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Good morning, you guys. Welcome to another work week in my life. Just having a little gluten-free cinnamon coffee cake muffin, the most delicious thing in the world. And more coffee, a La Cologne oat milk draft latte. This has been my summer staple, it's just so easy to just pour in this glass when I'm working from home. It's the best. And it's a work from home week. I'm in my nesting era this week because if you've been watching my other vlogs, I've just been traveling like crazy, going to a million concerts, and it's been so much fun, but I'm so excited for pretty much the entire month of August, and as of now, September as well, to just be in Chicago, get back on a routine, enjoy the rest of this warm weather. I think it's gonna be amazing, I can't wait. If you're new, I'm Lucia, I'm 24, I live in Chicago, and I work in ITV and Advertising. This week, we're just getting back on the grind of things, if you guys have been following along, I've been at this job for about two months, so now I'm really starting to, I feel like, jump into everything, and start to like, take ownership of my role and everything, which is exciting, but it just means that there's a lot more brainpower and like, work throughout the day. I mean, honestly, I don't know. I feel like starting a new job, everything is so new, so it takes like, so much more brainpower, but I feel like this part takes a lot of brainpower too, because like, I'm finally getting in the nitty gritty of everything, and then I picked like, a challenging job because that's what I like, wanna do, I wanna like, stretch myself and learn, so I feel like, it'll probably just always be like this, but I mean, that's great. So, I don't know if any of that made sense, but anyway, I'm really excited to just be back in my apartment, I cleaned it all last night before going to bed, and unpacked my suitcases and everything, so I'm feeling like, refreshed, we're gonna eat this little breakfast, then go on a nice little walk, let's do a little weather check, 80 degrees and partly cloudy, I feel like that's the perfect summer day, let's kick off the vlog! Alright, we're back from my little walk with Vicente, it was so nice to get some fresh air, oh, I need to get my coffee back out of the fridge, but I'm logging on to work, and we have a call immediately, so, let's put on the headphones, and get to it. Oh, by the way, Vicente's off today, so that's why I get this nice desk set up, and it's the best thing ever. Alright guys, I've been hopping in between calls, I popped open Poppy, no pun intended, and I just love Poppy, I feel like I've been needing these afternoon pick-me-ups, because I'm just getting into a little slump around 2pm, and I need a little fun beverage, but, I just hopped off a bunch of calls, I had like 3 hours of calls just like in a row, I have one more call to wrap up the day, but it's kind of like TBD on the time of it, just depending on when who I'm meeting with is ready, there's just a lot going on, but we got this, I think I'm gonna try to go to a bar class after work today, and then tonight when I get back, I need to catch up on all things social media, like all my social media emails, I just haven't even looked at that, so that's something that I need to do for sure tonight, but yeah, it's just a crazy work week, my company is hosting like a Barbie screening tomorrow after work, but I have this influencer event I'm going to, and it like kind of overlaps in time, so I don't think I can do the Barbie thing, which I'm really sad about, because I honestly want to see the Barbie movie again, it was so good, but Cynthia went yesterday, and I was gonna go with him, and then I was just like too overwhelmed, I was like no, I'd rather go to a bar class instead, and like get back on my workout grind, so I've had like 2 opportunities to go see Barbie this week, and I've declined both of them, even though I want to see Barbie again so bad, but you know, sometimes you gotta make the hard decisions as an adult, and prioritize your sanity, and wellness, and just like getting back on track, so yeah, I'm looking at all the calls I have for tomorrow, and there's so much, oh also, Vicente and I decided to do a 5k, I think it's at the end of September, so that's like almost 2 months from now, almost like a month and a half, and I think we're gonna go on our first 1 mile run today to train for it, which is also exciting, I totally forgot that we agreed to do that, so that'll be cool, I'll keep you guys updated on how that goes, I'm like a little nervous, I stopped doing high impact workouts, because I just feel like for my body, the low impact workouts are better, but I kind of have been missing a lot of cardio, because a lot of the classes that I go to at my yoga studio aren't cardio based, they're more like vinyasa flow, hot yoga, barre, which is like kind of light movements continuously, which is a huge burn, but it's just a totally different type of workout, and I've stopped going to the more cardio based ones, because they just don't work as well with my schedule, but that's something I've noticed in 2023, I like haven't gotten