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oh the roll this is me this is what i look like they think i have adhd

friday night i've got really good spanx guys everyone's

so kind in the comments a place in america it was one of the guys

i decided to go to moots on the way home

and pick up a chicken ribby sandwich which is

so good it's chicken pickled red onion tomatoes rocket

and then it's got like a mango kind of chutney mayo on it

and oh my god this is my favorite

so yeah i decided to get a little sandwich i was to go

and eat it in the park

but I'm actually just in the mood to like watch some YouTube on my TV

and just chill out a little bit at home.

I'm gonna do a little bit of editing on my laptop and yeah just relax.

I tried to do the lunch in my city trend

but I'm far too much of a control freak to actually follow

that because I like searched it twice and the two places

that came up I was like I really really don't want

that and like I don't want to waste a lunchtime

or like a Sunday having something

that I don't want I'm quite decisive I know exactly what I want

so why would I why would I do

that do you know what I mean so I had a recommendation actually

that I really want to watch

and it was my favorite I've spoken about her before one

of my favorite youtubers Kristen McAtee gosh there's people over there

chopping down a tree um I'm really just leaning into October

which is basically like Halloween

and what's it what do they call it summerween it's basically like October vibes

but in August and I'm really leaning into it I have

so many returns to do that I need to go up into town and do

but I'm just like the thought of going into town on the weekend today like just it's going to be so busy

so I'm actually just going to do all my returns this

week I think that's going to be really annoying to do

but I just I'm not in the mood for it today

and my sandwich

and I'm just going to have a chill one at home

even though all I've done all weekend is literally chill at home

but that's what the weekends are for taking a break finally I've been like oh

and I'm gonna watch Widow's Bay on Apple TV I have been hooked I'm on episode seven

so no spoilers this sounds so up my street like it's funny

but spooky yeah I'm gonna watch it I'm gonna give it

a chance I just absolutely love any she could recommend me to like stick my head down a toilet

and I would probably do it

just kidding I wouldn't do that

but yeah I love it also I'm really loving the lightness

of my hair I feel like I got my hair done

and it I don't know I'm just really noticing it

when I'm washing my hair and blow drying I'm just noticing a little bit of lightness

but I feel like it's still really natural like you probably couldn't tell

that I've had highlights done recently like I met my friend recently

and she was like did you get your hair lightened

which is the exact reaction that I want and I used to

which is weird because

when I was younger I'd be like oh my god no one even noticed

when I got my hair done

but now I'm like taking it as a compliment people are noticing obviously

that I've had some off the length

but sorry do I ever shut up about getting my hair

done probably not um I need to get over it

and I also need to eat this bloody sandwich but I take

that as such a compliment because I really like

that you can't really notice it that I've had it done because I just like it to look really natural.

One time when I got my hair done

and I put it in a ponytail and I had all of these lines here and yeah it just annoyed me.

It wasn't even that I thought it looked bad it just triggered me

when I looked at it in the mirror and saw the lines.

I don't know like I have the fear

and sometimes have nightmares about getting a tattoo because I think tattoos are

so cool and they look so good on so many people

but I just know that I would wake up like go in the shower

and be like wishing I could scrub it off

because I just get into these it's like with fake tan

or nail polish if it starts to like chip

or go a little bit crispy not the nail polish but

if the fake tan goes a little bit crispy

or tiger bready I'm like I need to get this off

me immediately I need to scrub it off like I don't

want to sleep in jewelry I want to be clear

and take everything off so I think it's kind of like a similar thing to

that where the lines just did something in my brain

that didn't didn't quite sit right with me also i'm i

just posted my recent vlog about some like what i realized at 29

which is basically that i need to be more organized

and make more effort to be organized because it makes me feel better

and i am getting a lot of comments saying that they think i have adhd so

there's something else for me to think about let's see

mushroom broccoli i'm taking a break finally i'm gonna watch widow's

bay widow's bay okay i'm gonna watch it yeah those comments about me potentially having adhd

i maybe that's true who knows but i feel like just making this effort that i've been making to kind of

be more organized it's really helping me and like chopping things down

and also quite a few of you have commented saying like just don't be too hard on yourself

and like don't be ashamed of it

so that's really nice to know maybe it is ADHD maybe it's not

but I really don't I don't feel like like it never affected me at school growing up

and it never affects me at work like weirdly I'm super organized at work

and I'm on top of things whereas it's like an at home like jobs around the house

and chores kind of thing and like life admin like rather than anything else

so it's it doesn't affect me in that way so I think

if I can combat it by doing what I've been doing over the past few weeks

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which I've been super busy

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and it's actually been working just like chopping things up keeping on top of things i think

