Hey there, morning, good morning everybody!
It is another vlog.
It is Friday, and it is the start to my vacation!
This is the first time you'll have seen me
in a while actually feeling decent and like myself.
I just got back from a very long
visit to the pediatrician, and I love my pediatrician.
She's amazing, but they were a little bit behind,
and you know, with a 15 month old, that is no bueno.
I've got a little kids tattoo
on my hand from Valentine's Day
because Harper was my valentine,
but anyway, she is doing great.
She got three vaccines today.
She got her first varicella vaccine,
and she got,
what else,
her fourth DTaP and her fourth Haemophilus influenzae.
A lot of you guys ask what vaccines I give my child.
I give her everything that's recommended,
including the series of two flu shots.
They need two flu shots, not one,
so make sure that your infant has two flu shots.
In addition, I got the flu vaccine
while I was pregnant too because that protected
not only me, but her as well.
The guys from the water company
are here to fix our water softener system.
When we bought the house, we didn't know
that it had a water...
I mean, we kind of knew because it was on the specs sheet,
whatever it's called, of the house.
I can't remember the terminology.
But we just never really understood what that was,
and apparently, it's like some bourgie way
-of softening the water so that -[phone whistles]
it protects the plumbing, I think,
but it also it makes your hair nice and soft.
The city has such hard water that
it's a real nice thing to have.
It's not cheap, and it's at it's seven-year lifespan,
unfortunately, and we have to replace all
of the resin in the tank, whatever that means.
So they're doing that right now.
Something that needs to be done.
It's one of those unanticipated costs
that you're just kind of like [groans]
that hits you right in the gut,
but it needs to be done.
So they're doing that right now.
I've got a grocery order coming
because we're out of milk.
I'm so tired, but it's the start of my vacation
and we're going to have a great day,
we're going to have a great week.
There's going to be lots of videos and vlogging,
I think, hopefully.
The first thing I need to do is publish the...
[phone whistles]
Yep, in seven minutes I need to publish my vlog
from last week.
So I'm a little bit behind on publishing,
but that's because I don't get to publish things
right away because there's usually
a Medical Minute Monday or a Tech Tuesday involved
that takes up two days of the week,
in terms of posting cause I don't post
more than once in a day.
Let me go work on that.
So I am now in my car.
I think the last time I talked to you,
I had gotten home from Harper's vaccines.
Took a nap and she's awake now.
I am gone to my P.O. box.
I am really excited to share this with you.
I have a bunch of planner reviews
coming your way.
I know it's a little bit
into the year now,
and it would've been good to do this
probably late 2018,
however, Vlogmas was just too much!
It was just too much going with Vlogmas
so I didn't have time to do anything,
other than Vlogmas.
But the good news is,
everything that I'm going to review
is a planner that is available
and is covering 2019.
So that's a good thing.
I think I'm going to go pick up some food.
So I am feeling a whole lot better,
I've just been very, very tired today
and I think it's allergy-related.
Plus, the Zyrtec I took...
Plus, sleep deprivation.
I had a really, really,
rigorous week.
I did a lobectomy, which is
when you do a surgery that takes out
a portion of someone's lung.
Usually,
it's like a cancer,
and then in that same day,
I also did a radical nephrectomy,
which it was like cancer day for me.
Somebody had kidney cancer,
so they took out an entire kidney
and they did a hernia repair on that same person.
So two major surgeries, long surgeries
that took five hours each.
It filled up my 10-hour shift.
And then the other day, I did
a cath lab ablation that went forever,
probably about six hours.
Then I did one day in endoscopy,
that you've seen in one of my
Anesthesiologist: Day in the Life videos
where I cover the colonoscopies and stuff.
And then I did...
That was three days we've talked about so far.
Oh, day surgery!
Yesterday, I was the board runner.
I ran the show in the Day Surgery Unit.
That was actually a pretty chill day,
That was Thursday.
That wasn't so bad.
Yeah! That's pretty much my week.
Now I've got to do some PR unboxings.
I have a luxury unboxing.
A designer item that I ordered yesterday,
it was international, and it got here this morning!
It was free shipping.
It's so incredible!
I can't wait to tell you about it!
It's not sponsored, I paid my own money,
but I am very impressed!
Let's do this thing.
I need to go pick up some food
for Harper's nanny and I.
It's become our little tradition,
I pick up lunch for us.
It's already kind of late, it's 1:30,
so we're both very, very hungry,
so I'm going to get cracking on that.
We are back!
Some stuff.
Be careful Harper.
So the first is from my friends
at StriVectin.
I've worked with them in the past.
"Thanks for your friendship and partnership.
Happy Valentine's Day from StriVectin."
That's so sweet!
Love this cleanser.
This is the Multi-Action Cleanser,
it's really, really good, I love it!
Blue Rescue Clay Renewal Mask!
"Massage-activated, color-transforming mask."
I'm really excited!
I'm going to try this tonight actually!
Blue algae, white clay, and probiotics.
All good things for your face.
Tighten and Lift!
I'm going to give that to my mom.
I always give her neck cream.
I don't know why.
Chocolate!
That's so sweet!
That's really sweet.
Thank you StriVectin, that is just really, really sweet.
Let's show everybody what's in this
beautiful chocolate box.
[whispers] What?
It says StriVectin on them.
Next up, Living Proof!
So they saw that I was telling you guys
about how I was going to try the Living Proof shampoo
because I was hoping I would get better results
between shampoos, so they sent me
Perfect Hair Day Hair and Scalp Shampoo: Triple Detox.
