- [Evelyn] Shout-out to Squarespace
for sponsoring today's video.
All right, it's not sunny,
but let's open the blinds anyway.
Nothing happened.
So, today is a life admin day,
home office edition.
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And what that means is,
you make a list of all the little,
just little nagging things
that you wanna get done.
And you do as many of them
back-to-back as you can,
so they're finally out of your mind, you can breath easy
and you can actually make some sort of forward progress.
You know what I'm saying?
I moved into this place...
in the Spring,
and I'm using the master bedroom as my home office.
This is the first time
I've had a designated place with a door
that is just...
for work.
Feels good to not have your desk in your room.
You know what I'm saying?
And all those vibes emanating from your laptop
in the corner of your room.
You just trying to get a REM cycle in.
So, I started decorating, you know.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And I got it to a place where it was usable, like functional
Like I got a desk, and I got it to a place
where it was fun enough,
but there's still some things here and there.
some bits and bobs.
I don't have a office chair.
Let me show you what I'm sitting on, y'all.
What is that?
I got a plant on the ground.
She can't be on the ground, y'all.
So, there's just some things.
I got trash.
It's Monday, I actually started this whole thing yesterday.
So yesterday, I made my list.
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You always start off with a list,
and then I went and ran some errands.
So, let's roll it.
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So, the selection is...
this.
I would only get the blue one, but it's $100.
I'm like...
for what?
All right, HomeGoods number two.
Let's give this another shot,
and see what they got.
Here we go.
This is what I'm talking about.
I just need...
(the upholstery rustles)
(paper rustles)
Okay.
That's looking good.
We out here.
(laughing)
$100
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Out my face!
My lips is chapped.
I keep licking them, making it worse,
but we out here at Ikea now.
If you live in Austin,
you know none of this is next to each other so
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Is all of this on my list?
No.
Are you gonna worry about yourself.
Yes.
And we're back so
already off to a great start, okay.
The first thing I'm going to do today,
I want to spray paint that shelf white,
so it matches the other one.
Let me show you.
So, you've seen it in videos,
Trevence is always sitting at the top of the shelf.
But I hate that, they are not both white.
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What it is hoe what's up?
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I've never really spray painted a piece of furniture before
so let's see how it's gonna go.
(rustles)
(capsules cracking in cartridges)
(paint sprays)
Oh.
(paint sprays)
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(capsules cracking in cartridges)
I'm done.
So, it's not the best job.
(laughing)
Or even a good job, you know what I'm saying
but, it's good enough for me.
It's white.
Is it evenly white?
Worry about yourself.
Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.
How did I get paint in my hair?
Washing my hair wasn't on the to-do list today.
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I've cooled down.
Watched some YouTube.
Chilled out for a little bit.
Now, I'm going to just tidy up around here.
AC cut on, all right.
There's trash right there.
My desk.
I'm gonna sweep.
Huh, huh?!
I'm gonna Swiffer.
Eh, eh!?
(laughing)
So, yeah let's time-lapse it up.
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(finger nails knocking on book cover)
So Ann Dowd who plays Aunt Lydia in the show,
Handmaid's Tale, voices Aunt Lydia in the audio book.
Get on that.
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So, part of decluttering for me
is going through all the business cards
that you accumulate since the last time
you went through all the business cards.
Yeah you just go through them, follow them on Instagram
if that's a thing you wanna do.
Put them in your contacts in your phone
or in your email inbox.
Put the sticky notes wherever they need to actually be.
This is, oh.
This is skin care I need to re-buy.
Another life admin day.
Hold up I need to tell y'all.
I bought some shea butter from a lady in New Orleans
when I was in New Orleans and it's so good.
I'm gonna have to put that link
in the video description box.
It is that good.
Oh, a three day gym pass.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
It reminds me I needed to buy something from her
because I really like her designs.
Maybe like a sticker or something.
You know just support people.
Wow I didn't know there was spray paint on my thighs
and it got on the chair, oh no.
I've tidied the desk.
Haven't tidied this area
because as you can see there's some additions to this space
All the things that I purchased yesterday.
So I'm going to put all of this where it belongs.
I'm going to assemble what needs to be assembled
so that all that packaging can be thrown away
at the same time
because if I make a mess twice guess what's not gonna happen
Cleaning twice.
(plastic ripping)
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Okay.
Oh my knee, Jesus Christ.
Don't need this anymore.
I'll wipe that down and put it back where it goes.
This...
was right there
and that goes on that. (bell dings)
So these are cardboard and they were in the as is section.
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So I'm just gonna use it because I have a bunch of magazines
that don't fit very well on the shelf.
Oh there she goes.
So this is...
the Satsumas...
and it's a three level.
Like a three-tier plant stand and I want to elevate all
the three plants that I have,
the three smaller plants that I have
a little higher than they are now.
I wanna elevate them so they can get some semblance
of indirect sunlight.
So that's what we doing.
We gonna assemble it.
(pieces clacking)
There you go.
So this is what it looks like.
Right it's cute, it's simple.
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Yeah I like how that looks.
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All right things are looking good.
I am going to sweep,
vacuum the rug and Swiffer the hard floors.
I put marks on the ground
so that I put my tripod in the same place every time I film
so this is what you see in the background of my videos.
So I don't know if the Swiffer will ruin that.
Also I got paint on my toes, that's not ash.
Anyway let's just get to it.
I'm in the homestretch.
I'm kinda over it but I feel good like you have no idea
how long I've been trying
to get the plants up off the ground in a cute way.
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(vacuum running)
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(Swiffer running)
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So they're definitely not the same white
and it's a little patchy,
you feel me?
I don't think I care.
Like I think that's already a whole lot better
than what it was before.
Cut the fan on.
I'm gonna let it dry some more inside
because I mean it's dry to the touch but it's not dry.
You know what I'm saying, and I mean it's been a few hours
but it's so humid outside that.
(wheels rolling)
That can go there.
Tracking says that my desk chair should be here tonight
so I'm gonna go ahead and put this in here
because we don't need this anymore you know what I'm saying.
We're gonna take this...
This fake
(laughs)
switch it for that.
This is a fake plant.
Put it in there and then I need to, Oh.
Actually that's what I'll do.
I need to buy a stand for my keyboard
so I'm gonna do that right now before I forget
and it becomes another life admin day.
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This area is just...
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
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This says that it will take 30 minutes.
(laughs)
It's gonna take me about 45.
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Good morning, so...
new day and we're wrapping things up.
This shelf,
done.
The chair,
done.
Everything,
clean.
Keyboard stand,
ordered.
I may or may not have also ordered a Sesame Street rug
from the kids section of Crate and Barrel
but that's between you and me.
I will do an actual home office tour video...
Later once everything gets in
and I also haven't decided
if I want to mount this to the wall
because I hate having these stands poking out.
So I haven't decided that
because that would bust up the wall.
Do I care about busting up the walls, not typically
because you know what I pay to live here.
What's a hole, what's a goon to a goblin.
Our list is complete.
Feeling productive,
feeling like I prioritized myself
you know.
I got lumbar support now.
I'm honoring my plants.
You know what I'm saying?
We're feeling good.
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In the comments below let me know if you work in an office
and what the best thing about that office is
and what the suckiest thing about that office is.
When I used to work in an office with other human beings
the department I was in didn't have no windows.
You know I'm a child of the equator you know what I'm saying
it was tough, it was tough
but they always had the LaCroix Cherry Lime.
So it was a give and take.
So let me know the good
and bad about the space that you work in
and I will see ya'll on the internet somewhere.
Bye.
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