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Be able to jump back in bed right now Look guys, it's Penny.

I woke up with a headache, so I'm just gonna like hold this here and hope it does something.

I am out of my favorite eye cream.

I wouldn't recommend you an expensive product unless I thought it was truly worth your money the SkinCeuticals Age Advanced Eye

See the glow on my under eyes?

Yeah, that's my eye cream.

It is so, so good.

I forgot that I wanted to use these and I put eye cream on.

Thank you.

Mm -hmm.

So I would say this isn't an outfit.

I kind of like it.

Hi friends, welcome back to the vlogs or welcome to my channel

if you're new here I am going to give you the

most like transparent unplanned version of my day We're just gonna literally spend a random Thursday together

because I do feel like sometimes especially over like the last year and a half I Gotten into this.

I guess you could say habit of doing certain things for the vlogs outfit when I'm vlogging, 'cause I'm like, I want it to be,

not interesting, but like, presentable in a way, you know?

Like, I am putting myself on the internet, like, I want to be presentable to an extent.

I love watching vlogs that are like the messiest version of people's selves.

Just in like a "I'm literally a fly on the wall watching their life" kind of a way.

And I have been loving those YouTube videos so much more.

First thing on the list is Penny has a vet appointment in 40 minutes.

The vet is only five minutes away from here.

Thank God.

So I'm trying to time this correctly.

I need to feed her.

But I also want to do a little bit of makeup because I did self tan last night.

I don't even know if you can tell.

I want to feel a little bit cute.

However, It's day three of my period.

So this is my day three of my period fit.

It is An oversized Spurs tee and these super cute sweat shorts that I got from ASOS.

Oh my gosh, I just realized it's actually giving Adam Sandler, but I'm here for it.

I love it so much.

I'm so comfortable, but I also feel cute.

I literally planned this outfit last night in my head.

It probably doesn't look like it.

No one's gonna think I planned this outfit purposely.

Go Spurs!

I don't care what you say, they're my champions.

We don't have much, but we have them, so.

I'm proud of them.

That was not the point of this clip.

Penny has a bell appointment in 40 minutes, so I'm gonna make her food.

feed her, Renee walked her this morning.

So either me or him or both of us have been getting up extra early to take Penny on her

like 30 to 45 minute walk, 'cause

None of y 'all told me that golden retriever puppies are like tiny dinosaurs

that run around your home with the most energy and I can't control it.

Like I can't keep up.

Close.

Penny started her period.

Which like when I tell you I almost cried because of how overwhelmed I got in that moment when I realized

that she was going into heat But then I got a grip on myself and I was like, you can do this.

I usually spay my girl dogs as soon as I get them.

But I've been seeing research that it's good to wait to...

heat cycles for female goldens so that way their growth plates can close.

So it just became a whole other thing.

But I'm really happy that she wasn't on the street for that because that would have been bad.

And I will give you guys some penny updates throughout the video.

Right now she's in her crate, but I'm going to make her breakfast, feed her and then make my breakfast, which is just going to be toast and some coffee, but I'm dying for a coffee.

I woke up with a headache and I need a coffee.

Oh I'm going to go to the next one.

Today on the menu for Penny we have kibble, chicken thighs, carrots, and a little bit of Greek yogurt.

Thank you.

Do you notice anything different?

If you don't, it might be because you're new to the channel, but there's usually a big dining room table there.

But we sold it!

So, the new one, exciting news, actually supposed to get here today.

The issue with the table was it was the first thing I ever bought for the house.

When this house was empty and I still lived at my apartment, we were like, "You know what?

We want a huge dining table." Because that's just what you do when you get a house, right?

Yeah.

Someone should have told me that that's not what you do when you have a very small dining room.

So it has just for the longest time been something that we both actively dislike.

It was just way too big for the space.

So the new one gets here today, I don't have chairs ordered.

so we're just getting a table.

but it's a starting point and I'm super excited.

Toast and coffee.

