Back to another week in my life vlog, I've really been missing my like hour long home vlogs that are just cozy and obviously really going through it right now. I've not been, you know, in the best space. But I really do miss vlogging and I feel like it's okay, I can still, you know, get some clips together. When I'm feeling a little bit better and want to vlog, it's a nice distraction for me. There's so many like home things that I just want to film and I feel like it'll be fun. If y'all are new here, be sure to subscribe to stay up to date. Today's actually a Friday. I just got back from my workout and I got a little bit ready.  But we have some meetings this morning and then I'm hoping to just have like a chill day at home. I feel so weird talking to a camera, I don't know why, I feel so uncomfortable. I've literally been doing this for 10 years, so. Anyways, guys, I don't know if y'all saw, but I got this new coffee maker. Molly inspired me. She told me that I needed to get it. So I'm kind of obsessed. It's beautiful. Makes a whole pot of coffee.  Makes a whole pot of coffee. Anyways, I'm going to make some coffee this morning. I think I'm going to use these beans. They're the hazelnut blend. Macy and Molly sent me a differently chamber like coffee coffee beans and then I have this big grinder that I just got on Amazon all linked on my storefront because it just like matches a little bit better. I will say the coffee tastes absolutely incredible here. Like so good. I've also been kind of getting into this smart list podcast. I've listened to a bunch this morning. Look at our new house guest mugs. They're so cute. Our new merch is so good y'all. I'll also link it below, but it's positive my favorite merch we've come out with. It is amazing. I just finished my meetings. This new lens, I don't know how I feel about it. How do you guys feel about it? I have another one that I could use. I wanted to give you all a little update on some needlepoint projects and I just realized that one of these is this gift. So I can really only show you one, but I finished one canvas. It's going to be really cute. I'll eventually show you guys when I gift it. I also got this little spicy marg needlepoint project. As you all know, I have been needlepointing up a storm. One thing about me is that I'm going to obsess over my newest hobby and the issue is that I'm not like dropping hobbies. I'm just like adding them as they go. That is driving me crazy. But it's like pool cleaner and I didn't want to ruin my hard-of-force. Anyways, I've been working on this. Very cute. And then I'll take you to my room and show you the one that I've really been working on. I only started this one because I took it with me to Vegas, obviously. I was literally needlepointing in Vegas. That shows you guys where I'm at in life. Also ignore this. This is not styled. These are just like random things I've put here. But look, I got Nancy Drew books from the antique store. Do you guys remember when I would vlog like Truth or Drinks and be like blackout? Yeah, me too. Guys, when I go to stagecoach, maybe I should make the girls want a Truth or Drink. Anyways, growing up, I would also go antique shopping with my mom and my grandma and I hated it and they would bribe me with Nancy Drew books. I was clearly a crazy, wild kid and they read every single Nancy Drew book and I loved them. So I got them just, you know, for the memes. Okay, but just wait until you guys see what I've been working on. If you follow me on Instagram, you probably have seen it. This canvas, it is so perfect. It's obviously going to take so long like this.  But I'm going to frame this in my kitchen just because it's nostalgic growing up with like hens in your kitchen. I said this on TikTok recently. I was like, I just grew up with like hens everywhere in my house. And there were comments like, oh my God, like I'm a city girl, Kenzie. I have no idea. Like I met like the wallpaper of hens. I met like early 2000s hens were everywhere in decor. I didn't need like literal hens in my house. I didn't grow up like that. Like I wish we had chicken. It didn't happen. So anyways, I just think it's going to be really cute and like nostalgic and fun for the kitchen. And then I have this project bag. All my project bags are penny lent. Let me give y'all a little garden update. This is what I am the most excited for in life. Another thing we're going to have to tackle soon will be some spring cleaning of this closet because it is not cold anymore.  So anyways, I really try not to make this vlog dramatic, but like, I don't know something that is kind of bothering me is it would be like, oh my God, you seem to be like doing so much better. And it's like, I'm obviously not doing better. It's only been two months. Like I just, you still have to like operate and do things. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. I think it just like makes other people more comfortable with the fact like they feel better that like they think I'm like healed. I don't know. It's like so weird. Anyways, these are going to be good escape. So I'm not going to be negative the whole time. I swear. But I am going to need to do some spring cleaning here. But I need to go take a little thumbnail picture for my garden video that I'm really excited for. It's already up if y'all are watching this. This outfit, it's kind of everything. Imagine if I was just walking back and I walked into the pool. It's kind of giving like a Martha Stewart, you know? I love a vest. So anyways, we're in the backyard now. The pool, I have been cleaning this up the store. Let me tell you guys, we need to talk about something that just happened to me very recently. Like it's hard for me to talk about, but I've really taken about like a week to really stew on it, to really think about it. And I think I'm ready to share my story with you because it was so horrible. Here is the garden update. Things are looking great, okay? I'm going to fertilize soon. It's really bothering me that these rocks go everywhere. Like I need a broom back here or something, but also I know I have extra. I'm still not done. Like I know I have so many garden beds. These are not even all of them. How I can get more. I wish I had a greenhouse. Like I just have the gardening bug, the green thumb, if you will. Well, we're not actually quite sure about that yet.  