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Hey guys, it's Charlotte. Welcome back to the vlog. It has been such a long time since I've done just like a regular simple one-off work day in my life. I feel like I've been doing a lot of like week in my life and multiple days in my life and I haven't brought you guys along for just like a fun little day in my life in such a long time. So that is what we're gonna be doing in today's vlog. Today is a Friday for me. I'm going into the office today and we're gonna have kind of a busy fun day. Like I've got a lot going on. I'm going into the office. I've got a bunch of stuff that I need to get done. So I thought it would be a fun day to vlog and bring you guys along. along. I have just been working on some editing for the last little bit. I did that as my like little admin hour. If you guys saw one of my last videos was my morning routine. I kind of brought you guys through like my entire morning routine. In that video I talked about how I've been trying to implement an hour-ish in the mornings to be like my admin hour which is where I can just like edit content or answer emails or do any sort of like admin tasks that sometimes I feel like I don't have time to do during the day. So I spent the last little while like probably an hour and a half-ish editing a video that I need to submit for brand approval and I did get a good chunk I got a chunk of it done. I didn't get the entire thing done, but that's okay. I'll be able to work on that a little bit more when I come home, which is really nice. That's what I love about implementing the admin hours. Like sometimes I get so caught up. I'm like, okay, I sit down to edit this video. I need to get the entire thing done. And sometimes that can feel really overwhelming where like, I'll put it off. If I'm like, okay, I know if I sit down to edit, I'm gonna feel like I have to get the entire video edited in that one sitting. The admin hour is nice. Cause it's like, you can just get as much done as you can within the hour, but you don't have to feel the pressure to finish everything within the hour, if that makes sense. It's just like dedicated time to work on stuff. Even if you don't get everything completely done, you know that you're putting in a little bit of time and effort towards it each day. So anyway, I just wrapped up my admin hour, used it to edit some content and now I need to start getting ready for the day. Like I mentioned, I'm going into the office today. We are rounding out my work week with a little office day. So I need to start getting ready to make sure that I get to the office on time. I'm gonna go ahead and make breakfast first thing. I have been not leaving myself enough time to eat breakfast the last couple of days. So I'm really not vibing with that. Go ahead and make breakfast to make sure that I give myself enough time to actually eat before leaving for the office, and we will go from there. I mentioned today is an office day for me, so I have the office, but I wanted to show you guys my outfit first. The top and my jeans are both from Halara who is very kindly sponsoring this video so shout out and thank you to Halara. I feel like it's so hard to find clothes that are appropriate to wear to the office but are also actually comfortable and something that you don't feel like you want to rip off as soon as you get home but Halara has such great options that look amazing but also feel even better. The jeans and the denim especially they look totally normal but they feel like you're wearing leggings. If you own a pair of jeans you know that regular denim is really stiff and rigid And it can be really hard to like move around. and feel comfortable in a pair of jeans. I know I'm not the only one that has sitting and standing jeans. Like I have some pair of jeans that look great when I'm just standing there, but like they're so uncomfortable to sit in. But these jeans from Halara have a flexible knit so that they can stretch in all four directions. They stretch, they move, there's no like pinching or pulling. You can really just move like freely and unrestricted in these jeans, which is hard It's hard to find in denim these days. Like look at how stretchy. These pants are. These are jeans. The waistband is super flexible so you can sit down in these jeans without them like digging into your waist. The fabric is also a high cotton blend so they're really soft and flexible. They're just like easy to wear. Like I said they feel like I'm wearing leggings. Like they are really comfortable but it just looks like I'm wearing a regular pair of jeans. So these are going to be perfect for days like today when I have to go into the office. I'm going to be sitting all day. Today I'm actually going in. Half the day we're going to be just like regular day at the office. The other half the day we're shooting content so I'm going to be up And like arranging product and squatting and moving like I'm gonna be moving a lot during the second half of the day during the photo Shoot, so these are gonna be perfect because I'm gonna be