Speaker 1: You're listening to Jojo Sea Now with Me, Jojo Siua
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Speaker 2: Oh, welcome to JoJo's See One Now.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is I'm about to deep dive
Speaker 1: into one of the biggest, most adult experiences that I
Speaker 1: have experienced in all of my experiences. I for the
Speaker 1: very first time moved, not only moved, but I moved
Speaker 1: to a whole nother state all by myself. Uh.
Speaker 2: It's been kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: So about five weeks ago, I got a phone call
Speaker 1: and it was from my favorite people ever over at Fox,
Speaker 1: the TV network, and they called me and well, actually, okay,
Speaker 1: let me not be dramatic. They called my agent and
Speaker 1: they said, Hi, we are doing so you think you
Speaker 1: can dance season eighteen.
Speaker 2: We want Joju to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: I definitely would have never like just picked up and
Speaker 1: moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: That wasn't for this show.
Speaker 1: And so when this opportunity came, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. This is definitely definitely a first. But
Speaker 1: here here we go.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Uh? I think for me, honestly, post Special Forces, I
Speaker 1: haven't really been afraid of much. And it's weird because
Speaker 1: I always thought like doing something like this, moving to
Speaker 1: a new city by myself. Like I thought that to
Speaker 1: me would be scary, but it really hasn't been. I
Speaker 1: mean there's like the double fear of like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't have any friends here, and like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know where anything is here, But then it's like but
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't. I'm not really affected by it.
Speaker 2: I was more so excited.
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I make sure that I take
Speaker 1: like all the right safety precautions. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere alone past dark, I don't. I make sure
Speaker 1: my doors are locked. I make sure that I have
Speaker 1: my phone right by me. I make sure that I
Speaker 1: have extra security on my door. I made sure before
Speaker 1: I got here that my complex was secure and that
Speaker 1: there was security, and there is and it's in a
Speaker 1: good area.
Speaker 2: And I don't go out.
Speaker 1: I don't hang out with bad people. I try to
Speaker 1: make sure that I take enough safety precautions to where
Speaker 1: I can be here and I can fall asleep at
Speaker 1: night and I can feel safe in my own space.
Speaker 2: I think that's a.
Speaker 1: Massive thing that was a big question for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, is how do you feel safe?
Speaker 2: And I think for me it's just kind of.
Speaker 1: Like, eh, you know, I just gotta take as many
Speaker 1: precautions as I can and hope for the best.
Speaker 2: I think that's a big thing that I always do,
Speaker 2: I said, just kind of hope for the best.
Speaker 1: There are moments where I've definitely been like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: is what it's like to be in a big city
Speaker 1: by yourself.
Speaker 2: Okay, sick, but uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a lot of friends that
Speaker 1: are in like two hour distance, so if anything, if
Speaker 1: I needed anybody, I.
Speaker 2: Could call somebody that's fairly close.
Speaker 1: But genuinely, overall, it has just been such a cool
Speaker 1: experience trying to figure all this out so quickly, all
Speaker 1: at once.
Speaker 2: So then my.
Speaker 1: Agent called me was like, hey, so, so you think
Speaker 1: it has Season eighteen in Atlanta?
Speaker 2: Are you down?
Speaker 1: And I was like, of course, what is it? And
Speaker 1: you know, they told me the week and a half
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, so, like it's happening now
Speaker 1: we're moving to Atlanta And they were like you're moving
Speaker 1: to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: And I was like sick, Okay, great, got it, tell
Speaker 2: them yes.
Speaker 1: But now I just got to kind of figure out
Speaker 1: how I want to be when I'm there, you know,
Speaker 1: do I want to There was an option of I
Speaker 1: could fly back and forth, fly in for work, then
Speaker 1: go right back home to LA and then there was
Speaker 1: the option of an AIRBNBA a house.
Speaker 2: There was an option of a hotel, and then I.
Speaker 1: Ultimately decided that an apartment was actually going to be
Speaker 1: the best for my situation because I really wanted to
Speaker 1: you know, I'm here for six weeks, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, I really want to have the vibe of like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's homey, and like I can cook, I can clean,
Speaker 1: I can do laundry, whereas if I was in a hotel,
Speaker 1: it would be more like room service and housekeeping and
Speaker 1: like sending out my laundry and you know, honestly, originally
Speaker 1: my game plan.
Speaker 2: Was hotel or house, big house, Airbnb, and then.
Speaker 1: I kind of realized, like, oh, look, I want to
Speaker 1: be in a new city by myself.
Speaker 2: Do I really want to be in a house all alone?
Speaker 2: And I ultimately decided no.
Speaker 1: And then working out too is another massive part of
Speaker 1: my life, and I realized that if I was in
Speaker 1: a house, I would have to go to a gym,
Speaker 1: versus being in a hotel or an apartment, I would
Speaker 1: have access to a fitness center closer to me, and
Speaker 1: so then I was like, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the hotel route. Then I found a hotel that I liked.
Speaker 1: It was in this really cool little area that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I would like to live there.
Speaker 1: So I was looking around on like a satellite map,
Speaker 1: like on Apple Maps, right, and I was looking on
Speaker 1: the area, exploring, saying restaurants, saying shops that were in
Speaker 1: this area to kind of get if I get a
Speaker 1: feel if I was gonna like what it was like.
