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Hey guys, it's Syd, and welcome back.

I love Sundays.

I've always loved Sundays.

In my mind, Sundays are supposed to be the day of the week where you relax, you recharge, kind of just like get ready for the week.

And I recently realized I don't really do that anymore.

Like I try to go through the motions, but i still really feel like distracted and i realized it's

because of my phone

and some of you guys know i bought a little brick recently it's this little gray thing

and it locks you out of social media

so last night i was like you know what i'm gonna do a no scroll sunday

and brick my phone so i can't use social media

and ideally hopefully be more present

and in the moment before i start with my reset -esque

activities i need coffee i actually do guys like i was up very late unfortunately.

I think the big part of the reason I usually scroll in public is because I feel awkward doing nothing.

Like I feel like everyone else is occupied right now and I'm just while I am filming myself.

I brought my little notebook to write down my to -do list kind of old -fashioned style on pen and paper.

I don't really have a big to -do list on Sundays

but you know just things that I like to do to reset.

Feels like I have so much more time in my day already just sitting here not scrolling.

I feel so much less overwhelmed.

I'm realizing I can only tolerate so much caffeine these days, so I decided to come home and offset the coffee I just drank with non -caffeinated tea.

I don't think it works like that, to be honest.

Some of you guys know this, but the past couple years I haven't been able to get my nails done at the nail salon

because I developed an allergy.

It has been so unfortunate because I used to love getting gel.

I even posted about it on TikTok and I was like, please help me someone because I want to do my nails

and have them look nice

but i can't get them done anymore i got a lot

of comments suggesting the manicurist to use as an alternative to

getting my gel nails done i've been beginning to find this

a bit therapeutic like i kind of enjoy my nail time now to myself

guys look at my nails they look

so good i can't even express how happy this makes me

after i thought i was done for good i thought i couldn't do my nails anymore

and now i think i need to clean my sheets

which is what I've been

dreading the most

I used

to think my least favorite chore was cleaning my toilet

but then as I got older I realized it's actually just putting a fitted sheet on my bed.

Not to be dramatic but it is like the worst thing ever and I think I'd rather do anything else.

But on the other hand I do love going to bed with freshly washed sheets.

Like there's nothing better.

I also made the switch about two years ago from white colored sheets to beige colored sheets.

The reason being my self tan.

You don't want to see what my sheets looked like.

If you self tan you know um it's kind of a

horrifying sight to have yourself tanner stained all over your white bed sheets

so this kind of solves the problem at least it's invisible

it is a bit embarrassing how long this takes me it's like a jigsaw puzzle

so i do think i spoke too soon i think my least favorite thing is actually not the fitted sheet

but putting on the duvet cover.

This takes me about 30 minutes, so I'm just going to speed this up for everybody.

Bed is done.

I can't wait to go to sleep in like eight hours, but I still have my entire laundry basket of clothes to folds.

I've always associated my Sundays with doing laundry and cleaning.

My room is actually pretty bad, okay?

I'm not even going to sugarcoat this for you all.

I'll just show you the proof.

I mean, I guess it could be worse.

Every 10 minutes, I keep grabbing my phone to go on it, and then I just realize there's nothing for me to do on it today.

It is like muscle memory.

Like, I don't even realize that I'm going to grab my phone until I'm trying to hit Instagram, and I realize.. blocked.

I'm trying to just be present and like not even listen to music

while cleaning because I feel like I don't need to always be stimulated.

Why do I always feel the need to have my brain occupied?

Probably TikTok is the cause of this

but I honestly feel like I'm the most creative and come up with my best ideas when I am like bored.

Literally just like cleaning doing absolutely nothing like not listening to a podcast, not listening to music, not texting or like being on my phone that's like

when i think of my like i don't know best video ideas

or my best thoughts long story short i'm gonna stop procrastinating and finish cleaning my room in silence

i never really just do one thing at a time anymore

if i'm cleaning i'll have a youtube video playing or

if i'm eating i'm watching something

if i'm in line at a coffee shop i'm probably scrolling on instagram

so one thing i really liked about today is kind of

just like letting the boring things be boring like i'm cleaning my apartment

and that's it nothing else is happening once i kind of get past

that stage of the initial urge to pick up my phone it starts to feel really peaceful

and i kind of feel less mentally tired i don't know

if that's just like the placebo effect but i really do feel

that way on the days that i spend less time on my phone

but i really did get in here i did a great

deep clean there's like no better feeling than a deep clean

and this is coming from a girl who used to be a wreck okay guys i used to be

so messy my mom made dedicated posts on her instagram in 2014 of the messes

that i would leave behind so you know i'm a changed woman i guess

nothing quite boosts my mood like cleaning my room

because i feel like i am the happiest person in the world i look

so good it's honestly been kind of messy for like a month i find

that my room kind of correlates with my mental state like my room's messy i'm usually not doing as well

or like not as happy

so now things are looking up for me guys also i put this note on my mirror i don't know

if you guys even saw this in the montage, but when I was at a coffee shop the other day, I met one of you guys who gave me this little note filled with video ideas.

We were chatting for a while.

She came up to me and she's like, I love your videos.

And honestly, like one of the first things I ask you guys when you say that to me is like, what videos should I be making?

And I just love asking you guys for ideas when I see you because you guys really have like the best ideas.

