😂🤣 This is hilarious because this is what life has become. And yes to adding that we must remember to make the bed! Even though I may have missed a day or two. Lol (*as I stare at the unmade bed)
I am so happy to hear that I am not the only one. I am trying to clean and organize some of the rooms in my house, but this is for the birds. My favorite part of the day is sleeping because I get to be active and normal in my dreams. -_-
I love everything about this: The unclipped mic, the call and response, the way you drew this into the bigger picture. You’re content is exactly what I needed right now 😌
I can’t believe you just let that slide..... you said: your 2020 mantra was “get my hands dirty” ..... but 2020 said “how about the opposite?” Washing hands 10 times a day.
At least your tree is inside. One house in my neighborhood still has the carcass of a tattered ass wreath on the door that's been there since November. It's already the second half of the year, might as well just leave the tree up now. It'll be August in a minute, then Labor Day, then Halloween, then time to put the thing up again.
Same I wanted to step up my wardrobe and get in the gym but the way this pandemic is set up and businesses are closing left and right and unemployment on the horizon for so many and relief benefits being cut out of that unemployment...I may have to stick to the jeans and graphic Tees I’m used to until this all blows over.
I Marie Kondo-ed my closet in December and was so excited to step up my game with what I already had. Well, now I'm quarantining in a different state, with four t-shirts and two shorts, because my extended weekend at my parents' has no return flight in sight. It has been five months. Yay.
I scrapped the goals in my planner for these: actually cleanse your scalp this month (with shampoo).... remember to change out of pjs before work (into nicer pjs) .... stop asking Max (my cat) for advice he can’t talk back to you. 🤷🏾♀️ it’s a good start 😂😭
Evelyn: “Remember having dreams?” Me: proceeds to laughing hysterically and also like the video at the same time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am amongst my own, I love it here!! 💛
I cut my losses in April and started to look at my wins: I did not loose my job, my parents are still healthy and did not loose their jobs. I can sleep more and my mind is free to roam, because I have an empty schedule 😂. I have my faith and I trust in my Creator. I will turn 34 and boy my life looks the same like 29 (no hubby, not even a date, no kids) , but so does my face so it's 🆗☺️
I was holding on to my 2020 goals for dear life; until a friend said “girl maybe should put that stuff on hold and go to therapy.” So now I’m in therapy🤷🏽♀️
Wow sounds like a really good and intuitive friend! She saw what you needed and make their message clear. A keeper friend for sure. Just make sure that you check on them too, sometimes those friends need us more than we realize.
My 2020 Goals: * Graduate and land a new fabulous job * Step up my image / personal * Pay off debts * Go on a luxurious vacation My 2020 Reality: * Graduate, but then lose my current job to COVID-19 * Stuck at home in my faded PJs and uncombed hair * File for unemployment to barely pay current bills * Driving fake 'day trips' just to get out the house
Currently in day 7 of coronavirus. No longer feel like I'm gonna die and appreciative of the entertainment that you are providing right now. God bless ya.
My planner is ashy and abandoned! My boss asked about my career goals yesterday and I laughed. I’m just trying to minimize stress, wash my hands, and make it to work (my desk in the living room) on time each day 🤷🏽♀️
2020 was the one year I actually got to accomplishing my goals 😂 I got the job and salary I wanted, I finally got braces, will be getting a new car, and because I’m working from home I can save to buy a home next year. I am so grateful for the position I landed in this year despite everything that’s been going on. To God be the glory🙏🏾
I wanted to make my own hand sanitizer when they were sold out. So I bought 100 percent proof rum as I had all the other ingredients but somehow the rum didn't end up as sanitizer if you know what I mean. The intention was there though.
I just looked at my 2020 goals list and the fact that one was legit "stop isolating" lmao the universe had other plans. Now one thing I am proud of is that I paid off my credit debt last week! Now that was technically a 2019 goal that got pushed back 💀💀💀 but chile we here! I also wanted to get back into art and reading, I bought the supplies but still nothing, but I did finish 1 book (which is more than last year 😭😭). Finally got a stationary bike, cuz I've not been moving lmao ( i was breathing a little too hard going up stairs) - I've actually been able to stick to a schedule these past weeks! It only took until turning 25, but we did it!
My best friend has started a business, taught two online classes, taken three classes online, gotten her license to grow cannabis, and she is on her way to moving to a different state.... All while I have lost a car in an accident, and held on to a job that doesn't want me but desperately needs me🤦🏾I will not be hard on myself though! I have a couple of business ideas I am working on that I am hopeful about. Hey!! I am still here!! I appreciate that!!
