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78. spring non-negotiables... routines, stress relievers & healthy habits · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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  Hello you guys, and welcome back to another episode of the Hawkerel 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 Hawkerel Energy you want to attract. I really needed
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  to hear that praise in this exact moment, because your girl had a very
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  interesting weekend. I feel like this was the first weekend where I actually felt
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  extremely stressed about the wedding. Like last week it was definitely hectic, but
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  this weekend really was like one of the breaking points of just the wedding stress,
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  Like it became more real after our I think it was our fifth wedding
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  planner meeting, and yes we still have a few months away, But I
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  have never experienced so much tightness in my chest. Does anyone else feel like
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  that when they're really stressed or anxious or overthinking, they get a really really
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  tight chest Like that was me all weekend. It was so bad. So
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  if you're currently dealing with anything in your life that's been very stressful or very
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  overwhelming, or just yeah, you've been overthinking some things, know that you're
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  not the only one that's going through that. Yes, minde's wedding related,
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  but it could be work related, it could be personal issues anything like that.
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  So yeah, I mean there was some issues that we can't really control
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  the situation, one being that one of zach scrumsmen I do not think is
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  coming to the wedding at all anymore due to work. So that was something
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  that was, you know, really stressful and I felt really bad just because
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  obviously Zach was pretty disappointed. But obviously, like work is first, we
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  cannot tell our friends that, you know, you got to put everything aside
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  for a wedding. Like, I totally get it. We've given everyone enough
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  time to book time off work and all that, but not everybody has a
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  flexible work schedule, right, Like he is a firefighter, so that is
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  obviously considered a priority job in terms of being in the medical field. So
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  you know, that was pretty hard to hear and pretty hard to hear for
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  Zach. So that was pretty Yeah, it was it was emotional and it
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  is what it is. But we're working through that. And yeah, so
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  that was just like one of the problems that we went through this weekend.
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  But other than that, it's just been other little things that we have to
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  secure. And I'm that kind of person where I don't like making concrete decisions,
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  Like I'm very much a back and forth kind of gal. Like I
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  have a really hard time making a decision right there on the spot. That's
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  just who I am. I've always been like that. Thankfully for my wedding
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  dress, Like, I'm still very sure about that decision. But ope,
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  that was Freddy, Sorry about that. But yeah, I just feel like
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  sometimes it's really hard for me to make decisions. Also because we're still five
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  months out. I don't know if I'm going to change my mind five months,
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  you know, when we're actually at the wedding, Like, who knows,
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  I might have a different opinion about things or anything like that. So
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  thankfully, my wedding planners are being super accommodating and they are allowing us to
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  make decisions sixty days before the wedding, which makes me feel so much better
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  going into the wedding planning process. But yeah, I feel like I just
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  really need to take a step back and just wait until I go see the
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  venue again in May, and yeah, go from there. But anyways,
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  that has been my weekend and I kind of just wanted to talk about some
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  things that I did, because today I am feeling a lot better than what
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  I did on Sunday. I felt like Saturday and Sunday it was like really
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  really tough, and I feel like I wasn't really posting much on social media
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  just because I was like I didn't want to be posting. I didn't really
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  want to be on my phone just because I was just stressed and anxious all
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  weekend. And that's just the reality. So things that I did just to
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  kind of help me out through the stress was I really find working out helps
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  me out. Whenever I'm dealing with stress or anxiety, I always love to
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  move my body in some way. I was walking a lot this weekend,
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  like just getting outside walking for twenty minutes, you know, whether it's two
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  to three times a day, just really getting fresh air and just trying to
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  completely zone out and not think about what is stressing me out, what is
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  making me overthink anything like that. And then another thing that I've recently started
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  to do after my workouts and or even if it's during my workouts, it's
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  something that I actually learned at spin Co, and it's placing your hand on
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  your heart as well as your stomach, and I really feel like it allows
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  me to control my body and my breathing patterns, and I feel like it's
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  been really helping me out just with like, as I said, like my
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  breathing and just really allowing me to de stress and feel more connected to myself,
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  if that makes sense. Like I don't know, I've never really used
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  to be that kind of person where I would put my hand on my heart
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  and my stomach and do that type of practice, but I feel like it's
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  been really really helpful, specifically during these stressful and overwhelming situations. So just
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  being able to like, Okay, how am I going to control myself during
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  this situation, Like whether you have panic attacks or just overly stressful situations and
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  you don't know how to control you know, your anxiety through that, put
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  your hand on your heart and your stomach, close your eyes, take a
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  few deep breasts, and I'm telling you right now, you're going to feel
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  so much better. So yeah, just working on your breathing and doing that,
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  I feel like it really helps calm the body down, and that's something
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  that I feel like has been really really helpful this weekend specifically and cleaning I
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  don't know. Why is anyone else like this When they get overly stressed or
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  just overthinking about anything, they feel the urge to clean. I don't know.
