Why Feeling Like a Mess Is More Normal Than You Think in Adult Life

Why Feeling Like a Mess Is More Normal Than You Think in Adult Life

A candid conversation about the messy reality of adult life, from laundry and broken appliances to mortgages and credit scores. The host opens up about feeling like a mess while reminding viewers that everyone struggles sometimes, making everyday chaos feel a little more normal and relatable.

Let's be real: I'm a mess... but aren't we all sometimes? | Adulting With Aly. | Transcript:

it's into the simply pod logical cast thing don't team with Ali and this one's gonna be real good laundry to do and we have a new washing machine but I don't want to spoil everything too soon I meant wet pants I actually put a bra on for this video you're welcome I've got my new Lion King her Dion Eric yeah February it's just it's a crap month in it just big crap and so this month of adopting with Ali last month we were like super on it like mortgages credit scores credit cards this month's more like laundry I need to clean the house and I need to Mon have a cup of tea grab a glass of wine it's gonna get real oh we used to have a built-in washing machine that broke and they're like yeah let me get a

free-standing one now so this didn't have a door on it he was all like however i'm really glad got nice washing machine now right Audrey okay it's forever a constant battle to bloody wash stuff right so a little tea how do you do such things huh it's not too bad actually I can probably put that on a quick wash we love a 30-minute Eco wash in the world can I recycle you because apparently I learnt that is not a symbol that you can recycle it apparently that is a symbol that this company is a Procter & Gamble's and one yeah put towards money towards or something towards recycling schemes and that's not actually apparently a symbol you can recycle oh here we go number one pet there's so much to learn I don't know what it is

I've got my notes to try and figure out what it is this month I just have a new bill in it I really have not been feeling this I'm more anxious it's weird how things can so quickly change I'm blaming the weather because that's what British people do we blame the weather for everything that's wrong with the world but is it so like Oh February's been just staying in a lot you know what I mean it's been a lot in time that's kind of driving me crazy and not helping anxiety and also had a revelation shared on Instagram as I do you no good for my plug out there follow me on Instagram if you want all my life changing revelations cuz I'm doing loads of other things at the moment like doing a lot more speaking gigs for example yesterday we

got back from Dumfries where I was invited again by the wick time Book Festival for wigwams to participate in holding a talk thing up there in one of the senses and it was really cool got taken up to Scotland to do that amazing but now doing like other things and there's like secret things I can't talk about it I will talk about at some point but literally I'm keeping you all in suspense on purpose could talk about if I wanted to not under contract not to talk about it but I'm just gonna you know leave that there but all the time doesn't matter what I'm doing my brain always goes back the video I can't ever switch off from thinking well we're gonna do this we can you stop I have a

new idea this with what about next week or what can be done with your make sure company like this oh there's a cheese like that maybe you should book that and then fly there and do these kind of videos all my brain is now it's video then it can be really stressful when I'm trying to do other things and then it makes me feel really bad I need to do more videos it's really not good but then it suddenly hit me I this is the longest-running job I had been doing there for seven years let's say five years full-time by four and a half five years full-time it's the longest-running job I've had and at first all I ever did was videos it's all my mind needed to focus on us so it's just a pattern of behavior it's just

built in hard-wired thought pattern that my brain now has and my brain freaks out when we're not solely focusing on that she's a great revelation for me to have the cushions put the cushions I can recognize that by definitely needs have more of a schedule in my week so today's Monday and I'm setting at Monday to do at least one or two videos every single Monday so we start getting a catalogue of videos for when I'm not traveling and put up at least one video a week on YouTube because I'm always thinking like yeah but one's not good enough you need like two or three you know you start to always do better when you put more up it's just a little bit stressful so were combating the for pattern in my head and we're gonna roll with it

