a December day in my life ☃️ checking off my to-do list & trying new things

🎶 I'm starting my eyes. oh my god my eyeballs, I can't deal with this. this is literally the worst, bro. putting contacts in before your eyes are ready for contacts is so uncomfortable. if my eyes aren't awake enough, and I put contacts in, oh no. I'm doing something that I literally learned in one of the therapies that I went to for one of my concussions. I do this when I have a really bad headache too, but I cover my eyes so it's completely dark, and then I open my eyes, so I'm like resetting my brain. this helps with contacts too. when this happens, I don't know why that is. that was really dramatic, and like a lot. good morning everybody. it's december 12th, I just got ready, because I have a workout class that I'm going to this morning. and I'm actually really interested, intrigued, excited. they just opened a body rock studio in charleston. it's at morrison yard, which is an apartment building downtown. I didn't know that they had retail there, but I guess they do. so I'm gonna do that this morning. core and cardio. I'm very interested. it says there's a springboard involved, I really hope that's the case, because that just looks like a lot of fun. and I haven't done a workout class in a hot minute. body rock I think is considered pilates? like reformer on a megaformer? maybe? there's a lot of terms. I'm not entirely sure what's what. I know that solid core is on a megaformer I guess, but it's not pilates. so I'm like is this considered, I don't know. I'm like figuring it might be similar to solid core, but I literally have no idea. they have a bunch of locations in new york, but I just never went because I would just go to solid core because it was so close. but I haven't done anything in a hot minute. so I know this is going to be rough physically. I can go into it with a good attitude, which is what I'm going to do. I don't know, I just decided I wanted to pick up the camera and vlog today. it is just a random day in December. I just read a book the other day called One Day in December by Josie Silver. I literally read it all in one night. I might talk a little bit more about books later because I want to read another book by Josie Silver now. because I ate it up so bad. I literally started reading it at 10pm, which was my mistake because I was up until almost 4am. the book was literally almost 400 pages. it was around 400 pages long. and I just read it all in one night because I just couldn't put it down. so we're doing a little vlog of one of my days in December. we are really on the home stretch here. in terms of the holidays, I cannot believe it's already halfway through December pretty much. halfway to Christmas, it's the 12th. we are rapidly approaching home for the holidays time. meaning I'm going to be flying home flying with Charlie for the first time. home for the holidays. it's just crazy how fast everything is going. story of everybody's life. so I'm getting excited for that. I'm also trying to just do everything that I want to do here before I go. I have some presents that I've gotten for my family here. I want to stop by world market today actually after my workout class because A. there's a world market here and I really want to go. somebody told me in the comments of my last video that they sell glasses like the Icon juice glasses from Anthropologie unless they're the same exact ones. I just assumed they were dupes but they said they had them at world market and I really want to go and see if they have them at my world market. I feel like a lot of people are looking for them though so I don't really know what my chances will be but I also need to get some gift wrap, some bags, wrapping paper, gift tags, ribbon probably, and then a couple other little odds and ends I think. I also need to go to the grocery store. I go to the grocery store every single day. I need to probably swing around to Whole Foods because there's a Whole Foods in West Ashley too that I feel like I could just go there too. So that's the plan for the first half of the day. Oh I need to get like a protein smoothie or shake or something after my workout too. I like to do that within 60 minutes of working out so I might go to a little local place downtown. Also it's a beautiful day. I'm looking at a blue sky. I love it when it's a blue sky. The high today, if you're wondering, 54. Honestly the perfect weather. So I've got a little bit until I need to leave. I'm gonna probably eat a banana or something before my class because I don't really know what to expect and I don't want to go into it with a completely empty stomach because what if it gets really strenuous and I only pass out? I'm scared. I'm such an over thinker. It's actually really annoying for me. I don't even care what it is for other people because it is annoying for me. I have to live with it every day. And I just over think every single thing, especially all the bad potential outcomes even if their probabilities are quite low. I'm probably going to get there so early because I don't know the vibes. Like I don't know the parking situation. I know there's