in hardly any cardio, and I feel like I need to implement that, because it's just better for my heart health, and like overall well being, and circulation, all that jazz, so I'm really excited about this, but I'm going to take it slow and easy, because we don't want any injuries, so yeah that's my little life update this afternoon, I'm going to crank out this last hour and 15 minutes of work, we're going to do barre class, and then a mile run, and then shower, and then tackle all my social media stuff, but for now an hour and 15 minutes of cranking out all this work stuff, hopping on my call, and that's the plan, that's my little afternoon check in, yay. Good morning you guys, it's Wednesday, I feel like this week has flown by, I started this vlog yesterday, which was on a Tuesday, so it's already Wednesday, it's already hump day, but I'm going on a little morning walk before the work day, and I figured I would update you guys on last night, so I went to a barre class, which was great, and then Vicente and I went on our first run to train for our 5k that we signed up for, that's about a month and a half, it was so nice, we just did a mile, it was honestly so much fun, so I'm entering my running era, I've heard that out of 10 runs, 2 runs are great, I think 5 runs are so-so, and then 3 runs are awful, so I think that was one of my great runs for the next 9 runs I'm going to be adventuring on, but honestly, I don't know, I feel like when you're doing a 5k, it's really not like that, because it's not like you're really pushing your body to the extremes, like if you're training for a marathon or something, so honestly I feel like it'll just be fun, it's not easy, like I'll definitely have to push myself because I haven't been running in like a year, but I just think it's going to be a nice little way for me to get some more cardio in, in the 5k runs through Wigley Field, so I just think it's going to be a fun experience, it's a decently busy work day, but all my meetings are kind of squished in in the middle of the day, which is nice because I just kind of get them out of the way, I like when they're all concentrated at one section in time, and I'm not like having them scattered throughout the entire day, I think today's going to be a rest day from working out, just because I couldn't fit it into my schedule, because I woke up late and slept in, where I didn't have time to go to a workout class, and then tonight I have an influencer event dinner with The Inkey List, which is the skincare company that I'm really excited about, so we don't have time to fit in a full like workout class, so we're just going to go on some walks throughout the day, I feel like I'm slowly getting back into my routine, but honestly I keep on sleeping in later than I should be, just because I'm used to waking up at like, I would say 7 a.m, 6 30 if I'm doing like a morning workout class, sometimes you can put later than that, and now I've been waking up at like 8, 8 30, which is crazy, but anyway, happy Wednesday, the lawnmower is going off, so that's my cue to talk to you guys when I get back into my apartment. Little midday check-in, I made myself a yogurt parfait, for the past hour I've just been grinding away at making this new tracker for my team, which I thought would be really fast, but low-key it's taking me forever, it's very tedious, and then I have calls for the next hour and a half, and then let's see, an hour-long break before another call to end the day, so yeah, just getting a little snack before those calls, and then I'll probably have another snack after the next hour and a half, I feel like work from home days when I have a dinner planned, I'm just like having a bunch of little snacks throughout the day, instead of like a solid lunch, because I know I'm gonna have a huge dinner that I don't have to cook for, and it's the best, so that's my little midday check-in, I finished my coffee, which is a bittersweet moment, I'm so dramatic about my coffee, like I get so excited to have it, then I get so sad when it's over, but like I shouldn't have any more coffee, but anyway, okay, let's hop onto this call, an hour and a half worth of calls on Zoom, gotta mentally prepare for it, but let's do it, it's five o'clock, the workday is over, you guys, I was in such a slump the past couple hours of the workday, I'm like, it's so overcast outside, I had to get a little pick-me-up poppy grape, so good, I'm so glad the workday is over, although I'm not really in a social mood, and I have this influencer dinner tonight with the Inkey List, I'm really excited, but I'm just not in a social mood, so I need to play some really fun music, get myself in the mood, we're gonna hop in the shower, blast music, and just get in a social mood, because I'm looking forward to this, it's gonna be good times, good vibes, good people, let's get myself into a social mood, and start getting ready for this dinner, I feel like getting ready is very cathartic sometimes, and I haven't gotten ready in a couple days, haven't done the whole routine, so should be fun, at least that's what I'm telling myself, I need to get more energy, a carbonated drink can only do so much, all