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good morning everyone welcome to New York I hope you're all having a lovely day it's kind
of a gray cloudy day here in new York today but still bright and sunny honestly this apartment
is kind of always sunny no matter how sunny it is outside because there are just so many windows so
I love to sit at this table eat my breakfast and you can see the clouds it's not super bright but
clearly there's enough sun that I'm like kind of squinting so I just wanted to
take you kind of along in my morning I just made a little breakfast for myself
I had a hard-boiled egg I had a bowl of cheerios honey nut cheerios with banana
and then I also had a coffee
a big cup of water and that's been kind of my breakfast choice these days I think I might
make a smoothie in a bit then I did a little bit of a morning yoga flow and now I'm just
popping on the vlog because I feel like what's needed right now is a little bit of an update
I have been a little bit quiet on social media about this
as Michael and I figure it out you probably know what I'm going to say already because
I think I will title the video with this information but we are moving
let me sit down and talk to you we're moving let's put you here no that sucks
arrange my pillows so we moved into this apartment in August of 2019. it was actually
right before our wedding which happened in September 2019. you know we moved in in august
we spent a couple of months in the apartment early early on then we had our wedding we went away on a
mini moon and then in January of 2020 right before covet hit we did our honeymoon in Thailand so we
actually moved in but then did a whole bunch of traveling so we didn't really actually live here
too much in those early months of living here also august being sort of the end of the summer
we didn't really get the experience of having a summer in this apartment so we kind of missed the
summer aspect of things then covet hit we were out of the city and out of this apartment for
I think six or seven months and we came back labor day of 2020 and we've been here ever
since then when we first rented this place back in august 2019 we signed a two-year lease so we
sort of knew that we had a two-year time period to be here at which point we could either resign
the lease and stay for longer or leave and find another place and there were a few things that
have gone into our decision to ultimately leave this coming summer and find another apartment
probably the biggest of which is the fact that Michael now works from home so this apartment
even though we felt like it was so big because it's a two-bedroom and I have my own office space
we feel like we really do need an office space that is big enough for the two of us together
right now you know Michael kind of works like in the hallway right here that's his office and he
works from home just the same as I do like every single day he's home on his computer and he takes
a lot of calls a lot of like video calls and chats and he's just sitting right here in the entryway
here I am are you cool with this entryway seat or what's the deal I love it very happy with it but
I'm also excited to actually have a physical office I feel like it's just been a really
nice space for him right now but the truth is you guys know with my job I walk like to and from the
office 18 million times a day I'm wearing sports bras I'm you know changing outfits to do shoots
and he has to put a virtual background up for most of his meetings because I'm always walking by
looking absolutely ridiculous in the background so honestly like he needs a dedicated workspace where
he can have a professional working from home set up another big reason why we've decided to make
the move is honestly the noise we live in an area of Manhattan that's pretty active and bustling and
I love this you guys probably know from previous videos of mine that I actually love
noise I love being in the center of things that being said if you follow my instagram stories
you know that this apartment especially the living room is just next level loud
as the motorcycle drives by I have recorded instagram stories in here in the evenings and
there's like full music blasting from straight performers
motorcades and like fleets of motorcycles that just rush down the street there's
constant beeping and backing up of trucks people blasting their music in their cars as they drive
down the street and we can hear every single sound I honestly think we can even hear
people having a conversation on the street we're not even that low down but it's just
you can hear it happening right now with the amount of windows in this place
it's basically like we're outside and I was really excited when we first moved in here because the
bedroom and the office do have those double city windows so the owner of this apartment installed
the double windows for us which makes the bedroom and the office kind of radio silent you know
closing the bedroom door is like you're entering a quiet sanctuary and same thing with the office but
the living space there's no double windows there's also no window treatments so it's just like open
to the world and it's loud Michael and I have been struggling recently to have quiet nights together
you know we ever want to watch a show we have to continually pause to let motorcycles go by
we also have been trying to do a lot of meditation together and it's like funny like we I have to put
in noise cancelling headphones and listen to the sound of nature or crickets because if I just play
the recording out loud it's like I'm meditating on the street so just to update you we don't know
where we're moving yet we don't have an apartment yet we are looking I love looking at apartments
so we're currently searching we don't have a specific area in mind that we want to move to but
we are open to going to maybe a bit of a quieter neighborhood in the city we're also open to
leaving the city maybe exploring another borough if you live in New York City or you know New York
City well and you have suggestions for areas that we might look at please comment down below I don't
know yet where we're gonna settle but we kind of know what we're looking for we've really enjoyed
this kind of like crazy creative bright open space NYC apartment vibe where I can like stare at the
empire state building every morning and it just feels really city-centric but we're definitely
ready to find a place that maybe feels a little bit more homey more comfortable and a little
quieter so that is the Lucie Michael life moving update that's kind of all I have for you right now
I will be sure to keep you updated as we go through the process and of course once we find
a place and we move I will create video content about it I will take you on a tour of the new