Speaker 1: And as I was doing that, I saw this building
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, what's this hotel? I'm thinking
Speaker 1: it was another hotel, and it actually was apartments. So
Speaker 1: then as soon as I saw that, I knew. I mean,
Speaker 1: at this point, I only had about a week until
Speaker 1: the move. So I called the apartment complex and I
Speaker 1: was like, Hi, I never be myself when I first
Speaker 1: call people, especially like this, because it's just it's like
Speaker 1: a security thing, right, And so I was like, Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Jesselyn. I represent Jojo Sewa. She's coming
Speaker 1: into film TV show for a few weeks. She's looking
Speaker 1: at living at your complex.
Speaker 2: Is that something that you guys do?
Speaker 1: Faked it till I made it that I was some
Speaker 1: representative of Jojo Cia. I always just play Jesslain because
Speaker 1: it's my mom and I can just like say that
Speaker 1: name fast and just flows off the tongue. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: ended up getting a proof of the apartment so fast.
Speaker 1: I when I tell you, I had so many people
Speaker 1: helping me, being like Dad, like give me all this information,
Speaker 1: Mom giving all this information. Hey, I need some information
Speaker 1: from you. I need some information from you, Bank, I.
Speaker 2: Need this, that, this and that. Everyone was so helpful
Speaker 2: and so on the ball.
Speaker 1: And we made it happen, got up room for an apartment,
Speaker 1: and literally less than a week moved in. It was great,
Speaker 1: but now let me tell you, the expectation versus reality
Speaker 1: of moving was whack.
Speaker 2: So now I am a little bit of an idiot.
Speaker 1: And I planned a trip to Boston like three days
Speaker 1: before I was supposed to move to go see my
Speaker 1: friends in the Dance and with the Stars tour.
Speaker 2: So I planned to go to Boston and I was like, look,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fine. I'm gonna go home.
Speaker 1: All I gotta do is like pack some clothes and
Speaker 1: like pack some things for the TV show.
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna be I'm gonna be fine, right, So
Speaker 2: I go to Boston, I come home to LA for.
Speaker 1: A few days, and I got like two days now
Speaker 1: before I leave, cause I my whole family, mom, dad, brother,
Speaker 1: and my brother's girlfriend was all in Orlando at the time,
Speaker 1: and my parents were just there visiting, and so I
Speaker 1: had LA all to myself, our households and myself. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to Florida to kind of see
Speaker 1: everybody before I moved to Atlanta. And so I had
Speaker 1: about two days at home, and in those two days,
Speaker 1: I realized, oh shit, there is a lot more stuff
Speaker 1: that I need to bring than I really realize. And
Speaker 1: that was because of filming the TV show. You know.
Speaker 1: Of course, I realized like, oh, I have to bring
Speaker 1: my outfits, and I have to bring, you know, socks
Speaker 1: and shoes. But like, for example, one of the craziest
Speaker 1: things that I realized, like, oh, I got to figure
Speaker 1: out how I want to take these and fast and
Speaker 1: compact is rhinestones. Every day I ran stone my ears
Speaker 1: for earrings, I ride some my face for makeup by
Speaker 1: Ryanstone outfits and Ryan Stones are not easy to travel with.
Speaker 1: And so when I opened my rhinestone drawer at my house.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, how am I going to
Speaker 1: get you guys to Atlanta?
Speaker 2: So I packed them up.
Speaker 1: Quick and then it was just like everything. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I needed like this much stuff.
Speaker 1: And then that also that carried along to when I
Speaker 1: get to Atlanta at.
Speaker 2: The stores and stuff. But that's that's coming deeper into
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I got all my stuff figured out at home,
Speaker 1: ended up shipping like seven suitcases, ended up traveling with
Speaker 1: just a carry on. If I can travel on an
Speaker 1: airplane with just to carry on on, it is the
Speaker 1: greatest day of my life. Ugh. It's literally my favorite
Speaker 1: thing ever. Not having to wait aut baggage claim. There
Speaker 1: is nothing better than not having to wait at baggage claim. H.
Speaker 1: So I go to Boston, back to LA and then
Speaker 1: I now make the journey to Florida, where I am
Speaker 1: there for literally twenty four hours before I make my
Speaker 1: trip to Atlanta, and then boom, I am in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: This new world starts literally and I am just like,
Speaker 1: what is happening. First thing that I do when I
Speaker 1: land is I take a car service to the set
Speaker 1: of So you think you can dance to go.
Speaker 2: Get my car or that I'll have Well, I'm here now.
Speaker 1: When I found out I was gonna be here, I
Speaker 1: asked if I could get a car. It's not way
Speaker 1: I could drive myself around in production has been lovely
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, of course, what kind of
Speaker 1: car do you want?
Speaker 2: And like you want a big car? Do you want
Speaker 2: a small car? Like what do you like? And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I like like a big car, like
Speaker 2: a mom car.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, wait, actually, since it's so temporary,
Speaker 1: you know what I've always wanted.
Speaker 2: And they were like what, And I was like, a truck?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it possible at all in any world to get
Speaker 1: a truck? And everyone thought I was crazy, but I
Speaker 1: got a truck, and so the first truck I'm I'm
Speaker 1: now on my third truck since being here. There's there's
Speaker 1: reasons why. But my first truck was awesome. It was
Speaker 1: so nice. It was a Chevy Silverado. I loved her.
