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It is officially fall, not in the weather, but in my heart.

It is September, football is back, seasonal ice drinks are back at coffee shops, and I am so back as a matter of fact.

This is my Super Bowl, this is my season, it's cozy season, and we are kicking it off strong today.

My first order of business and what really gets me so excited for a new season is doing some decor shopping.

I really don't have that much in the way of fall decor as it stands, and I decided this year I had a vision and I was going to execute it.

I want my apartment to be cozy and warm

and have all the beautiful fall colors

so i hit my big three started at home goods then i went to world market

which is a sneaky good place they don't have them all over the place like they do home goods

but i'm very grateful to live near a world market

because they have some really good holiday decorations one of my

favorite places to go to get seasonal decor i really experienced

my dream solo date here i got a seasonal iced latte

from a local coffee shop i browsed around world market made

a bunch of cute cozy purchases fully immersed myself in the fall vibes got

so excited to go home

and decorate with everything i got then of course i had to go to trader joe's this is specifically

so that i could make some fall specialty coffees

because i want to try all of their fall butters

and whatever and turn them all into coffees

which is what i am doing right now

so let's make a trader joe's maple butter latte and get this fall vlog started

Let's get started.

okay

already halfway done with my coffee

and i've done nothing cool what's up you guys it's hannah welcome back to my channel

and welcome to a very exciting vlog let me set the

scene for you okay it is september labor day has come

and gone i just saw practical magic 2 in theaters it may be 100 degrees outside

but it is 70 in my apartment so what does all of

that mean it's fall it's time for fall fall is here

it's upon me it is in my veins i am ready

the fall decor is out it has been purchased it is

ready to go up it is my time this is where

i really start to defrost fall is my season i love cozy season i don't love it

when like we fall back and do daylight savings and all

that like that's not not looking forward to that at all

but i'm just gonna ignore that right now because

that is not what i'm gonna ruin my vibes

and i have good vibes right now

if i sound a little nasally it is

because i am a little bit under the weather

so i am having a cozy weekend in

and i decided i wanted to start decorating my apartment for

fall i did get a few new things i got this giant very heavy bin down

because the label that i wrote on it says fall

and christmas it is looking like mainly christmas i just know

that i don't have that much in the way of decorations for specifically fall

and i'm going for more of like an autumnal vibe not necessarily a halloween spooky

vibe but i like the the autumn colors and like leaves

and pumpkins and cozy and stuff like that

so i'm gonna go through this bin and see what i've got in here

because that is a mystery to us all

but i did acquire some new things i already realized

that i meant to get bathroom hand towels instead of kitchen towels at home goods

and i did pick up these kitchen towels which are pretty

but i might actually go back to home goods and return these

and get actual bathroom towels because

that is what i needed you know we all make mistakes

but these are beautiful like i really love these colors

and these are the colors

that i feel like i'm really going for for my fall decor

but i will be keeping

that i found a couple other things i found this pretty

little like fake flower arrangement in this little vase pretty fall

colors i could just use more little things like this

so i'm gonna find a place in my apartment to put

that i love garland and i'm really excited about this one again these are the colors

that i'm going for beautiful gorgeous the yellows the oranges the purple it's everything i'm obsessed

and then i have another garland that has i believe like pumpkins

and ghosts on it or something and i think i'm gonna do

that one in the bathroom love the beaded texture this would eat for asmr oh that's good

that is good and then naturally i could not go to HomeGoods in the fall

and not get a candle because that would just have been an illegal activity.

So I found this one, midnight apple.

I don't really have anything apple scented like this.

So I thought it smelled really nice.

like it's appley and cinnamony but it's not overwhelming

and that's what i liked about it also this label is really pretty

and again it's not just my color scheme those are the things

that i got from home goods as i mentioned i went

to world market they have everything i love it i'm so excited

so let's start off with the obvious again more candles right

i know what you may be thinking hey are you okay

maybe burn the ones you already have we'll get there

and i will i will but these were three for 12

and they're cute little mini ones

so i can place them in different parts of my apartment

and not have to burn them for a million years to use them up so i got the three

fall scents that i saw naturally a pumpkin spice one

because this one is cider and clove and then we have whiskey

and white oak okay i saw this and i just thought

that this was really cute it is a mug

but it's in the shape of a pumpkin it's

so cute this is around the time that i start enjoying teas again before bed.

