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45. the "perfect" solo day... ways to spend more time alone · 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, Kaylee, 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 Hawkgirl Energy you want to attract. Hello you,
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guys, welcome back to another episode. I wanted to record an episode about
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being solo, like taking yourself on a date, doing all the things that
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make you feel good, and just romanticizing your life of doing things alone.
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And what really inspired me to record this episode was because I had a bit
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of a solo night to myself last weekend and it really inspired me because I'm
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like, I feel that I haven't really touched on an episode about like my
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perfect solo day, like doing all the things that make me happy in one
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day, Like these are things that I would want to do. And I'm
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also going to list some examples of things you can do on your own,
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like for other date ideas. It doesn't have to be all in one day,
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just date night ideas that you can do yourself, and just to really
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allow you to realize and enjoy your own company. And I'm that kind of
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person where I really enjoy being in social environments, like I love to socialize
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with people. I really enjoy just being with my friends, with my family,
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with Zach, like I like to be busy, and I don't really
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allow myself or force myself to be alone. And I'm not sure why that's
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the case. I just feel like I enjoy company, like I just like
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to be with other people, and there's nothing wrong with that. And usually
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in the summertime, I'm booked, I'm busy, and I'm sure you guys
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are the same. There's so much going on. You want to do stuff
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with your friends, you want to do stuff with your family, your partner,
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all that, And I had a weekend to myself last weekend. Zach
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went to a cottage for a boy's weekend, and I really forced myself to
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have a solo night, Like Kiley, you really just need to allow yourself
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to stay in just you and Freddie at the house, or I could have
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went out to a restaurant just enjoying my own company, because I feel like
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I haven't had a day like that in a very long time. And I
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don't know if it's because I work for myself and I'm working alone all the
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time by myself, and maybe that's why I enjoy to do things on my
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off time with friends and family. But I'm like, I really haven't had
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a night to myself where I've done nothing and have done the things that I
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enjoyed doing. So what I did is on the Friday night, I did
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a few of my favorite things. I ordered takeout from one of my favorite
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places. I ordered it from Mad Radish and I got this bowl called the
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Maple Farm Salad. It is amazing. Trust me, guys, you need
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to try it. If you guys have a Mad Radish near you, one
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hundred percent recommend it. And then after I had my takeout, while I
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was eating it, I was online shopping. I'm obsessed with online shopping.
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What girl isn't. We always love to do some retail therapy. I always,
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sometimes even just like to browse websites and see what's new at my favorite
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brands like Zara or Ritzia revolve. All that just browsing through their sites,
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finding some inspo for some things that I might already have to create some outfits.
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All that because you guys know, as I mentioned, I always love
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finding new fashion pieces. But for once, I didn't damage my credit card.
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I didn't end up buying anything that night, but I am on a
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budget with everything going on in my life right now, got wedding stuff to
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plan, got to purchase some bridal stuff, all that which we are going
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to touch on at the end of this episode. I feel like I haven't
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done a bit of an update with you guys in a while, so I'm
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going to give you guys a personal life update at the end of this episode
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and just kind of give you guys some things that are going on in my
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life. Just explains some stuff that's going on. So anyways, did some
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you know, retail shopping again. Didn't order anything, but just was like
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browsing through online on my computer and just eating my takeout again. The vibes
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are great. I'm feeling good. Such a good night. And then to
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top it all off, I had my favorite dairy free ice cream by the
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brand So Delicious, the Cookie Crumble ice cream. The name of the ice
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cream says it all right there, Cookie Crumble the most amazing dairy free ice
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cream I've ever had. I can eat dairy. I'm not like lactose specifically,
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like very strict on no dairy. I just liked to eat dairy free
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ice cream just because sometimes my stomach herds. Sometimes it doesn't. But anyways,
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if you are a dairy free girl, you need to try that brand
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is so delicious Cookie Carmebat ice cream. It is going to change your life.
