getting my sh*t together *adult mode activate*

hi my name is Ashley I am 21 years old I graduated college I live alone and I'm a real adult now or so that's what I've been told hey guys it is Thursday morning and I'm running a spicy four hours of sleep now you might be wondering Ashley you have all week to make your video you work for yourself why are you so sleep-deprived and that is due to a personal condition that I don't talk about often called I'm 21 years old I have no idea what the hell I'm doing I have no time management skills whatsoever and I'm still running on the all-nighter mentality that barely got me through college so that's what my life is like right now so today I thought I would bring you guys along on what I call my get your [ __ ] together day this happens every week after I have emerged from like my video haze up for like four days just straight working on my video and editing and ignoring all of my other responsibilities I look up and suddenly like my apartment is a mess I am emails to answer I have adult responsibilities to attend you I have plans to water I have food to make like all of this other adult thing stuff in my life I have to take care of like nobody warming how much entropy there is an adult life like all of my stuff is just like slowly defaulting to chaos and it takes so much effort to like bring it all back together so yeah this should be a fun and productive although very sleep-deprived day in my life I am gonna make myself some pancakes because that is literally the only food life that I have in my apartment I'm gonna make my favorite matcha oat milk latte like the hipster la gal that I am also I just require caffeine to get my brain started and I'm gonna pin my bangs back which is how you know I'm about to get into some serious concentrated adult vote welcome to my little home office corner obviously the main part of my job that I see is the videos I make and that is 100% of the post part of my job but what you guys don't see it's locked behind the scenes when it comes to organizing all these extra opportunities like I'm doing a Q&A on youtubes instagrams tomorrow I also have a big project it's launching very soon which is exciting but also taking a lot of like administrative work the first thing I have to tackle right now is I have a brand deal coming out in November but right now we're starting they're like planning and pre-production process so I have to send the end of my selects of all the products that I want to style in the video I also have to send photos of my apartment and ask my building manager if we are allowed to film in my apartment built in which fingers fruits she says yes because otherwise I don't really know what I'm gonna do also fun fact that is all due in like 30 minutes so if call it just Tommy anything it is how to finish your assignment with an aggressively short amount of time [Music] here's the most satisfying part when you can close all of your tabs ah I think I just haven't orgasm before we move on to the rest of the day I want to show you guys a quick look at how I am at least attempting to organize my life so as you might have noticed I have this giant and monthly calendar which I will link down below this is where I keep all of my appointments and deadlines I don't use Google Drive because I am an old person and I'd like to do things physically Oh recently I've been trying to figure out a way to motivate myself to do work more so I got myself these colorful post-its and I've been using them to write down all my video ideas and when I should make Instagram posts and even like things to look forward to on the weekend something about my brain really just likes being able to see like a sticky note physically represent a task that I have to do and then when I'm done with the task like when I do my Instagram post which I'm trying to do twice a week but I'm not being like super strict about it I just like can peel it off and it feels like I did something physical which is nice because my job is like so digital and sometimes I go from week to week I don't even feel like I've done anything because like there's no physical proof that I did something which might be get all online I also use this bullet journal and I just write out on one side all of my tasks that I want to get done in a week I've organized it by big things little things emails errands and stuff to do later that isn't like an urgent task for that week and then on the other side I'll write out a schedule for everything that I want to do in a certain day to be honest I've been really bad about actually using my planner recently and planning out my days I don't think I've done it in like three weeks and I've just been like pushing around in the space-time continuum not sure what I should do at any given point in time so today I want to get back on schedule I'm gonna create a rough weekly outline for myself and what I should be doing every single day fingers crossed that actually stick to it this week and I'm also gonna update some of these sticky notes because anytime you get plans changed over Julie I had an embroidery and TED talk day but I think I'm gonna go to Malibu with my friend so one of those sounds a lot more exciting and it's definitely embroidering in my own room and listening to TED Talks but occasionally sacrifices okay so the that I've neglected to mention so far is that every week after I film my video I leave a joint in my apartment and I don't stop to clean up that nest until