Speaker 2: She was amazing.
Speaker 1: Now picked her up and it is raining in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and there's no.
Speaker 2: Cover on the back.
Speaker 1: So I'm planning on going and buying all my things
Speaker 1: from my apartment, making the trips making the journey around
Speaker 1: town and there's no cover on the back houd. I'm
Speaker 1: I gonna get all these things right? How am I
Speaker 1: gonna store them in the car? So I see a
Speaker 1: Chevy dealership and now I've never dealt with a truck.
Speaker 1: I've never put a back on a truck. I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to go to buy the back of
Speaker 1: a truck, right. So I go to a Chevy dealership
Speaker 1: cause it's IC and I was like, all right, this
Speaker 1: sounds like my work. So I walk in and I'm.
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm like this little.
Speaker 1: For for a little girl, right, And they're like, hi, uh,
Speaker 1: can I help you know? I'm in the dealership board
Speaker 1: and I was like, I gotta buy a back for
Speaker 1: the Chevy Silverado.
Speaker 2: And they're like, oh yeah, okay, you just go right
Speaker 2: over to service. And I was like, oh, I am
Speaker 2: in the right place, okay, sick. So I nailed it.
Speaker 2: And then I go over and I tell the other
Speaker 2: guy the same story. And I have a car.
Speaker 1: It's just a rental, but I gotta get it back
Speaker 1: for it, says all right.
Speaker 2: So he gets it. I pay for it.
Speaker 1: He brings it out to the car, he chucks in
Speaker 1: the trunk and I was like, is it pretty self
Speaker 1: explanatory on how to put it on?
Speaker 2: And he was like, yeah, no, you'll be totally fine.
Speaker 2: It's like a normal one. And I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Cut to me an hour later, still can't figure out
Speaker 1: how to put it on.
Speaker 2: I am in the.
Speaker 1: Rain, wet, cold, trying to figure out how to put
Speaker 1: this back of the cover on a truck on for
Speaker 1: literally an hour. It's not working. It's backwards, it's upside down.
Speaker 1: Everything that's going wrong is going wrong right. So then
Speaker 1: I finally look up a YouTube video, which I should
Speaker 1: have just started with, but I was stubborn. Let it happen,
Speaker 1: and so whatever. I finally looked up a video, got
Speaker 1: it set on the back, figured it out, screwed it
Speaker 1: and nailed it, unraveled it, put it on, realize it
Speaker 1: was for the wrong size truck. I just wasted an
Speaker 1: hour of my life for nothing.
Speaker 2: It's the wrong size.
Speaker 1: So I take it back in and I tell the guy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're never gonna belave it. It's the wrong size,
Speaker 1: and he was like, no, it's not, and I was like.
Speaker 2: No, it is. I was like trust me. I was like,
Speaker 2: trust me.
Speaker 1: When I tell you this thing is the wrong size.
Speaker 1: And so he comes out to look at and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's the wrong size. It's like, yeah, night,
Speaker 1: I know. So I give it back to him and
Speaker 1: he was like, look, it's missboxed, and I was like, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: and it actually was miss.
Speaker 2: Box but he was like, I need here. Another dealership
Speaker 2: has it. Here's the address.
Speaker 1: Go there, Okay, So he calls the other dealership. They
Speaker 1: put it on hold for me, and I go to
Speaker 1: the other dealership. It is not another dealership. It is
Speaker 1: a car manufacturing warehouse. I'm talking like an acre acres
Speaker 1: maybe multiple of a land of these massive warehouses of
Speaker 1: every car part you could ever imagine. There is like
Speaker 1: just it is actually psycho. It reminds me kind of
Speaker 1: the place where they made my tour props. Like it
Speaker 1: was like massive, and I was like, where are the
Speaker 1: am I right now? But we just kept going with it.
Speaker 1: So I found some guy that worked there and I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, so apparently I'm here to pick up
Speaker 1: a back of a Chevy's Somerado and they were like, uh,
Speaker 1: we don't do that over here.
Speaker 2: You gotta go over there. And I was like all right.
Speaker 1: So I go over to the like office side, and
Speaker 1: the guy was like, oh yeah, I know I got
Speaker 1: the call.
Speaker 2: And he was like, so you need the four footer
Speaker 2: and I was like, no, no, I need the five footer.
Speaker 2: And he was like, well, we don't have the five footer.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh hell.
Speaker 1: I was like all right, just come take a peek
Speaker 1: at the truck and like tell me what you got
Speaker 1: and like tell me if.
Speaker 2: Anything can looks.
Speaker 1: So it comes and looks and he's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: the guy was wrong, you need the we have the
Speaker 1: four footer. And I was like, homeboy told me the
Speaker 1: five footer. It was just a mess. Anyways, he got
Speaker 1: the right part. I put it on again. It took
Speaker 1: about another hour because this one was a little different,
Speaker 1: but figured it out, nailed it, and we are good
Speaker 1: to go. I am now though three hours delayed on
Speaker 1: my plans.
Speaker 2: For the day. I was planning on going to all
Speaker 2: these stores and it we're now we.