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if i can manage it

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that way then that's pretty good thank you for all of your lovely comments though

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and all of your advice everyone's so kind in the comments so thank you

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i can't believe how much i've noticed recently that they filmed everything

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so that the main frame is in the middle of the screen

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which i think is probably so

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that it can be viewed on like a phone it's kind of peeing me off

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but this seems pretty good so far it's so warm

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isn't it it's warmer than i thought it was today like

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way warmer it's not really in the sun right now um

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i really worry about wearing this hat i'm not trying to make america great again

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but i do worry about this hat

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so i am not a trump supporter of course

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but do you think it's bad to wear a red hat do you think tell me

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if i shouldn't be wearing it i really like the way it looks

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when i put it on i feel like it goes with my skin tone

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and stuff but i just hate that this hat has been

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ruined maybe should we be allowing him to just claim red hats is it fair

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it's republican isn't it anyway enough of the political chat we

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are going to the shop to get some friday night things

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because it's friday night

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and i haven't filmed since i last spoke to you i actually want to get nail polish remover

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because these little chipped corn chips need to be removed

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i'm gonna do my toes i'm gonna do my fingernails i might just give my fingernails

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and toenails a bit of a break because sister's wedding's coming up

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so sister's wedding my sister's wedding's coming up

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so i want to make sure that they're all clear i don't get my toenails

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or my nails done pretty much ever

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because it kind of makes my nails feel all soft

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but i thought i would treat myself for that

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so i think i should just have them clear for a

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couple of weeks before the wedding yeah i'm gonna get my nails done

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and my toenails done i really don't treat myself to like beauty treatments

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and stuff i'm not i'm not one to do that

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but i would quite like to be more on it with

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that but i just also think once you get into it i think it would probably become addictive

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and you wouldn't want to stop

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so i need even her nails are amazing frazier's auntie's got the best nails

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and we're pick dinner for tonight

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so let's get risotto rice okay guess what we're making basically we're making a risotto

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and we're gonna make it all cheesy and creamy we're gonna put mushrooms

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onion all the good stuff and we got a garlic bread

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okay yeah okay i really like apple cider vinegar shampoo

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because it's super clarifying so i might get that next time ladies and gentlemen we're back with

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a banging orzo dish with some garlic bread on the side

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i am going to now get ready because i'm going to get my dress for the wedding tailored

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um I don't need anything done to it other than I

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need a little bit off the length of the bottom

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because I keep trying it on and I love the way it looks

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but then I think about the fact

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that I'm gonna have to actually walk down an aisle in it

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and it's too long for me I don't know who they're

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making this dress for I feel like I'm quite an average heighted person

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and it's like trailing along the floor

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so I think I'm actually taller than average height I'm like 5 '8 5 '7 5 '8 and it's

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well I'm 5 '8 and it's too long it's like really dragging along the floor

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so gonna get the bottom of

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that tailored hopefully I've been recommended a really good tailor on Thistle Street called Taylor Taylor's

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and it opens at 9 it's currently 9 my plan was to be there for 9

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because I really need this tailored

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but my brother's here we're taking it a bit slower

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and I'm meeting my friend after for a coffee on best

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pajamas ever the linen ee pajamas from H &M I absolutely love them I love the color even though

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when I'm super pale it washes me out a little bit

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but this is me this is what I look like take it

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or leave it honey we're going to Thistle Street to get

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this bloody dress tailored you'll never hear the end of it

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I bet they're gonna kick me out I bet they're gonna

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charge you a heck of a money I kept saying to

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Jack um oh I've got a fitting I've got a fitting

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and then I was like hang on no I don't have a fitting I'm about to go

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and beg some tailor that's already probably super busy to take my dress up by like two inches

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do you think they're gonna make me put it on yeah

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i can't what do you mean i feel like i can't

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look at myself in it without taking an honor i'll cry

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i might just say don't make me look in the mirror

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that's ridiculous just get your spanks on i know i've got

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really good spanks guys from M &S for wearing with this dress

