episode 31 I live in a country where
people work full-time on Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day
a country where Christmas is more like
Valentine's Day and not Christmas every
year I stay in Japan for Christmas it
gets harder I get my annual crying
episodes in and spend time with my
friends mostly last year I went home and
asked my family what they thought about
me being so far away and I'm not really
sure they can handle it around such an
emotional time either but this year is a
little bit different as some of you may
know I met my Japanese fiance on
Instagram go to La met him for the first
time and we got engaged now we're living
happily ever after in Tokyo Japan living
our best place we got an apartment went
furniture shopping and had fun created
dates all in a span of a couple months
it was fast but it was great we worked
hard to be together and we gave each
other the world but our fun time has
come to an end and Yugi has to get a
real Japanese company job becoming the
ultimate salary man so now I'm alone
again Christmas Eve with not much to do
but you know what that's okay
when everyone else and their brother is
working on Christmas what do you do you
set goals i sat down and wrote up my
goals for the next year and what I
wanted to accomplish I use this time to
get motivated
my fiance and I scheduled the time we
spend on the weekends and made that our
Christmas celebration and we have a New
Year's and Christmas celebration coming
in the next weekend
you open it this part was broken I don't
stuff my eyes
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these are so pretty it's like
cauliflower I think it's a cauliflower
flower yeah so pretty it's gone
I like that point it's a nice plant
little bonsai tree you're looking things
there's a fun site tree I want one of
these in our apartment yeah we're old
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in Japan amongst heavy work schedules
there are plenty of christmas markets
that make it feels just a little bit
more like actual Christmas and for me
that's legit enough this is so oh they
have little shops inside this is so cute
I want to get a picture here
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you're at the Christmas party right now
and it's raining
I see but it's raining outside the
ruling we have an umbrella and hammer
and sausage and pretzel and everything
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something's how big adventure good
oh my god toothy I like that
Christmas alone is a chance to recharge
and reflect I enjoy it and I see it as a
different experience
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okay so apparently there's a natural
good store around here but I kind of
wanted to go check out so I'm gonna head
a different way and go a different route
I'm gonna go see what they have because
it'd be nice to see if there's any like
organic foods or something like that I'm
gonna head to the store and see what
kinda Christmas stuff they have so it's
actually a pretty nice day it's not that
cold yeah this is a little bit of the
neighborhood
kids do pictures
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here
this country
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okay so I just kind of peeked in and it
looks like there's like some package
things but not so much to buy there it's
very small so it wasn't really expecting
that but there's so many cute things
around here that's a little Hair Studio
so we're just gonna head to the market
this is a nice little walk though it's
very peaceful it's like Japanese house
garden in front of somebody's house
isn't that amazing it's so cute
it's beautiful
another
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okay so I just got my stuff kinda heavy
hopefully it gets back in one piece and
I'm heading home right now so we're
gonna walk a different way this time
longer walks are sometimes what we need
to recharge I try to take a different
path when I have the time to experience
a new journey
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oh okay I just got home it's cold it's
really warm in here though I'm gonna
just take a break for a second before I
work on some stuff but I bought a lot of
stuff and I'm going to show you what it
is when it's dinner time so fast-forward
to dinner and I'll show you everything
that I'm cooking and what I'm doing
before Yugi comes home I think he's
gonna love this this is gonna be awesome
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we don't have a light in our kitchen
which kind of sucks but I put a candle
on the table because I wanted it to look
nice anyway I have made made a Christmas
dinner I don't know how I'm gonna react
to any of it because some of it has is
made with eggs so we'll see if I start
to feel weird I'm just gonna stop eating
it but I made a lot of food and usually
really wanted something like this so I
just wanted to make something for him
mostly so as you can see in our table we
have mixed vegetables with garlic and
olive oil and then I have a makeshift
salad here that salad basically is just
