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Hello.
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So, I'm starting this vlog off because I am heading over to my woodworking class.
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As you can tell, I got my own safety classes.
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We're making a bench.
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So it's my first ever real woodworking class.
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I did the safety class before, but This is a two week long course.
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One class today, it's three hours and then next weekend it's another three hours
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and then by the time that that's over I will hopefully have a functional bench
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that we can have in the house or maybe in the backyard.
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I'm excited, I'm nervous.
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I haven't really done classes like this in a while so it'll be fun.
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I'm bringing my water bottle.
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Okay, I'm I'm running slightly behind.
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I love it.
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We need to take it.
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You guys, I finished my first woodworking project.
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Look at my bench.
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Um, oh, wait.
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I'm gonna put it down over here.
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Look at it.
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Imagine if I just sat on it and it immediately collapsed.
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I can't believe I made this.
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Well, I mean, I kind of can.
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It's not like a super complicated thing or anything, but this is my first time making something with wood.
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And it looks better than I expected it to.
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The class was so much fun.
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And now I have something that we can actually use and we can put it in the house.
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And it makes me really excited to make other things.
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So let me bring it closer.
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It's kind of a weird angle.
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I'm gonna sign up for another class later I'm either gonna do the end table class
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or the cutting board class probably the end table though
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Because I feel like I'll learn more from
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that class than doing the cutting board one This is the
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first time I really tried out a new hobby in a
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while I tried to do a ceramics class a while ago
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Like wheel throwing and I just didn't really love it something about the process of
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of ceramics was not super appealing to me.
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Let me show you a closer look at the bench so you can see my carpentry skills.
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Also, of course, here's Theo.
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And then here is Miss Winnie on her cat tree.
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Check out this bench.
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So we sanded it.
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And so it kind of has smooth corners here.
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I'm planning to paint it.
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I'm gonna prime it and then paint it and I'll show you the colors I was thinking of doing.
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So it's nothing, you know, it's not like a super special bench.
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It's not perfect or anything, but I made it.
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And this is the first thing I've ever made.
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And I'm going to be able to use it for my plants and get that.
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It's also not like super, super basic looking.
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Like it kind of has some design going on.
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I've been looking at my Ferron Ball color card sheet.
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I'm thinking of either doing this color, Yeebridge Green, or I think this is the right color.
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It's called Acuria Blue.
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I've always really liked those two colors, so I'd like to paint this bench either one of those.
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We use green a lot, though.
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Like, we have green on the bench.
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Or not the bench.
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We have green on the chair.
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But I feel like the blue could kind of tie in with this blue pot that we'll eventually have a plantain.
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All right, Dio.
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Look at you.
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Look at you little guy, look at you.
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I'm thinking of putting it here for now, so that way I can put plants here so they can get some of the south facing light.
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And a reason why I decided to paint it and not stain it, well there's two reasons.
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It's because the wood itself isn't really that nice, and also there are visible screw heads on the top.
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We did domino joints throughout most of the bench, but there are eight screw heads that you can see on top.
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So I want to do wood filler on top of those
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and then paint over it so that way you can't see those.
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And also I feel like eventually we are going to have a lot of wood throughout the space
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so I think it would just be better to paint it
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and also it allows me to use some of the fair and ball colors that I've wanted to use for a while.
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Ideally I would have this centered with the window but Winnie's cat tracer and she loves this spot so it's in there.
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I've had just like a couple of random plants here by this window
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so I'm happy to be able to move them now.
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Okay this one's here.
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Also don't mind that black mat out there that's Winnie's litter mat it just got a bit dirty
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so we cleaned it and it's drying out there.
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This beautiful coleus.
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I'm gonna trim this coleus though because it it's grown so much.
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I'm gonna insert a before picture because yeah it's really grown a lot.
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I love this plant.
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I think it's a great indoor plant and it just brings so much color into your plants.