So every time I see that, I cry. But anyways, I haven't moved this stuff yet, mainly because it's just heavy. And I am going to do a lot of hydrangeas around the pool. Thankfully, my pool is actually weirdly very shaded. And other plans were kind of hard to keep alive around here. So I think hydrangeas, I'm thinking like broadleaf because I know they're better in this climate. I'm hoping will work, but hydrangeas are my favorites because they remind me of Nantucket. I am going very soon, by the way. Am I actually, by the time this vlog goes up, I might be there. Yeah, I'm going to get some more stuff. My pots are always from at home. At home was like my favorite place for pots. There's just nothing that compares to it. Update on the turf. I'm so glad I got turf, like seriously. I put so much work into this yard just for my grass to always look horrible. And listen, I prefer real grass too, but I don't have time to keep that alive all the time. It's just too difficult. So anyways, that is what we have in the garden currently. Okay, so here's my cut flower garden. Things have definitely looked better. The sunflowers are growing. I'm having some drama with the rabbits or the rats. I don't know, they keep digging things up. And you know what? I've about had it with them. I can't even talk about it, it makes me sick. I need you all to picture this and picture me just minding my own business, cleaning my pool when I was having a rough Sunday. I was out here cleaning because it's very therapeutic to me. I'm standing here and all of a sudden, my phone, somehow, like most of the time, it won't even fit down this, right? Okay, it somehow perfectly falls. Perfectly, and it falls there, okay? I'm sitting here, you might be able to see I was trying to saw it somewhere. It's not very obvious because they didn't get buried. So, can't wait to have kids. Actually, I like crazy baby fever right now. Okay, so I'm sitting out here, or I'm cleaning, I'm doing all this, I was already having a bad day, and I'm like listening to smart lesson, like minding my own business, and having this really peaceful time in my backyard. Because my backyard is truly a magical oasis. Like, I love being back here, and it falls down. And I'm like, oh my God, and it's the week that we were launching a bit and I have all this content I hadn't edited yet that was on my phone and couldn't be anywhere else. So, at this point, I can't do anything because the crawl space over there is where my pool filter is, and I wasn't strong enough to move the pool filter. I'm calling my dad and calling everyone. I'm like, I don't know what to do, whatever. And then I order a saw, I order a picker-upper thing, I order everything, possibly can, and I'm sitting here and I'm like, oh my God, I can't get through. Like, I'm trying everything and it's impossible. I try it for two hours. I'm trying to saw the wood open. I'm trying to do quite literally everything. And then I finally realized the only way to get this stuff is if I try to move the pool filter. So I go and I move the pool filter barely and I get myself all the way up there and I have to crawl as it had just rained and I just showered, might I add, and I have to crawl under there. And I get claustrophobic and things like that. Like, I wouldn't say I'm a very claustrophobic sort of gal, but it's like, anyone get claustrophobic there? And it was terrifying, it was really horrible. I got my phone back, but yeah, it was a pretty bad thing. So, this deck, one, me, zero. I honestly need to do an entire TikTok on my stock tank pool. Now it's all dusty because it has cleaned it and it looks gross, but we're working on it. I didn't clean it for a couple of months. So we've just been, we've been, you know, really working on this. But best decision I ever made, I got mine from Stock Tank Love, I paid for it. I'm pretty sure that's the name of the company. We built the deck out around it. Those chairs are article. And yeah, I'm just saying this now because I didn't get mine until September last year. So I wish I had it all summer. This summer I'll be living in this pool. And it is a way cheaper alternative than getting an actual pool. I'll make a whole TikTok on it with like questions and stuff. Highly recommend. Normally they'll have like 10. So it technically looks cooler, like it looks nicer. But this, whatever material I forget, this pool is last longer. So I was actually responsible and I got the one that lasts longer versus the one that looks better. And I still think it looks pretty great. So I love this thing. Highly recommend if y'all are in Texas and like thinking maybe a pool, you can get a smaller one. And just through the pool, there's ways. Like it's a way cheaper version of a pool, obviously. But it's fully filtered. Like it's actually legitimately like a pool. It's just obviously smaller. It's not that deep. I can sit in it and like my hair will get wet. So I like not just to give you like a little idea of the depth. But anyways, mine's 10 by 10, I think. And it is the best thing ever. Another huge life update. I actually made my first purchase from Mackenzie Child because they came out with this colorway. And I obviously had to have it immediately. So I got the teakheadle, which is the cutest thing ever. The little spoon holder and then the utensil holder. I would like to have more things. I want the strainer, like it's just so cute. And I love this stuff. It doubles as decor. I mean, obviously that is decor, but like the teakheadle. Like you want this out all the time. And it's just perfect. I'm really focusing on bringing in like a lot of old vintage antique pieces to mix this house with like old and new because the actual house itself obviously is like built very modern, but I want it to be cozier. So we're working with what we have, thawing out some stuff and cooking soon. But this is just kind of random, like things are put together, but I like the look. Like this was supposed to be an accident and I just have never moved in. I actually really like it. So yeah, I'm just bringing in a lot of like older stuff into the newer space, making it cozier. The dining room is a mess because I'm actually in the middle of redoing a lot of stuff. So don't mind that. I've been buying frames at antique stores like non-stop because they're just cheaper. They're cooler. They have more character. Well, really I wanted to do like a really big like four foot by six foot frame and frame things that had sentimental value or were cute like movie stubs and newspapers my family's been in and things like that. Like I might have to like sports when I was younger. Like just stuff like that to make it very personal. I cannot find a frame that's big enough and I don't know if I'm gonna end up doing that. I do want to do a plate wall so I might actually do that there. My original thought was to do it on this wall. I got this frame and this is like the first one that I'm thinking for the plate wall so I've gotta find a bunch more. I was thinking like here would be cute and simple but now I'm like maybe I do it in the dining room. Would it be weird if I did a plate wall on one side and then a gallery wall on the next? I'm not like a huge gallery wall person but I feel like it could be cute and cozy and I would change a lot of the prints. I would keep the frames by the way. But I got these chairs. Someone sent them to me. You're like, oh my God, they're so you and they're $300 for two on TJ Max. So I got them, loved them and I got two more.  So I'll probably set the other two chairs up today. They just been in a box and been waiting to vlog. It's just a work in progress. We'll see. Coco Stroller over here. Actually an amazing buy. I don't regret that at all. It's been like the best thing for her because of her IVDD, she can't walk. But she's living a very happy life. So we've got that all covered. Anyways, I need to finish all of this. And then over here, I just turned these lights off this morning. Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this. That was so fast. These grew literally in the past four hours. I was just here this morning. I started seeding some new things. Okay, I just can't be stopped. It's so peaceful. Like there's nothing I love more than being at this potting bench and then I'll play like home worthy or something on that TV or play a podcast, open my garage door and then I just get to work. Like it is just absolutely incredible. So anyways, this is what we've got going right now. We've got some lettuce, some Swiss chard, some winter squash, some carrots, spinach, cucumber, celery. I just like I'm interested to see what how celery does. Zucchini, kale, lettuce again. Lettuce grows pretty quickly. But yeah, we're just trying out new things. I wish I had like a hundred garden beds. I would like genuinely really love that. And it really is like a part-time job, honestly, but I'm really loving it. And it's bringing me a lot of joy these days. So I did start seeding some new stuff. I have no idea where it's gonna go if it's even gonna fit. Like we're gonna forget that later. That is not my problem right now, you know? Yeah, I'm gonna let these sit for a bit and then I won't forget to harden next time even though I luckily got, I'm fine right now. So anyways, just nice to have some things going constantly. This skirt I'm obsessed with, it's just the best thing ever. My grandma made it for me to make my garage a lot prettier. In an ideal dream world, I would have this all taken out and then have like a storage like cabinets or something built up here. But you know, we'll just see. I'm not made out of money. So we're gonna see how all that goes. I'm not sure if y'all have seen the hosting closet updates. There have been some big updates. Don't mind the fact that the wallpapers, you know, kinda doing some things there. It's none of my business, okay? I need it to replace these lights.  I come in here all the time. We have obviously our lot of dinner cards, the big cards. I will get these out sometimes if people come over to dinner. Y'all haven't gotten these. You won't want a girls night card to get these. If you want like standard great cards, it is like great dinners, gender neutral, like whatever, get these. But they're just amazing. I think you need all of them. I use them all the time.  These are just from Ikea. I know I like went into this on my recent vlog, but I just, I'm so obsessed in case you guys missed it. I love it so much. And then I love this wallpaper and then I'm ideally gonna do a gallery wall on this wall of all the things that I've hosted and just keep framing as time goes on. I really wanna work with Frambridge for that and just do stuff with them. But I'm probably gonna use vintage frames and stuff as well. That's why I originally started getting the vintage frames and then I decided I was using them for my house. Anyways, love that. It's just not real. Like this is how he sits. I went on a run the other day. Yes, I have started running. By that I mean I went on one run this week and he was just sitting here waiting for me the whole time. But look at him. He's just so perfect. He currently has a hotspot. He's supposed to be wearing a comb but he hasn't been itching at his hotspot like literally at all. So I only have him wear it whenever I leave, but he's just the most handsome, perfect dog that has ever existed.  I'm gonna make a little recipe that I saw on Instagram the other day and I've just been craving it ever since. I immediately wrote it down in my recipe journal. Normally I would like cook it and then see if I like it and then we'll make it into the recipe journal. But we have the creamy feta roasted red pepper chicken and cauliflower. So this is from Gather Nutrition. I didn't even think about the fact that it's healthy. It just looked good. Also I'm gonna eat it with pita bread. Just everything about this looks fabulous. I really am a Southern girl at heart and I ran out of mason jars for my like ice coffee but I also just like drink everything in mason jars. So this is a really, really big cup for my ice coffee. Like really large, but honestly, it's probably what I drink in a day anyways. These came from Amazon and I'm excited about them. Anyways, this looks so good. I'm filming a recipe TikToks if y'all want that video. Screenshot this for the ingredients and the directions. It's so simple, so easy. I'm really excited. I think this is gonna be like a go-to because it just sounds so good. And then it's a Friday night. I really don't feel like going anywhere. So I am going to be staying in tonight even though I don't know. I was maybe gonna go somewhere. I don't know. I don't think so. So get a shower, wash my hair, read. I've been rereading Magnolia Parks which is my comfort series, my favorite book series ever. Also, one of my really good, amazing close friends, Jessa is the author. She's been on the podcast a billion times because I haven't listened. But I've been rereading it just as my comfort read and I read Into the Dark for the last one forever ago but I only got one that was up to 70%. So I wanted to wait until everyone else got the book so I can be a part of the Magnolia Parks lore if you will. So I need to finish that today and I just don't want to. It's one of those books that they're all so long but I never want them to end so I don't mind how long they are. Like I'm just gonna start from scratch. Just start over again, you know? Just so we're all aware, this was incredible. I haven't even eaten the whole thing and it smells amazing. It looks amazing. This is so good. I have showered. I dried my hair around my web just in case anyone tries to tell my sister I didn't. I know that I've extensioned.  It is 5.15 on a Friday night and I'm going to need a point and switch my laptops over. I had to get a new laptop because this one is just so slow. I mean, it's three years old now. It's not, I mean, the newest thing I guess. I don't know how often you're supposed to be placing MacBooks but I was gonna do a cute unboxing. I feel like anyone cares. They're literally all the same thing. I remember when I was young, I always wanted the new iPhone. That was so exciting. And now I really could not tell you what iPhone I have, what iPhone we're on. They're all the same, you know? Wow. Now you can pick colors of laptops and that really stressed me out. So I just went with the color that I have. Like right now you can get like the darker ones with the darker color better. I don't know. Just seems literally like the exact same laptop I have. The exact same shape, everything about it. It is the same. So I'm going to transfer over my laptop tonight and get some new appointing. Good morning, y'all. It is Sunday, like noon. Hello, Fitzy. I had a coffee a couple hours ago. This is literally the size of my face. Obviously, doing a face mask. I just made myself some lunch. My dad came over to help me with some house stuff. And I've been working from my bed all morning on a friend of mine's stuff. Very, very exciting things happening. Yesterday, I went out and I did something social in Dallas for the first time in two months. And it was honestly really fun. And I had a good time and I saw my friends. We played the big card game. If y'all don't have the bit, you need to get it. It's a limited edition. So we don't even have Resort plans or anything like right now. Like I would get it now. Also by the way, I have new merch. So all this will be on the screen so y'all can get up to date. I just reheated that soup that I made the other day. It's so good. The recipe is on my Instagram. Really just amazing. I might fertilize the garden today. I might do some things. I wasn't planning on vlogging, but I'm having a little chatty. I was hoping that me too was gonna come over so we could need a point. And I'm trying to just get stuff done.  