right guys, I'm about to head out for my event, I'm all ready, left is like two minutes away, but this is like a rumper sort of dressing from Princess Polly, and I put on my red cowboy boots, and I've had since I was literally 15, almost 10 years at this point, that's crazy, this is a purse that I got also like 13 years ago, when I was in Italy, vintage items today, and then just all my normal jewelry, I'm so excited, I'm finally in like a social mood, and I'm also hungry, so let's go get some food, and learn about skincare, I'm back, I've been back, it's 11 12 right now, so I need to do a speedy skincare, and get to bed, because I have an early morning, I yoga class that I want to go to, I took off my contacts, so it's like extremely blurry for me right now, yeah I got back immediately, just rotted in bed on TikTok with Vicente, we were just like laughing, and having a good time, so it's nice, I mean I got back like 9 30, so it's just been a couple hours, but time flies by when you're laughing on TikTok, time to do my skincare fitting, because I'm just coming from a skincare event, actually let me show you guys what we got, so we got the hyaluronic acid serum, which I'm not gonna use, because they're gonna ask my dermatologist about it first, but the caffeine eye cream I'm so excited about, and they were supposed to give us a cleanser, but I think mine was like missing from my box, but it's totally fine, and then they also gave us a product that doesn't launch till September 1st, so I can't tell you guys about that yet, but that is very exciting, that's probably my favorite one I think, and yeah I'm really excited about this caffeine eye cream, because I think I mentioned this in my last vlog, I've been struggling with like my under eye circles, and I feel like I haven't been getting enough sleep this summer, just because my schedule has been so chaotic, but that's changing, I feel like I've been prioritizing it this week, no oh my god, I just realized I have to get my blood work drawn in the morning for Accutane, that sucks, it's fine, but okay, so I'm not gonna do my Hyuk class in the morning, we're gonna do it after work, and then just shower and wash my hair after work, that'll be totally fine, but damn, okay I'm almost done with Accutane you guys, but it's a pain every time I have to go get my blood work done, because you can't eat before, so you have to do it in the morning, and I always have to go at like 8, like right when they open, and then it's like a rush to get back for work, and then I can't do a workout in the morning, it's like this whole thing, but luckily I don't have plans tomorrow night, so it'll be totally fine, I'm just gonna go before the work day, but yeah, it was such a fun dinner, they had tacos, which is literally the way to my heart, you guys know, and I got to meet so many creators and catch up with other ones that I already knew, and it was just so much fun, everyone was so nice, everyone from the brand and the creators that I got to meet, I really enjoyed, we got to learn more about the brand, the co-founders were there, and they were super friendly, and yeah, I really like their brand, it's all about like the inky list, stands for the ingredient list, and it's all about having ingredient lists that are like all there, simple, nothing too complicated, and they're all about education too, so I really liked like their mission and what they stand for, and I'm excited to use this caffeine eye cream today, so we'll update you guys how my under eye circles are doing tomorrow, not waking up early for a yoga class, because I have to go get my blood work done, so new plan unlocked, I'll see you guys tomorrow, we're back and we're all logged on to the workday, I just had a one-to-one call, and then the agenda for the rest of the day is a internal connect in about 15 minutes, and then I have this huge kind of like all hands meeting during lunchtime, so I'll probably just like make a bagel during that or something, at 3 p.m. I have another big all hands meeting, so I'm gonna have a solid couple of hours to just like get shit done, which I need to do, I have like a huge project that was assigned to me yesterday, it's a little overwhelming because it's like my first big project at this job, and I have to turn it around by Monday, there's a lot of like moving parts, a lot of nuances too that I just don't really understand yet, but we are gonna try our best, I'm gonna do my bar workout after work today, and then after that we gotta edit like a bunch of videos because I'm so behind, so that's the plan. The weather today is 79 degrees and sunny, honestly it might be a good day to just like soak up some sun, I feel like I've been cooped up in my apartment all week, it looks like it might rain tomorrow, so maybe I'll do some work outside, get a little tan in, but we'll see, I don't know, honestly I might just need to focus inside, which sucks, I feel like I'm getting that back to school feeling, like summer is coming to a close, we're getting back on the grind with work stuff, because I'm finally like starting to get up to speed, so it is kind of like, you know, back to school season, I don't know if