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So if you have like a lot of green plants you can add some interest with a bunch of different coleus varieties.
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There's like purple ones, there's more red ones, there's like orange, multi-color, and they also grow in this kind of fun funky way.
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Like the branch is It's kind of gnarled now.
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And yeah it's really formed an interesting shape.
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If I wanted to make more of this I could just put it in water
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and then it like roots super fast
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but I don't really need more of these so I'm just going to cut it off and then throw it out.
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Let me cut it here.
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Look at that.
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This plant gets a little bit dirty though
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because it it sends out a lot of shoots and
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if it's slightly under watered the older leaves start to brown off and die.
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So it can be slightly messy so I'm just cleaning it up.
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I've been really limited lately with where I can place plants
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so I haven't really been able to do that much stuff with plants
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and because of the burst pipe and like thinking
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that we're gonna have to move out temporarily I just don't feel this need
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or wants to like go out and buy more plants
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and like set up plants and set up terrariums and aquariums
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because then I'm just gonna have to move them all anyway and plants and
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aquariums and terrariums are not easy things to move like they're very delicate
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so yeah I'm sorry I haven't really really been doing very
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much plant content lately I really miss it like I really miss having a lot more plants
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but I'm hoping
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that once we have a skylight too then we'll just really
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open up the possibilities of where I can place plants
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because right now we're just like limited in plant placement
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which is why I'm happy to have this bench
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because now we can like have plants here
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because otherwise they were just sitting on the kitchen counter
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and then also check out my geranium it flowers pretty often indoors
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and it also has this cool funky shape to it I feel like coleus
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and geranium are pretty similar plants and that they usually are grown outside
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but I think they also make great indoor plants
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and they take on these fun shapes as they grow out you You know some people would think
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that this looks kinda ugly and it's not bushy and it's leggy but
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you know I like those leggy kinda weird sorta ugly plants.
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I don't know why it's making me like kind of emotional talking about plants right now.
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I just feel like I haven't been doing that for a while.
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And it's just reminding me of so many things and like bringing back a lot of memories.
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Um, just like the way I'm talking about my plants and describing them.
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It's making me think of a bunch of old videos that I've done and also a lot of my old plants. And, yeah.
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I don't know.
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I think, I'm going to be honest, I think after the fire, I haven't really, like, discussed it too much.
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But in regards to, like, plants and plant keeping, the fire was really tough for me.
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because I feel like all like the garden and the plants
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and the house plants that I curated and I've nurtured
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and I've taken care of like having them just be gone was really tough
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and it kind of felt like replacing them wasn't enough it's kind of okay it's not exactly like this obviously
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but the closest thing I can think of is like
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if you have a pet
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that dies like you can't just replace the pet like it's just not the same you know
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and that's kind of just like how I felt with my
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plants it's like kind of complicated in my head too it's complex I don't even think I'm really describing it
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that well yeah I love plants obviously like I love plants and I love taking care of them but
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I feel like after the fire something kind of shifted yeah I'm hoping
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that once we're able to have the skylight
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and then once the insurance thing is figured out then I'll be able to like find a lot of
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that joy again that I had with my plants um
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because like just talking about them them like I said talking
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to you about them really just kind of like made me happy.
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I'm really happy that I finally ended up going to the woodworking class.
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It's been something that I've said I wanted to do for months now
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and I finally just did it and I have a bench.
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How cool is that?
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And it's something that I've kind of been struggling with as I've gotten older.
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I wonder if any of you can relate too but like
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when I was younger I kind of felt like I could do anything.
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I could learn anything as long as I applied myself I can become good at something
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and for some reason as I've gotten older I don't know
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if it's just from experience or what
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but like I have kind of told myself like what is the point of learning something new like there are
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so many other people
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that can just do it better than me like what's the point of even trying
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and that's just like not a good way to go about
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life like how are you going to learn anything new how are you going to become
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whatever it is that you want to become if you're not even letting yourself try.
