a couple days in my life in my late 30s! errands, appointments & cozy crafting ☁️✂

[music] We did interview a late great day. >> Good morning everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. It is just before 9:00 a.m. and I am headed into the salon to get my hair done today. I am, I think, a little over four months out since I got my KTIP extensions and I'm getting them removed and I'm going to see how I feel about it because as you guys can see, I mean, my hair just got fried to all hell like I don't know 8 months ago, 9 months ago, something like that. So, I just wanted to get a little bit to fill in the front pieces here. And I mean it starts like right here. And I've really liked it, but over the last like few weeks, it's kind of started getting a little tangly right here. all of my swimming in the ocean and all of that I'm sure didn't help. So, I'm going to see what it looks like. And then I also think I want to add some more dimension. I like the color of my hair overall, but it's gone a little more platinum recently as opposed to my kind of typical like dimensional golden blonde. So, I think I want to get back to that. Yeah, just I think it's been a little bit overhighlighted. And that's because I've asked for that, by the way. That's no one's fault. Um, and so yeah, I just want to get a little dimension going and then we'll see where we're at with the extensions of it all. But anyways, we're going to head inside cuz my appointment's in a few minutes. Hopefully, this will be a fun little transformation that like I'll definitely be able to tell the difference, but you probably [music] won't. [music] All right, here's the hair. Oh, it's a little staticky at the moment. Um, I wasn't able to go as dimensional as I wanted because I forgot that I ordered new extensions, so they had to match. But anyways, I'm done. And now I'm going to have some lunch. I'm at the Irvine Ranch Market. They have so many British biscuits. They have hobnobs, digestives, caramel digestives, dark chocolate, digestive creams. I don't see any custardy creams, which is devastating. But they have lemon creams, ginger snaps, walker shortbread, jammy dodgers, apple and black currant flavor. Yum. But I think I'm going to get a sandwich. [music] All right. Oh my god, it's so hot in my car and it's just so hot outside that my lens is fogging. Here's my Irvine Ranch Market haul. This is a turkey sandwich. I'm not getting lettuce currently. So, I got a turkey, cheddar, pickle, and honey mustard sandwich. Usually, I would have lettuce. I'm not huge on tomato and I couldn't see what the tomatoes look like. And you know, sometimes they're like mealy and so let's see what that's like. The glare. There we go. That's a better look at it. I mean, to me, that's delish. All right. Cheers. Mhm. Delicious. I saw that they had these Doritos that are like nacho cheese, but they don't have dye. I don't care if food has dye in it, but I was just curious if they taste the same. It pretty much tastes exactly the same. Maybe like a little less flavored. I mean, good to me. Sorry for the sound. And then to drink. Oh god, I hope this doesn't explode. I got a cherry spin drift. They only had a big one. Oh, that's lovely. It's like the perfect little hint of flavor. Anyways, I got so hungry sitting there for hours that I was like, "All right, I need to just eat now." I may potentially There's a nail salon that's in this like same complex and I may see if they have any availability to just get a manicure pedicure now cuz I'm already out. I'm already having a me day. So, we'll see what happens. It's much later. I didn't get my nails done. I was too tired. Decided to go home. We just finished dinner. We had our Yorkshire tea with our biscuits that we got today and they were both delicious. The chocolate hobnobs. Drew liked them so much he started doing a dance. He was like >> in that intense shimmy >> sound machine. >> Also, how long do you brew your tea for? [clears throat] >> Oh yeah. What's the proper time? Because Oh, yeah. Sorry. We're I've heard everything from like 1 minute to 3 minutes. So Brits, let us know. No, you did one in there. >> I did like a little more than one, but I was stirring it and I don't think you're supposed to do that. Well, I think it depends. I I saw someone that said they want nine stirs and no more, no less, and I was like, that's a little crazy. They're very particular about their tea. But yeah, let us know. Anyways, chocolate hobnobs 12 out of 10. Black currant and apple jammy Dodgers like 8 out of 10. The raspberry is like 10 out of 10. And those were still really really good. Like I love the chew in the middle and they're really good for dipping. [laughter] >> Okay, there he is. Anyways, now we're watching Sterling Point cuz I saw people talking about it