What has cheered me up is that I wiped down every single makeup item I own so they all shine like wee gleaming jewels in their tidy acrylic organizers. 😍
THE GREEN SOUP RECIPE The way to keep a green soup green is not to overcook it. Once you’ve added the peas and basil to this, take it off the heat and blitz it straight away. This is gorgeously light, but you can make it more hearty by using chicken stock and topping with fried pancetta. Serves eight. olive oil 1 whole head garlic, cloves separated and peeled about 6 courgettes (otherwise known as zucchinis) cut into 3cm-thick slices Salt and pepper 1 quart of vegetable or chicken stock about 500g frozen peas (one bag, usually) about 2.5 cups of fresh basil leaves a bit of feta cheese (optional) Finely grated zest of 1 lemon (optional) Heat the oil in a large saucepan on a medium-high flame, then fry the garlic cloves for a few minutes, stirring often, until caramelized. Add the courgettes, two teaspoons of salt and plenty of pepper, and fry for three-plus minutes, stirring, until starting to brown. Pour in the stock, bring to a boil and cook on a high heat for seven minutes, until the courgette is soft but still bright green. (The original recipe says to add a cup or two of water, but I've been waiting until the end and then only adding water if the soup is too thick.) Add the peas, stir through for a minute, then add the basil, turn off the heat and blitz smooth with an immersion blender. To serve, spoon into bowls and top with the feta and lemon zest. Finish with a good grind of black pepper and a final drizzle of oil.
Cannot wait to a) cook and devour this and b) delve back into Simple, which my brother gave me for Christmas either last year or the years before, and about which I had entirely forgotten.
I add yogurt to my green soups (usually I add broccoli too) at the end when I'm blending it with the immersion blender, and it just makes it extra smooth and extra creamy. Like having cream, but more tangy, and interesting.
What has been really cheering me up is that I made a list of things I would like to do daily for myself and I'm actually doing it. It includes a skincare/makeup morning routine, taking my meds, having breakfast, doing some exercise, I'm reading, I'm learning Spanish, and a few more things. And what is wonderful is that I'm truly not expecting myself to do ALL of these things 100% of the time. If I do it 80% and more I consider it a win!
I would love to see fashion content with Julia!!! I definitely had a psychological barrier with dresses a few years ago, seeing dresses as impractical because I bike everywhere, but bike shorts and inventive knots (for longer skirts) really solve everything and wearing dresses is so much fun for everyday (+ suuuper comfortable).
That’s so interesting the same thing happen to me this last month i kept wearing pants or jeans but not really loving them i realize in the last 6 months that if i just wear either skirts or dresses exclusively i I’m happy fell like myself and feel prepared for any occasion, and i learn this in quarantine.
I never pause mid video to comment, but that is the most accurate description of The Umbrella Academy I have heard. I had the same "looks cool but probably dumb" initial impression and then a FELL IN HARD.
1. Generally a terrible cook but am now baking my own bread and loving it. 2. The toad that we found in our garden yesterday. First one after 7 years here, and it was a chunk! Also the neighbour's cat which visits almost daily.🐈 3. The garden. It is such a tonic. 4. Finally sitting down to watch Mad Men. 5. Trevor Noah. 6. Loving my husband and appreciating how lucky i am to have a man with whom i actually love quarantining! 7. My Calm app. 8. How lucky i am that i, and those i love, are still in good health.🤞🏻 9. RUclips. Amongst others, your videos have been a real salve at times. My husband is a great many, wonderful things but he is not someone who waxes lyrical or pulls things apart to analyse them, any more than the necessary as he sees it, and in the absence of regular coffees with girlfriends or nights out, you have been that 'friend' with whom i can regularly check-in. Always a pleasure!☕ 🥂 10. Kitkats.🤗 22:41 Someone making a break for it!👀
I'm a person who wears dresses all throughout the warm season here in NYC (I first started doing it when I was pregnant and then nursing) and this year I'm making a conscious effort to transition them into the cold season too. But I know exactly how you felt towards your day dresses. Some comments I get from other women are just wild: 'Nice dress, but you're going to be so hot in that', 'I have that dress, I wore it last year', 'Is this dress from the XYZ organic local sustainable brand?'. It did seem like my wearing dresses was rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. But I guess I'm now too old to give a damn so I continue wearing what I like when I like.
It really sounds like you are living your best life over here cooking these amazing meals for humans+baby, really finding pleasure in tv and makeup, etc. like these are all pretty regular everyday things but you really communicate the joy and love involved in all of them. I find that really inspiring! Cooking is always so hard on my back and feels super stressful bc of the timing being so important, so I hope to cultivate some of this energy in my life too 😁
I feel you on the timing thing. Most of my food is slow-cooked in a single pot for that exact reason. Thankfully I'm Persian, so almost all of our food works like that :) Even the rice we make to accompany our stews is slow-cooked with a lovely large margin for error.
one thing that has helped me a lot with the timing stress is starting a half hour earlier than I think I need to, and prepping all of the ingredients for all of the dishes before turning on the stove. Like, chopping everything up and putting it all into separate bowls, salting the meat, opening the cans, etc. Then when it's time to actually cook the food there's nothing distracting me. AND it leaves time for some back stretching in between :)
The passion and joy of you talking about how you make the green soup is iNFECTIOUS. Ottolenghi is absolutely brilliant but his recipes often don't feel simple. This one sounds so fascinating and very easy. Hmmmm.... 🤔
I finally got around to altering a haori (Japanese jacket you wear over kimonos) that I got in Japan. Wearing it around the house has been really cheering me up! It's comfy, perfect for fall transition weather and it reminds me of a great vacation
I would have to say that my treadmill has been the thing that has been cheering me up this month. Since COVID started and my entire school and work life moved into my apartment I had really fallen off the movement train and had no motivation to fit exercise into my life. Since the beginning of the month I’ve made it a priority to get onto the treadmill every day for 45 minutes and not only has the exercise been good for me but also the result of knowing that I am following through with my decision is making me feel better and more confident in this new reality we have found ourselves in.
What a fun video! What's been cheering me up - -Watching Star Trek the Next Generation while cooking dinner and transitioning away from my workday (my sister and I used to watch this together in the 90s so it brings back really fun memories) -My AM coffee in bed, looking out of my window at the 'forest' that is my back yard -Walking to the new coffee shop that opened up in my small town (and has outodoor seating - so I'm trying to take advantage of it since I won't probably go once the weather changes here in the PNW) - Reading on my Kindle at night in the dark, in bed under the covers (and the Libby app! I love the Libby app!)
The changing weather is cheering me up so much. It means I can turn on the electric fireplace and wear my cozy, comforting sweaters, and drink my coffee hot instead of iced, and the fires in California can die down, And I can go for walks and spend time in the park instead of sitting in my room, and just a tiny bit of the pressure is lifted.
I’ve been binge watching your videos, and with all respect I think those short square nails are the most tasteful, elegant and consistent with your overall image that I’ve seen on you.
Ah, I love dresses so much. I wear them constantly. Living in California I have realized that its quick, effortless, and cool (ventilation is fantastic in dresses in the neverending summers here) to wear them daily. And you’re right, I feel more put together when I do - I even get comments all the time about looking nice when I feel like I’m wear something that could be pajamas in how comfortable it is but it’s presentable and pretty. I’m on team day dress all the way!
I can't sleep so I decided to listen to this video again because your voice calms me down 😊 What cheers me up right now is tidying/cleaning on a rainy day, writing all the important stuff on my calendar, watching The L word and cooking apples with cinnamon for breakfast
The Umbrella Academy is really wonderful! It made me so happy that season two came out during the pandemic. I would highly recommend giving it a shot if you haven't watched it!
Hi Hannah- you have been cheering me up! :) I love watching your videos and I appreciate the amount of work and thoughtfulness that are put into them.. Your passion for cooking and food is fantastic and I would be here for that sort of content as well. I have been working on a Hannah inspired quilt since you shared yours. My geek self is getting a kick out of hst math but I have yet to really figure out the quilt-as-you-go method. Would love to know how yours is going. Take care!
QI is a gem of a talkshow, lighting scented and unscented candles, Audible, Twitch streams, specialty green teas from a local shop, my special soft blanket to snuggle into, home made chicken soup, Mahler symphonies, the Hamilton soundtrack, Cavalleria Rusticana with Maria Callas, biking through the rain with my waterproof makeup on and knowing it'll stay put, seeing my orchid sprout new twigs, looking for poetry and photography that inspires me on IG. Thank you for speaking on joy and positivity, it helps!
