Week in My Life | Unboxing, Starbucks, and Book Chats

well hello everybody it is Monday May 25th it is Memorial Day it's about one o'clock so far today as of right now I woke up I woke up kind of late I didn't physically get out of my bed until like 10 o'clock but again I do go to bed on average right now at about 2:00 I was just tired I don't know so I got up I did a easy spin class or an easy ride it was a called a recovery ride with Allie love I thought this was a great opportunity to kind of test her out I've heard a lot about her she seems to be a lot of people's favorites I ran a little over three and a half miles yesterday and today is technically a rest day for me so I'm supposed to do something light like yoga is what really I'm supposed to do but I'm waiting on my yoga blocks to arrive I don't know if I ever shared that saga with you guys but I ordered some yoga blocks from Amazon late April and they were supposed to be here by May 7th they never came I tried to track them on UPS but there was literally no tracking information I called Amazon Amazon and kind of had a bit of an attitude with Amazon because by the time I called Amazon I was really upset called Amazon to try and get a refund because I had sense to read some comments saying some people would have the same issue and it was starting to feel like a bit of a scam Amazon told me I had to wait two business days after they contacted them so they were going to contact them say hey this person is missing their items then from there sorry I did take a bit of a break because my arm was killing me so Amazon said they were going to contact them to inquire swear my yoga blocks were and I had to wait two business days or I had to allow them to business days to get back and if they didn't get back then I had to call Amazon again to get a refund started so they never contacted me back so I caught Amazon they've since process the refund but all that to say right now yoga blocks are like the toilet or of the coronavirus they're really hard to find in terms of getting them in a timely fashion you can't find them at Target online you can't find that target in the store I tried Walmart but like the they weren't going to come until like July or something so then I went back to Amazon because when I did go to Target one day I saw that they sold they had yoga kits in stock that had let me give a strap a yoga mat and one yoga block which I need to and I already had a yoga strap and I have two yoga mats but then that gave me the idea to come home and check on Amazon and just type in yoga kit to see if I could find something that already had yoga BOTS in it and maybe a yoga strap and go that route and I was able to so I found a kit it has it to yoga blocks a yoga strap and I think a couple yoga towels and that is supposed to come on Friday so all that to say I can't do yoga today because I need those yoga blocks because I am NOT flexible and I need the blocks to assist me into getting some of these very basic positions down so instead of doing yoga today I did a recovery ride which is just a very easy ride where you just stay in the saddle the whole time and but then I learned if it's a rest day I really shouldn't be doing it but oh well so I did a recovery ride with Allie love I really enjoyed it so far this is my third or that was my third ride on the bike one of the things that I really like about it is that the dogs are not disturbed by that bike at all so if I do any kind of workout in the house whether that be yoga or a quick little cardio something or even if I'm power walking up stairs because I'm trying to close my rings the dogs are very disoriented by that and they bark at me for doing it so when I got the bike I wondered if they would be but a handle having the bike and me being on the bike and they are not fazed by it at all so it's very quiet the dogs don't care and that's great so I did that and then I did a stretch routine with the peloton app and I do ten minute ab workout with the app so I did a total of about 40 minutes of exercise so my exercise Serena's clothes there and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Starbucks right now because at least where I'm at they are having this really good promotion where if you use the mobile app to order ahead and pick it up they give you 25 bonus stars every time you do that which is like by for me is the equivalent of me buying like four drinks for the price of one in terms of like the stars that I get so I'm gonna go do that and when I come home I have some things to do I have a to-do list in this cute little notebook that a friend of mine bought for me to celebrate me completing my 15th year of teaching I did it it's a story about it but she was originally just a parent of a student that I had years ago and fifth grade her son thought I had Daniel just graduated from high school so I've known them for a while and she got this very cute little notebook that I think her sister has a small company and she makes these so I love it I just like holding it and looking at it the company name is for the love of lemon it's very small from my understanding I will put their Instagram information in my description box but it has a lot of different notebooks and one of those inside of here it's just like a calendar and so I've started putting like my dues in there so there you go and all these cute little accessories came with it the only thing that I added to this little notebook is this clip here and this gold clip this I actually this is like a little piece that says coffee teach sleep repeat and it was just a piece that wasn't adhere to this and I wanted it to stay so I stapled it to the cover and this little gold clip it's covering that staple so I need to do