Hello everyone, I am here with 2020 congressional candidate from Wisconsin's third congressional district. His name is Justin Bonner Justin, he's here to talk about his campaign. Thank you so much for coming on the program Yeah, it's great to be here. I'll admit I was a little bit apprehensive about bringing you on because I like to kind of make myself the best beard in all of progressive politics, but you kind of challenge my dominance there if you will so You know, I'm a little intimidated to be to be honest We just got to go for the full angles beard. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely absolutely Um, but you know on another hand, it is nice to get some beard representation in progressive politics for once So basically I wanted to bring you on because your campaign is dynamic I really like what you are talking about your software engineer And you are an ordinary person that decided to challenge an establishment Democrat His name is Ron kind and I went over your platform and I really like what you are proposing Medicare for all and you are very clear single payer Medicare for all Ranked choice voting free college workplace democracy clean elections a green new deal You want to abolish ICE abolish the NSA and abolish the CIA now What's interesting is that as a software engineer, you know online privacy is something that's really important to you And before we went on you shared an article from 2014 and this was about and I haven't heard about this company It's called lava bit and this is someone who ran a startup for encrypted private email addresses that was essentially Challenged by the government to reveal the information of their customers And this was really influential to you and important to you So let's talk a little bit about why you decided to run and why this issue is a paramount to your campaign Certainly I decided to run purely on the basis of policy if there was somebody else running who is Equal or better to be on policy then I wouldn't have bothered for it.  I'm running to get the policy done and Like you said with the abolishing the NSA stuff. It's good. It's as good a place to start as any So I read that lava bit article five years ago now and that really boiled my blood as it were with the NSA and it makes me angry that our government can act like that in such a blatantly unconstitutional way Frankly, it's criminal and we just need to get rid of it period. There's no reforming it There's no well if you tweak it a little bit. Maybe it'll be okay. I say just get rid of it completely Yeah, and I like that you're taking this bold stance and a lot of 2020 candidates They're elevating issues that aren't really being discussed. We're seeing talks of National rent control talks of reparations for American descendants of slavery and we're talking about now abolishing the NSA and the CIA with you And I really find this fascinating because when I read that article and I hadn't seen that or heard of this So I'm glad that you shared that with me it It really sounded like a story that you would hear from an authoritarian regime where, you know A government would come in and just be brazenly unconstitutional and demand this information. It's a violation of privacy it's a violation of trust and It's nice that we'd have someone who's a software engineer someone who's actually technologically literate in Congress Advocate because I know that everyone saw the you know the Congressional hearings with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and some of the questions that were asked It was just it was cringe-worthy So it'd be nice to have a little bit of a change in someone like you. It's great to hear I think I'd definitely be an improvement over Ron kind. Yeah. Yeah, I think so as well Now can you talk about Ron kind a little bit because he's someone who doesn't necessarily have that much national name recognition So explain why if you're progressive you are a democratic socialist It's better for people in the third district of Wisconsin to support you over Ron kind Certainly Ron kind is a pretty standard corporatist centrist third-way Democrat. I think he was actually Leading the new Democrat coalition for a few years there in Congress So there's nothing too much to say about you know him on a personal level or anything like that He's just standard cookie cutter corporate Democrat and the policies are all the centrist right-wing Compromise with Republicans, but you know we all know what we're compromising with Republicans really means Yeah, yeah It means laying down and dying Yeah, and it's it's nice to see so many candidates step up because What I would like even if you know, I can't imagine a situation where we get like a majority of progressives within the Democratic Party You know within 10 years, but just increasing the size of that block in Congress I don't think people realize how transformative that really could be So it is important that we get voices like you elected so talk a little bit about your campaign And what you're running on and what you're doing because you're not taking corporate PAC money You're running a fully grassroots funded campaign So what are you doing to kind of get out the word in your district? And what issues do you think you'd fight for if you were elected? Sure, I'm trying to get out the word by really focusing Really heavily on canvassing. I've gone door to door and knocked on I think a couple hundred doors myself I don't have the exact number right now, but it's definitely been Pretty busy. In fact, I can show you the uh canvassing handout that I hand out right here Yes, as you can see, it's nothing but policy, you know, there's no picture of me shaking the baby's hand or whatever No kissing a baby on the forehead No kissing a local businessman on the forehead It's just my name when I'm running for election date website and then the rest of it's just policy And justifications for the policy. So this sheet in particular talks about Medicare for all rank choice voting Abolishing the NSA money out of politics for your public higher education than the Green New Deal That's great.  I've got the charm. I can talk right. I could do the thumb point and voters love that They don't love that But you know, it's nice to see someone put the policies front and center Because that's really all that matters like when you're running for congress You should be leading with your policies and the fact that some politicians They don't even have an issues page on their website. It's absolutely mind blowing to me So it's nice to see, you know, you really put lead with this Now you talk a lot about rank choice voting and this is something that is just kind of near and dear to my heart Why do you think that's something that's important? Frankly, I really don't like the two-party system. It makes us choose between two usually pretty bad candidates And it punishes multiple candidates for running in the same party like, um In this election, if say there was another progressive running at the moment, there isn't although there is someone who's considering it So we'll have to figure something out there if we were to hypothetically both run We run into a situation where it'd be two progressives versus one conservative democrat And that puts the progressives at a really bad disadvantage there So in that situation, we'd have to you know work something out between the two of us So the only one of us was running up against run kind Right with rank choice voting, of course We wouldn't run into that problem because then voters could just rank their choices on the ballot And you could have as many progressives running as you want Totally eliminates the fear of vote splitting which is super important. There's a piece of legislation I'm not sure if it's been uh, reintroduced in this session, but uh, Ro Khanna was the sponsor of this legislation I believe it was 3057 and this would institute a nationwide rank choice voting But it also did a couple of other