0:04 I am snacking again but you know this is
0:10 sign hustling it's just more casual it's
0:10 how it is
0:13 these ones are my favorite Pocky by the
0:17 way it's like inside-out Pocky that's
0:23 real good real tasty am I wearing
0:25 epic cut crease makeup like a full face
0:27 of makeup and my hair done with my
0:30 pajamas and my like robe that I used to
0:34 keep warm yes but you know it's a just a
0:37 lazy Saturday here in my life and I
0:39 didn't want to put makeup on so I
0:40 thought if I allowed myself to go a bit
0:42 crazy and have fun with it that would
0:45 motivate me to put my face on for you
0:47 wall and it seems to have worked so here
0:49 I am but what have I been up to since I
0:51 saw you all last last year on side
0:54 hustling at the end of June I kind of
0:56 was you know working through making
0:58 those boxes for my sets which now I
1:00 finally did put up the video of how I
1:01 made those boxes so I feel good like
1:03 that it's really completely come full
1:05 circle and it's done now which is nice
1:06 and I have been using those props for
1:08 most of my videos now just because they
1:09 look cool in the background I'm just
1:10 gonna leave them there I don't mind
1:12 having everything be a little bit
1:14 adventure style that's fine with me
1:15 especially since I spent so much
1:17 freaking time on those boxes that I
1:19 better use them in the backdrop of every
1:21 dang video right because it took forever
1:22 to make them so I might as well get a
1:24 lot of use out of them but I finally put
1:25 that video up so that kind of feels closed
1:26 closed
1:27 I made that second adventure style video
1:29 the adventures evenings video and I put
1:31 together some sewing videos the last
1:33 month some lots of lots of videos that I
1:35 was proud and happy to finish and get up
1:39 and then I had my birthday in early July
1:42 so that was a thing that happened and I
1:44 try not to get down about my birthday
1:46 because for me it's a marker of like
1:49 birthdays holidays Christmas Halloween
1:52 things like that any holidays I usually
1:54 would like or used to like kind of our
1:56 reminder for me now that it's another
1:58 year that I haven't accomplished like
2:01 main goals that I want to so I can
2:02 sometimes get down on myself around
2:04 holidays and birthdays and things so I
2:05 was trying really hard to not do that
2:07 this year which is why I took myself
2:08 thrifting on my birthday
2:10 hence the thrift haul that I had here on
2:12 the channel of my birthday thrift all
2:13 because I did take myself out
2:15 thrifting cuz I do really quite enjoy 30
2:16 now so I was like well I can't have a
2:19 bad day if I do this and my parents
2:20 actually took me to lunch which was nice
2:21 as well so I had a pretty good at
2:24 birthday tried not to get down on myself
2:27 like I can sometimes tend to do and then
2:28 I'm just working on lots of videos a
2:30 little bit more time at my day job and
2:33 then finishing or working on finishing
2:35 the draft of the book that I've been
2:37 working on all year so those kind of the
2:39 things that I got up to in July or the
2:41 past like month and a half here so I
2:43 will jump in to some footage of like
2:45 what I got up to or a little bit of like
2:49 snapshots things I was doing in the last
2:51 month and a half here including more cat
2:52 footage as always because you know got
3:58 [Music]
4:00 they are eternal [Music]
4:29 [Music] [Applause]
7:31 Oh what do you have - my lovey you're
7:33 guarding these Teague's what you doing
8:10 honey you're too cute my lovey what are
8:17 you're just guarding the eyeshadow
8:33 there are all of my clothes from this
8:36 rack in my closet because I've requested
8:39 my contractor aka my dad to move this
8:42 shelf down and then put another one
8:45 above so that's today's project I'm here
8:49 in the in the closet could use a dust
8:52 also but you know you know we know how I
10:43 so I definitely think the biggest thing
10:44 that I have accomplished since the last
10:46 time I spoke to you here on-site
10:47 hustling or less time I kind of blogged
10:51 is that I did finish the draft for my
10:53 second book so the second like full
10:55 complete novel I have ever written it is
10:58 I gave my last book that I wrote last
11:00 year is too long this one is definitely
11:02 too long but it's the sequel of that one
11:04 so how how can you write a sequel to a
11:07 long book that is shorter I don't know
