I Bought A House - My First Time As A Homeowner & Accomplishing A Personal Goal
I bought a house
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of the TGF Friday December
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29th
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2023
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1209 little afternoon 9 Minutes
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afternoon and I'm going to make myself
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in the comfort of my own home a piping
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hot
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caffeinated
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beverage the return of the
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curig
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here for
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the first time ever I can say I am a
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homeowner
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cheers so yeah I bought a
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house in Celebration
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Florida I'm pretty dang excited I've
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been moving for the past
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month
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slowly getting moving stuff over from my
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one-bedroom apartment into a much bigger
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place I'm going to give a little bit of
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a chour not too detailed keep in mind
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that is still a work in progress is
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definitely not in dissay I've been
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working pretty hard putting everything
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together ordering furniture moving
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furniture I already had getting new
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stuff putting shelves together etc
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etc wearing an appropriate t-shirt here
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to
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stay just look around join me it's a
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good day shall
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you that's extra tasty again this is
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going to be a work in progress I'm going
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to add all the little
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touches little things nuances over time
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this is my first official day in here
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even though I've been sleeping in here
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in the in my room for probably the last
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7 to 10 days I moved my bed around that
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time
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frame and yesterday handed in the keys
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at the apartment so some stuff I've been
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ordering i' Amazon Prime is one of the
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greatest things ever so I've been
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ordering a lot of furniture and putting
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it together the table previous owners
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left here so I like that so I end up
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keeping that it's a pull out kind of
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deal but the chairs I ordered these
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shelves again these will be filled up
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over time I still have to unpack a few
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things and put some items in here as
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well and then over here in the corner I
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bought a little bonsai tree as well and
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I'm going to put some Tiki stuff through
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here I figured out exactly where I'm
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going to put all my Tiki things as I
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collect them over time these are kind of
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neat so these duck bookends my friend
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Todd Venture he has a channel Todd
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Venture in the Charlotte area so just
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south of Charlotte was where fort is
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where Fort Mill South Carolina is which
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is where Heritage USA
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was and his family his mom and dad used
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to work for the Bakers and these were
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Tammy Fay Bakers personalized in her
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office
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bookends and I love the movie The Eyes
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of Tammy F I'm fascinated by fascinated
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by that whole Fiasco so he said do you
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want these a while back he gave me a
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really good gift so I kind of treasuring
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those so this is the kitchen a few
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things were kind of left over from the
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previous owner like that Fork and Spoon
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on the wall I decided to leave that but
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everything else I've added myself I
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moved this over this really good piece
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of artwork from a local here named
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Hubert you can see his signature there
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and it's basically a spoof of the silent
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silent film where the guy's like
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dangling off the clock tower in LA but
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that's the celebration Market Street
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where my apartment used to sit so got
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the fridge I'm not going to adore worn
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my fridge with tons and tons of magnets
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I'm going to put the magnets over on the
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side over here but in the garage I've
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ordered three or four storage cabinets
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that are metal that I'm going to have
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all my magnets on that I can expand on
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my magnet collection I'm going to do a
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huge vast plethora of things in the
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garage it's going to be basically a
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working garage I'm going to end up
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having some C creative space down there
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as well I'm also going to have a
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creative space in the woodo there are
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multiple bedrooms here there's a
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garage so I got I got plenty of room to
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to expand on what I was doing before
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again this is just a sample version you
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got the dishwasher there you got the
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oven you got the microwave I brought my
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kit kat clock as
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well so this is good basically I would
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probably be filming quite a bit in here
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this is the main living quarters more or
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less so this is basically where where a
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lot of the probably see a lot of this
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I'll probably leave some of the personal
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spaces like the guest bedroom and my
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personal
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bedroom won't be showing that a whole
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heck of a lot I'll show a little bit of
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it now just to kind of give a sample
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version of kind of the layout something
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I've wanted for many years my friend in
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Denver Denver gy I like to refer to him
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as I stayed with him multiple multiple
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times and he has one of these love sacks
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like dude you got to get a sack so I got
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a sack shout out to him for recommending
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the love sack it's a love sack baby not
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love shack these things are insanely
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comfortable this rug really ties the
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room together brought that over from the
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pre previous place and I'm a big fan of
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cinema and movies even got old Hitchcock
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right there above the couch so he will
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be watching things with me as I'm in the
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sack
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there plenty of room for guests to come
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over we have movie Nights it's also
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interesting that this little foot stool
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ottom in here is almost the same price
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as a glorified bean bag I never thought
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it what you know there's a time in my
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life where I never thought I would buy a
