 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to a new vlog and the first official moving vlog. I'm so excited because I'm in the new place, as you can tell. It definitely looks different than what I'm used to. I feel like I always vlog in the other apartment's kitchen, and this is the new kitchen. I'm hoping that my empty apartment tour is already up before this vlog, so go ahead and check it out. We've been slowly moving in like a couple of things, but tomorrow, Saturday, June... What day is it? I don't even know. June 6th? June 5th? I don't know. The movers are gonna come to our place and take like all the big stuff and move it over here. So our couch, our beds, our desks, and all that kind of fun stuff. So we've just been moving like the kitchen stuff, pantry, beauty, bathroom, and all that kind of thing. We actually have a piece since last Friday and we got the whole place painted white. If you guys don't follow me on Instagram, go ahead and do so because I'm going to do like in real time like updates to the apartment and everything. But if you guys follow me on there, you probably have heard of the painting saga. So basically I hired some guy off of TaskRabbit to come paint our walls, and he ended up taking like so long to do it and just like really taking advantage of the whole hourly pay. So we like kind of fired him like halfway through because I'm not going to pay like literally $3,000 or something crazy like that for him to paint. So we found this other guy and I asked the other guy like what the whole job would cost to do the whole place and I think he said like around $1,500. So yeah, I pretty much paid the first guy almost $800 to do a bathroom and not even that master bedroom fully. So I'm really hoping that TaskRabbit gets back to me because I already contacted their support and everything. So fingers crossed. 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They actually operate in a bunch of major cities other than Austin so I'm pretty sure it's like Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville and I think Denver. And for all my UCF grads that are staying in Orlando they just started operating there as well. Like I said the service is completely free so like why not use them you know? Go ahead and follow them on Instagram and TikTok where they post all this really cool tour content. Also if you are looking to move like later down the year they're always posting like really good deals like six weeks free at this apartment, eight weeks free this one so it's a really good place to just get and vote if you guys are moving in the near future. As you can see I bought a float with me to the apartment right I'm still working but his mom is actually coming into town to like kind of just help and mainly babysit Sophie while we're moving so I'm gonna like unload this. I still actually have to film the empty apartment tour. Basically this morning I went to go edit the empty apartment tour and the video files were corrupted and I'm just like how does that freaking happen I just don't understand so that was like really annoying because I was on the phone with like Apple support not that like they really helped me. I'm pretty sure it was like out of their control but I just thought I would call because sometimes they just like fix every little problem in my life. I just thought I would give them a call and like talk it out and see if there's anything that I'm not like trying but yeah video files were corrupted so I came to like kind of just clear the area so we can like film it again and also just bring along with me. I got to clean up all this like painting plastic stuff so that is what I'm gonna do now and I think Ryan's mom is probably gonna be here in the next like 30 minutes and he also wanted me to stop by Home Depot and get boxes. I vacuumed, I watched the counters and it already looks so much better in here. There is some paint on the floor though so we need to figure out what we're gonna do about that because it's not like just chips it's like paint stuck to the floor. I think like Ryan said get goo off or something like that thing that you spray to get the sticker residue off. I think he said that that work. Get some barbecue we're gonna try a new place. Usually we go to Terry Blacks but I'm gonna try something called Rudy's. I found it cheaper and better than Terry Blacks. The brisket was really good. The brisket was better and the ribs are about the same and the banana and the pudding is better. Good morning. It is officially move-in day. The movers actually just got to the old apartment and I came to the new apartment because I filled my car up with some clothes and I have Sophie with me. She is here. She was like so anxious because we were like packing up all our stuff. She hates when we like go on trips and like pack suitcases so boxes were even worse. So I took her with me and she loves this little carrier like it just makes her feel like she's not gonna be abandoned. I thought we've really ever done that but maybe just like take her to like a pet sitter and stuff. I'm so excited to actually get shit moved in here. Like I said we got the keys like last Friday so I've been waiting for a while. I'm also curious to see what the furniture like sizing wise looks like because in my empty apartment tour I said that this apartment is like I've got like 200 maybe even 300 square feet smaller so we are gonna lose a little bit of space. So it shall be interesting. This is the master bedroom and I feel like we aren't going to have like a lot of walking around space. I also just bought a dresser so that's going to be like some space taken up. I literally woke up at like 5 30 this morning. I woke up like six. He started taking out the bed frames because the movers said that they were going to do it but then we're like okay if we're paying them hourly and we can do this ourselves we'll just do it and then have them do like the most important stuff which is like actually carrying the heavy stuff down. But luckily this apartment has elevators. The other one doesn't and we're on the third floor and the stairs are like very like steep and just like it's a lot. I made some major progress in my closet so that's good and now I'm realizing that the closet isn't like super small. I mean the last closet I had was literally just like a big square so there was just like a lot of empty space in the middle so I think this should be fine and especially when I get my dresser we should be good. But I'm currently just listening to a podcast. I've been like really liking Payton Sartons vlogs and she just created a podcast so I'm listening to that right now. It's called Note to Self. The movers just got done. Everything is