settling into my new apt & early summer vibes!

We've made it guys!! In today's episode, I talk about my move, living in my new apartment for a few nights, and the warm weather happening! Hope you enjoy! 

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Hello everybody! Welcome back to another episode of Soft Chaos with Noah. I'm your host, Noah. And if you couldn't already tell by the sound, like if you're picturing me smiling right now, I am smiling because this is the first episode that I'm filming or recording in my new apartment. If you guys haven't been following, I recently moved apartments so that I could be closer to work, and I'm super excited because I've been I think I've been here less than a week. Yeah, less than a week. And I worked the past like three, four days, and guys like me is way much better. I'm getting home way earlier than I would like. Wait, no, then I would not like. Does that make sense? Like, okay, let me backtrack, guys. So I usually would get home around like nine o'clock, maybe nine fifteen um when I lived in my old apartment, which was like an hour and a half commute, and then now I get home around like 8 15. So that's an hour taken from my commute, and I will gladly take that any day. So you guys, I've been feeling much more rested. Actually, that's a lie. I've been feeling like better on my drive, like I'm not dreading it as much as I did before. It's still a long drive, but it's like it's pretty like smooth, if you know what I'm saying. Like it's just a straight kind of highway road thing, couple turns here and there, and then I'm home. Um, and what's great about it too is the parking situation is great because everyone else is leaving, because I'm a night shift nurse, and yeah, like I get like a good spot right in front of my apartment, which I will go into detail, but um for context right now, I am in my apartment right now. It's a one-bedroom. There's like an island, and I'm filming my podcast episode right now on this island, and it's very like very convenient. The size is great for me. I don't have a actually I have a quite a bit of complaints from my last apartment, but I don't regret living there at all. Um that was my first place ever living on my own, and I wouldn't like you know trade it for anything because I did have a good experience overall, it's just a few bumps in the road with the apartment complex and other things. So um I kind of already when I opened the door to my apartment here, I just like knew, yep, this is a good size for me. There's laundry in unit, and I'm on the first floor, so it's like I don't have to be worried too too much about making like creaky noises when I step on the floors, and you know, I just kind of do my own thing and vibe, and so far it's been a really great experience, even though it's just been like several nights because I do work night shifts, so I don't sleep here too too often. Um well I don't sleep here on the days that I do work, obviously, but um, yes, I'm in I'm on my island right now, I'm recording my podcast, I'm comfortable. I have my stools, and yes, my apartment is still a little bit cluttered because of moving and stuff, and I haven't quite unpacked yet, but it's only been less than a week, so um, I do guys also have a little patio outside, and it is just it's great. Um, I would definitely bring my dog here and let him live here um, you know, like three to four times a week because yeah, I mean like night shift nurse, like night shift schedules. I feel like it's hard to take care of a pet because I just don't want to leave them alone all at night and I don't know, just like I don't know, it's scary to me, but um, yeah, I will definitely be bringing my dog here because this is a great, like, a great um what should we call it? Like a great space for him because it's on the first floor. There's a patio that he can go pee and poo outside, and I'm like, score, like I don't have to go all the way downstairs and out through like a common area between my neighbor and I and then go somewhere else, go somewhere far that he can poo and pee. And it's like not on um, like it's not ruining apartment property, so I'm like, y'all, this is such a great snag. I don't know where I was going with that. Also, I'm very like out of my game right now because I haven't filmed a podcast episode in like maybe three weeks. Um uh yeah, a lot has happened actually. Um, but again, for setting wise, I am on my island. I'm looking to my left. I have my little porch out there, and a seat has yet to be placed over there. I think I'm gonna put my reading chair there. Um, and then the blinds are open, so I don't know if anybody can see me, but my lights are off. So I just wanted some natural sunlight in. You guys, there's only two windows in this whole apartment unit. There's one in my bedroom, which is just like your normal like bedroom window, but it's kind of like a little bit