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♪ I'm Colleen ♪
- [Colleen Voiceover]
My boyfriend at the time
told me they weren't funny.
- September 1st.
Hello everybody.
It's September 1st and
we're still in a pandemic.
What the actual--
(beep)
Today I am eating my passion fruit
Greek yogurt for breakfast.
I'm about to have a phone
meeting with the company.
I'm trying to set up another RV trip.
Because this month is
a very exciting month.
We are having Jacob's birthday in a week.
My nephew, Jacob,
he asked to have his birthday party here.
He wants to have a slumber
party slash Thanksgiving.
He wants to celebrate
Thanksgiving, first birthday.
It's my dad's birthday this month.
It's Eric's birthday this month.
Eric and I are trying
to go on a couple little
vacays this month on RV camping trips,
safely social distancing,
not around other people.
Don't you worry.
The only thing that happened today
that is exciting,
and also a little frustrating,
but mostly exciting,
is my couch from Living
Spaces finally arrived.
It was supposed to go
in my office upstairs,
but we've decided to keep
it in this room over here.
It's like a sandy color couch.
We'll show you in a minute,
but if you guys watch the vlogs,
you might've remembered me
kind of ranting about this.
Not to be a Karen, but
I ordered this simple,
white looking couch on Living Spaces.
I'm not trying to hit on Living Spaces.
My personal experience
with them was not good,
but I know a lot of people who've had
great experiences with Living Spaces.
So this is not a review
on them as a whole.
It's just my personal experience.
I ordered a couch online
and it said it would get
here in four to six weeks.
After four to six weeks passed,
I hadn't heard anything.
We called and they were
extremely rude on the phone.
And were like, "It's being made."
Acting so sassy to me and Cory.
And we're like, "Okay, thank you."
And then a few more weeks
passed and we called again.
We're like, "Is it ready yet?
"It was supposed to be
done in four to six weeks.
"It's way past that."
And they're like,
"Well, it looks like it's not made yet."
And we're like, "Okay,
when's it gonna be made?"
"Well, it's being made."
"Okay. Do we know when
it's going to be done?"
And they were just like
super rude on the phone.
I'm not being dramatic.
I'm not being sarcastic.
Cory can vouch for me.
He talked to them more than I did.
And they were so rude
every time on the phone.
And they were like,
"We'll give you a call.
"You, you stop calling us.
"We'll call you.
"We'll call you in two days."
Never heard from them.
A week later, we called them again.
"Well, we'll call you."
And they never called us.
Eventually it had been three months
since I ordered it,
or something like that, like more.
It'd been a really long time.
And so Cory called them again, was like,
"We're just checking on this couch again.
"You guys said you'd call, you never did."
And they were like, "It's ready.
"Why didn't you call?"
(laughing)
So frustrating!
He was like, "You told
us, you would call us."
And they were like,
"Well, it's been ready.
"You were supposed to call
us and schedule a pick up."
(laughing)
Anyway, it's here now.
All is, well.
Just goes to show
you don't have to be
a rude Karen to people
if things don't go your way.
'Cause we were nice the whole time,
even though they were not very nice to us.
Again, I know people--
Cory has worked with Living Spaces before
and he loved them.
He loved working with him.
I have a lot of friends
who love the company.
It just so happened that
the few people we caught on the phone
were not very helpful.
But we got the couch.
We didn't have to be rude
Karen's and demand anything.
After waiting for months,
it did eventually come and
all is well with the world.
It's over there and it's nice.
I like it better than the
other one that was there.
But now it doesn't match the coffee table.
First world problems.
Who cares, it's not a big deal.
No one comes to my house
'cause the quarantine.
I'm gonna eat my yogurt.
I'm also going to paint a tractor.
Wait, no a dump truck.
No a bulldozer.
That's what he wanted.
And painting a bulldozer on the plate
that Flynn painted yesterday.
So we're sending this to the kiln
at the local Color Me Mine.
But when he was painting it,
he painted the whole background
and he kept getting frustrated.
