Michael: Here's is the thing about Buffy. You're not gonna sweat in bed when you're usin' the Buff-ster.
Lucie: *laughing* Okay, stop!
Lucie: Hey everyone, welcome back to my YouTube channel. Look who I've got...
It's Michael!
Michael: It's me.
Lucie: Recently I've been making an Instagram TV series called "In the Living
Room With Lucie" where I sit right here in my living room and I kind of just talk
about whatever's going on in my mind at the time. I recently did an episode about
why the two of us chose to move in together before we actually got engaged
or married, and people seemed really into it. Everyone had something to say about
the topic, and a lot of people asked for a similar type topic on YouTube
including Michael. ... I got my deodorant on you... Can you guys see that?
Michael: We're not gonna do that.
Lucie: We're not gonna do what?
Michael: Tell them about the deodorant.
Lucie: Yeah we are. I'm so sorry!
So, I didn't want to make the exact same video right away... so I'm not gonna do "why
we chose to move in together before getting married" in this video... but maybe
we'll do that down the line. Today instead, I wanted to post a video sharing
the things that we both learned about the other when we moved in together.
Michael: A lot to cover.
Lucie: We have a lot to cover, because we learned a lot.
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that soon. So, we're just gonna kind of go back and forth and share the different
things that we each learned about the other once we moved in together.
Michael: And, spoiler alert... we're still living together, so none of them are too crazy.
Lucie: Yeah, nothing forced the other to move out.
Michael: Close... But not quite.
Lucie: I'm so sorry about this...
Michael: It happens. So, the first
thing I learned about Lucie when I moved in with her,
was how messy she can be. *laughs*
Lucie: I am.
Michael: Yeah. No, at first she started leaving stuff
around the apartment... I just thought "Oh, like, she'll clean that up later... but then
some things just never really got cleaned up... It just became this thing
where I was like, you know, is she gonna clean this up later? Or does she expect,
you know, someone like Cinderella or Michael to come clean this up?
Lucie: I very similarly, but on the complete opposite end of the coin, learned about
Michael first and foremost how CLEAN he is. I realized how you can't really
function unless it's clean. And how you would kind of, like, walk around the
apartment... you'd see that I'm, like, leaving stuff out on the table, or
leaving dishes in the sink... and you'll just sort of come up to me and be like
"What is going on here? What are we doing here?" And... we had to have some convos.
Michael: I just want to know. What's going on? Like... I'm just curious.
Lucie: Oh! Here's a good one! I didn't know this
before we moved in together, because even though we had sleepovers and stuff, we
actually never showered in each other's showers because he had a roommate and I
had a roommate... But, I learned that this guy leaves a lot of hair behind in the
shower. I don't know if you can see his chest... poking through... He's got a lot of
chest hair, a lot of head hair, a lot of body hair... and it just falls off in the
shower. And it sticks to the floor, it sticks to the walls... So I didn't really know how hairy you are, I guess.
Michael: Yeah. Not really much to say there. Got a lot of chest hair...
Lucie: I love it all. I'm just saying I didn't realize it was gonna be in the shower.
Michael: Yeah, no, I know. It's, uh... It's something you signed up for when you moved in with me,
and when you got married to me.
Lucie: Sure did.
Michael: I'm not the only one that has.. leaves hair in the shower.
Lucie: That's true.
Michael: One of the things I learned about you actually, is that sometimes, you know... your hair will come out a little
bit... few pieces here and there in the shower... and...
Lucie: I know what you're gonna say!
Michael: One of the things that's normal is, you know, it gets caught around the drain... or like, you know...
clogs it up a little bit... that's to be expected. But... a little after I moved
in with you, I started realizing that when I would go into the shower
I saw, like, stuck up against the shower... there would be just, like, clumps of your hair.
Stuck to the wall. And...
Lucie: There's a reason for this.
Michael: Yeah... I was kind of unclear what that was about.
Lucie: Okay, so I wash my hair a couple times a
week. The rest of the week I just, like, style it and I leave it. It doesn't get
oily fast. So I don't wash it that often.
Michael: *sniffs Lucie's hair*
Lucie: It smells good, right?
Michael: Okay.
Lucie: But, when I do wash my hair, and I kind of run my fingers through it and I'm detangling it... a lot
of my hair comes out, and I don't want it to go down the drain because I don't
want you to have to snake the drain... So, instead of sending the hair down the
drain, I just pull it off my fingers and I put it into a pile... and then I stick it to the
shower door, like, close to the exit... so that as I'm on my way out I remember to
take it out, and then I'll flush it down the toilet or just throw it in the garbage.
