always starting my morning recently with green drinks.
So I do have Bloom every single day.
I expressed to you guys my problems that I was having with my skin, which were hormonal.
I was like 100% sure that this is a hormonal imbalance.
And once I started really taking care of my gut and my hormone levels and my cortisol levels and just healing my gut, I feel like that is making my skin so much better.
Like everything that's on my skin right now, all of the redness is just scars.
Like I don't have any active pimples on my face, which hasn't happened in months.
I'm saying this had a lot to do with it.
This is actually just made with organic fruits and vegetables like over 30 of them and probiotics, antioxidants.
This is gonna help you get clearer skin, aid in digestion.
If you have bloating issues.
This really helped with me and also give you a little like energy boost in the morning.
This flavor that I got is citrus.
This is my favorite flavor.
Last time I had mango, this one I think is a little bit like sweeter and more flavorful.
I also take it with my supplements.
I take a chastry sap supplement and this helps with my period symptoms and my hormone imbalance.
And I also take vitamin D.
I feel like everyone should be taking vitamin D.
It's so good for your immune system.
And I'm literally like, I have this and then I have a second green drink of the day.
So now I only drink green drinks and I also have tea and I think it actually has been helping, along with better blood sugars and healing my gut and supplements, getting enough sleep.
Like I feel like it's just all lifestyle factors that have helped.
I would highly suggest trying the citrus one.
If you tried the mango one.
I honestly love the mango too, but I want you to try the citrus and let me know how you like it.
I'm gonna link them down below.
We're starting this vlog at the mall.
Oh, I didn't say, hey guys, it's Sadie.
Hey guys, it's Sadie.
I am currently at the Conestoga Mall in Waterloo, which is like the main mall in Waterloo.
Like I bought, whoa.
Oh, my nail just fell off.
I'm trying a different brand of nails and i don't think i like them as much.
I literally got them in pr and they like, asked me to send me nails.
I just put this on like two days ago.
Anyways, that's gonna stay right there.
Okay, i've been wanting to get lululemon leggings for years now.
I wear leggings so often that i feel like having a really good quality pair is just going to, first of all, last me a lot and probably save me a lot of money.
I wanted to treat myself to some lulus and i got the lulu align crop 23 inch leggings literally a day after i bought them like they're unworn tag on i told evan that i got them and he was like oh, i have a 25 off thing, so now i'm gonna return these, i'm gonna order them online with this 25 off thing that he has.
So that's the errand today and i'm really hoping of getting matcha.
I know guys, like my whole identity has switched, like i haven't uploaded a vlog in a couple of weeks, So here I am with my phone.
We need to go get some matcha and get this errand done with so that I can work on some school.
Stuff like this happens to me on the daily.
Maybe it's not funny, I just feel like I'm a pretty forgetful person and it's been showing.
I go into Lululemon and the receipt isn't in the bag.
I told the girl I was like I'm so glad that I still have the receipt and I didn't try them on.
They're unworn, the tag's still on.
She was like, okay, yeah, where's the receipt?
And I was like, it's in the bag.
And then she was like, no, it's not.
And I was like oh my gosh, because i was trying to take a photo of the receipt so i could send it to e, van of what the type of leggings were, and i probably forgot the receipt in my apartment.
Anyways, i am currently on the way to get.
Oh my god, that's so awkward.
Someone's waiting for my spot, but right now i'm going to going to starbucks because i haven't had one drop of caffeine yet today and I personally am craving a matcha, which is probably weird, because I feel like in my last video I was still a coffee obsessed girl.
I feel like there's just something a little bit off with my hormones lately.
And I heard that matcha is really good for like detoxifying antioxidants and balancing your hormones and balancing your cortisol levels and also your insulin levels.
Like it's, matcha is so good for you.
And I didn't know there were so many benefits to matcha.
Oh, I need maps.
I need Google maps and I'm vlogging with my phone.
Okay, let me continue this story later.
So first of all, i got katie.
Not only did i get one katie drink, but i got another katie drink.
They accidentally made one iced, so i got my iced matcha latte and then i got my hot matcha latte.
I ordered a hot one just because it's really fall.
The song of right now is stick season by noah khan, and that's the vibe.
I feel like that's the only thing i have to say for you to know the vibe.
I got matcha with no liquid cane syrup, one pump of sugar-free vanilla made with almond milk.
And this is what I've been having every single morning and I don't need another drink.
Guys, I'm like, oh, what's crinkling in my pocket?
The receipt was in my pocket.
I knew I didn't forget it.
