Life as a solo home owner and business owner // Weekly vlog

Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Welcome back to another vlog. Starting this vlog off already with another house problem. Totally self-inflicted. I just unloaded the dishwasher, loaded the dirty dishes, cleaned the sink, went to go run the garbage disposal cuz there was a little bit of like some rice and um little like fruit scraps in there and immediately it was like making a weird noise. So, I turned it off and then I should have literally I should have went with my instincts. I should have turned it off immediately and checked, but it just like in my mind I was like there can't be something hard in there. Like what is I don't know. So, I turned it back on and then it like just stopped on its own. So, I was like, okay, great. Um, so then I like took my flashlight and looked in the drain and I realized cuz I was like, "What could possibly be in there?" I didn't have anything small. I didn't notice any like anything broken in the sink. Um, like, you know, broken dish or anything that there could be like a piece stuck. Then I realized I have these little plastic shot glasses and I had two of them in the sink. totally forgot and I was like, "Oh, I definitely only loaded one into the dishwasher." So, this little plastic shot glass is literally the perfect size. It must have got pushed down the drain and I didn't realize. And yeah, it was in the garbage disposal and it got shredded up. Um cuz I could see like clear At first I thought it was glass and I'm looking to see like did any of my mugs break and then I realized what it was. It's my clear plastic shot glass. I was googling I'm like, am I am I going to have to like take this whole entire thing apart? Now, it looks like the solution shouldn't be too difficult. Hopefully, it says to like use pliers or something, obviously not your fingers, to pull out whatever is in there that's causing it to be stuck. And then use a little wrench to like loosen the blades. Um, and then hit the reset button and it should kick back on. So, I'm hoping I don't have time right now to mess with that, but I'm really, really hoping, keeping my fingers crossed, that when I get home from work tonight, it will be a simple solution and I can fix it myself and I didn't destroy my garbage disposal that I literally just got a few months ago. I really need to get in the habit of checking with the flashlight, like looking inside of it first to double check that there's nothing in it before I turn it on every time. Like, note to self, learning from my mistakes. At least I'm having a good hair day, though, right? You know, there's one upside. I've just been letting my hair air dry 95% of the time lately. Um, and I love how that looks, but there's just something about having a fresh blowout that just feels so good and polished and like put together. I gave myself a blowout last night and then I used like a large barrel curling iron just to like really reinforce it and then I slept with my hair. I had the front pieces in a roller and then the rest of it I had in these blowout rods. So, let me know if you guys want to see a tutorial. And then I'm going to do a little bit of the Orbe dry texturizing spray. Adds that texture which gives it volume. Like look at that side compared to this side. Cuz my hair I would say density wise is like pretty average. It's like medium density but like obviously who doesn't love some extra volume? Then I'm going to take a little bit of the Orbe Gold Lust Nourishing Oil and then just lightly run it through the ends. Maybe I'll do a whole separate video all hair related because I do get a lot of questions about my hair so I can do like my full routine and share all of my favorite products, what I do with it, how I've gotten it healthy and long and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, let me know if you would like to see that and what kind of stuff you want me to share in that video. Like if there's any questions you have. Anyway, I feel like when my hair is done like this, I really don't need to do much else, you know? Like the hair is doing all the work for me. So, I'm just going to do a little bit of sunscreen. I mix just like my regular face SPF with a tinted serum SPF. And then I'm just going to do a little bit of under eye um like color correcting concealer just to brighten up that area. And then probably just like a little bit of brow gel. And I think that's it. I'm not going to do anything else on my skin. This stuff is so good. The Charlotte Tilbury Magic Vanish. because it doesn't look like you put anything on, but it really does just like erase your under eye circles. And then just a little brow gel to hold these brows in place. And that's it. We're just going to go natural today. Let me figure out an outfit real quick. Okay, this lighting is terrible. Sorry. But I have this extra long high neck tank from Old Navy. And then I'm just wearing it with my black Free People barrel jeans. Simple, easy. Do you guys remember? I feel like I used to see ads on Instagram for this brand all the time, but I haven't lately. But the brand is called Kaduchi, I think, if I remember correctly. I'll find a link and put them down below, but um they're supposed to be like high quality, waterproof, like vintage Italian inspired. And I think they're even supposed to be made in Italy. Um but watches, let's let's go out here cuz the lighting in there is so bad you can't even see anything. I got three and I've had them for about a year now, I want to say. But yeah, they've held up great. And I try to not have them be in water