Lol ok last comment I promise! I’ve been really cheered up lately by getting back into my eyeshadows! I rarely leave the house, but even when I do I love wearing fun sparkly colors on my eyes to make me feel better about having a mask on. And wearing makeup around the house just for me helps me feel put together and pretty. I’ve also been crocheting garments for myself quite a lot and its been so fun and creative. I love the crochet Instagram community, they are all so encouraging and lovely to talk with. Its really fun to make friends with a similar hobby that you can talk with. Also, playing board games and card games with my kids and husband has been lots of fun. They are 7 & 10, and are hilarious when we play! Its been wonderful:)
Cheering me up Rn: *I’ve been making recipes from the Skinnytaste cook books. Just cooking in general and trying new recipes. * I’ve been making my bed everyday. Which I would have never done before but it’s been making feel accomplished and happy. * the new Taylor Swift album-highly recommend *Going for long walks. I will miss so bad when it gets too cold. I live in Northern Minnesota. * Because I’ve lost a significant amount of weight (75 pounds) I had to buy all new winter clothes which is good. I’ve been more careful about selecting clothes I absolutely love. So getting to wear new clothes I adore has been cheering me up. Thanks for sharing Hannah. ❤️
Ok, sussy fish is my new favourite expression! :p I love the fact that people assume dress=fancy, when in my head dress=I only had to pick one item of clothing, not two! And I will get my butt into gear to watch Umbrella Academy season 2. My husband and I loved the first season. It's spring in Australia, and while the natives don't loose their leaves, we have quite a few deciduous plants around our house, including a large oak tree in the next door neightbours yard. It has been a real joy to watch the leave coming back, to see flowers bloom and hear more birdsong, especially as Melbourne is still in very strict lockdown. And of course, every video of yours brings me joy :)
I finished it already but LUCIFER has been the light of my quarantine ... I loved how simple, selfish, funny and easy to watch it was ... it made me so happy I miss it! Reading really slow (I almost always finish a book within a week or 2 days) the new release from the twilight books, and I created a blush project for my channel to love my blushes and rotate them I have about 150 blushes and I’ll go and use them four times each and rotate ten by ten ... simple things that have been cheering me out during a time when sometimes all I want to do is sleep and avoid everything. ❤️ loved this video Hannah ! ☺️
Something that has really been cheering me up is a weekly Community Supported Agriculture box that my fiancé and I signed for up at the start of the pandemic! We really miss going to farmer's market, and it's been a joy to receive fresh local produce and figure out what to make with it each week.
When you talked about watching the clock tick in the morning in the check in, it made me think how much I have enjoyed that I finally replaced the battery in my clock! I think the ticking sound and round clock face is just inexplicably good for the soul. I know many people dont like them but I aim to get more clocks so I can enjoy them all over my home.
I discovered within the last few days that I love green?? Green is on display ALL OVER my dorm room and my closet, always paired with blue and white. I wear so much green and blue clothing. That’s been so cool! I didn’t know I’ve been gravitating toward green this year as I decorated my room and bought clothes! I feel like I have green the way you have red, Hannah. And that’s the dream.
In the spring and summer especially I love wearing dresses in the warm weather. It’s so effortless and easy and COMFORTABLE! I completely get it! In the winter I love wearing sweater dresses for church. :) it’s still dressy but warm. :)
I have a love hate relationship with Umbrella Academy. I basically hate all of the characters except for Five lol. But I watched both seasons in one sitting. Three shows that I HIGHLY recommend are The Boys, A Discovery of Witches and Lovecraft Country. Which is MIND-BLOWINGLY good. Also - welcome to the press on nail club!
I LOVED the first season of The Boys and I haven't watched the second season yet! Which is to say, I'm now super excited about your other 2 recommendations. I saw a billboard for Lovecraft Country and I was like "that looks perfect, I wanna watch that" and then I forgot about it, so yay. Also I take your point about the Umbrella Academy characters except for that I can't help but love Klaus.
I love to build quads and 6 pan eyeshadow palettes with my singles, it relaxes me so much! And when I build them I don't want to use anything else! Also I must try that green soup recipe, thank you for sharing it 😘
What's been cheering me up lately is the CW show Roswell, New Mexico, my drinking glass from the Hunger Games museum exhibit like five years ago that i just started to use, the eucalyptus mint scent of Everyman Jack bodywash, and the Snyder's gluten free pretzel sticks.
I recently brought my young horse home from the trainer and have been riding her and continuing her training! It has been such a relief, since my other horse hurt herself the night before the fourth of July when a bear ran through our pasture and I've been doctoring her since then. My horses are always what cheers me up, so I was really depressed for most of the summer with that on top of everything else going on in the world.
I'm on holiday and have spotty wifi so I'll probably save this but Ted Lasso has been bringing me joy - it's just a show about people being nice and kind and growing. I've been thoroughly charmed by it, and was not expecting to be at all!
Oh wow I loved the Umbrella Academy too! Kinda hoping they will have another season. If you're into time travel stories, Dark is also very good although much darker and philosophical in tone. I rarely binge shows, but these two got me
I’ve been wearing a little bit of perfume on at home, which I don’t usually do, and I’ve found my mood is lifted every time I get a whiff of a pleasant scent throughout the day :)
You always surprise me. I didn't realize something like Umbrella Academy would be your speed, but I shelved it for the same reasons, so now I need to go back and watch it. Your joy videos well your videos are giving me joy. I know i say that all the time, but theres been so much going on personally and with the world so these videos are a lovely oasis.
For all of one second I was like... zucchini?!! Ahh... Hannah’s talking about courgette! 🙈🤣 The Graham Norton Show has been the bright spot on my commute to work. I’ve been watching/listening to reruns/clips on YT to and from work and giggling silently to myself. Also, bright pink lipstick. Wearing Nars Natalie and MAC Postmodern (the latter bought purely because of its name!) have been seriously elevating my mood. ☺️💕
I really love listening to "The School of Greatness" podcast - so inspiring and interesting. Apart from that I have really enjoyed daily walks (boring, but true) and my project pan where I am slowly but steadily finishing up my products
What's cheering me up right now is a new piercing I got over the weekend! I've wanted to add a third piercing to my left earlobe for years and finally just went and did it. The piercer at the tattoo parlor I went to helped me pick out the most gorgeous rose gold set of pieces that suit my style perfectly and I'm just in love.
I have a non makeup thing that is cheering me up (gasp!) 👀 my wedding photos! They were such a split second decision because we really weren’t planning on doing anything official beyond eloping but I’m so glad we did them and now I have them forever and I just love them. Reminds me of how important taking photos actually is
Umbrella Academy is so good! It's bizzare and hilarious and not at all what I expected either. Turns out, it's great. Ben is by far my favorite, so I can't wait for the next season!!
I have been loving researching Oíche Shamhna (Hallowe'en) recently. Even as a child I never particularly enjoyed the uber commercialised way it has been celebrated here in Ireland in recent years, but after choosing to celebrate it traditionally last year and having the best one of my life, I am doing it again this year, and I cannot wait!!
I started reading tarot and using oracle decks. The cards have inspired me to draw as well. I'm cheered up immensely by both. I might watch Umbrella Academy soon. SarahJo did a monologue on a character from this show. If she's not on your radar, I think you'd love her. And she loves you!
What a joyful video! Simple & elegant dresses make me happy too (always), as well as, the change of season with it's colorful, melancholy ways; Kyoto autumn leaves incense (that one of your subscribers recommended); manuka honey; tending to flowering plants in my garden; making biscuits; your videos (of course); & reading the gorgeously written Cider with Rosie. I would very much enjoy a video of you & Julia discussing fashion!
I am constantly suprised how much we have in common. I love The umbrella academy and everything similar and don't let me start on Knives out. Also my recommendation is Murder on the Orient Express, I think you would like it if you like Knives out. 🤗🤗
FINALLY you discovered "The Umbrella Academy"! It's mine and my Sister's favorite show (well, this and TBBT)! 💖 💖I had the same feelinga while watching trailers, especially since I dislike TV series as a genre. But it truely is delightful!
