Hello everyone welcome back to my channel. Dom and I are really excited. This is not sponsored I bought Everlane mask and they are like the best mask ever I put it in my bag my white ones in my bag. I pretty much will leave Kenzie until I need you It is currently Monday this morning We filmed a video where it dobbed as my morning routine and it's so funny and she just said Kenzie I can't lie. I feel like I'm on top of the world, right? I Feel so guys. No BS. I literally feel so good and I actually have done so much today and And like at first I was dogging Kenzie because I was like this hoe gets up at God knows what time not even early Take out these dogs Clean the house cooks. Yes, I do the cooking. Yes, I do the cleaning and then like, you know But now and I've done 12 340 And I've run I've watered plants. I've taken care of the children and cocoa and fits you feel good I feel good and I feel happy exactly guys. I have gotten a lot done today. It's been a very productive Monday morning We're about to go grab Starbucks. I haven't even had breakfast yet It's 12 18 just because I was so focused on filming this video with Dom That I just forgot I know I'm saying but I stole a mush because I thought I was gonna pass out You're not stealing you can eat the food in the fridge Dom like we go through this all the time Also, I haven't even had the moshes for my last package So I would prefer that you eat them because they're probably gonna go bad. Anyways, I'm putting some stuff away We're about to head out. We have to run an errand get some coffee Dom just like needs to pick up some clothes out of store Because she basically like didn't pack enough. She really wants clothes Like she's been putting off doing this and now I'm like we should just go We just got to go and then I've got a lot of editing to do today.  So cute. This is what I've been waiting for since I woke up this morning Yard Hi, can I do you want your normal? Sorry once I get I want matcha Can I get the It's Sorry, sorry, sorry. This is my story. Can I get a protein box? Yes, and then one protein box and that's it the chicken and hummus one the chicken and hummus Yes Dom does this thing where she doesn't decide what she wants until after it Like I'm talking like paid, you know, do you guys know something different about my makeup? Maybe it's cuz I did it like can see Elizabeth today Okay, miss Latoille Wilkerson is no, I love her My god, so wait like her birthday party invite was a little or something is like this Oh my gosh Guys she has her own pillow that says lip gloss poppin. She's incredible and look at her carrying her mail I just I'm too obsessed with her if my daughter is just like this Can I play a song? What's it gonna be?  Thank you Thank you Thank you. Have a good day favorite Christmas song I'm such a breakfast person and for me to have not had breakfast so far and it's noon Yeah, I just like doesn't happen morning routine my arse.  I picked up on some bad habits of projecting my problems on to me I really think this is for real Yeah, they're not gonna get it. They're like can you so mean? It's not true. I have audio of you saying I've been nice the first ever I live you're literally so Guys we're back home The the fridge is not as organized as it once was because there's just so much stuff in here However, we got new drinks. These were sent to me. I don't really like sparkling water that much But I know that Dom does so hopefully these are good. She said they're good and I'll try them But they look super cute guys. I I Got great things today. I am so excited to show you so the shopping trip was fully for Dom But I feel as though I benefited the most we're gonna start off. Oh wait No, we are gonna start off with what I got from favor the kind guys. This is the best thing I've purchased in 2020 and I've said that a lot come to my house come to my kind of loasis No, this is it. It's a dolly part in ornament. I will have it linked down below favor the kind I believe they're in Dallas in Colorado, but Like, oh my god. Look at this. Is this not the most me thing you've ever seen in your entire life Dolly Parton ornament like also the funniest thing I've ever seen so Anyways, if you know any dolly part lovers, this is a great gift Moving on to H&M guys. I have never been an H&M shopper really until 2020 and I just keep getting the best things from them. They were also 30% off today Also, it is bothering me that this sports bra doesn't match my tank top, but this sports bra on this color Was this at what milk? I don't know Couldn't tell you. Um not available. Okay first thing I got Which this was $80 total 30% off is this like beige coat It's really hard to find a beige coat that doesn't look really cheap the one from everything that I wanted was $250 this one is 80 and it was 30% off Like guys, it's such a good coat. Just a classic. I'll have it forever There's another coat. I have like I have a beige coat, but I hate it So I'm really excited to get rid of that and keep this one because I will wear this forever Such a good. Bye. Okay. This sweater is like was only $20. It's not the best material But I love the look of it and it was on sale and it's one of those things where I don't know Like I hope this thing pleasantly surprises me why how it keeps, but I just love the look Thought it was so cute really simple love that and then I got this Cropped little sweater that I know I will get so much use out of for 3499 obviously plus 30% off So cute. I got it in an extra small Just so it would like actually be a little more fitted but so cute So I got three pairs of shoes. These are also on sale for 30% off I only have two with me the other pair are so cute But I might not get them because they may have sold out, but we can't we kind of long story. Whatever. No one cares I got these in brown or not green. Why did I think I got these in green? I know I know I got them in brown, but for some reason I got them in green I also probably go buy these in green, but these are so beautiful Sam Adelman has like the cutest shoes ever Love these little loafers So cute that so many different colors and I feel like I'm gonna wear them all the time I'm really into brown this year And I haven't been into brown since like elementary school saved the best for last With these boots. I really did Have you ever seen more beautiful boots in your entire life? The answer is no, okay? I will have all this link down below, but guys 30% off the most beautiful boots I have ever seen without a doubt Literally in love with these so I'm gonna wear these every day. Can't wait All right guys. I just showered I worked out I did 12 through 30 I forced myself to work out now it is 5 30 I'm gonna make some bone broth or heat up some bone broth I got this at the farmers market yesterday. Wow that feels like date like that literally feels like four days ago Anyways, it's just one-to-one. This is the place that I went at the Dallas farmers market. She's super cute She used to teach cooking causes and stuff. We really got along well. We have designated survivor on Just made some bone broth that I got at the farmers market heating up some dinner This is just leftover bolognese and then I am boiling some noodles. It's Tuesday morning It's like seven right now. I'm going to wash my sheets and do everything today. So that's why this is like this Um, I just put on another set active set. I want to show you the sports bra But I don't know how much you can really see like isn't that so cool. I I've never had a sports probably like this where it's just like one side. So I thought that was cool Anyways, I also got the tank top. I got all this at the set active sale. I actually really do like it I think it's really flatter the sports bras. I really like I'm not gonna say They're like the sturdiest if you have a big chest, but they still work and because a lot of my stuff is like a Lot of my workouts lately are like low intensity. It's not that big of a deal I also just think the leggings are really flattering and comfortable. I'm about to take the dogs on a walk I have a lot of editing to do today I don't know if I'm gonna have to get ready because I don't think I'm filming until tomorrow Which is cool, but just got some things to do So I'm about to take the dogs on a walk. I self-tanned last night using the Isla Paradise tanner Which is one of my favorites. I get the medium color I just love having a little bit of a tan on because it like cancels out all redness and I just look more awake I'm gonna go. It's probably cold out. I might have to throw on another coat. We'll see All right guys. I know you're probably shocked. I'm at Starbucks. I'm not proud. I'm really not It's just this drink guys. It's like no one I would love to find a smaller coffee shop that can make this But I've had no luck. I've had quite the morning went on a nice walk. I've been reading I started reading Lisa Turquoise So how do you say her last name? I've never actually said it out loud Um, one of my favorite authors new book. So that's exciting I did my divo and now I'm getting coffee and I'm going to the grocery store So it feels like quite the little self-care morning. It's also cold out Which I love I'm listening to a podcast. I was listening to my lad I actually think I'm gonna listen to this video confidential. Oh today guys. I'm excited. I found a Organizer in the Dallas area. So I'll be sharing the process. I'll obviously be sharing her and her page Um, I just really want to get my kitchen and my like laundry room. It's not really a room. You'll see what I mean Organized we're gonna figure it all out. Um, and then hopefully I can save a lot of money on my organization stuff And buy it online on black friday or cyber monday or whatever I mean those sales at this point are like two weeks long All right guys, so I'm home. I just drank some bone broth Um, we have to run an errand just like down the street So just sent videos of my kitchen and my laundry like room that's in the room But I think you guys have definitely seen it in the vlogs. It's off the garage. So it's downstairs and I honestly just need basically I just feel like things are cluttered and one my kitchen needs We organize to the laundry room. I feel like that's space that I could be utilizing in a much better way So I am working with an organizer in Dallas and so I just sent her over videos and stuff Um, you guys can do this virtually as guys it is 4 30 now I haven't even been able to get the work done that I wanted to today because we it just the whole It was a day. Okay. Um, but I'm gonna head upstairs. I'm in the middle of watching all my sheets doing a bunch of laundry I need to get some editing done. So I'm gonna get cozy And have an editing night, which I haven't done in a while because I feel like I've been really good About my schedule and trying to not work past like six. All right guys, very exciting Jamie Kern Lima's a book. I just got it in the mail. I'm so excited. She's just one of the greatest people One of my favorite people. Um, I have a podcast episode up with her that is So good seriously everyone should listen to it Anyways, this book comes out in February and I'm having her on again So I got an early release copy which I'm so excited to read Guys just like look at how cute the set active set is. I just love I've never worn um a sportswear like this, but I think it's really cute. It looks like I'm not wearing a top right now I am so I started watching designated survivor with Dom I don't know if we said that in the vlog But I actually watched all of dash and lily which is very good for me because I'm bad at watching series My drawers are just falling out of my nightstand right now.  