Wrap Presents with Me + Catch Up on Life

hello there and welcome back to my channel today's video is going to be completely different and not teaching related at all i have presents that i need to get wrapped and i thought while i've wrapped them we could just kind of chit chat catch up on life because i do have things to talk to you all about nothing super exciting so don't get your hopes up but you know just life talks [Music] before we jump into the wrapping i do need to apologize for my background i originally had this vision you know of it being very beautifully decorated for christmas and that did not happen i am technically recording this the day before thanksgiving and i woke up early this morning i started decorating and that's when disaster hit several things went wrong garland for the banister is not lit up because we do not have power in our basement but the tree was even bigger of a disappointment because we decided to switch from colored lights to white lights and apparently i bought two different colored white lights didn't really know that was a thing i got warm white and pure white and they look completely different on the tree i haven't decided which one i'm keeping right now the very bottom of the tree has warm white and then the middle has pure white so i just stopped when i had half of the tree lit and we're just gonna leave it there for now and billy will help me decide when he gets home so let's go ahead and jump into the wrapping because i do have a lot to get done but i would like to also preface this by saying i am absolutely horrible horrible at wrapping presents how horrible our christmas will be you would think it would be something that i would be good at because i'm like detail oriented but no and i'm not one of those people where i say i'm bad at rapping and then you see it you're like nah you actually are pretty good no i am horrible most of my family members just expect to get presents in bags but i like to try to make them look nice it just doesn't end up happening i will say though for the past two years i've been on this like craft paper kick with wrapping my presents um i feel like it just makes it look very simple and i like it so this is from target um we're gonna start with this present for billy so i actually showed this in a vlog that i think has gone up by now i don't really know but let me hold it up hold on now okay this is going up before christmas billy doesn't watch my videos so it's fine plus he kind of already knows that i'm doing this it's this like collage from our honeymoon so i took a bunch of photos some of our plane tickets some of the little like trinkets and things that we had and i put it all together into a collage which we basically do every time we go on a big trip this started like i don't know six months into dating i created a collage after our first europe trip for christmas that year and ever since oh my gosh ever since then it just has kind of been our thing because then we can put them up as like decor around the house and it's just a good reminder plus we always end up keeping all of like the tickets and things from the trip and so i feel like this is a good way to display them instead of just putting them like in a file box or something where you're never actually looking at them so this is actually the box that the uh what's it called a shadow box this is what it came in from amazon so i figured i'm just gonna put it back in that same box and wrap it up okay good enough now billy and i don't really do like presents for each other i know technically this is a present but we don't buy each other's stuff for christmas because oh this even has the lines on it yes target i feel like we have everything that we need essentially and we don't like to buy each other stuff just to buy each other's stuff so instead we focus just on the stocking because i feel like i don't know filling stockings is like fun you know what i mean i feel like it's actually a scavenger hunt to find the right things for the person so i do enjoy doing his stocking but otherwise we don't really do a lot of gifts oh man but billy does actually know that he's getting this collage this year last year he made me two collages one was from our engagement trip to amsterdam all right i need to stop talking so i can like cut this somewhat straight you would think with the grid lines that i would be able to do much better than i actually did but um he also got me one for our disney trip that we oh that doesn't sound good for our disney trip that we took last year i don't think i even told you all that we went to disney we kind of just kept it to ourselves but yeah he got me those last year so i decided this year i would take over doing the collage and the reason billy already knows about it is because first of all when that amazon package was delivered he kept asking me what it was and i was like um like i don't remember i'd have to check and then he started talking about ordering a frame to do a collage and i was like could you not do that so he kind of caught on and knows that i'm doing it but it's fine it's okay not everything has to be a surprise please tell me no i do this every time okay well i mean technically it's just the back so you won't even know all right whatever we're just gonna go with it um like i said horrible at wrapping presents you would think as a math teacher i would better be able to plan out like you know having the right size piece of paper but no i just kind of wing it and most of the time it ends up being wrong and that's fine totally fine okay ooh this is actually gonna work out pretty well on this side okay i feel like i need tape ready to go like i need to put some right here on the edge that i can just grab and go so i don't have to stop this makes me think of the office when pam says that if you're using more than three pieces of tape to wrap a present you're doing it wrong and i kind of take offense to that because i used three pieces of tape before i even got onto the sides but it's fine okay that's good enough yeah that doesn't sound good i think that's one of the little pieces that i had glued on the bottom that apparently is no longer glued so that's fine that's cool oh i hate this i hate when i have to trim it because i never end up trimming it right okay i feel like oh this is a disaster all right we're gonna just like start here in the