things. Um, it ended gerrymandering and it also increased the district magnitude in every single American district From one to two to three meaning that rather than us just getting one Representative we get multiple representatives and what's nice about that is when you look to other countries that have higher district magnitudes They usually don't just have two parties. They usually have You know, uh four to five sometimes six parties and of course in america, it's not like we only have two parties There's hundreds of parties technically, but it's just a matter of the institutions that we have You know, um, it just leads to two parties So we need people to be able to You know run in parties that aren't democrat that aren't republican and actually win and that's what matters And that's why I think rank choice voting is really important because this would facilitate The rise of multiple parties and I've always kind of maintained that we don't just need like a third party We need like five six Maybe seven parties now you don't want to get too crazy and have like 12 parties Because then you know the ideology starts to get a little bit watered down But I think that if we just have more variation than center right and far right, you know, it might do wonders for you know American policy policy outcomes specifically. I don't know if we had 12 different parties At least nine of them would be different leftist fraction parties. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely I would totally see that. Yeah, because you know, there's just we don't we don't feel represented and a lot of voters Don't feel represented, which is why when you look at, you know, um voter identification polling Most people identify as independence, you know, uh, the republican party, they're a minority party. Technically Democrats are a little bit better off, but still not by much So this is so crudely 33 or so and republicans only about 25 percent Yeah, so most people are not being adequately represented and that's just it's crazy because you know, we kind of pride ourselves on being A democracy the oldest democracy Um, but how representative is that democracy? Not very much not very much at all So, uh, what I wanted to talk about is abolishing the cia because we kind of touched on nsa kind of switching gears a little bit But this is something that is probably a little bit more controversial And if i'm not mistaken didn't bernie sanders float something like this like in the 70s or 80s I'm not sure if he still believes it but tell me the uh, why this is something that's important because I feel like this is such a new issue That um, most people don't know the reasoning and why this is important, but how would you sell this? Sure, I'm sure you're familiar with uh, the historical actions of the cia.  That's why they hate us, you know, it's not because we have freedom Let's see I think Venezuela might have actually been the only south american country that we didn't successfully overthrow the government in It could be mistaken, but I think that's correct And we've certainly uh been trying um, and if we haven't tried to just out right overthrow them It's always been a constant ploy to get Their natural resources because they they have a lot of oil Yeah, I think that that's really important because We are supposedly invading these other countries like iraq, you know in afghanistan And we do this under the guise of freedom and democracy, which I can't even say with a straight face because it's so laughable But I mean ayende in chili was elected and we overthrew him which is insane You know we're we're not promoting democracies around the world and a lot of this has been done through the cia And what a lot of people I think fail to realize is that the drone program in the united states Is run by the cia with a fairly large amount of autonomy the president can certainly reign them in as commander in chief But this program is killing so many civilians So when you say abolish the cia what I hear is It's about damn time people are bringing this up and talking about this because I don't think people really realize How destructive the cia has been Around the world and it's part of the reason why people hate the united states around the world when you look at global polling They kind of view us as you know a destabilizer and we're kind of veering into foreign policy So I think that it would be probably useful to talk about that How would you be different because I see something really problematic happening? I see the democratic party by and large shifting to the right when it comes to foreign policy You have a few exceptions. What would you do differently to kind of try to pull that overton window back to the left? Well, I'd be as anti-war as you can be. I'd never vote for a war. There would have to be some Unforseeable extraordinary circumstances to make me vote yes on a war Yeah, so yes, and uh, I in terms of foreign policy. I do things like omar does we can criticize israel I wouldn't be afraid of being called anti-semitic. I mean, it's not like I'm planning on being in congress for a whole career or anything Yeah, ideally. I'd only do it for you know a term or two and then we can get the policies through I don't tend to do it as a whole career yeah, that's nice because um, a lot of people get into politics because They're career-minded. Um, you know and you kind of remind me of uh, laurence the sig but at you know The congressional level where you just have like this agenda. We're gonna get in past these policies and then i'm out I don't need to stay here longer Um, I don't care about any of that. I don't care about my career I'm just the normal dude and I want to get x y and z policies implemented I think that's fascinating although if you are successful at implementing these policies people are gonna want to keep you there I bet because there's not a lot of like representatives and we kind of like hold on to and cherish and sometimes um DFI progressives, you know, maybe that's not the right word, but we overly like We really rely on them because there's so few and even people who you know They kind of run as progressives.   I just want to get in the past these policies and that's really nice And if I have to say something controversial, that's true. I'll be like hey sweet. Maybe I'll lose And I like that I like that a lot um I kind of feel like I would be the same way because being a member of congress It seems like something that would just be pure misery to me. Um, I would never want frankly me too Yeah, yeah, and I I get the sense that you're kind of doing this like out of obligation Like all right. Nobody else is going to do it. Nobody else in this district is running Um, so I need to do this and I need to um get these policies passed ronkine. Is it going to do it? Let's just pass these policies and then I'm going to retire Absolutely, if there was another good progressive with policies basically the same as mine, I'd let them do it They can take it. That's awesome. I really like that and I feel like um You know that shows people that you are with them and you are committed to the policies And I don't think you have to do much more to really, um Convince them. So let me ask you this in terms of timetable. I really like to kind of gauge where candidates are at Um, let's say hypothetically speaking you're elected and you get you know this we all get this Best case scenario where we have a bernie sanders presidency and you know a blue senate and a blue house And we kind of have this limited window of opportunity at least two years to pass these policies before the next election What would you just as an individual lawmaker prioritize like if you could pick three policies? What do you think feasibly we could get passed? I'd say my number one priority at least would be rank choice voting because if and uh Secondly money out of politics because if you can get those two things then you're not stuck with two years Now I guess