Transforming Routines for a Vibrant Existence

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey everyone, you're listening to Five Years Time with your host, grace Black. ["five Years Time"]. Hey cuties, welcome back to Five Years Time podcast with your host, grace. If you're joining us on YouTube, hello, we have a new setup. I'm using a new camera and if you're joining us, obviously, on YouTube via audio, I'm also recording in a new way and I'm saying new, but these are actually old ways that I used to do things, but in a little bit of a new setting. That being said, bear with me. Bear with me, especially on the audio. I'm trying not to blow the speaker. I don't know if I need to be further away from the mic. Ok, we're going to hope for the best here and if it absolutely sucks, I apologize. Ok, welcome back to Five Years Time podcast with your host, grace. I'm so excited that you've joined us.

Speaker 1: 1:05

We have such an exciting episode ahead because I'm talking passionately about my new morning and evening routine. It's only been two or three weeks of me doing this and it has literally changed my outlook on life. Like I am the happiest I have been most consistently. I'll get into that more and explain what that means, but I just feel so grateful and I think we spent so much of last year talking about how I'm going to get into this new routine. I know I'm craving it, I'm craving it, I'm craving it, I'm craving it, and now we're finally here, and so I think that's why it's really been this big change for me and played such a positive impact in my life, because I've really been wanting to implement something like this and I'm going to talk about how it's been to upkeep a routine. We all know that I'm a flexi routine gal, and so I've been keeping it less rigid, where you must do something every single day, and more flexible and taking it one day at a time, and it's just been so beautiful and I'm so excited to talk about it.

Speaker 1: 2:22

So excited to talk about it. I want to talk about it. I wanted to talk about it last week. I'm so afraid that I'm blowing out the speaker. Maybe I need to move away from the microphone. Oh, my gosh cutes, I am so nervous. Ok, I'm going to pause this and try and just listen to what it sounds like and we'll see. We'll see. Ok, I don't think it sounds too bad, I think it's OK, and I'm only going to get better. I just really didn't want to be blowing out the speaker because I can see my little volume thing getting to red and I'm like, oh my gosh, am I talking too loud? I'm trying to stay neutral at one pace, but still have fun, personality, ok, it's OK. Anyways, yes, I just feel I wanted to talk about this last week and I was like, no, no, no, I can't talk about it yet. Let's do a whole, not let's do one more week of routine and then I'll talk about it next week because I need to catch up on a bunch of stuff last week because we haven't recorded in a while. Anyways, I'm excited for this episode. That's all I have to say. But let's get into my weekly recap.

Speaker 1: 3:17

Honestly, this past week was really beautiful. It has really chilled down. Like the other morning I woke up and I could feel the cold in the house you know when you can just feel that it's a colder day and I called out to my friend Google and was like, hey, what's the weather today? And they were like it's negative 12 with a high of negative 7. I was like, okay, with a high of negative 7? That doesn't seem like a high to me and I felt that. But it has actually been so beautiful because we've had a light dusting of snow enough to stay on the ground and, honestly, this is one of my favorite times of the year, when the sun comes out, when it's really cold and the sun comes out and you get the bonus of snow. It just adds this layer of quietness to the world and this brightness, this calm brightness, oh, it just feels so nice and because we've been working on making changes, switching around furniture and just like switching up our house and decluttering and utilizing it in a new way that we haven't recently, it just feels like an oasis inside and I am just really beaming with gratitude lately about that.

Speaker 1: 4:31

So, yeah, I'm not mad, but it has been very cold and I've had to bring my coat with me in the car to get, just to get from, like, one place to the next. Like the other day, I wore my coat into the grocery store. I never wear my coat in the grocery store, even on the coldest day. I like book it, but I was like it is too cold and I wore it the entire time I was in the grocery store. Wow, it must have been cold. Anyways, that is on the weather front.

