The author's Return Home and Preparation for Upcoming Week

As I've settled back into my home after being away, I realized that I had enough food to get me through the week, which is a blessing. However, I'm concerned about running out of essentials before I return from my training next week. Luckily, my parents will be arriving home soon, and I hope they won't need to purchase any groceries for themselves as I've already taken care of that. With my fridge reclaimed, I can finally relax knowing that the dogs are being well-cared for.

However, upon calling my parents, I revealed that I'm actually not returning from my trip immediately. They were unaware of my plans and will be waiting in the car when they arrive. This news might worry them, as they'll need to adjust their expectations. To alleviate some of their concerns, I've decided to clean the house before their arrival. Although I won't run the dishwasher due to only having three cups, I'll vacuum everything and wipe down all surfaces. Cleaning the bathroom, washing towels and rugs, and making sure the environment is presentable will be my priority.

The author's Errands and Responsibilities

While dealing with the aftermath of my departure, I also managed to fit in some errands. Unfortunately, I forgot that voting ballots were due, which prompted a last-minute trip to submit my vote. Upon arriving at the location, I found out that they had received a large number of ballots, prompting me to ask if there was any explanation for the size of the collection box.

Despite feeling overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the ballot box, I persisted and completed my task. Moving forward, I've decided to tackle other tasks ahead of schedule, taking advantage of the fact that I assumed I'd be leaving in just two days instead of tomorrow. With only a day left until my departure, I must make the most of this time and get everything done before I leave.

Postscript: The Cleaning and the Video

As I continue to clean and tidy up the house, I've decided to stop recording for now. After finishing some cleaning tasks, I've edited the video up to this point and realized that it has already exceeded my initial expectations by 10 minutes. With a sense of accomplishment and relief, I'll be able to unwind and enjoy the rest of my evening. Since I won't have access to cooking facilities due to having cleaned the range earlier, I've opted for a simple salad kit for dinner.

For now, I'm looking forward to sharing this edited video with you all when I return from my trip. It's reassuring to know that some things will remain constant despite my absence, and I'm excited to be back on track with regular updates and content. As I prepare to reenter the routine of creating videos for your entertainment, please don't forget to subscribe and like below. Your support means a great deal to me, and I'll see you all in the next video when I return from my training.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys welcome back to my channel or if you're new here welcome i'm brooke so we are kicking off a daily vlog i told you i was coming back and getting back on my regular schedule so um this morning i am at my parents house my parents are out of town right now and they have some packages coming sporadically through the week so i already knew that i was going to be kind of spending quite a bit of time here however um yeah the water heater people turned the hot water off in the one bathroom that we had hot water when they were trying to fix it so yeah i'm going to be staying here because i'm just i'm not dealing with it parents are out of town darren's out of town water heater is not working like i'm just i'm not handling that so um i do have packages so going to obviously that house as well so i am like super back and forth right now um i don't really feel like i live anywhere but that's okay everything is temporary so that's kind of what's going on this morning i got up took the pups for a walk it was a little warmer today so we only made it like three miles before they just started pooping out hunter like lay down in the middle of a crosswalk it was just really not it um and so we had to cut the walk like short super early well not super early usually we do about four to five miles but yeah they were not having it today so came back and let them rest and then showered got ready just kind of cleaning the environment getting things just kind of organized and stuff i did two loads of laundry today which felt fantastic but now i'm kind of realizing that and by kind of realizing oops sorry i think we lost focus there we go um i am actually realizing that it's windy today and the pool is like open so i think i'm gonna go back to the other house to close the pool um because we have like a pool cover and then um yeah yeah that needs to happen because i don't want to get a bunch of leaves in it so i think i'm gonna go do that right now um plans for later today i am working on like some of my books and stuff i have my coloring i can work on if i want to it's kind of a chill day but it feels so nice so nice and then this evening i'm gonna be meeting one of my friends for dinner i haven't gone to dinner with my friends in oh my gosh so long i think it's been like i think like two months i would say but yeah i'm just going with one of my friends uh the other ones are kind of like out of town or busy so just gonna catch up with one but i'm really excited for it i haven't seen her in a while and i need to get back out there and back into you know regular life so that's what i'm doing um i brought my kombucha poured it into a glass wrapping that up and i already had like my coffee for today so you know things are things are off to a great start feeling optimistic about today and yeah let's get into it if you guys haven't already don't forget to subscribe below give this video a big thumbs up and let's go okay so we are heading to the other house oh i didn't tell you guys like last week i went to one of my friend's houses and i would i'd like lent her um these like bins because she was moving and i went and picked up the bins right and while i somehow between parking in her driveway to walk into the door of the garage i somehow lost my ray-bans like where where did they go i have no idea no they're not there um but yeah i checked like my entire car she checked my car we checked like around the car because i realized right then and there um we checked like in her garage like i walked six feet on like concrete how did i how did i lose it i don't know but um i mean luckily i have like these sunglasses i don't think that they are quite as flattering as the ray-bans ones were so i'm pretty disappointed about that but that's okay um also i didn't tell you guys or i forgot but when um when i took the pups on a walk this morning this like elderly man like stopped me i'm gonna kind of roll down the window so i don't put on the ac so you guys can still hear me there we go um so this elderly man he stops me right and he's like oh my gosh you know your dogs are so cute this and that and then sorry and then he's like um just so you know um like i love that you're taking your dogs on walks but um oh my gosh um i used to take my dogs on runs every day and um because when we would walk or like run like the torque or torque twerk torque the torque of them like pulling you as like you're like walking or running it like did such damage to his body that he had to get a double hip replacement double hip