and we want to watch a lesbian show. Let's do it. >> Let's go lesbian. [music] >> Good morning. It is the next day. It's just before 9:00 a.m. I'm at the dentist. I mean, could think of more things I would want to do first thing in the morning than go to the dentist, but also I just like to get it over with. So, in case you needed a little reminder to book your next dentist appointment, this is actually my first time going to this office. I've been to a dentist since we moved here, but I did not like that dentist's office. It was not good. So, we're trying out a new one. This is similar to one that I used to go to in Arizona. I think it's like by the same people, but I don't have any jewelry on cuz I know I'm going to have to get like my X-rays and all that kind of stuff. And hopefully, fingers crossed, we will come back with no cavities. I think I have the start of one though. That's what they said at my last appointment anyway. So, we'll see. Fingers crossed. It's one of those things where you just got to do it as an adult. It's like it sucks, but you [clears throat] just got to do it. So, let's do it. [music] Oh my goodness. Night and day difference since my last dentist appointment. Like, it went so well. It was so easy. They were so nice. They were so gentle. They were concerned about my sensitivity. I got a free tote bag cuz it was my first visit. Hello. I even got like a free little, you know, they always give you like a toothbrush and toothpaste and all that kind of stuff. So, that was lovely. And now I'm going to head and run a couple of errands. I want to get my nails done, which I meant to do yesterday. I want to get some gas. I want to potentially film a thrifting video. That's not 100% yet. We'll see how much time I end up having after cuz I really kind of have some stuff to do at home. So, we'll see. But for now, I definitely need gas. So, let's go ahead and do that first. [music] [music] All right, got that done. Going to get my nails done. And I realized it's right next to a Whole Foods. And I love a Whole Foods. I really want to get like a smoothie, maybe a little bar, maybe a coffee. We'll see where the wind takes us. [music] >> [music] >> Whole Foods haul. I ended up getting the green and glowing smoothie which had like banana, pineapple, spinach, um, almond milk, flax seed, coconut flakes, something or other. It looks phenomenal. Like look how gorgeous this is. So, let's give it a taste. M. Really good. And then I I went a little crazy. I got like five or six different kinds of bars because I love having a bar in my purse at all times. And I've just been looking to branch out and try different bars cuz they're just really convenient to have in your bag. And then also, they're one of the things that my stomach tolerates pretty well. So, here are Oh my god, I got so many. Help. I got a turkey chomp stick cuz you know, never a bad thing to have. I got a couple of these 88 acres bars. They have 12 g of protein. They don't have any kind of like protein powder in them. Um the ingredients are just pumpkin seeds, banana, maple syrup, brown rice syrup, cinnamon, and salt. This is the banana bread flavor. Did I say that? Then I also got the fudge brownie flavor, which looked delicious. I got a Cliff Bar cuz I just enjoy those from time to time. I got one of these Bob Bo chip oatmeal bars. This is more just like a breakfast pastry kind of thing. It doesn't really have protein, but looked good. Then I saw that the RX bar had a couple flavors that I hadn't tried. The first one being strawberry. That sounds amazing. So, we're going to try that. And then they have the nut butter and oat bars as well. Dark chocolate peanut butter. They had like a honey and oat one. And I love any kind of bar with oats in it. So, that's my bar my bar haul. I think this is a paper straw. It is. Uh [laughter] I get it. I respect it, but drinking a smoothie through a paper straw. Kind of a nightmare. My wheel's crooked. Suppose I could turn on my car. Anyways, next up on the agenda is to get these nails done cuz I meant to yesterday. I may film a video or I may ask Alexa if she wants to film that with me cuz we're seeing each other in a couple days and then like I could put that off. Well, [music] >> [music] >> Okay, I'm home. I got a little blue, a little bit of blue going on. I am going to Oh, I'm heating up some leftovers from like two nights ago, which is a big step for me in my phobia and all that. But we made some chicken, mashed potatoes, and veggies. So, I'm reheating that. And I'm going to make myself my daily diet coke, which I love so much. And actually recently I've been using a true lemon or a true lime and it's been so so good. I get a glass, put a lot of ice in it because I'm American. We love our rice. I'm talking that much. Yes, it's necessary. I