Speaker 1: Are now almost into the night, and I am just like,
Speaker 1: all right, new game plan. Now here's the thing. My
Speaker 1: game plan on how I thought this was gonna go.
Speaker 1: This move changed every single step of the way. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I kept trying to plan it out
Speaker 1: because it never stuck to the plan. But initially my
Speaker 1: game plan was to go to three stores. I was
Speaker 1: gonna go to Target, the Container Store, and a store
Speaker 1: called at Home. I was gonna look at everything, take
Speaker 1: pictures of things that I liked, and then go back
Speaker 1: to the stores and buy all of those things.
Speaker 2: That plan went to absce loot shit.
Speaker 1: So I ended up at Target first, and I'm in
Speaker 1: this Target, I'm like, wow, I could just do everything here.
Speaker 1: So I started to buy everything, put it all in
Speaker 1: my cart, and then I was like, nope.
Speaker 2: You know what, I gotta stick to the plan.
Speaker 1: So then put everything back and I was like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna just take pictures of everything that I like. So
Speaker 1: then I took pictures of everything I like, went to
Speaker 1: the Container Store, started doing the same thing. Then I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, no, I'm over this. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna buy buy things. I see it, I like it,
Speaker 1: I wanted, I got it, just ariy on a Grande
Speaker 1: that put it in the car and just buy it.
Speaker 2: So then I started buying things.
Speaker 1: I didn't really realize I guess how many things I needed,
Speaker 1: and I wanted everything to be so organized. Something in
Speaker 1: my head told me that the only thing that I
Speaker 1: needed was like plates, cups forks, knife, spoons, bowls, not
Speaker 1: realizing that you need I mean a paper towel holder.
Speaker 1: I'm looking around right now, a spatula, bowls, uh, pots, pans, jars, uh,
Speaker 1: a knife, kids, spatula freakin for me, a juice or
Speaker 1: a blender, a coffee maker. Now, I was very smart
Speaker 1: in pre ordering some things, so like my furniture from
Speaker 1: my apartment, I was able to rent for the majority
Speaker 1: of it. I have a couch that isn't rented and
Speaker 1: a chair that isn't rented that I actually bought because
Speaker 1: the original couch that I rented just turned out to
Speaker 1: be a disaster, and so I bought one and someone
Speaker 1: that's back there.
Speaker 2: Now it's chillin. It's it's very cozy and comfy, and
Speaker 2: I really like it.
Speaker 1: But then I also did a target pickup order. Right
Speaker 1: that was one of the best things that I did.
Speaker 1: I did a pickup order for everything that I knew
Speaker 1: I would not need to pick out. Example, trash bags,
Speaker 1: a ziploc baggies. There are just some things that you
Speaker 1: know from your past that you know you like you
Speaker 1: don't even need to question what brand of trash bags
Speaker 1: you want, what kind of swiffer you want. You just
Speaker 1: know you need it, go pick it up. So that
Speaker 1: was something that I did that was really smart. There
Speaker 1: was like ninety items in that just it all adds up.
Speaker 1: It's from toilet paper and paper towels, a scrub Dowdy scrubber,
Speaker 1: shampoo condition er, baby lotion, like literally everything you could
Speaker 1: think of that you don't need to pick out.
Speaker 2: Somehow, there was ninety things in there. So that was
Speaker 2: a little bit crazy and overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Then once I realized that, like, oh wait, I want
Speaker 1: this to be like really cool and really organized, then
Speaker 1: I realized, oh shit, I'm getting myself in a pickle
Speaker 1: because I went to the container store right and I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, well, I want my fridge to
Speaker 1: be like trendy and like all in containers. But then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, now I have to like size
Speaker 1: the fridge and I have to like think about what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want it. And so I started doing that,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, you know what, let's just
Speaker 1: go buy the containers and we'll figure out what we're
Speaker 1: gonna put in them later. So I just bought so
Speaker 1: many containers for the fridge, just chucked them all in
Speaker 1: the cart. Was like, you know what, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: this and hope for the best. Somehow it ended up
Speaker 1: all like being literally perfect. I don't know how, but somehow,
Speaker 1: by the grace of God, the fridge turned out amazing.
Speaker 2: The pantry, on the other hand.
Speaker 1: I actually had a hair more structure for so I
Speaker 1: did it a little bit in reverse. I bought all
Speaker 1: the containers first and then all of the food second.
Speaker 1: Because I'm a very I'm a very planned out person.
Speaker 1: I eat the same foods. I don't really venture out
Speaker 1: of my comfort zones. And so with my pantry, right,
Speaker 1: I bought I found this little like label sheet in
Speaker 1: the container store that had like labels for your containers,
Speaker 1: and so I went through that right and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need a container for oatmeal, I need a container
Speaker 1: for flour, I need a container for supplements, and like
Speaker 1: all of that was on that list. I kind of
Speaker 1: went through that and like checked that off as I
Speaker 1: was shopping, and then I was like, screw it, We're
Speaker 1: just gonna get like three extra of every size.
Speaker 2: Worst case, we'll take it back.
Speaker 1: And then I came home, put them all on in
Speaker 1: the pantry, organize it all, and then put on sticky
Speaker 1: notes what I wanted in each of the containers. And
Speaker 1: then I made a list of what was on those
Speaker 1: sticky notes to make sure that I bought at the store.