Bye.

we finished at the vet i wouldn't call it a fail

penny i would say it's a good first step she wasn't

able to get her vaccines they said she was too scared

she was too stressed out they didn't want to like force it on her

and have to like hold her down

so we're gonna try it again tomorrow with some gabapentin to help she has anxiety of people

but to be fair

when we found her the guy the The property manager where she was found said

that he had been shooing her away for a week, which breaks my heart.

if that's your experience with people.

you're gonna be terrified of people, you're not gonna trust people.

We're trying to socialize her and like she does really well.

in like seeing people like she's not nervous of them but i understand why them trying to hold her down, restrain her would freak her out we're making a stop at Petco,

Renee ran in to get her some kibble

So we're just kind of in like a stuck situation where I want to socialize her but we have to wait.

and so the vet is like some of her first like people experiences with us.

It just makes me super sad.

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Honestly.

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It's not like discouraging because I know she can do it.

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Our cats were all feral and now they love people.

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So as much as like I'm sure people would want to say

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because I talked to a dog trainer that was like she'll probably never be like a normal dog.

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Like she'll probably never be socialized.

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Which like I don't know why a trainer would tell me that.

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But anyways, I'm not going to give up on her.

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I have experience with our cat Ruby.

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hated people.

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She actually, unfortunately, at her first vet appointment sent a tech to the hospital

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because she like tried to bite her and scratch her because she was terrified.

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And now the vets are like, "She's literally done a 180.

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Like, she's a completely different cat.

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She loves people." And we just had to love on her for months.

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and like show her that people aren't scary and that the world isn't scary and no one's trying to hurt her.

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I just don't think it's true that she is like always gonna hate people.

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I think it's her third week indoors.

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I don't know what she experienced outside.

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I don't know how long she was outside.

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I know nothing about Penny's first eight months of life.

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and I don't believe that that defines her.

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I believe that you can do it and

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that we're going to show you that people are really nice and it's okay if you don't like the vet.

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You don't have to like them but they're not going to hurt you.

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It's a work in progress but it's okay.

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It's only week three like I said and I've done a lot of research

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and like I've talked to some trainers and some people have just been like be super patient with her.

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I remember like even feeling this way kind of with the cats.

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I don't think I ever really talked about it but the cats weren't comfortable

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comfortable like that's

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when i felt like they became our cats i don't know i refuse to believe what people say can

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or can't be done you're just gonna have to learn how to trust

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and we're gonna teach you how and we're gonna take it slow

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and it's gonna be okay and before you know it we'll be at parks

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and at malls and we'll go to the coffee shop together and we're gonna do all these things But we got it.

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Thank you.

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Oh I get hydration headaches sometimes during the summer so I've been liking the Promix salted raspberry electrolytes. And they're really pretty.

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Thank you.

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Stay, Penny stay, stay, good stay you

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A 16 ounce iced latte with almond milk.

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16 ounce of a pencil and say what?

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- Almond milk, anything else for you?

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- That's it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You too.

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I love when baristas are nice.

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It like genuinely makes my day better

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because I'm already excited to go get my coffee and then

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when they're nice to me I'm like you just made this way better experience The local cafe is here.

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It's tough to find a good one.

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While we're here, let's just discuss the elephant in the room.

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Olivia Rodrigo's new album.

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What do you guys think?

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I'm gonna tell you my top three favorite tracks.

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One, Honey Bee.

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I just really, my favorite song on Harry's album is Coming Up Roses.

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I feel like that is like another version of Coming Up Roses and they give the same feeling.

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It's like a love song, but it's like kind of gut -wrenching in a way.

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Like, I don't know.

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I don't know how to explain it.

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And then second, Stupid Song, third, The Cure, or What's Wrong With Me.

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I really like What's Wrong With Me.

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But on the topic of artists that I love, guys, tomorrow is literally coronation day.

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It's like one of the best days ever, besides my wedding.

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I am like second most excited for tomorrow.

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I am going to the Eternal Sunshine Tour. will have already been.

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But Ariana Grande, that is my girl since Honeymoon Avenue.

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I have been on it.

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10 years later, I'm finally getting to see her live.