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  I feel like that's a huge stress reliever for me. And I also
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  feel like when my house is a mess, I get anxiety just like looking
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  at a mess. So being able to, yeah, clean the space,
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  it just makes me feel so much less anxious. And yeah, it's a
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  way of distressing me as well. So I'm feeling so much better today,
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  especially after the call with the wedding planners and all that made me realize that,
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  like, okay, we do still have time to make decisions and all
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  that. So I just wanted to be open about that because yeah, it
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  was definitely a stressful weekend and obviously there's bigger problems in the world. I'm
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  not saying like wedding planning is a big problem, but if you're currently planning
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  a wedding, you get it. It's definitely stressful and it's really just overthinking
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  about stuff, but it is what it is. Like I'm gonna have to
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  move past that, but just to help me through those stressful times, those
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  are some things that I do. So if you're someone that's going through a
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  stressful period with school work, personal matters and like that, try those things
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  out right now will help so much. And yeah, so anyways, let's
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  talk about this episode. I know, last episode we talked about some Spring
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  must haves and trends and all that, but this week I really wanted to
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  talk about some routines, morning rituals, self care habits and I thing like
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  that that I really want to take into Spring. And some of these things
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  I'm not going to be starting until I get back from my trip, because
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  some of you may know, I am leaving next week for another trip with
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  Tren. I'm actually meeting Tren in La next Tuesday. We're speaking on a
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  panel for Spotify, which is so exciting. I feel so honored to be
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  able to go speak in front of other podcasters in the podcasting world and being
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  able to speak about my successful podcast with Trend and Fernande. I'm sure you
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  guys know Fernande as well. She's a big YouTuber and has a podcast called
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  a Better You. So US three we are going on the panel to speak
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  about how to start a successful pod cast. I yeah, feel very grateful
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  that we were selected to be able to talk about this topic. And yeah,
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  I mean I'm still very new in the podcasting world. I feel like
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  it's only been i think almost two years, which I still feel like is
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  pretty new. But I'm very very grateful for the community that we have and
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  being able to do opportunities like this, So thank you guys for allowing me
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  to have that. But yeah, it's definitely going to be a very exciting
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  week with Spotify and doing that. I think that's super cool. And then
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  from there, Turne and I are flying to Mexico for a wellness retreat that
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  we got invited to, so I'm very excited about that as well. So
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  it's going to be, yeah, a very interesting week. Next week,
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  I'm going to try my best to record an episode before I leave on the
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  Monday. It's also Zax's birthday that day, so I'm going to try my
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  best to do maybe like a pre travel routine of everything that I do prior
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  to a trip when it comes to like, yeah, have my health and
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  wellness tips, things that I bring on my trip to stay healthy, you
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  know, my beauty maintenance routines pre travel all that. So I'll probably do
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  an episode on that next week. But these are some of the things that
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  I want to start or get back into when I get back from my trip,
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  because I feel like we're officially going to be starting the wedding prep,
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  which means I just want to be a bit more intense when it comes to
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  like my workouts, my eating habits and all that, because obviously I have
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  a physical goal that I want to reach for myself, but I also just
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  want to feel my best, Like I want to look my best. I
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  want to feel my best on my wedding day. And I'm not going to
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  be doing any restrictive diets or anything like that, Like, don't worry about
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  that. I'm still going to eat what I want and all that. But
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  you know, I definitely want to be, you know, more involved in
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  terms of just maybe eating a bit better and working out a bit more things
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  like that. So yeah, So these are some of the routines that I'm
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  going to be getting into, either I've started now or we'll be getting into
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  after my trip. So let's start off with a workout routine. So I
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  would say currently I work out about four times a week. Last week I
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  started to work out five times a week, so I just added one more
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  day into my routine of working out. Honestly, I didn't feel much of
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  a change, but it feels good to know that I'm working out one extra
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  day. And I've been trying to split it up in like different ways in
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  terms of like making sure I get my cardio in, making sure I'm getting
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  my full body in. I really love to do pilates all that, so
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  I'm trying to combine those three different types of workouts in my weekly workout rotation.
