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Hey guys and welcome back to my channel long time No see, so I just wanted to do a little journal with me so you guys can kind of get caught up a little bit and what's been going on with my life and I just wanted to get a video out there and I thought this was a good way to kind of you know, get caught back up with you guys, but also get a video and kind of just get some journaling done. So let's get into it right now. I am working on my gratitude journal, this is an Aaron Condron journal and once I get a week done it's like a little bit of a treat I like to go through and just give it a little pizzazz and a little decoration just to kind of really wrap it up. So I'm doing endings and stickers and I was playing with these transparent figures and like you know, just kind of rocking the fact that I didn't have to worry about where I put them because you could read through them and I really love how that turned out. This is the month end. So I just kind of wanted to, you know, reflect and kind of set some information forth. You kind of get back to, you know journaling, I've had a lot of stuff kind of go on, but nothing at all go on all the same token. So this was kind of nice just to kind of reflect. I'm trying to just make sure that I'm staying grounded as I can and making sure that I'm focusing on the things that I can work on. So some things that um, I have been going through for the last couple weeks as my husband did come down with Covid, so we have been quarantined and then my son had um spring break, but you know, kind of ended up where we have just kind of been at home for the last three weeks has been nice to get to spend some time together, but it's also been a little bit tiring on my mental health. So you know, it's, but we've all, I feel like at this point kind of have become accustomed to it for the last year, but I did a little trick there and I don't know if you guys noticed it, but if you're missing something and you want to sharper cut with your washi, I've been using the end of the pen or the cap here, I'm going to jump into my bullet journal now I use the Aaron Kander and petite bullet dot grid binders. I'm just showing you some of the stuff I kind of pulled together kind of like to have a theme, but um, this, I don't use as like a planner, I just used it as additional things that I want to use for my planner. So what I want to do here and you kind of see how I'm kind of making this um, is I want to do, like a weight tracker, so what I'm kind of and I had no idea what I wanted to do. I sometimes like to pull up on Pinterest and I have on my computer on my desktop. Just some inspiration and some ideas of some things that I think look cute and stuff, but I feel like I never really end up kind of rocking with those. I usually end up just kind of finding my own groove. I am this washi, the plain colored washi is from hobby lobby. The ones with the rose gold bows are from simply gilded. If you guys haven't checked her out, like that is an awesome awesome shop. The only thing about that shop is that the subscription service is that it just gets a little bit repetitive. So I was a subscriber to it for about a year. But then during quarantine I just kind of had to let it go because I wasn't using my journaling supplies as much. Um, so here I am, I'm just decorating it, putting my goal weight now. I do. This might be triggering for some of you. So I apologize if it is, but I do want to say that I'm not the best at like waiting myself, but I do think that keeping a little bit of top of mind, you know, I feel like it's just my personality that like what I ignores what I ignore, out of sight, out of mind. So I feel like having this a little bit of accountability here just might hold me more accountable to just like, you know, keeping it top of mind and trying to just work towards the goal of, you know, being my best version of myself now, here I am hopping in and I'm going to be working on a page that I'm pretty because I did just show you um just because I feel like it's going to really help give me kind of something to go to, but I am going to be working on, I don't know what to call this like maybe like a go to workout plan, I forget what I called it and when I write it down, you guys will see. But as I'm kind of working on getting this set up and working on some ideas and stuff. I wanted to talk to you about a couple of those markers too. So those are the sharp es notes. I got this because I kind of saw that they were a dupe for the mid liners and I would have to say that I don't necessarily like I don't have the mid liners yet, but I wouldn't say that they're like super great. They bleed through a little bit more than the creole the ones do and I don't feel like I can do any um calligraphy with them and they don't like right on top of washi So I really like a sharpie, how I kind of did the weight tracker. I like to use my washy as almost like a uh like a title page and like, you know, I feel like it's kind of like, I feel like a little bit of an escape goat for time and then I don't have to be as creative. Like really rely on the washi. So I don't know, I feel like they're not the best, but I will say those Crayola ones you're seeing in the back. Those are amazing. If you don't have the cray ola super tips, like go buy you a pack. Super inexpensive. Don't bleed through. Great for highlighting. Great for accenting grateful writing. They're not the best to write on washi but pretty good. So here I am, I'm kind of just using this pill color again. Same layout set up, kind of like to do that where I kind of make a couple of pages and I kind of theme it and then go with that um that little area just ended up kind of being a little, I don't know, weird. So I just decorated it doodled on it. Um I was playing with my nails there and I just want to tell you my nails are and me are on a journey. So you might see a video on that. I did order some stuff to come in next month to hopefully help out with that. But I have been going through it since like pre Covid, I was doing the S and S and L's. I really loved it when I was doing um But I feel like with the sns nails I was doing tips and then you know it was just a lot of work to have to get all of this and I was taken off and then get new tips but on each time and then you know the S. And S. Wasn't always strong enough to keep the tips from breaking. So I switched over to acrylics but then I got a fungus so I switched to a new lady but I feel like I don't know what if she wasn't using a strong enough glue or maybe she was just trying not to damage my nails but it literally like the nail would just randomly pop off, not break, not like I would hit it, it would just pop off. So and then being quarantined, I had that happen and I just decided you know what it's not working out. So I went and got those glue on nails but they literally like lasted 24 hours like it was Kind of a joke honestly but it was only $8 so I can't super complain but you know I do have some things that are coming in next month so we'll see if they're worth sharing but here I'm just writing down basically