third would be you know medicare for all because I don't much care for people dying because they can't afford healthcare yeah, yeah medicare for all is really important and um I feel like it's a little bit sad that now on the campaign trail people who support medicare for all They have to go out of their way to clarify No single payer medicare for all because we've seen a sort of co-optation of the rhetoric used by progressives I mean Kamala Harris just straight up calls her bill medicare for all when it's literally not medicare for all It's a multi-payer system So, you know, it's nice to have people fight who are not going to be doing the bidding of large multinational corporations So I'm pretty sure that you don't have to do much more to convince my audience at this point I feel like we're kind of preaching to the choir because people just want to vote for people who are ordinary Who are going to fight for them? So let me know How we can help how a viewer maybe not in the third congressional district of wisconsin can get justin bonner elected How do we help you help us? Sure, you can spread the word about me. You can follow me on twitter You can always donate on my website. That's justin bonner dot com Donate bushin the donate button isn't exactly hidden. Yeah Yeah, can we uh, can we phone bank for you yet? I don't have any phone banking set up yet. Okay I know I always think that uh canvassing is the best way to do it. Yeah, just to actually see him face to face Yeah, for sure Personally, I don't really tend to pick up the phone when I get random calls It's because I get a lot of spam calls. Yeah, in fact, I even got one spam call recently They said they were the bernie sanders campaign and they wanted me to make a donation. Please give me your credit card number That's pretty dirty. That's pretty sketchy. That's a dirty one See the worst that I got was um, I got a really nice voice message from this sweet lady Who told me that she's just returning my call about my inquiry to earn $10,000 per week And I'm like, oh, this totally sounds legit and not like a pyramid scheme. I should definitely give her a call back I will say though and I will encourage you to do phone banking for people who live outside of the state Um, because I the way that I view this is kind of like a national movement Like I don't just think about this as this is Justin Bonner fighting for the people in that third congressional district of wisconsin I kind of view this as you know, you're going to get in and you're going to pass national policies That help all of us and I use this in example in every single interview that I do So I'm sure people are sick of it. But like the Ilhan Omar's bill to cancel student loan debt That's going to affect me and she's not my representative, you know So I really I think that I always try to go out of my way to encourage people to help candidates even not in their state But definitely if you live in the third district, um, I totally agree that canvassing knocking on as many doors as you can That is the most effective thing because you know I have no doubt that you'll be outraged by the corporate democrat because they're a corporate democrat because they sell out to corporate interests But you know, you are doing this grassroots and people power can override money. Let me ask you this um What I've heard is that if you raise at least 10 percent of the corporate democrat, it seems like you are more viable What do you think you would have to raise in terms of money and how many doors do you think you'd have to knock on? I'm not sure if you guys have done any projections yet to actually defeat ron kind Well ron kind I believe has about Two to 2.6 million in cash in hand right now So we are not even going to approach that. Yeah, but if we can knock on enough doors I don't think it will matter Because in this district about 75,000 people voted for bernie sanders in 2016 in the primary In order to win this primary election and it's a pretty heavily uh democratic Democratic gerrymandered district We'll need around 30 maybe 35 000 votes to win So if only about half the people who voted for sanders turn out and vote for me, then I win It's just a question of reaching out to those people and making them aware Yeah, I think the number one most important thing One of the reasons that our politics is so crappy right now is there are a lot of uh lower information voters But they might agree with us on policy But they may not Research all the candidates carefully before voting Because there are a lot of candidates who you know or a lot of voters who You know they voted for sanders and then some of them probably turned around and voted for kind Even though they're opposite ends of uh democrats Yeah, I always say that for me I feel like every single progressive that's running would win If every voter in that district knew about them because it's just a matter of getting your name out there Name recognition is always like one of the biggest things in politics It's one of the biggest hurdles for you know insurgent candidates like yourself Absolutely, I have to agree. Yeah, so, you know, one thing that's important is even if grassroots You know canvassing and whatnot matters in order to do that I would encourage everyone to donate to Justin because you still have to build the infrastructure Have a staff that can do this who still have to be able to print mailers and that needs That requires ink that requires printers. So we need money But of course you can do this without 2.6 million, which is just insane Yeah, we're not going to approach anything like that. Yeah. Yeah, I I would be surprised if anyone even came close to that Who's running, you know a grassroots campaign because like that's that's such a huge amount of money Oh, he's been in that seat for Um, 24 years, I think Give or take Since 96 is when he won his first election and I was one then It's time for some new blood then needless to say So, um, the website is justinbonner.com. You can follow him on twitter at Justin Bonner 95 Support him help him help you and let's get as many progressives elected as we possibly can If we want to actually influence policy outcomes in this country and not just have elites influence Democracy for us. So Justin anything else that you want to leave us with?  We'll leave that there. Thank you so much for coming on Justin Great to be here


This video is going to talk about compound interest with exponential functions. So exponential functions are needed when we're talking about savings or we're borrowing money that has compound interest. And there are a couple of equations or formulas that we use to do these. And here's the first one. A is equal to P times 1 plus R over N to the NT, where A is the amount in the account. P is the original amount that we invested. R is the interest rate, and we remember to change the percent into a decimal. N is the number of times that this is being compounded per year, and then T is the number of years that it's in there. So if we look at this, it says, what is the balance after two years of an account that contains $1,500 that earns an interest rate of 8% compounded annually? So let's look at the parts. We have our principal, which is our $1,500, and then we've got our interest rate, which is 8%, and then it tells us that we have N would be the number of times per year. That means annually, which is just 1. And then finally, we have the number of years that is invested, and this problem told us it was two years. So if we rewrote this problem, we have A is equal to that principal of $1,500, in fact let's just put some color in here, $1,500, I didn't have a red highlighter, times 1 plus my rate, which was .08, and then we're going to divide that by the annually, which is 1, and times or raised to the N times our T, which is two years. And if we wanted to simplify that a little bit, we could say that that's 1,500 times 1 plus .08 to the 2, in fact we could just call this 1.08. So