like little details in it and things like that so it's like textured and then they are filling back up the pool so the people came and like powered wash the pool today to make sure that it was clean after all of like the construction dust so now it's barely gotten into the shallow end but we've got three hoses one over there one here and one here we just all you know all hands on deck good morning guys and welcome back or if you're new here welcome I'm Brook and we are kicking off a vlog this morning it is Saturday morning about 8:30 and it is raining outside I am so sad about it it's been between like the mid 70s to low 80s all week and all of a sudden it's just raining today and highly unfortunate tomorrow is 6 weeks since I have had alcohol basically uh when we were in Universal Studios in Florida like that was the last time I drank and because I drank like 3 days back to back um like it threw off I'm assuming like my hormone levels because I started having like Hashimoto like flareups so I have posim Moes if you guys don't know it's like an autoimmune disease and I've had it under control without medication for several years um and I basically keep it under control with like regular exercise and like diet so um when my like whenever I do something like Buck Wild so like if I like pull an all nighter um if I'm eating really poorly if I stop exercising for like 2 weeks straight or I guess if I drink for 3 days straight and not like crazy amounts but I did drink for three separate days in a row um it like threw off my Natural Balance and I started having like insane like anxiety attacks and the super dry skin and like the like whole slew of symptoms but the one that really is the like anxiety attacks really panic attacks that I have and the particular one that happened when I was in Florida it lasted from like I think it was like 10 p.m. all the way to like 5:00 a.m. it was horrible I was like drenched in sweat like my heart was racing as if I was sprinting full speed that entire time I was so exhausted and then we had the parks the next day and it was just it was so hard it was so so freaking hard so I was like okay you know what you know I'm going to just kind of try to cleanse my body and like rebalance because before I had my hashimotos under control like those like anxiety attacks like ruled my life it was horrible so I was like oh my gosh like no I need to get this like so I was like okay no alcohol like we are cleaning up the diet for the next like week or two I need to make sure I get everything like rebalanced because like I cannot go back to that place I was back in like what was it 2017 when I was diagnosed and um and then I just ended up like sleeping better feeling better and then I was like well I mean I don't plan to give up alcohol forever but until I have a situation where I'm like hey that sounds really good or like I really want to like participate in like this or whatever it is like if I feel like I actually want to drink for a particular occasion like I'm going to do it it but it was like I just I haven't had that chance like really I only plan to do it a week and then after a week I was like okay maybe two weeks and after two weeks I was like okay maybe a month and then after a month I was like maybe 2 months so now I'm on week six and or tomorrow is my 6 week um like marker so we'll see will I go another two weeks will I hit 2 months I have no idea so I'm I'm just going to when the time is right or the time is right just you know when I want to I'm going to have a drink and otherwise I'm just pretty much not really drinking anymore these days so yeah that's that's the latest with me on that front all right taking the pups out now we also have this new um pera pera I forget what these things are called um but it also has one of those cranks that all of this like crinks open so you can have it like show sun or you can have it um you know shaded and then um all of this area oh hi s girl hi sweet girl um all of this area is all going to be leveled in the same height once we extend out the deck so in case you're like what is happening below this thing it's all going to look great so yesterday I went around the backyard and grabbed all of the dog toys that that were out there so I could wash them and look how many there were I mean they have these under here I mean and I did throw away a number of them as well that were just um had been ripped so much that the um like fluffy stuff was coming out the stuffing so I threw those away and these are the survivors this one was a close call but ultimately it's still like closed it was just like that top layer so they can keep this one for now but they do have like a pink version and a blue somewhere so um they have an entirely full thing of toys already so I'm like where did these come from I I just I don't I don't understand hi stie I see you've brought your ball thank you good morning guys happy Sunday so it's the next day um yesterday I went to Coffee Shop met up with Christina and Kelsey gopy came in um like 30 minutes in and like surprised them which was awesome had a great time catching up we actually ran into some other people from college that just happen to be at that coffee shop I've like never heard of this coffee shop in my life passed it a million times never even noticed it was there but apparently it's like really well known so who knew um honestly well I got their cold brew was not good I personally I would not go back but apparently some something is great there cuz so many people go um then um our coffee kind of decid started to like run into like lunchtime so then we relocated to a Mexican restaurant down uh downtown eight there and we were there till like 4:30 so our little coffee get together ended up lasting literally all day um came back and I found out one of my Hallmark shows that I used to watch called the way home season 2 is out very excited also looked online and confirmed season 3 is being filmed so there's going to be a third season very excited about it right now um I need to leave uh 2 minutes ago to go meet my friend ciry we are going on a walk we were going to go uh yesterday afternoon but since my coffee thing/ lunch ran so long and I didn't want to cut it off cuz I haven't seen those friends in a while kiry and I uh rescheduled for this morning so about to go meet her we're just going to go to Starbucks get a drink and walk around the park um however two nights ago me and my sister made pad thae for the family we had onions and I put the onion skins in water and I have soaked them so these been it's now Sunday and these have been soaking since Friday night um according to a bunch of like Instagram videos about um I don't I mean I don't know if you'd consider about like botney but um just about like house plants in general um it was saying that like