9-5 WORK WEEK IN NYC VLOG: 6am workout routine, work life balance + daily habits

It's good for your gut and your vagina. This is my first gym of the year. We're growing the booty. You guys, this never happens. This feels like Christmas or Hanukkah. Got our coffee shop on and we're ready to take on the day. Give me a break here, don't. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Hello everyone, welcome back to our community. Ooh, I'm out of focus. I'm actually gonna trade in my camera this week, which is kind of crazy because this camera works perfectly fine. But for other reasons, I'll explain when I unbox it. I'm quickly doing a Melissa Wood Health. I'm Chromecasting it to my screen to get a little workout in because I have 20 minutes before therapy. It is the first workday of the new year and I have not really slept well in two nights, but we're just pretending that's not my reality. I'm gonna quickly do Melissa Wood Health, get my ankle weights on, do therapy, and then we'll get the day started. Get the palms together. Overhead, lift the chest up. Lifting confidence with a strong core. Holding the head forward, straightening. Back and forth, using everything. Two, last one, left. And then drop the knees, hips are high. Left elbow, bring it into that left hand. We're back at the desk. I'm doing the standing desk version today. I'm also just posting a reel really quick. Anyway, I was expecting to feel very refreshed for the first day of back to work and editing and wanting to come up with all these new, creative ideas for videos, but I'm still hungover from New Year's Eve. I need a second coffee and it is 10 a.m., but it's just gonna be that kind of day because not only am I hungover, but I did not sleep last night because Ethan was snoring, which he never does because he's stuffed up. So that was annoying. I can't focus, but how cute. So Cara sent me this for the holidays. Love it. It's a size small. If anyone wants it, I will link it down below. I think my code to work, exogenlauren, because it's for the whole website. Let's get to work. Just here to say it is January 2nd, first day of work of the new year, and I have successfully been procrastinating for the past hour. So we're officially back in our routine, but no, I need to like really get it together. So I just put my phone in the charger over there and we're back to work. I took such a break from my own content other than YouTube over break that I'm now like excited to be posting on stories and stuff again, but not the time, Jen. So we're refocusing. I do want to sit down and do like a wedding planning update in this vlog. I'll probably be doing it for the next almost two years. I'm planning a wedding starting like now for next fall, fall 2025. So I have a lot of time, but I want to do like almost monthly updates and just like, I'm trying to figure out how I want to organize it. Do I want to film all my wedding planning content and turn it into like a wedding planning series where it's kind of like a wedding planning vlog where it shows me over that month and everything I did for planning that month, or if I want to just sprinkle them in here. Comment down below if you have any thoughts or ideas. I'll probably do a little bit of both, but I am thinking of like documenting the whole process and making it separate monthly videos with obviously like, if it's on my mind in these vlogs, I'll share, but if I'm like going to see a venue or going like doing something a little bigger than just venting, that'll be part of the bigger wedding planning vlog. I think I'm going to do that like a series over the next like year and a half. Let me know your thoughts. I'm procrastinating doing my own content again. Okay, get to work, Jen. I put my phone away and I start talking to the camera. New year and same shit. Ethan's sweaty clothes are just hanging up everywhere. Okay, it's supposed to be freezing outside. So I'm going to bundle on up and take my lunch break. I just quickly ate 20 minutes and now I'm going to go to Trader Joe's stock up for the week because we didn't get to do that yesterday. We got back to the city pretty late, but I don't know if I said, yeah, I did say this. I'm like, this is the first day of the new year. I've said that probably 50 times. So I'm going to go quickly grocery shop, but it's freezing out. So wish me luck. We got the goods and it feels good to be out in the... I'm that freak that like loves the winter and loves being in the cold. I have to put my groceries away and get back to work. I literally just walked in the door, but Jess just met me outside my apartment because she said she had something to drop off for me. And I told her I was on the way home and I just slashed a paper cut on whatever she just handed me. But how cute, this is a card to me and Ethan. I have a feeling because she already