a garage they said that I could park in but I'm like which garage? A. B. There's also public parking there because my friends used to live there and I remember I parked on the side of the road. So I'm like if there's any open there, I'd just park there because it's free. But I don't even know exactly where in the building this is located. Like where the entrance is. So probably going to get there so early. Also it's my first class at this studio so I think I need to get there early. It's better to be there early and waiting there than just sitting around waiting here and wondering what the situation is going to be. That's the plan. So we've got other things that I've got to get done today too. We're going to have a nice, fun morning. Music Bro That was intense. I just set my ass off. My hypochlorous acid spray from Amazon and a travel bottle. I'm going to need this spray because I just sweat buckets in there. I am so proud of myself and I did such a good job. I was going to sit here and compare myself to after 50 solid core classes which is not the fitness level that I'm at currently because as I said, I have not exercised in a while. I haven't gone to a workout class since I've moved here. It's December. I moved here in September. I'm definitely at a different fitness level but I did my best. I pushed myself and that was very reminiscent of solid core. It just felt a smidge less intense. I don't know how to explain it. I really liked it though, honestly. I would go back. Am I exhausted right now? Yeah, but I would go back. I parked on the side of the road so I got my free outside street parking. I need a protein smoothie immediately. But that was a really good workout. I'm spraying my perfume. I'm going to drive over now and get a protein smoothie and also probably a coffee. I also definitely could have wore a jacket because it is windy and cold but I figured I would just be in the car most of the time. Starting route to Eerie Isley Gardens. This is what I deserve. I found street parking. At least I think. At least I think. I'm not wearing a jacket. I almost brought one and then I forgot. It is very chilly in the wind and my sweat is cooling on me so that's not helping. Okay! Successful street parking by the way because my car is still in here. Got my coffee. It's so cute in there. And I got a smoothie. This is the peanut butter cup potentially. Can't go wrong with this. It has protein in it. I almost got more but then I was like, is that necessary? Probably not. Holy shit. Oh my god, this is so good. It is peanut butter cup, organic banana, peanut butter, raw cacao, fresh cashew milk, cinnamon, and protein powder. Bitch, this is so fire. I can't even deal with it. Revive me. I'm gonna slurp this down so fast. I also got a coffee. Of course. For double fisting. This is just an iced gingerbread latte with oatmeal. They had like a s'mores or something? Cold foam? That sounded so good. I could've gotten that on a cold brew or even on a latte really but I love a good gingerbread latte so. That's delish. I'm about to route myself to World Market. I'm actually so excited to go to World Market. This has been such a great morning so far. Starting route to World Market. I've now made it to Whole Foods but I've made a grave mistake and I didn't bring my grocery list that I have on the fridge and I also didn't even take a picture of it. I literally told myself to do that before I left and I didn't do it so I know some of the things that I need. I don't know everything. Oops. Rookie mistake. I got some lunch at Whole Foods. Also got some groceries. Frozen broccoli. Frozen strawberries. Protein powder. Peanut butter. Really just the essentials. Blueberries. Applesauce aka gogo squeeze. You've all seen it before so I have one for you. What I did get that's exciting and I was hoping you would have these is the Sweet Lauren's gingerbread cookie dough. I literally have two other refrigerated shirt cookie things in the fridge right now but I have been wondering if Sweet Lauren's has a gingerbread and I freaking found it. They also had like a peppermint chocolate peppermint something like that cookie but I wanted the gingerbread because I freaking love gingerbread. For lunch I did a soup and salad so I just got this random huge salad. I don't even remember what the f*** I put in here. I think like chicken, cucumbers, a hard boiled egg, like shredded carrots, broccoli, lettuce obviously. And then I mixed the regular buttermilk ranch and the chipotle ranch dressings because I wanted a little of both. And then for the soup I got some good old fashioned New England clam chowder and some oyster crackers to go with it so I'm very excited. I'm gonna eat this. Then I'm gonna take a body shower probably. My hair is pretty much dry but I'm still gonna put some of my dry shampoo in it that's like a mist so it's actually not even dry shampoo. It's a mist and then it's supposed to be good especially after a workout because then you can blow dry your roots. I lowkey made this salad exactly like a Cobb salad except without the Cobb salad dressing because I don't like the Cobb salad dressing, I just like