I’m Finally Official Resident of Celebration Florida - Perks Of The Town Tour / Joining Gym & PO Box
Celebration Florida
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welcome everyone adam the woo here right
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here on the lake in celebration florida
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i am beginning the day with a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage hot vanilla latte
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so hot indeed it has the cardboard
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sleeve on it which is i'm very thankful
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for because it is permeating
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my fingers now even though i for i've
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been in this area as far as a resident
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call it a part-time residency because i
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did have a place in anaheim california
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that i moved out of at the beginning of
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december into november december last
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year and i've had the place here for a
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little over a year because i resigned
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the lease for a second time
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at the end of december so the current
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lease that i have that i'm going to be
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walking over to the town
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city hall if you will
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in a moment
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is the one i have that will expire at
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the end
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december 31st i believe
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2022 very complicated long-winded intro
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but basically i am now going to get my
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residence card
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take either my bike or scooter around
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and show what the perks of living here
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are join me
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it's happening
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finally
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shall you and as the recording of this
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it is friday february 25th
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2022 looking down marcus street
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i'm gonna walk over it's a couple blocks
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over to the town hall not a lot will
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change once i get my residency card
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really don't need it to live here but if
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you want to access some of the perks
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like the number there are quite a few
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pools in the area maybe the tennis
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courts the basketball courts the gyms
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thing like things like that that i have
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not had the time nor the inspiration to
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go use i'm kind of showing an overview
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here
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of the entire property this is kind of
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like looking around so right here lake
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ryan hard that's kind of where i'm
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saying that's the main lake
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by getting my residency card i also get
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a parking decal even though i park in a
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in an area you don't really need it it
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will be good for other areas where it is
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required if i went to said pools and
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said gyms and things like that hope that
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clears it up that's that's why i need it
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and if all goes well a little bit later
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i'm going to try to get myself a post
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office box here in town if they have any
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available right across market square
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kind of wedged in between that very
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distinct looking building over there on
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the far end and the cornerstone deli the
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post office is wedged in there
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i'll see if they have any po boxes
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available and i might take care of that
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today too
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i'm just getting some stuff done now in
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order to get a resident card you have to
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have a copy of your current lease that
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is what is inside this little binder
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here so i'm taking that with me
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without the proper paperwork
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no resident card
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and this is it
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the town hall
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but the city hall is the town hall
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and as stated as a recording of this is
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the 25th it looks like tomorrow on the
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26th
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according to that sign there they're
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having an event called pups and pints
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but inside here is where i get my
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resident card
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very unique architecture all around town
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and when you first walk in they embrace
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the history
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of the town itself starting with these
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glass cases and looking down the long
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corridor
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down there at the reception window is
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where i'll be having to go up to but if
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you go past the reception window there
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is the rather large emblem
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which is the seal of celebration if you
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will right here along the side of the
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wall and past
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that seal the celebration seal is a
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glass case full of artifacts giving the
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history of the town dating back to the
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mid 90s when it was created all kind of
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items right in here
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from the disney corporation eisner
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himself a photograph of eisner as well
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as you know some blueprints plans a hard
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hat
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even a time capsule sheet things like
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that all in here which i didn't even
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realize all this was in here so it's
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pretty neat that they do embrace the
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history here in town even though disney
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no longer is affiliated with running the
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town anymore and i took my hat off for
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the photograph figured
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you know for the photo to take my hat
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off but i got the resident card there
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behind the temporary parking pass which
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is good till summer
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and she was telling me that after
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summertime they're going to go to a
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sticker version of the parking pass but
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for now
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whenever i'm in certain areas where the
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parking pass is required i can kind of
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dangle this from my rear view mirror but
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most places you don't need it but only a
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couple
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couple spots in town that you need the
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the parking pass i went ahead and
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grabbed one of these too which is a
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little booklet with all the info about
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what's happening around town
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the calendar of events i mean the
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month's almost over does kind of
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kind of go over into march as well but
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you know i'm still going to travel a lot
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but when i am home
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be nice to know what's going on in the
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community so this is i have to grab one
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of these
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you know each and every month now
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walking over to the post office
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here's the emblem here as well
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established 1994
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is when this area was built
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here's some of the local residents of
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that time that have placed bricks
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all around it
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a historical moment for sure
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right here 94.