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glorified bean bag but here we are very
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comfortable I'm also stepping into the
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world of 4K got a 4K Blu-ray
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player right there I also got the
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Soundbar and a 4K
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TV which I have been
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watching I probably watched more movies
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in the last three or four nights than
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I've watched in the last few months
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since I was doing the treadmill which I
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need to get back on track with that
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after New Year's but it is really
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amazing at night lights off you got the
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4k
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on big
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TV Soundbar kicking it's a whole
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different experience and this is the
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first I Al I bought my Elvis photo here
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young Elvis look at himself in the
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mirror of the star he was going to
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become which I have this at my apartment
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too and I've added something as
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well over here next to the sack itself
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big fan of Threes Company one of my
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all-time favorite shows I've mentioned
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it many
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times for years I wanted this poster so
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if you watch Threes Company in the kids
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apartment
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apartment right next to Jack's room kind
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of like up that little step that he
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would always do his little improv of
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physical comedy on was like a little
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step that went up behind the couch up to
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the the doorway almost and it led into
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his room this poster was here or there
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in the episodes so you could see this in
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nearly every episode of Threes Company
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through all the seasons I've always
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wanted to own this so I ordered this got
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the frame for it and now it adorns my
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new
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home as well I should also mention just
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because I now own a home I'm not going
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to stop traveling I'm always going to
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continue things now in the next month or
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so there'll probably be a lot of Central
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Florida Vlogs but I want to continue
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doing small towns and travel V travel
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videos going cross country things like
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that I'm going to tone it down a little
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bit I don't think I'm going to do any
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like four five week
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excursions for a while but I will I will
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travel continuously cuz I love Americana
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and traveling and but I definitely want
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to enjoy some home
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time I picked this up the other day from
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the artwalk when I got my car
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towed this piece of our here this is
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great because I lived in Hollywood for a
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long time I lived in SoCal for a long
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time and I love Hollywood studios here
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they remind me both of each other
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because they are modeled after each
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other MGM Studios was built based on all
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the structures in La at least most of
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them there's a couple that aren't aren't
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La structures but 95% of them are real
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buildings in La including this one so
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this artist at the artwalk Drew this and
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I saw this I go oh man I have to have
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that so I purchased this called Sparkle
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on Sunset Boulevard this is the first
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thing you see when you're walking down
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Sunset off Hollywood here in Florida you
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see the Hollywood Tower over there in
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fact they even have this billboard here
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an artistic rendering of that fun fact
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about this building I think the second
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and third Academy Awards
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ever took place inside of the real
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building that this the building at
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Studios is modeled after I give a shout
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out to this Artist as well I had him
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sign the back Lee Van can't tell if it's
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Horton or
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Holton it's l van Something
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art based out of based out of this area
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but I really love that piece and we
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talked for quite a while I was kind of
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talking his ear off about a lot of the
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stuff in Hollywood Studios and how
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they're based on told him a few things
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he didn't realize told me a few things I
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didn't know had a pretty good
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conversation about about the old MGM
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days I just realized I got to get going
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and meeting up with my parents over at
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the Loop which is about 20 minutes from
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here for a lunch so going to go meet up
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with them also might do some shopping so
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I'll show show some of the rest of the
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place a little bit later this evening
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when I get back or this afternoon and
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kind of talk about some certain things
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and about the homestead I'm going to get
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going actually I do have a minute or two
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to spare so I'm going to real quick like
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just show the guest bedroom at least
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what it looks like
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now got the Disneyland map over there on
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the wall got a mirror right here standup
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mirror queen-size bed so friends family
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acquaintances will be staying there
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friend Jason King wuan if you will he
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painted this for me when he came to
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visit me in Anaheim or orange years ago
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he signed it there 2016 so got his
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artwork on the wall nothing too fancy in
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here nothing too crazy just little
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casual decor for guests that are coming
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to visit and there will be quite a few
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over the over the time duration and
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here's the main living quarters if you
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will got my little work space down here
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this is not going to be part of the
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woodo I'm going to create a whole other
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room which is going to be the woodo
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which is not going to be for personal
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stuff and my personal laptop there and
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things like that also move my other TV
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that I had at my place got my regular
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Blu-rays in here got my haunted mansion
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stretch room girl over there with the
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gator got the bed in here ended up
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getting a new bed
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frame as well so this is just kind of
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kind of the layout in here two bathrooms
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here too again this is going to be a
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work in progress but I've already kind
