Shadowing Practice: SUNDAY RESET ROUTINE: deep cleaning, self care & productive weekly prep - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Let's get started.
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happy sunday welcome back to my channel
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if you're new here hi my name is alexia i just
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got back from vacation a couple of days ago already and
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when i'm away from home for a couple of days
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or a couple of weeks i just want to dedicate a
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full day to do some self -care to do some cleaning to reset to get back into my thing
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so that's what we're doing in today's video
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and i feel like it's been forever since i filmed a sunday reset
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so i'm super happy to film this today and also i know
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that it's been like couple of weeks that i haven't posted
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but i promise that i'm gonna be posting a lot more videos in the upcoming weeks
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and months because i also want to film like more days in my life
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and just realistic days and just post more vlogs on my channel
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and just being more consistent so make sure you do subscribe to my channel
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if you're ever not ready to not miss any videos
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and also give this video a little thumbs up
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and being away for i mean when i was on vacation
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and being away from the cold and this gloomy weather it honestly felt amazing
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but now we're back into reality and i also feel super grateful
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that i get to get back to i mean to home
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and just being in my things and knowing
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that i'm just gonna get back into routine
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because i love being at home as well like i love to escape
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and just being on vacation obviously but i just love also to be at home
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and be in my little comfort zone as well
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so yeah anyways we are having a full sunday reset sunday self -care And as I said, make sure you are subscribed to my channel if you're not ready.
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And let's get this Sunday self -care reset started.
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Let's get started.
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Let's get started.
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Let's go.
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it is time it is time you guys
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while the clothes are washing i will need to make another laundry after
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but it is time to deep clean wash
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and just declutter my bathroom i've been procrastinating this
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so much i think the last time
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that i did this it was like maybe a year ago
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which is insane because i probably have a bunch of expired products
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and i have bunch of products
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that i don't use anymore there's a bunch of products just hanging out on my vanity
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and i haven't touched them in months
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so i need to do something about this
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and it's truly a disaster right now you guys don't really see anything
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but my drawers are a mess
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so take everything out deep clean there's a lot of hair
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if you're a girl you probably understand the fact
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that we're always losing hair so there's a lot of hair
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and yeah it's probably gonna take me a couple of hours
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but i think i'm gonna put a timer like an hour
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and a half timer i think or maybe two hours to do this
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because this is always something that i love to do because
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if i don't put a timer this like right here everything
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that i need to clean and declutter i could do this for an entire week
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if i don't put a timer so yeah let's clean the bathroom let's do this
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and then we are going to start another laundry also
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when you clean make sure you're going to put your favorite tv show or a vlog or something, it helps so much to get things done.
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I'm going to show you what I'm doing.
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We'll be right back.
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Thank you.
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okay so this is where i'm at right now
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so i went through these two drawers
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and they're all clean right now i got rid of
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so many products it was actually insane how many products i got rid of
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and here there's still a lot going on
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but i'm going to fix this right after i think right now i'm just gonna make myself something for breakfast
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and then i'll be back to this
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and over here we have my vanity i just know there's a lot of makeup
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that is just way too old so yeah we're gonna do this right after
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and i think i'm also going to make myself a coffee to refill on this
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I made some scrimble eggs with some onions and feta cheese
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and i also made a plain yogurt with chia seeds
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and also some fruits and maple syrup
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and i also added a little bit of honey time to get rid of some makeup products
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that are probably expired or
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that i just don't use anymore like this foundation is probably 10 years old i'm not even kidding
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so yeah i really need to go through these jars
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and not keep things just in case i'm trying to be more minimalist
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when it comes to my products and makeup products this year
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so i don't accumulate too much things for nothing so
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so yeah today we're getting rid of the unnecessary energy so let's do it for the makeup products now um
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Let's get started.
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So the bathroom is all clean now
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and you guys are gonna think I'm a clean freak
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because I keep cleaning and reorganizing everything in a lot of my videos
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but I hope this is gonna give you some motivation to get your life together
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and to clean your space and organize your things
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and just declutter everything but yeah my bathroom was something
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that i really needed to get done
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and now i'm gonna put away some clothes
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that are now clean i still have some laundry to finish
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because um i have a lot of clothes from my trip
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so i'm gonna organize my wardrobe now and i think after
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that i'm gonna do like an ipad reset
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and just prep for the week i also want to do
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like prepping my nails a little bit reset for the month
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because it is now the month of february which is insane already
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but i love this month so much especially because it's a pink month
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and yeah i'm wearing the perfect pj for this occasion it is the month of february the month of love
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and i'm actually so excited to have like a girly month
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and everything about pink i would say
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so yeah we're gonna do a little monthly reset right after organizing my wardrobe Let's go.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'm going to put it in a little bit.