My partner adored umbrella Academy but warned me it's the type of show that F's my sleep up majorly (which I so appreciate knowing before I start something) Mini tee shirt dresses have been my happy thing this month too. I only have one but everyone time it's clean I'm pulling it on with knee socks and dr martens and feeling adorable. I thought about getting another one but the one I had thought about sold out already. So I'll just be happy with the one. Making a cup of tea every morning has also brought me a surprising amount of happiness
I’m starting to get my footing again at home (I recently went through a big move, moving in with my partner and changing provinces), so I’m starting to workout, paint, and take time in the morning for skincare again and that’s made me so happy. I’m hoping to recover a joy for cooking soon as well (Simple by Ottolenghi sounds great - I’ve had some Ottolenghi recipes before and loved them). I might start with that green soup! Also hoping to start baking, reading, and putting on makeup again. But I’m trying to take it easy and not put too much pressure on myself. As always, love your videos, thank you for sharing as you do! ❤️ have a great week!
Yes! The Umbrella Academy is so freaking good. 👌💜 The thing that has been cheering me up the most has been putting up all my Halloween decorations. It's been so much fun, and yesterday I heard a mom and her kids out walking the dog and enjoying the decorations, and that just made my day! 🎃💀🕷
U just inspired me to frankenstein my kaleidos palettes and i made one of my favorites and it made me so so happy!! There is a joy in making custom palettes! Iv never done it before. The colors r so pretty 😍
Omg had to pause and say my husband and I just watched the Umbrella Academy over the last couple weeks and LOVED it!! I can’t wait for the third season to come out!
I've been making public music playlists here on RUclips for years now. Truly is amazing sharing with so many souls and finding new music always makes my heart happy. 😍 And UA is BRILLIANT! I normally can predict everything when watching movies or reading books. Which I suspect comes from the writer in me. But UA had me surprised more than a few times; so, YES GIRL! WE LOVE IT HERE TOO. Tehe, my Grandfather and I had been waiting soooo long before the second season of Umbrella Academy came out. Stay safe, Sweetheart! XOXO - Amber
@hannah By chance do you enjoy tarot readings? The Hermit Tarot here on YT has a brilliant platform and she even has selected songs given to her with each of the reading sets she does. My brain is all over the place doing 5 things at once but seen you had loved my comment and just thought of this. So here's my mess of my thoughts in the "written" word. ;-) xoxo
I know that the stress of living with a new pod of people is probably pretty big, but you seem a lot happier. Living with your good friends and having a baby to look after must be really working for you.
My watercolor pencils and an adult coloring book are bringing me so much joy right now. I always wanted to get back into painting but all the fuss and preparation seemed daunting. So I just got a coloring book and some watercolor pencils. It's not even that messy like regular watercolor painting as I just use a wet paintbrush over the coloured in portions. Painting has never been so much fun and less fussy. There is no cleaning up after, as I just close the book and put away my pencils.
Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your content and it resonates with me in a way I didn’t see coming. I also got all the ingredients for the green soup. I’ll be making it tomorrow. Thank you Hannah 💖
Ooh can I share a recipe too? This is a fall fave of mine and is SO simple and easy. I personally love being in the kitchen for a long time because I find it very relaxing, so I love a recipe that physically takes a long time but where the actions are very simple. Perfect time to listen to a podcast, chat with a friend, even read a book. Behold, butternut squash pasta w/ caramelized onions: 1. Preheat oven to...something? Idk, like 400. Roasting-some-veggies temp, basically. 2. Slice up an onion (don't dice) and begin cooking over low-medium heat with salt and a couple tbsp of olive oil. 3. Cut a big ol butternut squash in half, drizzle with olive oil and s&p, and stick in the oven. 4. Throughout this whole recipe, stir the onions every couple of minutes so they don't burn. 5. The squash should roast for ~35-45 minutes and the onions will take ~50-70 minutes to caramelize. Start boiling some water when you're nearing the end of the wait time on the squash. Throw the pasta in when your squash is done. 6. When the squash is done, blend it up with some liquid (water, veggie broth, chicken broth, water+MSG powder, etc), s&p, and herbs of your choice (rosemary/sage/thyme are all good here). You now have your pasta sauce! 7. Combine pasta & as much squash sauce as you want. Top each serving with caramelized onions when they're finished. This has endless variations...you could add in cooked chicken, top with fried sage if you have the time, change up the sauce by adding in other roasted veggies (carrots are great) or tomato sauce, etc. etc. etc. Such a simple formula -- it takes a long time, but there's not much to do so it ends up being so relaxing!! Plus, one butternut squash is like 3lbs so this makes enough sauce for ~8-10 servings.
I've been making something similar but with a base of roux to thicken it up a bit as per Nisha's (Rainbow Plant Life) recipe. My 4 year old loves it because a) pasta, b) the squash is sooo sweet!
@@leprekaun123 I'm sure I got this from somewhere originally but I've edited it a lot over the years! If you search butternut squash pasta sauce you'll probably find something pretty similar :) it's key to roast the squash instead of just boiling it like some recipes suggest, the flavor is so much deeper and more delicious!
I made the Green soup, and it was so easy and delicious. Also, it reminded me of a home-cooked meal I had in the Czech Republic, when I visited years ago. It brought back nice memories. Thanks for sharing ❤️
I managed to watch this and I'm glad you enjoyed TUA, I kinda liked the first series but adored the second. I also have a soup like this - I mean totally different it's a hot and sour lentil soup by Ruby Tandoh but it fills that same space of easy, comforting and with high returns on your effort. I'm going to try this recipe too. I'm glad you're experiencing joy for dresses. I swapped to being mostly all dress all the time a few years ago and it felt so freeing. I'm wracking up a collection of Seasalt dresses because I just adore their aesthetic. Enjoy!
I love these kinds of videos! Super random video request: it seems like you’ve really come into your own aesthetically since your no buy year. You always looked amazing, but in the last couple of years you seem to have consolidated a set of preferences that are distinctly HLP. Would you ever consider making a video about how your no buy year helped you streamline and clarify your aesthetic, as well as what kind of thinking/planning you did around creating your look in the last couple of years?
this is such an interesting question. I think there are a lot of additional factors, including age, profession, time of life, and being on RUclips. But the no-buy is probably the biggest. I will consider making a video about it for sure!
Cheering me up... I am Brazilian, so sometimes I go on Netflix and binge all the new Brazilian shows and movies there. So to my surprise, I found a little show called Spectros, which gave me a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe, only set in my city, Sao Paulo. When I see the credits, it was created and directed by Doug Petrie, who was a writer and Executive Produce on Buffy (he also worked on American Horror Story: Coven and Daredevil). So, now I'm on the third episode of the show and having a kick out of it, as a I am huge fan of Buffy. The show is about 3 teenagers (a Japanese girl, a black girl and a white boy) who get caught up in a supernatural clash as vengeful spirits from centuries past rise up in Liberdade, the traditionally Japanese neighborhood in Sao Paulo, mixing Afro-Brazilian culture and Japanese-Brazilian culture. Another thing that's cheering me up is decluttering and selling my clothes, shoes and bags. :)
It’s a struggle these days! Oof! But here goes (also good gratitude practice!): quick natural make up (loving the Erin’s faces concealer Thank you!), dyed eyebrows (one less step in the AM and wake up feeling like you are 1/2 way there), tea (all the tea, currently Utpon Tea earl gray), my kids singing and dancing to the Coco soundtrack, mommastrong.com 15 min daily workouts at the crack of dawn (5:20am), leopard print anything, Getting gifts for fiends struggling to cope during the pandemic, my sister and friends and our endless text chains, your videos!, family dance parties, my husband cooking, baking, showers, clean sheets (not much better), treasured nights when no one wakes me up during them, Rothys (have cherry red and leopard print - when you wear almost all black and gray and denim the are perfect pops of color and just feel like massively elevated flip flops! Scared for the weather getting colder because I don’t remember what I wear in my feet when it’s cold...). There is more and, wow, this has been an awesome exercise to do! I didn’t know there was so much that was cheerful. I need to keep a list and then go back to it if I need cheering up! Thank you! (I notice that my job is not on this list 🧐) P.S.I wear easy dresses all summer (mostly just tshirt dresses - easy to dress up or down) but in the north east they hibernate because I hate tights and they are the epitome of uneasy.
I love day dresses and house dresses. So comfortable and so easy because it's just one item. I agree with you about rewatching shows, I like not knowing what's going to happen.