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So I had a tub of ice cream on my cloud couch watching the
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most recent episode of The Kardashians because I love a reality TV show. I'm
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a soccer for them. So that was my Friday night, and I went
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to bed I think at like ten pm, Like I didn't go to bed
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that late. And it made me realize that I need to have more nights
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like that. I need to have more nights to myself, enjoying my own
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company and just doing my favorite things that I love to do. And I
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am a homebody. I've realized that through COVID. Once we got out of
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COVID, I was like, I enjoy being at home. I'm not the
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biggest, like going out kind of person, but I do allow myself to
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go out with my friends. So you need to have that balance, right,
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You need to have that balance of enjoying your lone time but also enjoying
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your social time and going out with friends and all that and I still go
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out. I still like to have a few drinks with my friends. I
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wouldn't say I really like to go out club, but I like to go
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chin new restaurants. I'd like to go to nice restaurants for drinks and all
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that. But again, it's all about balance. So I really feel like
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I haven't really prioritized the balance of me spending time alone. And that's why
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I kind of wanted to touch in this episode about finding ways and things to
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do to allow yourself to enjoy your own company. And so I'm going to
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talk about the perfect day in my opinion, and this again, as I
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said, in my opinion, it's just things that personally I would like to
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do in order for it to be the most perfect day. So this is
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just an example of what is perfect to me. It might not be perfect
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for you. But I'm also going to share some examples as to what you
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guys can do in your solo free time if these are other things that you
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would like to do. So let's get into the most perfect solo day.
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Okay, so we're starting our day. We just woke up, and to
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me, the most perfect start to the day is an early morning, no
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matter what, No matter if it's the weekend, no matter if I was
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up till two am, you know, at night, I always want to
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be up at seven am, Like, I don't want to be up any
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earlier than that, any later than that. To me, I enjoy waking
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up early. I feel like it starts my day on the right foot.
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I feel like whenever I wake up late, I feel like my day is
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all out of work, all like unorganized and all that. I just feel
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like I'm the most productive in the morning. So for me, the most
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perfect way to start my solo day is to wake up early and get everything
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done as soon as I wake up, Like, have my breakfast, have
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my greens, like, do all the morning things I love to do,
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maybe add a little meditation all that Like that to me would be the perfect
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little morning before going into the rest of the day. Next, I would
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book a workout class. To me, I love doing solo workout classes.
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I find it's super fun to get out of the house and sweat your ass
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off. To me, it's the best feeling. And you could book a
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spinning class, you could book a you know, just like an F forty
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five class, a pilates class, whatever, or even just go to your
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gym. You guys know how much I love working out. To me,
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it's so therapeutic. It's great for your mental health. I just love a
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great sweat, and personally for me, I have been in my spinning era,
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as you guys know, and I just find the classes so motivational.
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With the loud music, with the group environment, with the black room like
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it's pitch black, you're writing your butt off. It's just the best sweat
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and I feel so good after that class. So to me, having a
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spin class right after my little morning routine would be the perfect way to start
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my solo day. And you guys know, as I said, I'm always
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doing spin classes. I've always talked about spin classes, but sometimes it's also
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good to try different classes. So there is a new studio that actually opened
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up in Westboro. I think I mentioned it in the last podcast episode.
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It's called the Playground. I've booked a workout class with my sister this week
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to do the pilates class, so keep you guys posted on that. But
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again, it seems very similar to the spinning vibe. It's a dark room,
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it's a group environments, and it's Matt pilates, so I will keep
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you guys posted on that. But I'm trying something new. I'm not doing
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it by myself. I'm doing it with my sister just because she wants to
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try it as well. But it's always good to try out different worker classes.
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So if you're you know, a gym girl that's always going to the
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gym on a regular basis, and you want to have your perfect solo day,
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maybe it's good to try something different and try a different worker class.
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Just book something that you win typically do, and just allow yourself to get
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out of your comfort zone. So that's the perfect way to start the solo
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day is waking up early, getting your morning in, and booking a workout
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class. So once I'm done my workout class, I had a good sweat,
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I had a good morning, I'm then going to hit up my favorite
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coffee shop. You guys know how I feel about my vanilla oat latte's.
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I always love to to my favorite local coffee shop. Now is Starbucks is
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your choice? Obviously Starbucks is fine, but I personally find going to my
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local shops are better because I find the coffee quality is a lot better.
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If you're a matcha girl, go get your favorite macha. Just treat yourself.
