Hi everyone, this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson We are going to look at a simple five-note exercise A B C D E D C B basically five notes and All you're going to do with these five notes is play them up and down and While playing them up and down We are going to learn some of the other time signatures Which you may encounter or which you're looking forward towards Encountering the time signatures which are not very common what we usually call as odd time signatures things like seven Seven by eight five by eight and those sort of things which are not common time or four by four as we popularly know it right so the exercise is basically a B C D E D C B Basically these notes are all part of the A minor scale the first five notes if you will and I think the minor scale sounds a lot nicer for some reason so The first thing you want to do is to just play the exercise Over four four even though this lesson is about understanding the odd timings Try to get the even one or the common one first so try to play it in four four Counting eighth notes. So in order to count eighth notes, what you're going to do is play the exercise First of all on the piano try to use all your fingers thumb index middle ring and the pinky and Basically play two notes for every beat. That's when you're playing eighth notes. So you go one and two and three and four and try to avoid counting one two three four five six Seven eight, so you don't feel the difference between the on beat and the subbeat, right? So let me show it again and try to count one and two and three and four and right You could also play the pulse in your left hand maybe with a single a or the root like If you're new to this exercise just try to make sure that the weaker fingers of the piano like the ring finger and the pinky Don't slip while you play The ring finger is a bit weaker, right? So you don't want it to slip And play something very random. So if you're if you still need some time with the four by four version, which is Try to also play it maybe a little faster And try to get some nice control into yourself while you're playing the exercise So you may want to pause the video now do the four by four version really well and then Unpause it and then I'm going to start talking about the odd time signatures like the sevens and the fives and so on, right? So anyway, so let's now look at the odd timings seven by eight and so on So as you know, seven by eight has eight be seven beats to the bar or seven quavers Seven eighth notes as we say so when you count it it feels a little odd because it's not one two three four We don't move very normally. We move in a very odd way because it's an odd number I guess so a good way I found to kind of understand this seven by eight is to take the same exercise with eight eight notes and Make the same eight notes somehow squeeze themselves Into seven beats. So beat is nothing but a time container for sounds So you can have eight sounds in seven beats, right? So the way you could look at it Visualize it could be to make one beat contain two notes So in the diagram as well, which you guys could download in the description Which we've also put out with notation. You'll find that beat number seven Sorry beat number six is what I've divided into two. So that'll be one two three four five six and seven So beat number six gets divided into two and that allows you to squeeze in eight notes into seven beats And that's exactly what's happening. So let me try and show that to you one three four five six seven one You see what happened at six? I hope where the beat number six was as long as all the other beats I was playing at a constant tempo, but It got two notes and those two notes were not given to it randomly the beat six got divided exactly into two and You could squeeze in two notes into that you could call those as 16th notes or semi quavers, right? So let's see how that sounds again one two three four five six seven one two three four If you see our old version This is on even time This is on the odd time. So you can use your left hand again And Theoretically you could perhaps make any beats any of the seven beats quicker or The quicker is the wrong word. You can make any of the seven beats accommodate more than one note as I said earlier So in the description or in the picture which you're seeing You will be dividing beat six into two However, you can divide other beats as well and that's going to be the next part of this Tutorial. So if I divide six again Five six six gets divided, right? Right and if you just see my left hand while I'm playing this exercise I'm trying to divide it between the root and the octave. So maybe the root a Could be played at beat one and Maybe the next octave a could be played at beat number five That sounds again You could also mean the way I look at it is whenever you get whenever you're trying to get more and more Confident or more and more comfortable with one hand in this case the right hand you should try To move the left hand as well. It's not about only focusing and obsessing over this one hand You don't really improve yourself in my opinion You need to have another challenge or another goal and the pianos are an incredible instrument that way the other goal To distract your main goal will be the other hand which is playing some awesome stuff as well Right, so in the left hand perhaps you as you're practicing the right hand You could bring in the left hand to go a and the high a octave And you could also change these notes around you could also play other stuff like maybe F or D If you look at my right hand the right hand is very very It's the same isn't it it's earlier. We did A, B, C, D, E, D, C, B the same motion is Basically repeated on seven as well, but to make it seven Two notes just got faster Right, so let's look at a few other time signatures as well and There's a download available So you could download this with notation and if you guys don't know notation I think that's also fine. You could follow what I'm playing by year and you can always leave a comment if you have doubts Okay, so now looking at six. So the way I've done six here is with six you have six beats to fill Eight notes. We are still trying to do eight notes, right? So six beats to fill eight notes So what do we do two beats have to hold two notes, right? It's just you just have to do the math So in this case, I'm keeping beat two and beat five to carry two notes. Let's see how that sounds one two three four five six one two three four five six And again as always bring in your left hand for some fun So the left hand's basically playing the a as well as the next day at the four of the bar Now bringing in our right hand Change it so try and move the left hand as well So now what about something like five Right, we could actually do it on any any kind of time signature, but I'm just choosing Four by four and then lesser of that because if we go more than four by four If we go to something like nine by eight, then you perhaps have to add a note So I'm trying to ignore that in the video But you could practice that in your house by just adding one more beat in this case We are subtracting beats, right? So the last time signature I want to talk about before we then focus exclusively on one of the time signatures for the lesson is five eight five by eight of five beats per bar So if you're doing five beats per bar And now you have eight notes three out of those five beats have to store Two notes each, right? So two threes are six and then two more remaining So what I have done for the demonstration is to have beat one beat two and beat four to divide So that'll sound like One and two and three four and five one and two and three four five Four five one two three four five so if you see beat three and beat five are not divided And you could keep the entire piece of music interesting by getting your left hand to To to create some grooves on five. So a good way to just look at grooves is Is just divide that five into two parts and take Maybe three of those hits three of those hit points and maybe play play those hits in the left So So far the entire exercise has remained pretty much the same it's a b c d e d c b So let's just recap what we've done so far and then move on to the next Lesson or the next sub lesson if you will we took a b c d e d c b divided each beat by two playing eighth notes one and two and three and four and practice that Then we tried some odd time signatures like