every Monday just film some stuff like this and get over it wait for summer so we get our lives back on track am i right anyway I need to clean up Scott it's not your birthday anymore alright I'm gonna need your hobby the coffee table alright it's over let's move on that I need to take so much stuff upstairs but actually sort it out when I get upstairs you know I mean not just leave it upstairs in a bag or a pile you do it don't you don't even you do it upstairs just piles of crap these grow up from downstairs looks great but I've stands an absolute disaster you know that's okay I don't spend much time upstairs anyway we have migrated into the bathroom now right I kind of became in February a little bit of a beauty guru I mean I'm not gonna

lie it's fabulous because I got invited to the launch of Holland and Barrett's new beauty concept store in Birmingham I got an invite to an event in Birmingham also noticing because I'm like we all just pile up clothes in the bathroom oh my god being on massive tripod difficult I mean look at her stay at this bathroom alright enough looking so my clothes are just like comfy jumpers and sweatpants that's all we're doing right now I went and it was amazing and it's all like contrast beauty eco-friendly vegan things like that and it's huge if you if you live in Birmingham or you're passing through there's the Hollander Barrett in the bullring they give us a massive goodie bag like such a beauty youtuber like a

goody bag full Ram full of products I was like whoa and some of them are look so good I'm gonna massage their it was amazing I had such anxiety that day that the massage and aroma therapy session that I had was just so needed and why they receipts in the bathroom yeah my anxiety was so bad that day I'm talking about London borough a girl so bad and then I gone to the bus and was full of school kids I always try and avoid that and that just skyrocketed my anxiety even more and I don't know it's just simply Pat this month and I think me not getting out as much as I usually get out the weather and just staying inside it's just not been good at all and you know anxiety as much as we talk about ways to

get rid of it reduce the effects of it and you know calm ourselves down a little it's also good to acknowledge anxiety it's it's there for a reason a lot of time not all of the time I'm stamping with anxiety disorder it can be a very different ballgame but sometimes anxiety can tell us that something is wrong there's some pick is up we need to sort it maybe since missing in our life and that we need to address so also really working on that in myself and mental health sweatpants for life these are so bubbly now Primark doing their best work and rarely ever shop at Primark but when it comes like sweatpants and stuff I just wear them to them death yeah I'm a beauty youtuber now and I'm really getting into my

skincare I put this on this morning present each you've got high room he's like think of the Brad mondo at the skincare world and he always goes on about this I've changed my face watch recently I think I've been doing really well so I brought this because it was an ad on YouTube that because they also saw that I was searching for it from Paula's Choice oh no I didn't clear my memory card what was I even saying yes okay whilst see me trying to multitask in a video is always a massive I'm not even in the frame alley can we focus today can we get our lives on track thank you very much yes I tried this poreless choice BHA liquid exfoliant with salicylic acid got a sunscreen down where i'm using sunscreen with it and they're amazing polished

choice like they shared them on my Instagram story and they were giving me tips and stuff didn't even ask as I thank you so much and then I was asking them like do you have a good moisturizer to pair with this has good like a good SPF in it and they're like yes here are all the links watch your skin time I'm running me or through it on their Instagram DMS also oh my god your company is amazing oh why is it there should be there kill Scott just thinking whether that was me that put it day was not it was not resulting with Ali right sorry we're gonna go back on track because this is just an update video this it's my new favorite thing I need to get a refill for it but if you have

very like a steamy bathroom and you'd always want to have the windows open because it's winter and your game you know you don't get damp or anything or maybe yang a few little black spots we got a couple a little tiny little black spots on Co my god let's do something about this is a phenomenal it fills up with all this believe liquid you just put a thing in there guy from bnn bnm is like eight quid and then you get two packs of refills like a five ten out of ten would recommend anyway I'm gonna clean up now so do you want to time lapse this is a very this is the epitome of adult thing with Ali when I was making this series some months you're gonna get business Ali who's thinking about you know interest rates and things of investment

and then some months you're just gonna get Ali with a greasy burn sweatpants and hoodie scrubbing her bathroom because it's raining outside and I don't want to leave the house and I need to do things in this my to do soo-dong which i think is far more relatable than those inspire and get your act together video so join me okay so it's kind of the next day let me fill you in but a skip little lot what yeah the last clip you saw filmed and then I had to rush out run some errands go to the post office came back was absolutely Hank Marvin so I ordered