I'm done editing on Thursday hence why my apartment looks like this luckily this week I filmed a sit down and cat video so my apartment looks like it was only stressed by like a category-2 hurricane and not a full on clothing tsunami like it usually does anyways I'm just gonna put on some music which will then be covered up by copyright free music because I've lost like half of my Adsense due to copyright strikes recently love that for me [Music] I got this from Emily recently by the way they're like an ethical plus sustainable company isn't this the cutest jacket design you've ever seen it has this little pocket and like one of the pockets is on the inside for like hiding snacks okay this is the most hilarious dilemma I think anybody has ever had basically the other day I got this gigantic PR package from starbursts it's literally like here let me get like a here's a potato for scale do you see that's like 50 potatoes worth of starbursts I don't know what to do with this much candy [Music] my camera currently is dirtier than my mind when I'm on my period does anybody else get like period horny or is that just me and for some reason recently I've been having a period every like two weeks so I'm just alternating between extremely horny and extremely upset and horny [Music] [Music] birthdays are also my days for watering my plants because as you guys may have noticed I have a slight plant obsession and bias like plant obsession I mean I have like 50 [ __ ] plans in my apartment I repotted besides recently into these little thrift store containers that I got like a dollar from Goodwill I think that the most precious thing I did put like pebbles at the bottom but you have to be really careful with how much you water them because there obviously is not a drainage hole which has killed many a plant in my day like this one I just end up having to get up there and take it down and then I ran over the kitchen sink and I give it a little plant bath [Music] and then I get shake it out and hang it up over here and while I Drive I don't know what he's about the bathroom but this pen is [ __ ] thriving like oh he's glowing what highlighter does she use is that venti along my windowsill I've been trying to route some new plants so obviously you can see I have a lot of photos I basically just cut off a couple new leaves that are sprouting from one of my existing poke those plants and then I pop them in a kombucha jar that I took the label off of like the hipster la piece of trash that I am my little baby plants are honestly pretty self-sufficient because obviously they have some more water than they could ever ask for but at least what I read online is that over time they deplete the oxygen in the water so around like every two weeks or so I'll swap out the water just egg it out give the news back and for my plans that are getting a pretty intense root system like this one I also pop in like half a pump of plant food because it helps it get like all the nutrients it needs to grow all right so my camera battery died while I was at Trader Joe's so all I have are these three shaky iPhone clips of bell peppers but never fear Here I am back in the kitchen where I belong ready to cook a nice meal for me and my imaginary husband [Music] today I'm gonna be cooking some good old-fashioned beef and broccoli this is what me and my mom would always make when we were like feeling kind of lazy and just wanting something quick to eat which describes my situation perfectly right now for all you you good good moral vegan and vegetarian people I am trying to eat less meat but there is something strange to me about the fact that this whole new environmentalist way but overall I think of the great influence is mostly like women enforcing it on other women online like I have never seen a comment on a male influencers Instagram or YouTube asking him to go vegan especially when it comes to diets the burden is really put on young woman which in combination with like unhealthy body standards isn't always the best combination I know you can be vegan and like super healthy and have great body image but it's kind of like intertwine with this guilt that will me not supposed to take up space they're not supposed to take up resources we're supposed to be tiny and skinny and diminutive and feeling guilty about what we eat is such a gender specific thing cutting ginger was the bane of my existence as a child like how do you why is it so nothing [Music] Gordon Ramsay I know you're out there summary of judging my knife skills but take it easy on me okay I'm like halfway through mental breakdown the key to cooking I've learned in my years of corny experiences to just narrate it in your head like Gordon Ramsay just almost like a little time and just let it drizzle out Oh then just a drizzle this is awful I'm putting my family to shame people always ask me to do a British accent for my dad's a British and like it's gotten worse and worse over the years I actually used to narrate every single thing in my head in a British accent so I could do a killer British accent back then but now all my thoughts are narrated by the donkey from Shrek so no I'm getting my thoughts our own in America now so my accent is awful do you ever think about the fact that Gordon Ramsay sounds like mildly orgasmic every time he's talking about cooking like man's is breathing heavy that's all I'm saying steak in the pen Oh secondhand well this is just all the answers to mine we eat in a secondhand