A Nighttime Routine: From Cooking to Closet Organization and Fall Vibes

As I was getting ready for dinner, I couldn't help but multitask and get a head start on my evening routine. While the chicken was cooking, I decided to tackle one of my favorite tasks - organizing my closet. I've been going through it a little bit at a time, getting rid of items that no longer fit or suit my style, and making room for new fall pieces. It's become a monthly ritual for me, and I love the feeling of decluttering and starting fresh.

As I went through my closet, I couldn't help but think about how excited I am for the upcoming fall season. The thought of cozy sweaters, crunchy leaves, and warm breezes is just too much to handle. But, as fate would have it, Dallas was expected to hit 90 degrees again in a couple of days, which means I'll be sticking to my t-shirts for now. Oh well, there's always next time!

Once I finished going through my closet, I headed into the kitchen to finish cooking dinner - my signature Southern Fried Chicken. It's a treat that I only make about once a month, but it's definitely my favorite dish. The aroma of crispy chicken and spices wafting through the air is just heavenly. I couldn't wait to dig in and enjoy every bite.

As I waited for the chicken to finish cooking, I decided to take a little break and tackle some online shopping. Amazon has become my go-to destination for all things shopping, and I'm obsessed with their vast selection and affordable prices. Tonight was no exception - I found myself browsing through pajama pants in preparation for the upcoming holiday season. Who wouldn't want to wear cute PJs that can also be worn out in public?

I must admit, I've become a bit of an Amazon aficionado since discovering the website last year. The sheer amount of products available is overwhelming at times, but it's also exhilarating. From pajamas to household items, there's something for everyone on this platform. And let me tell you, I've already found so many gems that have become staples in my daily life.

As I continued browsing through Amazon, I stumbled upon a section of DIY projects and Dollar Tree finds. One of my favorite DIYs is the fall bucket list, which I created last year with items I wanted to accomplish during the season. While some tasks are still on the list, others have been checked off (beetlejuice marathon, anyone?). Today, I decided to revisit that list and see what's left to do.

The next part of my routine involves taking a short walk around the neighborhood to get some fresh air and enjoy the fall atmosphere. The evening sky was filled with dark gray clouds, which added to the cozy ambiance of the season. As I strolled along, I loved listening to the sounds of neighborhood dogs barking in the distance - it's one of my favorite noises that always puts me at ease.