You can detox from product buildup, hard water,
and pollution.
What?
It keeps hair cleaner, longer.
And it includes a hard water indicator
to test if you have hard water.
That's so funny because I just got through talking about
how my water softener system just got
revamped today, so that shouldn't be a problem
for me, in particular, but that's really cool!
Because you can test it if you don't know
if you have hard water.
I'm sorry if I'm going in and out here.
I need to bend down.
I don't know who this is from.
Fragile! Fra-gee-lay!
Fra-gee-lay!
It must be Italian!
I think that says "fragile" honey.
Oh yeah.
This is international, I think.
[wrapper crinkling]
Fragile, fragile, fragile, fragile, fragile.
"Kristina, a little Alpha-H to restock
that beauty bag.
We are so excited to be in the USA."
[squeals]
Cute little gold star glitters.
This is from Alpha-H.
I'm actually going to be working with them
on a collab, so this is not sponsored.
They did not pay me to open this box,
but that's really sweet.
Look at that beautiful packaging.
Alpha-H Liquid Gold,
and Alpha-H Balancing Cleanser.
Little star confetti on it, that's so cute.
I love it.
Thank you so much to Alpha-H for sending that over.
Their team is amazing and such sweethearts!
I can't wait to share more-
Oh, there's more in here!
Essential Hydration Cream with Rose Geranium!
Oh my God, all of these little glitters.
I can't wait to put one of these on Harper.
Thank you so much to them!
That is amazing!
I'm so excited and I'm so proud of them
for launching in the USA.
That's coming up very soon,
so you'll be seeing more about that from me.
This is the cutest mailer I've ever seen,
look at that!
New Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask
hydrates skin while you sleep,
but it's not new...
Oh, it's a new one!
What?
Drink Up Intensive is like reformulated.
Is it reformulated?
"Thank you to the ORIGINS team,
Drink Up Intensive,"
but it has new stuff on it.
It says, "Overnight hydrating mask with avocado
and Swiss glacier water,"
which that I don't think it said before.
This is cool, I'm very excited about this
because this is one of my favorite masks
from ORIGINS, so thank you so much to ORIGINS.
I've got about two more boxes here.
This one is a planner that I will be reviewing,
so actually, I'm going to cut this part out
because I don't want to spoil it for my planner week.
This one is going to be a luxury unboxing
of a pair of shoes that I bought
because I just figured out
that I like this style of shoe so much,
and I'm going to try these out!
Cause they're getting a lot of hype recently.
These came from SSENSE, so I will link
these particular ones down below,
and then some of my other favorites.
How do you open this box?
The brand is called Golden Goose.
Oh, wow.
"Thank you for purchasing a Golden Goose
Deluxe brand product,"
and it's like gold foil stamped.
You don't care about that, but anyway, that's that,
and then there's some shoe dust bags.
This is what I got.
They are Italian-made shoes that are meant
to look like they've been worn and used and abused.
They're supposed to be really, really comfy.
I'm excited about that.
Right? I don't know.
That's one shoe, and then here's the other shoe.
These are designer shoes, so expect the designer price tag
when you click on the link,
but lets try 'em on.
Alright, so this is what they look like!
I like 'em!
They're like super cas, really comfortable,
and I like that they're kind of tapered
and slimmer looking than a lot
this style sneaker out there,
so these are really cool, cas,
and they look kind of like
I've been wearing these for years,
and these are my favorite tennis shoes
type of situation.
I guess it's in the same vibe as ripped jeans.
You either go along with the way it is,
paying for things to look old and abused,
or you don't.
And now I need to clean this mess up!
Alright, I'm home!
Went to the vet to pick up some medicine
for Gidget, and hung out with Tracy.
She stopped by for a little bit.
What is this lowfat milk from?
I think we got someone else's order.
Harper is walking now, can you stand up?
Can you stand up?
You got a walkie-talkie there?
She is walking, which is amazing,
and we're so proud of her.
It just happened in the last week.
She's been transferring and everything.
Buttons!
You love buttons?
Anyway, so she is walking now!
We have a walker on our hands,
which is so crazy!
I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine
cause it's the end of the week.
[Harper] Mama!
Yeah, Mama!
[Harper] Mama.
Can I give you your Valentine from Avery?
It's your Valentine from Avery.
How cute is this?
Handmade invitation from Harper's cousin.
Yeah, really?
Mama?
[Kristina] Yes, what do you want?
Mama, mama!
[Kristina] You want to come up?
Up?
Up!
[Kristina] Speaking of mail,
I did just get these very belated Christmas cards in,
so I just wanted to say thank you to Lynn,
thank you so much to Shannon.
I know that this is really late,
but these were sent to an old P.O. box,
and I only, very occasionally, have stuff ordered
from there.
I still keep it open just in case stuff like this happens.
I never want your letters to get lost,
but anyway, thank you so much!
This was sent to the old address,
but I'm so glad that I was able to get it,
even though they are about two to four months late
on some of these, so I'm really sorry about that,
but thank you for the heartfelt notes.
I read both of them and they mean a lot, so thank you.
Good morning, and happy Saturday!
We've gotten up.
HB made breakfast for the baby,
and I just got through bathing the two dogs.
Where's my fluffernutters?
Well Gidget is in timeout for being a bad girl,
and Leeloo, where's Leeloo?
Leeloo?
Leeloo!
Fluffy!
HB and Harper are doing some business planning over here,
having a little conference.
Good, good, good.
I am going to get dressed.
Maybe respond to few emails,
and I'll check back in with you guys in a little bit.
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