Making ICONIC decisions for my van! #vanlife

Good morning. How are you doing? How's life my little friend? Today it is super spicy outside. Can you tell by my glossy glow? My radiant look? Enhanced by sweat. I do look alive. Can you even believe this? Can you believe my skin right now? And I wish I could tell you that it was just a miracle. It wasn't a miracle. But like the last few weeks I've been having a little a little not holiday but uh break from the van because you need it. You need it. Honey I needed that. I needed that to generally just repair everything about me. Oh my god you're so worn down being in the van. And you don't really realize it because I think it's kind of like a gradual thing but I did not realize how kind of like jacked up I've been. So I had my grandma come over last week. We stayed in a mobile home and I tanned. I tanned. I tanned. The impossible happened. And I'm glowing now. Because basically I brought my grandma here last week. Said to go back to England for my granddad's funeral which wasn't fun. And then also my family dog Coco died. That was not gonna lie really tough. But we're here. We're good. We're all good. Okay. I'm not happy because of like the emotional roller coaster the last few weeks have been. But I'm happy because I feel so much better in myself. I just feel healthy. I feel healthy. We love feeling healthy. All right. Health is wealth people. Health is wealth. But today we're gonna be doing something because you know what also happened. You wanna know? You really wanna know? I dropped my Nespresso machine. I dropped her. I screwed her into the counter so it's been seamless whilst driving. No problems. The moment I go to pick my Nespresso machine up. Machino? The moment I go to pick my Nespresso machine up I drop her on the floor and she breaks. So caps come off. The plastic's smashed. And more so than anything the machine sounds like this. You grab a cup. It's not supposed to sound like that. Okay. Let's go stick it up. We're gonna be getting a coffee machine. I know. Crazy ----. Crazy ----. And then we might be collecting my fava. Also I had a can of coke and I dropped it on the floor and it is rattling around severely in the like step of my van. It's just not great to be honest. Okay I made it to the dye shop. Dye shop. I'm so warm. Let's go and see if we can find a machine. I saw one online I really liked but I feel like they never have like anything pink. If there's a pink version of something it's normally never in the shop. And the interesting thing about van life or like a nomadic existence where you don't have an address to like post all your things to is that you have to go to the shops to buy everything. And I have a love-hate relationship with it but I do feel like I've been taken back in a time machine because you just don't order things online anymore. It's like I can't order things online. So you have to go to the stores and this can be a satisfying experience or an incredibly frustrating one because I do remember the time where I spent an entire day and more just trying to find matcha powder. That was an interesting time for me. But yeah so let's go see if there's coffee. Guys help me if they have that coffee machine. Wait my um my dad's gonna join me because we're gonna go somewhere and he's apparently they're in this car not car park but like they're in the shop. Give me a damn minute girl. Yeah hello. Yes and you? Yeah I'm good. I'm good. I'm just doing some shopping. Oh that's great. Great news. Great news. Yeah well I'd rather come uh coffee machine hunting than uh food shopping so. Yeah that just fell out. That's yours is it? Yeah that's mine. Standard. Yeah I know. I know. I have a camera man. I'm not seeing this shop. Height barrier. Why? What did I do? What did I? I feel personally victimized. Nobody knows where I'm parking. Screw that. I'm parking right here. There we go. That's fine. I made a DIY parking space. My favorite thing to do. It's a bit of a talent if you want to look at it like that. All right let me put my shoes on. Get my driving uggs off. We hit the jackpot. This is massive. There's a lot of coffee machines in here. They're a bit big for your van though I think. Nothing's too big for my van. So what are you thinking? Getting the bigger Nespresso? Nah you see I want one of the grindy ones. I want the proper pure bean. I miss the smell of like when you open up a a pack of like coffee. That smell is excellent. I want that smell in my life. I think this is a good option. I was gonna get this one but I think this one because there's a cold brew option. Now I'm a cold brew kind of gal. Also they didn't have this one so it's gotta be this one. I think it's a good shout. I feel like it's really gonna improve my life and I'm going to just look really professional. It has been a real journey. We started with the instant. We moved to the filter. After the filter we finally got the Nespresso machine. Nespresso machine broke. Here we are grinding the coffee beans. I don't know about you but that's progress so let's go buy it. This is absolutely excellent because I don't have to carry it. I think that's the only one they got. Yeah that's the one. Pick her up. It says cold brew. Pick her up. 1550 watts so that's fine. Yeah 15 yeah that's fine. That was a major consideration. Yeah I just got a little scared Okay. Oh she's a heavy little definitely a heavy little bugger. Is that why you invited me along today? Yeah pretty much. It's not for the fireworks. It's to carry this. Yeah I don't want your company. I just need your strength because I don't want to pull a muscle ever again. And I'm wearing heels. A coffee machine. It's a big boy. It's a big boy coffee machine. I do love