ranch. Lunch time! It's beautiful. Let's do a haul from the kit. Also as an update you just saw me do my hair. It does feel a lot better, I won't lie. I really like that dry shampoo mist stuff. It's from R&Co. I'll link it down below. It's kind of expensive. But as a girl who sweats a lot, especially from my head like in my forehead and hair it's just I need to do something so I got that and I love it. So anyway, I showered before that, did my skincare made myself another coffee, a little afternoon pick me up coffee. This is just a brown sugar cinnamon latte and I made this specifically so that I could put sprinkles on top of it because I'm so obsessed with putting sprinkles on my coffee right now. And then they go to the bottom and then you can suck them up through the straw and crunch on them and they're like a little snack. And then I just sat here and I filmed a brand deal for TikTok for Sweet Tarts, my fourth one. So once this one is completed and posted then I will have checked that collaboration with the list which has been so much fun. Like I'm so grateful. Like it is just so funny and now I just gift everybody Sweet Tarts and bring them to everything because I'm like I have so many and everyone loves it, including me. So I just filmed that, edited it, wrote the caption, and submitted it. And I wanted to show you things that I got at World Market. So let's get into it. First of all, one of my main reasons for going there was getting some gift wrap for Christmas presents for people here. So I got this pack of three gift bags because I have three different families within my family that I got gifts for. So I thought that it would be good to just put everybody's gifts like for the whole family in one bag and then I got tags and stickers and stuff to mark which gifts are for who. So I thought this would just be the easiest way to deliver it. And these are so adorable. I actually really love these bags. They're so freaking cute. I'll do all the gift wrapping stuff first. I picked up this adorable wrapping paper. I love this wrapping paper so much. It's like a little stamp collage. Just like the look of it and the vintage look. I love. And all of them are obviously Christmas themed. Like how cute is this? I love this! So I got two of them just to make sure that I had enough. I never really know how to estimate how much I'll need. I really like to use jute rope as my ribbon when I'm wrapping gifts. So I got two packs of this and then whatever I don't use, I'm gonna put in my suitcase and bring home with me to wrap the rest of my presents at home. I just love this look. I wanted to get a white just plain ribbon because the gift wrap that I got is already this same color. It looks like just brown like craft paper. So I don't really know. It'll be fine. Then I got some gift tags. Probably gonna specifically put these tags on the gifts for the kids because I think they're pretty and they're fun. They have these little tassels. It only came in a pack of six. So I had to supplement it with some stickers. But these stickers are freaking adorable. This isn't wrapping but it is Christmas. I got a pack of Christmas cards so that I could write one and put with each bag. I thought they were classy. Classic. And they have a red envelope with them which I thought was pretty. So that's all the gift wrapping stuff that I got. Then I got this to go with a present that I got for one of my cousins. So I don't want to show this in case somebody's watching. It goes with the gift. The main gift that I'm getting. And then I'm so excited. I picked up a couple of glasses. They didn't have any Christmas themed juice glasses but I did get this one with these pretty flowers on it. Literally looks exactly like the Anthropologie ones. This one was $9.99. It's so freaking adorable. This is going to be so perfect in the spring for my coffees. Or just whenever but specifically I feel like in the spring. I want one for like spring, fall, summer, and winter. I also found this one which is a different shape. It kind of looks like it's supposed to be a wine glass but they didn't have any of this shape with the cherries on them. And I just love the little cherries. I think they're adorable. So this will be my summer one because it just gives me summer vibes. But I could also drink wine or literally anything else. Juice, water, liquid IV. Out of these. Like it literally does not matter. I specifically wanted them for iced coffees but this is definitely a wine glass. But there were ones that were more wine glassy than this. So I don't know. I think that they're so pretty. So cute. I need to wash them up. Kind of was hoping that they would have like one of the holiday, I don't know if that's a thing that they do at world market or if it's just used like more general ones. But hey, I'm happy to have found some anyway because I think these are so adorable. And I've been wanting to get some from Anthropologie for a while and I just haven't done it. It was a very successful trip. I had a lot of fun. That place is like a wonderland. There's so much to see. You could spend so many hours in there. That's it for that. I really want