weekend in my life | celebrations, surfing, beach days

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

damn hello good morning time for another vlog i've had a lot of fun recently filming little little vlogs here and there today is friday i took a f45 workout class this morning those classes kick your ass let me tell you they are so intense but i leave it feeling so like proud of myself that i completed it today i'm gonna yeah just work for a smidge i have a bunch of errands to run and then my sister and sister-in-law are coming sage and evie um to spend the night to have a little girl's night which i'm really excited about i think it's kind of healthy to take space and kind of think about like how different life was six months ago and how much is changed and lost and other things gained i am someone that is really bad about letting myself feel my emotions or talk about them overly because i feel like i have this like constant guilt almost of knowing people have it so much worse than me so like why should i be sad and i know there's that quote that i'm sure so many of you guys have heard where it's like just because someone else broke their leg that doesn't mean you're like sprained ankle hurts and i feel like that's super applicable and so i think you know letting yourself feel those things is good and i'm working on allowing myself you know it's just so much is out of our control and there's a lot of of being forced to let go of trying to keep control which is a good life lesson because i like to you know be in control i'm using a bunch of products from ilia which is like this really incredible sustainable clean cruelty free skincare company that i'm a big fan of honestly that might be all i do very very light i can't even see it on the camera i was reading this article basically talking about tourism being open potentially in november like borders opening specifically for tourism i was on track to kind of take my channel more of like a travel oriented direction which it has been a dream ever since i started this channel and so yeah i'm really curious to see what the future of travel looks like when it comes to social media and the travel tourism sector like that's such a massive economy and it provides so many jobs and i know so it needs to be revived in a safe manner and so yeah i'm really curious to see how that unfolds and when travel 2 will be like socially acceptable and when it's like the right thing to do but i also want to encourage you know not living in fear but also protecting others i've seen quite a few travel youtubers buy like vans to like road trip advance i'm like like good for them but also a little concerning for like the travel sector of social media i'm like what's it gonna look like moving forward trying to figure out day to day um so yeah i'm gonna go run some errands i need to drop off some film i might pick up some flowers maybe get myself a little donut because like i said i had a few sad days and you know i could use a little something make me smile okay i did a little change and put on this really pretty dress from la casa a great sustainable brand if i do say so myself i belted it just because it's super flowy like baby it'll cut i feel like i never wear things that are super femme but it's really fun every now and then to dress up again it makes me feel better i feel cute it's gonna be a good day now i'm currently going through my monthly finances i try to do this at the end of every month that's how i personally kind of make sure i'm budgeting and saving and being where i aware where my money is going so i'm working on my little spreadsheet right now basically taking all the different transactions that i did over the month of june putting them in a little spreadsheet organizing them and so like right now i'm saying i ate out a lot more than i necessarily needed to but you know whatever sporting love businesses um but that's the beauty of budgeting is i'm like oh that's where my money's going or check out my video if you want to learn how to budget a funk if i do say so myself got my film i feel like these are my little babies they're so exciting to get back hopefully i'll get the photos back by the time the vlog is done so i can include some photos and they brought me a bunch of boxes that i had sitting at my parents house i love them all over they want to do a little unboxing i want to do an unboxing but they came up the idea i'm not forcing them to watch me unboxing these have been sitting in my room for the past oh your room well throughout it's christmas oh this is so exciting i've wanted to open these so bad look at that do you work out i do work at the food pantry i open a lot of boxes sunscreen very usually packaged it is it's in french okay we've got a cream another cream revival cream a deep cleansing pad clean formula we'll have a little oh we'll have a little spa oh my gosh yes we have a spanish yeah okay i think this i bought for myself watch your hands remove sage's finger really close i just bought a what a 1018 sony lens for vlogging um what is the f-stop four i believe but actually this smells so good really yeah i just smelled the hummus okay well this is going to be a controversial statement but i love james charles why don't you feel like most people can i watch uh i don't know all these videos i don't watch dude strong i've never seen wow this is deodorant i told you this before you gave me organic deodorant once and it was the only deodorant i took on a road trip and i smelled for five days i'm sure he's into it okay how did you guys enjoy that let's see a little it feels like christmas and now we're gonna clean up the beach mhm ladies doing good it felt so good now don't be afraid to be afraid my darling cause these days how y'all feeling about in and out hungry ready so excited i've been out in probably two months and i want to save i miss we're fulfilling all the california i'm gonna put my face in the animal fried dish two three our dearest elena hit 500 000 subscribers she won't celebrate herself she's too humble i know she's too humble so we came this weekend we're having a girls weekend we came equipped with party hats and we're having a full celebration tape to the wall 500k 500k you need watching queer eyes our little three little cakes are ready they actually like big muffins they actually turned out pretty good they did we're gonna shave off the tops try to make a three-layer cake and we're gonna decorate while i watch where it's gonna be great are i'm i'm actually crying that scary i don't know hi good morning just had a lovely little breakfast cute little coffee walk with the fam my brother is actually here this morning too which is really lovely it's definitely been one of the quarantine perks is getting to see family and spend so much time with them that i definitely would not get otherwise we've all been playing it safe and we're gonna go to the beach today surf a little bit let's go to the beach ladies we tried our best we all got a few if you're tall and you tried surfing let me know because papers are quite human i just feel like i'm all limbs trying to pop up papers have a lot of limbs yeah where's five three five three i'm married hello with that golden hour glow my brother sister and sister-in-law left probably yeah a couple hours now it's been nice to just have some chill time and i just have the evening to myself i think i might just walk down the beach for sunset and bring like dinner down there the beaches here are fully open and everyone is like spaced out and social distancing and have been just like such an integral part to my mental health while here and then probably we'll watch a little netflix tonight tell me don't