- Hey everyone, welcome to my May favourites.
As you can see from my background
I have not moved house yet.
It is June, I was supposed to move house
at the end of March, it's not happened,
it's completely out of my control.
I'm trying to remain calm and not sad.
I'm just so ready to move house, please happen soon.
So I did a lot of travelling in May.
I went to LA for two weeks and then Austria
for a week, one after the other.
If you wanna see a travel vlog of LA
you can click the card just here.
I wanted to document it as like my first trip
with a stoma bag, and the trials and tribulations
of travelling with a chronic illness slash medical condition.
I had a great time but what it meant was
is I barely got any reading done.
So you know how last month I read,
what was it, five or six books?
It's balanced out again now because in May
I started three books, but finished one.
And actually, the book for Banging Book Club this month
I didn't finish because I just didn't like it, sorry.
But June's book for Banging Book Club is
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl,
which is the book that inspired the TV show
Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper.
So I'm very excited about reading that.
The book that I did read, which is a book
I've been meaning to read for so long,
is So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson.
I listened to it on Audible
and it's the author reading it,
and it's very, very soothing.
I just love this book because of how relevant it is
to everything that is going on right now,
even if he didn't quite foresee.
It was published three or four years ago,
but I think he's mentioned that it took him
two years of research and writing.
And without using the phrase because I don't think
it was used as much as it is now,
it's basically a book about calling people out.
Trial by Twitter.
He goes and interviews a lot of people
who have basically had their lives ruined
because of something they did or something they said
and how the whole internet just rallied against them.
And I just think that this book is a must read
for anyone who spends a lot time on social media.
So, yeah, that's the one book I read in May.
Hopefully June is a bit better.
But I have one other book that I want to share with you,
which is my book, Doing It!
(triumphant singing)
This is the American cover,
and it's coming out in the US in one month.
So excited, you can pre order now.
I'm gonna leave a link in the description.
Pre orders are super important and helpful
for authors to kind of gauge if a book is popular or not.
So yes, please pre order it, it really helps.
I realise I've been a bit quiet about it
because it was published over a year ago in the UK,
and then it dawned on me.
I was like, oh my God it's coming out in a month in America.
So yeah, you might hear me shouting about it
a bit more on social media, sorry not sorry.
So obviously whilst I was in LA,
I went to Universal Studios.
And on the way there, I said to Stevie,
I have enough Harry Potter merch.
I have enough enough Hufflepuff memorabilia.
I'm not getting any more.
So obviously I came away from that trip
with two new Hufflepuff things, yay!
What is my problem?
So the first thing I got was this Hufflepuff pin.
This is just beautiful, I love it.
They weren't actually selling any of these
visibly in a shop, Stevie went to buy something else
and then from behind the counter she was like,
do you also maybe want one of these?
And we were like, those are so much better
than what we were gonna buy.
And then the other thing I got
are these Hufflepuff ear rings, which are just beautiful.
I have a problem, I have a problem, it's fine.
So we've got some fashion things,
a tech thing, and a drink.
First of all, the fashion stuff.
Because I was going away, I needed some new clothes.
I realised that after I cleared out my wardrobe
I was short on some plain, loose, chill, casual t-shirts.
Also, I had no pairs of jeans,
and I was finally ready to find a pair of jeans
that worked with the stoma bag
and weren't too tight and nice and cosy.
And because my weight has changed again,
I needed new swimwear because my boobs
just don't fit into any of my things again.
So one of the t-shirts that I got is this one
that I am wearing, it's so comfy.
Just casual, wear it with jeans tucked in.
So easy to throw on, I'm obsessed.
The other t-shirt I got is from Zara and it's orange.
I have a problem, I just love orange and yellow.
It's really nice and flattering on my figure
'cause it has this v-neck,
and I can't remember the last time I bought a v-neck top.
It's maybe a bit too think a material
to be buying spring, summer, but I don't care, I love it.
And then I knew I also needed a cardigan
because I need layers because LA,
they like to crank up the air conditioning
and I just grabbed this one on ASOS.
Nice, plain, kind of long, long sleeve,
and it's so nice and easy to just
throw over top of everything.
The jeans are also from ASOS, and I mentioned online
that I did this size guide questionnaire thing on ASOS
and then they recommended me a size in these jeans
and I got them and they just fitted
and I was like, how is this possible?
I will try and find that size guide for you.
I love these, they're high waisted.
Super comfy, good colour for summer,
and three quarter length.
Oh, and these are petite as well
because your girl's only five foot.
I'm obsessed with these.
The other thing I got was sandals.
My old sandals had finally given up.
I'd them for three summers, so hopefully these babies
will last me another three summers.
I have it the wrong way around
and that looks really weird, there we go.
They're from Clark's.
I get most of my shoes in Clark's now.
Super fashionable and super practical at the same time.
My mother would be proud.
So one of the things with having a stoma
is that you always need to have an emergency kit with you
just in case there's a leakage or something happens
and you need to do an emergency bag change.
So you need everything with you.
This means that I can't take
cute little handbags away with me
and I need space for this, for a book, for a water bottle,
and then for my phone and my purse and everything else.
