it's never too late!!! (weekend in my life as a childfree 38 year old)

It's never too late. Cheers. Trader Joe's haul in a new location. I love life, you know. I feel Yeah. Just bummed. >> We're yo-yo people now. >> We are freaking yo-yo people. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Good morning everybody. Welcome back to another vlog. Welcome back to a weekend vlog. It is Friday. We are gearing up for a busy day. It's going to be so fun. Full of social plans. I am very excited. I'm going to put on my accessories while I talk to you. Today I am meeting my friends Alexa and Emma for coffee. We're going to a coffee shop in Newport Beach that I've been wanting to go to and I just have never gotten around to it. And it's called I think it's called Kit Coffee. So, we're going to go check that place out and then pretty much immediately after that, I am going to like grab myself some lunch and then I'm going to head down to San Diego because we are doing our sunset swim tonight and I'm going to hang out with Sierra and the girls. So, even though I can't swim tonight because I got my electrolysis session done yesterday, my third electrolysis session and then also it's only been a week since I got my tattoos. I have to sit this one out, but I can like take pictures of everybody. We still hang out. Like I would say about an hour and a half of it is chatting. An hour and a half of it is swimming. So I will be the content girl. Kenzie had gotten tattoos the last time we were there. And she ended up being like the content gal and now it is my turn. I'm going to throw on some glasses I think. Yeah, that feels right. So yeah, that's kind of the tenative plan for today. This weekend we have D and D night tomorrow. So actually it's going to be a very San Diego heavy weekend which I love because I can listen to my audio book there and back. Like oh the best. and we're going to have our probably last D and D session for the year tomorrow night. So, that'll be really fun. Drew is going to be working on that tonight while I'm gone. And then who knows what we're getting up to Sunday. So, we're going to head off and have a little coffee date. Cheers. Cute. Every time, no matter what I get, it's >> But actually, it's okay. It's a good color. No, it's still >> I got the strawberry alarm clock or something like that. It's a strawberry latte essentially. Let's try it. >> Fun to do strawberry with espresso. >> It's really good. Do you want to try it? >> Yeah. >> I asked for it half sweet and I'm really glad I did. Also, my hair did I came home. I'm going to quickly like smooth my hair out a little bit more, like run a flat iron through it. I changed. I made myself a nice little lunch. Just a quick little school lunch as I like to call it. And then I'm going to keep going for the day. I'm also so excited because I think I have like an hour and 45 minutes left on my audiobook and that's about how long my drive is going to take with traffic. So, I'm going to be thrilled and I'm excited for the beach tonight. It's very hot. We'll still have plenty of cool time. All right, I made it. We just finished our I think third frozen yogurt date as of recently, and I have been enjoying it so much. It's becoming like a bi-weekly thing, which I love. There's actually a Trader Joe's right across from here. Sierra's going to get the girls home and I'm just going to meet them at the house. And I'm going to grab some things to bring to the beach tonight cuz we're doing like a picnic girl dinner type of thing. And I really want to get like some more protein or just things like that. And I think Sierra already has like her snacks and pics. So, I'm going to run over to Trader Joe's really quick. We'll see what we can find for tonight. And then we're going to head back to their house and hang out for a little bit before we head to the beach in like 2 hours. A little less than that. Perfect. Friday afternoon. All right. So, not really sure what I'm looking for, but I think maybe some fruit would be good. Some kind of dip. I know a lot of people are going to be bringing dips. And then maybe I might get more of like those rope chicken bites or something. I don't really know. We'll see. Well, I obviously have to get these first and foremost. Duh. There's always like lots of different salads I could bring, but that's kind of not very sharable. I'm thinking like finger food. There's always like this. People have some meat and cheese with like some crackers. That might be nice. There's a lobna dip which always looks incredible. Actually, that I might go with. We'll see. There's also things like the peaches and cream cream cheese. Not for tonight, but just in general. So good. Buffalo chicken dip. Yum. Chicken bacon ranch dip. Caesar salad dip. This thing is amazing. I've had this before. This with some crackers might be maybe as well. I think I am going to get more of these grilled chicken bites just to have for myself cuz I just want a little more protein. I feel like maybe for something a little more substantial, you get one of each of these. This is the veggie wrap with hummus and the spicy lentil wrap with tahini sauce. and then I can just cut them when I get to Sierra's. I think that might be a good idea. Oh, they have a little section of what's new. There's some alcoholic