replacement because of running with his dogs and i was like um well that is incredibly alarming because obviously i don't want a double hip replacement that sounds absolutely terrible and he was telling me about how difficult it is whenever he travels because like in the airport obviously it's like a major issue and so um yeah so now i'm incredibly freaking paranoid um what is happening here narrow roads um now i'm incredibly freaking paranoid because i take them on several mile walks every day and i was loving that it was kind of like a time saver because when i have to like when i do my exercise and then i have to go take them to do their exercise when it's kind of like separate you know what i mean it just takes twice as long for obvious reasons but now i'm like am i setting myself up for failure like am i setting myself up for like a double hip replacement because that is that is not it that is not it so yeah that's that's food for thought so also if you guys are like running with your dogs he was saying he doesn't know if it would happen when you're walking because um you know you have like more balance and such like what is going on with this lighting it just is really not adjusting oh well um but yeah so if you guys are running with your dogs like beware you may need a single or double hip replacement that was crazy okay anywho on my way to the house and i will see you guys when i get there hey guys good morning so i know i stopped recording yesterday i um i got to my house and basically people i really didn't want to see showed up at my house and it was just really not an ideal situation and it honestly ruined my day so i didn't really do too much the rest of the day in the evening i did hang out with my friend that was really cool and we got thai food hung out caught up um she might as well be my therapist so that was fun uh now it is seven i just got out of the shower drinking some coffee um have the pups with me as you can hear they are patrolling apparently a bird or squirrel had the audacity to be awake at such an hour so they're just taking care of business um probably in about 10 minutes i'm gonna go take the pups for a walk i'm just gonna throw on i already have a sports bra on and then i'm just gonna throw on like workout pants and shoes and hit the road i will get ready later um i oh my gosh i've seen my eye i'm i'm just gonna let my hair air dry like i had mentioned you guys in my last video i think i mentioned it my last video anyways um i'm trying to not use as much heat on my hair um obviously days that i'm going in the field or i have um i have video meetings i obviously need to like be presentable but other than that i'm trying to not blow dry because usually i blow dry and then i'll like straighten her curl so if i need to actually get ready i will still straighten her curl but i'm trying to avoid like the blow drying so showering and just letting it dry on the walk that's been working out for me when i get back my hair is usually like somewhat poofy but that's okay um today i do not need to be on video and i'm working from home because things have been so crazy i pretty much am like chained to my laptop like i feel like the world would end if i was out driving from account to account because there's just so much to do because um i definitely mentioned in the last video but um in like the industry i work in two of our our main two competitors basically they have like different portfolios of business and the like category that i'm in our competitors completely shut down those sectors like of the business so all of a sudden we're getting all the business that we were getting plus all of like that business for the other two companies so yeah things have been like super super busy so i need like full availability or like access to my laptop to like help manage everything so our team is so awesome it's kind of one of those things where like everyone has their own job but if things are really busy everyone knows different aspects of each other's jobs where we're able to kind of like hop in and like help where we're needed and i i love that like group dynamic so right now i'm kind of just like hopping in helping like where i can and yeah i love it i like that we have we have such a good group i like love the company i work for things to be grateful for today you know although i had a rough day yesterday there are so many great things happening it is a beautiful sunny summer in california it is nice and warm i'm healthy pups are healthy darren's healthy my family is healthy like ever i don't know if you guys could hear that but it just sounded like there was a dog like a couple houses over that like just try to like murder another dog oh my god okay i don't know what just happened but that sounded incredibly violent between like two dogs not my two don't worry i can see him but oh my gosh okay uh what was i saying oh gratitude things i'm thankful for i am not thankful for whatever just happened to that pup i hope that pup is okay makes it through um i i'm like so distracted what else am i grateful for um i'm grateful for still loving young having a car having a roof over my head having a loving family coffee yeah you know i'm gonna have to work on this you know okay actually i was gonna end this clip but actually i have like one more thing i have to say okay so um as i'm like starting this like self reflection and personal growth journey uh my friends are aware and so one of them um actually when i dinner with last night uh when she came over like a week or two ago she had given me okay here it is the subtle art of not giving a bleep journal and basically i mean it's a game changer i'm about halfway through right now and i am loving this but the beginning of it i want to use one of the yeah one of the first pages it's like um you you're supposed to list your your things you're grateful for right so first i list a whole page of things i'm grateful for and i turn it more things so i list that i start the next page and i'm like oh i can't finish it there's another page and another page okay you're supposed to be able to list 84 things you're thankful for i could only think of 33 and like i mean i kind of feel like i was grasping at straws my last three three day weekend clean clothes and ability to appreciate alone time i'm like i have netflix on here personal space on here like i mean i'm like running out of things like what are you supposed to do i i listed family maybe you're supposed to write like mom dad sibling like dog number one dog like am i supposed to individually list it how do you get to 84 i don't know if maybe i need to like look deeper also this is a sports bra don't worry nothing wild is showing um but like do you guys have 84 things like just off the top of your mind that you can think of that you're thankful for like maybe this is just me maybe maybe i'm not a thankful enough person but i feel like i listed like every aspect of my life like my personal life like my family life my friend life like health environment wise work-wise like i feel like i covered all the topics society-wise like maybe i just used two broader categories that was like alarming and then after the gratitude one they have a like an effort one basically and things that you currently care about that you want to not care about um and i was feeling real passionate about this one i like real passionate um but then i could only think of 16 things i was like oh this is you know this is going to be where i shine like