It's been a long morning. I lost my glasses, my camera battery and...

what's the third thing I lost? Oh! I broke my straightener this morning.

so I was dealing with all that... finally I found everything and I got my straightener working long enough

to deal with this disaster and... yeah we are back in business

so hi guys! welcome to vlogmas! and today I got some fun stuff plan

and I'm actually gonna go see Miko. I know that you guys really

want a video update on Miko. If you don't know who Miko is, search for M-I-K-O cats on YouTube

and the videos that I've made of her previously will probably come out

I'm going to visit Miko. My friend does not live in the same town as me anymore

which is really sad but she is just a few trains away so I can go to see her

when I want to. So I'm gonna do that today so that I can show you guys Miko an update you want hear

Actually, she's been having some problems with her nose recently,

she's been having really bad nose bleed and my friend took her to the vet

and the don't know what it is. They give her some cold medicine but it didn't work

I kind of wish that they would like think a little harder about what it could be

We have a feeling it's because the winter air is really dry right now and that might be affecting her nose

so I ordered a humidifier on Amazon and I'm going to pay for that and then hopefully it will arrive

in a couple of days so she can start using that and hopefully that will help

oh my god, I gotta get dress and get started because it's already 2 o'clock

Maro are you hungry? I'm sorry

you have to wait a long time

there you go

oh wait, I gotta close this... wait, wait, wait... wait, wait

he can't wait he's really hungry. Ok I let you eat a bit

This new feeder is working so well guys, oh my god I love it. It was such a good investment. It was really expensive but

It's working exactly how it's suppose to work. Luna can't get into here to steal Maro's food so

That's what's important to me. Maro I gotta close this. Gotta close it!

Here you go

Luna

Have some, I just gave you some. It's here, Luna it's here

Here. There you go

There you go

good girl

come here

She is so cute, she pulled out and like balance one on her paw and eat it like that

Luna, come show them

good girl

or not

Hey guys I'm gonna show you how I make my veggie soup that I'm always tweeting about.

This is so easy to make if you have a slow cooker

If you don't have a slow cooker you can make it in a pot. I feel like it just take a lot more work if you do it in a pot

So slow cooker will make your life so much easier. Ok I'm missing one of the ingredients.

You also need to have some veggie broth cubes so I ordered the ones that I get from iHerb so I'm not gonna put it in today

It probably won't change the flavor that much but I'm assuming it tastes better with it in there

so as for veggies I've got orange pepper, broccoli and a red carrot

some onions

and garlic

and a can of tomatoes

You can put in whatever you like, this is a veggie soup, so just whatever you have in the fridge

and whatever you can find in the grocery store will work

as for seasonings we are gonna be using some paprika powder, black pepper, soy sauce

and this is the most important one that makes it taste really nice so old El Paso taco mix

it adds a really nice flavor to it. You get the spicy one if you look at kind of spicy too

and then just for some extras to give the soup some light thickness, I'll put in some quinoa and also put in some of this soup mix

believe you can also get this one on iHerb. I'll try to link the stuff that it's available on iHerb so you guys can see exactly what they all are

but yeah, basically you just cut up all the vegetables and dumping all the stuff into this pot and you turn it on and it'll be ready in four hours

the magic of slow cookers

Since it's the first day of vlogmas, I thought to show you guys then on what I'm planning doing throughout the month

so on the last day of vlogmas, December 25th, I'm gonna be doing a giveaway finally

I'm so sorry that I told you guys I will do a 200k giveaway and then I didn't get it prepared in time so

I've been saving up more things to add on to it and to make it a big holiday giveaway at the end of vlogmas so

what I'm gonna do is I'm going to choose seven people from within the comments of the vlogmas videos

so if you guys leave a comment on every vlogmas video you'll have more chances of being entered into the giveaway

but even if you leave comments in a couple of them you still have a little bit of a chance so

either way, whatever you guys wanna do, but yeah I'm gonna choose seven of you and

I'm going to put together packages of things that I've collected from all over Japan

summer stuff that I got on trips when I was down in Shikoku or when I was up in Aichi prefecture

also some things that I picked up around Tokyo

other things or stuff that I've shown in videos, like stuff I got at the Pokemon Center that you guys said you liked so

some of them I didn't open and kept it that way so that I can send it out to you guys so

yeah, lots of different things I'm gonna try and put together

seven packages so I hope I'll have a little bit of something for everyone in there so

whoever gets it will be happy with it so that's one big thing I'll be doing this vlogmas, I hope you guys enjoy that

I also be doing some shout-outs at the beginning of some of my blog videos

two channels that I think you guys might be interested in so look out for those every once in a while

and other than that I'm just gonna be filming my daily life and bring some questions and answers

I'm also hoping to get in some live shows and some mail openings throughout the month so

