Good morning y'all welcome back to another vlog. I am back for my trip. It's Tuesday. I didn't vlog yesterday But we're getting back into things today. I have very exciting exciting I very exciting news to share with y'all in the backyard So while I was gone they built the deck and it looks amazing like it is exactly what I pictured It's getting painted today. So we're actually gonna have the home debug this morning I don't want to talk about the grass right now. It's a really sensitive subject all my grass has died I've been having so much probably so many problems with my sprinkler system I don't even know why that stone is there and why there's just why they put all dirt there I don't know. I had a landscaper come out yesterday. It's coming back this week. So anyways, this is looking amazing It's like once one thing is that happens, you know, the rest of them fall apart So that is getting finished and then my chairs are arriving. I have no idea how I'm gonna lift them up there That's gonna be interesting Yeah, lots of lots of updates. I'm very excited I Do you get tired of my vlogs being like literally the same thing every oh Oops every single day. It's like I'm watering the plants. I'm at home. I whatever But you know what false coming up and we're gonna have some better things Okay, but let me know because like I can change about maybe I can do like a theme or like I'm not really a theme shorty girl. So You guys keep me posted So I just made some coffee Cocoa has acu at 10 and then I'm gonna go to Home Depot Which is got my pink colors and then we've got work to do at this point You guys already know about friend of mine my new brand and pretty positive definitely So I've been working on that all week This is actually a long week for it as I'm of course you guys know I don't I don't know There's something something wrong with me. So I Have everything pretty much that I just need to edit a couple more tiktoks and things like that But I'm like pretty much good to go So excited. So anyway, it's gonna be a good old week of my life at home Last happening. I'm gonna make like a summer soup. That's what I'm feeling today Which isn't really like it fits, but I'm gonna make it fit last night We started this puzzle Macy came over and then her friend Tabby is also my friend now But um it is the cutest puzzle ever and it honestly it was so funny like we were so serious Taking this so serious. I hope they come back today because I will be doing this with or without them Um, it's a piece or puzzle. I got on Amazon. They used to be at like anthropology and stuff I will add it to my Amazon store from but they just have really cute puzzles like this and it's honestly a really Fun holds them activity. I know that everyone has done a puzzle in their life But like have you done a puzzle in your 20s? Probably not. Okay Okay, I just dropped coconut off. I am on my way to home depot. I'm really living my leg suburban mom housewife Morning So the color that I like the most that my mom and I decided on is actually a stain And we need to paint the deck and by we and my brother-in-law is painting it So i'm gonna go to home depot and hope to god they just match it growing up I used to hate going to home depot and now It's like my favorite place to be home depot or lows the plant section Early morning might I add like it just does something to me. It really does I got my first pumpkin cream clover of the season And I swear to god these five steps that I've had have done more for my mental health than like months of therapy I'm not kidding like Oh my god, like something happened to me. I'm just so happy time for a haul from princess poly I have been shopping there for years As you guys know, honestly a large large majority of my closet is your princess poly specifically in my dresses Working with them again. I'm so excited. I place my own orders all the time. I actually use my own code Okay, so my code is on the screen and it's 20 off site wide It is my go-to for shopping honestly, and they have really fast shipping So that's another reason like if you need something for that weekend, I'm constantly like placing orders So thank you to princess poly for sponsoring today's video. Okay. I feel like the lighting Would be better. It's just from within the u.s. And they have free standard shipping So that's 36 business days if you spend over 50 dollars, which is like amazing. It's my go-to for honestly anything I'm constantly ordering from them. So anyways, we have another haul But this time it's going to be like a fall haul and you might look at my pieces and be like what keep in mind that It's still hot in texas. So this is my fall haul. I'm just like I'm just prepping. They're more like Transitional outfits. It's not like actually fall. You know this dress is so cute I will obviously be wearing this with cowboy boots Um, I don't know which ones I could obviously I can wear any because it's white I think I'm gonna wear it this weekend to a football game, but It is perfect like this is just the perfect white dress also I also struggle stresses are just hard in general because they feel like they never stay up But this one is so I like love this dress. Okay, like just guys That is really really cute this dress is so cute and flattering also very colorful for me or a color I don't really normally wear But I think it's really good for fall I don't even have it zipped up all the way in the back because I need help with that, but It's really really flattering Like this is so cute. I love their dresses. It's what I'm saying. Like I'm constantly getting dresses from them Okay, this dress is like a really wholesome dress that you wear to like meet your boyfriend's family or something But it's also so comfortable.  This is the one it is So comfy. Okay, moving on to this dress. This is like if I'm going out out I wouldn't wear the shoes that I'm wearing with it now Just wanted to give it a little bit of a heel So I have this dress in blue and I loved it so much that I obviously needed to get it in my favorite color But it's kind of just perfect. I don't know where I'm gonna wear this to look. I've gotta Gotta find something but I love it. It's just perfect. Okay. This dress is also really cute with boots I thought it was gonna be too short, but it's not at all Um, I love like the detailing It's just kind of perfect. I love anything with a bow these days. This is like such a cute white shirt It's actually perfect. I'm gonna wear this this weekend. I don't know I love this I love anything in the bow. I did get my lip gloss on it, but like I always do that. Okay. I accidentally unzipped this fully so I need someone to help me But another perfect white topic like I just never have enough good tops For honestly everything not even just for going out like day to day Just like a cute top. I feel like all of my stuff is so basic and this is like Classic but also cute and just fun again bows. This shirt is perfect. Just a cute little pink top I love this again bows on everything but This is amazing. I think I'm actually gonna wear this today We'll see but It's perfect. Okay, but honestly like this shirt is it This is amazing. It looks like so High quality it like snatches you in I mean it is high quality, but it looks like a very like a rich top is what I'm saying Okay, this is perfect. Got the princess poli code. It is shop kensies I'll have a link below. They also offer afterpay and shop pay to all us customers I love their stuff. I'll be wearing it all week and long. This top is literally Perfect concludes our princess poly haul. I'll be doing one. I'm sure in the next month guys. I got the stain I actually can't use stain also arm We have some deck drama. Um, also turns out that I can't even actually Have it painted yet because What is it called the seal or something on it the back the wood is green It needs to sit they said at home deep on 90 days But the guys who built my duck and like do this for a living or like no we can do it next week Um, and my brother-in-law is not actually doing it. He just like set me up with these people So anyways long story short the deck will be done next week. My furniture does the right tomorrow Anyways, um, oh, yeah, since I'm a comes in a hat girl My life has changed like it really has like this is just the way to live your life You don't have to do your hair. It looks cute. I like it. Um, I'm wearing this one right now. I have Hats I'll just show you guys in the vlog because I already put an order in so hopefully they'll be coming out soon I have this hat if you're a friend of mine that I didn't want to wear Just yet, um because I can't post it right now and I'm posting today obviously on social media Um, but the vlog doesn't matter. So anyways, look at how cute it is I'm gonna wear it now because I have oh, hello.  