any of you guys are in school still, but I'm jealous, I love back to school season, so I'm gonna try to channel it in my own way, like I'm back to work, even though I've been at work the past two years at this point, but anyway I'm rambling, and let's tackle on these meetings, I feel like I'm living in Groundhog Day this week, like every day is kind of the same, so I hope this vlog isn't boring, I need to like kind of add some some spice in my life a little bit, I need to try some new recipes, and maybe do like a fun little challenge, I've been thinking about doing 75 hard, let me know what you guys think about that, I just think that'd be fun to do, and like to document, but I don't know, it also seems like a lot, so we shall see, but yeah, I'll catch up with you guys after I get some work done, it's 4 p.m., I need to make a yogurt parfait, so I can get some good protein in for my bar class, I just got off my final meeting of the day, it suddenly looks like it's storming outside, like there's just a huge dark cloud, which is a total change of pace, also I don't think I told you guys this, but Vicente left the airport this morning, he's out of town for the rest of the week, which is so sad, I miss him already, it's always so weird like being in our home that we have together, but like without him, but you know sometimes it's nice to also like have space to myself, so I always have mixed feelings about it, but I have a lot of plans tomorrow and Saturday and Sunday, so I'm keeping myself busy, but yeah, it's a little melancholy outside, but I'm finally done with all my calls for the day, I've just been attached to my computer ever since I logged on this morning, I haven't really taken like a true break, because when I made my lunch earlier, I was like on a call like listening, so this is my first like true break of the day, which will be cathartic, cutting up all these strawberries, so let's do it. Work is officially over, and I am dragging myself to bar, like I'm excited to go, but I just know it's gonna hurt, I just know, it's the hardest teacher on Thursdays, but we got this, and I had an epiphany, I was like okay I need to get there early, because I'm always getting there like right when it starts, because when I get there too late, all of the two pound weights are taken, and then I have to use a three pound weight, and it's so much heavier, and it honestly makes such a big difference at bar, if you take bar you know, I gotta go early to get my two pound weights, early bird gets the worm, maybe one day I'll work up to the three pound weights, and I won't have to be worried about it, but for now I need my two pound weights, I'm struggling with three pounders. I'm back from bar, so fucking hard I cannot, oh my god you guys, I'm not gonna wash my hair, because I'm gonna do hot yoga in the morning, I already signed up for it, I'm committing, I must go to bed early enough, so I can get eight hours of sleep before hot yoga, and I know I'm gonna be like even more sweaty after that, and I'm gonna wait to wash my hair after my hot yoga class in the morning, I'm not going anywhere tonight, so this will be fun, I'm like so hungry, but I need to shower first, before like making my pasta, so I'm gonna have a little snack, let's go for one of these beef sticks, time to shower, all right you guys, I'm all tucked into bed, a little bit later than I was hoping, but you know it happens, I just, I've gotten lost on swifty tiktok, because she just announced that she's releasing the taylor's version of 1989, and I'm also seeing all the clips from her LA shows, so I've just been rotting on tiktok for way too long, my screen time this week is gonna be insane, but but yeah, I love watching all the arrows toward tiktoks, it's like my favorite thing, and I'm so excited for 1989 taylor's version, because that was like my favorite taylor album ever, that's when I was like a really huge fan of her, so I can't wait, good night you guys, I'll see you for hot yoga in the morning, good morning guys, I'm back from hot yoga, insanely sweaty, I don't know if you can see the sweat marks on my shirt from all the way where you are, but it's intense, we are finally washing the hair, I'm so excited, it's been like a week, but I'm supposed to wash my hair the least amount of time possible, because it's pretty damaged, but I just love washing my hair, I love the feeling after, I love how it smells, I just, I love it, so it's been a struggle for me, maybe I'll start washing it two times a week, but let's shower and wash my hair, happy friday, I'm so excited it's friday, but I have like a crazy packed agenda, and I didn't get that much sleep last night, because I was just, kept waking up, hearing things, tossing and turning, anxious night, but you know, that's okay, it happens, yeah we have a crazy packed agenda, hot yoga is checked off the list, and then after I shower, take the shower, wash my hair, shave everything, I'm gonna go get some coffee, because I desperately need it, I feel like I have a ton of calls today, like it's a little crazy, my calls don't start till 10 30, so that's a little bit better, but I have them from 10 30 to 12, and then 12 30 