Happy Vlogidays!
BRETT: Ho, ho, ho! RILEY: Who are you calling a ho?
It's just past midnight on December 1st. We're up late because I
have to work late today. BRETT: Oh shit... (things falling in background)
Brett's ruining everything.
Knocking everything down. Christmas is over.
BRETT: This wasn't secured very well. RILEY: Making excuses for the fact that he
knocked all the tinsel off the TV.
We're trying to stay up late because I
have to work late tomorrow night. So I have to work until like 2:00 a.m. so
trying to stay up so my sleep schedule adjusts a little bit. I have gifts for me
and Brett to open right at midnight because we're gonna use them throughout
the month. Would you like to open yours first? BRETT: Does it matter whose is whose?
RILEY: You actually picked the right ones so they're different. Yeah. We're watching The
Office. Michael Scott right there.
BRETT: What?? RILEY: What'd you get?
BRETT: Stars Wars! RILEY: A Star Wars advent calendar!
BRETT: Advent calendar! That's pretty cool!
RILEY: So you can open something up and build it every day in December!
BRETT: What?
RILEY: Are you excited? BRETT: Yeah that's pretty dope.
BRETT: THE FORCE IS STRONG WITHIN THIS ONE.
RILEY: See? There's a window for every day. It goes like this.
and every day you open one up until Christmas! BRETT: That's cool!
RILEY: Brett's never had an advent calendar. BRETT: But they're in a different order?
RILEY: Yeah. See if you can find number one. BRETT: Why is it in a different order?
RILEY: Make it interesting.
BRETT: Just keep you guessing? RILEY: Yeah.
BRETT: Got a little guy. RILEY: What'd you get?
BRETT: Spaceship maybe? RILEY: Spaceship! SPACESHIP!
BRETT: Pretty cool. I like it. Let's open yours!
RILEY: I wonder what it could be! BRETT: Why is wrapping so fun to tear off?
RILEY: I got a Tsum Tsum Disney advent calendar!
Cute! I'm excited to tear into this.
Mine's a gingerbread house. Number one has to Tigger sticking out.
RILEY: Think Tigger's gonna be in there? BRETT: Now that'd be dope.
BRETT: So what do you get? Little figurines? RILEY: Yeah. It's a little Mickey!
RILEY: or it's Minnie.
BRETT: So it's just a little figurine. RILEY: happy advent calendars!
Brett's hard at work trying to
build his spaceship. Minnie's just chillin all by herself. Sorry Minnie you're not
gonna have a companion for like at least 48 more hours probably.
Alright our advent calendars are going to live
here under our TV for the month. I'm very excited about these. I haven't had an advent
calendar for a long time so this will be fun.
BRETT: So here's dinner. RILEY: Been cooking it all day. Been tortured by the scent of it.
BRETT: Brett's gonna do some
filming after he just threw the camera across the room. (laughs)
RILEY: Got some chicken, green
beans, and sweet potaters. BRETT: Sweet taters. Super food. I love sweet taters.
RILEY: We're gonna watch The Office. BRETT: And then work for the rest of your life? RILEY: Mmmhmm.
Oh my gosh. Lu get your stick! Get your stick!
Lulu!
Oh my god. (laughs) Get your stick! Get your stick! Get your stick! Hey!
Get your stick! Lupita! Bring me your stick!
(Laughs) You guys are ridiculous.
Poppy! What are you doing? Get all the energy out!
What are you doing? Get her Pop! Get her Pop! Get her!
Hello everybody! Happy day two of Happy Vlogidays. We're about to do our
advent calendar so I decied to bust out the vlog camera.
BRETT: I'm so pumped. I just get Legos every day? RILEY: Daily Legos!
BRETT: It throws me. It's like an I Spy.
RILEY: Don't look at the garbage. I'm covering up the garbage. BRETT: I should probably take that out.
BRETT: What do we got? Oooo it's a dude! RILEY: Oooo who is it?
BRETT: I really don't know. He looks like he's...
RILEY: He's got green hair? Is that a girl? BRETT: I dunno. Uh yeah looks like a girl actually. Maybe it's a new character?
RILEY: Maybe! She's got a blaster! BRETT: I gotta do some Lego research, or Star Wars research.
RILEY: I have a big door today.
That's exciting. Let's see. What do we got? Oh. That was deceiving.
It's just this little gingerbread star thing.