a couple things I'm in the process of refinancing my house which is great because it's gonna save me some money and I need to send some paperwork off to do that I need to cancel my flight to South Africa because that trip is not happening but importantly I don't know if it's more important but more fun wise I have a package that I'm gonna share with you guys when I get back that was sent to me last week and I didn't get a chance to open it up last over the weekend because I was just too busy like enjoying my peloton bike and other things so I'm gonna go do all that I'm gonna eat and then the next time you see me I'm gonna share with you what's in this box and that's it so I'll talk to you later all right it is now about 4 o'clock I have gotten my Starbucks and my 25 bonus stars to go along with it came home eight and did the like administrative secretarial tasks that I needed to complete the main thing I wanted to do or need it to do and I was the most anxious about was cancelling my flight to South Africa because Tia who is the woman I was going to be leading this trip with because we were doing this through book bag adventures which is formally known as book bag tours which is the company I went to Finland with last year she had canceled her flight about a week or so ago and just have the hardest time getting it done through Delta she has like a delta like Rewards account and I don't know if that's what made it so difficult for her whereas I the flight was booked for me through book bag adventures and so for me the process was really easy I just had to have my confirmation number and I was able to do everything online and essentially they're just issuing a credit to my account that's just going to be used to purchase the airline ticket for next summer because we are going to go next summer now that it's been canceled for this year so I got that done and then there were some paperwork that I needed to complete and get ready to mail for the refinance process that I'm going through so that was finished I sent out an email that I needed to send out and I feel like there was something else I was doing but I can't think of it but the rule for me was I had to get all that done before I got to open this box then I'm going to share with you guys so I just took it out of the box here just in the interest of time and this is what it is I got a box or shipment or a special treat from Teddy Blake this came in the mail on Friday I didn't get a chance to open it on Friday because I was you know consumed with setting up my peloton bike and getting that situated and I knew that I wanted to share this unboxing with you guys have not opened it yet so I didn't touch it at all over the weekend because I wanted you guys to see my real reaction to what I'm going to open so they sent me this out of the kindness of their heart they told me to give it a try let them and you guys know how I feel they did give me the option kind of look at some things and indicate what kind of look and so I was going for so that was nice of them and so let's take take a peek to see what I got so if you know me I love a good handbag I have actually seen this Instagram account for a while I just have been very very disciplined and not purchasing any more handbags because when I bought my first Louie Vuitton I said you know what let's just save up and invest in really nice handbags and I bought one and then said you cannot buy yourself another one for a very long time because those are pricey and so I haven't but I've been very tempted especially by some of the bags I've seen on their Instagram account so to get one it's great so if you don't know about them it isn't New York based company that makes designer luxury handbags and so they are of good quality as you can see the packaging is really nice so the box that came in looks just like this right there it's a nice sturdy box to store the bag in or yeah the handbag in and then on the inside it just tells you that every tiny black handbag has been made you would mine to be an extension of your unique style and finally your everyday fashion choice so that's what it says on the inside then the bag is wrapped and it does have a dust bag with it which is always tonight and some bubble wrap to so then it comes in this little just back here and let's queue so here it is this is the bag that I chose I gave them a lot of different ideas and options as to what I really liked most of them involved bags that were available in this color because I really do like this color this one is called I believe the a benign and silver they have another one called the Avon 9 and gold which just means like this detailing will be gold instead of silver so I chose the silver and I just like the fact that it's structured it's smaller my hope is to be able to use this like when I'm going somewhere and I don't want a full-blown heavy duty bag I just want to want something small and simple that this will do the job for me oh okay so you just move these little flaps here it looks like you lift that up and then there is a strap on the inside let's see how long the strap is it looks like it's adjustable so I'm gonna put it on here after this see just how it works alright so there it is with the strap on I don't get a good idea like I said it is adjustable so I wanted something a little bit smaller because I do tend to get big bags all the time mostly because I have glasses that I need to carry but there are times that I want something smaller especially the last year when I traveled in Finland I really did realize that I would like to have like a small cross body bag and I feel like this could do that and it still has some style about it so I undid the flaps so I can kind of see how big it is on