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64. your "hot girl" holiday bucket list.... how to romanticize the holiday season · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello, you guys, welcome back to another episode of the Hawkgirl Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is your weekly reminder that it's
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a new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day
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for you to become the hawk Gral energy you want to attract. Oh my
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goodness, I couldn't speak there. How are you guys? Welcome back to
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another episode. I always feel like when I don't record the previous week,
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it feels like I haven't recorded a podcast episode in like a month, Like
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it feels like I haven't chatted with you guys in so long, even though
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it's literally only been a week off, but it feels way longer for some
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reason. But I'm very happy to be back home, be back into routine,
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just yeah, getting back into the swing of things. If you guys
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follow me on socials, you guys know well, I think I also mentioned
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it in the last episode that I went to New York City. I'm going
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to give you guys a quick little recap now, just because it's not going
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to take long and we have an exciting episode that I really want to get
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into now that we are fully in the holiday mode, getting into the holiday
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spirit, but before we get into this episode, I really wanted to quickly
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chat about how my week was last week. And it was fun, it
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was really really good. I went with my mom and sister. We left
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on the Monday last week and got back on the Friday, so we were
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there for basically a whole week. I had four bridal appointments and I'm going
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to make an Instagram story probably sometime this week of just the Bridal shops we
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went to the restaurants we went to because I feel like you guys always ask
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me for the best recommendations, and I always go to New York City for
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other work travels or anything like that, so I feel like I do have
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a lot of good recks whenever I do CO and I always like to go
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to a lot of similar places, also try new places. All that,
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we stayed at the Addition Hotel in Times Square. I don't typically stay in
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Times Square because I feel like it's so chaotic and so busy. Typically I
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like to stay and soho. But the reason we stayed in Times Square was
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because it was the most central to all the bridle shops that we were going
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to, so I personally felt like it was best to be more central,
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since that was the main priority of the trip was to go to all these
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bridal appointments. So that's why we stayed in Times Square. It's not my
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first choice just because it is so busy, but the hotel we stayed at
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was insanely beautiful. The Addition is one of my favorite chains of hotels.
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Yeah, it's just a beautiful space. The service is insane. They have
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really really good restaurants as well. There was a night where we literally just
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never left the hotel. We literally got ready, went to the Addition restaurant
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that was attached to the hotel, and the service was incredible, the food
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was amazing. So it was kind of nice to not have to leave just
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because obviously it's getting colder outside, and yeah, we just like didn't really
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want to leave and go freeze our butts off, so it was nice to
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have dinner there. But yeah, all in all, hotel was amazing.
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In terms of finding a wedding dress, So gonna give you guys a bit
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of a breakdown. The first place we went to, the very first dress
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I tried on, I honestly thought I was gonna say yes to it.
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I'm like, oh my god, this is the one, like was obsessed
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with it, and I'm like dragging so hard not to like describe the dress
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to you guys, because I don't want to obviously give it away. But
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it was perfect. I literally the whole entire mindset throughout the entire trip.
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Before the last appointment, I was like, Okay, so like I'm pretty
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sure we're gonna say yes to this dress, like this is crazy whatever.
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So then I started to go on Instagram because I'm not gonna lie. I
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feel like I didn't do enough research before I went to New York, and
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that's something that I wish I did before going. I've definitely saved a lot
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of Pinterest images of what I like, but you know, you try on
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different things and then you're like, wait, I kind of like this more.
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I prefer this style. There's a lot of styles that you'll be shocked
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to actually like. So anyways, I feel like I should have done a
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bit more research in terms of like, Okay, what do I really like,
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Like is there a specific you know, pattern, is there a specific
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tip of fabric that I like fit? Whatever. So I did try on
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dresses in Ottawa, which you guys know, but the dresses in Ottawa versus
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New York, totally different ballpark, like just like I can't even explain,
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like just a totally different look and feel. And the ones in New York
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I did gravitate more towards just the different types of fabrics and all that.
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I feel like just were more what I was looking for, if that makes
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sense. So I went to four appointments. As I said, the three
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other appointments that I went to start the two other appointments that I went to,
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nothing I liked there, like just was still stuck on the first dress
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that I tried on. We went to Kleinfeld for our last spot. If
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you guys don't know what that is, that is the Say Yes to the
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Dress show on TLC. I've watched that show growing up as a kid.