BRETT: I know you like your calendar, but I think mine is more superior.
RILEY: It is pretty awesome BRETT: I get to build stuff...
RILEY: Yeah. What does this do? BRETT: I think it's a... like a prop.
RILEY: Is it... can you put it on
someone's head? Because you see how there's these tiny ones. I'm wondering if
that's like... BRETT: Maybe something someone can like sit in it? Yeah oh yeah maybe it
because uh..
RILEY: It doesn't fit Minnie. Disappointing! I thought I was gonna get
a big figurine but... BRETT: I tried to tell you.
RILEY: Those are my two items so far. Hopefully it'll become more exciting.
RILEY: Hair face? BRETT: There's a character back in the day from He-man. I forget what his name
was. It was like two- he can't be two face. But he basically had like a bunch of
heads. You can like, click a button and like his like faces... RILEY: OH I remember that!
BRETT: ...they would spin around. I remember that was like the freakiest thing.
RILEY: Got her blaster?
BRETT: Yeah. Throw her on whatever... this little spaceship thing I built yesterday.
RILEY: Very nice!
Yeah yours is gonna look dope at the end. Hopefully mine will too.
BRETT: No it will. Yours will have good aesthetics.
So last night I worked until 2:30. I didn't get home till 3:30. I didn't fall asleep
till 4 and then the dogs woke me up like every hour on the hour
essentially. By 9:30 I was like, over it. So I just got up. So RULL tired today but
we're just chilling. We just had some lunch. I got some pizza. I've been editing
a video. Brett's playing some video games and
we're just chilling. It's a very relaxing Saturday which is exactly what I need. I
think I'm going to get started on Monsters of Men. I'm buddy reading this
with Michael and I also need to read a couple pages of The Shining today. So I'm
gonna have a nice chill day. BRETT: HEEERE'S JOHNNY
RILEY: (laughs) I'm only like 30 pages into it I'm
already loving it. BRETT: Really?
RILEY: Yeah. BRETT: Ugh. Too scary for me.
RILEY: I've heard it's the scariest book of all time so
I'm into it. BRETT: I mean, from the movie....
RILEY: Have you watched the movie? BRETT: YEAH I've watched the movie.
RILEY: (laughs) I've never seen the movie.
BRETT: When he axes through that door? RILEY: I've seen like the -
BRETT: There's an awesome Simpsons parody of it. I think it's one of the Halloween special ones. Simpsons prime.
RILEY: This is a really great image of you playing video games. You have the tree in
the background. Very festive. This will be on the thumbnail I'm sure.
I'm just out getting some
coffee right now because in about 25 minutes
Brett, his sister Danielle, and I are going to be heading out
towards Boston to go to a surprise birthday party. It is his niece's birthday
today. Sophia is turning five which is crazy.
I've known Sophia since she was born basically. Brett and I started
dating like right after she was born which was really funny. So I've seen her
grow up which is - so it's like so crazy that she's five.
It was also recently his cousin's birthday. So we're having a surprise
birthday party for them. So we need to head out towards Boston very soon. So
soon as Danielle gets to the house we're going to all pile in my car and head out to Boston.
That's what we're gonna be up to today. I'm not sure how long that will be
probably a few hours but should be fun to see everybody and hang out.
Just made
it back from Brett's cousin's house and now we're gonna open our calendars. I
feel like this whole vlog is just going to be us opening our calendars.
BRETT: That's the best part!
RILEY: You're building something. BRETT: I'm building something.
RILEY: What do you got? BRETT: It looks like another little like spaceshipy-type thing.
RILEY: Another... SPACESHIP BRETT: SPACESHIP
BRETT: Everyone watch the Lego movie if you have't.
RILEY: If you haven't you're missing out on life.
Number three. What's behind door number three? Looks like I have a
big guy. Do I know who this... oh it's Bambi! Bambi with a headband. A Santa headband.
That's cute! There's Bambi with us with his Santa
hat on. Put the Pokemon away! (Laughs)
BRETT: I'll never live that down. RILEY: It's an inside joke. You guys wouldn't get it.
We've been giggly tonight. BRETT: It's been a good night. RILEY: It's been a good night.