different things that you soak in water do do different things like um apple peels in waters like fertilizer and like all these things but apparently onion skins soaked in water apparently this helps get rid of like yellow leaves on house plants so I still have my big like birds of paradise from our old house if you guys remember I've brought that here the two um fiddle figs unfortunately passed away one of them um left us when we were still at the old house the other one was really on his way out and officially made his exit shortly after we moved here so um the birds of paradise is my last one left and I want to keep him alive but he keeps getting like yellow leaves so um I have my onion water here and I'm going to pour it in it kind of seemed like they only poured the water so it just kind of like absorbed the nutrients from the onion skins so now I also I think I only needed one onion skin but I'm here I mean business so I have three onion skins in here uh or the onion skins of three onions so um let's pour this in I don't know how long it's supposed to be until like results happen I also don't know are you supposed to give it a little bit of this every day or just pour it all in there were no instructions it was just like a cheat sheet so let's go pour it in and hope for the best okay so here's the current situation as you can see we're kind of getting a little bit of like brownish here and oh shoot you you know what I would consider this more Brown than yellow you know what it's fine okay this is one of those like easy plants so you pour water in there and it slowly um like Waters it over the course of a month I will say after having three of these they legitimately do not work like they were very overpriced for this type of pot and it really honestly does not work so um don't waste your money but the pot's pretty so we've kept it like honestly like watering around works way better but we will pour the remaining in here oh my gosh look at the amount of onion skins in here this is like really really potent and if I remember correctly you're only supposed to like the instructions were to soak for 24 hours I hope that wasn't a Max because this definitely soaked for like 48 all right well on that note I have got to get going because I'm now officially late um but the good news is she's usually running about 5 minutes late anyway so uhoh four minutes ago I'm here ah okay I got to go see you guys later so this is the first I've ever seen Costco has a power outage so everything's like dark in here it's like hard to read what is happening I've like never seen this before well they lost power but somehow their register still worked so I was able to buy things but we all had to go to the door so I was only able to get what I already had in my car unfortunately but I got majority of what I needed that was literally like the craziest experience I have never experienced a power outage like in a grocery store at all let alone Costco and I I tried to keep shopping after the power outage was out like most people did but I guess they weren't able to get it back on so then they started um having staff go to the back and like Usher everyone forward and like okay guys you're done shopping it's time to check out so um basically we all just had to leave with what was in our cart despite the fact that they lost power they s somehow were able to get the registers up and running so still you know bought all the food and all that jazz but I had so many more items that like I needed to get like I really wanted to buy like prepackaged ready to go like lunch items I could quickly pack and I got like two or three like items in that category but I really wanted to like peruse walk around cuz it's not usually stuff that I shop for but that was like my goal for this particular trip along with getting dog food but um yeah I didn't get to do do that so there were a lot of things that like I didn't get which is such a freaking bummer because it takes me literally weeks to build up the motivation to go to Costco like Costco is a necessary evil because it's absolutely amazing right but parking always trash the line to check out always trash people everywhere and because you buy in bulk you always spend so much more than you think you will you know of course it lasts longer and ultimately ends up being cheaper but your initial purchase is always more so it's always very sad when you get to the register so it takes me weeks to be ready and in the right mindset to take that all on and it has taken me weeks to get to this point the only reason I am here today is because I have postponed my Costco trip so long that my dogs ran out of food this morning and I had to come here like otherwise they wouldn't have anything for dinner you know so dragged myself here pulled together the motivation halfway through the shoing lost power so um feeling a little defeated today but at least I got the majority of the stuff that I needed so that'll just have to do I did get the dog food but really bummed that they didn't at least let us kind of like continue and finish up the shopping trip they were like everyone to the registers so also the lines took forever because literally everyone in the store had to check out at the same time so like you think Costco lines are usually bad well let me tell you during a power outage is worse so now I'm on my way to pick up Darren from the airport his plane lands 2 minutes before I get there so I will get their perfect timing okay oh I see him in the fuchsia oh there he is he's home woo that in a while what is up party people it is Monday so I know I've been not vlogging too too much this weekend which I thought I was going to be I was really present with everything I was doing and often times the more present I am the less like Vlog Clips you guys get so sorry about that however I had a really great weekend just connecting with a lot of people that I care about and my friends and overall 10 out of 10 weekend what I will say though is I've noticed that when I make plans on like Saturday and Sunday I don't have like my true Lazy Day that like recharges me for the week so I am feeling quite drained today thankfully I got to work from home today that is not the case for the rest of the week but I'm going to enjoy it today so um did not heat style my hair it's still kind of wet cuz I um I did a hair mask after my shower and then you're only supposed to leaveing in for 5 minutes I left in for like 35 and then I rinsed it out and then I tied it up so it didn't dry so we've got a weird thing going on I will figure that out tomorrow when I have to actually style it and then um on the days I work from home I also try not to do like too much face makeup so like I didn't really do face makeup today just a little bit of eye makeup um because I'm trying to just like make my