weekend VLOG! sunset swim, trader joe's haul, what i'm reading & a big reset!

[music] >> We're so bad. >> [music] >> You're fighting for your life right now. >> [music] [music] >> Hello everybody. Welcome back to another vlog and welcome back to a weekend vlog. I am going to take you along with me this weekend. Today is Friday and I have about like a work half day ahead of me and then I'm actually going to be driving down to San Diego to see my friend Sierra and Rachel and Kenzie and other girlies because Sierra invited me to go on like a little girls sunset swim um and I've never done that before. I actually only recently started swimming in the ocean so this is very new and exciting for me. I never [clears throat] would have had the courage to do this before so that's going to be really fun and we're going to do like a little picnic before we swim and then I'm just going to drive back up here after the sun sets. And yeah, it's going to be a blast but first I have some filming to do for my main channel. I have an integration that I need to film. I have couple other things I need to do around the house. I need to send some footage to my editor for my main channel video for this week. I have a brand approval that I'm waiting on that I need to upload and schedule that video. You know, just random computer things and then I think around lunchtime depending on traffic I am going to hit the road and then maybe potentially download a new audiobook. That sounds really nice. So yeah, probably going to give myself the next 3-4 hours to do as much as I can before I head out like I'll have lunch and all that kind of stuff and then we will continue on with our weekend. I'm so excited. All right, got all my filming done. Well, most of it. I have some editing stuff to do before I go. I'm trying to remind myself that I am not in the trenches during a world war. That's what my nervous system likes to think. I just have to like edit and answer emails and like get back to brands or just like stick up for myself, you know? I don't know. I'm going to have a little snack. I'm going to have an RXBAR. This is the What is this? Chocolate sea salt flavor. And then I'm going to have one of these meat sticks that I got at Costco. It's the Mighty Spark chicken snack stick. So all together these have like 20 g of protein. I've been trying to be like a little more balanced with protein and fiber especially. Like just trying to Yeah, prioritize them more and find food and snacks that like help make me feel good and satisfied. And like you guys know I've been struggling because of my PCOS/PNOS for a while and then like having SIBO and all that kind of stuff. It just sometimes makes eating difficult. And you know, having like food intolerances now and just all sorts of random stuff. And so that is why I am super grateful for the sponsor of today's vlog, Nourish. I'm going to eat my snack and then we will continue talking about them. I need to have like a piece of fruit or something with this. Just kidding. 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And then I need to pack up my beach bag and then we're going to head down to the beach. It's a quite a cloudy day today, honestly, so I'm hoping that the clouds will clear up by like 1:00 2:00 something like that. I think it will cuz it's supposed to be pretty warm today. It has been many hours now. I've just finished lunch, got all my work done. I packed my beach bag. Oh, it's in the car. I'm like, "Where is it?" I got my towel. I got my blanket. I got my chair. I got my bathing suit. I have my water bottle. I have Drew's behind me going, >> [ __ ] >> Yeah, I think we're good. So we're going to head down to San Diego. I think it's going to take like an hour and a half, 2 hours to get there, which is crazy, but Oh, thank you. Drew just handed me my French cigarette. French cigarette? French. And I think I'm going to download a new audiobook to listen to. I think I'm going to do Strangers by Belle Burden cuz I've seen a lot of people talk about that and I feel like that would be an entertaining one to listen to. So we're going to head down and have a little girl time in San Diego. >> [music] >> All right, we just left frozen yogurt. It was delicious and we've just been yapping, catching up and now we're going to run into Target really quick because we're going to get some snacks for tonight because we're doing I think I mentioned this but we're doing like a little beach picnic before we do our swim. Really I kind of had a late lunch and then I drove out here and then we just had frozen yogurt so like it's just going to be a girl dinner basically is what I'm trying to say. So let's get some snacks. I am in need of some Percy Pigs badly. Now this is what I'm here for. Yes. And yes. There are sweet and fiery Gushers now. What? Spicy Gushers? I don't know how I feel about sour is like one thing but I don't know how I feel about spicy. For snack I'm thinking some everything pretzels and some dip. I'm