middle i'm gonna [Music] [Music] you know this is why i started with the present for billy so it's kind of like practice and then that way when i get to like my parents ones hopefully they won't be as bad i don't feel like trying to keep it lined up so we're just gonna cut and hope for the best and well that's totally crooked but that's fine now my tape is stuck to the table it's a horrible idea all right well there's one um i am going to write his name on it but i don't feel like doing that yet so i'm just gonna like put this to the side i feel like now i need something easier so let's go through his stocking stuffers because what i like to do is make sure they're all gonna fit in his stocking so i know if i need to get more or wrap some of them that won't fit so let me go get a stocking okay so we have just these cheap stockings from target let's just start going through this stuff all right i got him this chocolate passport from trader joe's so it has different chocolate bars in it and they're from different countries which i thought was really cute so i feel like this is good to put down at the bottom to like kind of take up that space okay well i have this gap here so i'm gonna need something smaller to fit in that area i also got him this deck up oh this deck of cards they are office themed this came from tj maxx i should probably take off the price tag okay i hate these stickers it's a horrible idea good enough i guess okay that might fit that you know what yeah that is gonna fit that's gonna fit pretty well okay there we go now the chocolate passport goes in okay there we go it's coming together um i got him two measuring cups from target because we have one right now and it's cracked because it's plastic so i got him some glass ones and i got a smaller one that's one cup and a bigger one that's two cups i guess these aren't price tags so i'm just gonna leave those on but i feel like these need to get wrapped up so that they don't get like scratched or end up making noise we're gonna wrap the smaller one like this and we're gonna put it in oh that was stupid hold on i'm just gonna rip that whatever that will go inside of there okay and now i can wrap both of them kind of together [Music] okay we're just gonna put that in i feel like this is not gonna fit come on come on it's the handle okay well we're just gonna put those somewhere else then um that's fine what else did i get him i got him this like grooming set which i know doesn't sound exciting but he's gonna be excited about this because he had a little pair of scissors like this that i kind of um took and have not given back i mean it's been like four years so he's over it at this point but i thought it would be nice for me to get him like a new pair of scissors since i took his old ones okay that fit nicely what else did i get him oh you know what i just realized one of his things has not come yet but i think it's coming today so let's see if that's on its way okay arriving by 10 pm well that could be any time now so we're just gonna keep it moving um i got him this auxiliary cord for his car because his car does not have bluetooth and so he has to plug his phone into the auxiliary cord and the one he has right now is super staticky because it's old so i got him a new one i got him this ornament from target i should probably rip the price tag off of that but it's a little wedding cake and it says 20 20. so i thought that was cute i should probably wrap this too shouldn't i that would be a good idea i'm literally not gonna wrap it any fancy way i'm just gonna kind of do that and stuff it in there okay making progress oh i got him a tape measure because we could never find our tape measure it's like a super tiny one that came in like one of those tool boxes you get at walmart that's like for your first tool box it's pretty pathetic so i got him like an actual tape measure so put that in there i feel like i can stuff that down on the side okay that'll work and then i got him this old spice pomade which he uses on his hair and then this harry's poche miss this was kind of a throw in i don't think he's ever used this but i don't know it looked nice so i figured i'd get them that okay this is going to just kind of go on top all right it's pretty full i have a little bit of space on top obviously these are not going to fit in his stocking which is fine oh and those bear claw things i already forgot about those okay well those might have to get wrapped as well i'll see if i can stuff them down in here but that's good enough for now then what i do is i just put like a thing of tissue paper on top of his stocking so that he can't see what's in here yeah well you can still kind of see but that's fine no peeking okay stocking done put that over here now keep in mind that i have never ever done my christmas shopping this early like i said it's the day before thanksgiving right now and i am basically done my christmas shopping which i have to say is a very good feeling and the only reason i was able to finish early is because i don't buy for that many people and i don't know i've just kind of been on top of it this year which is a good feeling that's why i'm getting my wrapping done early i like to wrap in batches so basically i will wrap hold on okay i had to get this box i will end up wrapping all of my stuff either at one time or like kind of had two times of wrapping but i just feel like it's a lot more efficient because by the time you get out the wrapping paper and the ribbon and everything else and then you have to put it all away like that takes time so i really like to get it all done at once um next i'm putting together this hold on this is gonna be loud okay i'm putting together this flat rate shipping box from the post office for my youtube secret santa which that video has already gone up at this point so don't worry this is not a spoiler but if you have not seen that video you can go back and watch it i have no idea who my secret santa is or was because i have not received a package yet from them by the time you are watching this video i've already done my secret santa one so you can go back and watch if you are interested i am currently getting the package ready for the person i have for secret santa which again i'm allowed to tell you because the video's already gone up uh but i have kate the sleepy teacher i like to use flat rate