yeah i have some things that i don't like uh yeah then i yeah i only got to 16 and it had 70 slots like i don't know that they want you to be negative about 70 things but i mean clearly they gave you enough to suffice i mean as you move through the book maybe you're supposed to go back and as you figure out new things add more things to it i don't know but i just thought that was super funny because i thought it was like excelling and then it was like another page another page another page i was like i don't have that many aspects in my life maybe i need to like i don't i don't even know when i would have more time to find more things to be grateful for i don't know but anywho i'm gonna get ready to take the pups on a walk and i need to finish at least half of my coffee before i go so i've got a skedaddle but good morning happy whatever day you're watching this and i will see you soon so i was putting on my sunscreen and it's like it's like out it's like empty like can you see by the way it falls uh that's a weird way to like judge how full something is but anyway so it's like out and like i've known it's like basically out for a couple days i keep forgetting to like order some dude amazon is forever coming through look at this i just oh no can i not oh there we go like it's it's going to be here tomorrow what tomorrow guys so happy about that do you love this this is like the it's like the pop brand it's like a pop blanket um it's like waterproof and like dirt proof and stuff it's like comfortable so i just like put it on the bed so i don't mess up my parents like white duvet because my hair they don't use duvet cover like this is just like the duvet and you're not really supposed to wash this i mean obviously they have to because there's no cover you're not gonna like not wash it but yeah so i brought this so that like the pups don't get it as dirty so i don't have to wash it as much i don't know that makes sense but that's what's going on here we do not have like a furry like duvet cover that's like super aggressive for summer hello so i'm back from the walk walk was absolutely fantastic um once again we did not make it to four or five miles like originally anticipated the pups are just not having it it's reaching like 80 85 degrees like super early in the morning i don't know what's go actually i do know what's going on i live in california and it is summer it's only getting worse from here so um yeah pretty soon it's going to be like 85 even at like the coolest part of the day like at night that's just how things go um oh my gosh i just got uh i got one of those like email notifications from petco i thought petco was finally getting back to me with like the grooming appointment options which i need to call them and follow up on asap um working on the rest of my coffee i had put it in the fridge because i only finished like half of it before the walk so now i'm fishing the other half um i have a conference call in a couple minutes so i gotta get back to work because today is a work day joy i cannot wait for the weekend hey guys so it's several hours later i'm making some breakfast i've moved on to my kombucha so i decided that i'm going to make a breakfast burrito today so i'll show you what i've going on so i have like the tortilla land tortillas from costco where they're like raw and you cook them and then i have sour cream that's what's on like the fork sour cream cheese and then i made two eggs cooking up some costco bacon and then i have some like hash brown patties in the oven that are gonna be done soon so just finishing cooking everything gonna assemble that get back to my little like work station over here but yeah it is a beautiful day everything smells amazing and yeah that's what's going on so i just finished making my quote-unquote burrito um yeah this is not gonna be able to be like wrapped up so i guess maybe kind of like a taco situation i'm i'm not really sure but with like the runny yolks like this is about to be super messy it smells great though so i'm excited to eat it this is just i put way too many ingredients in here this is this is just way too big to be a burrito hey guys so it is quite a bit later it is 3 30 right now i'm wrapping up my work day today has turned out to be a pretty crazy day you know we had some drama going on i wasn't a part of it um but it kind of went down in like group chat slash email type of situation so i mean whether or not you want to be a part of it like things were playing out in front of you so yeah i kind of had my taste of like reality tv today i mean nothing like super crazy or you know no one was like crazy disrespectful or anything like that but it was just you know it was my taste of uh entertainment for the day so that's going on there um tomorrow i leave um however the cleaning people for like the other house like reached out to me and they're like hey so we have you on the schedule for tomorrow um they gave me a few different like time options and i was like oh my gosh tomorrow i leave i have work and then i leave so i was like uh i mean what is the earliest you could come to like 7 45 and i was like okay so i need to get about like six shower get ready if i have time walk the pups and then get over there let them in work from there once they're done come back here finish work get my stuff and leave for the airport um and then like an hour after i leave my sister gets off of work and is gonna come pick up the pups and she's gonna watch them for me um so after work today i need to go to the grocery store because i need to get enough food for them i have like three days left of food but i need like four or five so i need to go the store get more food for them i also need to get myself snacks because because the um the training is from 9 30 a.m to 11 p.m every day so oh and they don't provide meals and the lunch break is only 30 minutes and they said that's not enough time to like walk anywhere like get your food come back eat it's not sweet to bring food and i was like excellent so i'm coming from out of state so like i i can't like pack a lunch like that's that's not how that's gonna work so i've decided like the hotel is breakfast so i'll eat breakfast there and then i guess because it starts at 9 30 it's a two mile my hotel is like two miles away from the like training location so i need to get on like google maps and like scope out what is on my way and find somewhere that is open at like 8 30 9 a.m that has like lunch food and then stop there and like get it so i'm gonna bring like my backpack so i have somewhere to put it but when i go to the grocery store i can get some like pre-packaged snacks like maybe i'll get those like little packs of like pirates booty or like skinny pop i like nutrigrain like breakfast bar type things and just see if i can find anything like non-perishable that i can like bring with me because if i can't find anything like i'm not gonna not eat i'm going to what about dinner oh my gosh and i cancelled my like door dash subscription so i can't door dash either maybe i need to reactivate that you know i'm starting to like realize i might not be as prepared as i thought i mean i on my lunch break i went and packed so that's good didn't bring you guys along because i really needed to do it in like turbo mode and i just didn't have time to like stop and vlog um but like i'm packed i have all the stuff i need i have the hotel i have the flight i have a ride at the airport i have someone watching the pups like i'm prepared