myself a subway one footlong kind of put me in a coma fell asleep Scott came home made me jump out of my skin when he entered the front room front door jumped off the sofa and then we had to go to a store and do some Ambu dropping and then it was late and dinner was cooked and we ate him we went to bed life got in the way and if that isn't a daunting with Ali I don't know what is so let's wrap this video up with everything else I wanted to say and I had an issue with my peer box if you didn't know I sell p.o box so do you like postcard exchanges and look at them as a problem that nothing was coming through and I was like okay like just no one wants to send me a postcard that's

fine I'm okay with that but peeps I'm actually saying have you guy yet got what I'm gonna get so I called up Royal Mail was I hey where are my things and actually customer service was amazing and there's certainly loads of letters and postcards thank you so much that is the address if you would like to send a postcard and I'm just waiting for mine to get printed so I can send you all one back I'm gonna really enjoy a thing down writing them all this week and so that's that Royal Mail actually sent me a letter saying that they discovered the problem or staff have been waiting aware of it and my box now has a sign because I basically have all my P o box stuff delivered with my

regular mail I paid extra for that cuz the place where it's all held it's like not even close to me it's just bitter no it's a real boy like to get there so paint the extra 20 quid oh that place deliver it and now they do and that's exciting so thank you to everyone who's already sent a postcard if you want to send sinc a postcard or a letter and I make sure to include your return address so I can send you all back if you would like that don't have to and I will anyway moving on where's the notebook oh I don't know in this video I applied for the credit card oh yeah went through with my bank easiest credit card to get I got given a really big credit limit it was not expecting and I've already used it twice

using it on any business purchase I come across which would be nice because it will keep it separate so it's easier when tax time comes around and stuff I see it separate and yes that is everything I think I wanted to say went to the post office the other day because basically I'm big on eBay now like I'm a really big seller yours it's for a video challenge I'm doing I'm buying secondhand things and flipping them to see if it is actually a viable thing to do any free time to save money and any money that I can raise in like the next three months is what I'll have to spend on a trip so car with car boot season to start because that's gonna make you all the more interesting um yeah that is

everything I have to say on this I believe adulting hasn't gone that well in February with that reason even over yeah I've got a laugh stuff coming up from Thursday a lot of speaking gigs something out to go down to Cardiff for two nights because I got back-to-back speaking gigs and Exeter then we're going to Poland then I got so rou looks like um another mid to end of March and so yeah I'm really happy though this morning it was sunshiny beautiful day woke up like 6:30 and was already getting pretty lights and then by 7:30 it was like really bright and blue skies I was like oh my god my mood instantly lifts I want to do this because I don't want to miss and adopting with ally and if anything this

just shows you that sometimes it's rough to it dull you can't always be on top of your game and super creative super productive super getting on with things super like adult nah sometimes you just want to sit around any row for months because things aren't going to plan you feel a bit man and just that's okay it's a-okay let me know how your month is going and let me know how your plan to adult is progressing because let's share it that's what these videos are about they're about the comments section so let's go and have a chat I always will respond of course as soon as this video goes up I'm around I'll be responding get down there and yep I will see you in the next video don't want to obey but it'll be great No

no doubt you'll be great BIA come on lighter morning's light tonight's I'm here for it I'm ready go away winter I am done with you apparently would you snow on Thursday first time I've actually added insurance to my train to get the extra - panting pay where they'll refund you and fall if it gets canceled affects many reasons actually purchase that because you know what the UK train lines are like one flake of snow and it's like everything's canceled Oh we'll see how that goes and I will see you in the next one all right let's adopt together on up we can stay in our robes and watch I don't know runs of Lucifer I'm really enjoying it obviously it's good to look up nice anyway love you've got bite I will subscribe Mic Check you know I

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