like right after we got engaged, she gave me a gift. It's this really cool like button down that has the initials JS embroidered in it. It's so cool. And when she was here, she was like, wait this is just for you though. So I think she felt bad and got like one for both of us instead of just something for me which she so did not have to do. Oh my God. I mean, how do I open it? I have like a bloody fingernail. That's really cute. Oh my God. I've never seen a photo book like this. It says the beginning of forever and then it has all of our photos in it. That is literally the most thoughtful, cutest gift idea. I'm upset. It's neutral. This is actually really convenient too. Cause I have a few random pictures that we take at weddings and stuff just like laying out that I can now keep in here. Oh my God. I love this. You know what? Maybe I'll swap all these photos for our wedding photos one day. Cause I like that it says the beginning of forever. This is adorable. Oh, she's the best. Okay. I'm going to go put a bunch of my crap away and get back to work. Good morning. I'm watching a video on building your glutes. I don't know. Okay. I just packed up a bag. It is almost 9 a.m. and I usually don't start work till 10. Where's my coffee? But I have a video that I really need to get done for work. They need to upload it basically today to promote the new episode that came out today. So I need to get it done ASAP. I had less time this week because not only obviously did we have Monday off for New Year's, but usually their new episodes aren't till Fridays or Thursday, sorry. So I would have had all day today but they changed the cadence of their episode upload. So I just have less time. So it's kind of a rush. So I'm going to go to the gym, work from there, finish that video. And then since I'm starting work early, I'm gonna still end at seven, but take an extra hour in the day to work out. I think that math checks out, but basically I just like, I could work out first, but I feel like then I'll just start work a little late because I'm running late this morning and I gotta get this shit done. The past few months, I've been taking these new probiotics because it's good for your gut and your vagina. Who knew that like we, like no one tells us we also need a probiotic for our vagina. So it's from Love Wellness. I already spoke about in my, how I trained for my first half marathon video, the pH balancing cleanser, which I've been using for like four years. It was the first thing I ever used of Love Wellness. At that point, I was using like all these scented, fragranced brands down there for cleansing. And biggest mistake, I was like having chronic use infections and whatnot, but Love Wellness is literally the best brand for feminine hygiene. The reason I love these good girl probiotics is because it's one tiny pill. So you're getting gut health, vaginal health, like overall health in a tiny, easy to take pill. Literally just one, one a day with or without food. They literally just upgraded it. So now it has nine probiotic strains instead of eight. It's all now 100% vegan, which doesn't affect me, but might affect you. So thank you to Love Wellness for sponsoring this portion of the vlog because I love when I get to work with brands that I genuinely am so passionate about. And I don't know any other feminine hygiene brand that is as clean and proactive and has actually worked. Like the amount of things I used to try down there, let me tell you, until Love Wellness came about, now like I literally don't even think about my vaginal health because I just take this and use the cleanser after I work out every day and like they have me covered. So if you use code Jenn15, you get 15% off a one-time purchase at lovewellness.com on any product. So I will put that up here and down below in the description. I will link it in the description. I'll pin it, all the things so that you can easily go purchase it. And also they're like not expensive at all. So highly recommend. Let's go to the gym. I just took my like beta alanine stuff that makes me tangle and have energy after I did work for about two hours. So this is technically my lunch break. I'm taking a break for a workout because I started work like two hours early today. So I didn't get to work out. And we're doing leg day. This is my first gym of the year and I'm trying to get more into strength training this year. So wish me luck. We're growing the booty. I really enjoyed working out at the gym today. That's all I have to say on that. I really did. I'm like crashing a little bit, just doing some work right now. I'm listening to, it's Wednesday. I'm listening to the episode that's going live on Monday for the Skinny Confidential podcast and taking notes so that I can do the assets like the trailers and whatnot tomorrow. So that's what I'm doing. And