in the apartment now we just have to like organize and unbox all these boxes. I am dealing with some technical difficulties which I don't really want to say because you know when something happens to you and you just really can't control it I don't want to like harp on it more because when I'm editing back this video I don't want to be reminded. So I'm just gonna say that I have some technical difficulties because it was totally my problem and anyways I have to go to the output store at 12 30 so it is like 11 now it's 11 11 oh I missed 11 11 I'm just so excited to be in a new place. How do you feel? There's a lot of work to do so now we have everything in here we should set it all up. Yeah I'm very very grateful that we were able to hire movers though. Yeah it took way faster. Yeah it was yeah. All right time to get organizing. What do you think starting in there and work our way through? No I was thinking the kitchen like get rid of all the boxes. I'll start in here baby. Okay yeah do you want to do the beds maybe? Yeah I'll start on the other I know the slabs are up over the side of the bed. Oh uh oh maybe in here babe. Yeah it's in here the black ones right they have like a million jillion deaths so business. But how cute is this? It's not going to be too cute when the bed's actually set up and there's like literally no room to walk but yeah we're gonna get rid of the bed I already ordered a sleeper sofa. It's Sunday we've had a pretty slow start to the day we got burgbur biscuit but then I took a nap and I'm just like okay let's get her done so I think we're gonna go over to the older apartment and get some things and then bring them over here. This place is a disaster we need to get it like cleaned everything just like in their places by tonight otherwise I will drive myself insane seeing all this stuff like out and about on a work day so that is the plan. This is the current situation we still have quite a bit to unpack but we wanted to like clean our couch so we got this resolve thing let me show you. I think it's like a carpet thing but we're just gonna use it on our couch and our couch does pill quite a bit so Ryan's taking like a razor to it and trying to get rid of the pilling. It's Friday June 11th and this vlog has been so just scrambled because that is kind of my life right now. I mean it's definitely getting a little bit better but this whole moving process was just annoying. I feel like whenever you see people move it just like looks a lot easier but it just takes so long and then I'm thinking like what is it gonna be like when we actually move into a house or how do people move from house to house like that would be insane because we only have two bedrooms and a living room and like two bathrooms but could you imagine having so many more rooms that you would have to move? I would literally die. It was just so annoying and I'm finally feeling like things are kind of in their spots and I don't know it's getting better here. I actually just sold something else off of Facebook Marketplace to make room for one of my desks in there so like I sold Ryan's like target desk because I wanted my makeup desk in that room and I think I might have said this but I really want to get rid of that bed in the guest bedroom because I bought a sleeper sofa but it's not coming until like September latest and Ryan's friends want to come in like July so we have to hold it until they come and then I'm going to like sell that thing real quick. He's literally taking up the whole guest room so I can barely do anything in there like a filming that I wanted to do but it's all good. Ryan's out getting his hair cut right now so I thought I would just like take the time to kind of give you guys a recap of the moving process and like my feelings about it. Like I said yesterday I think I was just filming on my iPhone when I went to the old place. I just feel like this new place isn't really like homey or like it's not as homey as the other place and maybe it's just because I'm not used to it but I don't know it just doesn't feel as homey. I mean I love the apartment complex don't get me wrong and I know that it's going to take some time but I just feel like I'm not really used to all the differences and taking Sophie out is a big pain in the butt because our last place it was kind of just like you walk out your front door and you're outside you just walk down the steps and there's grass but here you have to like walk down the hallway then downstairs then to the grass and I don't know it's just like minor inconveniences and we also have a parking deck here that we didn't have at the other place so it's just like we had to do like the cons and pros of each place. I honestly think that once I get like the decor up it'll be fine I just don't know when that will be because I want to make everything perfect and I don't want to just go ahead and hang up like the old stuff like I want to just sit down and really think about it like okay do we need like new art here or I want to definitely do the filming and guest room like a little bit different. All that decor was from my college dorm and I like wanted to get rid of it so I might keep those shelves because Ryan made those for me but because we got these like walls painted white I don't want to like be nailing stuff that I think I'm gonna take down you know. I just don't want to like create like random little holes in the wall if we don't have to. Also exciting freaking news. Yesterday was my last photography shoot for a very long time. I don't have anything planned. I mean I'm open to anything and everything but I stopped doing grads like earlier this week but yesterday I did a branding shoot and now I am literally a free bird. I probably will not know what to do with my time and myself especially after I get off work but it's gonna be a really good feeling. I'm excited to use the pool here and like really use the amenities start working out again. Oh my gosh let me just that's another thing I wanted to address. We have been eating like shit and for obvious reasons because when you're moving you know it's hard to like keep groceries and like it's hard to cook and even though we're in here I think we're gonna just wait till Monday to like have a full restart because Ryan's mom just left yeah yesterday or the day before I can't remember so she cooks spaghetti and we're like eating out with her so we wanted to like wait till Monday to like do a full restart get in the gym mode and eat healthy but I'm just kind of mad at myself because like I was doing so good at the gym doing 12, 30, 30 for like literally two months straight and then I just kind of stopped but I had a good reason like I was doing grad season and