it. It's completely next level coffee. It's a bad bitch. I mean I'm just a tad jealous but you know. You're still in the instant coffee phase. Sometimes when you're feeling brave you use an espresso machine. That's not entirely true. We do have a little Nespresso thing that we use but yeah I suppose we are a little bit sort of attached to the instant coffee. We are emotionally attached to the instant coffee. Okay so there's a firework displaying can every year. It's like a competition. He loves it. I think it's okay but I still go for the for the atmosphere. You know the vibes even though I don't really like the vibe. I'm just going there because I want my uh my Thai salad. So that's my true power out of me. Okay I'm a bit of a firebug with that little stuff. I love being like it since I was this high. That is always the challenge. Can we find somewhere to park and if we can't find somewhere to park we make somewhere to park. Yeah create your own parking space. DIY parking space. Now that is a very French thing to do. He's going so damn fast around the roundabout. What the ****? He's shifting. He nearly got into Finally found a place to park Gloria and um I can't so warm. I literally can't function. Okay let me do a little montage for you okay. Love you. Let's do this. Thai salad. My Thai salad. But I actually need some chopsticks. No I asked for like a fork and I was like what? It just feels wrong using a fork. I don't care. It means I can eat more. I'm too slow with the chopsticks. Right I'm sorry but we have been a little bit. We have been people watching. We I'm not gonna lie. I might need one because could you imagine me with Gigi in like a like a 1967 Ford Mustang. Chrome everywhere right. Gigi on the passenger. No Gigi on my lap and then next to her is this big standard poodle in the passenger seat. Fully like toe pureed you know. I saw this video the other day of a poodle on TikTok and it's like it had an ass like the guy the guy made it a butt like and could you not imagine me and Gigi and a big standard poodle toe pureed just like driving through the countryside in the convertible Ford Mustang. Sunglasses on. One of those little hair wraps. Poodle with little glasses on. Ears flapping in the wind. Gigi just chilled out. It's a scene. It's a scene so I'm gonna need you all to convince me not to buy a poodle because I might just go and get one right now. Do you think it's a good idea? I think it's a great idea. I do. I do think it's a good idea. I think um you know I love them when they're cut and and why not you know they they look like they look like a bonsai tree. They're giving bonsai trees major bonsai vibes you know. I think a big poodle would actually suit you very well walking down the street dressed how you like to dress with a big ass poodle and a Gigi strapped to its back. You could put a little harness on I I don't know if I can deal with that. It will be a bougie scene. It will be a bougie scene. We can't hate on that idea. So let me know. Does it have any any charm? Charisma? Are they witty? Are they are they silent? Like what kind of vibe is gonna happen because Gigi is full diva so I don't really know if I can deal with another diva because that's gonna be three me included and that is a lot of drama and and fashion crisis. Christ's sake. So let me know if you have a poodle. But as they talk about outfits you have bought a little outfit for your new film. I've actually bought a few little outfits for my new film. One took a lot of time to craft. The others I came across as the universe does. But you won't be seeing them until the film's released. Is that right? Yeah. Are you gonna show people what you've bought? No. No? I agree with that. I'm gonna make you wait. I have brought the camera so maybe we could go and do a little photo shoot. What do you know? So maybe we're gonna do that now yeah? Before we lose the light. Yeah. Okay we just we just finished a photo shoot. Let's go look at the results kids. That was pretty good I'm not gonna lie about it. It's just natural talent. The cameraman's great. Yeah the cameraman is very good thank you. Okay we found a cafe and we're gonna look at the pictures. This is what we like to do. This is what we like to do. Suspense is incredible. What's going on? Hold up. Hold up. There you go. That's what I want. We'll put all of them on the screen. Okay so we're just gonna wait for the fireworks now. I'm gonna take a coffee and look at these pictures. So that's the hype excitement. I love it. Finished at the cafe. Let's go find these fireworks. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be... God why? We're in the van and it's the morning because this has been a chaotic filming session okay? Because I am very into my film and you guys will watch it and be like okay I can see why you know she wasn't giving 110% in all of her videos because that's not like me. I don't like it. Let's do this coffee machine. She's so big. I think it's gonna fit but I genuinely didn't measure this. I just was like I want this one. I've like dreamt of a machine like this for a very long time and I just I couldn't find an excuse to buy it and honestly it's really not practical for an air but we don't buy practical things. We buy them because we want them not because they're exhibit A. That's the chandelier that is now beyond fucked. It just almost made me blind. I don't know how to get it out. Wait. We have a plug. We have a jug. We have a a stug. I don't know what the hell that is. This is so exciting for me. That is disturbing. Does anybody else hate things like that? Like lots of things with like holes. Holes. Oh my god. Makes me want to throw up thinking about it. Guys. Why did I do this? I did this because