Shadowing Practice: Romanticizing my life - Learn English Speaking with Video

I spend so much of my life saying things like, I'll do this when I have more money, or I'll start it next week.

I'll do it when I accomplish this.

I've noticed I spend more time consuming other people's lives than living my own.

As exciting it can be to scroll on Pinterest and dream of a life you may view as greater than yours, too much of it can actually leave you with an empty feeling inside.

Focusing on all the things you so badly want often makes you realize all the things you lack.

It's a cliche, but the saying, stop and smell the roses, has always been important to me.

I believe heavily in the law of attraction.

Positive or negative thoughts bring the corresponding experience into a person's life.

If you constantly think about what you don't have instead of what you do, the universe will only hear the negativity and return it as such.

An easy way to reframe your mindset is to start the day with three things that you're grateful for, along with three things you're excited about.

It starts your day off with positive energy and excitement even if you don't view your life as very exciting.

I'm excited to drink my coffee every day.

I'm excited to put on a cute outfit.

You could even say you're excited to get back into bed later.

I mean, I always am.

I like to phrase the bad or the boring things as, I get to do this, instead of, I have to do this.

An example would be, if you hate doing the dishes, you can be grateful you have two able hands that allow you to do so.

The mundane can be so special if you're present and open to the idea that maybe everything isn't so bad.

I often feel envious of the lives of others.

I wish I had that experience.

I wish I got that opportunity.

I wish I could travel more.

My dad always liked to remind me that exploring where you already live can be just as exciting.

I want to make an effort to see more lakes, more rivers, more mountains around me.

The older I've gotten, the less time I've spent outside.

And I believe that's a big part of why I felt some light leave my life, a light I felt the presence of more when I was young.

Being outside is healing.

At some point, I also stopped listening to music.

Not entirely, but in a big way.

No music while getting ready, silence in the car.

And while I believe being able to sit in silence is important, I also think when you're someone like me and your mind is consumed with not-so-productive thoughts,

turning on music that you love that lifts your spirits will get your energy really high, especially live music.

If you have the opportunity to go see your favorite artist or your favorite band live, even if it's just once, I think the joy that that gives a person banks enough happiness to last a few months.

Something very important and near and dear to my heart that I learned in recent years is if you're having trouble cleaning, doing anything really, you have to pretend you're in a movie.

You're being watched.

Get performative as hell right now.

And that starts with full beat.

The hair on me is questionable.

Look, I told you we weren't at our final.

You can see the light, natural hair still peeking through.

That's not the point.

That's not the point of this video.

We're not talking about my hair.

Face.

Outfit.

Put on a ridiculous outfit.

I will show you mine very soon.

And turn on music.

Sometimes I turn on the Disney Channel soundtrack.

Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Audrey Hobert.

That really gets me going because she is so entirely girl.

She does such a good job of writing and expressing the girl experience so well.

She just, she captures it so fully in her work.

And I adore her.

And I saw her last night.

Oh god.

Yesterday was an incredible day.

Incredible day.

I went to an animal sanctuary.

I saw ponies.

I saw pigs.

I saw kangaroos.

I saw monkeys.

I saw everything.

It was the best day of my life because I ended my day going to Audrey Hobart and she is my favorite.

And I danced and I screamed and I sang and I was sweating.

It was so magical.

Ask anyone around me, I had the best time of my life.

And like I said earlier, live music lights a fire inside of me.

There's periods of times in my life where I just stop listening to music, and I'm doing everything in silence, and I'm wondering why I'm so miserable.

So between spending time outside, which I need to do so much more of, because as a child, I spent all of my time outside.

I was such an outdoors kid, and now I'm not.

And then I'm depressed.

Hmm, that's weird.

Just had to update you on that.

Now back, back to the important stuff.

I need to put the ridiculous outfit on.

In 3, 2, 1.

What?

Oh, this little thing?

It's nothing.

I always wear this.

You wanna know the funniest part?

I've had this for two years and I've only worn it one other time

and it was to do exactly this because it really does get me going.

I realize I actually have no idea where my headphones are, so the sacrifice I have to make is quieter music because I'm just gonna turn it on on my TV.