Finally, as I wrapped up my walk and headed back inside, I couldn't help but feel grateful for this little routine of mine. From cooking dinner to organizing my closet, and from browsing Amazon to taking a fall walk - each part may seem small on its own, but together they create a sense of calm and contentment that's hard to find elsewhere. So here I'll stay, basking in the warmth of my cozy home, surrounded by the sights and sounds of fall, and loving every minute of it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhappy fall everyone so I am doing my very first fall nighttime routine of 2017 I do lots of different things for fall so I'm going to do multiple fall like routine videos but this is my very first one I want to share with you and there are a lot of things that I do that are actual by definition routine and then there are always things that I like to add as new things so what you're gonna see now is something that I do almost every single day which is jogging it has really improved obviously my overall just health stamina but most importantly it has really benefited my bronchitis issue if you've been following me for a while you know that I always get bronchitis multiple times a year but since I've been jogging religiously for the past year I have not gotten it knock on wood but what I'm showing you here is me getting ready for it and I it's really important for me to have a really cute outfit because honestly that gets me going it makes me feel pumped and I get most of my stuff from forever21 actually pretty much get all of it from forever 21 except for my nike shoes which are not from forever 21 but the top is from forever 21 the sports bras from Victoria's Secret and the knee guard that you see here is for my IT band it supports my IT band because I have a bad right knee and I got that from Amazon so I'm basically doing some really good stretching because I have really tight hamstrings and stretching is so so important I absolutely detest stretching but it is really important you guys and then I'm actually going to show you just kind of my OOTD for jogging just to kind of gave you a look but like I said the top forever21 the shorts are Nike spandex shorts and the sports bra like I said it's Victoria Secrets really beautiful cuz as lace detail in the back so I'm gonna take you guys jogging and I actually had my daughter helped me with this clip just so that you guys could see me actually running I love Clips like that from like other youtubers and I really honestly just wanted to include it just for like a visual and inspiration for you guys in case you needed that once I come back I am pretty much dead but I had this habit of multitasking and I cannot help myself so I started to turn on all my lights and make my bed and then I kind of like passed out on the ground for a minute I don't know if anyone else's like that where you just can't sit still but yeah so I know it's a nighttime routine why am I just now making my video I don't always get a chance to make my bed but I have to make it before I go to bed because I like to get into a clean clean bed a made bed because it doesn't feel like chaos and it it has a more peaceful setting so anyway what I'm doing now is now I go around the house and I start to kind of tidy up I have shoes everywhere so I'm just picking up all my shoes and taking them and putting them into the closet now this is my scarf collection I actually did a scarf collection video a long time ago but if you want an update give this video a thumbs up comment down below let me know if you want to see a video on all my scarves and I will do that for you then I am gonna get in the shower get all cleaned up from my jog and then while the showers running because I had that multitasking problem I'm gonna finish making my bed once I get out of the shower I like to put on a movie I like to have like noise in the background when I'm doing things it just makes things so much more enjoyable for me so I'm basically just making the bed and then I already did that sorry and then I put on the movie and I put on Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder some black and white it's streaming on Netflix if you have Netflix so love that movie it's a fantastic movie the next thing I do is something I always do every single night regardless of what season it is and that is setting my house to nighttime mode is what I call it but basically I go around the house turn on all my lights get those moods setting the ambiance and it really is wonderful in the fall too because the lighting is just so soft and yellow and it's cozy and I love it so that's something I do every single night but it's even more pretty in the fall then I'm just kind of tidying up still I'm still going around my house kind of picking up things I have my robe sometimes I work in my robe all day long and so I'm basically picking it back up and I eventually take it back to my bed but then I go outside and I continue with the lighting process where I am lighting up the strings of light that I have outside it's so pretty I actually need to install a timer so that I don't have to do this every single night and then sometimes in the morning I forget and the light has been running all that time and I don't like to waste energy but anyway so now I'm in the house and I'm studying my fault candles and then I'm lighting some candles I don't let them run for too long just because I don't like to inhale candles smell for too long but I definitely love to let them go for about an hour and it's just such a beautiful setting for full nighttime routine the next thing I'm doing is I'm opening up some mail and I wanted to show you guys that I've been slowly buying Golden Girls season DVDs via Amazon so I'm loving it and then I am making some dinner I didn't show you guys the whole entire dinner process but I'm basically just making some good old Southern Fried Chicken and it was delicious I don't make it every single week and especially not every single night it's kind of like a treat that I make about once a month but it's my favorite love it love it love it all right so anyway while the chickens cooking because again I am multitasking which sometimes I hate I wish I could just relax but I can't I am going through my closet and I don't actually show you this entire process I will in another video but I like to go start going through my closet a little bit at a time and getting rid of stuff so that I can just donate things to someone who's actually gonna wear some of the things I just don't wear and make room for new fall things and I have so many cute fall sweaters I can't wait to wear them like