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  So every Monday I go spinning. Every Tuesday, I do a full
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  body workout. Every Wednesday, I do another spin class. Every Thursday,
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  I do a pilates class. Friday I take a break, and then Saturday
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  I have the option of other doing another spin co class or another full body
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  So I try to do spinning slash cardio twice a week. I try to
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  do full body workouts twice a week, and then I try and do a
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  pilates class once a week. So that's like my perfect schedule in my opinion,
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  I feel like six days a week would be pushing it for me.
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  I think that would be too much. So I feel like five times a
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  week is going to be like the perfect rotation for me to do but one
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  thing that I've been really wanting to get into once I get back, and
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  I actually need to invest in proper equipment for this, but I want to
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  get back into running, but actually running. Like, yes, I would
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  run in the summer probably once a week, but I know I wasn't wearing
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  the proper shoes and just wasn't really actually tracking my progress or anything like that.
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  But I really want to, yeah, get into a routine of running
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  once a week or twice a week. I already do spin Coat, so
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  I'm just trying to figure that out. Right now, I feel like I'm
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  only gonna run once a week and then do spin Coat twice a week,
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  just because I love spinning so much that I really don't want to remove that
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  from my routine, because I personally find spinning is the new clubbing for thirty,
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  if that makes sense. Like I feel like every time I go to
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  spin Coat, I feel like I'm at a club, Like I literally just
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  love the vibes. They're so good, the community is so great, Like
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  I just love it much that I will never remove that out of my routine
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  at least for now. But running I really do enjoy because I love being
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  outside. I love Freddy coming on runs with me. Freddie loves it,
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  and it's just very refreshing to run within my neighborhood. And yeah, it's
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  just something that I really love to do in the summer. So I really
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  want to invest in good quality running shoes and actually figure out how to track
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  my progress and all that. So I'm definitely going to look into that adding
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  that into my routine after I get back from my trip because it's obviously starting
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  to get nicer here and the weather's getting warmer, so it's going to be
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  very enjoyable to be outside and running. So yeah, that's definitely something that
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  I want to get back into and actually, yeah, make it more of
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  a priority when I get back from my trip. And then another thing I've
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  been debating on doing is signing up for personal training. I've never done personal
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  training in my life, so I have no idea what to expect from it.
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  But I thought, I'm, like, you know, what, it
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  might be worth doing a few sessions just to try it out, see if
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  it's for me. And if it's not for me, then it's not for
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  me. But I, yeah, really want to look into doing that maybe
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  twice a week. My mom also express interest in doing that, so me
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  and my mom might do it together during the week. So that's something that
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  I'm looking into. I don't know if that's gonna be something that I do
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  end up doing, but it's just something that I've been wanting to do for
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  a very long time. But I've always kind of just was like, oh,
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  it's too expensive, I don't want to waste my money. Whatever.
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  But now I'm kind of like, I'm putting the money towards myself, I
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  might as well give it a shot. So yeah, keep you posted on
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  that. But that's something that I've been wanting to look into for the spring
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  season. And then another thing, this is not really a workout routine.
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  This is more so just my health routine. But I don't know if anyone
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  else has been like this, but my water intake has been awful lately.
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  Like I do not know why. I just feel like I've been lacking my
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  water intake, Like I just haven't been gravitating towards my water bottle to drink
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  it consistently, fill it up consistently. I don't know what's in the air
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  why. Maybe it's because I was on vacation and I was in a bad
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  water routine. Like I was not like I was drinking a craps and alcohol,
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  but you know, there was obviously other drinks there that I wanted to
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  try, and I wasn't really focusing on my water intake. I also didn't
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  have a water bottle on the trip, which I feel like plays a factor.