My house is a mess right now, but that just is not in my business. I'm wearing the Dairy Boy set. The sweats I got in a large, just cause I normally like sweats like really big in large, but I feel like they just already had like an oversized fit. So like they're just too big. I probably should have actually gotten a medium. I'm actually a medium. So anyways, updates. That's pretty much it. I need to take this sheet mask off. Wow. All right, we're gonna take a little break from work and unbox the next two chairs of these. So anyways, we're gonna unbox these two and then figure this out. My other issue is I just have so many frames like I really need my mom to come. And I would like to just hang them and then get prints afterwards. I also really need to go like in taking for some other cute plates. So maybe if I have time this week, I will go thrifting a little bit because I really do want like a plate wall. I want to just make it very personal, very cozy and get this stuff going. I thought I was going to be able to fertilize today but it's going to pour again tonight. So I'm gonna wait a little bit but I got all this raised bed plant food. I haven't really done anything like that on our raised beds yet. These like miracle grow feeders to attach to my hoses. I have another hose to set up. These are the things that I look forward to but like there's really nothing like working on your yard. Like now I feel like my mom working in my yard picking up weeds doing all that. Like it's just truly the best. I also got this shelf. Oh my God, it's really heavy. I do not want to set this up myself. So that'll be done eventually but it's just this silver shelf that I'm going to use for my seating station. So that's going to go in the garage. I might as well just move it out there now but the idea is that I can connect some grow lights there and then just add my seating trays. It's going to be great I think. When you just become a serial hobbyist like me it honestly it gets overwhelming because when am I going to have time to do all of my hobbies? I rarely have time to do all the things I need to do anyways. And now like I have so many hobbies that I need to do in between like gardening and just needle pointing alone I have no time to read. I used to read so much and I've really not read as much as I used to. I really never watched TV. I just bought like my thing but I do love a good documentary and this week I actually watched The Dynasty The Beauty and the Beatrice doc on I think Apple TV and it was so good. I actually really liked it but I really liked watching it even though I was an adult and like honestly controversial opinion like Bill Belichick is kind of like a strategist. Like he kind of you know they want for a reason it wasn't ethical you know who's to say. Probably not but football is a game of strategy okay? So honestly, justice for Bill Belichick. It really is just like a crazy thing to watch. I mean the Patriots are just such a fascinating team during that, during The Dynasty at least because there's just so much going on. There's air in her nose of it all. Like it was just so much happening. And then I watched Quite on the Sets and it just made me sick. Like it's so disgusting. That's the one of the Nickelodeon stuff because I haven't watched it. I watched it on I think HBO Max but it is just like I was like six in my stomach and like I don't know like it was a really it was honestly like a really hard watch. Like it was just so gross and sad and the fact that like Brian Peck worked again is really insane. Like it's just really really really sad. It makes me so sad too. Just thinking about like Amanda Bynes and like I don't know it's just really horrible what those kids went through. And it's wild too because when you're young your dream you know is to be well at least like I feel like everyone like secretly wants to have Nickelodeon or Disney or whatever. And like to know what they were at like what was actually going on was just really sad so. All of that and I liked it better the way before. It needs to have something at the end of that. So now I'm like do I order two more chairs like this or like what should I do? I don't know. I'm keeping these cream ones anyways because I am gonna go back to how I had it originally especially around like the holidays and just kind of when I get tired of this. But now it looks weird this way. So I don't know. I don't know what to do. I just laid this stuff out here. It's not really what's gonna happen. It's just I think it could actually fit to start getting an idea. I am gonna replace some of these art fits is really wanting attention right now.  He is such a doodle. Driller idea but I don't know. Part of me is like do I hate gallery walls? Like am I so over those? Is it gonna be too much to have the plates and the gallery wall? I don't know. I really, really don't know. So okay just watch this. Good boy. Okay and then he normally hits my hand up. Like he's not doing it now cause he knows he's being filmed but he'll like actually hit it like aggressively. Like he'll go like under and push it. It's so cute Fitz. You're so cute Fitzie. It's dark out here right now but I will say my sunflowers are definitely growing a ton. Oh look who it is again. Hello. Okay I got seeds. The same pack that I got from Epic Gardening for this cut flower garden and I'm just gonna plant them straight right out here and just see what happens because I obviously can have a lot more flowers in here but I don't know. We'll see. I did the chaos gardening and it's already coming up. I'll show y'all. We've got some rabbit or some wraths or something happening here because look guys. Like there. Oh my gosh. It makes me so angry but anyways I did the chaotic gardening method. If y'all watched my garden video actually it wasn't even that video. My TikTok.  It's exactly what you think when you just think like planting seeds. But like not seriously. If this becomes the better cut flower garden after I just did all those seedlings in there I will die. But honestly I mean that would be great for me. So we're just gonna try all this. Let's see how it comes up. I wanna say I planted these about two weeks ago now probably. So I don't know. We'll see. It would be really pretty if it really works out. My backyard is just like this peaceful oasis that I love and the weather has actually been really good here minus the storms. I don't know what I'm gonna do for dinner. It feels actually like so good before the storm. I really should have gone on a walk today but I'm not doing that now. I keep ordering burgers from Hudson House. Hudson House is the best. If you, how are there plants growing through my rock? They're just literally, they're the best burgers ever. So I might get that. I don't know. I really wanna learn how to make them. I don't know. I should have stayed when I like really overwhelmed because I was going through a bunch of work stuff and like trying to like organize it but it's just a lot. Like separately more on the front of mine and that there's just a lot of things happening that I'm really excited for. But I think it's just like it's overwhelming in general but like especially in like the state that I'm in. So anyways, getting all that together. I haven't even started needle pointing today and it's 5 p.m. I thought I was gonna need to point through the day. That didn't happen so whatever. Okay, hi y'all. Good morning. It is freezing outside. For some reason I insisted on reading outside this morning. I saw TikTok. Oh my God, I'm literally gonna stop. I'm like a rescue TikToker right now. I'm just like dog TikTok in general. I saw TikTok saying every 56 days is the year of your dog's life. And I was like, oh my God, literally. As if I want more things to think about right now like that. But anyways, I already spent literally 20% of my dogs. Like even when I go to my dad's house, which is like pretty much the only place I go right now, I bring them.  