 Good morning everyone, Josie here and I'm a little winded. I actually just got done doing this five minute push-up workout that I used to do all the time but I haven't done it in a while and I couldn't even finish it but I'm about to go to church. It's a beautiful day. It's really sunny but it's really cold at the same time but I'm gonna go all the way to Harlem or Harlem that's how they say it to go to church. It's a small update. Finally got an electric toothbrush. Actually I didn't get it. Lee got it so I don't take credit for that but this thing is extremely helpful. You can toggle between a clean mode and whitening your teeth mode and I just find that brushing my teeth or the experience of brushing my teeth is so much better with an electric toothbrush. All right got out of church. It was actually a really great experience. Went to the church that I went to in Harlem. Harlem's actually a lot more diverse than I thought and definitely the church I went to was really diverse too which was great and I'm actually about to meet a friend to go get lunch and then we're gonna walk around do some sightseeing and then watch the All-Star Game. Good morning everyone. Today is Monday. I'm so happy that I had today off. I honestly forgot that I had President's Day off and when you get those vacation days that were unexpected they just feel so good. I need to clean up this kitchen because I feel like the house is a mess if the kitchen's a mess even if everything else is in order so I'm gonna wash these dishes aka put them in a dishwasher and then grab some coffee really quickly before me and Lee head out to the rooftop of our apartment building since the day is so nice. I'm actually gonna make coffee with the Keurig machine because I broke the last three pour over kits. I've mentioned this before but the East Coast is so much sunnier than I anticipated and it's really made me so happy like I cannot lie I'm not saying that your happiness your peak happiness can increase by leaving your current location if you don't like the city you're in but I'm kind of saying that. So we made it to the rooftop so this actually isn't our building but the property that owns our building owns a couple other buildings in our neighborhood and each building offers different things and this building I'm not sure if it has a gym but it does have a really nice rooftop. So you get a nice little piece of New York over here that's for sure you can see New York skyline behind me it's right here so that's midtown of Hudson Yards over this way you can't see it that well because this building is blocking the view and then over this way is one world trade center. Okay so we just found out that this building also has the kitchen has a lounge area a place that you can eat or have like a co-working space pool table. The stuff of this space is the outdoor section so this is the second floor so we've been living in the apartment complex like maybe a couple streets over for months and had no idea that this is where basically all the amenities are. I just got back home from lunch we went to Brevet I think that's how you pronounce it Brevet NYC and it is in the West Village if I'm not mistaken and that restaurant was beautiful it was it's a French cuisine restaurant that's my first time going to a French restaurant and having French cuisine since my trip way back in like 2019 when I went to Switzerland. This was my first time bringing my camera with me to New York City in a long time I haven't made a vlog in like three months and I stopped kind of making vlog content because I didn't get the engagement that I thought I would get or the engagement I'd like to get especially since I only post videos about once a week I want to make sure that I'm posting content that you all enjoy but today is like a one for me type of video and for those of you all who like the vlogs I greatly appreciate it it's like my favorite type of content to make anyways more of the like laid-back casual content every street every street corner is so cinematic experience different cafes and explore different parts of the city I really enjoy sharing those experiences with you all all right a little bit of a life update there's not a ton that's changed definitely more settled in here in the New York City area and Hoboken New Jersey um one thing that I've noticed about myself since moving here is that I don't want to say that I'm happier because no matter how beautiful the city you live in or location you're and you can't run away from your problem so I still have kind of the same I still deal with like the same problems that I did back home to an extent however my happiness scale my my peak happiness is definitely higher here I think a big part of that is just having more sunlight having warmer weather where I go outside more having more things to do having a better sense of community I mentioned this in the last video but I've been posting a lot more TikTok and Instagram content those videos have been doing really well I even got a software engineering like tech humor video get a million views in one day I think that video is around two million views now which is insane so if you like lifestyle content mixed with some like tech humor and a little bit of fashion definitely give my TikTok a follow and also give me a follow on Instagram as well because I post on those platforms like combined about 10 times a week yeah I'm really grateful to be here I know I've said that before but I haven't made a vlog in a while I haven't just sat and talked with you all but I am so grateful to be here about the new job I'm actually liking it a lot I enjoy my team members it's so diverse like so many of my team members are actually from other countries so sometimes I just sit at lunch with them and just observe and listen and hear their experiences of living in different parts of the world growing up in different parts of the world and how it's different from like living in the States their experiences in New York City and New Jersey my wife Lee actually landed a job it's actually based out of New York City which is incredible so I'm really happy for her so round of applause for her getting really excited about March because there are so many people coming to visit this area well not so many but at least two groups of friends that are coming to visit and there's only four weeks out of the month and like two of them they'll be here and one of them I'm actually going to Las Vegas with some of my friends from high school which is going to be a lot of fun I've never been to Las Vegas but we're going to just like hang out I honestly just want to escape to some warmer weather and have a little drink martini by the swimming pool I love going swimming and like warm weather to be honest with you all I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to think about what I want for my career one of my friends who we have like a friend group of tech creators and we talk about our aspirations our dreams our frustrations as creators and we just here to support each other one of the creators in the group Chloe does a really good job of it comes to progressing in her career and being intentional I know a lot of people and I'm one of those people I kind of just like switch jobs and I don't really think about the intentionality is that the right word now it was in terms of the stack that I code in which was a very good decision leaving full stack and being front end but the next thing is what's my like two-year plan what's my like five-year plan some days I do get tired of coding I'm not gonna lie I've been coding for like eight years now since I was 18 I'm 26 and they say that the average programmer retires at 29 basically I think it just means that after like seven years of programming professionally and maybe 10 years of programming since college people start to switch roles that are tech adjacent but don't necessarily require programming just trying to be more intentional and not go through the motions but I'm enjoying my time here yes I do miss family but moving from my hometown it made me realize that one it's not as scary as it seems two you can only grow so much in your hometown I know a lot of people say that and some people may not agree with that because they think just being an adult and living life will help you grow but when you have to just lean on yourself and your spouse and that's pretty much it or you're in an unfamiliar environment you have to learn how to be uncomfortable and for me it allows me to grow closer to God and lean on him or opposed to being comfortable and family so that's kind of my reflection on living here in the east coast for about 90 days now so that concludes this video this was more of a one for me type of video but I hope you all enjoy this type of content I know in the beginning of last year I made a vlog about moving here and it did really well I love making vlogs so I will put out more vlogs if you all are interested in that type of content so be sure to give this video a thumbs up it helps out with the algorithm comment down below what you've been up to lately I'd love to hear about the things that you all are working on and some new experiences you've gotten and as always have a blessed rest of your week oh don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you all soon peace