nyc diaries | going on a helicopter ride!

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so that i feel like i only put on makeup during like get ready with me portions of video also i have a little mirror to the side so i'm looking to the sides to make sure i've blended semi properly we'll see about that it feels super normal being back now and honestly it's been really lovely so far i'm like very happy to be here you know we're the most part we're doing we're doing good okay got some more guns and i left the closet open what's new this is my new technique for my like hooded as hell eyes sorry for me to figure out good makeup techniques i take that little guy off camera because my eyes are so hooded the classic like winged eyeliner doesn't really work for my face but sometimes with a little eyeshadow it's gonna be nice i have been reading quite a bit recently i just finished half the sky which was which was our book club book for august and then our book for september is i have it right here transcendent kingdom i'm actually doing it in collaboration with book of the month which i'm very excited about it's basically a super popular and fast growing book service online for readers their goal is to help promote new and emerging authors which i think is really cool because i struggle to find books and i struggle to figure out like what do i actually want to commit my time to reading they basically have a team that vets hundreds of books every month and then they make this like curated selection of like new and early release titles so you can spend more time reading and less time searching which i love so for september there was like a short list of several really incredible sounding books i ended up going with transcendent kingdom but honestly all the books on there sounded really good what's nice about it too is of course like risk free like you can skip whatever if you don't want to do it every month plus they have the new best prices for new release fiction so you can head to bookofthemonth.com and you can check in the description below of course to check out their website and get your first book for only 9.99 i don't even really know why i'm putting on makeup i'm probably gonna take it off in like three hours because girls to get sick of having it on my face but you know what at least for the beginning of the day i'll feel cute okay i think i'm gonna make myself some lunch and then get to work in hello it's me maxine she's back from san diego all my roommates are back we are helping fletcher out and we just went and looked at an apartment for him because he was busy i enjoy it i love looking at different apartments here so so fun they're all like slightly different like you you learn the little tricks of the trade exactly so gonna get some coffee and then just head home but it was nice to actually get outside yeah during the day the rain was stopped it was raining i was just human i'm sweating so it's up there yeah that's a good amount of space to have like a little people just take it to the shop because y'all it's like 5 30 right now i pretty much kind of just trying to work a like 10 to 6 30 schedule depending on the day to try to feel like a normal human so merch coming out well it's gonna be a little while but i'm finalizing designs i'm working with a really epic designer and i'm very very excited to share once that's already i finally got my presets up i have been fine-tuning them for a while to make sure they just are like just right just what i want to share with the world i'll leave that below giving you guys a sneak peek of my presets i guess maybe by the time this vlog is up the presets are out but i'm so excited i've been working on these for a while there's three presets that i use on all my photos you can get a pack of them one's warming bright before after before after this one's one of my favorites i really love this one if you want to check them out they are for lightroom desktop about to do my zoom book club call um i do a little book club every month uh at least for this past year i have and so this month we read half the sky like i was talking about earlier and so today we're doing the zoom little zoom book club call which i announced on my instagram so if you wanna check it out follow me on instagram i'm running late so i gotta gotta get a medicine call and did any of those like proposed solutions like excite you or seem promising so that is like a basic humor right but it is a very thin line between both think that like women are being oppressed because they have to wear this and because they have to like dress a certain way and act a certain way if you need to learn how to talk to a lady i have an exciting day planned today so basically long story short fletcher had his birthday in the peak of the beginning of quarantine and he turned 30 this year he's a little bit older than me obviously and he had like really big plans to celebrate his 30th i feel like 30th is just like one of the few birthdays you get in her lifetime it's like a very big deal usually and he's not one to celebrate himself and i figured you know what it's close to his half birthday i'm gonna give him a proper your 30th birthday redo so i have some fun stuff to plan today it's a secret i'm surprised you throughout the day i'm gonna do a few of his favorite things and then we're gonna helicopter ride later which i am freaking out about i reached out to fly nyon flying neon and i told them that i'd love to like the photos for them to be able to use and they were kind enough to comp my seat and then there's a really good sale going on so i got a really good price ticket for fletcher so we're gonna do that later it's gonna be a fun day kind of bopping around new york taking you know biking around spending time in nature all good stuff we got bikes electric city bikes in new york are literally like the unicorns of new york if you can find them it's like jackpot you've hit the lottery see jane why is staring out the window oh with the red eyes tell me his name is let's hear some of your guesses dude i have no idea there's there's a particular cheese based indian snack that i love in little india but that was back in jersey city and now we're like now we're in newark so i just have no idea i have no idea and i'm i feel like i'm pretty good at guessing yeah i you win i i'm lost what is it it's helicopter really yeah no way really yeah oh my god what's the oh like say cheese i just sent that to 31 oh you sneaky mom oh my god we're gonna fly over oh so we made it i'm taking this off because we're in a room i lost it she told me the hint was cheese i wanted to do this for yourself we never talked about it for years but i talked about it for you my birthday was in the depths of it my birthday is march 27th oh okay well you know you can't do some of the things you like you couldn't go outside so it was it was particularly wrong and i had plans to go to italy for the first time which is a very privileged problem to have but it means a lot to make up for it sorry hello hello you might not be able to hear us ah uh we just finished our ride i don't have words that was one of the most insane things i think i've ever done i i'm blown away my hair is such a mess and i i teared up it was just in general one of the coolest things i've ever done best gift ever i was saying earlier i think you're under selling it just by saying it's one of the cool things you've done 2020 it was one of the coolest things i've ever done in my life taking a tuk tuk through through old delhi and flying helicopter in new york city and those two are are tied i think this one is a slight win it was so cool getting to see all the little moments we left like the boathouse in central park and like my apartment and like union square and thompson because make maps for a living and so when i look down in a place like new york it's really easy to pick up on where the grid is so happens to do a loop over the river where we had gone on the ferry so it was such a trip to be over the water hundreds of feet above it when i had just been in it from above it was it was unreal bye