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I lost the Ticketmaster battle, but my mom and my fiance surprised me with tickets to the Eternal Sunshine Tour resale.

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And honestly, I was getting super nervous.

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They bought them through StubHub.

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Basically, to StubHub and then StubHub delivers them to you digitally,

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but they can do it up until like two hours before the event.

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And last night at midnight, I was on StubHub and my tickets still weren't like delivered.

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And I was like, oh my God, is this a scam?

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One, two, am I, do I even have tickets?

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And then I started panicking because I was like, oh my God, if I don't have tickets, like I'm going to buy tickets.

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Like at this point, my mind is so set on going, like I am going to go.

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And I specifically picked tomorrow's date because it's her birthday.

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And I like want to see her perform on her birthday.

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I think that's going to be such a special experience.

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And like when I tell you every word by memory every word by memory Thank you.

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Sure.

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- These are my selections at Chick -fil -A.

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There will always be something so comforting to me about just spending time by myself eating in my car.

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I don't know what it is.

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My mom and I used to have like mother -daughter dates when I was young, eating Chick -fil -A in the car.

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Before like going into Target.

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And it is like some of my favorite comfort memories with her.

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and now I just do it by myself and I love it.

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And honestly, you don't have to look too far for a solo date sometimes.

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it really can be as simple as watching your favorite youtubers.

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while you eat some good food in your car.

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It's too hot to even move.

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Everyone should just stay inside for the next two months.

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I'm going to go to the next one.

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Oh I just had the cutest interaction.

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It literally made my entire day.

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I met a subscriber at Brandy Melville and I love that because Brandy girls are like the cutest girls.

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And we took a picture and it was so freaking cute.

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So Miranda, if you're watching this vlog, it's for you.

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Also, I stopped to get lemon gelato. Because it's hot.

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Dinner not made by me Made by men Eating on my makeshift dining table

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Which is just my bar cart because the dining table is in the garage, but at least it got delivered.

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Oh - What is this?

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- The mailbox over there.

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Bye.

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Thank you.

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you Thank you.

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you you Thank you.

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do It is a few nights later, so I fell asleep before I ended this vlog a few days ago.

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but the good thing is is

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that my life doesn't vary too much every night pretty much looks the same for me

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and every evening i'm just gonna vlog some of tonight i just hate not ending my vlogs

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and i love vlogging my evenings so when i like fall asleep or don't get to do them.

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it feels incomplete to me it is pretty late though already i am About to go to sleep.

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I just got back from a really short trip today also Ignore the pimple cream.

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So I was traveling all day, guys, oh my gosh.

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Wait, we just need to talk about this really quick.

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I missed my-- freaking flight.

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And it was like the most

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honestly just like humbling embarrassing experience because it was one of those where you sprint through the airport.

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I hadn't done that in so long.

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I don't think I've ever actually done that by myself Basically, I was flying home from Denver.

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It just started off bad.

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I had like 20 minutes to make my flight home.

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The shuttle was broken so I couldn't get to the other terminal.

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It took forever.

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So the gate I was supposed to go to was at like the back part of the airport.

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the last terminal and like just It was honestly like a remote location from the airport.

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I don't know why I get placed there sometimes.

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So I run, I sprint.

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full speed because by the time I get off the shuttle, I can tell I'm barely gonna make it or I'm not gonna make it.

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I ran up several flights of stairs with my carry -on.

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I get there It says Rio de Janeiro on the screen.

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So I go and ask for for the gate to San Antonio and the guy's like, back through the tunnel, back down the escalator as you came up

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it changed and it didn't update on my phone

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and honestly I should have checked the screens

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but usually my phone will automatically update

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and I felt like I didn't have time

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and it's never happened to where like the one on my phone is wrong

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but it would happen to me today so I sprint back from where I just ran through.

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So irritated, just humiliating.

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realization once I get there it's that the flight was closed and I could see them driving off in the plane.

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All that to say I've had a very long day

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and I'm very tired and I am

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so happy to be back in my bed even if it was just two days away.

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This is truly My happy place also, I don't know if I've given you guys a tour of I my sleeping situation.