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and I wore them to a wedding a couple of Coachella

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no I wore them to a wedding a couple of weeks ago and let's just say

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anyway I ended up having to like pretty much throw up in the toilet after I did the gay gordon's

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which is a cayley dance it's a really good one it's the best one but it is insane

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and fraser wouldn't let me evacuate the dance floor until we did the whole thing

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now i don't think i'm gonna be wearing this bag okay

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we'll see maybe i'll take them off for the meal are they skims no they're m

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and s dupe they're really good actually dupes

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and skims yeah skims dupes i actually might link them

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if anyone is looking for a pair i'm not meeting my friend now till 11

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so i have a spare half hour

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and naturally i think i'm gonna go to sephora

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because i haven't been yet every single time i've tried to go there's been a queue outside

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so i'm just gonna go in there and have a little look probably won't buy anything but yeah i'm excited

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this is scotland's first sephora

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so this is a big big deal this feels very american

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i feel like growing up in the 2000s with youtube

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and things like

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that like going to sephora felt like such a american like i don't know such a like a different universe

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so it's really exciting that there's one here now

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but i do think the st james's center is maybe getting a little bit crowded with

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beauty hauls but I'm not complaining because I kind of love that kind of thing

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so I'm actually really impressed with Sephora own because it's got like cheap

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dupes of everything

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and I've been seeing a lot of people online with these

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lip tint kind of felt it pens instead of using a lip liner it's like a wet felt it pen

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but it kind of stains and it stays on

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so I got like a pinky color

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and I got like a more brown color

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and I'm gonna try these out got the Tarte shape tape in the radiant one

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because they also do like a thick matte one

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and then this is like a lower coverage I guess

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but it's not as thick um which I quite like

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so I got this

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because I feel like for my sister's wedding I'm gonna need

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something a bit more high coverage than my Maybelline one

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which is the one that like twists up that everyone has

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but yeah I'm gonna try this out probably try it out today

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because we're about to get ready

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and head out to the fringe with our friends I'm gonna bring you with me I don't usually bring you

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when I go out with my friends

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but I feel like I haven't really brought you out

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and about with me in a while and I feel bad about

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that so I'm gonna bring you along don't know how much filming I'll do don't know

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if I'll film anyone but I'll try um the woman said about the dress

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that she can't tailor it without me going in with the shoes on

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because she needs to know what like how short to do it Here's my sister calling.

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Hi sister.

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Yeah, I can hear you.

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How's it going?

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check the lip check the lip i'm actually loving that lip product

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i feel like it's really nice i actually went for the

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brown one with the pink one in the middle of my lip.

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Here comes the bus.

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The part.

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Yeah, he just hopped on the bus now.

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One, 22.

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It's the same producer, I think.

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It's the last day of the Fringe today

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and i'm going to see gary star the penguin show the naked one

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that everyone's been raving about this year

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and i'm going to see it on the last day

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and i could not be more excited i'm going to see

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it with a group of people every single person in the group has seen it except for me

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but they all loved it so much that they were like saying

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that they would go back

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and see it again i will report back oh my god

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we went to see a show last night we went to see two shows last night

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but one of them was like not that good

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so i'm not gonna i'm not gonna talk about it because i don't want to be nasty

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um it just wasn't my cup of tea i'm not into magicians

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and magic shows i just they're not my favorite that's not

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a magician you're funny it's a place in america fraser i'm gonna have to cut

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that out anyway uh what was i saying yeah

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so the second show

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that i went to see we went to see there was like i think there must have been like 10

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or 11 of us last night

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that went to the Fringe together we went to see Nuns oh my god it was the funniest show ever

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if it comes back to the Fringe next year

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which I'm sure it will

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but it'll probably be much bigger like the the place we

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went to see it was pretty small it felt like a pretty tiny electric theatre

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if that comes back to the Fringe next year I will 100 % be going to see that again

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and I could not recommend it more it's like kind of

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like slapstick comedy um medieval I don't know it's like these

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three witches well no they're not witches it's this sounds terrible I'm

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so bad at explaining things and I just feel like other people just do it

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so well basically these three nuns

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that are are having kind of a few of them are having intrusive sexual

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or like deviant thoughts basically

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and it's just the funniest thing ever there's not like over extravagant props

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or anything like that but they just really transport you to where they are

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and it's just really really funny and calm and yeah i really absolutely could not recommend it more

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oh the roll we had a bit of a lazy morning

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so we're walking to this little acai bowl place in stockbridge

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that's opened pretty recently i think it's called oka i think i spoke about

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that before in this vlog probably or in a previous vlog but i've been before it was really good

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it's soup season my last hand blender broke so i'm getting this and it's reduced to 13 pounds 50.