always curious about the newest flavors of Oreos and this one with cinnamon bun flavor which is interesting and then I saw that they also have Oreo brownies. Sounds really good and then these are amazing if you haven't had them, the Reese's Oreos. Delicious. We're so back. >> [laughter] >> Daisy is so bad. We're so bad. Imagine if this was my Oh my god I'm so excited. Oh I was going to say imagine if this was my thumbnail pose that I was just doing. We're so American actually. We're very good lighting. I know it's actually like weirdly good. Trying to make a decision on a hummus Okay Grace, I need your opinion on hummus. Should I get garlic or roasted red pepper? Red pepper. She didn't miss a beat. Great palate she said. Roasted red pepper it's all I eat plain. But anything not plain she's like but I should have roasted red pepper or wheat. In you go. Look at my cute little bag. So tiny. >> [music] >> All right, we just parked at the beach and we had gone back to Sierra's house changed really quickly. We've gotten all of our snacks and everything and now we're going to head down to the beach for our little picnic and our swim. I'M SO excited and scared and excited. >> [music] >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. >> [music] >> I'm fighting for my >> [music] >> life right now. Okay. >> [music] >> Oh my gosh, that was so much fun. I felt like a kid again. It was deeply humbling. I was you guys fighting for my life. Those waves I was not prepared for. Also the shore is so different there than like it was in, you know, Newport, Laguna. It's like very steep and rocky and then it gets like deep and there's a bunch of seaweed and then there's like a sand bar and it was just it was a learning experience. The current was crazy. I don't even think that was that wild of like a night, but I swallowed two gallons of ocean water. Like, but it was just so fun and it was like amazing to look up and see the sunset and we were all just like laughing and talking and it was really lovely. So, I think we might try to make this like a bi-weekly thing and maybe next time I might like spend the night cuz I really want to like go back to Sierra's and hop in the hot tub. She actually offered and I was like I need to get home. So, I'm going to be getting home at 9:30. That's not that bad. Going to take an everything shower, go to bed, and I will see you guys tomorrow. Good morning. It is Saturday morning. I am just getting ready to head out with Drew. He's actually going to a Magic the Gathering thing and I'm going to tag along with him and spend the day with my friend Laura cuz I haven't seen her in like probably a month, maybe more than that. So, it is definitely time and actually her sweet soul dog passed away. It's so sad and he was the best. I loved him so much. I like pet sat him when they went to New Zealand a few years ago and he was just such a special boy. And so, I ended up making her like a little gift. I got her an initial necklace that says a C on it for Charlie and then I made her like a little framed photo thing. I forgot to show it. Maybe if I remember, I'll take a picture of it and show you. But, we're going to spend the day together, do our usual thing, you know, our girls day, our lunch, wine bar, etc. So, this is my very casual OOTD. It's going to be hot today, okay? Very, very hot. I have on my Classy Network. This is like my uniform, basically. My Classy Network um like built-in bra tank top, my Old Navy I think these are technically they're calling them jorts. They're like capris, culottes, whatever you want to call them. My Havaianas and this polka dot headband. Let's go! >> [music] [music] [laughter] >> Good morning. It is the next morning. It's like 9:00 a.m. on Sunday now. No Sunday is complete without a coffee run, so we're actually going to go into one of our favorite coffee shops and get our favorite lattes, possibly maybe like sit at the park, just enjoy this nice little Sunday, and then we need to get some groceries. I need to do a little bit of a reset for the week ahead, maybe like start our laundry, do the dishes, you know, all that kind of stuff. It's just been such a good weekend, so we're going to finish it out strong with a nice little weekend reset. Or is it a reset for the week ahead? Is it a week reset? Anyways, >> [music] >> Taste [music] test. My decaf iced oat latte as per usual. It hits every time. [music] Honestly, delicious. I know La Colombe is like technically, I think, a chain, like a small chain, but their coffee is just so good. Strongly recommend. >> [music] [music] >> All right, I have redone my hair cuz it got really frizzy at the park, and I actually changed my shirt. The other gray tank top I was wearing, I like that one, but like I've been noticing lately a lot of my tank tops stick out like this. It's like they fit me everywhere else but in the bust. I just have that issue with a lot of the tops that I wear. So it felt like I was like giving side boob, and I