seven Well six was not odd, but we did six as well. So the concept behind it is you have eight notes And x amount of beats which is less than eight in this case seven So if you're doing seven beats What you could do then is one beat which is a time container Could have more than one sound right in this case two Right and so on and so forth. So now moving on to lesson number two Where in we are going to use sub beats Right and play them only over seven by eight. So the entire lesson number two is going to be on the seven eight time signature So again, if you want to revise what I've done, perhaps pause the video try out all the different time signatures Especially seven by eight, which is going to be the topic of our tutorial And and come back and hit play right, so moving on so if you look at the Sheet here which which I would recommend you guys to download You will find I've written a lot of permutations on seven by eight Right using staff notation and all I've done there Is to take different beats of the seven Basically, you could take beat number eight. Sorry, there are not eight beats. There are only seven beats You could take the seventh beat and divide it into two Or you could take the sixth beat and divide that into two Or take the fifth beat divide that into two. So basically you have Seven exercises because there are seven beats and each of the seven beats could divide themselves into two Right, so I'm going to show you how to play this exercise from the back Division till the front beat getting divided. So the back last beat will be seven Let's see how it sounds shall we so you go one two three four five six seven seven right, so Seven will have a faster set of notes Two three four five six seven Try to play it at different speeds Right, and then I guess in the last part we again use seven But we divided the beat six into two so that'll sound like how we did earlier five six Six right so six Got divided by two Then you could divide the fifth beat of the seven by two that'll be one two three four five six seven two three four five six seven one And just to keep things interesting you could play either a root and its octave in some rhythm here Or you could even play things like chords Maybe a minor and f major F major D sus Right, and if you observe I made a I'm also finding it a little tricky because I guess my conscious brain is trying to figure out which chords to go to next While I needed to have converted this right hand of mine Into I guess the subconscious brain where you're not really thinking of it So I guess practice makes perfect. You need to keep doing it over and over in the right hand Keep your left hand simple and then bring it up. So now if you have to Maybe divide beat number four out of the seven It'll be One two three four Five six seven right and I'd advise you also from time to time Try to also perform the exercise without your main instrument, which is a piano in this case So try to perform it with just your voice try to sing it or maybe just use the left hand Then once you get a grip of the exercise And I guess a grip will be try to sing it and then try to play it Two three four five six seven And then what's left? We have to then divide beat number three of the seven. So that'll be one two three four five six seven But if you observe it's still eight notes. So the exercise remains the same, doesn't it a b c d e d c b a b c d e d c b Then you guys could perhaps Divide the beat number two, which will be And so on And I also think that this exercise also brings out the creative side in you Along with the technical side and I usually like to make my exercises like that So you're not just looking at it as technique and getting to be a better pianist You should try to also get to become a becoming a better musician And what happens when you displace these sub beats? Like practice them by dividing the beat seven then divide the beat six then five is your ear will Feel completely different music, won't it like something like Feels very different when as opposed to Something like that, which is a completely different phrase or I guess you could say a completely different melody so Maybe this melody will sit better in your composition as opposed to the other one So it's good to have as many options as possible And it will also motivate your left hand to do different things with every different seven by eight Permutation as I've showed you it will allow your left hand to also be very very creative or Another way to look at the left hand is it's trying to survive more First of all, right it's trying to cope up with what's new in the right hand So it will automatically do some different stuff With the right hand changing as well. Okay, and the last permutation. I guess will be to divide the beat one One two three four five six seven one two three four five six seven one two three four five six seven Try to also count it as you play. It's a little tricky, but I'd advise that You see one gets divided And then if you get good at all these rhythms you could perhaps try and combine them that's also a lot of fun so maybe So I I have no idea what I was currently doing But I guess a good way to start would be to take two rhythms May not be all the seven which I did now and completely got lost So you may not want to do too many things otherwise you lose track of what you're playing And you should always be in track of what you're playing because that will help the technical side The technical side Will will check or will will figure out whether you're playing it right or wrong in the first place And the creative side is always thinking. Oh, I want to make a song out of this or I want this to become a melody So you need to have both those things going on for you as you play, right? So What have we done in this second? Chapter you could say is we've taken the time signature seven. We've taken our The same old exercise a b c d e d c b And to make eight notes into seven obviously one out of the seven beats would need to have two notes And in this Chapter we've looked at all the possible permutations where beat seven could be divided into two beats six could be divided into two And have two notes then beat five beat four beat three beat two and beat one for some reason We started with seven then we moved all the way back to one But if you want you can start from one Dividing that or having two and then going all the way to seven So the last part of this lesson Well, the last chapter will be again to keep the same Seven thing going and you could look at this in maybe the third picture Which has been attached and in this particular version of the exercise you take the same seven beats with one permutation Perhaps you divide beat number six. So that will sound like Which you've practiced earlier, right? three four five six six six got divided into two, right? Right the only task for this less exercise is don't start with a at beat one all the time But follow the same linear order or going up and coming down. So what's the note after a well b So you need to keep your same finger shape Where b is still played by the index and start The rhythmic phrase from b. So you go So b c d e d c b a b c d e d c b a So you see c and b get a bit more hurried or that will be played faster. Why did that happen because we started on b so Right and this is clearly creating a completely new melody or a completely different phrase However, you still have to keep the drill Up and down, right? This may confuse you a bit. So I would first of all suggest you to play it slowly Until you start digesting the melody. You need to understand it as a tune. So You should be able to sing that back not just play the drill mechanically, okay, so we've done it on a now we've done it on b And now you can start on c as as mentioned earlier. I'm trying to keep the same finger Which you used to have for that respective note So c will be played with the middle finger and you're going to start the phrase with that finger Right the entire feeling changes of the melody It's like a completely new melody and all obviously the chords will also change because you're stressing on different notes there, right Moving on. So now where do we start a b c d? We start with our ring finger. So it'll be a nice workout So d e d c b three four five six seven one two three four Right, so there we started with our ring Then on the way up the last note is the e So you're not you don't really have any more up Notes to play right so you'll have to just start down and then up Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Then you could start on d Now why d? Because you've already done d before right? But this is a different kind of d because you're starting on d and then going down to c earlier You played d and went up to e right so now it's d c b a b c d e So starting with ring, but going down instead of up. So you get another permutation. Then you could start with C, but not going up. You start the cycle going down. So that will be C, B, A, B, C, B, A, B, C, D, E, D, C, B, A, B, C, D, E, D. Remember that the rhythm pattern has stayed the same throughout this lesson, right? You're doing one, two, three, four, five, six. So six got divided into two. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two. So that pattern continues. Last note will be B or the last permutation. That'll be, oh, sorry, B is here. Ha, B, A, B, C, D, E, D, C, right? So you will be stressing on B. So all of this will give you a different harmonic set. You'll be probably choosing different chords than what you would have chosen had you started with the thumb, which is usually a very traditional thing to do on the piano, right? Start with the thumb and move forward. So let's recap this version or this exercise again. Basically you take one rhythm pattern wherein in this case we are dividing beat number six and accommodating two notes. And after taking that one rhythm pattern, what you will do is you squeeze in eight notes, but you start with different starting notes. So instead of starting with A all the time, you could start with B, C, D, E, then D on the way down, C on the way down, B on the way down, and finally A, right guys? So in this lesson, we've looked at three exercises. The first exercise was to just take A, B, C, D, E, D, C, B and just try to understand different time signatures along with the one you already know, which is 4, 4. Then we looked at having different rhythmic patterns through the same note combination. So taking a time signature like seven, which we've taken for most of this lesson, you take seven and then you have different rhythmic permutations. By accommodating eight notes in seven beats with all the different ways as each beat can be changed. You could have beat one divided by two, beat two divided by two, beat three and so on and so forth, right? And the last version or the last chapter of this lesson of this whole exercise would be you'd keep one rhythmic phrase consistent of the seven, which is dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun and start with different notes. So you could start with A, you could start with B, you could start with C, you could start with D, you could start with E and then D and then C and then B and then A, right?  So my argument is you should always do a lot of things when you want to learn something like an odd time signature. So just counting seven one way, which we traditionally do as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or maybe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Counting that is not enough. You need to make music on this. So usually when we play an instrument, we play covers or we try to play our own stuff, or we just jam with our friends or fellow bandmates. But we tend to forget that there are time signatures other than four available, right? You have 7, you have 9, you have 11, maybe in another lesson, I could talk about some of the other time signatures like 9, 11, 13, right? So if you want to use these time signatures creatively or at the spur of the moment, it's very important to first of all practice them. So I hope this exercise will be something which you could look at to jumpstart your journey into all these odd time signatures, right? Thanks for watching. Thanks for your patience. Hope you guys found the lesson useful. If you did, please give it a thumbs up. 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Let me screw this on Okay, so I don't Be shakin. That's tight But um, what is going on? Okay, so yeah, so like I was saying I shouldn't rate that taco because while I'm driving If I'm bloated Uncomfortable drive, I don't want to drive.  I'm flat I'm not like because it'll start itching once you're like sitting And then like the sides will start to engraving you like I don't I don't know how to explain it Like, you know when you're sitting here your stomach is like Crotch it's not straight. But when I'm sleeping I sleep straight. So I'm sleeping fine and I wake up fine So but during the day Girl like sometimes this can be a struggle But when I'm working this up, I'm straight I make sure I'm straight like on the floor. I'll lay straight on my cube Or I'll lay or I'll like stand up and stuff or kneel on my knees and my body is straight But when I'm driving Girl I struggle literally y'all I gotta show y'all how I was itching So it was so funny. I was laughing at myself.  So, uh, hold on So I was literally driving right y'all it heard it was hurting so bad. I literally had to undo my faja I'm gonna have to undo it anyway because homegirl has to wax me So like right here I girl so I was literally driving and I was like I was like Like my love song was playing.   It's so it's my new lifestyle So I'm gonna ask homegirl. I'm gonna be like, hey I'm here. I'm not gonna press in until 8 15 It's only 750 soon So, yeah Um, but yeah, y'all This this body Stuff is no joke But I have to keep putting my faja back on when I go to my destination Where I'm shooting my content for A really big sponsorship that I'm excited about um I'm going to Took a shower and then get back in my file And do my makeup So, yeah So I'm just gonna wait until 8 30. Hope I'm actually I'm not even going to ask homegirl if I can record I'm just gonna record. I'm just gonna take My phone and record myself and then like Ask her if she can like take a picture of like the mask and stuff Um, but I'm pretty excited. Let me show y'all her page Um She looks like she does a really good job I wanted to go to a black owned one, but she was booked and I needed this like asap. So Um, so yeah, so yeah, she does stuff like this like a little Who hi oh wait Turn the brightness down. Oh Yeah, like a little jelly mask for the coochie For the for the girl I'm excited. I know this one is to be cold as fuck. Um I'm homegirl But she needs it. I need to treat her Because this faha be killing her like my faha really suffocates my homegirl It's crazy Damn, maybe I should actually do derma planning on me too Oh That's enough for me ranting and showing me showing y'all what I'll be going through So I'll talk to y'all. I'll actually see y'all once I get in there. I'm gonna just record on my phone. So I'm a girl just gonna be like, what is she doing? I'm like, I'm recording for my experience. No, I'm just kidding But yeah, I'm gonna check in with y'all once we get into the place How did you hear this place? Oh, I had posted on my instagram.     So this wax grew uply bald But like it was my first time My first that she heard it like I was like, whoa, like My homegirl must be extra sensitive now because baby. I couldn't take it. Oh my god I was acting like a punk and normally I'm really good with pain y'all. I'm really good with pain obviously um But no, I was like, oh my god And then y'all when she got to the butt Um, she was like, okay. Now you're gonna turn over like doggie style.  Really? You really want to go there? So I felt a little violated. Honestly. I felt violated And um, she was like, I'm gonna shave your whole butt.  Maybe just do the whole And so she was like, okay, that's fine. Y'all and it was so funny She had all the bangers like all the bangers. I was tweeting the whole time y'all.  