We've been out and about all day just hanging out with Brett's fam, so now we're
just settling down. I'm gonna read more Monsters of Men. Yesterday I got to page
121. So I'm gonna try and get to page 242 Right now I'm on 136. I read a little bit this morning.
There's lots of action in this book so I think it's gonna go quickly and so I'm
going to read until I can't read no mo'.
BRETT: Getting caught building my Legos. RILEY: We have extra pieces!
BRETT: No, do we? RILEY: YEAH!
BRETT: EVERY TIME! (laughs) RILEY: WHAT DO I DO WITH THESE?!
POPPY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! (laughs) You got climbing on the couch!
BRETT: You got caught! RILEY: What are you doing?!
BRETT: No blanket on the couch. You're not supposed to be on there. RILEY: No blanket zone! No blanket zone!
Look at this cuteness! Awwwww! You're so cute Poppy!
Look at this cuteness! AWWWWW!
Good morning. I'm just getting to work now. It's about
7:30. I left the house around 6:30 and I have a meeting at 8 a.m. this morning
that I couldn't be late for so I just made a really big effort to be here
early but I was up before the Sun. Got to see the Sun Rise on my commute here
which is always nice. Sometimes my job just calls for a weird hours. You saw me
working until 2:30 on Friday and now I'm here at 7:30 on Monday.
Life of an event planner. My main focus for work this week is getting an event
prepped for next week. We have one of our like big signature events next week. It's
called No Study Zone. I feel like I've talked about this in happy vlogidays
past but it's our fall end-of-semester de-stress event for our students and
it's basically just kind of like an indoor carnival. It's a lot of fun.
It's next Tuesday which is their last day of class. I'm planning to do some
shopping for it today and I just will be probably talking about No Study Zone a
lot in the next few days so get excited. Anyway I'm gonna head into the office
get settled and get ready for my 8:00 a.m. meeting and I will check back in
with you guys when I get home tonight.
[Jolly Old Saint Nicholas playing}
Calendar time! I just got home. I left for work in the dark this morning
and I came home in the dark. BRETT: I know, that's the worst.
RILEY: What do you got today? Building something else?
BRETT: Yeah it looks like some sorta. It looks like a blaster. A gun that goes on like a turret.
RILEY: I wonder if you are getting a bunch of stuff that you can like connect together
BRETT: Well that's the good thing about Legos with your imagination you can build whatever you want.
Mine always ends up looking messed up.
Number four it's a little guy today.
Who's in here? What's in here?
Oh it's the tiniest little one! Oh it's the white cat from Aristocats. What's her name?
I don't remember her name. I'm really bad at Disney guys.
BRETT: That'd be some pretty good trivia. RILEY: Yeah. Somebody name this
cat in the comments. You'll get my respect. She's sparkly. Cute! Putting
her in the star from day two getting some more characters! How's yours coming
along? BRETT: *yawns* Getting there.
Also got some book mail so I'll open that up for you guys.
I ordered these like two weeks ago so they're finally here!
Book Depository - notorious for taking forever with their shipping. First book is
All That She Can See by Carrie Hope Fletcher. This is her newest book and
I've actually been hearing some really positive reviews on this one. I really
like her YouTube videos so hopefully I like this as well. I then have Warcross
by Marie Lu. Again have been hearing some positive things about this one. This is
very similar - it's being related to Ready Player One by think it's only
related to Ready Player One because they're in a video game. So I don't know
if the plot is anywhere near the same other than the setting and then finally
I got this edition of History is All You Left Me. I've been really liking Adam
Silvera's work. I've read More Happy Than Not and They Both Die at the End this
year and liked them both so looking forward reading this one as well. I'm just
getting ready for work if you can't tell from my wet hair and I want to chat
with you guys because I have so many pairs of Christmas socks. I always get
Christmas socks on Christmas Day and I'm like not the kind of person where I
enjoy Christmas all year round. I usually get these in my stocking or something
like that and and I'm just like I either wear them today or don't wear them for a
whole year and I like kind of forgot that I have like a build up of Christmas
socks. So I thought I'd start wearing my Christmas socks
since we're in Christmas season. I think I'm gonna go with these ones today
these ones are my favorite ones. Brett got them for me a couple years ago and I
wanted to show them to you. They say meowy Christmas with a little grumpy cat
on there. I think they're so cute and they're actually really comfortable. I
like these socks a lot. But yes it's Wednesday. It's.... no it's not even Wednesday.
