A Weekend in my Life in NYC

Hola bella gente! What's up? Hello beautiful people of the internet. It is Friday. Es viernes y el cuerpo lo sabe. You know what I mean? So hi! Nice to meet you. I'm Greta. I live in New York City above a bar so you can probably maybe hear the people who've already started their weekend downstairs. It's actually quite interesting. So my room has the view of the garden of this bar. It's more of like a relaxed, chill type of bar so it's not super crazy. I'm finishing up work right now. Since we have just met, sometimes like I really enjoy listening to people's conversations because I'm like, oh my god, and sometimes I get really invested and they'll start talking about someone. I'll be like, oh my god, I cannot believe Rachel did that. I'm finishing up work right now and it was a long AF day. I had seven meetings today. That's not an exaggeration. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. Just for some context, I am a UX designer. I work from home here in New York City. I moved from living with my parents in a suburban environment. I am Latina, very proudly and fiercely Latina. So I am getting ready right now. I just put on concealer. Me and some friends, you know, I think we're going to do karaoke tonight in Williamsburg. Possibly may go to this market situation. It's like an Asian food market where they're giving out free food and I was like, oh my god, free food. Yes. Salud. You know, I'm not much of a makeup makeup gal. Most days I don't wear makeup. In fact, I really like this might be very unpopular opinion. I don't enjoy the act of putting on makeup. I know a lot of girls enjoy like sitting for hours and like, oh my god, I love experimenting and trying new things and like taking my time, but I'm like, we got to go. We got things to do, people to see. So I'm not like Also, can I just say the Anastasia Beverly Hills clear brow freeze. This is amazing. Amazing. I've always wanted to do like the feathery brow. This is it. This is what you need. This is all you need. Yeah. So I'm going to listen to some Bad Bunny and do this. What do we think? Look at the, look at the feather, look at the featheriness, like look at them. So I have actually a lot of time to kill. It's only like five 30 and the market is around eight o'clock. So we have a good amount of time. One of our friends is over. So I'm going to go say, Hey, what's up? And then we'll get changed and then we'll go. Next order of business is to decide what the heck we're going to wear. It is currently New York fashion week right now. I surprisingly was not invited to anything. It's fine. It's fine. We're fine. Just because it's New York fashion week. I feel like stepping out a little bit, but then at the same time, I know my friends are going to be really casual. So I'm like, do I, do I do it or do I stay casual? I don't know. Hey Siri, what's the temperature right now? It's currently 73 degrees. I don't know if you've heard about all the flooding that's happening in New York. It is insane. I have seen pictures of people in kayaks, which I'm sure are edited people literally swimming in the subway, like swimming through the subway, subway rats swimming through the subway. Um, so yeah, I'm really, I'm really relishing this, um, this situation, this weather. So we could do a dress like this. We could do, except this is long sleeve. Do I want to wear a long sleeve? And it's also very bodycon. So I don't know if I'm feeling that right now, or this one's a little too much of nothing. Like in terms of cloth, it's not that much fabric. Um, this one could do a skirt with like a shirt like this would be cute. I don't know if I love this. I mean, I do, but I don't. Okay. So I think, I think what I realized was that the, the shorts and the top were both very baggy and it kind of looked too much, too much, too much bagginess in one outfit. So I think the skirt and the top kind of, I don't know. I feel like they balance each other out. So yeah, this is much better. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hello. Good morning. It is my roommate is back from her run. It's Saturday morning. I am about to workout myself. We're going to do like some Pilates, some cardio. How was your run? Great. Welcome home. I'm going to do some Pilates. I love, uh, there's this YouTuber. Her name is Mu or her channel is Mu with Nicole. And I think she's, she's Australian, I think. And her videos are amazing. Like I showed them to my roommate. She loves them. I showed them to my mom. She loves them. It's a bunch of Pilates and also yoga here and there, but she's so good because her, the workouts that I see her do or the moves are, I've never, a lot of them I haven't seen before. So it's like really different, original. You move your body in ways that you haven't before. So I'm going to do that. It's a beautiful day. It's literally, it's stunning. It's stunning outside. So I think I should go outside, grab a coffee or I don't know. The plan for today is really up in the air. Oh, I know what I have to do. So I wrote my mom a little card. I saw this, New Yorker card in one of the random shops here. And I was like, Oh, I need to send this to my mom. So I'm going to put it in the mail, send it over to her. I'll probably do that when I go walk to get my coffee. I don't know what else I should probably order, order groceries. Living