11:09 and it's clear to me why I don't write
11:12 short stories as in like you know a sort
11:15 of chapter length kind of short stories
11:17 sort of thing because I can't write your
11:19 books for Christ's sake let alone a
11:21 short story it might be a fun challenge
11:24 to try and write just a short story
11:27 because I'm like nah man give me that
11:29 long drawn-out conversations and
11:30 character development that's that's
11:34 where I'm at but I'm really very happy
11:35 to have finished this draft of this book
11:38 of course for me it also means that I
11:40 can refocus and hopefully start working
11:42 on my query letters and working on
11:44 finding a literary agent which is
11:45 supposed to be my goal for the year as I
11:48 keep saying in these videos but I did
11:50 allow myself to get distracted by all
11:53 the ideas for this second book and I
11:56 kind of at some one point I just
11:59 realized that trying to fight fight it
12:01 and not write this book this year was
12:03 not gonna work like I either had to
12:05 write it or I was gonna be sad so I
12:07 ended up writing the second book the
12:09 first book that I wrote last year took
12:11 me about like two or three months like I
12:13 wrote it really quickly it was just kind
12:15 of like a five word vomit almost like I
12:17 just like this book just happened to me
12:20 kind of last year and this year I once I
12:23 kind of gave in a lot of it came quickly
12:25 like that same way but it was a little
12:27 bit more of a struggle because I was
12:29 tying a lot more together because there
12:30 were a lot more subplots kind of going
12:32 on it did take me a little bit longer
12:33 and I did have a lot more going on last
12:36 year I allowed myself to stop blogging
12:39 to stop doing YouTube while I was
12:41 working on the book and just do the book
12:42 and this year I couldn't do that I
12:43 couldn't stop
12:45 working on YouTube because think about
12:47 the internet like all side hustles
12:48 involving the internet Instagram YouTube
12:51 things like that you cannot take a break
12:55 and expect to maintain any kind of
12:57 it's all about like consistency and
12:59 building momentum when it comes to
13:00 social media and that kind of side
13:03 hustles so I couldn't just not post on
13:06 YouTube and expect my youtube to even
13:09 stay stagnant let alone grow so I had to
13:10 keep up with YouTube so I've been
13:11 keeping up with YouTube we're doing
13:14 those hardwood floors of my house having
13:15 some kind of family drama over the past
13:18 this year different stuff going on so I
13:20 did take me longer to finish this book
13:22 just because my attention was split in
13:24 many different directions but now I am
13:27 finally done with this book I am so
13:28 excited to edit it and like give it a
13:30 good edit but I know I have to wait
13:33 which really sucks to be honest like I
13:34 want to work on it immediately I want I
13:37 already miss working on it it's funny
13:39 when you like finish a big project
13:41 especially I think of writing or like a
13:44 creative project there's like a sense of
13:46 like mourning after that is gone because
13:49 you can't or you don't you don't get to
13:50 write it for the first time ever again
13:52 like I don't get to write the first
13:54 draft ever again and there's like a
13:56 sense of sadness around that in some
13:57 ways even though I'm very excited to
14:00 have it done I am kind of it's missing
14:02 from my life now it's like a friend that
14:04 I don't get to see for a while because
14:06 technically now this draft is over I
14:08 should take a break
14:10 like completely from the draft and let
14:14 it sit because I need to like refill my
14:16 creative juices by like watching other
14:18 media reading other books kind of
14:19 getting back out there in the world
14:21 because I've been in my insular like
14:23 kind of book brain space and I need to
14:25 get back out and kind of fill refill all
14:28 my creative hooks book that I was using
14:31 to do the book I kind of need to help
14:33 myself not burn out in some ways too
14:34 because I have been working really hard
14:37 this summer and have been doing some
14:40 like emotionally taxing stuff as well so
14:42 like I really need to help myself not
14:44 burn out by giving myself a good break
14:46 and kind of watching other movies
14:48 reading other books kind of refilling my
14:50 brain and then hopefully being able to
