COZY DAY IN MY LIFE | productivity, baking, homebody activities

Hello, and welcome back to the channel. Unless you're new, then welcome. Today is going to be a very chill and cozy vlog. When I'm not at the gym or hiking, this is kind of what 95% of my life looks like. I'm a homebody at heart, so I spend a lot of time alone, and I've been really enjoying the peace of solitude. As we get into the end of the year, that also means the holiday season, so I'm going to be a little festive and make some pumpkin cookies. I'm really excited about that. I have been enjoying baking. I also got this scarf. Yes, it's inspired by Macasa. I can't deny that. But I also just love this color. It's festive, and I don't necessarily need a scarf in Hawaii at all, whatsoever. But if I travel somewhere cold, I have a cute accessory now, and I actually am traveling somewhere cold very soon. The morning has slipped away from me. It's already 1 p.m. In my defense, I was packing this morning for said trip. I am so excited. I'm going to Japan. I'm not going to say any more on that because that's going to be next week's vlog, so keep an eye out for that. For today, it's time for some breakfast. It's high time for some breakfast, so I'm going to get started on that, definitely have some coffee, and then get into some organizing that I've been procrastinating. So we're going to do that together. Breakfast is served. I have three eggs, some leftover turkey, kefir, and double espresso. Cheers. I also recently got kefir for the first time. It has loads of benefits, and as someone who already drinks a lot, eats a lot of yogurt, kefir is basically like a drinking yogurt, which is a lot easier for me. I got a bunch of free protein, basically, because my family baked a turkey, and there was so much of the breast meat just leftover, and I harvested that, and that's basically going to be my protein source for the next couple days. Also, for those of you who watched the last vlog, skin update. If you didn't watch, I went camping and woke up with, I counted about 60 bites on my face and neck only, and it looked a little crazy, especially because it was grouped mostly around like my eyes and mouth area, but it's been a week since I got home, and I'm basically all healed. There's like some slight redness still that's healing, but such a relief that it went away so quickly, so yay. My next order of business is to organize this vinyl table slash tech collection. I've gotten a little bit lazy and disorganized here with all my stuff, and it doesn't do this area justice, so we need to organize that, as well as this. I need to figure out what to do with my things under my desk. I have storage for it, but I just need to condense and possibly get rid of some things, because it just makes this whole corner of the apartment feel more cluttered and small. Let's see what we can do. And boom. Here is what we're working with now. It looks so much tidier. I got rid of everything that was under the desk, well, not rid of it, but organized it much better. Cable management we're not going to worry about right now. I think it looks so much better here. So I do actually have one errand today, but it's a very fun one, so I don't mind that I have to leave the house for it. It is dropping off some film. I'm also going to pick up some new film, and the shop is really cute, so I'll definitely take the vlog over there. Before that, I need to eat really quickly and just have some more leftovers. The moment we've all been waiting for, at least I've been waiting for it. It's time to bake the cookies. I'm going to be making cream cheese icing stuffed pumpkin cookies. Very festive. I haven't tried this recipe before, so we're going to be trying it together. I'm following the recipe on my laptop, and I'll link the recipe as well in case you want to try. And then for dinner, I'm making one of my favorite homemade soups, zuppa toscana. That's my Italian side shining through. So for that recipe, I'm just going based off of memory of how my mom would bake it, which is funny because my mom is not even the Italian one my dad is, but regardless, it's delicious and quite simple. So I'm starting with the cookies first. As those are baking slash cooling, then I'll make the soup. Let's get started. Smells so good. This is a lot of cookies. I haven't tried any yet. I did crack this one just to make sure the filling turned out okay, but they have not been taste tested. I'm going to have my soup first, but they look really good. I'm definitely going to need to drop some off at my mom's house because this is 16 cookies and I leave in like a day, so there's no way I'm eating all of this. I am so ready to eat. The soup ended up looking kind of chopped because the chicken sausage was not the right consistency to make it into like ground meat. So it kind of just looks like sliced hot dogs, which is not the vibe, but it tastes so good. Okay, I have to try the cookies. I have to try. The cream cheese filling is so good. Cookies are like an 8.5 out of 10. This is like an 8.9 out of 10, so I'm happy. Alright guys, that's all for today's video. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to lift, laugh, and love, and I'll see you in the next video. Bye!