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of put a little little bit of effort
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into decorating here this is going to be
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the the nerd
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game Corridor of goons room I don't even
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I don't even know what to even call this
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yet but I have my coridor of
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goons emblem up there I got waham
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Lincoln in and not forgetting my roots I
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got Large
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Marge right there I got my Disney pens I
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will I will kind of tackle all that and
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dive deep on those at some point I got
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my base here down here I've been kind of
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rocking out a little bit practicing a
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little bit who knows where that will
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lead got my little figurines that I've
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shown before I used to wear the chain
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wallet for decades got that down there
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got my magic bands again I don't want to
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show too much of this cuz there's a lot
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to cover in here including lots of
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knickknack artifacts
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paraphernalia just all kind of
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Collectibles all down in here baseball
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cards Disney stuff I didn't want to go
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full in on Disney throughout the whole
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place I didn't want my whole house to be
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like oh it's all Disney stuff and all
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nerdy stuff and all baseball stuff so
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I'm going to put those in select areas
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for example in here and I also have my
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NES be doing a lot of NES playing I've
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already purchased these chairs here so I
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can have a friend over we can go to we
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can battle down on the NES system I got
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the old school TV which it looks amazing
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on brought over from California had it
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here for a while and now going to start
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putting it to good use all right I got
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get going yeah I don't know what I don't
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know what name to call this but I guess
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I could refer to this room as the
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corridor goons but maybe not maybe like
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the nerd room the
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nerdery I don't know this shelf needs a
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lot of items on it my sister got me this
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for Christmas this is freaking awesome
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this is a artistic rendering a
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personalized artist created this I don't
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think this is from Disney per se but it
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is the Haunted
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Mansion and it lights up all the
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hitchhiking
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ghosts just really really cool and this
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is a randad skull these to sell these at
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Disneyland and this is also a haunted
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mansion
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artifact more on that later this is this
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is this is pretty rare these are also my
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new favorite things
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ever just saying out in the garage now
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which a lot there's a lot out here I
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still have a lot to unpack a lot to put
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away things like
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that but the thing that's neat about
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these obviously they add a lot of
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security but this is also pointed in the
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garage among others but I could tell
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when the garage door is opened or closed
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so if I leave I could be like did I
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close the garage door I just look on my
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phone I could tell if I did or not this
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is the first place I've ever had
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anything quite like these and I'm loving
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it so far I'm loving the instant
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notifications and instant video feed no
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matter where I'm at such a great area to
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be got the local fire department right
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there got the hospital on this road as
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well the library have to tell you how
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much I love
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celebration and I finally decided that I
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just wanted to plant roots here so I did
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I'll be here here to stay if you will
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stay in a stay in a
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while long time
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not only the Advent Health Hospital
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there but also the top floor it's my
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gym doctor's offices
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Hospital everything you need right here
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in this little community in the bubble
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they call it call Celebration of the
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bubble all right just finished up an
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enjoyable meal with my mom and dad here
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at this Olive Garden not going to head
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over to Rooms To
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Go look at some stuff not really sure
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what I'm doing here if going to buy
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anything or prob just do some window
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shopping maybe hit a couple other places
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too the Loops well just shy of the loop
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this the loop is the next block over but
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a lot of furniture stores on this block
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all right next door now over to Lowe's
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Home Depot the other day and now on to
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Lowe's
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buy stuff picked up a few items I got
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this little touch lamp here which I can
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use I want to turn like lights on in the
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main room I could just go in and touch
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the base of this and turn that on I also
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got some light bulbs some things you put
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on the ground for some of the furniture
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to keep it level and keep it from
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scratching the floor what else did I
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get oh also
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got night lights for the
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hallway and bathrooms and things like
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that just some
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light some light stuff little bit at a
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time it's kind of hard to wrap my head
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around it's a little surreal in a lot of
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ways but also hard to wrap my head
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around the fact that might have to pay a
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rental fee anymore for a
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place because my whole life any place
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that I've lived
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in oh with the exception of in a van or
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RV I've had to pay a monthly rental fee
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you know when it's usually the first of
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the month you got to pay that got to pay
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that rent that goes up every
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year I got kind of tired of doing that I
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wanted to plant roots so I decided you
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know what heck it celebration of the
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place but I want to do that there were a
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number of places that I did have in mind
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in fact something I've been thinking
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about for a little while did contemplate
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continuing Renning and I've stated this
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before I thought about moving to New
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York City I thought i' back to LA Of
