This is our favorite breakfast lately. Custard toast. You're finished. Wow. You finished all of it. Tada. I just finished doing my hair and I would say this is pretty much my signature hairstyle. I'm kind of sick of it. So, what if, now bear with me here, what if I did a little bit of this? I can't believe this used to be how I did my hair all the time with the side part. What if I pinned it? I feel like now I have to do something with this part.

It's like when I do my usual hairstyle, I'm like, "H, it's boring." But then when I change it, I'm like, "Wo, this is too adventurous." Let's not overthink it. This is the hairstyle for today. So, I just finished my March bingo spread. Ah, I am loving the textures, the colors. These are very anti-brain rot coded activities. For all the stickers on my bullet journal, I use the Canon Ivy printer. It is a godsend. I love to screenshot things off of Pinterest and print them out in real life. This is how much I've done for February. I would say it's like around half the things. My goal in March is to actually complete everything on my bingo card. It's like a mix between things

that I'm like, "Oh, that would be really nice to do." versus, "Oh my gosh, I actually have to do it." Maybe we could even cross up a few for this video. This is my favorite spot to thrift at these days. This is Christina. So, we're going to do a blind thrift challenge and then also hopefully I'll find some stuff that I like for the spring. All right, here we are. Let's go inside. Ooh. Okay, we got to get a shopping cart first. Hi. I know. I thought it's a real person, too. I was like, "Oh, it's like a overall." I kind of like it. Is it weird?

Weird. Is it weird? Okay. I think we should do the blind stuff first. Wait a minute. I'm so happy. Stop. Wow. Oh my gosh. It's exactly 9:00. I don't know why that excites me so much. Now is a good time to do my skincare routine. Do you guys remember this? I feel like at one point every girl owned a headband like this. But I've noticed this is the new trend. The trend pendulum swung the other way. It went from chunky and bright to sleek and neutral. I feel like

it's been a hot minute since I've done my skincare routine. So, let's get into it. I'm going to start off with a cleansing oil, arenia. Going to go in with this, the Chaseedo cleansing foam. This cleansing combo. Beautiful. And then I'm going to go in with Toridan's balanceful toner pad. I like running this through my skin to obviously tone it, but to remove any sneaky makeup, I'm just going to get my neck as well. For my serum, I'm going to go in with Vurine Turnover. Turnover ampule. I love that word ampule. This one has PDRN, which is the salmon DNA. And since I really want this to sink in, I'm going to go in with

Metacub's booster pro. This is going to make the product penetrate deeper into my skin. So this morning, I came across a Substack article about questions you would ask at a dinner party. At some point this month, I do want to host a dinner party. I think it would be around six guests. I mean, I feel like the best part of a party for me is to find myself lost in like a deep conversation with somebody else. And if that could include everybody in the party, that would be

like a massive win for me. But anyway, I like saved these questions for my future dinner party. And then I'm going to lock it in with Harwazoo's essential firming cream FX. Okay. If you could have one full-time staff member, what would they do? my first gut instincts as chef because how amazing would it be to just have someone be able to cook anything that you want anytime that you want. But then I realized that could be very dangerous for me because I'll be like, "Yo, I want sushi every night." If it's not a chef, it would be like a life coach/therapist.

Oh my god. Speak of the devil, it's my mom who is like kind of like my therapist. Hi, Emma. This is my splits progress so far. I feel like I should start measuring the distance between here and my crotch. Wait, maybe I could use this block. That's That's how far. It's terrible. Okay. Anyway, now let's do a side by side of my side splits. There's got to be some progress here. Yeah, this is it's pretty painful. I feel like at this

point, my evening routine doesn't feel complete unless I do a stretch. I'm in this phase where I'm like super into optimizing my sleep and my mornings. The sleep doctor said that one of the best things you can do is to drink water upon waking because he said how dehydrating sleep is. If you think about it, yeah, like you're pretty much knocked out for like 8 to nine hours not drinking anything. And if you're a mouth breather when you sleep, then you're just losing a lot of moisture. So, my first thing is to drink as much water as possible. Thinking about getting an aura ring, but I don't know if tracking my data even while I sleep is going to be a good idea for me cuz I already like I

don't know, maybe that's going to be too much information. And then just like another metric that I'm going to use to judge my performance. I truly don't know how long like I actually slept for. I don't know. I think I slept well. I have not gone to this yoga class in over a year and I think now I'm starting to see the progress of my flexibility because this class used to be pretty challenging for me or I used to be like one of the least flexible ones in there but today as I scan the mirror I was like I am actually bending my body in ways that I have not been able to do before. Like I think it's just like the delight of progressing in something in

life. It just made me so unbelievably happy because it makes me feel like sure I am not very close to getting into my splits goal but overall my flexibility has improved and it that just made me so freaking happy. There we So, this is my very first sardine sandwich. Is it just me or is everyone's feed covered with sardine content? I was at my farmers market the other day and I thought, you know what? Let me just give it a go. So, here we are. Another adventurous sandwich to add to this year.