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I had no choice but to go there, Like that's just like a dream
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come true. I also feel like for someone who's watched it for so long,
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like myself, I just like had to go experience it. I met
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the most amazing person there. Her name's Brandy. She she was helping me
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out with wedding dresses. And I almost said yes to this dress, and
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I still might. To be honest, I kind of jumped ahead, and
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I posted a TikTok saying I said yes to the dress because technically I did,
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but I didn't sign the contract and I'm not gonna lie. I got
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cold feet because I want to add something to the dress and I never got
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to try it on with the dress when I was there because it was our
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last appointment. So the entire time at dinner that last night in New York,
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I'm like, I have to go back, Like I have to go
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back and try this addition to the dress in order for me to say yes,
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Like it was just like something that I had to do. And so
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I flew home the next day really early in the morning, so I had
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no like, I had no opportunity to go back to the place to go
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try it on. So I came home and I'm like texting Brandy, who
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was my CVIL associate, and I'm like, listen, like, could you
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put this on mannequin and just let me see if I can visualize it this
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way? Adding it to the mannequin did not help me at all, So
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unfortunately but still kind of fun, I am going back to New York City
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just for the day, though I'm literally strictly just booking a day flight there
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and back all in one day. I'm going with my sister just because I
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don't want to go alone. I like to travel with somebody else, especially
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because the cab rides are really long from the airport too. So I'm like,
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I really don't want to do this by myself, and I also want
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my sister's opinion to make sure she loves it. We're going to FaceTime my
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mom. But yeah, so that's kind of a rundown about the wedding dress
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experience. I almost said yes, but I am going to go back just
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to reconfirm that it is the one. I know. That might sound crazy,
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but to me, I'd rather pay the money to go back and try
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it on one more time, then waste all this money on a dress and
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then, you know, get it eight months from now, try it on
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with the addition that I wanted to add, and then hate it. Right.
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So, I really don't want to go through that process of just not
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being obsessed with my dress, you know what I mean. I don't know,
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if you're a bride to be or have been a bride and you just
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get it, you'll get it. But yeah, trying on dresses is definitely
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like very exciting, very overwhelming, but once you narrow down the style and
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all that, it does get easier, which is nice. So I've definitely
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narrowed down everything when it comes to the fabric and the style and all that.
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It's more so just making sure this final touch just really secures my yes
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answers. So stay tuned for a bit more in New York City content,
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and literally, like the next two weeks, I'll be flying out and going
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to do that. But that's why I haven't really been posting much wedding content.
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I really went in with the fact that I was going to say yes
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on this trip and I was going to post all the dresses that I said
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no to that I tried on. But I don't want to do that just
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yet because I not like, I don't want to jinx myself, but I
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just don't want to yeah, post that stuff yet until I've officially said yes
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to a dress, so that it's kind of been the situation. I don't
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want to explain that over on Instagram or anything like that. You guys know,
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everything I say in the pod is between us, like you guys know,
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I tell you guys everything, So that's kind of been the low down
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for my New York City trip. But as I said, I'm now home.
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Zach and I literally put up the Christmas tree the day I got home
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from New York City or the day after. Sorry, we decorated it together.
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It was very fun to get into the Christmas spirit because that's all I've
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been thinking about is just getting into holiday mode decorating the house. I'm going
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to be filming three or four parts of decorating this entire house because obviously decorating
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for Christmas is a lot of work. So I'm going to be doing that
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all this week, so stay tuned for that. Just a lot of areas
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in the house that I want to do. I have like my Christmas village.
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I have, you know, my floating shelves, my reefs that I
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have to hang up in the kitchen, you know, front door stuff,
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the garland on the stairs, all that. So it's gonna be a lot
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of work, but it's gonna be a lot of fun. So that's what
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I'm prioritizing this week. And then I also wanted to mention a few sales
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that are going on for Black Friday because obviously, to all my fellow Americans,
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Happy Thanksgiving for this weekend, but I wanted to name a few brands
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that I'm personally gonna be probably buying from that are also some of my favorite
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brands that I love to shop at, and I just thought I would share
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it with you guys just in case if you're looking to either get Christmas gifts
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for someone else or for yourself, these are the places that have some really
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good sales going on this weekend. Some have actually started now, because I
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know sometimes Black Friday sales can start at the beginning of this week and then
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end at the end of the weekend. But Alo Yoga is having thirty percent
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off everything. This is a really good spot to find really cute workout clothes.
