I was choking on a water bottle a plastic thing in my coffee someh look I was choking on this dude I almost died are you okay yeah I need to wash that blanket coffee I was swallowing I had to yeah get it out yeah I'm glad you're okay oh my gosh okay so he's okay okay so how you can put your face at the top and your arms in there so with your arms in there you could also put like your phone so if you're watching a movie and then you can just lean on it or you can sleep like that so you're not like kinking your neck and it's inflatable so you can you know deflate it very travels very easily and then you can blow it up and have it so I thought that would be really cool so with that I'm getting these little laundry bags so these zip up and then so they're really really small and then you open them up and they carry all of your laundry so like when you're traveling you don't have to put your dirty laundry back in with your clean clothes especially when you've multiple destinations I bought these exact ones when we traveled to Europe and it was amazing cuz we went to I think like six different cities and it was so nice to not have like your dirty sweaty socks and your dirty underwear and your sweaty shirts and like all the all the things you know I mean not that everyone is out here just sweating all over town but it was really cool to have something to separate it then also it helped to keep the hotel room a little cleaner cuz we didn't have like I don't know about you guys but usually I have like a dirty clothes Pile in the hotel because like what else do you do with them so the headrest and the laundry bags go together and then the packing cubes and the cable organizer go together so um both I think they were like $25 like combined $25 combined so really really great white elephant gift another thing that I was thinking about getting when I thought I had to get some for a second white elephant event um mobile or um like external batteries because people also love those not just for traveling but also like work or a road trip you just don't feel like going and plugging it in somewhere so that was also another item that I was considering getting you know I had a White Elephant idea list in here let's see if anything is sounding good oh an Alexa dot a portable speaker Bath and Body Work soap Lush bath bombs um fun adult games so like um I really like this game called over the line I also have one called Midnight taboo so it's taboo but it's all like adult words um incoherent um what do you meeme Cards Against Humanity things like that um wine glasses wine um shud board but that's kind of basic um depending on the price point also they have really cute um picnic baskets with all like the plates and the utensils and all of that stuff we have we have one it's somewhere in storage I don't know where any of my belongings are but you know I have one and yeah those are my white elephant gift ideas

I've decided that I'm going to try to upload two videos a week I'm not doing the full vlogmas it's just it's too much with also working a full-time job I just I don't I can't do it but uh also there just wouldn't be enough content you know so um what I have decided is I'm kind of getting into vlogging each day it's not a lot each day so um combining them where I can kind of do like a Monday through Thursday and then a Friday through Sunday so that's what I'm going to try to do I think maybe upload Tuesdays and Thursdays I think that's what I'm going to try to do so that is the plan yeah I got I got to get back to my deep pooping hello again it is still Thursday I was about to head out the door and I realized that I didn't do an outro clip so I came back in and giving you guys a proper sign off if you haven't already please don't forget to subscribe below and give video a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for another new video or probably two new videos and I really appreciate everyone who watches my videos all the way through please let me know in the comment section if you guys have made it to the end I would love to know who the real ones are and you know build some rapport with you guys that would mean the world to me so thanks again so much and I'll see you in the next one bye guys

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey Vlog welcome back kicking off another video it is Sunday morning right now and I am about to leave to go pick up a rental card just got a notification from Uber they are 2 minutes away so I will make this fast um today I am wearing this black sweater from Barefoot dreams this white top is from Nordstrom these are crazy yoga leggings from Amazon and then I'm wearing my little Ugg moccasins in Chestnut and then I am also using my classic black Michael Kors purse this is the one that I always keep out and keep handy so if I don't feel like transferring my stuff um to another purse I typically just use this one cuz it goes with everything um yeah we are getting ready to go um if you guys didn't see my last Vlog I had an incident where I think it was like a cinder block flew off of a like work truck that was driving in front of me and it knocked off my side like driver mirror so I need to get that fixed I'm taking it in tomorrow but during the week I do have meetings and things I need to go to so I'm getting a rental car so they are 1 minute away so I'm going to wrap up this clip if you guys haven't already don't forget subscribe below giv video a big thumbs up and let's get into it all right so here I am I'm using National Car Rental today I'm at the Sacramento Airport so apparently I can pick any of them but I already forgot where the key is cuz I was trying to get myself settled as he's giving me direction so let's hope this works out okay so I get to pick any of these cars I am going to pick a larger car so I'm more comfortable driving larger cars I've never driven a small car before guys fun fact Okay so looking between these bigger cars and I feel like okay I always own a silver car so you know we're going to get wild and we're going to go with gray okay so this car is a Nissan and let's see what type of car this is cuz I don't know anything about cars so all-wheel drive good in case I need to go up to Nevada and it's a rogue so Nissan Rogue okay let's try this out apparently the keys are inside the car oh fancy this is like cloth okay big center console thing oh that's nice they even give you a little disinfection disinfection disinfecting wipe so like I said this is a Nissan Rogue and I really like the ow what is oh the seat bels are already closed or already snapped or whatever um so I really like this center console thing or not Center what am I trying to say this dashboard has this perfect place like set you guys let me show you so I tried to set you up here but the driving the steering wheel why can I not speak today the steering wheel was blocking my face and then here this was blocking but right here this this is perfect so let's do a quick little look through oh that's cool let me bring you guys a little let me bring you guys is a little closer look at that whoop press that button opens both ways we've got quite a bit of space in here I mean practically to my elbow I feel like I'm in a bucket seat like look how high up this goes and the back seat looks quite spacious as well and the front seat oh yeah you've got all kinds of like leg room down there this is a really nice car and I'm also really loving this screen that shows shows like the navigation and you can connect your music and apple play and all that stuff the only strange thing is because this is like a bucket seat I feel like I'm really low down also try to block the Sun so you guys can see what's happening here um but yeah overall I like this I think this is going to work tomorrow I have a lunch meeting let me I'm trying Tobe if I lean over here okay good the lighting's a little better um tomorrow I have a lunch meeting and I need to pick up a bunch of catering I did Chipotle and if you guys have ever seen Chipotle catering the boxes are huge and usually I'm picking up between three and five boxes so um I was a little nervous because the only cars that they said were um were available were small cars and I was like I'm going to have to get creative like one in the trunk maybe hopefully two in the back seat like front seat like I was getting a little worried about it so that was another reason I need a big car so I can stack them in the back in like the trunk or possibly utilize the back seat but in the meantime I have this car until Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. so hopefully my car will be done the part is supposed to come in Monday and then they said it'll they'll have it for a few days so I'm hoping they'll have it done by like Wednesday night or Thursday morning so I can pick it up oh okay nope some lady just tried to walk over to this car and then realized I was in it yeah this car is claimed lady keep it moving I have arrived and look how cute they have these little reefs up and everything so let's make sure that we lock this bad boy that's unlocked that's lock so this is the dog's favorite brand Blue Buffalo so we do go between the adult chicken and brown rice the adult fish and brown rice the adult lamb and brown rice and then this one is beef and brown rice the like Maroon one so every time we buy them new bag of food we switch between the flavors so they don't eat the same thing every day okay I didn't show you in the store but I also bought these so these are these like gigantic Bully Sticks I guess kind of they're not quite a bully stick but