shipping boxes because then i don't have to worry about the weight and if i have heavy things in there like books it's not going to affect the price so first things first i need to figure out if all this stuff i got her is even going to fit in this box because there is a small chance it won't so let me kind of go through like my packages and get the stuff that's for her because i i have this big target box that i've just been collecting stuff in that i need to send to her um well not just her all of my christmas stuff i put it all in one big box and then i just keep adding to it obviously billy stuff i put like elsewhere but then once it gets full i do all of the wrapping at one time which is what you are seeing right now so these are for her and oh this is for her okay i think this is gonna fit this is a positive sign and then these hand sanitizer oh yeah oh yeah i got this i can totally make this work okay well that's good then so here's how secret santa works there are like five different gifts that we do we have to like have a card for the first one so i've already gone through and written like the cards and stuff um just so it was done and out of the way so we have the open first card which will go on the very top so i'm gonna put that over to the side and then for the other gifts so that's like technically gift one um gift two gift three and so on i wrote a little card that just kind of tells her like gives her a clue as to what she's gonna open so these are already written i'm gonna put them on top of the package and then i have the open last card which reveals that i am the secret santa this is a golden girls coloring book because she likes the golden girls and she likes art and then this is a golden girls like drink recipe book so i'm going to wrap these each separately i hate wrapping i feel like this is probably best like this and then this probably needs to come up and cover most of this all right i feel like with the secret santa gifts there's a lot more pressure my friends and family they know not to expect a whole lot from me in terms of rapping but people on the internet you know their expectations are a lot higher so i'm kind of nervous um but i'm hoping that this turns out better than billy's while i start wrapping this um let's discuss post-wedding life which i mean okay we just got married like a little over a month ago and not that much has changed but when i say post-wedding life i really am referring to changing my name which is proving to be a way bigger pain in the butt than i expected it to be so oh in hindsight probably should just kept my last name but no i wanted to take billy's last name and this is what i get yes okay in order to change your name there's like a whole process that you have to go through and you have to do things in a specific order so the first step is you have to get a new social security card with your name i'm sure most of you know this but this was all new information to me so in order to get a new social security card the social security offices are not open right now so you have to mail everything to them fine i don't mind doing that however you have to mail them a copy of your marriage certificate which you need like a certified copy again didn't really know that was a thing also i have no idea how i'm actually trying to wrap this right now we're just gonna go with it so the first thing i had to do was mail off to our like county court to get certified copies of our marriage license obviously i have a copy but this is looking awful oh oh boy whatever obviously i have our marriage license but you have to get like the copy that has like the seal on it and whatever so i had to mail that off and you have to like pay money to get them fine sent that off had to wait like a week or so in order to get it back finally got it back cool um i'm going to trim this because i feel like it's exceptionally long and once i got that back then i had to mail off the stuff to the social security office and in addition to the copy of my marriage license i also had to send either my license or my passport well i could not send my license because i need it to drive even though it's expired right now i'll come back to that in a second craig there's a cat hair stuck in this tape so i decided to send my passport which is fine i had to wait until after the honeymoon obviously because we needed our passports for that i sent it off which i was a little bit nervous because i this looks horrible do you all see this it's like gappy and whatever okay so i sent it off in a regular envelope put a bunch of stamps on it sent it off and i have been waiting for like two weeks now in order to get it back and normally i wouldn't be in a big rush you know whenever it gets here that would be fine however the issue is my license expired on my birthday october 14th and it's fine because right now our governor has like i don't know extended the time you can have an expired license like because of covet and in order to make appointments and whatever so i'm fine technically i'm fine but i went ahead at the beginning of october and made a new appointment in order to get a new license now because i am changing my name there's no point in getting a new license until my name has officially been changed with the social security office so my dilemma is i had to make this appointment i don't know what i'm doing with this book um is that better maybe i had to make the appointment with the mba back at the beginning of october and the soonest appointment that i could get was the day after thanksgiving which is two days from now so my dilemma is how am i doing this okay i'm doing this side so i don't need that much if my social security card does not come by friday morning then i need to cancel my appointment which means i cannot get my new license which means my license will still technically be expired although again it's technically fine but i like to have it not be expired and i'm gonna have to make a new appointment which i probably will not be able to get until january because everything is so backed up it is currently wednesday before thanksgiving and i checked and so far it has not come i did however yesterday get the envelope with my passport and the marriage certificate in it like they returned it to me so that's a good sign but i still have not gotten the new social security card so i'm not going to