over here in my calculator, I'm going to put 1,500 times 1.08, 1 plus 0.8, and then caret 2 tells us that after two years, we have in our account $1,749.60 after two years. Okay, what happens if we were to change this to monthly, compounded monthly? That means that our N is going to be equal to 12 times a year. So now we have an equation that says A is equal to our 1,500 again, times 1 plus our rate, which is .08, but then it's divided by 12, not 1 this time, because it's 12 times per year, and then it's 12 times 2, because it's N times 2. So if I want to simplify this a little, the only thing I would simplify would to be say 1 plus, and then I'm going to put this in parentheses, so I know exactly how to put it in my calculator. I'm going to need a double parentheses here, and then to the 24. So 1,500, then 1 plus, but then I've got a fraction, so I have to put it in parentheses .08 divided by 12, close my fraction, close my quantity, and then care at 24. So after two years, when it's compounded monthly, we have $1,759.33, so we made a little bit more money when we compounded it monthly, so we have this much money after two years of monthly compounding. I need to talk about the last type, that is continuous compounding. That means every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week and so on. Forever. It's always compounding. In our case then, N isn't going to be something that we can put a number to, because it's always happening, and if you let N get bigger and bigger and bigger, you eventually end up with this formula. For A, again, is the amount in the count. P is still the principal, or the amount invested. R is still our rate, and T is still the number of years, but you'll notice there's no N in this one. But there's this little E. So what is E? Well, E is a mathematical quantity, and I learned this is Euler's, not everybody says that, but I learned it is Euler's number, and that's approximately 2.718. It's a naturally occurring number, and there is a button on your calculator to do that, and the second LN, that gives you E to the X, but you could just put one. Here we have our formula, and it says, going back to that same problem, what is the balance after two years, okay, so that's our T. After two years, actually that should have been green, probably, two years, and $1,500 is our principal, and it's compounded at 8%, that's our rate, but compounded continuously is going to give us E. So A is equal to our 1,500 times E, and then to the R, which is 0.08 times T, which is two years. So in my calculator, I'm going to put 1,500, and then you can do it one of two ways. You can do second divide, and that gives you an E, and then you'll have to put your carat in here, and then since we're multiplying, you need parentheses, 0.08 times 2, and close your parentheses. And we find out that we get even more money if we do it continuously, $1,760.27, and just to show you the other way you could do it, start again with our 1,500, but you could use second LN here, if you see in the blue it says E to the X, so it automatically gives you the carat, and then you put in the parentheses, so 0.08 times 2. Some people like to have it automatically come up, some people don't like it automatically come up, so I'll show you both ways. But in both cases we get the same amount of money, so we have this much money after two years compounding continuously.


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A coalition of civil society organizations for good governance on Tuesday asked the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, to disclose and verify the assets, declared by Governor Daudelaouel of Zamfra Estate, saying it will prevent pre-emptive looting by public officials. The CSOs also vowed to approach the court to compel the CCB to publicly disclose the assets of the governor and that of other public officials. Addressing newsmen in Lagos, Femi Losson, who spoke on behalf of the coalition, expressed worry over what they described as the humongous asset declared by the Zamfra Estate governor. Losson urged the international community to beam its set light on Governor Daudelaouel to know how the houses declared in France, USA and the UK were acquired. Governor Daudelaouel had declared that he's worth $5 billion and $1 billion in nine banks. The governor denied reports that claims he declared $9 trillion in cash, investment and property assets. Mr. Daudelaouel, it is an open secret that when Mr. Daudelaouel was sworn in as the governor of the Zamfra Estate, the news was everywhere that he has declared assets allegedly worth about $5 billion and of course, $1 billion in banks. This embodies the conviction in us that the news that such an individual can declare asset worth over $9 trillion if true, which he only denied recently after so many operas and it was stated that in denying this, there has not been any official statement from either the government or the government of the Zamfra Estate in denying this allegation. I want to urge international community to beam its such light on what Governor Daudelaouel has declared, as I said, and to know how houses in France, USA, the UK and even locally are acquired. We are saying we should wake up otherwise after four years, if we allow the Code of Conduct Bureau, they will just exchange information officially declared to them and pass it back to Code of Conduct Tribunal. If citizens are not involved in this process of assessing declaration, even when you know the owner of the property next to you and you don't know who have declared it, you can't have one.


Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to a new vlog. We're starting this vlog off on a Tuesday. I feel like I just do so much admin work on Mondays that sometimes it's just not worth it to blog. I did my own gel nails last night and I'm really proud of them. They'll focus. I was also watching the Georgia game. So congrats to all the dogs in my life, including my boyfriend. I know he's like so, so stoked about it.  And I was like, what? And apparently they print out like, I guess, you know, who won and so he wants it to like frame it. They'll probably be like all sold out in Georgia because everyone wants them.  If you guys saw my last vlog, hopefully I posted it. That's what I was supposed to be doing this morning, but I don't even know if I got enough footage. But you would know that I am getting surgery. Well, actually I don't even know if that's like really what it's called because it's just like stitching up my ear piercings because this hole specifically is just so like long and my earrings look so wonky. And I know a lot of people probably don't think it's like that big of a deal, but it is an insecurity of mine. So I'm gonna see how much it costs and go from there. And since I'm paying for this consultation, I'm going to see if they're able to do like injections in my nose to make it not curved because in the last video I told you guys this, but my nose like from one specific angle is so curved. And I'm just, I just don't understand how that can even be cause like every other angle, it's like fine, but I don't want to get a whole nose job for that because that just would not be ideal. So I want to see if they can do that. And I think the appointment's like in B cave. So we got to get going. Just pulled up into my apartment and I wanted to give you guys an overview of the consultation. So starting off with my ear lobes, I don't know if I'm going to do both. I'm still really torn because this one is like not as bad as this one, cause it's like really bad. And I'll put like the picture right here of this ear lobe. It's like so stretched out and long, but I also want them to be even. And like obviously she's going to try to make it as even as possible cause they can re-pierce at this place for like $50. So that's kind of nice that they offer that service, but I don't know if I should do both or not. So I definitely want to do the surgery. Then I asked about the nose