the same idea so this one the yellow one's chicken this one is beef and this one is pork so usually um we will break these into like four pieces each and so each pup gets like maybe like five or 6 in of one at a time so they really enjoy them and they were on sale for $3 right now so I was like oh perfect Hunty oh they're getting the chicken one oh excuse me S there we go that's how you properly place a request little lady where's hunties oh he expects the full delivery oh you're going to make him work for it say didn't have to work for it oh I think they're enjoying it it is almost 1:00 it's 12:50 right now so I made myself some breakfast so I am pretty hungry fre um I got up a little late this morning so I had rush to get ready and get out the door to the rental place so I didn't eat so I was like hungry for like breakfast and lunch so I just made a big um big meal so I did the same Capri avocado toast I've been doing but even on one piece of bread I did two eggs so a little extra protein you know um and then I also shredded up a potato and made some hash browns so um what I've been doing on weekends is I make a lot of food and then I eat as much as I want at the time and then I leave it on the counter and over the next like 2 or 3 hours I come and pick at it and eventually I eat all of it but um I've really been enjoying that because I'm the type of person that like I eat when I'm bored I eat when I'm stressed I eat because it's meal time I eat because I haven't eaten in a little bit I eat because it sounds fun like my solution to everything is food and I am trying to not like I need to I need to chill out because basically like my jeans are not fitting right I am significantly overeating so if I just make like a larger meal and I eat it over the course of time I actually end up eating less where usually I will eat all I will force myself to eat all of this I will feel sick and in a few hours I will still be craving something and then then I'll go eat chips or other things so by having like actual like meal food available I'm coming in eating this and grazing on this instead so um obviously that doesn't work for like all types of food you know what I mean but it's been working for me so that's what I'm doing hello so it's a bit later um we've been well Darren's been watching football and I've been sitting with him and responding to all of the red and Instagram follows and comments and all of that jazz because you guys I'm really growing on threads are we in Focus okay now we're in Focus um I'm really growing on threads very happy about that but right now um I just switched into a jack a sweatshirt and then a jacket because it is cold outside and and it's time for the pups to go on a walk as you can see Satie is quite excited well I guess you can't really see her Satie has been campaing for an outing all morning so finally we're going to give the pups what they want we have a few hours left of Sunshine H seat oh yes we have guys ready let's go I am happy to report that unlike the last few walks the pups are actually walking these walks are so much more enjoyable good morning it's Monday morning it's about 7:40 and I finished getting ready a little early today because um I haven't heard back from the car collision place that's supposed to be fixing my car today and tomorrow I'm supposed to drop it off this morning but I was told that they would call me and give me like a drop off appointment for Monday morning so this morning but I still haven't gotten anything so I'm getting a little concerned so I wanted to be ready so right when it hits 8:00 I can call and hopefully go drop it off and then Uber back here and leave in time I just got a hold of the repair shop people and I guess my company still has not approved the quote so when I had to go there on Friday they had to take pictures look at it um look up the part order the part and then they submitted a quote to my company and then my company has to approve it and then they can repair it so we're still waiting on the approval I was told that that was happening Friday afternoon so not sure what happened there thank you perfect so I just picked up some Marie donuts for a um customer and then while I'm here of course I had to get myself a little something because you guys this is the best dut shop in Sacramento not just according to me I mean Yelp and everyone and so I just got some glazed dnut holes you guys these are literally the best so got myself some and now we are ready to take off okay here we are I have two of the three boxes heading in to grabb the other one these things are heavy all right I am all loaded up and then my back seat's full of all the other stuff I need to bring in so let's get let's get going okay I am ready to go I've got all of my company stuff over there and then lunch lazy evening Inn I made my classic sundried tomato and broccoli pasta um all I had was spaghetti so um it's not as easy to eat this way but you know it's going to have to do I'm also continuing to watch My Hallmark show the chess Peak Shores I'm so sad I'm on the last season but it's so good good morning guys so it is T Tuesday is it Tuesday Tuesday morning and I am just getting ready I'm straightening my hair right now but I wanted to pop in and say hello I know I did not get a lot of Clips yesterday so thought I would just come on here so yesterday um after work the most exciting thing that we did was we took the dogs on a walk and they were just losing their crap the entire time um Satie was literally walking and like pulling the leash as hard as possible and just barking non-stop like I I don't know what was going on I have never seen that behavior before they're not the best on leashes like in general they do pull um and they do like you know kind of try to like jump and bark at other dogs when we pass them but she was in the middle of the street no one else there just like barking and losing her mind like what is happening um so I I don't know we had to cut our walk short cuz things were just getting a little too too wild um and then I just binged my show so I'm almost through it and I'm super sad about it because this is a really really good show um Chesapeake Shores Hallmark show really good um it just ended the last season finished airing in I think October or November of last year so it's still like fairly recent there are six seasons um but I would highly recommend there was something I wanted to tell you guys oh I did um get my appointment for today to drop off my work car to finally not finally I mean get fixed I mean what this happened Thursday and now it's Tuesday so I mean it's still a pretty quick turnaround I've been like debating if I like my hair like in some lighting I kind of like it but I feel like it's too cool like I showed her this deep rich like brown that I really wanted and I really wanted like a warm color and this is like a really cool almost like blondish take on Brown the lady that I've been going to since June she's um like the place that I showed you guys in my hair appointment I've only gone there like four times the place that I used to go for several years is in Roseville um because I used to live out there I found her and I really really liked her and she did a fantastic job but it was now like super far from where I live now so I was looking for somewhere closer I found this place and every time she she does a really good job but it's just never what I asked for I'm like really debating going back to my other lady um back in Rose Ville and having her add the toner that I like the toner that I like is the color is called toffee and that was that really beautiful rich brown I pretty much got toffee like every time so if you guys ever saw my hair from what like 209 to like 2021 2022 is um that was the color that was in it and I really really liked it I'm debating even like getting it redone over this just getting this like retone to the darker color do you see how healthy my hair is guys what taking that collagen and it is doing its thing I am so happy my hair is also grown quite a bit obviously I I cut it but it's grown quite a bit I use the trenant collagen and I always have it linked in uh my description below so if you guys are interested it's like a liquid collagen and they do come in some different flavors I get the strawberry banana it tastes really good and I'm home so what did I just drop oh my gosh my wallet okay what there it goes again hey guys it's 5:00 I just got home as you can see the sun is starting to go down already and the next like 20 minutes it's going to be dark Joy I got home just before then um as you guys saw this morning I or I guess you didn't see I talked about um how this morning I went and dropped off my work car to go get repaired ubered back here and then um I drove out to Napa today so that's like the California wine country I feel like most people know where Napa is so yall know where Napa is so I went out to visit all of my Napa Santa Rosa accounts today so I was in a beautiful area and then uh yeah I got home I thought I wasn't going to get home to like 6:00 or 7 today I got home early and I'm very happy about it so Darren just took the dogs to the park to throw the ball cuz they have an aggressive mive amount of energy I don't know what is going on it's like they drank a Red Bowl so they're out doing that I have my grocery bags because I'm going to head to the store so we decided divide and conquer I was just about to leave but looks like the last of the Christmas presents came in okay I will address that when I get home so I just got here so far we have cheese time to