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I'll put it in a little bit.
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Let's go.
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Thank you.
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so i don't know about you guys
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but i really need a plan to function and
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if i don't know what's a and what's b
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and i need to get done by the end of the week forget it i really need structure
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and time every sunday to plan my week and seriously change my productivity
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and this before it even starts helps me
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so much to see everything clearly like okay what's my business
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plan for the week what am I looking forward to and
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if you have a super busy schedule as well this really helps you to see
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when you actually have time for you and workouts your friends your family
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or just your hobbies and some activities that you will like to do
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that week so when the week starts you already feel more grounded
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and in control and i'm actually doing this right now for the next week
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and it made me realize we have been doing this for such a long time since we were in school
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and if you're still in school you probably already do this
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but we plan our study days our exams
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and everything we used to open our agendas
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and the teacher would lay out the week
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and see what we're doing on tuesday and friday and
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so on so i truly think that our minds work better
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when we actually have a plan in front of us
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and the plan needs to change that's totally fine as well
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and at least you know what to adjust
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and how to move things around instead of just feeling overwhelmed
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and i'm also trying to plan my meals a little bit
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more not exactly what i'm gonna eat every single day for breakfast
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and for dinner and everything but just like getting inspired
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so i love to like scroll on pinterest
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and save a bunch of images and just see what recipes i can create that week
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so i'm someone who is having a hard time just making
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sure i'm going to eat my protein every single day my greens
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and everything so browsing a little bit has helped me
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so much and then i see if i'm missing some ingredients
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and some foods for the week well i'm just going to go to the grocery store for
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that but just planning my week taking 30 minutes
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or an hour every single sunday and planning my week my schedule the things
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that i need to get done
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and just my meals as i said has helped me
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so much and just staying on track
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so i'm now going to go pick up a few things for my meals of the week
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that i'm missing and i also want to bake some cookies tonight
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because the new serie of bridgerton is finally out
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and i truly can't wait
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because i've read the book i mean i've read until benedict story
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and i think it was actually my favorite
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because it's inspired i think by cinderella the cinderella story
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so i'm really excited to see how good it is gonna be
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so i need to make this moment special i think i want to bake some valentine's day cookies
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because it is that time of the year
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so i always love to like romanticize those moments especially
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when it's like a new movie or a new series
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that i just can't wait to watch i love to like sit down romanticize it bake
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and eat some good food and all of that
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so yeah that's what we're doing tonight we're having a full self -care night you guys know
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that these are my favorites
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and i think you guys also love those type of videos i mean self -care videos
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so really excited to go
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so let's get going i'm gonna go to the grocery store as i said just to buy a few things
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that i'm missing
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Let's get started.
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so here's everything i got at the grocery store
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and i got a lot of things for my breakfast in the morning
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because i'm trying not to skip my breakfast anymore
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but i got some lettuce i love to make myself some
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salads for lunch during the week i got two sweet potatoes because i'm the only one who loves them at home, so I only got two.
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Then some cucumbers for my salads as well, some eggs, some bananas.
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These are for the recipe that I'm going to make right now.
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peppermint tea i needed to restock this you guys know this one is my favorite
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and then this tea that i also love
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when i'm having a hard time falling asleep here we have some popcorn
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and extra butter because this one is just the best one i also got some fruits
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so raspberries strawberries and blueberries i think strawberries is i mean are always part of my grocery haul
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and then we have some bagels and then i also got this yogurt
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that i'm excited to try because it's coconut flavor
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and there's also no sugar and always lactose free
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and then I also got my creamer for my coffee
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so yeah that's everything I got at the grocery store now I am gonna start making the cookies
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Thank you.
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Thank you. so
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so it's now time to do some self -care i'm gonna
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put this face led mask on my face i've been really
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consistent with putting this on my face i would say almost every single night
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when i don't forget about it and this is not really the type of treatment
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that you're gonna see results like really quickly but one thing though
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that i saw was the texture on my face i think it's a long term treatment
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and i'm gonna see results probably in months but
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if you have been using this for months let me know
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if you saw a difference if you like it
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and you have the red light
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and also the blue light i love to do both
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and the red light is good for wrinkles for um to boost collagen also for acne marks
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and inflammation and then you have the blue light
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which is good for bacterias and also for acne
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so that's why i love to do both i start with the red light
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and then i switch to the blue light
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and i do 15 minutes of each
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so yeah it's kind of like my little relaxing moment before bed
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and it only takes as i said 30 minutes