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  So I decided to buy myself a new water bottle because I was like,
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  I don't know what's going to motivate me to get back into drinking water,
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  and obviously drinking water plays a huge impact in how you feel throughout the
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  day. I feel like I've been kind of tired some days, and honestly,
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  it's probably because I haven't been drinking as much water as I usually do.
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  So I decided to buy a bigger and new water bottle, and I'm
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  hoping that I get back into a water intake routine. I hope it motivates
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  me. So yeah, I don't want to say that buying a new water
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  bottle is going to cure all your problems, but for my situation, the
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  water bottle that I currently have is quite small. It's really not that big,
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  and I have to fill it up like three times within the day to
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  actually get enough water for the day. So I'm like, if I can
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  just get one big water bottle and just have to fill it up once and
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  that's my water intake for the day, it's probably a bit easier. So
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  that's what I did. There's so many amazing new brands out too, like
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  I've seen it all over TikTok, the Broommate, hydro jug all that.
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  I have a simple, modern one and I do love it. I just
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  think it's too small for my everyday use, so I need something a bit
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  bigger. So anyways, I rather be honest with you guys and say,
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  like, listen, this has not been good lately. I need to get
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  better at it. So this is one of my non negotiables for Spring,
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  is just really making sure I get my water intake back up to what it
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  was, because yeah, I've been as I said, I've been feeling a
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  little tired lately. I also want to touch on morning rituals because obviously you
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  guys know that I have a morning routine. I'm very focused on getting these
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  things done every single morning to feel my absolute best. But one thing that
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  I have been feeling lately, as I said, is I've been feeling really
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  tired. Like, I'm like, why do I feel like I need another
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  coffee? I do not need another coffee. I try and limit myself to
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  one coffee day because I feel like if I have too much caffeine, it
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  impacts my anxiety. Blah blah blah. The girls, I get it,
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  get it. So I decided to do some research and I saw some stuff
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  about the ice plunge or the ice dunk. I don't know if you guys
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  have seen that on TikTok. I've seen a few girls do it, where
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  essentially, you get a big bowl that would fit your face, you put
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  some ice in it, you put some cold water in it, and then
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  you dunk your face three times for ten seconds. I decided to try this
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  the other day, and let me tell you, I loved it because I
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  definitely woke the hell up and it felt really refreshing on my face. However,
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  some of the girlies on TikTok decided to let me know that apparently this
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  is not good to do for your skin. So now I'm like, how
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  does a bucket of ice in water with your face being in you know,
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  in it, how does that impact your skin? Like, I don't really
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  understand that, But let me know if you're into the whole skin case trends
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  or anything like that, if you know any information on that, Because what
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  I was told is that it's good for in depuffing your face, it's good
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  for like tightening it up, anything like that, and that's not really the
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  reasons why I'm doing it, to be honest, I'm more so doing it
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  because I just like the feeling of that wake up call of a cold plunge,
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  essentially, like I don't have access to a cold bath to go in
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  for two minutes or three minutes, so it's okay, maybe I should start
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  doing this ice down thing. So I don't know if it's going to be
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  part of my new morning routine. I have no idea. I need to
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  do more research on it, clearly, But you know, I posted a
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  TikTok on it yesterday and some girls were like, yes, love it,
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  and then other girls were like, no, don't do this, this is
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  so bad for your skin. But I'm like, Okay, well, obviously
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  I don't want to listen to people that aren't well educated, but I also
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  am not well educated in the whole ice bucket theory. So if you have
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  any insight on it let me know. But I merely was just doing it
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  to really just wake my body up because I don't want to have a second
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  copy throughout the day. I wanted to figure out another way to just really
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  refresh myself and wake the heck up. And I did actually felt like it
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  really did work. I was super productive when I did it, like throughout
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  the rest of the day, I was just like getting so much work done.