get the rest so I keep hearing about meat tenderizer and it's some kind of like white powder uh I don't know if that's it oh my gosh here it is the original and with spices I think I think the original is it oh my gosh here it is this is the one that we love okay I'm buying two you guys you guys you guys so I just finished grocery shopping I have all the groceries in the back you can't really see there you go um but you know how during like the holidays and stuff they have um volunteers do like the bell ringing and collect money for charity for Salvation Army yes um so it's like the Salvation Army bell ringing people right so they have one posted up here and guess what you guys she isn't even ringing the bell she's playing on a speaker on on her phone like the sound of bells ringing like the the sound of like you know like the charity Bell like that specific Bell it's just playing that on a loop and she's just sitting there on her phone what oh my gosh times have changed we are relying on technology I can't I can't believe they aren't even ringing their own Bells anymore guys tonight we are going to be making burrito bowls so I'm going to be making the cilantro lime rice we have beans cheese sour cream avocado salsa hot sauce um and then daren's making steak I'm making chicken and did I name everything did I say cheese I think I did but basically all of the fixings for like a Chipotle burrito bowl that's the inspiration all right I'm back home the rice has 9 more minutes and I just finished chopping all the cilantro so just like last time I used um an entire head of cilantro and then for lime juice I believe I started with a/4 cup and then I ended up adding basically another 1/4 cup in there but I slowly added also with some salt um just to make sure that you know I didn't you can always add but you can't take away basically so just make sure it turned out right Darren has seasoned um the steak that he's eating and chicken for me so we're just kind of waiting for the rice to finish and then we're going to um heat up the other stuff so I just finished the cilantro lime rice so I used a little more than 1/3 cup um of lime juice in here I used quite a bit of salt about 2 tbsp of olive oil and an entire head of cilantro as you can see ours is super super super heavy on the cilantro but that's how we like it so if you guys don't like yours as aggressively this cilantro e um maybe start with like half or 34s of a bunch uh over here Darren is finishing cooking his steak sauce and then my chicken is finishing up we did have some rice stick to the bottom so we're trying to let that rest so we'll be able to scrape it off and then I did cut a tomato over here I was too lazy to use a cutting board so us used paper towel all the juice is transferred it's going to be even bigger mess should have just used used a cutting board um and then I don't use lettuce but Darren wanted baby arugula instead of lettuce so I got that from the store today and then I just shredded the rest of our jack cheese so um I just put in here for storage purposes but we're going to be using that and then yeah it's pretty much everything so these are the hot sauces I was talking about so this one they make um also a green one and a black one we like all of them but the red one's my favorite and then this guy right here we use Daisy sour cream and then we always mix it up with the salsa so the particular one that we're using today is the on the- B hot salsa but not necessarily our favorite we love all Salsas good morning it is Wednesday morning and I am getting ready per usual our typical morning clip also very upsetting my hair is always doing something wild in the morning I really really wish that it would hold a style I mean it's not too bad but I do still have to touch up with a straightener I hope you guys are having a marvelous day or evening whenever you're watching this last night we have got to talk about that cilantro lime rice first off it turned out so freaking good so freaking good so good um but I did want to clarify uh some of the like portion size things so I know I told you guys about 1/3 cup of um lime juice and an entire bunch of cilantro however I made enough rice where you know how it says like the amount of rice the amount of water and then the yield the yield was 9 cups of rice so all of those like the amount of lime juice and cilantro are based on making 9 cups of rice so um the particular one I used was the Walmart Great Value jasmine rice I just wanted to clarify cuz I would hate if you guys took like ingredient list or whatever portions and then mixed that into like two cups of rice and ended up crazy I am also counting down the days until um December 21st I believe that's a Friday is the Friday the 20th 21st or 22nd it's Friday is one of those but that Friday is my last day of work until January 1st so I took PTO I think I've mentioned this to you guys before but I didn't really tell you the dates so um after that Friday then of course um it's the weekend and then I have Monday off for I think I have Monday and Tuesday off for Christmas and then um I have New Year's Eve off already so I only had to take like I think 4 days of PTO to have it work out like that so I am very very excited so I am counting down the days until this prolonged Break um I know I had said thanks that Thanksgiving break was the longest I had had off from work since like March this is now going to top that and I am so excited okay I remembered what I was going to tell you guys okay so there are two new Christmas movies that came out this year that I've watched so far and have really liked of course you know I'm also watching the classics but I wanted to recommend these ones to you so one of them is called Candy Cane Lane and that one has like Eddie Murphy but um it's a comedy and it's it's really really good so that one is kind of like well I feel like most Christmas movies you know learning the spirit of Christmas and that type of stuff but it is really funny it's really good definitely recommend the other one one I think is a Hallmark movie and that one's called the Christmas vintage a small Family Winery out in I think it's I think it's Michigan or Virginia the wife SL like the main character's mom passes away so the family business is kind of going downhill cuz she was the wine maker and so they're kind of trying to make do without her and then new company comes in town and of course you know young um attra Ive wine maker type of thing and the Rivalry and all of that jazz and then of course you know discovering the Christmas spirit Love Story the whole thing and that one was also um really good so I would say Candy Cane Lane was better but I did really like this one as well and I find it nice you know kind of mixing it up because I do watch all the classics literally every single year so it is nice mixing in something new so I think both of those I would probably add to my queue for next year to rewatch hey guys so I'm not hungry for breakfast so what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring um a bit of a bigger lunch because I'll probably be hungry in like an hour or two so what I'm doing is I'm making bean cheese and rice burritos so I'm using the cilantro lime rice I love the Rosarita refried beans and I get the no or the yeah the no fat traditional so it just looks like this this is my favorite type of refried beans and then the rice rice that or not the rice the um jack cheese I shredded yesterday my favorite branded cheese is tillamuk however I will eat pretty much any jack cheese it all kind of tastes the same to me so if they don't have tleo I'll buy whatever store brand so the ry's brand the Great Value brand the Safeway brand whatever it is uh jack cheese seems to be pretty much the same anywhere you go at least in my opinion and then I've showed you guys before but these um raw tortillas from Costco so brand new package open this bad boy up so I'm just going to war up all the ingredients and assemble now when I am eating them immediately I usually do I do include sour cream cuz I love sour cream in a bean cheese and rice burrito however when I am kind of making it to go I don't include sour cream because it like makes the the tortilla soy like it doesn't it doesn't do well when it just sits in there you know what I mean so I'm warming everything right now I've got the reffed beans warming in here the Tor the second tortilla is um cooking right now so the portions that I use which pretty much complete they're like the maximum that can fit in the tortilla um one can of beans makes four burritos so when I'm making two I just um use half of a can of beans so those are the portions so if this is inspiring you guys to make some that's how much you will need all right beans are all done and I just warmed the rice in the microwave I warmed it for 1 minute and it's steaming so perfect so now I just have to assemble so do the beans first right there in the middle middle on here this is such an easy meal I mean assuming that you've already made the rice you know now we're going to sprinkle in some cheese perfect little cheese over here so my memory card filled up as I was making the burrito so when I looked up it was no longer recording so um don't know how much of that you guys saw but um other little trick that I do so when I wrap the burrito I fold over the top just kind of like an envelope that way I know which way is like the top because I filled the burrito to capacity so I can't fully like fold in both sides before I roll it so one side is folded really nicely and the other side's kind of almost also