but this food situation stressing me out i'm like a pretty hungry person so um okay so i need to figure that out anywho um i need to finish work and then i will bring you guys back when it's time to head to the grocery store to get the things we discussed so i will see you then we have arrived let's go this location always actually has the food so we have like a ton of them that should last all week okay so now we are in like the breakfast bar and like granola bar area i'm thinking this is where i'm gonna find like pre-packaged stuff okay so we have like fruit snacks oh okay they're the neutral grain bars let's see i like like the there's like a mixed berry one that they don't have okay cool well i guess we'll go with like blueberry this blueberry all right that'll have to do okay so i also found these like kind like dark chocolate breakfast bars and then i came over to the snack aisle and i guess i'll like get one of these i feel like i just need things um i mean i could get some like nuts or something why is this like not focusing there we go um i don't know none of this stuff sounds good but like i can't just eat like breakfast bars and like these things all right let's do a quick grocery haul i'm still in the parking lot so i got the pup food i bought like six things of it they it's like hard to predict how much they're going to eat because i just refill their bowls oops let me get that focus there we go um i just refill their bowls whenever it's empty because they're not the type that just eat like they only eat when they're hungry like their breakfast is still in their bowl and it's like almost five so yeah they just eat when they're hungry so some days they eat one meal some days they eat like two two and a half meals like it really just depends so i just keep their bowl full so i got more than plenty i basically have like 10 days worth of food possibly more but i just want to make sure that like they're taken care of you know what i mean i'm only leaving for a couple days but you know they're my kids i gotta make sure they're taken care of okay so i got a few different snacks so you guys did see the kind bar the dark chocolate and cocoa breakfast bars and then you did see the blueberry nutrigrain i got other things though i got the ritz um little cheese sandwiches um i was looking for like the bigger ones but they were out they only had the minis but i do like the minis so it's okay um i got dried apricots so i always put these on like my chicory boards and they like game changer they're so freaking good so i got some um i've never really had them on their own but i'm sure they're just as good i hope so um and then i got my ranch corn nuts which i absolutely love actually i think of some in like my glove compartment it's kind of like my guilty pleasure um and then these things i never know how to pronounce that and then i got blue diamond salt and vinegar almonds if you guys have never tried these they are so freaking good i usually get like the big like mega bag from amazon because i can never find them in store even rayleigh's didn't have them i was looking from as recently as like two three months ago so that's more of like a recent thing that they started carrying them super excited they only had that small little tin i was hoping to get like a larger container but that's okay you know start small and then eventually they'll start getting the full size um but yeah about to head home oh my gosh it is 93 degrees guys 93. okay i am gonna get home to the ac okay so i looked up the weather right and it's supposed to be 86 degrees until the sun goes down like guys i don't know if i'm gonna be able to like take the pups on a walk today because i just don't know that i see them being able to walk in 86 degree weather plus they have like their winter coat because the groomers won't call me back i did call back petco i think three times well i called three different petcos today i called each only one time but still like effort is being put forward and still no callback like what the heck also i got like way too much food i got like way too much chocolate i mean this is i mean the entire fridge is dog fruit oh my god dog treats yeah um and the chicken in there is for the dogs okay you know what clearly i am like way too paranoid about the dogs not having enough to eat because i stocked up for like i mean looking at that okay that's actually i mean that's like two and a half three weeks of food actually like that what i just bought combined with what i still had in there so yeah they're gonna be good to go um so my training thing is this week for like multiple days and then i come back work for a couple days and then next week as well so on the bright side i think that i have enough food to get them through this week when i'm back and the training next week until i come back so i won't have to go to the store again but if my parents come home i hope they weren't planning on buying any of their own food why would they not buy their own food um okay well i have reclaimed their fridge for myself well for the dogs that's kind of rude of me okay well you know i actually have to call my parents because oh my gosh they know i'm staying here i never told them i'm going to utah so they're going to get here my car's going to be here and i'm not going to be here and i'm never going to come home oh my gosh they're going to think i was kidnapped oh my god ah i like i have things so together in certain categories and other categories i am just dropping the ball left and right okay i'm gonna call my parents so they know what on earth is going on and then i'll talk to you guys soon oh my gosh so i've decided that like the least i could do is like clean the house so i'm gonna okay i'm not gonna run the dishwasher there's like three cups okay i'm gonna leave that alone um but i have the vacuum out i just got the vacuum out so i'm going to vacuum everything and then wipe down all of like the surfaces and maybe clean the bathroom wash all like that oops wash all like the hand towels and rugs and all of that stuff just to make it super okay yeah you know what i'm going to do that right now i'm going to like start that load so make sure that whenever they come back they come back to like a clean environment towels we've got towels we've got more towels got rugs all that's really going on there so believe it or not we are back in the car um i forgot today the voting ballots are due so my sister just texted me and reminded me so i'm gonna go turn that in i would say if you haven't done it here's your reminder however they do today so by the time this goes live if you guys have local voting well it's too late so i hope you didn't forget but on my way and then coming back and i'm not sure i have so many other things that i wanted to do i feel like i left everything to today because for some reason i was thinking i leave in like two days and i don't it's tomorrow so hustle hustle hustle get things done excited for tomorrow let's rock and roll oh my gosh guys okay so i'm still here i ended up dropping off about like a local um library in sacramento but um have you guys seen a ballot box recently because apparently i had not i usually vote in person or like male and so i'm not really like used to i guess like drop-off boxes so i'm looking for something like you know like small um no no this ballot box was up to my chin like standing on the ground it's not on a table like this is like a four and a half foot tall thing it was like three and a