the inside you take the paper out and very structured so it doesn't lose its shape like I don't know if you can tell but that's how it is this is what it looks like on the inside in terms of space and then on the back there is a zipper that you can also put some things in I would probably put my keys in there and just from the feel of it you can tell it is very sturdy like it's it's quality leather for sure so yeah I think what I'm gonna do today at some point after my nap is I'm going to switch out my purse cuz right now I am so carrying my Louie Vuitton bag that is in the beam pattern I don't know if I'm singing right but it's really a fall bag it's very dark so I'm gonna try and switch over to this today since it's summertime this says summer to me in terms of the color and then I'll probably use my Louie Vuitton wallet on the inside just to give it some light color contrast or something but yeah so I'm really thankful to have been sent this and I'm gonna carry it for a while and kind of share with you guys if it's working for me but if you are not following them check them out on Instagram I'll be sure to link their Instagram information in the description box if you want to check them out and that's that's what I got in the mail on Friday so Friday was a big mail day for me so as far as right now honestly I'm a little tired so I'm about to go take a nap and see where the day takes me from there happy Tuesday it's 11 o'clock I'm actually on my way to like a UPS drop-off location because I'm returning to Amazon purchases one is a fanny pack that I've been using to run but the fanny pack is so shallow if that makes sense that it's hard to put things in and out of it it's more trouble than what it's worth so I'm returning that and I'm going to need to look for one that has a little bit more depth to it and the other item I accidentally ordered two of the same thing and I only needed one so I got a gift card from a student a couple students actually to Amazon and I decided to order myself some metallic Apple watch bands so I ordered one in silver gold and rose gold and I accidentally ordered two silver ones so I am taking both of those things back here's a little shallow fanny pack that really has like no room this is as white as it gets so when I'm trying to just like slight things and how well it's on my hip it becomes a bit of a challenge and then the extra little fan is right there so I'm taking those back to this drop off location and I'm contemplating whether or not I'm going to three order Starbucks in my 50 bonus stars because it just seems like I have to do it yesterday I I stopped blogging pretty early actually a bit after I spoke I got my things situated if I knew Teddy blink first which I'll show you in a second well not in a second cuz I'm driving but I'll show you at some point today and know what else I did I took a nap I did some reading up on the 8th grade social studies standards because I do want to be more disciplined in teaching history like I just want to do a better job as a social studies and history teacher and so I was reading up on that to just reactivate myself with the content that we teach in eighth grade because last year was just be going through the motions and kind of following the guidance of a book and my grade level because I don't didn't really know any better and so now I have a year under me so I felt like reading those was a good place to start in my effort to become better and teaching that subject matter so I did that and that was really I took it easy did some reading finished watching dead to me which is the show I would recommend but that's about it and then today I'm so far just gotten dressed got the stuff together to return I watched a YouTube video in preparation for a like a book study meeting that I'm having with several different teachers on instagramming YouTube surrounding the book wire all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria we're just going over the prologue and I'm curious to see how it goes and how open people are to having this conversation because there's quite a few people in there that I don't know like I've never met them I've never really spoken to them through social media or over the phone or through text or anything like that so I don't know them very well and then there's quite a few that I've met but I still don't know very well and my thing with conversations like this is that and one of the things the author said in this YouTube video that I just watched is the only way really for us to get better as a society is we do have to be comfortable with getting uncomfortable in this conversation like progress comes from the ability to have times where everyone's just uncomfortable for different reasons because you're saying things that need to be said or asking questions that maybe needs to be asked or sharing experiences that need to be shared and there's a part of me that's worried that not everyone it's going to be of that mindset and we're just going to read it and we're going to talk about how great it is that we're reading and having the conversation but no real like change or result will come from it and we all have things to change learn there are things that I need to be better about in general and talking about racing called culture and ethnicity in all regards and so I'm curious to see about that because I don't know some of them you know and some of them are younger and I think sometimes just the difference in age affects how people communicate and what they're willing to communicate and there are some people in the group that I was frustrated by with the whole amount armory case and the sense that I don't believe that they made any mention of it or post anything about it or