folded over like an envelope because I don't have enough tortilla left to fold it so um basically I fold the top of this so I know which way is the top so that as I eat it I can maintain the Integrity of the structure of the burrito and it doesn't all just end up kind of falling to the bottom so um you guys have burrito that doesn't quite close highly recommend or just somehow marking which way is the top I mean you could do that with a sharp you can do that many ways um but that's how I do it so now I'm going to put everything away and it is time to head out for work hey guys what is going on oh my gosh it is 4:44 as you can see through the window the Sun as I see the lights are up the sun is gone it is pouring rain it was pouring rain on my way home I am quite moist I waiting oh yeah you you can already tell things are a little rough um if you guys are noticing I've been been wearing this jacket every time I Vlog cuz it's just so easy to throw on because all of my work stuff is branded and I'm trying not to uh trying to show that because you know don't want to get in trouble associating my company with anything that I'm doing not that I'm doing anything Buck Wild but you know better safe than sorry so um yeah I don't wear this jacket literally every day um I have pretty much the exact same jacket that is also branded and that's one of the things that I do wear very often but I switch it to talk to you guys sorry about it so it looks like I feel like I wear the same thing every day that's not the case a package car heart uh we've got address labels on both sides so we are going to cover that but this is one of the last of the three Christmas like packages that I need so I'm waiting for one from Kate Spade and one from Lululemon and once I get those two then I will have everything all those boxes I showed you guys earlier in the Vlog that I thought were mine and the Christmas presents um are all addressed to my parents so they're not mine that's their Christmas shopping so bummer still waiting for those things I did check the tracking and the Lululemon supposed to be here on Friday so another 2 days and then I'm not sure about the Kate Spade one I didn't even look up the tracking for that because I thought it was here do you hear that wow I mean you can't really see it in the pool but like in these puddles here oh my gosh it is rainy season in Northern California so I just figured out what I'm going to make for dinner so I'm going to be making my sundried tomato and broccoli pasta and the original recipe does have chicken in it and now that we have chicken I'm going to put chicken in it I just started boiling the pasta so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to rinse and season the chicken ah look how good this is oh my gosh so we have the chicken in there the broccoli sundried tomatoes and I Tred to do primarily the chicken and veggies and then of course some pasta in there but um I try to make it not too heavy on the pasta front so it's a little healthier but this smells and looks amazing hey guys happy Thursday good morning so usual clip getting ready I always start the clip when I'm doing my hair cuz it is too hard to like record and do my makeup I just just don't have the capability for that so um that's why you guys always see me when we are doing the hair got my little mirror over here so if I'm looking a little past you that's why so last night I wrapped the two car heart gifts that were in like that package that I showed you so those were for two of my cousins um I just got them some shirts they both they both like carart so I was like perfect excellent because I feel like as like they get older it's hard to find things for them one's in college and one is I think a senior in high school junior no I think he's a senior now so you know as the guys are in that phase I feel like it can be a little tricky finding things so yeah I'm still waiting on two more Christmas packages but I wrap those up put them under the tree and they look great also after I did that we watched another Christmas movie so it looks like a lot of new Christmas movies came out for 2023 so this one was called haul in the Holly that one was excellent I really really really like that one so that one is about this um Court called I think it's Evergreen Lane and or Evergreen Court anyways um basically the this couple started this HOA and the h joa like requires everyone to like decorate for Christmas and also requires everyone to participate in like pretty much all of December all of these Christmas traditions and contests and it's like really really festive but the HOA requires you to be a part of it and then um as they got older and retired their daughter moved back and so now her and this guy who is now HOA president they are dating so it's like the power couple and so it's kind of following them and all like the drama and everything that goes wrong as new neighbors move into the court and kind of all of that playing out but the daughter who's like the main character is um the gal who played gret and Wieners in Mean Girls and it was so fun seeing her again she looks literally exactly the same despite the fact that that was like 15 years ago I'll keep you guys breast on all of the Christmas movies that I'm watching also um I was doing doing some shopping last night because we had two white elephant parties that we needed to get gifts for one for this Friday which now the white elephant has been cancelled so I did not place the order and then the other one is my family for Christmas so I just wanted to get everything out of the way cuz I was done with Christmas shopping and then I forgot about white elephant so I was like I want to get that done so I thought I did such a good job with white elephant gifts if you are one of my family members on my dad's side please skip forward like a minute and a half okay thank you or if you do watch it don't tell anyone okay don't tell well we're all unwrapping the gifts don't tell anyone that you know that that one's for me okay I do know that a few members of my family watch so also shout out to you let's get into this here okay no things aren't looking cute and we're just going to have to get past that guys okay so I have decided this year the theme is travel I feel like so many times people are like Starbucks gift cards or a candle in a blanket and don't get me wrong I have definitely been the candle and a blanket person and so this year I was like I can do better I know it for both gifts there are two parts so one is this little travel case thing so this is for cords and like Electronics it's a little organizer and then it like closes and zips up so it has when you open it has like a middle section so you have this side both sides of the middle section and then the base and then so it has little pockets and zippers and all the things so all of your charging cords and all of that stuff when you're traveling can all fit in there and then what goes with that is I got um all of these packing cubes and packing stuff and then it has a little like laundry thing with it which I really like and then for the second gift so you can't really tell okay can you kind of see what's going on here so these are those things you probably seen on social media so like you when you're on a plane and you put down the um little table thing you put this on it and there's a place to put your hands and the are you okay are you okay oh I was choking on a water bottle a plastic thing in my coffee someh look I was choking on this dude I almost died are you okay yeah I need to wash that blanket coffee I was swallowing I had to yeah get it out yeah I'm glad you're okay oh my gosh okay so he's okay okay so how you can put your face at the top and your arms in there so with your arms in there you could also put like your phone so if you're watching a movie and then you can just lean on it or you can sleep like that so you're not like kinking your neck and it's inflatable so you can you know deflate it very travels very easily and then you can blow it up and have it so I thought that would be really cool so with that I'm getting these little laundry bags so these zip up and then so they're really really small and then you open them up and they carry all of your laundry so like when you're traveling you don't have to put your dirty laundry back in with your clean clothes especially when you've multiple destinations I bought these exact ones when we traveled to Europe and it was amazing cuz we went to I think like six different cities and it was so nice to not have like your dirty sweaty socks and your dirty underwear and your sweaty shirts and like all the all the things you know I mean not that everyone is out here just sweating all over town but it was really cool to have something to separate it then also it helped to keep the hotel room a little cleaner cuz we didn't have like I don't know about you guys but usually I have like a dirty clothes Pile in the hotel because like what else do you do with them so the headrest and the laundry Bas laundry bags go together and then the packing cubes and the cable organizer go together so um both I think they were like $25 like combined $25 combined so really really great white elephant gift another thing that I was thinking about getting when I thought I had to get some for a second white elephant event um mobile or um like external batteries because people also love those not just for traveling but also like work or a road trip you just don't feel like going and plugging it in somewhere so that was also another item that I was considering getting