taller, a little bit bigger. And then I have the um porch, like sliding door kind of vibe, and that's it. I just have like two um outlets of natural sunlight, and honestly, it's pretty nice. It's pretty good for like you know, watching movies and sleeping in and you know, sleeping in the dark and everything. It's just I don't look at me, I'm already having a complaint. I don't mean to complain because um obviously nothing will be perfect, no apartment will be perfect. Um, there is just like a little like weird setup with the kitchen light. I would like to have a light switch closer to um the kitchen light because even when I do my natural sunlight from the patio, it's still kind of dark. Um just looking at the kitchen now, like like the kitchen sink area, the stove area too. It's a little bit dark there, so I kind of don't want a window anywhere, anyways, over there. I do want to put some stuff up, but my dad will get mad at me if if I put stuff up. Whoa, I gotta slow down, okay. Um and then yeah, but yeah, I'm really I'm really happy. I'm satisfied where I'm living. Um, I'm able to like comfortably move around. I know that sounds so weird, but my old apartment, I would just be even afraid to like step on a spot on the floor because a lot of the spots there so creaky. Um, even just like going to the bathroom, you know. I had a little hallway with two closets, and the floor was very creaky, so I knew which which spots not to step on, and I don't like that feeling anymore. Like I can't that's too stressful. Like, I should be comfortable living in my own house, stepping where I want to step, and whatever. We made it, guys, though. We are done with that apartment. Um great first living experience, honestly. I've learned quite a bit about myself. Um, I feel like I've learned just like living alone in general. I think that first year was just a really great trial and experience for me. Um, I guess I could like, I mean, on the at the top of my head, um, on the top of my head, I feel like I've learned how to just kind of be like how to take care of myself in tough moments, if that makes any sense. Um, if you guys don't know, I struggle with mental health issues. Um, and like I feel like sometimes when I'm so alone and like isolated and my family is just a little bit far from me, you know. I yes, I can call them, I can call my friends, I can FaceTime them, whatever. But it's just like not the same because they're not physically there. So I'm like trying to deal with it on my own, of course. And then I have my own like little space where I can do my hobbies and distraction and everything like that. So I just really felt like I learned a little bit more of how to take care of myself in those kinds of moments, and living alone I think is one of the best things you could do um in your early 20s, really in throughout life, but like early on, learning to live alone and just being comfortable being by yourself and spending time with yourself and being independent and you know taking care of things around the house. Because I just think of like, you know, when my when I was a child and my family like took care of things around the house, like you know, um paying bills and things like that, or um, making sure things are all set and tidy for guests before they come in. I'm just like wow, that is a lot of responsibility, and now I'm the one doing it. So um, but yeah, it's just like it's such a weird but awesome feeling knowing that you've made it through, like you're making it through the days, taking care of your your space, your home, your bills, just being an adult. And um, as scary as it sounds, I I really have learned a lot that whole year. I can't believe it's only been a year. Um 2025 was a crazy year for me. Just a lot of things have changed since then, and a lot can happen a year. Um, a lot can happen in a week as well. I recently turned 26 years old, and um that whole day was me moving, and yeah, I was just like tired throughout the whole day. Oops, I am so sorry, I should turn this off. Um, I spent that whole day moving. Um, shout out to my fam for helping me move and carry all the little bits and pieces I have of, you know, just like little trinkets that I don't even need. Um, I do admit now moving into a smaller apartment. Um I feel like now that I notice that I am buying a little bit too much. Um, I can see it physically now. I have too much stuff, too many books, too many electronics. I did have to sell my iPad and tried selling my um Canon PowerShot. I don't even think did I give it away? No, I think. Um, because guys, I did was in a little bit of a money hassle, and so I tried selling some gadgets. And I know that sounds really bad, but we're here now. We're here, we're moving on. Um, so yeah, my iPad's gone, my Canon PowerShot camera's gone. Um, but I still have like a lot of like it's not junk, but it's like things I don't need. So I have a lot of