Hey guys and welcome back to my channel so today I am back here with another day
in my life. If you're new to my channel hi my name is Nikki and I have been
making these day in my life videos a lot recently because I'm just having so much
fun sharing the beauty that I see in my everyday life. Today it was a little bit
more of a full day. Dan and I ran errands together, I got some beauty treatments
done, I did some cooking, some grocery shopping and I'm just excited to bring
you along. If you're new to my channel, please consider subscribing and giving
this video a thumbs up if you do like it so with that being said let's hop right in.
So I'm starting off this video with my outfit of the day and I have to say
that rhymed my favorite thing that I am wearing is my sweater. I recently
purchased this from made well. Considering my very new plant obsession which pretty
much only started once I moved to Nashville. This sweater just felt so
appropriate so I paired it with some black skinny jeans and my sparkly flats
that are still one of my favorite pairs of shoes from teks and that was my
outfit and so Dan and I headed out on this beautiful spring day to just run a
bunch of errands together and per the usual guys you always got to dance in
the car there's music on I pretty much can't help but move so today we decided
to get lunch at chopped. I have shown you guys this restaurant before but I
really like it it's mostly a salad place but they do little wraps and bowls as
well and it's not only super cute...very aesthetic but their food is just
delicious and they're basically highly customisable salads that are chopped and
mixed together in a way so that every bite is pretty much the perfect flavor
combination as you can see they have endless options for your salad.
And then they even have good drink options and they serve your salad with a
slice of local sourdough bread which is super yummy
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If you're curious as to what I got on this day, I got the Mexicali vegan but
then I added in I believe pickled onions, falafel and something else but I can't
remember..oh and feta cheese! Obviously I make my
salad not vegan but I start off with the Mexicali vegan I got the green goddess
dressing that comes with it as well. On this day it was beautiful outside I've
mentioned to you guys that the weather is really starting to take a shift in
Nashville. We will take any beautiful day we can to go outside so we ate our lunch
outside and just chatted and enjoyed the food and the weather and each other's
company so after eating our salad we made our way over to a place that we go
to called Pai Medical Group and I've gotten so many questions on this because
Dan actually had a hair transfer surgery last year to fill in some areas on his
head that had thinned out and I have been working with Pai under their laser
machines to help regrow thinning parts of my hair in the front of my head I've
been using this in conjunction with Rogaine and the two together have worked
just amazingly, I'm so excited to see how much more my hair is going to fill in in
the next six months but I tend to just chill out...you know, look at magazines,
reply to text that's a big thing I sit there for 20 minutes and so I'm usually taking
some time to get back to people but on this day there was a beautiful Conde
Nast Traveler magazine that was all about different beaches and the south
and so I really liked exploring that. So after our appointment we made our way
over to Cool Springs plastic surgery to their new Brentwood facility it's
beautiful like absolutely stunning and to those of you that don't know this is
where I go here in Nashville for all of my skincare treatments I work with a
woman named Heather Happy who I'm obsessed with. Don't mind my awkward face...
Dan made me do that (laughing) As I was saying, I work with a woman that I love named
Heather Happy not only does she have the most beautiful porcelain skin but on top
of that she's just the most kind and knowledgeable person. She's just so
knowledgeable about skin care and treatments but like I said she's
also kind she has I guess she would say great bedside manner. Heather is one of
those people that will never make you feel uncomfortable about your beauty
treatments if you are someone who has suffered with acne you might know what
I'm talking about. Sometimes or really any skin care condition but sometimes
when you're working with estheticians oh you can stumble upon someone who might
make you feel less than or just uncomfortable during your procedures
like you're not enough. I realize that sounds very deep for a beauty treatment
but it's true and Heather just makes you feel comfortable and at ease and
beautiful and seen and heard this is all like very dramatic sounding explanation
for my esthetician but I love Heather so much and if you're looking for someone
and you're near the Nashville area, I highly recommend her. So on this day I
got a laser treatment I believe it's called bbl and I was there because I got
another laser treatment that I will be doing a video about called the halo and
while I loved the results it left my skin a little bit Pinker than normal and
we felt like it was just pink for a little too long so she had me come in
for this treatment because she said it was going to basically pull the red out
of my skin and let me tell you it definitely did that. You can't
necessarily tell right now because I just got the treatment done but it
worked wonders and I can't wait for my next one. I literally saw immediate
results with zero downtime.
while I was there she actually offered to wax my brows to to get rid of some of
my stray hairs and that was great with me so we did that and then after this no
this is something that I don't know if a lot of you know but I get I almost would
call like micro dosing of Dysport which is basically Botox about two times a
year three times a year. I am very sensitive to it and so I'm able to do
like an abnormally small amount because not only like I said am I sensitive but
also I like to maintain as much movement as possible but I like the concept of
the Dysport kind of helping to lessen the indentations in my forehead oh look
I saw Heather and Olivia they were on the sign just figured I'd get that shot
don't mind me guys sometimes I'm just in a silly mood so let's just roll with it
So after that, we made our way to Costco to do some grocery shopping you guys
know Costco is one of my favorite grocery stores and we just picked up a
bunch of food really in preparation for my mom to come to town. The funny thing
is at the time of me doing these voiceovers we've already eaten through
all of this food. My family eats so much and we eat a lot of produce but anyways
back to this day I picked up mostly produce to cook with and yeah
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You guys know I've been obsessed with making asparagus lately, so I had to pick
some of that up. I haven't bought lettuce and so long because my tower garden has
been making tons of it but I'm growing too many varieties of food right now on
my tower garden so I did need to pick up some lettuce and then I also picked up a
block of the best parmigiano-reggiano and then a block of this Swiss cheese
that is so good.