I have a playlist called Girl, that's it, and it's not as long as I would like it to be.

It learns, so whatever it plays after my music is done should be in the same world.

On this we have Addison Rae, Imogen Heap, Lana Del Rey, Charlie ACX, Demi Lovato, Every Time You Lie, Fiona Apple, Audrey Hobert, Magdalena Bae, do you understand?

Wow, things just happen for me don't be alarmed i may not be beautiful

and whimsical right now actually that's not true sorry i am always beautiful

and i am always whimsical i don't have makeup on anymore

and i'm just an old reliable because i'm not even gonna lie

that whimsical outfit not very comfortable Plus I was like damn near flashing my friend Nick

when he was here

so here we are we're not done the house is clean I feel at peace

but I got new bed sheets and I'm so excited about

that the most important thing in my life is my bed my comfort my room between the sleep crowns

and everything like you know I love my bed you know

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how important all my stuff is to me I love the blanket wait till you take a peek at this.

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Look at these gorgeous blue and you know Dylan was like it's giving bell because they're blue and yellow.

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I'm so excited.

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I haven't gotten new sheets in a while

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so I have one singular fitted sheet

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so like usually I have clean linens in the linen closet

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and if I need to change my sheets I can change my duvet cover

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and my pillowcases but not the fitted sheet so like I can't actually remake my bed right away if I wanted to.

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But now I can't.

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These are going on the bed.

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It's about to be a really magical night.

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New sheets.

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My boyfriend's mom got me a delicious candle.

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I'm gonna like that as hell.

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okay i'm not gonna lie to you the bathroom's a disaster

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but i can't be perfect i can be romantic but I can't be perfect.

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Something really important, especially on a night with fresh new sheets, is a really good shower.

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Now I did wash my hair yesterday so I will not be doing that again.

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I also don't like going to sleep with wet hair.

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If you want to wash your hair, wash your hair.

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I'm not going to but I am going to wash my body

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and exfoliate my body and I have been wearing these jammies all day so I will be changing into new jammies.

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Probably the same ones just in a different color because these are my favorite.

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I light a candle and I turn on my red light.

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Those are my only two forms of lighting okay it makes it very spa-esque

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and cherry on top i turn on healing frequencies abundant frequencies

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because usually i shower in silence like we've talked about the music thing already i maybe shouldn't do

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that but also it gives me time to like think

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but something about the frequencies glasses are off i cannot see you i had to order hair ties clips

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and this is more so for fun.

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For a side bang moment, I don't have any hair ties.

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I don't have any clips in my house.

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I don't know how it's happened.

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Hair up and out of the way.

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I'm also getting to a hair length where I can kind of start doing overnight curls if I really wanted to.

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A little sock moment.

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I can't see a foot in front of me.

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I'm trying to look at this countertop to see where my hairband is and it's just, it might be here.

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I don't know.

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Instead, we have Morgan's trusty dusty headband the concrete candle always special dylan got this for me for my birthday

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or christmas i don't know they all blend together candle is lit going on top of the toilet

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because i can see it when i'm in the shower.

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Speaker.

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I forgot

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to mention before I got in the shower while the red light was going.

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I'm listening to my frequencies dry brushing and this one comes on a stick so you can, right?

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That entire thing that I do, not as frequent as I should, is so incredible for my nervous system and I need to do it more frequently.

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I don't like, hey this thing makes me feel really good.

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I'm not gonna do it.

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That's me.

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That's how I live my life.

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Not for long.

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Having my house really clean makes me feel so good.

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I'm gonna keep it really dirty majority of the time enough of

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that we're being nice now as you can see these are half empty i love them a lot osea is

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that how you say this i don't know this has been my favorite post shower body stuff algae body oil

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and the algae body lotion this is really small

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so i've been using it sparingly but i do like majority oil

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and then the lotion i'm gonna lotion myself up

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and then i'm gonna get in my new jammies a little candle back there my new candle

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that bell and mom got me today so delicious my Jasmine Dreams.

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We also went to 7-Eleven and we got donuts and goldfish because that's what we deserve.