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It was so sweet and so thoughtful

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so i am gonna make sure i use this hence why

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it's on my mirror my urges to go on my phone are slowly increasing throughout the day

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so i think i'm just gonna go for a walk that's

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like what i might go to whenever i don't know what to do is i just go for a walk

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i feel like there's actually a pretty big difference between being alone

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and being alone with your thoughts you guys know how important it is for me to like do things alone

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and enjoy my own company

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but I don't know this is kind of making me realize being without my phone how even

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if I am alone I'm usually scrolling

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and still like consuming other people's lives you know like seeing what they're doing on their day on Instagram

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or listening to a podcast like I'm never really truly alone on those days

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that I still have social media so this has been kind of nice

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and refreshing and kind of awkward to be honest but I think it's good for me okay guys it's dinner time

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tonight we're following olivia's recipe

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so no pressure the pressure's on we're gonna do smash burgers i tried this the other day

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and i set off a fire alarm so yeah i came home

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and there was like smoke there was like a fire well that's a lot of onion oh my gosh that's

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so much onion yeah they shrink a lot like i did one onion last time and i I ate it all.

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You ate a whole onion?

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Um, no. When it's caramelized, it shrinks so much.

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I don't know, is that a lot to consume, like a whole onion?

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Maybe it's not, maybe I'm like not realizing.

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Maybe it is.

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Maybe I'm not conceptualizing like an onion.

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I need to be more self -aware of my onion consumption.

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Really niche problem, eating too much onion.

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Wash and chop lettuce would be the first thing.

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Okay.

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Oh, it's a very naughty.

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okay tutorial with olivia we're gonna start with one of these really thin patties

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and then you fold it like a little taco

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and then we come over here okay and we'll start with some sauce

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or dupe sauce it's really good i'm gonna add a lot

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no it's never too much it's never too much sauce caramelized

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onions um slightly burnt a whole onion per person yes mandatory uh by the way

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and then some lettuce there we have it wow it looks

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so good okay even better well let's hope

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so well we're gonna find out okay

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so don't mind this crazy setup it looks like we're about to review this

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but actually we are but we're gonna do

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that um olivia burned her finger so i did thoughts

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and prayers please yes it's like the tiniest burn ever taste this make sure it's like your second bite

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because the patty is pretty small so you won't get it in the first bite i'm like tortilla

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cheers to the second bite

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it's good so far i had onion like fly out of my mouth in that clip like it was like

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the sauce is

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so good i think the tortilla should have been like cooked a bit more i'm sorry wait no no

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but i think it's the i don't think it's you i

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think it's the actual tortilla type you know what i'm saying

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i don't think it cooks very well clearly definitely i can see your onion thing now

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because like this doesn't feel like a lot of onion this

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is like would love this every night like really new meal

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really now we can have a new meal our rotation is

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like kind of getting big we like needed something new we'll

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have like the same dinner every day for a month i'm not kidding right like people think we're joking

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but it's not a joke it's real we had to do

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it we had to we're getting way too predictable way too predictable we got to like shake it up

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and like really just like surprise people can't let anybody know

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what's coming hey guys it's my favorite part of the day

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i'm in bed i can't wait to go to sleep like

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i don't i like really look forward to just getting in my bed in the evening

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and closing my eyes

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and sleeping it's like kind of sad anyways thanks for hanging

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out with me i had such a nice sunday i hope you guys also enjoyed

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and i also hope

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that you take this as some inspo to maybe like do

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your own no scroll sunday i saw it originally i think on tiktok

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that people were doing it and i've been meaning to do it for a

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while and at some point i just had to tell myself okay i'm gonna do it for a sunday

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and i'm really glad that i did i felt like i was able to have like

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so much more time in the day than usual

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because i wasn't feeling it just mindlessly scrolling

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and i always have the least amount of stress on the days

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when i don't have social media i could go on

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and on forever but i hope it inspires as like one person, maybe.

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Love you guys.

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Thanks for watching.

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I'll see you soon.

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Bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 179 sentences and 2197 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:58. The speaker talks at a natural 169 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

onion /ˈʌn.jən/ (noun) — A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
sheet /ʃit/ (noun) — A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
nail /neɪl/ (noun) — The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human).
scroll /skɹoʊl/ (noun) — A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
bite /baɪt/ (verb) — To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
bore /boɹ/ (verb) — To inspire boredom in somebody.
messy /ˈmɛsi/ (adjective) — In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
meal /ˈmiːl/ (noun) — Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
mirror /ˈmiɹɚ/ (noun) — A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/ (adjective) — Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
brick /ˈbɹɪk/ (noun) — A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ (noun) — A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…
urge /ɜːd͡ʒ/ (verb) — To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
fold /ˈfəʊld/ (verb) — To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ (noun) — A laundering; a washing.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verb) — To continue in extent.
get in (verb) — To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively.
go for (verb) — To try for, to attempt to reach.
come from (verb) — To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
come over (verb) — To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
come up to (verb) — To approach.
come up with (verb) — To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
done for (adjective) — Doomed; without hope of recovery.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 89 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheet /ʃit/, wash /wɑʃ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Long words — get the stress right: predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, mandatory /ˈmæn.dəˌtɔɹ.i/, unfortunate /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

How to practise with this video

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Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like onion, sheet, nail.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to love · used to be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've always loved · haven't been · has been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is occupied · be stimulated
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	my least favorite · the worst · the most creative

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