hello welcome to a productive day of self-care welcome back to my channel or
welcome if you are new here I'm starting off the day with cleansing my skin I'm
not gonna wear any makeup today so I just wanted to cleanse and moisturize
and just make my skin feel great for the day I'm using the Tula skin care cult
classic cleanser that I've been loving and I'm using a facial cleansing sponge
that I got from Sephora a while back and then I'm going to be going in with the
fresh sugar lip scrub to exfoliate my lips because they've been dry for the
winter this is some castor oil this is the first time I'm trying this I've done
some research and I've also been told by a makeup artist that a little bit of
castor oil to your eyebrows keep them thick so I've been using castor oil for
that lately and then I'm going in with a moisturizer this is the fresh vitamin
nectar moisturizer I really love that this gives a little bit of a glow and it
just really deeply moisturizes my skin because I plan on doing a couple errands
today I'll be out and about I wanted to put an SPF on so this is an SPF 40 from
super goop I love how lightweight this is I can
wear it with or without makeup and I don't even feel it on my skin this is
the Tula skincare rose glow and get it under eye balm I love this stuff it just
helps me look much more awake so I just roll it under my eyes like so and then I
just kind of tap it in with my finger really lightly and gently this is my go
to my staple my Holy Grail the Lanai lip sleeping mask I wear it during the day
and I wear it at night I have two that I use throughout the days it just keeps by
lips feeling so moisturized and it smells so good while I was finishing up
in the bathroom Alex was in the kitchen cooking us up some breakfast he did some
breakfast tacos so he sauteed some spinach and tomato and onion and he
added a couple eggs in there and then he warmed up some tortilla and
it was delicious
whenever we are in the kitchen Lanka is always right by our side just waiting
for anything to drop honestly though he's always just by our
side we started looking through this a vegan insta pot recipe book that we have
we don't have an insta pot so we were sort of just using it for inspiration
for recipes that we could do like just kind of in our conventional oven or in a
crock pot and we found this lentil shepherd's pie recipe that looked so
good and I looked it up on my phone and there's ways to make it without using an
insta pot so we were super into it it looked so good it was made with lentils
and we also saw a recipe for jackfruit tacos that looked really good so I was
writing down on this notepad all the things that I wanted to pick up from the
grocery store we were due for a grocery store run and I like going to the
grocery store having an idea of some recipes that we're going to try and so I
made sure to write down all the things that I needed to pick up for the recipes
who wanted to do anything that Alex wanted me to pick up anything that I
wanted and just anything that we needed to have in the house threw on my good
old trusty blonde stones that I wear every single day and then I grabbed some
totes from our closet we hang up all of our reusable totes on a little hanger
inside of our closet said bye to Alex cuz he was going on a bike ride and then
went out to Trader Joe's the good old Oh G Trader Joe's one of my favorite things
about having a house now is that we have a garage which is just so crazy to me I
feel like such an adult but it's so nice to go inside the garage to be able to
shut it and just kind of like be able to put the groceries away inside of the
garage and just have Lanka around and it just I don't know it's just nice if any
of you have been following me for a hot minute
like since my very first video on YouTube then you remember that my first
video was a Trader Joe's hull so why not do a little speedy quick one for you
guys right now just for old times sake and if any of you have been here for
that long you are the oh geez I love you guys it's awesome that you're still
around so thank you almond milk double up on our favorite
coffee sourdough toast because I'm Athene double up on organic free-range
eggs although you're not Sorella style cheese because I've had this before and
it's delicious we're Ganic tomato and red pepper soup
plus a New Zealand sharp cheddar because I'm craving a grilled cheese sandwich
with tomato soup garlic's stopped green olives because I
love these as a snack medley of veggies for these shepherd's pie tonight
cornbread for the jackfruit tacos we want to make these are a little treat
that I sometimes like having in the morning for breakfast if I'm feeling it
they are Greek yogurt Apple Cinnamon coffee cake and they're really delicious
little trick and treats for Lanka he loves these from Trader Joe's and I
always forget to pick them up so I'm just so happy I remembered today and I
can tell he is too I'm gonna open these and give him one right now sit good boy
go on green salsa because we always put green salsa on breakfast doubled up on
lentils because this is going in tonight's recipe for the shepherd's pie
instead of meat and we also love lentil and salad and all sorts of things this
big tote and I just put all the veggies in this tote instead of using a bunch of
different plastic bags for them I have two gold maybe I got three gold potatoes
for the recipe tonight I got a couple sweet potatoes because sometimes we make
sweet potato fries with like a beyond burger or something like that
and then we got two red onions I think I got two there's another one in there
somewhere who's a yellow onion more potato I guess I got four tons of
avocado of course I love making an avocado toast in the morning and putting
avocado on top COEs I lost one I'm sorry I hope you're okay
Apple garlic which I think we have garlic but why not have extra garlic we
eat garlic all the time more avocado well that was an efficient trip to the
grocery store I feel good about that everything is put away I want to start
working on dinner soon I'm actually really excited to try the recipe out
it's 3:40 right now we signed up this morning for a hot yoga class at 5:30
it's like a candlelit hot yoga class so that will be so nice to kind of wind
down for the evening but I think I'm gonna start prepping dinner around 4:00
4:15 and I'm gonna take lunk on a quick walk so I could take him on like a 20
minute walk 20 to 30 minutes and then I'll start prepping dinner Alex is still
on his bike ride so he'll probably be back within the hour and then we'll get
ready to go to hot yoga I'm on my Instagram right now posted a photo
earlier today of Alex and I and our save the dates so if you guys want to check