to 1, and then 1 30 to 2, okay that's not as bad as I thought, I was thinking I had calls like literally all day, but I don't, which is amazing, but there's so much to do, but we'll figure it out, okay time to shower, I've been working, getting everything organized, I picked up some coffee from Ibsento, I kind of got rain on while I was outside, I got caught in the rain, but it's fine, because like my hair was already soaking wet anyway, I just thought I would come here a bit for a second, because by like pet peeve, when like working from home, is when co-workers just slack you like hi, or like good morning, and it's like you know that they're, they're slacking you, because they have like a question, but they don't just like lead with a question, they wait for you to respond and say hi, which takes a few minutes, and then they'll respond with a question like 15 minutes later, I'm like can we just get to the point, like you can put like a hi in the message of where you're asking the question, like say hi, like hope you're doing well, like I have a question about this, like if you haven't talked in a while, but like I just like, I don't really need the courtesies, like you can just like get to the point, like okay like what do you need, or like what's up, I don't know, that's just my thoughts, I don't know how you guys feel about that, but yeah, I have so much to do today, and I feel like I just like don't even know how to get started, but let's just do it, we gotta, we gotta go full force, I got my coffee, I need to chug it, and just like get into the meats of this, all right, just got off a call, now I'm hopping on to another one, hi, I just made an avocado bagel in classic Lucia fashion, and I'm listening to the new romantics by Taylor Swift, because I just love that song, and I'm so excited for Taylor's version 1989, I feel like she's gonna have such good bold songs from that era, because that's just my favorite songwriting era of hers, so I'm really excited, am I the only person that like is incapable of sitting like a normal person, like I always have like one leg up, or both legs up while I'm working, like I cannot just sit like a normal person, I don't know why, I literally can't you guys, my brain is so fried, we are done with the work day, I just like I can't anymore, I can't believe I've been here for the past eight hours, I think normally Fridays are pretty chill, but this is just not chill, I just I'm like I'm so over this, I'm sorry, I know I'm normally pretty buzzed, but I'm just like I just can't, I'm like I'm done, goodbye work week, I'm so happy to be done, and I'm just gonna like rot in bed for a second, because I just I need to chill, I've been staring at this computer for way too long, I did my makeup and straightened my hair, even though it's kind of already wavy again, but that's just how it goes, and I'm about to change, because I'm finally ready to go to dinner, I had some horizontal time watching the summer I turned pretty, but mainly just rotting on TikTok, I feel like that's been the theme of this week, my friend got caught up with like a work thing, so we just like pushed back the dinner, kind of like an hour, it's like 7 36 now, and I think I'm gonna head out soon, I just need to know like what her ETA is when she calls an Uber, I'm excited to get some tacos, yeah I've just been editing a TikTok vlog, and yeah just gonna post this TikTok vlog, get changed, and head out the door, I've been having just like this like anxious feeling in my heart like the entire day, like I just feel like my heart's beating really fast, so hope that goes down, and I get to just like relax, I think maybe it's just like the stress of the work from home day, I'm just like stressing myself out for like literally no reason, but hopefully a fun little dinner just like takes my mind off things, and it's a good time. Hi guys, it is almost midnight or after midnight, I don't even know at this point, and I'm back from dinner, it was so much fun, we just ended up going to Seoul taco, it's a really good place, I just got like three gluten-free tofu tacos, which were delicious, although we were like walking to wicker park to eat them, and it was like kind of already getting dark and stuff, and my tacos just like totally discombobulated, and we're like all over the place, and it was so hard to eat with just my hands, but we made it, and we just walked around, that wraps up this work week in my life, I feel like this one was like a little bit monotonous, I don't know, I mean I had some fun like sprinkled in some fun stuff throughout the week, but overall it was like just a huge work week, a lot of stuff going on, I feel like I learned a lot, the days kind of just all blurred together just sitting at my computer, oh I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, just like getting some more recharge in, gonna get a good night's sleep, take a yoga class in the morning, and I'll catch up with you guys in my next video, I post every Sunday and Wednesday, or at least try to go on that schedule when I can, um but around two videos a week, subscribe so you don't miss them, and I will catch you guys in my next video, thanks!