Hey guys and welcome back to my channel so today I am back with another peaceful
day in my life and today I'm gonna be showing you more of my favorite things.
All of the food that I ate today, the gardening that I did, the projects that I
worked on around my house and the vitamins that I took and I'm pretty
excited because today's video is actually sponsored by Care/Of vitamins
and I'm excited to share them with you because I've really been enjoying these
vitamins and I really think it's a great product. I had some pretty exciting
things take place in my house today that I think you guys are gonna love to watch
so with that being said let's hop right in.
So when I first came downstairs,
I checked my little shipment pile and have some boxes that need to be open or just
starting to be open and at the very top I had my Care/Of vitamins that just came
in the mail I hadn't opened them yet so I pulled them to the side to take after
I ate my food and I thought I would show you my yoga pants. These are by a company
called Sweaty Betty and I got them last year during the Nordstrom anniversary
sale. They really help hold everything in super well. They're really high quality
but very lightweight and I love the print I will link them down below if I
can find them so then it was time to make some breakfast and per the usual I
went back to my avocado toast you guys know that in one of my recent day in my
life I kind of branched out and I made something I never make which was
sourdough french toast and it was super good but it was a little too sweet for
me and avocado toast is something I can
always count on I feel great every time I eat it. I don't have a crash. I feel
satisfied and I just love it.
I also decided on this morning that I
wanted to have a big handful of blueberries blueberries are super high
in antioxidants and I try to include them in my diet as much as possible on a
day to day basis so of course I have to brew my morning tea, my iced tea I mean
geez you guys have seen me do this probably hundreds of times and this mug
has become like a member of my family it's been in my videos like I don't even
know man from the beginning but so I let my tea brew and sit while I continued to
make my breakfast
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Once I spread my avocado all over my sourdough toast,
I squeezed a bunch of lemon juice you guys know I will find any reason to
squeeze fresh lemon juice into any food that I'm eating then I took some goat
cheese and I put a little bit of that on the toast as well
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And then I followed that up with some red chili flakes. I like having a little
bit of kick to my toast. Dan I'm decided by the way to have some
beef jerky for breakfast. Dan makes the best beef jerky literally on the planet
if you didn't know that I don't eat beef jerky except for when Dan makes it at
home and it's so good and he always gives a little bit to the pups.
So then I took my chives and I chopped them up by the way I'm currently trying to grow
chives in my tower garden. I'm so excited I'm counting down the days to when I
have usable chives in my garden I cannot wait
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Then I took some olive oil and I drizzled that on top as well as some
salt and some pepper and at this point my tea was ready to pour over ice so
satisfying and you usually hear that ice like crackling when the hot teas pouring
over it and I just get even more excited. I really like taking some time in the
morning to kind of pull my thoughts together for the day you guys know that
I work from home and so much of my life is based around just my own schedule and
however I want to structure my responsibilities throughout the day so
in the morning I like to take some time to calm my thoughts really think about
what I'm gonna be doing for the day maybe catch up on some YouTube videos I
just like this time in the morning to gather my thoughts
by the way Zoe is usually somewhere nearby while I'm eating my breakfast.
So once I was done eating, I pulled out my Care/Of vitamins and if you don't know
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five pills in it which you guys know if you follow me on instagram is nothing
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rhodiola for energy which my mom swears by ashwagandha which I've never taken
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So then I made my way upstairs I brought Zoe with me because I will
always bring Zoe with me to do everything if I have the option and it
was time to get ready so I poured my water in my diffuser and I decided to
diffuse some tangerine while I put on my makeup. By the way a bunch of you guys
have asked about safety of oils around animals I can't speak around you know
all companies and all products but just so you are aware young livings oils are
safe to diffuse around animals. A lot of those articles that have circulated are
based on oils that are not completely pure or possibly synthetic and also this
is a little anecdotal but my dogs have never had any issues with the oils like
at all just kind of throwing that out there but I get asked that question a
lot so I just kind of wanted to let you know
so once my hair and makeup was complete my friend Deanna actually came over to
my house because she is an incredible piano player and harp player randomly
enough and she's actually starting to give me piano lessons which is so
exciting because I'm one of those people that really thrives with lessons like
with people and honestly even one lesson I can already tell the difference in my
piano playing. She has just been so helpful and we actually go to church
together and play on worship team together and fun fact I think Deanna was
Miss Tennessee so that's kind of random and cool honestly shout out to you, Deanna!