Speaker 1: 4:56

But as for activities, I started my dance class. I started both my dance classes. So I'm actually taking like a just fun movement class which is majority retirement aged people and me and I absolutely love it. It's called like boogie something, so I just called my boogie class and my calendar. It says boogie, with a little dance emoji like the disco guy and it is so fun, the teacher is so fun, the crowd is so fun. I just love being around older women. I think it's such a special thing that a lot of the time we don't get to or not that we don't get to experience it, but we in such a in such a mass amount of people like I don't get to throw myself into a group of older women who have experience and and stories and Wiseness and all of this. So I just love being around that energy. But yeah, it's been really fun and they have like disco lights playing. It's so fun. It's just like a fun, happy vibe. It's fun to be out in the community for an hour where I don't have my phone, I'm not connected to technology, I'm just me and the ladies jamming and dancing and boogieing out.

Speaker 1: 6:07

And then I started my ballet lessons. I was so excited, slash nervous to start them and I actually had such a fun time the second to start it I was like, okay, wow, this is like lessons, like we are learning. There is mental, mind-body connection happening and it has been so amazing. I've only gone to one class. I. I put on my outfit and I felt so good in it and then I got to class and I found my perfect spot right away I'm. I went like there's not really a back of the class because she teaches on both sides, because you do it on one side of the bar and then you turn and you do it on the other side of the bar. So I'm at the back slash front of the class, depending on what it is. But because I'm tall, I wanted to make sure I had room to put my legs. I have taken bar classes before so I do know Sometimes when you go side to side it can be tricky. When you have to stretch out your legs, you can always go in an angle. But anyways, I just knew that going into it. So and I feel really comfortable with my spot. So I'm like, okay, I need to always go. There's a class that goes right before us. So I'm like I just need to make sure I'm always like about five minutes early so I can sneak in at the very beginning and get that spot. You know, when you love a spot and it's right by a window and I love being by a window but the window has a ledge so I can put my water bottle on it it's just such a perfect spot. When things happen like that, it's so great. So, yeah, I'm loving ballet, I'm so excited. I just think it's gonna be such a wonderful break in my week and something to challenge myself with and I'm really excited Like I almost want to go on YouTube and like practice at home. Oh yeah. So that's been really, really nice.

Speaker 1: 7:41

And then this weekend I'm trying to think what we did this weekend and my brain is blanking. You know what I did do. I switched up Rose room. So, as you know, we've been doing our room transformation. I actually posted the first part of our room transformation On the vlog last week over on YouTube at five years time podcast. So I switched the beds. We have a new bed now in here and then I put our other bed in the guest room and Then this Sunday I'm gonna post the rest of it where I'm decorating, hanging things, and it just is such good vibes.

Speaker 1: 8:10

So when I did that, row came in and was like, oh my gosh, mommy, someone came and beautified your room and I was like I know right row, she's. Like I wish someone would do that to my room. So she and Trevor had headed out to swimming on the weekend one evening and I was like, okay, I have an hour, let's see how much I can get done. And so I switched up where her bed was and I really cleared out some of her. She honestly didn't have that much stuff to clear out, I just like organized her toys a bit and Switched up her shelving unit.

Speaker 1: 8:40

And she loves little knickknacks, like she loves little tiny toys. And in my mind I'm like what do you do with these little tiny toys? Like, obviously you play with them. But in my mind I'm like where do you keep these little tiny toys? So I actually set them all up on a shelf. I call it her Is, do I call it the knickknack shelf or something like that? Her trinkets shell, her trinket wall, I don't even know, but I put them all out and now she's been playing with them like all the time. She's so obsessed.

Speaker 1: 9:05

She loves her room, she just loves taking care of it this. She walked in and she was like, oh my gosh, mommy, like it feels so nice and clean and tidy. I look, I can see all my toys. I'm not good. She said to me I'm not gonna take all my toys out and put them everywhere, because then it'll feel cluttered, but I can play with them and then I can put them back. And I was like, okay, queen, you do whatever you want to do. So she just feels like a lot of pride for her room right now and I really love it as well, like it makes me feel At peace when I walk past it, when I go in in the morning. We actually been hanging out recently In there with like a cup of tea in the morning and a milk and just hanging out. It's so nice. I love that. She has the space that she's excited about. So, anyways, yeah, we, I did that this weekend and then we actually went to the library.