pour my true lemon packet. We have orange ones, too, but I don't know how I feel about orange in a Diet Coke. It's basically just crystallized lemon. So, like if you have lemon, squeeze it in it, but stay tastes fresher. Wow. Then I take my marinated Diet Coke. If you haven't seen like the science behind that, basically, sorry, this is really loud. The longer you keep cans of soda in the fridge, like the better the carbonation is the can gets frostier. It's honestly just better. We got to do a little straw. Let's give it a taste test. Gets you right here. And it's perfect. >> [music] >> It's my favorite thing about lunch. And there is my very simple leftover lunch. Got a little barbecue on the side. Sweet baby rays, of course. And there we have it. [music] All right, it's later now and I am going to do some junk journaling. I need to get off my phone. I need to get off my phone. Like I just want to do some crafting. I want to chill. So that is what we're going to do. just finished up like a couple hours of computer editing and then I sat here and scrolled for too long. So, we're going to have some I mean screen free other than like that I need to print my pictures. But in case you have never been here for a what are we calling this? Car's crafting corner. Um in case you've never been here for one of those videos before, I love to junk journal aka scrapbook aka I don't know whatever you want to call it. Honestly, I don't really know if there's a difference between the two other than like you collect trash for your junk journal, but I also collect all sorts of other things. I am trying my best to like separate everything as much as I can because I have not updated my junk journal since June and it is now [clears throat] mid August. So, I did my little I think I may have vlogged this, may have not. I'm not sure. But this was my last page I did where I did my little Mean Girls, the musical outdoor concert night. I did this fun little day out with Alexa, a date night for me and Drew, like different coffee shop stickers, and just kind of random stuff. That's where we left off. So now I think what I'm going to do is do well, I want to do like a separate Lizzie Maguire. I still say Lizzie McGuire, a separate Hillary Duff concert page. I think I'm going to do like a July. Then I'm going to do Hillary Duff. No, wait, sorry. Reainder of June. That's what it was. Rea June. Hillary Duff. All of July. And then I think I'll stop there. I could probably do others. We'll see. So, right now I'm picking which photos I want from the Hillary Duff concert because, you know, I have a lot. So, I'm going to do my Mia's cartoon Lizzy photo. Obviously, this selfie of me and Alexa because I just feel like it encapsulates it very well. Then I think this photo with Hillary is iconic. And then the final one, I will do the picture of the three of us girls cuz we ran into our friend Emma there. And I will do that as well. Okay. So, while those are printing, I'm also going to choose which backgrounds I want for what months. thinking for Lizzie McGuire. I'm going to do I'm just going to keep calling it Lizzie McGuire. I'm going to do like a little disco ball and then something just extremely millennial. Like I'm thinking pink. Like I feel like it just has to be some sort of pink like almost maybe even this because this feels like Victoria's Secret. Like that feels extremely early 2000s. So we'll do that. We'll set that aside for that page. I think three pages is ambitious, but I think we can do it. So, as far as my junk, what I have for June is a random donuts sticker and receipt. I have the Goodwill bins opening release party that Alexa and I did the photo booth at. I have some stickers from that. I have some other beachy stickers and I don't remember where I got them, but we did a beach day at the beginning of August. Actually, I think that was the end of July, so I might save that. Um, so maybe I'll do two July photos or pages. I don't know. I have a sticker from the coffee shop. I have two of the confettes. A couple of you asked me if I saved these from the ground of the Hillary Duff concert. You better believe I did. And then I have a receipt from I think it's back home in Arizona or something. And then a photo booth picture that my friend Emma and I took. And yeah, I felt like I didn't have enough stuff and now I feel overwhelmed because I have too much stuff. So, we're going to get going. I'm also going to print some photos from when we were back home in Arizona. This one's cute. Definitely going to use that. Sure. Let's do those two. The way I always do it is I lay down the background first just so that we have like kind of the foundation of what we want to do. And I will be saving this, by the way, cuz that is so cute. I want to use it on something else. Maybe I'll