M. That's really good. just honestly tastes like a more intense tuna sandwich that is a little bit sloppier. Like would I go out of my way to buy the sardines again? Probably. Wow. They gave me a real dollar, you know. I'm not mad at this. Not going to do your survey, but I appreciate the dollar. Cute. Oh my gosh. Boy moms know that it is kind of a struggle to find cute boy clothes. It's like you've got Spider-Man or trucks on a shirt. So, when I discovered Mugwart, I was like, "Okay, they've got

really great unisex options." So, the first piece is this blue terry cloth long sleeve. I also got a little matching sky blue set with a shirt and some shorts. I'm not familiar with this cartoon, but just the color way. I love when red is paired with like a sky blue. I feel like he and I can share this tank. Like this tank would honestly fit me. You know what? This with like some blue jeans. Like this is something I would totally wear. I am obsessed with this top. Now we have a black graphic tea that says Manhattan. I mean, while we're here. Oh my gosh. Yes. Got another graphic tea. This one has this patchwork cherry. A boy or a girl can wear this.

Next we have a brown tea. It's going to be super comfy for him. See, it's just like a perfect little boxy top. And then finally, we have this Kelly green graphic tea that says winners New York State Finals. Oh my gosh, did you hear that? Okay, my head is too big for the shirt. This is cute. Green is my color. Honestly, money well spent. Good stippling. I want No white. Yeah. I want to color in all the white bits. Huh? Yeah. We are here at the library because I need to return this book. It's Saving Time by Jenny Odell. Initially, I thought it was like a productivity book,

but it's more about burnout and destructive ways workaholics can be and why our culture is so obsessed with beating the time and trying to pack in a bunch of things in one day and how many of us have this complicated relationship with leisure. Like, we don't know how to relax. I only got up to chapter 3, which is a bummer, but someone has this book on hold, so maybe they will finish it. I think I'm actually just gonna buy this book because I am enjoying it and it's really shaping my own relationship with time and how I evaluate myself because I think ever since I became a mom, like a working mom, it's it's felt truly impossible to feel like all the pillars

in my life are well-maintained. If I'm killing it in motherhood, then my professional life starts to flail. If I'm seeing more friends, then I can't see family. Like it's just it just feels like really challenging to divide my finite time into a way where all facets of me feel fulfilled. Returning this book uh I'm also returning David Sedaris the best of me and then I am returning Gus loses a Tooth. This is a book that got stuck under the bed and I didn't realize that the due date is coming up for this. Um, my most recent read was Heart the Lover by Lily King. Oh man, I feel like I'm going to get crucified for saying this, but I actually didn't really enjoy this

book. I went to the book pretty quickly, but it I felt like I was hate reading it. Like I was reading it just to like finish it. I just did not feel attached to any of the characters. The protagonist is so avoidant and never explicitly said what she wanted. like I had a really tough time understanding her. There's a lot of plot twists in this book and it curves in different ways, but since I did not care about any of the characters, I was just like, "Okay, cool. I guess that happened or oh that's sad." But since I there was no attachment, I was just like it just felt like a line like a list. Like I was reading bullet points of a diary and the parts where I wished

the protagonist would have fleshed out, she just kind of brushed over. I was like, come on. Like you're not going to Okay, this is spoiler alert. Like you're not going to talk about the fact that you had a like a baby, like having to give away your first daughter. Like how did that affect your psyche? I just did not like it. But I did finish it. This book I actually did like. It's about a Hungarian man named Ishtan and it's like a rags to riches story. Circumstances happen in his life and he ends up in a very fortunate situation where he becomes ultra wealthy. There are some parts that I found very disturbing and disgusting. Like I mean it starts off pretty explicit but I

think with Ishtan I felt more of an attachment because we follow him from like a very young teenager like in his most formative years and you see how certain things can happen in your in your childhood and how it kind of haunts you for the rest of your life. I think the author did an amazing job describing puberty and how foreign and like alien it all feels like where your body and your mind have not caught up. This I really did enjoy. Finally, we have Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert. This book blew my mind. After I finished reading it, I was like, I want to do like a legitimate book report on it that goes super in-depth. She described the media, like pop culture that I was

consuming when I was a teenager. Since I was living in the times, I didn't realize how it shaped the way I see myself, other women. I like that she specifically tackles the as which are like the early 2000s because that was when I was consuming so much pop culture from like MTV, VH1, the internet with like Perez Hilton. And at that time, like when I was living through it, I didn't realize how much it was affecting my psyche and howed up it all was. Since I was like a young teenager going through it, I didn't realize how cruel that whole timeline was. the way she covered it, it almost felt like, "Oh my gosh, I totally forgot that happened."