Speaker 1: Then I also did the same thing for the fridge.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, that's a genius idea. Let me
Speaker 1: do that over here. So now I have all these
Speaker 1: random cabinets of the fridge I just fit and I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, let me structure this out. Let
Speaker 1: me get what I want, let me put things in,
Speaker 1: Let me put things.
Speaker 2: In order that I want them.
Speaker 1: And I had like these little like jug milk things,
Speaker 1: and so I wrote down on each of them like
Speaker 1: a my milk, regular milk, apple, grape juice, like I
Speaker 1: had very very structured now.
Speaker 2: So then oh gosh, this is this is a little
Speaker 2: I'm now I'm talking a little bit in reverse. So
Speaker 2: before I did.
Speaker 1: The sticky notes and stuff, I had bought in all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So all of this happened on day two.
Speaker 1: The target pickup happened on day two. The whole like
Speaker 1: container store hall, Target Hall buying.
Speaker 2: All the things that all happened on day two.
Speaker 1: Also on day two, I went to a store called
Speaker 1: at Home, and there's where I got like my pillows,
Speaker 1: my link, it's my bedding, my towels. That's like where
Speaker 1: I really went in on that. I got some artworks
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And so my car is stuffed full.
Speaker 1: Thank god I got the back for the truck because
Speaker 1: it was stuffed right.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: So I come home and it starts downpouring. Now where
Speaker 1: I park is I don't need to, but I like
Speaker 1: to park on the rooftop. It's really fun for me,
Speaker 1: and it's just one of those small things that I enjoy.
Speaker 1: It's I don't live on that floor, but I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a vibe. So I puck up on
Speaker 2: the rooftop and so I, you.
Speaker 1: Know, started carry all my things in and it started
Speaker 1: to downpour, and I was like, all right, we gotta
Speaker 1: move the car closer. So I moved the car closer,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: one load in and take the betting in, get a
Speaker 1: good night's sleep, call it a day. So then I
Speaker 1: brought the bedding in and I put it down and
Speaker 1: I look around, and I was like, no, I got
Speaker 1: too much energy for this right now. So it's now
Speaker 1: midnight at this point in time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: fuck it.
Speaker 2: Bringing everything in.
Speaker 1: That was the stupidest idea I could have ever come
Speaker 1: up with. What Actually though, I guess I was smart
Speaker 1: because if I had to do it at during the daytime,
Speaker 1: I think I would have like run into a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people and that would have been like worse. Okay,
Speaker 2: so vo v Now I'm bringing in loads of things.
Speaker 2: It took me an.
Speaker 1: Hour and a half to bring it all in and
Speaker 1: walk it all to my apartment, and so I kind
Speaker 1: of shopped myself on the foot by being like really
Speaker 1: ambitious because what I did is I parked the car
Speaker 1: and I brought it all into the building. And it
Speaker 1: was one in the morning, so no one was around
Speaker 1: and I was making sure I was being super quiet.
Speaker 2: But then once it was all in the building, I
Speaker 2: was like, yes, I did it.
Speaker 1: Then I realized that I had to walk it all
Speaker 1: to my apartment, and now everyone told me buy a wagon,
Speaker 1: buy a cart, and like, yes, I should have, but
Speaker 1: I kind of loved the adventure of like having to
Speaker 1: haul it all, and so I carried absolutely everything and
Speaker 1: it I got like fifteen thousand steps in an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. It was gnarly. It was gnarally like,
Speaker 1: actually insane, actually crazy.
Speaker 2: Got it all in my apartment.
Speaker 1: Now the floor's covered, you can't see anything. It was stupid,
Speaker 1: but I thoroughly enjoyed it. And then cut to I
Speaker 1: put everything away and it was all great, And then
Speaker 1: I wake up the next in I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: today today we get the drum kit, and today we
Speaker 1: get groceries.
Speaker 2: Right now, at the.
Speaker 1: Same point in time, I was like, nothing has calm
Speaker 1: crashing and burning yet, Like everything's been good, everything's been successful,
Speaker 1: everything's been fairly easy. I mean, like the truck you
Speaker 1: gave me a little bit of problems, but like nothing's
Speaker 1: been like awful.
Speaker 2: Right, I go to a guitar center to.
Speaker 1: Pick up this lovely, very expensive drum kit that I
Speaker 1: have been very patiently waiting for for a very long time.
Speaker 2: It's a super nice drum kit.
Speaker 1: It h gives the acoustic drum kit feel, but it's
Speaker 1: actually an electric drum kit, so that way it won't
Speaker 1: annoy my neighbors.
Speaker 2: It's completely wireless. I mean, it's one of a kind.
Speaker 1: There's not many in the world right now, it's very new.
Speaker 1: Finally got myself to buy it because I was like,
Speaker 1: it'll be a good treat for here. I go to
Speaker 1: the store, go to buy it. They're like, oh, one
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 2: Boxes is missing.
Speaker 1: What So now they're like, give us a second, we're
Speaker 1: gonna look around for it.
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So they got four out of five boxes for this
Speaker 1: drum kit, and I am just like, this is this
Speaker 1: is what's coming crashing down.
Speaker 2: The drum kit, the.