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i'm so excited this week i'm gonna make sweet potato ginger and

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coconut soup try and save myself some money on buying soup every day

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looks

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so good i think i need to leave it to stand before i blend it up with my new supersonic hand blender.

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Which, wow I'm so zoomed in.

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Could this be the thumbnail?

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Turbo.

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Don't mess with me.

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Normal.

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I can't wait to zhush this.

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Honestly it's raining outside.

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It's Sunday evening.

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making soup is just topping this day right off and getting back into my soup making on a Sunday because

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it literally brings me so much joy making soup on a sundae.

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It's so cheap for lunches and I just love soup.

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It's such a good lunch.

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It's nice to have something warm and hot and I don't know it feels kind of healthy.

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I used some lighter coconut milk in there which I'm hoping isn't crap.

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I hope it still tastes good

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but I just figured I've been spending money buying soups every day

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because I really like them cans of soup are also like

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the price of a can of soup now is pretty ridiculous it's gone up

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so much it's like 80p a day for a can of

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if you're buying a can of soup for each day of the week

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so needed to just bite the bullet buy a new hand blender

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and get back on my soup making also

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if it brings me this much joy I should just be

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leaning into it makes the flat smell good on a sunday

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it's such a nice activity it feels like meditation it's calming

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i can hear so much rain outside oh my god it's so nice maybe i'll blend this now

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i'm worried it doesn't look very orange i think i maybe boiled it for too long Thank you.

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Deze video is perfect voor Engelsleerders met een basisvaardigheid die hun spreekvaardigheid willen verbeteren, vooral in informele situaties. De dialoog is casual, met dagelijks taalgebruik, waardoor het ideaal is om te oefenen met natuurlijke spreekstijl. Het past ook bij wie wil leren hoe men over alledaagse activiteiten praat, zoals plannen voor het weekend, eten en tv-kijken. Ideaal voor diegene die engels spreekvaardigheid oefenen wilt met realistische, niet-overgeformaliseerde content.

Woorden en idiomen om te "stelen"

De video bevat enkele opvallende uitdrukkingen die je kunt toevoegen aan je vocabulaire:

Spanx: Een merk van lichaamsondergoed dat figureert, maar vaak gebruikt als algemeen term voor dergelijke producten.
Control freak: Iemand die graag alles controleert (letterlijk "controlefreak").
Up my street: "Aan mijn smaak" of "voor mij bedoeld" (bijv. "Deze film is echt up my street").
Chill out: Rustig zijn, ontspannen (veel gebruikt in informele gesprekken).

Deze uitdrukkingen helpen je om je Engels natuurlijker te laten klinken, vooral in gesprekken met vrienden of familie.

Hoe de accent goed te krijgen

Om de uitspraak van de spreker na te bootsen, focus op schaduwspraak (ook wel schaduw spreken genoemd). Dit betekent dat je de video kort na de spreker herhaalt, om de intonatie en tempo te leren. Let op de volgende punten:

Tempo: De spreker praat casual, met enkele pauzes (bijv. "oh my god" of "so yeah"). Probeer deze rustige flow na te bootsen om niet te haastig te klinken.
Intonatie: Bij uitroepen zoals "oh my god" of "gosh" neemt de toon omhoog, wat de emotie weergeeft. Dit helpt om je eigen spraak expressiever te maken.
Klinkers: Let op de lange "i" in "chicken" en de korte "a" in "sandwich". Dit is cruciaal voor een natuurlijke uitspraak. Gebruik deze video om verbeter engelse uitspraak te oefenen door specifiek op deze klinkers te focussen.

Door regelmatig schaduw spreken te doen met deze video, verbetert je niet alleen je uitspraak, maar ook je spreekvaardigheid in het algemeen. Leer engels met video's is een effectieve manier om realistische taal te leren, en deze video is een geweldige start!

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is	i've been making · I've been doing · it's actually been working
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've spoken · I've done · I've been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	have been hooked · be organized · can be viewed

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