Like they're always with me. But I wanted bits to have a little fun playing around and he wasn't really running around this morning. I think he was just tired. So anyways, oh I was reading the Imagine Heaven book I talked about in like my group vlogs. And I stopped reading it just because it was feeling like a little more overwhelming. Also, by the way, I finished, well, okay, I re-read the last Magnolia Parks book because I read it, Jesse gave me the draft, but I didn't have it the last 30% of it. I didn't want the last 30% until it came out and everyone else read it. And that was just, I mean the best book I've ever read in my life. There's just no series like the Magnolia Parks series. And I yesterday was just work, work, work it away. And I'm gonna do a top 50 books that I've read in the past couple of years out of like 500 books. And obviously the series is just like top of mind. This isn't gonna be depressing, don't worry, but I was reading the book and it talked about Ben Breedlove. And I don't know if y'all grew up on YouTube like I did, but growing up I idolized Megan Park and I still love Megan Park. But this was like one of the first YouTubers that I watched and she would always post about Ben Breedlove which was like one of her best friends and he passed away at least 10 years ago now. I think I was 14 or 15 when this happened. And I just remember always watching their videos and then watching her videos on like grief and stuff and it was just like very impactful for me. And then it got like his video went viral and he had like an NDE week before he passed and like all this stuff. And he was mentioned in the book and I guess the author, whoever was telling the story was his pastor and like a really close family friend. So anyway, something about that was like, it was a comforting to really get familiar story in a way and it's cool that like I'm still hearing about Ben like so many years later I messaged Megan about it just because I was like it is really, really cool. So anyways, today is, we are work, work, working away. I've got meetings starting here in about an hour and then I'm recording two podcast episodes. I've got to shoot a Jacobas and Bay Steel guys for stagecoach. Like name a better deal for me. When you guys see this on Instagram go crazy, okay? Jacobas, as you know, my favorite boot brand. My probably my favorite brand period. They're literally all over my closet room and house. And then Bay says that new brown color, the maple color and I was literally online trying to buy it cause it's been out of stock like everywhere that morning and then it was out of stock and then I got an email from base for this partnership and I was like, perfect, say no more. So anyways, got to shoot that but I'm picking out two outfits. I already had them picked up but I wasn't like so excited about them for recording today. I keep wanting to wear this red sweater. By the way, this is from Daily Drills and it is the best like little cardigan sweater. I want it in every single color but I've already worn it for my merch shoe which by the way guys, pick up your house guest merch. It's very cute. So I feel like I can't wear it again and all this stuff that's, cause we do like actual photos and stuff for it but I have all these really cute clothes that I've been planning for stagecoach like this skirt. Abercrombie skirts, there's nothing better. Maybe I'll make a TikTok about it and this is Navy. I'm so into Navy right now and I need Navy suede cowboy boots like so bad. The thing is like Lucacea is a pair and I'm a Tukovis girl but Lucacea does have the blue suede. So I don't know if they're gonna be why cap it off I might like go try them on or something because like these with blue suede boots like there's literally nothing better so. Oh and I don't know if I've shown you guys this either. I guess I'm just showing you all of my stuff. This is from Cezanne. Like look at how cute this denim vest is. In a perfect ideal world but I've already worn this for a podcast episode like I know it's dumb but I'm trying to like not wear the same things. Also I just got invited to this thing this morning. It was like something with Sam Edelman and like with actually it's like Sam, Sam Edelman. Sam Edelman are my favorite shoes ever. Like I have more Sam Edelman like right here alone. Let's look at this rack. Sam, Sam. Those were Sam but someone's borrowing them. Sam, Sam, Sam. Sam. Okay I have my favorite little kitten here. Like there's nothing like it and then over here there's so many more Sam things. Like these are so cute. They're giving Chanel. They're giving rich girl. They're giving you know but not those things. Just it's what they're giving. I wore these wedding gear shopping for my cousin and they're the cutest shoes ever but anyways it's her wedding. So unfortunately Sam we will be meeting but that was exciting. Righty here is my hair. It'll fall as time goes on and then I did my makeup. My meetings are starting in 25 minutes. I need to get dressed and then I wanted to give you a little needle point update. Not much has been done on this which is interesting for some reason. I'm just like really liked doing smaller projects which I'm normally a big project sort of girl with the little projects because I'm doing a home tour for something very exciting. I just keep thinking about how I want them in my home tour. One of them I can't show you but I'm pretty much done with it because it's a gift for my dad and I just can't risk him seeing it but I'm almost done with this spicy mark.  I did think about making it into an ornament but this just needs to go I think in my hosting closet or the kitchen or something and then this one has to be done and framed in my kitchen before my home tour. It's a recipe card. Like I can't believe that I don't have this for a friend of mine. So anyways, I am gonna write a blog post that will be up by the time I'll link it below on how to get into needle points. So like I'm linking some ones that I think are good to start with from my favorite stores and then like how to start. It's really not difficult if you start with the continental stitch that's still the only stitch that I know today. It's a very simple, simple craft. Maybe I'll go into it in a vlog at some point. I've been getting video across but I feel like that's just like too niche for YouTube. So anyways, we're gonna go get dressed. The outfit that I'm wearing is so, I mean I'm decoded. It's so cute. Okay, we've got the jeans, these Levi's that I've had forever. I don't even know what kind of leopards they are.  Then I have these white ballet flats from Revolve. This sweater from Commence. I have it in two colors. Best sweater ever, I'm obsessed. And then I have these really cute earrings from all of jewels. I just got like really cute stuff from them. I don't know if it's too much. No, I'm kind of into it. I feel like it's fun. I haven't eaten yet and I'm starving. I've been loving hard boiled eggs in the morning.  