you know I had a White Elephant idea list in here let's see if anything is sounding good oh an Alexa dot a portable speaker Bath and Body Work soap Lush bath bombs um fun adult games so like um I really like this game called over the line I also have one called Midnight taboo so it's taboo but it's all like adult words um incoherent um what do you meeme Cards Against Humanity things like that um wine glasses wine um shud board but that's kind of basic um depending on the price point also they have really cute um picnic baskets with all like the plates and the utensils and all of that stuff we have we have one it's somewhere in storage I don't know where any of my belongings are but you know I have one and yeah those are my white elephant gift ideas and this clip is getting really really long so I'm going to quickly wrap this up I have decided that I'm going to try to upload two videos a week I'm not doing the full vlogmas it's just it's too much with also working a full-time job I just I don't I can't do it but uh also there just wouldn't be enough content you know so um what I have decided is I'm kind of getting into vlogging each day it's not a lot each day so um combining them where I can kind of do like a Monday through Thursday and then a Friday through Sunday so that's what I'm going to try to do I think maybe upload Tuesdays and Thursdays I think that's what I'm going to try to do so that is the plan yeah I got I got to get back to my deep pooping hello again it is still Thursday I was about to head out the door and I realized that I didn't do an outro clip so I came back in and giving you guys a proper sign off if you haven't already please don't forget to subscribe below and give video a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for another new video or probably two new videos and I really appreciate everyone who watches my videos all the way through please let me know in the comment section if you guys have made it to the end I would love to know who the real ones are and you know build some rapport with you guys that would mean the world to me so thanks again so much and I'll see you in the next one bye guyshey Vlog welcome back kicking off another video it is Sunday morning right now and I am about to leave to go pick up a rental card just got a notification from Uber they are 2 minutes away so I will make this fast um today I am wearing this black sweater from Barefoot dreams this white top is from Nordstrom these are crazy yoga leggings from Amazon and then I'm wearing my little Ugg moccasins in Chestnut and then I am also using my classic black Michael Kors purse this is the one that I always keep out and keep handy so if I don't feel like transferring my stuff um to another purse I typically just use this one cuz it goes with everything um yeah we are getting ready to go um if you guys didn't see my last Vlog I had an incident where I think it was like a cinder block flew off of a like work truck that was driving in front of me and it knocked off my side like driver mirror so I need to get that fixed I'm taking it in tomorrow but during the week I do have meetings and things I need to go to so I'm getting a rental car so they are 1 minute away so I'm going to wrap up this clip if you guys haven't already don't forget subscribe below giv video a big thumbs up and let's get into it all right so here I am I'm using National Car Rental today I'm at the Sacramento Airport so apparently I can pick any of them but I already forgot where the key is cuz I was trying to get myself settled as he's giving me direction so let's hope this works out okay so I get to pick any of these cars I am going to pick a larger car so I'm more comfortable driving larger cars I've never driven a small car before guys fun fact Okay so looking between these bigger cars and I feel like okay I always own a silver car so you know we're going to get wild and we're going to go with gray okay so this car is a Nissan and let's see what type of car this is cuz I don't know anything about cars so all-wheel drive good in case I need to go up to Nevada and it's a rogue so Nissan Rogue okay let's try this out apparently the keys are inside the car oh fancy this is like cloth okay big center console thing oh that's nice they even give you a little disinfection disinfection disinfecting wipe so like I said this is a Nissan Rogue and I really like the ow what is oh the seat bels are already closed or already snapped or whatever um so I really like this center console thing or not Center what am I trying to say this dashboard has this perfect place like set you guys let me show you so I tried to set you up here but the driving the steering wheel why can I not speak today the steering wheel was blocking my face and then here this was blocking but right here this this is perfect so let's do a quick little look through oh that's cool let me bring you guys a little let me bring you guys is a little closer look at that whoop press that button opens both ways we've got quite a bit of space in here I mean practically to my elbow I feel like I'm in a bucket seat like look how high up this goes and the back seat looks quite spacious as well and the front seat oh yeah you've got all kinds of like leg room down there this is a really nice car and I'm also really loving this screen that shows shows like the navigation and you can connect your music and apple play and all that stuff the only strange thing is because this is like a bucket seat I feel like I'm really low down also try to block the Sun so you guys can see what's happening here um but yeah overall I like this I think this is going to work tomorrow I have a lunch meeting let me I'm trying Tobe if I lean over here okay good the lighting's a little better um tomorrow I have a lunch meeting and I need to pick up a bunch of catering I did Chipotle and if you guys have ever seen Chipotle catering the boxes are huge and usually I'm picking up between three and five boxes so um I was a little nervous because the only cars that they said were um were available were small cars and I was like I'm going to have to get creative like one in the trunk maybe hopefully two in the back seat like front seat like I was getting a little worried about it so that was another reason I need a big car so I can stack them in the back in like the trunk or possibly utilize the back seat but in the meantime I have this car until Wednesday evening at 5:00 p.m. so hopefully my car will be done the part is supposed to come in Monday and then they said it'll they'll have it for a few days so I'm hoping they'll have it done by like Wednesday night or Thursday morning so I can pick it up oh okay nope some lady just tried to walk over to this car and then realized I was in it yeah this car is claimed lady keep it moving I have arrived and look how cute they have these little reefs up and everything so let's make sure that we lock this bad boy that's unlocked that's lock so this is the dog's favorite brand Blue Buffalo so we do go between the adult chicken and brown rice the adult fish and brown rice the adult lamb and brown rice and then this one is beef and brown rice the like Maroon one so every time we buy them new bag of food we switch between the flavors so they don't eat the same thing every day okay I didn't show you in the store but I also bought these so these are these like gigantic Bully Sticks I guess kind of they're not quite a bully stick but the same idea so this one the yellow one's chicken this one is beef and this one is pork so usually um we will break these into like four pieces each and so each pup gets like maybe like five or 6 in of one at a time so they really enjoy them and they were on sale for $3 right now so I was like oh perfect Hunty oh they're getting the chicken one oh excuse me S there we go that's how you properly place a request little lady where's hunties oh he expects the full delivery oh you're going to make him work for it say didn't have to work for it oh I think they're enjoying it it is almost 1:00 it's 12:50 right now so I made myself some breakfast so I am pretty hungry fre um I got up a little late this morning so I had rush to get ready and get out the door to the rental place so I didn't eat so I was like hungry for like breakfast and lunch so I just made a big um big meal so I did the same Capri avocado toast I've been doing but even on one piece of bread I did two eggs so a little extra protein you know um and then I also shredded up a potato and made some hash browns so um what I've been doing on weekends is I make a lot of food and then I eat as much as I want at the time and then I leave it on the counter and over the next like 2 or 3 hours I come and pick at it and eventually I eat all of it but um I've really been enjoying that because I'm the type of person that like I eat when I'm bored I eat when I'm stressed I eat because it's meal time I eat because I haven't eaten in a little bit I eat because it sounds fun like my solution to everything is food and I am trying to not like I need to I need to chill out because basically like my jeans are not fitting right I am significantly overeating so if I just make like a larger meal and I eat it over the course of time I actually end up eating less where usually I will eat all I will force myself to eat all of this I will feel sick and in a few hours I will still be craving something and then then I'll go eat chips or other things so by having like actual like meal food available I'm coming in eating this and grazing on this instead so um obviously that doesn't work for like all types of