So, you know, this book that I talked about that I absolutely love is doctor amen They're opening amen clinics in Dallas, which I just found out today. So that's great news for 2020 They open it says online january 2021 Anyways, um, I also started watching designated survivor after I finished dash and lily. I thought dash and lily was so cute I know it's like cheesy, but whatever. It's christmas And we started watching designated survivor and we're like probably seven or eight episodes in I love that show. It kind of gives me scandal vibe. So I'm into it I was so excited to cook tonight and honestly with just today's Um day as a whole I lost all my energy. So anyways, it has ordered some soup and a sandwich from McAllister's off door dash I'll have my door dash code linked down. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. My hair is an absolute mess today I just got dressed I'm actually dressed today, which is pretty good for me. This brown sauce from revolve I don't know when I became such a revolve gal This coat is the coat I got this week at h&m and then my boots are my new favorite boots from Sam Edelman. I'll show you up close. They're so cute Like I'm gonna wear them all the time But I didn't have these to be wearing my ox. So I'm much more stylish now Oh, and obviously I'm wearing my favorite bag. I'm just really into browns this season guys Literally all this vlog is me getting this drink. It's so embarrassing Oh, do you just love your outfit for the day? Yeah, I don't feel that much anymore. So I'm feeling good about it. Oh my gosh. It is so bright. Hi. How are you? Thank you Yes, please. I'm I'm good. Thank you Thank you. Have a good day Really just like talk about a better way to start off your day Starbucks We're going to get rapid tested just to be Responsible and safe guys who remembers sand moon if any of you guys grew up in Like north dallas when sand moon opened when we were young Oh my god, I just I didn't even know it still existed. I'm in farmers branch right now, but like I just I almost seem to go in we're home. I'm about to edit get some work done I got this new candle from recess Which was so exciting. I know I should cut the wick. I just was too lazy.  So if you guys are interested in that check out my instagram reel Hi. Oh, okay. I literally just washed my bedding. This is the problem Good afternoon everyone. My hair is crazy. I know Um, I'm currently making bone broth. I'm already sure this is you guys I've been sharing it on my instagram stories, but we've been doing this this week. Basically. It's a one-to-one ratio It's super easy. Oh I know my mom will like straight up put bone broth in soup and stuff. I normally will just drink it I'm gonna make A half a cup if I'm just making it for myself. I do like a half a cup um, but if I'm making it for me and dama do A cup of water and a cup of this it's like two seconds. It's so good for you I can't tell you the benefits off the top of my head because I just can't but if you google um, um, it comes up like really quick. I feel like I haven't had enough water today I oh, okay. I just finished editing the funniest video Literally ever of me and Dawn like I'm actually dying on it. Basically Dawn's of my morning routine. It's coming soon. You guys will see it within the next few days um, but It is so funny. I'm just like so proud of that video and I think you guys are gonna love it I've been looking for my Water cup later tonight. I'm gonna need to bake some pies Smart Thanksgiving. We are going to my sister. It's just my immediate family plus Dom obviously So I'm just really excited. It's been such a good week And it just feels so good out like I don't know. I just love cold weather and it puts me in the best mood I'm my bone broth. I'm about to edit some more Videos and reels and things like that. All right guys. I've just been sending a bunch of stuff in that needed to go In to be approved this time of year I know everyone talking about this is the busiest time of the year because it's quarter four So basically there's more money in advertising and you know brand deals So here I am. I'm actually about to go record a solo podcast for the living room Which you guys didn't know it is my faith faith patreon a lot of you guys recently been asking for a podcast episode Unlike my testimony, which is basically my story. It sounds so like ridiculous. That's up on there already Currently we have what I'm into health guys. Look Look at these dogs right now like fits. What? So anyways, we're currently doing what I'm into health but I'm actually going to start working on one that's like basically 2020 being a disappointment and making it out alive, but in a good more positive way than that guys I just got the cutest little present dropped off at my house. Oh my god. Like look This is so cute. So this is actually one of natalie barbie's really good friends And she's opening up a coffee shop in dallas.  She's so cute. But if you guys want to discount code, it's kenzie 15 It's roasted in texas. Oh my gosh. Wait, there's holiday stencils From the cinnamon. Oh my gosh stop. Oh my god. I'm gonna I literally feel so cool Oh my gosh. Okay. Well, thank you so much. This is such a cute gift to get All right guys, it's five. I've just been baking this afternoon and watching bad mom's christmas Go, this is the gluten-free pie crust for my brother. This is the good one All right guys, they're finally ready to go in the oven if you guys need the actual recipes from an instagrammerl on my profile Honestly, I've been on my feet for the past two hours and I'm already exhausted I'm currently heating up some tamales from the farmers market. I'm just gonna have a chill night I started reading a new book last night called the light we lost And I finished my original book last night I saw like 30 left Then I got that book because I saw people talking about it in the red heads book club on facebook And then I'm literally so old I started reading that last night and I could have read it in one sitting But I made myself stop I think at like 50 or something I'm like halfway down I might finish it tonight because it's just so good But don is trying to plug her vlog. She started playing it Yeah guys, I just uh, you know, there can't be just one vlogger in the house.  Go check it out All right, I'm uploading a video. I'm gonna keep editing a vlog. It's 6 43 p.m. Hi, coco And then I'm gonna read my book Look at how cute she is I showered I feel like So Just cozy and good. Oh feel so good in my room Thanksgiving guys. I just packed up.  Anyways, I just got ready. I don't love these jeans with the sweater But honestly, I already put boots on and I just don't feel like changing. I'm gonna put a coat on anyways I just did my hair and makeup. I'm using my little shea Mitchell base bag. By the way, this bag is incredible I know I've shared it before I haven't even put anything in the bottom of it because I don't really need anything this time Actually, no, I'm gonna put my boots there Anyways, this is the best weekender bag like it is honestly next level. I'm absolutely obsessed with it It's There's some chatter Okay, we're at Starbucks. Okay, I didn't even tell you we were coming a peppermint mocha with almond milk Okay, I guess that's what you want and everything We're gonna get started. I'm about to hit you Heather. Hi, how are you? I'm doing good. How about yourself? We are happy Thanksgiving? We are at Starbucks. This has been every day in this vlog. Dom and I are partaking in a very um intimate, um Activity of listening to a podcast together. Yeah, that really is like a new, you know, I don't know I just don't like listening to podcasts with people normally. Yeah. It's more of like a solo act Speaking of new podcast episode went out today. It's a holiday survival. It's mine. Spoiler alert. Um, also I kind of oh, I think I'm wearing the sweater that I wore in the Am I? Gotcha. Yeah, I'm wearing the sweater. I wore in the new cover But I'm giving you a holiday survival guide. So dealing with family drama Self-care in the holidays routines having energy. Um, again dealing with family drama, you know, I'm an expert at this point Lauren and I did um a book club for our last book So Lauren's on the last half of the episode But it's really good regardless of if you did the book club or not because it's not just that Every day.  Uh, no, I just didn't know how your family was. We just eat as soon as the food's ready Well, like do you not have breakfast because you want to be so hungry? Oh, no We like literally would be like we'd start eating now Do you know what I'm saying? Do you just as each dish is ready? You just eat it like once 11 hits Everything's ready. Oh, like Alexis spent like a hundred dollars on the short creed to be bored alone So I'm imagining us to have like a lot of things happening. Yeah in Sophie's ready to be a youtube star She recently told my parents aka her grandparents. This is my niece She's so cute every time she's been here like all week. I like want to get their names I feel like that's you know, I do that with like coffee. What I feel like that's kind of weird in a drive through Is that weird? I don't know Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you Okay, thanks Anyways, Sophie recently told my parents that she said she's really excited because Kinsey's gonna teach her how to start a youtube channel Which was interesting because we haven't had that conversation. So I guess I'm here to teach her how to start a youtube channel. So We have gone permission from her mother aka my sister technically my step sister Um to do youtube. Oh, okay I'm gonna give you guys a family treat really quickly because I know that's gonna be asked It's always asked I'm just gonna do my mom's side of the family tonight because I can't even be bothered I have two like real siblings, right and then on my mom's side. I technically have I have three Step siblings on her side. One of them has passed away. So the two living are Alexis My step sister who's like five years older than me and then Ryan. I have two stepbrothers named Ryan It's very confusing. I know Ryan's 11 months older than me. I don't even know if he's home right now Sophie Alexis is married to my brother-in-law.  Okay I need to do one of those tick tocks that Keaton did people keep requesting it But like my family is just not as like excited to be on camera as her family, you know I feel like you could do it I would look for some to get my brother Ryan to do this like you don't understand He would literally rather die Than do the tick tock which honestly if I got my whole family in on it They would do it just because they thought it would be funny if they made Ryan do it You know what I mean? Yeah, and then I guess I will go into my dad's side my dad is remarried and They both have been my both my parents when you're married for like 10 years My step siblings on that side are Ryan said Abby their triplets Seth is in the vlogs like honestly pretty frequently. I'm with Seth all the time I was on FaceTime with him earlier And they are seniors in high school and so is my little brother And so there's four of them that at the same age and it really is stressful I thought about that this morning that Like all my siblings are gonna basically are gonna be away at college next year I'm like not gonna do well because that will just not be good at all I'll be very sad is Kenzie has me and it's really weird that she didn't mention me and her family tree And then Dom is actually the adopted daughter. So it's like crazy how that worked out. It's crazy how it worked out I'm really just doing really I'm really good at forcing my way Into people's families. This is what I fear about having a significant other during the holidays Is that like wants to go see their family because I already have such a big family that my holidays are already split Here, you know what I'm saying?  