work week in my life 9-5 | *very realistic* working hybrid in chicago

I just realized I forgot my contacts. I cry. Good morning guys. Welcome back to another work week in my life. It's Monday. It's now like 930 or oh, it's 955. I've just been getting some work done this morning. Yeah, I washed my hair, which feels really good. It's cold this week in Chicago, which sucks. I was so ready for it to actually be spring, but I guess now it's like 45 degrees. So not too bad. But this morning it was like 35 degrees. Anyway, it's going to be a good week. I feel like I have so much different stuff going on. I have two office days this week. I normally just have one. I'm so excited you're here. If you're new, I'm Lucia. I'm 23. I live in Chicago and I work a nine to five in marketing. I'm wearing my glasses today because I forgot to put in my contacts for my workout class. And then I was like, well, I might as well just wear my glasses today. Give my eyes a little rest. So that's the plan. I am going to get my eyebrows waxed though this afternoon. So actually I'm going to call them right now. Today's just a work from home day. I've been really putting off getting my eyebrows done. Hi, could I schedule a threading appointment for today? Oh, okay. But I do like around noon. Okay. Thank you. So that didn't really work out. I was going to go today after work, but they're not in. So then I was going to go tomorrow on my lunch break, but the earliest they have is two. But I also want to get my nails done tomorrow. So I'm just going to go at two since I work from home. It's not a big deal. I am so tired. So I'm going to go down some more coffee and just finish getting kind of everything organized for the day. Hey guys, this is such a weird position for me to be in, but the work day is over. It's 522. I just went for a little walk. I've been really trying since the weather has gotten warmer. It's like 50 degrees right now and sunny to try to get my steps in for the day. So, oh my God, I did it. I got my 10,000 steps today. This is so good. Today was the typical Monday. It was kind of a slow start to the morning because I was just a zombie. And then I had two big calls in the afternoon. Honestly, the biggest calls all week. It's our internal client team regroup and then an hour long call with our client. And then I just had a couple hours of pulling some reports and just kind of doing some Excel type stuff. So that was my afternoon. And then I went and got some fresh air. I'm so glad I got 10,000 steps. I honestly, like Mondays are becoming my least favorite day of the week, which I think is probably pretty common. All the podcasts that I like that come out on Mondays have just like not been hitting recently. But like when I was in college, Mondays would be my favorite day of the week. I don't know why. I just like loved getting back into the routine because I loved going to class. Yeah. Now that's just not my life anymore, but I want to try to figure out how to make Mondays my favorite day of the week. Comment if you have any ideas. Also, let me know what your favorite day of the week is. I think my favorite day is probably Saturday, which is probably really common, but it used to be Monday and I want it to be Monday again because that kind of made life more exciting. I got a package from Fashion Pass, which I'm very excited about. I've been kind of having like a style crisis. Like I don't know what my personal style is because sometimes I want to be really trendy and like, I don't know, kind of like edgy almost and just, just wear like really trendy clothing. But then sometimes I just want to be such a timeless classic style that kind of makes me look like I'm 30, like Sofia Richie. I don't know if you guys are following her wedding that was last weekend, but I was obsessed. So obsessed. And obviously like, I'm not going to be out here buying Chanel pieces, but like that kind of vibe, which I know is a trend in itself. So it's like, I don't know. I just am having like a personal style crisis. So I'm not really sure how I want to dress, but there's also something to say for like just not having a personal style and just kind of dressing however you want to feel that day. But like, that's not what I want for me. I know it's not that deep, but I really just want my own specific personal style. Item number one. It's not really fitting right now because I have a ponytail, but I think this is cute. I guess I've been really into green. This is a set from For Love and Lemons. I just thought it was really fun and springy. So adorable. So that's my little haul of clothes I'm renting. Good morning, guys. It's Tuesday morning. I have been up for a while. It's now like 8.30, but I had a Sunrise Vinyasa Flow class this morning. It's very rainy outside, which is kind of a cozy vibe. I'm going to go to a coffee shop, Ipsento as usual, get a matcha and just have a nice morning work sesh. And then I'm going to come back here for a meeting that I have at 11. This is like my new routine. I love it. But I'm finally back on my workout grind of working out in the morning and not in the evening time, which I've really been liking. It just, it makes me wake up earlier, get