Hiii my loves, having an all nighter due to jet lag so here’s a breakdown of jess’ daily schedule based on vlogember, I mean vlogmas, with some of her most notable quotes. (note the numbers on this list don't necessarily correspond with the vlogs since some of these days were put together in a single video). Tried to give the most accurate picture possible based on what she said.
- christmas shopping while baby is being babysat
- family outing at winter wonderland
- “I don’t think we’ll have time for stuff like that in December bc December will be pretty busy so we’re doing it early” …Sure Jan
- (Sunday) walk by the river, dinner out with the family
- baby with babysitter, Zak editing on the desktop, Jess doing “admin stuff on the laptop”
- Zak taking stuff to the storage room, Jess playing with the baby all day, opening/playing with the new vlog camera, watching tv
- taking a bath, brunch out, Columbia road flower market
- (Wednesday) pre-uploading the above vlogmas videos, baby swimming lesson, management Christmas party
- (Thursday) “a busy day” according to the video title… meaning… PT session, Bareminerals lunch, haircut, driving out to the farm
- (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) weekend with friends at the farm… shopping, dinner out, garden center
- “It’s just busy busy busy until Christmas” …Sure Jan
- (Monday) clothing haul, editing
- (Tuesday) editing, Monika vinader shoot, nail appointment, and apparently talking a LOT of shit:
- “these days I don’t have time to think about dressing myself even for five minutes, it’s a chuck it on and go situation which means I just go for the same things over and over” …Sure Jan
- “If you’re thinking 'omg she’s managing to do all this stuff and she has a baby' and if it looks like I’m really achieving, most of the time I am not and I have a lot of help” …no shit Jan
- “This is definitely the most I’ve been working and the most hours I’ve been away from my baby” …lol… says a lot about how little work she does the rest of the year
- "i'm super super tired and i know it's gonna catch up with me, i can't sustain this level especially with vlogmas, so i need to find some rest time, i'm hoping i might get a lie in maybe on friday morning" ...oh yes jess please have a lie in, we wouldn't want you to exhaust yourself
- "i know what it's like to have less help bc we have had less help" ...sure you know what it's like
- (Wednesday) editing, weekly swimming lesson, opening pr packages
- (Thursday) PT session, driving to the farm, editing
- “been running like a headless chicken all over the place today” …Sure Jan
- (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) another weekend with friends at the farm
- (Monday) tree decorating day 1
- (Tuesday) tree decorating day 2 (yes it took 2 days because they had 2 trees), building a cot, driving back to London
- “it’s all go go go here” …Sure Jan
- (Wednesday) laundry, editing, swimming
- (Thursday) visiting their dump of a house, shopping, editing, packing
- “I’m feeling SO overwhelmed” ... “I just need to not overpack but it’s SO hard”
- (Friday) packing, driving to Halifax
- (Saturday) having a lie in, walk around Halifax
- (Sunday) chill day at home, finally watched fucking Klaus
- (Monday) filming a look for Bareminerals, walk out to get coffee
- (Tuesday) lunch out, garden center
- (Wednesday) driving back to the farm
- (Thursday) shopping, "admin bits on the computer", getting indie to wrap presents for her, getting zak to clean up the barn for her, getting someone else to set the christmas table
- "I think if I was to do vlogmas again I would pre-film even more" ...enough said
- "Ines is aware that I've been busy and been away from her much more...I don't want her to associate christmas with me doing loads of work so who knows if it'll work again in the future" ...obviously this is the most work jess has EVER done since Ines was born, given that she basically does nothing the rest of the year.
- "the last year has not been great work wise" ...yeah bc you don't do shit??
The basic gist I’m getting from watching a month’s ish worth of Jess’ day to day, is that she essentially thinks of her week the following way: Wednesdays are taken up by Ines’ weekly swimming lesson, Thursdays are taken up by Jess’ weekly PT appointment, Friday to Sunday is their weekend, so that leaves only Mondays and Tuesdays to do anything remotely work related (and she usually procrastinates on those days, or rather, spends those days "planning", "sorting stuff out" or "doing admin bits").
She seems unable to handle more than one "activity" in a given day, even if that thing is just a nail appointment or a facial. It takes up all the space in her head and she feels like her day is full just because she has to get ready, drive to the place, do the thing, get back home, get unready. That alone is already her whole day gone.
Zak literally does all the chores/housework. He picks up her coffee every morning, he cooks breakfast/lunch/dinner for her, he drives, he picks up food for her/does groceries, he does all the errands and various other chores (going to storage room, clearing up the room, etc), he takes her photos, edits some of her videos.
There is no way in hell that she still reads forums about her because if she did she wouldn’t have said half the things she said in these vlogs. She clearly has zero self awareness and genuinely thinks of herself as someone who is busy. She has absolutely no clue how ridiculous she sounds.
Final comment: I can’t believe how much she goes on about editing when her vlogs literally require the most basic editing? She just has to put the clips together and put music over some bits (she uses the SAME music in every single vlog, so there’s not even any originality there either). Feels like this whole vlogmas has been complaining about editing, complaining about buying/wrapping presents, complaining about packing/unpacking, talking about how she wants to watch Klaus but hasn’t gotten round to (even though she watches tv every single night whether it’s strictly, masterchef or whatever else).
TLDR; Jess' life is quite literally a permanent vacation yet she somehow deadass believes she's the busiest person ever.