Speaker 1: 9:54

We went for breakfast. There's this new place in town. It's, it's a chain, but it's called pure and simple, and me and Ro had gone to it before, but Trevor's never been and his friends like it. So I was like, hey, we should go for breakfast on Saturday morning and Trevor's like that's a great idea. So we went for breakfast and then we went to the library, which we haven't been to the library altogether the three of us and so long. And Because we were with the three of us, I was able to sneak away and look at the the cookbooks, because they're upstairs and the kids zone is downstairs and Ro like never wants to leave the kids own, but anyways, I was able to sneak away.

Speaker 1: 10:24

There wasn't any cookbooks I was, I was interested in, I perused, but there was none that I was like oh, I need to take this out. Sometimes I find cookbooks overwhelming because I yeah, it's like, oh, I don't have this ingredient, or I have to go buy all this stuff, or Then you have all these ingredients you don't want. I rather like, because I, because I cook so much, I just like to look in the fridge and figure out what I'm gonna do. But I do like cookbooks other times, but sometimes I find them overwhelming and right now I was like I'm not prepared. I'm not, I'm not prepared to like make this grocery list and go do all this stuff and have all these extra bits and bobs and I have to figure out how to use them. I just want to stick with the classic, stick with the basics, um, but yeah, so that was really lovely.

Speaker 1: 11:02

And then I feel like we did something Saturday afternoon. Oh, we went to the movies. We went and saw Wonka, which was so good. I loved it and Ro enjoyed it, trevor enjoyed it, and I think that's the last of all the kids movies that are in theater right now. So I'm glad that we've wrapped up the kids too, or not? I mean, I wish there were more, but I'm excited to see what comes out next. I also went and saw Mean Girls with my mom on Friday and, uh, I normally do my Friday solo movie date, but my mom had wanted to see me mean girls and she was available. So I like you should totally come, and it was so fun. I've been listening to the soundtrack like Consistently also, I'm kind of giving you an entertainment recap right now, but I've been listening to the soundtrack Like continuously. I'm it's so fun and I love musicals so fun. So, yeah, I really enjoyed that. But I had a good movie week and it's just been a really wonderful week. Um, yeah, okay. Okay, let's get into my snack and drink of the week.

Speaker 1: 12:04

Cuties, I'm obsessed with tuna salad. I have loved tuna forever. When I was in first year of college, I remember my roommate always said you're gonna turn into a tuna fish. You're gonna. What are they? What do they worry about? Mercury, mercury, mercury, poisoning Is that what you worry about with tuna? I think she would always say you're gonna turn into a tuna fish. You got to worry about mercury because I would eat tuna like every day. Sure, maybe it was a little bit too much and I should have worried about the mercury poisoning, but like I was a student, it was easy. I love tuna. I just love making tuna melts, tuna sandwiches, um, tuna tuna. And like I like making tuna salad with just tuna and mayo, salt pepper. And like dipping vegetables and crackers, like I just love tuna. And it's so quick, it's quick, it's so quick, it's so easy. It lives in the pantry, I love it. So I've been obsessed and I've been dipping it like I've been making snack plates and using my dips or using it as a dip for, like all my veggies and crackers, and it's just been Excellent.

Speaker 1: 13:00

I make a can. I make a can in a Tupperware container and then I use half one day and half the next day and it's like then the second day it's like, oh yeah, I have tuna already made. It's so exciting. Um, so yeah, tuna salad is my snack of the week. And then for my drink, it is afternoon coffee. Now I already had my coffee, because I actually filmed a video right before this and then I needed to edit it and I was like, okay, I want a coffee right now. So I'm not drinking it right now, but I do have water at this moment which I'm going to take a sip of In my o'wala, which I'm absolutely obsessed with.