Speaker 1: One thing that like has been my prize. But I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Turns out it was the basic hardware kit that they
Speaker 1: were missing. It's the same DW hardware kit that like
Speaker 1: literally just sells on the shelf.
Speaker 2: It just comes with this kit. And so I was
Speaker 2: like all right.
Speaker 1: They ended up realizing that two hours later, spent like
Speaker 1: two hours in guitars that are drumming on an acoustic set.
Speaker 1: It was honestly a great time, but very stressful. Got
Speaker 1: the kit, got all loaded in the car. Now this
Speaker 1: drum kit, it's a five pe drum kit plus all
Speaker 1: the symbols high hat hardware, and then the stool as well,
Speaker 1: and in the amp, and so that comes in about
Speaker 1: ten boxes. And because it is electric and wireless, it
Speaker 1: is insanely.
Speaker 2: Heavy, like actual insane heavy.
Speaker 1: The hardware set itself is I mean probably like, let
Speaker 1: me not.
Speaker 2: Be dramatic, like one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: It is very heavy.
Speaker 1: If I was being dramatic about it, I would said
Speaker 1: two fifty to three hundred, but it's definitely not that.
Speaker 1: I would say it's one hundred to two hundred super heavy.
Speaker 1: So then after carrying in all the groceries, not the groceries,
Speaker 1: the like equipment for the house, the storage stuff and
Speaker 1: all that, then it was time to carry in this
Speaker 1: drum kit. And it all just took way longer than expected,
Speaker 1: but we ended up doing it. We carried it all in,
Speaker 1: we got the drum kit set up, and we were
Speaker 1: finally good. Now this is the night, this is the
Speaker 1: night that I decided I am finishing. I am over unpacking,
Speaker 1: I am over this storage, I'm over the drum kit,
Speaker 1: I'm over groceries.
Speaker 2: I want to be done, settled, moved in. So it
Speaker 2: is now eight pm at night, and.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, let's go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store, because that was the one thing that I
Speaker 1: had left to do. It was go get groceries, and
Speaker 1: then everything that I wanted for the apartment was going
Speaker 1: to be here, not all put away, not all done,
Speaker 1: but it was gonna be in the building.
Speaker 2: So it's like, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: So I go to the apartment, I go to the store,
Speaker 1: I go get my groceries, and literally an hour and
Speaker 1: a half, I buy everything you need, everything right, walk
Speaker 1: up and down every aisle, grab it all. Make sure
Speaker 1: I have all the things that were on my list.
Speaker 1: I did great, tried to not do more, but of
Speaker 1: course it's me. Of course I bought extra things. Then
Speaker 1: I had to carry all of that back into the apartment.
Speaker 1: So the trips that I made to this apartment, the
Speaker 1: steps that I got in were I mean just crazy.
Speaker 2: And again this store.
Speaker 1: I ended at the store at like ten o'clock at night,
Speaker 1: nine thirty ten o'clock, and so the time I actually
Speaker 1: got back here, I mean again, it was freaking midnight
Speaker 1: by the time I finished.
Speaker 2: But I was like, you know what, No, tonight is
Speaker 2: the night. It is time for an all nighter.
Speaker 1: So then I stayed awake all night long, building the
Speaker 1: drum kit, putting away my clothes, putting away the groceries.
Speaker 2: And here's my analogy that I have been using for moving.
Speaker 1: Right, it's not that like buying salt right is a
Speaker 1: lot of work.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you're like me and you buy the container to
Speaker 1: put the salt in, there's a lot of extra steps. Right,
Speaker 1: So here's the steps of just buying salt. You gotta
Speaker 1: go to the store. You have to realize that you
Speaker 1: need salt, so you walk past the salt and then
Speaker 1: you buy some salt. Right, pick out what salt you want,
Speaker 1: You buy it, you bring it back home along with
Speaker 1: all your rest of your things.
Speaker 2: But we're only talking focusing on the salt here. Right.
Speaker 1: You bring the salt home, you put it, you open
Speaker 1: up the cabinet. You realize that you want to put
Speaker 1: it in the container, so you gotta like pop it open.
Speaker 2: You gotta take the sticker off. And then if you
Speaker 2: didn't want to put it in the container, you could
Speaker 2: just pop it in the cabinet. But for me, I
Speaker 2: wanted to.
Speaker 1: Pour it in a container, throw the other thing away,
Speaker 1: and put it in the cabinet right and then twisted
Speaker 1: the container. And so you did all that just for
Speaker 1: salt to then realize that you also need Corse salt.
Speaker 2: That is how every.
Speaker 1: Single thing moving was every single thing you thought you
Speaker 1: were there and then boom and you bought papper towels,
Speaker 1: you forgot the paper towel holder, you bought soap, you
Speaker 1: don't have a scrub daddy.
Speaker 2: There's just there's so many things that you are like,
Speaker 2: Oh I got it. Oh I don't got it, Oh
Speaker 2: I got it. Oh I bought poles. I don't have
Speaker 2: mixing poles. Oh I have pan. I forgot to buy
Speaker 2: grease for the pan.
Speaker 1: Like there's just everything came with like a one eighty
Speaker 1: Do I have every single thing that I need? So
Speaker 1: I think the thing for me was the expectation was
Speaker 1: a lot smoother In my head.
Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna be kind of like a breeze.
Speaker 1: Was just gonna like come in, unpack my suitcases and
Speaker 1: call it today.
Speaker 2: No, did not happen. Oh shit, I didn't even talk
Speaker 2: about furniture. Oh tell me about this.
Speaker 1: You ready for this one? So they bring in my
Speaker 1: furniture and I had like ordered it all online. Never
Speaker 1: seen it in person, but it was just a rental,
Speaker 1: so I don't I mean, I don't really care that
Speaker 1: much what it looks like.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty chill. And it comes in and the furniture
Speaker 2: is just a mess. It is a mess.
Speaker 1: My my room furniture online set it was all light gray,
Speaker 1: but something was like gray, something.
Speaker 2: Was light brown.
Speaker 1: My my like living room, some stuff was brown, some
Speaker 1: stuff was gun metal, some stuff was black.
Speaker 2: It just like wasn't working.
Speaker 1: And then my like get ready room, it was like
Speaker 1: just a crappy desk for got to buy a chair.
Speaker 1: Like none of it was working out right, And so
Speaker 1: I played Bob the Builder home Depot Lesbian over here,
Speaker 1: and I moved around everything.
Speaker 2: I'm talking.
Speaker 1: The furniture that was in the living room went into
Speaker 1: my bedroom. Then I did it like in the bedroom,
Speaker 1: so then it went into the get Ready with Me room,
Speaker 1: then the bedroom furniture. I ended up taking the living
Speaker 1: room a hutch and putting that in my bedroom. Then
Speaker 1: I took all the bedroom stuff. I realized I didn't
Speaker 1: want it to get Ready room because it crowded it,
Speaker 1: so then I brought it back into the bedroom, but
Speaker 1: instead I put it in the closet in the bedroom,
Speaker 1: and that made it way better.
Speaker 2: Then I was like, you know what, fuck this couch.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get a new couch. Just gonna buy
Speaker 1: a couch.
Speaker 2: So now I have a couch that I bought that
Speaker 2: I only need for six weeks.
Speaker 1: Gotta figure out somewhere for it to go after this,
Speaker 1: sure where the crew members on set that lives here
Speaker 1: while want it or something.
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. I'm not too worried about it.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna make this get Ready with Me room a hodgepodge.
Speaker 2: It's just gonna be a hodgepodge.
Speaker 1: So right now, I get Ready with My room is
Speaker 1: like a desk, a couch, a couple chairs, a couple
Speaker 1: of nights stands, a rug, a table, There's so many
Speaker 1: random things in there. There's actually two different rugs in there.
Speaker 1: It is just a literal hodgepodge, but.
Speaker 2: It works now.
Speaker 1: The one room in my house that is not a
Speaker 1: hodgepodge is actually my guest bedroom that I made because
Speaker 1: I was so excited for all my friends to come
Speaker 1: here and visit and family and really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: No one, no one, no one's come. That's it.
Speaker 1: No, I made this room literally perfect, spotless and nop
Speaker 1: not getting used at all.
Speaker 2: It will in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: My brother and his girlfriend are gonna come visit, My
Speaker 1: mom and dad are going to come visit, and then
Speaker 1: one of my best friends, Alexis, is gonna come visit,
Speaker 1: and so the room is going to get used.
Speaker 2: But I like that was like my priority room.
Speaker 1: Made sure I finished it first, Like I could be
Speaker 1: working on that room now, like in beginning.
Speaker 2: Something to do. Nope.
Speaker 1: Now it's the one room in the house that is
Speaker 1: like most put together. It's actually kind of hysterical. It's
Speaker 1: really cute and there's like pink and gold. I made
Speaker 1: it girly because all the people that are going to
Speaker 1: be there are like grelly, girly, whereas I'm a little.
Speaker 2: More like you know, but we're masculine. Really ah.
Speaker 1: I saw someone on my TikTok was like I missed
Speaker 1: the old Jojo. When did you decide to become masculine?
Speaker 2: I was like, what, what's your problem? World? What's how
Speaker 2: of the bed did you wake up on? Because try
Speaker 2: the other side tomorrow morning. Anyways, back back on topic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the that's the story behind the get
Speaker 1: Ready room and why it's I will say though, I'm
Speaker 1: very happy with where I'm at now with this apartment.
Speaker 1: The first three weeks that I was gonna be here,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of travel happening.
Speaker 2: I was going down to Florida for the.
Speaker 1: First weekend, and then now for the second weekend, I
Speaker 1: was in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, which was great.
Speaker 1: Now I'm creeping up on my third weekend, which I
Speaker 1: am very excited for because now I finally.
Speaker 2: Have a chance to just be here.
Speaker 1: And now my filming schedule for So That You Can
Speaker 1: Dance is so great. The production is so awesome. We
Speaker 1: don't really work that much, a few days on, few
Speaker 1: days off, and so now I feel like I truly
Speaker 1: get the time to like just enjoy my apartment. You know,
Speaker 1: I've wanted to kind of go on walks around the area,
Speaker 1: and I haven't gone on one yet because I haven't
Speaker 1: just had the time yet.
Speaker 2: So now I'm I.
Speaker 1: Really am truly excited to just like be able to
Speaker 1: be here, be home, not have.
