Work life balance || going on break, giveaways and Nimo's drop

Today's my last day at work. Good morning! I'm saying good morning and my curtains are still closed, there's a reason. I'm saying good morning and my eyes still look sleepy, there's a reason. Yeah, it's 4am in the morning and I'm up. Why? 4am on a Sunday and I'm up. Basically, I've decided that before we jump into the new year, we're going to look the part. Like, we want to look and feel and just be the part for 2025 and that's what we're doing. Currently, I'm whispering because again, it's 4am and people are asleep. I don't need to be making that noise. I want to undo my hair that I've been procrastinating to do the entire day of Saturday because I just wasn't in the mood. But now it's like 25, 24 hours later and I need to get serious. We're going to undo my hair, we're going to get my nails done, we're going to undo my hair, get my hair done, get my nails done and then we're also going to kind of write goals for like 2025 and the mentality that we want to set ourselves up for. We're setting ourselves up for success. Currently, I just want to- I'm sitting here at my desk, my usual spot, we all know this spot. We're sitting here. I want to undo my hair. I have my laptop set up. My monitor, I'm just going to watch a few videos as I undo my hair because it's twists so it shouldn't be that bad. I'm aiming that by 6am. I should be done undoing my hair. And then wash, wash condition, all of that and then I have an appointment for 9am. My sister wants to do my nails. That's also very exciting so I get to do- so I get to have my nails done for free. Family and friends discount. I'm going to cut the spray. This is not the first time you all have seen me undoing my hair. Looking like the wicked witch of the west but we are done and it is 5.26, one and a half hours later. I think I should wash in the morning like when I wake up, wake up, I can sleep. Just like tie this, put this on a bonnet and sleep and then I'll wake up at like 7.30. 7.30 makes sense because appointments when I have 7.30 be kind of done at like 8.30 I should be done. Can you see the growth? Like my golden hair, black hair, it looks gross. I'm just going to tie it for an hour, sleep till like 7.30 so that's two hours and then wake up and get this hair done. Hair days are not usually the best because like they take the longest from undoing to doing. Like it's a whole process. Morning again! It's 7.15 and now I have to go and comb my hair and wash it. Sometimes the problem with taking this nap is that you might not wake up from it but like my brain already knows that I don't have time to sleep in for another 30 minutes because washing this hair can take me a bit longer. Anyways, let's just go wash it. Go get my hair done! 8.10! Which I'm happy with. So right now I want to do my laundry just so I kind of set my room up so when I'm back like I'm in a clean space and I'm also having my kombucha for the day. My kombucha for the day is a Fix 8 ginger tumeric flavour. So someone asked me before what are the benefits of kombucha. Well basically it just helps with gut health and just like clearing your system and apparently if you start with kombucha first thing in the morning because it helps with gut health you get a slim waist and man we have to lose weight. Okay? I'm going to get that slim waist, thick booty. I'm going to do my laundry and get prepared to leave. I think I'm going to leave around 8.40. My mom is the one dropping me and then I think I'll just like Uber back. I'm going to carry my book. This book was staring at me on Friday. It's called More Confessions of a 40-something fuckup. So I already read Confessions of a 40-something fuckup and I think I've talked about this book before but now this is More Confessions. I know I started it like way way back in like January, March? I didn't really get through it but based off of my bookmark this is how far we are. So hopefully I remember what the whole thing was about. I'm just going to start again. That doesn't bother me. I'm always here for the plot. Hair is done. I had like the side lines and then the rest of my hair is just normal twists because I cannot do any other style but twists. Yeah and I just had my lunch and I just want to chill and then my sister is going to do my nails in the evening. I think I've decided that the walk isn't first and that's what's happening so we're going to do some painting. And I get most of my, let me call them inspiration from Pinterest. I get like interesting ideas to do, to like paint. It's more like therapy, it's therapeutic, whatever you want to call it. Like it's just calming and I like doing this when I'm watching something there. So maybe most of my time and mind will be focused on like getting the paints and the shades correctly or close to correct or perfect but it's just more therapeutic and it's calming and it's, yeah, it's something nice to do. So today, I don't even know what I want to do today. I'll try and get the prices of the brushes and everything that I got. I got