He's really having a day out on the town My pumpkin cream cold brew like something happened. I just Something happened in me. I'm just like a new woman. You know, so anyways, I ended up with these Is this bad to put no these are fine to put no crotch. I think I don't really know also I have decided that I'm gonna redo Um, my guest bedroom and like it haven't let be less of a guest bedroom and more of an office But I'm also gonna have like a day bed and like a trundle So like there's still room for guests just because I would use an office like every day I'm not using a guest or every day even though I do use a guest or return Whatever it gives me like more of an option like I can make that room more of like a flex room if you will I've never used that word before in my life. So once again, I'm gonna go put these In the garage I'm back. So I'm using sierra again who is who designed my little front room in there Um, I have her tagged on like my instagram. We took talking stuff. She's great And I told her what I wanted last week and she's already set me so many options So I want to go through that today and actually order everything and then just work on selling stuff on facebook marketplace like The bed's got to go and I love that bed I'm just gonna sell the whole thing just be like if you can just like get this out of my house. It's yours No, I should still it's not a problem with facebook marketplace. I put things are free because I just want to like gone Um, and like there's stuff I have forever. Like I don't know.  Maybe I'll do that until I talk today and have people help me I don't know. Um, but I have my recipe journal. This is still the sample Here's the limits in there. I'll probably go next week to grab some things Um It's just the cutest thing ever. So anyways, I'm making new recipes tonight I don't even have many of those routes in my just like doordash on my groceries And figure that one out. But anyways this hat it's cute, right guys It's a little corduroy embroidered. That's like chocolate brown when it comes Yeah, it actually does look chocolate brown the other samples. It looks more black, but I want to chocolate brown I am also I'm working on other hats just because this is like so perfect. I love helpful for but like Something has gotten into me. Anyways, can you tell I have a lot of energy and then I'm very happy It's the pumpkin cream cold bro. I'm back home. I got another hat. This is just waiting for me in the mail Um, it's from not from alibi. You all can use code kensy 15 for 15 off as an acute Anyways, I have been sitting here Um procrastinating getting work done and instead buying all new furniture for my new room um I have gone completely out of control So I just ordered all of the furniture. So it's all the wallpaper all the things So she gave me two options. I'm working with sierra. Belonga As I said earlier and she gave me two well, she gave me three options She's the best by the way if y'all are looking to hire someone She's amazing. You can hire her virtually or interested in new york if you just live there Okay, so these are the options. It was this and then this So I got This I like kind of combined it all right. So I did that mirror the hot rug That bedding that bed those bulletin boards that Um wallpaper that lamp and then this desk situation So I'm very excited most of it's actually arriving in the next like week or so. It's very quick So now I'm on a basic marketplace trying to get people to come buy or pick up my furniture Um and hoping that happens very soon so I can have that out and then have My um wallpaper, which is just peel ins at this time. So it's going to be easier and cheaper Um, but yeah, I'm very excited for this room even though I'm such every time I make an office I never used it, but I really just more than anything need Especially with the new brand I need somewhere to put actual physical product and to just have stuff I'm like a really big like work at the kitchen table girl. I don't really want to be I would like to have that space And regardless it's still going to be a guest room. So like it doesn't really matter It's just like a little more useful. I'm very excited about that Um, I have groceries being delivered and I am about to write down a new recipe in my recipe book Recipe journal because because I hate having extra technology in the kitchen when it doesn't need to be there. So Starting to cook it's just so peaceful. I've got the candles going. I've got music playing. I'm a recipe journal out I'm making a vineyard chicken and actually looks really good. So I'll keep you guys posted Guys, Macy is making a music video tonight. Do you want to fill them in on your oh be careful? Do you want to fill them in on your plans? Hey guys? Um Wait a sec Oh, sorry. Okay. Um, yeah, I'm making a music video tonight. If you guys don't follow me on tiktok I've been really exploring more of like my dancing and musical sign and I think I'm gonna Get into music videos. So that is what I'm doing tonight. It's to a song called Hold on Oh 13 it's called pretty hungover Do you guys like my shirt? Yeah, she came over for a matching Um, yeah, so she's gonna she has her song ready to go. Wait really quick. Oh Used to be so young my least new song There's a part where I really want to learn pirouettes when the beat drops. Okay I know I used to be young And I just need someone to teach me pirouettes. So if someone's in Dallas and can do that I'm sure that there's gonna be okay. Like it's just a quick one a lot of Dallas girls So I'm sure if I could learn how to pirouette It became a weak game over maybe I should fill my instagram story can somebody Dallas teach me how to pirouette What are we making? Oh wow, it's already been 15 minutes. What are we making this vineyard chicken? It's gonna be really good What am I doing? Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be two But just like one big one I figured you were gonna be mad if I oh What kind of tomatoes are those? They're great. Are we gonna put in sourdough? Yeah, we have product in sourdough. It's gonna be really good. I'm telling you. So anyways, basically came over and she brought props They're gonna be so happy when they see this. I know She's doing it as a gift if you will a gift. Yes, we're gonna be found friendship for my new friend Oh, I think I need to broil this What do you hope your audience is reactionist? I hope that they I just continue to receive the support that I do Totally It's no those are actual grapes. I know what what did you think they were? I think they're like great tomatoes. Like I don't know A lot of terraces flies. Okay. This literally drives me insane What I'm confused about okay I was like on the phone when I was cutting his shallots and I have them So weird So I'm not gonna be playing for that but it's fine. I have the bases You know did you want to like I took an intermediate dance class in seventh grade with mrs. You check because I got too much in your eye Okay, sure. It's kind of like restricted my loop Oh, that's good. Okay, because I learned like this step in like a while ago. Okay Misha, you're just getting better. It's double. Like you're just getting better and better That's going through my head. That wasn't saying actually It's like Can carly breathe Like loop that. Oh, yeah, carly. Can you loop that and then we'll like that double like just like 100 feet Like it's not like a baby's first steps. It's like macy's first pirouette. No, totally This is gonna get up because we'll have the toaster ricotta Oh, don't worry. But it's because in butchers box sometimes it's two and sometimes it's one So I thought I thought Don't even worry about a girl like don't even like I'm so chill. I'm so so chill Yeah, I didn't really get that vibe from you. Oh, what's this week's podcast episode on? um It's the worthless what it's pop culture. Oh, it's good abroad. Oh Can't you guys talk about sb spider boy scooter brawn? Spider boy and karma. Yeah Basically, that's what we did spider boy It's been real so we have to go. Okay guys dinner is done. Macy's already had some and it's great Looks good Good morning, y'all. I'm back in my car. It is now Wednesday. Um, I'm actually on my way back to modern animal I don't even know if I talked about this history in the vlog. I either talked about it for five minutes Or I didn't at all I'm doing the deal with them because it is open in Dallas on tiktok and I was like Unbelievably impressed that I already moved coconut made her a member and now we're on our way to her appointment there Um, and they're just amazing if y'all are in Dallas or like they have a bunch of different locations in like different cities But it's really sick. Just watch my tiktok that is up right now. But Anyways, I worked out this morning. I stayed up so late last night. Macy and I were filming a music video Um, and then I just stayed up so late until like 2 30 and I'm so tired But a lot is on the agenda today. I've got to finalize some more stuff for a friend of mine I need oh my uh furniture is supposed to arrive from article, but I haven't gotten a call Since last week, so now I'm just kind of like worried. I don't know if it's coming or not Um, and I don't know if I updated y'all on this but I can't get my deck stained I can't get it stained, but I can't get it stained until next week So that's actually I definitely to tell you guys that like what? Y'all I should have like two more chairs, honestly at least one more chair.  