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They also have really cute lounge wers. So Alo is one of my
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favorites. As you guys know, CSB is another good workout clothing brand that
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I love nice support fully. Literally half my workout sets, if not more,
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are from there. They are having twenty five percent off everything quality ten
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out of ten. I just love their workout fits so much, like very
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stylish, kind of like Alo. I think they're around the same price point,
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might be a bit more affordable, which is kind of nice Elwood has
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thirty percent off their entire site. It's really really good for lounge wear,
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sweat sets, all that. I believe. Skims is having up to sixty
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percent off. Love Skims for Pj's robes again, loungewear. A Ritzia,
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you guys know, I'm a huge a Ritzia girl is having up to sixty
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percent off. I believe it's already started a lot of the stuff just like
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their new arrivals, and just obviously the most popular things are usually between ten
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to twenty percent off, but there is some hidden gems that are like between
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fifty to sixty percent off. Majuri is having twenty percent off. That's one
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of my favorite jewelry brands. A lot of my earrings and rings are actually
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from there. My necklace is also from Majury as well, so that's probably
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one of my favorite jwelry brands. I usually get the there's like plated and
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then there's like the actual gold. I usually splurge on the actual goal just
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because I do find they're plated can get turnished over time depending on what you
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get. Like rings, they got tarnished really fast for me, just because
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using hand soap and all that, it just didn't sit well, But the
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necklaces and earrings are pretty good for the gold plated stuff, at least what
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I've experienced with misery. But yeah, I do find it's definitely worth getting
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a discount if you want to splurge on some really good gold pieces. I
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also feel like jewelry is something that you should splurge on because you're gonna have
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it forever. And then lastly, Reformation is kind of like a Ritzia very,
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you know, stylish clothing pieces a bit more on the expensive side,
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but they're having twenty percent off everything. It's also kind of a good example
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of like Revolve, which I'm sure Revolve will be having a sale as well,
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but I haven't seen anything yet. I'm sure I'll be twenty percent off.
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I think that's usually what they've done in previous years. So those are
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just some Black Friday sales that I wanted to mention quickly, just because I
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like to know about that stuff, especially when I see people post about sales
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on Instagram stories and all that. I really like to get at a lot
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of holiday shopping, like for my sister, for my parents, for Zach
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during this time of the year, as well as treat myself obviously, so
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I thought I would just let you guys know about some sales that are going
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on. All right, let's get into this episode. I'm so excited to
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talk about this episode today about the holiday bucket list and how to romanticize the
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holiday season. How are we going to get you into the holiday spirit.
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I did an episode like this this time last year, and I thought it
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was so fun. I personally find these tips are just great ways to get
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yourself into the holiday spirit, because I feel like, if you're not in
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it right now, this is the episode to listen to. Or if you're
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just that kind of person that you know just likes to hear about the holidays
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and just Christmas stuff and Christmas ideas, then this is the right place to
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be. So starting off with the first thing, you need to do this
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asap. I don't care if it's too early for you. It's never too
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early to put up your Christmas decorations. In my opinion, as soon as
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we put up the Christmas tree, it immediately made me feel like so much
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more in the holiday spirit. It got me so excited, and just seeing
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the decorations in your home it completely changes your mood and it just gets you
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so much more excited for the holiday season. So, as I said,
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that's something that we're completing this week already, just decorating the Christmas tree,
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putting on Christmas music, putting on the Christmas background on YouTube. I love
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to put that on my TV. That's a hack. If you want to
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have this Samsung Frame TV look on your TV, just go on YouTube search
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Christmas background and you can have that displayed on your TV for like, I
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think it runs for like five hours or something like that. So we had
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that going in the background with holiday music, putting up for Christmas tree,
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and it just literally made me so excited for Christmas in just December, and
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I don't know, it just like puts you in the best mood I find.
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So that's the first thing you're going to do. If you don't have
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a house, if you just have a room in your parents place or something
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like that, get little decorations that you could put around your dresser or your
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nightstand, maybe get a mini tree, something about just decorating your space that
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just makes you feel so festive, so good. So that's the first thing
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I recommend doing if you're trying to get into the holiday spirit. Another thing
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that some people like to do is they like to wait to get their Christmas
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tree because they typically get it at a farm, so they have a real
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Christmas tree and they get a real experience out of it. So totally understand
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if you don't have your Christmas tree up for that reason. So I guess
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people have different traditions in their family. Like I grew up with a fake
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Christmas tree. My parents, you know, have just been doing that for
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years with us, so we always put our Christmas decorations up early. But
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I know some people, like my friends, who wait till December, but
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they, you know, go to a farm together, they pick their Chris
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Favor Christmas tree out together as a family, they cut it down, they
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decorate it, all that. So it really just depends on what your tradition
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is with your family. But I think either way, no matter what,
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it's still a fun experience to do together. Right, you're decorating together,
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You're getting in the mood together. I still decorate my parents' tree with them.