It just like gets in the way of my day. So I like the hard boiled eggs. Okay, I don't know if it's too much but I kind of like it. I, yeah, I like it. That's what I've decided. All right y'all, this is the final look. I just am so obsessed with these sweaters. I have two of them and I honestly need to get another color because I just am living in them. They're so cute. Okay, so skims, commence, Levi's, Revolve as you guys know. I love this outfit. I am randomly, I just feel like I'm honestly ready to go on Nantucket. Okay? Nantucket really changed me a couple of years ago because I became very classy after that trip. I wouldn't say that always. I actually wouldn't even call myself classy but like I started dressing a little bit. Maybe it was also age, I don't know. But anyways, this is the perfect outfit for Amanda. I wanted to say, I just am really talkative this morning, which is good. Okay, but I got this perfume. It's by Rosy Jane.  What is that? And then she's like, it's by Rosy Jane. Wait, I have that on my house. And it is the best smelling perfume ever. Oh, it's Lord Elizabeth. So, gotta go. It's 5 p.m. now. I was hoping to film a little bit today but I had meetings and then we recorded and then we were shooting content and I'm eating in my Chick-fil-A and then I need to film the Jacobas base brand y'all and then do all my computer work and stuff. So, finished my work. I made some tea. Macy texted me asking if I wanted her to bring me over dinner and I was like, please. And I haven't gotten a response. So, I think I was being punked. I don't know that was really happening but I just got a little package from Tara which is exciting. I didn't even know this was coming. Let's start the season. Festival season is here. Please talk about it. I don't know if that's funny. Oh, great. It's just like, obviously festival products. So, very exciting. I saw Tan last night because I was recording today and I forgot to do one of my legs. So, one of my legs is pale and the other is tan. I've never done that in my life. I'm gonna drink my tea and put my footages and all these episodes in. Good morning, y'all. I just got back from my workout. I made a smoothie. I don't think I've shown the vlog. My smoothie maker. Normally I have one that's bigger and there's a straw attached but I couldn't find the straw so I don't have it this morning. Anyways, it is the best blender. It's like 100 bucks. It's clean. It looks good in your kitchen. All the compartments. It's just like more efficient. I find that it makes the least amount of mess. It takes me like two seconds to clean up and I actually have been making like a ton of smoothies. So, anyways, that's my Amazon storefront. Love that. Today is really gonna be like a hobby's day which is what I need. I do have a couple of meetings this morning. I'm meeting in case anyone's interested in what the business sent. We're meeting with some publicists for a friend of mine and then I'm also meeting with like a social media agency for a friend of mine. I'm just like so excited and I've been placing massive, massive, massive orders and it like terrifies me but also massive for me, massive in general. Like I don't need to, this is the thing that I'm trying to stop doing is like downplaying or not downplaying, cutting myself out or making myself small. I don't know the word I'm looking for but like it's a massive order. Like I'm really excited. Anyway, so we've been doing like really big restocks and I keep placing like bigger and bigger stuff and now that we're so close to being able to launch other products, like I'm very close to like finally like my final approval. I'm just really excited. So anyways, we've been making some moves, doing some things and I am really excited. Today, I do want to fertilize is what I've been looking forward to for so long. I need to get in the garden. I'm very excited and then I need to go to the needlepoint store to get some more thread and I need to go to the fabric store to pick out some fabric for my needlepoint projects because my grandma finishes my needlepoint projects. If y'all are looking for someone to finish your needlepoint projects, soon she'll be open. I think we're gonna make like an Etsy shop or something. She's a lot faster than everyone else. Like everyone else is like four to six months and it's like literally like $7,000 for an ornament and we'll give it to you in Christmas of 2027. That's like what that is right now. I really need to like do some spring cleaning and reset and like I honestly want to get that done sooner rather than later because I want it to be done by the time I get back from Nantucket because then all my travel picks up so I think I'm gonna set aside like two days next week and just go crazy and you guys will benefit because it's gonna be a great vlog. Having more smoothie, I do ritual protein, coconut water, frozen berries and half a banana. It's amazing. I should probably be adding to my stuff. Sometimes I do chia seeds. All right guys, so I'm off my calls. I'm so excited about Fred and mine. Like it has been such a good distraction in my life. Like one, something good happening. And two, which is like something to work on that I'm very passionate about and I'm just so excited for it. So anyways, my R place, which I think that I maybe absolutely ordered two. I think I ordered one, forgot that I ordered it and then ordered it again but I got the R place slow cooker which I had been wanting that for so long. I don't know if y'all know, you should at this point because I'm always talking about it but R place is by far my favorite kitchen brand. I love their stuff. I love, yes the design of it but I actually just like love the pans and the use they use them for everything. I have the knives like this store right here is you can see like pretty much all R place. The only pans I'm gonna use are R place. I actually should get their cast iron stuff. That's the only thing I don't have and I definitely want cast iron for summer. But anyways, I just like love their stuff. Even all of that stuff R place wooden spoons, I just am a huge fan.  My Unipoint projects that I need to finish up. So this one's done. Don't talk to me about the anchoring. I don't wanna talk about it, okay? But I need to take it to the fabric store to pick out the fabric for the pillow that my grandma's gonna do. When you take your canvas and make it into a project, it's called finishing, like needle point finishing. And my grandma can finish mine. We're gonna go to needle point this today just because it's closer to me. It grabs some threads and it's right by the fabric store for this one. And we're gonna go see what we can do. Whenever I'm at the fabric store, it just like takes me back to my childhood because that's all I did as a kid. My mom, my grandma owned a bedding and drapery company where my mom owned it. Grandma was a seamstress and I would always grow up like at their shop. So I would like be making like, I would do like purses and stuff, but I was like working for them, AKA I was cleaning everything and like the ribbon and the trim and organizing it and whatever. So anyways, it's very nostalgic. I can like smell it. So anyways, I got a bunch of different fabrics. You, if you're interested in doing this, go to the fabric store and ask for the remnants because that's where everything is that's cheap.  