Life in London, Spring outfit ideas, Living room updates & my mental health!

[Music] so I finally Cav and I got a TV again and I've actually had this one before kind of I mean you'll see I'll tell you what though it's not a uh it's not a good sign when you see foot marks on top of your TV fingers crossed there's no actual like damage to it [Music] [Music] [Music] so this is my new TV for the longtime viewers of this channel you probably remember that I had this exact TV but I had it in the 40 in and I had that about I think it was like 2 and 1/2 potentially now it would have been like 2 and 1/2 years ago but I ended up selling it because one it was kind of just like too small for this apartment and I had the idea of only wanting to use a projector now I do still really enjoy using a projector but the thing is like me and my Ms we we don't want to use that all the time and also you can only literally only use it in the evening unless like I got blackout curtains which I do not want to in this room you can only use it in the evening when it is pretty damn dark and it does create an awesome Vibe and we still will use it but what we really wanted was just literally something like today like a Sunday where we can just literally flop on the couch and just pinge watch some crap on the TV during the day not having to worry about the light so I went for the the Samsung serif I think it's called the serif again because I think it's such a beautiful TV also you have the flexibility to either have it on like the media unit like I do or you can put the stands into it and have it more of like kind of like I don't know I guess kind of like a standing art piece in living room I ended up going with the 55 in because it was on sale so I actually got it for a pretty nice discount they did have the Blue version for 50% off which tempted me for a second but honestly blue just it I just don't think it looks that nice so did go with the white one in full transparency like I do prefer space without a TV I just always think a space without a TV looks nicer but I also want to make this a functional room as well I will also need to get some speakers for it so if you do have any recommendations please let me know your favorite ones and also like why in the comments section down below [Music] for every morning that I Rise and I showered by your M oh [Music] yeah forever night I got to near tears are out classes up for every hour that we share to explor as of nowhere oh [Music] no the secret codes in your eyes the crazy laugh and the cries and I thank you for the Le F the kisses and the SM and I thank you for been the best of my life [Music] so after the coffee with Pete I decided to pop into labo because I've been not only a big fan of their fragrance for a while but a very big fan of their candles and this is 100% my favorite scent that they have and this time around I wanted to try their more kind of like industrial kind of like concrete style candle mainly because I love the aesthetic of it and I do purchase it as obviously for the candle amazing scent that this one I just absolutely love Al what I love about this one is I feel even if I don't light it it just smells like I can just smell it in my home and honestly when I do like this one once I've like blown it out I can smell it in my home for honestly I'd say like the next like 12 hours and I absolutely love it only downside to it is these ones are quite expensive this one came in at 60 lb so one I don't light it all the time and then two once I do run out of it I don't just go buy another one like I do kind of like wait a while and I see this as like a little treat now I'm someone who loves a candle just burning like all the time in their home I feel it just it creates such a nice like relaxing and like peaceful space especially in the evening I just love that kind of like dim light but like I said if you're burning something like this all the time that's going to cost you a fortune so when I was out at dinner the other day the restaurant had this I'll put it on screen as well because I doubt that'll Focus but they had this candle in saucer and then also in their bathroom they had this again I'm going to put them all up on screen and I kind of like Lov the idea they were like uncentered and I love the aesthetic of it so I thought hey is there like a very cheap and affordable way I can do this answer is yes and they have arrived so I found this little Bowl on H&M I'll link it down below as well was £4 so super affordable and you can also find like other ones on like Etsy and things like that but it definitely has that kind of like Woody industrial kind of like feel that I really like and then I went on Amazon to find candles and I CAU this sixpack here for £3 effectively that is how it looks and because I got a six-pack of these for3 I will have like no issue just burning these all day long so this is where I'm thinking of putting the first one in the hallway and if it does go well I'll then get another one to go in the bathroom I think just having the candle burning all the time in the bathroom is so nice [Music] [Music] PA a Colorado jacket England from [Music] palian so I'm on my way to the office and I thought I'd do a little get ready with me because even though it is spring London's weather's just changed like dramatically recently and I swear it's like we've just skipped everything we're just back into fall Alexa what's the temperature at the moment it's 9° C so I'm going to start off with my third cut are Legacy jeans these ones have that like really nice just like digital print all over them there's no actual distressing it's just digitally printed and if you haven't noticed that's like technically something I'm into with my jeans at the moment is just again all the kind of like digitally printed and distressing everything going on with the T-shirt I'm just going with a just a sample blank from my line for the belt I'm