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They literally wait to make sure I'm available to do it, which is
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kind cute. So I really hope we continue that tradition for like a long
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long time. Even when I, you know, have kids in the future,
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I hope my parents still want me to be involved and help put their
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Christmas tree up since you know, we started it together as a family,
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and this is Zach and I's second Christmas together in this home, and putting
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up the tree and decorating all that just like really made me think about how
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this is our new tradition, right, Like we obviously have talked about having
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kids in the future and all that, like definitely not ready anytime soon,
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but you guys know, we've talked about it and all that, and it
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just feels so real to like be at this phase of my life just being
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an adult and being able to have my own home, being able to decorate
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the tree with Zach in our home, just having our own tradition is so
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crazy to say. I feel very blessed. And it's just like those little
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things, you know what I mean that just makes you so happy. Is
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just being able to have that person in my life and be able to do
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that with him and start a tradition with him is so exciting. You guys
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will definitely understand like whether you're in that phase right now with someone or one
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day when you do find that person and you get to have that moment with
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them, it's very very special, I feel like. So yeah, I
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feel like last year it definitely hit like being in the house having our first
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Christmas together, but this year it also felt weird, just because like we're
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engaged, you know, when now we know that we are going to be
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together forever and you know, talking about future things and all that. So
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it just hit a little different this year knowing that, like we are getting
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married next year and all that, but in a good way, right,
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And yeah, it's also very fun for us to think about Christmas is because
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Freddie was actually a Christmas gift to Zach and I two years ago, so
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we got Freddie during the holiday season. So it's always so fun too because
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we always just think about, like, oh, this is when we got
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Freddie. And obviously you guys know how much Freddie means to me. Any
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person that has a dog, really, you guys get that they're little,
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your little baby, your child. So yeah, anyways, that's my little
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spiel on just traditions. When you're putting up the Christmas decor and all that,
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there's just something that brings a family together during the holiday season. That
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just is so beautiful and it just makes me so so happy. Another thing
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I love to do is I always love to plan a holiday night with my
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girlfriends. Whether it's me hosting a night here at my place, just cooking
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at dinner, having some festive cocktails, or having a movie night, having
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a game night, something like that. I think it's so important to include
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your friends in doing holiday traditions, getting together, just making time for each
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other. I used to do a gift exchange with my friends. This year,
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we're doing a cottage weekend and we're knitting chunky blankets. We're gonna have
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just a festive weekend at her cottage and do some games, just have a
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cottage weekend together, and I'm just so excited for that. So things like
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that, I think it's really fun to just plan something with your friends,
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whether it's going out to a restaurant, doing drinks together, having a cozy
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night, in doing movie nights together. All in all, I think it's
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really important to include your friends in something to do together during the holiday season.
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Last years, Zach and I hosted a cocktail night at our place with
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all of our friends, which was such a fun idea everybody brought a different
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cocktail that was related to the holiday season. There was like Holi jolly drinks,
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and a lot of these drinks you can find on Pinterest. That's the
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best way to find like festive cocktails. That's where we found ours, and
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a lot of our friends found theirs as well. We are going to try
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our best to do that again this year, but I feel like we've been
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so busy with the wedding planning and just you know, people get booked up
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during December with the craziness of the holiday season. But it was such a
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fun idea. So if you guys like to do that kind of stuff,
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I definitely recommend it. It was a really, really fun night. Another
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way to get into the holiday mode is listening to holiday music. I swear
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to God, as soon as you turn on Michael Boobley's Christmas album, you
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will be in the Christmas spirit. I'm telling you right now. I literally
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just turned it on decorating the tree with Zach and I'm like, okay,
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like I'm ready for December, I'm ready for Christmas. I'm already in the
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mode. So if you're the kind of person again that's really struggling to get
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into that holiday spirit. Find your favorite Christmas album, whether it's Michael Bouble,
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Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, anything like that. Just play your favorite
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festive music and you will definitely be in the holiday spirit. Another thing I
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love to do when it is the holiday season is picking up holiday sense,
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whether it's holiday candles, soaps, diffusers. I just love adding new scents
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into my home. I feel like it's also very exciting to add something new
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and refreshing in the home, and just having that new scent just gets me
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so excited to look forward to the holiday season. Like every time we get
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close to fall, I usually go to Home Sense. I pick up all
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these fall scented candles and I light them up and immediately I'm starting to feel
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in the fall mode. Now I'm starting to pick up Christmas candles, starting