14:53 come back to the book the draft with a
14:54 newer eyes and so I can see what isn't
14:57 working see what is working and give it
14:59 a really good edit hopefully cut out a
15:01 little bit but definitely just like even
15:02 like stepping away for a little while
15:04 you see typos that you didn't see before
15:06 or you see bits of grammar that maybe
15:08 you can't see when you're working on the
15:11 draft so um for me I just need to step
15:12 away for a little while but it is also
15:14 kind of a hard thing to do so I'm trying
15:17 to deal with all that at once basically
15:20 and I really just want to start working
15:21 on it again but I know I have to take a
15:22 break which isn't easy for me
15:25 so I'm going to try and take a break if
15:26 you have any recommendations for shows
15:29 movies books things that I can refill my
15:30 brain with please do leave those in the
15:32 comments below because I think I'm gonna
15:35 start watching peaky blinders too many
15:36 people have recommended it to me so I'm
15:38 gonna have to watch it because everyone
15:39 seems to recommend it and it's just time
15:41 to give it a watch I didn't watch
15:42 Chernobyl last week which was really
15:44 good so that wasn't that was a good
15:47 break from anything I was doing as well
15:49 and I really enjoyed that so recommend
15:51 me things in the comments below that
15:52 you've enjoyed media that you've enjoyed
15:54 movies I should check out all that kind
15:56 of stuff I do also really need to just
15:58 really wait all my goals actually before
16:01 I sat here to talk to you filming this
16:02 I watched my side hustle and from the
16:04 start of the year where I was talking
16:06 about my goals for the year and some
16:07 people have actually mentioned here on
16:09 YouTube like you should probably
16:11 consider freaking consider reconsidering
16:14 your goals and it's true because it's
16:17 like past mid year now and it's obvious
16:18 that some of the things that I wanted to
16:19 get done this year of course are not
16:22 going to get done and some things that I
16:24 didn't even make goals like I didn't set
16:25 the goal of finishing this book this
16:26 year because I don't like to put
16:28 pressure on myself when it comes to
16:30 writing in that way but of course I did
16:32 you know vaguely want to finish that
16:34 book this year so I have done that so
16:36 I've accomplished goals that I was
16:39 really careful not to set but I haven't
16:41 really accomplished my other goals so I
16:42 think I need to reevaluate reschedule
16:45 everything I've kind of let myself not
16:48 to-do list not scheduled not other than
16:50 schedule my YouTube videos what I do try
16:51 and keep on top of but like when it
16:54 comes to how many query letters do I
16:55 want to send out how many agents do I
16:58 want to add to my spreadsheet the sort
16:59 of administrative side of trying to
17:00 become an author I've really let myself
17:02 not have to think about that while I
17:04 finished the book instead and now I read
17:06 to reschedule all my plans when it comes
17:08 to that so basically the next side
17:10 hustling video will be my reevaluating
17:12 all my goals and setting out a new
17:14 schedule for myself going into the fall
17:15 here it's like back-to-school season
17:17 anyway so might as well set myself some
17:20 concrete goals some new scheduling all
17:21 kinds of
17:23 structure I think I need going into this
17:25 fall basically cuz I've allowed myself
17:27 to be very unstructured most of this
17:29 year and I think it's time now that the
17:31 the book is done which is the most
17:33 unstructured kind of thing I do I really
17:35 let myself I don't set myself specific
17:37 numerical goals when it comes to writing
17:39 it's very unstructured because I just
17:42 I'm too afraid to set a structure on
17:44 that in case it messes me up so I'd
17:45 rather not drink sit and just keep it
17:47 unstructured but now I'm gonna need some
17:48 structure so that is what I'm gonna be
17:50 doing here soon
17:52 kind of the rest of this month is gonna
17:56 be a regal setting restructuring of how
17:59 I spend my time including maybe
18:00 introducing some new things or switching
18:01 some things around I've been mentioning
18:03 here on the channel a little bit my last
18:06 thrift haul as well that I'm considering
18:08 starting or ramping up my Etsy shop
18:10 I do have an Etsy shop I just don't have