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and i love to like put something in the background
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and listen to a podcast or just meditate it's just really relaxing
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and i always make sure to use a little cotton pad with some micellar water
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and just make sure it's clean because sometimes there's dust
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that can be accumulated on the mask i'm going to show you like i just did
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and it's it was a little bit dirty
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and i just do the same thing for my face i make sure my face is clean always
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and then after i always apply like a really rich moisturizer
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because i think the blue light can dry your face a little bit
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and i do have dry skin
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so i always make sure to use um a really rich moisturizer after especially
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if you do also have sensitive skin it's also the super bowl right now
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and i really can't wait to watch bad bunny on tv it's one of my favorite artists
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so i really can't wait to watch the elf time show
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but i also want to watch bridgerton i've already watched like the first 15 minutes of the first episode
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but i think i'm just going to restart the episode
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so i can just be really focused and have my moment of watching bridgerton
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and also let me know if you are a bridgerton fan
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if you have watched the show i would say i think
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my favorite season was season two then it was season one i mean i really loved season two
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and one i can't really choose
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which one is my favorite i think it was season two just
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because i think it was a little bit more intense
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but at the same time i really loved season one i'm gonna say season two first then season one
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and then season three was not really my favorite
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but i still enjoyed it But I think season four might be before season three.
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And we'll see if it's as good as season one or season two.
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I don't think it's gonna top season two because season two was really my favorite, honestly.
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It was just so, so good.
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So anyways, I really can't wait to watch season four.
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First, I'm gonna do this base LED mask.
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And I love to just close my eyes because my eyes are kind of sensitive.
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So the red light is a little bit brighter, I would say.
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But the blue light, it doesn't matter.
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Sometimes I'm on my phone just watching TV
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but with the red light i love to close my eyes
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because as i said it's a little bit brighter
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and my eyes are just more sensitive to red light i guess
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so i'm gonna do the red light now
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and i am freezing right now for some reason i'm gonna
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put my robe on i'm always either in my pjs or in a robe i'm just a girl who is always cold so
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so we just switched to the blue light and now i can talk
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and see and also my cat just joined me for this a little self -care moment
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but if you guys didn't know i struggle with pie
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which is post -inflammatory erythema i finally know how to say it
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but basically it's a scar left by acne
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and it is gonna fade with time but sometimes it is gonna take forever
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and it's so annoying because
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when i have a pimple i know um there's gonna be a scar after
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and then i treat my scar but then there's another pimple
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and then another scar so everything just happens all over again
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and it repeats itself so yeah it's kind of annoying
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but i guess it's something
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that i hope i'm going to be able to treat really soon
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because it's been forever that i have this
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and i hope this face uh really deep face mask is gonna help
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and there's also other ingredients that i've been really loving
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and just things that has helped me so much with my acne
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and i actually made a list on my phone to tell you guys
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so first thing that has helped me was to remove any irritating product like exfoliating too much
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and i always use a gentle cleanser the one from setafel
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is honestly my favorite i've been using this for years now
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and as i said i always make sure to use a really rich moisturizer especially
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if you do have sensitive skin or dry skin during winter as well
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and then in the morning i always make sure to use spf
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because that helps for rosacea which i'm also struggling with sometimes and then
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when it comes to ingredients the first one is niacinamide i've been also using this for years now
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and it helps to fade my scars
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so i use it almost every single night
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and then there's also another one which is kind of new i would say
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that i've been adding into my routine for the past months it's centella asiatica
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and that is good for inflammation to calm irritation red marks
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and all of that and i've been really loving this ingredient
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and then the other one is also azolic acid
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which this is like maybe stronger i would say
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and you can also get the medical prescription
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if you need like a stronger formula and i actually have one
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and i really love it as well and then there's another product
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that i bought recently which is the medicube serum i'm not sure exactly what's the name
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but i've got a lot of question asking me
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if i loved this serum it's the medicube pdrn pink peptide serum
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and this serum is supposed to help with your skin glow
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and also for acne acne marks and all of that
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but i would say that i'm not really consistent with using this product
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so i really need to use it more
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and then give you guys my opinions
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but um i think i'm just gonna finish the bottle
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and then tell you guys if i like it
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so yeah i think it just takes time and consistency
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when it comes to the products that you use
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and also awesome treatments that you decide to make depending on your skin type
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but for now i'm trusting on this face led mask
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and we'll see
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so i'm just gonna wait for it to finish then it's
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probably going to be time to watch the halftime show
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and then we're going to make some tea and then we're going to watch Bridgerton.
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Thank you.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “SUNDAY RESET ROUTINE: deep cleaning, self care & productive weekly prep”. This video has 327 sentences and 3525 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:08. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