I'm not gonna actually do that But it's just gonna be like really Interesting especially because I feel like I'm way closer to my family than most people are So that's why it's never been a problem before because like my family also is kind of like My social life as well as like whoever I'm dating like they you know get looped in I wouldn't go do it with another family. I just hope that they're in texas What's so interesting is I'm reading the book for your book club Are you starting it? Yeah, it's really it's really cute and it's fun I feel like this is what I would want like I think this is like really cool pretty much. It's like A like a group of friends that got really close in college And they like all had kids and their kids are like best friends and they every year spend Christmas together Yeah And all of that and they just like have not not spent Christmas together ever since like someone One of their friends I could be down to that. Thank god we're college friends. Um, so I I make the cut I could be into that and also I think Regardless, like I think I would want to do I would love to have like a really close friend group We all get married have kids around the same time Do the similar things and then we go and we go to like montana for a week before Thanksgiving things like that Like I would be so into that But also that's why I have to buy a massive house in texas because I want to host So then everyone comes to me, you know, so it's like my family's here all of my families here I have way too big of a family and then all my friends, you know Just just things to think about let me know how you guys are celebrating Thanksgiving What you guys do what your typical holiday traditions are Um, we're pretty low-key. We don't like dress up on Christmas or anything like that I kind of wish that we would have been that family that like entertained more on Christmas We're Christmas Eve people Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense Christmas Eve so like Christmas Eve is like the bash and then actual Christmas like we don't We don't see anyone like it's just our family Christmas day is always kind of sad. Yeah, Christmas is like weird Christmas day is weird Christmas season is the best Christmas season is the actual day of Christmas Yeah, that's why in my podcast actually check it out I talk about the holiday blues and just how I don't know. I think maybe it's because you have such high expectations of the day to Yeah, I don't know well Christmas day is what I'm like Usually my parents buy me a new video game and so I spend the rest of the day playing that and then we're just like together like You know, we're not really doing anything special. Yeah, just like together. I guess I was thinking about that. It's fun. Like I'm really upset because now that like my steps are older I was thinking of all the fun things like my youngest steps are older I was thinking about fun things we could be doing I love we can go do on Christmas and like we can't do that I really just miss black Friday shopping. That's what I'm so upset about. No black Friday shopping in Dallas Is unlike anything else maddie chop and I would go. Oh my god our black Friday I honestly want to go back and watch those vlogs just to like live vicariously through my old black Friday things We would go literally right around here And we would be out from 8 p.m. One night to like 4 p.m. The next day. It was so Unbelievably unsafe, but it was so much fun. And that is what I'm most upset about Dude, literally same in arizona I would Go out At when we would start at 10 and I would not come back until like 4 or 5 p.m And then we would like and it would be just like a group like our whole high school would literally go every high school Would go honestly. Oh my god. It was just so much really so fun And then you'd see like cute guys from other schools. Yes. Yes. Oh my god. Nothing beats nothing beats coming home When like everyone's in college. Oh, and then everyone's home for the holidays and it's like, oh my god, do you know? Okay, this was like pre my okay. I actually have to revisit. We're doing a little holiday pass thing I just needed to revisit um a time period of my life So during like my early college days before I was in dlc and I was in my other school I would do these things called want to break flanks and it want to break flanks Oh, I have reached the maturity to where I just can't really pull that off anymore. Also, I live here So it's different But I would really recommend if you're between the ages of like 18 to 20 21 Actually, honestly, whatever age you're at. Okay, basically you secure your winner by playing by thanksgiving It's very very crucial because everyone is kind of looking for it And if you want to actually just kind of if you start and want to break you start from You don't have the time, you know You have to start you can start a snapshot and then like a week before is a snapshot thing too And I'm not a snapshot girl week before Thanksgiving Then used to hang out winter break. Oh, whatever, you know, you're talking leading up into winter break then during winter break That's when the fling reaches It's it's peak, you know And the most important part about that is that it ends at the end of winter break You cannot carry on a winter break fling into the real life season that cannot happen. And you know what? I know I'd be a great book I should be winter break flake I oh I do I have things that I could write about In that I have I perfected it. I was literally the queen of a winter break flake Like it was so fun And it was when I was young and dumb and like not that I'm not now But I just take my life a lot more seriously And I don't just like day to day and I never really did winter break flings were kind of the exception But I wouldn't I wouldn't call it dating. I was just having so much fun. Like it was just so Fun. Oh my god. It literally was out of the movie like those winter breaks were like the best weeks of my whole life I swear to god, they were so much fun So anyways, um, we're gonna let you guys go Yeah, we're gonna hang up the phone. It's like your own face time. No, literally. Okay. Doms Doms on face time with us again. No, literally guys. Okay guys, so can you do it? Oh, well, hold on wait Here show them we just picked out Sophie's outfit.  We'll show the camera your nails. That looks so pretty Cute Okay, so I didn't um at my mom's sister's house. I love it wait At whose house? Um at my mom's sister's house Which sister? Um He's um, it's my dad's sister. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you show them what you're gonna wear? I heard that you told you told grandma mill and grandpa that I was gonna teach you how to make a youtube channel Why you can ask me? Hi, how are you? Sophie you need to bring your clothes though. You need to bring your clothes Yeah, you do. Okay. Here you go. There's your cute outfit. Okay. Sophie, can you show them your outfit now? Yes. Oh, so cute. So where is this from? Do you know? You got me that. Oh, I got you this. Yes. Oh, it's from me. Okay. What about the top? Um Okay, you're right. I did get this Hold up. Whoa Um Maddie got that. Oh maddie did so it's all from your aunts So if he doesn't think that we're her aunt she thinks we're her cousins What am I? How are we related? I'm your aunt. Oh, wow you got it this time Good job. Love the boots. So cute. Thank you Good night everyone Happy Thanksgiving. I have my pie The pie carrier and bring you back to the gluten-free pie for my family everyone's favorite dog Hi B. Hi You are just so cute You are the cutest puppy ever. Yes, you are Yes, you are Any feathers, you know it used to be a thing that you'd see in the movies Oil it Happy black friday everyone. I was not planning on shopping I did a lot of pickups. I actually went to three different anthropologies because I'm looking for something I need for tomorrow.  I've also done it like an immense amount of online shopping I'm trying to get all of my christmas shopping done today If anyone is watching this that would normally receive a christmas gift from me click out right now if you don't and I find out I'll be very upset. I'm gonna go through. Oh, and I also have a package to unbox So I'm gonna show you guys my black friday haul along with kind of like what I'm giving for christmas These are not all the gifts. I have a huge family and I love gift giving so I give Literally everyone in their mother a gift. Um, but these are some things that I'll show you guys I'll have everything linked down below Anthro was having a really good sale at 30% off and this vlog will be up this weekend I'm sure they're having cyber monday sales also guys. I got so many compliments on my outfit today Everything that I'm wearing is revolved besides my shoes. They're the same element ones that I've been talking about non-stop They're literally my new favorite shoes. I did a winter haul. So this will be in that haul But it's so comfy and I will say Normally with sets like this I finally stretch out and they get really like gross and like I don't know This one has held up really well, and I think it's a lot more flattering than most of them Also, I was thinking about how I might order yeti dog bowls Today and then I just ripped one of these baskets and it fell in focus dog bowl and broke So I guess I will be ordering that today It's literally all started because I was like I need to get festive things for a video that I'm filming with my Nice in the morning. We're doing a baking video that you guys will see during vlogmas. I'm just so excited I am so pumped for vlogmas. I'm gonna start making my intro today I think I've got a lot of work to do guys Okay, it's not good. It's not good at all. It's really hot in here. I feel I have all these Okay, I'm gonna start with this package first. This is really Something guy again, if you know me and if I'm getting you gifts click out now because I'll probably talk about it I ordered a lot of things online and I'm actually just gonna show those throughout vlogmas So I'm constantly giving you gift ideas, but I'll show you what I like physically have today sister step sister She just got a new ipad. I actually she doesn't have it yet, but she ordered one And so I wanted to get her an ipad case and then I got this custom That's so cute. Those are her initials Love and I just look this really cute sleeve that is custom and I think it is the cutest thing ever and a really good gift So Love the daily edit the thing is the daily edit honestly is pricey However, it's really hard to find something that's comparable. I will say for phone cases cover lab I think is just the same thing and it's way cheaper. I wonder if they had ipad cases I didn't think about that and then for my brother in law. I got him a card case with his initials, which I thought was really cool It's such an easy gift for a guy, you know, they're kind of hard to shop for sometimes I'm getting into making mocktails I just like the experience of I'm not the biggest drinker ever. I'm definitely not sober Um, but I don't know. I'm just not the biggest drinker ever And I just think that I would love mocktails and I want to make them So I got a cocktail shaker just because I didn't have one and this was really cute and on sale anthropology Also pretty much everything I've done regardless. So if it's a gift or not is a good gift idea Okay, this thing that wanted to break earlier again. I got this little tray On sale. I just thought it was cute. I can use it for so many different things So that was a goodbye. Like I literally went online guys and I had so many things picked out within seconds It was unbelievable. I got one of my favorite candles ever the bald candle candle. This actually is my favorite candle ever I got this cute candle from anthro Hot buttered rum. It smells so good. So I actually got eight candles today. That's really a problem I'm not buying candles for a long time Honestly guys, I always want glassware and stuff from anthro besides mugs. I pretty much don't want myself buy it I cannot wait until I have an actual house where I have more space where I can have Different like seasonal dishes and stuff then it'll all be anthropology But I did want to get myself some glasses for my mocktails also I want a bar cabinet. I thought I wanted a bar cart I want a bar cabinet and I'm thinking that that's what I'm gonna get for over there because it's practical And um, I just love nice glasses things like that Especially if I'm getting into like my mocktails or cocktails if I'm entertaining for other people I just want to be a good hostess, you know, so I thought these two were really cute I know for christmas. I'm getting like pink wine glasses too from west home.  