VLOG： Planning A Themed Board Game Night! + let's chat
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about Simchat Torah, Shemini Yitzchot and Shema, and how we celebrated Sukkot and Yom Kippur this year. We also talk about the problems we are having with our bathtub.
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We are hosting a few of Jacob's friends for a bro weekend, but I thought I would do a haul
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with you guys. It's very odd and random. We are a board game house.
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I sometimes like chatting with you guys just on the floor. I feel like it's more comfortable
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and just an easy place to film. You can see all my dresses behind me. You can see some of my
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stuff on this cabinet over here. This is kind of where I store some important documents. It used
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to be in the background of my videos, if you remember, and you've been with me for a little
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while. I am so tired. If you guys know, if you've been following along with my vlogs, you know that
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this month has had a million Jewish holidays, and so trying to get everything done with
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work has been really tough. So yesterday was a crazy long day. I had to do a ton of stuff
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to make up for the holidays. And now we are into the next set of holidays, which is the
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end of Sukkot, and it's a new holiday. So we have Shemini Yatzeret and Simchat Torah. Shemini
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Yatzeret is kind of like the end of Sukkot. P.S. If you hear something in the background,
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it's because we are having an issue with our bathtub. Actually, let me tell you about that.
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So we are renting, and our bathtub was kind of looking worse for wear. So we told the landlord,
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and he decided to get it resealed, and that was great. It looks fantastic. So I'm taking a shower,
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and I dropped a shampoo bottle while I was showering. Not super abnormal to happen while you
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are in the shower. Things are slippery and soapy and wet. So I dropped the shampoo, get out of the
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shower, come back in the bathroom like an hour later, and realize there's like a hole in the
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sealant, and the brown paste is like leaking out of it. So that doesn't look great. So I thought to
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myself, is that normal for a resealant to be so flimsy and fragile? Because I don't think it is.
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Um, just because that would be, I mean, you have to be able to drop your shampoo. Uh, so in any case,
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the landlord has been fantastic, and he sent someone else out, and now they're taking a look
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at it to see if they can fix it. So that's what you might be hearing in the background if you hear
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anything. But back to what I was saying, Simchat Torah, Simchat Torah is the holiday where we
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celebrate finishing reading the Torah. Every year we go through the entire Torah. We read it together
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in synagogue, and we're celebrating finishing it and restarting it, because we finish and restart it
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on the same day. So it's a very special holiday. That's next week. But it's more holidays, which
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means less time to work. You sort of get to a point with Jewish holidays where you love them,
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and if I didn't have to work, maybe I wouldn't feel this way. But you start to feel a little bit
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too out of your routine, and getting work done is just tricky. So that's the deal. That's why I'm so
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tired. But we did have a few fantastic days for the first days of Sukkot. We visited family. We
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actually drove. Jacob and I like driving together. And we were in the car for about four-ish hours,
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and we got to listen to a podcast. We love listening to things together. We love chatting.
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And being in the car together is actually something we really enjoy. So we had a great
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time driving up there, and then being with family was amazing. I absolutely loved seeing everyone,
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and getting to spend time in the Sukkot is like my favorite thing. And the weather was beautiful,
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so we didn't even have to sit outside when it was 100 degrees or freezing. Like, it was just perfect
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outside, which is so nice. And the holidays are so lovely. I love Sukkot. I love spending holiday with
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family. What's your favorite holiday to spend with your family? Let me know in the comments. I'd love to
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know. But today and the next few days, we are hosting a few of Jacob's friends for a bro weekend.
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He called it a bro weekend, but because Jacob is the best, so he always includes me and like wants
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me to be part of things, which is really sweet. So we actually are hosting four guys here. They're all
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staying in our house, and I have to make sure that everyone is fed. We'll probably order out for a
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couple of things, but generally I'm going to be trying to make food for us all, which will be
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an endeavor, but kind of fun. Feeding five hungry guys is going to be funny. But the also nice thing
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about feeding men is that they'll eat like simple food, so I don't have to do something crazy. So I'm
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going to be making a meat sauce with noodles, some Brussels sprouts, and then I'm going to be making
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my butter chicken recipe, which sounds really fancy, but it's actually pretty easy. So that is my plan.