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I find treating yourself, especially after a workout, is so rewarding and
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it feels good. And also it's just like the girly things, you know,
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I don't know, it's just those little things that make you feel so
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good. It's I know, you guys might say, oh, Kayley,
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all this involves spending money, and it's like, well, spending money sometimes
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feels good. It's just the reality, like you can do some of these
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things at home, but there's no better feeling than leaving your home and doing
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these things. That's what personally makes me feel good is leaving my home and
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doing these things. It's almost like rewarding myself for getting out of the house
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because you know, a lot of the time, like I said, there
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is people that are homebodies and they get a little too comfortable at home and
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then never leave. So it's good to push yourself out of your comfort zone
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and get out of the house more and by doing a workout class, by
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you know, going to your favorite coffee shop all that. So I'm gonna
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hit up my favorite coffee shop. I'm gonna get my favorite vanilla oat ice
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latte and after that, I'm gonna go on a Hawkrow walk. I'm gonna
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put on my headphones. I'm gonna put on a podcast or maybe even a
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meditation or you know, putting on music. Whatever makes you happy when you
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go on a walk. I always love to walk for like twenty to thirty
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minutes. I do not base my walks off of like how many miles did
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I walk or kilometers like. I strictly just walk for however long I want
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to walk, and I walk Freddie with me. I go in a nice
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trail or a nice area. Usually I walk in the trails by my place,
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but if I'm going to a coffee shop, I'll walk in the area.
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There's a little strip in Stittsville for where I live. It's like a
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little community and there's a bunch of like a little coffee shops, flower shops
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all that. It's like a very cute, little small town vibe. And
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yeah, you guys know how I feel about hawk Grow walks. It's just
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to me again, something very therapeutic to me. Next, you're gonna hit
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up a flower shop and buy yourself flowers. You cannot tell me that when
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you buy yourself flowers, it doesn't make you happy. And not only does
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it make you happy, I find it really adds a more homey feel in
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my home. Like if it's gloomy out or anything like that, if I
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see a vase of flowers in my home, I immediately still feel like very
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homey, if that makes sense. Like I feel good when there's flowers in
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my home. So right now, I literally don't have flowers in my home,
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and it's making me want to go buy myself flowers. But yeah,
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there's no better feeling than even like when you can create your own bouquet.
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I find that's really fun. Like sometimes when you just go to a local
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grocery store to pick up flowers, you can do that, but if you
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actually go to a flower shop, sometimes you're allowed to customize the bouquet yourself,
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which is actually really fun. I find being able to pick, you
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know, the flowers that you find are the most esthetic, the most beautiful,
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the ones that just capture your eye or anything like that. And just
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building a bouquet yourself is kind of also a fun activity. So yeah,
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buying yourself flowers will make you happy. Don't tell me that it doesn't,
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because it definitely does. So next after going to the coffee shop and picking
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up your favorite flowers, you're gonna go home, You're gonna put yourself together,
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and you're gonna be a tourist in your own city. What I've realized
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is being in a small town like I live in Ottawa, there's only a
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million people, so it's still considered big, but to other areas in Canada,
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it's really not. But what I've realized is that I really enjoy discovering
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new parts of my city. I've lived here my whole life. I was
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born and raised here, and I find them still finding new areas that I've
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never been in that I'm discovering that, you know, makes me want to
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go back. So I definitely like to leave my area where I live.
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So I live in like a neighborhood, but I don't really live close to
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downtown Ottawa. So downtown Ottawa is more like where all the tourist attractions are,
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the malls, the top restaurants and bars all that. So I always
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enjoy, you know, leaving my neighborhood and actually exploring other parts of my
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city. And it could even be just like walking around a park or hitting
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up a patio or just exploring different parts of your hometown. So I've realized
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that I really enjoy that because it makes me appreciate the place that I live
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even more, because sometimes I feel like I'm always like, oh, Ottawa's
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so boring, like, you know, I don't live in Toronto or Vancouver,
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where it's a bit more you know, well known for Canada. I
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feel like a lot of people don't realize that Ottawa's the capital of Canada because
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it's smaller and it's just not very like well known to people who don't really
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know Canada. But anyways, I feel like I'm always trying to make the
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most of where I live, and I always appreciate, you know, living
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in Canada and living in Ottawa specifically. But I'm a very homebody kind of
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person, meaning like I've talked about moving with Zach to the States potentially or
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other parts of Canada, but what I would miss the most is my family
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and my friends, Like that's what I appreciate the most. So yeah,
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anyways, I try and find ways to appreciate my city by still treating it
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as a place that, you know, I can explore new areas and still
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make it fun by trying different areas of my city. Okay, Next is
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booking yourself a pamper appointment. I've talked about this so many times, but
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there's no better feeling anything booking a massage or booking a facial, or getting
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your nails done or a pedicure. This reminds me that I need to book
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a mani petty because my nails are completely grown. But I love pampering myself.
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I love going to get a manny or a petty done. You can
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also do it yourself at home if you're someone that likes to always just have
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their nails done or their toes done. I find it always makes you feel
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so much more put together. But it's also nice to treat yourself and again
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get out of the house and do something for yourself. So that would definitely
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be something that would be like the cherry on top two, making the day
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even more perfect by booking an appointment that just makes you feel good. Another
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thing you're going to do is you're going to pick your favorite lunch spot.