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  It felt great. So I don't know, I need to do more
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  research, clearly, maybe talk to the person that I get my facials done
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  with and actually see if there's any negative impacts on your face. So I
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  haven't noticed any negative impacts, but you know, you do you. But
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  yeah, that's just something I wanted to highlight because that was something that I've
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  been trying to add into my routine. But we'll keep you guys posted if
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  this is something that I continue to do. My other routine that I always
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  make a priority is my reset routine. As you guys know, so usually
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  during the spring season, I like to buy spring foods specifically, so going
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  on weekly grocery runs. Obviously that's a priority for me. I do that
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  every single Monday. It's just my go to thing. I get my groceries,
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  I organize my fridge, I clean on my produce and vegetables for the
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  week. I'm just like very stuck on that routine, and I feel so
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  good starting off the week like that and then knowing that everything is organized and
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  done, all my food is washed and easily accessible for making dinners and all
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  that just makes things a bit easier throughout the week, specifically because Zach comes
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  home really late from work, so being able to have some tasks already done,
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  it makes dinner go buy faster. For yeah, just cooking and all
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  that. But anyways, I've been trying to buy some seasonal items. So
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  some spring foods that you could purchase right now include strawberries, avocados, lemons,
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  and limes, mangoes. I've been obsessed with mangoes lately. I don't
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  know why pineapples, so yeah, I feel like just buying spring foods,
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  I feel like they always taste better, right, like it's their it's their
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  season, I guess, is what they would be considered. And then some
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  vegetables that are considered during the spring season are arugula, asparagus, carrots,
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  and peas. So if you're someone that wanted to know what the spring foods
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  were. Those are it, And I did actually purchase a lot of these
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  things just for cooking. So yeah, and speaking about cooking, when it
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  comes to cooking meals at home, I have been really bad at cooking at
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  home meals lately. I think it's because there's been a lot of birthdays in
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  my family. It was my dad's birthday, then it was my sister's birthday,
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  then it was my grandma's birthday. So we've been going out a lot
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  for food, and I just haven't really been in the consistent routine of eating
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  home cooked meals. So I'm trying to get back into that this week by
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  eating at home more unless going out. So I went on Pinterest. I
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  got some new recipes to try out. We're doing taco soup this week.
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  We're doing a salmon curry, just trying to change it up and get back
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  into the healthy eating routine. So that's something that I'm really trying to make
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  a priority. And then another thing is when it comes to cleaning. I
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  always love to clean my bed sheets once a week, but I've kind of
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  been slacking on that. So I'm like, hey, this spring we got
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  to get back into it. Cleaning the bedding. I've been, you know,
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  not really home because of traveling. So I'm hoping that will be consistent
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  routine when I get back for my trip, but definitely will clean it before
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  I leave, because I always love coming home to a clean house whenever I
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  do travel, even though Zach will be here and he'll probably make a mess
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  out of the house, but I don't know. That's reality of living with
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  a boy. Cleaning my makeup brushes and my hair brushes, goodness, I
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  have not cleaned my hair brushes in a hot minute. I have to be
• 21:21
  honest. I feel like that's something that people don't really think about, Like
• 21:22
  makeup brushes. Yes, I feel like for putting it on your face and
• 21:26
  all that totally makes sense to make sure to do that on a weekly basis.
• 21:30
  Have I done it on a weekly basis? Probably not. I've honestly
• 21:33
  been doing it maybe once a month. But I need to be better at
• 21:37
  it because I know how important it is. Even my facialists was like,
• 21:41
  girl, you gotta make sure you're clean those makeup brushes, not like my
• 21:44
  skin was dirty, but she was just saying that reminder to me. And
• 21:48
  I'm like, yeah, I really need to get into a consistent routine of
• 21:49
  this. I wish there was just an easier way to be fully transparent.
• 21:52
  Like I don't want to sound lazy, but I honestly feel like there needs
• 21:56
  to be some type of tool that you can literally just throw your ma,
• 22:00
  get brushes in, press a button, does its thing, take it out,
• 22:03
  air, dry it, it's good to go. It's just actually doing
• 22:06
  it. I feel like it's such a pain in the butt, and I
• 22:08
  have so many brushes that I use for so many different reasons. Obviously,
• 22:11
  girls that get it get it, you guys know. But yeah, there
• 22:15
  has to be something easier out there, Like there just has to be.
• 22:17
  I'm gonna have to go on Amazon and see if the's such a thing.