“And then you remember that Miami is in Florida.” .... When I say that I had an ol NASTY southern auntie cackle😂😂😂😂😂 I felt that in my soul. And can we have a silent vigil for the summer birthdays? I really thought I was gonna be on somebody’s beach in a thong bikini on 8/12; Mother Earth hit us with a smooth “ WHO SAID DAT?! “ 😂😂😂😂😩😩😩😩😩😩... Is there an ice cream flavor that helps you cope with life? I’m struggling out’chea! 😩
I quit my job in the latter half of 2019 to spend a year traveling before figuring out a new career that I wanted to do rather than just get a paycheck, sooo I’m 😂 right there with you. It’s been a rough day. Thank you for making me laugh
ME TOO! My (now ex) fiance dumped me in the middle of quarantine, I was supposed to be moved to Europe (he's French) and married by now, and working in a better job that I can actually grow in. Now I'm single, was laid off but came back to an even worse job situation, and stuck in America. I really thought 2020 would finally be my best year yet lol
lolllll the moment where you realized you expected to be around more people, I have never been less motivated to dress myself in my LIFE. Also - this newsletter needs to exist, THOSE DOODLES - SO. GOOD.
As a unit, my older sister and I, we decided the mantra this year was going to be "AS IS" About accepting things as they are. It was also built on " I'm not going back and forth with people" which served us well in 2019. It was also kind of related to our interactions with our mom who was going through a long term illness and was basically bedridden. She died about a month ago. But AS IS has been predictive (I don't think that's a word but) of the kind of attitude to take about all this, Shit show that it is. I also said I was going to stop being "old and washed" and go out more, so there's that too. But with the online classes seeing my kids has kind of reenergized me. I'm very focused on working from home and trying to hone these online experiences for the students I teach.
It dawned on me that... Girl! You've been working full-time, going to school, hustling on the side for hella years. It's ok to sit down; Take a minute and appreciate how far you've come and relax into who you currently are and who you want to become. This "Covid-break" is an opportunity to reinvigorate who we are. Whether its by being 'lazy' and nurturing or by being extremely productive or just by enjoying nature and our loved ones. Love the video... We will continue to strive!
Here in 2022 - still hits. Thank you for creating this experience for the world, Evelyn. Coming back and remembering this time and feeling the brilliance and ache of your wisdoms gives my spirit a small ledge of solace in my brokenheartedness.
1. Start getting out there in the dating world. 2. Attend 75% of the events I get invited to. 3. Look presentable 5 days out of the week. 4. Start hobbies. 🤣🤣 Only number 4 happened. lol
"Why strive? Why?" So real. The flexibility one is so real. I tried yoga and that ish is hard. That laugh at dreams and looking at my vision board was like look at that hope lol
We make plans and God laughs 😅😅 This has been an interesting year. I actually doubled down on my UA-cam channel because everything else fell by the way side. We have to find that silver lining. I turned 40 last month and I wanted to spend my 40th birthday in Paris 😏 Oh well. Happy 30th!! Enjoy 😉
I’m turning 40 in September (God willing) and I was supposed to go on a Mediterranean cruise. I never “did it big” for a milestone birthday before, and I was determined that this was my year to do it. Oh well indeed.
actually this weird UNPRECEDENTED situation pushed me into a place I havent been before and shifted my thinking. It took some time but I started really progressing in my personal goals (fixing my relationship with food, taking care of my health, learning spanish, being more organized, learning from people around me, letting things work because thats the only way they will, if i let them). hadnt it been for the pandemic i wouldn't have ended up with the people i am with now, and they are one of the best things that have ever happened to me. i got incredibly lucky during this time and i'm crazy grateful for that.
2020 goals: Stop being a homebody, Start dating, Go to events! 😂😂😂 Welp, I spent most of my energy watching UA-cam videos, Netflix documentaries, reading more books, and working on my artistic skills. The biggest lesson I learned in 2020 is having self control and motivation to stay productive. 😂
Evelyn, you are consistently the funniest person I am subscribed to on youtube. thank you for this laugh, thank you for continuing to create😭 we grateful. also WHY STRIVE is a whole word !!!
I feel like this video has given me permission to give myself grace at how things have just not gone to plan, and it makes me feel peace. Thanks cousin
This whole video is SUCH a mood 😂 wincing at the thought of having to do what you'll say you'll do, so me. That's why I don't write things down, it makes the self sabotage less painful
My dry erase calendar has an inspirational quote and just says "Life is like a bicycle, to stay balanced, you have to keep moving forward" That's all I use the calendar for. To help me stay sane (a little). Lol
Cousin, I was laughing and commiserating with you all the way but when you said what you said about STRIVING (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!) I pointed at you on my phone and yelled SO LOUD, I startled myself (like did you just yell [in solidarity] with Evelyn like she could hear you?) I was in the amen corner like little country church with no A/C, you hear me? Evelyn, you are totally inspiring. Dang, I wish that had been one of your goals. Because you are killin’ the INSPIRATION game!!! Keep On Keeping On. I wanna say, “Keep Striving” but it has negative connotations for me and I literally can’t bring myself to say it. Thanks for the reminder to do as my late Mom would ALWAYS say, “ If Plan A doesn’t work go to Plan Band if Plan B doesn’t work go to Plan C until you exhaust the whole alphabet then go to Plan AA” (I still hear her voice) I too am as inflexible as they come. “We gon be alright”, as the song says. Love you lots, Cousin and thank you for posting A1 quality content (as always)! Muah!