anything like that and I like I said in the last vlog I just feel like as teachers that's something that we need to be willing to do if you are a teacher on social media who's influencing current teachers aspiring teachers young teachers like you have to show that you have to be willing to engage in these kind of kinds of conversations to not only make your teaching life more effective and valuable but to have a positive effect on society as a whole so it'll just be interesting to see the dynamic I'm looking forward to it I said all that to say basically that I'm looking forward to it but I have some some cautious optimism so let me put my face mask on and speaking of my finished mask I just realised not too long ago I've been wearing this face mask upside down I think it's supposed to go like this but I've been wearing it like this so you tell me is it supposed to go this way for my chin or is it supposed to go up here I think it's supposed to go this way which is why I'm gonna put it on this way but um there's that that situation has also been happening so I'm gonna go in here drop the stuff off and maybe go to Starbucks [Music] I actually finished it maybe about 45 minutes or so ago and all in all and went well we just talked about the prologue I don't know if I mentioned that in the earlier clip and the conversation just kind of was not it was focused but it was kind of everywhere because the prologue was really just filled with a lot of statistical data and stuff like that so we shared a lot of our personal experiences and I always feel bad because in these conversations I tend to talk I don't I mean a lot more than the average participant because it's just something I'm really interested in and so I'm always self-conscious about the amount of talking that I'm doing so next week I'm gonna really try to control myself but I just get so into it but it was definitely a diverse group of people from different parts of the country I think in total there were 28 teachers on it and some were active participants like myself and then some were silent because they just weren't comfortable speaking at that time they're more in a stage of listening which is okay and I have to understand that not everybody wants to or feels comfortable yet talking but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're not actively engaged but I do hope that they find ways to kind of jump in there my battery's gonna die because I think the more you engage in the actual conversation the or you get out of it so that went well I'm gonna try and show you my purse before this battery dies so I have moved into this cute little thing this teddy Blake purse and it is definitely I think I said smaller than what I would normally carry so this is going to be my summertime buddy and this is definitely something that I will take with me if I'm going shopping when those days come back or if I'm on a vacation or trip and I need a purse but I don't want to bring my big giant purse so what I have been able to fit in here are really just the essentials so let me and I did put the strap on it and when my battery is not going to die maybe I'll show it to you put the strap on but it does work as a crossbody I did lengthen the strap and so what I've been able to fit in here are just let's see if I can turn this around my basics ok so inside of there is my come onlet on you get together my summertime wallet so this is the other Louie Vuitton wallet that I have this is my glass case right here my cellphone was in there earlier but it's not and then obviously my keys so I actually took this with me when I ran my little errands today and I loved it so much so that I started looking at other handbags but self-discipline is key so um all in all I definitely think it's gonna work for what I have it intended for is this something that I'm going to use every single day like when the school year starts probably not because wearing well what's the situation here there we go I don't I don't know because on a day-to-day basis I just have so much that I'm carrying like my makeup my glasses my sunglasses a toiletry bag so that obviously won't all fit in here but this is a very stylish way to just have a quick little bop around town or be on vacation and I absolutely positively love the color and right now I just love the smell of this leather like I wish you could smell it you know what good quality fresh leather smells like that's what it smells like so here it is hopefully I can get in touch with someone at Teddy Blake to kind of give you a link and see if they have any offers to offer you guys if you're interested and I will be sure to put that in the description box but again I want to thank them for gifting this to me and trusting me to kind of like share it with you guys but so far I'm loving it so as of the rest of the day I don't know if I'm gonna take a nap or try and do some work I'm trying to just do a little bit of light lesson planning make myself a better social studies teacher so I read the introduction to the frameworks yesterday and I have some ideas on how I want to start social studies so I kind of need to think that through but I'm feeling a little unmotivated right now so we'll see but anyway I'll check in with you later [Music] hey guys I don't know but things look weird to me like the lighting I don't know if it's where the sun is shining I don't know so if this clip or the clips I've logged so far this week look weird I apologize and I don't even know how to fix it at this point but it is Thursday after 5:30 and you guys I'm just so lazy I just feel so lazy I feel like a complete frog because there's so many people that watch my videos or follow me on Instagram they just think I'm not lazy and then I'm just