planner stickers, I have a lot of stickers, I have a lot of bookmarks that I don't need, I have a lot of Kindle cases that I don't need. Um, like why buy a lot of Kindle cases when you just like you like what are you gonna change every season? Maybe, but uh it's just a lot, guys. Let me know if you guys struggle with that too. But um, yeah, it's just been a crazy like past week, past few days really. Work has been really busy as well. I've been not on my best sleeping schedule again because I like doing this for three years as a night shift nurse, you think by now that I would figure it out my you know how to get some rest in between shifts, how to get rest on my off days and like things like that. Um I think it I'm just like kind of accepting that some days I will be tired, and that was me yesterday, last night, actually the past two nights. Um, because I had three days off, and then I went back to work for the next two days, and then one off, and then one on, and that's just like a that just hurts my sleep schedule. So I am still like trying to figure out and like trying to be more accepting and understanding with myself that it's okay, like you don't have to do things on your off days, and you use that whole day to rest, you know. So, um, but especially with packing right now, I feel like I do need to kind of pick it up a notch and start getting oh, is that my fridge? That's my fridge, guys. Um, start like cleaning things and putting things away and organizing things, especially since it's like just the beginning of me settling into my apartment. I do want to have a home to look forward to, go to after work, so um, because obviously it feels a little bit different right now, but at the same time I'm comfortable. I I love this place already, and I have yet to check out the gym and the pool and the I think there's tennis courts, pickleball courts, and a basketball court, and I have yet to go down to check my mail because it's quite a quite a walk, but um, you know, we're settling in very slow, but for now I have been doing a ton of laundry, guys. This in-unit laundry game changer. If you have a chance to get an apartment or get a place with an in-unit washer dryer, go for it because it has saved me like so much anxiety. Um, I have been doing laundry ever since I moved here, ever since I moved in, and that was only last Wednesday. Um, and so it's been like what less than like five days maybe, and I um have been doing a ton of laundry because if y'all know me, my other oh my gosh, sorry, I forgot to lower this down, and then my friend she sends me this hilarious video that I have yet to watch later, but um my old apartment, the laundry, I did not have an in-unit laundry, and um I had to go down the stairs to the next building, which you know it's not that far of a walk, obviously, and I would bring all my laundry down, be and this is the thing with night shift too. I would put off my laundry for weeks, and so my laundry would be overflowing in my laundry basket or my bag, and I would have to carry that really big thing down the steps across the building, put all of it there, sometimes even put it in two washers, and then transfer it. Um, the thing is with that, there's no like it's not like a place where you can just stay, do your thing, bring your laptop, read a book, um, because it's kind of scary down there in the laundry area. So I would have to go back up to my apartment, put a timer, wait for like an hour, go back down, switch it from washer to dryer, go back upstairs, do my thing, and then go back downstairs, take it all, and then take it back up. Um, a lot of steps, a lot of steps. But having this in-unit laundry, guys, I feel like I am gonna start getting better at being more organized and disciplined with myself. For example, all these dishes that I've been piling up for the past like three days, it hasn't even been a week yet, and I did have like a few dishes that were left in the sink for more than two days, and I do not like that feeling. In my last apartment, I was super lazy. Um, I did not keep my apartment very clean, I did not vacuum a lot, I did not mop a lot. Sounds super gross. I know, guys, I know. Um, and I just left, yeah, I left my dishes. Sometimes I would leave my dishes for like four or five days, and that is so gross. Um, so we're not gonna do that this time around. I think experiencing also what I've like gone through in my first apartment, just like um dealing with like little tasks here and there, little chores here and there, you know, like the basic adulting chores. Um, and then cooking. That's a big thing I want to work on this year. Um, I'm saying it like this is like a school year that I just started. Um, which by the way, haha, school, school here, here. We are gonna be starting that in end of August. Yeah. I did not put my enrollment deposit yet. And you're like, Noah, why? Um, guys, I you know, I'm just gonna