So who cares Okay, I got some mugs that I thought were so cute Guys like look at how cute this little christmas mug is. I love it. Do I have more room for mugs? Probably not. No, it's not mom and my dad They like love being home and cozy and they also love quality time. Okay So I'm getting them a bunch of board games and puzzles and all the like really cute ones that have come out since quarantine So this one is for my stepmom and I just thought this was such a cute Puzzle to do but I'm gonna get them like a whole set of a ton of different games You guys will see throughout here So then the idea is like the kids can play with them and it'll be really fun They're gonna like that present a lot more than my other ones that I gave them They're very like sentimental people. You know what I mean? I got a little detangle brush because I've needed one for a while now I got this baking thing Guys look at how cute this is okay Baking I just I just needed one. This is also a good gift idea. Oh my gosh guys. You're gonna die actually got a sweater Wait, we'll just do that in a sec I had to get these ones So many of you guys have sent them to me like Look at how cute they are with little can of cane in the middle. Are you kidding? I got another one too another glass making spirits bright. I don't know if you can really Old-school youtube guys. It's really just a cute glass I got two of these Honestly, most of my friends don't really drink either. So my mocktails are gonna be a hit. Okay. Well, I don't know I mean like I would feel like half of them making spirits bright so cute Oh, I also got two new ornaments because I wanted to give them to my niece Sophie tomorrow So she can have ornaments on my tree. So I thought this one was so cute a little zebra and a hot tub So cute. I love just like random Things like that and then this mug with a little Christmas tree We're festive in my house if you couldn't tell. Okay. I was amazed by the sweater. I thought it was so cute Oh, wait the other ornament. This is my favorite. It's this little like wiener dog With Christmas lights around him. I think Sophie will really like that one. Okay I got this sweater that was already on sale and it was another 30 off I loved the color and I just live in sweaters And I thought it was just perfect. So I'm excited to wear this. It was a really good deal I never buy clothes really honestly at all from anthro, but I never buy anthro for people like full price I always get them on sale if I ever do buy them. Oh, here's a deck of cards that were just really cute They're like dog cards and my family is like really Really big dog people if you couldn't tell so this I thought this would be cute to add to their little holiday gift set I got this dominoes For the holiday gift set. Oh, okay. So I got this big take-share repeat I've been looking at this from at anthropology like every time I go in which as we know anthropology has really become like My second form of therapy next to like talk therapy at this point Um, but I love it because you literally can just like put your treats in there And I always say I needed somewhere to put my treats especially to take them to people because if not They just sit in my fridge and no one eats them Um, it's really just me and Dom here, but you know what I mean I just thought this would be really convenient to have and it's not like too Christmasy So I feel like I'll use it year round when I like bake for other people Myself a little mocktail book because I needed some ingredients. I think this is cocktails too Yeah, 80 joyful cocktails and mocktails for every occasion So I figured I needed this because I don't even know what is in a mocktail But these look so good and I just want to be really good at making these Um, I feel like it's just what my hosting is lacking and in a time where I'm not really able to host for the holidays um Well, yeah, why am I doing that? I don't know. I'm just practicing. Okay? I went to a store on nox Henderson because I stopped at pottery barn kids to get some baking stuff for soap They didn't have any and then the store was across the street. No one literally no one was there My mom already has had this mug. My mom loves mr. Rogers It's this really cute mug and if you guys are familiar with mr. Rogers every day every day when he would get home He would like, you know switch into a sweater and he's like famous for that the sweater changing mug It is so cute. This is in a white elephant or something a few years ago And no one even knew how much she loved mr. Rogers something happened to this mug She doesn't have it anymore So I saw it and I just picked up another one just to give her today. I got her Her christmas gifts already, but I just wanted to pick that up for her because I thought that was cute And then I also got her a mr. Rogers book Now I don't know if she's even gonna read this. I feel like she needs to she likes reading Um, and I also got her the math and mccona hay book. That's not here yet um And she just loves mr. Rogers. It's such a like my mom kind of thing I got two more games So this is the game room movie quiz night and then I got a what do you mean at first? I was like, I don't think my parents will get it But I actually think it'll be funny to play with them. Last but not least barns. No Bath and body works mahogany. Let me know what your favorite candles are from bath and body works This is my reigning tried and true candle marshmallow fireside. It reminds me of a very happy period of my life I think when I was younger because I would always have that burning in my room And so I just always have that candle every year because it just puts me in such a good moon Like I burned it in my room the other day and I was like, oh my god I'm gonna cry classic sweater weather I try to not get the ones that are like tacky around here But like what are you gonna do? Sugar and snickerdoodle smells so good another Um marshmallow fireside and then I got my spice gingerbread. So these are three for three so I got a really good deal on this and Yeah, that is what I got black Friday shopping except for the stuff that I got online that I'll show you guys Soon I actually still need to look at some things online Um, I basically have waited to buy so many things for black Friday. So that's why I'm kind of going crazy And I need to clean this up right now guys like look at this Just made my favorite soup. It's tortellini kale Italian sausage soup. I Made a reel. So if you guys want the recipe, I'm making a reel I know I had it on id tv, but I feel like reels are just easier because they're quicker. Um, it's one of my faves It's from as always the modern proper It's my favorite place to get recipes, but this is so good and I'm so hungry Dom is sleeping She's been sleeping for a few hours downstairs because she didn't really sleep that well last night Okay guys, I'm really curious. Who are you guys planning on watching during vlogmas? I'm worried that there's going to be like content overload So I think I'm posting every day But if I miss a few days like honestly, I think it's just going to be content overload So that might be like, I don't know guys I'm just like worried that it's just going to be too many videos. Maybe I'll just focus on making them shorter I'm not quite sure my favorite soup. I'm so hungry. Then I top it with some red pepper flakes It is so good guys. I cannot describe like how good this soup is and I'm so hungry Anyways, let me know what you guys want to see and also what you want to see in vlogmas I know keen's doing like a week in my life or whatever and it makes me worried that like posting every day would be bad So you guys let me know what you want for me honestly So tired it is 6 p.m. And I am like ready to go to bed. Um, I just fed the dogs I'm actually about to wrap some christmas presents. Um life hack for divorce parents. I actually got Two different wrapping papers. So like one wrapping paper will go to one side of the family the other will go to the other side Obviously, I'm gonna like put their names on it and stuff But even with that, honestly, I just like it's so easy to forget a gift So if they have different wrapping papers, then I won't forget it to my different christmas's So that's what I'm doing. Anyways, I'm gonna wrap some stuff. This is actually just for tomorrow for sofi But I'm gonna start wrapping some gifts and that is it for today's vlog I hope you guys enjoyed use the comment section down below as like a Master list of all your vlogmas requests. I love you guys so much and I'll talk to you soon. Bye


Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and I'm coming to share with you some small recycling or cycling. I had large paper paper shopping bags from Amazon and I decided to scrap them. So what I did, I opened that bag and I glued on that where is the Amazon writing and all kind of those barcodes. I glued book pages, then I cut that back on those pieces and I do have here nice large tacks 9 by 4.5 inch and I decided that I'm gonna somehow decorate them and I will try to use all kind of recycling material but not just that, I'm gonna use also decorative papers and some decorative pictures of course.  So which one? These are papers from heartfelt, heartfelt creations, timeless amour and I think these are so beautiful. Yep, big one. This is red and this is kind of brown so I guess this because I may use it with double-sided look at that print. It's so gorgeous. So because my tack is 4.5 inches I'm gonna cut strip 4.25 and I think I'm gonna cut this side. I'm gonna keep this one for now. So I do have strip 4.25, 12 inches and because it's too long I'm gonna just place it here. The other way, because here I can't see the end, the other way I'm gonna keep space here, here I can see the end and I'm gonna just rip it with small gap, like this. And those other edges, first I'm gonna cut the corners kind of follow the large tack.  So I distressed those edges and I decided I'm gonna use this a little bit different way than I thought before. So I'm gonna cut this ripped edge straight and I will have piece 3 inches, 3.18. 