Tea is good before bed all the time, but I feel like I just gravitate towards it more in the cozy season.

I honestly, judging by the state of my voice right now, could use probably some immunity tea tonight.

So maybe I will wash this up and make some tea in this.

Next thing I got, this was a last minute addition, but I thought that I could put this maybe in the kitchen.

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Ooh, wait, that would be cute.

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I got this Harvest Acord Micro LED string lights set i'm

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assuming this is about yeah battery operated requires three double a batteries not included rude i'm

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so right like good idea hannah i think i'm gonna put those in the kitchen

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and i have a plan i'm very excited to decorate this i just thought was

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so beautiful this little fabric embellished beaded pumpkin love this purple this is the same color as my lola blanket

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that i have that just lives on the back of my couch

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that i use every single day

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and i was thinking i could put this here on my coffee table behind where you are sitting right now

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and would match the lola blanket

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so well going along with the color scheme okay this is

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a table runner what i like to do is on this dresser

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that i have here

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that i use as my tv console i have a table

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runner on top of it just to add something to it i've been doing

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that since i got this when i first moved into my apartment in new york

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and i have a little table runner that i will switch

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that one out for for christmas time that i really like

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and i thought that this one would be super pretty

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because it has again all of the colors that purple again

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that i am really loving for fall

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so i was thinking i could replace this plain one

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that i have like the all season one with the fall

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one i'm trying to think of things in my apartment

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that are easy one -to -one swaps and not necessarily things

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that i'm gonna have to like make room for in addition

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if that makes sense like i can just take out the existing ones

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and put the holiday ones this i didn't actually need

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but anything that has a calico cat on it i purchase without fail

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because charlie's a calico and everything just reminds me of her

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so i saw this little hand doll at world market

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and tell me that's not charlie charlie look do you see this that's you finally i purchased another blanket wow wow okay

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did i need this no but it is

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so soft it is the pretty fall colors

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that i love we've got this side that's kind of this like burnt like orangey brown

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and then this lighter speckled side i have a little basket of blankets over here

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that i did want to go through actually and see

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if there are any that i could donate can i donate those

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but i got this and that is everything that i got for

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my fall decorating oh where do i even begin like this is so great oh my god i'm so happy

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i'm so happy this is making my life is so good let's go through this bin together

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i don't want to undo all of this and have to repack it like fall where fall who am i sure

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wait a minute i have the wrong container

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and this is this has been a grave error did i not think to like relabel it okay

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whoa cool so

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while i am gathering the rest of my fall decorations i'm also playing around with filming on a new phone

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and turn it into flex cam mode

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and there is a little level on the screen

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that you can lock in place so

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when you're taking video it holds the video steady also you can turn the cover screen preview on

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and video to prop your phone up like its own little tripod

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and be able to shoot with the back camera

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but be able to see yourself

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which is why a lot of people shoot with the front camera on phones

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and still be able to see yourself kind of like a viewfinder

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and they're holding the phone at you you can see what they're seeing

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and what they're taking photos of

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This is what I would personally switch to.

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It's got everything you need.

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It's a super fun creative tool and you can do this.

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Thank you again to Samsung for partnering with me on this video.

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We'll be right back.

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We'll be right back.

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All right, the Eagles won.

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I am all clean and ready for bed.

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I just made myself some tea.

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I'm letting it steep.

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It should be probably almost done steeping, but I also need it to cool down because it's probably gonna burn the shit out of my mouth.

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But I made my little, it's an immune and stress one.

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I'm not very stressed at all, but could use the immune help.

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I have my tissues up here.

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I've been feeling a lot better today, so that's really good.

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It has been a lovely day of just relaxing.