I also watched Umbrella Academy and I thought it was going to be too corny or childish but it was a pleasant surprise :) What's cheering me up right now is my nieces & nephew. Also my friends in the beauty community & doing my makeup for practical purposes.
Glue-on nails have been making me happy too! I buy from an artist who makes and ships custom sets... waiting on my IT set (because who doesn't love scary clowns) to make my October complete. Another thing that's cheering me up is college football. This late start means the season will go into December so that's a bit of joy to carry me through the rest of 2020 ❤
Ooooh!! Awesome tip about the glue. I bought three pairs through your link and for me the mediums are truly unwearable. I may even need to file the short ones. But I went HAM with the glue and then when I needed to get them off because they were too long, it was a bit difficult. The glue is a million times better than any glue I've used in the past and I really liked them, but I was planning on doing a bit more research before I put on another pair. I love square nails, they suit my hands the best and look the most realistic. But I'm going to give the short sort of round ones a go next and save the short square ballerina ones for last.
Cheering me up right now: ANIME. I don't know how familiar you are with it but if you have a chance, Hannah, I HIGHLY recommend it. I just love the storytelling in Japanese anime. I love to get lost in the story and the characters are always so multi-dimensional and "a lot". Right now I'm enjoying watching one called Fairy Tail about wizards and dragons and flying kitties! It's a good time and something my hubby and I enjoy together 😊
I was on tenterhooks waiting for you to name the damn show already, and I'm so glad that it was the one that it was. Your X meets Y meets Z comparison was perfect as well. It's a fantastic show and I, too, pandemic-binge-watched it. I'm going to be so very, very cross if there's no third season.
Yes, I wear casual dresses all the time, they make me feel pretty and cheer me up. I have many from Uniqlo and recently discovered & other stories and have been very impressed with their quality. For high fashion I love Cecilie Bahnsen but that’s just for contemplation cause it’s waaay out of my budget!
my recent cheering up has been done by Love Island! i'd never watched any other season before, and i am shocked at how, uh, raunchy it got (it was on CBS, not cable!), but also i became fascinated by these young people's (i'm 40) emotional intelligence. i'm guessing part of this was because they were limited in how much alcohol they could drink, but it was so weirdly heart warming to see this competition show actually not be that competitive at all. everyone seemed so supportive of one another. totally mind blowing and terribly addictive, in a good way. highly recommend if you're into anthropology/sociology/psychology/pop culture. ;-)
Happy Canadian thanksgiving! 😊 Instead of what's cheering me up, I'm going to switch it up and say what I'm thankful for. The most relevant one right now is my roommates, none of us were able to go home for the holiday so we had a dinner together and it was a great time! I'm also thankful that I am living in an area that is extremely safe pandemic wise which made it so I could go home during the summer. The governments of the Atlantic provinces deserve all of the praise possible. I'm thankful for all of the amazing people in my life who are keeping me going right now as well. I don't know what I'd do without them. And finally, I'm thankful for my family cat, Hank. He's the biggest joy of life and I miss him every time I leave my parents. A food favourite right now: mac and cheese. I learned how to make a roux and it made my mac and cheese 10x better than it had been. I also found an herb and garlic cheddar which is so unbelievably delicious in mac and cheese. Comfort food at its finest!
@@HannahLouisePoston there are two types of people in the world, those who love buffy and those who don’t yet know that they love buffy! Though a think a good hint to success can be to start at season 2.... although I love season 1 it can be tough for new viewers hah
I love The Umbrella Academy too! I started watching Ratchet. It’s stunningly beautiful, it’s like each scene is a moving picture. It’s a hyper colorized, film noir ascetic. Like if film noir, La La Land, and American Horror Story had a baby.
I’m sad to hear, but completely understand that you no longer accept subscriber gifts! I love making press-ons for myself and my sister, and would’ve loved to make you a couple sets! Your girl has too many nail supplies to use on just 2 people alone. Always enjoying your content, Hannah. You’re my go-to when making my sugar flowers and having play time with my cakes. 🌝
- my favourite pair of fleece lined, oversized joggers worn with a fitted black tee - this has become my uniform for working from home and i am so comfy and never cold - rowing and resistance bands - punch up the jam podcast (esp the new episodes with chris fleming) - 51 worldwide games for switch - me and my partner have been learning to play chess, and having quick games of blackjack, connect 4 and yahtzee most nights - goofy, fun movies - this week we have watched good burger and the mask - re-learning german on duolingo - an amazing NYT recipe: Salmon With Sesame and Herbs By Alison Roman 4 servings 20 minutes, plus 20 minutes’ marinating The easy-to-memorize marinade for this fast broiled salmon hits all the right notes: salty, sweet and sour. The fish emerges from the oven with caramelized, crisp skin, which contrasts nicely with a salad of fresh parsley or cilantro (or both), tossed with sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. Close contact with the intense heat will help crisp up the skin, while keeping the rest of the fish tender and flaky. To avoid overcooking the salmon, be sure to buy fillets that are at least 1 inch thick, and keep an eye on the fish. INGREDIENTS 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce 3 tablespoons light brown sugar or honey 4 tablespoons unseasoned rice wine vinegar Kosher salt and ground black pepper 4 skin-on salmon fillets, 4 to 6 ounces each, at least 1-inch thick 2 tablespoons raw white sesame seeds 1 small shallot, thinly sliced into rings 3 cups cilantro, parsley or both, tender leaves and stems 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil PREPARATION Combine soy sauce, light brown sugar and 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar in a wide, shallow bowl (or small baking dish) and season with salt and plenty of black pepper. Place salmon skin-side up in the marinade and let sit for at least 20 minutes, or up to 2 hours. Place a rack in the top third of the oven and heat the broiler. Place salmon skin-side up on a foil-lined baking sheet; discard the marinade. Transfer to oven and broil until the salmon is cooked through and the skin is bubbling and lightly crisped, 5 to 7 minutes. Meanwhile, toast the sesame seeds in a small skillet over medium heat, tossing frequently until seeds are golden brown and fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Toss shallot rings with remaining 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper. Let sit for a minute or two to lightly pickle, then add the sesame seeds, herbs and sesame oil and toss to combine. Transfer salmon to a large serving platter and spoon the remaining marinade from the sheet pan over the fillets. Top with sesame and herb salad and serve.
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What has cheered me up is that I wiped down every single makeup item I own so they all shine like wee gleaming jewels in their tidy acrylic organizers. 😍
THE GREEN SOUP RECIPE
The way to keep a green soup green is not to overcook it. Once you’ve added the peas and basil to this, take it off the heat and blitz it straight away. This is gorgeously light, but you can make it more hearty by using chicken stock and topping with fried pancetta. Serves eight.
olive oil
1 whole head garlic, cloves separated and peeled
about 6 courgettes (otherwise known as zucchinis) cut into 3cm-thick slices
Salt and pepper
1 quart of vegetable or chicken stock
about 500g frozen peas (one bag, usually)
about 2.5 cups of fresh basil leaves
a bit of feta cheese (optional)
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon (optional)
Heat the oil in a large saucepan on a medium-high flame, then fry the garlic cloves for a few minutes, stirring often, until caramelized. Add the courgettes, two teaspoons of salt and plenty of pepper, and fry for three-plus minutes, stirring, until starting to brown. Pour in the stock, bring to a boil and cook on a high heat for seven minutes, until the courgette is soft but still bright green. (The original recipe says to add a cup or two of water, but I've been waiting until the end and then only adding water if the soup is too thick.) Add the peas, stir through for a minute, then add the basil, turn off the heat and blitz smooth with an immersion blender.
To serve, spoon into bowls and top with the feta and lemon zest. Finish with a good grind of black pepper and a final drizzle of oil.
Ooh thanks, definitely trying that!
Can't wait to try this
This sounds delicious!
Cannot wait to a) cook and devour this and b) delve back into Simple, which my brother gave me for Christmas either last year or the years before, and about which I had entirely forgotten.
I add yogurt to my green soups (usually I add broccoli too) at the end when I'm blending it with the immersion blender, and it just makes it extra smooth and extra creamy. Like having cream, but more tangy, and interesting.
What has been really cheering me up is that I made a list of things I would like to do daily for myself and I'm actually doing it. It includes a skincare/makeup morning routine, taking my meds, having breakfast, doing some exercise, I'm reading, I'm learning Spanish, and a few more things. And what is wonderful is that I'm truly not expecting myself to do ALL of these things 100% of the time. If I do it 80% and more I consider it a win!