half feet wide and also probably like three and a half feet like depth it was huge i mean are you collecting every single ballot in the greater sacramento area why why is it so big i i don't know i was just i was i can't even formulate my words i don't know why that was so shocking to me but i was not prepared for the size of this freaking box box it's not a box it's like a robot it's larger than a child okay anyway i need to get home finish everything so i'ma stop this rant thanks for listening see you guys at home hey guys so it's a bit later i've done some more cleaning and i have edited the video up to this point and it is already like 10 minutes longer than i had anticipated it to be so i'm gonna go ahead and end the video here the rest of the evening i'm just gonna be cleaning i'm just gonna have a salad kit for dinner i was going to cook but i cleaned the whole range and the salad kit is going to be expired by the time i get back so nothing really too exciting so i feel good about ending it here it's a nice kind of like getting back in the rhythm of things and i'm really excited to get this video up and make sure it can go live for you guys while i am gone so we are getting back on the regular routine so if you guys haven't already don't forget to subscribe below gives you a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for the next video because i am back on my game and i will be posting for you guys thanks again so much and i'll see you in the next one bye guyshey guys welcome back to my channel or if you're new here welcome i'm brooke so we are kicking off a daily vlog i told you i was coming back and getting back on my regular schedule so um this morning i am at my parents house my parents are out of town right now and they have some packages coming sporadically through the week so i already knew that i was going to be kind of spending quite a bit of time here however um yeah the water heater people turned the hot water off in the one bathroom that we had hot water when they were trying to fix it so yeah i'm going to be staying here because i'm just i'm not dealing with it parents are out of town darren's out of town water heater is not working like i'm just i'm not handling that so um i do have packages so going to obviously that house as well so i am like super back and forth right now um i don't really feel like i live anywhere but that's okay everything is temporary so that's kind of what's going on this morning i got up took the pups for a walk it was a little warmer today so we only made it like three miles before they just started pooping out hunter like lay down in the middle of a crosswalk it was just really not it um and so we had to cut the walk like short super early well not super early usually we do about four to five miles but yeah they were not having it today so came back and let them rest and then showered got ready just kind of cleaning the environment getting things just kind of organized and stuff i did two loads of laundry today which felt fantastic but now i'm kind of realizing that and by kind of realizing oops sorry i think we lost focus there we go um i am actually realizing that it's windy today and the pool is like open so i think i'm gonna go back to the other house to close the pool um because we have like a pool cover and then um yeah yeah that needs to happen because i don't want to get a bunch of leaves in it so i think i'm gonna go do that right now um plans for later today i am working on like some of my books and stuff i have my coloring i can work on if i want to it's kind of a chill day but it feels so nice so nice and then this evening i'm gonna be meeting one of my friends for dinner i haven't gone to dinner with my friends in oh my gosh so long i think it's been like i think like two months i would say but yeah i'm just going with one of my friends uh the other ones are kind of like out of town or busy so just gonna catch up with one but i'm really excited for it i haven't seen her in a while and i need to get back out there and back into you know regular life so that's what i'm doing um i brought my kombucha poured it into a glass wrapping that up and i already had like my coffee for today so you know things are things are off to a great start feeling optimistic about today and yeah let's get into it if you guys haven't already don't forget to subscribe below give this video a big thumbs up and let's go okay so we are heading to the other house oh i didn't tell you guys like last week i went to one of my friend's houses and i would i'd like lent her um these like bins because she was moving and i went and picked up the bins right and while i somehow between parking in her driveway to walk into the door of the garage i somehow lost my ray-bans like where where did they go i have no idea no they're not there um but yeah i checked like my entire car she checked my car we checked like around the car because i realized right then and there um we checked like in her garage like i walked six feet on like concrete how did i how did i lose it i don't know but um i mean luckily i have like these sunglasses i don't think that they are quite as flattering as the ray-bans ones were so i'm pretty disappointed about that but that's okay um also i didn't tell you guys or i forgot but when um when i took the pups on a walk this morning this like elderly man like stopped me i'm gonna kind of roll down the window so i don't put on the ac so you guys can still hear me there we go um so this elderly man he stops me right and he's like oh my gosh you know your dogs are so cute this and that and then sorry and then he's like um just so you know um like i love that you're taking your dogs on walks but um oh my gosh um i used to take my dogs on runs every day and um because when we would walk or like run like the torque or torque twerk torque the torque of them like pulling you as like you're like walking or running it like did such damage to his body that he had to get a double hip replacement double hip replacement because of running with his dogs and i was like um well that is incredibly alarming because obviously i don't want a double hip replacement that sounds absolutely terrible and he was telling me about how difficult it is whenever he travels because like in the airport obviously it's like a major issue and so um yeah so now i'm incredibly freaking paranoid um what is happening here narrow roads um now i'm incredibly freaking paranoid because i take them on several mile walks every day and i was loving that it was kind of like a time saver because when i have to like when i do my exercise and then i have to go take them to do their exercise when it's kind of like separate you know what i mean it just takes twice as long for obvious reasons but now i'm like am i setting myself up for failure like am i setting myself up for like a double hip replacement because that is that is not it that is not it so yeah that's that's food for thought so also if you guys are like running with your dogs he was saying he doesn't know if it would happen when you're walking because um you know you have like more balance and such like what is going on with this lighting it just is really not adjusting oh well um but yeah so if you guys are running with your dogs like beware you may need a single or double hip replacement that was crazy okay anywho on my way to the house and i will see you guys when i get there hey guys good morning so i know i stopped recording yesterday i um i got to my house