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Does anyone else live for these moments with their dogs when they get home and
they're like overly excited to see them? I love it so much
especially because for a while Bowser was climbing on our couch when we were
gone and so when we would get home we would be angry at him like
"no Bowser, you're not supposed to be on the couch" and it took a few times but he
eventually figured out the frustration was tied to him being on the couch so
now he is very excited when we get home and we tell him that he's a good boy
because he was not on the couch
So at this point Dan made his way outside because he wanted to build this
arch over our garden. We're planning on planting sweet potatoes in our spring
garden and sweet potatoes give off like a bunch of vines so Dan is actually
going to kind of bring the vines over the top of the arch. I think that's his
plan anyways the outdoor garden really is farmer Dan's like area but that's
kind of I think the plan so at this point it was late afternoon early
evening maybe five..six o'clock and I decided I wanted to take a shower so
this is gonna be weird but sometimes I bring drinks in with me so I brought up
my passion fruit Lacroix
Also I love adding a couple of drops to the floor of eucalyptus radiata and it
actually reminds me of California.
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So before I hopped in, I turned on my diffuser and I decided to diffuse some
stress away. Stress away is one of my favorite blends of lemon and lime and
vanilla, copaiba and then I added a couple of drops of tangerine which is
another one of my favorite single oil notes.
So once I hopped out of the shower it was time to make dinner so I started off
by making some asparagus I know I told you guys this recently but the trick
that one of you shared with me of breaking off the woody ends individually
rather than cutting them off with a knife has made all of the difference in
my asparagus. It makes it so that the whole asparagus is very tender because
each asparagus has been individually tended to..to take the woody tip off the
end if that makes sense.
So I laid it on my cooking tray and then I drizzled some olive oil on top.
Followed it up with some pepper.
Then I added a little bit of organic garlic salt.
and then I also added some red chilli flakes because I will find any reason to
add them to a recipe as well as lemon juice which I will find any reason to
add to any recipe.
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Then I massaged the asparagus in my little concoction with my hands.
Now at the same time, I was boiling some mini potatoes and I actually think I
uploaded my last video in this video out of order the last video contained a lot
of my leftovers from this night so I boiled some mini potatoes, I steamed some
green beans and then while those were cooking I had to show you this mug that
my friends Kacey and Savannah gave me. They collaborated with a local, I guess
she would call her clay works artist, here in Nashville called sylvan clay works
to make this mug and they gave it to me and i just think it's so amazing
so if you're interested this is a collaboration they worked on together
and if you use the code HW10 you can get 10% off this mug so I will link that
down below. Now while my food was cooking, I decided to try this Republic of tea
apple cider vinegar packet. I had purchased this about a week or so
beforehand at the turnip truck which is our local like health food grocery store
and it was so good and it made me feel good to be able to get some apple cider
vinegar in my body in like the non-traditional way because it was
actually really tasty so while my food finished cooking I made my way upstairs
and I did some editing
So as the sun was setting, Dan decided to plant our potatoes. We're gonna be
planting sweet potatoes as well but Dan really wanted to plant just some regular
potatoes as well I don't know what kind of potatoes these were but we'll just
call them regular potatoes. So he planted those in our garden bed and so
it was super fun and exciting because that is the first plant that we have put
in the ground this spring. Look at how good that looks with the arch and even
though there's nothing growing like just seeing it all being tended to is very
exciting so then I made my way inside and I started to construct my little
plate this is similar to what I did in the last video for dinner I was inspired
by Annie Jaffrey and all of her just kind of random food plates she makes so
I had some leftover quinoa I scooped that on the plate and then I also
scooped my green beans that I made which I just stirred with olive oil, lemon juice,
salt, pepper, and fresh garlic and then I scooped my potatoes and my
asparagus on the plate as well now I also had some leftover lemon garlic
aioli I use this stuff for all kinds of things and I scooped that onto my mini
potatoes. Side note, how beautiful are those dark purple potatoes it's amazing
that that grew from the ground so I also decided to take a scoop of this
'significantly spicy hummus' that I purchased at Aldi. If you missed my Aldi
haul by the way now you know it's there.
and then I chopped up some cherry tomatoes and just added those to the
center of my plate with a bunch of pepper you guys know tons of pepper with
tomatoes it's always the way to go and then I grated some of that Swiss
cheese that I picked up at Costco earlier on top and that was my dinner
and let me tell you it was so good just like I said in the last video all of the
random flavors I am definitely like a mixer with my
food so getting a bunch of different flavors just makes me so happy so that
is it for today's video. I will hopefully see you guys back here very soon and
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all right bye guys!
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