(upbeat music)
- Happy new year.
- Happy new year, guys.
- Happy 2018.
- Yeah, we did it.
- We did it.
- Feeling a little bit delicate today.
- Oh yeah.
- Off to the family's place today.
Have some nice food.
We have a special guest, Angel.
- Cheeky.
This is gonna be really fun.
We play a lot of games like bingo
and yunnori (korean new years game).
- Yeah.
- My mom and Ben were in the champions--
- The finals.
- Yeah, the finals.
- I had no idea how to play the game.
Completely beginner's luck,
but I'm gonna try to do the same today
and actually win it.
- What's your tactic this year?
- Just to try and remember how to play it
and then that's about it.
- Honestly I don't know how to play either.
My dad re-explains how to play the game every year
and that's how it works.
- Yep.
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- [Jennifer] So here is ddeok-kuk.
This is my favorite soup.
This is basically just a rice cake soup
with dumplings, some meat, seaweed, egg
My aunt
did an amazing job with the spread.
We've got some egg, some sausage,
some kimchi, japchae.
- This is all mine.
- [Jennifer] This is all yours.
This is your portion.
Happy new year, appa (Korean for dad).
- Happy new year.
(Best wishes for a Happy New Year!)
Same to you.
- [Jennifer] Thank you. )
thanks for the meal!
- Oh my god.
So tasty.
- So good.
- One, two, three.
(Best wishes for a New Year!)
- You guys, look at this old photo of all of us.
I think this was my grandpa's birthday.
Grandfather looks great.
He's wearing the same hanbok (traditional Korean garments) today.
Wow.
I can't do any of these.
Oh, wait.
- Ooh. - Oh.
Oh my god.
Easy.
- [Group] Oh.
(laughing)
(cheering)
- Oh my goodness.
Oh my god.
You did it.
- [Jennifer] You did it, oh my god.
Yeah, you got it.
- [Dad] Oh my god.
(cheering)
- [Jennifer] Wow, this is strategy.
Wow.
(cheering)
And of course, you can't forget about dinner.
(Thanks for the meal!)
Thank you.
I (Dad) made it.
[Jenn] Dad, you made it?
Wow.
Chef (Dad).
- I (Dad) chef,
good chef, though.
(random Korean)
(upbeat music)
- Hello everybody.
It is Tuesday and I am freshly showered.
I feel so amazing.
This is probably one of my favorite things
is clean hair, clean body after a hard workout.
The comfort and joy you seek is waiting
and all you need to do is pay attention to it.
(chimes)
Wow.
- [Man] You just listened to the post
titled A Little Guide For More Comfort and Joy
by Courtney Carver of bemarvelous.com,
narrated by Jenn Im.
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- [Friends] Yay.
Happy new year, happy new year.
Yay.
- How was Redbird?
- [Friend] It was so chill, guys.
- What kind of music did they play?
- [Friend] They were playing hip hop.
- [Jennifer] Dressy ass shoes, I know.
(laughing)
That must feel so weird
- [Amy] It is weird.
- [Jennifer] Have your toes out.
- [Amy] Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
Good morning, it is Wednesday.
Amy and I are heading into Pilates.
It's gonna be really cold in the studio
and it's locked.
- [Amy] Go ahead.
- [Jennifer] Thanks.
- [Instructor] Punch punch punch punch,
15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10.
Nine, eight, seven, six, five.
- I would rather have this be tighter and fitted.
Cheeky has a visitor.
They're so happy.
As you saw, I had the Eggie team
come over to my house for a fitting.
This is for our fourth drop
which is gonna happen around music festival season,
so I am so excited to show you guys the pieces.
A lot of the stuff needs some work,
so I can't for everything to be perfect.
I didn't get the vlog Angela and Leona
but I work with them all the time,
Angela especially, so...
Leona is the lovely lady at Eggie
who makes sure all the measurements are correct
and she sends it over to the manufacturers
so that they can produce a correct fitting prototype,
and then we have Angela, of course,
and she is my right hand woman.
She helps me design everything for Eggie,
and I freaking love her.
She just gets me.
As you guys know, I didn't go to fashion school
or I don't know how to sew or anything,
so we work really closely together
to create these designs for you guys.
I'm heading out to Thailand tomorrow,
so I'm gonna start packing.
I don't have anything done,
and then I'm gonna have dinner with my friend Crystal
and then we're gonna watch our friend Kelly perform
so quite a jam packed night.
I'm gonna get some water.
But first, I'm gonna pack.
(upbeat music)
Hello everybody, happy Monday.
I am back in LA and it feels so amazing.
I just got back from Thailand
and I was gone for nine days,
so it feels just, I don't know.