too much. Like if I know I'm going to the pool, I'm going to the beach, I'm getting in the shower. Um I'll take them off if I remember to, but there's definitely been multiple times where I've worn them in the shower. Um, and like obviously I wear them to work and my wrists get wet sometimes when I'm shampooing a client and yeah, they have held up great. Like no tarnishing. Um, nothing's broken. My first client just texted me that she's running a little bit behind, which is actually kind of perfect because her hair is kind of on the shorter side. So, it never takes the full amount of time to do. I was going to probably end up having a little bit of a gap after her appointment anyway. So, now this just gives me a little extra time to just take my time setting up and um maybe I'll get a coffee or something on my way cuz I do have to stop at um Salon Centric to get a little bit of color for this week anyway. Um but I'm excited for work this week because yesterday I had four new appointment requests and it's always so funny to me. I feel like we are all like a hive mind or something. I swear because everyone always seems to do things at the same time. I'll have weeks where multiple people want to reschedule or I'll get nothing for like a couple weeks and then all of a sudden one day multiple people all reach out within like the same hour or two. And it's just like so funny to me. It's it's weird. Um and this happens all the time. It's like this constant cycle where I'll be crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy busy and then it'll be super super super slow. And even though I know like I've told myself, "Oh my god, there's a little lizard on the side of my house. Can you see it right there? Cute." Sorry, I'm like a freaking dog right now. Like squirrel lizard. Anyway, um what was I saying? No, I will like have these moments even though I know I know that everything it always happens the same way every time, but I will literally get to a point where I'm like, "Wow, it has been slow all month. Am I going to be able to continue?" Cuz like working fully for yourself is the best. Like it's so amazing and empowering and like I feel like I have to pinch myself all the time cuz I'm it's just crazy to me still that like I am my own boss. I answer to no one. It's literally I mean obviously I answer to my clients but like you know it's so cool and great and amazing to like make your own schedule and have like total freedom and flexibility and all those things. However, it can be very scary at times because, you know, like I said, I'll have a slow month and then I'm like, uh, okay, if this keeps up the same way, am I going to be able to continue doing this? Like, am I going to afford to pay all my bills? And like, obviously with the prices of everything just continuously going up, it gets scary. Um, so yeah, I definitely have my moments where I'm like, uhoh, am I going to have to like figure out a different career or like get an extra job on the side or something, you know? But yeah, every time it happens like this where just as I start to think that, a bunch of people reach out and want to book appointments and then I end up getting really busy again. So, I'm very grateful for that. And actually this evening I have a new client. So I need to make sure because it was like a very last minute thing and it worked out perfectly because I happened to have a free spot. She's needing a color correction. Wanted to get in ASAP. So I offered her the slot this evening. So I got to go and get color um cuz I need to make sure I have everything I need to do her hair tonight. But that'll be fun. I'm looking forward to that. But I got to go. So I will see you when I get to the salon. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Okay, it is several hours later. Switching the disposal breaker back on. I was just using and sorry I didn't vlog this. I was on the phone with my mom the whole time. She happened to call me while I was driving home. Um but I just used the flashlight and was looking in there and I just used these tongs to pull out all of the pieces of plastic. And then there were like little small shards and it was completely dry in there. So, I just used my vacuum hose. I was able to just get in there and get every last little piece. And then it seems like the blades are loose, like they're able to move around in there. Um, and then it said online that there's should be a red reset button, which there was underneath here. And it said if it's popped out, you should be able to just pop it back in. And it was popped out. So, popped it back in. So hopefully that's a good sign. So far everything is like seeming good. So we're going to run some cold water. I'm so nervous. Moment of truth. God bless. I was so nervous. I was like, "Don't tell me I messed this up." I have had I've lived in apartments with garbage disposals so many times. Multiple apartments years I've had a garbage disposal and this has never happened to me. And I'm like, "Of course, when I am in a house where now I own all this crap and I can't just put in a work order and have a maintenance person come and fix it or replace it for me for free, this happens." Like anyway, but now again I keep saying like every time something goes wrong, there's some kind of mishap or whatever with the house, my initial gut instinct is to panic and be like, "Oh my god, this is how am I going to get this fixed?" And I get scared that it's going to be like this huge deal and super expensive. But every time, knock on wood, like nothing major has happened so far. And you know, hopefully nothing does, at least for