situation. She said that it is a movement. When I don't smile, when it's just like my natural face, it is such a good nose. Like she was like, you literally have what so many people want, like the straightness and everything. But I just like don't like the curve, but she said it was a movement and no surgery or injections can fix like how your nose like kind of moves when you smile. So it was honestly good to hear that because it's been an insecurity of mine for a while. And I didn't like want to go into a nose doctor because I feel like if they told me like, oh yeah, you need a nose job. I'd be like, okay, sign me up like, you know, when tears like, but I don't feel like I need a nose job. I'm just like easily sold on things, especially if I go to a specialist and they're like, yep, I see what you're talking about, fix this and this and this. And then I'll just like feel even more insecure. I think that's why I like kind of held off like going somewhere and figuring out what the issue is, but I'm glad I heard that because it's just like kind of like, okay, you can't do anything about it, live with it, enjoy your nose. It's not a bad nose and I'm very grateful for my good nose. So anyways, I am going to go through with that ear lobe surgery though. And I'm not really sure exactly when, but I am starving it is noon and I had like a little protein muffin, which I need to buy more of because those are just like such good on the go snacks. And I'm trying to not go to the grocery store for a while though, because I have like leftover, just like random things I bought at Central Market, like last week or whenever I got home from Georgia, but I didn't buy like staples like bread and stuff and I was going to go back to HEB, but then I was thinking Snolly, do not go back to HEB because once I start putting in a grocery store, I buy everything in sight. Like it is so bad.  So I really just need to clean out my fridge before I go back to the grocery store, even though I didn't really get everything I wanted, but that's okay. I made chicken last night with spinach, tomatoes and quinoa and to be honest guys, I think the quinoa was definitely expired, but I didn't really want to look, you know? Like I'm not sick today, so it's fine.  So I was like, it's okay. We'll just, we'll just see how it goes and I'm fine. Good morning, happy Wednesday. Yesterday I ended the vlog kind of earlier in the day. I was just having a little off day, you know, we all have them, totally fine, but I decided to take the time at night to like plan out a bunch of stuff because I feel like obviously I just feel way more prepared for just like in general, if my days are like planned out to a tee. So I'm feeling more motivated today, which feels good. And I think I talked about it in my New Year's resolutions video, but I'm trying to wake up at 7.30 every single morning and then I also try not to go on my phone until I get out of my house for the gym. That just, you know, speeds up the entire process. I'm not like on the toilet scrolling on TikTok for like 30 minutes and wasting time in the morning. I've been doing it for about a week now and yesterday I was thinking, oh my God, spring forward is coming up, so I'm gonna like lose an hour of sleep.  But today I decided to use my walking pad because I have a vlog to edit. I really need to get back into YouTube, be more consistent on here. My goal for this month is to like find my passion again in YouTube. I love making vlogs because I have all these memories still on back on for myself, you know, when I grow up or my kids wanna see them, they can. And it's so cool to have it like in a video format and stuff just like photos or a photo book because it really does like tell so much more. And I feel like I have a really bad memory. So the fact that I have my four years of college on video is wild and so, so special to me. But especially with the rise of TikTok and seeing that you can like make a video within, you know, three minutes to like 30 minutes, you know, it really just ranges depending on like what video you're making. But honestly, the ones that I make in like two seconds do the best. Like they are the ones that go viral, which, you know, love that for me. But with YouTube, it's so tedious to edit because I film like so much footage. So this footage is like almost two hours long that I have to edit. And I think this one's just a couple of days so maybe it's a week vlog, but I also need to get better about maybe editing every day, like a little by little. So it's not just like this one big two hour vlog that I have to edit in one sitting. And I feel like my YouTube videos aren't doing great either, which doesn't help the fact that it takes so long to edit, you know? And I've definitely had like thoughts about, you know, maybe I don't really need to like post like that often. Or just like, you know, do it on TikTok or Instagram and be more active on those platforms. But then I was thinking like that it won't give me a reason to like compile my memories like I do now and I don't want to lose that. Also my word of the year is habitual. I feel like I rely on motivation a little too much and I just want to be more disciplined. So, you know, this is one of them. Like I just need to like have a posting day. So if you guys have any specific days you like to watch YouTube, let me know. And I can kind of get that going.  So we're just gonna ignore that. Yesterday when I did this walking pad I walked like 8,600 steps in an hour and 45 minutes. And the time honestly went so fast. Like I said, I was on the phone with PayPal for an hour. But other than that, like I just did some computer work. For this walking pad I actually don't have a standing desk. So I use these like acrylic risers and everything is going to be linked on my Amazon storefront under for the office. A lot of vendors on Amazon actually reached out to send me a standing desk, but I just could not part ways with this beautiful desk that I got on Wayfair. And I also don't have like a storage unit or anywhere else to put it here. So until we buy a house and I can have like two office setups, we'll be keeping this desk. And then also like the walking pad, I feel like I get a lot of questions on how loud it is. And I mean, you have been hearing it in the background this whole time, but I'll like keep quiet for a second.  And when I am walking at my desk, I feel like my productivity increases times like a thousand. My skin is acting up right now and I know it's because I'm trying out different products. I just feel like I have so much skincare from PR and I don't want it to go to waste, but I want to try out the products because, you know, brands give products in PR in hopes that they'll like be featured. So I want to try them for myself to see if I like them, but I just end up like breaking out a little bit.  