here for the Bobo didn't see there is this chilling with roughly in my fence over yonder on this side of the scope I'm gonna boil ow [ __ ] hell I promise I'm not even being dramatic for the video there's literally just my own pan hating me reminds me you guys ever have like I think it's slide just cool into my nose do you ever have is weird like house white fantasy like I love my career I love my independent I'm also absolutely for what cooking as we now on though but really sometimes I'm just like you know what see nice to Merry Widow really rich by and be able to spend all day choosing outlines and just chillin in my mansion in the hills maybe what I'm describing it's just called being retired also maybe that makes me about feminist in reality I think I could have fun being a housewife for us out like three months before I went fully insane and started having us there for work actually enjoying soap operas and then I give myself about a year and a half before I went hold on girl and just decided to frame my husband for murder because what the hell am I supposed to do with my free time and you guys wonder why I'm single okay honestly this is looking pretty good right now I'm gonna take you guys in for a sexy sexy close-up [ __ ] I just realized I forgot to make the rice mmm my mom would be so mad at me now if I still lived at home you have email so I finished up my dinner and I am headed to the park right now I've really been making an effort to drag my ass out of the apartment once every like four days because otherwise like I will just shrivel up and get in my depression hole [Music] [Music] it is just about sunset and I am at my favorite little spot at the park yes like an old person I used to put all this pressure on myself to go to these trendy coffee shops and pay like 750 for a tiny mediocre matcha latte but honestly this makes me a lot happier I'm releasing my inner picnic [ __ ] there's a dogs here sometimes and I don't think I need to say anything else about this Park there's dogs I'm just gonna wrap up today doing a little bit of journaling yeah like I used to think that having a diary was so geeky and something that I would never be into but over the past month I've written this much in my journal I think it's about 150 pages I wanna say and it all honesty it has really helped like recenter myself it's helped me to think about my emotions a lot I don't have like a therapist or anything and I don't have a whole lot of close friends out here it's nice to have away on a daily basis to kind of debrief all of my thoughts and like honestly it's kind of it's not a guilty pleasure but it is honestly something that I really enjoy at this point it seems like something indulgent almost to just be able to sit down listen to my favorite song and like write about my life I don't know it's super fun that's how we're gonna wrap up today I'm gonna reflect on what happened today I guess I'll give you guys like a little journal preview you guys can be like my video journal I suppose that is what a vlog is really I had a good day today and I felt pretty content with my life which is a good feeling and not something that I feel super often but I woke up today really really anxious about my video normally when I post my video I'll sit at my computer for about like three hours reloading the views and trying to figure out whether I need to change the thumbnail or title if it's underperforming which is a little bit hard because I never know which thumbnail option is the right option and I feel like no matter what I've chosen the wrong option so I'm learning I'm just letting that go though and just letting the video be whatever happens happens my girl talks video this week thought slightly fewer views than no but I'm really trying to get to the point with my videos where I stopped trying to put all this focus on the views and I stopped trying to appeal to a massive audience every single time like at a basic level it seems like the more views the more successful I am but I think once you get to a certain point more views can just equal more generic or more quick ad content and I've never liked click baited but I have made some pretty like generic fashion videos partially in an attempt to keep outperforming my last video and yeah I'm getting to a point where I would much rather make something meaningful for fewer people than something generic for a lot of people I was really proud of my video this week I made the video that I wanted to make I had fun filming it and I think the people who did watch it enjoyed it so I don't know that's really the most I can [ __ ] ask for I mean that and like 10 million views but that's not the YouTube world that we live in anyways I am going to put those thoughts on paper and more and I will see you guys next week thank you guys so much for watching this video as always but [Music]

Channel: bestdressed

Views: 3,218,135

Keywords: adulting, teenager tries adulting, teenager tries adulting for a day, day in my life, day in the life of a teenager livign alone, day in the life living alone, living alone, living along in la, trying to adult, how to get shit done, how to get your shit together, get your life together, productivity, productive day in my life, bullet journal, organization, planner layout, journaling, cleaning my messy apartment, vlog, my life in la, work day in my life, work vlog, work week

Id: VB73FOWqsoY

Length: 17min 13sec (1033 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019