a very long time. But it just ends up being a learning lesson for me because I learn more and more about how these different things work and how to fix certain issues and how to maintain things and just how to avoid problems in the future. And it just makes me more confident as a homeowner every time because little by little all of these things that I didn't know how they work. I'm I'm figuring that out. And it's very empowering, I must say. And thank God that we live in a day and age where we can just Google everything. We can ask chat GPT. There's a YouTube tutorial to do pretty much anything. So, I always do that. Like I always I try to like, you know, of course I have my initial moment of panic, but then I try to like stay calm, not freak out, and just Google and like, you know, before I immediately jump in and try to like mess with something, I do a little bit of research. And yeah, I'm so happy. Good morning. Happy Thursday. I almost said Friday because to me it kind of is like a Friday, but it's Thursday. I did not vlog anything yesterday. Sorry about that. It was just like a long work day and it was one of those days where I was just back to back with clients and I was just trying to get through the day. It's currently 700 a.m. I got up a little early because my best friend is coming down here to visit me and she's bringing her boyfriend with her and I'm so excited. They're coming for just a long weekend visit. But she hasn't been down here since I first was moving into the house. Like last time she was here was around New Year's and she was helping me move and do stuff in the house, but she hasn't been here since I've been living here and since I've made it an actual home. So, I'm really excited for her to see everything. And her boyfriend has never been down here ever before. I just really want to make sure I mean anytime I'm going to have guests over, even if it's just my parents, I always just for my own peace of mind like to make sure everything is like clean and tidy because I know it's going to get messy by the time their visit is over. So the cleaner it is when they get here, I just feel good cuz I'm like, "Okay, here you are. You're coming and staying." I feel like I'm being a good host by having obviously like a clean house to arrive to, but then also it makes like the clean up at the end of the visit easier on myself. I've been kind of like tidying up a little bit over the last few days, but there's still stuff that I want to do and I do have to go out. Um, I have Pilates and then I have one client at the salon. So, it's kind of like crunch time because I'm not 100% sure what time they're going to get here, but I want to try to have everything like clean and done before I have to leave just in case they happen to get here around the same time that I'm getting back. So, I have some dirty dishes in the sink. I need to load into the dishwasher. I want to clean the countertops in the kitchen, clean the floors. I need to vacuum all of the floors down here. Um, I washed the sheets for the guest bed upstairs. So, I just need to make that bed and then just make sure like that room is still kind of a mess. But, I just want to make sure that it's at least like clean and there's space for them to put their stuff. And then I need to clear off my dining room table because it is a mess. And at least one of the nights that they're here, I'm planning on making dinner here. And it's just been way too humid and rainy and disgusting to sit outside and use the outdoor dining table. So, I want to make sure that my inside table is cleared off so that we can be in the dining room. Then, I've also been accumulating a bunch of stuff in my Walmart cart. So, I need to look over that, make sure I'm not forgetting anything, and then place a pickup order. So, that way while I'm out later today, I can just go pick that up, and it'll save me time from having to actually like go in the store and do the shopping myself. Oh, and I need to go to the bank um to make a deposit. I think that's everything I need to do. So, it's just going to be like a busy first half of the day, but I'm so excited. I'm pretty sure aside from my immediate family, like my parents and my brother, I don't think I've had like real house guests here yet. So, it's really exciting. I can't wait to eventually have the upstairs be like renovated and painted and, you know, decorated the way that I ultimately want it to. That's still not going to be for a long time. But for now, at least I feel good that downstairs feels pretty much not totally finished, but it's like 90% of the way where I want it to be. So, I just can't wait for them to come, for them to see the house in person, and just yeah, get to host my first real house guest. But first, I need to caffeinate and wake up a little bit and then start cleaning up. I swear nothing will motivate me more to get up off my ass and clean than knowing I'm about to have people over. So, I finished just in time. Well, I'm almost finished. Everything is like basically at a place now where it's fine. Like the majority of things I wanted to get done and the most important things I needed to get done are done now. Um, but I need to leave in the next probably like 15ish minutes. If I want to have enough time to stop at the bank before I go to Plotties, which honestly, if I don't have time to do that, it's not the end of the world. I could always just go like early next week. But I still wanted to do that. Go to the bank, go to Pilates. I placed my pickup order, so that should be ready by the time I am done with Pilates. So, and it's right next door to the