Speaker 1: 13:37

I actually have. This is the big one. Um, I think it's 32 ounces and it does not. I feel like everyone always asks if it fits in a cup holder, if it's in a movie theater cup holder. So I feel like if you had a big truck, it would probably fit in your cup holder. It does not fit in my standard suv cup holder, but that's okay, it's super waterproof. I just keep it on the seat. Or actually, when we got our car stolen If you've been around that long when we got our car stolen, they stole this one part out of the middle compartment, like the armrest that used to be like a little shelf. They stole it out, I don't know why. Anyways, we never got it replaced and so we just have a big like open gaping part into our armrest. So I just put it in there so it actually works out for my big water bottles, um, but anyways, yeah, afternoon coffee.

Speaker 1: 14:24

I haven't been having a morning coffee and I've been having an afternoon coffee and it's been so lovely because in the morning I'm so energized, I'm so ready for the day. But I feel like now, with, like these winter months especially, um, the darkness coming on early, it's like after I pick up row I'm like I'm, I'm checked out. But now that I've been having my afternoon coffee, I've been having super productive afternoons, which is great, and then when I pick up a row, I feel like I'm in full mom mode, but then I also still have energy. So I'm like a happy, full mom mode, which is like the best kind of mom mode, because exhausted mom mode, um, it can be like a little boring for kiddos and I mean it happens. But this has been good. So I've really been enjoying it and I think I got used to it, because after I'd row home for the three weeks over Christmas and she would have a nap at like 12 and then it's like, oh, I can sit down, have my nap or have my nap, have my coffee. Well, she has nap and it was like a special little moment for me and I loved it. And then when she woke up it was like okay, we're ready for afternoon shift. So yeah, I think that's why I started doing that and now I'm like hooked on it. I'm hooked on a feeling bomb. I'm high, I'm believing. Okay, sorry, but let's get into.

Speaker 1: 15:34

This week I learned I'm so excited to talk about this this week I learned I learned that evenings and mornings are for me and the family and it is amazing. It is so beyond amazing. So there's many, many layers to what my new routine is, but I guess let's start with the morning. So I have always felt sometimes the mornings are either really rushed like it's like oh my gosh, everyone get dressed, do this breakfast. Or I felt like I Uh Starts even before the morning in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1: 16:14

I wake up in the middle of the night around like three or four, and then I look at my phone and then I get stuck on a scroll and then I fall back asleep at five and then I'm back up at five, thirty six, it's like this whole thing. And then I have like a horrible sleep, I feel. In the morning I spent so long scrolling and comparing and just like negatively impacting my brain and it's like I just it's a bad start to my day. So I one wanted to stop having my phone next to my bed, which at first I was like that's gonna be so easy, but then I was like, wait, that's how I tell what time it is and I usually listen to a podcast when I fall asleep and Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like excuse, excuse, excuse, whatever. But it has been the best thing ever. So I have set up a charging station in our kitchen and I can easily charge my phone, my ipad, um, and all of that cabal noodles that has all the information to the world, slash my job, and so that just keeps it out of there, and it's actually been amazing, because I obviously record my content in the kitchen a lot of the time and I can just have my phone plugged in when it's like about to die or whatever. It's amazing. That's like, wow, this is super convenient actually. So that has been amazing to.

Speaker 1: 17:29

I was worried about how I would like wake up, not naturally, but like more, like I want it to be able to wake up and kind of know roughly what time it was. So actually, there's this thing called a hatch alarm clock which, like everybody and their mother has or is talking about, I swear, and the first time I heard about it was when I had row all those years ago, because they have like a hat, I think hatch also makes like a kid's nightlight. But I bought an off brand one because I didn't need the sound machine in it. I already had. We were going to use our google homes for sound machines. Um, I just needed to like tap on light. So I got a different one, which I love my globe light.