even save that. You just never know. Like sometimes you can even use the tiniest little scrap for like another project. So, we're going to glue down our first page. I think for the bottom one, I'm going to rip it. [music] There we go. And then it looks like this. And then this is our background. I'm just going to start going for it. I'm going to start cutting things out, laying things down. Do now, think later. I'm going to do this photo booth strip, which is so cute. I'm so glad we got a physical copy and digital copies of that cuz it's adorable. Put a little Goodwill sticker on there. And luckily, these have little stickies on the back. These um [clears throat] this is called the HP Sprocket printer. And the photos that it prints out, in case you haven't seen one of these, they print out little like wallet sized photos, but they have stickies on the back. It's like a removable backing and it becomes a sticker. Do that. I'm cutting out a picture of the felt art that Drew and I made that's on the wall behind me. I don't know if you can see that from here actually, but here I'll show you. It's so cute. It's like one of my favorite things I've made recently. I even included it in a favorites video. It's a tiny frame. I'm freaking dead. That's so cute. We went to Disneyland with my friend from high school and her son and that was really cute and fun. I'm going to put a picture of that. And then we have some random coffee shop stickers. I'm cutting out Drews and my coffees. We took a little coffee date together in July. A little morning coffee date at White Sparrow. I think I vlogged it. So, I'm going to put our little coffee cups next to each other. I was listening to more of Strangers today, by the way, by Bel Burton, the um audio book that I'm listening to. I'm scared for what's to come. Like, I am genuinely scared for this woman. Jeez Louise. All right. Cute. Is that all of our junk we have? I think so. Drew got me these stickers at Barnes & Noble one day when we were there. They were $4.99. He's like, "You want me to get you some stickers?" And I was like, "Yeah." We were getting books with like our nieces, I think. So, obviously have to use some of these. They're so cute. They have like little vegetables and farmers market cartoons and things like that. And I think that's adorable. So, we have like a little strawberry, some cherries. These are so cute. You know, farmers market things. Do a few of those. I'm going to save them obviously for future use. See what other stickers we got going on here. smiley faces, hearts and stars, and all sorts of stuff, flower stickers, more smiley faces. We'll do a few of these little multicolored gems cuz I love them. We'll also do a few stars. Okay, cute. We'll use some Dollar Tree letters. Take one of these little strips, put it underneath June. There we go. Page one done. On to the next. I've actually heard that it's good to glue your pages together because it makes it I don't know less it like lays flatter, I guess, less bulky. I'm getting down to the end with this one, so it's just going to be bulky regardless. But that's all right. All right, I will do Hilda next. I think you're actually going to fall over. Okay, for this one, I'm going to do my little corner cutter. This thing is awesome. You just stick your little photo in it and it cuts the corners so that they're round, which is really nice cuz I used to try to freehand this and it was the most uneven, wonky thing ever. So, kind of a game changer. It's getting very hot down here. The thing that happens when I film these crafting videos is that I reach a flow state and then I forget that I'm filming and then I'm sitting here in silence filming myself. But anyways, if you guys have been crafting recently, I would love to know what you're crafting. I find it so fascinating to see what people get up to. Like, have you been making like I've been sewing things, making clothes? Have you been like making birthday cards or gifts for people? I've been really trying to do more like handmade things. It just feels so much more I don't know heartfelt and like thoughtful. So, I'd be really curious to know what you guys have been up to and what you've been making. Going to do our really actually quite dirty pieces of confetti that I did pick up off the ground after people walked on them. But, you know, you do what you got to do. This one is not really going to fit. So, I'm actually just going to cut out the little text on the actual butterfly that says, "I love you." Cuz I just think it's really cute. So, we'll add that on there. Okay. Now, let's add some pizzazz. So, I'm definitely going to need one of these. These I use in like every single one. I used it last time, too. It's just like a little strip of rainbow sparkles that I feel needs to go here. And also, I