WEEKLY VLOG | I got tested, self isolation, date nights and more...

i have to take the day off work and go get tested [Music] maybe i'll give you guys a little bit of a skin update oh my gosh show them the treat look at you mr videographer and then i also went thrifting and i'll show you guys what i picked up it's a lot later now good morning guys welcome back to another weekly vlog it's monday and it's 9 a.m and as you can see i am not at work and that is because i woke up this morning feeling sick which is just incredible isn't it love that for me sore throat runny nose all of the stuff so i have to take the day off work and go get tested that's kind of like the rules that we have if you have any mild symptoms you have to go get tested so george and i are both gonna go get tested and that is what i'm gonna spend my monday doing i've packed a little bag full of stuff to do in the car it's mostly just books and like my ipad in case we have to wait for a long time i also have a whole box of tissues in there because i don't think one of those little like travel things is gonna be enough so yeah i'll keep you guys updated i don't think i can vlog the actual testing but i'll let you guys know how it goes we're gonna go to one of those like drive-through ones so that um we don't have to get out of the car we are currently in our lineup to get tested it'll probably take a while but that's okay we're chilling i don't think it'll be hours and hours but it may take a while like we can see where people are getting tested but we've got a while and like a bit of a loop to do but we're actually facetiming our friend amy who lives in melbourne and she woke up with flu symptoms today and she's going to get tested so now we're all going to get tested together kind of well i mean amy's in melbourne but she's on facetime with us waiting she's got her mask we've got our mask here but right now we're in the car so it's fine we were saying it just feels like a movie like this whole thing just feels like a hunger games or like i don't know so weird we're getting pretty close i'm so scared i am not scared at all i am so exhausted from being like i'm just i feel so like sick and gross that i'm just like couldn't care less but yeah we're probably in the next like 10 minutes maybe i don't really know how long this next part takes but i think we've been waiting for just over an hour which is not honestly that bad so we'll see that was awful that was the most uncomfortable thing my nose hurts i feel like i have a bruise inside my nose it's not painful yeah it's here i can breathe out of that side of my nose but my throat feels like itchy [Music] good morning [Music] so friends i haven't talked to you since monday i think when we got tested it's currently wednesday and we still haven't received our results yet which is kind of frustrating they did say it would take between 24 and 72 hours and it's been over 48 but not quite 72. i honestly thought i would be back to work today i thought we'd receive our results yesterday but we didn't and at this point it doesn't even look like i'll be able to go to work tomorrow which is also frustrating i just feel really bad missing out on so much work especially because my job is still semi-new and i don't want anyone to think that i'm faking it or anything like that my last show i literally worked out for two years and never once called in sick or no once i called in sick once and honestly normally i probably would go to work with a cold but obviously because of covered and all of those things firstly i don't think i'm even allowed to like i'm pretty sure even if you have mild flu-like symptoms you have to go get tested at least that's what it said on the internet and secondly i haven't received my results so i am definitely not allowed to leave my house so far the last time i left my house was to go get tested on monday morning and it's now wednesday and i usually leave my house every single day either to go to work or go somewhere else i haven't seen liam i haven't seen my family i haven't seen anyone except george obviously it's only been a few days but i'm definitely sick of it i just want to be better i'm trying to take this time to really be restful and to really get better so that when i can go back to work i will be as well as i possibly can be because i definitely still feel pretty awful and pretty sick i really doubt that i have covered like i'll be really shocked if i do but that doesn't mean that i don't feel really unwell i'm just super tired like anything that i do is such a chore and it's so difficult it just takes so much energy things that i would normally be able to do really easily like cook something or put my clothes on the line or i don't know whatever it may be i've spent a lot of time in bed a lot of time reading i'm not very good at napping but definitely a lot of rest happening obviously it's not like a holiday for me i haven't been doing heaps of work like youtube work and stuff i just don't think that's what sick leave should be used for um i've done a little bit but i would normally do a bit each day anyway but yeah i'm just feeling pretty rotten at the moment it is 4 14 and i just thought i'd give you guys that little bit of an update because i haven't talked to you but there's just really been nothing to to talk about i will say actually maybe i'll give you guys a little bit of a skin update while i'm here i'm sorry i haven't not brushed my hair in like three days but it's just kind of unnecessary i had some pretty bad acne at least for me it was pretty bad end of last year start of this year i had no idea what was causing it still don't really know what was causing it but i went to the doctor they prescribed me some medication and some skin care which i used for about three months and i'm no longer using that but i'm still very strict on my skincare