everything from textbook center. So I have this huge A3 book. So this is where I do my paintings. Let me show you what I've done so far. So I split it into two pages because it's a big book and I don't think I'm gonna paint on the entire page. So I just split it into two pages like I have two, you know, pictures or whatever. And then the last one I've got is this one. Yeah, and it's something that I like to do to pass time. So today, I don't know what I want to do. I think I do know what I want to do but it's a tricky one because I don't know how it's going to work out. But I'm just hoping it works for the best. And my main, this will be my main brush. It's a thick one compared to my, compared to all the others. I feel like I want to do this one. So how I like to start is I'll obviously do a sketch of it and then slowly try and get the colors together. It won't be perfect but it gets us somewhere. This would be nice. So I'm going to get a pencil, sketch it out and then start the painting. We are done. And I think I like how it came out. I'm not an artist but I think I did a good job. It's getting moody. Then this is the other one. Are we seeing like the theme? Are we seeing the theme? Golden sunset, night time blues. And I didn't do it on purpose, I promise you. I promise. I didn't do it on purpose. It just kind of clipped. I think I'm just going to chill. I'm going to wait for my sister to come do my nails. Very excited. I hope you can hear me. It's 7.01. It's the 24th of December and I'm still going to work today. Today's my last day at work before I take leave and then I go back on the 2nd. I'm only taking, I think, three days off. So I'm taking the 27th, 30th and 31st. So those are weekdays. So you still have to show up to work. But I've taken leave for a few days. So from the 25th until the 1st of December, I'm not going to be at work but I report back on the 2nd of December. So currently, I'm here trying to finish exporting videos from my phone to my laptop so that I can edit them when I go to work. Today is going to be a very busy day because I have work and then I have this video that I want to edit and then also I'm doing a giveaway for my Instagram group chat where the 500 of you who just listen to me rambling and just the random conversations that we usually have. So I'm doing a giveaway there. So I'm going to be getting a few things for my giveaway. I have two giveaway winners as well as I'm also going to be doing a giveaway for my YouTube channel because I reached 3,000 subscribers last month. I don't know if it was last month or it was this month. I just kind of want to give back to you guys for making the time to just watch my videos and even commenting and liking and sharing if you have or even messaging me telling me that you like my videos or you like my content or what you'd like to see. The support is immense compared to what I thought... compared to anything that I thought I would be... I don't know. I just post videos for fun, for funsies and it's like a video diary for me. So for you guys to kind of relate to my videos and enjoy them, I truly, truly do appreciate it. So I'm going to be doing a giveaway on my Instagram group chat and my YouTube subscribers because it's like Christmas season and like why not, why not just give back and thank you guys so much for everything that you have done, for supporting me and just being there throughout this journey of mine even though I'm very in and out, on and off on social media sometimes because I'm a human being and you can't always be on social media all the time. You still have to live your life. I'm going to be doing a giveaway for both of them so I've already stated what you need to do for you to win the giveaway on my Instagram group chat. So by the time you're watching this, the winners would have already been announced because I'm announcing them tomorrow which is the 25th so like I feel like that's the best time to just give. Christmas is like when we unwrap presents and just you know it's the spirit of just giving. So I'm going to announce both of my winners of the Instagram group chat tomorrow. I've already announced it. I've already made it clear to you guys that I'm doing a YouTube giveaway so just like kind of watch out for that. But I hope you're having a very, very good holiday so far. If you're with your family, if you're with your loved ones, if you're by yourself. Two years ago I used to celebrate Christmas by myself. I used to be in the UK and Christmas and New Year's I was by myself, I was on my ones and I really used to enjoy that. Don't judge me. I just used to kind of sleep during the holiday and like just find something to do. But like when you're with family, there's a lot of energy that's given out and I think I'm just very, I'm just very much like a loner. I'm not lonely. I just choose my own company sometimes. So I never used to go home back, I never used to come back home for the holidays and sometimes I really used to like piss my parents off because I didn't want to come back home. I used to tell