That's just like a lot of what's been happening to me lately.
She gave me a gift card though, but I'm pretty sure I can still use that with Evan's discount.
But like, great.
Good job, Sadie.
I've been obsessed with the health app recently, like i've just been doing all of my health things on the health app and i synced it to my ipad, so this is all synced from my apple watch, my phone and my ipad.
Okay, first of all, i track my period on here, so it just has like a little cycle when i'm pmsing, when i'm ovulating, when it thinks i'm gonna start my period.
But my favorite thing that i've been using literally every day and it gives me reminders is the medication log.
So this is today And I have all of the medications that I wanna take in a day.
And it sends me a reminder like every day at 9 a.m., 1.30, 8, and then 9.30.
So this morning I took the vitamin D and the Vitex.
I'm just gonna do that and then say log all as taken.
And then that's done.
Cause I really want to make sure that I'm taking all of my vitamins every single day.
I mean like supplements every day, because supplements don't really work unless you take them consistently over a long period of time.
Usually it takes like three months for at least the Vitex that I'm taking to actually kick in and see results.
So i do that.
And then i have another vitex, one at 1 30 when i have my lunch, and then spearmint tea you can make the graphic look like the actual pill, of what it looks like in real life.
And this one i have spearmint tea because i want to drink at least one mug of tea every day, like i feel like the one mug experiment tea has made such a difference for me in my hormone levels, so that is a non-negotiable.
Every day at 9 30 i have a reminder for magnesium and this is just basically to once again help my immunity, help my stress and also help me sleep.
It's actually really easy in the middle of the day because i just got like an apple watch reminder it's charging right now and i'm just like oh logged, and then it's done and i don't have to keep track of it.
But it's currently midterm season, which is why I didn't upload last weekend.
And I've honestly just been planning everything out on my digital planners.
So I use my study planner and I used my assignment planner because I actually had four midterms, which is the most midterms I think I've ever had in a term.
So that was fun.
Two of them were an in-class written essay.
The two essay ones were really hard just because you had to memorize basically everything and there were no hints as to what the questions were going to be or what the essay question was going to be.
So I was just like, okay, let's just study absolutely everything for all four of these classes.
I've honestly been really stressed, but one of my big priorities in life is trying to not get stressed.
I wanted to make a whole video on this.
Maybe i should make a video on how to not be stressed in university or how to not be stressed in school.
I've been doing like a ton of research and just noticing how i get stressed in the day, like what are my triggers, what are my little like?
Oh my god, like oh, that happened.
I'm automatically stressed.
When i went home for reading week, i felt physical, like symptoms of stress, a heavy heart kind of thing, a pit in my stomach.
I would get frequent headaches, which i never get headaches.
So this is all because of my stress and also my cortisol levels, which is partly why i decided to stop drinking coffee and caffeine, because matcha's caffeine level goes.
It's like a slow rise and a slow release over like six hours, and with coffee it's like the first hour it spikes and then it doesn't last as long, which is why you get a worse crash at 3pm.
So honestly, if you've been debating switching from coffee to matcha, I would say do it.
It's also way healthier for you.
And it also is kind of getting me off of that addiction to caffeine.
So you guys can compare this Sadie to last year's Sadie.
First year of university, everyone's just like, I want to go party.
I want to socialize.
I want to stay up late.
I don't have to live with my parents.
I'm free.
But I definitely did all of those things in first year.
And now I'm retreating back to my normal grandma self that goes to bed at 11, wakes up early, has her little to-do list, drinks her little tea and takes care of her health.
That's basically my main priority right now and finding ways to not be stressed.
Also, my new mindset about school is that I am going to try my best or I'm going to put in effort in every single thing that I do, but I really can't be attached to the outcome.
I thought I wasn't attached to the outcome, but then I realized that I definitely am because of how stressed I got for midterms and it is possible to try really hard on something and not be stressed because you're not expecting to get perfect.
I feel like i need to enjoy the process more instead of the outcome more, because then you will never be happy with anything in your life if you're only putting the weight of your happiness on something, that one you can't really control, like yeah, you can study, but is over studying and making yourself stressed and lose sleep and unhealthy worth getting an a.
Honestly, employers don't really see your marks or some.
Most employers usually just see a pass or fail.
I'm really trying to just encourage myself to not be so attached to the outcome, because that just makes your life so much lighter, so much less stressful, and i've been like physically feeling it.
It's amazing.
I've been talking for seven minutes straight.
So let me get to my essay.
This is my last midterm.