Pilates studio. So, I'm going to run to Walmart, get my pickup order, come back home, put the groceries away, and hopefully I'll have like 15 to 20ish minutes when I get back here to like put all that stuff away and maybe do like one more quick thing if I need to. Um, and then run to the salon, do my one client, and then that'll be it. I'll be done. Come back home. And my friend texted me. Their ETA right now is like around 2:00. My client's at 1:00. So, they're going to get here. She knows how to let herself in. Um, but they're going to probably be here by the time I get back from work. So, yeah. I'm definitely glad that I got up early this morning so that I could clean up because honestly, as I was doing everything, I was like, "Oh, I didn't even like there were so many things that I didn't even think of that I'm glad I was able to do." I'm sorry I didn't get, you know, time lapse of me racing around like a mad person cleaning every room, but I just needed to like zone in. But look how good it looks in here. the dining room. I have not seen the top of my dining room table in a very, very, very long time. There was so much stuff on there. So, I cleared that off. And I vacuumed the floor in here. Um, cleaned the top of the table and on top of all of these cabinets and bar and the bar cart. So, it's feeling nice and fresh and clean in here. I do have this still against the wall, which I don't know. I could put it out in my shed, I guess, but it's whatever. Like, it's out of the way. Um, these are pieces to a pergola that I've been wanting to put in the backyard, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. So, I don't know. I'll see when I get back with the groceries. If I end up having an extra minute, I'll just scoop this up really quick and just toss it in the shed, I guess, just to get it out of here for now. But, yeah, feeling nice and clean in here. And I lit some candles throughout the house just to like get good smells going. But I also have had clothes in the dryer. So it just smells really nice and fresh and clean and like laundry in here, which is nice. I meant to turn this on before I leave. So we got a full load of dishes in the dishwasher going. I cleaned all the countertops. This is stuff that needs to go out to the shed that was sitting on top of the dining room table. So again, when I get back in a couple hours, I'm going to grab that stuff and I'll probably put the pergola stuff and just throw it in the shed really quick. I still need to clean the floors in here. Um, but honestly, we're going to be like coming and going a lot in here, so I'm probably not going to even bother mopping and like doing all that. I'm just going to give it like a quick sweep or vacuum. Then out here, I dusted off all the dog hair from everything. Um, and laid blankets down on the couch to keep it covered so it doesn't accumulate more dog hair. But yeah, out here is looking good. I need to vacuum still out here. I did some of it. Um, but you can see there's still some dog hair clumps. But my cordless vacuum that I have down here died, so I have that plugged in. And actually, oh, it's 18%. That should be enough of a charge actually for me to just do this one room really quick because this and the kitchen are the only things left that I still need to vacuum. Um, but yeah, it's feeling nice and tidy in here of garbage I have to go put outside. I vacuumed the steps, the entryway. This is stuff I'm bringing with me to the salon. But yeah, out here is nice and tidy and clean as well. And then upstairs, this is where they're going to be staying. So, luckily, I don't ever really come up here. Like, this doesn't get used. So, I put out some fresh towels. Since I never come up here and use this bathroom really, I forgot that I hadn't cleaned it since the last time I had someone stay here. And I think my brother was the last one here. And I think he shaved at one point cuz there was like a bunch of little hairs and I totally forgot and didn't do anything of it. So I'm glad I had the time and um yeah, so I cleaned the vanity and the toilet and everything. So in here is nice and clean. Um and then the guest bedroom. I washed this blanket and it's just like takes forever to dry in the dryer. So it's like 95% dry at this point. So, I just kind of hung it out here and I have the ceiling fan on to let it finish drying completely. But I made the little guest bed. So, you can see like it's still a work in progress in here and definitely a mess. And this room is just kind of like used for storage right now. Eventually, my plan is to redo this room, make it look really nice, rip up this carpet, put nicer floors in, and paint it, put up curtains, change the ceiling fan, just make it look so much nicer. But for now, there's a bed. There's enough room that they can like, you know, put their stuff wherever. A little table, a TV. What more do you need? So, yeah, we're in pretty good shape. I'm going to go around and blow out these candles before I forget. And then my room. I have clean laundry I need to put away and like some packages. And there's just crap in here. It's a mess. But no one needs to go into this room. So, as far as anyone is concerned, that door shut. It's so nice and clean and beautiful and tidy in here. So, let's go run these errands, head to the bank, go to Pilates, get my grocery pickup, bank check. Pilates done. No freaking way. I'm at the Walmart pickup and I've done this a bunch of times before. It's very straightforward. I checked in, pulled into the spot, said what spot number I'm in. I've been sitting here now for over 15 minutes. And at first, I was