Sylvie Marie Hebert I've been doing the exact same thing and it's made such a big difference! 💜
I would love to see fashion content with Julia!!! I definitely had a psychological barrier with dresses a few years ago, seeing dresses as impractical because I bike everywhere, but bike shorts and inventive knots (for longer skirts) really solve everything and wearing dresses is so much fun for everyday (+ suuuper comfortable).
That’s so interesting the same thing happen to me this last month i kept wearing pants or jeans but not really loving them i realize in the last 6 months that if i just wear either skirts or dresses exclusively i I’m happy fell like myself and feel prepared for any occasion, and i learn this in quarantine.
I never pause mid video to comment, but that is the most accurate description of The Umbrella Academy I have heard. I had the same "looks cool but probably dumb" initial impression and then a FELL IN HARD.
1. Generally a terrible cook but am now baking my own bread and loving it.
2. The toad that we found in our garden yesterday. First one after 7 years here, and it was a chunk! Also the neighbour's cat which visits almost daily.🐈
3. The garden. It is such a tonic.
4. Finally sitting down to watch Mad Men.
5. Trevor Noah.
6. Loving my husband and appreciating how lucky i am to have a man with whom i actually love quarantining!
7. My Calm app.
8. How lucky i am that i, and those i love, are still in good health.🤞🏻
9. RUclips. Amongst others, your videos have been a real salve at times. My husband is a great many, wonderful things but he is not someone who waxes lyrical or pulls things apart to analyse them, any more than the necessary as he sees it, and in the absence of regular coffees with girlfriends or nights out, you have been that 'friend' with whom i can regularly check-in. Always a pleasure!☕ 🥂
10. Kitkats.🤗
22:41 Someone making a break for it!👀
The word "unprecedented" is like the key phrase of this year. NPR drops it every 5 minutes, it cracks me up
I'm a person who wears dresses all throughout the warm season here in NYC (I first started doing it when I was pregnant and then nursing) and this year I'm making a conscious effort to transition them into the cold season too. But I know exactly how you felt towards your day dresses. Some comments I get from other women are just wild: 'Nice dress, but you're going to be so hot in that', 'I have that dress, I wore it last year', 'Is this dress from the XYZ organic local sustainable brand?'. It did seem like my wearing dresses was rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. But I guess I'm now too old to give a damn so I continue wearing what I like when I like.
I'm about to stretch my cold, creaky limbs and get into a week of night shifts, so thank providence for this impeccable timing. 💖
It really sounds like you are living your best life over here cooking these amazing meals for humans+baby, really finding pleasure in tv and makeup, etc. like these are all pretty regular everyday things but you really communicate the joy and love involved in all of them. I find that really inspiring! Cooking is always so hard on my back and feels super stressful bc of the timing being so important, so I hope to cultivate some of this energy in my life too 😁
I feel you on the timing thing. Most of my food is slow-cooked in a single pot for that exact reason. Thankfully I'm Persian, so almost all of our food works like that :) Even the rice we make to accompany our stews is slow-cooked with a lovely large margin for error.
one thing that has helped me a lot with the timing stress is starting a half hour earlier than I think I need to, and prepping all of the ingredients for all of the dishes before turning on the stove. Like, chopping everything up and putting it all into separate bowls, salting the meat, opening the cans, etc. Then when it's time to actually cook the food there's nothing distracting me. AND it leaves time for some back stretching in between :)
The passion and joy of you talking about how you make the green soup is iNFECTIOUS. Ottolenghi is absolutely brilliant but his recipes often don't feel simple. This one sounds so fascinating and very easy. Hmmmm.... 🤔
Hey hey!!!👋👋👋
I finally got around to altering a haori (Japanese jacket you wear over kimonos) that I got in Japan. Wearing it around the house has been really cheering me up! It's comfy, perfect for fall transition weather and it reminds me of a great vacation
I would have to say that my treadmill has been the thing that has been cheering me up this month. Since COVID started and my entire school and work life moved into my apartment I had really fallen off the movement train and had no motivation to fit exercise into my life. Since the beginning of the month I’ve made it a priority to get onto the treadmill every day for 45 minutes and not only has the exercise been good for me but also the result of knowing that I am following through with my decision is making me feel better and more confident in this new reality we have found ourselves in.
I need to do this. Tonight is night 1!
What a fun video! What's been cheering me up -
-Watching Star Trek the Next Generation while cooking dinner and transitioning away from my workday (my sister and I used to watch this together in the 90s so it brings back really fun memories)
-My AM coffee in bed, looking out of my window at the 'forest' that is my back yard
-Walking to the new coffee shop that opened up in my small town (and has outodoor seating - so I'm trying to take advantage of it since I won't probably go once the weather changes here in the PNW)
- Reading on my Kindle at night in the dark, in bed under the covers (and the Libby app! I love the Libby app!)
love TNG!
The changing weather is cheering me up so much. It means I can turn on the electric fireplace and wear my cozy, comforting sweaters, and drink my coffee hot instead of iced, and the fires in California can die down, And I can go for walks and spend time in the park instead of sitting in my room, and just a tiny bit of the pressure is lifted.
I’ve been binge watching your videos, and with all respect I think those short square nails are the most tasteful, elegant and consistent with your overall image that I’ve seen on you.
Ah, I love dresses so much. I wear them constantly. Living in California I have realized that its quick, effortless, and cool (ventilation is fantastic in dresses in the neverending summers here) to wear them daily. And you’re right, I feel more put together when I do - I even get comments all the time about looking nice when I feel like I’m wear something that could be pajamas in how comfortable it is but it’s presentable and pretty. I’m on team day dress all the way!
I can't sleep so I decided to listen to this video again because your voice calms me down 😊 What cheers me up right now is tidying/cleaning on a rainy day, writing all the important stuff on my calendar, watching The L word and cooking apples with cinnamon for breakfast
The Umbrella Academy is really wonderful! It made me so happy that season two came out during the pandemic. I would highly recommend giving it a shot if you haven't watched it!
Hi Hannah- you have been cheering me up! :) I love watching your videos and I appreciate the amount of work and thoughtfulness that are put into them.. Your passion for cooking and food is fantastic and I would be here for that sort of content as well. I have been working on a Hannah inspired quilt since you shared yours. My geek self is getting a kick out of hst math but I have yet to really figure out the quilt-as-you-go method. Would love to know how yours is going. Take care!
Mine is kind of stalled since we moved! I keep meaning to get back to it!
QI is a gem of a talkshow, lighting scented and unscented candles, Audible, Twitch streams, specialty green teas from a local shop, my special soft blanket to snuggle into, home made chicken soup, Mahler symphonies, the Hamilton soundtrack, Cavalleria Rusticana with Maria Callas, biking through the rain with my waterproof makeup on and knowing it'll stay put, seeing my orchid sprout new twigs, looking for poetry and photography that inspires me on IG. Thank you for speaking on joy and positivity, it helps!
I LOVE QI
Lol ok last comment I promise! I’ve been really cheered up lately by getting back into my eyeshadows! I rarely leave the house, but even when I do I love wearing fun sparkly colors on my eyes to make me feel better about having a mask on. And wearing makeup around the house just for me helps me feel put together and pretty.
I’ve also been crocheting garments for myself quite a lot and its been so fun and creative. I love the crochet Instagram community, they are all so encouraging and lovely to talk with. Its really fun to make friends with a similar hobby that you can talk with.
Also, playing board games and card games with my kids and husband has been lots of fun. They are 7 & 10, and are hilarious when we play! Its been wonderful:)
Cheering me up Rn:
*I’ve been making recipes from the Skinnytaste cook books. Just cooking in general and trying new recipes.
* I’ve been making my bed everyday. Which I would have never done before but it’s been making feel accomplished and happy.
* the new Taylor Swift album-highly recommend
*Going for long walks. I will miss so bad when it gets too cold. I live in Northern Minnesota.
* Because I’ve lost a significant amount of weight (75 pounds) I had to buy all new winter clothes which is good. I’ve been more careful about selecting clothes I absolutely love. So getting to wear new clothes I adore has been cheering me up.
Thanks for sharing Hannah. ❤️
You seem particularly cheerful in this video 😍
Ok, sussy fish is my new favourite expression! :p
I love the fact that people assume dress=fancy, when in my head dress=I only had to pick one item of clothing, not two! And I will get my butt into gear to watch Umbrella Academy season 2. My husband and I loved the first season.