YES AT BEING PHYSICALLY INFLEXIBLE GIRLS. I try every day, and every time I stretch, my hamstrings seem to tighten even more. I've always been stiff, and I think I always will be. People say I'm uptight, but in reality, I was born to be uptight.
“But then you remember that mIAmI iS iN fLORidA” 🤣 I’m not gonna lie. I felt that in my soul 😭 the upper 48 should just cut off us at GA and AL and go on without us😭
Internet cousin, you held the mic up to the camera and I laughed into it so hard. This video has been way too real! Here are a few of the goals I added to my vision board in January that have since been cancelled: -travel to Australia -visit friends who live far away from me in different states -hang out more frequently with local friends I haven't seen in a while -go to one museum per month Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Just remember to be gentle with yourself during these crazy times. Set goals, absolutely. But be flexible with the timelines/deadlines - because God only knows what else 2020 is going to throw at us. 🙏🏽💓☺️ Sending you positive vibes!
This was a delight to watch .. I haven’t cackled like this in a while 😂😂😂😂😂 the only goals I have is just shower everyday, do my step and yoga challenge and basically surviving 2020.
I feel like there are phases to being quarantined/working from home. (WARNING: long comment) They are as follows: 1. Relief: You don't have to wake up early, take off your pajamas, or get kid(s) ready for school, drive to work, or talk to other humans in real life. This phase is fleeting because one day you wake up and realize your home is in shambles. 2. Productivity: With all this extra time (and more hands on deck) you can tackle anything, including the mounting backlog of responsibilities caused by your torpor. During this phase, you set a morning alarm, get fully dressed including shoes, regularly perform basic hygiene, and maybe do something with your hair. You'll start encouraging the other members of your household to do the same. After all, we're a team! The proof is in the pudding. Housekeeping - done. Home improvements - Done! Enrichment activities with kids - DONE! Passion project(s) - started.... 3. Desperation: At this point, the wheels haven't fallen off the bus, but you can definitely feel them wobbling. You can't keep up with the pace you've set in the last phase so you gradually start giving up on doing anything. You may revert back to a "low manipulation" approach to beauty. Basic hygiene will usually be done, but only if you feel like it. What are the kids doing? Don't know, but they're probably fine. Binge watching may begin in this phase. You can be sure you are in the "desperate" state when the compulsion to go into the general population overwhelms you. You convince yourself that there is something, a soup ingredient or lawn fertilizer or art supply, that simply cannot be procured online. You believe you must brave the pandemic and public foolery to acquire the item. Ask a trusted friend or relative to help you during this difficult time...but probably remotely. 4. Contentment: The fourth phase offers a bittersweet resolution wherein you accept your circumstances, but only because misery loves company and you have LOTS of it. The good news is, by this point you're able to muster enough energy to get dressed enough to work remotely and take pretty OK care of your beauty and hygiene requirements at a minimal level. Also, you forgive yourself more readily for not cooking every single meal and leaving dirty dishes in the sink.
All I wanted was to go to the petting zoo with my close friends for my 30th (don't judge me, sometimes the older you get the more childish you feel like you can let yourself be!) and even that was dashed.
I also wanted to take a trip for my 30th birthday. Instead, I had a "happy hour" on House Party. Oh, and I wanted to get married this year. 😂😂😂 Postponed. Goodbye deposits! 💰 Can we just skip to 2021 already?
My 50th birthday is in December. To celebrate, I've been planning a trip to Istria, Croatia for the last five years. . .womp, womp. That said, nothing like a pandemic to park one's backside into some serious self contemplation and reevaluation. What you said about building a new world and moving forward together really resonates! Ty for making this video!
My friend sent this to me and said this is so me. Now I watch it and I have a headache from laughing... Then we both said at thesame time that you are my spirit animal.. I can't help it but you feel like I am looking myself in the mirror... Thank you for cheering me up
Honestly Evelyn you could have made this video with the same title, make it 3 hours long, and proceed to just laugh the entire 3 hours... and my soul would have agreed with every second of it. That's the kind of year it's been.
What are we trying to do?! .. My goal is to continue working towards completing my Masters in Therapeutic Counselling degree. everyone keeps telling me once all this is over I will have lots of work to do. There is so much healing and grief that needs to be done as a result of 2020... we need to continue working towards bettering our selves while finding ways to help society, communities and individuals in being healthy and content. Bless you and your work Evelyn!
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1. I adore your channel. So thank you for your content! 2. I actually am surprised I have been ok? on my goals??? I mainly wanted to give myself time to work on myself and loving myself and finding some inner strength......AND I MEANNNNNNNNN I think I have had the time. And I have been really trying to do that. I have words like..." be present (aint no time but the...), be strong, we rise by lifting others" etc...so everything is JUST vague enough that I'm like kinda doing it! SO I'm sending you that love and strength too!!
WELP!
lemme know: should i keep striving or give up?
Keep striving 🤷🏾♀️
Strive strive lol
Strive! But make it realistic (insert tyra banks meme lol)
Keep striving. Try something at least once a week
Keep going! We got this!
May I sketch you?