Like ,"Bulldozer!"
And then he'd paint something
and then he'd be like, "Bulldozer!"
I could tell he was trying
to paint a bulldozer
and was frustrated that
it didn't look like one.
I'm painting a bulldozer on it now.
So when it comes back from the kiln,
he'll be like, "Oh look, I did do it."
Anyway, there's a carrot on the floor.
I'm going to go.
We are having, hold it like this.
Hold it like this.
Now take a bite.
He likes to flip his spoon upside down
when he puts it in his mouth,
which usually results in it
being all over his tummy.
Oh no, that's on the grass.
We're going to leave that on the grass.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
So far today I've had
a lot of business calls
talking to Anthony about
some new fun merch designs, hopefully.
Or eventually.
I talked to this company about possibly
doing an RV trip, which
would be really fun.
I bought a bunch of baby-baby food
for when Lukey comes to visit.
My nephew.
And this is bananas.
Literally just banana puree.
He loves it.
Yummy.
You're all done?
He loves it.
I got a bunch of stains on
my California hoodie today.
I have a few so it's okay.
Since it's white and has stains on it,
they're very noticeable.
But if I dye it another color,
maybe they won't be as noticeable.
I'm going to dye it purple.
Flynn, you want to help me?
Can you put this in the bucket?
Put it in the bucket.
Good job.
- Pretty!
- [Colleen] Now we got to get a spoon
and stir it up.
She's dying.
I'm gonna let her sit and
soak in there for a little bit
and we'll see how it turns out.
Another thing I did today
was I had a phone meeting
with my nephew, Jacob,
because he wanted to have
his birthday party here.
We had a meeting talking
about what it was going to be
and what he wants.
He wants a Lego Hamilton
Thanksgiving themed party.
So we're going to eat a
full Thanksgiving dinner
without the Turkey.
He wants hams of Turkey,
but everything else,
he wants to be like Thanksgiving dinner
with the whole family.
He wants to play games.
But he wants it to be Legos themed
and Hamilton themed.
I don't quite know how
to decorate for that.
So I feel like I'll just put
up some streamers and they'll
just tell each other
it's Lego Hamilton theme.
But I'm very excited to see my family.
It's supposed to get blazing hot here.
This weekend is supposed
to get up to 107 degrees
and it's been so hot.
It's cool right now, but
this is our last day of cool.
Tomorrow's supposed to start going back up
into like the 80s, high 80s and the 90s.
And by the weekend it's gonna
be in the hundreds, so...
(screeching)
All right, we went on
a little family walk,
but we didn't film it.
However, I filmed my family
walk yesterday on my phone
and I forgot to put it in the vlog.
And it was really cute footage
because we got to see a
bulldozer excavator thingy up close
and Flynn lost his mind.
Here's that footage.
Oh my gosh, he construction truck
is on this side of the fence today.
Flynn, you see the truck?
Do you see the truck?
Look!
See it?
(giggling)
I don't think he realizes it yet.
- Look, it's a excavator.
You see it?
- What is it?
- [Cory] Go, let's go get it!
Come on!
- Bulldozer!
Rock, it's a rock!
- [Colleen] See a rock?
Crazy rock.
- [Cory] Excavator and dump truck
and a big truck!
(babbling)
- [Colleen] Look at this!
Oh, it's a big one, huh?
(exclaiming)
(laughing)
You need to go up, up, up.
You guys have been--
(excited babbling)
(cheering)
You guys have been watching
us come to this park
and this area is always gated off
and full of bulldozers,
excavators, all this type of stuff.
You've watched Flynn freak out over this
for like five months.
And for the first time ever,
it's not behind a gate
and he could go up to it.
He's so excited.
This is the most glorious day.
It's so exciting!
Flynn, this is the best day ever!
(excited babbling)
What do you think?
- Big truck!
- Big truck!
What is it?
(babbles)
It's a excavator!
Dance, dance, dance your body!
Dance, dance, dance your body!
Dance, dance, dance your body!
Dance about the construction truck!