It's spring in Australia, and while the natives don't loose their leaves, we have quite a few deciduous plants around our house, including a large oak tree in the next door neightbours yard. It has been a real joy to watch the leave coming back, to see flowers bloom and hear more birdsong, especially as Melbourne is still in very strict lockdown. And of course, every video of yours brings me joy :)
I finished it already but LUCIFER has been the light of my quarantine ... I loved how simple, selfish, funny and easy to watch it was ... it made me so happy I miss it! Reading really slow (I almost always finish a book within a week or 2 days) the new release from the twilight books, and I created a blush project for my channel to love my blushes and rotate them I have about 150 blushes and I’ll go and use them four times each and rotate ten by ten ... simple things that have been cheering me out during a time when sometimes all I want to do is sleep and avoid everything. ❤️ loved this video Hannah ! ☺️
Something that has really been cheering me up is a weekly Community Supported Agriculture box that my fiancé and I signed for up at the start of the pandemic! We really miss going to farmer's market, and it's been a joy to receive fresh local produce and figure out what to make with it each week.
When you talked about watching the clock tick in the morning in the check in, it made me think how much I have enjoyed that I finally replaced the battery in my clock! I think the ticking sound and round clock face is just inexplicably good for the soul. I know many people dont like them but I aim to get more clocks so I can enjoy them all over my home.
I discovered within the last few days that I love green?? Green is on display ALL OVER my dorm room and my closet, always paired with blue and white. I wear so much green and blue clothing. That’s been so cool! I didn’t know I’ve been gravitating toward green this year as I decorated my room and bought clothes! I feel like I have green the way you have red, Hannah. And that’s the dream.
Love this!!!
In the spring and summer especially I love wearing dresses in the warm weather. It’s so effortless and easy and COMFORTABLE! I completely get it! In the winter I love wearing sweater dresses for church. :) it’s still dressy but warm. :)
I have a love hate relationship with Umbrella Academy. I basically hate all of the characters except for Five lol. But I watched both seasons in one sitting. Three shows that I HIGHLY recommend are The Boys, A Discovery of Witches and Lovecraft Country. Which is MIND-BLOWINGLY good. Also - welcome to the press on nail club!
I LOVED the first season of The Boys and I haven't watched the second season yet! Which is to say, I'm now super excited about your other 2 recommendations. I saw a billboard for Lovecraft Country and I was like "that looks perfect, I wanna watch that" and then I forgot about it, so yay. Also I take your point about the Umbrella Academy characters except for that I can't help but love Klaus.
Lovecraft Country is so good! It also has the best soundtrack - the theme tune has been stuck in my head for weeks. 😅
I was coming down here to recommend The Boys too, so this is the nudge I needed to finally watch Lovecraft Country!
I am also a Klaus apologist 😂
I love to build quads and 6 pan eyeshadow palettes with my singles, it relaxes me so much! And when I build them I don't want to use anything else!
Also I must try that green soup recipe, thank you for sharing it 😘
What's been cheering me up lately is the CW show Roswell, New Mexico, my drinking glass from the Hunger Games museum exhibit like five years ago that i just started to use, the eucalyptus mint scent of Everyman Jack bodywash, and the Snyder's gluten free pretzel sticks.
I recently brought my young horse home from the trainer and have been riding her and continuing her training! It has been such a relief, since my other horse hurt herself the night before the fourth of July when a bear ran through our pasture and I've been doctoring her since then. My horses are always what cheers me up, so I was really depressed for most of the summer with that on top of everything else going on in the world.
omg that sounds so amazing! dreamy horse life!
I'm on holiday and have spotty wifi so I'll probably save this but Ted Lasso has been bringing me joy - it's just a show about people being nice and kind and growing. I've been thoroughly charmed by it, and was not expecting to be at all!
Oh wow I loved the Umbrella Academy too! Kinda hoping they will have another season. If you're into time travel stories, Dark is also very good although much darker and philosophical in tone. I rarely binge shows, but these two got me
I’ve been wearing a little bit of perfume on at home, which I don’t usually do, and I’ve found my mood is lifted every time I get a whiff of a pleasant scent throughout the day :)
You always surprise me. I didn't realize something like Umbrella Academy would be your speed, but I shelved it for the same reasons, so now I need to go back and watch it.
Your joy videos well your videos are giving me joy. I know i say that all the time, but theres been so much going on personally and with the world so these videos are a lovely oasis.
For all of one second I was like... zucchini?!! Ahh... Hannah’s talking about courgette! 🙈🤣
The Graham Norton Show has been the bright spot on my commute to work. I’ve been watching/listening to reruns/clips on YT to and from work and giggling silently to myself. Also, bright pink lipstick. Wearing Nars Natalie and MAC Postmodern (the latter bought purely because of its name!) have been seriously elevating my mood. ☺️💕
We lovedlovedloved the Umbrella Academy!! So very good. Can’t wait for season 3!! Knives Out, too! That soup sounds great for these rainy autumn days!
I really love listening to "The School of Greatness" podcast - so inspiring and interesting. Apart from that I have really enjoyed daily walks (boring, but true) and my project pan where I am slowly but steadily finishing up my products
What's cheering me up right now is a new piercing I got over the weekend! I've wanted to add a third piercing to my left earlobe for years and finally just went and did it. The piercer at the tattoo parlor I went to helped me pick out the most gorgeous rose gold set of pieces that suit my style perfectly and I'm just in love.
I have a non makeup thing that is cheering me up (gasp!) 👀 my wedding photos! They were such a split second decision because we really weren’t planning on doing anything official beyond eloping but I’m so glad we did them and now I have them forever and I just love them. Reminds me of how important taking photos actually is
your wedding photos cheered me up so much that they should have been in this video :)
Your frequent videos is one of the things that's cheering me up right now 😍
Thanks for the time and the effort that you're putting into this ❤️
Umbrella Academy is so good! It's bizzare and hilarious and not at all what I expected either. Turns out, it's great.
Ben is by far my favorite, so I can't wait for the next season!!
I have been loving researching Oíche Shamhna (Hallowe'en) recently. Even as a child I never particularly enjoyed the uber commercialised way it has been celebrated here in Ireland in recent years, but after choosing to celebrate it traditionally last year and having the best one of my life, I am doing it again this year, and I cannot wait!!
The Umbrella Academy is an amazing show and such a boon to have it come out during the Pandemic.
I started reading tarot and using oracle decks. The cards have inspired me to draw as well. I'm cheered up immensely by both. I might watch Umbrella Academy soon. SarahJo did a monologue on a character from this show. If she's not on your radar, I think you'd love her. And she loves you!
What a joyful video! Simple & elegant dresses make me happy too (always), as well as, the change of season with it's colorful, melancholy ways; Kyoto autumn leaves incense (that one of your subscribers recommended); manuka honey; tending to flowering plants in my garden; making biscuits; your videos (of course); & reading the gorgeously written Cider with Rosie. I would very much enjoy a video of you & Julia discussing fashion!
Thanks for the TV and soup suggestion!
I am always cheered up by wearing my rings
I am constantly suprised how much we have in common. I love The umbrella academy and everything similar and don't let me start on Knives out. Also my recommendation is Murder on the Orient Express, I think you would like it if you like Knives out. 🤗🤗
I’ve been VERY into wearing dresses a lot lately. Very casual worn with earrings and tennis shoes ❤️
FINALLY you discovered "The Umbrella Academy"! It's mine and my Sister's favorite show (well, this and TBBT)! 💖 💖I had the same feelinga while watching trailers, especially since I dislike TV series as a genre. But it truely is delightful!
My partner adored umbrella Academy but warned me it's the type of show that F's my sleep up majorly (which I so appreciate knowing before I start something) Mini tee shirt dresses have been my happy thing this month too. I only have one but everyone time it's clean I'm pulling it on with knee socks and dr martens and feeling adorable. I thought about getting another one but the one I had thought about sold out already. So I'll just be happy with the one. Making a cup of tea every morning has also brought me a surprising amount of happiness
I’m starting to get my footing again at home (I recently went through a big move, moving in with my partner and changing provinces), so I’m starting to workout, paint, and take time in the morning for skincare again and that’s made me so happy. I’m hoping to recover a joy for cooking soon as well (Simple by Ottolenghi sounds great - I’ve had some Ottolenghi recipes before and loved them). I might start with that green soup! Also hoping to start baking, reading, and putting on makeup again. But I’m trying to take it easy and not put too much pressure on myself. As always, love your videos, thank you for sharing as you do! ❤️ have a great week!
