CHALLENGING MYSELF | Van Life Canada

what the hell is this? is that a cucumber? what is this thing? what are those things? anybody know what this is? talking with the lady at the store apparently that thing is called the Don Qua. I don't know about you guys but that's a perfect name for for the Don Qua that's like the gangster of cucumbers. lately I haven't been well eating so great. there's been a lot of like junk food and quick easy stuff like you know like those noodles you just throw water on those like cup of noodle things just super easy stuff so I decided to smarten my butt up today and fill my cooler with some veggies and stuff it's been at least a whole week before I even put any piece of vegetables in my mouth. it's not good. all right. my grocery haul today was quite simple. I got not the big Don Qua. I got a cucumber, huge bag of spinach like giant bag of spinach, bananas which I could take out of there, oranges, apples, avocados, some little tortilla shells. I'd like to maybe like fry up some yeah I couldn't find any good salsa in there and a little thing of cheese. I'm not a big cheese guy but I feared if I'm gonna fry something up on the grill some cheese will probably you know be a good idea. it's still raining here in Vancouver. I've been doing this a lot lately. I just got off the phone well not really on the phone it's 2018 I was texting with my little one and her and I were gonna see each other on Saturday but she's decided she wants to go swimming with her friends so rad for her for going out and just doing whatever she feels like doing and I'm always gonna be here so she can see me anytime she wants. we've decided to go for dinner tomorrow night instead meaning that my little getaway trip that I have planned going to the island is going to be happening on Saturday. you got it Saturday morning that means our Sunday morning live session won't be from here in Vancouver it'll be over it'll be somewhere I don't even know where I'm gonna be on Sunday morning we're just gonna have to find some good Wi-Fi so if you guys want to come around hang around Sunday morning at some point there'll be a live session between me and this guy anyway super excited with that that we get to leave on Saturday so it's Wednesday right now so Wednesday night Thursday night Friday night three more sleeps and I get to go out oh so damn excited for this like big time alright I thought I'd show you all exactly where we're gonna go well not exactly it's an adventure so we're just gonna adventure around wherever but I do have one destination in mind so let's get zoomed in here and show you where we are at right now that little blue dot is where we are we're sitting beachfront I love this spot that little island that's right there Bowen Island that's the one that we were just on for four days just a few weeks ago that's how close it is this is the ferry terminal in West Vancouver it's like literally just a short ferry ride over we're not going to a little island we're going to Vancouver Island which is this big island right here this whole island over here is Vancouver Island we're gonna go over we're just gonna adventure I think I've got 12 or 13 days that I can get away with and I'm so freaking pumped about it the trip will last as long as my finances last on the trip so we will see how long we get it over there but there is only one place that I'm going to mandatorily show up to and that's Tofino Tofino is located right here right over here this is Tofino Tofino is like really known in Canada for surfing it's the only place we've got close to Vancouver that has waves that big so like they're not huge but they're surfable anyway that's gonna be one destination and that is the only destination we have the rest of time we are just going to drive and drive and adventure and probably go visit this lake or just kind of we're just gonna go everywhere one spot I think I might gonna try to go to depending on how gas and stuff goes is Salt Spring Island right here and then maybe come back maybe we'll take the ferry from Victoria back that way I'll show you guys Victoria which is just a beautiful city and then catch the ferry from Victoria back to Vancouver but we are leaving on Saturday morning which is I'm pretty excited about that oops did you hear that that was that was just a can of water I promise your disco I had dinner three hours ago I know in the video I'll probably look like I just had dinner but that was three hours ago here's what's happened in this evening that's been going on a lot lately it's wedding seasons coming up so I'm getting a lot of messages and stuff from brides and they ask a lot of questions so those emails sometimes can be extremely time-consuming and which is good I mean it's great I don't mind booking the weddings which is awesome but these are gigs that are like months and months and months from now and I'm actually hoping not to be here at all this wedding season I'm I'm hoping that I can just give all these gigs to a younger DJ that works for me occasionally and allow me to make money on the road while not even being here so I'm hoping we'll see how things go it's gonna take a lot for me to build up enough income to be able to travel like this summer so we'll see what's gonna go on but that's what's been time-consuming my day and it drives me crazy when I start a video and I don't finish it I'm not the kind of person that starts something and doesn't finish it it drives me freaking just mental you know when you put your mind to something follow it through no matter what it is and I've had this happen a lot lately where I've started videos and I haven't had the chance to complete it because something got in the way and then I don't want to do that anymore if I pick up my camera and start filming in a day I'm gonna do what I can to salvage that day and record a video and get it out to you guys no matter what it is I I'm the kind of person that when I started this channel I started video editing I enjoy that editing part so much that I love the feeling it gives me to produce a good video and out of the like 90 videos I've put on my channel already there's probably only 40 and probably half of them I feel really really good about and those are the ones that I want to post but I got to start teaching myself that I don't have to produce an amazing edited video that sometimes it's okay to just post something that I did that day but I've been struggling right here lately because that perfection side of me always comes out when it comes to editing I'm like I don't feel good about this video I don't want to share it but I'm making a goal right now that no matter what I start making we're gonna get it out to you guys no matter what it is if I felt the need to film that day I am gonna fulfill it and I'm gonna give it to you no matter what it is including the video you watched yesterday which was pretty simple and it wasn't a video I felt good about because what I tinkered around in the van and made some things that are holding my phone right now on my tripod gave the dog a bath that's about it like today we went grocery shopping simple little things but I'm making a pack to myself a pact is it called a pact I'm making a promise to myself right now that if I turn my camera on once that day that I will fulfill that day finish the video and get you guys something I think this is gonna be good for me because it'll challenge me to start being more creative with my time during the day and on rainy days like this it's easy to get caught up in the laptop doing business stuff or whatever I've been doing online watching YouTube or whatever but promising myself that if I hit record in the morning that I will make something that day and for one you guys will probably get a lot more videos and two it's gonna challenge me to be a lot more creative in my day than I have been these last couple of weeks sure you know there was a time there where I did full videos every single day for two weeks and it was awesome but I also didn't have any of my personal business stuff to get in the way of that where that's my problem now but no more as of today we're gonna try to find something creative and every single day and get you guys something because there's a lot of days I go for walks and I go to places that you know what I could easily make a three or a four minute montage of just beautiful things and not say a thing so I'm gonna start sharing those moments with you and yeah so anyway guys we're done for tonight I'm gonna go to bed it's getting a little late even though it looks super bright out that's just one of my new lights I got from Amazon loving those things by the way thanks for being here thanks for watching never stop being positive and please please guys be weird forever be true to that weirdness be true to whatever you are inside every single moment of every single day adios weirdos wanna say bye disco? apparently not