didn't really want to be doing that. So anyway, I put on some earrings. I brushed and smoothed my hair out a little bit, and now we're back, and we're going to start our laundry. The reset starts now. >> [music] [music] >> Drew's taking out the trash. I'm going to empty her unload the dishwasher. This is always one of those tasks that feels like it takes forever, and then one time I set an alarm or like a timer to see how long it took me and it took me like 3 minutes and I was like, okay, can never complain about that again. >> [music] [music] >> Just made myself a little snack, changed over my water bottle for the week. I always on Sundays like switch and wash my other water bottle and then switch to a clean one. So that's good. I need to hydrate today cuz you know, I had a little bit of wine yesterday. And now we're going to head to Trader Joe's and do some grocery shopping. Strawberry plums. So delish. Sure. Look at the size of this thing. You can't even tell. What if I put a normal one next to it? This is like a normal eggplant. You versus the guy she tells you not to worry about. Thank >> [music] >> god. Look who's back. All right, we're home and it is time for the Trader Joe's haul. Duh. I got some sweet potatoes. We got some Manzanilla olives. Drew likes to do these in like a charcuterie board. Got some brussels sprouts, some bananas. Drew likes he tried his mom's of this and it's the ultra moisturizing hand cream. It's actually really nice. He's bought a couple of those. We got some bluey bluey stringles. These are just string cheese, yeah. Dad! We tried this when we were back in Arizona and it was really good. We gobbled it up and this is the ranch cottage cheese dip. You can dip like pretzels. we were even dipping tacos in there, veggies. I got some apple chips. These are really good just to snack on every now and again. We got some actual apples. I think these are Cosmic Crisp apples, I'm pretty sure. I saw another girl walk past me and she had like six of these in her cart and I was very curious about it, so I got two. But it's basically just grilled chicken with like a little packet of honey mustard dipping sauce and I thought it sounds good for like a snack. Drew got these passion fruit rounds that he loves. They're like a fruit leather with passion fruit seeds in it. Drew loves this aioli garlic mustard sauce. This is so garlicky and so horseradishy. >> It makes my nose burn. >> Yeah, it is like gnarly. We got some gyoza sauce, some more of these protein pancakes. These are actually pretty good. We got some of their hash browns which are amazing in the air fryer. We got some broccoli, more charcuterie things, pepperoni oops, sorry, pepperoni, New Zealand sharp cheddar and cashews. We actually got quite a lot of stuff, but I mean, we are set. We got our Oh, it got really smashed. Oh my god. We got our R&G pizza. It's like a supreme or something like that, like a thin crust. Two bags of their mashed potatoes, the frozen ones. They're so easy. We got one of their packs of frozen rice that are very convenient. I got one of their teriyaki bowls. I've got these chicken burgers. Haven't tried them, but I thought it Jesus, sorry about that. I thought these would be good to have just as a lunch with like a veggie. They're Dutch griddle cakes. These are Drew's favorite. He's obsessed. Some Mexican cheese. We got some fire roasted peppers and onions. These are just good to have in the freezer if we forget to have fresh on hand for taco bowls and other things. Got some grilled chicken, some ground turkey. We got their pineapple teriyaki chicken meatballs and then their chicken apple sausage or just chicken sausage, sweet Italian style. Drew got a couple pastas to try out. He really likes their quick and easy like lunch dinner pastas. This one is rigatoni with asparagus, broccoli, and green peas in a cream sauce. And then this is a spinach and artichoke pasta, which looks really good. We got some chicken shumai cuz they were out of the gyoza. And then some frozen raspberries. I have those in my yogurt bowls everyday because great fiber. Then we got some zucchini, some red sweet red cherries, some strawberry plums, which I'm very excited to try. Those look delicious. We're eating a lot of fruit this week. And then the Autumn Crisp grapes. Thank goodness. These are the best grapes you'll ever have. As your honorary grape influencer, you have to try them. More olives. They're just like better than any grape I've ever had in my life. We got some teriyaki turkey jerky, one of my favorites. These like Neutra Grain dupe bars. Drew and I saw these from like across the way. And then as I was pointing it out to him, this other couple went by and the guy just grabbed them and threw them in their cart. But it's just great crispies. Some more little cornichons for the espresso or for the espresso I'm reading this. For his charcuterie. Some espresso tonics. And last but not least, new thing we haven't tried yet, are mango and