So glad you mentioned the umbrella academy because it gives me liffeeeee
Yes! The Umbrella Academy is so freaking good. 👌💜 The thing that has been cheering me up the most has been putting up all my Halloween decorations. It's been so much fun, and yesterday I heard a mom and her kids out walking the dog and enjoying the decorations, and that just made my day! 🎃💀🕷
I LOVE the Umbrella Academy! We watched it about a month ago, and watched all the episodes in a weekend. I can’t wait for week 3
U just inspired me to frankenstein my kaleidos palettes and i made one of my favorites and it made me so so happy!! There is a joy in making custom palettes! Iv never done it before. The colors r so pretty 😍
Omg had to pause and say my husband and I just watched the Umbrella Academy over the last couple weeks and LOVED it!! I can’t wait for the third season to come out!
Hannah, your content is just bringing me so much joy lately! I will definitely be making that soup!
I've been making public music playlists here on RUclips for years now. Truly is amazing sharing with so many souls and finding new music always makes my heart happy. 😍 And UA is BRILLIANT! I normally can predict everything when watching movies or reading books. Which I suspect comes from the writer in me. But UA had me surprised more than a few times; so, YES GIRL! WE LOVE IT HERE TOO. Tehe, my Grandfather and I had been waiting soooo long before the second season of Umbrella Academy came out. Stay safe, Sweetheart! XOXO - Amber
@hannah By chance do you enjoy tarot readings? The Hermit Tarot here on YT has a brilliant platform and she even has selected songs given to her with each of the reading sets she does. My brain is all over the place doing 5 things at once but seen you had loved my comment and just thought of this. So here's my mess of my thoughts in the "written" word. ;-) xoxo
I know that the stress of living with a new pod of people is probably pretty big, but you seem a lot happier. Living with your good friends and having a baby to look after must be really working for you.
My watercolor pencils and an adult coloring book are bringing me so much joy right now. I always wanted to get back into painting but all the fuss and preparation seemed daunting. So I just got a coloring book and some watercolor pencils. It's not even that messy like regular watercolor painting as I just use a wet paintbrush over the coloured in portions. Painting has never been so much fun and less fussy. There is no cleaning up after, as I just close the book and put away my pencils.
Your little custom palette is giving me the same vibes as the Wayne Goss palette , so pretty
Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your content and it resonates with me in a way I didn’t see coming. I also got all the ingredients for the green soup. I’ll be making it tomorrow. Thank you Hannah 💖
thank you!
Ooh can I share a recipe too? This is a fall fave of mine and is SO simple and easy. I personally love being in the kitchen for a long time because I find it very relaxing, so I love a recipe that physically takes a long time but where the actions are very simple. Perfect time to listen to a podcast, chat with a friend, even read a book.
Behold, butternut squash pasta w/ caramelized onions:
1. Preheat oven to...something? Idk, like 400. Roasting-some-veggies temp, basically.
2. Slice up an onion (don't dice) and begin cooking over low-medium heat with salt and a couple tbsp of olive oil.
3. Cut a big ol butternut squash in half, drizzle with olive oil and s&p, and stick in the oven.
4. Throughout this whole recipe, stir the onions every couple of minutes so they don't burn.
5. The squash should roast for ~35-45 minutes and the onions will take ~50-70 minutes to caramelize. Start boiling some water when you're nearing the end of the wait time on the squash. Throw the pasta in when your squash is done.
6. When the squash is done, blend it up with some liquid (water, veggie broth, chicken broth, water+MSG powder, etc), s&p, and herbs of your choice (rosemary/sage/thyme are all good here). You now have your pasta sauce!
7. Combine pasta & as much squash sauce as you want. Top each serving with caramelized onions when they're finished.
This has endless variations...you could add in cooked chicken, top with fried sage if you have the time, change up the sauce by adding in other roasted veggies (carrots are great) or tomato sauce, etc. etc. etc. Such a simple formula -- it takes a long time, but there's not much to do so it ends up being so relaxing!! Plus, one butternut squash is like 3lbs so this makes enough sauce for ~8-10 servings.
This looks awesome! Do you have a link or is it your own? I’m trying to save it and my phone won’t let me copy the text 🤷♀️
I've been making something similar but with a base of roux to thicken it up a bit as per Nisha's (Rainbow Plant Life) recipe. My 4 year old loves it because a) pasta, b) the squash is sooo sweet!
@@leprekaun123 I'm sure I got this from somewhere originally but I've edited it a lot over the years! If you search butternut squash pasta sauce you'll probably find something pretty similar :) it's key to roast the squash instead of just boiling it like some recipes suggest, the flavor is so much deeper and more delicious!
@@RocaillewritesBlogspotcom ooh that sounds so good!!
@@wednesdaygreenleaf9578 Was able to grab it off my computer instead of the phone! Thanks!
I made the Green soup, and it was so easy and delicious. Also, it reminded me of a home-cooked meal I had in the Czech Republic, when I visited years ago. It brought back nice memories.
Thanks for sharing ❤️
Mom liked it too 😍
What is cheering me up right now are my sweaters. I love the cosyness and all these textures make me feel really stylish without overthinking it
Ah yes! The umbrella Academy - so great! And I love the word suspicifish! Thanks for that too !
I’m absolutely salivating over this soup!!! Will make next week with some good crusty bread 🤤
I managed to watch this and I'm glad you enjoyed TUA, I kinda liked the first series but adored the second. I also have a soup like this - I mean totally different it's a hot and sour lentil soup by Ruby Tandoh but it fills that same space of easy, comforting and with high returns on your effort. I'm going to try this recipe too. I'm glad you're experiencing joy for dresses. I swapped to being mostly all dress all the time a few years ago and it felt so freeing. I'm wracking up a collection of Seasalt dresses because I just adore their aesthetic. Enjoy!
Hot and sour lentil!!!! I need to look this up
I love these kinds of videos! Super random video request: it seems like you’ve really come into your own aesthetically since your no buy year. You always looked amazing, but in the last couple of years you seem to have consolidated a set of preferences that are distinctly HLP. Would you ever consider making a video about how your no buy year helped you streamline and clarify your aesthetic, as well as what kind of thinking/planning you did around creating your look in the last couple of years?
That is an amazing video idea! Would love to watch it 😊
Sydney Young right?! It would be so juicy! I’m so inspired by Hannah’s transformation and how she has aesthetically come into her own.
this is such an interesting question. I think there are a lot of additional factors, including age, profession, time of life, and being on RUclips. But the no-buy is probably the biggest. I will consider making a video about it for sure!
Cheering me up... I am Brazilian, so sometimes I go on Netflix and binge all the new Brazilian shows and movies there. So to my surprise, I found a little show called Spectros, which gave me a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe, only set in my city, Sao Paulo. When I see the credits, it was created and directed by Doug Petrie, who was a writer and Executive Produce on Buffy (he also worked on American Horror Story: Coven and Daredevil). So, now I'm on the third episode of the show and having a kick out of it, as a I am huge fan of Buffy. The show is about 3 teenagers (a Japanese girl, a black girl and a white boy) who get caught up in a supernatural clash as vengeful spirits from centuries past rise up in Liberdade, the traditionally Japanese neighborhood in Sao Paulo, mixing Afro-Brazilian culture and Japanese-Brazilian culture.
Another thing that's cheering me up is decluttering and selling my clothes, shoes and bags. :)
yes to the fashion video with julia!!
If you started sewing dresses, exept not the tango ones now but some really cool home dreeses, I bet they would be top-notch! 💜
It’s a struggle these days! Oof! But here goes (also good gratitude practice!): quick natural make up (loving the Erin’s faces concealer Thank you!), dyed eyebrows (one less step in the AM and wake up feeling like you are 1/2 way there), tea (all the tea, currently Utpon Tea earl gray), my kids singing and dancing to the Coco soundtrack, mommastrong.com 15 min daily workouts at the crack of dawn (5:20am), leopard print anything, Getting gifts for fiends struggling to cope during the pandemic, my sister and friends and our endless text chains, your videos!, family dance parties, my husband cooking, baking, showers, clean sheets (not much better), treasured nights when no one wakes me up during them, Rothys (have cherry red and leopard print - when you wear almost all black and gray and denim the are perfect pops of color and just feel like massively elevated flip flops! Scared for the weather getting colder because I don’t remember what I wear in my feet when it’s cold...). There is more and, wow, this has been an awesome exercise to do! I didn’t know there was so much that was cheerful. I need to keep a list and then go back to it if I need cheering up! Thank you! (I notice that my job is not on this list 🧐)
P.S.I wear easy dresses all summer (mostly just tshirt dresses - easy to dress up or down) but in the north east they hibernate because I hate tights and they are the epitome of uneasy.