space that we find and it's gonna be fun as you know I love moving I love switching things up so
even though we love this apartment so much like I feel like we poured so much energy into decorating
it and really making it our own and making it feel special we are definitely ready to move
on we're ready to go on to our next journey and honestly we're going to take a lot of elements of
this apartment with us so those beautiful shelves in the entryway will be coming my plant wall with
the test tubes that will be coming I just kind of plan on transplanting our apartment to a new spot
things that will not be coming the wallpaper that is peel and stick and it's staying on this wall I
believe or we'll take it off before we leave all the artwork will come it's all my mom's
and a lot of our furniture will come too we're definitely going to take our couch we're taking
our bed all that good stuff so that is the life update of the moment today is just kind of a
casual New York City day I am planning to go to my sister's apartment later this afternoon to shoot
a YouTube video oh one thing I wanted to add is that I don't know if you guys know my newsletter
but if anyone is part of my think fam newsletter I have this you know free newsletter that you can
join where every single month you can sign up to do a challenge with me and the may challenge
is going to be taking a 10-minute walk every single day at least a 10-minute walk if you're one
of those people who loves long walks great you'll definitely do the challenge but if you're someone
who is like I am where you're very sedentary and there are days and days and days that go by where
you don't leave the inside definitely sign up and try this challenge with me I'm really excited to
do it I'm going to push myself to get outside like first thing in the morning and take a 10-minute
walk and if you want to sign up for that I will put the link down below in the description box
you can just join my newsletter and you will be sent a free document that I put together
with you know kind of all the info for this month's challenge plus a free habit tracker that
I built for you that you can print out and check off as you do your habits let me have some coffee
what else has been going on in my life
uh yeah so I'm gonna go do some editing I have like a lot of video editing to achieve right now
I do work with an editing company that edits most of my YouTube content but they
can only edit one video at a time obviously so whenever they're working on one video if I have
another video that needs to be turned around I always take the edit on myself and I actually
love video editing I don't know if a lot of YouTubers out there don't like editing but
I love it I just I can't get myself to do it for every video because it's such a huge lift
physically and mentally it's like you got to spend hours sitting at the computer and mentally like
map out the video and it's just a lot but for a creative person who likes storytelling when you
just have loads of footage and you pull it into a video editing program there's like nothing more
fun than putting that story together and sharing your vision through video you know what this is
a good time for me to tell you something else that is kind of cool if anyone's interested so
let me take you to my office coffee is so good a little fun secret is that I basically live
in my office with this ring light sitting on my desk like this and I put my computer right here
and I turn the ring light on anytime I'm doing any sort of video call and it looks like this
well it truly changes the contouring of the face right you can make it brighter
or dimmer it comes in handy for video calls and you know presentations I'm turning it off
though let's put you here so speaking of video editing what I wanted to tell you is that I've
recently been hosting private one-on-one coaching and consulting calls with people
who want to learn video editing this is something I've been really wanting to do for a while because
I feel like over the years I've become pretty proficient in video editing myself and I feel
like it's such a tangible skill that once you know how to do it you almost can't help but
want to teach people and share your information so I set up a little section on my new website
you might have seen this page if you've gone to my website but there's a section where you can
click that you want to work with Lucie and you can request a one-on-one consultation and basically
I've been doing a whole bunch of these calls with people where we spend one hour together over zoom
and I basically record the screen and do a full walkthrough tutorial of how I edit with adobe
premiere and so far the results and the feedback has been incredible I feel like it's really good
for people who want to get into video but don't know where to start or someone who needs to make
video content for their channel or their job but doesn't really know how to edit content themselves
and it's just been so much fun for me so if anyone out there is thinking like I would love to learn
a new skill video editing sounds fun and I would love to do it with Lucie please i'll put the link
down in my description box I would love to hear from you and I would love to work with you so that
would be great okay I don't have any other updates the last thing I want to say is that Michael
is turning 30 this summer so if anyone has any suggestions I'm racking my brain over here with
birthday ideas oh and also I'm breaking out of it I feel like cover-up does a really good job at
when I'm far back or you know in certain lighting conditions you can't really tell but if you look
up close lots going on but you know it is what it is I trust my body is doing whatever it needs to
do to clear things out of my face so just do your work do what you got to do and that's all I've got
for you I really like every so often just throwing in these little short vlogs taking you on a casual
day or a casual morning I feel like that is what I like watching on YouTube is just like what is
someone doing when they wake up so I hope you enjoyed that oh yeah this wall is another wall
that obviously we're not taking the wallpaper but I want to take all these little things and set it
up in a new space maybe a little bit differently but kind of the same this is my favorite wall
in the whole apartment I always love keeping you up to date with my latest happenings so I'm glad
I could finally share that with you once again let me know if you have any really great ideas
of where we can live or where we should look love apartment hunting so this is going gonna
be fun and thanks for coming back to my channel to watch this update I'm sending you all so much love
give this video a thumbs up if you just want more casual morning or evening vlogs from me
and i'll see you next time on YouTube I have so many fun videos coming your way just wait
you