I think I do want to get an umbrella I feel like that's a good idea, but also it's kind of shaded. Maybe I won't I don't know The wood is getting treated next week. So ignore how this looks But the chairs themselves are stunning You know what I could also do though Just move these to a corner put a table in and then just add some like flowers or something on the corner So it feels more full. You know what I mean? I feel like that might be more of the vibe Before I buy another chair. I also think these are on back order until january because like right after I order them They were on back order So we'll see just let me know what you guys think below There's a high line them up. I think four is too much but three is really kind of the perfect amount It's gonna look so much better once it's stained But lots of progress has been made currently filling up the pool. I was cleaning it earlier This setup is so ideal. I'm about to play music. I'm in the pool, but I'm working Like this is incredible guys And hello to me. I cut my braids up in my hat um, I have people coming tonight to get at least one of the tables hopefully the rest of the stuff in my um second bedroom Or the guest bedroom or the office or whatever so that I can start on that I ordered all this stuff yesterday. So we got a lot of like home updates in this vlog. I'm hoping that Me being in the pool right now takes off all the rest of my tanner and I can scrub that off tonight Like we've got a lot of moving parts. I am back outside to work. I just washed the cows in the go and took it um episode But I just went in and showered self tanned. I have my sprinklers being worked on And then some furniture being picked up Um, but I'm gonna work on a bunch of stuff for launch and just whatever edits and stuff I've been getting this salad so much. I know I've already vlogged it but the strawberry whatever solid from the nocino farms It is so good Tuesday, I can't believe it's already thursday. So I had the best time actually I have a question So with the pool, there's more mosquitoes in my backyard at dawn and at dusk because that's when it attracts some mosquitoes, apparently Um, I just grow up in texas are so used to mosquitoes Always being there so I didn't realize there were specific times because it is always coming to me. I'm also allergic. So every time I get a bite, it's like Horrible like my legs growing up. We're just really really tragic. Anyways What should I do? What should I do? Like I have a like a candle on my like dining table outside I don't necessarily want to get my whole I don't like I feel like we have those like things on our fences That sprayed for mosquitoes growing up, but I feel like those are maybe expensive or like more money than like I want to put down What should I do? What should I do? Oh, I guess I could wear those mosquito bracelets too I don't know how much good that would do because I'm by the water Anyways, um, it's thursday tonight. We're going to the whip I was supposed to go like a month ago to the opening because the whip is the whippersnapper and dial is my favorite bar it's I don't know how to describe it because like I'm like a dive bar girl and it's like a dive bar almost like Club and I'm only saying that because there's tables and a lot of dancing But it's so casual and like I never go before midnight because like that's when you have to go and it is The most fun place ever that's where we got a table off to my show So we go to like birthdays like we'll just we are honestly like quite often Um, and it's just so much fun. So anyways, they're they have themes always and right now it's barbie I supposed to go to the opening but Lauren already on the food book on sick or something Anyways, they matter to send so we're going tonight. We're going literally 6 p.m. To the whip for dinner and drinks But it's because I'm making a tiktok. Um, but if you guys are in dial-up show on our side, that's like crazy It's like not a restaurant. It's a bar Have my coffee. I'm on my way to Pilates um I just am so obsessed with my backyard and oh my god guys. Okay, so I ordered all that new furniture This is really a house vlog. Also, I've been saying this is launch week Technically it is because I'm launching the brand tomorrow, but I'm not launching products until next week. So really next week is launch week anyways I ordered a new um day bed from Wayfair like two nights ago and I accidentally sent it to my old address in LA somehow and it got delivered yesterday already So then I was like, oh, there's nothing I can do. I messed it up So I ordered another one in my house last night and it's already I think it's being delivered today Crazy.  I just I'm refusing So I'm just gonna put that in the garage until I realize I like it really is time But I don't really get this time because like I bring it out to entertain So I think I really am gonna keep it and if anything I'll give it to like Lauren or someone I'm not gonna like get rid of it because I want to keep it keep it close, you know um But a lot of this stuff is already arriving for the roommates. I was picturing this to take a couple months I honestly think it's gonna be done in the next couple of weeks. So Lots of home updates I'm back from Pilates. I'm a shower and I can't take myself seriously My hair is really messed up from the braids all week. I'm gonna put a hat on soon ignore this But I'm getting a lot of questions about skincare that I've been using lately And I think people are seeing my like no makeup makeup and thinking it's the same thing too Anyways, the only skincare that I'm actually using is primary up here. I use the serums normally use a plumbing serum I have a bunch. I like have this one breakout because I forgot Face cleanser in new york and I used like body cleanser like I had to morally really low point Um, so anyways for skincare, I literally just use primary up here That's and then I use super cute for sunscreen every day. Um, I've been using their bombs too, which I'm not gonna share you. I don't think they're out yet. I don't know if I'm allowed to But I'm posting about one in scrim. Anyways, love their stuff. Um, you guys can use kenty fifth or kenty for 15% off I do work with them, but um, like when I'm I'm rude the one reproducing it I'm the one who's doing it. So like I've worked with them in the past I'm working with them on like an instagram stories and it has literally nothing to do with that Like they're only working the other so much because they genuinely use the products so much So, um, it's also like non-toxic. It's really good for you. It's just like better ingredients. It's very like I don't know. It's just better Another random thing that I want to do now. This capari. What is it? The golden aura body oil Is the best body oil I have ever Used like one thing about me. I love an oil. Like look at the difference. It's really lightweight I feel like oils can get really messy. I don't feel that way about this one I will link it below. It smells so good like Unreal So anyways, I've shown you guys this makeup routine I'm going to show again just really quick because We're here. Um, and I've been getting comments about it So I only really use I guess four products Make it by mario on everything and then An eyebrow gel. I actually hate his eyebrow gel. I want to try the rare beauty one um You know what I actually got us the four shipment in today. I can't remember if Um, I was able to get that or not But I'm gonna try out a new like better makeup look tonight when I go To the whip for dinner at 6 p.m. Like imagine For those who like don't understand how funny that is like imagine going to like I don't know. It's not like a club. I really can't compare it to anything Um, but like a casual club at 6 p.m. Is like I guess but it's not a club Anyways, I first go in with the skin transforming skin protector. It's just a powder.  I don't think this is the right We're gonna use it. I don't think it's the right. No, I actually have been using this this brush is also makeup by mario Um, and I put like a lot of blush on Because it kind of will look summer but I love blush And then that is it like seriously that's all and then I put a lip product on which makes you look Obviously a lot often together. Here's my hats. I have another one today This has become my entire personality like how Anyways, I'm gonna go to at home to pick up some pots Um, by the way, this is like a better look of the makeup because we'll just see it throughout the vlog My bathroom is really cluttered right now. I'm like I don't do well with this So I'm gonna declutter today. I just have too many products And like if I don't use it every day, it's got to go I also like I don't I still I really need to declutter I've been thinking about that I need to go through my other closet just because pretty soon I'll be switching out my fall clothes for my summer clothes and switching the closet. It's like in my closet room. So anyways Very exciting. I'm gonna go to at home and get pots the next day cocoa to an appointment again She's having a woman every day this week. Um, and then I'm gonna go to home depot during her appointment and get plants I think I want to do mums just because mums do well here this time of year And I still need mums for out there to fix that like I've walked Okay, I am in another hat. I'm on my way to at home I am so excited. This is like such an ideal morning, but it's only 80 degrees off right now It was 70 earlier the mornings have been so nice. Even yesterday was nice Getting a little bit confused because like since when does this happen in texas in august? There are pots that I saw I probably showed y'all when I was at home like a month ago um, there were pots there that I really wanted and I think I don't know. I'm gonna start with just some to put in the corners And then go from there. I don't think I'm gonna do well wait. Didn't I buy the box? No, I didn't I don't think I did Anyways, we're gonna see I don't think I'm gonna get like a long planter people are saying doing it on the back But I like being able to like move and walk around that So I don't think I'm gonna do that, but I do think I'm gonna do One in the corner, so we'll see and we're doing mums.  