My goals deadass shifted from career and education to getting out of bed and doing dishes 🤦🏾♀️
Lwazi Rose Mine is to literally make my bed everyday 😫😫😫
you doing all that? getting out of bed AND dishes? lol.
you probably out here doing laundry, too. smh
Omg same, but today the only thing I could do was getting out of bed and bath, only to get back in bed.
😂🤣 This is hilarious because this is what life has become. And yes to adding that we must remember to make the bed! Even though I may have missed a day or two. Lol (*as I stare at the unmade bed)
I am so happy to hear that I am not the only one. I am trying to clean and organize some of the rooms in my house, but this is for the birds. My favorite part of the day is sleeping because I get to be active and normal in my dreams. -_-
Original goal: Get a six-pack
Updated goal: Put down the six pack
I felt that
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
😌😂😂😂😂
😭😭😭
Co signed
"Get your hands dirty" ended up not being the best mantra for 2020...
#truth
Lol!! Right! It should have been " Thoroughly wash your hands with hot water and soap for 20 seconds or more!"
@@casandratappin6349 🤣
😂😂😂
I love everything about this: The unclipped mic, the call and response, the way you drew this into the bigger picture. You’re content is exactly what I needed right now 😌
I can’t believe you just let that slide..... you said: your 2020 mantra was “get my hands dirty” ..... but 2020 said “how about the opposite?” Washing hands 10 times a day.
My Christmas tree is still up in the corner. You’re fine, lol.
Same, and my kids put on and take off decorations at their leisure 🤷🏾♀️ whateva keeps them happy and me sane!
At least your tree is inside. One house in my neighborhood still has the carcass of a tattered ass wreath on the door that's been there since November.
It's already the second half of the year, might as well just leave the tree up now. It'll be August in a minute, then Labor Day, then Halloween, then time to put the thing up again.
@@tltinatl I am weak, you hear me😂😂😂
best year to do that cuz no one's coming over to judge you. I LOVE Christmas.
Mine is too. I’ve named her Sheila.
My favorite is category is personal goals -- "I wanted to be cute." Girl, you are all of us.
This volume inside of this comment is astronomical 🤣👏🏾
Right! This was one of mine too, along with join water aerobics. Womp womp 😂😭
Same I wanted to step up my wardrobe and get in the gym but the way this pandemic is set up and businesses are closing left and right and unemployment on the horizon for so many and relief benefits being cut out of that unemployment...I may have to stick to the jeans and graphic Tees I’m used to until this all blows over.
I Marie Kondo-ed my closet in December and was so excited to step up my game with what I already had. Well, now I'm quarantining in a different state, with four t-shirts and two shorts, because my extended weekend at my parents' has no return flight in sight.
It has been five months. Yay.
I'm stuck on improving my hair game and 3.5 cuts later...🤦🏾♀️
I scrapped the goals in my planner for these: actually cleanse your scalp this month (with shampoo).... remember to change out of pjs before work (into nicer pjs) .... stop asking Max (my cat) for advice he can’t talk back to you. 🤷🏾♀️ it’s a good start 😂😭
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 the PJs and the cat advice
haa poor max! lol that took me out
The abruptness I’m how you started this 😂😂😂😂 “you remember havinnn dreammmmss” 💀
GlamorousWallflower I felt personally attacked
Right!!! 2 seconds in and I was CACKLING
That took me out 😂😂😂😂
I was cracking up with her!
Dead
Evelyn: “Remember having dreams?”
Me: proceeds to laughing hysterically and also like the video at the same time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am amongst my own, I love it here!! 💛
Same! I found my tribe 🤣🤣🤣
Ironically my 2020 goal was to get out of the house more, do things and make a community of friends...-____-
Lol so was mine 🤣, now I see people and turn the other way.
That was mines.
@@Lady9tails 🤣
But seriously, same 😂
Mine too!! I signed up for a glass blowing class, flute lessons, kick Boxing classes, and had concerts on my calendar.... Yeah and right!!!
same..... .-. the week before quarantine I took rockclimbing lessons so I could belay at the gym.... I don't remember a lick of what I learned 😭
I cut my losses in April and started to look at my wins: I did not loose my job, my parents are still healthy and did not loose their jobs. I can sleep more and my mind is free to roam, because I have an empty schedule 😂. I have my faith and I trust in my Creator. I will turn 34 and boy my life looks the same like 29 (no hubby, not even a date, no kids) , but so does my face so it's 🆗☺️
Oh girl. Have you been reading my mind? The only difference between us two is that I just turned 32 last Saturday.
I was holding on to my 2020 goals for dear life; until a friend said “girl maybe should put that stuff on hold and go to therapy.”
So now I’m in therapy🤷🏽♀️
girl yesss... i'm looking for one too... ain't no way this is the 2020 we dreamed about as children.. what in the heck!? lol
Wow sounds like a really good and intuitive friend! She saw what you needed and make their message clear. A keeper friend for sure. Just make sure that you check on them too, sometimes those friends need us more than we realize.
Yup I just started therapy in June for the first time in my life.
“It’s made me question the point of striving” “why not do the bare minimum? WHY STRIVE?” 🤣
It’s the laughing being 99% of the intro for me 💀😂
In a matter of a day, my entire list of goals was replaced by "Don't die today".
