i started with such great intentions to um look presentable today but it's just got out the window
i'm gonna have to tie my hair up i've got so much hair now and it's like 32 degrees outside
so goodness knows how hot it is in this house because it holds the heat like crazy oh gosh
i'm so sorry that you'll be able to hear that fan but i cannot deal without it hello long
time no see so you will have seen a video sort of explaining things by the time this vlog goes up
i'm actually filming that video today so i'm not quite sure what i've said yet but yeah this is
okay if you want to sort of have an explanation of where i've been
um head to that previous video because that will sort of explain things as i go along today i'll
probably like talk about a bit more but i think you can probably tell my main priority today is
sorting out my office i have made a huge disaster of this place and it's making me not want to come
in here the main task is to tidy this which is going to be interesting in this weather i've got
some housework things to do and i'm just going to take you along for the day basically i miss
vlogging and these are the kind of vlogs i watch so i've got some work to do i've
got some videos to film and i have some house life work to be done so let's go
so
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i got distracted by my house jaws um
the boy is hot and hungry so he's fed even though we've already fed him this morning
but it's very hot so he gets what he wants you know you're feeling better
yeah good let us give you an overview of my office brace yourself i haven't tidied any of this
before i start filming we start the journey with a pile of returns that need to go back stuff
more stuff dreamies we know who those are nail stuff things out of the shelves
things from when i went on holiday and i've not put away there's just
a lot of stuff and it's bothering me a lot so i feel like the worst task is the clothes and
it's too hot to tackle that now but i think what i'm gonna do is just move them into this
room which is gus's room slash the wardrobes and then when it cools down a bit later i will
do them i'm going to put them in the way of the wardrobe doors so i don't just like walk over them
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get back to the vlog so i have fully opened this window which makes me very vulnerable to all the
wasps and the bunks and i don't do wasps and bugs in fact at work i regularly get attacked by walls
whilst eating my lunch so i've got i think even more of a fear of them by
now so i have like this mesh stuff that i'm gonna stick on the window similar to that
one that i've just put up downstairs that mesh stuff is currently in the bedroom and
my boyfriend is sleeping off his night shift so i'm gonna have to stealth mode into the bedroom
otherwise if something comes in this room whilst i'm tidying i'm out
didn't even notice i went in these are the screen things i bought them off amazon but
they're sold in like home bargains and stuff too and they come with like this really thin
velcro but it always peels off really quickly so that's kind of rubbish but
they're still really affordable so i buy the whole set still and then buy chunky velcro
and i just use like the spiky side of the velcro then you cut it to size and it fits
in great progress and i've actually just re-discovered some things i bought when i
was on holiday in the lake district so this was from ambleside toy shop and it's like a really
intricate like diy little craft project thing so i like things like this the little threads on them
i don't know if you can see that there you go so small you have to like bend those with tweezers
but i thought this would keep me entertained these are all from a shop called detail which
is also an ambleside and i absolutely love this shop i was like so excited to go back
here after seeing it last year so i got myself this little like sew-in felt project it's a
little polar bear and i thought i could put a string in its head like there is there and use
it as a christmas decoration then i got this pin which is just a lake district pin and i'm going
to put it on my wall in here then also saw this book which i thought was really cute i love how
this has been illustrated so it says you will leave a trail of stars words of inspiration
for blazing your own path by lisa congdon i just absolutely love the style of the artwork in here
like this is my kind of vibe and i'm really looking forward to reading that plus
it's gonna look super cute on my shelf you can't have too many cute books right
and then finally my boyfriend really likes this and i mean so do i it says hike more worry less
and it's got like a gold effect to it it's really cute so we're thinking either this is going to go
in the bedroom or downstairs but we need to redecorate the bedroom first so yes that's my
little independent artist haul oh i actually just had a little bit of a break downstairs because
it's getting far too hot up here got myself some lemonade and a coca-cola glass because
i don't know but the office is looking good there's just like a final few bits i'm gonna
give a little bit of hair hello i just realized this camera was on the wrong setting i'm using
my 4k camera and i feel like i'm probably going to regret it with the state of my um face but
i figured i'll treat you guys for the first video back but yeah i'm using the sony dead v1
and we'll see how it is but yeah let's have a little preview so i've cleared the pile of
clothes obviously that was the first task clean everything on the desk just got those few bits to
move the lint roller needs washing another print from the lake but i can see my floor
i just need to print out a label to return this i need to close that drawer i'll just put the drone
away which we took on holiday with us and yeah everything's looking good i've just got some
wires behind here that i've just discovered in a random bag so i'm gonna do those last final bits
and then i'm gonna clean the surfaces with these these smell delicious they're from morrison's
love them oh and i want to put these up too i got these from italy and we just really liked
them so i'm going to put them on the wall in here for now but i guess we could move them
somewhere else in the house if like when we've decorated we want to do something so let's do it