• 22:18
  But anyways, hair brushes is something that I definitely need to do, so
• 22:23
  yeah, just putting in some shampoo, some dish soap, put in some
• 22:27
  hot water, pulling out the hair all that. I also just love the
• 22:30
  feeling of something new, you know what I mean, Like I don't need
• 22:34
  to go buy all new makeup brushes just to feel good about myself. Like
• 22:40
  clean them, make them feel brand new, and then you don't have to
• 22:42
  go spend all this money for a brand new makeup brush or hair brush,
• 22:47
  right so being able to clean it and make something feel so new feels so
• 22:49
  good. So that's something that I definitely need to make a priority. And
• 22:53
  then I mentioned this in the last episode, but just weekly flower runs,
• 22:56
  I'm due to get my flowers, I think too more or Thursday. I
• 23:00
  haven't determined when I'm going to do that yet, but I got some last
• 23:03
  week for my sister's birthday, and then I picked up some for myself.
• 23:07
  And there's something about having flowers in your home. I'm telling you right now,
• 23:10
  it feels so good. I find my house just feels prettier and it's
• 23:15
  just the girly things that make you feel so happy. So yes, I
• 23:18
  know it can be expensive, but I'm going to just pick up some of
• 23:21
  the grocery store and make an arrangement myself. This one was purchased from a
• 23:23
  florist, but I think just making it at home with grocery store flowers is
• 23:27
  super simple to do as well, and it's a bit more affordable. So
• 23:30
  I can show you, guys how I do that to make a bouquet.
• 23:33
  Just look more luxurious like adding eucalyptus, adding a few colorful flowers, adding
• 23:40
  some whites. All that, I'm going to show you guys. I'm going
• 23:41
  to make a TikTok on this because it's really not that hard. The max
• 23:44
  amount of money you're gonna spend is maybe fifteen dollars. So yeah, I'm
• 23:48
  gonna show you guys how I do that. And then the last routine that
• 23:49
  I always try and make a priority is my beauty routine. So something I've
• 23:53
  been doing is monthly facials. I've mentioned this before, but this is something
• 23:57
  I've been trying to do honestly because of my wedding. I don't think this
• 24:00
  is a necessary cost to pay on a monthly basis. I think maybe doing
• 24:03
  a facial like three times a year or two times a year is honestly enough.
• 24:07
  But I'm doing it monthly just because I want my skin to be the
• 24:11
  absolute best for my wedding. But I have learned a lot about my face
• 24:15
  going to a facialist. I feel like this is something that I never really
• 24:21
  knew. Like, obviously we learned stuff through social media, but everyone has
• 24:25
  different skin types and different priorities, and I just learned a lot through my
• 24:30
  facialists and just by going to these appointments. So at the last time I
• 24:33
  went, I was like, do I have any black heads? Like?
• 24:36
  I know I have a pretty bad tea zone, Like that's always been my
• 24:41
  insecurity. Obviously, people have acne or you know, zits that they are
• 24:45
  bothered by, but for me, with my skin, it's always just been
• 24:48
  my t zone. So she said I should be exfoliating my face twice a
• 24:52
  week. I'm going to be fully transparent. I have never exfoliated my face
• 24:56
  before. I don't know just I never have. I didn't know that was
• 25:00
  really not like I didn't know that was a thing. I know it was
• 25:03
  a thing, but I didn't know it had to be done twice a week.
• 25:06
  So I don't usually change up my skincare because I believe in whatever works
• 25:10
  for your face, stick to it. Because I feel like when you change
• 25:12
  your products too much at once, it's hard to determine what's causing the breakouts
• 25:18
  on your face. Right, So for me, I usually only like to
• 25:22
  try and add one new product into my routine at a time. If I
• 25:25
  am going to change it up that way, I know, okay, this
• 25:27
  product is what's creating my breakouts or creating some issues on my face because I
• 25:33
  have very very sensitive skin, so I need to invest in an exfoliator.