Michael: Right, so... So are you saying you just put it there... and then you don't remember?
Lucie: Yeah that's exactly what happens. I put it there, and then I forget, and then you come in and you're
like "AHHH there's a squirrel!"
Michael: You're louder than I expected.
Lucie: In what way?
Michael: I knew that you were very loud to begin with. Your personality and your potential loudness is one of
the things that I love about you. But. When we moved in together and we started
doing a little bit more work together and more serious stuff, I
realized that I don't do my best work necessarily when I'm right next to you.
And part of that is because Lucie just... you know... makes a lot of noises.
Lucie: What kind of noises?
Michael: A lot of noises. Like, you know,
she'll be working on something and snacking at the same time... There's, uh...
Often she'll be, you know, watching a video or doing some work on her computer
and there's...
Lucie: *slurps loudly* Just kidding.
Michael: There's lots of noises that come out of the computer that typically
people would, you know, listen to in their headphones... and when she types... Ah, that's the
biggest one. Don't even get me started there. Lucie is one of the loudest typers
you will ever come across.
Lucie: I get it from my dad. He slams on the keyboard. Let's
just be clear, I'm loud in the home, but I'm not a loud person out and about in the world, right?
Michael: No. You're not a loud person.
Lucie: I'm not one of those people at a restaurant that everyone's looking
at being like, "that person's so loud".
Michael: No, that's why it was a shock for me to learn when I moved in with you.
Lucie: Okay, whew! The next thing I learned about you, is that when you are
in a bad mood from the day... you come home and you're just in a really bad mood.
Michael: Me?
Lucie: No, no! Hold on! Let me explain! If something, like, *beep*-y happened at work
or school and then...
Michael: I don't think you can use that word.
Lucie: I sure can. It's my channel. *beep* *beep* *beep*!
Michael: Okay.
Lucie: I decided I can't use it which is why I *bleeped* it out. When you come home and
something crappy happens at school or at work, you will be just kind of like low
energy in a bad mood. And on the contrary, if you're in a good mood... something good
happens or you're just, like, feeling good with life and in a happy position... you
will be dancing around the house. And I don't think I saw you dance too much
when we were just dating... but now that I live with you it's like, I catch you in
moments where you're, like, hip thrusting... or, like, you know... you have music blasting
and you're doing something silly... and that's definitely something that I only
saw once we shared a space.
Michael: I dance sometimes.
Lucie: Should we cut to a dance break?
Michael: No, we should definitely not cut to a dance break.
Lucie: All right, the next thing I
learned about Michael is that as soon as the TV goes off at night, you
fall asleep immediately.
Michael: Yeah. Right away.
Lucie: Yeah, right away. And...
Michael: I'm very lucky.
Lucie: Sometimes I struggle,
sometimes I'm lying there 20 minutes, trying to do breathing exercises... And I
can just tell that you're asleep because of the way your breathing pattern goes...
Like, you breathe differently when you're awake versus asleep... And we usually watch
a TV show before bed... Right now we're binge watching Seinfeld, and so we watch
pretty much one episode every night... And then we turn it off, and it's, like, within
30 seconds you're in your sleep breathing. So you fall asleep really quickly.
I didn't know that.
Michael: I use up all the energy I need during the day. When I'm ready to go to bed, I'm ready.
Lucie: You just do so much hip thrusting that by the time it's time for bed, you're just knocked out cold.
Michael: Yeah, that's... definitely. Related to the bed... I...
I didn't realize before we moved in together than you actually enjoyed
making the bed.
Lucie: I do. Well, I actually didn't before we lived
together... I actually never made my bed in my life... and then when we moved in
together, and all of a sudden, like, I shared a bed with someone... I felt the
need to make it look neat after getting out.
Michael: Yeah. I feel like it's part of, also, becoming an adult...
Lucie: Yeah, exactly. Becoming an adult... making the bed...
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Sorry for all the sounds. It's just New York. I mean, like, what are we supposed to do about that?
Michael: Still related to the bed... One of the things I learned about Lucie was the extent of her night terrors.
So I knew this even when we were just dating, before we lived together,
because we spent some nights together. She had some incidents back then, but I didn't realize until we moved in
together that it was... at that point, almost a nightly occurrence. It was
happening all the time.
Lucie: We should give them a little bit of background... This
isn't, like, a nightmare... but I used to have frequent incidences where I would
see insects, or animals, or--occasionally--people, in the room when they weren't
there... And a lot of times it was insects and animals, and I would just freak out
and yell at Michael that there were rats in the bed, or spiders all over... which is
just not good for him to be woken up every night to my shrieks... It's not like
I was having, like, nightmares or anything extreme... It was just seeing bugs.