This is an essay that i'm writing for one of my communications classes.
It's called conceptual issues in canadian communication.
And also another tip if you guys are first year or going into first year, have a meeting with your academic advisor.
I had a meeting with mine and I realized that I was like one course behind, which affects a lot of my next terms.
So just having a meeting with your academic advisor even if you don't really think you need it and you kind of think you understand what's going on, it was so beneficial to me.
She was so nice.
It's really quick over Zoom.
I would just say that because that saved me a lot of stress and I almost took a lot of wrong courses next term and would have set myself back.
And my main goal for today is getting two thirds of my essay done.
It's due tomorrow at 1159.
But I did the whole plan of like what quotes I'm gonna use and all of my points, all of my evidence, what my thesis statement is and what my conclusion is, and including my own personal opinion.
Hopefully I can get a lot of that done today.
Let's grind. how I write essays.
I get a lot of questions about this.
I get a lot of questions primarily on how I study, but it's a whole other ball game for writing an essay.
And especially one that takes a lot of effort and you have to go back to the readings and like, quote the readings and then figure out how to apply what you learned in the readings in an essay to a separate concept.
There's a lot of layers to essay writing, which my first step would just to plan how you're going to write the essay on on what days.
So look at your schedule for the week.
I usually take like three or four days to write an essay if I wanna be like chill about it.
But this time I had a lot of midterms to study for first.
I knew that I was only gonna have like three days, after all my midterms were done, to make this essay.
But honestly, I'm fine with that.
I don't really have anything else to do.
So I'm just grinding for these next three days.
After planning out when you're going to do everything, then i would basically just make a plan for your essay, like i make a bulleted point form thing.
I figure out what quotes i'm going to use from the readings and what quotes i'm going to use from other sources.
I just use the extension bib citation and this just helps me keep track of all the websites and articles that i used in my research and it can also just add it to the bibliography at the bottom automatically.
I definitely suggest look over it with whatever citation format you're supposed to, because sometimes it makes mistakes with like italics or commas and stuff, but it gets the overall idea without having to do every single citation yourself.
I will, underneath each citation I'll put how that point connects to my thesis or what my like essay topic is.
And once I have all those points for my introduction, my body paragraphs and my conclusion, then writing the essay is the easiest part.
Like spending two hours on the plan takes away five hours of essay writing.
It's crazy.
Crazy.
I just finished two of the body paragraphs and now all I have to do is the intro, the conclusion and the third paragraph.
You know when you reach the point when you're like, there's no more effort I can put in.
Like my brain is done.
That's kind of me right now, actually.
First of all, i am obsessed with this iphone tripod that i just got, now that i'm vlogging a lot on my iphone 15 pro max, which has an insane camera.
But one of my main reasons of why i can stay healthy, why i'm so busy and especially on busy work days when i'm just like working all day either on a video or on an essay, like today, and you don't have time to cook and you don't want to like uber eats all this unhealthy food and potentially just damage and undo all of the effort that you put in the gym for the week maybe.
Like I went to the gym three times this week and I don't just wanna waste it all on a meal just because I don't have time to cook it.
So what I love to do is either cook food and freeze it or buy food and freeze it.
And then I will just defrost whatever I'm gonna eat that day in the morning.
I freeze a lot of my food.
Like I freeze rice, I freeze my vegetables and I freeze my protein.
So whatever I'm eating for the day, I'll just stick in the fridge or I'll stick on the counter if it's like really frozen.
And usually it's like extra lean ground beef or boneless, skinless turkey breast or chicken breast, brown rice.
I get frozen mixed vegetables.
There are just so many frozen options.
And especially at Costco, you can get a huge bag and then just keep that in the fridge.
So that's what I've been doing on really busy days.
And that's what I'm doing today.
First of all, I wanted to show you guys how good this light is.
Like I had yellow shadowy light before I started filming this clip.
And, as you guys know, in the fall the lighting literally goes away at five, which makes it so hard to film YouTube videos with good lighting.
So I invested in this little LED clip that you can clip onto a camera and a phone.
So I have it clipped on right now and I have like the half white light and half warm light setting on right now and this is definitely helping the quality.
I'll link it down on Amazon.
What I kind of wanted to do right now.
I'm feeling really inspired and productive today, which is crazy because I literally got no sleep.
Whenever Evan sleeps over he slept over last night I usually get no sleep because we are sleeping in a twin bed.
It's very close quarters in that bed.
He has a double bed at his apartment, so I was gonna way better sleep there.
But here it's a little bit small, but I had a lot of energy to get stuff done today.