Speaker 1: 18:09

But anyways, I also saw they had an adult one and then, like it's become more popular in like the online world and so it's like this alarm clock that I think has like a sound machine in it and I'm pretty sure you can do the subscription for it, but you don't have to and then it you set it and it, like sunrises Open, wakes you up by the like a artificial sunrise, so it's like a slow progression of the light turning on. So trevor was like oh, you can totally just do that with a light bulb, like you can buy a smart light bulb and you can set it up for a wake up. So I was like, oh okay, let's try that out. So we actually have that and it's like amazing, I love it, and I actually don't use it all the time because, um, I don't need to wake up a lot of the time to like go somewhere. So we have a pretty like no one in my house sleeps later than seven and as long as I'm awake by seven, it's all groovy. So I I really don't stress that much about having to wake up at a certain time, because mornings aren't that hard for me, but when I do want to, it's nice because that is set and so it just like Gradually you can have it set on one light bulb or both sides and it just like gradually turns on to whatever the Light color you choose and then to like the highest level or whatever the level is that you choose.

Speaker 1: 19:22

So my favorite, if you have a smart light bulb, is called sunrise. That's my favorite daytime light. I also love pink light and I use red light at nighttime, but that's just a random side thing. Oh, and I love orange light too. So these light bulbs, they change like all different colors. It's amazing and you can hook it up to an app so you can change them all in your app. But if you have a Google home or, like I think it, whatever the other smart homes are, you can like, say, like, okay, like, turn on my light to this color, this setting, this whatever, and it just like turns on.

Speaker 1: 19:52

I'm literally obsessed, like, literally obsessed. I have them in our bedroom and now I have one in our basement and I want to get one for Rose room too. I'm like, ah, like obsessed. So, yeah, that's like, my new thing is just like setting the mood with lights. But yeah, so in the morning I wake up and, in a perfect world, I head down to the sun space that I made, which is Honestly just like mats, that I've put it into this little corner in our basement, which I've made all like cozy with some pillows and blankets, but I have a kettle there and I have a little speaker and I have a Coloring book, my journal, and then some coloring stuff, a pen and a little teapot. So that's all down there, and then all I do is go down there. Oh, and I got a sunset lamp.

Speaker 1: 20:42

I told you I'm obsessed with lighting at the moment, and so I turn on my sunset lamp, I turn on the light bulb I have down there. That's a fun color, but I put it on orange and I just set a little vibe and I just do some stretching. I put on some music, I do, I put on the kettle, I do some stretching and I make a cup of tea which takes about 15 minutes to steep. So the goal is to like spend at least 15 minutes here with myself and just stretching. And then I do some Journaling, where I usually just write out my to-do list for the day, because that is always spiraling in my mind and so once I get it on paper I feel so much better. So I write out my to-do list for the day how I'm feeling, when I'm grateful for, and then I do some coloring. I actually got this coloring calendar from the dollar store which has each month that has a sheet that you color and then it has the calendar dates, so I can cross off the date and then I color in a little portion of this picture and then by the end of the month I'll have it fully colored. Now that's a perfect world. I do that all by myself, then Ro will wake up. That's my perfect world. But I've only done that once where I've done it all by myself.

Speaker 1: 21:43

Most times Rosie wakes up with me and we go down together and she really loves it and I first I was like, oh, I really wanted this be for myself. But I actually love doing it together. It's nice for us to both have a thing that we start in the morning where we connect and do it together. I got her a little journal for down there and she does everything. We do our stretches when she makes a hot chocolate, I make a tea and she has her little marshmallows to put in there. We do our journaling and it's so cute. She asked me to date it and then we color on the page together and she absolutely loves it.

Speaker 1: 22:15

And then another thing is we have a mini fridge in our basement so I've been making her breakfast the night before so that either one, if she comes down with me and then she's like over the Zen space, she can just have her breakfast, and two if she. Thank you for bearing with me. Cute, this is gonna be a trick you went to edit, but but it's worth it because I'm learning something there or I'm implementing something new that I'm excited about many ways. So I make her lunch or her breakfast the night before and then, if she wants it after she's come down with me, then she can have it. Or if I'm already down there and she comes to join me and Either wants to join me or have her breakfast, she can just grab her breakfast and set herself up, watch a show. She has a play area down there, play whatever she wants to do, and it's been amazing. She has absolutely loved that and, honestly, that's been great for me too, because I she has at least three breakfasts before we leave the house in the morning and like it's a lot. So as long as one of them, which is kind of like a one in, like a two-in-one, because it's like a snack pack with like Enough spots to make about two breakfasts in there, then I just have to make her one more breakfast in the morning and it feels like a lot more Attainable.