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course house prices in La pretty pretty
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insane not that
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they're not that they're cheap here but
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they're they're not quite on LA's part
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as far as the houses go Florida is
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definitely increasing quite a bit which
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also got me thinking prob we should get
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on that now before that kind of even
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gets too late so I did
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it looked at a place in Way Cross
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Georgia a few months ago just randomly
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found a really good property in W Cross
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Georgia drove all the way up
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there even told the realtor I wanted it
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on the way back changed my mind said
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what am I doing I want to live in Way
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Cross Georgia dve 4 hours down to see my
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parents 4 hours to Disney World I
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thought this would be a good place to
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plant some Roots settle down be here
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years from now always going to be a pass
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over to Disney World I love Walt Disney
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World Central Florida area is where I
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have called home since ' 91 with the
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except of being back and forth and
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living on the west coast for a little
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while family here a lot of friends
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here a lot of memories here and it's
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just a good place and I like the fact
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that MCO Orlando International not far
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away I could go drop my car off there
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hop a plane to any other hub for a
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relatively not so bad price other places
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I contemplated looking I looked at at
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houses which a few years ago there was a
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house that I
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almost jumped on in Pigeon Forge
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Gatlinburg area I didn't do it I could
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have ended up there and decided at this
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point in my life didn't really want you
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know as the years went by didn't want to
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didn't want to do the Pigeon Forge
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Gatlinburg thing so Georgia off the
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table G Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area off
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the table so SoCal off the table and
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then also almost forgot Marceline
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Missouri I was just in Marceline a few
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months ago and I looked at three
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different houses there two or three
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different houses and none of them really
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kind of jumped out at me so really there
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were four other places besides Florida I
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was thinking about planning routs in and
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once I really started to kind of I say
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soul searching but kind of you know just
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contemplating a little more I realized
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this this is where I needed to
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be so this is where I'm ended up as
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stated going to continue
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traveling still got that desire to hit
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the road and we'll be doing that into
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next year as well if I even after I stop
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the daily videos which I'm planning on
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stopping this time next year at the end
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of 2024 I'm going to be changing formats
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over the course of next year a studio
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I'm coining at the woodo once that is
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done at the new place I will be
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utilizing that a lot for Content as well
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and also bigger projects like I have
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done in the past that are not possible
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to do when doing daily Vlogs so I'm
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going to start phasing out the daily
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Vlogs and in it end it if all goes well
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this time actually about a year from now
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New Year's Eve 2024 to starting in 2025
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and buying a house really kind of helps
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me to accomplish that
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goal pretty wild I it's yeah just really
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hasn't sunk in yet but
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wow I'm a homeowner I would also like to
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State the obvious
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do not I don't need anything don't send
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anything don't mail anything don't drop
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anything
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off
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don't assume that I require anything I
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don't need anything and I I put a lot of
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myself out online of course showing a
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place that you reside in people are very
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kind-hearted people are have I would say
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96% it's just a madeup number of people
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have very good
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intentions and if you are one of those
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with good intentions that just assumes
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that I could utilize something that you
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so deem that you want to send just
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scratch that off the M please do not in
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fact there are way more people out there
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that could use things more than I so
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don't send anything anything that gets
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sent will be given to one of the thrift
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stores here on 192 either that or return
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to Cinder but probably will just end up
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not being opened and dropped off
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Elsewhere for someone who could utilize
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it I'm not going to see it I'm not going
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to look at it I'm just not going to
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accept
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anything being sent so please just this
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is going to be starting from this point
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till forever so just at my own accord I
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like to kind of furnish the place and
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and kind of go and go from there and
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also I'm always in town I'm always up at
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the downtown Starbucks all that can't
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stop anyone from doing anything but
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obviously not going to be doing any any
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uh meet and
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greets you know at the homestead or
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anything like that so just keep that in
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mind when you put yourself out on the
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internet privacy becomes a thing of the
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past or privacy doesn't really
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exist so you can't really can't really
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do anything about that but but obviously
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if I'm if I'm around in town if I'm
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walking in front of the water tower if
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I'm downtown on Market Street or if I'm
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at Starbucks or I'm in the Parks
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anything like that feel free feel free
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to say hi I will be answering the door
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we not be
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house I'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog peace and love peace and
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love the Vlog is over no drop offs no
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mail no correspondence no letters no
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packages nothing will be answered
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nothing will be replied to nothing will
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be accepted nothing will be
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opened peace and love peace