them that I was reading for exams. It's technically true actually because I used to have exams in January. Can you imagine? I think university just did us dirty because why are you having exams as soon as you come back from the holidays? Why? Like that's just torture. Like you can't even enjoy your holiday. You're going on holiday just to read for exams, like maybe you have two, three or even four exams. Ridiculous. Ridiculous is what it was. Luckily I'm not in that situation. I submitted my assignments for my masters before this holiday started. So when I go back in January, I'm just taking, I'm taking up new modules, new courses, new assignments, everything, all of that. Like why couldn't they just do that when you're doing a degree? Like it's giving high school holiday homework. Yeah, let me stop yapping and just get this shit started. Today I'm in the office by myself because guys have finally started their leave but I start mine tomorrow. But I don't think I'll stop working because by the time I come back on Tuesday, there's a meeting that I know I have to attend and there's work based off of that meeting. But it's also, it's also based off of like this week's production so I might be working maybe towards around 30th, 31st. But today, it's just me alone in the office. I can do whatever I want to but like, let's be professional. I got a message that some stuff that I had shipped have arrived today so I'm gonna go get them today afternoon. Hopefully post them for tomorrow or the 26th. Depends on when I can ship them out. I do have a very tight timeline, oh my gosh, 25th, 26th, 27th, oh my god, sometimes just like kind of owning a business or like having a side job can be a bit daunting but I'm grateful either way. It's something that I've always wanted to do. Like, just having extra income is never gonna be a problem, like it's never a bad thing, it's just now managing it. As long as I'm able to get them from shipping and I have them and I create content between tomorrow and the day after, I'm sorted. And then post them maybe on the 27th, 27th, 28th and then have them, and then ship them out for next week Thursday and Friday so that everyone can be able to get them either Friday and Saturday. That is fine. I am not complaining. Entrepreneur problems, I guess. That's the latest update. Nothing, nothing much. Nothing interesting. I don't think I vlog much about like being at work because one, I cannot really take videos at work, I can't take videos of people, I can't take videos of like the place, it's just security and policy purposes, as well as like it's never that interesting, I'm just like kind of a bad actor for like moving around or in meetings, so never the most interesting in the production side. Maybe if you're like on the corporate side, you're doing finance, marketing, sales, admin, all of that stuff, maybe it'd be more interesting, but here, not really because of certain factors that I already mentioned. It's like 3 minutes to 11, I wanna finish some work so that I can go pick up my parcels like in the afternoon, and then see how the rest of my day goes. If I were able to finish like this work earlier, so that I can also finish up with like editing because I'm still like kind of exporting videos, so if I can do that, send those videos out, edit, and then post it for today evening, maybe 7pm, I'm good and I'm set and then I can start editing this video. So considering the fact that today's my last day at work, I think typically I usually take my walks in the evening, but now, because I will not be here, I'll probably take them in the morning, so starting tomorrow, until when I come back to work, I'll just do them in the morning, because we have like a jam-packed schedule, you know how families just like, just be out and about during the holidays, but I've already mentioned for me, Christmas, I prefer just being indoors. 25th, 26th, we're gonna be out with like my family, 28th I'm gonna go see one side of my extended family, 29th I wanna see the other side of my extended family, and then 31st into 1st, gonna do something with now my family, and then come back to work on 2nd, yay! Very jam-packed, but I guess you will see that in the video after this one. That's gonna be a whole week's video. I would never have done vlogmas because I feel like my life is just a bit too casual, same old, same old, ordinary for me to be doing a vlogmas, but maybe next year. Maybe next year we can see if we're gonna get into those vibes. I think it's basically the same thing as doing a weekly video, it's just centred around Christmas, so I'm just yapping, but currently I'm just kinda watching a YouTube video, I typically usually have YouTube videos playing in the background while I'm doing some other stuff on the laptop. Yeah, so that's kinda me for the rest of the day. It's 12.20, I'm gonna have my lunch, and then I'm gonna, like I wanna give myself 20 minutes, and then I dash out, go get my parcels, and come back. I think I can do that in enough time. I need to be here before 2, so I think 1 hour, that's