routine so i'm still using a lot of skincare but i'm not using the medication and stuff anymore but you guys can see there's a lot of pigmentation on my skin but it actually feels so smooth there's like no texture no breakouts the only time i really get breakouts now is a little bit during like that time of month or if i eat like heaps and heaps of chocolate or something but even that is really nothing in comparison to what i was dealing with however i will say i do have a lot of scarring especially around my cheeks which was my biggest problem area so if you guys have any recommendations for scarring and dealing with that i would really love to know like i said it's really smooth it's just kind of like the pigmentation and it definitely often shows through my foundation and stuff because i don't like to wear a lot but i'm not wearing anything right now and you can just see how glowy and healthy my skin looks for me this is the best my skin has looked in a really long time and i'm so thankful for that because my goal was to get clear skin before my wedding and i still have ages before that and i am so happy with the progress that i've made so if i can give any recommendations or advice to some of you who may be struggling with your skin at the moment first thing i would say is look at your skin care and figure out if you're using the right products if they're good products are you being consistent i would really recommend doing that first if you don't see any results after that i would definitely go see a doctor i feel like so many girls struggle with acne and i really really really feel for you i know exactly what it's like to be in your shoes everyone's journey is so different but hopefully any tips that i can give you may have helped just be careful with whose advice you take and obviously i say that after i just gave you advice but my biggest piece of advice would be to go to a doctor but i'm going to keep doing what i've been doing which is a whole lot of nothing and i'll update you guys hopefully soon with my results or if anything else happens good morning guys it is now thursday we still haven't got our results which is really frustrating so obviously i'm not home again today but we're pretty sure we should get them today my mom brought us chicken soup yesterday which is the nicest thing ever my love language is acts of service so when people do nice things for me my heart literally explodes so that was really lovely and then bryce george's older brother brought us some groceries because we can't leave the house to go get groceries either i'm definitely running low but today my plan is to be a little bit more productive i just don't want to go from being in bed all day every day for the past three days to having to go back to work tomorrow and be back in the swing of things so i'm gonna give myself this day as a bit of a transition so i'm going to have a shower and get ready for the day i'm not going to do anything that's really intense or crazy but i just want to not put my body in shock tomorrow when i have to wake up at 5am and go to work and you know all of those things so i'm going to hop in the shower i'm going to put on a proper outfit today not just sweatpants and i'm going to try and have like a restful productive day we'll see how we go [Music] wow i literally just vacuumed and then folded and put my clothes away and i feel like i've run a marathon like i genuinely have the same feeling right now that i used to have when i used to do really long runs like afterwards like my whole body is shaking i feel like i'm gonna pass out oh my gosh i this is like the first time that i've really tried to do many things the rest of the days i've been trying to be really restful and like i said i'm trying to transition a bit today to be a little bit more productive to help my body get ready to go back to work but i obviously just push myself too much by folding my washing like that's ridiculous honestly it's making me feel like i actually do have covered i don't think i do but oh my gosh i feel like dizzy i literally did two things what the heck i never get sick guys like i never get sick maybe like once every two years i get sick i feel like the last time i was just sick was high school and i feel awful i'm really excited for you to try this because this is like my childhood favorite thing ever i've never been i've never made it i feel like i have no idea what that is don't look at my head the best ever hmm that's not corn shower it might be i don't know what that is good morning guys happy friday we still don't have our results and it's like 10 a.m on friday it has been five days five days at home and we were supposed to find out after 72 hours so i can't remember if i mentioned it yesterday but we did call them and they said they hadn't processed them yet but they also said that we should almost definitely have them this morning which we don't and they also said to call back at lunchtime if we don't have them yet but i'm a little bit stressed because if we don't get them today they don't send out results on weekends which means it'll be another automatic two days at home which obviously is just annoying for the sake of being at home but also i definitely need to get groceries at some point but more importantly my dad's birthday is this weekend it is his 60th birthday he's having quite a significant event it's not like huge there's not like 100 people coming but we don't do huge parties or celebrations for birthdays in our household so the fact that he's even having some sort of celebration is really important and my brother who lives in sydney literally found out last week that he's not allowed to come because of covert they've shut down a lot of the suburbs in sydney from crossing the border including his so he's not able to come and then if i'm not able to come that literally means