I was like, okay She rapping little baby all my her face all in the coochie I'm like, oh my god It was but she she got me right. She did high frequency on me She um got all my ingrown hairs. She did the jelly mass. So it was a it was what I needed so But I'm gonna be on my way to shoot my content now um It's start it's nine o'clock. I feel like it's so much later because of the daylight savings I don't like this Well, yeah, so I probably see y'all once I start um that stuff But I probably I'll let y'all see what I'm doing But I'm not gonna tell y'all what it is, but y'all probably know By looking at it, but Yeah, that was a good experience. She got me right like I'm I literally feel free But definitely moist Down here and I also bought some ingrown hair oil that she put on like every three days or something like that So I'm like, okay. I'ma buy it So the whole overall thing was like 90 dollars 94 dollars Which was not bad. So I treated my lady. So So yeah, y'all That is it and I will see y'all I was checking with y'all once I get to my destination Hey girls, so it's the next day. I said my makeup on from last night It was a actually lasted and I had a dentist appointment this morning. So I'm like buggy. I'm gonna just leave this on Um, and it doesn't look that bad. So I was like, whatever. I'm just leave it On don't judge me, please. I burst my teeth. But anyways, so Um, yeah, right now I'm back in Chicago like I'm always am and I'm about to get my Massage um But yeah last night y'all it was good. It was a success. I got good pictures So right now I'm trying to see if somebody can edit my pictures for me And make them like polaroid ish. I could definitely could try to do it myself. But I know I'm gonna just get frustrated. I would just rather have somebody do it. I already know how to do it. Um So, yeah, so That's what's going on right now. I'm going home to take out this wig later Um, and I have my computer with me. I might um It's only 9 30 uh my massage. Well, it's in 30 minutes, but Yeah, so I might just work on it after I'm so tired.  I gotta work on this video.  So Tomorrow is when we get all of our glam stuff. We got nails lips we got Nails lips lashes and then I get my hair done so But yeah, y'all I'm excited All my lips are coming in. They're so cute.  I picked up from Starbucks to y'all. I drink all that like I drink it all Where is my chrome heart hoodie? That's what It should be in the washer because I need that Go through all my packages y'all y'all should see all the packages lined up at my front door. It looks like Christmas But I tried on a couple of my outfits on last night. It was so cute.  So But yeah, I'm going to check one job later So y'all I'm loving my backpack from nasty gal like I'm so happy I got this Uh, I just love it. It's so cute and chic and it just fits a lot So yeah, and this is coming with me on my trip So and I gotta buy some stuff and y'all see that later And y'all see that later in the vlog Who might they see The next day girl in this up full day appointment sweetie my favorite days, but not favorite days Um, so well actually they are my favorite days because I get myself together But yeah today is today wednesday And I'll leave for my third of my trip tomorrow So today is lashes I swear to god a bad bitch life is a full day. It's a full life of appointments. I swear like Boys just do not understand like what we gotta vote But yeah, this is literally a full day. I usually have everything spread out But today was like my only day to get stuff together. Y'all I was literally up all night At the end well, I got one video uploaded and then the other video I had to finish it and the upload I'm back to sleep till like six So yeah, so right now we're on our way to go get our lips Touched up. I need like a little bit of a touch up. Um, if you guys aren't new here, um You know that I had to reset my lips I had to redo it and get my lips dissolved and then Manage shape them how I wanted to like upside down heart or something I get so many compliments on my lips y'all and I got a new image works in like blend view illinois I found her on instagram like a year ago and she's so good like uh, she's always booked But she always But I'm gonna just little to a little touch up nothing crazy I just want a little extra bit of volume in my bottom lip and then some a little bit This time I'm gonna get my eyebrows filled in because um, I don't know if y'all know This but it makes your eyebrows dry and I think with some of my I like I Eyebrows aren't um falling off or something. I don't know So I'm like, no, I'm not getting that. I'm just gonna get thread for the day Then I just can't wait to get my lashes done Lashes make everything and I can't believe I went without lashes for so long, but I can't but I can't believe it but I'm not so hurt. Yeah, so I will see y'all when I get to Um, the lip place. I'm actually record. She shouldn't mind Again, I would do my brows my lashes Or that This is so perfect y'all are so perfect like She snaps every time If you're in the illinois area, I'm gonna miss her so much when I move like I'm gonna have to find a new injector but my lips look so good Like I literally have no complaints like She gets me right every time when I go, um home, I'm gonna um Ice them but yeah, so I'm on my way back to scare shit And um, I'm gonna keep massaging my lips. I got a hand sanitize um Some more before I Hands in my mouth Um, but I have hand sanitizer right here. Don't think that I don't and they have hand sanitizer in the thing.  I am like I can't Wow She snaps every time like I have not she's shaped so Good, like I don't care about the power. Like I don't care. I see like girls Sometimes like it just don't be looking right. You could tell she got feeler like it's like like a fish and I don't like that um So that's what happened when I first got lip injections. I looked like a fish like I didn't have no shape nothing, but Homegirl gets you right every time. So make sure y'all go show love to them mention my name get some money off Do what I do but yeah, so I'm gonna like I said I'm on my way to my eyebrow appointment Then my nails and then my lashes and I think I'm gonna go shorter. I just asked aliyah what Lend did she get and she just told me so I know she mentioned in a vlog what I couldn't find it. So I'm like, let me just ask her But yeah, um Yeah, so We get right today and I need to do a derma plan I need to derma plan and I need to do show good Yeah, I want lines like that Not this bottom lip, baby. It's too big. Sorry y'all. So Anyway, um, I just got my brows done. They look cute So now I'm on my way to my nails. I can't wait. I'm gonna be like can I get a fresh apple? Hopefully she'll be able to give me one and then after that I'm gonna go get my toes done and then go to Sephora, but yeah, my lips are starting to bruise up, but um Yeah, so We're gonna go And then I gotta get some makeup And I want to get some I seen um this brand um It's called I seen this brand The last time I was at Sephora, um, they had like an eczema lotion So I want to try it out and see if it works or not So we'll see and I also gotta get some concealer And a whole bunch of stuff so Yeah, so I was checking when y'all want to get to the nail salon My eyebrows look so cute and my um eyebrow lady. She was telling me today It's gonna be black on that she started something and I'm so happy Like I love when people tell me they're about to start something I'm not working to make it happen.  So When I get my lashes done, I'm taking a little lash nap. I'm gonna tell her Yeah, I'm telling her to go more curly less straight bold I'm literally starting to bruise So right now. So, um, I just got my nails done. They're so cute But I need some lotion. So I'm at my um Lash appointment. So I'm gonna tell her I'm gonna be like, can we like not Can we do a more of a curl instead of straight? And I don't want like a long I want them just to be dark and like 14 D curl. So, um, like I said, I asked aliyah. What curl does she get? And she gets a d curl 15, but I want a little bit longer. So I'm gonna say, um, can we just start at the ends with 1617 16 And then 15 in the front and there were no long ones or nothing just a curl your lash So, yeah, it's 410. My appointment is at 415 So let's go in there. She said I can record So I'm gonna introduce y'all to her if you're in the Milwaukee area This is her makeup volume set.  Oh Beauty is paying y'all for real Okay, I'm gonna go in here and I'll talk to y'all Once we get in the building Y'all, I'm literally been up all day. I've been literally grinding it out But yeah, so I'm about to tell her I'm here So I'm gonna see y'all once I get in the building Y'all when I get hungry, I get extra goofy or when I get hungry I get hungry or I may get a little excited when the food is gonna come or I get goofy when I'm sleepy And I was falling asleep, you know in the chair. I'm not even gonna lie But Yeah, and I get my mask from old navy y'all were asking before I get my mask from old navy So I will see y'all once I get in there. What are you talking about? Okay, y'all so I must get my lashes done like I said, and this is sienna say hey girl This is the girl y'all been going crazy over because of my lashes She is located in Milwaukee. So if you want to come to her say you want the chyra special But yes They're like what set is this like I'm like a breeze. I'm just like um mega volume.  