going to go with this one from vuja day it's actually been quite a long long time since I've gone for a thicker belt recently I've been really into the thinner ones but today let's give it a go so that's what that looks like on for the Footwear going to go with the brown R Legacy boots again these are kind of like a daily almost like Bea for me at this point and again it's 9° so make the most of being able to wear boots that's what it looks like kind of like so far but again nice ° need a jacket for the jacket je sander I mean is it really going to be anything else this is my favorite yeah I'd say this is my favorite uh leather jacket that I own and then just like that we have I don't know today's I guess full outfit even though it's spring 9° good to go [Music] fore [Music] for come D [Music] [Music] good cu [Music] [Music] forar on it's hot on the head no I'm not [Music] [Music] [Music] me again I just got back from Muay Tha and I'm in like kind of in like I don't know this weird mindset and I kind of just wanted to have like a raw kind of like sit down moment with you lot um I've been struggling for years and years and years with a very bad knee injury I've had like surgeries and stuff on my knee it all started from rugby and it's it's always kind of like hindered me since when it comes to things like literally running jumping walking up upstairs even like walking for long periods of time um Muay Thai all those things and somewhere around last year it started to get quite a lot better as you saw if you've been watching for a while like I've done I was doing a lot of running um I was doing Muay Tha and stuff a lot more all these things I was running multiple times a week and I was feeling pretty good and then all of a sudden it just went to complete it literally just went to complete wasn't able to like Bend like Bend back like if you're going to do like a quad stretch or something like that wasn't able to do that and yeah everything kind of just stopped and it really took a hit on like my mental health because even though I could still go to the gym I still stand by this I I don't believe there's anything quite like running as far as like moving your whole body and endorphins flowing and to have that kind of like taken away from me like any time that I would run I would feel mentally just more relaxed and like had clear minds and everything afterwards and again to have that taken away from me I didn't know how to I didn't know how to kind of get that feeling that um kind of that Runners high and you know I tried things like cycling I tried things like rowing on the rowing machine like things that went too hard on my knee and none of them really did it I'd been like Lazy by the way with my rehab stuff I'd been lazy with my rehab my stretching and everything so it kind of my fault this whole thing happened and then I slowly you know I was like you know what enough's enough like I'm going to do all the proper rehab correctly I'm going to stick to I'm going to be stretching each night and really trying to um get get better and that's what I've been doing pretty much for the last year and now as you saw earlier um in the footage I'm finally back to running now by no means is my running good we're actually relearning my running pattern I'm running so slow it looks really bad but I'm slowly getting back to it and again with Muay Tha slowly getting back to it and I guess I just wanted to sit down because it's like obviously like I saw I think the light just went out was like like I I see obviously like the running Clips I've already looked at the MU Clips coming home and it's like I feel you can kind of do two things when you're learning something new or trying something new and it's either you can look at how bad you are and fix it on that and you'll never feel good about yourself and you'll most likely quit or you can kind of accept where you are under like again like I look at those clips and I'm like cool this is so but it's where I am it's the starting point and now what I do is I will focus on the tiny tiny like micro like level improvements day after day week after week and that's kind of what I guess guess keeps me motivated um to keep to keep going when things are not good and one of the biggest things that I've learned is to just you can't compare yourself to anybody else because your circumstances everything about it is just so unique to yourself so like I could look at all like my mates who are like great Runners and things like that and people running the marathons and be like ah damn like they look so good they look so effortless let's say when they run and D and they'll just like that would just kill my motivation to do that so I guess like I kind of lost my train of thought then but it's like I don't know I guess what I'm getting at is use people as motivation and maybe like a goal to strive for but don't compare yourself really to them and just a lot more just compete with yourself in whatever it is that you're trying to learn I'm kind of just talking about Fitness right now cuz like Fitness is a big part of my life and try as as best as possible try just see the tiny micro improvements instead of everything that's wrong with yourself cuz if all I did was look at everything that was wrong with me and let's say my running clips from earlier or the like the Muay Tha Clips I would feel terrible because I can sit here and openly say it doesn't look good but also what I know is it's going to get better so I don't know I hope that resonates with some of you I'm kind of in that like post workout mindset so I'm a bit you know not all with it bit of um brain fog and stuff so take everything I just said with a grain of salt [Music] okay I don't know where it is okay hello [Music] again might not be an apple tree it's

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Length: 18min 57sec (1137 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2024