3.18 by 4.5 exactly, 4.25 exactly same like is this one. I'm gonna take this plastic bag, open it and cut the strip, a little bit smaller, cut the strip, I think that white somewhere here. I'm gonna put double-sided tape on one end of this plastic bag, width to the end, like this. Take the backing off, carefully do not break the plastic bag and I'm gonna fold this over, hopefully it's not too tight. Looks good. So I do have my plastic bag on that paper, I'm gonna take my tack ruler and from the bottom of that tack, I'm gonna cut the line, I think 2 inches from the bottom, 2 inches here, 2 inches here. And I'm gonna use 2 tacks this, they are quite nice size. So those 2 tacks and they are 2.15, 2.15 inches wide. So I'm gonna make the cut 2.5, which means I'm gonna start on 3.15 of inch here. And I'm gonna finish on 3.15, somewhere here. So here will be first, cut that line from the bottom, I think 2 inches. I think somewhere on 6 inches, 6 inches here, 6 inches here and 2.5. And here I'm gonna make it a little bit on this side, so I'm gonna start on half. And I'm gonna finish on 3, here till here. I'm gonna take my knife and cut those lines. So I do have those cuts and I'm going also to cut the line on the side. Gonna make small marks here and here, if I did, oh yeah I did. And I'm gonna cut the small strip I think 3.25 of inch from the edge between those 2 marks I just made, just small space right here. So I do have my 2 tacks, I do have my strip with that plastic back. I do have here piece of acetate, I can tell you measurement, but I think it's not. We didn't even measure it, I just took what I've got here. It's 7 cm long and 2 cm wide. And I just folded I think 1 inch, yeah 1 inch. I made fold, I'm gonna put on this 1 inch, I'm gonna place a double sided tape, but from inside, like from here. This is the fold, so here I'm gonna put double sided tape. And I'm gonna slide this strip here, where is that fold, gonna flip it over and I'm gonna measure how far this is that strip, here is 1 entry, here is another entry. I think I'm gonna slide my tacks to make sure I see. So here we have 1 entry, here is another entry. So somewhere between I will place my paper. And it will be just between, ok with that mean, so I can slide this one right on the end and glue that acetate piece to my back, maybe I will have to fold it again. So now I'm going to put double sided tape on the end of my tacks, like this. And one tuck I can glue straight away. So I'm gonna glue it, I can glue it here on the end. I'm gonna put double sided tape here on this edge of my paper and hopefully I can fit here as well. And here on this edge of my paper. So I'm gonna slide first that acetate piece, then the tuck to the right position. I'm gonna take off the backing and place my paper to match the edge here. It should work. I will have to fold this one probably one more time. And I'm gonna take that backing from this side, glue it to the paper in there. Anything that's peeking out I'm gonna cut with my scissors. Like this. I need to do something with that acetate piece. It doesn't work the way I want. I'm gonna make that room. Alright, that's not too bad. So I'm gonna move it back to the end. I'm gonna flip it over, take the other tuck, take off that backing. I'm gonna slide the tuck to that spot to make sure it's straight. And here I'm gonna match it with the end here, to make it straight on this side. Okay, so I do have base. Before I will try to do some decoration on that tuck, I'm gonna put glue here, a little bit on that side, a little bit here. I just need to be careful. And here on the bottom. And I'm gonna make nice position on this large tuck. And I'm gonna also sew it all around. But I will sew really just the edge to make sure I'm not gonna sew any from that moving part. So just on the edge. Some easy sewing. And now I'm going to make some stenciling. Maybe stamping. Just something not too complicated. I think I'm gonna use just black ink for that. I like those numbers. So I'm gonna use those numbers. This is an undiskinned stencil. I just cut it on pieces because for me, it's much more easy to use it that way. And maybe here. So I do have that base. I just had to put there some die cuts and stuff I found in my drawer. I've got here butterfly and some circle because I made those circle videos. Maybe I can use that somehow. Okay, that will be first what I'm gonna glue down. Maybe some stencil or stencil. Some washi tape. I have to be careful to not glue it over that entry. Let me use this. I fell. I've got it here. I've got another one. Okay, gonna match it together. I have distressed dot piece. I'm gonna make there some easy stamping. Yeah, this one. And I'm gonna glue it here on the top over the edge. And let it dry. And I continue what? What with this? Probably I will don't use it because it's too long. I cut here this. So maybe I can use this flower. But it's kind of too shiny.  I sand this cardstock a little bit and then distress it. Maybe I will do some stamping on it as well. And I'm gonna use those soft stamps. Put some stamping here and there. Just very softly. That's enough. And distress all that plant or flower with ground espresso. My plant, I do have here these. I think I'm gonna stamp something here as well. This will be probably just something easy. So what I'm gonna do? I think I'm gonna take the tabs. First I'm gonna distress the tabs. I do have here also this specimen. All of these are from, or most of these are from Tim Holtz. I'm gonna put glue here and I will try to cover it with... Yes, I think this way. Here I'm gonna put specimen. Yep. And now I will try to find the space where I will fit it. If I will fit it somewhere this way. Okay. So I'm gonna put a glue here and on all that specimen use it right here. I'm gonna take my flower and place that flower here. I think so. Okay. I'm gonna take my butterfly and it's kinda not strong enough so I'm gonna glue the butterfly on book page like this and I'm gonna glue the butterfly I think right here. Here. So I'm gonna put glue on the bottom. I'm gonna hide it there and kinda make a position. Maybe this number here. Yep. Hold, hold, hold, hold. Hold there my number. Keep it there. Come on. Stay. And this needs to be used. It's kinda damaged already so I have to use it because it's beautiful. I like it. So I'm gonna put glue on this big piece and then I will add that D for details. I hope I can somehow. Yes, I can. Stay. Detailess. Detailess. Okay. And what do you got here? Number three. Do I have somewhere space for number three? Of course I do. There is always space for numbers. Okay. I'm gonna take it off. Yeah, there is. I should use some softer softer piece of plastic. But this one it's kinda not softer, not elastic. Because this one it's kinda elastic. And here I do have somewhere stickers. Butterfly stickers. Or I can use some small one. With this small butterfly. So I'm gonna use that. And because it's piece of acetate so I'm gonna put strip of acetate right here. And maybe one more that way. Where is my acetate? And this way. And I'm gonna place my butterfly over it. Like this. And now we do have flying butterfly. Yeah. So that is my sharing for today. It's quite long. Not long. It's quite late. Oh, it's tomorrow already. Okay. So it's very late. This is my sharing for today. Probably tomorrow when I will have a look on it I will add there the strings. Maybe here something. This is my sharing for today. These are made from old Sarali boxes. This is also from some old box. This is can metal. I glued I open it can and glue it on piece of also that is one that brown back and then I used my dies and cut out the numbers. This is from packaging material. Or I mean those papers which are like dividers between stocks of items. So that it's cut out from that. And just that butterfly this is envelope, envelope. And this was proper card stock. And these are normal. But that rest it's mostly recycling. This is my sharing for today. I hope you did enjoy it. It doesn't work perfectly. Like I can't pull it too much just with one with one attack. But this way I can make that butterfly fly. So this is my sharing for today. Have a beautiful day. Thank you so much for visiting me today. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.


I was Google Summer of Code student for this year and did a project together with the GNOME Linux desktop and NextCloud to basically work on improving the cloud experience on the Linux desktop. That was kind of the overall topic and it consisted of three sub-projects which were basically introducing and improving the NextCloud client in terms of the setup wizard, building a registration API so that users can register for account at NextCloud provider and working on a Debus API on the Linux desktop to allow Sim clients to expose the services to the desktop environment. So the simplified setup process this is basically what it's about. Yeah it should be easy for the user to get NextCloud up and running even without knowing about how to set up a server or that you even need a server for that and of course it should be included in the client so when you download a client you can just get started without having a server and this is basically what it looks like. You can as always enter the server address or if you don't know how to deal with that you can search for hosting provider or get help on how you can run your own NextCloud and if you choose a provider you get a list of common providers in your country that are by default offer free plans so you don't need to care at the beginning if you need to pay something there so you can just give it a try and you can click on create account and get this simple form where you enter your email address and name and yeah that's basically it you click on create an account and the Sim client sets up the account and was just start syncing your files. On the provider side there's proof concept of a registration API that's very simple but basically these three HTTP endpoints that providers need to implement to support this registration API. Of course still a proof concept and we need to discuss a little bit with providers if the API contains everything that they need if we need to yeah if we forgot something about that so any provider related people feel free to come by and discuss that with me. Last thing was more part of the GNOME project it's a D-Bus API. D-Bus is a message bus on desktop systems that is basically used by all frontend applications to communicate with each other and we needed this because status icons the little icons in the top bar in most operating systems are deprecated on Linux they are not available in Wayland natively anymore and yeah GNOME will most likely drop them in the next release and it would of course make sense to have a desktop independent solution there that will work with any file manager desktop environment on Sim client so I worked on a shared library that provides this D-Bus API and we have integration into GTK yeah and and the basic implementation in the next cloud client as well of course and this is how it looks like this is the GNOME file manager you can see I have two synced folders sync next cloud folders in the sidebar you can see that one the lower one is currently syncing and you can access all the actions that the status icon of the sync line provided so you can pause the synchronization settings quit the sync line there can check your recently changed files as well and yeah basically that is the current state we hope that other sync clients will also jump on that and implement that API since there will be no other method for showing icon in the future in GNOME and we of course hope that other desktop environments like KDE or Xfce will also implement their API in their file managers or maybe find another way to show cloud providers where they are used yeah and I want to thank GNOME very much and of course next cloud and Roland for mentoring me and yeah if anyone wants to discuss on these topics feel free thanks