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the eisner years
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in fact i found a photo online of eisner
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astounding standing in the town square
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i'll go over this right outside the post
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office on a show when he did the kind of
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grand opening ceremony of the town
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here's what i was referring to
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you can see what is now the bank of
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america there behind them a unique
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building and the town clock
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as well as a lot of people wearing
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mickey shirts and that building's still
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the same obviously and it's the same
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clock
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and everyone was gathered here in market
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square next to the fountain
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kind of has a orange circle vibe doesn't
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it
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i guess i lived i lived near the orange
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circle and now i live near another
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circle a lot of the buildings were
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designed by famous architects the post
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office was designed by michael graves
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not them not that one of the misfit
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singers but the same michael grave who
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designed the team disney building at
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burbank the one with the seven dwarfs
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holding up the roof line also designed
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the swan and dolphin hotel which means
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if one is available
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you know if if there's a p.o box
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available and i do in the future
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get any mail i have to walk over and
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i'll check it outside because it is all
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outdoors
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obviously the tellers and the when you
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mail packages are inside the door over
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there but this is all open air
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and i'll show some of the other
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buildings
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and name off some of the architects like
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the one next to it
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next to the post office is a different
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architect
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michael graves
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famous architect
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designed this post office
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pretty cool
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i'm really hyping this up and if they
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don't have any available then it'd be a
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sad trombone moment all right that went
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well they had two po boxes left guy at
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the counter said they go pretty quick
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sometimes people get them online said
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fill the paperwork out quickly
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bring it back to him i did
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i now have a p.o box my plan now today
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is not the plan i still have to get
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things printed i have to get the items
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that i'm going to be giving away
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but i would like to start
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anyone that sends me a self-addressed
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stamped envelope
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i will send out free items stickers pins
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anything i can shove in a small envelope
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that's where the po box is going to come
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into play i'm not going to do like a
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mail haul i don't want anyone sending
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any correspondence i don't want to
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have anything given to me i only want an
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envelope that i can send out
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free stuff to others and you might be
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eyeballing this kind of post-modern
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looking
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structure here this was created by
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architect philip johnson
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very sleek design
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more pillars than you that are really
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necessary
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and it might be it might be a couple
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weeks before i get the whole ball
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rolling
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on the giveaway stuff
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but it'll happen also this structure
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reminds me a lot of the harrison ford
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futuristic film blade runner i never saw
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the follow-up to it that came out a few
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years ago but i do love some blade
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runner and that's what this tower
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reminds me of
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here beside bank of america
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now actually you got to find a place
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locally in their greater orlando central
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florida area that i can get a mess load
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of stickers printed to give away
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so it'll be a couple weeks before i get
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the ball rolling as i said
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i'm giving away stuff i also wanted to
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show this book i'm back at my place now
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a friend of mine gave me kind of a hard
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to find book on the area
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about celebration
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kind of shows a little bit of a little
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more in-depth history
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and shows in correlation to wdw
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just across the way here
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the
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square mileage if you will
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of what is now celebration and a bunch
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of other things in this book simply
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titled the story of a town this book
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goes into a lot of the architecture that
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building material that the houses were
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built out of here's another photo of all
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the architects
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and eisner right there by the fountain
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looking down market street as well and
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more info on philip johnson's work
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michael graves work and the bank of
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america now used to be the preview
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center architect named charles moore i
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love this photo of the construction
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market street's not even done yet
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eventually the movie theater would be
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right over here
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in this area
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and the coffee shop starbucks is right
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over here on this corner
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as well
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weren't even any houses yet they built
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the downtown before any houses also
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wanted to show this i got this at the
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market here in town last weekend
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an artist
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by the name of hubert
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see his name right down there
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i saw this a few months ago and just
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recently this last weekend purchased it
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but it's basically his artistic
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rendition of the harold lloyd silent
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film
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where he's like kind of dangling from
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the clock in los angeles but this is
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downtown market street celebration
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and this is
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an artistic representation of
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that
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silent film clock but instead it's the
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girl and the dog who are kind of the
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logo in the
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the little the mascot on the emblem
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of celebration
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this is pretty cool you got lake
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reinhardt over there
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and the main area there post office over
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there and there's that very unique
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architecture there
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i don't know this is pretty cool i took
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it off the wall just to show it but i
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like it went ahead and got my bike
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and gonna
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kind of cruise around on the bike now
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over here is the first pool
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that i now have access to with that card
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and i officially can use the pool now
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residents only i am
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a resident
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and the hours are as so
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right up there opens at 7 00 am so i
