a week in nyc | my current favorites, invited to the white house, training for a half marathon

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foreign well not a monthly Vlog but I feel like I do like a vlog like once every month month and a half I am going to be leaving for a good chunk of time but more of that because it's just say I'm gonna be beat bopping around Europe for a while and now it's coming to summer I always feel like things are fresh and exciting and actually several weeks ago I decided to full stem and sign up for my first ever half marathon which I'm excited and kind of very nervous about because I don't really run that much but this has been good it's been like pushing me and helping me kind of test my mental boundaries in a masochistic way has been kind of fun like it's been good for me I feel like we place so much value in finding achievement and productivity and like purely our work life and it's really nice to have something that's non-work related that's a fun goal for me to work towards so yeah a few days of my life here in you cooking over to distract me she came over to distract me I was like I'll just sit and like don't speak to me I was like that's not gonna work and it didn't work I knew it like why don't we go work in a cafe with a glass of wine in the fresh air that's dead let's go Panic ordered a massive Margarita she's trying to feel something let's run on a run accountability partner and neighbor and today is a interval training day so getting some Sprints in hello can you believe it's May I feel like the first five months of this year have been a little bit stagnant I'm like where did the time go we're already five months 23.

so excited for some around the corner give me Sunshine give me water and I'm very excited because I'm subletting my apartment and I'm going to go to Europe for two whole months which is wild a little stressed I have a lot to do between now and then extremely grateful and I can work remote and do that I've been here now five years well I love it and it really feels like home I feel like for this exact season of life it's run its course a bit again not like and my least sell on my furniture type event but like let's try something else out for a little while so that's part of the reason why I wanted to spend the summer in Europe because I don't know I feel like I'm on this journey always to figure out what feels like home and what feels grounding you don't necessarily need to move to another country to do that but I feel like for anyone else though there who may be feeling that way even just mixing up your environment or even changing towns and just doing that thing that you've been thinking about that is mixed with fear and anticipation like listen to that and maybe lean in they're gonna share a few favorites at the moment I just finished tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow by Gabrielle zeben and that book is so well done really introducing insight into the gaming world and the characters felt so real that I felt like I should be able to like Google them find them in real life like I wanted them to be real I'm getting a little repetitive but I am on my house music game and I have a very fun new play disco and I've been loving this song and one other newer playlist called Spring this art is called night tapes okay those are some favorites I shipped her into a vet which is very exciting with Lancome taking a quick second to thank today's sponsor betterhelp if you're unfamiliar better help is the world's largest therapy service and it's 100 online you can basically tap into this network of over 30 000 license and experience therapists to help you with a whole wide range of 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was like what's wrong so now I'm gonna get drinks and Tacos in the West Village and I'm thrilled this week North America hello so I thought probably the craziest email I've ever received in my life two days ago I really processed it it's making me a little emotional but I'm headed to DC today to go hang out at the vice president's residency first thing it's like a dream this is insane I'm kind of in shock I have to head to the train station so let's go thank you I think that's my first time I've seen the White House quite pristine looking lots of security I try my best to do some soft sustainability and activism I'm not like a full-fledged activism content creator I just like try to tie it in one relevant and to be able to attend something like this and be surrounded by actual on the ground activists and leaders and Powerful women is just so crazy if you could have told my younger self that this would be happening I would absolutely not believe it in the slightest I panic rented a power suit off front the runway so we're about to try that on and hopefully it looks okay just casually at uh the vice president's residency we have Kaylee from climate power I've heard it's gonna be very fun follow me mention is on our side we know these windows don't stay open forever unless we keep them open so much is happening in our country and it's just casually leaving the VP residents they've taken a napkin with a ustralia don't show the Secret Service hello from back in New York you see it was incredible it was such an honor to be there but to meet the queen herself say hello shake her hand and here's some inspiring words too about climate change climate action in terms of Earth Day like she acknowledged that obviously there's a lot that needs to be done but it's also important to celebrate some of the successes along the way and also if you've been paying attention to my videos and I worked with this organization called better internet initiative it basically helps creators share accurate information of what's going on the world with their audience and in their recent report they were talking about how the Colorado River is drying up it runs through seven states here in the U.S and serves one out of every 10 Americans which is about 40 million people and it's drying out from a combination of chronic overusage as well as historical drought conditions that are brought on by climate change water conservation is an issue that we really need to take seriously I feel like we don't necessarily hear as much about so it's really important to have leadership that addresses this but at least right now the current Biden Administration is working to cut over two to four million acre feet in water usage so something to be aware of and to make sure you're conserving your own water paying attention kind of what's going on and how it's important and how we can vote and be involved essentially to address these kinds of issues but a happy Earth Day and you know we gotta keep worrying to protect this planet one okay but the weight of an ocean