I wanted to write down like a go to workout routine so something that I could just kind of pull up and make a habit of something. Maybe I could do it daily now, let's be completely honest. I have not done this yet. So I feel like I have the right intentions and I have the right mindset, but I just can't start the habit which is so bad and I just need to do it. So I was hoping if I could have this, this is like a go to, I would do it, I tried to do some of the Pinterest challenges where it's like rest day and then you're on and rest day and then you up it and I feel like as much as that makes sense, right, it's just not what makes sense for me. Like I need to be able to do the same thing every day and just know that I'm going to have some benefits to it, so that's kind of what I have here and I'm just kind of looking on Pinterest to see like what people recommend and what are some benefits and you know, just kind of puts in, so I have my keyboard here because again I'm searching, trying to figure out what are some, you know, things that I can kind of do, I don't even know what I'm doing with my hands. I think right now I'm on the phone with a friend too, so oh I'm like, see I'm giving away all my secrets of like rubbing my fingers when I'm anxious. So as we sit here and I'm so sorry for the silent, dull, boring not watching me do anything I guess I'll just update you guys on you know the isolation fact of how isolating it is to be quarantined. I know we all went through this literally like a year ago so it's kind of like Full 3 60 full like circle to be in the same situation like a year ago. Um But the thing is is that this covid stuff is not a joke. My husband is not the youngest of I mean he's not like in his twenties early thirties season his mid thirties and he does have some preconditions but he's definitely like Had a rough go at it it was like 14 days of just intense sickness and then you worry and I was still trying to like I was working from home like I went virtual thank god I have a company that I work for now that I can do stuff like that on. Um And then my son who's now in kindergarten so last year in D. P. Kay it was like okay like let's make sure he's learning something but now you know he's got coursework and schoolwork and things that people expect of us so it was just kind of a lot and um it was very isolating. I also my mother and my stepfather, my stepfather had a little bit of a surgery and some stuff going through it too so I feel like it was just like a lot of things going on in the family all at once. Um and I feel like it's not over like my husband's not fully recovered. My stepdad is definitely not fully recovered and you know, we haven't come back to our normal way of life yet because Spring break doesn't end here. I am messing with those nails because I'm just so frustrated. So I actually have kind of filmed a couple of different things on a couple of different days. So you might actually, and a couple of clips here from here, see that the males actually don't make it. So, you know, this whole quarantine thing was definitely very isolating and challenging on my mental health. Hi, don't think last year was as challenging as this year. Honestly, I think last year it was like I was dealing with the, you know, Host of losing my grandfather at the end of 2019. So, but this year it was you know, more or less like dealing with just like having a hard freaking year and then kind of being isolated, kind of dealing with some thoughts of loneliness and you know, discontentment and just really being faced with those things that when you have time to reflect on those things, it's kind of exhausting kind of close that up as you can tell, this is another day, another day, another dollar no nails. I finally got them all off and this one what I wanted to do is as I was bored in the house and the house board, I decided that I really wanted to kind of start getting back into reading. I feel like it's just a really good safe escape for me in a place that I can go when you know things are trying and kind of just take some me time and relax. So I was actually watching a lot of like library tours and book reviews and I was really enjoying them here and I feel like it was just, that's the thing that's so great about youtube here is that we can all express so many of our different passions and things that were loving and I am so thankful that that was kind of an outlet I could use. So I decided I really just wanted to put this page in here and create a place again where I can hold myself accountable. So I think it was like honestly I think it was just a handful of um pages like books, I think it was like 2468, it was, it was not 24688 books, you know, I definitely think I can get eight books read this year and here I'm kind of just going through my table of contents and I'm looking at my past like degree stuff and just adding it in. I actually, during this quarantine I started a graphic design program to wrap it program, so you'll actually notice maybe at my thumbnail at the beginning is one of a kind of like, you know, some skills, I'm just trying to apply and um procreate is what I used for that and it's not part of the class procreate, but I kind of just wanted to see if I could cross our friends say it's been a little extra challenging for me too because the courses are all based on like a desktop. And I actually have been challenging myself to use my ipad pro since I have my apple pencil and really to kind of stretch my ability and use that tool. So that has been nice to kind of work on that. But here I am logging on to, you know, my college website and I'm kind of just doing a degree audit, seeing what I have left, seeing what I have left for the graphic design and just trying to kind of plan out my spring and my summer, I will tell you that like it's starting to get dwindling. So I honestly, you know, I always joke that I just want to graduate college before my son does and that's just what I've been trying to work on. But I do um I think I only have if three classes left for the graphic design, so that should be done in fall. Um And then I really, I only have 12 more core classes that seem to get taken care of and I think I have three of my business classes that needs to take care of and one of my additional business math, So what is that? 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9 classes. So, and if you think that I take usually about 2-3, three semesters. If I were to do three, which is a little much, but if I were to do three classes a semester I could get that done. It is so exciting. So you know, this is just me kind of referencing, what have I got done, what do I need to get done? I am currently, I'm kind of working on my electives with this graphic design, which is kinda nice. Um and just trying to get an updated version. So I didn't realize right here, I was blocking you guys. I was looking back and forth, so I apologize, but as we get to the end of the voiceover, I do want to tell you guys please, if you like this video, give me a like, give me a subscribe and if you have any suggestions, leave them down below. Have a good night. Bye guys!