Blasting through memory lane, but with Sophie Gilbert's like sharp criticism. Highly recommend this book. All right, guys. Let's return these books. Oh my god, this matcha has given me life. Coffee is on hiatus for me. It doesn't give me heartburn, but it gives me anxiety. I feel like getting older is just slowly discontinuing the things that you once loved in your 20s. Okay, that's like dramatic. I've been loving this cushion from Yepa. I'm in the shade N3N, but it just gives such a beautiful sheer

finish. But yeah, uh we're celebrating my friend Ruby's birthday tonight at the Benjamin in Hollywood. I feel like tonight I can cross off sober night out on my bingo card. Alcohol is another substance that makes me feel anxious. Not while I'm drinking it. Like while I'm drinking it, I feel amazing. The issue with alcohol is how I feel after. And now that I am 35, the hangovers are atrocious. They don't just last for one day. For me, it could last for weeks. And when you look at the pros and cons, the answer is very clear on what I need to do. So like a big New Year's resolution for me was to drink less. I'm not going to set myself on an unrealistic goal saying like,

I'm never going to drink again. I'm going to be completely sober because I would fail. I feel like my biggest trigger place for wanting a drink is dinner. Like I'm like 100% romanticizing it. But I just love sitting at my table with my cute outfit, looking at the menu. And while I'm trying to think about what to order, I look at the cocktail list, the wine list. I select a dry white and then it comes. And then I'm just feeling good. Oh my gosh, this is actually making me want to drink a glass of wine, but mm- not tonight. I Tonight is not the night.

I have to choose very carefully on when I want to have a drink. It's usually if I'm on like vacation or something. If I'm not if I don't have to watch my son and I can truly relax, like do absolutely nothing the next day. And tonight is not one of those nights. Tomorrow I want to be productive. I want to get done. All right, folks. We've got the makeup done and now the hair. I just did a little up down situation. I think that's still a bun, right? It's extremely windy and I just don't want to be cold and I feel like I can get away without wearing a

jacket if I wear this. All right, this is looking very structured and tailored. Okay, it definitely cinches at the waist which I like. Okay. Ooh, that's like a little something. We'll wear some tights. In a perfect world, this mini this skirt would be even minier like that. So, I'm actually just going to try and change the skirt into my black leather one. Okay. And then I'm thinking about wearing it with my black acne boots. It's going to go in with my Prada bag.

Nice chocolate brown. I feel like it just ties the whole look together. What do you think? Oh, wow. The espresso martinis are coming. This is the soda water, everyone. I'm going to drink three of these. If I still want to drink after three of these, then I will have white. Oh, you're telling me to, you know, think of it. nothing will beat the feeling of an everything shower. My mood has just jumped up by 30%. So, tonight I'm heading out to a Dior event with the Zo Report and they're sending me a hair

stylist. So, I think like the polite thing to do is to have clean hair. So, while my hair is wet, I'm going to go in with Anov's Frizz Calming Sleek Leave-In Conditioner. I picked this up when I was in Korea in October, and I love it. I feel like now I have used it long enough to see the benefits that it has. And it just smells so good. Like it's like sweet, but not in an edible way. It just smells hygienic. I'm like wondering if I should blow dry it for him. Yeah, might as well. Okay. I feel like my skin needs some moisture. You know, there's like some of those masks actually kind of make you look cute while you're wearing it. This is not one of those masks. But I got to

say, this one is hella hydrating. Perfect. Cheeky look. It's a gift for mommy. Today really does feel like a princess day. Shall we see what's inside? Shall we? Chips. Tons of new makeup to play with. Got to find my right match. Let's give 1.5N a try. Ooh, literally glides on like butter. And then this is 2.5N. Honestly, they both blend out so seamlessly. I am actually going to use both of them. I'm going to go in with 1.5N on places that I want to highlight and then 2.5N for everywhere else. Wow. Okay, I am into this. Wow, it's been like a hot minute since a foundation stick got me this excited. Let's add some colors to our

cheeks. One is called pink lilac. Okay, I'm getting a little more brave. Oh my gosh, very, very cute. For eyes shadow, I think I'm going to go for this one because this sparkle shade is calling my name. I'm just kind of freestyling right here. Put this brown shade all over the lid. And then I'm going to go in with this super sparkly shade and pat it on top. That's a nice shimmer. I'm going to apply my lip tint. This is the Atude Peel Off lip stain. I feel like this tint looks incredible. So now we're going to slather on Dior's lip oil. This one is in raspberry.

This is the finished look, I guess, for beauty. I wish I could do my hair like this. Joseph literally killed it. He is so talented. Not a strand out of place. It's so good. Oh my god. I can't stop looking at it. I hope that it looks like this even tomorrow. So, the mood board for tonight was pretty much all black. Kept it very simple, very straightforward. So, I think I'm going to wear this black slip dress from Jacmu. I've worn it out, but I've never taken pictures in it. All right, folks. This is the finished look.

What do we think? And for the shoe, something pointed with a little glamorous rhinestone strap. And since we're going to a Dior event, of course, I had to bring my clutch. Like I almost like want to carry it like a book. But yeah, this is going to be the look of the evening.