able to like move around in these as if I'm wearing leggings I also got a couple other pieces from Halara that I'll show you guys a little bit later But like I said, the top is also from Halara. It's also super soft super stretchy Very very comfortable Halara does a really great job of combining the clothes that you would wear every day with an active wear feel So it's super comfortable to wear you can wear these pieces literally all day and still feel So this is my outfit for my office day today and another shout out and thank you to Halara for sponsoring this video. I am just going to finish packing up my bag and we are going to head out to the office to finish out the work week. I've made it home from the office. I am going to be so honest with you guys. All I want to do is go to bed. I am so tired. I don't know what it is about this week, but I have been so tired all week long, like just exhausted, but I've been going to bed normally. I've been waking up at my normal time. Like I've just been really, really tired this week. So I can't even lie. All I want to do is put on my jammies and go to bed, even though it's only 5 PM and I will. A little bit later at a more reasonable time, maybe, you know, after the sun goes down. But usually when I get tired like this, if it's a sort of situation where like it's 5 p.m., it's too early to go to bed, I'm tempted when I get home to just sit on the couch and rot until it's time to go to bed. I am really challenging myself this fall to not rot. So I'm gonna change and I'm gonna go out on a walk and I'm gonna feel so, so much better after I go on this walk. I just know it's gonna be so nice to get out, get some fresh air, get some sunshine, get my steps in. Even though I was moving around all day today, I was doing the photo shoot for work, like I mentioned. I don't really talk about my job a whole lot on here, but most of the time when we have to do content for our social media, like my job is running the social media, most of the time, the content that we post on our social media, I just film here in my own apartment. But the last couple of weeks, We've been renting out some studio space. and filming it at the studio instead of here in my own home. So that's what we were doing today. We rented out a studio space. We brought a whole bunch of product over to the studio and just shot content all day long, which is super fun. But it is, if you've never like shot and filmed content for six hours straight, you... May not know that it is exhausting, especially when you're the one that's like setting up the product and like moving it around and staging it and like with the products that we do, it's like interactive. So you have to be involved with the product. It's not just like setting it up and snapping a picture. It's like arranging it, doing an unboxing, doing a video, that kind of stuff. So I have been on my feet all day, but I haven't been like going on a walk. So I'm actually very, very excited to go out and get my steps in, get my movement for the day. I, as you guys know, have been on a book kick recently. I just set up this new bookshelf. out here in my living room. I also just set up a new bookshelf in my bedroom. So I've been loving my books. And I think today for my walk, I'm going to walk over to a Barnes & Noble that's like sort of near me and maybe like check out the book selection a little bit, see what they're talking about over there at the bookstore. And if I find some books that are interesting. Maybe I'll pick one or two up. You never know. So I'm gonna go ahead and change. Although I will say I wore these, both of these pieces all day for the photo shoot. They are extremely comfy. Like I could go out and walk in these pants if I wanted to. But I am gonna go change and I'm gonna head out on my walk, catch a little bit of the sunset on my way and potentially grab some books. of predicted. I love that I have just like gotten to this place where I know that going out on my walks and getting my steps in and getting my fresh air and all that good stuff makes me feel so good and I'm also really proud of myself for being able to get myself to do it because it's like two separate things to know that you feel better when you do something specific like going on a walk and actually getting yourself to do that thing but I'm really proud of myself this year that I've been able to figure out that that's something that pretty much no matter what makes makes me feel good and find the motivation even on the days when I really really don't want to to go out and do it. I went to Barnes & Noble like you guys saw and I did pick up two books. I'm really excited about both of these. I do need to put myself on a book buying ban though because it's getting a little egregious. Like it's getting a little bit ridiculous. As I've come to realize over my lifetime as a reader, buying books and reading books are sometimes two separate hobbies and I think I need to take a break on the buying books side of the hobby. I mean on the other side of it like I am reading. quite a bit actually i'm in the middle