I'm so excited but it's gonna be 90 degrees again here in Dallas in a couple days so you know still wearing t-shirts all right so after I've done that and after I eat dinner I go into my fridge this is an odd shot but I'm showing you guys this is where I store my nee ice pad and this is something I do almost every single night because of that right IT band and I'm just attaching this to my knee I got this also from Amazon love Amazon so much and then I just kind of veg out and I get on my iPad and I do a little bit of like online shopping but I really don't check anything out sometimes I do because I apparently I'm on Amazon a lot but yeah so I've been thinking about getting some pajamas I don't have any regular pajamas and I don't have any cute Christmas pajamas so I'm just kind of showing you guys that I'm like looking at some pajamas on Amazon and they're so adorable so I do need to get some pajamas cuz honestly like I have no pants to wear to bed and I do not like wearing shorts Tibet I like to be bundled up long pants and the sweater to 365 days a year so yeah that's all I'm doing here is I've just been kind of like looking at stuff I really love Amazon because they have so much stuff it's like the abyss and there's just so much stuff that's also cheap I just love it it's like something I recently discovered this last year and I'm like how have I not been on the Amazon bandwagon I was always on the eBay bandwagon and then when I discovered Amazon I was like ok girl so it's my thing now how cute are these pajama pants hello and you can even wear them out in public they're so cute I'm definitely gonna buy those I haven't yet so then I want to show you guys this is one of my Dollar Tree DIYs where I made my fall bucket list and I do use it there are a couple of things that I have done there are things that I do still keep in the bucket because I will repeat like a certain movie but that's what I'm doing tonight I'm showing you guys that in my bucket list I'm gonna watch Beetlejuice and I'm telling you I love nothing more than Beetlejuice they have the best soundtrack even from the very beginning the music is fantastic insert that here it is a really beautiful walk I always kind of feels like a summer night because it's pretty warm outside but it's really breezy and I just thought I take a nice little fall walk in Texas even though I've got on shorts and a t-shirt and there are these like really dark gray clouds in the sky so it just kind of feels like fall and wintery I love nothing more than like winter clouds oh I love it so much and I love like walking also at night because it's so quiet but you can hear like the occasional dog barking and I love that like I love the sounds of like neighborhood dog barking yeah and also if you start walking around from the month of October you can see all of your neighbor's houses and how they're decorating for Halloween I haven't even honestly given it one single thought cuz homecoming just throws me off so much and on top of work on top of YouTube some things just suffer I hope that you guys enjoyed my fall nighttime routine now there are other things I do for fall as well that I do at least once during the fall season not so much everyday during fall but something I do once like a pumpkin patch things like that so I am gonna do more follow routines I hope you guys this video I wish you were all out here walking with me so that you could feel how lovely it is outside it's so nice I love nothing more than like a warm like soft breeze mm-hmm I love it love it love it all right guys well I'll see you next timehappy fall everyone so I am doing my very first fall nighttime routine of 2017 I do lots of different things for fall so I'm going to do multiple fall like routine videos but this is my very first one I want to share with you and there are a lot of things that I do that are actual by definition routine and then there are always things that I like to add as new things so what you're gonna see now is something that I do almost every single day which is jogging it has really improved obviously my overall just health stamina but most importantly it has really benefited my bronchitis issue if you've been following me for a while you know that I always get bronchitis multiple times a year but since I've been jogging religiously for the past year I have not gotten it knock on wood but what I'm showing you here is me getting ready for it and I it's really important for me to have a really cute outfit because honestly that gets me going it makes me feel pumped and I get most of my stuff from forever21 actually pretty much get all of it from forever 21 except for my nike shoes which are not from forever 21 but the top is from forever 21 the sports bras from Victoria's Secret and the knee guard that you see here is for my IT band it supports my IT band because I have a bad right knee and I got that from Amazon so I'm basically doing some really good stretching because I have really tight hamstrings and stretching is so so important I absolutely detest stretching but it is really important you guys and then I'm actually going to show you just kind of my OOTD for jogging just to kind of gave you a look but like I said the top forever21 the shorts are Nike spandex shorts and the sports bra like I said it's Victoria Secrets really beautiful cuz as lace detail in the back so I'm gonna take you guys jogging and I actually had my daughter helped me with this clip just so that you guys could see me actually running I love Clips like that from like other youtubers and I really honestly just wanted to include it just for like a visual and inspiration for you guys in case you needed that once I come back I am pretty much dead but I had this habit of multitasking and I cannot help myself so I started to turn on all my lights and make my bed and then I kind of like passed out on the ground for a minute I don't know if anyone else's like that where you just can't sit still but yeah so I know it's a nighttime routine why am I just now making my video I don't always get a chance to make my bed but I have to make it before I go to bed because I like to get into a clean clean bed a made bed because it doesn't feel like chaos and it it has a more peaceful setting so anyway what I'm doing now is now I go around the house and I start to kind of tidy up I have shoes everywhere so I'm just picking up all my shoes and taking them and putting them into the closet now this is my scarf collection I actually did a scarf collection video a long time ago but if you want an update give this video a thumbs up comment down below let me know if you want to see a video on all