No.  Really? Yeah It's supposed to be like a little neck pillow.  Yeah, it's curlier. It's curlier. Wait, let me see the difference Which one do you like better? I like both. It just depends on what kind of lips you go for I want like bold So should I do dd you could do dd I was like you do dd do longer though because they aren't really curly. Okay We'll do that this video with doing some p.o. Box Some people don't like p.o. Box unboxings But I personally do just because it exposes businesses everything going on in the world I personally like exposed companies and businesses that like to send me stuff and I like to expose them And most of the time it does um benefit them. So this is why I like to do it so I have three full bags. So we're just gonna hop right in So Sometimes y'all don't like how crystal collagen gold powder It works so much y'all And I be up all night and I do love some tweezers. So thank you so much This person sent me some meats. It's called meat slash m i and x lash co And y'all know I love me some lashes right now. I have lash extensions But most of the time I don't and I like to switch it up. So And I only got these because I was headed on the trip. So cute. So thank you so much. And I gotta figure out what this is Emoji fan. Oh, what's up fan? Y'all know I'll be getting hot hopefully one day I'll use this like in the club or something. I'm gonna be hot in the club So thank you so much. There's no note in here or anything. So But like I said, it's meats with the eggs This scared me. I thought this was pain or something. So these cute flies. Okay, here we go Oh, this is raw. I needed any care of these actually. Hey, this is rose flies Instagram, I'm about to show y'all what she sent me Screenshot it at this headband already, but I love these headbands. She sent me a fendi one And uh, I'm geese and y'all know I got a fendi bag. So it's gonna go perfect with and she also sent me a crystal headband. 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Okay, so you know how like, you know It's embarrassing to go to the bathroom change your pad and you can't flush it in the toilet because that's bad It's going to flood the toilet So, oh my god, this is a cute idea Uh I never heard of anybody doing this before So she gave me a whole box And you just put your pad or anything up in here Dispose of it flow pods Go support her because guess I'll be needing this especially now I'm on my menstrual right now y'all And uh in my faha, I have to put like it's weird how I have to wear My stuff I don't want to go into too much detail But I'm definitely going to be taking this with me because I got to go to the hair salon And y'all know in the hair salon. So you be there in there for hours So I'm definitely going to be putting these in my purse. So thank you so much for these You can get It's called a low pod stock. 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The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Welcome to another episode of Long Live La Familia, the nutrition soap opera that speaks not only to our hearts, but also to our appetites. I'm Carrie Bachman, your host for the series. If you've been with us before, you remember the Sierra family. The two parents have six adult children, and the focus of our episode today is Carlotta. In this episode, entitled Shopping for Surprises in El Supermercado, Carlotta and her husband are on vacation, even then they're looking for bargains at the supermarket. Now as you know, we always prepare a recipe in every video, and so we're going to get up ready by washing our hands. This is important before you eat as well as before preparing food. The episode that we're going to be, the recipe that we're going to be preparing today, is a creamy coleslaw. It's a favorite of Carlotta's family. It's something that is inexpensive and also really tasty, and it uses some surprise ingredients that you might not expect to see in a coleslaw. Now our segment, our episode is broken up into three segments, and that allows us some time to get back together, talk about what we've seen and reflect on how that affects our own lives. Let's go ahead and get started with our recipe. We'll start with the dressing here today, and for the creamy part of our dressing, we're going to be using evaporated milk. This is actually fat-free evaporated milk, and I'm going to use about half a cup. It doesn't need to be really exact in this recipe because this is kind of good for improvisation. Pour that into our bowl here. You can see that the texture is really pretty creamy already. What we're going to add now is going to make it even creamier, and this is the surprise. You'll know if you've ever added an acid like lemon juice to milk, what happens? It changes the texture of the milk. Well, we'll see that here today. We're going to add two tablespoons of lime juice, and actually I like lime juice a lot. I'm going to go ahead and dump all of this in here. Look what's happened already to the texture of our dressing. You can see that it's starting to curdle a little bit. Let me stir it, and you'll notice that even more. It's starting to curdle, and that is making it thicker. We're going to let this sit for about five minutes, and that'll thicken it up even more, and then we'll continue with the recipe. Let's move on now to our first segment of the episode. As you're watching, pay particular attention to two things. Strategies that Carlotta uses to make the most of her food dollars while she's shopping, and tactics that the supermarket uses to try to get her to buy more things. Let's take a look. I told you it was a cute little store. Often, do they have all sorts of different gourmet foods in there? Bueno, pero no vayas a comprar todo la tienda, no más porque estás de vacaciones. Don't forget, we still need to save for the family reunion. Oh, why shouldn't we slur the little? Earn this vacation. No más trabaja mucho. Tienes razón. Y la reunión no nos va a costar mucho dinero. Ah, it's so nice to spend some time alone with you. No kids, no customers. Mi fecha. Que bueno que los niños se quedaron conocidos. Yeah, the neighbors seem like nice people. I got them thinking about buying a new vehicle. Quiere uno como esa. Oh, that's pretty, I love that color. Ojalá, y quiera que quiera comprar una de mi venta de altos. Siempre en nuestras vacaciones estamos pensando en las ventas de Hudson Hotels. I'm a salesman. And I'm as bad as you are. I try to sell his wife some amnway, and it didn't go over very well. So I think I'm just going to give it a rest. I'm Kate, and I must say this will be a much lower. Let's go get some goodies. Let's just stick to our list. Nunca se sabe que ganas por dimos un contra. See? Corment, ice cream, sigma. Wow, Carlotta. You planned the shopping trip pretty well. I've done a lot better since I started using the pyramid. Mi hermanita Victoria siempre usa la piramida para planear las comidas para los niños en su cuadaría. Oh, look at the salsa. It looks good. Yeah, I guess the pyramid would come in handy since your sister Vicky looks after all those kids. Vamos a comprarlo. Y estos también para comer con la salsa. Yeah, it looks good, but at $3.79 a jar I don't think so. Están locos. Además, estas salsas nunca pica. You're right, honey. Vamos a buscarlos a la piramida. Okay, Craig. Is this a good price for tomatoes? Tampoco es caros que no. I don't have a real feel for produce prices since we get so much from my dad's farm. Yeah. We haven't had to buy onions in years. What other vegetables do you have on the list? We have onions, we have jalapenos, we have tomatoes. We need garlic, lettuce, green peppers, and asparagus. Nope, asparagus, no. It's not in season, so it'll cost a fortune. Mira nomás, qué caro. The corn's six for a dollar. Let's get it instead. Buena idea. The kids love the way you make it. Así a la paría. It's so nice that the cabins have outdoor grills that we can enjoy the fresh mountain air. How many should we get? Let's make sure that we get 12 of them. Yeah. Look at these grapes. They're high as high ye. Put them down. Let's take the kids down to that orchard down in the valley instead and we can get some cherries. All right. I'll see you as well in Piscales. Oh, you know what? Let's get a cabbage. Es mucho más barato que la de Suga. Cheap. And you know how much I love your