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I think a part of it is that like as I've gotten older,
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failing or like being bad at something doesn't seem as like forgivable because I'm older.
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Like when you're younger, you can make a lot of mistakes.
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You can be bad at stuff and it's fine because you're young and you're inexperienced.
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But for some reason, I like equate age with proficiency at pretty much anything
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and that's just not the case um what else
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oh huge well potentially huge update about the insurance we got an email saying
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that they will complete their determination by the end of this month this month being august
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so by august 31st we should hopefully have an answer according to the insurance who knows
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if they're actually going follow through with it.
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But that is the most concrete update we've ever gotten from them.
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So I'm really hopeful that something comes of it, but we'll see.
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I just, I think
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that this like burst pipe thing has kind of been difficult for me more
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so than I thought because like the house is linked to me in so many different ways.
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First of all, it's our place where we live.
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It's our housing, it's our security, but then it's also a space for my own personal creativity.
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Like I get a lot of fulfillment from changing stuff around the house
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and decorating and putting plants in places and kind of like forming a cozy environment that's reflective of us.
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And we just haven't really been able to do it.
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And then also the house feels kind of tied to my content creation
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and my career and because of the burst pipe it feels like everything's sort of been halted and
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so i just cannot wait for this era of the burst
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pipe to be behind us my parents are coming over
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and we're gonna hang out eat good food cook like always
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and do some stuff around the house
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but we're also gonna go to the Descanso Gardens
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and right now the Descanso Gardens have these giant sunflowers out
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that just started blooming so we're gonna go see that and it's really hot like it's really really really hot.
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We're going through a heat wave right now.
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What other place?
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These are huge.
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Oh you can see this one.
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It's still down.
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Wow.
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These ones are really pretty.
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And now we're at the railroad station with dinosaurs for some reason.
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Oh, look at that!
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Platypus!
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What are you doing?
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I'm showing you stuff.
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I thought he was a rock.
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Oh, he's so cute.
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This is the ancient forest.
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Yeah, sure.
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Because the trees are crossing crossing.
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Hey, McGee!
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Tree ferns.
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Love tree ferns.
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Oh, bird's nest fern.
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It's a pretty big bird's nest fern.
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Ooh, another tree fern.
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I love these skinny ones.
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There's a fly that's getting me.
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Do you like the table?
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When I work on our animal, we're going to prepare that.
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...sizes for 45 seconds on with a 15-second rest, and then we repeat that three times, and the reason we repeat...
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Oh, it's your first.
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Yeah.
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Okay, that's pretty good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're able to pass it.
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Oh, I thought it was that way.
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You will love it, Danny.
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You could be Jennifer's friend.
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That's her name.
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Love.
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Okay, I guess my parents are gone.
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And I also have the hiccups, but Chris and I were at a retro arcade right now.
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And so we're just, you know, having fun, playing some games.
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We're playing Street Fighter.
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Cool.
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We're playing Street Fighter right now.
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Who do you guys think is gonna win?
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Okay, cast our votes.
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Now let's see.
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I'm not doing anything.
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I'm not doing anything.
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I can't tell what's going on.
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Wait, that's so close!
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It was pretty fun.
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That was Neon Retro Arcade.
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Now we're gonna go get ice cream.
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My neighbor, they just got a new kitten.
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And I wish that she wasn't an outside cat, but they leave her outside.
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And she likes to come into our yard.
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And she's so cute.
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Her name's Mitsubi. And she's really playful.
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And she's a tiny little orange cat.
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I wish that they kept her inside, because it's not really safe out here.
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With all the coyotes and, you know, everything
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but can't really do too much about that you know
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but she's so cute i just wanted to say
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that i did see some comments in the last vlog pretty much saying
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that like i ignore winnie or that she's not loved
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but she is so incredibly loved i just don't get
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that many shots of her because usually she's sleeping during the day
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and i only ever really interact with her
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when she wants to be interacted with otherwise she just gets kind of like upset at me
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and just walks away from me.