They just don't have All the colors and the sizes that I want So I've got to figure it out, but like this at least Is like a start, you know, it's like perfect. It looks so much nicer. Atom has the best planters This is the other size and I feel like it's too big um So I don't know like obviously a lot of space so it could take up space and look good But it's just really big I wish it was a I don't know a little bit smaller But we're massive but even then this is only $80 and again, this would be like $600 somewhere Dollar hosting any like halloween things. These are actually cute someone's like So much like holiday decor is happy but Cute picking up my first fall candle smells so good Not only does it feel amazing outside today like I could sit here forever Um, I just bought these two pots And that candle for $50 because you're having a sale. So I'll be back. That's like an insane deal on pots Pots are like rubs. They're so expensive and like what you know This is honestly like such a stunning view So I want five mums The mums are out therefore fall is here. I need to get a pumpkin cream cold brew. So all of those with um Four bags of potting mix which I might need more depending on the size because I don't have the right like Uh divider, I guess for the pot all of those like a hundred dollars It just is really feeling like fall. I'm so happy. This is why I need a truck Okay, I had a strapped everything off at home But obviously the plants that died in this heat those are going to be mums And then the other two plants are also gonna be mums, but I'm wondering if I should have gotten For this I might have to stop by on my way home Because this is not enough. That's what I was worried about. No, I feel like it's fine. It's gonna grow into it It'll be okay. Two is too many. I don't think I can even do that. So Anyways, this is what our Afternoon is gonna look like I just love being home like being back into my routine my nice morning routine Love when it's becoming fall and I'm happy again and like everything is just better But I need to change. I don't know who I was kidding like this is not what I do wearing today If I'm gonna be doing plants. So I'm gonna go change this right now. Well first off, okay back up But this is a huge moment because I'm lighting Okay, my first Oh, what was that fall candle of the season? Okay, I've just been in the absolute best mood this week Like I'm singing in the car. I'm so happy like oh my god And I swear to god it's because I know fall is coming and also the weather's amazing Macy's texting me like every hour. I mean like why is this? I'm it's just I just don't know I don't want to get through having myself but like feels amazing. So Anyways, my bed is getting picked up that one in there. Just a simple to picked up Today I think an hour and then my way favorite that I told you guys about that I ordered again That I ordered the wrong one ordered again literally already arrived outside of my house. So I actually think I'm gonna have that um bed built Like I'll hire like a task grabber or something just because like if I built something it's gonna fall it's gonna break There's just no point in me doing that. So Know your strengths, you know also very very exciting news guys. I finally got a gleefia farms partnership, okay I honestly wasn't even doing any of those postings for that but hey, I'll take it. Okay There is no one who loves that forever. Why can I do they're doing the kiss me thinking thing? So very exciting. Um when you guys see that I need every single person to comment And uh, just be very happy because listen It's cookie butter creamer. It's huge. Okay, so we're gonna start on the plants. I think I need to have messages people um Coco's appointments like while yes, it is annoying that I have to drive Almost like three times a week and then just sit there and it's like 30 minutes away It's kind of nice because I actually get so much done that I like put You know like the tedious things on your to-do list that you just like put off You're like, I don't want to do that and then you just like ignore it every day I'm actually getting all that done because like I have nothing to do but sit in my car for an hour So that's been good Okay, it's actually looking amazing back here. So I forgot I actually did buy that planter See, I thought I bought something couldn't remember. It's so small. Let me know where I'll put it If I even will what I'll do with it. Let me know in the comments below But I put these mums in the corner. So at least hopefully they won't die because they get so much shade I have a center table coming and then I ordered a umbrella from Article um, and it's on back order for I think it's like two months So it'll get here eventually. It was just like the best I was obsessed with it I just love their outdoor furniture like this is so good not sponsored. I wish would have loved for this to be sponsored Um, but anyways, it looks really good. I don't know if I'm gonna add Anything else until I have you know, it's stained and the stuff up here. I feel like Less is more it looks good. Let me know what you guys think about that little planter over there Should I just not use it? I don't know I have a fire pit too. This is crazy because I'm like really getting rid of the grass But I have a fire pit That I was gonna move over here Um for the fall and winter time and they just like put chairs around it Just do like some stone underneath it Um, let me know what y'all think feel like that's just so good for entertaining and like fall and winter time But I do have that other space up there My garden is gonna be this is all from the sprinklers that are getting fixed right now Um, my garden is gonna be all this back here Which is nice because it actually is shaded as you guys can see It's not the most stunning area, but it's gonna be great for a garden So anyways, this is literally like a dream backyard. I just want my grass to Not look like this. All right, I just got this sample it and this is actually a merch sample This is gonna be very confusing because I'm not doing a new brand and we are gonna do Texas hats like in the this into this year I think but this is from the merch the shirts that I came out with that you guys have seen I don't know what is with me in house right now, but I love it. What do you guys think? He says find me in Texas. I love the camera. I think it's super fun Just let me know what you think and it's like so confusing to have it under different branches You know what I mean? I don't know Okay, so I'm going to the Barbie event Another thing is that I really need to replace this rug. Okay. I don't know who's at my door, but we're gonna ignore it Um, I also when I made that order and I ordered it to the wrong address I ordered a new light for in here. So I'm hoping that I didn't lose that too. I did cancel it I don't know if it just has cancellation pending, but anyways, this is My look I just grabbed a bunch of pink things in my closet Which is very easy because my closet is pink to the brown or pink basically Um, and I just threw my hair up. It's so gross right now Just as well. I put a lot of like hair oil in whatever. I'm getting a blow on the morning So doesn't mean batter my statement on bag that honestly, I do not recommend buying it because I barely wear it I thought I'd wear it all summer because I love like a pop of pink. I love a pop of color And I just like have it and also it's because there's no security at the top And I like yeah, you wear it under like this. So I guess it really doesn't matter I just like haven't gotten good use out of it. I'm back from the barbie pop-up But I just got a package from salty face. I ordered this This tanning water is so good. Macy told me about it, but Sometimes it works like amazing on me and then other times that I must be doing something to make it different Oh wait, okay, you know what? Shoot I think I threw away The top that makes it a spray Which I love the spray. So that sucks, but I'm gonna try tanning foam It looks amazing. Macy said great things about it. I'm gonna do it tomorrow night because I decided I'm staying in tomorrow night So I've got a big weekend. So anyways love salty face. I think macy has a code might be macy Not really sure but really recommend. I'm home from the barbie pop-up. It's really cute. I think it's going until I think the end of this month and the end of september. I cannot believe well today's august 31st tomorrow september but it is a little bit crazy because I need health insurance and I have gots to figure that one out I'm gonna do a massive closet declutter tonight. I'm hoping to have like two large bags of clothes to Donate or whatever. Um, I just need to with fall coming. I've decided it's happening tonight in this closet guys Let me just show you this stuff is just crazy because I have to film a haul tomorrow and then I have stuff that I'm giving away And here is where it's really out of control. I have so much outerwear That just like it's it's too much. It is too much And then I have my sweaters and stuff here and like this just gives me anxiety So I don't know if I'll get to that tonight, but like at least I'll get