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And also, in case you were wondering, my butter chicken recipe is entirely dairy-free because we
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don't mix meat and dairy when you keep kosher. So if you're curious about that, the way that I make
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those things dairy-free is I just replace anything that's dairy with coconut-based products. So I buy
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a coconut-based yogurt, I buy a coconut cream instead of a heavy cream, and I use margarine instead of butter.
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And that's like the easiest thing in the world to switch out, and it tastes fantastic. Jacob doesn't
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even notice a difference. He loves it. He thinks it's great. So that's the plan as far as food.
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But while the guys are here, what they're going to be doing is playing board games. Now if you know
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anything about Jacob, if you've been following my channel for a while, you will know that we are a
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board game house, and he is a board game fanatic. We have a ton of board games. They will be playing
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Twilight Imperium. So if you've not heard of Twilight Imperium, it is a huge game. I'm actually
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participating. It's like a lot to remember. But it's a huge spaceship sort of game. Like I said,
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Jacob loves board games, so he always does his research and finds the best games. If you are
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interested in a video or a podcast episode about his favorite board games and our favorite board games,
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let me know. I will do that. So put that in the comments. But we're going to be playing that,
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and I had the idea that we could kind of like make it a themed night. So we're going to have
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cocktails that are themed, like galaxy stuff, and we're going to get some snacks, and they're just
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going to be normal snacks, but we'll name them punny things like space chips instead of spaceship,
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or like UF Oreos instead of UFOs. So we're going to do stuff like that, and I'm going to go get some
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stuff from the Dollar Tree and see if I can make like any decor related items, which would be fun too.
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But yeah, so I have to go run to Target. I think Jacob is going to do the grocery shopping for me,
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which would be very helpful. And I'm going to run to, like I said, the Dollar Tree. So I'm going
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to bring you guys along for most of it, and you guys can see what I'm trying out, what I'm picking
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up. But some of you guys left me some great recommendations for lipsticks in my last video
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about fall makeup tips, and I might want to check out some of the lipsticks you guys recommended.
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If you haven't seen my fall makeup tips video, you should definitely go and watch it because
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it's so much fun. I talk about five makeup tips that are like perfect for fall. I love doing fall
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makeup. As you can see, I'm wearing a very natural look today. And by natural, I mean literally almost
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nothing on. I'm just covering up my blemishes and putting on mascara. But if I'm going to be going
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somewhere a little more dressed up, or if I have the time, I will do like a really fun face of kind
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of pumpkin spice makeup, I like to call it. So that was a lot of fun to record and share with
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you guys. But I don't know how many of you guys really like do a full face of makeup or enjoy
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makeup. I, that's actually how I started on YouTube kind of getting into things was makeup videos. I
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loved makeup videos. That's how I learned how to do makeup was entirely from YouTube. I did take a
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stage makeup class in college, which was so cool. I learned how to make like scars and like build up
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your nose and make it look different from the nose that you have. And I learned how to like give
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yourself a bruise, stuff like that. That stuff's really cool or age yourself. That's really cool.
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But that's not as relevant to just everyday makeup. Although in today's day and age, sometimes the like
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stage contouring you do, which is really intense, people will do in real life. I don't recommend
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that. But yeah, that's pretty much it. So let's get a move on and see if we can set up for this
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evening. Maybe we'll do a haul and I'll show you what I pick up and then I can show you what I'm
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going to be setting up for this evening. So let's get to it.
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We're back. Welcome back to the floor. We're only sitting on the floor today. That's the deal.
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That's what we're doing. I didn't have time to go to Target because I needed to go to Dollar Tree
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to get the stuff for tonight. And I also still need to like do the decorations.
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Woo. I know it probably feels like I'm not doing that much because you're not seeing so much,
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but I'm doing a lot and I'm very tired. Also, this house smells terrible. I told you that we had
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somebody coming in to fix the bathtub and now the whole house smells really toxic. So that's not
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great. But that's why I'm sitting in here further away from this smell so that hopefully I can avoid
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feeling bad and it doesn't actually permeate my body. Maybe we'll open up these windows so we can
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like air things out because it's not great. But I thought I would do a haul with you guys.
