- Good morning everybody.
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So today's video is gonna
be a little bit different.
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As you can tell, I'm holding a camera.
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And I'm gonna attempt at vlogging.
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So this was week was
pretty stressful for me.
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I don't know if it was just
because I was extra busy.
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Or because I'm you know
creating different content,
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and trying different things like this.
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But, I know that after a
really long, busy week,
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I like to take some time for myself,
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and so I plan to have
Saturday completely free.
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If any of you know, I'm looking back,
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this will probably come out next week.
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But looking back on last week, you know,
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I didn't have a live stream on Saturday,
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and that was, you know, by design,
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because I knew that I kind
of needed a little break.
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To just have like a self-care day.
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So I'm gonna walk you through
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what I do to take care of myself.
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Cause I know a lot of you ask about it.
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And I think rather than just telling you,
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I'm gonna show you.
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The most important thing
to me when I'm gonna
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go out and have a day on my own,
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is that I'm comfortable, right?
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So, I'm putting on some
of my favorite Nike shoes.
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That I bought before my trip
to Scotland all that time ago.
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And they are still some of my faves.
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And I've got my cozy pants.
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And I got one of my favorite sweatshirts.
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It's actually one of the
best purchases I ever made.
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It was from a Nordstrom sale.
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It was like this Aloe sweatshirt,
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but it's got the thumb holes, you guys.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Hey everybody, so since
I'm starting off my day
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in my cozy clothes, I'm
gonna grab some coffee.
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Cause y'all know how much I love coffee.
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And I know a lot of you
coffee snobs yourself
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will be like "how come
you're drinking it cold?"
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I've been walking around.
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Lately, you know things have
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just been a little stressful for me.
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And I think it has to do
with a couple of things.
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One being like financial stress,
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and making sure that I make enough money.
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Cause for all of you who don't know,
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you know I paid for all of my own school.
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And I pay about $1100 bucks
a month in student loans.
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It's just been really stressful.
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And so, I haven't really
been taking time for myself.
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I've been instead spending time worrying
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about those types of things,
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and making sure I'm doing enough work,
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and answering enough emails,
and creating enough content.
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And making thing exciting.
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And I found that I needed to
put more back into myself.
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And so something that I'm gonna make
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a concerted effort to do
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is to schedule self-care days.
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Where I do things just for me,
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just because I want to.
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And I encourage you to do the same.
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Carve out some time.
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Even if it's not a full day.
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If it's a few hours here and there.
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and it really helps us,
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you know fill our own bucket
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before we go trying to fill others.
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And so, as part of that
something that I do
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for when I take days for myself,
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is that I don't have a set schedule.
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I don't even have anything
that I have to do.
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I don't have anything
that needs to get done.
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Because then that wouldn't be self-care.
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So for today, I'm just
kind a roaming around.
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I'm walking around my
city in parts that I like.
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I'm gonna shop for some cozy clothes,
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cause those make me happy.
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I've got my coffee.
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I've got my nice music.
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And I got my best friend Sean.
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And then we'll probably
grab something to eat,
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because that's part of
taking care of yourself too.
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So anyways, that's just a little bit
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about what's going on today.
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Oh, this is the one.
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Goji Tarocco Orange.
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Thanks for letting us,
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I have a mental health YouTube channel.
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So I'm doing like this self-care day.
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- Oh.
- So we were kind of walking
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along and I needed to get
- How
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- scents before you closed.
- nice.
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- I was like, we need
candles for the house,
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and this is my favorite store. (laughs)
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Thanks for always coming in.
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- Yeah, of course, of course.
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- I could use mental health candles,
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and little ceremony
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- Yeah
- around them.
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- Like the act of pulling them out and,
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lighting them
- Exactly.
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and even picking them
- Exactly.
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- Yeah, I totally agree.
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Oh my gosh, you guys.
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I think it was made for us.
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It's got a squirrel on it.
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Oh, and it smells amazing.
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Oh, it does smell good.
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It's like a whole little squirrel.
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Another thing I like
to do is take my coffee
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somewhere where I can sit and I can relax.
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And I can you know just
enjoy the outdoors.
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I'm really fortunate enough to
live in Southern California.
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And live by the water.
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And I know it's more
expensive to live here,
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but I really think it's important for my
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mental health and my well being,
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to be somewhere where
I can be outside a lot.
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And I can enjoy all the sights.
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And I can go to the ocean.
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Sean and I thought about moving
farther inland a while back.
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And he was like, "no I think it's good
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"for me to be near the ocean."
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And I have to agree.
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Look at how beautiful it is today.
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Something that I actually
love about my city
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is how all of the restaurants
aren't really chains.
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Most of them are owned by local people.
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And we get to know the owners.
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And one of my favorite
places is called Independent.
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And they are super nice to us.
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And so Sean and I walk down on weekends.
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Grab some food, grab a cocktail,
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and just enjoy ourselves.
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Because I find that I don't like to cook.
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And I find it really stressful.
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And so it's actually really nice,
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and such a luxury to be able to go out,
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and get some amazing food at local place
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where we kind of know the people.
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And it feels like a community.
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Remember how I mentioned
in the last live stream,
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how important it was that you wear clothes
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that not only make you feel amazing,
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but also that feel good on you?
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And so I think it's
really important to buy
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clothes that are comfortable.
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And I find I spend a lot of
time at home in my pajamas.
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So part of what I'm trying
to do is like buy clothing
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that is not only cozy so
I can wear it at home,
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but also things that I can take out.
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The main reason I wanted to do this today,
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and kind of just show how
I take care of myself.
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Is because I found that we're
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are pulled in so many directions in life.
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And we often have so
many responsibilities.
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Whether it be work, or school.
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And we put into those relationships.
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And I think it's really
important we take time,
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to put into our most
important relationship.
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The one we have with ourselves.
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So many of you know.
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- [Sean] Oh, I didn't know you
were gonna talk right here.
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- I'll just talk and
then do it real quick.
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We can always have that if we need it,
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and then we can just cut it, right?
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If find talking to it is the best.
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Many of you if you follow
me on social media at all,
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know how much I love a good face mask.
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And I really like Origins.
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This is one of my favorite brands is,
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because it's organic,
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and I can feel good
about that fact that it's
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And so today we're gonna
try the original skin mask.
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I'm gonna put that on,
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and then I'm just gonna relax for a bit.
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Which is the best way to unwind,
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I find after a stressful day.
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And maybe with a glass of wine, who knows?
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- [Sean] Do you want me to stop filming?
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- No, I think that's it.
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You all know how much I love to color.
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And I've done it since I was a child.
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And the thing about it is because
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I don't want to mess it up,
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I don't wanna go outside the lines,
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And I wanna pick the right color,
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I literally can't think
about anything else.
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So if I'm stressed out
or feeling maxed out,
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I just take 15, 20 minutes
and color for a bit.
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Something about feeling
the pencil and the paper
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it's just so soothing.
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And you all have sent me such
wonderful coloring books.
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And I work on them all progressively.
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And it's just a great tool to relax.
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So we put so much into other relationships
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that we have with people,
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and I really think it's
important we put back into,
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