My dry erase calendar still has December 2019 on it.
We were so young then.
Mine too😂😂
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😭
Sameeee
My 2020 Goals:
* Graduate and land a new fabulous job
* Step up my image / personal
* Pay off debts
* Go on a luxurious vacation
My 2020 Reality:
* Graduate, but then lose my current job to COVID-19
* Stuck at home in my faded PJs and uncombed hair
* File for unemployment to barely pay current bills
* Driving fake 'day trips' just to get out the house
Currently in day 7 of coronavirus. No longer feel like I'm gonna die and appreciative of the entertainment that you are providing right now. God bless ya.
Praying for you. Keep on keeping on!
Keeping u in my prayers to Jehovah God for a speedy recovery!🙏🏽💜
Praying for your full recovery!
I just finished my 14 day quarantine & lemme tell you (it’s day 16) it feels so good to be out & healthy again 😩
Sending positivity your way!
One of my goals was to get straight A's and raise my GPA during this past semester and I did! At least one goal got accomplished so far this year!
Congrats!
My planner is ashy and abandoned! My boss asked about my career goals yesterday and I laughed. I’m just trying to minimize stress, wash my hands, and make it to work (my desk in the living room) on time each day 🤷🏽♀️
2020 was the one year I actually got to accomplishing my goals 😂 I got the job and salary I wanted, I finally got braces, will be getting a new car, and because I’m working from home I can save to buy a home next year. I am so grateful for the position I landed in this year despite everything that’s been going on. To God be the glory🙏🏾
"A thing this pandemic has done to me is made me question the point of striving."
YESSSSSS. Daily struggle frfr, you're not alone.
Same!
I read the comment as she said this 😱😱😱😱😱
UKLeonie me too
"I said, 'Self...'" I don't know why that line never gets old
I bought a kiddie pool and I don’t have kids. Use your imagination. Don’t care what my neighbors say, I’m at the beach.
My workmate did this, go float away your madness away.
😂😂😂😂
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I wanted to make my own hand sanitizer when they were sold out. So I bought 100 percent proof rum as I had all the other ingredients but somehow the rum didn't end up as sanitizer if you know what I mean. The intention was there though.
I just looked at my 2020 goals list and the fact that one was legit "stop isolating" lmao the universe had other plans.
Now one thing I am proud of is that I paid off my credit debt last week! Now that was technically a 2019 goal that got pushed back 💀💀💀 but chile we here! I also wanted to get back into art and reading, I bought the supplies but still nothing, but I did finish 1 book (which is more than last year 😭😭). Finally got a stationary bike, cuz I've not been moving lmao ( i was breathing a little too hard going up stairs) - I've actually been able to stick to a schedule these past weeks! It only took until turning 25, but we did it!
THE MIC TO THE AUDIENCE TOOK ME OUT OKAY
“You can roast me, but I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my shi...” LOL Wow, I feel seen sis!! 🤣
Yup!!! 🤦🏾♀️
I immediately had ‘Tyrone’ stuck in my head and had to play it after this.
Yasss Tardissss Purse! Happy to see a Whovian Cousin!!!! Allonsey!!! 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽💕💕
Erika N. Yes!!! Oooo Weee Oooo!!
I'm getting 'why strive' tattooed on me 50 years from now when we finally exit quarantine
When you said "Remember having dreams?", I had to pause the video and wail at my TV for a good 30 seconds. It hurts......
My best friend has started a business, taught two online classes, taken three classes online, gotten her license to grow cannabis, and she is on her way to moving to a different state.... All while I have lost a car in an accident, and held on to a job that doesn't want me but desperately needs me🤦🏾I will not be hard on myself though! I have a couple of business ideas I am working on that I am hopeful about. Hey!! I am still here!! I appreciate that!!
You'll be just fine. Keep pushing!!
Exactly, you're still here. You're gonna make it too. Just keep following your goals!
Don’t come to Florida! I love my state but a lot of us don’t be acting right 😂
Girl Florida is a mess
BIG facts sis!!
I second this. I live in Florida. A state-wide asylum.
Same! I’m In North Florida & people aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing
I am so sorry
“Remember having dreams?”got me 😂
“And then you remember that Miami is in Florida.” .... When I say that I had an ol NASTY southern auntie cackle😂😂😂😂😂 I felt that in my soul.
And can we have a silent vigil for the summer birthdays? I really thought I was gonna be on somebody’s beach in a thong bikini on 8/12; Mother Earth hit us with a smooth “ WHO SAID DAT?! “ 😂😂😂😂😩😩😩😩😩😩... Is there an ice cream flavor that helps you cope with life? I’m struggling out’chea! 😩
Auntie cackle?? 💀💀😩😩 I screamed at ya comment!