food you know what I mean but it's been working for me so that's what I'm doing hello so it's a bit later um we've been well Darren's been watching football and I've been sitting with him and responding to all of the red and Instagram follows and comments and all of that jazz because you guys I'm really growing on threads are we in Focus okay now we're in Focus um I'm really growing on threads very happy about that but right now um I just switched into a jack a sweatshirt and then a jacket because it is cold outside and and it's time for the pups to go on a walk as you can see Satie is quite excited well I guess you can't really see her Satie has been campaing for an outing all morning so finally we're going to give the pups what they want we have a few hours left of Sunshine H seat oh yes we have guys ready let's go I am happy to report that unlike the last few walks the pups are actually walking these walks are so much more enjoyable good morning it's Monday morning it's about 7:40 and I finished getting ready a little early today because um I haven't heard back from the car collision place that's supposed to be fixing my car today and tomorrow I'm supposed to drop it off this morning but I was told that they would call me and give me like a drop off appointment for Monday morning so this morning but I still haven't gotten anything so I'm getting a little concerned so I wanted to be ready so right when it hits 8:00 I can call and hopefully go drop it off and then Uber back here and leave in time I just got a hold of the repair shop people and I guess my company still has not approved the quote so when I had to go there on Friday they had to take pictures look at it um look up the part order the part and then they submitted a quote to my company and then my company has to approve it and then they can repair it so we're still waiting on the approval I was told that that was happening Friday afternoon so not sure what happened there thank you perfect so I just picked up some Marie donuts for a um customer and then while I'm here of course I had to get myself a little something because you guys this is the best dut shop in Sacramento not just according to me I mean Yelp and everyone and so I just got some glazed dnut holes you guys these are literally the best so got myself some and now we are ready to take off okay here we are I have two of the three boxes heading in to grabb the other one these things are heavy all right I am all loaded up and then my back seat's full of all the other stuff I need to bring in so let's get let's get going okay I am ready to go I've got all of my company stuff over there and then lunch lazy evening Inn I made my classic sundried tomato and broccoli pasta um all I had was spaghetti so um it's not as easy to eat this way but you know it's going to have to do I'm also continuing to watch My Hallmark show the chess Peak Shores I'm so sad I'm on the last season but it's so good good morning guys so it is T Tuesday is it Tuesday Tuesday morning and I am just getting ready I'm straightening my hair right now but I wanted to pop in and say hello I know I did not get a lot of Clips yesterday so thought I would just come on here so yesterday um after work the most exciting thing that we did was we took the dogs on a walk and they were just losing their crap the entire time um Satie was literally walking and like pulling the leash as hard as possible and just barking non-stop like I I don't know what was going on I have never seen that behavior before they're not the best on leashes like in general they do pull um and they do like you know kind of try to like jump and bark at other dogs when we pass them but she was in the middle of the street no one else there just like barking and losing her mind like what is happening um so I I don't know we had to cut our walk short cuz things were just getting a little too too wild um and then I just binged my show so I'm almost through it and I'm super sad about it because this is a really really good show um Chesapeake Shores Hallmark show really good um it just ended the last season finished airing in I think October or November of last year so it's still like fairly recent there are six seasons um but I would highly recommend there was something I wanted to tell you guys oh I did um get my appointment for today to drop off my work car to finally not finally I mean get fixed I mean what this happened Thursday and now it's Tuesday so I mean it's still a pretty quick turnaround I've been like debating if I like my hair like in some lighting I kind of like it but I feel like it's too cool like I showed her this deep rich like brown that I really wanted and I really wanted like a warm color and this is like a really cool almost like blondish take on Brown the lady that I've been going to since June she's um like the place that I showed you guys in my hair appointment I've only gone there like four times the place that I used to go for several years is in Roseville um because I used to live out there I found her and I really really liked her and she did a fantastic job but it was now like super far from where I live now so I was looking for somewhere closer I found this place and every time she she does a really good job but it's just never what I asked for I'm like really debating going back to my other lady um back in Rose Ville and having her add the toner that I like the toner that I like is the color is called toffee and that was that really beautiful rich brown I pretty much got toffee like every time so if you guys ever saw my hair from what like 209 to like 2021 2022 is um that was the color that was in it and I really really liked it I'm debating even like getting it redone over this just getting this like retone to the darker color do you see how healthy my hair is guys what taking that collagen and it is doing its thing I am so happy my hair is also grown quite a bit obviously I I cut it but it's grown quite a bit I use the trenant collagen and I always have it linked in uh my description below so if you guys are interested it's like a liquid collagen and they do come in some different flavors I get the strawberry banana it tastes really good and I'm home so what did I just drop oh my gosh my wallet okay what there it goes again hey guys it's 5:00 I just got home as you can see the sun is starting to go down already and the next like 20 minutes it's going to be dark Joy I got home just before then um as you guys saw this morning I or I guess you didn't see I talked about um how this morning I went and dropped off my work car to go get repaired ubered back here and then um I drove out to Napa today so that's like the California wine country I feel like most people know where Napa is so yall know where Napa is so I went out to visit all of my Napa Santa Rosa accounts today so I was in a beautiful area and then uh yeah I got home I thought I wasn't going to get home to like 6:00 or 7 today I got home early and I'm very happy about it so Darren just took the dogs to the park to throw the ball cuz they have an aggressive mive amount of energy I don't know what is going on it's like they drank a Red Bowl so they're out doing that I have my grocery bags because I'm going to head to the store so we decided divide and conquer I was just about to leave but looks like the last of the Christmas presents came in okay I will address that when I get home so I just got here so far we have cheese time to get the rest so I keep hearing about meat tenderizer and it's some kind of like white powder uh I don't know if that's it oh my gosh here it is the original and with spices I think I think the original is it oh my gosh here it is this is the one that we love okay I'm buying two you guys you guys you guys so I just finished grocery shopping I have all the groceries in the back you can't really see there you go um but you know how during like the holidays and stuff they have um volunteers do like the bell ringing and collect money for charity for Salvation Army yes um so it's like the Salvation Army bell ringing people right so they have one posted up here and guess what you guys she isn't even ringing the bell she's playing on a speaker on on her phone like the sound of bells ringing like the the sound of like you know like the charity Bell like that specific Bell it's just playing that on a loop and she's just sitting there on her phone what oh my gosh times have changed we are relying on technology I can't I can't believe they aren't even ringing their own Bells anymore guys tonight we are going to be making burrito bowls so I'm going to be making the cilantro lime rice we have beans cheese sour cream avocado salsa hot sauce um and then daren's making steak I'm making chicken and did I name everything did I say cheese I think I did but basically all of the fixings for like a Chipotle burrito bowl that's the inspiration all right I'm back home the rice has 9 more minutes and I just finished chopping all the cilantro so just like last time I used um an entire head of cilantro and then for lime juice I believe I started with a/4 cup and then I ended up adding basically another 1/4 cup in there but I slowly added also with some salt um just to make sure that you know I didn't you can always add but you can't take away basically so just make sure it turned out right Darren has seasoned um the steak that he's eating and chicken for me so we're just kind of waiting for the rice to finish and then we're going to um heat up the other stuff so I just finished the cilantro lime rice so I used a little more than 1/3 cup um of lime juice in here