And now this is like a little bug bite pimple. I get them and it's so weird. Anyways, I just made a smoothie. I did banana, passion fruit, blueberries, milk and then some protein powder. And I love adding like rose and passion fruit. This is the brand that I get. I think you can find it at Whole Foods. I'm pretty sure I've seen it at Target once and it makes it a little bit sour and it just is a good addition. I don't think I updated you guys about my stats from this morning on the walking pad. I was shook it. I walked 13,000 steps because I told myself I couldn't get off the walking pad until I finished my blog. And it took me kind of a long time to edit that one because like I said, it was like two hours of footage. So I'm very happy that I got a good workout in this morning. I showered and today is probably going to be a day. I claw clipped this hair or like put it in a cute little slicked back bun. Your makeup is done and I tried the Mary Phillips technique. If you guys haven't heard about it, it's like where you put your contour and your highlighter on first and then you kind of like brush your foundation over it. So you're not putting as much foundation as you usually would and I used a lighter foundation today. I used like a Tula, like a skin tint almost, I think. Right now I'm going to start on editing a gallery and I wanted to show you guys a quick little hack that I learned from my other photographer friend, Bree. She's simply Bree on Instagram, I believe, but she posted this on TikTok a while back and it saved my life. So I might be only talking to a couple of people but I just hope I can like save someone some time because seriously, this has just like been a game changer. Okay, so if you're a photographer and you have a Pixie Set subscription, this is the website I use to upload the gallery after a photo session and then your client can actually go in and like heart all of the ones that they want you to edit for them and then the best part about this is, let me show you guys, first you want to click on your gallery that you need to edit, then you click on this little icon over here. Hopefully everything's like focusing. Then you do favorite activity and then what I would do is like click on the favorites and I used to manually find each one of these pictures in Lightroom by the image number. This is what I do now to save me so much time. All you have to do is go back to the favorite activity, go to actions, under actions, you'll see three dots, click on that and then you want to hit Lightroom copy list. It has all the image numbers over here, press copy. We're going to open up Lightroom. We need to make sure we're in all photographs and then up top you're just going to click text. We're going to make sure this one is that just contains. Then we'll paste those image numbers in there and they will all be selected.  So text contains and paste. Okay, now they will be down here and what I usually like to do is flag them. So that is just P and that is the shortcut to flag them and now I can edit. I think that I literally would find each one of the image numbers like manually before this. I don't even know. It's so important like to know the shortcuts, especially when you're using these applications like even Final Cut Pro, there are so many shortcuts that you can learn to be so much faster at editing and you know, especially if you do this weekly, it's imperative that you find out the shortcuts. 420 and I'm about to get ready for I'm trying to hang out with people more because I am really just getting too comfortable with being in my home and just like not leaving. Like yes, I get really, really sad and lonely but I also don't want to leave my house and the other day when I had a shoe, I was like getting really anxious like to leave. I was like, this has never happened before. Like what is wrong with me? This is not who I am. Like I love going out. I love exploring places.  So I think that's why I'm trying to stay home more so I don't really have like that many temptations outside but I just texted a lot of my content creator friends cause I haven't seen them since like probably November and I wanted to like get together with like all of them separately and just like, you know, make coffee dates and have an excuse for me to get out of the house. So I felt really good to just reach out to them and I'm so excited to like catch up with all of them. I will definitely see a lot of coffee dates in the next like two weeks on the vlogs which is exciting and fun because I do wanna start going to like newer coffee shops. I swear you guys, like in Austin there's something new every single day like whether it's a new restaurant or a new store.  What the heck? The city is booming and I cannot wait for South by Southwest which is this March but I'm stupid and literally planned a trip during that and I'm so, so mad because I feel like that is a really great time for opportunities for me just meeting people or even like brand deals and I'm hoping to like get invited to even more events this year. Fortunately and unfortunately I planned my college reunion trip that week cause one of my friends is still in grad school and that was her spring break and I didn't even like look to see that I was South by Southwest but I would have still gone even if I actually knew but it just sucks cause then I won't be able to go to like all of the things. So let's just hope that the bigger events for South by Southwest is like week in one and like the first half, which I feel like it is. It's usually two weekends and like a full week, I'm pretty sure. I'm gonna change into a workout outfit. I just pulled it from my closet. I did wanna show you guys these jeans really quick because these are from H&M so freaking affordable and they fit so well. I wanna say they're the 90s jeans. It definitely has a longer name than that but I just love the way they fit. They're perfect on the waist and then they kind of like balloon out near the hips. So it gives me even more curves.  I have the real one in black but I have like the red to one but it has like all of the same little details like this back flap thing and it just snatches me and it has a thumb hole. Also it's probably half the price. I will link it for you guys as always. This is the fit for walking. I'll probably take this jacket off knowing that it's 80 degrees outside but just got my Splits 59 flared leggings on. I'm wearing my Reeboks because I don't really feel like getting out any other. My shoes really dirty. And then I have a skims tank under here. Made myself a snack. This is the only thing I found that I didn't really have to like prepare. I just like slapped on some peanut butter on this caramel rice cake. It's pretty good. I just got a second one. And I'm about to head out. My friend said she was gonna be running a little bit late so that's why I'm chilling now. I felt like I was in a rush but when she texted out I was like, yes. Hey y'all, it is Thursday, one more day till Friday and I'm so excited for tomorrow because I'm heading out to Dallas for a little girls trip and we're staying just until Sunday. I know Monday a lot of people have it off also. Please don't mind my makeup on my sleeve. We're just gonna act like I didn't do that this morning but I'm very excited for our trip. We're going to a car bone for dinner on Friday.  Probably because I've had like the same chicken and quinoa for the past. I don't even know like five days it feels like which is like unheard of for me. I love to go out. I love to try new restaurants but I made chicken one night and it felt like it was never ending and I just had to finish it. So that will make car boning even more exciting because I just have not like eaten out in a while. But I did my makeup and I again did the Mary Phillips makeup technique and I'm currently actually editing a little TikTok and possibly going to post it on my Instagram stories I haven't really decided. I just feel like sometimes I create content for TikTok and then it just stays on TikTok. And I'm like, I feel like I could be reposting this on other social media platforms because I don't know if y'all follow me on like all of them but I'm guessing most people don't follow me on all of them. So then it's like, I can actually use the content for more platforms but it is a game-changing makeup technique. I also have my hair just like back then because I want to have fresh hair for tomorrow.  