Michael: Yeah. *sarcastically* No, it wasn't extreme at all.
Lucie: Next thing I wrote for you... I didn't know this until,
actually, more recently... I wouldn't even say this was a, like, "we moved in
together and I discovered this"... But more recently I'm starting to notice that
Michael eats the same thing every single day. Sometimes he adds variety because I
encourage him to... but if it weren't for me, he would wake up every single morning
and make himself the same breakfast... And then... The thing about you is that you find these
places in New York that you like for lunch, and you'll... say "I love the chicken
bowl from here... I love this..." and then, you don't branch out. So you just, like, find
what you like and you eat it over and over again. Whereas if I have mushrooms two
days in a row I'm, like, off mushrooms for the whole month.
Michael: One of the things I learned from living with Lucie... is that she loves change.
We've only moved once at this point, since we've been living together... but
there have been lots of talks and conversations about potential moves... and then
even within the apartment itself she loves to move things around... I mean, even in your
videos you obviously talk a lot about different lifestyle trends, different
things that you've tried... and you take on a lot of those and adopt a lot of those. And
just constantly new things, ideas floating around our house... which I like a lot.
Lucie: Yeah, I love changing things. The one thing I haven't changed is you...
Michael: I appreciate that.
Lucie: Yeah. All right, the next thing that I learned about you, is that... oh! Speaking of
change... and not changing... You have a very tough time getting rid of stuff. So...
Michael: I hear what you're saying... I don't know if that's true.
Lucie: I feel like the way you operate is that if we have something that we're not sure if we want, your
go-to suggestion is "Let's just put it in the closet, and if it's still here in
five months and we haven't used it, then we'll figure out how to get rid of it." So,
we've had, like, a couple rugs that we never used rolled up in our closet
really clogging up the door...
Michael: Yeah.
Lucie: This isn't a negative, this is just an observation.
Michael: *laughs* Gotcha. Cool, cool. Yeah, no, definitely. It feels...
Lucie: *joking* Basically, you're a hoarder.
Michael: It feels like a positive. But, at the same time, I feel like it also evens out
because you just have a lot more stuff...
Lucie: It's true.
Michael: ... to begin with. That was one of the things I learned about you. That... you just, have a lot of stuff.
I have... My clothes are...
much larger than yours...
Lucie: Which is one of the things I learned about you! Is that...
Michael: Oh yeah?
Lucie: Your clothes, and especially your shoes, are so big! The amount of space that, like,
a sweatshirt of yours takes up is equivalent to, like, my largest, largest
bath towel. I've always, like, was attracted to you, and your smell... like, I
just never thought about it until we moved in together.
I never realized that you smell... so good. And it's not just after a
shower. It's like, your actual skin smells, like... sweet, and...
Michael: Yeah, what else?
Lucie: Very manly... and I just... I love your smell. On that note, another thing I learned about you,
is that you do shower multiple times a day sometimes... Which could be why you smell so good.
Michael: Mmhmm. Yeah. I can't go a day without showering,
that's for sure.
Lucie: Well, that's good.
Michael: I would go... I'd say... minimum one, maximum four?
Lucie: They're really short, but you're really squeaky clean.
Michael: Oh! While we're on the subject of smells. So, one of the things that I learned about Lucie, and about us
after we moved in together, was that we have completely different tastes in what "snacks" are... and
what snacks we choose to eat. So...
Lucie: *laughing* "In what snacks are" period.
Michael: Yeah, I feel like we just have
different definitions... of a snack. For you the idea of a good snack is something
related to sauerkraut, or yogurt... which is normal. Or capers...
Lucie: Mmmm... Pickles. Olives...
Michael: OH. Pickles. Pickles is the one, yeah. What's going on?
Lucie: A pickle is God's tastiest snack.
Michael: It's just preposterous.
Lucie: Loaded with salt, loaded with electrolytes... I guess another thing I learned about him when we
moved in together is that he really likes plain and simple things. In our
fridge... I mean, I like to have all these sauces, and condiments, and capers, and
fermented stuff... If it were up to him, would just have plain pasta in there,
with some, like, roasted, grilled veggies... No sauce, no spices, no seasoning. Like, he just wants it plain.
Michael: Just give me some olive oil.