to All of this stuff that's just like extra or whatever and the drawers the drawers are really I need to do So we're gonna see I'm gonna I'm gonna call some people, you know, get some entertainment See how long this lasts. I've already like been going through shoes and like putting some over that's why this is like emptier Um, and I have like new some out of in full shoes coming I love some out of in shoes. So it's just like I don't know like I never wear Oh, wait. No, these are kitten heels. I'll keep I just like never wear certain heels But it's like then when you need a pair of white heels you don't even like I need to keep them So this planet also like their hats back there are driving me insane. I've got to like figure that out too like There's just a lot going on Okay, good morning y'all it's Friday Which means it is the day that we're announcing that we're closing the okay, and I'm starting my own brand So lots of stuff to do today, and I also have so much filming I left pretty much every like brand deal this week that I need to film Today because I'm getting a blow up. So Um, it's like 7 30. I just got dressed. I'm wearing this onesie. I'm pretty sure this is from girlfriend collective Um, my new bounce sneakers. Sorry. I don't even know Way fair my accent pillow is out for delivery. It's crazy so much of this has already been delivered My mattress has come today But I need to move a couple things in that room. That's another thing I've got to do I've decided to cancel my plans tonight. It's Friday. I'm not doing anything because this weekend We're going to Fort Worth all day tomorrow. I'm going to a tcu game. Then we have like something to the drover and then um Sunday I have family stuff and then Monday is labor day, but I need to work because the next day We launched the recipe journals So, um, I need to stay home tonight and edit because I just have a lot of work to do So you guys are gonna be with me With me as opposed to where else would you be? Anyways, um time to make some coffee also though when I was cleaning up my closet Oh new hat of the day. This is stony clover. Isn't it so cute when I was cleaning up my closet I realized I have so many more house and I thought and I even donate. I'm gonna donate a ton. These are my current faves This is from our merch collection speaking of our texas t-shirts. I have just I try to keep them up here I don't know why I just do. Um, they're still available. So check them out They've been selling like crazy though. So thanks guys. Oh wait, hold on So, yeah, I don't have the best place to have these but I have my brown bunny housewife hats Clothes over bros land Rover texas woman's club Dime across ranch the Budweiser have that I bought and haven't even worn I forgot that I had it because they're just not like if I can't see something in my closet I will just never wear it Got a whole like big trash bag full of stuff yesterday. I went through my closet. It still doesn't feel super Organized but honestly, I got rid of a lot of stuff. I really was sweaters especially. I'm like such a sweaters girl this fall I want to just go through and only have like Quality sweaters the issues that I have like so many different kinds of each sweater And I do have like some nice ones But I just want to start building that collection because those are things that I will keep literally forever I'm back home. I got my blowout So much better. I feel like a new woman I'm about to get ready. I need to shower and then I'm going to get ready with y'all With some new makeup products. I ordered the mendocino salad again. I've gotten it I think every day this week for lunch mendocino farms is my favorite Lunch place ever anything at scissors Okay, and light my fall candle So I'm so hungry I announced that we're closing the okine and starting friend of mine I'm sure you guys have seen it everywhere now, but the response is so good so far Thank god. I mean not that I thought it wouldn't be good, but like I don't know It's always like nerve-wracking, you know So thanks guys. Um, but My pillow came in all of my stuff for this new room is coming in Apparently the wallpaper is getting delivered like this room Literally might be done by like next Friday and I ordered everything this week Like it's for sure done week after the next so that's really wild I'm gonna start moving stuff out later tonight. Just get the room like clean But it's kind of crazy finished all of my filming for the day. I have a lot of editing I'm staying in as you guys know. I'm trying to get this set up. Um I'm stepping out of the house very quickly because it may see it needs me to go to tokoas with her She's just doing a return But I love my outfit. My top is princess poly Bell I think is amazon. These are my favorite change from Abercrombie The only thing about them is that they stretch fast, but they're the best and then my annies return to kowa boots This is just like such a me fit I am obsessed It's 7 p.m. Um, I'm back home. We ended up getting a little happy hour at barcelona wine bar Which is like right by the chico was on on tenor's and it's so good Um, they have really good marks randomly, but anyways, I am outside side getting some work done and my laptop just died So I'm gonna go in and charge that And hopefully go to bed by like 9 p.m Because we have a like really early morning and college football is back tomorrow.  Be sure to check out princess poly. I love y'all so much and I'll talk to you soon What do you think magnolia's impression of you would be if she just met you? Oh god I think she'd be like who's this need like old version of me. Yeah, she's suburban life She's like staying into the future. She's like if that's like that's me if I like get my life together Or if I don't if I if I lose all my money and I


Hey there, welcome to the Darren Marlar radio show. If you want to like me, poke me, tweet me, follow me, stalk me, you can find links to all of my social media at DarrenMarlar.com. Welcome to the show. Coming up today, it's not often that somebody asks police to arrest him. But Williamsport, Pennsylvania Police, they say a 27-year-old guy did just that. That story is coming up in our brain on drugs later on. The C, it just might be watching you. I'll explain about that. Training for what to do in case of a robbery ends up as a moment of duh for one couple. But if you want to know how long grandpa is going to live, check out his pace of walking. Details on that coming up later on, and have you ever been rejected? Well, take heart. It might have made you a better judge of character in the future. Got our Weird Holidays coming up as well. I'm Darren Marlar, going to start the day off with this story.  Willie Marbury, he's an innocent bystander waiting for a bus when he's struck by a bullet from a nearby domestic argument. Marbury, thankfully, was okay thanks to the fact that he was wearing three pairs of pants. Police say the 53-year-old man escaped injury because he was so far away from where the gun was shot that the bullet was able to penetrate all three pairs of pants. In fact, the bullet was recovered from one of his pockets. Now, as for the question that's on everybody's mind, I know, why was he wearing three pairs of pants? Well, an officer replied, we don't ask those types of questions. Sometimes the answer's frighten us. It must be true, it must be true. Hey there, I'm Darren Marlar. Let's take a look at today's weird, wacky, strange, zany, odd, bizarre, quirky, unusual holidays. Today's Thursday, August 10th, you now have 136 shopping days until Christmas. And today is Improve Your Ice Cubes by Swapping Recipes Day. This may sound funny to you, but true story, my wife honestly and truly told me once that I was making ice cubes incorrectly. Seriously, apparently I wasn't using enough water. Today is also National Lazy Day, today to take it easy. One suggestion, don't make anything more complicated than ice cubes. Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada claimed they have found that women sometimes ovulate several times in a single month, which may require the rewriting of medical textbooks and explain why the rhythm method of birth control doesn't always work. This should be fun, educating married couples on the importance of abstinence.  The diamond in the ring I bought you is a fake.  For a man who doesn't want to get killed with a knife, these are the things you don't say to your wife. If you've ever been rejected, well, take heart. It might have made you a better judge of character for the future. I've got details on that coming up for you here in just a bit. Hey, if you'd like a few laughs after the show, you might want to check out my daily dose of weird news. I post a new episode every weekday and you can find that at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, Gordon Gekko, he was wrong. Greed is not good, especially if you want to live a long and happy life. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame reached that inclusion after analyzing the lives of more than 700 ambitious high achievers, many of whom graduated from power schools like Harvard and Yale. Ambitious people do achieve more successful careers, but that does not seem to translate into leading happier or healthier lives, says Professor Timothy Judge. He says despite their many accomplishments, ambitious people end up only slightly happier than their less ambitious counterparts, and they actually live somewhat shorter lives. And he continues on saying the investments they make in their careers come at the expense of healthy behaviors, stable relationships and deep social networks. If you want your children to lead happy and healthy lives, you might not want to overemphasize professional success. Office workers who are depressed, they are twice as likely to call in sick and miss work as their happier colleagues. This report brought to you by the Labs of Studying the Obvious. If you'd like to be a part of the show, I would love to get an email from you, I might even share it on the air. You can email me at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, if you've ever been rejected, well, you know you can take heart in that it might make you a better judge of character from now on. A Miami University study finds that being rejected by peers, friends or family members may give people the added advantage of spotting a fake when they encounter one. The study shows the people who have faced rejection have an enhanced ability to determine whether the happy face in front of them is a genuine happy face. Researchers found subjects who were manipulated to feel rejection were able to distinguish a fake smile from a real one nearly 80% of the time. According to researcher Michael Bernstein, real smiles are incredibly difficult to fake because a real smile is an automatic response to a positive feeling. He says if you can tell the difference between a real and a fake smile, you can identify a good person you can relate to while weeding out the trash. Turns out there was a shortage of anesthesiologists in America, so much so in fact that hospitals are asking colleges to encourage students to step into the field. In the meantime, surgeons are making due by putting patients to sleep with recordings of the Darren Marlar radio show. Today's birthday wrap-up for Thursday, August 10, celebrating birthdays today from Law & Order and Rosolian Isle's Angie Harmon is 45. From the Mask of Zorro, spy kids once upon a time in Mexico, also the voice of Puss in Boots in Shrek movies Antonio Banderas is 57 and from desperately seeking Susan in the whole nine yards actress Rosanna Arquette is 58. One Alaskan bridegroom, Kelly, gave his wife to be the ultimate gift on their wedding day, a chance to hear her late son's heartbeat. Becky Turney left an empty seat for her late son Tristan Green at her wedding ceremony, having no idea that her husband to be would ensure that her late baby boy would be there to share their big day in more than just spirit. Kelly contacted Jacob Kilby, the man who received the boy's heart transplant, and invited him to the wedding to stand in as an honorary groomsman. What an amazing story! If you want to read the entire story in detail, you can find it in my blog right now at DarrenMarlar.com. Definitely worth the read. It'll give you a warm feeling for the rest of the day. DarrenMarlar.com Well, if you want to know how long Grandpa is going to live, check his pace of walking. A report in the Journal of American Medical Association found a strong correlation between walking speed and expected survival rates for people over the age of 65. The analysis from nine studies showed faster walking speed among older adults was associated with increased length of survival. This does not bode well for me. I'm only 49 years old. I'm already getting lapped by ladies using walkers. Training for what to do in case of a robbery, it ends up as a moment of duh for one couple coming up. What is a pregnant goldfish called? I'll have the answer for you coming up here in just a bit. By the way, you can keep up with everything I do by signing up for my free newsletter. It's the Marlar Sheet. You can sign up for it at DarrenMarlar.com. Training for what to do in case of a robbery, that ends up as a moment of duh for one couple. Hey, I'm Darren Marlar and a 72-year-old Melbourne, Florida woman was accidentally shot by her husband during a robbery drill that the couple staged to practice how they would respond to an intruder. The Brevard County Sheriff's Office said Arnold and Patricia Morris had very little experience with guns, big surprise, and the shooting was clearly accidental. Arnold Morris called 911 after the .380 caliber pistol fired and his wife was airlifted to the hospital for surgery. The two were fortunate to escape serious injury. Patricia Morris was expected to make a full recovery. Hey, if you'd like to get social with me, you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, anchor.fm, mines.com, LinkedIn, Instagram. You can find links to all of my social media at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, it turns out I don't want to scare you, but the C might be watching you. By training fish to spit at photos of human faces, a new study has found that one species of tropical fish has the ability to distinguish one face from another. The study discovered archer fish are able to recognize faces with a pretty decent amount of accuracy. The fish were able to spot the right face 81% at the time and their accuracy improved to 86% when the researchers used a set of black and white images. So, archer fish are racist. Hey, if you miss any part of my show, you can catch up with me at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, the day is quickly coming. August 21st, the big solar eclipse and rural towns in the path of the eclipse are bracing for a flood of smartphone-toting visitors. Here we are in an era of Instagram and Snapchat, live streaming on YouTube and Facebook. All of these people are almost certainly going to want cell phone service, right? Well, that could be a problem because cell service basically doesn't exist in a lot of these small towns along the route of the solar eclipse. So, in response, all four nationwide carriers, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, are addressing this problem by rolling out surge capacity. The mobile sites are all designed to do one thing particularly well, boost wireless capacity in some cases by more than 300%. All of this for a single moment in history.  Anyway, if you want to read a little bit more about that, you can find it in my blog at DarrenMarlar.com. Scientists have found a way to grow human tissue on apples. Kind of freaky. I'll also be looking for greeting cards saying, you're the apple of my earlobe. You know, it's not often that somebody asks police to arrest him. Well, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, they say the 27-year-old Patrick McCarty did just that. Our brain on drug story is on the way. Today's question is impossible. What is a pregnant goldfish called? Well, it's called a twit. It has nothing to do with Twitter, and if I was a goldfish, I'd be a little offended by that. In 1994, two men broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole a version of Edward Monk's The Screen. They left a postcard that read, Thanks for the poor security. It's great to see that even some criminals have good manners, isn't it? Well, it's not often somebody asks police to arrest him. Williamsport, Pennsylvania police say 27-year-old Patrick McCarty did just that.  When police told him that that wasn't a crime, he took police to his apartment and handed over marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Well, that was enough. McCarty is being held now in lieu of $10,000 bail on drug charges. Welcome to the Darren Marlar radio show, and we haven't done this one in a while, Soul Glow, some stories that I just find special, heartwarming. Runner Jesse Oreck collapsed short of the finish line at the Beach to Beacon 10K race in Maine recently. He said, It kind of seemed like it was over for me. Then I felt someone pick me up. Arrival runner Robert Gomez helped Oreck to his feet, and together they crossed the finish line. Then Oreck collapsed again. Gover told reporters he ran a better race. He gave it more than I did. I didn't deserve to win. I couldn't leave him there. The touching moment was captured by news reporters and photographers, and Gomez and Oreck both had the same time, 31 minutes, 31 seconds. Oreck later explained that he had suffered a heat stroke with his core body temperature peaking at 107.3 degrees. Pyro Nakajima, the actor who stomped in a rubber suit to portray the original 1954 Godzilla, has died. He was 88 years old. He'll be cremated using hot breath from a giant lizard, then be put out to sea and come back again 52 times. If you'd like to listen to shows from the past, you can download my free mobile app to search for Marlar House in your phone app store. I'm Darren Marlar and U.S. soldiers. They are going to extremes, taking diet pills and laxatives, even starving themselves and getting liposuction. Why? Well, to meet the military's weight standards, according to the Army Times, more than a third of uniformed men and women, they don't meet the Army's weight standards, according to a recent military fitness report, and those officers are subjected to dreaded tape measurements to determine body fat percentage. If soldiers exceed the body fat limits, they can't earn leadership roles or promotions. Are most of our soldiers using technology nowadays, like flying drones, navigated missiles and rockets? I say forget the weight limits. We should be going after the fat slobs living in their parents' basements that spend all their time on halo and world of warcraft.