just sitting here and no one was coming out for the longest while. And now a few cars have pulled in and like just pulled in within the last like 5 minutes and their stuff's been brought out to them already. And they're like big orders, too. It's not like my order is bigger and it's taking longer. And I got a text over an hour ago at this point that it was ready for pickup and I arrived within my pickup window. I don't understand. I'm like, why? Where's my stuff? And why are people who got here Maybe this is it. They're coming out again. Like why people who got here after me, why did they get their stuff already? Yes. Hello. Good morning. >> Sorry about the weight. >> Okay, she was super sweet. So, it's fine. I can't even be that mad. But now I have to race home. Of course, now everyone is behind me. But I have to race home, put this stuff away, and I'm probably not going to end up having extra time to do anything else. So, we're just going to have to throw these groceries in the fridge and jump back in the car and run over to work. I hate when I leave a lot of things to be like somewhat last minute, but I always do it anyway. I'm such a procrastinator and I feel like I need the stress to like motivate me to actually get everything done that I have to do. But um I hate like having to rush. But it's all it's fine. It's all good. We're in like the final stretch of what I need to do. So, once I get to the salon and I start my client, everything will be fine and I can just finally like take a breath of fresh air and relax and take my time. Okay, we're done. It feels so good to just get to like breathe finally. My client's hair went well. Sorry I didn't get a clip of it. Totally forgot. We were like deep in conversation talking about the Lindsy Clancy trial. Let me know if you've been keeping up with it. But yeah, super easy in and out. We just did a toner and a trim and I finished her hair even faster than I was expecting. So, I love that. And I haven't gotten like a alert from my Ring camera that anyone's at my house. So, my friend has not arrived yet, which is good. So, hopefully we'll kind of get there around the same time cuz I'm just so excited to see her. And I didn't want them to just be like hanging out at the house bored waiting around for me. So, um I'm very excited for the weekend. Oh, and I wanted to give a quick update on my IUD because in my last vlog, I got so many comments from you guys and I really appreciate all of the like feedback you were giving me and like sharing your experiences cuz it's so interesting to see how like everyone's experience is so different. I know people who have had IUDs and most of them have had good experiences, but obviously like that's not the case for everyone and you hear horror stories. So, I stopped feeling pain. I think I shared in the last vlog I was like having the stabbing pain. It was like really uncomfortable. It was like intense period cramps, but also I could feel it like poking me and it was really painful. And it was a little alarming. I know some people were saying like, "Oh, it's probably not a good sign, but then I was reading that a lot of people experienced that within the first week of getting it." And my doctor had told me that, you know, I would probably feel pain and discomfort and I would feel it poke and all that stuff. So, it was kind of what I was expecting. Um, but also the pain stopped. Like, I stopped feeling the poking sensation like just shy of a week after getting it put in. And now at this point, it's going to be 2 weeks since I've had it. Um, this Saturday will make 2 weeks. And this whole week, I've felt totally fine. like no cramping at all whatsoever. Um, no bleeding. Like I feel completely normal. I feel like certain positions that I'll get in when I'm doing Pilates mainly, I can kind of feel that there's something in there, I guess, but it's not jabbing me and it's not painful at all or even uncomfortable. It's just like, oh yeah, it feels like there's something there. But it's been totally fine so far. And like I know some people were saying like not to be TMI, but I know some people were saying like when they were intimate with it with the IUD in it was like very painful for them and sometimes for their partner too. I haven't experienced that at all. There's been no issue in that department whatsoever. So we will see. Obviously it's still very early on and I still have yet to get a period. So, when I do get my period, I know the IUD can definitely make your periods more intense, uh, heavier, longer, more cramping. So, we'll see how that goes. The doctor did tell me that it would take a few months to let it adjust and for me to really know how it's going to work for me. Anyway, all that to say, as of now, everything is fine and I feel good. So, I'm going to keep it in for now, see how it goes, and then yeah, if my if it ends up making my periods awful, I might take it out and figure something else out. But it was really huge for me to not do anything hormonal because I was on the pill for a long time when I was younger and I just I didn't like it and I just and it took me so long to like detox my body from that and to get my hormones to regulate and I just don't want to go down that path again unless I like absolutely really had to. So, yeah, that's why I decided to do the copper IUD. So, that's my update on that. But, I'm going to end this vlog here because I am ready to just clock out for the weekend so I can go spend time with my friends. So, thank you guys so much for watching. I hope that you have an amazing week and I'll see you really soon in my next one. Bye.