are similar, they will also predict similar values, which means, so if you have factors that are maybe not all that reliable, because we have probably seen relatively few occurrences of these guys here in the text, then what it will do, it will try and push those closer to more informative factors and more issues, I guess, for example, in the Seychelles, both island nations that are relatively well tested in Coppola, okay? So there is something like a cultural clustering effect here even. And then there were three really bad predictions. So Vaskin City is here, and Greenland is here, and Canada is here, I mean, with Vaskin City and Greenland, you might believe that they occur infrequently and maybe not a very informative context or something. To be honest, I have no really, no real idea why Canada is completely out of the, you know, the world. Are there other Canada's, like a city name, Canyada, I don't know. Yeah. No, but in South America. Yeah, that's not even, that's what I'm talking about. That's actually in the video, in Spanish, maybe it's like Canada would be like Cander, something like that, I don't know. Right, that's possible, that there were some Spanish taking confounder which makes it a place, makes it sure enough here in Venezuela, okay? Or Verde is something like Greenland, would it do this? Or I don't know, yeah, I'm not in this field at all, but could there be Greenland in some translation that? Is it data, are your data English only by the way? Tierra, Verde, all right, so it's only, there's no translation possible. But of course, I mean, It could affect it, contaminate it.  Could there be something mathematical more, like, you know, where the longitude or latitude is specified, you know, like AMPM kind of thing, right? Where you're saying six, and it's always from the context that it's PM, but, and it's all mixed up. Well, I mean, so the funny thing is that, you know, I mean, the East, for example, for Canada, the East West, which I never, I never know which one this, which, you know, which one is which in English. Anyway, so the East West coordinates is relatively good, it's not so clear why the, what happened to the, to the north, south of Canada, then this means Canada seems to, I mean, actually both Canada and back in Sydney and New England seem to share, share, you know, distributional behavior with more, with more tropical countries. But by the, they're just a continent of the independent variable. That it has to do with the, with the continent, so it's still in America, although they're at the right place, huh? Not from America, so. Yeah. I mean, we weren't really able to figure out what went wrong with Canada here, but there we are, okay. Now, so, so what at the end of the day that determines prediction difficulty? Well, there is, there is a technical issue for, okay, particle attributes, you know, that we cannot predict unseen values, which is, of course, very, very unlikely, so it's a lot of work. We did change the, change the encoding and in the interest of time, I'll just, I'll just keep this at this point. Then there's always initial language processing that we have data sparsity. I think Vatican City just, just is seen so, so rarely that, you know, the world doesn't really know how to, how to deal with that. And so here is an interesting question. This brings me back to the difference between the GDP per capita and the absolute GDP, okay. So, you know, because I believe if you're trying to learn these attributes from just this very coarse-grained occurrence of text data, then the important question to ask is for an attribute, you know, does the distribution context that you could actually provide enough clues for you to make that prediction? And I said, you know, actually the kind of common denominator here is that countries that are similar with respect to an attribute should have similar distributional profiles. So they should occur with the, with the same context words. And I mean, if you look at countries, you know, with the same GDP per capita, I think this is a pretty reasonable assumption. So, you know, you have kind of countries like Luxembourg and Denmark or something at the top and they will occur with words like, I don't know, modern and rich and, I don't know, those stuff like that.  Now with GDP nominal, it's completely different because, I mean, Luxembourg, for example, although it is a very rich country, there are so few people there that the absolute GDP is still relatively low and so we probably have Luxembourg then with a similar value to predict like, I don't know, what's like Bulgaria maybe or Turkey or something like this. And this, of course, is a prediction that's much, much harder to make from there. I mean, I think that also the government system, part of the GDP per capita is just, GDP per capita makes no sense to just detect. I mean, some, but it's, I mean, I think there's a profit of the essence. No, but I think from a prediction point of view, the interesting thing is, of course, that you have a deterministic relationship between GDP per capita, GDP nominal and population, right? So if you can predict two of the three, you should also be able to predict the third. But again, of course, there's a deterministic tendency that's not so easy to predict. But as a country, you say that the GDP per capita is next to the population, right? Do you get the nominal for, or is it China, for example? Yeah. You can't have a huge GDP nominal. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm always a little bit cautious to just say that's an attribute that I don't want to predict because, you know, as somebody who does modeling, I'm always predicting the services to somebody else. And if someone comes and says, I want GDP nominal, then of course I have to have a story about whether I can or cannot predict that. Do you do a sort of basically waiting, or, I mean, you're going to have United States occurring much more, and now I'm talking about the Canada thing, right? It's sort of countries in the Western Hemisphere that are not the U.S., right? They're all to the south. And my point is that the U.S., you have these problems also with English being, you know, 60% of the web, or it's less now, but something like this, where it just throws everything up because you have a studio dataset. And can you do re-sampling, for example, in your data where you, so in order to even these out so that Maldives is mentioned as many times as U.S.? Well, we didn't look at that specifically in this study, but kind of the general, my general experience from distributional semantics is, well, if you're trying to sub-sample, for example, to make a number of occurrences, to even out the number of occurrences, just lose.  You normalize your vectors so that the absolute length of the vector does not really matter, you know. I mean, essentially, what you have is a vector that you're more sure about because you have seen more occurrences and one that you have less confidence in because you have seen it fewer times. But I mean, specifically, but for the purposes of the prediction that shouldn't really matter to them. I have a problem in my own project, or I had a problem, which is that you basically, let's take currency. Well, I should just predict Euro, right? Because there are dozens of Euro countries where is the chance that I'm right? I may be close, and let's say I have two candidates for Armenia, drama and drama, okay? But it's just too risky. I'd better just say Euro than to choose drama and drama. What I mean is that the system learns that, and the system just starts putting Euro for everything and it's because it achieves a higher score that way. Is it, are you making the same analogy to everything in the Western Hemisphere is south of the US? Yeah, I guess, I wasn't really good with that, yeah. I mean, I mean. But if I just put it down there somewhere, I'm more likely to be right? Right, I mean, you know what I kind of work on, right? Where I have only three categories, just good, medium and bad, well, the system, unless you do something to stop it, it's just going to say medium, medium, medium. Yeah, basically, without really thinking because it says, this is actually safer. 60% of the data are medium, so I get 60% correct. Yeah, yeah. If I do anything else, it goes down. But those are two different questions, right? I mean, what is the question of your, of the distribution of your output classes? Right. And how would you feel about this there in the end and if you talk about the number of occurrences of US versus Maldives or something, we're talking about the input features. True, true. So, I mean, I guess, I mean, if you, so if I just come back to the output features, I mean, if you make the numeric predictions, I don't think you don't get those majority effects quite as easily as, because what you're optimizing is not kind of zero one loss against the majority class, but it's more like really distant from the ground to truth absolute value. With the binary attributes, I mean, this is totally possible. And as you saw from the baseline, you know, the majority class baseline results, you know, like false is almost always true because if you have these categorical attributes and you finalize them, then all of them, one, typically or very, we also have one too many relations, but almost all values will be false or given. You also said you're using your network, does that take care of the input in there? You're using? Not per se.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network The Denver Nuggets heading to the NBA finals thanks to their sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers and tonight We find out whether the Miami Heat can join them via sweep of their home It is game number four here between the heat and the Celtics were in a preview that game and get you said for this week's Charles Schwab Challenge by talking to Brandon Gadoula welcome on into covering the spread That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Saunders. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire Join here as mentioned by Brandon Gadoula check about on Twitter at Gadoula 13 You can find his work over at number fire calm Brandon the nuggets into the NBA finals via sweep of the Lakers But game four on tap for the heat and the Celtics for tonight. How are you doing today? I'm good a little disappointed with The state of the NBA conference finals It's always fun to get some game six game seven action in there But I guess it's also equally interesting in a different way for these series to be just so one-sided That being said at least the Lakers were showing some signs of life Don't really see it with the Celtics so much So that's something we'll dig into here in a second But yeah, I'm kind of like in a strange mood where The basketball has been still good in it But in a different way than like a back-and-forth who's gonna take control of the series because two teams took control of the series Right away and did not relinquish that. Yeah, you said, you know, you'd like to see a game six or a game seven I'd settle for a game five honestly, which we might not get across either of these series So hopefully we can see what goes down for tonight We'll break it down Celtics heat and as mentioned talked about some golf this week as well in just a second But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the covering the spread podcast See wherever you get your podcast big week here for the show tomorrow and talk some NHL with Tom Vecchia We'll also talk a recap of Celtics versus heat on Thursday We're talking Indy 500 Monica Grand Prix and coke 600 with Dr. Nick Giffen of the action network getting his read on all those By talking to him and of course a baseball UFC everything all in the same feed as well get that by subscribing to covering the spread Wherever you get your podcast or check us out over on the Fandall YouTube page If you like what you hear leave us a thumbs up on YouTube or leave us a five-star rating over on Apple podcasts The NBA playoffs are still going here for at least now We'll see but you can get on the action right now at Fandall sportsbook right now All customers get a no sweat same-game parlay every weekend when you bet the NBA playoffs That's right. 