hustling all the time and that's just not true so I have things that I can be doing there's nothing that I really have to do there are things that I just can't be doing and that I feel like I should be doing and I mentally am motivated to do it but physically I'm not motivated to do it if that makes any kind of sense and so I have not really accomplished anything today the most I've done is I've gone to Starbucks eight sent a couple emails and did some in sistering and that's really it what's written down in my little agenda of things to do this cute little thing here is today I need to cook which I will because I have to eat but I also want to edit the middle school versus elementary school video I filmed that yesterday and I plan to have that upload on Saturday so that is on my list of things to do but I also need to run today and the likelihood of me running and then coming home to edit a video is very minimal so the likelihood of that even happening today is like dwindling by the minute but I didn't vlog at all yesterday because I spent a chunk of the day recording the middle school versus elementary school videos and when I was done with that I was kind of like done talking to the camera so I just chose not to vlog yesterday but that was really all that you missed I did do some insta story stuff or I was really asking people what kind of content would they like to see in addition to or besides weekly vlogs now that my school year is done and so I got some ideas but the truth of the matter is when I do just a stand alone just sit down video it just doesn't seem to get as much traction or views and I don't know why that is I guess people don't want me to just sit and talk so I think what I'm gonna try and do throughout the summer is incorporate some of the things that people requested into just either weekly vlogs or daily vlogs because quite a few people said they would like to see a day-in-the-life type thing but then the kinds of things aside from blogs that they'd like to see was like home decor stuff and I kinda have to wrap my brain around like what I would say about that because I just I just shopped for things that I know I like and so I don't know that I can articulate how someone else can do that for themselves so it was that style stuff like how do i style clothes how do I pick my outfits out where do I shop how do I dress for my body type I've had over the years people ask me about it eyebrow tutorial so there's little things that I think I can do and incorporate into like a day in the life I just have to figure it out so I just finished doing a story right now about teacher unions specifically for new teachers that are dealing with not having a lot of job security right now because of the coronavirus and budget cuts and things like that I'm not going to repeat all that I said here but I will save that in my highlights on Instagram so if you're interested and your new teacher and you want to hear just my advice based on my experience being a union rep in my particular district make sure you look for it on Instagram it'll be under I think the highlight is called teacher life or something like that so but as far as what's up I'll show you what's up Raley's right here Riley do you want to say hello Riley okay there you go it's rude people like you and you need to say hello so there he is okay okay up close and personal there you go and Genesis we we don't know we don't know where she is right now she's probably upstairs underneath my bed as far as other things I'm still loving my peloton bike that's another video people want to see but I don't know I don't know I think I'm gonna cook and in about 15 minutes because cooking before I run has been working out quite nicely the meal that I had on I think that was Tuesday I don't know what day that was it was a pasta dish I think I recorded some footage was really good and I was gonna come back on and talk to you guys on Tuesday but I came home got all the information about the George Floyd case that was the same day that I learned about the woman in Central Park and I just was speechless I just was in a weird mental space and I didn't even have words so I just what I had intended to do was to come back and show you the meal I don't there was something I was going to do but I just couldn't so what I am happy to say is that through or over the past couple of days on places like Instagram I have noticed more and more teachers that are white teachers not teachers of color just really making an effort to post something about things like this and make it clear that these things are tragedies and making it known that they feel like any kind of injustice is an injustice for all and that really does make me happy and it's a start and I hope that we continue in that same direction so I don't know I just thought I should check in because I hadn't at all yesterday but I'm probably just gonna sit here for another 15 minutes or so get up cook and then go run three miles probably closer to three and a half miles and then come home and just be exceptionally tired so yeah if I cook not if I cook I might walk from the cooking but I don't know I feel like me checking it right now is pointless cuz I'm rambling so I'm gonna stop I'll talk to you later [Music] ourselves and keep our family and community safe but there's one thing we can all do together it is as easy as it is important complete the 2020 census just take a few minutes online by phone or by mail and your participation can help inform how billions in funding will go to healthcare education and emergency services each year for the next kiss you're much cheaper so I feel like God just made me have this moment to teach me a life lesson so just moments ago I was talking to