cool stuff. So what savings tactics did you notice Carlota using at the supermarket? Number one, she shopped with a list. This is something that's really advisable for all of us to do. Let's take a quick look at this list here. I always start my list with the non-perishable items, both food and non-food, and then move to refrigerated items and finally the frozen foods. That way you can be sure that by the time you get home, your cold foods are still cold and safe to eat. Another thing you want to do when you're making your list is to put things in categories in terms of how the store is laid out. That way you won't be forced to go up and down every aisle and you won't be tempted to buy all of those foods that you really don't need. Here you can notice on my list I've got in my cold foods, I have turkey slices with a star. The star I use to represent that I have a coupon and that just reminds me to keep in mind as I'm looking that I've got a coupon for that item. One thing Carlota also does is use the food guide pyramid when she's planning her shopping list. This can help you make sure that you're feeding your family a variety of foods from all of the food groups. For example, the grains group is the largest group in the pyramid, but we know that we want to focus on whole grains. So on my shopping list I've got cereal, I'll look for cereal that has a lot of fiber in it, and sandwich bread, I'll look for some whole wheat bread. You notice I don't specify on my list the exact brands. I want to check out the prices once I get to the store and not be locked into anything specific. Now another tactic that Carlota mentioned is shopping locally for foods. Do you remember Craig wanted to get the grapes and she said, no, let's get some cherries. The kids can pick them at the orchard. The cherries are likely to taste a lot better, be less expensive, and also provide an opportunity for the kids to see farm products and how they're actually made into food. Another thing to keep in mind is shopping in season. Craig was thinking of getting asparagus, but it was too expensive because it wasn't springtime. Know the seasons when producer is going to appear in your store and that way you can make sure to take advantage of the best deals. Now what tactics do you want to watch out for? What are the things the store is going to do to try to make you buy more? Well, the first thing that the store always has right when you come in, in their cart even, is their circular. This shows their advertised specials for the week or for two weeks depending on the store. The thing to keep in mind with these advertisements, they're often for very processed foods that tend to be more expensive. In fact, this circular doesn't have any advertisements for fresh produce at all. We can take a look at an example here of some of the foods advertised in this circular. The circular is a good way to compare prices between stores, but also once you get into the store, it reminds you of those things that you want to keep an eye on and also things to watch out for getting, because you don't want them. Here we have some animal crackers, and these animal crackers are in a large container, two for five dollars, and then there's the same animal crackers exactly packed in smaller individual sizes for putting in lunches. And if you figure out the price compare, if you compare the prices here, you'll notice the larger package of animal crackers is much less expensive. That tends to be true. Larger packages of items tend to be cheaper than smaller packages. It's always that simple. If you have kids who eat lunch a lot or if you're tempted to eat a whole bag of animal crackers, it might be better to buy the smaller bags. As with the evaporated milk, I actually purchased this name brand evaporated milk, but you can also get a store brand, which is going to be actually fair amount cheaper. So why did I buy the name brand? Well, in this case, it was the only one that was fat-free on the store shelf. The other thing that you can keep in mind with evaporated milk is a food bank or commodities are a good source of this product. So that's another way to cut costs rather than having to buy it yourself at the grocery store. Do you remember the store had an advertised special? Corn, six for a dollar. And the two, the family decided that they needed to buy 12 of them. We have a tendency with ads to think if it says two for a dollar that we need to buy two or six for a dollar we need to buy six or 12. But let's take a look at this advertisement here and you can see, for example, on this pasta sauce, it says here two for five dollars. There's nothing on the ad that says you have to buy two. Unless it says buy one, get one free, or you must buy two, don't fall into the trap of thinking you have to buy more. And finally, there was another thing that the store tried to do to get Carlotta and Craig to buy more. Do you remember the end of the aisle display where there were some fancy tortilla chips and salsas? Those are eye-catching and especially if you're shopping while you're hungry, you might be really convinced to buy them though you normally wouldn't. Make sure that you don't feel tempted by those items. And if there are items like that that you would like to buy, well then make it a conscious choice, not something that the store tells you to do. We're going to go ahead now and finish the dressing on our recipe. And you can see, look at this, this has gotten really thick and creamy. It's amazing what that lime juice has done to our dressing texture. It's nice and thick and creamy. We're going to go ahead now and add some spices, which of course you know I always like to add. The first one that we've got here is just a little bit for color and for some nice sharp taste. It's mustard powder. This is what's used to make mustard. And I'm just going to put in, oh, probably half a teaspoon of that.  That combination is really nice and coleslaw. Now I've taken maybe 05 to 10 of each of these berries and pounded them up here in the mortar and pestle till I've gotten a nice powder. So what we can do, you can see you just pound and pound like this. You can also buy them in this powder form, but they're not going to have as good a flavor. And once we've pounded, we're going to go ahead and dump them in. And finally we want to add a little bit of salt. It doesn't require a whole lot of salt. Let's add about a quarter teaspoon. We're not making a lot of coleslaw here today. Measure your salt over another dish so that it doesn't fall. Too much doesn't get into your recipe. And then, because we've got all of the sour stuff, we're going to add a little bit of sugar too. This is really to taste. So what I'm going to do is just kind of put in a little bit, probably about, oh, maybe a teaspoon here. And I'll stir this up and taste it afterwards to make sure that it's the right sweetness. So we'll just stir this up and this will be ready for our salad, which we're going to prepare after the next segment. Continue to look for the tactics that Carlotta uses to save money in the grocery store. Let's watch our second segment. Carlotta, since we put the chips back, I got these instead. My brother's on well used to like these chucharones, pero ya no puede comernos. ¿Por qué? I forgot to tell you. He went to the doctor. Now he's at a real high risk for diabetes and so all fatty food is out. Pobre de mi hermano, todo le falla. So I bet someone's got high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Así está yo, así tres años. It's going to be okay. We all did it together. Too may I invest en mucho. We changed the way we eat. Ahora comemos cosas mas audibles. Hacemos ejercicio. Someone could get more exercise too if he got his walking mail wrapped back. You know what, we still need some cereal. Compramos churros. Sure, churros will be fine. I'll get the cereal and we go get the mayonnaise and mustard instead, okay? Papri fiedes. Starven's cheaper. Tienes razón, esta es más barata. Aquí están los ingredientes para el espagueti. This macaroni's unspecial. And noodles and noodles. Miren lo más que baratos. You know what? Can we find my tomato paste coupon? Tengers, no se te puede sacar de la casa. Don't just stand there. Here's the coupon you're looking for. But look, even with the coupon, the store brand is still cheaper. Y las etiquetas son idénticas. Back into the envelope because nunca me puedes hacer de este coupon. Let me see your list. Let's splurge for tomorrow's dinner. I'll get a couple of frozen pizzas. Great. So what did Carlotta do in this last segment to save money at the store? Well, the first thing she was doing was using coupons. And let's take a look at how coupons can either help you save money or be a way that the store gets you to buy more food. Now, we're going to go ahead and complete our recipe here. Let's show the dressing again because it's gotten even thicker. You can see how pretty the spices are actually inside of it. And it's continued to thicken up here as we've let it sit. Now it's time to actually add the slaw ingredients. And this is an interesting coleslaw. We're going to be using some sweet items. We've got two types of apples.  