Maybe it was the matcha, I don't know.
But anyways, I am really excited because I want to film a TikTok kind of skincare routine thing.
And I'm gonna use my, like this is literally the light.
And then I'm gonna use this tripod.
This is also on Amazon.
And then I'm going to just film it on.
Actually, I might film it on camera, because the quality is probably better than the TikTok app.
But I wanted to give you guys more in depth and show you what products I'm using.
Cause the TikTok will just kind of be like a sound and then cut clips of me using it.
So in my little skincare drawer, by the way, Liv and I share this bathroom.
I have like one drawer.
She has one drawer.
If i am wearing makeup, i'm going to wear la roche posay micellar makeup removing gel cleanses and soothes face and eyes.
So i will just take this on like a literal piece of toilet paper and i'll wipe this all over my face.
Gets all the makeup off.
After that i will use another cleanser.
This is a really gentle oil cleanser.
It is a bit expensive, but it's been helping my skin stay hydrated but not get clogged, And it's the Sea Buckthorn Best Skin Ever Cleanser, Moisturizer.
I will link this one down below.
And this has lasted me a long time.
I will use the Kiehl's Niacinamide Serum.
So this I will use on any areas that need to minimize the oil.
I think this helps with the size of your pores and how much oil is produced.
Following that, you definitely need to use a moisturizer after you use niacinamide, so i use the la roche posay hydrating, soothing moisturizer.
I have really sensitive skin, so now i shop for skincare that's good for sensitive skin.
I will link this down below.
I'll also link that down below.
And i also have rosacea on my cheeks.
I've had that since i was born.
Like i feel like that's never going to go away.
But if it is bad on one day i just have this huge bottle of castor oil.
Also the water in Waterloo.
If you also live in Waterloo, it is vile, like it's hard water.
And sometimes I come out of the shower and my skin is dry and red and itchy.
So this definitely helps calm that down.
It seeps so deep into the skin and really hydrates it.
This is organic castor oil, cold press, good for hair, skin and nails.
If you want to help your eyebrows grow and just like soothe your skin.
I use this for literally everything.
Like I put this on anything that needs help.
And after that, I will brush my teeth at night using a whitening toothpaste.
This is the Hello Activated Charcoal Epic Whitening Toothpaste.
And then in the morning I use this one.
So I go in between these two, but this actually does like gradually whiten your teeth instead of using whitening strips.
I also use the Beauty by Earth self tanning drops if I really want to get sort of like a tan.
And I also bring it like down to where my shirt would be.
I usually use like two or three drops.
This stuff is very, very pigmented.
And the other secret weapon, obviously microfiber towels.
Whenever I wash my face, I get warm water and then I just like put this over.
This also gets rid of waterproof mascara with warm water and I just rub it and it comes off.
I will link these down below as well.
So now I'm gonna go film that TikTok.
If you see the TikTok, comment on it that you're from this video.
I don't really know what's going on with me today.
Usually I don't have this much energy.
Maybe it's because I knew I had to finish my essay.
So I was like, this has to be done.
I have to have energy.
There's no option to not have energy today.
And I know I like as I'm vlogging, I realized I need to get more stuff for the walls, because it just looks really empty, because the walls are kind of beige-y yellow.
I feel like it doesn't look that great on camera, so I will work on that.
But I'm gonna just get right into editing the TikTok that I made.
When I film TikToks, I need to edit them right away.
Like even if I start something, I need to finish it.
That's like my beige flag.
Also, I got this new Laurier crew neck.
I wanted one that didn't have embroidery on the inside.
A lot of them are embroidered and they're really itchy because i don't wear anything under hoodies, so this one was the only one that was like actually printed on, and it's this really cool heathery cream, so i really like it.
I got it in a size like medium.
I wanted it to literally go down to my ankles.
Oh, you know what i should do now.
I'm so excited to go to bed.
Going to bed after a day of doing something that you've been putting off is the best feeling.
It's like a euphoric feeling and i'm so excited to sleep.
Like sleep is actually one of my favorite things.
I just love it.
I'm probably also gonna watch the sweet relief madison beer music video about five times before i go to bed, but i want to thank you guys so much for watching this video.
I haven't done a vlog in so long, so please let me know if you like these types of vlogs and just more like days at home with me.
This day was honestly a little odd because i was alone all day and i'm usually not alone all day, but i'm so glad that i could film my whole day and just like, have it be me and you going through my entire to-do list.
But yeah, i love you guys so much and i will see you in my next video.