you about how I was gonna get up and run and cook and I decided to sit down for a minute and just spend some quality time with Genesis and in that moment where I was not focused on anything but just enjoying a cuddle session with my dog I realized what am i doing like why am i stressing myself out about doing something getting something done a to-do list a task list like I'm on freaking summer break I've been working a lot and yes it's important to work hard but it's also important to just enjoy like simple moments like this so I give Genesis a hard time on social media I do I admit it but those of you that know me know that I love her to pieces I've had her since she was a puppy she's going to be 16 I believe in July and right now I just this moment it's just very special to me like I want to be around her she wants to be around me and I literally physically feel better just having these moments Riley just jumped up as you saw cuz he got jealous but he's now laying on the floor and so I'm going to enjoy this moment for as long as I can and what I've decided I'm going to exercise but I have to remind myself I have a peloton bike so I'm just gonna spin and enjoy it and just because I made a rule that says I run on Thursdays doesn't mean the world is gonna come to an end when I do something else besides run on a Thursday I mean I'm in control of my life right and on top of that I might not even cook because it's national hamburger day or something and that just sounds like an excuse to get amber so I don't know I just had like a very important moment where I was like lasagna it just relax and the anxiety you feel is really self induced like I'm putting this pressure on myself to get XY and Z done but there's nothing that really says I have to do it and maybe it's okay for me to just sit on the couch and cuddle my dog for however long I feel like it and it's okay for me to spin instead of running that was what I bought the bike for to have the option and it's okay if I don't cook and so I just thought I'd share that epiphany that I just had about my life and what I do to myself sometimes so I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna blog anymore for the day cuz I just I feel like this is a good place to leave today off so I'm going to just see you tomorrow there is there's little Riley get your Riley boy Riley brew Oh such a sweet dog but Riley Riley got us into a little bit of an issue yesterday so I think the last time I spoke to you guys yesterday I had decided that was not gonna run I was gonna spin sorry so the last time I spoke to you guys yesterday I decided that I wasn't going to run I was going to take a spin class on my peloton instead and take a dog the dogs for a walk before that which I did the walk went very well until Riley saw another dog that we've had encounters with before and that dog saw him simultaneously and they ran towards each other pulling Genesis in the process and got all three of their retractable leashes tangled up I do blame Riley for some of it but I also blame the other dog because this dog lives in the complex and several times and we've passed by the condo this dog lives in it will run out of its front door because the owner leaves the front door open so the dog can come and go as it pleases jumps through some spaces and a gate that's in front of its condo and like comes you know to try and bark at Riley and Genesis so those two dogs actually encountered each other yesterday and ran towards each other got their least leashes tangled up and that dog's owner did absolutely nothing to help me get them untangled Riley pulled me so hard that I dropped his leash I dropped my phone I dropped my wallet and didn't have enough time to act you know obviously get him back and so for a long time that woman held her dog that was tangled up with my dog's leashes and her mother and they just watched me trying to untangle the leashes all by myself and then when I asked them can you go get my wallet or my you know keychain that blew out of my hands that's now on the sidewalk out of my sight she said yeah I see it but I don't want to get it because I don't have gloves on which I understand we're in a pandemic but I'm like ma'am can you do something that helps the situation so I said can you go stand next to it at least so she did but then she grew wary of help in that way so she eventually decided that she had other leashes at home and she was just going to leave me to deal with the mess in the parking lot in the dark all by myself while two dogs wandering around so that happened last night so Riley is precious where is he as precious as he is really needs to work on that he is just not okay with seeing other other dogs in the neighborhood so by the time everything was said and done I did take a spin class but I didn't eat dinner until like 11 o'clock at night because I got delayed so that's what happened that's how that day ended today it's 2 o'clock I got up I took a very it's called a groove ride on the peloton app 20 minutes and it's like a at least with Kody it's like a like a dance ride if you will on the bike so there's like choreographed movements to the bike just very easy it's actually a rest day for me so I'm not even supposed to be doing that but I want to try and do a little bit of something just so that I'm getting physical activity so I did a 20 minute groove ride and then I did a 5 minute stretch I'm supposed to do yoga later today but I'm trying to wait on my yoga blocks to arrive I also went to Starbucks to get my drink so I can get 50 more points and now I'm here telling myself that I'm going to go upstairs after I finish talking to edit the middle school versus elementary school video because that has to be done now because