of i think three different books right now so it's not like i'm buying books and not reading anything but i'm buying more books like i'm buying books at a faster pace than i'm reading them right now so these are gonna be my last books for a little while especially because when i go home for thanksgiving i have a bunch of books back in maine that i'm gonna mail back to myself to kind of like fill out my shelves so i'm putting a pause on buying books these are gonna be my last few books that i'm gonna buy for a while but i want to show you guys the two that i ended up getting first i got If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia I've been seeing this book on people's like fall TBR lists for so long and it just looks so cute. I'm typically not a like seasonal romance book kind of girl. I actually saw so many fall autumn romances when I was at Barnes and Noble and like I will be completely honest with you most of them looked like garbage. I'm so sorry. Most of them looked so bad, the equivalent of just like a really cheesy Hallmark movie, but as a book, but this one I have seen many, many positive reviews. It seems like it's actually got some substance to it. So I'm excited to give this one a try. I think this is going to be like a late October into November read for me, but I'm excited about this. And then second, I didn't even know that this book existed. I think this just came out because they had a little like setup for it. This is Peck and Peck by Bonnie Garmus. This is the same author that wrote Lessons in Chemistry and that is one of my favorite books that I've ever read in my life. Lessons in Chemistry was such a good book. Like it's so dear to me. And ever since I read that book back in the summer of 2025, I think maybe it was the summer of 2024. No, I think it was 2025. I don't remember. But ever since I read that book, I knew that I would read anything that Bonnie Garmus wrote. So this is her second novel. And I think it just came out like the copyright date on this. It's October 2026. So I'm pretty sure that this is brand new. I also didn't even do this on purpose, but this is just what they had at Barnes and Noble. I got a signed edition, which I think is super cool. I think this is going to be a really, really good November book. It just has like It has such good vibes and I'm really excited to see if it ends up being like on the same level and at the same caliber that Lessons in Chemistry was. So those are the two books that I picked up. They're both very autumn themed which I think is really cute. Very fitting of the time period that we're living in right now. But those are the two books that I picked up from Barnes & Noble. These are the last two books that I'm going to be buying for a while. Potentially for the rest of the year although I somehow doubt that. I did also find a couple of books that I think are going to be really good but they were available on Kindle Unlimited. Neither one of these are on Kindle Unlimited I think it's Kindle Plus now, actually. I think they're like actively going through a rebrand as we speak. So there were a couple other books that I saw that looked interesting that I wanted to read, but I can read them for free with my Kindle Plus subscription or Kindle Unlimited or whatever it's called now, so. Really, really excited about both of these and the ones that I saw that I wanna read on Kindle Plus. But now that I'm home from my walk, I've got my cozy little books. It is almost 7.30. I'm going to go hop in the shower. I have loved doing like an evening shower. It's such a good part of the routine, honestly. But I love lighting a candle in there. Like I'll leave all the lights off and just light a candle. It's so relaxing. I'll put on my jazz music. Like it's just, oh, it's such a great way to like wind down for the night. I also desperately need to wash my hair. Like you guys saw, I put dry shampoo in this morning and she's doing the Lord's work, but it's gonna feel so good to go to bed with clean hair, wake up on the weekend with clean hair tomorrow. So I'm gonna take a shower, light a candle, wash my hair, get all my soft lighting up in the apartment. I made soup earlier in the week. I made a marry me chicken noodle soup. Oh, it's so good. And I have leftovers of that. So I'm gonna heat that up for dinner and it's gonna be great. And then I'll be able to go to bed early. I'm just, ugh. Wow. Life is so good. We're really, we're doing really well on the anti-rot, anti-scroll agenda. I'm feeling really good. Guys, I'm so glad that it's soup season. I, oh, recently, like within the last probably one or two years, I have really come around to soup season before I didn't really care. And now, oh my gosh, I'm so excited that it's soup season. Lasagna soup. This is going into the rotation immediately. This is marry me chicken noodle soup. Oh my gosh, it's so good. The exact recipe that I followed, I had to sign up for a platform. Like I signed up for a free trial of a platform to get the recipe. So I'll link the exact recipe down below, but it is like behind a