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I really had to learn how to interact with her
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because I've had dogs all my life
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and I just kind of like love on them all the time
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but with her everything is on her terms
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so I've really had to learn to hang back a little bit
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and not do too much with her
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but yeah she comes to me you know
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when she wants to be played with and
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if she doesn't come to me then I just leave her alone yeah Winnie is
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so loved um Chris also plays with her every single night
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and yeah don't worry you guys she is being treated very well well okay
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so lately I've been trying to improve my posture.
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So I've been doing this pretty much every day, hoping that it will get rid of my gamer neck.
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I've had pretty bad posture for most of my life, honestly, so this will take a while to correct.
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Actually, one of the reasons why I started exercising and lifting weights
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was because I read that a way to fix your posture is to get more back muscles, so that way you can like you know support yourself
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if my back was stronger then I would just naturally get better posture
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but that hasn't necessarily been the case
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and now my back is a lot stronger than it was before
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and I still tend to hunch over I hope
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that this ends up helping
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and I think it is I also just need to be more aware of my posture and try
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and sit up straight even though it's kind of uncomfortable okay
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speaking of posture I have a kind of embarrassing story about this posture brace that I got.
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And I was kind of debating on whether I should even tell you because I am somewhat embarrassed by it.
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But I told you some other stories in a previous vlog.
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And a lot of people enjoyed that and it was fun for me.
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I don't really talk about a lot of things like this.
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I think it'd be sort of fun.
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So I'm aware that posture braces aren't really the best thing for your posture
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because it's more of a crutch and it weakens your back muscles and it doesn't really help you long term.
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But, I was watching a Caroline Winkler video and in the comments, there was a comment that had like 60 something likes and it was saying something along the lines of,
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Caroline, I can tell your posture has gotten so much better in just a couple of videos.
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It must be the posture brace that you've bought and used, the Vortalex Neo something.
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and I was like, oh, like if it worked for Carolyn, she looks like she has great posture.
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Let me look this up.
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So I look up the posture brace
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and I just like vaguely skimmed the website really quick
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and it says that it works differently than other posture braces
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and it actually helps to fix it and it's not like a crutch that weakens her back muscles.
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So I'm like, perfect.
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This is exactly what I've been looking for.
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And also if it's good enough for Carolyn and it worked for her, then it's good enough for me.
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Like if it's good enough that someone commented that it worked for her, it must be great.
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So usually I don't do this.
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Usually I really research what I'm buying.
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So I buy it and a few days go by and I'm like, hmm, you know, I wonder what kind of technology this contains that makes it better and different from other back braces.
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Cause it looks pretty similar to all the other ones.
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I decided to go on YouTube to look at reviews.
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You guys.
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So this was the first video I saw.
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I have a lot of questions about whether the Vortalex Nao2 posture corrector works
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and if you should spend 20 bucks to get it.
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Now obviously this is- Okay, that's an AI doctor, fake degrees in the back.
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So I'm like, okay, maybe this is just an affiliate code video thing where someone's trying to get like affiliate commissions
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on this product.
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I'm in denial at this stage.
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So then I go to the next video.
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I have been struggling with my potchester lately because of working long hours and Also another AI video.
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So I'm like, okay, maybe it's because I'm on YouTube shorts.
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So let me look for a long form video.
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I recently bought this posture corrector that I kept seeing everywhere mentioned online.
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So I thought I'd give it a try.
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Okay, this isn't even the worst part.
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Look at this about your posture.
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Wear it for a few days and let me know how it feels, okay?
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Yes, let's do it.
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One week later. So, how was it?
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What do you think about it?
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Honestly, the first two days it was uncomfortable, but I guess it's...
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And then, okay, I go to the website, and then I notice that the website also is full of AI images.