I love traveling and I love being out
but nothing feels as good as coming home.
Right now I am on my way to the dentist.
I'm gonna get my teeth cleaned.
It has officially been six months
since my last teeth cleaning so going back
and hopefully there's nothing wrong.
Last time I got x-rays and I didn't have any cavities,
so the Sonicare is really working out for me.
If you guys don't have an electric toothbrush by now,
I highly recommend it.
I haven't had a cavity since that.
Before, every time, I would always go in to the dentist
with at least something that they had to fix,
so yeah, after lunch.
My mom is coming over with me.
She volunteered to clean my house,
and I'm gonna help her, obviously.
I don't know if this is just an Asian parent thing,
but every time my parents come over,
they are dying to vacuum, mop the floors,
and all that stuff and it's one of the perks, you know?
Let me know in the comments down below
if that's what your parents do when they come visit you?
But yeah, she has the day off.
Today is Martin Luther King day,
and I'm so happy it's being recognized.
Martin Luther King did so much for America,
especially for freedom.
He really paved the way for all minorities,
and if he didn't speak up or if he didn't
have that dream and he didn't speak up,
then we definitely would not be here where we are now.
(crowd chattering)
Hi, Emma.
Hi, Belle.
I know, hi.
Having lunch with eomma (mom)
and imo! (aunt)
All right, so we just got back from lunch.
My mom is over, helping me clean the entire house.
What did I do to deserve such an amazing mom?
Right now, Sam and Ben are at a cafe working.
Ben is currently working on my Jenn goes to Phuket vlog
and I'm so grateful because that day
or that trip was a lot of footage,
so there's a lot to get started on that,
and I wanna have that done as soon as possible.
So yeah, while he's working on that,
I'm gonna work on the house.
I normally don't like to call out the state
of my office, but I wanted to show you guys
the before so...
Here it is.
It has not been this messy in such a long time.
But yeah, my luggage is still here.
I gotta put everything away.
I gotta open some packages,
clean this desk up,
and right now I'm waiting
for my vacuum to finish recharging,
but yeah, cleaning day!
So the first rule that my mom has when she's cleaning
the house is that she likes to open all the windows
to get a good circulation in the house,
so that is what I'm gonna do first.
So I like to just take out all the stuff
out of my luggage first and then put my luggage away,
so that way I have no choice but to clean up
everything on my floor
or else it'll bother me like crazy.
So now I like to put everything in their little piles,
so right now I've got products.
We've got dirty clothes.
I don't know why I put this right in front of you guys.
I got shoes.
Clothes I wanna hang.
Bathing suits
and it just helps me keep organized
when I put everything away,
'cause then I'll know exactly where everything is.
(speaking foreign language)
(vacuum running)
I love this salad.
Hello.
It is the next day.
My office and the entire house are completely clean.
I wanted to show you guys the space.
Look at all this floor.
I love it.
Oh yeah.
I just feel so much more amazing
when my place is clean
because when my place is clean,
my mind is clean.
Who would have thought?
But anyway, last night was so much fun.
It was some good family bonding time.
We had dinner at Fig At 7th,
which is one of my favorite shopping places
in downtown LA.
They've got an H&M, a Zara.
They got a Bath and Body Works, Victoria Secret, Target,
but anyway, needless to say, I went shopping.
I got my mom a couple sweaters,
and I got myself a couple of things,
because it's been a minute
since I feel like I've shopped, but...
They had this crazy sale everywhere,
so first up at Nordstrom Rack,
I got this black back pack.
It is by Madden Girl,
so I guess Steve Madden makes accessories.
It looks like that other brand that has this logo,
but either way, I love it.
It fits my Canon T3I, which is pretty much
the only reason why I got this backpack.
All my backpacks are breaking
because my vlogging camera is an unnecessary weight.
It's around seven pounds.
I don't know why I am so loyal to things,
but anyway, I got a new backpack
because my velvet one broke,
so this is the new backpack for now.
I like that it's in this ski pants,
or snow material,
because when it rains or something
or if I'm in a different climate or something,
it's gonna protect all the goodies inside,
and this was $30.
All right, next up, we have Zara.
They're having an insane sale on everything,
and the only thing I got were shoes.
So the first pair of shoes I got were these pointed mules.
They've got a ruched center
and I just feel like they look very elegant,
and then I got another pointed mule.
I guess these aren't really mules.
They're pointed slip ons,
and the last pair of shoes I got were these mules,
another pair of mules, jeez.
But these have a nice teddy material in the front
and these are very, very comfortable.
All these pairs of shoes were 20 bucks,
so I got everything for 60 bucks,
which is insane.