in New York, it's really hard not having a car. So when I order a ton of groceries or get, when I need a ton of groceries, I usually just order them. It's so much easier. I think over $35 is free delivery. So that is amazing. And you know, Whole Foods, like two things is over $35. Like that's one thing from Whole Foods cause Whole Foods is over $35. So let's work out. Let's do something. Let's get our body moving. She deserves it. I ate some food. It's already 1 30 PM. Let's just say I did not wake up that early today, but it's fine. It's all good. It's all good. I'm going to go now to get a coffee. I am going to go drop off a little card for my mother and I have plans this evening. We are me and my friend Alison and my friend Pat are going to go get some dinner in K-Town. So I'm very excited about that. We're going to take the AirPods. I feel like I, I don't know, the sign of becoming a New Yorker is when you're just constantly wearing your AirPods, even if you don't have music in. Maybe that's just an old people thing because Apple is taking over or has taken over our lives. Um, so that's great. I am back with my overpriced latte. This was so expensive, but it's so good. I'm a very basic gal. I love me a good old oat milk latte. It's just always, it's just always hits. Never disappoints. Nothing like an ice latte on a sunny Saturday morning. It's just the best combination. Yes. So as I mentioned in the beginning of this vlog, I am a UX designer and at my job, we currently use the software called Sketch, which is our design software. Sketch is great. I know it pretty well. Um, but we're moving over to Figma, which is a more advanced. It's a lot easier to use in my opinion. So I need to learn it. So I know the basics, but I obviously want to know more. I want to get more accustomed to it. And it's really hard to practice using the software during the week because I already have so many things that I need to get done that have to get done during the week. I kind of have no choice, but to do this on the weekends. So I have my work laptop here. I'm going to watch a couple of videos and just practice using it. I'm glad I'm finally setting aside time. I've been saying this for the last couple of weeks. I was like, yes, I'm going to like do this on the weekends, but you know how that be, you know how that be just like the weekend and you just, the time slips away and you just never prioritize it. So you are keeping me accountable. I'm going to do this now and I'm excited. We got a good amount of stuff done. I'm so sleepy. I don't know if you can hear the people above the bar, but it is officially 5 59 PM, almost 6 PM. And I guess people are getting their evening started getting l'aperitif or like the drinks before dinner type of situation. I am going to start getting ready. I'm meeting the gals at 7 30 ish. So it's kind of soon actually, but I'm excited. I think I want to try to use this Glossier. I don't know if they still sell this. This is the Glossier sheer matte lid tint in the color pool. It's like this blue color. And whenever I get ready, I love listening to Bad Bunny. It gets me in the mood, gets me hyped. I need that energy. We're going to go get some dinner. We're going to K-Town, which I'm very excited about. We're getting Korean food. Well, obviously getting Korean food. But yeah, the weather is okay. This is what I came up with. I'm wearing this dress. It's this white slip dress from RUMI. If you don't have a white button down dress shirt, what is you doing? You need one. It goes with everything. So I'm using it as kind of like a little overcoat because it's a little chilly, but not that chilly. And then wearing these boots. These are some boots. Okay. These are boots. These are from ASOS. I don't know what I was trying to say there. These are also from ASOS. There's a chunky boots and I love them. I wear them all the time. They are perfect. And we got this little necklace that I actually got from Mexico. I love it. Now we go because I'm so late. Oh my gosh. We just did like two to three hours of cleaning. So, okay. The thing about living in a walk-up, let me turn this music on before I get copyrighted. The thing about living in a New You know, a nice building where you have a doorman and you have an elevator and everything's brand new. But you know, my roommate and I like to say our apartment just has a lot of character. It just, it's a, it's has a lot of personality. She had to leave. She's going to go watch a movie. She went to see Shang-Chi, which I saw that the other day. And it was so good. It was so good. I'm not much of a Marvel movie person, but I think they made it so that people who aren't familiar with the Marvel universe can understand it. And I understood it. So I really liked it. I thought it was really just made you feel all of the emotions, like all of the feels. It was happy in moments. It was sad in moments. It was funny in a lot of moments. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was great. Yeah, this is how we had to, she had, she was late. So she was fixing, there's something wrong with her couch. We got it from Facebook marketplace and it was like falling, the side part was falling off. So she tried to fix it, but she had to leave. So she's going to resume when she gets back. And I'm just exhausted from cleaning. So we were just cleaning all of this. We got a new rug, which is cute. Yeah, there's still a lot of work to be done in this apartment. We have this open spaces shoe rack that I got and I love it. It's great. It's super cute. So I'm making some food right now. I made some crispy tofu in my air fryer. I love this freaking air flyer, air fryer. It's amazing. It's from Amazon. It's the Kasori brand and it's great. I'm going to eat that with some spinach. I need groceries. That's another thing. I need to buy some groceries. But yeah, I'm very proud of us. We really deep cleaned. This was a deep clean situation. My sister wants me to meet her boyfriend and I already agreed to tonight at A's and that's when the guy was going to go have dinner with. That's the only time he can make it to dinner. So I think I'm going to have to prioritize my sister. I already agreed to meet her boyfriend on Zoom. We're going to do a Zoom call with the fam and he's going to meet us. We're going to meet him. We haven't actually met him before, so I'm excited. So yeah, I might have to cancel dinner or reschedule for another day, but that's fine. So yeah, we're going to serve up this food. I think I'm going to order groceries. I don't know. It's already four, so I don't know if they deliver. I don't know. Will it come? I guess it will. I don't know. I'm just speaking out loud. So I'm going to eat and then order those groceries. Say hey. Hello world. How are you today? Tell them what is your YouTube channel handle? My YouTube channel handle is Champagne Poppy. You wish! It's Tony Chang Med Vlog. If you're interested in medicine or a career in health, please give me a follow. Or if you just want to hang out, that's cool too. So fresh, clean. You know what I mean. I washed my hair today. I'm so proud of myself. I didn't want to do it because the thing is that I have curly hair. A, that's already difficult in and of itself. I have curly hair. I have extremely thick hair. Like every time I go to the hair salon to get my hair straightened, to get my hair cut, to get my hair colored, every time they comment, they're like, this is the thickest hair I've ever seen. It's a blessing but a curse because it takes me forever to do my hair or do anything with my hair. And it's long. So my roommate is still not home. I'm like, ma'am, where are you? We have work tomorrow. She's probably having a great time. I'm very happy for her. There's a couple of things that I like to do on Sunday nights before Monday, just so that, I don't know, if I can make my Monday morning any easier. That is great. So what I like to do, because I'm a grandma, I'm a little abuelita. I love, I have this little medicine thing and I put my vitamins in this. It's amazing. Highly recommend. So I'm gonna fill this up and put all my vitamins in here and then I'm gonna make my overnight oats for tomorrow morning, which are delicious. Okay, hello. So I'm gonna show you how to make these really easy overnight oats. I freaking, I love these because they're so easy. Throw them in the fridge and then the next morning you got oats. Okay, so basically, you need oats. So you need half a cup of oats. I'm just gonna take the oats and these are best if they are rolled oats, old-fashioned rolled oats. So you're just going to take some, pour them in your bowl. I use these mason jars because you can seal them airtight and that's great. And I'm making some for my roommate because I'm the best, the best roommate ever. I put in half a cup of milk. I like plant-based milk or oat milk. So just pouring in some milk. You're gonna take just like a spoonful or two of this non-fat Greek yogurt. Next thing you need, very important, maple syrup. You need about a tablespoon of this. You can do more, you can do less depending on, you know, how sweet you like things. I like things medium sweet, not too sweet. I'm gonna try something different that I haven't done before. I had this left over half of a banana from my banana pancakes. So I'm going to mash it up and put it in mine. I don't know if my roommate would want that in her oatmeal so I'm gonna put it in mine. I'm going to mash this up. Okay and then we're just gonna take it and then you just stir everything in. And then in the morning when you take it out you can add whatever you want on top. So you can add blueberries, raspberries, you can add almond butter. And then you just want to, of course, top it off like this. And there she is! Your overnight oats. You just put them in the fridge overnight. Okay so here is my little bullet journal. Super simple, gets everything in one place basically. So how it works is that any tasks that I have to do at some point in the week, I write it here. So I'm like, okay at some point next this week I want to finish this specific project for my team. So I'll write that here and then I'll look at this list here of the things that I need to get done this week and decide which day I want to do it. So I'll be like, okay so this project that I need to finish I think I will do that on Tuesday. So I write it down here. I kind of transfer the tasks that are here, like this master task, into the individual days. But I just wanted to say thanks for hanging out with a sister. I hope that it was fun watching me run around. I didn't really go that many places but kind of run around New York and just live my best life here. Good night and I will see you later. Besos!