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I feel like this is a lot in one day. Who knows if we
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have the time to do all this, but we're just hypothetically assuming that we
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have all this time. In the world to do all this stuff in one
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day. But then you're going to go to your favorite lunch spot. For
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me, I again love going in my small little neighborhood, going to a
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cute little lunch spot, hitting up a patio. There's a place that I
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love that is by my house called Quitters, and it's this cute little coffee
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shop. But they have really really good lunch options and their patio is so
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so cute. It's like little picnic tables. They have like a garden area,
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areas with umbrellas all that. And to me, like the perfect lunch
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date with myself would be, you know, hitting up that patio, bringing
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my laptop, getting work done. If you're the kind of person that likes
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to read, then bring your book, have your favorite lunch. I would
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love to have like a panini or something, and just like sit at the
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coffee shop while lunch spot and just like be in your own zone. I
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don't know. To me, that would be absolutely perfect. So think of
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your favorite lunch spot and maybe this weekend pick some time for you to go
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do that and just have some alone time, just have a solo day and
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like I said, grab yourself a book or bring your laptop and get some
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work done. I feel like it's so yeah therapeutic, just to like be
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on your own and hitting up your favorite spot at the same time. So
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we're still talking about food here. So we've had our lunch, we've had
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our little afternoon. Obviously we're gonna have to have dinner. So for me,
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I love to cook. You guys know that I'm a huge food lover,
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Like I just love to try new recipes and just you know, always
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changing up my meals here at my house. And for me, the perfect
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night would be for me to try and recreate a famous recipe that I've probably
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seen on TikTok, like the Gighadid pasta, the fed Up pasta, all
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that I'm a big pasta lover. Anything with carbs I love. So for
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me, the ideal night would be to recreate a famous TikTok recipe. Like
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if I could think of the one meal that I'm thinking in my head right
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now that I would want to make, it would be the Gigi hud Deed
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past I don't know if you guys have ever tried it, but it is
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so good. It is the perfect spicy vodka like rose pasta. Sauce.
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Oh my god, it's so good. I'm like literally creating it right now.
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But that would be like my ideal night. It would be to make
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a home cooked meal and just enjoying the cooking process and enjoying the meal after
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that. Just there's no better feeling than being at home and cooking your favorite
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meal. There's just something about the vibes that just are high and it just
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yeah, it just makes me feel good. And then once you've had your
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favorite dinner, obviously you need to clean up. We're going to ignore that
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part because I as much as I love cleaning and it feels good after,
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I do also hate cleaning. There's a love hate relationship with cleaning. But
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after that, you're going to give yourself a little spawn night. You're gonna
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put on a face mask, put on an eyemask, take a bath,
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just have a little spawn night at home. I feel like bodycare is something
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I always lack, so I always try and make it a priority to you
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know, use body serums, body scrubs, exfolians, all that. Especially
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when you have that shower where you're using those products, it always feels so
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good. One thing that I've recently been trying that I just got recently is
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the way body scrub. It is amazing and it smells like you're on vacation.
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That is the best way to explain it. It smells so so good.
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It's something that I've recently discovered and it has been a game changer.
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So I'm just randomly adding that product into this because I have recently became obsessed
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with it and I love it. But that's something I would do to end
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my night. And then lastly, to top off this perfect day of your
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solo date, is watching your favorite movie, not TV show movie. There's
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something about movies that I fine, are just like so much better. And
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this is kind of funny. The other night I never told you guys this,
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but I had a night to myself, Zach. I think was at
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a baseball game or something, and I was just like in the mood for
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like a good romantic like Nicholas Sparks movie that I haven't seen in like years.
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I always loved to find the good movies that came out years ago that
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used to watch in the movie theaters and all that. So one movie that
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I watched in the movie theaters, I want to say, like maybe seven
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years ago, six years ago. I don't know how old this movies.
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I forgot the Longest Ride. Please tell me you guys have seen that movie.
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I sat in my room and I cried for like twenty minutes straight at
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the ending scene because it was just, oh my god, it was so
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good. I cried my eyes out. If you haven't seen that movie,
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guys, you need to. I'm telling you right now. If you cry
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watching a movie, it's a good movie. In my opinion. If I'm
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crying, you know it's a good movie. So you definitely need to watch
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that movie. You haven't. Another really good movie that I love is the
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best of me. Oh, I need to watch that one. All these
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movies I think are on Disney Plus if you guys have it. But I
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love a good Nicholas Sparks movie. It always gets me so emotional and fun
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fact about me, I honestly think I'm the most emotional person in the world.