Since we are heading out of town I feel like we have a lot to do just like, you know, get the apartment clean. I love coming back to a clean apartment after a trip even though it's like what three days but I still love coming home to a clean apartment. And then also I am getting all my packages in for my Dallas trip like, and I also have to pack. So we're going to be doing that today and I have a lot of editing like always. So I'll at my desk answering some emails just making sure everything's like tied up before I go to Dallas but I tried AG1 for the freaking first time guys. I feel like I'm in an elite club for even just having this water bottle and athletic greens in my hand. I actually purchased some other greens on Amazon before my New York trip and I wanted the athletic greens one but it was not on prime at the time so I couldn't get it in time. So I just like settled for something else and the taste is so different and 100% better in the AG1 because it doesn't really like taste like anything. You can't really taste the particles. Like yes, I like even blended the other one and you could still kind of like taste it. And the other one tastes like way earthier. This has barely a taste but just has like a hint of sweetness and it's really not that bad. It has like 75, what was it? vitamins, nutrients, like all the things. And I'm very curious to see what it can do for me if I'm like consistent with it. And I'm just hoping that my energy levels increase with it because I need that right now. It is time to start packing for Dallas. I just opened up my fashion pass package. It came just in time but I'm still waiting on like one piece from Revolve. So really hoping it comes. I think it's out for delivery but in the meantime let's try on all the stuff I got from fashion pass. Something to note is that you guys know I live in Austin and Dallas is like much more bougie especially the way that people dress out when they go out and to dinner like seriously even the most fancy restaurant here in Austin they like barely have dress code. So I wanted to like dress up while I was in Dallas cause like why not? And we're going to Carbone on Friday night. I'm not sure if this is like too much though cause I was like originally thinking of a blazer vibe maybe like some tall boots but then I saw this on fashion pass and I was like that's really fricking cute but then I also don't really want to outshine the birthday girl. So on Saturday we're going out, out and everyone's wearing black except for the birthday girl. And I was thinking maybe I could do this with some tall black boots but now I'm thinking maybe I should just do this for Carbone cause it's like very classy vibes and I don't know if I should like be this classy for a night out to out you know? I also bought some thick belts on Amazon which I'm really hoping again comes in today so I could have some options just to add something a little bit more to this outfit. Okay, so I got this bodysuit on revolve I definitely thought there was going to be lining you know the boobs because of why I went there but I can't remember how much it was but it was definitely over $50. The skirt's from fashion pass it's just like not giving with this bodysuit but I feel like it could be a good daytime skirt. We have a problem.  I am waiting on a revolve top and I'm just really praying that works out but for now let's just go back to the closet and see what we can find. I was trying to like pair something with the skirks like I like this skirt alone from fashion pass but I just feel like it's too long to be like a going out skir, I don't know or maybe I just need like a different bodysuit but the issue is, is that I want this to be my Saturday night outfit and it's all black and I don't even have that many black things cause I like boycotted black clothes for a very long time when I was on my neutrals kick, which I still am but now I feel like it's just so chic. I feel like ever since I went to New York everyone was wearing black and they looked just so bad at I started to incorporate black in my outfits like these boots. I think I showed them in my last vlog but they are so cute and they're from Amazon. I love them. This is what I want to wear this weekend in Dallas, so. Trying to find outfits that I can wear these with. Guys, the revolve top actually just got delivered but it's just not giving what it's supposed to give and this was like literally my last option cause I really don't have like that much black in my closet and also it's just like not tight enough to hold these suckers down like any small movement this just goes right up and you know we're going out like I probably won't be sober so it's an O for me. And now I will continue to have my mental breakdown. You guys should see my room, it's like so bad. I decided that I'm gonna go to Uptown Cheapskate which is like a second hand like their store I guess kind of just like a players closet but not players closet and we're gonna see what we can find. I might even bring that like skirt from fashion pass to just like see if there's anything that can go with it. I passed by this place. Let's check it out to see if they have anything. You know when you walk into somewhere and you know it's an immediate no but then you can't just like walk in and like literally turn around and walk out. So I'd really pretend to like look through the racks which there were like maybe three clothing racks. I'm being dramatic but no it was an absolute no. I'm glad I went in now because I pass this thing every single day. So now I know you can probably not come back here. That was a fail. I went to the next but let's appreciate how gorgeous it is outside. All right next stop. So we found that turtleneck black sweater with a cut out and it's from the brand Aster. I know I've seen that brand a lot on like Revolve and just like fashion pass. So I know it's like a cool brand and it was $12. So I really lucked out but now I'm going to make a really fast dinner because I still have to pack and I need to make sure I pack pretty light. Like I need to plan my outfits to a T and not really have that many options because we're all going to take the same car. One girl wasn't able to come at the last minute. So we were going to split up like six people in two cars so three and three. But now we're just like, oh, we have five people so we could just take one car but then now we have to all pack really light. So I'm going to make sure to pack in like a duffle or like a really small carry on but I wanted to make something with this chicken. It's so funny because if you guys follow Wishbone Kitchen she made a TikTok saying like stop meal prepping chicken and rice and eating it for like five days. That is literally what I did just chicken quinoa but like this chicken has lasted me a very long time but honestly I'm not mad about it. I feel like when I have the bulk of like a meal prepped or cooked or something I'm less likely to eat out but I also have noticed that I haven't really been like going out and like literally leaving my house this week so definitely a lot less temptation because when I was just out I was pretty freaking hungry and I was like, ooh, like ramen tatsuya sounds really good. I could even get like fly right and I don't even really like fly right. Like I was literally just looking at all these restaurants and I was like, that sounds so good right now but I was like, you know what? One last day of eating at home, you can do it. I already have like the chicken prepped and like these vegetables mainly cut up. I just want to cut them down a little bit because I think I'm going to do like a fried rice tonight because I just want something a little bit more hearty and I also don't have any more quinoa so that is what we're going to do tonight. This is key to having the best fried rice. Also got to do some soy sauce. I took the heat off and we're just going to do two eggs, oops. I made like fried rice similar to this in the past but I popped off with this one and honestly, this probably took the least amount of effort. I think it was just because I kind of went a little heavy on the what's called sesame oil. So, so good you guys. Like if you have just leftover chicken and veggies, make fried rice and be sure to add the egg because I really like the egg in it too. But now it is time to actually pack and I'm going to go into the package room one more time today because I think the belts for my black dress have arrived but I need to make sure I need to check the locker package. I think I got a notification. I also want to get the box because I need to break down all the boxes, put the trash and all the recycling outside so that they can take it before I leave. I thought the belt was going to be thicker but we'll still try it on. I feel like it could be cute, the black dress I have. I also got this interesting asymmetrical belt. So we'll see which one looks the best. Got some lashes. Last time I was at Walgreens, I was trying to like look for some new lash styles. This election sucked. One of the belts didn't fit so we're left with this one and honestly I was not feeling too confident in this dress. Then I put on a pair of just like random Spanx that I found.  