cancel my appointment yet i'm gonna wait until i check the mail on friday and it's like an hour before my appointment and i need to leave if i still have not gotten it then yeah i'm gonna have to cancel my appointment not ideal but it is what it is so this whole name change thing has kind of just been a big pain in the butt and i'm not not enjoying it i have no idea what to do with this with this side okay that you know what that's not bad that is not bad okay so now this is what gift is this i still didn't decide i have a note in my phone where i outlined each gift okay this is gift four so i'm going to put these together and i'm gonna tie them up let's use red i got this like yarn stuff it says ribbon i'm pretty sure it's string billy said it was string and i'm just gonna tie it again i'm going for very simple oh that's not good but in hindsight probably should have seen that that was gonna happen okay i don't know how much i need but considering when i did the wrapping before and it was kind of short i'm gonna get extra okay so okay all right that goes there and then you like flip it like that you pull the string out which i don't think was supposed to be under there anyway okay so now i have this string we're gonna make it kind of even and then you like cross it and go like this yeah there we go oh oh no it sounded good in theory okay there we go and now you tie it like so although i think actually i think you're supposed to like go underneath of here or something maybe like this i don't know i think i just made that up but it kind of looks okay all right i already hate this string because it's putting little red stringies which i know makes sense um all over this package so not a fan but it's fine okay i mean i feel like that's a look it's a pretty simple look but it's it's a look so i said that this was gift four so i'm gonna take the gift for envelope i should probably tape it because i feel like if i just slide it under it's gonna come out and she's gonna have no idea what gift goes with what so i'm gonna just put the tape on the corner slide it under tape it okay there we go that's progress um all right so i feel like i'm doing a horrible job at like actually getting stuff wrapped because all i've wrapped right now is that one box i've done billy stocking and i've done that gift and it's been recording for like 40 minutes now so here's what i'm gonna do we're gonna pause on secret santa and i'm gonna show you the gifts that i got for bridget's kids because i don't really have other kids to buy for it's literally just bridget's kids and i really enjoy buying for kids i feel like it's fun trying to find stuff for them and she also has a dog so i always get her dog like toys to play with and it's just a fun time now i'm gonna have to mail them to her this year because of covid and i'm really sad about that but it's fine so first let's start with walter her golden doodle i got him this little gingerbread man it has a squeaker she will probably hate me for it and then i got this little like santa's workshop thing and it has these three toys on the inside which are adorable so that's for walter um and then her sons blaine and ian so ian is her older son he is 13 and blaine is her younger son he's six i don't think he's turned seven maybe he did turn seven i don't know he's in that six seven range i think he's still six so i'm pretty sure he's still six so what i like to do is get them get that they can enjoy together and i like to do like activity-based things rather than just like toys you know what i mean so i actually ended up giving them two things to do together first is this table tennis set which i brought this home and billy got really excited i think he thought it was for him no it's for a child two children so it expands and like connects onto your table and i just thought that sounded like a lot of fun and then i also got them this connects uh thing oh i should probably mention these toys came from tj maxx so did this tabletop tennis kit the connects came from amazon um but it creates these like bows and like a target which they're boys they've gotta like this right i feel like it's fun because they get to build it and then they also get to shoot it it should be entertaining um if not it'll at least be entertaining to watch then i like to get them individual gifts so blaine is very active and he likes to do like hands-on things last year i got him this um clay thing that you would have to dig in in order to find like rocks and crystals and stuff and he loved it so this year i got him oh this is upside down these dino eggs and there's 12 of them and you dig into them and each one has a different dinosaur he likes dinosaurs i thought it was cute should keep him busy for a while and then ian really likes to draw so i got him some art supplies so i got him a big sketchbook and then this like drawing set that has different like charcoal pencils and um sharpeners and erasers and stuff like that so i'm gonna have to find a really big box in order to send all of this to them but it stinks that this year i don't get to go and like see them open it because i love like getting to open it with them because their sons are both so so sweet but i i just love like getting things from like i can't wait to see what they think about it the other gifts are for my parents i'm not going to show you those because my parents do watch my channel this video is going up before christmas and i don't want to spoil anything even though my mom gave me a very detailed list for christmas for her so she basically knows everything she's getting but that's okay i'll still keep it a surprise i do want to know from you all what other videos you want to see from me i have some things in store i do want to do a winter break vlog and have that go up sometime during break just to kind of show what i'm doing but for the new year what kinds of videos do you all want to see leave a comment down below let me know give the video a thumbs up if you haven't already share it out with your teacher friends hit the subscribe button and the notification bell and as always thank you for watching i love you all so much don't forget to put your positive santa pants on and i'll catch you in the next one you

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Length: 28min 19sec (1699 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 20 2020