Another new obsession: Shaytards

Most of my close friends know that I am a huge YouTube junkie. It all started with my rather sudden and inexplicable interest in makeup videos. I could literally watch them for hours on end. This led to an unfortunate phase in my life in which I spent most of my waking hours online shopping for makeup, hair, and nails products. I now possess a ridiculous stash of cosmetics, some of which I put to good use, most others not so much.

My foray into YouTube eventually led me into finding some really interesting content. One of my favorite channels is "Shaytards", which is basically a vlog series filmed, edited, and uploaded by a regular ol' guy named Shay Carl. Most of Shay's videos revolve around his precious family - Mommytard, Princesstard, Sontard, Babytard, and Fetustard - but he also often has other famous or popular YouTubers in there too. The crazy thing is, he's been doing it for over a year, and his videos have developed somewhat of a cult following, as they should. I mean, over 365 days of consecutive daily vlogs - how amazing is that? It got me thinking, if he can be original and brave and funny enough to upload a 10-minute video every day, then I sure as heck can think of something to blog about once or twice a week, right? Which means I need to stop starting and discarding entries at the rate that I've been doing so far (about 3X a day).

Anyway, here is a typical Shaytards video. Just like any character-driven TV show, the series definitely takes a while to get into, but trust me, you'll get hooked by Shay's infectious happiness and general awesome persona. The Shaytards family is always so positive and adorable that I've started to look forward to that pocket of time every day that I get to share with them. And then every night before I go to bed I pray that Shay will adopt me into his awesome family and that I will from henceforth be known as Rosetard.