I'm just sitting on the couch because I'm slowly dying. It's so weird. It's like, I know I'm getting sick and I feel the sickness coming, but I'm like, okay, it's weird. So I'm trying to just like take advantage and like pretend nothing's happening. You guys, this never happens. This feels like Christmas or Hanukkah. We were planning on cooking. I like got all these groceries yesterday for the week. And Ethan is like, we cook every weeknight. Like unless there's some reason or some plan we are cooking every weeknight and Ethan's really good about that. Like very on top of it. And he was supposed to pick up like protein today to cook and like go to Whole Foods, pick up meat or fish or whatever. And I had all the veggies and everything that I got while we were grocery shopping. Anyway, this is boring. Point being, he really doesn't feel well. We both don't feel well. I think he feels a little worse than me because he hasn't been sleeping and neither have I, but he handles that not as well as I do. I definitely feel a sickness on the horizon, but I'm just like, and I definitely am tired and not in the mood to cook. So I'm very happy about it. But yeah, he's just like not up for it. So we're ordering food and I came on here to say, it feels like Christmas because I don't have to cook. I'm old. Hello. Okay, wait, I'm starving. Let's make food. Whoa, starving. Sorry, the lighting's so yellow in here and I don't feel like getting the ring light out because I'm for sure getting sick and I'm just feeling tired and lazy and I'm sorry. Okay, let's make my yogurt with protein powder. Work starts in 15. I feel like totally manageable and fine to work, but not totally manageable and fine to like go work out or do anything like that. I'm pretty sure we have COVID because Ethan and I are on the same exact timeline, like woke up feeling exactly the same side, which never happens. It's always like I'm fully sick and then I'm recovered and then he's sick and it's like a three week situation between the two of us. So it's actually kind of nice that if we're both gonna be sick, it's at the same time. Although then you can't help each other. So that part is a little annoying, but at least then like you can be sick together and like lay all day together instead of laying down and then the other person is like out doing things. Although we're in a tiny apartment, so we'll see. I might take that back. But anywho, I have just been editing fun engagement TikToks all morning because I uploaded a video on TikTok that went viral last night of Ethan asking my parents to marry me. I don't know if I'm gonna put it on shorts. People are like kind of mean on shorts, but maybe I will. But go head over to TikTok to see that. But it went viral. Now people who like just found it didn't necessarily see. I've been like sitting on a lot of engagement content and I feel like I haven't fully told the full story of how he proposed except for on my podcast. So it was kind of a good opportunity while there was so much interest in it to like tell the story and like there's just like new excitement around it. And it got me excited about all the footage I've been sitting on. Like I just kind of forgot or just like haven't been thinking about it. Like get ready with me to get engaged. Like all of these videos I filmed that weekend. Also like a little voiceover story time. I just like was sitting editing this morning while I'm feeling like crap. But it was fun. Fun between like the half marathon and the engagement to have had so much content to share this year that's like more personal instead of like necessarily helpful because I feel like people are actually getting to know me more, which is always nice because a lot of the messages they get are about like IBS and whatnot. And like I'm not an adopter. I'm happy to help on like the emotional front and tell you what worked for me. Some people will be my DMs asking me for like a supplement protocol. And I'm like, I didn't do your blood work. And even if I did, I don't know how to read that. Like there's a reason I went to a doctor because I don't know what the hell I'm doing. And I don't want to give you my old protocol. I'm rambling this morning. What happens when you have caffeine but you don't work out so there's nowhere to put the energy. Let's go back to sitting and doing what we do best. Editing and sitting on my ass. Do you know why all these like free Palestine people are boycotting Starbucks? No, no. I don't either. Maybe because they think coffee is more westernized. No, I don't fully understand it but Starbucks took some sort of stance on something. And Alex Earl posted a video about like her and her boyfriend in the car and there were Starbucks cups and every single fucking comment, every single one, Ethan, was not the Starbucks cup. Girl, we're boycotting Starbucks. Like