I used quite a bit of salt about 2 tbsp of olive oil and an entire head of cilantro as you can see ours is super super super heavy on the cilantro but that's how we like it so if you guys don't like yours as aggressively this cilantro e um maybe start with like half or 34s of a bunch uh over here Darren is finishing cooking his steak sauce and then my chicken is finishing up we did have some rice stick to the bottom so we're trying to let that rest so we'll be able to scrape it off and then I did cut a tomato over here I was too lazy to use a cutting board so us used paper towel all the juice is transferred it's going to be even bigger mess should have just used used a cutting board um and then I don't use lettuce but Darren wanted baby arugula instead of lettuce so I got that from the store today and then I just shredded the rest of our jack cheese so um I just put in here for storage purposes but we're going to be using that and then yeah it's pretty much everything so these are the hot sauces I was talking about so this one they make um also a green one and a black one we like all of them but the red one's my favorite and then this guy right here we use Daisy sour cream and then we always mix it up with the salsa so the particular one that we're using today is the on the- B hot salsa but not necessarily our favorite we love all Salsas good morning it is Wednesday morning and I am getting ready per usual our typical morning clip also very upsetting my hair is always doing something wild in the morning I really really wish that it would hold a style I mean it's not too bad but I do still have to touch up with a straightener I hope you guys are having a marvelous day or evening whenever you're watching this last night we have got to talk about that cilantro lime rice first off it turned out so freaking good so freaking good so good um but I did want to clarify uh some of the like portion size things so I know I told you guys about 1/3 cup of um lime juice and an entire bunch of cilantro however I made enough rice where you know how it says like the amount of rice the amount of water and then the yield the yield was 9 cups of rice so all of those like the amount of lime juice and cilantro are based on making 9 cups of rice so um the particular one I used was the Walmart Great Value jasmine rice I just wanted to clarify cuz I would hate if you guys took like ingredient list or whatever portions and then mixed that into like two cups of rice and ended up crazy I am also counting down the days until um December 21st I believe that's a Friday is the Friday the 20th 21st or 22nd it's Friday is one of those but that Friday is my last day of work until January 1st so I took PTO I think I've mentioned this to you guys before but I didn't really tell you the dates so um after that Friday then of course um it's the weekend and then I have Monday off for I think I have Monday and Tuesday off for Christmas and then um I have New Year's Eve off already so I only had to take like I think 4 days of PTO to have it work out like that so I am very very excited so I am counting down the days until this prolonged Break um I know I had said thanks that Thanksgiving break was the longest I had had off from work since like March this is now going to top that and I am so excited okay I remembered what I was going to tell you guys okay so there are two new Christmas movies that came out this year that I've watched so far and have really liked of course you know I'm also watching the classics but I wanted to recommend these ones to you so one of them is called Candy Cane Lane and that one has like Eddie Murphy but um it's a comedy and it's it's really really good so that one is kind of like well I feel like most Christmas movies you know learning the spirit of Christmas and that type of stuff but it is really funny it's really good definitely recommend the other one one I think is a Hallmark movie and that one's called the Christmas vintage a small Family Winery out in I think it's I think it's Michigan or Virginia the wife SL like the main character's mom passes away so the family business is kind of going downhill cuz she was the wine maker and so they're kind of trying to make do without her and then new company comes in town and of course you know young um attra Ive wine maker type of thing and the Rivalry and all of that jazz and then of course you know discovering the Christmas spirit Love Story the whole thing and that one was also um really good so I would say Candy Cane Lane was better but I did really like this one as well and I find it nice you know kind of mixing it up because I do watch all the classics literally every single year so it is nice mixing in something new so I think both of those I would probably add to my queue for next year to rewatch hey guys so I'm not hungry for breakfast so what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring um a bit of a bigger lunch because I'll probably be hungry in like an hour or two so what I'm doing is I'm making bean cheese and rice burritos so I'm using the cilantro lime rice I love the Rosarita refried beans and I get the no or the yeah the no fat traditional so it just looks like this this is my favorite type of refried beans and then the rice rice that or not the rice the um jack cheese I shredded yesterday my favorite branded cheese is tillamuk however I will eat pretty much any jack cheese it all kind of tastes the same to me so if they don't have tleo I'll buy whatever store brand so the ry's brand the Great Value brand the Safeway brand whatever it is uh jack cheese seems to be pretty much the same anywhere you go at least in my opinion and then I've showed you guys before but these um raw tortillas from Costco so brand new package open this bad boy up so I'm just going to war up all the ingredients and assemble now when I am eating them immediately I usually do I do include sour cream cuz I love sour cream in a bean cheese and rice burrito however when I am kind of making it to go I don't include sour cream because it like makes the the tortilla soy like it doesn't it doesn't do well when it just sits in there you know what I mean so I'm warming everything right now I've got the reffed beans warming in here the Tor the second tortilla is um cooking right now so the portions that I use which pretty much complete they're like the maximum that can fit in the tortilla um one can of beans makes four burritos so when I'm making two I just um use half of a can of beans so those are the portions so if this is inspiring you guys to make some that's how much you will need all right beans are all done and I just warmed the rice in the microwave I warmed it for 1 minute and it's steaming so perfect so now I just have to assemble so do the beans first right there in the middle middle on here this is such an easy meal I mean assuming that you've already made the rice you know now we're going to sprinkle in some cheese perfect little cheese over here so my memory card filled up as I was making the burrito so when I looked up it was no longer recording so um don't know how much of that you guys saw but um other little trick that I do so when I wrap the burrito I fold over the top just kind of like an envelope that way I know which way is like the top because I filled the burrito to capacity so I can't fully like fold in both sides before I roll it so one side is folded really nicely and the other side's kind of almost also folded over like an envelope because I don't have enough tortilla left to fold it so um basically I fold the top of this so I know which way is the top so that as I eat it I can maintain the Integrity of the structure of the burrito and it doesn't all just end up kind of falling to the bottom so um you guys have burrito that doesn't quite close highly recommend or just somehow marking which way is the top I mean you could do that with a sharp you can do that many ways um but that's how I do it so now I'm going to put everything away and it is time to head out for work hey guys what is going on oh my gosh it is 4:44 as you can see through the window the Sun as I see the lights are up the sun is gone it is pouring rain it was pouring rain on my way home I am quite moist I waiting oh yeah you you can already tell things are a little rough um if you guys are noticing I've been been wearing this jacket every time I Vlog cuz it's just so easy to throw on because all of my work stuff is branded and I'm trying not to uh trying to show that because you know don't want to get in trouble associating my company with anything that I'm doing not that I'm doing anything Buck Wild but you know better safe than sorry so um yeah I don't wear this jacket literally every day um I have pretty much the exact same jacket that is also branded and that's one of the things that I do wear very often but I switch it to talk to you guys sorry about it so it looks like I feel like I wear the same thing every day that's not the case a package car heart uh we've got address labels on both sides so we are going to cover that but this is one of the last of the three Christmas like packages that I need so I'm waiting for one from Kate Spade and one from Lululemon and once I get those two then I will have everything all those boxes I showed you guys earlier in the Vlog that I thought were mine and the Christmas presents um are all addressed to my parents so they're not mine that's their Christmas shopping so bummer still waiting for those things I did check the tracking and the Lululemon supposed to be here on Friday so another 2 days and then I'm not sure about the