drinks. These um like Korean cheese corn dogs, ham and cheese croissants, body wash. Well, I need to smell this obviously. M very orangey. There's cherry pie cookies. I might have to get these for Drew. He is an absolute cherry salut. Save those for later. I literally thought these were for people. These just sardines and I realized they're for cats. I'm thinking for crackers. H with the Caesar dip. What would be a good cracker for that? There's also a cracker assortment. Could get that and then everyone could just have everything. Or I could just get like Ritz crackers or like a pa cracker. I feel like a pa may be good with both of those. Should I get multigrain? Sure. Little extra fiber. I just happened to see this as I was walking by the alcohol aisle. They have tangerine cream, like the creamsicle popsicles, but a beer. That looks phenomenal. I'm going to get some of these ranch flavored like Takis. It's basically their version of it. And I'll just take the rest home to Drew cuz he loves them. I think I'm thinking about the speculus. Maybe. Actually, I think I'm going to get some of these dark chocolate rice cakes. Keep it a little lighter. Okay, I think we're good. Trader Joe's haul in a new location. Look, I feel like I'm on a film set. Just kidding. We are uh settling in and I thought I would show you everything I got. So, Sierra, you'll be seeing this for the first time as well. She's doing something on her computer over there. It's mandatory. We've got some bite crackers. We got the rolled corn ranch with basically toffee dupes. I did get these for Drew to try, but I might see if anyone wants them at the beach, too. The cherry pie cookies. I know I like showed all this already. I got the two wraps that I am momentarily going to cut into little like bite-sized pieces. I got the dark chocolate rice cakes. Those are actually pretty good. I got the two dips cuz I couldn't decide between the two. I got the Caesar salad dip and the roasted tomato loba lebbna dip according to this. >> I want to see. >> Come join my haul. >> Yes, I was doing my my super fun mandated reporter training so I can coach you at soccer. >> Love it. Coach Sierra, I got some chicken breast bites. It has the honey mustard dipping sauce. >> Oh my god, you got >> good for I got so many good stuff. >> And then I got these because they're the best grapes ever. I need to put them in the fridge really quick. Have you had these before? We just had those when my brought them over. >> So good. >> Grace was like, "I don't like green grapes." And then she tried these. She's like, "Okay, I like green grapes." >> The crunch is unmatched. So yeah, I just figured we could do like a little bit of everything. I got these for like I don't know, some more substance. And I figured I can cut them into little >> Have you had these ones? >> Um I've had the veggie one. I don't think I've had the lentil one. >> This one is so I figured you'd want to like have >> Oh yeah, totally. There we go. That's my haul. Now we're going to cut this up. >> Yeah. I'll get my cutting board cleaned up and >> Perfect. Thank you. You can slice the knife. >> We have what, like an hour or so until we need to leave. So, we got plenty. >> Yeah, Ty's going to come over to you. >> Lovely. I pulled up a little closer in case you want to pay me, I figured. So, we will check in with you at the beach. >> I'd say actual is a stretch. >> You are. >> It's a little bit of a stretch. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. >> So pretty. It's actually really nice to enjoy it. And this is better than water, but also very beautiful. Sun is now officially down, but it is so beautiful out here. I'm just feeling very grateful to be alive. Like, look at this. Are you joking? This is my Friday night. I love life. >> Hello. It is the next day. It is Saturday now. It's like 100 p.m. I think or maybe just before 1:00 p.m. We are getting ready to head back down to San Diego for our D and D night tonight. So, we're kind of continuing the oneshot campaign we did. So, Drew has been working on that over the last couple of days or like the last day or so. And we're going to head down a little bit early because we want to check out a couple things and I've been seeing a couple of Tik Toks from like bookstores and game stores and things like that. So, I think we might check some of that out depending on how hot it is and how much we want to walk around. And yeah, full disclosure, I have been going through it today. I've just been having a bit of like a health flare up. I think just probably a lot of it is anxiety based. I've just been dealing with a lot of anxiety with doctor stuff and insurance stuff and whatever. Um, and so I've just been kind of like I've been feeling super anxious and like tight chest and you know all that kind of stuff. And so um I think in combination with all of the I've been like able to eat new foods recently. So, I've been kind of like going ham with it. And I think it's been my body isn't tolerating it very well is what I'm trying to say. So, I've just been kind of down in the dumps today. I literally just got out of bed about an hour ago. Um, and yeah, just kind of wanted to keep it real, sprinkling it in with all the other fun stuff and I'm super excited for like the rest of this weekend. But yeah, just