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I'm really happy with the decorations I've put out so far.

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I still have more to do tomorrow, but I also just need to clean in here like there's clutter places I need to put stuff away

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I'm doing a thousand loads of laundry right now I feel

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like once my apartment's a little bit cleaner it'll be more

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fun to like get to put out the fun decorations

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because right now I'm like okay I want to put this here

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but they're there right now

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and I need to clean it that's going to be tomorrow's

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task for the rest of today it's like 9 30 I just wanted to get in bed

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and read my book

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and I thought this would be a perfect time to talk

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to you about my fall TBR I am in such a witchy mood since i saw practical magic 2

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so part of me almost wanted to go into my kindle

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and pick up one of the books

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that i started last fall that's witchy it's called the x hex but i am

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currently reading Nocticadia by Carrie Lake which is a dark academia book and it is so good.

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I started it last year and then I got not quite halfway and I put it down for some reason.

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I guess I just wasn't in the mood.

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Oh also that was around the time

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that I started being like feeling super restless and wasn't able to focus

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so maybe I just wasn't in a reading mood at that time of last year.

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For fall I think that I gravitate towards fantasy dark academia romance

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but like it needs to be be fall themed

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or like have some type of fall element

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or fall setting anything cozy witchy because

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that would fall kind of under fantasy I'm a thriller girl all year round

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so if I find one of those I want to read I'll read it whenever

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because they're it's always the vibe for me heavy on dark academia I will say

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because like the whole back to school

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and like the school settings of dark academia books I just

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eat up this one takes place at a university on an island

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and it's about this girl Lilia whose mother passed away from

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kind of like a weird mysterious illness Lilia wants to get out of the town

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that she grew up in and also figure out what really happened to her mom

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and she ends up getting accepted to dracadia university the island also previously housed exiled mental patients

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so a lot of like weird dark energy

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and then there is this professor that they call dr death one of the things

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that he is studying is this thing called noctus soma

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which is like a parasite a parasitic infection and it is fatal

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so he ends up being one of lilia's professors i haven't gotten to any like romance

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or anything like that's not a main part of the story yet

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but just from reading the back and from what I've picked up on from them

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so far it's kind of giving

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that I'm just interested in the storyline I'm interested in the setting all the dark creepy vibes I really like

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so currently reading that I'm also in the middle of a bunch of other books

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but I'm kind of just putting everything on pause right now for fall

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because I'm really excited about my fall tbr a few books are coming out this month

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that i'm really excited about most of

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which being the third book in the ninth house trilogy deadbeat is coming out by lee bardugo i am

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so excited i have been waiting for this just like everybody

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else has ninth house is another dark academia like fantasy book it is

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so freaking good like there's secret societies and like weird

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that people are doing with the dead also completely pivoting from dark academia the thoroughbreds is coming out this month

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which is the second book to the Academy by Ellen Hildebrand.

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I just recently read the first book.

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I really enjoyed it and I am excited to read the second one.

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I think the first one they were in 11th grade

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and now they're seniors at their like exclusive New England elite boarding school with like all the drama.

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When I first started it I wasn't sure

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if I'd be able to get into it

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but I ended up really liking a lot of the characters

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and I'm interested to see their storylines goes then i also

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started reading a witch's guide to magical inn keeping last year

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once again one of those cases where i started it

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and then i stopped so i want to continue reading that

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because again witchy vibes really into

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that right now also my friend was giving away some of her books

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so i picked up a couple one of

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which is called a study in drowning from what i understand

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that is a dark academia as well

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so i feel like this would be a really good time

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to read it i also picked up one dark window from her

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which i believe is fantasy i can read a fantasy any time of the year

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and honestly I could read any genre any time of the

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year doesn't really matter it's just certain seasons I feel more called to certain genres

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so those are also two that are on my physical tbr

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but like my tbr is so damn long

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and then of course I'm probably gonna see another book

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that I didn't even have on my radar and want to pick

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that one up too

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and then just throw the rest of my physical tbr out