out of bed when the sun is actually rising so I get the most daylight in the day. And also I just feel like my evenings are so much more fun and relaxing because I'm not like stressed about making my workout class. I don't know. It just works for me better. So I'm excited. I'm finally back on that schedule. If you watch my last vlog, I was so annoyed that I was on the opposite schedule. So I'm excited to be back on track. I'm really excited for today. It's jam packed. I have an eyebrow appointment and a nail appointment, which is very needed, but it's going to be kind of packed, trying to fit everything in while also getting all of my work done. But it's going to be a good day. Let's hit absento. Back from absento. It was very nice. Kind of chilly. I was getting cold and I'm going to hop onto this call and make some lunch. Okay. I already kind of devoured my lunch, but I had to make the yogurt in a plate because I'm out of bowls. I need to run the dishes tonight, but so good. I've been obsessed with this granola from Purely Elizabeth, strawberries, and Greek yogurt. Sunshine is finally out, which is really exciting. I'm about to head over to get my eyebrows done. Very much needed, but it's going to be a really quick appointment because I'm overwhelmed at work right now. Eyebrow reveal. I'm back. I love how they look, but they literally only last two weeks. And then the next two weeks they look like a little overgrown, but I'm not going to go and get my eyebrows threaded every two weeks. I don't know. Do people do that? Like, should I start doing that? I go like probably every four weeks and it's fucking painful. It's 15 minutes of hell. I swear. I can't take it. I think it's because I have lighter eyes and lighter eyes are just more sensitive to threading, waxing, all of that stuff. I'm literally sneezing constantly. I feel so bad for the technician. It's just, it's not a pleasant experience, but it just lasts 15 minutes. Once a month, I can do it. It's not too expensive. It's like $30 with tip and everything. And they look really good, but like this will last like this level, probably a week if even. And yeah, it's just annoying. Should I go more often? And then maybe if I go more often, it'll start to hurt less because my eyes will be more used to it. I don't know. Also like, I just feel like I have the winter uglies right now because it's freezing outside and I just feel like, I don't know why. Something about the warm weather just makes me feel more like attractive and pretty because I just feel better. I don't know. Whenever it's cold outside, I just immediately feel like 10 times uglier and like I have to wear makeup. It's warm. I can just wear like a glowy serum and it doesn't matter that I have ginormous pimples on the side of my face. I'm just really annoyed with the purging stage of Accutane right now. But I also feel like it's weird that it's mainly on this side of my face and not this side. Like I still have some stuff on this side, but not as much. And I think it's because I've been having so many on-camera calls this month that I've never really had before. And I've been putting my hand, like my sweatshirt on my face in these camera on calls to just try to not look awkward because I just don't know how to situate myself during camera on calls when I'm not talking and I'm just like trying to like look like I'm actively listening because I am. Yeah. So I'm always like putting my hand on my face, which I need to stop doing. So I'm going to stop doing that. If you see me putting my hand on my face in any of my calls that I montage, please troll me so I don't do it ever again. Anyway. Oh my God. I think I'm going to have to have another coffee because now it's like 2.20 and we got a lot of work to tackle for the rest of the day before my nail appointment. And I'm just feeling like I don't want to do anything, but we got this. Everything's going to be fine. And now at least step one of making myself look presentable for my office meetings tomorrow. My eyebrows are threaded. We love to see it. Okay. Time for coffee round two of the day. Well, actually it's my first cup of coffee, but second cup of caffeine. I'm back from getting my nails done. I just got a really light pink. I'm just so glad I got that done. They were really bothering me cause they were getting grown out. So yay. Happy Wednesday. Good morning. It's Wednesday. I'm about to head into the office. I just have to check and see when the trains are coming, but this is my fit. I actually kind of love it. It's very simple, but it's kind of cold again today. I'm not sure if I'm going to wear my parka or not. It's like 40 degrees cancer, princess Polly. This is a body suit. Actually it's from express. I love the back. I'm going to bring my chunky sneakers and headband. I've been so into headbands recently. I just love how they look and it's kind of fun because it makes me pretend that I don't have a widow's peak, which I don't mind having a widow's peak, but sometimes it's fun to have like an even hairline and no one can see my hairline when I'm wearing a headband. So it's very fun. Let's go catch the train. Hello guys. It's like 1115 ish. I'm in the bathroom. I