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Or is that asking for a letdown in an overreaction to you when they have beat the doors off of some very good teams? Well, let me first just say that the heat are like you said playing extremely well and playing above expectation and Whenever like bam out of bio says in a post game press conference that Or you know an on-court interview or whatever it was or whoever it is They're all saying basically same thing where like, you know people didn't really believe in the heat to this point Every like it feels like almost every every team every athlete has that mentality But I think it actually applies for the heat. Yeah, so these other teams and players like take note of what it actually means to be a Little bit eight point underdog game one. You can call yourself an underdog. That's okay. That's very fair Yeah, I know some other teams in recent memory felt like they were completely slighted as They may as well have been destined for the number one pick based on how they they perceived it I mean three experts pick the charges to win the AFC West. So the chiefs were we're doubted, you know I mean whatever whatever takes but I mean in the same breath like this is an actual sort of Underdog story as far as professional sports go. But yeah, I mean to answer your question the The playoffs have basically just been without Tyler hero. He played like 19 20 minutes in that first game of the playoffs before being out so You know, the sample that I've basically been using for the heat is, you know, looking at their games with Jimmy baller BAM at a bio and Kevin love and if you throw Kevin love into the equation, it's basically their games Since like late February if you take Tyler hero off the floor It's a lot of the playoffs With some some of the regular season thrown in without hero on the court to make that sample bigger But as far as the postseason itself goes, they're up to Almost 1400 possessions as a team, you know in the postseason alone And you know, that's that's more than fine for a sample If you want to go that route and look just at the postseason, but you'll see some, you know, I Like a bigger sample, but yeah, you know The the research that I've seen has said that around 500 possessions has been things start to stabilize a bit. We're well past that I like to go as long as I can while keeping it within reason and keeping it something that that is, you know Relevant, that's why you know, the relevant part here is you don't look at the heat full season Right may not want to look at their super hot shooting and just in the playoffs So for me and find that middle ground with with Kevin love Also in the lineup and Kevin love, you know, his his health is noteworthy for this game because he came up Slow in game three, but they've been about two and a half points different without Kevin love if I maintain the Jimmy Butler bam out of bio are also active, you know in that split But you know, he's expected to play he's probable tonight according to the injury report. So You know to sum all that up I think you could probably get by with using just the playoffs for these teams at this point because they're so deep into the playoffs So the possession count is higher for me. I'm not quite going that way because they're shooting has been You know pretty substantial Their net ratings about five points better just in the playoffs without hero and with love and Jimmy and BAM That it is if I factor in that the end of that regular season. So either way, they're a good team They're a lot better obviously with just the playoffs split, but I Think I'll get into what that actually means for the game itself here You know when we get to that So let's talk about game number four or four tonight between the Celtics and the heat right now The spread is one map in favor of the heat here at Fandall Sportsbook total 216.5 so the heat going for the sweep here when you look at those numbers you were discussing Do they view this spread as being pretty efficient? What's your read on game four between Celtics and heat? Yeah, so if I use that sample that I mentioned with Kevin love Jimmy and BAM no Tyler hero including the regular season the spread I have here is heat by one and a half perfect, so That's tough if I use just the playoffs the play, you know talking about playoff Jimmy. I use just playoff heat That goes up to six and a half in favor of the heat because a lot of that has to do with home court advantage as well In the playoffs, but I like to go at that larger sample stay away from the spread but if you think that you know The heat are just a brand new team right now that Kevin loves gonna be fine You play his usual Usual rotation his usual minutes. I wouldn't fault anyone Forgoing with the heat here But the thing that I can't model for and the thing that's really you know hard with this game is the Celtics interest They they look awful. Their body language is awful. I just like They sat their starters at the end of game three. They're they just look like defeated Which seems like Jimmy Butler in the heat have just like Reached into them and taken out whatever competitive edge that they that they had to get them There and you know, I talked earlier in the postseason a little bit throughout the postseason is like, you know I model a lot of sports, but basketball is the sport that I both model and have like the most experience playing. Yeah So like there's just not a whole lot from the Celtics that is Really motivating me to want to bet in their favor at least the Lakers where like again, we're more competitive I had them with 0.9 expected wins entering their game for for the Celtics It's about 0.6, which is a pretty big gap and the Lakers actually had an expected win Percentage for me of like 55% for game four. She haven't really seen a whole lot from the Celtics now a lot of that has to do With their shooting and that's leading into my favorite angle for this game is on the total And so, you know, I can't back the Celtics, but I do I do like the over You know, we don't get a whole lot of game fours with the home team in position to sweep because that means the underdog is you know Doing some stuff, but it's really not that uncommon historically to see a lot of points in these types of situations The heat kind of have a bad reputation Offensively like long-term and again, I think that there's a lot of overreaction to Tyler heroes impact on their offense so I think that we're gonna see the heat try to put the pedal down and Frankly, the Celtics can't shoot much worse than they have been On wide-open threes for the Celtics in the regular season They were fourth in the NBA in three-point percentage at 41.2% Versus the Hawks, they were even better than that at 45.4% That tumbled down toward like the league average even a little bit lower Against the Sixers 36.8% and we saw this offensive struggle start to start to trickle in and now they're down to 32.6% Again, this is on wide-open threes Teams like to talk about defending the three-point arc The way you defend a three-point arc is to limit three-point attempts Just because the heat or sorry just because the Celtics are shooting under 33% on wide-open threes does not mean That the heat are doing a good job Against the three-pointer on those shots. They they're not really controlling them. The Celtics are just bricking everything And again, like the league worst number on wide-open threes for the regular season was 34.7% by the Rockets and The Celtics in this series are 32.6% so There's only room to grow The heat are kind of flowing offensively. This is not necessarily like a grind it out You know sort of series right now the heat are willing to run. They're looking to run get those get those lobs up to bam Jimmy's, you know They're we're not just seeing everything come down to one second on the shot clock and frankly, I don't see The heat just slowing it down. I think they want to you know make a statement here and keep pushing the ball So I see a lot of points in this game Relative to that 216 and a half over under so I'm going with the over I think you could probably talk yourself into taking the heat money line But you know Again the Celtics have to be a bit better offensively here and that's enough for me to just focus on the over and your spread of one and a half accounts for Expected regression or positive regression on the Celtics shooting perspective, correct? It's like that's baked into the number on that on the spread perspective Yeah, because what that's doing is taking the long-term approach of how good a team has been And again one of the fears of playoff stuff is certain teams shoot a bit hotter a little bit colder That kind of stuff does does throw a wrench into the data. So yeah Because my the long-term numbers again Celtics are a great three-point shooting team. They're horrible right now So you don't want to just look at you know points per game in this series that kind of thing You want to kind of have a longer term? View that still makes sense and if you can have that similar like why I'm using the regular season stuff with Kevin Love it's more possessions Not just looking at when Caleb Martin looks like you know Michael Jordan out there making every shot he takes That's you know the long-term sample is going to be a little bit more indicative of what the heat should do. So yeah That that regression is naturally baked in whenever you use a larger sample Okay So the spread appears pretty efficient here at one and a half points Brandon does like the over 216 and a half which is minus 110 right now over at Fandall sportsbook We'll see if the Celtics can drag this series out a little bit longer Maybe even have some fun and make this series competitive. We'll see on the golf side of things Let's talk about the Charles Schwab challenge. They are a colonial country club before this week a place We know plenty about because they've been here I think it's like the longest-running event at a single course potentially. I might have made that up who could say anyway One of them. It's up one of them. Okay. What are some keys to this course? We should know before placing our bets for this week. Yeah, so it's a it's a It's got tight fairways Small greens and winning scores are usually just over Like 10 under par so like in the 12 under range is usually where we see a winner It's about average length over offer a par 70 on the PGA tour the the greens are bent grass They're they run a bit faster like a 13 on the stint meter And as far as like fuel strength goes we have three of the world's top 10 10 of the top 25 in action So not a bad field by any means, but it's not a designated event. It's not a major And we see kind of all types of winners at this event Because distance is not a must so that means like yeah It's a it's a it's like a bit top heavy again not like a designated event sort of top heavy and obviously we have a one one singular heavy favorite, but You know the past winners in the field or Sam Burns Justin Rose Kevin Kisner Jordan speed Chris Kirk Zach Johnson twice and Rory Sabatini way back in 2007 but it's kind of a mixed bag of guys. None of those are particularly long off the tee aside from like Sam Burns He's got some length to him, but you know, it's it's a it's a bit more wide open and that does change the way that we view Everyone in the field including Scotty Schaeffler who it feels like he's just gonna run away with it, but It's also not as simple as that in a week like this where it's hard a bit harder to run away with it whenever Someone like Kevin Kisner can compete Right and the question is is that fully accounted for the odds? Let's take a look at the odds board right now over at fangirl sports book. Scotty Schaeffler is a favorite He is four to one to win this event right now Jordan speed who has a good history at this course and seemed to get better as a Weekend went along this past week. He's 12-1 Victor Hauvin and Sony Fina 14-1 Let's talk about Schaeffler first You mentioned that a larger pool of golfers can realistically hang at this kind of course But it's also Scotty Schaeffler against a lot of not Scotty Schaefflers So is there value for you in Scotty Schaeffler at 4 to 1? I'm not quite You know, it's all so one thing I want to just flag before It goes overlooked is this is is a smaller field. It's not a full 156 golfer field It's like 120 there's been some withdrawals. I don't know You know if that really makes much of a difference because they're gonna round that out with with some other names But I know Keith Mitchell is out Taylor Montgomery who I think the ship has sailed on Taylor Montgomery unfortunately And Adam Svensson are kind of like the names that There are no longer in the field I mean, you know Keith Mitchell Schaeffler should be like to do it, right? Yeah. Yeah Keith I mean best best driver of the golf ball of all time basically Keith Mitchell, but so I have Schaeffler around plus 550 He was plus 490 at one point on Monday on Fandall Sportsbook. He's now 4 to 1 So I can't quite get there, but that being said he's just so good right now and that's the scary part and You know, we talk about it just because someone's a favorite or shorter than 10 to 1 does not mean they're a bad bet I don't really see the value on Schaeffler, but I Will say this he has been over the past 50 rounds According to data golf with their field strength adjustments He has been over a shot per round better than anyone else in the field That's wild Yeah, we know his T to green game is point not is it point nine basically point nine Shots per round better over the