This is my backpack, I've had this for ages.
It's from Accessorise.
It's black and it fits all of that stuff in it, just.
It depends on the size of the book.
But other than a massive rucksack,
it's the only thing I have that carries everything.
So I was like, I want something else
so I have a bit more variety of what to wear.
I go to Accessorise every time I need bags.
It's the only place that I know.
So obviously I went and I came back
with exactly the same bag but in yellow.
It's fine, I know it works, I know it fits everything.
And also I know that will match everything that I wear.
Yeah, I've never been the kind of person
that owns the same thing in two different colours,
but it's fine because now these are
just my two day to day bags.
I'm obsessed, they had pink, and they had blue as well,
but obviously I have go yellow.
Okay, swimwear.
People ask me all the time where I get my bras,
where I get my swimwear.
Bravissimo, every time.
Bravissimo have lots of different brands that they stock,
but that is the shop, not online store,
that I go to every time, so now you know.
Hey Bravissimo, do you have an affiliate programme?
Okay, I got this swimsuit and I'm obsessed with it.
I look so good in it, if say so myself.
I love the way that the straps
kind of have this gap in it.
My tits look great in it, ugh, beautiful, I love it.
The other swimsuit I have is like a bikini.
Is it animal print?
I don't know.
It's got frilly bits on the booby thing.
Boobs also look great in this,
and I got high waisted, dun dun dun dun, bottoms.
I never really got high waisted bottoms before,
but I thought, do you know what?
Let's try and keep that stoma bag safe.
But yeah, it works really well.
It quite good swimming and stuff,
just to have attached to your body
rather than flapping around.
I've not tried a bikini on in a pool that is low rise
with the stoma bag flopping around,
but when I do I will let you know how that goes.
Alright, onto tech.
Do you know what, I wish I was tech YouTuber.
My CPM would be so good.
I just don't know enough about tech,
and also all of the techie people on YouTube
would come for me because I'm like, I love Apple,
and everyone were like, Apple's shit.
So just don't wanna get involved in that.
Props to you, Sarah Dichi.
I bought a new iPad.
So I bought this iPad because
it comes with the Apple Pencil.
Before, the Apple Pencil only came with the iPad Pro,
but this one is so much cheaper.
This is the cover that I had already,
and then on Amazon I just bought these sticky things
and then attached the pen to it,
because there's no other way to attach the pen,
it just keeps rolling everywhere.
I got this just before I went away and I'm obsessed.
This is now my notepad.
I would always be the kind person
with a stash of different kinds of notebooks.
And I have notepads that I write everything in,
and I'm trying to find that one thing that I wrote
and I can't find it and I'm flipping through
all these papers and I don't wanna get rid of my notebooks
and now I just have a pile of old filled up notebooks.
It's taking up too much space.
This is where this comes in and the app, Good Notes.
So Good Notes is the note app that I use,
you can import images into it,
and you can highlight text on those images
and then highlight changes so it looks like
it's actually highlighted on the piece of paper.
It's so good.
But yeah, so the main thing I'm using this for at the moment
is digitising all of my note taking.
But I also downloaded the app, Procreate,
which is where I'm making all of my handwritten titles
that you may have seen in videos like this or like this.
Oh my God, I can't even remember what the colour was called.
I think I got the silver one.
The pack of these pen holder things
came with so many but obviously I've picked the orange one.
Yeah, I am fully in the Apple ecosystem, I don't care.
My energy is like, whoa.
Also I feel like my accent
in this video is all over the place.
I'm from Manchester.
No one knows I'm from Manchester.
All right, what's next?
Oh yeah, drink.
So I have started drinking again post-surgery.
It is a good time, I enjoy the sociability of it.
I like the taste of alcohol.
I'm not drinking beer, though.
I'm a bit too scared about how gassy beer is
and how will that bloat the bag.
Also, before I even got ill, I'd given up beer
because I was trying to lose weight.
I hate myself for even saying that.
Anyway, so I'm not drinking beer, but I do love beer.
There's nothing that I like as much
as that that's so casual.
If I feel like drinking at home on a weekend
I'm like, what do I want?
Well, this is where pre-mixed drinks come in.
I love it.
It feels very strange to me.
If I was like, I just want to have a few drinks
on a Saturday afternoon at home
and then going to the shop and buying spirit and mixer.
That just feels weird, whereas when you're buying it a can,
it's crushed because I picked this out of my recycling.
It's so refreshing, they're always on offer.
There's always deals on on these things.
This is Captain Morgan Original Spiced Gold.
I recently had a whole bunch of different flavoured Pimm's.
Anyway, I don't know if this makes me super immature.
I don't really know what the market is
for pre-mixed drinks in a can, but that market is now me.
I realise how ridiculous this is.
It just makes so much sense to me.
I'll drink wine when I'm out,
but I'm not a big wine drinker at home.
I'm just not a big drinker in general.
There's no fear of pouring yourself too much spirit
and accidentally getting wasted.
I was already a lightweight,
but now I'm even more of lightweight
because I also get dehydrated quicker.
So anyone else in this bandwagon of pre-mixed drinks?
Please let me know I'm not the only one.
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