got in at nine exactly. It was actually perfect timing and I ended up just making a coffee here because my Dunkin app wasn't loading on the train and I was like, it's a sign. I might as well save money today. And yeah, I got some emails done the first hour, got everything organized for the day. And then at 10 we have this really big meeting. We have like a monthly kind of global team meeting in my department. So that was at 10 and yeah, it was actually very productive and there's some people in the office today too, which is nice because I'm getting to like chat with some coworkers and catch up with people that I haven't seen in like a couple months. So that's really nice. Time to go back to my desk and get a few things done before lunch. TBD, if we're going to get lunch catered, because normally we get lunch catered on these like special monthly days, but the EA like executive assistant that normally does the lunch orders has left the company. So we're not really sure if we're going to get lunch. So we shall see. Fingers crossed because I did not bring anything. It's post lunch. We went to Sweetgreen, me and my coworkers, which was so good. I got the Harvest Bowl. It's naturally gluten-free and I need to go to Sweetgreen more often because it was so amazing. Like I'm obsessed. It was such a nice lunch break. It was colder than I thought it was outside because it was windy and in the shade. I feel like on days that it's 45 degrees, you just got to be in the sunlight and no wind for it to feel nice, but it was still a nice walk outside. And then we came back, just ate at our desks and I just had a little in-person one-on-one. It's fun to have some meetings in person today. It's been a long time and then yeah, I don't have any more calls for the rest of the afternoon. So I got myself a bubbly to give myself a little energy kick and I'm just going to crank out a bunch of Excel files that I need to get through the rest of the afternoon. I forgot to tell you guys, they ended up having the catered lunch, but nothing was gluten-free except this like fruit bowl that did not look very appetizing. They were just all sandwiches, but even my coworkers that can eat gluten said that it wasn't very good anyway, so I wasn't missing out and we all went to Sweetgreen anyway, which was fun. So time to go back to my desk. Okay guys, live again from the bathroom. These single-person bathrooms are like my favorite things because I don't know, they're just nice to have. It's 5.03. The workday is over. I don't feel as depleted as I normally do. I think because I was able to like interact with coworkers all day, which was kind of nice. I don't know if there's a happy hour or not. I thought there was one, but I'm not really sure anymore. So we shall see, but it was a very productive afternoon. I got so much stuff cranked out in the past couple hours. So I'm feeling good. I'm back in Wicker Park. There's no happy hour. Well, there was but me and the other two like younger people that were in today decided not to go because we just had other stuff to do tonight and just learned a lot of people in the office, but good day at work. I really wish that the environment was like more people going in because it's just fun to be able to like talk to people about work throughout the workday, but you know, it's okay. It's also nice to have like the flexible environment where like I don't have to go into the office. So with everything in life, there's pros and cons. I'm going to go pick up some applesauce because I ran out of my applesauce and I have to use it to swallow my medication. So that's what we're headed to do now. Made it home. I have no more in-person plans for the day. So time for the rest of the day. So media change into this Northwestern sweatshirt and these sweatshorts from Arincia actually. My makeup actually stayed on so well today. I'm very proud of it. I feel like I finally found a really good makeup routine and I use this setting spray from Urban Decay and I love it. Oh, I didn't realize it was by Skindinavia. That's insane. Yeah, I think I have this on my Amazon though. I'm obsessed. It's their all-nighter setting spray. Literally, it stays on so well, but the makeup is immediately coming off because now it's time for my skin to breathe and I still have a lot of breakouts, especially on this side of my face, which is so strange. But I want to put some pimple patches on. I used to be the type of girl that would leave my makeup on for like as long as possible just because I like what it looked like. But realistically, it's just so much better for my skin that while I'm inside my apartment, I do not need to have makeup on. Made an avocado bagel. I think I'm going to put something on YouTube. All right guys, my hair is a mess. It's like 1130, so late. I just finished editing this YouTube video that I was actually supposed to post today. So I'm behind on that. I'm not even completely done with it. I still have to finish some of it up tomorrow night. Tomorrow is an office day and I was hoping I'd be able to work out before and like wake up extra early, but I got to get my 8 hours. So I think I'm going to wake up at 730 and I won't really have time to