Speaker 1: 23:24

I'm not sure what my camera is telling me. I Can't. I don't know what that emoji is. It has. It has a screen and then it has a Thermometer next to it. I really hope. I just want this to be able to go on to you too. I need someone else to do this for me. No, I don't, I can do it myself. Okay, anyways, that is the morning routine. And then the afternoon, or not the afternoon. And Then after the morning, I'm gonna sneeze I have not touched my phone at this point and then, okay, I'm gonna sneeze, and then I have not touched my phone at this point and then row after I finish my Zen zone.

Speaker 1: 24:05

Row is ready to eat her Breakfast. She usually wants to watch a show, and so she'll do that. Well, I can go take a shower and get dressed for the day, and then I can come down, get her dressed and we're out the door ready to go, and it feels really good. So that is like the majority. We do it together. That's the situation. But then there's other days where I wake up and it's like, oh, I'm in a part of my book when I'm really excited, or I just don't feel like getting out of bed yet, and so I'll lay in bed and read my book, and then row might come and join me if she wakes up, and then we just have a slow, nice morning in bed and then we get ready, breakfast, all of that stuff. But then after I drop her off at school, I Go take my first 15, 20 minutes of the day in my Zen zone and do everything I would have done like first thing in the morning but in this daylight and it's been so lovely, so there's flexibility in it and it feels so good and I just feel really good about the flexibility that there is. And then on the weekend I don't do it. On the weekend, I just have time with the family and we have really slow, lovely coffee in bed mornings and it's just so nice and it's honestly been so, so lovely. So I'm kind of obsessed.

Speaker 1: 25:16

And then for my nighttime routine I Do not have my phone with me once I go upstairs her bedtime, so I don't have like a time where I cut it off or whatever. Some days I like when I go to pick up row, it's like I stopped being on my phone, I just plug it in and I forget about it. Other days it's like, oh, this blah, blah, blah, blah or whatever, and it's like eight o'clock and I then plug it in. I usually I'm trying to go to bed Like get into bed around 8 30, because I love reading Before bed. Now, instead of a podcast, I've been reading, and so I like to read for at least about half an hour if I can. That gets me really sleepy, and then I'm asleep by 9, 9, 30 Sometimes, but like I really don't want to be in bed later than that.

Speaker 1: 26:01

I really am focusing on trying to get a good night's sleep, because I never know what the morning's gonna bring. Sometimes rose up at Five, sometimes she's up at seven, so it's like I just don't know what the morning's gonna bring and I really want to get a good night's Rest so that I can get the most out of my day, which has really been effective, like it really has been. So I Plugged my phone in at whatever point and then usually by the time row goes to bed around 7, I put her to bed. I have plugged my phone in. So at 7 I'll put row down for whatever and then If me and Trevor are gonna watch a show, we'll go downstairs and watch a show. If Trevor's out for the evening, then I'll just go to bed early and read my book for a while, and that's been really nice.

Speaker 1: 26:40

So usually before I put road to bed, I'll turn our bedroom lights onto the red setting I've been loving Apparently. Red light is so good for calming yourself before bed. It cuts out the blue light. It just like something about your Is it cortisol, I think Like it cuts it down. It's just like nice and relaxing and it puts you in a good state. And it's like not pitch black, obviously because it's red light. So you still have light, but without having like the energy that bright lights can bring to you. It puts you in more of a sleepy state.

Speaker 1: 27:13

So I turn our room lights to red, I put road to bed and then when I'm ready to go to bed, I have this little beanbaggy thing that Trevor bought me. It's like a heat up thing in the microwave. So he got me that for Christmas. So I just put that in the microwave for 90 seconds and I lay that in our bed under the covers and then I'll go to the bathroom and I'll do all my brushing my teeth, washing my face, moisturizing, and then I come into bed and my bed's all nice and cozy because I have that thing in there and I'll just read for about 30 minutes and then I turn off the light. I then again my book, like okay, my book is the only thing that has a clock on it, but it's not even right Like my Kindle, my e-reader. It's not even the right time, so I literally have no idea what time it is. So I say about 30 minutes, but I don't really know, but anyway.