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These sheets are Brooklyn.

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I have my Aspen bear.

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Obviously bought him in Aspen.

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I have Clarice that I sleep with every single night.

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Clarice was Lola's favorite toy, you can see.

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her little chewing leftovers on Clarice's bow.

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Yeah.

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She's very special to me.

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And I started a new book today.

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I actually got it in the airport.

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It is It could have been Her by Lisa Jewel.

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Here's the thing.

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I did a little mini read -a -thon on Instagram I read for eight hours.

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I'm telling you that the fun in between videos live on the other socials.

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So I'll link them down below.

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I finished yesteryear rated at four stars.

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I thought it was good.

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And I thought it was really interesting.

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I love how unique the concept was.

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And I started half a soul.

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I got like five pages into that and then couldn't really tell if I was liking it or not.

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And then I went on a flight.

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I forgot to take it with me.

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I went looking for the new Carly fortune book because I felt like they would have that at the airport bookstores.

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Lisa Jewel's new book, which she is one of the first authors, I started reading.

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weirdly in my adulthood because

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she writes mystery and thriller and i started reading mystery and thriller first and so i've kind of just read her

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like releases as they come out.

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I started with the family upstairs.

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I really Honestly didn't like that one, but then I read a few more from her.

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None of this is true.

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And there was one other I forgot the name, but I'll put the picture of it on the screen.

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Her books have a certain eeriness to them

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that I really really like like the mystery feels creepy and it just feels like

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uncomfortable and disturbing in a way things are normal, but something's just not right and and it's not sitting right with you and I love love love that.

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I decided to pick this up.

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I am 20 - oh I'm 35 pages in.

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um it's obviously too early to tell how much i'm gonna love it

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but i already like the eeriness of it it's it's already giving me that like spookiness that her writing gives me.

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It's about a woman who in short finds a dog that belongs to a girl that just recently went missing.

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And she's like weirdly connected to this missing person slash missing dog.

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from like a really weird incident she had Almost probably 20 years back, so it's good so far.

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I do like it.

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It has hooked my attention, so I'm hoping it stays that way.

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I wanted to end this video and say thank you so much for watching.

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I love y 'all so much.

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Thank you for hanging out with me, spending a very mundane day in my life with me.

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Good night, friends.

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Bye.

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This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “a very realistic day in my life”. This video has 300 sentences and 3221 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:43. The speaker talks at a steady 142 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
vlog noun	/ˈvlɑɡ/	A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.
penny noun	/ˈpɛni/	In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
dine verb	/daɪn/	To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
socialize verb	/ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/	To interact with others, especially personally, informally and off the clock rather than formally and officially.
sprint noun	/spɹɪnt/	A short race at top speed.
headache noun	/ˈhɛdeɪk/	A pain or ache in the head.
trainer noun	/ˈtɹeɪnɚ/	A person who trains another; a coach.
eeriness noun		The condition of being eerie.
kibble noun	/ˈkɪbəl/	Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
presentable adjective	/pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/	In good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.
terrify verb	/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/	To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
weirdly adverb	/ˈwɪə(ɹ)dli/	In a weird manner.
almond noun	/ˈɑ(l).mənd/	The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
ounce noun	/aʊns/	An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
shuttle noun	/ˈʃʌtəl/	A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
back down verb		To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
get off verb		To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
keep up verb		To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
run around verb		To be very busy doing many different things.
run through verb		To summarise briefly.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

See the glow on my under eyes?
I don't even know if you can tell.
Do you notice anything different?
What do you guys think?
One, two, am I, do I even have tickets?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	have been loving · have been getting · I've been seeing
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've done · I've talked · have been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was found · be socialized · can't be done
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	breakfast, which is · woman who in

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 127 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thriller /ˈθɹɪ.lə/, thigh /θaɪ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: socialize /ˈsoʊʃəlaɪz/, shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, coronation /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, hydration /haɪˈdɹeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: presentable /pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/, coronation /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, digitally /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəli/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, escalator /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like vlog, penny, dine.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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