And you can notice I like choosing two because you get two different colors. I'm going to put the skin on. That's where a lot of the fiber is in apples and that's where the color is for the recipe. Now I've already gone ahead and chopped up most of our apples. You can see that they're even being under the studio lights. They're staying pretty, pretty well colored because what I did was I squeezed some lime juice on top of them and that kept them from getting discolored. Let me just show you with one of these apples how you're going to go about cutting it. You want to take the core out and then you've got a quarter of an apple here. Just slice it into thin slices like this. You could also grate your apple, but actually when you grate it, it turns out to be, whoops, actually when you grate apple, it turns out to be a little bit mushy. So let's go ahead and add these pieces to our bowl. Now this is two large apples, about three and a half cups of slices. Again, this recipe is very forgiving. You can use pretty much any amount as you'd like. So we've got our apples here. This is more like kind of your southern coleslaw texture for cabbage and the way I did that was using this grater and just taking the cabbage and grating along like this. Now what I did with the red cabbage is a little bit different. You'll notice these are bigger pieces and these bigger pieces are kind of nice for a difference in taste and texture and the way that I cut those was not using the grater but actually using a knife with the cabbage and I'll go ahead and demonstrate a little bit so you have a sense of how that can work. Let's clear out a space here. You can see we've got a piece of cabbage on the table. We want to cut it into strips so that our pieces are not going to be really long and difficult to eat and then just kind of shred very thin pieces. You know, and actually if you're good with a knife this is actually easier, I think, than using a grater and a little bit faster. Okay, so we can add those into here and that's your chopped red cabbage. So if you've got kids at home this is one thing that they'll enjoy doing as part of the recipe.  I like to buy the loose carrots, the ones that are for juice. Often they're cheaper than the bagged carrots. You can make sure they're fresh and then what you'll see is they're bigger for grating so that when you're grating along you actually get more out of a carrot without having to use a bunch of little small carrots. So what I'm going to do, the nice thing about this recipe is you don't have to peel the carrots. I'm going to go ahead and just chop off both ends and show you just how easy it is to grate using one of these graters. If you don't have this kind you can use a box grater or I'll show you in a second another idea you can use. Let's see how quickly this grates down.  So have them keep moving their hand up as they grate. And there you see you get a nice texture of carrot grating. Now if you want a slightly different texture this is something that's really pretty. It takes a little bit more time. You can just take your regular pear and make strips of carrot like this. That makes for a pretty salad and also is really nice in this slaw. So whichever you like. It's really open to your invention. Alright we've got all of our ingredients now. Let's go ahead and add them all together. We're not going to add all of this cabbage obviously. We've got here a lot of apples that are going to make it sweet. We're going to add probably about one and a half cups of this cabbage. And again you don't have to measure exactly. So this is just give you a sense of how much you want to add. I'm going to add that's one cup. And this is a half. So that's our red cabbage. And with our green cabbage we're going to add the same amount. Now you'll notice with the green it's going to take more cabbage to grate it this finely. So actually you're actually in a sense adding more green cabbage even though you're adding the same number of cups. But that's okay. You can as I say adjust this recipe however you'd like. Okay so that's about one and a half cups of the green. And then just so that you know this amount of cabbage one and a half cups is maybe a quarter of a head. So you're really not buying tons and tons of cabbage. Then we're going to add our carrots. Just about one cup of the grated carrots. And that's about two of these really large carrots. And we'll go ahead and put them in here. Look how beautiful these colors are all together. Now what are we missing? Our dressing. And with this ideally you'd have a bigger bowl. You'd probably have a bigger bowl and that would make tossing it a little bit easier. But you just want to kind of drizzle this over the top. Remember our dressing doesn't have any fat. And that's kind of unusual for a coleslaw. Often they're very laced with mayonnaise or salad oil. And you just take two spoons and toss. I'll toss this more as we're watching the next segment and then we can see how it looks at the very end. Let's go ahead and finish up our episode. You know what? Lunch was a long time ago. Vamos a soltarnos el pelo. Let's get some of these pretty pastries. Sure, yeah, you can pick some out. Okay. But what else do we need? We want to put it like that. That's good. Son deliciosos. I'm going to have to get some. So Samuel has diabetes. I remember when the doctor told me I had it. I felt so scared and confused. Samuel debe sentirse tan solo sin saber qué hacer con su bivetes. A ver si logro convencerlo a que entre al equipo de sofá. Aunque sea para que se divierta un poco. Aunque no sea muy rápido para hacer las compras, mi corazóncito es mejor que todos los movistas. No Hollywood actor takes the time to compare prices like Craig does. Did you notice that Carlotta was tempted by those pastries? That's something that the stores will do, is give you a free taste test and hope that that will entice you to buy those things. Remember, shopping when you're hungry is not such a great idea. The other thing that happened to Carlotta, she was a bit distracted at the end of her shopping trip. And as the items were being rung up at the register, she didn't notice but her mustard got rung up twice. It's really important when the cashier gives you your receipt before you leave the store, compare your receipt to the items in your cart and make sure that things were charged correctly. I hope you've gotten a lot of good ideas for shopping smart at the supermarket from this episode. And including our wonderful creamy coleslaw, which makes a great use of your food dollars, is healthy and your family will love it. Until the next episode, long live all of our families. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.