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to light them, and again just getting in that festive mode. So if
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you are that kind of person that loves holiday scents, then this is your
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sign to go to bath and Body Works or home Sense or Target wherever you
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have a place close by and pick up your favorite sense. Another thing to
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do during the holiday season is holiday baking, baking gingerbread, cookies, cinnamon
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buns, whatever you like. I also love to do this with family and
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friends. I think this is a fun little activity to do. Not gonna
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lie, I'm not the best baker, but I do it because it's fun
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and it still tastes good after the fact. Obviously, anything you add sugar
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too, it's gonna taste amazing. But one thing I did a few years
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ago with my fiance's mom is we did a cookie exchange. So basically,
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everybody had specific types of cookies that they were gonna cook. We were all
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in a group chat everybody got to pick what they wanted to bake, and
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then you would bake enough for everybody in the group to have at least a
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set of twelve cookies, and then you would just exchange them. So then
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I would get, you know, six different types of cookies from the six
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people that were within the group of twelve packs, and then they would obviously
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get mine. So it does require a lot of baking, I will not
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lie about that, but it is a really fun idea to do. And
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you know, when you have these gatherings with your friends or your family,
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you get to bring the cookies to the events and give it to everybody.
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And it's nice to have a broad assortment of cookies and it just like looks
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really nice. I find to have different types of cookies and all that.
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So that's something that I used to do. I haven't done it in a
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while. I also, as I said, I'm not the best baker,
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so maybe that's why I still haven't done it. But it is a really
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fun idea if you want to do that with family or friends. Another idea
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to get into the holiday spirit is watching holiday movies as soon as December first
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hits. I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna be watching a holiday movie
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every single weekend. There are so many good holiday movies that I swear I
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watch sometimes even twice in December just because I love them so much. One
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of my favorites is Elf. I think I watched that at least once during
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early December and then once during Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, just because it
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is one of my favorite movies of all time, just such a good classic
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Christmas movie. I also love Home Alone the Holidays Santa Claus. Like,
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there's just so many good holiday movies and it sucks because I don't know how
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you guys feel about this, but every time there's a new Christmas movie that
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comes out, it just doesn't hit the same, Like it's not hitting the
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same as the older ones that came out, like the Grinch. Nothing will
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ever beat the Grinch movie like that is an insane Christmas movie in my opinion,
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anything that's been released within like the past like four years, I want
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to say, it's just giving a hallmark and it's just like it's not it,
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you know what I mean? Do you guys feel the same way?
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Like I just personally find that Christmas movies don't hit the same the way they
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do with the older ones, Like the older ones are the classics and they're
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just the best ones I find. So if you want to get into the
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holiday spirit, turn on a Christmas movie. It will put you in the
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best mood. The next one I absolutely love, and I do this every
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single year, is go to a Christmas light show or a Christmas market.
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Here in Ottawa, we have this thing called I forget what it's called to
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be honest, actually, but it's essentially a drive through and it's like a
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ten minute drive thing where you see a bunch of different Christmas lights and it's
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so fun and it's just a fun thing to do with your family or friends.
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But last year I did go to a Christmas market in Toronto. I'm
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sure if you're from there, you guys know the one I'm talking about.
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When I went to go visit Lan Tren and I both went to go see
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her and we went to this Christmas market in downtown Toronto and it was so
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freaking fun and if you really want to get festive, that's the place to
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be. Like there was big Christmas trees everywhere, Christmas lights they had,
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like it literally looked like you know how when you guys see like Instagram reels
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of what London looks like during Christmas, That's what the Toronto market looked like.
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There was like little homes with a lot of local companies selling their local
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products. There was like hot cocoa, all these good baking goods, Like
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it was just like a winter wonderland of Christmas galore, Like that's the best
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way to describe it. And it was so fun. So that is definitely
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something that I'm going to try and make a priority this year, if not
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going to Toronto, maybe doing something in Ottawa. I know there's a Christmas
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market downtown. I mean, I'm going to New York in December to go
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do my whole wedding dress thing. If I have time, I'm definitely gonna
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slide some time to go see the Rockfeller Tree or something like that. I
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mean, New York City also has a lot of great Christmas decor around the
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city, so definitely gonna try and make that a priority. But yeah,
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just trying to get into the holiday spirit by just going to these things like
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going to see Christmas lights, going to even just walk around a neighborhood and
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see different Christmas lights, or going to a Christmas market like that's always so
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fun to do with friends. Speaking about hot cocoa, there's nothing more festive
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than making hot chocolate with marshmallows. That is my go to dessert like all
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of December. I'm not even over exaggerating. It is my favorite thing.