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So then I realized I just bought like a scam, I guess it's not a scam because the product is here and it looks like the product,
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but like I kind of got duped by the AI comment spam bots
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And I would have never bought it if I knew that you know That comment was fake.
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Um, yeah, usually I like I've never gotten duped like this before I'm usually very literate on the internet
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and also to top it all off
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There are other youtubers that I watch
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and they also have the same comments in their comment section
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with like around 60 likes all advertising the Vortalex Neo Pole 2, I think is the name.
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But you know what I realized is that they haven't commented on my videos yet.
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So I'm like, is my channel not good enough to scam people?
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So this rug used to be in the bedroom and it was in the bedroom of our old apartment too.
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Now we have a different rug in the bedroom that fits
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that space better and I just brought this rug out
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because Whitney and Theo really like to play on rugs
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so we've been like playing with them on here and like throwing toys and stuff.
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This rug I think would actually look kind of good in the living room because of the color.
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But an issue with this one, I don't know if you can tell on camera, I'll bring you closer.
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It just holds and traps a lot of like hair and lint.
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And even if you go over it with a vacuum, it doesn't suck it up.
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I got this.
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It's a little rug rake, I believe is the name.
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I need to get a bigger one because this is so small, but it works really well.
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Did you see how it just traps all of this hair?
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And when we go over it with the vacuum, it doesn't suck it up.
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But look at this.
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It's also very satisfying.
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And you can kind of see the color change.
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So this is like a mix of pet hair and fiber from the rug.
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So yeah, we need a larger one
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because I don't want to just be doing this all the time with this tiny little rake.
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But I am going to keep the small one because it's good for smaller areas like the couch
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Because that also holds some hair from Winnie too.
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We haven't heard anything from insurance yet But today is only Monday right now.
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It is August 24th so Hopefully by the end of this week at least we will hear something back from insurance.
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That would just be so amazing Just to get this behind us before we head out.
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Goodbye.
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為何這個影片是絕佳的英語口語練習素材？
這段影片以生活化的vlog形式呈現，內容圍繞週末做木工的經歷展開，對話自然流暢，充滿口語化表達，非常適合用於“看影片學英語”。影片中說話者的語氣親切，語速適中，包含大量日常交流中常用的短句和連線詞，能幫助學習者掌握真實場景下的英語表達邏輯。無論是描述心情的“excited, nervous”，還是分享過程的“sanded it, prime it”，都貼近生活，容易模仿，是練習shadow speech的理想材料。
拆解自然表達，學習地道口語
我們可以從影片中挑選幾個句子，看看它們為何聽起來如此自然：
- “I'm excited, I'm nervous.” 用簡單的並列句表達複雜情緒，符合口語中直抒胸臆的習慣，避免冗長句式，讓對話更真實。
- “It's not like a super complicated thing or anything.” “or anything”是典型的口語填充詞，弱化語氣，使表達更委婉，這在日常交流中十分常見。
- “Let me show you a closer look at the bench.” “Let me...” 用於引起注意，“closer look”是形象的口語表達，比“look more carefully”更生動。
跟著影片練影子跟讀，提升口語能力
想要通過這個影片練習“英語影子跟讀”，可以試試以下步驟：首先，完整觀看影片，感受整體語氣和節奏；然後，逐句播放，每句話重複3-5遍，模仿發音、語調甚至停頓；最後，用手機錄製自己的跟讀音訊，對比原影片，找出差異。這樣的“repeat-and-record loop”能有效訓練口語流暢度和語感。堅持一段時間，你會發現自己的英語口語越來越自然。
無論是“shadowspeaks”還是傳統的跟讀練習，核心都是通過模仿 native speaker 的表達，讓自己的口語更地道。這個影片的生活化內容的，更是為練習提供了絕佳場景。趕緊行動起來，開啟你的英語口語練習之旅吧！
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | I've been looking · haven't really really been doing · haven't been doing |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | haven't really done · I've ever made · I've always really liked |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is brought · are grown · is figured |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。