Silent vigil for the summer birthdays🙌🏿🙌🏿...August 8th here! The ice cream flavor best suited..Haagen-dazs Java chip😍
Haagen dazs Rosé ice cream
That's my birthday too!!!!! Hi twin! ❤😆
08/19🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾My flavor rn is Ben&Jerry’s Gimme S’more
I quit my job in the latter half of 2019 to spend a year traveling before figuring out a new career that I wanted to do rather than just get a paycheck, sooo I’m 😂 right there with you. It’s been a rough day. Thank you for making me laugh
I guess the silver lining is that the job might have been gone anyway?
You live once. Not much people can do what you did. Some people work too much and don’t smell the roses.
Nnnoooooo .... I hope u get justice u deserve to travel 😫😭
2019 was so rough I didn’t even have big ambitions for 2020 and STILL
This was all-the-way me, Sis!
Same. This year was my sabbatical but I didn't want it like this!
Same!!!
I hear that.
Saaaaaaaame
OMG.... Doing Food Truck recipes sounds like a fun way to get into meal planning... YOU GENIUS👩🍳
2020 plans: Get married, a promotion, find a new place.
Now single, jobless and staying put. 2020 handed me an anvil.
I thumbs up the anvil part, incidentally Sis.
Wile E. Coyote😂
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ME TOO! My (now ex) fiance dumped me in the middle of quarantine, I was supposed to be moved to Europe (he's French) and married by now, and working in a better job that I can actually grow in. Now I'm single, was laid off but came back to an even worse job situation, and stuck in America.
I really thought 2020 would finally be my best year yet lol
lolllll the moment where you realized you expected to be around more people, I have never been less motivated to dress myself in my LIFE. Also - this newsletter needs to exist, THOSE DOODLES - SO. GOOD.
it does exist! go to her website and add your email to receive them monthly :)
@@katherinegreen1117 thank you! just did!
Girl, find a lake... or a pond... or a pool with a sandbox. 😆
Not a sandbox 😭😂
I'm so desperate I'd take the sandbox ANY DAY. I need some sand between these piggy toes
As a unit, my older sister and I, we decided the mantra this year was going to be "AS IS" About accepting things as they are. It was also built on " I'm not going back and forth with people" which served us well in 2019. It was also kind of related to our interactions with our mom who was going through a long term illness and was basically bedridden. She died about a month ago.
But AS IS has been predictive (I don't think that's a word but) of the kind of attitude to take about all this, Shit show that it is. I also said I was going to stop being "old and washed" and go out more, so there's that too.
But with the online classes seeing my kids has kind of reenergized me. I'm very focused on working from home and trying to hone these online experiences for the students I teach.
"...And, then you remember that Miami is in Florida." 🤣 I'm IN Florida laughing my tail off to keep from crying. 😖 I hate it here. 😭😭😭
“That hope...dwindles” 😂😂 America is a movie honestly
I didn't have any goals for 2020, so even doing laundry feels like an accomplishment 🙌
Right! I'm literally sitting amongst 3 piles that need to be folded and put away. But yet, here I sit.
I mulled over heading to the laundromat an hour or so ago, lol
Same. Always have extremely expectations. Nowhere to go but up!
Right!
Laundry is a huge accomplishment, you have to sort, wash, fold/hang, and put away. Usually takes me 3-5 business days.
Evelyn: "I dreamed a dream."
Me: "Of time gone by? When hope was high and life worth living?"
Thanks. That song was heavy on my early quarantine playlist. 😭🤣🥴
It dawned on me that... Girl! You've been working full-time, going to school, hustling on the side for hella years. It's ok to sit down; Take a minute and appreciate how far you've come and relax into who you currently are and who you want to become. This "Covid-break" is an opportunity to reinvigorate who we are. Whether its by being 'lazy' and nurturing or by being extremely productive or just by enjoying nature and our loved ones. Love the video... We will continue to strive!
SAME
Here in 2022 - still hits. Thank you for creating this experience for the world, Evelyn. Coming back and remembering this time and feeling the brilliance and ache of your wisdoms gives my spirit a small ledge of solace in my brokenheartedness.
1. Start getting out there in the dating world. 2. Attend 75% of the events I get invited to. 3. Look presentable 5 days out of the week. 4. Start hobbies. 🤣🤣 Only number 4 happened. lol
I laughed every time you laughed 😂. Shared humour. Shared pain.
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"Why strive? Why?" So real. The flexibility one is so real. I tried yoga and that ish is hard. That laugh at dreams and looking at my vision board was like look at that hope lol
I just turned 30 in may and my dirty 30s is... just DIRTY at this point 💁🏾♀️thanks 2020 🥺
Lol
"Go.. I haven't gone.."
That sums up 2020 perfectly for me.
We make plans and God laughs 😅😅 This has been an interesting year. I actually doubled down on my UA-cam channel because everything else fell by the way side. We have to find that silver lining. I turned 40 last month and I wanted to spend my 40th birthday in Paris 😏 Oh well. Happy 30th!! Enjoy 😉
I’m turning 40 in September (God willing) and I was supposed to go on a Mediterranean cruise. I never “did it big” for a milestone birthday before, and I was determined that this was my year to do it. Oh well indeed.