half of the kids in our household are not able to attend which really stresses me out i'm also in charge of decorating i've ordered a bunch of decorations i still need to go out and get a few more things which i obviously can't do if i can't leave my house there's just a lot of things that kind of coincide with that that will be really annoying obviously i understand that we're trying to keep people safe and like stay home so that we can't potentially infect anyone else if we do have it which i don't think we do but we don't know but it's just annoying because we know people that have got tested after us who have found out their results before us also if i don't find out my results today it means i have to take monday off work like it's just a whole thing and i'm just getting to the point where it's really frustrating i understand that they have so many tests to go through right now but like five days off work that's a lot but honestly i've woken up feeling a lot better than i have the past few days at least so far that might change but yeah so far so good um so i'm gonna really take advantage of it and get a lot of work done today yesterday i tried to be as productive as i could but i definitely was really exhausted the whole day and couldn't get as much done as i wanted to but i'm gonna try and smash out some stuff today so i've already just done a sponsored picture in this outfit i also need to schedule some stuff i only have a few little things that i want to do that's like youtube-y stuff i also want to do some meal prep there's a few things that i need to get done today so we're going to try to smash those out and hopefully please jesus get our results today guys i just called the i don't actually remember what it's called virus detection service or whatever it is and they told me i'm negative still haven't received a text to say i'm negative they said i will eventually i don't know when that's supposed to happen but i got them to email me through my results so i could email them through to my boss at work which means i'll be back to work on monday and more excitedly it means i can leave my house this weekend i am so excited i'm very grateful that i do not have coven and i quickly just wanted to say my heart goes out to all the people in victoria and melbourne especially who are dealing with really heavy restrictions right now my heart goes out to you obviously i just spent five days at home and i was complaining and i'm so sorry if that sounded bratty or anything like that because i know you guys have it so much worse so my heart goes out for you i'm praying for you especially now i know what it's like to be in your shoes and really not be able to leave the house i will also say that this whole experience has made me like so much more strict in myself about like hand sanitizer all that stuff i feel like i was strict once all of the covered stuff came out but i feel like especially now i'm like there is no way i'm getting sick again and having to miss out on that much work and on that much of my life i had to cancel so many appointments canceled so many social activities in the past five days being not able to leave my house so i'm just really excited georgia and i are gonna head out this afternoon and go to our grocery shopping and the things that we really need to do but i just feel like a weight has lifted off my shoulders just not knowing is so scary here's the fit for finally being able to leave the house got my grocery bags some jeans a cute little comfy and cozy jumper because it's really gloomy and rainy outside and then just my air forces so woohoo going outside the first thing georgia and i are doing now that we can leave the house is donate heaps of stuff such a boring thing to do but like we have so much stuff it's ridiculous [Music] there's rappers play shorter when you're ready could i please grab a masai caramelized fusion with no cream msi caramel education no cream that works anything else that's all thank you what's up drive there are you ready it's coffee day but not for me now i'm gonna have one at home because i'm going after dinner so i don't think i should spend money on coffee because i can leave the house now hopping in my car for the first time in five days this will be my first time driving since sunday maybe even saturday i was honestly worried i was like is my car even gonna start um i'm gonna go see my parents for a sec and then i'm heading off to see liam because i haven't seen him since sunday either and usually we see each other every second day or every day so five days is a long time for us the only time we ever go this long without seeing each other is when one of us is interstate or international so i'm really excited to see him we're going out for a little dinner date a little date night and then probably for a walk around the city because that's one of our favorite things to do date night sitting in a tree if you guys live in brisbane where would you say this is qut yeah it obviously only lights up during the night i feel like you wouldn't be able to see how beautiful this is during the day but we come here oh we don't come here all the time we've come here for years and it's like one of my favorite places ever i think i have a photo of you with like your semi-long hair here from like 2018 or 2019 2018 probably show them the treat it is so beautiful look at you missing videos apart we're just hanging out for a bit on the tree i feel like this is like what people do in movies [Music] good morning guys happy saturday and it really is a happy saturday because i can leave the house today i can't get over it after being locked inside for five days this is just the best thing ever since i was at home all week i got a lot of my like at-home work done so a lot of my editing a lot of my emails stuff that i would normally do on a weekend which means i can have