get a workout in before I leave. Yeah, so that's my plan. I'm tired. So it's time for skincare and then bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow for an office day. Happy Thursday. I'm such a mess this morning. This is my outfit. It's honestly not my fave, but whatever. I just got to go. I also really want to get a white headband because I feel like that would match so much better with this. But the top is Drip Avenue. I just have it like halfway tucked in. The jeans are Abercrombie. I'm wearing these Air Force 1s. Time for another office day. I feel like it's a double hitter. Today isn't around. I have seven meetings today. So should be interesting. I'm in this little telephone booth and it's the cutest thing in the office and I'm right by the window. I love it in this thing. It's like a soundproof photo booth. It's insane. It's lunchtime and I've been way off my packing a lunch grind. So I ordered from Pick Up and Acai Bowl from Deep Purple. Very excited. Also, it's suddenly 60 degrees and sunny outside. So it's beautiful. I'm loving it. A nice little walk. Secured the bag. Got my Acai Bowl. I just finished a call. I look like a vampire in this lighting, but it was really good. Very productive. I thought I had four calls back-to-back, but I actually have a 30-minute break right now before three 30-minute calls back-to-back, which should be interesting, but I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling energized that Acai Bowl was the perfect lunch and I'm really on track. I'm kind of like ahead of schedule with everything I have to get done today, which is amazing. Feeling good. I survived all of my calls. It's 5 p.m. Let's leave. We're done. I'm back and picked up a PR package from Suja. You guys, they literally sent so many juices. I put them all here. I'm so excited to try them. So many wellness shots. It's kind of comical. I have this whole section in the fridge for them. I'm literally so excited. So beautiful. And there's so many shots I've never even heard of. So it seems really fun. I'm interested for this energy shot. Recovery is interesting. Cool stuff. I'm out of control. I made an avocado bagel for dinner again, and I'll probably need another snack, but I was just craving it. So bon appetit. Have a little break. Watch something on TV. Good morning. It is so early. And I'm exhausted, but I'm dragging myself to a hot yoga class because I haven't been able to work out for the past two days. So we gotta get ready this morning. Happy Friday. At least I remembered to put in my contacts this morning. Okay, let's go. I'm back from hot yoga. I feel so good. I love this format of class, even though it's so difficult. The only thing is that I sweat so much because it's like 100 degrees in there and then this sweat starts getting in my eyes and it's really painful. So if anyone knows what to do in that situation, let me know because I literally have no idea. I have been the worst vlogger today. It was actually a really busy work day. I had two calls just cranking out this project that we finished. It was like a three week long project and we finished it today ahead of the deadline, which felt amazing. And then I just had to call this afternoon. I'm going to get ready for the night. I was invited to Cabaret Zazu. I think that's how you say it. It's like dinner and a show. It seems really cool. I've seen a lot of people post about it and they said it was so fun. So Vincente and I are going to go to that. So I'm going to start getting ready. My hair air-dried so it's like kind of wavy. So I'm going to straighten it and put on my makeup. Let's do a little transition. Here is the look. I'm so hungry. So I'm very excited to go. The top is Princess Polly. The baggy pants are from Dynamite and the shoes are Princess Polly. I don't know what purse I'm going to bring yet and I probably need a jacket because it's like 55 degrees outside. I'll probably just wear my puffers. Yay! You guys! Hello, it's Saturday. That is it for the week in my life. The show last night was so good. If you're in Chicago, you should totally go. I think the tickets start at $75 and it was so fun. It was like Cirque du Soleil, but also musical theater performances, dancing. It was kind of giving circus. There was also just like comedy bits and a lot of like crowd interaction and secondhand embarrassment from watching people on stage like getting asked to do random stuff. It was really fun. We had a great time and the food was pretty good too. They had good gluten-free options. I had salmon. Yeah, it was like a four-course meal. It's honestly unlike anything I've ever been to. I've never really been to a dinner theater before. So it was really good. The cast was incredible. I was really like my jaw was on the floor at their performances. They were so good and they did so many things like up in the air aerial type stuff and I was like scared for them, but like they they were pros. They handled it. Well, I mean they do it like eight times a week. So, you know, it was such a great show. Thank you so much for watching this week in my life. Subscribe for a new video every Sunday and Wednesday and I will catch you guys next time. Much love. Bye.