Speaker 2: Too many distractions.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I will say this move has really grown
Speaker 1: me in a way that I didn't know was possible
Speaker 1: or was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Everyone always told me like.
Speaker 1: Oh, you need to move out, like it's so it's
Speaker 1: so freeing, you're gonna feel so free.
Speaker 2: And I never really understood.
Speaker 1: That, because I mean, I live with my parents at home,
Speaker 1: and so I always was like, you know, I love
Speaker 1: living with my parents, Like why wouldn't I want to
Speaker 1: I don't understand what people were talking about. And now
Speaker 1: I realize that I understand where.
Speaker 2: People were coming from.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily agree with it, though, because I think
Speaker 1: for me, my parents have always just given me some freedom.
Speaker 1: They've always given me my privacy, my space, but also
Speaker 1: like our unspoken boundaries of our house, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But I will say now being here and
Speaker 1: living away from them from the first time, not so
Speaker 1: much that it's a freeing feeling. It's like because I
Speaker 1: never felt like I wasn't free at home, But I
Speaker 1: think it's more liberating. I feel as if I have
Speaker 1: a responsibility that I didn't necessarily have a month ago.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to make sure the fridge
Speaker 1: is stocked. I feel like I have to make sure
Speaker 1: the counters are clean. There's no one that's gone clean
Speaker 1: the counters if I don't, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I think at home, I always was like, oh,
Speaker 1: if I wait long enough to do laundry, my Dad'll
Speaker 1: just come do it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And that is a very true thing.
Speaker 1: If I wait long enough to get a package from outside,
Speaker 1: like my mom or dad and assistant will do it,
Speaker 1: like I'm chilling. But here it's like no, if I
Speaker 1: don't go get my package, it's going to expire in
Speaker 1: the mailroom and either get taken or it's going I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get charged for.
Speaker 2: It, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of like gained responsibility that added
Speaker 1: a lot more maturity, and like, this isn't just coming
Speaker 1: from me. This is something that a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends have actually come to me and been like, you
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks have grown the cup and
Speaker 1: they were like, You've always been mature, but it's very
Speaker 1: it's like a whole new level now, and I I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's something that I didn't really
Speaker 1: know was gonna happen because I thought what was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Is what everyone told me.
Speaker 1: Everyone told me, Oh you're gonna feel free, Oh you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel like you're gonna want to, like rebel now
Speaker 1: that you're like alone, You're gonna want to go out,
Speaker 1: and I'm no, actually, I want to like stay and
Speaker 1: do laundry.
Speaker 2: Make my bed, and wipe my counters off. Like that's
Speaker 2: more my vibe more than anything. Yeah, that's pretty much
Speaker 2: my vibe of moving.
Speaker 1: I've been cooking a bunch, which has been so nice
Speaker 1: and I love very much.
Speaker 2: Uh cook a bunch.
Speaker 1: I watch TV now, which is great when I fall asleep.
Speaker 1: It's only when I fall asleep, but I watch TV
Speaker 1: when I fall asleep.
Speaker 2: I've been drumming.
Speaker 1: I have found that I the one thing that I
Speaker 1: really really miss about my life in California is dancing.
Speaker 1: I really miss going to Studio Siua and dancing out there.
Speaker 1: And so I started to do this thing where I
Speaker 1: have to do one dance a day in the apartment,
Speaker 1: just right here in the living room. I try to
Speaker 1: do it during the day so that way my neighbors
Speaker 1: downstairs don't kill me.
Speaker 2: But I, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I do a dance and that's that's helped cure that
Speaker 1: like miss a dance for me.
Speaker 2: It's been great.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of fun there hasn't really been
Speaker 1: any like oh I really miss home moments. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot of like oh I missed the studio or
Speaker 1: I miss my family. But I've I've really enjoyed having
Speaker 1: my own space and it kind of being my space
Speaker 1: and being run the way that I want to run it, and.
Speaker 2: It's just been cool. It's just been fun. It's been
Speaker 2: a different dynamic. I think I realized.
Speaker 1: Too, like that it's just so temporary, so I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily affected by anything.
Speaker 2: That's like a little wrong or a little rough. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's fine. I'm literally leaving in three weeks, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like, I'm I'm.
Speaker 1: Halfway there already, which is actually so sad to think about.
Speaker 1: I'm really sad about that. I will say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go home, and then I come back to pack up,
Speaker 1: so I just kind of get a be here for
Speaker 1: three weeks.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about packing up just yet,
Speaker 2: which is very nice.
Speaker 1: But it's just been so fun. I've genuinely enjoyed it
Speaker 1: so much. It's been such a good experience, and I'm
Speaker 1: very interested to see.
Speaker 2: How these next three weeks ago, where I'm more so here.
Speaker 1: Than traveling around, because I'm I'm wondering if I'm enjoying
Speaker 1: it so much because I've been traveling around, or if
Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy.
Speaker 2: It more now than I'm not traveling around.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned by the end of this when I'm back home,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I will give you an update. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: I feel like that is every little bit that I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2: With moving, I hope you enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I definitely enjoyed the process of moving, definitely enjoyed all
Speaker 1: the steps that I got in while moving. It was
Speaker 1: honestly great. I love you all very very much. Thank
Speaker 1: you of times a billion for hanging out with me today.
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