my scarves and I will do that for you then I am gonna get in the shower get all cleaned up from my jog and then while the showers running because I had that multitasking problem I'm gonna finish making my bed once I get out of the shower I like to put on a movie I like to have like noise in the background when I'm doing things it just makes things so much more enjoyable for me so I'm basically just making the bed and then I already did that sorry and then I put on the movie and I put on Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder some black and white it's streaming on Netflix if you have Netflix so love that movie it's a fantastic movie the next thing I do is something I always do every single night regardless of what season it is and that is setting my house to nighttime mode is what I call it but basically I go around the house turn on all my lights get those moods setting the ambiance and it really is wonderful in the fall too because the lighting is just so soft and yellow and it's cozy and I love it so that's something I do every single night but it's even more pretty in the fall then I'm just kind of tidying up still I'm still going around my house kind of picking up things I have my robe sometimes I work in my robe all day long and so I'm basically picking it back up and I eventually take it back to my bed but then I go outside and I continue with the lighting process where I am lighting up the strings of light that I have outside it's so pretty I actually need to install a timer so that I don't have to do this every single night and then sometimes in the morning I forget and the light has been running all that time and I don't like to waste energy but anyway so now I'm in the house and I'm studying my fault candles and then I'm lighting some candles I don't let them run for too long just because I don't like to inhale candles smell for too long but I definitely love to let them go for about an hour and it's just such a beautiful setting for full nighttime routine the next thing I'm doing is I'm opening up some mail and I wanted to show you guys that I've been slowly buying Golden Girls season DVDs via Amazon so I'm loving it and then I am making some dinner I didn't show you guys the whole entire dinner process but I'm basically just making some good old Southern Fried Chicken and it was delicious I don't make it every single week and especially not every single night it's kind of like a treat that I make about once a month but it's my favorite love it love it love it all right so anyway while the chickens cooking because again I am multitasking which sometimes I hate I wish I could just relax but I can't I am going through my closet and I don't actually show you this entire process I will in another video but I like to go start going through my closet a little bit at a time and getting rid of stuff so that I can just donate things to someone who's actually gonna wear some of the things I just don't wear and make room for new fall things and I have so many cute fall sweaters I can't wait to wear them like I'm so excited but it's gonna be 90 degrees again here in Dallas in a couple days so you know still wearing t-shirts all right so after I've done that and after I eat dinner I go into my fridge this is an odd shot but I'm showing you guys this is where I store my nee ice pad and this is something I do almost every single night because of that right IT band and I'm just attaching this to my knee I got this also from Amazon love Amazon so much and then I just kind of veg out and I get on my iPad and I do a little bit of like online shopping but I really don't check anything out sometimes I do because I apparently I'm on Amazon a lot but yeah so I've been thinking about getting some pajamas I don't have any regular pajamas and I don't have any cute Christmas pajamas so I'm just kind of showing you guys that I'm like looking at some pajamas on Amazon and they're so adorable so I do need to get some pajamas cuz honestly like I have no pants to wear to bed and I do not like wearing shorts Tibet I like to be bundled up long pants and the sweater to 365 days a year so yeah that's all I'm doing here is I've just been kind of like looking at stuff I really love Amazon because they have so much stuff it's like the abyss and there's just so much stuff that's also cheap I just love it it's like something I recently discovered this last year and I'm like how have I not been on the Amazon bandwagon I was always on the eBay bandwagon and then when I discovered Amazon I was like ok girl so it's my thing now how cute are these pajama pants hello and you can even wear them out in public they're so cute I'm definitely gonna buy those I haven't yet so then I want to show you guys this is one of my Dollar Tree DIYs where I made my fall bucket list and I do use it there are a couple of things that I have done there are things that I do still keep in the bucket because I will repeat like a certain movie but that's what I'm doing tonight I'm showing you guys that in my bucket list I'm gonna watch Beetlejuice and I'm telling you I love nothing more than Beetlejuice they have the best soundtrack even from the very beginning the music is fantastic insert that here it is a really beautiful walk I always kind of feels like a summer night because it's pretty warm outside but it's really breezy and I just thought I take a nice little fall walk in Texas even though I've got on shorts and a t-shirt and there are these like really dark gray clouds in the sky so it just kind of feels like fall and wintery I love nothing more than like winter clouds oh I love it so much and I love like walking also at night because it's so quiet but you can hear like the occasional dog barking and I love that like I love the sounds of like neighborhood dog barking yeah and also if you start walking around from the month of October you can see all of your neighbor's houses and how they're decorating for Halloween I haven't even honestly given it one single thought cuz homecoming just throws me off so much and on top of work on top of YouTube some things just suffer I hope that you guys enjoyed my fall nighttime routine now there are other things I do for fall as well that I do at least once during the fall season not so much everyday during fall but something I do once like a pumpkin patch things like that so I am gonna do more follow routines I hope you guys this video I wish you were all out here walking with me so that you could feel how lovely it is outside it's so nice I love nothing more than like a warm like soft breeze mm-hmm I love it love it love it all right guys well I'll see you next time\n"