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It's very odd and random because I wanted to kind of do something themed for tonight,
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but at the same time, I didn't want to spend a ton of money. So I'm doing something a little weird
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and random and using Dollar Tree availability. And that is totally fine and makes it more fun in
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some ways, in my opinion. I'm somebody who loves a themed party, who loves the kitschiness of a themed
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party. But you have to be flexible because those things can get really expensive. If you go to Party
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City, things are so expensive. And you can get like similar stuff from Dollar Tree, just maybe not
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exactly what you're looking for. So I will show you what I got. I also wanted to mention I am doing
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a Spotify playlist for tonight. That's something that I try to do for parties too, is a unique
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playlist for the party, for the theme. I called it Space Jams because we're playing Twilight Imperium.
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The whole thing takes place in space. And yes, that is a play on Space Jam the movie just because I
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thought that's funny and also it's music. So that's cool. And it's a bunch of classical music from films
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that take place in space like Star Wars and Star Trek and Interstellar. And then I'm also including
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some songs that are just about space. It's gonna be fun. I'm excited about it. So let's get into this
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haul. The first thing I got, these. These are glow necklaces. I thought it would be funny to crack
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these and have everyone wear them because in space it's so dark. This seems very appropriate. So we're
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going to have these on. I'm gonna crack them and they're gonna be a lot of fun to wear. Hopefully
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everyone wears them because if only one person wears them it's not as fun. Next up I got a black
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tablecloth. Black to represent space. I could have done blue too but I thought that black would be
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more appropriate. And we're not going to be using this on the main table but we're gonna have like
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a snack table which is really our ottoman. And I'm just gonna put this over that. Next up I got
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this stuff. It's actually a spooky Halloween garland but uh the colors are just good for
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for space and if you don't look too closely you wouldn't know. Uh let's see if this will focus.
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It's actually is it little bats? I think it's bats. Yeah see they're little bats. I also got these
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little star beads. I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna use them. I'm probably gonna sprinkle them
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everywhere but I also need to figure out how to clean them up afterwards because obviously I'm not
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them so I would have to really be careful about cleaning these up. But they're not that small
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and they're very cute. Two unrelated party things. I got a few unrelated party things. I got these
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candles. They're scented candles. This one is a caramel scented and it has this leaf on the front
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which is so pretty. And then this is a pumpkin chai um and I really enjoy the look of these and
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they're a dollar so hopefully they smell good. Even if they don't I just like the look of them so
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we'll just put them around. It's fall. It's the season. Another random thing I got was this adorable
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little journal. It has these little like frappuccinos and things on it which I thought was so cute
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so I can use this for notes. I use notebooks all the time. I'm constantly writing notes. I have like
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four notebooks floating around that I write down ideas for videos. I write down the schedule for the
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day as it changes. I write down a ton of stuff. So I use notebooks all the time. This is one that I'm
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going to be really using so it was useful. So back to the stuff we're going to be using for the
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party. I got these. They are party blowouts. I thought these would be fun to use. In the game
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there are times where we all have to come to an agreement so I thought it'd be fun when we came
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to an agreement we blow the party blowouts. And I thought that'd be funny and silly. And last but
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not least and this is the weird thing that's kind of funny. You get into little wars in the game
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and I thought it would be funny initially if we all had like hats that represented our factions but
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that would have been expensive because it would have been specific. So what I thought I would do
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instead is I thought I would get I saw these because they're all up for Halloween these masks
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that we put on these battle masks that we put on for when we're in a war. So when you get into a fight
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with another faction you put on your battle mask and that's how we go. And I think the boys are really
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going to like this. I think they're going to think it's funny. So I'm going to put these out and see
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what they think. So Jacob is currently at the store with his friends and they're picking up all of the
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snacks and stuff for tonight. So I'm going to set up the table and I'm going to put all these
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decorations out and I'm going to write out some of the little signs that are going to be like punny
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and funny for the snacks. So I'm going to show you a little bit of me setting up but I figured I
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would sign off now because after that we'll be into board game night. So thank you so much for
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spending the day with me. My next vlog will feel a little bit less flustered hopefully because we're
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