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the window there needs to be some order I just kind

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of bop around like I'm a mood reader I love picking

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up whatever I feel like reading just making me feel like should i read the x -hex right now

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or just maybe read a little bit of it to get

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the witchy vibes out of my system i'm currently listening to therapist the most recent episode

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that was posted with sandra bulick and nicole kidman

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because i am down the sandra bulick rabbit hole right now i am obsessed with her i've always loved her

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but i'm just like seeing all these interview clips of her

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and everything since i just saw the movie on the topic of podcasts

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while i scroll through and find of this book a podcast

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that definitely fits kind of the fall spooky vibes is this podcast has been out for

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so long but I just discovered it and I love that

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because there's so many episodes for me to go back

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and listen to but it's called two girls one ghost

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if any of y 'all listen to this podcast let me know

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because I am

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so hooked I really love the hosts I think they're funny they give you like history of things

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which is really interesting it's a podcast that's largely about paranormal encounters

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and ghosts and hauntings and things like that the stories are

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so interesting there was an episode about Gettysburg and I'm from Pennsylvania

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so I'm very familiar with Gettysburg and I've been to Gettysburg a ton

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and it was just really interesting to hear some of the accounts and stories from how haunted Gettysburg is.

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But yeah, there's so many episodes.

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I am having so much fun just getting to scroll through the entire catalog and pick episodes to listen to.

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The Ex -Hex by Erin Sterling, I found it.

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I'm only 23 % of the way in.

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Maybe I'll just start over because I actually don't remember any of this.

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I'm so excited.

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Should I read it?

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Okay, it takes place in Graves Glen, Georgia.

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It follows Vivi and Gwyn.

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I think the X's name is Reese, R -H -Y -S, which, you know, ACOTAR girlies.

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That's coming out in October.

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So that's on my fall TBR as well.

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And Once Upon a Broken Heart novella is coming out.

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So my fall TBR is extremely long.

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Yeah, I feel like I might read a little bit of the X -Hex

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because I'm just like in a practical magic mood right now.

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But I also want to read Noctocadia.

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But I also have to drink my tea.

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So as long as it takes me to drink my tea, I didn't get tired is how long I'm going to read.

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good morning it is the next day i'm starting the day

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off running a couple errands i'm actually returning the things to home

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because i need to return and not waiting two weeks to do

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so who's proud someone clap please then i just went to the grocery store

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and picked up ingredients for dinner tonight hint hint we're making a soup i'm very excited

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and then i headed back home and i got back to decorating.

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Something I like to do in the kitchen is switch out my mug holder with different seasonal ones.

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So I replaced all of my ones that I had on there for the spring and summer with some fall ones.

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And then it was time to put up my little string light.

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I absolutely love how this turned out.

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I think it adds so much whimsy, if you will.

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I feel like words being overused at this point

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but that's just what it feels like to my kitchen

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and I'm kind of considering getting one for all seasons naturally finishing things off with a fresh candle

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I just love how cozy my kitchen looks

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and feels right now these decorations are bringing me life here's a quick intermission featuring Charlie

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because she just looked so so glowing and majestic in the sun.

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I love her so much.

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And then I'm doing a little bit more decorating.

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I decided I wanted to hang that really pretty beaded garland

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that I got from HomeGoods above my desk and replace the banner

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that I had there because I didn't really know what else to do in this space.

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So that's where I ended up putting it.

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I also thought it might be too much in my room.

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I don't know, but I like it here.