and basically people i really didn't want to see showed up at my house and it was just really not an ideal situation and it honestly ruined my day so i didn't really do too much the rest of the day in the evening i did hang out with my friend that was really cool and we got thai food hung out caught up um she might as well be my therapist so that was fun uh now it is seven i just got out of the shower drinking some coffee um have the pups with me as you can hear they are patrolling apparently a bird or squirrel had the audacity to be awake at such an hour so they're just taking care of business um probably in about 10 minutes i'm gonna go take the pups for a walk i'm just gonna throw on i already have a sports bra on and then i'm just gonna throw on like workout pants and shoes and hit the road i will get ready later um i oh my gosh i've seen my eye i'm i'm just gonna let my hair air dry like i had mentioned you guys in my last video i think i mentioned it my last video anyways um i'm trying to not use as much heat on my hair um obviously days that i'm going in the field or i have um i have video meetings i obviously need to like be presentable but other than that i'm trying to not blow dry because usually i blow dry and then i'll like straighten her curl so if i need to actually get ready i will still straighten her curl but i'm trying to avoid like the blow drying so showering and just letting it dry on the walk that's been working out for me when i get back my hair is usually like somewhat poofy but that's okay um today i do not need to be on video and i'm working from home because things have been so crazy i pretty much am like chained to my laptop like i feel like the world would end if i was out driving from account to account because there's just so much to do because um i definitely mentioned in the last video but um in like the industry i work in two of our our main two competitors basically they have like different portfolios of business and the like category that i'm in our competitors completely shut down those sectors like of the business so all of a sudden we're getting all the business that we were getting plus all of like that business for the other two companies so yeah things have been like super super busy so i need like full availability or like access to my laptop to like help manage everything so our team is so awesome it's kind of one of those things where like everyone has their own job but if things are really busy everyone knows different aspects of each other's jobs where we're able to kind of like hop in and like help where we're needed and i i love that like group dynamic so right now i'm kind of just like hopping in helping like where i can and yeah i love it i like that we have we have such a good group i like love the company i work for things to be grateful for today you know although i had a rough day yesterday there are so many great things happening it is a beautiful sunny summer in california it is nice and warm i'm healthy pups are healthy darren's healthy my family is healthy like ever i don't know if you guys could hear that but it just sounded like there was a dog like a couple houses over that like just try to like murder another dog oh my god okay i don't know what just happened but that sounded incredibly violent between like two dogs not my two don't worry i can see him but oh my gosh okay uh what was i saying oh gratitude things i'm thankful for i am not thankful for whatever just happened to that pup i hope that pup is okay makes it through um i i'm like so distracted what else am i grateful for um i'm grateful for still loving young having a car having a roof over my head having a loving family coffee yeah you know i'm gonna have to work on this you know okay actually i was gonna end this clip but actually i have like one more thing i have to say okay so um as i'm like starting this like self reflection and personal growth journey uh my friends are aware and so one of them um actually when i dinner with last night uh when she came over like a week or two ago she had given me okay here it is the subtle art of not giving a bleep journal and basically i mean it's a game changer i'm about halfway through right now and i am loving this but the beginning of it i want to use one of the yeah one of the first pages it's like um you you're supposed to list your your things you're grateful for right so first i list a whole page of things i'm grateful for and i turn it more things so i list that i start the next page and i'm like oh i can't finish it there's another page and another page okay you're supposed to be able to list 84 things you're thankful for i could only think of 33 and like i mean i kind of feel like i was grasping at straws my last three three day weekend clean clothes and ability to appreciate alone time i'm like i have netflix on here personal space on here like i mean i'm like running out of things like what are you supposed to do i i listed family maybe you're supposed to write like mom dad sibling like dog number one dog like am i supposed to individually list it how do you get to 84 i don't know if maybe i need to like look deeper also this is a sports bra don't worry nothing wild is showing um but like do you guys have 84 things like just off the top of your mind that you can think of that you're thankful for like maybe this is just me maybe maybe i'm not a thankful enough person but i feel like i listed like every aspect of my life like my personal life like my family life my friend life like health environment wise work-wise like i feel like i covered all the topics society-wise like maybe i just used two broader categories that was like alarming and then after the gratitude one they have a like an effort one basically and things that you currently care about that you want to not care about um and i was feeling real passionate about this one i like real passionate um but then i could only think of 16 things i was like oh this is you know this is going to be where i shine like yeah i have some things that i don't like uh yeah then i yeah i only got to 16 and it had 70 slots like i don't know that they want you to be negative about 70 things but i mean clearly they gave you enough to suffice i mean as you move through the book maybe you're supposed to go back and as you figure out new things add more things to it i don't know but i just thought that was super funny because i thought it was like excelling and then it was like another page another page another page i was like i don't have that many aspects in my life maybe i need to like i don't i don't even know when i would have more time to find more things to be grateful for i don't know but anywho i'm gonna get ready to take the pups on a walk and i need to finish at least half of my coffee before i go so i've got a skedaddle but good morning happy whatever day you're watching this and i will see you soon so i was putting on my sunscreen and it's like it's like out it's like empty like can you see by the way it falls uh that's a weird way to like judge how full something is but anyway so it's like out and like i've known it's like basically out for a couple days i keep forgetting to like order some dude amazon is forever coming through look at this i just oh no can i not oh there we go like it's it's going to be here tomorrow what tomorrow guys so happy about that do you love this this is like the it's like the pop brand it's like a pop blanket um it's like waterproof and like dirt proof and stuff