😂🤣 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 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.
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.
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 😂😭
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.
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 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 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 😌
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.
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 🆗☺️
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
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
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🙏🏾
“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! 😩
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 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!
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 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
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!!
I hate that I’m actually cackling 😭😭 girl we thought 2020 was gonna be IT! LMAOOO thought this was gonna be MY year 😂😂 REALLY THOUGHT I was gonna be happy this year 😂send help😂😂
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.
We make plans and God laughs 😅😅 This has been an interesting year. I actually doubled down on my TH-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.
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.
You wanna rage? I got into my dream grad schoolthis year and it’s gonna be ZOOM CLASSES LET’S RAGE. 😡 Update: thanks everyone for the supportive comments!
2020 goals: Stop being a homebody, Start dating, Go to events! 😂😂😂 Welp, I spent most of my energy watching TH-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. 😂
“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😭
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!
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.
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 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
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? 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
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.
Me: I'm gonna accomplish most of all my goals this year now that I have a fancy vision board!! Coronavirus, George Floyd death, Ahmaud's death, mental health issues from seeing people justify these deaths, Breonna Taylor's police officers still not arrested, travel ban, family and friends arguing about black lives, dems and conservatives arguing about wearing masks: HA.
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.
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
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!
questioning the point of striving lmao especially when it comes to quarantine glow ups because...i can get it together and un get it together in the millions of days we have left of this lmao
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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 🤣
😂😂😂
“Remember having dreams?”got me 😂
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.
THE MIC TO THE AUDIENCE TOOK ME OUT OKAY
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.
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
It’s the laughing being 99% of the intro for me 💀😂
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.
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 😭
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 🤣🤣🤣
My dry erase calendar still has December 2019 on it.
We were so young then.
Mine too😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
😭
Sameeee
“It’s made me question the point of striving” “why not do the bare minimum? WHY STRIVE?” 🤣
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 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 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.
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
In a matter of a day, my entire list of goals was replaced by "Don't die today".
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
I'm getting 'why strive' tattooed on me 50 years from now when we finally exit quarantine
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!
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.
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😂
❤❤
🙆🏾♀️
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
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
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 🤷🏽♀️
OMG.... Doing Food Truck recipes sounds like a fun way to get into meal planning... YOU GENIUS👩🍳
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
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
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
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. 😭🤣🥴
“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
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!
“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!!
“That hope...dwindles” 😂😂 America is a movie honestly
What happens to a dream deferred? It waits for a pandemic to end
“There has not been a time in which I haven’t been tried” - Ev.....🙃
"...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. 😭😭😭
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 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!
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.
Next time try everclear. You won't drink it I promise
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
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 😫😭
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!
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.
I hate that I’m actually cackling 😭😭 girl we thought 2020 was gonna be IT! LMAOOO thought this was gonna be MY year 😂😂 REALLY THOUGHT I was gonna be happy this year 😂send help😂😂
this right here but in 2021 😭😭😭 the cycle continues. SEND HELP!
"The thing this pandemic has done to me is to make me question the point of striving" 👈🏾💯💀
I just turned 30 in may and my dirty 30s is... just DIRTY at this point 💁🏾♀️thanks 2020 🥺
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!
We make plans and God laughs 😅😅 This has been an interesting year. I actually doubled down on my TH-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 TH-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
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.
I laughed every time you laughed 😂. Shared humour. Shared pain.
🥴🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😩
“real G’s move in silence like gnome” I’m ded ☠️. How are your comedic reflexes so fast ??
"there's no way to rage responsibly in a pandemic" WHEWWWWWWWWW man oh man
Tell It to these young people!
I wanted to go to French Polynesia. So far I’ve been to the bathroom.
You wanna rage? I got into my dream grad schoolthis year and it’s gonna be ZOOM CLASSES
LET’S RAGE. 😡
Update: thanks everyone for the supportive comments!
Awwwww Sis... I’m sorry.
Congratulations! It's still something to be proud of...the dream just looks a little different 😊
SAME GIRL!!!!
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SAMEEEEEEE 😭 We got this though, congratulations 🎊
lol 2020 goals revised: survive
damn, too real.
"We really having goals in this economy" LMAO!!!! 🤣 😝 😂
"Go.. I haven't gone.."
That sums up 2020 perfectly for me.
Yo Evelyn, you really be creating the relevant content we need during this time 😭👏🏾✨
2020 goals: Stop being a homebody, Start dating, Go to events! 😂😂😂 Welp, I spent most of my energy watching TH-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. 😂
Little did we know *cackles through the rest of the year in my bed with my family-size bag of kettle chips
“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😭
Dead ass you WOULD MAKE MY WHOLE YEAR if you get around to making the #SmackYoLip channel! Evelyn + Food??? I can't 😭❤️
I was planning on looking at my unaccomplished goals and crying, but this taught me to laugh instead 😂
“Why strive???” This cut to the core of my heart and soul. Really struggling with this right now too 😂
#WhyStrive is the entire 2020 mantra 😭
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
So sad but also so funny because it’s true.
Comedy in 2020:
“Goals, am I right?” *laughter ensues*
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.
Wow... "I hate it here" was LITERALLY my catchphrase with my brothers throughout this pandemic, were on the same wavelength sis!
Yeah. I look at my Powersheets for January, and I'm like...that's cute.
“We have to imagine a different world. And that world can’t leave anybody out.”
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 TH-cam!
Can we just back up to real Gs move in silence LIKE GNOME
Never thought that song would show up in 2020 but here we are.
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.
"I haven't done it yet" "...because I have not started" "why strive??!" I feeeeeeeeeel this
"My 2020 mantra was 'get your hands dirty' " ... please don't 🙏
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
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? 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
This is the MOST relatable content on the internets rn. I wanted to do more live theater work...so LOL
Can we just appreciate how much of Ev we’ve been seeing on this quarantine TH-cam
"It says, 'Go!'.....I haven't 'gone." 😅😅😅 A whole mood!😓
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.
Me: I'm gonna accomplish most of all my goals this year now that I have a fancy vision board!!
Coronavirus, George Floyd death, Ahmaud's death, mental health issues from seeing people justify these deaths, Breonna Taylor's police officers still not arrested, travel ban, family and friends arguing about black lives, dems and conservatives arguing about wearing masks: HA.
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As a writer this is SO RELATABLE. Why is it so hard just to sit down and write when you say you're going to? WHY. I cry.
The “What can I do?!?” and aggressive shaking of the hands at 13:34 really personified my 2020. It was almost intrusive.
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.
The bare minimum struck me so strongly 😭
I fell out when she put the mic to the camera. “What??” 😂😂😂
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 !
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
Girl, we are in a pandemic. It’s okay not to strive. Just survive.
Truth!
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 is so unbelievably relatable lol
questioning the point of striving lmao especially when it comes to quarantine glow ups because...i can get it together and un get it together in the millions of days we have left of this lmao