Hi folks, my name's James Trudinick, welcome to another exciting episode of Bay46 and things are exciting because right behind Dom, our wonderful cameraman here, the Wanderers are preparing for the A-League's first ever Christmas Eve game this Thursday night against the New Castle Jets. Now seeing as the Wanderers have only one game left in 2015, now's your good time to take a look back at the story so far. The Wanderers lead the A-League, two points ahead of Brisbane Raw and although our wonderful winning streak has come to an end, we're still eight games undefeated. Sitting at the top, how good is that? Now since we're here training, I think that we should talk about the thing that's on everyone's lips and that is the set piece, the lead to Brendan Sandelab's goal against Perth. I'll talk you through it, in case you haven't seen it, it's very simple. Fitisic to Nichols, Nichols to Jamison, Jamison crosses into Sandelab who finishes. Looks simple but I think you'll agree if you've seen it that it is the most wonderful set piece that you'll see in the A-League this season, if not of all time. Now Popper, as he has wanted to do, has given the credit to Andreas Carrasco instead of himself and since we're on the topic of Andreas, I think it's important we mention him because he has been pivotal this season for the Wanderers' success. Although Popper calls the shots at training and he's still the man in charge, Carrasco has been very good at letting the players know exactly what he wants them to do. On to some team news now and we'll start with the bad news. That is that Andreou has picked up the Wanderers' first suspension of the season with five yellow cards but the good news is that's really the only bad news. The Wanderers' forward line all look just about ready to start with Piavacari, Sandelab, Mark Bridge and Gogo Mabratu fighting for selection so that's sure to cause some headaches for Popper come Thursday night. The other good news is Dimus is set to come back into the side after recovering from a little niggle he was suffering from but although he plays he probably won't be too happy about his partner in crime Andreou being missing from the field. Let's talk about the Jets. Newcastle started the season very well, even leading the league at one point but unfortunately have dropped off and are winless in their last seven games. Despite this however they have a surprisingly strong record at Wanderland. The five times they've played at Pertek they've lost only once and picked up three points on three occasions the most recent of which being last March. If the Wanderers hope to walk away with the three points this Thursday they will need to be careful to avoid the Jets who do. Now since it is Christmas I think it's only fitting that we take a walk down nostalgia way and remember some of the Wanderers most triumphant victories over recent festive seasons. Starting with number three and on the 23rd of December 2013 the Wanderers beat the Central Coast Mariners 2-0. Now while the game in itself was memorable with goals to both Eurich and Hersey what was most memorable was what happened off the field with nearly 16,000 people in the crowd making Christmas lights with their phones and it begs the question will it happen again. Number two is our 2-1 win against Melbourne victory on the 1st of January 2013 and this one was a Shinji Ono masterclass with the Japanese legend scoring both goals the first a sumptuous curling effort and the second this gorgeous touch and volley effort. And number one and I'm sure you'll remember this one 21st of December 2012 our 6-1 thrashing of Adelaide United it remains our biggest ever win and in it Mark Bridge scored the first and only Wanderers hat trick in history goals also to Dino Crescinger, Shinji Ono and Joey Gibbs how good was that game. That's it for another episode of Bay 46 I will remind you that the Wanderers play the new Castle Jets on Thursday night Christmas Eve kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Wonderland hope to see you all there but if you can't make it which is understandable please remember to release your seat through your My Wanderers account to give as many people as possible the chance to cheer on the Wanderers on Christmas Eve. My name is James Trudinik and from all of us here at the Wanderers please have a safe and merry Christmas I'll see you next time.


Welcome to Geosciences 10. I'm Richard Alley and I'll be your tour guide to the geology of the national parks. In the course of the semester we're going to visit some of the most beautiful and interesting places in the world. We're going to ask some big questions. Why are there mountains and volcanoes and earthquakes? Why are the mountains torn down by rivers by glaciers? What's the history of this planet? How do we live on the planet? How do we stay happy and healthy and terrific with the planet? And while we're doing it we are going to visit some of the most beautiful wonderful places on the planet. At the end of the semester we're all going to know a lot more about the national parks and you're going to be so excited that next summer you're going to be off to visit one because they're such wonderful places. Have a great semester. I'm going to jump on my bicycle and head into school and get to it.


Cool. Cool. Can everyone, oh wait, can everyone hear me? I'll just look for a comment in discussion forum and then we'll end this screen section and go. Yep. All right. Cool. Cool. Let's do this. Okay. I am going to be running some slides. So I will just be checking periodically if, works. Works. So question, how do you get people to do stuff? And more specifically, how do you get people to do stuff that's written down? So I'm going to share my perspective as a content nerd from way back around writing style guides, but the principles that I'm going to share with you could apply just as well to any kind of policy or guidance material that's written down and that you want people to follow. So quick intro. I'm Matt Fenwick. I head up the content and cons practice at Oxide Interactive. We're a full service digital agency in Canberra and some of the recent projects we've worked on for National Archives, they were stuck in a consulting loop for about five years where they were getting reports on consulting reports on consulting reports. We came in and in 10 weeks we had an alpha and we then continued to work with them right through to deliver with beta and beyond. So that included UX research, information architecture, design system and a whole ton of content help. The other one we've worked on is the transparency portal for Department of Finance. This is a whole of government, online annual reporting platform that we developed. Both of these big projects were published to Drupal but use some fairly nifty technology that I'll share with you as we go. So, Star Guides.  It's this artifact that you hold onto, that you treasure as much as the Ark of the Covenant in Indiana Jones, the Raiders of the Lost Ark. That's it. So it's this hugely valuable artifact that we invest a huge amount of time and we put all of our focus on. However, unfortunately, what ends up happening is that we realize that the Star Guide is an object of such immense power and immense potential to change the world that the only thing we can do with it is what ended up happening at the end of the movie. We take the Ark of the Covenant or the Star Guide and we file it. So it gathers dust somewhere on our intranet or somewhere in a binder on someone's desk and it doesn't actually affect any change. You know, we designed our Star Guide for a reason to influence people's behavior and that tends not to happen. And to understand why that is, I think we need to stop thinking about Star Guides as a discrete artifact and shift our thinking instead to Star Guidance. So what is the system of guidance that we are designing? And then how can we apply some basic UX principles to make that system work more effectively? And to show you what I mean, I'm gonna ask a question. I'm just gonna pull up. Let me see if we can do this. All right, I'm gonna do some fancy. Okay, you will hopefully see a picture of the road.  And then I'm gonna ask a question over in the discussion forum. I would love to see your thoughts on what is the reason that you drive on the left-hand side of the road? Go. Because expand, Simon. I love it. I love it. Don't, I'm in Greece. Because back in the day when people jousted and fought with swords, you used your right hand. Okay. I get find otherwise. What are the things that influence you? Passenger door on the left. Lots of cool behavioral cues. Yep. So what about the things in your environment? And I'm gonna pull up this slide again. What are the things in the environment that influence you to drive on the left-hand side of the road? Other cars, yep. Signs, stripes. Other cars following the law. Cool, cool. Lines. Okay. How I was taught to drive. So these are, by the way, I didn't know the one about jousting. So I too have learned something. We'll go back to my slides. So what I find interesting in all of these is that when I pulled out of the driveway this morning to drop off my kids, I didn't look at the road rules. You know, I didn't read the manual. So yes, we drive because it was the law and what I was taught to do. But what I find interesting is that I don't think I ever read the section of the road rules that said you should drive on the left-hand side of the road. It was just a habit. So my suggestion for us is that anytime we want to influence people's behavior, then we need to think about designing habits. So I follow the model from psychologist Charles Duregg, how habits work. And he says that every time we wanna change, break or form a habit, we need to design a habit loop. So an example is, let's say it's late afternoon. I'm feeling snacky. So that's the cue, right? That's a prompt. Then I execute a routine or a behavior. So I go to the cafeteria. I get muffins. And then I bring them back to my co-worker's desk.  So in other words, that reinforces the behavior. So if we wanna change people's habits, we need to change one or more elements of the habit loop. And I'm gonna start with changing the cue. So the problem with star guides or a lot of the guides that we write down is that there's no cue there.  