say this. I I am waiting for the last day or the second to last day to officially do it because I want to be a hundred percent all in, a hundred percent sure, eh, a hundred percent sure. Um, if you have been listening to pretty much since the beginning of my podcast, since I started here, I do struggle financially, and that is not a secret. Um, I am not ashamed to admit that. Uh, it is something I'm working on, and yes, it's a little embarrassing, but like at the same time, you know, this is a this is something that I'm going through and I'm working on, so y'all can say whatever you need to say. Um, but yeah, I am also waiting to be paid on Friday, Thursday night, and then I can pay my enrollment deposit. Maybe I should have started with that, but um, overall, too, though, I think the biggest thing I just wanted to be 100% all in and 100% sure because this is like another big decision and another big financial thing that's gonna happen. So we're we're gonna get ready with that, guys. Um, I have been also looking for another job. My current job, my full-time job, does not pay enough. Clearly, if you guys have listened to my previous podcast episodes, um, yeah, we I don't even get night differential, okay? I think that it's just kind of unfair, but I don't know. Like, I really love the job, and I would love to get some plus two, plus three, even plus one dollar, like overnight, or even on the weekends. We don't even get weekend differential, so I'm like, what is going on? This is not how it's supposed to be, but whatever. Um, I was bound to get another job anyway, but I um I have been looking around seeing if I can find a per diem job that I can pick up here and there, because y'all, bills are common. They are common. Even though I switched to a cheaper apartment, um, there's still like another load that I have to pay off. Starting, or not starting, but um, there's another load that I have to pay off, which is school. So school is another big financial stressor that is gonna be coming up for me in the next few months for sure. Um, but it's a great school. I love it. I am very excited to start that program again, or it's not that program again, but to start that program and just get back into it. Um, I do miss school, I love school. Um, and I will finally have like a little area where I can just kind of do my thing, maybe have my classes here and have like silence, and you know, it's not too too um loud. Although I do want to say, guys, the neighbor upstairs, um, kind of loud, I'm not gonna lie. But I'm like, oh, this is what my previous downstairs neighbor experienced. Um, but the sound doesn't bug me at all. Like, I if anything, I'm more comfortable hearing them, knowing that I'm not like alone in my own little house, you know. That's a thing too. Like, I can't believe, like, I I don't know if I could live in my own house, like alone, obviously with a partner if I do get there, but um, just like like a house, you're not connected to another unit or anything like that. That's just like scary to me. So um, even though I've been living alone for like a little over a year, and I've been comfortable now, but still it's just like um hearing my neighbors, my upstairs neighbors like footsteps, or um sometimes their TV or their music bumping. I'm just like, oh cool, there is another person above me, and I'm in a way safe, or like in a way it makes me comfortable because I'm like I have people around me, you know, I'm not like isolated in like the middle of the world or middle of an island and you know, or middle of the ocean, I'm sorry. Um, but yeah, it's just like I don't know, it's it's been a really good few past days. I've been sleeping like I sleep comfortably, obviously I'm not getting the best sleep there is, but I am comfortable in my room. I have my TV in my room. Um, I have my projector going on right now. Just a little background. Um, it's on mute, of course, but um I do want to get a TV for the living room, and I know that kind of sounds excessive having a TV in my room and then in the living room, but it's like you know, when I have guests over, if they're gonna sleep over and sleep in the living room, they don't have any entertainment, so TV it is, and also for my sake too. Like I would love to kind of like um eat dinner or lunch or whatever, breakfast, and just watch in front of the TV. I don't That's bad sometimes, like I just kind of want to be in the moment with my food. But let's be real, guys. I always have my phone by me, which is so bad every time I eat because I need to watch something, I need to keep myself busy. Um, so yeah, we're working on that. We're gonna try to find I want at least like a 50-inch TV, 50-inch size TV, maybe a little bit bigger because I've never had that big of a TV. And at my parents' apartment, um, they have I think I don't know what size it is, but it's like it's really good for games, obviously. I'm a huge