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- Hello, long time no vlog, I know.
Let me explain what happened there.
When I was in California I left the charger
for my camera behind in the house
that we were staying in for our Team Retreat
and then several weeks went by,
and then it was several months
and I still hadn't bought a new one.
And, but finally, I did buy a new charger
and some new batteries as well,
so I have some backups for my vlog camera.
So yes, no more excuses, time to vlog again.
I've been home in London for the past two months
which has been really nice.
My sister came to stay, we went to Brighton for a day trip,
Oxford for a day trip, and I didn't vlog any of it.
I've also, I've been taking singing lessons
just as a fun hobby, and again, didn't vlog any of that.
So yeah, a lot of stuff has been happening and I'm sorry
that I haven't vlogged any of it to fill you in.
But travel starts up again for me next week,
so I thought it'd be nice to have one more working
from home regular life vlog before we kick in
to the travel stuff again because I am looking forward
to vlogging some of the trips that I have coming up.
So, yeah, today is Monday, I'm just working from my office
which is looking very tidy at the moment actually.
Look at, look at this, all organized, all looking great.
When my sister was staying, we cleared out the office
so that she could sleep in here.
So, I only just put it back together again, but, yeah.
Getting on with work today, I'm going
to be meeting up with my friend Zach, we're going
to be filming a video together about presentation design.
You might have seen that already actually
by the time this vlog comes out.
And we might co-work a cafe together this afternoon as well.
So, it's going to be a good day.
At work at the moment, I'm getting really
into digging into the conversion rate
of our website and trying to improve it.
It's been super fun to be like investigating all the data
and looking at graphs and things.
And thinking of little ideas of things we can test.
So, that's the plan for me this week is
to get some of those tests underway.
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- [Charli] This is Zach, we just had lunch-
(Zach laughing)
And filmed some videos, what were the videos about?
- We did presentation design on Page Six,
we're presentation designers, so.
- [Charli] Makes sense.
- We made this thing, and we did like my career story
which was intimate, you know,
it's like a lot of personal, it's intense.
- [Charli] Yep, it was fun.
- Yeah.
- [Charli] So look out for the income soon,
and now we're just doing some work in a coffee shop.
(laughing)
All right, it's Wednesday and I've done the thing
that I always freaking do every time I start vlogging
and that is forget that I was making a vlog this week.
And just completely ignored my camera for several days.
Yeah, I didn't vlog anything yesterday
and nothing this morning.
It's now about midday, I've just been to the gym
and I think in the last few clips
you would've seen me show you my office
and how, like, nice and tidy it was.
Yeah, let me show you, how's the best angle,
what it's looking right now.
See how we got some packaging here, junk all over my desk,
stuff, light hanging out and not been put away yet.
Basically I can only manage to keep things tidy
for like a day, and then it goes like this.
That's why I'm feeling like I can't see.
I don't have my glasses on, ah, that's better.
I'm just about to get settled in
for my afternoon work session.
I tend to break up my day like this,
do a session in the morning, then go to the gym
when it's kind of empty and then work
through the afternoon, meetings and things.
It's the start of a new month, so this morning
I set up my immediate May bullet journal spread,
this is my travel plans coming up
for the month which is exciting.
It also means a lot of time.
Any time you see one of these lines,
that's a trip that I'm on, so,
a lot of time away from home this month.
It means I got to be a bit more productive
and fit more in while I'm actually here.
I'm just trying to like clear some of the junk off my desk,
even if it means putting it in a pile
on the floor, just so that I can focus
for the afternoon, it's like, future Charli can worry
about tidying this up properly.
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- So I just got so in the zone working
that I didn't realize that I was standing up
at my standing desk for like over three hours straight,
so now my legs are sore and I think it's time to sit down.
But what I was working on was a writeup
of like the usage of our marketing site,
where they go, what they click,
all the pathways, thins like that.
Super fun to look into and gave me lots
of ideas of things to improve, so yeah,
that was definitely worth doing and worth focusing on.
Had some exciting deliveries turn up
that I wanted to show you.
First off, I can't really, it's hard to show you
because it's not in a proper sleeve.
I got this record, this is Amo by Bring Me the Horizon.
It's my favorite album via so far.
There's still a little while, and we had to go though,
so I probably shouldn't make that call too early.
Also, I got a bunch of stuff from Away.
I got given one of the carry on suitcases
of Epicurrence back in October last year.
