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I want you to make a shakshuka tonight.

Full review of the house made.

It has been so cute.

hi guys good morning i am not normally awake this early

but i'm trying to use my jet lag for good

and be a morning girly so i booked a pilates class for 6 30

and i really want to eat before

that this is also incredibly ambitious of me

because i have work today it's my first day back i was just in London and then France.

I really like this glazing milk from Rode.

I love that there is no fragrance whatsoever.

And I'm not sure if you guys are going to be able to tell,

hopefully not, but I am experiencing quite a few breakouts right now.

Hopefully I can get back into a healthier routine now that I'm home.

Here we go.

I was

gonna make matcha my drink this morning,

but I really need to head out for my workout class.

So I'm just gonna have this ginger shot to wake me up.

I can get it open.

Oh my god.

Oh, I got it.

Oh, oh my god.

ugh, but it's kind of good this is not really toast in the pan like i thought it would,

but cheers anyways.

anyways, i'm gonna finish this on the way to my workout class.

i just got a refill of my favorite mantra from epodo tea it's the sayaka one

and it's completely sold out on the website

and the usual retailers i go to

so i actually got this in france absolutely insane i am so excited to taste this again

like just do you see

that color insane i usually try to

get around to three grams realistically i'm super tired and

so i am leaning down on the counter

while i do this my legs are so dead after that workout guys it's like not even funny

Such a beautiful microphone and I love it against the blue of this bowl.

I'm actually gonna add the matcha first because I feel like I always add a little bit too much milk.

This book and this color is so beautiful.

Now before I lose the momentum that I have going this morning,

I'm actually going to stay in my workout clothes and clean my apartment because it is a wreck right now.

okay guys i've taken a body shower

and i've changed into some comfy at home clothes where i have to change

and head into work i have about an hour before i need to leave

and this gives me the perfect window to do the last step of my mindfulness morning routine

that i have been neglecting for the last two to maybe seven weeks not actually

but i have just done so much in the last one and a half months.

So I just want to take some solo time to reflect and be grateful for it.

So I'm going to be doing some digital journaling today and just go through some of my favorite memories from France.

And with that, I want to give a huge shout out to GoodNotes for sponsoring this portion of the video.

I was recently invited to go to London with them for their launch event

and there have been so many cool and new features

that they've come out with that I've been wanting them to make for the last two years.

And the one thing that I really,

really love about GoodNotes is that it is so versatile and it's for so many different people.

Obviously, I'm a professional student.

I'm in pharmacy school and so I use it for note-taking in my academics

but I also use it as a working professional at my internship.

I think it's perfect for creatives as well and essentially everyone who works digitally.

So I'm going to show you guys how I use it to journal this morning

and just capture some really good memories and then I'll show you guys demos of the new features in student use cases.

The two biggest updates from GoodNotes for me is the new edition of text document and whiteboard.

I'm going to show you whiteboard first just

because I think it is a little bit more unique and it is the perfect canvas for any subject truly.

I have a little bit of a mind map for acute coronary syndrome in here.

You guys can just see it is so much nicer to have an infinite canvas.

Everything that makes up this condition can be put in this canvas

and

if I made this mind map really really big I would

be able to navigate it with this little tool in the corner.

The toolbar has been updated.

This still has pen, eraser,

pencil, highlighter, and tape with different patterns now

and I also really like the shapes now

because you can draw different arrows super easily and just connect your ideas like that.

I've also done it for the different therapeutics at the bottom

and I just know that I'm going to use whiteboard so

so so much once I go back to school

and I also use it in my professional life at my internship

but those notes are confidential so I'm just showing you these ones for now.

This is what the text document looks like, super easy.

It's just a regular text document that GoodNotes didn't have for.

You can also implement different tables,

you can add rows to the table above or below,

left or right, and also change the colors of the squares if you need to.

Some of my professors speak so quick

so having a text document in GoodNotes now really makes it a one-stop shop for all of my note-taking

and I think text documents makes Good Notes even more usable on desktop

because you're going to have a full keyboard

and you can take notes by typing

and now you guys can start to see my little South of France journal

and how I've made that and so easy just to like import photos and draw on them.

This has been the most perfect way for me to reflect and be grateful for the last couple of weeks.

Lastly, none of these cool brand opportunities would be possible without you guys

and so I asked Good Notes to host a little giveaway to give back to you guys.

10 of you guys are going to win a yearly subscription to the new GoodNotes with all the new features

that I've talked about.

All you guys have to do is like this video and check out the links and details in the description box below.

So thank you again to GoodNotes and make sure you guys check it out.

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so Nice.

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Just like that, we are back in it.

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I'm so

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excited.

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so guys

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i just got back in from the grocery store and i have the biggest haul i have done this year probably.

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I ended up going to two different grocery stores just

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because I always need something from both of them such as lactose-free yogurt.