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And I did want to watch Coraline, but Morgan said he wants to wait for me to watch it with him.

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So I think maybe that's something that I'll do tomorrow.

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So we're going to watch Once Upon a Time.

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Still watching Once Upon a Time, by the way.

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Same jammies, different color.

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And it matches my sheets.

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And we got donuts.

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Do you want to know what else is good for the nervous system?

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My babies.

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Oh my god, they're so warm.

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They feel like a little heated.

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They're making their own body heat.

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They're making their own body heat now.

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Okay, I'm doing first impressions.

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Getting into bed.

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Oh, I like this blue.

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I know.

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All right. Is this the stuff?

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Oh, this is the stuff.

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I'm going to sleep like a baby.

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These are Dylan's favorite donuts.

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Oh my god, those paws.

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Come here.

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Come here.

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Come all the way out.

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Come here, baby.

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Come out.

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Peek-a-boo.

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Yay.

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Who's the cutest girl?

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Me.

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It's Saturday.

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I slept incredible, incredible in these sheets.

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My life is perfect.

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There's nowhere else I would rather be.

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I woke up this morning and I realized it was Saturday

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and I started thinking about the fact that I used to watch like cartoons

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and animated stuff on the weekends when I was a kid and that I don't do that anymore.

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In the morning with your breakfast, that's so fun.

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I really don't watch TV until like 5 p.m.

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It's kind of my rule

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but I think on the weekends there's no rules ordered myself some pancakes as a treat as a weekend treat

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and i'm gonna watch tangled i really love that movie

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and it makes you feel good my sweet angel bailey is coming

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and i really want to have like a park picnic day

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so we're gonna go to the grocery store get some stuff prepare it

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and go go sit outside it's a little gloomy out

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but not in a we shouldn't go outside way kind of in a oh it'd be nice

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because it's so hot but there's no sun right now so maybe we won't be miserable.

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I put on one outfit and it had a jacket

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and I was sweating and I hadn't even left the house or done anything yet.

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So this is what I'm wearing to go to the grocery store and to the park probably too.

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The purple in my pants matches the purple in my shirt.

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This is one of my favorite shirts.

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Trader Joe.

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Yeah.

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Do we have a game plan?

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I feel like they're like really big though.

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Like are we supposed to crack that open at the park?

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I guess.

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Any sort of protein?

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Do we need protein?

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Okay so it's really hot.

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It wasn't.

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And now it is.

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If you're in LA you know right now that the weather is just the most unpredictable actually.

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Well I was saying earlier that it was gloomy

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and wonderful weather for a picnic the park and now we're gonna be sweating.

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There's one, two, three.

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Insane.

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Unbelievable. So cute.

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I have all of these little cookie cutters but they're not for cookies.

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I guess they could be.

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I like to use a star lock and this like flower but there's quite a couple flowers.

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Dinosaur, which is i haven't used this one yet you guys know i love dinosaurs

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because we're having fun and we're romanticizing our lives right bailey yeah we're gonna cut oh excuse excuse the corn

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so the corn has something to say we are going to cut everything

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that we possibly can into a fun shape yeah what

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if it like comes out manky mouse tell me this isn't the cutest fruit you've ever seen i highly doubt

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that we're gonna is that mold hey i highly doubt

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that we're gonna eat all this which which means that I get to use this for my breakfast.

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My breakfast die.

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Here's the corn salsa.

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I put it in a little to go.

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It's really delicious, except I put too much white pepper in it.

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Boom, pink lemonade.

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Morgan was making fun of my cheese in a jar, but that's what it is.

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That's what it is.

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Brownie bites, because they didn't end up working out when I wanted them to.

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You see the spread.

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Yeah.

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You see it, you love it.

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We're gonna put it in the hard bag.

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We're gonna put it in the hard bag.

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Honestly, yeah.

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Ice in our binks for our pink lemonade.

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I had the pink lemonade in the freezer for like, I don't know, how long were we doing this?

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An hour?

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Yeah.

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That's honestly probably fine, but.

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You're gorgeous on that.

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It's beautiful.

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It feels nice.

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Okay, I'm gonna dig it.

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Thank you.