kind of going through it a little bit. And this is just part of having a chronic illness like SIBO and whatever the hell else is going on in my gut biome. Um it's just yeah it's just annoying and frustrating and it feels like you know I feel yeah just bummed like a lot of times I just feel bummed that everyone else feels great all the time and it's been over a year now and I still don't feel back to normal and you know setbacks are going to happen obviously and like Drew reminded me of that and it's been a while since I've had one. So, it just sort of is what it is. So, we're going to power through it. I have a tummy ache and I'm being very brave about it. That's the That's the motto for today. >> I feel like that's when >> that's what you looked like. You look like the Leonardo Cath. >> I was I forgot what I was looking for. >> I don't remember. >> Anyways, we're going to go have like a cute little date day and then go off for our DND sesh tonight. Yay. Okay, after a really long drive, we made it. Look how cute it is. It's right here on the corner. It looks like a little town in a quiet village. So cute. Oh my god, it's so cute. What do we have here? Ooh, Withering Heights. You know, I've never read this. I've been meaning to. We also have The Odyssey. We have more classic American literature. They've got board games. Lots of board games. These ones are cute. Nice. >> We found the uh D and D corner. They don't have a lot, but they do have some stuff. They have a little thing where you can make your own dice. Our friends got kittens like in the last I don't know year, and they named their kittens after characters in these books. I've heard a few people talking about this book recently, and I think I might get it. I've been very curious. I'm more of a paperback person, but this will be good to have on a shelf. This book is phenomenal. Favorite one of the year. It is so cute in here. It was like I'm not even kidding almost 90° inside that bookstore. So, we were in there very quickly. I ended up getting the book that I showed, A Good Person by Kristen King. So, that was good. We'll see. I will report back. But in the meantime, there's also a um board game store that's semi- close to here. We don't have that much time. the traffic. It took us like 2 hours to get here. So, we've completely run out of time for the stuff that we wanted to do, but we're going to make one little stop um at like a board game store. I think it's called Board Home. And actually, Rachel and I walked past this back in like I don't know towards the beginning of the year before it was open. And so, now we got to go check it out. Alexa and I filmed a thrifting video in here in like 2019, probably. The ugly thrift store challenge, I think it was called. That was fun memories. It's cute in here. Here it is. The boarding home. >> Swap the intelligence. Feel like >> Get out of my shot. >> God. Hello. >> Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. >> You guys, >> you guys remember that the boat exploded? >> Okay. Okay. So, basically all you're going to do is you're going to roll a certain dice. I wrote everything down. >> Um, and you're going to add that to your total hit points. >> We're about to get started. We're all reviewing our notes. >> Branded. >> These were Sierra's notes from last time. >> Very detailed, but I remember he said we're going to what was it? >> Elanor. >> Eleanor. >> Felenor. >> Felenor. And I was like, the elven city. I wrote that down. >> The one note that lasted. >> Did we sufficiently loot the spider? Was there anything else we could have gotten off of it? >> Um, >> I don't think we looted him. Well, >> was that different? >> This is how I read my preschool. >> A >> So, you guys are go ahead and roll a history check. >> Oh, yeah. >> Everyone, >> everyone everyone can roll history or an straight intelligence check. Just fallen maybe I would say less than a month ago. >> Maybe there's a boat. >> There's a boat. >> Oh, we can just >> I mean there a small dolphin. We're hiding the shoreline. >> Hug the shoreline and loot as we go. >> Okay. So, roll a survivor check. >> Does that mean anything to you? >> You guys draw the symbol. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like in the dirt with like a stick. We just like draw it out like >> or we can make it with our bodies. >> Well, >> we act it out. She's like, >> "Come on, let us move. Please." >> We're not attacking anyone that's not an enemy. We're not attacking within the group anymore. We've beat >> I've been attacked. >> Helga's in the middle. Stop the violence. >> Helga's going world peace. >> Cornelius is in pain. >> What? >> You pushed it. >> No. Wait. Wait. Just # I'm with her. So, yep. We We've said it. We're moving forward. By the way, Jada thinks she's glow in the dark. >> I think I'm glowing. >> What is her little I'm a little baby thing. >> It was really just the moon reflecting on to it, but I was like >> opening your mouth like a flashlight. >> Yeah, >> but nothing is happening. >> We all have nightmares. >> I do have zero intelligence. Okay, >> I hold back and don't trust anyone. >> Um, >> honestly, fair. >> There is a break it >> is. >> All right, hold this. >> How the smash? Okay, go ahead and roll and attack. >> I just love that she said Helga smash. Is it time for