And then before I went to New Zealand for Christmas,
I bought one of the medium-sized,
like, checked luggage ones because I really liked it,
and now I'm just furthering my collection.
I have bought this grey stuff.
So this here is the kitbag, like, for toiletries.
It's got like a separate pocket for toothbrush.
And inside there is I think, is there another pocket inside?
Yep, another pocket inside, looks super nice.
Nice little handle on it for carrying it
to the bathroom and things, so yep, stoked on that.
Packing cubes, I already own packing cubes
but as I discovered when I went to New Zealand,
because they're not the perfect size for my Away bag,
I don't know how much they actually helped.
Like, they kept stuff together,
but they didn't actually help me fit more in, you know?
So these ones are all sized exactly
for my Away luggage, so that will be good.
Crazy expensive, don't know if it was worth it,
but we'll see after the trips I have coming up.
And then, this was probably the one I'm most excited about.
This is called, I think it's called the Everywhere Bag.
So, it's like a carry on, personal item sized bag.
So it's kind of small, and a bit smaller,
I think, than the current bag I use
for this purpose from Herschel.
Ooh, I just noticed that's a pocket there, that's nice.
But it feels so nice, like the quality,
the straps feel nice, all these connections are like metal,
so I don't feel like they're going to break on me.
And I like that it has this strap as well
because my current bag that I use
for this purpose only has, like handles like this.
So, when it gets heavy, I don't know,
it's kind of annoying to carry it like that.
Inside, if I can show you with one hand,
check out all the pockets.
We've got like a laptop pocket, an iPad pocket,
all of the pockets, and then more on this side too.
Much excite.
And then, then this bit here is obviously
to go like, ooh (laughing) over top
of the handles of your Away suitcase,
or like any suitcase really, but, yeah.
All right, enough sitting on the floor looking at luggage.
Time to wind my desk down and get back to work.
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Good morning, I just started off my day
with some crazy hair apparently.
I'm recording a podcast with Femme.
We used to do these regularly on a Wednesday morning
at 6:30 a.m. my time because it had
to be before Femme went off to work
and she lives an hour ahead of me.
But I had to end that because I was just finding it,
I don't know, I wasn't sleeping well
and it would be really frustrating on a Wednesday,
a Tuesday night, if I didn't get enough sleep
to then have to wake up 6:30 and do a podcast.
So, yeah, we decided to make things a bit looser
and I worried that that would mean we'd never
end up recording, but we've actually been doing pretty good.
Femme works from home some days.
So yeah, so we worked from home today,
so we just recorded at a nice, leisurely time of 8:30
instead of 6:30, much better for me.
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Did a quick work session in a coffee shop
just so I had some breakfast there,
and then I went to the gym.
And now it is hurting to hold this vlog camera up.
I've been building up a really good habit lately
of going to the gym, I've been trying
to go four days a week.
Often I end up going three, but that's still way better
than the zero I was going before then.
So yeah, I'm feeling good about that.
I'm hoping that when, with all my travel coming up,
I can try and at least get some workouts in while I'm away.
I always plan for that and it barely ever happens.
So who knows, this could be the time that it does.
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It is Friday, just got back from the gym.
At the moment at work, as part of our wellness program
we're doing a burpee challenge where it's like basically,
throughout the month, you ramp up
to doing 50 burpees in one day, which is a lot
for someone like me who is not good at burpees.
Anyway, we've got this Marco Polo group
where everyone is posting their updates on how they're going
with the burpee challenge and it's just so fun
to like be able to see my workmates' faces everyday
and hear how they're doing.
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- Well, now it's Monday and I forgot
to end this vlog during the actual week I was filming it.
So, might as well end it now, I'm actually in Chicago.
This is a, well, I don't know what I'm looking at here,
but it's, it's some buildings.
I just got off a eight hour flight
and then a several hours, you know,
customs, getting through traffic to get
to the hotel and all of that, so I'm not looking my best.
But thanking you for watching this vlog.
I think it was a bit of a mess, gotta get back
into the habit of vlogging, I suppose, to really make sure
that I'm documenting enough parts of my day for you to see,
but hopefully you enjoyed it anyway.
Give it a thumbs up if you did.
And stayed tuned because the next vlog
that you see will be a vlog of this Chicago trip.
So, I'm going to go sign this one off
and start the next one right now.
All right, see you in the next one.
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