Like you can't order like a bowl of stuff. And even if you get it by the yard, like a lot of stuff like at Rutherford, it's more expensive. It's like a hundred or something dollars a yard. And I'm like, no. So this is my favorite. And this is the one that had the most amount of fabric. Like you just never know, because like for example, this doesn't have much fabric at all, but this one has a ton and this was like $15. This was $10. I got this. I don't even know what I would use it for, but I just thought it was cute. And I'm like, you might as well get it because it's so inexpensive. I got all this fabric for like 50 bucks. This just like very nostalgic to me. Like we definitely had this fabric somewhere. And I don't know if I hate it or if it could be really cool if I got like a like more Western vibe, but not like Western chuggy, you know? And then this one had a ton of fabric. So I got this, but it's a little bit more white than I would like, but I think it could be good. And also my grandma, I want to use it for some of her projects. This one and this one. So successful day at Rutherford, just not as successful as I would have hoped, but my gets coming up next week and we have to go shopping anyways. So hopefully I'll get that then. If you're interested in getting into needle pointing on my blog, which by the way, the blog is launched, we have an entire post of how to get into it, how to learn a video. It's literally so easy.  It is so easy. Okay, so here are my hydrages. As you can see, rough. These pots, by the way, are at home. I am an at home girl till I die for pots, but anyways, it's really wet. I got this aluminum sulfate because this is what I was supposed to do. Apparently when your hydrages are like losing color, I need to check the pH. Wait, where did I go? I just happened to have pH strips because, all right, let's just see how this goes. I need a control strip. I feel like I'm in school. Okay, it's very blue. I'd say about 240. Let's see what this says. Okay, what does 240 mean? It says, I'm gonna be real with you. I'm just gonna wing this one because it doesn't even give me the right amount. Okay, this is not for you. You've gotta be kidding me. Guys, no wonder it's so, the actual hole has the plastic part in it still. No wonder. Oh my God. No wonder my hydrages are dying, okay? I made that mistake with my first plants. I didn't realize that my pots didn't have a hole at the bottom of them because why would a pot come without a hole at the bottom of them? I mean, you don't water every single or you don't need that for every single pot, but still. Honestly, I'm not loving how my snapjackens are looking over here, not one bit. They're supposed to have pink flowers on them. And I did zinnias last year and they lasted forever and then the zinnias died in the frost and then I went there and then have zinnias and I hate how I plant that one. I don't know, am I making some changes there? The trees are also bothering me. I just really like them. But anyways, we're gonna hope that this hydrangea like comes back to life. I do have some hope there. Okay, I want to plant even more things back here. So like what should I put here? Will it fit another like four foot raise bed if I just move these rocks a little bit? But I don't know if that's accessible as I look back at this. I haven't planted something that lasts that still just because I am being way too serious about it because my last bed that has space, I have so much more soil left. I don't even think I would do logs. Think I would just throw all this soil in or I will be using this soil for my pots over here which let me show you. Okay, so all of these pots again are obviously at home as always but they don't have holes on the bottom which is why my last stuff died in there and it's like didn't realize. So I need to get a different drill bit so I can drill a hole in the bottom because the way I did it with the other ones I guess it's like no hair supposed to do it or something. I don't know, but I don't know if this is dead or... Oh no, it isn't. Okay, let's try that. I've cleared the water in the pool but it just looks dirty because the bottom of the pool is dirty with all the dirt. I cannot wait until I'm in the pool every day. Like I will literally be out here 24 seven, I'll be reading, I'll be needle pointing, like come every day at five PM, I'll be in the pool. I'm just growing a ton of it. Dill's growing, oregano is slow. Wow, okay. Thanks, so I'm off to my dad. We, well, I normally needle point there and then we get dinner but he wants a needle point and I don't know if I told you guys this already. Basically, he's like girl dad vibe just like wants to do something with me. This is what I keep doing so I got him like a Pittsburgh Steel a little ornament thing to needle point. He's not gonna end up liking me doing this and he's not gonna continue to do it but I got this canvas from Morgan Julia Designs a couple of months ago. So I'm bringing him this one to see if he can do it because the other one's not in it yet. I have a snack, my chips. I have my needle point project that I'm working on and I'm bringing the pups and we're gonna go on a little walk and then order dinner and needle point and then I'll be back later but it's a very chill Wednesday night. I was so peaceful all because I was one with the plants earlier, you know? I'm back from Pilates and I'm really cozy because today we are fertilizing and then I might start organizing my house for my next video, we'll see. I went to 7am Pilates, it was really nice. My outfit is really something, okay? It's cozy because remember guys I did only self-ten one of my legs so I had to self-ten the other. So this one is currently tanning and we're gonna go fertilize it. First I'm gonna make a smoothie with my smoothie maker I was telling y'all about. It is, see this one has a straw but I can't find the straw for that wet so we're just gonna use the normal one. Anyways, it's the best and it's a really standard one.  I post a lot more garden updates. We'll just send real time on my TikTok. I can see the text and if y'all are interested. Eggplant, you know, I think it's doing its thing. Cucumber, we'll see. Lots of carrots and then we have some sweet peppers, not many. My lettuce is really just a mess. I feel like I should have kept this like in the seed leading stage longer. I don't know if it was necessarily ready. We also have some spinach. These are mixed up. Like I don't really know what's going on here and we lost the tab so I don't know exactly what kind that is. I'll have to look at my seed packets. Tomatoes which is definitely not hair supposed to plant tomatoes. So I'll throw that out. I don't even know what this is because my white tab fell out. So anyways, and then we have onions.   But I Googled it and apparently like these are supposed to flop over so that's good. And like this has grown so much. It's gonna be so crazy when I harvest these and there's literally onions there. Like I totally don't care you're wrong. I understand that some gardening works but it's crazy to see and to do it yourself, you know? And then this is where I do the chaotic method for the cut flower garden. And I keep saying like watch this one that I spent such minimal effort on end up being the one that does really well. The lighting's pretty bad but starting to sprout a ton. Yeah, I just, you, I mean it's what it sounds like.  And apparently it works really well. So anyways, that's that. All right y'all, it's been real. I hope you enjoyed this vlog. I made quite the mess outside so I need to go fix that. And then I think I'm gonna start with organizing spring reset video. I hope you guys enjoyed. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you made it to the very end of this video, comment onion. I don't know. Love y'all, bye.