Same here! I fell into UA-cam then doubled down once all the jobs ran dry....now I low key don’t wanna go back 👀👀👀😂🤣🤣😭😭
Happy Belated Birthday! ♥
Nice to see fellow 40 year olds here! I turn 40 in December and was planning to be in Paris too for that! 😫
@@TheOtherLizWalker just subscribed! Love your video topics
Wow... "I hate it here" was LITERALLY my catchphrase with my brothers throughout this pandemic, were on the same wavelength sis!
actually this weird UNPRECEDENTED situation pushed me into a place I havent been before and shifted my thinking. It took some time but I started really progressing in my personal goals (fixing my relationship with food, taking care of my health, learning spanish, being more organized, learning from people around me, letting things work because thats the only way they will, if i let them). hadnt it been for the pandemic i wouldn't have ended up with the people i am with now, and they are one of the best things that have ever happened to me.
i got incredibly lucky during this time and i'm crazy grateful for that.
2020 goals: Stop being a homebody, Start dating, Go to events! 😂😂😂 Welp, I spent most of my energy watching UA-cam videos, Netflix documentaries, reading more books, and working on my artistic skills. The biggest lesson I learned in 2020 is having self control and motivation to stay productive. 😂
Evelyn, you are consistently the funniest person I am subscribed to on youtube. thank you for this laugh, thank you for continuing to create😭 we grateful.
also WHY STRIVE is a whole word !!!
This is the perfect time to curate your closet, thinking seriously about how you purchase and put together looks. Welcome to the style journey !
The only goal I accomplished was to get my hair to grow and how to refresh my hair style without adding in frizz. I’m satisfied with that.
@paulette more so what did you do for it to grow!!!??
Please tell me your ways
That’s a win in my book.
“There has not been a time in which I haven’t been tried” - Ev.....🙃
Yo Evelyn, you really be creating the relevant content we need during this time 😭👏🏾✨
Can we just appreciate how much of Ev we’ve been seeing on this quarantine UA-cam
“Why strive???” This cut to the core of my heart and soul. Really struggling with this right now too 😂
I was planning on looking at my unaccomplished goals and crying, but this taught me to laugh instead 😂
I feel like this video has given me permission to give myself grace at how things have just not gone to plan, and it makes me feel peace. Thanks cousin
Sis, you ain’t EVER lied with this video. 2020 laughed in all our faces with our lil goals and said, “Tuhh!! We’ll see about that!”
This whole video is SUCH a mood 😂 wincing at the thought of having to do what you'll say you'll do, so me. That's why I don't write things down, it makes the self sabotage less painful
Danm. The accuracyyy 😩🥴😂
My dry erase calendar has an inspirational quote and just says "Life is like a bicycle, to stay balanced, you have to keep moving forward"
That's all I use the calendar for. To help me stay sane (a little). Lol
This is the MOST relatable content on the internets rn. I wanted to do more live theater work...so LOL
"why strive?" LMAO guuurrrlll I felt that deep in my soul. thats been me pretty much this whole damn lockdown
Dead ass you WOULD MAKE MY WHOLE YEAR if you get around to making the #SmackYoLip channel! Evelyn + Food??? I can't 😭❤️
"I haven't done it yet" "...because I have not started" "why strive??!" I feeeeeeeeeel this
Cousin, I was laughing and commiserating with you all the way but when you said what you said about STRIVING (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!) I pointed at you on my phone and yelled SO LOUD,
I startled myself (like did you just yell [in solidarity] with Evelyn like she could hear you?) I was in the amen corner like little country church with no A/C, you hear me?
Evelyn, you are totally inspiring. Dang, I wish that had been one of your goals. Because you are killin’ the INSPIRATION game!!! Keep On Keeping On. I wanna say, “Keep Striving” but it has negative connotations for me and I literally can’t bring myself to say it. Thanks for the reminder to do as my late Mom would ALWAYS say, “ If Plan A doesn’t work go to Plan Band if Plan B doesn’t work go to Plan C until you exhaust the whole alphabet then go to Plan AA”
(I still hear her voice)
I too am as inflexible as they come.
“We gon be alright”, as the song says. Love you lots, Cousin and thank you for posting A1 quality content (as always)! Muah!
YES AT BEING PHYSICALLY INFLEXIBLE GIRLS. I try every day, and every time I stretch, my hamstrings seem to tighten even more. I've always been stiff, and I think I always will be. People say I'm uptight, but in reality, I was born to be uptight.
"It says, 'Go!'.....I haven't 'gone." 😅😅😅 A whole mood!😓
“But then you remember that mIAmI iS iN fLORidA” 🤣 I’m not gonna lie. I felt that in my soul 😭 the upper 48 should just cut off us at GA and AL and go on without us😭
The “What can I do?!?” and aggressive shaking of the hands at 13:34 really personified my 2020. It was almost intrusive.
Internet cousin, you held the mic up to the camera and I laughed into it so hard. This video has been way too real! Here are a few of the goals I added to my vision board in January that have since been cancelled:
-travel to Australia
-visit friends who live far away from me in different states
-hang out more frequently with local friends I haven't seen in a while
-go to one museum per month
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Just remember to be gentle with yourself during these crazy times. Set goals, absolutely. But be flexible with the timelines/deadlines - because God only knows what else 2020 is going to throw at us. 🙏🏽💓☺️ Sending you positive vibes!