volleyball person, I'm a huge sports person. Um, don't know if I'm gonna watch the World Cup this year, but um, I know the NBA finals are coming around, and we are gonna start them on Wednesday, so that's super exciting. Go next, by the way. Um, really wanted Thunder to win that game, game seven, but it's okay. We're we'll get them next year. Um, I also wanted Lakers to be in, or like Celtics, you know, those more like who you would expect, but we got a lot of underdogs here, so um, but either way, NYX it is for me. I've kind of always been like an underlying NYX fan. Um, so that'll be exciting to watch on like a big screen, but for now, we just have my projector, which is way bigger than like an actual like 50 plus inch TV screen. So I think the projector will do just fine, and I have my speaker, so that'll be fun. Um, but yeah, I was just like trying to figure out the layout when I came into into the unit. I was like, should I put my couch across the front door and then the TV like on that wall, and then also have the patio sliding doors to the left of the couch? So, like, but at the same time, there's also like a really long space between the wall, the front door, and then the other side, so it's like am I gonna put a couch like a little bit in the middle basically, and then have like a dining table like behind the couch, and then have access to the sliding doors. I don't know. This is a new layout for me, and then I also have a huge space behind me where the fridge is. It's like I think it's kind of meant to be for a dining table, so I don't know. Um, and we're also still working on the closet situation because this is a bigger closet that I've had um really in my life, and um there's also like the big I don't even know what it is, like it's some machine, some mechanical thing. It's like really big and gray and cylinder um that's kind of like in the way of the whole closet, uh, which I kind of looks ugly, but whatever. Um, I just like I did not expect that to be there. Um, so I don't know why there are shelves above it because I don't want anything like you know being above that, and then I have to reach over the machine, and that's like scary, like I don't want to touch anything, so um, or like set anything off. Not that anything would go off, but um yeah, it's a much bigger closet space. There's no lights in there, so I definitely need to get lights, motion sensor lights probably, and it's sliding doors, it's near the window, it's pretty much like walkable, I want to say. Um, like it's a big space. The thing is though, I have two shelves that are on the wall, and that's where you put like where you hang stuff, but then I have a bunch of space on the ground, and um I have a lot of clothes, so I'm like, do I need do I get another dresser? Do I get another like plastic drawer cubby thing? Because again, I don't wanna keep buying furniture because I just threw out my coffee table and then my TV sand broke, so that's too furniture out of the way, so I have to get those, and then my bookcase or bookshelf is missing a screw, so that's basically broken, but it's still usable. And what else is broken? Nothing really, but um, I just like don't want to buy any more furniture that I don't really like need because I can just use like the cheap plastic ones from Target or like um those kinds of drawers, and they're not like you don't have to build it or anything, but they still look nice. Like I'd probably get those from Target, but um yeah, I'd rather just spend money on like I don't know if I want a new couch because this is a love seat. So if I have guests over and they want to sleep on like a couch couch, I'd probably get a couch couch, but I feel like it'd take up too much space, so I don't know with this love seat. Um and then oh I have my walking pad. Sorry, this is all over the place. I feel like I apologize every episode that everything's all over the place, but it really is because that's just how my brain works most of the time. And this is soft chaos with Noah, so here you go, folks. Um but yeah, I feel like I'd rather spend money on a new couch if needed, and then a TV, and then um like a dining table with like maybe four chairs or two chairs, um, and then like a little coffee table. So yeah, we're trying to keep it like as simple as possible, but I know when my sister comes over tonight because she's sleeping over tonight, um, she's gonna be like, wow, it's still cluttered. And I'm still working on it, but little by little, I mean I have tonight off, I have tomorrow off, and then after Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I have the next four days off. So we're gonna figure something out with that. But um, yeah, I just kind of wanted to dive into my little apartment situation because I am thinking out loud here. I mean, I have a lot of machines too. I have my ice machine, I have my Keurig, I have my air fryer, and then what