passion fruit squares. These look really good. It says they're individually wrapped little like I think they're like fruit leathers. So that sounds pretty good. Maybe have those with like a lunch or something like that. Oh, and then these gorgeous flowers for the week. I'm going to put them in a vase. Probably going to lay low today cuz we've just been so busy this weekend. I really haven't had any time to be at home. So we're going to maybe make some lunch, relax a little bit, and hopefully end this weekend with like a little nap. That'd be nice. >> [music] [music] >> Well, um I got my wish. It is like 7:30 now and I just woke up from my nap like 2 hours ago. I took [clears throat] like a 2 and 1/2 hour nap. It was glorious and so needed. I've not been sleeping well these last like honestly 2 weeks I would say. So, anyways RIP my sleep tonight because I just think that's going to mess it up. I fell asleep at like yeah like 2:00 and I woke up at almost 5:30. Anyhoo, I'm going to sit down and get a little bit of reading done. Um just like a Sunday night cozy reading session sounds amazing. The final step on like my weekly reset that I'll do off camera but I love on Sundays changing out my sheets to fresh clean sheets and then taking an everything head-to-toe shower and then getting in bed with my clean body and my clean hair and I've got like freshly lotioned all good smelling stuff all over me. I may even try this red light therapy mask that I got that I'm going to test out. I'm like really hoping that's going to help with my like rosacea and skin issues and stuff. And then just like having an early bedtime. Truly nothing sounds better to me honestly. But yeah, I thought I would give you a little update on what I'm reading currently. I work really well doing an audio book and then reading something at the same time. Like have two different things going. I really really enjoy that. So, I had been listening to the audio book of Year of Yesterday by Carol Claire Burke which was great and then I was reading Martyr by Kaveh Akbar and now that I'm done with both of those, I'm switching to This was I think recommended by you guys cuz I talked about how I really love like Lisa Jewell and Lucy Foley books and so a lot of people recommended that I start reading Alice Feeney and so I have got her book called My Husband's Wife which looked very interesting. I'm like six pages in or something like that. I just started that. And then for the audio book as an update cuz I got I mentioned it earlier in this vlog, I started listening to Strangers by Bell Burden. Without any spoilers, it is basically this woman's memoir of her marriage and the ending of her marriage. Let's see what it says as like the sort of overview or whatever it is. Okay, it says, "It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me, and then he didn't." In March 2020, Bell Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha's Vineyard navigating the early days of the pandemic together, building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whiskey sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of 20 years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. I'm not even joking. I'm How far am I into this book? I'm 12% into this book. I was gripped like you could not even imagine. I was driving home from the beach the other night with my mouth wide open. Like I was just like I The The amount of diabolical male behavior that has happened already 12% into this book, I can I'm scared. I'm scared for what's to come. I still have 88% of the book left. I'm like, "What more could this man do?" This is horrific. And so, we ride at dawn for Ms. Bell. This is absolutely insane. It's a true story. I think I mentioned that. And so, I'm really, really excited to keep listening to that, and I'll just listen to it like to and from all of my appointments, and like that's why I love taking these longer drives either to like San Diego or wherever because it gives me a chance to listen to the book. So, obsessed. But anyways, that aside, I am going to dive back into My Husband's Wife. I'm trying to decide if I want to like do my everything shower first or just read a little bit now and then read more before I go to bed. I think I'm probably going to do that. And that's pretty much going to do it for the rest of this vlog. That's kind of where I'm going to leave you. Don't really have much else going on for the evening and it's just going to be a nice quiet cozy night in and I could not be happier about it. We've got the dishes put away, the laundry is almost done. You can probably see it behind me. It's like up on the banisters. We have our final load in the dryer now and then we'll wash our sheets from this week but like we're just all caught up and reset and it feels very very good. Anyways, thank you guys so much for being here, for spending the weekend with me. I appreciate it. I love you guys and I'll see you very soon in the next vlog. Bye. >> [music]