it's like comfortable so i just like put it on the bed so i don't mess up my parents like white duvet because my hair they don't use duvet cover like this is just like the duvet and you're not really supposed to wash this i mean obviously they have to because there's no cover you're not gonna like not wash it but yeah so i brought this so that like the pups don't get it as dirty so i don't have to wash it as much i don't know that makes sense but that's what's going on here we do not have like a furry like duvet cover that's like super aggressive for summer hello so i'm back from the walk walk was absolutely fantastic um once again we did not make it to four or five miles like originally anticipated the pups are just not having it it's reaching like 80 85 degrees like super early in the morning i don't know what's go actually i do know what's going on i live in california and it is summer it's only getting worse from here so um yeah pretty soon it's going to be like 85 even at like the coolest part of the day like at night that's just how things go um oh my gosh i just got uh i got one of those like email notifications from petco i thought petco was finally getting back to me with like the grooming appointment options which i need to call them and follow up on asap um working on the rest of my coffee i had put it in the fridge because i only finished like half of it before the walk so now i'm fishing the other half um i have a conference call in a couple minutes so i gotta get back to work because today is a work day joy i cannot wait for the weekend hey guys so it's several hours later i'm making some breakfast i've moved on to my kombucha so i decided that i'm going to make a breakfast burrito today so i'll show you what i've going on so i have like the tortilla land tortillas from costco where they're like raw and you cook them and then i have sour cream that's what's on like the fork sour cream cheese and then i made two eggs cooking up some costco bacon and then i have some like hash brown patties in the oven that are gonna be done soon so just finishing cooking everything gonna assemble that get back to my little like work station over here but yeah it is a beautiful day everything smells amazing and yeah that's what's going on so i just finished making my quote-unquote burrito um yeah this is not gonna be able to be like wrapped up so i guess maybe kind of like a taco situation i'm i'm not really sure but with like the runny yolks like this is about to be super messy it smells great though so i'm excited to eat it this is just i put way too many ingredients in here this is this is just way too big to be a burrito hey guys so it is quite a bit later it is 3 30 right now i'm wrapping up my work day today has turned out to be a pretty crazy day you know we had some drama going on i wasn't a part of it um but it kind of went down in like group chat slash email type of situation so i mean whether or not you want to be a part of it like things were playing out in front of you so yeah i kind of had my taste of like reality tv today i mean nothing like super crazy or you know no one was like crazy disrespectful or anything like that but it was just you know it was my taste of uh entertainment for the day so that's going on there um tomorrow i leave um however the cleaning people for like the other house like reached out to me and they're like hey so we have you on the schedule for tomorrow um they gave me a few different like time options and i was like oh my gosh tomorrow i leave i have work and then i leave so i was like uh i mean what is the earliest you could come to like 7 45 and i was like okay so i need to get about like six shower get ready if i have time walk the pups and then get over there let them in work from there once they're done come back here finish work get my stuff and leave for the airport um and then like an hour after i leave my sister gets off of work and is gonna come pick up the pups and she's gonna watch them for me um so after work today i need to go to the grocery store because i need to get enough food for them i have like three days left of food but i need like four or five so i need to go the store get more food for them i also need to get myself snacks because because the um the training is from 9 30 a.m to 11 p.m every day so oh and they don't provide meals and the lunch break is only 30 minutes and they said that's not enough time to like walk anywhere like get your food come back eat it's not sweet to bring food and i was like excellent so i'm coming from out of state so like i i can't like pack a lunch like that's that's not how that's gonna work so i've decided like the hotel is breakfast so i'll eat breakfast there and then i guess because it starts at 9 30 it's a two mile my hotel is like two miles away from the like training location so i need to get on like google maps and like scope out what is on my way and find somewhere that is open at like 8 30 9 a.m that has like lunch food and then stop there and like get it so i'm gonna bring like my backpack so i have somewhere to put it but when i go to the grocery store i can get some like pre-packaged snacks like maybe i'll get those like little packs of like pirates booty or like skinny pop i like nutrigrain like breakfast bar type things and just see if i can find anything like non-perishable that i can like bring with me because if i can't find anything like i'm not gonna not eat i'm going to what about dinner oh my gosh and i cancelled my like door dash subscription so i can't door dash either maybe i need to reactivate that you know i'm starting to like realize i might not be as prepared as i thought i mean i on my lunch break i went and packed so that's good didn't bring you guys along because i really needed to do it in like turbo mode and i just didn't have time to like stop and vlog um but like i'm packed i have all the stuff i need i have the hotel i have the flight i have a ride at the airport i have someone watching the pups like i'm prepared but this food situation stressing me out i'm like a pretty hungry person so um okay so i need to figure that out anywho um i need to finish work and then i will bring you guys back when it's time to head to the grocery store to get the things we discussed so i will see you then we have arrived let's go this location always actually has the food so we have like a ton of them that should last all week okay so now we are in like the breakfast bar and like granola bar area i'm thinking this is where i'm gonna find like pre-packaged stuff okay so we have like fruit snacks oh okay they're the neutral grain bars let's see i like like the there's like a mixed berry one that they don't have okay cool well i guess we'll go with like blueberry this blueberry all right that'll have to do okay so i also found these like kind like dark chocolate breakfast bars and then i came over to the snack aisle and i guess i'll like get one of these i feel like i just need things um i mean i could get some like nuts or something why is this like not focusing there we go um i don't know none of this stuff sounds good but like i can't just eat like breakfast bars and like these things all right let's do a quick grocery haul i'm still in the parking lot so i got the pup food i bought like six things of it they it's like hard to predict how much they're going to eat because i just refill their bowls oops let me get that focus there we go um i just refill their bowls whenever it's empty because they're not the