I want that to go up tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. so that's what I'm getting ready to do and then at 3:00 I have a drive by graduation party and then at 6:00 I have a parent and a student who would like to give me a gift I think so I'm meeting them nearby to do that which is very sweet of them and that's really all I have planned and then the other thing that's happening is I have some neighbors moving in and I just realized I'm officially of the age where I'm like looking at the neighbors moving in trying to decipher what kind of neighbors are these gonna be so I think it's a dad like a single dad and his daughter but it's hard to tell because there's a lot of people moving but I don't know hopefully they're nice the people that used to live there were actually friends of mine I had their son in my class by coincidence but you know just hoping for some Pleasant neighbors so just pray for pray that I have some new nice neighbors but anyway I need to go I need to get that video I did it and I need to stop procrastinating so I will check noisy back [Applause] [Music] [Music] Briah sharpish right so that is Sophie back there this is the car parade I went to so if you remember Sophie helped me set up my classroom earlier this year with her mom Sofia was also my fifth grade to do a back in the day which and her mom was in the video back then but car parade distance all right I am at home obviously it is now about seven o'clock I believe that I captured some footage of me going to Sophie's promotion parade in her neighborhood and so I was there for about an hour and then I came home and had to re-edit the elementary school versus middle school video because some technical issues with my computer in iMovie and I'm still in the middle of doing that but I had to stop to go meet up with another student and her family at 6 o'clock because she had something that she wanted to give to me what she did I haven't had a chance to open it yet but if I do and it's not too late I'll share it with you guys but she gave me a card and then this little package here so again I'm touched because this family has already been very generous to me throughout the year so I'm touched and so I talked to her and her mom and her dad and her siblings for a while and I don't know that I said it before I meant to say it before and if I did it's worth repeating I just really like my favorite thing about teaching is like just making connections with students and then when those connections that you make with the students extend to their family and then those people become friends it's just very rewarding to me and I'm a full proponent and supporter of allowing that to happen so I just appreciate moments like that but I also wanted to come on before I end at the vlog for the week to show you what my little a Teddy Blake bag looks like with the strap on it I've used this today because I went out a couple times and I've just worn it as a crossbody so this is what it looks like in case you're curious of like the length and kind of where it would sit I'm average height I'm not tall I'm not short and this is on the like I put it to the setting that allows the strap to be the longest so you can see it's right there it's nice and small and I've been testing it for a couple of days I've used it a couple times this week and it really is perfect for just like quick little trips to the store or shopping so again the company's name is Teddy Blake and in full disclosure they sent me this bag in the hopes that I would share it with you guys and give my overall impression so far I have nothing but positive things to say it's a great alternative if you want like the quality of a luxury handbag like a Louis Vuitton or something along those lines but you don't necessarily want to part with that kind of money just by the feel the touch the smell of it I can tell that it's quality leather they have their experienced designers and they're always released seeing different designs on a regular basis and right now they're having a pretty good sale I understand so I will be sure to leave their information in the comment section and hopefully I will also remember to just kind of show you a screenshot of some of the options they have if this particular bag is not your style but you're in the market for a bag because why not so yeah I think I'm gonna end the vlog here and say goodbye but I do know that next week I'm gonna try something different since people on Instagram said they'd like to see a day in the life and some other things so lies and I are going to be doing something next week so I'm gonna try out doing just a day-in-the-life and I'm gonna try to share how I do my brows because that is something that people ask about and I'm just very self-conscious about showing it but I'm gonna you know try and get over that jump out of my comfort zone and share that with you guys and see if that's helpful to you but if you enjoyed this vlog please do give it it let me get my words together if you enjoyed this vlog please give it a thumbs up if you're not subscribed please do that if you are not following me on Instagram make sure you head over there and follow me there as well the username is that smart e style if you haven't checked out the elementary vs. middle school video I suggest you do that in case you're kind of in a situation where you're debating between the two or you're just curious but other than that thanks for watching and I will see you next week [Music]

Channel: SmartieStyle

Views: 5,421

Rating: 4.923913 out of 5

Keywords: week in my life, daily vlog, weekly vlog, teddy blake, teaching vlog, teacher vlog, unboxing

Id: Fj-Sc1qRWBg

Length: 45min 52sec (2752 seconds)

Published: Sun May 31 2020