made in the store Japan loves cabbage in
their salad and that's not everything so
I'm gonna kind of reheat some stuff
ignore the bananas we're not eating the
hut for dinner but we have fried foods
here which I cannot eat a lot of because
I know I'll have stomach problems and I
heated up some of the lobster oh my god
we have lobster this is crazy
put some cake in the refrigerator but
I'll film it later cake here and then
some appetizers cheese ham crackers some
beef jerky all that stuff and then we
have a second cake over there cuz I
didn't know which one again I didn't
know which one doozy was gonna like so I
just bought both they're so beautiful I
just couldn't I couldn't not buy it so
we have our spoons here we have plates
we have mugs for the coffee or whatever
and our beautiful table set up I need to
move these jackets yoga mat here this
place is a mess but anyway this is our
little setup for now what do you think
baby isn't it good
oh my god
I am the type of person to spend the
holidays in a peaceful setting I feel
like doing this at least every other
year allows us to think and be grateful
for the smaller things in life and hey
this is our first Christmas together so
I'll always cherish and remember this
day even though Yugi had to work hard
most of the day I understand though yes
got it looks so good
I know I'm gonna cut a big piece
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look at this handsome man I didn't say
we're sexy
Merry Christmas everybody it is actual
Christmas day here in Japan
and I am doing nothing it looks very
nice outside today a little bit cold I
have a bit of digestive distress from
yesterday and the good news is I had an
egg today and I didn't really react to
it immune wise I usually react with an
immune response and I did not so that's
good news I still feel a little bit of
digestive distress like I said so I'm
gonna keep going with my protocols and
I'm gonna keep healing my guts and never
go back to the way that I was eating
before but it's Christmas so we had a
lot of food yesterday yeah and this
morning we had some breakfast
do you tea didn't know what an egg in a
basket is or an egg in a frame whatever
you guys want to call it it's called egg
in a frame just put it in the center you
open it up you cut it open cut a hole in
the bread you put butter on it but I
made it for him and I had one and it was
good I had mine with ham in the
beginning and then I had a second one
with egg and I didn't really respond so
much so that's good news to hear about
my health but I still have a long way to
go before I'm like a hundred percent
healthy but I feel good I feel happy I
feel hopeful today I'm not gonna do too
much I'm gonna end the vlog here because
I just wanted to show our Christmas and
how we celebrated tonight we're gonna
watch a Christmas movie and that's about
it
have some leftover Christmas cake and
just relax
today DG's working like I said you know
people working on Christmas thank you
guys for watching this video it's
another year in Japan alone on Christmas
but New Year's is huge in Japan so I
can't wait to show you guys we do on New
Year's and my trip to beauty's hometown
which will be very interesting and I
hope you guys will like the rebranding
of my channel which I'm doing right now
I was gonna change my channel to my name
and my actual name Micheli Elizabeth but
I did not because my name is going to
change soon I would really like to use
my my full name so if you guys see Kelly
Moneta
that is gonna be my name in the next
couple months or so so I just want
people to get used to it before I
actually change everything because last
time I changed everything nobody knew
who I was anymore so I think people were
confused like who is this who did I
subscribe to so my name is gonna be
Lovelace Kelly my channel name but
everything else gonna be changed to my
real savvy name and I want to change it
to anything else since it's going to
change so yeah that is the reason why
I'm just warning you guys so I hope you
guys like the new banner and you like
the new series and all that stuff and
yeah 2020 is gonna be a very good year I
can't wait to see the transformation of
everything and to succeed in many things
and have lots of opportunities and meet
new people and all that stuff so it's
gonna be a very good year I'm so happy
my fiance is the best person in my life
I've never met anybody more perfect than
him and he's treated me with so much
kindness and love and we have the same
interests and he loves traveling he
loves creating he loves doing all that
kind of stuff and he always inspires me
and gives me ideas and I love that and
he worked so hard and I've never had a
relationship this amazing and this easy
and I'm glad I'm happy I have no doubts
nothing bad to say about anything it's
just our life is amazing so anyway thank
you guys so much thank you guys for
watching and I hope you have a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
I'll be uploading as much as possible
and I'll see you guys next time
bye bye
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