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I obviously obsessed with chocolate, and I love to have chocolate literally every night
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after dinner, so why not have the liquid form with marshmallows. I don't
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ever have hot chocolate at all during any other months of the year, Like
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for some reason, I only have hot chocolate during December, and maybe it's
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because of being in the Christmas mode. I don't know, but I know
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never have it any other time. Like, just hot chocolate is always just
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at Christmas unless I'm at my best friend, so that's her dessert every single
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night. Like she literally makes hot chocolate with marshmallows, So if she's having
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it, she'll just make me one. But if I'm not at her house,
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it's definitely usually me just making hot chocolate during December. But it does
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hit different, like it just hits so good during the holiday season, and
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like, who doesn't love hot chocolate? Come on. I also love having
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mochas. That's also my obsession. If you guys don't know what amocha is,
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it's coffee and hot chocolate together. You can get it at Starbucks,
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you can make it at home. It's super easy. But yeah, definitely,
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hot chocolate is so so good to have in December. Another thing I
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love to do is obviously go Christmas shopping. This definitely puts you in the
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holiday spirit. I love gifting to others. I think I love doing that
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more than anything in the world. I love being able to shop for my
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loved ones. I love seeing the reaction on Christmas Day. It's like literally
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the best feeling just getting something for someone that you love and just knowing that
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they're gonna love it so much. I love giftings experiences. I feel like
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the past i want to say, five years, I've usually done experience gifts,
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whether it's going to a hockey game together, going away like to a
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spa for the weekend, or a trip for the weekend, something like that.
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So this year I'll probably do something similar again. But it's just always
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so fun to see the reaction and just make them feel so special. So
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yeah, and obviously going Christmas shopping is the perfect time to do it now
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with Black Friday around the corner, getting all the sales all that. That's
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definitely something that I'm going to make a priority this weekend is just making sure
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I stop up on Christmas gifts. But yeah, there's no better feeling than
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gifting for others. And last thing that I'm gonna mention when it comes to
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this holiday bucket list and just getting into the holiday spirit making holiday drinks,
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whether it's making your coffee in the morning and adding a coffee creamer that's more
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festive, like a gingerbread creamer or a peppermint moga creamer. I'm actually drinking
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a coffee right now with peppermint mocha and it's so good. But also you
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can make festive cocktails, so on the week weekend if you want to have
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a little fun night with your boyfriend, fiance, husband, or maybe have
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a girl's night with your girlfriend. As I said, making festive cocktails,
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you can find it on Pinterest. I feel like that's always super fun to
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do. Another thing I've also seen people do for like a cute girls' night
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or friend's night is making like homemade pizzas in the shape of like a Santa
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Claus or a gingerbread man or anything like that and changing it into some type
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of holiday theme is so fun. Like for an example, me and my
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sister we painted Halloween mugs or sorry fall mugs for the fall season, which
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was super fun to do. This year I really want to do. I
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want to paint candles and just like paint Christmas decor on it. That way,
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I can put it in my house somewhere, so you know, like
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the tall, long candles that you could paint on. I've seen people do
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that on TikTok for like random things like Valentine's Date for an example, and
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they did a bunch of hearts and bows and all that. For Christmas,
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I think doing bows or Christmas trees or gingerbread men, all that would be
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super cute. Even though I really suck at painting, not gonna lie.
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It's fun to do and it's something to do with someone, and as I
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said, it's just like a festive idea to do with your girlfriends. So
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those are just some ideas on how to romanticize the holiday season and just get
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into the holiday spirit. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, and I
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hope it gets you into the festive mode. I know I am after talking
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about all this stuff, but we are definitely going to be getting more into
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New Year content in the coming weeks. We really want to focus on becoming
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the best version of ourselves for twenty twenty four all that, so I'm very
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excited to get into that content. But I still can't believe we are almost
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at the end of November already, which is so crazy to say. But
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we are going to be going through a lot of amazing content in December,
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and I just can't wait to talk about becoming our best self for the New
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Year. So thank you guys so much for listening. To another episode.
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You guys know how much I love you all. I will see you guys
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next week, and I hope you guys have the most amazing week