I wanted it. Okay. I'm having a full-on like crisis right now but we're good. Okay. Let's do the transfer. Let's do it. ****. I've got to unscrew all of that. Do you remember my hard work? Screwing all of this in. What was it for? What was it for? Because I only just dropped an espresso machine anyway. I was really worried it wasn't gonna have power then. All right. You're gonna have to leave the building. Oh I'm looking at her in the mirror. She is gorgeous. Oh I've already got fingerprints. It's okay. It's okay. Oh god. No one panic because I'm not panicking because this is the perfect size for a van. Oh my god. It's beautiful though. Look at it. Hi boo. It's got one of these things. I don't know why but in my head I was really thinking that this was gonna be a really dramatic process as in I thought that I was gonna have to assemble something. Oh my god. It's the thing. It's the thing that I don't know how to use yet. You got the little stampy thing. I'm a touch scared of this. I don't know why. It's a coffee machine. Not a nuclear bomb but it feels like it could be if I get it wrong. All right. Look at the coffee machine. Okay here she is in all her glory. Kind of it to be honest. I need to make a coffee. I'm just a touch scared. I need to I need to understand her more. I bought some coffee beans because there's a grinder on top and then we got all of the fun things. So I'm gonna be back in however long this is gonna take for me to perfect the art of coffee making and we can share this impressive moment of impressive nothingness together and I'm very excited that you're here. I want you guys. I need you to be proud of me for this because you know it's been a rough ride with the coffee machines and the the filter and the art. It's just this moment means a lot you know. It's kind of true though like look how far we've come. This is just I literally I think I might be installing a whole coffee house in here next and you you guys know I'm not actually joking right. I'm gonna just take a minute. It took me four hours. Four! And the biggest bomb site ever created. So many coffee granules everywhere. Just so many cups of coffee but I did it. I finally know how to make a cup of coffee. I can make it with the proper thing and the thing and like the the steam thing. I don't like the steam thing on this machine. Shout out to all the baristas out there who have been literally putting their life on the line every day with these little milk steamy things. Oh yeah they are no joke. They are no joke. Terrifying. Good thing I don't really care for milk in my coffee. I like my coffee black. It's taken me so long to work it out but it's been a very interesting process because I have had to you know scale everything, time things, work out the correct grind and then the dose level and make it all fit in and the timing and the temperature be correct. I've turned into the coffee connoisseur. I think it's so interesting the amount of detail and precision and thought that goes behind making some people's cups of coffee because well done but I've tried my hardest and I think I've reached a healthy level of coffee precision. Let me show you. I'm it's not terribly difficult but I've always wanted to know like I've always seen the baristas in the shop you know do all of the things and then I don't know it just always looks so cool. It's not plugged in or whatever. All right then we put it in the little thing and we go click. Where's my cup? Put the cup underneath. Very important step. Very important. And then oh espresso. Okay let me show you the process. Look at that go. Yes. I had to make like 20 cups of coffee before I managed to master the exact. Look at that though. Look at that. That is that's good. That is good. If you're really into your coffee that's good right? That's a good espresso. That's a solid effort you know. I can't believe how big it is. It's so big. It's so big. Wait let me just like show you how. Look at it. I don't have a toilet in here. I don't have a shower in here but I have three wardrobes, a chandelier and a freaking barista coffee shop machine. I'm so proud of myself. I feel I've been the expression of myself which is just embrace stupidity because the world is stupid so just be stupid too and then you're in congruence with the world you know. But I have I'm pretty proud of myself for not being practical about things and just doing exactly what I want to do. Now that that is being true to oneself and living a life of authenticity. Although I will admit there's certain physical suffering Oh my gosh. I'm so happy I got this. Let me try the espresso. It is beautiful. It's so much. It's honestly it's worth the space. I am in love. I'm in love with that. That is freaking gorgeous. Thank you so much for being here. I love and appreciate all of you and I'm excited to share my film with you. I'm excited to share it with you. It's still a little while to go but I'm very excited and I hope you guys are too. So I hope you have a fabulous week. Really I do and also sorry I'm posting like three times a month. I never really addressed it because I was just in a zone but I try and post three times a month because it gives me that extra week because at one point like if I didn't take my videos down to three a month I wouldn't have been able to post at all. So I thought three was better than zero right? So yeah if I ever skip a week don't worry. I'm fine. There will be a video. Like I'm here and I'm gonna become a lot more present soon. We're just in a little hiatus. So thank you for bearing with me. I love you so much and thank you so much for your ongoing support. You guys rock. I will see you in the next video. We'll go on an adventure I promise. All right? Bye.