You're such a sweet human and I'm so glad that we're getting to do this together.
So after my piano lesson Dan actually
got back to the house and he brought me this little tray of succulents from my
neighbor's house he helped our neighbor with some construction stuff around
their house and his wife is really into plants so she sent this home with Dan to
give me as a gift so, Thank You Lexi! So at this point it was time for lunch and
so I made my way upstairs to cut off a head of lettuce from my tower garden yes
it is as good as it looks and I decided to make a salad so I cut up my lettuce
no I did not wash it because I do not wash my produce from my tower garden.
There's no pesticides and I don't have any bugs or dirt or anything so I don't
feel a need to do that which is nice because it helps keep my salad crisp so
I chopped up my lettuce and then I chopped up my green onions which I did
cut off from my green onions that I'm growing upstairs which is really cool so
I cut those up threw those into the salad as well and then I chopped up a
jalapeno and threw that into the mix too
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Then I diced up some of my cherry tomatoes
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Once I threw those into the bowl, I squeezed a ton of lemon juice onto the
salad and then I added some olive oil. And then last but not least, I scooped in
my leftover chickpea salad that I had made about a day or two before that.
Oh! And I chopped up some cilantro to throw on as well.
A lot of times when I'm cooking, I will just go through my fridge and find every
piece of produce that I think could go together
to try to make a recipe. I also added a little bit of crunchy chunky sea salt to
the top and then I had a side of some blueberries and some raspberries and
that was my lunch and yes it was as good as it looks. So after I ate I decided to
go and water my plants downstairs they were all looking a little bit limp and I
realized I hadn't watered them in a couple of days so I just gave a good
watering to all of my downstairs indoor plants
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Also I filled up my diffuser in my living room.
I added some eucalyptus globulus to the diffuser. This diffuser, by the way, I get a
ton of questions about it it's called the Aria diffuser from Young Living and
I love it and when the sun is shining through my living room and the diffuser
is going it honestly just feels like heaven it's so beautiful and relaxing
clearly Zoe loves it as well and I decided because it was so beautiful to
do some of my computer work downstairs in the kitchen I have been asked quite a
bit recently in videos what my job is or like if I'm between jobs right now and I
thought everybody knew this but my full-time job is actually YouTube and
like internet stuff so every day at some point I am spending a good chunk of time
either filming or editing or both and I flippin love it and I appreciate you
guys so much for watching my videos you literally have no idea how grateful I am
so I took a break in the late afternoon to actually go and have a therapy
session and I know this looks weird I'm just on my computer but my therapist was
actually someone that I worked with when I lived in California and when I moved I
didn't want to leave her because I've been working with her for years and so
we continued our relationship via Skype and I loved working with her yeah it was
a great question it's always a great session. I love my therapist so once I
was done with therapy, I decided to get some laundry going I had quite a few
loads I wanted to get done that day so I just kind of switched everything over
started a new load and then guys are you ready to get hyped?! I got a second tower
garden! So I actually mentioned this in my last tower garden diary that I just
uploaded this week that we had ordered a second tower garden so on this day the
tower garden got in and Dan set it up for me and not only did we get another
tower garden but we actually got two dollies so one for each tower garden so
now we can easily spin it around kind of sunglasses rack so that we can see all
of the plants around the tower garden and I've mentioned this before but our
office is in a major transition I said our because it used to be mine but with
us going through the process of becoming foster parents, Dan's office is going to
become our foster child's room and my office is now our office so we are doing
major transition setting everything up it's really cool to make steps forward
in that. Of course I had to check on my seedlings because I do that every day
and then I sat down in my office to get a little bit more computer work done
while Dan sat next to me and raced on his simulator. To those of you that don't
know Dan is super into something called I-racing and it's basically like NASCAR
racing simulation and it is how Dan trained to race in actual cars if you
didn't know that about Dan he's actually done like legitimate NASCAR racing.
He likes to do I racing multiple times a week not only because it's a fun hobby
for him but it keeps that skill up and while he was working on that I uploaded
a new video of course another day in my life I want to give a shout out and
thank you to Care/Of for sponsoring this video I was over the moon excited to get
to be working with such a high quality vitamin company.
Don't forget to check
out the link down below use the code if you're interested and I will hopefully
see you guys back here soon with another new video all right bye guys!!
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