What a sad realization. It's Tuesday. It's actually my mom's birthday today so
Happy Birthday to my mom. I sent her a little gift and she opened it already
this morning. So I'll give her a call later today and wish her a happy birthday. So I
made a few book orders over Black Friday and by a few I mean a lot. But a lot of
them came in today - the last few that I was expecting - and it's raining out today
and the delivery man decided be a great idea to just leave the books out in the
rain even though there's an entryway He have could just put them into the
entryway. These are the boxes that they came in.
Like this one's fine. There is no rain damaged. this one is completely soaked
through. Like it fell apart when I opened it. Like look how malleable it is. It's
just like all the way soaked through. Come on delivery people you can do better than that.
I was just showing my boxes. BRETT: Not a good thing. Jeanne gave us bread!
RILEY: Bread! So I'm gonna be doing a book haul that you'll see next week but I wanted
to give you a little preview and if you can guess any of these books by the
outside of their you know pages then you'll be able to know what I got. Here
are the outsides. Can you guess any of them? That's all you
get! I will open my Book of the Month Box for
you though right now. I got my December box in today along with all of those
books and you'll see all of these in a haul but I'll just unbox my book of the
month box for you. "Cue the happy dance! Book meals best mail, don't you think?" I do think!
It's all tied up here with a nice little shrink wrap. I think Book of the Month does
a great job of their packaging. The first book is Eleanor Oliphant is Completely
fine. I've been hearing lots of great things about this one so I'm looking
forward to this. This was my pick for Book of the Month this month. I then picked
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. This is a thriller and it sounded really interesting. So
wanted to get my hands on that one. This was also a choice for December. Looking
forward to that. I don't think this comes out until January which is cool. Not that
I'll have time to read it before it releases but it's cool to have. And then I picked
up one of their back log books which I do every month what I got The Animators
by Kayla Rae Whittaker which I'm very excited for. So those are my books of the month
for December. Stay tuned for my book haul that will come out next week to see
everything. Let's see what's today? The fifth.
Oooo what is this?
This looks like an ornament that somebody can sit in. Maybe I can put Minnie
in it. BRETT: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Where are you? There you are.
RILEY: OOO another guy!
There, Minnie fit perfectly inside this ornament. That's fun.
Good morning! It's Wednesday. I'm just getting to work and man I am so freakin'
tired. The last two days have been such a struggle to get my butt out of bed and
ready for work in the morning. I like, wait until like five minutes
before I have to leave and I think it's just cuz it's like the darkest days of
the year for us right now. So it's just dark all the time, so I'm tired all the
time. So fun. I wanted to let you know that I'll probably plan on finishing Monsters
of Men today. I have about 120 pages left. So I can probably get this done today.
That's the goal. So I'll read some of that on my lunch break and then after
work I'm going to go to the gym even though all I want to do is go to sleep
but I need to exercise. I try to do like an every other day schedule during the
workweek if I can help it. So I didn't work out yesterday so I'll work out
today and so I'll do that after work and then I'll head home. This week seems
never-ending. Good news is: Are You the One season finale is tonight. I cannot wait.
I love garbage reality TVs so much.
Hi, are you guys doing eggnog shakes this year? DRIVETHRU: No we have chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
Huge disappointment! McDonald's - I
don't know if they make eggnog shakes anymore and that's a Christmas tradition
for us. BRETT: Did you see if they had holiday pies?
RILEY: I didn't look to see if they had holiday pies. I'm sure they have holiday pies. I feel
like more people like that. But they didn't - we always get egg nog shakes
every year. BRETT: Could we make them? RILEY: Probably!
RILEY: What's it look like today? BRETT: Looks like another sort of ship dealy.
RILEY: I just feel like you're getting a lot of like really random pieces.
BRETT: They just grabbed a bunch of piece and just like "what does this make?"
RILEY: Six! Who is it?
Daisy! She's got a little scahf on. Getting a lot of the classic Disney characters right now.
BRETT: That's good I think. That's what I would want. RILEY: Yeah. Got a little collection going!
Christmas socks for the day! Morning everybody.
It's Thursday and this is the last day for this vlog. I'm really tired. This is
where the holidays are very tricky for me because I am very introverted.
