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Hey, YouTube world. It's me, Evelyn. I come to you in the spirit of "I'll take a shower
when I get to it." Okay? I also come to you in the spirit of I slept with my mascara on.
I just now took it off, so. We're gonna do a little bit of work. Then we're gonna come
back here. We're gonna meet back here for a chat. We're gonna talk about life. Liberty.
And the Pursuit of Happiness.
(Baby Jaden Smith) I'm not happy! I hate it here!
On the list is: update my website because there are some issues there, publish a YouTube
video today. Keep the ball rolling. Keep that ball rolling. Oh! Set up my weekly spread for
my bullet journal. It's changed since the last bullet journal video that I did. It's
much easier to look through. I'll shower in there, may-
I'll shower in here. Then, we can chat for a bit. Sound good? Okay (laughs)! Before I
do that, though. I'm going to quickly tidy my desk. And just my desk. 'Cause the rest
of the office ... is beyond.
(Pop Funk music plays)
Did I, um, just put everything in a box? Yes. Very much yes. Alright, let's publish this
video. YouTube.com (laughs). Okay, it's what I eat in a day, camping edition. I did go
camping. Okay, look at that thumbnail. Will it perform? Who's to say? I did everything
last night, I believe. Description box. Thumbnail. It's not made for kids. Tags. For my tags,
I put all of the ways in which people say my name wrong. Evelyn from the Internets is
my name.
I put it in a playlist, smack yo lip. Yes, I have another YouTube channel called Smack
Yo Lip that has nothing on it. I have other plans for that. I think we can press "publish."
Done.
Save.
Alright, we live. And in living color. Go head give it a wartch. (Laughs)
Go head and give it a watch if you enjoy "What I Eat in a Day" videos. I make them because
I like watching them. I thought I would make my own. Refresh to see if an internet cousin
has rolled in. Not yet. It's okay, though. It's Sunday.
*long high pitched sigh* (laughs) Ho. I'm done. We have shared it in an instagram post.
We've also shared it on our instagram stories.
I think now is a great time to take a shower.
We are showered, we're fed. Now we're going to update this
website. squarespace.com. I look bald head. How is the head band staying on my head? I
look like a egg. The first thing I wanted to do was update my bio.
I have the number of views and subscribers I have in my bio ... 'cause it's what I have.
I thought I should update it. 17 million, okay? I'm working on thinking abundantly,
so we're just gonna go ahead and say that that is 18. Okay. We're gonna change it to
18. Think abundantly. Same with subscribers. We're just gonna go ahead and call it 240.
Okay? In Jesus name! Then I updated the parts of my bio that were about what I'm currently
doing or what I've recently done, since it has been a while?
How do you spell initiative? Ini-ti-a-tive. Alright. Then when it comes to "Say it Loud"
it is in the works. I wanted to keep it, but 2020 has made me feel a type a way, so I just
went ahead and deleted it because what is meant for me will be for me (laughs). Next,
this section, What I Do: unreadable. It's unreadable. This white text on the bright
orange. I went into Photoshop and I made a new image with this dark, dark aqua. I don't
know what that is, just tested it out to see if it would work with white text. It worked.
It worked enough for what I needed it to do.
I went ahead and updated that section of the website with all the things that I do as it
stands. Then I did a little bit of reminiscing about the last time I had a hair cut and was
beautiful (laughs). Then this section, the Upcoming Events section. Lol. I'm just going
to delete that and change it to ... Mmmm I'm thinking like "Hire Me," "Work with Me." "Hire
Me" sounds a little demanding. It's a lot of clicking around, figuring things out. I
like this, no I don't like that, go back to the way it was before. I just settled on a
sentence, sis. A sentence with two buttons. Easy enough. Work with Me. Hire the kid.
This Hollatchagirl section is actually the contact form of my website. If you filled
it out, you're essentially emailing me. I get those messages, those emails. But people
fill this out instead of the email sign-up which is underneath it. It's confusing, I
understand now. Now I get it. So many people have thought they were signing up for the
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Now that that's done, the only other thing I really wanted to do today was set up my
weekly spread for the upcoming week in my bullet journal. If you missed the video where
I made these stickers, by hand, like an artisan, I'm going to link that video in the atmosphere,
and in the video description box. You should check it out if you a DIY type of kid.
(Pop Funk music plays)
Welcome to my bullet journal. This is where I plan my days, my weeks, so that I actually
know what I'm doing in life. I really only use pen and pencil. I've been playing around
with this rolling weekly situation that I learned from Plant Based Bride here on YouTube.