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hello everyone sorry the lighting in here is garbage right now even more

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so than usual one of my lights in my kitchen is

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out right now maybe it's just cozy we're just gonna go with

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that welcome back to home cooking with hannah i'm coming at you with a soup recipe today

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because it's fall it is very much in line with this video

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and with fall

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but also soup to me just doesn't have a season like

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i'm making soup all year round i really don't care this is a new recipe

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that i found on instagram it is a chicken tortilla soup i just went ahead

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and i prepped the things i think i needed to prep

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i cut up a whole yellow onion i diced it said

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three to five cloves of garlic i think i probably was about four months it was all said

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and done and i disassembled my rotisserie chicken the recipe called for just like raw chicken breasts

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that would then be boiled in the pot

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but i don't trust myself to thoroughly cook chicken be a boiling like it's probably fine

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and it probably would work but just knowing me i would

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that up somehow i already do not mess with raw meat especially raw chicken

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so I decided to be on the safe side

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and get a pre -cooked chicken let me grab my pot

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I'm pretty sure my first step is to saute the onion and for

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that I need some olive oil I'm catching up on some

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YouTube vlogs I feel like I haven't really watched YouTube a ton lately just I haven't really had time

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so I have a lot of vlogs to catch up on from my favorite creators

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and I love this this is one of my favorite parts

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about cooking is getting to enjoy some fun form of entertainment

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while cooking because i am the world's slowest chef notoriously

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so i have lots of time to kill i also have

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some chicken bone broth anytime a recipe calls for broth of any kind i will always get bone broth

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because it adds extra protein and it tastes the same to me i got

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that and then i got crushed tomatoes they are the fire roasted ones two cans of black beans

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and then i have a package of frozen corn it was supposed to be fire roasted as well

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but they were oddly out of almost all corn they only had like regular yellow sweet corn

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so i'm just gonna go with

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that i might add a couple like red pepper flakes in there weren't measurements for any of the spices

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so i'm just gonna have to measure with my heart We got it.

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We'll see how it goes.

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Paprika, cumin, salt, pepper, garlic powder.

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Let's get started.

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We'll be right back.

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Thank you.

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It is the third

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and final day of this installment of my fall reset i

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am putting up all of the rest of the fall decorations

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that i have i got these hand towels for the bathroom

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from home goods the other day i'm just going ahead

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and giving my bathroom counter a nice clean this is what i mean i feel like my decorations feel

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so much better when they're in a clean space this was really the last space

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that i had to spruce up a little bit for now

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anyway i do have a couple things in the mail one being some new bedding

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so i'm really excited that's going to be in the next vlog so that's something to look forward to.

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Make sure you check that out when that comes out.

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Here is that second fall garland that I have.

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I love my ghost and pumpkins and that looks so cute in my bathroom.

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I know I've said it a million times, but I am just obsessed with the color scheme of all of these decorations and the way that everything has come together.

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i feel like it has made my apartment feel so warm

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and cozy so ready for fall and i just love this space so much i'm so happy

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like i said more to come next time i have new fall bedding i have a fall book haul

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and lots more so i will see you guys next time until then bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “RESETTING FOR FALL: decor shopping & haul, decorating my apartment, fall TBR, recipes & more 🍂🤎🎃”. This video has 413 sentences and 4881 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:35. The speaker talks at a natural 171 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 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
vibe noun	/vaɪb/	An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
decoration noun	/ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/	The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
academia noun	/ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/	The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
pumpkin noun	/ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/	A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
mood noun	/muːd/	A mental or emotional state, composure.
soup noun	/sup/	Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food…
towel noun	/ˈtaʊ̯əl/	A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
decor noun	/deɪˈkoɹ/	The style of decoration of a room or building.
ghost noun	/ɡoʊst/	A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
recipe noun	/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/	Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	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…
seasonal adjective	/ˈsiːzənəl/	Of, related to, or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics.
naturally adverb	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	In a natural manner.
practical adjective	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
purple noun	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
look forward to verb		To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
put out verb		To blind (eyes).
put up verb		To place in a high location.
come out in verb		to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)

Sentences worth repeating

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

I don't really have anything apple scented like this.
I really love the phone's portrait mode.
It's got everything you need.
I guess I just wasn't in the mood.
Should I read it?

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	i've been doing · have been getting · have been wanting
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've done · has come · has been purchased
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	has been purchased · is called · was posted
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	towels which are · Lake which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 132 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: ninth /naɪnθ/, thin /ˈθɪn/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, chef /ʃɛf/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, academia /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
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 vibe, decoration, academia.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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