every Gen Zero is like free Palestine, fuck Israel, fuck Starbucks. Hey, this isn't working. It's that time of year. All right, you know how it's working? How much now? No. TBD. I mean BRB. Ethan's sicky. We're both sick but it's weird because like I just feel like crap in the morning. Like I can't wake up. I'm like cement into the bed and I definitely have like a throat situation going on. But then once I'm like going about my day, I feel like fine for the most part. So I think I'll be okay. I think we both like have COVID to be honest. And sometimes it's just not as bad as other times. I usually get COVID really, really bad. So it's not like, oh, my hero. Another thing about TikTok, someone posted something where this lever is annoying but there's an espresso machine where all you have to do is tap it and it's much better. Here, I got one. Coffee is coffee in my book. This is my new obsession. There's a lot of noise happening in the background but the last two times I got sick, I feel like both times were within six months and I was like brutally bad, bad, bad sick. So I feel pretty good for someone who feels like shit. This is God's gift to me. Thinking about it, I got brutally sick twice in the last six months. I'm like, I think I have it. I'm finally one of those people who has COVID in their spine. I've never been that way. I'm usually on my death bed. I also have energy because this is weird for us. This is 9 a.m. We actually slept till like 8.45 on the work day and not with a million interrupted alarms. He's really sick. I'm tired all the time. No, I'm a lot better today. Really? Yeah, I'm not feverish. It's gotta be COVID because this is how other people experience COVID. We've just always had it so bad. Last night I was feverish. It did not feel good. My head was hurting. It wasn't fun. And I was posting pictures online saying look how cute he is. At like two o'clock at work, all of a sudden I started getting like feverish symptoms. You know when like your back starts to ache and hurt? You're like, what is that? And then all of a sudden you feel fatigued. I was like, this is gonna be a tough couple hours. You made it. You survived. I think I slept that off and now it's probably gonna be my last bad day. Which is kind of nice because it's a Friday. So hopefully I'm either, I don't think I'm getting worse. I think I have an underlying sitch and I'll be good. So I think as long as we sleep in on the weekend, I'm gonna do, I'm gonna work out. Took two rest days. This is your only rest day. You worked out yesterday. No wonder you have a fever and I don't. He's literally so cute when he's sick. Like I know it's fucked up, but I can't take it. Look at me again. He's just so helpless like a puppy dog. Morning, let's get to work. I would like your take in the comments. I was just showing Ethan how my DMs on TikTok, I'm sure everyone else's who's on TikTok too, is flooded with like, are you a sugar baby? Can I be your sugar daddy? Like plenty of opportunity in Ethan's eyes. And I was just saying, he was like, why wouldn't you do that? And I said, I don't wanna get involved with these people. I don't want like, like I'm pretty sure you send them like probably credit cards. I don't know. No, you just send them your Venmo. It still just feels wrong. Like I don't need them having anything over my head or any- You just block them if they become annoying. Why would you not take free money from these people, these idiots? And then I said, maybe I would if they would pay for my wedding. And that's where Ethan full stop was like, we're doing this. So I'm gonna have to hide my phone from him. I'll do all the messaging. All you have to do is- Plan the wedding. Leave it in the face of the person. Oh dude, it's not safe. And you clearly don't feel the need to protect your fiance. I don't see how this is dangerous. Comment below, is it dangerous or- It can be dangerous if you show where you live or you give too much information. They see my apartment and everything online. They don't know where your apartment is. Half the people on my block know me from the make your neighbor thing. People on our block? He could figure it out. How? If he wanted to, he would. Fucking let him come in here, I'll kick his ass. Okay. Good morning. We're gonna go get COVID tests. Okay. Ethan has COVID. We just tested positive. That's his. Now we're looking at mine. I honestly feel like fine. I feel fine, but like there's underlying. So either I'm getting it behind you or I'm just like one of those COVID girls who like, I'm sick. Not enchilada. Let's come back and enjoy. All right. Well, anyway, on that note, I'm gonna end the vlog and we will be quarantining together. This is gonna be so much fun. Love you. Subscribe. Love you? Yeah. What are you talking about? My subscriber. You love them? Love, forever, ever, ever.