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Asian people don't really eat that much yogurt

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and let alone have lactose-free yogurt so I had to go to Loblaws for this.

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The Asian grocery store also didn't have a whole canned tomatoes

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so I got these because I've been craving this for the last three weeks.

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I'm going to be making shakshuka tonight

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and then I also just picked up some naan

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because I didn't really know what else to eat it with

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and this is always what is served with it

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when I go to restaurant here we have i just got

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a head of lettuce produce is always cheaper at an asian grocery store

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or just like a farmer's market then i got a huge head of parsley

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because they didn't have anything smaller two packs of my favorite

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ramen one stir fry one soup one red bell pepper for

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my dinner tonight one head of broccoli i got some baby bok choy

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because this is one of my favorite vegetables damn do i

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got some protein in here i got a huge thing of rice

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because i think this would be really yummy with just plain yogurt

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and a little bit of maple syrup just got a case of eggs,

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some onions and garlic.

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It's always good to have these on hand.

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And then some beef brisket rolls.

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I picked up Calbee sauce so I can marinate these rolls with this sauce overnight.

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And then I also just got myself a jar of fob base because fall is here and it is officially soup season.

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And if you're curious about pricing,

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my entire haul, including tax, was $90 Canadian.

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So it could be better because I didn't even get that much protein,

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mostly just like produce.

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But that is enough.

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Yeah, I'm going to put all of this away and then get changed and get cooking.

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What?

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What?

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i've really bad feeling about this can of tomatoes

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because i should have ones that said peeled

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so i am just praying now that these are peeled or i'm gonna have to do them myself

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oh my god they are peeled oh my god yes oh my god i should not be wearing white also

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so we're getting to my favorite part of making shakshuka

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which is the runny eggs i think i'm only gonna do two

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because i had two eggs this morning actually no i'm gonna do more than

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that i'm gonna do four

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but i'm not gonna eat all of them i'm gonna save

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some of this for tomorrow i'm not sure how this holds up in the fridge

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but we're gonna go for it anyways

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okay this has thickened up quite a bit i might add a little bit more water back but honestly

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I'm not that mad about it.

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I'm gonna try to make little wells in here for the eggs,

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but not sure how it's gonna go Now i'm going to

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cover this This is just a little bit of crumbled up feta

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and parsley I'm gonna put a little bit on just for now

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so it can get melty and then i'll do the rest when the eggs are closer to being done

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literally my dream night because just look at this final product i am

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so excited to eat right now

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and there's even a new episode of the fragrant flower blooms with dignity i'm on episode four it has been

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so cute i'm getting like butterflies and like kicking my feet Ugh,

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it's just so perfect.

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And I'm thinking that we should crack one of these egg yolks together.

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It just looks so good.

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okay guys now

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that i'm all ready for bed i can finally give you

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a full review of the housemaid i'm only about 25 through the housemaid's secret

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so i'm just gonna give a full review of this one

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and a quick synopsis if you haven't heard of the housemaid before

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so the main character is named millie

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and she has a criminal history she's looking for a job she gets hired by a very rich family

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and the wife turns out to be a horrible boss

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but the husband is super loving and caring

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and she does feel like there is something sinister going on

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because her bedroom is in the attic and it only locks from the outside

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but now i'm going to give my full review

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so this is going to include spoilers

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so you can skip to this time stamp

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if you don't want to be spoiled yeah i'm just going

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to get straight into this i honestly really love this book

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and so much more than i thought i was going to

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and i normally go for very hardcore thrillers but i think

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that the last 20 maybe 30 percent of the book was genuinely

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so gripping i loved the change in point of views i

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I was also not expecting Millie's history to be a murderous one.

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The fact that Nina set up Millie to murder her husband was actually insane to me.

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I was like shaking while flipping through the pages.

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I could not read faster.

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I was so into it.

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And I won't credit that necessarily to the writing,

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but I think it was the idea because I do think the writing in this book is just like,

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it's like, okay.

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It's not as descriptive or complex as other books that I've written,

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but I think I really just love the theme and the concepts in here.

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I would give all the main characters in this book four out of five stars.

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I would give the plot four out of five stars.

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I would give the overall diction and tone of the book like a three and a half out of five.

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But yeah, I really, really love the way that it ended.

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And I wish that I had read this book earlier because I feel like it was such an easy,

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breezy, but still captivating read.

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And so now the big question is,

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should you read this book?

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The answer is yes.

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This is Brianna approved.

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I think it is between a beginner and intermediate,

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more so an intermediate thriller.

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Overall, I just believe that this is a very easy and enjoyable read.

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I feel like it really kept your attention.

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There were quite a few surprises in here as well.

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Yeah, now I'm going to go back and read the second one,

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which is The Housemaid's Secret.

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I'm honestly excited to read this one,

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and I haven't been excited about a book in a long time,

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so I'll keep you guys updated on this one.

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