I will link her video explaining it. I'm not finna explain it. Put the dates of the week
at the top of the page. Then pencil, I count out five spaces. The number of spaces is gonna
depend on the size of your particular notebook or piece of paper. For me that's five spaces.
That's where I'm going to draw a horizontal line to give me seven days of the week. I
lied. I also use this Crayola Super Tip marker. It's a little background color for where I'm
going to write the days of the week. As that dries, I don't want it to smudge, I'm gonna
do a quick little drop shadow in some blue pen. We're doing an art. Then we're gonna
write down the day and the date of each day in the week. I just write the word tasks on
the other side of the page along with the days of the week spaced out. This page is
where I write down my entire to-do list for the week.
I often found myself re-writing my to-do list every day because the things I do take more
than one day. It felt stupid. This way, all I have to do is write down my to-do list once,
and put a dot on the day that I worked on it. When it's done, it's done.
It's a lot of things swirling in my mind. I don't know where to start. Let's start with
what keeps coming up in my spirit. When Chadwick Boseman died, I took it, I'm taking it, present
tense. So hard. You wanna know how hard I'm taking it? I've been in therapy for a year,
every week: never cried. Chadwick Boseman died: ugly cry. Kim Kardashian, wail into
the heavens. Uh-mm (negative). Even though I obviously don't know what it feels like
to have cancer, I know what that particular organ pain feels like.
It's the ghetto.
Zero out of ten, wouldn't recommend colon issues.
From a Black creative, Black artist standpoint -- uh-mm -- no. I'm really feeling this sense
of what am I doing here? By here, I don't mean Earth. I mean,
I don't even wanna call
them goals, 'cause they're not that yet: dreams.
I don't know, fam. Back in February, before
*gestures at everything* I was actually looking for part-time jobs in a physical place. What
experience do I have (laughs)? I knew that I needed co-workers. Your girl needs co-workers.
I was so alone.
Not lonely. Right? But alone in my work specifically. To have every decision be your decision and
to have feedback, not really being available from a peer I was going to do something. I
was gonna be in an office somewhere. I was gonna shower (laughs) every morning, okay,
put on makeup every day, real clothes: pants, okay, with a zip! Just be part of something
bigger than just myself. Then the pandemic, welp! (Laughs) In the house. Staying in the house!
That kind of faded, but the desire and the emotion behind it never went away. It is now
September, late September, and your girl still needs co-workers. I don't know what I'm gonna
do. You might be saying, "Evelyn, I thought you said you are introvert." (Laughs). All
that means is that I get energy from being by myself, which is called going home after
work. I've been feeling that. I don't too much know what I'm doing.
If I look at my life outside of my life, I'm not actually doing any of the things I say,
any of the things I allege (laughs) that I want to do. In that way, I feel like I'm on
kind of a hamster wheel. My website says (laughs) I'm a filmmaker. Don't feel like one. Flat
out. Don't feel like I'm a writer, flat out. How does one level up (laughs)? The truth
of the matter is you level up by making time. You level up by reassessing, reevaluating,
shifting things around, understanding what's important and what's not important.
It just doesn't feel like I've done anything new. There is something psychologically about
novelty, and wanting to put your thing down flip it and reverse it. That sparks something
new in your mind. That's very not hamster wheel, you know what I mean? I don't know.
I'm thinking doing things like seasons. This is a season of something then it ends. This
is a season of another thing, and then it ends. Oh, you wanted season two? Okay, we'll
do that. Having it be like that. Interspersed in there are videos of me being, me to you.
It's time to go for the gold. I feel like I've never really gone for the gold. I said
this in my birthday get ready with me: that Leo energy is giving 45%, and your 45% being
magnificent. I'm ready to give at least, at least 87% (laughs). In addition to all of
that, people still tryna figure out whether Black lives matter and I can't. I just.
Beam me up.
I wanna make a video about voting, but ... from where will the energy come? Anyway!
Me and my friend, Nate. Shout-out to Nate, who a while back we were having a conversation
of the importance of a mission and how I've technically fulfilled my mission. The rest
is just a matter of scale, it's the scale part that I'm struggling with. But as far
as fulfilling my mission, you know what I'm saying, reach out and touch: I've done that.
I'm happy about that, and I'm grateful for that. It makes me feel all bubbly inside,
but in the good way. Shout-out to my colon.
In the comments below, let me know how you're feeling, how you're doing. What's going on
with y'all? Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you on the internet somewhere. Bye!
(Lo-fi hip hop music plays)