• 25:37
  So that's going to be my goal this week is to do that. I
• 25:41
  just know that I have really clogged tea zone, as I said, so
• 25:45
  just like in my forehead, my nose, my chin, So I just
• 25:48
  want to be able to yeah, just get that resolved. And then another
• 25:52
  thing I'm doing I'm actually doing this this week is getting a haircut. So
• 25:56
  this is your reminder if you haven't gotten one. We're at the three month
• 25:59
  mark twenty twenty fours, so it's your sign to get a little refresh,
• 26:03
  a little change. So I'm gonna get a trim, not cutting her all
• 26:08
  off. Imagine if I did the Missbeaber haircut like for the wedding. I
• 26:14
  can never I can never cut my hair that short, like I love it
• 26:18
  and some people rocket, but I feel like I've always wanted long hair,
• 26:22
  and you know, I grew this hair out for so long and I would
• 26:26
  consider it healthy, but it could be better, Like it's healthy but not
• 26:30
  the healthiest it could be. So I'm definitely in need of a trim.
• 26:33
  I've been wanting to try the butterfly haircut, but I'm also like, do
• 26:37
  you want to try and experiment something before the wedding. I don't know.
• 26:41
  I might try and do something in between where I get long layers and long
• 26:45
  bangs, kind of similar what I usually do, but I'll maybe post a
• 26:51
  Instagram story or video in terms of what I asked at my hairdresser. But
• 26:56
  I'm gonna ask her what she recommends because I need a trim, I want
• 26:59
  layers. I also need a toner because my hair pulls red. If you're
• 27:03
  a brunette and you pull red as well, it sucks. I get you,
• 27:07
  I feel you. So I always have to tone my hair every four
• 27:12
  months, which it is what it is. I mean the blondes. You
• 27:17
  guys pay a lot of money to keep up your highlights and your blonde hair,
• 27:19
  so I get it. I can't complain. But yeah, definitely need
• 27:22
  to tone my hair every few months, especially when I'm in the sun.
• 27:26
  So when I was in Mexico, I think it got lighter from that,
• 27:30
  but I went super dark in December. I don't think I'm gonna go dark
• 27:33
  again like that. I want to go shade lighter. But yeah, so
• 27:37
  I need a refresh. It's just something i'd love to do usually in the
• 27:41
  spring season, just get a little refresh, and yeah, that's what I'm
• 27:45
  gonna be doing this week. Lastly, I feel like I need to remind
• 27:48
  people about this because I need to remind myself. Is just following up with
• 27:52
  your dentist appointments, your doctor's appointments, all that. I need a dentist
• 27:56
  appointment so badly, so I ended up booking one for the end of April
• 28:00
  just to get my teeth figured out. I have four front teeth that are
• 28:06
  bonded, so basically what it is is just like it's caps over my four
• 28:10
  teeth. I've had them since I was like thirteen years old, but they
• 28:14
  definitely need to be refreshed. So that's something that I'm trying to make priority.
• 28:18
  And I just feel like overall, I've been banking my beauty routine a
• 28:22
  bit more high maintenance. Not gonna lie because I feel like for the wedding
• 28:26
  and making it a bigger deal. But I mean there's some girlies like me
• 28:30
  that just like their high maintenance things. But you can easily do some of
• 28:33
  these stuff at home, like whether it's whitening your teeth. You can do
• 28:36
  that at home. Wanting to do self tanner that can be done at home,
• 28:38
  like little things like that, like you can do it at more of
• 28:41
  a budget cost. I just think I've been putting more money towards myself just
• 28:45
  because of the wedding, but I also just love to do these things,
• 28:49
  like these are just some things that I like to do for myself because I'm
• 28:52
  investing in myself. But I know not everybody has luxury of doing that.
• 28:56
  But then disappointments are covered under my benefits obviously, So that's just something that
• 29:02
  I know has to be done because it hasn't been done in like thirteen years,
• 29:07
  fourteen years, so I need veneers. But I'm not doing that right
• 29:11
  now, but definitely in the future. So it's kind of like my glow
• 29:15
  up routine right now. Things that I've been wanting to do for the spring
• 29:18
  season. So that is my current non negotiables for the spring season or just
• 29:25
  some things that I'm trying to make a priority this season. But I hope
• 29:27
  you guys enjoyed this episode. As I said, I'm going to try my
• 29:32
  best to record an episode for next week before I leave for my trip.
• 29:36
  But I love you guys also much thank you guys for listening to another episode.
• 29:38
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• 29:41
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• 29:45
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• 29:48
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• 30:00
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• 30:03
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