Lots of different things to look forward to and all included in some recipes for you guys but I tend to eat

he's cute

I tend to eat lots of the same stuff so I'm not gonna show you guys like what I've cooking every single day

because it would just be lots of soup and budel(?) bowls

but if I do make something new I will include some recipes

I also will be choosing for me to video to answer in the following videos so if you guys leave some questions

below this video I may choose your question to answer it at the end of tomorrow's vlog

also I'll be doing some travelling, I've got lots of plans to go back and forth to Tokyo to visit some people

that I'm really excited to see and do some business meeting and stuff that I may be able to involve you guys

and I'm not quite sure basically yeah, that's what it is so I really hope you guys enjoy this vlogmas

thanks again for joining me this year. I really look forward to because I had a blast last year

it was really neat being able to talk to you guys everyday. I really wish I can keep this up all year around

but it's just not like not something like I could do, it'd not be good for stress levels

but it is something that I really enjoy once a year so I hope you guys enjoy it too

but let's head out and go see Miko

hey

It's not that cold actually

(mumble) phoning me, it's them again. Fucking TV people, they've phoned me 17 times today

And they let it ring for like a long time each time until it cuts them off I guess

and there's no cancel button anymore

Miko!

Hey!

How are you?

remember me?

Do you remember me?

yeah?

How's her nose been?

It's been ok

Miko!

[laugh]

Miko say hi!

Everyone missed you!

too big now

They haven't seen you for a while [laugh]

[laugh]

If you guys follow me on Twitter, I tweet pictures of her some times

so if you want more Miko updates follow me there

[laugh]

she looks quite different from the last time I showed her in a video

Big now!

Don't look at me! [laughs]

Hey, don't do that

Okay, my friend wants to go to the second hand store to look for a tripod so

we're going to see if they have one... I hope they have some cool stuff there

I've never been to this one so it's interesting i used to live by this recycle store

back when I was in University and it was the coolest recycle store ever

they have toys and clothing, video games...

lots of like anime goods and figures and pokemon stuff so I hope the one by hers is cool like that, that would be really awesome

I'll keep you guys updated on how her nose issue turns out once we get that humidifier

in the room

so thirsty! we walked forever to get to the store

and I think I'm gonna get... I don't know. Can't choose between peach water and water

Peach water or water guys

Peach water!

So if you buy can coffee from this machine some of them would have a Gundam cap on top of them

That's so cool! I don't even want a coffee but I'm so tempted

They have lots of gotcha here... Look! a Ranma 1/2 gotcha

I've never seen one before

Ah! that's so tempting!

wii! If they had a Peach I would been doing it for sure. But they don't

This maneki neko is really cute too

Ah! there's Sonico gotcha here

Oh my god, I want them

You guys they have Chopper hats for cats

See?! they are so cute! Oh my god

I'm back home now, that recycle store was freaking awesome

I'm so jealous of my friend that she lives so close to it

but I got something really cool guys! but actually I can't show you what it is

because it's birthday present for two different people actually

so it can't be shown in my blog because I can't show it until I give it to them

but I guess you guys will see what it is eventually

because one of the vlogmas day will be the party where we open it

so look forward to that. Sorry I can't tell you. It's gonna be a big secret until then

but I'm really, really happy that I found something cool there. Really, really wasn't expecting to find that

and I also got some Pokemon figures I can show that to you guys

so I've already sorted them out into ones that I'm not collecting

and ones that I'm collecting

there aren't very many however the price for all of these was so cheap that it was worth it

for me to pay it just to get these ones. Altogether this was nine $9

and these are usually about $1 each, sometimes I can get lucky and find them three for a dollar

but to find ones in this good condition... like let me show them to you guys

to find ones in this good condition for such a low price is really rare so I am super stowed about that

these look amazing guys, look Mew and Mewtwo

was even a Raichu in there

and a Eve and they're all in amazing condition so

That was a score

so lucky

These ones I'm gonna like repaint them I think

I'm actually gonna use some of them in my giveaway so

if you see any Pokemon in here that you guys would really want me to put in my giveaway, let me know

If there's any you'd really like in here

Anyways let's go eat some soup. I'm really hungry!

So the soup turned out pretty good. I'm happy with the broccoli looks amazing. I don't usually put broccoli in it

Surprisingly enough but it looks really good. Let's try it! it's really hot though

It's pretty good. It's missing something. I definitely recommend putting corn

and shiitake mushrooms. I usually put those in there as well but I was too lazy to go the grocery store

but it's good

It's like it's good, it works with whatever vegetables [phone sound] you have as long as you have canned tomatoes but

Ok so Taylor pranked me again you guys [laugh]

but something went wrong. I'm not gonna tell you what it is. You're gonna have to go watch her vlog [laugh]

I'm still laughing about it. It's pretty funny

Alright. I'm gonna end today's vlog here guys. I'm gonna start editing this video

will be up in the morning for me so I hope you guys enjoyed vlogmas day one and I'll see you tomorrow

Remember to leave a comment if you would like to be entered into the holiday giveaway that will be drying

at the end of vlogmas and if you have any questions that you'd like me to answer in tomorrow's vlog, leave a question as well

And please give this blog a thumbs up if you enjoyed it

or thumbs down if you didn't enjoy it. I won't be too mad [laugh]

But please let me know, I'd like to know what you guys think. Thanks guys! Bye!

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