Ok guys, if there is anything that I have learnt from this quarantine saga it is
that now I am addicted to Animal Crossing - New Horizons.. so that's good.
I've literally been playing it every day after I've finished my work. Today is my
scheduled day off so I just wanted to do some bits and pieces around the house.
I thought we could hang out while I do that. Thankfully with the level of lockdown
that we're at, we're still allowed out for once a day for a walk so I have been doing
that. And my dumbbells haven't arrived yet which is very sad but hopefully they
do turn up soon 'cause I miss training with a weight... but how are you guys doing? Like,
leave me a comment! Are you working out at home? Like, are you making extra time
for things? I know there's probably quite a few of you that still need to go to work as well.
Now I know I'm probably gonna get a lot of questions about this
plant as well, because I posted it on Instagram,
it got this brilliant new leaf - can we see how big that is? Like look at that
compared to my head! A lot of people were asking like what kind of plant it is.
It's just a monstera deliciosa. When I bought it you might have seen it
in an earlier video, like when we first moved in, and I mentioned in some text
I was I'm trying to rescue me this is big old plant or whatever.
Because when I bought it had a lot of like mineral loss in the tips of the
leaves. I don't think it had been repot it may be like three or four years. It
was just not looking too great so I trimmed off a lot of the suffering leaves.
I planted it in an even bigger pot - it's so heavy! It's like, I swear to god it's
like somewhere between fifty and sixty kilos. It's really heavy to move. I need
to put it on some wheels I think so that we can easily move it but yeah. It's just
a regular one monstera deliciosa. It's just really big because it has the room to
grow. It has the light to grow and it's old. Like, I don't know how old it is but
I didn't buy it brand new I bought it off someone else who ran out of space
for it because it got too big. Now I do have a shelf to assemble today for in
our laundry, to go over the washing machine because our laundry is tiny. It's just
like, it's like a spare bathroom. There's like a toilet in there, there is a sink in
there and then there's room for the washer / dryer. So we have a combined
washer dryer and I was like, I'm just gonna put like a little shelving unit
over the top so that I can make it look all neat. I need your suggestions of what I
should do like 'cause I can't paint the walls because we're renting so I was
like I was looking into like stick-on tiles and that wouldn't work because
apparently they can damage the paint when you take them off the wall. So I was thinking
maybe I just do some decals down there as well, like you know what I've done to
my kitchen wall, how it's got like all the spots. I thought maybe we could do
something like that but like a different pattern or whatever I don't know I just
feel like it needs something to make the room a little bit more pleasant to be in.
I'm gonna go grab the shelf and I think I'm gonna build it up here in the
lounge room because it's definitely too small in the laundry to build it down there.
This is our little laundry room. So I'm just gonna put the shelf here so these
things can go on it. See I was thinking of putting maybe some decals on
this wall. This space rea lly doesn't have very much in it. It's very plain.
I feel very lucky that we're still able to go out for walks here, so, it's a little bit
windy today but it is nice and sunny so I might go outside and get some sunshine
and while I'm at it, I'm gonna get changed because there is a plant that I want to
repot. Okay, I'm not sure if you guys remember this plant but I think it
was like all the way down here when I repotted it into this pink pot. If you
remember my how-to greenify your space.. the plant video that I did that I think
it was like a fairly long one, yeah it was all the way down here and now it is
all the way up here! So I think it's actually gonna be cool to let it grow up
and then go across and continue going up. I just use, as you can see it's come off
this one, but I've got 3m hooks on the wall holding it on but I'm gonna repot
this into a nice white pot. Because I was like I'll give it something bigger now. See
how big it grows I guess!
I can't like force it over to the other side yet - it's just not quite bent enough.
You can see it's growing with a bend so I'm just gonna let it do that. I'm gonna
wait until it gets to the other side but it is so tall now.
Mitch: What a pretty dog.
I hope you guys are well well. This is what I have been doing for most of today. I had to
write some training programs and then I was putting together a new blog post and
things like that. So just like working on a few little things. It's been a bit
weird at the moment, I noticed that I was getting in a bit of a funk with
everything and so I was like right I need to be like more proactive about
this. So every day when I get up and you know, have a shower, get dressed into
something that I actually like to wear and I'm noticing even that simple act
alone is making me feel a lot better. I'm just like lying around in my
PJs which would be so easy to do because so much of my work is on my laptop. I'm actually
making an effort to be like, no, hang on like I want to get dressed and like
treat this like a proper day. Not that it's a bad thing like if you want to
have a pajama day now and again that's cool but I feel like sometimes if you
let that take over. In a funny way it affects your mood. Mitch just had
delivery as well so we now have, well, kind of a bench set up, I've got a barbell
and an EZ curl bar and like a changeable dumbbell set but that's gonna be good so
we have something to use, hey.
Mitch: we got some equipment.
So, it's 4:30 and I've finished my work for the day, I'm gonna pack up. I'll try
and finish chatting with you guys. I'm gonna like, hell yeah, I'm gonna play some
Animal Crossing. I hope you guys are taking some time to look after
yourselves I know it's a bit weird at the moment. It's a little bit strange but
thankfully we're all in it together and I wanted to take the chance while I'm here
to reach all of my clients at once, well any of the ones who watch my videos
I'm so proud of them I'm so proud of what they've done like I was so scared
that a bunch of people would be like oh I can't train anymore, I don't want to do it but everyone's
just gone 'you know what? I can't go to the gym - give me a home workout program'.
Everyone's just made huge changes to their routine and like the commitment
that I'm seeing is incredible like it's so inspiring to me to work with women
who are just like 'yeah I'm just gonna make this happen'.
It's so cool so I encourage you guys to do the same like if there's something
that you want to achieve or that you want to get done like don't let this
stop you like find a way through it if you can. It's up to you to decide who you want
to be and it's the actions that you're taking each day add up to that end
result. If you look at what we do each day does the summation of our actions
equal that end goal or are we telling ourselves like I'll get there eventually,
I'll start it eventually, I'll do it eventually. I think when you're in that
headspace you're not looking after what you want to be looking after. All right,
I'm gonna pack all my things up, I hope all you guys are well. I thought I'd let
you know as well I am, well, I just planned out.. wrote out the recipes for a new
meal prep video that I'm gonna be doing shortly and it's gonna be all budget
meals because I know it's been super hard to get a lot of ingredients. I want
to make it suit your budgets but also make sure that it's nutritious and it's
gonna help you with your fitness goals too. Keep an eye out for that - I will have that
one up soon. I'll catch you guys next time, bye.