Speaker 1: 28:02

So I'll then turn off the lights and read for a little bit more and then, once I turn off the red lights, like usually, I can get through one more page and then I'm just ready and then I can put my book down and I put on rain sounds on my Google. I just say, hey, can you play rain sounds? And I have just been sleeping with those on and it's been so lovely and I fall asleep so quick, right after, like right away pretty much, and it's so nice. And then I wake up and I started all over again and honestly, it's just been so lovely and I am trying so hard to disconnect from social media and thinking about what I'm going to post next, or what people are thinking, or what are other people doing, or all of that. I'm trying so hard to just disconnect from that and I feel like it's really working and it's becoming pretty much a second nature, which feels so refreshing and it's making sharing so much more fun.

Speaker 1: 28:54

Like I feel like for a while there I was feeling so much pressure to have to share or show up as a certain person or do all this stuff, but now it's like I'm just coming as like my true self in a good place, and it feels really good and it's like, oh, I want to make cookies, I'm going to make cookies and share it, which is exactly how I started sharing and I'm so glad to be back there. It just feels so, so refreshing. So these morning and evening night routines have been amazing. I feel like Ro has really picked up on this routine that I'm implementing and is really appreciating it for herself as well, and it's helping her sleep Like even just like her seeing me do routines, like I feel like she's really appreciative of implementing routine in her life always, but now even more so it's like she wants to put in her own routine and I love that. I feel like Trevor is on the same journey where he's figuring out his nighttime morning routine and I feel like we're all just like feeling really connected in the quiet hours, the morning and the night, as a family unit, which is so nice because the days get so busy and we get so picked up and thrown around and disconnected through the day doing our own thing. So it's nice to be able to come back and have that connection right at the end of the day or right at the beginning. So, yeah, it's been so amazing, I have enjoyed it so, so much and I am just like beaming, beaming with gratitude around that.

Speaker 1: 30:19

So if that's something that you've been like thinking about in your life, like implementing a new routine, or if you've just been feeling like, for me it was more like I just felt cloudy all the time. I always felt like I like there, like I like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing. There was always a to-do list somewhere in my mind, but like I didn't know where to start, I was distracting myself, I was feeling overwhelmed. I was just like staying up too late, or just like scrolling, waking up in the middle of that. I always waking up in the middle of the night, scrolling. It became like a habit. That was bad, that was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, and I was always like, oh, it's only for a week here, a week there. But no, I just like I just need to stop doing that. And so, anyways, I finally feel like I have clarity and that, like I'm very much connected to, like the present moment, which is all I can ask for. So it's been really, really lovely and I'm just like so, so excited about it, yay.

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Another thing I've been keeping on my side table is I always have my lavender spray, which I spray before bed. But I've been keeping a lip mask. I've been like moisturizing so intently and I'm at this point where, like I don't have I'm not like a huge product curly, but like the products I do have, I feel like I always use them a little bit and then I'm like, oh, I got to save it, or I'm worried it's going to run out, I don't even know. But I'm like in this moment where I'm like I just need to use what I have, like I bought it for a reason, use it, love it, because then I always end up not using it and it expires, or I've had it for years and it's like, am I ever going to use that? So I'm just using what I have. I've been lathering myself up in oils every day because it's so cold. I've been just keeping so moisturized. I've been keeping a lip mask at my bedside table and just like applying that before bed hand cream, and then it's just been that extra step where I just feel like, wow, girl, you're taking care of yourself. You're amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So yeah, it's been really nice.

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Okay, let's get into our entertainment recap. Entertainment recap Okay, cute entertainment recap. What have I been watching? I already told you basically I saw Mean Girls. I was obsessed. I saw Willy Wonka. I thought it was so cute. I really enjoyed it. I have been still watching Blow Deck.