Dance, dance, dance!
- The bulldozer.
- Bulldozer, bulldozer.
I guess it is.
I don't know what kind of truck this is
'cause that is bulldozer part of it.
I don't know what this is called.
That's a big "dar dar", huh?
Is this the best day of your life?
Isn't he cute?
I just got my sweater out of the wash.
(gasps)
It's cute!
I love it.
It's kind of like texturey.
I don't know if you can tell,
but it's like not fully purple.
It's kind of blotchy purple,
which I'm living for.
I love this.
(gasps)
(quiet screeching)
This is cute.
Purple dreams.
I finally painted my bowl.
I don't wanna take it off this thing.
Rainbow, but it looks like a mess
but whatever.
And the inside it's gonna be black.
I'm excited to see what it looks like
when it's done at the kiln.
Oh my God, it looks so bad in light.
I was doing it in the dark,
watching "Forensic Files"
and now that I see it in light, I'm like,
"Oops, that looks like garbage."
Oh my God, you guys look.
Oh my God.
First of all, I'm living for this sweater.
But look, it's the couch.
It's back in my office!
I'm so excited!
I'm so happy to have a couch
back in here, you have no idea.
Cory and I have been like,
we obviously work in here every day
and we have to switch off
who's on the computer
depending on what part of the
day we're doing
and what work each one of us is doing.
And we didn't have any
couch or anything in here
for literally three, four months.
And so we'd have to switch
up sitting on the floor,
which is fine because,
but it's like not comfortable
to sit on the floor for hours.
And so this is just, it's just glorious.
It's so nice to have a couch in here.
I am so happy.
I started doing some planning
for Jakey's birthday in a week,
which I'm very excited about.
I'm also starting to
plan this next vacation,
which is happening this month.
"Vacation" RV, camping trip.
I'm excited for the things
that are about to happen this month.
I want to upload a Miranda video tomorrow,
so I need to get some work done on that.
And I'll see you guys in a little bit.
Ola, everybody.
I'm uploading the Miranda video now.
Please go check it out
if you haven't seen it.
Miranda is canceling James Charles.
I FaceTime him in the video
and tell him he's canceled and
why he's canceled.
It was really fun to make.
I love James and
you should definitely go check it out.
If you have the time today.
It would make me really, really happy
if you all go like and comment
on the new Miranda video.
I just found an old book I wrote.
When I was in kindergarten
and first grade,
I wanted to be an author
and I would write these books.
My camera died.
It's back on. Hello.
When I was in kindergarten, first grade,
I wanted to be an author
and I just found one of the books
that I wrote in kindergarten
and it's called "Pop-Up Animals".
Warning. I was not a good author
when I was in kindergarten.
I know it's hard to
believe, but I was not.
I think I might have shown these
in an old vlog once before.
"Pop-Up Animals", and I drew a cat.
I illustrated these as well.
This is the first pop-up.
It's a snake.
This snack is slitherin' around the rack.
The baney is sticking he at goal hers.
And it has pop-up ears.
And that's as far as I got in this book.
I was really talented.
But anyway, I wrote tons
of these as a little kid.
I really--
Oh, there's oh my God,
a bunch just fell out of my drawer.
(gasps)
I think these were like
stuck in the drawer or something and--
"Me and My Family".
And this one's called "The Butterfly".
I would make these all the time.
Oh my God, I was such
a good artist as well.
Anyway,
I thought that was fun to go
through and read those tonight.
Maybe someday I'll sit down
and read them all to you guys,
but right now I'm going to go to bed.
I'm really tired.
I'm gonna to go to sleep.
You know what else just fell
out of my freaking drawer?
Is pictures of me
performing with my family
at the Christmas show I do every year.
This is the first year
I'm not doing a Christmas
show in a long time.
I'm so sad.
I love performing and I loved touring
and I really hope I get
to tour again someday.
We'll see.
I really miss it.
I'm gonna try to get some sleep tonight.
I love you guys very much
and thank you for watching.
And I will see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
(upbeat music)