Helga? >> Permission for Helga to smash smash. >> Just kind of flops down as you killed it. Um, but >> spooky, you know, my sense. >> I hold back except for me. There is another metal door >> from here. I feel like I was in here in Skyrim. >> machinery. Copper wiring. >> Uh-oh. Oh no. Where'd he go? >> I'll just smash. your Clorox. >> I know that one. >> I mean, I got it. >> All right, it's about to go down. All right, we just got home. It is 10:00. We were FaceTiming with our niece. She was up organizing nail polish with us on FaceTime. It was very cute. But now it is time for bed. I am hoping that I will feel good enough tomorrow to go to Laguna Beach in the morning cuz that is just what my soul is craving. So fingers crossed. I don't know what was going on with the leg. But D and D was so much fun. We had the best time. And now we're going to bed. So we will see you tomorrow. Good night. Good morning. It's the next day. It's now Sunday morning at like 8:00 a.m. I'm just separating some laundry. Drew and I have decided to get up this morning and try a new place we haven't tried yet in Laguna Beach. It's called Wild Strawberry Cafe, I think. And I've seen a lot of people talk about it on like TikTok and stuff. And actually, my dad was the first person to tell me about it. He went there like last summer, shortly after they opened. And he's been asking me regularly if I've gone. And I'm like, "No, no, no, not yet. It's always like pretty busy." But I think because we're up early enough on a Sunday, we should be able to go. We'll see. If not, we can just go somewhere else. But yeah, we're just doing our usual Sunday thing. You know, groceries, cleaning, laundry, etc. Before I head out, here is my outfit of the day. I am wearing this camo top from Tilly's. It's actually 100% cotton tank top and it's lovely. I got it during my um I think my fitting room video that I filmed there. Then I have these capri colot, whatever you want to call them, pants from Urban Outfitters. I have my flip-flops from Javiana. Obviously, if I'm ever wearing shoes, it's going to be my Javiana's or like a sneaker pretty much. Um, my glasses are from I by Direct. They're called the Aven frame, I believe. And then my headband, I think, is from Urban Outfitters. There we have it. my we sat down and placed our order and there's like a gift shop or like a jewelry store or something like that next door and they have a lot of stuff and look whose photo is right next to us. Oh my god. I accidentally ordered us hot banana bread lattes, but they're actually so good. Stunning. Not too sweet. All right, it's a little while later. It's like 10:00 a.m. now and we are I'm just holding my iced coffee and we are um now in Tustin because we remembered that they have on certain Sundays or maybe it's every Sunday, I don't remember, um a little flea market. And the last time we were here, we found a couple cute little home decor pieces. So, I'm hoping to find some vintage. We'll see. cute. >> You do any tricks? >> Um, I do a few. >> Do you not? >> No. Oh, maybe the like triangle one where it >> rock the cradle. Come on. >> Sorry. amateur. >> All right, we're home. We only got a couple things. >> We only got a couple things at the flea market. So random, but we stopped by this booth that had old yo-yos from like I imagine these are from the '9s. Oh, this one says 2004. This one says 2000. So crazy. Um Drew remembers these. They were in Happy Meals. >> Well, no. I mine wasn't Mine was a real like from a yo-yo store, >> but these are from McDonald's. >> Those ones are from McDonald's. >> So, these must have been in Happy Meals, but these are Yomega >> Xrain. Drew knew like all the models and stuff. And then I think I had a Duncan, but I think I maybe had >> definitely had the butterfly, >> like a pink butterfly or something, but I got a pink Imperial. And we decided we're just going to get them and become yo-yo people again. Like, it's never too late to have new hobbies or pick up old hobbies. I do remember that you have to do this. >> Yeah, >> it's spinning. Wait, this is going to be like muscle memory. Wait, come over here. >> I got to open mine. >> Show us your tricks, bro. >> Play with your yo-yo. >> Oh, and then you'd have to wrap it over your finger like that. >> I do remember that. >> Ears and inside of it. >> Uhoh. So, yeah, we're about to become yo-yo people. It was always the middle finger. And then some people would flick it out like that, but I would Oh. >> Oh, like walk the dog. Mhm. >> Oh, you didn't f you didn't do the wrist. >> I think I did both. Oh, I do. That's flying saucer, right? >> Um, yeah, but it has to come back up. >> Oh, well, I haven't gone there. I I'm 38. It's been like 30 years since I did this. Give me a break. Golly. Why isn't it spinning? Cuz you got the McDonald's one. >> Mine does. Look. And then you do >> No. >> Like, do you want a trade? >> Trade. Did you have a bumblebee? All the hot guys in my class have bumblebees. >> Yeah, I'm pretty sure I had a bumblebee. And I had the one there. Firestorm was the same one from the Omega. >> Oh, he's so back. >> Show your skills, babe. Oh, he's walking the dog. >> No, this is sick. You almost didn't want to get these and I said, "We're getting them." Said, "How much?" $5. Yeah. >> Yeah. Is that how you got all the Yeah. And