a bit more of a fun weekend and since i didn't get to do anything during the week like go anywhere or see anyone i'm allowing myself to have a bit of a fun weekend i do have a couple things that i need to do say you guys saw that i just watered my plants usually it's a bit easier for me to water my upstairs plants just in the shower and then i just use a watering can for the ones that go downstairs but apart from that the other errands i kind of have to run is i want to go to the post office i have a package or two maybe i think my bridesmaids dresses that have arrived and i also ordered some books a couple weeks ago i also want to head to the shops because i need to pick up a couple last minute decorations for my dad's birthday tonight as well as i need some new running shoes and i really don't want to buy them because i love the ones i have right now but they're literally falling apart i would also like to get one more pair of jeans for work because i feel like i have the same pairs on rotation every single week like there's two or three pairs that i love and i wear them again and again and again but i would just like a couple more pairs i do have a lot of jeans don't get me wrong but so many of them aren't really like work appropriate either they've got rips in them or they're more of a mum style which i just think looks a bit too casual for work depending on how you wear them and then i want to go thrifting because i haven't been able to go in so long and then this afternoon i'll just be doing some birthday stuff for my dad so it's going to be really fun liam's coming over later today to help me with the balloons and decorations and stuff but this morning i've just got some time for myself i'm finally heading out for the day and this is the fit i totally forgot i own these jeans i've been doing a bit of decluttering again this week you guys will see a video soon and then i found these and i was like oh my gosh i used to love these jeans so i'm glad i've got them back in my life also wearing this jumper from princess polly that i hold recently and my air forces i'm gonna head out and run my errands so i just went to the post office and picked up um a package book depository wasn't the bridesmaids dress but that's okay and i also picked up some decorations for my dad's birthday so i've already ordered helium balloons which i'm picking up this afternoon i also got a little gold banner some white streamers some black streamers my mom chose like a black white and gold theme and then i also got some clear ones with gold glitter in them so that's a little decoration haul so i guess they're sending one book at a time i ordered three but that's okay ooh so this is called november 9. it's by colleen colleen i don't know how to say clean colleen colleen hoover i know m carey is obsessed with colleen hoover um i've also seen so many recommendations for this one i think i ordered another colleen hoover book as well potentially i forget so i got that one but i did order two others and i'm still waiting for them i also tried to look for jeans couldn't find any that like weren't ripped basically so i'm at another shop now i'm gonna have a look and then after this i'm gonna head off to the thrift [Music] store [Music] i'm now home and i wanted to show you guys what i picked up i did end up finding some new runners i ended up actually getting two pairs because i had some birthday money that i have been saving since my birthday in april to get new running shoes and they had some really good sales going on today so i was able to get two pairs i think they were 70 each these were at outlet stores so if you want to go check out outlet stores you can always get really really really good sales these are the two pairs that i got i have wanted white runners for the longest time these ones are adidas ones and they're so beautiful but i'm always really scared that i'm gonna get them dirty so i was like if i buy white ones and i have enough money to get two pairs i definitely want to get a black pair as well so that if i'm doing a hike or something that's gonna definitely get messy like going camping or something like that i want to make sure i still have a black pair my last pair was all black these ones obviously have some white and a bit of like reddish pink on them which i think is really cool but i really like the style of those and of course i love the style of these ones as well i'm really excited they look so beautiful and then i also went thrifting and i'll show you guys what i picked up as well i ended up getting a few things i think i spent about 15 i went to like honestly five different stores or something so i don't think i found this all at once there were many stores that i walked out of with nothing but i just love looking like it's so fun to me the first thing i picked up was this quarter zip which i thought was so beautiful i think it's about four dollars so i'm going to make sure i wash all of these clothes before i wear them of course but i love quarter zips they're so comfy and this one's really fleecy i also found this pair of shorts which i'm so shocked they look really cute i haven't tried them on because at the moment at least in a lot of the thrift stores that i went to you can't try things on because of covid so i'm really excited to see if these fit they were only three dollars i think so really inexpensive and then i found this beautiful crew neck it's this beautiful sage grayish green color and i love it it's really really huge so i think i may end up cropping it because it's probably gonna come halfway down my thighs and i don't know if i want it to be that oversized but this is beautiful as well i also found a couple of books this one i've heard so many good things about and this was literally a dollar so i was like of course i want to pick this up and then these two i just read the