around the UT area like I would walk for max like four to five hours a day so like I feel like I was getting my exercise in that way so at least I wasn't just sitting on my butt like I usually do but I definitely wasn't eating the healthiest and I don't know I don't I don't really think I gained much weight back but I just don't feel the best and it just sucks because I was doing so well and like actually seeing progress and then I just let myself go but I'm really ready to just get back into it I feel like you just need some moments that you eat like shit and you feel like shit to remind yourself okay like I actually need to eat healthy because it's like the way I feel not even like just the way I look like literally my stomach hurts with half the things I've been eating every single day I'm just like why am I doing this to myself like sometimes it's not even worth it you know let's give you guys a tour of the new place with like all the furniture in it it is a mess just warning you you're his not cut is it you didn't get a haircut did you very funny why are you here i'm at 2 30 oh and you say your cash oh I don't oh yeah I do have cash Ryan was about to get a haircut it was like there's no way you took you were that fast here's the kitchen and this is our new best friend this is our buggy and I got it on amazon for like a hundred bucks so freaking worth it especially now that I live in an apartment complex with an elevator it's amazing and it's so sturdy we've been bringing like all the boxes I was thinking I was going to use it for groceries but I've definitely used it so much more like I've already made it worth it so anyways this is the kitchen that chair is like out of place it needs to go in the other room um and here is like the guest side of the place again it's crazy messing in here but hopefully I can show you guys another day when it's actually really nicely clean and then here is the guest bedroom let me just darken it a little bit so you can see it better we got all my tech stuff on the bed it's a little squished in here so as you can see this is probably where I want to put the sleeper sofa and we're going to get rid of this guest bed and then here's Ryan's closet he actually did a really good job of organizing it with all of shoes and stuff like that looks really good and I've actually been using that desktop which is kind of nice because I never do um and then we have the bike here I haven't touched it since we moved here but I really want to get in a routine of using it like daily if I can and then here's my makeup thingy and my big mirror which I kind of want to hang maybe up here we'll figure it out I know I said that I wanted to get a new couch but honestly it just worked out because I think I explained this already but basically the unit that they originally showed us this wasn't available at first when we were touring so the unit that they showed us was flipped so basically the couch would have to go on this wall and then chase part of it would have been blocking that door so that's the only reason I was kind of um having in my mind that we needed to purchase a new couch then when we were actually able to tour our own unit I found out that we didn't have to buy a new couch but I was kind of like still wanting to because you know I had a vision and everything but now that we have the couch here I'm just like I don't really want to spend the money it's fine this couch is amazing like it's seriously so comfortable also I was still looking for couches I went to West Elm pottery barn I actively look on the West Elm Sand Marcus outlet Instagram by the way you guys have to follow this Instagram account if you guys are moving or like want new furniture they have such good discounted prices and I went to go check out a couch unfortunately it wasn't the exact color that I wanted even though they like said it was I didn't know that there was like it was basically like a white wash but I wanted like the performance linen and it was some other kind of like white wash something or another so it wasn't the exact one but it's totally fine this couch we got off of Wayfair and it is so amazing it is actually so comfortable I feel like people ask me that a lot and I never remember to say that it's comfortable and that is actually very important in the couch because when I was going to pottery barn I sat on them and they were literally rock hard I don't know if it was like pottery barn or CB2 I think it was pottery barn that I didn't like the couches but yeah so this is the living room here's the master bedroom want to say hi so here is where we're going to put our dresser that we actually just bought it just shipped out it's coming in like two weeks or something things actually in it so weird to see because I feel like I was just giving the empty apartment tour the shower is so nice but it's actually like so long that whenever I put my foot up on the wall to shave I start like sliding back and then it just slides down I think somebody said you can get like an amazon bamboo stool so I think I'm gonna check that out and then we're actually using this closet as storage which is so nice to have and then just like our laundry stuff and then here's my closet it really stresses me out so it's probably gonna stress y'all out too but shit is just everywhere I need to find like a better way to do this but I think once I get my dresser it's gonna be a little better one thing I love about this apartment is that they have so much counter space so I have like my favorite appliances out and I actually can have my Vitamix out too which is great because it's going to tell me to use it a little bit more so we have this corner and we're just gonna hide like our toaster because it's not that cute it's like not the white color of all the other appliances so we have our like toaster the Nespresso ooh I want to show you these I actually asked for these cans for Christmas from Ryan I want to say they were like 50 for two as you can see there's one over there I just have flour and sugar in them and I think they're so adorable and now I can finally have them sitting out on the counter because there's enough space we also have an even better view here and it's just like a little bit closer it's kind of like a different angle but it's really nice at night um and if you guys want to see like real-time apartment like updates and everything you can go ahead and follow me on instagram so underscore gnarly without the g I'm actually gonna end this vlog here because I want to start a weekend of my life vlog so definitely subscribe if you guys aren't already because I post a lot more Austin content and just vlogs in general and I will see y'all in my next video bye