I got you. >> It worked. Oh, >> I didn't even need to show you my yo-yo skills. >> No, I just knew you had them. So, yeah. This is where you'll find us for the next best >> $10 I've ever spent. >> Mhm. And then I ended up getting two bandanas because they're nice and faded and I actually wanted that. So, this red one and then this blue one were each. Were they each $2 or was it $2 for both? >> Each $2. >> Each $2. Not too bad. So, we're going to wash those and I will be doing so many cute little bandana hairstyles, especially because lately my hair has been so frizzy in this humidity. So, I think I just need to like cover it. I think that's really the that's what needs to happen. Anyways, we just switched our laundry. >> We're yo-yo people now. >> We are freaking yo-yo people. And I couldn't be happier about it. Oh, yeah. Give us a good one. Hell yeah. All right, it is a little while later now. I have had some lunch. It's like the perfect time of day for a nap. It's just before 100 p.m. I'm folding up some of our laundry. I think Drew's taking a shower and it's just going to be time to relax and just sort of unwind. And like I really enjoy on a Sunday going out and about during the day or like you know in the morning and then coming home and just really being as horizontal as possible like taking in everything shower getting into fresh clean sheets finishing laundry watering plants like doing things around the house but then absolutely relaxing for the rest of the evening. So I think that's what we're going to do. I am going to order some groceries. Just going to get them delivered because convenience, am I right? And I've been thinking a lot today specifically about how it's never too it's never too late to do the things you want to do in life. You know, like this past weekend, my dad went to his hometown in Minnesota where he's from and played this like festival thing called Corn Days in his hometown. He's been dreaming of doing this since he was young. He's 72 years old. Or is he 73? Did he just turn 73? I think he did. Like it. And I'm just thinking about how even just buying the little yo-yos and things that make me really happy. I've been thinking about how I want to start getting back into um like fragrances that I used to really enjoy. It was really spurred on by this main channel video that I filmed this week where I literally tried on an outfit that I would have worn myself in 2006 and I included a fragrance because I just wanted the nostalgia and it just made me think about how like yeah I feel like we especially as we get older we think that maybe things always have to stay the same or that we can't have any room to change or that like your life just sort of is stuck where it's at And it's not and it's not too late to like change it up. Do something you want to do. Um like live life more non-traditionally, whatever. And especially after my dad played his Corn Days show, it just made me feel like, yeah, it's never too late. You know, my battery is going to die soon. But that's just what I've been thinking about as I've been sitting here folding laundry and like eating my lunch and stuff is just that I feel inspired to like know that there are so many wonderful things waiting for me in life that still haven't happened yet. Friendships, trips, life experiences, animals, all of the above, you know, and I'm excited about it. Just always follow your dreams, you know. There's no age limit on dreams. It's never too late to restart something. It's never too late to start something for the first time. It's never too late to like write a new chapter, start a new journey. I was literally watching a video from this girl who lives in the UK and she and her husband couldn't decide like where they wanted to live. She wanted to live kind of down by the seaside. He works in London. So, they decided to just like rent separate places and they're just going back and forth between the two places. And they're living like separately part of the time, together another part of the time. And I just find that so inspiring. Like this is your one life. Do you know what I mean? Like do whatever you want to do. It's not too late. I would say like an average person would be like, "You're stuck in this like sort of situation." And they're like, "No, I want to do something else." Like living non-traditionally, it's just it's it's so authentic and it's so magical and I love it so much. I would love if you guys could tell me like something that you've done recently that is like either non-traditional or restarting an old hobby or starting a new journey for the first time or whatever it is because I would love to fill up the comments with inspirational things like that and just being able to share sort of what we've been up to and like give a little bit of yeah positivity and hope, you know what I mean? I think that would be very special. All right, and on that note, I think I am actually going to end the vlog here. I'm going to go do the everything shower. I'm going to do all the things that I just mentioned and just really relax for the rest of the day. So, I hope you enjoyed spending the weekend with me. Let me know what you were up to this weekend in the comments. I really appreciate you being here so so much and I will see you very soon in my next vlog. Bye.