That's like the cost of one shoe at Zara,
and then at H&M I got these two beanies.
This one was 13 bucks
and then, this one, I don't know how much this one was,
but probably less than that,
because this is just a plain, black ribbed beanie,
a little slouchy,
and then, this one has a cute little pom pom on it.
Since I'm already showing you guys all these things,
I thought I would throw in Stephanie's Christmas present.
She made us coasters of all the girls,
and they are so cute.
She got my hair color so perfectly.
It really looked like this at the time.
The whole squad protecting the surfaces of my home now,
and the last thing I wanted to show you guys
was some jewelry by a subscriber.
Her name is Eugenia.
She is from Toronto
and she just sent me the most beautiful pieces,
so I had to shout her out.
First up we have these really beautiful drop down earrings.
They're very statement,
and then she has these abstract squiggle statement earrings.
The third is a modern day contemporary hoop,
and the last pair of earrings,
and the ones that I'm the most excited about
are these adorable egg earring.
I love the fact that she made the yolk gold
and the rest is this beautiful chrome.
I love these earrings.
Thank you so much for sending these to me, Eugenia.
You're so talented.
I'll leave her info in the description box
so please check her out.
But yeah, that is the end of the haul.
I'm gonna get started with my day.
I already went to Pilates earlier,
but this class was just weak for some reason.
I feel like I didn't really get
that full of a workout.
I feel like Pilates is 50 50.
Some classes I'm in excruciating pain
and I'm so sore, but other classes,
I'm just kind of like...
Like I'm not even breaking a sweat.
(relaxing music)
Hello everybody.
- Hello, everybody.
- It's Ben Jenn here.
- That's me, there we go.
- We are going to the Goodwill outlet.
We're gonna film a video.
Ben is gonna help me shoot it as he always does.
- Give my best shot.
- Honestly, it's been a long time since I've been here.
Instead of going to the normal Goodwill store,
I'm gonna go to the outlet,
so I've actually never stepped in there
because even that's really overwhelming for me,
'cause everything is just in a big giant bucket.
Yeah, yeah.
- Everything's like a dollar.
- That's what they say.
I hear that.
You just pick whatever you wanna buy
and then they weigh it
and then, that's how you pay.
I've never seen this Goodwill so full.
The parking lot is rammed.
- [Ben] Everyone's got the same idea as us.
- [Jennifer] I know.
- [Ben] They're all doing the thrift videos.
- [Jennifer] I see you.
You're not gonna get my goodies.
- [Ben] There's no spaces.
- [Jennifer] There's no spaces.
Holy cow.
- [Ben] It's a fucking Wednesday at 11 AM.
- [Jennifer] Oh my gosh, I know.
Oh my goodness.
Let's just go all the way to the back.
- Did it, guys. - Nice.
Oh, whoa, whoa.
Oh, Ben loves to reverse back.
- You know, it gets us,
it means when we leave, we're fine.
People in America don't like to reverse park.
- Yeah, 'cause you're just a really good parker.
(vocalizing)
We made it.
Here we are at the Goodwill outlet store.
We've been to just the normal Goodwill store
a lot of times but it's my first time entering
this part of town.
I guess this part of the store.
(upbeat music)
I need to burn my hands, excuse me.
(upbeat music)
Hello, so I'm back from the outlet store.
I washed my hands with soap obviously,
but yeah, I got some great things.
The outlet was, I'm not gonna lie,
it was really intense and you're just sifting
through a lot of stuff.
Also, the people there are very territorial
because they are some people that go there
to buy the clothes and then try and upsell it
on eBay or at the flea markets.
When those buckets come out,
a fresh bucket comes out,
literally it's like piranhas
eating this big dead carcass,
but basically I'm home now,
and I'm gonna cook some lunch.
Ben and Sam are at a cafe working again,
and I'm gonna make some Dengjang Chigae
So this is essentially like a Korean miso soup.
It's fermented bean paste.
I know that sounds disgusting
but it is so delicious.
All right, so now that everything is cooking,
I am going to put in some Doenjang
This is the magic sauce.
Like that amount.
Maybe this is too much.
I don't care.
(upbeat music)
All right guys, that is a wrap on the vlog.
I actually finished inputting the rest of the clips
into my laptop so this is very, very recent.
I'm gonna spend the rest of the day
just editing this vlog and it will be out on Sunday,
which is when you're watching this,
so yes, I hope you guys enjoyed this little
catch up vlog.
I feel like, I don't know.
I feel like this month has gone so quickly,
but yeah, I am going to continue to vlog
the rest of January and then
I don't know where I'm going with this.
I just came here to say goodbye.
Thank you so much for watching
and see you guys in the next one.
Bye.
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