like 1 hour 20 minutes is enough for me to go and come back before I'm gonna have a 2. So I'm just gonna have my lunch, and then while I watch YouTube a bit, and then, yeah. I'm tired. I'm either tired, or I'm just unfit. I even see how my- can you see how my forehead is just shiny? Yo, that was a trip and a half. But just because it's hot, and sometimes always driving, like, so tiring, because I've gone back and forth. Okay, anyways, I'm not complaining. It's hot as well. But I got my parcels, very happy, very big dent in my cart, but it is well. It's an investment, that's what it means being an entrepreneur, businesswoman, CEO, founder. Then I went to check mail, and now we're back. Luckily, the meeting that I thought was supposed to happen at 2 was postponed to next week. It's just that I was not aware, so I was still on time either way. But now, I just wanna chill, just need to drink my water. And on the way here, I was just thinking about this yogurt. I know sometimes I shift between BIO and Dairyland, but here's the thing. I like how it's flavoured, but sometimes they don't have the fruits. Or it's just that Dairyland and BIO have different assortments of flavours, because you have pineapple and coconut, apple and kiwi. They have really nice, like, assortments, and so do BIO. But there's a texture difference with both of them. And I think Dairyland is much thicker. BIO is not as thick as Dairyland, so it's entirely up to your preference. But this would be good for me right now, as like a... Well, it would have been at 4pm, but like, I shopped work at 5, so 3 makes sense. And I had my lunch at like 12.20, so... Makes sense. And it's hot. Okay, ice cream would slap, but I feel like I'll do ice cream in the evening. And to some extent, I feel like I want to invest in an ice cream make-up. My mom has one, but the thing is, I don't want to borrow it from her, because you never know when you're back home and you're just craving ice cream. So I'm just gonna let her keep hers. Otherwise, I would borrow it. But I want to invest in an ice cream make-up. I've seen the ninja... Is it creamy make-up? Ice cream make-up? That thing? Listen, ice cream can be healthy. Like, I can make sorbets. Let me ask you a question. Do you prefer sorbets or ice cream? Personally? Personally, I prefer sorbets over ice cream. Fight me if you want to. But I prefer sorbets over ice cream, because it's sweeter, and it's fruits, and it's just sweeter. So I really, really, really, really... I'm putting it on my wish list for next year. Investing in a ninja ice cream make-up and a coffee machine. I know I've not been drinking coffee as much. But listen, I think if you have a good coffee machine and good coffee, coffee just tastes different. Rather than just the granules that you mix in hot water and sugar. No. I need an espresso early in the morning. Having your own coffee machine at home. Like, having your own coffee shop in the comfort of your house. I'm telling you. So, what's the two things that I'm hoping for in 2025? An ice cream make-up and a coffee machine. Anyways, I want to do some work. Today's my last day to get everything done. Because tomorrow is Christmas. I don't think, like, some places will be open. So I want to go to Panama today. My mom asked me to look for her Tematakaroa book. And it's sold out. So I'm hoping to find it. Yeah, then go home. Look at the shipment that came in. So I need to mentally, like, engage my brain. I am exhausted. This has been the busiest day. But I feel like that's how Christmas is, basically. But those parcels are not- Let me just show you. Let me just show you how big these parcels are. Look at this. This is huge. This is humongous. And I'm so excited to open. But I'm also nervous. The first one. I wish, like, they put everything in, like, in one box. Oh, I like. I like. Oh, I love the material. I'm gonna open this other one that has been fully wrapped. I'm glad, like, they took super, super good care of my packages. I'm so excited for this. Oh, my God. Even me, I would keep it for myself. Look at this. Excuse! Oh, yes. Wait, I need to get my phone. Can my phone fit in here? Can my phone fit? Yes, it can. I had to, like, put it in the box. Statement. You just, like, slip it in there. And it's so, like, secure. Oh, this little one. So pretty. Okay, more bubble wrap. I like this. Yes. There's one in gold. And there's one in silver. Excuse me? My phone is a tester. So you just put the phone in there. Close. Girl. And then it also has the back, the chain. So you don't have to feel like, you have to be, like, carrying it around. I think you just hook it somewhere. Almost the same. It's almost the same thing as the other one. But now this one is, like, rectangular. I love it. Test with the phone. The phone fits. Close. Yay. I'm excited. I completely forgot to close out the video and end the vlog. But if you made it this far, thank you so much for watching. Thank you for liking. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for sharing. And I will see you next time. Bye.