this is my little pin collection i've got going on and i'm just going to put the leg district
i should put it maybe here and i actually need to find one of my own soul and fire pins to put
on here but i'm not quite sure where i've stored them so for now we just have a few
cute little ones but i really like this wall i might like move them around a little bit
at some point but for now i just think it's super cute so yeah and i'm debating getting
one of those pin like flag banner things because this i feel ruins the vibe a touch
all right i think we're done i just need to take rubbish to the bin which is on the
back of the door but i'm at my desk for the first time in weeks i am going to sit here
for like a couple of hours pump some work out and then we will reconvene i basically needed
to tidy up so i could actually have like some work time at my desk because i feel especially
with starting the new job i feel like i'm gonna be more productive at a desk i'm sort of used
to sitting at one all day now so um yeah i was just craving being back in here and you know what
i've been sat i've been like taking it all in and looking around and i feel positive in here i think
i think the issue was i spent too much time in my own head in this room like overthinking everything
working alone is hard and i've literally done it for like nine years ever since i started this
youtube channel and obviously most of that time i was either at uni um i had something else it
wasn't just youtube and just about my face earning the money if that makes any sense it might not but
yeah i think i just got in my own head a little bit too much i'm sure i'm gonna talk about this in
the video that will already be up that i haven't yet filmed yet um but it was just yeah it was just
difficult so it feels really nice i feel like i've hit a reset button for like the past few weeks as
i've been in this new job i have been like walking in the office and not feeling comfortable and like
wanting to come back out and feeling such a weird mix of emotions but i i've just i was
just ready to come back like it feels nice to reset i've got sort of like a new focus still
gonna keep doing my thing on youtube just at my own pace taking the pressure off a little bit
and like going back to my roots and doing it like the way i did it back in 2013 when i started
nearly 10 years how insane is that but yeah feeling feeling good i'm going to sit and do this
laptop work i have like four different client jobs that i need to do obviously with working full-time
i don't have much time now to fit projects in so i'm still sort of like figuring that out a lot
of my clients are like product based people um or businesses so they're prepping for like christmas
launches and stuff so i've got quite a few that have all come in at once i need to get done so
i've set some time aside this weekend to get that done spurred me on to clear my office finally and
i feel like i'm going to feel good once i've got this sorted and also i have halloumi fries
in the freezer for my lunch when i'm hungry so that's going to motivate me even further
although i have just remembered that my mouse is in my work bag because we get work laptop and
i've managed to set my mouse up to work with that laptop too so i need this this mouse
everyone at work calls it a spaceship i love it it was gifted to me a while ago now and i
swear by it it's got like programmable buttons on the side so when i'm at work i like have
programmed them to make my workflow so much easier and i feel like that is one of the main things
that helps me get [ __ ] done so this mouse is great and it connects to like
three laptops at once without having to like reconnect it so like at the bottom there's
like a one two and a three down here so i flick this on this laptop in front of me is number two
um and my old laptop is number one and the work one's number three so i just press that and it'll
work with this laptop the only trouble is i now need to remember to put this mouse back in my bag
i'm ready for monday otherwise it will be very sad when it comes to monday and i've not got it
it's now the next day so yesterday i did lots of laptop work and then went to my mom and dad's for
a barbecue which was delicious and i completely forgot to film i'm clearly out of the work out of
the work out of work with vlogging so yeah just know it was delicious and i didn't leave until
like half nine it was very nice to see them both and today i've literally spent my entire day in
like car shops buying a car with my boyfriend it's now four o'clock i've just got home so i
need to get back on it with the work i'm gonna take my laptop downstairs because it's so much
cooler downstairs it's still boiling i feel like i've got sunburned today or my skin feels quite
sore because one of the cars we drove had like a little like pullback roof thing so i was like in
full sun and i don't deal well with the sun so yeah i've got some client work to finish
and i also have some more designs for hannah to do for sunnyside so i'm going to get that done and
yeah let's go downstairs and do something i cannot stand this office i'm very ready for it to cool
down and for it to rain i know i'm sorry if you love the summer i am not built for this weather i
think like my limit is like 23 24 i'm happy with that it's like 31 32 at the minute and that's
just far too much especially with a new build that is designed to hold in the heat is so hot
so
you can literally see the sweat how disgusting right it is now 8 p.m i am absolutely exhausted
i've done all but one client job so feeling pretty good about that however i have not yet put that
washing away that's upstairs so i guess that's a tomorrow job although right now it's blocking
the entire wardrobe so i might have to brave it tonight but yes i've had a very productive day
days weekend and it's been really nice to be vlogging again actually i'm gonna
do this a lot more now i'm gonna try and get back into the swing of things but also
not put too much pressure on myself because i feel like that's sort of what happened before
uh yeah so i hope you've enjoyed this vlog let me know if you watched until the very end and
yeah i'll see you soon for another one
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