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Was it everything you dreamed of?

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh, that's my teeth drawer.

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Yeah.

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Tom was telling his girlfriend, like, he's the worst.

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Why are we dating him?

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Uh-oh.

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Um, where were we?

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We're back at Sally's.

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I don't know, you might have noticed.

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She's gonna give me demonetize.

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Oh.

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You might have noticed my hair looks darker.

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It just has gotten darker.

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And I'm like, you know what, it's time to speed up the process.

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You know, I said I wanted to go pink, now I'm like, okay, I probably will get sick of the pink yo we're just i don't really know what we're gonna do

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but we have bleach

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so we're doing it we're doing it we're usually had after sun on but we're taking a break

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to order food okay so we are on bleach one this i did a test strand

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and it turned out like this light and i didn't tone it

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or anything so i also this i did first so i had to wash it out

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i'm gonna wash out the whole thing

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and then we're gonna bleach it again then we're gonna do the roots

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and then i'm gonna we're gonna wash it

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and then i'm gonna tone it and then i'm gonna wash it again

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and then i'm gonna dye it bailey's winning the night we're gonna be bought Draco Malfoy reporting live.

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This is like the third sort of round of bleach on my hair.

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Don't be alarmed.

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We're taking a small break while it finishes doing what it needs to do.

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Oh, yum.

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Dylan's mom got us this balsamic from Flamingo stick and I just made some bread.

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So this is our little treat.

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But once the hair is finished, I will be back to show you.

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Because it's going to be great, I swear.

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I don't know for sure yet because I dried it and it's frizzy and yeah, sure, a little dead naturally.

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I just bleached it three times, but then I cut it and I styled it

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and put it up and I'm not taking it down until I have my face on.

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And then we'll see the final result, but it's looking really good.

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This is exactly what I wanted.

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We're so close.

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This has been such a long process, but I think it's going to be worth it.

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And new hair, I know that the other one was very short-lived, but like, of course, it was getting darker as the time was going on.

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And I knew I had to, I knew I had to bleach it.

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New hair makes everything so exciting.

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Oh, I want to go out because I want people to see my hair.

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I want to take pictures.

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I want to feel gorgeous.

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I do feel gorgeous.

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This wasn't supposed to be part of the video, but it is.

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Okay, well, something really magical happened.

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My hair turned out perfect because I spoke it into existence.

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What?

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It's so good.

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I feel beautiful.

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And I'm going to a garden dinner tonight.

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And I'm really excited.

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I was supposed to have this video out today, but I was still filming.

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So I'm like I might as well just take you with me

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and then I can end it

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But I'm gonna feed the cats really quick before we leave

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and then we're gonna drive to Venice They're still having milk and I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be

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Starting their little slurry, but they don't want it.

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I tried Princess Leia.

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Are you joking?

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Oh my god He always takes the nipple bottle off of the syringe This is crazy.

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This is my biggest dream.

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There's chickens and bunnies.

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Hi, guys.

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What are you doing?

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The perfume's in the dirt that I'm already wearing.

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What a plate.

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Hi.

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Gorgeous in the garden.

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Angry in the garden.

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It's that time everybody Did you do a transition?

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No I was just showing my cone It's me 3 2

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I put it in What the hell No no it's Event?

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What did you call that?

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An event or a dinner?

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Dinner that dinner it was like more of a picking situation build your own buffet

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get on your hands and knees and beg incredible incredible food

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sulan your is that what it is i learned today how to pronounce

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that it's troy savant's perfume brand

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and i actually i got uh the little garden collection of

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these perfumes how long ago a couple weeks ago now

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and i've been wearing the fig in morgan package then you were at the event bow bow

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so boom been wearing the fig flavor you can't say that's pregnant oh

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and my card's gone like every single day mixed with my

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other perfume what a wonderful week look how gorgeous i am i feel gorgeous i was not feeling gorgeous

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when this started so this is a huge this is the most important part i think you know

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and this week did feel quite romantic

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but really truly i did a lot of things

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that make me feel good and make my life feel exciting

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that I haven't been doing that I haven't done in a

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while and I'm gonna keep it up I love you

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so much thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one

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