Welcome back to a day in my life! I don’t know how I managed to film one of these every single day consecutively for like six months straight because this took so long to film and edit and I just don’t know how I even had that kind of time back then because I definitely don’t have it now 😅
I got a wild hair this morning. It’s funny because when I was actually filming the content, I couldn’t remember how I used to film the previous day in my life videos and then I remembered that a majority of it was me just getting ready in the morning and talking the whole time . My life looks really different now so creating that type of content where I’m just sitting on my bed getting ready when I have a whole apartment wouldn’t really align with my actual life now. Idk, as much as I know some of y’all want me to get back into this, It just requires a lot of time and effort. Back then I was waking up two hours before I ever even needed to wake up, which was four or five hours before I even needed to be at work when I could’ve probably gotten up an hour and 15 minutes before work. I do love creating content; it is work, but it doesn’t always feel that way to me.
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