back of and they look really interesting they're part of the same series i think this one's the second one and it looks like kind of a dystopian world type of deal and i don't know super interesting and a dollar each for these ones as well and lastly i picked up this platter it has a bunch of speckles on it in like a darker brownish color and it's like a cream i thought this would be such a beautiful platter but then when i was driving home i was like wait i could totally put this on top of my dresser and put like jewelry or perfume or something on it because it's so cute so i really really like that and that was two dollars so a really great haul to be honest and very excited about my new shoes it's a lot later now it's about 4 30 4 45 or something in the afternoon i just got dressed for my dad's birthday dinner so my family and a bunch of his friends are all going to this really cute restaurant and he's a steakhouse both my top and my skirt from princess polly i actually really like how they look together um the top is just like shiny like you know that nice pajama material that's what it feels like and then my shoes are famous footwear i'm also just gonna bring my leather jacket as well so liam should be here any second then we're gonna go with my mom to the venue pick up the balloons finish decorating i also made this sign a couple weeks ago so hopefully everything turns out cute lots of blues good morning guys happy sunday it's my favorite day of the week you guys saw a little bit of my morning from the little montage that i just did but oh there's a cute little spot i've never vlogged here before when i was on my walk my pace per kilometer was so fast this morning because i was trying to warm up so i was like walking really fast um but it was such a beautiful walk it's such a beautiful day i was actually considering going to the beach this morning and just kind of having some me time you know but i woke up this morning and i was like nah i'm not feeling it i just kind of want to go on a walk and just chill at home i know that i've mentioned in previous vlogs that i was reading this book but i finished it this week while i was self-isolating and guys look at all the notes that i've written on it i posted about it on my little book highlight thing on instagram if you guys don't follow me on instagram highly recommend i give so many updates and little pieces of information and my life on there as well it's just racial catherine 998 but i also give a lot of book recommendations every time i finish a book so i like rate them and put them in a little highlight but specifically this book had a lot about a sabbath and about resting um and if you guys don't know what a sabbath is it's basically just a day or even a time or like a set part of your day that you take away and you schedule in time for rest and time for connecting with god that you kind of disconnect from other parts of your life it might sound a little bit weird but it's really really awesome and this year is probably the first year that i've really invested in having a sabbath um it's usually sunday for me because i work monday to friday and it just seems to work out very well to have mine on a sunday but you could literally have it any day what my sabbath is going to include today is my big long walk this morning i've already had a coffee i'm gonna sit here and read my bible for a little while as well as just um some christian books because you guys know i love reading so that's like a really great way to really get away from like the world but still really invest in time with god i'll probably just play some worship music have a shower hang out i'm gonna head out this afternoon and go to a park and probably do like i don't know what you'd call it i just want to get some time off my phone like outside not necessarily going for a walk but just like chilling but yeah that's kind of my plan for today so it's not very exciting but i'm so looking forward to it and it's been such a great morning so far um so yeah i'm just gonna sit here and read and chill out until probably like 12 it's like 10 o'clock right now and i just love days that i don't really schedule anything in like i don't let myself write a to-do list on a sunday which is the best thing ever i do love my to-do list i love being productive but i think i love being productive because i spend the time resting so it makes me look forward to rest but when i'm finished with my rest i look forward to work so i think it's so so so worth it i feel like i could do a whole video on the benefits of having a sabbath maybe i will one day if you guys are interested but i'm not an expert yet i'm really still learning how to rest because i'm such a workaholic but thoroughly thoroughly enjoying it one of the best decisions i've ever made is being more intentional with rest and sabbath hello friends it is now sunday afternoon and i'm heading off to my small group and then i have church straight after here is my outfit super chill super easy princess polly top wrangler jeans adidas little sneakers bit of fun and i've got a little cardigan to bring with me as well so let's go to church hello friends it is sunday night and i'm just finishing off this vlog i'm actually not in my own house but i'll explain that more in the next weekly vlog but if you want a hint i'm here with a little furry friend i'll talk to you guys more about it in my next weekly vlog it has definitely been a crazy week this week with self-isolation and all of that stuff but it's back to work next week back to normal life and i'm excited to be able to leave the house i'm excited to get better i am definitely better than i was but i still don't feel 100 but i'm sure i will really soon so i will talk to you guys in my next video very soon good bye

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Published: Tue Aug 11 2020