I wanted to go to French Polynesia. So far I’ve been to the bathroom.
This was a delight to watch .. I haven’t cackled like this in a while 😂😂😂😂😂 the only goals I have is just shower everyday, do my step and yoga challenge and basically surviving 2020.
I feel like there are phases to being quarantined/working from home. (WARNING: long comment) They are as follows:
1. Relief: You don't have to wake up early, take off your pajamas, or get kid(s) ready for school, drive to work, or talk to other humans in real life. This phase is fleeting because one day you wake up and realize your home is in shambles.
2. Productivity: With all this extra time (and more hands on deck) you can tackle anything, including the mounting backlog of responsibilities caused by your torpor. During this phase, you set a morning alarm, get fully dressed including shoes, regularly perform basic hygiene, and maybe do something with your hair. You'll start encouraging the other members of your household to do the same. After all, we're a team! The proof is in the pudding. Housekeeping - done. Home improvements - Done! Enrichment activities with kids - DONE! Passion project(s) - started....
3. Desperation: At this point, the wheels haven't fallen off the bus, but you can definitely feel them wobbling. You can't keep up with the pace you've set in the last phase so you gradually start giving up on doing anything. You may revert back to a "low manipulation" approach to beauty. Basic hygiene will usually be done, but only if you feel like it. What are the kids doing? Don't know, but they're probably fine. Binge watching may begin in this phase. You can be sure you are in the "desperate" state when the compulsion to go into the general population overwhelms you. You convince yourself that there is something, a soup ingredient or lawn fertilizer or art supply, that simply cannot be procured online. You believe you must brave the pandemic and public foolery to acquire the item. Ask a trusted friend or relative to help you during this difficult time...but probably remotely.
4. Contentment: The fourth phase offers a bittersweet resolution wherein you accept your circumstances, but only because misery loves company and you have LOTS of it. The good news is, by this point you're able to muster enough energy to get dressed enough to work remotely and take pretty OK care of your beauty and hygiene requirements at a minimal level. Also, you forgive yourself more readily for not cooking every single meal and leaving dirty dishes in the sink.
Sedona was literally my 30th birthday plan.. We’ll still be 30 next year girl 😩
All I wanted was to go to the petting zoo with my close friends for my 30th (don't judge me, sometimes the older you get the more childish you feel like you can let yourself be!) and even that was dashed.
"Why strive!" is the words I have been looking for for the past three months.
I also wanted to take a trip for my 30th birthday. Instead, I had a "happy hour" on House Party.
Oh, and I wanted to get married this year. 😂😂😂 Postponed. Goodbye deposits! 💰
Can we just skip to 2021 already?
I didn’t know you were still on UA-cam!
My 50th birthday is in December. To celebrate, I've been planning a trip to Istria, Croatia for the last five years. . .womp, womp.
That said, nothing like a pandemic to park one's backside into some serious self contemplation and reevaluation. What you said about building a new world and moving forward together really resonates! Ty for making this video!
Yeah. I look at my Powersheets for January, and I'm like...that's cute.
It's eerie how much I'm relating to this video. The goals, the lack of striving, everything lol
I too am in the stage of “why strive when I could do the bare minimum” and girlllll work is catching up to me 😅😅
I’m sorry, this is the first time I’m watching you and 😂 Im dying. “Why not for the bare minimum” 😂😂👏🏼👏🏼 - i already love you.
When I tell you I screamed when Evelyn pronounced “embarrassing” 😩😂🇰🇪
My friend sent this to me and said this is so me. Now I watch it and I have a headache from laughing...
Then we both said at thesame time that you are my spirit animal..
I can't help it but you feel like I am looking myself in the mirror...
Thank you for cheering me up
Little did we know *cackles through the rest of the year in my bed with my family-size bag of kettle chips
Honestly Evelyn you could have made this video with the same title, make it 3 hours long, and proceed to just laugh the entire 3 hours... and my soul would have agreed with every second of it. That's the kind of year it's been.
"there's no way to rage responsibly in a pandemic" WHEWWWWWWWWW man oh man
Tell It to these young people!
So sad but also so funny because it’s true.
Comedy in 2020:
“Goals, am I right?” *laughter ensues*
What are we trying to do?! .. My goal is to continue working towards completing my Masters in Therapeutic Counselling degree. everyone keeps telling me once all this is over I will have lots of work to do. There is so much healing and grief that needs to be done as a result of 2020... we need to continue working towards bettering our selves while finding ways to help society, communities and individuals in being healthy and content.
Bless you and your work Evelyn!
1. I adore your channel. So thank you for your content! 2. I actually am surprised I have been ok? on my goals??? I mainly wanted to give myself time to work on myself and loving myself and finding some inner strength......AND I MEANNNNNNNNN I think I have had the time. And I have been really trying to do that. I have words like..." be present (aint no time but the...), be strong, we rise by lifting others" etc...so everything is JUST vague enough that I'm like kinda doing it! SO I'm sending you that love and strength too!!