type that just eat like they only eat when they're hungry like their breakfast is still in their bowl and it's like almost five so yeah they just eat when they're hungry so some days they eat one meal some days they eat like two two and a half meals like it really just depends so i just keep their bowl full so i got more than plenty i basically have like 10 days worth of food possibly more but i just want to make sure that like they're taken care of you know what i mean i'm only leaving for a couple days but you know they're my kids i gotta make sure they're taken care of okay so i got a few different snacks so you guys did see the kind bar the dark chocolate and cocoa breakfast bars and then you did see the blueberry nutrigrain i got other things though i got the ritz um little cheese sandwiches um i was looking for like the bigger ones but they were out they only had the minis but i do like the minis so it's okay um i got dried apricots so i always put these on like my chicory boards and they like game changer they're so freaking good so i got some um i've never really had them on their own but i'm sure they're just as good i hope so um and then i got my ranch corn nuts which i absolutely love actually i think of some in like my glove compartment it's kind of like my guilty pleasure um and then these things i never know how to pronounce that and then i got blue diamond salt and vinegar almonds if you guys have never tried these they are so freaking good i usually get like the big like mega bag from amazon because i can never find them in store even rayleigh's didn't have them i was looking from as recently as like two three months ago so that's more of like a recent thing that they started carrying them super excited they only had that small little tin i was hoping to get like a larger container but that's okay you know start small and then eventually they'll start getting the full size um but yeah about to head home oh my gosh it is 93 degrees guys 93. okay i am gonna get home to the ac okay so i looked up the weather right and it's supposed to be 86 degrees until the sun goes down like guys i don't know if i'm gonna be able to like take the pups on a walk today because i just don't know that i see them being able to walk in 86 degree weather plus they have like their winter coat because the groomers won't call me back i did call back petco i think three times well i called three different petcos today i called each only one time but still like effort is being put forward and still no callback like what the heck also i got like way too much food i got like way too much chocolate i mean this is i mean the entire fridge is dog fruit oh my god dog treats yeah um and the chicken in there is for the dogs okay you know what clearly i am like way too paranoid about the dogs not having enough to eat because i stocked up for like i mean looking at that okay that's actually i mean that's like two and a half three weeks of food actually like that what i just bought combined with what i still had in there so yeah they're gonna be good to go um so my training thing is this week for like multiple days and then i come back work for a couple days and then next week as well so on the bright side i think that i have enough food to get them through this week when i'm back and the training next week until i come back so i won't have to go to the store again but if my parents come home i hope they weren't planning on buying any of their own food why would they not buy their own food um okay well i have reclaimed their fridge for myself well for the dogs that's kind of rude of me okay well you know i actually have to call my parents because oh my gosh they know i'm staying here i never told them i'm going to utah so they're going to get here my car's going to be here and i'm not going to be here and i'm never going to come home oh my gosh they're going to think i was kidnapped oh my god ah i like i have things so together in certain categories and other categories i am just dropping the ball left and right okay i'm gonna call my parents so they know what on earth is going on and then i'll talk to you guys soon oh my gosh so i've decided that like the least i could do is like clean the house so i'm gonna okay i'm not gonna run the dishwasher there's like three cups okay i'm gonna leave that alone um but i have the vacuum out i just got the vacuum out so i'm going to vacuum everything and then wipe down all of like the surfaces and maybe clean the bathroom wash all like that oops wash all like the hand towels and rugs and all of that stuff just to make it super okay yeah you know what i'm going to do that right now i'm going to like start that load so make sure that whenever they come back they come back to like a clean environment towels we've got towels we've got more towels got rugs all that's really going on there so believe it or not we are back in the car um i forgot today the voting ballots are due so my sister just texted me and reminded me so i'm gonna go turn that in i would say if you haven't done it here's your reminder however they do today so by the time this goes live if you guys have local voting well it's too late so i hope you didn't forget but on my way and then coming back and i'm not sure i have so many other things that i wanted to do i feel like i left everything to today because for some reason i was thinking i leave in like two days and i don't it's tomorrow so hustle hustle hustle get things done excited for tomorrow let's rock and roll oh my gosh guys okay so i'm still here i ended up dropping off about like a local um library in sacramento but um have you guys seen a ballot box recently because apparently i had not i usually vote in person or like male and so i'm not really like used to i guess like drop-off boxes so i'm looking for something like you know like small um no no this ballot box was up to my chin like standing on the ground it's not on a table like this is like a four and a half foot tall thing it was like three and a half feet wide and also probably like three and a half feet like depth it was huge i mean are you collecting every single ballot in the greater sacramento area why why is it so big i i don't know i was just i was i can't even formulate my words i don't know why that was so shocking to me but i was not prepared for the size of this freaking box box it's not a box it's like a robot it's larger than a child okay anyway i need to get home finish everything so i'ma stop this rant thanks for listening see you guys at home hey guys so it's a bit later i've done some more cleaning and i have edited the video up to this point and it is already like 10 minutes longer than i had anticipated it to be so i'm gonna go ahead and end the video here the rest of the evening i'm just gonna be cleaning i'm just gonna have a salad kit for dinner i was going to cook but i cleaned the whole range and the salad kit is going to be expired by the time i get back so nothing really too exciting so i feel good about ending it here it's a nice kind of like getting back in the rhythm of things and i'm really excited to get this video up and make sure it can go live for you guys while i am gone so we are getting back on the regular routine so if you guys haven't already don't forget to subscribe below gives you a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for the next video because i am back on my game and i will be posting for you guys thanks again so much and i'll see you in the next one bye guys\n"