past 50 rounds than anyone else in the field So if he gives us one of those performances and starts making putts, which it felt like he started to do a bit Down the stretch at the PG championship Which is not indicative that he's turning things around his puddings puts from five to ten feet Which are you know if you had to pick one stat with putting to kind of really figure out where we're a stroke scanner coming from That's the one you'd want to look at You can't really nitpick Schaeffler From a course fit because he's played well here got the Texas angle But I don't see the value on him. So I'm not quite getting there with Schaeffler You said you have plus 560 on him Plus 550 plus 550 so the implied odds there about just about 15% and his betting odds right now at 20% Which means you're pretty close to implied odds for him Which means I wouldn't be super wary about other people in the field in regards to oh I'm super understilling Schaeffler. So it's hard to talk myself into someone else Why maybe showing value on I have that sometimes where I think maybe I'm undervaluing the favorites And I'll be wary of other guys, but I think for Schaeffler you do have the odds allocated to him pretty high So you look at other outrides in this field anybody else stand out to you being good values this week Um, sir, are you implying that I should be seeing value here? I mean, I'm saying that like I would not be skeptical if you did show value elsewhere because you are allocating a lot of win Win equity to Schaeffler even if you're not quite to where the betting markets have him. Gotcha. Well, unfortunately No, there's not a lot it's a lot of like justifiable bets so Finau Tony Finau at 14 to 1 I have met 15 to 1 Collin more cow is 16 to 1. I have him 19 to 1 Sung Jae am did shorten from 20 to 18. I have him at 20. So I liked him more He's like the name is among the the favorites that is still Sort of in the best range, but I would also be all right with max homa So like it's a lot of okay. The model itself does not show a lot of value. So do I just not bet anyone? shorter than 50 to 1 That's a question you got to have and I think that's personal preference um Because for me the model and you know, I could rerun these numbers and they'll be slightly different over 10 000 iterations And maybe someone just has like a better performance in that In those, you know, those 10 000 iterations of this event. So, you know, it's close, but It's not really a week where I'm seeing a lot of value at the top of the board if I had to pick one right now um That I feel best with it's Sung Jae am makes sense from a course fit standpoint very accurate off the tee Not as good of an iron player as he has been in his career You know, we thought whenever he came out he was going to be like Calling more a cow basically with his irons because he started off really hot, but He's fine. He's a good overall, you know golfer, but He's probably the best name that I see in terms of value among golfers shorter than Uh 55 to 1 and I can say that he is the best It's basically he and Fino or like They're close, but they're not values. So take take take that how you will right um That's just kind of what i'm seeing in the data There is a 20 still out there on Sung Jae. So if you can find that maybe that's a better, uh bet potentially for you Uh, what about the 50 to ones are longer? Anyone anyone you're actually willing to bet there or is it just spots where you're showing value? But don't actually want to take it because I I have that plenty of times Yeah, so it's not you know, usually I see that on guys. We're like 350 to one. It's like a shred of value and it's like Well, no, I'm not I'm not going like I'm not not gonna get there But at 55 to 1 we have denny mccarthy I have his odds at 50 to 1 We know he's a great, uh, he's got a great short game Accurate off the tee sort of gets you know hurt a lot at these events where distance Is a bit of a must mccarthy About four yards shorter on average Then the average like rolled average golfer in terms of distance off the tee According to data golf, but a great great putter So he's the kind of golfer who gets a benefit Uh from a course setup such as this one Um and then brendan todd as well 90 to 1 even more accurate, uh than mccarthy better short game, but a worse ball striker And then andrew putnam Was 150 he is now 100 to 1 his iron play has been pretty phenomenal over the past three starts for him his driver is Usually what holds him back? But specifically with distance He's losing almost 12 12 yards per drive to the field average according to data golf But is gaining you know about seven percentage points of Of fairways on his drive. So to put some easier context into that He's 15th in accuracy and 112th in distance again out of you know, like 120 golfers in the field Um with really good iron play He's got three top top 20s At colonial in his past five years. I think he has five total starts and other two are missed cuts at this course. So putnam I think deserves some attention For this week and you know, I think this is probably just shaping up to be a week where I got to wait and see if Anyone lengths and lengthens at the top that I can jump back on but for now kind of just having some smaller unit allocations on Um mccarthy todd and putnam for now.  Um, I'm sure you're thrilled about this But you should like run a correlation to see like when denny mccarthy does well How is his performance tied to brennan todd because I feel like those two Of all the golfers in the field would have like the highest correlation between like when they spike versus when they lag compared to the field Those two like always are tied at the hip. It seems like I think I think other places do that kind of stuff to try to figure out Yeah, um, those you know to answer those questions, but It is a lot of work. Maybe I'll uh, maybe I'll get to it, but I mean you have nothing else in your plate I think we also know That it's true whenever If it's a brennan todd week, it's denny mccarthy week and it's uh, like an angri putnam week These guys really good short games, but just short off the tee So mccarthy brennan's favorite one there 55 to him But also some interest in todd at 90 to 1 and mander putnam Despite his shorting to 100 to 1 any non-outrites you like this week the menu pretty limited at fandall for this week Uh, it looks like just round leaders up as of now Yeah, just the first round leaders are up. I would you know, usually You know, it's not just a okay. You like someone is a long shot that i'm top 10 top 20 I think the odds are good enough for for mccarthy todd and putnam that I would Be interested in Sure at least top 20s if not top 10s for them, but two first round leaders do stand out to me Russell hamley at 45 to 1 He is the most accurate. Let me get this right most accurate golfer Off the tee in the field over the past 50 rounds according to data golf and he's ninth in stroke skiing t-degree So it's obviously the putter that is the one thing that is lacking there But you know first round leader if the putter gets hot or if he just does you know hits Almost every fairway almost every green. That's a really good profile and I do see slight value for him in my first round leader model um For this week and then jj spawn 80 to 1 first round leader He's 18th in the field over the past 50 rounds in strokes can't eat a green also 18th in accuracy Another name that popped with some value as first round leaders go For the week in that specific model Okay, so those numbers again, uh jj spawn 80 to 1 Russell hamley 45 to 1 to be the first round leader for the charles schwaub challenge That is all that we have here for today On covering the spread talking game for between the Celtics and the heat and talking about the charles schwaub challenge Brandon thank you as always for your insights. I appreciate them as always and we'll talk to you once again next week Probably previewing maybe not to you know, maybe we'll all here. I'll like I'll I'll get the Celtics with disrespect Maybe talking to heat nuggets nba finals next week and talking some golf too Maybe yeah, it's going to be uh, it's going to be an interesting game tonight going to be a pretty pretty interesting golf event this week with a lot of names in play, um and You know going to be tied to a lot of long shots, so it's going to be one of them weeks What could go wrong? Alrighty check out Brandon on twitter. I could do a 13 and find his work Over at numberfire.com. I'm on twitter at gymsonus and j i m S a n n e s you can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast I want to thank you all for tuning in for today. Good luck to you with your bets for tonight in game four for Celtics heat And for the charles schwaub challenge. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow for some nhl discussion This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Now, given the mass of a star, we know how long it will burn the core hydrogen it started with. For the Sun, that's around 10 billion years. But how long the fuel will last from now depends on how long ago it started fusing. Let's take a look at one way we know how far long a star is. In a star cluster, like M67, for example, if we can find a star that is just starting to show the symptoms of having run out of its core hydrogen, we'll know from its mass just how old it is. That will then be the age of all 1100 plus stars in the cluster, because they all formed at the same time. We need to understand what observable effects we can use when a star's fuel runs out. One is, because core temperatures are not high enough to fuse helium, once the hydrogen is used up, fusion in the core ceases. Without fusion, there is no nuclear energy source to supply heat to the central region of the star. The long period of hydrostatic equilibrium ends. Gravity again takes over, and the core begins to contract. As the star's core shrinks, the energy of the inward-falling material is converted to heat. The heat flows outward to cooler regions. The added heat raises the temperature of the layer of hydrogen just outside the core. Once this shell becomes hot enough, hydrogen fusion begins there. The helium core continues to contract, producing more heat all around it. This leads to more fusion in additional shells of fresh hydrogen outside the core. The additional fusion produces still more energy, which also flows out into the upper layers of the star. The first observable result is an increase in the star's luminosity. With all the new energy pouring outward, the outer layers of the star begin to expand. The star eventually grows and grows until it reaches enormous proportions. The expansion of a star's outer layers causes the temperature at the surface to cool. Here we have the second major observable result. The star's surface temperature decreases. The star becomes simultaneously more luminous and cooler. On the HR diagram we see that the star leaves the main sequence and moves upward because it's brighter, and to the right because it's cooler. Detecting this is then a matter of finding stars in a cluster leaving the main sequence. Here's a map of M67 stars to the HR diagram. You can see where the stars are currently moving off the main line. This is called the turnoff point. There are no longer any stars in the cluster higher on the main line. The turnoff point gives us the luminosity of the stars moving off the main sequence. The mass-luminosity relationship gives us the mass, and with the mass we can calculate the age. For M67 we find that it's around 4 billion years old. We then know the age of all the stars in the cluster. But this does not work for field stars like our sun. Research into rotation rates in sunspots as age predictors called gyrochronology is ongoing. But at this time we have no way to figure out the age of field stars by examination. If we're going to figure out the age of the sun, we'll have to examine the material it formed around the sun. The comets, asteroids, moons, planets, and especially the Earth.