skin better I have revamped my skincare routine and Things Are going wonderfully my skin is actually the clearest it has been in about 2 and 1/2 years and that's crazy and very exciting so um don't know what the heck went wrong originally and why it took so long to be able to get under control but what I'm doing now seems to be working so I'm just going to continue with that I will say the biggest change that or the product I think is having the biggest impact is um Paulo's Choice um like exfoliator it's like a liquid exfoliant and I've had it for years but usually I would use it like once a month if I was really being consistent once a week and then um I was watching this like Dermatology videos and they were talking about that product and um using it daily and I was like oh oh am I is that the frequency so I read the back of the bottle and it's like uh Ed like every day I I guess I just never read the back of the bottle and yeah so no wonder it it would help the times that I would use it but then you know obviously my skin would kind of revert back to not going so well so apparently yeah you're supposed to be using it every day so now I don't use it every day every day but um at least like every other day and things have really improved so um yeah yeah not reading directions for skincare things like U apparently yeah it's important but I also changed like my face wash and mo moisturizers and a couple other things so um I think everything has kind of helped but that's that's the big one um and then um what else was like going to tell oh broke into my boom chicka pop that I got from Costco uh the kettle one love it we used to get this all the time we used to always have this in our house and then one day we just kind of forgot about it and haven't purchased it in possibly over 2 years like how did we how did this go from a staple to like forgot it existed I don't know but went across the aisle that had this um when I was in Costco and decided to buy it it was also kind of a panic purchase when they were like ushering us out the door at Costco cuz like the blackout situation um which I guess okay I I know I kind of talked to you guys after as I was leaving Costco but basically um like all the lights went out they waited like maybe four or 5 minutes kind of just let people continue shopping and then when they couldn't get the power back on they announced that like like okay please stop shopping everyone to the front you are able to like check out you can buy everything in your cart um but like shopping experience is done um I tried to continue shopping cuz I was like I only have a couple more aisles I have to go through like I I can power through I'll just be quick didn't work they like had staff going through every aisle and like okay to the front to the front and like forcing everyone forward felt we were being like hurted unfortunately so um yeah I didn't get to toally finished but I panic purchased boom chicken pop and very glad I did great investment I also Panic purchased skinny pop um and you know what also happy I did that so um in that sense that worked out also um my sweatshirt came in uh what so excited actually I don't even know if I told you guys did I tell you basically I have I had this idea for this sweatshirt I wanted to make and I was like with me my skills and my mighty Cricut Machine I'm going to make it and I've been seeing um it's been like super trendy have you guys seen like those sweatshirts where it's like a a neutral color right and then in another neutral color usually it's embroidered but I don't have an embroidery machine so it's going to be vinyl for me but um the design or the words whatever it is is another slightly darker um also neutral color so it's very like monoch chromatic very subtle and um I've been liking it so I decided that I want to kind of do a design like that now one of my favorite words in the world is snazzy and one of my favorite animals in the world um are squirrels so um I decided that I wanted to create a little like squirrel design situation so let me show you guys I created it on CA um just to like get an idea because you guys ever have pictures in your head and you're like this is gonna be so good um of like outfits or really anything and then um you see it and like you were wrong it was better in your head so I decided to make it on canva first to see like am I being delusional or is this actually going to be cute so let me show you so this is what I created so on the front uh shoulder it says snazzy and then on the back it says snazzy squirrel and then has a little squirrel in the middle so it's honestly not anything like super crazy or super unique but um I mean it doesn't exist and it's cute simple and I love it so then one online need to find just that neutral sweatshirt right so I wanted the brand is it Gideon or Gillian something like that like starts with a g a lot of like merch Brands and like even like my school like Spirit swag and stuff were always on those sweatshirts um they're just like the ultimate standard sweatshirt but they also have like a really really soft inside unfortunately obviously it does wear out but at least I know what to expect with those so I found one of those but unfortunately it looks like they discontinued that color so the only one I could find was in the color I'm sorry the only one I could find was in the size extra large so um I bought it I was like okay it's just going to be like an oversized fit totally fine it came in a few days ago yesterday I just washed and dried it because um if you guys know or I guess if you don't know um before you transfer vinyl onto like anything you should always wash and dry it because it will most things depending on the material will shrink so if you put the vinyl on and then you wash it and dry it for the first time the shirt shrinks and the vinyl does not so that's when you get all of like the ripples on it and like the vinyl is like not smooth looks kind of weird so if you pre-shrink the Garment or whatever like cloth you're doing your project on before you do the vinyl transfer then it stays smooth because it's it's not shrinking beneath the vinyl you know so I washed and dried it so pre-shrunk it but I haven't gone to cricet just yet to try to like I mean not that it's like some you know complicated design I just I haven't started so um I think it's going to be great I'm planning on doing it this weekend because Darren is going to be out of town this weekend so while I'm home I figured I'd have have a project but on that note with the rest of my lunch break I'm going to start to edit this video thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't already don't forget subscribe below give video a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for another new video and I'll see you in the next one bye guys\n"