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Love Island started this week. Oh my gosh, I haven't watched yet. I'm so excited. I usually am pretty bustlin' hustlein' at the beginning of the week Not hustlein', I'm not hustlein'. But I have a more full schedule and as the week comes to the end, I have a little bit more freedom. So that's probably when I'll start Love Island. But they're not doing a winter season. This is winter, but it's Love Island All Stars. So they're bringing back people who have been on Love Island before. I don't care, I will take any Love Island, please. It is my comfort show. So I'm so excited because Love Island's back. And then, oh, I just finished or I'm not done. I'm gonna finish it today, so I'll be done by the time you're listening to this, but I am just finishing up.

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Down the Drain by Julia Fox, that's the current book that I've been reading. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It was attention catching right from the get go. I feel like it has. I don't know much about Julia Fox, I don't even know why I decided to read it. I think someone shared like, oh, I've been listening to this book and it's been good or whatever, and I just like kept that in my mind and I was like, oh, I love a celebrity memoir, like let me try it out. I know a bit about her from Uncut Gems and obviously she was dating Kanye. And then Hannah Burner, who I've been loving at the moment. Her and her husband's podcast has been such a joy. I also obviously love Summer House, where I first heard about her Giggly Squad, all of that. But I've just really been enjoying Hannah Burner and she had done an interview with Julia Fox recently, so she was just on my mind. I'm so happy I read it.

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It was a really quick read. It was captivating right from the start. I feel like it was such a roller coaster. I feel like she. It's a really good look into the mind of like someone who has dealt with drugs and dated people who've dealt with or dated different addicts, and I just like very much Up and down, up and down. I really enjoyed it and I'm excited to see how it wraps up. I'm right now in her Kanye era and it's very interesting. It's very interesting. So, yeah, I've been really enjoying that.

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If you're looking for a quick, yummy, delicious snackable, read down the drain by Julia Fox. I asked on Instagram today for some recommendations and I feel like I got two really intriguing ones From the way they explain them to me in like the second that I saw them just before I hopped on. So I Already I'm gonna add those to my list. I think is the next two books. So I'm so excited. I just need to go on to the store and, you know, get them, download it. But yay, yes. So that's what I've been watching.

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Oh, you know what I haven't done? I haven't made a Spotify playlist for 2024. If you don't know, I have my five years time 2023 playlist, which I will have linked in the show notes. It's always linked in the show notes, but I'm gonna switch it over. So this week I'll have both linked, but next week It'll just be our 2024 playlist. So make sure to like it if it's something you're interested in, so that you can go back and see it. But it's just basically, every week I add a few songs that I'm interested in and and by the end of the year we have a whole playlist. I actually saying that it's like I need to listen. I'm gonna listen to that playlist 2023 today For fun and to to vibe with what I want. It's basically my liked playlist for the, for the public, for you to see. So, yeah, I'm going to make our Spotify playlist so that you can go over to Spotify and follow if you're a Spotify user. But, yeah, I think that's it. I am gonna start putting this together. I feel like it's gonna be a Jungle for me to put together because I've stopped and started the camera and my audio a few times and I'm gonna have to clip it all together, but I just wanted to like make sure it was actually recording.

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I love you all so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being with me through changes in evolution. I'm actually so excited for this year of the podcast. I just feel this newfound like a Love and appreciation.

Speaker 1: 36:24

Like I, the podcast has always been my heart and soul. But like I feel like for a while there I was feeling like, does anyone care? Like what's the point? And I just feel like there's this new, I don't know invigoration between you and me and you being the cuties, me being me, but I just feel like we're connecting more than ever and there's a lot of Good discourse back and forth and commentary and that makes a big difference because a lot of the times it just feels like I'm talking to avoid. So it's nice when you get interactive with me. So thank you for being so interactive lately. It really means a lot saying that you can go follow me over on Instagram at five years time podcast or on Tiktok and then obviously subscribe and follow the podcast rate review. It really does make a difference. I love you all so much, sending you hugs, sending you kisses, mwah, mwah, mwah, wishing you a beautiful, beautiful week ahead. Love you Good. I.