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I'm not even over exaggery. I cry about everything, like I see
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an ig reel or something or a TikTok about whether it's a dog or a
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wedding or something, and I'm crying, like I'm literally crying. I don't
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know why. I'm such an emotional person. I feel like I cry over
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everything. If you guys, listen to my proposal episode where I told you
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guys, Zach and I literally cried for like three hours straight, Like who
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are we? Like? Why are these kinds of people where we're just always
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crying? But anyways, they're all happy tears obviously, well, I mean,
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unless I'm watching the sad movie that I watch, they're obviously not happy
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tears. But in general, it's fine to be an emotional person. I'm
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embracing about me being emotional about everything, but it's fine, Okay, So
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that would be like my perfect day, My perfect solo day would be to
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do all those things, but for other date ideas or things that you can
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do by yourself. This is something that I've been really wanting to do,
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is just teaching yourself a new hobby. One thing that I've been really wanting
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to try this summer is just painting. I haven't paint on a canvas since
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I was like maybe an elementary school, maybe high school, I'm not sure,
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but I suck at painting, But I definitely feel like that's something that
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I would like to learn. I've always wanted to, like, paint something
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from my home and being able to like hang it up. I think I
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need to practice a bit more if I'm gonna be putting a piece artwork up
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that I painted in my home. But it's definitely something that I've always wanted
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to try. There's also a lot of like paint classes that you can go
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to that's something that I've been wanting to try, or like pottery classes.
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This is not really a solo thing, but I would love to do like
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a paint in wine night with my girlfriends, Like that'd be really fun to
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host here at my place. But yeah, that's definitely something that I've been
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wanting to teach myself. Is just trying a new hobby. I think that's
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something that a lot of people could do in their solo time. Another idea
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is planning a staycation, so booking yourself a little weekend getaway just you,
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yourself and I nobody else and just having a weekend and doing your favorite thing.
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So kind of like everything that I explained, you could really do that
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in a whole weekend and make a whole weekend trip out of it and make
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it the perfect solo weekend, and it could just be an Airbnb, it
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could be a hotel, it could be like a city that's super close by
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to you that you could just drive to. Yeah, I don't know.
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I've never done a solo staycation, but it definitely sounds like something that I
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would be willing to try. Something that is definitely one of my comfort zone.
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But I think it'd be nice to have a weekend to yourself. Okay,
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this next one is kind of like taking yourself out to lunch. You
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can just take yourself out to dinner, go to a fancy restaurant, order
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yourself a glass of wine, an amazing pasta dish or pizza dish or your
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favorite dinner, and again just enjoying your own companies. So it's always nice
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to get dressed up. And Yeah, if you're not in a relationship and
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you don't have those nights where you get to go on a date night because
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you don't have a partner, who freaking cares If you don't have a partner,
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go by yourself. Just take yourself on a date. Maybe you can
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sit by the bar and you can meet, you know, other people.
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You don't have to be in a relationship to go on a date. So
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definitely romanticize a date night to yourself by treating yourself to a restaurant that you
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really like and just go by yourself and get dressed up. So those are
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just additional ideas that you can do for a little solo date night or date
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day or whatever. But know that it's so important to create that balance between
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your social interactions with being with your friends, being with your family, and
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being with your partner, but also being able to enjoy your own company.
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I think last weekend made me realize how much I actually enjoy being alone and
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doing those little things that I enjoy, because obviously I live with Zach,
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and you know, sometimes Zach doesn't want to do those things that I want
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to do. So it's nice to be able to to have a night to
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myself and do those little things that I enjoy. So this is your sign
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to give yourself a solo date or a solo day and just do all your
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favorite things that make you happy. And again, this is not something you
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have to do every single week, but it's definitely important to create that balance
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where you're able to enjoy your own company but also enjoy spending your time with
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friends and family. Okay, so let me give you guys a bit of
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a life update, because I feel like I have not touched on some of
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these things in a hot minute. So I feel like I get a lot
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of messages on the Instagram about my engagements, wedding all that. So I'm
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going to throw out the wedding just because obviously I've been engaged now for I
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think it's five months, which kind of sounds really crazy to me. How
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anyways, how time just flew by, but weddings take a long time,
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guys, So I really don't have any wedding updates, like I have little
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updates that I'll share with you guys, but know that realistically, like more
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wedding stuff that I'll be sharing will be more like next year, I find
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because I'm in the very beginning stages of planning and me and Zach are really
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not trying to rush it, Like I feel like a year is very common
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to plan a wedding. So once I have more information, I will definitely
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share more information. But right now, for me, I'm still focused on
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engagement, even though we've been engaged for five months, and I mentioned in
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an episode a few episodes ago that we're doing a really big engagement party.