There's nothing to prompt us to do the thing that we want people to do. So here's an example of a cue that's present in people's environment. You'll see a little tray with coins right next to the bedside table. So that's a prompt saying, last thing of the day, empty the change out of your pockets and put it here. Now you could approach your star guide thinking, well, we could just do a quick reference guide and maybe content nerds like me will print it off and put it up on their cubicle.  So what I'm suggesting we need to do is think about how we can embed the star guides actually in the authoring experience itself. Now I'm gonna share with you two tools that we use to do that. And those tools are Master Docs and Gather Content. Master Docs is a tool that we at Oxide developed. So Gather Content is a tool that's run by a lovely mob out of the UK. Both of them export to Drupal. Both of them do all of the things that you'd be familiar with from Drupal. So content modeling, customisable workflows, you can set editing permissions. Gather Content is designed for web content projects that works with pages that need to be linked together in some way. Master Docs is designed more for documents. So think annual reports, technical documents, scientific publications where you have a discrete document. It's usually quite long and there are usually lots of different people who need to contribute to it. Now, what I think is cool about these two tools is that it can actually support the ongoing use of Drupal. So what we're hearing from a couple of our clients and I know this came up last night as well, is a couple of them are looking at moving to WordPress because to them, the authoring experience in WordPress is a lot easier. Now WordPress doesn't have a lot of the controls and functionality that Drupal does, but it is easier so I've heard for people to pick up. So what I'm interested in is using some tool like Master Docs or Gather Content that effectively emulates a word authoring environment. Something has a very, very low barrier to entry, but you can still then export it to Drupal. So this isn't obviously gonna be a fit for every organization, but it is interesting where you want to have distributed authoring in your organization. You don't necessarily wanna have everything going all on your web dev or web publishing teams. So we're gonna explore how those tools can work with behavioral cues. Oh, and by the way, I can't see questions and comments right now, but I'll duck back in at the end. Cool, cool. So this is from Gather Content. This is a content type corner in the employee bio. And I wanted to zero in on this. So this is the field where we enter the employee name and you'll see there it says include your first and second names, but no need for titles or acronyms. So that is a queue that's present right there at the time that people are actually entering in the text. It's a reminder. Similarly in Gather Content, we have checklists that we can set up as tabs. So we could expect that the subject matter experts are going to remember to check the content to make sure it meets legislative requirements or we could give them a checklist that's right there in the authoring environment for them to use. Look, this brings up a bit of a problem that I have around the way comms, writing, web training is often done. It's often approached very much as telling people what to do. So you go, right, we've told people, now if they don't do the thing that we want them to do, that's their problem. But UX teaches us that it's not enough to just present information, need to structure it in a way that meets people's needs. So this is where having these behavioral supports or scaffolds are so important. And then here's an example from Master Docs. So Master Docs has a feature called documents in series. What that means is, if you've designed the structure for one document and you wanna do another document of that type, you can just start a new instance of that document and it'll have all the heading structure pre-populated. So it's again a cue for people to write about, who is at increased risk, which is Stational Diabetes and so on. Cool, cool. Next up, we can show, yeah. That was, sorry, Siri has attachment issues. So she just interrupts me from time to time. Sorry. Okay, so changing the routine. This is about making things easier or harder for people to do. And you remember in the photo of the road I showed you, there were the lane markings, the dots along the middle of the road. That's what we call a soft barrier. So it's saying, hey, you probably shouldn't, you probably shouldn't drive over here. But then there's a hard barrier, which is the railing on the other, on the side of the road. Make it almost impossible for you to veer off into the meadows. So this is an example of a soft barrier. It says, do not enter. This is from my six year old son's bedroom door. And I could technically enter the room if I so chose, but it's, you know, it's impeding my behavior a little bit. So that's a soft barrier. Here is a soft barrier from gather content. So you can see here that it's saying you've got 60 words for the employee name. If you go over the 60 words, then it will just, it will show red, but you can still do it. An example of a hard barrier in content. So LinkedIn connection requests, you literally can't send a connection request that's more than the requisite number of characters. Here's an example of a hard barrier from gather content. So gather content handy, so this is master docs, I'm sorry. Master docs where you, you want a whole bunch of the content to be exactly the same, but you want to have some flexibility in there. So you can set variable fields within master docs. So in this case gestational diabetes, where you can set it up. So that is the only thing that people can change. All of the other content is locked down. So that's making it impossible for business areas to go rogue and just rewrite the content at will, which they have a tendency to do. Cool, cool. So this is an example from gather content of the permissions that you can set up. This is going even more granular into setting exactly what different, different sort of role types can do. Master docs has a similar feature, but within gather content, you can set it so that people can review and comment, but they can't rewrite the content. So if you're interested in preserving the integrity of the content, it's brand voice, but you do want to get people's feedback, having this kind of feature can be super, super handy. Okay, next up changing the reward or the result. This is the consequence of their behavior. We like to use tools like readable, visible thread to run readability audits of web content. And so you can see here that the reach score for this content is 28 against a baseline of 60. That's calculated based on a combination of number of long sentences, number of complex words. Similarly, you can see that long sentences are 23% where we should be aiming for five or lower. Now there is a lot of debate around how much readability indexes actually tell you. And it's no substitute for a deep dive into Google Analytics or for doing user testing. But what it does do is give you insights at scale about the readability of your content that feel kind of sciency, you know? So for your stakeholders, and particularly when you're trying to influence business areas to write less fluff, then you can use a real readability score as an instant metric to take to them and kind of show a bit of a red traffic light where the content's not readable. However, I think it's really, really important to also look at positive reinforcement because the truth is nobody shows up at work wanting to do a bad job. So how do we encourage people when they're already doing the right thing? And how do we build up a support around them? And this is where I think community is so interesting because when you build up a community of practice around your style guides or around any practice for that matter, it complained to every part of the habit loop. So for example, in a queue, it could be my supervisor saying, hey Matt, remember to check the length in your sentences this next time, a routine. People won't always go to the style guide, but they will often ask a colleague. So if you have the style guidance shared and understood in the community, then someone can go, oh, hey Matt, what do we do about bullet points again? And the reward is the sharing of best practices, particularly if you have a community of practice built up around your style guide, you can share lessons learned and also congratulate people when they're doing a good job to provide that social proof, that sense of, sorry, social reinforcement. This is the way we do things around here. Now, in practice, this is how it can work. Start off by considering the tech for some organizations, just using Drupal is gonna work fine. For other organizations, particularly where you wanna have distributed authoring and editing, something like master docs or gather content can be really useful for people who just wanna use something that looks like word because that's what they're familiar with. Then you define the content types. So what are the varieties, the content that we need to be designing for? The style guidance, how do we want those things to be written? The workflows, how does that content move from draft to published and beyond? And then we put it all together, we integrate the style guidance into the content types, the right steps and workflows. I would should also be setting up some measurement. It's not enough students have a style guide. How do you track compliance with it? And how do you build up a community to support people? So we would love to talk to you if you're embarking on a website, project where content is important. Come and chat to us at the exhibition stand or I'm doing a free 30 minute coaching course myself on better ways of working on content with subject content, with subject matter experts, just for people who book by 20th of November. Please connect with me, shoot me an email, feel free to ask me any questions. And I'm gonna jump over to discussion forum. And yeah, I am here to answer maybe one quick question. Thanks Alexandra. Yeah, Daniel, road norms. Well, that's exactly it, that's habits. All right, cool. I'll just pull up my details again on this slide. Oh, it's coming. Thank you Sydney, bowels. Cheers Josh, thank you.