Kate Spade one I didn't even look up the tracking for that because I thought it was here do you hear that wow I mean you can't really see it in the pool but like in these puddles here oh my gosh it is rainy season in Northern California so I just figured out what I'm going to make for dinner so I'm going to be making my sundried tomato and broccoli pasta and the original recipe does have chicken in it and now that we have chicken I'm going to put chicken in it I just started boiling the pasta so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to rinse and season the chicken ah look how good this is oh my gosh so we have the chicken in there the broccoli sundried tomatoes and I Tred to do primarily the chicken and veggies and then of course some pasta in there but um I try to make it not too heavy on the pasta front so it's a little healthier but this smells and looks amazing hey guys happy Thursday good morning so usual clip getting ready I always start the clip when I'm doing my hair cuz it is too hard to like record and do my makeup I just just don't have the capability for that so um that's why you guys always see me when we are doing the hair got my little mirror over here so if I'm looking a little past you that's why so last night I wrapped the two car heart gifts that were in like that package that I showed you so those were for two of my cousins um I just got them some shirts they both they both like carart so I was like perfect excellent because I feel like as like they get older it's hard to find things for them one's in college and one is I think a senior in high school junior no I think he's a senior now so you know as the guys are in that phase I feel like it can be a little tricky finding things so yeah I'm still waiting on two more Christmas packages but I wrap those up put them under the tree and they look great also after I did that we watched another Christmas movie so it looks like a lot of new Christmas movies came out for 2023 so this one was called haul in the Holly that one was excellent I really really really like that one so that one is about this um Court called I think it's Evergreen Lane and or Evergreen Court anyways um basically the this couple started this HOA and the h joa like requires everyone to like decorate for Christmas and also requires everyone to participate in like pretty much all of December all of these Christmas traditions and contests and it's like really really festive but the HOA requires you to be a part of it and then um as they got older and retired their daughter moved back and so now her and this guy who is now HOA president they are dating so it's like the power couple and so it's kind of following them and all like the drama and everything that goes wrong as new neighbors move into the court and kind of all of that playing out but the daughter who's like the main character is um the gal who played gret and Wieners in Mean Girls and it was so fun seeing her again she looks literally exactly the same despite the fact that that was like 15 years ago I'll keep you guys breast on all of the Christmas movies that I'm watching also um I was doing doing some shopping last night because we had two white elephant parties that we needed to get gifts for one for this Friday which now the white elephant has been cancelled so I did not place the order and then the other one is my family for Christmas so I just wanted to get everything out of the way cuz I was done with Christmas shopping and then I forgot about white elephant so I was like I want to get that done so I thought I did such a good job with white elephant gifts if you are one of my family members on my dad's side please skip forward like a minute and a half okay thank you or if you do watch it don't tell anyone okay don't tell well we're all unwrapping the gifts don't tell anyone that you know that that one's for me okay I do know that a few members of my family watch so also shout out to you let's get into this here okay no things aren't looking cute and we're just going to have to get past that guys okay so I have decided this year the theme is travel I feel like so many times people are like Starbucks gift cards or a candle in a blanket and don't get me wrong I have definitely been the candle and a blanket person and so this year I was like I can do better I know it for both gifts there are two parts so one is this little travel case thing so this is for cords and like Electronics it's a little organizer and then it like closes and zips up so it has when you open it has like a middle section so you have this side both sides of the middle section and then the base and then so it has little pockets and zippers and all the things so all of your charging cords and all of that stuff when you're traveling can all fit in there and then what goes with that is I got um all of these packing cubes and packing stuff and then it has a little like laundry thing with it which I really like and then for the second gift so you can't really tell okay can you kind of see what's going on here so these are those things you probably seen on social media so like you when you're on a plane and you put down the um little table thing you put this on it and there's a place to put your hands and the are you okay are you okay oh I was choking on a water bottle a plastic thing in my coffee someh look I was choking on this dude I almost died are you okay yeah I need to wash that blanket coffee I was swallowing I had to yeah get it out yeah I'm glad you're okay oh my gosh okay so he's okay okay so how you can put your face at the top and your arms in there so with your arms in there you could also put like your phone so if you're watching a movie and then you can just lean on it or you can sleep like that so you're not like kinking your neck and it's inflatable so you can you know deflate it very travels very easily and then you can blow it up and have it so I thought that would be really cool so with that I'm getting these little laundry bags so these zip up and then so they're really really small and then you open them up and they carry all of your laundry so like when you're traveling you don't have to put your dirty laundry back in with your clean clothes especially when you've multiple destinations I bought these exact ones when we traveled to Europe and it was amazing cuz we went to I think like six different cities and it was so nice to not have like your dirty sweaty socks and your dirty underwear and your sweaty shirts and like all the all the things you know I mean not that everyone is out here just sweating all over town but it was really cool to have something to separate it then also it helped to keep the hotel room a little cleaner cuz we didn't have like I don't know about you guys but usually I have like a dirty clothes Pile in the hotel because like what else do you do with them so the headrest and the laundry Bas laundry bags go together and then the packing cubes and the cable organizer go together so um both I think they were like $25 like combined $25 combined so really really great white elephant gift another thing that I was thinking about getting when I thought I had to get some for a second white elephant event um mobile or um like external batteries because people also love those not just for traveling but also like work or a road trip you just don't feel like going and plugging it in somewhere so that was also another item that I was considering getting you know I had a White Elephant idea list in here let's see if anything is sounding good oh an Alexa dot a portable speaker Bath and Body Work soap Lush bath bombs um fun adult games so like um I really like this game called over the line I also have one called Midnight taboo so it's taboo but it's all like adult words um incoherent um what do you meeme Cards Against Humanity things like that um wine glasses wine um shud board but that's kind of basic um depending on the price point also they have really cute um picnic baskets with all like the plates and the utensils and all of that stuff we have we have one it's somewhere in storage I don't know where any of my belongings are but you know I have one and yeah those are my white elephant gift ideas and this clip is getting really really long so I'm going to quickly wrap this up I have decided that I'm going to try to upload two videos a week I'm not doing the full vlogmas it's just it's too much with also working a full-time job I just I don't I can't do it but uh also there just wouldn't be enough content you know so um what I have decided is I'm kind of getting into vlogging each day it's not a lot each day so um combining them where I can kind of do like a Monday through Thursday and then a Friday through Sunday so that's what I'm going to try to do I think maybe upload Tuesdays and Thursdays I think that's what I'm going to try to do so that is the plan yeah I got I got to get back to my deep pooping hello again it is still Thursday I was about to head out the door and I realized that I didn't do an outro clip so I came back in and giving you guys a proper sign off if you haven't already please don't forget to subscribe below and give video a big thumbs up and don't forget to tune in next week for another new video or probably two new videos and I really appreciate everyone who watches my videos all the way through please let me know in the comment section if you guys have made it to the end I would love to know who the real ones are and you know build some rapport with you guys that would mean the world to me so thanks again so much and I'll see you in the next one bye guys\n"