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might start doing some early morning
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swims maybe not just this pool but other
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pools or in the afternoon or
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late evening
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try the card all right i just figured it
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out i have to put the card up against
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this
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like so you can hear the beep
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okay there's the beat this
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and i can go in there's people in the
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pool i don't want to disturb them but
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yeah that's how it works
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and since the theater is in view over
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there there were some rumors and there
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was even a company
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hopefully going to be reopening the
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theater and i just read online recently
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within the last day or two that that
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fell through
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so there is currently no plan in place
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by anyone at least as far as public
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record goes or
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anyone that's promoting to do so
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of reopening the theater that's been
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closed for over a decade there was
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someone trying to do it but
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it didn't work out from what i was
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reading which is kind of too bad i hope
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someone some organization steps in and
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is able to to talk to whoever owns it or
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the you know
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whoever
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is over the entire building itself
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and they get something going sometimes i
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like reading these little church signs
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sometimes inspirational quotes and other
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times you know cute ones that you can
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learn a lot from
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a lot of golf carts through this area
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too
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a lot of the homeowners in this area
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have golf carts oh
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here's a coffee shop i'm gonna have to
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try sometime
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not today i've already had one
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the king's cafe
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right over here on the church property
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nice
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i also want to show this this is pretty
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neat
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on the side of the presbyterian chapel
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look who it's dedicated to walton roy
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pretty neat
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side note i am not a homeowner
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i just rent a small small place
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nothing too extravagant
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the housing market through here is a
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little a little higher than normal for
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central florida wow look at this one
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it's like mansion-esque
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beautiful
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doesn't it just feel like a movie set
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doesn't just feel like a backlot i know
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i've stated that before and i just i
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don't want to keep reiterating myself
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for this
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i feel like this is like a backlot
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i was just going to allude to the fact
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that and say what am i in savannah
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georgia right now
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i was going to say that as i rode past
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this square
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because it reminds me of you know where
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the forest gump bench would be from in
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savannah georgia and look at the name of
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the square
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that was unplanned i'd never seen the
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square before right here off of mulberry
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savannah square
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because it looks like savannah georgia
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and pulling down this road
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take a look
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at the name of this
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right here
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wisteria lane
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just like desperate housewives
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there's wisteria court
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and wisteria line
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okay east lawn
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definitely has a beverly hills vibe to
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not only the houses
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but also the palm trees
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i wonder if weezer
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would write a song about this place
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instead of beverly hills and there's a
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pool here as well
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open from
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seven to ten
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well yeah seven to ten up until labor
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day
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right there
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okay so far
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two different pools
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i can choose from this one doesn't
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really have anybody in it a couple
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people just walked out but look at this
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like a circular pool here
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gotta remember this one too
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got a few options so far and i'm still
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not done exploring
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i like this one a lot
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little umbrella in the middle and just a
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rough estimate money-wise
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what i am renting here
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half
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of what i was paying in anaheim half
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granted a little bit smaller place not
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much smaller
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a little bit smaller place half the rent
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disneyland was close to my anaheim spot
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two parks disneyland and dca here
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four parks and a couple water i go to
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the water parks
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half the price
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a lot more humidity here though so i
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will say that california's weather
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i enjoy that a little more other than
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i'm pretty content with my decision
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pretty dang content
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made it over to another one
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this is titled heritage hall
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i'm gonna have to remember this one as
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well
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plenty of options
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all right see what else i can find also
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once i get over to some of these gems
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and show them i'm probably not going to
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be doing any cardio
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i'm getting some nice steps in covering
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some miles
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today on this bike
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but i'm gonna show the gems
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and just kind of research it for a
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future reference this road right through
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here gives me some serious hollywood
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vibes
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hollywood studios vibes even which is
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only a couple miles away wdw
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another perfect example of what i'm
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referring to
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look at that beautiful building
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love it
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it's kind of like living in hollywood
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without the urine smell
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and i believe this is another area i was
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looking for spring lake but here it is
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spring lake pool
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and
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fitness center right here
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yeah but this is nice
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got the weights over there
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i got a good amount of stuff treadmill
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bikes which i'm on a bike
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yeah
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i will definitely be in here on occasion
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i won't be here every day or anything
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like that but
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and another pool back there
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which i'm also allowed to use so a
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workout facility and a pool over here at
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spring lake
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keeping that in the back of my mind
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showing the infamous
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celebration pond
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right up here