I feel like a million bucks now. I think I'm going to wear this for Carbone, my little Amazon boots and I'll probably wear that P-coat too that I got from Fashion Pass with it because I think it's going to be like pretty dang cold in Dallas. Good morning. It is road trip day. Last night I made sure to get like all my outfits figured out but I was just like so pooped that I decided to like finish packing in the morning. So that is what I did. I have my carry-on suitcase and then I decided to bring like a little duffel. It's kind of not a little but I'm really hoping that we can just like squeeze it in somewhere. It's almost noon.  So I have leftovers. I'm going to heat it up. I actually have more time than I thought I would have and so I'm just putting some dishes in there. I also wanted to give you guys an update on my press-ons. I talked about doing my press-ons like gel in my last vlog I'm pretty sure and I got the press-ons from like CBS. They were like this kind of like a nail color. So basically you could see the glue cause I didn't know how to like put them on without having the glue make air bubbles and all of that stuff. So then I decided to like just put gel on top of my press-ons pretty much just like gel X. My nails actually look so good. Just this one's peeling off already but that was definitely my problem because when you put your thumb in there I don't think the UV light gets all over your thumb. So I definitely need to do like my thumb individually next time. Learning from my mistakes. I kind of want to buy like a whole gel X press-ons kit.  Honestly, it takes so much time but it's so fulfilling and very therapeutic. Dishes are done. The kitchen looks spotless. I cleaned up the bathroom or just like put away my stuff. I love myself when I actually take the time to clean up my apartment before leaving for a trip because like that feeling of walking into a clean apartment when you missed your home so much like no better feeling truly.  So I've been getting a lot of questions recently asking what I usually shoot on. This is the Sony a7-4. It's the newest model. I used to have the Sony a7-3 but I'm pretty sure that one didn't have a flip out screen. So it was kind of annoying to blog with but this one is the Sony a5-100. I honestly don't even know if they make these anymore because now they obviously have so many more like updated versions but the lenses on this one you can't use on this camera that I'm filming with because that is a full frame camera and this is a crop sensor camera which means that if this is a 16 millimeter lens you think that's really wide but it's actually not because it crops it in which that's why I don't really like to blog on this because I love how wide this lens looks because I'm shooting with the Tamron 17 to 24 I believe. Okay, 17 to 28 millimeters. So it can zoom if you ever hear someone say something about a prime lens it probably means that it has more of a blurry background and that the aperture is lower so like that 2.8 or below is going to give you that really blurry background so this one has a 2.8 that's why it's not like super blurry but whenever I vlog with my 24, 28 I think it's 24 millimeter that one is a 1.4 and so it gives you that really nice bokeh is what they call it it's just like, you know that blurry background this one specifically is a 2.8 and I love this little camera because you can change out the lenses I do have like a couple of other ones I just have not really treated them, you know kindly in the past so they're not in the best condition but I love Sonys I was actually even looking into like getting a Sony ZV-1 or Sony Z something for like a new vlogging camera just like a smaller one cause I'm just kind of over carrying this big one but I know the quality is just so good that it's totally worth it I just took off that one little press on that was coming off and I'm just gonna glue it back on and hopefully it doesn't look horrible the way you make it stay on even longer is to put glue on your nail and the press on nail this doesn't look like shit good as new my friend Mackenzie is driving us all and my friend Brenna is gonna scoop me pretty soon I think she gets off her call at 12.30 I wanna say Dallas is about a three hour drive and we might stop somewhere to get like a snack or something like that this looks amazing I'm in my Dyson era like I'm still doing the heatless curls but on wash days I want to do this more because what the frick it looks so good we are ready for Dallas that's perfect yay wow that's pretty much a Maddie's birthday weekend we're stopping to get some liquor what's the red one? oh paloma oh should we try those? yeah do you wanna get one? one of each yeah it's four in each right? one two yeah let's do that do you want spicy? this one oh kind of is this a mix pack? oh this is spicy mart wait oh okay should we just go all four? yeah I mean all three sure they're all vodka girlies and we're tequila girlies okay which tequila did we get? I forgot uh waiting because you held it up and I thought you were shaking the picture and I went no it was just I was thinking about holding this which tequila? Termana Termana there we go I feel like I'm not like loyal to one brand I'm just like we'll just get whatever is good today you know when you guys a little Saundra room tour we got a king bed look how pretty and big this closet is wow and then the bathrooms are very nice super nice and the showers have like their own shampoo and conditioner and this is the living room and then we have like a little kitchenette Mackenzie's stocked the fridge look how good this looks we have our vodka drinkers or tequila drinkers and then our chasers and then this is the other room and there's also a pullout couch and a living room is this the longest show?  I was gonna make a cocktail but yeah I guess we since we have time we should probably is it just down here? uh let's see oh uh oh you gotta make it yourself we should have got a big yeah cocktail time guys this light is amazing it's in front of you it's so good I thought I should have turned out so good things quickly took a turn because Maddie's crush her eye earlier that morning it was really starting to hurt her and then I was starting to get pretty bad migraine and it really started hurting when we were at Carbone of course I've been looking forward to this reservation for so long I think I took like three bites I was just getting a little nauseous too and so we ended the night a little bit early this night the next morning we went to Paradiso for a late brunch I actually came here with Ryan the last time I was in Dallas for dinner and it was so good this restaurant is super aesthetic and has really great food this morning Maddie went to Urgent Care and found out that the scratch was even worse than we thought it was so we kind of just canceled all of our going out plans we got some mimosas at brunch we walked around the Bishop Arts area we went back to our Sonder where we were staying at and then had a little makeup party Keanu was doing like everyone's eye makeup and just got ready for walking around Deep Ella Mackenzie actually used to live in Dallas and she showed us this really cool rooftop view we got some cocktails before dinner and obviously we had to get some sushi this was the first time I was eating it all year which was kind of shocking then we had a girls night in and then the next morning we headed back to Austin