Holidays are all plans all the time and then on top of that like still having a
regular schedule at work and everything so during the holidays I do get really
tired. It gets continually harder for me to
like put on a happy face. I do like the holidays. I like the idea of the holidays
and I like you know the decorations and like the food and - but like constantly always
spending time with like, people that I like to spend time with, don't get me
wrong, but just not ever getting a breather to just relax and like be in my
own little alone time bubble at home definitely takes a toll on me
and it's already happening and I feel like it's because I kicked it off with a
late night that I had to work and then we had you know we've already had a
family party. Tonight my work is having their Christmas party and Saturday we
have a friend's Christmas party. So it's just like already making me feel
overwhelmed. I'm just gonna try and take it easy and push through and not exert
too much energy because the next week we have more Christmas parties that we have
to do and I have a huge work event and... yeah. This is where the holidays get
tricky for me. Today like I said I'm going to work and then I
have a work party. So I need to stop on the way to work to like, pick up a dessert or
something. I would usually make something but our oven is broken so I can't really
bake anything or make anything too extravagant. As a reading update I did
finish Monsters of Men last night which I will review for you at the end of this
vlog. I'm still working through The Shining which I'll be working through
for the majority of this month and then today I'm also gonna start
Slaughterhouse-Five. In order for me to finish this in the timeline that I
want to I need to read 91 pages a day so I'll shoot read 91 pages. I do have
like a little bit of time between work and work party and so I'll probably do a
lot of reading then. I'm excited to get to another Kurt Vonnegut. I haven't
read Kurt Vonnegut since last summer and I really liked Galapagos. So
hopefully I like this one too. I hate you Winter!
Ended up getting these cheesecake thins which look like little cheesecake cookies.
I was really craving cheesecake this morning so figured that would probably be a fun
thing to do. A little bit better than a full cheesecake and people can take as many as they want.
Grocery trip all set. I'm gonna go grab some coffee and then drive to work. Here
is my day seven Tsum Tsum. It's Figaro the cat from Pinocchio. Super cute and very
sparkly. So it's about ten forty seven on day seven of happy vlogidays and I
actually ended up not having a work Christmas party tonight. Something came
up with one of our events that we had to make sure that somebody was staffing and
we didn't want to have a party without the whole staff there. So we are postponing
it I think. I'm not really sure what the plan is but I am kind of happy that we
didn't have the party tonight because I have what I like to call a "bad brain day".
Basically any day that my mental health is not in a good state, bad brain day, and
so today was one of those days. Especially when I got home this evening.
I was just relaxing, laying in bed watching The Office, watching stupid
videos on my phone and just trying to be really nice to myself so that's what I'm
doing it currently. I'll probably end up going to sleep sometime soon here but
it's been one of those days and I have them occasionally. They're never fun
but it's kind of a blessing in disguise that we didn't have the party tonight so I
could actually relax a little bit. Anyway I'm about to wrap up this vlog but
before I do I wanted to wrap up my reading for this week. I finished one
book that is Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This is the third and final book in
the Chaos Walking trilogy. Because it's a finale I can't really say too much about
the plot but this is very much so the climax of the series. There's a big war
and there's constant action in this book which is great. It picks up right where
The Ask and the Answer left off and it's just action the whole time. So I
really enjoyed this book. It really discusses like, kind of the effects on
war on people and just on society and I know Michael has said this, and I totally
agree with him, I was buddy reading this with him and he said that this book
doesn't make you root for one certain side or another. It's very much so
everybody is flawed, everybody is bad, and good, and so
BRETT: (from the next room) OH SHIT! RILEY: (laughs)
and so it's just like a
really interesting study on how people kind of act when they're in war and
how it impacts everybody. So I thought it was really good. This is probably the
best book out of the series. I would say the series just improves as it goes on.
So if you don't like the first book, I would say stick with it. At least try and
get to book 3 if you can because I think this is the best book out of the three.
I'm gonna give it four out of five stars and I'm very happy that I stuck with
this series. So now the series is complete and I'm really happy with the
way it ended. I've also started Slaughterhouse-Five today. I'm about 45
pages into it. I might read a little bit more before bed but again I'm just
trying to be really nice to myself and then I'm also about 150 pages into The
Shining which I'm a little bit behind from where I want to be but I'm really
loving The Shining and I cannot wait to read more of it. So that's gonna do it
for this week's vlog. I hope you guys enjoyed. If you did leave a big thumbs up
subscribe if you haven't already. I do try to make a new video each and every
week and I will see you guys again very soon. Bye!
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