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Hey everyone welcome to today's trade hacker update today's Thursday September 10th Hope everybody has a fantastic day of trading today The volatility is back looking at the S&P 500 down 64 points We still got about 10 minutes and still a cash close Nasdaq down to 39 down over 2% Had this big flush down a little bounce yesterday now. It's back to the downside and I don't think we're done I think we're gonna continue lower and what's interesting is you look you read any financial media or listen to CNBC or any of those and It's funny how they're just scratching their head. They can't find a reason why this market's going down And and the reason is because there's not always a reason the volatility is coming back people are taking profits It's time for the bears to have their day. And so that's what's going on So what did we do today? Well, let's start with the day trading great day day trading over $1,600 in profits had a few losers that we took earlier in the day These were obviously long positions. We're trying to catch some long runners in beyond Disney and Facebook and the market was remember the market was strong this morning So we were we were trying to play on that see if we catch some runners Those did not work out. And so we realized okay, okay, we get it we are going down today and so we went ahead and got bearish and Caught some runners in the Nasdaq the Dow Apple AMD big winner in Amazon Ali Baba little winner a nice winner in Microsoft Netflix in video and Roku so good day of trading. I did a video recap Detailing these trades that we made if you want to check that out. Just go to our Facebook group Just go to just go to Facebook and search for day trading options for income and you can join our group And we I've been posting the recaps in there. So check that out Otherwise other things that we did so we this morning when we were live streaming in the day trading room I just I you know, we had this big flush down and the market was up yesterday And I thought man, I really think we're gonna see some more downsides So we we added some more short Delta in our core income portfolio Bought some puts in XLK, which are working out real nicely not taking those off though. Nope. Nope. Nope Waiting for some more downside. So that's the plan there Also added a weekly double calendar and SPX did a post earnings trade in our H So restoration hardware released earnings big move up above the expected move as price came down a little bit We added a one of our post earnings trades. We're looking for steady to higher prices Because that's typically what happens in this situation. And so see how that plays out We also rolled down some vertical spreads keeping some of that short Delta in our portfolio And just continuing to manage as necessary if we look at some of the major stocks Let's take a look at what's going on here I mean obviously a lot of red on the board But you still have these sprinkles of green like beyond meat having a big three-day move And another big day today, even though it sold off about half of its gain still up almost 4% on the day Delta Airlines up a little bit John Deere holding steady at flat Disney pretty flat on the day And then of course our friend Tesla Tesla coming back Where's Tesla? There she is Up a little over a percent I was up a lot more and with the sell-off in the market did come down Significantly, but still gonna close the day up about a percent and a half so Hopefully this helps everybody have a safe and continued success trading into tomorrow We'll be live streaming the first 90 minutes of the day We went a little bit later today because things started really starting to move so we ended up staying on there for another extra 30 45 60 minutes something like that So we're having fun in there if you guys want to come check out what we're doing Just go to navigation trading comm slash day trade and you can learn more there Everybody have a fantastic day and we'll catch you tomorrow


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back! Having fun together, being open with one another, spending a lot of time with one another, and sharing a deep emotional connection with someone. Does that sound more like a close friendship to you, or a romantic relationship? The answer could easily be both, right? And for a lot of us, the lines between love and friendship can get blurry sometimes, and adding romantic feelings to the mix can make things even more complicated. So if you need some help figuring out where to draw the line in the sand between love and friendship, here are 8 signs that tell you things between you and your friend are starting to become much more romantic than platonic. 1. You Daydream About Them Do you often jokingly say you and your friend should just date each other instead? Or daydream about what it might be like to end up with them, romantically? While it might seem like nothing more than playful banter and lighthearted fun to you, these romantic fantasies might mean a lot more than you think, especially if you feel butterflies fluttering in your stomach every time you think about it. 2. You Get Jealous Of Their Partners While it's understandable to have jealous feelings towards your best friends, other friends from time to time, the difference between platonic and romantic jealousy is clear. The former stems from a fear of your friend leaving you behind, while the latter comes from the disappointment of having your romantic hopes dashed. So if you find yourself feeling jealous of the romantic partners and love interests of your friend for more than a platonic reason, it's time to take a good, long look at why. Are you tired of slipping left and right? Or maybe you're trying to find love in the wrong place. 3. You Can't Wait To See Them Be honest, do you enjoy spending time with your best friend more than you do with your crushes? Are they your favorite person to hang out and make plans with by far? Enjoying your friend's company and looking forward to seeing them is one thing, but eagerly counting down the moments until you see each other is another thing entirely. And if you're dying to see this person at all hours of the day, then it might be that what you feel for them is more than just friendship. 4. You Want To Be More Intimate With Them While emotional intimacy is certainly not uncommon to have in a close, meaningful friendship, wanting to be more intimate with this person is a sure sign as any that romantic feelings are already starting to blossom between you. Are you becoming more physically affectionate with them? Do you immediately turn to them for comfort, even when other people can offer it to you? Or have deep meaningful talks with them almost every day? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then what you want might already be more than just friendship. 5. You're Overly Affectionate Similar to the last point, if you find yourself acting more flirty than friendly around this person, it's probably because your feelings for them are starting to show, even if you don't realize they're there yet. More than ever before, you want to be close to them all the time, to hold their hand, to act sweet with them, to hug and kiss them as much as you can get away with, and to take just about any excuse to get to touch them and show them affection. 6. You Talk About Them Constantly One of the reasons why everyone else seems to be raising their eyebrows at your so-called friendship with this person is because they seem to be your favorite topic to talk about. You can't say enough good things about them, and you're always sharing funny stories or fond memories you have with them. And if you notice yourself constantly finding ways to incorporate them into any conversation you can, well, it doesn't take a dating expert to see that you're already falling in love with your friend. 7. You're Not Interested In Anyone Else Another tell-tale sign that it's not just friendship, it's love, is if your friend becomes the reason you're not interested in anyone else. You're no longer interested in dating around or pursuing anything with anyone else because deep down inside, you know this person is already everything that you want in a partner. The tricky part is whether you've already admitted it to yourself or not. 8. It's Never Enough Finally, but perhaps most importantly, if you find that no matter how much time you spend with your friend, it's never enough to make you stop missing them and wanting to see them, then you are definitely catching feelings for them. No doubt about it. After all, the fluttery feeling in your heart every time you're near them, desire to see them and talk to them all the time, the certainty that you won't ever be sick of them, those are all signs of newly found love. And though you might still think of them as a friend, you're definitely smitten with them more than you'd maybe like to admit. So, be honest, do you relate to any of the signs we've mentioned here? Do you think your friendship with someone is turning into something more romantic? If so, opening up about it to this person would be a good first step to especially if you suspect they might feel the same way too. Ponder on the true meaning of your feelings and think about what it is you really want, where you'd like to go from here. Then, once you're sure that this is something worth pursuing, don't be afraid to make your intentions clear. Did you find this video insightful? Tell us in the comments below. 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