else? I'm just kind of looking around too. See, this is a great thing about doing my podcast episode in an like in the middle of the whole unit. It's just I can see everything. Um, and then I also have my walking pad, which I yes guys, I do want to start getting back into it. Like I I feel like I don't have endurance anymore, so we're gonna see how that walking pad is gonna make itself useful. Um, but I'm really just kind of like trying to clean up a little bit. I'm so glad the dumpster is just like what like 20 feet away from me. Um it's literally like tet like six parking spots away, and like it's walkable. Like I can actually like I don't have to go up and down the stairs, up and down the creaky stairs. Like when I came home from work this morning, I had garbage already ready for me to take out, and all I did was just put my bag down. I opened the door. By the way, the door isn't heavy, like I can open it and it can stay open um without me like having to put a door stopper, which is great. So all I did was just grab my garbage, walked down there, took a little walk, and then come back, and like it was just great. Like, I think this setup um is really great. I think I have really found like a good apartment for myself, um, useful-wise. I think the biggest game changer is the laundry and then being it on the first floor, so we're sticking with that, but um yeah, sorry. This is again all over the place, but I just wanted to kind of update you guys. But I am thoroughly enjoying my living experience here so far. Um just kind of like trying to make it into a home, you know, and not just some place that I'm like temporarily living in, you know. I don't want it to feel like an Airbnb or like a temporary move, like as if I'm a travel nurse or something like that. But um, but so far it's been really great, and thank you guys for coming along on this whole move-in journey with me. Um, but we're finally here, we finally made it to the apartment and my commute's better. I still gotta work on my sleep, but we're getting there. And yeah, um, and then I also just kind of wanted to touch on like you know, early summer vibes are coming up and the weather is getting warmer and or it's been warmer, but like two days ago it was like 40s or something like that, and I was like, what is going on? Why does it feel like fall outside? Um, but the warm weather, guys, it's just it's great. I have a sunroof on my car, so I just open that up and I put my windows down. It is my favorite thing to do, just drive down a long highway or sometimes on a road. Um, not where it's too too busy, but just like having my playlist go and my music blasting and like you know, my sunglasses on and wind in my hair, and just like having a blast and like kind of forgetting about everything in the world that's going on. Um it's just like I am really excited for summer to come. I think summer the 21st or 22nd of June. Is that when it's like officially summer summer? Um, because I think we're still in spring because a lot of my clients they have spring allergies right now, and it's still pretty bad, but um my allergies have not been super bad this year, even though I took a zertec for like a couple times for the first time this year, and that's when you know it was bad. But um, yeah, warm weather, I can sit outside, I can read, I can like walk outside and just like kind of enjoy it, and like the days are longer, you know, like it doesn't set till like 8 15 p.m. and that's really like I don't know, that's really exciting to me. But um, but we're gonna figure out this cooking thing because all these meals that I'm eating, guys, it's just not not good. I had mac and cheese for lunch. For breakfast, I had a spinach feta egg white wrap, and that's all I ate. Yeah, I can't believe that. So I'm gonna have to figure out now what to eat for dinner. Um, because I don't have anything in my fridge except taquitos and like spinach fritta egg white cups and coffee and oat milk and eggs. Although I have ramen, but I don't know why I bought that honestly. It's like a big pack now. I don't know why I bought that, but um, so yeah, we'll figure that out. But a lot of things have been going like well so far, like settling in, you know, I'm getting excited for school, and I'm settling into this apartment, and just kind of feeling good about work, feeling better about the commute. So yeah. But that is all I wanted to talk about today, guys. Just kind of like a brief episode, catch you guys up and let you know how my move is going. Um, but I'm officially officially in a new place and it's great so far. No complaints, um, besides some of the lights, but like otherwise, I love it. So, hope you guys enjoyed this brief episode. Don't forget to check out the fan mail if you guys want to send me anything and write to me. Um, but otherwise, hope you guys are doing well, and I'll talk to you guys in my next episode. Bye bye.