WordPronunciationMeaning
reset verb/ɹiːˈsɛt/To set back to the initial state.
acne noun/ˈækni/A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands…
scar noun/skɑɹ/A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
grocery noun/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
mask noun/mæsk/A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
timer noun/ˈtaɪmɚ/A device used to measure amounts of time.
serum noun/ˈsɪɹəm/Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies…
ingredient noun/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
declutter verb/diːˈklʌtə(ɹ)/To remove clutter from, to tidy.
moisturizer nounSomething that causes moisture or a condition of wetness; something that makes things moist.
bake verb/beɪk/To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
organize verb/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/To arrange in working order.
laundry noun/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/A laundering; a washing.
cookie noun/ˈkʊki/A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
accumulate verb/əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
get back to verbReturn to (an activity)
lay out verb/ˌleɪ ˈaʊt/To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
look forward to verbTo anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.
pick up verbTo lift; to grasp and raise.
put away verbTo put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
sit down verbTo assume a sitting position from a standing position.

Sentences worth repeating

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

  • I'm going to show you what I'm doing.
  • I'm going to put it in a little bit.
  • I'll put it in a little bit.

Grammar in this video

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

StructureIn the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going oni've been procrastinating · have been doing · have been using
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowit's been · haven't touched · has helped
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itis brought · are subscribed · are probably expired
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thingfebruary which is · someone who is · one who loves

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 153 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: erythema /ˌɛɹɪˈθiːmə/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, irritation /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, rosacea /ɹoʊˈzeɪ.ʃə/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, romanticize /roʊˈmæntɪsaɪz/, inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, alexia /əˈlɛk.si.ə/

How to practise with this video

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

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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