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the entryway to celebration
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right on world drive you can see all the
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traffic coming in off wheel drive we do
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a little construction over here too
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the infamous
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celebration pond if you know you know
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yeah you don't see too many mickey d's
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that have this kind of architectural
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style
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i like it as well as the 7-eleven
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looks like something off of sunset
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boulevard doesn't it
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and this is the library
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still haven't been inside there but one
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of these days i'll get in the library
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if you want to drop your books off
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after or during hours there's a library
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return right there all right now
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supposedly over here at advent health
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hospital
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there is a rather decent size workout
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facility gym
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i'm being told
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i don't know where it is on property but
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i'm gonna sign up for a membership
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just in case the spring hill area
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one is full
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or the machines aren't available i can
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always use this one all right i'm inside
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now
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check it out
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kind of unique architecture in here as
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well this is on the
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far corner of the hospital
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fitness center and day spa we'll go in
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and get some information
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it happened
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i now have a gym membership here
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i'll walk my bike over here they have
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bike racks
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now probably when i come back over i'll
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be driving my car
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might ride the bike who knows
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for 13 months when you pay for an entire
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year obviously they want you to pay
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monthly but if you pay an entire year if
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they give you a free month so i have it
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until the end of march
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of 23. so the pool
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is over here
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and there's two pools almost one kind of
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like a hot tub it's a 90 degree pool
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so not quite as toasty as a hot tub
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but a big pool
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that is warmer than a regular pool and
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then there is the regular pool that is
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sitting at about 50 degrees
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or so right behind that wall the gym
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is on the third floor
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and the gentleman that helped me out
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gave me a kind of a full tour
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of the inside so there's a really good
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sunset
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if you look out i even asked can you see
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the epcot fireworks in the evening
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and he wasn't sure
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they're open every day
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it was in late of last year 21
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you know a week or two before new year's
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day decided i'm really going to start
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watching what i eat a little more eating
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less eating better
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and then obviously doing a little more
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cardio it's working pretty good i didn't
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even weigh myself this is not a diet
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it's more of a
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lifestyle change of source
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just giving giving myself more options
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trying to stay busy trying to stay more
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active and then when i travel hotel gyms
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are really good for
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using their cardio stairmasters i don't
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do so good with how i really have the
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best knees for working retail
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stocking shelves and loading horse hay
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and stuff like that
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but i do like the elliptical and i do
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like treadmills and now
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i'll be able to start maybe throwing
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some weights into the equation
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so i can use this here when i'm home
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either this or the spring hill spot
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not sure if it's going to be a morning
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thing an afternoon thing a nighttime
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thing
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or if it'll be every day but pretty
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pretty often
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no real goal in mind except when i look
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in the mirror
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well also how i feel i want to feel
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better which i already am
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but when i look in the mirror i'll be
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able to tell
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i'm seeing a difference more than
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hopping on a scale if you will this
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traffic over here has to yield for these
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golf carts
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so you see there's a little golf cart
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path here
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everyone has to yield for the golf carts
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not everyone yields for the golf carts
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though
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sometimes no one will yield but supposed
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to yield for the golf carts as they go
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by
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and knowing me i'll probably get
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pulled into a rabbit hole where i'm
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really going to start
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focusing more on working out
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but i'm not going to go ahead and state
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but the option's there i have it it's
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there
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no reason not to
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i really like this bike
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and i like living here traffic's really
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backed up for some reason though through
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here maybe a yield to all those golf
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carts back on water street
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it's been a good day got a lot
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accomplished
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quite a bit accomplished a lot of
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errands
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kind of boring stuff
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that normally wouldn't be exciting to
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put together in an episode so i really
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appreciate anyone
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watching
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as i got some stuff done
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now am an official resident at my
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i can use the gems in town i can use the
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pools in town i can go to
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resident functions movie nights at the
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gazebo
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over by lake reinhard
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hello duck goose
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a duck duck or a goose i think that's a
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something that you play in a circle with
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other people
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i appreciate you watching a lot of
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accomplish got the gym membership
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i can use a couple of the gyms that are
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free or not free but included with my
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rent for living here
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here in celebration florida
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or use which i probably nine times out
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of ten will go to the
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really nice lots of ellipticals lots of
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treadmills lots of stairmasters lots of
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equipment there's even some personal
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trainers there in a pool
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a couple pools
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i feel accomplished today
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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is
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going back and in the post office box at
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the post office up here
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i got a stinkin post office box more on
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later on what i will be doing with that
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and also this still reminds me
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of a harrison ford futuristic film the
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vlog
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is over