Lucie: Olive oil and salt is his dressing of choice. Okay,
next thing that I learned about you... which I could only
learn this after moving in with you because I only asked you to do this
after we moved in together... Once I started asking Michael to be in
videos with me, and to sit and, you know, do YouTube with me occasionally... I learned
that this guy needs maybe, like, two weeks notice that he's going to be in a video.
And that's because he just needs to be mentally prepped to go on camera because
this isn't something he does every day, as I do. I can't just say to him one
morning "hey, can we shoot a video today?" No, no, no. I need to plant the seed weeks in advance.
Michael: One of the things that I knew about Lucie, obviously, before we moved in
together, and that I absolutely loved about her... was just how much positive
energy she has. She's just a ball of positivity, and I figured when we moved in together
that I would be exposed to a different side of her and that you know maybe she
wasn't that positive all the time... And she's not, it's not 24/7... Everyone,
everyone has their ups and downs... But it's really astounding how much
positive energy you have and just how nice you are to be around, all the time.
Lucie: Well, one thing that I learned about you is that you are so mature, especially when
we get into an argument. You let things go so easily. You'll just be like "Okay,
it's over, I'm sorry." Like, "let's move on..." Whereas I maybe will hold on to something...
Michael: Maybe.
Lucie: For a few hours...
Michael: I feel like when we moved in together you still
were of the mindset that, like, you needed to be to be right. And you didn't like to
admit that you were wrong. Which is fine... A lot of people are like that. But, I...
Lucie: Not me... I'm not.
Michael: No, I I just never was of the mindset that I had to be... to always be right, and... yeah.
So even when I wasn't... whatever. I'll leave it at that.
Lucie: You're right.
Michael: Thank you.
Lucie: I learned that you check the mail... every day.
Michael: Almost, yeah.
Lucie: Until I shared a mailbox with you, I didn't know this about you... but you come into the apartment and
you go in the lobby, open the mailbox, and you check the mail.
Michael: I'm really good at it.
Lucie: I check the mail... maybe once a month. I learned that Michael is really good at logistics.
That's another thing we discussed in our relationship is that personally I don't
really like handling logistics, and I don't think this is the type of thing
that you can say, like, "Well, everyone doesn't like logistics"... because here's
someone who likes logistics!
Michael: Really gets me up in the morning.
Lucie: Really wakes him right up, gets his day going... And he likes handling logistical things.
Michael: Anything else?
Lucie: I think we're getting to the very end... The last thing I had was that
you watch football all the time.
Michael: Not all the time. It's not always on. There's an offseason.
Lucie: I guess what I mean by that is you watch SPORTS all the time.
Michael: Yeah.
Lucie: And for me... like, certain
sports I like, and certain sports I don't... Football being the one that I don't love...
just because I don't really get what's going on or, like, who has the ball at any
given time... and because everything is seasonal, it's like one season is
baseball, then all of a sudden it's football season, then we're watching the World Cup
in soccer... and it's like... it never ends. Every day of the year is a sport.
Michael: It's a beautiful thing.
Lucie: So beautiful. It's stunning. I'll tell you that. And those are all the things that each
of us learned about the other when we moved in together. So yeah, we've lived
together for four years now... this is our second apartment together. We're
continuing to learn new things about each other every day, and...
Michael: It's always an adventure.
Lucie: It is always an adventure. I know I mentioned this at the beginning, but the
reason that we started talking about this topic is that I made an IGTV video
a little while ago talking about living with a partner before marriage. And my
general take on it was that I think living with a partner helped us to iron
out all the kinks and maybe get past some of our disagreements before we
actually got married.... because now that we've been married for a few months, we
can say that it's so great to come home and live together, and know each other's
living style, and to not have any of those earlier fights or disagreements
that we had at this stage in our relationship. We're so over that. I'm so
happy that he learned how messy I was back then and that he could talk about it
with me... and we could kind of clear the air about schedules, and living styles,
and cleanliness BEFORE we got married... because now that we're living together
and we're in this honeymoon phase of our lives, we just are happy and living our
lives. And that's our take on it. But I know that there are some ideological or
religious reasons why people might not actually be able to or want to live
together before marriage, so that's totally cool, and I think just everyone does it differently.
Michael: Thanks so much for coming back to Lucie's channel. It was so great to talk to you today.
Lucie: And thank you to Michael for coming back to the
channel, because the people want you here. Comment below, let us know what other
videos you want to see from me, from him, from us... I'm happy to pin him down
weeks in advance to get more videos out of him. We'll see you next time, right
here on YouTube. Love you all. Bye!
Lucie: ... We're still here! Ha ha ha!
Okay, bye.