18:12 very much in it I don't really focus a
18:14 lot of time into it but I do seem to
18:16 find some like really good stuff
18:17 thrifting people are always telling me
18:19 that they can't find the kind of things
18:21 that I find at least so I'm thinking if
18:23 I can find them I can find a bunch of it
18:25 and start selling it on my Etsy shop so
18:27 I am considering ramping up my Etsy shop
18:29 and turning it into much more of a
18:32 legitimate hustle in response like in
18:35 conjunction with that possibly thinking
18:40 about really figuring out a way for my
18:43 day job to take up less of my time I
18:45 really like my day job when it's working
18:47 but right now it's not exactly working
18:48 for me just because the scheduling
18:50 throws me off so much because it's very
18:51 flexible but at the same time it's also
18:53 it's a different time every week I never
18:55 really know what's gonna happen until
18:57 it's about to happen and that makes it
18:59 hard for me to put structure into my
19:00 life so it's not like I'm only the only
19:03 one who's making my schedule
19:05 unstructured it's also instructor
19:06 because that's how my work schedule is
19:08 and that can really throw me off if I
19:10 was supposed to work Monday and I end up
19:11 working on Wednesday instead then I have
19:14 to move my whole week around in some
19:15 ways so that kind of thing is throwing
19:16 me off so I have to figure out exactly
19:18 what am i to do about that too so
19:20 thinking about Etsy in a taking Etsy in
19:22 a new direction possibly and then the
19:23 other thing I'm thinking about is
19:26 possibly launching patreon it's just a
19:29 hard thing to do in some ways because it
19:31 just seems so grubby in so many ways and
19:34 I think people recognize that like you know
19:35 know
19:36 start a patreon it's not because you're
19:38 like give me all your money it's because
19:39 you're like I want to keep making things
19:43 and I can't do it for free always so I'm
19:45 trying to work through my thoughts when
19:46 it comes to patreon some of you have
19:48 asked me to start a patreon and thank
19:51 you so much for her being willing to
19:53 support the things that I do here but
19:55 I'm trying to wrap my head around
19:56 possibly doing patreon I think maybe
19:59 it's something I might consider opening
20:01 when I hit 20,000 subscribers all right
20:03 time right now I'm around 16,000
20:04 subscribers and I just feel like I would
20:07 like my audience audience here on
20:09 YouTube to be of a certain size before I
20:10 launch patreon because before then it
20:13 just almost seems like not to make much
20:15 sense so I'm considering maybe at 20,000
20:18 launching patreon just so I can make
20:20 more videos like the ones I was talking
20:21 about my last side hustling video all
20:25 those crates cost money to make way more
20:26 money than I thought they were going to
20:28 so like props backdrops things like that
20:30 cost me quite a lot of money and it's
20:31 money I don't actually really have I
20:33 keep spending it anyway because I'm not
20:34 very responsible but it's money I don't
20:38 really have so if I could have some
20:39 funding to do videos like that in the
20:41 future though definitely help me out so
20:44 I am considering patreon but it's just
20:46 hard to wrap your mind around asking for
20:48 money I think and asking for help in
20:51 general so I'm working on it but but
20:53 yeah that's kind of my side hustles
20:55 Update thank you as always for sticking
20:56 around through another one of these sort
20:58 of diary videos again these are kind of
21:00 more videos I make for myself just to be
21:02 able to like journal entries almost for
21:04 myself to be able to keep track of what
21:06 I've been doing in progress it's nice to
21:08 be able to check up on progress because
21:11 I'm not very good at allowing myself to
21:13 celebrate things so I'm trying to
21:15 celebrate the fact that I finished a
21:19 book this year it sounds both like a big
21:21 accomplishment and a little one to me so
21:22 I'm trying to congratulate myself on
21:26 having done that I it's it's iffy for me
21:28 but well we'll get there hopefully but
21:29 thank you as always for sticking to this
21:31 little diary entry and for hanging
21:32 around here with me and supporting me
21:33 here on the channel I'll see you again
21:35 real soon [Music]
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