to take my contacts out now that I'm done my filming because I don't need them anymore. I need to do some things on my computer so I think I'm going to do that next. Maybe play some vlogmas videos in the background right here on my TV because it just brings me joy. I have a new candle burning that I got from a market that I went to last weekend. It's one of the wood wicks so it has like a crackling sound which is lovely. And now you're up to speed. That's all I've got. Music 6pm and I am so hungry. Let's assemble my dinner together. Luckily I cooked this yesterday so I don't actually have to cook anything. God bless. It's my favorite part about meal prepping by just making the full portion of something and then eating it throughout the week. I'll probably get maybe two more servings out of this. This is a hibachi chicken bowl situation. I found it on Kaylee Eats' Instagram. I will link the blog post down below also if y'all want to try this you absolutely should by the way because it is delicious. I put my mom onto it too. So I prepared this yesterday. I just cooked up some brown rice. That's the first layer of our bowl. Second layer is the veggies. So there's squash, zucchini, mushrooms, and onion. These are my favorite part. Probably just for the mushrooms honestly. I love mushrooms. Maturing is realizing mushrooms are actually so good. I left myself a lot of mushrooms tomorrow so future Hannah, you're welcome girl. Finally, the chicken. I've got a little yum yum sauce dupe to put on top. Then I'll probably drizzle some extra soy sauce onto because I love soy sauce. I'm so hungry so I'm very excited about this. I'm gonna put it in for three minutes. Alright. I think we should be good. Yeah. I think we're good. The thing about me is I really don't like reheated chicken and also I already overcooked the shit out of chicken because I'm afraid of salmonella. And now I just pretty much charred it in the damn microwave so I'm just adding some more soy sauce to make it taste like it's not reheated chicken. And this is the yum yum sauce situation that I made. It's like mayo, Dijon mustard, and coconut aminos. It's in the recipe. I have to give it a second because it's gonna burn my mouth otherwise. It's like literally piping hot. I'm already starting to feel my muscles getting sore from earlier. Which obviously I very much expected since I haven't moved like that in a long time. And it's part of the process so it's fine. Also, I realized I got everything at the store that I had on my list except garlic. So you know what? The fact that I only missed one thing, I'm pretty proud of that. This is so beautiful to me. I cannot wait. I'm so hungry. I'm going to devour this. It is 7 50pm. I'm already in bed. This is awesome. I downloaded several samples onto my Kindle to see what I want to start reading. This might sound stupid and if so, just disregard. I didn't realize that I had access to prime reading because I'm a prime member. Or maybe I did realize- I don't know. It's just because it's different than Kindle Unlimited. There are a couple of books that I want to read. Spark on the Everflame by Penn Cole. What is this hair in my mouth? And Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh. I want to read both of those books. They're both free on prime reading. I'm so excited. I kind of want to read Meet Me Under the Mistletoe. It's by Jenny Bayliss. Last Christmas I read The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss and I absolutely loved it. It took place in the English countryside and it was so sweet. I've learned that my favorite holiday romances books and movies have at least some part that take place in England. Like the holiday, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, the book that I just read one day in December was based in England mostly. And now I'm pretty sure this one, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe is also. So I got this sample and I'm going to read the first however much they give me and see what I think. Look how cute this looks. But there's that, okay? And then there's also I really want to read Spark of the Everflame and Binding 13 but I feel like those can wait. I might as well read the holiday books while I've got them. Like while it's still the holiday time, you know? So I think I'm going to start this book. This is amazing. I love getting in bed early. This is one, maybe even the only perk of the fact that it gets dark so early. Because it encourages me to get my night routine done early so I can get into bed early so I can read early. And then I can get up early and start my day being productive as early as I can. Which is all good things. Heatless overnight sock curls in. Which means it's time for me to go to bed. 11.56pm I'm so happy with everything that I did today. And I hope you enjoyed coming along with me. I'm tired. I'm going to leave you off here. This was a really good book. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for making it to this point in the video. Comment down below, am I real? Because you're a real one. I love you so much and hopefully I will see y'all in my next video. Goodnight. Bye.