paywall. You get a seven day free trial, but I'll also link a similar one. I can't vouch for the similar one because I followed the exact one. So I'll link both down in the description, but oh my gosh, you guys, the soup is so good. I will warn you though, It made so much soup like genuinely probably 12 servings of soup So if you're cooking just for yourself, maybe do like a half recipe, but it was super easy to meal prep I did like the broth the chicken all veggies and everything all together and then the noodles I stored separately So they wouldn't get soggy just like sitting in the broth, but oh, it's so good. I'm so excited There's nothing like soup for a cozy night in I hope this isn't scalding hot but cheers It's just so good. I'm fresh out of the shower. Oh my god. My candle's still in the bathroom. That was a close one I'm fresh out of the shower. It felt so, so good. It's just such a great way to like end the night. Oh, now we can go to bed. I feel like most people can relate to this, but when you have like a million things going on, when you feel super busy, I feel like it can be really hard to like actually unplug and unwind. I feel this a lot, like because I work partially for myself, it's really hard for me to set boundaries between work and when it's time to like wind down or go to bed or like... put work away, even if I'm not completely done with everything. And I feel like the evening shower is just such a good place. It's like such a good divider, I guess, between like the workday and now it's like wind down time. As I'm saying that, I'm realizing I do still have to finish the video that I was editing this morning. So maybe, maybe not the great divider tonight. On a normal day, I would put it away, but because that video is sponsored, I need to submit it for a brand deal, like for brand approval. I do need to get that done like on a deadline. So I'm gonna finish dinner and then finish editing that video. But because it's my own content, it's not as... Overstimulating as like doom scrolling on my phone. So I think we should be okay. I am loving the like no scroll day though I think it is going really well I definitely want to do more like I think during Vlogmas one of the videos that I'm kind of like Planning and thinking out is um a day a couple days or a week in my life of like no scrolling at all Which I think could be really really fun and also really beneficial for me because my scrolling has been so bad recently Like it's actually abysmal so we'll see but I feel like this is a good trial run for that where it's just like a nice Friday, no scrolling There's plenty of other stuff to do, you know? I'm officially in bed for the night. It is 10:30 on the dot. This is like the earliest I've gone to bed in weeks. I am just going to be reading until I fall asleep. I'm not starting any of the new books. I'm going to be continuing reading a book that I'm already in the middle of. This is Tempest by Victoria Aveyard. I've been reading this for about a week or so. I'm currently, I'm not super far in. I'm like, I'm making decent progress. I'm like about 100 pages in, I think. Yeah, I'm on page 106. So we're making my way through. But this is what I'm going to be reading until I fall asleep. And that is going to wrap it up for this little no scroll workday in my life. It was so much fun to bring you guys along for this day in my life. and experiment with something a little bit new with like the no scroll aspect. I feel like for someone who talks about getting my screen time down as often as I talk about it, you'd think my screen time would be lower, but that's why we do videos like this. So I can get my screen time down by forcing myself to hold myself accountable by filming everything. Let me know in the comments down below if you guys enjoy this style of video, like this kind of format. I'm experimenting with a couple of different things recently. You guys might be able to tell, I'm kind of just like trying out different things, seeing what works and what doesn't. And I've been having a lot of fun with it. And I think you guys are as well. I feel like I've been getting a lot of positive feedback recently. So let me know if you guys like this format of video, if you want to see more of this kind of content, like the no scroll kind of focus or any other different like types of, not like challenges, but like different focuses that I think might be fun, like a no scroll weekend or like waking up at 5 a.m. every day for a week or something like that. I don't know, just kind of stuff like that I feel like would be fun and a little bit more interesting than just like... Come along with me, we're a day in my life, you know? But anyway, that is gonna wrap it up for this one. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure you leave a like on it for me down below and subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. I would love to have you guys join the family. But that is it for this one. Thank you guys so, so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one. So let us dance this night away. This is fun.