them out go over to my Instagram at Kerry rad I have like a little
time-lapse video of us putting these save-the-dates together and they turned
out so cute we officially sent them out there are a couple that need to be still
sent out there were some that got sent back because the address had like an
issue with it so we still have a little bit to do for the save the dates but
it's nice that like the majority of them are all out and then now I'm already
looking okay Lanka wants to come inside from going to the bathroom and now he
wants to go in a walk so I'm gonna take him on a walk but yeah I'm excited that
the majority of the save the dates are done and now I'm already looking at the
actual invitations because I want those to go out by the end of this month so
yeah just like crossing things off of the list to do on all departments of
life I feel good though I feel productive today I don't feel
overwhelmed I'm just getting stuff done I feel good
about the week ahead I'm decided that there's just a lot of space
for me to get tasks done next week I don't really need to be anywhere
necessarily which is so nice I can just kind of like sit on my computer for a
good amount of the days and get stuff done and then also spend a lot of time
in the house getting stuff done that needs to get done so I feel really good
about this next week that's a clear week so he ready looks should we go
should we go to walk okay come on
I have this package mil when I got back from the walk okay yes is exactly what I
thought it was I'm not gonna lie I have a lot of reusable water bottles but I do
not have one that has a straw and I have a tendency to drink much more water when
I'm drinking it from a straw I don't know why but when I'm home I always put
one of our reusable straws in my cups and I can just down water like that so I
decided to pick up this one from Amazon I'll put the link in the description box
for you guys if you want one like this I just think that this is really gonna
help me drink more water I like the cap I like that you can kind of push it up
like this and you suck through and I just feel like it's gonna be helpful in
me drinking more water so I'm gonna wash this right now actually and bring it to
hot yoga we wanted to start prepping the shepherd's pie before going to hot yoga
just so we didn't have to do as much when we got back so we diced one yellow
onion and then we took three gold potatoes and we have them and we put
them in the pot on a low boil with the water just barely over them and left
them in there for about 25 minutes before we needed to head out the door
this is what I'm going to be bringing in my hot yoga bag I have my yoga mat here
I am bringing a towel to lay over my mat because I sweat so much I like bringing
this lavender mix it's a natural yoga mat cleaning spray cuz I spray down my
mat afterwards because I sweat so much and it's just nice because it smells
really nice to the lavender is really calming I got this on Amazon a while
back so I'll try to find it for you guys as well and I'll link it below they
should definitely have more because I this is the second one I
purchased because I love this mist and then I'm also doing in my Cadillac water
bottle I just got as well I threw a little bit
of ice in there because hot yoga is so hot so it'll be refreshing to have
ice-cold water and we are ready to go this is my little California tote that i
got from visit California I love the people at visit California so thanks
guys I am going to turn off the potatoes obviously because we're leaving the
house they will be able to just kind of still warm up while we're gone and by
the time we get back from yoga they'll be ready to be smashed and turned into a
mashed potato for the shepherd's pie
when we got home from hot yoga we went straight in to dinner
we minced two garlic cloves and then I grabbed some thyme from the garden
because the recipe called for fresh thyme it also said that you could use
some dried thyme if you wanted to it was two teaspoons of it and then I went in
and smashed the potato it calls for mashed potatoes so that's what I needed
to do so I mash them as well as I could with all of my muscles and then we used
some vegan butter so you can kind of use however much big and butter you wanted
to use we used two spoonfuls of it and then we grilled the red onion and added
a little tiny bit of red wine the recipe didn't call for that but we just added
that ourselves because it's a nice touch to it and then we did four cups of
vegetable stock and we added the frozen bag of veggies to the skillet and then
the lentil so all of those combined in to the pan and we left those to kind of
mix in together to defrost the veggie and then we went in and added the mashed
potato to the top and I used a spoon after this shot I didn't get it recorded
but I used a spoon to just kind of like smooth it all out on top and then I used
some fresh ground pepper on top of the mashed potato with a little bit of salt
and then I threw it into the oven I put a piece of tinfoil below the pot to just
protect the oven in case there was any spillage and then we set it act 425 and
we left it in there for about 15 minutes or so I will look for the exact recipe
link that I followed and will try to link that for you guys in the
description box it has officially been 10 minutes where
the shepherd's pie I took a shower thank goodness because that was a very sweaty
lady so now I'm clean then it is time to eat well not just yet it's probably
really hot so I'm gonna pull it out I should probably grab some better
protection for my hummus we love that dressing room Trader Joe's
by the way and I think I showed you guys that earlier notice a very colorful side
salad by Alexander I'm not even recording is it he's recording
dinner was so delicious that was such a cozy meal healthy and hearty and filled
us up send me a picture on Instagram or something if you guys try that recipe
let me know in the comments below if you guys have any great healthy delicious
dinner recipes because I'm gonna be cooking from home a lot over the next
couple of weeks because I feel like we've just been eating out a lot
recently over the holidays and so it's nice to just be cooking at home I'm now
going to unplug I'm gonna get into this book this is called the nature fix Alex
got me this for Christmas you guys can probably hear the dishwasher behind me
so we're just doing a load right now but um this is all about why nature makes us
happier healthier and more creative and so far I love it I just started and I'm
really excited to continue reading this so that is what I'm going to do now hope
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all right I'm gonna go
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