need another one down here. Oh, that already makes it so cute. It's so weird narrating your hobbies, by the way. Like, I'm just I'm still not good at it. Sorry. Maybe one of these days I'll just do like a silent um crafting video or something like that where we're just body doubling. I think that'd be really fun. There's this kind of daisy, very Y2K Lizzie McGuire movie that you probably couldn't see that um washi tape that has like daisies of all different colors on it. So, I'm going to put that on a couple of these photos for a little pizzazz. And yeah, we just need all of the Y2K things and like '9s, too, because I think did Lizzie McGuire come out in 99? No, I think it was like 2000. We'll do some smiley faces. Of course, some stars. I actually think it'd be really cute to do these tie-dyed stars. I think that'll really go with the theme. Do a couple of those. I think two [music] is good. Maybe three. Why not four? Why stop at three? You know what I mean? Maybe a few stars. And I think that's it. Just lots of stars, lots of sparkles. All right, there we go. Second page done. I did Hill Duff cuz I just thought that was cute. We got our cute little photos, cute little stickers. I may stop here. I think that might do it. Honestly, I don't need to. Every time I sit down to do like a hobby, especially my junk journal, for whatever reason, I feel like I need to like do a certain amount or like get up to current. And it's like I could just take 20, 30 minutes and do it like every day or, you know, I don't always have to do these big like 3hour sessions where I'm doing 10 pages. So, like I'm happy with this. I think that that's really, really cute. And I think that is where we will end it. I have a little pouch actually that I keep all of my junk journal stuff in. So, I will just take everything I just did and save it for next time. I need to find the refill for this label maker, though. And then I will put the trash away. And that's pretty much going to do it. We're going to make some dinner. I think tonight we're either going to make sausage and peppers or teriyak meatballs from Trader Joe's. Those are really good. This is my little Ziploc bag that I keep all of our scraps in that I can just grab from if I need like a tiny little piece or something that's not that big. So, stick that [applause] in there with the others. This craft bag is so legit. There's so many pockets and zippers and compartments and velcro pieces and side pockets to put everything you would need for your crafting. You like to take it on the go. It's really good for that. I just keep it in the garage and then I just grab it whenever I need something. And then I just have all of my stickers in one place. I have all of my like um what do you call these? Like edge scissors? Not sure. I have my little edge cutter, edge rounder tool, and it just folds up and zips like this. It's so great. And then I put my printers in the side. Poppy. Can't really see that very well. Oh, I forgot the glue stick. There we go. We're all cleaned up. Then I just fold up my junk drawer. Look at how thick that is. I don't even know if I'm going to be able to finish out the year in this thing because did I start this in 2025? Yeah, I did. So, I mean, we'll see. But I just stick that in the main compartment and we're good to go. So, let me clean up my trash, figure out what we're making for dinner. We're going to have more tea and biscuits, of course, and we're going to keep watching Sterling Point. I think we only watched the first episode, but like it was cute. I've heard lots of people talking about how much they love it. So fingers crossed we will feel the same. We ended up making the pineapple teriyak chicken meatballs. We have some rice, some broccoli, and some Ted Lass. So >> it's where it is. >> It is so much later now. It's almost 10:00. Drew and I have been sitting here on the couch watching Instagram res for like an hour and a half. It's been really nice, honestly. And we were just getting so many nostalgic things one after the other. It would be like Craig David performing in 1999. It would be like clips from Sister Act 2. It would be like musical stuff, Lay Miz. It would be like Beyonce's Bella like Coachella performance. It like so many different things over and over again. And it was spectacular. Um I think we're on episode three of Sterling Point now. It's pretty good. I do feel like it's Drew said like, you know, maybe a little too coming of age for us, but I still think it's cute and I need to give it a fair shot before um I make any judgments. But I mean, we're definitely going to keep watching it. And yeah, just wanted to end this vlog, say thanks so much for hanging out with me. I am going to go take a shower and go to bed, and I will see you guys very soon in the next vlog. Bye. [music]