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Like, essentially, my engagement party is kind of a wedding. I don't
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want to say it's a wedding, but we're inviting a lot more people because
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we're having a more intimate wedding. So right now, my focus has been
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entirely that, like ordering furniture, making sure I have vendors for like hair
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and makeup outfits, like I still don't have address. I need to go
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shopping for address, like all those little things. So my focus has been
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primarily on that, and I feel like I've kind of pushed work a bit
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to the side lately. I feel like I've been really focused on just trying
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to get all the stuff for the engagement party done since we're really close to
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it. My engagement parties in September, so it's almost July, which means
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I'm two months away. But I need to be obviously planning in advance for
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a lot of these things. So anyways, one little update that I have,
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which I'm really excited about, is I finally booked my engagement photo shoot.
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I've been waiting to book the photo shoot just to find the right photographer,
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and I finally found one, and I'm so excited. So Zach and
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I are doing our engagement shoot in July, so literally in a few weeks.
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So right now I'm in the process of just trying to find outfits for
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the photo shoot. We're going to do two different looks, So if you
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guys have any recommendations on where to shop for bridle dresses or anything like that,
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I've been trying to browse through like TikTok and all that to find some
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inspo. But I have been looking at like Meshki, Revolve four three seven,
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Bridle Houses CB, so if you're a bride and if you're looking for
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some outfits, they have some pretty cute options. So trying to find like
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a cute short dress and a cute long dress for the photos, and then
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I have another outfit that I have to wear for the engagement party. So
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it's already sounding expensive spending all this money on white outfits, but it's fine,
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it will all work out in the end. And then last wedding update
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I lied this is one more wedding update is that I'm finally making my bridesmaide
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proposal boxes, so I will be letting you guys know like what I put
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in them and all that I'm gonna be filming the whole entire thing. I'm
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hoping to start filming it probably in the next week or two. I still
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have a few more products that have to come in. I just recently found
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like gift boxes that I actually like that I'm going to put the product in
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and all that. So, Yeah, the only hint I will give is
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I'm making the whole bridal proposal box theme travel since my destination is a destination
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wedding, so the whole theme is going to be traveled. That's the only
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hint will give. But it's so good. I'm so excited. I literally
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picked every single product of just things that I love, like brands that I
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love, products that I love all that. So if you guys are again
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in your bridal era right now and you guys need some inspo, definitely make
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sure to follow me on socials. You guys will see that video shortly.
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I've been back in my home decor era. I've been ordering a bunch of
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home products lately. I have some things that I just want to finalize in
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my home, Like I feel like my living room is still not complete.
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I need a rug. So I found a rug. I think I'm going
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to order the larger size. I really want to hang some picture frames,
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but I also want to wait until Zach and I get our engagement photos back
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to put some of them in. I'm not going to make my whole wall
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about our engagement, but I do want to add a few nice photos because
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Zach and I actually don't have any professional photos taken, which is kind of
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funny, but after ten years of gating, you think we'd have professional photos
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taken, but we do not. So anyways, I might just put pictures
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in there for now until after our engagement photos shoot, but we shall see.
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But I'm excited to get some picture frames up and just again get back
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in the decorating process of the house. But I think that's everything that I
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can think. From a personal update, I have my best friend's wedding,
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which you guys know that i'm the maid of honor for, and I'm actually
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meeting with Alissa's cousin this week to talk about speeches. I'm kind of nervous
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to do a speech in front of a hundred and ten people at her wedding,
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but I will figure it out. I can record a podcast, so
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I'm sure I can stand up and do a speech. So anyways, that's
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what I have kind of going on. And then it's Canada Day this weekend,
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so I'm going to a cottage, which will be nice because i haven't
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really had a weekend getaway this summer yet, so I'm excited to go to
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a cottage with my best friends. But that's a bit of a personal update
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and just again some ideas for some solo date nights or solo days to yourself.
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But I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. You guys know how much
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I love you all. Definitely make sure to follow our Instagram at the Hawker
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But thank you guys again for downloading another episode. I love you all
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so much and I will see you guys next week.