I love day dresses and house dresses. So comfortable and so easy because it's just one item. I agree with you about rewatching shows, I like not knowing what's going to happen.
Love this series! 🧡
I also watched Umbrella Academy and I thought it was going to be too corny or childish but it was a pleasant surprise :) What's cheering me up right now is my nieces & nephew. Also my friends in the beauty community & doing my makeup for practical purposes.
hannah! if you liked the umbrella academy, you may enjoy “dirk gently’s holistic detective agency”. i say it has similar vibes and it is on hulu!
thank you!!!!
Glue-on nails have been making me happy too! I buy from an artist who makes and ships custom sets... waiting on my IT set (because who doesn't love scary clowns) to make my October complete. Another thing that's cheering me up is college football. This late start means the season will go into December so that's a bit of joy to carry me through the rest of 2020 ❤
Ooooh!! Awesome tip about the glue. I bought three pairs through your link and for me the mediums are truly unwearable. I may even need to file the short ones. But I went HAM with the glue and then when I needed to get them off because they were too long, it was a bit difficult. The glue is a million times better than any glue I've used in the past and I really liked them, but I was planning on doing a bit more research before I put on another pair. I love square nails, they suit my hands the best and look the most realistic. But I'm going to give the short sort of round ones a go next and save the short square ballerina ones for last.
THAT SOUP !!!!! It was a delight
Ooh! I am excited by the prospect of that soup. Especially since I have a garden and am running out of zucchini recipes.
I'm eating green soup and it's incredible! So fresh and surprisingly creamy. And VEGAN!
Hannah! I wish I told you about the umbrella Academy… It is our absolute favorite… We are totally hooked and obsessed! ❤️
Going to try the green soup…
Cheering me up right now: ANIME. I don't know how familiar you are with it but if you have a chance, Hannah, I HIGHLY recommend it. I just love the storytelling in Japanese anime. I love to get lost in the story and the characters are always so multi-dimensional and "a lot". Right now I'm enjoying watching one called Fairy Tail about wizards and dragons and flying kitties! It's a good time and something my hubby and I enjoy together 😊
My bestie has told me I need to watch The Umbrella Academy...I think I'm going to finally watch it now.
I was on tenterhooks waiting for you to name the damn show already, and I'm so glad that it was the one that it was. Your X meets Y meets Z comparison was perfect as well. It's a fantastic show and I, too, pandemic-binge-watched it. I'm going to be so very, very cross if there's no third season.
I love that soup with a bit of blue cheese at the bottom 🤤
Your 6 pan palette reminds me of the nabla cutie one you have, and I would love to see how you would use that one for this type of eye look!
Yes, I wear casual dresses all the time, they make me feel pretty and cheer me up. I have many from Uniqlo and recently discovered & other stories and have been very impressed with their quality. For high fashion I love Cecilie Bahnsen but that’s just for contemplation cause it’s waaay out of my budget!
I follow Cecilie Bahnsen on IG and it's PAINFUL I TELL YOU
Hannah Louise Poston I have a board of her dresses on Pinterest haha. I’m in love with her silhouettes and fabrics, so whimsical!
my recent cheering up has been done by Love Island! i'd never watched any other season before, and i am shocked at how, uh, raunchy it got (it was on CBS, not cable!), but also i became fascinated by these young people's (i'm 40) emotional intelligence. i'm guessing part of this was because they were limited in how much alcohol they could drink, but it was so weirdly heart warming to see this competition show actually not be that competitive at all. everyone seemed so supportive of one another. totally mind blowing and terribly addictive, in a good way. highly recommend if you're into anthropology/sociology/psychology/pop culture. ;-)
Happy Canadian thanksgiving! 😊
Instead of what's cheering me up, I'm going to switch it up and say what I'm thankful for. The most relevant one right now is my roommates, none of us were able to go home for the holiday so we had a dinner together and it was a great time! I'm also thankful that I am living in an area that is extremely safe pandemic wise which made it so I could go home during the summer. The governments of the Atlantic provinces deserve all of the praise possible. I'm thankful for all of the amazing people in my life who are keeping me going right now as well. I don't know what I'd do without them. And finally, I'm thankful for my family cat, Hank. He's the biggest joy of life and I miss him every time I leave my parents.
A food favourite right now: mac and cheese. I learned how to make a roux and it made my mac and cheese 10x better than it had been. I also found an herb and garlic cheddar which is so unbelievably delicious in mac and cheese. Comfort food at its finest!
Oooh umbrella academy I will check it out!! Rewatching Buffy (the vampire slayer) has been cheering me up right now! A show before it’s time!
Oh and hearing you talk about the soup reminded me that I just got a new blender and that is cheering me up right now!
we just found out that Julia has never seen Buffy and we're crusading to get her to watch it
@@HannahLouisePoston there are two types of people in the world, those who love buffy and those who don’t yet know that they love buffy! Though a think a good hint to success can be to start at season 2.... although I love season 1 it can be tough for new viewers hah
I love The Umbrella Academy too! I started watching Ratchet. It’s stunningly beautiful, it’s like each scene is a moving picture. It’s a hyper colorized, film noir ascetic. Like if film noir, La La Land, and American Horror Story had a baby.
I’m sad to hear, but completely understand that you no longer accept subscriber gifts! I love making press-ons for myself and my sister, and would’ve loved to make you a couple sets! Your girl has too many nail supplies to use on just 2 people alone. Always enjoying your content, Hannah. You’re my go-to when making my sugar flowers and having play time with my cakes. 🌝
- my favourite pair of fleece lined, oversized joggers worn with a fitted black tee - this has become my uniform for working from home and i am so comfy and never cold
- rowing and resistance bands
- punch up the jam podcast (esp the new episodes with chris fleming)
- 51 worldwide games for switch - me and my partner have been learning to play chess, and having quick games of blackjack, connect 4 and yahtzee most nights
- goofy, fun movies - this week we have watched good burger and the mask
- re-learning german on duolingo
- an amazing NYT recipe:
Salmon With Sesame and Herbs
By Alison Roman
4 servings
20 minutes, plus 20 minutes’ marinating
The easy-to-memorize marinade for this fast broiled salmon hits all the right notes: salty, sweet and sour. The fish emerges from the oven with caramelized, crisp skin, which contrasts nicely with a salad of fresh parsley or cilantro (or both), tossed with sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. Close contact with the intense heat will help crisp up the skin, while keeping the rest of the fish tender and flaky. To avoid overcooking the salmon, be sure to buy fillets that are at least 1 inch thick, and keep an eye on the fish.
INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
3 tablespoons light brown sugar or honey
4 tablespoons unseasoned rice wine vinegar
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
4 skin-on salmon fillets, 4 to 6 ounces each, at least 1-inch thick
2 tablespoons raw white sesame seeds
1 small shallot, thinly sliced into rings
3 cups cilantro, parsley or both, tender leaves and stems
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
PREPARATION
Combine soy sauce, light brown sugar and 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar in a wide, shallow bowl (or small baking dish) and season with salt and plenty of black pepper. Place salmon skin-side up in the marinade and let sit for at least 20 minutes, or up to 2 hours.
Place a rack in the top third of the oven and heat the broiler.
Place salmon skin-side up on a foil-lined baking sheet; discard the marinade. Transfer to oven and broil until the salmon is cooked through and the skin is bubbling and lightly crisped, 5 to 7 minutes.
Meanwhile, toast the sesame seeds in a small skillet over medium heat, tossing frequently until seeds are golden brown and fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes.
Toss shallot rings with remaining 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper. Let sit for a minute or two to lightly pickle, then add the sesame seeds, herbs and sesame oil and toss to combine.
Transfer salmon to a large serving platter and spoon the remaining marinade from the sheet pan over the fillets. Top with sesame and herb salad and serve.
Hibiscus La Croix and roasted red pepper hummus from Aldi!!!