I'm a huge fan of movies and almost every genre you can think of, whether it's thriller, action, sci-fi, comedy, horror. The only one, the only real one I have an issue with, is Revenge porn. So when a Patreon requested a movie I had not seen or heard of, The Last House on the Left, I thought, this will be a fun, scary film. Ha ha ha ha ha! This demand came from Henry over on Patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies. He's at the Mithril level, so that entitles him to recommend a movie for me to watch. I have to, and then give him a shout out. So thank you, Henry, for being a Patreon member at the Mithril level. You're awesome. This movie, not so much. But we'll talk about the pros and cons. We'll be fair because I've already laid out the carpet. I already said, I'm not into revenge porn flicks, and this very much is that. When husband and wife, John and Emma, head on over to the family vacation home with their daughter, Mari, things seem on the up and up, for about 10 minutes. Until those dumb parents let their 17 year old impressionable daughter go traipsing around the town with an old friend. Things go south pretty quickly. When the two teenage girls end up in a sleazy motel, doing some drugs together with this guy they've never met before.  They're gonna be entering the place, too. Now we have ourselves a situation. Two girls, crappy Nokia phones that don't get service.  Aaron Paul, for some reason in this side tangent. Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad. Fantastic actor. Amazing job as Jesse in one of the greatest TV series of all time.  Not only was he here, but he was also in that shitty Need for Speed movie no one saw based on the video game.   All complete trash. The girlfriend Sadie though, comically shirtless all the time. Like, she just pulls off the shirt willy-nilly when she enters the place. That's the first impression she starts with, and that's the impression she's gonna leave with by the time this movie's over. It's very funny. It's like, dear God, what are we, what are we doing here? Am I supposed to be turned on by this? But that's the bizarre direction this whole movie has. They sexualized things that should not be sexualized.  I should point out, this isn't the first version of Last House on the Left. I believe there's an older version of I spit on your grave too. Both movies have one thing in common. They take an underage girl, have her get brutally raped, but put the camera in very voyeuristic angles. They even sexualize her early on when she's just getting dressed by yourself.  He's moving around her waist up by the chest. It's very uncomfortable to watch. And it's not uncomfortable in the way that I'm thinking, okay, there's bad guys around. They're making it uncomfortable? No, it's uncomfortable because the camera is just lingering on her. Mari also takes a quick dip at one point where she pulls off the shirt and shorts so she's in her bra and underwear and just swims a couple laps just because she's a swimmer. She's a swimmer. That's going to be important later when she swims away from the bad guys after being viciously raped. So it's a fun movie to watch. Really fun. Let's get a couple more negatives out of the way since I am ranting on this and then I will point out some pros because there are pros to this film as well.  Just not the type of movie I enjoy watching. There is some value in it though for people that like this kind of stuff. But again, negative. There is a sequence where they're fighting in a truck. The two girls are in the back. The dad's in the front driving them and the girl decides this is the time. This is the perfect opportunity to fight back. She takes the lighter and barely touches it to the side of the girl. She's like, eh. Meanwhile, Aaron Paul's still next door. They have weapons and this leads to a frantic scenario where everybody's like shuffling around in the truck.  The driver, the dad, gets out perfectly fine. No cut, no scrape, no bruise, just cash. Just walking like nothing happened at all. Aaron Paul got wracked. No one died though. Very minimal injuries considering what took place. The cinematography's a mixed bag too. For the most part, it's very competently shot and it looks really good. There are some scenes though where the camera's like hand-held, moving around and like walking into things. Like early on, Mari's changing and the camera's following along outside the dock and it basically like runs into the house. It's like... and then walks along the side, just pointless. And it wasn't even going for the whole, oh, there's someone outside spying on me angle. No, it was just a really bad shot. Took me out of it. I was like, what's happening? All right, let's talk about the pros. One thing this movie does really well that most horror movies don't is it has a solid line of actors. Monica Potter and Tony Goldman are major standouts here as the parents who are going to have to eventually take on this band of dumbasses later on in the film when they stop by because the phones are down, their car is wrecked, they need a place to crash for the night. There's some really solid tension in these moments which lead to some pretty creative kills. My favorite by far is Aaron Paul's hand going into a garbage disposal. This guy dies hard. At the same time, it does have some very frustrating character decisions, but it never really took me out in those moments. I never found the writing to be insulting there. Tony Goldman is fantastic in this. I almost wish he was the main character. I wish the focus of the movie was in his eyes because he's both the doctor, but he's also a man out for revenge. He's a man that understands certain people are not redeemable and we need to put these dogs down before they go after us, before they go after my family. So that's an interesting character to play off of. Unfortunately, we focus a lot of time with Mari and her friend up to trouble, up to hijinks before we get to the meat of it for the last 30 or so minutes of the film, which is easily the best stuff.   He's someone you truly despise from the onset. And I think again, if they would have focused more on just the two dads and they would have jumped between these two storylines so you see the differences between how these guys treat their children and how they look at the world, you have a more interesting storyline. As it stands, this was a watchable yet uncomfortable and at times frustrating movie for me to watch. So there you have it, Henry. My review of The Last House on the left. Thank you for recommending it. Thank you for challenging me with it. And mainly thank you for being a Patreon at the Mithril level. It means a lot. It keeps this show going. It keeps me motivated. Anyone can become a member at patreon.com slash adam does movies. And if you continue to support at that Mithril membership for the year, you can get up to four movie requests. It's a good time. It's a good value. It's a lot of work on my part, but I appreciate the support however you can give it. And if that means me having to suffer through a couple hour movies and give reviews, that's not the worst thing in the world. If that's too rich for your blood, there's also a $1 tier, which is like a fifth of the price of a cup of coffee from Starbucks. So if you've liked any of my content over the years, maybe throw a bone. All right, that's it. That's the pitch. Thanks for watching. Like the video if you had a good time. Please subscribe. If you're new here, we'd love to have you stick around. And hopefully I catch you next time.